I hope for the maturity and rock solid stability that I remember from 4. The innovations in 5 were needed and long overdue, but the decrease in stability has not recovered in 6 (IMHO).
I've found 6.x to be almost stable as 4.x on the hardware I run it on, the only problems I've had have been on a couple of occasions where it didn't like USB hardware on a desktop machine getting disconnected without warning which seemed to lock up everything USB-related.
I have never used another OS that was as stable as FreeBSD 4.11.
I have to agree with this, the only hardware+OS combination I've personally seen outperform 4.11 in terms of stability was a rickety old RS/6k with not nearly enough RAM that ran AIX ("AIX is a great operating system, too bad it's not a very good UNIX"), that seemed to survive just about anything including brownouts (I have no idea how) and system loads so high it took a good minute to log on to the thing using SSH, yet somehow it just kept on going...
If you're talking about reverend Åke Green he didn't just say "I think homosexuality is bad", he called homosexuality an "abnormal, a horrible cancerous tumor in the body of society". And he while he did stand trial he was not found guilty of any crime.
Very hard to destroy as there are no active radar signals to track. This is not a good development.
Actually, I believe you meant "This is not a good development for the US." The rest of us think being able to detect your stealth bombers is actually a good thing since it decreases the risk of your leaders deciding to "liberate" us for one reason or another (I'm in northern europe so this is unlikely but it is still nice to have some way of detecting possible threats).
This is one reason why the age of consent is 18 in most places.
Actually, the age of consent in many countries is lower than it is in most places in the US, here in Sweden it's 15 and I haven't really heard anyone worth listening to complain about it, apparently our 15 year-olds are as capable of taking care of themselves as US 18 year-olds are, or maybe, just maybe, it's a religious thing...
Boundries are the foundation that allows the now 16 year-old daughter to tell her boyfriend, "We can go in my room, but mom/dad will freak if I close the door."
Because it would be oh so horrible and the baby jesus would cry if they kissed or god forbid, had sex? I'm sorry to tell you this but your arbitrary moral standards don't apply to everyone.
Also, my parents rarely set boundaries for me as a kid, instead they told me why it was a bad idea to do whatever it was I wanted to do, after the age of 13 or so they would just tell me I could do whatever I wanted but if I did something they had taught me not to do then I was on my own, but maybe raising your children to take responsibility isn't very popular these days?
I'd also like to say that's it's the RIAA's own damn business how they distribute their music. You can make all the recommendations you wish to them about what will help them get more money, but it's ultimately up to them as to what rights outside of fair use they wish to allow. If you don't like it, don't buy it, and don't pirate it. If it's commercially feasible, the free market should spit out a music label that allows more flexible licensing, one that recognises the potential of sharing, but until then, quit giving the government yet another reason to cave to the RIAA's demands.
How about we, the people, demand equal access to culture regardless of what some greedy suit-claden business major who is only able to appreciate something's value in dollars thinks about it? Of course, since most people are apathetic sheep when it comes to anything that isn't being spoonfed to them by The Almighty Television(tm) the problem with this is that it will most likely be impossible to change the laws in many countries, especially as various lobbyists are filling the politicians' pockets with money to keep them from doing "crazy" things like recognizing fair-use rights in the first place, saying no to DMCA-like laws and denying the lobbyists the ability to get ISPs to turn over the names of their customers without a court order...
I'm not even going to try to argue the practical points, I just wanted to point out that there is no God(tm)-given right profit, a lot of people (especially americans) seem to think so but opinions do not facts make.
I actually ended up using the cameras in your bathroom-angle with a local right-wing politician who was pro-CCTV everywhere and his reply was that he didn't have any problem with it since he trusted the government wouldn't want to look at him or anyone else going to the bathroom unless they were suspected of criminal activity. He seemed to be very suspicious of me being pro-privacy (suspicious as in "What is it you want to hide? are you some kind of a drug dealer?"), I guess some people just don't get it until they or someone they love get locked up for "exhibiting behavioural patterns indicating intent to commit a crime" or something like that...
The downside to NFS is of course that you pretty much need network-wide logins (via Kerberos or some other method) to keep your UID the same on all machines, you can always do it the ugly way and simply set the UIDs on the NFS partition to whatever UID you have on the machine you normally access it from but once you have a few different machines and users it just becomes easier to set up Kerberos...
