Can't tweak the settings of the system
WPCREDIT is win32 only...
Can't flick into a console during a game or some other full-screen application to change options
ALT-TAB...
Can't run it on a really old system at a decent speed without a GUI
Try running X on a 486... FAG
(props to Be for getting an OS to run *really* well albeit with no hardware support)
Can't install software they need without having to fork out another $50 for each package
Alright, you need to fork out some dollars a month for a service called broadband internet. This service supplies pornography and warez to your computer.
Can't enjoy the features of a full text editor like vi, gedit or kwrite.
You deliberately left out emacs... FAG
Can't set up an account for their pesky brother or friend who knows just enough to be dangerous, and limit their ability to modify/delete vital system files. Or prevent them from overwriting your personal settings
Buy Jimmy & Co his own fucking computer so he can get his greasy mits off your keyboard.
Can't, if capable, create complex shell scripts to perform manipulations on files that GUI's can only dream of.
Can use a GUI to create thumbnail galleries of pornography?
Can't customise much of their GUI at all (eg, can't remove start bar, can't add menu's or applets to the start bar, etc)
Stuck with two equally gay GUIs.
Can you see what is wrong with this example?
BSD begat OS X, therefore UNIX is EVIL
Some people under the misconception that paying money for something means that it is automatically better.
Instead (in this instance), you lube the stupid rich market for money to supply the same shitty service. I'd complain about it, but I do endorse such activities.
A little while back New Scientist, 14th July 2001, had a great article on all the little engineering hickups that were plaguing the ISS.
Props go to New Scientist for excellent journalism, and me for subsequently stealing it (subliminal message: subscribe! subscribe!)
Problems with the space station are:
<riff>
Incompatible electrical supplies between the Russian and American modules
Russian and American water supplies cannot be mixed. Russians used silver ions to preserve water, Americans use iodine, mix and you get silver iodide which clogs any/all filters/valves.
The crew couldn't get to an air-circulation fan to fix it due to a large piece of "substrucutre". Out comes the impact driver... which solves the problem... sort of.
Lack of tools. Stuff like vice grips are being used to hold together temporary odds and ends as well as tightening and loosening things.
"Crew Squawk" program, designed to report when systems aren't working, isn't working. =(
3-page procedure for putting a maintenance panel back on is on the back side of said maintenance panel.
Other problems have been:
Crew are using hair shampoo for all personal hygene, since it's hard to grip bar soap in weightlessness. Supply issues resulted since NASA wouldn't send more shampoo.
Velcro strips are also food traps, very difficult to clean.
The US-made Kapton tape has been abandoned in favour of the Russian "gray" tape, which upsets the ground control crew because it leaves a residue.
The station's inventory manglement system both doesn't function, and doesn't work. Several hours a day is wasted chasing down equipment.
Printer for said inventory manglement system fails on a regular basis.
Fortunately most of these problems have been ironed out. The whole thing reads like a Dilbert cartoon. Just goes to show that money doesn't solve everything. Said article appeared in the July 14 edition of New Scientist and was written by James Oberg.
Best quote is from ex-ISS Commander Bill Shepherd:
"We need to get a handle on the anal-retentive engineering approach to everything."
Fortunately the crew left the station on the 18th of March.
(PS - subscribe to New Scientist - the Women's Weekly for geeks(TM))
The warez distribution network would be perfect for this. There's already supposed be a release of Unreal 2 (could be BS, I don't know).
As of this post the layout of FTPs is:
2 servers in Oslo - Norway
1 server in Belgium
1 server in Germany
1 server in Finland
1 server in the UK
1 server in the USA
1 server in Australia.
Sure I live in AU with The Worst Cable Ever, but as of this posting, the Australian and American FTPs are down, I can get about 1KB/s out of both servers in Norway. And the Finnish FTP is for Fins only.
Suffice to say I'm practicing my follicle removal, trying to login to non-existant servers.
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Hacker - "Let me make one thing clear, Humphrey is not God."
