It bothers me that a lot of dumb, stupid things I've said are there for public viewing. When I began using Usenet, I had no idea that a) the posts would be archived forever and b) they'd be easy to look up by using my name. Had I known this I would've thought twice about some of my more obnoxious posts.
If companies were owned by the state you wouldn't choose to make a bad product and then brainwash people into craving for it.
Actualyl, if you had companies owned by the state you'd have state capitalism. This is what the Soviet Union was (not communism, as much as it wanted to be.) I'm sure you remember how well that worked for Russia. I'd rather take the lesser evil of American-style capitalism than state capitalism anytime.
Free music has a price, and it's really not all that bad if your computer doesnt have anything REALLY incriminating on it
This is frighteningly similar to the arguement that if you have nothing to hide, why, you won't mind the police searching your house. Its not the fact that I'm trying to hide something, I just feel that its an intrustion of my privacy when programs report my activities to a third party.
Woah, that is pretty crazy. I've met Taco once at a Linux con a long time ago and that video definately looked like him. It could be faked, but its pretty interesting nonetheless. Can anyone else confirm if this is him or not?
I work as a consultant for several fortune 500 companies, and I think I can shed a little light on the climate of the open source community at the moment. I believe that part of the reason that open source based startups are failing left and right is not an issue of marketing as it's commonly believed but more of an issue of the underlying technology.
I know that that's a strong statement to make, but I have evidence to back it up! At one of the major corps(5000+ employees) that I consult for, we wanted to integrate Linux into our server pool. The allure of not having to pay any restrictive licensing fees was too great to ignore. I reccomended the installation of several boxes running the new 2.4.9 kernel, and my hopes were high that it would perform up to snuff with the Windows 2k boxes which were(and still are!) doing an AMAZING job at their respective tasks of serving HTTP requests, DNS, and fileserving.
I consider myself to be very technically inclined having programmed in VB for the last 8 years doing kernel level programming. I don't believe in C programming because contrary to popular belief, VB can go just as low level as C and the newest VB compiler generates code that's every bit as fast. I took it upon myself to configure the system from scratch and even used an optimised version of gcc 3.1 to increase the execution speed of the binaries. I integrated the 3 machines I had configured into the server pool, and I'd have to say the results were less than impressive... We all know that linux isn't even close to being ready for the desktop, but I had heard that it was supposed to perform decently as a "server" based operating system. The 3 machines all went into swap immediately, and it was obvious that they weren't going to be able to handle the load in this "enterprise" environment. After running for less than 24 hours, 2 of them had experienced kernel panics caused by Bind and Apache crashing! Granted, Apache is a volunteer based project written by weekend hackers in their spare time while Microsft's IIS has an actual professional full fledged development team devoted to it. Not to mention the fact that the Linux kernel itself lacks any support for any type of journaled filesystem, memory protection, SMP support, etc, but I thought that since Linux is based on such "old" technology that it would run with some level of stability. After several days of this type of behaviour, we decided to reinstall windows 2k on the boxes to make sure it wasn't a hardware problem that was causing things to go wrong. The machines instantly shaped up and were seamlessly reintegrated into the server pool with just one Win2K machine doing more work than all 3 of the Linux boxes.
Needless to say, I won't be reccomending Linux/FSF to anymore of my clients. I'm dissappointed that they won't be able to leverege the free cost of Linux to their advantage, but in this case I suppose the old adage stands true that, "you get what you pay for." I would have also liked to have access to the source code of the applications that we're running on our mission critical systems; however, from the looks of it, the Microsoft "shared source" program seems to offer all of the same freedoms as the GPL.
As things stand now, I can understand using Linux in academia to compile simple "Hello World" style programs and learn C programming, but I'm afraid that for anything more than a hobby OS, Windows 98/NT/2K are your only choices.
I will not be buying any US products while the DMCA remains in force.
Ummm...okay. I'm sure the gov't will change its mind on this because you've chosen to not purchase Coke or whatever it was you've boughten. Seems like you're just harming yourself when there are better options available.
Just because he's an Open Source advocate (and rather vocal one at that) doesn't mean he should use what he views as inferior products to run his site.>
Yeah but if he did this he'd be running Windows and not Linux!;)
Actually I'm a big fan of Yahoo! messenger myself. Sometimes I'll use AIM, but its obviously aimed (no pun intended) at teenagers, and tends to be very simplified. ICQ has a bunch of cryptic things in it that I'll never ever use.
Bzzzt! Wrong! When @Home promises speeds 50x faster than dialup, and I'm getting about 3x, then I expect them to help me out with it. Furthermore, the customer support rep simply said "Try a search engine" and then disconnected. That is pretty piss poor.
Okay, check this out. I set up a brand spanking new Windows machine. I used to online @Home support page to talk to a tech. I needed to get their speed patch so my network would get more than 8k/sec.
The technician, after about twenty minutes, told me that they no longer supported that patch, that I should try a search engine and then promptly disconnected me. I think thats pretty shitty customer support. Fortunately the rest of my experiences with @Home have been pretty good.
Currently I'm using, and loving, Python. It has a very active and helpful community, plus tons of modules that come with the system. While I do like Ruby, it doesn't have the support behind it that Python does. Thats why I use Python, and not Ruby.
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Here's your chance to earn a point or two of karam: What exactly are Coffee & Cat warnings?
Its a nice leather belt!! *ba-dum-dum*
Thank you ladies and gentleman, I'm here all week.
Thats what Worker's Comp is for. But I agree with the Supreme Court that she's not eligible for ADA coverage.
