Nothing is "not connected to the internet", not if it has an IP address
What? Did you know that DHCP servers hand out IP addresses? Did you know that you can have a DHCP server on a LAN? Did you know that you can have a LAN that's not connected to the internets?
While that sounds good it doesn't wash. It depends what you are setting up to do. If you want a permissive, bug ridden system where most of your company's bandwidth is used for P2P and every three months your clients call you to tell you their computer has slowed to a crawl, go ahead and use Windows.
This is hyperbole or ignorance. In controlled environments, modern versions of Windows don't have these performance problems.
...I have my mail software set up so it bounces html-only email (that it doesn't think is spam) back to the sender with an error message explaining that html-only email violates internet standards.
Um. I'm unaware of any IETF standard regarding HTML-formatted email transmission. Unless you can link me to such a standard, there is no violation. Also, you are an ass. Additionally, if you're unable to configure an MUA produced in the last five years to correctly render HTML email, you're a fucking moron.
No seriously, if requiring ID won't solve the world's problems, then we should do away with ID's all together! Hell, requiring a driver's license won't stop people from speeding, so let's ban them all! Me not driving an SUV won't save the climate, so fuckit! I'm getting a Cadillac Escalade! This makes me cry. Thanks.
Driver's licenses were never intended to stop speeding. You have to pass a test to demonstrate that you're qualified to drive. You have to carry a token that proves that you've passed this test while you're driving. So, you need a license to drive. You don't have to pass a test to travel. You don't need a certification to travel. We let children, invalids, cripples and retards travel. Why should we be required to carry a token to travel when nothing is restricting our ability to travel? So. What does requiring an identification token to travel do? Does it do anything good? Is it helpful? If not, then why do it?
I'm glad to see someone else with a decent head on his shoulders. "Wireless audio" this and "digital transmission" that... 99% of the time, a setup like yours does the job more than adequately.
The DRM'd streams go to analog outputs, yes? Get some 1970's technology (a couple of old stereos) and route the output of the sound card to the stereos, which route that to multiple pairs of speakers placed about the house.
I'm certain that the components can be had for cheap at a thrift store.
*feeds the troll*
Note, all quotes are from http://www.roughlydrafted.com/2007/08/11/how-apple-keyboards-lost-a-logo-and-windows-pcs-gained-one/ Microsoft's contextual menu key is also typically placed on the right side of the keyboard, making it even more puzzlingly useless for right handed users. They'd have to hit the right side of the keyboard with their left hand while pointing the mouse with their right. What was Microsoft's Chief Architect thinking?
*Some* of us prefer keyboard navigation. Having the "menu" button on the keyboard lets me access my "right-click" menu while typing. I don't even have to move my hands from the keyboard! Also, if I'm in a text input field, I get a "right-click" menu at the position of my text insertion cursor, not my mouse cursor. No awkward keyboard slapping occurs here!
Microsoft also added a special key for opening contextual menus, featuring the icon of a pointer on a menu. The key simply acts like the right mouse button; it's not only superfluous and clumsy for PCs using two button mice, but also less elegant than Apple's convention for using control-clicking to bring up a menu with the mouse.
This is a "user interface familiarity" argument. You lose.
It seems they don't understand why it is useful to draw a distinction between control-C, used to cancel an operation in a terminal environment, and Command-C, used to copy content in a desktop setting. There is no difference in Windows.
Most Windows users never use ^C to terminate a program. MS-DOS folks did, but -last time I checked- COMMAND.COM didn't have a built-in clipboard, so there's no hotkey overlap.
...it simply mapped the standard key commands Apple had originated-including the familiar Command S, Z, X, C, V for save, undo, cut, copy, paste-to control key combinations on the PC. This was another shortsighted PC mistake that would become an unsolvable annoyance for users.
I assume that this is related to the preceding quote? I don't think that that axe is sharp enough. Go on back to your grindstone.
A year later in 1987, IBM released its new vision of the PC, called PS/2; it only offered a standard port for the mouse and another identical but unique port for the keyboard, a mistake that would plague PC users for the next two decades.
If the 'plague' is the lack of distinction between the keyboard and mouse ports, PC97 addressed this... in 1997[1]. So, this plague only lasted a decade.
Most Windows PC users are unaware of the use of either the Windows key or the contextual menu key, and some PC hardware makers refused to add the keys to their keyboards, the most notable being IBM.
Maybe IBM et. al. had a zillion keyboards in their warehouse that they needed to sell, before they started creating ones with new keys on them? Just sayin'.
and since non-technical users had no way to guess that the Command key is represented by an Apple logo and a propeller, the latest keyboards now simply have the word "command" on them.
If you replace 'non-technical' with 'Mac OS newbies', this statement will be palatable. However, why not leave the key as a "propeller" or "cloverleaf"? The symbol is language-neutral. Seems like changing the icon for the key was a step backwards.
