Do you really think that MTV would leave in any material content uttered by LOpht that would make them look like the cheesy cable channel that they really are?
I'm sure that LOpht was very explicit on that point and if I wanted to keep MY job at MTV.. I most certianly would have edited it out.
*shrug*
TV Sux... Cable Sux pond-scum. I've read more books than I've met people. (That's including off AND on-line folks) Sad that I prefer the books.
Number 5 BadBlocks on harddrive.. (Ok.. so this froze Linux completely.. so it doesn't really count)
Number 4 CHEAP S3 variant cards... (no big surprise there)
Number 3 Alpha software (yeah.. ok.. sometimes I just can't wait)
Number 2 User stupidity:> hehehe... (my personal Favorite)
And the number 1 source of the greatest number of crashes of XFree86??
Gnome/Enlightenment
I've had more crashes in the last 6 months than I've had in the previous 3 years... 4 of those required a hard reboot. All the ohters I fixed from telnet.
OTOH... I have an ATI Xpert@Work and tried AX5.x and had nothing but problems... *shrug* Maybe it's not supported all that great (RH 6.0) but it wasn't worth the hassle. Just too wierd. It hung and crashed quite a bit.
I like Xfree and I'll stick with it... XF86Setup is killer as well... (I've been using it for what? 4 years now? hehehe)
Sucks (sometimes) to have been raised in a family that welcomes and prefers intelligence...
I wanted MTV as a kid (10yrs old)
At 16yrs old (the next time I saw it) It sucked... Yeah.. I watched it a few times just to make sure. heh... That was... Ohhh... over 10 years ago... I've not seen any improvements worth watching since.
Yeah.. caught a few bizarre cartoons... but one or two of those a year is good enough for me.. *shrug*
It's not the blatant lies that bother me.. so much as the veiled half truths......
There is some good information on those pages and I think the reviewer did a pretty dang good job of picking out the pieces that were sprinkled into the pages that makes it just a wee bit insidious.........
The govt. is NOT like us.... they are a community that is totally and completely seperate from mainstream society... there is NO comparison these days.
Watch everything they do and be sure to take the measures that are still left available to us to keep them in check....
Imagine breaking into the passport database server about a year from now......
If you think Amazon.com has a large database of CC #'s... It'll be nothing compared to what M$ has....
What do you think the odds are that the cc #s for passport are REALLY secure from the cracking forces out there?
Last I saw, M$ was still in love with M$ products.. (or at least still using them to save face)
Heh.. On a side note, I wonder how much money M$ loses to downtime each year by continuing to use their own stuff? I'd be interested in the particulars:>
Now millions of unsuspecting (==brainless morons) will (quite willingly) give up their personal information to a single corporation.
And of all corporations... Microsoft??
If you sit there and tell me that it's only going to be used and accessed (in a sucure way) for on-line commerce and NOT for any other market research, demographics gathering... account tracking... or anything else, ever,... I'm going to have to laugh at you.
I ran the 3.0 distribution for about 2 months, almost a year ago... (has it been that long??) At any rate... It's actually a very nice distribution.... Installs easily... is very well configured, etc. etc.
My problem arose in that it's geared for folks that don't know beans about Linux.
I'm competent enough with Linux that I like to configure it the way _I_ want it... but I wasn't competent enough to install a large number of packages and services due to my inability to re-configure all of their custom scripts. *shrug*
Tech support was great though:> Can't beat it. E-mail response in a few hours (if not minutes) and their own newsgroup as well (not tooo heavily poupulated either)
Personally I don't have anything against Intel for investing in TurboLinux.... I'm not interested in either of their products anymore.... Not intel for a few years... and not TurboLinux for the above reasons... *shrug*
Back when computers first started coming around, lockups and crashes were adamantly avoided at all costs. Even today it's a vital role and is the way OS's should be designed. This blatant statement:
Indeed, another source said, this issue might never evince itself in Macs, since the OS doesn't manipulate data rapidly enough to cause the problem -- the glitch would more likely effect more-efficient embedded operating systems. Even if data corruption should occur, a source said, the result would be nothing more than a system freeze, easily fixed with a restart.
Makes me sick to hear as it's read by people who don't know better (having used buggy OS's for years) and take it as a norm, thus compounding the problem of getting companies to write apps and OS's that DON'T crash every time you turn around.
