I've seen a lot of bad papers in my day, but the Globe definitely tops the list, right above the New York Post. The reporting is worse than sub-par, the articles are written at the reading comprehension level of an eight-year-old child, and, good God, that paper has had more than its share of scandal in the past year and a half.
It's no wonder so many people in Boston have the New York Times delivered to them (judging by the piles of them I used to see outside my apartment building). Boston-area news media really sucks.
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I still don't see an easy way to attach a mass storage device to a PC on a temporary basis to get files on and off the system. Where the Mac user has been used to plugging and unplugging external, portable hard disks (via SCSI) from systems for years as a way of transporting large amounts of data, the PC user still has to suffer through ridiculous gyrations of attaching peripherals to "ancient" I/O systems to do this.
The fact that "hot-plugging" SCSI devices is a good way to fry them notwithstanding, I've been able to do this for years on my PC with SCSI as well. Yes, it is available on PCs too, go figure. Just because you haven't witnessed people using SCSI in this way on their PCs doesn't mean it's not possible.
SCSI qualifies as "ancient" in my book, btw.
name any task on a PC, and it can be accomplished in an order of magnitude less time and hastle than a PC with a Macintosh.
Use a Sony Mavica digital camera on an iMac.
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...portable SCSI drives are cheap. They are also fast. They are also simple to get a hold of.
Btw, unless you have a few dozen things connected to your firewire chain, how is 1600 megabits per second data transfer rates for the bus important to a hard drive, whose physical limit is, at best, 20 megabytes per second right now?
-A.P.
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Comments that are blatant, stupid trolls will get moderated down to -1 as usual. A lot of people, however, *do* browse at -1 for whatever reason.
Put a "delete" tab next to all comments rated at -1. Moderators can then specify that they would like a certain comment (or group of comments on any particular page) deleted. When enough (say, 3? 5?) moderators decide a comment should be obliterated, it is then removed entirely. This way *Rob* isn't the one charged with deleting comments -- it's the job of everyone. Comments with no merit whatsoever are dealt with in a way that should make just about everyone happy.
Good idea?
- A.P. --
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"Do you think Intel is going to make it possible to upgrade your Pentium XVI to a Merced or a McKinley?"
This isn't an issue because Intel has no control over the rest of the computer's hardware. I could go out and purchase a motherboard and a CPU as soon as both were available on the market and be up and running as soon as they arrived in the mail. It's a shame Apple users have to get permission from Mr. Jobs to do anything to their machines' hardware, it would seem.
- A.P. --
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I managed to somehow get the precompiled gcc binaries on reality.sgi.com to install on one of our R10K boxes. On a good day, it actually compiles binaries, too. I got it to make me a working "mpg123" last week. I feel proud of myself.
My experience might well be an anomaly, though.
- A.P. --
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Uh huh. The X server in 6.2 has got to be the biggest piece of feces ever shat upon the surface of this poor planet. It crashes nearly daily when using Netscape. Good stuff! It just did it about 5 minutes ago, so I'm not in the best of moods at present.
As for secure, all you need to do is search the bugtraq archives from '97 and '98 -- nearly every setuid 0 binary had a root-giving exploit for it. I'll agree that any OS can be insecure, sure, but, Christ, IRIX was *really fucking bad* a year or so ago. To its credit, it hasn't appeared much recently on bugtraq/rootshell/etc, so maybe things have finally turned around.
4Dwm still sucks, though.
- A.P. (running WMaker on this IP22) --
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...you might some day go into CompUSA and find a few of them sitting on the floor with piles of turd atop them. The only thing keeping them from looking like stool depositories is the hideous orange/blue translucent plastic.
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The computer industry is full of job openings. Look around. I wouldn't wanna be working for a greasy bastard like that.
As for losing trust for every employer -- don't. There are plenty of decent people out there who know how to treat other human beings in such a way that they are both respectful of and productive for them. (Hint: It involves treating them as human beings.)
- A.P. --
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"100 to 200% faster than the fastest Pentium-III based PCs", the webpage crows. A little asterisk leads to the bottom of the page where, in the tiniest possible font and in off-white (so it's easy to miss), we learn that it's another one of those "it's faster in Photoshop and CPU tests" things. Wow, I'm drooling, really.
If the damned thing is fast, show me *useful data saying so*, not some bullshit Specmark and one-singular-application tests. That'll never happen, though, because then they wouldn't be able to make such ridiculous "200% faster!!" claims.
- A.P. --
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Insult and degrade the user while at the same time offering little to no real advice or help. I see it all the time. (Look around on the -currene mailinglist if you need more examples.)
People wonder why FreeBSD hasn't "taken off" like Linux has. This kind of bullshit is the reason why.
- A.P. --
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Wow, this one came in just under the buzzer. We're cutting it awfully close these days. Something must be up! (New poll idea: Does anyone give a rat's furry ass about the Amiga at this point?)
- A.P. --
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It's always the Microsoft fans who maintain that, if a machine running Windows is unstable or doesn't work properly, it must be the fault of the administrator. Yeah, those college-educated, extremely bright people out there are actually morons because they can't keep NT from crashing on their Compaq server. This is the first part of their "attack".
