"Grey tape has a lot of uses. We use it for almost everything"
That's a quote from a real astronaut, although I don't remember which one... heck, if NASA uses it, I might just be able to justify my excessive use of it at work as well to whoever complains at work:)
So what's the difference between NASA's duct tape, and the "normal" type I use?
Yes, the Netherlands are part of the EU, but we still have our own government, which will have to 'inforce' it. Or they can just let it slide, not unlike the way we handle our drug 'problem'.
I just hope it will take a lot longer to adopt that law, and I will fight it with tooth and nail if I must. Dutch politics is pretty immune to lobbying. Unlike the UK and the USA, we have a multi-party (that is, more than 2) 'democracy'. It will take a lot longer to adopt something like this. Because some parties, representing the people, will probably protest.
Main thing that should happen now is to educate the politicians about the bad aspects of this bad law.
They can not go over the people's head. In fact, that's illegal. What democracy we have left here would be a fallacy if this were just taken as dogmatic law.
As a European citizen, I highly detest laws like these. In fact, the absence of laws like these in the country I live in make me proud to be a dutchman.
So the U.K. decides to implement this law, eh? Well, they dind't play along with the Euro initiative, I just hope we don't play along with the limeys here.
Blair may spew about european unity all he likes, the UK still has pounds sterling, while almost everybody else has the euro.
Good thing publicly protesting and picketing actually has value here in Europe. If a law like this _ever_ appears in my country, you betcha I'll be inside the 'Binnenhof' with a large picket sign and a bunch of flyers. That way one actually has a chance of talking to a politician and conveying your opinions directly to them. Beats sending a letter to your rep anytime, that. At least you can call that person names in his/her face if he/she decides to ignore you.:)
The UK gov can keep their island mentality. As long as they don't bother us mainlanders with it .
To me, I think PHP would sound somewhat like System of a Down. C is more like Stratovarius, and C++ should sound more like Mercyful Fate.
Perl? uuuh... Within Temptation? Python... hmmm... Definately something like After Forever..
Right, I guess you kinda gather from that that I like heavy rock with some pretty symphonic tendencies. It would be pretty cool if you could tune your debugger to a certain style of music.
I somehow also think my code would sound line Tristania, or sometimes (depends on my inebriatedness) Bal Sagoth... But that's just me:)
Windows is the only alternative? Wake-up call... Mac OS X (which is also BSD based) had been released for quite some time now. You should try it and switch if you like it. I'm using it now too. This post was written in Chimera onder OSX 10.1.5. It's very speedy and it beats the crap out of MSIE (even under OSX).
Please take of your windows colored glasses and see what else is out there. Not the whole world runs on IA32. My G4 rocks my world!
The sad thing is how many programmers are still in ignorance of them, even now
The good thing is that many programmers are using his techniques without even knowing about Dijkstra.
Dijkstra was partial to popularity. The "Dijkstra wouldn't like it" quote comes to mind. As a matter a fact, I think he would find it amusing to think his techniques were thought of as common sense. He liked simple things.
Rest in piece Edsger Dijkstra, you will be missed.
My mail address is pretty public, since I have my own site, and I get deluged by korean spam. I have no clue why. Maybe they try to get back at me for that NetBSD on the X-BOX hoax I pulled last April 1st. Who knows? At least I have spamassasin to rid me of these goofs. Oh, and spamassasin blocks the someonelikesyou mails here. Just checking... yep, I got a few too. Oh well...
When microsoft is the alternative, why squabble over kernel flavors?
Just ignore the trolls, this is exactly what they want.
I am running Linux- and Windowsless too, I like BSD, there's nothing wrong with it. It's just a UNIX flavour indeed. Just like Solaris (and SunOS, which was BSD based too)
And for the poor people that actually believe the "BSD is dead" trolls, well, I hope they happen on a BSD system one day and see the beauty of it.
Everything I have runs on BSD, and it hasn't let me down once (well, not counting my FreeBSD CURRENT box, but hey, that's bleeding edge for ya).
Oh, and even the allmighty Redmondian Giant uses BSD. Check out hotmail mail headers, you might see a Qmail MTA in there somewhere. Microsoft still uses FreeBSD at HotMail for the backend. Apparently the Win2k machines can't keep up:)
I love firewire and the sheer openness of it. Also, the speed of it (in my own experience) is impressive. USB is just for peripherals, use firewire if you need to shift loads of data from one place to another _FAST_.
This is looking good... Also, the platform-agnostic approach is a good one. What's next, Aqua on Intel?;)
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2. Get a Clysdale terminal server, or plug the serial into a Linux box and ssh to that system and use minicom....
I was with you up until the Clysdale/Livinsgton. The nullmodem-in-*nix box too... but minicom? Yech!
