Bullshit. My ISP has been IPvt6 enabled for 5+ years now, and if you're running networking equipment more than 5-10 years, you're doing it wrong. I use IPv6 over wireless at home and at work. IPv6 is only a bogey man because of the pissing and moaning people are doing about it, rather than pulling their fucking finger out and getting on with it.
Much of China is already on IPv6 (they only got a tiny ipv4 allocation for their huge population), I myself have dual-stack here in Australia, and have since 2010. It's been available since about 2007 from memory.
While the peanut gallery are pissing and moaning about it, others are actually running it, in production.
That. If he truly is an idiot, he will hang himself sooner or later. Be sure to state your concerns with things he is doing (and you better know what you're talking about, or YOU are the idiot - you can work this from the angle of "have you considered" X, which is either validating or challenging his design - either way, due process). If he's not an idiot, then no problem.
My point is that there is no reason anyone would ever actually run it, other than to develop it for the sake of development, and responding to the excuses put forward that HURD was only started in 1990 as reasoning that it is unreasonable to expect something usable. Linux took about 4-5 years to become usable in a business for production use. The fact is that we're 23 years down the road with HURD and there's still no usable product.
Last I checked, I don't think it supported anything other than IDE either, but admittedly that was a few years ago. I just remember being curious to try it, looking at the supported hardware list, thinking "I don't have anything that ancient anymore" and moving on...
If you think being a nerd is about doing things the most awkward ass-backward way possible, you're an idiot. Easy things shouldn't be difficult. Make easy things easy, and spend the time recovered on less pointless fuckwittery.
Given the user is going to be running crap like Java anyway, I don't see that the minor performance hit running a microkernel has is going to make a heap of difference.
So HURD was started in 1990, Linux was started in 1991, and yet I was using LINUX in PRODUCTION (in an ISP) in 1996. A mere 18 years later, and HURD still isn't even BETA. It is a joke.
The whole point of code signing is that it relies on a chain of trust. As soon as your cert is used for any malware and that gets back to apple it will be revoked. This is the same for Windows.
Wow, that sounds way simpler than just browsing the network share that is already visible from within dolphin, from within VLC's file-open dialog, like I do with every other platform!
Agreed. There are things that annoy me about OS X as well, as with any platform. However - the list of annoyances is far more liveable for me than the list with Windows or a typical Linux or FreeBSD desktop.
Try a Mac. Windows 7 / XP only looks good because you're putting it in the context of other versions of Windows or half-assed Linux desktop environments (and by half-assed, I mean BASIC functionality like not being able to open files from a network share from within various applications, for example - try open a file from within VLC from an SMB share, for instance).
Its not the only thing that matters. What matters to me as an end user is that I have a responsive UI. Firefox does not offer me this reliably, and other browsers (not just Chrome) have for several years now. IE9 onwards has process per tab. Safari splits the rendering and UI into different threads. Firefox? Oh, this javascript in some random tab has locked up the browser's UI. Oops.
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Then give them statics, like: 2001:44B8:6116:5AFF::1 (my router).
You're doing it wrong. Use DNS.
Bullshit. My ISP has been IPvt6 enabled for 5+ years now, and if you're running networking equipment more than 5-10 years, you're doing it wrong. I use IPv6 over wireless at home and at work. IPv6 is only a bogey man because of the pissing and moaning people are doing about it, rather than pulling their fucking finger out and getting on with it.
Much of China is already on IPv6 (they only got a tiny ipv4 allocation for their huge population), I myself have dual-stack here in Australia, and have since 2010. It's been available since about 2007 from memory.
While the peanut gallery are pissing and moaning about it, others are actually running it, in production.
Yup. Also, D) - you've shown that you give a fuck, are thinking about the problem and your mind is on the job.
That. If he truly is an idiot, he will hang himself sooner or later. Be sure to state your concerns with things he is doing (and you better know what you're talking about, or YOU are the idiot - you can work this from the angle of "have you considered" X, which is either validating or challenging his design - either way, due process). If he's not an idiot, then no problem.
... and if the client still doesn't see sense, drop the client, let him/her use their expert and pick up the pieces when it all goes to shit.
My point is that there is no reason anyone would ever actually run it, other than to develop it for the sake of development, and responding to the excuses put forward that HURD was only started in 1990 as reasoning that it is unreasonable to expect something usable. Linux took about 4-5 years to become usable in a business for production use. The fact is that we're 23 years down the road with HURD and there's still no usable product.
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Last I checked, I don't think it supported anything other than IDE either, but admittedly that was a few years ago. I just remember being curious to try it, looking at the supported hardware list, thinking "I don't have anything that ancient anymore" and moving on...
If you think being a nerd is about doing things the most awkward ass-backward way possible, you're an idiot. Easy things shouldn't be difficult. Make easy things easy, and spend the time recovered on less pointless fuckwittery.
Given that 3.1 was almost 2 major releases old by the time USB came out, i'm not surprised.
Given the user is going to be running crap like Java anyway, I don't see that the minor performance hit running a microkernel has is going to make a heap of difference.
OS X is a microkernel.and appears to be doing quite well.
So HURD was started in 1990, Linux was started in 1991, and yet I was using LINUX in PRODUCTION (in an ISP) in 1996. A mere 18 years later, and HURD still isn't even BETA. It is a joke.
Exactly. Even back when Linux was announced, the HURD vapourware jokes were around.
No. Performance is nowhere near as bad as that.
NT itself is designed pretty well. It's the Win32 layer which is garbage.
Funny how user space drivers appear to work elsewhere. You can buy higher performance parts, you can't just buy security.
The whole point of code signing is that it relies on a chain of trust. As soon as your cert is used for any malware and that gets back to apple it will be revoked. This is the same for Windows.
Wow, that sounds way simpler than just browsing the network share that is already visible from within dolphin, from within VLC's file-open dialog, like I do with every other platform!
Agreed. There are things that annoy me about OS X as well, as with any platform. However - the list of annoyances is far more liveable for me than the list with Windows or a typical Linux or FreeBSD desktop.
Trojan horses / user stupidity are OS independent.
Try a Mac. Windows 7 / XP only looks good because you're putting it in the context of other versions of Windows or half-assed Linux desktop environments (and by half-assed, I mean BASIC functionality like not being able to open files from a network share from within various applications, for example - try open a file from within VLC from an SMB share, for instance).
Its not the only thing that matters. What matters to me as an end user is that I have a responsive UI. Firefox does not offer me this reliably, and other browsers (not just Chrome) have for several years now. IE9 onwards has process per tab. Safari splits the rendering and UI into different threads. Firefox? Oh, this javascript in some random tab has locked up the browser's UI. Oops.