I also liked core memory. You halted the system and turned it off. An hour or a week later, you turned it on and pressed "Continue" and you were right where you left off.
Also, I was a little surprised to find out this is how Final Fantasy XV on the PS4 works. Turn on the console, open the game, from start to finish I'm back where I was in the game in about 15 seconds... which is good because the game is so big that loading it from cold boot takes 5 minutes.
Blinking lights were pretty sweet. Then I moved into a small apartment in college and had my computer in my bedroom and I got sick of loud fans and blinking lights pretty quickly.
Remember those "Windows error fixer" programs? I had Norton System Works, a supposedly reputable company with Mr. Norton's renowned technical knowledge.
As long as we're going down Nostalgia Lane, I do remember when Norton earned the great name it had (before it was acquired by Symantec in 1990). One of my favorite Dos utilities was the Norton Commander (pre-windows). It made dos file/directory management/navigation so damned easier, probably still easier and faster than modern file managers, as well as program execution. And early (I must stress "early") versions of Norton Utilities for Dos were excellent too. The disk checker and defragger were particularly useful back then.
having to fiddle with hi memory and extended memory in DOS for hours to get some half-assed program to work
Yeah, on the IBM PC world, from around the mid-late 80s to mid-90s were a dark age in terms of memory management. Once programs started really needing more than 512kB of memory and you had to mess around with extended memory managers.
Or you had programs like Ultima 7 which you had to cold-boot into a plain dos session because the game came with its own memory manager and conflicted with anything that was running.
Yes, but tradition shouldn't just be cast aside willy-nilly, because many times tradition came out of discussing issues and goals of the time and finding the ways to do things that worked for people. Do these issues and goals change over time? Sure, they can be revisited. Yet often we see in the tech world good, usable things thrown away instead of built upon, with the "new from the ground up" inferior to the old. Windows 8 versus 7. Quicktime 10 vs 7. Gnome 3 vs Gnome 2. I've seen tons of website redesigns that killed the usability of the site, but at least the layout had a lot more rounded corners and was twice as slow!
Tradition is something to learn from, not to dismiss as a relic from the past.
My pet hate is for amy application that needlessly seems to have to have a connection to the Internet or set up its own servers and connect to other websites.
My least favorite (current) example is Razer's mouse driver, which stores button setting configuration "in the cloud." Translation? You get no mouse configuration or custom bindings (which tends to be the whole point of using their gaming mice) until the Internet is up, and I end up clicking around for awhile before it finally downloads my driver settings and applies them.
I GUESS the point is so that you can take your mouse from computer to computer and the settings will be available wherever you go, but I really wish this over-engineered piece of crap let you opt out of that nonsense.
Even as a mere desktop user, I find that any of these modern init systems turn Linux machines into something like Windows where the machine isn't actually ready to use when the UI has loaded. This can be particularly annoying in an appliance like an HTPC.
I got around this myself by placing dependencies in graphical.target. IE, making autofs a dependency of graphical.target so the machine wouldn't try to bring up gdm before automounted homedirs were available.
Again, it's another solution in search of a problem adding additional complexity where 99% of people didn't ask for it and don't need it and probably don't want it.
Most people really like the much-faster machine startup; it tends to be those 1% edge cases (automatic login, in my case) that break things and require a bit of fiddling.
It's one thing to support DRM and commercial software and quite another to gimp the entire OS in order to bend over backwards for the entertainment industry
Like how my Macbook won't output video (at all) if it detects that it's connected to my HDMI matrix? Eventually I got around it by grabbing a hardware device, the HDMI Detective, and programming it with the EDID for my projector to trick it into thinking it's connected to a full HDCP chain so it would output video again to the HDMI splitter.
Linux, fortunately, didn't have that problem, and the nvidia driver lets me specify an EDID file so I don't need to use an external piece of hardware just for that.
Since the Cold War, Russia has always tested the will and reactions of he U.S., especially when there's a new sheriff in town.
Well, since Putin's ascension, anyway. In between the fall of the Soviet Union and the rise of Vladimir Putin, Russia wasn't doing much of anything besides giving itself away by its own oligarchs.
Cisco VPNs probably means someone who's working from home which probably means business.
