Face it kids. The Government has been wanting to take what little rights we have away for a long time. Thanks to OBL and a american public that thinks it will never affect them they have it now. It's like a salesman that gets his foot in the door.
for years "Law enforcement" has been bitching that they need more powers to catch "bad guys" the fact is they are full of it! They have had more then enough power to stop everything that happened... But now they have a new weapon to bilk the american public out of even more rights. Now instead of the public houseing searchs of the late 80's leading to highway soberity check points. You now get to look forward to "Law enforcement" having the ablity to monitor every communication you have. Think I'm joking? Just wait. The world is full of Lemmins and the only thing you need to know about being a lemmin is to run when all the other lemmins run. The Gov knows that America is full of good little lemmins and they just love it when you run.
Yes Sept 11th was a terrible thing to happen.
But to throw out everything our veteran's of war have fought for ( me included ) is insane!
You can all pretend that the Bush administration has the support of the people but the fact is that there are citizens that are afraid to speak up about the way the Bush administration has handled and propagated the fear of the American people. Thanks to the idiots that think "My country right or wrong." and a mob mentality. Well Our country is wrong. Sept 11 is a far sadder day then most of you will ever know. We are losing alot right now. And no one person or group seems to be able to stop this nightmare domino affect.
Doesn't anyone think this never ending war is a little TOO much like the made up conflict in the movie 1984? I do! I would have died for my country in 1991. But now only one thing remains, distrust.
I all ready DO NOT go to sites that require registration. Why would I go to a site that tries to jam ads down my pants? It's simple I'll stop going to that site. If it was not for the little check box turning off popup's I would have stopped going to abcnews.com all ready.
We are not forced to sit at a computer and browse the web. The WTC should have been lesson enough that if the s#!t hits the fan only TV is going to work anyway. This whole ate up concept of market at all cost is going to back fire one day.
These are the same sick fooks that want Baccula to drink coke on the bridge of the Enterprise since Marketing shows that most trek fans have Tivos.
They will try with there surveys and dreams of a world where everything is properly sponsered no matter how little importance the content actually contains. These people that feel the web should be sensored if there customers ads are not viewed before the content are mad with a strange and sick kind of power. I say screw them. Don't View the content!!!! Trust me before the internet people didn't know about alot of things. It was okay... we were still happy. We did things like read magazines.
Maybe whats called for here is a plug-in for Konq that will let me block sites that use popupwindows and ad view enforcing measures. Then when I clicked on that link. I could have a choice wheather it was worth it for me to sit through a ad just to read the story.
The way they win is telling everyone that everyone is (or will be) doing it. So the lemmins jump on board and the others start to think hey that is a good idea....Till before you know it every Idiot marketing fook is pushing popupwindow adds.
Last.... In the sprit of Bill Hicks I would now like to ask everyone in marketing to kill them selves right now.
OS/2 is a rock solid Operating System. It still is. Instead of IBM charging for every yearly set of fixes. They have been releasing upgrades to OS/2 for almost 5 years like clock work. It is not a desktop operating system that is second to none in many key arenas in the Bussiness world. The reason is because Windows just can be left under a desk for years with out being rebooted.
Now wrap your lips around that Pipe you call MS and suck.
Bush promised the American people alot of things. Lets take a look at a few.
1) A vote for Bush is a vote for GOD. Unless money can be made by drug companys.
2) A vote for Bush is a vote for lower taxes. So lets piss away any money our country has saved and give it back to the people who don't really need a couple hundred bucks.
3) A vote for Bush is a vote for education reform. Unless you spent all the budget surplus on a tax refund.
4) A vote for Bush is a vote for Health Care reform. Unless ( see #3 ).
5) A vote for Bush is a vote for a regular guy. Thats if regular guys come from billion dollar familys that control Oil and Drug companys that are only interested in lowering liablitys, raising prices, and squeezing every penny out of other countrys that can afford life saving drugs.
Now Microsoft gets off the hook.
What did you guys expect?
Okay this system of government we have kinda sucks. We get a choice of the lesser of two evils and are expected to be happy with the out come.
The thing to remember is that Republican's get there money from BIG corperations.
As a final insult to most of the people that thought Bush would be a good president when he could not even get a B in college.
You are all idiots! Your vote for GOD was a farse and you should have your voting rights taken away for that coming from that position.
And for you idiots that voted because of the promise of a check in the mail. Well your even bigger idiots! I would personally like to thank you for pissing away any chance we as a nation had of education, social security reform and keeping this country out of debt.
Now all thats left to do is wait for our freedoms to be taken away in the wake of the coming american corperate republic. Our only chance now is Jessie Ventura in 2004.
Oh and I'm not a democrate you Saltine Style republicans fools.
Important admission from IBM.
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IBM Wants Linux
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· Score: 1
I think some people are missing the point. IBM is not saying. "Dump AIX and start installing linux." They are not even saying it's a good idea to put linux on AIX hardware. IBM has said that they believe that Linux will grow to be suitable on enterprise hardware. This is a great step towards standards from Backend to handheld. It could be 5 years before we see a AS/400 running linux in IBM sales material. But that day is coming according to IBM. They have never said this or maybe even thought this with WindowsNT or even OS/2.
Could it be that IBM is waiting till Linux can do all the things AIX can do? When that day comes. won't it be easy for IBM to release the code needed to make a AS/400 kernel? It would be in their best interest I would think. The JFS project led by IBM seems to be a step in that direction.
The interesting question is going to be how far will IBM go to help Linux in the enterprise? I think that alot of people into Open Source miss the scope of IBM's importance in the computing industry. This is IBM!!! When IBM says something works. They do not just do it because they want to cheese off Microsoft. IBM is too mature for that. Their customers pay a premium for the IBM service touch. In my mind it is worth every penny.
Another thing to keep in mind is that IBM makes attempts to keep up with what the market wants. In most cases they do a very good job of figuring out what the customer wants before they do. So in a nutshell what IBM is telling the world is that they believe that the customer want's Linux! If they know it or not. Given IBM's track record I would think this would make the Open Source community take pride in how far their Software has come. IBM is taking careful steps to help Linux March with the big boys. It would be a shame if They were slamed for trying to help OpenSource, Themselves, and their customers because the Linux community has unfounded fears about Large for profit companys that want to join the community with only good intentions for all.
Date: Tue, 22 May 2001 12:59:14 -0500 (CDT)
From: Damon C. Richardson
To: kreichard@internet.com
Subject: RE: RIP: Linux on the Desktop
I don't want to offend or "flame" you. However I feel that I must address your opinion story titled "RIP: Linux on the Desktop".
It's interesting that you would start your story with Eazel ( cult following at best) and Corel ( I knew Corel did not have a chance why didn't you?). Also that fact that you jumped on the Mandrake rumor bandwagon is at best "self serving" at worse "unprofessional".
I have been a Linux user/developer for over 6 years now. My slashdot ID# is 913. My wife ( a total enduser ) and I have been using only the linux desktops for over 2 years now. I have seen very many changes in GNU/Linux distributions over those years. The one change that I have allways been able to count on was that the desktop ( and availble applications would improve ). The rate of improvement has been incredible compared to
Windows, OS/2 and the Mac. I don't know what experiance you have that could have lead you to believe that a Linux desktop is a impossiblity for
general computting use. I can only assume that you are one of those Linux users that assumes that you know more then the other guy. Leading to the
conclusion that only someone as smart as you could make the switch.
You have compared One software company to the loose subculture efforts of a larger community. Apples and Oranges. I don't remember a deadline for the take over of the Desktop Market. Your view that Linux should shift efforts to the server space is really a uneducated insult. The fact is
that Linux desktops are now replacing commercial unix desktops. The fact that the choice of desktops should be a indication that people want to use linux as a workstation seems to have escaped your attention.
It would also seem that you have not been paying attention to the efforts of Linux in the server space. It is painfully clear to me at least. That
the desktop use of linux has benifitted just as much from the improvements demanded for use as a server. I also think that the use of linux as a desktop has helped linux to compete in the server space. ( have you ever used CDE? )
Your argument seems to be based on a belief that If it has not happened by now then it never will. I don't pretent to be a Editor. Maybe you should
not pretend to be a expert on the forces shaping GNU, OpenSource, Free Software, or Linux. As far as I'm concerned you have missed the point.