[Two "useless" keys are] certainly not the only example of the unsolvable issues for PCs created by... Microsoft...
What other "unsolvable" issues are there? Can we get a bulleted list? (I'd rather not slog through the more sensational portions of your blog posts.)
Additionally, we might postulate that Linus wishes for a world in which application software runs on any machine, regardless of OS. Wouldn't that be nice?
> These games aren't true ports to the OS X platform. > True ports would dispense entirely with the Windows APIs > and work entirely with the native interfaces provided by OS X.
Take it a step further: Use a combination of SDL, OpenGL, and OpenAL. Then, you can run on Windows, Mac, and Linux.
You must be new here? I've been running Gentoo since 2002. (I ran screaming from RH9.) I can tell you that I've had to make multiple runs of revdep-rebuild on more than one occasion. (However, all those occasions were within the last year or so... The current package maintainers are fond of tossing out upgrades to core libs that aren't binary compatible with older versions.)
To me, Gentoo's not about the crazy flags you can throw to GCC. It's about the flexibility of portage. Ex: can you get debugging symbols for *everything* in your binary-only distro? Probably not. WRT compiler flags: I've gotten along quite nicely with 'CFLAGS="-O2 -mtune=${CPU} -fomit-frame-pointer -pipe"'.
Also, your "Archetypal Gentoo Builds" idea is good. Perhaps drobbins will work towards something like this in the future?
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Nothing is "not connected to the internet", not if it has an IP address
What?
Did you know that DHCP servers hand out IP addresses?
Did you know that you can have a DHCP server on a LAN?
Did you know that you can have a LAN that's not connected to the internets?
Are the comm links unidirectional?
My GP has a laptop.
Just wait....
While that sounds good it doesn't wash. It depends what you are setting up to do. If you want a permissive, bug ridden system where most of your company's bandwidth is used for P2P and every three months your clients call you to tell you their computer has slowed to a crawl, go ahead and use Windows.
This is hyperbole or ignorance.
In controlled environments, modern versions of Windows don't have these performance problems.
/me puts on the Remembering Cap
Oh!
Yeah.
Heh heh. I kinda forgot about the slowness. : /
*sneaks off into the night*
[I'm blaming SIS at this point for non-existant video support for my chipset].
<useless_advice>
Ya know, you can use the VESA driver.
</useless_advice>
TortoiseSVN includes some scripts that use Office to do diffs of MS Office documents. They also have scripts to do the same for OOO docs, too.
...I have my mail software set up so it bounces html-only email (that it doesn't think is spam) back to the sender with an error message explaining that html-only email violates internet standards.
Um. I'm unaware of any IETF standard regarding HTML-formatted email transmission. Unless you can link me to such a standard, there is no violation.Also, you are an ass. Additionally, if you're unable to configure an MUA produced in the last five years to correctly render HTML email, you're a fucking moron.
Driver's licenses were never intended to stop speeding. You have to pass a test to demonstrate that you're qualified to drive. You have to carry a token that proves that you've passed this test while you're driving. So, you need a license to drive.
You don't have to pass a test to travel. You don't need a certification to travel. We let children, invalids, cripples and retards travel. Why should we be required to carry a token to travel when nothing is restricting our ability to travel?
So. What does requiring an identification token to travel do? Does it do anything good? Is it helpful? If not, then why do it?
Cablecos do not have common carrier status. Just sayin.
I had read that as of late 2007, such exclusivity agreements are no longer "legal".
Ars makes a mention in this article, but I can't be arsed to find a press release or Order on the FCC's site.
http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20080319-fcc-overhauls-its-broadband-data-as-eu-points-and-laughs.html
The BitTorrent is *still* not random.
Comcast is *still* shutting down BitTorrent seeders.
There's nothing random about it.
Hear! Hear!
I'm glad to see someone else with a decent head on his shoulders.
"Wireless audio" this and "digital transmission" that... 99% of the time, a setup like yours does the job more than adequately.
The DRM'd streams go to analog outputs, yes?
Get some 1970's technology (a couple of old stereos) and route the output of the sound card to the stereos, which route that to multiple pairs of speakers placed about the house.
I'm certain that the components can be had for cheap at a thrift store.
*feeds the troll*
...it simply mapped the standard key commands Apple had originated-including the familiar Command S, Z, X, C, V for save, undo, cut, copy, paste-to control key combinations on the PC. This was another shortsighted PC mistake that would become an unsolvable annoyance for users.
... Microsoft...
Note, all quotes are from http://www.roughlydrafted.com/2007/08/11/how-apple-keyboards-lost-a-logo-and-windows-pcs-gained-one/
Microsoft's contextual menu key is also typically placed on the right side of the keyboard, making it even more puzzlingly useless for right handed users. They'd have to hit the right side of the keyboard with their left hand while pointing the mouse with their right. What was Microsoft's Chief Architect thinking?
