Bing! http://www.jefraskin.com/ points to a user environment which, although unfamiliar, is much easier to use. For example, the system NEVER discards your keystrokes. If you're pointing at a piece of read-only text (e.g. somebody else's web page), typing at it forces the cursor to slide over to the end of the read-only text. So if you just walk up to your machine with somebody's phone number in your head, you can just type it in without caring what context you're in.
For another thing, you never have to save anything in The Humane Environment. It autosaves (with undo!) for you.
For another thing, you don't have to start programs in THE. You access your data, and it takes care of starting the program that manipulates the data.
We can do this all, and we can do it long before Longhorn comes out.
Nahhhhh, that's not what a GPS is for. It's for figuring out where you were when you get back. If you don't know where you are all the time, you really don't belong out of sight of a main road.
Um, dude, DNSSEC doesn't work. Even the bind people say that. They only implement it because people dumber than them have it on their checklist. Yes, I'm talking about you.
tinydns has had disk-based permanent changes with no loss of uptime from version 0.0. tinydns supports all RR types, now and forever. You may need a pre-processor for newly-created RR types; oh well. At least you can serve up any record you want. If you can't get the least details about tinydns correct, I have to wonder if you know anything.
And finally, the existance of fixed bugs is an indicator that more bugs remain to be fixed, not that there are no more bugs. It's the absence of any bugs in the first place that indicates that the software was well designed in the first place. -russ
Isn't RFC-compliant? What parts that tinydns and dnscache don't implement do you really need? DNSSEC? DNSSEC doesn't work. Why implement something whose design is broken? For that matter, zone transfers are broken. The only reason I use zone transfers on my tinydns server is because I have to secondary BIND zones, and my secondary server runs BIND (heterogenous services).
Interesting. The onerous restrictions that you complain about are simply because djb can write secure software AND YOU (probably) CAN'T. He doesn't want you fucking up the security of his software.
djbdns supports every record type, because you can write a pre-processor for the 'data' file which creates any damn record you want. And tinydns will happily serve it up.
Your problem is that you think other people have problems. I'm not fucking anti-social, fucking non-approachable, or a fucking nerd, nor do I fucking control the fucking direction of the fucking Linux fucking deskfuckingtop fucking community.
Idiot.
Where was I? Oh, right, your problem. The thing that you fail to understand is that there are no "problems". There are only unmet business opportunities. If you think that too many choices is a problem, then create a (Fedora) Linux (Fedora) Distribution (Fedora) which installs one (Mozilla) web browser, one (gedit) text editor, one (OO) office suite.
Then shop at a store that gives you fewer choices. See? That's why I have no sympathy for you. The solution is in your hands, UNLIKE the situation of poor people.
There are only four Linux distributions: Fedora, Mandrake, SuSE, and Debian. All others are down in the noise. Three of them allow you to install RPMs, and in my experience, an RPM for one works fine on the other. Debian will come around in time.
It's not about the number of choices. It's about the quality of them. Even the poorest schmuck has plenty of choices. It's just that they all suck. -russ
This is bullshit. Anybody who complains about having too many good choices has never been in the position of having only bad choices. It's not that the poor don't have choices. After all, poor people in India have many choices. They could walk around all night, they could steal a piece of cardboard under which they sleep, they could steal some other poor person's piece of cardboard, they could sleep under a car, they could lie down on a bit of earth devoid of any padding at all, they could commit a crime and go to jail, etc etc etc. Many choices. All of them STINK. I have no sympathy for people who have so many good choices that they have trouble choosing just one. None.
Unfortunaely, in a wealthy society like America, even stupid people get to be rich.
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Um .... to make a Beowulf cluster?
How do you know it's not running Linux?
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Bing! http://www.jefraskin.com/ points to a user environment which, although unfamiliar, is much easier to use. For example, the system NEVER discards your keystrokes. If you're pointing at a piece of read-only text (e.g. somebody else's web page), typing at it forces the cursor to slide over to the end of the read-only text. So if you just walk up to your machine with somebody's phone number in your head, you can just type it in without caring what context you're in.
For another thing, you never have to save anything in The Humane Environment. It autosaves (with undo!) for you.
For another thing, you don't have to start programs in THE. You access your data, and it takes care of starting the program that manipulates the data.
We can do this all, and we can do it long before Longhorn comes out.
Jef Raskin says, in The Humane Interface, that people misuse the word "intuitive". In the context of user interfaces, they mean "familiar".
