Set up an HTTPS site outside Texas providing access to pr0n for a small subscription fee. Merely forward the content from existing pr0n sites, charge 9.95 a month.
>> You can create another script that does the same thing for a shared Pictures folder
Yeah, and for entire giant subtree of folders under that folder, too.:0) Man, I do hope they go the ACLs right for sure. I've already plunked down the cash for the Tiger, and I'm getting it regardless, but if they don't fix this I'll be pretty darn disappointed.
My wife and I use the same Mac, so we want to share pictures folder and iTunes folder in a somewhat secure manner. As ridiculous as it sounds, Mac OS X Panther won't allow you to do it. You can put whatever you want into Shared folder, but once you create some files the other user will NOT get write permission on them. There's no way around this short of setting a very lax umask that permits RW access to anyone.
In Windows I'd just put the correct ACL on the folder and by default all new subfolders and files would "inherit" the permission.
I've already ordered my copy, but please oh stranger, if you have a prerelease builds confirm they've fixed this.
That's why Dell doesn't use AMD. They have enough buying power to dictate pricing if they can put Intel and AMD against each other and then go with just one vendor who offers the lowest price. Next year they can lower their price even more by threatening the vendor to go to the other one.
The thing is, they could have set up the tender and give contract to the lowest bidder. Or, like Dell, they could have said (each year) "Hey folks over at Intel, you're chargin' too much, we're gonna go AMD" and see a nice fat discount come in. Changing processors and hardware won't break much so these threats are realistic.
What a bunch of horseshit. OS X has more in common with Longhorn than with Win XP. In fact that's where MSFT is stealing Longhorn features from, down to the frickin' analog clock. And Longhorn is what, 1.5 years away (which in reality probably means either 2 years or major feature cuts)?
And yet their online tax software is awesome
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And yet their online tax software is awesome. This year I've compared it with TaxCut, and at least TaxCut's online offering can't even touch TurboTax Online. Heck, you can even go through entire TT Online in Firefox! And it spits out a PDF for you in the end. It's more convenient and better thought out. Highly recommended.
And no, I'm not a Quicken user and I don't work for Intuit.
You've put together the friggin' _kernel_. This is a lot more complicated than creating a version control system. Just take Monotone (which I like as it is), and make a BitKeeper killer out of it. Have Tridgell do it with a few other gurus. Yeah, it's probably gonna take half a year, but the benefit to the open source community will be immense.
I'd rather see the Chinese do the software instead. Because Indians (many of whom sincerely think Indian programmers are the best in the world) are nowhere to be found on the list of winners, year after year. Russia and China pretty much dominate everything. Say what you will, but this is very telling about the quality of education.
As to the hardware, the Japanese, Taiwanese or Koreans should be making hardware instead. Cheap chinese hardware sucks real bad.
Think about it, if you watch TV just two hours a day, over 52 weeks (one year) this boils down to 104 hours. That's more than four days (and if you subtract sleep time - a whole week) lost to fuck knows what.
An OEM copy of XP Pro is around $70-80 (if bought from Dell, HP, or other big manufacturer). A TS license last I checked was $100 per connection or something like that. Plus you pay lotsa money for W2K3 and CALs (yeah, you need to buy CALs in addition to TS licenses).
You have to buy a separate license for every god damn user for TS and for all custom apps they use.
My poit was that I can see Linux can be complex to deploy first time, but _managing_ it is a breeze. To get something similar you'd have to use Altiris on windows. And it's pretty spendy.
If anything, a single competent linux admin can run a LARGE set of Linux boxes with little to no effort. Create custom install scripts for "regular" boxes (Kickstart), point the boxes to your own package repository, enable nightly updates - there you go, half of the problems you'd have with "stock" windows (if you pay for SMS, windows will install shit for you, too) is solved right away.
Then lock down the boxes for non-root accounts, put together a file server, and install windows 2003 with 10 terminal server licenses for the rare occasions when someone needs Word and OO won't do.
This, of course, assumes that that you're only running Office or Java software on your windows boxes. If you have custom windows apps, shit becomes really complicated. Well, at least until BSA raids you for minor non-compliance.:0)
Freeze the god damn driver APIs. At least give hardware vendors a chance to provide you with the drivers that are easy to install and use. Otherwise the state of Linux on the laptop will remain what it is today: five years behind Windows.
Mount points have been supported since 2000 in Windows. And hardlinks. ACLs and multiple streams per file were supported almost from the very beginning.
Before bashing something you should at least RTFM, otherwise you just look like a typical teenage Linux zealot.
>> Unless you have a way around the von Neumann bottleneck, >> what intelligent architecture are you thinking about
I believe we're going to see Itanium re-emerge in some shape or form when Moore's law levels off. Gigaherthz are fun, but at some point you're gonna have to find a way to run things in parallel effectively. And that's exactly what Explicitly Parallel Instruction Computing architecture was designed for.
First off, open source doesn't really need business at this point. It's business that needs open source. Second of all, you're not a "developer". You're a fucking pussy if you don't see that the only people without a job will be your managers and managers of their managers. And maybe marketing people. As baseline software is becoming more and more accessible for regular folks (who can't just go out and drop half a million dollars on software licenses) there will be more and more work for folks who make shit work, provide the "glue" and develop innovative things on FOSS platforms. Development isn't going anywhere just because the OS, office suite and web server are free. To the contrary, by building solutions on top of these free things you can make some money for yourself.
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Time to move to India, I guess. Way too many fags 'round here.
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Set up an HTTPS site outside Texas providing access to pr0n for a small subscription fee. Merely forward the content from existing pr0n sites, charge 9.95 a month.
