Some day soon, corporations will realize that they have to unite and collaborate better. I am glad that this is happening, Maybe this will be a unifying force that will promote cooperations like Open Invention Network and fight enemies like Microsoft, NTP and this little bugger.
There should be patent free open standards like IP that everyone can use and build on. What if google had to pay a fraction of a cent for every IP packet as royalty. Would it have taken off in it's infancy. Hell, would internet taken off ?
I am absolutely frustrated with the cable companies in my area. Be it comcast, RCN or WOW. First the charges are sky high, then the internet service is throttled. They keep pushing the phone service. If you have to get HD you have to 'rent' their DVR boxes. I dont need a DVR because I have a HTPC but I am still paying for it.
I have wondered what would it take to start a community cable service, which provides basic HD (OTA reception is bad) and basic cable. Internet service offloaded in bulk to a competing ISP. Has any one any experience in such project, any links on how one can achieve this ?
I know one has to get licenses from the local municipality for providing utility, besides the politics, what are the technical challenges. Is it even doable ??
Like in the movie "Enemy of the Sate", someone should pretext as the lawmakers and get their phone records. Maybe this will make them understand the gravity of the situation.
Yes there is a shortage if IT workers. I started my consulting company two years after graduation (2004) make $200/hrs. The thing that I am most great full for are the compiler design, the distributed systems, the graph theory classes that I took in college. One has to understand computer science in depth. If you learn to use Windows server you skills will be obsolete in few years, if you learn how servers are built, you will be ready no matter what comes along.
My biggest gripe is people think they are know IT, after learning to type on a keyboard. Yes you can program by drag and drop, yes you can install a web server and create applications with that.net crap. But understand you are setting yourself to become obsolete in few years. There is a difference between a mechanical engineers and auto repair guy. Don't complain about engineering schools when all you want to become is a mechanic. Dont expect an engineer's salary when you are repairing cars.
I dont understand 'Real Player is bad/evil/crap' rant. I have used it in it's prime time. And stopped after Windows media 7 or so. But moving to linux since 2002, I havent seen a legit media player on linux that installs in one step and plays audio and vedio without digging into configuration files etc. I ovten use real player on linux and pleased to say that it embeds into the firefox without a problem.
FOSS franatics may scoff. Dont flame me if you use Flash or Java. It might not be kosher according to FOSS puritans, but it is a linux based commercial product. And there needs to be more of it. As far as I am concerned Real has redeemed it's sins by providing me a linux distribution. I openly admit that I am a fan. I am a fan because real sees value in linux support. Where is quicktime, iTunes, photoshop? Apple wont touch linux and I wont start about MS. Linux needs _some_ commercially successful products to gain a wider acceptance.
If a software is crap people will not use it, but it doesnot mean that their existance is a bane.
Regardless of how good or bad real player is. There is a version out for linux. At least there is media player a company that thinks there is a value for linux based products. Apple aviods linux as plague. I wont even talk about MS.
Real might have lost it's lusture, but I am still rooting for it just because it has a linux version. And for all the foss franatics dont reply to this email if you have macromedia flash or sun java or adobe reader installed.
Any company that releases software for linux platform is in my good books, be it real or nero.
We practice day in and day out on the roads over here. The goverment strongly believes that all the citizens of calcutta should be able to drive on the surface of the moon, just in case an opportunity like this comes by.
Here is an idea to protest against software patents.
Create an open source patent organization and start applying for software patents on behalf of open source coders for every little piece of innovation. The idea is to keep the threshold of what qualifies as innovation low to generate a huge list of patent applications.
Anything useless from "emphasizing email addresses containing a numbers in a word processing document" to "a real fancy way of optimizing inner loops in interpreted languages" to "a memory management code for NUMA architecture"
The important goal is not to get a software patent but to demonstrate the weakness of the system.
This will overwhelm the patent office. at best cause a change in thinking of policy makers. at least it will cause a headache for the patent mongers.
If you've been to India specially Calcutta, it is living in exaust pipe of a truck. I cannot imagine it getting any worse, we are poisining ourselves. The volume of emmissions are comparitively lower but the quality is worst. There are cities like New Delhi which have cleaned up, but it's not enough. The whole counrty needs to held up to higher standards.
