One more option, work less days a week. I had a job where I worked 4 10 hour days, and had 3 days off... actually... it was really 4 10 hour days back to back (it wasn't programming) then 6 days off. then repeat. I think I wouldn't mind that schedule in IT.
CPAN Testers reports over 21000 http://stats.cpantesters.org/ I think the number on cpan.org might older... and updated less often. Guess ruby has a ways to go yet.
bad analogy. I just moved into an apartment complex that has gates, so that in theory people without keys can't (won't try?) to get in. None of my previous complexes were fenced and gated. Not having gates did not make those complexes unsecure, having gates doesn't really make this one secure.
Actually I take it back... it's not a bad analogy... It's ALMOST as good as mine.. All things like chains and gates do is keep the honest people honest. Dishonest people may just take bolt cutters to your chain and hop my fence.
However, there's one thing your missing... here with my gates if anyone wants to visit me I have to give them the gate code, same as with wifi, where if I didn't have gates... people could just come without being hassled. I doubt you'd want to let other people use your bike as they please.
The Pirates should go after Rockstar for illegally distributing there Intellectual Property. yes, I know it wouldn't work, but it'd be hilarious, and serve them right.
My personal opinion used to be OpenSuse w/ kde. I think it's much closer to windows than something running gnome. If I were you I'd test it first... but I thought it was fairly quick to get running. but that was kde3 the road to kde4 was rough and I haven't tried the latest, but I think kde4 is now quite good, I use arch because I prefer bleeding edge but I know that's not for everyone.
last I checked some patches for the dealloc empty file problem was being merged in 2.6.30. if you want to avoid it but want some other advantages like faster fscks you could go with data=journal on your filesystems which is a bit slower but also disables dealloc, while still having extents, barriers, and other ext4 benefits. I've been using data=journal on my/home partition without a single problem.
it also depends a lot on what you have in 'production'. a web server that's mostly doing reads it should be fine for. a heavy email server... well.. can you afford to lose email on a crash? I think it might be alright for a server that just does mta but not the fs for the actual mailbox's (with dealloc anyways). database server should be fine, because the database's job is to make sure data hits the disk, among other things. dns servers are a very read heavy so again I would think it'd be fine. so basically you need to watch anything that's heavy write and not to a database, and even then only with dealloc.
still as I'm sure others have said, it's a good idea to wait on new tech like this. some tools don't yet recognize that ext4 is not ext3.
This is the only IDE that's getting my vote atm. since it has a 'fakevim' mode plus a lot of other IDE features. being primarily a vim user having a vim mode is essential (even though it's not perfect). It seems to be pretty good in general, but I haven't used a lot of IDE's, I like it better than VS, Eclipse, and Netbeans, all of which I stopped using after an hour or so of not accomplishing anything.
not knowing the software you're working on why does half the stuff you mentioned matter? don't package for distro's that's their job. release a tarball and general installation instructions, and dependency requirements. the shells are generally posix so one standard, and bash is 99% reliably installed. print engines? besides cups? well there might be some I suppose but most of what I've seen works with cups on the desktop. config files go in/etc sure sometimes distro's lay it out a bit different but you make software do you really need to know where config files are other than your own? if you do just add a line in your config file to specify where they are, you should have one anyway.
test, package, and document for 3 distro's right now I'd say fedora, ubuntu, and gentoo. an rpm distro, deb distro, and a source (ebuild) distro. you don't have to offer support. just release and don't reject support requests for it out of hand.
my school (baker college) has decided to implement a 'all classrooms must be locked' policy. Many classrooms have plaster walls and windows into the halls. Students can't get back in once they leave. For the most part we prop the doors open, or put things in the doors. I don't for a second thing this would stop a shooter from killing enough. And it would preven emergency services from easily entering the rooms to aid wounded.
AvP extinction would have been good. but was flawed a few ways ways.
1.) RTS aren't easy on console. I really believe they require a keyboard and mouse.
2.) the game was not finished. it had a lot of balancing issues and bugs.
3.)No skirmish.
4.)No custom content
otherwise it could have been a potentially fun game. I really liked how they had designed the xenomorphs.
hope they do a good job. I love the Alien and Predator Genre's.
Because, just for one example, today the Smithsonian launched an online exhibition called Earth from Space which uses a version of Flash not available (yet) on Linux.
If you are referring to flash 9 it's out for linux now. although still in beta and a unfortunately a little unstable for my tastes.
And because when she buys a wireless card she has to learn about something called "ndiswrapper". I do lots of technical support for linux and windows. let me tell you your little old ladies don't know what wireless is. If they do they don't know how to install drivers on windows! they pay me to get there wireless working. I hate to tell you but that's a load of crap.
