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I another/. story a month or so ago showed in corporate America IIS is still their choice. Those are the minds that need to be opened up.
I would say corporate America sticks with IIS and other MS products because of MS development products are easy enough for Fred the Beancounter to drag-n-drop an app together. A desk jockey can get something done for his department quick and easy. Good code no, but it gets the job done and it was cheap and that is what the PHB care about.
LAMP tools need to become that easy to use for corporate America to take a look.
This hemoraging of jobs overseas has to become a prime election issue.
There was a good article on this topic in the Sunday L.A. Times pointing out it isn't only the Tech industry losing jobs overseas. All job levels and industries are sending services jobs overseas.
The Corporate CEO's and politicians they have in their back pockets only see improved operating costs, what they aren't seeing is they U.S. customers losing their jobs and won't be able to afford their products as time goes on.
Back when Alvin Tofler wrote _The Third Wave_ and said losing our manufactuing industry overseas isn't a problem, because America will become a Services based economy. Now we are losing our Services economy, but their isn't anything to replace it. The CEOs and politicians that cater to them need to open there eyes.
Outsourcing jobs overseas NEEDS to become a major issue in the upcoming elections. Every canidate needs to be informed of the issues and asked how they stand on it.
Software gets old and the best thing to do is officially put it to rest. If you want to continue to use it that's your choice. Just means you also don't plan to update your hardware.
IMO supporting old versions of software is a waste of energy. I'd rather see that energy put to drivers and updates for new systems. Things need to progress forward. WHen I got into Linux the community would brag that it would still run on 8086 or 286. That's over for mainstream Linux. Hardware moved forward and so did Linux.
Take advantage of next time you get sick. When I have had a bad cold or flu, my caffine intake goes to almost zero. After I get better I'm still at low caffine level and can keep it low for a long time. I quit smoking the same way. Had a really bad cold and took advantage of it to stop smoking.
Also instead of kicking caffine just reduce it. That is where I'm at today and no withdrawal. I've gone from drinking many pots of coffee a day to drinking a couple cups and a couple diet cokes. I drink more water instead.
Who was it Alvin Tofler in the book The Third Wave talk about America losing it's manufacturing industry to overseas compaines was no problem. That American is becoming a Services based economy. That worked, but now America is sending its Services based economy and there is nothing to replace it.
There was never a shortage of American techies, they just wanted cheaper wages so the government created the H1B visa program. Now the.COM boom is over and corporate America wants wages back to pre boom levels. So they start sending work outside the country, to force Americans to accept lower wages. Look at the recent announcement from IBM to send 4700 jobs overseas, and another 3700 potential jobs to go. BUT, if the American workers are willing to accept the same wages as the Indian workers they can keep their job.
Same going on with the grocery worker strike, Unions on a power trip have pressured companies to raise wages and benefits to the breaking point. Non-union companies come in with lower prices and people are shopping in those stores to save the average 20% difference. Unions did the same thing in steel, automobiles, electronics, and other manufacturing sending American jobs out of the country. American worker became too expensive. Long term effect some old manufacturing town have died or dying.
Trouble is with corporate American focusing only on cutting costs and increasing margins, they aren't realizing they are cutting the available funds of their customers here in the U.S. People sending all their money to just survive aren't going to be buying much.
So after all the pain to the American worker we gain nothing. Wages drop, business slumps until they drop prices. Some people lose their homes or can't pay high rents, eventually housing prices drop. So a lot of people get hurt, some companies/industries lost forever, just to adjust everything down.
Pointed Haired Bosses don't think that way. At my last job (one of the big 3 ISP's) one of the NT admin's screwed up and opened our one internal systems to the whole world. One of our techs studing security discovered the hole and reported it our PHB. Who came to our SA team to check and confirm. They were more concerned about the tech finding the hole, than the idiot NT admin who screw up an NT securtiy setting. They were insisting on firing the tech. They said opening up our system to world was less of and issue, than a employee sniffing our network, even if he reported it.
I've worked for too many large corporations don't ever think management is going to think logicly.
How you going to handle heat and air cirulation. I see some of these answers about closets and cabinets and can just feel the heat build up. Telco racks are cheap and offer lots of air circulation. Have deep servers that need front and back mounting then use two telco racks. We mounts Suns that way all the time. If telco racks are to tall they are easy to cut down, but there are also lots of accessories for them like shelves, keyboard drawers, cable management guides, and etc. Plus easy to take apart and move it necessary.
If the Sun Java Desktop catches on you can take all your MS hate mail and articles and just replace MS and Bill Gates with Sun and Scott McNeally. IMO Scott is worse than Bill. Scott is so two faced you can't believe anything he says. Just look at the Java license for a great example. You may not like what Gates says, but he doesn't have the cloud of smoke around things that Sun does.
