Yeah, but in situations like that, you have to clearly demonstrate that there was an immediate threat, or immediate peril. And that's harder than it seems. I was talking about him calling up the Scientologists and threatening their whole group, anyway.
Oh, I have no problem with gun owners. It was just a demographic that I knew the parent poster was a member of. Now get off my lawn or I'll break out the uzi.
That worked. And that's how Scientologists should be dealt with. It's the only "reasoning" they understand.
The same could be said for gun owners. Or Jehova's witnesses, or telemarketers. Anyway. It's 'bad' to start killing off cults. Freedom of religion and all that. The sensible thing would have been to report it to the police as harassment. You could've probably easily gotten a restraining order. And if they continued, they would've had to pay hefty fines, which would cause a lot more damage than scaring them away. Oh yeah, death threats are illegal. You should be in jail.
The software for Linux seems to always try to be everything to everyone. There is no supper basic notepad for Linux
I'm pretty sure that the "notepad" for Linux could be considered to be "ed". Try "ed filename.txt". That's as basic as you can get. A step above that would probably be pico (or nano). And then at the top you have VI, Emacs, etc. There's always cat >> filename.txt EOF if you want to get even more basic.
nEdit is a good graphical notepad too.
For me, though, the notepad has always just been the console. If I just need to edit something in a jiffy I just "vi/etc/X11/XF86Config" or whatever. If I'm writing a paper or coding I'll bust out nEdit or jEdit or something else.
I install a nightly build almost every morning and never had to revert back to using an older build because something major was broken... But I don't expect anything would be different for the Windoze and Mac builds.
I had problems with the nightly builds for about 3 days with my windows box... it wouldn't render more than just the frame. Not sure what was wrong. But it worked perfectly afterwards - I even noticed it was a little bit faster/smoother, and a few of the small kinks had been worked out (crashing going to certain sites).
I guess I'm being a bit cynical, but it's a good thing that most of the Mozilla developers probably ignored/. over the years anyway. It's not like, say, abot 80% of comments were completely unconstructive, nooo...
This really is the/. syndrome. Some people complain about the topic. Some people complain about people complaining about the topic. And some people complain about people complaining... etc. And then everyone agrees that/. is going to hell, and wonders why.
Actually, the bass and treble... are... actually there. Most CD/mp3 goes from about 100khz to 60hz, if I remember right, while Vinyl picks up the whole spectrum. And remember, the sample rate for CD or 128kbit Mp3 is only 44100hz. Or 735 samples/second. You lose resolution. Imagine taking a painting, and turning it into 735 colored squares, sampled evenly throughout the picture. Might not seem that bad. Unless you consider that 640x480 resolution is only 307,200 little colored squares. Clearer? 1024x768 is 786,432 little colored squraes. That's a factor of roughly 1000 compared to 735 colored squares. 1600x1200, when it becomes difficult to pick out individual pixels, is 1,920,000 little colored squares. And that's still not analog.
Sure, visual resolution may be apples to audio resolution, but the difference is there. And you can hear it.:)
Studies have shown that human ears can't detect the differences between (for example) CD quality digital audio, and a high quality analog copy.
Actually, vinyl records have a much better sound than CD or MP3 (at equivalent bit rates). The problem is your speakers are too crappy to hear the difference. Go to a hi-fi music shop, and ask to listen to one of their stereos - if they have both a turn table and a CD player hooked up, listen to the same album on both. You'll hear the difference. Although, it's likely they won't even have a CD player hooked up - just because it'd be a waste on a nice hi-fi system.
My question is, essentially, what's wrong with pay per view? I mean, is advertising really a better model for you and I? As viewers, sure we get loads of content for free, but doesn't advertising have it's own effect on the content?
Nothing's wrong with pay-per-view. But you're missing the point. We'll pay more (per view) and they'll keep the advertising. You *know* they will, and *I* know they will. They simply want as much money as they can get. Not that there's anything wrong with that - but it doesn't mean we have to put up with their shit.
So far I've found it very intuitive and it's certainly not any more difficult to read than anything else.