Damon C. Richardson
Senior Software Developer
Vertecon inc.
/* I should note that I don't care about grammer or spelling:4) */
Is there a class for talking out your A$$?
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Mundie Responds
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Okay here we go......
What is at issue with the GPL? In a nutshell, it debases the currency of the ideas and labor that transform great ideas into great products.
What is he trying to say?
Let me try a wack at it.
"In a nutshell" I think he is saying that using the GPL for your software. Will not allow your software ideas and time spent coding to be as much of a money maker as it could be.
Using this paraphrase ( according to my understanding ). The slippery slop he is drawing for the reader is that the GPL will make your creativity and time worth nothing. Okay.... Maybe if you company depends on shrink wrapped sales. But whats been brought up in other posts is that shrink wrap software accounts for a very small amount of all the code that is written. Most of the code written is developed in house by companys that have a specific task they need automated. Like writing code to use a Check scanner to automate a billing/collections system. These are hard problems faced by company IS workers that just want to give the company value in the form of quicker bussiness process times. This has nothing to do with Mundies argument. It would seem to me that the first time he insulted GPL he was trying to scare companys from the idea of using GPL software with some sick anology that if you use QMail all your e-mails sent with it are now open sourced. Of coarse he would deny that position or view. But non-the-less.... Thats the impression i got.
What are the facts?
Microsoft is seeing a possible future where WinNT (what ever version) will be squeezed out of the server market. This will stop there plans to lock in Windows as the client OS.
Microsoft is worried that programmers may continue to jump the VB, VC++, and C# bandwagon for programming languages and Operating systems that rely on non-microsoft standards. In a sense killing their control to generate revenue when the next version of Office comes out.
Speaking of office. The more developers that jump to the GLP side will want features like the groupware features of BackOffice and write them their self. Leaving Microsoft to play second string in inovations. ( anyone remember Bob? I still think this is the only original idea to come out of MS).
The GPL will stop Microsoft dead in thier embrace and extend policy. Let's look at this one. I write a great program. That allows me to say..... Start my car from my PC in the morning. They buy my company. Take my software and put a field in a structure that is for.... O' say... the Cig_lighter. Well. My original customers can no longer use their car clients because the Microsoft version will not work unless that Cig_lighter field is not there. So they are forced to upgrade their clients or they wont be able to start the car from outlook. you get the point. If i GPL'd it... then Microsoft would have to make the Cig_lighter logic public. And in the process take any incentive microsoft might have to buy my company.
Last thing I'll touch is the Desktop client OS. Microsoft loses this space and they lose the farm. No way to pimp Office. No way to push their own protocals. And more importantly.... They become a secondary player in a world that won't pay for thier stuff.
From a company point of view it is very confusing. However. Companys should know that their developers can use apache with out open sourcing their websites. They can use Sendmail with out having to having e-mail GPL'd.
But the biggest thing is that they will be able to avoid alot of the mistakes that others have made. Developement time will in the long run be cut down. Code reuse may even be more pronounced. And the Programmer equivalent of a "Ball Hog" may fade away.
It is import to understand that what Microsoft is loosing that is more valuable is the Hearts and Minds of it's developer base. They can't blame GPL, Open Source, Free Software foundation, or even Linus. Have you ever tried to tell microsoft that you found a bug in there stuff only to have 3 service packs come out before it's fixed? How about getting help with a VB componet that does not work the way it's documented? These are some or the reasons microsoft is loosing it's position in the programming community. If windows software was the best then all this would be a mute point. But that is not the case. People are finding GPL software to be just as good and sometimes better then anything they could pay for. This is what should be keeping Bill Gates up at night. Not how to squeeze more money out of it's user base with subscriptions. Or attack people just trying to help out others with similar problems and needs.
Does anyone really believe that the United States would fall into chaos if Microsoft closed thier doors? I for one do not buy it for a moment. As far as im concerned I was warned about this type of argument in my college logic class.
There is not much more that Microsoft can throw at this community. In the years that I've been reading slashdot. I've seen the average age drop. The amount of MS Serf spy's increase. I now have a desktop I don't have to configure with VI. I've enjoyed Oracle on Linux. I fell in love with Java on Linux. Seen Linus go from THE guy on a mailing list to Information Systems Rebel Icon. I've seen OS2 die... Then come back. ( useless interjection ).
Microsoft has accused the community of being a bunch of hackers and failed. Reported Open Source as being buggy only to have software developers around the world installing Linux looking for a stable plateform. Microsoft has givin the vibe that Open Source is not suited for security applications. When Net Admins have favored the security of Open Source for years. (BSD anyone?) Do i need to say anything about benchmarks? This is now the last real volly. We are no longer cannon fodder.
So is that it?
The Open Source sprit wins after decades of floating around?
Not really.
Now come something interesting... Can we get the implications of using open source libs in company applications. What about taking a Function out of a opensource application. Is it okay to just put "Stole from [ProjectName]"? These are the rules that need to be understood by companys. How will using opensource java classes affect my customer? With out the anwsers to these question outlined more then "free like beer" companys will stay away. Lets remember that the Homer in us thinks "Hmm Beer" for about 30 secs after hearing the word 'beer'.
Thank you. you have just proved how linuxgruven could get to the point of not making payrole. Unless it is grown fast it will come to a head.
As for the training materials. I may as well believe you. Hell I believed everyone else. I am not sure how I got the idea that the training material were the CEO's idea. I'm sorry I did not give the credit where it is due. How ever the out come is the same for me. I'm done. I'm hoping for maybe one call from linuxgruven. But no matter I'm out. Craig I have a lot of respect for you. Good Luck.
One. I'm not joining the former CEO's new company.
Two. Have you done the numbers? if you have 100 people paying 3150 dollars in one month but you only hire 1 out of every 20 then you should not have to depend on a VC check the day of payrole.
Three. The CEO started the new training docs and was the one that said they would be opensource.
(which could have something to do with Sair getting pissed but I don't know).
Four. The CEO was busting his ass trying to find placement for LCA's.
Five. The CEO was trying to change the way Linuxgruven did bussiness. When he couldn't he quit.
I can tell where your coming from my friend but don't call me the tune. I will not walk away.
Okay. I'm getting the impression that there is VC out there looking to snatch up some LCA's. It would seem that more then one party is interested in starting a real company. I am going to assume that I'm getting this attention because my post got a rating of 5. The question that has come up 3 times is how many LCA can I muster up. Well I don't know that to be honest. But If you would sign up on the guest book on my personal webpage at www.mercybeat.com then they can see for them selves how many LCA's can be had on monday morning. Please LCA's only.
This is not a joke. But I make no promises. I'm still looking for a job and I'm not wanting to be a opertunist. I have not heard from anyone like IBM. So far these are just e-mails with persons that say VC is easy for a consulting company.
They way I see it their are customers for linux solutions and at least a hundred Linux Admin's that can start on monday for someone that can come up with the VC. Before we are forced to work Microsoft to eat.
I was Senior Systems Developer at Linuxgruven. I was working on internal projects when I got the axe. And here is what I know.
Yes it's a scam. The fact is that they count on people not passing the LCA. They do this by promising people that have no chance of becoming a Linux admin. Most of the time these are people that can't even use windows computers.
The owners ( James and Mike ) write checks out of the company's bank account. The reason everyone is fired is because the owners took a vacation and spent their paycheck.
Right before this happened everyone at linuxgruven was forced to sign a non-discloser agreement so that people would be afraid to speak out about what was about to happen. ( LG can fook off because I did not sign S#1t.
Everyone that was above me knew how the bussiness worked and chose to ignore it because they were getting great titles and pay.
I found out a month ago and started looking into the training materials. The instructors were top notch but the materials were so bad that I would not suggest them to be used as heating fuel. I see no possible way for people to study anything from the training materials.
In the beginning it looked like a real company. I was seperated from the rest of the company and told that support contracts for services were piling up. It was not till I went to the call center and saw everyone fooking around that I supected that it was the training classes that were the only form of income. Other then me. I was billed out for 170+ hour and got screwed out of my bonus for those jobs. Which by the way my bonuses were supposed to be in this coming fridays check.
I strongly suggest that people stay away from linuxgruven. I have been told personally by the owners that they will continue the training classes and look to other citys to make up for St.Louis.
