No, this has nothing to do with architecture. For 99% of the users out there who even have a choice about software, IT or no, there is only One True Architecture, and that is x86. Look at a large bank for instance. It's either AIX on POWER, z/OS on the z90, or Windows on x86.
If you seek to woo away the Windows users, you better make sure that your distribution can stumble along to a stock VGA mode GUI, at least until you can get updated drivers on the box.
Our plan is working splendidly. Numerous people have given us their names, addresses, social security numbers, and personal information. This along with their expressed interest in encryption will keep the data miners happy. We will, as previously agreed, forward all correspondence from students of this class. Enclosed please find an Excel file of all information on the online course takers. I can't believe you were right, that potential enemies of the State would voluntarily sign up for something so obvious.
Needing to edit Xorg.conf just to get a GUI up is a retarded premise, if, in 2006, you expect people to take the OS seriously. If it wont INSTALL and at least fire up on the reboot, people will dismiss it out of hand, and rightly so, as poorly packaged software.
So what you're saying is that despite the fact that Ubuntu will bomb completely out to a text prompt if the video isn't supported, its just as good as Windows?
Dude, its 2006. A non-GUI operating system, or an OS that can't manage a GUI when needed, is pretty much going to be ignored by everyone.
Hey we have all this data! We can use it to accurately predict future behavior of a large group of autonomous, independent human beings!
*BZZT* Wrong. This is the danger of falling into the social science trap, where you think that because 1 group of individuals has acted a certain way in the past, that another (however similar) group of individuals will act the same way in the future.
Now we will descend into a flamewar of qmail vs. courier vs. whateverMTAyouuse. Gentlement, choose one or more of your arguments:
Qmail is more secure. Yes, the qmail author is a (code wizard|douchebag|weird academic) so I (will|will not) use qmail. Courier is cooler because it includes an IMAP server in its distribution. Sendmail is fine these days, its just the n00bs that admin it that make it broken. Yeah but so is Windows. So's your mother. I run on so I'm not affected. I outsourced my email to gmail and (couldn't be happier|hate it|Google rules|Google is teh evil). BSD is dying. BSD is alive.
Thanks for your opinion, however, as I stated, I do find Serif fonts more attractive. Lets examine your argument.
Premise: Serif fonts are a thing of the past. Argument: They are not attractive (doesn't support premise). Argument: There are no web sites that you visit regularly that use Serif fonts (also doesn't support premise) Conclusion: All Serif fonts should consider dying.
You fail it, I'm afraid. You win at overall douchebaggery, however.
You got flagged as Overrated and Troll because your post was stupid. Everyone knows that TCP can't work to Mars - the transmission delays are too long. Secondly, while your attempt to sneer at NASA through postulating nonsensical questions, in the hopes that people will think that you're insightful, well, its just embarassing. Lastly, your trollish username and high userid indicate that you lack credibility about real topics, perhaps other than your parents' basement and Natalie Portman.
Am I the only one who thinks that applying for a ham license nowadays is the equivalent to holding up a sign "investigate me" sign, or calling the NSA 800 number and saying "please open a file on me!" ?
I'm tempted by ham now and then, but I don't think I'd ever get a license. If Ham is the last means of communication out there, you can be DAMN sure its monitored by Uncle Sam.
So I have, like, some security data. And some managers, and like, it was really good data, and I'm afraid if I give it to my managers, they'll go like, beep beep beep, and ask further questions, which I won't be able to articulate answers to, and then they'll hire $GARTNER_PICKED_CONSULTANCY_DU_JOUR and I'll be out of a job. Bummer.
That's stupid. There's perfectly acceptable reasons to use 'su'. And I work for $LARGE_US_BANK. I su from 1 user account to another all the time, depending on the task or application thats needed. And I'm not an admin.
I/O on a laptop likely to suck, due to compromises in HD size/speed/DTR limited memory upgradeability...but do you need 16GB in a laptop doing 'light duty' as a server?
I've run L.A.M.P stuff and Samba on an old K6-400 laptop, and it ran fine.
Does this mean that Windows will finally have a real volume manager? Oh the humanity! Are we finally done with primary and extended partitions, and dynamic volumes, and all that crap? Can we just do something as elegant as "vgextend vg00/dev/sda2" or similar ARC path crap?
seriously, if "They" want your data, They will go through your trash, subpoena your pay records and phone records, and tap your phone line. "They" will know more about you than you can imagine, regardless of whether you use encrypted VoIP or not.
Want to feel safe on line? Write your Congressman, tell your friends about IP and privacy issues, affect a cultural change. As long as 51% of your friends are willing to trade freedom (theirs and yours) for security (mostly theirs), you're fscked.
Or is a blood sample like a fingerprint, something that everyone should provide to their government? What foreign fucking country are you from where this question is even posed? Talk about a smuggled premise. Oh wait, you're from California.
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No, this has nothing to do with architecture. For 99% of the users out there who even have a choice about software, IT or no, there is only One True Architecture, and that is x86. Look at a large bank for instance. It's either AIX on POWER, z/OS on the z90, or Windows on x86.
If you seek to woo away the Windows users, you better make sure that your distribution can stumble along to a stock VGA mode GUI, at least until you can get updated drivers on the box.
Dear NSA,
Our plan is working splendidly. Numerous people have given us their names, addresses, social security numbers, and personal information. This along with their expressed interest in encryption will keep the data miners happy. We will, as previously agreed, forward all correspondence from students of this class. Enclosed please find an Excel file of all information on the online course takers. I can't believe you were right, that potential enemies of the State would voluntarily sign up for something so obvious.
