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> A better idea: talk with the husband/wife and determine > what you can afford to set the thermostat to. Make it > clear to the kids that it is not their place to adjust the thermostat.
People, quit crying about how mean, nasty Linux users tell you to RTFM. Don't be so GD sensative. So, you're new. You're confused. You're frustrated because Linux is hard and your dufus MCSE neighbor can't help you. Grow up, ask the question, take your lumps and LEARN. So you got flamed. So some jackass told you to RTFM. Big deal. Learn from it. Quit acting like a bunch of little girls who got their feelings hurt, whining to Slashdot about how unfair life is, and blaming your continued Windows use on Linux users. Cop out, big time. You're still a Windows user because you lack the will to switch. Quit blaming me.
I'm in the market for a VPS or dedicated server, however, I need more disk space than what is usually offered. I'm not doing anything illegal. I just want to store my stuff offsite and have an offsite server available for (possibly) commercial use. The problem is that most of these VPS offerings only come with around 4GB of disk space, and $5.00/mo per additional gig. Disk space is cheap. Why so chincy on the disk space. Here's my ideal VPS deal:
60GB Disk space athlon 2100 or P4 1.6 256M RAM root SSH 1 IP address 40G/mo transfer $49.00/mo
I'm the lead developer of a commercial web-based document management system. It has a huge PHP and javascript codebase and runs well on any modern browser (IE 5.5 and up, Mozilla 1.0 and up, Konqueror, Safari, etc). Here is the most valueable piece of advise that I can give you: Make the developers use Mozilla. Seriously, code that works on Mozilla is probably going to work on IE, but the reverse is not true. Using Mozilla will force standards compliance in the development cycle so that it won't have to be bolted on later. They're going to whine and bitch and moan, but make it happen. You'll save hundreds of thousands of dollars down the road.
> Since cancerous cells have a great deal of genetic mutation, populations > of cancer cells can "evolve" to thwart treatments.
I know nothing about this, and I'm probably going to prove it right here. I can't help but think that an analagy can be drawn from the way that anti-virus software works today. The hard part was writing the software the first time. Now when a new "strain" of computer virus comes out it's just a matter of grabbing the latest "signatures" of the new strain. Maybe SLU is doing the grunt work, and new cancer mutations can be dealt with by adding some "identifier" code to the virus. Am I an idiot?
> What is the point of reading a review before watching a movie? > Watch the movie first, form your OWN opinion > (this way it won't be influenced by anyone else's), > thats what i have decided anyway.
So in other words, you're just another Slashdotter that posted without reading the article.:-)
>We all know anytime someone publishes a benchmark favouring >Windows (and there have been quite a few - tpc.org being a >great example), it is instantly ripped to shreds, so why is >this different?
Yeah, so. Let the Windows people bitch about how unfair it is. Oh, wait, their blog's probably experiencing technical difficulties...
It took some effort, but I coaxed it into compiling and I got about 8 libraries and an executable. I had to go back and do some fixing, but after that it ran. It exited immediately after running. I stopped hacking on it after that. Anyway, it is just the server. However, it looks like the whole engine and helper libraries compile for use by the server. I'm waiting on a hint from valve as to whether they're going to get nasty about people messing with the code. I hope they take the attitude that you can't turn cheese back into milk, and adopt a noble policy wrt people messing around for curiosity's sake. If I see that I'll go further. I'd love to see just how far away a linux client is.
BTW, I'm not bragging about being 1337 or anything. It's code, I'm a programmer, I was curious. That's why I'm not posting anonymously. Don't even ask for the results, they are not available. Maybe if Valve does something cool, like releases under the Sun CL, or even the GPL (yeah right).
I've never been a Valve fan. I'm a linux user, and only a linux user. One of the priviliged few that get to use linux exclusively at home and work. That means that Valve allows me to further their cause by running a server but denies me the pleasure of playing their game. It's like they're throwing a party in my house and won't let me come.:-) It's obviously not worth installing/booting windows.
Gabe, what do you say? Can I come to your party? I'll help out.
