The line is not funny, nor profound. It is a statement of truth, and what you take from it is on your own time.
No, onto some mean spirited grammer nazism.
To many people live there lives like there in prison because they're surrounded by freedom but they cannot see it!!!
Indeed, and they also seem unemcumbered by grammer. Granted, grammer tips coming from are about as credible as ethics tips from Jeffery Skilling, but here goes:
Too many people live their lives as ifthey're/they are in prison...
Lao Tsu had it easy. There is no formal syntax in ancient Chinese. Were the same words written today in English he would have been laughed at.
And Linus turned to his disciples and said, "Take this, the source of the Linux Kernel. It was written for you and for all people. Take and compile."
When it was finished compiling he drew out a patch, dissolved it in guiness and said "This is the blood of the project. It was shed for the corrections of all bugs. Take and drink."
IMHO, the only thing that beats Gentoo on your desktop will be OS X!
In my data center we are actually using both. I also use Gentoo at home. Though I think I'm one more KDE problem away from the main box being reformatted to XP by my wife.
I many care about having the latest version of KDE. She just has this unnatural obsession with DVD's playing back every time she sits the baby in front of the tube, complete with sound and not looking like ass.
For the record I am usually able to accomplish this. There are just those days...
I too have been playing with Gentoo since before Gentoo was cool. Well, popular. Ok, a cliche.
What I enjoy most is what most newbies bitch about. The minimalist installer. I just used the LiveCD to backup and restore a clients Win2K laptop last night. On that disk is a respectable arsenol to tools in the hands of a skilled wizard.
Portage, for it's warts, does the job. And where it doesn't it's simple enough to hack. I run my own offshoot for our in-house servers with a few custom ebuilds.
Working for a non-profit, its all about donors. Many benevolent organization (Pew, Carnegie, etc) really prefer to give to an official non-profit (assuming it's not mandated in their charters.)
NFP status also makes Gentoo eligable for numerous government research and education grants. That's money with not strings attached, save to do the work as stated. No corporate tie-ins, no funding pulled because you are competing with their product. Of course there are political issues that are difficult to negotiate, but you have a development and giving department to handle that.
They don't. They will simply lop port 25, and force you to use their smtp servers, or lack thereof. While they are at it, meter you $0.10 a letter. And 50 years from now we will be asking why email costs so damn much.
It's actually fairly easy to shock-mount a hard drive. 2.5" drives are very light and small, and can handle plenty of bouncing around, as long as you can absorb the direct impact shocks externally.
Only while the head is parked. No amount of shock mounting is going to keep your drive head from crashing it you take a bump during disk activity. It's basic physics, the components of the drive begin to bend and move at different relative velocities when exposed to a rapid accelleration or decelleration. The drive head is a mass at the end of a stick. The platter is a disk kept stable by gyroscopic inertia. The two are held fractions of an inch apart by the mechanical strength of the armature. A big enough bump and the arm bends, and the head smacks the platter.
Inactive drives park the head off to the side so that it can't smack the platter. (IBM's whole "air bag for laptops" tech.)
About the only money Microsoft has put into emerging markets has been snuff money to buy them out and kill them. Look at browsers. Look what they did to Java. Look what they are trying to do it now with relational databases, Internet Portals, portable computing, and console gaming.
Computers have more or less been done to death. The internet has been there and done that. The next "emerging market" is going to be something off the wall like bio-engineering, domestic robots, or single-person vehicles.
2/3 of the US GDP is consumer spending. What made Microsoft billions was selling computer software the average consumer could afford. What made Bell billions was selling a telephone network that the average consumer could afford. What make Edison billions was selling an electric light system that the average consumer could afford. What made Ford billions... well you get the idea.
What's got Microsoft's nuts in the the grinder is the very fact that it's products DO cost an arm and a leg, and they don't cut any kind of break for upgrading ancient software.
Most companies capitalize equipment over 5 years. Microsoft tried to get everyone to replace every 2. What they didn't do was lower the price to 2/5's of what they were charging before. Indeed, they charged MORE for their newer product than their older products.
