I don't know about your employer, but mine would probably pay for the hook-up, plug me in when I got there, I'd do 6 months work in 8 hours, go home for dinner, sleep for 8 hours, go back in, work another 6 months....
Nobody really asks me except my mom, and she insists on "paying" me. I took her computer away from her for a couple of weeks, uninstalled everything Norton, installed all the Windows updates, Avast! and a couple other free things, and gave it back to her in a usable state. Took probably 6 hours over those two weeks.
(The biggest impact was scraping Norton off. Did you know Symantec actually has a tool on their web site to remove all modern Norton products from your system?)
For this, $100 gift card showed up in the mail along with a Thank You card. Gotta love mom.
I know people do math with Excel. Lots of math. Really hard math. I get it.
In a prior job, I had two, cross-linked Quatro Pro spreadsheets that did fairly complex sales and sales forecast modelling, based on year to date sales and historical data from the last 10 years. (I had Quatro because it was $50 at the time. We were both poor and cheap.)
I was a CS major back when you did matrix manipulation and whatnot with either MATLAB on a Unix system or paper and pencil, but I guess I can imagine trying to do it in Excel. Ewww.
All that said.... I would bet you (and I feel safe, because I don't think it can be proven) that there are many more spreadsheets out there that are used to make pretty columns and imitate a database than there are doing math.
It is true, however, that aside from counting up the number of entries in a column, there's little to no actual math going on with Excel on this wing of this floor in this building.
I know we're all "Oooh, Linux" around here, but most people in the rest of the world are used to Windows. So just make the boot loader go away quickly, and make the default boot Windows. Then, if it's stolen, the thief will most likely run Windows, and you can use a Windows tracker.
Or you could just buy some insurance, encrypt sensitive stuff, do backups and not worry about it.
AFAIK, McDonald's POS system (ie, the cash registers) doesn't use SCO Unix, never has, never will.
Their back office system has used SCO (originally Xenix, currently OpenServer) since some time in the mid 1980's. This is the system the stores use for cash management, personnel, inventory and sales tracking, reporting and analysis.
I know some folks who work in McD IS and they're highly concerned about SCO, want to get off of SCO, and joke that after the lawsuit McD should just buy SCOX, but it's a major task to port a 20-year application that's evolved dramatically over those two decades to a new platform.
As for procedural programming... I'm not sure how it would be possible to write an interactive multi-player procedural program without using the concept of an object.
I have to say that, upon reading this second paragraph, I had three thoughts.
Either you're really young and have never actually seen a program of any size that was written in a non-OO language
Or you're including traditional C "struct"s as objects
Or you're a fool
My current job is as the team lead of a group that maintains and enhances a large Unix-based application that runs on around 13,000 systems in the US. Not an OO in sight. How many LOC? I have no idea. But I do know there are over 2000 Makefiles.
So, there are some people who took advantage of an ATM defect (whether bug, intentional, or accidental programming error, error in loading cash, whatever.)
The bank knows who they are.
Why don't they just debit their accounts the correct amounts and forget about it?
My bank's (West Suburban Bank, in the western suburbs of Chicago) are stocked with $5 and $20 bills. I usually get an amount that is x*20 + 15 so that I get 3 fives for small purchases.
A smelter is the thing that's used to take ore and turn it into usable metal. You know, like the thing in T2 that Arnold jumps into at the end.
Sounds like they've decided the easiest way to extract the metal from the electronic waste is to burn off everything that isn't metal, then separate the metals back out.
Now, there may be questions about how environmentally sound it is to burn off plastic and fiberglass, but this is definitely recycling.
Well, first-off, my mom's 501(c)(3) has a board of directors which has on and off included attorneys and CPAs, and they have all been OK with the paperwork being done. There's lots of info on the web, and it's just forms to fill out. At least in the US, a few a year, and not that many. My personal taxes, as far as I can tell, are way harder, and I do them every year without any real problems.