I LIKE setting up a server, firewall, workstation what have you and having it run for a year without a re-boot. I find it ridiculous that a popular OS must be rebooted every other time a new program is installed.
Fortunately things are starting to turn around. Linux (for me) is becoming more and more viable as an alternative every day. Why.. it's been a week since I had to boot into lose98.:> This makes me quite happy.
OSS clone of QuickBooks/Quicken, anyone? Please??!!
I hate to say this (because it's true), but if you've been impressed by the quality of ANYthing MTV has done in the last 15 years... Well... You're drifting in that same fantasy world as 90% of the population of sheeple in the U.S..
Turn OFF the TV... and pick up a book some time. No... Not the pOrn mags, you dimwit, good quality reading. A little bit of culture never hurt anyone.
How can you tell you've aquired a bit of taste in life and culture?
Easy... When you watch MTV.. it will seem as immature, uninsightful, droll and annoying as it really is.
If you read enough.. you might even catch on to what kind of unthinking moron they are programming kids to be. Have you seen all the junk they portray as being needed to be popular these days?
*sheesh* As if a T1 wasn't enough:> I'm so glad I'm wearing the 'Right' jeans...*look of ecstacy* now ALL the chicks will think I'm hot. Pullleaaase!
Ok.. so I'm starting to ramble..:> hehe... Oh well.:>
Listen up folks... I run 4 128kbit streams off of my server using Icecast. Wanna know how much cpu/ram they use??
Icecast uses 1.33% ram (64M) and less than 1% CPU of a P-100! Shout uses a steady.80% ram sending it's stream to icecast.
Now if you have, say, 600 streams... you're going to need a whole lot of ram... but you're not going to need a p-II 400 or a G-4.
If you're going to encode on the fly... that's different. I'd like to re-encode to 64kbit streams for some folks.. but that p-100 just can't handle it and I'm outta hd space:>
Anyway... I run my own radio station for myself and a select number of friends... all my cd's are encoded and stored on my server... I just connect up anytime I want to listen to them...
As for stability? Icecast has been running on my linux server for nearly 6 months straight now. Not a burp, twitch or even sideways look. *shrug* Works for me.
I'd love to see a write up on how this all turns out.
College education is NOT limited mostly along class lines.
Granted... the largest number of graduates are middle to upper class students... but there are many MANY programs out there to fund education for those willing to find it and follow through.
An education provides you with a greater diversity of thought and understanding that will help you in any position you may attain in life. Granted there are plenty of kids that get good grades and graduate... will still being utter morons... that will never change. For the rest of us... an education is worthwhile and is something everyone (that it's right for) should work to attain.
Personally... it's the best decision I ever made. Yeah... it's 10 years after high school... Yeah... there are a lot of folks working towards the same degree Yeah... I love it The good news is that most of these kids are clueless punks that don't know anything. The bad news is that most of them will probably be hired first before they finally figure out that they wanted me for the position all along. *shrug* I don't mind. I have the rest of my life to do what it is that I've stored in my noggin... my time will come.
As to the topic of discussion? Having a core geed squad would be an asset for any tech company... given that they maintain their touch with reality in the tech industry and what's happening. This is quite difficult to do... I would rather hire Geek consultants... but then you run into the whole "Does this guy really know what's up??" sorta mess. How do you know that the Geek you've hired is really as knowledgable as he says he is..? Are there any Geeks R Us consulting firms??
They didn't even mention anything regarding their largest challenge.
Linux is developing at a much faster rate than M$ ever thought of being able to.
Is development slowing down? No... in fact it's actually gaining speed.
More and more companies (BIG and little alike) are beginning to develop and/or port to Linux.
All of the issues they bring up about Linux's shortcomings are things that are being actively worked on.
All that aside.... their comment about it not being a valid Desktop Environment is the silliest thing I've ever heard. Look at all the WebTV and AOL users out there. 90% of M$ users utilize 10% of their hardware capabilities. E-mail, WordProcessing, Web-browsing, Games.
Corel is working on providing a 'Intuitive' Desktop (intuitive meaning windoze like so that they M$ users don't get lost) E-mail, WordProcessing and Web-Browsing will be taken care of. Games? Hah!! Check back this time next year and see how many devlopers prefer writing games for Linux... M$ is gonna hate it.
As for the rest of us? The ones that actually WORK with computers? We use Linux. It works. It's Stable. It's flexible. It's Powerful. It's DEVELOPING!!!
