The article says he was brilliant at taking credit for the work of others. That sounds like the behavior of every world-famous entrepreneur to me. Bill Gates, Steve Jobs, Thomas Edison, Marconi... Dennis Hayes, as mentioned on/. a few days ago...
I have a couple of servers with AIC7xxx SCSI RAID arrays. One of them gets a mysterious timing problem which leads to a kernel panic from not being able to mount the root filesystem. It was supposed to be fixed in 2.6.0test11, but it ain't. 2.4.x works fine on that machine.
Actually, every method of performing a statewide recount in Florida using a single consistent set of criteria for which disputed votes to count, results in Gore winning.
Gore's tactic of choosing particular places to demand a recount is one of the few ways to get a Bush victory. So if Bush had allowed Gore's recount requests, nobody would ever have known that Florida wanted Gore.
In other words, if Bush had done the right thing, he would have won; and if Gore had done the right thing, he would have won. As you say, a pox on both of them.
The fastest machine I have is a VIA M10000 with a 1GHz C3. It's been running non-stop for months.
The review CPUs cost you "under $120"? I should hope so, my CPU and motherboard together came to $150... If $120 for a CPU is "budget", what's mine?
My "plan B" if I decided against the C3 was to get an Athlon XP1900+ for $50. Yeah, a 1.4GHz Duron's only $36, but I was prepared to pay the extra $14. Why the hell would I spend $110+ for a Pentium 4?
You have to be a complete sucker to buy Intel. As I explain to people, those non-stop TV ads are expensive--where do you think Intel gets the money?
The article's about low end chips. Low end AMD chips pump out LESS heat than the equivalent Pentium 4 CPUs. Go look up the specs for an XP1900+ if you don't believe me.
Sheesh, people get this "AMD chips run hot" idea in their head, and they cling to it year after year, never even pausing to wonder if it's still true.
None of the people McCarthy accused were on the list, but multiple scientists from Los Alamos were.
All the actual spies had passed the highest levels of security clearance, and all the people who had their loyalty publically questioned were innocent.
Well, that's a rounding endorsement of the processes of questioning suspects and assigning security clearance, then.
It's Dell's fault because they install the shitty OS, and refuse to sell you machines with any other OS, and refuse to support the hardware if you install any OS. Clear enough?
Please don't buy from Dell if you intend to run Linux on the machine, though. You're supporting Microsoft if you do. It's not like Dell will support the machine with Linux on it, and their hardware is no better than anyone else's, so buy from a Linux vendor or build it yourself.
Worse than paying for cable is having to pay for cable you don't want. There are half a dozen channels we actually watch, but they're spread out over multiple bundled packages of channels so it costs a fortune to get them. I'm paying for dozens of news and sports channels that we literally never watch.
My understanding is that the big corporations don't want the cable companies to unbundle the channels. Their model is that they want to be in as many homes as possible, so (for example) Disney forces the cable company to carry a bunch of Disney channels in its standard package, in return for the right to carry ABC.
I can only hope that we move to a model where you pay for the channels you want and only the channels you want.
Re:Taking a moment for clarification.
on
On The Death Of Unix
·
· Score: 4, Insightful
Ever tried porting a script that some one wrote on Linux making full use of the GNU tools featuritis to, say, stock Solaris.
No, because only idiots write and maintain complicated code in shell script when there are tools like Perl and Python available. Shell script should only be used for trivial stuff.
(Yeah, go ahead, mod me flamebait, I'm still right.)
Given that there are web pages listing dozens of unfixed IE security holes, what difference does it make to announce another seven without telling Microsoft first?
If you are desireness of wordywise playfulings, begart a topics for thems. Nonebody willed complainted thens. If yous postwill factuish artics, use properized English, lestward we thinkage you a cuckwitted moronid semi-literaged drok.
I was about ready to give up on Google, because every time I went looking for reviews and information about products, I'd get page after page of link farm shopping spam sites with no actual information like nextag.com (one of the biggest offenders).
