Knowing the lenghts some spammers go to deliver their messages, this may lead to the most bizarre form of spam ever: Someone will just cache a ton of messages to be delivered to a ton of users and then commit suicide.
I've used RH for a long time. I was pretty much resigned to the uncomfortable things that "set in" slowly, like the one-email-per-client up2date free account, the fact that you need to update the entire operating system to get new versions of some software and others.
I bravely resisted Debian, and I even used apt for RedHat. I even disliked the name "Debian", which in my mother language sounds like "Retarded".
That, until I tried it...
Believe me, RedHat *does not* compare to Debian. It's a totally different world. Granted, Debian is a little painful to put the way you want it, but once you get the hang of it, you don't need to reinstall your OS! Ever! And believe me, adding apt to RH is just like adding wings to a blimp.
The power is not in apt itself, but in the whole policy of consistency behind it. No more library nightmares. And better: Updates for free!
The only complaint I have is that "stable" should move a little bit faster. Other than that, I'm really satisfied with it.
(...)movie studios are quite purposefully putting 'large reddish brown spots that flash in the middle of the picture, usually placed in a light area' in order to ruin computer-compressed pirated copies of films.
They should take the Tyler Durden approach and insert frames with pictures of penises instead. It's way more effective in ruining movies.:)
You lose money because you're efficient: Suppose a programming job that takes 10 hours for the average Joe Schmuck to do. He'd charge $50/hour and pocket $500. Now you, Mr Shiny brain, can do it in half that time. What happens? You make *less* money because you're better than Joe Schmuck. Makes any sense? Of course not! And if you charge twice as much, people will always resort to "Hey, but I know a very nice guy, Joe Schmuck, that charges me half of what you're asking..."
You delay and get burned. Most people deserve to get burned if they slack, but problems do happen. Sometimes, if you delay you leave people with the impression that you're doing this on purpose or just being incompetent. This lessens the chance of getting another job with that particular client.
My solution is to set myself a rate (say, $50/hour) and calculate the number of hours I'd take to complete a particular project. Add to that some hours, to take into account possible dangers (Is this something new to you? Have you coded a similar feature before?), what I call "Customer Annoyance Factor" (some clients are *very* annoying, I just add +10% to compensate). Once you have the figures, just present the price, with 50% down, 50% on completion.
If the customer really wants to pay by the hour, set a minimum number of hours (to protect yourself from your own efficiency) and a maximum number of hours (to protect the client from you). This used to work well for me back in my freelancer days.
As computers age, they tend to become good candidates for alternate OS's - even in environments using strictly Windows on the user desktops. (If you're not going to eliminate your current crop of dated Pentium 1 and 2 systems, for example, they still make good Linux web servers or print servers. They also make good pseudo thin clients running the Citrix ICA connector.
That is true for me and for you. But butt-head sysadmins just don't care about this. The prevalent mentality is "Duh, this computer sucks, it doesn't even run Windows 2003! It has only 256MB of memory..." or so. This is a sad mentality. Perfectly good computers are going to waste just because they cannot display a GUI, even if they're going to be locked down in some dirty basement doing the same thing 24x7.
Just to give you an idea, some months ago, we asked our IT department if they had some old PCs hanging around that we could install get as freebies. The IT guy said he was going to check and came back saying that they had some old computers that were basically "useless". He did not know the configuration, but he knew they were not "good enough" for his Windows standard. Much to my surprise, he sent me P3/500 computers with 128MB of RAM... Today, they run Linux happily and one of them (reportedly "defective") has over one year of uptime as of this writing.
It amazes me how these degenerates get space in the NY Times and other important matters just don't get covered at all. The guy is an unscrupulous SOB who is willing to harass 1 million people for a meager $900.
His home is not that far from mine. I think we should get a bunch of slashdotters and go there break his legs, which, in my lingo, is called "mass beating".:))
No matter if you agree or not, you must realize that this judge just ticked off roughly 50 million Americans. He must really, REALLY think he's making the right decision (or lives in his own little world...).
(...) or is making a little money on the side, eh?
The display requires no power, only when changing images. Images are retained when the power is off.
Does it mean that, when my boss comes into my room and I'm watching pr0n, just turning my laptop off in panic will leave a big pr0n screen still visible?
