Then again, if one big company controlled 75% of the marketplace, and made cars with 5' of clearance, and a few "quality" car companies decide to make SUV's and embrace a standard of 7' -- would you recognize defacto standard of 5', or would you build your drive-thru to accommodate 7' vehicles -- to make certain to capture the widest "Total Available Market" (and not get your ass sued off from those that followed the "standard")?
But -- when IT policy becomes this draconian, it's probably time to look for another job elsewhere.
People need to be trusted enough to be able to install the tools that they need to get their job done in the most efficient manner that they know. There is no way for a centralized IT to be able to move as quickly as those they serve.
Yes, IT customers do need to be policed to a certain extent, but to a greater extent, this is a management issue better handled in an environment of trust between a manager and his employees.
1) Let people have machines/tools that they can control. If they need a machine to load a different OS or piece of SW, let them have it. Treat IT HW/SW Standards as a starting point, and as a fall-back, not as a limitation.
2) Standardize communication tools on open and text-based formats wherever possible. Eschewing Binary enables people to have the largest possible tool base for manipulation and automation.
3) Encourage people to automate any repetitive task -- even 1-off solutions usually contain/some/ repetitive task -- and expect them to present the script they used to produce their work.
4) Pay and promote people for their innovations in accord with their value to the company (or the people will go to other companies that will compensate).
Use Linux so that they have all tools and doc available that they can explore on their own. Challenge them to think differently and give them an introduction into the languages and concepts that they can use. They should learn how to use "man" and learn how to Google tutorials on the web to discover how to do things on their own. They should also be encouraged to use tools that help them work together like DARCS, git, mercurial, or bzr.
Yes, Ubuntu is getting slower in some ways & faster than others.
I'd really like to see better benchmarks than this... A lot of this could be caused by the compiler -- as they are compiling the suite separately on each platform? Also, the is it something underneath Java that is a problem, or just the new Java version (which one?).
I know and understand that GCC takes longer to compile code -- but that's because the GNU's are trying to put together an architecture that is easier to create optimizations in the chain. Looks like they have a long way to go to actually build better code... Unless the code intentionally tries to defeat GCC from it's attempts at optimizing.
What I'd like to see is more focused benchmarks so that it's possible to track the problems down.
1) Kernel benchmarks compiled on the same version and flags of the compiler in ANSI C. 2) Java benchmarks per java version in each OS version. 3) GTK Benchmarks written in C -- same binary. 4) Mesa benchmarks written in C -- same binary.
If you have one person deciding what your technical team needs to do it's job, your company is, or is going to be, way too inefficient to cope with today's business environment. Not only that, but the person/people making the decision about SW in your company, and those that hired them too, they are complete, utter, and flaming idiots with no common sense (and yes, that made me feel better). So here is what you pitch -- transparency of source means "audit trail" and more security than closed.
If your company really is concerned about and needs this kind of security, you are truly better served with open software than closed. You can pitch going to Red Hat, or other distribution company, and download, audit, and compile from source. You can feed back any security issues you found -- and you can't do that with closed source. Who knows what back doors a closed source vendor has put into their code?
Too many people are seeing what happens when a company goes under & you no longer have the right to access to what you bought.
Too many people want to retain the right to resell, or give the game away when they are done.
Too many people don't want to deal with the hassle of waiting two hours on hold for someone speaking "English as a Second Language" to find out "why is my game broken?"
They just want to play the game out of the box... no hassles, no worries, no games -- other than the one you paid for.
Bring in two laptops with embeded videocam and network them together with a wired router -- use one for presentation. Bring also a cut ethernet cable, and pass that around the room while you fire up the two laptops. Do a compile of a video conference program (configure && make && make install) & have them watch the lines go up the page while you talk to them about a connected world. Open up the video conference application and have the kids line up on either side & wave at each other.
Asterisk PBX -- free long-distance calls. Nethack server. KVM space -- Allow users to have their own virtual machines online that/they/ can decide how to use. Open this up to teachers so that they can use this space in their teaching & research.
Forensic companies typically charge much, much more for their services than $40.00 -- THE REWARD IS A JOKE IN AND OF ITSELF. It is also not in their interest to prove that they can do this... as it could result in really bad PR for the company -- or business entanglements and liability that they may not be willing to enter into.
They should offer this challenge up to hackers.
Imagine a reference design of a freely available data recovery tool up on "http://freshmeat.net".
It's not my personal itch at the moment, or I would help. Just know that you have more friends than you are aware. Thanks for trying to make the world a better place in your own way.
Hasn't Hans said in the conviction video that he hopes to continue to contribute to the open source community from within jail? I hope they let him do that.
Oh wait. Nice, that would make him an open source developer, paid by the united states. Maybe he saw this opportunity and just "ln -s/home/hans/home/realkiller" !