/Mikael (uses NFS because it doesn't act up nearly as often as Samba)
A possible problem source here is that you're also doing disk I/O, when transferring data on my home network I've noticed that rsyncing things for redundancy purposes I end up with a lot more CPU usage (even when reading from a RAID5 via a hardware controller) than if I just pump random data from one machine to another. I reommend you try just transferring random data and piping it directly to/dev/null on the receiving machine to see if there's any difference in CPU usage.
Clearly you were reading his comment through glasses colored by the typical christian "Oh no! We're being persecuted by everyone." myth. I read it as "If you want to believe in invisible ghosts then please do so without interfering with my life or shoving your belief in invisible ghosts in my face."
Essentially you were as people here in Sweden might say, reading his comment "like Satan reads the bible" (Sv. ".som fan läser bibeln.").
Most likely it doesn't automatically adjust this because the TV manufacturer realised that if the cooling monitoring software/hardware starts acting up then the fans will be turning on and off and the screen will dim and brighten with no way for the user to just tell it to stop.
I've had this problem with laptops that have decided "Hey, I need to run the fans at max RPM! and slow down the CPU! What's that? You set the "don't screw with the fan rpm and cpu speed" setting? Well I'm gonna go ahead and piss on that! Bwahaha!" and it's been a total pain in the ass, CPU usage is at ~ 10%, 60% of RAM is free, very little IO activity and temperatures inside the machine are fine yet some BIOS/firmware part of the computer decides that something is wrong and overrides my settings.
Ah yes, the trusty old Model M, I used one for ages but when I was in college I switched to an SGI Granite keyboard since the noise of the Model M was giving me a headache (coding away in the middle of the night sounded a lot like drilling a hole in concrete).
As far as hardware that isn't almost as old as me I'd nominate the new Apple Wireless keyboard, not only does it have a wonderful feel to it but I've also managed to drop mine from various heights so many times I've lost track and it still works perfectly (althoug unlike with the Model M and granite keyboards I'm actually worried I'll break it since it cost me more than twice what I paid for both the Model M and the Granite).
You say so now, but just wait until there's an Emacs user in the White House! The whole world will suffer from carpal tunnel syndrome and all the Ctrl keys in the world will be worn out thus creating a Ctrl key shortage that will surely doom the human race!
All that said... We *do* filter inbound email traffic for viruses and SPAM. We do block inbound port 25 to our dynamic IPs.
First of all, I hope your spam filter doesn't just delete mails but rather flags them as spam in some way.
Second, should we assume you meant outbound port 25? Because blocking inbound port 25 doesn't really seem very useful and all ISPs I've worked with have either blocked outbound traffic on port 25 (and supplied users with an SMTP relay server) or been extremely anal about any abuse reports.
Speaking of personal experience of handling abuse tickets for an ISP, there's nothing like having to call up an angry customer who just got shut down due to having a zombie box and trying to explain that we will under no circumstances turn his connection back on until he's sent us a copy of a receipt from a reputable computer repair shop indicating that they've cleaned out his computer (since his connection has already been shut down twice prior due to abuse reports), and then they always demand monetary compensation because clearly we have no right to shut them down "without warning" (apparently not reading your (regular) mail is the same thing as no one sending you any).
Practically every page I've created that uses XHTML validates just fine except for a warning about the MIME type being wrong (I use text/html across the board since IE doesn't support application/xhtml+xml). I think you just need to learn how to write XHTML, or would you say C was a crappy language if 'printf("Hello, World!"";' didn't compile?
Setting the left and right margins to auto works just fine in IE6, although I wouldn't have been surprised if it didn't.
Also, as long as your element is set to a width smaller than the parent element then it should work, and if you want everything inside a <div> to be centered then you set "text-align: center;".
XML's syntax sucks. It's annoyingly verbose, and annoyingly lowercase (lowercase tags suck because they are harder to tell from normal text). I'm glad they're supporting HTML syntax.
I'd say that XHTML (which is what we should be talking about) is actually quite nice and lowercase is a lot nicer than uppercase, or are you one of those people who think COBOL was fun to write?
Oh, and I hope they know what they're doing by removing CENTER. Currently, there's no way to replicate its behaviour from CSS (CSS2). (And no, text-align: center ain't the same.)
Oh really? Ever try actually formatting a page with CSS? set the width of your page element and then use margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; and watch what happens...
Conclusion: HTML 5 is a new standard meant to be easier to understand since someone apparently thought the reason a lot of pages aren't standards-compliant is because XHTML is too hard, the real reason is that all those people making non-standards-compliant pages are just lazy and they'll continue being lazy with HTML 5. Also, try learning about XHTML and CSS before bashing them.
