Once you get critical with the applications you run, you'll find that most packages, although convenient, seldom have the configure options that you need.
These apps should be built from source so you have total control, but unfortunately they require lots of care and feeding.
Install everything else from packages, when and if you can live with the defaults, and minimal configuration on your part.
System administration takes time, and resourcefulness, but there no shortcuts when you're talking about custom applications such as proxies, web applications, and many others..
That was one of the most brutal Slashdottings
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That was one of the most brutal Slashdottings I've yet seen. Web developer type too
Re:Not only is that old news
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You don't think mini-itx is a part of that hardware revolution?
Whoa, you misunderstood, sorry my fault -- the mini-itx platform and what VIA is quietly doing IS the ongoing hardware revolution -- and Slashdot instead of covering it intelligently, is posting front page news of month-old stupid ass shit having to do with guys sticking mini-ITX boards in funny places.
Then again Slashdot guys have to work too fast to put out anything of quality.
Not only is that old news
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it's boring too.
There's a freaking hardware revolution taking place before our very eyes, and not only are the Slashdot editors essentially missing it, they're front-paging shit like the XP cardboard box mod.
No wonder they've got to crapflood slashdot with OSDN personals and similar lowest-common denominator targeted garbage advertising to try to win eyeballs.
Check my sig.
Re:Microsoft has it right? (no trolling intended)
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Choice is good, it provides competition and allows people to decide which is best, rather than being forced to use something.
Precisely, and well said. Also with respect to software, at least in the OSS world, competing programs in the same area has tended to increase competition for the highest quality. Hence gaim => kopete, or the rapid pace of Apache development.
Maybe Microsoft has it right? Who wrote that? Hemos? If there is too much choice in this society, Hemos, it doesn't make Microsoft right in ANY regard.
The UN really should either take over the DNS system
The Domain Name System is a large, multifaceted "thing". The UN is simply not qualified to either own it, or regulate it.
The UN should have a voice in some parts of the process, especially to ensure uniformity among nations, and to ensure that third world countries who spend most of their valuable assets trying to find food, let alone Internet access/presence, don't get shafted as regulations evolve and the Internet grows.
What needs pure reform is ICANN itself.
Capitalist US-based domain suffixes are better
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With a-la-carte services they'll start out, pricing each particular program higher, like you say.
But people will buy less. People will only buy 10 or 15 channels when formerly their package had 160 channels. And at the high individual program price, consumers will be even more discerning, cutting out ones they really don't want. To get the per/household revenue back to what it was, the cables companies will ultimately have to lower the individual prices to stay competitive.
Right now it costs the same for pay per view to watch the same movies we can get at Blockbuster. But if they raised the price a doller per rental, I'd go right back to Blockbuster.
I currently live in Winter Park, Florida, but I'm moving back to Detroit soon. That's about all I'll say here, but I'm not going to give you the rest of my address unless you actually intend to show up. Then we can fight =)
That is all.
I haven't laughed so hard on Slashdot since I joined, as when I read your last rebuttal.
Sure, you are funny, suggesting I cut my c--- off, and in reading the thread here, you appear to have some serious emotional side issues, which would explain your shrill and irrational Apple advocacy.
Consider reading this thoroughly as I'm sure that you've broken a couple important rules already, what with your lewd suggestions and all. I might even be a minor, for all you know, complicating your case, should you pursue your written adventures on the Slashdot nickel. Anyway, they just love axing accounts of people like you, and dude, you couldn't get a tin can to the Internet after they put you on record with other ISPs.
I know you said "that is all" but I must point out, you've really missed the point of contributing to an online community. Sorry the world of paste thing didn't work out.
Honestly, you are utterly asinine. You have so little to say, yet you keep typing. You have resorted to name calling, and defending your use of a two button mouse as if to make a point. You've used foul language, yet still made no intelligent points on the issue of Apple's deceptive advertising.
Hell, I'll even give you my address.
It sounds as if you are threatening me with a confrontation of some kind. Send your address to my posted email address.
Anything is better than carrying on a conversation with a complete moron like you.
If you have problems backing up your (so-called) arguments, keep your trap shut.
It doesn't sound as if you understood the initial point.
You see, it's good that the BBB suggested that Apple revise its ads - they are misleading to consumers -- those many consumers who might not realize that false claims about computer speed are being made. The BBB is there to help protect the dumb asses who don't know better, and you see, this is a Good Thing.
