England, and certain other English speaking countries offer working visas for qualified people. Qualifications include being younger than a certain age (35 I think) and having a college degree. These give you the right to live and work for a year or two. During this time you can apply for a more permanent working visa should you choose.
If you want to go into Europe proper, it's a little harder. I got into France in 2001, but it was during the tech-bubble, and my French company was desperate for programmers. The most difficult part is finding a company that is willing to give you a contract. It's an absolute requirement for starting the paperwork, and it's a lot of hassle for the company, as gov'ts make it difficult to hire foreigners, protectionism being as it is. Once you have the contract, things get easier, as the authorities are lenient with tech people.
The easiest way to get a contract is to start talking to any friends in Europe to see if they know anyone who's hiring.
I was approriately shocked and outraged until I noticed the "Hottest top ten" Sweedes of the week link.... I don't know why, but I kinda got side tracked... sorry....
P.S. Search for "The week's top ten" on the newspaper site if you want to see it.......
P.P.S I'm I the only one who noticed the link?? I thought this was/.!!
I was interested in it, just because I believe that MS collects information on me anyway when I use Windows, so why not get a free copy?
From the privacy statement fineprint, they say what information they are collecting.
"This information includes, but is not limited to:"
Then they give a list of "harmless" things such as driver types, hardware, errors encountered. But where is the "not limited to" list? Can't find it on the site. They really don't want you to know what they are collecting.
And, of course, Office has its own set of things, which you helpfully have to look for yourself:
To display the privacy statement for Office 2003, please search for "Privacy Statement" in Office 2003 online help.
Plus, the Windows Customer Experience Improvement Program has its own set of things it collects.
Very Big Brother. Then again, most of my information is already out there floating around... Might be nice to have a free copy of Vista.....
The superuser can escape from a chroot jail by doing "mkdir foo; chroot foo; cd.."
It could be because I went out drinking last night, but I don't really understand how that line of code would break out of a chroot.... Can anyone shed some light into my gin-induced fog?
Was thinking about this exact same question, and the answer I came up with was the fact that even though AAC is an "open" format, it's still considered an "Apple" format, just because it's the one used in the iPod. The first paragraph of the article shows the author talking with some guy who was saying the iPod supports "ACC, some kind of Apple format".
So there's DRM free music being sold by lots of online music stores, and some Average Joe wants to get a music player, but he doesn't know what to get. He hears that the format to look for is AAC, which seems to be an "Apple" format. He wants to be sure it plays, so he gets an iPod.
Even if most people wise up and realize that they don't need an iPod to play AAC tracks, there will still be a sort of branding with AAC and Apple which, in my opinion, is more powerful than any DRM or marketing campaign. At the very least, Microsoft will be looking be looking like chumps with their cludgy PlaysForSure/WMA format, and being forced to accept "Apple's" AAC format. I love the author's comment about this: Think of it: Microsoft labeling its second Zune player as "compatible with iTunes."
Of course, all this doesn't help me one bit, as you have to buy the tracks through iTunes, which isn't supported on Linux. Bah.... there's always Pirate Bay.
On a different subject, I love how the author shows just how clumsy M$ is. They made their PlaysForSure crap, and then got some hardware companies to support the format. Sandisk and others go ahead and sign up, only to hear M$ say a few years later "screw you guys, we're going to do it ourselves", and start promoting the Zune and the Zune marketplace. Apple then comes in, and opens the door to these shunned hardware guys by making songs available in the DRM free "Apple" AAC format. Now the one thing that people were missing with non-Apple music players, namely iTunes "compatibility", is within reach.
I love this topic because I get to brag about what we have here in France...
*AHEM*
-Uncapped, unlimited ADSL (1Mb up, uncapped down) -80 digital TV channels, with over 200 more available "à la carte" (Packages are available, but you can pick and choose your channels!) -Movies on demand -Free unlimited phone calls to over 15 countries (US, Canada, EU, China, Algeria, New Zealand, and lots more)
Plus some extras:
-Integrated Wifi -Fixed IP -No blockage on port 80, 25, etc -Active support for Linux -No contract (can quit whenever we want)
All this for..... wait for it..... $25 a month!!!!!!
