Is it just me, or do all the recent patches seem to have been released on a Wednesday?
No it's not just you, although it is usually early Thursday morning in NZ. Our company typically used Wed night for scheduled downtime and patching etc.
It got very annoying to come in the next day after the downtime to a new bunch of advisories. This has been happening every 3 out of 4 weeks lately.
That weekly schedule alone makes me doubt Bills claims, unless he also claims they only ever get notified of problems on Tuesdays.
Can't get past the first level?! That's pretty sad, given that the first level of Donkey Kong is a cinch.
Hehe, they should've sat them down in front of Defender - if they thought Donkey Kong was hard. Then shown em a master playing it - I used to be blown away watching some kid spend hours on one credit on Defender.
You start out asking for MS Project replacements due to scalability issue, but then you state that you are only considering what appear to be Linux-based solutions. Are you in search of an enterprise-class tool, or a Linux tool? As far as I know, there isn't anything that meet both criteria.
I mean, say I exercise every day for 15 minutes for the rest of my life. That's a lot of frickin' time. I could be having fun in that time. Sure, I might live longer, but those will be years when I'm old and decrepit.
Excercise and having fun aren't exclusive - sure going to the gym or jogging suck major ass, but there are other ways of getting excercise:
Skiing, snowboarding, surfing, mountain biking, windsurfing, motorcross, whitewater kayaking etc etc. The only way I have any fun exercising is when exercise is a byproduct of having fun, rather than trying to have fun exercising.
OK then, NT 3.1 Professional or Home (XP) vs NT 3.1 Server (W2003):)
Although 2003 has a 5.2 version number internally - even though both XP and W2003 are from 'Whistler'.
Bah, I don't like either of them - they rub me up the wrong way. Give me W2K (if it has to be Windows) or Debian (if it doesn't have to be Windows) instead.
In other words, the resellers are completely unaware just how far behind SCO UNIX is the state-of-the-art.
It sounded to me that reseller was completely aware of how far SCO is behind and was trying to get them to admit they were copying Linux (and Solaris, but SCO copying Linux has more impact).
How well does it scale? AutoCAD seems to be the current champion when it comes to vector graphics. I would not consider SVG until I could see some heavy duty 2D schematics done with this tool.
Hehe, while schematics are vector graphics, you can't necessarily say vector graphics are schematics.
I wouldn't want use to AutoCAD for graphic design - and I say that as an ex AutoCAD drafter.
I would be great if SVG ends up becoming a unified format that is widely used for drafting, diagramming and graphic design (and web browsers!). I assume that because SVG is XML that vocabularies for all those areas would be possible.
SVG already has waay more graphic features than needed for schematics - after all they are pretty much just lines (incl splines etc) and text. The hard part is organising and tracking all the metadata - even just low level stuff like blocks, layers, scales etc. Exporting to SVG would be very easy for a 2D CAD app, more work would probably be needed to make SVG a native CAD format though.
Then again, the article author seemed to mix worms and viruses up too. Do these latest outbreaks of nasties still actually infect files these days, or do they just run independently and spread themselves around (ie worms)?
360s and stuff come to mind. I know you can do stuff like this on a windsurfer. But it should be pretty much impossible in the wave.
Nope, there are dozens of combinations of 360 moves (when riding in) around all 3 axes, carving on the wave, or aerial back onto the wave - let alone spinning just the board, sail or body 360. It's actually the sail that allows all these moves to happen (beyond my skill level though).
As for jumping on the way out - double loops are commonplace for the pros these days.
Maybe. I haven't windsurfed for a decade.
Things have come a very long way in the last decade:)
But I still aspire to being a better surfer - I'd love to live somewhere I could surf in the morning and windsurf in the afternoon. Trouble is we mostly get windswell here - great for windsurfing, but not so good for surfing.
Author Dent (Simon Jones) (He was the same guy who did the voices for the radio series) was good but Ford and Trillian stank, I still under the impression that Trillian should be a brunette. With better special effects Zaphod should look cooler and more realistic.
Agreed, although I thought Ford was ok (just ok). And I seem to remember Trillian being a brunette in the book at least - with some partial middle eastern ethnicity as well? I thought the TV Marvin wasn't very good either - I imagined him being a bit smaller and rounder.
