CD: Hold off on the blaming of MS, it's still not clear.
Can I still bash Microsoft if I really, really want to?
I just couldn't help blaming Microsoft whenever I see 'Microsoft Windows' in the news roundup. This is something like complusory-anti-microsoft something, I think I've medical clearance to back my action. People in 'Anti-Microsoft Anonymous' recommends me to post in/., they said it'd help.
Atari 2600 was the first game console I bought. Thoughout the game history I think it was the games themselves leading the trend, rather than the game consoles.
We choose a game console by the games which they could run, rather by the innovative technologies it had. I wouldn't buy PS if it couldn't run Final Fantasy, etc.(like I wouldn't consider switching from Apple II to IBM if IBM couldn't run Ultima. ^_^)
I wondered why so many good games would only run on one particular game console, until I got to meet a game developer who told me that gaming industry is in fact, in contrary to what I thought, running a very serious business out there.
Production of a game nowaday involved a lot of money. Unless a game developer signed a very restrictive license agreement with the game console vendor, you wouldn't be granted the right to develop game for their console, and VC wouldn't give you money for your development.
The gaming business in game console is very different from gaming business in PC. Everybody can write games for PC, but only under close-partnership would one be allowed to develop game in a particular game console.
That explain why one game would appear in one game console seldom(not never) appear in another.
FedEx has a hiring freeze; oh, no, people must be using the Post Office more!
Really? they've a hiring freeze? I just saw the ads saying that FedEx will look for competent people everywhere in the world and hire them. Damn, I was beginning to believe them....
ts just the games that have changed. Everquest is no more addictive than Quake, which is no more addictive than Civilization, which is no more addictive than Nethack, which is nore more addictive than Zork, which is no more addictive than TinyMud, which is no more addictive than pac man, which is no more addictive than space invaders, which is no more addictive than combat, which is no more addictive than pong. Each had their addicts that had the journals, the "Wired"s of their day, all claiming we'd all end up "game-heads" by the end of the century...
You are absolutely right. In any momemt of time there are people who cast things they don't like/understand as social problems. They didn't realze they are, in fact, part of the social problems. Like this guy:
"The pop-singers should be responsible for kids' misbehaviors....yes! TV and Internet are responsible too.....hell, why do I need to talk the the kids!"
Hey! Too bad that Java sucks my left nut, and is in no way suited to deal with real time applications. 16 milliseconds to process a single RSA key? You've gotta be fucking kidding me.
Even it's slow it can still be used in RT system. I recommend you to pick a book on RT and actually spend some time to read it before opening your big mouth.
Of course, I sure something sucking your left nut wouldn't be suited to run on any RT system.:)
Believe it or not, this was told by one of my friend who claim to be an insider. Don't mod me as troll if you don't like it. Just take it grand of salt. I found the second reason so funny, just laugh if feel the same.:)
When you say people change to Linux because it's cheaper - actually it made little difference for people in China to use MS or Linux, they are both free(you know why). Even the anti-piracy movement targetting commercial sectors, the Government was using illegal copies of software, or at least 'unmatched' number of license. You know what I mean.
Things changed drastically one day when Government suddenly announced to develop their own operating system and planned to gradually replace MS software in Government. My friend told me it's not out of accident, it's all political.
First, it's been a floating rumor that some US printers had secret chips to guide missles when time comes, and these tailor-made printers are mostly sold to Middle-east. China Government is aware of this rumor and to their surprise their agents found out it's not just a rumor. Report said that there are actually some tailor-made hardware sold to Middle-East and Asia, I'm not sure whether it's related to missile-guide chips, but that was enough to began their worry in using US' software.
Second, and most important, MS made the originally Simplified Chinese version of MS software in Taiwan. It's a major fault of MS. I think China Government might not mind who made them, but the DO mind when some innovative Taiwan programmers took the liberty to include some 'Easter Eggs' that humiliating communists and major players in communists party.
My friend show me those Easter Eggs by a couple of secret key triggers(iirc in Excel), they were so funny, but I'm sure those big bosses in communists' party weren't amused. China Government was so angry about it and thus pushing the development of their own OS.
It's not surprising Linux is their reasonable choice.
Lessons for MS to put more efforts on quality assurance against 'unplanned Easter Eggs' and not to give development jobs to people who have opposite political believes with the country where the products will be sold.:)
o not I get to be spanked this monday when 10 sql servers all start to try and connect to irc through the firewall.
I ran into that situation very often. How did you handle this? Please advise.
Why? Cause the management were a bunch of nerds that had no experience with business plans.
That's not entirely true. You've to produce business plans and financial forcast to get money from VC(s); and if they think you aren't good enough be the CEO, or you do not have qualified management layer, they will get you a CEO, and some managerment dudes.
Yes, you heard me right, get you a CEO. A CEO you've never met, and s/he will have handsome lot of stock options. Don't feel bad about it, you can bargain for better share, depends on th amount of money you ask from VCs.
VCs should take responsible for funding lunatic ideas. But hell, they've lots of money to go wrong.:D
M$ usually offers companies/universities 5-year contract of mandatory purchase of their products, after the victims received letters from BSA accusing of their license violation.
