i'm a mac user too and i couldn't disagree more with you, even if i tried.
i'm also a long time linux user (almost 10 years) and certified solaris administrator, and i can tell you exaclty _why_ a Unix or Unix look-a-like such as GNU/Linux are easiear than windows to clean and restore to a clean, working state: *NIXes are open.
open in the sense that you know exactly where things are, what they do, when they do and how. thanks in part to the long tradition of storing configurations on well documented clear text files.
more than once i had to clean gnu/linux machines infested with rootkits, and it was possible to do that in about 1 1/2 hour with a liveCD distro and a redhat/debian/suse/whatever set of disks from where to copy the original, clean packages.
basicly the proccess is:
- boot from the live distro; - backup everything important (data files, $HOME dirs,/etc dir, and others) if neccessary. - copy good binaries of basic stuff from/sbin and/bin dirs from the live CD to the infected box. - chroot to the mountpoint where you have the infected disk mounted. just make sure no infected binary gets executed when a profile/init script is executed when you chroot - force install of clean packages from a known cd. make sure you replace the kernel and modules with good ones, just in case - check the MD5 hashes of every possible package. - check every init script or or profile scipts such as.bashrc to make sure they're clean - reboot to a clean box. - apply every possible update.
anything that gets executed at boot time will be listed either in/etc/inittab or in a sysV/BSD style init script. there's nothing hiden from an administrator when you're dealing with a *NIX (such as MacOS X). can't say the same for Win* boxes with that maze of misteries called "registry".
unnecessary. brasil has the greatest variety of fish in the world. except for the highly poluted rivers, such as the part of the tiete river that cuts sao paulo city in the midle, prety much every river in the country is rich in fish. the lakes get populated by all sorts of fresh water creatures naturaly, but they simply can't cope with the ammount of larvae. specially because the margins of the lakes are shallow, allowing for lots of vegetation that helps protect the mosquitoes and the larvae.
tell this to the thousands of brasilian farmers who were displaced by huge hydroelectric projects during the military government between '64-'85 who hadn't been setled in new plots to this day, tell this to other thousands who leave nerby the lakes who have to deal with clouds of mosquitos that reproduce in the shores and can cover the sun when then fly seeking for blood to feed their eggs, tell this to people who live downstream the dams and see the rivers that suply them reduced to little more than creeks in times of drought...
i've seen all of these here in brasil, where 90% of the electricity comes from hydroelectrics.
hydropower also has it's environmental price tag, don't let the marketing departament of a utility fool you.
in emerging markets, pre-paid service is very popular, but you don't get the subsidies on the handsets when you buy a pre-paid service, so pre-paid users tend to buy cheaper phones.
to get the subsidy one usually has to sign a plan with a fixed minimum, monthly fee. the contract can last for 12, 18, 24, etc. months.
i apt-get install it, try for 10 minutes, conclude that it's still ugly by default and with no easy way to tune the look-n'feel, full of annoying, non-intuitive ways to do things, apt-get remove it and go back to WindowMaker with some KDE stuff thown in.
i hope they fixed that unbelivably stupid file dialog from the previous release. i simply don't know what Seamonkey devels were thinking when they introduced that thing in seamonkey 1.0 for linux.
i don't see "time enough for love" being made into a movie anytime soon. at not while the religious right is running the show in america. seriously, a guy who travels back in time and makes sex with his own mother. right.
it's a reversal of Mr. Scott's (rest in peace) technique. give the captain a repair scheduled inflated by 3X, fix in the regular time and presto... you're a miracle maker.
nasa just did the oposite. tell the public the rovers are expected to last only 3 months. if they live 9 months or more... presto. they're miracle makers.
"I don't think they have a clue though, because the first thing I have to do every time I install the OS is go into the config files and setup the DNS server and default gateway. You'd think it would kill them to ask this info during an install.:-/"
well... actually, they do.
at least on x86 machines. both Sol 9 and Sol 10 asks during intall what kind of directory server you want to use (they offer NIX, NIS+, DNS, LDAP...). if you choose DNS, the installer asks the addresses.
because what they're trying to do is patent a _F***ING_ _MENU_!!!
IM softwares have menus for easy selection of emoticons, and they have this for years by now. heck, even if the patent's only valid for cell phones, my 2 yr old nokia 3200 already have this, and this model was already old news when i bought it.
so, unless cingular can prove that they're the ones who invented _MENUS_ on a computer (and they didn't. menus have been in use since before cingular even existed), they can pretty much shove it.
