Sounds like the service I used all through school (which saved me around $70/semester, which I immediately blew on several cases of Mt. Dew): http://www.bestbookbuys.com/ - they also have links to the current "new user" codes at buy.com, etc. I think I've used probably used 20 new throwaway addresses at buy.com...:)
The problem is more likely that the admins are somewhat incompetent, but increase their appearent competence by recognizing their fault. If they don't know how to properly support profiles, then they're being more effective admins by *not supporting profiles*. Similarly, if they know the problems with IE but aren't cofident that they can deal with mozilla, then they're being more effective by sticking with IE on the desktop. At least they can fix the IE problems when they come up.
Sure, most of us know that mozilla (actually, firebird would be better, probably) is generally better and would cause fewer problems, but perhaps the admin in question doesn't have the time to research that for himself. And if he did, he'd be opening up the door for everyone to start making suggestions. Then, the users' confidence in his abilities starts to decrease, and he becomes a less effective admin.
Or, maybe he's just a moron. Either way. But it's probably still a more complicated situation than just giving in to users' whims all the time.
Side note - yes, I'm a sysadmin. I support Firebird and IE on all users machines, but I don't generally feel compelled to explain each software choice I make, because it's *my* job to know what to do, not the user who just wants X app without concern about how it'll affect system stability as a whole.
My primary workstations both have X running, and one's even using KDE. However, the main reason I use a GUI is 1) to use a graphical web browser (I sysadmin/develop for a web devel company - graphical web is rather important) and 2) to have several terminal sessions open and visible at the same time. Yeah, I could run programs that manipulate the terminal, and set up to use something other than an 80x20 console - but it's quite a bit easier with X. And you really can't drag console "windows" around, set them on top of each other, etc. I'm still a CLI user, though. Text is edited with vim (sometimes gvim, but not often), files are moved with "mv", tasks are automated by perl, etc.
I don't use wallpaper, in general. The background is a color other than black, most of the time...
Honestly, I think Mac Os X is still a bit rough, but people don't notice that 'cause there's so muc eye candy. Sticking the fink distrib (or whatever you'd call that) on the box helps, but there are still several things little things that just aren't quite "right" with OS X - X.3 is quite a bit closer, though.:)
Yes. You would subesquently be competing aginst far fewer eBay users, and would therefore stand a good chance at getting a bargain. Searching for mispeld words is a good strategy. Now don't use it - that's *my* darned secret.:)
(paraphrasing) I'm an American, but I like to write papers in languages other than American English. I'm suprised when this gets me poor grades in English courses that I'm taking in America.
Adding extrae letteres too wourds jusst tou mayik themm moure impressieve oarr coulourfull iss nout ay goud ideea, even if the brits disagree in *their* english.:) Also, note that, thanks to modern transportational advancements, you could visit Europe regardless of where you live - you don't have to already live there!
I was with you until that last comment. I'm pretty confident that it's easier (or as easy, depending on your tool set) to care for a 19774 vehicle. I can change the engine and/or tranmsission in my 1974 El Camino (fine, it's a '75 - they're exactly the same except for the grille) in a short afternoon. Rear end parts? A couple of hours. I can literally climb into the engine compartment if need be. I've broken engine components on the road and have always managed to fix stuff enough to get home with just a minimal wrench set, some pliers, and the occasional zip tie. This is largely because nearly everything on there's mechanical - no electronics to sporadically die (aside from the ignition, but I usually carry a spare distributor on long trips in case the fancy electronic control box blows up).
Anyway, I do agree that proper care will make nearly anything last forever. The '85 Cadilac Coupe Deville that I had, however, used an aluminum block with crummy sleeves (or no sleeves, I forget). They *all* died at about 70K miles, proper maintenence be damned.:)
But the Cimmaron had that nifty little red bird cartoon that they used to advertise it! How could anything with a little red bird as the mascot be bad? Or maybe I'm thinking of the Catera. I dunno. I'm sure that the Buick Reatta should be on the list of ugliest cars, though, or at least the list of ugliest "luxery-esque marques making sporty cars" cars...
How did they pull back performance on the GNX? The GNX was explicitly engineered to get all of the streetable power possible out of that engine. More power generally makes those cars less street and more strip. The "real" GTO could run 13's in the 1/4 with just headers and slicks - which was right up there with the purpose-built alterds of the time. I don't think GM was holding back much there, either.
