No, he's just a smart guy. For all its flaws, he knows that he's got a better chance of them being safe with XP than some random, older version (after users have added all the software to make it work with everything on the net today). He also knows he'll have less work to do this way-- why should he have to spend his whole life supporting old stuff?
I'm not a MS-fan, but I was fairly impressed with this guy. I find your argument silly. If it was supposed to be funny, your delivery was off.
Because when they look very closely, they can see hairy bipeds peering into monitors at the results from microlens telescopes apparently aimed at our planet.
Disney has made several, very good non-animated films the last few years. If they have the sense to let Pixar do what it does best, we're in for a fun ride.
I expect the post-Eisner Disney to regain a little of its magic. If only Tinkerbell didn't die in that steenking bell jar Esiner kept her in...
We're almost all linux at work, but have a handful of Windows systems, including a server. At home, I'm all Linux. I don't want to run VNC at work, because I don't really need all my desktop stuff at home, I just need to monitor a handful of web pages that monitor the network or access web interfaces that control things. So I tunnel several ports locally at home to those web servers. That way at home I just use a URL like "http://localhost:6809/nagios/" to access the bagios server at work running on whatever port it's on.
I also tunnel a port to port 3389 on the Windows server. That way something like "rdesktop localhost:23389" gives me a remote desktop to the server at work so I can maintain that server frmo home as easily as I do the *nix servers via the command line.
Good deal. This should never have been charged as a felony to begin with, but I agree he needed a reality slap. I haven't looked far enough into the case to have a strong opinion on the sentence, but 60 days, even suspended, sounds a little heavy. Then again, if there's more to it than I've caught from the news, maybe it's fine.
But it's a lousy scenario. There shouldn't *be* expensive, hidden redirects, and we're just encouraging what I consider (at best) stupid. even (worse) anti-social, possibly evil behavior.
I'm completely in favor of progress, but it seems the net is always taking at least one step back (in some cases a few dozen) for every step forward.
We should be encouraging content providers to produce clean web page sthat do what we expect them to do, simply, instead of to be ever more complex, sneaky, tricky marketing tools. or worse.
I scrounged some WD 20GB PATA drives for $5 each, tossed in an ATA card for extra channels, and run RAID 5 using Linux software RAID. I'm not doing realtinme video editing or anything, so it's plenty fast for my home fileserver. About the biggest disk bandwidth hog is the occasional, gigantic GIMP file being read or saved. I rsync it to another system for backups. Someday I'll get a tape drive or something for archiving, but for now this works fine. I did buy some cheap, fan-cooled drive bays so I could stick these in the 5-1/4" slots. They're a bit noisy. But they should extend the drive life. Eventually I'll buy some new, bigger disks. I'll stick with WD, thanks; we use WD exclusively at work, and have *very* few drive failures across 200 systems with about 250 drives.
None of that quality crap matters. Form over substance is the rule of the day, and the neo-classical approach to any loss of sales is SPIN, SPIN, SPIN!
The really pathetic thing is that it works with a majority of today's consumers.
If I could have seared me conscince, I'd have been rich long ago.
There's a sucker born every minute, but there's a lobotomized, marketer-friendly consumers cranked out every nanosecond.
The developers insist on throwing the baby out with the bathwater. Either that or focused on the wrong things.
Right out of the gate, they don't provide an INSTALL file. They have a README.txt file that sends you to a URL, that immediately redirects you to another URL, where you are *still* several clicks from finding the installation instructions. I could *maybe* see this if the instructions were complex and likely to change. But they're so freaking easy it's ridiculous to not just include the text in a README or INSTALL file. (or.TXT, whatever!)
No. They have to drive you to their site. Why? One can only guess. Because in the politically correct world of modern open source that's the Right Thing To Do? Because they want to show off their site? I don't know. I just think it's brain-dead.
Nevermind that key features are stll missing from the client that other mail apps have had forever.
Netscape helped change the world. Firefox has, to some extent, continnued that contribution. Can anyone make a compelling case to use Thunderbird, much less show that it really changes the world?
Sheesh, dude. You oughta quit acting like a condescending twit. A lot of people never even knew there *was* an alternative. And frankly, for most people 10 years ago, there wasn't. There was for me, but not for your average person having a computer stuck in front of them for the first time.
I don't know if China as we know it is more doomed by their absurd governmental policies, or by the fact that their uyounger generation's research seems to depend on the archived wisdom of random people on the street. I'll grant Wikipedia is getting better, but (a) to depend on it as a primary source of scholarship at this point is absurd and (b) even in China, especially at universities, there are other options.