OK; so, I believe that California is far to lenient with violent criminals -- and far from just to innocents. He should be pleading his case right now before his Maker. Instead, this arrogant, calculating, cold-blooded murderer will be out in 15 years or so, and Nina's family and children will have to deal with him again.
But that is life.
I don't have any high hopes, but perhaps his jail time will teach him some humility. If it does, well perhaps I am wrong in my judgement... I don't think I am, but that remains to be seen.
If he is allowed to continue to hack in prison... perhaps he can do at some good with his life whle in prison. I agree that it would be unjust to allow "http://namesis.gov" to operate... but I'm not opposed to him hacking from jail, so long as he makes no profit from it, and his work is a useful contribution to society. Perhaps he should be forced to release any of his work from prison into the Public Domain?
ReiserFS is still being used and maintained in-kernel. It's Stable, and it just works for you and for hundreds of thousands of others; so, what's the rush?
I'd wait for the next batch of next gen FS (BTRFS, Tux3) to show their stuff -- and perhaps take a look at getting involved. Daniel Phillips has recently sent out a call for help... Sounds like you have an itch -- go scratch it.
Webcam the event from several angles. Publicize that the event will be webcam'd and that you'll make webcam footage immediately available after the event for all to edit into their own movies. It is not a "security" camera -- it is a feature -- a way to capture the event.
You may not stop theft/completely/, but people will definitely think twice & they will have fun at the same time.
Slashdot Mirror
"... a teachable moment."
Then again, if one big company controlled 75% of the marketplace, and made cars with 5' of clearance, and a few "quality" car companies decide to make SUV's and embrace a standard of 7' -- would you recognize defacto standard of 5', or would you build your drive-thru to accommodate 7' vehicles -- to make certain to capture the widest "Total Available Market" (and not get your ass sued off from those that followed the "standard")?
It is easy to do this with command line tools. Here's one that might help:
http://freshmeat.net/projects/clusterssh/
But -- when IT policy becomes this draconian, it's probably time to look for another job elsewhere.
People need to be trusted enough to be able to install the tools that they need to get their job done in the most efficient manner that they know. There is no way for a centralized IT to be able to move as quickly as those they serve.
Yes, IT customers do need to be policed to a certain extent, but to a greater extent, this is a management issue better handled in an environment of trust between a manager and his employees.
Follow these instructions:
1) Call Verizon.
2) Have the representative explain "CPNI."
3) Ask a couple of questions.
4) Ask the representative to OPT-OUT of all your phones.
You have just cost Verizon Wireless about $20.00 for that call.
1) Let people have machines/tools that they can control. If they need a machine to load a different OS or piece of SW, let them have it. Treat IT HW/SW Standards as a starting point, and as a fall-back, not as a limitation.
2) Standardize communication tools on open and text-based formats wherever possible. Eschewing Binary enables people to have the largest possible tool base for manipulation and automation.
3) Encourage people to automate any repetitive task -- even 1-off solutions usually contain /some/ repetitive task -- and expect them to present the script they used to produce their work.
4) Pay and promote people for their innovations in accord with their value to the company (or the people will go to other companies that will compensate).
The author's not a Linux/BSD Kernel developer.
You are in an open field west of a big white house with a boarded front door.
There is a small mailbox here.
>
http://www.thefreecountry.com/compilers/lego-mindstorms-nxt.shtml
Use Linux so that they have all tools and doc available that they can explore on their own. Challenge them to think differently and give them an introduction into the languages and concepts that they can use. They should learn how to use "man" and learn how to Google tutorials on the web to discover how to do things on their own. They should also be encouraged to use tools that help them work together like DARCS, git, mercurial, or bzr.
I hope Ken's accusation is "tongue and cheek" -- meant to be illustrative of the point that Karen's is equally as ridiculous -- and nothing more.
#include <stdio.h>
void def_msg(const char *carp) { printf("Goodbye Cruel %s!!!\n", carp); }
void alt_msg(const char *carp) { printf("Hello %s!!!\n", carp); }
struct statement {
void (*msg)(const char *);
char *who;
};
int main(int argc, const char *argv[])
{
struct statement say = { def_msg, "World" };
if (argc > 1) {
say.msg = alt_msg;
say.who = argv[1];
}
say.msg(say.who);
}
Yes, Ubuntu is getting slower in some ways & faster than others.
I'd really like to see better benchmarks than this... A lot of this could be caused by the compiler -- as they are compiling the suite separately on each platform? Also, the is it something underneath Java that is a problem, or just the new Java version (which one?).
I know and understand that GCC takes longer to compile code -- but that's because the GNU's are trying to put together an architecture that is easier to create optimizations in the chain. Looks like they have a long way to go to actually build better code... Unless the code intentionally tries to defeat GCC from it's attempts at optimizing.
What I'd like to see is more focused benchmarks so that it's possible to track the problems down.
