Did Taco put this up as like some sort of mega-master-super-gigantic troll to see people over and over sputter angrily about how this was a WWN article? Or does it go deeper? Maybe he lost a bet? Perhaps Slashdot is taking part in a government conspiracy to spread disinformation and take the eyes of the people off of their dereliction s of duties?
Internally, IBM recently signed a corporate license with MS for the use of the office 2000 suite internally. Why did they do this when they own the own the Smart Suite tools? Well the Lotus tools suck, I personally dislike them a lot. I don't know the high level details of the move, but maybe the top brass realized that the tools they provided suck too. Or maybe IBM is just buying into the MS crap. I dunno. Just thought you guys might wanna know what Big Blue seems to think of their own tools. I wonder if they just decided this was cheaper than actually paying for development of the Smart Suite tools to make them worth using. Heh got to love the economics of it:P
When I am confronted with a problem I don't have a ready solution to, and the problem involves co-workers I turn to those tomes of wisdom and learning... BOFH. I just say "WWBOFHD"...
1) some sort of white noise, I have a box fan that I leave on 24/7.. it hides the background noises very well.
2) Music, just about any kind, something to bop to, something to chill to, no country.
3) Pot, marijuana, grass, herb. Whatever you wanna call it, being nice and blunted helps me... keeps me focsed yet creative. maybe I'm just a pot head, but my best code comes when stoned.
4) Need. If I need a new tool, if there is a deadline, or pressure.
5) Small steps of success. Nothing gets me going, innovating like small steps of success. I have often finished part of a tool or program, and started enhancing it way out of spec. The boss has yet to complain.
6) A COMFORTABLE EDITING ENVIRONMENT. I cannot stress enough the need for a good editor. If I'm not seeing the code the way I want to see it, I have to think more, in the zone I need to flow.
7) Cigarettes. Nothing breaks the flow like running out of smokes and having to get up for more, or worse, go to the store!!!
8) Beverages. Lots of water. RED BULL!!!!!
9) My own crapper. I know this has been mentioned, but I loathe the bathroom farms. You walk into these places and it looks like the world the Matrix pulled over your eyes. And the smell, and sounds, frankly I don't wanna listen to mister anonymous with dockers around his ankles and rockport saddle oxfords summoning the beast of the nine stenches.
Ok I think that is enough...those are probably my biggest essentials. But maybe that's just me.
Perhaps no one is to blame? I mean if the guy has some sort of imbalance he should have gotten help, I agree. But in the article it states that he was 21 years old. His 'mommy' cannot MAKE him do anything anymore. Lots of people with mental disorders roam the streets free because no one knows what do with them. This guy just happened to roam the streets of Freeport. I really hate the blame game. What ever happened to accountability for our own actions?
MS only requires licenses for machines not running an MS OS. You run ICA client from AIX you need a TScal and a Citrix userlicense. The TScal from microsoft is kinda annoying in that it will not be relased after you log off, hence you need to have one per user of a non-MS based machine.
Untrue. I have citrix farm at work running Win2K server and Metaframe1.8 that hosts roughly 300 users concurrently. They are running everything from IE5.5sp1 to the Lotus Smatrsuite millenium tools and everyone of them runs Lotus Notes (HOG!) The machines are 4way Xeon 550's and 4 gigs of ram. Granted it's not as fast a having a fat machine on your desk but it saves a lot of money in the long run. The ability to centrally administer and troubleshoot problems is awesome. Now I am not saying it is the best solution for your situation, but I don't like to see people citrix bashing, if you need a MS based environment nothing is better. If MS compatability is not a necessity then you can go either way.
Few thoughts here. While the hardware is in production, and usually for a few years after, it seems that historically the manufacturer will support the driver for a Microsoft Desktop OS. Linux does not enjoy such widespread support, the open source community HAS to develop their own. Also you will note that the open source community has hundreds of programmers, wow, that's a lot eh? Windows and those supporting the platform have thousands, yes they are ahead. Though I have not been unable to find much hardware which was difficult to get a driver for.
