It's just a manner of speaking, but in any case that's not "luck". There are environmental conditions that make some people more prone than others to natural disasters. What I try to picture is that the fight against elements has a long history, but we have been always on the losing streak.
Mother Nature shows it's power. For better or worse.
This always comes to my mind when this kind of tragedies happen: We're actually pretty fragile, always trying to struggle against the Nature, but when She gets angry, we got nothing to do.
I've been using openSUSE intermittently since version 8.2 (the SuSE times) and yet easy to install and configure (Yast is a great tool) it always lacks or something or just fails with the basic. I'm not really saying OS is bloated, but KDE. I was a KDE die hard user, but in some point (4.0) they lost their way (Activities? Plasma? Amarok 2.x?). Sorry, but I will stick to OpenBox/GNOME.
What I meant was: Yast is low as zypper frontend but zypper from the command line works like a charm (why are the repositories marked to refresh automatically by default on Yast? why are there a lot of suggested packages marked to be installed?). The network manager has a lot of unnecessary stuff (1/4 of the screen? WTF!). Anyway, I installed Mint-Debian and I'm very happy with it.
I'm not a big fan of [Open]SUSE, since I think there's always something missing in every version, but I installed the KDE flavor in my personal laptop and I will rollback to my old Debian again. Slow installation (I already had a/home partition and it took about 10 minutes only "preparing the configuration" with a heavy I/O load), slow package manager as usual (compared to synaptic. Zypper is quite good in contrast), KDE is once again a bloated monster (Akonadi stole 200MB of my home directory and the network manager looks cool, but has too many unnecessary stuff. Well, that's not an oS issue, but counts) and the default Firefox look and feel is ugly (seems that there's no GTK/Qt out of the box integration). Maybe I give the GNOME version a try this weekend.
Yeah, and how is that their competitors are more expensive? are they overpricing their models now? Moore's law applies for everyone, not only Apple and for sure Samsung makes more than a thousand devices a year.
1. Debian won two of seven categories at the Linux New Media Awards 2011
2. While the article focuses on Debian with the Linux kernel, it also supports a FreeBSD kernel and (I don't know if this actually counts) GNU/Hurd
Looks like someone is trying to vent his frustration for being an incompetent. Manning knew that they're were going to cut his balls if he got caught, that's not news, but there's a large list of people that just can't stand that restricted information was stolen right under their noses. It's also an ego thing, you know.
They shouldn't have replaced the broadly available telegraph lines with an expensive glass thing in first place. Anyway, no one is going to replace anything until it is proven "cost-befitable".
I thought Mandriva was dead, but yesterday I discovered its product for IT management (Pulse). I know this is old news, but it came to my mind reading this.
Just wondering what's better for long-term archiving of lots of mail
I prefer a "distributed backup" (pst files on every user's computer with a general backup manager). Yeah, I know. It's way harder to manage, but I've had a couple problem with single backup that keeps me from centralize everything. And it's only 70 PCs so it's not a big deal (larger infrastructures are another story).
His point is stupid. It's something like "If it works, don't touch it" No matter if the code is a house of cards and it will fall sooner or later. A total rewrite is just a result of a technical debt poorly managed, but sometimes you just can't help it, like an old car full of patches it won't work anymore eventually.
I agree with you (mostly). The Libyans let a clown-dictator to stay for 40 years! it was part of a self-determination exercise and what is happening right now is the result. West is not the world's police and as such, Libyans have to deal with their reality just like everyone else does.
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It's called the Dilbert Principle.
It's just a manner of speaking, but in any case that's not "luck". There are environmental conditions that make some people more prone than others to natural disasters. What I try to picture is that the fight against elements has a long history, but we have been always on the losing streak.
This always comes to my mind when this kind of tragedies happen: We're actually pretty fragile, always trying to struggle against the Nature, but when She gets angry, we got nothing to do.
