Using mandrake no-less! I've run into many disks that have gone bad and may need to be re-partitioned or reformatted, but the tools that come with windows are pure unadulerated $hit!
"Cannot remove Extended Dos partition while logical drives exist" ok fine remove logical drives "cannot removed logical drives while extended partition exists" hmmm add logical drive "cannot add logical drive without primary dos partition" fine add primary dos partition , then removed logical drive...etc etc...no go...boot mandrake select one huge windows partition format it, then abort install and viola!
perhaps someone more familiar with coding can hack the mandrake installer so that i'ts sole function is to blow away hard disks?
Merely my experience is all I have to go on, all anyone has to go on for that matter;-)
My experience merely dictates, that unix programmers pay more attention to the flow of things, and pay closer attention to make sure that what they write conforms with what it's supposed to look like. My comparisons are also, to Microsoft, whom in my experience, does not pay much attention beyond getting it to work more often than not. Certainly I wouldn't accuse John Carmack of making shoddy programs, nor your friends for I don't even know them or their products, however I do have experience in shoddy microsoft works.
Well that's a bit different. Compare ANSII C to sign language. Anyone who uses sign language will understand anyone else who uses sign language.
I think if someone learns the correct style in order to write things will be better off in the long run. Even if/especially if they are a windoze programmer (God keep their souls). Windows is by nature very sloppy, uses some funkdified junk. Look at any SMTP server log to see the munged helo/ehlo traffic a M$ client sends. Think if someone with a unix background, who actually reads RFC's and understands how the traffic is _supposed_ to look would have gotten that right...yet it's remained broken for years.
just an example of many many things that are a bit off-kilter over there.
This question comes up all the time. Is Linux a viable solution to use for $_?
The answer is always yes. It's a viable alternative for database servers, for number crunching, for scanning the skies for aliens, to calculating water flow, and yes for high school programming labs. IN fact definatelly for high school programming labs. I think anyone who start programming on any *nix machine, will have a better understanding of how to prgram on windoze if they need to anyway.
Those guys at omni are uber elite hackers. Been programming OSX since it was NeXT. They're the ones who ported Quake II to Mac in a week! Impressive group of coders right there. Omniweb is an excellent browser as well. If I'm not mistaken it's the old browser from the NeXT systems.
I moved one IMAP tree from an old account directly into the new one. I'm not even sure if it downloaded locally first or just moved from one server to the next.
Screw that outlook express peice of microsoft junk. Whose posting on slashdot lately??;-)
1>I think this is sounding like Opera might be in some trouble. This sorta reminds me of when Be Inc said "Open up your specs or we'll stop developing". What does Opera think it will accomplish other than they won't have to spend money to make opera?
2>If this was to start a war like the early NS vs M$, I don't think Opera would have a chance. For one thing Safari is based on {GPL'd}KDE software and therefore Apple has released it's changes to the source code. It's a lot faster than Opera. Opera just sucks! I don't know what happened, it used to be the fastest browser around circa version 3. Maybe they need Helmar back in charge of Project Magic?
Is he still hanging out in Africa as was his last post to the Opera NNTP server several years back?
I have an Idea, how about Opera, instead of trying to force it's outdated browsing engine on others, why don't they just go grab apple's changes and use those at _THEIR_ new engine?
"looky here let's open up this box where a deadly virus might be trapped floating about and study it"! We'll just hope it doesn't get out.
Reminds me of,
"I'm not real sure if this atmoic detonation will rip the atmosphere off the earth in a chain reaction, well here goes....*boom*". When you say it like that it almost sounds like a farside cartoon, but it's pretty close to what happened.
I think if anything scared me, it is the fact that scientists will do anything to figure things out regardless of how potentially dangerous it is.
The mentality of, "if it can be calculated then it should be" really pisses me off.
Judge: Mr. Irvine, You are hereby sentenced to death for the brutal killing of Mike Wendland. Your dispicable attempt at an insanity plea on the grounds of hidden people on the internet telling you to do it makes me sick. You are allowed to choose the method with which you are executed. Which method do you choose?
I'd like to see a book aimed at OpenBSD adminitration for everything. Creating a virtual hosting web server. Firewalling/Intrusion detection, Mail server with spam(rbl) and virus scanners using nothing but completely open source software. No commercial software whatsoever.
There's 4 of the 6 movies of star wars that you can buy right now. Yet because the set is incomplete there isn't an handy carrier yet. You can make your own proprietary carrier, just for the star wars movies, and sell it or do whatever you want, including give out the blueprints if you want to. However if you include any of the pictures or images from star wars, you cannot call it the "official star wars carrier".
or say you make your own extension to PERL, you can do what you want with your code, as long as it does not have any GPL code you can keep your code closed.
