Boy...I have been trying to get the WindowMaker people to have customizable window borders for 15 years...And those holoywood folks went and did it for me....Wheres the source Luke??? ROFL!
@Home is like McDonalds....If you get bad service at 1 or 2 local McD's...That does not mean all McD's across the country are bad. I have had Cox@home for over 2 years and (knock on wood) I can count the downtime hours on 1 hand....And if they juice is flowing to the modem -- why would I have to call Tech Support??? -- I am sure they get lots of calls from people who can't configure Outlook or get Java Script errors -- and most likely thousands of other "problems"....But all I ask is that they provide the connection...and keep up the "Dont Ask Dont Tell" policy on my meager servers....And all is good.
From the "Why did this article get posted...and not mine" department:
Ohh..This sounds a lot like the story I submitted a week ago called:
"How to make your good memory make use of bad software."
{ SARCASM }
Or better yet -- if you ALREADY are getting your news in other places -- why take the time to read or worse yet post to Slashdot?
{/SARCASM }
I would be willing to bet that a good percentage of Slashdot readers did not (or do not) read the "Weekly kernel traffic digest".
Yes- I admit I paid up for VMware...However it was worth a couple of hundred bucks to not have to worry about "what version of CVS wine do I need to run what version of this office suite OR when can wine support this tax manager OR what parts of this program work and what parts do not work". At least with VMware I can keep all of those nasty.dll's in their own "jail" (along with the rest of Windows) that appears as nothing more than a single file (big file) to the rest of Linux. I do not have to worry about paths or weirds filename~. It was worth it. And for anyone that needs Quicken, Excel, Photoshop, Dreamweaver or any other M$centric app -- just bite the bullet. (And for all those people that say VMware sucks because it is not Open Source or Free, etc, etc....Are you using Wine to run Open Source or Free programs??? -- That line gets crossed one way or the other -- I choose the easiest and most efficient thank you.
I work with some people that live and breath politicts, and they always seem to be in "Elect And Re-Elect" mode. You never here them talk about the actual work that gets done between elections or how the issues are handles once an office is "won". They are either celebrating a victory or planning another campaign (or crying in their beer). The only time issues come up is when they are used to compare where someone stands during election time, and not what someone has done once they have been elected. For these "Political Fans" it becomes more of a game than anything else. A game where these political neophytes garner personal victory when their candidate takes the stage and office. Sadly, a game in which "Joe Six Pack" does not play -- because Joe Six Pack cares about what happens after the election....I mean hell, look at the amount of time is spent on fund raising and baby kissing...how could any real work be done....It would be like me spending more than half of my time interviewing for my job (after I had been hired) rather than actually doing my job...
I use Napster to listen to songs of commercial bands (many of whom would never be on the radio)so I can make an informed decision before plopping 16 bucks down for a CD. Yes -- in the past I purchased many a CD that have about as much value as those AOL discs that come in the mail -- and Yes -- I buy less CD's now because of this -- and Yes I feel it is a WIN/WIN situation -- because if I like it, I buy it...And if it sucks or is mediocre, I do not buy it. Kind of like thinking it is OK to test drive a car before you make the decision to purchase it strictly based or here say and glossy ads.
I use mp3.com to find good music that I would(may) never see in my local record store.
The bottom line:
Bands get hurt by Napster only if their product does not live up to the hype or marketing. The good bands that produce complete CD's are getting a bonus. mp3.com helps artists that would otherwise be "looked over" by the record labels
So you tell me -- who loses? -- Why is an informed customer regarded as a crook??
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I don't mean to slam anybody or flame anybody...And I may burn a few karma...But enough of the "Why did they post this story vs. my story"...The internet is bigger than 1 site (/.) Start your own site if/. is not covering everything you feel it should be. (I myself love a little humor mixed in with all the geek junk)
good spam is spam that you may get often but comes from the same place with the same headers. For example if you get spam that says:
From: spammaster@amazon.com
OR
Subject: See Amzazon.com's hot deals
This case is really easy -- set up a procmail rule that sends these to/dev/null
Spam that fits no pattern can be controlled with rules based filters or fgrep'd through word lists.
