For all we know, Al-Qaeda doesn't even exist, and the US government has filmed a bunch of gumbies in front of a green screen to put out the new terror video to remind you that you're supposed to be scared, and that the next new law that takes away your freedoms is really needed...
Please... given the possible motives behind 9/11, the amount of dodgy claims that defy the laws of physics, etc... I'd be taking any news about terrorism fed to you with a big serving of salt.
Seeing as those two statements are not mutually exclusive? Perhaps they spent more money hiring because they could not spend less money getting better skills offshore?
because flat files work, and programmers are lazy. why the fuck would you want to write a whole bunch of markup in addition to your code, to solve a non-existent problem?
non-fixed width makes control blocks harder to distinguish. fixed width means that if you format your code properly, you can easily tell where a block begins and ends, because they "line up" on the screen. proportional text fucks this up.
As Linus says in the coding style docs... if you've got that many levels of indentation where 80 cols is not enough, you're fucked anyway and should be splitting the code out into functions or otherwise writing it differently....
That's probably a minimum labour charge. It may only be 2 minutes of work on the PC, but by the time you set the pc up on the bench, boot it up, install, shutdown, pack up, and deal with the customer, there's easily half an hour of rooting around there. $1/minute is reasonable, even if it only took 2 minutes of actual work - you're still paying for someone's time.
And the real bad side comes when you find some home made porn from some *so not* hotty and then are mentally scarred for life.
Worked with guys who used to to this and that is what happened. Sucked in i say:D
But i agree with some people posting here, the need to copy stuff in case of reinstall is legit. If you don't want people casually looking at things they copy, encrypt it.
So, this is all well and good, until a fuel tanker that's just spent 2 days in the sun driving to your servo dumps 10-20,000L of hot fuel into the tank, isn't it?
You may find that you're getting worse economy in winter due to the car running richer due to higher oxygen density from the cold air, and increased time to get to temperature, which again, means the car is running rich while the engine warms up.
However, the plus side... you'll get better engine performance (in terms of power) in cold weather:) The increased air density from the cold weather is like a very minor supercharging effect...
I think you'll find that the nuclear bomb's casualties pale into insignificance compared to the influence of religion throughout the ages.
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UAC is useless and annoying. It might be fine for my Aunt Mildred, who only turns her computer on a couple of times a week to surf the web for a few minutes and send one or two e-mails, but for anyone who actually want to get things done, Vista is virtually unusable unless you turn off UAC. In the long run, UAC will make things worse because clueless users, who have absolutely no idea whether foobar.exe is a legit program or malware, will simply start clicking 'Yes' to everything.
You haven't run vista have you?
Yes, until you get things set up, UAC pops up a bit. However, i haven't seen a UAC box in over a month. Yes, i have it turned on. For "getting things done" it's a non-issue. For fucking about with your system config, yes, it is an issue. However, you typically do this to set the system up, then leave it the fuck alone...
... try supporting it. I mean, really - the only reason to keep windows is for application support. If you have some random problem with a windows app, where do you start troubleshooting? In my experience, the most likely cause is going to be the millions of shitty little third party apps you've installed...
At least vista is a known quantity, which *will* sooner or later be supported by software vendors as a platform...
"Jesus" or his variants have been the cause of more destruction of human life than any concept mankind has ever known.
Given the vast number of religions that have cropped up in our past, what makes you think that *your* religion is correct? Given that *none* of them are based on empirical evidence, and not ALL of them can be "correct" I posit that all religions are false.
Erm... this is not flamebait - it's fact. I have the same problem with safari. Work connection has mandatory proxy use to get out to the net - hence safari is totally unusable. Sure, it's beta - but it's also a far cry from the reality distortion field projected by Jobs...
I like apple right now, but crap is crap, it doesn't matter who produces it...
A few moderate bugs? How about a crash when trying to log into a web-proxy server? Mandatory proxy use is impossible with it at the moment.
