I thought I was the only one revisiting Middle-Earth. I made a commitment earlier this year to complete the LOTR+H before the movie came out. I started reading the Hobbit in July. I will likely complete RotK this weekend. I thought I had given myself sufficient time to finish the books before Dec, but I didn't count on how much I would be sucked in, again, to Tolkien's wonderful prose and terrific setting. At night, instead of reading Maisy's Next $6 Throwaway, I have been reading Tolkien to my 4-year-old son. The language is too difficult for him to understand, but he recognizes the names of the Hobbits and Gollum. In troubled times, I hope, hearing his father's voice as he fades to sleep help calm his fears. I had not anticipated these books bringing me closer to my son, but I should have known that Tolkien's magic, like Hobbits, is always more powerful than you expect.
Last night NPR's "Fresh Air" featured an interview with Linus about the book. It was pretty entertaining, especially listening to Terri Gross try to pronounce "Linux." She said it at least four different ways during a 40 minute interview.
Gross kind of focussed a bit too much on the money involved, and I was glad to hear Linus try to straighten her out that he wasn't being a saint when he released Linux under the GPL, only that he had no interest in dealing with the financial aspect.
Yes there is such a thing as the cult of personality, but there are also interesting personalities who bear attention. There is a difference between non-critical fawning and a desire to better understand people who have had a major impact on our lives.
Novell's NDS (I refuse to call it e-directory) can interoperate with Win2K and Linux. If you believe their marketing...
Anyone tried this? We are thinking about it, but who wants to blaze the trail?
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I'm typing this message from my Win2K machine. The same machine that I had to physically turn off this morning because I had a DOS box running telnet that would not respond and that wouldn't close. Not that I haven't had problems with Netscape or Mozilla on Linux, but none of them forced me to pull the plug.
Win2K is not as stable as Linux. I run them both, use them both every day, co-administer a large network that is all Microsoft on the desktop, and no one can convince me that Win2k is not flakier than even Winnt.
Ha Ha Ha. Good one.
". I have read every classic SW book (none of this new Ep 1 shite)..."
Like some SW books are classics and others are crap.
Dude... Movie tie-in novels are the lowest form of literature. Lower than Bazooka Joe comix. As low as fanfic. See the setting and the characters are already there . And, of course, you can't just kill off Darth Vader or reveal that Luke and Princess Leia (I would check the spelling but who cares?) actually did the incestuous deed, so artistic freedom isn't even an option. Writers who "create" this crap are whores... Marketing flaks, not anyone to be taken seriously.
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I agree. I work for a County government in IS, and all County employees are supported by a Union, though they are not compelled to pay dues if they don't want. I am trying to convince our Union to "spin off" the tech positions to a separate bargaining unit because of the high demand for techs. And to start demanding management-type perks such as "Professional Improvement" allotments; money for home PCs, car allowances, etc. I think that a technology-saavy union could coerce our County management that it is cheaper/better to retain good talent than to have to train new people every six months. We are certainly underpaid, relative to Real World tech salaries, but there are other perks (training being paramount) that make this place attractive. If there was a clear career path and special incentives to stay long enough to reach senior positions, we would not lose so much talent to Silicon Valley.
Everyone talks about mobility as if it were a great tool for techs. I do not want to relocate at all. This is my home town, I have a young child, my family is here, etc. I want to try to improve my workplace rather than having to move or commute in order to be happy. My union gives me the ability to influence my employer beyond what my single position could ever do. It extends my reach.
... that you probably really don't. It is one of the most fucked up things about capitalist society, along with lawyers.
Don't buy into the hype. Commercials are bad for you. They are attempts to brainwash you.
And you think that you like it.
Not sure that I follow that last point. Because disturbing stuff is found when searches at irregular times are conducted, searches at irregular times should be outlawed?!?
Wouldn't the (contradiction alert! 3..2..1)smart user just wait for those unmonitored periods to send death threats to the President or whatever?
