That sounds eerily similar to "Satan's greatest achievement was convincing the world that he doesn't exist."
No shit, Sherlock.
Where's that "Well, DUH" moderation category when you need it? That sounds like you're annoyed somebody made an obvious connection to a line from 'the Usual Suspects'.
Where's the "Redundant" moderation category when you need it ? Oh ! It's right there !
Say to the guy: Look, I've never been in this situation before, but I do think that I would be the best person to ask. Let's work out a system that we can tune over time; say we get together every quarter to assess the effectiveness of our little system. Let's start with the quality of ticket resolving and outage and work from there. I realize that you would like to have a solution ready to present to whomever could fire you yesterday, but that's just not going to happen. Let's make it our goal to have evolved relatively fine tuned metrics ready in a year's time. In the mean time, give me half a day out of every week to develop it.
Except of course, when openoffice is borked, and is borked somewhere near the end, and you've just emerged everything. Gentoo could do with some step-over functionality in its transactions, that's for sure.
Problem with that is that tampering with your 'mileage' meter isn't illegal over here; what with your car being your own possession an' all. There was a problem with that a while ago when some used car salesman was found out to wind them back, and they couldn't really pin it on him. I think they tried deceptive practices or something, or misrepresentation. He got some kind of sentence, I'm sure, but it was really problematic.
Hey now, I paid 5 billion in taxes last year. Feel free to suck my twenty cocks (which is how I made all that money) as payment. There's always a top dog, you know.
It's important to people precisely because it deals with entirely unscientific subjective concepts, such as the concept of a soul; That's not entirely true; the Abrahamic religions started off as something in place of science/law/history, in other words - that what we nowadays teach in university. The people who believed in it when it was invented never saw it as filling the need for something scientific; they saw it as science, the truth. When it failed to keep up with the advances of religion, it became spiritual in nature only. That is, of course, apart from those who still see it as the Only Truth.
But then _they_ can't use apache. Or mysql. Or postgres. Or php. Or perl. Or tomcat. Or BerkeleyDB. Because if you don't believe in free, then you shouldn't accept it either; this world is already too full of people who want to charge other people for what they basically got for free. So pay through your teeth for Oracle and WebSphere and/or IIS or Netscape. And see if you can keep your website alive that way.
Thing is, I discussed this with my US cousin a few months back, and told him how in the Netherlands, we had all sorts of systems in place already to monitor traffic for billing and speeding registration purposes, using cameras that read license plates. He was sure that, for privacy reasons alone, such systems would never fly in the States.
So the odds of a combination of clay + radiation was only to be found inside comets and the chances of that surviving a fiery impact at many kilometers per second are _higher_ than the same combination occurring naturally, peacefully, here on earth ? Somehow my bullshit meter goes all bananas.
The hedgers are buying cheap ass stuff to insure against losses on the other side (Novell, RedHat, IBM). You multiply potential gain/loss by amount of stock and price. The probability of IBM going down is low, but the stock is high. The probability of SCOX ever going up again is low, but if it does the gains will be enormous, and it's cheap as toilet paper anyway. It's a way for fund managers and bet hedgers in the tech sector to cover their asses.
Oracle wants to sell systems more than anything; they like it when their benchmarks can be tuned to the hardware, they like to live on raw partitions, they do their own scheduling and execution within the DB engine, the only thing that failed that they've tried over the years, is an Oracle OS for running 'other' things on (i.e. your apps). With Linux, they have a marketable (the PHB has heard of it), reliable OS that also runs java (their other fetish), which is why they take Linux very seriously indeed.
This site's primary concern seems to be java. Like the GOF, they seem to want to monopolize what is good and beautiful about it and most of all, how to do it. All fine and dandy if you're looking at ambitious eighteen year olds (ambitious to become faceless programmer droids, that is), but there seems to be an awful lack of discussion going on. Besides, currently my concern in _not_ java - so tell me again why this site would bother me ?
Indeed, I _want_ atime for this purpose. Of course, I could mount/tmp on a different partition with atime enabled, whilst on the other partitions, it's off.
I thought your post was funny, unfortunately, the selection list folded too quickly and instead of 'funny', I moderated you 'overrated'. So by way of repairing that, I react (so that my moderation goes to waste), and I say: MOD PARENT UP !
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No shit, Sherlock.
Where's that "Well, DUH" moderation category when you need it? That sounds like you're annoyed somebody made an obvious connection to a line from 'the Usual Suspects'.
