While I'll never claim to be a Linux "wizard", personally I prefer FreeBSD as a *n?x solution, but at any rate.. I'm far from being Linux stupid and to date, I still can't get Gentoo, even a stage 3, installation to occur without massive issues. (If it's the hardware then all I can say is gentoo hates it and all other *n?x flavors including Sun OS and the BSDs like it.)
Further more, a wise man once said, "work smarter, not harder", spending hours if not days on end compiling everything from souce seems "harder" to me. Gentoo zealots of course have their opinion, and I'm proud of them for it. But I see nothing wrong with easy to install, within a few minutes, binary OS installations and upgrades for 99% of the Linux community.
Most likely because they suddenly remembered that they didn't invent most of the crap to start with. In fact, Unix and Unix like OS's used many of them before Bill Gates did. So instead of fighting over royalties immunities for prior to copyright usage, they see that it's not worth mentioning ever again, too bad SCO didn't think of that.
The term "broadband" refers to telecommunication that provides multiple channels of data over a single communications medium, typically using some form of frequency or wave division multiplexing, it has absolutely nothing to do with line speed. So you can have 56kbps broadband (the most common example is known as 56k ISDN)* and you can have 2mbps+ and still have broadband.
The term broadband is not defined by ISPs, telcos not cable companies, it's defined by the FCC and no such company can change the definition.
*For those that want to argue that 64k is the slowest ISDN speed, you'd be wrong. ISDN (Integrated Services Digital Network) is a connection type and is not limited to a specific speed nor is broadband.
What I find the most disturbing is that most of such sites like olga.net which host individual guitarists interpritations of popular songs. There is a difference between postin the actual notes and what a person thinks is the actual notes. In most cases the submitted works are derivitives and are not completely accurate. Which is not illegal since musical notes themselves can not be copyrighted, only melodies can be. Artists use what's called sampling in their songs which are actual soundbits from other songs which ARE copyrighted and are not royality free. However, if you change the notes abit or add additional notes throughout, then you are actually changing the song, thus not the same song and not copyrighted material.
Also most copyrighted materials may be used for personal entertainment such as viewed at home or the like. This whole thing is one step away from making it illegal to borrow your friends dvd's to watch in the privacy of your own home and then later return.
Lets not forget the optional (ok sometimes optional) insertion to the quicklaunch bar too. So now you have main start menu, programs menu, desktop icons AND quicklaunch icons! Why can't the installer simply ask the user where the icons should go instead of creating 4-5 icons all over the place and leaving it to the user to delete the ones they don't want... is that so hard?
I don't care what things are called in other countries, there are millions of instances where dialect dictates differences. I've been in the IT field for many many years (to give you a hint, Mac OS 5 was mainstream) and OS X has been acceptably pronounced 'oh ess ecks' as well as 'oh ess ten', to be honest I've even heard 'awes ecks' and 'Microsoft awes' instead of 'oh ess'. So long as you understand the persons meaning, who cares? Simple semantics and fodder for grammar nazis.
To whomever labled my reply as 'flamebait' completely misunderstood me. I was simply pointing out that differences in dialect are prefectly acceptable.
I fail to see how this is news.. Who cares what OS Michael Dell uses at home? He's using his own products YAY! pfft. Michael Dell is using a Dell laptop with an OS that his company supports.. Big flipping deal! That's like reporting that the CEO of Ford drives a red Jaguar.. Since Ford owns Jaguar, it's no big deal..
It's not like it was reported that Bill Gates uses Ubuntu at home.
I don't understand your point. Both Windows and *n?x have suitable desktop capabilities, so where did you desktop comparision come from? Or are you one of those that insert an opinion into a factual statement? Namly stating either Windows or *n?x are not desktop suitable because of your own bias opinion.
The RIAA may be within their rights, no argument there. The sickning crap is the fact that the Social Security check is the *ONLY* income and the disabled person can not get a job to earn money to pay fines so the fines comes out of the Social Security check and leaves the payee with nothing, to slowly starve to death at the hands of the RIAA, which obviously have plenty of money.
