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Learn to install and reinstall Windows. Not just Vista or 7, but XP as well. Learn how to add/remove/troubleshoot device drivers without killing yourself. Connect to a local server, get networking set up, get wifi working.

Because someone, somewhere, shortly after you graduate, will ask you to do this. You might even have to do it for yourself at your first job.

[EDIT] You can downvote me, but any fellow CS grad that makes it to a business environment will encounter some coworker that will want help with their machine, and I guarantee it will be running some version of Windows. Trust me on this one.
The concern is coming because Mozilla announced that they will soon stop supporting Firefox 4 and the enterprise has a problem with this.

Personally, I'm fully supportive of this. I feel that as the browser world is rapidly changing along with HTML5/CSS3, there's not much room to continue supporting (and thus encouraging continued use of) old browser versions.

If gaining support of the corporate world (which Mozilla has never had much luck getting into) means leaving developers, support and security resources working on old products this really isn't surprising.
I run a squid caching proxy and direct all my (Fedora or RHEL) systems to use it along with a non-mirror list repository that is fairly close to me. I'm not totally sure what your question is though.

If you want to tightly control the packages that get updated then there isn't much to be done other than manually managing your own repo. Although if it is this big of a concern you should probably be running a distribution that is less volatile than Ubuntu. Say RHEL, CentOS, or Debian.
The guillotine certainly went a long way toward securing the freedom of countless peasants, and the effects of the French Revolution reverberated throughout Europe for the next 100 years at least.
What the fuck? People destroy their lives for another hit. People I know have done that. Addiction is not the same thing as a habit. It is much more addictive than you think.

If you can find me one junkie who stood on principle and quit cold turkey just because they ran out of money, I will seriously reconsider my position. But I know you can't, because that's not how addiction works.
Not in the sense of looking for "employees", no. Looking for (a) co-founder(s), yes. A co-founder would need to be (or be able/willing to re-locate to) somewhere pretty close to Raleigh/Durham, NC. If you're interested, shoot me an email.

Note that this is still in self-funded, bootstrap", "nights and weekends" mode. :-)
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For me, cscope+vim+ddd has all the editing/building/debugging power I need .. I think with this combination of tools I can match the prowess of any fat IDE for any degree of 'cruddy project' > 'power codebase' ..
Successful nerds succeed, there are plenty of unsuccessful nerds. I, without a shred of evidence, would think there is a positive correlation between school geekiness and success, but all this "nerds will own the world" talk that is gaining traction lately is a bit foolish, in my opinion.
Understood. The meetup today is really kind of a one-off... I often go to that Barnes & Noble to work anyway, so I decided to just make today a small, casual H&F meeting. But, point taken, and I'll see about trying to do something more on the Raleigh side of the Triangle again, sometime soon. Durham really does seem to be emerging as the "hub" for startup activity in the area though, so there's a lot of allure to doing events there. :-)
>intelligent interaction with your code.

I use cscope for intelligent interaction with my code, vim as the primary editor/interface (keybindings for cscope are awesome..) and ddd in an 'always on top' window for building/debugging .. in comparison to my Eclipse (android) environment where I am also working, I think that an easy balance can be made if you use the 'apps as pipes' philosophy that a good vim experience requires ..
I've heard good things about MCollective for distributed package updates:

http://www.puppetlabs.com/mcollective
Wow, that's a lot of downvotes and only one counter-point. What sorts of recreational drugs are not addictive? And what sorts of drugs will not mess you up when taken in "recreational" dosages?
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Being different and bullied is sadly not always followed by success. As someone with the diagnosis of Asperger’s, which has been called “the Geek syndrome,” I am acquianted with many with the diagnosis who have struggled for a long time to maintain stable employment.
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As I said in the blog post, there may be solid reasons behind Asa's comment. But its not the way to express it. Am I correct?
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There is always room for a competiter. Just b/c there was Rhapsoday, et al, didnt' stop Pandora (and the flood of other online music sites).

People dislike a site (or company) for many reasons - poor search, navigation, layout, bugs, etc.

Again, just because there is Honda, doesn't mean there isn't room for Toyota and Hyundai, etc.

I'm constantly looking for alternatives to existing software/sites. Unless you have a competitor like Amazon, I think you should go ahead and do what you _want_ to do.

