Re:Who cares about decimal?
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RMS Turns 50
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Who cares about any base counts since rms's birth? How about counting the days since he wrote that article in Dr Dobbs journal proposing an open source unix. That's how to date the open source era.
All you late adopters can count yourselves newbies until you hit 1100110101010 days of really believing in open source.
Dosboy's Counter Offer Rule of Thumb: Only accept a counter-offer if: 0. Your employer is a large corporation 1. You move you to a different department 2. You won't report to the old boss 2. The new department applies a different payscale 3. The new job is more challenging
This is a huge false-positive problem because so many people tell the truth. If half of everyone were lying, this might be worth something,
But if 1 million passengers tell the truth, and 1,000 lie, the problem is not that you've just let 250 liars go. It's that you've detained 10,000 innocent people.
After seeing more than 13 times as many false positives as real positives, you won't have the guts to do anything to the people who test positive for lying.
Microsoft still needs MS-DOS for NT client setup
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MS DOS: A Eulogy
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Even at this NT-only shop, we use MS-DOS 6.22 from a bootable CD every day:
to put window boxen on the net with clients made from the NT server disk client setup program.
to boot up a machine with a forgotten admin password and copy the sam to be cracked at leisure with l0ftcrack.
to restore Disk Image Pro and Ghost images from the network or burned onto the CD.
No, the dos in dosboy does not stand for denial of service.
If junk mail suddenly stopped tomorrow, you'd be whining about the high price of postage.
Unlike spam's affect on e-mail as a whole, junk mail actually subsidizes the cost of sending first class letters. Why do you think we pay a pittance for a letter here in the USA? Compare $0.34 to anywhere else, and then decide.
Just recycle it and stop wasting your time with elaborate attempts at discouraging junk mail.
I doubt it. I've been buying os-less computers from egghead's clearance bin - TPC clones - for friends and relations without an OS for years.
If they haven't noticed onsale/egghead for two years, then they won't notice much smaller outfits.
The clones are last year's model, but plenty powerful enough enough to run Linux on. e.g. a Duron equipped box with 64mb ram and 2GB hd for $588 minus monitor and os.
What I want is simple: programmable matter. I want billions of dirt cheap nano robots that can latch on to each other, and form shapes, so that designing objects would be somewhat similar to redering in POV-ray.
You would write shapes, give them textures, and an interpreter would tell each robot what to do form the shape. You render on screen until you are ready to test an object in real life.
Does this mean Mozilla.org can now sue Micorosoft for putting "Mozilla" in the user agent string of I.E.? Does this mean Netscape can sue Microsoft for putting "Netscape" in their IE pages?
Even if M3 is foobar, give the 1.0 release a chance. All my experience with browser builds is that they get slow and flaky towards the end of the development cycle, and then suddenly get way better on (or after) the due date.
It's a fact of life. People hold off posting bug fixes until it looks like they are gonna miss the release. It's called schedule chicken.
Wine is no way to live. Think of it as "the patch" for users trying to cut down.
Wine has its place in corporations that rely on lame old home-grown Windows apps for certain key functions they haven't ported to the web yet.
Around my company, everything is done with e-mail, or the web, so I could get away with one of 17+ platforms, but I've worked in environments where some genius wrote an windows exe that management directed everyone to use.
You have keep a windows PC around, dual boot, borrow a windows box, or run Wine.
If you want companies to be able to get rid of Windows sooner than later, you'll want Wine to work.
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Who cares about any base counts since rms's birth?
How about counting the days since he wrote that article in Dr Dobbs journal proposing an open source unix. That's how to date the open source era.
All you late adopters can count yourselves newbies until you hit 1100110101010 days of really believing in open source.
Dosboy's Counter Offer Rule of Thumb:
Only accept a counter-offer if:
0. Your employer is a large corporation
1. You move you to a different department
2. You won't report to the old boss
2. The new department applies a different payscale
3. The new job is more challenging
This is a huge false-positive problem because so many people tell the truth. If half of everyone were lying, this might be worth something,
But if 1 million passengers tell the truth, and 1,000 lie, the problem is not that you've just let 250 liars go. It's that you've detained 10,000 innocent people.
After seeing more than 13 times as many false positives as real positives, you won't have the guts to do anything to the people who test positive for lying.
Even at this NT-only shop, we use MS-DOS 6.22 from a bootable CD every day:
to put window boxen on the net with clients made from the NT server disk client setup program.
to boot up a machine with a forgotten admin password and copy the sam to be cracked at leisure with l0ftcrack.
to restore Disk Image Pro and Ghost images from the network or burned onto the CD.
No, the dos in dosboy does not stand for denial of service.
If junk mail suddenly stopped tomorrow, you'd be whining about the high price of postage.
Unlike spam's affect on e-mail as a whole, junk mail actually subsidizes the cost of sending first class letters. Why do you think we pay a pittance for a letter here in the USA? Compare $0.34 to anywhere else, and then decide.
Just recycle it and stop wasting your time with elaborate attempts at discouraging junk mail.
I doubt it. I've been buying os-less computers from egghead's clearance bin - TPC clones - for friends and relations without an OS for years.
If they haven't noticed onsale/egghead for two years, then they won't notice much smaller outfits.
The clones are last year's model, but plenty powerful enough enough to run Linux on. e.g. a Duron equipped box with 64mb ram and 2GB hd for $588 minus monitor and os.
What I want is simple: programmable matter. I want billions of dirt cheap nano robots that can latch on to each other, and form shapes, so that designing objects would be somewhat similar to redering in POV-ray.
You would write shapes, give them textures, and an interpreter would tell each robot what to do form the shape. You render on screen until you are ready to test an object in real life.
I guess I'm impatient for the future.
Does this mean Mozilla.org can now sue Micorosoft for putting "Mozilla" in the user agent string of I.E.? Does this mean Netscape can sue Microsoft for putting "Netscape" in their IE pages?
Even if M3 is foobar, give the 1.0 release a chance. All my experience with browser builds is that they get slow and flaky towards the end of the development cycle, and then suddenly get way better on (or after) the due date.
It's a fact of life. People hold off posting bug fixes until it looks like they are gonna miss the release. It's called schedule chicken.
Wine is no way to live. Think of it as "the patch" for users trying to cut down.
Wine has its place in corporations that rely on lame old home-grown Windows apps for certain key functions they haven't ported to the web yet.
Around my company, everything is done with e-mail, or the web, so I could get away with one of 17+ platforms, but I've worked in environments where some genius wrote an windows exe that management directed everyone to use.
You have keep a windows PC around, dual boot, borrow a windows box, or run Wine.
If you want companies to be able to get rid of Windows sooner than later, you'll want Wine to work.