Apple doesn't bring us anything new to the table, all it brings us is a bunch of people who became fanatics. (oh, wait, i guess we're all fanatics, since we're at slashdot)
HURD is a rekindling of a Unix kernel. It's microkernel design basically brings us back to MACH/BSD, which.. oh.. hmm.. nextstations were what, 1989, 1990?
*yawn*
Redoing the same thing in a different way just yields us the same thing. Get it?
Wasn't it back in about 1991ish, when Linus still thought that Linux wasn't going to be anything special, that Linus said "maybe in the next year or so HURD will become useful", or something similar to those lines? implying that HURD would displace any usefulness of Linux.. hmm.. my my my how things have changed.
Aside from academics is there any reason whatsoever that anyone on earth would ever want to attempt to operate this?
Overrated, and Troll? THat's the worst job of moderation I've ever seen.
Seriously, I'm in metro Detroit. I've never even -seen- an iPod, except in the displays at the places where they are sold. I work in an electronics store.
The iPod is pretty much a failure outside of geek circles, from what I've seen. We sell them where I work, didn't sell a single one for Christmas. People generally think they are really lame.
I did that to a Unix System III box back in the day. Made sure I didn't erase the shell, a few commands, and that was about it. watched as it all melted down.
Actually, nothing really melted down until people started attempting to login, or to start new programs...
My roommate's laptop had only previously ever been connected to an Internet via either the NAT/firewall box on our home network, or via her work network.
She got an AT&T Wireless Air-card type thing, and almost immediatly upon logging into it, her computer started counting down the seconds to rebooting. Don't remember what virus that was, but it's STILL going around like a year or two later. And it is infecting virtually ANYTHING that connects to the Internet if it's vulnerable. Also picked up several others that had never touched her laptop before that within hours of being connected without a NAT/firewall in the way.
I'd be willing to bet that a lot of the DLL's that are called from those viruses, to do things like scan for email addresses in Outlook, or to send email from outlook, so on so forth, are mostly stub calls in Wine that actually don't do anything, simply because they haven't been implemented.
It's pretty egotistical of geeks everywhere to think that the original Macintosh computer ad has only one surviving copy, and that's from a computer geek.
Hello, it was on during the freaking SUPER BOWL.
There's GOT to be a bazillion people out there with tapes of some kind of the entire super bowl probably for every year since there's been something you could farkin record it on!
Well, if it's in orbit, the ping time will be around 750ms minimum, as it takes about that long for a satellite internet connection to return a ping. About 600ms to go from terrestrial to orbit and back again, + processing time and such.
Would make a "Save Enterprise" campaign? It is horrible, awful, and bad.
I'd rather gnaw my arm off than sit through an episode of it.
In fact, I would gnaw my arm off to get OUT of sitting through an episode of it.
And Berman needs to be shot for what he's done.
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It's really way too bad that all the documentation is useless until you actually understand how everything works, too.
Like, you can't follow the FAQ properly without having actually used xfce for a few days.
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Everything I'veseen in Gnome that is "getting fixed in the next release" gets turned into useless garbage before the next release.
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behave funny? if i enable compositing in x.org, and am running xfce (with or without composite enabled in it), every non-trivial application crashes within a few seconds of startup with an "X-Windows system error".
I can't think of anything else that should be shared between applications.
Well, if no one shares it, that's fine. It's still a library, and libraries belong in one place. (although groups of libraries that belong together should be in their own directory from there)
And instead of having libgtk1.2-62 or whatever the heck i have, and having libgtk2.0-2.6.1-121 or whatever it is i currently have, shouldn't i just have
libgtk1
libgtk2
? At least until interfaces become broken, then oh my god, i might get libgtk3 ?
If someone would make USE of the Library versioning system, and -then- make SANE use of LIBRARIES, then this would be an absolute no-brainer.
You put your LIBRARIES in a common directory. Everything else that relates to a piece of software is in it's own directory.
LIBRARIES ARE THINGS THAT ARE MEANT TO BE SHARED BY MULTIPLE SOFTWARES.
