get yourself a good book about linux: mine was this, but it can also be this one
Keep away from any computer,
read it through. Enjoy!!!
Once you're done with it, go for debian, spend a few days installing
spend some weeks making all your hardware be seen
learn , learn, learn
you're done!!!
I honestly think this is the best way. I've seen many go for "ubuntu" but you don't pass a certain level in which you can do nothing outside ubuntu, and you can barely get by within it.
I've been working from cuba for a spanish company for almost a decade now. we also have had people working on india and buenos aires.
- phone is overrated, keep always in touch with im
- use trac or similar ticketing software for all your projects
- always reflect in your tickets discussions relative to how to solve a problem, never let the only reference to a task be in just an email or a chat log.
- keep tickets simple and small.
- somebody on the team has to spend time reading tickets and prioritizing them
- use git or svn
- tests
I know you weren't looking for an answer like this. but what can I say?. I pass most of my day sitting in front of a computer, I also have a tendency to be slightly overweighted.
I read about Montignac Diet, found the book, downloaded it, read it, got convinced by it, tried it, and now I'm a fanatic. (in the good sense). it worked. actually It's more a change of food habit than a diet "per se".
anyway, enough with the spam. good luck with whatever you decide.
I've been living in cuba for the last 6 years. I've been using linux since the slackware 100 diskettes era (about 12 years ago).
cuba is absolutely windows friendly. everybody in everywhere uses windows. The goverment itself announced a few years ago it was going to migrate to linux. So far nothing yet.
cuba works around the embargo thing by means of massive pirate copies (I'm perfectly OK with that).
it's a usual thing to announce something with great fireworks that ends up in nothing, so I would have not so many expectations on this .
All this buzz about creationism, faith and evolutionism is very hard to understand for me .
I'm spanish, I've hold to a very very strong or hard line or -whatever you want to call it- believing system (also known as "faith").
Neither me or anybody I would meet in my entire life , wherever is in spain or cuba or any other country (mostly european) I've been into had any kind of the slightlest "issue" about evolutionism versus creationism.
Everybody takes darwing ok, and we look at that "US controversy" as something funny and hard to understand
Besides that, I wonder if that "previous" change that was needed can somehow be needed to a "special event" on the environment.
That is to say:
Who invented it, anyway??
IP was made up in a season with certain technological properties, and of course (like almost everything, from money to burocracy) was built to "dodge" a social misbehavior devised from a technological limitation, or to "gain" some "good" for the society, again, around a particular technological condition.
To put it simple:
Communication and information spread was very, very limited by the time, so if you came up with something 'new', it was likely than some other guy 'steal' the idea from you, or 'take' property of what you just created (name it a book, or an invention) and go somewhere else far from your 'neighborhood' and 'sell it as his own'
That is why, in order to promote innovation, or to protect you from just injustice and unfairness, a 'central record' called 'ip' was created.
you put your 'thing' in this 'central record' first, and you could always come back to this 'central record' to 'prove' the idea -or whatever- was yours, no matter the stealer is 10.000 miles away 'selling' something that should be granted to you.
Nowadays, a complete redefinition is needed, just because our technological paradigms are completely different
By instance, you can create a book , or some blueprints. You don't need to 'patent' , given that you publish it soon enough, because publishing it (in a blog or anything) makes it widely known. everybody knows now that it is yours, and it's very easy to 'probe' it later (in case you need it).
But what is more important: all the interest you may have in making sure people knows that 'that idea' is yours, are the same interests that the people who is willing to pay for it have.
If they want what you produced, they want it from you, if they take it from an hypotethical 'stealer', they may enjoy that 'issue' of whatever it is (since it's really yours), but when it comes to 'getting more', they just find out that this 'stealer' is not worth it
The will want the 'real thing'.
You just need to worry about making publicly available to everyone that 'you made it', and if what you made is good, or somebody wants it and is willing to pay for it, be sure they will make sure they come to you
It occurs to me that you may have thought that this new "Cybernetic division" should be not only new in the kind of activity, but also in the way you hire & check for background...
