Well then don't use online services if they bother you.
Why is it that with every Slashdot article about some new product, there are dozens of posts that assume it will be a monopoly and then present several cases where said product isn't appropriate.
Unix is about using the right tool for the job. So do just that people!!
In the media, there are two sides to every issue. There's the far-right-wing-conservative-Christian-radical side and then there's the Middle of the Road. It confounds them that anyone would think a way other than MotR, so there is no "left" label. Take any show where they mention a Congressperson, and it's of either format: "Extreme Conservative Senator from Pennsylvania, Rick Santorim," or "Senator Boxer from California."
No net connection, etc? What is this, the 1980s? Who doesn't have at least a few palms in their possession at any given moment? Wireless lans, cell phones, gps systems, cloak of infinite invisibility. What sorta this chic doesn't have stuff to yell for help on?
Set things up? I'm sorry, after an IPO, you have people to handle this whole moving thing. All you should have to do is step into the house and start living. If she hasn't IPO'd her cat's litterbox yet, that's her problem. Obviously.
One note about that O'Reilly LPIC 1 book, read the errata and user comments on the book's website. There were many factual errors that I found annoying. For a certification book, you'd think checking every example question, fact, etc would be fairly high on their priorities.
This is Slashdot and the poster finds a simple text file (plug in the URL, link depth at minimum) too complicated? What next, someone posting to Ask Slashdot, "How do I get a job in IT after getting my MCSE?"
Plucker is the only way to go. Not to mention that whole GPL thing.
Then you sure as heck need to take some lessons in hyping from the good folks here at Slashdot. Banning one domain in China just isn't a story. All kinds of big ISPs have gone through phases of being home to spammers. To really drive up the crowd (and hits) you need to get everyone on a crusade.
See what it's done here? People complain when posters don't read articles and such. But it's really quite clear the "editors" don't do it either.:)
Is there any magazine/site that gives honest reviews anymore? The last few times I bothered looking at a review, it was nothing more than a fluff press release. "Best game of the Year/century/millenium," "Ultra super-cool trilinear bifocalized quantum mechanazitoids," or whatever crap they press release spews out. PC Accelerator was ok, at least they would tell you something was crap, but the childishness wore on me after a couple magazines. What's the point of a rating scale when every game gets between 85 and 95?
The furthest negative I've read when I looked was something like, "If you are a die-hard fan, definately get this game, otherwise the big learning curve may be tough in the beginning, but still get this game." So it covers the huge spread of "definately get it" to "get it anyway." Oooo, compelling.
It's quite sad there isn't more of a market for poorly scripted mega-million-dollar movies. What is wrong with these crazy Americans not going to see a movie targetted at.01% of the country that has played ever FF game a hundred times over?
Been there, done that. I have been turned down even for Jr Admin jobs because I don't have 3-5 years experience in a large facility. I work with half a dozen small businesses, setting up their LANs, connecting to the internet, ssh'ing in to do this or that, etc. They work so well they don't call me much anymore. =) But oh, that counts as zero experience in any "real" company's HR department.
I don't know, I guess there are a lot of people with that much experience willing to work for 30k. To me, you should be able to move up to at least a normal admin after 5 years...
Re:5 words: I'm happy to live in Canada
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Always look to the shell for the answer...
1009-0 Sun/06:24pm ~> echo "I'm happy to live in Canada" | wc -w
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Heh, this comes up quite a bit here. I put up my thoughts nearly a year ago. Since then other things have occupied my time, but it's a method I think could work if there was enough community support (not just the Slashdot audience).
Look here, and do a text search for "How about doing it right then??"
Doing it wouldn't be that difficult. The Squid proxy has a good number of filters for banner ads and such. You would just need to swap out the list of banner ads with your filtered sites.
www.suse.com - Linux - 247
www.etoys.com - Linux - 157
www.zdnet.com - Solars - 218
slashdot.org - Linux - 240 (mentioned twice)
www.yahoo.co.jp - FreeBSD - 342
billgates.com - Solaris - 159
www.aol.com - Solaris - 389
www.bbc.co.uk - Solaris - 282
www.google.com - Linux - 163
Those are just the 150+ max times. As well, I only count five FreeBSD entries in that list of fifty. I'd say Linux has a decent showing for long uptimes, but if any were to be said "the major majority," it would have to be Solaris.
Life is about decisions. If someone decides to get in their car, drive to the grocery store/gas station/cigarette machine at the local strip club, tell the clerk, "I want a pack of cigarettes," pay for the item, light a match/cigarette, puff, puff, puff, puff, etc, it's their decision. Repeat for multiple years. Go to doctor and he says, "You have cancer, emphazima(?), etc." Then all these people (not specifically you) cry, "I've been screwed by Phillip-Morris, pay for my hospital bills!"
