Six months ago I moved from the US to Ireland as a programmer. One of the things I was able to do that you wont, was fly over here for four days to do interviews, except an offer, fly back and resign from my current job.
But what you can do is put your resume (just rename your 'CV' to 'resume') and put it up on some Canadian Job sights. As you get closer to the move, try and get some phone interviews lined up so that when you get there you can do the face to face interviews right away.
Oh - and in Canada you cannot call yourself an engineer unless you have an engineering license. I am serious. Call yourself a Network Technician or Network Manager.
> 1. Can I do it with Linux today (GPL2) and tomorrow (GPL3)?
Yes you can. It does not look like linux will move to the GPL3, so you won't have to worry about its Tivoisation clause.
> 2. Can I statically link the code with Linux libraries? (My own experience shows that dynamic linking is too much to bear.)
You can, if it is a LGPLed (not GPL) library. Read the license and make sure it allows statically linking.
> 3. Can I obfuscate my code (e.g. encode it)?
YES. ABSOLUTELY.
> 4. Could I be forced to publish this code by some 3-d party?
Only if your code is based off of GPLed code. If your code is your own and does not borrow from GPLed code, you are fine. You would be able to package this code on an appliance running linux. That would require you to provide the source code to the GPLed code on the appliance, but not your proprietary code.
This is what Tivo does.
> 5. Am I correct that programming in and selling BSD-based boxes won't raise any of the above problems?
This is a copy of an email I sent some friends yesterday after seeing the light. I live on the very north side of Chicago, in Rogers Park.
I got a strange story.
I got home from a buddy's house late last (wednesday) nite, around 11:30 and sat down in my front room with my mandolin picking quietly trying not to disturb my crack-head nieghbors. I am in chair facing south at my three front windows, the blinds are closed on all three but the left most in up half way. The only light in the room is my computer monitor's screen saver.
So I am looking at the finger board of my mandolin when out of my upper peripheral vission I see the sun rise out side my window. I immediatly recognized the sun, then realized that it was white light shining in my window, not yellow light. Have I been playing for 6 hours? Maybe a crack head had stumbled into my courtyard and the police were pursuing him with a flood light. No, then the light would shine across my cieling, not my floor. Mind you, all this was going through my head in an instant trying to figure out what it was. Was it a nieghbor with a high powered flashlight accross the courtyard signaling they were sick of my mandolin? Maybe a helocopter with a flood light looking for a fiend on the run... Maybe just glare accros my glasses. The light was gone in an instance, but I was still trying to figure out what it was. Maybe a haunting. Maybe, I was thinking, I am just overtired.
It was a bright light, filled the whole room, through a half open shade with light for a half a second. Through the closed shades I cound see daylight. Maybe it was god giving me a sign that I wasn't living right, I thought. I looked at the clock, 11:43 or so... I had been picking for 10 minutes since last I looked at the clock. No unexplained lapse of time. I wan't ubducted and probed. I figured it was just one of the flashbacks I had been promised and went to bed.
6:30 the alarm goes off and NPR comes on with stories of the war and then something about a meteor...
What do Yonder Mountain String Band, the Grateful Dead and AC/DC have in common?
They grow there fan base by allowing there fans to hear there music. Let geek music fans tape the shows and upload them onto the net. See etree.org for details.
Then make money by selling tickets to concerts and merchendising. Forget about selling CDs, thats for the likes of N'Sync.
Broadcast 2000 is a Great package. Well executed. It does what it says and says what it does. Good as a profesional comercial video editor.
I don't we are being told the truth. I think there may be regrets that this is Open Sourse, trying to make code go away so someone can start over with a simular comercial product. Just a guess. I am probably wrong.
It is still a memory hog. On my system Mozilla-9.1 averages 137MB of _Shared_ memory. Netscape-4.7 only 14MB of _Shared_.
This seems to make Mozilla unusable on most systems. Was using C++ over C a wise decision. I know hindsight is 20/20. But the major problems Mozilla seems to be having (in linux anyway. I havent used it much on any other platform) are resources (mem and cpu) and hackers. With C these problems go away.
This is not a good test of the GPL. They fully give you the source. They include the copywrite and the credit to the author. They do not violate the GPL at all.
It also should be noted that MS did not develop the fnord web server. They just adapted it to use IPv6 and contributed back there changes.
This is just a case of, "instead of reinventing the wheel lets take an open source wheel and put IPv6 spokes on it."
They then did the right thing by releasing the IPv6 code back. Though they would not have to if they intended to only use the code internaly.
Just cuz MS uses GPL code does not mean they violated it. Hell if you look at the NT4 Extra (or something like that) the GNU tools come on it, with the GPL and sources.
broadband means nothing.
