RDP / ICA / VNC - they're all superior
Yes, i use backup exec, but doesn't mean i have to like it. Tar + gzip is superior IMHO.
Trend/AVG = way less irritating than Norton AV.
I wouldn't define "public" to include a virtual world, owned and created by someone, and hosted on a PC/server owned by that someone (either person or commercial entity).
But then, I guess that's for the lawyers to fight out.
Linus agreed to the license, just because someone else violated it, and caused a whole 2 weeks of work for him to write GIT, doesn't mean there was a problem.
Bitkeeper served it's purpose just fine while it was in use, and I'm sure Linus isn't having massive regrets over making the decisions he made.
IMHO that is a *good* thing... I'd much rather have commercial software that doesn't suck and free software that has the majority of the features than commercial software that's crappy and unsupported Free software.
BSD license is short and to the point, and does not try and impose any holier than thou agenda.
It's "legal" to "kill" people there, unlike in reality, but same sex marriage is not - unlike here.
Don't like it? Don't play.
End of story.
I'm all for equal rights, but this is not reality we're talking about - it's an alternative game world with it's own physics, laws, customs, etc - if you desperately want to be married in game but can't be due to the law or whatever, then *roleplay* that oppressed minority group in game.
PCAnywhere - pile of shit
Backup Exec - bloated pile of shit
Norton Antivirus - annoying piece of shit
So, let me get this straight, i'm supposed to trust Symantec to write secure software?
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And that's why there isn't any competition for windows on the client, because losers like you believe (maybe) in that crap.
Such as Mac OS/X. Or even Linux, on the horizon (as always:D though it's made great leaps in the past 2 years).
Client OS is becoming largely irrelevant these days anyway - the browser is where it's at, and Microsoft is losing their share there pretty quickly.
Which is why they were originally so desperate to "win" the browser war. Unfortunately (for Microsoft), killing netscape just ended up spawning Mozilla/Firefox...
So... exactly who is the market for the new Intel products? The swarms of iPod owners that own Apple products for reasons of fashion more than functionality? It seems like none of the apps that high-end Apple users actually use aren't going to be out for quite some time.
Well, i'm buying one for one.
Why?
Because it's a computer i can use at home for "home use" type stuff without worrying about dealing with the shit you have to deal with running windows.
Plus, it's just plain nice to sit on a desk by itself - has everything I want in a single monitor-sized box...
Also, it has a complete development environment, I like the fact that it's objective C based, and *this is the big one*... the intel switch will make porting games trivial compared to the work involved porting from Intel to PPC...
Also, it will make apple's life in deploying higher-speed chipsets (as intel develop them) a walk in the park...
I'm seriously expecting the Mac games market to really ramp up in the next couple of years.
If it doesn't, no big deal, i'm switching anyway... but I really reckon a lot of the bigger barriers have been lifted...
If you're into Falcon 4, I highly recommend picking up a copy of "Falcon 4: Allied Force".
Was released recently with very little in the way of promotion (stumbled across it looking for F4 patches), and it's most excellent. Lead Pursuit have taken the original Falcon 4 and added most of the good stuff from the community patches, made it vastly more stable and added a new theatre.
Bought it last month and have been hooked ever since:)
Equating Alan Cox to "Linux" in that context just supports the theory that they'd rather award Linux dude #2 an award for Linux than "the man" because they don't like him personally...
That used to be the case, but now the military demands COTS (what they really want is mil-spec at COTS price) because the cost of mil-spec parts have grown upward of 10x in some cases
And how is this intel's problem? You want mil-spec hardware at consumer spec price, tough shit. I want a Ferrari F430 for $30k - it's not going to happen.
As to the "revealing 1.5 bugs per day".... someone will no doubt correct me if i'm wrong, but this is an Errata released by *intel*.
It's not like some hackers out there in the real world have suddenly discovered all these bugs - I'm willing to bet that Intel has discovered them over the course of testing prior to release and are now making them public because coders are actually getting Core cpus to play with.
Sensationalist article... my bet is that 99.99% of the population either never know about these bugs, or forget about the whole thing within 2 weeks and continue happily using their shiny new iMac/MacBook non the wiser... without issue.
This is how slashdot has always looked, more or less. It's the slashdot identity.
Personally I like the look and see no reason for it to change - the second some suit decides it needs to make noise/be animated/use flash/etc is the second I stop visiting, and I'm quite sure most of the "old school" audience would be with me on that one.
There's nothing stopping you writing your own flashy version of slashdot, or for that matter writing/submitting a stylesheet for it.
No more free/cheap hardware hacking (like the Nissan ECU software I have for my SR20 motor, that has it's own USB driver hacked by the hobbyist board-maker)
Fuck windows:)
Stick with the XP/2K way of requiring confirmation/prompting, flash up a big warning that you will receive no support or whatever... but if they do this, they're just hurting people more than helping...
Not at all - you're just as likely to get owned, if not more so.
Why?
Most DSL connections place you behind a NAT router these days. Also, most viruses/worms are generally not "targeted" as such, but just try for as many infections as possible, regardless of connection type.