When companies lie to consumers, that is a Bad Thing, and we must not support those companies, even if they make really really nice hardware. Even more disturbing is Apple's arrogance in their ad campaigns, starting with using images of MLK, Gandhi, etc in the "Think Different" series way back when. This campaign is widely supported by Apple users, which gives them a black mark in my book, in fact the sooner you realize that Steve Jobs is no more scrupulous in business matters than Bill Gates, the sooner you'll be on your way to recovery.
The interesting thing about Apple Computers is that, if someone were to break all the fingers of both your hands, say, for calling them a moron, that you could just keep right on operating that one button mouse with your stumps, and probably not lose a single minute of productivity. Unless, that is, you happened to go home and kill yourself.
Excel's graphing is nowhere near on a par with something like Matlab.
Not an accurate comparison -- Matlab is essentially a scientific application, for specialists. We're talking about office suites here. We're not talking about publishing apps or prepress quality stuff. Office suites, for regular users, some more sophisticated than others.
but its chief advantage is that it is easy for dumb people to learn how to use it. On features it loses,
Ok, we'll overlook the fact that you've just called us dumb, and ask: what features is Excel's graphs missing, specifically? You can make pretty complicated graphs from multiple data sets in Excel - please, point us to a graph made by a scientist that could not have been made in Excel.
Again, Excel's graphing seems to be one of its strong points. Bill Gates can still kiss my white ass.
I admire the sentiment, and wish it were possible. To produce real published work one often needs styles, templates, indexes, TOCs, etc. Just do.
d to have math functions, coloring, some decent copy functions, and a decent grapher.(Excel ain't a great grapher)
I've produced some gorgeous looking graphs on Excel from large amounts of fairly complicated data. AFAIK that is one of Excel's strong points. Is there somewhere a better grapher I missed? Even if there was a better grapher, I'd have to import the data into it, and manage that step. For hundreds of files, that matters.
People have mentioned this, but sorry, I'll say it again.. OO's PDF export is great. On that feature alone it beats MSOffice.
Excel's graphing, I thought, was excellent.. Bill Gates can still kiss my white ass though.
Try to stay on the point - which was Apple's deceptive advertising methods. The number of Apple computers you personally own has nothing to with this, and neither does the quality of the help in Apple Stores.
Yes, I was making a point by saying Windows users are generally stupid, but smarter than most Apple users when it comes to the workings of their OS, networking, etc.
And if it's any testament to your computing ability - oh well never mind - the world of paste - is that your website - doesn't seem to be available at the moment.
Yes, let's PlEASE not be naive or defend Apple here - their advertising is deceptive - the target audience is not very technically sophisticated (yes, they're discerning application users, that all, kudos, fine.) when it comes to operating platforms and nitty gritty details - and are likely to believe just about any untruth from a company they already trust.
On the other hand Microsoft users on the whole know a little more technically about their computers, and less about the applications they use. But they're less likely to fall prey to some deceptive statement about computer speed in a TV ad during the Super Bowl - they're more aware of the variables at work - but still not smart enough to reject the platform altogether for its shoddy architecture.
For those of you ladies harping about the Centrino, that is not at all a retail consumer product, as a matter of fact Intel needs not advertise at all, I don't know why they waste the money. Who in their right mind would interpret the Centrino ads as deceptive because the dude is floating on water at his desk?
Exactly. Again, with Slashdot mis information. IBM has never used Red Hat and has had alliances and product lines with SuSE Linux FOR YEARS. Get it straight.
twm.org servers up fvwm.org servers up windowmaker.org servers up kde.org servers up blackbox.org servers up icewm.org servers up xfce.org servers up Microsoft.com SERVERS UP SCO.COM SERVERS UP
come on guys this is no time to lax out on your security making the oSS community look like LOSERS
The state of the IT industry is what is in shambles - but what's going on today in computing, networking, application development, etc, etc, etc, is more interesting than ever.
What's frustrating is the economic balancing act that companies are doing is taking jobs and creativity away. It's killing the next generation of innovation in engineering for the United States. Remember the dotcom boom? It's the last innovation boom we'll see here in the U.S. from engineering meeting business.
Slashdot Mirror
Once you get critical with the applications you run, you'll find that most packages, although convenient, seldom have the configure options that you need.
These apps should be built from source so you have total control, but unfortunately they require lots of care and feeding.
Install everything else from packages, when and if you can live with the defaults, and minimal configuration on your part.
System administration takes time, and resourcefulness, but there no shortcuts when you're talking about custom applications such as proxies, web applications, and many others..
That was one of the most brutal Slashdottings I've yet seen. Web developer type too
You don't think mini-itx is a part of that hardware revolution?
