"XXX has asked me to install pirated software on the company network. Since this is illegal, I have no choice but to refuse."
and you send a copy to your boss, your boss's boss, and so on.
You should also brush up your resume, although if you do get fired for refusing to do something illegal, I would think that most civilized jurisdictions would consider that to be wrongful dismissal.
I'm not much into labels, but I suppose if pressed, I'd consider myself a conservative libertarian. In Canada (where I live), all of the major parties have points in their platforms with which I vehemently disagree, but I admit that I find the left-leaning ones more distasteful.
I think Free Software fits better into a conservative/libertarian mindset than a left-wing/socialist one. It's all about individual power and control, saving money (that appeals the the capitalist in me!) and not depending on a large organization (whether state or corporation) for your computing environment.
My two eldest daughters (9 and 13) used GNOME for a long time. When I showed them KDE just for fun, they switched and have never gone back.
I use XFCE, and can be reasonably productive in KDE, but GNOME just kills my productivity with its stupid design and intrusiveness. After 5+ years, Evolutions STILL won't let you compose mail in an external editor... feh!
I use Emacs mostly and vi occasionally. I've written thousands of pages of books and user manuals using Emacs, and probably hundreds of thousands of lines of code. I have to use vi because my company produces Linux-based appliances. To keep the size down, we don't include emacs.:-(
You've never been interviewed at Roaring Penguin, I guess.
There are tons of companies using PostgreSQL, but a lot of them tend to be quiet about it. Quite a few "black box" appliances use Pgsql under the hood.
So, you're going to dump 52 kWh into the battery in 5 minutes? That means 624kW to charge the thing for 5 minutes. Let's assume that the charging circuitry is 99% efficient, so only 1% of the charge is lost as heat.
That's a nice 6,000W heater you've got there. Even at 99.9% efficiency, it's still a rather powerful hair-dryer. At 99.99%, then we're talking coolness. Just the equivalent of the heat from a 60W bulb.
Just mount your.mozilla (or indeed your entire home directory) using something like EncFS. That way, you can keep all your cookies and history, but no-one else can get at them. (Well, unless you pick a weak passphrase... but you don't do that, right?)
At the Ottawa Linux Symposium in 1999 or 2000, Miguel had a series of slides about why UNIX sucks. Those were his words. Check it out yourself.
As for why MSFT didn't get the desktop right, I'm not really qualified to answer, because in my entire career, I've used Windows only for a hellish 5-month stint back in 1996 (Win95). The things I hated about the Win95 desktop:
No window manager. If an application hung, there was no way to move its window temporarily, because applications had to cooperate to move or close windows.
Cumbersome cut-n-paste compared to X.
No decent command-line tool. (My perfect desktop is a wall of xterms.:-))
Hideous complexity under the hood. Edit some magic mumble-mumble registry key if you want to do X...
Totally useless error messages, so when something inevitably goes wrong, you haven't a clue how to fix it.
I'm not sure if MSFT has fixed the desktop. Somehow, I doubt it.
Unfortunately, the two big Linux desktops (GNOME and KDE) are showing symptoms of Windozification, which is why I don't use them. XFCE is just perfect, IMO.
Miguel makes no secret of his admiration for Microsoft and is really a MSFT-employee-wannabe. All his talks I've ever heard were about how UNIX sucks and how Microsoft got the desktop right.
We sell commercial software. We have customers running our software on many versions of Linux (Red Hat 8, 9, Fedora Core 1 through 5, Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3 and 4, Debian, Gentoo, Slackware), Solaris and FreeBSD.
If you make yourself aware of portability issues at the outset, it's not a big deal to write portable software. Note that we only build binary packages for a subset of our supported platforms; source packages take care of the rest. (Yes, we distribute source, though not open-source.)
I don't think our support burden is any higher than it would be if we supported Windoze.
It's not about "religion". Most Israelis are quite secular. Many (if not most) of the Jews in Germany in the 1930's were secular. The Nazi criterion for determining whom to kill didn't involve testing religiosity.
Anti-semitism is an ancient, irrational hatred that seems to persist, and I don't have an explanation for it. Perhaps people are irrationally jealous of a group of people that somehow seems to survive (even thrive) against all odds?