Microsoft has a HUGE developers network, partners network, and tons of end-users who give them input. They have more input than any company I can imagine.
And you don't have to recompile your kernel everytime a coder wants to change something. And frankly, I think the linux developers 0wn. And they are accountable for their mistakes, like anyone else.
I find it hard to imagine what you can't do with free, legal open source software
Umm lemme see, games, games, games. I know Linux is pretty bad ass for most computing tasks, but to MOST of the people on earth, their computer is as much entertainment center as it is tool for useful work.
The latest Debian CD provides all the software anyone could ever conceive of needing
Perhaps it does, but that is your viewpoint. I pretty much keep the switch box flipped to my red hat boxm, but when it is time to play a game, or show a friend something groovy, gues which box I flip to?
just for the thrill of doing something illegal
Yes, there are people like that. I personally can't fathom it, my psychoses are based in other things, but people bu8ngee jump for a thrill, and sometimes the elastic breaks. Same thing, Some people pirate for thrills, and the thrill of the crack. And sometimes they get caught.
Well, it didn't get them laid Hrmm, maybe not in the classical sense, but I can ASSure you, someone is gunna be taking some geek butt.
Why anyone would subject themselves to this sort of punishment for a little free closed-source software is beyond the realm of comprehension.
The green ketchop rules. I can't wait to try the purple. I like the bottle mostly. The spout is perfect for putting exactly enough ketchup in exactly the right place. You could pur it along the length of the fry or have a dot on each bite. Truly ingenious.
For all of you who think you should grumble about my ketchup choices, please put away the nerf guns and stuffed dust puppy or tux first:P It is good to be young, or at least feel like it:)
I work for one of the largest computer/technology companies in the world. When I suggest that we move just OUR servers (my team/division) to something like Apache, you should hear the crap I get. My manager dismisses it out of hand, an why? Because no one can buck corporate policy. Or no one will. Until People stop being scared of better alternatives just because it's "not what we use" then these problems will continue. So sad.
How amusing. If the hardware is 386 (as stated in an earlier thread) or even 486, then umm, 2000 won't run on it. NT would be so slow as to make any RT computing useless. just my 2 cents
Ms. Liebeck was 79 at the time of the incident
Ms. Liebeck had 3rd-degree burns over 6% of her body. Her vagina was completely destroyed and had to be reconstructed by a plastic surgeon. She has permanent scarring over 16% of her body
Did she really still need her vagina at 79 years old?
I work with a very large Citrix Metaframe 1.8 running on Windows2000 server environment. Most of our clients run AIX machines, and connect to the servers using the AIX build of the ICA client tool. We have a huge DFS space which our users also wish to connect to. We found a problem where our DCE servers would authenticate the users and allow them to "net use" to their DFS space, but as soon as someone else mapped to another name space, credendialt os the other users were being overwritten by the most recent autnentication to DCE. This could cause a major problem as I'm sure you all know. In prior versions of the Windows server family (NT4) there was a hack to force the server to use a new pipe for each user, this is not present in 2000. So my question is does anyone know if this release has any impact on my problem?
I vaguely remember sitting in school, my teacher wheeling in the "AV System" (TV for you yung'uns) and watching with awe as all that flame erupted from the back of the shuttle. I remember being totally blown away. I wouldn't have known today was that anniversary but for this article, and I can't really relate in the same way to Vostok, I wasn't born. But I will say this, this brough back some of that child like wonder, reading the links about the shuttle launch were just really cool.
As a geek, an introvert, a father and on occcaision, a depressed person this article strikes home for not only myself, but many others as well I am sure. I don't think it is just the taunting, or just the video games or any one singular cause. I watch friends of mine, who love FPS (not that big on em myself) games playing, and I watch their 18month old to 5 year olds sitting there mezmerized. I show my 8 year old son a game called "Carmageddon" and he takes the controller and with great glee begins running over the pedestrians (part of the game no doubt), and when he can find no more he turns to me and asks me "find more people for me to run over daddy". So yes, I think games can have some negative effects when in the wrong hands and CERTAINLY when given at the wrong time. During their development as people, when a child is learning right from wrong. these games are not good.
