What in the hell are you smoking? Are you suggesting that women will begin customarily wearing infrared cameras and strap-on computers, while coincidentally (and much to their demise) the oogling men happen to be wearing reflective components taped to their heads? (Did you read the article?)
I'd say the majority of people with DSL/Cable in the US have user agreements stating no servers. Certainly this is a simple one, but a server nevertheless.
These stupid AUPs are loads of bull. Every TCP-based application is a "server". What makes apache or this thermometer more of a "server" than, say, a usenet client or outbound ssh session?
This proliferation of "server" to mean "application we don't like" irritates me as much as "router" to mean "NAT box".
In a related article, it was reported that a Google search for "apple" returned significantly more results related to fruit and vegetables than did a search for "microsoft". Analysts were at a loss to explain the discrepancy, but were investigating collusion between one California-based firm and the agricultural lobby, sources say.
(Shit, I thought I just replied to this but I guess it didn't take. Attempt to recap...)
Yeah, you have a point, and I'm a little surprised that Apple has flaunted so much of this publicly given that they don't plan to release Tiger for the better part of a year.
On the other hand perhaps Steve is pulling a Steve and will spring Tiger upon us unexpectedly by Christmas.:)
It consistently astounds me how Microsoft talks about what they're going to release four years from now. Apple doesn't even talk in advance about what they're going to release next week or month (the recent iMac fumble notwithstanding), let alone the fact that four years in this industry is decades on a conventional timeline.
Do you think Bill is trying to pull a Steve on us here by talking far in the future, cementing our notions of Microsoft as a gargantuan buffoon, while secretly planning to abruptly and with much fanfare unveil Longhorn on store shelves by, say, Christmas?
Unbelievable. Is this really what windows people have to deal with for a common vanilla install? With Microsoft's recommended and most current product? Does Microsoft not sell a version on CD which is actually secure enough to install out of the box?
How about instead switching to an operating system you can put faith in?
Update: 06/15 01:26 GMT by T: "mps" and "mbs" both de-mangled.
Well if you're going to take any effort to de-mangle, how about de-mangling into something that doesn't mean "milibits per second" if what you really mean is "megabits per second" (Mbps)?
If you want a Linux for the average user, it's going to have to be that way. Now we all know that su-ing to root is easy for when you need it, but it is something that will piss off and confound most users.
Mac OS X doesn't seem to have much problem with this... (it throws up a dialog, a user with administrator privileges -- usually the same user sitting at the machine -- enters his password again, and things continue.)
Since the slashdot editors obviously are either lazy tools or just don't give much of a fuck about quality or integrity... could we set up some kind of subslashdot with a communally-moderated moderator system which would cull and link to the reasonable articles on slashdot, while skipping over the tripe? Because after all, there IS interesting and informative stuff... every once in awhile.
(This is a serious un-biased question -- I have a couple of RH 7.2 boxes which I want to switch over, have played with Gentoo a little bit and have been impressed so thinking of it, though I have no experience at all with Debian.)
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What in the hell are you smoking? Are you suggesting that women will begin customarily wearing infrared cameras and strap-on computers, while coincidentally (and much to their demise) the oogling men happen to be wearing reflective components taped to their heads? (Did you read the article?)
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I thought .asp was to do with server-side parsing. Indeed, "ASP" stands for "active server page" does it not?
So what has that got to do with the client software?
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I'd say the majority of people with DSL/Cable in the US have user agreements stating no servers. Certainly this is a simple one, but a server nevertheless.
These stupid AUPs are loads of bull. Every TCP-based application is a "server". What makes apache or this thermometer more of a "server" than, say, a usenet client or outbound ssh session?
This proliferation of "server" to mean "application we don't like" irritates me as much as "router" to mean "NAT box".
-ben
Before you administrate, do you orientate yourself irregardless of the situation? Careful, inflammable! So is it at risk of burning? You got me...
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In a related article, it was reported that a Google search for "apple" returned significantly more results related to fruit and vegetables than did a search for "microsoft". Analysts were at a loss to explain the discrepancy, but were investigating collusion between one California-based firm and the agricultural lobby, sources say.
