[new age music, pastel colors, amorphous shapes] [voice over] "Strong medicine for stuffy nose, carpal tunnel and chronic depression." [music] "Ask you doctor about eClaria-- "
[assorted disclaimers]
[fade]
If you are honest about it, you will refuse to use software in the gnu directory, as well.
Here's the list: http://directory.fsf.org/
For myself, I'm glad RMS is out there standing up for what he believes in. Makes it easier for me to be complacent and intellectually lazy.
I suspect that there are lots of people/companies you wouldn't like who are producing products you use every day.
Maybe not. All I got from the article was "Blarg, Blarg Blarg Blarg. Blarg Blarg." Not much chance of back office integration from that. At least in my office.
okay. iptables.
and there's some routing software in fedora too, if you need it.
so what?
Oh horrors. You might have to learn some arcane language to implement rules. Guess what, if you don't know anything at all, the question "Do I let port 137 leave my LAN?" is equally hard to answer no matter what firewall you are using.
It's true, compatibility with legacy applications can be a problem. Some Application Service Providers build windows-centric web apps. A Macintosh-only shop I know had to install Virtual PC so they could do payroll with a service that they could access online. With Macintosh/unix you can always do what you need to make a profit, but your solution just might exclude the less capable windows machines. Heh.
So here in the united states, with the recent changes in bankrupcy laws, we should expect to see an increase in the rate of reported suicides? Going postal will continue to be the preferred method.
In other news, freelance tech support guys earned 10% more this year helping businesses recover from the mistakes programmers make in their first year after school.:-P
Well, except for the fact that MSFT, Google, Apple, and Amazon need the telcos more than the telcos need them. By a wide margin -- and especially true for Google and Amazon (and eBay).
Yes and what all would I do with my web browser if I wasn't googling for interesting articles to submit to slashdot, buying books and records on Amazon and downloading patches from Apple and Microsoft? What's worse is little academic sites and unprofitable blogs and indie bands and vanity sites will disappear. I already have a mall nearby.
Email's nice, but if that's all I"m gonna be doing, I"ll go back to dialup.
Google provides me a service (location of interesting stories) but they don't provide the actual stories. Guess what, idiot lobbyists? If you don't want your site to show up in Google News, you can accomplish this with a robots.txt file. Remedy is trivial -- your issue is a thinly disguised protection racket.
Is the company big enough to have some kind of personnel manual? It likely has an "hours of operation" paragraph. Adhere to it. Not rigidly. Just start packing up when the day is over and go home if there isn't anyone standing over you with an urgent task.
If your company has comp time or overtime policy, be sure to make use of it.
If it does not, do a little research into what the law requires in your locale.
In my opinion, being unemployed and stone broke is better than being abused.
As a rhetorical gesture, it probably helps if you can arrive a few minutes before the boss a few times a week.
But Japanese collectors and hobbyists aren't necessarily interested in the latest techno-toy. I don't know if it is the case today, but I had a girlfriend about ten or so years ago who told me that her father, who owned a auto upholstery business, did a lot of work for people who were restoring old american autos and shipping them to Japan. In similar fashion, my guitar-playing friends at one point were complaining that the price of vintage guitars was being driven up by Japanese collectors.
If it's important to you to (for example) drink a white and a red from every year since you were born to the present, technology is not going be interesting.
The gold standard in this case is to find out what browsers your clients are using at home and in the office. Then be sure that all those work flawlessly.
"Don't buy CDs." First sensible comment in the whole thread. Consider culture as a superset of software development. Scratch your own itch (play your own guitar) and be free.
Buy predictable hardware and install an OS that's designed to work on it.
Dell and HP and other PC manufacturers are in a race to the bottom. Meanwhile Apple's hardware will fill a need for people who just want to get work done. For myself, I hope it's possible to dual- or triple- boot the machines, but even if stays OSX only, I'll likely get one when my iBook wears out.
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[new age music, pastel colors, amorphous shapes]
[voice over]
"Strong medicine for stuffy nose, carpal tunnel and chronic depression."
[music]
"Ask you doctor about eClaria-- "
[assorted disclaimers]
[fade]
Looking forward to some really fast GPU-based software for breaking encryption or brute-forcing passwords, then...
If you are honest about it, you will refuse to use software in the gnu directory, as well. Here's the list: http://directory.fsf.org/
For myself, I'm glad RMS is out there standing up for what he believes in. Makes it easier for me to be complacent and intellectually lazy.
I suspect that there are lots of people/companies you wouldn't like who are producing products you use every day.
