Actually... there's a tradeoff. Yes, you save storage space, but at an increased risk to your data. If you put 10 former CDs on 1 DVD, you're more at risk if that DVD goes bad or gets destroyed, than if 1 CD went south.
Obviously, there's some sort of optimization curve here, but damned if I know where to make the tradeoff.
i'd like to see them work, but not here
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Too many hosers with a liscense already treat driving like a video game. And when people start paying too much attention to the blinking lights embedded in the roads... watch out.
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We had the same experiences at the office. After I surreptitiously inserted a samba 3 master into the network, lag times dropped, copy permissions started behaving as expected, and things in general just chilled out.
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A wise man once said, "If you don't like it, don't read it."
As for the veracity of their obviously hyperbole-laden claims, I'd be happy if I could get the freaking PDF embedding to work right in konqueror.
But really, do you expect them to say something like, "KDE... not really the best at what it is, nor is it the most powerful, but we'd sure like you to give it a try, anyway"
Marketing 101: your product is the best. Apple got in trouble because they said their computers are the fastest, which is quite easily disputed.
Saying that your stuff is the 'greatest' is rather more subjective.
(BTW: I like KDE, but I absolutely hate the KIO_Slaves.)
"Do you also think hacking someone's wlan from their parking lot is OK, since they broadcast intentionally to the parking lot and you are there. "
Yes. If you don't go to the trouble of securing your network, you deserve what you get. Eavesdropping shouldn't be a crime. Merely snarfing data from the parking lot is fine by me. Actively intruding, however, some would call unethical. Some would allow it, as long as you don't alter any data. (Makes sense to me) Live by the sword, die by the sword. Hack, or be hacked. I've been on both sides. And let me tell you, being a priss and shouting at people won't keep you safe.
"If a pervert spies on a lady undressing who forgot to close her window is the pervert justified in taking advantage in your opinion."
Again, yes. People aren't dumb. Generally, you have a good idea that windows transmit light. That's why I close the damned blinds, and that is also why i've never been walking down the street and seen any naked women in the windows (shrug)
Okay, little mr. hardcore pretender, let me ask you this... ever find a quarter on the sidewalk? a dollar? ever put it in your pocket? By your argument, you are a thief.
Do laws create ethics, or is it the other way around? Are all laws to be followed? Are all ethics to be enforced by law?
Strewth, i hope not. I'd have to go buy pants for my duck and round pi to '3'.
As for stupid posts, try to calm the hell down before you reply. Usually, I try not to reply to ACs, but you sounded like fun.
Would your boss want a green mechanic working on his car, or one who's been around the block a few times?
If experience isn't the key issue, maybe you can convince him that you can do his job just as well as he can.
If all else fails, get a baseball bat and club his freakishly stupid brains in, then go get a recently graduated surgeon to put humpty dumpty's pieces back together again.
I recall in some of my CS classes in college, how some TAs and profs were militantly anti-MS. The students, for the most part, went along with it because it was hip to do so ("look at me, i'm a revolutionary!")
Funny thing was, i remember one upper-level class where the staff refused to distribute any handouts (like practice exams, HW assignments, project descriptions) in anything except post script.
Man, the newsgroups and e-mail lists were choked with people asking what to do with these 'PS' files...
Point being, there ARE formats that are universally supported. But you'll always need user-land tools to use them.
I tried. Many times, with many people. Some converted, some ignored me.
I don't bother anymore for just casual acquaintances i'll never speak to again. I just run it through antiword (http://www.winfield.demon.nl).
Am I a traitor? Meh. Preaching to the choir, as well as the deaf (whether purposefully so, or they're just too belligerently stupid to bother paying attention) is a waste of my time as well as theirs.
I recently trolled my old high school's website. Most of all their information to parents and students, including forms neccessary for graduation, are.DOC files.
At any rate, remember: revision tracking is good for a quick laugh when you've got the proprietary-file-format blues.
And if you don't feel like reading a crappy etext version, go out to the store and request ISBN 048627263X, pictures included. When I bought a copy about five years ago, it was $1. The street price seems to have increased to $1.50... so if you're looking for a good investment (150% in five years?), go buy Flatland.
I've spoken with several reps at Comcast over the past year. They don't really care what servers you run. (I've been told this explicitly as well as tacitly) In fact, when I first contacted tech support, the guy had no idea what SSH, Telnet (ssh is like an encrypted telnet, right?) or even what a port was.
I've been running an ssh server for about 8 months uninterrupted, now. The general rule of thumb seems to be - If you don't cause trouble for anyone else, Comcast won't cause trouble for you. So, in that interest, I impose reasonable caps on my own throughput and connection counts, and I've had no problems at all.
We finally get an excuse to throw that einstein bastard out on his ear. I don't know about you, but i'm getting pretty tired of that know-it-all being right ALL the freaking time.
