I'm getting pretty fed up with you religious types posting here. I'm getting especially tired of your abuse of science to make your religion seem reasonable.
While your blind faith in the face of the facts is impressive, it does not help further the discussion. Your unwillingness to tolerate any decent (as seen in the quick burying of any opposing post as flamebate etc.) is keeping any reasoned discussion on the topic nearly impossible to achieve.
It's obvious that you have learned your catechism well as you will spit it back any time your comfort level drops. How about dealing with the facts and having a mature discussion?
So you devotees of the government funded church of naturalism, try to think for yourselves long enough to see that you are being fed religion in place of science. If you want to have a scientific discussion, you should leave the religion back in your church (or school as the case may be).
Let's look at some facts:
FACT: Darwinian evolution is NOT proved by the fossil record. In fact, quite the opposite. The reason for the theory of punctuated equilibrium is because Darwinian gradualism (yep, the one taught in your holy books) can't be supported by the evidence.
FACT: Natural selection and every observed mutation (including beneficial mutations) result in either less genetic information or at best no new information, not more. Government behavior not withstanding, no matter how long you give it, removing information will not produce more information.
FACT: Ontogeny recapitulates Phylogeny was discredited shortly after Haeckel fudged his drawings in the 1800s and unleashed this fraud on the earth. Yet last time I check, most of the texts used in the government churches still teach this as truth.
So who is it that is imposing which religion in the schools?
While you have described what science is supposed to be fairly well, me thinks you have not been paying much attention to what is going on in the public school system. The parents contention that it is based on the non existence of a creator is much closer to what is currently being taught.
#3) Do not accept titles in place of raises. Titles are useless.
While I agree with most of your list and mostly agree with the above statement (the in place of raises part). I can't agree that titles are useless (even they they should be). Turns out when I was called a Senior Network Administrator, I could not get people to return my calls. Once they started calling me the Network Services Manager (same pay, same job...) I started being able to get information and sales people would respond with yes sir this and yes sir that.
Actually, that whole new fangled wheel thing did not come about for quite a while (some time in the mid 90s).
I can't really figure out what it is that the reviewer is complaining about here, the article says the su - with a password works. I'm not sure what it is that does not work.
Were I work, we found out that we can't even buy XP anymore (we buy openlicense stuff through dell). To run XP on a new machine, we need to purchase Vista and downgrade. Given this kind of push, the disappointing numbers are surprising and even worse news for MS.
I just fired up a solaris install on vmware and enabled telnet to try this out.
Sure enough, you don't need to authenticate. The slightly good news is that by default, root still can't get on (Not on system console). However, it did let daemon right on.
I've been doing IT for 20 years and I can tell you that if you are doing IT without coding, you are doing it the hard way. You are also probably not doing a very good job.
Close. However, the reason for the high prices is the cost of malpractice insurance. You can't have any medical equipment fail or you get your back end sued off. That bumps the cost up partly because better parts are used, but mostly to cover the insurance.
I have been able to remember more than a few seconds during a deja vu experience. In at least one case, I what the other person in a conversation I was having would say for several exchanges back and forth. For my part, I played it straight from what I remembered I said to see how long it would keep going.
Most of my deja vi experiences seem to come from having dreamt the situation before. As to what that mean, I have no idea. Maybe it's just my minds way of making me think the misfire makes sense and I really did not have a dream of the event.
I had a user come to me after trying to remove a file named -r resulted in losing all of his files. The sad thing was that he was smart enough to really get himself into trouble.
Knowing that rm will not remove directories without being explicitly asked to, he moved all his files into a saved_files directory so that he as something like
-r dir1 dir2 saved_files
he then issued rm * and expected it to delete all the files (not directories) which in the case was -r. I think the fact that the only think left in his account being the -r file was pretty much seem as adding insult to injury.
I think you are missing the point. New taxes are rarely that big. But once you allow the concept that it is OK to tax this as well, what makes you think the taxes will remain small?
When the decree comes down from "the powers that be" that fact that the decree was uniformed or even foolish has little to do with the IT manager's ability to do the right thing as opposed to the decreed thing.
And this is different than 10 years ago, 5 years ago, now in what way? Despite the fact that I regularly tell friends and family how important backups are (including gruesome examples) they just don't bother. Many of them still don't bother after loosing important date.
With cheap high capacity disks, they would be more likely to make multiple copies of important things to different disks.
I never have spent much time with the new fangled m4 stuff, I can get it to do everything I want with the straight sendmail config language. I have been using (and configuring) sendmail since 1990. I have not seen another mail program come close to its capabilities.