You know what the sad part is? Compared to other countries, like S. Korea, we're far behind....
Seriously, the US really needs to get its ass in gear and let broadband competition take hold, and stop letting the ISPs rape their customers. The offer I spoke of above is the absolute minimum that ISPs offer here, and there are at least four companies offering it. Competition is a wonderful thing........
From the article: While it was once fun to compile the kernel and mention it the next morning while grabbing a cup of coffee, these days I want to use my machine for things other the care and feeding of the operating system.
I couldn't agree more with this statement!!!
I'm so tired of broken ebuilds, monolithic->multiple ebuild migrations, and the like. Every time I do a emerge -uDa world, I get some compiliation problem that requires my personal attention.
Just recently Gentoo went from a single XOrg installation to multi-ebuild installation. To their credit, there's a very complete and helpful guide for migrating. Unfortunately, the "potential problems" section is very long. After the multi-day hell that I had going from a few KDE ebuilds to hundreds of seperate KDE ebuilds, I do not want to go through the same thing again with XOrg. Of course, I now have a machine that cannot be completely upgraded because the majority of packages now require the new XOrg.
Like he said in the article I'm sure there will be a few Gentoo users who will blame me for all the problems. Let me cut them off early. I agree. I'm not switching just yet, because I've got a functioning system that I don't want to break, but let me tell you that I can't wait for the day when I do a full system upgrade and dump Gentoo for Kubuntu.
You forgot one:
* Stop supporting Israel 100% and start forcing them to make peace. This one point alone will win the "hearts and minds" of millions of Muslims.
While I completely agree that the police have no right to restrict photography in public places, these guys really aren't making their case too well:
If you were a serious terrorist you wouldn't be openly taking photographs.
No terrorist is going to hang around the front gate (of Shell's refinery) taking photos
If I was a serious a serious terrorist, I'd dress up as a tourist and take pictures in broad daylight for everyone to see. If confronted, I would ask why a terrorist would take pictures in broad daylight in front of everyone.
They're arguing semantics when they should be concerntrating on the high moral ground. Oh well, should it come to court, I believe they'll win.
They also defended 2600 publisher Eric Corely, who was barred from posting or linking to the DeCSS DVD descrambling utility of "DVD Jon" fame, and they lost.
Umm, please correct me if I'm wrong, but didn't the case eventually get thrown out? Or, to put it more precisely, didn't the MPAA give up because they knew the cat was out of the bag? Isn't he know free, and writing lots of other interesting stuff?
Indeed, there is no good reason why anyone should not be permitted to travel incognito, and many good reasons why one should. This is a case that can, and should, be won. Surely, only an EFF principal could blow this one, yet blow it he did.
What? This is the absolute worst environment to be trying this kind of case. We have a "war on terror", and this guy thinks a case involving NOT identifying oneself while boarding a plane is a good idea that "should" be won? This guy is nuts...
I have no idea about the EFF's track record, but this guy seems to be wildly off....
I have so many friends who bought the first XBox, who are also not fans of M$. They say: "Hahaha! Microsoft loses money! Everybody buy an xbox!" MS doesn't give a **** about making money on the xbox, or the games. They just want an xbox in every household, and they're willing to put a lot of money into acheiving that. Once they have an xbox in every household, and Sony and Nintendo are has-beens, they can start making the Xbox into the household entertainment center that controls everything. This isn't a conspiracy theory, it's their stated plan. In fact, the only thing preventing them from giving the damn things away is the howls of conspiracy theorists, anti-trust lawyers and people's distrust of things that are free.
Don't like Microsoft? Just don't buy the damn thing....
Don't let the/. blurb fool you. The article has as many "damn it didn't work" moments as "woohoo!" moments. Hell, he couldn't even get Evolution connected to Exchange. That right there would be a death blow to any Linux-in-a-Windows environment migration.
Don't be fooled, Linux has a long way to go before being a drop-in replacement for Windows on the desktop.
On the subject of iPod nano killers, have they fixed the problem with the scratchy screens yet? I've heard they've quietly started including soft covers with new nanos, but is the screen still the same crap?