I continue to not accept the assertion that not being able to accept tax-deductible contributions somehow improves their ability to FUND and FACILITATE the building of good free software. As far as I'm concerned, this is a fact: there are many companies that will match an employee's charitable contribution - but it has to be a legal, charitable, deductible contribution. So if I decide I want to give $250 to the foundation, they get $250. If they had tax deductible status, they would get $500.
To me, the lack of deductability for something that, by all rights, SHOULD be deductible, makes it seem shady and suspect. You expect me to make a check out to Theo and mail it to him? That's just nuts, I'm not doing that.
My head isn't in my ass - we just don't agree. So maybe you could pry your own far enough out to agree that disagreeing doesn't require getting insulting?
We are not a registered charity, in the sense that we do not issue tax deductible receipts. The reporting overhead (accounting and legal costs) to operate a registered charity in Canada is prohibitive without a sizable revenue stream. Currently, this would divert a great deal of resources that could be better utilized in helping build good free software. We do issue receipts (not tax deductable) for all donations.
If it's so stinking hard to do in Canada, maybe they should have done it in the US. You know, where there are a lot more people and large companies who might like a tax deduction for their donation?
If my mom can run a non-profit 501(c)(3) in the US and get all the paperwork done, anyone should be able to. But these BSD folks never seem to manage it.
CUPS was written by Michael R Sweet, an owner of Easy Software Products. In February of 2007 Apple Inc. hired Michael and acquired ownership the CUPS source code. While Michael is primarily working on non-CUPS projects, he will continue to develop and support CUPS, which is still being released under the existing GPL2/LGPL2 licensing terms.
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I don't know about your employer, but mine would probably pay for the hook-up, plug me in when I got there, I'd do 6 months work in 8 hours, go home for dinner, sleep for 8 hours, go back in, work another 6 months....
Nobody really asks me except my mom, and she insists on "paying" me. I took her computer away from her for a couple of weeks, uninstalled everything Norton, installed all the Windows updates, Avast! and a couple other free things, and gave it back to her in a usable state. Took probably 6 hours over those two weeks.
(The biggest impact was scraping Norton off. Did you know Symantec actually has a tool on their web site to remove all modern Norton products from your system?)
For this, $100 gift card showed up in the mail along with a Thank You card. Gotta love mom.
What impact does this have on systems and networks we run?
None.
If it's desktop systems we run, I assume those systems are locked down, antivirus and firewall running, and the users don't have admin rights.
If it's networks or servers, those systems are locked down every way possible to protect them from the compromised systems.
What impact does it have on my interactions with families and friend looking for free tech support?
Now there, there may be an impact.
But this isn't about Novell being a creditor; this is about SCO having in their posession $ that belongs to Novell.
No, they mean radio. There was a time when broadcast radio didn't exist and radio of any sort was new technology.
OMFG you guys are hilarious.
I know people do math with Excel. Lots of math. Really hard math. I get it.
In a prior job, I had two, cross-linked Quatro Pro spreadsheets that did fairly complex sales and sales forecast modelling, based on year to date sales and historical data from the last 10 years. (I had Quatro because it was $50 at the time. We were both poor and cheap.)
I was a CS major back when you did matrix manipulation and whatnot with either MATLAB on a Unix system or paper and pencil, but I guess I can imagine trying to do it in Excel. Ewww.
All that said.... I would bet you (and I feel safe, because I don't think it can be proven) that there are many more spreadsheets out there that are used to make pretty columns and imitate a database than there are doing math.
It is true, however, that aside from counting up the number of entries in a column, there's little to no actual math going on with Excel on this wing of this floor in this building.
I'm joking in my statement, but serious that I've never seen it at my work.
I literally don't know ANYONE who does any math, whatsoever, in Excel.
It's all tables and primitive databases. The guy in the next cube does some pretty graphs. That's as close as it gets.
I know we're all "Oooh, Linux" around here, but most people in the rest of the world are used to Windows. So just make the boot loader go away quickly, and make the default boot Windows. Then, if it's stolen, the thief will most likely run Windows, and you can use a Windows tracker.
