>>If you walked into McDonald's for the first time in your life >...Then you've apparently lived off-planet for the entirety of that life thus far.
Or in an area where there is no McDonald's (there's still a few thousand miles of this planet that are McDonald's-free i'm sure;) and have moved to a place where there is one.
>>you may not realise that it is so unhealthy (>30g fat/burger usually, enough fat for the entire day) >...Though you sure as hell will when you take that first bite dripping with fat.
The McDonald's burgers that I've had (they're all the same across the planet, right?) haven't "dripped" with fat: the sugar-filled brown-painted white sponge around the meat takes care of that. 8)
>With something like McD's showing pictures of fresh veggies, that gets a little more tricky - Would you also say Birdseye has falsely represented their chopped and frozen broccoli by showing pictures of fresh healthy-looking broccoli on the box? With a fast-food restaurant (as with the broccoli), I think we all understand that the pictures reflect an ideal, but not quite reality.
Yes indeed I agree with that but where do you draw the line?
I just find it cynical when such positively bad food in a pervasive "restaurant" is misrepresented so blatantly. It just leads to people getting fat. All "junk food" suffers from this problem though I agree: there are countless examples.
> (Incidentally, I notice this reads somewhat more caustic than I intend - I mean this as wryly tongue-in-cheek, not deliberately insulting).
> If I get a Bacon Double Whopper with king-sized fries for lunch every day, I KNOW I'm going to get fat. It's not Burger King's fault, for god's sake.
I agree with you that some people seem to shirk their personal responsibilities and require a LART.
However if you go into McDonald's, you'll find that their food is advertised as healthy: with photographs of fresh tomatoes, lettuce, onions, cheese, etc. If you walked into McDonald's for the first time in your life you may not realise that it is so unhealthy (>30g fat/burger usually, enough fat for the entire day). I personally think that this is deceptive behaviour. That it doesn't deceive you or me or millions of others is irrelevant.
It's like someone selling "Health Cigarettes": most of us would know that these things could not possibly be good for you but the _attempt_ to deceive the public is a wrongful act.
Do you believe that companies should not be accountable for false representation such as this?
While you guys keep killing each other over a bit of frickin dirt, most of the civilised world shakes it's head and wishes you would stop.
And don't point out "but Israel did *this*" or "the Arabs did *this*"... that's exactly my point: you're "Fighting fire with fire" will never stop so long as you keep providing fuel.
An eye for an eye will make the whole world blind. --Ghandi
Regardless, some businesspeople are keen on saving $50/year if they can.
It's kinda like how very wealthy people are often very selective about how they spend their money: there's definitely a perception that frugal practises help them retain their current situation.
Consolidating authentication services is the job of PAM+some backend these days.
Don't listen to the guys spouting off about NIS, it sucks rocks.
OpenLDAP + PAM is the way to go. This stuff is built into RedHat. You shouldn't need to install anything, just configure the software that's already there.
Almost (my friends get 'em sometimes in XP but I suspect a hardware/driver issue there).
But I agree, mostly: Microsoft have done well making Windows a lot stabler (building on the NT kernel rather then the ol' klunky 95/98 kernel is obviously beneficial).
Now, if Microsoft would stop adding annoying shit like "Product Activation" and "Browser redirecting me to Microsoft on startup from time to time, without warning" it would make me happier with their products: sometimes it seems it's "one step forward, two steps back"
Oh and lighten up dude: the joke is tired, old and dumb but it *is* just a joke...
> I bet you that Valve is going to try to figure a way to charge a monthly fee to play TF2 or CS2, hell probably HL2 down the road too.
That's exactly what I'm expecting. I wouldn't be at all suprised if it soon became necessary to pay a subscription to play CS1.6. From what I've read, you need to authenticate on the Steam network to even play LAN games of SteamApps.
And it gets worse: the Steam client is goddamn buggy, expects you to redownload CS from the Steam network (>350Mb) and only works after some serious futzing. My housemate still can't get it to work after a week. I somehow got it to work on my box but it decided to break last night which required more futzing and black magic to get it working again *shrug*
Steam blows.
Do you think that VALVe is getting a little too big for their boots and has decided to start screwing their customers? I hope not.
I was very excited about HL2 until Steam came along.
This sounds impractical unfortunately: can you imagine the size of the Access Control List for all customers?
You could do some funky auto-aggregating of filters which may alleviate this though and/or you could limit the relevant ports to problematic ones (SMB)
You'd end up with some customers screwing up their ACLs and calling support, no matter how simple the interface is. "I clicked on 'Block SMTP' and now my mail doesn't work! Is there a problem on your end?"
Well I'm an Aussie and I found your joke amusing so there you go.
Your reply is condescending though. I really can't complain too much about life in Australia. Sure we have our set of problems but your "pity" is unnecessary. We don't "have it particularly bad".
At least in most places you can still drink the water 8)
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...to indicate that it's uncanny ability to suck CPU resources, time, bandwidth, sanity... ...and the fact that the softweare just sucks.
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>>If you walked into McDonald's for the first time in your life
;) and have moved to a place where there is one.
>...Then you've apparently lived off-planet for the entirety of that life thus far.
Or in an area where there is no McDonald's (there's still a few thousand miles of this planet that are McDonald's-free i'm sure
>>you may not realise that it is so unhealthy (>30g fat/burger usually, enough fat for the entire day)
>...Though you sure as hell will when you take that first bite dripping with fat.
