After the first few paragraphs, I was getting tired of this "ugh and glug" talks. I'm sure the author is getting paid by the number of words in the article.
Give me some real tech stuff. If you want to speak in caveman langugage, buy yourself a time travel module and send yourself to the stone age. We are living in the 21st century here.
Oh please, don't let HAL reach the age of teens.
You know all the problems related to kids growing up. Man, toddlers are cute and fun to play with. As soon as they reach the age of 5, they start asking for PS2, and all those expensive toys. And once they reach 10, you have to start worrying about tobacco and drug and alcohol, if not earlier.
For god sake, this will be the first time we can have babies that don't grow up. Please it this way.
stop expressing your preference for a month or two?
You know, you don't have to go up to the roof and shout out your preference for konqueror evertime someone mentions browser.
And you are decreasing my flerbage too, because everytime I have to spend my precious avoiding your comment.
The tone and wording of the letter sound very typical of a company in ch. 11. Have you compared the letter/press release of different companies in the same situation?
I remember when I was interviewing at Montgomery Ward in 97 for a network design engineer position. I didn't follow the news, so I didn't know MW had just filed ch. 11 the day before the interview. The director who interviewed me brought up the issue as soon as we sit down. It sounded almost exactly like this.
Ch. 11 gave them almost 4 years, but it still went down.
If you are a programmer by profession, you'd better buy some insurance on your fingers, seriously.
There should be a total recall!
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When a car manufacturer screws up a specific model of car, there's a recall (e.g. Ford Explorer). When a drug manufacturer screws up a specific batch, there's a recall (e.g Bayer). When a medical equipment manufacturer screws up,
there's a recall (e.g. asthma spray). When a toy
manufacturer screws up, there's a recall (e.g. recent example, anyone?)
The software manufacturers should be required to recall their faulty products, and the consumers should get refund, or get a new not-faulty products (until new problems are discovered, that is).
And we should see a massive improvement in MS softwares, if they want to survive. I can't imagive they can survive if they have to recall everything single product! I guess Bill Gates might as well declare MS bankrupt, instead of loosing everything.
and it is accessible to US citizens? Guess what the US government would do?
Disclaimer: I'm not a supporter of child porn !
I figure if a country wants to firewall itself - fine that's their problem (and their citizens) But France's attitude is a dsigrace. If they don't want their citizens to see stuff - then its up to them to filter it, not Yahoo's. I'm all for the having a web site be subject to the laws of the land where it is LOCATED. If its farmed into differnet countries, then all those laws will apply and the company has to deal with teh overlap. Proxies and cache don't count.
We all have our problems. But in this case, its easy - you don't want your citizens to see something? Its up to you to restrict them and deal with teh consequences like being voted out of office (if your citizens have that right.
Yes in an ideal world everything would be free and all would be free to see it - but that just isn't gonna happen. Sure, we can bitch about China firewalling and filtering everything - but that's life in a communist country.
Yes, I'm American so I can take this stance since my net use is pretty much wide open unless the FBI has a bad day, but beyond that, as long as some other country doesn't try to stick their noses into an American companies business (yeah right) I'm happy:)
According to your logic, it's up to the US government to filter out those sites. The fact is, the people who run the site will probably be in an american jail very soon, and the country where the server is will be in trouble too (since only the US has the muscle to force most smaller countries).
Just ask Dmitri what happened to him. The US didn't like what he did, all you have to do is to filter out his site for all Americans. And why is he in a US jail then?
Has anyone noticed the Syndrome of Information Sharing(TM) here? Every preview and opinion are the same: nice graphic, bad story, blah blah blah.
Gosh, I thought every individual is supposed to be distinct. But then, how come they all think the same way? Why can't someone who has watched it comes up some more interesting opinion?
And no, I'm not giving you ideas about how to write your opinions.
The final full version would cost about 1M$. Compare that to the AsciWhite at 12 Tflop for 100M$.
What??? A machine like would cost one Microsoft? Either I have been sleeping thru all this time while inflation is running rampant, or M$ is not worth that much anymore.
Well, this project is funded by the military in the
US, does that mean that all the good crypto softwares that will be included in the TrustedBSD will not be exported? Then what is the point?
Is NA going to own the patent of the softwares (whatever that is)? Then again, what is the point?
hmm, it's always funny to see comments like this on/., stating that Linux is still not as user friendly as other OSes, blah blah blah....
User friendliness is all relative. As for myself, I find DOS/Windows very hard to use myself, as compared to Linux. A lot of day-to-day operations/commands have to be performed in an MS-way, and I can't customize. And I find that very hard to use. When I want to uninstall an application from my Windows machine, I can never be sure if all components have been uninstalled properly. Try to dig into that system32 directory to see...
We bought a house two-years ago, and there's already a RainBird sprinkler installed. There are only 8 buttons on the control panel. But the user manual has been lost. And guess what, I found that sprinkler control panel extremely hard to program, and this is a product that is targeted to everage person out there. I have been able to program that sprinkler properly only after I downloaded the user manual of that model that has been discontinued.
The point is, there's no such thing as "absolute" user friendliness.