I have been to US, I am impressed with the environmental regulations and enforcement. The problem with the US is not quality but quantity. You guys consume petrol like fish drinks water. I stood by an expressway in Chicago and observed over 95% of the vehicles had single occupancy on a weekday. And approximately every fourth private vehicle is a SUV. I fail to understand where do the drivers find off road driving from their commute from suburbia. If anyone needs an SUV are people in calcutta to drive over potholes.
You guys are oil addicts, like cocaine addicts, will do everything and anything to get your daily dose of oil. Is it the big oil companies, the car companies, the government? something is not letting you break free of dependency.
Trading environment for growth is crazy. It's like living in a palace filled with toxic fumes. I am from India, and I disagree with Kyoto protocol. IHMO India, US, China should be held to the same higher standard.
Can a spyware company assert that DCMA laws have been violated by terminating the spyware applications running on a machine ? Could the DCMA regulations be abused for such end ?
Here is an idea to protest against software patents.
Create an open source patent organization and start applying for software patents on behalf of open source coders for every little piece of innovation. The idea is to keep the threshold of what qualifies as innovation low to generate a huge list of patent applications.
Anything useless from "emphasizing email addresses containing a numbers in a word processing document" to "a real fancy way of optimizing inner loops in interpreted languages" to "a memory management code for NUMA architecture"
The important goal is not to get a software patent but to demonstrate the weakness of the system.
This will overwhelm the patent office. at best cause a change in thinking of policy makers. at least it will cause a headache for the patent mongers.
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Me too, But I am dysleixc.
Software Freedom Day 2009
Great idea telling us today...plenty of time to get the local effort organised!
This is not funny. I wish I had known about this so I could organize a local event.
Thanks for telling us so late. (sarcastic)
http://www.novell.com/products/zenworks/assetmanagement/
Features
Complete View of IT Assets
software license compliance
Elimination of manual tracking and inventory gathering
Change notification
custom reporting
Integrated Management
Automated discovery
Detailed software and hardware inventory
Software usage tracking
Contract management
Some day soon, corporations will realize that they have to unite and collaborate better. I am glad that this is happening, Maybe this will be a unifying force that will promote cooperations like Open Invention Network and fight enemies like Microsoft, NTP and this little bugger.
There should be patent free open standards like IP that everyone can use and build on. What if google had to pay a fraction of a cent for every IP packet as royalty. Would it have taken off in it's infancy. Hell, would internet taken off ?
I am absolutely frustrated with the cable companies in my area. Be it comcast, RCN or WOW. First the charges are sky high, then the internet service is throttled. They keep pushing the phone service. If you have to get HD you have to 'rent' their DVR boxes. I dont need a DVR because I have a HTPC but I am still paying for it.
I have wondered what would it take to start a community cable service, which provides basic HD (OTA reception is bad) and basic cable. Internet service offloaded in bulk to a competing ISP. Has any one any experience in such project, any links on how one can achieve this ?
I know one has to get licenses from the local municipality for providing utility, besides the politics, what are the technical challenges. Is it even doable ??
Is it possible to sue microsoft for slander
Like in the movie "Enemy of the Sate", someone should pretext as the lawmakers and get their phone records. Maybe this will make them understand the gravity of the situation.
Any ideas ?
Yes there is a shortage if IT workers. I started my consulting company two years after graduation (2004) make $200/hrs. The thing that I am most great full for are the compiler design, the distributed systems, the graph theory classes that I took in college. One has to understand computer science in depth. If you learn to use Windows server you skills will be obsolete in few years, if you learn how servers are built, you will be ready no matter what comes along.
.net crap. But understand you are setting yourself to become obsolete in few years. There is a difference between a mechanical engineers and auto repair guy. Don't complain about engineering schools when all you want to become is a mechanic. Dont expect an engineer's salary when you are repairing cars.
My biggest gripe is people think they are know IT, after learning to type on a keyboard. Yes you can program by drag and drop, yes you can install a web server and create applications with that
Just wait till they trademark "i" . Anything that starts with 'i' will be claimed as TM infringement :-/ iPod, iMac, iSync, iGO, iGive,iRobot ???
Windows ?? Who uses that anymore. (Tongue in cheek).
