..The brookyln bridge is not for sale, the beans aren't magical, if anyone had a method to beccome rich over night they wouldn't have to sell it for $50.. And last, but not least, there are absolutely no hot naked sluts waiting for your email.
In my GF's school they have 802.11b in the common areas/lounges/study rooms of buildings but not in the classrooms. I wonder how they do this.. Is it just judicious placement of access points, or is there some sort of shielding you can put in the walls to block the signal out of the classrooms?
Anyone know any popular brands of x86 laptops that had small screens (say 10" or so) which might be on ebay cheap these days? I'd love to build one of these things, but I don't want to bother with appletalk, etc.
I'm sure everyone can figure this our for themselves, but it's misterhouse.net.
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When perl5 came along it had tons of new features and a good 90% of programmers probably never used them because they are lazy, and you could still run perl4 code through the perl5 interpreter.
Now perl6 is coming along and going to be an even larger shift from perl5 than 5 was from 4. Compatability is still being preserved. Do you think this hurts the adoption of the new features, and does worrying about compatability hurt the ability to change things that should be changed? In a nutshell do you think the time will come soon when it makes sense just to throw out perl and design something totally new using the ideas from, but not the actual old implementations of, the elements of perl4/5/6?
You are screwed dude, there is no way around it.. Yes its sucks and is a waste of money and might be financing bad people, but this is a battle I assure you you will never win. Suck it up.
This is the classical two wrongs make a right argument. Don't save some creatures because you can't save all of them? Ridiculous.. If we lived by this nobody would ever do anything to help anyone, the environment, anything, because they can't solve all the world's problems.
First Altavista creates babelfish.. Now the code into music that is pivotal to Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective agency is a reality. Douglas Adams, may he rest in peace, would be proud.
Yes and no.. Its not as simple as maybe people want linux instead of freebsd. The reason to buy apple's hardware (which is PPC pased, and more expensive) instead of 'standard' 'cheap' x86 hardware, in my book, is for OS X and assorted apps that are only available for, or run better on, macs. If you just want a pc running linux, I think x86 hardware makes much more sense and is a much better value.
You actually have people doing SQL queries for reports? Rather than views, I would suggest a quick webpage that runs hardcoded queries for the types of reports you want these people to able to run. I would never give anyone real access to the DB if you don't want them to have access to all the data.
I don't know which is worse..
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An MS owned news site reporting a silly story about linux, or a VA Linux owned news site posting a silly story about how silly the other news story is.
Why don't Taco and Gates just step outside and settle this like men?
I recently moved and disconected my RCN cable+cable modem.. I had to get transfered to about 4 different people over the course of 20 minutes until I got to the seemingly single person in the corparation who could close an account. The process was pretty quick and easy once I got to the right person, but the customer service drones I spoke to along the way acted as if I was the only person EVER to cancel and they had no idea what it involved. The part that really got me was that a day or two after I canceled I got a call from someone in the 'customer retention department' who wanted to discuss my reasons for cancelling. Give me a break.
This is nice but it seems crazy to me to have to buy a $250 board (assuming I use PCs that still have ISA slots, otherwise $350) to get what should be such basic functionality.
A CD is fine for a few machines, doesn't scale out nicely to installing a 500 machine compute farm. Its also a pain when you want to make a change to your installation process (or add a new package or whatever) and need to cut a new mass of CDs. You could probably get around this by makinge the cd just the boot media. There is also the perception, which dumb or not does factor in to acceptance.. telling people they need to go stick a CD in the machine to install it will seem like a step back. Most of the SAs here probably haven't had to do that for 5 years easy. Makes something that is already hard to sell harder.
The current wintel solution is a boot floppy, the wintel guys are used to this, but the unix guys would find it pretty unacceptable. A PXE solution is being explored for XP, and I'm going to look into using PXE for linux, but PXE isn't as nice as say bootparams. Like you highlight, the network install part isn't actually all that difficult, its the nework boot piece where linux (due to HW limitations) seems to lag far behind.
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..Scott McNealy is updating his resume.
I love SUN and Solaris, but this is yet more really bad news for them..
..The brookyln bridge is not for sale, the beans aren't magical, if anyone had a method to beccome rich over night they wouldn't have to sell it for $50.. And last, but not least, there are absolutely no hot naked sluts waiting for your email.
