Now you know why I don't use word / office or any micrcosoft products at all; and keep all my data in plain text. Hell, I can back up most of my documents as a zip file to any number of free 'cloud-disk' servers; and have room to spare.
I hope science figures this stuff out soon, I would like to get my foreskin back.
IT and Divorce? It is my experience.
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I feel that my line of work highly exacerbated issues in my marriage that would not have otherwise ended in divorce. I don't "blame" my job - I like what I do; however, the 'dot bomb' and 'outsourcing' effected my ability to provide for my family for a certain period of time. My x-wife was highly traumatized by this; to this day she says that I never provided for her and my step son and that I did not work - when in fact I was unemployed a total of 18 months in a 12 year period, and during many of those months I made money consulting. Clearly the amount of 'change' that goes on in the technology field did not allow my x-wife to feel secure with my ability to provide and I am certain that this was the instantiation of the failure of an otherwise good relationship. I have to be honest, I am getting to the point that I am no longer willing to trade my "happiness" for the financial rewards that this field of work has provided for me. I lost a somebody very important to me. and while I believe everything happens for a reason and I have since fallen in love with somebody new, somebody who brings me happiness I did ever expect to find in my life - somebody I am not willing to sacrifice on the altar of my job. I know many other consultants that are on their 3rd relationship/wife as well. I have to tell you that the travel is really difficult on a relationship as well. I swore I would never be one of 'those' guys - and now I am one. Go figure.
for example I replace ssh with a current version, say perhaps a development version, but it does not matter. What happens when apple revs ssh? do they stomp all over mine? what if my ssh is older will they rev it then, or if I have touched it do they ignore it? can I replace the stupid curses library safely with ncurses? or will the attempt to put back the older broken stuff? sendmail with postfix, or perl or tk etc... and as I see it one does want to do this, as they have a rather antiquated version of bsd they are pushing.
As a person that works with unix an a daily basis I enjoy the ability to use all my perl, python, apachie & unix toys (especialy angband) and MS-office. I imagine that your average/.'er prolly doesn't need or can avoid MS entirely - but in my real world all business communication is via that crap they call office. I get my cake & I get to eat it to.
I just want to say that I "discovered" Linux through Slackware back in 93. Since then I have used dozens of distro's. I have to say that in the many years that have passed in between that it is freeBSD/openBSD that I like best, for a lot of reasons. The maturity of the BSD line really shows is so many ways, they have thought long and hard about all of the problems with package management, library compatibility, etc...
The solution employed is elegant, "make world". Remeber the TAMU distro? I think that for years I have dreamed of a BSD style linux so that I can have the hardware compatability of linux, but have the "clean" feeling of a bsd distro,/usr/ports, make world, and so on, I tell my self a thousand times a day that I am going to create my own distro "LSD" Linux software distrobution, and that I will start by using the linux kernel and BSD userland and ports since it is so much cleaner.
The problem I have is that when you have a cleanly packaged distro you need package xyz and nobody has packaged it yet, or you install the package but the maintainer didn't compile with the options you need, so you fetch the source and build it yourself, and upgradability has just gone out the window... so the usefulness of all that packaging has just become mute.
I think you are in the ideal position to create just the kind of distro I am talking about, talk with Jordan. Perhaps you and I, along with the rest of the world can build the best distro that ever happened yet.
Also I am not one who goes for that "it should be so easy my grandmother can use it" crap, my grandmother doesn't have any interest in computers and never will. I think that if you have not learned to drive you should not be behind the wheel... ( ie if you don't know how to use a computer maybe you shouldn't be using one, I don't know how to fly and so I don't pilot aircraft nor should I be allowed to... just look at how the signal has been lost in the noise on the net for example )
Let's get back to the basics that Mike Gancarz talked about in his "the UNIX Philosophy"
I have the sony XG9. Many evil things are said about sony but this is about the XG9 so I will only talk about the XG9. I removed win98 and installed Redhat 6.1 and VMware running windows NT 4.0 I purchased the cdrw and I have had it running for over a month now without powerdown, because it is my "desktop" for work, however on occasion I must travel to my parent company and so they purchased this machine for that purpose. I must say that my friends who have dells and ibms always comment about how "cool" the sony is and how bright the screen looks. I think that the "glass" over the LCD is really sharp as well. I have no complaints at all I can and do use the modem, the dvd (not for playing movies under linux) however I tried it before I trashed win98 and it look ok until I purchased a dvd for my big screen and saw the difference. I user the cdrw to burn cds with cdrecord both audio and data. I do have a habbit of touching the mouse pad when typing and it is quite anoying. I have the dual battery when on the road and easily get 10 hours out of linux. I want to get sound working, however I am going to install Mandrake 7.0 after I burn a backup of what is here so that I get the pentium speed bump and the use of the usb mouse. I also thought it would be nice to bump to 256mb so I can run more VMware boxes. NT is required by my job so they had to get me a machine I could run my os on and thier os on and at the time it seemed that between the drive space and the memory capacity and the cpu speed that this was a clear winner esp with the built in cdrw as I can fedex my work via burns to my employer. I have now seen that the XG19 with a speedstep 650 and that kind of pisses me off only one month after I got this one. I also see features that are in other books of this price desktop replacement features that are very nice as well, sometimes I wish I had waited to get this box, but I aint complaining either it is always a head turner...
I really look forward to get a transmeta cpu powered portable with a gig of ram and a week of battery life that has wireless internet under 3 pounds. Hopefully I didn't purchase to soon.
I can not wait for the day we can run the transmeta and this battery in a 3 pound laptop that should give us about 3 months with out a recharge, now if we could just get nation wide wireless IP technologies down to the degree that the new chip and battery offer us we can be wireless people.