I will admit linux wireless needs work. But aunt tilly's drivers aren't the reason. need I remind you it's still easier to install linux on serial ata, scsi, and raid than install windows on any of those.
I remember when service pack 2 came out. I couldn't install it for 6 months. because ati hadn't gotten there drivers up to speed with it yet, and my machine would crash in games... yeah hardware support is great in windows.
contrary to what you believe aunt tilly and every other average person can't administrate windows
join user groups in your area. see if anyone has any work. volunteer for the groups (meaning learn your stuff and present it). learn Linux. get involved in an open source project.
that's isn't as bad as the virus episode. seriously how would a cylon fleet hack 3 machines that are wired together and 3 feet apart. I could understand had they been using a wireless connection.
most of michigan sucks for IT in general if you ask me. Having a union wouldn't help. The jobs aren't here.... depending on where in michigan you live. The Greater Detroit Area isn't bad. but everywhere else kinda sucks. Having a union wouldn't help.
Seriously WHY does everyone think Open Office is so...... great. KOffice is way nicer. And has more applications.
I have to say I have used Open Office enough to know it's good enough, but I run into formating problems do to a very buggy user interface. seems like I'm constantly fighting with open office in the same way I have to fight with M$ Office in fact I have to fight with it more just to do what should be simple tasks.
Did I mention it takes too long to load and is slow to be responsive. I think it's assinine that if I want it to start in a respectable amount of time that I have to "preload it". I don't use KDE and koffice still loads faster than open office by 10 fold.
And koffice has one feature I've wanted in an office suite for a while now. TABS. I requested in in OOo 3.0 and they told me it wouldn't be implemented because they put it in a beta or some such version and people didn't use it so it won't make it in.
disks need to go away... I get a tiny little mar that I can barely see on the disk and what happpens I get some crazy video blip in my movie. that's DVD, now multiply that by 10. that's what I forsee in the future of these formats, and with drm becoming bigger so people can't make legal backups and there movies dying within months due to there carelessness they'll just stick with the older formats. Can we please get a durable format. Disks must DIE.
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One more option, work less days a week. I had a job where I worked 4 10 hour days, and had 3 days off... actually... it was really 4 10 hour days back to back (it wasn't programming) then 6 days off. then repeat. I think I wouldn't mind that schedule in IT.
CPAN Testers reports over 21000 http://stats.cpantesters.org/ I think the number on cpan.org might older... and updated less often. Guess ruby has a ways to go yet.
bad analogy. I just moved into an apartment complex that has gates, so that in theory people without keys can't (won't try?) to get in. None of my previous complexes were fenced and gated. Not having gates did not make those complexes unsecure, having gates doesn't really make this one secure. Actually I take it back... it's not a bad analogy... It's ALMOST as good as mine.. All things like chains and gates do is keep the honest people honest. Dishonest people may just take bolt cutters to your chain and hop my fence. However, there's one thing your missing... here with my gates if anyone wants to visit me I have to give them the gate code, same as with wifi, where if I didn't have gates... people could just come without being hassled. I doubt you'd want to let other people use your bike as they please.
The Pirates should go after Rockstar for illegally distributing there Intellectual Property. yes, I know it wouldn't work, but it'd be hilarious, and serve them right.
Verizon's ADSL registration page requires it
One way of stopping a wildfire is to use a controlled burn to burn off the area before the wildfire can reach it. Fighting fire with fire works.
My personal opinion used to be OpenSuse w/ kde. I think it's much closer to windows than something running gnome. If I were you I'd test it first... but I thought it was fairly quick to get running. but that was kde3 the road to kde4 was rough and I haven't tried the latest, but I think kde4 is now quite good, I use arch because I prefer bleeding edge but I know that's not for everyone.
last I checked some patches for the dealloc empty file problem was being merged in 2.6.30. if you want to avoid it but want some other advantages like faster fscks you could go with data=journal on your filesystems which is a bit slower but also disables dealloc, while still having extents, barriers, and other ext4 benefits. I've been using data=journal on my /home partition without a single problem.
it also depends a lot on what you have in 'production'. a web server that's mostly doing reads it should be fine for. a heavy email server... well.. can you afford to lose email on a crash? I think it might be alright for a server that just does mta but not the fs for the actual mailbox's (with dealloc anyways). database server should be fine, because the database's job is to make sure data hits the disk, among other things. dns servers are a very read heavy so again I would think it'd be fine. so basically you need to watch anything that's heavy write and not to a database, and even then only with dealloc.
still as I'm sure others have said, it's a good idea to wait on new tech like this. some tools don't yet recognize that ext4 is not ext3.
