If the license isn't OS, then the whole thing is still run by Sun and this is just an exercise in dumping.
This means that after Sun runs MS into the ground, Sun can close everything back up, change the formats and reap the upgrade-treadmill rewards. --- Put Hemos through English 101! "An armed society is a polite society" -- Robert Heinlein
Hi, I'm currently looking into becoming a scientist. Could any of you recommend some good science software for Linux? You know, things like measuring, testing, etc.
SARCASM=OFF --- Put Hemos through English 101! "An armed society is a polite society" -- Robert Heinlein
Not a big deal that MySQL has been GPL'd??? Are you KIDDING?
This is amazingly cool. Let me lay it out in a simple list with a close-to-home example:
Slashdot uses MySQL
Slashdot occasionally has DB problems
GPL'd software always has source code available
Conclusion: If MySQL were GPL'd, Slashdot could be made more stable.
I think we can all agree this is a laudable goal. Just because the GPL'd release is slightly older means nothing. The only reason new releases exist is to fix bugs or add features. Both of these actions are possible to perform against GPL'd software WITHOUT the permission of the original owner. --- Put Hemos through English 101! "An armed society is a polite society" -- Robert Heinlein
Does anyone else find it ironic that someone named "HeUnique" would copy a headline word for word from another publication?
BTW, you probably want to change that before someone sues. --- Put Hemos through English 101! "An armed society is a polite society" -- Robert Heinlein
I just got 8.5 ("PRE-NECKO") two nights ago. I wanted a "post-necko" release, but I couldn't get the nightly builds to work.
Oh well, I have a few days of vacation so I guess I can spare the dl time. --- Put Hemos through English 101! "An armed society is a polite society" -- Robert Heinlein
...he's not supposed to. But apparently he does anyway. Go back and read ten stories posted by Hemos and you'll find at least 15 basic spelling/grammar mistakes. --- Put Hemos through English 101! "An armed society is a polite society" -- Robert Heinlein
1) Microsoft's Novell client does not operate to spec (surprise). If you do a Novell "capture" to file and start printing, you are fine. If you stop sending data for 45 seconds the file pointer (apparently) resets to the beginning of the file so subsequent data overwrites existing data. I proved this by writing a qbasic program that demonstrated the effect and then called Microsoft. I explained the whole issue and mentioned my qbasic demo. His response: "Windows 95 doesn't come with QBasic." He literally wouldn't let me go any further with the call at that point. I asked to speak with his supervisor and he said "OK, it'll take 2 business days", but the guy never called.
2) This one happened to a coworker. Gateway computer with a hard drive that shows several bad sectors. Still under warranty so he calls tech support to get a replacement. Techs answer: "Bad sectors are usually caused by software, so do a full reinstall of everything and it should be fine. In any case, we don't replace drives until they are 50% bad sectors." Uh-huh, is there anyone with a brain I can speak with? --- Put Hemos through English 101! "An armed society is a polite society" -- Robert Heinlein
Are you kidding? Geeks support many otherwise marginal companies. VA Linux Systems (or whatever they call themselves now) comes to mind.
But maybe you are defining "serious manufacturer" as "a manufacturer everyone has heard of", which in this context is circular. If everyone has heard of them then they aren't just for geeks, are they? --- Put Hemos through English 101! "An armed society is a polite society" -- Robert Heinlein
First of all, voluntary open surveys have zero statistical value. You have to pick a random sample BEFOREHAND and then apply the survey. The other "Internet Addiction" story had this same problem.
So I thought, "I'll have some fun". I started filling the survey out inaccurately ("How long have you been using the Internet" "82 years"). But this just got boring and I quit
If YOU want to have fun, though, do this: Give reasonable but high figures for your Internet usage, but report no symptoms of abuse. That is, say you're "logged on to the Internet" 18 hours/day, but that you've never lied to anyone about it, or felt guilty or whatever. See what they make of THAT. --- Put Hemos through English 101! "An armed society is a polite society" -- Robert Heinlein
This is EXACTLY my question. I HATE "editing" movies by using the pause button on my VCR and camcorder.
But MainActor doesn't seem to be the solution. I downloaded the thing, but there didn't seem to be anything there. Yeah, it'll show the individual frames of the movie I selected, but I can't do diddly with them. My basic question was "where's the rest of it?" --- Put Hemos through English 101! "An armed society is a polite society" -- Robert Heinlein
I was just thinking to myself "Hmmm...I haven't seen any egregious spelling/grammar errors from Hemos lately...maybe I should change my sig." Then this story appeared.
