Um yeah... pepper spray is useful, but I can't see it being used in many military situations when a fully-automatic gets the job better and has much more range. Unless they're going for disabling the enemy instead of mortally wounding, but even in that case there are probably things much better than pepper spray, especially considering range.
Non leathal weapons have some neet capabilites: you don't have to worry about firendly-fire. Just zap them all and sort them out at your leasure.
If someone looks suspicious - zap them first and ask questions later. No need to be coy, zap away!
Imagine this: A crowd of anti-american protesters starts protesting when we occupy France. With curent technology, you can do much if you don't want to be a murdurer. With with non-lethal weapons you could zap the whole crowd and process them one at a time - seperating common citiziens from the truly nasty McDonalds/Nike/Hollywood hating French terrorists.
We use sendmail at all of our locations because we enjoy the extremely powerful customizability. Yes, it is a little disconcerting trying to disect sendmail.cf, but once you get the hang of it it's not bad. I have never had to do any performance tweaks either.
There are a lot of good thing about Sendmail - but I'm afraid, for me, the good things are hidden in layers of suckyness.
If someone sat down with the source code and only used the delete key - you could strip out the crap and make Sendmail cool. And, of course, change the sendmail.cf format to resemble somthing human readable.
It's kind of like looking at a fat-girl, and saying to yourself "She'd be cute if she lost a few pounds". You know it's never going to happen, she'll just keep eating the Happy Meals. I fear Sendmail will keep on getting bigger as well...
As for sendmail, it is not meant for Windows weenies or wanna be Unix sysadmins, only for "real" Unix admins and those that wish to use a VERY robust product and are willing to learn the product to reap the rewards.
Are you kidding?
I can get PostgreSQL to master/slave replicate a database cluster over 5 servers in faster time that I can get Sendmail do somthing simple. Really. The Sendamil config files might as well be binary - there useless to human eye. And, no, you shouldent have to learn a line-noise language just for a silly MTA.
Sendmail is just a bitch. I had it's time in the sun, and it's time to move on.
only for "real" Unix admins
A 'real' Unix admin wants to get work done and learn somthing usefull. Managing Sendmail is just memorising a bunch of trivia about it and hoping it works as you think it should. Managing Postfix or Qmail is like managing any other decent Unix server - and by learning one of them you can take that knowlage and use it somewhere else.
A 'real' Unix admin knows when a peice of software is a cobbled peice of crap and when to move on to somthing sane.
Tuning Sedmail is about as smart as tuning MS Exchange. Both are fat, bloated, and have a history of secutiry holes. Performance tuning Sendmail is like performance tuning an AMC Gremlin made out of spare junkyard parts - you end up with a cobbeled peice of crap with a spoiler.
Sendmail is so bloated that it apparently takes books to get decent performance out of it.
Sendmail doesen't fit the one of the core Unix ideas - use simple, robut and elegent programs, chained together, to do cool things.
Check out Postfix or Qmail for decent replacements to Sendmail. Enjoy the performance of well toughtout software. Postfix was so easy to use, that I went from reading the man pages to a working system in one hour.
You're trying to push a mostly single-user desktop operating system into being somthing it's not: a robust, managable, network desgigned operating system.
Of course ther're going to be problems.
It's kind of like asking: My Hyundai Excell keeps breaking down and it won't haul 6 tons of gravel - what can I do to make it work?
The real sloution, ditch the Hyundai and get a Terex . Ditch MS-Windows and get Solaris, SGI, UNIX, AIX. Hell, get Mac OS-X.
hahah, you're going to kick me...... I use a linksys router as my firewall.:)
No, that's a great choice if it fits your needs!
Seting up X11 has really gotten better on almost all Linux distibutions and Unix like OSes. Mandrake is actually easier than Windows XP! No hunting down drivers for odd chipsets! FreeBSD has a GUI based setup that is rather odd, but gets the job done.
The GUI front has really progressed quickly in the last 18 months. It's literally gone form complete suckyness to darn-right OK. In the next 6 months, if the curent pace is kept, XP will look lame.
BeOS was darn fun - It's still impressive. It really sucks that Be isent around to kick around.
You are correct, and they would be much better off if they didn't.
I humbly disagree - the three things that suck about the free X Windows System, in my dumb opinion, are: sucky mouse cursors, screwy anti-aliasing, shitty fonts and buggy alpha channels.
Fortunalty, all these problems with the X Windows System are being fixed as we speek. The trauma of removing X11 and replacing it with somthing else (somthing else that probably has suckyness of it's own) is probably more than just fixing X11.
