We led short and miserable struggles against the universe that might have passed as "lives." I think you are grossly overestimating the Grizzly Adams experience.
Any reason why I have to reboot after installing a friggin Paint program? This is an app and has nothing to do with the core of the OS. There should be no rebooting for something like this!!
99% of the stuff on the Internet is p0rn or illegally swapped music. The guy downloading it doesn't have time to check if the stuff is signed because he has the left hand busy while the right hand is clicking to the next picture.
That said, the browsers need to cater to their market. Just because 99% are doing it does not make it what I want to do. 99% of people are also opening every email in their mailbox, regardless of the sender. They also blindly click on links, or cut and paste links, from slashdot that inadvertently route them to goatse. What are the other sheep doing?
Why, do they have trouble using the address book on their email clients? The addition of auto-fill for email addressses in Yahoo Plus is a great thing that brings it closer in usefulness to things like Moz and Thunderbird - I still prefer my non-browser client. Anyway, they all allow one to type a real person's name - you know, the one we are really known by that doesn't have the @ in it? - and have it fill in the address or present a list of matches as you type.
do people start breaking them open to see what's inside and spilling the boiling contents on their laps? Do they have a warning telling people not to do that? Or is self-responsibility considered more widespread across the pond?
"Look here, Cletus. This is what them's calls calcium oxi--- aaiiiiieeeeeeeee!!!!! Muh giblets!!"
Including the RAID5 performance hit for losing the redundant drive? That calls for an immediate system maintenance just to get the server back to normal performance, not just waiting for the next normal maintenance. And are you really going to let your RAID array sit on a failed drive hoping that you don't lose another any time soon? That's just friggin sloppy. It happens and that's why many server vendors are now moving to double-parity systems.
Sorry, taking the server down for any reason at all is just not acceptable. Letting the server limp along is not acceptable. Five 9's means you've got five minutes per year of downtime, and I sure as shit follow that rule.
OK, someone else mentioned that you aren't losing 80GB of data, just access to 80GB of storage, since you are hopefully going to have other cubes around to do a RAID rebuild onto. Not guaranteed, but that's true for any system. In this case you still have 80GB of data that you need to tear the cube apart to get to, and that's still a stupid design.
Sorry, but leaving a TB of data down for a week until the next scheduled maintenance is not my idea of a solution. People pay real $$$ for this to provide real benefits.
And why the big fuss over something relatively fragile like a CD? Haven't we been toting flash memory fobs as a great storage innovation? Since it will only be read from, and only written to for updates, you don't have to worry about wearing out the flash on cheap media. You can't update a CD with the next version, so you throw it away, cluttering up the environment, or keep it in a pile on the floor, cluttering up your local space. Let's get reusable.
"For engineers who just need to do something quickly and don't want to mess with commercial tools, this is what they use."
Interpretation:
I'm not really serious about this stuff, I'm just screwing around. I hope someone has a use for a logic cell that doesn't clock too well at yesteryear's bus speeds. Oh darn it, this poly menu is grayed out again, what do I do now? And why is that square on my screen red again? Welp, gotta run off to my shift at 7-11!
Thank you! I agree! The fact is that there are plenty of tiny details in all the vendors tools that create margin errors in all designs. The freeware stuff has no hope of catching up given the lack of budget and lack of serious users.
Give it time, you say? Give it all the time in the universe, and you'll still have vendors backed by real chip designers working with real fabs like TSMC and UMC spending real money to iron out those little details. Coming from an EDA background, I can tell you that support on our products is money well spent. When crunch time comes, our EDA software vendors pay attention to bug reports as there are millions of dollars riding on a tiny miscalculation and it gets fixed damn quick for *all* their customers. To top it off, Moore's law says you have 18 month to *MASTER* the current technology before you are left in the dust.
Cute idea, but I liken this to GPL software for running nuclear reactors. I don't think so. Let's get serious, kids.
Meaning that when you get into "dishing out what was done to you" some have different interpretations of what it means to "get even." For one man, losing an eye may mean no longer being able to do the only job he can in order to support his family, thereby impoverishing that entire family. Should the person who took out the eye now have his entire family punished as well?
Honestly, who the hell needs to ping Slashdot more than once an hour for stories?!? Can we admit that, other than FP idiots, the stories are really not so engaging that we have to be hanging on to get the first glance at a site that is no longer running due to the/. effect?
Once you've got 30 or so feeds in your list, Slashdot becomes just one of many. Once an hour is really more than enough to keep the tide of info coming at you when you hit that level of RSS use.
Only because the DDoS and the burning take too long to make the point. I'm more in favor of putting the guy through a tree shredder, but not too quickly. That's what some DDoS attacks do to people's businesses, BTW. Might not be a bad thing to do to spammers either.
Even with a TiVo I've cut down on what I watch, so I don't ever have a problem with back to back shows. If I even record more than one show per evening it is a lot. Do we really find that much interesting stuff to watch these days? I find most of it to be that reality show pap.
Sure I'll spend a Sat afternoon watching some Trek stuff, History channel stuff, and some movies, but I can't say that I am worrying over a one minute recording conflict. Maybe you're watching too much TV.
Slashdot Mirror
Hmmm,
Stars falling from the sky, check
Earthquakes, check
Nature turns against man, check
Now, where did we put that Whore of Babylon?
We led short and miserable struggles against the universe that might have passed as "lives." I think you are grossly overestimating the Grizzly Adams experience.
