Just fork the Amiga User Interface Style Guide as Linux User Style Enterprise Recommendations and release it under 4711 different licenses (except that XFree 1.1 one). Then make an rpm, deb, tgz and ebuild for it and you're set.
We had Iodine in our salt in Sweden long before Chernobyl. A few seconds in Google confirms this: The Iodine is added to prevent a serious medical condition (iodine deficiency leading to endemic goiter), it's not due to radiation poisoning, even though Iodine (in higher doses) could be used to help prevent damage to the thyroid gland in case of a nuclear accident. Inhabitants living nearby Swedish reactors were issued Iodine pills to stockpile before the reactors were started.
I like Nano too, but I'd really like to find an easy way to make -w the default mode... (aliasing it is not an easy way) Actually, I've gotten used to it, but still...
HELLO, I am Mohammed Bah Abba of Nigeria. I have recently won a large sum of money in a Rolex award for a new, fascinating invention of mine called the common cold. However, the Nigerian Chamber of Spa^H^H^HCommerce will not let me just withdraw the sum and leave the country. They inform me that I must e-mail someone of good repute who will assist me in acquiring the funds for a small part of the award, the sum of $30 million US dollars. I assure you that this transaction is 100% legal and risk-free.
I mean, if you know the car's stolen, you can just go up to it and steal it again yourself.
That's actually illegal in Sweden. There are cases when someone who was trying to sell their car loans it to a prospective buyer for a test drive who then promply drives away with it (which technically isn't "theft" since he was given the keys, it's more or less a misdemeanor amounting to "borrowing with intent" (egenmaktigt forfarande, bork, bork, bork)). The rightful owner tracks the car down, takes it back, is caught by the police and prosecuted for the same crime as the "thief".
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Ohhh, The Young Ones rock. I love the bit where Rick points to Mike's wristwatch and says something gay like "Oh goodness, is that the time?" and Mike cooly replies "No, time is an abstract concept. This is a wristwatch." Simply brilliant. Or when Vyvyan thinks he's pregnant. Or when they are more broke than usual and have to eat risotto. Without rice. Or the subliminal messages. Or...
But it is a flight simulator. There's probably an Emacs in there somewhere too -- but if you find it, the universe will implode.
I recently ran into a couple of users (well, women, none of them blonde) who asked me how to make name tags in Excel. I took me a while to figure out that they meant the sort of printed name tags that you put on when standing at a fair or convention. I never managed to understand exactly why they thought Excel would have been good for it...
Running cars on compressed air sounds like a good idea to me. The car as a means of transport is such a brilliant concept that it's a crying shame we're wasting it with polluting engines.
tell you when there's updates you prevent it from rebooting automatically.
But it doesn't APPLY the patches. OK, we'll try this again: It's a server. It's not continually manned. Actually, it wouldn't even have a monitor attached to it unless I had to figure out WTF was happening to it. There's no option for mailing me when there's an update that needs installing/rebooting.
Let's say I set it to download, but not update. It downloads security patches. Now, the server sits there, displaying a little icon on a monitor that doesn't exist while crackers exploit security holes that wait for a reboot to get patched... You'd think that Microsoft could have spent a few seconds of thought re-designing the automatic update system for servers instead of just putting in a workstation system.
then complaining that it does what you told it to do when you told it to do it is stupid.
I never told it to reboot. Nowhere on that dialog can the word "reboot" be found. I didn't think Microsoft would be so stupid as to automatically reboot a server that may or may not be mission-critical, but I should probably have known better... Where's the option for "Download all updates, immediately install the ones that do not require a reboot and properly inform someone about the others, especially the security-related ones" that a server operating system should have? Windows 2000 is not a server OS, it's is a workstation OS with a server OS price tag.
it shouldn't be too hard to figure out what's rebooting the server since it liberally writes to the Event Log.
Everything writes liberally to the Event Log. The Event Log is a cheap whore. Instead of dealing with problems as they occur, everything just writes a line to the Event Log to pass the parcel. File System corruption starting on a friday afternoon? Written to the Event Log. It's the admin's fault for not reading it, letting the system spiral to it's death over the weekend. (This last bit is when I went Linux, BTW. I still have a 10 CAL Win2k Server license in case someone wants it. It's pretty cheap right now.)
Do you read through your Event Log at least a few times a day?
No, I didn't know. It wasn't an option at the time, it may have been updated since. The options, IIRC, were the same as in XP: Notify, Download but not update, and Download and Update automatically.
The Helpfile says:
If you are logged on to your computer, Windows notifies you and gives you the option to delay the restart. Be sure to save any work prior to the scheduled installation time.
Of course, you're not normally logged in to a server box. At night.
Also be sure to run windows update every time a patch is released. You can tell windows to do this automatically.
Yes, and it REBOOTS automatically too. Which is more or less acceptable for a server in the basement that no one uses, but not so good for a server with a bunch of users and a dodgy hardware problem that requires cold reboots (the Adaptec SCSI card didn't re-init properly for some reason when reset, it had to be powered off and it took me ages to figure out what the hell was causing the box to reboot spontaneously and then hanging on the way up). I'll never run Windows on a server again.
What's wrong with Slashdot? Me and ma miss you, son. You know you can always have your old room back, the trolls really don't smell that bad once you get used to them.
I firmly believe the Amiga User Interface Style Guide should be required reading before anyone is allowed to even install a compiler with the ability to create GUIs.
I think the old Windows File Manager is still there too.
Sadly, no. I went away with Win2k. However, I have a copy of FILEMAN.EXE from an NT4 box that I still install on my XP boxes, just 'cause I'm used to it.:-)
I don't know about that, I'm not that thrilled about mine. It's actually quite unpopular and not really likely to get voted 'most popular affliction' any time soon. On the other hand, it's rather common.
