What's geekier? D&D? Or D&D over a computer network?
The first step towards help is realizing you need it. Just say "I am a geek, and I'm not ashamed." 10 times every morning when you wake up and you'll be on the road to recovery.
Just because I don't think it's a major problem does not mean I think that dasd and bandwidth are free.
Spammers have to pay for dasd and bandwidth. They are connected to the net just like you and I are. Is it a 'waste' of bandwidth for me to run nmap on remote servers to test them? What about the kid down the street running quake. Is he costing me money becaue he's eating my bandwitch on my cablemodem?
It's a waste of time and energy to 'fight' spammers. This isn't a holy crusade. No one is going to give you/. brownie points for being enraged of the great spam injustice.
Delete the spam and move on. Of all the things that waste time in my life, spam isn't really high on the list. Where is all the rage against traffic jams? Or slow tellers? Or Chris Carter for subjecting us to the last several seasons of the XFiles?
It's already got a free OS on it. I know that I'm not willing to spend even the licensing fee for MS Windows products on a yearly basis. Even IF it came with new hardware.
So, I guess if this ever comes to pass, the Open Source model will have WON the battle. So the necessity for hacking would wane considerably.
I've been running RH 6.1 on my sparc for the last 6 months. I have Solaris 8 sitting here doing nothing. I've downloaded Debian and Suse. For some reason the Debian and Suse ISOs I made won't boot.
The main reason I've been doing this is because solaris is a pain in the rear once you get used to all the gnu tools. I've also benchmarked many of the gnu utilities, the core of *nix as far as I'm concerned. Commands like sort, cut, wc and the like. The gnu utilities are an order of magnatitude faster than the ones that solaris has. I have no idea why. You'd think Sun Microsystems would have an advantage over the gnu utils in that they can write it specifically for their sparc processors.
At any rate, linux has a more consitant interface than Solaris does. Solaris by itself isn't very developer friendly. So, knowing that I'm going to install autotools, gcc, and its ilk, why start on solaris? It seems more like putting a ribbon on a pig.
I work at a large telecommunications company and I work on a very large (understatement) database with billions of records loaded daily. We employ the eXtreme Programming model for development. Our database is a release database and we modify it weekly. Adding new features, tables. Changing things as we go. As long as we control the interface changes are 'cheap' in cost. I shudder to think of how all these changes would be under an OO database.
If you plan on using an OO database, you are basically cut out of the xprogramming style. You spend MUCH more time in 'designing' and less time 'delivering'. Thanks, but no thanks.
I read the complete story on the web site and in the middle of the thing he makes the statement that they wouldn't hear him out because of their 'social and liberal agenda'. It really stuck out with me because Edison and the history books are defined (by his own story) in terms of Big Business. So I wrote a letter asking about that phrase and giving him Kudos for bringing some serious attention to the lack of Tesla there. In response, he flames me for having an agenda of my own. *blink* Here is a copy of the email I got from him. I just thought it incredibly odd. Buy a T-shirt and I will gladly take time to explain it. Otherwise, I do not have time to waste for no gain. I believe you are more interested in your political agenda than you are in Tesla anyway. *shrug*
Slashdot Mirror
I concur. There is a serious flaw in that proof. You cannot use A13 for the step described.
What's geekier? D&D? Or D&D over a computer network?
The first step towards help is realizing you need it. Just say "I am a geek, and I'm not ashamed." 10 times every morning when you wake up and you'll be on the road to recovery.
False dichotomy.
Just because I don't think it's a major problem does not mean I think that dasd and bandwidth are free.
Spammers have to pay for dasd and bandwidth. They are connected to the net just like you and I are. Is it a 'waste' of bandwidth for me to run nmap on remote servers to test them? What about the kid down the street running quake. Is he costing me money becaue he's eating my bandwitch on my cablemodem?
"I'm glad someone can find a worthwile cause to fight for."
Of all the worthwhile causes out there to fight for: Human rights, whaling, the rainforest etc...
Some might say you are being tremendously shallow to say that this is a worthwhile endevour. Some might. Me included.
If you consider spam to be a 'major' problem, then you have it pretty easy.
It's a waste of time and energy to 'fight' spammers. This isn't a holy crusade. No one is going to give you /. brownie points for being enraged of the great spam injustice.
Delete the spam and move on. Of all the things that waste time in my life, spam isn't really high on the list. Where is all the rage against traffic jams? Or slow tellers? Or Chris Carter for subjecting us to the last several seasons of the XFiles?
It's already got a free OS on it. I know that I'm not willing to spend even the licensing fee for MS Windows products on a yearly basis. Even IF it came with new hardware. So, I guess if this ever comes to pass, the Open Source model will have WON the battle. So the necessity for hacking would wane considerably.
I've been running RH 6.1 on my sparc for the last 6 months. I have Solaris 8 sitting here doing nothing. I've downloaded Debian and Suse. For some reason the Debian and Suse ISOs I made won't boot.
The main reason I've been doing this is because solaris is a pain in the rear once you get used to all the gnu tools. I've also benchmarked many of the gnu utilities, the core of *nix as far as I'm concerned. Commands like sort, cut, wc and the like. The gnu utilities are an order of magnatitude faster than the ones that solaris has. I have no idea why. You'd think Sun Microsystems would have an advantage over the gnu utils in that they can write it specifically for their sparc processors.
At any rate, linux has a more consitant interface than Solaris does. Solaris by itself isn't very developer friendly. So, knowing that I'm going to install autotools, gcc, and its ilk, why start on solaris? It seems more like putting a ribbon on a pig.
I work at a large telecommunications company and I work on a very large (understatement) database with billions of records loaded daily. We employ the eXtreme Programming model for development. Our database is a release database and we modify it weekly. Adding new features, tables. Changing things as we go. As long as we control the interface changes are 'cheap' in cost. I shudder to think of how all these changes would be under an OO database. If you plan on using an OO database, you are basically cut out of the xprogramming style. You spend MUCH more time in 'designing' and less time 'delivering'. Thanks, but no thanks.
I read the complete story on the web site and in the middle of the thing he makes the statement that they wouldn't hear him out because of their 'social and liberal agenda'. It really stuck out with me because Edison and the history books are defined (by his own story) in terms of Big Business. So I wrote a letter asking about that phrase and giving him Kudos for bringing some serious attention to the lack of Tesla there. In response, he flames me for having an agenda of my own. *blink* Here is a copy of the email I got from him. I just thought it incredibly odd. Buy a T-shirt and I will gladly take time to explain it. Otherwise, I do not have time to waste for no gain. I believe you are more interested in your political agenda than you are in Tesla anyway. *shrug*