Real serial terminal diehards go for either tip/cu or Kermit. Minicom has crappy terminal emulation (especially when dealing with Sun serial console, for example). cu/tip might not play nice with ssh, because the break sequence for cu/tip is the same as in ssh, but that just depends on implementation. Kermit just works everyhere, and anywhere. And it's free too! wow...
Just a tip from a fellow admin with systems on serial console. Ditch that minicom abberation. Heck, even seyon is better.
And, oh yeah, to still stay ontopic, newer intel 1u servers usually have that feature that the bios can be altered/monitored/whatever across the serial port too.
Otherwise, if they're big mighty compaqs, give Compaq Insight a go. It saved me from getting up from bed when I was stuck in the hotel with a 56 Kbit modem connection and someting important decided to crash. I fixed it all remote from the SSL web-interface from my hotel bed. I was done in a short while, and I got to go back to sleep again. Very good. Compaq saved my lusers from a cranky and sleepdeprived sysadmin.
They changed the copyright strings... That's a definite no-no. Basically they really stole the source, and claim they are the sole authors.
Obviously, the GPL does not allow this. The only way for them to make it right is to change the copyright back to what it was, and add themselves to it, if they contributed code.
Why didn't you publish your activities as soon as possible somewhere? That way, the patent office would have some prior art to poke at. Which would have invalidated their claim. Do you have documented proof that you were investigating this area first?
Needless to say, companies that pull this kind of crap piss me off. They probably aren't even aware what damage they are causing to this particulary field of technology.
But even back in the day, you could cause extensive damage to your dos machine just by typing a text file with malicious ansi codes.
for those that can't remember the venerable ANSI.SYS: you could remap keys to do something completely different. i.e. map the enter key to do 'echo y | deltree c:\*.*', or the obvious format c: equivalent.
I used ANSI.SYS for my ueber kewl customized prompts of course:)
User: "I'd like to type an essay in a text processor." Computer: "You have 2 types of text processor on your machine. StarOffice or Word. Please specify." User: "Staroffice" Computer: "What would you like to do with StarOffice?" User:: "Well, I'd like to type an essay." Computer: "What would you like to type your essay with?" User: "Uh.... StarOffice." Computer: "What would you like to do with StarOffice?"
... this goes on for a while...
User: "GAAAAAH!!! Infernal machine! Crash and burn!" Computer: "OK. Overwriting bootsector... Flashing PROM.. )@^&*%$_&*^_ OPERATING SYSTEM MISSING"
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That's a quote from a real astronaut, although I don't remember which one... heck, if NASA uses it, I might just be able to justify my excessive use of it at work as well to whoever complains at work :)
So what's the difference between NASA's duct tape, and the "normal" type I use?
Romero also likes slow moving lifts... Won't a rocket ascend too fast for him? He might get giddy and complain about level design a lot. ;)
Time to ready the picket signs and the flyers then...
please mod the parent up, as that sheds new light on the subject...
I just hope it will take a lot longer to adopt that law, and I will fight it with tooth and nail if I must. Dutch politics is pretty immune to lobbying. Unlike the UK and the USA, we have a multi-party (that is, more than 2) 'democracy'. It will take a lot longer to adopt something like this. Because some parties, representing the people, will probably protest.
Main thing that should happen now is to educate the politicians about the bad aspects of this bad law.
They can not go over the people's head. In fact, that's illegal. What democracy we have left here would be a fallacy if this were just taken as dogmatic law.
So the U.K. decides to implement this law, eh? Well, they dind't play along with the Euro initiative, I just hope we don't play along with the limeys here.
Blair may spew about european unity all he likes, the UK still has pounds sterling, while almost everybody else has the euro.
Good thing publicly protesting and picketing actually has value here in Europe. If a law like this _ever_ appears in my country, you betcha I'll be inside the 'Binnenhof' with a large picket sign and a bunch of flyers. That way one actually has a chance of talking to a politician and conveying your opinions directly to them. Beats sending a letter to your rep anytime, that. At least you can call that person names in his/her face if he/she decides to ignore you. :)
The UK gov can keep their island mentality. As long as they don't bother us mainlanders with it .
To me, I think PHP would sound somewhat like System of a Down. C is more like Stratovarius, and C++ should sound more like Mercyful Fate.
Perl? uuuh... Within Temptation? Python... hmmm... Definately something like After Forever..
Right, I guess you kinda gather from that that I like heavy rock with some pretty symphonic tendencies. It would be pretty cool if you could tune your debugger to a certain style of music.
I somehow also think my code would sound line Tristania, or sometimes (depends on my inebriatedness) Bal Sagoth... But that's just me :)
Windows is the only alternative? Wake-up call... Mac OS X (which is also BSD based) had been released for quite some time now. You should try it and switch if you like it. I'm using it now too. This post was written in Chimera onder OSX 10.1.5. It's very speedy and it beats the crap out of MSIE (even under OSX).
Please take of your windows colored glasses and see what else is out there. Not the whole world runs on IA32. My G4 rocks my world!
