I love how every doomsday article about the PS3 has exactly that in the title. Here we have a doomsday-ish article for the Wii and the exact opposite as the title for the article! If I didn't think Zonk was completely biased before (which I did), I do now.
I love people like this. Because if they only knew. But I digress. Our website (top 10, you might have heard of it (www.bluemountain.com)) uses FreeBSD exclusively (sp?) for all of our webservers.
We don't use shit (ie java) on our servers. Personally I think java is crap and other than when I had to write it for a class, I'll not soil my hands with it. Write once, run anywhere? Bullshit. Write in ANSI C. That's much more portable than java.
As for stability, we have a pair of FreeBSD boxes that have been up for over 650 days. Read that again 650 days. These servers aren't idle either. They are pushing out tens of thousands of emails a day. Each.
Finally speed. I will grant you that ext2 does have some nice speed features, but ufs isn't too shabby either. For network, it doesn't compare. The BSD networking code has always kicked Linux's in the ass (sorry alan). We put a linux box and a freebsd box next to each other and the linux box started to shit on itself. I consoled in and was experiencing a 3fps framerate at a shell prompt! FreeBSD just kept chugging along pushing them bits.
Personally, I started out in the *nix world with Linux. I still use it for my desktop machine. But for my servers (and they are mine dammit), they will always be FreeBSD. Simple as that.
According to the ruling by Kaplan. If I can't link to illegal materials, it would be illegal for me to tell the police where the drug dealers that live next door are. I would be linking to an illegal material.
[...]but these people just aren't worth expending our energy trying to bring into the fold.
What an amazingly thoughtful and open-minded position to have. Quick, let me rush out and tell all of my friends that they too can be ignored by open-source bigots!
The reason I don't think that these people are not worth bringing into the fold is because the reason I use Linux/FreeBSD is because it is powerful. If people can use it, great. But if it needs to be dumbed down, I don't think it is worth it because, as I said, the reason I do it is because of the power, without it, I'll go use another system. You may still think I'm a bigot (fine), but the reasons are personal and not just the party line.
Free Software is an exclusive thing. It's exclusive similar to the way that much of the art world is exclusive. Art (and Free Software) can only be understood and appreciated by people in the know. Everyone else that walks by that painting in the mueseum (or looks at all the ballyhoo of the Free Software movement) just scratches their head and continues on to the next piece. No matter how much you explain it, they just don't get it. They are excluded from understanding/appreciating the piece (or the movement), ie THEY WILL NEVER UNDERSTAND OR APPRECIATE IT. Simple as that. Call it snobbery; call it exclusion; call it what you will, but these people just aren't worth expending our energy trying to bring into the fold.
Applying this to Alzheimer's patients is a good restriction because otherwise it becomes difficult to discern between playing god and correcting something that has happened to a person due to a dibilitating disease.
Basically, one's "correction" and one's "improvement". I'm all in favor of fixing things that are broken. But if it ain't broke, don't fix it.
Remember, we were all meant to forget for a reason. The mind is selective so that we can make decisions. Too many options is just as paralyzing (if not more) than no options at all.
If you always have moderator controls, and you try to moderate, won't that stifle people from posting due to the rule you can only post if you haven't moderated? Gordon
I can't imagine what would push these people to go and put banner ads on their webpage for the WHOIS. They are just begging for the US government to pull their rights to the database at all. This should be interesting to watch play out.
I just got off the phone with them and had them close my account with no problems. Sending me the check for the balance (I even got $13 interest!) and should have it by the end of the week.
Ah, but I assure if you were included in said group:
A) $280k would be pocket change for you, why gloat over pocket change B) You wouldn't know what a computer is (you'd have an underling do it for you) C) You most definitly would not be reading slashdot D) I prefer to think that people with the kind of money that you refer to aren't as much of an asshole that you are (not always the case, but hey, my opinion)
Just pulled up a quote on RHAT and it reports that 8,633,800 shares have changed hands. Let's see, 6,000,000 were being offered plus 800,000 for the directed shares program. That sure is a lot of stock changing hands in a scant 45 minute window.