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I thought I was the only one revisiting Middle-Earth. I made a commitment earlier this year to complete the LOTR+H before the movie came out. I started reading the Hobbit in July. I will likely complete RotK this weekend. I thought I had given myself sufficient time to finish the books before Dec, but I didn't count on how much I would be sucked in, again, to Tolkien's wonderful prose and terrific setting. At night, instead of reading Maisy's Next $6 Throwaway, I have been reading Tolkien to my 4-year-old son. The language is too difficult for him to understand, but he recognizes the names of the Hobbits and Gollum. In troubled times, I hope, hearing his father's voice as he fades to sleep help calm his fears. I had not anticipated these books bringing me closer to my son, but I should have known that Tolkien's magic, like Hobbits, is always more powerful than you expect.
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Last night NPR's "Fresh Air" featured an interview with Linus about the book. It was pretty entertaining, especially listening to Terri Gross try to pronounce "Linux." She said it at least four different ways during a 40 minute interview. Gross kind of focussed a bit too much on the money involved, and I was glad to hear Linus try to straighten her out that he wasn't being a saint when he released Linux under the GPL, only that he had no interest in dealing with the financial aspect. Yes there is such a thing as the cult of personality, but there are also interesting personalities who bear attention. There is a difference between non-critical fawning and a desire to better understand people who have had a major impact on our lives.
Novell's NDS (I refuse to call it e-directory) can interoperate with Win2K and Linux. If you believe their marketing... Anyone tried this? We are thinking about it, but who wants to blaze the trail?
I'm typing this message from my Win2K machine. The same machine that I had to physically turn off this morning because I had a DOS box running telnet that would not respond and that wouldn't close. Not that I haven't had problems with Netscape or Mozilla on Linux, but none of them forced me to pull the plug. Win2K is not as stable as Linux. I run them both, use them both every day, co-administer a large network that is all Microsoft on the desktop, and no one can convince me that Win2k is not flakier than even Winnt.
Ha Ha Ha. Good one. ". I have read every classic SW book (none of this new Ep 1 shite)..." Like some SW books are classics and others are crap. Dude... Movie tie-in novels are the lowest form of literature. Lower than Bazooka Joe comix. As low as fanfic. See the setting and the characters are already there . And, of course, you can't just kill off Darth Vader or reveal that Luke and Princess Leia (I would check the spelling but who cares?) actually did the incestuous deed, so artistic freedom isn't even an option. Writers who "create" this crap are whores... Marketing flaks, not anyone to be taken seriously.
I agree. I work for a County government in IS, and all County employees are supported by a Union, though they are not compelled to pay dues if they don't want. I am trying to convince our Union to "spin off" the tech positions to a separate bargaining unit because of the high demand for techs. And to start demanding management-type perks such as "Professional Improvement" allotments; money for home PCs, car allowances, etc. I think that a technology-saavy union could coerce our County management that it is cheaper/better to retain good talent than to have to train new people every six months. We are certainly underpaid, relative to Real World tech salaries, but there are other perks (training being paramount) that make this place attractive. If there was a clear career path and special incentives to stay long enough to reach senior positions, we would not lose so much talent to Silicon Valley. Everyone talks about mobility as if it were a great tool for techs. I do not want to relocate at all. This is my home town, I have a young child, my family is here, etc. I want to try to improve my workplace rather than having to move or commute in order to be happy. My union gives me the ability to influence my employer beyond what my single position could ever do. It extends my reach.
... that you probably really don't. It is one of the most fucked up things about capitalist society, along with lawyers. Don't buy into the hype. Commercials are bad for you. They are attempts to brainwash you. And you think that you like it.
Not sure that I follow that last point. Because disturbing stuff is found when searches at irregular times are conducted, searches at irregular times should be outlawed?!? Wouldn't the (contradiction alert! 3..2..1)smart user just wait for those unmonitored periods to send death threats to the President or whatever?