Sure, your dialup is less "lucrative" than DSL/cable to "own", but it's still more lucrative than the alternative of not owning it.
In Australia, this is usually (often at least?) the case - the kid pays.
How?
We have a scheme called "HECS" (higher education contribution scheme). Basically the idea is that the government pays for your tuition, and you defer payment until after you finish your degree (whether failing out, or successfully).
Once you're earning more than (I think) 25k/AU per year (could be 30 or 35k these days, not 100% on that bit), the government starts taking it out as an additional tax on your pay.
Of course, most students work part time as well to manage it.
We don't really have the same culture of parents putting their hard earned money away for their kid's education here.
Just 1 caveat - i was referring to using logs from your "old" site, that DOES work with the browser in question.
Which will give you accurate stats on browser share.
NOT putting your new page up, and then seeing how many hits you get from browsers that don't work. As you say, that idea is broken and will give you skewed stats.
NOT a good way of making that decision. That'll be 1% of the people using the site. Who the site already work for.
Anyone using an incompatible browser'll see the first page, then have to go away. It won't show up that many people are using the browser to view the web pages, even if a lot want to.
This is not a tech decision. This is a business decision, as I stated.
If management want pay for the development to support that 1%, then fine, support that 1%.
If not, then you have no right (as a tech guy) to waste company time and resources by bothering to do so.
Note that I am not advocating browser detection that throws up an error saying "go away and get a real browser" - definately have the page attempt to load, but any complaints registered regarding the incompatibility should be answered with "sorry your browser is too old".
No more of this namby-pamby shit about being afraid to "hurt someone's self esteem", by failing them. That helps nobody - certainly not the person being "passed" for being incompetent, and definately not society as a whole.
If they fail, fail them.
The whole grading idea is so that people are guided into the most suitable career for their skill-set. If someone sucks at maths (or "math" for you Americans) or reading/writing, then they shouldn't really be going into a field where those skills are required - they would be better off doing something they're actually good at.
And if someone is unwilling to make the effort to be good at anything? Tough shit, go work at MacDonalds for the rest of your life then. Life is tough, deal with it.
A lot of people don't go to college, not because they don't qualify, but because they have other interests. In Australia for example, a university degree doesn't guarantee you a decent job. There's plenty of people (at least over here) who would have no trouble completing a degree, but chose to do other things.
A saying around here a few years ago was "We've got some of the best qualified 'dole queues' in the world!" (dole = aussie slang for unemployment benefit).
Erm.... you can do a quick analysis in about 5 minutes.
Webalizer + quote for fixing site to work with browser X.
If management decide that "no, we're not spending half our web design budget to support 1% of our userbase" is the way to go, then it's as simple as that.
If you're spending more than about 25 minutes on (the tech side, i.e. the geek part) of this problem, you're over-analysing it.
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Yes, i use backup exec, but doesn't mean i have to like it. Tar + gzip is superior IMHO.
Trend/AVG = way less irritating than Norton AV.
All in my opinion of course...
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But then, I guess that's for the lawyers to fight out.
smash.
Linus agreed to the license, just because someone else violated it, and caused a whole 2 weeks of work for him to write GIT, doesn't mean there was a problem.
Bitkeeper served it's purpose just fine while it was in use, and I'm sure Linus isn't having massive regrets over making the decisions he made.
smash.
You mean like MacOS X?
IMHO that is a *good* thing... I'd much rather have commercial software that doesn't suck and free software that has the majority of the features than commercial software that's crappy and unsupported Free software.
BSD license is short and to the point, and does not try and impose any holier than thou agenda.
smash.
It's "legal" to "kill" people there, unlike in reality, but same sex marriage is not - unlike here.
Don't like it? Don't play.
End of story.
I'm all for equal rights, but this is not reality we're talking about - it's an alternative game world with it's own physics, laws, customs, etc - if you desperately want to be married in game but can't be due to the law or whatever, then *roleplay* that oppressed minority group in game.
smash.
And this is relevant to Windows Vista running 32bit desktop apps how, exactly?
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Backup Exec - bloated pile of shit
Norton Antivirus - annoying piece of shit
So, let me get this straight, i'm supposed to trust Symantec to write secure software?
smash.
Such as Mac OS/X. Or even Linux, on the horizon (as always :D though it's made great leaps in the past 2 years).
Client OS is becoming largely irrelevant these days anyway - the browser is where it's at, and Microsoft is losing their share there pretty quickly.
Which is why they were originally so desperate to "win" the browser war. Unfortunately (for Microsoft), killing netscape just ended up spawning Mozilla/Firefox...
smash.
Well, i'm buying one for one.
Why?
Because it's a computer i can use at home for "home use" type stuff without worrying about dealing with the shit you have to deal with running windows.
Plus, it's just plain nice to sit on a desk by itself - has everything I want in a single monitor-sized box...
Also, it has a complete development environment, I like the fact that it's objective C based, and *this is the big one* ... the intel switch will make porting games trivial compared to the work involved porting from Intel to PPC...