You're right... Microsoft IS running scared. IF they weren't... they wouldn't have posted anything like this. *shrug*
Point out to me an article presented to the public, by someone like Coca-Cola, that explains why the kid selling lemonade on the corner is not a viable solution for your thirst and you shouldn't buy any from him.
No.. you'll never see it. *shrug*
Just keep doing what yer doing folks and Linux will grow and improve to a pinnacle that few can imagine at this point in the game.
I wondered what it was... never seen anything like that in person before... I was standing at the Overton Beach Marina (Lake Mead about 80 miles from Las Vegas, NV) and saw a VERY bright missle take off.... Pretty dang cool.
I'd read the origional article.. but never expected to see the actual missle launch.:> Neato-Keen:P
*shrug* I've operated heavy machinery. (quite efficiently, I might add)
Though I'm not competent enough to pick up a hardboiled egg with a backhoe... I am competent enough to dig fast holes and put the dirt where you want it.
IF LINES ARE NOT MARKED, the operator has NO idea what's down there. Trust me on this. The job is laid out.. you need X amount of dirt moved over to spot Y. What do you do? You move that dirt, and fast. (unless it was part of his job description) the operator was more than likely digging a hole that was laid out for him by someone else entirely. (only between the blue X's Ray)
Now if the kid/woman/person/guy/whatever was in charge of both? Execute them.:> "Call before you dig" Pretty simple, eh?
Seriously though... there should be some tough penalties extracted from the companies that allow their workers to pull blunders like this.
Remember... it's people like this that take forever to process your order at your local burgerdoodle --- Insert favorite fast food resteraunt name here.
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If I remember correctly.... The version of slackware the author installed was the same one I used, three? Four years ago? Trying to install it on a 386DX25. We're talking clueless newbie from hell. All I knew is that I was tired of waiting around for win3.1 to do anything and took the advice of some friends. I took on the challenge of installing Linux.
The vidocard was a Number9 deal that was completely unsupported (as far as I could figure out), and I ended up using just the CLI. Cooooooooool!!! One month later (after I stopped crashing it by doing stupid stuff like uninstalling sys V support *grin*) I formatted win3.1 off the 'other' 200M hd.:>
Nothing sucked worse than compiling a kernel for three and a half hours at a screaming 11.3 bogomips, only to have it barf on boot because you misconfigured it.
Flying with little to no documentation and just poking around, I became competent in less than a year. *shrug*
Today? Even though I hate some things about it... RedHat 6.0 will install in 20 minutes and in another 20 I'll have all my personal stuff re-installed.
I'm not a programmer. I DO build my own computers. (approx 250 built to date) I don't always read documentation.
AND... I don't bitch and curse about something until AFTER I've figured out what a dumbass I am.
(How clueless can I be? I once forgot the root password and decided NOT to hack it and just figure it out. I eventually remembered [about three weeks later] that I had set the root password to 'dumbshit'. How's THAT for stupid? Hehehehehehe)
Having done an equal number of both.... I still prefer Linux installs over M$ installs. AS LONG AS I USE SUPPORTED COMPONENTS. (anything else and you get what you pay for)
Copied the basic files to my seldome used 98 partition..... (all 6 or 7 of them? Not sure now)
Boot to prompt... run D:\linux\install
2 hr's later I had Debian installed... (full installation... plenty left to remove)
First time Debian install... *shrug* Nice.
Win95/98?? I've installed them on approximately 250 new machines and I'm still amazed that it's only consistency is it's randomness of failures and errors.
The only time Linux crashes is when the moron operator (me) does something stupid.
Nothing worse than being held at gunpoint by the stupidity of some anonymous corporate coder. *shrug*
I personally don't care wether or not Linux becomes a 'Viable' Desktop OS... I've been using it as such for the last 3 years and will continue to do so.
What about all those brain cells of mine that have quit working (not died) Due to them giving up trying to work while I was stoned and tripped out for the last 15 years?? (don't tell me they're dead because they aren't)
Yeah... so I did drugs.... LOTS of drugs.... I also quit drugs (not to mention I started out with waaay more IQ points than the average schmoe)
My brain is beginning to work like it used to (after a year of sobriety) and I'm interested in wether or not this project (applied to hooomans) would have any greater benefit? I.E. quicker recovery time.
btw... drugs do have their uses. Reaching ones _higher_ potentials not being one of them.