-russ
Me. I still haven't found the pony yet, but I know it's in there.
The Tag can be mounted in many different ways on a variety of assets, including the use of double-sided tape, screws and straps.
Tape??? Screws??? Straps???? My kid isn't getting with a hundred miles of these guys. Nobody screws a wifi tag to my kid!
-russ
Nahhhhh, that's not what a GPS is for. It's for figuring out where you were when you get back. If you don't know where you are all the time, you really don't belong out of sight of a main road.
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'nuff said. Trolls, heh, ya gotta love 'em.
-russ
Um, dude, DNSSEC doesn't work. Even the bind people say that. They only implement it because people dumber than them have it on their checklist. Yes, I'm talking about you.
tinydns has had disk-based permanent changes with no loss of uptime from version 0.0. tinydns supports all RR types, now and forever. You may need a pre-processor for newly-created RR types; oh well. At least you can serve up any record you want. If you can't get the least details about tinydns correct, I have to wonder if you know anything.
And finally, the existance of fixed bugs is an indicator that more bugs remain to be fixed, not that there are no more bugs. It's the absence of any bugs in the first place that indicates that the software was well designed in the first place.
-russ
What do you want to do that His license prevents you?
-russ
Isn't RFC-compliant? What parts that tinydns and dnscache don't implement do you really need? DNSSEC? DNSSEC doesn't work. Why implement something whose design is broken? For that matter, zone transfers are broken. The only reason I use zone transfers on my tinydns server is because I have to secondary BIND zones, and my secondary server runs BIND (heterogenous services).
What's wrong with rsync?
-russ
Interesting. The onerous restrictions that you complain about are simply because djb can write secure software AND YOU (probably) CAN'T. He doesn't want you fucking up the security of his software.
djbdns supports every record type, because you can write a pre-processor for the 'data' file which creates any damn record you want. And tinydns will happily serve it up.
Any other "facts" you want to present?
Hell, I just (xmms) want an mp3 player (xmms) that doesn't CAUSE (xmms) eyestraing (xmms).
Look at AWE's price. They tanked long before this particular problem hit, in fact long before anything mentioned in this article happened.
"How many kids with ADD does it take to change a light bulb?"
"Let's ride bikes!"
I've known the antichrist.
The antichrist is my friend.
Steve Ballmer is no antichrist.
Your problem is that you think other people have problems. I'm not fucking anti-social, fucking non-approachable, or a fucking nerd, nor do I fucking control the fucking direction of the fucking Linux fucking deskfuckingtop fucking community.
Idiot.
Where was I? Oh, right, your problem. The thing that you fail to understand is that there are no "problems". There are only unmet business opportunities. If you think that too many choices is a problem, then create a (Fedora) Linux (Fedora) Distribution (Fedora) which installs one (Mozilla) web browser, one (gedit) text editor, one (OO) office suite.
I'm waiting, but I'm not holding my breath.
-russ
Then shop at a store that gives you fewer choices. See? That's why I have no sympathy for you. The solution is in your hands, UNLIKE the situation of poor people.
There are only four Linux distributions: Fedora, Mandrake, SuSE, and Debian. All others are down in the noise. Three of them allow you to install RPMs, and in my experience, an RPM for one works fine on the other. Debian will come around in time.
You install a Fedora Core, you get one browser, one desktop, and one office suite. Sweet!
-russ
I guess you don't understand my response.
I don't think the fact that they believed in God gives any points to either side of the debate on the existance of a higher deity/creator/lord.
-russ
It's not about the number of choices. It's about the quality of them. Even the poorest schmuck has plenty of choices. It's just that they all suck.
-russ
This is bullshit. Anybody who complains about having too many good choices has never been in the position of having only bad choices. It's not that the poor don't have choices. After all, poor people in India have many choices. They could walk around all night, they could steal a piece of cardboard under which they sleep, they could steal some other poor person's piece of cardboard, they could sleep under a car, they could lie down on a bit of earth devoid of any padding at all, they could commit a crime and go to jail, etc etc etc. Many choices. All of them STINK. I have no sympathy for people who have so many good choices that they have trouble choosing just one. None.
Unfortunaely, in a wealthy society like America, even stupid people get to be rich.
Newton, Galileo, Kepler, Dirac, Faraday, Planck, Kelvin, Maxwell and Einstein believed in God. So do I.
Yeah, and they're all dead. Shows where a belief in God will get you.
-russ