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Just fork the Amiga User Interface Style Guide as Linux User Style Enterprise Recommendations and release it under 4711 different licenses (except that XFree 1.1 one). Then make an rpm, deb, tgz and ebuild for it and you're set.
Ohh, does this mean I'm qualified to work as a Slashdot editor? ;-)
That not only warrants a +6 Fucking Amazing, but a whole story of it's own.
It goes something like "Oh Canada, eh?", right?
We had Iodine in our salt in Sweden long before Chernobyl. A few seconds in Google confirms this: The Iodine is added to prevent a serious medical condition (iodine deficiency leading to endemic goiter), it's not due to radiation poisoning, even though Iodine (in higher doses) could be used to help prevent damage to the thyroid gland in case of a nuclear accident. Inhabitants living nearby Swedish reactors were issued Iodine pills to stockpile before the reactors were started.
Jumping juniperbushes, Batman - it worked! Thanks. :-)
I like Nano too, but I'd really like to find an easy way to make -w the default mode... (aliasing it is not an easy way) Actually, I've gotten used to it, but still...
HELLO, I am Mohammed Bah Abba of Nigeria. I have recently won a large sum of money in a Rolex award for a new, fascinating invention of mine called the common cold. However, the Nigerian Chamber of Spa^H^H^HCommerce will not let me just withdraw the sum and leave the country. They inform me that I must e-mail someone of good repute who will assist me in acquiring the funds for a small part of the award, the sum of $30 million US dollars. I assure you that this transaction is 100% legal and risk-free.
That's actually illegal in Sweden. There are cases when someone who was trying to sell their car loans it to a prospective buyer for a test drive who then promply drives away with it (which technically isn't "theft" since he was given the keys, it's more or less a misdemeanor amounting to "borrowing with intent" (egenmaktigt forfarande, bork, bork, bork)). The rightful owner tracks the car down, takes it back, is caught by the police and prosecuted for the same crime as the "thief".
Very metal!
But it is a flight simulator. There's probably an Emacs in there somewhere too -- but if you find it, the universe will implode.
I recently ran into a couple of users (well, women, none of them blonde) who asked me how to make name tags in Excel. I took me a while to figure out that they meant the sort of printed name tags that you put on when standing at a fair or convention. I never managed to understand exactly why they thought Excel would have been good for it...
Running cars on compressed air sounds like a good idea to me. The car as a means of transport is such a brilliant concept that it's a crying shame we're wasting it with polluting engines.
Hm, I think it'd be funny if it wasn't true...
But it doesn't APPLY the patches. OK, we'll try this again: It's a server. It's not continually manned. Actually, it wouldn't even have a monitor attached to it unless I had to figure out WTF was happening to it. There's no option for mailing me when there's an update that needs installing/rebooting.
Let's say I set it to download, but not update. It downloads security patches. Now, the server sits there, displaying a little icon on a monitor that doesn't exist while crackers exploit security holes that wait for a reboot to get patched... You'd think that Microsoft could have spent a few seconds of thought re-designing the automatic update system for servers instead of just putting in a workstation system.
then complaining that it does what you told it to do when you told it to do it is stupid.
I never told it to reboot. Nowhere on that dialog can the word "reboot" be found. I didn't think Microsoft would be so stupid as to automatically reboot a server that may or may not be mission-critical, but I should probably have known better... Where's the option for "Download all updates, immediately install the ones that do not require a reboot and properly inform someone about the others, especially the security-related ones" that a server operating system should have? Windows 2000 is not a server OS, it's is a workstation OS with a server OS price tag.
it shouldn't be too hard to figure out what's rebooting the server since it liberally writes to the Event Log.
Everything writes liberally to the Event Log. The Event Log is a cheap whore. Instead of dealing with problems as they occur, everything just writes a line to the Event Log to pass the parcel. File System corruption starting on a friday afternoon? Written to the Event Log. It's the admin's fault for not reading it, letting the system spiral to it's death over the weekend. (This last bit is when I went Linux, BTW. I still have a 10 CAL Win2k Server license in case someone wants it. It's pretty cheap right now.)
Do you read through your Event Log at least a few times a day?
The Helpfile says:
Of course, you're not normally logged in to a server box. At night.Yes, and it REBOOTS automatically too. Which is more or less acceptable for a server in the basement that no one uses, but not so good for a server with a bunch of users and a dodgy hardware problem that requires cold reboots (the Adaptec SCSI card didn't re-init properly for some reason when reset, it had to be powered off and it took me ages to figure out what the hell was causing the box to reboot spontaneously and then hanging on the way up). I'll never run Windows on a server again.
Yes.
What's wrong with Slashdot? Me and ma miss you, son. You know you can always have your old room back, the trolls really don't smell that bad once you get used to them.
It's "taken outside and shot". We don't want them bleeding all that stupid blood on the carpeting, now do we?
What, you haven't overclocked your TV?
No.
If you install those development tools, you should read it. If you just plug it in and hear the grinding noises, you don't have to read it. :-P
I firmly believe the Amiga User Interface Style Guide should be required reading before anyone is allowed to even install a compiler with the ability to create GUIs.
Finding a white box with no Windows shouldn't be a problem. If you're buying Dell or Gateway it's another story.
Sadly, no. I went away with Win2k. However, I have a copy of FILEMAN.EXE from an NT4 box that I still install on my XP boxes, just 'cause I'm used to it. :-)
I don't know about that, I'm not that thrilled about mine. It's actually quite unpopular and not really likely to get voted 'most popular affliction' any time soon. On the other hand, it's rather common.