The problem with localisation plugins... aside from the Western-European standard they were all begun with, it doesn't always work well, or reliably, or accurately.
This was discussed when the Asianux thing first came up on/. several months back... for example, can you guarantee through a plugin system that multi-byte characters will display correctly all the time? Or weird accents? How about languages that read right to left, of top to bottom?
I have enough trouble getting japanese & cyrillic characters to display correctly as it is (sometimes i'll get a mish-mash of squares and glyphs, or nothing at all). I have yet to see uniform treatment for internationalization in the consle (making file administration of foreigh-language encoded files completely impossible without a GUI).
And heaven help me if i want to work in hebrew, or that weird ancient greek thing where they went left-right on one line, and then went right-left the next (okay, now I'm joking).
Point is, you won't get the functionality these governments want using gettext, pango and i18n. (hell, i use all those and i'm still pissed off) The changes need to be funadmental to the software itself, not just after-market mods to western goods.
And if you think standardizing the suburban apartment through identical, crappy furniture is un-borg-like, then perhaps you've already been assimilated... (shun)
DVD-Jon also got tried twice for the same crime. I'll stick in the US where double-jeopardy (and a very large back yard to hide in) affrods some sort of protection from that sort of thing.
It would be freakishly easy to drop in a copy of another distro's install setup stuff. All the steps for every user are basically the same... i dare say you could script it yourself with expect.
I wonder why no one has done this, yet, and made it the main installation vector? Hmmmmm.
If you are incapable of using fdisk and ln , you probably have no business administering a complete system.
Yes, I use Gentoo, yes I did a stage-1 install, and yes, my system was down for 2 days getting it running. I also wrote a great deal of my config files by hand. I also took the time to read the instructions. The result? Rock solid, and blazingly fast as all hell.
I've done this process my four different times, now, and even if it is a huge pain in the ass (i'll admit it), i have yet to have an install abort or crash or freeze on me. In every single previous distro i have ever used (most notably redhat), the install always died unexpectedly at least once.
If you like Arrested Development, try out Wonderfalls. Incredible writing and plot. I'd give it another two months before it gets axed, but it is the best new thing I've seen on TV in ages.
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Actually ... there's a tradeoff. Yes, you save storage space, but at an increased risk to your data. If you put 10 former CDs on 1 DVD, you're more at risk if that DVD goes bad or gets destroyed, than if 1 CD went south.
Obviously, there's some sort of optimization curve here, but damned if I know where to make the tradeoff.
Too many hosers with a liscense already treat driving like a video game. And when people start paying too much attention to the blinking lights embedded in the roads ... watch out.
We had the same experiences at the office. After I surreptitiously inserted a samba 3 master into the network, lag times dropped, copy permissions started behaving as expected, and things in general just chilled out.
A wise man once said, "If you don't like it, don't read it."
... not really the best at what it is, nor is it the most powerful, but we'd sure like you to give it a try, anyway"
As for the veracity of their obviously hyperbole-laden claims, I'd be happy if I could get the freaking PDF embedding to work right in konqueror.
But really, do you expect them to say something like, "KDE
Marketing 101: your product is the best. Apple got in trouble because they said their computers are the fastest, which is quite easily disputed.
Saying that your stuff is the 'greatest' is rather more subjective.
(BTW: I like KDE, but I absolutely hate the KIO_Slaves.)
*ahem*
... ever find a quarter on the sidewalk? a dollar? ever put it in your pocket? By your argument, you are a thief.
"Do you also think hacking someone's wlan from their parking lot is OK, since they broadcast intentionally to the parking lot and you are there. "
Yes. If you don't go to the trouble of securing your network, you deserve what you get. Eavesdropping shouldn't be a crime. Merely snarfing data from the parking lot is fine by me. Actively intruding, however, some would call unethical. Some would allow it, as long as you don't alter any data. (Makes sense to me) Live by the sword, die by the sword. Hack, or be hacked. I've been on both sides. And let me tell you, being a priss and shouting at people won't keep you safe.
"If a pervert spies on a lady undressing who forgot to close her window is the pervert justified in taking advantage in your opinion."
Again, yes. People aren't dumb. Generally, you have a good idea that windows transmit light. That's why I close the damned blinds, and that is also why i've never been walking down the street and seen any naked women in the windows (shrug)
Okay, little mr. hardcore pretender, let me ask you this
Do laws create ethics, or is it the other way around? Are all laws to be followed? Are all ethics to be enforced by law?
Strewth, i hope not. I'd have to go buy pants for my duck and round pi to '3'.
As for stupid posts, try to calm the hell down before you reply. Usually, I try not to reply to ACs, but you sounded like fun.
Would your boss want a green mechanic working on his car, or one who's been around the block a few times?
If experience isn't the key issue, maybe you can convince him that you can do his job just as well as he can.
If all else fails, get a baseball bat and club his freakishly stupid brains in, then go get a recently graduated surgeon to put humpty dumpty's pieces back together again.