Whoa, you misunderstood, sorry my fault -- the mini-itx platform and what VIA is quietly doing IS the ongoing hardware revolution -- and Slashdot instead of covering it intelligently, is posting front page news of month-old stupid ass shit having to do with guys sticking mini-ITX boards in funny places.
Then again Slashdot guys have to work too fast to put out anything of quality.
it's boring too.
There's a freaking hardware revolution taking place before our very eyes, and not only are the Slashdot editors essentially missing it, they're front-paging shit like the XP cardboard box mod.
No wonder they've got to crapflood slashdot with OSDN personals and similar lowest-common denominator targeted garbage advertising to try to win eyeballs.
Check my sig.
Choice is good, it provides competition and allows people to decide which is best, rather than being forced to use something.
Precisely, and well said. Also with respect to software, at least in the OSS world, competing programs in the same area has tended to increase competition for the highest quality. Hence gaim => kopete, or the rapid pace of Apache development.
Maybe Microsoft has it right? Who wrote that? Hemos? If there is too much choice in this society, Hemos, it doesn't make Microsoft right in ANY regard.
The UN really should either take over the DNS system
The Domain Name System is a large, multifaceted "thing". The UN is simply not qualified to either own it, or regulate it.
The UN should have a voice in some parts of the process, especially to ensure uniformity among nations, and to ensure that third world countries who spend most of their valuable assets trying to find food, let alone Internet access/presence, don't get shafted as regulations evolve and the Internet grows.
What needs pure reform is ICANN itself.
.baguette ?
.fufu ?
.koala ??
No thanks.
So when did a-la-carte mean cheaper?
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True, but ultimately it won't work this way.
With a-la-carte services they'll start out, pricing each particular program higher, like you say.
But people will buy less. People will only buy 10 or 15 channels when formerly their package had 160 channels. And at the high individual program price, consumers will be even more discerning, cutting out ones they really don't want. To get the per/household revenue back to what it was, the cables companies will ultimately have to lower the individual prices to stay competitive.
Right now it costs the same for pay per view to watch the same movies we can get at Blockbuster. But if they raised the price a doller per rental, I'd go right back to Blockbuster.
I currently live in Winter Park, Florida, but I'm moving back to Detroit soon. That's about all I'll say here, but I'm not going to give you the rest of my address unless you actually intend to show up. Then we can fight =)
That is all.
I haven't laughed so hard on Slashdot since I joined, as when I read your last rebuttal.
Sure, you are funny, suggesting I cut my c--- off, and in reading the thread here, you appear to have some serious emotional side issues, which would explain your shrill and irrational Apple advocacy.
Consider reading this thoroughly as I'm sure that you've broken a couple important rules already, what with your lewd suggestions and all. I might even be a minor, for all you know, complicating your case, should you pursue your written adventures on the Slashdot nickel. Anyway, they just love axing accounts of people like you, and dude, you couldn't get a tin can to the Internet after they put you on record with other ISPs.
I know you said "that is all" but I must point out, you've really missed the point of contributing to an online community. Sorry the world of paste thing didn't work out.
Honestly, you are utterly asinine. You have so little to say, yet you keep typing. You have resorted to name calling, and defending your use of a two button mouse as if to make a point. You've used foul language, yet still made no intelligent points on the issue of Apple's deceptive advertising.
Hell, I'll even give you my address.
It sounds as if you are threatening me with a confrontation of some kind. Send your address to my posted email address.
The EFF knows how to fight this crap and is doing so. Oh, and, let's vote the Bush administration out of office too. Before we have a police state.
Anything is better than carrying on a conversation with a complete moron like you.
If you have problems backing up your (so-called) arguments, keep your trap shut.
It doesn't sound as if you understood the initial point.
You see, it's good that the BBB suggested that Apple revise its ads - they are misleading to consumers -- those many consumers who might not realize that false claims about computer speed are being made. The BBB is there to help protect the dumb asses who don't know better, and you see, this is a Good Thing.
When companies lie to consumers, that is a Bad Thing, and we must not support those companies, even if they make really really nice hardware. Even more disturbing is Apple's arrogance in their ad campaigns, starting with using images of MLK, Gandhi, etc in the "Think Different" series way back when. This campaign is widely supported by Apple users, which gives them a black mark in my book, in fact the sooner you realize that Steve Jobs is no more scrupulous in business matters than Bill Gates, the sooner you'll be on your way to recovery.
The interesting thing about Apple Computers is that, if someone were to break all the fingers of both your hands, say, for calling them a moron, that you could just keep right on operating that one button mouse with your stumps, and probably not lose a single minute of productivity. Unless, that is, you happened to go home and kill yourself.
