Popularity doesn't make buggy code. Buffer overflows are soooo ten years ago, but I guess they still find them. At this point, I'm willing to say that any product with a buffer overflow found out at some time a year ago should not be used, and the programmers should be shot.
take it you've never seen the simpsons or futurama, king of the hill or the critic? all adult cartoons.
I take it you've never seen Warner Bros. either. All cartoons EXCEPT Disney are made for adults. Everything from Popeye to Betty Boop to Animinaics. (You don't think that Popeye wanted to teach kids to hit bullies who are raping your girlfriend, or two little dog-looking creatures popping out of a nurse's big boobs saying "Helllooooooo, nurse!" [Animinaics], or Betty Boop and...well, that's obvious.)
"No-one censors quite like us. The general rule in Australia is that each new communications technology as it comes along - especially cable television and video games - is allowed to operate only on condition that it sticks to material suitable for children. The same rule always applied to television in this part of the world. Despite what you can stumble across on SBS, it's still the case that no matter how old you are or how late you stay up at night, you can never see on Australian television what is screened for adults all the time at Hoyts and Greater Union."
Oh, good...now I can read NYT articles. I'm be damned if I sign up for that thing, just so that they can sell my information. Watch this account get Slashdotted.
I don't read the argeement because I only understand English, not @%^@ing Legalese. Now, if Qwest/MS/whatever would provide me a translator, as is required by law for people with a handicap, I'd comply to reading the EULA, but he'll have to give me a summary on the issue.
Seriously, there should be a law that laws/EULAs/whaever come with a common English translation attached.
have you ever, EVER even run debian??? in the default install you end up on the command line with +/- 30 mb of shit installed. from there you install packages from the net. Its the most functional and non-bloated option around
30 MBs doesn't cut it. That isn't even enough for X. I've tried to install Debian, and it's a nightmare to try to get all of the packages to work right.
The default install is TOO simple. Bash doesn't work right, and vi is sooo ten years ago (from what it is on Mandrake). I had to actually use the JKL; keys to move on Vi. WTF?! It seems like you need sub-distros for Debian just to get a good configuration out of it.
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I like dollar coins. When are we going to phase out our (US) own dollar, in favor of the gold coin. I heard it was 2004, but I also heard that they may cancel it because the dollar coin wasn't very successful. (Well, it's not going to be successful unless somebody forces the issue.)
That doesn't follow at all. If one implementation is good enough, there is no need for a competitor. Acrobat Reader is free, perfectly good enough for what it does, produced by the people who define the Acrobat format, and has no glaring missing features. What would be the point in producing a "competitor"?
Well, for one, all document-based formats should be freely available. PNG is, JPG is, GIF isn't (but that's a different story), HTML is, and mostly all document and picture formats are freely available. This one isn't, and like RealAudio (which is just a damn wrapper on MP3), it sucks.
Sure, there isn't any competition on PDF-style documents, but the simple fact that it's Adobe only and the format isn't open to the public makes it automatically bad. Like Word, it's just trying to push its own name on one format, and pushing out the competition (and/or squashing any form of future competition).
Contrast with Linux. If you call Red Hat about Sendmail, for example, they can only go so far before they say, "Well, you'll have to call sendmail, Inc. This is a bug in their app." Oh no, there's a problem with Evolution; now I have to call Ximian. And so on. Although it is my personal opinion that 98% of Unix/Linux problems you'd call about are wacky configuration issues and honest bugs. Those happen a lot, but not in the "stable" versions of apps. Who knows, the same might be true with WIndows. Anyway, a company like Red Hat is hindered because they provide integration of the apps, but not support on the apps themselves. Although I belive one of the jobs of Alan Cox is to provide a "strike force" for kernel fixes, should someone call about it.
My answer to businesses: shut up and get use to it. Just because Red Hat installed your OS doesn't mean they are responsible for every app on it. If it's a Sendmail problem, call Sendmail!
