Actually, they make most of their money through large contracts from companies that post lots of jobs. Fidelity was their first large one, or so I heard before I was asked to come aboard, and was the reason they had ANY QA at all (see below) in the beginning.
TMP worldwide is the parent company of Fidelity and is (or was) one of the largest temp firms in the world. They created Monster so they could find recruits for their own clients - that was fairly well known at the time.
Now I suspect they make the vast majority of their revenue through advertising revenue. Ever go on the site and see all the advertising features? "In your face" hardly begins to describe it.
I'm not terribly surprised. They have a casual approach toward development and quality assurance. In the early days of Monster at TMP Worldwide the QA department consisted of just two people - Fidelity demanded they focus more on QA so they brought me in (Fidelity was and probably still is their single largest account. At the time probably 75% of the jobs were Fidelity postings).
The code running the site was atrocious - and the web server consisted of a single DEC Unix box. They had terrible cross-browser issues (I can't remember if it was Netscape, which was still dominant at the time, or MSIE which completely broke). The developers had no clue what was wrong, so I did some digging and the issue was a lot of table cells and even table rows were never being closed. I logged the defects and was given access to the code (which was Datapult PF at the time - thank god it was not easy-to-write/impossible-to-read perl). I worked with the developers (coders, really) to identify where each type of cell was being generated, and where it should be closed. The code was such that I had to print it on a line printer and trace with pens where each cell was being opened, and there were a lot of cases where the code was not nested properly. It was UGLY. Well, after a few days I had fixed the bugs and it was rendering properly in "all" of the two major browsers, and even AOL.
(as an aside, Datapult PF was kind of neat - very readable and a much better alternative than ASP. I had taken the defect tracking system and enhanced it and wanted to clean up the database schema but there just wasn't time)
Then, by the time they closed the Framingham facility and moved to Maynard, the Fidelity contract had been finalized so they axed most of QA (read: all but one person) and offered me a job as a developer - for $38K, which was just slightly over half of what I was making as a QA engineer. I told them thanks, but no thanks, that $38K is actually quite insulting.
I don't know if they have a proper QA process and department in place, but back when I was there (1997 or 1998) the only people who liked the fact that there even was QA at all was the developers. Management, sales, etc. all hated us, and the parent company (TMP Worldwide) looked at QA as a cost center. They Just Didn't Get It then, and I wouldn't be surprised if they still do not have QA now and Still Don't Get It.
I don't know what they're running for a back end now, but the response headers say IIS 6.0 so I'd presume ASP.net. For.Net and PHP there are plenty of harnesses to test for SQL injection bugs, which If THey Get It, they would be running against the site, but far more likely it's a human issue (someone selling the info, since TMP Worldwide grossly under-pays permanent Monster employees, or at least did at the time) or the Windows server has a root kit on it (if it is in fact IIS 6.0) -- or is the result of an untested bridge to other systems they integrate with. If their modus operandi is still that of TMP Worldwide and they view QA as unnecessary unless a client demands it before awarding a large contract (Fidelity is a company which Does Get It) then I would not be surprised if QA personnel and processes are both totally lacking.
It was a fun contract - don't get me wrong. I liked the people I worked with, and I liked working with the developers to fix the problem, but TMP as a whole just doesn't get it. Monster needs to be run internally like a software company, since it is a large internally-developed software project which is CONSTANTLY being enhanced with more and more features and integrated with other systems (ad servers, etc.). It's not a small project by any means and proper QA from requirements through deployment and maintenance is the only way to minimize liabilities such as this.
As an aside: does anyone out there remember the sleeping monster? The sleeping monster was in place whenever code was being moved from the staging server to the live server, or when the Oracle database would go down. The sleep
Well you could run your notes through a sheet feed scanner and print out multiple copies, and for effect put them into a PDF or impress slide show. You could burn them to CD and drag it out family guy-style between the paper, CDs, and a slide show on your laptop.
However, your notes are YOUR property and you are not obliged to give them up. What problem does the "teacher"[sic] have with future student using notes as a study aid? I can see retaining copies of tests, but in that case, the teacher ought to have not returned the tests to you - and in fact should have stayed in the classroom to monitor your taking the test and collected them immediately.
What kind of teacher demands you not keep copies of your notes? A megolomaniac douchebag, that's what kind of teacher.
I run OpenSUSE so I just select the KDE packages I want in Yast. kubuntu isn't much different in that respect.
I couldn't tell you about CentOS though because I usually install only kdebase, konqueror, and kate on CentOS and haven't even checked the repositories for KDE4.
There isn't any overlap; they can be installed side-by-side.
I haven't done any dcop scripting though. The only integration I've had to do was with kate, and that has been mostly bash scripting to automate some editing tasks (mostly html tidy and sed) so I've never had the opportunity or need to work with dcop.
As far as "easing the transition" perhaps you'd prefer to stay with the KDE 3.5 desktop and just try the KDE 4.x applications? Just be aware that if you rely on ioslaves to access things like fish:, ftp:, or webdav:, you might find things a little broken or perhaps altogether absent.
So is MS now supposed to not trust the hardware makers when they are told by said hardware vendor that this particular flavor of product WILL run the fanciness?
When Microsoft allows those authorised stickers they are certifying that the hardware with those logos will in fact meet the requirements. With all of the hoopla about the new desktop with the 3D features (which are a crock. I run Compiz-Fusion and THAT environment has 3D effects. A single scrolling 3D task switcher != 3D desktop, IMHO) Joe Sixpack is led to believe that they will be able to reap those benefits with the Microsoft endorsement.
