These are the guide to proper systems administration.
But seriously, I cannot immagine anyone learning the "basics" better than fiddling around with things, and learning how they work (by breaking them more likely than not).
Actually it's not even an MS vs *nix debate, as Apache runs perfectly well on Win32 thank you. And there's also a big difference between a vulnerability which causes "non-trivial resource usage" and a vulnerability which owns your box. Not to mention that given the nature of the bug, the effects are likely much worse on apache running on win32 than on *nix.
The only thing is that cassette players were still around until cdr's became popular, as CD's did not replace the recording aspect of cassettes. Nothing currently replaces the recording features of VHS, expect tivo's (costly, and not under consumer control) and DVD-r's (not currently available en masse.)
I for one work in the computer security industry, and we (largely) did not feel much ill-effects from the.com problems (perhaps also because we're not a.com). Security is still high on everyone's minds after the Mafiaboy escapades and to PHB's 9/11. The industry is changing from anti-virus crap and dumb firewalls to things that actually provide security, and there's tons of cash to be made doing so.
My main problem with OpenOffice (besides it's general incompatabilities with MSOffice) is it's braindead handling of color schemes. Not to mention being terribly slower than MSOffice (which is slow in its own right)
Of course, but before MS Office 98 or so there wasn't any better options. Now there is. I mean I hate office. I hate supporting god forsaken Outlook, and I hate having to fekking scp word or PDF docs around so I can actually view them. I'd LOVE if there were open, intelligent formats and protocols for everything.
But if you look today MS Office is the best suite (today). I expect/hope that OpenOffice will pull even, and surpass MS in 15 months or so; but it's not there yet.
Certainly it's a big deal, though this will not win over many people who are not already Linux users. Open Office is not "ready for grandma" as it were. People will get MS Office because (to them) it works better.
If Joe nobody gets a Lindows machine they're going to use it like a windows machine, with windows software on Wine, except they're going to wonder why their windows software doesn't always work quite right.
They will probably notice that they don't have to reboot nearly as often, and that their machine is more stable.... maybe.
They will be more apt to use oss solutions like OpenOffice, though despite massive gains, it's still a mediocre replacement, and in my experience, buggy and incomplete.
Open office may be more than enough, but it's certainly not remotely equal to MS Office. It does not have the polish, and it does not have the usability. There are so many little annoyances, inconsistancies within programs, or just things that don't work.
Though for most home users Outlook Express/Netscape and Notepad/(is there a gnomepad or something? I just use vi...)
Selling people Linux machines with Wine isn't a win for Linux. You still have to shell out probably more cash for Office than for the machines themselves, and it's probably not going to work very well, turning even more people away from "things that are different".
Sure this might be a loss for Microsoft, but it's certainly not a win for Linux.
The manager didn't admit they were paying him less than he's worth to the company, they were paying him more than what anyone else would. Now someone else will pay him more, so his boss offers more to make sure they will still pay him more than anyone else will. If you're going to consider humans "resources" at least do it intelligently, just like market conditions also go hiring conditions.
You probably could/should've demanded more before (though that's generally a no-no unless you threaten to go elsewhere) but I don't see why not to take the deal if you're happy with your job. While the other job "looks" the same, it likely isn't. Things that can make working miserable usually aren't seen until they are busy making you miserable.
Intel gig cards can do ~ 900mbits with drivers tuned for running that high. The "normal" drivers expect to be usually running around 200mb or so, and 1gb as a peak.
This would be a moot point if (US anyway) exams actually tested student's knowledge and ability to think, rather than their ability to do repetative tasks and memorize things. We have PDA's to do repetative tasks and memorize things...
Currently win2k can mount (win2k call them junction points, but whatever) disks onto an ntfs5 filesystem directory. It can even do what equates to hardlinking, BUT it only works on the local machine. You cannot link or mount windows shares, or lettered shares.
Maybe they will add the feature later to make "My Documents" link to \\remote-file-server\$username\dox ?
Hopefully Amazon, Best Buy, or the other "resellers" make a good website to sell the things, maybe have 30second intro mp3s so you can "try before you buy" and what not. Hopefully they will make it easy to find the songs you want too. Current file sharing services don't do that for me. I'll pay $.99/song to get that.
Sony bets alot of other people will too. I'd wager they'll bet that I'd pay $5 extra to have them burn me a cd or two and ship them to me too or other "added features" (music videos anyone? tour footage anyone? live tracks anyone?)
