I'd sure like it if they'd just make up their friggin' minds and say yay or nay on the patch issue. I've got a lot of client machines to upgrade if the answer is nay, and a patch to test (what? trust a M$ patch without testing? not in this lifetime) if the answer is yay.
Kinda funny when you think about it...one of the major FUDballs thrown at open source projects lately is the supposed lack of development roadmaps. Where's the M$ roadmap for this patch, if it exists? Only so many more months left...
Screw all that crap on my screen
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GUIs are for wusses. I only load up XF86 and FVWM when I need to use Netscape or Gimp. Why should I waste system resources on eye candy when it's not even for a game?
Just because there's a precedent for spam doesn't make it any better. And there is a _big_ difference...I don't specifically pay for snailmail to get to my mailbox. The advertiser pays to have their crap sent to me. I pay for my internet access, and I'll be damned if I'll let someone waste my money that way. Always nice to have a couple of mail servers under your control to rip the spammer a new asshole and get his account cancelled. At least snailmail spam only wastes my time, not my money as well.
There's the FreeBSD Handbook, published by Walnut Creek. It's an excellent reference and covers many topics. It's also available at www.freebsd.org/handbook. In addition, there's #freebsd on efnet irc...just be sure that if you ask a question in there, you've first read the handbook section on the subject and any related man pages, or you're likely to be kicked quickly.
On my desk at home, I have systems running FreeBSD, OpenBSD, and Linux. For quite a while, I was a big fan of Linux, until the day when an employer of mine asked me about FreeBSD. At the time, I knew nothing more than that it existed. So I looked at it. I installed it. I *liked* it. A lot. I loved having unified source distributions for the whole OS (kernel and all standard programs)...made installing patches and upgrading to newer versions much smoother in my opinion. I still like Linux, still think it's a great OS. I'll even concede that for a desktop system it kicks FreeBSD's butt in a lot of ways. But when it comes to making one hell of a server, I'm FreeBSD all the way. Just ask www.yahoo.com and ftp.cdrom.com...they'll tell you why:)
I think the main difference between AOL and Slashdot is profit. AOL exists to make a profit. In my understanding (which could be wrong), Slashdot is not out there to make money, but rather provide a free service to the internet community. I think that kinda goes along with the whole.org thing as well...
If I ever get busted for any electronic crime, at least thanks to articles like this I can say that I must have been sexually abused by my family and get off on one sort of insanity claim or another.
Apparently you've never held a position as a sysadmin in an organization of any size. Corporations ranging from medium-sized offices to cube farms as far as the eye can see, as well as universities, often have strict policies as to what software can be installed on workstations. It doesn't matter if the machine is public, private, locked away, the user swears he won't blame it on you if it fucks up, whatever...the sysadmin is still responsible for enforcing those poilicies. If he doesn't, he has to answer to people who usually matter more than the dickhead installing non-standard/unsupported/unapproved software.
To date, I have met exactly _1_ MCSE that was both proud of the certification and actually knowledgeable to be useful. Luckily, my job environment does let me interview new applicants. Since we're a small company, everybody is expected to pull some of the weight in just about every area of what we do. I look forward to interviews with people whose resumes show certifications but little or no real experience. Those interviews are hilarious. It's wonderful to watch their self esteem crumble as I fire a mixture of UNIX and NT questions at them that they can't answer. It's especially nice if I find a way to work in that I have no certifications, no degree, and am only 22. Yeah, I could probably make more elsewhere, but add doing something I like (except those days when the users decide to screw up something, or one of the NT servers I can't make the client get rid of goes down) to the pleasure of watching an M$ whore writhe in interview pain, and you've got a combination that I wouldn't give up for anything short of $150K/yr and an unlimited, unregulated hardware budget:)
I have a sneaking suspicion that digging through MS source code will be painful....or maybe we'll find that the real reason Windows is so bloody slow is that there's intentional pointless wait loops scattered througout that automatically get increased over time to make you want the newer version...wouldn't put it past them.
