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SUSE Linux Enterprise in the Americas: Open Source - good for job marketability
You’ve seen the stats… 70-85% of all IT shops have Linux in use. More and more of them are using Linux and open source for “mission critical workloads”… Bill Snyder from InfoWorld posted a blog entry that highlights a report that indicates what he calls “the open source jobs boom”.
Looking for a good job in IT? Sharpen your knowledge of open source development frameworks, languages, and programming. A just-published study of available IT jobs found that 5 percent to 15 percent of the positions now on the market call for open source software skills.
Written by consultant and author Bernard Golden in conjunction with O’Reilly Media, the 50-page report attempts to document the spread of open source in the enterprise. Although the study did not quantify the actual percentage of open source products used in the enterprise, the strong growth in available jobs — in a period when overall IT job growth may be slowing — points to a surprising breadth of adoption. Indeed, the recession may be pushing budget-strapped IT execs to examine low-cost alternatives to commercial software.
Interested in getting a Linux certification under your belt? Novell offers four technical and one sales certs:
- Certified Novell Salesperson (CNS) - Linux
- Certified Linux Administrator (CLA)
- Certified Linux Desktop Administrator (CLDA)
- Novell Certified Linux Professional (CLP)
- Novell Certified Linux Engineer (CLE)
Not to mention the other product certifications we offer which are for products running on or designed to compliment your Linux environment. More info on all of these certifications is here. You can also check out some good community or free resources here.
Stefan Seyfried: Bad HP, continued…
So the motherboard got exchanged. That’s fine. The MAC address of the ethernet card changed as a consequence, that’s unavoidable and no real problem.
But why on earth do they have to change the DMI identification strings of the machines in mid-production?
Before, the machine reported itself like that (”s2ram -n” output):
This machine can be identified by:
sys_vendor = "Hewlett-Packard"
sys_product = "HP Compaq 2510p Notebook PC"
sys_version = "F.0A"
bios_version = "68MSP Ver. F.0A"
Now it reports
This machine can be identified by:
sys_vendor = "Hewlett-Packard"
sys_product = "HP Compaq 2510p (RU537EA)"
sys_version = "F.0A"
bios_version = "68MSP Ver. F.0A"
When I entered it into the s2ram database, I of course used the full “HP Compaq 2510p Notebook PC” string, not expecting it to change within the same model.
Bah!
But I should have known better: looking at whitelist.c shows, that HP has always had the bad habit of changing those strings all the time (just look at all those different nx5000 entries).
Marko Jung: To all sysadmins: thank you!
Traditionally - mainly because I also have worked as sysadmin for years - I enjoy to celebrate SysAdminDay every last Friday in July.
I would like to thank especially all system administrators which support my work and keep the stuff running. For my work at SUSE/Novell this mainly is the SUSE R&D-Admin team. Kudos to Thomas and his crew for being available all the time and handling all kinds of requests very fast, efficient and straightforward. I deeply appreciate your work! Of course I also would like to express my thankfulness to all people at Novell’s IS&T.
As a user of the openSUSE Build Service I also depend on the work from some of my colleagues from my team and department. I am grateful for being able to use such a fast, reliable and innovative service.
The LinuxTag-Admin team, which is completely volunteer driven, also deserves my gratitude. I would like to mention our team lead Kester and moreover Stefan and Michael from Speedpartner for sponsoring infrastructure and joining our team.
Furthermore I am fortunate to have Emme as my friend - it is highly reassuring to know you have someone to ask in cases you need a dam good tip or just another crazy idea to find another approach to a problem. The hack-nights with you have always been very inspiring!
Last but not least I send my greetings to my former colleagues and friends at the MPII.
Thomas Biege: Ruby Cookies
Ever used Google with inurl:environment.rb ":session_key" ":secret"?
Update: Yesterday I put two Ruby scripts online that can de-/encrypt cookies.
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Christopher Hobbs: A year of altbit.org!
It looks like as of July 7th, this blog had an anniversary. I’ve kept several blogs and sites over the years, but this one is by far the longest I’ve had one in operation. I really think that it’s due to me finding the openSUSE project.
I’ve always had a desire to help out with open source projects in some way and the openSUSE community kickstarted that for me. Thanks to the whole community for keeping me active and thanks to the readers for skimming my crazy rants and raves.
I almost wish I had some of my old site backups, it would be interesting to read over some old posts. I’m going to dig through some dusty external drives to see if I can’t bring back some old material.
Thanks again, and happy anniversary altbit.org!
Stefan Seyfried: Bad HP, bad…
My cool new machine was already sent back for warranty repair. The external display, connected to the docking station, did not get a signal anymore, so the motherboard had to be replaced. Ok, bad luck, but nothing to worry about. I had another similar machine (nc2400, the predecessor of the 2510p) to use during repair, so it was not that bad. But what really pisses me off is the fact, that i needed to boot Vista, just to reactivate the built-in UMTS card. When I first had to do it after fitting the card into the machine, I was thinking that it might be Sierra Wireless who needs the card to be “activated” or that I just had overlooked some BIOS setting in my eagerness to use the new toy, so I did not bother too much.