This slowly starving to death is conceptually cruel and unusual punishment, which is banned in the USA. Mass murders and other criminals that commit the most sickning crimes against humanity will have 3 meals a day and shelter (in prison) and have protection against cruel and unusual punishment, whereas this person is likely to die slowly of starvation and homeless sleeping under a box.
I find this very funny since Generic OEM System Builders such as myself that have absolutely no ties to MS can create naked PC's all day. There is nothing that MS can do to force me to offer their products.
yeah, but we as humans still felt as you do about how "right" we were. your still quoting "theories".. such theories have been proven wrong repeatedly. We can't put so much faith in them, because we do not know the facts. In the end you may be right or you may be wrong. Personally, I feel there is just as much of a chance that the speed of light could possible be one of the slowest speeds yet to be discovered.
we knew for a fact the world was flat.
we knew for a fact that the earth was the center of the universe.
we knew for a fact that man couldn't fly.
we knew for a fact that exceeding the speed of sound would kill the person trying it.
It's been suggested that the average human only uses 10% of their brains abilities.. that's 90% left untapped that could eventually prove us wrong yet again. There are far too many "experts" in out past that have been proven flat wrong, even Darwin, for any sane person to say for a fact whether we can go faster than light or not. The truth is we honestly don't know. I can't state for fact that I'm right and neither can you nor anyone else.
I like the idea of having the cockpit complety seperate an inaccessable from the cabin so it's physiclly impossible for a person to enter the cockpit while the aircraft is moving better. Take out the first row of first class and build additional space for a flight attendant to tend to the captain, co-pilot's beverages and meals.
It's also possible to have a flight crew member act as captain to keep order in the cabin since the real captain can't get into the cabin either. A radio can allow the crew to communicate with the captian in the even of an emergency where the captain then fly to the closest airport and land.
Tigher securty can be handled at the airport as well as random searches at the gate, don't forget the dogs. The FAA amy be a government group. but the airlines are private companies whom can legally require passengers to eithr conform to their policies or take the damned bus! I'm so sick of the "it violates constitutional rights" type searches.. Fine, no problem ma'am, we can't force you to a random strip search.. but you are NOT getting on my aircraft until you do... pick one.. my plane.. or that bus over there!
It's funny how some experts still claim that "x cannot be done" or "x cannont go faster than y". Yould figure that after the thousands of times such statements were proven wrong, the experts would quit saying it.
How many times has it been said that we can't fly or can't travel faster than the speed of sound? Yet we do both. Speed of Light is just the another barrier to be broken. Not to mention, how do we know that light is the fastest speed that something can move? Who can accurately say without guessing that ther isn't anything faster? I thought scientists were open minded... go figure.
But you see, OpenSource has already won. By making OpenSource suites like Open Office completely M$ compatable you can say "It opens all your normal Windows documents and you save $500 per license". THAT is the greater leverage, not "well uhm, you see.. uhm.. you will have to re-create every one of the tens of thousands of edocs because we uhm.. can't open the most popular file formats in the world... sorry..." Proof of this is appearent everyday with the growing popularity of OpenSource projects, hell, it even has some of the former OpenSource projects worried. **cough** SCO **cough**. Plus migration from Windows to Linux is alot easier because why?... that's right.. it's compatable!!
You succeed by being compatable to 95% of the users. Think about it.. why is it that game programmers write games for Windows and not Linux? It's not the price, they can still charge the same price for Linux versions... no it's the size of the market they are targeting. Why would anyone create something that only works on 5% of the computers? By creating something that isn't compatable, you will not win.
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No I'm saying that many IT components existed for the military long before they have for the private sector. GPS, portable satallite receivers, satallite phones, portable encrypted 2-way radios, waterproof computers... etc. My point is that military IT is different.. which does not make it wrong.
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First of all, my hat's off to all who have served our country in the military
Thank you.
but something is very, very strange and wrong going on with the way the AF and Army train their IT folks and what quality of actual usable knowledge, experience and attitudes those people have when they leave the service and apply for their first civilian IT jobs after leaving the service.