The again, we go to the parent I mentioned before, as well as myself. Is it fair for me to play these games in front of my child? Is it ok for me to scream at the screen, or unleash a stream of profanity that would make any sailor blush while my child is watching me fight a human-like creature on my screen? Is this not teaching by example? Is it right for a parent to expose a child to this senseless violence? Part of the problem is the games, but part of the problem is the parents. I'm not saying we need to go back to the "good old days" of The Cleavers (then again I'll bet the Beaver is pretty dysfunctional!), But I am saying that we need to be more mindful of what we choose to expose our children to.
So now, what else influences these things? Other kids? HELL YEAH! Kids can be the cruellest people on earth, especially towards another child they may have percieved a weakness in. All ages, from kindergarten through high school, though by high school we have become young adults, who we are is setting in, our choices are mostly our own. I remember high school, I remember being different. I remember the torment, I remember the annoyance, I remember wondering if 'those' people were truly worth my time. I cannot explain how it feels, just like most teens or children cannot explain the dynamics of their interactions with others, or why some of us are teasers, and some teasees... But what I am trying to say is that We need to actively raise our children, teach them right from wrong and be there for them when no one else is. I'm nto saying it will solve the problem, no matter what we do for our children they will eventually still be exposed to a society that is both retentive and infinately permissive at the same time. They will be exposed to all sorts of unsavory and unkind things, acts and people in their lives. The difference is, we try to prepare them as best we can for it. We try to teach that "blasting with a BFG" (or any weapon) is not necessarily the answer, we must try to teach tolerance.
"Children are our future, but they are what we make them"
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Did Taco put this up as like some sort of mega-master-super-gigantic troll to see people over and over sputter angrily about how this was a WWN article? Or does it go deeper? Maybe he lost a bet? Perhaps Slashdot is taking part in a government conspiracy to spread disinformation and take the eyes of the people off of their dereliction s of duties?
Nah, prolly just something to give us a chuckle.
Internally, IBM recently signed a corporate license with MS for the use of the office 2000 suite internally. Why did they do this when they own the own the Smart Suite tools? Well the Lotus tools suck, I personally dislike them a lot. I don't know the high level details of the move, but maybe the top brass realized that the tools they provided suck too. Or maybe IBM is just buying into the MS crap. I dunno. Just thought you guys might wanna know what Big Blue seems to think of their own tools. I wonder if they just decided this was cheaper than actually paying for development of the Smart Suite tools to make them worth using. Heh got to love the economics of it :P
When I am confronted with a problem I don't have a ready solution to, and the problem involves co-workers I turn to those tomes of wisdom and learning... BOFH. I just say "WWBOFHD"...
1) some sort of white noise, I have a box fan that I leave on 24/7.. it hides the background noises very well.
2) Music, just about any kind, something to bop to, something to chill to, no country.
3) Pot, marijuana, grass, herb. Whatever you wanna call it, being nice and blunted helps me... keeps me focsed yet creative. maybe I'm just a pot head, but my best code comes when stoned.
4) Need. If I need a new tool, if there is a deadline, or pressure.
5) Small steps of success. Nothing gets me going, innovating like small steps of success. I have often finished part of a tool or program, and started enhancing it way out of spec. The boss has yet to complain.
6) A COMFORTABLE EDITING ENVIRONMENT. I cannot stress enough the need for a good editor. If I'm not seeing the code the way I want to see it, I have to think more, in the zone I need to flow.
7) Cigarettes. Nothing breaks the flow like running out of smokes and having to get up for more, or worse, go to the store!!!
8) Beverages. Lots of water. RED BULL!!!!!
9) My own crapper. I know this has been mentioned, but I loathe the bathroom farms. You walk into these places and it looks like the world the Matrix pulled over your eyes. And the smell, and sounds, frankly I don't wanna listen to mister anonymous with dockers around his ankles and rockport saddle oxfords summoning the beast of the nine stenches.
