Keep in mind, the SCO you're talking about is the SCO from the 80s in name only. The original Santa Cruz Operation was bought out by Caldera, and after floundering in both the Linux and Unix markets, Caldera renamed itself The SCO Group. There's actually not a whole lot of the original SCO left in all of that mess.
I find myself doing the very same thing pretty frequently. I use a Slackware 8.1 Install CD for this. The Slackware CD initially boots to a prompt where you can pass in kernel parameters (root= for example comes in handy sometimes). The Linux kernel then boots. If you don't specify a root filesystem, it boots to a busybox command prompt where you can run fdisk and where all of the usual linux disk utilities are present. The long and short of it is, you put in the CD, hit enter once, and then you get a # prompt where you can fix whatever needs fixing.
Back when we were dating and then engaged, living in New Orleans, my wife and I would always go out to a romantic restaurant on Valentine's Day, like the amazingly popular Mona Lisa. Now that we live in the Northeast, we prefer to avoid the restaurant rush -- especially since Valentine's Day is on a Friday this year -- so we're staying home and having a meat fondue.
There's hardly a more fun and social meal than a fondue. The basic concept of a meat fondue is quite simple -- you cut a couple of pounds of good beef into approximately 1" cubes, skewer them on long fondue forks, and dunk them in a pot of boiling oil. We build a big fire, light candles, and have the fondue accompanied by a variety of sauces, French bread, good cheese, and of course a bottle of two of good red wine. Yes, it's amazingly decadent and terribly unhealthy, but it's a lot of fun, requires minimal preparation, and, because you're always pausing to skewer a new chunk of meat to dip in the oil, the meal is naturally unhurried and gives plenty of time for enjoyable conversation.
The original cat in the story is a calico ("Rainbow the cat is a typical calico with splotches of brown, tan and gold on white."). Tortoiseshell cats are not the only cats whose coats develop their color patterns via mosaicism -- calico cats are another classic example. And both the clone and the original cat are female.
Setting aside the whole nature vs nurture issue, the reason that two calico cats won't look the same even if they are "genetically identical" is due to mosaicism. Basically what happens is that the gene for certain types of coloration is carried on the X chromosome. Early in embryonic development, each cell in the cat inactivates either the paternal X chromosome or the maternal X chromosome (obviously this only applies if the cat is female). This inactivation happens once at a fixed stage in the cat's development; as the cat develops, these individual cells multiply and eventually the cat becomes a patchwork of coloration, some triggered by the paternal X and some by the maternal X chromosome.
There's no way to predict this pattern, so two cats whose parents have different patterns of orange or black fur will always look different, and the clones of any one of these cats would all look different as well.
And while this is a particularly colorful example of mosaicism, it in fact happens in all mammals, so female clones will always express different patterns of X-linked genetic traits.
You might want to do a little research...
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As has been said, IBM MQSeries / Websphere MQ is available for Linux. So is the granddaddy of all Message Oriented Middleware, BEA MessageQ, formerly known as DECMessageQ. So is BEA Tuxedo. So is Tibco Enterprise. I'm sure there are others but considering that the above four cover something like 99% of the MOM market, whether on Linux or not, it's pretty silly to say there are no MOM products available for Linux.
There is a conceptually similar system in use today in Atlanta. The system consists of a number of RF readers stationed around the city. These readers are compatible with the Georgia 400 Tollway's "Cruise Card" transponders, used for electronic toll collection. The system reads the transponders in vehicles and uses the data to determine overall traffic speed. Obviously, not everyone in the city has these transponders, but enough vehicles carry them to generate plenty of useful data.
I believe Houston has a similar system in place, since the Sam Houston Tollway uses the same equipment.
People will predictably shout about privacy issues, but it is illegal for this information to be used to enforce speed limits, and the information is not permanently recorded anywhere.
This is just a marketing spiel for OpsWare, the product that his company develops in support of their old LoudCloud business and that they're trying to sell to whoever will listen.
People complaining about spam is becoming more and more of a problem with today's World Wide Web. I used to find the Web a valuable resource, but even with moderation and junkbuster proxies I spend more time reading people's complaints about the amount of spam they get than I do reading real news.
Seriously though, the amount of spam people receive just isn't a problem. The folks who like to complain about it are just doing it to brag about how much time they spend on line and how connected they are. Enacting laws to charge spam senders for sending mail to individuals is silly; it'll cause more problems than it solves.
