I haven't had any experience with kernel upgrades breaking commercial apps other than VMWare.
Software shouldn't be written at such a low level that a kernel upgrade will break it. VMWare broke because their kernel module broke. Most Commercial software shouldn't require a kernel module to run, but vmware of course is such low-level that I can see why it would require one.
I'm curious what this "habit" is that you speak of.
The only release issues that I know of that break some apps is releases that switch from gcc 2.95 to 2.96 or 3.x. Once does not make a habit. And these instances don't affect ALL apps.
because you moron, I was making a counterpoint to the parent article that stated you HAVE to accept cash because it's "legal tender for all debts public and private"
I keep forgetting... "By definition, half the population is below average intelligence."
This court is the most often overturned circuit court.
Even if they aren't overturned, I see this to be similar to the Prayer in schools ruling some years ago.
The 1954 addition of "Under God" will probably be removed if there any changes at all.
Now, for the "In God We Trust" on the money... If a Suit is filed against that, then I respond by saying, the government isn't forcing you to use cash.
How many physical sites do you use to host your systems? And is this due to network redundancy issues, disaster management issues, or simply realestate issues? If they're all in one site, is it because you feel things are easier to manage that way, or is it a limitation some crazy developer didn't think of?
What I'm getting at is I'd love to work for google, and actually like some of the current job postings, but I don't want to move to California. (don't get me started on the reasons) If Gogle had sites in other locations, wouldn't it make sense to hire local admins to go deal with situations there? And thus the concept of the Google branch office is born...
before I secheduled even a phone interview, I'd always search dejanews for the person in question. Sometimes I'd come up with a definate hit (first and last name as well as email and mentioning the local area or some work that was on their resume) and I'd be able to see what kind of person I was really dealing with. That's when I started looking at what I'd posted.
before they got out of the ISP business, they started sending me bills for $20/mo. Now I never ordered their service, they just started billing me and had somehow attached the account to my AMEX card. So I changed my amex number, and started trying to get this account cancelled. every mont they'd cancel my account, and send me a bill the next month. this went on for 9 months. finally I discovered that it was my father's account I was being billed for, but he was also being billed and paying his service.
I was very close to hiring a lawyer to deal with them when they announced they were getting out of the ISP business. They sent me a notice that my account was going to be cancelled and I was overjoyed. Eventually they quit billing me, but I kind of miss it. Because, you see whenever they credited my account, the credit would end up om my AMEX card. they were giving me $22/month. I dont know why this happened either, but I just loked at it as payment for the hour on the phone I spent with them every month.
that's a client issue. If you want to tke the code for your favorite client and have it watch subject headers for multi-part posts and have it "resume" then go for it.
If you're thinking that you should be able to post your 56MB file in a single post to alt.binaries.Imadumbass, then you don't get why they are multiparted in the first place. news servers are typically configured to limit article size. Default on INN is about 100K. depending on the news admin, sometimes it's more, sometimes less.
for fucks sake! (in a frustrated sense, not an angry one) I didn't say "his" was more appropriate, I said I'd rather read "his or hers" or "theirs".
I find it harder to read because I don't see it very often and when I do see it, I think I missed something an do back to see if we referred to a female somewhere specifically. It just doesn't flow the same for me. I don't need to "give any thought" to why I find it harder to read, I just do.
I still say using "her" in place of "him" in a gender neutral usage is the grammatical equivalent of affirmative action, and it's silly. If you don't want to use male gender, why is it any less inappropriate to use female gender?
um, I just find it hard to read. I'd rather it was "his or her", or "their". "Her" is no more PC than "his". It's just the grammatical equivalent of affirmative action.
Caling me a racist because I'd prefer something was written in a less-sexist manner is kind of assinine.
Yes, you have to have some sort of apprenticeship, and all the book-learning in the world won't be enough when you get neck deep in the workings, but I don't know if it's a skill.
Let's face it, most good sysadmins are lazy. The do something once the best way they can, and hopefully dont have to touch it for a long time. There's definately some art in laziness.
rather than play the pronoun game, and since the english language doesn't have a neuter-gender, I find it easier to read "their" or even "his or her" rather than "her". It's commonly accepted practice to write things to avoid gender or to use the male gender as the default gender. I tend to lean towards "their" even if it's not grammatically correct for singular/plural usae reasons.