A well-placed source said that Microsoft's first robotic product would compete with the famous Roomba room-vacuuming robot. The source added that Microsoft's vacuum cleaner would be the first Microsoft product that didn't suck.
liliafan wrote: Postfix is based on sendmails codebase
Completely wrong. Postfix was written from scratch; it shares no code with Sendmail.
I still use Sendmail because Milter is a killer feature. It is the sweetest API for mail filtering/mangling/processing. I should note that Wietse Venema has started implementing Milter compatibility in Postfix, and I'm following that development eagerly.
Of course, I don't own an "official" DVD player and watch all my DVD movies with Xine under Linux, so maybe that's why I didn't know about forced ads...
No, it doesn't cost $0.00 to admin SugarCRM. However, the incremental amount of system administration required once it's set up is very small. I'd say that SugarCRM is going to cost us (a small company of 10 people) under $4,000 to set up, and probably under $1,000 per year to run. All of the costs are sysadmin time.
That's nothing. I can compress a 1-terabyte truly-random one-time pad to one bit. So I can sell you two amazing products: Unbreakable encryption and unbeatable compression.
(I'd tell you whether the bit is "1" or "0", but then I'd have to kill you.)
I looked at autovacuum, but we don't use it. We have customers with quite busy databases (we're talking several hundred queries per second, 24/7, with probably 5% of those being INSERTs or UPDATEs), and a VACUUM at the wrong time can cause problems. We prefer to time out VACUUMS for when the DB is relatively quiet.
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DRM = Digital Restrictions Management
or
DRD = Digital Rights Denial
or
STFCTTBA = Screw The F'ng Customers They're Thieving B*st*rds Anyway
I believe STFCTTBA best captures the spirit of the technology.
If the United States can extradite someone for breaking US law in a foreign country, then why shouldn't Thailand have the right to enforce its laws worldwide?
You write a memo that says:
"XXX has asked me to install pirated software on the company network. Since this is illegal, I have no choice but to refuse."
and you send a copy to your boss, your boss's boss, and so on.
You should also brush up your resume, although if you do get fired for refusing to do something illegal, I would think that most civilized jurisdictions would consider that to be wrongful dismissal.
I'm not much into labels, but I suppose if pressed, I'd consider myself a conservative libertarian. In Canada (where I live), all of the major parties have points in their platforms with which I vehemently disagree, but I admit that I find the left-leaning ones more distasteful.
I think Free Software fits better into a conservative/libertarian mindset than a left-wing/socialist one. It's all about individual power and control, saving money (that appeals the the capitalist in me!) and not depending on a large organization (whether state or corporation) for your computing environment.
My two eldest daughters (9 and 13) used GNOME for a long time.
When I showed them KDE just for fun, they switched and have
never gone back.
I use XFCE, and can be reasonably productive in KDE, but GNOME
just kills my productivity with its stupid design and intrusiveness.
After 5+ years, Evolutions STILL won't let you compose mail in an
external editor... feh!
The year 10,000? (Oh, sorry, that should be 5,280.)
I use Emacs mostly and vi occasionally. I've written thousands of pages of books and user manuals using Emacs, and probably hundreds of thousands of lines of code. I have to use vi because my company produces Linux-based appliances. To keep the size down, we don't include emacs. :-(
So if Falcon uses MVCC, does it require something like PostgreSQL's VACUUM? Or does it have some other way to detect and remove dead tuples?
Also, has anyone looked at making PostgreSQL a storage plugin for MySQL? :-)
You've never been interviewed at Roaring Penguin, I guess.
There are tons of companies using PostgreSQL, but a lot of them tend
to be quiet about it. Quite a few "black box" appliances use Pgsql under
the hood.
So, you're going to dump 52 kWh into the battery in 5 minutes? That
means 624kW to charge the thing for 5 minutes. Let's assume that the charging
circuitry is 99% efficient, so only 1% of the charge is lost as heat.
That's a nice 6,000W heater you've got there. Even at 99.9% efficiency,
it's still a rather powerful hair-dryer. At 99.99%, then we're talking coolness.
Just the equivalent of the heat from a 60W bulb.
Just mount your .mozilla (or indeed your entire home directory) using something like EncFS.
That way, you can keep all your cookies and history, but no-one else can get at them. (Well,
unless you pick a weak passphrase... but you don't do that, right?)
