BeOS *still* does it better and faster than any other OS out there. Here's a little hint to the (future) OS coders out there: Don't make it snazzy, make it *functional*, snazzy can come later./blockquote yeah. functional... like multi user. be's multi user capability was just kick ass.
(uhm you do that at the gas pump, you drive more, you buy more gas, your car pollutes more by burning more? you pay more)
no, gas tax is used almost exclusively to pay for highway upkeep. since we don't really do much of anything about pollution caused by cars, pollution has nothing to do with the gas tax.
It's easy to ignore what he says, because he's obviously nuts. But, attacking the speaker instead of the argument is a logical fallacy ( ad hominum ).
Often, he's right about things, and this is one of them. Sun is a hardware company, not a software company. they're trying to get the foss community do their software maintenance for them, so they can continue to sell their hardware. They're not, in this case, particapating as equal partners with the foss community ( any more than apple is ), they just want our help with their code.
We ought to have a right to drive for the same
reason we have a right to bear arms, it seems to
me. So where do states get off still telling us
that this is a "privilege" and not a right?
how are you wrong? let me count the ways:
If i'm (for example ) legally blind, do I still have the right to drive a car?
If i screw up with a handgun, i can (maybe ) kill 1 or two people. If i screw up with a car, I can easily kill 60 kids on a school bus
There's absolutly no good reason i can't a. ride the bus, b. ride a bike, c. call a taxi, d. bum a ride from a friend
with irc and voip, it costs exactly nothing to set up a chatroom/conference call, so the need to meet face to face is unproven
>Hey conservatives! Maybe if instead of worrying >about absitence only education and attacking >Darwinism
You're commiting the common mistake of confusing conservativism ( an economic theory ) with the ?BS that the republican party spouts to appeal to the bible belt. The guys in power in the US aren't conservatives... they don't stand for a single traditional conservative value.
> because Solaris is a technically superior > operating system
What makes you say this? do you have actual examples of how solaris is superior to linux ?
as far as i can tell, the main advantage of solaris was that it ran on sun's big-ass servers. Now that we can get the same performance out of a 2-way AMD64 machine as out of 64-way e10k this doesn't matter anymore.
2. When did Einstein or Gates resort to pointless vandalism because they were too pathetic to do something useful?
ignoring for a moment your confusing grouping of einstein and gates, what i'd like to know is: when was the last time gates did something usefull? or even, when was the last time he paid someone to do something usefull?
MyISAM vs InnoDB: When you lose power to a MySQL db w/ MyISAM tables, the indexes are generally messed and you need to rebuild.
When will people stop using this POS for production environments? do you drive to work in your kid's toy car just because it's cheaper? no. you get the best car you can afford. Do you use FAT32 for your production severs? no. you use reiser or ffs+softupdate.
So - if they'd spent the extra 10 minutes it takes to learn how to program a real database, they'd have come right back up with maybe 5 min of transactions needing to be replayed.
>and never changed practices as auto negiotiation > became more stable
So you believe the manufacturer's press release? Ok. setting that aside for a minute, given that most installations purchase hardware as it's needed, that means that most people have some old stuff and some new stuff. Do you think it makes more sense to have a different policy for each piece of hardware you're plugged into, or to have one policy that always works nomatter what you're attached to?
now if someone in the gnu/linux world would just fix ifconfig so that it actually knew how to configure all the settings on a given interface so that I wouldn't have to read the damn kernel documentation for every new nic i purchase...
>We have 9 machines with faulty motherboards >with embedded NIC
so basically, they're using shite hardware because they're too cheap. bet they've noticed by now that it costs less to use good hardware than to try to fix it later when something goes wrong
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> I think you give too much credit to the
> consumer... I don't think as many people
> care as your or I would hope.
and they're the ones who's exploited machines are currently being used to send me spam and SSH brute force attacks.
so, you see, even if they don't care, I do.
funny how this (already ) doesn't happen in kde...