There are plenty of folks working towards attaining their highest possible level of trailer trashness. I don't consider that a worthy goal. AND FOR ALL YOU HIGH SCHOOL KIDS!!!! STay in school... go to college... get an education, Prove you can work in a demanding environment... THEN (if you still feel so inclined... ) Screw it all off with drugs and partying.
Trust me (and this I know) It's much easier to get your education now than it is 15 years down the road.
I can see it now.... Enterprise in the middle of a battle.... Screen suddenly goes blue and computerized voice says..... "You have performed an illegal function... shall I Re-Boot?"
go to school. go to work. go to the lake. go on-line. (muck, read news, keep in touch with friends) watch movies.
Things I DON'T do:
watch tv. read local news. listen to radio stations other than NPR. get lost in an alternate fantasy on-line. play massive amounnts of internet games.
Do I spend more than 4 hours a day on-line? HELL YES! Do I spend more time on-line than school and homework? HELL NO! (heh, unless I'm not currently taking classes. *grin*)
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Do you really think that MTV would leave in any
material content uttered by LOpht that would make
them look like the cheesy cable channel that they
really are?
I'm sure that LOpht was very explicit on that point and if I wanted to keep MY job at MTV.. I
most certianly would have edited it out.
*shrug*
TV Sux... Cable Sux pond-scum.
I've read more books than I've met people. (That's including off AND on-line folks)
Sad that I prefer the books.
I've been using Linux for about 4 years now...
:> hehehe... (my personal Favorite)
I've used XFree86 for 98% of that time...
Let's count the ways it's crashed, shall we?
Number 5 BadBlocks on harddrive.. (Ok.. so this froze Linux completely.. so it doesn't really count)
Number 4 CHEAP S3 variant cards... (no big surprise there)
Number 3 Alpha software (yeah.. ok.. sometimes I just can't wait)
Number 2 User stupidity
And the number 1 source of the greatest number of crashes of XFree86??
Gnome/Enlightenment
I've had more crashes in the last 6 months than I've
had in the previous 3 years... 4 of those required
a hard reboot. All the ohters I fixed from telnet.
OTOH... I have an ATI Xpert@Work and tried AX5.x
and had nothing but problems... *shrug*
Maybe it's not supported all that great (RH 6.0)
but it wasn't worth the hassle. Just too wierd.
It hung and crashed quite a bit.
I like Xfree and I'll stick with it... XF86Setup is
killer as well... (I've been using it for what? 4 years now? hehehe)
Sucks (sometimes) to have been raised in a family
that welcomes and prefers intelligence...
I wanted MTV as a kid (10yrs old)
At 16yrs old (the next time I saw it) It sucked...
Yeah.. I watched it a few times just to make sure. heh...
That was... Ohhh... over 10 years ago... I've not seen any
improvements worth watching since.
Yeah.. caught a few bizarre cartoons... but one or two
of those a year is good enough for me.. *shrug*
MTV doesn't produce the videos.
:>
They should stick to just showing them....
It's not the blatant lies that bother me.. so much
as the veiled half truths......
There is some good information on those pages and I think
the reviewer did a pretty dang good job of picking out
the pieces that were sprinkled into the pages that
makes it just a wee bit insidious.........
The govt. is NOT like us.... they are a community
that is totally and completely seperate from mainstream
society... there is NO comparison these days.
Watch everything they do and be sure to take the measures
that are still left available to us to keep them in
check....
Imagine breaking into the passport database server
:>
about a year from now......
If you think Amazon.com has a large database of CC #'s...
It'll be nothing compared to what M$ has....
What do you think the odds are that the cc #s for passport
are REALLY secure from the cracking forces out there?
Last I saw, M$ was still in love with M$ products..
(or at least still using them to save face)
Heh.. On a side note, I wonder how much money M$ loses to
downtime each year by continuing to use their own stuff?
I'd be interested in the particulars
Now millions of unsuspecting (==brainless morons)
will (quite willingly) give up their personal
information to a single corporation.
And of all corporations... Microsoft??
If you sit there and tell me that it's only going to
be used and accessed (in a sucure way) for on-line
commerce and NOT for any other market research, demographics
gathering... account tracking... or anything else,
ever,... I'm going to have to laugh at you.
Wake up and smell the money folks.
Goodness of their hearts indeed.
I ran the 3.0 distribution for about 2 months, almost a year ago... (has it been that long??)