That means that someone would be using a non-business line for a business use. They should really pay a bunch more to upgrade their home internet connection to a business line. You're welcome!
All of these problems that Net Neutrality will supposedly fix are due to government granted monopolies. If there were competition among ISPs, then customers could just switch to another provider if theirs was treating them poorly.
The government-granted monopolies exist because every ISP that moves in can't tear up the streets to install their own lines, and eventually municipalities would get sick of having big bundles of cables, each for a different company. The situation occurs because the companies own the infrastructure, including the last-mile connections. Maybe if they didn't, or were required to lease bandwidth at operating cost (which we had in the 1990s with DSL, which resulted in a nice growth of independent competitive ISPs before those regulations were repealed) we might get a competitive ISP market, but there are physical barriers involving the Commons that prevent it from being a capitalistic free-for-all.
We need to rapidly repeal the burdonsome regulations that hamstring American job creators and inhibit their ability to compete on a global stage.
You're right, and we can start by repealing the state laws that give monopolies/duopolies to Comcast and their ilk and which prevent any local towns from building their own infrastructure that competes with the Big Boys.
Cause my experience is the talented devs skip school, while the hard working devs spend their time in academia and have little talent in delivering value
I haven't found that to be the case, but it's definitely something the devs who skipped school tell themselves so they can claim to make the right decision and seem more marketable.
he realized just how bad of a policy his campaign bashing Bush's war had been
Eh? He was always right to bash the Iraq War and to demand that it come to an end. That's one of the few things I'll really credit him for. The second Iraq War was the US's greatest foreign policy blunder since the Vietnam War, if not earlier.
Really? Explain to me how a successful businessman and former governor who smokes a little recreational weed and has a wacky sense of humor is worse than a corrupt politician who destroys evidence and a reality television star that spouts continual lies and attacks on anyone who questions him?
Because neither of them have any clue what the President does, or had opinions that sounded thought out on any of the major issues. Any time Gary Johnson or Jill Stein were interviewed, they hung themselves and demonstrated so very clearly that they were incapable of the job. Yeah, I hated Hillary and Trump too (and didn't vote for either), and I REALLY wanted to like Johnson or Stein, either one, anything other than those other two, but they were clueless. Utterly clueless.
When they were part of the Ottoman Empire prior to WWI they were all fine and dandy. Afterwards when we, with our almighty white American/Brittish intellect, decided to arbitrarily split up the Middle East into whatever the fuck countries we felt like with no regards to... well anything... THAT is what ruined the Middle East.
They could, you know, maybe end the Shia/Sunni infighting that has persisted since Muhammad died. But well, of course it's whitey's fault that the Shias and Sunnis want to kill each other all the time.
I'm from Canada. You get better care in the US but not everyone can afford it.
Yes, if you pay top dollar (or can convince someone else to pay top dollar for you), the US's medical care is top tier. That's why your overall standard of medical care can suck even if everyone wants to get treated here.
Venezuela is a real example of "broken" (because they put all their eggs in the oil basket).
No, they put all their eggs in the socialism basket.
No, they put all their eggs in a single-commodity economy. Any region which invests in one particular sector will finds its fortunes rising and falling with that sector, as any investor already knows. Venezuela has gotten crushed by the low low worldwide price of oil.
Adjectives like "SUPERIOR" in the title and "wonderful" in the description tell you a lot about the author's objectivity.
Regardless of whether a switchover is a good idea or not, when I saw the Slashdot title, I assumed that this was an April Fool's story that Slashdot was late in publishing. The adjectives are typical for April Fools Slashdot stories.
Nazi. National socialist. This is basic stuff here, do you always just "bahaha" in response to facts?
Republic is an evil word of propaganda as well, indicative of harsh authoritarian and communist regimes. After all, China has the word in "People's Republic of China." If the Nazis are emblematic of socialism, then China gets to be a republic.
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I also liked core memory. You halted the system and turned it off. An hour or a week later, you turned it on and pressed "Continue" and you were right where you left off.
Also, I was a little surprised to find out this is how Final Fantasy XV on the PS4 works. Turn on the console, open the game, from start to finish I'm back where I was in the game in about 15 seconds... which is good because the game is so big that loading it from cold boot takes 5 minutes.
Blinking lights were pretty sweet.