Who will be around to measure whether something was a 9 or a 10 on the Torino scale?
So what is it that Mozilla needs, beyond an Outlook Connector, in order to be on parity with Evolution, or to be even better?
Yeah, and who needs food and shelter, anyway?
Any reason why I have to reboot after installing a friggin Paint program? This is an app and has nothing to do with the core of the OS. There should be no rebooting for something like this!!
99% of the stuff on the Internet is p0rn or illegally swapped music. The guy downloading it doesn't have time to check if the stuff is signed because he has the left hand busy while the right hand is clicking to the next picture.
That said, the browsers need to cater to their market. Just because 99% are doing it does not make it what I want to do. 99% of people are also opening every email in their mailbox, regardless of the sender. They also blindly click on links, or cut and paste links, from slashdot that inadvertently route them to goatse. What are the other sheep doing?
Why, do they have trouble using the address book on their email clients? The addition of auto-fill for email addressses in Yahoo Plus is a great thing that brings it closer in usefulness to things like Moz and Thunderbird - I still prefer my non-browser client. Anyway, they all allow one to type a real person's name - you know, the one we are really known by that doesn't have the @ in it? - and have it fill in the address or present a list of matches as you type.
Server? Who needs to go through that when there are many built-in client solutions of equal or better quality ready to use?
do people start breaking them open to see what's inside and spilling the boiling contents on their laps? Do they have a warning telling people not to do that? Or is self-responsibility considered more widespread across the pond?
"Look here, Cletus. This is what them's calls calcium oxi--- aaiiiiieeeeeeeee!!!!! Muh giblets!!"
Including the RAID5 performance hit for losing the redundant drive? That calls for an immediate system maintenance just to get the server back to normal performance, not just waiting for the next normal maintenance. And are you really going to let your RAID array sit on a failed drive hoping that you don't lose another any time soon? That's just friggin sloppy. It happens and that's why many server vendors are now moving to double-parity systems.
Sorry, taking the server down for any reason at all is just not acceptable. Letting the server limp along is not acceptable. Five 9's means you've got five minutes per year of downtime, and I sure as shit follow that rule.
OK, someone else mentioned that you aren't losing 80GB of data, just access to 80GB of storage, since you are hopefully going to have other cubes around to do a RAID rebuild onto. Not guaranteed, but that's true for any system. In this case you still have 80GB of data that you need to tear the cube apart to get to, and that's still a stupid design.
This is just what we need around Christmas. Something else to boost the suicide rate.
This sounds like the soundtrack to the aftermath of WWIII!!!
"Music for children to scream in their sleep by."
Is that like when chickens see blood on a comrade in the henhouse?
Sorry, but leaving a TB of data down for a week until the next scheduled maintenance is not my idea of a solution. People pay real $$$ for this to provide real benefits.
And why the big fuss over something relatively fragile like a CD? Haven't we been toting flash memory fobs as a great storage innovation? Since it will only be read from, and only written to for updates, you don't have to worry about wearing out the flash on cheap media. You can't update a CD with the next version, so you throw it away, cluttering up the environment, or keep it in a pile on the floor, cluttering up your local space. Let's get reusable.
Interpretation:
Thank you! I agree!
The fact is that there are plenty of tiny details in all the vendors tools that create margin errors in all designs. The freeware stuff has no hope of catching up given the lack of budget and lack of serious users.
Give it time, you say? Give it all the time in the universe, and you'll still have vendors backed by real chip designers working with real fabs like TSMC and UMC spending real money to iron out those little details. Coming from an EDA background, I can tell you that support on our products is money well spent. When crunch time comes, our EDA software vendors pay attention to bug reports as there are millions of dollars riding on a tiny miscalculation and it gets fixed damn quick for *all* their customers. To top it off, Moore's law says you have 18 month to *MASTER* the current technology before you are left in the dust.
Cute idea, but I liken this to GPL software for running nuclear reactors. I don't think so. Let's get serious, kids.
One more skill commoditized overseas. As the great Stephenson once wrote, one day we only have pizza delivery as the great American skill.
And now it's back in...a mp;
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Meaning that when you get into "dishing out what was done to you" some have different interpretations of what it means to "get even." For one man, losing an eye may mean no longer being able to do the only job he can in order to support his family, thereby impoverishing that entire family. Should the person who took out the eye now have his entire family punished as well?
Honestly, who the hell needs to ping Slashdot more than once an hour for stories?!? Can we admit that, other than FP idiots, the stories are really not so engaging that we have to be hanging on to get the first glance at a site that is no longer running due to the /. effect?
Once you've got 30 or so feeds in your list, Slashdot becomes just one of many. Once an hour is really more than enough to keep the tide of info coming at you when you hit that level of RSS use.
Only because the DDoS and the burning take too long to make the point. I'm more in favor of putting the guy through a tree shredder, but not too quickly. That's what some DDoS attacks do to people's businesses, BTW. Might not be a bad thing to do to spammers either.
One man's eye is another man's life.
Even with a TiVo I've cut down on what I watch, so I don't ever have a problem with back to back shows. If I even record more than one show per evening it is a lot. Do we really find that much interesting stuff to watch these days? I find most of it to be that reality show pap.
Sure I'll spend a Sat afternoon watching some Trek stuff, History channel stuff, and some movies, but I can't say that I am worrying over a one minute recording conflict. Maybe you're watching too much TV.
No "search by date" for Usenet == "useless".