Don't feel sorry for me. feel sorry for all the guys that thought they were getting a break. A chance to work with linux and get a real good pay concidering how much they knew. Instead these guys got screwed out of pay and the bills are coming fast for them.
The fact is that there was only one real admin job that linuxgruven had, and only one person did that job. The rest were sitting around waiting for people that wanted interviews.
This is a company to stay away from... If anyone wants to contact me they can do so though my home page www.mercybeat.com ( i'm mercybeat ).
There was some good work going on at Linuxgruven... there was a team that was working on creating real training materials that were to be released opensource.
My last advice to linuxgruven employees. Go to the courts and file a personal small claim against the company. If your in st.louis contact me and i'll tell you all about it. Or you can meet me in clayton monday morning and file with me.
I would still like to work for a linux professional services company if anyone has a job for a java programmer with 5 years or real linux experiance.
Damon C. Richardson
mercybeat@earthlink.net
P.S. Once again I have signed nothing at linuxgruven and I can say what ever i want to who ever I want.
It could be that you are so young that you are coming off as a flake.
Remember that old people like it when you talk slow. And in complete sentences. Try to keep your voice down.
Don't use hand gesters. This can frighten them because of all the bad press about anyone under 25 on cnn.
Present all ideas as flow charts. or Powerpoint presentaions. The use of Powerpoint ( I must stop here and say that I refuse to sit thought a powerpoint presentation. Not because of my dislike for Ms. But because I find that Powerpoint takes alot of the excitement out of the person that is doing the presentation. If you can't get excited about what your are pitching then don't break out power point. On the other side of the coin. Powerpoint makes me think that you are not really excited about what your trying to pitch to me. So Don't use Powerpoint to show your excitement.) This method of Powerpoint is a great way for old people to understand just what your talking about. the colored backgrounds and nice scenes are soothing to them.. Allows their minds to go into neutral. And why not. They dont' have to read instructions or techical books. They just sit back and enjoy the scenes and tell their boss that "It was a good presentation". Remeber idea's are easy to except if you are almost asleep.
Pretend that you don't like techno or Rap. This will give you a common cause. Playing FreeBird with your headphones just loud enough to be heard by others is a sure sign to old people that you are ready for responsibilty.
Besure not to talk to females at your work. Talking to females says to your bosses that you are not afraid of a Sexual Harasement law suit.
Join the bosses Church. This is sure to show everyone in the company that you are a kissass and that your on your way to the top.
I hope this helps you out. I know this information would have helped me when i was your age and just starting out.
I'm looking forward to this new standard method of internet information design. Thats really what this is all about right? How we ( developers ) design the next evolution of information services. I remember very well how MS software ties together on a internet system. I also remember how Sun has handled Linux over the last 3-4 years. It might not have been as nice as the Linux community wanted but Sun was honest about what it thought and that was worth something. ( though i have no idea what ).
I believe it too be true that if you use microsoft software in your middle tiers you will start to tie your self to both microsoft client capablities and to microsoft backend software. If you take a look at any company that is using Exchange server you will find that allmost ALL the clients are Outlook. That's pretty impressive you must admit. I can remember upper management Giving the okay to Internet Explorer functions because they were neat. I allways thought that DCOM added it's own weridness. I was totaly amazed. Microsoft put a GUI on RPC (Remote Procedure Call) calls on the server. Now that took balls.. not to mention the fact that I have yet to run into a Unix programmer that has been thinking. "I'd like to have a GUI that forced the way I installed RPC code. And then made it so that I had to create a Client.exe inorder for the the client to use the RPC. (Give me a break, I think this is crappy version of RPC) calls on the server." Wow that was not too clear. Let me explain that again. You write your DCOM functions. ( mostly in VB ) Then you use the GUI to register them. Then you make a Client.exe that will install the RPC information into the Clients Registry. Now programs can call the servers functions like it was in a DLL sitting on the Client. Sounds easy to setup and use right? Well I suggest you try it. It was probly the 3rd to last straw that made me swear off MS software. The idea is that on many levels Microsoft has built in sugar to attract other Microsoft Software or Tier solutions. This was back when GNOME was a set of Spec's. Hmm... Now that I think about it do i really have to say anything more about MS?
It was about 4 years ago that the blackdown project came out with ver 1.0 of the JDK. Unless I'm mistaken I don't think apple or OS/2 had a working JDK. Concidering that during this time every IS dept was gearing up to switch from what ever language to Visual Basic on the client side. Java was not concidered a contender in my mind 4 years ago. But the one thing I saw was real promise. Java was a great toy for me to play with at the time. I loved playing with applets. This was around the time when people started looking at network and internet services. The ideas of XML seem to be the anwser for data packaging. Ever try to figure out a "packet" of information that was in a undocumented structure with out source code that did not have null terminated vars? XML looks pretty good after problems like that.
Back to Sun and Java and Blackdown. Alot of people seem to think that Sun did alot of C*ck Blocking with the Blackdown project. I don't know if that is all that fair. In the end Sun had to admit that Linux was becoming a perfered Java platform. I know that when I heard about a.dot come site I pushed Linux because I had fath in the blackdown's efforts and knew that soon Sun was going to have to support Java on Linux.
Sun has a way of doing things and then telling us about it. It's true that a Sun server is all Sun hardware. But if you ever get a chance to look inside one of these boxes you will understand why the price for a Sun box compared to a Intel server is the same as paying the extra for the BMW 850 over the Camero SS. Personally you can do more tinkering for speed to the Camero then the BMW if you know what i mean. The thing about Sun hardware is that you can Hook it up to any network. Run all kinds of open services off it. And it has a good reputation for staying up. For a company that has been working like China befour Nixon the attudes towards Opensource is pretty damn impressive. In a age when Oracle and IBM seems to be pushing linux. Suns been pretty well behaved in my mind. Let's face it. CEO's and VP's will allways put their feet where the pizza goes. It's allways been a heated battle for the hearts and minds of IS departments.
In a nutshell. I think I have a better chance using the Sun instead of the Microsoft . The reason? Because I'll write it on Linux and in the future my users will be able to move it to Sun or any other system that supports java. I should also be able to count on the fact that if I write good code then the system will have a long and upgradable life span. This is whats import to me and this is why I'm interested in finding out what Sun has in mind. Sure they are mean to Tux but they are also worried about their servers being replaced by Linux boxes. But you will never see IIS on Linux. Sun's released StarOffice for linux ( correct me but sun did not have to do this after they bought it did they? ). Forte for linux and of coarse they are not supporting the JDK on linux.
You may not like Sun but the people they have working their really do know what they are doing. I also think that Linux and Java Knowlege will be very important to stoping.NOT (sorry bill, could not help it) I mean.NET
One possible way Linux could change the world.
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Linux Is Going Down
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What Microsoft is afraid of here is a de-centralization of technology. You see it's a very old war. One that I have seen fought at least twice on a grand scale. It's a war that is only now is starting to expose possible Information models. This profound impact on a info culture could be better understood by once again looking at how it was when Microsoft was fighting the good fight against centralized Technologys. Yep thats right. There was a time when people toughted MS as the savior of the age of computers.s
So what do i mean by centralization of technology? I'm talking about the way one group can control the use and propagation of of technology. Back in the day when hooking a computer to a TV was a neat idea. IBM ruled the jungle of technology. It did this because at that time no one shared computer design. IBM won the hardware war and as a spin off also dominated the bussiness software side too. One thing that IBM did was to aquire companys that had solutions that IBM could put to advantage. Yes even Microsoft was looked at as a possible purchase solution. What Microsoft used was the fact that everyone ( I say that very loosly because only a few people were real excited about the pc revolution back in the early eighties ) wanted there own computer. It was not good enough to run down to the campus (school/work) inorder to get computer time. Accountants could not work at home with the latest marvel spreadsheet. But we have this theme of wanting a personlized and handy form of computing. It was this notion of not personal use but personalized user of the computer that took IBM by surprise.
