The guys at Microsoft use various tools with various bits of command line syntax, to produce an end result. I have evaluated that end result, and found it lacking.
In order to produce a different result, I am forced to do it myself. Different value systems. The value system of "having to do it myself" versus "getting what I want." Of course, if you can get what you want without having to do it yourself, you are doubly lucky. I did not get what I wanted. Therefore I am willing to put in the extra effort.
I just figured it out once and added it to a script. Look, you cannot simply copy Windows and have Linux exist as it is in a vacuum. Implementing automagicalness implies an entire set of value-systems, beginning to end, which ends up with one type of picture. This is simply a different type of picture.
Yeah but have you noticed how many of the frontpage are subscription now? The ones that aren't, aren't as good.
Once you have the facts you want some analysis. A higher proportion of those are going subscription, which means I simply will lose the desire to be informed.
These systems are not static: the eyeball pushes back on the provider.
Untily relatively recently, I enjoyed Google News. I broke down and did the free reg. at NYTimes, but then Washington Post and the LA Times started it: now Charlotte.com and Bum-Fouck Iowa are getting in on the act.
I simply refuse to read those papers, and have basically stopped using Google News. When will these people learn that the only reason we use their content is the pleasure of it -- and we aren't stupid. When they try to turn us into cattle or eyeballs, we bolt.
I fully expect everything that doesn't suck now to start sucking soon. On a related note, I am planning to cancel my cable soon. It will soon be $60/month for just basic cable.
I just won't watch TV. It will suck, but I will adjust. I am not a slave.
Stay away from Tablet PCs. When I was at Microsoft, we *begged* for one, because they seem so cool: they aren't. What you are going to get is an underpowered laptop for the same price as an expensive laptop. As laptops, they suck. As tablets, they are too bulky to carry usefully.
When I went to Europe, everybody under 70 spoke english -- except for a couple of wacky youngers. Now, we aren't anywhere close to having a world language, but I think that within 100 years English will be the primary language of everybody. (I also think the concept of the Nation-State will be abolished by then -- it's only about 500 years old).
I said it before when this white crackhead made me listen to the Puff Daddy / Mozart overdub, and the Biggie Smalls / Sting overdub:
it's only the sampled music that is good!!!!!
The only reason you like the mix is because it improves the otherwise shitty musical quality of the hip-hop music with some *real* music.
I'm not the only one that feels this way. The other day the stars of Only the Strong Survive were on Charlie Rose, and when asked what she thought of hip hop, Mary Wilson said: "Well, at least harmony is making a comeback."
In other words, people will get it in their own. It is easy for a casual observer to train him/herself up on the facts and make their own judgement about whether security efforts have gone into OSS, and whether they will pay off. Somebody just saying "ooh, watch out" might give them pause -- but they can experience it for themselves.
The facts will (or will not) speak for themselves.
When I worked at Microsoft I had read-only access to the NT tree. The full, current "main" branch was about 20 GB, you needed about 80 GB to compile it, but *much* of that was binary versions of things like DAO checked in to support all the Internationalization. So I'd be shocked if you all were passing around the whole thing.
I keep my todo/dates, todo/tasks, books/want, misc lists in a plaintext ascii file. I print it with a2ps -2. When I need to update it, I use a pen and update the file back at the PC (roughly same time as a sync). It costs me 11 cents per day (although I stopped printing it every day).
Moms, salesmen, and factory floor workers need PDAs. All I really need is a bit of a thing with a bit of memory and a bit of a screen, read-only, about $20, and syncs with Linux.
All the guys working on the bloated XUL stuff *lost*. MozPhoenix was originally a radical departure from all that was wrong with Mozilla by a couple guys. Then everybody realized the "Application Platform" Mozilla was trying to be was wrong.
MozFirefox will probably start to bloat up when the main one dies.
Please, god, no. No more Cliff Stolls-ish people telling us how cool stuff is. No more libertarians checking the stock market every three minutes. Not another jack-ass with a Plan!! Please
What is this, 1997?
Just shut up. The internet is a screwdriver. Turn shit.
If 12-years are doing it, they will hassle you. If >= College-Aged students are doing it, they won't do nothing.
