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Copyright Troll USCG Violates Copyright 97

Posted by kdawson on Friday July 30, 2010 @01:14PM from the do-as-i-say dept.

omarlittle writes "The US Copyright Group — a company owned by intellectual property lawyers, which has been in the news for threatening downloaders of the movie Hurt Locker — has apparently stolen their site from a competitor. At one point, even the competitor's phone number and copyright statement were copied word for word on USCG's 'settlement' website. The competitor is reportedly going to send a Cease & Desist."

Comment Weekly (Score 1) 34

by slaxative on Friday July 30, 2010 @12:42PM (#33085026) Attached to: China's Firewall Stymies Google; Users Confused

It seems like every week we get an article about how something changed with the Chinese firewall and something broke. I would strongly consider moving if I had to deal with this as often as they do. Stop screwing the with firewall of the country!

Submission + - Open Source Toolchains for Linux Sysadmins (linux.com)

Submitted by

Arthur Digsby Sellers

on Friday July 30, 2010 @12:21PM

Arthur Digsby Sellers writes: "Sysadmins have to do a lot of repetitive tasks install software, edit configuration files and run back-ups. In celebration of Systems Admin Appreciation Day, The Linux Foundation is launching a new series titled "SysAdmin Toolbox" aimed at providing SysAdmins with all the resources needed to do their important work including how to automate the management of Linux servers from installation to monitoring to self-healing systems using open source software. This first in the series talks about integrating things like Puppet, Chef, Cobbler and Zenoss Core to automate the installation, configuration and monitoring of Linux servers."

Comment Failure in naming the device (Score 2, Insightful) 125

by slaxative on Friday July 30, 2010 @12:20PM (#33084614) Attached to: BlindType — the Amazing Keyboard of the Future

If you can't type on a keyboard without looking at it, you're doing it wrong.

Comment Re:Happy sysadmin day? (Score 1) 108

by slaxative on Friday July 30, 2010 @11:58AM (#33084184) Attached to: Happy System Administrator Appreciation Day

I'll be happy when today is over. Its Friday!!!!

Comment Happy sysadmin day? (Score 5, Interesting) 108

by slaxative on Friday July 30, 2010 @11:53AM (#33084078) Attached to: Happy System Administrator Appreciation Day

I've been a sysadmin for a while time now, and I've never had one person wish me a happy admin day. It would seem the only people who know about this, happen to be sysadmins. No one has a clue when I mention it. We need more sysadmin day advertising. Someone want to fund a commercial? Lets add it to every calendar world wide. Who's with me?

Happy System Administrator Appreciation Day 108

Posted by kdawson on Friday July 30, 2010 @11:50AM from the how-about-some-green-appreciation dept.

ArbiterOne writes "The 11th Annual System Administrator Appreciation Day is today. Celebrated worldwide on the last Friday of July, this day honors those who fight in the digital trenches to keep the Net alive. OpenDNS offers a way to remind your boss about the holiday, while another blogger shares war stories. The startup Ksplice has created an homage to these heroes in the style of Choose Your Own Adventure." Reader Netbuzz submits a sobering look at the profession from Network World, which notes, "In the past year, [sysadmins'] pay has dropped, and more of their positions are being farmed out to temporary workers."

Comment Anger. (Score 4, Insightful) 764

by slaxative on Friday July 30, 2010 @11:13AM (#33083300) Attached to: To Ballmer, Grabbing iPad's Market Is 'Job One Urgency'

Shocking news. Microsoft exec upset by the success of a member of the competition.

Submission + - The Beauty of Inefficient Code (theatlantic.com)

Submitted by pickens on Friday July 30, 2010 @10:49AM

pickens writes: http://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2010/07/the-beauty-of-inefficient-code/60613/

Submission + - How should a non-techie learn programming? (dbms2.com) 2

Submitted by CurtMonash on Friday July 30, 2010 @09:36AM

CurtMonash writes: Nontechnical people — for example marketers or small business owners — increasingly get the feeling they should know more about technology. And they're right. If you can throw up a small website or do some real number-crunching, chances are those skills will help you feed your family. But how should they get started? I started a thread with the question on DBMS2, and some consistent themes emerged, including:

* Learn HTML + CSS early on.
* Learn a bit of SQL, but you needn't make that your focus.
* Have your first real programming language be one of the modern ones, such as PHP or Python.
* MySQL is a good vehicle to learn SQL.
* It's a great idea to start with a project you actually want to accomplish, and that can be done by modifying a starter set of sample code. (E.g., a WordPress blog.)
* Microsoft's technology stack is an interesting alternative to some of the other technology ideas.

A variety of books and websites were suggested, most notably MIT's Scratch. But, frankly, it would really help to get more suggestions for sites and books that help one get started with HTML/CSS, or with MySQL, or with PHP. And so, techie studs and studdettes, I ask you — how should a non-techie go about learning some basic technological skills?

Submission + - Today is System Administrator Appreciation Day (sysadminday.com)

Submitted by ArbiterOne on Friday July 30, 2010 @12:09AM

ArbiterOne writes: The 11th Annual System Administrator Appreciation Day is today. Celebrated worldwide on the last Friday of July, this holiday honors those who fight in the digital trenches to keep the 'Net alive.

OpenDNS offers a way to remind your boss about the holiday, while another blogger shares war stories. The startup Ksplice created an homage to these heroes... in the style of Choose Your Own Adventure.

How are you celebrating Sysadmin Day?

Comment New perl user (Score 2, Interesting) 220

by slaxative on Thursday July 29, 2010 @06:30PM (#33077186) Attached to: Perl 6, Early, With Rakudo Star

This puts a lot of new users to perl in a bad situation. Start learning Perl 5 syntax or jump to the possibly already sinking ship, Perl 6. Hopefully my camel book will be sufficient to learn both from a basic level.

Comment Fix bugs and add non gui related features (Score 5, Insightful) 187

by slaxative on Thursday July 29, 2010 @06:25PM (#33077128) Attached to: KDE SC 4.7 May Use OpenGL 3 For Compositing

I don't know that we need any more eye candy in KDE 4. It already has a ridiculous amount of aesthetically pleasing features. How about we squash some existing bugs and add more usability features.

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