I've been using Linux on a ThinkPad for some time now. If it stops being compatible, my next laptop won't be a ThinkPad.
Just because IBM stop supporting it doesn't mean compatibility halts right there. I've been using FreeBSD on my Thinkpad for 2 years, where was the IBM support for FreeBSD?
Sadly these type of users are still in the majority.
very true. if Microsoft wish to market a product that is supposedly easy to use and administer, it is not the user's fault for not being told to patch and upgrade constantly.
i'd be the last person to stand up for Microsoft, but a lot of the problem is in the fact that novice users are fooled into thinking they can sysadmin without experience and training, and NOT because the software is deficient. almost any other OS you'd care to mention is vulnerable out of the box, but they are usually aimed at people who know what they are doing and patch them accordingly.
Microsoft design and market their server OSs in a way that makes it look like any fool off the street can administer them, and in my experience that is usually the case.
Mammoet's site on the salvage which has some nice simulations and technical details of the lifting mechanisms. also slightly OT but interesting none the less is information on the building of Mammoet's new office (flash), a 10 storey steel and concrete building that will be built off site, and transported lock stock to it's final resting place by canal. these guys don't do things by half measures!
I've lived in britain for the last 20 years, watching with more than a little concern as these things have been introduced.
The British government's (Jack Straw) rational behind installing so many cameras (and believe me they really are everywhere) is to reduce the cost of policing. This is all too visible by the complete lack of the 'bobby on the beat' that used to be so much a part of the landscape. The irony of course is that this aproach is doing nothing to reduce the cime figures.
Apart from the civil liberty infringements (a whole topic in itself), nobody can argue that they are in any way effective at crime prevention. Instead what you have is a way of POSSIBLY finding and punishing criminals AFTER the event, thus filling already crammed prisons even more yet still not doing very much to PREVENT the crime happening in the first place.
If I'm walking down a street at night and I see some threatening guys coming towards me, I would be much happier knowing that there was a policeman nearby than a camera to watch me being mugged.
Police state? I can't remember the last time I saw a policeman. Attack the problem at its core, don't try and paper over the cracks.
orlando...
Re:whether or not you like this, its what Linux ne
on
KBasic
·
· Score: 1
On the flip side however, such a language inevitably means the world and his dog suddenly being able to write apps easily, which in turn means a dirth of poorly designed, badly written software. Just look at 90% of apps written using VB, or 90% of the people writing VB applications.
To me this is one of the big differences between UNIX and Windows, the learning curve for UNIX is steep enough to both deter people who would never be good at it anyway, and instil a sense of 'technical maturity' and commitment to those who persevere. Sure it will take twice as long to get to the same level, but that person will be four times as useful to you at the end of it.
I recently got forced into this myself. Having spent the last 10 years emersed in as much tech as I could get my hands on and loving it, changes in the company mean I now spend about 95% of my time in meetings, answering email and generally making decisions I feel unqualified to make. And I don't like it one bit. I've come to realise that it requires a completely different mentality, with different motivations and to a large extent a different language that I struggle to understand.
My solution? In the short term I'll change jobs. I am still young enough to be able to get the sort of dirt under the fingernails position I want, and I'm lucky to know there is plenty of such work out there. In the long term I know I'm going to find it harder and harder to do this. I have yet to figure out what I'll be doing in 10-15 years time, maybe technical writing, maybe start my own business, maybe get out of the industry completely... Kelp farming has always struck me as a nice line, the fresh air, be your own boss, as much kelp as you can handle, bliss...
Slashdot Mirror
I've been using Linux on a ThinkPad for some time now. If it stops being compatible, my next laptop won't be a ThinkPad.
Just because IBM stop supporting it doesn't mean compatibility halts right there. I've been using FreeBSD on my Thinkpad for 2 years, where was the IBM support for FreeBSD?
Sadly these type of users are still in the majority.
very true. if Microsoft wish to market a product that is supposedly easy to use and administer, it is not the user's fault for not being told to patch and upgrade constantly.
i'd be the last person to stand up for Microsoft, but a lot of the problem is in the fact that novice users are fooled into thinking they can sysadmin without experience and training, and NOT because the software is deficient. almost any other OS you'd care to mention is vulnerable out of the box, but they are usually aimed at people who know what they are doing and patch them accordingly.
