You are so wrong, you don't even see it. Internet Explorer is a tarnished brand for the people that read slashdot, for the people that care about interoperability, for those that care about standards. Outside of that world, there is a world where Microsoft is a good brand name, equivalent to Jaguar in cars! Microsoft is the brand that bring you computing, that *is* computing.
I know that what the above paragraph says is not true, but it is for millions and millions of people.... In the end Truth is not important, Image is... And apart from us rebellious geeks, Microsoft has the image it needs.
The worst part is, I've seen good IT people sticking to Microsoft... Convinced, that it is always the best choice (like IBM, in the time... yes, I was there back then...Fuck, I'm old)
Except that workstation is a 32-bit SMP machine, so I can't run a 64-bit OS on it.... It's my fault for not understanding the architecture that I was using. I naively thought 32-bit means max 4Gig and I get to use them all. That was simply a wrong assumption, and I know that now.
It all depends, but during Java development, 1Gig can become very cramped. 2Gig is okay, and alas Windows limits you to 3Gig in the first place (And only using a special switch). I have 4Gig in my personal workstation, but I only found out about that Windows limitation later. *sigh* I suspect that such limits do not exist on Linux or Mac OS X.
Pehaps with Dual-Tits, Plug 'n Play Three-Port interface for one and the same device? The stroke 'n moan interface? There are lots of reasons, really....
I really fail to see what incentive a cracker would have in making someone's legitimate copy of Vista appear to be illigitament.
Read this: I fail to see why a cracker would be interested in deleting all my files and rendering my computer unusable.
I hope you understand the sillyness of your statement now. That kind of stuff does exist, if only for the "bragging rights" of the cracker. A more dangerous type of cracker might even use it to blackmail a company and thus even gain money by that way!
I have my own DNS server on a dedicated BSD machine. Let them try to block that one;-)
Technically, I see no reason why someone couldn't make a small DNS caching service that installs on a Windows machine and then set all DNS lookups to be redirected to localhost:53, bypassing the %SystemRoot%\System32\drivers\etc\hosts file.
Kind of illustrates my point, doesn't it? When I was 13, neopets didn't even exist, heck the web didn't exist! (Internet did though, I just didn't know)
I think they use Shockwave Director now though.
Possible. I wouldn't know, I don't play neopets. I did for about a month (years ago...), but I found it too boring.
What worries me about the Flash player update are the people who are downloading it:/
Never heard of sites like Neopets , do you? Their target audience do talk like that, and the site pretty much requires the latest version of flash all the time....
Nah, nuclear pollution does not need to be long lived. Nuclear pollution is defined by a thing called "half life" and it depends entirely on the isotope we are talking about. So, yes, Uranium 235 is still very radioactive after a few *million* years. However, Cesium 134 lost half of it's radioactivity after not even a year. Check it out for yourself. Look at Strontium 82 for example... Some half life times are in the sub-second range, but perhaps one can't really call those "pollution" anymore.
Not a good argument. Nobody ever saw God, but there are plenty people talking about Him.
The grandparent just wanted to point out that wealth is relative. Sometimes, wealth can quantified by an amount on a back account, but most of the time there are things that are more important that money. For this Amish man it was belief and keeping his dignity. Frankly, one has to respect that.
You can try if you find where to register domains for Eritrea.
The thing with goatse.cx is that it doensn't look suspicious to the casual surfer. Something with "fuck" in it, most certainly does. I personally got hit by goatse.cx when at work, and I was damned lucky nobody was looking.
That doesn't make sense. "goatse" only works with the.cx domain, because of the pronunciation of "goatse.cx" as a whole sounds like "Goat Sex". Frankly, "goatse.be", "goatse.ch", "goatse.lu", "goatse.us" or even "goatse.kz" don't have a that nice ring. (Though I picked goatse.kz, because it might just work fine phonetically...)
(c) noms de domaine manifestement contraires à l'ordre public ou aux bonnes moeurs.
Translation: The proposed domain name must not be offensive or contrary to public policy or generally accepted principles of morality
Thus, identical to the Ireland registry provisions. The real question here is, why someone would consider "murder" falling into that provision? I clearly don't. You see, this could be a website about prevening murder, or a forum for people seeking help that had a relative murdered. I don't know.
