What are you talking about? The first episode was time travel related, with the introduction of the 'temporal cold war' crap. Most ST time travel episodes have sucked, and Enterprise's reliance on them isn't making things better.
Okay, fine. To quote more Netcraft results: Apache on Windows Struggling. Netcraft found a mere 16,000 sites running Apache on Win32 back in Feb, 2003. My point were merely that just because Apache runs 60+% of sites out there doesn't mean Apache runs on 60+% of machines out there.
Those numbers are the percent of domains that are run on a particular webserver, not the percent of machines that run a particular webserver. Take a look at this page to see one month when Apache had 62% of the webserver share, but Windows accounted for 49% of the machines running public webservers. There are very good reasons for this, too. It's a heck of a lot less administrative overhead in hosting a large number of domains on a single computer for customers with Apache compared to Windows because most settings on a website that a customer would need to change can simply be set in an.htaccess file inside the actual website, whereas with IIS, I believe the only way to make these changes is via the IIS metabase.
The other part, is assuming Linux has only stolen share from other UNIX vendors, Linux webservers would still account for fewer actual computers on the internet compared to Windows machines. Linux servers are also not always uniformly exploitable with the differences between compiler, libc, and kernel versions and patches. For Windows servers, you only have two or three flavors of Windows you need to worry about, and all you have to do is make one (legitimate) http request to find out which one. Linux/Apache sites will tell you which version of Apache is running, and maybe what distribution of Linux it's running on, but won't tell you what kernel version is running, what glibc is installed, what compiler was used. For that, you'd have to guess, so the list of possibly exploitable machines gets smaller.
I wish Netcraft would do a new machine survey, so we could put this one to rest, but I havne't seen one since June 2001.
IBM will say little or nothing. They will not give SCO anything that could be used as a weapon against IBM. This is a lesson that SCO should be learning after IBM used SCO's executives' words against them in court in IBM's own motions to compel discovery.
No. A show that's scheduled in a 30 minute time slot is actually only 20-22 minutes long. Likewise, a 1 hour timeslot tends to be only 40-44 minutes long.
One minute of commercials for every two minutes of show.... It's so incredibly sad, and advertisers wonder why people don't pay attention to their television ads, and why some even actively try to remove them.
I keep getting slightly mangled 'Alice in Wonderland' excerpts at work. What recently bothered me is the fact they're also using the Habeas header, and I had spamassassin set to local only tests, and it was actually auto-learning these spams as legitimate e-mail because the value for the Habeas header was so high. And because I'm using Exchange internally, I can't even extract the message to have SA relearn it as spam. Stupid MIME-OLE crap.
Or perhaps more likely, if the plans fail (and they very well could), they don't want the negative press associated with that. It's probably better for them to quitely try to switch over, and if it works, then loudly boast about it to the press then. The last thing IBM would want to do in this case would be to prove Microsoft's FUD about Linux.
Uhg. Do you ever get tired of cheerleading? KDE has nothing but problems, while Gnome is perfect? Please. You say Gnome is better for 'non-geeks', yet has to this day one of the worst usability problems in it's file requestor. Namely, tab completion. It's finally getting attention, and future versions of Gnome won't feature tab completion in that dialog anymore, but that problem has persisted for a very long time. Then there's the object model of Gnome versus KDE. For KDE, most of it's applications are available as KParts that can be embedded in other applications. Gnome's infrastructure has made this almost impossible for Gnome to do, so most applications 'reinvent the wheel'.
My point is not that KDE is perfect, but rather that both have some rather large problems right now. KDE's Control Center is a mess mostly because it's so poorly organized, but I feel that Gnome's solution to this particular problem is wrong headed (removing the options from the dialogs, and hiding them in a MS Windows registry-style configuration system)
The 'But it'll cost too much' excuse is rather amusing to me. How many industries and inventions were formed despite that cry? How much economic benefit do you suppose they have created? I know many people believe the government should not even really exist, and that the 'free market' can take care of everybody's needs. Perhaps you believe this. I, however, do not believe the 'free market' is infallible. I figure sometimes the government can play a valuable role by shaking up business once and a while. They say, "necessity is the mother of invention", but reducing the emissions these companies produce isn't nessesary to them. Give them a push, and I'd bet that new, innovative ways to deal with the problem would be found. Then again, what do I know?