I just went and typed in a typical search, and now the top half dozen pages are actual reviews, not spam. No nextag.com. Go Google!
First, let me say that I like Solaris a lot. In general, I prefer the SYSV approach to the BSD approach.
But there's no way I would deploy Solaris anywhere right now, because it seems as though Sun's right to support it is dependent on the crackheads at SCO. Sun gave in to SCO, which suggests to me that Sun themselves believe they must license SCO's IP to be legal. SCO have already shown that they'll gladly try to yank the license from anyone they don't like, so it seems to me you'd have to be crazy to bet the farm on Solaris right now.
Imagine--SCO need more cash. They say to Sun "Well, sorry, but you need to stop supporting Solaris by shipping code that's our property, unless you pay us... ooh, One BILLION Dollars! Mwahahaha..." Suddenly Sun is fighting a huge lawsuit. Maybe an injunction is granted to stop them shipping SCO code, and suddenly you're looking at migrating your entire Solaris infrastructure to something else, or running it without support.
Sure, once SCO are out of business, things will be peachy again. But right now?
The same characters get pulled through a time warp into the future. They end up in a world kinda like ours--armed police, government use of torture, unelected leaders, grossly obese sleazy businessmen, that kind of thing.
Personally, I think it's not so much the content of Jak II that's the problem, it's the incredibly high difficulty level...
The point is, that you shouldn't have to reinstall in order to upgrade your release. THAT is the basic "ease of use issue" that no other distributions seem to address.
Except Gentoo.
This has been your obligatory Gentoo plug for the day.
Slashdot Mirror
It's an Outlook/Exchange clone. If you want a Windows version, run the real thing.
The article says he was brilliant at taking credit for the work of others. That sounds like the behavior of every world-famous entrepreneur to me. Bill Gates, Steve Jobs, Thomas Edison, Marconi... Dennis Hayes, as mentioned on /. a few days ago...
I have a couple of servers with AIC7xxx SCSI RAID arrays. One of them gets a mysterious timing problem which leads to a kernel panic from not being able to mount the root filesystem. It was supposed to be fixed in 2.6.0test11, but it ain't. 2.4.x works fine on that machine.
Now all they need is a spinach farm the size of Jupiter, and they'll be able to corner the market in green cheese palak paneer.
Actually, every method of performing a statewide recount in Florida using a single consistent set of criteria for which disputed votes to count, results in Gore winning.
Gore's tactic of choosing particular places to demand a recount is one of the few ways to get a Bush victory. So if Bush had allowed Gore's recount requests, nobody would ever have known that Florida wanted Gore.
In other words, if Bush had done the right thing, he would have won; and if Gore had done the right thing, he would have won. As you say, a pox on both of them.
The fastest machine I have is a VIA M10000 with a 1GHz C3. It's been running non-stop for months.
The review CPUs cost you "under $120"? I should hope so, my CPU and motherboard together came to $150... If $120 for a CPU is "budget", what's mine?
My "plan B" if I decided against the C3 was to get an Athlon XP1900+ for $50. Yeah, a 1.4GHz Duron's only $36, but I was prepared to pay the extra $14. Why the hell would I spend $110+ for a Pentium 4?
You have to be a complete sucker to buy Intel. As I explain to people, those non-stop TV ads are expensive--where do you think Intel gets the money?
The article's about low end chips. Low end AMD chips pump out LESS heat than the equivalent Pentium 4 CPUs. Go look up the specs for an XP1900+ if you don't believe me.
Sheesh, people get this "AMD chips run hot" idea in their head, and they cling to it year after year, never even pausing to wonder if it's still true.
All the actual spies had passed the highest levels of security clearance, and all the people who had their loyalty publically questioned were innocent.
Well, that's a rounding endorsement of the processes of questioning suspects and assigning security clearance, then.
