Maybe nobody noticed because its not a high profile, PHB-friendly, uber-marketted PDA, but the Linux based Sharp Zaurus could do this for a while as well. Of course this is fair use.
Are people looking for some Gibson-esque secret cabal of script kiddies, who are building operating systems at age 8, can speak in hex, and have secret h4X0r access to everywhere? I think people watch too many movies. Or is defining 'script kiddies' as a culture an attempt to rationalize the level of ignorance we experience when trying to comprehend all of computing technology? Since nobody can be good at everything, is it a mental safety valve to create uber-computer users, who 'get it', who can do 'cool things', who are 'in the know'? Isn't this the same thing as creating Gods to explain otherwise unknown natural phenomena?
I used to work for a Managed Security Provider, and hated the corporate bullshit, the lying, the incompetence. So I quit and got a job as a Caretaker on the Appalachian Trail for a summer. Very rewarding experience, I met people from all over, had some quality down time, and saw some amazing things.
You only live once, and the Big Day is coming. Enjoy your life.
Firstly, Anandtech uses flash for its images so that people w/o the plugin can't see the data. This forces you to install it, so that you can see their OTHER Flash pieces... ads. Secondly, you are not going to get MS to recompile an MS-SQL for Opteron. You're not going to get IBM to support a Linux installation, after you've rolled your own ueber-NUMA-patch-level-42 kernel. The test was clear - out of the box, plug in servers, load OS, load app, run benchmark. And the outcome was clear, the Opteron architecture is vastly superior, both performance and price-wise. The MHz myth is over, at least in Slashdot and Anandtech circles.
For continuing to shovel out bloated OSes and for creating a culture where any monkey can write bad, bloated VB apps. Blame the PHBs for accepting this. These are the real culprits, they created an insatiable demand for RAM. When demand is no longer elastic with price, price fixing naturally will start to occur as less-than-scrupulous vendors cash in on the realities of the market.
Of course you heard the story on NPR, along with stories about how eating raw eggs kills you, how children need to wear helmets while riding bicycles, and how the sky is falling. Oh yeah, and ABB all the way dude!
Whether we get to see a 15 billion year old black hole or not is not as important as infusing a generation with the spirit of adventure, the way the Moon landings did. The Hubble studies history. Flying to Mars MAKES it. If you want to focus on the past, fine, let the rest of us taxpayers focus on the future. And stop sighing, you sanctimonious prick.
Is PDF too simple? Too cross platform? Too non-needing-its-own-application-infrastructure? It sounds like you have too much time on your hands. Concentrate on getting your tech people to document things, take whatever they'll produce, as long as it's better than:
This whole submission is a sensationalist troll. "this sounds like a good solution for those who are getting screwed with outrageously high electric bills due to their HVAC unit". According to the article rates went up 7.4%, hardly a 'screwing'. Thus, if your bill was $200, that means it was $186.74 before, which means your "HVAC unit" (the definition left as an exercise to the reader) is pretty much shit anyway. How does this stuff make the front page, is the editorial staff of Slashdot the Socialist Worker's Party or something?
How is some article by Eric Raymond any different than some OSSpews, article, or some stupid blog?. Someone says something cool once, or does something interesting once, and they're brought into the geek pantheon forever? Show me the money, or show me the code, or shut up. This is arguably a Troll or Flamebait post, but can someone explain how a non-Linus, non-Andre Hedrick, non-Theo Whatshisname, still gets legitamized?
Constantly. Every stupid service pack and security fix for IE upgrades the kernel of WinXP, since the HTML rendering code is IN THE FSCKING kernel. Hence, the numerous lawsuits. Kernel != distribution How many revisions of RedHat were on 2.4?
MS and Sendmail are probably responsible for 90% of the spam out there, with default open relay policies, cryptic documentation, and (in MS' case) a corporate culture and influence which means that only chimps and other simian life forms become Exchange admins. Flame all you want, this is from direct experience.
At an old job as a firewall engineer, I had to tell the Exchange Admin for a major medical insurance provider HOW to set up our AV server as their relay. I found it on Google faster than she could fumble through her documentation. At another site, I had to battle an NT/Exchange admin who, after moving the Exchange server to an internal network, wondered why he no longer could receive mail.
MS and Sendmail owe everyone on the Internet countless hours of lost time due to idiotic softawre config problems, its about time that they came up with a solution.
Then kill yourself, and do us all a favor. Seriously, solving Earth's overpopulation problem begins at home, we're just waiting for someone to show us the way, you anti-life asshole.
Hi, I didn't RTFA, and I don't have much to say about the Mars rover, so I'll spew some crap about wear-levelling, cuz I heard my friend's friend talk about it on his 'puter. I have a digital camera, you know, so I'm an expert on flash memory.
cat/dev/clue > Mr2cents error: No space left on device
Dude, take a look at jffs, it has built in wear-levelling and is used extensively by those of us with a Zaurus, and probably 100's more appliances as well.
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or even a way to 'burn' information onto an 'optical drive' of some sort - boy would THAT be a great way to smuggle data in and out of places.
and they want their functionality back. CLI has always been superior to the GUI for completing small, discrete tasks, especially when repeated.
"2.5 TB ought to be enough for anybody."
Heck, that might even be enough to boot Longhorn!
I always fsck that up! But you know what I meant. Nice one. =8-)
Maybe nobody noticed because its not a high profile, PHB-friendly, uber-marketted PDA, but the Linux based Sharp Zaurus could do this for a while as well. Of course this is fair use.
bash$> for tif in `ls *.tif` ; do convert $tif -border 50 -bordercolor \#FFFFFF -quality 100 -scale 25% -resolution 96 `cat $tif | cut -f1 -d"."`.jpg ; done
Put THAT in your GUI.