Have you consider these two new approaches to your hypothetical "cybertroops".
1.- They do not need to be "onsite" (at least not part of them). they can be located everywhere in the world, provided the can make a secure link (what they -of course- can).
2.- The "background checking" process doesn't need to be the "traditional" way. maybe there are another means of getting the same certainty about a candidate's background through "net researching" (probably with more accurate results).
Is it absolutely true that internet & digital world have put incredible powerfull tools in the hands of potential threads, but those tools are also at the "good people" disposal, so you may start using them with these two new approaches.
Oh god, this no-good-english-talker is a big s*$#t, hope I made myself clear.
These laptops are meant for "everything we still don't know" that kids will do with them. I think it's not just "coding" or "office use" topic. It's to provide the ability to communicate easily with each other, and start "things" together, using the computational & communicational help of the laptop.
So, the people who made it don't know what the kids are using the laptops for. They just made sure the laptop is hard to break , easy to use & easy to link with others. The rest is upon kids imagination, and that is a force very much stronger than people use to think.
Oh my, the point is that actually a machine with linux should be cheaper, just because ubuntu is free.
We're all clapping our hands because it's 50 bucks cheaper?? I'm pretty disappointed, because that means most of the time before now, dell has tried to get some extra bucks when "selling" linux laptops (and don't tell me it's because they foresee the support nightmare that is coming, which is not)
So I'd say hooray for them , but not because this is encouraging anybody to buy more linux, but because this is one step closer to the customer getting back to the usual I-pay-for-the-things-I-buy-nothing-more-nothing-le ss deal.
I heard about this a few months ago.
Michael Dell himself pointed that out
I also remember it was not too much, much less than Windows license, for sure
So, If I am given the choice, I would gladly pay those extra bucks given that I would save OS license costs.
The other issue is: maybe they get cheaper laptops this way, but they can also get cheaper laptops using more amd processor, or whatever laptop-related thing they want to do. But not this "I force my customers to try your software, and , in exchange, you give me some bucks" way, this is not what dell is, this is not what dell is famous for, this is certainly not the basis of dell's success (As far as I know, dell started precisely on the opposite: no retailers, just the customer choosing the components he wants straight from the supplier)
The main issue is not 'preinstalled' linux or 'promote linux penetration', the main issue is:
you sell laptops, not software
I bet a very important part of dell's success is its story of 'consumer choice' from the begining
If someone does not want OS at all, there is no technicall issue in wiping it out, no extra cost
So, why push people into buying something they don't want??
Not just 'offering' a new product, I'm talking about "Don't make me by something I DON'T WANT"
The only reason I'm able to figure out is: somehow microsoft push dell to make dell push users and that's not good. That's evil, but you already knew that.
I just switched (with pain in my heart) from dell to hp a few days ago, after recommending 4 brand new xp dells to friends of mine, just because I couldn't avoid dell selling me that @#!!@## of windows Vista
The success of linux can't be measured on how similar it is to windows, and the developer community understands that that way.
Anyway, anybody can see a shot here, and make some profit by designing some real-good-out-of-the-box plugin or whatsoever to interact with exchange. Another shot could be to make a living of just 'good assembling' a Linux system with exchange, which leads me to the third point.
It's not a bad thing that certains aspects of Linux are "difficult" to set up. You could think of these golden rule: the more difficult to set up, the less likely to breakdown. Most of the things a Linux user needs works "out 0f the box", but for certain things, a special config and care is needed. So what?? Good news: Once you have it set up, you can forget about int. Good News: It's very likely that you find support for free in helping you out to set it up.
a week after I wrote them complaining, they wrote me back whit this:
" Dear Joe,
Thank you for contacting Acer America. I apologize for the delay in responding to your inquiry. I have forwarded this issue to the appropriate personnel and when a fix is available it will be posted in the knowledgebase on www.acerpanam.com. At this point in time, until a patch is available, the best thing would be to set the kill bit on this control - see http://support.microsoft.com/kb/240797 for more information on how to set kill bits.
Online Response System... - www.acerpanam.com/...
