" Won't someone please let me know how we have spun out of control. Has the captain let go of the wheel?" -Sign of the Times
"On the Senate floor they congregate
Many pockets lined with green,
From those behind the scenes, yeah they take the bribe ( it's on the side )
A sign of the times, Sign of the times...
A sign of the times, Sign of the times... " -Sign of the Times
The reason IT is considered a crutch is because management wants IT to do *their* job for them. "Why manage employees when you could make IT track their every move, and look like the ogre, while you play golf?"
Dear Middle Management:
A lack of occupational skill sufficient to 'free oneself from a paper bag' on your part does not constitute a desire to play babysitter on ours. Thank you.
"Now, Peter, I heard there was some.. confusion about your TPS reports. You know that we're putting cover sheets on all TPS reports now. If you could just put a cover sheet on all your TPS reports from now, that'd be Greaaat. Yeah."
My review (short)
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Review: Solaris
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· Score: 5, Informative
Good things:
Nice CGI for the "planet" Solaris (was it a star?).
Decent attempt at a '2001'-style space station.
One or two good plot twists (no spoilers here)
No unbearable 10 minute sections of people giving head to their mics. (2001, anyone?)
You might consider getting a better (more robust) ad blocker (like Privoxy, JunkBuster, or Proximitron) that can block ads in subdirectories, and (even better) by regexp!
Or... you could just peruse Google's list of ad blockers.
Here's how: (For Bearshare, off the top of my head)
1) Clear out connect.dat, hosts.dat, and servers.dat in your "db" directory. Leave them as blank files
2) Clear out your known servers (on the "Service" tab in BS)
3) Uncheck the "Connect to service.Bearshare.net" box on the "Services" tab
4) Enter one friend's IP into the known servers box on the "Services" tab
5) Have the rest of your dorm buddies do the same thing.
6) Fire it up.
Your client should immediately try to connect to your friend's IP. When he/she comes up, you will have started your own private Gnutella network. Other users (dormies, other students, etc) can connect up and share, too. If you advertise this a little, as someone has already suggested, you will have sh!tloads of files in no time at all:)
When showing off a new distro, keep the settings at their default. I know what Mozilla looks like already, what I want to see is how the distro sets it up. If Pinball is so much better, then maybe your hint should be targetted at the developers of the distro - especially with a newbie-friendly distro, I doubt those newbies will be downloading custom Mozilla skins. I'll take the screenshots as they are, thank you very much.
The point is not that you know what Mozilla looks like, it's that the target audience of this distro may not. Thusly, I would show them the nicest, prettiest skin I can dig up. Remember, this website may be all a newb ever sees of your distro. Might as well make it as appealing as possible, right?
Oh, and as a side note, what's wrong with the Modern skin included with Mozilla? I've always been a big fan.
Civil rights to Dems= Amendments 1,3-10
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Want Freedom?
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Conveniently leaving out the one that kept us from remaining a British colony:)
The problem, tho, is this: *NEITHER* party gives a rats ass about citizen privacy.
BOTH sides will spy on you and sell your personal info for political/economic/social gain.
Overall, I support what you (or someone close to you) wrote in the article you posted, but here's my beef(s):
1) Disclosure. There's a difference between "Look at this article I found on site X" and "Look at this article I WROTE on site X". The first is information. The latter is infomercial. Want cred on/.? Don't try pulling a fast ones like this.
2) The Registry. You refer to the entirety of the Registry as "this one (large, often fragmented) file". I can't say as to Win3.1 (The first incarnation of the registry), but in Win95 and newer, the reg has never been "one file". In 9x, there were 5 files (User.dat, System.dat, User.da0, System.da0 and System.1st) at the very least.
3) More Details about Registry Problems. You conveniently ignore the fact that one can back up portions of the registry without backing up the whole thing.
Side note: The Registry is one of the most often used reasons ppl I know have chosen *not* to switch from 'doze to *nix. Aside from recent (and not fully mature) developments like APT and RHN, *nix seems to be lacking a good remotely-administrable system service and software configuration database. If I'm wrong, please shoot me a link.