The same can be said for just about everything people whine about nowadays. It's been known for numerous years unprotected, having many partners, one night stands, etc tends to eventually lead to some disease. But dammit, it's fun. So we blame the CIA for inventing AIDS to wipe out blacks, gays, etc (one of the funnier theories I heard once). People will invent any story to take the blame away from themselves.
Hell, a local Casey's gas station fired a couple of workers for stealing candy bars and eating them. What was their decision after this? Call the local news and cry that, "Everbody did it."
Then again, I'm goofy. And I did decide to write this post. I am not addicted to Slashdot. =)
HTML EMail has its uses. But sure the default should be plain text, etc. One shouldn't send strangers (newsgroups, mail lists, etc) HTML, but that is more an etiquette issue that needs to be taught.
I for one do the reply below quoted text thing. To me, it looks proper to display a few sentences, a paragraph from the original to follow what point you are replying to. Of course, the key here is to EDIT the quoted text down to what's necessary so someone can follow what you are saying. That is asking a lot of some folks, I know, who just hit their Reply button and say, "Yes, I agree." It used to be all over Usenet (when I looked there). Then one is left wondering, on which point in the post do they agree?:)
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Heh, anyone else find it ironic all the black "leaders" and such on television lately (especially Democrats during the campaign) state that they are for Affirmative Action, just not for quotas. Yet, if your company does not have the right percentages of some race.. you're sued for $5,000,000,000.
So all you employers out there, yeah, don't use race as the only factor.. but you better have the right numbers and spread out over the entire company from low level gruntwork to top-level officers, or else.
During the second debate, Al Gore claimed to be part of a government that cut hundreds of thousands of government jobs to streamline the federal government.
The often quoted number is 300,000. Of course, 280k or so was in the military. Meanwhile they increased the "necessary" staff for trips around the world, taking bands of two to three thousand globe trotting.
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Well then don't use online services if they bother you.
Why is it that with every Slashdot article about some new product, there are dozens of posts that assume it will be a monopoly and then present several cases where said product isn't appropriate.
Unix is about using the right tool for the job. So do just that people!!
dang, meant to say "hate" there...
No, you must have everyone and everything which does not act/think/behave exactly as you.
Have a nice day.
in the finest Republican tradition you will have to pay to access it
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So, you're saying the New York Times is a Republican rag?
In the media, there are two sides to every issue. There's the far-right-wing-conservative-Christian-radical side and then there's the Middle of the Road. It confounds them that anyone would think a way other than MotR, so there is no "left" label. Take any show where they mention a Congressperson, and it's of either format: "Extreme Conservative Senator from Pennsylvania, Rick Santorim," or "Senator Boxer from California."
Any relation to the Steve Cohen that is suing George Bush, Tommy Franks, etc for war crimes in Iraq? Or just someone else who is similarly sue-happy?
Here they sell platinum cheaply. 100,000 units for only a few hundred dollars.
Damn, now I can't wait for the 2.85ghz cpu reviews! I only hope it's at least 1.75% better than these 2.8ghz ones.
... from one who didn't read it thoroughly.
No net connection, etc? What is this, the 1980s? Who doesn't have at least a few palms in their possession at any given moment? Wireless lans, cell phones, gps systems, cloak of infinite invisibility. What sorta this chic doesn't have stuff to yell for help on?
Set things up? I'm sorry, after an IPO, you have people to handle this whole moving thing. All you should have to do is step into the house and start living. If she hasn't IPO'd her cat's litterbox yet, that's her problem. Obviously.
Thank you, try better next time.
One note about that O'Reilly LPIC 1 book, read the errata and user comments on the book's website. There were many factual errors that I found annoying. For a certification book, you'd think checking every example question, fact, etc would be fairly high on their priorities.
This is Slashdot and the poster finds a simple text file (plug in the URL, link depth at minimum) too complicated? What next, someone posting to Ask Slashdot, "How do I get a job in IT after getting my MCSE?"
Plucker is the only way to go. Not to mention that whole GPL thing.
Ok, so kids are starving to death as you speak, and you want to spend time posting on Slashdot?
Shyeah.
Then you sure as heck need to take some lessons in hyping from the good folks here at Slashdot. Banning one domain in China just isn't a story. All kinds of big ISPs have gone through phases of being home to spammers. To really drive up the crowd (and hits) you need to get everyone on a crusade.
:)
See what it's done here? People complain when posters don't read articles and such. But it's really quite clear the "editors" don't do it either.
