too right getting task manager up is one thing but killing an NT service..... hit that power button I've never had to power cycle BSDi iirc NT - the button has that dirty look with a clean middle .oO0Oo.
That's one advantage of doing your development work on UNIX systems - unlike Windows the OS doesn't go senile.
Don't underestimate the significance of this. I spent a couple of years building up an NT based web server tailoring to our needs. Adding server side activeX and NT services and the like. I tired to be a good boy and keep things in sensible places and understand what was going on.
Eventually the machine started to crawl along and would do unexplainable stuff like forgetting it's IIS settings or just not starting some services. Try and kill 'em and the OS says you can't or the service is not responding or you don't have permission.
With 3 BSDi servers sat there for 4 years happily servicing 2000 users and nt (and me) struggling to keep on top of 25 or so I ended up wishing I'd not been the one who decided to go with nt. I liked your programming book Mr Petzold but I wish I'd never heard of you now.
Binary configuration files are just plain stupid. The registry is a very silly idea.
I watched my colleague in the neighbouring company ere-enter the details of 200 web sites in to IIS when his server decided to corrupt his binary IIS config file. 10 solid hours of crap (and it started on a Friday afternoon at 2pm). I was very happy that the majority of our stuff just sits in/etc/namdb and/apache/conf/httpd.conf
hehe I've been trying to download it for 24 hours so far an auto-resume. I got my girlfriend to use SO so that I can migrate our living room machine to linux and once done she will not have to re-learn. At the moment she can swap between MS Office and Star Office in her familiar environment. SO will make the transition less painful I hope. She just wants to work not spend half of her life learning new menus every time I take a trip down freshmeat;-) .oO0Oo.
free (liberty) software is a great ideal and one i advocate over non-free as much as possible but I've got work to do and even though I know how to manufacture my own tools from the raw metal I'm more than prepared to let someone else do it and pay them for the priveledge.
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i wish suits would learn that it's perl and not pearl
While I understand the need for "geeks" to be different (which I why I don't make mine wear suits)
gosh you are so gernerous to your prisoners mr suit, can I come work for you please. Can we all wear suits on Fridays, please please.
Of course management has no stupid acronyms and people lacking socialisation skills.
If I had a $ for every arrogant manager I'd met I'd have about $278.
If you don't like it either write some software yourself and call it "The Super Efficient Piece of Software for Image Manipulation and Web Scripting" or fuck off.
one thing that may be impeding the GIMP's mainstream acceptance is its name
I see crap like this here every day.
The whole dominance thing.
Linux & GNU isn't there for domination it's there for liberty
The fact that Gimp isn't a "mainstream application" doesn't make a squat of difference. The point is that it's an application at all and for OS's that support it it's free. Free of a $500 tag, free to do what you like with and free of marketing people saying "the name's not very good, grandma won't like it".
The next person that makes some sort of killer app should call it "The dogshit" or some such. .oO0Oo.
Did you like it? Do you want some more. I could probly send you some CD's if you want. Email me (er replace - with.) and I'll sort you something out:-)
I hope that the future will bring a new method of reward.
Thanks to everybody who feels this way I hope we can reward people for their efforts fairly and give people a better sense of value. It will make everybody happier to live in a world of respect. .oO0Oo.
I don't know what the true value to society is but I hope that in the long run we will find it.
Yah, very few reach the height's I'm talking about but enough to see them paraded day in day out as some sort of something special. Endosring this and that as though they have some sort of secret knowledge. It makes people feel less valuable to each other and that brings trouble, disrespect and unhappiness. .oO0Oo.
The industry is changing and I think it's for the better.
There is such a wide range of musical talent that just doesn't get the chance to appear on MTV (and when you are you don't get much $ for it at the low end - cripes I even got a BILL from them once for filling up their air time for them.)
I really meant that it seems wrong that someone earns millions of times more cash for putting in the same amount of effort of a toilet cleaner or something.
Especially for singing and dancing a bit - not exactly hard work.
My point really is that the market is skewed and that the way money funnels seems not right. The global market reduces choice and those that win, win big. I think it's time for that to change. .oO0Oo.
try reading my post, nowhere to I advocate or even mention the "brave new world of free music". They'll be poor when we trade their recordings for free" scenario is not my scenario. Please don't attribute other points of view to me thanks.
What I said was that the market must change and it will change whether it likes it or not.
In fact we already know that it is, and I'm not just talking Napster et. al.
Music production has been revolutionised by home production. I'm there matey, I know. My friends and I get record deals every week and see the other people who are doing ok out of digital music.
A global market reduces choice and funnels money in to the hands of those who control media access. MTV etc.