4) A government that uses Microsoft software is not an independent government. Wow. From hard evidence to personal opinions in no more than a <br>. My browser (moz 1.0) must have missed the "</fact><opinion>" demarc:)
5) Backup Problems(duplication and deployment of Win2k/XP). I work for a medium sized call center with ~1000 NT/2k/XP workstations. To walk around and do each install by hand would be an unacceptible time (and $) sink. We use the (MS-Provided) tool SYSPREP.EXE to prepare disk images for deployment. As the image boots for the first time, the IT flunkie (present for imaging) is asked for one piece of data (the NetBIOS name of the machine). The OS (win2k/XP) then detects its HAL, devices installed, etc. A logon script configures individual (non-MS) applications, and the machine is ready to go in <30 minutes. We don't like having to imaging computers, but it's a hellofalotbetter than doing OS installs by hand. My point was that 2k/XP installations *with applications* *CAN* be imaged and deployed in a timely and accurate manner.
6) Reduced Functionality in Windows XP. Jeez, do I have to go on? Yes, there are some features that cmd.exe does not have that command.com did. Which of these do you use on a regular basis? Cmd.exe is oriented toward an NT4/2k/XP (networked/multi-user) environment. User/Group/Share mgmt features et al. Cmd also doesn't have command.com's bad habit of hogging CPU resources. This is at best a weak argument. Start.exe can be run with a "-d" switch to return control immediately.
Am I an MS PR Bunny? No. Just an admin who likes to call BS when he smells it.
Re:Benchmark restrictions invalid: WORKAROUND
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More MS EULA Fun
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...And what major newspaper is going to risk MS's lawyers to satisfy your desire to piss in BillG's Cheerios?
None.
Re:Slashdot being astroturfed? (offtopic)
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Something's rotten on/., again:)
/me checks his shoes... Hmm... no grass stains, but plenty of p00p to go around...:)
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That quote sounds awfully Palpatinian....
" Won't someone please let me know how we have spun out of control.
Has the captain let go of the wheel?" -Sign of the Times
"On the Senate floor they congregate
Many pockets lined with green,
From those behind the scenes, yeah they take the bribe ( it's on the side )
A sign of the times, Sign of the times...
A sign of the times, Sign of the times... " -Sign of the Times
Look at the title of your post, again, and see if you can find the error :)
For those who don't speak e+ notation, thats a 3 with six hundred and sixteen zeros behind it.
Here's a quick comparison:
Get the picture now?
The reason IT is considered a crutch is because management wants IT to do *their* job for them. "Why manage employees when you could make IT track their every move, and look like the ogre, while you play golf?"
Dear Middle Management:
A lack of occupational skill sufficient to 'free oneself from a paper bag' on your part does not constitute a desire to play babysitter on ours. Thank you.
I think that's all I have to say about that.
Show me one gun that has a "reasonable use for defense or hunting" that cannot be used "to kill or assault people".
I'll be here all night.
I'm NOT advocating gun control, btw. I'm saying that one man's idea of home defense is another's arsenal of death.
"Now, Peter, I heard there was some.. confusion about your TPS reports.
You know that we're putting cover sheets on all TPS reports now. If you
could just put a cover sheet on all your TPS reports from now,
that'd be Greaaat. Yeah."
Bad Things:
Overall: 5/10 Watch it when you are in the mood for a SLOW thinker flick.
Oh, wait. Supernova had some action, and some creepy parts.
Solaris didn't even manage to get to '2001' levels.
You might consider getting a better (more robust) ad blocker (like Privoxy, JunkBuster, or Proximitron) that can block ads in subdirectories, and (even better) by regexp!
Or... you could just peruse Google's list of ad blockers.
Bon appetite!
Disabling JS might do the trick, as well...
In the end, all this page provides is a little heads up to Proximitron/Privoxy/Junkbuster users and coders. Talk about shooting yourself in foot.
Washington Mutual (www.wamu.com) works great with Mozilla since v0.9.3 . Requires one cookie, iirc. No flash, no muss, no fuss.
Chock me up as one happy camper.
...or any other Gnutella client, I would imagine.
:)
Here's how: (For Bearshare, off the top of my head)
1) Clear out connect.dat, hosts.dat, and servers.dat in your "db" directory. Leave them as blank files
2) Clear out your known servers (on the "Service" tab in BS)
3) Uncheck the "Connect to service.Bearshare.net" box on the "Services" tab
4) Enter one friend's IP into the known servers box on the "Services" tab
5) Have the rest of your dorm buddies do the same thing.
6) Fire it up.