I've written the following open-source programs:
rp-pppoe
mimedefang
remind
I have no doubt Miguel has done more than me, but what's your point?
www.president.ir runs PHP, which as we all know, originated in the Evil Zionist Entity.
Therefore, Ahmadinejad has decided to convict himself on treason charges and execute himself.
At the Ottawa Linux Symposium in 1999 or 2000, Miguel had a series of slides about why UNIX sucks. Those were his words. Check it out yourself.
As for why MSFT didn't get the desktop right, I'm not really qualified to answer, because in my entire career, I've used Windows only for a hellish 5-month stint back in 1996 (Win95). The things I hated about the Win95 desktop:
I'm not sure if MSFT has fixed the desktop. Somehow, I doubt it.
Unfortunately, the two big Linux desktops (GNOME and KDE) are showing symptoms of Windozification, which is why I don't use them. XFCE is just perfect, IMO.
Miguel makes no secret of his admiration for Microsoft and is really a MSFT-employee-wannabe. All his talks I've ever heard were about how UNIX sucks and how Microsoft got the desktop right.
Yawn...
We sell commercial software. We have customers running our software on many versions of Linux (Red Hat 8, 9, Fedora Core 1 through 5, Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3 and 4, Debian, Gentoo, Slackware), Solaris and FreeBSD.
If you make yourself aware of portability issues at the outset, it's not a big deal to write portable software. Note that we only build binary packages for a subset of our supported platforms; source packages take care of the rest. (Yes, we distribute source, though not open-source.)
I don't think our support burden is any higher than it would be if we supported Windoze.
It's not about "religion". Most Israelis are quite secular. Many (if not most) of the
Jews in Germany in the 1930's were secular. The Nazi criterion for determining whom
to kill didn't involve testing religiosity.
Anti-semitism is an ancient, irrational hatred that seems to persist, and I don't have
an explanation for it. Perhaps people are irrationally jealous of a group of people
that somehow seems to survive (even thrive) against all odds?
A well-placed source said that Microsoft's first robotic product would compete with the famous Roomba room-vacuuming robot. The source added that Microsoft's vacuum cleaner would be the first Microsoft product that didn't suck.
liliafan wrote: Postfix is based on sendmails codebase
Completely wrong. Postfix was written from scratch; it shares no code with Sendmail.
I still use Sendmail because Milter is a killer feature. It is the sweetest API for mail filtering/mangling/processing. I should note that Wietse Venema has started implementing Milter compatibility in Postfix, and I'm following that development eagerly.
What forced ads on DVDs? I've never seen them.
Of course, I don't own an "official" DVD player and watch all my DVD movies with Xine under Linux, so maybe that's why I didn't know about forced ads...
No, it doesn't cost $0.00 to admin SugarCRM. However, the incremental amount
of system administration required once it's set up is very small. I'd say that SugarCRM is going to cost us (a small company of 10 people) under $4,000 to set up, and probably under $1,000 per year to run. All of the costs are sysadmin time.
We are probably going to switch away from Salesforce to an open-source package. Why?
1) The open-source tool is cheaper. MUCH cheaper, as in $0.00 vs around $12,000 per year.
2) The open-source tool is not as good as Salesforce, but it does everything we need.
3) The open-source tool runs on our internal network, so it's faster and more reliable than Salesforce.
4) Although Salesforce has a pretty decent API for developing custom apps, nothing beats having the source.
5) Our data is OUR DATA, and we don't want lock-in.
That's nothing. I can compress a 1-terabyte truly-random one-time pad to one bit. So I can sell you two amazing products: Unbreakable encryption and unbeatable compression.
(I'd tell you whether the bit is "1" or "0", but then I'd have to kill you.)
What are you talking about??
Of course you can make case-insensitive queries in PostgreSQL:
SELECT foo, bar FROM table WHERE lower(fritz) = 'blat';
You can even make indexes on lower-cased versions of your column(s) (for example) if you want the query to use an index.
I looked at autovacuum, but we don't use it. We have customers with quite busy databases (we're talking several hundred queries per second, 24/7, with probably 5% of those being INSERTs or UPDATEs), and a VACUUM at the wrong time can cause problems. We prefer to time out VACUUMS for when the DB is relatively quiet.