Or you could just buy some insurance, encrypt sensitive stuff, do backups and not worry about it.
Actually, we've got somewhere around 66,000 MS-DOS systems up and running that we support. Mostly 6.22 but some are 5.0 and some are PC-DOS 7.
Oh yeah? Well I have a set of DOS 5 diskettes in my bin at work that people actually BORROW and USE for things.
AFAIK, McDonald's POS system (ie, the cash registers) doesn't use SCO Unix, never has, never will.
Their back office system has used SCO (originally Xenix, currently OpenServer) since some time in the mid 1980's. This is the system the stores use for cash management, personnel, inventory and sales tracking, reporting and analysis.
I know some folks who work in McD IS and they're highly concerned about SCO, want to get off of SCO, and joke that after the lawsuit McD should just buy SCOX, but it's a major task to port a 20-year application that's evolved dramatically over those two decades to a new platform.
Where does McDonald's have pizza? I know they tested with it years ago but didn't know any were currently selling it.
The management of McDonald's doesn't always eat hamburgers.
Don't you mean "paved over drainage ditch"?
I have to say that, upon reading this second paragraph, I had three thoughts.
My current job is as the team lead of a group that maintains and enhances a large Unix-based application that runs on around 13,000 systems in the US. Not an OO in sight. How many LOC? I have no idea. But I do know there are over 2000 Makefiles.
You can still buy it at most any office supply store.
Or Sam's club.
So, there are some people who took advantage of an ATM defect (whether bug, intentional, or accidental programming error, error in loading cash, whatever.)
The bank knows who they are.
Why don't they just debit their accounts the correct amounts and forget about it?
My bank's (West Suburban Bank, in the western suburbs of Chicago) are stocked with $5 and $20 bills. I usually get an amount that is x*20 + 15 so that I get 3 fives for small purchases.
A smelter isn't an incinerator.
A smelter is the thing that's used to take ore and turn it into usable metal. You know, like the thing in T2 that Arnold jumps into at the end.
Sounds like they've decided the easiest way to extract the metal from the electronic waste is to burn off everything that isn't metal, then separate the metals back out.
Now, there may be questions about how environmentally sound it is to burn off plastic and fiberglass, but this is definitely recycling.
Well, first-off, my mom's 501(c)(3) has a board of directors which has on and off included attorneys and CPAs, and they have all been OK with the paperwork being done. There's lots of info on the web, and it's just forms to fill out. At least in the US, a few a year, and not that many. My personal taxes, as far as I can tell, are way harder, and I do them every year without any real problems.
I continue to not accept the assertion that not being able to accept tax-deductible contributions somehow improves their ability to FUND and FACILITATE the building of good free software. As far as I'm concerned, this is a fact: there are many companies that will match an employee's charitable contribution - but it has to be a legal, charitable, deductible contribution. So if I decide I want to give $250 to the foundation, they get $250. If they had tax deductible status, they would get $500.
To me, the lack of deductability for something that, by all rights, SHOULD be deductible, makes it seem shady and suspect. You expect me to make a check out to Theo and mail it to him? That's just nuts, I'm not doing that.
My head isn't in my ass - we just don't agree. So maybe you could pry your own far enough out to agree that disagreeing doesn't require getting insulting?
Think you can manage to grasp that?
From their Donations page:
If it's so stinking hard to do in Canada, maybe they should have done it in the US. You know, where there are a lot more people and large companies who might like a tax deduction for their donation?
If my mom can run a non-profit 501(c)(3) in the US and get all the paperwork done, anyone should be able to. But these BSD folks never seem to manage it.
So? I read LOTR in 3rd. What's your point?
Nope. From the FAQ: (emphasis added by me)
Maybe because you want the new code to "look like" the old code in the same file?
Maybe because you're not using an IDE?
Maybe because if the IDE reformats all your code you wind up with the entire file as a diff when you check it in to your source code control system?