I have no idea and it bugs me too that the/. 'groupthink' is 'sucks to MySQL'.. assholes. Many people (myself included) like it for its simplicity and outright SPEED. If you want to have some dynamic content on a site - I'm not talking a full-blown e-commerce site, just some small stuff like.. OH, a discussion forum perhaps?? - then MySQL is great for the task.
If you don't want to use it, noone is forcing you people. --
Windows (9x) always does seem to blow up when you change that much hardware 'underneath' it:).. I did that upgrading a 486DX4/133 to an AMD K6-2/300 a couple of years ago.. Linux was fine in doing it - booted up fine, but Windows locked up and died. Seems Windows still gets into a fit about it. Sounds like boof time.
Yea, I'd like to see other people where I work knowing more about Linux. As the network admin there myself (we use Linux on our servers anyway:> ), I would be happy to see what they knew about it and if they could be a helpful addition to the IT staff, try to get them moved there:D
We run a bit of a mix of stuff anyway.. Linux servers for internet stuff.. Novell for fileserving and an IBM AS/400 for the company order stuff... fun.:D.. Everyone uses Windows 95/98 on their client PCs. Be nice to switch to Linux once the office suites are really there.
Even the best behaved and well mannered teen-aged boy is going to be curious about sex and such
Protect from what?.. Sex?.. Why not educate the child about what sex is really about so they don't grow up thinking it's like porn films. If they are curious - why not tell them the truth about it!.. merely 'hiding' stuff from them will not end that curiosity, it will only make them more determined to find out and they will ask children of their own age and anyone whom they can get information from. That information may well be dubious in its content, but if they were actually talked to then they would find out the truth from their parents.
I wouldn't want my child to find material about racism or violence either, but those too can be talked about that they are unacceptable things to do. I don't think though that any ISPs accept that sort of content though. That's not to say it wouldn't get out there, but there seems to be a harder line (and rightly so) on things like racism and violent material.
Maybe in 100 years when the software can do "perfect" filtering and do so at a level that is configurable for the billions for views regarding offensive materail, then it may actually work.
Yea, it might get there in 100 years. Just think about how long computers have been around though - even *10* years is a long time in computing terms. The web wasn't really even 'around' (for most people) 10 years ago. By the time filtering software that could handle the internet of TODAY is around, we'll be on to something bigger and better.
Yea, filtering software might be nice.. but why?. I just think though there's a fundamental problem with expecting technology (be it filters or anything else) to be the 'parents of america'.
In 100 years we'll probably have REAL robot-nannys anyway. *shrug*.. then wait until the 7 year old 'hacks the nanny' and lets him view whatever.. Oh dear. *shakes head thinking about it* --
Forcing everyone to the same "standard" od morality is rediculus
Isn't that what all these minority groups try to do though?.. some self-appointed bunch of twats think they know what's best for everyone.. grumble.. makes me sick.
Filtering software is a joke. As is all this crap about technological nannying. Much better to educate the children and give them supervision instead of always turning to technology (the V-chip, cybernannying etc.) to do it. That's what PARENTs are for, last time I checked.
I think that's been forgotten in America and possibly other countries too.
maybe that explains my anti-mainstream argument a little bit better.
Yea, it does:) Sorry about the 'elitism' thing.. I guess I got the wrong impression:)... it's good that you want to help out other projects. I like to too, I'm not that great a coder but I enjoy writing and contributing stuff when I can. As for tweaking Linux, I've enjoyed that too over the years.. sometimes though I just like to know I have my systems humming along nicely and that they'll stay that way.:)
I guess I was thinking too about using Linux at work like we do where I work. I administer a number of Linux machines and I'm made happier when I see vendors 'certifing' stuff for Linux.. makes me see the M$-only 'groupthink' slipping away and the more mainstream (there's that word again) that Linux becomes, the better for all users of Linux, and for any projects that follow behind.
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It's okay.. he's just trolling you. I mean, come on.. if he really believes then he must be PRETTY PARANOID. --
maybe if linux gets too mainstream i'll switch to hurd.
Huh?.. I never understood that argument. You spend ages trying to get support for you favourite OS and then because everyone accepts it as a great product, you switch??
Is it some sort of elitism going on that you have to seem somehow better than the rest of humanity by running an OS that is less well known or even unheard of?
