First they split Windows down to the Service Pack level,

Ignoring, too, that 2K8 is basically Vista, which they panned. I've been running Vista for nearly three years now on a personal desktop. Two blue screens. One was due to RAM that went bad, the other was due to a buggy VMware driver.

but go on to say "all of OS X and all of Linux" are in the best? Really? OS X 10.0 was a dismal, WinME failure, for one.

Yeah, 10.0 was lousy. 10.1 was at least usable most of the time. Until Finder crashed. And you had to ssh back in and reboot it, because you couldn't re-launch Finder. Oh, and the browser selection was wonderful with fully-Carbon IE, Netscape 4 running in Classic, or a very buggy non-native Mozilla port. Furthermore, OS X doesn't run a BSD kernel; it's Mach with a BSD subsystem running in kernel-space. Many of the nifty things available in OS X are due to Mach, not BSD.

And then to throw in Android, which is also Linux?

But, but, but, it doesn't run X!!!1! I guess all the other purpose-built linux devices would fall into that category? My TomTom? My STB when I had IPTV service?

He drove a Cadillac. (And ate at Burger King. And had some nifty F-4s.) They quit making the big Caddies long ago. :-(

There's still a big demand for the BB Caddy engines. Popular in larger performance vehicles. Not so much in trucks, where the BB Chevy is easier.

Sadder than the death of the GM big block is that you can't buy a half-ton pickup with a manual transmission anymore.

Oblig...RIP Joe Strummer.

You're a jerk, Dent. FWIW, there is a difference between a reputable organization publishing these, where the address, employees, and funders are all known, and some anonymous group. If you want media shield protections, announce yourself, and retain counsel to ensure it.

You've prompted a switch, Mozilla.... /Closing out my tabs while chrome downloads in the background

Mod parent up. This is political payback to the civil lawyer lobby who heavily fund Democrats. When they talk about "green jobs," they're obviously talking about cases for the trial lawyers to litigate.

You can also bet that "green" products won't have a statutory limit on liability claims from injured people anytime soon. Even if one of these products turns out to have health effects worse than asbestos.....

2003 wants it's business model back.

And apostrophes would like you to stop abusing them. /pedant

I went from Senior IT lead to IT manager and made less if you calculate in hours. I was pulling in 60 hour work weeks as top of the pile IT grunt, all that OT adds up fast. As manager I got a 25% increase and switched to Salaried Exempt. I now work 60 hour weeks and get LESS cash.

Again, that's a management/billing problem. If everyone is pulling hours like that, you're understaffed. Perhaps it might be appropriate if IT is a parasitic function for your company; I know I worked those kinds of hours in a former job, where IT/engineering were secondary functions. But if you're directly billing a client for work, there shouldn't be many uncompensated hours. If you're selling a product/service, there's a management problem if your revenue isn't matching what your true expenses are. Charge more, or find a different way of doing things. Too 2003?

Or stay and become that lousy and obviously unhappy manager who used to be a good tech.

I'm sure that happens from time to time if upper management is lousy. If you have a poorly-performing manager, get rid of him/her. And if loyalty is part of the equation, you look at a lateral move into a non-supervisory function, and depress compensation adjustments until he/she is back in-line with where he/she should be in a non-supervisory position.

And I'd prefer to have the same stamina that I had when I was nineteen, too. I mean, it'd be cool if I could get absolutely smashed, and be fine the next day. I'm sure my SO would like it if I had the same stamina in the bedroom, too. I can't and I don't. There's a natural progression when it comes to a career, and being involved with managing other people is a part of that.

I'd probably ask about what my new job duties would be, and see if they fit with my desires, otherwise, it's a shot in the dark as to whether to take the job, fight to keep your current position, or find a new employer.

And be willing to accept whatever trade-offs come with it? That includes salary stagnation, and competition with younger people who might be more intellectually curious than you are, and expect a much smaller salary than you do.

One of the things that constantly bothers me when interviewing older workers is the fact that, in many ways, tech is no longer a joy....it's all job. I've found myself in that position more and more as I get older; building a Linux kernel is now tedious instead of exciting. I haven't had a GNU/Hurd install in years.