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Now you know why I don't use word / office or any micrcosoft products at all; and keep all my data in plain text. Hell, I can back up most of my documents as a zip file to any number of free 'cloud-disk' servers; and have room to spare.
I hope science figures this stuff out soon, I would like to get my foreskin back.
I feel that my line of work highly exacerbated issues in my marriage that would not have otherwise ended in divorce. I don't "blame" my job - I like what I do; however, the 'dot bomb' and 'outsourcing' effected my ability to provide for my family for a certain period of time. My x-wife was highly traumatized by this; to this day she says that I never provided for her and my step son and that I did not work - when in fact I was unemployed a total of 18 months in a 12 year period, and during many of those months I made money consulting. Clearly the amount of 'change' that goes on in the technology field did not allow my x-wife to feel secure with my ability to provide and I am certain that this was the instantiation of the failure of an otherwise good relationship. I have to be honest, I am getting to the point that I am no longer willing to trade my "happiness" for the financial rewards that this field of work has provided for me. I lost a somebody very important to me. and while I believe everything happens for a reason and I have since fallen in love with somebody new, somebody who brings me happiness I did ever expect to find in my life - somebody I am not willing to sacrifice on the altar of my job. I know many other consultants that are on their 3rd relationship/wife as well. I have to tell you that the travel is really difficult on a relationship as well. I swore I would never be one of 'those' guys - and now I am one. Go figure.
I agree completely.
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for example I replace ssh with a current version, say perhaps a development version, but it does not matter. What happens when apple revs ssh? do they stomp all over mine? what if my ssh is older will they rev it then, or if I have touched it do they ignore it? can I replace the stupid curses library safely with ncurses? or will the attempt to put back the older broken stuff? sendmail with postfix, or perl or tk etc... and as I see it one does want to do this, as they have a rather antiquated version of bsd they are pushing.
As a person that works with unix an a daily basis I enjoy the ability to use all my perl, python, apachie & unix toys (especialy angband) and MS-office. I imagine that your average /.'er prolly doesn't need or can avoid MS entirely - but in my real world all business communication is via that crap they call office. I get my cake & I get to eat it to.
Apple rocks.
I just want to say that I "discovered" Linux through Slackware back in 93. Since then I have used dozens of distro's. I have to say that in the many years that have passed in between that it is freeBSD/openBSD that I like best, for a lot of reasons. The maturity of the BSD line really shows is so many ways, they have thought long and hard about all of the problems with package management, library compatibility, etc...
/usr/ports, make world, and so on, I tell my self a thousand times a day that I am going to create my own distro "LSD" Linux software distrobution, and that I will start by using the linux kernel and BSD userland and ports since it is so much cleaner.
The solution employed is elegant, "make world". Remeber the TAMU distro? I think that for years I have dreamed of a BSD style linux so that I can have the hardware compatability of linux, but have the "clean" feeling of a bsd distro,
The problem I have is that when you have a cleanly packaged distro you need package xyz and nobody has packaged it yet, or you install the package but the maintainer didn't compile with the options you need, so you fetch the source and build it yourself, and upgradability has just gone out the window... so the usefulness of all that packaging has just become mute.
I think you are in the ideal position to create just the kind of distro I am talking about, talk with Jordan. Perhaps you and I, along with the rest of the world can build the best distro that ever happened yet.
Also I am not one who goes for that "it should be so easy my grandmother can use it" crap, my grandmother doesn't have any interest in computers and never will. I think that if you have not learned to drive you should not be behind the wheel... ( ie if you don't know how to use a computer maybe you shouldn't be using one, I don't know how to fly and so I don't pilot aircraft nor should I be allowed to... just look at how the signal has been lost in the noise on the net for example )
Let's get back to the basics that Mike Gancarz talked about in his "the UNIX Philosophy"
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I have the sony XG9. Many evil things are said about sony but this is about the XG9 so I will only talk about the XG9. I removed win98 and installed Redhat 6.1 and VMware running windows NT 4.0 I purchased the cdrw and I have had it running for over a month now without powerdown, because it is my "desktop" for work, however on occasion I must travel to my parent company and so they purchased this machine for that purpose. I must say that my friends who have dells and ibms always comment about how "cool" the sony is and how bright the screen looks. I think that the "glass" over the LCD is really sharp as well. I have no complaints at all I can and do use the modem, the dvd (not for playing movies under linux) however I tried it before I trashed win98 and it look ok until I purchased a dvd for my big screen and saw the difference. I user the cdrw to burn cds with cdrecord both audio and data. I do have a habbit of touching the mouse pad when typing and it is quite anoying. I have the dual battery when on the road and easily get 10 hours out of linux. I want to get sound working, however I am going to install Mandrake 7.0 after I burn a backup of what is here so that I get the pentium speed bump and the use of the usb mouse. I also thought it would be nice to bump to 256mb so I can run more VMware boxes. NT is required by my job so they had to get me a machine I could run my os on and thier os on and at the time it seemed that between the drive space and the memory capacity and the cpu speed that this was a clear winner esp with the built in cdrw as I can fedex my work via burns to my employer. I have now seen that the XG19 with a speedstep 650 and that kind of pisses me off only one month after I got this one. I also see features that are in other books of this price desktop replacement features that are very nice as well, sometimes I wish I had waited to get this box, but I aint complaining either it is always a head turner...
I really look forward to get a transmeta cpu powered portable with a gig of ram and a week of battery life that has wireless internet under 3 pounds. Hopefully I didn't purchase to soon.
I can not wait for the day we can run the transmeta and this battery in a 3 pound laptop that should give us about 3 months with out a recharge, now if we could just get nation wide wireless IP technologies down to the degree that the new chip and battery offer us we can be wireless people.