Well, let's play the same game that MS is playing. Let's embrace.Net, make extensions that are so good that programmers can't live without, but only for Linux only. Once these extensions are adopted by programmers, make sure MS is playing catchup.
I don't why hackers have to have bad hygiene. Can't understand that. That just makes the whole community so unpresentable to the "normal" population.
Folks, we don't have to be that way. It just takes 10 minutes to take a decent shower everyday, and it makes so much more agreeable, especially in a conference or meeting where a lot of hackers/geeks/nerds are gathering.
The whole hygiene thing just gives very bad impression about the hacker community. First, there was that RMS thing (with all respect to RMS), then the attendees at LinuxTag thrown out of the hotel. And maybe attendees at the next-month
LinuxWorld Expo at SF will be thrown out too?
Well, for the last few weeks, a Ricochet rep has been signing up subscribers at Fry's Electronics (for those of you outside California and don't know Fry's, it's a geek life style here).
I was so tempted to sign up for the service even
though it's a little pricey (but when the only service I can get is IDSL at $99/mo... ah well).
This would be mainly for the 505FX running Linux only, and the guy said it does not support Linux.
I'm sure with some patch, I could make it work, but hey, I WANT the provider to give me this out of the box.
The Linux user population is getting larger and larger everyday, I think service providers and manufacturers should view this segment of the market as a profit-making market. Why? because Linux users tend to cost less for them for support, as Linux users are more technical.
Nah, forget about the DVD. A suggestion to sell more of your distribution? Put it on CD-RW. It's about the same price anyways for those virgin CDs. So, when the life span of those softwares is over, we can re-use the CD too.
I have two piles of software CDs, from the floor to the ceiling, not counting the few boxen of MSDN. And I can't recycle those CDs, what a shame.
Jim, thank you so much for leaving us such an important legacy. As a daily user of the usenet, you can't imagine how much I've learned about everthing, not to say so much of my programming skills are learned thru usenet.
Stupid me, I didn't follow the development of that so-called fucking "modernization act".
Anyways, I received those cryptic letters, like everyone, and read thru them, and had no idea what they are talking about, being unaware of any "modernization act". I think I'm above an average Joe SixPack, when getting myself informed about this kind of craps. But I haven't heard of this obscure act to allow companies to legally whole-sell my personal and financial information.
Honestly (don't lie please), how many people on/. (if you live in the US) didn't understand the cryptic letter and throw away?
Great, now personal/financial wholesale is legal. I'm just eagerly waiting for the next election to have another president who might listen to the population's concern (fat dream!
).... oh shit, I'm an american citizen and have no intention to be one, and I can't do anything about this crap. The only choice is to move out then...
Alright, some open source hacker will tell me
to go write it myself, for this kind of request....
A lot of people are using Linux distributions (e.g. RH) that don't come with journaling file system by default (argh....). Sure, we can create a dummy partition, and more the system to it, and create the journaled file system (JFS, ReiserFS,...), and re-install on that, blah blah blah... it's that simple.
But hey, we got production system out there, and the disk has no space for new parition anymore.
And we have patched and configured the system to work exactly like we want (performing, reliable, and secure), and we have no intention to re-install things and migrate. And I have a VAIO 505FX that does not have spare disk space to for use to install journaling FS, and I don't want to
go thru all the hassle of re-installing everything.
So, a FS conversion tool would be really nice, like that DOS to NTFS thingy.
I'm sure the group (IBM, Reiser, SGI, Ext3) that
comes up with the first will have a first-mover
advantage and more users.
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Give me some real tech stuff. If you want to speak in caveman langugage, buy yourself a time travel module and send yourself to the stone age. We are living in the 21st century here.
You know all the problems related to kids growing up. Man, toddlers are cute and fun to play with. As soon as they reach the age of 5, they start asking for PS2, and all those expensive toys. And once they reach 10, you have to start worrying about tobacco and drug and alcohol, if not earlier.
For god sake, this will be the first time we can have babies that don't grow up. Please it this way.
You know, you don't have to go up to the roof and shout out your preference for konqueror evertime someone mentions browser.
And you are decreasing my flerbage too, because everytime I have to spend my precious avoiding your comment.
I remember when I was interviewing at Montgomery Ward in 97 for a network design engineer position. I didn't follow the news, so I didn't know MW had just filed ch. 11 the day before the interview. The director who interviewed me brought up the issue as soon as we sit down. It sounded almost exactly like this.
Ch. 11 gave them almost 4 years, but it still went down.
The software manufacturers should be required to recall their faulty products, and the consumers should get refund, or get a new not-faulty products (until new problems are discovered, that is).
And we should see a massive improvement in MS softwares, if they want to survive. I can't imagive they can survive if they have to recall everything single product! I guess Bill Gates might as well declare MS bankrupt, instead of loosing everything.
Disclaimer: I'm not a supporter of child porn ! I figure if a country wants to firewall itself - fine that's their problem (and their citizens) But France's attitude is a dsigrace. If they don't want their citizens to see stuff - then its up to them to filter it, not Yahoo's. I'm all for the having a web site be subject to the laws of the land where it is LOCATED. If its farmed into differnet countries, then all those laws will apply and the company has to deal with teh overlap. Proxies and cache don't count. We all have our problems. But in this case, its easy - you don't want your citizens to see something? Its up to you to restrict them and deal with teh consequences like being voted out of office (if your citizens have that right.