Yes, I remember that one. Unfortunately it didn't work in Transport Tycoon Deluxe, and on most maps you had to do some expensive landscaping in order to get a straight path from one side of the continent to the other...
A bunch of years back I had a 10/10 Mbps connection to SUNET with a static IP address and pesky firewalls/NAT to "protect" me from myself, I would quite often download and upload around 1 MB/s, and at 1 MB/s that's 86400 MB/day. Admittedly I rarely transferred anything quite that big, but it was definitely possible had I wanted to.
Btw. what made you think I'm American? Believe it or not, there are other countries out there who offer cable as well. Amazing isn't it?
I'm guessing it's because in the post-industrialised/"civilized" world there are a handful of countries in which people constantly ramble on about transfer caps like they are the norm, these countries are The USA, The UK, Australia and New Zeeland. In most other "civilized" countries you can actually get an uncapped connection if you spend more than five minutes looking for it (or as is the case here in Sweden, finding a capped connection is really hard, the only ISP I know of that caps bandwidth usage is Kommunicera which is a local ISP in Umeå, and they're going out of business anyway).
You forgot about recent college graduates who couldn't find anything better locally. Generally competent but also tend to have been at the call center long enough that they just don't give a shit.
I've been in that position, I had trouble even getting interviews in other cities because the employers realised that I couldn't just sign the contract and start working for them with a week or two's notice...
Tak - Roof, Tack - Thanks So - Female pig, så - so Myket - Sounds like the name of some random beach in Thailand, Mycket - Much So the proper spelling ould be "Tack så mycket".:)
Actually, from what non-swedes have told me and from what I've heard of them trying to speak swedish it's not so hard to learn swedish up to the point where you can read it fairly well. The two main problems seem to be with pronunciation and distinguising between what an american acquaintance of mine called "the N words and the T words".
Apparently the proper definite form for a lot of our nouns is not very easy to figure out for someone lacking long exposure to the swedish language while to most swedes it comes naturally.
As for pronunciation, it seems most non-scandinavians think swedish (when spoken by a swede) has a very varied prosody almost to the point of resembling someone singing (in fact, there are a few local dialects that are referred to by locals not as being spoken but rather as being sung).
To sum it up, learning to read swedish isn't very hard, especially if you already understand another germanic language, but learning to write and speak swedish is a bit harder.
I actually think it's likely that something like say, the dates that various payments should be made or the date at which the loan is to be fully paid are stored down to the second. When I did tech support everything in our customer database was accurate down to one second even if there was no reason for it to be. Things like the due date on bills was midnight on the last of the month even though it would be perfectly sufficient to do those things by days, tech support calls accurate down to the minute and so on...
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I've found 6.x to be almost stable as 4.x on the hardware I run it on, the only problems I've had have been on a couple of occasions where it didn't like USB hardware on a desktop machine getting disconnected without warning which seemed to lock up everything USB-related.
I have never used another OS that was as stable as FreeBSD 4.11.I have to agree with this, the only hardware+OS combination I've personally seen outperform 4.11 in terms of stability was a rickety old RS/6k with not nearly enough RAM that ran AIX ("AIX is a great operating system, too bad it's not a very good UNIX"), that seemed to survive just about anything including brownouts (I have no idea how) and system loads so high it took a good minute to log on to the thing using SSH, yet somehow it just kept on going...
/Mikael
If you're talking about reverend Åke Green he didn't just say "I think homosexuality is bad", he called homosexuality an "abnormal, a horrible cancerous tumor in the body of society". And he while he did stand trial he was not found guilty of any crime.
/Mikael
Actually, I believe you meant "This is not a good development for the US." The rest of us think being able to detect your stealth bombers is actually a good thing since it decreases the risk of your leaders deciding to "liberate" us for one reason or another (I'm in northern europe so this is unlikely but it is still nice to have some way of detecting possible threats).
/Mikael
Actually, the age of consent in many countries is lower than it is in most places in the US, here in Sweden it's 15 and I haven't really heard anyone worth listening to complain about it, apparently our 15 year-olds are as capable of taking care of themselves as US 18 year-olds are, or maybe, just maybe, it's a religious thing...
/Mikael
Because it would be oh so horrible and the baby jesus would cry if they kissed or god forbid, had sex? I'm sorry to tell you this but your arbitrary moral standards don't apply to everyone.
Also, my parents rarely set boundaries for me as a kid, instead they told me why it was a bad idea to do whatever it was I wanted to do, after the age of 13 or so they would just tell me I could do whatever I wanted but if I did something they had taught me not to do then I was on my own, but maybe raising your children to take responsibility isn't very popular these days?
