On the other hand, I've never had a single problem with my setup. I suspect that's because I bought a good cable modem, rather than using the crappy Motorola ones the cable company rents out. It's a tradeoff, so the situation isn't as clear-cut as you present it as being.
IBM sells over $10 billion in software every year.
Lotus Notes (#1 selling e-mail and collaboration system), WebSphere (#1 selling web application server), DB2 (#1 selling SQL database), Tivoli (storage and network management software), Rational, ViaVoice, AIX, Sametime (#1 business IM product), and so on.
Unfortunately, Apple hasn't bothered to patch 10.1 yet, and there are a lot of people who didn't want to pay $130 for a point release only months after paying full price for 10.1.
So Apple's doing a substantially worse job than RedHat, who have released patches for the last three major versions of RedHat, plus all the point releases.
No competent sysadmin runs sendmail. It's a huge pile of bug-filled crap that's nightmarish to configure.
Install one of the many far-superior free alternatives that provide the same functionality. Exim, for example. Your applications that call/usr/lib/sendmail won't even notice.
Well, unless they rely on broken header rewriting and slow delivery...
I'm sorry, you're right, I gave you too much credit when I assumed that you simply hadn't realized why JPEG was a bad choice of format.
In fact, looking back I see that you *had* realized JPEG was the worst possible choice... and you had also realized that your suggestion of PDF was useless because it requires Acrobat Reader.
I still don't realize why you posted two completely useless suggestions when you claim you knew of better ones, but life's full of little mysteries.
It is often helpful to name the best format for the task, rather than the least suitable. If you'd thought about the problem before answering, you'd have realized that JPEG artifacts are not a good thing to have on medical images.
If you're serious about backup, you keep a set of off-site backups, and you never use a proprietary format you can't check the integrity of with a test restore now and again.
Sounded to me like the guy didn't have any backup at all.
When I say "sudden", I mean "in less than weeks". With Seagate drives, when I've noticed weird noises or bad sectors I've always had plenty of time to migrate off the data.
...you're a statistical anomaly. Seagate drives hardly ever fail suddenly and completely. Granted, in recent years they may have cut their quality somewhat, but so has everyone else.
It suddenly occurs to me that suicide hotlines are the example I will use when I next have to explain to someone the sheer asinine stupidity of judging tech support staff based on call length metrics.
"Hello, Dogbert's suicide hotline."
"I don't think I can go on... I want to end--"
"Shut up and kill yourself already."
*click*
No callback, 20 second call time... I'm gonna be getting a bonus!
First, the running-as-root idea was smart. The slashdot masses need to understand that people do NOT want to fuck with passwords, usernames, and that shit on their PC.
Yes they do. They just don't know it.
Look at the number of people who use Windows, who post queries like "How can my husband and I receive e-mail in separate mailboxes?", "How can I stop my kids uninstalling my business aps to play a game", "How can I have my own set of bookmarks separate from the rest of my family". Look at the popularity of webmail amongst people who only ever use the one computer, simply because they think it's the only way to have their own private mailbox. Look at how products like Netscape implement their own bogus "Profiles" feature to simulate usernames.
I've had people tell me they don't want login names and passwords. When I tell them what login names and passwords are for, and what they let them do, they realize they're actually *easier* than implementing all the kludges to do the same stuff without login. The problem is, people think login/password is a tool for keeping them out of the computer, like in the movies.
I'm actually kinda tempted by the Lindows machine, but I'd need to see one first to judge the screen quality and build quality, or at least read a few reviews.
Failing that, I'm gonna get an iBook. Nobody managed to come up with a source for a new Windows-less notebook that was smaller and lighter than an iBook, let alone faster or cheaper or with equal battery life.
Sad, but I guess PCs just aren't as competitive as anti-Mac folks claim.
One benefit to a Lindows notebook is at least knowing that Lindows works on it. I've spent quite some time trying to get RedHat Linux sound working on a ThinkPad 600E, with no luck so far. (KNOPPIX sound drivers don't work for it either, I tried that on the off chance... It was otherwise impressive, though, and I'm gonna send a copy of the CD to my PC-using parents who have had their Windoze system blown away several times by viruses.)
Widescreen, ideally at DVD resolution, is all I care about. I'll settle for widescreen at regular resolution. It just bugs me when I watch TV shows (most of which are now made in 16:9) and know I'm getting a cropped pan-and-scan image.
When is someone going to make a box that takes HD signals and sends them via regular component video or S-video to a widescreen set and ReplayTV box?
No, not trolling. While my desktop machine is a Mac, I work for IBM, and I would genuinely consider a Linux laptop if I could get one that was smaller than an iBook without having to pay money to Microsoft for software I don't want.
I *am* a web designer, in fact... but I never run my browser fullscreen. I prefer around 640 pixels wide, to get a nice, readable 10-12 words per line. Good designers don't design for specific browser window sizes.
I already tried magazines and Google. I can't find any 12" or smaller PC laptops that don't come without Microsoft Windows. If you think it's so damn easy, post a link to someone selling one.
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On the other hand, I've never had a single problem with my setup. I suspect that's because I bought a good cable modem, rather than using the crappy Motorola ones the cable company rents out. It's a tradeoff, so the situation isn't as clear-cut as you present it as being.
IBM sells over $10 billion in software every year.
Lotus Notes (#1 selling e-mail and collaboration system), WebSphere (#1 selling web application server), DB2 (#1 selling SQL database), Tivoli (storage and network management software), Rational, ViaVoice, AIX, Sametime (#1 business IM product), and so on.
Unfortunately, Apple hasn't bothered to patch 10.1 yet, and there are a lot of people who didn't want to pay $130 for a point release only months after paying full price for 10.1.
