A new study shows that using Google will destroy the planet. A typical Google search on a completely random topic such as "charlot chirch sex tape" produces enough carbon for 98 pencils or seventeen boiled kettles and brutally murders an average of two point four cute fluffy things.
"A Google search has a definite environmental impact," said Alex Wissner-Gross of Harvard University. "Instead, you should use Windows Live Search - to be renamed Windows Love Search - which produces butterflies and baby seals. That's instead of whatever you were looking for, but hey - it's for the planet."
Google is "secretive" about its energy consumption and carbon footprint. "Or at least, they told us to 'fuck off' when we asked how many endangered species they'd killed off today. This proves their inherent malice. If you search using Google you may as well be strangling kittens. You should go to a trustworthy company of demonstrated moral fibre, like Microsoft."
A recent Gartner report said the global IT industry generates as much greenhouse gas as the airlines industry. "Primary in this is the large quantities of hot air produced by completely independent analysts to support the views of the highest bidder."
The Home Office welcomed the findings. "This proves that Internet users might as well be terrorists," said Jacqui Smith, "and so we'll treat them like they are. All Internet access in the UK will be run through Cleanfeed filters and your electronic ration book ticked off per web page used. Reading Wikipedia or the Guido Fawkes blog will, of course, be declared capital offences."
Microsoft has demonstrated its environmental credentials by recycling Vista, its huge and lumbering Hummer of an operating system, as Windows 7. "All new and yet... old," said marketing marketer Steve Ballmer. "Save the planet with Windows 7! (Requires4coreprocessor2gigabytesmemory500gigabyteharddiskandbasement nuclearpowerplant. Powerplantsoldseparately.)"
This. We were in this situation (see my comment below) - I would dearly have loved to have ripped out the Netscape Server and put Apache in for my own sanity, but sanity points are apparently useless to sysadmins.
I was surprised by Sun's x86 servers - they're well-built, decently specced for the price and Sun's service is pretty good (I'm in London).
Mind you, the X2200 and X4600 default firmware is shit and bad. They sent out firmware (iLOM and BIOS) so buggy it literally doesn't work - one of our X4600s was DOA, refusing to boot, just from buggy firmware. The Sun engineer was quite disparaging in his characterisation of it. The first thing you do with one of these boxes is put the current, i.e. functional, firmware on it.
I had to administer this vile and festering piece of shit a few years ago. We had an installation put together by contractors, who'd just used Sun everything - an in-house application server written in Java, running on E250s and Netra T1s running Solaris 7... and using Netscape Server 4.0 for the web server.
Then we had to upgrade the four web servers to Solaris 9 - which mostly worked flawlessly, except one machine was completely trashed and needed rebuilding from scratch - and Netscape Server 4.0 to Sun ONE 6.1. There were serious vulnerabilities in 4.0, and 6.1 wouldn't run on Solaris 7.
This process involved two upgrades. You can't go from 4.0 to 6.1 - you have to either do 4.0->4.1->6.1 or 4.0->6.0->6.1. The second was a nightmare, the first was worse (and the SSL cert got trashed somehow, which required dealing on the phone with Verisign. Fuuuuuck).
I wish the open-sores version of Netscape Enterprise Server all the success of the open-sourced AOL Web Server. I have a deep reservoir of fear, loathing and hatred for Apache, but it's heavenly compared to the festering and vile Netscape piece of shit.
Apple chief executive Steve Jobs, 53, announced Monday he was being treated for a "hormone imbalance" but would remain head of the company.
"I found myself unable to give the Macworld keynote," said Jobs, "but my truly spectacular rack will be well worth the hormonal rages. It's like six months of PMS, though my engineers will tell you thereâ(TM)s hardly a difference."
The keynote, presented by Pamela Anderson and Jenna Jameson, introduced the new iKini and iFront lingerie range, in signature translucent white, with eight gigabytes of music storage and 3G phone connectivity. "Left one for signal strength, right one for network."
Jobs noted that his decision not to give the Macworld keynote had set off a "flurry of rumors about my health, with some even publishing stories of me on my deathbed." To restore investor confidence, he has been fitted with a full set of cybernetic implants providing full live data on his bodily functions, broadcast in sideband data on the Disney Channel and downloadable daily on iTunes.
Bill Gates pooh-poohed the iFront range, offering his new Zunewear "Carrot" Macho Dude-Pants, which would make you look better "every day of the year" (except December 31st) and "show off your Ballmers like never before. DEVELOPERS! DEVELOPERS! DEVELOPERS! DEVELOPERS! I'M A PEE-CEEEE!"
