the Back end mailstore machines were neither windows or freebsd - they were giant sun boxes [SNIP]... although i understand that converting them is now underway or coming soon..
I call bullshit.
Windows doesen't run on anything other than x386 and Sun produces no large x386 hardware.
If you fire up Knoppix on a modern lqptop - there is no noise from the laptop. No noise whatsoever. (Unless you have a crappy laptop that needs a fan to cool it's processor)
It really creapy. After 20 years os associating the din of drives, fans and the hum of monitors with computers - it was really creep to have a dead quiet computer for a change.
Find a defunct, small, game company that use to exist on the opposite side of the country. You suddenly rememeber that you use to work for them. Congratulations, you now found some experience.
In that case, if you claim that the operating system in use on 95+ percent of the audience's computers is not a "modern computing platform", then whether or not tar is bundled with a "modern computing platform" is not all that relevant now, is it?
95+ ! Hah - more like 90% and falling.
Windows is marketshare in servers, desktops and developers keeps on sinking. It's will always be a somewhat viable choice for new-users, but the days of it's dominace are over.
Microsoft has since released Windows XP Home Edition based on the NT kernel, which has fixed many of these issues.
XP is a good effort against Microsoft's old operating systems, but against to other vendor's - it's a sad joke. Fuck - Apple makes a better Windows-compatable file-serving OS than the people who make Windows. That should tell you somthing.
No super-computer runs Windows. No root domain server runs Windows. No satelite runs Windows. No large-scale database runs Windows. No cave system runs Windows. No militaty flight simulator run Windows. No bank runs it's federal transations on Windows.
Of all the important thing that computers do - hardly anthing important runs Windows. There's a reason for this.
Sure, MS has most the desktop video-game market, most of the simple spread-sheet market and simple document creation market to itself - but nothing really of importance.
What percent of the band's audience uses a "decent OS" by your definition?
10%. One in 10. Enough, that they should have a.tar.
...secure, locked cockpit doors aren't going to look like such a good idea the first time some terrorist type spends years training to be a pilot and is sitting *behind* that door.
Especially now that it's looking like the pilots can will be able to carry sidearms in the future.
The copiolet can lock the door, shoot the pilot and have the plane into the ground in under a few seconds.
Hell, you don't even need to do that - If with an Airbus, just stomp on the rudder hard for a few seconds and and the tail section will fall apart.
All new technologies seem to originate in Japan, appear simultanously or shortly thereafter in Europe, and then after up to a decade finally make it to the US.
Some technologies apear this way while other technologies/toys appear here first:
VS Japan, we get the following first
Medical drugs - AIDS, cancer and Biotech drugs Most high-tech mountain climbing gear - stoves, tents, ski's Recreational drugs - Crack, cheap Meth. Apple computers. SGI computers. Corvettes. Cadillacs. New procedures for making hot chicks - impants, botox, collegin injections. High Tech Weapons - SDI, Tanks, Fighters, Subs New Programing Languages - Pearl, C++, Emacs Lisp. Large Budget Movies - Armegeddon, Spiderman, LOTR
Just to name a few things.
(And yes, I do wish we'd get cool Japanese laptops here for a good price)
I hate to burst your bubble (being from the US, feet and inches still seem "normal" to me too), but it's actually the meter that is based on the speed of light. A light nanosecond is really only around 98% of a foot.
Actually - the Meter is arbatrary now.
The reason? The definition of a second has changed in the last 75 years.
A second use to be a slice of an earth day - but unfortunatly earth days are not quite stable.
So the definition of a seond was changed to a specifc number of atomic vibrations at particular set of circumstances.
Unfortunatly changing the defintion of the second, changed the definition of the Meter. Faced with changing the lenth of the Meter or keeping it at it's historical length, they chose to keep the Meter's length at it's historical length.
Aside: Russians use a diferent Meter than the rest of the world. It made for interesting timess when connecting the Russian ISS modules to the European/American Modules.
Anyways: I like imperial measurments for 'civilian' uses: cooking, wood-working, car speed and hiking - but only a fool would do scientific calcualtions in imperial measure: the mind boggels.
Several years ago, I gave a lift to a pair of Appalacian trail hikers. They had started in Georgia, and I met them in New Hampshire.
"Rancid kitchen towel" isn't quite strong enough to describe the smell. They might as well have been decomposing in the back of my car.
We see a few hikers here on the Pacific Crest Trail that stink like rotting tuna mixed with fermenting brussel sprouts - the're usually the hippy weed-hikers that roll their own feces into their hair.
Nice pepole, from about 100 feet away.
Also, stay away from the crazed skinny camo hikers - they usually smell like the rotting human flesh of their last victem.
a solution containing underarm sweat from men who had not used deodorant in four weeks.
My girlfried and I do a lot of distance hiking ~ 90 miles in a week, and strangly enough, after about the third day of hard, sweaty hiking without deoderant, you stop stinking like a rancid kitchen towel.
