A lot of comments mention that they find files which are zeroed out. To this I would like to add my own odd experience with xfs. I had formatted an external drive with xfs; it hosts all my video files.
X (not the FS) began to lock up and I had to do a hard reboot a few times. This is not good for filesystems.
A lot of my video files were marked as zeroed out. But the odd thing is that if I moved them from the commandline to another location, everything was good again.
I don't know enough about filesystems to say why that was the case, but if anyone finds that they can't use a file under xfs, try manually moving it and check it. What can it hurt?
While it is true that the move to web services forces them to comptete, there are those IE only sites out there. Add to that the popular proprietary stuff like Flash where if you aren't on Windows or Apple, you have to wait and hope; online may be a bit less of a straight jacket, but it will get worse with time.
Of everyone I know, it is the college dropouts which are doing the best financially. The graduates tend to be spread all over the earnings map. One recently started a business, but for the last several years waited tables. Another was a stripper for a decade. I only recently have begun making more than $20k a year.
The dropouts I know are FAR better off financially. They also tend to be the more personable people of those I know.
Of course, I'm expecting to be flamed and modded down now for attempting to be truly "fair and balanced".
Is it just me or does it seem that one way to be modded up is to claim you will be modded down? Baseless claims of future victimization are all the rage these days.
And thanks to Mozilla Corp's trademark enforcement, you can't fix their bugs and call it Thunderbird. Otherwise, Mozilla could not guarantee the same unfixed bugs for all users. That might alter the perception of Mozilla. And we can't be havin' that.
I too am using Ubuntu and I have to side with the Debian guys. Debian has been commited to patching and keeping secure older versions of Firefox which the Mozilla people refuse to support any longer. So users of Debian stable get screwed by Mozilla's insistence on being jackasses.
While I'm ranting, the Mozilla people view Linux as second tier even though it was Linux (and BSD most probably) users who were Mozilla's loyalists since the fall of Netscape. Mozilla can kiss my ass.
Since you mentioned that you are a writer, check out Lyx. It is in the Ubuntu repositories (universe, I think). Latex is used as its backend so the printed document looks great. I've always hated dealing with word processors until I went through the Lyx tutorial (took about 45 minutes).
You have to remember who would be most likely to try out the Vista RC. For the most part, it will be MS fans and, oddly enough, MS haters. The fans will download it and gush, no matter what while the haters will mock whatever flaws it demonstrates relentlessly.
The purpose of the consumption vs. population measurement is to show that Americans are bad people. That is the conclusion which is to be justified. That being established, statistics supporting that conclusion are then sought after. Hence consumption vs. population as opposed to consumption vs. production.
City of Heroes, that game for which I was so hyped and stopped playing after two weeks. I completely forgot about it after four. I remembered soon thereafter as I was billed for another month.
Let us look at its unsuperheroiness.
I aide a fellow hero in felling a dastardly villian. He whines that I'm kill stealing.
Oh look, that lady is getting her handbag stolen! Oh... nevermind, the bad guy is too low level for me to get anything out of it.
Travel powers but no vehicles... I maul people with my fiery fists of fury. The push to take a travel power irritated me as I didn't want one. Give me a damn bicycle or something.
No alter ego. What the holy hell is this crap? No alter ego guts much of the good stuff from superhero comics. No alter ego = No Gwen Stacy story, no emotionaly oomph to the Phoenix story... and the Watchmen? HAHAHAHA
One other problem the game has (and probably still has) was that there were just too many damn heroes in one city.
Will the Marvel game fix all this? Almost certainly not.
While what you say is true (except the mutants bit, I think), I do wonder if common usage may negate their copyright on it, which was done only so as to monopolize the name between the two companies.
Super-heroes is perfectly acceptable as it is actually legally defined.
It seems that it is not just the articles that my fellow Slashdotters don't read. Many comments have chimed in with "if they are happy, leave them alone", but he said that he was there to do a re-install. I am thinking that his very nice conversion rate of 25% has to do with the customer NOT being happy about needing a re-install. It seems to me that this guy is trying to fix their problems such that they will be less likely to need another re-install.
My only recommendation to him would be to ask before installing Firefox and the like on the machines which are to remain as Windows boxes. An argument for Firefox and Thunderbird as solutions to some of their Windows problems would probably be easiest to make. If they go for that, then the additional suggestion of Open Office and the rest can be made to audience more open to new things.
