The article raises some good points. Some Linux developers get all up in arms with the mention of things like "binary-only kernel module". Yet the Linux community has so far not delivered on many of the things it needs.
Some examples:
USB? If you're lucky your mouse will work. PNP? Linux makes this more difficult than non-PNP Parallel Port Scanners? Forget about it.. 3D? 3D works great... IF you have the right card
But if you need an MP3 player, you're in luck! Freshmeat lists 77 entries under Mp3.
That illustrates what tends to be the problem with the Open Source community, they'll produce the stuff that they personally want, but other things tend to be ignored.
Don't get me wrong, I love Linux, and use it for almost everything. I do get frustrated at times because I need to reboot into that other OS to accomplish something.
It's nice to know that these people don't have the brains to make their web pages compliant for all browsers
Why would they? This is MS, to them there is only one browser. When they released IE for Unix, they proclaimed, "Finally, a graphical alternative to lynx!"
Outcome 2 - we break it. they fix it. This would be a GOOD THING. The more secure a system is, the better. It doesn't conflict with our goal of Total World Domincation....it just gives people a viable choice
But Microsoft doesn't believe in choice, oh wait, yes they do, "Workstation or Server edition?"
A Stronger W2K means that MS will be in a stronger position to push their "Windows Everywhere" agenda
Back in 1996, there was this big Linux trademark dispute, apparently someone who had nothing to do with Linux registered Linux as a trademark, and threatened to start charging people for using it.
The Linux community got together and were able to prove first use, and I think the trademark now belongs to Linus.
A few weeks ago I bought a PS/2 mouse, I had always used a serial mouse up to this point. I have Win95 on a partition for my wife, and sometimes to play a few games. When Win95 booted, it "discovered my new hardware", and automatically removed my video driver for me!
I broke out in a cold sweat, installing those video drivers had been a major struggle before.
I don't remember what happened after that, the human brain tends to block out traumatic memories.;-) All I know is that both drivers are working now!
The unionized McDonald's in Squamish, BC, was not closed. However, a few weeks ago, workers there voted to de-certify. Of course, the union and the employees who had pushed certification in the first place claimed that McDick's had used all sorts of underhanded tactics to achieve that. I don't know how much of that is true.
Of course the Union is going to claim that, true or otherwise. I suspect that the McDonalds employees discovered that the Union was costing them more in dues than it was benefitting them.
In another message I related how I worked at Supermarket that forced my to join UFCW (United Food and Commercial Workers) local 1776, for a job that only paid $0.25 more than the minimum wage. I worked 12-14 hours/week part time while going to college. The Union took $17/week in dues and initiation! That worked out to be more than all taxes combined! I wanted to decertify, but it was to big a task (as I understand, you need better than 50% vote chainwide). I just quit after a few weeks of that nonsense
Yes, and I could just imagine the same in tech unions. A network or sysadmin writes some perl scripts to aid his/her job, and gets in trouble because his/her job description doesn't say "programmer", and this goes against Union rules.
What is needed are laws saying that if you do 70-hours of work, then you get paid for 70-hours of work. When you are hired, your employer should have to be clear how many hours you are expected to put in.
What I suspect is that the people stuck in the 70hour+ jobs have management who are oblivious to the fact, and set unrealistic deadlines and expectations. They may not even realize that the employees are working that hard.
You obviously don't understand unions, either that or you're a union thug spreading misinformation. It is quite common for union membership to be manditory as a condition of employment. If we had universal "right to work" laws in place (laws that ban closed shops) then you'd have a point.
All factory workers are required to join the Union. I Think this is unethical, and I don't see how we let this happen in America.
That is what's known as a closed shop, if unions had their way every union shop would be a closed shop.
In college, I worked at a supermarket that was a closed shop. For a $4.50/hour job with 12hrs/week, I had to pay the union $17/ week, $7 dues, and $10 initiation. After Taxes and Union dues I had maybe $25 spending money. I guess I was supposed to be grateful that I didn't make minimum wage (4.25/hour at the time).
To make things worse, one day a union rep showed, and tried to get us to donate money to their preferred political candidate. I told him, "Thanks, now I know who NOT to vote for."
As long as there are more technology jobs then there are people to fill them, there won't be cries for unionization, but if the tables begin to turn, then I wouldn't be surprised if unions are brought in.
Being good won't matter anymore, it may even be discouraged because it makes the other union members look bad. The only thing that will matter is how much seniority you have.
All I can say is, I hope it doesn't happen in my working lifetime.
Consider that for a moment - if anyone is that critical, a very foolish management decision has been made. What if that critical person is killed in an accident? The business closes and everyone goes home, right? After all, that ONE PERSON was the only one who could keep it running, and keep us competitve - without him, we just have to quit. Have you ever heard of that happening?
