Obviously the whole redhat/debian/ubuntu thing is not simple. Personally, I have ubuntu on developers desktops, debian on servers except for the annoying centos servers we inherited from a merger.
There a few things about the default centos/redhat setup that shit me enormously, such as an idiotic umask that allows group writable perms by default. Can anyone spell unable to ssh to host due ownership permissions for 40 points? Twonk who decided that idea needs drowning and resuscitation repeatedly until it no longer works.
Same deal with the clear in.logout. If I care whether people see what I have been doing I will hit ctrl-L. I don't need some nanny twaping the clear screen key just because some turkey has logged out as root.
Red hat is synonymous with annoying defaults these days.
The ever increasing severity of wildfires in Australia, North America, and elsewhere have nothing to do with any hypothetical climate change. It has everything to do with honest to Cowboy Neal human intervention.
Every year, dry areas with lots of vegetation catch fire. This is natural. Every year, humans that are stupid enough to build flammable houses in fire prone areas fight the fires and put them out. This is not natural. If the fire was let to burn out on its own, the thick and highly flammable undergrowth would turn into fertilizer for the larger, healthier, and more fire resistant plants that have historically survived such wildfires.
You, sir, haven't the slightest idea what you are talking about.
The state of Victoria has been in the grips of the worst drought in a century for the past 12 years, leaving the whole state tinder dry.
The day of Black Saturday the highest temperatures on record were observed in many parts of the state, and extremely hot, dry and high winds were blowing out of the semi-arid center of the country.
You didn't even have to RFTA, you just had to see from TFS that here in Australia we do control burns in the off season, fuel management is a critical part of fire management in this country, especially when you consider that many parts of the country have acclimatised to the fire-stick agriculture practiced by the aboriginal inhabitant of this country for over 40,000 years
If you seriously think that the already observed climatic changes are having no impact on the prevalence and severity of natural disasters around the globe you need to pull your head out of your arse and realise that's not coffee you've been smelling.
And it has to be said, though most sales guys are useless, the really good ones are gold. There is a guy where I work who has turned wrong numbers into sales. That is seriously hard work, and for all I might bemoan his lack of IT skills, gotta give the guy his props. Sales is a hard job, especially cold calling, and what will make an idea like the GP has work more than anything is who he has selling it.
The whole signing shit is a troll for the privacy church. What they forget are the proportions and what is really important. We know exactly that the problem didn't affect us in the past and it won't affect us in the future now we found out. No need to panic.
Wow. I can't really imagine a more concise way of saying "Never, ever consider hiring me for a technical role in any capacity at all". I mean, seriously.
Once you get over the initial discomfort you will realise that a great many kludges you unconsciously apply to your day to day living can be done away with altogether, and indeed the entirety of your world view can be refactored into a far more consistent state to which a genuinely ethical basis can be applied if you only reject the nonsense you have been taught by the church and embrace the simple (and obvious) truth encompassed by the phrase:
The user get used to seeing the buttons in a certain order, and they're happy. That's really all there is to it.
But that's just the damn point. Users of KDE have got used seeing the buttons in a certain order, and Firefox and GTK apps look out of place on a KDE desktop.
Like it or not, the majority of desktop Linux users use KDE, and the button order in Firefox and GTK/Gnome apps is a serious UI inconsistency (regardless of what UI experts say about what the "correct" order should be).
That said, there are hacks available to reorder things in Firefox, but there's not a damn thing that can be done about the Gimp (roll on Krita, I say...)
> Who scans down the right edge of a page looking for their choices?
This would make sense if the user was given multiple rows of buttons to choose from. But the fact is the user is given 2 or 3 buttons to choose from, they're always aligned right at the bottom of the window. The first button you see is the one in the *very corner* of the window.. since that is where you look for buttons.
So what you're saying is you think the action affirmation button should be down in the bottom right hand corner because that's where people who look for buttons to press without reading what the dialog box is telling them naturally look for them? Hmmm, okay, personally I think that is a fine argument for doing the opposite.
To me, left to right reading of a dialog means I read the text of the dialog left to right, then read the last line (containing the buttons) also left to right. This is certainly what I experience whenever I use a gnome app and am presented with the "I was just frobbing" option before the "Engage" option.
Maybe I'm missing something, but ISTM that unixoid OSs were not designed for this kind of role. Eg power management is just an afterthough on such systems, and size has never been a high priority.
Minor quibble, but given UNIX was first developed on computers with a mighty 128KB of RAM, I think you may be slightly confused regarding the design priorities of "unixoid OSs".