I was a developer for years before ending up doing System and Network admin work. Developers alway blame the hardware, the OS, and the network first. Then we have to waste our time proving the problem isn't ours, but development issues.
No we aren't perfect, but I'd say 98% of the time the problems came from the developmet side. Todays programmers just don't understand much about resource management or how to write/debug threaded code.
Linux won't be ready for the masses on the desktop until Jane and John Doe can buy a off the shelf multimedia PC and install without ever see the word "dependency". When a non-geek computer user tries to install software and have to deal with dependencies or worse have to recompile anything you are making the price of Windows look small to them.
Even Linux on servers I've seen the typical Windows SA work on a Linux box and give up because of all the dependency issues. Sure you are probably calling these people names, but they are the people you need to get marketshare. Windows got where they are because any idiot can set it up and reboot when they have trouble. Brainless ease of use is why these people are willing to pay for Windows.
According to all the Compaq/HP rep's that come to our place the Intel Itanium 2 processor and future 64-bit Intel chip are in large part Alpha code. That the lawsuit of a few years back with Intel and DEC resulted in Intel getting rights to the Alpha technology and they started rolling the Alpha code in with the Itanium 2 chip. That's the smack the Compaq/HP droids are spewing.
I work in large IT shops and Linux only gets in on small projects or on servers the departments support themselves. For Enterprise systems the lack of support for the OS and large enterprise class hardware makes management bulk at it.
The IT shops I've worked we did minimal Apple support and discouraged Apple when possible. Trouble was trying to hire Apple people with strong technical backgrounds. Most didn't know much about tcp/ip networking, or interfacing with other OS's. Now things may be different with OS X, but prior to X it was easier to buy them their own server let the department Mac guru support it.
When took one of RH's training classes a few years ago the instructor was telling us that less then 10% of RH's income is from the distro and they would drop it if they could. It was only a marketing tool for them. That most of RH's income is from support, training, and custom development.
Then look at RH's support model they are like Sun they don't want to deal with the lower tier customers, they only want to deal with the large corporations. Guess you could say Red Hat is turning into a traditional Unix company.
Try being a contractor its sucks and the overtime is small compensation. As a full-timer you get benefits and that is considerable, then vacation, and sick leave. As a contractor most agencys don't have any of the above or they are so skimpy they are useless. Then they can cut your pay at any time and lately it happens a lot. Sure you can bitch, they just tell you to quit and hire someone else cheaper. Then they can end the contract with no notice. It appears to be a growing trend hiring contractors. Soon as company hicups they can dump people at a moments notice to cut costs. Also no benefit or unemployment costs to the company, the contracting firm gets hit with that. I would gladly give up the overtime I get paid for the benefits and (a bit more) security a full time position offers.
At a couple places I've worked I've know departments that resigned in mass, wel at least the majority of the department. It had no effect the companies just transfered and hired ASAP and moved on. They adjust their schedules and move on. Sometimes if a single person is key to continuing on they will make an indivisual and offer that can't be refused to stay or stay longer enough to do a knowledge transfer. So in long run all you've done is lose a job, and have a tough thing to explain at your next interview.
MS could buy SCO who they sold Xenix too a couple decades ago. Then MS would own (some parts) of the original Unix. That could create some even more interesting court battles.
I remember playing M.U.L.E. on an old Apple II and besides a very cool game I remeber it being one of the first to have a music-like sounds. Most games before then had mind-numbing bleebs or short childish sequences. But M.U.L.E. had kind of a disco beat techno sounding theme running in background. By todays standards it is boring, but back in 1983 it was way cool compared to PacMac bleeps and borks.
Being I spend my first lifetime in the music business this isn't telling the whole story. They are not factoring in money from playing live. Also you know getting into the music business that you don't make a much of money in the early years of band. It take years for a band of gigging and recording to become the "hot new band".
Also there aren't "bands" these days mainly due to economics, everything is "projects" these days. A player will be juggling schedules rehearsing and playing multiple projects and doing side gigs to pay bills, hoping one of these projects gets signed, records, and tours. It's sad that players today don't know what it was like to be a band. To grow together musically, the family of band members and supporters. I still have a lot of friends in the business and it is way to commericial these days.
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I another /. story a month or so ago showed in corporate America IIS is still their choice. Those are the minds that need to be opened up.
I would say corporate America sticks with IIS and other MS products because of MS development products are easy enough for Fred the Beancounter to drag-n-drop an app together. A desk jockey can get something done for his department quick and easy. Good code no, but it gets the job done and it was cheap and that is what the PHB care about.
