In OSS if you have a problem with something then you take the *name* of the package you are attempting to use, plug it into a search engine, and go talk to the developers or community surrounding the package.
There is absolutely no responsibility of the communicators to make sure they are understood by potential users if that entails breaking a working system because the end users want the illusion of a single provider solution. Changing the naming to reflect an illusory, homogeneous community would simply be taking power from the user and exposure from the developers. All bug tracking would be complicated.
Take your Linux GUI problem that a user may complain about. If the user can be troubled to find out the name of the package that they are using for their GUI then they are a few clicks away from interfacing directly with the maintainers of that package. This power is simply too much for most end-users.
There is no reason for the OSS community to change. Linux is a kernel. Distros handle integration. Names lead to responsible parties.
...Thirdly, Linux needs to get the goddamned semantics down already! Someone comes in, "I tried Linux and my printer didn't work" then the reply is, "Linux is a kernel!!! It doesn't do printers!" Well, ok, then CALL IT SOMETHING ELSE. (Actually, I half-think the current confusing naming is on purpose, so there's always an 'out' to people who complain about Linux GUI problems.)
I think the semantic confusion is due entirely to a populace unwilling to reject mass media branding.
The media treats 'Linux' like a Windows alternative, and this is simply not the case. Linux is a kernel.
Notice that you end your post with a remark about 'Linux' gui problems. Even you still do not get the point.
Not being a WoW player I just have to ask.. If a guild did the same thing without using a bot program would the game mods punish them?
Is the only thing defending the integrity of the WoW game-play model the fact that Blizzard don't think anyone will take the time or effort to break it in person?
I would never download a distro after clicking through on a splash page that lists five discontinued distros (or just name changes?) from the same people.
I'm sitting here with a quadruple boot system and since a week XP is seriously hosed, I have the disks and drivers but it takes courage to start the install.
You need to learn about slipstreaming your windows images. Especially if you plan on plugging into the tubes to patch all the way up from an old OEM disc.
Been so long since I tried that sort of foolishness that I don't even know how long you have to run unpatched on the net (or how many reboots are required) to get current with a Windows install.
Our auditors lack basic understanding of IT process and technology let alone security. The stupid and basic things I get asked by our auditors amazes me. I have no doubt that I could perform any action in our IT systems without them having a clue what was going on.
Your auditors may be fools, or they may be finding out who the clever people are.
If they ask about a process and you show them standardized documentation then you pass the test.
If you do anything else you do not pass the test.
If there is no standardized documentation then the company does not pass the test.
First off, your comment doesn't seem to address the issue that the parent raised, that fighting cheating and plagiarism is the thrust of this lunacy.
I suggested that if cheating or plagiarism was the target then collecting the notes would not get the job done because students who would do it in the first place would make a copy of the notes anyhow.
So then I get to the end of your rant about something unrelated to what is being discussed to find that Europeans are apparently going around vomiting when they hear jingoistic BS.
These European friends of yours, they are engaging in rabidly codependent behavior. Life is too short and they should not sacrifice their health for the sake of America when America is not willing to reciprocate this sick level of devotion. Hell, I ain't puking my guts out any time some ignorant piece of euro trash want to run their mouth... But then, as a member of the freest country on earth I am free to make that decision.
Microsoft's "strategy" moves have not seemed to make any sense for years now.
Ok, I could come up with a bunch of anecdotal support for your comment, but MS has been into the subscription software idea for years. Part of their press on this mentions the possibility of Live based flight sim options.
So this particular move seems to fall right in line with the push to move customers to a greater everyday dependency on MS for the products they used to have the freedom to do with as they pleased (after lawful purchase of said product of course).
Seems like a stop-gap maneuver to buy some time against the crap flood.
A few days ago I had to get a hold of someone through a popular social network that I don't normally use. I asked another person to come look at the captchas the site was giving me before allowing me to send each message. The captchas were not just hard to read... the first letter was completely unintelligible to the point that I wasn't even sure there was a letter present beneath the obsfucating distortions.
At first I thought that some changes to my desktop package might be causing some sort of rendering issue, but i tried the link to load another puzzle and the second puzzle was simple to decode at first glance.
So I proceeded with my conversation across this social network and the same thing happened every time. Unreadable first captcha, simple second one.
"...but I still support their being able to say it."
Do you support the continued supply of mod points to these moderators though?
Is the old metamod system still in play? Did I opt out when I went with the Beta index? If it is still around I should mention that I get mod points all the time but no metamod invitations anymore.
"A rising overall market can hide a declining market share."
Market share is a percentage. Even if your revenue grows by double digits every reporting period your market share percentage will still fall if your competitors are growing faster.
"In most states tampering with an automobile is a felony."
I don't know about that, but I can verify that there are a number of states in which tampering with an automobile can strike one as being extremely entertaining.
I troll sometimes too, sir. I'm not saying your experience is invalid either, just that it is not valuable in this scenario and therefore a distraction from the real matter at hand.
The problem is that your scenario gives us very little usable information about Samba...
1. Because the people who configured your environment were probably the same people who chose to use Jet in this manner casting doubt on the other implementations.