The First Vienna Vegetable Orchestra
(It's real; I found 'em linked in my girlfriend's blog yesterday. Wish I could get a copy of their disc here in Canada affordably...)
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You forgot about a right mouse button.
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...and added the iPod Carrying Case, Wired Remote and Earphones (which are no longer included with the new 40GB iPod)...
You mean they don't even include earphones anymore?
-ben
(Shit, I thought I just replied to this but I guess it didn't take. Attempt to recap...)
:)
Yeah, you have a point, and I'm a little surprised that Apple has flaunted so much of this publicly given that they don't plan to release Tiger for the better part of a year.
On the other hand perhaps Steve is pulling a Steve and will spring Tiger upon us unexpectedly by Christmas.
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It consistently astounds me how Microsoft talks about what they're going to release four years from now. Apple doesn't even talk in advance about what they're going to release next week or month (the recent iMac fumble notwithstanding), let alone the fact that four years in this industry is decades on a conventional timeline.
Do you think Bill is trying to pull a Steve on us here by talking far in the future, cementing our notions of Microsoft as a gargantuan buffoon, while secretly planning to abruptly and with much fanfare unveil Longhorn on store shelves by, say, Christmas?
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I can deal with people forgetting to turn their phones off in a movie ... as long as they don't yack on them in the theater.
I know what you mean! It's always a drag when people begin vomiting all over their phones during the movie.
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Unbelievable. Is this really what windows people have to deal with for a common vanilla install? With Microsoft's recommended and most current product? Does Microsoft not sell a version on CD which is actually secure enough to install out of the box?
How about instead switching to an operating system you can put faith in?
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Actually some Olympus do as well (my gf's C-4000 for example).
-ben
(who is currently researching and trying to narrow things down between Canon and Olympus, while simultaneously arguing with myself about budget)
200mbps (Yes, mega bits per second).
then
Update: 06/15 01:26 GMT by T: "mps" and "mbs" both de-mangled.
Well if you're going to take any effort to de-mangle, how about de-mangling into something that doesn't mean "milibits per second" if what you really mean is "megabits per second" (Mbps)?
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(argh)
bare with me for a moment
Sweet, we're all gettin' nekkid!
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business related death
So, there I was rotating logs one day, and suddenly all this crap in the maillog was just too much for me to handl--
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eskimoan extremists
Whoa... some kind of new outdoor winter sex? "I love it when you eskimoan like that!"
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(yeah, I do have a gf)
Right, if the whole of the interet played out within the confines of American trademark law or other local laws of your choice.
Here's a tip: the internet extends beyond just your country.
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If you want a Linux for the average user, it's going to have to be that way. Now we all know that su-ing to root is easy for when you need it, but it is something that will piss off and confound most users.
Mac OS X doesn't seem to have much problem with this... (it throws up a dialog, a user with administrator privileges -- usually the same user sitting at the machine -- enters his password again, and things continue.)
-ben
I'm not joking when I say that the "roboporn" industry is likely to be a significant driving force
Boy, I sure think you've hit that nail on the head, as it were.
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For the same reason your old computer had a SCSI interface, or perhaps nowadays a USB bus.
(Yeah, it makes me cringe too)
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Since the slashdot editors obviously are either lazy tools or just don't give much of a fuck about quality or integrity... could we set up some kind of subslashdot with a communally-moderated moderator system which would cull and link to the reasonable articles on slashdot, while skipping over the tripe? Because after all, there IS interesting and informative stuff... every once in awhile.
-ben
Any reason not to use Gentoo on the server?
(This is a serious un-biased question -- I have a couple of RH 7.2 boxes which I want to switch over, have played with Gentoo a little bit and have been impressed so thinking of it, though I have no experience at all with Debian.)
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Sure. People also talk about "accessing" files. Doesn't mean I have to suppress my urge to cringe. :)
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"Commercial" is an adjective meaning "of or having to do with commerce".
Verbing nouns... nouning adjectives... eeeuuughhaaa!
(I guess you could argue that "news" are plural, but anyway...)
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