Well, I clicked and I clicked and none of them were selected. I submitted the survey anyway, and ended up with a blank page so I don't even know what will happen.
I used Firebird on Jaguar (my stupid KVM broke, so no Linux box for a few days). But, I don't think Firebird acts radically different on OS X than on Linux.
That's ok, I use Firebird on Windows and still got the white page.
It's MY computer. I don't lease it. I don't run it at your good pleasure, or under your benevolent supervision, or to your tune, or at your permission. It's MINE.
And the worst thing is that my company requires me to use the damn thing for my job.
Notes-eesss... we hates it! We hates it forever!
I have been using Lotus Notes since 1996. No problems what so ever. Sure, the red screed of deatch is annoying as hell and the documentation could be better in some parts (specially if you are a developer). And yes, I am required to use Notes:-)
On the other hand, there are a few things that we might want to avoid. One is introducing poisonous variants of nondomesticated edible fish. As long as it isn't too expensive to be poisonous, there's a pretty clear evolutionary advantage to an animal in being poisonous. A poisonous, say, tuna could take over and beat out the nonpoisonous tuna -- and then we wouldn't be able to just catch and eat tuna any more.
Oh thank god for that. Just absolutly hate that fish:-)
Wouldn't it make more sense using bayesin and other filters on the client side than blacklists which seems to contain a lot of false positives and generate a lot of headache to people/ISP's. At least on the client side the user can go through his spam folder and pick out any false positives and train the filter to become better. Should be hard enough for the spammers to try and work around the filters
I go to a college where a large number of students use linux. It's just as common to see linux on someone's laptop as the "other" OS. But even here, there is a "holier than thou" attitude about linux in general. The people who use it (myself included) tend to think they are somehow better because of it. When people ask simple questions because everything in linux is new to them, the common reply is "RTFM!" or "go learn it yourself!". This attitude even extends to certain professors (who are probably reading this:) that would rather force you to buy a book than just tell you to do "ls -la" instead of "ls".
This reminds me of my school. I had a programming problem that needed to be solved. One of the more funky solutions would have been to use database so I went off to my schoold IRC channel to ask if we had any database software installed on the Linux machines. It took me 15 minutes to get a clear 'No' having gotten insulted and ridiculed before that.
I'm no expert on Linux, as matter of fact I just installed it during the spring. Now I have to upgrade the installation as my graphics card isn't supported with the RH 6.2 installation. I still haven't upgraded to RH 7.1 which should solve the problem. Why? Too much hazzle.
While I think that's fine if you are taking a class as a CS Major, the average user just can't put up with that crap. Their lives don't revolve around this stuff like ours do. The user ends up resentful because you made them feel stupid for asking. Why not try to help out your fellow users instead of shunning them just because they are lost? You aren't a BETTER PERSON because you installed your OS off of a debian CD than a windows CD. You are a BETTER PERSON because you took the time to help out someone.
I do support at a large international engineering company when I'm not studying at a project which concerns the whole company world wide. We are 4 guys who sit in one room. Me and another are technically more apt. The two others are more business and process oriented. We help out the two others by giving them advice and help them with problems they have. The only problem I have is that when I have answered the same question three times within 5 minutes, I feel like putting an axe through the guys computer. When I catch my self thinking in lines like this I usually just go and grab a cup of coffee (I drink a lot of coffee). Yes I know, he's not here for the tech. I am. He's here to get things rolling process and business wise. For him the tech is secondary.
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Soon they'll throw science into Mount Doom?
I hope for their sake, we find a fossil or something like that -- no more budget problems for NASA...or would there be?
Don't worry, the religious fundamentals will then make sure no one goes there again.
Am I the only one who read the article and thought "What the hell is British Pornographic Industry doing?"
Well, I clicked and I clicked and none of them were selected. I submitted the survey anyway, and ended up with a blank page so I don't even know what will happen.
I used Firebird on Jaguar (my stupid KVM broke, so no Linux box for a few days). But, I don't think Firebird acts radically different on OS X than on Linux.
That's ok, I use Firebird on Windows and still got the white page.
It's MY computer. I don't lease it. I don't run it at your good pleasure, or under your benevolent supervision, or to your tune, or at your permission. It's MINE.
My precioussssss...
..are they mistaking him for Jon Johansen, from Norway? I could see why certain xxAA would like to have him stranded in Antarctica...
And the worst thing is that my company requires me to use the damn thing for my job.
:-)
Notes-eesss... we hates it! We hates it forever!
I have been using Lotus Notes since 1996. No problems what so ever. Sure, the red screed of deatch is annoying as hell and the documentation could be better in some parts (specially if you are a developer). And yes, I am required to use Notes
On the other hand, there are a few things that we might want to avoid. One is introducing poisonous variants of nondomesticated edible fish. As long as it isn't too expensive to be poisonous, there's a pretty clear evolutionary advantage to an animal in being poisonous. A poisonous, say, tuna could take over and beat out the nonpoisonous tuna -- and then we wouldn't be able to just catch and eat tuna any more.
:-)
Oh thank god for that. Just absolutly hate that fish
Wouldn't it make more sense using bayesin and other filters on the client side than blacklists which seems to contain a lot of false positives and generate a lot of headache to people/ISP's. At least on the client side the user can go through his spam folder and pick out any false positives and train the filter to become better. Should be hard enough for the spammers to try and work around the filters
The same kind of experts SCO hired from MIT? :)
Atleast he didn't point it to whitehouse.com
I go to a college where a large number of students use linux. It's just as common to see linux on someone's laptop as the "other" OS. But even here, there is a "holier than thou" attitude about linux in general. The people who use it (myself included) tend to think they are somehow better because of it. When people ask simple questions because everything in linux is new to them, the common reply is "RTFM!" or "go learn it yourself!". This attitude even extends to certain professors (who are probably reading this :) that would rather force you to buy a book than just tell you to do "ls -la" instead of "ls".
This reminds me of my school. I had a programming problem that needed to be solved. One of the more funky solutions would have been to use database so I went off to my schoold IRC channel to ask if we had any database software installed on the Linux machines. It took me 15 minutes to get a clear 'No' having gotten insulted and ridiculed before that.
I'm no expert on Linux, as matter of fact I just installed it during the spring. Now I have to upgrade the installation as my graphics card isn't supported with the RH 6.2 installation. I still haven't upgraded to RH 7.1 which should solve the problem. Why? Too much hazzle.
While I think that's fine if you are taking a class as a CS Major, the average user just can't put up with that crap. Their lives don't revolve around this stuff like ours do. The user ends up resentful because you made them feel stupid for asking. Why not try to help out your fellow users instead of shunning them just because they are lost? You aren't a BETTER PERSON because you installed your OS off of a debian CD than a windows CD. You are a BETTER PERSON because you took the time to help out someone.
I do support at a large international engineering company when I'm not studying at a project which concerns the whole company world wide. We are 4 guys who sit in one room. Me and another are technically more apt. The two others are more business and process oriented. We help out the two others by giving them advice and help them with problems they have. The only problem I have is that when I have answered the same question three times within 5 minutes, I feel like putting an axe through the guys computer. When I catch my self thinking in lines like this I usually just go and grab a cup of coffee (I drink a lot of coffee). Yes I know, he's not here for the tech. I am. He's here to get things rolling process and business wise. For him the tech is secondary.