Genesis 7:11-12
In the six hundredth year of Noah's life, in the second month, on the seventeenth day of the month, on the same day all the fountains of the great deep burst open, and the floodgates of the sky were opened.
I see your snarky comment and raise it one Interesting one.
Right on about "AppleTalk" and "Permissions" -- if I hadn't been a user of System 6 way back when I'd never had known what the troll, er, writer, was complaining about.
Reminds me of a good friend and knowledgeable programmer/consultant/CTO/startup-founder who recently pooh-poohed Macs saying, "Any OS that can't handle a Zip archive needs to be thrown away." After showing him the built-in support for all kinds of archive types he admitted his terrible experience with Macs occurred in the late 90s and he hasn't touched them since. So, I spent a little time to explain how OS X really was a completely different experience than OS9, or anything else that the Mac used to run. His bad experience with pre-OSX crap (and that's what it is) kept him from even considering Macs today.
So, when people condemn Macs with vigor I ask them the "Ford Question" -- have you driven a Mac, LATELY?
Brilliantly devious. Hundreds of pr0n-seeking addicts are itching at any given moment to get their fix. Only problem is that there probably aren't enough CAPTCHAs available on the web to meet the pr0n-seekers demand! Either free "inventory" will be given away for repeated CAPTCHA solving or, if repeats not used, CAPTCHA won't be available and will frustrate the frustrated seeker even more. So, PhpBB-admins do your part: enable CAPTCHAs to meet the demand!
"We know we haven't offered much -- and it's cost us BILLIONS (*sniff*) -- but we're really, really gonna blow your socks off next time!"
Sounds like Windows 1.0 and on post-release announcements. Trouble is, fewer people will be willing to put up with the crap anymore.
Look, Windows is a platform to run Microsoft office automation software (Office, etc.). With Mac OS X and Parallels, Standalone Windows Vista is unnecessary.
The draw of a datacenter aren't the computers but the aggregation of and redundancy of bandwidth (power and technicians are important, too, but BW rules). That's even why they're called datacenters I bet.
True on the comment posts. But the articles could have photos reasonably securely. Especially if the images were hosted at some OSDN-controlled server.
Just realized that the lack of photos on Slashdot is something that is missing from Slashdot. I wish I could retake that survey.
And, yes, I was here the day or so that Slashdot's allowance of the IMG tag was exploited back in the day. I still regret scrolling past the mug shot of Bill Gates and seeing...well, what shouldn't be seen. Brain bleach. It doesn't work.
Examining the long query string in the above URL, I realized how much fun could be had with the clever captioning space.com allows: like this. (Scroll down to the caption below the image)
"One of our best selling points is what we do with the machine WHEN IT ISN'T BEING USED." -- made up quote.
If I were the competition I'd answer this feel-good non-news press release with the statement, "Unfortunately our game console is so compelling there isn't enough projected downtime to impact world health with our product as there is with the virtually useless PS3."
Saving the world while idle...who comes up with these things?
I caused a panic on a iBook I bought spring of '04 by inserting a USB drive into the appropriate slot. Killed the system so bad that, after an hour with Apple support the OS had to be re-installed.
Depressing.
Right there I realized that you're out of luck in 2006. That requirement nixes Windows (any), Linux (any), Mac OS X, Qnx, (any)BSD, or any other modern OS. The advances in OS vulnerability mitigation has been to
lock down the OS as much as possible and
provide for an easy, painless-as-possible method for downloading and installing updates/fixes/patches.
Instead of "and no software 'update' downloads" I suggest aiming for "fast, effective, automatic, unobtrusive-to-simple-usage software update downloads."
Look to well-supported OSes for meeting this revised requirement. I like Apple, personally, and have regard for several Linux distributions' efforts in this area. I even appreciate Microsoft's work in regard to software updates, although the quickest fixes are related to protecting Hollywood and not their OS users (however, my biggest gripe with Winodws is the fact that #1 above has not occured w/r/t Windows).
People find innovative ways to cause havoc everyday. Therefore a system designed for common users without built-in automated patching must be rejected. ROM-based systems are fine, unless, as you have found out, that new stuff is needed for features required to surf the modern web. Once you open that 'hole' you are in need of patching.
Before many/.'ers were born (or sentient, anyway), Lotus released Lotus Marketplace, a database of 7 Million business (then individuals) for use by whoever for whatever. The uproar in 1991 caused Lotus to discontinue these offerings. Now it's really no big deal that several companies do it, but people don't want a bunch of individuals doing it. Slippery slope... but we're so far along it that there's no point in trying to stop it.
As posters already pointed out, there are no such things as private business cards. Besides, your local library probably has access to ReferenceUSA, which is a compendium of Personal and Business information extraordinaire. Opinion: overreaction.
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I see your snarky comment and raise it one Interesting one.
Right on about "AppleTalk" and "Permissions" -- if I hadn't been a user of System 6 way back when I'd never had known what the troll, er, writer, was complaining about.