Also keep in mind that pretty much all "normal" sex-related words should be registrable just because of *that* reason. tits.com used to be about birds (the real, flying kind). Now, I do not know what the porn guy exactly tried to register (just checked the article: it was porn.ie). It would be hard to defend "bondagegirls.ie", but a case for "sex.ie" might be acceptable, if the content clearly is non-sexual. (Well, the applicant was a p0rn peddler, so good luck to that)
Oh, and I see he owns sex.ie... Now really, it's not as if sex.ie is registrable, so should be murder.ie.... He is complaining about nothing *at all*.
What I think that happens: the registration process is completely automated and the words just pass through an automated filter which, incidentially, just contains sex-related words. He should try "t1ts.ie";-)
The folks who bought a Shuffle, on the other hand, I have to wonder about.
Cheap 1GB memory stick that also can play your music and easily enters in any USB slot, unlike the bulkier flash based MP3 players? That's why I bought one. The new Shuffle, however, doesn't have these advantages.... On the other hand, the new shuffle has the typical iPod interface and can thus be used in a car over an adapter. Not that I care, my car radio doesn't support it because my radio it is too old, even though the car is listed as "supported" *sigh*. (And yes, this is the radio that came with it out of the factory)
You are mixing two user pofiles. Two profiles which can be seen together. Sure, I rarely use fast user switching in a corporate environment, but I do in a home environment. Well, if just now my wife would like to know what email she got, I'd push Windows-L and she could check her mail.
Still, in a corporate environment, it might be possible that a certain user has access to certain services on a Windows machine. I know, last week we had to restart a service on a machine where the user was on vacation. We had to call IT to have his password reset so that we could log in and start said service.
What your personal preferences about bloated menues are, just enhance your youth and your inability to understand that everything that we can use for ourselves instead of for a userinterface is pure waste....
Strange, this at my father in laws company they have a similar setup: the important files are on the secretaries machine and shared with everyone else. Of course, not a single backup in sight. (This is a small business <5 users) My question is: why don't you just put a NAS in there (selfmade or off the shelf) and mount their "My Documents" on that? You could even do a nightly backup on a second NAS!
That's what I'm going to do at my father in laws company. I have gotten a P-IV somewhere for free, dumped two disks in it and am going to put those in RAID. Nighlty backup on external USB drive. Setup Samba (no user limits, unless your hardware can't cope) and it's free. Damnit! There is no reason to shell out money for Win2003 Server if it's for a simple file server.
I agree. Window's 2000 was actually likeable, but WinXP, despite some ugliness, is a bit better. I miss the XP "Start" menu when I use 2000
There are exactly *two* features that are useful in WinXP that aren't in Win2000. That's fast user switching and remote desktop. The Luna theme is not part of it. I have never met a single IT person that hasn't switched it off and many user I talked to was delighted to find out that you could actually switch it off. As for the two advantages of WinXP: the fast user switching is gone once you are in a domain, which is why I can't run a domain at home! Fast user switching is the singlemost useful thing in a home environement, but frankly, I can see usages in a corporate/domain usage too...
But Win2000 is the Microsoft OS that I actually liked most.
Well, I usually try to explain it even differently: RAM is your short time memory. The things you can remember for a short time in order to accomplish a task like dialling a phone number you just read somewhere. A few minutes later it will be gone. (We don't exactly have much "RAM" in our brain) The harddisk is your long time memory: the phone number of your home is etched there.
The problem is that the brain does both functions. It's a harddisk and RAM at once. You can explain "saving" quite well too, it's storing something in the short time memory into the long time memory. A brain has a lot of problems with that (it's called learning), but a computer doesn't.
Oh, well, that has been my vision about these things.
Now, I use a variety of OSes and I do understand your problem with OS X. I had exactly the same problem when I bought an G3 iBook years ago. The solution? Try not to think like an IT person, but do the things you consider the dumbest thing you could do. That's usually the solution...;-)
Point taken. I made the mistake of comparing families of 6 in a cramped apartment, to families of 12 in a tent in the middle of the desert. Compare that family of 6 in a cramped apartment to western standards and you might understand my argument. For the immigrants it's an improvement, for us it sounds scandalous. However, the next generation will want our standards, and they won't have kids either because of the same reasons Western couples can't have kids: not enough space and money.
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No... Simply No....
You are so wrong, you don't even see it. Internet Explorer is a tarnished brand for the people that read slashdot, for the people that care about interoperability, for those that care about standards. Outside of that world, there is a world where Microsoft is a good brand name, equivalent to Jaguar in cars! Microsoft is the brand that bring you computing, that *is* computing.