Your client should immediately try to connect to your friend's IP. When he/she comes up, you will have started your own private Gnutella network. Other users (dormies, other students, etc) can connect up and share, too. If you advertise this a little, as someone has already suggested, you will have sh!tloads of files in no time at all
Amusez-vous!
When showing off a new distro, keep the settings at their default. I know what Mozilla looks like already, what I want to see is how the distro sets it up. If Pinball is so much better, then maybe your hint should be targetted at the developers of the distro - especially with a newbie-friendly distro, I doubt those newbies will be downloading custom Mozilla skins. I'll take the screenshots as they are, thank you very much.
The point is not that you know what Mozilla looks like, it's that the target audience of this distro may not. Thusly, I would show them the nicest, prettiest skin I can dig up. Remember, this website may be all a newb ever sees of your distro. Might as well make it as appealing as possible, right?
Oh, and as a side note, what's wrong with the Modern skin included with Mozilla? I've always been a big fan.
Nothing. I'da been happy with that, too.
Ah, ok... no worries, then.
When showing off a new desktop, at least put a decent skin on Mozilla.
I recommend Pinball .
Your preferences may differ.
Conveniently leaving out the one that kept us from remaining a British colony :)
The problem, tho, is this: *NEITHER* party gives a rats ass about citizen privacy.
BOTH sides will spy on you and sell your personal info for political/economic/social gain.
lameness filters suck big ones
Lameness filters suck, but this lawsuit sucks worse.
Overall, I support what you (or someone close to you) wrote in the article you posted, but here's my beef(s):
/.? Don't try pulling a fast ones like this.
:)
1) Disclosure. There's a difference between "Look at this article I found on site X" and "Look at this article I WROTE on site X". The first is information. The latter is infomercial. Want cred on
2) The Registry. You refer to the entirety of the Registry as "this one (large, often fragmented) file". I can't say as to Win3.1 (The first incarnation of the registry), but in Win95 and newer, the reg has never been "one file". In 9x, there were 5 files (User.dat, System.dat, User.da0, System.da0 and System.1st) at the very least.
3) More Details about Registry Problems. You conveniently ignore the fact that one can back up portions of the registry without backing up the whole thing.
Side note: The Registry is one of the most often used reasons ppl I know have chosen *not* to switch from 'doze to *nix. Aside from recent (and not fully mature) developments like APT and RHN, *nix seems to be lacking a good remotely-administrable system service and software configuration database. If I'm wrong, please shoot me a link.
4) A government that uses Microsoft software is not an independent government. Wow. From hard evidence to personal opinions in no more than a <br>. My browser (moz 1.0) must have missed the "</fact><opinion>" demarc
5) Backup Problems(duplication and deployment of Win2k/XP). I work for a medium sized call center with ~1000 NT/2k/XP workstations. To walk around and do each install by hand would be an unacceptible time (and $) sink. We use the (MS-Provided) tool SYSPREP.EXE to prepare disk images for deployment. As the image boots for the first time, the IT flunkie (present for imaging) is asked for one piece of data (the NetBIOS name of the machine). The OS (win2k/XP) then detects its HAL, devices installed, etc. A logon script configures individual (non-MS) applications, and the machine is ready to go in <30 minutes. We don't like having to imaging computers, but it's a hellofalotbetter than doing OS installs by hand.
My point was that 2k/XP installations *with applications* *CAN* be imaged and deployed in a timely and accurate manner.
6) Reduced Functionality in Windows XP. Jeez, do I have to go on? Yes, there are some features that cmd.exe does not have that command.com did. Which of these do you use on a regular basis? Cmd.exe is oriented toward an NT4/2k/XP (networked/multi-user) environment. User/Group/Share mgmt features et al. Cmd also doesn't have command.com's bad habit of hogging CPU resources. This is at best a weak argument. Start.exe can be run with a "-d" switch to return control immediately.
Am I an MS PR Bunny? No. Just an admin who likes to call BS when he smells it.
...And what major newspaper is going to risk MS's lawyers to satisfy your desire to piss in BillG's Cheerios?
None.
Something's rotten on /., again :)
/me checks his shoes... Hmm... no grass stains, but plenty of p00p to go around...:)
08/02/02 03:23a 130,978,672 W2Ksp3.exe
1 File(s) 130,978,672 bytes
IOW, 128 Megs or so...