To re-visit this client in a year's time and see how pleased he is with the decision, and indeed how well Linux has kept up with his business.
On a similar note, does anyone have any experience with a conversion of this sort that took place say a year or two ago (Burlington perhaps?), that they can share? Be interesting to see how Linux on the desktop is doing.
Interviewing a (potential) new dev manager. Talking about setting up a documentation standard.
Dev Mgr: "So you guys all have Word, right?"
Me: "Nope."
DM: "Oh, you use notepad?"
Me: "Uh, no, I use Lyx. I think some of the other chaps use Tex directly."
DM: "Lyx?"
Me: "yeah, Word doesn't run too well on Linux"
DM: "So you use Linux as your desktop?"
Me: "Of course. I develop on it, so why not?"
This is a guy with 15 years coding experience. He got the job.
I won't say I've never experienced a crash running Linux (in 5 years of using it) but I can certainly say that I have only once experienced a crash for which I could not discover the cause.
I have been saying for years
that Americans are, by and large, increasingly willing to trade freedom for
security. Now - with the arrival
of terrorism on our shores - that willingness may increase.I've lost count of the national leaders, Gephardt, Daschle, Lott,
Brokaw, Jennings and others who have talked of our need to give up some of our
freedoms for a little increased security. Ronald
Reagan had an answer for that. He said that there was no "s" on "freedom." It is indivisible. You're
either free, or you're not.
we should be saying 'How can we convince our government that measures like this will be ineffective' ?
Or is it really true that we can't, for the simple reason that the attacks on NYC and D.C. provided those in power just the excuse they needed to push these things through -- the implications of that are far more terrifying than I like to think.
Damn. Now I'm starting to sound like the conspiracy theorists.
The only way to fight this is for all of us that know these measures to be wrong, to spread the word; convince everyone you know to write to their 'representatives' and say "hey, represent me! dont let this become law".
Our only strength is in numbers, people, our only weapon the truth. Let's use them. The government doesn't want to hear the truth, but they will if we shout it loud enough.
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You neglected to credit Benjamin Franklin with that quote.
yup, my bish. Somehow it got lost in the copy-n-pastage.
Who argued that anarchy is the ultimate in true freedom? Anarchy means what? everyone makes their own rules? or everyone (not just 'representatives', not just 'leaders') makes decisions concerning their own and their neighbours lives?
What essential liberty am I losing to carnivore? Hmmm. Disregarding the egregiousness of the question, define 'essential'. Email might be essential to my work (it is) but one could argue that I could seek another line of work;) -- leading to a fairly narrow definition of 'essential' as 'that which contributes to the ongoing welfare and continued existence'; again, I could/survive/ by busking in the street, but I don't think the founding fathers meant to imply that survival is all that matters.
So, to counter your question: what do the feds/gain/ by imposing any restriction on a freedom? I would posit nothing in this case; x-rays machines, id checks, explosive sniffers all did nothing to prevent tuesday's events. what makes the feds think $terrorist will write in plain language (encrypted or plain text) the plans for the next attack? I'd think the plans would be made in person at some point, and only code-phrases used to co-ordinate the attack:
"The eagle flies at noon."
"Elvis has left the building"
etc.
What will sifting through 100 billion love letters, recycled jokes, Windows viruses, and other assorted junk, net the FBI in the end? The day any government spies on its own citizens is the day the forces of terrorism have won.
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My point was not that the terrorists themselves would be identified more easily, but that the discovery of such would possibly tip the wink before the organisation had a chance to claim responsibility.
I mean, talk about your smoking gun.
It's like CNN claiming that the accent of a voice heard on the cockpit recording was "Arabic, according to one source who heard the tape". No kidding.
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"Those who would sacrifice liberty for a little temporary safety deserve neither liberrty nor safety".
The government is not there to hold your hand. People should take back personal responsibility and stop abdicating it to the government in the name of convenience.
Implementing carnivore is unlikely to stop terrorist attacks, just as implementing x-ray scanners and explosive sniffers at airports did.
And, does anyone else find it just a little too convenient that the terrorists left behind flight instruction manuals IN ARABIC?
Bush wanted a war, to prove he's a man, just like his daddy.
What is he going to get up to while the world is distracted watching the fight?
Problem with terrorist activity of this sort (aside from the tragedy itself, of course) is that it just gives our "leaders" more excuses to take away more of our rights, all in the name of freedom.
Any bets on how long before the internet somehow gets the blame?