There are deep pocketed organizations out there they love nothing better than to continually swap out computers and software. Most of us though would rather use our IT budget on something the users will actually use.
And it's not even like you can manually edit the control codes IN the file to unfutz. If I'm lucky I can pull out the text.
Unfortunately as a network administrator I have to deal with very large documents that someone DIDN'T bother to check to see if it was becoming fucked. Well, until they go and print it. (Backup, don't you back everything up on tape? What do you mean a tape restore takes 2 days! I need this document in 20 minutes...)
I've always said that demons inhabited my Windows boxen...
Now I know. I just wish they would stop putting the toxic waste barrels so close together. It seems like every shot I get off I accidentally incinerate they entire room and me with it.
I've run my desktop at work as an X terminal to one of our rackmounts in the datacenter for months. 100 Mbit switched ethernet over a busy network, and through the busiest switch on the network.
No problems to report. That remote desktop rig is more reliable than the copy of the OS sitting on that particular hard drive. (The curse of the admin's desktop.)
This is a pretty far fetched use for bootable compact flash devices.
A more convincing one would be a ruggedized platform for robotics development. I can't imagine a hard drive taking a whole lot of abuse from a robot bouncing up and down stairs, rolling over a rocky terrain, or playing demolition derby with another robot.
Yes, in an ideal world you would pre-load the OS into ram and keep it there. But if your robot needs to reboot, the brain case momentarily looses power, or you need to load an extra program it would be nice to have a storage system along for the ride.
I hear you. The CPU fan would be far worse than the noise a hard drive makes.
And I'm not exactly seeing the hackworthyness here either. Normally that much effort goes into taking an expensive idea and making it cheaper, not the other way around.
Immortality requires a mindset that is completely counter to modern thinking. Today we live moment to moment, and more or less treat this world, and everyone in it, as if they were disposable.
For an immortal, the consequences of any short-sighted decision WILL come to roost. Live your life exploiting other people? You WILL have to deal with those people, or their offspring later in life. (Or you WILL sooner or later make someone made enough to kill you.) Have a propensity for collecting junk? After a few hundred years, you are going to have a mountian of trash to clean up.
To an immortal, what you are paying at the pump right now doesn't mean squat. It's will the CO2 your Taho is shooting in the air flood his beach house in 100 years. Taxes today don't matter as much as the economic chaos that decades of deficit spending will cause.
To be an immortal requires a set of ethics that Jesus and Lao Tsu would be proud of. And it's not out of "goodness", it's out of self-preservation.
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No, onto some mean spirited grammer nazism.
To many people live there lives like there in prison because they're surrounded by freedom but they cannot see it!!!
Indeed, and they also seem unemcumbered by grammer. Granted, grammer tips coming from are about as credible as ethics tips from Jeffery Skilling, but here goes:
Too many people live their lives as if they're/they are in prison ...
Lao Tsu had it easy. There is no formal syntax in ancient Chinese. Were the same words written today in English he would have been laughed at.
No, merely enough of them.
When it was finished compiling he drew out a patch, dissolved it in guiness and said "This is the blood of the project. It was shed for the corrections of all bugs. Take and drink."
Er, no. Most non-profits don't generate a whole lotta cash for anyone without a "vice" or "president" in their title. I speak from experience.
In my data center we are actually using both. I also use Gentoo at home. Though I think I'm one more KDE problem away from the main box being reformatted to XP by my wife.
I many care about having the latest version of KDE. She just has this unnatural obsession with DVD's playing back every time she sits the baby in front of the tube, complete with sound and not looking like ass.
For the record I am usually able to accomplish this. There are just those days...
emerge --deep 501c
What I enjoy most is what most newbies bitch about. The minimalist installer. I just used the LiveCD to backup and restore a clients Win2K laptop last night. On that disk is a respectable arsenol to tools in the hands of a skilled wizard.
Portage, for it's warts, does the job. And where it doesn't it's simple enough to hack. I run my own offshoot for our in-house servers with a few custom ebuilds.
NFP status also makes Gentoo eligable for numerous government research and education grants. That's money with not strings attached, save to do the work as stated. No corporate tie-ins, no funding pulled because you are competing with their product. Of course there are political issues that are difficult to negotiate, but you have a development and giving department to handle that.