Have you ANY experience with the Windows Logo and other similar programs? You have to meet a set of requirements in order to be allowed to display those logos. There is a certification process and everything.
Should Joe Sixpack have to read the specs, or should Joe Sixpack be able to rely on the what Microsoft's PR is announcing?
It's the latter. It's similar to auto PR. I won't buy a new GM, ever (I might consider used), because they publicly announced they would support a certain car with parts availability, tech support, etc. for a minimum of 20 years after production ends, and they were discontinuing parts left and right before the warranties ran out - including critical safety and emissions parts, AND they never, ever copped to the manufacturing defects which resulted in delaminating windshields. If I ever need and ignition module or catalytic converter, I'm screwed - they are not available new from GM at any price.:( So, I am voting with my wallet and buying either Ford or foreign (most likely toyota for normal cars, Porsche or Lotus if I ever buy another sportscar) from now on.
People should do the same to Microsoft - if they will not live up to what they obligated themselves to through their PR and advertising channels, then they should vote with their wallets and choose Apple or Linux or another non-Microsoft solution. Hit Microsoft where it hurts, and that is what this suit is about. It's not about getting "free" hardware - it is all about holding Microsoft up to their obligations.
Seriously. Call their help line. Listen to their canned message while you're on hold. Does it say anything remotely close to "we want to be your ISP"? Nope. It says something like "we're happy to be your ENTERTAINMENT company".
. . . which is exactly the reason for the download caps. They were perfectly happy to offer UNLIMITED Internet access (which I agreed to, so they are contractually obligated to provide if I had the money to blow on a good Boston attorney to push the matter) until online high-def became available from the likes of Netflix and Blockbuster, and standard-def providers like Hulu came along. Suddenly the cable company does not have a monopoly on static-free broadcast-quality television programming. Suddenly being a Cable company with a side income of ISP is in jeopardy since the days of broadcast television are numbered. Now suddenly Comcast, Time Warner, etc. are pulling RIAA-like moves such as restricting what and how much you can access, rather than embracing their role as potentially becoming Tier-1 internet providers. Instead, they've decided to do a half-assed job of being ISPs and engage in anticompetitive practices out of fear of losing their monopolies on television broadcast delivery.
According to speedtest.net, using the Portland, Maine server I am getting 19,295 kbps down and 6,479kbps up. Not too shabby! That's like having 12 bonded T1 lines' worth of downstream bandwidth, or nearly half a T3's worth.
However they are selling this bandwidth to me, I am agreeing to purchase it, who are they to tell me that if I approach or exceed 70% of what they agreed to sell me and I agreed to purchase that I am using too much of it, should I decide to do so? We have a contract: they offer bandwidth for sale, and I agreed to the price and purchased it. On top of that when I agreed to it, I agreed to UNLIMITED use. How does it not get any clearer than that? What part of unlimited does Comcast not understand?
(for the record my bandwidth use for the month is as follows: 3,664mb inbound, 312MB outbound)
The latest build of amaroK (2.0.1) is a heck of a lot better than the previous KDE 4.x amaroK builds. It still doesn't support syncing with MP3 players or mass storage devices but now the play list is searchable. I can live with it - if I need to sync with a player I can use the KDE3 version, but for just listening the KDE4 version is usable.
Now to be fair to the KDE team, much of it was a total rewrite and they have made it clear that KDE4 and early KDE4.1 will be missing a lot of legacy features, and that those missing features will be ported in as time goes on.
I hated KDE 4.0 - it was missing the folder view for the desktop. Ever since the Amiga and the original Mac I've expected the desktop to be a folder, and when I ran Win3x I ran Norton Desktop, which gave me a desktop folder metaphor.
I find the current KDE4 to be about as good as KDE up through 3.1 - usable, but not ideal, which made the availability of Gnome really nice. KDE 3.5 made me a diehard KDE user. I use KDE4.1 + compiz-fusion for my desktop environment, and have KDE 3.5 installed so I have access to all the apps with the kio slaves for work. I've come to hate gnome, with all of the dumbing down of the environment that has gone on for 5+ years -- ESPECIALLY the file open/save dialogs.
Also KDE isn't just for power users; I've sat novices in front of both gnome and KDE 3.5 and they invariably find their way around KDE 3.5 a lot easier. They can sit down and just use it without having to ask many questions.
Many accuse KDE of trying to be Windows, but my experience is that it has provided the best of Mac OS X and the best of Windows, a lot of additional functionality power users need (such as the kio slaves in konqueror, PLUS tabbed file management), AND provided the ability to extensively customize settings without having to recompile. On top of that, gnome uses a registry-style database for what settings you CAN tweak, and forces you to use gconf, whereas if there is a setting here or there that KDE does not provide a GUI for, you can tweak a config file and not have to recompile anything.
Linus has changed desktops before, and when KDE 4.x becomes more feature-rich expect to read remarks that he's changed back to KDE 4.x. IMHO, this is non-news. Something newsworthy from Linus would be that he's retiring from Linux kernel development, or he's decided FreeBSD is the way to go, or he's released the 3.0 version of the kernel.
KDE4 is not a disaster by any means; the current situation is the lack of understanding that the KDE team is releasing limited but stable features, and that KDE4.x is not considered feature-complete by anyone at this time.