(must think of something to do to defeat the lameness filter.....)
if only alan cumming's last name had a k...
http://www.beautyhabit.com/alancumming.html
> The new hacker/cracker challenge: zero day ports!
well, given where most of the good ports come from these days, the quickest route is to just install OpenBSD
no, gas tax is used almost exclusively to pay for highway upkeep. since we don't really do much of anything about pollution caused by cars, pollution has nothing to do with the gas tax.
um... no. everyone knows your decryption key.
what? yes, my mower needs 91 octane gas.
um... let's see. it's not released under a bsd license. it's not a bsd kernel, it's a mach kernel...
It's easy to ignore what he says, because he's obviously nuts. But, attacking the speaker instead of the argument is a logical fallacy ( ad hominum ).
Often, he's right about things, and this is one of them. Sun is a hardware company, not a software company. they're trying to get the foss community do their software maintenance for them, so they can continue to sell their hardware. They're not, in this case, particapating as equal partners with the foss community ( any more than apple is ), they just want our help with their code.
how are you wrong? let me count the ways:
>Hey conservatives! Maybe if instead of worrying
>about absitence only education and attacking
>Darwinism
You're commiting the common mistake of confusing conservativism ( an economic theory ) with the ?BS that the republican party spouts to appeal to the bible belt. The guys in power in the US aren't conservatives... they don't stand for a single traditional conservative value.
because, to be consistant, it would have to be a +1 rating
Must... Resist... Emacs/Vi war... Must Resist...
> I'd say that 99.99999% of all cars stolen
> are some kids who want a joy ride.
i'd say that 2+2=5, but that wouldn't prove anything, would it? It would just be me making up figures to support my position.
I hate to break your heart, but they haven't made 'real' TinFoil for almost 30 years. What you're using is aluminum foil.
>I drive a 10-yr-old butt-ugly, junker car.
>That seems to keep the thieves away.
This was my theory too - I drive a 17 year old 4Runner that's been used for what it was designed for for much of this time.
Last week someone broke in and stole my workout clothes and the stereo ( note to self - do not leave sweatsuit in a bag that says 'targus' on it )
>the funniest thing I've ever read on Slashdot
/.
/ 23 25238&tid=158&tid=126&tid=17
not even the funniest tinfoil story on
http://yro.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=04/12/23
> because Solaris is a technically superior
> operating system
What makes you say this? do you have actual examples of how solaris is superior to linux ?
as far as i can tell, the main advantage of solaris was that it ran on sun's big-ass servers. Now that we can get the same performance out of a 2-way AMD64 machine as out of 64-way e10k this doesn't matter anymore.
ignoring for a moment your confusing grouping of einstein and gates, what i'd like to know is: when was the last time gates did something usefull? or even, when was the last time he paid someone to do something usefull?
apple basic is the only thing i can come up with
it's not an insurance company. it's a_21%_car_loan_for_people_with_bad_credit company
>gui and familiarity are second to
...
> functionality, though a good program is never
>without both
a good program is never without gui? wtf? let's see...
squid
apache
postgres
When will people stop using this POS for production environments? do you drive to work in your kid's toy car just because it's cheaper? no. you get the best car you can afford. Do you use FAT32 for your production severs? no. you use reiser or ffs+softupdate.
So - if they'd spent the extra 10 minutes it takes to learn how to program a real database, they'd have come right back up with maybe 5 min of transactions needing to be replayed.
>and never changed practices as auto negiotiation
> became more stable
So you believe the manufacturer's press release? Ok. setting that aside for a minute, given that most installations purchase hardware as it's needed, that means that most people have some old stuff and some new stuff. Do you think it makes more sense to have a different policy for each piece of hardware you're plugged into, or to have one policy that always works nomatter what you're attached to?
now if someone in the gnu/linux world would just fix ifconfig so that it actually knew how to configure all the settings on a given interface so that I wouldn't have to read the damn kernel documentation for every new nic i purchase...
>We have 9 machines with faulty motherboards
>with embedded NIC
so basically, they're using shite hardware because they're too cheap. bet they've noticed by now that it costs less to use good hardware than to try to fix it later when something goes wrong