/Mikael
How about we, the people, demand equal access to culture regardless of what some greedy suit-claden business major who is only able to appreciate something's value in dollars thinks about it? Of course, since most people are apathetic sheep when it comes to anything that isn't being spoonfed to them by The Almighty Television(tm) the problem with this is that it will most likely be impossible to change the laws in many countries, especially as various lobbyists are filling the politicians' pockets with money to keep them from doing "crazy" things like recognizing fair-use rights in the first place, saying no to DMCA-like laws and denying the lobbyists the ability to get ISPs to turn over the names of their customers without a court order...
I'm not even going to try to argue the practical points, I just wanted to point out that there is no God(tm)-given right profit, a lot of people (especially americans) seem to think so but opinions do not facts make.
/Mikael
I actually ended up using the cameras in your bathroom-angle with a local right-wing politician who was pro-CCTV everywhere and his reply was that he didn't have any problem with it since he trusted the government wouldn't want to look at him or anyone else going to the bathroom unless they were suspected of criminal activity. He seemed to be very suspicious of me being pro-privacy (suspicious as in "What is it you want to hide? are you some kind of a drug dealer?"), I guess some people just don't get it until they or someone they love get locked up for "exhibiting behavioural patterns indicating intent to commit a crime" or something like that...
/Mikael
The downside to NFS is of course that you pretty much need network-wide logins (via Kerberos or some other method) to keep your UID the same on all machines, you can always do it the ugly way and simply set the UIDs on the NFS partition to whatever UID you have on the machine you normally access it from but once you have a few different machines and users it just becomes easier to set up Kerberos...
/Mikael (uses NFS because it doesn't act up nearly as often as Samba)
A possible problem source here is that you're also doing disk I/O, when transferring data on my home network I've noticed that rsyncing things for redundancy purposes I end up with a lot more CPU usage (even when reading from a RAID5 via a hardware controller) than if I just pump random data from one machine to another. I reommend you try just transferring random data and piping it directly to /dev/null on the receiving machine to see if there's any difference in CPU usage.
/Mikael
Clearly you were reading his comment through glasses colored by the typical christian "Oh no! We're being persecuted by everyone." myth. I read it as "If you want to believe in invisible ghosts then please do so without interfering with my life or shoving your belief in invisible ghosts in my face."
Essentially you were as people here in Sweden might say, reading his comment "like Satan reads the bible" (Sv. ".som fan läser bibeln.").
/Mikael
Most likely it doesn't automatically adjust this because the TV manufacturer realised that if the cooling monitoring software/hardware starts acting up then the fans will be turning on and off and the screen will dim and brighten with no way for the user to just tell it to stop.
I've had this problem with laptops that have decided "Hey, I need to run the fans at max RPM! and slow down the CPU! What's that? You set the "don't screw with the fan rpm and cpu speed" setting? Well I'm gonna go ahead and piss on that! Bwahaha!" and it's been a total pain in the ass, CPU usage is at ~ 10%, 60% of RAM is free, very little IO activity and temperatures inside the machine are fine yet some BIOS/firmware part of the computer decides that something is wrong and overrides my settings.
/Mikael
Ah yes, the trusty old Model M, I used one for ages but when I was in college I switched to an SGI Granite keyboard since the noise of the Model M was giving me a headache (coding away in the middle of the night sounded a lot like drilling a hole in concrete).
As far as hardware that isn't almost as old as me I'd nominate the new Apple Wireless keyboard, not only does it have a wonderful feel to it but I've also managed to drop mine from various heights so many times I've lost track and it still works perfectly (althoug unlike with the Model M and granite keyboards I'm actually worried I'll break it since it cost me more than twice what I paid for both the Model M and the Granite).
/Mikael
You say so now, but just wait until there's an Emacs user in the White House! The whole world will suffer from carpal tunnel syndrome and all the Ctrl keys in the world will be worn out thus creating a Ctrl key shortage that will surely doom the human race!
/Mikael
First of all, I hope your spam filter doesn't just delete mails but rather flags them as spam in some way.
Second, should we assume you meant outbound port 25? Because blocking inbound port 25 doesn't really seem very useful and all ISPs I've worked with have either blocked outbound traffic on port 25 (and supplied users with an SMTP relay server) or been extremely anal about any abuse reports.