The McDonald's burgers that I've had (they're all the same across the planet, right?) haven't "dripped" with fat: the sugar-filled brown-painted white sponge around the meat takes care of that. 8)
>With something like McD's showing pictures of fresh veggies, that gets a little more tricky - Would you also say Birdseye has falsely represented their chopped and frozen broccoli by showing pictures of fresh healthy-looking broccoli on the box? With a fast-food restaurant (as with the broccoli), I think we all understand that the pictures reflect an ideal, but not quite reality.
Yes indeed I agree with that but where do you draw the line?
I just find it cynical when such positively bad food in a pervasive "restaurant" is misrepresented so blatantly. It just leads to people getting fat. All "junk food" suffers from this problem though I agree: there are countless examples.
> (Incidentally, I notice this reads somewhat more caustic than I intend - I mean this as wryly tongue-in-cheek, not deliberately insulting).
Heh np.
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> If I get a Bacon Double Whopper with king-sized fries for lunch every day, I KNOW I'm going to get fat. It's not Burger King's fault, for god's sake.
I agree with you that some people seem to shirk their personal responsibilities and require a LART.
However if you go into McDonald's, you'll find that their food is advertised as healthy: with photographs of fresh tomatoes, lettuce, onions, cheese, etc. If you walked into McDonald's for the first time in your life you may not realise that it is so unhealthy (>30g fat/burger usually, enough fat for the entire day). I personally think that this is deceptive behaviour. That it doesn't deceive you or me or millions of others is irrelevant.
It's like someone selling "Health Cigarettes": most of us would know that these things could not possibly be good for you but the _attempt_ to deceive the public is a wrongful act.
Do you believe that companies should not be accountable for false representation such as this?
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It seems to me that whinging about /.'s anti-MS bias is all you ever do, OCG. Save your breath: we know.
From what I see, you're just as obstinate as the most rabid anti-MS Zealot.
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p.s. Why is that page called "Linux Security" when it contains security advisories for NetBSD, SCO Unix, FreeBSD, etc that are irrelevant to Linux?
MMM, yes, its "the other side" that's wrong.
While you guys keep killing each other over a bit of frickin dirt, most of the civilised world shakes it's head and wishes you would stop.
And don't point out "but Israel did *this*" or "the Arabs did *this*"... that's exactly my point: you're "Fighting fire with fire" will never stop so long as you keep providing fuel.
An eye for an eye will make the whole world blind. --Ghandi
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> Not that big a deal for a business.
US$1100? That's another physical server for some!
Regardless, some businesspeople are keen on saving $50/year if they can.
It's kinda like how very wealthy people are often very selective about how they spend their money: there's definitely a perception that frugal practises help them retain their current situation.
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Consolidating authentication services is the job of PAM+some backend these days.
Don't listen to the guys spouting off about NIS, it sucks rocks.
OpenLDAP + PAM is the way to go. This stuff is built into RedHat. You shouldn't need to install anything, just configure the software that's already there.
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> SCO's IP in Linux is about as elusive as Iraq's WMD.
That's because we smuggled the code out of Linux and into a neigbouring OpenSource OS.
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We have the Telecommunications Industry Ombudsman for that.
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> Compareded to a friendly wizard? Yeah, it was.
If I had a friendly wizard I'd have no need for a computer.
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> since BSODs are a thing of the 90s
Almost (my friends get 'em sometimes in XP but I suspect a hardware/driver issue there).
But I agree, mostly: Microsoft have done well making Windows a lot stabler (building on the NT kernel rather then the ol' klunky 95/98 kernel is obviously beneficial).
Now, if Microsoft would stop adding annoying shit like "Product Activation" and "Browser redirecting me to Microsoft on startup from time to time, without warning" it would make me happier with their products: sometimes it seems it's "one step forward, two steps back"
Oh and lighten up dude: the joke is tired, old and dumb but it *is* just a joke...
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Huh? Source code is available, man.
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> I bet you that Valve is going to try to figure a way to charge a monthly fee to play TF2 or CS2, hell probably HL2 down the road too.
That's exactly what I'm expecting. I wouldn't be at all suprised if it soon became necessary to pay a subscription to play CS1.6. From what I've read, you need to authenticate on the Steam network to even play LAN games of SteamApps.
And it gets worse: the Steam client is goddamn buggy, expects you to redownload CS from the Steam network (>350Mb) and only works after some serious futzing. My housemate still can't get it to work after a week. I somehow got it to work on my box but it decided to break last night which required more futzing and black magic to get it working again *shrug*
Steam blows.
Do you think that VALVe is getting a little too big for their boots and has decided to start screwing their customers? I hope not.
I was very excited about HL2 until Steam came along.
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Nagios.
http://www.nagios.org/
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This sounds impractical unfortunately: can you imagine the size of the Access Control List for all customers?
You could do some funky auto-aggregating of filters which may alleviate this though and/or you could limit the relevant ports to problematic ones (SMB)
You'd end up with some customers screwing up their ACLs and calling support, no matter how simple the interface is. "I clicked on 'Block SMTP' and now my mail doesn't work! Is there a problem on your end?"
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My memory is hazy but didn't Gaiman collaborate with Terry Pratchett on the comedic novel "Good Omens?"
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That's probably Akamai.
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Is this guy related to the "Freedows" dude?
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>knobs and rocker switches aren't sexy.
Sacrilege!
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Whenever I want to IM the developer of our website I redirect text to his tty.
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Nooooooooo!
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I'm happy, I'm feeling glad
I got features in a bag
They're useless but not for long
Release date is coming on...
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Well I'm an Aussie and I found your joke amusing so there you go.
Your reply is condescending though. I really can't complain too much about life in Australia. Sure we have our set of problems but your "pity" is unnecessary. We don't "have it particularly bad".
At least in most places you can still drink the water 8)
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Let's just hope that the two cases don't get mixed up or we could end up with this.
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