I know that what the above paragraph says is not true, but it is for millions and millions of people.... In the end Truth is not important, Image is... And apart from us rebellious geeks, Microsoft has the image it needs.
The worst part is, I've seen good IT people sticking to Microsoft... Convinced, that it is always the best choice (like IBM, in the time... yes, I was there back then...Fuck, I'm old)
Except that workstation is a 32-bit SMP machine, so I can't run a 64-bit OS on it.... It's my fault for not understanding the architecture that I was using. I naively thought 32-bit means max 4Gig and I get to use them all. That was simply a wrong assumption, and I know that now.
It all depends, but during Java development, 1Gig can become very cramped. 2Gig is okay, and alas Windows limits you to 3Gig in the first place (And only using a special switch). I have 4Gig in my personal workstation, but I only found out about that Windows limitation later. *sigh* I suspect that such limits do not exist on Linux or Mac OS X.
you must buy a third party application
Emphasis mine... *cough* CDBurnerXP Pro *cough*
Pehaps with Dual-Tits, Plug 'n Play Three-Port interface for one and the same device? The stroke 'n moan interface? There are lots of reasons, really....
I really fail to see what incentive a cracker would have in making someone's legitimate copy of Vista appear to be illigitament.
Read this: I fail to see why a cracker would be interested in deleting all my files and rendering my computer unusable.
I hope you understand the sillyness of your statement now. That kind of stuff does exist, if only for the "bragging rights" of the cracker. A more dangerous type of cracker might even use it to blackmail a company and thus even gain money by that way!
I have my own DNS server on a dedicated BSD machine. Let them try to block that one ;-)
Technically, I see no reason why someone couldn't make a small DNS caching service that installs on a Windows machine and then set all DNS lookups to be redirected to localhost:53, bypassing the %SystemRoot%\System32\drivers\etc\hosts file.
I used to like Neopets when I was about 13.
Kind of illustrates my point, doesn't it? When I was 13, neopets didn't even exist, heck the web didn't exist! (Internet did though, I just didn't know)
I think they use Shockwave Director now though.
Possible. I wouldn't know, I don't play neopets. I did for about a month (years ago...), but I found it too boring.
What worries me about the Flash player update are the people who are downloading it:/
Never heard of sites like Neopets , do you? Their target audience do talk like that, and the site pretty much requires the latest version of flash all the time....
*Sigh* That was exactly my point...
Nah, nuclear pollution does not need to be long lived. Nuclear pollution is defined by a thing called "half life" and it depends entirely on the isotope we are talking about. So, yes, Uranium 235 is still very radioactive after a few *million* years. However, Cesium 134 lost half of it's radioactivity after not even a year. Check it out for yourself. Look at Strontium 82 for example... Some half life times are in the sub-second range, but perhaps one can't really call those "pollution" anymore.
Ah, another married slashdotter....
Not a good argument. Nobody ever saw God, but there are plenty people talking about Him.
The grandparent just wanted to point out that wealth is relative. Sometimes, wealth can quantified by an amount on a back account, but most of the time there are things that are more important that money. For this Amish man it was belief and keeping his dignity. Frankly, one has to respect that.
Not the one he talks about. That were the private TV stations. Nice try though...
Also remember that David Hasselhof only became "famous" (notorious?) because of US TV shows (Knight Rider, Baywatch...)
You can try if you find where to register domains for Eritrea.
The thing with goatse.cx is that it doensn't look suspicious to the casual surfer. Something with "fuck" in it, most certainly does. I personally got hit by goatse.cx when at work, and I was damned lucky nobody was looking.
(or solo, given that this is Slashdot)
That doesn't make sense. "goatse" only works with the .cx domain, because of the pronunciation of "goatse.cx" as a whole sounds like "Goat Sex". Frankly, "goatse.be", "goatse.ch", "goatse.lu", "goatse.us" or even "goatse.kz" don't have a that nice ring. (Though I picked goatse.kz, because it might just work fine phonetically...)
Isn't this standard procedure for most country TLDs? I just checked for my country:
From their webpage:
Translation: The proposed domain name must not be offensive or contrary to public policy or generally accepted principles of morality
Thus, identical to the Ireland registry provisions. The real question here is, why someone would consider "murder" falling into that provision? I clearly don't. You see, this could be a website about prevening murder, or a forum for people seeking help that had a relative murdered. I don't know.
