I work as a field engineer for a large unix systems company (also lots of databases and such)... spend most of my days swapping FRUs (field replaceable units). HP, Sun, IBM all work the same way. Most parts are a single board or at most 2-3 bolted together. We very, very rarely have to pull a whole 1U system (easier/cheaper to replace the system board).
I just migrated an entire system from Solaris 7 to a Solaris 10 Zone - How? I tarred up/home and/usr/local, and a few other directories, and copied the relevant entries from/etc/passwd and/etc/group. Copied whole applications, their environments, etc.
Solaris 7 is from 1999, and this is 2007. Try that on an 8 year old redhat box and see what happens. Good luck with that.
Camino sucks because it doesn't do firefox extensions, and CMD+[1-9] doesn't switch tabs.
There are probably others, but the lack of extensions had me running back to firefox within 10 minutes of trying Camino. Oh, and because I use Firefox on other platforms and I'd rather it acted similarly on all of them.
Firefox however sucks due to the lack of keychain integration, and because it doesn't read the system proxy settings. Form widgets doens't bother me at all - in fact, I prefer the current setup.
Debian/Unstable is downright fantastic for my desktop as I'm a tinkerer...
Debian/Testing is great for general purpose desktops
and Debian/Stable is perfect for servers - I don't have to worry about software changes, and there is always backports.org if I really need something not in stable (e.g. amavisd-new / postix 2.0)
As much as we live in a virtual world nowadays, humans still like shiny material things they can hold in their hands. Hard to see how a timelocked file can overcome that urge to "own".:^)
This is all well and good, as we, the technically "elite" are aware of the pros and cons... while the masses will usually buy whatever is shiniest.
Further, your argument is flawed - the studios will eventually release ALL movies in this way, don't you remember the original DivX?
Slashdot: The register's news from yesterday, now with Comments(tm).
It's a pity that slashdot can't (won't) at least link to them - they have good articles, written by people who at least appear to have some common sense, and actually Check The Facts (learn that one, Boys!)
Hands up who thinks slashdot should stop damn-well copying theregister.co.uk's articles, but hours behind...
That's at least three in two days.
Get over it. Link to them. They deserve it.
but when you type "MS v DOJ trial to be fast tracked" into word, it autocorrects it to say "Request for MS v DOJ trial to be fast tracked has been denied"
does anyone else remember the userfreindly sunday strib featuring the purple-suited intel engineer with a white pen adding a third "I" to a pentium II to make the pentium III ?
-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 This is just yet another wonderful reason to start informing people of PGP, what it is, and how to use it.
Stop whining, and start encrypting. Then they can read all the email they like... course... decrypting it would be harder... and you'd at least be aware of the fact that your email is compromised if they court-order your private key.
This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, and with a 100% warranty that it is suited for it's purpose: to consume storage space on your computer's media. See the GNU General Public License for more details
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as an ex field engineer, I suspect you are confused... the sides of these were solid sheet-metal, with front-to-rear ventilation.
I work as a field engineer for a large unix systems company (also lots of databases and such)... spend most of my days swapping FRUs (field replaceable units). HP, Sun, IBM all work the same way. Most parts are a single board or at most 2-3 bolted together. We very, very rarely have to pull a whole 1U system (easier/cheaper to replace the system board).
On behalf of all australians:
Could you please prop up the value of your US dollars - it's rather annoying to get pesos in return for our raw material being exported.
Then again, we like being able to buy your products - oh wait, you don't make anything. Never mind, then.
Excuse me?
/home and /usr/local, and a few other directories, and copied the relevant entries from /etc/passwd and /etc/group. Copied whole applications, their environments, etc.
I just migrated an entire system from Solaris 7 to a Solaris 10 Zone - How? I tarred up
Solaris 7 is from 1999, and this is 2007. Try that on an 8 year old redhat box and see what happens. Good luck with that.
Ahem,
.profile. Voila, you've got your new-fangled vim.
Install the whole companion disc, and then put "PATH=/opt/sfw/bin:$PATH; export PATH" into your
Meantime, stop being a linux fanboy.
Because it's cheaper to keep things as they are, and pay the costs of fraud rather than replacing the whole infrastructure.
Camino sucks because it doesn't do firefox extensions, and CMD+[1-9] doesn't switch tabs.
There are probably others, but the lack of extensions had me running back to firefox within 10 minutes of trying Camino. Oh, and because I use Firefox on other platforms and I'd rather it acted similarly on all of them.
Firefox however sucks due to the lack of keychain integration, and because it doesn't read the system proxy settings. Form widgets doens't bother me at all - in fact, I prefer the current setup.
Cheers.
-t
Have you read anything here?
http://www.debian.org/doc/
Covers most things, I find
But... honestly... do real geeks need a seperate section on installing each and every app they might need? Apt-get "just works" for me...
Look into pinning.
There is an apt-howto document which tells you how to mix and match - effectively you can mix testing, stable and experimental (like I do).
No, it isn't.
Debian/Unstable is downright fantastic for my desktop as I'm a tinkerer...
Debian/Testing is great for general purpose desktops
and Debian/Stable is perfect for servers - I don't have to worry about software changes, and there is always backports.org if I really need something not in stable (e.g. amavisd-new / postix 2.0)
Yet another story for sale
Buy your own space on slashdot to pimp your product today!
This is all well and good, as we, the technically "elite" are aware of the pros and cons... while the masses will usually buy whatever is shiniest.
Further, your argument is flawed - the studios will eventually release ALL movies in this way, don't you remember the original DivX?
They don't give up easily, people.
The price of freedom is eternal vigilance.
Slashdot: The register's news from yesterday, now with Comments(tm).
It's a pity that slashdot can't (won't) at least link to them - they have good articles, written by people who at least appear to have some common sense, and actually Check The Facts (learn that one, Boys!)
Hands up who thinks slashdot should stop damn-well copying theregister.co.uk's articles, but hours behind... That's at least three in two days. Get over it. Link to them. They deserve it.
...sounds like a pretty good reason for hardware vendors to support linux to me. Little by little, tooth by tooth, Linux gains ground.
Would you prefer your car to blue-screen-of-death, or to dump core?
but when you type "MS v DOJ trial to be fast tracked" into word, it autocorrects it to say "Request for MS v DOJ trial to be fast tracked has been denied"
Email me nicely using (and damn well use pgp!) at teo@nvnetworking.com and maybe i'll send you a copy.
does anyone else remember the userfreindly sunday strib featuring the purple-suited intel engineer with a white pen adding a third "I" to a pentium II to make the pentium III ?
100m.
-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 This is just yet another wonderful reason to start informing people of PGP, what it is, and how to use it.
h h/9//okvcAn2+u +XGNFWpb9zM+t8Dk3+UlEBkO =JyHX -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
Stop whining, and start encrypting. Then they can read all the email they like... course... decrypting it would be harder... and you'd at least be aware of the fact that your email is compromised if they court-order your private key.
Be vigilant. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: PGP 6.5.3 iQA/AwUBOYNAL8Q/V8QYw1ouEQKrjQCfSajlPpgnBxpDeWJNi
This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, and with a 100% warranty that it is suited for it's purpose: to consume storage space on your computer's media. See the GNU General Public License for more details
obviously because whenever someone posts it, ASIO hacks in and removes it, and threatens Rob with an interpol criminal record.
Maybe.
Stewart, not steward.
... or all of the above ?