The first half of that book is a bit boring, because he keeps focusing on food, food, food, but it gets better once he hits on other reasons why civilizations from the Fertile Crescent area got a leg up.
That's actually what I like about Ubuntu's version of Gnome. It gets out of my way and lets me do the task I'm interested in, instead of fucking with how the desktop environment's developer thinks I should be working. It has sane defaults.
I'm not a n00b, having used Linux for ten years, six or so of that entirely at the console, and MS-DOS for six years before that, and before that Apple ProDOS on a//c for about eight. I like the command line, is what I'm saying. However, there are times when I like messing with the OS, and times when I just want to get something done. Those latter times is when Ubuntu wins for me. Windows generally wins in the latter case too, but it's really boring in the first.
To nitpick a bit, a car is only optional in big cities and other areas with effective mass transit.
Here in the midwestern USA, where towns are spread fairly far apart, our cities designed for cars, and mass transit unheard of in all but the large cities, cars usually aren't optional.
Douhet's theories on using air power to cow the civilian populace were proven wrong by WW2. The Germans didn't lose the will to fight by having their cities destroyed around them, nor did the Japanese or the Russians.
Completely wrong. Samba 3.x can be a member server in an Active Directory, but you need to use Samba 4 alpha (it's not even beta yet) to be an AD controller. Since it's alpha, using that in a production system would be what's known as a career-limiting move.
The use for WSUS is to control when MS patches get applied, whether they are applied, and to which computers.
Nice if you have a couple machines running an app that doesn't get supported if you don't have the exact Microsoft patches the company has tested, or if you have an older application on a few others that breaks if anything newer than IE6 is installed.
How do you know this is the fault of the scientists? It could very easily be lazy and/or sensationalistic journalism -- same stuff as "this has as much info as x libraries of congress" or "as much volume as x ping-pong balls", or half of what kdawson posts.
I work at a midwestern public university in the USA, and we've been using this program for several years and a few versions. Backend can work on AIX, Linux, or Windows, and the frontend at least Windows (don't know if Macs or *nix are supported, we don't have many of those on users' desks). We probably have several gigs of imaged documents in this system, and it seems to work pretty well.
You'll have to import all the documents into the system, of course. The company recommends certain tractor-feed scanners for this; lighter-duty ones are USB, heavier are SCSI. I think it also has a software printer emulator to let you dump e.g. Word documents into the system; how you organize things is up to you.
Indeed. For another perspective on this telephone-game, I offer:
In the beginning was the plan, and then the specification; And the plan was without form, and the specification was void.
And darkness was on the faces of the implementors thereof; And they spake unto their leader, saying: "It is a crock of shit, and smells as of a sewer."
And the leader took pity on them, and spoke to the project leader: "It is a crock of excrement, and none may abide the odor thereof."
And the project leader spake unto his section head, saying: "It is a container of excrement, and it is very strong, such that none may abide it."
The section head then hurried to his department manager, and informed him thus: "It is a vessel of fertilizer, and none may abide its strength."
The department manager carried these words to his general manager, and spoke unto him saying: "It containeth that which aideth the growth of plants, and it is very strong."
And so it was that the general manager rejoiced and delivered the good news unto the Vice President. "It promoteth growth, and it is very powerful."
The Vice President rushed to the President's side, and joyously exclaimed: "This powerful new software product will promote the growth of the company!"
And the President looked upon the product, and saw that it was very good.
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Also Windows doesn't let you over-write open files like Linux does.
OTOH, there's not a crap-ton of orbiting junk around the Moon, yet.
Also: International Space Station.
Clarence Thomas: the best argument against affirmative action.
You can buy a copy of IL-2 Sturmovik: 1946 on Steam and fly it on a more modern sim. Steam's got it for $10.
http://store.steampowered.com/app/15320/
In my case, it made me comfortable with the command line, so I didn't have a conniption when I was presented with an MS-DOS prompt.
This fact was quite useful when I started playing with djgpp and then actual Linux.
The first half of that book is a bit boring, because he keeps focusing on food, food, food, but it gets better once he hits on other reasons why civilizations from the Fertile Crescent area got a leg up.
Two 30mm MK (for Motorkanone, not "mark") 108 cannons, to be precise.
You might ask the ever-sensationalistic kdawson that as well. Why was that included in the summary?
That's actually what I like about Ubuntu's version of Gnome. It gets out of my way and lets me do the task I'm interested in, instead of fucking with how the desktop environment's developer thinks I should be working. It has sane defaults.
I'm not a n00b, having used Linux for ten years, six or so of that entirely at the console, and MS-DOS for six years before that, and before that Apple ProDOS on a //c for about eight. I like the command line, is what I'm saying. However, there are times when I like messing with the OS, and times when I just want to get something done. Those latter times is when Ubuntu wins for me. Windows generally wins in the latter case too, but it's really boring in the first.
I see it too. Real professional that they make these insufficiently-tested (or untested) changes on the live site instead of a test box.
It's merely an annoyance, but still.
To nitpick a bit, a car is only optional in big cities and other areas with effective mass transit.
Here in the midwestern USA, where towns are spread fairly far apart, our cities designed for cars, and mass transit unheard of in all but the large cities, cars usually aren't optional.
Douhet's theories on using air power to cow the civilian populace were proven wrong by WW2. The Germans didn't lose the will to fight by having their cities destroyed around them, nor did the Japanese or the Russians.
Completely wrong. Samba 3.x can be a member server in an Active Directory, but you need to use Samba 4 alpha (it's not even beta yet) to be an AD controller. Since it's alpha, using that in a production system would be what's known as a career-limiting move.
The use for WSUS is to control when MS patches get applied, whether they are applied, and to which computers.
Nice if you have a couple machines running an app that doesn't get supported if you don't have the exact Microsoft patches the company has tested, or if you have an older application on a few others that breaks if anything newer than IE6 is installed.
I just set up a SIMH VAX machine last night running 4.3BSD-quasijarus, which is one purist's project to continue maintaining "pure" BSD Unix.
The project: http://ifctfvax.harhan.org/Quasijarus/
How to get a SIMH VM set up: http://www.retrocomputinggeek.com/retrowiki/Install4.3BSDQuasijarus/
How do you know this is the fault of the scientists? It could very easily be lazy and/or sensationalistic journalism -- same stuff as "this has as much info as x libraries of congress" or "as much volume as x ping-pong balls", or half of what kdawson posts.
You don't think we'll do our best to hassle foreign banks into compliance?
I work at a midwestern public university in the USA, and we've been using this program for several years and a few versions. Backend can work on AIX, Linux, or Windows, and the frontend at least Windows (don't know if Macs or *nix are supported, we don't have many of those on users' desks). We probably have several gigs of imaged documents in this system, and it seems to work pretty well.
You'll have to import all the documents into the system, of course. The company recommends certain tractor-feed scanners for this; lighter-duty ones are USB, heavier are SCSI. I think it also has a software printer emulator to let you dump e.g. Word documents into the system; how you organize things is up to you.
Indeed. For another perspective on this telephone-game, I offer:
-- attr. to Mike Andrews
For small values of "editor", and of "extraordinaire".
Great, but that's not an official package from Mozilla, and hence it can't be trusted by us more paranoid types.
Can someone at Mozilla tell us why you haven't started distributing your own MSI and ADM files yet?
Debian's got a PowerPC port.
That may not work if the network authenticates against your MAC address.
en tee.