Microsoft provided what seemed like the greatest solution. A OS that ran on the cheapest computer hardware. ( sound familar? ) Apple showed the market existed and only controled it till someone did it cheaper. Also lets look at the competition. To the public at that time which computer to get was confusing. ( I had a Vic20 ). When IBM backed a cheap off the shelf based computer the bussiness world made the plat-form stick. ( how many times have you heard RISC is better and wondered if it was better then why don't we use it). There is a push for the home computer not because everyone wanted the same thing but because everyone wanted the convence of personal computing with out the access restrictions of central computing on MainFrames.
What changed? Well we have had may years to enjoy the advantages of cheap hardware that has de-centralized our need for large computer with less then friendly access restrictions. Now we have this great platform to automate our more mundane calculations. But it's the thing we would not give up that gave MS it's power. That thing was interoperability ( sorry but I'm not going to correct spelling on something this long when i should be working ). with other computers. We all wanted to run the same programs. Share files and print with the same fonts. This translates into centralizing the software as a trade off for computers in the home. And for the most part its a great trade for everyone.
Microsoft is now the target of de-centralization of Technology. Well we all have cheap computers. And they all come with MS because everyone wants to shop at the same place and eveyone wants to send there thought to others that will be able to understand them. But wait! What about the people that are looking for a different way? The Heretic of centralization in all of us looks around and thinks that maybe I want it to do this. And I want it to do it this way. When your a developer this seems to come up more then when you bought your computer for e-mail. but as more people start wondering what they want to do with there computers they are finding out that it can't be done like that. The reason is allway because the central controling forces just don't have the resources to make everyone happy. "Do you want one thing done right? or Manythings done half assed?" The people that want one thing done right are not happy with a Operating system that wants to do everything you can think of and not let you see the gears.
Does the fact that Microsoft is the largest mean that Microsoft is the best? I don't think so. I think i means they were able to take advantage of the fact that they did not have to worry about the Heretic in the early days. And why would they? At that time I had to go to the local college or too my mothers place of work to get computer time befour the Vic 20.
Do i think linux will ever "Go Down!" ? No I don't. and here is why. Opensource packages like linux distributions come with source code. that everyone knows. But what makes source code valuable? It opens up the software for de-centralized evolution. This is the same de-centralized evolution that gave us leaps in Video card technologies. The more people find out that they can do exactly what they want instead of what the instructions will let them do the more de-centralization wins.
So we get to the linux changing the world part. With out the cost of a centralized Operating system companies now have a choice to invest licence fees into people instead. People that can get technology to do that one thing really well. If you have ever had a Microsoft consultant come out to look at a deployment the first thing you will mostlikly notice is that person doing all the things you've been putzing with for the last few weeks. This is because the world of Canned software does not have much in the way of configuration choices. This is great if your people are not so brite. It also helps bring the cost of people down. One reason why I saw IBM's OS/2 lose it's base was because of a lack of people to write code and admin. Actually there were people there. But Microsoft knowlege was cheaper then IBM knowlege.
What you get with the Microsoft solution is the same solution that your competor has. You will be more at the mercy of MS for inovation then your own IS staff. You will have to spend more money on software that could go to keep people and hire new people.
The winning motion of linux is the ablity to foster real inovation from the ground up. Take what you need from the CVS repositorys. Beat it into submission till all the data is processed right and you have inovation. Real inovation. And Technology is fed with de-centralized revolution not centralized predicted evolution.
I don't think linux will ever die. And I know it will not get less "market share" in future years. I'm sure that de-centralized revolution will change linux well beyond what we know as linux. If linux did go away then I'm sure that instead of MS saving market share it would be because a new and more malable Operating system grabed the attention of the inovators.
When I grew up and went to school I was taught that a good programmmer writes portable code that was expandable. To me portable meant any operating system and expandable meant being able to be used for purposes that I did not forsee. Linux lets me see things that windows hides from possiblity.
"why bother with the training course if you must pay out of pocket?"
Are you nuts? I had to pay for college. No really I had to pay for it. My mom didn't do it. As a matter of fact I had to Join the Army and lose the years most people get for education So I could pay for college. Durning my first two jobs I had to pay for Continuing education classes so I could get out of Crapy IVR ( or VRU, this is voice response phone programming and it sucks ) programming and go into something with C++. All this I paid for. I even worked for the largest company in the world (thats actual employees). General Electric. And they did not send me to classes for Jack Sh|t. And I was pretty high up on the corp/dev food chain.
There is the way that you want the world to work and there is the way things really happen. If you expect your employer to make you more valuable in a job market where employee turn over is almost every year then bully for you.
If you do get a employer that offers to train you and give you a good paying job with no strings then take it. Trust me Take it. I worked for a.com that lied to me for over a year. At least Linuxgruven seems to be hiring 50% of the LCA's that should say something. I've had jobs where they promised me things and lied to me the whole time I worked for them.
"Don't.. get.. sad..... When people that you trust stab you in the back. So you thought they were your friends. Now you know... Now you know.. there is one thing in life that holds. Your on your own." theThe from the cd NakedSelf.
I remember my first programming job. I had very little college and I was sitting next to a grad that was earning 2 grand less then me. Lesson 1: Life is unfair.
I've seen this befour. It was a Java shop they said to me. we will hire you if you take this coarse. Then we will consult you out. After a year we will pay you back. And then I was also offered that If I work a year for nothing they will invest money in me to go to classes. Lesson 2: There is no free ride.
The only job that would pay for me to go to school from day one asked that I wear a tie 4 days a week. Lesson 3: They scratch your back. You wash their car.
Now I'm very big. I'm a big important man. and the only thing thats different is underneath my hat. ( TMBG ). Well actually. I'm coming up on 7 years programming and 6 years using Linux. and 2 years working only on linux. ( no MS at my house ). I can go into any place and pimp all kinda skillz. Lesson 4: Expect to pay your dues befour you just go out and get a great job.
But I know some AS400 people that have thought about linuxgruven. I thought linuxgruven was being nice when they said they would hire her if she passed a exam. Actually I told her to get the RedHat Exam book and cram till i found out how much that was. Lesson 5: Sucks to be deprecated.
If I was linuxgruven I would expect a bunch of Slashdot Zealot types banging down my door expecting High paying jobs... It does not suprize me that Linuxgruven wants only LCA's. Lord knows I would not send some of the Linux guys I've met to a customer site with out something real under their belt. Also. I hired a "Linux Guru"-"All About Open Source"-"New Techno Rocker"-"Slashdot Flamer" and the joker could not show up for work till after noon. I'm damn glad that the company did not send him off to be trained in something when he first started only to find out that he can't show up for work. On another level I've been in Sun Classes where 35 year old guys skip the first 2 days because they are great programmers only to not be able to do the class work on the last day. Expecting a company to go out and spend money on every Knuckle head that can install apache on redhat in hopes they are not full of Cr@p when you send them to a customer site or training class makes no sense. Lesson 6: No one promised you a Rose garden. All you get is dirt.
I know a techie that earns over 200,000.00 a year. He is not married. Lives alone and is out of town almost 25 days a month. I know guys that work 70+ hours a week for almost nothing at a.com because of the carot. Lesson 7: You have to want to make money.
Here's something for you dorm monkeys to go out and put in your pipes. Go find out how you become a Air Traffic Controler. If memory serves me correct thats over 7 thousand dollars for the training and you don't even get the promise of a job just a certification and a list of airports. And I think starting for that job is 35,000 dollars a year. Lesson 8: Something allways sucks more.
Maybe I'm wasting my breath. Half of you will want to be project management with in 2 years of working anyway. The you will just piss off the other half of us till we quit. Lesson 9: Talent leaves befour dead weight.
Well I was on flex time. My wife went out of town and I looked after our (at the time) 2 year old for the week. Three days I had to go into the office with my two year old. I also worked my ass off late into the night so that I would not fall behind on the sites current project. End the end they screwed me out of a week of vacation that I did not really think counted as vacation. Now if someone offers flex time I run like hell. I think a good idea has been raped by a Management mentality that in the end only serves to screw over the employee for the good of the company. I really feel that because of flex time and the blured line of what is and is not vacation screwed me out of over a grand of vacation pay.
I got it up and running on my helio. It was very easy.
only feature is a basic shell.
no display to the helio lcd that i can tell. But what the hell its a interesting start.
Slashdot Mirror
Now we will see who really took a moment to send in something..
Thank you Thank you Thank you!
Forgetting that the show sucked.
and that idiot that played the tick should have his acting licence taken away.