This is the only IDE that's getting my vote atm. since it has a 'fakevim' mode plus a lot of other IDE features. being primarily a vim user having a vim mode is essential (even though it's not perfect). It seems to be pretty good in general, but I haven't used a lot of IDE's, I like it better than VS, Eclipse, and Netbeans, all of which I stopped using after an hour or so of not accomplishing anything.
not knowing the software you're working on why does half the stuff you mentioned matter? don't package for distro's that's their job. release a tarball and general installation instructions, and dependency requirements. the shells are generally posix so one standard, and bash is 99% reliably installed. print engines? besides cups? well there might be some I suppose but most of what I've seen works with cups on the desktop. config files go in /etc sure sometimes distro's lay it out a bit different but you make software do you really need to know where config files are other than your own? if you do just add a line in your config file to specify where they are, you should have one anyway.
test, package, and document for 3 distro's right now I'd say fedora, ubuntu, and gentoo. an rpm distro, deb distro, and a source (ebuild) distro. you don't have to offer support. just release and don't reject support requests for it out of hand.
I think I saw the starcraft battlechest just the other day. given sc2's imminent release you can probably buy it just about anywhere.
my school (baker college) has decided to implement a 'all classrooms must be locked' policy. Many classrooms have plaster walls and windows into the halls. Students can't get back in once they leave. For the most part we prop the doors open, or put things in the doors. I don't for a second thing this would stop a shooter from killing enough. And it would preven emergency services from easily entering the rooms to aid wounded.
If you use imap you'll quickly see that those spiffy gmail labels just copied things into folders
AvP extinction would have been good. but was flawed a few ways ways.
1.) RTS aren't easy on console. I really believe they require a keyboard and mouse.
2.) the game was not finished. it had a lot of balancing issues and bugs.
3.)No skirmish.
4.)No custom content
otherwise it could have been a potentially fun game. I really liked how they had designed the xenomorphs.
hope they do a good job. I love the Alien and Predator Genre's.
ha ha he can't use that word. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Null_space
Because, just for one example, today the Smithsonian launched an online exhibition called Earth from Space which uses a version of Flash not available (yet) on Linux. If you are referring to flash 9 it's out for linux now. although still in beta and a unfortunately a little unstable for my tastes. And because when she buys a wireless card she has to learn about something called "ndiswrapper". I do lots of technical support for linux and windows. let me tell you your little old ladies don't know what wireless is. If they do they don't know how to install drivers on windows! they pay me to get there wireless working. I hate to tell you but that's a load of crap. I will admit linux wireless needs work. But aunt tilly's drivers aren't the reason. need I remind you it's still easier to install linux on serial ata, scsi, and raid than install windows on any of those. I remember when service pack 2 came out. I couldn't install it for 6 months. because ati hadn't gotten there drivers up to speed with it yet, and my machine would crash in games... yeah hardware support is great in windows. contrary to what you believe aunt tilly and every other average person can't administrate windows
join user groups in your area. see if anyone has any work. volunteer for the groups (meaning learn your stuff and present it). learn Linux. get involved in an open source project.
this is only safe against "infections" it won't stop things like phishing attacks, and won't help secure any sensitive traffic you are transmitting.
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that's isn't as bad as the virus episode. seriously how would a cylon fleet hack 3 machines that are wired together and 3 feet apart. I could understand had they been using a wireless connection.
by Karl Marx... I didn't see it wasn't it banned during the Cold War?
most of michigan sucks for IT in general if you ask me. Having a union wouldn't help. The jobs aren't here.... depending on where in michigan you live. The Greater Detroit Area isn't bad. but everywhere else kinda sucks. Having a union wouldn't help.
Seriously WHY does everyone think Open Office is so...... great. KOffice is way nicer. And has more applications.
I have to say I have used Open Office enough to know it's good enough, but I run into formating problems do to a very buggy user interface. seems like I'm constantly fighting with open office in the same way I have to fight with M$ Office in fact I have to fight with it more just to do what should be simple tasks.
Did I mention it takes too long to load and is slow to be responsive. I think it's assinine that if I want it to start in a respectable amount of time that I have to "preload it". I don't use KDE and koffice still loads faster than open office by 10 fold.
And koffice has one feature I've wanted in an office suite for a while now. TABS. I requested in in OOo 3.0 and they told me it wouldn't be implemented because they put it in a beta or some such version and people didn't use it so it won't make it in.
disks need to go away... I get a tiny little mar that I can barely see on the disk and what happpens I get some crazy video blip in my movie. that's DVD, now multiply that by 10. that's what I forsee in the future of these formats, and with drm becoming bigger so people can't make legal backups and there movies dying within months due to there carelessness they'll just stick with the older formats. Can we please get a durable format. Disks must DIE.
This isn't news. nice has been around since... I don't know. over 20 years. Just because IBM writes a tutorial on it it makes news?