I work at tech support for Insight@Home, and I get these calls from former AOL users wanting to fix their AOL, or some other app. I think this is the same idea here. We don't fix AOL; we fix your internet connection. If you have a problem with AOL, !@$%ing call AOL!
Heh...AOL lamers and PHBs both need to realize that there shouldn't be one global progrem for everything. Sure, you only have to remember one tech support number to call, but you don't have a choice on anything else. If something isn't working right, you can't threaten to go to some other product.
OTOH, OSS allows you use anything you want, but you'll have to be sure to contact the right person. However, it's a good chance that you'll contact somebody that KNOWS the software, instead of some global tech support dunce. Again, I've talked to real programmers before to get something fixed (like people talk to me to get my products fixed).
Sometimes, you just have to beat things into people, in order for people to see it.
First you talk about how "bloated" Red Hat and Mandrake is, and then you talk about a "stripped-down Debian"?! Huh? If RH/Mandrake is bloated with its 2 discs, Debian is the king of walruses with its 4 discs! You can easily do the same thing with Mandrake (strip it down, I mean), and you don't have to wade through 10,000 packages for 4 hours.
Seeing as it's not a major issue between airlines (as in: "nobody's going to stop going to an airline because this one has cheap air-phone costs"), they will probably just quietly implement voice-over-IP and still charge the $9/min. After all, airlines still charge sky-high prices for food.
I hate timed passwords. I know they are more secure and all, but you really have to create a balance between passwords that are secure, and password that you can remember. I only use a few universal passwords on my accounts. I know this isn't the most secure thing in the world, but I'd rather have that than forget what my password was. (I brag about having a six-digit ICQ number, because everybody's already signed up for it 4-5 times when they forget their password.)
Haven't actually looked at a CS degree program lately have you? Ideally the point of any college degree is to produce a well rounded person with both basic job skills and critical thinking/analysis/problem solving skills with a good background in various arts to "round out" the person. In reality most (technical, at any rate) college degrees are nothing more than glorified, horribly expensive certifications.
Amen! Today's CS degrees are horrible! I wasted $3000 on two semesters of classes without any computer content. Finally, on the third one, they wanted me to sign up for a god damn PASCAL class. PASCAL?!! I spent $3000 (which I'm still paying off) to learn PASCAL?! Screw that!
In any case, it would be much better to sign up for certifications. Get your A+, your Network+, I-Net+, MSCE, CCNA, and anything else you can grab. Specialized fields look a lot better on a resume than a generic CS degree. Sure, you know "computer science" (whatever the hell that means), but do you know how to configure an Exchange server on Windows 2000?
Time still costs money, and that's what I need the most. Not all of us are like Alan Cox or the "higher-ups" with jobs at Red Hat, paid to do what he wanted to do anyway. Some of us are just coders with tech support jobs who can barely find the time to work on their project any more because they don't have a job that allows them to code 8 hours a day.
I'd love to have 3rd shift over here, and get 3 calls a day, but it's not going to happen soon...
Yeah, except All Your Money Are Belong To Bill Gates, not the poor programmers.
Heh...what am I saying? They are getting paid gobs of money to write garbage code! And when you're that deep in the corporate scheme of things, who needs accountability? Hell, the entire Outlook department should have been fired for putting VBScript compatibility in their clients!
At least with OSS, you can yell at some person who's in charge of X module for X application. I've talked to Alan Cox before. Alan Cox, the main guy working on many, many things in the Linux kernel. I'm sure many people have talked to Alan Cox before. Have you talked to a main programmer for Windows or any of its seperate parts? Can you bitch at him if something goes wrong?
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Popularity doesn't make buggy code. Buffer overflows are soooo ten years ago, but I guess they still find them. At this point, I'm willing to say that any product with a buffer overflow found out at some time a year ago should not be used, and the programmers should be shot.
take it you've never seen the simpsons or futurama, king of the hill or the critic? all adult cartoons.