"
The only thing I mentioned in the mail was "Read on slashdot by more than 10000 users". and a simple "disgusting" and a link to this story.
Did it work??
Everything, since they made the typewriting machine is confined to a keyboard interface.
The first thing I thought about when I saw this was "a wider keyboard", then "a cheaper keyboard", then "a smaller laptop".
But WTF is a Keyboard???? Just some Human-Machine Interface they made two centuries ago!
With this new concept, we can virtaully define the interface upon the needs of the soft that need to be run
Do you realize??
sigh
point one it's already happening.
look at slashdot
look at everything which is "moving" in the internet
the issue is: people who "lives" in internet, are not used to walk in demostrations, so you don't see them
but they're there
There's allways this way-of-talking which makes it sound like "privacy" was some "conquer" the "free world" made "for the sake of their citicens"
Well it's not like that
"Privacy" is not something you "deserve" "as long as" your country is "working good", as long as "there is no inminent danger of what-so-ever", something you have to "give away" in case of extreme danger for your country, it's not something "given to you" by your gov.
Privacy is -and that's what nobody seems to "catch"- a strategie for success, something that makes society works better, economics works better, and -of course- human quality of live works much better.
So, no matter how dark the terrorist are, privacy-limiting initiatives are allways the first thing to come to mind for the govts. (and most of us), and that only reflects this way of thinking of "privacy" as a "gift" "as long as it can be given"
No matter how dark the terrorism menace is, there is allways a way which is not related to privacy-limiting. And not only it's "a way" of achieving the same goal without privacy-limiting, It is probably a much better way
There's a point in that.
I agree with you on that, nobody knows very well what happened to that boy -well, I bet chinese gov. says something about C.I.A. provocation, but that's only an hipo-. I'm just too used to see dictatorships use that quasi-philosophycal issue of "if you don't see it, how can you tell?" on the background of their arguments. At least, it's what they do everyday in Cuba
Following the wikipedia, the chinese commmunist party say there were deaths, and that was what this guy was talking about with his "... well you know".
But your point is still there, at least as an interest question : DOES ANYONE KNOWS WTF HAPPENED TO THE TANK MAN??
As I told you, I took that question as a way to say: "hey, you don't know what happened in tiannanmen, I don't believe that western bullshit, nothing happened in tiannanmen (sorry for the typo, again). I took that that way because I hear that kind of reasoning everyday in the country I live in
Anyway, have you come up to what really happened to the tank man??? If so, I would love to know about it.
And that's what information-concerned goverments exploit most.
You probably can tell nothing "for sure" about anything which is not directly related to you. The only way to know "for real" what happened in Tiannanmen (sorry for the typo) is asking someone who was there and whom we trust. You can tell that of almost everything in the world.
But the point is not "are you absolutely sure of what happened?", the point is : so many people from so many different sources aren't making a lie up for me. I know I can't be sure, but I also know it probably happened that way.
I have some expertise in these kind of information-compulsory-controlling govts, and I can tell they use misinformation all they can, I've seen and lived with it.
We westerns are more or less used to doubt from the info we receive, and that's because of we are -more or less- used to confront the info, or not to trust entirely in one source.
That's the hole govts like cuba or china exploits, if they say "hey, are you sure??" we say, "well, not really", but the fact is it happened
I'm a developer who works for an european company, and I'm abroad.
Well, that's not too much as to say, but interesting things arises when you look at the type of work, the connection needs, and above everything else, the country I live in.
Although I'm european, I'm actually living in a country where internet is highly restricted. Only foreigners can access an unbelievable expensive connection at an unbelievable low speed (dial-up connection). Just to give you the picture: 150 hours/month at 4.5 Kb/s at a cost of $100 per month.
And everything that through a phone line which is shared with the neighbourh
The kinkd of work? well, classical stuff, I do a lot of web-programming (ajax apps, php, mysql and so) for my company, and I also do some administration stuff on my company's network (in europe), and some in our customers production servers, also.
Besides that, my boss needs me to be online most of the time, and I also do some "help desk" of our web applications for our customers through gmail chat.