And on the other hand Spam serves of little value if the spammer does not leave some way to get ahold of them or the "product" they are selling...That leaves a pretty open target does it not?
I love to play with QNX and such...But it's wonderful windowing interface is always a sad reminder of how slow/bad X really is in *nix. And *nix serves as a reminder of how bad hardware support is in QNX (or BeOs for that matter). I am left with the same issue I have with the political candidates...I like 50% of what each one says, and deplore the other 50%.
Old Way:
Bob and sally open up a lemonade stand and sell cups of a secret recipe of yellow liquid handed down for generations at 25 cents a pop, with a profit of about 17 cents per cup. Bob and sally save that profit and before long are able to put their savings into a small local store front where they sell lemonade and cookies and turn a small profit. After a while people decide the the unique flavor of lemonade and the unmatched goodness of cookies provided by Bob and Sally can no longer be hidden from the rest of the state -- and a state wide franchise is started....followed soon by Bob & Sally Worldwide. Bob & Sally retire at age 60 with a nice big bank account.
New Way (Internet Age):
Bob and Sally want to start a world wide lemonade and cookie distribution network...as soon as they can find some VC to finance the idea that the world will love the yet untested coolness of their yet undetmined product. After a year of struggling to convince the world to purchase their product online (koolaid and oreo's) for a price comparible to that of ones local grocery store...Bob and Sally having recentlly burned through a couple of million of VC, and after having gone public 6 months earlier on the idea that the general public (at least the "plugged in" general public) had never tried the unique combination of KoolAid and Oreo's...Bob and Sally are left with stock proces less than $1 a share, and they are bleeding red...and they wonder what went wrong..
Usually movies do not even come close to the books, however they always tend to at least have something in common with the book. In the case of The Postman....The only simularity is the name "The Postman"...The people who wrote the script for the movie should all be punished with extreme physical torture for taking a damn good book and making it look bad (worse than most) on the silver screen.
Well it is getting harder and harder to find showstopper bugs. However, the ever present big bug that plauges all monsters that dare jump into the linux browser market is still hanging around -- and that is the old fasioned "now your surfing, now your not -- total meltdown -- dissapear, dump core, elvis has left the building bug....." I look forward to the days when I can search for the type of bugs that are more in the cosmetic scheme of things.
The kernel and the apps make up linux. The distribution moniker is pretty irrelevent. Although I did buy the shrink wrapped Debian (for the uber-cool bumper sticker)....
I guess my point is this -- I have not seen any "Distribution Specific" additions that add to or equal the kernel or apps. Yes, their is package managment...But a few rounds of./configure;make;make install from my end kind of defeat the whole purpase of RPM or DEB....(Who wants to be dependent on someone else deciding what and when I install).
Most distribution specific additions usually end up being all fluff and no content...I mean after the install is done....I guess one could compare the level of service from the support lines???
Why should internet access be any different than cable TV? My cable TV provider says that for $20 bucks a month I can "have unlimited access" to channels 1-36. What this means is that if I want to switch to Nick At Nite' on channel 34 and watch 23 hours of classic re-runs a day it will cost me the same $20 bucks a month as my neighbor who never watches Nick at Nite', and only subscribes to Cable so he can watch the golf channel on weekends for 4 or 5 hours, and do his workouts with Richard Simmons on channel 9 for 30 minutes each morning. And the minute that cable TV companies decided to penalize me for watching 14 episodes of "Bewitched" a day, and say that I was "abusing" the system -- I guess my whole purpase for having cable TV in the first place would be wiped out.
I had enough free time to hack into other people's systems. Get a life people. I mean the shear amount of time I spend reading/. is enough to send me to nerd heaven....
the only subscription I need is a little file
called sources.list -- and it's free (is it just me or is debian the best kept secret in the Linux world?)
>> Every female programmer, sysadmin, et cetera
>> I've met couldn't give a damn about computers
>> after they've put in their eight hours.