"3. Intel = server CPU. This is a very high margin area that AMD continues to fail to penetrate"
you probably stoped following the server market, then.
since the release of their first 64 bit chips a while ago, AMD jumped from a virtual 0% penetration on the server market to more than 11%. except for Intel's best buddy *COUGH*michaeldell*COUGH* the other big player all have Opteron oferings. not to mention the small mom-and-pop shops that now have the oportunity to compete in the 16-way server market with boards like Thunder K8QW (S4881) which supports 8 (with aditional daughter card) dual core opterons.
AMD is inching it's way against intel in server, desktop and mobile with their great offerings. since i moved from 8-bit machines to PCs i've alway been an AMD user, and i'll continue to be for the foreseable future.
and you want to know my opinion ??? is a royal _PAIN IN THE ASS_
in some cases you'll end up using the stairs, as i did frequently.
the problem with these elevators are basicaly the uneven distribution of people among the several floors. sometimes in the building i worked, the pannel would tell me to take a certain cabin an i was the only passenger to my floor at the moment, but the same cabin was also assigned to a floor with an auditorium in the exact time dozens of people were going to a presentation of a new product. there was people enough to fill some 4 cabins waiting in the ground floor. of course, when the elevator stoped, everybody jumped in and i had to wait. of course, since i missed the first trip, i had to rebook it in the touchpannel.
now you ask: "but why the system doesn't calculate the number of people going to a floor so the cabin doesn't get overcrowded ?"
simple answer: many people come in _groups_. yes, groups. co-workes who meet at the lobby, car pooler who work on the same floor, you name it. and it's obvious, that as soon as the firts member of the group types the destination floor on the touchpannel and gets assigned a cabin, why would the others also type ? they wont, because the system doesn't know about groups, so if each member types the same floor on the pannel, they might end in diferent cabins, and no one wants it. so they all go in the cabin assigned to the first guy, wich ends in an overcrowded cabin.
pain in the ass, pure and simple. who cares if the actual trip is shorter ? i rather a longer trip, with several stops (but at least i'm moving) than a longer wait in the lobby. waiting is much more stressing than a longer trip.
how's this any different from usual microsoft behavior ?
this kind of arrogance is not a MS exclusivity. wall-mart had a really hard time here in brasil before they aknowleged the local culture and adapted. it took wall-mart some 5 years to get it right. lessee how long it take microsoft
ok, you're right on zelda. but if MSX is just a console, WTF was one of them doing in the russian space station ? http://msx.gnu-linux.net/msx-in-space/
some of these franchises begun in 8-bit consoles/computers more than 20 years ago... case in point: metal gear and zelda. both existed for MSX computers back in 1985...
allofmp3.com is not illegal in russia, that's why RIAA bought a resolution on the american senate on an atempt to bully russia into passing some sort of DMCA. here.
brasil is using Ricinus communis (A.K.A Castor bean) to produce bio-diesel.
you don't seem to know about this plant, so let me tell you... it's worse than grass. it grows _EVERYWHERE_ here. takes little more than bare rocks for it to grow.
soils soo poor they can't be used not even as pasture serves castor bean well. in this point it's even better than sugar cane alcohol. sugar cane requires fertile soil, so it competes with other usefull crops like soy, corn or other vegetables, wich is not the case for castor beans
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he is the only pundit that i feel is ballanced, (reasonably) impartial, does his research well, and most important: is not afraid to admit when he is wrong.
i read some of the other guys, usually when thy're linked in sites like/. , ars or digg, but cringely is the only one who deserves a bookmark. most other guys seems to be industry whores, riding on hypes and/or cutting and pasting company's press realeases as if they were prophecies of the next Big Thing(tm).
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i'm a mac user too and i couldn't disagree more with you, even if i tried.