Do you think Brittney would be doing well if she had to gig her way to the top without the help of Fox & Sky & Disney? .oO0Oo.
hehe I'm not whining. I do alright out of the music biz and I know a lot of people who do a lot better. But my point is that the sheer scale of the market skews the business. What I'm saying is that for a few years work someone can bank millions of dollars. I don't assert any moral grounds but it just doesn't sound right compared to people who work all their lives on the poverty line. When people don't feel valued then bad things happen. Super pop stardom, we can live without it. I think that this market should find it's true worth. It is skewed by the artifical value placed on it. Yeah $9.99 is good value to be entertained for a a few hours but... I mean can't anyone see my point. I'm not advocating Napster style trading. It's not right to rip people off but it needs to work both ways. You'll be telling me next that is great that superstars then bugger off to live overseas "for tax reasons" thus robbing the people again. Makes me mad. .oO0Oo.
The obscenity of how rich you can become twanging a guitar or tweaking a computer to make sound may well come to it's deserved end.
I work in the music industry and the distribution of wealth within it is a constant source of irk.
If you can justify the $5 million per year Liberace was making or the multi-million dollar pile of cash Micheal Jackson has made I might change my mind.
The global market certainly makes it great to hit big and I don't doubt the hard work that goes into the music business but it is greatly overvalued due to the costs of reproduction and the size of the market.
They will die with a shout not a whimper but die they shall.
Hopefully the cult of celebrity will start to die with it but we've got a long way to go.
Slashdot Mirror
it strikes me that as long as it took you to post about it you could have fixed it
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it's a nice place but I wouldn't want to live here...
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send all visa's to :
too right
.oO0Oo.
getting task manager up is one thing but killing an NT service.....
hit that power button
I've never had to power cycle BSDi iirc
NT - the button has that dirty look with a clean middle
That's one advantage of doing your development work on UNIX systems - unlike Windows the OS doesn't go senile.
/etc/namdb and /apache/conf/httpd.conf
.oO0Oo.
Don't underestimate the significance of this.
I spent a couple of years building up an NT based web server tailoring to our needs. Adding server side activeX and NT services and the like. I tired to be a good boy and keep things in sensible places and understand what was going on.
Eventually the machine started to crawl along and would do unexplainable stuff like forgetting it's IIS settings or just not starting some services. Try and kill 'em and the OS says you can't or the service is not responding or you don't have permission.
With 3 BSDi servers sat there for 4 years happily servicing 2000 users and nt (and me) struggling to keep on top of 25 or so I ended up wishing I'd not been the one who decided to go with nt. I liked your programming book Mr Petzold but I wish I'd never heard of you now.
Binary configuration files are just plain stupid.
The registry is a very silly idea.
I watched my colleague in the neighbouring company ere-enter the details of 200 web sites in to IIS when his server decided to corrupt his binary IIS config file. 10 solid hours of crap (and it started on a Friday afternoon at 2pm).
I was very happy that the majority of our stuff just sits in
hehe I've been trying to download it for 24 hours so far an auto-resume. I got my girlfriend to use SO so that I can migrate our living room machine to linux and once done she will not have to re-learn. At the moment she can swap between MS Office and Star Office in her familiar environment. SO will make the transition less painful I hope. She just wants to work not spend half of her life learning new menus every time I take a trip down freshmeat ;-)
.oO0Oo.
I was referring to the parent post of yours
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sorry if you felt insulted
i agree with your sentiments though
free (liberty) software is a great ideal and one i advocate over non-free as much as possible but I've got work to do and even though I know how to manufacture my own tools from the raw metal I'm more than prepared to let someone else do it and pay them for the priveledge.
zealotry can be expensive
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so you were able to bundle a web browser with your html then?
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hmmm
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what if i want to send html documents?
i love being able to send html mail
i can do nice things for my friends on birthdays and other events
plain text is dry as your homepage shows
btw. your counter doesn't work - maybe it would be better as plain text
even then most people say cmyk because it's less of a mouthfull than cymk
;-)
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try saying it over and over
i do all my images in gbr anyway
i bet the real reason you don't use Gimp is because you havent' got a linux install up yet
i wish suits would learn that it's perl and not pearl
.oO0Oo.
While I understand the need for "geeks" to be different (which I why I don't make mine wear suits)
gosh you are so gernerous to your prisoners mr suit, can I come work for you please. Can we all wear suits on Fridays, please please.
Of course management has no stupid acronyms and people lacking socialisation skills.
If I had a $ for every arrogant manager I'd met I'd have about $278.
If you don't like it either write some software yourself and call it "The Super Efficient Piece of Software for Image Manipulation and Web Scripting" or fuck off.
I think I like the latter better.
one thing that may be impeding the GIMP's mainstream acceptance is its name
.oO0Oo.