Reminds me of a good friend and knowledgeable programmer/consultant/CTO/startup-founder who recently pooh-poohed Macs saying, "Any OS that can't handle a Zip archive needs to be thrown away." After showing him the built-in support for all kinds of archive types he admitted his terrible experience with Macs occurred in the late 90s and he hasn't touched them since. So, I spent a little time to explain how OS X really was a completely different experience than OS9, or anything else that the Mac used to run. His bad experience with pre-OSX crap (and that's what it is) kept him from even considering Macs today.
So, when people condemn Macs with vigor I ask them the "Ford Question" -- have you driven a Mac, LATELY?
Brilliantly devious. Hundreds of pr0n-seeking addicts are itching at any given moment to get their fix. Only problem is that there probably aren't enough CAPTCHAs available on the web to meet the pr0n-seekers demand! Either free "inventory" will be given away for repeated CAPTCHA solving or, if repeats not used, CAPTCHA won't be available and will frustrate the frustrated seeker even more. So, PhpBB-admins do your part: enable CAPTCHAs to meet the demand!
"We know we haven't offered much -- and it's cost us BILLIONS (*sniff*) -- but we're really, really gonna blow your socks off next time!"
Sounds like Windows 1.0 and on post-release announcements. Trouble is, fewer people will be willing to put up with the crap anymore.
Look, Windows is a platform to run Microsoft office automation software (Office, etc.). With Mac OS X and Parallels, Standalone Windows Vista is unnecessary.
End of an error.
funniest post all day
Confluence of First Person Shooters, RPG, and Jerry Lewis. Just.... great.
I just keep a bowl of crunchy cereal at my desk AT ALL TIMES.
Exactly. How well will EXT4 handle CI/CA splits? What userspace tools will exist to tune VSAM, I mean, EXT4 extents?
With EXT4 having extents we'll finally have the joy of defragmenting a hard drive like Windows people. Yea, progress!
The draw of a datacenter aren't the computers but the aggregation of and redundancy of bandwidth (power and technicians are important, too, but BW rules). That's even why they're called datacenters I bet.
It's how many remain that's important.
And, how many were created in the making of the 26 patches?
True on the comment posts. But the articles could have photos reasonably securely. Especially if the images were hosted at some OSDN-controlled server.
Just realized that the lack of photos on Slashdot is something that is missing from Slashdot. I wish I could retake that survey.
And, yes, I was here the day or so that Slashdot's allowance of the IMG tag was exploited back in the day. I still regret scrolling past the mug shot of Bill Gates and seeing...well, what shouldn't be seen. Brain bleach. It doesn't work.
Examining the long query string in the above URL, I realized how much fun could be had with the clever captioning space.com allows: like this. (Scroll down to the caption below the image)
My first thought, too.
Come on. If it can be displayed or played it can be captured and preserved. Except for the money spent on such schemes, of course.
All these firings! This craziness must stop!
"One of our best selling points is what we do with the machine WHEN IT ISN'T BEING USED." -- made up quote.
If I were the competition I'd answer this feel-good non-news press release with the statement, "Unfortunately our game console is so compelling there isn't enough projected downtime to impact world health with our product as there is with the virtually useless PS3."
Saving the world while idle...who comes up with these things?
Not only do they make their own site they have a service to provide others with the benefits of their superior web design skills: AAAWWW
I caused a panic on a iBook I bought spring of '04 by inserting a USB drive into the appropriate slot. Killed the system so bad that, after an hour with Apple support the OS had to be re-installed. Depressing.
Instead of "and no software 'update' downloads" I suggest aiming for "fast, effective, automatic, unobtrusive-to-simple-usage software update downloads."
Look to well-supported OSes for meeting this revised requirement. I like Apple, personally, and have regard for several Linux distributions' efforts in this area. I even appreciate Microsoft's work in regard to software updates, although the quickest fixes are related to protecting Hollywood and not their OS users (however, my biggest gripe with Winodws is the fact that #1 above has not occured w/r/t Windows).
People find innovative ways to cause havoc everyday. Therefore a system designed for common users without built-in automated patching must be rejected. ROM-based systems are fine, unless, as you have found out, that new stuff is needed for features required to surf the modern web. Once you open that 'hole' you are in need of patching.
Before many /.'ers were born (or sentient, anyway), Lotus released Lotus Marketplace, a database of 7 Million business (then individuals) for use by whoever for whatever. The uproar in 1991 caused Lotus to discontinue these offerings. Now it's really no big deal that several companies do it, but people don't want a bunch of individuals doing it. Slippery slope... but we're so far along it that there's no point in trying to stop it.
As posters already pointed out, there are no such things as private business cards. Besides, your local library probably has access to ReferenceUSA, which is a compendium of Personal and Business information extraordinaire. Opinion: overreaction.
SCO digs into PJ's personal life in an attempt to intimidate her coverage of their public actions. That's pretty damn well related.
This hits privacy and First Amendment issues to their core.
This is a legal matter and PJ has had her own share of similar hijinx in relation to her reporting on the SCO debacle.