Unless one's thesis is on the Wikipedia, anyone depending oslely on Wikipedia for research needs a reality slap.
On top of that, the laws vary from state to state. For instance, in Texas, it is (or used to be) almost impossible to lose your house or car. But in other states, losing a lawsuiit may put you into the projects.
I don't think violence is usually the answer. But every once in a while, I think a good, public beating is in order, followed by a loooong time in the public stocks (not the kind SCO likes).
I started out as an evolutionist. I worked really hard to prove that evolution was the full answer. But when you get right down to it, it takes just as much faith to start with the big band and end up with what we have today as it does to say "It's all in Genesis" or "*Someone* clearly did it, whoever it is".
Seriously. She's my new hero. I had no idea who was "behind" the success of Mozilla and its offspring, or that any one individual really was. But I think that Firefox, Thunderbird, Mozilla and the rest are keys to the survival of the web as a useful tool, and it's great to put a name and face with the success.
With a dozen more like her, the net would be a much better place.
Besides money being tighter, maybe people are waiting to see if they get music ***for Christmas***.
What moron came up with this article? Clearly they were either desperate for a story, or too ignorant to realize the story they got wasn't the real story ata ll.
Those cases have nothing to do with this one, do they? Did you even read the article, or do you just like bashing the Catholic Church? (I am not now, have never been, never expect to be, a member of the Catholic Church.)
The question is whether his behavior was merely rude, or harassing and unprofessional, and if so, was it enough to result in the punishment he got?
Nobody here is trying to silence anyone-- either the student or people making utterly absurd comparisons on/.
If you can't tell the difference, perhaps you ought to get counseling.
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I don't know if it's just the DOE, but my first thought was certainly, "Why would we allow this?"
But I don't know enough about Westinghouse these days to look at the issue in detail.
I'd mail him a sock full of lead shot, if he'd use it on the plaintiff's attorney.
No, he's just a smart guy. For all its flaws, he knows that he's got a better chance of them being safe with XP than some random, older version (after users have added all the software to make it work with everything on the net today). He also knows he'll have less work to do this way-- why should he have to spend his whole life supporting old stuff?
I'm not a MS-fan, but I was fairly impressed with this guy. I find your argument silly. If it was supposed to be funny, your delivery was off.
Some PR people believe that all PR is good PR.
Some PR people are idiots.
Well, it might be good for Boing Boing. But I doubt it'll be good for StarFarce.
(Oh, no! I mocked their name! Call the FBI! or maybe the Turkish government!)
Earthlike how?
Because when they look very closely, they can see hairy bipeds peering into monitors at the results from microlens telescopes apparently aimed at our planet.
They were just very much colder, hairy bipeds.
This could be a win-win.
Disney has made several, very good non-animated films the last few years. If they have the sense to let Pixar do what it does best, we're in for a fun ride.
I expect the post-Eisner Disney to regain a little of its magic. If only Tinkerbell didn't die in that steenking bell jar Esiner kept her in...
We're almost all linux at work, but have a handful of Windows systems, including a server. At home, I'm all Linux. I don't want to run VNC at work, because I don't really need all my desktop stuff at home, I just need to monitor a handful of web pages that monitor the network or access web interfaces that control things. So I tunnel several ports locally at home to those web servers. That way at home I just use a URL like "http://localhost:6809/nagios/" to access the bagios server at work running on whatever port it's on.
I also tunnel a port to port 3389 on the Windows server. That way something like "rdesktop localhost:23389" gives me a remote desktop to the server at work so I can maintain that server frmo home as easily as I do the *nix servers via the command line.
Good deal. This should never have been charged as a felony to begin with, but I agree he needed a reality slap. I haven't looked far enough into the case to have a strong opinion on the sentence, but 60 days, even suspended, sounds a little heavy. Then again, if there's more to it than I've caught from the news, maybe it's fine.
I agree that would be the reason to enable it.
But it's a lousy scenario. There shouldn't *be* expensive, hidden redirects, and we're just encouraging what I consider (at best) stupid. even (worse) anti-social, possibly evil behavior.
I'm completely in favor of progress, but it seems the net is always taking at least one step back (in some cases a few dozen) for every step forward.
We should be encouraging content providers to produce clean web page sthat do what we expect them to do, simply, instead of to be ever more complex, sneaky, tricky marketing tools. or worse.