It's not all that uncommon. I was one of these "indispensable" people, maintaining a system that I made robust enough that it didn't often cause problems. The system was mission critical. Did management provide backups for me? In their eyes they did, they gave me two backups, one an IBM MVS guys who was struggling to learn Unix (which is what this system was using), the other a Powerbuilder/Visual Basic program who thought Unix was too icky or something. Both were pretty useless as backups. the VB programmer tended to break things more.
Management recognized that these people weren't learning, and did little to correct the problem, other than give lip service to it. To make it worse, I discovered that the useless backups were getting paid more than I was. I decided to quit, and the company had no choice but to bring me in on a consulting basis, until they could get new staff competant enough to maintain the system.
I thought that the announcement the other week was that the Linux Kernel would be the heart of the new AmigaOS, but the rest of the system would not simply a Linux distribution, but rather Amiga's Operating System libraries, tools, et al.
Now, I'm not much of a developer, but it would seem to me that most of the work in porting to AmigaOs would be to make WP interact with AmigaOS system libraries, not with the Kernel itself, as such it would not resemble "WP for Linux" anymore.
There are one of two things going on here: 1) The PHBs who issue press releases don't understand the technical differences between Kernel and OS. 2) AmigaOS will be just another Linux distro, with nifty Amiga E-theme.
When my wife and I moved to MA, they made the driver license # the same as the SSN, so I don't really have the option of removing my SSN from the card.;)
Red Hat sells its stock for money, this money is used to expand their business: hiring more programmers and marketers, or whatever.
If people make money off of buying and selling Red Hat stock, so be it. It's not money out of Red Hat's pocket. The higher the stock price goes, the more money Red Hat has to play with.
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Since Intel is already an investor in Red Hat, they own RHAT stock now.
AmigaObjects[tm] are the foundation on which all Amiga Operating Environment services are built
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Networking is intrinsic to AmigaObjects, which means that AmigaObjects are free to move around on the network or use network resources. The AmigaObject architecture by virtue of this flexibility enables a new class of "net-aware" applications where there is no clear boundary between a device and the network.
I sure hope that these AmigaObjects have a good security structure, or the recent Viruses that have been popping up lately on Wintel will pale by comparison to what'll appear on the new Amiga
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The article raises some good points. Some Linux developers get all up in arms with the mention of things like "binary-only kernel module". Yet the Linux community has so far not delivered on many of the things it needs.
Some examples:
USB? If you're lucky your mouse will work.
PNP? Linux makes this more difficult than non-PNP
Parallel Port Scanners? Forget about it..
3D? 3D works great... IF you have the right card
But if you need an MP3 player, you're in luck! Freshmeat lists 77 entries under Mp3.
That illustrates what tends to be the problem with the Open Source community, they'll produce the stuff that they personally want, but other things tend to be ignored.
Don't get me wrong, I love Linux, and use it for almost everything. I do get frustrated at times because I need to reboot into that other OS to accomplish something.
2 staff/admins per mainframe
3 staff/admins per NT server + good technical support contract
Yes but those 3 staff are much cheaper since NT is so easy that anyone can admin it.***
*** Not my own view, but it seems to be a prevalant view among some PHBs. MS themselves seem guilty of pushing this notion in some form.
Why would they? This is MS, to them there is only one browser. When they released IE for Unix, they proclaimed, "Finally, a graphical alternative to lynx!"
But Microsoft doesn't believe in choice, oh wait, yes they do, "Workstation or Server edition?"
A Stronger W2K means that MS will be in a stronger position to push their "Windows Everywhere" agenda
Yes, Linux is a registered trademark.
Back in 1996, there was this big Linux trademark dispute, apparently someone who had nothing to do with Linux registered Linux as a trademark, and threatened to start charging people for using it.
The Linux community got together and were able to prove first use, and I think the trademark now belongs to Linus.
A few weeks ago I bought a PS/2 mouse, I had always used a serial mouse up to this point. I have Win95 on a partition for my wife, and sometimes to play a few games. When Win95 booted, it "discovered my new hardware", and automatically removed my video driver for me!
;-) All I know is that both drivers are working now!
I broke out in a cold sweat, installing those video drivers had been a major struggle before.
I don't remember what happened after that, the human brain tends to block out traumatic memories.
Of course the Union is going to claim that, true or otherwise. I suspect that the McDonalds employees discovered that the Union was costing them more in dues than it was benefitting them.