I do know the first system I ran linux on was a 486/33SX (feel that emulated FPU goodness) with 4MB, and I suspect that in terms of the "four yorkshiremen" scale, that qualifies as somewhat more piss than whatever your generic ARM powered PDA does.
Hell, in those days I had to calculate my XF86Config ModeLines by hand to get something my PissWeak(Tm) PVGA card could grok, and even then, I'd only drag it out in case of Direst Emergency (if you've ever used X on an old system like that with drives that whistled as they worked, you'll know what I mean).
You young whippersnappers these days, I tell ya, it's PDA this, slow as dog shit that, *grumble*, onion in my belt, usw.
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"Possession is not intent. One may possess a recipe for marijuana brownies without the intent to bake any. One may possess a gun without the intent to shoot anyone with it. It is possession _with_ intent that gets you prosecuted. It might get you charged with a crime, but proves nothing as far as if you did anything with the list.
Scenario: Let's say someone is a sysadmin for a company. As such, he has full access to usernames/passwords; he may even keep a hardcopy list of username/password pairs he uses often. Said sysadmin quits, gets laid off, etc. He still possesses the list of usernames/passwords, but doesn't use it, nor does he intend to. It's just in with the rest of his work papers. Is this sysadmin doing anything wrong? Nah. In fact, he might be purposely hanging on to the paper so that later when someone can't find some password and call him, he can answer."
Okay, that one I agree with.
"Here's a real world analogy. Let's say a friend gives me a spare key to their house. Later, said friend moves. I now have a key to a house, which I was given by someone authorized to do so, but which I have no right to use. As long as I don't _use_ that key, there's nothing wrong with possessing it."
Even that might be okay, but to follow this analogy, this guy wasn't given a key by a friend, he found a competitor kept his key under the doormat, made a copy and used it to break into the house and rummage through the competitor's personal files.
Possession of keys you have a valid reason for is one thing, but possession of keys you have no authority to have is always going to look like intent to attempt unauthorised access. I mean, why else would you have them? Particularly if there is evidence you have actively sought them.
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Obviously the whole redhat/debian/ubuntu thing is not simple. Personally, I have ubuntu on developers desktops, debian on servers except for the annoying centos servers we inherited from a merger.
There a few things about the default centos/redhat setup that shit me enormously, such as an idiotic umask that allows group writable perms by default. Can anyone spell unable to ssh to host due ownership permissions for 40 points? Twonk who decided that idea needs drowning and resuscitation repeatedly until it no longer works.
Same deal with the clear in .logout. If I care whether people see what I have been doing I will hit ctrl-L. I don't need some nanny twaping the clear screen key just because some turkey has logged out as root.
Red hat is synonymous with annoying defaults these days.
C'mon, clearly creationists are not about religion. Haven't you heard, they're scientists.
No, really
*guffaw*
That is one of the most succinctly stated reasons for opposing the mind control of the weak I have ever seen.
The ever increasing severity of wildfires in Australia, North America, and elsewhere have nothing to do with any hypothetical climate change. It has everything to do with honest to Cowboy Neal human intervention.
Every year, dry areas with lots of vegetation catch fire. This is natural. Every year, humans that are stupid enough to build flammable houses in fire prone areas fight the fires and put them out. This is not natural. If the fire was let to burn out on its own, the thick and highly flammable undergrowth would turn into fertilizer for the larger, healthier, and more fire resistant plants that have historically survived such wildfires.
You, sir, haven't the slightest idea what you are talking about.
The state of Victoria has been in the grips of the worst drought in a century for the past 12 years, leaving the whole state tinder dry.
The day of Black Saturday the highest temperatures on record were observed in many parts of the state, and extremely hot, dry and high winds were blowing out of the semi-arid center of the country.
You didn't even have to RFTA, you just had to see from TFS that here in Australia we do control burns in the off season, fuel management is a critical part of fire management in this country, especially when you consider that many parts of the country have acclimatised to the fire-stick agriculture practiced by the aboriginal inhabitant of this country for over 40,000 years
If you seriously think that the already observed climatic changes are having no impact on the prevalence and severity of natural disasters around the globe you need to pull your head out of your arse and realise that's not coffee you've been smelling.
And it has to be said, though most sales guys are useless, the really good ones are gold. There is a guy where I work who has turned wrong numbers into sales. That is seriously hard work, and for all I might bemoan his lack of IT skills, gotta give the guy his props. Sales is a hard job, especially cold calling, and what will make an idea like the GP has work more than anything is who he has selling it.