Sure, it's certainly possible to write very clear, distinct perl code. It's also incredibly easy to write very obfuscated, near impossible to read perl code. Here's a good example of how bad Perl can get. It's a pretty picture though.
...would be to have expiration dates on the administrators... if they don't update the software often enough, they get canned.
Let's hope that security professionals don't start down the path of Technology Is The Answer that the MPAA and RIAA have chosen. The parallels are too obvious to ignore.
Heh. It is very unscientific. You don't know enough about it. Basically, it's another meaningless statistic, just like the FUD Microsoft uses.
It'd be more relevant if you included a traceroute to both (e.g. how far away is the new server compared to the old?), and if you could estimate or know the amount of traffic to each. I would assume that since they switched, most of the traffic would be going to the new server rather than the old, hence more of a slowdown.
Furthermore, it's likely that the new machine goes through the same network that all the other MS webservers do, hence, much much more traffic. Although, these are all guesses.
I'd like to see a comparison with the same boxen, same connection, same distance, etc, etc, etc.
And oh yeah, "wrt" means "with reguard to", so you don't need to type "wrt to the index page...":)
...are probably so complex and obfuscated that their partners are so confused they don't know where to begin, much less what to actually do. Without written instructions, that is.:)
IMHO, the Ultimate MMORPG would be The Sims + EQ (or your favorite flavour of fantasy RPG). Essentially - you get to build and change the environment, find grain control of everything, and plenty of interaction.
I would love to go raid my Neighbor's luxury home which he just built, but forgot to put doors on.
the worry of the company dying and support drying up. Not to mention the cost.
When it comes to OSS I actually worry that the author/maintainers would get tired of doing it and drop it. Although, for active projects support is usually fantastic (all it normally takes to get any question answered is a quick mail to their mailing list). But as for commercial software - as long as the company still exists, they have an obligation to support their older and current products - if only to keep their customers around. The same isn't true at all for OSS. Just because a lot of people are really nice about doesn't mean they have to be, and they might just as soon say, "Piss off, you nonce."
Of course, RAM usage doesn't matter as much these days, with the standard RAM installed being above 128 megs, but still good to know.
Less RAM used means less memory accesses, which means more free memory bandwidth, which means everything runs faster. RAM is still the bottleneck on 99% of systems, so the less you use the better. Oh. And Windows (I still run 98SE) itself takes up about 128mb of RAM with a few agents running. Stripped down to nothing running I can't get it below 75mb.
You put the disk in your player but being The One Disk it makes your player disappear. You then end up poking blindly at the front panel for the play button(or eject button...which ever comes first) or finding the long lost remote.
I want a Universal remote that says, on the top, "One remote to rule them all..."
I don't have to remember a lot of passwords, because I don't use a lot of passwords. How is this a solution? Well, for any and every account that doesn't matter (e.g. hotmail spam account, anything I sign up for) I use the same, stupid password. I don't care if someone hacks those accounts, all they'll get is all the fake information I entered when I signed up. Then I remember 5 complex passwords (8 chars or more, mixed caps, multiple non alpha chars) for the 5 things that are important.
And those are easy to remember, because they're usually phrases, shortened: "There's no Sex in the Champagne Room!" gives me: "TnSitCR!" as a password. Easy to remember, hard to crack.
But really, as far as server OSes are concerned, should we even be thinking about the default install? Unless the default install comes so good you don't have to change a thing, you're going to end up getting your hands into the configuration of pretty much everything.
And if you need to *rely* on the default install for your server, that's a whole 'nother story.
...if this is a reply to Mandrake's 8.2 release? I mean, Mandrake offers everything RedHat does, and more, in my opinion. Maybe they're worried about losing their chunk of the biz.
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Yeah, but in situations like that, you have to clearly demonstrate that there was an immediate threat, or immediate peril. And that's harder than it seems. I was talking about him calling up the Scientologists and threatening their whole group, anyway.
Oh, I have no problem with gun owners. It was just a demographic that I knew the parent poster was a member of. Now get off my lawn or I'll break out the uzi.
That worked. And that's how Scientologists should be dealt with. It's the only "reasoning" they understand.