Interviewed a CCNA one time; when I asked him some questions about IPv6, he got defensive, then tried to convince me that it was never going to happen, and anyone looking at it was wasting his time.....

Needless to say, we had requirements from the customer for IPv6 work, and were trying to put together a team to address the project. Ended up hiring a 24 year-old without a degree or a cert, who was genuinely interested in where the technology is headed. Oh, and he wanted 60% of the salary (even without the military retirement, which the old guy had coming in, too.).

If you're being forcibly moved, try to negotiate for everything, including extra compensation for being on-call.

As for the managerial side, this is nothing new. If you show a) competence, and b) any signs you don't have a serious attitude problem, it's expected. Then, if you want to go back in a few years, it'll be based either on your job performance (or lack thereof), and whether you're okay with sacrificing larger salaries in the future.

Some people aren't cut out for management, for a variety of reasons, and they either go back to non-management, or transition careers. It's no big deal these days. 40 years ago, different story; there was a social stigma attached to switching companies more than a couple of times, or even worse, ending up in a completely new line of work.

If you're using FAIR as your arbiter of media bias, you're never going to have anything other than Z-Mag judged as unbiased. It's just as bad as citing MediaBusters or Media Matters.

Gerson's perspective is that of someone who's been imbued with the dogma of objective-journalism-is-the-way-and-the-truth. Fact of the matter is that that idea is relatively new, and was largely a political reaction to his own industry's (print media's) egregiousness in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Good morning, Mr. Pulitzer. Mr. Hearst, how are you today? Until this backlash started, they weren't called "journalists," they were called "reporters."

Every person is biased. Every outlet has biases that seep through (Hello, Green Week on NBC). You can strive for objectivity, it's unattainable. To deny that reality is folly.

If the newspaper conglomerates want to continue operating, they've got to fundamentally change their means of reporting. The days of sending out a reporter to be there in person, interviewing authoritative sources, interviewing detractors to those authoritative sources, and spitting out an article are over. "The revolution will not be televised." No, but it will be tweeted, and if you've got a hundred people saying exactly the same thing, you can report that. They're missing the big stories, and the outlets who understand where the information flow is are getting them. TMZ, SmokingGun, National Enquirer, etc. etc. But the print media's default position, after they're scooped, is to stay mum until they've been able to verify using their 1960s protocols. Sorry, folks, just doesn't work that way. And, if they don't adapt, they will die. Google isn't the problem.

...and it seems simple enough. Kind of wonder why those env variables wouldn't be unset by default for everything, then set only on programs that should need root. Are those just inherited; do you still need root access to build the FreeBSD user-space? (I honestly don't know; haven't used FreeBSD since the abortion that was 5.x. NetBSD, which is what I use for BSD these days, you can build everything as a regular user.)

Hey, it worked. Mark Warner won two-thirds of the vote in his senate run last year based on his stellar performance as governor. This was one of his big initiatives.

(He also *fixed* the revenue sources, so that there'd never be a problem like happened with Jim Gilmore. Yet, now, Virginia is in worse shape than when he got there.)

I think GNUstep's problem is that porting between GNUstep and OSX keeps getting more difficult. Apple well-documented OpenStep, and it stayed static for a very long time (~10 years). OSX, on the other hand, keeps changing, and is becoming increasingly hardware-dependent since 10.2. Quartz, CoreGraphics, CoreData, etc. etc. all break backwards-compatibility. Many of the new features are also offloaded to hardware. Apple's attitude used to be that if you didn't have new hardware, the new whiz-bang stuff just wouldn't work for you, and your system would look/feel much the same as it did under the previous version. Not so these days....

As for WindowMaker, it's a legacy WM, I think. When I used to use GNUstep extensively (a few years ago), they were already seriously looking at things to replace it. Etoile (a cutting-edge GNUstep environment/in-development-distro) now uses Azalia, which is distantly-related to WindowMaker.

If it works half as well as his quest to bring an NBA championship to Dallas, Google better watch out!