The whole signing shit is a troll for the privacy church. What they forget are the proportions and what is really important. We know exactly that the problem didn't affect us in the past and it won't affect us in the future now we found out. No need to panic.
Wow. I can't really imagine a more concise way of saying "Never, ever consider hiring me for a technical role in any capacity at all". I mean, seriously.
Firefox already has the superior webdeveloper add-ons. I'd like a firefox plugin that allows me to debug IE CSS with those FF add-ons.
It's no firebug, but Internet Explorer Developer Toolbar is pretty useful for those "what the hell is it doing over there?" IE moments.
Repeat after me.
There is. No. God.
Once you get over the initial discomfort you will realise that a great many kludges you unconsciously apply to your day to day living can be done away with altogether, and indeed the entirety of your world view can be refactored into a far more consistent state to which a genuinely ethical basis can be applied if you only reject the nonsense you have been taught by the church and embrace the simple (and obvious) truth encompassed by the phrase:
There is. No. God.
No, really.
The user get used to seeing the buttons in a certain order, and they're happy. That's really all there is to it.
But that's just the damn point. Users of KDE have got used seeing the buttons in a certain order, and Firefox and GTK apps look out of place on a KDE desktop.
Like it or not, the majority of desktop Linux users use KDE, and the button order in Firefox and GTK/Gnome apps is a serious UI inconsistency (regardless of what UI experts say about what the "correct" order should be).
That said, there are hacks available to reorder things in Firefox, but there's not a damn thing that can be done about the Gimp (roll on Krita, I say...)
> Who scans down the right edge of a page looking for their choices?
This would make sense if the user was given multiple rows of buttons to choose from. But the fact is the user is given 2 or 3 buttons to choose from, they're always aligned right at the bottom of the window. The first button you see is the one in the *very corner* of the window.. since that is where you look for buttons.
So what you're saying is you think the action affirmation button should be down in the bottom right hand corner because that's where people who look for buttons to press without reading what the dialog box is telling them naturally look for them? Hmmm, okay, personally I think that is a fine argument for doing the opposite.
To me, left to right reading of a dialog means I read the text of the dialog left to right, then read the last line (containing the buttons) also left to right. This is certainly what I experience whenever I use a gnome app and am presented with the "I was just frobbing" option before the "Engage" option.
Maybe I'm missing something, but ISTM that unixoid OSs were not designed for this kind of role. Eg power management is just an afterthough on such systems, and size has never been a high priority.
Minor quibble, but given UNIX was first developed on computers with a mighty 128KB of RAM, I think you may be slightly confused regarding the design priorities of "unixoid OSs".
I do know the first system I ran linux on was a 486/33SX (feel that emulated FPU goodness) with 4MB, and I suspect that in terms of the "four yorkshiremen" scale, that qualifies as somewhat more piss than whatever your generic ARM powered PDA does.
Hell, in those days I had to calculate my XF86Config ModeLines by hand to get something my PissWeak(Tm) PVGA card could grok, and even then, I'd only drag it out in case of Direst Emergency (if you've ever used X on an old system like that with drives that whistled as they worked, you'll know what I mean).
You young whippersnappers these days, I tell ya, it's PDA this, slow as dog shit that, *grumble*, onion in my belt, usw.
"Possession is not intent. One may possess a recipe for marijuana brownies without the intent to bake any. One may possess a gun without the intent to shoot anyone with it. It is possession _with_ intent that gets you prosecuted. It might get you charged with a crime, but proves nothing as far as if you did anything with the list.
Scenario: Let's say someone is a sysadmin for a company. As such, he has full access to usernames/passwords; he may even keep a hardcopy list of username/password pairs he uses often. Said sysadmin quits, gets laid off, etc. He still possesses the list of usernames/passwords, but doesn't use it, nor does he intend to. It's just in with the rest of his work papers. Is this sysadmin doing anything wrong? Nah. In fact, he might be purposely hanging on to the paper so that later when someone can't find some password and call him, he can answer."
Okay, that one I agree with.
"Here's a real world analogy. Let's say a friend gives me a spare key to their house. Later, said friend moves. I now have a key to a house, which I was given by someone authorized to do so, but which I have no right to use. As long as I don't _use_ that key, there's nothing wrong with possessing it."
Even that might be okay, but to follow this analogy, this guy wasn't given a key by a friend, he found a competitor kept his key under the doormat, made a copy and used it to break into the house and rummage through the competitor's personal files.
Possession of keys you have a valid reason for is one thing, but possession of keys you have no authority to have is always going to look like intent to attempt unauthorised access. I mean, why else would you have them? Particularly if there is evidence you have actively sought them.