District Judge Gerald Bruce Lee's ruling dismissed U-Haul's suit, saying '...the fact is that the computer user consented to this detour when the user downloaded WhenU's computer software from the Internet,'
They should consider themselves lucky. It's not every day that Bruce Lee dismisses something without some serious ass kicking...
But you have to understand that the average Windows sysadmin is the guy who (in the words of one I know) "Hates to type things". This is the end result.
Does any one see a set of brakes on this thing? Yes, I know that some bikes have the brake mechanism in the hub of the rear wheel, but that doesn't appear in the photo either.
Brakes transform your momentum into heat and thus are an environmental no-no. You don't want to add more heat to mother Earth's atmosphere, do you? do you???
Just crash with the bike and let your bones absorb the impact. That's the ecologically correct way to stop bikes.
First of all. A spam message with real, working means of contacting the sender? Why din't I ever get that? Only in Russia, I say.
No! I'm not in Russia and I get lots of those. One day, I made an international call just for the fun of it and yes, it was a real phone belonging to a small company.
Do you really think they're discriminating? Of course not! Do you really think every provider sniffs on their connections, and worse, has an exploder for every P2P protocol out there? Of course not! If you connect to a port on the P2P network, they tag you.
You're obviously too childish to even understand the implications of this whole issue on civil liberties. And I'm obviously wasting my time.
What are they doing wrong? They're simply suing people who are breaking the law. Nobody argues that what those users do is against the law. So what's the problem?
The first problem are the simpletons who carry this invalid argument forward. The RIAA is not only trying to stop people from downloading their music. They're trying to stop ALL kinds of file sharing, including non-mp3 files and those MP3 files posted by independent artists that use this as an alternative medium to disseminate their work.
Yea, the judge is going to buy that argument. I don't like MEGA CORP'S either but reguardless music sharing on the internet is ILLEGAL period. The same goes for people that pirate Windows and other software. I will not hesitate to turn in a pirate, busting pirates quickly turns them into OSS users.
I'm not saying it's legal to swap songs. It is clearly illegal. What I am saying is that the RIAA goes around saying that it hurts the artists, when they in fact don't care about artists at all. All they care about is their huge profits.
The RIAA is trying to cling to its old business model, when it clearly does not apply to today's technological/economical reality.
They don't want to stop file-sharing to protect artists. Bullshit! They don't give a rat's ass for the artists. All they want is to protect their business model and, of course, some well paid and obsolete corporate tycoons.
If they really want to stop piracy, or at least reduce it immensely, here's a recipe: Drop the price of a CD to $3.00. I bet you MP3 file sharing will go down the next day. But then... Ah, how's poor RIAA exec going to pay for his BMW? It's Easier to sue everybody.
I almost pity the poor bastards. They're dinosaurs fighting against two formidable foes: Time and Technology...
Its one of the easiest to install and admin linuxs going. Its also the best industry supported distro going. Like someone already pointed out Red Hat+apt-get = Debian.
Please allow me to respectfully disagree.
Redhat has never had a clear policy on package dependencies. Anyone who says that the apt-get package from freshrpms.net provides the same functionality that Debian's apt system probably never used Debian.
Let me just give you a clear example: Try to install, say, RedHat 7.2 and upgrade your gnome to gnome-2 and you'll understand what I am saying. The only way to do a "major" upgrade with RedHat is to upgrade the entire operating system. Not an intelligent solution, specially when you consider that the packaging system itself is modularized.
Apt-get for RedHat still uses RPMs. There's no clear policy on dependencies for RPMs. It makes your life a bit easier, but the problems are still there.
I use Debian and I really like it. A very welcome departure from the nightmare RedHat has become.
Yet, I agree with you. The installer is a pain in the arse. Bear in mind however that I only installed Debian once. All the other installations were "cloned" from the original one.
In any case, I'd love to see Knoppix HW detection routines incorporated into Debian. Knoppix is a killer in this area.
Something much simpler than this. I just need a cellphone that has some kind of motion sensor and can detect I put it down in a table for a while. This would allow the phone to automatically change its mode from vibrator to audible alarm.
As it is right now, I almost never switch the phone to vibrator as I'm sure I'll forget to switch it back to audible when I get home...
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Knowing the lenghts some spammers go to deliver their messages, this may lead to the most bizarre form of spam ever: Someone will just cache a ton of messages to be delivered to a ton of users and then commit suicide.