60+ bucks a month for a capped line? With < 1MB upstream? This is the best the UK has to offer? Are you kidding?
Not trolling here, but that kind of speed will cost you about 25-30 bucks a month here in France, with better upload speed, no cap, and TV service to boot.
I've always thought the new kernel development model was a bad idea. Instead of creating a new 2.7 branch for new code under development and letting the 2.6 branch stablize, the powers that be decided to put everything in 2.6. The downside of this is that there is no "stable" kernel as each new revision contains new "unstable" code and fixes for older versions. I'm not sure what the upside is.
Some of these bugs, according to the article, have been around for ages, so the new dev model isn't to blame. But Linus and Andrew didn't even respond to these critical vulnerabilities....
Just go ahead and create a 2.7 branch, and then assign a maintainer to the 2.6 branch and let it stabilize. I don't see any reason for not doing this.
This is what an interview in Wired has come to? In case you didn't read the article, let me paraphrase:
Wired: IE sucks, do you release this?
M$ Guy: Well, it's not as simple as that. We're constantly analyzing IE to make it a better product.
W: Firefox or Opera kicks your ass, just say it.
M: There certainly are areas we can improve on, and we're currently redoing IE to make it more secure and feature-rich.
W: M$ SuX0rS! Admit it now!
M: We're committed to making IE an industry-leader and we appreciate user feedback.
The interview was just four questions where the interviewer just spouted nonsense. I don't blame the marketing droid responses, there weren't any questions to respond to.
Besides, what stability issues are you encountering with the 2.6 kernels?
2.6.7 broke my nForce2 on-board ethernet controller.
This wasn't really my point though. I was just trying to say that I feel this is the wrong way to go about releasing kernels and new features. Read my point on all this here because I'm lazy and don't want to retype it.:-)
you want be use the bleeding edge version, you got to be ready to have some problems
That's part of my point.... 2.6.x kernels are NOT supposed to be bleeding edge. They are release kernels. "Bleeding edge" is the -mm patch set, though this whole idea is changing. I think that this is for the worse, which was my original point.
You make very good points, and give good advice, but the whole point of my post was that the 2.6.X releases shouldn't be a playground for new things, which is what Linus and Andrew have decided should happen. You say that someone who runs gentoo with a bunch of nifty new feature patches should expect trouble. Okay, fine, but this is what is happening with the release 2.6 kernels! This breaks the idea of upgrading. You'll never reach a "stable" point in the 2.6 series because you're constantly adding new features. The 2.4 series is at a point, IMO, where it is stable and ready for production use. That's because the new software features went into the 2.5 tree, whereas bug fixes and the like went into 2.4
If you want to add new features into the kernel, make a 2.7 branch. The 2.6 branch has been released and shouldn't be added to unless there are patches for speed, stability or security.
Distros will pick a 2.6 release.
Say, 2.6.6.
Then they'll backport security fixes just like they did for 2.4.
Then why have 2.6 vanilla releases at all? What are they there for? If they serve as a new-feature testing ground, then why not create a 2.7 branch?
If the vanilla 2.6 series is used as a "base reference", then it must be a stable base point. This idea, however, has just been tossed out the window by Torvalds & Co.
What about people, like myself, who like to use the vanilla releases from kernel.org? I don't run a biggie distro, so what kernel should I run? The whole idea of "stable" has just been thrown into an grey-scale Escher painting.....
(Overly) simple answer: 2.6-mm is development. 2.6 vanilla is stable.
Unfortunately according to the article, that's not true.... 2.6-mm is bleeding edge, 2.6 is development/testing and 2.6.redhat or whatever is stable.....
The "release" kernel of 2.6.7 broke the ethernet driver of my board (the forcedeth driver wouldn't load properly). This bug was introduced by a patch someone put in (I have the kernel bugzilla # if you really want it). This was a *stable* release that broke a major component of a very commonly used configuration (LOTS of people use the forcedeth driver on their Asus mobos). A simple testing period would have found this bug....