Then I moved into a small apartment in college and had my computer in my bedroom and I got sick of loud fans and blinking lights pretty quickly.
Remember those "Windows error fixer" programs? I had Norton System Works, a supposedly reputable company with Mr. Norton's renowned technical knowledge.
As long as we're going down Nostalgia Lane, I do remember when Norton earned the great name it had (before it was acquired by Symantec in 1990). One of my favorite Dos utilities was the Norton Commander (pre-windows). It made dos file/directory management/navigation so damned easier, probably still easier and faster than modern file managers, as well as program execution. And early (I must stress "early") versions of Norton Utilities for Dos were excellent too. The disk checker and defragger were particularly useful back then.
I mean... is there anyone out there that finds this to be funny? Anyone?
having to fiddle with hi memory and extended memory in DOS for hours to get some half-assed program to work
Yeah, on the IBM PC world, from around the mid-late 80s to mid-90s were a dark age in terms of memory management. Once programs started really needing more than 512kB of memory and you had to mess around with extended memory managers.
Or you had programs like Ultima 7 which you had to cold-boot into a plain dos session because the game came with its own memory manager and conflicted with anything that was running.
Tradition is the enemy of progress.
Yes, but tradition shouldn't just be cast aside willy-nilly, because many times tradition came out of discussing issues and goals of the time and finding the ways to do things that worked for people. Do these issues and goals change over time? Sure, they can be revisited. Yet often we see in the tech world good, usable things thrown away instead of built upon, with the "new from the ground up" inferior to the old. Windows 8 versus 7. Quicktime 10 vs 7. Gnome 3 vs Gnome 2. I've seen tons of website redesigns that killed the usability of the site, but at least the layout had a lot more rounded corners and was twice as slow!
Tradition is something to learn from, not to dismiss as a relic from the past.
Why does Canonical hate the main stream, and tend to roll their own instead? Wayland, Unity, Upstart ...
I guess they want to be like Red Hat (and Apple and Sony) and try to push their own ideas as standards so they can be the leaders in that field.
My pet hate is for amy application that needlessly seems to have to have a connection to the Internet or set up its own servers and connect to other websites.
My least favorite (current) example is Razer's mouse driver, which stores button setting configuration "in the cloud." Translation? You get no mouse configuration or custom bindings (which tends to be the whole point of using their gaming mice) until the Internet is up, and I end up clicking around for awhile before it finally downloads my driver settings and applies them.
I GUESS the point is so that you can take your mouse from computer to computer and the settings will be available wherever you go, but I really wish this over-engineered piece of crap let you opt out of that nonsense.
Even as a mere desktop user, I find that any of these modern init systems turn Linux machines into something like Windows where the machine isn't actually ready to use when the UI has loaded. This can be particularly annoying in an appliance like an HTPC.
I got around this myself by placing dependencies in graphical.target. IE, making autofs a dependency of graphical.target so the machine wouldn't try to bring up gdm before automounted homedirs were available.
Again, it's another solution in search of a problem adding additional complexity where 99% of people didn't ask for it and don't need it and probably don't want it.
Most people really like the much-faster machine startup; it tends to be those 1% edge cases (automatic login, in my case) that break things and require a bit of fiddling.
It's one thing to support DRM and commercial software and quite another to gimp the entire OS in order to bend over backwards for the entertainment industry
Like how my Macbook won't output video (at all) if it detects that it's connected to my HDMI matrix?
Eventually I got around it by grabbing a hardware device, the HDMI Detective, and programming it with the EDID for my projector to trick it into thinking it's connected to a full HDCP chain so it would output video again to the HDMI splitter.
Linux, fortunately, didn't have that problem, and the nvidia driver lets me specify an EDID file so I don't need to use an external piece of hardware just for that.
Since the Cold War, Russia has always tested the will and reactions of he U.S., especially when there's a new sheriff in town.
Well, since Putin's ascension, anyway. In between the fall of the Soviet Union and the rise of Vladimir Putin, Russia wasn't doing much of anything besides giving itself away by its own oligarchs.
Yep. Keep in mind the former FCC chair (Wheeler) was literally a cable industry lobbyist. Repealing everything he did can only be a good thing.