Excel's graphing is nowhere near on a par with something like Matlab.
Not an accurate comparison -- Matlab is essentially a scientific application, for specialists. We're talking about office suites here. We're not talking about publishing apps or prepress quality stuff. Office suites, for regular users, some more sophisticated than others.
but its chief advantage is that it is easy for dumb people to learn how to use it. On features it loses,
Ok, we'll overlook the fact that you've just called us dumb, and ask: what features is Excel's graphs missing, specifically? You can make pretty complicated graphs from multiple data sets in Excel - please, point us to a graph made by a scientist that could not have been made in Excel.
Again, Excel's graphing seems to be one of its strong points. Bill Gates can still kiss my white ass.
I want essentially Write from Win 3.1.
I admire the sentiment, and wish it were possible. To produce real published work one often needs styles, templates, indexes, TOCs, etc. Just do.
d to have math functions, coloring, some decent copy functions, and a decent grapher.(Excel ain't a great grapher)
I've produced some gorgeous looking graphs on Excel from large amounts of fairly complicated data. AFAIK that is one of Excel's strong points. Is there somewhere a better grapher I missed? Even if there was a better grapher, I'd have to import the data into it, and manage that step. For hundreds of files, that matters.
People have mentioned this, but sorry, I'll say it again.. OO's PDF export is great. On that feature alone it beats MSOffice.
Excel's graphing, I thought, was excellent.. Bill Gates can still kiss my white ass though.
And no, it doesn't matter how many computers I own, I was using it as an example to illustrate my point. Are we clear?
There's one thing I'm not clear on.
Weren't you supposed to go home and kill yourself?
Uh, no.
Try to stay on the point - which was Apple's deceptive advertising methods. The number of Apple computers you personally own has nothing to with this, and neither does the quality of the help in Apple Stores.
Yes, I was making a point by saying Windows users are generally stupid, but smarter than most Apple users when it comes to the workings of their OS, networking, etc.
And if it's any testament to your computing ability - oh well never mind - the world of paste - is that your website - doesn't seem to be available at the moment.
Yes, let's PlEASE not be naive or defend Apple here - their advertising is deceptive - the target audience is not very technically sophisticated (yes, they're discerning application users, that all, kudos, fine.) when it comes to operating platforms and nitty gritty details - and are likely to believe just about any untruth from a company they already trust.
On the other hand Microsoft users on the whole know a little more technically about their computers, and less about the applications they use. But they're less likely to fall prey to some deceptive statement about computer speed in a TV ad during the Super Bowl - they're more aware of the variables at work - but still not smart enough to reject the platform altogether for its shoddy architecture.
For those of you ladies harping about the Centrino, that is not at all a retail consumer product, as a matter of fact Intel needs not advertise at all, I don't know why they waste the money. Who in their right mind would interpret the Centrino ads as deceptive because the dude is floating on water at his desk?
We're Mongol-Tartars ok, in more ways than one :=}
Realize the truth in your jest -- there's about a fifty fifty chance, guessing from news about leaks this year alone, that the newly aggregated data
a) will be compromised and fall into enemy hands due to bad IT security practices, or,
b) sold or lent to third parties or government contractors
c) used for purposes other than originally intended
or d) all of the above
IBM would be the three headed monster, devouring everything in sight.
Gee Bill, you're right, if there's no sales force, how can it be any good?
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Hang on let me conference in my kernel.org sales rep, and we'll get to the bottom of this
Exactly. Again, with Slashdot mis information. IBM has never used Red Hat and has had alliances and product lines with SuSE Linux FOR YEARS. Get it straight.
twm.org servers up
fvwm.org servers up
windowmaker.org servers up
kde.org servers up
blackbox.org servers up
icewm.org servers up
xfce.org servers up
Microsoft.com SERVERS UP
SCO.COM SERVERS UP
come on guys this is no time to lax out on your security making the oSS community look like LOSERS
The state of the IT industry is what is in shambles - but what's going on today in computing, networking, application development, etc, etc, etc, is more interesting than ever.
What's frustrating is the economic balancing act that companies are doing is taking jobs and creativity away. It's killing the next generation of innovation in engineering for the United States. Remember the dotcom boom? It's the last innovation boom we'll see here in the U.S. from engineering meeting business.
That's depressing.
use Net::RandomNumbers.info qw(:all);
my @firstgroup = connect('arraysize' => '90',
'range' => '1 1000',
);
foreach $linein ( @firstgroup ) {
print "$linein \n";
}
exit 0;
# Please wait