We have one of those in Annapolis, MD. Ugh. I really don't like them. I dunno if it's just the Annapolis management, but the guy that appears to be running the place is a real jerk. I went in there one time looking for thermal paste and he told me that I obviously had no clue if I wanted thermal paste. Mhm.
I've heard of plenty more situations where people who didn't know any better got screwed by that place. When you buy a computer there and take it in for service, they try and tell you that it can't be fixed and then go for the new computer sale. And you get charged even if they don't fix it -- last I heard, they charge a $30 bench fee and something like $60/hr. I don't remember exact figures, so don't quote me on that, but they're pretty high.
Another thing -- they seem to believe that everyone is a cluebie. Everyone. I find that they talk down to everyone, regardless of how much or little they know or think they know. In their defense, this technique is probably effective as a safety mechanism, but it does make the guy seem rather arrogant and stand-offish. *shrug* Just my two cents.
As for them buying used parts, I tried to buy older used parts (Pentium Pro motherboard) from them a little while back, they told me that I must have no idea what I'm doing if I'm looking for something that old. Weird.
the months of the year do not alphabetically sort. then there are confusions over the spelling over months such as February, etc. in addition, internationalization (wow, long word) issues come into play. you have a valid point, but i still stand by my idea.
For something with frequent builds, but usually only one per day, I prefer something like this:
prjname-YYYYMMDD
If releases are more frequent than daily, add the time of release to the end, as in:
prjname-YYYYMMDD.HHMMSS (using UTC, of course!)
Seems simple; at least I think it is. It makes file sorting work out very nicely, and keeps grouping by prjname. On the other hand, this will only work for another 8000 years or so. Go fig.
However, this scheme should not override any other scheme. Perhaps the 20000104 build would be considered a more stable release, and thus be named 1.0.0. And perhaps there would be a third name for marketing purposes, like '2000 Super Deluxe Edition'. Not every build would have a X.Y.Z version number, and not every version would have a marketing name. Usage of symbolic links and such on FTP sites makes this all much easier. Helps with organization, provides a definite date for each build, still allows for denotion of stability, and keeps the marketing droids happy. We all win. (Note that I do realize that this is already in use in many places. I just happen to like this scheme.)
I got bored one afternoon, decided to piece together a little script to automate this. Understand that NETSOL is NOT hiding the contact info at all, they have merely changed the default lookup to the 'generic' lookup.
If you prefer not to use the default generic lookup and want your old lookup back, try this script. For your info, I called it 'nwhois' on my box - if you name it 'whois' then you can't use whois for ARIN and APNIC and international NICs and the like. Note that the following script may require slight modification as the internic page is subject to change. Yes, this could have been made MUCH better, and i'm sure that some day this will be incorporated into the whois program itself. Simple shell script, should be one line.
Thank you - this looks rather interesting. Though i'm a little unsure why my original post was moderated down. *shrug* I thought it was pertinent to the conversation - rather legit technical point. Anyhow, once again, thank you.
It'd be interesting to find out technical details on the setup they plan to use.. more than likely they haven't considered some of the less expensive, more reliable operating systems? Though it may very well be the case that Windows might be an easier choice. I could very easily be mistaken however - it seems as though with fvwm95 you could probably trick the novice into thinking they were actually using Win95, so no "retraining" of the customers would be required;-) Internet fastfood "cafes" -- interesting concept... now if it were only a pizza place or something:)
not only that, but go do whois kurly.net - i sent in a request to change my nameservers. i'm supposed to have 5. request went through. two nameservers. dammit. so i send in another one, using the form from their ugly inet site. i list 6 nameservers, i send it in. updates. 2! agh! so i do a form manually, from the one in their ftp thing. submit, updates again. TWO. is there like some new policy where we aren't allowed to have anymore?:P
It's really a shame that large companies have to resort to gimmicks such as this to maintain their power and money. When will they realize that these things DO get leaked and people DO care about them? Or maybe they don't think we do care? *shrug* I guess that there's really no good way to actually state disapproval and be heard - sure, you can say that you won't buy Intel chips, but there are so many other people that will that they probably really do not care. Unified approach needed?
Ohhh it'll remove IE4 alright... and install IE5! (insert appropriate sound effect here);) Then there always is that 98lite thing.. wish i still had the URL.