So Apple's doing a substantially worse job than RedHat, who have released patches for the last three major versions of RedHat, plus all the point releases.
No competent sysadmin runs sendmail. It's a huge pile of bug-filled crap that's nightmarish to configure.
/usr/lib/sendmail won't even notice.
Install one of the many far-superior free alternatives that provide the same functionality. Exim, for example. Your applications that call
Well, unless they rely on broken header rewriting and slow delivery...
I'm sorry, you're right, I gave you too much credit when I assumed that you simply hadn't realized why JPEG was a bad choice of format.
In fact, looking back I see that you *had* realized JPEG was the worst possible choice... and you had also realized that your suggestion of PDF was useless because it requires Acrobat Reader.
I still don't realize why you posted two completely useless suggestions when you claim you knew of better ones, but life's full of little mysteries.
It is often helpful to name the best format for the task, rather than the least suitable. If you'd thought about the problem before answering, you'd have realized that JPEG artifacts are not a good thing to have on medical images.
Commonly-available? Not that I know of. Typically data recovery shops have their own in-house tools.
Uh... hello?!
PNG?
Sheesh.
Patented formats aren't a problem if they're widely licensed so that you're not tied to a single vendor.
That's why CD-RW was the death of Zip disks, and Syquest died a painful death when DVD-RW and DVD-RAM started to appear.
If you're serious about backup, you keep a set of off-site backups, and you never use a proprietary format you can't check the integrity of with a test restore now and again.
Sounded to me like the guy didn't have any backup at all.
When I say "sudden", I mean "in less than weeks". With Seagate drives, when I've noticed weird noises or bad sectors I've always had plenty of time to migrate off the data.
Now, Micropolis...
I thought that was weird too. ProjectBuilder satisfies my code-editing needs, but I could use an editor with HTML syntax checking.
Yet BareBones have decided to go after ProjectBuilder, and leave the under-$100 HTML editor market completely.
Huh?!
Oh well, I'm happy enough with vim. BBEdit is better, but it's not $180 better.
...you're a statistical anomaly. Seagate drives hardly ever fail suddenly and completely. Granted, in recent years they may have cut their quality somewhat, but so has everyone else.
So you admit that you don't bother with backups?
Gonna keep on not bothering with backups, even after your experience?
It suddenly occurs to me that suicide hotlines are the example I will use when I next have to explain to someone the sheer asinine stupidity of judging tech support staff based on call length metrics.
"Hello, Dogbert's suicide hotline."
"I don't think I can go on... I want to end--"
"Shut up and kill yourself already."
*click*
No callback, 20 second call time... I'm gonna be getting a bonus!
I don't have an overclocked bleeding-edge penis-substitute computer either.
"...but most people just like a cool car that they find fun/sexy/exciting..."
Sexy? I think you just proved the point you were trying to mock.
Yes they do. They just don't know it.
Look at the number of people who use Windows, who post queries like "How can my husband and I receive e-mail in separate mailboxes?", "How can I stop my kids uninstalling my business aps to play a game", "How can I have my own set of bookmarks separate from the rest of my family". Look at the popularity of webmail amongst people who only ever use the one computer, simply because they think it's the only way to have their own private mailbox. Look at how products like Netscape implement their own bogus "Profiles" feature to simulate usernames.
I've had people tell me they don't want login names and passwords. When I tell them what login names and passwords are for, and what they let them do, they realize they're actually *easier* than implementing all the kludges to do the same stuff without login. The problem is, people think login/password is a tool for keeping them out of the computer, like in the movies.
I'm actually kinda tempted by the Lindows machine, but I'd need to see one first to judge the screen quality and build quality, or at least read a few reviews.
Failing that, I'm gonna get an iBook. Nobody managed to come up with a source for a new Windows-less notebook that was smaller and lighter than an iBook, let alone faster or cheaper or with equal battery life.
Sad, but I guess PCs just aren't as competitive as anti-Mac folks claim.
One benefit to a Lindows notebook is at least knowing that Lindows works on it. I've spent quite some time trying to get RedHat Linux sound working on a ThinkPad 600E, with no luck so far. (KNOPPIX sound drivers don't work for it either, I tried that on the off chance... It was otherwise impressive, though, and I'm gonna send a copy of the CD to my PC-using parents who have had their Windoze system blown away several times by viruses.)
Widescreen, ideally at DVD resolution, is all I care about. I'll settle for widescreen at regular resolution. It just bugs me when I watch TV shows (most of which are now made in 16:9) and know I'm getting a cropped pan-and-scan image.
When is someone going to make a box that takes HD signals and sends them via regular component video or S-video to a widescreen set and ReplayTV box?
No, not trolling. While my desktop machine is a Mac, I work for IBM, and I would genuinely consider a Linux laptop if I could get one that was smaller than an iBook without having to pay money to Microsoft for software I don't want.
I *am* a web designer, in fact... but I never run my browser fullscreen. I prefer around 640 pixels wide, to get a nice, readable 10-12 words per line. Good designers don't design for specific browser window sizes.
I already tried magazines and Google. I can't find any 12" or smaller PC laptops that don't come without Microsoft Windows. If you think it's so damn easy, post a link to someone selling one.
What does it do if your hard disk has tracks of less than 34 sectors? Some do, you know...
Presumably it goes tits-up.
It's nothing to do with the spelling. It's the fact that the man page says right at the top:
"perl - Practical Extraction and Report Language"
Supporting the acronymic derivation of the name.
The man page for ls, in contrast, doesn't claim that it stands for anything.
LS(1) OpenBSD Reference Manual LS(1)
NAME
ls - list directory contents
I see no acronym, dumbass.