LAMP tools need to become that easy to use for corporate America to take a look.
Being it's an election year if they find some life on Mars he will declare them instant citizens and eligible to vote.
This hemoraging of jobs overseas has to become a prime election issue.
There was a good article on this topic in the Sunday L.A. Times pointing out it isn't only the Tech industry losing jobs overseas. All job levels and industries are sending services jobs overseas.
The Corporate CEO's and politicians they have in their back pockets only see improved operating costs, what they aren't seeing is they U.S. customers losing their jobs and won't be able to afford their products as time goes on.
Back when Alvin Tofler wrote _The Third Wave_ and said losing our manufactuing industry overseas isn't a problem, because America will become a Services based economy. Now we are losing our Services economy, but their isn't anything to replace it. The CEOs and politicians that cater to them need to open there eyes.
Outsourcing jobs overseas NEEDS to become a major issue in the upcoming elections. Every canidate needs to be informed of the issues and asked how they stand on it.
Software gets old and the best thing to do is officially put it to rest. If you want to continue to use it that's your choice. Just means you also don't plan to update your hardware.
IMO supporting old versions of software is a waste of energy. I'd rather see that energy put to drivers and updates for new systems. Things need to progress forward. WHen I got into Linux the community would brag that it would still run on 8086 or 286. That's over for mainstream Linux. Hardware moved forward and so did Linux.
Take advantage of next time you get sick. When I have had a bad cold or flu, my caffine intake goes to almost zero. After I get better I'm still at low caffine level and can keep it low for a long time. I quit smoking the same way. Had a really bad cold and took advantage of it to stop smoking.
Also instead of kicking caffine just reduce it. That is where I'm at today and no withdrawal. I've gone from drinking many pots of coffee a day to drinking a couple cups and a couple diet cokes. I drink more water instead.
Who was it Alvin Tofler in the book The Third Wave talk about America losing it's manufacturing industry to overseas compaines was no problem. That American is becoming a Services based economy. That worked, but now America is sending its Services based economy and there is nothing to replace it.
.COM boom is over and corporate America wants wages back to pre boom levels. So they start sending work outside the country, to force Americans to accept lower wages. Look at the recent announcement from IBM to send 4700 jobs overseas, and another 3700 potential jobs to go. BUT, if the American workers are willing to accept the same wages as the Indian workers they can keep their job.
There was never a shortage of American techies, they just wanted cheaper wages so the government created the H1B visa program. Now the
Same going on with the grocery worker strike, Unions on a power trip have pressured companies to raise wages and benefits to the breaking point. Non-union companies come in with lower prices and people are shopping in those stores to save the average 20% difference. Unions did the same thing in steel, automobiles, electronics, and other manufacturing sending American jobs out of the country. American worker became too expensive. Long term effect some old manufacturing town have died or dying.
Trouble is with corporate American focusing only on cutting costs and increasing margins, they aren't realizing they are cutting the available funds of their customers here in the U.S. People sending all their money to just survive aren't going to be buying much.
So after all the pain to the American worker we gain nothing. Wages drop, business slumps until they drop prices. Some people lose their homes or can't pay high rents, eventually housing prices drop. So a lot of people get hurt, some companies/industries lost forever, just to adjust everything down.
Pointed Haired Bosses don't think that way. At my last job (one of the big 3 ISP's) one of the NT admin's screwed up and opened our one internal systems to the whole world. One of our techs studing security discovered the hole and reported it our PHB. Who came to our SA team to check and confirm. They were more concerned about the tech finding the hole, than the idiot NT admin who screw up an NT securtiy setting. They were insisting on firing the tech. They said opening up our system to world was less of and issue, than a employee sniffing our network, even if he reported it.
I've worked for too many large corporations don't ever think management is going to think logicly.
How you going to handle heat and air cirulation. I see some of these answers about closets and cabinets and can just feel the heat build up. Telco racks are cheap and offer lots of air circulation. Have deep servers that need front and back mounting then use two telco racks. We mounts Suns that way all the time. If telco racks are to tall they are easy to cut down, but there are also lots of accessories for them like shelves, keyboard drawers, cable management guides, and etc. Plus easy to take apart and move it necessary.
If the Sun Java Desktop catches on you can take all your MS hate mail and articles and just replace MS and Bill Gates with Sun and Scott McNeally. IMO Scott is worse than Bill. Scott is so two faced you can't believe anything he says. Just look at the Java license for a great example. You may not like what Gates says, but he doesn't have the cloud of smoke around things that Sun does.