Some how I don't think this will help to bring the current version of realplayer to linux...
When he's bought his freedom.
Face it kids. The Government has been wanting to take what little rights we have away for a long time. Thanks to OBL and a american public that thinks it will never affect them they have it now. It's like a salesman that gets his foot in the door.
for years "Law enforcement" has been bitching that they need more powers to catch "bad guys" the fact is they are full of it! They have had more then enough power to stop everything that happened... But now they have a new weapon to bilk the american public out of even more rights. Now instead of the public houseing searchs of the late 80's leading to highway soberity check points. You now get to look forward to "Law enforcement" having the ablity to monitor every communication you have. Think I'm joking? Just wait. The world is full of Lemmins and the only thing you need to know about being a lemmin is to run when all the other lemmins run. The Gov knows that America is full of good little lemmins and they just love it when you run.
Yes Sept 11th was a terrible thing to happen.
But to throw out everything our veteran's of war have fought for ( me included ) is insane!
You can all pretend that the Bush administration has the support of the people but the fact is that there are citizens that are afraid to speak up about the way the Bush administration has handled and propagated the fear of the American people. Thanks to the idiots that think "My country right or wrong." and a mob mentality. Well Our country is wrong. Sept 11 is a far sadder day then most of you will ever know. We are losing alot right now. And no one person or group seems to be able to stop this nightmare domino affect.
Doesn't anyone think this never ending war is a little TOO much like the made up conflict in the movie 1984? I do! I would have died for my country in 1991. But now only one thing remains, distrust.
I all ready DO NOT go to sites that require registration. Why would I go to a site that tries to jam ads down my pants? It's simple I'll stop going to that site. If it was not for the little check box turning off popup's I would have stopped going to abcnews.com all ready.
.Till before you know it every Idiot marketing fook is pushing popupwindow adds.
We are not forced to sit at a computer and browse the web. The WTC should have been lesson enough that if the s#!t hits the fan only TV is going to work anyway. This whole ate up concept of market at all cost is going to back fire one day.
These are the same sick fooks that want Baccula to drink coke on the bridge of the Enterprise since Marketing shows that most trek fans have Tivos.
They will try with there surveys and dreams of a world where everything is properly sponsered no matter how little importance the content actually contains. These people that feel the web should be sensored if there customers ads are not viewed before the content are mad with a strange and sick kind of power. I say screw them. Don't View the content!!!! Trust me before the internet people didn't know about alot of things. It was okay... we were still happy. We did things like read magazines.
Maybe whats called for here is a plug-in for Konq that will let me block sites that use popupwindows and ad view enforcing measures. Then when I clicked on that link. I could have a choice wheather it was worth it for me to sit through a ad just to read the story.
The way they win is telling everyone that everyone is (or will be) doing it. So the lemmins jump on board and the others start to think hey that is a good idea...
Last.... In the sprit of Bill Hicks I would now like to ask everyone in marketing to kill them selves right now.
Well I know which one of you is a idiot.
OS/2 is a rock solid Operating System. It still is. Instead of IBM charging for every yearly set of fixes. They have been releasing upgrades to OS/2 for almost 5 years like clock work. It is not a desktop operating system that is second to none in many key arenas in the Bussiness world. The reason is because Windows just can be left under a desk for years with out being rebooted.
Now wrap your lips around that Pipe you call MS and suck.
Bush promised the American people alot of things. Lets take a look at a few.
1) A vote for Bush is a vote for GOD. Unless money can be made by drug companys.
2) A vote for Bush is a vote for lower taxes. So lets piss away any money our country has saved and give it back to the people who don't really need a couple hundred bucks.
3) A vote for Bush is a vote for education reform. Unless you spent all the budget surplus on a tax refund.
4) A vote for Bush is a vote for Health Care reform. Unless ( see #3 ).
5) A vote for Bush is a vote for a regular guy. Thats if regular guys come from billion dollar familys that control Oil and Drug companys that are only interested in lowering liablitys, raising prices, and squeezing every penny out of other countrys that can afford life saving drugs.
Now Microsoft gets off the hook.
What did you guys expect?
Okay this system of government we have kinda sucks. We get a choice of the lesser of two evils and are expected to be happy with the out come.
The thing to remember is that Republican's get there money from BIG corperations.
As a final insult to most of the people that thought Bush would be a good president when he could not even get a B in college.
You are all idiots! Your vote for GOD was a farse and you should have your voting rights taken away for that coming from that position.
And for you idiots that voted because of the promise of a check in the mail. Well your even bigger idiots! I would personally like to thank you for pissing away any chance we as a nation had of education, social security reform and keeping this country out of debt.
Now all thats left to do is wait for our freedoms to be taken away in the wake of the coming american corperate republic.
Our only chance now is Jessie Ventura in 2004.
Oh and I'm not a democrate you Saltine Style republicans fools.
I think some people are missing the point. IBM is not saying. "Dump AIX and start installing linux." They are not even saying it's a good idea to put linux on AIX hardware. IBM has said that they believe that Linux will grow to be suitable on enterprise hardware. This is a great step towards standards from Backend to handheld. It could be 5 years before we see a AS/400 running linux in IBM sales material. But that day is coming according to IBM. They have never said this or maybe even thought this with WindowsNT or even OS/2.
Could it be that IBM is waiting till Linux can do all the things AIX can do? When that day comes. won't it be easy for IBM to release the code needed to make a AS/400 kernel? It would be in their best interest I would think. The JFS project led by IBM seems to be a step in that direction.
The interesting question is going to be how far will IBM go to help Linux in the enterprise? I think that alot of people into Open Source miss the scope of IBM's importance in the computing industry. This is IBM!!! When IBM says something works. They do not just do it because they want to cheese off Microsoft. IBM is too mature for that. Their customers pay a premium for the IBM service touch. In my mind it is worth every penny.
Another thing to keep in mind is that IBM makes attempts to keep up with what the market wants. In most cases they do a very good job of figuring out what the customer wants before they do. So in a nutshell what IBM is telling the world is that they believe that the customer want's Linux! If they know it or not. Given IBM's track record I would think this would make the Open Source community take pride in how far their Software has come. IBM is taking careful steps to help Linux March with the big boys. It would be a shame if They were slamed for trying to help OpenSource, Themselves, and their customers because the Linux community has unfounded fears about Large for profit companys that want to join the community with only good intentions for all.
I hate this chair! Hurts my back and the arm rests just flop around.
I would rather be in my $99.00 officemax special at home.
Date: Tue, 22 May 2001 12:59:14 -0500 (CDT)
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From: Damon C. Richardson
To: kreichard@internet.com
Subject: RE: RIP: Linux on the Desktop
I don't want to offend or "flame" you. However I feel that I must address your opinion story titled "RIP: Linux on the Desktop".
It's interesting that you would start your story with Eazel ( cult following at best) and Corel ( I knew Corel did not have a chance why didn't you?). Also that fact that you jumped on the Mandrake rumor bandwagon is at best "self serving" at worse "unprofessional".
I have been a Linux user/developer for over 6 years now. My slashdot ID# is 913. My wife ( a total enduser ) and I have been using only the linux desktops for over 2 years now. I have seen very many changes in GNU/Linux distributions over those years. The one change that I have allways been able to count on was that the desktop ( and availble applications would improve ). The rate of improvement has been incredible compared to
Windows, OS/2 and the Mac. I don't know what experiance you have that could have lead you to believe that a Linux desktop is a impossiblity for
general computting use. I can only assume that you are one of those Linux users that assumes that you know more then the other guy. Leading to the
conclusion that only someone as smart as you could make the switch.
You have compared One software company to the loose subculture efforts of a larger community. Apples and Oranges. I don't remember a deadline for the take over of the Desktop Market. Your view that Linux should shift efforts to the server space is really a uneducated insult. The fact is
that Linux desktops are now replacing commercial unix desktops. The fact that the choice of desktops should be a indication that people want to use linux as a workstation seems to have escaped your attention.
It would also seem that you have not been paying attention to the efforts of Linux in the server space. It is painfully clear to me at least. That
the desktop use of linux has benifitted just as much from the improvements demanded for use as a server. I also think that the use of linux as a desktop has helped linux to compete in the server space. ( have you ever used CDE? )
Your argument seems to be based on a belief that If it has not happened by now then it never will. I don't pretent to be a Editor. Maybe you should
not pretend to be a expert on the forces shaping GNU, OpenSource, Free Software, or Linux. As far as I'm concerned you have missed the point.