If you're missing KDE 3.5.x functionality and need it, perhaps you need to choose KDE 3.5.x, or at least do what I am doing and run KDE 3.5.x and KDE4.x side-by-side.
There are a lot of things missing from kwin that I really like and miss, but I am using it understanding that the environment isn't complete by any stretch of the imagination.
For all anyone knows, one could have passed right through you in the last 20 minutes along with neutrinos and who knows what other subatomic particles resulting from solar radiation hitting the atmosphere. It's been going on for eons (natural particle collider, ZOMG!) and so far so good; we haven't been eaten by any black holes yet.
Wait a second; black hole - shouldn't we be referring to them as minority holes?;)
This kind of thing is something government should stay out of. One cannot install a 100W light bulb? Now they want to ban plasma? I've gone CFL where possible and I have been changing some of the incandescent lamps with CFLs at my new office, but there are still applications where incandescent is the only solution; dimmable CFLs are still available in only very limited form factors, whereas incandescents are always compatible with dimmers.
Likewise, plasma televisions/monitors are still superior to LCD for various applications. Now, I *like* LCD far better (the backlight of an LCD can be changed, LCDs do not suffer from burn-in, etc.) however even though I am a fan of LCDs I cannot deny that there are still applications for which plasma screens are superior - black levels and color purity for example. Now, Samsung has brough LCDs a long way with zone-based variable LED backlighting (zones can even be turned completely off resulting in decent blacks) but the cost of those screens is 2x to 3x more expensive than plasma, and due to the medium used for LCD (the diffuser panel) you still get lighting from adjacent back lights.
Also, are they really concerned about power consumption, or is it really about corruption; corporate lobbying? I have a 36" CRT (a Sony) in my bedroom and it draws under 100w PEAK (volume and brightness cranked all the way up is 93W, which I found surprising - I expected it to be around 300W), according to my kill-a-watt meter. According to that same meter, 32" and 46" LCD screens draw over 170 watts. If power consumption is the concern, ban all the new sets and bring back CRTs (ugh!).
If you want to regulate power consumption regulate the real hogs - headache-inducing over-lighted businesses. Department stores can get by with half the lighting. Heating and HVAC in businesses; we turn down the heat at night and when we're not using our conference room (it's rather large - downright huge - and on its own zone) I turn it down to 50*F (although my partners turn it up to 60*F). Heat should be turned DOWN when offices are not occupied. The HVAC in our new office isn't designed properly so we've worked with the property management and suggested a design for zoning off other offices, and they brought in several HVAC engineers and techs and are going to be implementing our suggestions, which should cut the electric bill in half - AND improve heating and cooling of the entire floor.
Also, nix all decorative lighting on office buildings, monuments/sculptures, and so forth, and install more efficient street lighting which does NOT emit any horizontal or upward-directed light. This will bring a side benefit of bringing back dark skies, so we can see the same sky our ancestors saw just four generations ago. I live in New England and I have never seen a truly dark sky.
Around here (Greater Boston area), the single biggest polluter and energy user is the MBTA (Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority) - it has been identified by the EPA as the worst polluter and the operator of the dirtiest (and most inefficient) vehicles within the last two years. The diesel engines they use are outmoded and emit a LOT of visible smoke, and even the hybrid vehicles (some of the buses, etc.) are ancient technology using dirty engines.
There is a lot of waste of energy by big business and government. If government wants to regulate minor things like residential lighting and televisions and PCs, perhaps government should set an example by not wasting energy on decorative (and night sky-polluting!) lighting.
Now, I've never been to Europe (I have no real desire to go there except perhaps to visit relatives I haven't seen in a while) but I see footage of London, Paris, etc. all the time on television, and lots of recent photos on Flickr, etc. and electricity wastage on decorative lighting there looks every bit as bad as Times Square.
Now, unless you can prove to me that all the decorative lighting is privately owned and operated by solar or wind power, not made "green"
through "purchasing" "green" power off a shared grid, which is BS and nothing more than PR that idiots buy into) then government needs to clean up its own act before regulating residential appliances.
This seems like it would be an excellent solution for a swap drive and for a c:\temp or/tmp directory.Fair enough as swap *nix OSes will reap little benefit, but Windows seems to hit swap no matter how much RAM you have so there should be some significant performance gains there.
So, what you're telling us is that trusting "pirated" (Arrrr!!) Microsoft software is no less trustworthy than trusting out-of-the-box Genuine(tm) Microsoft Software.
When a router is bricked (bricked is a layperson's term mind you, not a technical term!) it can nearly always be recovered through tftp in the first few ms of boot up (if it automatically listens in an automated failsafe recovery step like some Buffalo routers) or through a JTAG port. By your logic, a router is never bricked unless the NVRAM is fried, right? Wrong. It's bricked - just like iPhone users who jailbreak and then end up with dead iPhones. Sure, they can be recovered, but for the average joe, the thing is a "brick" good for little else than a paperweight or door stop (depending on mass) even though it can be fixed.
It's not a technical term by any means. It's slang for "ZOMG! IT DONE BROKE I DUNNO IF IT CAN BE FIXED!" then you find out it can be undone through a firmware update, even if by a JTAG port, then it's "I HAS SHINY FIXED! KTHXBAI!"
Now, let's get over the word "brick" and agree that its meaning is not necessarily "permanently broken" but its meaning is "non-working shiny which may or may not be reparable."
How do you expect them to pay for their cost of operation, and yes, this includes reasonable salaries for their owners and employees, preferably at market rates not poverty level livings.
