Was he a script kiddie? But, more to the point...
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who cares? Who gives a fuck? The only one who knows that for sure is Mafiaboy. Slashdot seems obsessed with who's got skills and who's got 'skilz'. Seeing as you're really not gonna know his skill level unless you meet him in person, it's all an exercise in futility. You shouldn't care about the skills of every loudmouth braggard on the internet, AND, if you do, then I pity you.
Horseshit, I used SCO at work running on a Zenith server, it's fine. The only time it crashed was 'cause my last company used cheap, crappy hardware that failed.
Well, the system I used, we had to use a system which allowed little or no automation on things that could have been extremely easy on a modern OS like Windows or UNIX. Having to type in a 8 line sequence every night was tiresome.
viruses, trojans, hackers, crackers
Well maybe not viruses and trojans, but hackers and crackers are still very much possible. A disgruntled employee knows the password to admin so he logs in and types 'pend' for the hell of it.
EULAs
Uhhhh well IBM still has a pretty fascist LA with whatever company is running the mainframe... this is proprietary in the true sense of the word, not what the/. ameteurs think the words means, the OS is tied to IBM and is leased and is subscribed to.
Microsoft
Ah, yes, this wouldn't be/. if you didn't slam MS in some way. I can't tell you how many times I wish I had access to a modern system that used heirarchical file systems instead of cryptic and badly written JCL and JECL statements.
BSOD
Our mainframe was poorly administered so occasionally it would not returned from answered partitions... meaning it had to be rebooted basically and the disk would have to perform a disk check like any other OS.
It means users using the computer to get the job done, not web surfing, playing minesweeper or struggling with the latest Outlook disaster.
Well whatever... it also means struggling to use a cryptic and antiquated system while real work could be accomplished on a mini or a pc.
It means hardware, operating systems, compilers and utilities debugged over nearly 40 years that work 7/24 without a hiccup.
Granted IBM hardware is rock solid... although our in house utilities sucked @ss, still a Sun SPARC will work running Solaris works just as well as the IBM mainframe we used.
I'm not anti-mainframe I'm just staunchly anti-JCL, I'd rather flip burger than work with it again.
People seriously, stay the fuck away from JCL, it sucks, it's for companyies that are stuck in 1971.
Don't let people tell you that it's useful... it's not.
"In liquid form, anthrax is useless - droplets would fall to the ground, rather than staying suspended in the air to be breathed by victims. Making powder needs repeated washings in huge centrifuges, followed by intensive drying, which requires sealed environments. The technology would cost millions. "
Basically, turning Anthrax into a powder form is nearly impossible without a huge lab and expensive expensive equipment.
Not that I agree with what happened to him, (I think it's bullshit) but it was UN Sanctions that he violated, and the US government was just enforcing those sanctions.
UNIX has character-driven IO, which would create unnecessary overhead, because the processor processes every mistaken 'n' or 'p' you push. Mainframes like OS's which temporary store characters on the terminals until a key is pressed which then process the information.
Apple's hardware isn't flawless, but it's not like most Mac users are saying "I want Mac OS X, but oh shit I have to buy a G4 to run it." That's part of the whole package. Apple is a systems company. If you don't like it, then go buy a PC running Windows or Linux. Or build your own, and recompile your kernel every 38 days. That's fine. But not everyone wants that.
I use Win 98' so no compiling here... it's just that I'm not sure that there will be a lot of cross-overs occurring. Like I said, I'm really am not interested into being tied into one vendor to obtain hardware (the stuff I've read on Macs says that they produce good but overpriced hardware), so Windows 2000 would win in my case hands down.
A non-free OS with no real competition is such a small deal compared to hardware with no competition. The article doesn't mention what will be the biggest drawback for the majority of PC users: It runs on a Mac.
Now if they ever make an Intel version, that's a different story... no matter how bad it is it can't be worse than Linux. Then, I'd be interested.
OS X runs on Mac hardware... maybe the OS has more 'free' roots to it, but personally it's more important to me to be able to pick and choose the hardware my PC runs with than whether or not the source is open or not.
Shame on you CNET, for not mentioning OS X's biggest flaw: it's a Mac OS, therefor you are severely limited in what hardware you can buy for it.
Or do Mac users like being told what hardware to buy?
Also, as we're on news server issues, why has the RIAA etal left news alone? I guess because it's de-centralized?