I don't get it. I compile/install mplayer often../configure autodetects everything except user preferences such as GUI support, LFS. What doesn't work when you enter./configure && make && make install? There have been a lot of posts proclaiming mplayer's compile-time surrleyness, and I'd like to know what's wrong with it. Is it not finding your libraries and/or headers?
As an American that actually knew that Darl McBride is a Mormon, I can honestly tell you that it didn't matter to me. Obviously no single American can speak for any sizable demographic, but I would think that we tend to leave religion out of the debate because we see so many different people that belong to so many different religions and a pattern of behavior has yet to emerge. I hope that helped.
>>Can those managers be charged with manslaughter now?
>Probably not. If you could prove their behavoir was malicious, >instead of merely stupid or calous, then maybe. People performing in >their legal line of work are generally protected.
Manslaughter is not malicous. It's killing people without meaning to. If you run over someone crossing the street and it's your fault for not properly yielding you get charged with manslaughter. You didn't mean to kill them, it just worked out that way. If your behavior is proven to be malicous then you would face a murder charge.
Manslaughter is a possibility here, but not likely.
You post a factual story with absolutley no indication of what I'm supposed to think. Is it good? Is it bad? Do you know how frustrating this is? Now I have to read the linkage and attempt to form my own opinion. I don't have time for this! What am I paying you guys for?
Thank God that I read the story late enough that 30+ people have posted within my threshold. Whew.
I'm the lead developer for a company that sells a Linux-based document management "appliance". We chose PostgreSQL to be the database backend during the initial spec. After we started rolling these out to customers we monitored the performace carefully for any hint of scalability issues.
We've recently sold appliances to some high volume customers and I must say that PostgreSQL has had no issues. It's fast for small, medium, and large installations serving up thousands to millions of documents.
We have our own system for redundancy since the database is only one piece, but we may switch over if their new offering turns out to be better for the database piece.
Hi Bill. Missed you at the meeting today. Nice interview in USA Today, you really let Ol' Big Blue have it! Weird, I've never seen you post to Slashdot before. That was great!:-) This is exactly what Jim was talking to Balmer about, before, well, you know.
Poor Steve. He really thought it was gas.:-( The cleaning crew was *still there* when I left for lunch. I heard the pants were a total loss. Anyway, don't let the "Open Sores":-) thing get to you. You should see some of the things coming out of R&D! The next version of "NT" is *SO* integrated that the whole thing loads up in a single Visual Basic project. And the beauty part is that we used a Mac OS X box to do it! They ship with a CCT (Code Convergence Tool) called/bin/cat that allowed us to combine all of the source files into One Big.bas file. It was so cool. It went something like:/bin/cat kernel32.bas hal.bas comctl.bas ie6.bas palladium.bas cia_code.bas > nt_2004.bas
Hehe, we'll have to "license" the code to that tool.:-) Well, I have to get back to work. Steve'll be back any minute. He's started keeping a change in his car 'cause he was sick of driving all the way home every time. Talk at ya later.
Marcus Ellington Director of Software "Acquisitions" Microsoft
PS, maybe we should remove the quotes around "Acquisitions" in my title. Seems a little blatant...
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most web designers actually care about cross-platform capability
Most web designers think that "cross-platform" means that their crap runs on Windows 2000 *AND* XP.
Matthew
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__________________
Supposedly there's a horde of paying Slashdot readers who get to see the article early in order to "proofread" it, in order to prevent these sorts of mishaps...
Clearly, those people are either stupid, or were denied their coffee fix this morning...
> A better idea: talk with the husband/wife and determine
> what you can afford to set the thermostat to. Make it
> clear to the kids that it is not their place to adjust the thermostat.
Gee Mr. Cleaver, can The Beave come out and play?
Matthew
People, quit crying about how mean, nasty Linux users tell you to RTFM. Don't be so GD sensative. So, you're new. You're confused. You're frustrated because Linux is hard and your dufus MCSE neighbor can't help you. Grow up, ask the question, take your lumps and LEARN. So you got flamed. So some jackass told you to RTFM. Big deal. Learn from it. Quit acting like a bunch of little girls who got their feelings hurt, whining to Slashdot about how unfair life is, and blaming your continued Windows use on Linux users. Cop out, big time. You're still a Windows user because you lack the will to switch. Quit blaming me.