Ever slept in your car for 2 weeks so you can wait till your next paycheck to pay the dorm fees and move in since you spent your last dime on tuition bills? I have. Blow it out your ass, Mr. Suit.
Until stuff like this gets to the sub-$200 range (for some reason prices don't really bother me until they are above $200), I'll stick with my box, my TV, and my Virtual Boy. For all those who say the Virtual Boy is crap, what other video game system can you pick up at WalMart for $19 and buy the games at Electronics Boutique for $1?
Back when I was in high school, there were 2 physics courses offered during my senior year: Honors Physics and AP Physics. When arranging schedules for that year, we were required to sign a form (along with our parents) if we chose AP Physics, acknowledging that it could be a very difficult course. Starting off the year, there were 2 AP Physics classes of about 30 people each.
A good 75% of the students failed the first test (which you could pass as long as you knew f=ma and a few other extremely basic equations). The majority of them had their parents complain to the school, and demanded that the teacher, Dan "The Man" O'Halloran, be fired. Thankfully, the school didn't fire this wonderful teacher, but they did allow any student who wished to drop the AP Physics class and take Honors Physics instead. This kind of policy breakage was unheard of in the school system. After the dust had settled, AP Physics was 1 class with 12 people. That's 48 people that I lost a tremendous amount of respect for.
I learned a lot about responsibility and determination during all of this. One of my best friends failed that first test, but refused to transfer to the Honors Physics class. He said, "I knew what I was getting into, I signed the form, I made a commitment. I don't back down on shit like that." Sure enough, with a lot of pushing and tutoring from myself and other friends, he managed a passing grade in the class overall.
If only more of us could have that kind of personal drive.
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I'd sure like it if they'd just make up their friggin' minds and say yay or nay on the patch issue. I've got a lot of client machines to upgrade if the answer is nay, and a patch to test (what? trust a M$ patch without testing? not in this lifetime) if the answer is yay.
Kinda funny when you think about it...one of the major FUDballs thrown at open source projects lately is the supposed lack of development roadmaps. Where's the M$ roadmap for this patch, if it exists? Only so many more months left...
GUIs are for wusses. I only load up XF86 and FVWM when I need to use Netscape or Gimp. Why should I waste system resources on eye candy when it's not even for a game?
I just love the fact that you can order the bugger online with a credit card. Now if only my limit actually began to approach the $356,000 mark...
Any company that has Ms. Pac Man and Gauntlet in their game room is OK by me.
(psst...hey redhat, if you hire me I'll bring my 1978 Super Breakout machine!)
Just because there's a precedent for spam doesn't make it any better. And there is a _big_ difference...I don't specifically pay for snailmail to get to my mailbox. The advertiser pays to have their crap sent to me. I pay for my internet access, and I'll be damned if I'll let someone waste my money that way. Always nice to have a couple of mail servers under your control to rip the spammer a new asshole and get his account cancelled. At least snailmail spam only wastes my time, not my money as well.
There's the FreeBSD Handbook, published by Walnut Creek. It's an excellent reference and covers many topics. It's also available at www.freebsd.org/handbook. In addition, there's #freebsd on efnet irc...just be sure that if you ask a question in there, you've first read the handbook section on the subject and any related man pages, or you're likely to be kicked quickly.
Yep. natd.
On my desk at home, I have systems running FreeBSD, OpenBSD, and Linux. For quite a while, I was a big fan of Linux, until the day when an employer of mine asked me about FreeBSD. At the time, I knew nothing more than that it existed. So I looked at it. I installed it. I *liked* it. A lot. I loved having unified source distributions for the whole OS (kernel and all standard programs)...made installing patches and upgrading to newer versions much smoother in my opinion. I still like Linux, still think it's a :)
great OS. I'll even concede that for a desktop system it kicks FreeBSD's butt in a lot of ways. But when it comes to making one hell of a server, I'm FreeBSD all the way. Just ask www.yahoo.com and ftp.cdrom.com...they'll tell you why
I think the main difference between AOL and Slashdot is profit. AOL exists to make a profit. In my understanding (which could be wrong), Slashdot is not out there to make money, but rather provide a free service to the internet community. I think that kinda goes along with the whole .org thing as well...
