I am not sure if I am reading Slashdot, News for Nerds or Twinbarrel Shotgun, News for Psychopaths. This piece of news along with the comments are turning to be the funniest read I have had in the last month.
Functional languages such as LISP are certainly a thing I miss from my college years. Most developers have had imperative languages imposed on us by sheer day to day usage. But when you program under SCHEME, you sense deep underneath a powerful different way to tackle problems.
One of the most beautiful things from this kind of languages is the ability to dynamically construct its own code. For instance, Postscript (yes, the thing printers use), which is also a funciontional language, does not have a switch-case statement. This was a requirement in one final project. Rather than forcing a switch-case upon the language, I wrote a function which would return a function mimicking the actual switch-case funciton, once evaled.
The grading teacher just checkmarked the requirement, no comments no nothing. *sigh*
If you still have a functional PC with 4 MB of memory, you must be curator in a computer museaum or sysadmin in a Kenyan school (and even there, they are chucking out the window these systems). =)
For really old systems (more than 10 years), My OS of choice is NT4. It runs on 16 MB of memory, its quite fast, offers excelent stability (once patched to SP6a), but most of all, it will still be compatible (albeit uselesss) with many modern applications.
I have found one reason to use XP above 2K: Wireless networking.
XP has wireless networking integrated into it, while 2K you depend on the manufacturer piece of crap software. Needless to say that most of the manufacturer software will slow to a crawl any system you install on (at least linksys did that on my 233 PII/96 MB laptop).
At my bank, they still use OS/2 at the desktop, along with a combination of office 97.
It is truly a retro experience when I have to do any banking over there!
Ever since Thursday I have been trying to download fscache(4.6) module for a test install, but have not been able to find the download anywhere on the web.
Would you point me out where can I find this module? If you have it offline, would you be as kind as to mail it to me at jme at cimex dot com dot mx?
Not long ago here in Mexico, a punk servicing a PC in the Federal Electoral Institute downloaded and sold the ENTIRE National Voter Registry to a two bit data aggregator, which in turn sold the database to Choicepoint in the U.S.
Now the National Voter Registry contains the name, address, telephone and date of birth of all the people over 18 in the entire country. It is the basis for the most trusted identification used over the country and of our voting system.
The costs of managing and updating the registry is just a bit over a thousand million dollars per year. The punk sold the database for measly 2000 dollars.
After the excrement hited the cooling device, there was a big showdown between the aggregator, Choicepoint and the local authorities. The punk got busted and the buyers claim they destroyed the databases (yea, like hell they did).
I for one am not ever updating my entry in the Registry.
we just now BARELY explain why Ice Cubes melt in our drink? The introduction to this article (as well as its summary, since its a plagerized C&P job) are prime examples of sensationalistic journalism. A more adequate description would be how ice melts, since it deals with the molecular mechanics of water molecules when the melting starts, rather than the fact of why heat transfer triggers the melting process.
Wow... it never ceases to amaze me the bias of some people around here.
You're comparing actions of RH at a time when they were trying to rapidly phase out their consumer editions. This is the orange.
Gee I am so glad that I was not a consumer of theirs at the time being. Can you imagine if MS tried pulling this charade: "Yes, we are going to discontinue W2K Home because we frankly see no business value in it. You have one year to upgrade to XP."
The Redhat 'apple' I'm referring to is RHEL 2.1/3/4 that gets at least 3 years of support. As far as I know, RHEL 2.1 is still supported and RHEL 4 is out now. In that case, Ill take the orange any time. Not only I will get 10 full years of support but also MS has never pulled this "rapid phase out of consumer editions" on me.
"Big Ticket" items by most in the retail industry (where my old job was) and those items are supposed to last at least 10 years, I don't see 5 years as being a long time. Windows 2000 is just leaving mainstream support and entering extended support phase (see this link to check the details). Microsoft will still issue security hotfixes and will gladly assisst you with non security hotfixes for a fee or a support contract. According to their lifecycle, all software business products are supported for at least 10 years.
from the article: Microsoft will officially stop supporting Windows 2000 by the end of this month I am not a MS fan, but I have certainly learned to take all and any MS slashdot bashing with more than a grain of salt (more like a truck load). In this case, the submitter is clearly FUDing MS and W2K in a desperate attempt to get his article published. A strategy that seems to work quite well in this newsboard.
