Make it publicly available instead of DRM controlled publications or services.
I suspect those publications and services are among the few things pushing this in the other direction. Multiple reviewers, each with their own copy of the data and, as they'd be in the same field of research as the author(s), more likely to be personally familiar with the authors' current work and location.
Is that irony? I never have managed to figure that one out.
If Zuckerberg is 50% as sleezy as depicted in "The Social Network",...
Not that I'm defending him, but you do know that was a Hollywood production, yes? When have that bunch *ever* portrayed an actual event with any degree approaching accuracy?
LibreOffice 4.1 , Handling Rollbacks This isn't unique to LibreOffice 4.1, because it's happened going back all the way back to OpenOffice 1.1. Whenever you get a patch or even more so, whenever you get a major release there are always issues where documents don't work correctly. I keep all of the old versions on the server and can always test and find the regression. Standard procedure then is to rollback a user until we get a patch and then upgrade them again to the latest release. This was done by me, with hard coded scripts. I put this into the support portal and now anyone in IT can either roll their own account back or rollback another user to solve these types of problems.
From TFS: "Ten years after the decision to switch, the LiMux project will now go into regular operation, the Munich City council said."" So, yes, it took 'em about a decade to dig themselves out of that hole. Sad, but true.
It's an interesting metric to go by as well. Going proprietary means a large investment in cash and related tangibles, but not many consider how much time it wastes to get away from it. I know junkies who've been on methadone that long.
Citing the existence of a directory/var/cache/apt/archive does not demonstrate that it's a separate filesystem.
I was answering his, "How many people have already dispensed with a separate/var ?" Besides, your comment is irrelevant. Lots of stuff *can* be in a separate fs; doesn't mean they either have to, or should be. Lots of people don't see any need for separate filesystems at all, given they've got obscene amounts of free disk space to work with these days.
/var/cache/apt/archive is where the Debian installer dumps debs that it's downloaded prior to installing/upgrading them. I've filled the root fs during upgrades when/var wasn't separate. It's easy to recover from, but why waste time needlessly?
Does it bother you that much that there could be a God?
It bothers me that otherwise normal, reasonably intelligent people are still leaning on that crutch in the Twenty-first Century. It's self-destructive and nobody, including me, likes to watch people hurt themselves needlessly.
I mean because you have absolutely no proof there isn't one.
It's not up to me to prove that. I'm not postulating the existence of invisible sky fairies.
The point of debate is usually not to persuade your opponent, but to persuade the audience.
No, that's only true of your manufactured debates such as political campaigns. Most debates aren't held just because an advertiser managed to organize a crowd who'll watch two fools fight it out for no reason.
... it is noteworthy about how much blind faith you seem to have in asserting there is no god
... as it is that you've the blind faith to assert there is a god to argue about in the first place. Why are we even bothering to discuss the purported existence of this pipe dream, pie in the sky, spirit fairy in the first place? Because those like you feel some need for such a monstrosity to exist to complete you in some way? If you do, why on Earth should we care about that problem of yours, other than it may paint you as a potentially dangerous, reality avoiding, psychopathic personality?
... most Slashdotters, who just regurgitate memetic responses...
Oh, is that what it is? I thought "those guys" were just the same shallow, self-absorbed jerks who appear to stink up the place everywhere these days, and as long as "we" ignore their existence "we" can all just get along. Turn up the volume on your earbuds, and even trains bearing down on you tend to disappear into the background.
What's really funny is how they completely failed to understand who their customers were.
No, they know exactly who their customers are. their customers are the people who pay them to display ads and inject extra crap into downloads. That's where SourceForge's revenue comes from. Not from you.
If you get it for free, you're not the customer. You're the product. True from Facebook through to The Salvation Army.
Those that studied their Floyd properly know that pigs could fly. I'm only here to make a buck.
People who studied their Floyd properly know that they were talking about real flying pigs, aka "Jetsetters." They're the ones who don't give a fuck about anything except where their next buck comes from.