A prostate biopsy feels like someone is shooting a bb-gun pointblank up your asshole. And then you get to piss pink for a couple of days.
It's much less painful than recuperating from the cancer surgery.
Fitness for what, exactly?
"What you CAN'T do is the reverse - prove the destruction of your data if you can't first prove that it is uncontestedly your data."
Or prove that it even existed, apparently. Or maybe I'm missing something.
What I want to know is, why the fuck does he have admin access to the machine that the company issued him?
Maybe not. All I got from the article was "Blarg, Blarg Blarg Blarg. Blarg Blarg." Not much chance of back office integration from that. At least in my office.
I'm looking forward to providing tech support in the age of quantum computing -- "Is the power on?" "OK, turn it off and run the query again."
okay. iptables. and there's some routing software in fedora too, if you need it. so what? Oh horrors. You might have to learn some arcane language to implement rules. Guess what, if you don't know anything at all, the question "Do I let port 137 leave my LAN?" is equally hard to answer no matter what firewall you are using.
If Rumsfield wants to improve the image of the United States, he and the rest of the Bush administration should simply resign.
So how does one produce content in your world?
It's true, compatibility with legacy applications can be a problem. Some Application Service Providers build windows-centric web apps. A Macintosh-only shop I know had to install Virtual PC so they could do payroll with a service that they could access online. With Macintosh/unix you can always do what you need to make a profit, but your solution just might exclude the less capable windows machines. Heh.
Sorry. One of the reasons we like Apple is the "locked down hardware". Many of us prefer things to "just work".
So here in the united states, with the recent changes in bankrupcy laws, we should expect to see an increase in the rate of reported suicides? Going postal will continue to be the preferred method.
In other news, freelance tech support guys earned 10% more this year helping businesses recover from the mistakes programmers make in their first year after school. :-P
Well, except for the fact that MSFT, Google, Apple, and Amazon need the telcos more than the telcos need them. By a wide margin -- and especially true for Google and Amazon (and eBay).
Yes and what all would I do with my web browser if I wasn't googling for interesting articles to submit to slashdot, buying books and records on Amazon and downloading patches from Apple and Microsoft? What's worse is little academic sites and unprofitable blogs and indie bands and vanity sites will disappear. I already have a mall nearby.
Email's nice, but if that's all I"m gonna be doing, I"ll go back to dialup.
Almost.
Google provides me a service (location of interesting stories) but they don't provide the actual stories. Guess what, idiot lobbyists? If you don't want your site to show up in Google News, you can accomplish this with a robots.txt file. Remedy is trivial -- your issue is a thinly disguised protection racket.
But you were probably being sarcastic anyway.
Is the company big enough to have some kind of personnel manual? It likely has an "hours of operation" paragraph. Adhere to it. Not rigidly. Just start packing up when the day is over and go home if there isn't anyone standing over you with an urgent task. If your company has comp time or overtime policy, be sure to make use of it. If it does not, do a little research into what the law requires in your locale. In my opinion, being unemployed and stone broke is better than being abused. As a rhetorical gesture, it probably helps if you can arrive a few minutes before the boss a few times a week.
"using the right tactics and advanced filtering technology." Apple Mail.
I think it's wonderful they're going to such pains to preserve themselvers for future intelligent beings to dig up and wonder about.
But Japanese collectors and hobbyists aren't necessarily interested in the latest techno-toy. I don't know if it is the case today, but I had a girlfriend about ten or so years ago who told me that her father, who owned a auto upholstery business, did a lot of work for people who were restoring old american autos and shipping them to Japan. In similar fashion, my guitar-playing friends at one point were complaining that the price of vintage guitars was being driven up by Japanese collectors.
If it's important to you to (for example) drink a white and a red from every year since you were born to the present, technology is not going be interesting.
The gold standard in this case is to find out what browsers your clients are using at home and in the office. Then be sure that all those work flawlessly.
--
Yes. I'm cynical, aren't you.
"Don't buy CDs." First sensible comment in the whole thread. Consider culture as a superset of software development. Scratch your own itch (play your own guitar) and be free.
You are so right.
Buy predictable hardware and install an OS that's designed to work on it.
Dell and HP and other PC manufacturers are in a race to the bottom. Meanwhile Apple's hardware will fill a need for people who just want to get work done. For myself, I hope it's possible to dual- or triple- boot the machines, but even if stays OSX only, I'll likely get one when my iBook wears out.
hmmm. So hard to choose...
Is it more fun playing Monopoly at the beginning, when stakes are more or less equal, or is it more fun when only one player has all the properties?
I think free market purists don't have a realistic understanding of where we are in the game.