Now, reference pretty much any *other* GM car made in the last 20 years, and I'll agree with you. The SSR with it's mandatory automatic tranny, whimpy V8, and outrageous price is a real good example, and the current Holden Monaro, err, Pontiac GTO is pretty unrefined and still doesn't live up to its potential. It's *also* overpriced. I can build my own V8 supercar for under 20 grand, one would think that a factory could do it cheaper than I can in my garage... Stupid baby boomers and their willingness to pay outrageous prices for underwhelming cookiecutter cars.:)
I've got a linux powered (cyrix 6x86 on a fic va-503+) computer in my Caprice that goes from power off to playing mp3s (and displaying on a Matrix Orbital vacuum-fluorescent display) in about 17 seconds (and it's been in there for over 4 years now). I imagine it'd take longer to load up a GUI, but it seems that it might have been worth learning some other language and programming toolkit rather than the MacOS just for the bootup speed increase alone...
Boy, too bad we didn't all elect the idiots in Congress who go along with this evil president's plans, eh? Man, that GW sure is smart, for stealing the presidency as well as all of the seats in the House, the seats in the Senate, and the majority of the Supreme Court.
That's right - this isn't a monarchy, and the prez doesn't write all the laws that get passed. Those things - AKA "Legislation" - usually come from the "Legislative" branch - AKA Congress. "Senor President" mostly just signs things that are presented to him by people representing a majority of the states.
If you don't care about the package management system on X distro, you can compile and install whatever you want regardless of the base system's distributor. It's not really even that much work to look at the.spec file for an RPM-based system to see what flags their software wascompiled with (I imagine there's an analogue for.deb).
BTW, having built real "from scratch" systems before the LFS project dumbed that down, I'm really kinda dissapointed in how automated LFS really is - from the name, it sounds like more than it is...
Doesn't emacs have a Konquerer mode? I don't know, because my favorite text editor is just a text editor, and my favorite browser is just a browser...;) Maybe someone should get started on that port of Konquerer over to lisp.
[My understanding is that] It's not an issue of how long the program runs making everything gradually faster. It takes longer to initially set up with a JIT bytecode-native code step, so the performance gains (which are present as soon as the program start running) tend to offset the delayed startup time, and the delayed startup becomes insignificant after a suitable period of time. That's similar to how a perl program is initially kinda slow as the interpreter/compiler is loaded, but once the code is compiled, its performance is on-par with natively compiled code.
Ok, I just looked at AT&T. $895.40/mo here, but I find no guarantee (they do offer some other interesting services for additonal charge, though,like vulnrability scanning).
Mine is from Sprint, with guaranteed 100% uptime on their backbome and > %99 on the local loop - and a service contract on the router. Sans contract, $1100, IIRC. I didn't check AT&T, but either way, that's well above $500.:)
Epson put out a High Definition Telivision with a built in printer? Can I get my next coffe maker with a built in shoe polisher, then? How about a combination piano and shotgun?
Perhaps *your* cost is, but my cost is about $1200/month including local loop and internet access. Try getting connectivity outside of the city sometime instead of across the street from the telco - it costs quite a bit. Our 1/2 T1 cost about $1700 a few short years ago (which is what we were still paying until recently, but that's a differnet rant for a different time).
I personally had a 64K Frame Relay installed in my house. It cost > $170/mo for the line and IP. Living away from the land of xDSL and CableModems sucks from a bandwidth perspective...
You forgot "archive images in a format suitable for email". Yes. I've received a set of images via email, more than once, wherin the client thought "you know what would be better than multiple attachments or zip or stuffit or something like that? Putting all of the images into a word doc created by the very latest version of word, without bothering to save in a backward-compatible format." Or, they were thinking something like that...
SpamAssassin will sanitize HTML message by blocking the images on its own - though I think that may be an option you have to turn on asit may be off by default.
SA does kick arse, though. Now if it'd just gain the ability to recognize those stupid spams that consist compleetly of random words (which makes little sense to me - there's often absolutely no content in there).
I've never filed my taxes with IE (OMG I don't even trust IE to render most web pages properly, let alone to handle my finances), and I've filed on-line every year with TurboTax for-da-web (which doesn't have the same evil licensing). That whole "remember what you did last year" thing is pretty convenient, though you can supposedly disable that...
Heck, just searching for "paris hilton" brought up some information on the hotel in about the 6th link down. Given that the default is 10 on the front page, I don't see much of a problem even without the extra modifiers (aside from the lack of video previews in the other links returned)...
Oh. I've seen the toll-saver thing on the machines, but never really understood what it did (the last couple of machines I've purchased had *very* poorly translated manuals). That's far more useful than I expected...
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Their web page expresses lots of excitement for the product. "Behold!" - that's just darned funny stuff. Or, I'm just really easily amused...