Hmm... so I have to rely on ATI so that developers can get close to the metal on *my* computer? Considering their shoddy Linux drivers, I'm not so sure that I want application developers reliant on ATI's anything. The last thing I need is instability introduced where currently there is none.
Thank you for sharing your views on which BSDs to look into. I had not found enough information to properly judge, it seems. I think I'll take a look into both FreeBSD and OpenBSD and perhaps try to keep tabs on Dragonfly.
If ever I fall off the deep end, I can start up a PDP-11 emulator and use the ancient Unix from http://www.tuhs.org/
Recently, I have been reading a hefty amount of Unix history and the philosophy which developed once pipes were introduced. Looking at my own history of Linux usage, I have seen that I look upon my computer as an appliance when I spend too much time in a GUI with the do-it-all monolithic apps, but when I use it in the Unix way, it is less a tool than an environment in which I can do things and learn new things. Having read the quote to many times about people using Linux because they hate Microsoft, while others use BSD because they love Unix, I began to incline toward giving one of the BSDs a go. Then this whole mess came out.
I'm finding myself still interested, but more likely to give one of the newer forks a go, like Dragonfly BSD, PC-BSD or Desktop BSD. I incline toward the latter simply because they have a DVD image for download whereas the others do not. With their desktop focus though, I'm wondering if the experience will be more or less the same as I have now.
I really do like Ubuntu, both as a distro and especially as a community. But within the Linux world, it seems that it is Microsoft is the one to beat by creating ever larger Windows like apps rather than doing things in a more Unix-like way simply because of a love of the *nix environment; more into creating a non-evil and free Windows than carrying the Unix tradition forward, innovating of course, but by expanding upon the methodology rather than imitating the abandoned platform. So I am wondering if things will be any different.
As I am realizing that this has nothing to do with the interview, which I actually did read, I'll just stop typing now.
Actually, I'll second him on that. You're comments were better laid out than most (probably mine included). Never would have known had you not mentioned it.
Slashdot Mirror
I went and looked for this "Usenet" of which the article speaks. And I found it.
While in my extensive research, I found no MPAA content.
Perhaps I was sidetracked by all the boobies.
There is no such thing as pornware saturation. The market is a bottomless pit. And topless too.
A lot of comments mention that they find files which are zeroed out. To this I would like to add my own odd experience with xfs. I had formatted an external drive with xfs; it hosts all my video files.
X (not the FS) began to lock up and I had to do a hard reboot a few times. This is not good for filesystems.
A lot of my video files were marked as zeroed out. But the odd thing is that if I moved them from the commandline to another location, everything was good again.
I don't know enough about filesystems to say why that was the case, but if anyone finds that they can't use a file under xfs, try manually moving it and check it. What can it hurt?
While it is true that the move to web services forces them to comptete, there are those IE only sites out there. Add to that the popular proprietary stuff like Flash where if you aren't on Windows or Apple, you have to wait and hope; online may be a bit less of a straight jacket, but it will get worse with time.
n00b
Of everyone I know, it is the college dropouts which are doing the best financially. The graduates tend to be spread all over the earnings map. One recently started a business, but for the last several years waited tables. Another was a stripper for a decade. I only recently have begun making more than $20k a year.
The dropouts I know are FAR better off financially. They also tend to be the more personable people of those I know.
Glad somebody thought so :)
Is it just me or does it seem that one way to be modded up is to claim you will be modded down? Baseless claims of future victimization are all the rage these days.
And thanks to Mozilla Corp's trademark enforcement, you can't fix their bugs and call it Thunderbird. Otherwise, Mozilla could not guarantee the same unfixed bugs for all users. That might alter the perception of Mozilla. And we can't be havin' that.
I too am using Ubuntu and I have to side with the Debian guys. Debian has been commited to patching and keeping secure older versions of Firefox which the Mozilla people refuse to support any longer. So users of Debian stable get screwed by Mozilla's insistence on being jackasses.
While I'm ranting, the Mozilla people view Linux as second tier even though it was Linux (and BSD most probably) users who were Mozilla's loyalists since the fall of Netscape. Mozilla can kiss my ass.
Since you mentioned that you are a writer, check out Lyx. It is in the Ubuntu repositories (universe, I think). Latex is used as its backend so the printed document looks great. I've always hated dealing with word processors until I went through the Lyx tutorial (took about 45 minutes).