..but I think open-source software companies have a place, just not in a world with closed-source software companies. Of course, for those that mix the two there might be a way to make it work, but developers have to eat too.
I wonder if O'Reilly (www.ora.com) had a software arm, how well it would do.
..that source code is the best way to distribute applications..
Actually it is, if you don't know the target machine's configuration in advance. The difficulty lies not in asking someone to understand that their shiny new app is being compiled before it will run, but coming up with a standard, re-usable method of kicking off said compile.
A simple 'Click here to download and install ShinyNewApp(tm)' -- with a hidden compilation in the middle -- need not expose the guts of the operation to grandma. IMO, this is a much better approach than 'if you use a debian-based distro, select this link for apt-get; if RedHat, choose this link for RPM' and hoping that all dependencies are up to date[0]. Uninstalling could be done in a similar manner
[0] - Of course, keeping your system RPM- or apt-get- pure means this shouldn't be a bother, but I so hate installing something via RPM only to be told that it needs a certain lib which exists on my machine but not as RPM.
We need to start statically linking apps
You have got to be kidding...
forty different apps with forty copies of libc? libm? libX? libjpeg? thanks, but no.
A chunk of metal would have considerably more mass than the plastic film + iron oxide making up the rest of the disk. Regardless of spin speed, that's some serious imbalance.
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I have an algorithm that will compress data of arbitrary length into a single byte.
Sadly, the decompression algorithm is taking longer than I thought..
This just has to be unfounded. The imbalance in angular momentum caused by a chunk of metal spinning at high speed would be enough to either rip the disk out of the drive, or seriously screw up the motor.
Slashdot Mirror
http://news.cnet.com/news/0-1005-201-4376193-0.htm l
Riiight...far easier to call someone paranoid, than acknowledge a problem.
instead of latex2html, use tth -- much cleaner output (although it does still choke on a few things).
To re-visit this client in a year's time and see how pleased he is with the decision, and indeed how well Linux has kept up with his business.
On a similar note, does anyone have any experience with a conversion of this sort that took place say a year or two ago (Burlington perhaps?), that they can share? Be interesting to see how Linux on the desktop is doing.
Interviewing a (potential) new dev manager. Talking about setting up a documentation standard.
Dev Mgr: "So you guys all have Word, right?"
Me: "Nope."
DM: "Oh, you use notepad?"
Me: "Uh, no, I use Lyx. I think some of the other chaps use Tex directly."
DM: "Lyx?"
Me: "yeah, Word doesn't run too well on Linux"
DM: "So you use Linux as your desktop?"
Me: "Of course. I develop on it, so why not?"
This is a guy with 15 years coding experience. He got the job.
*sigh*
Score: -1, Nearly A Year Too Late To Be Funny.
Instead of bleating on about it on /., talk to your friends, your family, your colleagues, and make sure they understand the issues.
Also don't forget to Sign the petitions.
What nonsense you spout.
I won't say I've never experienced a crash running Linux (in 5 years of using it) but I can certainly say that I have only once experienced a crash for which I could not discover the cause.
2:09pm up 70 days, 18:55, 9 users, load average: 0.01, 0.01, 0.00
Frequent crashes my arse.
From Neal Boort'z site
I have been saying for years that Americans are, by and large, increasingly willing to trade freedom for security. Now - with the arrival of terrorism on our shores - that willingness may increase.I've lost count of the national leaders, Gephardt, Daschle, Lott, Brokaw, Jennings and others who have talked of our need to give up some of our freedoms for a little increased security. Ronald Reagan had an answer for that. He said that there was no "s" on "freedom." It is indivisible. You're either free, or you're not.
...the US government does.
we should be saying 'How can we convince our government that measures like this will be ineffective' ?
Or is it really true that we can't, for the simple reason that the attacks on NYC and D.C. provided those in power just the excuse they needed to push these things through -- the implications of that are far more terrifying than I like to think.
Damn. Now I'm starting to sound like the conspiracy theorists.
The only way to fight this is for all of us that know these measures to be wrong, to spread the word; convince everyone you know to write to their 'representatives' and say "hey, represent me! dont let this become law".
Our only strength is in numbers, people, our only weapon the truth. Let's use them. The government doesn't want to hear the truth, but they will if we shout it loud enough.
You neglected to credit Benjamin Franklin with that quote.
;) -- leading to a fairly narrow definition of 'essential' as 'that which contributes to the ongoing welfare and continued existence'; again, I could /survive/ by busking in the street, but I don't think the founding fathers meant to imply that survival is all that matters.