That is a very true statement. Their is some kick ass female SA's and coders I have met that do not even own a "home" computer....Sad really -- and in a similar topic, they (plus other lazy male "workers") expect me their employer to pay for training each time we want to explore new technology....If people in the medical profession had this same attitude -- there would be a lot more dead people.
Just ask the people who learned COBOL in the 70's and are flipping burgers at your local burger joint how important it is to take an "off hour" interest in what you do for a living.
I would say that 1 industrial roll of network cable and a bunch of junk from x10.com will give you a good start...And the most important factor would be a T1 (or a fat business DSL) -- you can't have a "true" geek house if your connection to the other geeks of the world is through POTS at 28.8 or whatever BPS the cave men and grandmas of the world are running at these days...
Man this is the internet age. Once the visas expire -- they will go home to India...And in a week or 2, you can sign them to an "off-shore" contract for about 50% what you were paying them in the good old US of A...And it's a WIN WIN situation....(Plus the quality standards and processes in India are 1000% time better..)
I have been working with an off shore team for over 15 months...and the results are positive...(Plus you get 2 coders for every 1 here -- and they are coding while we are sleeping..)
The secret to good communication??? A good T1 line and a copy of VNC:)
I have used RPM (Redhat for 3 years & Mandrake for a while) and now use Debian (for one year now). I guess my question is this: Would not it scare the RPM based distros to go with DEB, when it would be easier to only install a distribution 1 time. I mean their has to be something to the fact that each time I walk into Best Buy or Comp-usa, I notice a new point release of Redhat, Mandrake, Caldera, or Suse...I think apt-get update;apt-get dist-upgrade would just rain on that parade.
That being said their is the one area where I feel the RIAA can kiss my ass -- And that is:
If I can not walk into my local record store and either find it on the shelf -- or order it out of that "big yellow book" (I.E. -- out of print OR never in print) then it should be FAIR GAME for anyone to trade as they wish...
Yea -- I would love to see them pull some ex-rocker from the 80's away from his job at the carwash to side with the record label in a suit to drag me down for trading songs from his 1982 LP that sold about 3000 copies and has been OOP since then.
Slashdot Mirror
Boy...I have been trying to get the WindowMaker people to have customizable window borders for 15 years...And those holoywood folks went and did it for me....Wheres the source Luke??? ROFL!
@Home is like McDonalds....If you get bad service at 1 or 2 local McD's...That does not mean all McD's across the country are bad. I have had Cox@home for over 2 years and (knock on wood) I can count the downtime hours on 1 hand....And if they juice is flowing to the modem -- why would I have to call Tech Support??? -- I am sure they get lots of calls from people who can't configure Outlook or get Java Script errors -- and most likely thousands of other "problems"....But all I ask is that they provide the connection...and keep up the "Dont Ask Dont Tell" policy on my meager servers....And all is good.
{ Joke Mode On }
From the "Why did this article get posted...and not mine" department:
Ohh..This sounds a lot like the story I submitted a week ago called:
"How to make your good memory make use of bad software."
{Joke Mode Off }
{ SARCASM } Or better yet -- if you ALREADY are getting your news in other places -- why take the time to read or worse yet post to Slashdot? {
I would be willing to bet that a good percentage of Slashdot readers did not (or do not) read the "Weekly kernel traffic digest".
Jenni of Jennicam fame uses Pico. She seems like a pretty self-respecting geek.
Yes- I admit I paid up for VMware...However it was worth a couple of hundred bucks to not have to worry about "what version of CVS wine do I need to run what version of this office suite OR when can wine support this tax manager OR what parts of this program work and what parts do not work". At least with VMware I can keep all of those nasty
I work with some people that live and breath politicts, and they always seem to be in "Elect And Re-Elect" mode. You never here them talk about the actual work that gets done between elections or how the issues are handles once an office is "won". They are either celebrating a victory or planning another campaign (or crying in their beer). The only time issues come up is when they are used to compare where someone stands during election time, and not what someone has done once they have been elected. For these "Political Fans" it becomes more of a game than anything else. A game where these political neophytes garner personal victory when their candidate takes the stage and office. Sadly, a game in which "Joe Six Pack" does not play -- because Joe Six Pack cares about what happens after the election....I mean hell, look at the amount of time is spent on fund raising and baby kissing...how could any real work be done....It would be like me spending more than half of my time interviewing for my job (after I had been hired) rather than actually doing my job...