I take it you've never seen Warner Bros. either. All cartoons EXCEPT Disney are made for adults. Everything from Popeye to Betty Boop to Animinaics. (You don't think that Popeye wanted to teach kids to hit bullies who are raping your girlfriend, or two little dog-looking creatures popping out of a nurse's big boobs saying "Helllooooooo, nurse!" [Animinaics], or Betty Boop and...well, that's obvious.)
"No-one censors quite like us. The general rule in Australia is that each new communications technology as it comes along - especially cable television and video games - is allowed to operate only on condition that it sticks to material suitable for children. The same rule always applied to television in this part of the world. Despite what you can stumble across on SBS, it's still the case that no matter how old you are or how late you stay up at night, you can never see on Australian television what is screened for adults all the time at Hoyts and Greater Union."
[Mental note: Don't move to Australia...]
Gee...I guess you can't watch Scary Movie 2 over there. God forbid you play GTA3!
Gees...Netcraft has good studies that prove Apache is on top. Mindcraft is just MS in sheep's clothing.
Damn...is it that hard to log in to a damn account? They aren't going to fire you if you say in Slashdot that an already-leaked e-mail was true.
When are they going to get that domain name problem fixed?
Oh, good...now I can read NYT articles. I'm be damned if I sign up for that thing, just so that they can sell my information. Watch this account get Slashdotted.
I don't read the argeement because I only understand English, not @%^@ing Legalese. Now, if Qwest/MS/whatever would provide me a translator, as is required by law for people with a handicap, I'd comply to reading the EULA, but he'll have to give me a summary on the issue.
Seriously, there should be a law that laws/EULAs/whaever come with a common English translation attached.
It's common knowledge that some ISP's collect info about where you surf and sell it.
references, please?
Well, Earthlink's commericial on the issue has to have at least -some- merit.
If only you could blacklist major corporations like this. Of course, I've heard that MAPS has threaten to blacklist AOL a few times.
have you ever, EVER even run debian??? in the default install you end up on the command line with +/- 30 mb of shit installed. from there you install packages from the net. Its the most functional and non-bloated option around
30 MBs doesn't cut it. That isn't even enough for X. I've tried to install Debian, and it's a nightmare to try to get all of the packages to work right.
The default install is TOO simple. Bash doesn't work right, and vi is sooo ten years ago (from what it is on Mandrake). I had to actually use the JKL; keys to move on Vi. WTF?! It seems like you need sub-distros for Debian just to get a good configuration out of it.
I like dollar coins. When are we going to phase out our (US) own dollar, in favor of the gold coin. I heard it was 2004, but I also heard that they may cancel it because the dollar coin wasn't very successful. (Well, it's not going to be successful unless somebody forces the issue.)
That doesn't follow at all. If one implementation is good enough, there is no need for a competitor. Acrobat Reader is free, perfectly good enough for what it does, produced by the people who define the Acrobat format, and has no glaring missing features. What would be the point in producing a "competitor"?
Well, for one, all document-based formats should be freely available. PNG is, JPG is, GIF isn't (but that's a different story), HTML is, and mostly all document and picture formats are freely available. This one isn't, and like RealAudio (which is just a damn wrapper on MP3), it sucks.
Sure, there isn't any competition on PDF-style documents, but the simple fact that it's Adobe only and the format isn't open to the public makes it automatically bad. Like Word, it's just trying to push its own name on one format, and pushing out the competition (and/or squashing any form of future competition).
Contrast with Linux. If you call Red Hat about Sendmail, for example, they can only go so far before they say, "Well, you'll have to call sendmail, Inc. This is a bug in their app." Oh no, there's a problem with Evolution; now I have to call Ximian. And so on. Although it is my personal opinion that 98% of Unix/Linux problems you'd call about are wacky configuration issues and honest bugs. Those happen a lot, but not in the "stable" versions of apps. Who knows, the same might be true with WIndows. Anyway, a company like Red Hat is hindered because they provide integration of the apps, but not support on the apps themselves. Although I belive one of the jobs of Alan Cox is to provide a "strike force" for kernel fixes, should someone call about it.
My answer to businesses: shut up and get use to it. Just because Red Hat installed your OS doesn't mean they are responsible for every app on it. If it's a Sendmail problem, call Sendmail!