/gain/ by imposing any restriction on a freedom? I would posit nothing in this case; x-rays machines, id checks, explosive sniffers all did nothing to prevent tuesday's events. what makes the feds think $terrorist will write in plain language (encrypted or plain text) the plans for the next attack? I'd think the plans would be made in person at some point, and only code-phrases used to co-ordinate the attack:
yup, my bish. Somehow it got lost in the copy-n-pastage.
Who argued that anarchy is the ultimate in true freedom? Anarchy means what? everyone makes their own rules? or everyone (not just 'representatives', not just 'leaders') makes decisions concerning their own and their neighbours lives?
What essential liberty am I losing to carnivore? Hmmm. Disregarding the egregiousness of the question, define 'essential'. Email might be essential to my work (it is) but one could argue that I could seek another line of work
So, to counter your question: what do the feds
"The eagle flies at noon."
"Elvis has left the building"
etc.
What will sifting through 100 billion love letters, recycled jokes, Windows viruses, and other assorted junk, net the FBI in the end? The day any government spies on its own citizens is the day the forces of terrorism have won.
My point was not that the terrorists themselves would be identified more easily, but that the discovery of such would possibly tip the wink before the organisation had a chance to claim responsibility.
I mean, talk about your smoking gun.
It's like CNN claiming that the accent of a voice heard on the cockpit recording was "Arabic, according to one source who heard the tape". No kidding.
"Those who would sacrifice liberty for a little temporary safety deserve neither liberrty nor safety".
The government is not there to hold your hand. People should take back personal responsibility and stop abdicating it to the government in the name of convenience.
Implementing carnivore is unlikely to stop terrorist attacks, just as implementing x-ray scanners and explosive sniffers at airports did.
And, does anyone else find it just a little too convenient that the terrorists left behind flight instruction manuals IN ARABIC?
I didn't think anyone was that stupid.
Bush wanted a war, to prove he's a man, just like his daddy.
What is he going to get up to while the world is distracted watching the fight?
Problem with terrorist activity of this sort (aside from the tragedy itself, of course) is that it just gives our "leaders" more excuses to take away more of our rights, all in the name of freedom.
Any bets on how long before the internet somehow gets the blame?
the company that created Mickey Mouse, for example, couldn't do anything NOT in the public's best interest
Your post would have been more meaningful had you included a link.
..but I think open-source software companies have a place, just not in a world with closed-source software companies. Of course, for those that mix the two there might be a way to make it work, but developers have to eat too.
I wonder if O'Reilly (www.ora.com) had a software arm, how well it would do.
whether to write application logic as Perl in MySQL, or as SQL in Perl..
Actually it is, if you don't know the target machine's configuration in advance. The difficulty lies not in asking someone to understand that their shiny new app is being compiled before it will run, but coming up with a standard, re-usable method of kicking off said compile.
A simple 'Click here to download and install ShinyNewApp(tm)' -- with a hidden compilation in the middle -- need not expose the guts of the operation to grandma. IMO, this is a much better approach than 'if you use a debian-based distro, select this link for apt-get; if RedHat, choose this link for RPM' and hoping that all dependencies are up to date[0]. Uninstalling could be done in a similar manner
[0] - Of course, keeping your system RPM- or apt-get- pure means this shouldn't be a bother, but I so hate installing something via RPM only to be told that it needs a certain lib which exists on my machine but not as RPM.
We need to start statically linking apps
You have got to be kidding...
forty different apps with forty copies of libc? libm? libX? libjpeg? thanks, but no.
Besides, does it really matter what kind of server an service runs
When it's the _Open Source Developers Network_, yes, they damn well should be running on Open Source servers.
Ford don't put Chevy engines in their cars.
(now some smartarse 'dotter is gonna say 'Actually I bought a Ford blah blah blah')
Did anyone else notice that Chris Taylor could be the offspring of Chairman Mao and Robin Williams?
The word 'columnist' (communist) on a red background only enhanced the illusion.
Indeed. I took the original poster at his word 'a chunk', not 'a ring'.
A chunk of metal would have considerably more mass than the plastic film + iron oxide making up the rest of the disk. Regardless of spin speed, that's some serious imbalance.
I have an algorithm that will compress data of arbitrary length into a single byte.
Sadly, the decompression algorithm is taking longer than I thought..
This just has to be unfounded. The imbalance in angular momentum caused by a chunk of metal spinning at high speed would be enough to either rip the disk out of the drive, or seriously screw up the motor.