Some jerkass decided to take someone elses free code, and close it, then he added someone elses proprietery extensions to it, then, on top of that opened the code back up when he got caught, openening up other peoples code. Now those people are pissed off.
No it's not like water, if you take GPL'd code and make something else, the finished product, even if it no longer does the same thing it did before, must be gpl'd
Why don't they just fill up a 50 meter long enclosed structure here on Earth with money, and burn the building down. It would cost the same and give similar results. I say send the rubble cloud on a trajectroy course for the sun, and let it burn up in a few years when it gets there.
If the scientists jsut wanna have fun, they could put sensors in the rubble cloud and watch the toilet bowl effect as is starts it's deteriorating semi-orbit around the sun before it bursts into an inferno.
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I've had to do this many many times.
Using mandrake no-less! I've run into many disks that have gone bad and may need to be re-partitioned or reformatted, but the tools that come with windows are pure unadulerated $hit!
"Cannot remove Extended Dos partition while logical drives exist" ok fine remove logical drives "cannot removed logical drives while extended partition exists" hmmm add logical drive "cannot add logical drive without primary dos partition" fine add primary dos partition , then removed logical drive...etc etc...no go...boot mandrake select one huge windows partition format it, then abort install and viola!
perhaps someone more familiar with coding can hack the mandrake installer so that i'ts sole function is to blow away hard disks?
I went the other way. I used kde until gnome 2 came out, i like it much better.
Merely my experience is all I have to go on, all anyone has to go on for that matter ;-)
My experience merely dictates, that unix programmers pay more attention to the flow of things, and pay closer attention to make sure that what they write conforms with what it's supposed to look like. My comparisons are also, to Microsoft, whom in my experience, does not pay much attention beyond getting it to work more often than not.
Certainly I wouldn't accuse John Carmack of making shoddy programs, nor your friends for I don't even know them or their products, however I do have experience in shoddy microsoft works.
I like the latin comparison even better. Learn latin would help you understand where just about every other European language comes from.
Here's a good example:
The latin word for Book is "biblio"
from that we have bibliography
library is based on that as well, which translates into other languages:
french as bibliothèque
spanish as biblioteca
german as Bibliothek
Italian as biblioteca
So one who was familiar with the roots of everything will have a much easier time understanding why things are the way they are.
Well that's a bit different. Compare ANSII C to sign language. Anyone who uses sign language will understand anyone else who uses sign language.
I think if someone learns the correct style in order to write things will be better off in the long run. Even if/especially if they are a windoze programmer (God keep their souls).
Windows is by nature very sloppy, uses some funkdified junk. Look at any SMTP server log to see the munged helo/ehlo traffic a M$ client sends. Think if someone with a unix background, who actually reads RFC's and understands how the traffic is _supposed_ to look would have gotten that right...yet it's remained broken for years.
just an example of many many things that are a bit off-kilter over there.
This question comes up all the time. Is Linux a viable solution to use for $_?
The answer is always yes. It's a viable alternative for database servers, for number crunching, for scanning the skies for aliens, to calculating water flow, and yes for high school programming labs. IN fact definatelly for high school programming labs. I think anyone who start programming on any *nix machine, will have a better understanding of how to prgram on windoze if they need to anyway.
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Will it do quotas for users?
FreeBSD makes an awesome mail server for that reason alone (not that there isn't a ton more).
Here is output from a telnet session to our Solaris 2.6 box pinging myself.
root@horvitz #
root@horvitz # sh
# ping elvis
elvis is alive
#
Give me a kick everytime I do it.
Here is sample output from a telnet session to a sun solaris 2.6 box pinging my workstation.
root@horvitz # sh
# ping elvis
elvis is alive
#
Put the wirless hotspot in a hospital and watch someones pacemaker stop functioning
:-)
(I know i know that was old pacemakers and the ap doesn't have enough power)
just picture it though
is lying in the ...
openbsd-pseudo-random number generating packet filterrrrrrrrr
Those guys at omni are uber elite hackers. Been programming OSX since it was NeXT. They're the ones who ported Quake II to Mac in a week! Impressive group of coders right there. Omniweb is an excellent browser as well. If I'm not mistaken it's the old browser from the NeXT systems.
I've been trying to migrate people _away_ from windows, this only makes it easier for them to stay ;-)
;-p
Of course it also help linux break into places it wasn't allowed before, so i've got to say bravo for that!