I believe the proper term is "different" not strange and wrong. The US military has very specific skills it requires soldiers to have and they do so in the most simplistic fashion possible. So Mr Ex-mil will need to be retrained to do tasks ouside what he/she already knows just like any other specialist in their chosen field. Sure grads may have a more complete general knowlege base... so what? It's that way everywhere. There are general practice doctors and there are specialists. The military has been using IT just as long as the civilians have, but in a different fashion. The miltary had portable phones long before the civilians, same with waterproof laptops, portable satalite receivers, encrypted shortwave communications, portable mainframes that also happen to be waterproof, waterproof dumb terminals and the list goes on and on. Many IT based equipment that the civilan sector still doesn't have that the military has used for decades. The listed technologies are not the same as their civilian counterparts... they are different... much much different is some cases. Many civilian IT practices are just as different to the ex-soldier so lets be fair and look at all the angles. IT is a very very broad spectum that even covers technologies that most people don't even think of. Not just LANs, WANS and servers. I've had to do alot of re-training in the differences between IT worlds over the years and if I may, it sounds to me like your company is more interested in a profit than establishing a long-term employee. It sounds like you want your employees to be pre-fabricated off of an assembly line instead of the old way where employers and employees worked together to improve each other. Such ideals aren't unique.. more and more companies are doing so, they are too busy counting profits to listen to those that actually earn the money.. but that's an article in it's self.
So lets just say in IT terms that ex-military people are not plug and play devices, they are not OS independant.. they are good old fashioned download the right driver, install and reboot type of hardware. The type of hardware that is not for the lazy who say "bah, why wont this install it's self?!". However, they are waterproof, nearly bulletproof and don't break just because you dropped it 2 inches.
As far as your unethical sabotage, I have no excuse for. When I was in the way to get promoted had nothing to do with anyone else.. it had to do with your willingness to succeed and the Department of Defense. You meet your cut-off score... you get promoted, just that simple.
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While I'll never claim to be a Linux "wizard", personally I prefer FreeBSD as a *n?x solution, but at any rate .. I'm far from being Linux stupid and to date, I still can't get Gentoo, even a stage 3, installation to occur without massive issues. (If it's the hardware then all I can say is gentoo hates it and all other *n?x flavors including Sun OS and the BSDs like it.)
Further more, a wise man once said, "work smarter, not harder", spending hours if not days on end compiling everything from souce seems "harder" to me. Gentoo zealots of course have their opinion, and I'm proud of them for it. But I see nothing wrong with easy to install, within a few minutes, binary OS installations and upgrades for 99% of the Linux community.
Who said they were required to switch to GPL3!?!?
Most likely because they suddenly remembered that they didn't invent most of the crap to start with. In fact, Unix and Unix like OS's used many of them before Bill Gates did. So instead of fighting over royalties immunities for prior to copyright usage, they see that it's not worth mentioning ever again, too bad SCO didn't think of that.
they deleted WEBMAIL, not the email accounts.
The term "broadband" refers to telecommunication that provides multiple channels of data over a single communications medium, typically using some form of frequency or wave division multiplexing, it has absolutely nothing to do with line speed. So you can have 56kbps broadband (the most common example is known as 56k ISDN)* and you can have 2mbps+ and still have broadband.
The term broadband is not defined by ISPs, telcos not cable companies, it's defined by the FCC and no such company can change the definition.
*For those that want to argue that 64k is the slowest ISDN speed, you'd be wrong. ISDN (Integrated Services Digital Network) is a connection type and is not limited to a specific speed nor is broadband.
What I find the most disturbing is that most of such sites like olga.net which host individual guitarists interpritations of popular songs. There is a difference between postin the actual notes and what a person thinks is the actual notes. In most cases the submitted works are derivitives and are not completely accurate. Which is not illegal since musical notes themselves can not be copyrighted, only melodies can be. Artists use what's called sampling in their songs which are actual soundbits from other songs which ARE copyrighted and are not royality free. However, if you change the notes abit or add additional notes throughout, then you are actually changing the song, thus not the same song and not copyrighted material. Also most copyrighted materials may be used for personal entertainment such as viewed at home or the like. This whole thing is one step away from making it illegal to borrow your friends dvd's to watch in the privacy of your own home and then later return.
