Re: [issues] names [was: Anyone know any more about this study?]
On Tue, Aug 08, 2000 at 04:05:01PM -0700, Nicole Zimmerman wrote: > It drives me nuts to have my name spelled wrong, let alone have someone > assume it's of a different gender... I can't imagine how you deal with it > (other than getting used to it, like having your name spelled wrong ;o)). And then there are the (relatively - Jamie is more readily associated with men than women, and women of that name usually have it spelled differently) gender neutral names like mine. There must be a few here who have wondered on occasion whether I'm male or female, but I don't really go in for the "by the way, I'm a [boy|girl]" comments. Usually in discussions where my gender might be relevant as an insight to my opinions I tend to leave little clues here and there anyway. -- Phone: +64-9-373-7599 x4679 Room: 2.316, E&EE Dept, School of Engineering Work: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Home: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ICQ: 5632563 or shout loudly ___ issues mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.linux.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/issues
Re: [issues] Anyone know any more about this study?
On Tue, Aug 08, 2000 at 07:50:41PM -0400, lou wrote: > born, the woman usually has primary care for it. Often the father goes out > without ever needing to worry about childcare because the mother is at home, > where the mother usually has to ask the father to babysit. A mother is > usually the one to take a day off of work because a child is ill, not the > father, yet when the relationship breaks up he should take custody? That > doesn't make a lot of sense to me. It would if child rearing and > responsibility were equally shared prior to the breakup. I spend a lot of time looking after kids that aren't mine, simply because I like doing it. You can rest assured that if/when it comes to having kids of my own, I will be spending a *lot* of time looking after them. Despite this, the prevailing attitudes in this country (and many others judging by comments here) mean that I would have very little chance of getting custody in a relationship breakup. And I don't think that's any more fair than the glass ceilings for women in employment. Personally (I don't expect anyone else to agree) I'd be glad to trade salary and promotion opportunities for a fair shot at keeping hold of any kids I might have in future. Obviously I don't _plan_ on ever being in that situation, but who knows? -- Phone: +64-9-373-7599 x4679 Room: 2.316, E&EE Dept, School of Engineering Work: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Home: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ICQ: 5632563 or shout loudly ___ issues mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.linux.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/issues
Re: [issues] Re: [techtalk] Desktop OS?
On Mon, Jun 04, 2001 at 06:32:37PM -0400, David Merrill wrote: > Linuxers cried foul because system tuning wasn't done properly on the > Linux box. The other point was that the hardware spec and indeed the tests run were very atypical. There can't be many Web sites out there serving static-only pages over four 100 megabit ethernet cards. -- Phone: +64-9-373-7599 x4679 Room: 2.315, E&EE Dept, School of Eng. Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] or shout loudly ___ issues mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.linux.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/issues
Re: micros~1 and apple (was Re: [issues] MS/DOJ ruling)
J B wrote: > Also, all you M$ bashers for OS/2did not M$ have the right to kill OS/2, > since they WROTE IT IN THE FIRST PLACE, under agreement from IBM? By that argument, an architect has the right to bomb a building he designed, no? -- Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Phone: +64-21-870-425 ICQ: 5632563 or shout loudly [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.linuxchix.org
Re: micros~1 and apple (was Re: [issues] MS/DOJ ruling)
J B wrote: [OS/2] > Nobut it would have died anyway...M$ would never have agreed to continue > to update it, and IBM did not have the programming resources to support it. I must have imagined versions 2, 3 and 4 then. Silly me. -- Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Phone: +64-21-870-425 ICQ: 5632563 or shout loudly [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.linuxchix.org
Re: [issues] PC Manufacturers
Jon Keck wrote: > I was wondering if anyone out there has any experience with or opinions on > alternative PC shops which focus on selling Linux systems. I've heard > of Penguin Computing but I have no idea how reliable they are or who > their competitors are. We use Dell Poweredge 2300 servers at work and we love 'em. We've had 5 of them an average of about a year and there has not been a single fault at all with any of them, Linux and Novell both work great on them. Only problem is Dell supplied us with a 3Com Vortex/boomerang card by default in one of them which the Linux drivers didn't like very much. Replaced it with an Intel Etherexpress like the others have and no problem. -- Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Phone: +64-21-870-425 ICQ: 5632563 or shout loudly [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.linuxchix.org
Re: [issues] Re: Demographics - Reprise
Kelly Lynn Martin wrote: > >Tell me when a suitable candidate has run for president? > > They don't run because they know they don't have a prayer -- and > because the people you have to convince to back you if you even want > to run don't want to support them. Remember, you need 2% to get > matching funds. This is a sad thing. Here in NZ, the leaders of our two biggest political parties are both women - one of them is the Prime Minister, and the previous PM was the other one. :-) Interestingly enough, the previous PM's husband was occasionally a topic of amusement. I believe Margaret Thatcher's husband (Dennis?) got this also. -- Phone: +64-9-373-7599 x4679 Room: 2.316, School of Engineering Work: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Home: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ICQ: 5632563 or shout loudly [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.linuxchix.org
Re: [issues] Re: Demographics - Reprise
Caitlyn Martin wrote: > > No. I mean that neither gender has a monopoly or greed, > > or cynicism. What other causes of discrimination are > > there? > > Mainly ignorance. I've always thought that was the main cause of most > discrimination and prejudice. Pride? Insecurity? A combination of all three? Where sexism is concerned, I think it stems from society not yet having realised that physical power is no longer the key to survival. > "You mean Jews don't have horns" :-) -- Work: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Home: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ICQ: 5632563 or shout loudly [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.linuxchix.org
Re: [issues] [Fwd: moron] - Novel, I thought.
