The biggest difference(for me) between Red Hat and Debian is the way software gets installed. Red Hat is entirely based on using rpm to install binary images of software, whereas with Debian or Slackware you use your own compiler and compile the source to install things. Its a big difference to me, and I greatly prefer the latter.
Having the source, browsing it, and compiling it to me seems to be the way to go for hardcore UNIX hackers. They would miss compiling things and wouldn't trust the software as much on a Red Hat or Mandrake system.
>> If you want reliability, you use a real language (C++/Java), a real database (Oracle) and a real Unix (AIX, Solaris, etc).
IMHBTB(I may have been trolled, but...)
I can agree that they would be better off with a "real" database, as krow in a previous comment basically stated they had to change parameters on the fly to accomodate the load. That sucks.
However, you are full of shit on the other two counts. C++ is a great language, but I wouldn't write web applications with it, other than for backend components that can be called by the primary web language. Until there is a standard HTML library for C++, that will always be the case. You might, with great effort and lots of cash, be able to get better performance with Java than you can with Perl. However, I maintain the average Perl site runs better and faster than the average Java site. Mind you, this is a purely subjective opinion.
As far as operating systems, you are dead wrong. The only redeeming features of AIX or Solaris are the systems they run on. Linux is a superior platform when it comes to developing and running your own applications. AIX in particular sucks unless you are running binaries. It has a shitty compiler(not to mention you have to pay extra for the xlC compiler, which to me is the ultimate sin on a UNIX system), and getting gcc to run on it, in order to compile C++ programs or other software, is a nightmare.
Linux beats the proprietary Unices hands down when it comes to compiling your own software or web applications.
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What is needed is a scripting language-independent compiler/interpreter module for Apache. These scripting languages can be learned in a day or two.
Then, you could combine languages and use the right scripting language where it made sense. For example, you could use Perl for regular expressions, Java for session management and connecting to the database, and Ruby for processing strings and arrays. Or something to that effect.
ASP does this - it would be cool to see something like it on Linux/Apache.
ah yes, now I remember. That there is absolutely no excuse for having a bios that is inferior to a standard bios loaded on the hard drive, rather than in the CMOS, where it belongs. A good bios has hard drive detection, and can switch between LBA and normal mode. Also, some of the good ones have a low level formatting utility.
You mean to say Compaq still does this? No, I would never again buy a machine like that, and I would vigorously recommend to any IT department I worked for or consulted for that they steer clear of proprietary bioses like Compaqs.
Actually, if he has been boycotting Compaq for 5 years, he could have had the same negative experience with their desktops as I did.
They came with a non-standard bios. To get to the bios, you had to load 2 floppies into memory. That sucked royally compared to a standard PC where you hit DEL typically to get into the bios.
The systems we had had Compaq's first-generation SuperDisks, which were shaped like floppies but held 120MB. The drives were horribly bug-ridden, and we(with way too much effort) replaced them with standard floppy drives.
Their boards, drives, and connectors almost invariably had pins blocked so you couldn't replace their floppy drives or hard drives or connectors with standard off-the-shelf hardware.
I too swore I'd never buy a Compaq after dealing with this crap. Anyone know if things have improved in the last 5 years?
How many of us already support outdated software(in binary form, mind you) that has long outlived the vendor support?
I've got Word Perfect 5.1 for Unix and VSIFax 2.0, both multiuser, text-based, binary software running on AIX. I was amazed when they lived past the year 2000. As far as I'm concerned, they can stay as long as people still use them or they die.
What will really suck is if your ASP that hosts your apps on their server dies. Then you're kinda screwed.
the Chinese fighter pilot got cocky and accidentally hit the US plane
Well, thats what we're saying. If you read a Chinese Newspaper, they say very different things. The Chinese state that we were in their airspace, and that we made a sharp turn off course to hit their plane.
If you buy what our people are saying, we appear to be in the right. If the Chinese are telling the truth, obviously we owe them an apology.
I find both stories somewhat hard to believe. Do you really think we would be on autopilot flying so close to another plane? I find that very hard to believe. Likewise the pilot of the Chinese plane was said to be a daredevil who frequently performed stunts of various sorts to rile foreign pilots.
The likely story - both sides were playing a dangerous game of chicken in the air and collided. That's something that is embarassing to both sides, and I don't expect either to admit it.
Could you please clarify? When driving my BMW or even my Beetle, it feels teutonic, but definitely not soulless. I could say the same thing about listening to Bach or Beethoven. Teutonic, yes, but with lots of soul.
Now, what does it mean to be soulless AND teutonic? I am just dying to know.
A big nothing, if you don't include Sandia Labs, Intel, a bunch of other high-tech companies, 350 days of sunshine, great restaurants, a good music scene, one of the best CS and engineering schools out there, etc. etc.
Grown a little? Try one of the fastest growing metropolitan areas in the U.S over the last 20 years.
If the IT scene was just a little more hopping, like the Bay Area or Seattle, this place would be perfect.