Lets not forget the optional (ok sometimes optional) insertion to the quicklaunch bar too. So now you have main start menu, programs menu, desktop icons AND quicklaunch icons! Why can't the installer simply ask the user where the icons should go instead of creating 4-5 icons all over the place and leaving it to the user to delete the ones they don't want ... is that so hard?
ok so they called it System 5.1, Enough of the semantics.
I don't care what things are called in other countries, there are millions of instances where dialect dictates differences. I've been in the IT field for many many years (to give you a hint, Mac OS 5 was mainstream) and OS X has been acceptably pronounced 'oh ess ecks' as well as 'oh ess ten', to be honest I've even heard 'awes ecks' and 'Microsoft awes' instead of 'oh ess'. So long as you understand the persons meaning, who cares? Simple semantics and fodder for grammar nazis.
To whomever labled my reply as 'flamebait' completely misunderstood me. I was simply pointing out that differences in dialect are prefectly acceptable.
The English language is full of words and phrases that have multiple pronounciations, get over it. Toe may toe Toe mah toe ee thur eye thur
I fail to see how this is news .. Who cares what OS Michael Dell uses at home? He's using his own products YAY! pfft. Michael Dell is using a Dell laptop with an OS that his company supports .. Big flipping deal! That's like reporting that the CEO of Ford drives a red Jaguar .. Since Ford owns Jaguar, it's no big deal ..
It's not like it was reported that Bill Gates uses Ubuntu at home.
I don't understand your point. Both Windows and *n?x have suitable desktop capabilities, so where did you desktop comparision come from? Or are you one of those that insert an opinion into a factual statement? Namly stating either Windows or *n?x are not desktop suitable because of your own bias opinion.
I was refering to their right to sue in general, not any one specific case or set of circumstances.
The RIAA may be within their rights, no argument there. The sickning crap is the fact that the Social Security check is the *ONLY* income and the disabled person can not get a job to earn money to pay fines so the fines comes out of the Social Security check and leaves the payee with nothing, to slowly starve to death at the hands of the RIAA, which obviously have plenty of money. This slowly starving to death is conceptually cruel and unusual punishment, which is banned in the USA. Mass murders and other criminals that commit the most sickning crimes against humanity will have 3 meals a day and shelter (in prison) and have protection against cruel and unusual punishment, whereas this person is likely to die slowly of starvation and homeless sleeping under a box.
I find this very funny since Generic OEM System Builders such as myself that have absolutely no ties to MS can create naked PC's all day. There is nothing that MS can do to force me to offer their products.
"Windows Vista can be run for at least a year without being activated". OMFG that is so AWSOME! *n?x can do it for decades.
You're right .. that's why they still update it *eyeroll*
FreeBSD for the Win!!! (waits for the onslaught of flamers)
yeah, but we as humans still felt as you do about how "right" we were. your still quoting "theories" .. such theories have been proven wrong repeatedly. We can't put so much faith in them, because we do not know the facts. In the end you may be right or you may be wrong. Personally, I feel there is just as much of a chance that the speed of light could possible be one of the slowest speeds yet to be discovered.
we knew for a fact the world was flat.
we knew for a fact that the earth was the center of the universe.
we knew for a fact that man couldn't fly.
we knew for a fact that exceeding the speed of sound would kill the person trying it.
It's been suggested that the average human only uses 10% of their brains abilities .. that's 90% left untapped that could eventually prove us wrong yet again. There are far too many "experts" in out past that have been proven flat wrong, even Darwin, for any sane person to say for a fact whether we can go faster than light or not. The truth is we honestly don't know. I can't state for fact that I'm right and neither can you nor anyone else.
I like the idea of having the cockpit complety seperate an inaccessable from the cabin so it's physiclly impossible for a person to enter the cockpit while the aircraft is moving better. Take out the first row of first class and build additional space for a flight attendant to tend to the captain, co-pilot's beverages and meals. It's also possible to have a flight crew member act as captain to keep order in the cabin since the real captain can't get into the cabin either. A radio can allow the crew to communicate with the captian in the even of an emergency where the captain then fly to the closest airport and land. Tigher securty can be handled at the airport as well as random searches at the gate, don't forget the dogs. The FAA amy be a government group. but the airlines are private companies whom can legally require passengers to eithr conform to their policies or take the damned bus! I'm so sick of the "it violates constitutional rights" type searches .. Fine, no problem ma'am, we can't force you to a random strip search .. but you are NOT getting on my aircraft until you do ... pick one .. my plane .. or that bus over there!
we've been completely wrong before.
