I didn't suggest that *I* stop being smug. It is not smugness in itself that is the offense, but your misdirected smugness that makes you feel immune to standard practices.
I mentioned neither privelege nor right... I was trying to:
a) tell you to learn how to do what you're attempting, because you seem to be an idiot
and
b) try to make sure no one else blindly followed your advice, because you seem to be an idiot.
If you got everybody - I mean *everybody* who reads hti ssite to sue MS over this, you still couldn't get enough lawyer-power to beat them.
MS has billions of dollars in the bank, with hundreds of lawyers on staff. Defending thier right to pump craptastic software out the door without culpability is the single most important thing they have to defend.
Uhm.. you're probably completely susceptible to this. You see, that little clicky thingie you clicked in the thingie was written by the same people that sent you that software with the bug that causes this problem.
You, and the rest of you non-engrossed, non-technical people who don't have $15.00 to put a NIC in a 486 firewall that you can pick up at the dump, but plenty of money to shell out system upgrades every few years... You're causing this problem. You, personally.
First, by buying and deployng a server OS by an untrustworthy organization, followed by not even complying with thier reccomendations of protecting, securing, and updating that server.
Then, by saying "Whew! Dodged that bullet" after you CLICKED ON A CHECK BOX is not quite the same as.. oh.. patching it, securing it behind a firewall and testing it for packet traffic... THESE are the "basics" of your box and the internet. Not what your manual, the context sensitive help, or what MS' Marketing department tell you.
Was that non-technical enough for you? Stop being smug, and stop being part of the problem.
For as long as I knew him, he never left the college. Got every degree he was interested in, then just started teaching, and became a fully institutionalized academic.
I guess everyone's experience is different. I had a friend named Randy in college who could see a key for a few minutes, go home and fashion one out of a set of blanks and files that he had.
Maybe hard to believe, but I watched him do it on 2 occasions.
Would you rather have well-written, tested and peer-reviewed software hacking your brain, or some first-run ASIC written during a six-month-crunch?
Using embedded linux allows them to jumpstart with a stable platform, strip out every piece they don't understand or feel isn't ptoperly tested, and save a thousandfold with development, debugging, and upgrading.
"Burned in hardware" doesn't mean stable. "Running in software" doesn't mean not realtime.
Or, we could put them on the roof of our houses... There are already big black rectangles there.
Why should these get centralized? Keep the power infrastructure as it is, powered primarily by flow from the solar panels placed on every home on the grid. Every house charges when it can, feeds back energy when fully charged, draws from internal batteries when the sun is obscured, and draws from the grid when the batteries are dead.
Many people already do this - I just helped install one. 70% efficiency photocells would make the house I just installed gather and "bank" 3-5 times it's own expenditure in energy.
It's be nice to have one on the roof of a hybrid gas/electric car (or in my case, a gas/electric truck, once they get around to it). Gas consumption would certainly drop considerably.
I don't know who those folks you refer to that make knee-jerk, thoughtless reactions are, but if you're listening to idiots, that's your own fault.
I wouldn't discount the ROI of the registrar model... If you can automate the process, overhead becomes... Electricity, the bandwidth required to fill out a form, two executives, and two or three sysadmins that watch a thousand identical boxes?
Startup costs are minimal (and have been long-since absorbed, two buyouts ago) the infrastructure will never need to get bigger than it was in 2000... This *should* be a tidy profit center, if they could get customers.
I don't know what thier infrastrucutre is like, but i think thier problems stem from being born in a govenment-sponsored monopoly environment, and not having to scrape and fight in a free economy.
...a 2002 survey of Internet address buyers, VeriSign found that 87 percent of them were familiar with the name "Network Solutions" and could identify it as a domain name seller, while few recognized the name "VeriSign,"...
How is it that every person involved with the internet could have told them this, but they had to conduct a survey, after debranding, and now have incur the cost of rebranding this division...
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And of course, I flubbed that first command.:)
Maybe they should have started with mac CVS...
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It's about seven pages of instructions - how to get enough tools, set enough settings and click enough icons and buttons and fields to get a mac to "cvs co" the source.
Strangely enough, I consider the two lines of CLI required much more humane.
cvs -d:pserver:user@server:path co cvs -d:pserver:user@server:path checkout module
If this group is trying to make python programming easier, bless them and godspeed, but I'll stick to emacs, which only had one day of learning curve, not endless years of clickity-click curve.
I've never read the journals, so I have no idea, but... Either they are thoroughly descriptive (bordering on manic), or the boys at space.com are just doing a lot of guessing.
