That doesn't solve all the problems of network latency (ah, you don't live in Australia where the cable to the US is a bottleneck?) or outright network failure (happens to me at home - and even at work - more than.001% of the time: forget five nines).
Latency and network flakiness - the Internet doesn't yet match LAN quality where I am. Neither do services in the cloud. Yet.
"Another problem is that some criminal hackers may exhibit traits associated with clinical personality disorders such as the narcissistic personality disorder." I'd say a large amount of IT staff exhibit personality disorders. Not just 'hackers'.
It is a job requirement. If we got on well with other people, how would we spend enough time alone with computers to become experts?
And vim is free if you have a computer to run Linux on. Otherwise it costs 1 PC worth of dollars. What a pointless comment.
Apart from the fact that vim was actually developed on/for the Amiga, not Linux, it is "cross-platform". You can get a version to run on Windows or on Mac OSX.
Generally speaking most "Linux" (read "Posix") software will compile and run on Mac OSX and even on Windows. It is Mac and Windows software that tries to be single-platform. Even then, there are projects that try to run or compile some Windows or Mac programs so that they can run on Linux.
Linux goes out of its way to be compatible with other OSs. It is Mac OSX and Windows that try to be incompatible.
I don't like running programs in a big VM that has to load gigabytes of library files before it can execute "Hello world". Startup latency. So I don't like the Java VM. (Yes, I realise it is not literally "gigabytes")
I don't like humongous libraries that have factored in every possible use, so that you have to load gigabytes of files yada yada... So I don't much care for the huge Java library. It reminds me of criticisms of PL/I and Ada - the language (library) is just too big. So I don't like the Java libraries. Java is like a Swiss Army knife with 300 blades - it can do anything, except that it is too cumbersome to do anything.
So Java is a nice language saddled with a huge library and a big VM. But I don't mind the syntax. Through learning Java I finally realised what C++ was trying to do - Java made sense, C++ didn't. Friends? Copy constructors? Dots versus arrows? Arrrggh!
Objective-C suits me better: no VM, no mandatory libraries (you can avoid Foundation Kit etc if you want), although the syntax isn't as nice as Java. Mind you, these days I just use PHP because it is faster to write and has all the string-handling tools I want.
YMMV (in other words, I don't care if you love Java or C++ and gag at what I wrote - that's how your brain works, not mine).
4 - weaponry, from 12-gauge shotguns to high velocity rifles
I don't understand this reluctance to move beyond hand-held weapons. Six-inch naval guns would take out a hard disk very thoroughly, especially when firing armour-piercing shells. Let's see someone reconstruct a disk that has been blasted into 200,000 pieces of shrapnel.
And while we are at it, why is no one talking about a rocket laden with hard disks racing towards the Sun? Try retrieving THAT data after it hits the target!
Now we will not only get a whole lot of spam, but the spammers can feel virtuous because they are donating so much money to charity.
And the charities will all be hiring black hats to try and pwn as many machines as possible: you will just keep getting these mysterious bills each month for huge donations to charity.
Silly! The sky is blue because it is daytime. If it were night time, the sky would be black.
Babies come from the hospital and rainbows from the ground (they arch up into the sky, and then come back down to the ground - rainbows, that is, not babies).
In 5 years time we will know that our forecasts now are wrong, which means that this forecast is wrong, which means that in 5 years time this forecast won't be wrong, which means...make my head stop hurting!
The issue with Debian is complex. At work, we use Debian testing for desktops in the IT section, but Debian stable for servers.
With developer desktops, a little occasional instability is no huge problem - you want to test the next generation of your software (e.g. the latest Apache, PHP, database, etc).
On your production servers you want stability, even if that means running older releases. Your production servers are not the place to run beta software. And you want long uptimes on your servers (uptime on desktops is usually not such an issue).
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If you encrypt it, data mining isnt a concern.
So what you are saying is:
"If you encrypt it, they will come."
That doesn't solve all the problems of network latency (ah, you don't live in Australia where the cable to the US is a bottleneck?) or outright network failure (happens to me at home - and even at work - more than .001% of the time: forget five nines).
Latency and network flakiness - the Internet doesn't yet match LAN quality where I am. Neither do services in the cloud. Yet.
I shall buy a bulldozer and attack random houses.
With my bulldozer I will produce explosive growth in the construction industry.
And with the expanded numbers of homeless people that I will create, it will also cause explosive growth in the welfare industry.
So much economic stimulus in one idea. I should get an award for this.
"Another problem is that some criminal hackers may exhibit traits associated with clinical personality disorders such as the narcissistic personality disorder." I'd say a large amount of IT staff exhibit personality disorders. Not just 'hackers'.
It is a job requirement. If we got on well with other people, how would we spend enough time alone with computers to become experts?
And vim is free if you have a computer to run Linux on. Otherwise it costs 1 PC worth of dollars. What a pointless comment.
Apart from the fact that vim was actually developed on/for the Amiga, not Linux, it is "cross-platform". You can get a version to run on Windows or on Mac OSX.