My universities was replacing SUN workstations with NT workstations til we found out the hidden contract they've with M$. *SIGH*
Have you ever coded a product that was efficient and secure after being pushed for three days to meet a deadline? Don't you become somewhat exhausted and lazy, primarily because you want to sleep, no matter how much money you're going to be paid? There comes a point where caffeine just won't help you operate anymore and your health becomes more of a priority than a "higher-up"'s regime.
Blah! Just say No to unreasonable deadline. Fight like a programmer!
I'm a 30% NT admin and 70% UNIX admin. I see from the above comparison you've seldom admin an NT server at all.
I also found your lacking of business experience when you said administering NT is simply clicking jobs. The production server is NOT your personal server, it can't be updated without justifications and business cases. I found it extremely hard to justify as many updates are not well-documented.
Most important, I can never guarantee the next update will not screw up the NT.
If all the people who take the time to complain on here would just take the time to phone and/or write their congressperson, it would probably make a big difference. The other side is organized; why aren't we?
The problem is that we don't know how to write with pens and papers, and congresspersons don't know how to use email.
the plural of "attorney general" is "attorneys general", not "attorney generals". The latter would be, I suppose, multiple military commanders with law degrees...
There's no mistake. Timothy is telling us that an army of evil commanders is invading an evil empire, and another evil empire was behind this, which the latter evil empire of course denies.
I could have sworn both the Code Red and Nimda (multiple) exploits were patched in October *last year*.
The fact that the IE can run.eml without prompting user must be my illusion, and the 'special' patches provided by Microsoft must be some placebo that do nothing more than changing the 'Update version' in Help->About.
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What kind of support Microsoft offers to their customer?....like I haven't got any support from Microsoft since day one of purchase.
CD: Hold off on the blaming of MS, it's still not clear.
/., they said it'd help.
Can I still bash Microsoft if I really, really want to?
I just couldn't help blaming Microsoft whenever I see 'Microsoft Windows' in the news roundup. This is something like complusory-anti-microsoft something, I think I've medical clearance to back my action. People in 'Anti-Microsoft Anonymous' recommends me to post in
Just my personal opinion....
Atari 2600 was the first game console I bought. Thoughout the game history I think it was the games themselves leading the trend, rather than the game consoles.
We choose a game console by the games which they could run, rather by the innovative technologies it had. I wouldn't buy PS if it couldn't run Final Fantasy, etc.(like I wouldn't consider switching from Apple II to IBM if IBM couldn't run Ultima. ^_^)
I wondered why so many good games would only run on one particular game console, until I got to meet a game developer who told me that gaming industry is in fact, in contrary to what I thought, running a very serious business out there.
Production of a game nowaday involved a lot of money. Unless a game developer signed a very restrictive license agreement with the game console vendor, you wouldn't be granted the right to develop game for their console, and VC wouldn't give you money for your development.
The gaming business in game console is very different from gaming business in PC. Everybody can write games for PC, but only under close-partnership would one be allowed to develop game in a particular game console.
That explain why one game would appear in one game console seldom(not never) appear in another.
All I asked for were some frickin' laser beams!
Exactly like what a CIO-idiot said in last meeting:
"All I asked for were unbreakable secure transaction! Is it so difficult?!"
You must be him.
BBC latest news on technology issue? Come on Michael....
Slashdotors want technical details!
FedEx has a hiring freeze; oh, no, people must be using the Post Office more!
Really? they've a hiring freeze? I just saw the ads saying that FedEx will look for competent people everywhere in the world and hire them. Damn, I was beginning to believe them....
ts just the games that have changed. Everquest is no more addictive than Quake, which is no more addictive than Civilization, which is no more addictive than Nethack, which is nore more addictive than Zork, which is no more addictive than TinyMud, which is no more addictive than pac man, which is no more addictive than space invaders, which is no more addictive than combat, which is no more addictive than pong. Each had their addicts that had the journals, the "Wired"s of their day, all claiming we'd all end up "game-heads" by the end of the century...
You are absolutely right. In any momemt of time there are people who cast things they don't like/understand as social problems. They didn't realze they are, in fact, part of the social problems. Like this guy:
"The pop-singers should be responsible for kids' misbehaviors....yes! TV and Internet are responsible too.....hell, why do I need to talk the the kids!"
Hey! Too bad that Java sucks my left nut, and is in no way suited to deal with real time applications. 16 milliseconds to process a single RSA key? You've gotta be fucking kidding me.
:)
Even it's slow it can still be used in RT system. I recommend you to pick a book on RT and actually spend some time to read it before opening your big mouth.
Of course, I sure something sucking your left nut wouldn't be suited to run on any RT system.
Yesterday's topic tomorrow.
/. will no longer be regarded as an major anti-MS. Now they will also call us anti-Government!
Wait a minute...
No way, CE on iPaq is pretty fast. We use it to show our trading demo to our investors.
Their only question was that why did we need to reset the iPaq every time we run the demo.