/etc dir, and others) if neccessary. /sbin and /bin dirs from the live CD to the infected box. .bashrc to make sure they're clean
/etc/inittab or in a sysV/BSD style init script. there's nothing hiden from an administrator when you're dealing with a *NIX (such as MacOS X). can't say the same for Win* boxes with that maze of misteries called "registry".
i'm also a long time linux user (almost 10 years) and certified solaris administrator, and i can tell you exaclty _why_ a Unix or Unix look-a-like such as GNU/Linux are easiear than windows to clean and restore to a clean, working state: *NIXes are open.
open in the sense that you know exactly where things are, what they do, when they do and how. thanks in part to the long tradition of storing configurations on well documented clear text files.
more than once i had to clean gnu/linux machines infested with rootkits, and it was possible to do that in about 1 1/2 hour with a liveCD distro and a redhat/debian/suse/whatever set of disks from where to copy the original, clean packages.
basicly the proccess is:
- boot from the live distro;
- backup everything important (data files, $HOME dirs,
- copy good binaries of basic stuff from
- chroot to the mountpoint where you have the infected disk mounted. just make sure no infected binary gets executed when a profile/init script is executed when you chroot
- force install of clean packages from a known cd. make sure you replace the kernel and modules with good ones, just in case
- check the MD5 hashes of every possible package.
- check every init script or or profile scipts such as
- reboot to a clean box.
- apply every possible update.
anything that gets executed at boot time will be listed either in
unnecessary. brasil has the greatest variety of fish in the world. except for the highly poluted rivers, such as the part of the tiete river that cuts sao paulo city in the midle, prety much every river in the country is rich in fish. the lakes get populated by all sorts of fresh water creatures naturaly, but they simply can't cope with the ammount of larvae. specially because the margins of the lakes are shallow, allowing for lots of vegetation that helps protect the mosquitoes and the larvae.
tell this to the thousands of brasilian farmers who were displaced by huge hydroelectric projects during the military government between '64-'85 who hadn't been setled in new plots to this day, tell this to other thousands who leave nerby the lakes who have to deal with clouds of mosquitos that reproduce in the shores and can cover the sun when then fly seeking for blood to feed their eggs, tell this to people who live downstream the dams and see the rivers that suply them reduced to little more than creeks in times of drought...
i've seen all of these here in brasil, where 90% of the electricity comes from hydroelectrics.
hydropower also has it's environmental price tag, don't let the marketing departament of a utility fool you.
in emerging markets, pre-paid service is very popular, but you don't get the subsidies on the handsets when you buy a pre-paid service, so pre-paid users tend to buy cheaper phones.
to get the subsidy one usually has to sign a plan with a fixed minimum, monthly fee. the contract can last for 12, 18, 24, etc. months.
i apt-get install it, try for 10 minutes, conclude that it's still ugly by default and with no easy way to tune the look-n'feel, full of annoying, non-intuitive ways to do things, apt-get remove it and go back to WindowMaker with some KDE stuff thown in.
i hope they fixed that unbelivably stupid file dialog from the previous release. i simply don't know what Seamonkey devels were thinking when they introduced that thing in seamonkey 1.0 for linux.
i don't see "time enough for love" being made into a movie anytime soon. at not while the religious right is running the show in america. seriously, a guy who travels back in time and makes sex with his own mother. right.
sure it is. check this out: http://www.thinkgeek.com/computing/avcards/805c/
external video card you can plug in a USB 2.0 port.
how 'bout a USB adapter ?
it's a reversal of Mr. Scott's (rest in peace) technique. give the captain a repair scheduled inflated by 3X, fix in the regular time and presto... you're a miracle maker.
nasa just did the oposite. tell the public the rovers are expected to last only 3 months. if they live 9 months or more... presto. they're miracle makers.
X in portuguese can sound like "sh", like "z" or like "s" if placed before a "c".
not all languages pronounce the leters the same. case in point: "J".
yes, there is.
http://www.mailscanner.info/
it's redirected to http://www.sng.ecs.soton.ac.uk/mailscanner/, but it's legitimate in the sense that mailscanner.info is a lot easier to remember
"I don't think they have a clue though, because the first thing I have to do every time I install the OS is go into the config files and setup the DNS server and default gateway. You'd think it would kill them to ask this info during an install. :-/"
well... actually, they do.
at least on x86 machines. both Sol 9 and Sol 10 asks during intall what kind of directory server you want to use (they offer NIX, NIS+, DNS, LDAP...). if you choose DNS, the installer asks the addresses.
"they use Xenon chips instead."
the reason why ppl would use videogame consoles for serious server tasks realy escapes me...
oh, you meant Xeon, right ? sorry, move on, nothing to see here...
because what they're trying to do is patent a _F***ING_ _MENU_!!!