The reactionary forces of the twentieth-century United States finally conceded defeat and shut down the Five-Year Plan Tractor Plants of Detroit, where ridiculous oversized transport was bashed together by semi-literate peasants between fifths of vodka from the nerve gas factory next door, and the Five-Year Plan Software Plants of Redmond, where ridiculous oversized operating systems were bashed together by semi-numerate fresh graduates between fifths of Red Bull.
Hiring in most Microsoft divisions has frozen in the last six months and 30GB Zunes are already on suicide watch. "The workload's impossible to keep up with," said blog technical evangelist Gary M. Stewart. "I've even been answering Slashdot comments on Boycott Novell or Groklaw. It's impossible to keep track of! Anyway, you're just another Twitter sockpuppet. Or Mini-Microsoft. Admit it."
A new study shows that using Google will destroy the planet. A typical Google search on a completely random topic such as "charlot chirch sex tape" produces enough carbon for 98 pencils or seventeen boiled kettles and brutally murders an average of two point four cute fluffy things.
"A Google search has a definite environmental impact," said Alex Wissner-Gross of Harvard University. "Instead, you should use Windows Live Search — to be renamed Windows Love Search — which produces butterflies and baby seals. That's instead of whatever you were looking for, but hey — it's for the planet."
Google is "secretive" about its energy consumption and carbon footprint. "Or at least, they told us to fuck off when we asked how many endangered species they'd killed off today. This proves their inherent malice. If you search using Google you may as well be strangling kittens. You should go to a trustworthy company of demonstrated moral fibre, like Microsoft."
A recent Gartner report said the global IT industry generates as much greenhouse gas as the airlines industry. "Primary in this is the large quantities of hot air produced by completely independent analysts to support the views of the highest bidder."
The Home Office welcomed the findings. "This proves that Internet users might as well be terrorists," said Jacqui Smith, "and so we'll treat them like they are. All Internet access in the UK will be run through Cleanfeed filters and your electronic ration book ticked off per web page used. Reading Wikipedia or the Guido Fawkes blog will, of course, be declared capital offences."
Microsoft has demonstrated its environmental credentials by recycling Vista, its huge and lumbering Hummer of an operating system, as Windows 7. "All new and yet... old," said marketing marketer Steve Ballmer. "Save the planet with Windows 7! Requires 4 core processor 2 gigabytes memory 500 gigabyte hard disk and basement nuclear power plant. Power plant sold separately."
I'm downloading the beta right now. I want to see if I can compile Wine under Cygwin or Mingw on it, after all...
Hey, perhaps Bill will get the bailout he asked for so American businesses can afford to buy it.
Bill: "It's all because people aren't confident to spend their money. In fact, they didn't start buying Vista in 2007 because they were expecting this even then. A subsidy to buy good, honest American computer operating systems is essential to the health of the economy, or my part of it anyway."
I foolishly touched Clearcase at work in 2001 and left it on my CV until 2004. I still get calls from pimps desperate for a Clearcase admin to work in deepest suburban Berkshire for GBP30k. (I'm currently a sysadmin in London on GBP40k.) It's one of those cursed words on a resume - if it's ever on your resume, it'll taint it forever and those are the only calls you'll get.
The trouble with Linux hardware support is that an incredible range of stuff Just Works... but if it doesn't Just Work, you're basically buggered.
This is incrementally improving, but it'll take hardware makers treating Linux as a first-class platform they can't get away with not supporting. Like server makers - no-one would be insane enough to make an x86 server that doesn't support Linux immaculately.
I suggest you keep using the platform that serves your purpose - the right answer to "which OS should I use?" is always "what's it for?"
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A new study shows that using Google will destroy the planet. A typical Google search on a completely random topic such as "charlot chirch sex tape" produces enough carbon for 98 pencils or seventeen boiled kettles and brutally murders an average of two point four cute fluffy things.
"A Google search has a definite environmental impact," said Alex Wissner-Gross of Harvard University. "Instead, you should use Windows Live Search - to be renamed Windows Love Search - which produces butterflies and baby seals. That's instead of whatever you were looking for, but hey - it's for the planet."
Google is "secretive" about its energy consumption and carbon footprint. "Or at least, they told us to 'fuck off' when we asked how many endangered species they'd killed off today. This proves their inherent malice. If you search using Google you may as well be strangling kittens. You should go to a trustworthy company of demonstrated moral fibre, like Microsoft."
