M$ shoved it down our throats that Windoze problems were always the fault of a "poorly written driver", until W2K came out, and suddenly they released figures and pie charts that showed that 40% of NT's problems were "core NT" (source Microsoft, as reported by infoweek), NOT drivers. If their most important product was 40% crap, (and this can be proved by running it on anything picked from the HCL) what difference will it make if they only have one platform to deal with? Having read the Linux kernel core source code, I can see why Linux runs rings around NT - it's coded to work with the hardware and deal with, not ignore, hardware deficiencies.
There's a landslide of attempts to remove freedom that we have all come to cherish. People are testy about it, tempers are short, politeness has, by necessity, gone out the window. When corporate america stops trying to fuck with us, we can get back to the level of civility we usually operate at.
When I lived in the UK, they touted the 12-20 gun deaths a year as proof that the gun laws in the US were the end of civilisation. What the media and government ignored were the pensioners and ordinary folk beaten to death with hammers and bricks by drunken thugs who DIDN'T EVEN ROB THEM.
C'mon Dude - I worked on SAMBA UNLEASHED too, this is not the time to bring it up, it's the other guys moment of glory! I would like to see a bundle of SAMBA books on Think Geek....
It's easy to argue that this isn't Microsofts fault, until you compare it to GM shipping products that failed so badly in crash tests. The crashes weren't GM's fault, the drivers could have been more careful, but the fact that driver and passenger seats FLEW OUT OF THE CAR in low speed collisions ultimately led to the success of the suit and vehicle safety. I admin 100's of NT/9x boxes and had the registry, user accounts and permissions clamped down as much as is possible with Outlook 2000, yet I could do nothing to prevent the virus from running when it was activated. Nothing. Windows can't be locked down enough to stop this stuff, ergo, it's intrinsically faulty.
Send Bully Bill, and Butthead Ballmer to jail, do not pass go. Let's face it, there's a certain amount of resolve already - you can now buy a PC without Windows, it's become a discussion point that Microsoft software is at it's highest price ever (check the cost of Office 2000, Win2000 if you don't believe me) while all other vendors are dropping their prices. The smartest thing is to remove the US government requirement for M$ as the standard platform, and *then* let the market decide.
Folks, we have known this for a looooong time, this is just another specific case. Just recycle your 486's with an OS that can run them, generate so little trash that you don't have to put your cans out every week, and avoid driving, and maybe our kids won't be so freakin' dense that they'll be able to make decisions about us when we're old that won't have us discarded. What goes around, comes around, ha ha ha!
In my meta moderation, I've only had to mark one post labelled as "troll" as unfair. Most of the time it seems fine. When moderating, I don't see many trolls that are incorrectly labelled. I think you need to come back with some statistics before claiming this. Also, FWIW, this is off-topic. (but it's not like there's a self analysis section here)
I use Mozilla every day, I avoid other browsers to do this, here's some sample bug reports:
click on link - browser dies
submit form - browser dies
visit frames site - browser dies
visit java site - browser dies
Fuck - it's a sign 'o the times when a Microsoft product (if you think it's part of the OS, you ain't run it on Mac or Solaris) performs better than *partially* free software.....
I use VNC *all* the time to remotedly admin my NT boxes from my Linux box at the office and at home (check out the JAVA applet, running on port 5800 for something uber cool). But when you connect to an NT box, it's still just the one console. It isn't intended to replace WTS. I think it may allow true multiuser access on *NIX, but I've never had to go that route.
Frames have always been, and will continue to be the worst design, breaking the back button, bookmarks, and just about anything else that the web was built on. Side note: I had never heard of this lady, till she was interviewed on digital village, and sadly I missed the interview. I immediately visited the site beforehand, and thought it was light on content.
I had high hopes for Mozilla, till I used it. The flakiness I can deal with, the IE5 workalike/lookalike design choice just makes me sad. The non-disclosure, though, that's a different matter. We knew all along that it wasn't a real OS license, know we get to see why. This is why RMS is so adamant about FREE SOFTWARE as a opposed to "OPEN". It's a big difference, folks.
You need to type man smb.conf from the command line, read it till you can quote it, then write smb.conf from scratch and you won't have any trouble. I can set up a new working SAMBA box in around 20 minutes, consistantly.... it NEVER GIVES ME GRIEF. I was a contributing writer on SAMS new SAMBA book, but that's just 'cos I made SAMBA my mission in work (NT death by replacement count 7 boxes, $36k in user licenses and counting....)