What I've found is that linux (I'm using it from 11 years ago) had helped me a lot on this. A fair use of cvs, sendmail, retchmail and a lot of crazy combinations of network/utility programs helps me a lot to overcome all the difficulties I have to face just to be 'online'.
Well, I guess this is not much of an 'answer' post. I think the only thing to say is: "there's always a way" and "you better bet your soul with linux".
Slashdot Mirror
sit back
I honestly think this is the best way. I've seen many go for "ubuntu" but you don't pass a certain level in which you can do nothing outside ubuntu, and you can barely get by within it.
http://zareason.com/shop/home.php
Just when I had bought a new lenovo with windows 7 on it.
PS: I'm not a spam machine.
I've been working from cuba for a spanish company for almost a decade now. we also have had people working on india and buenos aires.
- phone is overrated, keep always in touch with im
- use trac or similar ticketing software for all your projects
- always reflect in your tickets discussions relative to how to solve a problem, never let the only reference to a task be in just an email or a chat log.
- keep tickets simple and small.
- somebody on the team has to spend time reading tickets and prioritizing them
- use git or svn
- tests
I know you weren't looking for an answer like this. but what can I say?. I pass most of my day sitting in front of a computer, I also have a tendency to be slightly overweighted .
I read about Montignac Diet, found the book, downloaded it, read it, got convinced by it, tried it, and now I'm a fanatic. (in the good sense). it worked. actually It's more a change of food habit than a diet "per se".
anyway, enough with the spam. good luck with whatever you decide.
All this buzz about creationism, faith and evolutionism is very hard to understand for me .
I'm spanish, I've hold to a very very strong or hard line or -whatever you want to call it- believing system (also known as "faith").
Neither me or anybody I would meet in my entire life , wherever is in spain or cuba or any other country (mostly european) I've been into had any kind of the slightlest "issue" about evolutionism versus creationism.
Everybody takes darwing ok, and we look at that "US controversy" as something funny and hard to understand
Besides that, I wonder if that "previous" change that was needed can somehow be needed to a "special event" on the environment.
That is to say:
Who invented it, anyway??
IP was made up in a season with certain technological properties, and of course (like almost everything, from money to burocracy) was built to "dodge" a social misbehavior devised from a technological limitation, or to "gain" some "good" for the society, again, around a particular technological condition.
To put it simple:
Communication and information spread was very, very limited by the time, so if you came up with something 'new', it was likely than some other guy 'steal' the idea from you, or 'take' property of what you just created (name it a book, or an invention) and go somewhere else far from your 'neighborhood' and 'sell it as his own'
That is why, in order to promote innovation, or to protect you from just injustice and unfairness, a 'central record' called 'ip' was created.
you put your 'thing' in this 'central record' first, and you could always come back to this 'central record' to 'prove' the idea -or whatever- was yours, no matter the stealer is 10.000 miles away 'selling' something that should be granted to you.
Nowadays, a complete redefinition is needed, just because our technological paradigms are completely different
By instance, you can create a book , or some blueprints. You don't need to 'patent' , given that you publish it soon enough, because publishing it (in a blog or anything) makes it widely known. everybody knows now that it is yours, and it's very easy to 'probe' it later (in case you need it).
But what is more important: all the interest you may have in making sure people knows that 'that idea' is yours, are the same interests that the people who is willing to pay for it have.
If they want what you produced, they want it from you, if they take it from an hypotethical 'stealer', they may enjoy that 'issue' of whatever it is (since it's really yours), but when it comes to 'getting more', they just find out that this 'stealer' is not worth it
The will want the 'real thing'.
You just need to worry about making publicly available to everyone that 'you made it', and if what you made is good, or somebody wants it and is willing to pay for it, be sure they will make sure they come to you
It occurs to me that you may have thought that this new "Cybernetic division" should be not only new in the kind of activity, but also in the way you hire & check for background... Have you consider these two new approaches to your hypothetical "cybertroops". 1.- They do not need to be "onsite" (at least not part of them). they can be located everywhere in the world, provided the can make a secure link (what they -of course- can). 2.- The "background checking" process doesn't need to be the "traditional" way. maybe there are another means of getting the same certainty about a candidate's background through "net researching" (probably with more accurate results). Is it absolutely true that internet & digital world have put incredible powerfull tools in the hands of potential threads, but those tools are also at the "good people" disposal, so you may start using them with these two new approaches. Oh god, this no-good-english-talker is a big s*$#t, hope I made myself clear.