I never heard the radio series, but the TV series seemed to suffer from starting off a little slow then getting more and more rushed as it went on skipping lots of stuff by the end. Probably something to do with budgets running out:)
Whether you want to admit it or not, there isn't much different between British and American sense of humour. Funny things are funny no matter the location.
Yeah, people have a tendency to compare good British humour with bad American humour. Part of that may be that only the American entertainment industry is big enough to export/market the crap stuff as well as the good stuff.
I've always invisioned Marvin as something like a Bender from futureama.
I always imagined Marvin to be like a depressed version of Twiki (the 80s Buck Rogers TV show one), not the big square packing carton in the TV series.
1. On a windsurfer, the wind pressure helps you balance. When a really big wave blocks the wind, it's close to impossible to balance with the additional sail.
That would only happen in an onshore wind.
2. The sail won't fit in a tube.
It has been done;)
Not regularly though, and I'll give you that point.
3. You can't perform a number of maneuvers, because the sail is in the way.
Such as? Duck dives and tube rides are all I can think of, oh and maybe some old longboard stuff like hanging 10 (hang 5s can be done no problem) or hand stands etc.
4. The first close-out will smash your sail to bits.
Modern rigs are a lot tougher than you think, never mind having a good chance of outrunning a close-out anyway.
5. The sail is an incredibly dangerous piece of junk when the wave hits you the wrong way.
6. In some situations, the a sail can catapult you off the board. And I wouldn't want to be using a leash when this happens.
True, but most sail injuries would come from landing on it after a jump. I've seen a lot of surfers cut by their own board due to the leash. No leash on a windsurfer, you have to swap between goofy and normal when you change direction. A leash would just get in the way. Besides the sail stops the board getting washed too far (most of the the time hehe).
Windsurfing in waves can be fun. But we're talking about really big ones, where tow-in is necessary.
Most of the group that pioneered big wave tow-in at Jaws also windsurf the same spot. I haven't seen many photos of surfers hitting the lip there the way these guys do with a sail: http://www2.vo.lu/homepages/tonnar/photos.htm Not the best photos I could find at short notice - there seem to be suprisingly few good Jaws photos on the web.
Anyway I wasn't trying to compare surfing vs windsurfing (you don't get to be a really good wavesailor without being a good surfer too) - just pointing that if it's too big to paddle in, you don't have to be towed-in.
But, you may not know that the first place in the world to give women equal suffrage was the Territory of Wyoming in 1869. Now I know why the nickname for Wyoming is "The Equality State".
Yep I had heard that. It's pretty amazing to think that it wasn't really until the 20th century that western 'democracies' gave women the vote.
Ever tried water skiing? Just as much sun, just as much fresh air, and probably more intense physical activity than surfing - and pretty well impossible without a motor.
OK for the sun bit, less fresh air though (you are behind an engine exhaust after all), I won't comment on the activity bit that depends on what you are actually doing and the conditions.
But water skiing gets pretty BORING after a while compared to surfing. Surfing is one of those things you never master, and the ocean is always going to be able to humble you.
You might hate tow-ins, but how else can someone surf a really big wave? Answer, they can't.
Compromise: on a windsurfer.
Advantages: No jetski, no heavy unresponsive polluting noisy 'motorised surfboard', copes with the speed and drop-in fine, handles just like one of those custom tow-in boards anyway (that's where some of the initial design ideas were borrowed from). The sail lets you power around whitewater if you have to, as well as letting you get huge aerial reentries. And you don't have to paddle out.
Disadvantages: needs some wind, although not much in huge waves - the waves speed generates a lot of apparent wind. The sail may put off some diehard surfers.
Actually you're both right in a way. Think about some of the younger Windows 'power users' or gamer type enthusiasts you see around.
Those guys strike me as very similar to ricers - both spending huge amounts of money adding a few percentage points of performance to their commodity (eg Dell/Nissan) computers/cars and thinking they're shit hot cool badasses that know what they're doing.
Extending this further, the Linux/BSD guys are more like guys building Tim the Toolman style hotrods in their garages, and the Apple customers are like BMW (for example) customers.
