I'm sure some Linux experts will say I'm just stupid, but I tried to install Hardy Heron on a fairly stock, high-end Dell desktop earlier today.
Results?
1) It was unable to use my RAID controller to install onto the existing RAID-1 array. It insisted on being installed on a single drive. To get it to boot at all, I had to completely break the RAID volume.
2) It was unable to use my wireless card. It didn't see it at all, so it wasn't in the "connections" menu.
3) It failed to notice that I have a dual-head video card with two screens attached. The second screen was a mirror of the first during boot, but after boot it turned into a fantastic mosaic of random-colored 80x25 random-ASCII.
As far as I can tell, none of these problems were addressable via the provided system configuration tools.
If there were solutions, they were too hard to find to even consider it being "ready for the masses".
Unix for the masses is here, and it's called OS X. Hardy Heron is difficult to use, poorly documented junk.
You keep getting asked if you'll port SomeShitty App to the iPhone.
Now you know the answer: NO! Because you purposefully chose an extremely restrictive license that puts ideology ahead of pragmatism.
Beyond that you have demonstrated a further lack of touch with reality and pragmatism by falsely claiming that Apple forces you to charge for applications when it does not.
All in all you've neatly exemplified the Open Source Spirit. That is, an idiotic twit who operates without all the facts, and likes to license their software in a manner that has more to do with controlling how other people look at IP than how you do.
BSD is real freedom. BSD has none of these problems because it doesn't legislate the behavior of others. The GPL is a nanny state license.
I didn't in any way mean to imply that major publishers put out nothing but quality material. It's sketchy as heck.
That said, I'd guess that 1 in 10 major publisher books are readable (not great, but you can plow through them without throwing them on the fire) whereas POD is at least an order of magnitude worse.
This is a fantastic thing. It should be extended further!
Right now the United States says to the people of the world: come and study in our top-notch universities, learn how to do incredible and innovative things, then GET THE FUCK OUT.
If we allow those people to stay, then the US essentially gets more than it's fair share of smart, hardworking, educated people. And those are the exact sort of people who are useful when creating new businesses, new markets, etc.
I want more immigration. I want a program that says that if you have an MS from a reasonably good school, you're automatically in. Hell, if you have a BS from a reasonably good school we should probably make it pretty easy for you.
The only thing I don't like about H1B visas is the lack of labor mobility that's associated with them (some of which is being addressed half-heartedly, but it's still an enormous problem.)
A big exception to this mobility: H1B visa holders who often pick a job at a large, global company (because of a mistaken belief that it will be more competent, interesting or stable), and then have no opportunity to change their situation once they find out that they're in a terribly managed, lowest cost situation where innovation is eschewed.
This makes me regret that I give 37signals money every month for a bunch of basecamp accounts. But it makes me *extremely glad* that Highrise has some idiotic limitations on the total number of contacts that kept me from integrating it as the CRM solution for one of my new ventures.
If you want to have more than 50k contacts on Highrise, you're out of luck. You can't even give them more money every month to solve the problem (I e-mailed and asked. They confirmed this, then ignored my follow-up asking if there was any way to get an exception.) If you want to scale beyond 50k customers Highrise is not for you.
And once you add both of the good books from the small publishers, then what? Sit back and watch people not buy them, and complain about declining American literacy?
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Personally, I know of more than a dozen "large projects" that run primarily or completely on RoR without any significant issues. (Or anything that advertises their Rails-ness to the public).
As far as I can tell, the only common theme among them is that they're run by professional software engineers, not kids who read one Rails book. I mean, the fact of the matter is that if you want to run a high quality, large database-backed web application, you need some people who really understand databases, and some people who really understand web servers.
Rails doesn't change those requirements, it just provides a different language to write the bits in the middle.
I would find it much more interesting if the world was allowed to have more than two viewpoints.
Red versus Blue is idiotic, divisive bullshit. Fuck this notion that "Conservatives" and "Liberals" all have to agree with every fucking thing their side is touting this year, while disagreeing with everything the other team wants.
hard-working people who voluntarily participate in a "drug war" that ruins the lives of people who have literally done nothing to hurt anybody except (arguably) themselves.
The bad done by every policeman's tacit support of the fascist war on drugs outweighs any possible good they might do in the line of duty.