In New Mexico, possibly. But the federal paperwork is just starting, and they don't get 501c status until all the goats have been sacrificed.
They don't. They will simply lop port 25, and force you to use their smtp servers, or lack thereof. While they are at it, meter you $0.10 a letter. And 50 years from now we will be asking why email costs so damn much.
Nope, I think you're thinking of BSD.
BSD has daemons, not demons.
You heard it here first.
Except that the cost of the box ISN'T negligable. Hence why even at $200 Microsoft is still selling the sucker at a loss.
Only while the head is parked. No amount of shock mounting is going to keep your drive head from crashing it you take a bump during disk activity. It's basic physics, the components of the drive begin to bend and move at different relative velocities when exposed to a rapid accelleration or decelleration. The drive head is a mass at the end of a stick. The platter is a disk kept stable by gyroscopic inertia. The two are held fractions of an inch apart by the mechanical strength of the armature. A big enough bump and the arm bends, and the head smacks the platter.
Inactive drives park the head off to the side so that it can't smack the platter. (IBM's whole "air bag for laptops" tech.)
Paranioa. What seperates the GREAT admins from the tourists.
Computers have more or less been done to death. The internet has been there and done that. The next "emerging market" is going to be something off the wall like bio-engineering, domestic robots, or single-person vehicles.
2/3 of the US GDP is consumer spending. What made Microsoft billions was selling computer software the average consumer could afford. What made Bell billions was selling a telephone network that the average consumer could afford. What make Edison billions was selling an electric light system that the average consumer could afford. What made Ford billions... well you get the idea.
That's why my retirement fund is kept in a coffee tin. Sure it doesn't collect interest, but at least I have half a chance of seeing it again.
Most companies capitalize equipment over 5 years. Microsoft tried to get everyone to replace every 2. What they didn't do was lower the price to 2/5's of what they were charging before. Indeed, they charged MORE for their newer product than their older products.
There are deep pocketed organizations out there they love nothing better than to continually swap out computers and software. Most of us though would rather use our IT budget on something the users will actually use.
Reminds me of an old joke about a rubber products company that made baby nipples and condoms...
And it's not even like you can manually edit the control codes IN the file to unfutz. If I'm lucky I can pull out the text.
Unfortunately as a network administrator I have to deal with very large documents that someone DIDN'T bother to check to see if it was becoming fucked. Well, until they go and print it. (Backup, don't you back everything up on tape? What do you mean a tape restore takes 2 days! I need this document in 20 minutes...)
Now I know. I just wish they would stop putting the toxic waste barrels so close together. It seems like every shot I get off I accidentally incinerate they entire room and me with it.
No problems to report. That remote desktop rig is more reliable than the copy of the OS sitting on that particular hard drive. (The curse of the admin's desktop.)
A more convincing one would be a ruggedized platform for robotics development. I can't imagine a hard drive taking a whole lot of abuse from a robot bouncing up and down stairs, rolling over a rocky terrain, or playing demolition derby with another robot.
Yes, in an ideal world you would pre-load the OS into ram and keep it there. But if your robot needs to reboot, the brain case momentarily looses power, or you need to load an extra program it would be nice to have a storage system along for the ride.
And I'm not exactly seeing the hackworthyness here either. Normally that much effort goes into taking an expensive idea and making it cheaper, not the other way around.
For an immortal, the consequences of any short-sighted decision WILL come to roost. Live your life exploiting other people? You WILL have to deal with those people, or their offspring later in life. (Or you WILL sooner or later make someone made enough to kill you.) Have a propensity for collecting junk? After a few hundred years, you are going to have a mountian of trash to clean up.
To an immortal, what you are paying at the pump right now doesn't mean squat. It's will the CO2 your Taho is shooting in the air flood his beach house in 100 years. Taxes today don't matter as much as the economic chaos that decades of deficit spending will cause.
To be an immortal requires a set of ethics that Jesus and Lao Tsu would be proud of. And it's not out of "goodness", it's out of self-preservation.