If you have a great interest in this idea, follow it through. At worst you make it open source. If you are interested anymore, dump it.
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In the end, its the hardware that counts. As in, the real physical hardware.

A number like "how many active installations of hardware X", which represents actual real-life users in realtime, is a very important thing for an application developer to keep track of .. if you've got one machine that is serving 10,000 people over lunch-time, something, then you better know how that machine is working.

If the lawn-humping teenage generation of programmers aren't being taught one thing, its that hardware in use is all that matters. Count that as your primary professional consideration, and things go very well from there, usually.

If students were coming away from US Computer education establishments with very strong hardware capabilities and focuses, rather than 'doctrine and taxonomy' as a focus, there would be a positive change in the industry. Many 'old school' programmers got that way because they had to build their own hardware; if you are a Java coder, there is absolutely no reason why you shouldn't also know how to wire up a chip. Its totally arbitrary.
Rick Doblin, the director of the multidisciplinary Association or Psychedelic Studies did a talk at google, which you can watch here:

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The fact that a some successful people are nerds, doesn't mean that every nerd is going to be successful.

Not only this theory is not backed even by a simple correlation, but it hastily extrapolate the USAs case to the world.
More like: "Give us the keys to this safe." and assuming they have a warrant, they can ask for such things.
Yep. At my work we have a apt repository, and push packages to in, then issue an apt-get update on all the machines.
We manage our own dists. We package our own software as .debs, so everything gets managed the same way. All security updates, release deployments, rollbacks, etc., are managed with apt-get. I don't exactly understand pinning, but it's also important to how we manage packages.

Depending on the release and the kind of server we're deploying to, we may do them all in one night or in batches of a few hundred over a week. All our boxes install security updates regularly (because we promptly add security updates to our dists.)
I was thinking that it was going to be about 'love'-ing an article or topic, too, which would mean awkward pledges like 'I love bone cancer!'. Being interested in a topic does not mean you 'love' or 'like' it.

However, upon reading the article, this is not about marking articles, but rather a way to send accolades to fellow Wikipedia editors.
Am I the only one that is skeptical of the quote in Mike's post [1]? "Managing 500,000 corporate users" seems a bit outlandish to me considering that only one corporation in the world seems to have more than half a million employees period. I am not so sure that Wal-Mart has 500,000 corporate users who are affected by browser upgrades.

[1] Linked in the article but http://mike.kaply.com/2011/06/23/understanding-the-corporate...
Do you really think you're inherently superior to the average teenage girl? Really?

On what metric? Ah, intelligence? Productivity? Technology skills? Contribution to humanity's scientific progress? And who decided that those are the way to measure the superiority of one human being over another?

You say "moral relativism", but I don't think you've looked up the definition of that term. Moral relativism is about the evaluation of moral judgements and actions, not of people's intrinsic worth.

Fundamentally, you're only "better" than a crazy teenage girl according to metrics that you've made up. For example, if the ability to give birth to and nurture children is picked, you (assuming you're male) would be intrinsically "worse".
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For the modern adult, nothing signifies self-confidence, street credibility and authenticity like one simple confession: “I was such a nerd in high school.”

Really? Credibility, of the street variety or otherwise, and authenticity? I think Bruder should review what those words mean before using them again.

It depends on the person, but, for the most part, when I hear people say that, I know they're making shit up.

Of course, since the opening premise is based on lies, there's basically nowhere that Bruder can go with this. Some nerds are successful, yes. Yet so are many gorillas.
Just curious, but how does Mozilla know that corporate users make up such a small minority?
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Not necessarily. I get how it makes you question authority and generally see life in a different light, but it doesn't exactly do so in a way that it would lead to society breaking down. The long term effects are manifested more internally than externally IMHO.
I think it was the most honest way he could have described it. Every day that passes I experience more cases where being honest is not the right thing to say, in the corporate world, because of politics.

I have a problem with that.

He's making it clear that Firefox is not an enterprise solution. What's wrong with that?
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If mozilla genuinely does not consider enterprise a priority, would you really prefer them to give you some bullshit where they pretended it was?

I think the explicit honesty would be pretty helpful for a sysadmin who needs to make decisions about which technology to use. Yeah, it's blunt, but the bluntness does a pretty good job of not encouraging false hope. Obviously the sysadmin would prefer support, but mozilla just gave a very clear and understandable reason why that shouldn't be their priority.
Would the downvoters care to explain the glowing praise for European-style regulation in a publication supposedly devoted to libertarian ideals? What is the argument for consistency there?