I've used RH for a long time. I was pretty much resigned to the uncomfortable things that "set in" slowly, like the one-email-per-client up2date free account, the fact that you need to update the entire operating system to get new versions of some software and others.
I bravely resisted Debian, and I even used apt for RedHat. I even disliked the name "Debian", which in my mother language sounds like "Retarded".
That, until I tried it...
Believe me, RedHat *does not* compare to Debian. It's a totally different world. Granted, Debian is a little painful to put the way you want it, but once you get the hang of it, you don't need to reinstall your OS! Ever! And believe me, adding apt to RH is just like adding wings to a blimp.
The power is not in apt itself, but in the whole policy of consistency behind it. No more library nightmares. And better: Updates for free!
The only complaint I have is that "stable" should move a little bit faster. Other than that, I'm really satisfied with it.
(...)movie studios are quite purposefully putting 'large reddish brown spots that flash in the middle of the picture, usually placed in a light area' in order to ruin computer-compressed pirated copies of films.
They should take the Tyler Durden approach and insert frames with pictures of penises instead. It's way more effective in ruining movies.
My solution is to set myself a rate (say, $50/hour) and calculate the number of hours I'd take to complete a particular project. Add to that some hours, to take into account possible dangers (Is this something new to you? Have you coded a similar feature before?), what I call "Customer Annoyance Factor" (some clients are *very* annoying, I just add +10% to compensate). Once you have the figures, just present the price, with 50% down, 50% on completion.
If the customer really wants to pay by the hour, set a minimum number of hours (to protect yourself from your own efficiency) and a maximum number of hours (to protect the client from you). This used to work well for me back in my freelancer days.
All he needs know is a copy of Napster, a Boat and a parrot to be a perfect pirate! Arrrrrr!!! Ahoy me men! Remember to pillage BEFORE you burn! Arrr!
As computers age, they tend to become good candidates for alternate OS's - even in environments using strictly Windows on the user desktops. (If you're not going to eliminate your current crop of dated Pentium 1 and 2 systems, for example, they still make good Linux web servers or print servers. They also make good pseudo thin clients running the Citrix ICA connector.
That is true for me and for you. But butt-head sysadmins just don't care about this. The prevalent mentality is "Duh, this computer sucks, it doesn't even run Windows 2003! It has only 256MB of memory..." or so. This is a sad mentality. Perfectly good computers are going to waste just because they cannot display a GUI, even if they're going to be locked down in some dirty basement doing the same thing 24x7.
Just to give you an idea, some months ago, we asked our IT department if they had some old PCs hanging around that we could install get as freebies. The IT guy said he was going to check and came back saying that they had some old computers that were basically "useless". He did not know the configuration, but he knew they were not "good enough" for his Windows standard. Much to my surprise, he sent me P3/500 computers with 128MB of RAM... Today, they run Linux happily and one of them (reportedly "defective") has over one year of uptime as of this writing.
It amazes me how these degenerates get space in the NY Times and other important matters just don't get covered at all. The guy is an unscrupulous SOB who is willing to harass 1 million people for a meager $900.
:))
His home is not that far from mine. I think we should get a bunch of slashdotters and go there break his legs, which, in my lingo, is called "mass beating".
No matter if you agree or not, you must realize that this judge just ticked off roughly 50 million Americans. He must really, REALLY think he's making the right decision (or lives in his own little world...).
(...) or is making a little money on the side, eh?
The display requires no power, only when changing images. Images are retained when the power is off.
Does it mean that, when my boss comes into my room and I'm watching pr0n, just turning my laptop off in panic will leave a big pr0n screen still visible?
Not good, not good...
District Judge Gerald Bruce Lee's ruling dismissed U-Haul's suit, saying '...the fact is that the computer user consented to this detour when the user downloaded WhenU's computer software from the Internet,'
They should consider themselves lucky. It's not every day that Bruce Lee dismisses something without some serious ass kicking...
I agree completely.
But you have to understand that the average Windows sysadmin is the guy who (in the words of one I know) "Hates to type things". This is the end result.
Welcome to Microsoft Airlines, your Stewardess today will be Steve Ballmer.
I can already picture it: Steve Ballmer, the stewardess, approaches the unaware traveller and screams: "Hey, you, I... LOVE... THIS... COMPANY... YEAH YEAH! HOOOO WHOOOO WHOOOHOOO OWHOOO WHOOOO HOOHOHOOO HOOO OH YEAH HOOOW HOOO WOOOOO WHOOOO..."
