I'll second (fourth) that. I went with DirectNIC because they seemed to have a lot more of the technical details visible through their management interface -- many registrars these days seem to be all about "where do you want your website parked?" SSL logins were also a nice bonus.
Since then I've had zero problems with DirectNIC. I host my own DNS servers, but on the rare occasion that I've had to change them, updates were quick and snappy. Transfers were a piece of cake, even from verisign, and now I have it set to auto-deny unless I go and change the settings.
On an amd64 it takes about 3 days to take gentoo from stage1 to something that runs. That doesn't include KDE, only X (since for some insane reason links on gentoo is dependent on X, you can't even browse during those 3 days).
3 days?! What is gentoo bundling in the base that make it that long? My freebsd system only takes about 45 minutes to buildworld. Even all of KDE takes less than 24 hours...
If the software needs to be installed, and its' legal and approved, yours is to just install it, not to tell the user he should have had it ready so you could have done it at your leisure.
Yours is to install it... after verifying that it won't screw anything else up. There's a lot of broken software out there.
Any large customer nowadays wants all the software to be re-packaged in MSI format (hell, repackaging Oracle Client sucks, you can believe me!).
Sort of a tangent, but I want to send a large "BAH!" to Oracle on behalf of everyone who has to deal with their buggy software. Any software on any OS which cannot properly deal with spaces in filenames is horribly broken in my book. After seeing the awfulness that is the "Oracle Installer" I wonder why anyone thinks their database is so hot.
You might want to check out MakeMSI. It's also Open Source, has very good documentation, and doesn't require much knowledge of MSI internals (unlike WiX which is mainly just an XML representation of the database).
Bnetd - an application whose primary use is to allow people with pirated versions of Blizzard games to play them online = good guys.
Uh, no, a lot of people use it for the same reason that I do -- running a private server for friends (who own legitimate copies, thank you very much) to play on that is free of cheaters and lamers.
So why is Windows different? Why are there a zillion copies of GDI+ laying around? And why would you want it that way?
Because Windows programmers are stupid (think VB kiddies) and don't understand the concept of backwards compatibility / versioning of shared libraries. Different incompatible versions of shared system libraries replacing each other == DLL Hell. Rather than fix the problem they just took the quick fix and bundled copies of the ones they wanted with their app.
The thing that sucks is there is SOOOOO much broken software out there that assumes the user who's running it has admin rights.
Some can be fixed by tweaking file/registry permissions, but others are so deeply flawed that it takes HOURS of hacking and giving permission to registry keys that you really shouldn't (*cough* Quickbooks *cough*).
Even some printer drivers and HP scanner software don't work right. I could easily see a home user trying it for a day or two and finding so many things broken that they just give up and log on as the administrator.
What do you mean by "faster response time"? Are you saying the photoreceptors "calm down" from their stimulation faster, thus afterimages don't last as long?
I honestly don't know whether or not any studies have been done into how that works biologically -- and if there have I don't know what they are. I've just read (and it seems to be pretty well accepted among ornithologists) that birds are able to process and react to somewhere around 160-200 distinct images per second, depending on the species.
My guess is either what you said -- the receptors "cool down" quicker -- or maybe it's just faster processing of visual information by the brain. I do know that they typically have a lot more photoreceptors than humans, as well as types that we don't have (such as double cones). So their world is both a lot sharper and more colorful -- many can see UV as well.
Of course one thing they don't have is good depth perception. The head-bob reflex that you see in a lot of birds is probably a behavior developed to compensate for that somewhat by observing parallax. I'll take stereoscopic vision over that any day.
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I wonder how chickens perceive tv (assuming you let one in the house). Birds, fish, and turtles are believed to have far more superior color vision than humans. I would imagine they would see them as drab and colorless.
I don't know about chickens, but many birds (especially those that fly a lot / long distances) also have eyes with a quicker response time than ours. So they see more "frames-per-second" than humans are capable of perceiving, on the level of over 100 distinct images per second. I would imagine the constant flickering from the screen refresh would cause quite a headache. Flourescant lights would likely be annoying too.
Have you ever read a software EULA? In it, it specifically states you agree not to reverse engineer or decompile the software in any way.
Sure, but you only need to agree to the EULA in order to actually install/use it. Pre-DMCA anyway, it might not be necessary to do that in order to reverse-engineer something.
I mean really, as a trilogy do you think this deserves more attention than the orig Star Wars or Indiana Jones movies? Those were far more intreguing imo.
Don't forget: For every Empire Strikes Back, there is a Temple of Doom to balance it out...
