Way to go John! It took me about that long to finally have an idea of what I was doing after multipole installs and be comfortable enough to use the system regularly. Now if we could just get you from Wordperfect to Emacs...;o)
You said it. I also usually really enjoy Katz's articles but this one had me reeling. The massive turn around from his previous works is just astounding. Now I know Jon seems to get excited over new concepts he picks up and may endorse them without really reflecting on all the implications, but this is just unreal. Now what I also don't understand is why this "cyberclsm"(sp?) is such a terrible thing. I do realize that people are being diluged with a huge amount of information, but having this Huge amount of information has (at least to me) always seemed to beb one of the points of the net anyway. The revolution is not computers but is how we have to reshape our thinking to deal with this massive influx of information. The efficeint sorting of relevent and irrelevent info is on of the greatest stengths of the human mind. The really important thing is to have the information there.
HAHAHAHAHHA! I can just see a frenzied up Stallman beating the crap out of some pretty MTV kid with the boom mike screaming "GNU/Linux!!!!!!" over and over at the top of his lungs. Hilarious...
I'll test one as soon as they get it working here in the states...(I might even be tempted to buy one if the price drops several tens of thousands of dollars (30Gs! Wow thats alot)
Two words... not expandible(sp?). I hate that when there there is no place for expansion hardware. Thats half the fun of a computer is seeing how many harddisks and graphics cards you can cram into them. just bitter at work Sean
ps I hate the jumpsuit freaks too, but what does bunnypeople mean?
I can't believe all this I'm hearing. Have these people ever run NT and Linux at the same time in real world situations? I admin for a place that has a top of the line NT machine and a crappy little 486 that runs Linux. The linux box has been flawless for as long as I've worked there. It handles a much ligher load but the NT server is the one that's always going down. Now I know that the test didn't talk about reliability (cause that's really not that important right?;) ), but has anyone ever seen how untuned NT can bog down the biggest, fastest machine in no time? Maybe I am cheerleading for my OS but at least it's for something I feel strongly about.
PS I haven't got enough sleep and this stuff makes me crazy especially when I'm tired:P
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Does this mean that my 999Mhz Craptronics i386 will not run my Microsoft BloatOffice faster then ever? ;)
I think we should start asking computer salesmen to see the SPEC95 ratings of the chips and see what they do. : )
-Sean
Way to go John! It took me about that long to finally have an idea of what I was doing after multipole installs and be comfortable enough to use the system regularly. Now if we could just get you from Wordperfect to Emacs... ;o)
Sean
You said it. I also usually really enjoy Katz's articles but this one had me reeling. The massive turn around from his previous works is just astounding. Now I know Jon seems to get excited over new concepts he picks up and may endorse them without really reflecting on all the implications, but this is just unreal.
Now what I also don't understand is why this "cyberclsm"(sp?) is such a terrible thing. I do realize that people are being diluged with a huge amount of information, but having this Huge amount of information has (at least to me) always seemed to beb one of the points of the net anyway. The revolution is not computers but is how we have to reshape our thinking to deal with this massive influx of information. The efficeint sorting of relevent and irrelevent info is on of the greatest stengths of the human mind. The really important thing is to have the information there.
Down with Clotho.org!
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HAHAHAHAHHA! I can just see a frenzied up Stallman beating the crap out of some pretty MTV kid with the boom mike screaming "GNU/Linux!!!!!!" over and over at the top of his lungs. Hilarious...
Sean
bah... what type of programer am I forget to close my parens...
I'll test one as soon as they get it working here in the states...(I might even be tempted to buy one if the price drops several tens of thousands of dollars (30Gs! Wow thats alot)
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Two words...
not expandible(sp?). I hate that when there there is no place for expansion hardware. Thats half the fun of a computer is seeing how many harddisks and graphics cards you can cram into them.
just bitter at work
Sean
ps I hate the jumpsuit freaks too, but what does bunnypeople mean?
I can't believe all this I'm hearing. Have these people ever run NT and Linux at the same time in real world situations? I admin for a place that has a top of the line NT machine and a crappy little 486 that runs Linux. The linux box has been flawless for as long as I've worked there. It handles a much ligher load but the NT server is the one that's always going down. Now I know that the test didn't talk about reliability (cause that's really not that important right?;) ), but has anyone ever seen how untuned NT can bog down the biggest, fastest machine in no time? Maybe I am cheerleading for my OS but at least it's for something I feel strongly about.
:P
PS I haven't got enough sleep and this stuff makes me crazy especially when I'm tired
Sean