Example: rather than "and some exercises at the end to help the reader apply the covered information to her own situation", I would have said "and some exercises at the end to help the readers apply the covered information to their own situations".
does that make me a pig? I don't think so, I just want some thing that's easy to read.
All the New York and California people in austin this week make living here unbearable. We're glad that you like SXSW, we just wish we could enjoy it since we live here. Paying $100+ for a wristband that might get us into a concert sucks. a few years ago they were $20, and you could pretty much walk in and out of whatever show you wanted to. It wasn't so fscking overcrowded.
But we're friendly in Austin. Welcome to austin. Now eat up and go home!!
that might be fine if their config wasn't so schizophrenic. are they bsd (rc.config) or sysV?
They don't know.
and it only takes the prize for sysadmins if you're one of the "new-age" admins that doens't know a config file from a hole in the ground. suse won't let you edit the config files by hand. you have to use yast or yout changes get overwritten at random times.
And, as much as I hate using NIS, yast still hasn't figured out that ypbind has a broadcast option. (ok, maybe add a warning about using it, but still...)
so suse, in my opinion takes the prize for lusers who don't really know what's going on. Or for developers who only care about their code and the desktop. (wait... was I redundant?)
plonk!
(yes, I know it's a usenet reference, and there aren't killfiles here, but I'll still put him in my killfile and procmail spam filter just incase)
except that these are messages that comply with RFC822. They are displayable by any mailer that follows these generally accepted internet standards documents.
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I haven't had any experience with kernel upgrades breaking commercial apps other than VMWare.
Software shouldn't be written at such a low level that a kernel upgrade will break it. VMWare broke because their kernel module broke. Most Commercial software shouldn't require a kernel module to run, but vmware of course is such low-level that I can see why it would require one.
I'm curious what this "habit" is that you speak of.
The only release issues that I know of that break some apps is releases that switch from gcc 2.95 to 2.96 or 3.x. Once does not make a habit. And these instances don't affect ALL apps.
John Anderton! You need a Guinness!
so don't pay taxes.
so you're going to ask... if I'm not supposed to report my income, and not use cash, what the hell am I supposed to do?
Barter.
because you moron, I was making a counterpoint to the parent article that stated you HAVE to accept cash because it's "legal tender for all debts public and private"
I keep forgetting... "By definition, half the population is below average intelligence."
my counter arguments to pulling that phrase out of our money was a joke. (didn't come across that way though apparently)
I doubt the argument to take "In God We trust" off our cash will fly, but I bet some california liberal will try.
that's why the sign "We reserve the right to refuse service to Assholes like you" is hanginh on my wall.
Not calling you an asshole, but just pointing out that you don't have to accept cash. you can just refuse to do business with a cashpayer.
This court is the most often overturned circuit court.
Even if they aren't overturned, I see this to be similar to the Prayer in schools ruling some years ago.
The 1954 addition of "Under God" will probably be removed if there any changes at all.
Now, for the "In God We Trust" on the money... If a Suit is filed against that, then I respond by saying, the government isn't forcing you to use cash.
How many physical sites do you use to host your systems? And is this due to network redundancy issues, disaster management issues, or simply realestate issues? If they're all in one site, is it because you feel things are easier to manage that way, or is it a limitation some crazy developer didn't think of?
What I'm getting at is I'd love to work for google, and actually like some of the current job postings, but I don't want to move to California. (don't get me started on the reasons) If Gogle had sites in other locations, wouldn't it make sense to hire local admins to go deal with situations there? And thus the concept of the Google branch office is born...
when they put me somewhere doing more than just busywork, I'll call you. Until people start hiring sysadmins again, I'm stuck working for the state.
dejanews was my best tool to weed out resumes
before I secheduled even a phone interview, I'd always search dejanews for the person in question. Sometimes I'd come up with a definate hit (first and last name as well as email and mentioning the local area or some work that was on their resume) and I'd be able to see what kind of person I was really dealing with. That's when I started looking at what I'd posted.
how about 2400 machines run by 2 operators, 2 helpdesk-types, and 3 admins.
Using what you ask? Korn Shell code.
this includes automated, unattended reinstalls, backups, printer selection and setup, software installs, X configs. Everything, and we were bored.