I see crap like this here every day.
The whole dominance thing.
Linux & GNU isn't there for domination it's there for liberty
The fact that Gimp isn't a "mainstream application" doesn't make a squat of difference. The point is that it's an application at all and for OS's that support it it's free. Free of a $500 tag, free to do what you like with and free of marketing people saying "the name's not very good, grandma won't like it".
The next person that makes some sort of killer app should call it "The dogshit" or some such.
jpeg does have cmyk support
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Was that really true?
.) and I'll sort you something out :-)
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Oh I'm very sorry to hear it.
Seriously which one was it?
Did you like it?
Do you want some more. I could probly send you some CD's if you want. Email me (er replace - with
try readin :
.oO0Oo.
"Computer Graphics : Principles and Practice"
Foley, van Dam, feiner, Hughes
Mine is second edition 1993
everything from lines to fractal hairs
inc. anti aliasing & filtering etc.
A must read for anyone more than slightly interested
8-(
.oO0Oo.
which one. I'll pass the costs on to the artist/encoder concerned
thats very true
.oO0Oo.
I hope that the future will bring a new method of reward.
Thanks to everybody who feels this way I hope we can reward people for their efforts fairly and give people a better sense of value. It will make everybody happier to live in a world of respect.
No, Tom cruise aint worth that
.oO0Oo.
I don't know what the true value to society is but I hope that in the long run we will find it.
Yah, very few reach the height's I'm talking about but enough to see them paraded day in day out as some sort of something special. Endosring this and that as though they have some sort of secret knowledge. It makes people feel less valuable to each other and that brings trouble, disrespect and unhappiness.
Well matey that's exactly what we are doing.
.oO0Oo.
and thats my point I hope.
The industry is changing and I think it's for the better.
There is such a wide range of musical talent that just doesn't get the chance to appear on MTV (and when you are you don't get much $ for it at the low end - cripes I even got a BILL from them once for filling up their air time for them.)
But an electrician or whatever can't reproduce his work while he sleeps.
.oO0Oo.
He's paid for his effort not the demand. If he get's so much work he can't handle it he employs someone to help him and wealth is distributed.
The music biz doesn't quite work like this and it's time for a change.
I really meant that it seems wrong that someone earns millions of times more cash for putting in the same amount of effort of a toilet cleaner or something.
.oO0Oo.
Especially for singing and dancing a bit - not exactly hard work.
My point really is that the market is skewed and that the way money funnels seems not right. The global market reduces choice and those that win, win big. I think it's time for that to change.
hehe thanks, hope you're not one of my friends.
.oO0Oo.
I do have a triangle and I can play it. Fortunately my repertoire of skill is expanded beyond that.
I know where to place apostrophes too
try reading my post, nowhere to I advocate or even mention the "brave new world of free music".
.oO0Oo.
They'll be poor when we trade their recordings for free" scenario is not my scenario. Please don't attribute other points of view to me thanks.
What I said was that the market must change and it will change whether it likes it or not.
In fact we already know that it is, and I'm not just talking Napster et. al.
Music production has been revolutionised by home production. I'm there matey, I know. My friends and I get record deals every week and see the other people who are doing ok out of digital music.
A global market reduces choice and funnels money in to the hands of those who control media access. MTV etc.
Do you think Brittney would be doing well if she had to gig her way to the top without the help of Fox & Sky & Disney?
hehe I'm not whining. I do alright out of the music biz and I know a lot of people who do a lot better. But my point is that the sheer scale of the market skews the business. What I'm saying is that for a few years work someone can bank millions of dollars. I don't assert any moral grounds but it just doesn't sound right compared to people who work all their lives on the poverty line. When people don't feel valued then bad things happen. Super pop stardom, we can live without it. I think that this market should find it's true worth. It is skewed by the artifical value placed on it. Yeah $9.99 is good value to be entertained for a a few hours but... I mean can't anyone see my point. I'm not advocating Napster style trading. It's not right to rip people off but it needs to work both ways. You'll be telling me next that is great that superstars then bugger off to live overseas "for tax reasons" thus robbing the people again. Makes me mad.
.oO0Oo.
The obscenity of how rich you can become twanging a guitar or tweaking a computer to make sound may well come to it's deserved end.
.oO0Oo.
I work in the music industry and the distribution of wealth within it is a constant source of irk.
If you can justify the $5 million per year Liberace was making or the multi-million dollar pile of cash Micheal Jackson has made I might change my mind.
The global market certainly makes it great to hit big and I don't doubt the hard work that goes into the music business but it is greatly overvalued due to the costs of reproduction and the size of the market.
They will die with a shout not a whimper but die they shall.
Hopefully the cult of celebrity will start to die with it but we've got a long way to go.