After 17 years in the DND, I'll bet against the DND in this battle. A Defense WAN ripped off from the Reserves (and then re-implemented incorrectly), Admin Clerks and Truckers in charge of IT resources, zero to none knowledge of networking, an Officer corps that believes sending email means that you are an 'e-business' and a R&D section that wonders why it's so difficult to implement Netbios nationally.
Top that off with a mentality that everything and everything has to run through either an outside consultant or a 10 year contact with a 'Quebec company' (which only means that they have a place in Quebec to send the cheques), and you have a recipe for disaster.
I spent about 3 months trying to find something that would cover everything I wanted, and finally gave up, and decided to tweek something that was already there.
I started with a base of Mantis - http://mantisbt.sourceforge.net - and then customized the hell out of it. Added billing, PDF generation, external monitors, multi-level requests, category specific custom fields, morning reports, tacked on mailman for multi-user assignment, and a few other odds and sods.
But you could take just about any open source bugtracker and customize it to suit your needs. The flexibility of being able to add a requested feature within a short period of time just can't be beat.
From now on, all/. questions about broadband and or streaming should end with 'What have they done in Saskatchewan'? Seriously. If you want to see cutting edge technology in the hands of consumers, move to Saskatchewan. We got it all baby....
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He's right. Who is ever going to use something with a crazy name like Ogg Vorbis. It's almost like you threw some random letters together like PNG, GIF, MP3, C#, Opteron, NVidia or Tivo.
You should have called it something like 'media format' so everyone would use it.
For all of you complaining about innovation, I'd like to see you put some effort behind Slicker, a replacement for the KDE kicker. Tie this in with the Geramik theme and you have a unified KDE/GTK look, with 'innovative' features.
It doesn't matter if your local bang and bolt electrician can slap in some Cat5 and push 1Ghz down it, it's still not going to be _certified_ as Cat6. For those of you that work in government agencies, this is a fact of life, or should be.
And to be certified, 'crimping' should not be a part of your vocabulary, 'terminating' should be.
I haven't seen so many uninformed posts in so long, I was beginning to wonder if/. had changed. For fuck sakes people, we're on the same continent as the majority of you, you think you'd known one or two things about us, like the fact that the Canadian Military recently switch to one of the most sophisticated, IP based, combat radio systems, with many capabilites that cannot be used in Canada, due to government and CRTC regulations. This gives the military a chance to try out some of the new gear in a live situation.
One more person bitches about 911, and it's back to basic radio theory for you.....
Will it never end? I use to buy PCs, remove the junk OS, and install Linux. Now I get the chance to buy a PC with a junk Linux on it, wipe it and install a good distro. Seems more like a lateral move than an upward one.
As a former Windows administrator-current Linux user-still military-yet at the same time corporate Telco network guy-running a small business......
The military doesn't know it's ass from a hole in the ground, Linux works in all sectors as long as you remember to pay someone to back it, hiring small business can save you millions, Windows sucks at everything - it's Microsoft that is good at a few things, and last, but not least... don't fuck with the Phone Company.
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After 17 years in the DND, I'll bet against the DND in this battle. A Defense WAN ripped off from the Reserves (and then re-implemented incorrectly), Admin Clerks and Truckers in charge of IT resources, zero to none knowledge of networking, an Officer corps that believes sending email means that you are an 'e-business' and a R&D section that wonders why it's so difficult to implement Netbios nationally.
Top that off with a mentality that everything and everything has to run through either an outside consultant or a 10 year contact with a 'Quebec company' (which only means that they have a place in Quebec to send the cheques), and you have a recipe for disaster.
HP 1, DND 0.
Does anyone have any clue about a 64bit version of UT2004? ..
Just use the AMD64 NVidia drivers: http://www.nvidia.com/object/linux_display_amd64_1 .0-5332.html
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Food poisoning
You do understand what a 'Release Candidate' is don't you?
Start testing during the betas. Release Candidates are CANDIDATES FOR RELEASE and JUST MIGHT GET RELEASED AS FINAL.
and no 'Dude, you're wreaking my Dell'.... weird.