> Imagine downloading and printing a new bowl for your food processor, or a new toy for your kid.
:-)
Yeah, and imagine your child's disappointment when she can't have a new bike because there are no Linux drivers.
Matthew
I'm in the market for a VPS or dedicated server, however, I need more disk space than what is usually offered. I'm not doing anything illegal. I just want to store my stuff offsite and have an offsite server available for (possibly) commercial use. The problem is that most of these VPS offerings only come with around 4GB of disk space, and $5.00/mo per additional gig. Disk space is cheap. Why so chincy on the disk space. Here's my ideal VPS deal:
60GB Disk space
athlon 2100 or P4 1.6
256M RAM
root SSH
1 IP address
40G/mo transfer
$49.00/mo
Anyone know of a similar offering?
Matthew
I did the same. If you're getting a complaint about libstdc++.so.3 then do this: /usr/lib/libstdc++.so.5.0.5 /usr/lib/libstdc++.so.3
ln -s
After that it ran. No symbol mismatches.
Matthew
I'm the lead developer of a commercial web-based document management system. It has a huge PHP and javascript codebase and runs well on any modern browser (IE 5.5 and up, Mozilla 1.0 and up, Konqueror, Safari, etc). Here is the most valueable piece of advise that I can give you: Make the developers use Mozilla. Seriously, code that works on Mozilla is probably going to work on IE, but the reverse is not true. Using Mozilla will force standards compliance in the development cycle so that it won't have to be bolted on later. They're going to whine and bitch and moan, but make it happen. You'll save hundreds of thousands of dollars down the road.
Matthew
www.para-docs.com
Have they paid their SCO license?
Matthew
> Since cancerous cells have a great deal of genetic mutation, populations
> of cancer cells can "evolve" to thwart treatments.
I know nothing about this, and I'm probably going to prove it right here. I can't help but think that an analagy can be drawn from the way that anti-virus software works today. The hard part was writing the software the first time. Now when a new "strain" of computer virus comes out it's just a matter of grabbing the latest "signatures" of the new strain. Maybe SLU is doing the grunt work, and new cancer mutations can be dealt with by adding some "identifier" code to the virus. Am I an idiot?
Matthew
> 216.250.128.7 ftp-rsync.sco.com
> 216.250.128.9 lists.caldera.com
> 216.250.128.12 www.sco.com
> 216.250.128.13 ftp.sco.com
> 216.250.128.32 colonet.caldera.com
> 216.250.128.33 artemis.caldera.com
> 216.250.128.35 apollo.sco.com
> 216.250.128.37 stage.caldera.com
You left out:
216.250.128.256 proof.sco.com
216.250.128.257 our-stolen-code.sco.com
216.250.128.258 beowulf.boies-fee-calculator.sco.com
Any others?
Matthew
> What is the point of reading a review before watching a movie?
:-)
> Watch the movie first, form your OWN opinion
> (this way it won't be influenced by anyone else's),
> thats what i have decided anyway.
So in other words, you're just another Slashdotter that posted without reading the article.
Matthew
>>it's like doing a car crash test at a speed of around 5 millimeters per hour.
Which would result in about $2000.00 damage to any modern car. Dirty bastards...
Matthew
>We all know anytime someone publishes a benchmark favouring
>Windows (and there have been quite a few - tpc.org being a
>great example), it is instantly ripped to shreds, so why is
>this different?
Yeah, so. Let the Windows people bitch about how unfair it is.
Oh, wait, their blog's probably experiencing technical difficulties...
Matthew
All the way.
:-) It's obviously not worth installing/booting windows.
It took some effort, but I coaxed it into compiling and I got about 8 libraries and an executable. I had to go back and do some fixing, but after that it ran. It exited immediately after running. I stopped hacking on it after that. Anyway, it is just the server. However, it looks like the whole engine and helper libraries compile for use by the server. I'm waiting on a hint from valve as to whether they're going to get nasty about people messing with the code. I hope they take the attitude that you can't turn cheese back into milk, and adopt a noble policy wrt people messing around for curiosity's sake. If I see that I'll go further. I'd love to see just how far away a linux client is.