You state the Linux is great on Uniprocessors, but will soon have SMP. *NOT* that it already has it. This is not a typo, or piss-poor proofreading - IT'S DIS-INFORMATION.
>>It seems like the knee-jerk reaction is just "go get the code and do it yourself," but if you stop and think about it, that's a pretty weak argument BULLSHIT! That's the whole point of freeware, maybe you're not used to having the power, but hey, all of us had to start somewhere....
'cos the whole point of the open "bazaar" development model is that the community as a whole brings on the QC and, more importantly, the growth direction of the software. Just releasing source to get free proofreading is big time, suck ass cheapness. To be truly strong, you have to let it go....
Free software isn't a popularity contest, it's about quality of code and *principles*. Period. If RMS has opinions that you don't like, and you think he should be prevented from saying them then GO LIVE SOMEPLACE WHERE FREE SPEECH IS NOT ALLOWED. Sheesh - how many of these fools who think software has to please everybody do we have to tolerate? If you can't see that microsofts one size fits all policy is flawed then stay with it, pal.
I have always purchased RH support (not the real unlimited thing, but the add on to the regular box set) and have struggled to find, over the years, *anything* that is covered in that $2-300 cost. The good news is, I rarely need it, the bad news is it's never helped me. I am sure that the $1-60K contracts would have provided complete service, but I couldn't afford it for my company. Having said that, all the commercial software support contracts I have bought have been COMPLETELY WORTHLESS. That's why I gave up on commercial software!
I've been using M14 for nearly two weeks now, and I also use IE5 daily. I have to say that M14 looks like a poor imitation of IE5, with the bar on the left, and the "password remembering" half baked mechanism. I'll continue to use it and submit bug reports, and test it with online banking, but lets face it, this ain't great software like we expect with freeware.
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M$ shoved it down our throats that Windoze problems were always the fault of a "poorly written driver", until W2K came out, and suddenly they released figures and pie charts that showed that 40% of NT's problems were "core NT" (source Microsoft, as reported by infoweek), NOT drivers. If their most important product was 40% crap, (and this can be proved by running it on anything picked from the HCL) what difference will it make if they only have one platform to deal with? Having read the Linux kernel core source code, I can see why Linux runs rings around NT - it's coded to work with the hardware and deal with, not ignore, hardware deficiencies.
I think they have signed it, according to a recent KPFK radio broadcast I heard, but it's generally ignored.
Just look for anything from "anonymous monopolist".
There's a landslide of attempts to remove freedom that we have all come to cherish. People are testy about it, tempers are short, politeness has, by necessity, gone out the window. When corporate america stops trying to fuck with us, we can get back to the level of civility we usually operate at.
When I lived in the UK, they touted the 12-20 gun deaths a year as proof that the gun laws in the US were the end of civilisation. What the media and government ignored were the pensioners and ordinary folk beaten to death with hammers and bricks by drunken thugs who DIDN'T EVEN ROB THEM.
C'mon Dude - I worked on SAMBA UNLEASHED too, this is not the time to bring it up, it's the other guys moment of glory! I would like to see a bundle of SAMBA books on Think Geek....
It's easy to argue that this isn't Microsofts fault, until you compare it to GM shipping products that failed so badly in crash tests. The crashes weren't GM's fault, the drivers could have been more careful, but the fact that driver and passenger seats FLEW OUT OF THE CAR in low speed collisions ultimately led to the success of the suit and vehicle safety. I admin 100's of NT/9x boxes and had the registry, user accounts and permissions clamped down as much as is possible with Outlook 2000, yet I could do nothing to prevent the virus from running when it was activated. Nothing. Windows can't be locked down enough to stop this stuff, ergo, it's intrinsically faulty.
I thought you could get support for your commercial software package from the vendor...?
Send Bully Bill, and Butthead Ballmer to jail, do not pass go. Let's face it, there's a certain amount of resolve already - you can now buy a PC without Windows, it's become a discussion point that Microsoft software is at it's highest price ever (check the cost of Office 2000, Win2000 if you don't believe me) while all other vendors are dropping their prices. The smartest thing is to remove the US government requirement for M$ as the standard platform, and *then* let the market decide.