When friends come an pick us up at the end of out hikes - we've asked them if we stunk like limburger cheese, and never once has anybody piped up that we stunk. (They could be horribly polite)
In our slacker civilisation though, I stink like cat puke if I don't slather on some deoderant every day.
A real woman will know that a diamond is just an expensive way to dazzle the easily dazzled.
She will also know it's just carbon.
She will aslo know that it's a common stone, kept uncommon by a diamond cartel.
She will aslo know that many diamons are mined by children in conditions akin to slavery.
She would also rather have flying lessons, a trip on the Concorde to Paris, or a Harley.
I suguest, that any woman that has a social structure that makes getting a diamond more important than getting a hang-glider and lessons, is a woman to be dumped to the curb.
Slashdot Mirror
War isn't that... War is dirty. War is evil.
War is not evil. War can be waged for liberty, self-defense or to stop a genocide.
War is a tool, a nasty sharp tool. It's what you use it for that make your endevor evil or, perhaps, good.
Times like this, I'm glad I'm Canadian ...
Time like this, we're glad you're Canadian too.
I love Canada! The 51'st State Where Your Doller Goes Further(TM)!
main()
{
printf("Hello world\n");
exit(0);
}
Now you have seen it.
For you MCSE types:
10 print "Hello World"
And for you advanced MCSE types:
10 print "Hello World"
20 goto 10
And for you L33t MCSE type:
10 ? "Hello World"
20 run
(look at that optimisation baby!)
the Back end mailstore machines were neither windows or freebsd - they were giant sun boxes [SNIP]... although i understand that converting them is now underway or coming soon..
I call bullshit.
Windows doesen't run on anything other than x386 and Sun produces no large x386 hardware.
If you fire up Knoppix on a modern lqptop - there is no noise from the laptop. No noise whatsoever. (Unless you have a crappy laptop that needs a fan to cool it's processor)
It really creapy. After 20 years os associating the din of drives, fans and the hum of monitors with computers - it was really creep to have a dead quiet computer for a change.
Whatever is deployed - it will be done by Americans using American equipment.
Think of all the wire-taping opertunities if we use our equipment.
Find a defunct, small, game company that use to exist on the opposite side of the country. You suddenly rememeber that you use to work for them. Congratulations, you now found some experience.
And yes, people pull crap like this all the time.
'ello?
Howdy. This is America calling, we'd like Ashcroft back.
In that case, if you claim that the operating system in use on 95+ percent of the audience's computers is not a "modern computing platform", then whether or not tar is bundled with a "modern computing platform" is not all that relevant now, is it?
.tar .
95+ ! Hah - more like 90% and falling.
Windows is marketshare in servers, desktops and developers keeps on sinking. It's will always be a somewhat viable choice for new-users, but the days of it's dominace are over.
Microsoft has since released Windows XP Home Edition based on the NT kernel, which has fixed many of these issues.
XP is a good effort against Microsoft's old operating systems, but against to other vendor's - it's a sad joke. Fuck - Apple makes a better Windows-compatable file-serving OS than the people who make Windows. That should tell you somthing.
No super-computer runs Windows.
No root domain server runs Windows.
No satelite runs Windows.
No large-scale database runs Windows.
No cave system runs Windows.
No militaty flight simulator run Windows.
No bank runs it's federal transations on Windows.
Of all the important thing that computers do - hardly anthing important runs Windows. There's a reason for this.
Sure, MS has most the desktop video-game market, most of the simple spread-sheet market and simple document creation market to itself - but nothing really of importance.
What percent of the band's audience uses a "decent OS" by your definition?
10%. One in 10. Enough, that they should have a
Tar is available on every modern computing platform
Unlike zip, tar is not bundled with Microsoft Windows ME and Microsoft Windows XP operating system
Re-read that again.... he said modern computing platform
Not legacy crap with 16-bit thunking code, self-corupting filesystems and NetBIOS over TCP/IP for file-sharing.
Evry decent OS has tar: OS X, Unix, *BSD, Vax, AIX, IRIX, QNX, hell even my TRS-80 CoCo had Tar with OS-9.
Get with the program.
Especially now that it's looking like the pilots can will be able to carry sidearms in the future.
The copiolet can lock the door, shoot the pilot and have the plane into the ground in under a few seconds.
Hell, you don't even need to do that - If with an Airbus, just stomp on the rudder hard for a few seconds and and the tail section will fall apart.
You see, Bush drinks Coors - now you may not know this but Coors is made with fresh mountain spring water.
This water, at one point, was urine from Bambi!
And we all know what happened to Bambi! She was exploited by Diseny, and burned in a forest fire afterwards.
Thatr forest fire was started by the CIA to cover up the Aliens.
But, Back to Diseny...
See, Diseney OWNS All Media! All of it!
In fact, amazingly enough, Diseny is paying me right now!
It's clever, by making Diseny's ownership of all MEDIA kinda funny - they hope you wont notice.
So go out and give Noam Chomsky a blowjob! There's the truth - it's dripping from your mouth!
5.0 is suposed to be a bleading-edge technology release.
Given that, 5.0 has been working wonderfully as a Samba server for the last two weeks at two sites.
