Digital PC's were utterly pices of crap! I had to support around a 1000 of them at a Business College 5 years ago, and trust me, they were worse than most PC's today!
They had alot of strange quirks due to low-quality parts, and if you bought 50 new ones of the same model, you couldn't even be sure that they all had the same gfx card installed on the mainboard, which made automatic reinstallation a living hell.
To say that Digital had good PC's is utterly nonsense, and their techsupport sucked even more than their PC's did. I had an strange error with a Pioneer CD-rom drive which was installed by Digital themselves into that model, I sent it to Digital Techsupport, which after 2 months still didn't figure out what the problem was. I solved it myself by using half a day to read the HCL's for Win95, and finding a propper driver hidden in a ftp-archive at pioneer.
So please don't give me this crap that Digital was oh so good, when in fact they were not.
And why is this usefull? Well, try to get hold on some WORKING code examples from the libicq, I've been trying for half a year.
The problem with OSS is noboddy documents anything(Read: In general, some projects actually DO document their code, atleast up to 5 versions before the current), because there are no customer to satisfy when you don't sell your software. In the real world, if you don't have satisfied customers, they don't buy your product, and you go broke.
-H
linuxvalley.com in itallian?!? Morons..
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How fuck'ed up is it on a scale from 1 to 2 to have a.com website in itallian?!?
That calculator isn't worth shit. I live in Denmark, and trust me, if you use that one for calculating your salary here, you'll end up being seriously underpaid.
So, if it fails missarable with one country, why should any of the other information be accurate?
I know exactly what you mean by this. I'm working on a port of EveryBuddy for Win32(You can see it on SourceForge), but because of it being made the way it is, I've suggested some fundemental changes to the design of the program.
However, I haven't heard anything from the EveryBuddy team in more than a month! So I guess the OSS movement has a big problem, because noboddy tolerates improvements/fixes to their projects.
So instead, everyone who wants a project done starts his own project, so that he can decide for himself what needs to be done. Then he creates a project on SourceForge, hoping to attract someone who is willing to help him without getting anything, or making to many suggestions to the project.
Now, normally this is not a problem, because the people helping are called employees, and they get paid for their work. However, in the OSS community, your endproduct has got to be free of charge, so you have no way of paying your employees.
Because of that, only people who find it very interesting to work for others without getting payed will apply to your project. Sadly, theese people only does this because they hope to get something out of it, either coding experience, or a nice reference on their CV.
So I think the problems with the movement is the following:
1) Forking(Why do we have x texteditors, x GUI's)
2) No money(You can't attract professionals without paying them, that simply doesn't work)
>What about remote GUI login? Unix had it, and
>Windows never caught up (no, pc anywhere doesn't
>count). People still don't know that they should
>be able to log into their home computers
>wherever they are.
Can you say Terminal Services? Thats exactly what you are looking for, and it's in Windows 2000 S/AS/DC.
Well, you can laugh all you want, but the nobelprice winners of 1998 actually ended up talking about StarTrek, when discussing which final frontier the human race had.
So I guess that your outburst just signals, that you bellong to the 80% of the less gifted here on earth.
When Bruce first time meets the boy, he's sitting in their living room when the boy enters, next to his mother. However, if Bruce had spoken to the mother as the sceene clearly states had happend just before the boy entered, He'd surly discovered the fact that he wasen't able to communicate with her, thus being dead.
That sceene is just there to give credibility to a very dumb plot, that any decent intelligent person should easily see through.
They have, I've stashed some old driver/program disks that after a reformat is more reliable than any new disks awailable. So I use the old bundle, which is mostly old M$ and Digital disks.
And I've tried quite alot of different brands, because for your new BIOS images, you DON'T want the disk to screw up.
BASF once did a series of Floppies called BASF Maxima, which was wrapped in a gold casing, and special designed for use with portables, so their tolerances were incredible(eg. surviving 70 degrees celcius in hours, simulating being left in a car etc.) Unfortunately, they were later put out of production, but I never had one of them fail on me.
I've been using a ZIP-drive for my different laptop(s), and earlier CDrom-less computers, for install and backup issues since the first ones was released around 1995 AFAIR.
Some disks have been on the road with me since then, and I've never lost a single disk to bad sectors or anything yet.
Ofc. my drive is the 100MB Parrallel version, no USB were around at that time, so I can't say if they slacked on the quality later on.