Do you object? Is one 15-second advert after 10-12 songs too much? Of course not.
Ah, but it is a public school, and as such faculty and employees are agents of the government. Therefore, constitutional rights can and do apply in theory. In practice, it may take a very good lawyer to ensure that your rights (first, second, fourth) amendment rights are retained but in theory they remain intact.
Were this a private school, it would not be the case.
'this is an isolated incident' and that 'Belkin does not participate in, nor does it endorse, unethical practices like this.'
Excuse me, INAL however I seem to remember when ethics were discussed way back in college that when one acts as an agent of the company, one is acting on behalf of the company in a legal sense. Therefore, since the exec was repeatedly buying reviews I would hardly consider it to be an "isolated incident" (an isolated incident would be asking a friend or neighbor to write up a review in exchange for a round of beers, for example). Also, I would consider that since a Belkin exec was buying those reviews and encouraging this unethical and immoral behavior, it is wholeheartedly officially, if surreptitiously, endorsed by Belkin.
I've posted this before but when Napster was in its height, I bought more CDs in the year I used Napster than in the 13 previous years I owned CD players. I downloaded a LOT of music (I'd search for the letter A, download, listen to bits of tracks, then go out and purchase new CDs with the tracks I liked, etc.) and discovered a lot of new and old acts I would never have been otherwise exposed to, in genres ranging from rap to country; jazz to pop, and everything in between. I also tracked down tracks I remembered listening to on 8-track when I was a toddler but couldn't remember anything other than most of the tracks had names of foods in them - it turned out the album I was looking for was Herb Alpert and the Tijuana Brass' Whipped Cream and other Delights -- and the specific track I was trying to find was Taste of Honey. Well, the next day I actually went into work late because I had to run out and find and buy that CD. I felt like I was in heaven - I had tracked[sic] down a childhood favorite! I played that 8-track so much I wore my parents' copy out. It took me a long, long time using Napster to find that song. Then, I'd export the list to a spreadsheet, delete everything and download more to try. The vast majority of tracks I'd play I'd think "crap" but there were many, many downloaded tracks that would prompt me to go out and buy the CD. On the way to work, I would usually listen to top 40 radio, too - and buying what I liked.
There were many, many others and I was buying up to 15 CDs a week at one point. I would literally go to Best Buy, Strawberries (now defunct) or drive down to RI to Luke's Records every single day and I'd buy 3 to 5 CDs. That was every work day, on the way home from work, or if I found something I really "had" to have, shift my schedule and work a later day and buy it on the way to work. Granted, I had a lot more "disposable" income then, but were it not for the RIAA turning against its biggest "fan base"/"consumer base" I'd still be buying at least 3 to 5 CDs a week.
As soon as the RIAA started making noise about filing suits I quit not only using Napster, but I also quit listening to top 40 radio. In fact for quite a few years I listened to only Christian talk radio and the local big classical station (then WCRB 102.5 and 99.5, now it's just on 99.5).
I only recently started purchasing CDs but my purchases are very few and far between, and it is usually based on recommendations of my favorite artists (for example: Dave Gilmour recommended Radiohead for folks who like Pink Floyd, since fans are clamoring for more), or on what I find on Pandora or what friends in bands or who are composers expose me to.:) I also check out Youtube a bit, but the RIAA labels are trying to alienate me even further by demanding that obvious Fair Use projects are being removed at their demand.
The RIAA has lost me as a big-spending customer. I track down USED CDs now, on the rare occasions I do buy.
They need to embrace models such as the original Napster; I am NOT happy with the rip quality of downloads - I used it to sample music at random, and would discover whole new worlds of music that appeal to me in genres you normally couldn't PAY me to listen to (e/g. rap, country) because I could try it for free and then go out and buy the perfect-quality product on CD. I'd always shop around though - I nearly always refused to pay more than $15 per CD.
That's a lot of revenue the RIAA has "lost" - and because I don't expose myself to top 40 radio, I'm not even tempted to buy new material. I have most of the old material I want. RIAA members, are you reading this? That's up to $225 per week I'm not spending on music now, and the temptation truly is not there because I don't expose myself to stations where payola drives the play lists.
Now, I spend my entertainment dollars on DVDs and cable TV.
I might consider iTunes when I upgrade to an iPhone - I hate Windows (it's installed on my desktop ONLY for games) but might put Tiger on my
"The government probably has means/software/tools/hacks to get your info."
If they did. the FAA would never have any trouble recovering data from flight recorders (black boxes).
I too am tired of hearing it. Scanning entire platters would be too expensive and extensive to be practical, and it's questionable whether the alignment of magnetic fields could be discerned reliably enough to come to any conclusion other than "yup, there is a magnetic substrate on that aluminum/glass/ceramic disc."
No one, since all software I have seen for Windows, including Windows itself, expressly disclaims any warranty.
You may be SOL when you run into problems on Linux+other F/OSS solutions, but you're SOL when you run into problems on Windows. The difference is, you never run into license problems by using F/OSS software, and even if you don't understand the EULA you are not running afoul of "licensing" restrictions if you install F/OSS on one machine too many. The only thing you lose is the time spent installing/imaging the machine.
I've been keeping up with this thread and sme server ( http://wiki.contribs.org/Main_Page ) has been touted as an alternative. Not LDAP but looks like it will work well as a PDC. I'm going to try it out next week.:)
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They can't afford a $150 sheet feed scanner? Wow, they ARE hurting! ;)
Actually, they make most of their money through large contracts from companies that post lots of jobs. Fidelity was their first large one, or so I heard before I was asked to come aboard, and was the reason they had ANY QA at all (see below) in the beginning.
