I started on whole bean Starbuck's, but now I've found I like the Arbor Day whole bean coffee better. I had previously been grinding about a week's worth of beans into an old coffee can (how's that for almost-pun) and keeping it in the freezer. I recently got a pot with a brew-time grinder. I don't think the difference in grind-to-brew time has made any discernible difference to me (since I kept the week's grounds frozen), but it is more convenient to just drop the beans into the filter cup and go.
I will point out, however, that the biggest taste difference I've noticed recently is due to my switch from a Bunn (keeps water warm in its own tank, ready for brewing) to his grinding drip pot. I can actually taste some small amount of scorching of the water in this new pot, and once discovered, it's now hard to ignore when I drink coffee from others' pots that are also drip.
So, my recommendation for best coffee taste is whole bean Arbor Day coffee, ground just before you brew, in a pot that keeps its own hot water ready. That way you get the freshest coffee taste without being offset by heated-too-quick water.
Try replacing a hard disk or two with flash memory, at least for the stable parts of your system (i.e. pretty must unchanging files). I plan to use a CF card along with a CF-to-IDE adapter on my next Linux box, for the generally unchanging parts of my system (/boot,/bin, etc). Not only am I expecting it to make it a faster box, but I expect the power requirements to be much smaller than a hard drive would have been.
Also, passive cooling with heat sinks... no fans = no power running said fans
My thoughts exactly... are we going to put our money where our mouths have been.
What I'm afraid will happen is that Dell will settle on one or two distributions to provide as options, and then due to complaints about those choices they'll continue to get 80% of the flak they'd been getting all along about Linux in general.
Those with enough tech savvy to have strong opinions about the various Linux distributions are the most likely to build their own PCs and install their own OSs. Those who need a prebuilt PC and preinstalled OS will want something stable from the time they receive the PC from Dell, and they won't likely be monkeying with the OS much. I don't use Red Hat at home myself (Gentoo for me and Ubuntu for the kids), but having Red Hat preinstalled and Red Hat Support included seems to me an ideal fit for the non-geek Dell customer. Perhaps Ubuntu too, if Shuttleworth's crew is selling support contracts. In the end, the biggest point of the Linux OS choice has to be about supporting the non-tekky Dell home user.
If they do start selling RHEL and/or Ubuntu laptops and desktops, I'll certainly be looking to buy them for my family and extended family. These things need to be bought if we preinstalled Linux wishers want to see it happen and grow.
No, not a "call to arms"... just thinking out loud how nice it would be for the "what comes around, goes around" justice concept to rear its head in this instance...
Hopefully all the folks involved in making this guilty verdict will find themselves targets of spyware every day for the next five years, landing them in "I didn't visit that site" arguments with their spouses that suddenly find the family computer spewing these popups.
I am disgusted with our society of litigious bastards that is the new millenium America. If I was a teacher, this event would guarantee that I won't even allow a single computer in my classroom... it's no longer safe to have one there, unless teachers can start shielding themselves with malpractice insurance the way doctors do.
My experience with bad code like that has been when a short-term employee was pulled in and forced to work with a short-term mentality... which actually all falls back to bad managers. When your boss instills the "throw it together NOW so it works (barely) NOW and move on to the next project NOW" mindset into the coding crew, you're pretty much guaranteed to be stuck with smelly code. Who the actual programmer is will have little to do with it.
I will assume for your sake that your limited experience with short-term coders has mostly been around the intersection of "H-1Bs" and "contractor programmers" and therefore you generalize "Indian". One day you'll learn that it's the "short-term" part of this equation that hurts the code quality, and not the coder's non-code-related characteristics.
I read this about two months ago, and mostly enjoyed it. I don't remember anything earth-shattering or particularly enlightening from it, but then again I had previously read some other books that probably put a damper on what this book had to teach me:
Pragmatic Version Control
Pragmatic Unit Testing
Pragmatic Project Automation
Ship It!