The second part comes when they say "third-party applications must be what's doing it". This is interesting, and saddening. Apparently the status quo now accepts the "fact" that applications should be able to bring down an operating system. Truly depressing in this day and age. (It's also interesting to note that one of the biggest offenders -- Internet Information Server -- is a Microsoft product, and isn't even third party!)
I don't hate Microsoft because they're big or successful. I hate them because they make such horrible operating systems (to paraphrase Linus Torvalds.)
- A.P. --
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I just bought a nice Sony M1 today. Apparently it has no problem reading and writing computer-grade DATs; this is what everyone I know uses in theirs anyway. Cheap as all hell and you don't have to pay the Gestapo when you want to record something.
As for CD-Rs, I imagine they'll probably only end up taxing the "audio"-grade and not the generic, no-name "data" kind. People that pay premiums for "audio" grade _anything_ deserve to be ripped off, IMHO, and, according to the article, 60 percent of you Canadians agree with me.
- A.P. --
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At that time, "Smith admitted, among other things, to writing the 'Melissa' macro virus, illegally accessing American Online for the purpose of posting the virus onto cyberspace, and destroying the personal computers he used to post 'Melissa,' " Bubb wrote.
It's cool to see AOL's userbase finally dwindling.
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It's no wonder so many people in Boston have the New York Times delivered to them (judging by the piles of them I used to see outside my apartment building). Boston-area news media really sucks.
- A.P.
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Come on, asking Microsoft employees what they think will happen to Linux is hardly unbiased reporting.
- A.P.
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CPUs are commodity items nowadays; your arguement might have been more true 2 years ago.
- A.P.
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The fact that "hot-plugging" SCSI devices is a good way to fry them notwithstanding, I've been able to do this for years on my PC with SCSI as well. Yes, it is available on PCs too, go figure. Just because you haven't witnessed people using SCSI in this way on their PCs doesn't mean it's not possible.
SCSI qualifies as "ancient" in my book, btw.
name any task on a PC, and it can be accomplished in an order of magnitude less time and hastle than a PC with a Macintosh.
Use a Sony Mavica digital camera on an iMac.
- A.P.
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Btw, unless you have a few dozen things connected to your firewire chain, how is 1600 megabits per second data transfer rates for the bus important to a hard drive, whose physical limit is, at best, 20 megabytes per second right now?
-A.P.
P.S.: You might make more friends if you didn't insult people right off the bat.
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Put a "delete" tab next to all comments rated at -1. Moderators can then specify that they would like a certain comment (or group of comments on any particular page) deleted. When enough (say, 3? 5?) moderators decide a comment should be obliterated, it is then removed entirely. This way *Rob* isn't the one charged with deleting comments -- it's the job of everyone. Comments with no merit whatsoever are dealt with in a way that should make just about everyone happy.
Good idea?
- A.P.
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Animals are still fun to eat, though.
- A.P.
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This isn't an issue because Intel has no control over the rest of the computer's hardware. I could go out and purchase a motherboard and a CPU as soon as both were available on the market and be up and running as soon as they arrived in the mail. It's a shame Apple users have to get permission from Mr. Jobs to do anything to their machines' hardware, it would seem.
- A.P.
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- A.P.
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My experience might well be an anomaly, though.
- A.P.
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As for secure, all you need to do is search the bugtraq archives from '97 and '98 -- nearly every setuid 0 binary had a root-giving exploit for it. I'll agree that any OS can be insecure, sure, but, Christ, IRIX was *really fucking bad* a year or so ago. To its credit, it hasn't appeared much recently on bugtraq/rootshell/etc, so maybe things have finally turned around.
4Dwm still sucks, though.
- A.P. (running WMaker on this IP22)
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- A.P.
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- A.P.
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- A.P.
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- A.P.
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As for losing trust for every employer -- don't. There are plenty of decent people out there who know how to treat other human beings in such a way that they are both respectful of and productive for them. (Hint: It involves treating them as human beings.)
- A.P.
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- A.P.
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If the damned thing is fast, show me *useful data saying so*, not some bullshit Specmark and one-singular-application tests. That'll never happen, though, because then they wouldn't be able to make such ridiculous "200% faster!!" claims.
- A.P.
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- A.P.
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People wonder why FreeBSD hasn't "taken off" like Linux has. This kind of bullshit is the reason why.
- A.P.
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- A.P.
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The second part comes when they say "third-party applications must be what's doing it". This is interesting, and saddening. Apparently the status quo now accepts the "fact" that applications should be able to bring down an operating system. Truly depressing in this day and age. (It's also interesting to note that one of the biggest offenders -- Internet Information Server -- is a Microsoft product, and isn't even third party!)
I don't hate Microsoft because they're big or successful. I hate them because they make such horrible operating systems (to paraphrase Linus Torvalds.)
- A.P.
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As for CD-Rs, I imagine they'll probably only end up taxing the "audio"-grade and not the generic, no-name "data" kind. People that pay premiums for "audio" grade _anything_ deserve to be ripped off, IMHO, and, according to the article, 60 percent of you Canadians agree with me.
- A.P.
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It's cool to see AOL's userbase finally dwindling.
-A.P.
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