I'll be the Chairman! I say: so much living things in our planet is destroying the non-living environment. We are proposing a 20 year global program to erradicate 90 percent of Earth life forms as a first step to recover the balance of our planet.
What's the fun of domination if there are no inhabitants to press with an iron fist? First we need to create inteligent life forms in Mars and then conquer them.
I have an idea: just launch nuclear missiles to mars and detonate on the surface. No need to manned misions, the same result. And we get the plus of a war with another planet to watch on CNN.
We wouldn't want to miss the experience of traveling ten thousands years to the next star and nothing to look trough the window, would we? Don't forget some book to read in the meantime.
Don't worry. If it's stupid enough governments will give it more priority than to primary needs of their population. Look what the Irak ocupation is costing to USA.
I mean that there has to be a better (easier) way. Nobody does know everything (except John Doe:-), but most people (like me) has general knowledge and need to learn a new tool why make it the difficult way? I insist: it can be done; the new samba documentation (which I haven't read in detail yeet, mea culpa) seems to be a very good attempt to easy the step. Of course I don't know what I'm doing, if the only help I have is a few just-switch-names man pages, I may never do.
I don't get what you mean. I never cared or get a MSCE but are you saying that my degree in CS is not enough to understand Samba configuration? (I HAVE a degree in CS). Poor documentation is usually caused by a poor writer. Most programmers don't write a single comment in their code. Fewer write more than a readme. Technical knowledge and knowledge communication are different abilities. Get someone that can write for humans. Read my previous reply to myself, it's possible to write better documentation. And Oh yes, I like dummy books. Those are wrote by people who doesn't think they are above mortals just because they know something others no, and don't assume the reader knows already everything. Why would be the point of reading the book then? BTW, If you hate so much users why bother having them?
My brain doesn't have the neural paths to understand some unix documentation, including samba, many man pages, etc. They seem to be produced from the old IBM school that says that the documentation should be for people that already is expert on the topic. And don't forget all those switchs that are platform dependent, remember the source code is the documentation.
That's why I think so much people loves vi; after being forced to use it for a while (happens on some commercial unixes), one needs to justify the effort spend:-)
That's exactly the comment I received in my first work talking to a mainframe guy when I sayed that my PC text editor was easier than the maiframe text editor: an uncomprehensible sequence of 1 character commands/data. Is so hard to understand that in 21 century we simple mortals expect that the computer autodetect at least 99% of this configurations? even ms windows does it! BTW, would YOUR config work in HIS system? I doubt it so much...
Sorry but Novell didn't invent Active Directory. They didn't invented the directory service concept either. They did invented their own directory service a couple of year before Microsoft did AD (called NDS or something).
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You right, we'll have to use just trained people. At least these are cheap.
I'll be the Chairman! I say: so much living things in our planet is destroying the non-living environment. We are proposing a 20 year global program to erradicate 90 percent of Earth life forms as a first step to recover the balance of our planet.
What's the fun of domination if there are no inhabitants to press with an iron fist? First we need to create inteligent life forms in Mars and then conquer them.
That explain the mutants.
I have an idea: just launch nuclear missiles to mars and detonate on the surface. No need to manned misions, the same result. And we get the plus of a war with another planet to watch on CNN.
We wouldn't want to miss the experience of traveling ten thousands years to the next star and nothing to look trough the window, would we? Don't forget some book to read in the meantime.
Don't worry. If it's stupid enough governments will give it more priority than to primary needs of their population. Look what the Irak ocupation is costing to USA.
This is efficiency. When people does arrive to Mars in the future the planet will be enough contaminated to be inhabitable.
I agree. Why space flight when you can teleport? Oh wait...
Does are books, not the product documentation.
I mean that there has to be a better (easier) way. Nobody does know everything (except John Doe :-), but most people (like me) has general knowledge and need to learn a new tool why make it the difficult way? I insist: it can be done; the new samba documentation (which I haven't read in detail yeet, mea culpa) seems to be a very good attempt to easy the step.
Of course I don't know what I'm doing, if the only help I have is a few just-switch-names man pages, I may never do.
I don't know why so much fear on nuclear power. After all if there is an accident, we all get superpowers.
I don't get what you mean. I never cared or get a MSCE but are you saying that my degree in CS is not enough to understand Samba configuration? (I HAVE a degree in CS).
Poor documentation is usually caused by a poor writer. Most programmers don't write a single comment in their code. Fewer write more than a readme. Technical knowledge and knowledge communication are different abilities. Get someone that can write for humans.
Read my previous reply to myself, it's possible to write better documentation.
And Oh yes, I like dummy books. Those are wrote by people who doesn't think they are above mortals just because they know something others no, and don't assume the reader knows already everything. Why would be the point of reading the book then?
BTW, If you hate so much users why bother having them?
To be fair I just checked the samba site and the new documentation seems to be much better and more detailed.
My brain doesn't have the neural paths to understand some unix documentation, including samba, many man pages, etc. They seem to be produced from the old IBM school that says that the documentation should be for people that already is expert on the topic.
And don't forget all those switchs that are platform dependent, remember the source code is the documentation.
That's why I think so much people loves vi; after being forced to use it for a while (happens on some commercial unixes), one needs to justify the effort spend :-)
That's exactly the comment I received in my first work talking to a mainframe guy when I sayed that my PC text editor was easier than the maiframe text editor: an uncomprehensible sequence of 1 character commands/data.
Is so hard to understand that in 21 century we simple mortals expect that the computer autodetect at least 99% of this configurations? even ms windows does it!
BTW, would YOUR config work in HIS system? I doubt it so much...
Make it 10 times and it would be more like it.
Bush can hit anywhere, anytime...
Sorry but Novell didn't invent Active Directory. They didn't invented the directory service concept either. They did invented their own directory service a couple of year before Microsoft did AD (called NDS or something).
I don't think our planet wanted to have the ozone hole.
Nope, but keep playing.
You live in Europe? They think it's more than a little warmer there, but hey, it's just their subjective sense of a hell of a summer.
You right, I never trusted this Stallman guy, he has too long hair. Let's lock our daughters in the barn and hang him in a tree.
By some amazing coincidence The Simpsons started downhill at the same time Mat Groening leave to Futurama...