In about six months or so, give the next version of FreeBSD a try as a destop OS. By then, KDE 3.1 should be nice and stable. KDE 3.0 is passable for a desktop GUI from a Windows standard. I'd place it at the level of Windows 95. KDE 3.1 is quie a bit nicer, and I would place it at the Windows 2000 level - if not close to XP in style and well thoughout icons/placement.
If you want a peek, goto kde.org and look at the screen shots.
As long as people consider XWindows (XFree86) to be a viable desktop interface, I think Linux will stand no chance of dethroning Windows or even OS X.
'XWindows' isn't a desktop interface, it's a networkable cliet-server graphical display and input technology. KDE and Gnome (amung others) build upon the X Windows System to proveide a GUI.
I just happen to prefer Windows XP on my desktop.
Me too, I happen to prefer Windows XP on your desktop.
Do you honestly think that the sales they've made through Mozilla browsers (the 1.7% you talked about) is more money than the other 98.3%?!
No (obviously) , what I'm saying, is that any web-site that makes their site IE exclusive is pising away a good group of rich customers; The kind of customers that know what they want and won't return half the items after they broke them.
I'd take an Apple/Unix customer any day over a Dell user - Dell people are concerned with cost, Apple/Unix people are concerned with value.
There is a theory that one the reasons that Honda trumps GM in reliability, is that a typical Honda customer is college educted and will take care of the vehicle, while the typical GM bubba runs the car into the ground and only adds oil when the idiot light comes on.
I own a GM vehicle, and it's been extremly reliable, (190,000 miles of worry-free driving) possibly because I've taken care of it the way a typical Honda owner does.
Sites that piss away the Mozilla crowd are just a stupid as an airline that pisses away the Business crowd.
In the last part of the article, it mentions that Mozilla based browsers have 1.7 % of the market share. I would advise web-sites that depens on internet sales not to discount this share. Most of these people, represented in the 1.7 % are rich people in the computer field , web-savy and spend time on the internet. Percisely, the best target audience.
The IE crowd is filled with old grandmom who play solitare and who think that the Internet in on their "Hard-Drive" - you know, the "Hard Drive" that sits under their Packard-Bell monitor.
You put Office and IE 6 on a server? Something tells me you aren't actually using it as a server.
Actually, this one of my better Microsoft servers: it, with a crappy VB program I wrote,is used to automatically convert and.doc file into yummy RTF, PDF, or HTML on the fly for all the Unix boxes we've been using. I've munged the email system to strip off the.doc's and replace them with.RTF,.PDF or HTML detending on user preferance. Kinda fun.
Last time, I had to like... select a computer name and everything! I was exhausted!
Err.. The myth of 'Windows is Easy to Install' must be crushed.
Let me illuminate the joys of installing Windows 2000 server.
Boot of of CD-Rom Wait for drivers to load ~ 5 min Partition Drive Reboot Wait for drivers to load ~ 5 min Format Drive Reboot Wait for drivers to load ~ 5 min Choose crap Wait for Windows to install ~ 10 min Reboot Copy cryptic crap off of security sticker Choose password Reboot turn off 'helpfull' how to use windoes help thingy move home-page off of MSN install SP3 ~ 15 min reboot install ie6 ~ 10 min reboot move home-page off MSN again. install 'critical updates' ~ 10 min reboot install office ~ 5 min install office updates ~ 10 min install office critical updates ~5 min install antivirus ~ 5 min
She said that with Linux, the company would have faced issues such as a lack of drivers and support if it decided to use cross-platform hardware
Yea, we all know who well Windows runs on big-endian boxes. Except for x86 is there anything else that Windows can run on?
And, I'm not talking about 'Pocket PC' on little ARM PDA's - AFAIK you still have to manage menory manually with Pocket PC. That shit became passe when Max OS 9 died.
Tom should defend himself outside the legal arena.
Tom is being attacked, vengfully, by evil people and should do all in his power to remove the threat.
There is no diference between somone intentionally ruining you life using the 'legal' system, and somone ruining your life by shooting you in the knee. Defence is justified.
For me, the king of games is Richard Garriott. No other series ever gave me more hours of gameplay and satisfaction than the Ultima series did.
YES! The whole, "Lest get our your CD-ROM and Mouse Drivers to fit in 22K adventure" in Untima 7 was Brilliant. And that was done without FMV, Porn or even Graphics! I sepent two days on that part of the adventure alone, and sometimes, to feel nostalgic, I fire up the GERNERIC kernel of FreeBSD and compile in a sound-card driver.