TMP worldwide is the parent company of Fidelity and is (or was) one of the largest temp firms in the world. They created Monster so they could find recruits for their own clients - that was fairly well known at the time.
Now I suspect they make the vast majority of their revenue through advertising revenue. Ever go on the site and see all the advertising features? "In your face" hardly begins to describe it.
I'm not terribly surprised. They have a casual approach toward development and quality assurance. In the early days of Monster at TMP Worldwide the QA department consisted of just two people - Fidelity demanded they focus more on QA so they brought me in (Fidelity was and probably still is their single largest account. At the time probably 75% of the jobs were Fidelity postings).
The code running the site was atrocious - and the web server consisted of a single DEC Unix box. They had terrible cross-browser issues (I can't remember if it was Netscape, which was still dominant at the time, or MSIE which completely broke). The developers had no clue what was wrong, so I did some digging and the issue was a lot of table cells and even table rows were never being closed. I logged the defects and was given access to the code (which was Datapult PF at the time - thank god it was not easy-to-write/impossible-to-read perl). I worked with the developers (coders, really) to identify where each type of cell was being generated, and where it should be closed. The code was such that I had to print it on a line printer and trace with pens where each cell was being opened, and there were a lot of cases where the code was not nested properly. It was UGLY. Well, after a few days I had fixed the bugs and it was rendering properly in "all" of the two major browsers, and even AOL.
(as an aside, Datapult PF was kind of neat - very readable and a much better alternative than ASP. I had taken the defect tracking system and enhanced it and wanted to clean up the database schema but there just wasn't time)
Then, by the time they closed the Framingham facility and moved to Maynard, the Fidelity contract had been finalized so they axed most of QA (read: all but one person) and offered me a job as a developer - for $38K, which was just slightly over half of what I was making as a QA engineer. I told them thanks, but no thanks, that $38K is actually quite insulting.
I don't know if they have a proper QA process and department in place, but back when I was there (1997 or 1998) the only people who liked the fact that there even was QA at all was the developers. Management, sales, etc. all hated us, and the parent company (TMP Worldwide) looked at QA as a cost center. They Just Didn't Get It then, and I wouldn't be surprised if they still do not have QA now and Still Don't Get It.
I don't know what they're running for a back end now, but the response headers say IIS 6.0 so I'd presume ASP.net. For .Net and PHP there are plenty of harnesses to test for SQL injection bugs, which If THey Get It, they would be running against the site, but far more likely it's a human issue (someone selling the info, since TMP Worldwide grossly under-pays permanent Monster employees, or at least did at the time) or the Windows server has a root kit on it (if it is in fact IIS 6.0) -- or is the result of an untested bridge to other systems they integrate with. If their modus operandi is still that of TMP Worldwide and they view QA as unnecessary unless a client demands it before awarding a large contract (Fidelity is a company which Does Get It) then I would not be surprised if QA personnel and processes are both totally lacking.
It was a fun contract - don't get me wrong. I liked the people I worked with, and I liked working with the developers to fix the problem, but TMP as a whole just doesn't get it. Monster needs to be run internally like a software company, since it is a large internally-developed software project which is CONSTANTLY being enhanced with more and more features and integrated with other systems (ad servers, etc.). It's not a small project by any means and proper QA from requirements through deployment and maintenance is the only way to minimize liabilities such as this.
As an aside: does anyone out there remember the sleeping monster? The sleeping monster was in place whenever code was being moved from the staging server to the live server, or when the Oracle database would go down. The sleep
Well you could run your notes through a sheet feed scanner and print out multiple copies, and for effect put them into a PDF or impress slide show. You could burn them to CD and drag it out family guy-style between the paper, CDs, and a slide show on your laptop.
However, your notes are YOUR property and you are not obliged to give them up. What problem does the "teacher"[sic] have with future student using notes as a study aid? I can see retaining copies of tests, but in that case, the teacher ought to have not returned the tests to you - and in fact should have stayed in the classroom to monitor your taking the test and collected them immediately.
What kind of teacher demands you not keep copies of your notes? A megolomaniac douchebag, that's what kind of teacher.
I run OpenSUSE so I just select the KDE packages I want in Yast. kubuntu isn't much different in that respect.
I couldn't tell you about CentOS though because I usually install only kdebase, konqueror, and kate on CentOS and haven't even checked the repositories for KDE4.
There isn't any overlap; they can be installed side-by-side.
I haven't done any dcop scripting though. The only integration I've had to do was with kate, and that has been mostly bash scripting to automate some editing tasks (mostly html tidy and sed) so I've never had the opportunity or need to work with dcop.
As far as "easing the transition" perhaps you'd prefer to stay with the KDE 3.5 desktop and just try the KDE 4.x applications? Just be aware that if you rely on ioslaves to access things like fish:, ftp:, or webdav:, you might find things a little broken or perhaps altogether absent.
When Microsoft allows those authorised stickers they are certifying that the hardware with those logos will in fact meet the requirements. With all of the hoopla about the new desktop with the 3D features (which are a crock. I run Compiz-Fusion and THAT environment has 3D effects. A single scrolling 3D task switcher != 3D desktop, IMHO) Joe Sixpack is led to believe that they will be able to reap those benefits with the Microsoft endorsement.