A recent Gartner report said the global IT industry generates as much greenhouse gas as the airlines industry. "Primary in this is the large quantities of hot air produced by completely independent analysts to support the views of the highest bidder."
The Home Office welcomed the findings. "This proves that Internet users might as well be terrorists," said Jacqui Smith, "and so we'll treat them like they are. All Internet access in the UK will be run through Cleanfeed filters and your electronic ration book ticked off per web page used. Reading Wikipedia or the Guido Fawkes blog will, of course, be declared capital offences."
Microsoft has demonstrated its environmental credentials by recycling Vista, its huge and lumbering Hummer of an operating system, as Windows 7. "All new and yet ... old," said marketing marketer Steve Ballmer. "Save the planet with Windows 7! (Requires4coreprocessor2gigabytesmemory500gigabyteharddiskandbasement nuclearpowerplant. Powerplantsoldseparately.)"
Open sourcing Java is well worth it. IcedTea will be packaged in Ubuntu as soon as they work out what to leave off the CD to allow it to fit ...
This. We were in this situation (see my comment below) - I would dearly have loved to have ripped out the Netscape Server and put Apache in for my own sanity, but sanity points are apparently useless to sysadmins.
I was surprised by Sun's x86 servers - they're well-built, decently specced for the price and Sun's service is pretty good (I'm in London).
Mind you, the X2200 and X4600 default firmware is shit and bad. They sent out firmware (iLOM and BIOS) so buggy it literally doesn't work - one of our X4600s was DOA, refusing to boot, just from buggy firmware. The Sun engineer was quite disparaging in his characterisation of it. The first thing you do with one of these boxes is put the current, i.e. functional, firmware on it.
I had to administer this vile and festering piece of shit a few years ago. We had an installation put together by contractors, who'd just used Sun everything - an in-house application server written in Java, running on E250s and Netra T1s running Solaris 7 ... and using Netscape Server 4.0 for the web server.
Then we had to upgrade the four web servers to Solaris 9 - which mostly worked flawlessly, except one machine was completely trashed and needed rebuilding from scratch - and Netscape Server 4.0 to Sun ONE 6.1. There were serious vulnerabilities in 4.0, and 6.1 wouldn't run on Solaris 7.
This process involved two upgrades. You can't go from 4.0 to 6.1 - you have to either do 4.0->4.1->6.1 or 4.0->6.0->6.1. The second was a nightmare, the first was worse (and the SSL cert got trashed somehow, which required dealing on the phone with Verisign. Fuuuuuck).
I wish the open-sores version of Netscape Enterprise Server all the success of the open-sourced AOL Web Server. I have a deep reservoir of fear, loathing and hatred for Apache, but it's heavenly compared to the festering and vile Netscape piece of shit.
Apple chief executive Steve Jobs, 53, announced Monday he was being treated for a "hormone imbalance" but would remain head of the company.
"I found myself unable to give the Macworld keynote," said Jobs, "but my truly spectacular rack will be well worth the hormonal rages. It's like six months of PMS, though my engineers will tell you thereâ(TM)s hardly a difference."
The keynote, presented by Pamela Anderson and Jenna Jameson, introduced the new iKini and iFront lingerie range, in signature translucent white, with eight gigabytes of music storage and 3G phone connectivity. "Left one for signal strength, right one for network."
Jobs noted that his decision not to give the Macworld keynote had set off a "flurry of rumors about my health, with some even publishing stories of me on my deathbed." To restore investor confidence, he has been fitted with a full set of cybernetic implants providing full live data on his bodily functions, broadcast in sideband data on the Disney Channel and downloadable daily on iTunes.
Bill Gates pooh-poohed the iFront range, offering his new Zunewear "Carrot" Macho Dude-Pants, which would make you look better "every day of the year" (except December 31st) and "show off your Ballmers like never before. DEVELOPERS! DEVELOPERS! DEVELOPERS! DEVELOPERS! I'M A PEE-CEEEE!"
That's the Scientology personality test.
Great programmers are famously a hundred (not exaggerated) times as productive as mediocre ones.
The reactionary forces of the twentieth-century United States finally conceded defeat and shut down the Five-Year Plan Tractor Plants of Detroit, where ridiculous oversized transport was bashed together by semi-literate peasants between fifths of vodka from the nerve gas factory next door, and the Five-Year Plan Software Plants of Redmond, where ridiculous oversized operating systems were bashed together by semi-numerate fresh graduates between fifths of Red Bull.