Downvoting a legitimate argument (as opposed to say, an ad hominem attack) without supporting it with your own counter-argument is laziness.
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I don't know which John Walicki the quote is from, but the top result on LinkedIn works for IBM, so it's a possibility that they as a service provider support users of many different corporations on a single product.
Corporate users need to seriously rethink their glacial technology adoption cycle. In the BigCos I've worked at in the past, we're usually told it's due to security, yet we're almost always stuck on versions with glaring security holes that were solved years ago.

The problem indicated in the blog post (and the comments) is that the software ecosystem, add-ons, various vendor web sites, etc., take too long to bring up to speed. I can also attest to this, I worked at one organization that was stuck on IE 6 because the bloated and ridiculous expense reporting system wouldn't work on anything newer. They finally had to upgrade to some newer version because a major customer site simply refused to work with IE6 and we couldn't turn in our work. The weeping and whining from the corp IT department over having to upgrade the enterprise lasted for a year at least. It was actually a major contributor to me leaving the company I found it so absurd and annoying.

Strange that the vast vast majority of web sites on the open web don't seem to have a problem with this. Could it be because they write to standards? I always wondered what bizarre things were going on in that old expense system that just broke on new browsers.
Software delivery is changing. Heavily influenced by web-based software and easy delivery mechanisms (App Store, Steam, soon-to-be-Windows App Store), we are moving into a software delivery and support system of latest and greatest only.

This is at odds with the standard operating procedure of large corporations. What Mozilla seems to be saying is that they no longer support the old way of doing things because they think the new way is better (and I agree with them).
As a third grader when Star Wars came out, I can honestly say it changed every kid in my school. Not everyone was a sci-fi or comic book geek, but EVERYONE was playing Darth Vader and Luke Skywalker on the playground for years afterward.

Like Lucas said, there weren't many fantasy heroes for the average kid back then (not counting comic book figures. I was never into comics). I had my Evil Knievel lunchbox and Six Million Dollar Man action figure, but Star Wars was a whole new universe to play in. The toys were simple and fun.
Actually, this is a list of graph database management systems.

I was hoping for a list of graph databases, like Knuth's The Stanford Graphbase, which is something completely different.
Just out of curiosity--

Does anyone know why it is important that a password can be more than 64 characters? Is he just saying "which makes it very hard to remember", or is there some legal significance to very long passwords?
Okay. My point is what is active? Someone who logs in once a year? Once a month? Sure 50% of "active" users log in once a day, but what about the other 50%?
Reading the comments on Mike Kaply's post, this is my favorite quote:

«Alienate the corporate users and you’ll alienate home users.»

It appears these corporate IT types honestly don't understand why Apple are doing so well.
Oh, I agree such suits exist, though SLAPP suits against individuals are still pretty rare. I'm just saying that I believe the ratio of ordinary suits by individuals against corporations is several orders of magnitude more common.
the funny thing is how all americans, including geeks, seem to consider this inevitable. Growing up in Europe, I was a full-blown geek at the age of 13 and I didn't feel socially isolated at all (much less taunted or tortured) because of it.
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> You know what the best way to protest a game is? Stop playing for a while and send an email.

By not playing, you're not making anyone else currently playing the game aware of the protest. Although you're making CCP aware of your protest, you're becoming essentially invisible to the other users.
What BBC interview?
Create a custom repository of your packages and point all the machines in your cluster to it? If it is CentOS or RHEL just add a new repo to /etc/yum.repos.d. If you are upgrading system repos then just set the priority of your repo to be higher. Of course this implies that you have successfully rpm-fied your packages. We did that to all our packages and configuration.
This is more like what "IT" students should do before entering the workforce.

CS students, lucky sods, should be making transistors.
...except the potential downside is slightly larger.

That's quite an understatement. If the plaintiff's attorney spends half of what the defense spends, he's looking at tripling his exposure if he loses. That's an enormous difference.
This is a native feature in iOS5. Also not all are running the latest iOS5.

This move is a kill for the real estate of the web - the publishers.
Exposing READER feature in the browser means users are going to disable all ads in iphone and ipads in iOS5.

Knowing this great feature I used yesterday in my iPhone, I now install the Reader addon for my Firefox; say Adblocker in Firefox.

