I'm curious. When she bought that PC from dell, or whomever, did they just ship a box with a bunch of drivers on a bunch of floppies with a sticker saying, "Good luck!" Yeah, I don't think so either.
Actually, thats EXACTLY how Dell shipped my Latitude CP in 1997, execpt the "Good luck!" sticker. So whats your point?!?
Thank you, you just confirmed that IT tech people know nothing about business issues. You are exactly the person I'd never hire for my IT-staff, because in real life IT, you don't have unlimited budgets, you have to work with what you have.
In the real world, you do have diametrically different servers, so you DO need to mirror them all, to be sure. You sound like a real BOFH, which would never survive in any larger organisation, where political issues presedes technical.
As for talking tech stuff down on your level of understanding, I can tell you that we did upgrade most of the bugs in the applications you mentioned erlier as soon as they came out. But that wasen't the issue here, if you run other things than OSS on your servers, upgrading the OS can have very serious affects to some applications, that you can't get fixed overnight.
I hope I've clearified this for you, but I wouldn't be surprised if you are that kind of person who have to have the last word in any conversation. With your attitude, you'll never get any further than being a system administrator.
I'm surprised that you get that high moderation being a troll and all, but I'll bite.
I don't know about your boss, but mine would be pissed if I told him I blew the budget to buy 10 extra $10.000 servers (Not including software licences) for a testbench, and then started to use 15 extra hours each week to keep every running server up to date.
I doubt that you know what you're talking about, in an ideal world your case would be true, but in the real world, it is not. So either you are still in Highschool/college, or you work for a company that has unlimited surply of $.
You know, you are SO wrong. Ofc. the beggars(Students, the primary slashdot crowd, etc.) will not mind they now have to upgrade to get supported versions, they do that each other week because they don't have anything else meaningfull to do.
But, in the real world, you just don't upgrade each week. First of all, you don't have the time to do it, second many of your services are so complicated they might break seriously if a patch is applied, and ofc. all of this has to be done on a working live system in a very narrow timeframe, which leaves you very little time for errors.
This is a very poor move, now that Linux has been accepted in the business world. This will clearly throw some people back to Windows, because their lifetime is bigger, and the systems are easier to update. Not that I don't know how to use the patch command, but hey, most people would like just to double-click on SP3 and then wait until it is done.
If it was me who were in charge of Apple, I'd do exactly the same. Apple dosen't need a lawsuit for being a Napster/Kazaa/(Insert your favorite pirate p2p system here) clone.
And I thank them for doing this, because else we would end up with a settlement that could mean the end of iTunes.
So, Apple recieves my tumbs up for this action.:-)
Ok, I guess I reply instead. Turn based combat worked just fine in MOO and MOO 2!
Why does everything have to be real time today, where the AI is so "advanced" that the advanced part is that it attacks you on 3 fronts at once, oh gee what exitement!
I hope they make it a bit like Bioware's Neverwinter Nights so you can pause and stack your commands on all ships, now that would be cool.
Oh, please! Making lame excuses for ignorance dosen't help the fact that most Americans are clueless to what happends outside America, which is just what your government wants. How else should they be able to drag you around by the nose, if you knew more about the rest of the world.
China uses the same kind of system to keep their people in line, only their system is more rude, so you notice it for what it is from time to time.
And I know perfectly well the difference between Paraguay and Uruguay etc. Strange thing is, that when playing in the US-West realm on Battle.Net, I seem to know more about the US than most Americans playing there?!?
If I were you, I'd begin to ask myself, why you think you don't need to know about the rest of the world, and perhaps if that idea isen't you own!
I don't know about you, but my ASUS motherboard still has 2 ISA slots...
Anyway, I would guess the same goes for my old IBM XT/286 locked away in the basement, which has a 20MB harddrive that worked fine when I last checked it 5 years ago.
Problem is, things are not made to last today, like they were back then.
I use XFree86 4 latest and twm on a FreeBSD 4.6, running on a Compaq Deskpro, 300MHz Pentium II, with 128MB ram and a standard issue ATI Mach64 gfx card.
It runs like a charm, very fast, and never breaks.
However, try running KDE or GNOME instead, and everything slows to halt.
-H
It's set-up, not use, that's a pain - Yeah, right!
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Blah, have you ever tried using your Linux for anything serious? I've run Linux since 1993, and it still has a long way to go, it's not setup thats the problem, its use.
Use is pain, when you try to use the small amount of software available, only to find out that some stupid library it's dependend on has a flaw which only shows in a "real world use" environment.
Use is pain when you discover a nice program you'd like to run, which requires new versions of 15 libraries that you use in other programs already, only to have the old programs broken because of the new libraries.