I have a hard enough time following telephone directions to a new dentist. Imagine how hard it is to retrace someone's steps through a journal that's hundreds of years old.
In an open world, you can use your spreadsheet app, I can use my spreadsheet app, and we can work together at the document-format layer. That's where oo, koffice, and the rest of the office upstarts need to be heading.
Go ahead and use star/openoffice, if you prefer it. I'll keep using gnumeric, because I prefer it. When I need to send you the quarterly report, it won't make any difference.
I run an P90 diskless LTSP farm, and it's darn-simple to setup and dead-simple to keep running. I don't even know what you're talking about by a "ton of configuration" -- I edited two or three files sometime last summer, and I have to burn new floppies once in a while - maybe that's what you mean.
I agree that running dozens of autonomous linux boxes requires less effort than the same number of Mac, OS/2 or Windows clients, it's nowhere near as fast, easy, or cheap as running a single LTSP server and keeping one on hot standby, and booting the clients from floppy.
They're cheap enough that I can keep a good supply of hot standby for the clients, too - less than a hundred bucks apiece, and without disks to wear down or heat up, they never die anyway.
And, just for the record: Yes, an "average user" can excel with RH8. In two days, they stop pining for windows. In a week, they start crowing about linux. In a month, they start bashing windows.
Hey, here's a suggestion: Why don't you read the article again? Who mentioned no binary modules?
Restrictions are not exclusions.
Now, onto your rant. Those patents are ridiculous - they don't provide differentiation, don't protect hardware secrets, and should be pressured into release. They belong to an ancient world where companied protect secrets of no value, becuase IP once drove venture capitalists' valuation criteria.
On the other hand, I suspect the real reason NVidia won't release thier drivers is because they didn't write them, and don't have source-release licenses with thier Indian vendors. Another case where pressure will do some good in getting those opened up, since there is no valid business case to keep them private.
Pressure your vendors to provide details about the hardware you buy. They either need to learn how to coexist in the coming open tech world, or learn what hot death feels like.
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You are on crack as well.
I didn't suggest that *I* stop being smug. It is not smugness in itself that is the offense, but your misdirected smugness that makes you feel immune to standard practices.
I mentioned neither privelege nor right... I was trying to:
a) tell you to learn how to do what you're attempting, because you seem to be an idiot
and
b) try to make sure no one else blindly followed your advice, because you seem to be an idiot.
as well as
c) make it known that you seem to be an idiot.
If you got everybody - I mean *everybody* who reads hti ssite to sue MS over this, you still couldn't get enough lawyer-power to beat them.
MS has billions of dollars in the bank, with hundreds of lawyers on staff. Defending thier right to pump craptastic software out the door without culpability is the single most important thing they have to defend.
You are on crack.
Uhm.. you're probably completely susceptible to this. You see, that little clicky thingie you clicked in the thingie was written by the same people that sent you that software with the bug that causes this problem.
You, and the rest of you non-engrossed, non-technical people who don't have $15.00 to put a NIC in a 486 firewall that you can pick up at the dump, but plenty of money to shell out system upgrades every few years... You're causing this problem. You, personally.
First, by buying and deployng a server OS by an untrustworthy organization, followed by not even complying with thier reccomendations of protecting, securing, and updating that server.
Then, by saying "Whew! Dodged that bullet" after you CLICKED ON A CHECK BOX is not quite the same as.. oh.. patching it, securing it behind a firewall and testing it for packet traffic... THESE are the "basics" of your box and the internet. Not what your manual, the context sensitive help, or what MS' Marketing department tell you.
Was that non-technical enough for you? Stop being smug, and stop being part of the problem.
Dumbest. Name. Ever.
For as long as I knew him, he never left the college. Got every degree he was interested in, then just started teaching, and became a fully institutionalized academic.
:)
Which is probably where he's safest.
I guess everyone's experience is different. I had a friend named Randy in college who could see a key for a few minutes, go home and fashion one out of a set of blanks and files that he had.
Maybe hard to believe, but I watched him do it on 2 occasions.
Did someone mention a porn application?
Would you rather have well-written, tested and peer-reviewed software hacking your brain, or some first-run ASIC written during a six-month-crunch?
Using embedded linux allows them to jumpstart with a stable platform, strip out every piece they don't understand or feel isn't ptoperly tested, and save a thousandfold with development, debugging, and upgrading.
"Burned in hardware" doesn't mean stable. "Running in software" doesn't mean not realtime.
Immense? In comparison to the oceans?
Or, we could put them on the roof of our houses... There are already big black rectangles there.