In another message I related how I worked at Supermarket that forced my to join UFCW (United Food and Commercial Workers) local 1776, for a job that only paid $0.25 more than the minimum wage. I worked 12-14 hours/week part time while going to college. The Union took $17/week in dues and initiation! That worked out to be more than all taxes combined! I wanted to decertify, but it was to big a task (as I understand, you need better than 50% vote chainwide). I just quit after a few weeks of that nonsense
Yes, and I could just imagine the same in tech unions. A network or sysadmin writes some perl scripts to aid his/her job, and gets in trouble because his/her job description doesn't say "programmer", and this goes against Union rules.
What is needed are laws saying that if you do 70-hours of work, then you get paid for 70-hours of work. When you are hired, your employer should have to be clear how many hours you are expected to put in.
What I suspect is that the people stuck in the 70hour+ jobs have management who are oblivious to the fact, and set unrealistic deadlines and expectations. They may not even realize that the employees are working that hard.
What happened to the post that this was attached to?
You obviously don't understand unions, either that or you're a union thug spreading misinformation. It is quite common for union membership to be manditory as a condition of employment. If we had universal "right to work" laws in place (laws that ban closed shops) then you'd have a point.
Because once the union is in place, you often don't have a choice NOT to join. Closed shop rules.
That is what's known as a closed shop, if unions had their way every union shop would be a closed shop.
In college, I worked at a supermarket that was a closed shop. For a $4.50/hour job with 12hrs/week, I had to pay the union $17/ week, $7 dues, and $10 initiation. After Taxes and Union dues I had maybe $25 spending money. I guess I was supposed to be grateful that I didn't make minimum wage (4.25/hour at the time).
To make things worse, one day a union rep showed, and tried to get us to donate money to their preferred political candidate. I told him, "Thanks, now I know who NOT to vote for."
I didn't stay at that job long
As long as there are more technology jobs then there are people to fill them, there won't be cries for unionization, but if the tables begin to turn, then I wouldn't be surprised if unions are brought in.
Being good won't matter anymore, it may even be discouraged because it makes the other union members look bad. The only thing that will matter is how much seniority you have.
All I can say is, I hope it doesn't happen in my working lifetime.
It's not all that uncommon. I was one of these "indispensable" people, maintaining a system that I made robust enough that it didn't often cause problems. The system was mission critical. Did management provide backups for me? In their eyes they did, they gave me two backups, one an IBM MVS guys who was struggling to learn Unix (which is what this system was using), the other a Powerbuilder/Visual Basic program who thought Unix was too icky or something. Both were pretty useless as backups. the VB programmer tended to break things more.
Management recognized that these people weren't learning, and did little to correct the problem, other than give lip service to it. To make it worse, I discovered that the useless backups were getting paid more than I was. I decided to quit, and the company had no choice but to bring me in on a consulting basis, until they could get new staff competant enough to maintain the system.
I thought that the announcement the other week was that the Linux Kernel would be the heart of the new AmigaOS, but the rest of the system would not simply a Linux distribution, but rather Amiga's Operating System libraries, tools, et al.
Now, I'm not much of a developer, but it would seem to me that most of the work in porting to AmigaOs would be to make WP interact with AmigaOS system libraries, not with the Kernel itself, as such it would not resemble "WP for Linux" anymore.
There are one of two things going on here:
1) The PHBs who issue press releases don't understand the technical differences between Kernel and OS.
2) AmigaOS will be just another Linux distro, with nifty Amiga E-theme.
When my wife and I moved to MA, they made the driver license # the same as the SSN, so I don't really have the option of removing my SSN from the card. ;)
The only reason Gates says that is so that he can refer to Linux as "30-year old" technology in the next breath.
Really? Hmm, what is GNU an acronym for again?
What? Did they finally succeed in converting it to NT?
Red Hat sells its stock for money, this money is used to expand their business: hiring more programmers and marketers, or whatever.
If people make money off of buying and selling Red Hat stock, so be it. It's not money out of Red Hat's pocket. The higher the stock price goes, the more money Red Hat has to play with.
But Microsoft owning stock would give them voting rights. If the bought enough, then they may be able to get their people on the board of directors
Since Intel is already an investor in Red Hat, they own RHAT stock now.
AmigaObjects[tm] are the foundation on which all Amiga Operating Environment services are built
snip
Networking is intrinsic to AmigaObjects, which means that AmigaObjects are free to move around on the network or use
network resources. The AmigaObject architecture by virtue of this flexibility enables a new class of "net-aware"
applications where there is no clear boundary between a device and the network.
I sure hope that these AmigaObjects have a good security structure, or the recent Viruses that have been popping up lately on Wintel will pale by comparison to what'll appear on the new Amiga
It looks like a stream of capitalized profanity to me.. What's the question, or are you being funny?