Where spam really does cause problems is when unscrupulous emailers hijack people's connections to send masses of email. The cost in time and bandwidth to receive an individual email and delete is is trivial, and trying to enact regulations to fine senders for this would cause more problems than it solves. It would be much more effective to enact regulation to make it a crime to bounce spam through open mail relays or in any other way use someone else's bandwidth to send spam. The cost of the bandwidth is much greater at that end, and imposing fines for misusing it would be a more proportionate and effective deterrant.
Personally I prefer just going to one of the DVD firmware and utilities site, like The Firmware Page, and looking up which models of DVD drives can be painlessly modified to be region-free. I did this when I decided to upgrade to a new DVD drive; I bought a LiteOn LTR-163D 16X dvd drive with RPC-2, ran a DOS RPC-1 utility which safely disables RPC-2 without reflashing the drive, and everything works.
You don't really have to do this: as someone posted above, if you use a libdvdcss-based player, you can set the DVDCSS_METHOD environment variable to "title" and libdvdcss will usually be able to read the disc anyway. This isn't guaranteed to work, however, so I decided to disable RPC altogether in the drive.
In any case, with a little research you can do all of this for free, which beats giving money to some company that's profiting off of an already bad system.
You're wrong about this. When a consumer buys a DVD disc, they do not enter into a contract with the manufacturer or distributor or retailer which prohibits them from disabling region coding on their player. There is nothing on DVD packaging which says anything about it, and the consumer is never notified that such a restriction exists. It is by definition impossible to enter into a contract that you are not aware of.
Your blurb about software licencing is off the mark. When you buy a Microsoft software package, you are told that opening the shrink-wrap constitutes acceptance of the licence inside. There is nothing of the kind on DVD media packages.
Manufacturers of DVD drives and DVD players are under contract with the DVD consortium which gives the manufacturer the right to produce DVD player devices but which requires them to produce only region-locked devices. Manufacturers of DVD media are under contract with content owners to produce DVDs of this content, and that contract usually includes a provision requiring the disc to be region locked. The consumer is under no contract at all.
Copying a DVD is a violation of copyright laws. Decrypting a DVD with an unlicenced DVD player is a violation of the DMCA in the US and equivalent laws in some other countries. But disabling region codes on your DVD playback device in order to otherwise legally play a DVD disc is perfectly legal.
Everyone so far has pointed out that the characteristics of a gun barrel change over time. This is true, and it would mean that eventually the markings might change enough to make a "fingerprint" useless.
However, you can readily buy replacement barrels for most rifles anyway. So you could handily buy a weapon and register it, and then swap out the barrel, use the weapon in a crime, and then change it back. Obviously this would take planning and a minor amount of skill (it's really not hard to take apart assault rifles -- remember, they are designed to be taken apart and cleaned in the field by unsophisticated soldiers). The D.C. killer is obviously skilled enough to accomplish this.
Bullet fingerprinting is still an idea that does have its merits, but don't let anyone fool you that such laws would be in any way helpful in catching the current D.C. area serial killer.
That IS what screen does. You run screen, type the commands you want or start the application you want or whatever, then hit ctrl-a d to detach, then you log out or start another screen or whatever you like. Then later you do screen -r and it will reconnect you with the first screen session.
the French, prior to WWII, had one of the proudest and most effective resistance records in the world?
That's not really saying great things about their military, though, is it?
It's not as impressive as you seem to think
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A Name for My Major?
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If you "designed a degree" which combines these three fields, then you probably should have had some idea as to a common thread between these three disciplines that made the combination worthy of a degree. If, for example, you decided to focus your physics study on power generation, your botany on the way in which plants derive energy from light, and your software on embedded systems, you could say "I have a degree in Photosynthetic Computing."
If, on the other hand, you just took a bunch of unrelated courses because you happen to like them, and talked your advisors into letting you combine them into a degree, then your inability to articulate that combination into a single phrase simply serves to explain exactly what you did. You BS'd your way into doing something you like, and now you have a degree in BS.
So the question is, what is it that these three fields have in common that made you want to combine them into a degree? Therein lies the answer, or lack thereof.
Re:Chips, Dips, Taco and the Dot
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Ditto. I remember first finding Chips and Dips when I followed a link from some applets site, since I was looking for a nice mixer type app for my Afterstep desktop.
I don't remember how long I waited to register after the account system was put into place, but it couldn't have been more than a day. I wasn't really thrilled about it at first, but I suppose even back then there were so many posters that things were getting out of hand without some kind of moderation in place.