The server is currently netware 3.12. The damn thing is a beast....
Now that you mention it, Netware 3.12 does have a reputation for indestructibility. There are several anecdotes out there regarding long forgotten netware servers which just refused to die. My favorite one is the following:
One such tale involves a remodeling project that uncovered a NetWare 3.11 server walled up in an old wiring closet that everybody had forgotten about. The machine had been running for seven or eight years, happily serving up files and print jobs without missing a packet. Uptime numbers were enhanced by the administrator's ability to dynamically reconfigure the server without having to reboot it.
You know, I learned to type without looking at the keyboard during my first semester in my college's computer room.
There were times, particularly towards the end of the reporting periods, that all the humanities chicks chose to do their computing assignments. Some of these girls were scantly dressed (it was scorching summer outside) and had a great looking body *drool*.
At the time, I was a 6 digit typer and I sporadically had to look at the keyboard. Needless to say that when the summer ended, I could type with all my eleve^H^H^H^H ten digits and without even having to look at the screen!
We should follow Tibet's pacifist example, that way we won't have to worry about Chinese guns being pointed at us. I'll make two remarks to your opinion:
Your analogy is flawed; if there were WMD orbiting the plannet and aiming at the US, then you would have a valid point. But at this point a more valid analogy would be We should point our guns to Tibet, in case those crazy monks decide to attack us with stones.
I can guarantee you that Chinesee ocupation of Tibet has had a much more profound impact than any possible armed resistance the Tibeteans could have offered when the Chinese invaded them. The strength of the Tibeteans lies in the exposed brutality of their adversaries, not the amount of restistance they could have presented when the invation took place.
As I said before, the key issue here is balance of power. Unless you want guns being pointed your way, make sure you dont point yours the way of your neighbours.
Yea, which will only increase if somebody else build's it first. Balance of power is the key phrase to remember in this situation. If the US puts guns in the sky, China or many other countries who feel rightly threatened by the US will rush to follow. It will be back to the cold war days, it seems Americans enjoy the feeling of having guns pointed at you.
Doesn't BBC America have commercials?
I haven't seen BBC America, but BBC World, as delivered by DirecTV Latinamerica, is comercial free. No adds besides self promotion of other BBC shows. It is a real shame that other BBC channels are only viewable in the UK for I recall them being add free too last time I visited.
Maybe your cable company is chipping in those comercials as a way of thanking you for your unconditional support?
You mean, like, so you can pirate games and not pay for them, right? Hehe I don't mean to generalize, but the singe most played application on my Xbox is XBMC. I barely play any Xbox games on this console.
There are compeling reasons out there to mod your console, and playing pirated games is only one of them. I have seen modded Xboxes sold to the unwashed masses for up to 800 U.S. Some of the principal adverts of them are DVD viewing (all regions, PAL/NTSC), viewing of worldwide TV stations and listening of worldwide radio stations.
just done a complete remake of eps 4-6 if he wasnt happy with them
OMG... I hope you are kidding about this. At this point we have purist complaining who shoots first, added scenes and edited dialogs. Had George chosen to do deeper surgery on the original trilogy, I can imagine him receiving death threats and at least one suicidal bombing in his general proximity.
Re:You mean real 'worthless' admins, right?
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Not to mention:
1. All your servers run under the exact same hardware, configuration, and settings. 2. All your servers run the exact same services (because we all know how useful is to have 5 different servers running Exchange / Qmail/whatever your messaging platform is) 3. You have the spare duplicate servers to build and test all the pristine locked down images.
In short, grandparent post must either work in his basement or in Disneyland!