I work at tech support for Insight@Home, and I get these calls from former AOL users wanting to fix their AOL, or some other app. I think this is the same idea here. We don't fix AOL; we fix your internet connection. If you have a problem with AOL, !@$%ing call AOL!
Heh...AOL lamers and PHBs both need to realize that there shouldn't be one global progrem for everything. Sure, you only have to remember one tech support number to call, but you don't have a choice on anything else. If something isn't working right, you can't threaten to go to some other product.
OTOH, OSS allows you use anything you want, but you'll have to be sure to contact the right person. However, it's a good chance that you'll contact somebody that KNOWS the software, instead of some global tech support dunce. Again, I've talked to real programmers before to get something fixed (like people talk to me to get my products fixed).
Sometimes, you just have to beat things into people, in order for people to see it.
First you talk about how "bloated" Red Hat and Mandrake is, and then you talk about a "stripped-down Debian"?! Huh? If RH/Mandrake is bloated with its 2 discs, Debian is the king of walruses with its 4 discs! You can easily do the same thing with Mandrake (strip it down, I mean), and you don't have to wade through 10,000 packages for 4 hours.
Seeing as it's not a major issue between airlines (as in: "nobody's going to stop going to an airline because this one has cheap air-phone costs"), they will probably just quietly implement voice-over-IP and still charge the $9/min. After all, airlines still charge sky-high prices for food.
Heh...that's just your fault for using a Compaq. Proprietary piece of junk.
This is Boeing, not American Airlines. Boeing makes planes, not fly them. The guys making the planes make a LOT of money.
I hate timed passwords. I know they are more secure and all, but you really have to create a balance between passwords that are secure, and password that you can remember. I only use a few universal passwords on my accounts. I know this isn't the most secure thing in the world, but I'd rather have that than forget what my password was. (I brag about having a six-digit ICQ number, because everybody's already signed up for it 4-5 times when they forget their password.)
Heh...I always like that term: "Bullshit Computer Science".
Haven't actually looked at a CS degree program lately have you? Ideally the point of any college degree is to produce a well rounded person with both basic job skills and critical thinking/analysis/problem solving skills with a good background in various arts to "round out" the person. In reality most (technical, at any rate) college degrees are nothing more than glorified, horribly expensive certifications.
Amen! Today's CS degrees are horrible! I wasted $3000 on two semesters of classes without any computer content. Finally, on the third one, they wanted me to sign up for a god damn PASCAL class. PASCAL?!! I spent $3000 (which I'm still paying off) to learn PASCAL?! Screw that!
In any case, it would be much better to sign up for certifications. Get your A+, your Network+, I-Net+, MSCE, CCNA, and anything else you can grab. Specialized fields look a lot better on a resume than a generic CS degree. Sure, you know "computer science" (whatever the hell that means), but do you know how to configure an Exchange server on Windows 2000?
Oh, I do have business plans of that sort, but of course, you need time to make time, and you need money to make money. I'll get there someday.
Time still costs money, and that's what I need the most. Not all of us are like Alan Cox or the "higher-ups" with jobs at Red Hat, paid to do what he wanted to do anyway. Some of us are just coders with tech support jobs who can barely find the time to work on their project any more because they don't have a job that allows them to code 8 hours a day.
I'd love to have 3rd shift over here, and get 3 calls a day, but it's not going to happen soon...
Yeah, except All Your Money Are Belong To Bill Gates, not the poor programmers.
Heh...what am I saying? They are getting paid gobs of money to write garbage code! And when you're that deep in the corporate scheme of things, who needs accountability? Hell, the entire Outlook department should have been fired for putting VBScript compatibility in their clients!
At least with OSS, you can yell at some person who's in charge of X module for X application. I've talked to Alan Cox before. Alan Cox, the main guy working on many, many things in the Linux kernel. I'm sure many people have talked to Alan Cox before. Have you talked to a main programmer for Windows or any of its seperate parts? Can you bitch at him if something goes wrong?