Oh well. The ironic thing is that these days, I'm back to posting and reading UseNet far more than I ever do here.
For about two years, I lived in Kentucky and did realtime systems development for a client in Georgia. They shipped me the hardware I needed, so I could do the development and a certain amount of testing at home, and then I would upload the software to them and do remote testing/debugging with them over the phone. It worked out really well, and when I joined a consulting firm I brought them along as one of our clients.
There are companies that make telecommuting and remote development their standard practice - check out Art & Logic for example.
I've had to deal with a situation like this before - a hard drive in a laser printer, where there was no shutdown procedure, only an on/off switch. I used the "sync" option - e.g.
mount -t ext2 -o sync/dev/hda2/usr
This causes the filesystem to be mounted synchronous, so that there are no deferred writes and all disk writes are committed to the disk before the I/O call returns.
This is not 100% fool proof either, as it is still possible to power down the machine in the middle of a write, but it makes it much more difficult to screw up.
Lasers are common in the military, primarily for range finding and illuminating targets for laser-guided weapons. Although these lasers are not powerful enough to destroy objects, they can cause serious eye damage. In at least one case they were used by a Russian ship in American waters to damage the eyes of a helicopter pilot observing the vessel.
Also, the US Armed Forces have researched this issue extensively, and most aircrew helmets and visors are now designed to protect the wearer from laser-induced eye damage - accidental or otherwise.
This isn't going to advance any of Gilmore's agenda. Setting aside the fact that there's no way he is going to win this legally -- because he isn't -- this is about the best piece of propaganda you could hand the government. He's just making himself look like a crackpot. By taking challenging a requirement like this, which most people are in favor of, he marginalizes all of the other more worthwhile civil liberty issues he might be associated with. Next time someone challenges Ashcroft on regulations of this sort, he can just retort with "well next thing you know you'll want to let people fly anonymously like that John Gilmore fella", and that'll be the end of that.
There are hills worth dying on and this isn't one of them.
My recommendation is this: you know your co workers and your superiors, and you know the company. Therefore, you are in a position to know whether you're a valued employee that they really want to keep, or whether you're just a warm body on a project that they'd be inconvenienced to lose right at the moment. If it's the former, they're sincere; if it's the latter, you might find yourself made redundant as soon as the pressure is off. Sometimes even the best companies get complacent and it takes a drastic step such as threatening to quit, to get your needs met. So you should base your judgment on that.
Back in 1996 I had a nice job with a major defense contractor, but working on non-defense related projects. It was fun and interesting but didn't pay very well, and after two years being there I wanted a pay raise. I got along very well with the bosses, and I was a key player on several current and upcoming projects. I had gotten a 10% raise the year before -- exceptional for that kind of company -- and knew that I'd probably get the same this time, but that really wasn't going to be what I wanted.
So I went and interviewed with another, smaller company that was in the same industry. I had no problem landing a position for about 30% more than my current salary. I really had no intention at all of staying with the defense contractor, since I had no real expectation that they'd even want to try and match it. I talked to my immediate boss about it, because I liked her and didn't want to screw her project over. To my surprise, a couple of days later her boss called me in and said they'd match the offer.
I liked the people I worked with and didn't have any fears for my future there; much like the poster of this story, my only real beef was with my salary. I stayed, and everything went well - I was even more surprised when, a month later during my two-year evaluation, I was given a raise on top of the 30% I'd stayed there for.
I eventually left that company a few years later, because the defense contractor was selling off the unit I worked for and staying with them would have required relocating across the country, but I'm glad that I stayed as long as I did. Certainly, the accepting the counter-offer thing worked out very well in my case.
...working title: 'The Politics of Nerd.' The question is: which vocal, intelligent, bay area and vicinity OS insiders should be on the show?"
With a title like that, I'd prefer to see nobody get on your show. Can't we please get past the stupid horn-rimmed-glasses and pocket protector stereotypes? Software is everywhere and making good software available to everyone is a critical issue. Stop turning it into a joke by marginalizing people who could actually make a difference.
Don't know anything about Konology, but in Hartford, CT, there is an ISP called Netplex which is offering ISP services over cable. They're a local company which offers dialup, DSL, and frame relay services. I currently use them as my DSL ISP, and their services are absolutely top-notch. I would consider getting them for cable, since the bandwidth is the same but the price is about half, but I live outside the area where their cable service is offered.
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Keep in mind, the SCO you're talking about is the SCO from the 80s in name only. The original Santa Cruz Operation was bought out by Caldera, and after floundering in both the Linux and Unix markets, Caldera renamed itself The SCO Group. There's actually not a whole lot of the original SCO left in all of that mess.