I've been using openSUSE intermittently since version 8.2 (the SuSE times) and yet easy to install and configure (Yast is a great tool) it always lacks or something or just fails with the basic. I'm not really saying OS is bloated, but KDE. I was a KDE die hard user, but in some point (4.0) they lost their way (Activities? Plasma? Amarok 2.x?). Sorry, but I will stick to OpenBox/GNOME.
What I meant was: Yast is low as zypper frontend but zypper from the command line works like a charm (why are the repositories marked to refresh automatically by default on Yast? why are there a lot of suggested packages marked to be installed?). The network manager has a lot of unnecessary stuff (1/4 of the screen? WTF!). Anyway, I installed Mint-Debian and I'm very happy with it.
I'm not a big fan of [Open]SUSE, since I think there's always something missing in every version, but I installed the KDE flavor in my personal laptop and I will rollback to my old Debian again. Slow installation (I already had a /home partition and it took about 10 minutes only "preparing the configuration" with a heavy I/O load), slow package manager as usual (compared to synaptic. Zypper is quite good in contrast), KDE is once again a bloated monster (Akonadi stole 200MB of my home directory and the network manager looks cool, but has too many unnecessary stuff. Well, that's not an oS issue, but counts) and the default Firefox look and feel is ugly (seems that there's no GTK/Qt out of the box integration). Maybe I give the GNOME version a try this weekend.
What exactly is "Democratic Republic of the Congo"? (The first thing that comes to my mind is: "An irony")
Not for the jammer itself, but considering that a fair portion of the synchronization networks around the world depends on GPS this is kind of scary.
Yeah, and how is that their competitors are more expensive? are they overpricing their models now? Moore's law applies for everyone, not only Apple and for sure Samsung makes more than a thousand devices a year.
Who cares about efficiency? they only need fancy cars so Discovery can make canned simulation documentaries
According to this blog entry by Christophe Joyau, "Head of Services Sales, Nordic and Baltic countries"
That's the best way to go. Playing psychological games with an idiot is just a waste of time.
1. Debian won two of seven categories at the Linux New Media Awards 2011
2. While the article focuses on Debian with the Linux kernel, it also supports a FreeBSD kernel and (I don't know if this actually counts) GNU/Hurd
And if you used IRC instead, they'd call it CrimeMSN so you actually have two problems.
Looks like someone is trying to vent his frustration for being an incompetent. Manning knew that they're were going to cut his balls if he got caught, that's not news, but there's a large list of people that just can't stand that restricted information was stolen right under their noses. It's also an ego thing, you know.
This should be the first time Colombia is not in a blacklist made by the US
Nope, it's not
But Yahoo! uses Bing, so it's actually very close to 100%
They shouldn't have replaced the broadly available telegraph lines with an expensive glass thing in first place. Anyway, no one is going to replace anything until it is proven "cost-befitable".
Thank you, that was quite graphic. Now if you don't mind, I'll save my glass of juice to drink it later.
I thought Mandriva was dead, but yesterday I discovered its product for IT management (Pulse). I know this is old news, but it came to my mind reading this.
I prefer a "distributed backup" (pst files on every user's computer with a general backup manager). Yeah, I know. It's way harder to manage, but I've had a couple problem with single backup that keeps me from centralize everything. And it's only 70 PCs so it's not a big deal (larger infrastructures are another story).
Finally the labyrinth example of Räphael Javascript library works smoothly. That and the status bar thing were keeping me from switching again to FF.
His point is stupid. It's something like "If it works, don't touch it" No matter if the code is a house of cards and it will fall sooner or later. A total rewrite is just a result of a technical debt poorly managed, but sometimes you just can't help it, like an old car full of patches it won't work anymore eventually.
I agree with you (mostly). The Libyans let a clown-dictator to stay for 40 years! it was part of a self-determination exercise and what is happening right now is the result. West is not the world's police and as such, Libyans have to deal with their reality just like everyone else does.