I use Napster to listen to songs of commercial bands (many of whom would never be on the radio)so I can make an informed decision before plopping 16 bucks down for a CD. Yes -- in the past I purchased many a CD that have about as much value as those AOL discs that come in the mail -- and Yes -- I buy less CD's now because of this -- and Yes I feel it is a WIN/WIN situation -- because if I like it, I buy it...And if it sucks or is mediocre, I do not buy it. Kind of like thinking it is OK to test drive a car before you make the decision to purchase it strictly based or here say and glossy ads.
I use mp3.com to find good music that I would(may) never see in my local record store.
The bottom line:
Bands get hurt by Napster only if their product does not live up to the hype or marketing. The good bands that produce complete CD's are getting a bonus. mp3.com helps artists that would otherwise be "looked over" by the record labels
So you tell me -- who loses? -- Why is an informed customer regarded as a crook??
I don't mean to slam anybody or flame anybody...And I may burn a few karma...But enough of the "Why did they post this story vs. my story"...The internet is bigger than 1 site (/.) Start your own site if /. is not covering everything you feel it should be. (I myself love a little humor mixed in with all the geek junk)
good spam is spam that you may get often but comes from the same place with the same headers. For example if you get spam that says:
/dev/null
From: spammaster@amazon.com
OR Subject: See Amzazon.com's hot deals
This case is really easy -- set up a procmail rule that sends these to
Spam that fits no pattern can be controlled with rules based filters or fgrep'd through word lists.
And on the other hand Spam serves of little value if the spammer does not leave some way to get ahold of them or the "product" they are selling...That leaves a pretty open target does it not?
I love to play with QNX and such...But it's wonderful windowing interface is always a sad reminder of how slow/bad X really is in *nix. And *nix serves as a reminder of how bad hardware support is in QNX (or BeOs for that matter). I am left with the same issue I have with the political candidates...I like 50% of what each one says, and deplore the other 50%.
Here is a test example.
Old Way:
Bob and sally open up a lemonade stand and sell cups of a secret recipe of yellow liquid handed down for generations at 25 cents a pop, with a profit of about 17 cents per cup. Bob and sally save that profit and before long are able to put their savings into a small local store front where they sell lemonade and cookies and turn a small profit. After a while people decide the the unique flavor of lemonade and the unmatched goodness of cookies provided by Bob and Sally can no longer be hidden from the rest of the state -- and a state wide franchise is started....followed soon by Bob & Sally Worldwide. Bob & Sally retire at age 60 with a nice big bank account.
New Way (Internet Age):
Bob and Sally want to start a world wide lemonade and cookie distribution network...as soon as they can find some VC to finance the idea that the world will love the yet untested coolness of their yet undetmined product. After a year of struggling to convince the world to purchase their product online (koolaid and oreo's) for a price comparible to that of ones local grocery store...Bob and Sally having recentlly burned through a couple of million of VC, and after having gone public 6 months earlier on the idea that the general public (at least the "plugged in" general public) had never tried the unique combination of KoolAid and Oreo's...Bob and Sally are left with stock proces less than $1 a share, and they are bleeding red...and they wonder what went wrong..
Hmmm....
Usually movies do not even come close to the books, however they always tend to at least have something in common with the book. In the case of The Postman....The only simularity is the name "The Postman"...The people who wrote the script for the movie should all be punished with extreme physical torture for taking a damn good book and making it look bad (worse than most) on the silver screen.
Ouch....
Well it is getting harder and harder to find showstopper bugs. However, the ever present big bug that plauges all monsters that dare jump into the linux browser market is still hanging around -- and that is the old fasioned "now your surfing, now your not -- total meltdown -- dissapear, dump core, elvis has left the building bug....." I look forward to the days when I can search for the type of bugs that are more in the cosmetic scheme of things.