Based on the long and glorious tradition of warez and trading everything under the sun all through the history of computers, and this new data viz. Napster and Kazaa v. RIAA, this theory fits the data.
So the solution is to trade files but find ways to prevent young kids from doing it. And don't profit from it (the cops always bust the dealers).
Hey, dumbshit, I worked there. A ten-year veteran told me the planning for.NET began in 1996 -- that's when A.H. was hired, anyway. I had read-only access to the source. I'm right.
When I started at Microsoft in June 2000, at the PDC that month they announced "NGWS" - Next Generation Windows Services, originally internall called "Cool". In fact the first time I saw the source code for the.NET Framework class library all the.cs files were named.cool files.
Windows Forms was originally WFC (Java AFC extensions). Get it! All.NET is the Windows-specific java work that Microsoft was working on that Sun sued them over! When they got sued they just named it C# instead of Java!
That's "showing off". I'll meet you half way and say that's not a problem, because it's deeply ingrained in your subconscious. I invited you to read John Keegan's "The History of War" with the first dischargers of gunpowder in the 1300s. Yours is a subtle example of "threatening to kill stuff".
You might say its a "sport" -- read Keegan for an understanding of how "war" attenuated itself into "sport". (War precedes sport -- the oldest skeletons after we invented stone tools show chip marks from spears).
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The guys at Microsoft use various tools with various bits of command line syntax, to produce an end result. I have evaluated that end result, and found it lacking.
In order to produce a different result, I am forced to do it myself. Different value systems. The value system of "having to do it myself" versus "getting what I want." Of course, if you can get what you want without having to do it yourself, you are doubly lucky. I did not get what I wanted. Therefore I am willing to put in the extra effort.
I just figured it out once and added it to a script. Look, you cannot simply copy Windows and have Linux exist as it is in a vacuum. Implementing automagicalness implies an entire set of value-systems, beginning to end, which ends up with one type of picture. This is simply a different type of picture.
One is not better than the other.
1) aptitude install foomatic-db hpoj hpijs hotplug /usr/share/cups/model/HP-PSC_750.ppd /etc/init/hotplug restart
2) foomatic-datafile -d hpijs -p HP-PSC_750 >
2) plug printer in
3)
4) http://localhost:631, add printer, not hard
As I said, I had to put in a bit of work up front learning that, but it's not that hard.
The downside is the extra effort required on my part to learn stuff. The upside is the cost and the freedom.
I'll tell you which I'll pick.
Jeez, I can't believe I'm telling ESR this, but with foomatic + hpijs + hpoj (for HP printers) in Debian it is a piece o cake.
Easily as easy as Windows.
It was hard to get started but once you read the what's what's what's available it's easy.
Yeah but have you noticed how many of the frontpage are subscription now? The ones that aren't, aren't as good.
Once you have the facts you want some analysis. A higher proportion of those are going subscription, which means I simply will lose the desire to be informed.
These systems are not static: the eyeball pushes back on the provider.
Untily relatively recently, I enjoyed Google News. I broke down and did the free reg. at NYTimes, but then Washington Post and the LA Times started it: now Charlotte.com and Bum-Fouck Iowa are getting in on the act.
I simply refuse to read those papers, and have basically stopped using Google News. When will these people learn that the only reason we use their content is the pleasure of it -- and we aren't stupid. When they try to turn us into cattle or eyeballs, we bolt.
I fully expect everything that doesn't suck now to start sucking soon. On a related note, I am planning to cancel my cable soon. It will soon be $60/month for just basic cable.
I just won't watch TV. It will suck, but I will adjust. I am not a slave.
They say that every computer program attempts to grow until it can read mail.
I guess that's going to be true for technologies too! Or your refrigerator...
Stay away from Tablet PCs. When I was at Microsoft, we *begged* for one, because they seem so cool: they aren't. What you are going to get is an underpowered laptop for the same price as an expensive laptop. As laptops, they suck. As tablets, they are too bulky to carry usefully.
Don't believe the hype. KISS.
When I went to Europe, everybody under 70 spoke english -- except for a couple of wacky youngers.
Now, we aren't anywhere close to having a world language, but I think that within 100 years English will be the primary language of everybody. (I also think the concept of the Nation-State will be abolished by then -- it's only about 500 years old).