If Linux becomes 'mainstream' I'll be amazingly happy and want to stay with it!.. It's GOOD, unlike that current 'mainstream OS' and if there's support for all the new gadgets and widgets out there (that the term mainstream seems to suggest there would be) then that's all the better.
It's nice to see Linux growing in features AND respect by others. I'd really like to see it prosper. Of course HURD prospering too would be good, don't get me wrong. I'm all for the 'underdog'.. it's just this idea that 'mainstream' is somehow 'bad' that irks me.
same protocol, different root servers. http://www.youcann.org/ has info on it.. other people have posted the url, but I just looked at it and altered my linux box's root hints file and now I can get to youcann.here for example. Simple stuff and works well.
Offtopic this, but thinking about yet more advances for 'our armed forces fighter planes' makes me wonder if the military will ever just forget about putting pilots in harm's way and just invest in high speed/high bandwidth wireless (duh) communication (obviously well encrypted) between a bunker and aircraft so pilots could fly them like playing a game of Falcon4.0.. I'm SURE they have already started doing it.. just a matter of time I think. Of course it's not just planes that could benefit. Any hazardous transport/occupation you care to think of.
Of course you can make a realistic 'cockpit' with surrounding monitors/image panels. even with 'force-feedback' (in the whole cockpit if you like) to help the pilot control the aircraft. Then the actual 'fly-by-remote' aircraft would be able to outmaneuver anything else around AND you'd save pilots lives. Got shot out of the sky or crashed?.. darn.. Never mind though, we'll just connect you to another plane and off you go again. Don't make the same mistake twice. "Oh, THAT hill..".. difficult to do otherwise.
Plus there would be the obvious benefits that the military funded wireless communication technology would 'trickle-down' to consumer equipment.
Did ya get the latest GNOME RPMS?.. and what crashed GNOME?
I couldn't makefile anything,
You what?.. you mean you couldn't compile anything?.. egcs works and has worked fine for me for ages.. you don't say what you had problems with..
smbclient wouldn't logon to my Win2K tower,
Did you get the latest SAMBA RPMS?.. and did you read the SAMBA FAQ?:)
et cetera, et cetera. I just got sick of it fast.
Sorry you had that experience.. 6.2 has been running great for me. I of course keep all the packages that I use up to date.. and that's good enough for me. Not like that takes a long time either with autorpm from Kirk Bauer.. just run it as often as you like and that'll help you keep things up to date. It's all nice and simple IMHO.
Well, 'you dumb fuck', I just said that that is my opinion and I was responding to someone saying that they use servlets to create webpages, I like to do my webpages differently.
Yes, I have a low UID on here - I've been reading/. for a while now and I'm used to seeing people like you get on their high horse and flame away - flatly refusing to accept that there can be BETTER alternatives to a technology they have become used to. I have dealt with Java and I don't like it, simple as that. It's evident to me seeing Java progress from a language with promise to what it is now that it didn't quite hit the mark, both in terms of performance and platform-interoperabilty.
If Java and servlets work for you, that's great and I'm honestly very happy for you. I personally am happier using PHP or the like to produce my webpages.
Now I can see from other posts around on this thread that this is something of a holy-war yet again.
Get the java-bean out of your ass and move on. Please.
And it's the only one worth a damn.. well, sometimes worth it. Face it, Java had high hopes of being the 'platform independent' language.. now it just sucks and is slow. Caused in part by M$ muddying the waters its own different version of Java no doubt. And with Java applets and Javascript it's just a horrid horrid mess.
PHP / ASP is what kicks ass on webpages for me. Clean, fast, efficient (well, PHP anyway - but I have seen ASP do nice things too).
Still, that's just my opinion.. not to say that you're wrong, just that I don't agree.:)
it's just going to be a mad scramble for dot.dot as a domain name.. that's all anyone is interested in.. you can then have.dot or whatever you want then
Slashdot Mirror
I believe that's all called 'Inprise' now, instead of Borland.
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Why do people have this need to criticize it?
/. 'groupthink' is 'sucks to MySQL' .. assholes. Many people (myself included) like it for its simplicity and outright SPEED. If you want to have some dynamic content on a site - I'm not talking a full-blown e-commerce site, just some small stuff like .. OH, a discussion forum perhaps?? - then MySQL is great for the task.
I have no idea and it bugs me too that the
If you don't want to use it, noone is forcing you people.
