Actually i use, and maintain linux servers daily. It's perfect for this job
I do try to use it as a desktop OS once in a while, but give up after a day or two.
Just a couple days ago i bought a "smart" usb thumbdrive, linux would only see it as SCSI-Generic and not as a disk, and obviously i couldn't mount it whatever i did. it worked fine under WinXP, but to get it to work with linux i had to download some stupid tool from the manufacturer that did some lobotomy to it and it stoped being "smart" but did start working under linux:)
Some time ago my brand new computer with a mainstream motherboard (gigabyte) based on a mainstream chipset (intel) was complitely impossible to install linux on as the kernel would either see the IDE CD OR the SATA HD, depending on bios settings but never both at once. It took about 4 months and a couple kernel versions until it was fixed.
On the very same computer it is STILL impossible to get 5.1 audio without manually doing arcane tweaking to ALSA configs
Now notice that i'm not talking about some more obscure devices like GPSes, phones, webcameras, tuner cards - i'm talking about hardware that milions of other users have besides me, and it still doesn't work right, atleast without tweaking.
The upcoming "year of the linux desktop!11oneoneone" just scares me.
Buy Drivers? WTF?
My point being that under windows prety much any piece of hardware is guaranteed to work, under linux most do, but some still don't and "YMMV" is just not enough.
Torrent is good for popular stuff - it scales very well with 200000 people downloading the same file.
For alternative, less known or just older stuff ed2k and similar networks are much better by having a sane search, and being able to publish stuff without too much work (creating and publishing a torrent versus marking your whole mp3 folder shared)
Tabs are more efficient than windows - only one copy of the browser ui is present
There is no need to initialize yet another copy of the ui when you want to see a link without loosing the current page, and destroy it when you'r done
It's easier to switch between a browser and another application, than to switch betweeen 300 open browser windows and another application
Basicaly, MDI (and tabs are a kind of MDI) UIs were invented for a reason, and have their use cases
And i find it irritating that many other applycations switched from MDI to SDI in the last years (eg: ms office, nero)... grrr...
It is like DRM, because it tries to use idiotic, unenforceable policy to prevent distribution of content that you are alowed to use.
RIAA making you able to hear a song but trying to force you not to copy it.
Freenode wanting you to be able to see chat but then crying about loging and publishing.
See where i'm going? Their policy is absolutely unenforceable, just like a couple of bits wont prevent me from converting the song to my favorite format and publishing it, their policy won't prevent me from keeping logs (and publishing them if i want to) wherever i like.
Besides that, why is it amoral to publish logs of a fucking PUBLIC chat?
I can understand that Freenode aren't hape because it eats up their resources, but this is absolutly unrelated to privacy or whatever.
I use #wikipedia on Freenode almost every day. Posting logs from that channel to the internet is strictly prohibited, and if we find someone doing it, we ban them.
That makes me trust WP even more than before. good job.
This basicaly sums up to Freenode/whatever-other-network trying to place DRM on IRC chat.
IRC is a public network, and technicaly there is no chance, ever to prevent someone from loging and publishing chat logs if he can be present in your chanel.
You want your chat to remane private? make a chanell invite only or require a password to join, problem solved.
If your chanell is public - it is PUBLIC, including searchable logs generated by whomever. so stop crying like a pre-teen scoolgirl.
I for one, if i was a professor, would prefer doing mechanical stress simulations in access+vb over C anyday.
mechanical stress simulations in C would be like writing device drivers in PHP or an OS kernel in pure JavaScript;)
Wasn't it demonstrated well enough by debian forking firefox a couple of months ago that trying to play stupid games with trademarks in OSS is well... stupid?
This is going on prety much since the beginning of the (http-based) web as we know it, first by browser exploits then by flash and activex and whatever else
We all know that only terorists use linux, and only pirates use p2p.
If you download linux via bittorent you must be a terorist-pirate.
Allahu-Akbar-Yarr!
"It's tempting to think that people who comment there are in some way considered more important than you are."
It's not hard do be tempted into thinking like that when you read crap like
"user has ~20 (non-webcomic-related) edits. To new users and/or those user with very low edit count: your votes will never count as high (if at all) as those of more established editors. This is simply a precuation to prevent self-promotion. You are, of course, welcome to vote and comment."http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Articles_for_deletion/Checkerboard_Nightmare
folowed by an admin discounting half of the KEEP votes.
(i'll probably get modded into oblivion for this, but...)
What's exactly the difference between:
1) RIAA saying bittorent is bad because you can download pirated music with it. 2) CIA saying encryption is bad because terorists can use it. 3) The slashdot crowd saying filtering software is bad because you can censor burman internet with it.
Isn't that hypocritical? What happened to "guns dont kill people, people kill people"? am i missing something?
Me with some have actually measured how much people WoW servers can hold online till queues start to form up. The test was done done around mid-2006 (=pre tbc) and involved loging in with 2 accounts on the same realm at the same time (when there was queue) and in diferent factions and runing census. then repeating this next evening a couple times to get saner results
If i remember correctly Zenedar-EU could hold around 7.5k before queues started and Warsong-EU about 5k
Zenedar is somewhat newer (started a couple months after game launch) than Warsong, so it's possible that it had newer hardware at the time, alowing it to host more clients at once.
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Someone should modify SCIgen to generate random legalese :)
If it was a boot sector virus... Who would think to BOOT from a blank disk?
And as long as you didn't boot from it, making it bootable would surely destroy the virus, wouldn't it?
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Actually i use, and maintain linux servers daily. It's perfect for this job
:)
I do try to use it as a desktop OS once in a while, but give up after a day or two.