Hiring in most Microsoft divisions has frozen in the last six months and 30GB Zunes are already on suicide watch. "The workload's impossible to keep up with," said blog technical evangelist Gary M. Stewart. "I've even been answering Slashdot comments on Boycott Novell or Groklaw. It's impossible to keep track of! Anyway, you're just another Twitter sockpuppet. Or Mini-Microsoft. Admit it."
And CVS is way more robust than Windows 95.
Perhaps I should have made it about cars ;-p
Who can forget the image of the Google "g" atop the tower in the destruction of Isengard?
A new study shows that using Google will destroy the planet. A typical Google search on a completely random topic such as "charlot chirch sex tape" produces enough carbon for 98 pencils or seventeen boiled kettles and brutally murders an average of two point four cute fluffy things.
"A Google search has a definite environmental impact," said Alex Wissner-Gross of Harvard University. "Instead, you should use Windows Live Search — to be renamed Windows Love Search — which produces butterflies and baby seals. That's instead of whatever you were looking for, but hey — it's for the planet."
Google is "secretive" about its energy consumption and carbon footprint. "Or at least, they told us to fuck off when we asked how many endangered species they'd killed off today. This proves their inherent malice. If you search using Google you may as well be strangling kittens. You should go to a trustworthy company of demonstrated moral fibre, like Microsoft."
A recent Gartner report said the global IT industry generates as much greenhouse gas as the airlines industry. "Primary in this is the large quantities of hot air produced by completely independent analysts to support the views of the highest bidder."
The Home Office welcomed the findings. "This proves that Internet users might as well be terrorists," said Jacqui Smith, "and so we'll treat them like they are. All Internet access in the UK will be run through Cleanfeed filters and your electronic ration book ticked off per web page used. Reading Wikipedia or the Guido Fawkes blog will, of course, be declared capital offences."
Microsoft has demonstrated its environmental credentials by recycling Vista, its huge and lumbering Hummer of an operating system, as Windows 7. "All new and yet ... old," said marketing marketer Steve Ballmer. "Save the planet with Windows 7! Requires 4 core processor 2 gigabytes memory 500 gigabyte hard disk and basement nuclear power plant. Power plant sold separately."
This is why it was nice to see that TiO2 works as well.
I was surprised that Parallels actually uses Wine's Direct3D implementation on the Mac to provide D3D to Windows installations.
Wine has gone from "dancing bear" to actually working, and surprising me when it doesn't.
USB 3 loses then - it increases the current, but drops the voltage to four volts!
Robot bar tenders are the first thing any decent roboticist thinks of.
Here are:
* the Robomoji, a mojito maker
* a cocktail robot from the 2007 Maker Faire
* this one complete with face from Roboexotica 2007.
And here's the original recipe for a Mojito.
We're working on a solution!
Wine is already a better "Windows" than Vista. I can't see Windows 7 being more backwards-compatible.
MOD PARENT UP!
I'm downloading the beta right now. I want to see if I can compile Wine under Cygwin or Mingw on it, after all ...
Hey, perhaps Bill will get the bailout he asked for so American businesses can afford to buy it.
Bill: "It's all because people aren't confident to spend their money. In fact, they didn't start buying Vista in 2007 because they were expecting this even then. A subsidy to buy good, honest American computer operating systems is essential to the health of the economy, or my part of it anyway."
This means my USB Christmas tree would flash ten times as fast!
Not to mention my USB chicken foot or USB mouse with a real scorpion in ...
Even Microsoft don't use Visual Source Sink for their own code. (They use Perforce by preference.)
Because, being free software, people can actually use the damn thing.
Think of it like this:
RCS = DOS.
CVS=Windows 95.
Subversion=Windows 2000.
DVCS = Unix varieties.
Now, which is the right system to run a web server on?
I foolishly touched Clearcase at work in 2001 and left it on my CV until 2004. I still get calls from pimps desperate for a Clearcase admin to work in deepest suburban Berkshire for GBP30k. (I'm currently a sysadmin in London on GBP40k.) It's one of those cursed words on a resume - if it's ever on your resume, it'll taint it forever and those are the only calls you'll get.
The trouble with Linux hardware support is that an incredible range of stuff Just Works ... but if it doesn't Just Work, you're basically buggered.
This is incrementally improving, but it'll take hardware makers treating Linux as a first-class platform they can't get away with not supporting. Like server makers - no-one would be insane enough to make an x86 server that doesn't support Linux immaculately.
I suggest you keep using the platform that serves your purpose - the right answer to "which OS should I use?" is always "what's it for?"