Dan McGarry wrote: > Most of the men I've mentioned my participation to assume that I'm acting as > some kind of mentor. I generally have to repeat about 3 times that I'm there > to *learn*, and that I just enjoy the tenor of the discussion much more than > in male-dominated fora. I'm here because, regardless of the female focus, the discussion on these lists is rather *good*. What more could I want? As a secondary thing, I recognise my ability to say without thinking something stupid or unkind and reading about the experiences women go through in IT fields helps me avoid this. -- Phone: +64-9-373-7599 x4679 Room: 2.316, School of Engineering Work: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Home: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ICQ: 5632563 or shout loudly [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.linuxchix.org
Re: [issues] Re: Demographics - Reprise
Dan McGarry wrote: > Aside from my efforts to get the word out through less formal means, our > search has been conducted through agencies. So far, I've seen one woman's > resume out of a couple of dozen. I'm certain there are more women than just > this one who would be suitable candidates, and I suspect that, in spite of a > healthier male/female ratio in the recruiting business, there is still a > strong institutional bias against women as job candidates in this field. When the university I work for advertises for positions it usually has the phrase "The University is an Equal Opportunities employer and welcomes applications from all qualified persons" tacked onto the bottom of it. -- Phone: +64-9-373-7599 x4679 Room: 2.316, School of Engineering Work: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Home: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ICQ: 5632563 or shout loudly [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.linuxchix.org
Re: [issues] Bilateral Dominance (was: YAFGA...)
Erin wrote: > I wonder how many of us are like this (bilaterally dominant, that is)... I > write left-handed, play pool left-handed, but throw better and hold a > hockey stick right-handed. I can write with both hands in different > directions, backwards and upside-down. I can also wiggle my ears and curl > my tongue but I don't think that factors into this discussion. ;^) I'm _very_ like this. I'm basically left handed, but I do enough things right handed that for a while I wondered if my teacher made a mistake when I was 5 and that's why I wrote so badly. But then I realised there are a lot of things I do left handed too. I write left handed, I eat dessert left handed, I use a mouse right handed (but I can use one left handed), I throw right handed, I favour the right hand when catching, I wash dishes left handed, I hold beer cans left handed, I eat mains (ie, with a knife and fork) right handed, I use a joystick right handed, I turn book pages right handed, etc... :-/ Hmm, just re-positioned my glasses on my nose and I did that with my right hand :-) -- Phone: +64-9-373-7599 x4679 Room: 2.316, School of Engineering Work: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Home: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ICQ: 5632563 or shout loudly [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.linuxchix.org
Re: [issues] No, you don't suck, and I won't ignore you
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > ObIssues: Dancer came up with the observation that there seem to be fewer Perl > programmers available for hire at the moment (than there were six-twelve > months ago). Is this a local phenomenon? Or global? And do people have > hypotheses as to why? One possibility: the growing popularity of alternative scripting languages for websites such as PHP? (yes, I know Perl is used for many more things than website scripting) -- Phone: +64-9-373-7599 x4679 Room: 2.316, E&EE Dept, School of Engineering Work: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Home: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ICQ: 5632563 or shout loudly ___ issues mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.linux.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/issues