Have you ANY experience with the Windows Logo and other similar programs? You have to meet a set of requirements in order to be allowed to display those logos. There is a certification process and everything.
Should Joe Sixpack have to read the specs, or should Joe Sixpack be able to rely on the what Microsoft's PR is announcing?
It's the latter. It's similar to auto PR. I won't buy a new GM, ever (I might consider used), because they publicly announced they would support a certain car with parts availability, tech support, etc. for a minimum of 20 years after production ends, and they were discontinuing parts left and right before the warranties ran out - including critical safety and emissions parts, AND they never, ever copped to the manufacturing defects which resulted in delaminating windshields. If I ever need and ignition module or catalytic converter, I'm screwed - they are not available new from GM at any price. :( So, I am voting with my wallet and buying either Ford or foreign (most likely toyota for normal cars, Porsche or Lotus if I ever buy another sportscar) from now on.
People should do the same to Microsoft - if they will not live up to what they obligated themselves to through their PR and advertising channels, then they should vote with their wallets and choose Apple or Linux or another non-Microsoft solution. Hit Microsoft where it hurts, and that is what this suit is about. It's not about getting "free" hardware - it is all about holding Microsoft up to their obligations.
negative, however personally I shall remain neutral on the subject.
The root problem is that Joe Sixpack was misled and purchased said hardware based on that Microsoft-authorised "Vista Capable" decal.
. . . which is exactly the reason for the download caps. They were perfectly happy to offer UNLIMITED Internet access (which I agreed to, so they are contractually obligated to provide if I had the money to blow on a good Boston attorney to push the matter) until online high-def became available from the likes of Netflix and Blockbuster, and standard-def providers like Hulu came along. Suddenly the cable company does not have a monopoly on static-free broadcast-quality television programming. Suddenly being a Cable company with a side income of ISP is in jeopardy since the days of broadcast television are numbered. Now suddenly Comcast, Time Warner, etc. are pulling RIAA-like moves such as restricting what and how much you can access, rather than embracing their role as potentially becoming Tier-1 internet providers. Instead, they've decided to do a half-assed job of being ISPs and engage in anticompetitive practices out of fear of losing their monopolies on television broadcast delivery.
According to speedtest.net, using the Portland, Maine server I am getting 19,295 kbps down and 6,479kbps up. Not too shabby! That's like having 12 bonded T1 lines' worth of downstream bandwidth, or nearly half a T3's worth.
However they are selling this bandwidth to me, I am agreeing to purchase it, who are they to tell me that if I approach or exceed 70% of what they agreed to sell me and I agreed to purchase that I am using too much of it, should I decide to do so? We have a contract: they offer bandwidth for sale, and I agreed to the price and purchased it. On top of that when I agreed to it, I agreed to UNLIMITED use. How does it not get any clearer than that? What part of unlimited does Comcast not understand?
(for the record my bandwidth use for the month is as follows: 3,664mb inbound, 312MB outbound)
The latest build of amaroK (2.0.1) is a heck of a lot better than the previous KDE 4.x amaroK builds. It still doesn't support syncing with MP3 players or mass storage devices but now the play list is searchable. I can live with it - if I need to sync with a player I can use the KDE3 version, but for just listening the KDE4 version is usable.
Now to be fair to the KDE team, much of it was a total rewrite and they have made it clear that KDE4 and early KDE4.1 will be missing a lot of legacy features, and that those missing features will be ported in as time goes on.
I hated KDE 4.0 - it was missing the folder view for the desktop. Ever since the Amiga and the original Mac I've expected the desktop to be a folder, and when I ran Win3x I ran Norton Desktop, which gave me a desktop folder metaphor.
I find the current KDE4 to be about as good as KDE up through 3.1 - usable, but not ideal, which made the availability of Gnome really nice. KDE 3.5 made me a diehard KDE user. I use KDE4.1 + compiz-fusion for my desktop environment, and have KDE 3.5 installed so I have access to all the apps with the kio slaves for work. I've come to hate gnome, with all of the dumbing down of the environment that has gone on for 5+ years -- ESPECIALLY the file open/save dialogs.
Also KDE isn't just for power users; I've sat novices in front of both gnome and KDE 3.5 and they invariably find their way around KDE 3.5 a lot easier. They can sit down and just use it without having to ask many questions.
Many accuse KDE of trying to be Windows, but my experience is that it has provided the best of Mac OS X and the best of Windows, a lot of additional functionality power users need (such as the kio slaves in konqueror, PLUS tabbed file management), AND provided the ability to extensively customize settings without having to recompile. On top of that, gnome uses a registry-style database for what settings you CAN tweak, and forces you to use gconf, whereas if there is a setting here or there that KDE does not provide a GUI for, you can tweak a config file and not have to recompile anything.
Linus has changed desktops before, and when KDE 4.x becomes more feature-rich expect to read remarks that he's changed back to KDE 4.x. IMHO, this is non-news. Something newsworthy from Linus would be that he's retiring from Linux kernel development, or he's decided FreeBSD is the way to go, or he's released the 3.0 version of the kernel.
KDE4 is not a disaster by any means; the current situation is the lack of understanding that the KDE team is releasing limited but stable features, and that KDE4.x is not considered feature-complete by anyone at this time.
If you're missing KDE 3.5.x functionality and need it, perhaps you need to choose KDE 3.5.x, or at least do what I am doing and run KDE 3.5.x and KDE4.x side-by-side.