There will be no April Fools jokes on the internet this year. Society has judged the typical April Fools joke on the net(such as the internet closing down for maintainance) to be completely lame.
Therefore, by order of the High Council of the Internet, there are to be no April Fools jokes posted this year.
I think the parent poster had Roundup-ready products confused with the Newleaf potato, which indeed is resistant to the Colorado potato beetle. This is another Monsanto technology, although as you correctly pointed out, has nothing to do with Roundup.
Actually, the Newleaf potatos are naturally resistant to the Colorado beetle, eliminating the need for pesticides. In fact, without this technology, you would need to use a systemic insecticide(meaning it works from inside the plant to kill bugs) to produce a successful potato crop.
I'm not saying everything Monsanto does is OK, however I'm impressed with this technology. I am also impressed with Roundup, which is able to kill pretty much any kind of weed while leaving minimal, if any, environmental impact. (The crop referred to in this article is Roundup-ready canola.)
Next time you are outside, take a look around you. Virtually every tree and plant we grow has been genetically modified in one way or another. We do it to create nice looking lawns and parks, and we do it to grow food effectively. Not just with Monsanto seed. With EVERYTHING. Genetically modifying plants has been going on for hundreds of years in one form or another, and has proven to be useful. However, it has also bred plants needing more attention and protection from insects and disease.
Thus, growing crops that are better equipped to deal with nature without the use of pesticides(or excessive fertilizers) is a good thing.
OK, call me thick, but the company that produces the book Writing Solid Code denied you a job...because your coding was too solid?! I was under the impression they were always looking for talented developers.
Microsoft has since its inception "looked the other way" in regards to the average home user copying its products. Ever since Bill Gates famous Open Letter to Hobbyists became such a debacle Microsoft has vastly benefitted from its products being standardized in no small part from them being spread due to piracy. High school and college students could easily obtain(BASIC, DOS, Windows), and later became customers when they could afford the software. Countries like China were referred to within Microsoft as "one-CD nations". Microsoft went after corporate abusers, but largely left the home user/hobbyist theives alone. And it benefitted them tremendously.
Now, with Windows and Office XP, it looks as though Microsoft is finally going to make it difficult for the home user to copy the software. Do you really think home user piracy is damaging to Microsofts' business? In reality, it has done more to estabish Microsoft as a standard than it has to reduce revenue. Why the change?
I think most search engines are ignoring metatags these days because they are so commonly spammed. So, the only way to have a directory these days is to have it be completely manually built. Thus, it is impossible to have a comprehensive web directory, unless you are willing to put up with spam.
I have a suggestion to anyone who is thinking of implementing a better directory. First, define the categories, and allow any site to submit their site to their categories.
Then, introduce moderation to the mix. Allow users of your directory to rank sites in terms of suitability to the category. Allow them to create red flags for people submitting porn to health->teens->sexuality, and so forth. Let the users do the work!
I think moderation works well for sites like slashdot, why not a moderated web directory?
even if you are just looking at 90's games - Neversoft. Previously, having always had a fairly up-to-date PC, I never even considered buying a console. For the Tony Hawk game alone, I broke down and bought a used Playstation.
I had pretty much given up on games altogether, yet I'm addicted again. To me, the Tony Hawk series are some of the greatest games ever created. I haven't had this much fun with a game since I first played Doom in 94.
Thanks to Neversoft, I bought a console and became interested in console games, whereas before I was more than satisfied with only owning a PC. I also know I'm not the only one who bought a Playstation solely to play this game.
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Having the source, browsing it, and compiling it to me seems to be the way to go for hardcore UNIX hackers. They would miss compiling things and wouldn't trust the software as much on a Red Hat or Mandrake system.
IMHBTB(I may have been trolled, but...)
I can agree that they would be better off with a "real" database, as krow in a previous comment basically stated they had to change parameters on the fly to accomodate the load. That sucks.
However, you are full of shit on the other two counts. C++ is a great language, but I wouldn't write web applications with it, other than for backend components that can be called by the primary web language. Until there is a standard HTML library for C++, that will always be the case. You might, with great effort and lots of cash, be able to get better performance with Java than you can with Perl. However, I maintain the average Perl site runs better and faster than the average Java site. Mind you, this is a purely subjective opinion.
As far as operating systems, you are dead wrong. The only redeeming features of AIX or Solaris are the systems they run on. Linux is a superior platform when it comes to developing and running your own applications. AIX in particular sucks unless you are running binaries. It has a shitty compiler(not to mention you have to pay extra for the xlC compiler, which to me is the ultimate sin on a UNIX system), and getting gcc to run on it, in order to compile C++ programs or other software, is a nightmare.
Linux beats the proprietary Unices hands down when it comes to compiling your own software or web applications.
Flame away.
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Then, you could combine languages and use the right scripting language where it made sense. For example, you could use Perl for regular expressions, Java for session management and connecting to the database, and Ruby for processing strings and arrays. Or something to that effect.