Once my ATX case gave me a nightmare. To put this short, I tried powering up, but the damn thing wouldn't start. Now whenever this happens I usually pull out the connector strip between the mobo and power supply. Most of the problems seem to happen when '95 crashes while shutting down, somehow failing to reset the mobo to 'off'. So if you're ATX won't power up, try reinserting the PS>mobo power cable.
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Can't tweak the settings of the system
WPCREDIT is win32 only...
Can't flick into a console during a game or some other full-screen application to change options
ALT-TAB...
Can't run it on a really old system at a decent speed without a GUI
Try running X on a 486... FAG
(props to Be for getting an OS to run *really* well albeit with no hardware support)
Can't install software they need without having to fork out another $50 for each package
Alright, you need to fork out some dollars a month for a service called broadband internet. This service supplies pornography and warez to your computer.
Can't enjoy the features of a full text editor like vi, gedit or kwrite.
You deliberately left out emacs... FAG
Can't set up an account for their pesky brother or friend who knows just enough to be dangerous, and limit their ability to modify/delete vital system files. Or prevent them from overwriting your personal settings
Buy Jimmy & Co his own fucking computer so he can get his greasy mits off your keyboard.
Can't, if capable, create complex shell scripts to perform manipulations on files that GUI's can only dream of.
Can use a GUI to create thumbnail galleries of pornography?
Can't customise much of their GUI at all (eg, can't remove start bar, can't add menu's or applets to the start bar, etc)
Stuck with two equally gay GUIs.
Can you see what is wrong with this example?
BSD begat OS X, therefore UNIX is EVIL
Some people under the misconception that paying money for something means that it is automatically better.
Instead (in this instance), you lube the stupid rich market for money to supply the same shitty service. I'd complain about it, but I do endorse such activities.
Props go to New Scientist for excellent journalism, and me for subsequently stealing it (subliminal message: subscribe! subscribe!)
Problems with the space station are: <riff>
- Incompatible electrical supplies between the Russian and American modules
- Russian and American water supplies cannot be mixed. Russians used silver ions to preserve water, Americans use iodine, mix and you get silver iodide which clogs any/all filters/valves.
- The crew couldn't get to an air-circulation fan to fix it due to a large piece of "substrucutre". Out comes the impact driver... which solves the problem... sort of.
- Lack of tools. Stuff like vice grips are being used to hold together temporary odds and ends as well as tightening and loosening things.
- "Crew Squawk" program, designed to report when systems aren't working, isn't working. =(
- 3-page procedure for putting a maintenance panel back on is on the back side of said maintenance panel.
Other problems have been:Fortunately most of these problems have been ironed out. The whole thing reads like a Dilbert cartoon. Just goes to show that money doesn't solve everything. Said article appeared in the July 14 edition of New Scientist and was written by James Oberg.
Best quote is from ex-ISS Commander Bill Shepherd:Fortunately the crew left the station on the 18th of March.
(PS - subscribe to New Scientist - the Women's Weekly for geeks(TM))
As of this post the layout of FTPs is:
Sure I live in AU with The Worst Cable Ever, but as of this posting, the Australian and American FTPs are down, I can get about 1KB/s out of both servers in Norway. And the Finnish FTP is for Fins only.
Suffice to say I'm practicing my follicle removal, trying to login to non-existant servers.
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Hacker - "Let me make one thing clear, Humphrey is not God."
This reminds me of one particular dumbass that I saw while flipping through the Guiness Book of Records 2000.
;-)
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darkmoon - "My sister is pretty good"
Some weird guy spend 20 years typing the numbers 1 to some large value on his typewriter.
Kinda hard to insure that sorta thing against fire
Why doesn't someone just do NOTHING for a year instead hmm?
Geoff
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Once my ATX case gave me a nightmare. To put this short, I tried powering up, but the damn thing wouldn't start. Now whenever this happens I usually pull out the connector strip between the mobo and power supply. Most of the problems seem to happen when '95 crashes while shutting down, somehow failing to reset the mobo to 'off'. So if you're ATX won't power up, try reinserting the PS>mobo power cable.