The publishers run the web with the content.
There was a time when content was the king. Now, Platform is the king. It's a platform war.
How do you install it in Linux? Is there Steam for Linux that binds things up in WINE?
Corporate users are many in number and only few is sticking with Firefox. Majority of the people is with IE, especially with IE6 (sigh). May be Asa would have said that
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It's not that all corporate users lumped together are small minority. I'ts about the 500.000 number quoted by one of admins as their corporate user count.

Comparing single corporation with all the other users is a valid argument, since every corporation defines its needs differently. The non-corporate users are quite homogenous and can be lumped together.

The core problem is the corporate users demand extra support to spare them some costs. They want browser vendors to ensure bug-for-bug compatibility with all their internal systems -- rather than invest in updating the systems. Moreover, corporate users expect browsers to adapt to their particular set of systems, while still going forward on othre fields. I'd call it a minefield, and one without any grattitude to be won. It's pretty damn hard to innovate and develop a browser for such market.

Contrast that with consumer market, where content providers, ISPs etc. consider it natural part of business to update their customer-facing WWW once in a while. The browser is free to go forward, and chances are the new, cool features will soon be put to good use. Way more breathing space for innovation.
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They carefully control the process...

Meaning they heavily regulate what can be charged. Why is Reason so enthusiastic about regulating attorneys but screams bloody murder if the government tries to regulate doctors or the energy industry?
What makes you think we're not experiencing "decadence and the denial of life" now?

Suggested reading: Brave New World by Aldous Huxley.
So, why don't we see this in other professions?
High school rewards people who socialize well, it doesn't punish kids for loving science. If you socialize well, you can 'get away' with being a CS major, hell, you can even make it cool. It just so happens plenty of nerds don't socialize well.

Reaching out to teens and asking them to reach out to their dorky classmates because they might be their bosses one day just doesn't take. They lack the foresight, control, and interest.

The reality of the situation is that teens can and will be immature, annoying, shits. People have known this for centuries.
How is this even a problem to corporate users? If they write standards compliant internal web-apps, they should certainly work even better in newer versions of Firefox.
I would love to deploy via apt-get, but I don't want to lose the ability to have multiple versions installed at the same time. How do you handle this? Do you have to name the package for each version something different a la python.2.4, python2.6, etc?

This is the one thing I hate about apt vs tools like rubygems; the workarounds for this missing functionality are heinous.
And read the comments too. If Pogue was an employee of Apple I'd be proud of him for fighting so hard. As a journalist at the NYTimes, its kind of embarrassing for him and the Times.
1960's: Eddie's so gifted! Send him to a special school.
1970's: What a nerd! How will he ever meet a girl?
1980's: What? You want to go out with me? What a nerd!
1990's: Look at that's nerd's car. His father must have bought it.
2000's: With all this computer stuff, good thing he was always a nerd.
2010's: No longer a nerd. Just an "outlier".
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Not exactly. I was doing lots of other things, yes, and in hindsight many of them were far more useful than the homework assignments I skipped; but the lack of assignment-completion was more from laziness and a lack of motivation to do boring assignments than from a deliberate decision.
"Is this too far out of scope for Graph Databases?"

No, it's just that ad-hoc boolean queries are better suited for other query strategies.

That's not to say that you couldn't use a graph database alongside another strategy. Neo4j, for example, has built in integration with Lucine. These sorts of boolean logic queries are best addressed by your typical b-tree index.

Note that, in general, you want to prefer relationships over attributes. Depending on the application, you'd probably have something more like this:

Node types:
User(name, age)
Country(name)
Job(title)

Relationship types:
LivesIn()
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To accomplish the boolean AND/OR queries, you'd store the key/value pairs from the User object from your comment in Lucine. But in the general cases of your app, you'd encode the relationships you need for particular, non-ad-hoc queries. Nodes and relationships can be used like pointers to create data structures in your graph. From there, standard algorithms generally apply.

"Is sorting possible at all with graph databases"

Often, you can completely bypass it by encoding order as a linked list. Add a relationship type: NextOldestPerson()
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These "geeks" they are talking about are just people with passion for something that was not popular at school.
I mean how many pupils can relate to something like programming?

People who were defined as "nerds" who are just incapable of socializing, have a huge disadvantage in the real world.