I suppose every time your car breaks down, you fix it yourself? When your TV is on the fritz, do you break out the oscilloscope and soldering iron? And you rewired your house because the electrical wiring wasn't up to code, right? HVAC systems are a cinch to fix for you, right? You built your house from scratch, all by yourself? My point? You don't expect to be excluded from all these luxuries, do you? Yet people like you seem to be constantly advocating just that. Yes, there are assholes out there they demand you do things for them because they feel some form of 'entitlement'. I don't believe for a moment that's limited to computers, because I've seen people acting poorly at virtually any business, be it fast food or repair people. But if you're doing free support for people because you enjoy doing it, you have an advantage. You can ignore the people who annoy you, and can use technological means to enforce your wishes (kill file). If you truely enjoy doing something, what others are doing shouldn't matter to you one bit.
Ironic you should say this. The fact that most windows were too BIG was a problem for me when I tried running KDE, Gnome, etc on a 800x600 laptop screen. Today my laptop can display four times that, at 1600x1200, but the problem remains. Not every display can do 1600x1200, and it's annoying when software assumes you have a large display.
I think the problem was the core team had become too much about politics, and too little about software. Look at the well publicized event about Keith Packard being outed from XF86. Keith has contributed some of the most radical changes to the X server system in recent years (XRender, XRandR, fontconfig, etc). He was outed because he dared to try suggest to others that there should be a new project started to create a new X server to both encourage XF86 to be more active, and to also try to solve some of the lingering archetectural problems of XF86. It's ironic that he achieved his goals by being kicked out.
Not nessesarily. IMO, a proper configuration wouldn't drop the e-mail because it doesn't pass the check, but rather flag the e-mail as bulk because it doesn't pass the check. The e-mail client is then free to do whatever it wants with that message. Delete, store, or process based on other rules, it's the user's choice.
Error messages that can be traced back to the faulting component, rather than just to the error reporter. (Microsoft crash error messages have become progressively less useful. Windows NT blue screens, and Win95/98 application crash errors were actually useful. Windows XP blue screens, and application crash messages are useless.)
Documentation of all registry settings, regardless of if they should be modified manually or not. Most Linux apps have all the configuration settings documented in the appropriate man pages, or when that fails, there's the source code.
These are the three things that get in my way more often than not when trying to troubleshoot a problem. The answer to format, and reinstall is rarely, if ever, acceptable.
100s of developers, who aren't paid, which means you can't even hold the "you're fired" axe over their heads
I don't think this is ever really an issue. Linus doesn't need to 'force' someone to do something with threats. If someone writes something for Linux, and contributes it to the LKML, it means they want it in Linux. If they don't want to play by Linus's rules, then it doesn't get in.
I agree. If you REALLY wanted lots of gamepads/joysticks attached to your computer, do yourself a favor and get USB. USB hubs are cheap, and when you're done gaming, it can be used for more useful tasks, too!
Games ported to PC from consoles tend to really, REALLY suck (the reverse is also true). Even when using a gamepad, something still seems to have gotten lost in the translation. It can be fun to play on the console, but painful on the PC. As for Halo, it might've been an innovative game on the PC if it had been released two years ago, but today, it's just average. It's no shinier than UT2K3, we've been driving multi-person vehicles for ages in BF1942. It just isn't the earth shattering game it was hyped up to be, especially after two years.
IMO, PC games should stay on PC, and console games should stay on console. Ports to the other platforms are damn near always just an afterthought, and they do a piss poor job of it anyway.
I stand corrected. You are quite right. Damn advertising, implying one thing, meaning something else. Qt/Windows applications always seemed to draw faster than GTK+ Windows apps did, so I made a bad assumption.
GTK for Windows looks just as out of place as it did years ago. Qt/Windows gives you applications that use the native widget set, GTK/Windows does not. A 'theme' for GTK+ does exist called GTK-Wimp, but it's more of a look-alike than a native set of widgets.