Ok I think that is enough...those are probably my biggest essentials. But maybe that's just me.
Perhaps no one is to blame? I mean if the guy has some sort of imbalance he should have gotten help, I agree. But in the article it states that he was 21 years old. His 'mommy' cannot MAKE him do anything anymore. Lots of people with mental disorders roam the streets free because no one knows what do with them. This guy just happened to roam the streets of Freeport. I really hate the blame game. What ever happened to accountability for our own actions?
Suggest to your Admins to implement an inactive timeout for logons. 30minutes is usually pretty good.
MS only requires licenses for machines not running an MS OS. You run ICA client from AIX you need a TScal and a Citrix userlicense. The TScal from microsoft is kinda annoying in that it will not be relased after you log off, hence you need to have one per user of a non-MS based machine.
Untrue. I have citrix farm at work running Win2K server and Metaframe1.8 that hosts roughly 300 users concurrently. They are running everything from IE5.5sp1 to the Lotus Smatrsuite millenium tools and everyone of them runs Lotus Notes (HOG!) The machines are 4way Xeon 550's and 4 gigs of ram. Granted it's not as fast a having a fat machine on your desk but it saves a lot of money in the long run. The ability to centrally administer and troubleshoot problems is awesome. Now I am not saying it is the best solution for your situation, but I don't like to see people citrix bashing, if you need a MS based environment nothing is better. If MS compatability is not a necessity then you can go either way.
Few thoughts here. While the hardware is in production, and usually for a few years after, it seems that historically the manufacturer will support the driver for a Microsoft Desktop OS. Linux does not enjoy such widespread support, the open source community HAS to develop their own. Also you will note that the open source community has hundreds of programmers, wow, that's a lot eh? Windows and those supporting the platform have thousands, yes they are ahead. Though I have not been unable to find much hardware which was difficult to get a driver for.
Microsoft has a HUGE developers network, partners network, and tons of end-users who give them input. They have more input than any company I can imagine.
And you don't have to recompile your kernel everytime a coder wants to change something. And frankly, I think the linux developers 0wn. And they are accountable for their mistakes, like anyone else.
But that might just be my two cents...
So many points to make...
I find it hard to imagine what you can't do with free, legal open source software
Umm lemme see, games, games, games. I know Linux is pretty bad ass for most computing tasks, but to MOST of the people on earth, their computer is as much entertainment center as it is tool for useful work.
The latest Debian CD provides all the software anyone could ever conceive of needing
Perhaps it does, but that is your viewpoint. I pretty much keep the switch box flipped to my red hat boxm, but when it is time to play a game, or show a friend something groovy, gues which box I flip to?
just for the thrill of doing something illegal
Yes, there are people like that. I personally can't fathom it, my psychoses are based in other things, but people bu8ngee jump for a thrill, and sometimes the elastic breaks. Same thing, Some people pirate for thrills, and the thrill of the crack. And sometimes they get caught.
Well, it didn't get them laid
Hrmm, maybe not in the classical sense, but I can ASSure you, someone is gunna be taking some geek butt.
Why anyone would subject themselves to this sort of punishment for a little free closed-source software is beyond the realm of comprehension.
See Above!
It's a Democratic Republic. No one has the balls to deal with a true democracy.
The green ketchop rules. I can't wait to try the purple. I like the bottle mostly. The spout is perfect for putting exactly enough ketchup in exactly the right place. You could pur it along the length of the fry or have a dot on each bite. Truly ingenious.
:P It is good to be young, or at least feel like it :)
For all of you who think you should grumble about my ketchup choices, please put away the nerf guns and stuffed dust puppy or tux first
I work for one of the largest computer/technology companies in the world. When I suggest that we move just OUR servers (my team/division) to something like Apache, you should hear the crap I get. My manager dismisses it out of hand, an why? Because no one can buck corporate policy. Or no one will. Until People stop being scared of better alternatives just because it's "not what we use" then these problems will continue. So sad.