I don't think binaries ever got as popular as P2P, it's a PITA to download and reconstruct binaries and it's more for the technically elite, whereas Napster is a more user-friendly and a much more popular service.
Also you can't "shut down" USENET, it's not really a company or a service even, it's a protocol. The RIAA would have to individually go after the posters.... but you can generally hide your identity on USENET real well so that's not feasible either.
As for Bunten, her Modem Wars was the first multiplayer RTS ever. 'Nuff said.
Are you sure she wasn't a he then? Sorry but someone had to say it. Personally I thought Command HQ was one of the best games of a all time so I can't really complain that it's author later became a she. Takes all kinds I guess.
Electic light: Approx. 40 years to hit 80% of households
Telephone: Approx. 80 years to hit 80%
Television: Just under 15 years for 80%...wow!
Auto: 65 years!
Radio: About 20 years
Your not seriously comparing the internet to all those things? The internet's impact is so unbelievably minor compared to even television, let alone automobiles. Computers themselves had an effect comparable to radio.etc, but that revolution is probably 30 -40 years old by now. An outsider would barely even notice the 'net being here.
Learn math. Calculus, logic, permutations... that sort of thing.
I've read elsewhere in this story about the "my favorite language" syndrome.
Learn how to think first, all the other stuff is just details really. I've always laughed at how people think they're so smart because they know Unix or C but couldn't integrate function to save their life. I felt like saying to them that UNIX/C is downright easy compared to calc/logic (which I'm sure is easy compared to higher math that I haven't taken yet).
Another important thing is that through the process of learning math you just may discover some things about yourself that you didn't know. I discovered that not only could I do math like calculus, but I actually enjoyed it. That surpised the hell out of me.
opponents who can't process a hundred million floating point operations per second.
You sure about that? I've that on some level our brains can do the same sort of calculations as computers, we just cannot express them in words. It's an interesting theory, but that's all it is, a theory.
Problem solving is a piece of the equation, but it's a small part. A lot of sloppy code is written because people just don't have intimate knowledge of the language. Wasted resources is a major problem with today's applications.
Consider Windows. It solves all of our problems, but it really doesn't do it that well. It has a GUI that one can use applications with, and an interface, but underneath all of that there are memory leaks and really buggy software problems.
It's almost as if the coders followed your advice but then didn't take the requisate step to consider the potential problems their code might wreak upon systems (Windows seems to do it's worse when it has +30 apps installed on it.
I've personally seen apps that "solve" the problem at hand, but bog down resources WAY more than they should. That "trivial" work is the most important work of it all, after all, a computer cares nothing for theories or algorithms, all it cares about is the array of instructions it needs to process.
Remember that MS has had 25 years and has only recently produced an OS that doesn't crash at least once a week.
Now maybe I have a short memory but I don't really remember DOS crashing all that much. 3.x wasn't really even that bad, it's just that the 9x series have been pretty bad.
I recently had the opportunity to set up and work with a Tandy 1000, and yes, it did smell like the 80's. I can't describe the smell really, it's the smell of domesticity you got when you were over a friend's house and stayed overnight for example.
OK if you don't believe me I could provide directions to the fully funtional Tandy 1000. Yes, the 80's does have a particular smell.
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FLAMEBAIT? Oh, you suck! Hmmmm, geeks find it funny when Microsoft gets bashed. Yeah, that's intended to incite flames. Dickhead.
Don't tell me you don't know the first rule about posting at/.? Never say anything that goes against the status quo. As long as you know your role and say what you should say you won't be moderated down. But/. (or the/. community I guess I should say) is less inclined to tolerate those who rock the boat then, say, Nazi Germany. Keep your mouth shut, and keep repeating the same onerous pro-Linux/anti-Microsoft drivel ad nauseum and you'll be fine.
This was a very sarcastic post brought to you by Rotten168. Thank you and please moderate me down, fuckers.
I have _never_ been able to get my sound card to work under any version of linux (I have an SB Live).
I have an SB live and it worked right off the bat for my distro (Mandrake).
As for X Windows, unfortunately it doesn't alias it's fonts (or whatever) so as a result all X font appears as if it came from the Atari 5200. If you're a developer, spending 4+ hours looking at that crap can make blood come out of you eye sockets (sarcasm).
but 99% of Computer users I have worked with think that CLI and the Unix way are a step backward.
Sounds like the 99% of computer users you know would fit nicely into my category.