Sounds like the service I used all through school (which saved me around $70/semester, which I immediately blew on several cases of Mt. Dew): http://www.bestbookbuys.com/ - they also have links to the current "new user" codes at buy.com, etc. I think I've used probably used 20 new throwaway addresses at buy.com... :)
The problem is more likely that the admins are somewhat incompetent, but increase their appearent competence by recognizing their fault. If they don't know how to properly support profiles, then they're being more effective admins by *not supporting profiles*. Similarly, if they know the problems with IE but aren't cofident that they can deal with mozilla, then they're being more effective by sticking with IE on the desktop. At least they can fix the IE problems when they come up.
Sure, most of us know that mozilla (actually, firebird would be better, probably) is generally better and would cause fewer problems, but perhaps the admin in question doesn't have the time to research that for himself. And if he did, he'd be opening up the door for everyone to start making suggestions. Then, the users' confidence in his abilities starts to decrease, and he becomes a less effective admin.
Or, maybe he's just a moron. Either way. But it's probably still a more complicated situation than just giving in to users' whims all the time.
Side note - yes, I'm a sysadmin. I support Firebird and IE on all users machines, but I don't generally feel compelled to explain each software choice I make, because it's *my* job to know what to do, not the user who just wants X app without concern about how it'll affect system stability as a whole.
My primary workstations both have X running, and one's even using KDE. However, the main reason I use a GUI is 1) to use a graphical web browser (I sysadmin/develop for a web devel company - graphical web is rather important) and 2) to have several terminal sessions open and visible at the same time. Yeah, I could run programs that manipulate the terminal, and set up to use something other than an 80x20 console - but it's quite a bit easier with X. And you really can't drag console "windows" around, set them on top of each other, etc. I'm still a CLI user, though. Text is edited with vim (sometimes gvim, but not often), files are moved with "mv", tasks are automated by perl, etc.
:)
I don't use wallpaper, in general. The background is a color other than black, most of the time...
Honestly, I think Mac Os X is still a bit rough, but people don't notice that 'cause there's so muc eye candy. Sticking the fink distrib (or whatever you'd call that) on the box helps, but there are still several things little things that just aren't quite "right" with OS X - X.3 is quite a bit closer, though.
Yes. You would subesquently be competing aginst far fewer eBay users, and would therefore stand a good chance at getting a bargain. Searching for mispeld words is a good strategy. Now don't use it - that's *my* darned secret. :)
(paraphrasing) I'm an American, but I like to write papers in languages other than American English. I'm suprised when this gets me poor grades in English courses that I'm taking in America.
Adding extrae letteres too wourds jusst tou mayik themm moure impressieve oarr coulourfull iss nout ay goud ideea, even if the brits disagree in *their* english. :) Also, note that, thanks to modern transportational advancements, you could visit Europe regardless of where you live - you don't have to already live there!
You've still gotta make sure the crank position sensor is properly phased - which is, in effect, setting the timing... ;)
I was with you until that last comment. I'm pretty confident that it's easier (or as easy, depending on your tool set) to care for a 19774 vehicle. I can change the engine and/or tranmsission in my 1974 El Camino (fine, it's a '75 - they're exactly the same except for the grille) in a short afternoon. Rear end parts? A couple of hours. I can literally climb into the engine compartment if need be. I've broken engine components on the road and have always managed to fix stuff enough to get home with just a minimal wrench set, some pliers, and the occasional zip tie. This is largely because nearly everything on there's mechanical - no electronics to sporadically die (aside from the ignition, but I usually carry a spare distributor on long trips in case the fancy electronic control box blows up).
:)
Anyway, I do agree that proper care will make nearly anything last forever. The '85 Cadilac Coupe Deville that I had, however, used an aluminum block with crummy sleeves (or no sleeves, I forget). They *all* died at about 70K miles, proper maintenence be damned.
But the Cimmaron had that nifty little red bird cartoon that they used to advertise it! How could anything with a little red bird as the mascot be bad? Or maybe I'm thinking of the Catera. I dunno. I'm sure that the Buick Reatta should be on the list of ugliest cars, though, or at least the list of ugliest "luxery-esque marques making sporty cars" cars...
How did they pull back performance on the GNX? The GNX was explicitly engineered to get all of the streetable power possible out of that engine. More power generally makes those cars less street and more strip. The "real" GTO could run 13's in the 1/4 with just headers and slicks - which was right up there with the purpose-built alterds of the time. I don't think GM was holding back much there, either.
:)
Now, reference pretty much any *other* GM car made in the last 20 years, and I'll agree with you. The SSR with it's mandatory automatic tranny, whimpy V8, and outrageous price is a real good example, and the current Holden Monaro, err, Pontiac GTO is pretty unrefined and still doesn't live up to its potential. It's *also* overpriced. I can build my own V8 supercar for under 20 grand, one would think that a factory could do it cheaper than I can in my garage... Stupid baby boomers and their willingness to pay outrageous prices for underwhelming cookiecutter cars.