Yeah, well, you might change your point of view when some "smart" anti-cheat software busts you because you are so unfortunate to have 5 lucky shots in a row.
That happend to me in CS, and even though I used several hours complaining to the server admins, I'm still banned from all their servers.
Now, fortunately, it's free servers, so I really don't mind that much, but think if you paid like 100$ for the game, and 20$/month, and had to buy a new processor just to be able to play again?
All my 3 PC's at home, have P2B motherboards(A P2B/350MHz PII/256MB, P2B-L/500MHz PIII/256MB and a P2B-F/800MHz PIII/512MB), and they work without any problems at all.
Even my FreeBSD server have been running on a P2B the last 3 years without reboot. The BX chipset is steady as a rock, and the Asus P2B are one of the best motherboards IMHO.
I use AOpen Lowtower and Hightower cabinets, they are solid metal and have a very nice and stable powersupply. Also, I use Kingston RAM high quality Ram, no noname stuff here.
I think your problem is related to poor quality of ram in your machine, or perhaps a bad quality powersupply have currupted your MB's over time.
You can actually demagnetice your monitor with a special device. I don't know what it's called, but when I worked for a IBM reseller 10 years ago, it was a common problem that monitors got too close to magnets.
It's a medium plastic ring, that creates a manectic field, and you wave it in a certain pattern in front of the monitor, which dematnetices your monitor, and makes it usable again.
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My words exactly!
I thought guys like you and me were all but extinct?
-H
Well, here goes my possitive Karma, but I couldn't agree more with you. If I had some modpoints, I'd use them on you.
-H
I'm curious. When she bought that PC from dell, or whomever, did they just ship a box with a bunch of drivers on a bunch of floppies with a sticker saying, "Good luck!" Yeah, I don't think so either.
Actually, thats EXACTLY how Dell shipped my Latitude CP in 1997, execpt the "Good luck!" sticker. So whats your point?!?
That Linux is more than 5 years behind?
-H
Oh please, with that bad english he can't be from europe... errh, wait, maybe france..
-H
Thank you, you just confirmed that IT tech people know nothing about business issues. You are exactly the person I'd never hire for my IT-staff, because in real life IT, you don't have unlimited budgets, you have to work with what you have.
In the real world, you do have diametrically different servers, so you DO need to mirror them all, to be sure. You sound like a real BOFH, which would never survive in any larger organisation, where political issues presedes technical.
As for talking tech stuff down on your level of understanding, I can tell you that we did upgrade most of the bugs in the applications you mentioned erlier as soon as they came out. But that wasen't the issue here, if you run other things than OSS on your servers, upgrading the OS can have very serious affects to some applications, that you can't get fixed overnight.
I hope I've clearified this for you, but I wouldn't be surprised if you are that kind of person who have to have the last word in any conversation. With your attitude, you'll never get any further than being a system administrator.
-H
Yeah, I guess it is lazyness... NOT!
I'm surprised that you get that high moderation being a troll and all, but I'll bite.
I don't know about your boss, but mine would be pissed if I told him I blew the budget to buy 10 extra $10.000 servers (Not including software licences) for a testbench, and then started to use 15 extra hours each week to keep every running server up to date.
I doubt that you know what you're talking about, in an ideal world your case would be true, but in the real world, it is not. So either you are still in Highschool/college, or you work for a company that has unlimited surply of $.
-H
You know, you are SO wrong. Ofc. the beggars(Students, the primary slashdot crowd, etc.) will not mind they now have to upgrade to get supported versions, they do that each other week because they don't have anything else meaningfull to do.
But, in the real world, you just don't upgrade each week. First of all, you don't have the time to do it, second many of your services are so complicated they might break seriously if a patch is applied, and ofc. all of this has to be done on a working live system in a very narrow timeframe, which leaves you very little time for errors.
This is a very poor move, now that Linux has been accepted in the business world. This will clearly throw some people back to Windows, because their lifetime is bigger, and the systems are easier to update. Not that I don't know how to use the patch command, but hey, most people would like just to double-click on SP3 and then wait until it is done.
-H
If it was me who were in charge of Apple, I'd do exactly the same. Apple dosen't need a lawsuit for being a Napster/Kazaa/(Insert your favorite pirate p2p system here) clone.
:-)
And I thank them for doing this, because else we would end up with a settlement that could mean the end of iTunes.
So, Apple recieves my tumbs up for this action.
-H
You know, I actually asked one of the 2 female programmers we have at my work, and she said that she thought it is because of the mess.
Many woman study Math, but not Physics and CS, because Math is tidy and orderly, where Physics and CS are mostly chaotic at best.