I recall in some of my CS classes in college, how some TAs and profs were militantly anti-MS. The students, for the most part, went along with it because it was hip to do so ("look at me, i'm a revolutionary!")
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Funny thing was, i remember one upper-level class where the staff refused to distribute any handouts (like practice exams, HW assignments, project descriptions) in anything except post script.
Man, the newsgroups and e-mail lists were choked with people asking what to do with these 'PS' files
Point being, there ARE formats that are universally supported. But you'll always need user-land tools to use them.
I tried. Many times, with many people. Some converted, some ignored me.
.DOC files.
I don't bother anymore for just casual acquaintances i'll never speak to again. I just run it through antiword (http://www.winfield.demon.nl).
Am I a traitor? Meh. Preaching to the choir, as well as the deaf (whether purposefully so, or they're just too belligerently stupid to bother paying attention) is a waste of my time as well as theirs.
I recently trolled my old high school's website. Most of all their information to parents and students, including forms neccessary for graduation, are
At any rate, remember: revision tracking is good for a quick laugh when you've got the proprietary-file-format blues.
And if you don't feel like reading a crappy etext version, go out to the store and request ISBN 048627263X, pictures included. When I bought a copy about five years ago, it was $1. The street price seems to have increased to $1.50 ... so if you're looking for a good investment (150% in five years?), go buy Flatland.
I thought it was WBAI in NYC?
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no mention of WUSB
I do indeed run a mail server for personal use, but it's only for myself. Did your buddy have high volume, or was it a commercial server?
Off the main topic, but regarding comcast ...
I've spoken with several reps at Comcast over the past year. They don't really care what servers you run. (I've been told this explicitly as well as tacitly) In fact, when I first contacted tech support, the guy had no idea what SSH, Telnet (ssh is like an encrypted telnet, right?) or even what a port was.
I've been running an ssh server for about 8 months uninterrupted, now. The general rule of thumb seems to be - If you don't cause trouble for anyone else, Comcast won't cause trouble for you. So, in that interest, I impose reasonable caps on my own throughput and connection counts, and I've had no problems at all.
Did you watch Penn & Teller's Bullshit, too?
how do you have false economic growth? either it grew, or it didn't.
now, if you're talking about reclassifying food-prep as manufacturing, then yes, that would be false growth.
I'm surprised I haven't seen this mentioned yet:
Discourse, 11/13/2002
My hampster's got lots of p. That's why i'm always cleaning out her damn cage.
We finally get an excuse to throw that einstein bastard out on his ear. I don't know about you, but i'm getting pretty tired of that know-it-all being right ALL the freaking time.
The problem with localisation plugins ... aside from the Western-European standard they were all begun with, it doesn't always work well, or reliably, or accurately.
/. several months back ... for example, can you guarantee through a plugin system that multi-byte characters will display correctly all the time? Or weird accents? How about languages that read right to left, of top to bottom?
This was discussed when the Asianux thing first came up on
I have enough trouble getting japanese & cyrillic characters to display correctly as it is (sometimes i'll get a mish-mash of squares and glyphs, or nothing at all). I have yet to see uniform treatment for internationalization in the consle (making file administration of foreigh-language encoded files completely impossible without a GUI).
And heaven help me if i want to work in hebrew, or that weird ancient greek thing where they went left-right on one line, and then went right-left the next (okay, now I'm joking).
Point is, you won't get the functionality these governments want using gettext, pango and i18n. (hell, i use all those and i'm still pissed off) The changes need to be funadmental to the software itself, not just after-market mods to western goods.
And if you think standardizing the suburban apartment through identical, crappy furniture is un-borg-like, then perhaps you've already been assimilated
I guess you could call 2.6.5 the dark horse release candidate.
Shouldn't that be four cheeked?
DVD-Jon also got tried twice for the same crime. I'll stick in the US where double-jeopardy (and a very large back yard to hide in) affrods some sort of protection from that sort of thing.
It would be freakishly easy to drop in a copy of another distro's install setup stuff. All the steps for every user are basically the same
I wonder why no one has done this, yet, and made it the main installation vector? Hmmmmm.
If you are incapable of using fdisk and ln , you probably have no business administering a complete system.
Yes, I use Gentoo, yes I did a stage-1 install, and yes, my system was down for 2 days getting it running. I also wrote a great deal of my config files by hand. I also took the time to read the instructions. The result? Rock solid, and blazingly fast as all hell.
I've done this process my four different times, now, and even if it is a huge pain in the ass (i'll admit it), i have yet to have an install abort or crash or freeze on me. In every single previous distro i have ever used (most notably redhat), the install always died unexpectedly at least once.
(shrug)
I think it would be more interesting if someone somehow skinned the Woz for this.
If you like Arrested Development, try out Wonderfalls. Incredible writing and plot. I'd give it another two months before it gets axed, but it is the best new thing I've seen on TV in ages.