I'll agree that many of them have good intentions, but you know the old saying about the road to hell.
In shocking news, Bob Parsons, a pro-torture Republican who owns GoDaddy.com astounded people by censoring a legal but controversial site that disagreed with his personal politics.
Millions of intelligent people took it as a reminder that GoDaddy should be avoided at all costs.
Today the (insert country) government has introduced a bill that would greatly expand it's power. It claims that this to fight (evil thing), but realists note that it wouldn't be of significant use for the claimed utility.
You're not alone. I changed my registration from Libertarian to Democrat, specifically so I could vote for Obama.
It's not that I think Obama is some magical guy, I just think he's the only candidate who might not be a complete schmuck. The others have all sewn up that they're for corporate welfare (which I view as far more harmful than social welfare) and bigger government.
I'm pretty sure I could stay focused on my tasks at hand just fine, especially if some idiotic behemoth came in and made an offer that caused the market to instantly re-evaluate all my stock and options at a significantly higher price.
The idea that Yahoo is going to be bewildered and knocked astray by this is absurd. But that said, consider the source. He's a twit who makes his living by purposefully trolling people into discussions. He's not a serious analyst, nor does he offer any interesting insight.
It's a shame slashdot got trolled again. You'd think people would learn to stop linking to the tard, but time and time again he makes front page. Pathetic.
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I've plugged lots of monitors into my Macs without issue.
Hell, I've taken DVI->HDMI cables and plugged random TVs into my Macs and that has always worked as well.
RAID 1 isn't rare on desktop boxes. It's a checkbox on the order for Apple, Dell and HP.
As for the restricted drivers, I eventually did, but nothing made it clear that it was the right way to go. Even so, they didn't work.
I keep OS X to my Macs, so I can't comment on that.
As for XP, yes it basically worked out of the box on that machine.
Yes. Last time I re-installed OS X on my Mac Pro it detected both flawlessly.
I'm sure some Linux experts will say I'm just stupid, but I tried to install Hardy Heron on a fairly stock, high-end Dell desktop earlier today.
Results?
1) It was unable to use my RAID controller to install onto the existing RAID-1 array. It insisted on being installed on a single drive. To get it to boot at all, I had to completely break the RAID volume.
2) It was unable to use my wireless card. It didn't see it at all, so it wasn't in the "connections" menu.
3) It failed to notice that I have a dual-head video card with two screens attached. The second screen was a mirror of the first during boot, but after boot it turned into a fantastic mosaic of random-colored 80x25 random-ASCII.
As far as I can tell, none of these problems were addressable via the provided system configuration tools.
If there were solutions, they were too hard to find to even consider it being "ready for the masses".
Unix for the masses is here, and it's called OS X. Hardy Heron is difficult to use, poorly documented junk.
You keep getting asked if you'll port SomeShitty App to the iPhone.
Now you know the answer: NO! Because you purposefully chose an extremely restrictive license that puts ideology ahead of pragmatism.
Beyond that you have demonstrated a further lack of touch with reality and pragmatism by falsely claiming that Apple forces you to charge for applications when it does not.
All in all you've neatly exemplified the Open Source Spirit. That is, an idiotic twit who operates without all the facts, and likes to license their software in a manner that has more to do with controlling how other people look at IP than how you do.
BSD is real freedom. BSD has none of these problems because it doesn't legislate the behavior of others. The GPL is a nanny state license.
Code Reuse is slavery? WTF.
Congratulations sir, you win worst metaphor of the year.
I didn't in any way mean to imply that major publishers put out nothing but quality material. It's sketchy as heck.
That said, I'd guess that 1 in 10 major publisher books are readable (not great, but you can plow through them without throwing them on the fire) whereas POD is at least an order of magnitude worse.
This is a fantastic thing. It should be extended further!
Right now the United States says to the people of the world: come and study in our top-notch universities, learn how to do incredible and innovative things, then GET THE FUCK OUT.
If we allow those people to stay, then the US essentially gets more than it's fair share of smart, hardworking, educated people. And those are the exact sort of people who are useful when creating new businesses, new markets, etc.
I want more immigration. I want a program that says that if you have an MS from a reasonably good school, you're automatically in. Hell, if you have a BS from a reasonably good school we should probably make it pretty easy for you.