D XXXXXX Acct.no.: XXXX-XXXX RE: Public Offering Order 300 RHAT We w ere unable to allocate shares. Poss ible reasons: Offering priced abovelimi t or high demand for shares. 0000
Yep, most definitely got screwed on this one. Well, time to close my E*Trade Account... Oh, wait I can't, nevermind. My BANK CHECKS haven't "cleared" yet.
I didn't even get an alert. But again, thanks to/. and my paranoia, I didn't miss it. This kinda seems like yet another way ETrade is trying to screw everyone over. It's like it's policy.
I like Linus and all (who doesn't) but as being worthy of Time's Man of the Century? I don't think so. There were lots of other influential people that should be placed above that. JFK (Cuban Missle Crisis), FDR (The New Deal), Mao (Red China), and others. These are some truely great people that deserve recognition before Linus does.
On the other hand, Linux has affected millions of people, whether they know it or not!
gordon
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Welcome to the differences between the Cathedral and the Bazaar.
Well, I really don't like Compaq's because everyone I've worked on is poorly designed and has some proprietary something-or-other that *never* makes it work quite right. Trust me, I've worked in computer maintenance and most of the problems (that weren't laptops) were Compaqs.
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I'm only here as part of the grind. I can't believe I would actually post here.
The real problem is people won't moderate this story because it would prohibit them from posting and thus getting the achievement.
Linear doesn't necessarily mean that the slope is 1. It means that is scales linearly, as opposed to say exponentially or logarithmically.
Maybe because it means 'clean slate' in latin? The idea is that you can do whatever you want.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tabula_rasa
Your statement would be true except that many legal systems have huge differences when it comes to IP and Copyright issues.
Hahaha, that would be a good one. Please cc me on all messages of this sort.
I love how every doomsday article about the PS3 has exactly that in the title. Here we have a doomsday-ish article for the Wii and the exact opposite as the title for the article! If I didn't think Zonk was completely biased before (which I did), I do now.
Well, if you have 30,000 people line up to visit your house, I think you would have problems as well.
I love people like this. Because if they only knew. But I digress. Our website (top 10, you might have heard of it (www.bluemountain.com)) uses FreeBSD exclusively (sp?) for all of our webservers.
We don't use shit (ie java) on our servers. Personally I think java is crap and other than when I had to write it for a class, I'll not soil my hands with it. Write once, run anywhere? Bullshit. Write in ANSI C. That's much more portable than java.
As for stability, we have a pair of FreeBSD boxes that have been up for over 650 days. Read that again 650 days. These servers aren't idle either. They are pushing out tens of thousands of emails a day. Each.
Finally speed. I will grant you that ext2 does have some nice speed features, but ufs isn't too shabby either. For network, it doesn't compare. The BSD networking code has always kicked Linux's in the ass (sorry alan). We put a linux box and a freebsd box next to each other and the linux box started to shit on itself. I consoled in and was experiencing a 3fps framerate at a shell prompt! FreeBSD just kept chugging along pushing them bits.
Personally, I started out in the *nix world with Linux. I still use it for my desktop machine. But for my servers (and they are mine dammit), they will always be FreeBSD. Simple as that.
-gordon
According to the ruling by Kaplan. If I can't link to illegal materials, it would be illegal for me to tell the police where the drug dealers that live next door are. I would be linking to an illegal material.
[...]but these people just aren't worth expending our energy trying to bring into the fold.
What an amazingly thoughtful and open-minded position to have. Quick, let me rush out and tell all of my friends that they too can be ignored by open-source bigots!
The reason I don't think that these people are not worth bringing into the fold is because the reason I use Linux/FreeBSD is because it is powerful. If people can use it, great. But if it needs to be dumbed down, I don't think it is worth it because, as I said, the reason I do it is because of the power, without it, I'll go use another system. You may still think I'm a bigot (fine), but the reasons are personal and not just the party line.