Generally speaking most "Linux" (read "Posix") software will compile and run on Mac OSX and even on Windows. It is Mac and Windows software that tries to be single-platform. Even then, there are projects that try to run or compile some Windows or Mac programs so that they can run on Linux.
Linux goes out of its way to be compatible with other OSs. It is Mac OSX and Windows that try to be incompatible.
"Mr Gorbachev, tear down this Copyright Wall!"
There, that should kick things along.
Java I like as a language.
I don't like running programs in a big VM that has to load gigabytes of library files before it can execute "Hello world". Startup latency. So I don't like the Java VM. (Yes, I realise it is not literally "gigabytes")
I don't like humongous libraries that have factored in every possible use, so that you have to load gigabytes of files yada yada... So I don't much care for the huge Java library. It reminds me of criticisms of PL/I and Ada - the language (library) is just too big. So I don't like the Java libraries. Java is like a Swiss Army knife with 300 blades - it can do anything, except that it is too cumbersome to do anything.
So Java is a nice language saddled with a huge library and a big VM. But I don't mind the syntax. Through learning Java I finally realised what C++ was trying to do - Java made sense, C++ didn't. Friends? Copy constructors? Dots versus arrows? Arrrggh!
Objective-C suits me better: no VM, no mandatory libraries (you can avoid Foundation Kit etc if you want), although the syntax isn't as nice as Java. Mind you, these days I just use PHP because it is faster to write and has all the string-handling tools I want.
YMMV (in other words, I don't care if you love Java or C++ and gag at what I wrote - that's how your brain works, not mine).
Save paper and power - imagine a book.
If you can make love to her, then she is a woman (provided that you know where you put your willy in)...
... or, if she uses the term "make love" for the act, she is a woman.
Is that like "make install"?
(Why are you looking at me like that?)
4 - weaponry, from 12-gauge shotguns to high velocity rifles
I don't understand this reluctance to move beyond hand-held weapons. Six-inch naval guns would take out a hard disk very thoroughly, especially when firing armour-piercing shells. Let's see someone reconstruct a disk that has been blasted into 200,000 pieces of shrapnel.
And while we are at it, why is no one talking about a rocket laden with hard disks racing towards the Sun? Try retrieving THAT data after it hits the target!
Why write zeroes? Just write random characters.
dd if=/dev/urandom of=/dev/your-hard-disk
Now don't try this command at home, kiddies.
What he is trying to say is, women are complex commodities.
This is the 21st century. We have moved on from viewing women as simple commodities.
Is this one of those "let's feed a positive story to the press to create some good vibes" type of story - straight out of marketing?
Count me cynical, but expect to be regaled with Microsoft-scripted adverti- er "news stories" between now and the official release.
Now we will not only get a whole lot of spam, but the spammers can feel virtuous because they are donating so much money to charity.
And the charities will all be hiring black hats to try and pwn as many machines as possible: you will just keep getting these mysterious bills each month for huge donations to charity.
nobody (the apache account) is a local user.
That nobody guy is really smart.
I often tell people that nobody is smarter than me.
Silly! The sky is blue because it is daytime. If it were night time, the sky would be black.
Babies come from the hospital and rainbows from the ground (they arch up into the sky, and then come back down to the ground - rainbows, that is, not babies).
In Australia, does the MS death spiral go counter-clockwise?
No. In Australia it goes anti-clockwise. We don't say "counter-clockwise" here.
> fastest version of Windows to shut down,
Was that ever a problem? start shut down, and turn out the lights, It will be down when you come back in the morning.
How about boot up time?
Switch it on last thing at night, and turn out the lights. It will be up by the time you come back in the morning.
I'll do without a CLI when you do without a registry.
... should die a slow and horrible death.
Um, can we make that a quick and horrible death?
I don't want them lingering around any longer than they have to.
Personally it would be funnier to leave the 'Designed for Windows XP' sticker alone and place a 'But running a real OS instead' sticker next to it.
"Designed for Windows... but runs better with Linux"
Turned out as badly as when I tried snorting coke. The bubbles just about killed me.
Bubbles? That's odd. When I tried snorting coke, I just got big lumps of grey ash caught up my nose.
In 5 years time we will know that our forecasts now are wrong, which means that this forecast is wrong, which means that in 5 years time this forecast won't be wrong, which means...make my head stop hurting!
I, for one, use my body as a way to get my head to important places.
And people like this cannot get girlfriends. I don't understand it!
Writing English is Euro-centric too.
Perhaps you should switch to some non-Western language?
The issue with Debian is complex. At work, we use Debian testing for desktops in the IT section, but Debian stable for servers.
With developer desktops, a little occasional instability is no huge problem - you want to test the next generation of your software (e.g. the latest Apache, PHP, database, etc).
On your production servers you want stability, even if that means running older releases. Your production servers are not the place to run beta software. And you want long uptimes on your servers (uptime on desktops is usually not such an issue).