Extreme Programming Explained
Art of UNIX Programming
Practice of Programming
Seems like most of what the Agile book had in it was for me a rehash of the three Pragmatic books. So, to me, a good book by itself, but I'd recommend the three Pragmatic books instead of you have the time for that much reading.
You're missing the point... support your team by voting with your dollars.
If you're going to run a free OS with no support, and therefore have nothing more to lose than your own time trying to manage disasters when they occur, then you're not voting with your dollars at all anyway... you're not spending any.
If, however, your company is voting with its dollars, then (review headline here)...
That's why I called it a "red" fedora, rather than a black one. The Fedora Core distributions use a black fedora as their logo, as opposed to the red fedora used by Red Hat Enterprise.
I personally wear a black fedora, so I probably assumed the difference in my terms was easier for others to realize than it actually is... my bad.
As has been said in many posts in many venues since the Novell announcement, the fact that these companies felt the need to declare that such indemnification is necessary for the protection of Linux-using companies, so then Microsoft will feel the need to extend such indemnification to Linux customers of companies that don't sign agreements with it. It is by declaring such a blanket indemnification that they imply to the world that such indemnification is needed, and that without it the Linux-using companies are in violation of Intellectual Prostitution ^H^H^H^H^H Property protections.
Their 2007 State of the Monopoly address will be titled "All Your Earth Are Belong to Our Patent, But Litigate We Not... Maybe"...
Good for them! I admit I've been one of the complacent ones over the last several years, feeling like Red Hat was the Linux business big dog, and that I was a hipper hacker for spreading my use/support around to other distros. No more...
The big company I left this year was one of those whose IT bureacracy monsters that would not sanction open source, so informed and competent programmers had to use it in the dark. My new company is a Red Hat user, and I'm more proud of that today than I was yesterday. Shame on me for yesterday...
I'd like to teach the world to sing "Red Hat Is The Way"...
All I can say is www.magnatune.com. I discovered this gem over the weekend. No artists there that I've heard of, but a good-enough-for-me selection of different genres of music. I've bought five albums from them in the few days that I've been sampling their library.
I have no feeling left in me for supporting the record company artists anymore, due to the record companies themselves. I wish the geek world could get behind something like magnatune and raise it high, make lots of noise about it, and see if the few record company artists I still care about will see our light and test our waters.
Absolutely, vote vote vote!
I'm beginning to think that the best community strategy going forward is to vote out all incumbents no matter who is running against them. Could it get worse, even if like-minded idiots get voted in? The newcomers would likely trip over themselves trying to implement the kinds of things that are being quietly implemented now by the "pros".
I hear entirely too many people around me standing up for "our country was based on Christianity, so why not put the Ten Commandments in the courthouse?" Maybe that crowd can get popular support for such a thing, given a voter majority existing of Christians. But that is democracy by brute force, not by legitimacy. I think you'll enjoy being on the receiving end of such religion-in-government when Christians are NOT the majority voters.
Has everyone forgotten that short-lived TV commercial where the Christians are having a hidden service in someone's basement, because it presumably wasn't safe to practice it? Further, how far away are we from seeing GW proclaim that the US "will be reorganized into the first Galactic Empire", for the "safety" of everyone?
Check out Ricardo Semler's company in Brazil, named Semco. I read his book "The Seven Day Weekend", and it sounds like his business environment matches your description.
Typically I've seen $5k/month gross pay end up being $3k after taxes/benefits... that was in Birmingham AL. Interpolating that down to your $4k/month question, I'd say take-home pay would be around $2400.
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I don't think illegal means what you think it does.
INCONCEIVABLE!!!!!!!!!!!!
though someone else quoted at $140 savings... details at http://technocrat.net/d/2007/5/24/20488/#L20498
I started on whole bean Starbuck's, but now I've found I like the Arbor Day whole bean coffee better. I had previously been grinding about a week's worth of beans into an old coffee can (how's that for almost-pun) and keeping it in the freezer. I recently got a pot with a brew-time grinder. I don't think the difference in grind-to-brew time has made any discernible difference to me (since I kept the week's grounds frozen), but it is more convenient to just drop the beans into the filter cup and go.