Where's the "Redundant" moderation category when you need it ? Oh ! It's right there !
Or Mathew Starr.
The US admin will never go for it; another camera that can be accidentally left on when they're doing supersecret stuff up there.
Reminds me of the French presidential election system. Is it the same, to your knowledge ?
Say to the guy: Look, I've never been in this situation before, but I do think that I would be the best person to ask. Let's work out a system that we can tune over time; say we get together every quarter to assess the effectiveness of our little system. Let's start with the quality of ticket resolving and outage and work from there. I realize that you would like to have a solution ready to present to whomever could fire you yesterday, but that's just not going to happen. Let's make it our goal to have evolved relatively fine tuned metrics ready in a year's time. In the mean time, give me half a day out of every week to develop it.
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- JAVA
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- PRFT
Except of course, when openoffice is borked, and is borked somewhere near the end, and you've just emerged everything. Gentoo could do with some step-over functionality in its transactions, that's for sure.
Problem with that is that tampering with your 'mileage' meter isn't illegal over here; what with your car being your own possession an' all. There was a problem with that a while ago when some used car salesman was found out to wind them back, and they couldn't really pin it on him. I think they tried deceptive practices or something, or misrepresentation. He got some kind of sentence, I'm sure, but it was really problematic.
I think the concept of 'soul' used to be 'scientific' (in my previously stated meaning of that word).
Hey now, I paid 5 billion in taxes last year. Feel free to suck my twenty cocks (which is how I made all that money) as payment. There's always a top dog, you know.
Did he say he did ?
correction: 'something scientific' must read 'something UNscientific'.
But then _they_ can't use apache. Or mysql. Or postgres. Or php. Or perl. Or tomcat. Or BerkeleyDB. Because if you don't believe in free, then you shouldn't accept it either; this world is already too full of people who want to charge other people for what they basically got for free. So pay through your teeth for Oracle and WebSphere and/or IIS or Netscape. And see if you can keep your website alive that way.
So nice to hear you're writing again. How's that Asperger's coming along, eh ?
Thing is, I discussed this with my US cousin a few months back, and told him how in the Netherlands, we had all sorts of systems in place already to monitor traffic for billing and speeding registration purposes, using cameras that read license plates. He was sure that, for privacy reasons alone, such systems would never fly in the States.
So the odds of a combination of clay + radiation was only to be found inside comets and the chances of that surviving a fiery impact at many kilometers per second are _higher_ than the same combination occurring naturally, peacefully, here on earth ? Somehow my bullshit meter goes all bananas.
The hedgers are buying cheap ass stuff to insure against losses on the other side (Novell, RedHat, IBM). You multiply potential gain/loss by amount of stock and price. The probability of IBM going down is low, but the stock is high. The probability of SCOX ever going up again is low, but if it does the gains will be enormous, and it's cheap as toilet paper anyway. It's a way for fund managers and bet hedgers in the tech sector to cover their asses.
Oracle wants to sell systems more than anything; they like it when their benchmarks can be tuned to the hardware, they like to live on raw partitions, they do their own scheduling and execution within the DB engine, the only thing that failed that they've tried over the years, is an Oracle OS for running 'other' things on (i.e. your apps). With Linux, they have a marketable (the PHB has heard of it), reliable OS that also runs java (their other fetish), which is why they take Linux very seriously indeed.
*looks again* yup, you're right. I suppose I was just being cranky; that Singleton example ticked me off.
This site's primary concern seems to be java. Like the GOF, they seem to want to monopolize what is good and beautiful about it and most of all, how to do it. All fine and dandy if you're looking at ambitious eighteen year olds (ambitious to become faceless programmer droids, that is), but there seems to be an awful lack of discussion going on. Besides, currently my concern in _not_ java - so tell me again why this site would bother me ?
Indeed, I _want_ atime for this purpose. Of course, I could mount /tmp on a different partition with atime enabled, whilst on the other partitions, it's off.
Just wrap them up inside a function and 'return' from it, instead of goto-ing to the end.
I thought your post was funny, unfortunately, the selection list folded too quickly and instead of 'funny', I moderated you 'overrated'. So by way of repairing that, I react (so that my moderation goes to waste), and I say: MOD PARENT UP !
Either someone expects virtual money to be created on the fly for them, or they're just cashing in and never expect to return a cent.