Yours truly
Tobias Fünke
Needing to edit Xorg.conf just to get a GUI up is a retarded premise, if, in 2006, you expect people to take the OS seriously. If it wont INSTALL and at least fire up on the reboot, people will dismiss it out of hand, and rightly so, as poorly packaged software.
So what you're saying is that despite the fact that Ubuntu will bomb completely out to a text prompt if the video isn't supported, its just as good as Windows?
Dude, its 2006. A non-GUI operating system, or an OS that can't manage a GUI when needed, is pretty much going to be ignored by everyone.
Hey we have all this data! We can use it to accurately predict future behavior of a large group of autonomous, independent human beings!
*BZZT* Wrong. This is the danger of falling into the social science trap, where you think that because 1 group of individuals has acted a certain way in the past, that another (however similar) group of individuals will act the same way in the future.
Now we will descend into a flamewar of qmail vs. courier vs. whateverMTAyouuse. Gentlement, choose one or more of your arguments:
Qmail is more secure.
Yes, the qmail author is a (code wizard|douchebag|weird academic) so I (will|will not) use qmail.
Courier is cooler because it includes an IMAP server in its distribution.
Sendmail is fine these days, its just the n00bs that admin it that make it broken.
Yeah but so is Windows.
So's your mother.
I run on so I'm not affected.
I outsourced my email to gmail and (couldn't be happier|hate it|Google rules|Google is teh evil).
BSD is dying.
BSD is alive.
Thanks for your opinion, however, as I stated, I do find Serif fonts more attractive. Lets examine your argument.
Premise: Serif fonts are a thing of the past.
Argument: They are not attractive (doesn't support premise).
Argument: There are no web sites that you visit regularly that use Serif fonts (also doesn't support premise)
Conclusion: All Serif fonts should consider dying.
You fail it, I'm afraid. You win at overall douchebaggery, however.
What's up with the new funky non-serif fonts? And the squishy typeface?
How is this any different than the OpenFiler Project?
You got flagged as Overrated and Troll because your post was stupid. Everyone knows that TCP can't work to Mars - the transmission delays are too long. Secondly, while your attempt to sneer at NASA through postulating nonsensical questions, in the hopes that people will think that you're insightful, well, its just embarassing. Lastly, your trollish username and high userid indicate that you lack credibility about real topics, perhaps other than your parents' basement and Natalie Portman.
So what you're saying is that when you managed to come home, the wife wouldn't give up teh buttsecks?
Am I the only one who thinks that applying for a ham license nowadays is the equivalent to holding up a sign "investigate me" sign, or calling the NSA 800 number and saying "please open a file on me!" ?
I'm tempted by ham now and then, but I don't think I'd ever get a license. If Ham is the last means of communication out there, you can be DAMN sure its monitored by Uncle Sam.
So I have, like, some security data. And some managers, and like, it was really good data, and I'm afraid if I give it to my managers, they'll go like, beep beep beep, and ask further questions, which I won't be able to articulate answers to, and then they'll hire $GARTNER_PICKED_CONSULTANCY_DU_JOUR and I'll be out of a job. Bummer.
That's stupid. There's perfectly acceptable reasons to use 'su'. And I work for $LARGE_US_BANK. I su from 1 user account to another all the time, depending on the task or application thats needed. And I'm not an admin.
Seeing as how both Intel and AMD have changed sockets at least once every 4-6 years, I'd say that your statement is a lie.
with some caveats:
I/O on a laptop likely to suck, due to compromises in HD size/speed/DTR
limited memory upgradeability...but do you need 16GB in a laptop doing 'light duty' as a server?
I've run L.A.M.P stuff and Samba on an old K6-400 laptop, and it ran fine.
Does this mean that Windows will finally have a real volume manager? Oh the humanity! Are we finally done with primary and extended partitions, and dynamic volumes, and all that crap? Can we just do something as elegant as "vgextend vg00 /dev/sda2" or similar ARC path crap?
Holy cow, maybe Vista WONT suck.
1/1/1.25/1.25 is a crappy default, unless you're a high school kid trying to write a report to hit a certain # pages.
OOo's default margins are MUCH better IMHO.
seriously, if "They" want your data, They will go through your trash, subpoena your pay records and phone records, and tap your phone line. "They" will know more about you than you can imagine, regardless of whether you use encrypted VoIP or not.
Want to feel safe on line? Write your Congressman, tell your friends about IP and privacy issues, affect a cultural change. As long as 51% of your friends are willing to trade freedom (theirs and yours) for security (mostly theirs), you're fscked.
I edit my html in vi, and view it in IE. If it looks good, its done.
This works for all of our internal 'dashboard' and utility websites that we run in-house. I work for $LARGE_US_BANK.
Note: I have nothing to do whatsoever with our externally facing "online banking" site.
Inadequate for what? The rich hippies at Starbucks who are busy scribbling away whatever pops into their head?
I have yet to see a useful tablet.
Sounds like all your fault, for being British, having a high Slashdot user number, and being a homo.
...and in practice he has used it to detect fan failures.
Sorry, but that's ghey.
I find that most people who hide behind email are typically small-minded douchebags.
Or is a blood sample like a fingerprint, something that everyone should provide to their government?
What foreign fucking country are you from where this question is even posed? Talk about a smuggled premise. Oh wait, you're from California.