(Anyone would kindly advise how to prevent the iPaq from giving the loud *DING* sound while resetting would be greatly appreciated)
I've notice the same. Too bad Washington U's products are bundled with major UNIXs long time ago.
Any FTP server you'd highly recommend? Thanks
Believe it or not, this was told by one of my friend who claim to be an insider. Don't mod me as troll if you don't like it. Just take it grand of salt. I found the second reason so funny, just laugh if feel the same. :)
:)
When you say people change to Linux because it's cheaper - actually it made little difference for people in China to use MS or Linux, they are both free(you know why). Even the anti-piracy movement targetting commercial sectors, the Government was using illegal copies of software, or at least 'unmatched' number of license. You know what I mean.
Things changed drastically one day when Government suddenly announced to develop their own operating system and planned to gradually replace MS software in Government. My friend told me it's not out of accident, it's all political.
First, it's been a floating rumor that some US printers had secret chips to guide missles when time comes, and these tailor-made printers are mostly sold to Middle-east. China Government is aware of this rumor and to their surprise their agents found out it's not just a rumor. Report said that there are actually some tailor-made hardware sold to Middle-East and Asia, I'm not sure whether it's related to missile-guide chips, but that was enough to began their worry in using US' software.
Second, and most important, MS made the originally Simplified Chinese version of MS software in Taiwan. It's a major fault of MS. I think China Government might not mind who made them, but the DO mind when some innovative Taiwan programmers took the liberty to include some 'Easter Eggs' that humiliating communists and major players in communists party.
My friend show me those Easter Eggs by a couple of secret key triggers(iirc in Excel), they were so funny, but I'm sure those big bosses in communists' party weren't amused. China Government was so angry about it and thus pushing the development of their own OS.
It's not surprising Linux is their reasonable choice.
Lessons for MS to put more efforts on quality assurance against 'unplanned Easter Eggs' and not to give development jobs to people who have opposite political believes with the country where the products will be sold.
o not I get to be spanked this monday when 10 sql servers all start to try and connect to irc through the firewall. I ran into that situation very often. How did you handle this? Please advise.
Why stop there. Why not fork off odd and even kernel no. . develop them seperately in parallel, and release only one of the branch at a time?
Wait, put down your troll tag, take it easy... That's what Intel did, in the past, in the x86 processor development.
No, they will increment the middle no., just like what they did when it went beyond 2.3.99
:)
Just kidding.
Why? Cause the management were a bunch of nerds that had no experience with business plans.
:D
That's not entirely true. You've to produce business plans and financial forcast to get money from VC(s); and if they think you aren't good enough be the CEO, or you do not have qualified management layer, they will get you a CEO, and some managerment dudes.
Yes, you heard me right, get you a CEO. A CEO you've never met, and s/he will have handsome lot of stock options. Don't feel bad about it, you can bargain for better share, depends on th amount of money you ask from VCs.
VCs should take responsible for funding lunatic ideas. But hell, they've lots of money to go wrong.
M$ usually offers companies/universities 5-year contract of mandatory purchase of their products, after the victims received letters from BSA accusing of their license violation.
My universities was replacing SUN workstations with NT workstations til we found out the hidden contract they've with M$. *SIGH*
a Microsoft exec said yesterday that the hugely successful worm attacks were due to 'tardy' sysadmins.
Now huge sucess in IIS' worms is due to 'tardy' NT sysadmins, and definitely not MS' fault?
MS fans should feel sad for having honored title 'tardy' after all those years of unconditional loyalty.
Have you ever coded a product that was efficient and secure after being pushed for three days to meet a deadline? Don't you become somewhat exhausted and lazy, primarily because you want to sleep, no matter how much money you're going to be paid? There comes a point where caffeine just won't help you operate anymore and your health becomes more of a priority than a "higher-up"'s regime.
Blah! Just say No to unreasonable deadline. Fight like a programmer!
Oh wait, what does a programmer fight like?
I'm a 30% NT admin and 70% UNIX admin. I see from the above comparison you've seldom admin an NT server at all.
I also found your lacking of business experience when you said administering NT is simply clicking jobs. The production server is NOT your personal server, it can't be updated without justifications and business cases. I found it extremely hard to justify as many updates are not well-documented.
Most important, I can never guarantee the next update will not screw up the NT.
everything against our views.
but I must be the pope okay?
If all the people who take the time to complain on here would just take the time to phone and/or write their congressperson, it would probably make a big difference. The other side is organized; why aren't we?
The problem is that we don't know how to write with pens and papers, and congresspersons don't know how to use email.
Big gap here...
the plural of "attorney general" is "attorneys general", not "attorney generals". The latter would be, I suppose, multiple military commanders with law degrees...
There's no mistake. Timothy is telling us that an army of evil commanders is invading an evil empire, and another evil empire was behind this, which the latter evil empire of course denies.
I don't mean to be offensive...
.eml without prompting user must be my illusion, and the 'special' patches provided by Microsoft must be some placebo that do nothing more than changing the 'Update version' in Help->About.
I could have sworn both the Code Red and Nimda (multiple) exploits were patched in October *last year*.
The fact that the IE can run