Glomek - Slashdot User

Comment: Re:How many ways are there to do simple things? (Score 1) 694

by Glomek on Tuesday April 20 2010, @10:49AM (#31910162) Attached to: Why Computer Science Students Cheat

I can't recall ever seeing a real false positive.

How would you know? It would look just like a real positive. The student would claim innocence, and you would believe they were lying.

Comment: Don't outsource it! (Score 1) 730

by Glomek on Monday August 17 2009, @12:41AM (#29088519) Attached to: Why Should I Trust My Network Administrator?

Your network and system administrators need to be under your control. It's that simple. You need to be able to fire them and to prosecute them as individuals in the event of wrongdoing. Oursourcing reduces your control over the people doing the work. In the cases of network and system administration, it gives you far too little control over the individual people who are acting. Bite the bullet and accept the fact that it's worth paying to keep these vital services in house and under full local control.

Comment: Tell them to Fuck themselves... (Score 1) 654

by Glomek on Monday October 06 2008, @09:06AM (#25272077) Attached to: Getting Paid To Abandon an Open Source Project?

...with a broken glass bottle.. and then sit in a pool of Tabasco sauce.

Open Source software being mandated or prohibited? 0

Submitted by Glomek on Monday August 06 2007, @10:33AM

Glomek writes "A recent Dilbert comic has the Pointy Haired Boss telling Dilbert that he must use Open Source software for for everything because "It's free."

Usually what's funny about Dilbert is that it's so true. However, this particular comic doesn't match any of my experiences. Indeed, I don't recall ever hearing of a PHB mandating the use of Open Source, while I've heard many stories of PHBs prohibiting it. So I'm curious...

Has your management ever mandated the use of Open Source software? Has your management ever prohibited the use of Open Source software?"

Dell to offer more Linux PCs 0

Submitted by

head_dunce

on Thursday July 26 2007, @05:07PM

head_dunce writes "According to this article, Mark Shuttleworth from the Ubuntu camp says Dell is seeing a demand for the Linux based PC and, "There are additional offerings in the pipeline."

I'm starting to see flashbacks of the days when Microsoft partnered up with IBM to gain control of the desktop market. Will other Linux flavors find there way to the likes of Lenovo or HP, etc, or will Ubuntu claim the desktop market working with other PC manufacturers?"

Historical Look At First Linux Kernel-> 0

Submitted by LinuxFan on Thursday July 26 2007, @04:59PM

LinuxFan writes "KernelTrap has a fascinating article about the first Linux kernel, version 0.01, complete with source code and photos of Linus Torvalds as a young man attending the University of Helsinki. Torvalds originally planned to call the kernel "Freax", and in his first announcement noted, "I'm doing a (free) operating system (just a hobby, won't be big and professional like gnu) for 386(486) AT clones." He also stressed that the kernel was very much tied to the i386 processor, "simply, I'd say that porting is impossible." Humble beginnings."
Link to Original Source

Michael Dell uses Ubuntu!

Submitted by srinravi on Wednesday April 18 2007, @07:08PM

srinravi writes "Martin Varsavsky writes that Michael Dell, CEO of Dell Inc uses Ubuntu on his home laptop!. Quote from the article:

"Interestingly I just got an e mail from Michael Dell in which he says he also uses Ubuntu. As the link shows he went as far as to say so in his official bio in the Dell web site. Now if Dell, the corporation goes the way of Michael Dell, the CEO the Ubuntu distro will rise from relative obscurity to the big league of Vista, Windows XP and MacOSX. Fans of Ubuntu should watch this opportunity carefully Michael Dell may be coming your way just as the new Ubuntu is about to be released." . Here is a direct link to the Dell Executive bios site."

Michael Dell using Ubuntu Linux at home

Submitted by whoever57 on Wednesday April 18 2007, @06:41PM

whoever57 writes "At the moment, Michael Dell is using a Precision M90 laptop loaded with Ubuntu Linux (7.04 — Feisty Fawn). It also has Openoffice.org and Evolution."

Busy Lives Prompt Speedier Board Games

Submitted by BusylikeBum on Thursday March 29 2007, @06:17PM

BusylikeBum writes "Michelle Hastings admits she's sometimes cheated to get through a game of Candy Land with her 5-year-old daughter, Campbell. The board game can take just too long, she said. Disney Monopoly is another big offender. "A game like that, it could literally take you days," said Hastings, of Holliston, Mass. "A lot of times, you don't play games because they take so long." Board game makers are heeding pleas of parents like Hastings and introducing games tailored to busy lives and shorter attention spans that take only about 20 minutes to play."

Get in line: The rush for H-1B visas is on

Submitted by

coondoggie

on Thursday March 29 2007, @06:02PM

coondoggie writes "With the deadline of April 1 — actually since that's a Sunday, the deadline is April 2 — filing for an H-1B visa. Experts say this year's allotment of 65,000 slots will likely be exhausted in record time — time measured in days or weeks not months as in years past. And the agency that oversees the visas, the US Citizen and Immigration Service (USCISC) has told the public that it will not accept any applications received earlier than April 2 and reject those filed before the start date. This means people who planned on filing their petitions on Friday, March 30 with the USCIS to accept on March 31 will have their cases rejected, USCISC says. http://www.networkworld.com/community/?q=node/1316 3"