BTW, I'm not bragging about being 1337 or anything. It's code, I'm a programmer, I was curious. That's why I'm not posting anonymously. Don't even ask for the results, they are not available. Maybe if Valve does something cool, like releases under the Sun CL, or even the GPL (yeah right).
I've never been a Valve fan. I'm a linux user, and only a linux user. One of the priviliged few that get to use linux exclusively at home and work. That means that Valve allows me to further their cause by running a server but denies me the pleasure of playing their game. It's like they're throwing a party in my house and won't let me come.
Gabe, what do you say? Can I come to your party? I'll help out.
Matthew
I don't get it. I compile/install mplayer often.
Confused.
Matthew
As an American that actually knew that Darl McBride is a Mormon, I can honestly tell you that it didn't matter to me. Obviously no single American can speak for any sizable demographic, but I would think that we tend to leave religion out of the debate because we see so many different people that belong to so many different religions and a pattern of behavior has yet to emerge. I hope that helped.
Matthew
>>Can those managers be charged with manslaughter now?
>Probably not. If you could prove their behavoir was malicious,
>instead of merely stupid or calous, then maybe. People performing in
>their legal line of work are generally protected.
Manslaughter is not malicous. It's killing people without meaning to. If you run over someone crossing the street and it's your fault for not properly yielding you get charged with manslaughter. You didn't mean to kill them, it just worked out that way. If your behavior is proven to be malicous then you would face a murder charge.
Manslaughter is a possibility here, but not likely.
Matthew
"A neat idea, if you ask me, but will this postpone any manned lunar missions?"
Not if it finds something good in there.
Matthew
You post a factual story with absolutley no indication of what I'm supposed to think. Is it good? Is it bad? Do you know how frustrating this is? Now I have to read the linkage and attempt to form my own opinion. I don't have time for this! What am I paying you guys for?
Thank God that I read the story late enough that 30+ people have posted within my threshold. Whew.
MC
There's no mention in the article of a downside. These things *always* have a downside. Anyone know what it is?
Matthew
I'm the lead developer for a company that sells a Linux-based document management "appliance". We chose PostgreSQL to be the database backend during the initial spec. After we started rolling these out to customers we monitored the performace carefully for any hint of scalability issues.
We've recently sold appliances to some high volume customers and I must say that PostgreSQL has had no issues. It's fast for small, medium, and large installations serving up thousands to millions of documents.
We have our own system for redundancy since the database is only one piece, but we may switch over if their new offering turns out to be better for the database piece.
Damn, I hope he was serious. Otherwise I'm just in a bad mood today.
Matthew
I was going to reply harshly to this, but having your bleeding-heart anti-US sentiment modded to +5 Funny is harsh enough.
Matthew
Hi Bill. Missed you at the meeting today. Nice interview in USA Today, you really let Ol' Big Blue have it! Weird, I've never seen you post to Slashdot before. That was great! :-) This is exactly what Jim was talking to Balmer about, before, well, you know.
:-( The cleaning crew was *still there* when I left for lunch. I heard the pants were a total loss. Anyway, don't let the "Open Sores" :-) thing get to you. You should see some of the things coming out of R&D! The next version of "NT" is *SO* integrated that the whole thing loads up in a single Visual Basic project. And the beauty part is that we used a Mac OS X box to do it! They ship with a CCT (Code Convergence Tool) called /bin/cat that allowed us to combine all of the source files into One Big .bas file. It was so cool. It went something like: /bin/cat kernel32.bas hal.bas comctl.bas ie6.bas palladium.bas cia_code.bas > nt_2004.bas
:-) Well, I have to get back to work. Steve'll be back any minute. He's started keeping a change in his car 'cause he was sick of driving all the way home every time. Talk at ya later.
Poor Steve. He really thought it was gas.
Hehe, we'll have to "license" the code to that tool.
Marcus Ellington
Director of Software "Acquisitions"
Microsoft
PS, maybe we should remove the quotes around "Acquisitions" in my title. Seems a little blatant...