And the rest of the Windows world is happy with going shopping or commuting in their low end Nissans that get them from A to B without too much fuss.
It seems completely outrageous from my child-of-the-seventies perspective that there was a time when the government would have considered someone who wanted women to have the right to vote to be a terrorist.
This is why organizations like the ACLU that fight for the civil rights of anybody whose civil rights have been trampled are so important - who knows when the next Susan B. Anthony, Martin Luther King, or, heaven forfend, Richard Stallman, will rely on the precedents established by the ACLU to allow them to continue to try to make the world a better place, despite the resistance of the powers that be.
Warning: blatant oversimplication and devils advocacy coming up....
To the best of my knowledge Martin Luther King Jr and Richard Stallman didn't go around smashing windows etc*. Maybe there was a (misguided perhaps) fear the vandalism could escalate to what anarchists were doing back then eg bombings etc.
Note I'm not trying to devalue the cause**. Although I wouldn't put RMS in the quite the same class as suffragettes or the civil rights movement, all three did/do pose some threat to the 'establishments' power base. Stability of the status quo isn't always a good thing. And it would be good for governments today to recognise when that is the case.
* Although RMS probably wants to smash Windows(tm);)
** I'm proud that my country was the first to give women the vote, and that there was no segregation in it's history. We've done kinda ok with personal privacy issues as well.
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Yep, the actual effects will most likely be less than the potential imagined/assumed effects in the mind of the next buyer.
If that sentence makes sense.
OpenSSH is a part of Linux as much as RPC or Windows Messaging is a part of Windows.
I see your point, but my Debian installs don't include OpenSSH. If I want it, I have to add it myself.
Is there a current Windows edition without RPC? Or can you untick installing RPC during setup?
Is it just me, or do all the recent patches seem to have been released on a Wednesday?
No it's not just you, although it is usually early Thursday morning in NZ. Our company typically used Wed night for scheduled downtime and patching etc.
It got very annoying to come in the next day after the downtime to a new bunch of advisories. This has been happening every 3 out of 4 weeks lately.
That weekly schedule alone makes me doubt Bills claims, unless he also claims they only ever get notified of problems on Tuesdays.
Can't get past the first level?! That's pretty sad, given that the first level of Donkey Kong is a cinch.
Hehe, they should've sat them down in front of Defender - if they thought Donkey Kong was hard. Then shown em a master playing it - I used to be blown away watching some kid spend hours on one credit on Defender.
You start out asking for MS Project replacements due to scalability issue, but then you state that you are only considering what appear to be Linux-based solutions. Are you in search of an enterprise-class tool, or a Linux tool? As far as I know, there isn't anything that meet both criteria.
Have you looked at PlanWise?
Old news I'm afraid, been around since the 60s on any decent cad workstation. When you have complete control of the gun on a CRT anything is possible.
:)
Children of the 80's might be more familiar with Asteroids, Tempest, Battle Zone and Star Wars though
I suppose the term 'vector graphics' is a little ambiguous and could refer to both image formats and display hardware.
I mean, say I exercise every day for 15 minutes for the rest of my life. That's a lot of frickin' time. I could be having fun in that time. Sure, I might live longer, but those will be years when I'm old and decrepit.
Excercise and having fun aren't exclusive - sure going to the gym or jogging suck major ass, but there are other ways of getting excercise:
Skiing, snowboarding, surfing, mountain biking, windsurfing, motorcross, whitewater kayaking etc etc. The only way I have any fun exercising is when exercise is a byproduct of having fun, rather than trying to have fun exercising.
OK then, NT 3.1 Professional or Home (XP) vs NT 3.1 Server (W2003) :)
Although 2003 has a 5.2 version number internally - even though both XP and W2003 are from 'Whistler'.
Bah, I don't like either of them - they rub me up the wrong way. Give me W2K (if it has to be Windows) or Debian (if it doesn't have to be Windows) instead.
On the NT side, Win2k is WinNT 5.0, while XP is WinNT 5.1.
Or as I like to think it should've been:
NT 3.1 -> NT 1.0
NT 3.5 -> NT 1.1
NT 3.51 -> NT 1.1.1
NT 4.0 -> NT 2.0
NT 4.0 with option pack -> NT 2.1 (maybe?)