I said it before when this white crackhead made me listen to the Puff Daddy / Mozart overdub, and the Biggie Smalls / Sting overdub:
it's only the sampled music that is good!!!!!
The only reason you like the mix is because it improves the otherwise shitty musical quality of the hip-hop music with some *real* music.
I'm not the only one that feels this way. The other day the stars of Only the Strong Survive were on Charlie Rose, and when asked what she thought of hip hop, Mary Wilson said: "Well, at least harmony is making a comeback."
In other words, people will get it in their own. It is easy for a casual observer to train him/herself up on the facts and make their own judgement about whether security efforts have gone into OSS, and whether they will pay off. Somebody just saying "ooh, watch out" might give them pause -- but they can experience it for themselves.
The facts will (or will not) speak for themselves.
When I worked at Microsoft I had read-only access to the NT tree. The full, current "main" branch was about 20 GB, you needed about 80 GB to compile it, but *much* of that was binary versions of things like DAO checked in to support all the Internationalization. So I'd be shocked if you all were passing around the whole thing.
The base stuff is probably 4 GB.
Well, whatever, but don't forget the main point is Phoenix was started as a "lite fork" because the main fork was bloated and going nowhere.
A couple guys are responsible for Moz succeeding.
Now, everyone else helped -- but don't think it was a linear progression from there to here. These guys backed up and went in a different direction.
I keep my todo/dates, todo/tasks, books/want, misc lists in a plaintext ascii file. I print it with a2ps -2. When I need to update it, I use a pen and update the file back at the PC (roughly same time as a sync). It costs me 11 cents per day (although I stopped printing it every day).
Moms, salesmen, and factory floor workers need PDAs. All I really need is a bit of a thing with a bit of memory and a bit of a screen, read-only, about $20, and syncs with Linux.
All the guys working on the bloated XUL stuff *lost*. MozPhoenix was originally a radical departure from all that was wrong with Mozilla by a couple guys. Then everybody realized the "Application Platform" Mozilla was trying to be was wrong.
MozFirefox will probably start to bloat up when the main one dies.
Please, god, no. No more Cliff Stolls-ish people telling us how cool stuff is. No more libertarians checking the stock market every three minutes. Not another jack-ass with a Plan!! Please
What is this, 1997?
Just shut up. The internet is a screwdriver.
Turn shit.
They should just make the laptop have a picture of a giant schlong on it. What a loser!
Are those anything like the Goofy Service Jerks?
I left the Big Picture a long time ago.
Ask them about the civil-rights abuse system known as the Caste system and if it has anything to do with why their is such a huge pool of cheap labor.
I guess this means I have to remember to always think in Russian!
They should put that in "Insert Motto Here".
If 12-years are doing it, they will hassle you.
If >= College-Aged students are doing it, they won't do nothing.
Based on the long and glorious tradition of warez and trading everything under the sun all through the history of computers, and this new data viz. Napster and Kazaa v. RIAA, this theory fits the data.
So the solution is to trade files but find ways to prevent young kids from doing it. And don't profit from it (the cops always bust the dealers).
Hey, dumbshit, I worked there. A ten-year veteran told me the planning for .NET began in 1996 -- that's when A.H. was hired, anyway. I had read-only access to the source. I'm right.
When I started at Microsoft in June 2000, at the PDC that month they announced "NGWS" - Next Generation Windows Services, originally internall called "Cool". In fact the first time I saw the source code for the .NET Framework class library all the .cs files were named .cool files.
.NET is the Windows-specific java work that Microsoft was working on that Sun sued them over! When they got sued they just named it C# instead of Java!
Windows Forms was originally WFC (Java AFC extensions). Get it! All
Now does it make sense?
That's "showing off". I'll meet you half way and say that's not a problem, because it's deeply ingrained in your subconscious. I invited you to read John Keegan's "The History of War" with the first dischargers of gunpowder in the 1300s. Yours is a subtle example of "threatening to kill stuff".
You might say its a "sport" -- read Keegan for an understanding of how "war" attenuated itself into "sport". (War precedes sport -- the oldest skeletons after we invented stone tools show chip marks from spears).
No, I changed my mind while I was writing: in my mind "wound stuff" is an instance of "threaten to kill stuff" -- otherwise you just fucked up.