IM softwares have menus for easy selection of emoticons, and they have this for years by now. heck, even if the patent's only valid for cell phones, my 2 yr old nokia 3200 already have this, and this model was already old news when i bought it.
so, unless cingular can prove that they're the ones who invented _MENUS_ on a computer (and they didn't. menus have been in use since before cingular even existed), they can pretty much shove it.
"3. Intel = server CPU. This is a very high margin area that AMD continues to fail to penetrate"
you probably stoped following the server market, then.
since the release of their first 64 bit chips a while ago, AMD jumped from a virtual 0% penetration on the server market to more than 11%. except for Intel's best buddy *COUGH*michaeldell*COUGH* the other big player all have Opteron oferings. not to mention the small mom-and-pop shops that now have the oportunity to compete in the 16-way server market with boards like Thunder K8QW (S4881) which supports 8 (with aditional daughter card) dual core opterons.
AMD is inching it's way against intel in server, desktop and mobile with their great offerings. since i moved from 8-bit machines to PCs i've alway been an AMD user, and i'll continue to be for the foreseable future.
and you want to know my opinion ??? is a royal _PAIN IN THE ASS_
in some cases you'll end up using the stairs, as i did frequently.
the problem with these elevators are basicaly the uneven distribution of people among the several floors. sometimes in the building i worked, the pannel would tell me to take a certain cabin an i was the only passenger to my floor at the moment, but the same cabin was also assigned to a floor with an auditorium in the exact time dozens of people were going to a presentation of a new product. there was people enough to fill some 4 cabins waiting in the ground floor. of course, when the elevator stoped, everybody jumped in and i had to wait. of course, since i missed the first trip, i had to rebook it in the touchpannel.
now you ask: "but why the system doesn't calculate the number of people going to a floor so the cabin doesn't get overcrowded ?"
simple answer: many people come in _groups_. yes, groups. co-workes who meet at the lobby, car pooler who work on the same floor, you name it. and it's obvious, that as soon as the firts member of the group types the destination floor on the touchpannel and gets assigned a cabin, why would the others also type ? they wont, because the system doesn't know about groups, so if each member types the same floor on the pannel, they might end in diferent cabins, and no one wants it. so they all go in the cabin assigned to the first guy, wich ends in an overcrowded cabin.
pain in the ass, pure and simple. who cares if the actual trip is shorter ? i rather a longer trip, with several stops (but at least i'm moving) than a longer wait in the lobby. waiting is much more stressing than a longer trip.
but i just installed the game !!!
damn!!!
how's this any different from usual microsoft behavior ?
this kind of arrogance is not a MS exclusivity. wall-mart had a really hard time here in brasil before they aknowleged the local culture and adapted. it took wall-mart some 5 years to get it right. lessee how long it take microsoft
ok, you're right on zelda. but if MSX is just a console, WTF was one of them doing in the russian space station ? http://msx.gnu-linux.net/msx-in-space/
some of these franchises begun in 8-bit consoles/computers more than 20 years ago... case in point: metal gear and zelda. both existed for MSX computers back in 1985...
"shall not compete in UNIX bussiness"
Linux IS NOT Unix, so it doesn't compete.
allofmp3.com is not illegal in russia, that's why RIAA bought a resolution on the american senate on an atempt to bully russia into passing some sort of DMCA. here.
now let the "soviet russia" jokes begin.
brasil is using Ricinus communis (A.K.A Castor bean) to produce bio-diesel.
you don't seem to know about this plant, so let me tell you... it's worse than grass. it grows _EVERYWHERE_ here. takes little more than bare rocks for it to grow.
soils soo poor they can't be used not even as pasture serves castor bean well. in this point it's even better than sugar cane alcohol. sugar cane requires fertile soil, so it competes with other usefull crops like soy, corn or other vegetables, wich is not the case for castor beans
http://www.businessweek.com/magazine/content/04_46 /b3908042.htm
or google for "japan cellular 4g"
he is the only pundit that i feel is ballanced, (reasonably) impartial, does his research well, and most important: is not afraid to admit when he is wrong.
/. , ars or digg, but cringely is the only one who deserves a bookmark. most other guys seems to be industry whores, riding on hypes and/or cutting and pasting company's press realeases as if they were prophecies of the next Big Thing(tm).
i read some of the other guys, usually when thy're linked in sites like
cringely's column is here