Also avoid evangelism. If the customer wants to build a data warehouse in access, warn them against it, then do it and bill it.
Or even better, Build it in PostgreSQL and bill them for the MS SQL Server licence. Have the database randomly drop records and tell them it's MS SQL. Then rebill them for doing it in PostgreSQL. Don't forget to turn off the randomly drop record 'feature.'
So can someone tell me, why is Japan always the last place on earth to get these movies (by over a month in the case of LOTR TTT; better than 6 months I suppose...)?
It's revenge. Revenge for Japan getting all the cool toys years before we do.
I still can buy a Toshiba Libretto without spending an arm and a leg.
The most amazing part of this story? This thing comes from Berlin....'Cause if there's ever been a more American-sounding invention, I've never heard of it.
What! You're suprised that a full-body torture device was maufactured in Germany?
Zu haf a lot to learen from ze Germans about ze pain of living.
There is a $24.95 all you can use level for AT&T GPRS service. I was set to get the $19.95 service, and the nice lady at the counter mentioned that they could offer me an unlimited plan. She called AWS customer care, and they diden't know about it, so you probably have to ask around.
Depending on discount, and what versions of your app, if can certainly vary, but for our crappy little windows app, the QT licence came out to around $1500 per developer. We bill at $200 per hour so, for us, 8 hours was about right.
QT is so well designed that we never needed suport. It just works the way you'd expect. Really a pleasure to work with.
After QT, there are several MFC gods around here that won't ever go back to that POS.
I made a little Pascal program was called format.exe - all it did was look like the real format, but it just read random blocks of stuff off the disk to keep the drive light flikering. It was fun to type it into the command line - it looked like someone typed 'format C:' and press Y for Yes, but there was that hidden psudo-space infront of it.
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Um yeah... pepper spray is useful, but I can't see it being used in many military situations when a fully-automatic gets the job better and has much more range. Unless they're going for disabling the enemy instead of mortally wounding, but even in that case there are probably things much better than pepper spray, especially considering range.
Non leathal weapons have some neet capabilites: you don't have to worry about firendly-fire. Just zap them all and sort them out at your leasure.
If someone looks suspicious - zap them first and ask questions later. No need to be coy, zap away!
Imagine this: A crowd of anti-american protesters starts protesting when we occupy France. With curent technology, you can do much if you don't want to be a murdurer. With with non-lethal weapons you could zap the whole crowd and process them one at a time - seperating common citiziens from the truly nasty McDonalds/Nike/Hollywood hating French terrorists.
We use sendmail at all of our locations because we enjoy the extremely powerful customizability. Yes, it is a little disconcerting trying to disect sendmail.cf, but once you get the hang of it it's not bad. I have never had to do any performance tweaks either.
There are a lot of good thing about Sendmail - but I'm afraid, for me, the good things are hidden in layers of suckyness.
If someone sat down with the source code and only used the delete key - you could strip out the crap and make Sendmail cool. And, of course, change the sendmail.cf format to resemble somthing human readable.
It's kind of like looking at a fat-girl, and saying to yourself "She'd be cute if she lost a few pounds". You know it's never going to happen, she'll just keep eating the Happy Meals. I fear Sendmail will keep on getting bigger as well...
As for sendmail, it is not meant for Windows weenies or wanna be Unix sysadmins, only for "real" Unix admins and those that wish to use a VERY robust product and are willing to learn the product to reap the rewards.
Are you kidding?
I can get PostgreSQL to master/slave replicate a database cluster over 5 servers in faster time that I can get Sendmail do somthing simple. Really.
The Sendamil config files might as well be binary - there useless to human eye. And, no, you shouldent have to learn a line-noise language just for a silly MTA.
Sendmail is just a bitch. I had it's time in the sun, and it's time to move on.
only for "real" Unix admins
A 'real' Unix admin wants to get work done and learn somthing usefull. Managing Sendmail is just memorising a bunch of trivia about it and hoping it works as you think it should. Managing Postfix or Qmail is like managing any other decent Unix server - and by learning one of them you can take that knowlage and use it somewhere else.
A 'real' Unix admin knows when a peice of software is a cobbled peice of crap and when to move on to somthing sane.
Tuning Sedmail is about as smart as tuning MS Exchange. Both are fat, bloated, and have a history of secutiry holes. Performance tuning Sendmail is like performance tuning an AMC Gremlin made out of spare junkyard parts - you end up with a cobbeled peice of crap with a spoiler.