Andover.net, if you are listening: We've all gotten over the shock of the/. takeover. You may now safely begin putting Rob, Jeff and crew through some training on "how journalism works". --- Put Hemos through English 101! "An armed society is a polite society" -- Robert Heinlein
A lot of people here are taking issue with Moody's analysis. I'm taking issue with his assumptions: I don't think Solow's Paradox is true.
I would agree that there are certain tasks that have not been made more efficient (or have been made less efficient) by computers. But that fact is more than balanced by the following factors:
Previously impossible tasks are now possible (CAD, simulations, etc)
Some tasks no longer require a human at all (ATMs and automatic processing of all sorts)
Computers allow the creation of previously unavailable modes of human behavior that, in some cases, can be more efficient (cell phones, Internet usage, etc)
The list goes on. My point is that, since the economy is doing better, per capita, than ever before, it must be the case that each worker in the workforce must be more efficient than ever before. Where else but computerization to give the credit? --- Put Hemos through English 101! "An armed society is a polite society" -- Robert Heinlein
First, I love this quote: "Past issues with first-release operating systems from Microsoft have caused organizations to rein in their Windows 2000 deployment plans."
I guess you can't fool all of the people all of the time.
Now the clarification: Linux didn't go from 0 to 13% since 1997, at least not the way you are probably thinking.
In 1997 IDC did a survey of business computing users (presumably CTOs and CIOs). 0% of them said they used Linux. At the time this was probably false because they (the CTOs and CIOs) didn't know about it. Furthermore, this only counts business use, clearly there were millions of installations in other settings.
Now they've done another study and 13% of the respondents said they use Linux. It doesn't say they use it exclusively and this isn't a weighted number. That is, it could be that it was the top 13 companies in the world (ranked by size of IT dept) that said they used Linux 100% each OR it could be the smallest 13% that said they had "one test Linux box".
My basic point is that this survey tells us nothing about the real marketshare (measured in number of machines weighted by their purpose) of Linux, but a lot about the mindshare among CIOs. --- Put Hemos through English 101! "An armed society is a polite society" -- Robert Heinlein
Seriously, taking your shortsighted approach we wouldn't get very far. You need to read up on the inability of evolutionary systems to "return to the drawing board" to totally restructure something. --- Put Hemos through English 101! "An armed society is a polite society" -- Robert Heinlein
I know a sysadmin that "promotes" MS based on the following principle: "If I don't know it, it's crap."
This is a corollary of the old standby "I don't want to learn anything new" which is the unfortunately often coupled with (at least in this case) "...and I don't know diddly now, either."
Linux: Because an OS is about choice, not intertia.
--- Put Hemos through English 101! "An armed society is a polite society" -- Robert Heinlein
It's not just the lawyers who say it isn't enough to say "we don't use dates". It's me, too.
And as a programmer at a bank I know what I'm talking about. I've had countless companies tell me "we don't use dates" only to find that the data they send me is garbage, y2k-wise.
It's also funny when they say "we're compliant as long as the user types dates in correctly". Yeah, heaven forbid the software do any work like date-validation. --- Put Hemos through English 101! "An armed society is a polite society" -- Robert Heinlein
1999 is part of "this century" as well as "this millenium". So is 2000. Jan 1, 2001 is the first day of the new millenium.
He said that today was the last Friday the 13th of this century. Since Friday, October 13, 2000 is a Friday the 13th in this century but is not today, that makes him wrong. --- Put Hemos through English 101! "An armed society is a polite society" -- Robert Heinlein
However, today IS the last Friday the 13th in "the 1900's". --- Put Hemos through English 101! "An armed society is a polite society" -- Robert Heinlein
So what's with www.windows2000test.com? I haven't been able to get there for a week. Did they give up? I live just north of Seattle so I know it isn't the weather this time.... --- Put Hemos through English 101! "An armed society is a polite society" -- Robert Heinlein
You think that open source software is where the future is heading, right? Put your money where your mouth is and buy shares in rhat, beos...
I was under the impression that BeOS is NOT open. It's cool like Java (buzzword compliant) not Linux (free software). --- Put Hemos through English 101! "An armed society is a polite society" -- Robert Heinlein
Slashdot Mirror
If the license isn't OS, then the whole thing is still run by Sun and this is just an exercise in dumping.
This means that after Sun runs MS into the ground, Sun can close everything back up, change the formats and reap the upgrade-treadmill rewards.
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Put Hemos through English 101!
"An armed society is a polite society" -- Robert Heinlein
Rather than let the truth get out, the NSA used their backdoor key to get in the take down the MS server....
/security/inc/scripts.txt, line 279
Microsoft VBScript runtime error '800a000d'
Type mismatch: 'CInt'
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Put Hemos through English 101!