These laptops are meant for "everything we still don't know" that kids will do with them.
I think it's not just "coding" or "office use" topic. It's to provide the ability to communicate easily with each other, and start "things" together, using the computational & communicational help of the laptop.
So, the people who made it don't know what the kids are using the laptops for. They just made sure the laptop is hard to break , easy to use & easy to link with others. The rest is upon kids imagination, and that is a force very much stronger than people use to think.
Oh my, the point is that actually a machine with linux should be cheaper, just because ubuntu is free.
e ss deal.
We're all clapping our hands because it's 50 bucks cheaper?? I'm pretty disappointed, because that means most of the time before now, dell has tried to get some extra bucks when "selling" linux laptops (and don't tell me it's because they foresee the support nightmare that is coming, which is not)
So I'd say hooray for them , but not because this is encouraging anybody to buy more linux, but because this is one step closer to the customer getting back to the usual I-pay-for-the-things-I-buy-nothing-more-nothing-l
I heard about this a few months ago.
Michael Dell himself pointed that out
I also remember it was not too much, much less than Windows license, for sure
So, If I am given the choice, I would gladly pay those extra bucks given that I would save OS license costs.
The other issue is: maybe they get cheaper laptops this way, but they can also get cheaper laptops using more amd processor, or whatever laptop-related thing they want to do. But not this "I force my customers to try your software, and , in exchange, you give me some bucks" way, this is not what dell is, this is not what dell is famous for, this is certainly not the basis of dell's success (As far as I know, dell started precisely on the opposite: no retailers, just the customer choosing the components he wants straight from the supplier)
you sell laptops, not software
I bet a very important part of dell's success is its story of 'consumer choice' from the begining
If someone does not want OS at all, there is no technicall issue in wiping it out, no extra cost
So, why push people into buying something they don't want??
Not just 'offering' a new product, I'm talking about "Don't make me by something I DON'T WANT"
The only reason I'm able to figure out is: somehow microsoft push dell to make dell push users and that's not good. That's evil, but you already knew that.
I just switched (with pain in my heart) from dell to hp a few days ago, after recommending 4 brand new xp dells to friends of mine, just because I couldn't avoid dell selling me that @#!!@## of windows Vista
a week after I wrote them complaining, they wrote me back whit this:
" Dear Joe, Thank you for contacting Acer America. I apologize for the delay in responding to your inquiry. I have forwarded this issue to the appropriate personnel and when a fix is available it will be posted in the knowledgebase on www.acerpanam.com. At this point in time, until a patch is available, the best thing would be to set the kill bit on this control - see http://support.microsoft.com/kb/240797 for more information on how to set kill bits. Online Response System... - www.acerpanam.com/... " The only thing I mentioned in the mail was "Read on slashdot by more than 10000 users". and a simple "disgusting" and a link to this story.
Did it work??
Everything, since they made the typewriting machine is confined to a keyboard interface.
The first thing I thought about when I saw this was "a wider keyboard", then "a cheaper keyboard", then "a smaller laptop".
But WTF is a Keyboard???? Just some Human-Machine Interface they made two centuries ago!
With this new concept, we can virtaully define the interface upon the needs of the soft that need to be run
Do you realize??
sigh
point one it's already happening. look at slashdot look at everything which is "moving" in the internet
the issue is: people who "lives" in internet, are not used to walk in demostrations, so you don't see them
but they're there
There's allways this way-of-talking which makes it sound like "privacy" was some "conquer" the "free world" made "for the sake of their citicens"
Well it's not like that
"Privacy" is not something you "deserve" "as long as" your country is "working good", as long as "there is no inminent danger of what-so-ever", something you have to "give away" in case of extreme danger for your country, it's not something "given to you" by your gov.