1) Kernel benchmarks compiled on the same version and flags of the compiler in ANSI C.
2) Java benchmarks per java version in each OS version.
3) GTK Benchmarks written in C -- same binary.
4) Mesa benchmarks written in C -- same binary.
If you have one person deciding what your technical team needs to do it's job, your company is, or is going to be, way too inefficient to cope with today's business environment. Not only that, but the person/people making the decision about SW in your company, and those that hired them too, they are complete, utter, and flaming idiots with no common sense (and yes, that made me feel better). So here is what you pitch -- transparency of source means "audit trail" and more security than closed.
If your company really is concerned about and needs this kind of security, you are truly better served with open software than closed. You can pitch going to Red Hat, or other distribution company, and download, audit, and compile from source. You can feed back any security issues you found -- and you can't do that with closed source. Who knows what back doors a closed source vendor has put into their code?
Too many people are seeing what happens when a company goes under & you no longer have the right to access to what you bought.
Too many people want to retain the right to resell, or give the game away when they are done.
Too many people don't want to deal with the hassle of waiting two hours on hold for someone speaking "English as a Second Language" to find out "why is my game broken?"
They just want to play the game out of the box... no hassles, no worries, no games -- other than the one you paid for.
Bring in two laptops with embeded videocam and network them together with a wired router -- use one for presentation. Bring also a cut ethernet cable, and pass that around the room while you fire up the two laptops. Do a compile of a video conference program (configure && make && make install) & have them watch the lines go up the page while you talk to them about a connected world. Open up the video conference application and have the kids line up on either side & wave at each other.
Asterisk PBX -- free long-distance calls. /they/ can decide how to use. Open this up to teachers so that they can use this space in their teaching & research.
Nethack server.
KVM space -- Allow users to have their own virtual machines online that
Forensic companies typically charge much, much more for their services than $40.00 -- THE REWARD IS A JOKE IN AND OF ITSELF. It is also not in their interest to prove that they can do this... as it could result in really bad PR for the company -- or business entanglements and liability that they may not be willing to enter into.
They should offer this challenge up to hackers.
Imagine a reference design of a freely available data recovery tool up on "http://freshmeat.net".
Thanks for the plug.
So, you're a Slashdotter too... :-)
It's not my personal itch at the moment, or I would help. Just know that you have more friends than you are aware. Thanks for trying to make the world a better place in your own way.
Hasn't Hans said in the conviction video that he hopes to continue to contribute to the open source community from within jail? I hope they let him do that.
Oh wait. Nice, that would make him an open source developer, paid by the united states. Maybe he saw this opportunity and just "ln -s /home/hans /home/realkiller" !
OK; so, I believe that California is far to lenient with violent criminals -- and far from just to innocents. He should be pleading his case right now before his Maker. Instead, this arrogant, calculating, cold-blooded murderer will be out in 15 years or so, and Nina's family and children will have to deal with him again.
But that is life.
I don't have any high hopes, but perhaps his jail time will teach him some humility. If it does, well perhaps I am wrong in my judgement... I don't think I am, but that remains to be seen.
If he is allowed to continue to hack in prison... perhaps he can do at some good with his life whle in prison. I agree that it would be unjust to allow "http://namesis.gov" to operate... but I'm not opposed to him hacking from jail, so long as he makes no profit from it, and his work is a useful contribution to society. Perhaps he should be forced to release any of his work from prison into the Public Domain?
Well, they wouldn't necessarily get out of their chairs in protest, but they might raise a glass from a seated position in a sidewalk cafe in protest.
Qu'ils mangent de la brioche.
ReiserFS is still being used and maintained in-kernel. It's Stable, and it just works for you and for hundreds of thousands of others; so, what's the rush?
I'd wait for the next batch of next gen FS (BTRFS, Tux3) to show their stuff -- and perhaps take a look at getting involved. Daniel Phillips has recently sent out a call for help... Sounds like you have an itch -- go scratch it.
Burn the image onto a PROM. Leave paper instructions on how it was burned.
http://www.linuxdocs.org/HOWTOs/Diskless-HOWTO-7.html
Post it to Slashdot, and put the link on acid-free paper.
Hmm... Well, good, or not so good, I suppose that cheap x16 integrated 2006 graphics would beat the pants off of non-integrated 2009 tech.
In any case, the real exciting thing to me is that Intel has a track record of support for open 3D drivers on Linux.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Graphics_hardware_and_FOSS
If Intel continues this practice with Larabee -- it's an easy, clear win for me. Larabee gets my support _just_ for open drivers.
Webcam the event from several angles. Publicize that the event will be webcam'd and that you'll make webcam footage immediately available after the event for all to edit into their own movies. It is not a "security" camera -- it is a feature -- a way to capture the event.
/completely/, but people will definitely think twice & they will have fun at the same time.
You may not stop theft
Done.
AdBlock Plus + NoScript -- need I say more?