2. Because there is an obvious bottleneck in Jet that would need to be resolved before anyone would trust the evaluation of a component interacting with the bottleneck.
I'm not picking a fight, just pointing it out. Feel free to call me a troll whenever;) It is often true.
"Exceptionally reliable and easy to use, SME Server can be installed and configured in less than 15 minutes - yet it's powered by a secure and open Linux platform that's fully upgradeable and customizable. Simply install it on any standard PC and in minutes you'll have a robust Linux-based server capable of fully replacing those expensive Windows server licenses and providing a full range of services - including e-mail, firewall, file and print-sharing, web hosting, remote access and more. "
The parent is trolling or is apparently unaware that MS specifically told people not to use Jet like this.
Here is an MS quote from back before Jet was deprecated.
"While Microsoft Jet is consciously (and continually) updated with many quality, functional, and performance improvements, it was not intended (or architected)... to be used with high-stress, high-concurrency, 24x7 server applications, such as web, commerce, transactional, messaging servers, and so on" (Source: Microsoft KB article Q222135).
So no 24x7 server apps per MS, I wonder what was slowing down the other poster's 50 concurrent connection scenario.
I could never get Jet to work well > 5 concurrent connections.
Is that what interpol is supposed to be doing but if I recall right they are doing alot of work on getting fans to stop downloading music why dont they arrest the real criminals:(
Interpol doesn't really work like that.
Each member country has an NCB (basically a central office) staffed by their own agents that can escalate issues through Interpol. So if Interpol is looking at piracy, then that started within a member nation's NCB, was escalated, and was deemed a valid cause by enough other member nations to become an agenda item. Furthermore, the only part Interpol would be interested in is assisting the actual enforcement officers in sharing information with other participating member nations, or facilitating training for participating members that do not have the resources to pursue a particular class of crime.
Interpol is an organization composed of 'Secretary General' types and special counsels. They only facilitate cooperation and are relatively poorly funded these days.
There is another organization known as the International Police that are actually police who arrest people, but they only operate in areas without the capability to raise a police force (ie: war torn countries).
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What advantage does NetBSD give me over Linux?
You get to be a big fish, because the pond is so little?
Or security/simplicity - and most importantly in many minds - dedication to a defined vision of code correctness.
That's my .02troll.
The departure of Gardner Dozois killed Asimov's for me.
That makes no sense.
In OSS if you have a problem with something then you take the *name* of the package you are attempting to use, plug it into a search engine, and go talk to the developers or community surrounding the package.
There is absolutely no responsibility of the communicators to make sure they are understood by potential users if that entails breaking a working system because the end users want the illusion of a single provider solution. Changing the naming to reflect an illusory, homogeneous community would simply be taking power from the user and exposure from the developers. All bug tracking would be complicated.
Take your Linux GUI problem that a user may complain about. If the user can be troubled to find out the name of the package that they are using for their GUI then they are a few clicks away from interfacing directly with the maintainers of that package. This power is simply too much for most end-users.
There is no reason for the OSS community to change. Linux is a kernel. Distros handle integration. Names lead to responsible parties.
...Thirdly, Linux needs to get the goddamned semantics down already! Someone comes in, "I tried Linux and my printer didn't work" then the reply is, "Linux is a kernel!!! It doesn't do printers!" Well, ok, then CALL IT SOMETHING ELSE. (Actually, I half-think the current confusing naming is on purpose, so there's always an 'out' to people who complain about Linux GUI problems.)
I think the semantic confusion is due entirely to a populace unwilling to reject mass media branding.
The media treats 'Linux' like a Windows alternative, and this is simply not the case. Linux is a kernel.
Notice that you end your post with a remark about 'Linux' gui problems. Even you still do not get the point.
Not being a WoW player I just have to ask.. If a guild did the same thing without using a bot program would the game mods punish them?
Is the only thing defending the integrity of the WoW game-play model the fact that Blizzard don't think anyone will take the time or effort to break it in person?
I would never download a distro after clicking through on a splash page that lists five discontinued distros (or just name changes?) from the same people.
What gives?
I'm sitting here with a quadruple boot system and since a week XP is seriously hosed, I have the disks and drivers but it takes courage to start the install.
You need to learn about slipstreaming your windows images. Especially if you plan on plugging into the tubes to patch all the way up from an old OEM disc.
Been so long since I tried that sort of foolishness that I don't even know how long you have to run unpatched on the net (or how many reboots are required) to get current with a Windows install.
I know you are making a joke, but the last sentence could open you up to trouble.
Our auditors lack basic understanding of IT process and technology let alone security. The stupid and basic things I get asked by our auditors amazes me. I have no doubt that I could perform any action in our IT systems without them having a clue what was going on.
Your auditors may be fools, or they may be finding out who the clever people are.
If they ask about a process and you show them standardized documentation then you pass the test.
If you do anything else you do not pass the test.
If there is no standardized documentation then the company does not pass the test.
First off, your comment doesn't seem to address the issue that the parent raised, that fighting cheating and plagiarism is the thrust of this lunacy.