W2K -> NT 3.0
XP -> NT 3.1
etc
In other words, the resellers are completely unaware just how far behind SCO UNIX is the state-of-the-art.
It sounded to me that reseller was completely aware of how far SCO is behind and was trying to get them to admit they were copying Linux (and Solaris, but SCO copying Linux has more impact).
Assuming that all your constraints are unalterable, you're screwed.
;)
What about keeping all the files on big usb memory keys?
I'm only 90% kidding
The ranking is the top Agenda setters, not the most powerful folks in tech as the poster states.
I reckon the top 50 setters of UK Tech Agendas might be more accurate.
I mean, there are BT and NHS lackeys in there that will never have much if any influence outside the UK.
How well does it scale? AutoCAD seems to be the current champion when it comes to vector graphics. I would not consider SVG until I could see some heavy duty 2D schematics done with this tool.
Hehe, while schematics are vector graphics, you can't necessarily say vector graphics are schematics.
I wouldn't want use to AutoCAD for graphic design - and I say that as an ex AutoCAD drafter.
I would be great if SVG ends up becoming a unified format that is widely used for drafting, diagramming and graphic design (and web browsers!). I assume that because SVG is XML that vocabularies for all those areas would be possible.
SVG already has waay more graphic features than needed for schematics - after all they are pretty much just lines (incl splines etc) and text. The hard part is organising and tracking all the metadata - even just low level stuff like blocks, layers, scales etc. Exporting to SVG would be very easy for a 2D CAD app, more work would probably be needed to make SVG a native CAD format though.
Wasn't slapper a network worm?
Then again, the article author seemed to mix worms and viruses up too. Do these latest outbreaks of nasties still actually infect files these days, or do they just run independently and spread themselves around (ie worms)?
360s and stuff come to mind. I know you can do stuff like this on a windsurfer. But it should be pretty much impossible in the wave.
:)
Nope, there are dozens of combinations of 360 moves (when riding in) around all 3 axes, carving on the wave, or aerial back onto the wave - let alone spinning just the board, sail or body 360. It's actually the sail that allows all these moves to happen (beyond my skill level though).
As for jumping on the way out - double loops are commonplace for the pros these days.
Maybe. I haven't windsurfed for a decade.
Things have come a very long way in the last decade
But I still aspire to being a better surfer - I'd love to live somewhere I could surf in the morning and windsurf in the afternoon. Trouble is we mostly get windswell here - great for windsurfing, but not so good for surfing.
Author Dent (Simon Jones) (He was the same guy who did the voices for the radio series) was good but Ford and Trillian stank, I still under the impression that Trillian should be a brunette. With better special effects Zaphod should look cooler and more realistic.
:)
Agreed, although I thought Ford was ok (just ok). And I seem to remember Trillian being a brunette in the book at least - with some partial middle eastern ethnicity as well? I thought the TV Marvin wasn't very good either - I imagined him being a bit smaller and rounder.
I never heard the radio series, but the TV series seemed to suffer from starting off a little slow then getting more and more rushed as it went on skipping lots of stuff by the end. Probably something to do with budgets running out
Whether you want to admit it or not, there isn't much different between British and American sense of humour. Funny things are funny no matter the location.
Yeah, people have a tendency to compare good British humour with bad American humour. Part of that may be that only the American entertainment industry is big enough to export/market the crap stuff as well as the good stuff.
I've always invisioned Marvin as something like a Bender from futureama.
I always imagined Marvin to be like a depressed version of Twiki (the 80s Buck Rogers TV show one), not the big square packing carton in the TV series.
1. On a windsurfer, the wind pressure helps you balance. When a really big wave blocks the wind, it's close to impossible to balance with the additional sail.
;)
That would only happen in an onshore wind.
2. The sail won't fit in a tube.
It has been done
Not regularly though, and I'll give you that point.
3. You can't perform a number of maneuvers, because the sail is in the way.
Such as? Duck dives and tube rides are all I can think of, oh and maybe some old longboard stuff like hanging 10 (hang 5s can be done no problem) or hand stands etc.
4. The first close-out will smash your sail to bits.
Modern rigs are a lot tougher than you think, never mind having a good chance of outrunning a close-out anyway.