Sendmail is so bloated that it apparently takes books to get decent performance out of it.
Sendmail doesen't fit the one of the core Unix ideas - use simple, robut and elegent programs, chained together, to do cool things.
Check out Postfix or Qmail for decent replacements to Sendmail. Enjoy the performance of well toughtout software. Postfix was so easy to use, that I went from reading the man pages to a working system in one hour.
You're fighting the wrong problem.
You're trying to push a mostly single-user desktop operating system into being somthing it's not: a robust, managable, network desgigned operating system.
Of course ther're going to be problems.
It's kind of like asking: My Hyundai Excell keeps breaking down and it won't haul 6 tons of gravel - what can I do to make it work?
The real sloution, ditch the Hyundai and get a Terex . Ditch MS-Windows and get Solaris, SGI, UNIX, AIX. Hell, get Mac OS-X.
It's just a bunch of jpg's on a non MS site.
Just find your local script-kiddie and ask.
I recommend http://www.microsoft.com/products/bob/sneaky-hidd
hahah, you're going to kick me
No, that's a great choice if it fits your needs!
Seting up X11 has really gotten better on almost all Linux distibutions and Unix like OSes. Mandrake is actually easier than Windows XP! No hunting down drivers for odd chipsets! FreeBSD has a GUI based setup that is rather odd, but gets the job done.
The GUI front has really progressed quickly in the last 18 months. It's literally gone form complete suckyness to darn-right OK. In the next 6 months, if the curent pace is kept, XP will look lame.
BeOS was darn fun - It's still impressive. It really sucks that Be isent around to kick around.
You are correct, and they would be much better off if they didn't.
I humbly disagree - the three things that suck about the free X Windows System, in my dumb opinion, are: sucky mouse cursors, screwy anti-aliasing, shitty fonts and buggy alpha channels.
Fortunalty, all these problems with the X Windows System are being fixed as we speek. The trauma of removing X11 and replacing it with somthing else (somthing else that probably has suckyness of it's own) is probably more than just fixing X11.
Just an idea:
In about six months or so, give the next version of FreeBSD a try as a destop OS. By then, KDE 3.1 should be nice and stable. KDE 3.0 is passable for a desktop GUI from a Windows standard. I'd place it at the level of Windows 95. KDE 3.1 is quie a bit nicer, and I would place it at the Windows 2000 level - if not close to XP in style and well thoughout icons/placement.
If you want a peek, goto kde.org and look at the screen shots.
FreeBSD kicks ass as a server. I love it as well.
OpenBSD for firewalls though...
As long as people consider XWindows (XFree86) to be a viable desktop interface, I think Linux will stand no chance of dethroning Windows or even OS X.
'XWindows' isn't a desktop interface, it's a networkable cliet-server graphical display and input technology. KDE and Gnome (amung others) build upon the X Windows System to proveide a GUI.
I just happen to prefer Windows XP on my desktop.
Me too, I happen to prefer Windows XP on your desktop.
Do you honestly think that the sales they've made through Mozilla browsers (the 1.7% you talked about) is more money than the other 98.3%?!
No (obviously) , what I'm saying, is that any web-site that makes their site IE exclusive is pising away a good group of rich customers; The kind of customers that know what they want and won't return half the items after they broke them.
I'd take an Apple/Unix customer any day over a Dell user - Dell people are concerned with cost, Apple/Unix people are concerned with value.
There is a theory that one the reasons that Honda trumps GM in reliability, is that a typical Honda customer is college educted and will take care of the vehicle, while the typical GM bubba runs the car into the ground and only adds oil when the idiot light comes on.
I own a GM vehicle, and it's been extremly reliable, (190,000 miles of worry-free driving) possibly because I've taken care of it the way a typical Honda owner does.
Sites that piss away the Mozilla crowd are just a stupid as an airline that pisses away the Business crowd.
In the last part of the article, it mentions that Mozilla based browsers have 1.7 % of the market share. I would advise web-sites that depens on internet sales not to discount this share. Most of these people, represented in the 1.7 % are rich people in the computer field , web-savy and spend time on the internet. Percisely, the best target audience.
The IE crowd is filled with old grandmom who play solitare and who think that the Internet in on their "Hard-Drive" - you know, the "Hard Drive" that sits under their Packard-Bell monitor.
Microsoft can keep those users.
Direct3D is by far much more advanced, supporting more functions + features that OpenGL's out of date API doesn't.
OpenGL is by far much more advanced, suporting more platforms + processors that DirectX's out of date API doesen't.