Damon C. Richardson
Senior Software Developer
Vertecon inc.
/* I should note that I don't care about grammer or spelling
What is at issue with the GPL? In a nutshell, it debases the currency of the ideas and labor that transform great ideas into great products.
What is he trying to say?
Let me try a wack at it.
"In a nutshell" I think he is saying that using the GPL for your software. Will not allow your software ideas and time spent coding to be as much of a money maker as it could be.
Using this paraphrase ( according to my understanding ). The slippery slop he is drawing for the reader is that the GPL will make your creativity and time worth nothing. Okay.... Maybe if you company depends on shrink wrapped sales.
But whats been brought up in other posts is that shrink wrap software accounts for a very small amount of all the code that is written. Most of the code written is developed in house by companys that have a specific task they need automated. Like writing code to use a Check scanner to automate a billing/collections system. These are hard problems faced by company IS workers that just want to give the company value in the form of quicker bussiness process times. This has nothing to do with Mundies argument. It would seem to me that the first time he insulted GPL he was trying to scare companys from the idea of using GPL software with some sick anology that if you use QMail all your e-mails sent with it are now open sourced. Of coarse he would deny that position or view. But non-the-less.... Thats the impression i got.
What are the facts?
Microsoft is seeing a possible future where WinNT (what ever version) will be squeezed out of the server market. This will stop there plans to lock in Windows as the client OS.
Microsoft is worried that programmers may continue to jump the VB, VC++, and C# bandwagon for programming languages and Operating systems that rely on non-microsoft standards. In a sense killing their control to generate revenue when the next version of Office comes out.
Speaking of office. The more developers that jump to the GLP side will want features like the groupware features of BackOffice and write them their self. Leaving Microsoft to play second string in inovations. ( anyone remember Bob? I still think this is the only original idea to come out of MS).
The GPL will stop Microsoft dead in thier embrace and extend policy. Let's look at this one. I write a great program. That allows me to say..... Start my car from my PC in the morning. They buy my company. Take my software and put a field in a structure that is for.... O' say... the Cig_lighter. Well. My original customers can no longer use their car clients because the Microsoft version will not work unless that Cig_lighter field is not there. So they are forced to upgrade their clients or they wont be able to start the car from outlook. you get the point. If i GPL'd it... then Microsoft would have to make the Cig_lighter logic public. And in the process take any incentive microsoft might have to buy my company.
Last thing I'll touch is the Desktop client OS. Microsoft loses this space and they lose the farm. No way to pimp Office. No way to push their own protocals. And more importantly.... They become a secondary player in a world that won't pay for thier stuff.
From a company point of view it is very confusing.
However. Companys should know that their developers can use apache with out open sourcing their websites. They can use Sendmail with out having to having e-mail GPL'd.
But the biggest thing is that they will be able to avoid alot of the mistakes that others have made. Developement time will in the long run be cut down. Code reuse may even be more pronounced. And the Programmer equivalent of a "Ball Hog" may fade away.
It is import to understand that what Microsoft is loosing that is more valuable is the Hearts and Minds of it's developer base. They can't blame GPL, Open Source, Free Software foundation, or even Linus. Have you ever tried to tell microsoft that you found a bug in there stuff only to have 3 service packs come out before it's fixed? How about getting help with a VB componet that does not work the way it's documented? These are some or the reasons microsoft is loosing it's position in the programming community. If windows software was the best then all this would be a mute point. But that is not the case. People are finding GPL software to be just as good and sometimes better then anything they could pay for. This is what should be keeping Bill Gates up at night. Not how to squeeze more money out of it's user base with subscriptions. Or attack people just trying to help out others with similar problems and needs.
Does anyone really believe that the United States would fall into chaos if Microsoft closed thier doors? I for one do not buy it for a moment. As far as im concerned I was warned about this type of argument in my college logic class.
This has taken a long time.
There is not much more that Microsoft can throw at this community. In the years that I've been reading slashdot. I've seen the average age drop. The amount of MS Serf spy's increase. I now have a desktop I don't have to configure with VI. I've enjoyed Oracle on Linux. I fell in love with Java on Linux. Seen Linus go from THE guy on a mailing list to Information Systems Rebel Icon. I've seen OS2 die... Then come back. ( useless interjection ).
Microsoft has accused the community of being a bunch of hackers and failed. Reported Open Source as being buggy only to have software developers around the world installing Linux looking for a stable plateform. Microsoft has givin the vibe that Open Source is not suited for security applications. When Net Admins have favored the security of Open Source for years. (BSD anyone?) Do i need to say anything about benchmarks? This is now the last real volly. We are no longer cannon fodder.
So is that it?
The Open Source sprit wins after decades of floating around?
Not really.
Now come something interesting... Can we get the implications of using open source libs in company applications. What about taking a Function out of a opensource application. Is it okay to just put "Stole from [ProjectName]"? These are the rules that need to be understood by companys. How will using opensource java classes affect my customer? With out the anwsers to these question outlined more then "free like beer" companys will stay away. Lets remember that the Homer in us thinks "Hmm Beer" for about 30 secs after hearing the word 'beer'.
Just my 2 cent's
Thank you. you have just proved how linuxgruven could get to the point of not making payrole. Unless it is grown fast it will come to a head.
As for the training materials. I may as well believe you. Hell I believed everyone else. I am not sure how I got the idea that the training material were the CEO's idea. I'm sorry I did not give the credit where it is due. How ever the out come is the same for me. I'm done. I'm hoping for maybe one call from linuxgruven. But no matter I'm out. Craig I have a lot of respect for you. Good Luck.
Yea I am...
One. I'm not joining the former CEO's new company.
Two. Have you done the numbers? if you have 100 people paying 3150 dollars in one month but you only hire 1 out of every 20 then you should not have to depend on a VC check the day of payrole.
Three. The CEO started the new training docs and was the one that said they would be opensource.
(which could have something to do with Sair getting pissed but I don't know).
Four. The CEO was busting his ass trying to find placement for LCA's.
Five. The CEO was trying to change the way Linuxgruven did bussiness. When he couldn't he quit.
I can tell where your coming from my friend but don't call me the tune. I will not walk away.
Okay. I'm getting the impression that there is VC out there looking to snatch up some LCA's. It would seem that more then one party is interested in starting a real company. I am going to assume that I'm getting this attention because my post got a rating of 5. The question that has come up 3 times is how many LCA can I muster up. Well I don't know that to be honest. But If you would sign up on the guest book on my personal webpage at www.mercybeat.com then they can see for them selves how many LCA's can be had on monday morning. Please LCA's only.
This is not a joke. But I make no promises. I'm still looking for a job and I'm not wanting to be a opertunist. I have not heard from anyone like IBM. So far these are just e-mails with persons that say VC is easy for a consulting company.
They way I see it their are customers for linux solutions and at least a hundred Linux Admin's that can start on monday for someone that can come up with the VC. Before we are forced to work Microsoft to eat.
Too bad there is no way to put this on ebay.
This is a lie!
I promise
I was Senior Systems Developer at Linuxgruven. I was working on internal projects when I got the axe. And here is what I know.
Yes it's a scam. The fact is that they count on people not passing the LCA. They do this by promising people that have no chance of becoming a Linux admin. Most of the time these are people that can't even use windows computers.
The owners ( James and Mike ) write checks out of the company's bank account. The reason everyone is fired is because the owners took a vacation and spent their paycheck.
Right before this happened everyone at linuxgruven was forced to sign a non-discloser agreement so that people would be afraid to speak out about what was about to happen. ( LG can fook off because I did not sign S#1t.
Everyone that was above me knew how the bussiness worked and chose to ignore it because they were getting great titles and pay.
I found out a month ago and started looking into the training materials. The instructors were top notch but the materials were so bad that I would not suggest them to be used as heating fuel. I see no possible way for people to study anything from the training materials.
In the beginning it looked like a real company. I was seperated from the rest of the company and told that support contracts for services were piling up. It was not till I went to the call center and saw everyone fooking around that I supected that it was the training classes that were the only form of income. Other then me. I was billed out for 170+ hour and got screwed out of my bonus for those jobs. Which by the way my bonuses were supposed to be in this coming fridays check.