"An armed society is a polite society" -- Robert Heinlein
SARCASM=ON
Hi, I'm currently looking into becoming a scientist. Could any of you recommend some good science software for Linux? You know, things like measuring, testing, etc.
SARCASM=OFF
---
Put Hemos through English 101!
"An armed society is a polite society" -- Robert Heinlein
This is amazingly cool. Let me lay it out in a simple list with a close-to-home example:
- Slashdot uses MySQL
- Slashdot occasionally has DB problems
- GPL'd software always has source code available
Conclusion: If MySQL were GPL'd, Slashdot could be made more stable.I think we can all agree this is a laudable goal. Just because the GPL'd release is slightly older means nothing. The only reason new releases exist is to fix bugs or add features. Both of these actions are possible to perform against GPL'd software WITHOUT the permission of the original owner.
---
Put Hemos through English 101!
"An armed society is a polite society" -- Robert Heinlein
Does anyone else find it ironic that someone named "HeUnique" would copy a headline word for word from another publication?
BTW, you probably want to change that before someone sues.
---
Put Hemos through English 101!
"An armed society is a polite society" -- Robert Heinlein
I just got 8.5 ("PRE-NECKO") two nights ago. I wanted a "post-necko" release, but I couldn't get the nightly builds to work.
Oh well, I have a few days of vacation so I guess I can spare the dl time.
---
Put Hemos through English 101!
"An armed society is a polite society" -- Robert Heinlein
...he's not supposed to. But apparently he does anyway. Go back and read ten stories posted by Hemos and you'll find at least 15 basic spelling/grammar mistakes.
---
Put Hemos through English 101!
"An armed society is a polite society" -- Robert Heinlein
Here's my two favorite stupid tech stories:
1) Microsoft's Novell client does not operate to spec (surprise). If you do a Novell "capture" to file and start printing, you are fine. If you stop sending data for 45 seconds the file pointer (apparently) resets to the beginning of the file so subsequent data overwrites existing data. I proved this by writing a qbasic program that demonstrated the effect and then called Microsoft. I explained the whole issue and mentioned my qbasic demo. His response: "Windows 95 doesn't come with QBasic." He literally wouldn't let me go any further with the call at that point. I asked to speak with his supervisor and he said "OK, it'll take 2 business days", but the guy never called.
2) This one happened to a coworker. Gateway computer with a hard drive that shows several bad sectors. Still under warranty so he calls tech support to get a replacement. Techs answer: "Bad sectors are usually caused by software, so do a full reinstall of everything and it should be fine. In any case, we don't replace drives until they are 50% bad sectors." Uh-huh, is there anyone with a brain I can speak with?
---
Put Hemos through English 101!
"An armed society is a polite society" -- Robert Heinlein
Are you kidding? Geeks support many otherwise marginal companies. VA Linux Systems (or whatever they call themselves now) comes to mind.
But maybe you are defining "serious manufacturer" as "a manufacturer everyone has heard of", which in this context is circular. If everyone has heard of them then they aren't just for geeks, are they?
---
Put Hemos through English 101!
"An armed society is a polite society" -- Robert Heinlein
First of all, voluntary open surveys have zero statistical value. You have to pick a random sample BEFOREHAND and then apply the survey. The other "Internet Addiction" story had this same problem.
So I thought, "I'll have some fun". I started filling the survey out inaccurately ("How long have you been using the Internet" "82 years"). But this just got boring and I quit
If YOU want to have fun, though, do this: Give reasonable but high figures for your Internet usage, but report no symptoms of abuse. That is, say you're "logged on to the Internet" 18 hours/day, but that you've never lied to anyone about it, or felt guilty or whatever. See what they make of THAT.
---
Put Hemos through English 101!
"An armed society is a polite society" -- Robert Heinlein
This is EXACTLY my question. I HATE "editing" movies by using the pause button on my VCR and camcorder.
But MainActor doesn't seem to be the solution. I downloaded the thing, but there didn't seem to be anything there. Yeah, it'll show the individual frames of the movie I selected, but I can't do diddly with them. My basic question was "where's the rest of it?"
---
Put Hemos through English 101!
"An armed society is a polite society" -- Robert Heinlein
I was just thinking to myself "Hmmm...I haven't seen any egregious spelling/grammar errors from Hemos lately...maybe I should change my sig." Then this story appeared.
/. takeover. You may now safely begin putting Rob, Jeff and crew through some training on "how journalism works".
Andover.net, if you are listening: We've all gotten over the shock of the
---
Put Hemos through English 101!
