If Win9X is open sourced, there will be much more people looking for a way to bring down the "OS" then people looking to patch the problems. You'd have to wait six months or more before it'd be safe enough to put your Win9X box online again.
You're implying it's safe now...:) The only way to make Win9x halfway safe on a network is to install black ice defender or something similar.
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and bikini girls offered to us by Mr. Balmer.
I would just like to point out that whoop got it right. Remember, when bashing Microsoft on Slashdot, Mr. Ballmer is now the head honcho, not Bill.
Thank you.
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My question is, why are commandos always shirtless? You're in a jungle full of wild animals with guys shooting you and throwing knives at you and trying to blow you up... I dunno, I'd just like a shirt.
There's a VSB script I saw to fix most of the damage in the registry, but it looks like the site I got it from has been slashdotted, and I don't have the necessary bandwidth to mirror it (or the original script, which I have too).
That just shows you how evil VB is. The scripts are so crappy and huge that this guy doesn't have the bandwidth to mirror a script! A script!
Is there some place I could buy a leather-bound set of your books suitable to become family heirlooms, that your words may rest aside those of Shakespeare and Chaucer in my library?
I actually own such a beast. It is a beautiful leather-bound edition of all 4 hitchhiker books plus the zaphod short story alternate ending thing, in one binding. It looks like a bible, with a "don't panic" guy on the binding, and a ribbon for marking your place.
I've seen it at Books-A-Million, Borders, and Barnes & Noble before, so I don't expect it's too hard to find...
YES! They don't seem to comprehend that if you spend some time redesigning and restructuring *now*, you'll save time over the next 7 years of the software's life.
Which version(s) of Redhat were released with a pre-release of the kernel? I don't recall any.
The redhat 6.0 and 6.1 kernels, at least, use stable kernels, but with numerous (over 30!) patches, some of them from pre-kernels. Most, I suspect, are back-ports from stuff that came out shortly before they were going to release, but still...
Haven't listened to Aphex Twin yet, but I intend to.
Then you haven't lived!:) Personally, while they are (well were) unique, I find his drums distracting, but his music is just plain amazing. He is truly a genius, regardless of whether you actually like his music or not.
This may seem like a troll to knee-jerk/. moderators, but I really cannot see what the point of all of the synthesized "dance" music that dominates the charts today is. After all, how can it be called music when all it takes is some 16-year old kid in their bedroom with a copy of some tracker program? There's no talent involved, it's all just pressing a few buttons.
And what do the tools have to do with the person? There are monumentally talented artists out there making music with synths, just like there are talented artists making non-synthesized music. No matter how anyone makes their music, the talented musicians who actually *understand* the dynamics of sound and music are in the minority. None of them appear on the charts, because they're interested in music, not marketing.
Not that I'm disagreeing with you on the Brittany Spearme thing. Most "mainstream" music today is crap.:)
If you think trackers have no talent, try Hunz or mellow-d (or heck, anyone in FM).
Using a tracker lets you concentrate on making the music... it's the closest thing to using a real instrument as far as I'm concerned.
I'm reminded of the phrase, "it's a poor worksman who blames his tools."
after all it adds little to what awk and sed have been doing for years.
Apparently you haven't used Perl much.:)
For more complex tasks than a simple CGI script Perl seems unwieldly...
Like any other language, you need to plan ahead and design your software, or it's *always* unweildy. The difference is that because Perl has More Than One Way To Do It, there's no accepted "standard" for doing certain things certain ways. If you are organized when you code and turn on things like "use strict", this can be a wonderful blessing, in that it gives you a lot of leeway to do interesting things and to put them just like you want them. If you are a bad or sloppy coder then Perl isn't for you, because it will just make it worse.:)
Some of the cleanest and best CGI code I've ever seen has been Perl, and some of nastiest, ugliest CGI code has been too. It's all in how you use it.
As for What is the fascination with Perl in the *nix world?, because everyone is different and for some people it's the perfect language for most everything.
Frankly, after using Perl, every other language I use seems constricting (and even if well-designed or well-intentioned, usually too verbose... *cough*java*cough*). I can use the same coding practices I would in a constrained/typed/object-oriented language, but I can do a lot more with it.
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It's been a while since I read the article, I would expect that it's less than 3 now. :)
You're implying it's safe now... :) The only way to make Win9x halfway safe on a network is to install black ice defender or something similar.
I would just like to point out that whoop got it right. Remember, when bashing Microsoft on Slashdot, Mr. Ballmer is now the head honcho, not Bill.
Thank you.
Yeah, you'd think that if they're out in the jungle, busy trying to restore freedom from the oppressive regime of The Man©, they wouldn't want to be distracted by things like leeches and mosquitos.
That just shows you how evil VB is. The scripts are so crappy and huge that this guy doesn't have the bandwidth to mirror a script! A script!
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I actually own such a beast. It is a beautiful leather-bound edition of all 4 hitchhiker books plus the zaphod short story alternate ending thing, in one binding. It looks like a bible, with a "don't panic" guy on the binding, and a ribbon for marking your place.
I've seen it at Books-A-Million, Borders, and Barnes & Noble before, so I don't expect it's too hard to find...
Check out the napigator server list...
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That only changes it for the one time you're viewing it. The tip you replied to lets you permanently change it for when you log in.
The redhat 6.0 and 6.1 kernels, at least, use stable kernels, but with numerous (over 30!) patches, some of them from pre-kernels. Most, I suspect, are back-ports from stuff that came out shortly before they were going to release, but still...
You rule.
Then you haven't lived! :) Personally, while they are (well were) unique, I find his drums distracting, but his music is just plain amazing. He is truly a genius, regardless of whether you actually like his music or not.
And what do the tools have to do with the person? There are monumentally talented artists out there making music with synths, just like there are talented artists making non-synthesized music. No matter how anyone makes their music, the talented musicians who actually *understand* the dynamics of sound and music are in the minority. None of them appear on the charts, because they're interested in music, not marketing.
Not that I'm disagreeing with you on the Brittany Spearme thing. Most "mainstream" music today is crap. :)
If you think trackers have no talent, try Hunz or mellow-d (or heck, anyone in FM).
Using a tracker lets you concentrate on making the music... it's the closest thing to using a real instrument as far as I'm concerned.
I'm reminded of the phrase, "it's a poor worksman who blames his tools."
Ahh, yes... I remember the good old days of using the 1 meg of memory on my Gravis Ultrasound as a ramdrive in DOS. That was a cool hack. :)
Apparently you haven't used Perl much. :)
For more complex tasks than a simple CGI script Perl seems unwieldly ...
Like any other language, you need to plan ahead and design your software, or it's *always* unweildy. The difference is that because Perl has More Than One Way To Do It, there's no accepted "standard" for doing certain things certain ways. If you are organized when you code and turn on things like "use strict", this can be a wonderful blessing, in that it gives you a lot of leeway to do interesting things and to put them just like you want them. If you are a bad or sloppy coder then Perl isn't for you, because it will just make it worse. :)
Some of the cleanest and best CGI code I've ever seen has been Perl, and some of nastiest, ugliest CGI code has been too. It's all in how you use it.
As for What is the fascination with Perl in the *nix world?, because everyone is different and for some people it's the perfect language for most everything.
Frankly, after using Perl, every other language I use seems constricting (and even if well-designed or well-intentioned, usually too verbose... *cough*java*cough*). I can use the same coding practices I would in a constrained/typed/object-oriented language, but I can do a lot more with it.
Perl doesn't kill code. People do.
You sure your computer isn't posessed or something?
Yeah, I was going to bring that up. The scary thing is finding myself actually agreeing with Dr. Laura on something. :)