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Comment: What a waste of time .... (Score 2) 184

by Jagungal (#36715900) Attached to: CentOS Linux 6.0 Released

Considering 6.1 has been out for some time this is a bit of a non event, most people using CentOs have moved on.

What I saw was a bunch of developers spending a lot of time being defensive of why it was taking so long, promising it was just around the corner and letting the dates constantly slip.

CentOS is basically a dead project to the majority of people who have moved on to more responsive distributions.

I still have to wonder when some of these developers didn't get paid off for doing what they did - the way it happened just didn't seem right, there is a pretty fishy smell about this one.

Comment: Not that indispensable ... (Score 1) 349

by Jagungal (#36223588) Attached to: Ask Slashdot: How To Ask For Equity In a Startup?

But if you are then the company is doing itself a dis service if it is allowing you into a position where you think you are indispensible. Many information hiding IT people do try to do it though - or at least get into their heads that they are.

The people who put forward the ideas and the risk get the equity, you just get your contract rates no matter how the company goes good or bad.

Comment: Custom Games (Score 1) 293

by Jagungal (#35905630) Attached to: Taking the Fun Out of <em>StarCraft II</em>

I think that what is being said is that the variety of units has had to be dulled down in competitive games. I have heard people say that this makes it easier to watch but there is still a lot of complexity in the game with three races and all their differences.

If you want to try out all sorts of units, there are a ton of custom games where you can use every unit available.

For me, the game is the best in many years and has been keeping me going for 8 months now - there are all sorts of different things to do from ladder, custom games and private matches between friends.

Brilliant game, brilliant design and a great deal of fun for me..

Comment: Seems about right (Score 2) 298

by Jagungal (#35474216) Attached to: Tech Expertise Not Important In Google Managers

One of the biggest problems I have ever run into is the Manager who came from a technical background and tries to retain some kind of technical information lead over the staff. Often they can't be across day to day things so they become an information hider or feel threatened by technical staff around them.

In IT, information hiders in a team are pain, when they are the manager they are a nightmare. The best managers I have had were people managers who used to team and what it achieved to make themselves look good. In some ways, they best managers are those that accept that they might not be as technical as some staff, get over it and get on with managing the team.

Comment: Liferay is similar (Score 1) 357

by Jagungal (#32908144) Attached to: SugarCRM 6 Released, But Is It Open Source?

Liferay is another product like this.

It started as a nice feel open source project. There was available paid support if you wanted/needed it. Then it went to a dual release of an enterprise version and a "community version" with all sorts of promises that nothing would change. The level of marketing then also seemed to go into over drive - to get the enterprise version.

It then became obvious that the community version, is full of bugs, gets no bug fixes and is released only once a year.

It has gone from a good, usable open source product to a really cranked up commercial product. It's open source true but this is more a marketing tool than a reality of an open project where everyone can contribute.

Television

MythTV 0.23 Released 214

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An anonymous reader writes "After six months of our new accelerated development schedule, MythTV 0.23 is now available. MythTV 0.23 brings a new event system, brand new Python bindings, the beta MythNetvision Internet video plugin, new audio code and surround sound upmixer, several new themes (Arclight and Childish), a greatly improved H.264 decoder, and fixes for analog scanning, among many others. Work towards MythTV 0.24 is in full swing, and has be progressing very well for the last several months. If all goes according to plan, MythTV 0.24 will bring a new MythUI OSD, a nearly rewritten audio subsystem capable of handling 24- and 32-bit audio and up to 8 channels of output, Blu-ray disc and disc structure playback, and various other performance, usability, and flexibility improvements."
Christmas Cheer

Top-10 Gift Ideas for the Linux Gadget Geek

Submitted by DeviceGuru
DeviceGuru writes "Got a Linux Gadget Geek on your shopping list? You can't fail with a gift from this guide to the ten hottest Linux-powered devices gleaned from LinuxDevices.com's news throughout 2007. But in case that doesn't do it for you, WindowsForDevices has an alternative gift guide for those of the Redmondian persuasion. The gadgets range from $150, for the Zipit Wireless Messenger that runs Linux, to a $2,000 tiny Windows palmtop computer from FlipStart, the company founded in 2002 by Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen, and beyond."
Portables

Under The Hood Of The Low-Cost Asus Eee PC->

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MojoKid
MojoKid writes "The Asus Eee PC is now available for sale in the US as of today and there is more than enough buzz about this new, low-cost, ultra-portal computer that ships with a custom KDE-built interface for Linux. Though the machine has been viewed by some as a response to the XO-1 laptop from OLPC, but it appears to be less toy-like in its design. This full evaluation shows the Eee PC is built on Intel mobile Celeron technology and the 910GML Express chipset. Power consumption was measured at a miserly 15 Watts idle and 18 Watts under load with battery life in excess of 3.5 hours. There is also an abundance of software pre-installed on the machine, like Open Office applications, Skype, Pigeon and even a web cam."
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Windows

MS responds to Vista's network and audio problems.->

Submitted by quirdan
quirdan writes "With the publishing of the discovery of the connection between Vista's poor networking performance and audio activities last week, word quickly spread around the Internet. No doubt this grabbed Microsoft's attention, and they have decided to respond to the issue. Microsoft state they are working on a technical documentation, as well as applying a slight sugar coating to the symptoms. Apparently they believe almost a 90% drop in networking performance is "slight," only affects reception of data, and that this performance trade-off is necessary to simply play an MP3 or a Windows 'ding' sound. Come on — this is 2007, not 1997."
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