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The term broadband used to have a meaning. It meant the opposite of base band. Now it has no meaning because of people like Micheal believing the marketing departments allusion that it means hi bandwidth. It does not.
now it means nothing. Just like p2p and b2p and p2b2e2g
SOMEWHERE IN MICHIGAN -- Slashdot, the web news portal for the tech-savy, has decided to migrate its back-end from the home-grown 'SlashCode' to 'PHPNuke'. The reasons being, 'Its writen in PHP, not Perl,' states HEMOS a cofounder of Slashdot. 'Perl just is not as cool as PHP... all the 'Hipsters' are using Perl and Linux... we don't feel all that unique anymore so PHP is the answer.'
WASHINGTON, DC.
The US Copyright Office has done it again. The 1998 patent request that gained a laugh on online geek zines was granted earlyer this week. Global Carbide, INC of Chicago, IL has recieved a patent on Catholocism. Whether or not they will go after Rome or local diasease a spokesperson said, 'We do not plan on going head-to-head with the Vatican in a legal strugle. Instead we will license The Body of Christ(tm) Holy Water(tm) and other IP to Catholics at a premium around the world.
SF Circuit Court has ordered the USPS to shut down if it does not stop the enableing of trading Copyrighted material.
RIAA spokes-person commented, "Sure you could send CD-Rs containing music that the Copyright holder allows to be traded... but everyone knows the Postal Service is for stealing music!!!!"
Proxy Auto Config does not work on either Linux or Windows, manual proxy config works fine.
Unable to get RealPlayer or Flash Plugin to work under Linux (Maybe user error)
Scroll Wheel not working under windows.
Overall -- works nice. php.net still does not work though.
Slashdot Mirror
Six months ago I moved from the US to Ireland as a programmer. One of the things I was able to do that you wont, was fly over here for four days to do interviews, except an offer, fly back and resign from my current job.
But what you can do is put your resume (just rename your 'CV' to 'resume') and put it up on some Canadian Job sights. As you get closer to the move, try and get some phone interviews lined up so that when you get there you can do the face to face interviews right away.
Oh - and in Canada you cannot call yourself an engineer unless you have an engineering license. I am serious. Call yourself a Network Technician or Network Manager.
> 1. Can I do it with Linux today (GPL2) and tomorrow (GPL3)?
Yes you can. It does not look like linux will move to the GPL3, so you won't have to worry about its Tivoisation clause.
> 2. Can I statically link the code with Linux libraries? (My own experience shows that dynamic linking is too much to bear.)
You can, if it is a LGPLed (not GPL) library. Read the license and make sure it allows statically linking.
> 3. Can I obfuscate my code (e.g. encode it)?
YES. ABSOLUTELY.
> 4. Could I be forced to publish this code by some 3-d party?
Only if your code is based off of GPLed code. If your code is your own and does not borrow from GPLed code, you are fine. You would be able to package this code on an appliance running linux. That would require you to provide the source code to the GPLed code on the appliance, but not your proprietary code.
This is what Tivo does.
> 5. Am I correct that programming in and selling BSD-based boxes won't raise any of the above problems?
You may be correct in that.
aptitude install wine
This is a copy of an email I sent some friends yesterday after seeing the light. I live on the very north side of Chicago, in Rogers Park.
I got a strange story.
I got home from a buddy's house late last (wednesday) nite, around 11:30 and sat down in my front room with my mandolin picking quietly trying not to disturb my crack-head nieghbors. I am in chair facing south at my three front windows, the blinds are closed on all three but the left most in up half way. The only light in the room is my computer monitor's screen saver.
So I am looking at the finger board of my mandolin when out of my upper peripheral vission I see the sun rise out side my window. I immediatly recognized the sun, then realized that it was white light shining in my window, not yellow light. Have I been playing for 6 hours? Maybe a crack head had stumbled into my courtyard and the police were pursuing him with a flood light. No, then the light would shine across my cieling, not my floor. Mind you, all this was going through my head in an instant trying to figure out what it was. Was it a nieghbor with a high powered flashlight accross the courtyard signaling they were sick of my mandolin? Maybe a helocopter with a flood light looking for a fiend on the run... Maybe just glare accros my glasses. The light was gone in an instance, but I was still trying to figure out what it was. Maybe a haunting. Maybe, I was thinking, I am just overtired.
It was a bright light, filled the whole room, through a half open shade with light for a half a second. Through the closed shades I cound see daylight. Maybe it was god giving me a sign that I wasn't living right, I thought. I looked at the clock, 11:43 or so... I had been picking for 10 minutes since last I looked at the clock. No unexplained lapse of time. I wan't ubducted and probed. I figured it was just one of the flashbacks I had been promised and went to bed.
6:30 the alarm goes off and NPR comes on with stories of the war and then something about a meteor...
Maybe I am missing something. ARP replies with the MAC address of my gateway for IP addresses that or on another subnet. This is as it should be.
Maybe I am missing something?
