Who are they to say what two American companies can do?
This is rich coming from a resident (I'll assume) of a country that tries to legislate its way of doing things the world over. The imperialist behaviour of the US will come back to haunt it in the decades to come. The military-industrial complex will fail, it's only a matter of time. And the euros and asians will have a big say in it.
Hopefully we'll all be dead before the shit hits the fan, or not.
I use tarballs for more complex installs or for code that is in a development cycle and reqires constant upgrades, eg., pache/php/postgres/mod_ssl and samba. I use rpm's for most of the standard stuff. Sometimes I have to remove an rpm to fix a known exploit for a given package, but that's trivial,
rpm -e package-name
Upgrading packages is painless (compare patching Microsoft Office 97, two huge self-installing executables, one of which requires a goddamn 20 digit serial number, don't get me fucking started !#%@^ing Bill Gates...) just,
rpm -Uvh netscape-common netscape-communicator
for example. This takes about 30 seconds to one minute. I can patch a fresh RedHat system in less than 30 minutes. Compare that to 3 hours for Windoze fucking 2000 with it's endless series of patches that can only be installed one at a time and require a reboot after each !$%@$^ patch.
Unfortunately, for humanity's sake, you're completely wrong on this point. Cell phones are no different than any other consumer replaceable. Lusers will continue to upgrade as new features are added. Convergence anyone?
If the bug fires up the phone line to your ISP, it's using phone charges (and possibly ISP charges) without your permission.
Don't laugh...
I'm going to sue Microsoft from the cost, 97 - hey there's no cents symbol on my keyboard, when did that happen - cents, of dialing up my ISP and contacting the owner of that document I opened. And to make matters worse, I did it 370,000 times so it adds up.
Bill, make out a cheque for $500,000 US and we'll call it even.
I agree that allowing ftp in this situation would be a cause for concern but a well managed ssh setup with appropriate filesystem permissions would be feasible. Although he would be better off hosting a separate secure server for SSL.
saved up enough cash for a nice tvr sports car
i'll be way past the age i need to be to pick up chicks
I hope for your sake that this won't be true. What may be true is that you would be too scared to drive the car the way it's designed to be driven.
Old fucks like myself are supposed to be buying sports cars, but here I am still riding my damn bike into work every day. This is not a good way to pick up chicks.
Try installing a Win98se "update" on top of Win95 and then let me know how "easy" Windoze is to install. I know very few people who can successfully install Windoze without help. Your assertion is nonsense.
If 45% of the ice has melted then one can fairly safely assume that it must have been ice that was below sea level. Otherwise we would have seen are fairly substantial rise in sea level (when ice melts its volume decreases).
Most damage from rising waters seem to take place inland, rather than on the right or left coasts of North America and you can be sure to find many properties in areas that are susceptible to flooding. This conjecture could be complete and utter bullshit so feel to correct me, as if no one wouldn't.
Last season was the death knell for the Simpsons. The show has descended to a form of humour lower than slapstick; it's become just plain mean. I suspect that the same team is also responsible for the horrifying Futurama.
I don't think I sat through one episode of the Simpsons last season. Time to call it a day. Either that, or have the writers shot.
I've said it before and I'll say it again, British Columbians are the borg. Joy McPhail? Nutbar. The minister responsible for BC Ferries? Come on, how hard can that be? Sheesh. Everyone I know who has gone out there for any length of time become assimilated. They are the borg. If you know what's good for you you'll stay away. You won't listen though. Think about it, BC is really close to Washington and thus Redmond. Ooooh scarrrry!
Oh shut up. There's good beer everywhere in the US and Canada these days. Granted most people still drink the shite but it's getting better. The bar where I spend entirely too much of my weekly paycheck has Guinness, Becks, Bass on tap along with 5 or 6 local micros. The best of the lot, by far, is St-Amboise. An incredible hoppy pale ale.
Mexican beer is possibly worse than American beer. Especially those creepy clear glass bottles. Beer is put into brown bottles for a reason. To reiterate, Sleemans, Corona,... all piss.
I agree with you 100%. From down river here in Montreal Cowpland looks and acts like an idiot. And, being an idiot myself, I know from where I speak. Hopefully he'll leave the country and I'll never have to see his butt ugly wife in the papers again either. Feh!
Perhaps, but it's their code, and if they don't want to share it that's their perogative, no?
Open source is a great concept - that still remains to be proven - but those who do not subscribe to its tenets should not be castigated because of their decision. Besides, one thing OSS has proven is that nothing is impossible.
It won't, in the short term. It's the long term that matters. The limits of the 8088 systems begat the 286, then 386, 486, [56]86,... Technology catches up to the limits, or has in the past couple decades. Mind you, a 64bit integer is a huge limit
(0-18,446,744,073,709,551,615 - 18.5 quintillion).