Still, should be running BSD
Do you have access to the server? You could do something like this in perl:
) = localtime(stat($_)->mtime);
===BEGIN UNTESTED CODE BLOCK===
#!/usr/bin/perl -w
use File::stat;
use strict;
$username = ""; #Your username here
my $fileLocation = "/home/username/Maildir/cur";
my ($yearCreated,$year);
print "Enter year to remove: "; chomp($year = );
chdir "$fileLocation";
while(){
(undef,undef,undef,undef,undef,$yearCreated,undef
if (!copy("$fileLocation/$_", "Archive/$fileLocation/$_")){
print "Could not Move Files...Exiting...\n\n";
exit;
}else{
print "$fileLocation Was Copied Successfully\n\n\n";
}
unlink "$fileLocation/$_" if ($year == ($yearCreated+1900));
}
If anyone cares to test it and correct it that would be nice...
I've done exactly this before. (under gnome)
;-)
I moved one IMAP tree from an old account directly into the new one. I'm not even sure if it downloaded locally first or just moved from one server to the next.
Screw that outlook express peice of microsoft junk. Whose posting on slashdot lately??
1>I think this is sounding like Opera might be in some trouble. This sorta reminds me of when Be Inc said "Open up your specs or we'll stop developing".
What does Opera think it will accomplish other than they won't have to spend money to make opera?
2>If this was to start a war like the early NS vs M$, I don't think Opera would have a chance. For one thing Safari is based on {GPL'd}KDE software and therefore Apple has released it's changes to the source code. It's a lot faster than Opera. Opera just sucks! I don't know what happened, it used to be the fastest browser around circa version 3. Maybe they need Helmar back in charge of Project Magic?
Is he still hanging out in Africa as was his last post to the Opera NNTP server several years back?
I have an Idea, how about Opera, instead of trying to force it's outdated browsing engine on others, why don't they just go grab apple's changes and use those at _THEIR_ new engine?
Scientists scare me sometimes though.
"looky here let's open up this box where a deadly virus might be trapped floating about and study it"! We'll just hope it doesn't get out.
Reminds me of,
"I'm not real sure if this atmoic detonation will rip the atmosphere off the earth in a chain reaction, well here goes....*boom*".
When you say it like that it almost sounds like a farside cartoon, but it's pretty close to what happened.
I think if anything scared me, it is the fact that scientists will do anything to figure things out regardless of how potentially dangerous it is.
The mentality of, "if it can be calculated then it should be" really pisses me off.
Judge: Mr. Irvine, You are hereby sentenced to death for the brutal killing of Mike Wendland. Your dispicable attempt at an insanity plea on the grounds of hidden people on the internet telling you to do it makes me sick. You are allowed to choose the method with which you are executed. Which method do you choose?
Me: I choose windhexe-cution.
i'd sell it there but I wouldn't dig it up. I'd just ignore the person who bought it from me until they eventually stopped sending me emails.
I'd like to see a book aimed at OpenBSD adminitration for everything. Creating a virtual hosting web server. Firewalling/Intrusion detection, Mail server with spam(rbl) and virus scanners using nothing but completely open source software. No commercial software whatsoever.
--Bryan
Neeeeeed inpuuuut.
What does this abmiguous "software" do?
More than likely there is a free alternative already, or in the works. Give as much info as you can without giving away trade secrets.
Think of it like this.
There's 4 of the 6 movies of star wars that you can buy right now. Yet because the set is incomplete there isn't an handy carrier yet. You can make your own proprietary carrier, just for the star wars movies, and sell it or do whatever you want, including give out the blueprints if you want to. However if you include any of the pictures or images from star wars, you cannot call it the "official star wars carrier".
or say you make your own extension to PERL, you can do what you want with your code, as long as it does not have any GPL code you can keep your code closed.
Some jerkass decided to take someone elses free code, and close it, then he added someone elses proprietery extensions to it, then, on top of that opened the code back up when he got caught, openening up other peoples code. Now those people are pissed off.
No it's not like water, if you take GPL'd code and make something else, the finished product, even if it no longer does the same thing it did before, must be gpl'd
The agreement you made with that other guy could be invalid. If he agreed to give you someone elses code, the agreement definatelly is and you can
a>Remove the code like thay say (if you still want to distribute)
-or-
b> Have the guy you made the agreement with remove the code either willingly or through the courts.
If it's no big deal and it's not a lot of code, just do it. It's the quickest and most pain-free way...
Why don't they just fill up a 50 meter long enclosed structure here on Earth with money, and burn the building down. It would cost the same and give similar results. I say send the rubble cloud on a trajectroy course for the sun, and let it burn up in a few years when it gets there.
If the scientists jsut wanna have fun, they could put sensors in the rubble cloud and watch the toilet bowl effect as is starts it's deteriorating semi-orbit around the sun before it bursts into an inferno.