Is there any magazine/site that gives honest reviews anymore? The last few times I bothered looking at a review, it was nothing more than a fluff press release. "Best game of the Year/century/millenium," "Ultra super-cool trilinear bifocalized quantum mechanazitoids," or whatever crap they press release spews out. PC Accelerator was ok, at least they would tell you something was crap, but the childishness wore on me after a couple magazines. What's the point of a rating scale when every game gets between 85 and 95?
The furthest negative I've read when I looked was something like, "If you are a die-hard fan, definately get this game, otherwise the big learning curve may be tough in the beginning, but still get this game." So it covers the huge spread of "definately get it" to "get it anyway." Oooo, compelling.
It's quite sad there isn't more of a market for poorly scripted mega-million-dollar movies. What is wrong with these crazy Americans not going to see a movie targetted at .01% of the country that has played ever FF game a hundred times over?
Been there, done that. I have been turned down even for Jr Admin jobs because I don't have 3-5 years experience in a large facility. I work with half a dozen small businesses, setting up their LANs, connecting to the internet, ssh'ing in to do this or that, etc. They work so well they don't call me much anymore. =) But oh, that counts as zero experience in any "real" company's HR department.
I don't know, I guess there are a lot of people with that much experience willing to work for 30k. To me, you should be able to move up to at least a normal admin after 5 years...
Always look to the shell for the answer...
1009-0 Sun/06:24pm ~> echo "I'm happy to live in Canada" | wc -w
6
Heh, this comes up quite a bit here. I put up my thoughts nearly a year ago. Since then other things have occupied my time, but it's a method I think could work if there was enough community support (not just the Slashdot audience).
Look here, and do a text search for "How about doing it right then??"
Doing it wouldn't be that difficult. The Squid proxy has a good number of filters for banner ads and such. You would just need to swap out the list of banner ads with your filtered sites.
www.suse.com - Linux - 247
www.etoys.com - Linux - 157
www.zdnet.com - Solars - 218
slashdot.org - Linux - 240 (mentioned twice)
www.yahoo.co.jp - FreeBSD - 342
billgates.com - Solaris - 159
www.aol.com - Solaris - 389
www.bbc.co.uk - Solaris - 282
www.google.com - Linux - 163
Those are just the 150+ max times. As well, I only count five FreeBSD entries in that list of fifty. I'd say Linux has a decent showing for long uptimes, but if any were to be said "the major majority," it would have to be Solaris.
Life is about decisions. If someone decides to get in their car, drive to the grocery store/gas station/cigarette machine at the local strip club, tell the clerk, "I want a pack of cigarettes," pay for the item, light a match/cigarette, puff, puff, puff, puff, etc, it's their decision. Repeat for multiple years. Go to doctor and he says, "You have cancer, emphazima(?), etc." Then all these people (not specifically you) cry, "I've been screwed by Phillip-Morris, pay for my hospital bills!"
The same can be said for just about everything people whine about nowadays. It's been known for numerous years unprotected, having many partners, one night stands, etc tends to eventually lead to some disease. But dammit, it's fun. So we blame the CIA for inventing AIDS to wipe out blacks, gays, etc (one of the funnier theories I heard once). People will invent any story to take the blame away from themselves.
Hell, a local Casey's gas station fired a couple of workers for stealing candy bars and eating them. What was their decision after this? Call the local news and cry that, "Everbody did it."
Then again, I'm goofy. And I did decide to write this post. I am not addicted to Slashdot. =)
HTML EMail has its uses. But sure the default should be plain text, etc. One shouldn't send strangers (newsgroups, mail lists, etc) HTML, but that is more an etiquette issue that needs to be taught.
I for one do the reply below quoted text thing. To me, it looks proper to display a few sentences, a paragraph from the original to follow what point you are replying to. Of course, the key here is to EDIT the quoted text down to what's necessary so someone can follow what you are saying. That is asking a lot of some folks, I know, who just hit their Reply button and say, "Yes, I agree." It used to be all over Usenet (when I looked there). Then one is left wondering, on which point in the post do they agree? :)
Heh, anyone else find it ironic all the black "leaders" and such on television lately (especially Democrats during the campaign) state that they are for Affirmative Action, just not for quotas. Yet, if your company does not have the right percentages of some race .. you're sued for $5,000,000,000.
.. but you better have the right numbers and spread out over the entire company from low level gruntwork to top-level officers, or else.
So all you employers out there, yeah, don't use race as the only factor
During the second debate, Al Gore claimed to be part of a government that cut hundreds of thousands of government jobs to streamline the federal government.
The often quoted number is 300,000. Of course, 280k or so was in the military. Meanwhile they increased the "necessary" staff for trips around the world, taking bands of two to three thousand globe trotting.
I nominate this as the Slashdot newbit of the mmillenniumm. People who use truetype fonts with RAID arrays are just asking for trouble.