That link is dangerous:) Though it was written in 1999, the "future" references to dates in 2001 aren't nearly as obvious today, so someone skimming that article might miss the clues that it's fiction and think there really is such a thing.
The "Last revised 2006" date at the very bottom is a dead giveaway, as is the Mandelbrot set reference (fractals are by definition self-recursive, so the pattern will always be the same no matter what magnification is used).
But hey, there are people out there who believe crazier things...
So they'll use fancy nightvision goggles to nab some kid with a camcorder who isn't bothering anyone, yet do nothing to stop morons with laser pointers from ruining the show.
I think it's pretty clear what the movie theater owners think about their customers.
I'm forced to run Roxio's GoBack just to be able to reboot it once every few weeks-
There's your problem right there. Back when Windows 2000 was first released, just installing GoBack would cause bluescreens on bootup. I'm not surprised that it hasn't improved much since then.
However, they can't tell Verizon, Cingular, T-Mobile, and company not to paint their workplace with signal, and they can't put up jamming devices to block signals either.
Not active jamming devices, but I doubt that anyone in their right mind would prosecute someone for building a structure with metal walls. One that just happens to be a Faraday cage and blocks all or most radio signals.
I use naim a lot for one reason: I can run it inside screen, detach from one computer and re-attach on another without ever going offline (or missing messages while I'm walking somewhere else). If I'm moving around a lot, screen also lets me have multiple connections to the same session, so I can read & reply from wherever I happen to be at the moment.
The other reason is that next to my main desktop at home, I have a nice little text-based LCD terminal (actually a partially disassembled 486 laptop) that I IM on -- saves screen real estate and I don't have to get offline when I'm doing stuff like kernel driver debugging that requires me to shut down X...
That said, Voyager had one thing going for it: if I was going to take any ship in the Trek canon, it would be the Voyager. Of all the ships on the show, that one is the closest to indestructible...
And just think of all the things you could do if you had infinite shuttlecraft at your disposal...
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I'll second (fourth) that. I went with DirectNIC because they seemed to have a lot more of the technical details visible through their management interface -- many registrars these days seem to be all about "where do you want your website parked?" SSL logins were also a nice bonus.
Since then I've had zero problems with DirectNIC. I host my own DNS servers, but on the rare occasion that I've had to change them, updates were quick and snappy. Transfers were a piece of cake, even from verisign, and now I have it set to auto-deny unless I go and change the settings.
Thank you!
That is the same analogy I like to use when my users complain about spoofed bounces/virus messages and ask why I don't stop them.
Setting up SPF records only does any good if other people are actually checking for them, which few are so far.
On an amd64 it takes about 3 days to take gentoo from stage1 to something that runs. That doesn't include KDE, only X (since for some insane reason links on gentoo is dependent on X, you can't even browse during those 3 days).
3 days?! What is gentoo bundling in the base that make it that long? My freebsd system only takes about 45 minutes to buildworld. Even all of KDE takes less than 24 hours...
If the software needs to be installed, and its' legal and approved, yours is to just install it, not to tell the user he should have had it ready so you could have done it at your leisure.
Yours is to install it... after verifying that it won't screw anything else up. There's a lot of broken software out there.
Any large customer nowadays wants all the software to be re-packaged in MSI format (hell, repackaging Oracle Client sucks, you can believe me!).
Sort of a tangent, but I want to send a large "BAH!" to Oracle on behalf of everyone who has to deal with their buggy software. Any software on any OS which cannot properly deal with spaces in filenames is horribly broken in my book. After seeing the awfulness that is the "Oracle Installer" I wonder why anyone thinks their database is so hot.
You might want to check out MakeMSI. It's also Open Source, has very good documentation, and doesn't require much knowledge of MSI internals (unlike WiX which is mainly just an XML representation of the database).
Bnetd - an application whose primary use is to allow people with pirated versions of Blizzard games to play them online = good guys.
Uh, no, a lot of people use it for the same reason that I do -- running a private server for friends (who own legitimate copies, thank you very much) to play on that is free of cheaters and lamers.
Oh, little do you know...
So why is Windows different? Why are there a zillion copies of GDI+ laying around? And why would you want it that way?
Because Windows programmers are stupid (think VB kiddies) and don't understand the concept of backwards compatibility / versioning of shared libraries. Different incompatible versions of shared system libraries replacing each other == DLL Hell. Rather than fix the problem they just took the quick fix and bundled copies of the ones they wanted with their app.
Makes me glad we're still running Win2k, IE 5.01, and Office 2000 at work. 99% of our computers don't even have GDI+ installed.
It pays to not upgrade, in more ways than one.
The thing that sucks is there is SOOOOO much broken software out there that assumes the user who's running it has admin rights.