It's all well and good until B166ER decides to kill his owner in self-defense.
Just in case anyone's wondering, this is the same hole reported on Slashdot yesterday and reported in this CERT advisory.
I mention this because the FreeBSD posting doesn't explicitly mention which version of Sendmail this affects, but it does link to the CERT article.
I find myself doing the very same thing pretty frequently. I use a Slackware 8.1 Install CD for this. The Slackware CD initially boots to a prompt where you can pass in kernel parameters (root= for example comes in handy sometimes). The Linux kernel then boots. If you don't specify a root filesystem, it boots to a busybox command prompt where you can run fdisk and where all of the usual linux disk utilities are present. The long and short of it is, you put in the CD, hit enter once, and then you get a # prompt where you can fix whatever needs fixing.
Back when we were dating and then engaged, living in New Orleans, my wife and I would always go out to a romantic restaurant on Valentine's Day, like the amazingly popular Mona Lisa. Now that we live in the Northeast, we prefer to avoid the restaurant rush -- especially since Valentine's Day is on a Friday this year -- so we're staying home and having a meat fondue.
There's hardly a more fun and social meal than a fondue. The basic concept of a meat fondue is quite simple -- you cut a couple of pounds of good beef into approximately 1" cubes, skewer them on long fondue forks, and dunk them in a pot of boiling oil. We build a big fire, light candles, and have the fondue accompanied by a variety of sauces, French bread, good cheese, and of course a bottle of two of good red wine. Yes, it's amazingly decadent and terribly unhealthy, but it's a lot of fun, requires minimal preparation, and, because you're always pausing to skewer a new chunk of meat to dip in the oil, the meal is naturally unhurried and gives plenty of time for enjoyable conversation.
The original cat in the story is a calico ("Rainbow the cat is a typical calico with splotches of brown, tan and gold on white."). Tortoiseshell cats are not the only cats whose coats develop their color patterns via mosaicism -- calico cats are another classic example. And both the clone and the original cat are female.
But thanks for your input!
Setting aside the whole nature vs nurture issue, the reason that two calico cats won't look the same even if they are "genetically identical" is due to mosaicism. Basically what happens is that the gene for certain types of coloration is carried on the X chromosome. Early in embryonic development, each cell in the cat inactivates either the paternal X chromosome or the maternal X chromosome (obviously this only applies if the cat is female). This inactivation happens once at a fixed stage in the cat's development; as the cat develops, these individual cells multiply and eventually the cat becomes a patchwork of coloration, some triggered by the paternal X and some by the maternal X chromosome.
There's no way to predict this pattern, so two cats whose parents have different patterns of orange or black fur will always look different, and the clones of any one of these cats would all look different as well.
And while this is a particularly colorful example of mosaicism, it in fact happens in all mammals, so female clones will always express different patterns of X-linked genetic traits.
As has been said, IBM MQSeries / Websphere MQ is available for Linux. So is the granddaddy of all Message Oriented Middleware, BEA MessageQ, formerly known as DECMessageQ. So is BEA Tuxedo. So is Tibco Enterprise. I'm sure there are others but considering that the above four cover something like 99% of the MOM market, whether on Linux or not, it's pretty silly to say there are no MOM products available for Linux.
There is a conceptually similar system in use today in Atlanta. The system consists of a number of RF readers stationed around the city. These readers are compatible with the Georgia 400 Tollway's "Cruise Card" transponders, used for electronic toll collection. The system reads the transponders in vehicles and uses the data to determine overall traffic speed. Obviously, not everyone in the city has these transponders, but enough vehicles carry them to generate plenty of useful data.
I believe Houston has a similar system in place, since the Sam Houston Tollway uses the same equipment.
People will predictably shout about privacy issues, but it is illegal for this information to be used to enforce speed limits, and the information is not permanently recorded anywhere.
You can read a bit more about this setup at the transponder manufacturer's site among other places.
This is just a marketing spiel for OpsWare, the product that his company develops in support of their old LoudCloud business and that they're trying to sell to whoever will listen.
Way to go ZDNet.
People complaining about spam is becoming more and more of a problem with today's World Wide Web. I used to find the Web a valuable resource, but even with moderation and junkbuster proxies I spend more time reading people's complaints about the amount of spam they get than I do reading real news.