I strongly suggest that people stay away from linuxgruven. I have been told personally by the owners that they will continue the training classes and look to other citys to make up for St.Louis.
Don't feel sorry for me. feel sorry for all the guys that thought they were getting a break. A chance to work with linux and get a real good pay concidering how much they knew. Instead these guys got screwed out of pay and the bills are coming fast for them.
The fact is that there was only one real admin job that linuxgruven had, and only one person did that job. The rest were sitting around waiting for people that wanted interviews.
This is a company to stay away from... If anyone wants to contact me they can do so though my home page www.mercybeat.com ( i'm mercybeat ).
There was some good work going on at Linuxgruven... there was a team that was working on creating real training materials that were to be released opensource.
My last advice to linuxgruven employees. Go to the courts and file a personal small claim against the company. If your in st.louis contact me and i'll tell you all about it. Or you can meet me in clayton monday morning and file with me.
I would still like to work for a linux professional services company if anyone has a job for a java programmer with 5 years or real linux experiance.
Damon C. Richardson
mercybeat@earthlink.net
P.S. Once again I have signed nothing at linuxgruven and I can say what ever i want to who ever I want.
It could be that you are so young that you are coming off as a flake.
Remember that old people like it when you talk slow. And in complete sentences. Try to keep your voice down.
Don't use hand gesters. This can frighten them because of all the bad press about anyone under 25 on cnn.
Present all ideas as flow charts. or Powerpoint presentaions. The use of Powerpoint ( I must stop here and say that I refuse to sit thought a powerpoint presentation. Not because of my dislike for Ms. But because I find that Powerpoint takes alot of the excitement out of the person that is doing the presentation. If you can't get excited about what your are pitching then don't break out power point. On the other side of the coin. Powerpoint makes me think that you are not really excited about what your trying to pitch to me. So Don't use Powerpoint to show your excitement.) This method of Powerpoint is a great way for old people to understand just what your talking about. the colored backgrounds and nice scenes are soothing to them.. Allows their minds to go into neutral. And why not. They dont' have to read instructions or techical books. They just sit back and enjoy the scenes and tell their boss that "It was a good presentation". Remeber idea's are easy to except if you are almost asleep.
Pretend that you don't like techno or Rap. This will give you a common cause. Playing FreeBird with your headphones just loud enough to be heard by others is a sure sign to old people that you are ready for responsibilty.
Besure not to talk to females at your work. Talking to females says to your bosses that you are not afraid of a Sexual Harasement law suit.
Join the bosses Church. This is sure to show everyone in the company that you are a kissass and that your on your way to the top.
I hope this helps you out. I know this information would have helped me when i was your age and just starting out.
I'm looking forward to this new standard method of internet information design. Thats really what this is all about right? How we ( developers ) design the next evolution of information services. I remember very well how MS software ties together on a internet system. I also remember how Sun has handled Linux over the last 3-4 years. It might not have been as nice as the Linux community wanted but Sun was honest about what it thought and that was worth something. ( though i have no idea what ).
.dot come site I pushed Linux because I had fath in the blackdown's efforts and knew that soon Sun was going to have to support Java on Linux.
.NOT (sorry bill, could not help it) I mean .NET
I believe it too be true that if you use microsoft software in your middle tiers you will start to tie your self to both microsoft client capablities and to microsoft backend software. If you take a look at any company that is using Exchange server you will find that allmost ALL the clients are Outlook. That's pretty impressive you must admit. I can remember upper management Giving the okay to Internet Explorer functions because they were neat. I allways thought that DCOM added it's own weridness. I was totaly amazed. Microsoft put a GUI on RPC (Remote Procedure Call) calls on the server. Now that took balls.. not to mention the fact that I have yet to run into a Unix programmer that has been thinking. "I'd like to have a GUI that forced the way I installed RPC code. And then made it so that I had to create a Client.exe inorder for the the client to use the RPC. (Give me a break, I think this is crappy version of RPC) calls on the server." Wow that was not too clear. Let me explain that again. You write your DCOM functions. ( mostly in VB ) Then you use the GUI to register them. Then you make a Client.exe that will install the RPC information into the Clients Registry. Now programs can call the servers functions like it was in a DLL sitting on the Client. Sounds easy to setup and use right? Well I suggest you try it. It was probly the 3rd to last straw that made me swear off MS software. The idea is that on many levels Microsoft has built in sugar to attract other Microsoft Software or Tier solutions. This was back when GNOME was a set of Spec's. Hmm... Now that I think about it do i really have to say anything more about MS?
It was about 4 years ago that the blackdown project came out with ver 1.0 of the JDK. Unless I'm mistaken I don't think apple or OS/2 had a working JDK. Concidering that during this time every IS dept was gearing up to switch from what ever language to Visual Basic on the client side. Java was not concidered a contender in my mind 4 years ago. But the one thing I saw was real promise. Java was a great toy for me to play with at the time. I loved playing with applets. This was around the time when people started looking at network and internet services. The ideas of XML seem to be the anwser for data packaging. Ever try to figure out a "packet" of information that was in a undocumented structure with out source code that did not have null terminated vars? XML looks pretty good after problems like that.
Back to Sun and Java and Blackdown. Alot of people seem to think that Sun did alot of C*ck Blocking with the Blackdown project. I don't know if that is all that fair. In the end Sun had to admit that Linux was becoming a perfered Java platform. I know that when I heard about a
Sun has a way of doing things and then telling us about it. It's true that a Sun server is all Sun hardware. But if you ever get a chance to look inside one of these boxes you will understand why the price for a Sun box compared to a Intel server is the same as paying the extra for the BMW 850 over the Camero SS. Personally you can do more tinkering for speed to the Camero then the BMW if you know what i mean. The thing about Sun hardware is that you can Hook it up to any network. Run all kinds of open services off it. And it has a good reputation for staying up. For a company that has been working like China befour Nixon the attudes towards Opensource is pretty damn impressive. In a age when Oracle and IBM seems to be pushing linux. Suns been pretty well behaved in my mind. Let's face it. CEO's and VP's will allways put their feet where the pizza goes. It's allways been a heated battle for the hearts and minds of IS departments.
In a nutshell. I think I have a better chance using the Sun instead of the Microsoft . The reason? Because I'll write it on Linux and in the future my users will be able to move it to Sun or any other system that supports java. I should also be able to count on the fact that if I write good code then the system will have a long and upgradable life span. This is whats import to me and this is why I'm interested in finding out what Sun has in mind. Sure they are mean to Tux but they are also worried about their servers being replaced by Linux boxes. But you will never see IIS on Linux. Sun's released StarOffice for linux ( correct me but sun did not have to do this after they bought it did they? ). Forte for linux and of coarse they are not supporting the JDK on linux.
You may not like Sun but the people they have working their really do know what they are doing. I also think that Linux and Java Knowlege will be very important to stoping
What Microsoft is afraid of here is a de-centralization of technology. You see it's a very old war. One that I have seen fought at least twice on a grand scale. It's a war that is only now is starting to expose possible Information models. This profound impact on a info culture could be better understood by once again looking at how it was when Microsoft was fighting the good fight against centralized Technologys. Yep thats right. There was a time when people toughted MS as the savior of the age of computers.s
So what do i mean by centralization of technology? I'm talking about the way one group can control the use and propagation of of technology. Back in the day when hooking a computer to a TV was a neat idea. IBM ruled the jungle of technology. It did this because at that time no one shared computer design. IBM won the hardware war and as a spin off also dominated the bussiness software side too. One thing that IBM did was to aquire companys that had solutions that IBM could put to advantage. Yes even Microsoft was looked at as a possible purchase solution. What Microsoft used was the fact that everyone ( I say that very loosly because only a few people were real excited about the pc revolution back in the early eighties ) wanted there own computer. It was not good enough to run down to the campus (school/work) inorder to get computer time. Accountants could not work at home with the latest marvel spreadsheet. But we have this theme of wanting a personlized and handy form of computing. It was this notion of not personal use but personalized user of the computer that took IBM by surprise.