But today - I had of course booted Linux and wondered where the ttyUSB* devices had gone - I searched all the BIOS settings and everything, but there was just no device appearing on the USB bus. So I finally had to boot Vista, start HP’s “Wireless Manager” and switch it on there.
That’s 10GB of valuable harddisk space wasted, just for an UMTS activator program. I hate that.
Shame on you, HP guys. I’m really pissed.
Danny Kukawka: openSUSE: Better TabletPC support
The linuxwacom X11 driver now also provides touch support. It's realised as a new input device with option "Type" "touch". These devices work only on TabletPCs and with the option "ForceDevice" "ISDV4".
Since SaX2 currently only supports the configuration of the Stylus (Pen) and the Eraser devices I had to extend Sax2 to allow also the configuration of Touch devices. You can find my patch here and an updated SaX2 package (for openSUSE >= 10.2) in my openSUSE Build Service home repo (you need also the latest x11-input-wacom packages from there to get the full support).
If you have an other TabletPC with Wacom Multitouch support feel free to send me an email with your xorg.conf and some information about the machine and I add the machine to SaX2, so that you be able to configure your machine very easily.Hubert Figuiere: Guadec slides
Just a quick note to let people know that I have put my slides online. They are linked from lgo (in OpenDocument).
I'll provide PDF and HTML versions soon.
Jan Nieuwenhuizen: 2008-07-21: Monday
- Fix radio button functionality (state changed on stateChanged *and* actionPerformed) by adding simple callback juggling in our wrapper. This needs a vcl change, rebuild all.
- Add localization for insert-sheet.xml.
Jan Nieuwenhuizen: 2008-07-22: Tuesday
- Put out latest ooo-build.git with tweaked commit messages.
- Team meeting.
Jan Nieuwenhuizen: 2008-07-23: Wednesday
- Move development to m25.
- Initial work for Delete sheet/QueryBox in layout.
- Finding that m25 does not build for me, switch back to m21.
- Finally add patches, applied @ m25 again, to ooo-build.
Jan Nieuwenhuizen: 2008-07-24: Thursday
- Watch my 11.0 system/hard disk inching forward under untarring load down to 2MB/s buffered reads. Eventually add missing patch to ooo-build. Nothing in /var/log/messages.
- Discuss secret cunning GIT plan with kendy and followup.
- Flabbergasted by missing topic branches when cloning from experimental git repo after Thorsten tries it. Rsync says the repos are identical. Fix http://lilypond.org/vc/dev300-m21.git branch info by updating git on server and running git update-server-info.
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Integrate the--at Delete Sheet dialog directed--QueryBox implementation
and use it for Delete Sheet. Replaced the YES button's text with
the name of the action--Delete Sheets--and use that for the Dialog's title too.
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Make blog images and find that an alert image is missing.
Other than that, even such a small simple dialog is a lot
nicer when converted to layout, me thinks.
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After adding a FixedImage, find that the QueryBox's image
has four images encoded into one png. To use it, there is
*custom code* vcl/ImageList: A full fledged class with 36
methods, some 650 lines of code. Un-be-lie-va-ble. There
is also a bit alignment work to do and the Dutch translation
of the question wrongly uses the singular from.
- Add another patch to ooo-build after Noel fails to build trunk again (thanks Noel :-).
Jeffrey Stedfast: Moonlight 2.0 Hackathon
I've been reworking our c++ Collection implementation to support the Silverlight 2.0 collections of doubles and Points (Silverlight 1.0 only allowed collections of DependencyObjects) and I'll then move on to updating the c++-side code that used to use generic double and Point arrays to use my new DoubleCollection and PointCollection classes respectively.
I've also taken the liberty to implement some of the additional functionality that Silverlight 2.0 has added to the base Collection class (aka PresentationFrameworkCollection` on the .NET-side of things) like Contains() and IndexOf() (we used to get these 2 for free with my c++ List implementation, but I'm no longer using that as the base) as well as changing the way collection change-notification is done.
Once that is finished, I'll be binding them in managed land.
Meanwhile, Chris Toshok and Rolf have been refactoring the way DependencyProperties get registered since Silverlight 2.0 allows the programmer to create new DependencyObject derivatives and register new DependencyProperty's on those objects.
They'll also be making the type-system per-AppDomain rather than global like it is right now and will be looking into allowing each AppDomain to have multiple Surfaces so that applications like LunarEclipse will be able to work.
Federico Mena-Quintero: Wed 2008/Jul/23
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I'm writing a little utility that generates Git repositories from some unpleasantly-formatted data. The test suite for this was really simple to write: you can simply ask git, "give me the SHA-1 hash that you have for the content" at the end of the test run (i.e. "git-cat-file -p HEAD" and parse out the "tree" hash from there). If the obtained hash matches your expected hash, then you know the test succeeded. This is much easier than comparing all of the expected/obtained content by hand.