I was a developer for years before ending up doing System and Network admin work. Developers alway blame the hardware, the OS, and the network first. Then we have to waste our time proving the problem isn't ours, but development issues.
No we aren't perfect, but I'd say 98% of the time the problems came from the developmet side. Todays programmers just don't understand much about resource management or how to write/debug threaded code.
Linux won't be ready for the masses on the desktop until Jane and John Doe can buy a off the shelf multimedia PC and install without ever see the word "dependency". When a non-geek computer user tries to install software and have to deal with dependencies or worse have to recompile anything you are making the price of Windows look small to them.
Even Linux on servers I've seen the typical Windows SA work on a Linux box and give up because of all the dependency issues. Sure you are probably calling these people names, but they are the people you need to get marketshare. Windows got where they are because any idiot can set it up and reboot when they have trouble. Brainless ease of use is why these people are willing to pay for Windows.
According to all the Compaq/HP rep's that come to our place the Intel Itanium 2 processor and future 64-bit Intel chip are in large part Alpha code. That the lawsuit of a few years back with Intel and DEC resulted in Intel getting rights to the Alpha technology and they started rolling the Alpha code in with the Itanium 2 chip. That's the smack the Compaq/HP droids are spewing.
I'm already getting the loophole telephone calls. There is a loophole in the rules that ALLOWS these slime to call for surveys.
Some dweeb is probably swimming in bonus money because his mommy packed some Pringles in his lunch box.
Hope the Judges phone number gets out so everyone can call the judge and express their free speech to him all evening long, night after night.
I work in large IT shops and Linux only gets in on small projects or on servers the departments support themselves. For Enterprise systems the lack of support for the OS and large enterprise class hardware makes management bulk at it.
The IT shops I've worked we did minimal Apple support and discouraged Apple when possible. Trouble was trying to hire Apple people with strong technical backgrounds. Most didn't know much about tcp/ip networking, or interfacing with other OS's. Now things may be different with OS X, but prior to X it was easier to buy them their own server let the department Mac guru support it.
When took one of RH's training classes a few years ago the instructor was telling us that less then 10% of RH's income is from the distro and they would drop it if they could. It was only a marketing tool for them. That most of RH's income is from support, training, and custom development.
Then look at RH's support model they are like Sun they don't want to deal with the lower tier customers, they only want to deal with the large corporations. Guess you could say Red Hat is turning into a traditional Unix company.
The internet should be treated as a privilege not a right. That way abusers like spammers can have their privileges revoked.
Try being a contractor its sucks and the overtime is small compensation. As a full-timer you get benefits and that is considerable, then vacation, and sick leave. As a contractor most agencys don't have any of the above or they are so skimpy they are useless. Then they can cut your pay at any time and lately it happens a lot. Sure you can bitch, they just tell you to quit and hire someone else cheaper. Then they can end the contract with no notice. It appears to be a growing trend hiring contractors. Soon as company hicups they can dump people at a moments notice to cut costs. Also no benefit or unemployment costs to the company, the contracting firm gets hit with that. I would gladly give up the overtime I get paid for the benefits and (a bit more) security a full time position offers.
At a couple places I've worked I've know departments that resigned in mass, wel at least the majority of the department. It had no effect the companies just transfered and hired ASAP and moved on. They adjust their schedules and move on. Sometimes if a single person is key to continuing on they will make an indivisual and offer that can't be refused to stay or stay longer enough to do a knowledge transfer. So in long run all you've done is lose a job, and have a tough thing to explain at your next interview.
MS could buy SCO who they sold Xenix too a couple decades ago. Then MS would own (some parts) of the original Unix. That could create some even more interesting court battles.
Another good reason to use OpenBSD or FreeBSD.
I remember playing M.U.L.E. on an old Apple II and besides a very cool game I remeber it being one of the first to have a music-like sounds. Most games before then had mind-numbing bleebs or short childish sequences. But M.U.L.E. had kind of a disco beat techno sounding theme running in background. By todays standards it is boring, but back in 1983 it was way cool compared to PacMac bleeps and borks.
Being I spend my first lifetime in the music business this isn't telling the whole story. They are not factoring in money from playing live. Also you know getting into the music business that you don't make a much of money in the early years of band. It take years for a band of gigging and recording to become the "hot new band".
Also there aren't "bands" these days mainly due to economics, everything is "projects" these days. A player will be juggling schedules rehearsing and playing multiple projects and doing side gigs to pay bills, hoping one of these projects gets signed, records, and tours. It's sad that players today don't know what it was like to be a band. To grow together musically, the family of band members and supporters. I still have a lot of friends in the business and it is way to commericial these days.