:> Can't beat it.
At any rate... It's actually a very nice distribution....
Installs easily... is very well configured, etc. etc.
My problem arose in that it's geared for folks that don't
know beans about Linux.
I'm competent enough with Linux that I like to configure it
the way _I_ want it... but I wasn't competent enough
to install a large number of packages and services
due to my inability to re-configure all of their
custom scripts. *shrug*
Tech support was great though
E-mail response in a few hours (if not minutes) and
their own newsgroup as well (not tooo heavily poupulated either)
Personally I don't have anything against Intel for
investing in TurboLinux.... I'm not interested in
either of their products anymore....
Not intel for a few years... and not TurboLinux for the
above reasons... *shrug*
To each their own, though.
Back when computers first started coming around,
:> This makes me
lockups and crashes were adamantly avoided at all
costs. Even today it's a vital role and is the way OS's should be designed.
This blatant statement:
Indeed, another source said, this issue might never evince itself in Macs, since the OS doesn't manipulate data rapidly enough to cause the problem -- the glitch
would more likely effect more-efficient embedded operating systems. Even if data corruption should occur, a source said, the result would be nothing more than a
system freeze, easily fixed with a restart.
Makes me sick to hear as it's read by people
who don't know better (having used buggy OS's for years)
and take it as a norm, thus compounding the problem
of getting companies to write apps and OS's that DON'T
crash every time you turn around.
I LIKE setting up a server, firewall, workstation
what have you and having it run for a year without
a re-boot.
I find it ridiculous that a popular OS must be rebooted
every other time a new program is installed.
Fortunately things are starting to turn around.
Linux (for me) is becoming more and more viable as
an alternative every day. Why.. it's been a week
since I had to boot into lose98.
quite happy.
OSS clone of QuickBooks/Quicken, anyone?
Please??!!
AC's are soooo annoying... especially when they don't
read your entire post before responding...
They never mentioned needing to encode real-time yet
I still mentioned that you would need a MUCH faster 'puter for doing just that...
*knock-Knock* Hello? Dweeb?
Jeeze.. am I pissy today or what?
Musta been that bowl of Crabby Flakes(TM) I had for
breakfast, eh?
I hate to say this (because it's true), but if you've
:>
:> hehe... Oh well. :>
been impressed by the quality of ANYthing MTV has
done in the last 15 years... Well... You're drifting
in that same fantasy world as 90% of the population
of sheeple in the U.S..
Turn OFF the TV... and pick up a book some time. No...
Not the pOrn mags, you dimwit, good quality reading.
A little bit of culture never hurt anyone.
How can you tell you've aquired a bit of taste in life
and culture?
Easy... When you watch MTV.. it will seem as immature,
uninsightful, droll and annoying as it really is.
If you read enough.. you might even catch on to what
kind of unthinking moron they are programming kids to be.
Have you seen all the junk they portray as being needed
to be popular these days?
*sheesh* As if a T1 wasn't enough
I'm so glad I'm wearing the 'Right' jeans...*look of ecstacy*
now ALL the chicks will think I'm hot.
Pullleaaase!
Ok.. so I'm starting to ramble..
GreyFauk walks up to you and Stamps a HUGE
Red-Ink stamp that says "Clueless!" on your forehead.
Yeah.. I liked the movie hackers... but only for it's
humor value. That and the cute chick 'Acid Burn'
MTV should've stuck to what they started with. Music Videos. That's it... nothing more.
Anyone else here not watched it for years?
Listen up folks... I run 4 128kbit streams
.80% ram sending it's stream to icecast.
:>
off of my server using Icecast.
Wanna know how much cpu/ram they use??
Icecast uses 1.33% ram (64M) and less than 1% CPU of a P-100!
Shout uses a steady
Now if you have, say, 600 streams... you're going to need a whole lot of ram... but you're not going to need a p-II 400 or a G-4.
If you're going to encode on the fly... that's different. I'd like to re-encode to 64kbit streams
for some folks.. but that p-100 just can't handle it
and I'm outta hd space
Anyway... I run my own radio station for myself and
a select number of friends... all my cd's are
encoded and stored on my server... I just connect
up anytime I want to listen to them...
As for stability?
Icecast has been running on my linux server for
nearly 6 months straight now. Not a burp, twitch or
even sideways look. *shrug* Works for me.
I'd love to see a write up on how this all turns out.