The dismissiveness is because (to me) the gains are not nearly enough to overcome the losses
- Single player rpg
- Play at any time
- No evil DM's to ruin game
- Game doesn't end because people get tired of it
- Actual story (usually)
- Save games/quick to play
- P&P
- Do anything anywhere
- Creative solutions to problems
- Actual fun with actual people
- Not allowed to "cheat"
All these things are lost with a DM'd online game *AND* it takes longer (for the dm to actually create things, rather than describing them). Maybe it's just because all my RPG buddies are local, simple math doesn't bother me/isn't hard, and I have a vivid imagination that I don't really see the need for a computer to help me in those regards...
Actually I found that ID was actually one of the few BG clones I did not have to prepare for battles or "save-cheat". I did restart early though, and play through it with only 4 characters, as the game seemed to reward fewer, more powerful characters. I could not beat the game as it suffered from "Impossible end battle syndrome"
BG2 for example had multiple neigh-impossible battles (except for the last one of course, which was cake compared to all the other games in the line) which imo could only be completed by following certain tactics (that were less than honorable) and knowing things you shouldn't know *AND* getting lucky one of the times through the fight.
I'm actually looking forward to Icewind Dale 2, which is supposed to fix the 800x600, path finding, as well as adding a bunch of new features. Neverwinter imo is just an overhyped engine without much content or realism attached to it. Hopefully I'm wrong...
Why would anyone want DM'd games online? You loose pretty much every benefit of P&P rpgs; loose pretty much every benefit of single player rpgs; for what? the ability to play across distances, a computerized dice roller, and some pretty graphics?
I think BioWare will make a fun game, with alot of features, but I don't think (and history hasn't proven) that the id "make an engine, let the community write the game" approach works in rpgs...
Or better yet the root password to stock exchange machines... or to Social Security machines (to steal identities)... or to Telco machines (to intercept the above, plus credit card #'s)... or to CVS repositories...
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Or, even better yet, if you must force yourself to do such things, maybe you should continue your career search elsewhere...
These are the guide to proper systems administration.
But seriously, I cannot immagine anyone learning the "basics" better than fiddling around with things, and learning how they work (by breaking them more likely than not).
Indeed, and there are popup-blocking patches/tweaks for IE available if you just ask google for them =]
Actually it's not even an MS vs *nix debate, as Apache runs perfectly well on Win32 thank you. And there's also a big difference between a vulnerability which causes "non-trivial resource usage" and a vulnerability which owns your box. Not to mention that given the nature of the bug, the effects are likely much worse on apache running on win32 than on *nix.
The only thing is that cassette players were still around until cdr's became popular, as CD's did not replace the recording aspect of cassettes. Nothing currently replaces the recording features of VHS, expect tivo's (costly, and not under consumer control) and DVD-r's (not currently available en masse.)
*bump*
.com problems (perhaps also because we're not a .com). Security is still high on everyone's minds after the Mafiaboy escapades and to PHB's 9/11. The industry is changing from anti-virus crap and dumb firewalls to things that actually provide security, and there's tons of cash to be made doing so.
I for one work in the computer security industry, and we (largely) did not feel much ill-effects from the
My main problem with OpenOffice (besides it's general incompatabilities with MSOffice) is it's braindead handling of color schemes. Not to mention being terribly slower than MSOffice (which is slow in its own right)
Of course, but before MS Office 98 or so there wasn't any better options. Now there is. I mean I hate office. I hate supporting god forsaken Outlook, and I hate having to fekking scp word or PDF docs around so I can actually view them. I'd LOVE if there were open, intelligent formats and protocols for everything.
But if you look today MS Office is the best suite (today). I expect/hope that OpenOffice will pull even, and surpass MS in 15 months or so; but it's not there yet.
Certainly it's a big deal, though this will not win over many people who are not already Linux users. Open Office is not "ready for grandma" as it were. People will get MS Office because (to them) it works better.
If Joe nobody gets a Lindows machine they're going to use it like a windows machine, with windows software on Wine, except they're going to wonder why their windows software doesn't always work quite right.
They will probably notice that they don't have to reboot nearly as often, and that their machine is more stable.... maybe.
They will be more apt to use oss solutions like OpenOffice, though despite massive gains, it's still a mediocre replacement, and in my experience, buggy and incomplete.