Does anyone know if it's possible to get a DVD with Decard's voiceover? The Directors cut dosen't include this, at least not on VHS, but does the DVD or is it something saved for the Special Edition?
-H
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Still, you don't have to like it. I once tried to download it, just around when it was released from Redhat, but somehow the FTP site didn't allow overseas(Europe) people in.
I wrote an email to Redhat complaining about this, never got an answer, and I even kept trying to download it for a few weeks.
So, why should I bother with a packagemanager that dosen't work the right way, that I couldn't download, and thoose who made it didn't even care to reply on my mail(It was even polite)?
Bitter you may seem, but still your words ring true, though you missed a few:
- Trying to juggle with all the projects you ever done while working in your company, that keeps coming back because of poor understanding/maintaining of the maintenence crew.
- Trying to save projects from dying because of poor managment.
- Screwing your fine working code just before deadline because the customer/project manager suddently remembered that 70% of your input on what to code was wrong or out of date. And he's known it for months.
- Working fanaticly day and night to meet a deadline, only to find out at the deadline that the customer dosen't wish to go live for another 2 months.
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Digital PC's were utterly pices of crap! I had to support around a 1000 of them at a Business College 5 years ago, and trust me, they were worse than most PC's today!
They had alot of strange quirks due to low-quality parts, and if you bought 50 new ones of the same model, you couldn't even be sure that they all had the same gfx card installed on the mainboard, which made automatic reinstallation a living hell.
To say that Digital had good PC's is utterly nonsense, and their techsupport sucked even more than their PC's did. I had an strange error with a Pioneer CD-rom drive which was installed by Digital themselves into that model, I sent it to Digital Techsupport, which after 2 months still didn't figure out what the problem was. I solved it myself by using half a day to read the HCL's for Win95, and finding a propper driver hidden in a ftp-archive at pioneer.
So please don't give me this crap that Digital was oh so good, when in fact they were not.
-H
do realize AOL and CNN aren't that big outside the US - but Time Warner does produce a lot of content - ever watch American movies?
:-)
Well, I for one try not to, because most of them are utter garbage.
-H
You are SO right!!!
That list is utterly crap, so many great games have been totally forgotten.
What about Moonstone? Masters of Orion II? Master of magic? Defender of the crown? Giana Sisters? I could go on with this for hours...
-H
You can forget nr. 6, because Russia is busy trying to get into the WTO, and want to look good...
Switch the case around, if a US citizen was arrested in Russia, Bush would treat to declare war.
-H
The total amount of intelligence in the universe is constant.
Ofc. you can get as high as 2048, but only downstream, so if you plan to run your own highload local server farm, you need a real leased line.
:)
But the ADSL is cool, complete with a Cisco router which me as a customer can configure as I see fit.
-H
Actually there is allready a RFC Draft pending in the RFC Queue.
:)
So I guess we just have to sit down and wait, unless you want to make an EEE on an old protocol, like Unix Talk?
-H
My words exactly!
:)
Contact me on my email, and lets get started anytime
-H
And why is this usefull? Well, try to get hold on some WORKING code examples from the libicq, I've been trying for half a year.
The problem with OSS is noboddy documents anything(Read: In general, some projects actually DO document their code, atleast up to 5 versions before the current), because there are no customer to satisfy when you don't sell your software. In the real world, if you don't have satisfied customers, they don't buy your product, and you go broke.
-H
How fuck'ed up is it on a scale from 1 to 2 to have a .com website in itallian?!?
-H
That calculator isn't worth shit. I live in Denmark, and trust me, if you use that one for calculating your salary here, you'll end up being seriously underpaid.
So, if it fails missarable with one country, why should any of the other information be accurate?
-H
I know exactly what you mean by this. I'm working on a port of EveryBuddy for Win32(You can see it on SourceForge), but because of it being made the way it is, I've suggested some fundemental changes to the design of the program.
However, I haven't heard anything from the EveryBuddy team in more than a month! So I guess the OSS movement has a big problem, because noboddy tolerates improvements/fixes to their projects.
So instead, everyone who wants a project done starts his own project, so that he can decide for himself what needs to be done. Then he creates a project on SourceForge, hoping to attract someone who is willing to help him without getting anything, or making to many suggestions to the project.
Now, normally this is not a problem, because the people helping are called employees, and they get paid for their work. However, in the OSS community, your endproduct has got to be free of charge, so you have no way of paying your employees.