Am I surprised? No. WMP7+ has additional income opportunities for Microsoft, so they'd push WMP6 out of the picture either way. I don't know about anyone else, but I don't use WMP7/8/9 because of the annoying HTML junk, the general bloat (WMP7/8/9 will take a couple seconds to appear even on fast PCs, WMP6/MPC is nearly instantaneous), and the awful, disgusting APPLICATION SKINS.
Frankly, the application skins in Windows Media Player 7+, Apple QuickTime for Windows and Real Player are the reason I avoid all of them. Desktop-wide skinning and theming, I can tolerate, but application specific skinning, I can't stand it. This is a little off topic, though.
Notepad in NT kernels won't fail gracefully (64k file size limit only exists in Win3.x and Win9x). It'll try their darnest to open that 500MB file you told it to open, and consume all virtual memory in the process, and make your fast, fancy machine feel like you're running an 80386SX. Wheee!
WMP on Windows is hellishly fast. You're given a choice between the new interface(WMP9, fluffy) and the old one(WMP6, minimalist) on XP, and they're both equivalent in functionality due to the fact that they're actually just frontends for DirectShow.
Not exactly. If you want to play stuff created in Windows Media 9 format, you need to install extra software that isn't well advertised. In addition, WMP6 can't handle streaming media from servers that expect 7 or later. The only way to use version 7 streaming stuff is to use something like Gabest's Media Player Classic, which can also play Real, QT, Bink, and 'Matroska' formatted files if you have the appropriate codecs installed.
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What are you talking about? The first episode was time travel related, with the introduction of the 'temporal cold war' crap. Most ST time travel episodes have sucked, and Enterprise's reliance on them isn't making things better.
Well, given the fact we already have spammers pimping anti-spam software, I wonder if your prediction isn't already true.
Okay, fine. To quote more Netcraft results: Apache on Windows Struggling. Netcraft found a mere 16,000 sites running Apache on Win32 back in Feb, 2003. My point were merely that just because Apache runs 60+% of sites out there doesn't mean Apache runs on 60+% of machines out there.
The other part, is assuming Linux has only stolen share from other UNIX vendors, Linux webservers would still account for fewer actual computers on the internet compared to Windows machines. Linux servers are also not always uniformly exploitable with the differences between compiler, libc, and kernel versions and patches. For Windows servers, you only have two or three flavors of Windows you need to worry about, and all you have to do is make one (legitimate) http request to find out which one. Linux/Apache sites will tell you which version of Apache is running, and maybe what distribution of Linux it's running on, but won't tell you what kernel version is running, what glibc is installed, what compiler was used. For that, you'd have to guess, so the list of possibly exploitable machines gets smaller.
I wish Netcraft would do a new machine survey, so we could put this one to rest, but I havne't seen one since June 2001.
IBM will say little or nothing. They will not give SCO anything that could be used as a weapon against IBM. This is a lesson that SCO should be learning after IBM used SCO's executives' words against them in court in IBM's own motions to compel discovery.
No. A show that's scheduled in a 30 minute time slot is actually only 20-22 minutes long. Likewise, a 1 hour timeslot tends to be only 40-44 minutes long.
One minute of commercials for every two minutes of show.... It's so incredibly sad, and advertisers wonder why people don't pay attention to their television ads, and why some even actively try to remove them.
I keep getting slightly mangled 'Alice in Wonderland' excerpts at work. What recently bothered me is the fact they're also using the Habeas header, and I had spamassassin set to local only tests, and it was actually auto-learning these spams as legitimate e-mail because the value for the Habeas header was so high. And because I'm using Exchange internally, I can't even extract the message to have SA relearn it as spam. Stupid MIME-OLE crap.
Or perhaps more likely, if the plans fail (and they very well could), they don't want the negative press associated with that. It's probably better for them to quitely try to switch over, and if it works, then loudly boast about it to the press then. The last thing IBM would want to do in this case would be to prove Microsoft's FUD about Linux.