I scrounged some WD 20GB PATA drives for $5 each, tossed in an ATA card for extra channels, and run RAID 5 using Linux software RAID. I'm not doing realtinme video editing or anything, so it's plenty fast for my home fileserver. About the biggest disk bandwidth hog is the occasional, gigantic GIMP file being read or saved. I rsync it to another system for backups. Someday I'll get a tape drive or something for archiving, but for now this works fine. I did buy some cheap, fan-cooled drive bays so I could stick these in the 5-1/4" slots. They're a bit noisy. But they should extend the drive life. Eventually I'll buy some new, bigger disks. I'll stick with WD, thanks; we use WD exclusively at work, and have *very* few drive failures across 200 systems with about 250 drives.
None of that quality crap matters. Form over substance is the rule of the day, and the neo-classical approach to any loss of sales is SPIN, SPIN, SPIN!
The really pathetic thing is that it works with a majority of today's consumers.
If I could have seared me conscince, I'd have been rich long ago.
There's a sucker born every minute, but there's a lobotomized, marketer-friendly consumers cranked out every nanosecond.
...build this into an alarm clock?
The developers insist on throwing the baby out with the bathwater. Either that or focused on the wrong things.
.TXT, whatever!)
Right out of the gate, they don't provide an INSTALL file. They have a README.txt file that sends you to a URL, that immediately redirects you to another URL, where you are *still* several clicks from finding the installation instructions. I could *maybe* see this if the instructions were complex and likely to change. But they're so freaking easy it's ridiculous to not just include the text in a README or INSTALL file. (or
No. They have to drive you to their site. Why? One can only guess. Because in the politically correct world of modern open source that's the Right Thing To Do? Because they want to show off their site? I don't know. I just think it's brain-dead.
Nevermind that key features are stll missing from the client that other mail apps have had forever.
Netscape helped change the world. Firefox has, to some extent, continnued that contribution. Can anyone make a compelling case to use Thunderbird, much less show that it really changes the world?
Sheesh, dude. You oughta quit acting like a condescending twit. A lot of people never even knew there *was* an alternative. And frankly, for most people 10 years ago, there wasn't. There was for me, but not for your average person having a computer stuck in front of them for the first time.
And i think it rather silly that you take that one line, and quote it out of context, ignoring everything else said, nevermind implied.
I don't know if China as we know it is more doomed by their absurd governmental policies, or by the fact that their uyounger generation's research seems to depend on the archived wisdom of random people on the street. I'll grant Wikipedia is getting better, but (a) to depend on it as a primary source of scholarship at this point is absurd and (b) even in China, especially at universities, there are other options.
Unless one's thesis is on the Wikipedia, anyone depending oslely on Wikipedia for research needs a reality slap.
On top of that, the laws vary from state to state. For instance, in Texas, it is (or used to be) almost impossible to lose your house or car. But in other states, losing a lawsuiit may put you into the projects.
In fact, it all lined up with my perceptions. I just wish they had covered other suppliers a bit more. I'd love to see the full data.
And I'd love to see a major survey of just OSes handled this way.
I don't think violence is usually the answer. But every once in a while, I think a good, public beating is in order, followed by a loooong time in the public stocks (not the kind SCO likes).
I started out as an evolutionist. I worked really hard to prove that evolution was the full answer. But when you get right down to it, it takes just as much faith to start with the big band and end up with what we have today as it does to say "It's all in Genesis" or "*Someone* clearly did it, whoever it is".
Seriously. She's my new hero. I had no idea who was "behind" the success of Mozilla and its offspring, or that any one individual really was. But I think that Firefox, Thunderbird, Mozilla and the rest are keys to the survival of the web as a useful tool, and it's great to put a name and face with the success.
With a dozen more like her, the net would be a much better place.
The VAX/VMS Orange books used to fill an entire bookcase.
Now *those* were manuals.
Danged useful, too.
Still the standard, in my book.
As much as I love *nix, it still falls way short
of VMS in a couple of areas, and one is good documentation.
Besides money being tighter, maybe people are waiting to see if they get music ***for Christmas***.
What moron came up with this article? Clearly they were either desperate for a story, or too ignorant to realize the story they got wasn't the real story ata ll.
I forgot to pay the magnetic bill.
Those cases have nothing to do with this one, do they? Did you even read the article, or do you just like bashing the Catholic Church? (I am not now, have never been, never expect to be, a member of the Catholic Church.)
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The question is whether his behavior was merely rude, or harassing and unprofessional, and if so, was it enough to result in the punishment he got?
Nobody here is trying to silence anyone-- either the student or people making utterly absurd comparisons on
If you can't tell the difference, perhaps you ought to get counseling.