That's an interesting point, but by [offensive word deleted] if you have more books then you can remember, what is the point of having them?
What if you buy a bunch of books (let's say five) by an author you're interested in, but not all of them? And what if, along with that batch of five, you bought another five or six by other authors?
Later, you're in a bookstore, browsing, and you see books by that author. Remember, you just ordered ten or eleven books, some of which perhaps you haven't had a chance to read yet. You know you'd want other books by that author, but you don't want multiple copies of the same book (usually).
It's happened to me. I've missed out on buying books that I want (but don't want to pay top shipping dollar for) because of it.
If you see something interesting, you can just hold off on the purchase for--[...] one day--and check at home first.
Not always an option for us expats.
There are people in the world wondering where the next bowl of rice will come from and we're here jawing about wtf to do with a coolection of 3000 books the cost of which could have fed some starving person for a year or two.
Not really relevant, but most people who are starving today are in trouble because they live under oppressive and corrupt regimes.
The grandparent post is claiming that distros without compilers are not for technical users, and that he is a technical user.
So?
Nontechnical users should use proper package management for everything. When it comes to production machines, technical users should as well.
I think the only option I have left is to believe that you are a novice Ubuntu fanboy set in his ways who thinks he's an expert and that everyone should do things the way he does.
I installed Ubuntu in vmware once. It's good stuff, but I had no reason to replace the distro I'd been using at the time for real work, and good reasons not to (again, due to real work).
Gentoo must grate against the very fabric of your existence.
Not really. A fun toy, if you're into that sort of thing, but I'd never put it into production.
DeMarco and Lister's reply is that in fact every hotel in the world manages to do this.
I agree with their sentiment, but what they say isn't true. I've stayed in more than one hotel room with no windows.
Not much fun, of course, and never for more than one night. We always looked for something else a bit nicer for the next night.
Oh, btw, despite making fuckall, I have a private office with windows that open and a bathroom (which includes a shower) that only I use. Not bad, hey.
No, greylisting helps just a little bit. Which doesn't mean you should rule it out, of course. Even blocking some diminishing amount of spam is worthwhile[*]. Just don't have such unrealistic expectations.
[*] A lot of spamblocking techniques work well at first, until the spammers get wise. This is another case of that. And, of course, that assumes that you're actually blocking spam and not legit email.
But for those of us in *nix world who want eye-candy....
It's not just eye-candy, though. Exposée is very useful. That it looks cool is just a bonus. Because of it, I don't miss workspaces much on my mac.
I once tried out a workspaces extension, but I didn't end up using it
for long. If it were key-bindable, though, I probably would have. Having exposée-like functionality and
workspaces, both comfortable to use, will someday be a killer combination.
I'd never heard of this, so I gave it a shot. It doesn't do anything
useful.
I still have windows opening telling me that I'm reconnecting,
and then that the reconnect failed. Oh, and if you select
"Hide buddy list at signon" then the buddy list becomes entirely unavailable.
My relationship with gaim is now even more antagonistic.
What plugin is that? I just downloaded, built, and installed 1.5, and I see no such plugin. The Auto-Reconnect plugin's configuration supposedly lets you supress disconnect and login errors. I have those options selected. They don't help much. I stopped networking, waited for some connections to time out, restarted it. Guess what. New windows.
I filed a bug bug about this with the gaim maintainers 369 days ago. Little has been done about it, despite numerous releases since then. The default behavior is idiotic and can't be overridden.
Dentists (tooth engineers) have office managers, but don't answer to them because like you say, they are ultimately responsible for what they do.
No, nobody answers to office managers because they have little formal authority. The word "manager" in the job title is confusing you. Having said that, a good office manager is invaluable.
Stable can also refer to a relative lack of change.
Software called stable can even be somewhat buggy - but at least the bugs are predictable. Software in SLES and RHEL (and Debian Obsolete^WStable) tends to fit this definition. Of course, it usually fits the "doesn't crash" definition as well.
Software under heavy development usually doesn't merit being called stable according to either definition.
Anyway, a good british comparison would be BT and an american one could be AOL (maybe comcast)
There's really no good American comparison. The old American telephone monopoly was split up when things were very different (the internet wasn't particularly important at the time), and split up rather differently in any case.
Slashdot Mirror
Or Mississippi.
What an idiotic thing to say.
Even for Slashdot.
A reliable source told me it's because customers would complain if they made postfix the default. He didn't go to lengths to defend it, but:
They do ship postfix packages, so at least it's trivial to replace sendmail.