Seriously though, the amount of spam people receive just isn't a problem. The folks who like to complain about it are just doing it to brag about how much time they spend on line and how connected they are. Enacting laws to charge spam senders for sending mail to individuals is silly; it'll cause more problems than it solves.
Where spam really does cause problems is when unscrupulous emailers hijack people's connections to send masses of email. The cost in time and bandwidth to receive an individual email and delete is is trivial, and trying to enact regulations to fine senders for this would cause more problems than it solves. It would be much more effective to enact regulation to make it a crime to bounce spam through open mail relays or in any other way use someone else's bandwidth to send spam. The cost of the bandwidth is much greater at that end, and imposing fines for misusing it would be a more proportionate and effective deterrant.
Personally I prefer just going to one of the DVD firmware and utilities site, like The Firmware Page, and looking up which models of DVD drives can be painlessly modified to be region-free. I did this when I decided to upgrade to a new DVD drive; I bought a LiteOn LTR-163D 16X dvd drive with RPC-2, ran a DOS RPC-1 utility which safely disables RPC-2 without reflashing the drive, and everything works.
You don't really have to do this: as someone posted above, if you use a libdvdcss-based player, you can set the DVDCSS_METHOD environment variable to "title" and libdvdcss will usually be able to read the disc anyway. This isn't guaranteed to work, however, so I decided to disable RPC altogether in the drive.
In any case, with a little research you can do all of this for free, which beats giving money to some company that's profiting off of an already bad system.
You're wrong about this. When a consumer buys a DVD disc, they do not enter into a contract with the manufacturer or distributor or retailer which prohibits them from disabling region coding on their player. There is nothing on DVD packaging which says anything about it, and the consumer is never notified that such a restriction exists. It is by definition impossible to enter into a contract that you are not aware of.
Your blurb about software licencing is off the mark. When you buy a Microsoft software package, you are told that opening the shrink-wrap constitutes acceptance of the licence inside. There is nothing of the kind on DVD media packages.
Manufacturers of DVD drives and DVD players are under contract with the DVD consortium which gives the manufacturer the right to produce DVD player devices but which requires them to produce only region-locked devices. Manufacturers of DVD media are under contract with content owners to produce DVDs of this content, and that contract usually includes a provision requiring the disc to be region locked. The consumer is under no contract at all.
Copying a DVD is a violation of copyright laws. Decrypting a DVD with an unlicenced DVD player is a violation of the DMCA in the US and equivalent laws in some other countries. But disabling region codes on your DVD playback device in order to otherwise legally play a DVD disc is perfectly legal.
Everyone so far has pointed out that the characteristics of a gun barrel change over time. This is true, and it would mean that eventually the markings might change enough to make a "fingerprint" useless.
However, you can readily buy replacement barrels for most rifles anyway. So you could handily buy a weapon and register it, and then swap out the barrel, use the weapon in a crime, and then change it back. Obviously this would take planning and a minor amount of skill (it's really not hard to take apart assault rifles -- remember, they are designed to be taken apart and cleaned in the field by unsophisticated soldiers). The D.C. killer is obviously skilled enough to accomplish this.
Bullet fingerprinting is still an idea that does have its merits, but don't let anyone fool you that such laws would be in any way helpful in catching the current D.C. area serial killer.
That IS what screen does. You run screen, type the commands you want or start the application you want or whatever, then hit ctrl-a d to detach, then you log out or start another screen or whatever you like. Then later you do screen -r and it will reconnect you with the first screen session.
man screen.
the French, prior to WWII, had one of the proudest and most effective resistance records in the world?
That's not really saying great things about their military, though, is it?
If you "designed a degree" which combines these three fields, then you probably should have had some idea as to a common thread between these three disciplines that made the combination worthy of a degree. If, for example, you decided to focus your physics study on power generation, your botany on the way in which plants derive energy from light, and your software on embedded systems, you could say "I have a degree in Photosynthetic Computing."
If, on the other hand, you just took a bunch of unrelated courses because you happen to like them, and talked your advisors into letting you combine them into a degree, then your inability to articulate that combination into a single phrase simply serves to explain exactly what you did. You BS'd your way into doing something you like, and now you have a degree in BS.
So the question is, what is it that these three fields have in common that made you want to combine them into a degree? Therein lies the answer, or lack thereof.
Ditto. I remember first finding Chips and Dips when I followed a link from some applets site, since I was looking for a nice mixer type app for my Afterstep desktop.
I don't remember how long I waited to register after the account system was put into place, but it couldn't have been more than a day. I wasn't really thrilled about it at first, but I suppose even back then there were so many posters that things were getting out of hand without some kind of moderation in place.