The kernel and the apps make up linux. The distribution moniker is pretty irrelevent. Although I did buy the shrink wrapped Debian (for the uber-cool bumper sticker)....
./configure;make;make install from my end kind of defeat the whole purpase of RPM or DEB....(Who wants to be dependent on someone else deciding what and when I install).
I guess my point is this -- I have not seen any "Distribution Specific" additions that add to or equal the kernel or apps. Yes, their is package managment...But a few rounds of
Most distribution specific additions usually end up being all fluff and no content...I mean after the install is done....I guess one could compare the level of service from the support lines???
Oh well...
Has this burnt anybody yet??? I would be curious of the ramifications of this....
Why should internet access be any different than cable TV? My cable TV provider says that for $20 bucks a month I can "have unlimited access" to channels 1-36. What this means is that if I want to switch to Nick At Nite' on channel 34 and watch 23 hours of classic re-runs a day it will cost me the same $20 bucks a month as my neighbor who never watches Nick at Nite', and only subscribes to Cable so he can watch the golf channel on weekends for 4 or 5 hours, and do his workouts with Richard Simmons on channel 9 for 30 minutes each morning. And the minute that cable TV companies decided to penalize me for watching 14 episodes of "Bewitched" a day, and say that I was "abusing" the system -- I guess my whole purpase for having cable TV in the first place would be wiped out.
I had enough free time to hack into other people's systems. Get a life people. I mean the shear amount of time I spend reading /. is enough to send me to nerd heaven....
the only subscription I need is a little file called sources.list -- and it's free (is it just me or is debian the best kept secret in the Linux world?)
>> Every female programmer, sysadmin, et cetera
>> I've met couldn't give a damn about computers
>> after they've put in their eight hours.
That is a very true statement. Their is some kick ass female SA's and coders I have met that do not even own a "home" computer....Sad really -- and in a similar topic, they (plus other lazy male "workers") expect me their employer to pay for training each time we want to explore new technology....If people in the medical profession had this same attitude -- there would be a lot more dead people.
Just ask the people who learned COBOL in the 70's and are flipping burgers at your local burger joint how important it is to take an "off hour" interest in what you do for a living.
1 HOUSE + SOME GEEKS = geek house
I would say that 1 industrial roll of network cable and a bunch of junk from x10.com will give you a good start...And the most important factor would be a T1 (or a fat business DSL) -- you can't have a "true" geek house if your connection to the other geeks of the world is through POTS at 28.8 or whatever BPS the cave men and grandmas of the world are running at these days...
15+ hours if done all at once....5 minutes a day if done daily.
Man this is the internet age. Once the visas expire -- they will go home to India...And in a week or 2, you can sign them to an "off-shore" contract for about 50% what you were paying them in the good old US of A...And it's a WIN WIN situation....(Plus the quality standards and processes in India are 1000% time better..)
:)
I have been working with an off shore team for over 15 months...and the results are positive...(Plus you get 2 coders for every 1 here -- and they are coding while we are sleeping..)
The secret to good communication??? A good T1 line and a copy of VNC
I have used RPM (Redhat for 3 years & Mandrake for a while) and now use Debian (for one year now). I guess my question is this: Would not it scare the RPM based distros to go with DEB, when it would be easier to only install a distribution 1 time. I mean their has to be something to the fact that each time I walk into Best Buy or Comp-usa, I notice a new point release of Redhat, Mandrake, Caldera, or Suse...I think apt-get update;apt-get dist-upgrade would just rain on that parade.
What do you think?
Overall I am against people stealing music.
That being said their is the one area where I feel the RIAA can kiss my ass -- And that is:
If I can not walk into my local record store and either find it on the shelf -- or order it out of that "big yellow book" (I.E. -- out of print OR never in print) then it should be FAIR GAME for anyone to trade as they wish...
Yea -- I would love to see them pull some ex-rocker from the 80's away from his job at the carwash to side with the record label in a suit to drag me down for trading songs from his 1982 LP that sold about 3000 copies and has been OOP since then.