Are people looking for some Gibson-esque secret cabal of script kiddies, who are building operating systems at age 8, can speak in hex, and have secret h4X0r access to everywhere?
I think people watch too many movies. Or is defining 'script kiddies' as a culture an attempt to rationalize the level of ignorance we experience when trying to comprehend all of computing technology? Since nobody can be good at everything, is it a mental safety valve to create uber-computer users, who 'get it', who can do 'cool things', who are 'in the know'? Isn't this the same thing as creating Gods to explain otherwise unknown natural phenomena?
It's the wrong trousers!
I used to work for a Managed Security Provider, and hated the corporate bullshit, the lying, the incompetence. So I quit and got a job as a Caretaker on the Appalachian Trail for a summer. Very rewarding experience, I met people from all over, had some quality down time, and saw some amazing things.
You only live once, and the Big Day is coming. Enjoy your life.
Firstly, Anandtech uses flash for its images so that people w/o the plugin can't see the data. This forces you to install it, so that you can see their OTHER Flash pieces... ads.
Secondly, you are not going to get MS to recompile an MS-SQL for Opteron. You're not going to get IBM to support a Linux installation, after you've rolled your own ueber-NUMA-patch-level-42 kernel.
The test was clear - out of the box, plug in servers, load OS, load app, run benchmark.
And the outcome was clear, the Opteron architecture is vastly superior, both performance and price-wise.
The MHz myth is over, at least in Slashdot and Anandtech circles.
For continuing to shovel out bloated OSes and for creating a culture where any monkey can write bad, bloated VB apps. Blame the PHBs for accepting this. These are the real culprits, they created an insatiable demand for RAM. When demand is no longer elastic with price, price fixing naturally will start to occur as less-than-scrupulous vendors cash in on the realities of the market.
We need the wood. To build another Mars mission!
Of course you heard the story on NPR, along with stories about how eating raw eggs kills you, how children need to wear helmets while riding bicycles, and how the sky is falling. Oh yeah, and ABB all the way dude!
Whether we get to see a 15 billion year old black hole or not is not as important as infusing a generation with the spirit of adventure, the way the Moon landings did. The Hubble studies history. Flying to Mars MAKES it. If you want to focus on the past, fine, let the rest of us taxpayers focus on the future.
And stop sighing, you sanctimonious prick.
"didn't-gildenstern-prove-that-already dept"
Wow, Taco, about 7 Slashdot readers will even get that. +1, Obscure!
That was a pretty funny book, actually.
Is PDF too simple? Too cross platform? Too non-needing-its-own-application-infrastructure? It sounds like you have too much time on your hands. Concentrate on getting your tech people to document things, take whatever they'll produce, as long as it's better than:
/*Fred says this needed to be here*/
foo=bar*.734
Hey, some of us remember 1984, you insensitive clod!
This whole submission is a sensationalist troll. "this sounds like a good solution for those who are getting screwed with outrageously high electric bills due to their HVAC unit". According to the article rates went up 7.4%, hardly a 'screwing'. Thus, if your bill was $200, that means it was $186.74 before, which means your "HVAC unit" (the definition left as an exercise to the reader) is pretty much shit anyway.
How does this stuff make the front page, is the editorial staff of Slashdot the Socialist Worker's Party or something?
In Soviet Russia, the XFree86 Project forks YOU!
My question is why does this guy make the front page of Slashdot? Don't tell me he's the only blogger on the Internet who's so wise and profound.
How is some article by Eric Raymond any different than some OSSpews, article, or some stupid blog?.
Someone says something cool once, or does something interesting once, and they're brought into the geek pantheon forever? Show me the money, or show me the code, or shut up. This is arguably a Troll or Flamebait post, but can someone explain how a non-Linus, non-Andre Hedrick, non-Theo Whatshisname, still gets legitamized?
But they'd produce more noise and heat, and cost more power. Besides, nowadays 340 Microdrives are cheap.
Constantly. Every stupid service pack and security fix for IE upgrades the kernel of WinXP, since the HTML rendering code is IN THE FSCKING kernel. Hence, the numerous lawsuits.
Kernel != distribution
How many revisions of RedHat were on 2.4?
MS and Sendmail are probably responsible for 90% of the spam out there, with default open relay policies, cryptic documentation, and (in MS' case) a corporate culture and influence which means that only chimps and other simian life forms become Exchange admins. Flame all you want, this is from direct experience.
At an old job as a firewall engineer, I had to tell the Exchange Admin for a major medical insurance provider HOW to set up our AV server as their relay. I found it on Google faster than she could fumble through her documentation. At another site, I had to battle an NT/Exchange admin who, after moving the Exchange server to an internal network, wondered why he no longer could receive mail.
MS and Sendmail owe everyone on the Internet countless hours of lost time due to idiotic softawre config problems, its about time that they came up with a solution.
1. attach microphone to your 'puter, dude.
2. open sound recorder, on your `leet XP box
3. blow into above microphone
4. ???
5. Die
Damn, the idiots are out tonight. Maybe a full moon? or is it a full Venus?
Then kill yourself, and do us all a favor. Seriously, solving Earth's overpopulation problem begins at home, we're just waiting for someone to show us the way, you anti-life asshole.
cat
error: No space left on device
Dude, take a look at jffs, it has built in wear-levelling and is used extensively by those of us with a Zaurus, and probably 100's more appliances as well.