Am I the only one that thinks this new dev model is a really bad idea?? Stability is the hallmark of Linux, but that is now effectively broken. If we have a problem, we can't say anymore "oh! There's a new kernel! We should try that!" There's NOTHING wrong with the current odd-test/even-stable scheme. If Linus and Morton want to play around with new features, MAKE A 2.7 BRANCH! 2.6 is finalized, let it be! If you don't think that there's enough features in it, YOU SHOULDN'T HAVE RELEASED IT!
A lot of people use the vanilla sources, myself included obviously, I should have to go RedHat to get a working kernel. The 2.6 branch is NOT a playground, that's what the -mm branch is for.....
2.6.6 works for me, and I'm not changing. For the first time in my life, I *DON'T* trust what's coming from Linus & Co.... and that's scary.... It's like God is forsaking you to go play with some toys....
So why not print a copy and send it to your company CEO
Why on earth would I do that? The first thing (s)he'll ask is "So there's truth behind all this SCO stuff?" At which point I'll say "Er, well no, it's all a buncha hooey" "So why are you showing me this?" "Err.. uhhh"
I'm aware of the litigious world we live in, but even acknowledging that there's a possibility all this patent/SCO crap is right plays into their hands.
SCO is dying, and with it (I can hope) the threat of patent infringement lawsuits, at least as far as Linux is concerned. Let the sick dog die ignored and humiliated as it should be.
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If you want to go into Europe proper, it's a little harder. I got into France in 2001, but it was during the tech-bubble, and my French company was desperate for programmers. The most difficult part is finding a company that is willing to give you a contract. It's an absolute requirement for starting the paperwork, and it's a lot of hassle for the company, as gov'ts make it difficult to hire foreigners, protectionism being as it is. Once you have the contract, things get easier, as the authorities are lenient with tech people.
The easiest way to get a contract is to start talking to any friends in Europe to see if they know anyone who's hiring.
Good luck!
I'm really sorry...
/.!!
I was approriately shocked and outraged until I noticed the "Hottest top ten" Sweedes of the week link.... I don't know why, but I kinda got side tracked... sorry....
P.S. Search for "The week's top ten" on the newspaper site if you want to see it.......
P.P.S I'm I the only one who noticed the link?? I thought this was
From the privacy statement fineprint, they say what information they are collecting.
"This information includes, but is not limited to:"
Then they give a list of "harmless" things such as driver types, hardware, errors encountered. But where is the "not limited to" list? Can't find it on the site. They really don't want you to know what they are collecting.
And, of course, Office has its own set of things, which you helpfully have to look for yourself:
To display the privacy statement for Office 2003, please search for "Privacy Statement" in Office 2003 online help.
Plus, the Windows Customer Experience Improvement Program has its own set of things it collects.
Very Big Brother. Then again, most of my information is already out there floating around... Might be nice to have a free copy of Vista.....
The superuser can escape from a chroot jail by doing "mkdir foo; chroot foo; cd .."
It could be because I went out drinking last night, but I don't really understand how that line of code would break out of a chroot.... Can anyone shed some light into my gin-induced fog?
So there's DRM free music being sold by lots of online music stores, and some Average Joe wants to get a music player, but he doesn't know what to get. He hears that the format to look for is AAC, which seems to be an "Apple" format. He wants to be sure it plays, so he gets an iPod.
Even if most people wise up and realize that they don't need an iPod to play AAC tracks, there will still be a sort of branding with AAC and Apple which, in my opinion, is more powerful than any DRM or marketing campaign. At the very least, Microsoft will be looking be looking like chumps with their cludgy PlaysForSure/WMA format, and being forced to accept "Apple's" AAC format. I love the author's comment about this: Think of it: Microsoft labeling its second Zune player as "compatible with iTunes."
Of course, all this doesn't help me one bit, as you have to buy the tracks through iTunes, which isn't supported on Linux. Bah.... there's always Pirate Bay.
On a different subject, I love how the author shows just how clumsy M$ is. They made their PlaysForSure crap, and then got some hardware companies to support the format. Sandisk and others go ahead and sign up, only to hear M$ say a few years later "screw you guys, we're going to do it ourselves", and start promoting the Zune and the Zune marketplace. Apple then comes in, and opens the door to these shunned hardware guys by making songs available in the DRM free "Apple" AAC format. Now the one thing that people were missing with non-Apple music players, namely iTunes "compatibility", is within reach.