If I ever get busted for any electronic crime, at least thanks to articles like this I can say that I must have been sexually abused by my family and get off on one sort of insanity claim or another.
Jat "Not responsible for his own actions" TDB
Apparently you've never held a position as a sysadmin in an organization of any size. Corporations ranging from medium-sized offices to cube farms as far as the eye can see, as well as universities, often have strict policies as to what software can be installed on workstations. It doesn't matter if the machine is public, private, locked away, the user swears he won't blame it on you if it fucks up, whatever...the sysadmin is still responsible for enforcing those poilicies. If he doesn't, he has to answer to people who usually matter more than the dickhead installing non-standard/unsupported/unapproved software.
To date, I have met exactly _1_ MCSE that was both proud of the certification and actually knowledgeable to be useful. Luckily, my job environment does let me interview new applicants. Since we're a small company, everybody is expected to pull some of the weight in just about every area of what we do. I look forward to interviews with people whose resumes show certifications but little or no real experience. Those interviews are hilarious. It's wonderful to watch their self esteem crumble as I fire a mixture of UNIX and NT questions at them that they can't answer. It's especially nice if I find a way to work in that I have no certifications, no degree, and am only 22. Yeah, I could probably make more elsewhere, but add doing something I like (except those days when the users decide to screw up something, or one of the NT servers I can't make the client get rid of goes down) to the pleasure of watching an M$ whore writhe in interview pain, and you've got a combination that I wouldn't give up for anything short of $150K/yr and an unlimited, unregulated hardware budget :)
I have a sneaking suspicion that digging through MS source code will be painful....or maybe we'll find that the real reason Windows is so bloody slow is that there's intentional pointless wait loops scattered througout that automatically get increased over time to make you want the newer version...wouldn't put it past them.
erm, contest description says all travel expenses are covered by redhat...that would include airfare , even from belgium
bought the car 3 years earlier for $500, good enough for you? Never assume you know everything.
Ever slept in your car for 2 weeks so you can wait till your next paycheck to pay the dorm fees and move in since you spent your last dime on tuition bills? I have. Blow it out your ass, Mr. Suit.
This had better be an April Fools joke, or else I'm gonna bust somebody's head open at whatever corporation is responsible for this.
Until stuff like this gets to the sub-$200 range (for some reason prices don't really bother me until they are above $200), I'll stick with my box, my TV, and my Virtual Boy. For all those who say the Virtual Boy is crap, what other video game system can you pick up at WalMart for $19 and buy the games at Electronics Boutique for $1?
Back when I was in high school, there were 2 physics courses offered during my senior year: Honors Physics and AP Physics. When arranging schedules for that year, we were required to sign a form (along with our parents) if we chose AP Physics, acknowledging that it could be a very difficult course. Starting off the year, there were 2 AP Physics classes of about 30 people each.
A good 75% of the students failed the first test (which you could pass as long as you knew f=ma and a few other extremely basic equations). The majority of them had their parents complain to the school, and demanded that the teacher, Dan "The Man" O'Halloran, be fired. Thankfully, the school didn't fire this wonderful teacher, but they did allow any student who wished to drop the AP Physics class and take Honors Physics instead. This kind of policy breakage was unheard of in the school system. After the dust had settled, AP Physics was 1 class with 12 people. That's 48 people that I lost a tremendous amount of respect for.
I learned a lot about responsibility and determination during all of this. One of my best friends failed that first test, but refused to transfer to the Honors Physics class. He said, "I knew what I was getting into, I signed the form, I made a commitment. I don't back down on shit like that." Sure enough, with a lot of pushing and tutoring from myself and other friends, he managed a passing grade in the class overall.
If only more of us could have that kind of personal drive.