I don't believe that making it free is a good idea. Transportation, public or not, still costs money; with free public transport, all financial incentives for people to reduce unnecessary movements disappear, as do financial incentives for the operators to increase efficiency. This is asking for ever increasing costs of the public transport system.
Those buses and trains are on a schedule and are going to run if they can whether they're full or empty. At Rush Hour, they're full. Midnight Tuesday when the late shift goes home, not so much. Is it really going to cost that much more to run them empty than if they're full?
I think if you'd have taken public transport recently, you wouldn't have brought up that "unnecessary movements" bit. These systems are more than capable of discouraging such activity all by themselves. I've lived here for about four months now and I've not yet found it necessary to use them. I'd rather walk, anyday.
My local grocer has TVs next to each till that shows nothing but adverts. I used to turn them off by pushing the power button on the front. Then they wised up and replaced them with new models that didn't have power buttons.
Try a can of spray paint next time. It's more permanent, and may lead to somebody getting a job cleaning them.
Oh, and if you see a marketroid, kill it. That's real permanence.
We have the conservative party. They are a right wing political party roughly equivalent to the Democrats.
We have a parliamentary democracy. In a majority government situation, they are generally every bit as autocratic as any theocracy or rule by any royal house.
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Make it publicly available instead of DRM controlled publications or services.
I suspect those publications and services are among the few things pushing this in the other direction. Multiple reviewers, each with their own copy of the data and, as they'd be in the same field of research as the author(s), more likely to be personally familiar with the authors' current work and location.
Is that irony? I never have managed to figure that one out.
If Zuckerberg is 50% as sleezy as depicted in "The Social Network", ...
Not that I'm defending him, but you do know that was a Hollywood production, yes? When have that bunch *ever* portrayed an actual event with any degree approaching accuracy?
I know, f-ing Republicans and the tea-party nanny state. I'm doing my part by voting Democrat across the board.
You should seek professional help. Damn, some of you Yanquis are mixed up.
LibreOffice 4.1 , Handling Rollbacks This isn't unique to LibreOffice 4.1, because it's happened going back all the way back to OpenOffice 1.1. Whenever you get a patch or even more so, whenever you get a major release there are always issues where documents don't work correctly. I keep all of the old versions on the server and can always test and find the regression. Standard procedure then is to rollback a user until we get a patch and then upgrade them again to the latest release. This was done by me, with hard coded scripts. I put this into the support portal and now anyone in IT can either roll their own account back or rollback another user to solve these types of problems.
Slick!
Why the fuck do the the talk radio assholes ...
wtf is anyone who can think listening to (your description!) talk radio assholes?
FYI, that's from 2001.
Didn't this take over 10 years?
From TFS: "Ten years after the decision to switch, the LiMux project will now go into regular operation, the Munich City council said."" So, yes, it took 'em about a decade to dig themselves out of that hole. Sad, but true.
It's an interesting metric to go by as well. Going proprietary means a large investment in cash and related tangibles, but not many consider how much time it wastes to get away from it. I know junkies who've been on methadone that long.
Citing the existence of a directory /var/cache/apt/archive does not demonstrate that it's a separate filesystem.
I was answering his, "How many people have already dispensed with a separate /var ?" Besides, your comment is irrelevant. Lots of stuff *can* be in a separate fs; doesn't mean they either have to, or should be. Lots of people don't see any need for separate filesystems at all, given they've got obscene amounts of free disk space to work with these days.
/var/cache/apt/archive is where the Debian installer dumps debs that it's downloaded prior to installing/upgrading them. I've filled the root fs during upgrades when /var wasn't separate. It's easy to recover from, but why waste time needlessly?
Caring about what goes in what filesystem is neck-beardy.
Using "neck-beardy" as an epithet is far worse, !@#hole.
How many people have already dispensed with a separate /var ?