I suggested that if cheating or plagiarism was the target then collecting the notes would not get the job done because students who would do it in the first place would make a copy of the notes anyhow.
So then I get to the end of your rant about something unrelated to what is being discussed to find that Europeans are apparently going around vomiting when they hear jingoistic BS.
These European friends of yours, they are engaging in rabidly codependent behavior. Life is too short and they should not sacrifice their health for the sake of America when America is not willing to reciprocate this sick level of devotion. Hell, I ain't puking my guts out any time some ignorant piece of euro trash want to run their mouth... But then, as a member of the freest country on earth I am free to make that decision.
The last time I used it was ten years ago. I was feeling a bit down and committed suicide. It made a nice crash.
I never hit that bug.
Microsoft's "strategy" moves have not seemed to make any sense for years now.
Ok, I could come up with a bunch of anecdotal support for your comment, but MS has been into the subscription software idea for years. Part of their press on this mentions the possibility of Live based flight sim options.
So this particular move seems to fall right in line with the push to move customers to a greater everyday dependency on MS for the products they used to have the freedom to do with as they pleased (after lawful purchase of said product of course).
Neither cheating or plagiarism will be impacted because only the honest students will turn in their only copy of the notes.
OMFG, didn't even think of that. Brilliant.
It is more like name Windows 7 specifically after a person that the media treated like the second coming.
Seems like a stop-gap maneuver to buy some time against the crap flood.
A few days ago I had to get a hold of someone through a popular social network that I don't normally use. I asked another person to come look at the captchas the site was giving me before allowing me to send each message. The captchas were not just hard to read... the first letter was completely unintelligible to the point that I wasn't even sure there was a letter present beneath the obsfucating distortions.
At first I thought that some changes to my desktop package might be causing some sort of rendering issue, but i tried the link to load another puzzle and the second puzzle was simple to decode at first glance.
So I proceeded with my conversation across this social network and the same thing happened every time. Unreadable first captcha, simple second one.
"...but I still support their being able to say it."
Do you support the continued supply of mod points to these moderators though?
Is the old metamod system still in play? Did I opt out when I went with the Beta index? If it is still around I should mention that I get mod points all the time but no metamod invitations anymore.
"Windows 7 isn't leaner. It just feels a bit better, and then that is only because it is being compared mainly to Vista."
You wouldn't know it from the press lately... Might as well rename 7 to Microsoft Obama.
"A rising overall market can hide a declining market share."
Market share is a percentage. Even if your revenue grows by double digits every reporting period your market share percentage will still fall if your competitors are growing faster.
"In most states tampering with an automobile is a felony."
I don't know about that, but I can verify that there are a number of states in which tampering with an automobile can strike one as being extremely entertaining.
I troll sometimes too, sir. I'm not saying your experience is invalid either, just that it is not valuable in this scenario and therefore a distraction from the real matter at hand.
The problem is that your scenario gives us very little usable information about Samba...
1. Because the people who configured your environment were probably the same people who chose to use Jet in this manner casting doubt on the other implementations.
2. Because there is an obvious bottleneck in Jet that would need to be resolved before anyone would trust the evaluation of a component interacting with the bottleneck.
I'm not picking a fight, just pointing it out. Feel free to call me a troll whenever ;) It is often true.
"Exceptionally reliable and easy to use, SME Server can be installed and configured in less than 15 minutes - yet it's powered by a secure and open Linux platform that's fully upgradeable and customizable. Simply install it on any standard PC and in minutes you'll have a robust Linux-based server capable of fully replacing those expensive Windows server licenses and providing a full range of services - including e-mail, firewall, file and print-sharing, web hosting, remote access and more. "
Source: http://wiki.contribs.org/SME_Server:About
The parent is trolling or is apparently unaware that MS specifically told people not to use Jet like this.
Here is an MS quote from back before Jet was deprecated.
"While Microsoft Jet is consciously (and continually) updated with many quality, functional, and performance improvements, it was not intended (or architected)... to be used with high-stress, high-concurrency, 24x7 server applications, such as web, commerce, transactional, messaging servers, and so on" (Source: Microsoft KB article Q222135).
So no 24x7 server apps per MS, I wonder what was slowing down the other poster's 50 concurrent connection scenario.
I could never get Jet to work well > 5 concurrent connections.
I had never read about that. Interesting link.
Is that what interpol is supposed to be doing but if I recall right they are doing alot of work on getting fans to stop downloading music why dont they arrest the real criminals :(
Interpol doesn't really work like that.
Each member country has an NCB (basically a central office) staffed by their own agents that can escalate issues through Interpol. So if Interpol is looking at piracy, then that started within a member nation's NCB, was escalated, and was deemed a valid cause by enough other member nations to become an agenda item. Furthermore, the only part Interpol would be interested in is assisting the actual enforcement officers in sharing information with other participating member nations, or facilitating training for participating members that do not have the resources to pursue a particular class of crime.
Interpol is an organization composed of 'Secretary General' types and special counsels. They only facilitate cooperation and are relatively poorly funded these days.
There is another organization known as the International Police that are actually police who arrest people, but they only operate in areas without the capability to raise a police force (ie: war torn countries).