The same could be said for gun owners. Or Jehova's witnesses, or telemarketers. Anyway. It's 'bad' to start killing off cults. Freedom of religion and all that. The sensible thing would have been to report it to the police as harassment. You could've probably easily gotten a restraining order. And if they continued, they would've had to pay hefty fines, which would cause a lot more damage than scaring them away. Oh yeah, death threats are illegal. You should be in jail.
The software for Linux seems to always try to be everything to everyone. There is no supper basic notepad for Linux
/etc/X11/XF86Config" or whatever. If I'm writing a paper or coding I'll bust out nEdit or jEdit or something else.
I'm pretty sure that the "notepad" for Linux could be considered to be "ed". Try "ed filename.txt". That's as basic as you can get. A step above that would probably be pico (or nano). And then at the top you have VI, Emacs, etc. There's always cat >> filename.txt EOF if you want to get even more basic.
nEdit is a good graphical notepad too.
For me, though, the notepad has always just been the console. If I just need to edit something in a jiffy I just "vi
I install a nightly build almost every morning and never had to revert back to using an older build because something major was broken...
But I don't expect anything would be different for the Windoze and Mac builds.
I had problems with the nightly builds for about 3 days with my windows box... it wouldn't render more than just the frame. Not sure what was wrong. But it worked perfectly afterwards - I even noticed it was a little bit faster/smoother, and a few of the small kinks had been worked out (crashing going to certain sites).
One question I have as a DHTML web designer, is that will v1.0 fix the DHTML timing issues?
Download the nightly build and see if they've fixed it yet.
I guess I'm being a bit cynical, but it's a good thing that most of the Mozilla developers probably ignored /. over the years anyway. It's not like, say, abot 80% of comments were completely unconstructive, nooo...
/. syndrome. Some people complain about the topic. Some people complain about people complaining about the topic. And some people complain about people complaining... etc. And then everyone agrees that /. is going to hell, and wonders why.
This really is the
I vote we should just stop complaining.
Actually, the bass and treble... are... actually there. Most CD/mp3 goes from about 100khz to 60hz, if I remember right, while Vinyl picks up the whole spectrum. And remember, the sample rate for CD or 128kbit Mp3 is only 44100hz. Or 735 samples/second. You lose resolution. Imagine taking a painting, and turning it into 735 colored squares, sampled evenly throughout the picture. Might not seem that bad. Unless you consider that 640x480 resolution is only 307,200 little colored squares. Clearer? 1024x768 is 786,432 little colored squraes. That's a factor of roughly 1000 compared to 735 colored squares. 1600x1200, when it becomes difficult to pick out individual pixels, is 1,920,000 little colored squares. And that's still not analog.
:)
Sure, visual resolution may be apples to audio resolution, but the difference is there. And you can hear it.
I know its probably hosted by someone else but come on just the idea that we slashdotted a cray is awesome :)
Crays do vector computing. Why the hell would they have a lot of bandwidth? Though, the day we slashdot UUnet or AT&T I'll laugh until I pee myself.
Studies have shown that human ears can't detect the differences between (for example) CD quality digital audio, and a high quality analog copy.
Actually, vinyl records have a much better sound than CD or MP3 (at equivalent bit rates). The problem is your speakers are too crappy to hear the difference. Go to a hi-fi music shop, and ask to listen to one of their stereos - if they have both a turn table and a CD player hooked up, listen to the same album on both. You'll hear the difference. Although, it's likely they won't even have a CD player hooked up - just because it'd be a waste on a nice hi-fi system.
My question is, essentially, what's wrong with pay per view? I mean, is advertising really a better model for you and I? As viewers, sure we get loads of content for free, but doesn't advertising have it's own effect on the content?
Nothing's wrong with pay-per-view. But you're missing the point. We'll pay more (per view) and they'll keep the advertising. You *know* they will, and *I* know they will. They simply want as much money as they can get. Not that there's anything wrong with that - but it doesn't mean we have to put up with their shit.
So far I've found it very intuitive and it's certainly not any more difficult to read than anything else.