College education is NOT limited mostly along class lines.
Granted... the largest number of graduates are middle to
upper class students... but there are many MANY programs
out there to fund education for those willing to find
it and follow through.
An education provides you with a greater diversity
of thought and understanding that will help you in
any position you may attain in life.
Granted there are plenty of kids that get good grades and
graduate... will still being utter morons... that
will never change.
For the rest of us... an education is worthwhile
and is something everyone (that it's right for) should
work to attain.
Personally... it's the best decision I ever made.
Yeah... it's 10 years after high school...
Yeah... there are a lot of folks working towards
the same degree
Yeah... I love it
The good news is that most of these kids
are clueless punks that don't know anything.
The bad news is that most of them will probably
be hired first before they finally figure out that
they wanted me for the position all along. *shrug*
I don't mind. I have the rest of my life to do what
it is that I've stored in my noggin... my time will come.
As to the topic of discussion?
Having a core geed squad would be an asset for any
tech company... given that they maintain their touch
with reality in the tech industry and what's happening.
This is quite difficult to do...
I would rather hire Geek consultants... but then
you run into the whole "Does this guy really know
what's up??" sorta mess. How do you know that
the Geek you've hired is really as knowledgable as
he says he is..?
Are there any Geeks R Us consulting firms??
Fantastic! :> hehehe...
:>
A merger of home high tech and
the social elite.
Sounds great for the first chapter...
I, for one, would love to read a novel along those lines
They didn't even mention anything regarding their
largest challenge.
Linux is developing at a much faster rate than M$
ever thought of being able to.
Is development slowing down? No... in fact it's
actually gaining speed.
More and more companies (BIG and little alike) are
beginning to develop and/or port to Linux.
All of the issues they bring up about Linux's shortcomings
are things that are being actively worked on.
All that aside.... their comment about it not being
a valid Desktop Environment is the silliest thing I've
ever heard.
Look at all the WebTV and AOL users out there.
90% of M$ users utilize 10% of their hardware capabilities.
E-mail, WordProcessing, Web-browsing, Games.
Corel is working on providing a 'Intuitive' Desktop
(intuitive meaning windoze like so that they M$ users don't get lost)
E-mail, WordProcessing and Web-Browsing will be taken care of.
Games? Hah!! Check back this time next year and see
how many devlopers prefer writing games for Linux...
M$ is gonna hate it.
As for the rest of us? The ones that actually WORK with computers?
We use Linux. It works. It's Stable. It's flexible.
It's Powerful. It's DEVELOPING!!!
You're right... Microsoft IS running scared.
IF they weren't... they wouldn't have posted anything like this. *shrug*
Point out to me an article presented to the public,
by someone like Coca-Cola, that explains why
the kid selling lemonade on the corner is not
a viable solution for your thirst and you shouldn't
buy any from him.
No.. you'll never see it. *shrug*
Just keep doing what yer doing folks and Linux
will grow and improve to a pinnacle that few can
imagine at this point in the game.
Ok... I've spewed enough... Laters
Quite successful... NOT!
Censorship is never a good thing.
Next thing you know... they'll be wanting to ban books.
Oh wait!! They already have... *sigh*
And here I was under the assumption that our society was
Umm... Somewhat enlightened??
There may be a way to shut it off for minors, I don't know.
What they propose is not the solution... *shrug*
Get a grip.
I wondered what it was... never seen anything like
:> Neato-Keen :P
that in person before...
I was standing at the Overton Beach Marina (Lake Mead
about 80 miles from Las Vegas, NV) and saw a
VERY bright missle take off.... Pretty dang cool.
I'd read the origional article.. but never expected to
see the actual missle launch.
*shrug* I've operated heavy machinery. (quite efficiently, I might add)
:>
Though I'm not competent enough to pick up a hardboiled egg
with a backhoe... I am competent enough to dig fast holes
and put the dirt where you want it.
IF LINES ARE NOT MARKED, the operator has NO idea what's down there.
Trust me on this. The job is laid out.. you need X amount of dirt moved
over to spot Y. What do you do? You move that dirt, and fast.
(unless it was part of his job description) the operator was more
than likely digging a hole that was laid out for him
by someone else entirely. (only between the blue X's Ray)
Now if the kid/woman/person/guy/whatever was in charge of both? Execute them.
"Call before you dig" Pretty simple, eh?