ASP does this - it would be cool to see something like it on Linux/Apache.
if you used IE you could read a pdf in the browser without necessarily downloading it.
You mean to say Compaq still does this? No, I would never again buy a machine like that, and I would vigorously recommend to any IT department I worked for or consulted for that they steer clear of proprietary bioses like Compaqs.
They came with a non-standard bios. To get to the bios, you had to load 2 floppies into memory. That sucked royally compared to a standard PC where you hit DEL typically to get into the bios.
The systems we had had Compaq's first-generation SuperDisks, which were shaped like floppies but held 120MB. The drives were horribly bug-ridden, and we(with way too much effort) replaced them with standard floppy drives.
Their boards, drives, and connectors almost invariably had pins blocked so you couldn't replace their floppy drives or hard drives or connectors with standard off-the-shelf hardware.
I too swore I'd never buy a Compaq after dealing with this crap. Anyone know if things have improved in the last 5 years?
does this mean no more articles on how to use Perl with ASP or Exchange or how to dump your data to Excel?
I can see it now - "Hemos, it looks as if you are about to post a story without spell checking again. Are you sure you want to do that?"
I've got Word Perfect 5.1 for Unix and VSIFax 2.0, both multiuser, text-based, binary software running on AIX. I was amazed when they lived past the year 2000. As far as I'm concerned, they can stay as long as people still use them or they die.
What will really suck is if your ASP that hosts your apps on their server dies. Then you're kinda screwed.
Holy shit! I don't think I've ever seen a Canadian become rude. Are you sure your Canadian?
Well, thats what we're saying. If you read a Chinese Newspaper, they say very different things. The Chinese state that we were in their airspace, and that we made a sharp turn off course to hit their plane.
If you buy what our people are saying, we appear to be in the right. If the Chinese are telling the truth, obviously we owe them an apology.
I find both stories somewhat hard to believe. Do you really think we would be on autopilot flying so close to another plane? I find that very hard to believe. Likewise the pilot of the Chinese plane was said to be a daredevil who frequently performed stunts of various sorts to rile foreign pilots.
The likely story - both sides were playing a dangerous game of chicken in the air and collided. That's something that is embarassing to both sides, and I don't expect either to admit it.
Now, what does it mean to be soulless AND teutonic? I am just dying to know.
MS dies, and we all lose a fuckton of good software, those of us that use it. Yeah, that's worth the $20 I'll get from the class action. Right.
Grown a little? Try one of the fastest growing metropolitan areas in the U.S over the last 20 years.
If the IT scene was just a little more hopping, like the Bay Area or Seattle, this place would be perfect.
There's a casino ten minutes away and the hookers are right down the street.
Therefore, by order of the High Council of the Internet, there are to be no April Fools jokes posted this year.
Bacillus Thuringiensis is a naturally occurring bacteria that is harmless to humans. Its not a toxin, its a bacteria.
I think the parent poster had Roundup-ready products confused with the Newleaf potato, which indeed is resistant to the Colorado potato beetle. This is another Monsanto technology, although as you correctly pointed out, has nothing to do with Roundup.
I'm not saying everything Monsanto does is OK, however I'm impressed with this technology. I am also impressed with Roundup, which is able to kill pretty much any kind of weed while leaving minimal, if any, environmental impact. (The crop referred to in this article is Roundup-ready canola.)
Next time you are outside, take a look around you. Virtually every tree and plant we grow has been genetically modified in one way or another. We do it to create nice looking lawns and parks, and we do it to grow food effectively. Not just with Monsanto seed. With EVERYTHING. Genetically modifying plants has been going on for hundreds of years in one form or another, and has proven to be useful. However, it has also bred plants needing more attention and protection from insects and disease.
Thus, growing crops that are better equipped to deal with nature without the use of pesticides(or excessive fertilizers) is a good thing.
Assumming it wasn't all made up to begin with.
Or was that another joke?
Now, with Windows and Office XP, it looks as though Microsoft is finally going to make it difficult for the home user to copy the software. Do you really think home user piracy is damaging to Microsofts' business? In reality, it has done more to estabish Microsoft as a standard than it has to reduce revenue. Why the change?
I have a suggestion to anyone who is thinking of implementing a better directory. First, define the categories, and allow any site to submit their site to their categories. Then, introduce moderation to the mix. Allow users of your directory to rank sites in terms of suitability to the category. Allow them to create red flags for people submitting porn to health->teens->sexuality, and so forth. Let the users do the work!
I think moderation works well for sites like slashdot, why not a moderated web directory?
I had pretty much given up on games altogether, yet I'm addicted again. To me, the Tony Hawk series are some of the greatest games ever created. I haven't had this much fun with a game since I first played Doom in 94.
Thanks to Neversoft, I bought a console and became interested in console games, whereas before I was more than satisfied with only owning a PC. I also know I'm not the only one who bought a Playstation solely to play this game.