Sure, it's certainly possible to write very clear, distinct perl code. It's also incredibly easy to write very obfuscated, near impossible to read perl code. Here's a good example of how bad Perl can get. It's a pretty picture though.
...would be to have expiration dates on the administrators... if they don't update the software often enough, they get canned.
Let's hope that security professionals don't start down the path of Technology Is The Answer that the MPAA and RIAA have chosen. The parallels are too obvious to ignore.
Heh. It is very unscientific. You don't know enough about it. Basically, it's another meaningless statistic, just like the FUD Microsoft uses.
:)
It'd be more relevant if you included a traceroute to both (e.g. how far away is the new server compared to the old?), and if you could estimate or know the amount of traffic to each. I would assume that since they switched, most of the traffic would be going to the new server rather than the old, hence more of a slowdown.
Furthermore, it's likely that the new machine goes through the same network that all the other MS webservers do, hence, much much more traffic. Although, these are all guesses.
I'd like to see a comparison with the same boxen, same connection, same distance, etc, etc, etc.
And oh yeah, "wrt" means "with reguard to", so you don't need to type "wrt to the index page..."
Heh.
Earth to previous poster?
The story is linked to an article on Tom's Hardware. E.g. it's not Taco's joke. E.g. go yell at Tom.
And you are not funny either. Just annoying.
...are probably so complex and obfuscated that their partners are so confused they don't know where to begin, much less what to actually do. Without written instructions, that is. :)
IMHO, the Ultimate MMORPG would be The Sims + EQ (or your favorite flavour of fantasy RPG). Essentially - you get to build and change the environment, find grain control of everything, and plenty of interaction.
I would love to go raid my Neighbor's luxury home which he just built, but forgot to put doors on.
the worry of the company dying and support drying up. Not to mention the cost.
When it comes to OSS I actually worry that the author/maintainers would get tired of doing it and drop it. Although, for active projects support is usually fantastic (all it normally takes to get any question answered is a quick mail to their mailing list). But as for commercial software - as long as the company still exists, they have an obligation to support their older and current products - if only to keep their customers around. The same isn't true at all for OSS. Just because a lot of people are really nice about doesn't mean they have to be, and they might just as soon say, "Piss off, you nonce."
Just my $0.02.
Of course, RAM usage doesn't matter as much these days, with the standard RAM installed being above 128 megs, but still good to know.
Less RAM used means less memory accesses, which means more free memory bandwidth, which means everything runs faster. RAM is still the bottleneck on 99% of systems, so the less you use the better. Oh. And Windows (I still run 98SE) itself takes up about 128mb of RAM with a few agents running. Stripped down to nothing running I can't get it below 75mb.
RAM still matters. Don't be bad programmers.
You put the disk in your player but being The One Disk it makes your player disappear. You then end up poking blindly at the front panel for the play button(or eject button...which ever comes first) or finding the long lost remote.
I want a Universal remote that says, on the top, "One remote to rule them all..."
...is of course: BUBBLE SORT!
Why? It's the only sort algorithm you can ALWAYS remember off the top of your head. (Besides, optimizations are for version 2.0).
I don't have to remember a lot of passwords, because I don't use a lot of passwords. How is this a solution? Well, for any and every account that doesn't matter (e.g. hotmail spam account, anything I sign up for) I use the same, stupid password. I don't care if someone hacks those accounts, all they'll get is all the fake information I entered when I signed up. Then I remember 5 complex passwords (8 chars or more, mixed caps, multiple non alpha chars) for the 5 things that are important.
And those are easy to remember, because they're usually phrases, shortened: "There's no Sex in the Champagne Room!" gives me: "TnSitCR!" as a password. Easy to remember, hard to crack.
They do it for processors. Why not for OSes?
But really, as far as server OSes are concerned, should we even be thinking about the default install? Unless the default install comes so good you don't have to change a thing, you're going to end up getting your hands into the configuration of pretty much everything.
And if you need to *rely* on the default install for your server, that's a whole 'nother story.
...if this is a reply to Mandrake's 8.2 release? I mean, Mandrake offers everything RedHat does, and more, in my opinion. Maybe they're worried about losing their chunk of the biz.
Maybe not.