You've never run Debian; gotcha. See /var/cache/apt/archives/
Otherwise known as the chicken vs. egg impass.
Does it bother you that much that there could be a God?
It bothers me that otherwise normal, reasonably intelligent people are still leaning on that crutch in the Twenty-first Century. It's self-destructive and nobody, including me, likes to watch people hurt themselves needlessly.
I mean because you have absolutely no proof there isn't one.
It's not up to me to prove that. I'm not postulating the existence of invisible sky fairies.
The point of debate is usually not to persuade your opponent, but to persuade the audience.
No, that's only true of your manufactured debates such as political campaigns. Most debates aren't held just because an advertiser managed to organize a crowd who'll watch two fools fight it out for no reason.
... it is noteworthy about how much blind faith you seem to have in asserting there is no god
... as it is that you've the blind faith to assert there is a god to argue about in the first place. Why are we even bothering to discuss the purported existence of this pipe dream, pie in the sky, spirit fairy in the first place? Because those like you feel some need for such a monstrosity to exist to complete you in some way? If you do, why on Earth should we care about that problem of yours, other than it may paint you as a potentially dangerous, reality avoiding, psychopathic personality?
Have a nice day (sky fairy or not).
Except for the "any moron" there, that would include Vint Cerf (he's drawn quite a few clouds), so you didn't add anything. Cheers.
... most Slashdotters, who just regurgitate memetic responses ...
Oh, is that what it is? I thought "those guys" were just the same shallow, self-absorbed jerks who appear to stink up the place everywhere these days, and as long as "we" ignore their existence "we" can all just get along. Turn up the volume on your earbuds, and even trains bearing down on you tend to disappear into the background.
What's really funny is how they completely failed to understand who their customers were.
No, they know exactly who their customers are. their customers are the people who pay them to display ads and inject extra crap into downloads. That's where SourceForge's revenue comes from. Not from you.
If you get it for free, you're not the customer. You're the product. True from Facebook through to The Salvation Army.
Those that studied their Floyd properly know that pigs could fly. I'm only here to make a buck.
People who studied their Floyd properly know that they were talking about real flying pigs, aka "Jetsetters." They're the ones who don't give a fuck about anything except where their next buck comes from.
I prefer The Division Bell.
I don't believe that making it free is a good idea. Transportation, public or not, still costs money; with free public transport, all financial incentives for people to reduce unnecessary movements disappear, as do financial incentives for the operators to increase efficiency. This is asking for ever increasing costs of the public transport system.
Those buses and trains are on a schedule and are going to run if they can whether they're full or empty. At Rush Hour, they're full. Midnight Tuesday when the late shift goes home, not so much. Is it really going to cost that much more to run them empty than if they're full?
I think if you'd have taken public transport recently, you wouldn't have brought up that "unnecessary movements" bit. These systems are more than capable of discouraging such activity all by themselves. I've lived here for about four months now and I've not yet found it necessary to use them. I'd rather walk, anyday.
[This] is yet another example of how big companies buy systems that clearly dont work[. You] only have to look at the Sydney transport mess...
FTFY. If those buying !@#$ buy !@#$, they should bear the guilt.
Can we all hug now? :-)
If they do have so many good people in their ranks, why is there only one that stood up and exposed the other dirtbags?
About that, ...
My local grocer has TVs next to each till that shows nothing but adverts. I used to turn them off by pushing the power button on the front. Then they wised up and replaced them with new models that didn't have power buttons.
Try a can of spray paint next time. It's more permanent, and may lead to somebody getting a job cleaning them.
Oh, and if you see a marketroid, kill it. That's real permanence.
We have the conservative party. They are a right wing political party roughly equivalent to the Democrats.
We have a parliamentary democracy. In a majority government situation, they are generally every bit as autocratic as any theocracy or rule by any royal house.
My understanding is that in that case, they shouldn't have been asked. It was up to the state legislature to make the decision, and they punted.