For a cable industry lobbyist, he sure passed a lot of measures that worked directly against the cable industry's interests.
Cisco VPNs probably means someone who's working from home which probably means business.
That means that someone would be using a non-business line for a business use. They should really pay a bunch more to upgrade their home internet connection to a business line. You're welcome!
Love,
Your ISP corp.
All of these problems that Net Neutrality will supposedly fix are due to government granted monopolies. If there were competition among ISPs, then customers could just switch to another provider if theirs was treating them poorly.
The government-granted monopolies exist because every ISP that moves in can't tear up the streets to install their own lines, and eventually municipalities would get sick of having big bundles of cables, each for a different company. The situation occurs because the companies own the infrastructure, including the last-mile connections. Maybe if they didn't, or were required to lease bandwidth at operating cost (which we had in the 1990s with DSL, which resulted in a nice growth of independent competitive ISPs before those regulations were repealed) we might get a competitive ISP market, but there are physical barriers involving the Commons that prevent it from being a capitalistic free-for-all.
We need to rapidly repeal the burdonsome regulations that hamstring American job creators and inhibit their ability to compete on a global stage.
You're right, and we can start by repealing the state laws that give monopolies/duopolies to Comcast and their ilk and which prevent any local towns from building their own infrastructure that competes with the Big Boys.
Cause my experience is the talented devs skip school, while the hard working devs spend their time in academia and have little talent in delivering value
I haven't found that to be the case, but it's definitely something the devs who skipped school tell themselves so they can claim to make the right decision and seem more marketable.
he realized just how bad of a policy his campaign bashing Bush's war had been
Eh? He was always right to bash the Iraq War and to demand that it come to an end. That's one of the few things I'll really credit him for.
The second Iraq War was the US's greatest foreign policy blunder since the Vietnam War, if not earlier.
Really? Explain to me how a successful businessman and former governor who smokes a little recreational weed and has a wacky sense of humor is worse than a corrupt politician who destroys evidence and a reality television star that spouts continual lies and attacks on anyone who questions him?
Because neither of them have any clue what the President does, or had opinions that sounded thought out on any of the major issues. Any time Gary Johnson or Jill Stein were interviewed, they hung themselves and demonstrated so very clearly that they were incapable of the job. Yeah, I hated Hillary and Trump too (and didn't vote for either), and I REALLY wanted to like Johnson or Stein, either one, anything other than those other two, but they were clueless. Utterly clueless.
When they were part of the Ottoman Empire prior to WWI they were all fine and dandy. Afterwards when we, with our almighty white American/Brittish intellect, decided to arbitrarily split up the Middle East into whatever the fuck countries we felt like with no regards to... well anything... THAT is what ruined the Middle East.
They could, you know, maybe end the Shia/Sunni infighting that has persisted since Muhammad died. But well, of course it's whitey's fault that the Shias and Sunnis want to kill each other all the time.
I'm from Canada. You get better care in the US but not everyone can afford it.
Yes, if you pay top dollar (or can convince someone else to pay top dollar for you), the US's medical care is top tier. That's why your overall standard of medical care can suck even if everyone wants to get treated here.
Venezuela is a real example of "broken" (because they put all their eggs in the oil basket).
No, they put all their eggs in the socialism basket.
No, they put all their eggs in a single-commodity economy. Any region which invests in one particular sector will finds its fortunes rising and falling with that sector, as any investor already knows. Venezuela has gotten crushed by the low low worldwide price of oil.
Does RHEL only include GNOME 3?
I use RHEL7 with Mate. Works ok, but is generally unsupported compared to Gnome.
Well, Mate is basically "Gnome, but in the good ol' days."
Adjectives like "SUPERIOR" in the title and "wonderful" in the description tell you a lot about the author's objectivity.
Regardless of whether a switchover is a good idea or not, when I saw the Slashdot title, I assumed that this was an April Fool's story that Slashdot was late in publishing. The adjectives are typical for April Fools Slashdot stories.
Nazi. National socialist. This is basic stuff here, do you always just "bahaha" in response to facts?
Republic is an evil word of propaganda as well, indicative of harsh authoritarian and communist regimes.
After all, China has the word in "People's Republic of China." If the Nazis are emblematic of socialism, then China gets to be a republic.