SuSE ships with postfix by default.
If the title is idiomatic, it probably shouldn't be translated literally. Otherwise, I agree with you.
What if you buy a bunch of books (let's say five) by an author you're interested in, but not all of them? And what if, along with that batch of five, you bought another five or six by other authors?
Later, you're in a bookstore, browsing, and you see books by that author. Remember, you just ordered ten or eleven books, some of which perhaps you haven't had a chance to read yet. You know you'd want other books by that author, but you don't want multiple copies of the same book (usually).
It's happened to me. I've missed out on buying books that I want (but don't want to pay top shipping dollar for) because of it.
If you see something interesting, you can just hold off on the purchase for--[...] one day--and check at home first.
Not always an option for us expats.
There are people in the world wondering where the next bowl of rice will come from and we're here jawing about wtf to do with a coolection of 3000 books the cost of which could have fed some starving person for a year or two.
Not really relevant, but most people who are starving today are in trouble because they live under oppressive and corrupt regimes.
So where do books that are neither technical nor fiction, such as Defensa Apasionada del Idioma Espanol , go?
So?
Nontechnical users should use proper package management for everything. When it comes to production machines, technical users should as well.
I think the only option I have left is to believe that you are a novice Ubuntu fanboy set in his ways who thinks he's an expert and that everyone should do things the way he does.
I installed Ubuntu in vmware once. It's good stuff, but I had no reason to replace the distro I'd been using at the time for real work, and good reasons not to (again, due to real work).
Gentoo must grate against the very fabric of your existence.
Not really. A fun toy, if you're into that sort of thing, but I'd never put it into production.
echo "127.0.0.1 slashdot.org" >> /etc/hosts
Thanks for the tip!
You should.
I agree with their sentiment, but what they say isn't true. I've stayed in more than one hotel room with no windows.
Not much fun, of course, and never for more than one night. We always looked for something else a bit nicer for the next night.
Oh, btw, despite making fuckall, I have a private office with windows that open and a bathroom (which includes a shower) that only I use. Not bad, hey.
[*] A lot of spamblocking techniques work well at first, until the spammers get wise. This is another case of that. And, of course, that assumes that you're actually blocking spam and not legit email.
Why do you think Unix sysadmins are good computer science people?
It's not just eye-candy, though. Exposée is very useful. That it looks cool is just a bonus. Because of it, I don't miss workspaces much on my mac.
I once tried out a workspaces extension, but I didn't end up using it for long. If it were key-bindable, though, I probably would have. Having exposée-like functionality and workspaces, both comfortable to use, will someday be a killer combination.
Red Carpet still exists. It's only been rebranded.
You're a genius, you know that?
I still have windows opening telling me that I'm reconnecting, and then that the reconnect failed. Oh, and if you select "Hide buddy list at signon" then the buddy list becomes entirely unavailable.
My relationship with gaim is now even more antagonistic.
I filed a bug bug about this with the gaim maintainers 369 days ago. Little has been done about it, despite numerous releases since then. The default behavior is idiotic and can't be overridden.
http://sourceforge.net/tracker/?group_id=235&atid= 100235&func=detail&aid=1164192 was closed incorrectly.
1 044313&group_id=235&atid=100235 says to me that they don't care about the problem.
https://sourceforge.net/tracker/?func=detail&aid=
I continue hating gaim.
gaim opens a window saying so, in effect saying "fuck you" to me. My concentration apparently isn't important.
gaim opens another window showing a reconnecting progress bar. Fuck you again.
That might fail, so it opens still more windows. Fuck you!
Eventually it succeeds. And gaim opens a window showing my buddy list. FUCK YOU!
Jesus H Christ! Does a single person in the world think this is helpful?
(And, for what it's worth, I have it on good account that its internals aren't pretty either.)
No, nobody answers to office managers because they have little formal authority. The word "manager" in the job title is confusing you. Having said that, a good office manager is invaluable.
Good tip, but be careful about using global-set-key. Many modes override things you've set that way.
Not drawing conclusions based on very limited information doesn't make you a foaming-at-the-mouth fanboy or antifanboy.
Software under heavy development usually doesn't merit being called stable according to either definition.
Are we reading the same comments?
There's really no good American comparison. The old American telephone monopoly was split up when things were very different (the internet wasn't particularly important at the time), and split up rather differently in any case.
You sound like someone who's never had to look for a job.
I mean, such ripe ground for parody!