"His understanding of encryption software helped him bypass the security measures, he said."
And my understanding of network topology helped me make a sandwich earlier today....
I spent about 3 months trying to find something that would cover everything I wanted, and finally gave up, and decided to tweek something that was already there.
I started with a base of Mantis - http://mantisbt.sourceforge.net - and then customized the hell out of it. Added billing, PDF generation, external monitors, multi-level requests, category specific custom fields, morning reports, tacked on mailman for multi-user assignment, and a few other odds and sods.
But you could take just about any open source bugtracker and customize it to suit your needs. The flexibility of being able to add a requested feature within a short period of time just can't be beat.
From now on, all /. questions about broadband and or streaming should end with 'What have they done in Saskatchewan'? Seriously. If you want to see cutting edge technology in the hands of consumers, move to Saskatchewan. We got it all baby....
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I'll believe that when I see it in print...
He's right. Who is ever going to use something with a crazy name like Ogg Vorbis. It's almost like you threw some random letters together like PNG, GIF, MP3, C#, Opteron, NVidia or Tivo.
You should have called it something like 'media format' so everyone would use it.
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You do know the Saskatchewan government turned down the EDS proposol don't you?1 29.html.
http://www.gov.sk.ca/newsrel/releases/2003/03/06-
And I believe CGI and TMC have more Government contracts in Sask than EDS. .
You do know the Saskatchewan government turned down the EDS proposol don't you?1 29.html.
http://www.gov.sk.ca/newsrel/releases/2003/03/06-
And I believe CGI and TMC have more Government contracts in Sask than EDS. .
The site www.defensivethinking.com is running Microsoft-IIS/5.0 on Windows 2000.
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And exactly how do you enhance usuability, if not through icons and WM's?
For all of you complaining about innovation, I'd like to see you put some effort behind Slicker, a replacement for the KDE kicker. Tie this in with the Geramik theme and you have a unified KDE/GTK look, with 'innovative' features.
First we get the sugar
Then we get the power
Then we get the women.....
...for the 'official record' that is /. , I have gone beyond being deeply troubled by Lindows, to now actively seeking the joy of its eventual demise.
I wonder how they are going to spin it when Lindows does fail....
Try rpmdrake.
Same thing that The Tragically Hip did with their last album In Violet Light. Canadians beat you to the punch again....
It doesn't matter if your local bang and bolt electrician can slap in some Cat5 and push 1Ghz down it, it's still not going to be _certified_ as Cat6. For those of you that work in government agencies, this is a fact of life, or should be.
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And to be certified, 'crimping' should not be a part of your vocabulary, 'terminating' should be.
For some good info, check out the Nordx/CDT stuff at http://prodshop.solutionxpert.com/cgi-bin/nordxcd
I haven't seen so many uninformed posts in so long, I was beginning to wonder if /. had changed. For fuck sakes people, we're on the same continent as the majority of you, you think you'd known one or two things about us, like the fact that the Canadian Military recently switch to one of the most sophisticated, IP based, combat radio systems, with many capabilites that cannot be used in Canada, due to government and CRTC regulations. This gives the military a chance to try out some of the new gear in a live situation.
One more person bitches about 911, and it's back to basic radio theory for you.....
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Will it never end? I use to buy PCs, remove the junk OS, and install Linux. Now I get the chance to buy a PC with a junk Linux on it, wipe it and install a good distro. Seems more like a lateral move than an upward one.
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It's a strawman arguement, plain and simple. He wouldn't program for free, therefore no one will, therefore open source is doomed.
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As a former Windows administrator-current Linux user-still military-yet at the same time corporate Telco network guy-running a small business......
The military doesn't know it's ass from a hole in the ground, Linux works in all sectors as long as you remember to pay someone to back it, hiring small business can save you millions, Windows sucks at everything - it's Microsoft that is good at a few things, and last, but not least... don't fuck with the Phone Company.