When I go to install some program, and find I have to install 8,000 different libraries, that are mostly only used by that ONE piece of software.. that really farking pisses me off.
Any software that requires anything beyond (a) it's executeable (b) a configuration file, should have it's own directory where all of it's stuff goes.
Now that I've come back to this thread, thank you very much for the invite, moderators who got around to moderating some of my posts...
"hyperbole" is "a figure of speech which uses exaggeration for emphasis or effect".. hyperbole is not "take a word and say it means something other then you meant it to be", whatever the hell that means, because it doesn't make much sense the way you said it.
I fucking hate the MPAA, and RIAA. And now, I fucking hate you too. All the same, all attempting to cheat people, IMO.
Note, I didn't respond to your other childish rants, I didn't even bother to read them.. but since my post got moderated to "INSIGHTFUL".. (+3) I had to come back and see which one it was.
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Apple doesn't bring us anything new to the table, all it brings us is a bunch of people who became fanatics. (oh, wait, i guess we're all fanatics, since we're at slashdot)
HURD is a rekindling of a Unix kernel. It's microkernel design basically brings us back to MACH/BSD, which .. oh.. hmm.. nextstations were what, 1989, 1990?
*yawn*
Redoing the same thing in a different way just yields us the same thing. Get it?
Wasn't it back in about 1991ish, when Linus still thought that Linux wasn't going to be anything special, that Linus said "maybe in the next year or so HURD will become useful", or something similar to those lines? implying that HURD would displace any usefulness of Linux.. hmm.. my my my how things have changed.
Aside from academics is there any reason whatsoever that anyone on earth would ever want to attempt to operate this?
Overrated, and Troll? THat's the worst job of moderation I've ever seen.
Seriously, I'm in metro Detroit. I've never even -seen- an iPod, except in the displays at the places where they are sold. I work in an electronics store.
The iPod is pretty much a failure outside of geek circles, from what I've seen. We sell them where I work, didn't sell a single one for Christmas. People generally think they are really lame.
If I'm not mistaken (and I may be) I think wine will absotively posilutely REFUSE to run with any serious privilege level (such as root).
I did that to a Unix System III box back in the day. Made sure I didn't erase the shell, a few commands, and that was about it. watched as it all melted down.
Actually, nothing really melted down until people started attempting to login, or to start new programs...
My roommate's laptop had only previously ever been connected to an Internet via either the NAT/firewall box on our home network, or via her work network.
She got an AT&T Wireless Air-card type thing, and almost immediatly upon logging into it, her computer started counting down the seconds to rebooting. Don't remember what virus that was, but it's STILL going around like a year or two later. And it is infecting virtually ANYTHING that connects to the Internet if it's vulnerable. Also picked up several others that had never touched her laptop before that within hours of being connected without a NAT/firewall in the way.
Kudos for your signature, roman_mir. I've been saying this for years!!!!! *you are now on my favorite slashdotters list*
I'd be willing to bet that a lot of the DLL's that are called from those viruses, to do things like scan for email addresses in Outlook, or to send email from outlook, so on so forth, are mostly stub calls in Wine that actually don't do anything, simply because they haven't been implemented.
It's pretty egotistical of geeks everywhere to think that the original Macintosh computer ad has only one surviving copy, and that's from a computer geek.
Hello, it was on during the freaking SUPER BOWL.
There's GOT to be a bazillion people out there with tapes of some kind of the entire super bowl probably for every year since there's been something you could farkin record it on!
Think about it!
Why won't he use the acronym form of the Ambient's Sound System? Hmm...
Jerkoff.
This is probably the longest string of comments I've ever had on something, so that makes me happy. Also, the most bizarre moderations:
:-)
what moron, posted to 'Star Trek: Enterprise' Cancelled?, has been moderated Insightful (+1).
It is currently scored Insightful (2).
what moron, posted to 'Star Trek: Enterprise' Cancelled?, has been moderated Informative (+1).
It is currently scored Informative (3).
what moron, posted to 'Star Trek: Enterprise' Cancelled?, has been moderated Overrated (-1).