My point is not that KDE is perfect, but rather that both have some rather large problems right now. KDE's Control Center is a mess mostly because it's so poorly organized, but I feel that Gnome's solution to this particular problem is wrong headed (removing the options from the dialogs, and hiding them in a MS Windows registry-style configuration system)
The 'But it'll cost too much' excuse is rather amusing to me. How many industries and inventions were formed despite that cry? How much economic benefit do you suppose they have created? I know many people believe the government should not even really exist, and that the 'free market' can take care of everybody's needs. Perhaps you believe this. I, however, do not believe the 'free market' is infallible. I figure sometimes the government can play a valuable role by shaking up business once and a while. They say, "necessity is the mother of invention", but reducing the emissions these companies produce isn't nessesary to them. Give them a push, and I'd bet that new, innovative ways to deal with the problem would be found. Then again, what do I know?
I suppose every time your car breaks down, you fix it yourself? When your TV is on the fritz, do you break out the oscilloscope and soldering iron? And you rewired your house because the electrical wiring wasn't up to code, right? HVAC systems are a cinch to fix for you, right? You built your house from scratch, all by yourself? My point? You don't expect to be excluded from all these luxuries, do you? Yet people like you seem to be constantly advocating just that. Yes, there are assholes out there they demand you do things for them because they feel some form of 'entitlement'. I don't believe for a moment that's limited to computers, because I've seen people acting poorly at virtually any business, be it fast food or repair people. But if you're doing free support for people because you enjoy doing it, you have an advantage. You can ignore the people who annoy you, and can use technological means to enforce your wishes (kill file). If you truely enjoy doing something, what others are doing shouldn't matter to you one bit.
Ironic you should say this. The fact that most windows were too BIG was a problem for me when I tried running KDE, Gnome, etc on a 800x600 laptop screen. Today my laptop can display four times that, at 1600x1200, but the problem remains. Not every display can do 1600x1200, and it's annoying when software assumes you have a large display.
I think the problem was the core team had become too much about politics, and too little about software. Look at the well publicized event about Keith Packard being outed from XF86. Keith has contributed some of the most radical changes to the X server system in recent years (XRender, XRandR, fontconfig, etc). He was outed because he dared to try suggest to others that there should be a new project started to create a new X server to both encourage XF86 to be more active, and to also try to solve some of the lingering archetectural problems of XF86. It's ironic that he achieved his goals by being kicked out.
Not nessesarily. IMO, a proper configuration wouldn't drop the e-mail because it doesn't pass the check, but rather flag the e-mail as bulk because it doesn't pass the check. The e-mail client is then free to do whatever it wants with that message. Delete, store, or process based on other rules, it's the user's choice.
The downside being the 80s could happen again. :-(
- Clear, documented interactions between components
- Error messages that can be traced back to the faulting component, rather than just to the error reporter. (Microsoft crash error messages have become progressively less useful. Windows NT blue screens, and Win95/98 application crash errors were actually useful. Windows XP blue screens, and application crash messages are useless.)
- Documentation of all registry settings, regardless of if they should be modified manually or not. Most Linux apps have all the configuration settings documented in the appropriate man pages, or when that fails, there's the source code.
These are the three things that get in my way more often than not when trying to troubleshoot a problem. The answer to format, and reinstall is rarely, if ever, acceptable.I agree. If you REALLY wanted lots of gamepads/joysticks attached to your computer, do yourself a favor and get USB. USB hubs are cheap, and when you're done gaming, it can be used for more useful tasks, too!
IMO, PC games should stay on PC, and console games should stay on console. Ports to the other platforms are damn near always just an afterthought, and they do a piss poor job of it anyway.
I stand corrected. You are quite right. Damn advertising, implying one thing, meaning something else. Qt/Windows applications always seemed to draw faster than GTK+ Windows apps did, so I made a bad assumption.
GTK for Windows looks just as out of place as it did years ago. Qt/Windows gives you applications that use the native widget set, GTK/Windows does not. A 'theme' for GTK+ does exist called GTK-Wimp, but it's more of a look-alike than a native set of widgets.
Frankly, the application skins in Windows Media Player 7+, Apple QuickTime for Windows and Real Player are the reason I avoid all of them. Desktop-wide skinning and theming, I can tolerate, but application specific skinning, I can't stand it. This is a little off topic, though.
Notepad in NT kernels won't fail gracefully (64k file size limit only exists in Win3.x and Win9x). It'll try their darnest to open that 500MB file you told it to open, and consume all virtual memory in the process, and make your fast, fancy machine feel like you're running an 80386SX. Wheee!