I hear this a lot, but I have yet to understand why EVERYONE needs to use the same interface or things are bad. If the default interface is the same, fine. That would be a good thing, but don't take away the flexibility of Unix in the name of market penetration.
Linux still works on older machines if you don't run one of the bloated interfaces. While KDE or Gnome will run as poorly on an old laptop as WinXP, put fvwm on instead and you have a snappy usable computer. If you force everything to be consistent, you will lose this ability and I have get to see what you would be gaining to make it worth it.
This is not just a Windows problem. I setup my Linux laptop to connect to any secure network I know about and fallback to any open network. That way, I can connect at home, work and the local free hotspots.
While visiting my dad last summer, I setup my system to use his wireless router. My brother in law left me a note with the sid and password. Unfortunately, he used wpa (a good thing) when setting it up and I configured for wep. The problem was, as soon as I activated my wireless nic, I was up and running and did not bother to check any details (after all it worked). It was not until an hour later that I realized I had been using the neighbors unsecured wireless router.
How they came to the conclusion that it is small and rocky is beyond me. The description of how it was discovered seems only to be able to give mass and orbit. The rest is all guess work.
I'm guessing you have not put an unpatched windows box on the net lately. Last person I talked to who got infected with an unpatched PC only did the windows update and was using a modem (not sure why he thought the download would finish this decade, but that's another issue).
Anyone? I followed the link and did not find the Linux version of this software.
Even if there was one, we would still be depending on Microsoft not changing its mind and removing it. Let them open their format if they want to be used this way.
My biggest problem with DRM is that the seller at any later time can change the terms of the sale and I can't do a thing about it.
I do not download illegal music. I believe it is theft. I used to think this was very black and white. After purchasing a single DRM song from Walmart, my views have changed quite a bit. I still think downloading music without paying for it is theft, but I'm now seeing that there is theft on the other side as well. The fact that I could play a song for a few days until I was REQUIRED to upgrade my media player by the content provider (the one I had was OK when I bought the song) and the upgrade broke my ability to get a license to play the song and then I was pretty much told the problem was on my end. I did get them to reset the license, but I did not like being treated like a thief when they were the ones who, after the sale, changed the rules.
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I'm getting pretty fed up with you religious types posting here. I'm
getting especially tired of your abuse of science to make your religion
seem reasonable.
While your blind faith in the face of the facts is impressive, it does
not help further the discussion. Your unwillingness to tolerate any
decent (as seen in the quick burying of any opposing post as flamebate
etc.) is keeping any reasoned discussion on the topic nearly impossible
to achieve.
It's obvious that you have learned your catechism well as you will spit
it back any time your comfort level drops. How about dealing with the
facts and having a mature discussion?
So you devotees of the government funded church of naturalism, try to
think for yourselves long enough to see that you are being fed religion
in place of science. If you want to have a scientific discussion, you
should leave the religion back in your church (or school as the case may
be).
Let's look at some facts:
FACT: Darwinian evolution is NOT proved by the fossil record. In fact,
quite the opposite. The reason for the theory of punctuated equilibrium
is because Darwinian gradualism (yep, the one taught in your holy books)
can't be supported by the evidence.
FACT: Natural selection and every observed mutation (including
beneficial mutations) result in either less genetic information
or at best no new information, not more. Government behavior not
withstanding, no matter how long you give it, removing information will
not produce more information.
FACT: Ontogeny recapitulates Phylogeny was discredited shortly after
Haeckel fudged his drawings in the 1800s and unleashed this fraud on the
earth. Yet last time I check, most of the texts used in the government
churches still teach this as truth.
So who is it that is imposing which religion in the schools?
While you have described what science is supposed to be fairly well, me thinks you have not been paying much attention to what is going on in the public school system. The parents contention that it is based on the non existence of a creator is much closer to what is currently being taught.
While I agree with most of your list and mostly agree with the above statement (the in place of raises part). I can't agree that titles are useless (even they they should be). Turns out when I was called a Senior Network Administrator, I could not get people to return my calls. Once they started calling me the Network Services Manager (same pay, same job...) I started being able to get information and sales people would respond with yes sir this and yes sir that.
Because Grindel was the villain and would therefor need to run windows...And who would want the hassle of setting that up?
Actually, that whole new fangled wheel thing did not come about for quite a while (some time in the mid 90s).
I can't really figure out what it is that the reviewer is complaining about here, the article says the su - with a password works. I'm not sure what it is that does not work.
Were I work, we found out that we can't even buy XP anymore (we buy openlicense stuff through dell). To run XP on a new machine, we need to purchase Vista and downgrade. Given this kind of push, the disappointing numbers are surprising and even worse news for MS.
I just fired up a solaris install on vmware and enabled telnet to try this out.