Open office may be more than enough, but it's certainly not remotely equal to MS Office. It does not have the polish, and it does not have the usability. There are so many little annoyances, inconsistancies within programs, or just things that don't work.
Though for most home users Outlook Express/Netscape and Notepad/(is there a gnomepad or something? I just use vi...)
Selling people Linux machines with Wine isn't a win for Linux. You still have to shell out probably more cash for Office than for the machines themselves, and it's probably not going to work very well, turning even more people away from "things that are different".
Sure this might be a loss for Microsoft, but it's certainly not a win for Linux.
The manager didn't admit they were paying him less than he's worth to the company, they were paying him more than what anyone else would. Now someone else will pay him more, so his boss offers more to make sure they will still pay him more than anyone else will. If you're going to consider humans "resources" at least do it intelligently, just like market conditions also go hiring conditions.
You probably could/should've demanded more before (though that's generally a no-no unless you threaten to go elsewhere) but I don't see why not to take the deal if you're happy with your job. While the other job "looks" the same, it likely isn't. Things that can make working miserable usually aren't seen until they are busy making you miserable.
Intel gig cards can do ~ 900mbits with drivers tuned for running that high. The "normal" drivers expect to be usually running around 200mb or so, and 1gb as a peak.
This would be a moot point if (US anyway) exams actually tested student's knowledge and ability to think, rather than their ability to do repetative tasks and memorize things. We have PDA's to do repetative tasks and memorize things...
Currently win2k can mount (win2k call them junction points, but whatever) disks onto an ntfs5 filesystem directory. It can even do what equates to hardlinking, BUT it only works on the local machine. You cannot link or mount windows shares, or lettered shares.
Maybe they will add the feature later to make "My Documents" link to \\remote-file-server\$username\dox ?
What? not 6 years ago I/we were required to graph the fuckers manually, and we actually explicitly forbidden from using snazzy ti calcs to do it.
Hopefully Amazon, Best Buy, or the other "resellers" make a good website to sell the things, maybe have 30second intro mp3s so you can "try before you buy" and what not. Hopefully they will make it easy to find the songs you want too. Current file sharing services don't do that for me. I'll pay $.99/song to get that.
Sony bets alot of other people will too. I'd wager they'll bet that I'd pay $5 extra to have them burn me a cd or two and ship them to me too or other "added features" (music videos anyone? tour footage anyone? live tracks anyone?)
Allow for different resolutions. I also think that 800x600 is ideal for things that aren't action oriented games, but I'm not everyone.
The dismissiveness is because (to me) the gains are not nearly enough to overcome the losses
- Single player rpg
- Play at any time
- No evil DM's to ruin game
- Game doesn't end because people get tired of it
- Actual story (usually)
- Save games/quick to play
- P&P
- Do anything anywhere
- Creative solutions to problems
- Actual fun with actual people
- Not allowed to "cheat"
All these things are lost with a DM'd online game *AND* it takes longer (for the dm to actually create things, rather than describing them). Maybe it's just because all my RPG buddies are local, simple math doesn't bother me/isn't hard, and I have a vivid imagination that I don't really see the need for a computer to help me in those regards...
Actually I found that ID was actually one of the few BG clones I did not have to prepare for battles or "save-cheat". I did restart early though, and play through it with only 4 characters, as the game seemed to reward fewer, more powerful characters. I could not beat the game as it suffered from "Impossible end battle syndrome"
BG2 for example had multiple neigh-impossible battles (except for the last one of course, which was cake compared to all the other games in the line) which imo could only be completed by following certain tactics (that were less than honorable) and knowing things you shouldn't know *AND* getting lucky one of the times through the fight.
I'm actually looking forward to Icewind Dale 2, which is supposed to fix the 800x600, path finding, as well as adding a bunch of new features. Neverwinter imo is just an overhyped engine without much content or realism attached to it. Hopefully I'm wrong...
Why would anyone want DM'd games online? You loose pretty much every benefit of P&P rpgs; loose pretty much every benefit of single player rpgs; for what? the ability to play across distances, a computerized dice roller, and some pretty graphics?
I think BioWare will make a fun game, with alot of features, but I don't think (and history hasn't proven) that the id "make an engine, let the community write the game" approach works in rpgs...
The winning lottery #.
Or better yet the root password to stock exchange machines... or to Social Security machines (to steal identities)... or to Telco machines (to intercept the above, plus credit card #'s)... or to CVS repositories...