Speaking of personal experience of handling abuse tickets for an ISP, there's nothing like having to call up an angry customer who just got shut down due to having a zombie box and trying to explain that we will under no circumstances turn his connection back on until he's sent us a copy of a receipt from a reputable computer repair shop indicating that they've cleaned out his computer (since his connection has already been shut down twice prior due to abuse reports), and then they always demand monetary compensation because clearly we have no right to shut them down "without warning" (apparently not reading your (regular) mail is the same thing as no one sending you any).
/Mikael
Practically every page I've created that uses XHTML validates just fine except for a warning about the MIME type being wrong (I use text/html across the board since IE doesn't support application/xhtml+xml). I think you just need to learn how to write XHTML, or would you say C was a crappy language if 'printf("Hello, World!"";' didn't compile?
/Mikael
Setting the left and right margins to auto works just fine in IE6, although I wouldn't have been surprised if it didn't.
Also, as long as your element is set to a width smaller than the parent element then it should work, and if you want everything inside a <div> to be centered then you set "text-align: center;".
/Mikael
I'd say that XHTML (which is what we should be talking about) is actually quite nice and lowercase is a lot nicer than uppercase, or are you one of those people who think COBOL was fun to write?
Oh, and I hope they know what they're doing by removing CENTER. Currently, there's no way to replicate its behaviour from CSS (CSS2). (And no, text-align: center ain't the same.)Oh really? Ever try actually formatting a page with CSS? set the width of your page element and then use margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; and watch what happens...
Conclusion: HTML 5 is a new standard meant to be easier to understand since someone apparently thought the reason a lot of pages aren't standards-compliant is because XHTML is too hard, the real reason is that all those people making non-standards-compliant pages are just lazy and they'll continue being lazy with HTML 5. Also, try learning about XHTML and CSS before bashing them.
/Mikael
Yes, I remember that one. Unfortunately it didn't work in Transport Tycoon Deluxe, and on most maps you had to do some expensive landscaping in order to get a straight path from one side of the continent to the other...
/Mikael
I of course meant "...and no pesky firewalls/NAT..."
/Mikael
A bunch of years back I had a 10/10 Mbps connection to SUNET with a static IP address and pesky firewalls/NAT to "protect" me from myself, I would quite often download and upload around 1 MB/s, and at 1 MB/s that's 86400 MB/day. Admittedly I rarely transferred anything quite that big, but it was definitely possible had I wanted to.
/Mikael
I'm guessing it's because in the post-industrialised/"civilized" world there are a handful of countries in which people constantly ramble on about transfer caps like they are the norm, these countries are The USA, The UK, Australia and New Zeeland. In most other "civilized" countries you can actually get an uncapped connection if you spend more than five minutes looking for it (or as is the case here in Sweden, finding a capped connection is really hard, the only ISP I know of that caps bandwidth usage is Kommunicera which is a local ISP in Umeå, and they're going out of business anyway).
/Mikael
You forgot about recent college graduates who couldn't find anything better locally. Generally competent but also tend to have been at the call center long enough that they just don't give a shit.
I've been in that position, I had trouble even getting interviews in other cities because the employers realised that I couldn't just sign the contract and start working for them with a week or two's notice...
/Mikael
Almost but not quite.
Tak - Roof, Tack - Thanks :)
So - Female pig, så - so
Myket - Sounds like the name of some random beach in Thailand, Mycket - Much
So the proper spelling ould be "Tack så mycket".
/Mikael
Actually, from what non-swedes have told me and from what I've heard of them trying to speak swedish it's not so hard to learn swedish up to the point where you can read it fairly well. The two main problems seem to be with pronunciation and distinguising between what an american acquaintance of mine called "the N words and the T words".
Apparently the proper definite form for a lot of our nouns is not very easy to figure out for someone lacking long exposure to the swedish language while to most swedes it comes naturally.
As for pronunciation, it seems most non-scandinavians think swedish (when spoken by a swede) has a very varied prosody almost to the point of resembling someone singing (in fact, there are a few local dialects that are referred to by locals not as being spoken but rather as being sung).
To sum it up, learning to read swedish isn't very hard, especially if you already understand another germanic language, but learning to write and speak swedish is a bit harder.
/Mikael
I actually think it's likely that something like say, the dates that various payments should be made or the date at which the loan is to be fully paid are stored down to the second. When I did tech support everything in our customer database was accurate down to one second even if there was no reason for it to be. Things like the due date on bills was midnight on the last of the month even though it would be perfectly sufficient to do those things by days, tech support calls accurate down to the minute and so on...
/Mikael