Some can be fixed by tweaking file/registry permissions, but others are so deeply flawed that it takes HOURS of hacking and giving permission to registry keys that you really shouldn't (*cough* Quickbooks *cough*).
Even some printer drivers and HP scanner software don't work right. I could easily see a home user trying it for a day or two and finding so many things broken that they just give up and log on as the administrator.
Oh, and I should not that I am not a biologist. Just read too much :)
What do you mean by "faster response time"? Are you saying the photoreceptors "calm down" from their stimulation faster, thus afterimages don't last as long?
I honestly don't know whether or not any studies have been done into how that works biologically -- and if there have I don't know what they are. I've just read (and it seems to be pretty well accepted among ornithologists) that birds are able to process and react to somewhere around 160-200 distinct images per second, depending on the species.
My guess is either what you said -- the receptors "cool down" quicker -- or maybe it's just faster processing of visual information by the brain. I do know that they typically have a lot more photoreceptors than humans, as well as types that we don't have (such as double cones). So their world is both a lot sharper and more colorful -- many can see UV as well.
Of course one thing they don't have is good depth perception. The head-bob reflex that you see in a lot of birds is probably a behavior developed to compensate for that somewhat by observing parallax. I'll take stereoscopic vision over that any day.
I wonder how chickens perceive tv (assuming you let one in the house). Birds, fish, and turtles are believed to have far more superior color vision than humans. I would imagine they would see them as drab and colorless.
I don't know about chickens, but many birds (especially those that fly a lot / long distances) also have eyes with a quicker response time than ours. So they see more "frames-per-second" than humans are capable of perceiving, on the level of over 100 distinct images per second. I would imagine the constant flickering from the screen refresh would cause quite a headache. Flourescant lights would likely be annoying too.
There are some big problems to overcome when you're thinking that packets will take years to arrive.
Bring back FIDOnet?
Have you ever read a software EULA? In it, it specifically states you agree not to reverse engineer or decompile the software in any way.
Sure, but you only need to agree to the EULA in order to actually install/use it. Pre-DMCA anyway, it might not be necessary to do that in order to reverse-engineer something.
I mean really, as a trilogy do you think this deserves more attention than the orig Star Wars or Indiana Jones movies? Those were far more intreguing imo.
Don't forget: For every Empire Strikes Back, there is a Temple of Doom to balance it out...
That link is dangerous :) Though it was written in 1999, the "future" references to dates in 2001 aren't nearly as obvious today, so someone skimming that article might miss the clues that it's fiction and think there really is such a thing.
The "Last revised 2006" date at the very bottom is a dead giveaway, as is the Mandelbrot set reference (fractals are by definition self-recursive, so the pattern will always be the same no matter what magnification is used).
But hey, there are people out there who believe crazier things...
So they'll use fancy nightvision goggles to nab some kid with a camcorder who isn't bothering anyone, yet do nothing to stop morons with laser pointers from ruining the show.
I think it's pretty clear what the movie theater owners think about their customers.
I'm forced to run Roxio's GoBack just to be able to reboot it once every few weeks-
There's your problem right there. Back when Windows 2000 was first released, just installing GoBack would cause bluescreens on bootup. I'm not surprised that it hasn't improved much since then.
However, they can't tell Verizon, Cingular, T-Mobile, and company not to paint their workplace with signal, and they can't put up jamming devices to block signals either.
Not active jamming devices, but I doubt that anyone in their right mind would prosecute someone for building a structure with metal walls. One that just happens to be a Faraday cage and blocks all or most radio signals.
This is required to play the CD on your computer.
Even that would be a lie. If it plays in a CD player, it will play fine in a CD-ROM drive in analog mode.
I use naim a lot for one reason: I can run it inside screen, detach from one computer and re-attach on another without ever going offline (or missing messages while I'm walking somewhere else). If I'm moving around a lot, screen also lets me have multiple connections to the same session, so I can read & reply from wherever I happen to be at the moment.
The other reason is that next to my main desktop at home, I have a nice little text-based LCD terminal (actually a partially disassembled 486 laptop) that I IM on -- saves screen real estate and I don't have to get offline when I'm doing stuff like kernel driver debugging that requires me to shut down X...
That said, Voyager had one thing going for it: if I was going to take any ship in the Trek canon, it would be the Voyager. Of all the ships on the show, that one is the closest to indestructible...
And just think of all the things you could do if you had infinite shuttlecraft at your disposal...
To make it worse, 2003 was when TaxCut software debuted, I'd say Intuit caused a large exodus to their new competitor.
And thanks to the activation scam, I discovered that TaxCut works great under WINE, where TurboTax never did.