Just a couple days ago i bought a "smart" usb thumbdrive, linux would only see it as SCSI-Generic and not as a disk, and obviously i couldn't mount it whatever i did. it worked fine under WinXP, but to get it to work with linux i had to download some stupid tool from the manufacturer that did some lobotomy to it and it stoped being "smart" but did start working under linux
Some time ago my brand new computer with a mainstream motherboard (gigabyte) based on a mainstream chipset (intel) was complitely impossible to install linux on as the kernel would either see the IDE CD OR the SATA HD, depending on bios settings but never both at once. It took about 4 months and a couple kernel versions until it was fixed.
On the very same computer it is STILL impossible to get 5.1 audio without manually doing arcane tweaking to ALSA configs
Now notice that i'm not talking about some more obscure devices like GPSes, phones, webcameras, tuner cards - i'm talking about hardware that milions of other users have besides me, and it still doesn't work right, atleast without tweaking.
The upcoming "year of the linux desktop!11oneoneone" just scares me.
Buy Drivers? WTF?
My point being that under windows prety much any piece of hardware is guaranteed to work, under linux most do, but some still don't and "YMMV" is just not enough.
Torrent is good for popular stuff - it scales very well with 200000 people downloading the same file.
For alternative, less known or just older stuff ed2k and similar networks are much better by having a sane search, and being able to publish stuff without too much work (creating and publishing a torrent versus marking your whole mp3 folder shared)
It's getting better by the day for the last 10 years and still not anywhere close to being there...
What stops you from building a home from a bunch of bricked iPhones? 0.o
Basicaly, MDI (and tabs are a kind of MDI) UIs were invented for a reason, and have their use cases
And i find it irritating that many other applycations switched from MDI to SDI in the last years (eg: ms office, nero)
From one of the incidents listed on that page
The recommendations in the report included adding "warn passengers" to the checklist of procedures for emergency landings and ditchings
duh.
And i think sitting 15 years in prison "drastically changes a person" well enough too.
Not to mention how drastically being found dead in a trailer park can change you as a person, being at room temperature and shit.
"...Fear is the mind-killer..."
ps: and whoever modded the parent -1,Troll is an idiot
It is like DRM, because it tries to use idiotic, unenforceable policy to prevent distribution of content that you are alowed to use.
RIAA making you able to hear a song but trying to force you not to copy it.
Freenode wanting you to be able to see chat but then crying about loging and publishing.
See where i'm going? Their policy is absolutely unenforceable, just like a couple of bits wont prevent me from converting the song to my favorite format and publishing it, their policy won't prevent me from keeping logs (and publishing them if i want to) wherever i like.
Besides that, why is it amoral to publish logs of a fucking PUBLIC chat? I can understand that Freenode aren't hape because it eats up their resources, but this is absolutly unrelated to privacy or whatever.
I use #wikipedia on Freenode almost every day. Posting logs from that channel to the internet is strictly prohibited, and if we find someone doing it, we ban them.
That makes me trust WP even more than before. good job.
This basicaly sums up to Freenode/whatever-other-network trying to place DRM on IRC chat.
IRC is a public network, and technicaly there is no chance, ever to prevent someone from loging and publishing chat logs if he can be present in your chanel.
You want your chat to remane private? make a chanell invite only or require a password to join, problem solved.
If your chanell is public - it is PUBLIC, including searchable logs generated by whomever. so stop crying like a pre-teen scoolgirl.
So if your phone company starts helpfully adding words you did not say to your phone calls that would be fine too, right?
Or if your post office adds a bomb to your package?
I for one, if i was a professor, would prefer doing mechanical stress simulations in access+vb over C anyday. ;)
mechanical stress simulations in C would be like writing device drivers in PHP or an OS kernel in pure JavaScript
Wasn't it demonstrated well enough by debian forking firefox a couple of months ago that trying to play stupid games with trademarks in OSS is well... stupid?
This is going on prety much since the beginning of the (http-based) web as we know it, first by browser exploits then by flash and activex and whatever else
definetly not news
We all know that only terorists use linux, and only pirates use p2p. If you download linux via bittorent you must be a terorist-pirate. Allahu-Akbar-Yarr!
"It's tempting to think that people who comment there are in some way considered more important than you are."
It's not hard do be tempted into thinking like that when you read crap like
"user has ~20 (non-webcomic-related) edits. To new users and/or those user with very low edit count: your votes will never count as high (if at all) as those of more established editors. This is simply a precuation to prevent self-promotion. You are, of course, welcome to vote and comment." http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Articles_for_deletion/Checkerboard_Nightmare
folowed by an admin discounting half of the KEEP votes.
Shaping != killing connections with fake RST packets
(i'll probably get modded into oblivion for this, but...)
What's exactly the difference between:
1) RIAA saying bittorent is bad because you can download pirated music with it.
2) CIA saying encryption is bad because terorists can use it.
3) The slashdot crowd saying filtering software is bad because you can censor burman internet with it.
Isn't that hypocritical? What happened to "guns dont kill people, people kill people"? am i missing something?
Me with some have actually measured how much people WoW servers can hold online till queues start to form up. The test was done done around mid-2006 (=pre tbc) and involved loging in with 2 accounts on the same realm at the same time (when there was queue) and in diferent factions and runing census. then repeating this next evening a couple times to get saner results If i remember correctly Zenedar-EU could hold around 7.5k before queues started and Warsong-EU about 5k Zenedar is somewhat newer (started a couple months after game launch) than Warsong, so it's possible that it had newer hardware at the time, alowing it to host more clients at once.
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