Oh well. The ironic thing is that these days, I'm back to posting and reading UseNet far more than I ever do here.
Still, happy birthday.
For about two years, I lived in Kentucky and did realtime systems development for a client in Georgia. They shipped me the hardware I needed, so I could do the development and a certain amount of testing at home, and then I would upload the software to them and do remote testing/debugging with them over the phone. It worked out really well, and when I joined a consulting firm I brought them along as one of our clients.
There are companies that make telecommuting and remote development their standard practice - check out Art & Logic for example.
I've had to deal with a situation like this before - a hard drive in a laser printer, where there was no shutdown procedure, only an on/off switch. I used the "sync" option - e.g.
/dev/hda2 /usr
mount -t ext2 -o sync
This causes the filesystem to be mounted synchronous, so that there are no deferred writes and all disk writes are committed to the disk before the I/O call returns.
This is not 100% fool proof either, as it is still possible to power down the machine in the middle of a write, but it makes it much more difficult to screw up.
Lasers are common in the military, primarily for range finding and illuminating targets for laser-guided weapons. Although these lasers are not powerful enough to destroy objects, they can cause serious eye damage. In at least one case they were used by a Russian ship in American waters to damage the eyes of a helicopter pilot observing the vessel.
Also, the US Armed Forces have researched this issue extensively, and most aircrew helmets and visors are now designed to protect the wearer from laser-induced eye damage - accidental or otherwise.
This isn't going to advance any of Gilmore's agenda. Setting aside the fact that there's no way he is going to win this legally -- because he isn't -- this is about the best piece of propaganda you could hand the government. He's just making himself look like a crackpot. By taking challenging a requirement like this, which most people are in favor of, he marginalizes all of the other more worthwhile civil liberty issues he might be associated with. Next time someone challenges Ashcroft on regulations of this sort, he can just retort with "well next thing you know you'll want to let people fly anonymously like that John Gilmore fella", and that'll be the end of that.
There are hills worth dying on and this isn't one of them.
My recommendation is this: you know your co workers and your superiors, and you know the company. Therefore, you are in a position to know whether you're a valued employee that they really want to keep, or whether you're just a warm body on a project that they'd be inconvenienced to lose right at the moment. If it's the former, they're sincere; if it's the latter, you might find yourself made redundant as soon as the pressure is off. Sometimes even the best companies get complacent and it takes a drastic step such as threatening to quit, to get your needs met. So you should base your judgment on that.
Back in 1996 I had a nice job with a major defense contractor, but working on non-defense related projects. It was fun and interesting but didn't pay very well, and after two years being there I wanted a pay raise. I got along very well with the bosses, and I was a key player on several current and upcoming projects. I had gotten a 10% raise the year before -- exceptional for that kind of company -- and knew that I'd probably get the same this time, but that really wasn't going to be what I wanted.
So I went and interviewed with another, smaller company that was in the same industry. I had no problem landing a position for about 30% more than my current salary. I really had no intention at all of staying with the defense contractor, since I had no real expectation that they'd even want to try and match it. I talked to my immediate boss about it, because I liked her and didn't want to screw her project over. To my surprise, a couple of days later her boss called me in and said they'd match the offer.
I liked the people I worked with and didn't have any fears for my future there; much like the poster of this story, my only real beef was with my salary. I stayed, and everything went well - I was even more surprised when, a month later during my two-year evaluation, I was given a raise on top of the 30% I'd stayed there for.
I eventually left that company a few years later, because the defense contractor was selling off the unit I worked for and staying with them would have required relocating across the country, but I'm glad that I stayed as long as I did. Certainly, the accepting the counter-offer thing worked out very well in my case.
...working title: 'The Politics of Nerd.' The question is: which vocal, intelligent, bay area and vicinity OS insiders should be on the show?"
With a title like that, I'd prefer to see nobody get on your show. Can't we please get past the stupid horn-rimmed-glasses and pocket protector stereotypes? Software is everywhere and making good software available to everyone is a critical issue. Stop turning it into a joke by marginalizing people who could actually make a difference.
Don't know anything about Konology, but in Hartford, CT, there is an ISP called Netplex which is offering ISP services over cable. They're a local company which offers dialup, DSL, and frame relay services. I currently use them as my DSL ISP, and their services are absolutely top-notch. I would consider getting them for cable, since the bandwidth is the same but the price is about half, but I live outside the area where their cable service is offered.