Because of that, only people who find it very interesting to work for others without getting payed will apply to your project. Sadly, theese people only does this because they hope to get something out of it, either coding experience, or a nice reference on their CV.
So I think the problems with the movement is the following:
1) Forking(Why do we have x texteditors, x GUI's)
2) No money(You can't attract professionals without paying them, that simply doesn't work)
-H
Have you guys never played MUD?
Now thats an adictive online game....
-H
>What about remote GUI login? Unix had it, and
>Windows never caught up (no, pc anywhere doesn't
>count). People still don't know that they should
>be able to log into their home computers
>wherever they are.
Can you say Terminal Services? Thats exactly what you are looking for, and it's in Windows 2000 S/AS/DC.
-H
Well, you can laugh all you want, but the nobelprice winners of 1998 actually ended up talking about StarTrek, when discussing which final frontier the human race had.
So I guess that your outburst just signals, that you bellong to the 80% of the less gifted here on earth.
-H
Sixth sense had a major syntax error in it.
When Bruce first time meets the boy, he's sitting in their living room when the boy enters, next to his mother. However, if Bruce had spoken to the mother as the sceene clearly states had happend just before the boy entered, He'd surly discovered the fact that he wasen't able to communicate with her, thus being dead.
That sceene is just there to give credibility to a very dumb plot, that any decent intelligent person should easily see through.
-H
They have, I've stashed some old driver/program disks that after a reformat is more reliable than any new disks awailable. So I use the old bundle, which is mostly old M$ and Digital disks.
And I've tried quite alot of different brands, because for your new BIOS images, you DON'T want the disk to screw up.
BASF once did a series of Floppies called BASF Maxima, which was wrapped in a gold casing, and special designed for use with portables, so their tolerances were incredible(eg. surviving 70 degrees celcius in hours, simulating being left in a car etc.) Unfortunately, they were later put out of production, but I never had one of them fail on me.
-H
I've been using a ZIP-drive for my different laptop(s), and earlier CDrom-less computers, for install and backup issues since the first ones was released around 1995 AFAIR.
Some disks have been on the road with me since then, and I've never lost a single disk to bad sectors or anything yet.
Ofc. my drive is the 100MB Parrallel version, no USB were around at that time, so I can't say if they slacked on the quality later on.
-H
What line to the internet are you using? Phone + 2400Baud modem?!?
640MB which is the ~ size of a CD will take around 35min on my Cable modem at the cost of next to nothing.
What stone did you climb up from?
This must be a troll....
-H
Does anyone know if it's possible to get a DVD with Decard's voiceover? The Directors cut dosen't include this, at least not on VHS, but does the DVD or is it something saved for the Special Edition?
-H
What about a Slashdot interview with Mr. Toffler?
I'll vote for that anytime!
-H
I read a MUCH more entertaining review 4 days ago on Voodooextreme.
-H
That your place in society is based on your own abilities.
Don't forget luck... your place in society can easily be put into this calculation:
Place in sociey = Luck * Abilities * People you know in higher places * Asslicking
-H
Still, you don't have to like it. I once tried to download it, just around when it was released from Redhat, but somehow the FTP site didn't allow overseas(Europe) people in.
I wrote an email to Redhat complaining about this, never got an answer, and I even kept trying to download it for a few weeks.
So, why should I bother with a packagemanager that dosen't work the right way, that I couldn't download, and thoose who made it didn't even care to reply on my mail(It was even polite)?
-H
Happily, they're all in RPM format
.tar.gz source code.
I for one, can't understand this favoring of a distro's packetmanager instead of just plain old
Even if it needs to be a binary package, then USE THE STANDARD TOOLS(tar + gzip) so people that don't want to infest their system have a chance.
-H
Bitter you may seem, but still your words ring true, though you missed a few:
- Trying to juggle with all the projects you ever done while working in your company, that keeps coming back because of poor understanding/maintaining of the maintenence crew.
- Trying to save projects from dying because of poor managment.
- Screwing your fine working code just before deadline because the customer/project manager suddently remembered that 70% of your input on what to code was wrong or out of date. And he's known it for months.
- Working fanaticly day and night to meet a deadline, only to find out at the deadline that the customer dosen't wish to go live for another 2 months.
-H
* We should make a dead programmers society...