Ok, let's just accept that Thompson is an ass and move forward. But of all the games to pick on, why Halo? It is by far not the worst first person shooter out there in terms of realistic violence. GTA, CounterStrike, Rainbow Six, Doom 3, you name it and there are many "worse" titles.
Microsoft may have deep pockets, but that is exactly why you _don't_ want to sue them.
Gee, that's funny. My 1989 copy of the "UNIX System Administration Handbook" has a lovely section on the usage of sudo on page 32.
Evi Nemeth herself beat the use of sudo into my head during the Sysadmin Workshop class I took from her in '90. I used to hate it, but now I realize the old bird was right about sudo.
The UNIX world has this crap beat by more than a decade, with plenty of published prior art.
I was in Beijing for 10 days last month, and there were vendors on almost every street corner selling pirate DVDs for about 7 yuan or slightly less than $1.
I actually discussed the availability of these DVDs with my Chinese coworkers. All of them have seen the latest Hollywood movies, often before the official DVD release. They find it inconceivable that the Chinese government could crack down on this trade, even if it wanted to.
Incidentally, what the Chinese can't find on the street, they can easily download online.:)
I, for one, read Instapundit and Slashdot every day. Regardless of your opinions about Glenn's political views, the article is purely technical and esthetic.
Sheesh. And here I have been hinting to my boss that yes, I did take Russian in high school and college, just in case any cool business trip opportunities come up. I was, however, thinking Moscow or St. Petersburg, not Siberia!:(
Damn right. While the fundies and the feminists are out there arguing over whether or not this should be required, my daughters are going to get immunized anyway.
Their mother already had cervical cancer at age 19. I don't wish to see my children go through that.
Their bundled price right now is 28 Euros, so about $36.19.
Would I pay that? I don't know. To be perfectly honest, I haven't actually _bought_ any software for a PC in a very long time. Keep in mind that this exact same functionality is _free_ under Windows.
I have news for this guy. DEC (net 15) hasn't existed in nearly a decade, and HP and Compaq merged like four years ago. So Nets 15 & 16 should be labeled "HP".
All your IP space belong to us!!! Bwahahahaaaaaa!!!
Personally, I live on the Great Plains (Denver). There are vastly MORE trees here in suburbia than there are in the surrounding farmlands. Youur simplistic analysis is a bit lacking. People like trees, and plant lots of them around their homes in most cities I've been to.
Death spiral, eh? Apparently you haven't looked at the price of HP stock or earnings lately. HP is doing better than it has in years. If you want to see a death spiral, go look at SGI or Sun.
The ABM treaty is no longer in effect and is irrelevant to this discussion. There are no legal obligations preventing the US from deploying space weapons. It is solely a technical and policy and/or moral decision.
Have you ever actually watched Blade Runner? The replicants are NOT androids. They are genetically engineered clones with a limited lifespan. Nothing mechanical about them at all.
While I confess it is interesting to learn that SciFi Channel's creature-feature of the week movies are original productions, these are the things I hate most about the SciFi channel.
I'm sorry guys, but horror/creature flicks are NOT science fiction. I'm deeply enthralled with the new Battlestar Galactica, addicted to Stargate (both of them) and I miss Farscape something awful. However, I will NOT watch that Saturday night creature flick crap. My standards are higher than that.
With all due respect to Andrew, Linux QA people do exist. After 11 years of being a sysadmin, I'm now entering my fifth month of being paid to test Linux releases. I'm having fun, learning a lot, and generally enjoying life.
BTW, we have not one, but two of my colleagues down under right now listening to Andrew in person. It should be interesting to get a first-hand account of what was said.
Ignoring the oddity of Oracle being in that group, none of the rest of the members actually make a scaleable Linux box, just ones that compete with them. The slant is obvious.
Slashdot Mirror
Ok, let's just accept that Thompson is an ass and move forward. But of all the games to pick on, why Halo? It is by far not the worst first person shooter out there in terms of realistic violence. GTA, CounterStrike, Rainbow Six, Doom 3, you name it and there are many "worse" titles.
Microsoft may have deep pockets, but that is exactly why you _don't_ want to sue them.
Gee, that's funny. My 1989 copy of the "UNIX System Administration Handbook" has a lovely section on the usage of sudo on page 32.
Evi Nemeth herself beat the use of sudo into my head during the Sysadmin Workshop class I took from her in '90. I used to hate it, but now I realize the old bird was right about sudo.
The UNIX world has this crap beat by more than a decade, with plenty of published prior art.
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(cue music)
Spiderman: Mfffff!!!!!!!
Director: CUT!!! WTH? Why is his mouth all covered up?
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I was in Beijing for 10 days last month, and there were vendors on almost every street corner selling pirate DVDs for about 7 yuan or slightly less than $1.