Windows resizing speed is nothing special, scrolling speed is nothing special, the UI does not follow the usual windows paradigm, etc.
I'm a big Mac/OS fan, but i really think that apple are going the wrong way about trying to convince Windows users to give a shit. If they ported Safari's rendering engine and just used the native Windows toolkit, it would probably be faster, a lot more memory efficient, would look like a Windows app (that people are used to using) etc. Same goes for itunes and quicktime. They may work great on a mac, but in my evaluation the Windows variants are bug ridden, slow piles of shit. One of apple's big focuses is on app consistency, yet when porting to Windows that all goes straight out the window??
I don't say that because I'm going on an anti-apple rant. I intend to buy an iphone. I'm -->-- that close to buying a Mac. But it's not based on my experience with apple software on windows. It's *despite* my experiences with the Windows ports. Apple software on windows tends to leave a bad taste in my mouth and is one of the concerns i have in shifting platforms... surely the native mac versions of these apps are much better??
I haven't dealt with sendmail or postfix for some years, but back in 2002, sendmail's support for multiple domains, virtual user tables, etc seemed to be a little easier to configure (using.mc files and running make to generate the.cf files under BSD). Also, the virus scanner i was using back then didn't want to play with spamassassin when run under postfix for some reason (memory hazy) - sendmail was better supported by the scanner i was using.
I also haven't seen much in postfix with regards to using uucp for mail delivery, though i never looked as i haven't used it.
In short, i think it comes down to legacy network protocols - postfix probably doesn't support them as well, but is much leaner/more secure/cleaner for it... in general I agree with the sentiment of "use postfix unless you find something it can't do for you"...
Oh really it's not that bad. Given the choice i'll admin freebsd instead because it does feel more consistently "right", but adminned soley linux systems for 6 years or so before my current employment dealing wiht mostly A.D. and a couple of linux systems.
I also have to deal with AIX now too.
If you can't get your head around minor differences in linux distributions, then you shouldn't be a sysadmin. Besides, the changes between windows nt 3.x, 4.x, 2000 and vista are much bigger than the changes that have occurred as far as administering linux from the command line, in the past 15 years.
Tesla's money got cut off by JP morgan because with wireless energy there was no real way of charging for usage. Hence, as far as the power companies go, wireless power is financial suicide...
Erm... i'm not sacrificing my privacy if i keep my private shit to myself?
Embedding trackign devices, opening your mail, keylogging, etc is a COMPLETELY different ball game to watermarking of legally protected content, and i'm quite sure you realise this.
It just doesn't sit well with your argument, or (I suspect) your complete lack of respect for paying artists for their work.
If you have your legal MP3s on your computer, then you're fine. If some asshat steals them and they get busted and have your name on them, it's THEIR problem for obtaining/posessing the protected media, not yours.
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For all we know, Al-Qaeda doesn't even exist, and the US government has filmed a bunch of gumbies in front of a green screen to put out the new terror video to remind you that you're supposed to be scared, and that the next new law that takes away your freedoms is really needed...
Please... given the possible motives behind 9/11, the amount of dodgy claims that defy the laws of physics, etc... I'd be taking any news about terrorism fed to you with a big serving of salt.
Seeing as those two statements are not mutually exclusive? Perhaps they spent more money hiring because they could not spend less money getting better skills offshore?
Ah but that's java being broken, not 80 columns :D
24 = 2^3 + 2^4
Screen calcs are not exactly difficult as it is... pretty sure in most modern cpus if you do a couple of shifts, you can do an add for free?
because flat files work, and programmers are lazy. why the fuck would you want to write a whole bunch of markup in addition to your code, to solve a non-existent problem?
non-fixed width makes control blocks harder to distinguish. fixed width means that if you format your code properly, you can easily tell where a block begins and ends, because they "line up" on the screen. proportional text fucks this up.
As Linus says in the coding style docs... if you've got that many levels of indentation where 80 cols is not enough, you're fucked anyway and should be splitting the code out into functions or otherwise writing it differently....