Seriously though... there should be some tough penalties extracted from the companies that allow
their workers to pull blunders like this.
Remember... it's people like this that take forever to
process your order at your local
burgerdoodle --- Insert favorite fast food resteraunt name here.
If I remember correctly.... The version of slackware the
:>
author installed was the same one I used, three? Four years ago?
Trying to install it on a 386DX25.
We're talking clueless newbie from hell. All I knew is that
I was tired of waiting around for win3.1 to do anything and took the advice of some
friends. I took on the challenge of installing Linux.
The vidocard was a Number9 deal that was completely unsupported
(as far as I could figure out), and I ended up
using just the CLI. Cooooooooool!!!
One month later (after I stopped crashing it by doing stupid
stuff like uninstalling sys V support *grin*) I formatted win3.1 off the 'other' 200M hd.
Nothing sucked worse than compiling a kernel for three and a half
hours at a screaming 11.3 bogomips, only to have it barf on boot because you misconfigured it.
Flying with little to no documentation and just poking around, I became competent in less than a year. *shrug*
Today? Even though I hate some things about it... RedHat 6.0 will install in 20 minutes and in another 20 I'll have all my personal stuff re-installed.
I'm not a programmer.
I DO build my own computers. (approx 250 built to date)
I don't always read documentation.
AND... I don't bitch and curse about something until
AFTER I've figured out what a dumbass I am.
(How clueless can I be? I once forgot the root password
and decided NOT to hack it and just figure it out.
I eventually remembered [about three weeks later] that
I had set the root password to 'dumbshit'. How's THAT for stupid? Hehehehehehe)
Having done an equal number of both....
I still prefer Linux installs over M$ installs.
AS LONG AS I USE SUPPORTED COMPONENTS. (anything else and you get what you pay for)
*shrug* What else can one say?
Exclusive Linux user,
FTP Debian install.
Copied the basic files to my seldome used 98 partition..... (all 6 or 7 of them? Not sure now)
Boot to prompt... run D:\linux\install
2 hr's later I had Debian installed...
(full installation... plenty left to remove)
First time Debian install... *shrug* Nice.
Win95/98?? I've installed them on approximately 250 new machines
and I'm still amazed that it's only consistency
is it's randomness of failures and errors.
The only time Linux crashes is when the moron operator (me)
does something stupid.
Nothing worse than being held at gunpoint by the stupidity
of some anonymous corporate coder. *shrug*
I personally don't care wether or not Linux becomes a
'Viable' Desktop OS... I've been using it as such
for the last 3 years and will continue to do so.
Sounds about like what they have planned..... but then again
I may just be a pessimist at the moment.
I do have faith that Corel will do what's right...
I just hope that it's not misplaced this time... *erf!*
What about all those brain cells of mine
that have quit working (not died)
Due to them giving up trying to work while
I was stoned and tripped out for the last
15 years?? (don't tell me they're dead because they aren't)
Yeah... so I did drugs.... LOTS of drugs....
I also quit drugs (not to mention I started out with waaay more IQ points than the average schmoe)
My brain is beginning to work like it used to (after a year of sobriety) and I'm interested
in wether or not this project (applied to hooomans)
would have any greater benefit? I.E. quicker recovery time.
btw... drugs do have their uses. Reaching ones _higher_ potentials not being one of them.
There are plenty of folks working towards attaining their highest possible level of trailer trashness.
I don't consider that a worthy goal.
AND FOR ALL YOU HIGH SCHOOL KIDS!!!!
STay in school... go to college... get an education,
Prove you can work in a demanding environment... THEN
(if you still feel so inclined... ) Screw it all off with drugs and partying.
Trust me (and this I know) It's much easier to get your education now than it is 15 years down the road.
Laters
I can see it now....
Enterprise in the middle of a battle....
Screen suddenly goes blue and computerized voice says.....
"You have performed an illegal function... shall I Re-Boot?"
Here are the things I DO do:
go to school.
go to work.
go to the lake.
go on-line. (muck, read news, keep in touch with friends)
watch movies.
Things I DON'T do:
watch tv.
read local news.
listen to radio stations other than NPR.
get lost in an alternate fantasy on-line.
play massive amounnts of internet games.
Do I spend more than 4 hours a day on-line?
HELL YES!
Do I spend more time on-line than school and homework?
HELL NO! (heh, unless I'm not currently taking classes. *grin*)
What's yer beef?