:)
I actually discussed the availability of these DVDs with my Chinese coworkers. All of them have seen the latest Hollywood movies, often before the official DVD release. They find it inconceivable that the Chinese government could crack down on this trade, even if it wanted to.
Incidentally, what the Chinese can't find on the street, they can easily download online.
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Mars needs IP space!
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ps. Take my bitch ex-wife while you are at it.
I, for one, read Instapundit and Slashdot every day. Regardless of your opinions about Glenn's political views, the article is purely technical and esthetic.
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Sheesh. And here I have been hinting to my boss that yes, I did take Russian in high school and college, just in case any cool business trip opportunities come up. I was, however, thinking Moscow or St. Petersburg, not Siberia! :(
Ruuski yazik? Huh?
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Not to quibble, but HP-UX is probably the biggest OS on Itanium. You can also run Linux, Windows Server 2003, and OpenVMS on Itanium.
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Damn right. While the fundies and the feminists are out there arguing over whether or not this should be required, my daughters are going to get immunized anyway.
Their mother already had cervical cancer at age 19. I don't wish to see my children go through that.
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Their bundled price right now is 28 Euros, so about $36.19.
Would I pay that? I don't know. To be perfectly honest, I haven't actually _bought_ any software for a PC in a very long time. Keep in mind that this exact same functionality is _free_ under Windows.
- Necron69
I have news for this guy. DEC (net 15) hasn't existed in nearly a decade, and HP and Compaq merged like four years ago. So Nets 15 & 16 should be labeled "HP".
All your IP space belong to us!!! Bwahahahaaaaaa!!!
- Necron69
Personally, I live on the Great Plains (Denver). There are vastly MORE trees here in suburbia than there are in the surrounding farmlands. Youur simplistic analysis is a bit lacking. People like trees, and plant lots of them around their homes in most cities I've been to.
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"Sorry, Google Maps does not work on your LG C1300"
Feh. I need a real phone.
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Give me a break.
I still have a nice, big mug that I bought in 1987 as a freshman in college. Its made out of this wonderful, space-age material called 'plastic'.
Amazing stuff.
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I'm pretty sure this hasn't been tested yet, but could one use elilo to boot Windows on a MacIntel machine?
http://sourceforge.net/projects/elilo
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This one is easy.
:)
What on Earth possessed you to try testing a rocket motor indoors? I seriously thought you guys were going to burn down the building on that one.
Keep up the excellent work. Your show rocks!
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I found this interesting. Try this on the bits for the RHEL4 packages:
for i in *.rpm; do rpm -qilp $i |grep -i license; done
Size: 2547252 License: IBM Corp.
(lots of output deleted)
11 "IBM Corp." licenses.
1 IBM Common Public License (CPL)
1 GPL
Open Source it ain't. I'd rather use Xen.
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Am I the only one that read that as "Itanium" and got really confused for a second?
:)
Just think, a laptop that doubles as a waffle iron!
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Death spiral, eh? Apparently you haven't looked at the price of HP stock or earnings lately. HP is doing better than it has in years. If you want to see a death spiral, go look at SGI or Sun.
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The ABM treaty is no longer in effect and is irrelevant to this discussion. There are no legal obligations preventing the US from deploying space weapons. It is solely a technical and policy and/or moral decision.
- Necron69
Have you ever actually watched Blade Runner? The replicants are NOT androids. They are genetically engineered clones with a limited lifespan. Nothing mechanical about them at all.
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While I confess it is interesting to learn that SciFi Channel's creature-feature of the week movies are original productions, these are the things I hate most about the SciFi channel.
I'm sorry guys, but horror/creature flicks are NOT science fiction. I'm deeply enthralled with the new Battlestar Galactica, addicted to Stargate (both of them) and I miss Farscape something awful. However, I will NOT watch that Saturday night creature flick crap. My standards are higher than that.
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Jane Fonda? Is that you on Slashdot?
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BTW, we have not one, but two of my colleagues down under right now listening to Andrew in person. It should be interesting to get a first-hand account of what was said.
- Necron69
Big Iron:
BigTux Shows Linux Scales To 64-Way
My current test system has 16 CPUS:
zeus0:~ # tail -15 /proc/cpuinfo
processor : 15
vendor : GenuineIntel
arch : IA-64
family : Itanium 2
(yes, it is Itanium!! Anyone got a 16-way Opteron box? Anyone? Buhler? I thought not...)
And, of course, we all know about Linux clustering:
Beowulf Clusters
Single System Image Clusters for Linux
Ignoring the oddity of Oracle being in that group, none of the rest of the members actually make a scaleable Linux box, just ones that compete with them. The slant is obvious.
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