For people who do not like the idea of the pre-alignments, perhaps there could be an option under preferences to allow users to ignore the alignments when filtering comments? Dunno if that'd be hard to implement, but then again I don't know much PERL so I can't really say. Not sure whether I'd filter the alignments or not... I think that it's a good idea, but it will require a little toying with. But really, that's not a bad thing. Everything needs a little ironing out before it works right. Part of life.
You should really email these requests to Rob himself instead of posting them here... odds are pretty high that nobody is gonna be reading them, particularly the person you're aiming it to - Rob. Understand that he's very busy:) Must suck to be so busy you can't read slashdot... hehe...;)
Fishdot... it was kinda humorous to see it pop up. Shame it doesn't have any worthwhile content, it really is a cute idea... although now everyone and their dog is probably gonna run a slashdot clone (a la *dance.com - have you seen jesusdance.com? now THAT is crazy) oh well i personally thought it was funny:P "News for fish, Stuff that's wet." love the little fish logo too.. hehe..
I don't see any "difficulty" in using Dvorak. Sure, it may not be worth it to demand that an entire company use it, but for individuals, it's a fine idea. I find that I can type a lot faster. Interesting point - yeah it was hard to get used to the new key combos like Ctrl-C and stuff, but you get used to it eventually. One thing that got me in the beginning was the smily. And laughing: hehe comes out jdjd when I switch back to qwerty. But basically, after a few minutes of thought, I can type on either dvorak or qwerty without any problem. A lot of people tell me "Why learn Dvorak, you'll just have to use QWERTY at work" - so? I use QWERTY at work and Dvorak at home. What's the problem there?
Glancing at the ChangeLog.txt for the Pre-4.0, this appears to no longer be true. Also now, finger is still enabled by default but it won't allow finger @host. Sysstat and netstat were disabled. Though you are quite correct, having that enabled by default was a very bad thing.:)
Actually, I have a power supply, AT, not ATX unfortunately, that does have a builtin UPS. Looks kinda old, got it secondhand. I'll try to look for the source of it sometime..
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The first amendment protects you from the federal government with respect to free speech.
Corporations aren't (yet?) part of the federal government, so the first amendment doesn't help at all here.
We have one of those in Annapolis, MD. Ugh. I really don't like them. I dunno if it's just the Annapolis management, but the guy that appears to be running the place is a real jerk. I went in there one time looking for thermal paste and he told me that I obviously had no clue if I wanted thermal paste. Mhm.
I've heard of plenty more situations where people who didn't know any better got screwed by that place. When you buy a computer there and take it in for service, they try and tell you that it can't be fixed and then go for the new computer sale. And you get charged even if they don't fix it -- last I heard, they charge a $30 bench fee and something like $60/hr. I don't remember exact figures, so don't quote me on that, but they're pretty high.
Another thing -- they seem to believe that everyone is a cluebie. Everyone. I find that they talk down to everyone, regardless of how much or little they know or think they know. In their defense, this technique is probably effective as a safety mechanism, but it does make the guy seem rather arrogant and stand-offish. *shrug* Just my two cents.
As for them buying used parts, I tried to buy older used parts (Pentium Pro motherboard) from them a little while back, they told me that I must have no idea what I'm doing if I'm looking for something that old. Weird.
actually, I have an old "AST Advantage! Adventure" -- it was a 486sx/25, 4MB of ram. The motherboard has one or two PCI slots, I think...?
...I must admit, I've never seen someone post a reply to a reply to their own message.
...neither do you ;)
True, true... now I'm curious - was that just a mistake or intentional, to see if anyone was paying attention? ;)
-- KingKurly --
There *is* more than one Portland... :)
-- KingKurly --
the months of the year do not alphabetically sort. then there are confusions over the spelling over months such as February, etc. in addition, internationalization (wow, long word) issues come into play. you have a valid point, but i still stand by my idea.
For something with frequent builds, but usually only one per day, I prefer something like this:
prjname-YYYYMMDD
If releases are more frequent than daily, add the time of release to the end, as in:
prjname-YYYYMMDD.HHMMSS (using UTC, of course!)
Seems simple; at least I think it is. It makes file sorting work out very nicely, and keeps grouping by prjname. On the other hand, this will only work for another 8000 years or so. Go fig.
However, this scheme should not override any other scheme. Perhaps the 20000104 build would be considered a more stable release, and thus be named 1.0.0. And perhaps there would be a third name for marketing purposes, like '2000 Super Deluxe Edition'. Not every build would have a X.Y.Z version number, and not every version would have a marketing name. Usage of symbolic links and such on FTP sites makes this all much easier. Helps with organization, provides a definite date for each build, still allows for denotion of stability, and keeps the marketing droids happy. We all win. (Note that I do realize that this is already in use in many places. I just happen to like this scheme.)
