petabyte - Slashdot User

Comment Re:You have got to be kidding me. (Score 2, Insightful) 835

by petabyte on Thursday March 29, 2007 @02:49PM (#18532113) Attached to: Circuit City and the American Dream

I suppose I've had a different experience. I my field, I'm somewhat in demand so people try to keep me. However, I've been seriously working for 3 years and changed jobs almost every year. As openings come up, I climb up the ladder. My employeer has both a "penison" and a 401K - I only have faith in the 401K.

I understand what Circuit City is doing. As a company I'm pretty convinced they're over with. I can't recall the last time I went to one of their stores although I think that was for giftcard or something. They're trying to save money in whatever way they can. I really think they have to change how they do business and the way their stores are setup to compete with BestBuy but I really think it is too late for that. Anyway, I'll probably be buying stuff online.

Submission + - MIT Press Book on Open Source now Free

Submitted by eaglemoon on Tuesday March 20, 2007 @11:47AM

eaglemoon writes: MIT Press has released its book Perspectives on Free and Open Source Software as a free pdf download. The book is a collection of research essays covering topics such as open source motivation, economics, business models, software development process and tools, law and community. Sort of like "Open Sources" from academics. David Parnas, Larry Lessig, Eric von Hippel, and Clay Shirky are among the contributors. Go forth and consume.

Submission + - Novell and Perens speak out on patent deal

Submitted by

unum15

on Tuesday March 20, 2007 @11:12AM

unum15 writes: "This week is Novell's Brainshare conference. They are touting the Microsoft covenant not to sue as "good for consumers". Bruce Perens Decided to take this opportunity to "rain on Novell's parade". Perens read a statement from RMS affirming the GPLv3 would not allow companies to enter deals like this and continue to offer GPLv3 software. Perens even goes as far as to suggest this move is an exit strategy by Novell. There is Salt Lake Tribune Coverage, audio and pictures, enn coverage, crn coverage, and a volunteers report."

Journal Journal: AJAX 404 scripts?

Journal by frankie on Monday February 26, 2007 @02:18PM

My organization just rolled out its new site design (which includes a good chunk of moved pages), and I just upgraded my copy of Danny Goodman's _Dynamic HTML_ to 3rd edition ("updated for Ajax and Web 2.0"). So I quickly realized we should have an AJAX script on our 404 pages. Parse the given URL, apply some heuristics, test a half-dozen candidate addresses, forward user to the best match.

Submission + - XFCE 4.4 released

Submitted by

b100dian

on Monday January 22, 2007 @05:20AM

b100dian writes: "If you have already followed the release candidates, you know that XFCE is really evolving.
Besides adding desktop icons, introducing Thunar (en lieu of xffm) and MousePad, applications that are as simple as effective, Terminal that has built-in support for desktop composition (which is supported by the window manager out-of-the-box), it also introduced (finally!!) shortcut for the pop-up menu (you can see in the tour that Ctrl-Esc is binded to this menu)!!.
Congratulations for the lightest and slickest window manager ever:)"

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