There are a lot of things missing from kwin that I really like and miss, but I am using it understanding that the environment isn't complete by any stretch of the imagination.
For all anyone knows, one could have passed right through you in the last 20 minutes along with neutrinos and who knows what other subatomic particles resulting from solar radiation hitting the atmosphere. It's been going on for eons (natural particle collider, ZOMG!) and so far so good; we haven't been eaten by any black holes yet.
Wait a second; black hole - shouldn't we be referring to them as minority holes? ;)
This kind of thing is something government should stay out of. One cannot install a 100W light bulb? Now they want to ban plasma? I've gone CFL where possible and I have been changing some of the incandescent lamps with CFLs at my new office, but there are still applications where incandescent is the only solution; dimmable CFLs are still available in only very limited form factors, whereas incandescents are always compatible with dimmers.
Likewise, plasma televisions/monitors are still superior to LCD for various applications. Now, I *like* LCD far better (the backlight of an LCD can be changed, LCDs do not suffer from burn-in, etc.) however even though I am a fan of LCDs I cannot deny that there are still applications for which plasma screens are superior - black levels and color purity for example. Now, Samsung has brough LCDs a long way with zone-based variable LED backlighting (zones can even be turned completely off resulting in decent blacks) but the cost of those screens is 2x to 3x more expensive than plasma, and due to the medium used for LCD (the diffuser panel) you still get lighting from adjacent back lights.
Also, are they really concerned about power consumption, or is it really about corruption; corporate lobbying? I have a 36" CRT (a Sony) in my bedroom and it draws under 100w PEAK (volume and brightness cranked all the way up is 93W, which I found surprising - I expected it to be around 300W), according to my kill-a-watt meter. According to that same meter, 32" and 46" LCD screens draw over 170 watts. If power consumption is the concern, ban all the new sets and bring back CRTs (ugh!).
If you want to regulate power consumption regulate the real hogs - headache-inducing over-lighted businesses. Department stores can get by with half the lighting. Heating and HVAC in businesses; we turn down the heat at night and when we're not using our conference room (it's rather large - downright huge - and on its own zone) I turn it down to 50*F (although my partners turn it up to 60*F). Heat should be turned DOWN when offices are not occupied. The HVAC in our new office isn't designed properly so we've worked with the property management and suggested a design for zoning off other offices, and they brought in several HVAC engineers and techs and are going to be implementing our suggestions, which should cut the electric bill in half - AND improve heating and cooling of the entire floor.
Also, nix all decorative lighting on office buildings, monuments/sculptures, and so forth, and install more efficient street lighting which does NOT emit any horizontal or upward-directed light. This will bring a side benefit of bringing back dark skies, so we can see the same sky our ancestors saw just four generations ago. I live in New England and I have never seen a truly dark sky.
Around here (Greater Boston area), the single biggest polluter and energy user is the MBTA (Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority) - it has been identified by the EPA as the worst polluter and the operator of the dirtiest (and most inefficient) vehicles within the last two years. The diesel engines they use are outmoded and emit a LOT of visible smoke, and even the hybrid vehicles (some of the buses, etc.) are ancient technology using dirty engines.
There is a lot of waste of energy by big business and government. If government wants to regulate minor things like residential lighting and televisions and PCs, perhaps government should set an example by not wasting energy on decorative (and night sky-polluting!) lighting.
Now, I've never been to Europe (I have no real desire to go there except perhaps to visit relatives I haven't seen in a while) but I see footage of London, Paris, etc. all the time on television, and lots of recent photos on Flickr, etc. and electricity wastage on decorative lighting there looks every bit as bad as Times Square.
Now, unless you can prove to me that all the decorative lighting is privately owned and operated by solar or wind power, not made "green"
through "purchasing" "green" power off a shared grid, which is BS and nothing more than PR that idiots buy into) then government needs to clean up its own act before regulating residential appliances.
This seems like it would be an excellent solution for a swap drive and for a c:\temp or /tmp directory.Fair enough as swap *nix OSes will reap little benefit, but Windows seems to hit swap no matter how much RAM you have so there should be some significant performance gains there.
So, what you're telling us is that trusting "pirated" (Arrrr!!) Microsoft software is no less trustworthy than trusting out-of-the-box Genuine(tm) Microsoft Software.
Can we please stop saying this?
When a router is bricked (bricked is a layperson's term mind you, not a technical term!) it can nearly always be recovered through tftp in the first few ms of boot up (if it automatically listens in an automated failsafe recovery step like some Buffalo routers) or through a JTAG port. By your logic, a router is never bricked unless the NVRAM is fried, right? Wrong. It's bricked - just like iPhone users who jailbreak and then end up with dead iPhones. Sure, they can be recovered, but for the average joe, the thing is a "brick" good for little else than a paperweight or door stop (depending on mass) even though it can be fixed.
It's not a technical term by any means. It's slang for "ZOMG! IT DONE BROKE I DUNNO IF IT CAN BE FIXED!" then you find out it can be undone through a firmware update, even if by a JTAG port, then it's "I HAS SHINY FIXED! KTHXBAI!"
Now, let's get over the word "brick" and agree that its meaning is not necessarily "permanently broken" but its meaning is "non-working shiny which may or may not be reparable."
KTHXBAI!
How do you expect them to pay for their cost of operation, and yes, this includes reasonable salaries for their owners and employees, preferably at market rates not poverty level livings.
Do you object? Is one 15-second advert after 10-12 songs too much? Of course not.