It's funny how some experts still claim that "x cannot be done" or "x cannont go faster than y". Yould figure that after the thousands of times such statements were proven wrong, the experts would quit saying it. How many times has it been said that we can't fly or can't travel faster than the speed of sound? Yet we do both. Speed of Light is just the another barrier to be broken. Not to mention, how do we know that light is the fastest speed that something can move? Who can accurately say without guessing that ther isn't anything faster? I thought scientists were open minded ... go figure.
But you see, OpenSource has already won. By making OpenSource suites like Open Office completely M$ compatable you can say "It opens all your normal Windows documents and you save $500 per license". THAT is the greater leverage, not "well uhm, you see .. uhm .. you will have to re-create every one of the tens of thousands of edocs because we uhm .. can't open the most popular file formats in the world ... sorry ..." Proof of this is appearent everyday with the growing popularity of OpenSource projects, hell, it even has some of the former OpenSource projects worried. **cough** SCO **cough**. Plus migration from Windows to Linux is alot easier because why? ... that's right .. it's compatable!!
.. why is it that game programmers write games for Windows and not Linux? It's not the price, they can still charge the same price for Linux versions ... no it's the size of the market they are targeting. Why would anyone create something that only works on 5% of the computers? By creating something that isn't compatable, you will not win.
You succeed by being compatable to 95% of the users. Think about it
No I'm saying that many IT components existed for the military long before they have for the private sector. GPS, portable satallite receivers, satallite phones, portable encrypted 2-way radios, waterproof computers ... etc. My point is that military IT is different .. which does not make it wrong.
First of all, my hat's off to all who have served our country in the military
... so what? It's that way everywhere. There are general practice doctors and there are specialists. The military has been using IT just as long as the civilians have, but in a different fashion. The miltary had portable phones long before the civilians, same with waterproof laptops, portable satalite receivers, encrypted shortwave communications, portable mainframes that also happen to be waterproof, waterproof dumb terminals and the list goes on and on. Many IT based equipment that the civilan sector still doesn't have that the military has used for decades. The listed technologies are not the same as their civilian counterparts ... they are different... much much different is some cases. Many civilian IT practices are just as different to the ex-soldier so lets be fair and look at all the angles. IT is a very very broad spectum that even covers technologies that most people don't even think of. Not just LANs, WANS and servers. I've had to do alot of re-training in the differences between IT worlds over the years and if I may, it sounds to me like your company is more interested in a profit than establishing a long-term employee. It sounds like you want your employees to be pre-fabricated off of an assembly line instead of the old way where employers and employees worked together to improve each other. Such ideals aren't unique .. more and more companies are doing so, they are too busy counting profits to listen to those that actually earn the money .. but that's an article in it's self.
.. they are good old fashioned download the right driver, install and reboot type of hardware. The type of hardware that is not for the lazy who say "bah, why wont this install it's self?!". However, they are waterproof, nearly bulletproof and don't break just because you dropped it 2 inches.
.. it had to do with your willingness to succeed and the Department of Defense. You meet your cut-off score ... you get promoted, just that simple.
Thank you.
but something is very, very strange and wrong going on with the way the AF and Army train their IT folks and what quality of actual usable knowledge, experience and attitudes those people have when they leave the service and apply for their first civilian IT jobs after leaving the service.
I believe the proper term is "different" not strange and wrong. The US military has very specific skills it requires soldiers to have and they do so in the most simplistic fashion possible. So Mr Ex-mil will need to be retrained to do tasks ouside what he/she already knows just like any other specialist in their chosen field. Sure grads may have a more complete general knowlege base
So lets just say in IT terms that ex-military people are not plug and play devices, they are not OS independant
As far as your unethical sabotage, I have no excuse for. When I was in the way to get promoted had nothing to do with anyone else
Signed,
1 ex-mil IT professional