I will point out, however, that the biggest taste difference I've noticed recently is due to my switch from a Bunn (keeps water warm in its own tank, ready for brewing) to his grinding drip pot. I can actually taste some small amount of scorching of the water in this new pot, and once discovered, it's now hard to ignore when I drink coffee from others' pots that are also drip.
So, my recommendation for best coffee taste is whole bean Arbor Day coffee, ground just before you brew, in a pot that keeps its own hot water ready. That way you get the freshest coffee taste without being offset by heated-too-quick water.
My only question now is, should I use that as a boy's name or a girl's name... *** ducks flying kitchen crockery projectile from loving wife *** CRB
History seems to show that the sci-fi storytellers ultimately turn out to be the most successful future predictors.
Who would ever take H.G. Wells' particular brand of crap about traveling to the moon seriously.
Yes, but can it answer riddles?
Try replacing a hard disk or two with flash memory, at least for the stable parts of your system (i.e. pretty must unchanging files). I plan to use a CF card along with a CF-to-IDE adapter on my next Linux box, for the generally unchanging parts of my system (/boot, /bin, etc). Not only am I expecting it to make it a faster box, but I expect the power requirements to be much smaller than a hard drive would have been.
Also, passive cooling with heat sinks... no fans = no power running said fans
My thoughts exactly... are we going to put our money where our mouths have been.
What I'm afraid will happen is that Dell will settle on one or two distributions to provide as options, and then due to complaints about those choices they'll continue to get 80% of the flak they'd been getting all along about Linux in general.
Those with enough tech savvy to have strong opinions about the various Linux distributions are the most likely to build their own PCs and install their own OSs. Those who need a prebuilt PC and preinstalled OS will want something stable from the time they receive the PC from Dell, and they won't likely be monkeying with the OS much. I don't use Red Hat at home myself (Gentoo for me and Ubuntu for the kids), but having Red Hat preinstalled and Red Hat Support included seems to me an ideal fit for the non-geek Dell customer. Perhaps Ubuntu too, if Shuttleworth's crew is selling support contracts. In the end, the biggest point of the Linux OS choice has to be about supporting the non-tekky Dell home user.
If they do start selling RHEL and/or Ubuntu laptops and desktops, I'll certainly be looking to buy them for my family and extended family. These things need to be bought if we preinstalled Linux wishers want to see it happen and grow.
They could tell us, but then they'd have to kill us...
No, not a "call to arms"... just thinking out loud how nice it would be for the "what comes around, goes around" justice concept to rear its head in this instance...
Hopefully all the folks involved in making this guilty verdict will find themselves targets of spyware every day for the next five years, landing them in "I didn't visit that site" arguments with their spouses that suddenly find the family computer spewing these popups.
I am disgusted with our society of litigious bastards that is the new millenium America. If I was a teacher, this event would guarantee that I won't even allow a single computer in my classroom... it's no longer safe to have one there, unless teachers can start shielding themselves with malpractice insurance the way doctors do.
ACLU, please eat this prosecutor alive.
Parent is a quote from Mel Brooks' "History of the World, Part I"... satire, people... mod parent "funny" please...
Can't imagine why you posted AC there, stud...
My experience with bad code like that has been when a short-term employee was pulled in and forced to work with a short-term mentality... which actually all falls back to bad managers. When your boss instills the "throw it together NOW so it works (barely) NOW and move on to the next project NOW" mindset into the coding crew, you're pretty much guaranteed to be stuck with smelly code. Who the actual programmer is will have little to do with it.
I will assume for your sake that your limited experience with short-term coders has mostly been around the intersection of "H-1Bs" and "contractor programmers" and therefore you generalize "Indian". One day you'll learn that it's the "short-term" part of this equation that hurts the code quality, and not the coder's non-code-related characteristics.