Reread my post. I agreed with you, the average user has no need for Linux, if he wants to do multimedia give him a Mac or BeOS (or a workstation if it's possible), if he wants to surf the web and play solitaire give him Windows, but if he's into programming give him a *nix.
Yeah, the real world uses Windows, but developers/webservers use Unix and if they don't they should. Linux is extremely hampered by the lack of anything approaching a suitable browser- IE is the best out there, NS is a joke but I suppose Mozilla.7 is a little better, but Windows is hampered by it's instability and it's lacking of Unix power.
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who cares? Who gives a fuck? The only one who knows that for sure is Mafiaboy. Slashdot seems obsessed with who's got skills and who's got 'skilz'. Seeing as you're really not gonna know his skill level unless you meet him in person, it's all an exercise in futility. You shouldn't care about the skills of every loudmouth braggard on the internet, AND, if you do, then I pity you.
Move on with your lives, folks.
Horseshit, I used SCO at work running on a Zenith server, it's fine. The only time it crashed was 'cause my last company used cheap, crappy hardware that failed.
viruses, trojans, hackers, crackers
Well maybe not viruses and trojans, but hackers and crackers are still very much possible. A disgruntled employee knows the password to admin so he logs in and types 'pend' for the hell of it.
EULAs Uhhhh well IBM still has a pretty fascist LA with whatever company is running the mainframe... this is proprietary in the true sense of the word, not what the /. ameteurs think the words means, the OS is tied to IBM and is leased and is subscribed to.
Microsoft /. if you didn't slam MS in some way. I can't tell you how many times I wish I had access to a modern system that used heirarchical file systems instead of cryptic and badly written JCL and JECL statements.
Ah, yes, this wouldn't be
BSOD
Our mainframe was poorly administered so occasionally it would not returned from answered partitions... meaning it had to be rebooted basically and the disk would have to perform a disk check like any other OS.
It means users using the computer to get the job done, not web surfing, playing minesweeper or struggling with the latest Outlook disaster.
Well whatever... it also means struggling to use a cryptic and antiquated system while real work could be accomplished on a mini or a pc.
It means hardware, operating systems, compilers and utilities debugged over nearly 40 years that work 7/24 without a hiccup.
Granted IBM hardware is rock solid... although our in house utilities sucked @ss, still a Sun SPARC will work running Solaris works just as well as the IBM mainframe we used. I'm not anti-mainframe I'm just staunchly anti-JCL, I'd rather flip burger than work with it again.
Sorry you lost your job :)
Don't be, I'm not.
I just lost my JCL/IBM mainframe job today!!!!
People seriously, stay the fuck away from JCL, it sucks, it's for companyies that are stuck in 1971.
Don't let people tell you that it's useful... it's not.
No, the security flaw is that in XP the default user is the administrator. A restricted user needs to be created.
Not that I agree with what happened to him, (I think it's bullshit) but it was UN Sanctions that he violated, and the US government was just enforcing those sanctions.
UNIX has character-driven IO, which would create unnecessary overhead, because the processor processes every mistaken 'n' or 'p' you push. Mainframes like OS's which temporary store characters on the terminals until a key is pressed which then process the information.
Maybe someone else can explain it better.
I use Win 98' so no compiling here... it's just that I'm not sure that there will be a lot of cross-overs occurring. Like I said, I'm really am not interested into being tied into one vendor to obtain hardware (the stuff I've read on Macs says that they produce good but overpriced hardware), so Windows 2000 would win in my case hands down.
A non-free OS with no real competition is such a small deal compared to hardware with no competition. The article doesn't mention what will be the biggest drawback for the majority of PC users: It runs on a Mac.
Now if they ever make an Intel version, that's a different story... no matter how bad it is it can't be worse than Linux. Then, I'd be interested.
OS X runs on Mac hardware... maybe the OS has more 'free' roots to it, but personally it's more important to me to be able to pick and choose the hardware my PC runs with than whether or not the source is open or not.
Shame on you CNET, for not mentioning OS X's biggest flaw: it's a Mac OS, therefor you are severely limited in what hardware you can buy for it.
Or do Mac users like being told what hardware to buy?
I don't think binaries ever got as popular as P2P, it's a PITA to download and reconstruct binaries and it's more for the technically elite, whereas Napster is a more user-friendly and a much more popular service.