I wonder if we will ever need that 128bit processor in our lifetimes?
Er, offtopic? How the hell is anything in a slashback offtopic? The guy was telnetting into a linux box while wandering around some mountains (shouldn't you be using ssh?) Waldoj doesn't say whether beer was consumed. Pretty damn close to the Linuxbierwanderung, no?
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This is rich coming from a resident (I'll assume) of a country that tries to legislate its way of doing things the world over. The imperialist behaviour of the US will come back to haunt it in the decades to come. The military-industrial complex will fail, it's only a matter of time. And the euros and asians will have a big say in it.
Hopefully we'll all be dead before the shit hits the fan, or not.
rpm -e package-name
Upgrading packages is painless (compare patching Microsoft Office 97, two huge self-installing executables, one of which requires a goddamn 20 digit serial number, don't get me fucking started !#%@^ing Bill Gates ...) just,
rpm -Uvh netscape-common netscape-communicator
for example. This takes about 30 seconds to one minute. I can patch a fresh RedHat system in less than 30 minutes. Compare that to 3 hours for Windoze fucking 2000 with it's endless series of patches that can only be installed one at a time and require a reboot after each !$%@$^ patch.
Windows is a health hazard.
Gopher? Man I haven't heard that for a while. Gopher died because of the web. Gopher? Those were the days.
Now, kill me.
Bloody horses
smbclient //printer/queue passwd -P -c "print file.ps"
if the thing uses smb. And it's almost certainly samba that they're using anyway.
Or Zip disks from the criminals at iomega.
Don't laugh ...
I'm going to sue Microsoft from the cost, 97 - hey there's no cents symbol on my keyboard, when did that happen - cents, of dialing up my ISP and contacting the owner of that document I opened. And to make matters worse, I did it 370,000 times so it adds up.
Bill, make out a cheque for $500,000 US and we'll call it even.
Thanks
I agree that allowing ftp in this situation would be a cause for concern but a well managed ssh setup with appropriate filesystem permissions would be feasible. Although he would be better off hosting a separate secure server for SSL.
Assuming that Micro$oft hasn't just hacked apache to return 'Microsoft-IIS/5.0'.
Nyuk, nyuk.
I hope for your sake that this won't be true. What may be true is that you would be too scared to drive the car the way it's designed to be driven.
Old fucks like myself are supposed to be buying sports cars, but here I am still riding my damn bike into work every day. This is not a good way to pick up chicks.
Try installing a Win98se "update" on top of Win95 and then let me know how "easy" Windoze is to install. I know very few people who can successfully install Windoze without help. Your assertion is nonsense.
Most damage from rising waters seem to take place inland, rather than on the right or left coasts of North America and you can be sure to find many properties in areas that are susceptible to flooding. This conjecture could be complete and utter bullshit so feel to correct me, as if no one wouldn't.
Maybe because about 95% of secretaries are female? It may not be just but it is a fact (or at least a reasonable guestimation).
I don't think I sat through one episode of the Simpsons last season. Time to call it a day. Either that, or have the writers shot.
I've said it before and I'll say it again, British Columbians are the borg. Joy McPhail? Nutbar. The minister responsible for BC Ferries? Come on, how hard can that be? Sheesh. Everyone I know who has gone out there for any length of time become assimilated. They are the borg. If you know what's good for you you'll stay away. You won't listen though. Think about it, BC is really close to Washington and thus Redmond. Ooooh scarrrry!
Oh shut up. There's good beer everywhere in the US and Canada these days. Granted most people still drink the shite but it's getting better. The bar where I spend entirely too much of my weekly paycheck has Guinness, Becks, Bass on tap along with 5 or 6 local micros. The best of the lot, by far, is St-Amboise. An incredible hoppy pale ale.
Mexican beer is possibly worse than American beer. Especially those creepy clear glass bottles. Beer is put into brown bottles for a reason. To reiterate, Sleemans, Corona, ... all piss.
Molson is piss. Try a St-Ambroise from Montreal.
I agree with you 100%. From down river here in Montreal Cowpland looks and acts like an idiot. And, being an idiot myself, I know from where I speak. Hopefully he'll leave the country and I'll never have to see his butt ugly wife in the papers again either. Feh!
Open source is a great concept - that still remains to be proven - but those who do not subscribe to its tenets should not be castigated because of their decision. Besides, one thing OSS has proven is that nothing is impossible.
I wonder if we will ever need that 128bit processor in our lifetimes?
Er, offtopic? How the hell is anything in a slashback offtopic? The guy was telnetting into a linux box while wandering around some mountains (shouldn't you be using ssh?) Waldoj doesn't say whether beer was consumed. Pretty damn close to the Linuxbierwanderung, no?