Microsoft design and market their server OSs in a way that makes it look like any fool off the street can administer them, and in my experience that is usually the case.
"innovation" and "game industry"
if you didn't pay upfront you would pay in taxes, what's the difference?
orlando...
Mammoet's site on the salvage which has some nice simulations and technical details of the lifting mechanisms. also slightly OT but interesting none the less is information on the building of Mammoet's new office (flash), a 10 storey steel and concrete building that will be built off site, and transported lock stock to it's final resting place by canal. these guys don't do things by half measures!
maybe this deserves a whole topic of its own?
orlando...
I wonder if you could fit a whole linux distro into a virus? Solve the root of the problem.
orlando.
Ah, so THAT's what Mutley's been saying all this time.
I've lived in britain for the last 20 years, watching with more than a little concern as these things have been introduced.
The British government's (Jack Straw) rational behind installing so many cameras (and believe me they really are everywhere) is to reduce the cost of policing. This is all too visible by the complete lack of the 'bobby on the beat' that used to be so much a part of the landscape. The irony of course is that this aproach is doing nothing to reduce the cime figures.
Apart from the civil liberty infringements (a whole topic in itself), nobody can argue that they are in any way effective at crime prevention. Instead what you have is a way of POSSIBLY finding and punishing criminals AFTER the event, thus filling already crammed prisons even more yet still not doing very much to PREVENT the crime happening in the first place.
If I'm walking down a street at night and I see some threatening guys coming towards me, I would be much happier knowing that there was a policeman nearby than a camera to watch me being mugged.
Police state? I can't remember the last time I saw a policeman. Attack the problem at its core, don't try and paper over the cracks.
orlando...
On the flip side however, such a language inevitably means the world and his dog suddenly being able to write apps easily, which in turn means a dirth of poorly designed, badly written software. Just look at 90% of apps written using VB, or 90% of the people writing VB applications.
To me this is one of the big differences between UNIX and Windows, the learning curve for UNIX is steep enough to both deter people who would never be good at it anyway, and instil a sense of 'technical maturity' and commitment to those who persevere. Sure it will take twice as long to get to the same level, but that person will be four times as useful to you at the end of it.
orlando...
I recently got forced into this myself. Having spent the last 10 years emersed in as much tech as I could get my hands on and loving it, changes in the company mean I now spend about 95% of my time in meetings, answering email and generally making decisions I feel unqualified to make. And I don't like it one bit. I've come to realise that it requires a completely different mentality, with different motivations and to a large extent a different language that I struggle to understand.
My solution? In the short term I'll change jobs. I am still young enough to be able to get the sort of dirt under the fingernails position I want, and I'm lucky to know there is plenty of such work out there. In the long term I know I'm going to find it harder and harder to do this. I have yet to figure out what I'll be doing in 10-15 years time, maybe technical writing, maybe start my own business, maybe get out of the industry completely... Kelp farming has always struck me as a nice line, the fresh air, be your own boss, as much kelp as you can handle, bliss...
orlando...
Could you not write such info to a serial port, which is in turn monitored by a second machine?
orlando....
After Akira this is probably my favourite.
orlando...
1) Phone the police and tell them that there is a bunch of students dressed as workmen digging up the road at such and such location.
:)
2) Go to the (real) workmen and tell them that there will be a bunch of students dressed as policemen coming in a short while to give them hassle.
3) Retreat to a safe distance and watch the ensuing mayhem.
heh heh
orlando...
"Apparently if you play the Windows NT CD backwards you hear satanic messages"
"You think that's bad, if you play it forwards it installs Windows NT!"
orlando...
Do I need a wacky adapter for my laptop? No, we use the same wacky here in the UK, arf arf. orlando..
Would you blame someone like Remington or Smith & Wesson for the people who were killed by their products?
orlando...
Actually 3DFX support is planned for R4.1. See http://www.benews.com
..so, what did you build?
alex..