Exacly. If the band sucks, they should consider that marketing or the big music industry is not there problem. There problem is they suck.
What do Yonder Mountain String Band, the Grateful Dead and AC/DC have in common?
They grow there fan base by allowing there fans to hear there music. Let geek music fans tape the shows and upload them onto the net. See etree.org for details.
Then make money by selling tickets to concerts and merchendising. Forget about selling CDs, thats for the likes of N'Sync.
Broadcast 2000 is a Great package. Well executed. It does what it says and says what it does. Good as a profesional comercial video editor.
I don't we are being told the truth. I think there may be regrets that this is Open Sourse, trying to make code go away so someone can start over with a simular comercial product. Just a guess. I am probably wrong.
What is the flight volocity of an unlaiden swollow?
European or African?
It is still a memory hog. On my system Mozilla-9.1 averages 137MB of _Shared_ memory. Netscape-4.7 only 14MB of _Shared_.
This seems to make Mozilla unusable on most systems. Was using C++ over C a wise decision. I know hindsight is 20/20. But the major problems Mozilla seems to be having (in linux anyway. I havent used it much on any other platform) are resources (mem and cpu) and hackers. With C these problems go away.
This is not a good test of the GPL. They fully give you the source. They include the copywrite and the credit to the author. They do not violate the GPL at all.
It also should be noted that MS did not develop the fnord web server. They just adapted it to use IPv6 and contributed back there changes.
This is just a case of, "instead of reinventing the wheel lets take an open source wheel and put IPv6 spokes on it."
They then did the right thing by releasing the IPv6 code back. Though they would not have to if they intended to only use the code internaly.
Just cuz MS uses GPL code does not mean they violated it. Hell if you look at the NT4 Extra (or something like that) the GNU tools come on it, with the GPL and sources.
The term broadband used to have a meaning. It meant the opposite of base band. Now it has no meaning because of people like Micheal believing the marketing departments allusion that it means hi bandwidth. It does not.
now it means nothing. Just like p2p and b2p and p2b2e2g
SOMEWHERE IN MICHIGAN -- Slashdot, the web news portal for the tech-savy, has decided to migrate its back-end from the home-grown 'SlashCode' to 'PHPNuke'. The reasons being, 'Its writen in PHP, not Perl,' states HEMOS a cofounder of Slashdot. 'Perl just is not as cool as PHP... all the 'Hipsters' are using Perl and Linux... we don't feel all that unique anymore so PHP is the answer.'
The promise of Linux is a Unix like operating system on commodity hardware, AFAIK.
Like xBSDs. OS ECKS is fine for a unix running on proprietary hardware. Sure I could probably build my own Mac. Just Compaq, DELL or Emachine cant.
WASHINGTON, DC.
The US Copyright Office has done it again. The 1998 patent request that gained a laugh on online geek zines was granted earlyer this week. Global Carbide, INC of Chicago, IL has recieved a patent on Catholocism. Whether or not they will go after Rome or local diasease a spokesperson said, 'We do not plan on going head-to-head with the Vatican in a legal strugle. Instead we will license The Body of Christ(tm) Holy Water(tm) and other IP to Catholics at a premium around the world.
SF Circuit Court has ordered the USPS to shut down if it does not stop the enableing of trading Copyrighted material.
RIAA spokes-person commented, "Sure you could send CD-Rs containing music that the Copyright holder allows to be traded... but everyone knows the Postal Service is for stealing music!!!!"
How can we ask the Real CowBoy Neal when everyone know Neal Casidy is dead.
In prevois posts in slashdot by bin Laden as 'Anonymous' he says.... :
"Ixne on the low-upba"
The cypher is still rough but it seems to mean something about Natalie Portman running a beowolf cluster of goatsex?
Anyone interested in a project to add cacheing of links in stories to slashcode please email me.
Obviously this is something that is desperatly needed.
I love this one:
...seemed to have potential to be more potential....
:)
Is that kinda like aspire to be aspire more or think about more thinking or read about more reading.
Well that would be good...
Or how about naming the device after some geek who sent in the patch that fixed the eternal bug
The Intel AC10/100 NIC or the Al Viro/3D accelorator!!!!!!!
It is simple. peacefire.org and all other legit sites should just dump there ISP if they get themselves in the RBL.
MAPS RBL may not be the best solution at blocking SPAM. But it scares the hell out of spammers and ISPs that don't hold up there AUPs.
It is an easy answer. Just change your ISP. Simple.
Doesnt crack sorta sell its self?
Proxy Auto Config does not work on either Linux or Windows, manual proxy config works fine.
Unable to get RealPlayer or Flash Plugin to work under Linux (Maybe user error)
Scroll Wheel not working under windows.
Overall -- works nice. php.net still does not work though.
Put a Phone Number on /. and see how long it gets tied up with geeks trying to call it :P