Dance monkey boy, dance...
Cool! Now I'll finally be able to find my way home...
Does any one see a set of brakes on this thing?
Yes, I know that some bikes have the brake mechanism in the hub of the rear wheel, but that doesn't appear in the photo either.
Brakes transform your momentum into heat and thus are an environmental no-no. You don't want to add more heat to mother Earth's atmosphere, do you? do you???
Just crash with the bike and let your bones absorb the impact. That's the ecologically correct way to stop bikes.
Wait until YOU are the one who needs an organ transplant... I hope you never need, but think about it.
First of all. A spam message with real, working means of contacting the sender? Why din't I ever get that? Only in Russia, I say.
No! I'm not in Russia and I get lots of those. One day, I made an international call just for the fun of it and yes, it was a real phone belonging to a small company.
Sad, but true.
Do you really think they're discriminating? Of course not! Do you really think every provider sniffs on their connections, and worse, has an exploder for every P2P protocol out there? Of course not! If you connect to a port on the P2P network, they tag you.
You're obviously too childish to even understand the implications of this whole issue on civil liberties. And I'm obviously wasting my time.
What are they doing wrong? They're simply suing people who are breaking the law. Nobody argues that what those users do is against the law. So what's the problem?
The first problem are the simpletons who carry this invalid argument forward. The RIAA is not only trying to stop people from downloading their music. They're trying to stop ALL kinds of file sharing, including non-mp3 files and those MP3 files posted by independent artists that use this as an alternative medium to disseminate their work.
Yea, the judge is going to buy that argument. I don't like MEGA CORP'S either but reguardless music sharing on the internet is ILLEGAL period. The same goes for people that pirate Windows and other software. I will not hesitate to turn in a pirate, busting pirates quickly turns them into OSS users.
I'm not saying it's legal to swap songs. It is clearly illegal. What I am saying is that the RIAA goes around saying that it hurts the artists, when they in fact don't care about artists at all. All they care about is their huge profits.
The RIAA is trying to cling to its old business model, when it clearly does not apply to today's technological/economical reality.
They don't want to stop file-sharing to protect artists. Bullshit! They don't give a rat's ass for the artists. All they want is to protect their business model and, of course, some well paid and obsolete corporate tycoons.
If they really want to stop piracy, or at least reduce it immensely, here's a recipe: Drop the price of a CD to $3.00. I bet you MP3 file sharing will go down the next day. But then... Ah, how's poor RIAA exec going to pay for his BMW? It's Easier to sue everybody.
I almost pity the poor bastards. They're dinosaurs fighting against two formidable foes: Time and Technology...
Its one of the easiest to install and admin linuxs going. Its also the best industry supported distro going. Like someone already pointed out Red Hat+apt-get = Debian.
Please allow me to respectfully disagree.
Redhat has never had a clear policy on package dependencies. Anyone who says that the apt-get package from freshrpms.net provides the same functionality that Debian's apt system probably never used Debian.
Let me just give you a clear example: Try to install, say, RedHat 7.2 and upgrade your gnome to gnome-2 and you'll understand what I am saying. The only way to do a "major" upgrade with RedHat is to upgrade the entire operating system. Not an intelligent solution, specially when you consider that the packaging system itself is modularized.
Apt-get for RedHat still uses RPMs. There's no clear policy on dependencies for RPMs. It makes your life a bit easier, but the problems are still there.
I use Debian and I really like it. A very welcome departure from the nightmare RedHat has become.
Yet, I agree with you. The installer is a pain in the arse. Bear in mind however that I only installed Debian once. All the other installations were "cloned" from the original one.
In any case, I'd love to see Knoppix HW detection routines incorporated into Debian. Knoppix is a killer in this area.
Something much simpler than this. I just need a cellphone that has some kind of motion sensor and can detect I put it down in a table for a while. This would allow the phone to automatically change its mode from vibrator to audible alarm.
As it is right now, I almost never switch the phone to vibrator as I'm sure I'll forget to switch it back to audible when I get home...
Holy crap:
The "My Utah Search" graphic here links to a porn site. This is beautiful.
Of course! It's the GOP we're talking about! I wouldn't be surprised if it's kiddie porn.
This is what happens when corporations can legally buy politicians.