Proud to say "Windows free since 2003"
I dont understand 'Real Player is bad/evil/crap' rant. I have used it in it's prime time. And stopped after Windows media 7 or so. But moving to linux since 2002, I havent seen a legit media player on linux that installs in one step and plays audio and vedio without digging into configuration files etc. I ovten use real player on linux and pleased to say that it embeds into the firefox without a problem.
FOSS franatics may scoff. Dont flame me if you use Flash or Java. It might not be kosher according to FOSS puritans, but it is a linux based commercial product. And there needs to be more of it. As far as I am concerned Real has redeemed it's sins by providing me a linux distribution. I openly admit that I am a fan. I am a fan because real sees value in linux support. Where is quicktime, iTunes, photoshop? Apple wont touch linux and I wont start about MS. Linux needs _some_ commercially successful products to gain a wider acceptance.
If a software is crap people will not use it, but it doesnot mean that their existance is a bane.
Regardless of how good or bad real player is. There is a version out for linux. At least there is media player a company that thinks there is a value for linux based products. Apple aviods linux as plague. I wont even talk about MS.
Real might have lost it's lusture, but I am still rooting for it just because it has a linux version. And for all the foss franatics dont reply to this email if you have macromedia flash or sun java or adobe reader installed.
Any company that releases software for linux platform is in my good books, be it real or nero.
If it takes over the world, neo will just have to find a hole in the Internet Explorer 2199
http://research.microsoft.com/os/singularity/
There ways one can protect the privacy.
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One can deny the knowledge or the existence of encrypted data using the following.
http://www.truecrypt.org/
Another interesting concept of plausiable deniability.
http://it.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=04/12/16/19
We practice day in and day out on the roads over here. The goverment strongly believes that all the citizens of calcutta should be able to drive on the surface of the moon, just in case an opportunity like this comes by.
Here is an idea to protest against software patents.
Create an open source patent organization and start applying for software patents on behalf of open source coders for every little piece of innovation. The idea is to keep the threshold of what qualifies as innovation low to generate a huge list of patent applications.
Anything useless from "emphasizing email addresses containing a numbers in a word processing document" to "a real fancy way of optimizing inner loops in interpreted languages" to "a memory management code for NUMA architecture"
The important goal is not to get a software patent but to demonstrate the weakness of the system.
This will overwhelm the patent office. at best cause a change in thinking of policy makers. at least it will cause a headache for the patent mongers.
If you've been to India specially Calcutta, it is living in exaust pipe of a truck. I cannot imagine it getting any worse, we are poisining ourselves. The volume of emmissions are comparitively lower but the quality is worst. There are cities like New Delhi which have cleaned up, but it's not enough. The whole counrty needs to held up to higher standards.
I have been to US, I am impressed with the environmental regulations and enforcement. The problem with the US is not quality but quantity. You guys consume petrol like fish drinks water. I stood by an expressway in Chicago and observed over 95% of the vehicles had single occupancy on a weekday. And approximately every fourth private vehicle is a SUV. I fail to understand where do the drivers find off road driving from their commute from suburbia. If anyone needs an SUV are people in calcutta to drive over potholes.
You guys are oil addicts, like cocaine addicts, will do everything and anything to get your daily dose of oil. Is it the big oil companies, the car companies, the government? something is not letting you break free of dependency.
Trading environment for growth is crazy. It's like living in a palace filled with toxic fumes. I am from India, and I disagree with Kyoto protocol. IHMO India, US, China should be held to the same higher standard.
Can a spyware company assert that DCMA laws have been violated by terminating the spyware applications running on a machine ? Could the DCMA regulations be abused for such end ?
Here is an idea to protest against software patents.
Create an open source patent organization and start applying for software patents on behalf of open source coders for every little piece of innovation. The idea is to keep the threshold of what qualifies as innovation low to generate a huge list of patent applications.
Anything useless from "emphasizing email addresses containing a numbers in a word processing document" to "a real fancy way of optimizing inner loops in interpreted languages" to "a memory management code for NUMA architecture"
The important goal is not to get a software patent but to demonstrate the weakness of the system.
This will overwhelm the patent office. at best cause a change in thinking of policy makers. at least it will cause a headache for the patent mongers.