Privacy is -and that's what nobody seems to "catch"- a strategie for success, something that makes society works better, economics works better, and -of course- human quality of live works much better.
So, no matter how dark the terrorist are, privacy-limiting initiatives are allways the first thing to come to mind for the govts. (and most of us), and that only reflects this way of thinking of "privacy" as a "gift" "as long as it can be given"
No matter how dark the terrorism menace is, there is allways a way which is not related to privacy-limiting. And not only it's "a way" of achieving the same goal without privacy-limiting, It is probably a much better way
Look for "real tank man" in google, you'll see some kind of investigation of a news site
The thing is, nobody knows!!!
There's a point in that.
I agree with you on that, nobody knows very well what happened to that boy -well, I bet chinese gov. says something about C.I.A. provocation, but that's only an hipo-. I'm just too used to see dictatorships use that quasi-philosophycal issue of "if you don't see it, how can you tell?" on the background of their arguments. At least, it's what they do everyday in Cuba
Following the wikipedia, the chinese commmunist party say there were deaths, and that was what this guy was talking about with his "... well you know".
But your point is still there, at least as an interest question : DOES ANYONE KNOWS WTF HAPPENED TO THE TANK MAN??
As I told you, I took that question as a way to say: "hey, you don't know what happened in tiannanmen, I don't believe that western bullshit, nothing happened in tiannanmen (sorry for the typo, again). I took that that way because I hear that kind of reasoning everyday in the country I live in
Anyway, have you come up to what really happened to the tank man??? If so, I would love to know about it.
And that's what information-concerned goverments exploit most.
You probably can tell nothing "for sure" about anything which is not directly related to you. The only way to know "for real" what happened in Tiannanmen (sorry for the typo) is asking someone who was there and whom we trust. You can tell that of almost everything in the world.
But the point is not "are you absolutely sure of what happened?", the point is : so many people from so many different sources aren't making a lie up for me. I know I can't be sure, but I also know it probably happened that way.
I have some expertise in these kind of information-compulsory-controlling govts, and I can tell they use misinformation all they can, I've seen and lived with it.
We westerns are more or less used to doubt from the info we receive, and that's because of we are -more or less- used to confront the info, or not to trust entirely in one source.
That's the hole govts like cuba or china exploits, if they say "hey, are you sure??" we say, "well, not really", but the fact is it happened
I check my gmail, and I find a 'story' a 'real' fiction story!!!
...
I know it's spam, but there is no funny characters, no 'viagra' word, no nothing, just a story, probably a fragment of some book
So I start to read it. I realize a broken image link, and I decide to tell gmail to allow images and
Just the example spam . The very same
Amazing.
Anyway, what's the point???
I just mark it as spam, I will never do anything with it they should know that by now
I know there's lot of people who stills hook on that, but that's only a question of time, because it's learning stuff, and it's unstoppable
I'm a developer who works for an european company, and I'm abroad.
Well, that's not too much as to say, but interesting things arises when you look at the type of work, the connection needs, and above everything else, the country I live in.
Although I'm european, I'm actually living in a country where internet is highly restricted. Only foreigners can access an unbelievable expensive connection at an unbelievable low speed (dial-up connection). Just to give you the picture: 150 hours/month at 4.5 Kb/s at a cost of $100 per month.
And everything that through a phone line which is shared with the neighbourh
The kinkd of work? well, classical stuff, I do a lot of web-programming (ajax apps, php, mysql and so) for my company, and I also do some administration stuff on my company's network (in europe), and some in our customers production servers, also.
Besides that, my boss needs me to be online most of the time, and I also do some "help desk" of our web applications for our customers through gmail chat.
What I've found is that linux (I'm using it from 11 years ago) had helped me a lot on this. A fair use of cvs, sendmail, retchmail and a lot of crazy combinations of network/utility programs helps me a lot to overcome all the difficulties I have to face just to be 'online'.
Well, I guess this is not much of an 'answer' post. I think the only thing to say is: "there's always a way" and "you better bet your soul with linux".