It is currently scored Informative (2).
what moron, posted to 'Star Trek: Enterprise' Cancelled?, has been moderated Funny (+1).
It is currently scored Funny (3).
what moron, posted to 'Star Trek: Enterprise' Cancelled?, has been moderated Flamebait (-1).
It is currently scored Funny (2).
what moron, posted to 'Star Trek: Enterprise' Cancelled?, has been moderated Insightful (+1).
It is currently scored Insightful (2).
what moron, posted to 'Star Trek: Enterprise' Cancelled?, has been moderated Informative (+1).
It is currently scored Informative (3).
what moron, posted to 'Star Trek: Enterprise' Cancelled?, has been moderated Overrated (-1).
It is currently scored Informative (2).
what moron, posted to 'Star Trek: Enterprise' Cancelled?, has been moderated Funny (+1).
It is currently scored Funny (3).
what moron, posted to 'Star Trek: Enterprise' Cancelled?, has been moderated Flamebait (-1).
It is currently scored Funny (2).
Informative and Insightful, not. Overrated? definitely not. Flamebait, maybe.. not intentionally, though, just stating a fact. Funny? Very.
hmm, use fewer junk characters? as compared to what? The topic we are DISCUSSING is junk, so why use fewer junk characters?
Well, if it's in orbit, the ping time will be around 750ms minimum, as it takes about that long for a satellite internet connection to return a ping. About 600ms to go from terrestrial to orbit and back again, + processing time and such.
Would make a "Save Enterprise" campaign? It is horrible, awful, and bad.
I'd rather gnaw my arm off than sit through an episode of it.
In fact, I would gnaw my arm off to get OUT of sitting through an episode of it.
And Berman needs to be shot for what he's done.
It's really way too bad that all the documentation is useless until you actually understand how everything works, too.
Like, you can't follow the FAQ properly without having actually used xfce for a few days.
Everything I'veseen in Gnome that is "getting fixed in the next release" gets turned into useless garbage before the next release.
behave funny? if i enable compositing in x.org, and am running xfce (with or without composite enabled in it), every non-trivial application crashes within a few seconds of startup with an "X-Windows system error".
Of course, mark hamil and harrison ford are currently under NDA to discuss Star Wars epsiodes 7-9....
Oracle apparently makes the most brilliant database software in the world.
PeopleSoft makes.. uh.. what?
Anyone know?
I can't tell what any of their software actually does.
I can't think of anything else that should be shared between applications.
Well, if no one shares it, that's fine. It's still a library, and libraries belong in one place. (although groups of libraries that belong together should be in their own directory from there)
And instead of having libgtk1.2-62 or whatever the heck i have, and having libgtk2.0-2.6.1-121 or whatever it is i currently have, shouldn't i just have
libgtk1
libgtk2
? At least until interfaces become broken, then oh my god, i might get libgtk3 ?
If someone would make USE of the Library versioning system, and -then- make SANE use of LIBRARIES, then this would be an absolute no-brainer.
You put your LIBRARIES in a common directory. Everything else that relates to a piece of software is in it's own directory.
LIBRARIES ARE THINGS THAT ARE MEANT TO BE SHARED BY MULTIPLE SOFTWARES.
When I go to install some program, and find I have to install 8,000 different libraries, that are mostly only used by that ONE piece of software.. that really farking pisses me off.
Any software that requires anything beyond (a) it's executeable (b) a configuration file, should have it's own directory where all of it's stuff goes.
Now that I've come back to this thread, thank you very much for the invite, moderators who got around to moderating some of my posts...
.. hyperbole is not "take a word and say it means something other then you meant it to be", whatever the hell that means, because it doesn't make much sense the way you said it.
"hyperbole" is "a figure of speech which uses exaggeration for emphasis or effect"
I fucking hate the MPAA, and RIAA. And now, I fucking hate you too. All the same, all attempting to cheat people, IMO.
.. (+3) I had to come back and see which one it was.
Note, I didn't respond to your other childish rants, I didn't even bother to read them.. but since my post got moderated to "INSIGHTFUL"
Tell me, is English your first language?
This should be moderated insightful, not Flamebait. Mods.