"An armed society is a polite society" -- Robert Heinlein
I would agree that there are certain tasks that have not been made more efficient (or have been made less efficient) by computers. But that fact is more than balanced by the following factors:
- Previously impossible tasks are now possible (CAD, simulations, etc)
- Some tasks no longer require a human at all (ATMs and automatic processing of all sorts)
- Computers allow the creation of previously unavailable modes of human behavior that, in some cases, can be more efficient (cell phones, Internet usage, etc)
The list goes on. My point is that, since the economy is doing better, per capita, than ever before, it must be the case that each worker in the workforce must be more efficient than ever before. Where else but computerization to give the credit?---
Put Hemos through English 101!
"An armed society is a polite society" -- Robert Heinlein
First, I love this quote: "Past issues with first-release operating systems from Microsoft have caused organizations to rein in their Windows 2000 deployment plans."
I guess you can't fool all of the people all of the time.
Now the clarification: Linux didn't go from 0 to 13% since 1997, at least not the way you are probably thinking.
In 1997 IDC did a survey of business computing users (presumably CTOs and CIOs). 0% of them said they used Linux. At the time this was probably false because they (the CTOs and CIOs) didn't know about it. Furthermore, this only counts business use, clearly there were millions of installations in other settings.
Now they've done another study and 13% of the respondents said they use Linux. It doesn't say they use it exclusively and this isn't a weighted number. That is, it could be that it was the top 13 companies in the world (ranked by size of IT dept) that said they used Linux 100% each OR it could be the smallest 13% that said they had "one test Linux box".
My basic point is that this survey tells us nothing about the real marketshare (measured in number of machines weighted by their purpose) of Linux, but a lot about the mindshare among CIOs.
---
Put Hemos through English 101!
"An armed society is a polite society" -- Robert Heinlein
...that got us in this Y2k mess.
Seriously, taking your shortsighted approach we wouldn't get very far. You need to read up on the inability of evolutionary systems to "return to the drawing board" to totally restructure something.
---
Put Hemos through English 101!
"An armed society is a polite society" -- Robert Heinlein
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Put Hemos through English 101!
"An armed society is a polite society" -- Robert Heinlein
I know a sysadmin that "promotes" MS based on the following principle: "If I don't know it, it's crap."
This is a corollary of the old standby "I don't want to learn anything new" which is the unfortunately often coupled with (at least in this case) "...and I don't know diddly now, either."
Linux: Because an OS is about choice, not intertia.
---
Put Hemos through English 101!
"An armed society is a polite society" -- Robert Heinlein
INVALID DATE
Why? Because 1/12/02 is y2k-ambiguous and therefore non-compliant. Therefore any program that allows 1/12/02 is not y2k-compliant.
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Put Hemos through English 101!
"An armed society is a polite society" -- Robert Heinlein
It's not just the lawyers who say it isn't enough to say "we don't use dates". It's me, too.
And as a programmer at a bank I know what I'm talking about. I've had countless companies tell me "we don't use dates" only to find that the data they send me is garbage, y2k-wise.
It's also funny when they say "we're compliant as long as the user types dates in correctly". Yeah, heaven forbid the software do any work like date-validation.
---
Put Hemos through English 101!
"An armed society is a polite society" -- Robert Heinlein
1999 is part of "this century" as well as "this millenium". So is 2000. Jan 1, 2001 is the first day of the new millenium.
He said that today was the last Friday the 13th of this century. Since Friday, October 13, 2000 is a Friday the 13th in this century but is not today, that makes him wrong.
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Put Hemos through English 101!
"An armed society is a polite society" -- Robert Heinlein
October 2000 has a Friday the 13th.
However, today IS the last Friday the 13th in "the 1900's".
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Put Hemos through English 101!
"An armed society is a polite society" -- Robert Heinlein
I've made several posts on this topic as well.
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Put Hemos through English 101!
"An armed society is a polite society" -- Robert Heinlein
So what's with www.windows2000test.com? I haven't been able to get there for a week. Did they give up? I live just north of Seattle so I know it isn't the weather this time....
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Put Hemos through English 101!
"An armed society is a polite society" -- Robert Heinlein
No, it does not "beg the question". You mean it "raises the question".
To "beg the question" is a logical fallacy with an unfortunate name. It is also known as circular or recursive logic.
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Put Hemos through English 101!
"An armed society is a polite society" -- Robert Heinlein
You think that open source software is where the future is heading, right? Put your money where your mouth is and buy shares in rhat, beos...
I was under the impression that BeOS is NOT open. It's cool like Java (buzzword compliant) not Linux (free software).
---
Put Hemos through English 101!
"An armed society is a polite society" -- Robert Heinlein