Point out to them that Internet Explorer is available for free download, then sit back and watch the fun.
It's Dell's fault because they install the shitty OS, and refuse to sell you machines with any other OS, and refuse to support the hardware if you install any OS. Clear enough?
Please don't buy from Dell if you intend to run Linux on the machine, though. You're supporting Microsoft if you do. It's not like Dell will support the machine with Linux on it, and their hardware is no better than anyone else's, so buy from a Linux vendor or build it yourself.
Yup. If they have a Mac or run Linux, I'll help.
If they have Windows, I'll help them install Linux. If they don't want to do that, I tell them to call Microsoft's tech support.
If you used Gentoo, you could use Portage to download and install from CPAN. Nyaah nyaah nyaah.
Worse than paying for cable is having to pay for cable you don't want. There are half a dozen channels we actually watch, but they're spread out over multiple bundled packages of channels so it costs a fortune to get them. I'm paying for dozens of news and sports channels that we literally never watch.
My understanding is that the big corporations don't want the cable companies to unbundle the channels. Their model is that they want to be in as many homes as possible, so (for example) Disney forces the cable company to carry a bunch of Disney channels in its standard package, in return for the right to carry ABC.
I can only hope that we move to a model where you pay for the channels you want and only the channels you want.
No, because only idiots write and maintain complicated code in shell script when there are tools like Perl and Python available. Shell script should only be used for trivial stuff.
(Yeah, go ahead, mod me flamebait, I'm still right.)
X is not a sufficient or necessary part of a UNIX system (or a UNIX(R) system).
Given that there are web pages listing dozens of unfixed IE security holes, what difference does it make to announce another seven without telling Microsoft first?
If you are desireness of wordywise playfulings, begart a topics for thems. Nonebody willed complainted thens. If yous postwill factuish artics, use properized English, lestward we thinkage you a cuckwitted moronid semi-literaged drok.
Microsoft is pushing for SIP.
IBM, which sells the #1 selling business IM solution (Lotus Instant Messaging), is using SIP.
Apple is using SIP.
So who are the "everyone else" who want XMPP?
I was about ready to give up on Google, because every time I went looking for reviews and information about products, I'd get page after page of link farm shopping spam sites with no actual information like nextag.com (one of the biggest offenders).
I just went and typed in a typical search, and now the top half dozen pages are actual reviews, not spam. No nextag.com. Go Google!
OK, how come nobody has mentioned SCO?
First, let me say that I like Solaris a lot. In general, I prefer the SYSV approach to the BSD approach.
But there's no way I would deploy Solaris anywhere right now, because it seems as though Sun's right to support it is dependent on the crackheads at SCO. Sun gave in to SCO, which suggests to me that Sun themselves believe they must license SCO's IP to be legal. SCO have already shown that they'll gladly try to yank the license from anyone they don't like, so it seems to me you'd have to be crazy to bet the farm on Solaris right now.
Imagine--SCO need more cash. They say to Sun "Well, sorry, but you need to stop supporting Solaris by shipping code that's our property, unless you pay us... ooh, One BILLION Dollars! Mwahahaha..." Suddenly Sun is fighting a huge lawsuit. Maybe an injunction is granted to stop them shipping SCO code, and suddenly you're looking at migrating your entire Solaris infrastructure to something else, or running it without support.
Sure, once SCO are out of business, things will be peachy again. But right now?
Mark one XX, the other XY.
Put up a sign saying that anyone with Kleinfelter's Syndrome can choose.
I thought it was being interpreted as an inappropriately smutty BDSM reference, until I read the comments.
The same characters get pulled through a time warp into the future. They end up in a world kinda like ours--armed police, government use of torture, unelected leaders, grossly obese sleazy businessmen, that kind of thing.
Personally, I think it's not so much the content of Jak II that's the problem, it's the incredibly high difficulty level...
Except Gentoo.
This has been your obligatory Gentoo plug for the day.