How amusing. If the hardware is 386 (as stated in an earlier thread) or even 486, then umm, 2000 won't run on it. NT would be so slow as to make any RT computing useless. just my 2 cents
Ms. Liebeck was 79 at the time of the incident
Ms. Liebeck had 3rd-degree burns over 6% of her body. Her vagina was completely destroyed and had to be reconstructed by a plastic surgeon. She has permanent scarring over 16% of her body
Did she really still need her vagina at 79 years old?
I work with a very large Citrix Metaframe 1.8 running on Windows2000 server environment. Most of our clients run AIX machines, and connect to the servers using the AIX build of the ICA client tool. We have a huge DFS space which our users also wish to connect to. We found a problem where our DCE servers would authenticate the users and allow them to "net use" to their DFS space, but as soon as someone else mapped to another name space, credendialt os the other users were being overwritten by the most recent autnentication to DCE. This could cause a major problem as I'm sure you all know. In prior versions of the Windows server family (NT4) there was a hack to force the server to use a new pipe for each user, this is not present in 2000. So my question is does anyone know if this release has any impact on my problem?
I vaguely remember sitting in school, my teacher wheeling in the "AV System" (TV for you yung'uns) and watching with awe as all that flame erupted from the back of the shuttle. I remember being totally blown away. I wouldn't have known today was that anniversary but for this article, and I can't really relate in the same way to Vostok, I wasn't born. But I will say this, this brough back some of that child like wonder, reading the links about the shuttle launch were just really cool.
Whether or not this is a real letter or a hoax, freedom of speech and satire are still as American as... capitalisim and crooked politicians.
As a geek, an introvert, a father and on occcaision, a depressed person this article strikes home for not only myself, but many others as well I am sure. I don't think it is just the taunting, or just the video games or any one singular cause. I watch friends of mine, who love FPS (not that big on em myself) games playing, and I watch their 18month old to 5 year olds sitting there mezmerized. I show my 8 year old son a game called "Carmageddon" and he takes the controller and with great glee begins running over the pedestrians (part of the game no doubt), and when he can find no more he turns to me and asks me "find more people for me to run over daddy". So yes, I think games can have some negative effects when in the wrong hands and CERTAINLY when given at the wrong time. During their development as people, when a child is learning right from wrong. these games are not good.
The again, we go to the parent I mentioned before, as well as myself. Is it fair for me to play these games in front of my child? Is it ok for me to scream at the screen, or unleash a stream of profanity that would make any sailor blush while my child is watching me fight a human-like creature on my screen? Is this not teaching by example? Is it right for a parent to expose a child to this senseless violence? Part of the problem is the games, but part of the problem is the parents. I'm not saying we need to go back to the "good old days" of The Cleavers (then again I'll bet the Beaver is pretty dysfunctional!), But I am saying that we need to be more mindful of what we choose to expose our children to.
So now, what else influences these things? Other kids? HELL YEAH! Kids can be the cruellest people on earth, especially towards another child they may have percieved a weakness in. All ages, from kindergarten through high school, though by high school we have become young adults, who we are is setting in, our choices are mostly our own. I remember high school, I remember being different. I remember the torment, I remember the annoyance, I remember wondering if 'those' people were truly worth my time. I cannot explain how it feels, just like most teens or children cannot explain the dynamics of their interactions with others, or why some of us are teasers, and some teasees... But what I am trying to say is that We need to actively raise our children, teach them right from wrong and be there for them when no one else is. I'm nto saying it will solve the problem, no matter what we do for our children they will eventually still be exposed to a society that is both retentive and infinately permissive at the same time. They will be exposed to all sorts of unsavory and unkind things, acts and people in their lives. The difference is, we try to prepare them as best we can for it. We try to teach that "blasting with a BFG" (or any weapon) is not necessarily the answer, we must try to teach tolerance.
"Children are our future, but they are what we make them"