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Windows (9x) always does seem to blow up when you change that much hardware 'underneath' it :) .. I did that upgrading a 486DX4/133 to an AMD K6-2/300 a couple of years ago .. Linux was fine in doing it - booted up fine, but Windows locked up and died. Seems Windows still gets into a fit about it. Sounds like boof time.
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Mmmm... *drools thinking about it* Dual TBirds..
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Can I quote you on that in 3 years? :>
There'll be stuff along the road that'll make use of it.. and then make people want to upgrade further when it starts to struggle..
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Excuse me, but I think you have my stapler..
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Best get some RH6.2 CDs now then, eh?
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oooh.. good point.. Jeez.. they must be going nuts over there in Redmond. 3 months is a long time to have a hole open.
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Yea, I'd like to see other people where I work knowing more about Linux. As the network admin there myself (we use Linux on our servers anyway:> ), I would be happy to see what they knew about it and if they could be a helpful addition to the IT staff, try to get them moved there :D
:D .. Everyone uses Windows 95/98 on their client PCs. Be nice to switch to Linux once the office suites are really there.
We run a bit of a mix of stuff anyway.. Linux servers for internet stuff.. Novell for fileserving and an IBM AS/400 for the company order stuff... fun.
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Even the best behaved and well mannered teen-aged boy is going to be curious about sex and such
.. Sex? .. Why not educate the child about what sex is really about so they don't grow up thinking it's like porn films. If they are curious - why not tell them the truth about it! .. merely 'hiding' stuff from them will not end that curiosity, it will only make them more determined to find out and they will ask children of their own age and anyone whom they can get information from. That information may well be dubious in its content, but if they were actually talked to then they would find out the truth from their parents.
Protect from what?
I wouldn't want my child to find material about racism or violence either, but those too can be talked about that they are unacceptable things to do. I don't think though that any ISPs accept that sort of content though. That's not to say it wouldn't get out there, but there seems to be a harder line (and rightly so) on things like racism and violent material.
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Maybe in 100 years when the software can do "perfect" filtering and do so at a level that is configurable for the billions for views regarding offensive materail, then it may actually work.
.. but why?. I just think though there's a fundamental problem with expecting technology (be it filters or anything else) to be the 'parents of america'.
.. then wait until the 7 year old 'hacks the nanny' and lets him view whatever.. Oh dear. *shakes head thinking about it*
Yea, it might get there in 100 years. Just think about how long computers have been around though - even *10* years is a long time in computing terms. The web wasn't really even 'around' (for most people) 10 years ago. By the time filtering software that could handle the internet of TODAY is around, we'll be on to something bigger and better.
Yea, filtering software might be nice
In 100 years we'll probably have REAL robot-nannys anyway. *shrug*
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Forcing everyone to the same "standard" od morality is rediculus
.. some self-appointed bunch of twats think they know what's best for everyone.. grumble.. makes me sick.
Isn't that what all these minority groups try to do though?
Filtering software is a joke. As is all this crap about technological nannying. Much better to educate the children and give them supervision instead of always turning to technology (the V-chip, cybernannying etc.) to do it. That's what PARENTs are for, last time I checked.
I think that's been forgotten in America and possibly other countries too.
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maybe that explains my anti-mainstream argument a little bit better.
:) Sorry about the 'elitism' thing .. I guess I got the wrong impression :) ... it's good that you want to help out other projects. I like to too, I'm not that great a coder but I enjoy writing and contributing stuff when I can. As for tweaking Linux, I've enjoyed that too over the years .. sometimes though I just like to know I have my systems humming along nicely and that they'll stay that way. :)
Yea, it does
I guess I was thinking too about using Linux at work like we do where I work. I administer a number of Linux machines and I'm made happier when I see vendors 'certifing' stuff for Linux.. makes me see the M$-only 'groupthink' slipping away and the more mainstream (there's that word again) that Linux becomes, the better for all users of Linux, and for any projects that follow behind.
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It's okay.. he's just trolling you. I mean, come on .. if he really believes then he must be PRETTY PARANOID.
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maybe if linux gets too mainstream i'll switch to hurd.
.. I never understood that argument. You spend ages trying to get support for you favourite OS and then because everyone accepts it as a great product, you switch??
.. It's GOOD, unlike that current 'mainstream OS' and if there's support for all the new gadgets and widgets out there (that the term mainstream seems to suggest there would be) then that's all the better.
.. it's just this idea that 'mainstream' is somehow 'bad' that irks me.
Huh?