Stay tuned to see what happens....
I love this topic because I get to brag about what we have here in France...
*AHEM*
-Uncapped, unlimited ADSL (1Mb up, uncapped down)
-80 digital TV channels, with over 200 more available "à la carte" (Packages are available, but you can pick and choose your channels!)
-Movies on demand
-Free unlimited phone calls to over 15 countries (US, Canada, EU, China, Algeria, New Zealand, and lots more)
Plus some extras:
-Integrated Wifi
-Fixed IP
-No blockage on port 80, 25, etc
-Active support for Linux
-No contract (can quit whenever we want)
All this for..... wait for it..... $25 a month!!!!!!
You know what the sad part is? Compared to other countries, like S. Korea, we're far behind....
Seriously, the US really needs to get its ass in gear and let broadband competition take hold, and stop letting the ISPs rape their customers. The offer I spoke of above is the absolute minimum that ISPs offer here, and there are at least four companies offering it. Competition is a wonderful thing........
Xcom doesn't make the list?! Gripe! Complain! And none of that silly water stuff from the sequel. Give me aliens!
I don't think it takes a computer to make than connection.....
I couldn't agree more with this statement!!!
I'm so tired of broken ebuilds, monolithic->multiple ebuild migrations, and the like. Every time I do a emerge -uDa world, I get some compiliation problem that requires my personal attention.
Just recently Gentoo went from a single XOrg installation to multi-ebuild installation. To their credit, there's a very complete and helpful guide for migrating. Unfortunately, the "potential problems" section is very long. After the multi-day hell that I had going from a few KDE ebuilds to hundreds of seperate KDE ebuilds, I do not want to go through the same thing again with XOrg. Of course, I now have a machine that cannot be completely upgraded because the majority of packages now require the new XOrg.
Like he said in the article I'm sure there will be a few Gentoo users who will blame me for all the problems. Let me cut them off early. I agree. I'm not switching just yet, because I've got a functioning system that I don't want to break, but let me tell you that I can't wait for the day when I do a full system upgrade and dump Gentoo for Kubuntu.
You forgot one: * Stop supporting Israel 100% and start forcing them to make peace. This one point alone will win the "hearts and minds" of millions of Muslims.
Not very well. I got a NullPointerException upon loading a document that I've been working on....
If you were a serious terrorist you wouldn't be openly taking photographs.
No terrorist is going to hang around the front gate (of Shell's refinery) taking photos
If I was a serious a serious terrorist, I'd dress up as a tourist and take pictures in broad daylight for everyone to see. If confronted, I would ask why a terrorist would take pictures in broad daylight in front of everyone.
They're arguing semantics when they should be concerntrating on the high moral ground. Oh well, should it come to court, I believe they'll win.
Umm, please correct me if I'm wrong, but didn't the case eventually get thrown out? Or, to put it more precisely, didn't the MPAA give up because they knew the cat was out of the bag? Isn't he know free, and writing lots of other interesting stuff?
Indeed, there is no good reason why anyone should not be permitted to travel incognito, and many good reasons why one should. This is a case that can, and should, be won. Surely, only an EFF principal could blow this one, yet blow it he did.
What? This is the absolute worst environment to be trying this kind of case. We have a "war on terror", and this guy thinks a case involving NOT identifying oneself while boarding a plane is a good idea that "should" be won? This guy is nuts...
I have no idea about the EFF's track record, but this guy seems to be wildly off....
Don't like Microsoft? Just don't buy the damn thing....
Don't let the /. blurb fool you. The article has as many "damn it didn't work" moments as "woohoo!" moments. Hell, he couldn't even get Evolution connected to Exchange. That right there would be a death blow to any Linux-in-a-Windows environment migration.
Don't be fooled, Linux has a long way to go before being a drop-in replacement for Windows on the desktop.
On the subject of iPod nano killers, have they fixed the problem with the scratchy screens yet? I've heard they've quietly started including soft covers with new nanos, but is the screen still the same crap?