I read this about two months ago, and mostly enjoyed it. I don't remember anything earth-shattering or particularly enlightening from it, but then again I had previously read some other books that probably put a damper on what this book had to teach me:
Seems like most of what the Agile book had in it was for me a rehash of the three Pragmatic books. So, to me, a good book by itself, but I'd recommend the three Pragmatic books instead of you have the time for that much reading.
You're missing the point... support your team by voting with your dollars.
If you're going to run a free OS with no support, and therefore have nothing more to lose than your own time trying to manage disasters when they occur, then you're not voting with your dollars at all anyway... you're not spending any.
If, however, your company is voting with its dollars, then (review headline here)...
That's why I called it a "red" fedora, rather than a black one. The Fedora Core distributions use a black fedora as their logo, as opposed to the red fedora used by Red Hat Enterprise.
I personally wear a black fedora, so I probably assumed the difference in my terms was easier for others to realize than it actually is... my bad.
As has been said in many posts in many venues since the Novell announcement, the fact that these companies felt the need to declare that such indemnification is necessary for the protection of Linux-using companies, so then Microsoft will feel the need to extend such indemnification to Linux customers of companies that don't sign agreements with it. It is by declaring such a blanket indemnification that they imply to the world that such indemnification is needed, and that without it the Linux-using companies are in violation of Intellectual Prostitution ^H^H^H^H^H Property protections.
Their 2007 State of the Monopoly address will be titled "All Your Earth Are Belong to Our Patent, But Litigate We Not... Maybe"...
Good for them! I admit I've been one of the complacent ones over the last several years, feeling like Red Hat was the Linux business big dog, and that I was a hipper hacker for spreading my use/support around to other distros. No more...
The big company I left this year was one of those whose IT bureacracy monsters that would not sanction open source, so informed and competent programmers had to use it in the dark. My new company is a Red Hat user, and I'm more proud of that today than I was yesterday. Shame on me for yesterday...
I'd like to teach the world to sing "Red Hat Is The Way"...
Hear! Hear! Doesn't anyone remember " Mad City " from '97?
Hey, G.W., you forgot to sign in again... your post came up "anonymous coward"...
All I can say is www.magnatune.com. I discovered this gem over the weekend. No artists there that I've heard of, but a good-enough-for-me selection of different genres of music. I've bought five albums from them in the few days that I've been sampling their library.
I have no feeling left in me for supporting the record company artists anymore, due to the record companies themselves. I wish the geek world could get behind something like magnatune and raise it high, make lots of noise about it, and see if the few record company artists I still care about will see our light and test our waters.
Couldn't agree with you more. Ubuntu and Linspire are for my children's PCs, while Gentoo is for mine.
Absolutely, vote vote vote! I'm beginning to think that the best community strategy going forward is to vote out all incumbents no matter who is running against them. Could it get worse, even if like-minded idiots get voted in? The newcomers would likely trip over themselves trying to implement the kinds of things that are being quietly implemented now by the "pros". I hear entirely too many people around me standing up for "our country was based on Christianity, so why not put the Ten Commandments in the courthouse?" Maybe that crowd can get popular support for such a thing, given a voter majority existing of Christians. But that is democracy by brute force, not by legitimacy. I think you'll enjoy being on the receiving end of such religion-in-government when Christians are NOT the majority voters. Has everyone forgotten that short-lived TV commercial where the Christians are having a hidden service in someone's basement, because it presumably wasn't safe to practice it? Further, how far away are we from seeing GW proclaim that the US "will be reorganized into the first Galactic Empire", for the "safety" of everyone?
Check out Ricardo Semler's company in Brazil, named Semco. I read his book "The Seven Day Weekend", and it sounds like his business environment matches your description.
Typically I've seen $5k/month gross pay end up being $3k after taxes/benefits... that was in Birmingham AL. Interpolating that down to your $4k/month question, I'd say take-home pay would be around $2400.