I've got a linux powered (cyrix 6x86 on a fic va-503+) computer in my Caprice that goes from power off to playing mp3s (and displaying on a Matrix Orbital vacuum-fluorescent display) in about 17 seconds (and it's been in there for over 4 years now). I imagine it'd take longer to load up a GUI, but it seems that it might have been worth learning some other language and programming toolkit rather than the MacOS just for the bootup speed increase alone...
Boy, too bad we didn't all elect the idiots in Congress who go along with this evil president's plans, eh? Man, that GW sure is smart, for stealing the presidency as well as all of the seats in the House, the seats in the Senate, and the majority of the Supreme Court.
That's right - this isn't a monarchy, and the prez doesn't write all the laws that get passed. Those things - AKA "Legislation" - usually come from the "Legislative" branch - AKA Congress. "Senor President" mostly just signs things that are presented to him by people representing a majority of the states.
If you don't care about the package management system on X distro, you can compile and install whatever you want regardless of the base system's distributor. It's not really even that much work to look at the .spec file for an RPM-based system to see what flags their software wascompiled with (I imagine there's an analogue for .deb).
BTW, having built real "from scratch" systems before the LFS project dumbed that down, I'm really kinda dissapointed in how automated LFS really is - from the name, it sounds like more than it is...
Doesn't emacs have a Konquerer mode? I don't know, because my favorite text editor is just a text editor, and my favorite browser is just a browser... ;) Maybe someone should get started on that port of Konquerer over to lisp.
[My understanding is that] It's not an issue of how long the program runs making everything gradually faster. It takes longer to initially set up with a JIT bytecode-native code step, so the performance gains (which are present as soon as the program start running) tend to offset the delayed startup time, and the delayed startup becomes insignificant after a suitable period of time. That's similar to how a perl program is initially kinda slow as the interpreter/compiler is loaded, but once the code is compiled, its performance is on-par with natively compiled code.
Ok, I just looked at AT&T. $895.40/mo here, but I find no guarantee (they do offer some other interesting services for additonal charge, though,like vulnrability scanning).
Mine is from Sprint, with guaranteed 100% uptime on their backbome and > %99 on the local loop - and a service contract on the router. Sans contract, $1100, IIRC. I didn't check AT&T, but either way, that's well above $500. :)
I'm not aware of other useful sites giving random "500 internal server error" codes - so none like Slashdot. ;)
/path/to/x/startup/files" to see if your hardlinks are being created from a shell script...
0 19 824.html
;)
"grep -r 'ln '
http://lists.samba.org/archive/samba/2000-July/
try searching for "smbfs" and "hardlink" in quotes, since the problem is with the smbfs.
Epson put out a High Definition Telivision with a built in printer? Can I get my next coffe maker with a built in shoe polisher, then? How about a combination piano and shotgun?
:)
Sigh.
Perhaps *your* cost is, but my cost is about $1200/month including local loop and internet access. Try getting connectivity outside of the city sometime instead of across the street from the telco - it costs quite a bit. Our 1/2 T1 cost about $1700 a few short years ago (which is what we were still paying until recently, but that's a differnet rant for a different time).
I personally had a 64K Frame Relay installed in my house. It cost > $170/mo for the line and IP. Living away from the land of xDSL and CableModems sucks from a bandwidth perspective...
You forgot "archive images in a format suitable for email". Yes. I've received a set of images via email, more than once, wherin the client thought "you know what would be better than multiple attachments or zip or stuffit or something like that? Putting all of the images into a word doc created by the very latest version of word, without bothering to save in a backward-compatible format." Or, they were thinking something like that...
Argh.
SpamAssassin will sanitize HTML message by blocking the images on its own - though I think that may be an option you have to turn on asit may be off by default.
SA does kick arse, though. Now if it'd just gain the ability to recognize those stupid spams that consist compleetly of random words (which makes little sense to me - there's often absolutely no content in there).
I've never filed my taxes with IE (OMG I don't even trust IE to render most web pages properly, let alone to handle my finances), and I've filed on-line every year with TurboTax for-da-web (which doesn't have the same evil licensing). That whole "remember what you did last year" thing is pretty convenient, though you can supposedly disable that...
Heck, just searching for "paris hilton" brought up some information on the hotel in about the 6th link down. Given that the default is 10 on the front page, I don't see much of a problem even without the extra modifiers (aside from the lack of video previews in the other links returned)...
Oh. I've seen the toll-saver thing on the machines, but never really understood what it did (the last couple of machines I've purchased had *very* poorly translated manuals). That's far more useful than I expected...