Not trolling here, but that kind of speed will cost you about 25-30 bucks a month here in France, with better upload speed, no cap, and TV service to boot.
Sucks to be British....
Some of these bugs, according to the article, have been around for ages, so the new dev model isn't to blame. But Linus and Andrew didn't even respond to these critical vulnerabilities....
Just go ahead and create a 2.7 branch, and then assign a maintainer to the 2.6 branch and let it stabilize. I don't see any reason for not doing this.
Wired: IE sucks, do you release this?
M$ Guy: Well, it's not as simple as that. We're constantly analyzing IE to make it a better product.
W: Firefox or Opera kicks your ass, just say it.
M: There certainly are areas we can improve on, and we're currently redoing IE to make it more secure and feature-rich.
W: M$ SuX0rS! Admit it now!
M: We're committed to making IE an industry-leader and we appreciate user feedback.
The interview was just four questions where the interviewer just spouted nonsense. I don't blame the marketing droid responses, there weren't any questions to respond to.
Is this a quality interview from Wired?
2.6.7 broke my nForce2 on-board ethernet controller.
This wasn't really my point though. I was just trying to say that I feel this is the wrong way to go about releasing kernels and new features. Read my point on all this here because I'm lazy and don't want to retype it. :-)
That's part of my point.... 2.6.x kernels are NOT supposed to be bleeding edge. They are release kernels. "Bleeding edge" is the -mm patch set, though this whole idea is changing. I think that this is for the worse, which was my original point.
You make very good points, and give good advice, but the whole point of my post was that the 2.6.X releases shouldn't be a playground for new things, which is what Linus and Andrew have decided should happen. You say that someone who runs gentoo with a bunch of nifty new feature patches should expect trouble. Okay, fine, but this is what is happening with the release 2.6 kernels! This breaks the idea of upgrading. You'll never reach a "stable" point in the 2.6 series because you're constantly adding new features. The 2.4 series is at a point, IMO, where it is stable and ready for production use. That's because the new software features went into the 2.5 tree, whereas bug fixes and the like went into 2.4
If you want to add new features into the kernel, make a 2.7 branch. The 2.6 branch has been released and shouldn't be added to unless there are patches for speed, stability or security.
Then why have 2.6 vanilla releases at all? What are they there for? If they serve as a new-feature testing ground, then why not create a 2.7 branch?
If the vanilla 2.6 series is used as a "base reference", then it must be a stable base point. This idea, however, has just been tossed out the window by Torvalds & Co.
What about people, like myself, who like to use the vanilla releases from kernel.org? I don't run a biggie distro, so what kernel should I run? The whole idea of "stable" has just been thrown into an grey-scale Escher painting.....
Unfortunately according to the article, that's not true.... 2.6-mm is bleeding edge, 2.6 is development/testing and 2.6.redhat or whatever is stable.....
Am I the only one that thinks this new dev model is a really bad idea?? Stability is the hallmark of Linux, but that is now effectively broken. If we have a problem, we can't say anymore "oh! There's a new kernel! We should try that!" There's NOTHING wrong with the current odd-test/even-stable scheme. If Linus and Morton want to play around with new features, MAKE A 2.7 BRANCH! 2.6 is finalized, let it be! If you don't think that there's enough features in it, YOU SHOULDN'T HAVE RELEASED IT!
A lot of people use the vanilla sources, myself included obviously, I should have to go RedHat to get a working kernel. The 2.6 branch is NOT a playground, that's what the -mm branch is for.....
2.6.6 works for me, and I'm not changing. For the first time in my life, I *DON'T* trust what's coming from Linus & Co.... and that's scary.... It's like God is forsaking you to go play with some toys....
Why on earth would I do that? The first thing (s)he'll ask is
"So there's truth behind all this SCO stuff?" At which point I'll say
"Er, well no, it's all a buncha hooey"
"So why are you showing me this?"
"Err.. uhhh"
I'm aware of the litigious world we live in, but even acknowledging that there's a possibility all this patent/SCO crap is right plays into their hands.
SCO is dying, and with it (I can hope) the threat of patent infringement lawsuits, at least as far as Linux is concerned. Let the sick dog die ignored and humiliated as it should be.