So Tivoli, or Unicenter? yeah, it's doable with them, but it's also doable with shell scripts. And a hell of a lot cheaper.
before they got out of the ISP business, they started sending me bills for $20/mo. Now I never ordered their service, they just started billing me and had somehow attached the account to my AMEX card. So I changed my amex number, and started trying to get this account cancelled. every mont they'd cancel my account, and send me a bill the next month. this went on for 9 months. finally I discovered that it was my father's account I was being billed for, but he was also being billed and paying his service.
I was very close to hiring a lawyer to deal with them when they announced they were getting out of the ISP business. They sent me a notice that my account was going to be cancelled and I was overjoyed. Eventually they quit billing me, but I kind of miss it. Because, you see whenever they credited my account, the credit would end up om my AMEX card. they were giving me $22/month. I dont know why this happened either, but I just loked at it as payment for the hour on the phone I spent with them every month.
Any good server should see a uuEncoded message and store it in compressed form on the server.
wow...
you've never run a news server have you?
I just can't see why we have to implement a new standard before it's ready.
Do you work in Redmond?
that's a client issue. If you want to tke the code for your favorite client and have it watch subject headers for multi-part posts and have it "resume" then go for it.
If you're thinking that you should be able to post your 56MB file in a single post to alt.binaries.Imadumbass, then you don't get why they are multiparted in the first place. news servers are typically configured to limit article size. Default on INN is about 100K. depending on the news admin, sometimes it's more, sometimes less.
and all this about a church that was started on a bet between two sci-fi writers.
coming from "Drunken_Jackass" I'll take that as a compliment.
From anyone else, my reply would be:
No I'm not. I'm an asshole, and proud of it.
for fucks sake! (in a frustrated sense, not an angry one) I didn't say "his" was more appropriate, I said I'd rather read "his or hers" or "theirs".
I find it harder to read because I don't see it very often and when I do see it, I think I missed something an do back to see if we referred to a female somewhere specifically. It just doesn't flow the same for me. I don't need to "give any thought" to why I find it harder to read, I just do.
I still say using "her" in place of "him" in a gender neutral usage is the grammatical equivalent of affirmative action, and it's silly. If you don't want to use male gender, why is it any less inappropriate to use female gender?
um, I just find it hard to read. I'd rather it was "his or her", or "their". "Her" is no more PC than "his". It's just the grammatical equivalent of affirmative action.
Caling me a racist because I'd prefer something was written in a less-sexist manner is kind of assinine.
I'd call it more of an art... Black art.
Yes, you have to have some sort of apprenticeship, and all the book-learning in the world won't be enough when you get neck deep in the workings, but I don't know if it's a skill.
Let's face it, most good sysadmins are lazy. The do something once the best way they can, and hopefully dont have to touch it for a long time. There's definately some art in laziness.
rather than play the pronoun game, and since the english language doesn't have a neuter-gender, I find it easier to read "their" or even "his or her" rather than "her". It's commonly accepted practice to write things to avoid gender or to use the male gender as the default gender. I tend to lean towards "their" even if it's not grammatically correct for singular/plural usae reasons.
Example: rather than "and some exercises at the end to help the reader apply the covered information to her own situation", I would have said "and some exercises at the end to help the readers apply the covered information to their own situations".
does that make me a pig? I don't think so, I just want some thing that's easy to read.
All the New York and California people in austin this week make living here unbearable. We're glad that you like SXSW, we just wish we could enjoy it since we live here. Paying $100+ for a wristband that might get us into a concert sucks. a few years ago they were $20, and you could pretty much walk in and out of whatever show you wanted to. It wasn't so fscking overcrowded.
But we're friendly in Austin. Welcome to austin. Now eat up and go home!!
that might be fine if their config wasn't so schizophrenic. are they bsd (rc.config) or sysV?
They don't know.
and it only takes the prize for sysadmins if you're one of the "new-age" admins that doens't know a config file from a hole in the ground. suse won't let you edit the config files by hand. you have to use yast or yout changes get overwritten at random times.
And, as much as I hate using NIS, yast still hasn't figured out that ypbind has a broadcast option. (ok, maybe add a warning about using it, but still...)
so suse, in my opinion takes the prize for lusers who don't really know what's going on. Or for developers who only care about their code and the desktop. (wait... was I redundant?)
plonk!
(yes, I know it's a usenet reference, and there aren't killfiles here, but I'll still put him in my killfile and procmail spam filter just incase)
except that these are messages that comply with RFC822. They are displayable by any mailer that follows these generally accepted internet standards documents.
Microsoft doesn't appear to care about these RFCs