Point taken, but just what is it that the "big iron" HP box you have does? Surely there's some desire on your part to migrate your sites to one box?
Folks, we have known this for a looooong time, this is just another specific case. Just recycle your 486's with an OS that can run them, generate so little trash that you don't have to put your cans out every week, and avoid driving, and maybe our kids won't be so freakin' dense that they'll be able to make decisions about us when we're old that won't have us discarded. What goes around, comes around, ha ha ha!
In my meta moderation, I've only had to mark one post labelled as "troll" as unfair. Most of the time it seems fine. When moderating, I don't see many trolls that are incorrectly labelled. I think you need to come back with some statistics before claiming this. Also, FWIW, this is off-topic. (but it's not like there's a self analysis section here)
- click on link - browser dies
- submit form - browser dies
- visit frames site - browser dies
- visit java site - browser dies
Fuck - it's a sign 'o the times when a Microsoft product (if you think it's part of the OS, you ain't run it on Mac or Solaris) performs better than *partially* free software.....I use VNC *all* the time to remotedly admin my NT boxes from my Linux box at the office and at home (check out the JAVA applet, running on port 5800 for something uber cool). But when you connect to an NT box, it's still just the one console. It isn't intended to replace WTS. I think it may allow true multiuser access on *NIX, but I've never had to go that route.
Frames have always been, and will continue to be the worst design, breaking the back button, bookmarks, and just about anything else that the web was built on. Side note: I had never heard of this lady, till she was interviewed on digital village, and sadly I missed the interview. I immediately visited the site beforehand, and thought it was light on content.
I had high hopes for Mozilla, till I used it. The flakiness I can deal with, the IE5 workalike/lookalike design choice just makes me sad. The non-disclosure, though, that's a different matter. We knew all along that it wasn't a real OS license, know we get to see why. This is why RMS is so adamant about FREE SOFTWARE as a opposed to "OPEN". It's a big difference, folks.
You need to type man smb.conf from the command line, read it till you can quote it, then write smb.conf from scratch and you won't have any trouble. I can set up a new working SAMBA box in around 20 minutes, consistantly.... it NEVER GIVES ME GRIEF. I was a contributing writer on SAMS new SAMBA book, but that's just 'cos I made SAMBA my mission in work (NT death by replacement count 7 boxes, $36k in user licenses and counting....)
You state the Linux is great on Uniprocessors, but will soon have SMP. *NOT* that it already has it. This is not a typo, or piss-poor proofreading - IT'S DIS-INFORMATION.
>>It seems like the knee-jerk reaction is just "go get the code and do it yourself," but if you stop and think about it, that's a pretty weak argument BULLSHIT! That's the whole point of freeware, maybe you're not used to having the power, but hey, all of us had to start somewhere....
Hey, it's called free speech. The day stories get posted with no hint of the poster or editors personality is the day I'm outta here!
'cos the whole point of the open "bazaar" development model is that the community as a whole brings on the QC and, more importantly, the growth direction of the software. Just releasing source to get free proofreading is big time, suck ass cheapness. To be truly strong, you have to let it go....
Post a link to the project and maybe it'll get more attention! The freeware community recognizes no geographical boundaries....
Free software isn't a popularity contest, it's about quality of code and *principles*. Period. If RMS has opinions that you don't like, and you think he should be prevented from saying them then GO LIVE SOMEPLACE WHERE FREE SPEECH IS NOT ALLOWED. Sheesh - how many of these fools who think software has to please everybody do we have to tolerate? If you can't see that microsofts one size fits all policy is flawed then stay with it, pal.
I have always purchased RH support (not the real unlimited thing, but the add on to the regular box set) and have struggled to find, over the years, *anything* that is covered in that $2-300 cost. The good news is, I rarely need it, the bad news is it's never helped me. I am sure that the $1-60K contracts would have provided complete service, but I couldn't afford it for my company. Having said that, all the commercial software support contracts I have bought have been COMPLETELY WORTHLESS. That's why I gave up on commercial software!
I've been using M14 for nearly two weeks now, and I also use IE5 daily. I have to say that M14 looks like a poor imitation of IE5, with the bar on the left, and the "password remembering" half baked mechanism. I'll continue to use it and submit bug reports, and test it with online banking, but lets face it, this ain't great software like we expect with freeware.