Microsoft provided what seemed like the greatest solution. A OS that ran on the cheapest computer hardware. ( sound familar? ) Apple showed the market existed and only controled it till someone did it cheaper. Also lets look at the competition. To the public at that time which computer to get was confusing. ( I had a Vic20 ). When IBM backed a cheap off the shelf based computer the bussiness world made the plat-form stick. ( how many times have you heard RISC is better and wondered if it was better then why don't we use it). There is a push for the home computer not because everyone wanted the same thing but because everyone wanted the convence of personal computing with out the access restrictions of central computing on MainFrames.
What changed? Well we have had may years to enjoy the advantages of cheap hardware that has de-centralized our need for large computer with less then friendly access restrictions. Now we have this great platform to automate our more mundane calculations. But it's the thing we would not give up that gave MS it's power. That thing was interoperability ( sorry but I'm not going to correct spelling on something this long when i should be working ). with other computers. We all wanted to run the same programs. Share files and print with the same fonts. This translates into centralizing the software as a trade off for computers in the home. And for the most part its a great trade for everyone.
Microsoft is now the target of de-centralization of Technology. Well we all have cheap computers. And they all come with MS because everyone wants to shop at the same place and eveyone wants to send there thought to others that will be able to understand them. But wait! What about the people that are looking for a different way? The Heretic of centralization in all of us looks around and thinks that maybe I want it to do this. And I want it to do it this way. When your a developer this seems to come up more then when you bought your computer for e-mail. but as more people start wondering what they want to do with there computers they are finding out that it can't be done like that. The reason is allway because the central controling forces just don't have the resources to make everyone happy. "Do you want one thing done right? or Manythings done half assed?" The people that want one thing done right are not happy with a Operating system that wants to do everything you can think of and not let you see the gears.
Does the fact that Microsoft is the largest mean that Microsoft is the best? I don't think so. I think i means they were able to take advantage of the fact that they did not have to worry about the Heretic in the early days. And why would they? At that time I had to go to the local college or too my mothers place of work to get computer time befour the Vic 20.
Do i think linux will ever "Go Down!" ? No I don't. and here is why. Opensource packages like linux distributions come with source code. that everyone knows. But what makes source code valuable? It opens up the software for de-centralized evolution. This is the same de-centralized evolution that gave us leaps in Video card technologies. The more people find out that they can do exactly what they want instead of what the instructions will let them do the more de-centralization wins.
So we get to the linux changing the world part. With out the cost of a centralized Operating system companies now have a choice to invest licence fees into people instead. People that can get technology to do that one thing really well. If you have ever had a Microsoft consultant come out to look at a deployment the first thing you will mostlikly notice is that person doing all the things you've been putzing with for the last few weeks. This is because the world of Canned software does not have much in the way of configuration choices. This is great if your people are not so brite. It also helps bring the cost of people down. One reason why I saw IBM's OS/2 lose it's base was because of a lack of people to write code and admin. Actually there were people there. But Microsoft knowlege was cheaper then IBM knowlege.
What you get with the Microsoft solution is the same solution that your competor has. You will be more at the mercy of MS for inovation then your own IS staff. You will have to spend more money on software that could go to keep people and hire new people.
The winning motion of linux is the ablity to foster real inovation from the ground up. Take what you need from the CVS repositorys. Beat it into submission till all the data is processed right and you have inovation. Real inovation. And Technology is fed with de-centralized revolution not centralized predicted evolution.
I don't think linux will ever die. And I know it will not get less "market share" in future years. I'm sure that de-centralized revolution will change linux well beyond what we know as linux. If linux did go away then I'm sure that instead of MS saving market share it would be because a new and more malable Operating system grabed the attention of the inovators.
When I grew up and went to school I was taught that a good programmmer writes portable code that was expandable. To me portable meant any operating system and expandable meant being able to be used for purposes that I did not forsee. Linux lets me see things that windows hides from possiblity.
"why bother with the training course if you must pay out of pocket?"
.com that lied to me for over a year. At least Linuxgruven seems to be hiring 50% of the LCA's that should say something. I've had jobs where they promised me things and lied to me the whole time I worked for them.
Are you nuts? I had to pay for college. No really I had to pay for it. My mom didn't do it. As a matter of fact I had to Join the Army and lose the years most people get for education So I could pay for college. Durning my first two jobs I had to pay for Continuing education classes so I could get out of Crapy IVR ( or VRU, this is voice response phone programming and it sucks ) programming and go into something with C++. All this I paid for. I even worked for the largest company in the world (thats actual employees). General Electric. And they did not send me to classes for Jack Sh|t. And I was pretty high up on the corp/dev food chain.
There is the way that you want the world to work and there is the way things really happen. If you expect your employer to make you more valuable in a job market where employee turn over is almost every year then bully for you.
If you do get a employer that offers to train you and give you a good paying job with no strings then take it. Trust me Take it. I worked for a
"Don't.. get.. sad..... When people that you trust stab you in the back. So you thought they were your friends. Now you know... Now you know.. there is one thing in life that holds. Your on your own." theThe from the cd NakedSelf.
I remember my first programming job. I had very little college and I was sitting next to a grad that was earning 2 grand less then me. Lesson 1: Life is unfair. .com because of the carot. Lesson 7: You have to want to make money.
I've seen this befour. It was a Java shop they said to me. we will hire you if you take this coarse. Then we will consult you out. After a year we will pay you back. And then I was also offered that If I work a year for nothing they will invest money in me to go to classes. Lesson 2: There is no free ride.
The only job that would pay for me to go to school from day one asked that I wear a tie 4 days a week. Lesson 3: They scratch your back. You wash their car.
Now I'm very big. I'm a big important man. and the only thing thats different is underneath my hat. ( TMBG ). Well actually. I'm coming up on 7 years programming and 6 years using Linux. and 2 years working only on linux. ( no MS at my house ). I can go into any place and pimp all kinda skillz. Lesson 4: Expect to pay your dues befour you just go out and get a great job.
But I know some AS400 people that have thought about linuxgruven. I thought linuxgruven was being nice when they said they would hire her if she passed a exam. Actually I told her to get the RedHat Exam book and cram till i found out how much that was. Lesson 5: Sucks to be deprecated.
If I was linuxgruven I would expect a bunch of Slashdot Zealot types banging down my door expecting High paying jobs... It does not suprize me that Linuxgruven wants only LCA's. Lord knows I would not send some of the Linux guys I've met to a customer site with out something real under their belt. Also. I hired a "Linux Guru"-"All About Open Source"-"New Techno Rocker"-"Slashdot Flamer" and the joker could not show up for work till after noon. I'm damn glad that the company did not send him off to be trained in something when he first started only to find out that he can't show up for work. On another level I've been in Sun Classes where 35 year old guys skip the first 2 days because they are great programmers only to not be able to do the class work on the last day. Expecting a company to go out and spend money on every Knuckle head that can install apache on redhat in hopes they are not full of Cr@p when you send them to a customer site or training class makes no sense. Lesson 6: No one promised you a Rose garden. All you get is dirt.
I know a techie that earns over 200,000.00 a year. He is not married. Lives alone and is out of town almost 25 days a month. I know guys that work 70+ hours a week for almost nothing at a
Here's something for you dorm monkeys to go out and put in your pipes. Go find out how you become a Air Traffic Controler. If memory serves me correct thats over 7 thousand dollars for the training and you don't even get the promise of a job just a certification and a list of airports. And I think starting for that job is 35,000 dollars a year. Lesson 8: Something allways sucks more.
Maybe I'm wasting my breath. Half of you will want to be project management with in 2 years of working anyway. The you will just piss off the other half of us till we quit. Lesson 9: Talent leaves befour dead weight.
Well I was on flex time. My wife went out of town and I looked after our (at the time) 2 year old for the week. Three days I had to go into the office with my two year old. I also worked my ass off late into the night so that I would not fall behind on the sites current project. End the end they screwed me out of a week of vacation that I did not really think counted as vacation. Now if someone offers flex time I run like hell. I think a good idea has been raped by a Management mentality that in the end only serves to screw over the employee for the good of the company. I really feel that because of flex time and the blured line of what is and is not vacation screwed me out of over a grand of vacation pay.
I got it up and running on my helio. It was very easy. only feature is a basic shell. no display to the helio lcd that i can tell. But what the hell its a interesting start.