Yes in an ideal world everything would be free and all would be free to see it - but that just isn't gonna happen. Sure, we can bitch about China firewalling and filtering everything - but that's life in a communist country.
Yes, I'm American so I can take this stance since my net use is pretty much wide open unless the FBI has a bad day, but beyond that, as long as some other country doesn't try to stick their noses into an American companies business (yeah right) I'm happy :)
According to your logic, it's up to the US government to filter out those sites. The fact is, the people who run the site will probably be in an american jail very soon, and the country where the server is will be in trouble too (since only the US has the muscle to force most smaller countries).
Just ask Dmitri what happened to him. The US didn't like what he did, all you have to do is to filter out his site for all Americans. And why is he in a US jail then?
Gosh, I thought every individual is supposed to be distinct. But then, how come they all think the same way? Why can't someone who has watched it comes up some more interesting opinion?
And no, I'm not giving you ideas about how to write your opinions.
What??? A machine like would cost one Microsoft? Either I have been sleeping thru all this time while inflation is running rampant, or M$ is not worth that much anymore.
Is NA going to own the patent of the softwares (whatever that is)? Then again, what is the point?
User friendliness is all relative. As for myself, I find DOS/Windows very hard to use myself, as compared to Linux. A lot of day-to-day operations/commands have to be performed in an MS-way, and I can't customize. And I find that very hard to use. When I want to uninstall an application from my Windows machine, I can never be sure if all components have been uninstalled properly. Try to dig into that system32 directory to see...
We bought a house two-years ago, and there's already a RainBird sprinkler installed. There are only 8 buttons on the control panel. But the user manual has been lost. And guess what, I found that sprinkler control panel extremely hard to program, and this is a product that is targeted to everage person out there. I have been able to program that sprinkler properly only after I downloaded the user manual of that model that has been discontinued.
The point is, there's no such thing as "absolute" user friendliness.
A tooth for a tooth.
Folks, we don't have to be that way. It just takes 10 minutes to take a decent shower everyday, and it makes so much more agreeable, especially in a conference or meeting where a lot of hackers/geeks/nerds are gathering.
The whole hygiene thing just gives very bad impression about the hacker community. First, there was that RMS thing (with all respect to RMS), then the attendees at LinuxTag thrown out of the hotel. And maybe attendees at the next-month LinuxWorld Expo at SF will be thrown out too?
I was so tempted to sign up for the service even though it's a little pricey (but when the only service I can get is IDSL at $99/mo... ah well). This would be mainly for the 505FX running Linux only, and the guy said it does not support Linux. I'm sure with some patch, I could make it work, but hey, I WANT the provider to give me this out of the box.
The Linux user population is getting larger and larger everyday, I think service providers and manufacturers should view this segment of the market as a profit-making market. Why? because Linux users tend to cost less for them for support, as Linux users are more technical.
Ant this day has come!
For those of you living in a CA rolling black-out area, I got a solution to light up your dark night.
It's a natural light, made from a cluster of firefly, and with a switch. You can turn it on and off, at your will. How convenient.
I have two piles of software CDs, from the floor to the ceiling, not counting the few boxen of MSDN. And I can't recycle those CDs, what a shame.
Jim, thank you so much for leaving us such an important legacy. As a daily user of the usenet, you can't imagine how much I've learned about everthing, not to say so much of my programming skills are learned thru usenet.
45 years old, that's too young! That's not fair!
Ah well, I guess I just need another coffee.
Anyways, I received those cryptic letters, like everyone, and read thru them, and had no idea what they are talking about, being unaware of any "modernization act". I think I'm above an average Joe SixPack, when getting myself informed about this kind of craps. But I haven't heard of this obscure act to allow companies to legally whole-sell my personal and financial information.
Honestly (don't lie please), how many people on /. (if you live in the US) didn't understand the cryptic letter and throw away?
Great, now personal/financial wholesale is legal. I'm just eagerly waiting for the next election to have another president who might listen to the population's concern (fat dream!
).... oh shit, I'm an american citizen and have no intention to be one, and I can't do anything about this crap. The only choice is to move out then...A lot of people are using Linux distributions (e.g. RH) that don't come with journaling file system by default (argh....). Sure, we can create a dummy partition, and more the system to it, and create the journaled file system (JFS, ReiserFS, ...), and re-install on that, blah blah blah... it's that simple.
But hey, we got production system out there, and the disk has no space for new parition anymore. And we have patched and configured the system to work exactly like we want (performing, reliable, and secure), and we have no intention to re-install things and migrate. And I have a VAIO 505FX that does not have spare disk space to for use to install journaling FS, and I don't want to go thru all the hassle of re-installing everything.
So, a FS conversion tool would be really nice, like that DOS to NTFS thingy.
I'm sure the group (IBM, Reiser, SGI, Ext3) that comes up with the first will have a first-mover advantage and more users.