Also, it will make apple's life in deploying higher-speed chipsets (as intel develop them) a walk in the park...
I'm seriously expecting the Mac games market to really ramp up in the next couple of years.
If it doesn't, no big deal, i'm switching anyway... but I really reckon a lot of the bigger barriers have been lifted...
smash.
Was released recently with very little in the way of promotion (stumbled across it looking for F4 patches), and it's most excellent. Lead Pursuit have taken the original Falcon 4 and added most of the good stuff from the community patches, made it vastly more stable and added a new theatre.
Bought it last month and have been hooked ever since :)
smash.
With regards to the article... let me guess - Microsoft gave them the assembly source files after running their C++ through a pre-processor? :D
Asking for the source code was always going to be a bit dubious... :)
If I were the EU, I'd be pressing for open, *DOCUMENTED* file formats and APIs instead :)
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Kedit, Kate, gedit, xedit... take your pick... seriously.
Notepad is crap anyway - the requirement for a "notepad competitor" has been filled many times over...
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Equating Alan Cox to "Linux" in that context just supports the theory that they'd rather award Linux dude #2 an award for Linux than "the man" because they don't like him personally...
smash.
And how is this intel's problem? You want mil-spec hardware at consumer spec price, tough shit. I want a Ferrari F430 for $30k - it's not going to happen.
As to the "revealing 1.5 bugs per day".... someone will no doubt correct me if i'm wrong, but this is an Errata released by *intel*.
It's not like some hackers out there in the real world have suddenly discovered all these bugs - I'm willing to bet that Intel has discovered them over the course of testing prior to release and are now making them public because coders are actually getting Core cpus to play with.
Sensationalist article... my bet is that 99.99% of the population either never know about these bugs, or forget about the whole thing within 2 weeks and continue happily using their shiny new iMac/MacBook non the wiser... without issue.
smash.
This is how slashdot has always looked, more or less. It's the slashdot identity.
Personally I like the look and see no reason for it to change - the second some suit decides it needs to make noise/be animated/use flash/etc is the second I stop visiting, and I'm quite sure most of the "old school" audience would be with me on that one.
There's nothing stopping you writing your own flashy version of slashdot, or for that matter writing/submitting a stylesheet for it.
smash.
No more ext2 filesystem driver.
No more free/cheap hardware hacking (like the Nissan ECU software I have for my SR20 motor, that has it's own USB driver hacked by the hobbyist board-maker)
Fuck windows :)
Stick with the XP/2K way of requiring confirmation/prompting, flash up a big warning that you will receive no support or whatever... but if they do this, they're just hurting people more than helping...
smash.
smash.
Why?
Most DSL connections place you behind a NAT router these days. Also, most viruses/worms are generally not "targeted" as such, but just try for as many infections as possible, regardless of connection type.
Sure, your dialup is less "lucrative" than DSL/cable to "own", but it's still more lucrative than the alternative of not owning it.
smash.
In Australia, this is usually (often at least?) the case - the kid pays.
How?
We have a scheme called "HECS" (higher education contribution scheme). Basically the idea is that the government pays for your tuition, and you defer payment until after you finish your degree (whether failing out, or successfully).
Once you're earning more than (I think) 25k/AU per year (could be 30 or 35k these days, not 100% on that bit), the government starts taking it out as an additional tax on your pay.
Of course, most students work part time as well to manage it.
We don't really have the same culture of parents putting their hard earned money away for their kid's education here.
smash.
Which will give you accurate stats on browser share.
NOT putting your new page up, and then seeing how many hits you get from browsers that don't work. As you say, that idea is broken and will give you skewed stats.
smash.
If management want pay for the development to support that 1%, then fine, support that 1%.
If not, then you have no right (as a tech guy) to waste company time and resources by bothering to do so.
Note that I am not advocating browser detection that throws up an error saying "go away and get a real browser" - definately have the page attempt to load, but any complaints registered regarding the incompatibility should be answered with "sorry your browser is too old".
smash.
If they fail, fail them.
The whole grading idea is so that people are guided into the most suitable career for their skill-set. If someone sucks at maths (or "math" for you Americans) or reading/writing, then they shouldn't really be going into a field where those skills are required - they would be better off doing something they're actually good at.
And if someone is unwilling to make the effort to be good at anything? Tough shit, go work at MacDonalds for the rest of your life then. Life is tough, deal with it.
smash.
A lot of people don't go to college, not because they don't qualify, but because they have other interests. In Australia for example, a university degree doesn't guarantee you a decent job. There's plenty of people (at least over here) who would have no trouble completing a degree, but chose to do other things.
A saying around here a few years ago was "We've got some of the best qualified 'dole queues' in the world!" (dole = aussie slang for unemployment benefit).
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Webalizer + quote for fixing site to work with browser X.
If management decide that "no, we're not spending half our web design budget to support 1% of our userbase" is the way to go, then it's as simple as that.
If you're spending more than about 25 minutes on (the tech side, i.e. the geek part) of this problem, you're over-analysing it.
smash.