In my GF's school they have 802.11b in the common areas/lounges/study rooms of buildings but not in the classrooms. I wonder how they do this.. Is it just judicious placement of access points, or is there some sort of shielding you can put in the walls to block the signal out of the classrooms?
Anyone know any popular brands of x86 laptops that had small screens (say 10" or so) which might be on ebay cheap these days? I'd love to build one of these things, but I don't want to bother with appletalk, etc.
I'm not much of a gamer. I didn't know what UT 2003 was and I'm sure I'm not the only one. Is it so hard to spell out the entire headline of a story?
Actually if you read the article they are launching from Kazakhstan.
I'm sure everyone can figure this our for themselves, but it's misterhouse.net.
When perl5 came along it had tons of new features and a good 90% of programmers probably never used them because they are lazy, and you could still run perl4 code through the perl5 interpreter.
Now perl6 is coming along and going to be an even larger shift from perl5 than 5 was from 4. Compatability is still being preserved. Do you think this hurts the adoption of the new features, and does worrying about compatability hurt the ability to change things that should be changed? In a nutshell do you think the time will come soon when it makes sense just to throw out perl and design something totally new using the ideas from, but not the actual old implementations of, the elements of perl4/5/6?
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You are screwed dude, there is no way around it.. Yes its sucks and is a waste of money and might be financing bad people, but this is a battle I assure you you will never win. Suck it up.
This is the classical two wrongs make a right argument. Don't save some creatures because you can't save all of them? Ridiculous.. If we lived by this nobody would ever do anything to help anyone, the environment, anything, because they can't solve all the world's problems.
No way, its physically impossible to get a sofa stuck in a stairwell.
First Altavista creates babelfish.. Now the code into music that is pivotal to Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective agency is a reality. Douglas Adams, may he rest in peace, would be proud.
Yes and no.. Its not as simple as maybe people want linux instead of freebsd. The reason to buy apple's hardware (which is PPC pased, and more expensive) instead of 'standard' 'cheap' x86 hardware, in my book, is for OS X and assorted apps that are only available for, or run better on, macs. If you just want a pc running linux, I think x86 hardware makes much more sense and is a much better value.
You actually have people doing SQL queries for reports? Rather than views, I would suggest a quick webpage that runs hardcoded queries for the types of reports you want these people to able to run. I would never give anyone real access to the DB if you don't want them to have access to all the data.
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An MS owned news site reporting a silly story about linux, or a VA Linux owned news site posting a silly story about how silly the other news story is.
Why don't Taco and Gates just step outside and settle this like men?
I recently moved and disconected my RCN cable+cable modem.. I had to get transfered to about 4 different people over the course of 20 minutes until I got to the seemingly single person in the corparation who could close an account. The process was pretty quick and easy once I got to the right person, but the customer service drones I spoke to along the way acted as if I was the only person EVER to cancel and they had no idea what it involved. The part that really got me was that a day or two after I canceled I got a call from someone in the 'customer retention department' who wanted to discuss my reasons for cancelling. Give me a break.
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This is nice but it seems crazy to me to have to buy a $250 board (assuming I use PCs that still have ISA slots, otherwise $350) to get what should be such basic functionality.
A CD is fine for a few machines, doesn't scale out nicely to installing a 500 machine compute farm. Its also a pain when you want to make a change to your installation process (or add a new package or whatever) and need to cut a new mass of CDs. You could probably get around this by makinge the cd just the boot media. There is also the perception, which dumb or not does factor in to acceptance.. telling people they need to go stick a CD in the machine to install it will seem like a step back. Most of the SAs here probably haven't had to do that for 5 years easy. Makes something that is already hard to sell harder.
The current wintel solution is a boot floppy, the wintel guys are used to this, but the unix guys would find it pretty unacceptable. A PXE solution is being explored for XP, and I'm going to look into using PXE for linux, but PXE isn't as nice as say bootparams. Like you highlight, the network install part isn't actually all that difficult, its the nework boot piece where linux (due to HW limitations) seems to lag far behind.
Its hard enough to tell which of the stories on /. are serious on a regular day.. enough already.
To quote one of my all time favorite SNL skits.. STOP! AUDIENCE GET IT!
Servers or desktops? If you mean servers I'll believe it when I see it.