Free Software is an exclusive thing. It's exclusive similar to the way that much of the art world is exclusive. Art (and Free Software) can only be understood and appreciated by people in the know. Everyone else that walks by that painting in the mueseum (or looks at all the ballyhoo of the Free Software movement) just scratches their head and continues on to the next piece. No matter how much you explain it, they just don't get it. They are excluded from understanding/appreciating the piece (or the movement), ie THEY WILL NEVER UNDERSTAND OR APPRECIATE IT. Simple as that. Call it snobbery; call it exclusion; call it what you will, but these people just aren't worth expending our energy trying to bring into the fold.
Just my $0.02
-gordon
Applying this to Alzheimer's patients is a good restriction because otherwise it becomes difficult to discern between playing god and correcting something that has happened to a person due to a dibilitating disease.
Basically, one's "correction" and one's "improvement". I'm all in favor of fixing things that are broken. But if it ain't broke, don't fix it.
Remember, we were all meant to forget for a reason. The mind is selective so that we can make decisions. Too many options is just as paralyzing (if not more) than no options at all.
Gordon
If you always have moderator controls, and you try to moderate, won't that stifle people from posting due to the rule you can only post if you haven't moderated? Gordon
I can't imagine what would push these people to go and put banner ads on their webpage for the WHOIS. They are just begging for the US government to pull their rights to the database at all. This should be interesting to watch play out.
Gordon
I just got off the phone with them and had them close my account with no problems. Sending me the check for the balance (I even got $13 interest!) and should have it by the end of the week.
gordon
Ah, but I assure if you were included in said group:
A) $280k would be pocket change for you, why gloat over pocket change
B) You wouldn't know what a computer is (you'd have an underling do it for you)
C) You most definitly would not be reading slashdot
D) I prefer to think that people with the kind of money that you refer to aren't as much of an asshole that you are (not always the case, but hey, my opinion)
Just pulled up a quote on RHAT and it reports that 8,633,800 shares have changed hands. Let's see, 6,000,000 were being offered plus 800,000 for the directed shares program. That sure is a lot of stock changing hands in a scant 45 minute window.
Gordon
They had to go to a lottery system for affinity shares meaning if you got anything, you got 100 shares. So more like $2,800 profit. Not bad I suppose.
Gordon
Just after I posted, I got an alert saying:
D XXXXXX Acct.no.: XXXX-XXXX RE:
Public Offering Order 300 RHAT We w
ere unable to allocate shares. Poss
ible reasons: Offering priced abovelimi
t or high demand for shares. 0000
Yep, most definitely got screwed on this one. Well, time to close my E*Trade Account... Oh, wait I can't, nevermind. My BANK CHECKS haven't "cleared" yet.
Gordon
I don't seem to have any. Oh well. Que sera, sera. Although some message (email, alert, etc) would be nice.
Gordon
I didn't even get an alert. But again, thanks to /. and my paranoia, I didn't miss it. This kinda seems like yet another way ETrade is trying to screw everyone over. It's like it's policy.
Gordon
I like Linus and all (who doesn't) but as being worthy of Time's Man of the Century? I don't think so. There were lots of other influential people that should be placed above that. JFK (Cuban Missle Crisis), FDR (The New Deal), Mao (Red China), and others. These are some truely great people that deserve recognition before Linus does.
On the other hand, Linux has affected millions of people, whether they know it or not!
gordon
Welcome to the differences between the Cathedral and the Bazaar.
Gordon
Well, can we be blamed if we are excited about a company? And exactly what have we said that "manipulates the percieved value of a company"?
I can't wait for this. I think it would be very interesting to start an Open-Source mutual fund. That would be very interesting.
Gordon
Well, I really don't like Compaq's because everyone I've worked on is poorly designed and has some proprietary something-or-other that *never* makes it work quite right. Trust me, I've worked in computer maintenance and most of the problems (that weren't laptops) were Compaqs.
Gordon