5. The sail is an incredibly dangerous piece of junk when the wave hits you the wrong way.
6. In some situations, the a sail can catapult you off the board. And I wouldn't want to be using a leash when this happens.
True, but most sail injuries would come from landing on it after a jump. I've seen a lot of surfers cut by their own board due to the leash. No leash on a windsurfer, you have to swap between goofy and normal when you change direction. A leash would just get in the way. Besides the sail stops the board getting washed too far (most of the the time hehe).
Windsurfing in waves can be fun. But we're talking about really big ones, where tow-in is necessary.
Most of the group that pioneered big wave tow-in at Jaws also windsurf the same spot. I haven't seen many photos of surfers hitting the lip there the way these guys do with a sail:
http://www2.vo.lu/homepages/tonnar/photos.htm
Not the best photos I could find at short notice - there seem to be suprisingly few good Jaws photos on the web.
Anyway I wasn't trying to compare surfing vs windsurfing (you don't get to be a really good wavesailor without being a good surfer too) - just pointing that if it's too big to paddle in, you don't have to be towed-in.
But, you may not know that the first place in the world to give women equal suffrage was the Territory of Wyoming in 1869. Now I know why the nickname for Wyoming is "The Equality State".
Yep I had heard that. It's pretty amazing to think that it wasn't really until the 20th century that western 'democracies' gave women the vote.
Ever tried water skiing? Just as much sun, just as much fresh air, and probably more intense physical activity than surfing - and pretty well impossible without a motor.
OK for the sun bit, less fresh air though (you are behind an engine exhaust after all), I won't comment on the activity bit that depends on what you are actually doing and the conditions.
But water skiing gets pretty BORING after a while compared to surfing. Surfing is one of those things you never master, and the ocean is always going to be able to humble you.
You might hate tow-ins, but how else can someone surf a really big wave? Answer, they can't.
Compromise: on a windsurfer.
Advantages: No jetski, no heavy unresponsive polluting noisy 'motorised surfboard', copes with the speed and drop-in fine, handles just like one of those custom tow-in boards anyway (that's where some of the initial design ideas were borrowed from). The sail lets you power around whitewater if you have to, as well as letting you get huge aerial reentries. And you don't have to paddle out.
Disadvantages: needs some wind, although not much in huge waves - the waves speed generates a lot of apparent wind. The sail may put off some diehard surfers.
Actually you're both right in a way. Think about some of the younger Windows 'power users' or gamer type enthusiasts you see around.
Those guys strike me as very similar to ricers - both spending huge amounts of money adding a few percentage points of performance to their commodity (eg Dell/Nissan) computers/cars and thinking they're shit hot cool badasses that know what they're doing.
Extending this further, the Linux/BSD guys are more like guys building Tim the Toolman style hotrods in their garages, and the Apple customers are like BMW (for example) customers.
And the rest of the Windows world is happy with going shopping or commuting in their low end Nissans that get them from A to B without too much fuss.
New Zealand
It seems completely outrageous from my child-of-the-seventies perspective that there was a time when the government would have considered someone who wanted women to have the right to vote to be a terrorist.
;)
This is why organizations like the ACLU that fight for the civil rights of anybody whose civil rights have been trampled are so important - who knows when the next Susan B. Anthony, Martin Luther King, or, heaven forfend, Richard Stallman, will rely on the precedents established by the ACLU to allow them to continue to try to make the world a better place, despite the resistance of the powers that be.
Warning: blatant oversimplication and devils advocacy coming up....
To the best of my knowledge Martin Luther King Jr and Richard Stallman didn't go around smashing windows etc*. Maybe there was a (misguided perhaps) fear the vandalism could escalate to what anarchists were doing back then eg bombings etc.
Note I'm not trying to devalue the cause**. Although I wouldn't put RMS in the quite the same class as suffragettes or the civil rights movement, all three did/do pose some threat to the 'establishments' power base. Stability of the status quo isn't always a good thing. And it would be good for governments today to recognise when that is the case.
* Although RMS probably wants to smash Windows(tm)
** I'm proud that my country was the first to give women the vote, and that there was no segregation in it's history. We've done kinda ok with personal privacy issues as well.