Call me when Direct3D comes out for somthing other than a x86 pc.
You put Office and IE 6 on a server? Something tells me you aren't actually using it as a server.
.doc file into yummy RTF, PDF, or HTML on the fly for all the Unix boxes we've been using. I've munged the email system to strip off the .doc's and replace them with .RTF, .PDF or HTML detending on user preferance. Kinda fun.
Actually, this one of my better Microsoft servers: it, with a crappy VB program I wrote,is used to automatically convert and
Yeah, booting off that CD is pretty tough.
Last time, I had to like... select a computer name and everything! I was exhausted!
Err.. The myth of 'Windows is Easy to Install' must be crushed.
Let me illuminate the joys of installing Windows 2000 server.
Boot of of CD-Rom
Wait for drivers to load ~ 5 min
Partition Drive
Reboot
Wait for drivers to load ~ 5 min
Format Drive
Reboot
Wait for drivers to load ~ 5 min
Choose crap
Wait for Windows to install ~ 10 min
Reboot
Copy cryptic crap off of security sticker
Choose password
Reboot
turn off 'helpfull' how to use windoes help thingy
move home-page off of MSN
install SP3 ~ 15 min
reboot
install ie6 ~ 10 min
reboot
move home-page off MSN again.
install 'critical updates' ~ 10 min
reboot
install office ~ 5 min
install office updates ~ 10 min
install office critical updates ~5 min
install antivirus ~ 5 min
Ugh
She said that with Linux, the company would have faced issues such as a lack of drivers and support if it decided to use cross-platform hardware
Yea, we all know who well Windows runs on big-endian boxes. Except for x86 is there anything else that Windows can run on?
And, I'm not talking about 'Pocket PC' on little ARM PDA's - AFAIK you still have to manage menory manually with Pocket PC. That shit became passe when Max OS 9 died.
Tom should defend himself outside the legal arena.
Tom is being attacked, vengfully, by evil people and should do all in his power to remove the threat.
There is no diference between somone intentionally ruining you life using the 'legal' system, and somone ruining your life by shooting you in the knee. Defence is justified.
For me, the king of games is Richard Garriott. No other series ever gave me more hours of gameplay and satisfaction than the Ultima series did.
YES! The whole, "Lest get our your CD-ROM and Mouse Drivers to fit in 22K adventure" in Untima 7 was Brilliant. And that was done without FMV, Porn or even Graphics! I sepent two days on that part of the adventure alone, and sometimes, to feel nostalgic, I fire up the GERNERIC kernel of FreeBSD and compile in a sound-card driver.
Fun! Fun! Fun!
Also avoid evangelism. If the customer wants to build a data warehouse in access, warn them against it, then do it and bill it.
Or even better, Build it in PostgreSQL and bill them for the MS SQL Server licence. Have the database randomly drop records and tell them it's MS SQL. Then rebill them for doing it in PostgreSQL. Don't forget to turn off the randomly drop record 'feature.'
So can someone tell me, why is Japan always the last place on earth to get these movies (by over a month in the case of LOTR TTT; better than 6 months I suppose...)?
It's revenge. Revenge for Japan getting all the cool toys years before we do.
I still can buy a Toshiba Libretto without spending an arm and a leg.
The most amazing part of this story? This thing comes from Berlin. ...'Cause if there's ever been a more American-sounding invention, I've never heard of it.
What! You're suprised that a full-body torture device was maufactured in Germany?
Zu haf a lot to learen from ze Germans about ze pain of living.
There is a $24.95 all you can use level for AT&T GPRS service. I was set to get the $19.95 service, and the nice lady at the counter mentioned that they could offer me an unlimited plan. She called AWS customer care, and they diden't know about it, so you probably have to ask around.
Depending on discount, and what versions of your app, if can certainly vary, but for our crappy little windows app, the QT licence came out to around $1500 per developer. We bill at $200 per hour so, for us, 8 hours was about right.
QT is so well designed that we never needed suport. It just works the way you'd expect. Really a pleasure to work with.
After QT, there are several MFC gods around here that won't ever go back to that POS.
I made a little Pascal program was called format.exe - all it did was look like the real format, but it just read random blocks of stuff off the disk to keep the drive light flikering. It was fun to type it into the command line - it looked like someone typed 'format C:' and press Y for Yes, but there was that hidden psudo-space infront of it.
Whee!
As a developer, the licesnce fees for QT are cheap. Really, really cheap.
So cheap, the cost is not an issue.
Their fees are equivelent to 8 billable hours per developer, the're that cheap.