That's probably a minimum labour charge. It may only be 2 minutes of work on the PC, but by the time you set the pc up on the bench, boot it up, install, shutdown, pack up, and deal with the customer, there's easily half an hour of rooting around there. $1/minute is reasonable, even if it only took 2 minutes of actual work - you're still paying for someone's time.
Worked with guys who used to to this and that is what happened. Sucked in i say :D
But i agree with some people posting here, the need to copy stuff in case of reinstall is legit. If you don't want people casually looking at things they copy, encrypt it.
So, this is all well and good, until a fuel tanker that's just spent 2 days in the sun driving to your servo dumps 10-20,000L of hot fuel into the tank, isn't it?
However, the plus side... you'll get better engine performance (in terms of power) in cold weather :) The increased air density from the cold weather is like a very minor supercharging effect...
Weaponry does not kill people by itself. It is deployed for a reason - and usually that reason is religious differences.
I think you'll find that the nuclear bomb's casualties pale into insignificance compared to the influence of religion throughout the ages.
You haven't run vista have you?
Yes, until you get things set up, UAC pops up a bit. However, i haven't seen a UAC box in over a month. Yes, i have it turned on. For "getting things done" it's a non-issue. For fucking about with your system config, yes, it is an issue. However, you typically do this to set the system up, then leave it the fuck alone...
At least vista is a known quantity, which *will* sooner or later be supported by software vendors as a platform...
Given the vast number of religions that have cropped up in our past, what makes you think that *your* religion is correct? Given that *none* of them are based on empirical evidence, and not ALL of them can be "correct" I posit that all religions are false.
Erm... given that as soon as it tries to authenticate against our mandatory proxy server at work, it crashes a burns... i'd say they're at step #1...
I like apple right now, but crap is crap, it doesn't matter who produces it...
Windows resizing speed is nothing special, scrolling speed is nothing special, the UI does not follow the usual windows paradigm, etc.
I'm a big Mac/OS fan, but i really think that apple are going the wrong way about trying to convince Windows users to give a shit. If they ported Safari's rendering engine and just used the native Windows toolkit, it would probably be faster, a lot more memory efficient, would look like a Windows app (that people are used to using) etc. Same goes for itunes and quicktime. They may work great on a mac, but in my evaluation the Windows variants are bug ridden, slow piles of shit. One of apple's big focuses is on app consistency, yet when porting to Windows that all goes straight out the window??
I don't say that because I'm going on an anti-apple rant. I intend to buy an iphone. I'm -->-- that close to buying a Mac. But it's not based on my experience with apple software on windows. It's *despite* my experiences with the Windows ports. Apple software on windows tends to leave a bad taste in my mouth and is one of the concerns i have in shifting platforms... surely the native mac versions of these apps are much better??
Not a good first impression :D
I also haven't seen much in postfix with regards to using uucp for mail delivery, though i never looked as i haven't used it.
In short, i think it comes down to legacy network protocols - postfix probably doesn't support them as well, but is much leaner/more secure/cleaner for it... in general I agree with the sentiment of "use postfix unless you find something it can't do for you"...
I also have to deal with AIX now too.
If you can't get your head around minor differences in linux distributions, then you shouldn't be a sysadmin. Besides, the changes between windows nt 3.x, 4.x, 2000 and vista are much bigger than the changes that have occurred as far as administering linux from the command line, in the past 15 years.
Cynical? You bet...
Tesla's money got cut off by JP morgan because with wireless energy there was no real way of charging for usage. Hence, as far as the power companies go, wireless power is financial suicide...
Embedding trackign devices, opening your mail, keylogging, etc is a COMPLETELY different ball game to watermarking of legally protected content, and i'm quite sure you realise this.
It just doesn't sit well with your argument, or (I suspect) your complete lack of respect for paying artists for their work.
If you have your legal MP3s on your computer, then you're fine. If some asshat steals them and they get busted and have your name on them, it's THEIR problem for obtaining/posessing the protected media, not yours.