So what is next product keys and activations? When I choose to opt-out of PopCorn on Debian installs it ends up installing it anyway as if I will decide in the future to opt-in. This is why I like Slackware. No opt-in to anything. No annoying update manager eating up system resources to finally pop up and tell me I'll have to manually check for updates. Pinging Canonical sucks.

Their servers come with a 10 year old video card chipset, the Matrox G200. Ubuntu would more than run on their hi-end desktops. They have chosen their low-end model PC so that if there are problems they can minimize the cost of a failure to move units. Nobody can seriously keep up with Microsoft's licensing. The situation is just coming to a head. I personally predict Microsoft will fold in the next 3 years. It's just a matter of the old guard retiring. If Mark Shuttleworth and the Canonical team can hold on a few more months things will turn around. Companies are hurting and don't have the money to push into server licenses such as with the monstrous requirements of Sharepoint, CRM, or even Microsoft's Cloud solutions. So when the chips fall into the right places open-source will excel ahead. Also John Titor told us Microsoft won't matter in a few years.

What really pissed me off with 13 was that Koffice was a freaking beta. Stable my ass. No spell check capabilities. Which shows Pat don't even use his own product. He's probably using Windows 7. I read somewhere in an interview he used XP.... Nothing new, Deb' Ian uses a Mac. Red Fedora Bob forgot his name, uses a Mac. Linus is probably using Windows. It wouldn't at all surprise me these guys doing the kernel development do so in VirtualBox. 10.2 was the last solid release of Slackware.

You can get the basics of an operating system from the Dinosaur book. The you use deduction and figure out what files hold the piece you are learning. You don't start by just trying to encompass the entirety of the kernel. You just say that one day you are going to learn how the scheduler works. You start perusing the code. Make some logical assumptions and move to a different file. You write down in your notes which files hold what purpose. Eventually you'll have a general idea of how it all fits together.

I doubt any of the developers know everything about every subsystem. Not even Linus can possibly keep up with everything. I maintain a pretty complex application at my job. So many people have added to it that when it breaks it takes me a day to just go through and understand the logic. If I get tasked to another application developed by others then it will take me almost a week to move through the logic of the application before I can truly determine the problems. I can in fact make some assumptions but they are only opinions from experience.

Colleges have always looked for an easier way to teach basic computer science to individuals. You can teach data structures in python, visual basic or any other language. The reason they wait to teach C++ later is that you have to get the basis down for the ideas behind the languages. This is a simple rule to life in any area of study. "You build a simple model of a complex idea." "You break down a complex problem into simple pieces." C++ has too much overhead to begin with. Students get stuck in the language and not the idea.

I like to refer to novice developers as Harry Potters. They learn a new technique and have to cast that spell in every situation. Take the Virtual function for instances, you don't really need it. Just somebody got the idea that it's great to enforce prototyping. Which brings up my current problems with my workplace. You'll get the experts who are really just novices trying to cast every spell in the C# discipline. Most the time because Microsoft has enforced the use of their magic incantations.

Colleges hardly teach a student what he will need for the working career. I'd say 83% of the jobs at the moment are ASP.NET/C#. 15% are JSP. 2% are Linux related. If you are a student then you had better be learning C# if you want to make a living and have a job upon graduation. GET A COOP JOB BEFORE YOU GRADUATE. That way you have experience upon graduation. I know many graduates that probably think just because they got their degree and certification that they are cadidates for a job. Truth is there is a whole science behind project management you only learn upon working.

The only Real linux jobs I can think would be tuned for the young people right now are Android developement. 25$ start up fee and you don't even have to own a fone. Sprint also offers something similar. Free SDK. Back to the subject, #1 reason nobody is interested in Linus development is that Ubuntu works well enough at the moment people figure there is no need. That and everbody is playing too much Xbox. Microsoft is giving away all their goodies.

The Zen version of Linux is the way ahead. They include patches normally passed over such as the Brain F### Scheduler (BFS).

You will need an Internet connection to begin with. That should add on $50. You can basically buy a new computer for $200 at Walmart with Windows 7 on it. It'll play 3D games, DVD's, and word process. Why the hell do we keep pussy footing around with :
Here's the new distribution of Bob. You'll have to enable DVD support by adding the necessary repositories.
Codecs need to have this respository. Alt+F2 and paste this line from the mediabuntu website.
apt-get this, apt-get that. Oh use Ubuntu Mint if you want all this already installed.
Sorry about the ads and begging money but you know how it is.
I think Astrumi Linux comes with propritary drivers. Ubuntu may have at one time. Get some balls distributions.

Say Irregardless one more time motherfucker! BMF

Even now stores aren't exactly selling computers with 4-Gig of ram, a high-end directx 11 card, and the Quad-core processor power enough to run these absurd requirements. Look at starwas force unleashed. I can disable one of my cores and it won't play at all past the main menu like they are checking for dual core or something. i call Shanagans.

so does ASP.net and C#.

Of course they want you medicated for life. Watch Highlander 2. Same shet. Keep the shield on and make the money.

No more than going to the store finding all the 360 game in a display case. Reason is assholes steal them right out the case. Before circuit city died, I was buying a copy of fallout 3 and the box was still in the security device enclosure. the lady noted the weight was wrong and sure enough opened to no game.

Resume Pumpers

Problem: Solve a logistical delima by moving work being entered into an Excel spreadsheet to a SQL Server database.

Solution 1: The resume Pumper.
K we gona use a ASP.Net front end with login manager and user maintenance screens.
We're gona implement FAST, CRUD, create at least 70 classes to offload complexity.

Solution 2: The new hire.

Just use Sharepoint!
6-weeks later
Having some troubles, need an extension

Need 6 more weeks.
Hey I found a new job, bye.

Solution 3: The Unix guy
Well, if we had FOSSL(unix) we'd have this problem licked.
I'm going to get coffee be back Sunday.

Solution 4: The Engineer
Six months.
Huh?
I need Six months to make this thing work with active directory, SQL Server 2008, and argue with you about the short-comings of ASP.Net.

No mention of it by Nasa for the Helios probes as it approaches it's fastest speed. http://www.clubconspiracy.com/forum/f30/einstein-vs-tesla-good-article-explaining-573.html toot

There are many outstanding bug reports. Waiting for upstream is not a good solution. How will you address issues and ensure customers can come to rely on your company?

Don't worry, I'm sure the preinstalled version of Windows will come with Microsoft works.