It bothers me that a lot of dumb, stupid things I've said are there for public viewing. When I began using Usenet, I had no idea that a) the posts would be archived forever and b) they'd be easy to look up by using my name. Had I known this I would've thought twice about some of my more obnoxious posts.
As far as I know it doesn't. Instead Morpheus has tons of ads. I'm using it right now and it seems to be working pretty good.
Actualyl, if you had companies owned by the state you'd have state capitalism. This is what the Soviet Union was (not communism, as much as it wanted to be.) I'm sure you remember how well that worked for Russia. I'd rather take the lesser evil of American-style capitalism than state capitalism anytime.
This is frighteningly similar to the arguement that if you have nothing to hide, why, you won't mind the police searching your house. Its not the fact that I'm trying to hide something, I just feel that its an intrustion of my privacy when programs report my activities to a third party.
Woah, that is pretty crazy. I've met Taco once at a Linux con a long time ago and that video definately looked like him. It could be faked, but its pretty interesting nonetheless. Can anyone else confirm if this is him or not?
I work as a consultant for several fortune 500 companies, and I think I can shed a little light on the climate of the open source community at the moment. I believe that part of the reason that open source based startups are failing left and right is not an issue of marketing as it's commonly believed but more of an issue of the underlying technology.
I know that that's a strong statement to make, but I have evidence to back it up! At one of the major corps(5000+ employees) that I consult for, we wanted to integrate Linux into our server pool. The allure of not having to pay any restrictive licensing fees was too great to ignore. I reccomended the installation of several boxes running the new 2.4.9 kernel, and my hopes were high that it would perform up to snuff with the Windows 2k boxes which were(and still are!) doing an AMAZING job at their respective tasks of serving HTTP requests, DNS, and fileserving.
I consider myself to be very technically inclined having programmed in VB for the last 8 years doing kernel level programming. I don't believe in C programming because contrary to popular belief, VB can go just as low level as C and the newest VB compiler generates code that's every bit as fast. I took it upon myself to configure the system from scratch and even used an optimised version of gcc 3.1 to increase the execution speed of the binaries. I integrated the 3 machines I had configured into the server pool, and I'd have to say the results were less than impressive... We all know that linux isn't even close to being ready for the desktop, but I had heard that it was supposed to perform decently as a "server" based operating system. The 3 machines all went into swap immediately, and it was obvious that they weren't going to be able to handle the load in this "enterprise" environment. After running for less than 24 hours, 2 of them had experienced kernel panics caused by Bind and Apache crashing! Granted, Apache is a volunteer based project written by weekend hackers in their spare time while Microsft's IIS has an actual professional full fledged development team devoted to it. Not to mention the fact that the Linux kernel itself lacks any support for any type of journaled filesystem, memory protection, SMP support, etc, but I thought that since Linux is based on such "old" technology that it would run with some level of stability. After several days of this type of behaviour, we decided to reinstall windows 2k on the boxes to make sure it wasn't a hardware problem that was causing things to go wrong. The machines instantly shaped up and were seamlessly reintegrated into the server pool with just one Win2K machine doing more work than all 3 of the Linux boxes.
Needless to say, I won't be reccomending Linux/FSF to anymore of my clients. I'm dissappointed that they won't be able to leverege the free cost of Linux to their advantage, but in this case I suppose the old adage stands true that, "you get what you pay for." I would have also liked to have access to the source code of the applications that we're running on our mission critical systems; however, from the looks of it, the Microsoft "shared source" program seems to offer all of the same freedoms as the GPL.
As things stand now, I can understand using Linux in academia to compile simple "Hello World" style programs and learn C programming, but I'm afraid that for anything more than a hobby OS, Windows 98/NT/2K are your only choices.
thank you.
The courts have also ruled dictionaries and spell-checkers are completely legal, Taco. :)
Was anyone else reminded of the Dr Seuss book Bartholomew and the Oobleck by the mention of grey goo?
Ummm...okay. I'm sure the gov't will change its mind on this because you've chosen to not purchase Coke or whatever it was you've boughten. Seems like you're just harming yourself when there are better options available.
Yeah blow up your own computer. What a great way to get it back!
I'm told that wool fibres are very poor at getting speeds above a typical dial-up connection. Hemp fibres reportedly max out at sub-ISDN speeds. ;)
Yeah but if he did this he'd be running Windows and not Linux! ;)
Actually I'm a big fan of Yahoo! messenger myself. Sometimes I'll use AIM, but its obviously aimed (no pun intended) at teenagers, and tends to be very simplified. ICQ has a bunch of cryptic things in it that I'll never ever use.
I'm sure there would be a lot less global warming if it wasn't for all the hot air that blows from Jon Katz.
The technician, after about twenty minutes, told me that they no longer supported that patch, that I should try a search engine and then promptly disconnected me. I think thats pretty shitty customer support. Fortunately the rest of my experiences with @Home have been pretty good.
Currently I'm using, and loving, Python. It has a very active and helpful community, plus tons of modules that come with the system. While I do like Ruby, it doesn't have the support behind it that Python does. Thats why I use Python, and not Ruby.
Just wondering ....
Cowboy Neal reported to be "rejoicing greatly."
Thanks to everyone who helped me out. I got it now! :)
As much as I hate to admit I cannot figure this out, how do I put my current directory in my prompt, in KSH?
This would've been moderately amusing had it lead to some kinda gay Ed 209 - RoboCop fanfic. Instead it was just some crappy story.