Ah, but it is a public school, and as such faculty and employees are agents of the government. Therefore, constitutional rights can and do apply in theory. In practice, it may take a very good lawyer to ensure that your rights (first, second, fourth) amendment rights are retained but in theory they remain intact.
Were this a private school, it would not be the case.
Excuse me, INAL however I seem to remember when ethics were discussed way back in college that when one acts as an agent of the company, one is acting on behalf of the company in a legal sense. Therefore, since the exec was repeatedly buying reviews I would hardly consider it to be an "isolated incident" (an isolated incident would be asking a friend or neighbor to write up a review in exchange for a round of beers, for example). Also, I would consider that since a Belkin exec was buying those reviews and encouraging this unethical and immoral behavior, it is wholeheartedly officially, if surreptitiously, endorsed by Belkin.
I've posted this before but when Napster was in its height, I bought more CDs in the year I used Napster than in the 13 previous years I owned CD players. I downloaded a LOT of music (I'd search for the letter A, download, listen to bits of tracks, then go out and purchase new CDs with the tracks I liked, etc.) and discovered a lot of new and old acts I would never have been otherwise exposed to, in genres ranging from rap to country; jazz to pop, and everything in between. I also tracked down tracks I remembered listening to on 8-track when I was a toddler but couldn't remember anything other than most of the tracks had names of foods in them - it turned out the album I was looking for was Herb Alpert and the Tijuana Brass' Whipped Cream and other Delights -- and the specific track I was trying to find was Taste of Honey. Well, the next day I actually went into work late because I had to run out and find and buy that CD. I felt like I was in heaven - I had tracked[sic] down a childhood favorite! I played that 8-track so much I wore my parents' copy out. It took me a long, long time using Napster to find that song. Then, I'd export the list to a spreadsheet, delete everything and download more to try. The vast majority of tracks I'd play I'd think "crap" but there were many, many downloaded tracks that would prompt me to go out and buy the CD. On the way to work, I would usually listen to top 40 radio, too - and buying what I liked.
There were many, many others and I was buying up to 15 CDs a week at one point. I would literally go to Best Buy, Strawberries (now defunct) or drive down to RI to Luke's Records every single day and I'd buy 3 to 5 CDs. That was every work day, on the way home from work, or if I found something I really "had" to have, shift my schedule and work a later day and buy it on the way to work. Granted, I had a lot more "disposable" income then, but were it not for the RIAA turning against its biggest "fan base"/"consumer base" I'd still be buying at least 3 to 5 CDs a week.
As soon as the RIAA started making noise about filing suits I quit not only using Napster, but I also quit listening to top 40 radio. In fact for quite a few years I listened to only Christian talk radio and the local big classical station (then WCRB 102.5 and 99.5, now it's just on 99.5).
I only recently started purchasing CDs but my purchases are very few and far between, and it is usually based on recommendations of my favorite artists (for example: Dave Gilmour recommended Radiohead for folks who like Pink Floyd, since fans are clamoring for more), or on what I find on Pandora or what friends in bands or who are composers expose me to. :) I also check out Youtube a bit, but the RIAA labels are trying to alienate me even further by demanding that obvious Fair Use projects are being removed at their demand.
The RIAA has lost me as a big-spending customer. I track down USED CDs now, on the rare occasions I do buy.
They need to embrace models such as the original Napster; I am NOT happy with the rip quality of downloads - I used it to sample music at random, and would discover whole new worlds of music that appeal to me in genres you normally couldn't PAY me to listen to (e/g. rap, country) because I could try it for free and then go out and buy the perfect-quality product on CD. I'd always shop around though - I nearly always refused to pay more than $15 per CD.
That's a lot of revenue the RIAA has "lost" - and because I don't expose myself to top 40 radio, I'm not even tempted to buy new material. I have most of the old material I want. RIAA members, are you reading this? That's up to $225 per week I'm not spending on music now, and the temptation truly is not there because I don't expose myself to stations where payola drives the play lists.
Now, I spend my entertainment dollars on DVDs and cable TV.
I might consider iTunes when I upgrade to an iPhone - I hate Windows (it's installed on my desktop ONLY for games) but might put Tiger on my
If they did. the FAA would never have any trouble recovering data from flight recorders (black boxes).
I too am tired of hearing it. Scanning entire platters would be too expensive and extensive to be practical, and it's questionable whether the alignment of magnetic fields could be discerned reliably enough to come to any conclusion other than "yup, there is a magnetic substrate on that aluminum/glass/ceramic disc."
No one, since all software I have seen for Windows, including Windows itself, expressly disclaims any warranty.
You may be SOL when you run into problems on Linux+other F/OSS solutions, but you're SOL when you run into problems on Windows. The difference is, you never run into license problems by using F/OSS software, and even if you don't understand the EULA you are not running afoul of "licensing" restrictions if you install F/OSS on one machine too many. The only thing you lose is the time spent installing/imaging the machine.
Considering that SMB is an IBM invention they'll have to go against IBM.
It is every bit as racist as niggardly is; as in "Microsoft behaves niggardly with its protocols while at the same time preaches interoperability."
That legitimate words "sound kinda like" racist slurs does not mean the common words are racist. On the other hand, we have just been trolled.
I've been keeping up with this thread and sme server ( http://wiki.contribs.org/Main_Page ) has been touted as an alternative. Not LDAP but looks like it will work well as a PDC. I'm going to try it out next week. :)