Whoops.. that link should be this. Should've used preview I guess...
I'll keep the amount and hostnames secret to protect the guilty ;) (yes, even the guys at M$ had a go at it, see here)
The good thing is that many programmers are using his techniques without even knowing about Dijkstra.
Dijkstra was partial to popularity. The "Dijkstra wouldn't like it" quote comes to mind. As a matter a fact, I think he would find it amusing to think his techniques were thought of as common sense. He liked simple things.
Rest in piece Edsger Dijkstra, you will be missed.
My mail address is pretty public, since I have my own site, and I get deluged by korean spam. I have no clue why. Maybe they try to get back at me for that NetBSD on the X-BOX hoax I pulled last April 1st. Who knows? At least I have spamassasin to rid me of these goofs. Oh, and spamassasin blocks the someonelikesyou mails here. Just checking... yep, I got a few too. Oh well...
Just ignore the trolls, this is exactly what they want.
I am running Linux- and Windowsless too, I like BSD, there's nothing wrong with it. It's just a UNIX flavour indeed. Just like Solaris (and SunOS, which was BSD based too)
And for the poor people that actually believe the "BSD is dead" trolls, well, I hope they happen on a BSD system one day and see the beauty of it.
Everything I have runs on BSD, and it hasn't let me down once (well, not counting my FreeBSD CURRENT box, but hey, that's bleeding edge for ya).
Oh, and even the allmighty Redmondian Giant uses BSD. Check out hotmail mail headers, you might see a Qmail MTA in there somewhere. Microsoft still uses FreeBSD at HotMail for the backend. Apparently the Win2k machines can't keep up :)
This is looking good... Also, the platform-agnostic approach is a good one. What's next, Aqua on Intel? ;)
I was with you up until the Clysdale/Livinsgton. The nullmodem-in-*nix box too... but minicom? Yech!
Real serial terminal diehards go for either tip/cu or Kermit. Minicom has crappy terminal emulation (especially when dealing with Sun serial console, for example). cu/tip might not play nice with ssh, because the break sequence for cu/tip is the same as in ssh, but that just depends on implementation. Kermit just works everyhere, and anywhere. And it's free too! wow...
Just a tip from a fellow admin with systems on serial console. Ditch that minicom abberation. Heck, even seyon is better.
And, oh yeah, to still stay ontopic, newer intel 1u servers usually have that feature that the bios can be altered/monitored/whatever across the serial port too.
Otherwise, if they're big mighty compaqs, give Compaq Insight a go. It saved me from getting up from bed when I was stuck in the hotel with a 56 Kbit modem connection and someting important decided to crash. I fixed it all remote from the SSL web-interface from my hotel bed. I was done in a short while, and I got to go back to sleep again. Very good. Compaq saved my lusers from a cranky and sleepdeprived sysadmin.
Obviously, the GPL does not allow this. The only way for them to make it right is to change the copyright back to what it was, and add themselves to it, if they contributed code.
Needless to say, companies that pull this kind of crap piss me off. They probably aren't even aware what damage they are causing to this particulary field of technology.
(ObOntopicUrl: League for Programming Freedom)
What are you talking about? I think it's very nice of AOL to send free coasters in the mail. I never run out! Wonderful.
You shouldn't point him to a RPM, but at the tarball at:
ftp://ftp.<yourcountry>.linux.org/pub/linux/kernel /v2.4/linux-2.4.18.tar.bz2
This is how Linus (or Marcello, since he releases 2.4 kernels nowadays) distributes the kernel...
for those that can't remember the venerable ANSI.SYS: you could remap keys to do something completely different. i.e. map the enter key to do 'echo y | deltree c:\*.*', or the obvious format c: equivalent.
I used ANSI.SYS for my ueber kewl customized prompts of course :)
You mean outsourced sysadmins? Yeah them's a nasty lot.
Sun is quite good at making BSD like systems. I wish they never put in that SysV crap. SunOS 4 was the best. *sigh*
And even better: It has Open Firmware. Witch which you cat netboot even if the cd-rom drive or firewire/usb drives seem to be dead.
User: "I'd like to type an essay in a text processor."
Computer: "You have 2 types of text processor on your machine. StarOffice or Word. Please specify."
User: "Staroffice"
Computer: "What would you like to do with StarOffice?"
User:: "Well, I'd like to type an essay."
Computer: "What would you like to type your essay with?"
User: "Uh.... StarOffice."
Computer: "What would you like to do with StarOffice?"
User: "GAAAAAH!!! Infernal machine! Crash and burn!"
Computer: "OK. Overwriting bootsector... Flashing PROM.. )@^&*%$_&*^_ OPERATING SYSTEM MISSING"
(yeah yeah, offtopic, but what's the chance of seeing someone I see posting on one of my regularly read mailing lists on slashdot?)