Here in the US*, any cell phone, regardless of network and acount status can call the 911 emergency number.
Old Motorola flip phones with a cheap $9 car charger make a great present for thos who can't afford a cell phone for emergency use.
*Some European countries are not so enlighented - they don't care if you die with a cell phone in your hand, only if you can pay your bill.
Maybe CIO Magazine is not read by real CIOs but by wannabes, similarly to how Just Seventeen is not read by seventeen-year-olds.
I read Seventee as well!
I sort of think of it as "The Barly-Illegal Soft-Porn Magazine."
Mmmmm.... 'nutn like a hot Clearsil add to make a guy happy.
With a second partition that contains an OS that is labelled as "LINUX".
Of course, this special version of LINUX should be compiled with Intel C.
And Vi should be the only available editor.
Oh, make sure the Keyboard has an extra 'Windows' key for good luck!
All new technologies seem to originate in Japan, appear simultanously or shortly thereafter in Europe, and then after up to a decade finally make it to the US.
Some technologies apear this way while other technologies/toys appear here first:
VS Japan, we get the following first
Medical drugs - AIDS, cancer and Biotech drugs
Most high-tech mountain climbing gear - stoves, tents, ski's
Recreational drugs - Crack, cheap Meth.
Apple computers.
SGI computers.
Corvettes.
Cadillacs.
New procedures for making hot chicks - impants, botox, collegin injections.
High Tech Weapons - SDI, Tanks, Fighters, Subs
New Programing Languages - Pearl, C++, Emacs Lisp.
Large Budget Movies - Armegeddon, Spiderman, LOTR
Just to name a few things.
(And yes, I do wish we'd get cool Japanese laptops here for a good price)
I hate to burst your bubble (being from the US, feet and inches still seem "normal" to me too), but it's actually the meter that is based on the speed of light. A light nanosecond is really only around 98% of a foot.
Actually - the Meter is arbatrary now.
The reason? The definition of a second has changed in the last 75 years.
A second use to be a slice of an earth day - but unfortunatly earth days are not quite stable.
So the definition of a seond was changed to a specifc number of atomic vibrations at particular set of circumstances.
Unfortunatly changing the defintion of the second, changed the definition of the Meter. Faced with changing the lenth of the Meter or keeping it at it's historical length, they chose to keep the Meter's length at it's historical length.
Aside: Russians use a diferent Meter than the rest of the world. It made for interesting timess when connecting the Russian ISS modules to the European/American Modules.
Anyways: I like imperial measurments for 'civilian' uses: cooking, wood-working, car speed and hiking - but only a fool would do scientific calcualtions in imperial measure: the mind boggels.
Several years ago, I gave a lift to a pair of Appalacian trail hikers. They had started in Georgia, and I met them in New Hampshire.
"Rancid kitchen towel" isn't quite strong enough to describe the smell. They might as well have been decomposing in the back of my car.
We see a few hikers here on the Pacific Crest Trail that stink like rotting tuna mixed with fermenting brussel sprouts - the're usually the hippy weed-hikers that roll their own feces into their hair.
Nice pepole, from about 100 feet away.
Also, stay away from the crazed skinny camo hikers - they usually smell like the rotting human flesh of their last victem.
For the love of GOD, the word is "ITS", not "IT'S"!
Hey, its not there fault.
Your funny.
a solution containing underarm sweat from men who had not used deodorant in four weeks.
My girlfried and I do a lot of distance hiking ~ 90 miles in a week, and strangly enough, after about the third day of hard, sweaty hiking without deoderant, you stop stinking like a rancid kitchen towel.
When friends come an pick us up at the end of out hikes - we've asked them if we stunk like limburger cheese, and never once has anybody piped up that we stunk. (They could be horribly polite)
In our slacker civilisation though, I stink like cat puke if I don't slather on some deoderant every day.
Light travels across 12 inches in one nanosecond.
Excelent!
I knew imperial measurements wern't arbertary at all!
A imperial foot is whole light-nanosenced long, in addition to also being the length of my penis!
Take that, all you Metric poofs!
Just to infoome people who may not know:
The file loads just fine in OpenOffice.
OpenOffice is available free (beer and speech) at OpenOffice.org for Windows, Linux, MAC OS X, FreeBSD and Solaris.
I'm sure Apple's Keynote works as well.
Real women don't want a diamind:
A real woman will know that a diamond is just an expensive way to dazzle the easily dazzled.
She will also know it's just carbon.
She will aslo know that it's a common stone, kept uncommon by a diamond cartel.
She will aslo know that many diamons are mined by children in conditions akin to slavery.
She would also rather have flying lessons, a trip on the Concorde to Paris, or a Harley.
I suguest, that any woman that has a social structure that makes getting a diamond more important than getting a hang-glider and lessons, is a woman to be dumped to the curb.
It informs people as to who is 'off the market'.
This is certainly true - but in another way a ring can say:
"Hey - We can have a bit of fun, and I don't want commitment: I already have somone to do housework/heavy lifting and already have 2.5 children"