Also keep in mind that pretty much all "normal" sex-related words should be registrable just because of *that* reason. tits.com used to be about birds (the real, flying kind). Now, I do not know what the porn guy exactly tried to register (just checked the article: it was porn.ie). It would be hard to defend "bondagegirls.ie", but a case for "sex.ie" might be acceptable, if the content clearly is non-sexual. (Well, the applicant was a p0rn peddler, so good luck to that)
Oh, and I see he owns sex.ie... Now really, it's not as if sex.ie is registrable, so should be murder.ie.... He is complaining about nothing *at all*.
What I think that happens: the registration process is completely automated and the words just pass through an automated filter which, incidentially, just contains sex-related words. He should try "t1ts.ie" ;-)
The folks who bought a Shuffle, on the other hand, I have to wonder about.
Cheap 1GB memory stick that also can play your music and easily enters in any USB slot, unlike the bulkier flash based MP3 players? That's why I bought one. The new Shuffle, however, doesn't have these advantages.... On the other hand, the new shuffle has the typical iPod interface and can thus be used in a car over an adapter. Not that I care, my car radio doesn't support it because my radio it is too old, even though the car is listed as "supported" *sigh*. (And yes, this is the radio that came with it out of the factory)
You are mixing two user pofiles. Two profiles which can be seen together. Sure, I rarely use fast user switching in a corporate environment, but I do in a home environment. Well, if just now my wife would like to know what email she got, I'd push Windows-L and she could check her mail.
Still, in a corporate environment, it might be possible that a certain user has access to certain services on a Windows machine. I know, last week we had to restart a service on a machine where the user was on vacation. We had to call IT to have his password reset so that we could log in and start said service.
What your personal preferences about bloated menues are, just enhance your youth and your inability to understand that everything that we can use for ourselves instead of for a userinterface is pure waste....
Strange, this at my father in laws company they have a similar setup: the important files are on the secretaries machine and shared with everyone else. Of course, not a single backup in sight. (This is a small business <5 users) My question is: why don't you just put a NAS in there (selfmade or off the shelf) and mount their "My Documents" on that? You could even do a nightly backup on a second NAS!
That's what I'm going to do at my father in laws company. I have gotten a P-IV somewhere for free, dumped two disks in it and am going to put those in RAID. Nighlty backup on external USB drive. Setup Samba (no user limits, unless your hardware can't cope) and it's free. Damnit! There is no reason to shell out money for Win2003 Server if it's for a simple file server.
I agree. Window's 2000 was actually likeable, but WinXP, despite some ugliness, is a bit better. I miss the XP "Start" menu when I use 2000
There are exactly *two* features that are useful in WinXP that aren't in Win2000. That's fast user switching and remote desktop. The Luna theme is not part of it. I have never met a single IT person that hasn't switched it off and many user I talked to was delighted to find out that you could actually switch it off. As for the two advantages of WinXP: the fast user switching is gone once you are in a domain, which is why I can't run a domain at home! Fast user switching is the singlemost useful thing in a home environement, but frankly, I can see usages in a corporate/domain usage too...
But Win2000 is the Microsoft OS that I actually liked most.
Well, I usually try to explain it even differently: RAM is your short time memory. The things you can remember for a short time in order to accomplish a task like dialling a phone number you just read somewhere. A few minutes later it will be gone. (We don't exactly have much "RAM" in our brain) The harddisk is your long time memory: the phone number of your home is etched there.
The problem is that the brain does both functions. It's a harddisk and RAM at once. You can explain "saving" quite well too, it's storing something in the short time memory into the long time memory. A brain has a lot of problems with that (it's called learning), but a computer doesn't.
Oh, well, that has been my vision about these things.
So, basically you mean this...
Now, I use a variety of OSes and I do understand your problem with OS X. I had exactly the same problem when I bought an G3 iBook years ago. The solution? Try not to think like an IT person, but do the things you consider the dumbest thing you could do. That's usually the solution... ;-)
Point taken. I made the mistake of comparing families of 6 in a cramped apartment, to families of 12 in a tent in the middle of the desert. Compare that family of 6 in a cramped apartment to western standards and you might understand my argument. For the immigrants it's an improvement, for us it sounds scandalous. However, the next generation will want our standards, and they won't have kids either because of the same reasons Western couples can't have kids: not enough space and money.