The only thing I don't like about H1B visas is the lack of labor mobility that's associated with them (some of which is being addressed half-heartedly, but it's still an enormous problem.)
A big exception to this mobility: H1B visa holders who often pick a job at a large, global company (because of a mistaken belief that it will be more competent, interesting or stable), and then have no opportunity to change their situation once they find out that they're in a terribly managed, lowest cost situation where innovation is eschewed.
Christ.
This makes me regret that I give 37signals money every month for a bunch of basecamp accounts. But it makes me *extremely glad* that Highrise has some idiotic limitations on the total number of contacts that kept me from integrating it as the CRM solution for one of my new ventures.
If you want to have more than 50k contacts on Highrise, you're out of luck. You can't even give them more money every month to solve the problem (I e-mailed and asked. They confirmed this, then ignored my follow-up asking if there was any way to get an exception.) If you want to scale beyond 50k customers Highrise is not for you.
And once you add both of the good books from the small publishers, then what? Sit back and watch people not buy them, and complain about declining American literacy?
Personally, I know of more than a dozen "large projects" that run primarily or completely on RoR without any significant issues. (Or anything that advertises their Rails-ness to the public).
As far as I can tell, the only common theme among them is that they're run by professional software engineers, not kids who read one Rails book. I mean, the fact of the matter is that if you want to run a high quality, large database-backed web application, you need some people who really understand databases, and some people who really understand web servers.
Rails doesn't change those requirements, it just provides a different language to write the bits in the middle.
I would find it much more interesting if the world was allowed to have more than two viewpoints.
Red versus Blue is idiotic, divisive bullshit. Fuck this notion that "Conservatives" and "Liberals" all have to agree with every fucking thing their side is touting this year, while disagreeing with everything the other team wants.
GoDaddy's CEO is pro-torture and pro-GITMO justice.
GoDaddy -- the violent, neoconservative registrar!
hard-working people who voluntarily participate in a "drug war" that ruins the lives of people who have literally done nothing to hurt anybody except (arguably) themselves.
The bad done by every policeman's tacit support of the fascist war on drugs outweighs any possible good they might do in the line of duty.
I'll agree that many of them have good intentions, but you know the old saying about the road to hell.
Looks like I got modded by a Neocon!
That's enough to pay for ONE FULL HOUR of the occupation of Iraq!
In shocking news, Bob Parsons, a pro-torture Republican who owns GoDaddy.com astounded people by censoring a legal but controversial site that disagreed with his personal politics. Millions of intelligent people took it as a reminder that GoDaddy should be avoided at all costs.
Government Requests More Power.
Today the (insert country) government has introduced a bill that would greatly expand it's power. It claims that this to fight (evil thing), but realists note that it wouldn't be of significant use for the claimed utility.
Lather, Rinse, Repeat.
You're not alone. I changed my registration from Libertarian to Democrat, specifically so I could vote for Obama.
It's not that I think Obama is some magical guy, I just think he's the only candidate who might not be a complete schmuck. The others have all sewn up that they're for corporate welfare (which I view as far more harmful than social welfare) and bigger government.
I'm pretty sure I could stay focused on my tasks at hand just fine, especially if some idiotic behemoth came in and made an offer that caused the market to instantly re-evaluate all my stock and options at a significantly higher price.
The idea that Yahoo is going to be bewildered and knocked astray by this is absurd. But that said, consider the source. He's a twit who makes his living by purposefully trolling people into discussions. He's not a serious analyst, nor does he offer any interesting insight.
It's a shame slashdot got trolled again. You'd think people would learn to stop linking to the tard, but time and time again he makes front page. Pathetic.
No. it doesn't.
I'll put my $10k of actual hardware versus your pitiful budget solution any day.
MySQL-cluster is a fucking abortion. I've examined it and was incredibly disappointed to learn that it's a total piece of shit.
Google can work with commodity hardware, but you're not google. You're not that smart, and it's not that simple. You'll learn this in time.
An HP DL360 is hardly a really expensive machine.
$5k gets you 6 15k SAS drives with a 512MB BBWC.
Most of us with real databases run them on real hardware. Y'know, the kind with battery-backed write caches.
In those cases, it's a simple matter of correctly setting the sync options in the conf, and then having a beer for lunch.