>> You can create another script that does the same thing for a shared Pictures folder
:0) Man, I do hope they go the ACLs right for sure. I've already plunked down the cash for the Tiger, and I'm getting it regardless, but if they don't fix this I'll be pretty darn disappointed.
Yeah, and for entire giant subtree of folders under that folder, too.
My wife and I use the same Mac, so we want to share pictures folder and iTunes folder in a somewhat secure manner. As ridiculous as it sounds, Mac OS X Panther won't allow you to do it. You can put whatever you want into Shared folder, but once you create some files the other user will NOT get write permission on them. There's no way around this short of setting a very lax umask that permits RW access to anyone.
In Windows I'd just put the correct ACL on the folder and by default all new subfolders and files would "inherit" the permission.
I've already ordered my copy, but please oh stranger, if you have a prerelease builds confirm they've fixed this.
That's why Dell doesn't use AMD. They have enough buying power to dictate pricing if they can put Intel and AMD against each other and then go with just one vendor who offers the lowest price. Next year they can lower their price even more by threatening the vendor to go to the other one.
The thing is, they could have set up the tender and give contract to the lowest bidder. Or, like Dell, they could have said (each year) "Hey folks over at Intel, you're chargin' too much, we're gonna go AMD" and see a nice fat discount come in. Changing processors and hardware won't break much so these threats are realistic.
What a bunch of horseshit. OS X has more in common with Longhorn than with Win XP. In fact that's where MSFT is stealing Longhorn features from, down to the frickin' analog clock. And Longhorn is what, 1.5 years away (which in reality probably means either 2 years or major feature cuts)?
And yet their online tax software is awesome. This year I've compared it with TaxCut, and at least TaxCut's online offering can't even touch TurboTax Online. Heck, you can even go through entire TT Online in Firefox! And it spits out a PDF for you in the end. It's more convenient and better thought out. Highly recommended.
And no, I'm not a Quicken user and I don't work for Intuit.
You've put together the friggin' _kernel_. This is a lot more complicated than creating a version control system. Just take Monotone (which I like as it is), and make a BitKeeper killer out of it. Have Tridgell do it with a few other gurus. Yeah, it's probably gonna take half a year, but the benefit to the open source community will be immense.
I'd rather see the Chinese do the software instead. Because Indians (many of whom sincerely think Indian programmers are the best in the world) are nowhere to be found on the list of winners, year after year. Russia and China pretty much dominate everything. Say what you will, but this is very telling about the quality of education.
As to the hardware, the Japanese, Taiwanese or Koreans should be making hardware instead. Cheap chinese hardware sucks real bad.
They've posted a whole bunch of links to Caltech sites on slashdot. Bwahahahaha!
Two hours a day is pretty freakin' insane. If I meant two hours a day I wouldn't say "just".
Think about it, if you watch TV just two hours a day, over 52 weeks (one year) this boils down to 104 hours. That's more than four days (and if you subtract sleep time - a whole week) lost to fuck knows what.
An OEM copy of XP Pro is around $70-80 (if bought from Dell, HP, or other big manufacturer). A TS license last I checked was $100 per connection or something like that. Plus you pay lotsa money for W2K3 and CALs (yeah, you need to buy CALs in addition to TS licenses).
You have to buy a separate license for every god damn user for TS and for all custom apps they use.
My poit was that I can see Linux can be complex to deploy first time, but _managing_ it is a breeze. To get something similar you'd have to use Altiris on windows. And it's pretty spendy.
If anything, a single competent linux admin can run a LARGE set of Linux boxes with little to no effort. Create custom install scripts for "regular" boxes (Kickstart), point the boxes to your own package repository, enable nightly updates - there you go, half of the problems you'd have with "stock" windows (if you pay for SMS, windows will install shit for you, too) is solved right away.
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Then lock down the boxes for non-root accounts, put together a file server, and install windows 2003 with 10 terminal server licenses for the rare occasions when someone needs Word and OO won't do.
This, of course, assumes that that you're only running Office or Java software on your windows boxes. If you have custom windows apps, shit becomes really complicated. Well, at least until BSA raids you for minor non-compliance.
OMG, Smuckers is patenting Porn & Blow Jobs!
Oh, was it PB&J? Never mind. I thought it was P&BJ. I thought the world of slashdot as we know it was coming to an abrupt end.
Freeze the god damn driver APIs. At least give hardware vendors a chance to provide you with the drivers that are easy to install and use. Otherwise the state of Linux on the laptop will remain what it is today: five years behind Windows.
Mount points have been supported since 2000 in Windows. And hardlinks. ACLs and multiple streams per file were supported almost from the very beginning.
Before bashing something you should at least RTFM, otherwise you just look like a typical teenage Linux zealot.
>> Unless you have a way around the von Neumann bottleneck,
>> what intelligent architecture are you thinking about
I believe we're going to see Itanium re-emerge in some shape or form when Moore's law levels off. Gigaherthz are fun, but at some point you're gonna have to find a way to run things in parallel effectively. And that's exactly what Explicitly Parallel Instruction Computing architecture was designed for.
They've bought Susimian after all.
Now I just need to patent "a method of patenting things seen in sci-fi movies", and I can retire filthy stinkin' rich.
With the following:
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This license explicitly forbids running BitKeeper.
There you frikkin' go, Larry, half of your business is GONE.
First off, open source doesn't really need business at this point. It's business that needs open source. Second of all, you're not a "developer". You're a fucking pussy if you don't see that the only people without a job will be your managers and managers of their managers. And maybe marketing people. As baseline software is becoming more and more accessible for regular folks (who can't just go out and drop half a million dollars on software licenses) there will be more and more work for folks who make shit work, provide the "glue" and develop innovative things on FOSS platforms. Development isn't going anywhere just because the OS, office suite and web server are free. To the contrary, by building solutions on top of these free things you can make some money for yourself.