Sure enough, you don't need to authenticate. The slightly good news is that by default, root still can't get on (Not on system console). However, it did let daemon right on.
I've been doing IT for 20 years and I can tell you that if you are doing IT without coding, you are doing it the hard way. You are also probably not doing a very good job.
Close. However, the reason for the high prices is the cost of malpractice insurance. You can't have any medical equipment fail or you get your back end sued off. That bumps the cost up partly because better parts are used, but mostly to cover the insurance.
I have been able to remember more than a few seconds during a deja vu experience. In at least one case, I what the other person in a conversation I was having would say for several exchanges back and forth. For my part, I played it straight from what I remembered I said to see how long it would keep going.
Most of my deja vi experiences seem to come from having dreamt the situation before. As to what that mean, I have no idea. Maybe it's just my minds way of making me think the misfire makes sense and I really did not have a dream of the event.
You should have posted the bug #. I'm willing to bet that the 9 year bug is neither severe or security related.
I had a user come to me after trying to remove a file named -r resulted in losing all of his files. The sad thing was that he was smart enough to really get himself into trouble.
Knowing that rm will not remove directories without being explicitly asked to, he moved all his files into a saved_files directory so that he as something like
-r dir1 dir2 saved_files
he then issued rm * and expected it to delete all the files (not directories) which in the case was -r. I think the fact that the only think left in his account being the -r file was pretty much seem as adding insult to injury.
I think you are missing the point. New taxes are rarely that big. But once you allow the concept that it is OK to tax this as well, what makes you think the taxes will remain small?
What makes you thin IT managers have a choice?
When the decree comes down from "the powers that be" that fact that the decree was uniformed or even foolish has little to do with the IT manager's ability to do the right thing as opposed to the decreed thing.
Just because something is working does not mean the government won't try to fix it.
Ebooks died when the publishers missed the point. Buying an e-books is one thing. Buying an ebook for the price of a hardback is quite another.
And this is different than 10 years ago, 5 years ago, now in what way? Despite the fact that I regularly tell friends and family how important backups are (including gruesome examples) they just don't bother. Many of them still don't bother after loosing important date.
With cheap high capacity disks, they would be more likely to make multiple copies of important things to different disks.
I never have spent much time with the new fangled m4 stuff, I can get it to do everything I want with the straight sendmail config language. I have been using (and configuring) sendmail since 1990. I have not seen another mail program come close to its capabilities.
I hear this a lot, but I have yet to understand why EVERYONE needs to use the same interface or things are bad. If the default interface is the same, fine. That would be a good thing, but don't take away the flexibility of Unix in the name of market penetration.
Linux still works on older machines if you don't run one of the bloated interfaces. While KDE or Gnome will run as poorly on an old laptop as WinXP, put fvwm on instead and you have a snappy usable computer. If you force everything to be consistent, you will lose this ability and I have get to see what you would be gaining to make it worth it.
This is not just a Windows problem. I setup my Linux laptop to connect to any secure network I know about and fallback to any open network. That way, I can connect at home, work and the local free hotspots.
While visiting my dad last summer, I setup my system to use his wireless router. My brother in law left me a note with the sid and password. Unfortunately, he used wpa (a good thing) when setting it up and I configured for wep. The problem was, as soon as I activated my wireless nic, I was up and running and did not bother to check any details (after all it worked). It was not until an hour later that I realized I had been using the neighbors unsecured wireless router.
How they came to the conclusion that it is small and rocky is beyond me. The description of how it was discovered seems only to be able to give mass and orbit. The rest is all guess work.
I'm guessing you have not put an unpatched windows box on the net lately. Last person I talked to who got infected with an unpatched PC only did the windows update and was using a modem (not sure why he thought the download would finish this decade, but that's another issue).
Anyone? I followed the link and did not find the Linux version of this software.
Even if there was one, we would still be depending on Microsoft not changing its mind and removing it. Let them open their format if they want to be used this way.
You can use arping to debug WinXP. Machines have to respond to arp or they can't get their network traffic.
My biggest problem with DRM is that the seller at any later time can change the terms of the sale and I can't do a thing about it.
I do not download illegal music. I believe it is theft. I used to think this was very black and white. After purchasing a single DRM song from Walmart, my views have changed quite a bit. I still think downloading music without paying for it is theft, but I'm now seeing that there is theft on the other side as well. The fact that I could play a song for a few days until I was REQUIRED to upgrade my media player by the content provider (the one I had was OK when I bought the song) and the upgrade broke my ability to get a license to play the song and then I was pretty much told the problem was on my end. I did get them to reset the license, but I did not like being treated like a thief when they were the ones who, after the sale, changed the rules.