Is it some sort of elitism going on that you have to seem somehow better than the rest of humanity by running an OS that is less well known or even unheard of?
If Linux becomes 'mainstream' I'll be amazingly happy and want to stay with it!
It's nice to see Linux growing in features AND respect by others. I'd really like to see it prosper. Of course HURD prospering too would be good, don't get me wrong. I'm all for the 'underdog'
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same protocol, different root servers. http://www.youcann.org/ has info on it.. other people have posted the url, but I just looked at it and altered my linux box's root hints file and now I can get to youcann.here for example. Simple stuff and works well.
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God I hate statisticians.
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Offtopic this, but thinking about yet more advances for 'our armed forces fighter planes' makes me wonder if the military will ever just forget about putting pilots in harm's way and just invest in high speed/high bandwidth wireless (duh) communication (obviously well encrypted) between a bunker and aircraft so pilots could fly them like playing a game of Falcon4.0 .. I'm SURE they have already started doing it.. just a matter of time I think. Of course it's not just planes that could benefit. Any hazardous transport/occupation you care to think of.
.. darn.. Never mind though, we'll just connect you to another plane and off you go again. Don't make the same mistake twice. "Oh, THAT hill.." .. difficult to do otherwise.
Of course you can make a realistic 'cockpit' with surrounding monitors/image panels. even with 'force-feedback' (in the whole cockpit if you like) to help the pilot control the aircraft. Then the actual 'fly-by-remote' aircraft would be able to outmaneuver anything else around AND you'd save pilots lives. Got shot out of the sky or crashed?
Plus there would be the obvious benefits that the military funded wireless communication technology would 'trickle-down' to consumer equipment.
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6.2 was annoyingly unstable
.. works fine for me.
.. and what crashed GNOME?
.. you mean you couldn't compile anything? .. egcs works and has worked fine for me for ages.. you don't say what you had problems with..
.. and did you read the SAMBA FAQ? :)
.. and that's good enough for me. Not like that takes a long time either with autorpm from Kirk Bauer .. just run it as often as you like and that'll help you keep things up to date. It's all nice and simple IMHO.
eh?
GNOME kept crashing
Did ya get the latest GNOME RPMS?
I couldn't makefile anything,
You what?
smbclient wouldn't logon to my Win2K tower,
Did you get the latest SAMBA RPMS?
et cetera, et cetera. I just got sick of it fast.
Sorry you had that experience.. 6.2 has been running great for me. I of course keep all the packages that I use up to date
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And the bold text above the article saying
'Posted by JonKatz'
didn't spell it out?
Hmm.. okay.
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It's called Level 2 cache and is on processors.
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Well, 'you dumb fuck', I just said that that is my opinion and I was responding to someone saying that they use servlets to create webpages, I like to do my webpages differently.
/. for a while now and I'm used to seeing people like you get on their high horse and flame away - flatly refusing to accept that there can be BETTER alternatives to a technology they have become used to. I have dealt with Java and I don't like it, simple as that. It's evident to me seeing Java progress from a language with promise to what it is now that it didn't quite hit the mark, both in terms of performance and platform-interoperabilty.
Yes, I have a low UID on here - I've been reading
If Java and servlets work for you, that's great and I'm honestly very happy for you. I personally am happier using PHP or the like to produce my webpages.
Now I can see from other posts around on this thread that this is something of a holy-war yet again.
Get the java-bean out of your ass and move on. Please.
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Of course, this is only one application of Java.
.. well, sometimes worth it. Face it, Java had high hopes of being the 'platform independent' language.. now it just sucks and is slow. Caused in part by M$ muddying the waters its own different version of Java no doubt. And with Java applets and Javascript it's just a horrid horrid mess.
.. not to say that you're wrong, just that I don't agree. :)
And it's the only one worth a damn
PHP / ASP is what kicks ass on webpages for me. Clean, fast, efficient (well, PHP anyway - but I have seen ASP do nice things too).
Still, that's just my opinion
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it's just going to be a mad scramble for dot.dot as a domain name.. that's all anyone is interested in.. you can then have .dot or whatever you want then
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I reckon that the only real solution is for /. to open an international range of pubs with video conferencing and forget about this bbs thing.
:) .. I'd definitely like a nice geek pub (hell even A pub) near me :)
/. DSL VPN action going.
Now that just sounds EXCELLENT
If I had the cash, I'd start one.. get some
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