Also you can't "shut down" USENET, it's not really a company or a service even, it's a protocol. The RIAA would have to individually go after the posters.... but you can generally hide your identity on USENET real well so that's not feasible either.
Are you sure she wasn't a he then? Sorry but someone had to say it. Personally I thought Command HQ was one of the best games of a all time so I can't really complain that it's author later became a she. Takes all kinds I guess.
Ugh... CygWin slows Windows down to a crawl and that's true for many people I've heard from online.
There's a regular BASH shell that doesn't use funky colors and isn't as confusing available somewhere online (but I'm too lazy to find it).
Your not seriously comparing the internet to all those things? The internet's impact is so unbelievably minor compared to even television, let alone automobiles. Computers themselves had an effect comparable to radio .etc, but that revolution is probably 30 -40 years old by now. An outsider would barely even notice the 'net being here.
Compared to Linux it's lightning fast. At least as far as X-apps go.
Learn math. Calculus, logic, permutations... that sort of thing.
I've read elsewhere in this story about the "my favorite language" syndrome.
Learn how to think first, all the other stuff is just details really. I've always laughed at how people think they're so smart because they know Unix or C but couldn't integrate function to save their life. I felt like saying to them that UNIX/C is downright easy compared to calc/logic (which I'm sure is easy compared to higher math that I haven't taken yet).
Another important thing is that through the process of learning math you just may discover some things about yourself that you didn't know. I discovered that not only could I do math like calculus, but I actually enjoyed it. That surpised the hell out of me.
Just give yourself a chance.
If that's the only way you can win then maybe you should stick to RTS's.
You sure about that? I've that on some level our brains can do the same sort of calculations as computers, we just cannot express them in words. It's an interesting theory, but that's all it is, a theory.
Problem solving is a piece of the equation, but it's a small part. A lot of sloppy code is written because people just don't have intimate knowledge of the language. Wasted resources is a major problem with today's applications.
Consider Windows. It solves all of our problems, but it really doesn't do it that well. It has a GUI that one can use applications with, and an interface, but underneath all of that there are memory leaks and really buggy software problems.
It's almost as if the coders followed your advice but then didn't take the requisate step to consider the potential problems their code might wreak upon systems (Windows seems to do it's worse when it has +30 apps installed on it.
I've personally seen apps that "solve" the problem at hand, but bog down resources WAY more than they should. That "trivial" work is the most important work of it all, after all, a computer cares nothing for theories or algorithms, all it cares about is the array of instructions it needs to process.
Now maybe I have a short memory but I don't really remember DOS crashing all that much. 3.x wasn't really even that bad, it's just that the 9x series have been pretty bad.
Uh, yeah, and geeks do? Has Amazon.com even gone into the black yet? Geeks give themselves too much credit.
I recently had the opportunity to set up and work with a Tandy 1000, and yes, it did smell like the 80's. I can't describe the smell really, it's the smell of domesticity you got when you were over a friend's house and stayed overnight for example.
OK if you don't believe me I could provide directions to the fully funtional Tandy 1000. Yes, the 80's does have a particular smell.
Don't tell me you don't know the first rule about posting at /.? Never say anything that goes against the status quo. As long as you know your role and say what you should say you won't be moderated down. But /. (or the /. community I guess I should say) is less inclined to tolerate those who rock the boat then, say, Nazi Germany. Keep your mouth shut, and keep repeating the same onerous pro-Linux/anti-Microsoft drivel ad nauseum and you'll be fine.
This was a very sarcastic post brought to you by Rotten168. Thank you and please moderate me down, fuckers.
I have an SB live and it worked right off the bat for my distro (Mandrake).
As for X Windows, unfortunately it doesn't alias it's fonts (or whatever) so as a result all X font appears as if it came from the Atari 5200. If you're a developer, spending 4+ hours looking at that crap can make blood come out of you eye sockets (sarcasm).
Sounds like the 99% of computer users you know would fit nicely into my category.
Reread my post. I agreed with you, the average user has no need for Linux, if he wants to do multimedia give him a Mac or BeOS (or a workstation if it's possible), if he wants to surf the web and play solitaire give him Windows, but if he's into programming give him a *nix.
Yeah, the real world uses Windows, but developers/webservers use Unix and if they don't they should. Linux is extremely hampered by the lack of anything approaching a suitable browser- IE is the best out there, NS is a joke but I suppose Mozilla .7 is a little better, but Windows is hampered by it's instability and it's lacking of Unix power.