*Some* of us prefer keyboard navigation. Having the "menu" button on the keyboard lets me access my "right-click" menu while typing. I don't even have to move my hands from the keyboard! Also, if I'm in a text input field, I get a "right-click" menu at the position of my text insertion cursor, not my mouse cursor. No awkward keyboard slapping occurs here!
Microsoft also added a special key for opening contextual menus, featuring the icon of a pointer on a menu. The key simply acts like the right mouse button; it's not only superfluous and clumsy for PCs using two button mice, but also less elegant than Apple's convention for using control-clicking to bring up a menu with the mouse.
This is a "user interface familiarity" argument. You lose.
It seems they don't understand why it is useful to draw a distinction between control-C, used to cancel an operation in a terminal environment, and Command-C, used to copy content in a desktop setting. There is no difference in Windows.
Most Windows users never use ^C to terminate a program. MS-DOS folks did, but -last time I checked- COMMAND.COM didn't have a built-in clipboard, so there's no hotkey overlap.
I assume that this is related to the preceding quote? I don't think that that axe is sharp enough. Go on back to your grindstone.
A year later in 1987, IBM released its new vision of the PC, called PS/2; it only offered a standard port for the mouse and another identical but unique port for the keyboard, a mistake that would plague PC users for the next two decades.
If the 'plague' is the lack of distinction between the keyboard and mouse ports, PC97 addressed this... in 1997[1]. So, this plague only lasted a decade.
Most Windows PC users are unaware of the use of either the Windows key or the contextual menu key, and some PC hardware makers refused to add the keys to their keyboards, the most notable being IBM.
Maybe IBM et. al. had a zillion keyboards in their warehouse that they needed to sell, before they started creating ones with new keys on them? Just sayin'.
and since non-technical users had no way to guess that the Command key is represented by an Apple logo and a propeller, the latest keyboards now simply have the word "command" on them.
If you replace 'non-technical' with 'Mac OS newbies', this statement will be palatable. However, why not leave the key as a "propeller" or "cloverleaf"? The symbol is language-neutral. Seems like changing the icon for the key was a step backwards.
[Two "useless" keys are] certainly not the only example of the unsolvable issues for PCs created by
What other "unsolvable" issues are there? Can we get a bulleted list? (I'd rather not slog through the more sensational portions of your blog posts.)
[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=PC_System_Design_Guide&oldid=192070503
See this comment. /. is NOTHING compared to the traffic generated by DTD requests.
http://www.w3.org/blog/systeam/2008/02/08/w3c_s_excessive_dtd_traffic#c1821
Hear, hear!
Additionally, we might postulate that Linus wishes for a world in which application software runs on any machine, regardless of OS.
Wouldn't that be nice?
> Want to use Western Digitals tools to format a hard drive?
*Why* would you do such a thing?
> These games aren't true ports to the OS X platform.
> True ports would dispense entirely with the Windows APIs
> and work entirely with the native interfaces provided by OS X.
Take it a step further:
Use a combination of SDL, OpenGL, and OpenAL.
Then, you can run on Windows, Mac, and Linux.
You must be new here? I've been running Gentoo since 2002. (I ran screaming from RH9.)
I can tell you that I've had to make multiple runs of revdep-rebuild on more than one occasion. (However, all those occasions were within the last year or so... The current package maintainers are fond of tossing out upgrades to core libs that aren't binary compatible with older versions.)
To me, Gentoo's not about the crazy flags you can throw to GCC. It's about the flexibility of portage. Ex: can you get debugging symbols for *everything* in your binary-only distro? Probably not.
WRT compiler flags: I've gotten along quite nicely with 'CFLAGS="-O2 -mtune=${CPU} -fomit-frame-pointer -pipe"'.
Also, your "Archetypal Gentoo Builds" idea is good. Perhaps drobbins will work towards something like this in the future?
What's wrong with:
# flagedit =package-cat/package-version -- '~x86'
No muss, no fuss, and you only have to do it once?
Also, --depclean *crashes*??? Can you post a backtrace and any error messages?
I can play SL on an ATi AGP x800 by checking out the latest code from the xf86-video-ati project.
Check em out here:
http://gitweb.freedesktop.org/?p=xorg/driver/xf86-video-ati.git;a=summary
"Slow and buggy chips", eh?
Intel's hardware has a fun bug or two, as well. Check it out:
http://forums.xkcd.com/viewtopic.php?f=11&t=15337
Heh. I'm also a tard.
There are some machines that won't permit the RAM address space to be shifted above the 4GB boundary.
*sigh* *reminds self to engage brain before posting*