You have to remember who would be most likely to try out the Vista RC. For the most part, it will be MS fans and, oddly enough, MS haters. The fans will download it and gush, no matter what while the haters will mock whatever flaws it demonstrates relentlessly.
The purpose of the consumption vs. population measurement is to show that Americans are bad people. That is the conclusion which is to be justified. That being established, statistics supporting that conclusion are then sought after. Hence consumption vs. population as opposed to consumption vs. production.
City of Heroes, that game for which I was so hyped and stopped playing after two weeks. I completely forgot about it after four. I remembered soon thereafter as I was billed for another month.
Let us look at its unsuperheroiness.
I aide a fellow hero in felling a dastardly villian. He whines that I'm kill stealing.
Oh look, that lady is getting her handbag stolen! Oh... nevermind, the bad guy is too low level for me to get anything out of it.
Travel powers but no vehicles... I maul people with my fiery fists of fury. The push to take a travel power irritated me as I didn't want one. Give me a damn bicycle or something.
No alter ego. What the holy hell is this crap? No alter ego guts much of the good stuff from superhero comics. No alter ego = No Gwen Stacy story, no emotionaly oomph to the Phoenix story... and the Watchmen? HAHAHAHA
One other problem the game has (and probably still has) was that there were just too many damn heroes in one city.
Will the Marvel game fix all this? Almost certainly not.
While what you say is true (except the mutants bit, I think), I do wonder if common usage may negate their copyright on it, which was done only so as to monopolize the name between the two companies.
Super-heroes is perfectly acceptable as it is actually legally defined.
It seems that it is not just the articles that my fellow Slashdotters don't read. Many comments have chimed in with "if they are happy, leave them alone", but he said that he was there to do a re-install. I am thinking that his very nice conversion rate of 25% has to do with the customer NOT being happy about needing a re-install. It seems to me that this guy is trying to fix their problems such that they will be less likely to need another re-install.
My only recommendation to him would be to ask before installing Firefox and the like on the machines which are to remain as Windows boxes. An argument for Firefox and Thunderbird as solutions to some of their Windows problems would probably be easiest to make. If they go for that, then the additional suggestion of Open Office and the rest can be made to audience more open to new things.
Actually, there is a Linux client for SecondLife. I was using it not 30 minutes ago.
Hmm... so I have to rely on ATI so that developers can get close to the metal on *my* computer? Considering their shoddy Linux drivers, I'm not so sure that I want application developers reliant on ATI's anything. The last thing I need is instability introduced where currently there is none.
So bloated software just got bigger?
What does that make it?
Morbidly obese software?
Thank you for sharing your views on which BSDs to look into. I had not found enough information to properly judge, it seems. I think I'll take a look into both FreeBSD and OpenBSD and perhaps try to keep tabs on Dragonfly.
If ever I fall off the deep end, I can start up a PDP-11 emulator and use the ancient Unix from http://www.tuhs.org/
Recently, I have been reading a hefty amount of Unix history and the philosophy which developed once pipes were introduced. Looking at my own history of Linux usage, I have seen that I look upon my computer as an appliance when I spend too much time in a GUI with the do-it-all monolithic apps, but when I use it in the Unix way, it is less a tool than an environment in which I can do things and learn new things. Having read the quote to many times about people using Linux because they hate Microsoft, while others use BSD because they love Unix, I began to incline toward giving one of the BSDs a go. Then this whole mess came out.
I'm finding myself still interested, but more likely to give one of the newer forks a go, like Dragonfly BSD, PC-BSD or Desktop BSD. I incline toward the latter simply because they have a DVD image for download whereas the others do not. With their desktop focus though, I'm wondering if the experience will be more or less the same as I have now.
I really do like Ubuntu, both as a distro and especially as a community. But within the Linux world, it seems that it is Microsoft is the one to beat by creating ever larger Windows like apps rather than doing things in a more Unix-like way simply because of a love of the *nix environment; more into creating a non-evil and free Windows than carrying the Unix tradition forward, innovating of course, but by expanding upon the methodology rather than imitating the abandoned platform. So I am wondering if things will be any different.
As I am realizing that this has nothing to do with the interview, which I actually did read, I'll just stop typing now.
That would be cool... ...
Of course that means it will never occur to them to do it.
So is summer vacation.
Actually, I'll second him on that. You're comments were better laid out than most (probably mine included). Never would have known had you not mentioned it.
Actually, it only took 1/3 back in 1776. 1/3 were against it. And 1/3 didn't care.
:)
And for most things, its still that way