If you prefer not to use the default generic lookup and want your old lookup back, try this script. For your info, I called it 'nwhois' on my box - if you name it 'whois' then you can't use whois for ARIN and APNIC and international NICs and the like. Note that the following script may require slight modification as the internic page is subject to change. Yes, this could have been made MUCH better, and i'm sure that some day this will be incorporated into the whois program itself. Simple shell script, should be one line. Enjoy, for what it's worth.
Thank you - this looks rather interesting. Though i'm a little unsure why my original post was moderated down. *shrug* I thought it was pertinent to the conversation - rather legit technical point. Anyhow, once again, thank you.
It'd be interesting to find out technical details on the setup they plan to use.. more than likely they haven't considered some of the less expensive, more reliable operating systems? Though it may very well be the case that Windows might be an easier choice. I could very easily be mistaken however - it seems as though with fvwm95 you could probably trick the novice into thinking they were actually using Win95, so no "retraining" of the customers would be required ;-) Internet fastfood "cafes" -- interesting concept... now if it were only a pizza place or something :)
Now that's freaky, because Jan 19 is my birthday... 2038 is my...55th birthday. Hm, hopefully i'll die of something before then :)
not only that, but go do whois kurly.net - i sent in a request to change my nameservers. i'm supposed to have 5. request went through. two nameservers. dammit. so i send in another one, using the form from their ugly inet site. i list 6 nameservers, i send it in. updates. 2! agh! so i do a form manually, from the one in their ftp thing. submit, updates again. TWO. is there like some new policy where we aren't allowed to have anymore? :P
It's really a shame that large companies have to resort to gimmicks such as this to maintain their power and money. When will they realize that these things DO get leaked and people DO care about them? Or maybe they don't think we do care? *shrug* I guess that there's really no good way to actually state disapproval and be heard - sure, you can say that you won't buy Intel chips, but there are so many other people that will that they probably really do not care. Unified approach needed?
Ohhh it'll remove IE4 alright... and install IE5! (insert appropriate sound effect here) ;) Then there always is that 98lite thing.. wish i still had the URL.
For people who do not like the idea of the pre-alignments, perhaps there could be an option under preferences to allow users to ignore the alignments when filtering comments? Dunno if that'd be hard to implement, but then again I don't know much PERL so I can't really say. Not sure whether I'd filter the alignments or not... I think that it's a good idea, but it will require a little toying with. But really, that's not a bad thing. Everything needs a little ironing out before it works right. Part of life.
You should really email these requests to Rob himself instead of posting them here... odds are pretty high that nobody is gonna be reading them, particularly the person you're aiming it to - Rob. Understand that he's very busy :) Must suck to be so busy you can't read slashdot... hehe... ;)
Fishdot... it was kinda humorous to see it pop up. Shame it doesn't have any worthwhile content, it really is a cute idea... although now everyone and their dog is probably gonna run a slashdot clone (a la *dance.com - have you seen jesusdance.com? now THAT is crazy) oh well i personally thought it was funny :P "News for fish, Stuff that's wet." love the little fish logo too.. hehe..
I don't see any "difficulty" in using Dvorak. Sure, it may not be worth it to demand that an entire company use it, but for individuals, it's a fine idea. I find that I can type a lot faster. Interesting point - yeah it was hard to get used to the new key combos like Ctrl-C and stuff, but you get used to it eventually. One thing that got me in the beginning was the smily. And laughing: hehe comes out jdjd when I switch back to qwerty. But basically, after a few minutes of thought, I can type on either dvorak or qwerty without any problem. A lot of people tell me "Why learn Dvorak, you'll just have to use QWERTY at work" - so? I use QWERTY at work and Dvorak at home. What's the problem there?
From the fortune file:
:))
"Never let your schooling interfere with your education."
I love that quote... wish i knew the guy who came up with it (anyone know em?
Glancing at the ChangeLog.txt for the Pre-4.0, this appears to no longer be true. Also now, finger is still enabled by default but it won't allow finger @host. Sysstat and netstat were disabled. Though you are quite correct, having that enabled by default was a very bad thing. :)
Actually, I have a power supply, AT, not ATX unfortunately, that does have a builtin UPS. Looks kinda old, got it secondhand. I'll try to look for the source of it sometime..