Re: Intel video specs

2008-02-01 Thread Nathan Aubrey
On Friday 01 February 2008 12:47:04 am der.hans wrote: moin moin, Brian just let me know Intel released a reference manual for some of their graphics stuff. http://intellinuxgraphics.org/ Most cool. With good driver support would those chipsets provide enough horsepower for

Implications Of Yahoo-MSFT merger

2008-02-01 Thread Joshua Zeidner
Without a doubt- the Linux world just made a major shift towards all things Google. I would be interested to know if Yahoo is moving to .NET. Any other prognostications out there? -jmz -- --- PLUG-discuss mailing list -

Re: Implications Of Yahoo-MSFT merger

2008-02-01 Thread Kristian Erik Hermansen
On Feb 1, 2008 12:52 PM, Joshua Zeidner [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Without a doubt- the Linux world just made a major shift towards all things Google. I would be interested to know if Yahoo is moving to .NET. Any other prognostications out there? I interviewed with Yahoo in December at the

Re: Implications Of Yahoo-MSFT merger

2008-02-01 Thread Joshua Zeidner
On 2/1/08, Kristian Erik Hermansen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Feb 1, 2008 12:52 PM, Joshua Zeidner [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Without a doubt- the Linux world just made a major shift towards all things Google. I would be interested to know if Yahoo is moving to .NET. Any other

Re: Implications Of Yahoo-MSFT merger

2008-02-01 Thread Alan Dayley
Joshua Zeidner wrote: Without a doubt- the Linux world just made a major shift towards all things Google. I would be interested to know if Yahoo is moving to .NET. Any other prognostications out there? I really enjoy my Flickr account. I just got my family and friends used to going

Re: How To Measure Linux Proficiency?

2008-02-01 Thread Kevin Brown
the point (though vague) is this: does it really prove anything if you are degreed or not? I have found, in my travels, that a lot of college degreed people haven't the first damned clue about things out here in the real world (Like a guy I know in Kansas with a Comp-sci degree and hasn't

Re: How To Measure Linux Proficiency?

2008-02-01 Thread Kristian Erik Hermansen
On Feb 1, 2008 6:06 PM, Kevin Brown [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The presence of a degree is useful for HR departments to use as a filter to screen people quickly. Most of the time they don't set the requirements, just filter for them and the appropriate keywords to find candidates to fill a job.

Re: Flamebait

2008-02-01 Thread Patrick C
I think that given the right circumstances, we all are hypocrites so I'm not sure what the ultimate point was. The discussion covered the ground of the notion that a degree doesn't necessarily prove anything and I amplified with further proof of that argument. The second post was to amplify the

Re: Implications Of Yahoo-MSFT merger

2008-02-01 Thread Darrin Chandler
On Fri, Feb 01, 2008 at 05:32:51PM -0700, Alan Dayley wrote: General prognostications: - After some discussion and hand waving about monopolies and too much power in one company, the deal will be approved. - Yahoo employees will be applying to Google and any other place even faster than they

Re: Gentoo for Business?

2008-02-01 Thread Patrick C
I could see Gentoo being useful in business situations where a certain (probably proprietary) application demands a very specific (and largely unchanging) group of settings. You could throw Gentoo onto a virtual and configure it exactly as necessary to run that piece of software, even if you had