I think it is genetic, woman require order, while men are better at chaos.
-H
Go buy yourself a Mac, it renders perfectly in Safari :-)
Or you could just wait and use that KDE browser when they get the new stuff Apple put into it included.
-H
Oh, what to do, mod parrent as troll or reply....
Ok, I guess I reply instead. Turn based combat worked just fine in MOO and MOO 2!
Why does everything have to be real time today, where the AI is so "advanced" that the advanced part is that it attacks you on 3 fronts at once, oh gee what exitement!
I hope they make it a bit like Bioware's Neverwinter Nights so you can pause and stack your commands on all ships, now that would be cool.
-H
I rest my case.
-H
Actually, we've had Kings and Queens for more than the last 1000 years, way before you stole your country from the natives.
So if only a 3rd of them had made a crown, there'd be plenty of them.
-H
Oh, please! Making lame excuses for ignorance dosen't help the fact that most Americans are clueless to what happends outside America, which is just what your government wants. How else should they be able to drag you around by the nose, if you knew more about the rest of the world.
China uses the same kind of system to keep their people in line, only their system is more rude, so you notice it for what it is from time to time.
And I know perfectly well the difference between Paraguay and Uruguay etc. Strange thing is, that when playing in the US-West realm on Battle.Net, I seem to know more about the US than most Americans playing there?!?
If I were you, I'd begin to ask myself, why you think you don't need to know about the rest of the world, and perhaps if that idea isen't you own!
-H
I don't know about you, but my ASUS motherboard still has 2 ISA slots...
Anyway, I would guess the same goes for my old IBM XT/286 locked away in the basement, which has a 20MB harddrive that worked fine when I last checked it 5 years ago.
Problem is, things are not made to last today, like they were back then.
-H
Don't blame X for the shortcommings of the desktop environments!
-H
XFree86 is rock solid, if you only ditch the crappy KDE/GNOME desktop environments, they only suck up ram and processor time.
I run XFree86/twm on a Compaq Armada 1750 right now, it never breaks down.
-H
I use XFree86 4 latest and twm on a FreeBSD 4.6, running on a Compaq Deskpro, 300MHz Pentium II, with 128MB ram and a standard issue ATI Mach64 gfx card.
It runs like a charm, very fast, and never breaks.
However, try running KDE or GNOME instead, and everything slows to halt.
-H
Blah, have you ever tried using your Linux for anything serious? I've run Linux since 1993, and it still has a long way to go, it's not setup thats the problem, its use.
Use is pain, when you try to use the small amount of software available, only to find out that some stupid library it's dependend on has a flaw which only shows in a "real world use" environment.
Use is pain when you discover a nice program you'd like to run, which requires new versions of 15 libraries that you use in other programs already, only to have the old programs broken because of the new libraries.
-H
How can you rate this above Insightfull?!?!?
Where I live, a lot of big companies are rolling out Thin Clients with Windows Terminal Clients on, which basically is a "dumb graphics terminal".
This is being done to lower TCO. How can you then state this as obsolete?!? Which hole did you emerge from, caveman?!?
-H
You don't play CS, QIII or UT, do you?!?
-H
Yeah, well, you might change your point of view when some "smart" anti-cheat software busts you because you are so unfortunate to have 5 lucky shots in a row.
That happend to me in CS, and even though I used several hours complaining to the server admins, I'm still banned from all their servers.
Now, fortunately, it's free servers, so I really don't mind that much, but think if you paid like 100$ for the game, and 20$/month, and had to buy a new processor just to be able to play again?
-H
All my 3 PC's at home, have P2B motherboards(A P2B/350MHz PII/256MB, P2B-L/500MHz PIII/256MB and a P2B-F/800MHz PIII/512MB), and they work without any problems at all.
Even my FreeBSD server have been running on a P2B the last 3 years without reboot. The BX chipset is steady as a rock, and the Asus P2B are one of the best motherboards IMHO.
I use AOpen Lowtower and Hightower cabinets, they are solid metal and have a very nice and stable powersupply. Also, I use Kingston RAM high quality Ram, no noname stuff here.
I think your problem is related to poor quality of ram in your machine, or perhaps a bad quality powersupply have currupted your MB's over time.
-H
Hehe, if I had any moderation points, I'd give you one for this funny sexist joke.
-H
You can actually demagnetice your monitor with a special device. I don't know what it's called, but when I worked for a IBM reseller 10 years ago, it was a common problem that monitors got too close to magnets.
It's a medium plastic ring, that creates a manectic field, and you wave it in a certain pattern in front of the monitor, which dematnetices your monitor, and makes it usable again.
-H