Why should these get centralized? Keep the power infrastructure as it is, powered primarily by flow from the solar panels placed on every home on the grid. Every house charges when it can, feeds back energy when fully charged, draws from internal batteries when the sun is obscured, and draws from the grid when the batteries are dead.
Many people already do this - I just helped install one. 70% efficiency photocells would make the house I just installed gather and "bank" 3-5 times it's own expenditure in energy.
It's be nice to have one on the roof of a hybrid gas/electric car (or in my case, a gas/electric truck, once they get around to it). Gas consumption would certainly drop considerably.
I don't know who those folks you refer to that make knee-jerk, thoughtless reactions are, but if you're listening to idiots, that's your own fault.
...without extraordinarily intense light...
Like that which comes from the sun?
I wouldn't discount the ROI of the registrar model... If you can automate the process, overhead becomes ... Electricity, the bandwidth required to fill out a form, two executives, and two or three sysadmins that watch a thousand identical boxes?
Startup costs are minimal (and have been long-since absorbed, two buyouts ago) the infrastructure will never need to get bigger than it was in 2000... This *should* be a tidy profit center, if they could get customers.
I don't know what thier infrastrucutre is like, but i think thier problems stem from being born in a govenment-sponsored monopoly environment, and not having to scrape and fight in a free economy.
How is it that every person involved with the internet could have told them this, but they had to conduct a survey, after debranding, and now have incur the cost of rebranding this division...
And of course, I flubbed that first command. :)
I'm reading the THE cvs instructions.
:pserver:user@server:path co :pserver:user@server:path checkout module
It's about seven pages of instructions - how to get enough tools, set enough settings and click enough icons and buttons and fields to get a mac to "cvs co" the source.
Strangely enough, I consider the two lines of CLI required much more humane.
cvs -d
cvs -d
If this group is trying to make python programming easier, bless them and godspeed, but I'll stick to emacs, which only had one day of learning curve, not endless years of clickity-click curve.
LEAPing sounds like a reimplementation of Emacs' interactive search, only more confusing.
To anyone who has this running (IE, actually owns an old mac): Is it just an editor? Can you post a screenshot?
You know, for some reason (mostly modern bias) I never thought they would include lat/lon. Duh.:)
I've never read the journals, so I have no idea, but... Either they are thoroughly descriptive (bordering on manic), or the boys at space.com are just doing a lot of guessing.
I have a hard enough time following telephone directions to a new dentist. Imagine how hard it is to retrace someone's steps through a journal that's hundreds of years old.
Hopefully, you're the one that's joking.
In an open world, you can use your spreadsheet app, I can use my spreadsheet app, and we can work together at the document-format layer. That's where oo, koffice, and the rest of the office upstarts need to be heading.
Go ahead and use star/openoffice, if you prefer it. I'll keep using gnumeric, because I prefer it. When I need to send you the quarterly report, it won't make any difference.
I run an P90 diskless LTSP farm, and it's darn-simple to setup and dead-simple to keep running. I don't even know what you're talking about by a "ton of configuration" -- I edited two or three files sometime last summer, and I have to burn new floppies once in a while - maybe that's what you mean.
I agree that running dozens of autonomous linux boxes requires less effort than the same number of Mac, OS/2 or Windows clients, it's nowhere near as fast, easy, or cheap as running a single LTSP server and keeping one on hot standby, and booting the clients from floppy.
They're cheap enough that I can keep a good supply of hot standby for the clients, too - less than a hundred bucks apiece, and without disks to wear down or heat up, they never die anyway.
And, just for the record: Yes, an "average user" can excel with RH8. In two days, they stop pining for windows. In a week, they start crowing about linux. In a month, they start bashing windows.
You should check out LINE. It does for windows and linux what wine does for linux and windows.
http://line.sourceforge.net/faq.php
Hey, here's a suggestion: Why don't you read the article again? Who mentioned no binary modules?
Restrictions are not exclusions.
Now, onto your rant. Those patents are ridiculous - they don't provide differentiation, don't protect hardware secrets, and should be pressured into release. They belong to an ancient world where companied protect secrets of no value, becuase IP once drove venture capitalists' valuation criteria.
On the other hand, I suspect the real reason NVidia won't release thier drivers is because they didn't write them, and don't have source-release licenses with thier Indian vendors. Another case where pressure will do some good in getting those opened up, since there is no valid business case to keep them private.
Pressure your vendors to provide details about the hardware you buy. They either need to learn how to coexist in the coming open tech world, or learn what hot death feels like.