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All that is way too sofisticated, my ehternet contingency plan involves drums:
http://eagle.auc.ca/~dreid/
I want to check it out too:
jme at cimex dot com dot mx
Please finish up your drink before reading it:
Enjoy!
Then, when our country is overrun, we can all escape to space.
Wow... the paranoia. Yes, we are all out to get you!
I am not sure if I am reading Slashdot, News for Nerds or Twinbarrel Shotgun, News for Psychopaths. This piece of news along with the comments are turning to be the funniest read I have had in the last month.
Functional languages such as LISP are certainly a thing I miss from my college years. Most developers have had imperative languages imposed on us by sheer day to day usage. But when you program under SCHEME, you sense deep underneath a powerful different way to tackle problems.
One of the most beautiful things from this kind of languages is the ability to dynamically construct its own code. For instance, Postscript (yes, the thing printers use), which is also a funciontional language, does not have a switch-case statement. This was a requirement in one final project. Rather than forcing a switch-case upon the language, I wrote a function which would return a function mimicking the actual switch-case funciton, once evaled.
The grading teacher just checkmarked the requirement, no comments no nothing. *sigh*
If you still have a functional PC with 4 MB of memory, you must be curator in a computer museaum or sysadmin in a Kenyan school (and even there, they are chucking out the window these systems). =)
For really old systems (more than 10 years), My OS of choice is NT4. It runs on 16 MB of memory, its quite fast, offers excelent stability (once patched to SP6a), but most of all, it will still be compatible (albeit uselesss) with many modern applications.
I have found one reason to use XP above 2K: Wireless networking.
XP has wireless networking integrated into it, while 2K you depend on the manufacturer piece of crap software. Needless to say that most of the manufacturer software will slow to a crawl any system you install on (at least linksys did that on my 233 PII/96 MB laptop).
At my bank, they still use OS/2 at the desktop, along with a combination of office 97. It is truly a retro experience when I have to do any banking over there!
Hey Factory,
Ever since Thursday I have been trying to download fscache(4.6) module for a test install, but have not been able to find the download anywhere on the web.
Would you point me out where can I find this module? If you have it offline, would you be as kind as to mail it to me at jme at cimex dot com dot mx?
TIA
Javier
Not long ago here in Mexico, a punk servicing a PC in the Federal Electoral Institute downloaded and sold the ENTIRE National Voter Registry to a two bit data aggregator, which in turn sold the database to Choicepoint in the U.S.
Now the National Voter Registry contains the name, address, telephone and date of birth of all the people over 18 in the entire country. It is the basis for the most trusted identification used over the country and of our voting system.
The costs of managing and updating the registry is just a bit over a thousand million dollars per year. The punk sold the database for measly 2000 dollars.
After the excrement hited the cooling device, there was a big showdown between the aggregator, Choicepoint and the local authorities. The punk got busted and the buyers claim they destroyed the databases (yea, like hell they did).
I for one am not ever updating my entry in the Registry.
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Even worse: watch it get moderated to +5 informative.
we just now BARELY explain why Ice Cubes melt in our drink?
The introduction to this article (as well as its summary, since its a plagerized C&P job) are prime examples of sensationalistic journalism. A more adequate description would be how ice melts, since it deals with the molecular mechanics of water molecules when the melting starts, rather than the fact of why heat transfer triggers the melting process.
Wow... it never ceases to amaze me the bias of some people around here.
You're comparing actions of RH at a time when they were trying to rapidly phase out their consumer editions. This is the orange.
Gee I am so glad that I was not a consumer of theirs at the time being. Can you imagine if MS tried pulling this charade: "Yes, we are going to discontinue W2K Home because we frankly see no business value in it. You have one year to upgrade to XP."
The Redhat 'apple' I'm referring to is RHEL 2.1/3/4 that gets at least 3 years of support. As far as I know, RHEL 2.1 is still supported and RHEL 4 is out now.
In that case, Ill take the orange any time. Not only I will get 10 full years of support but also MS has never pulled this "rapid phase out of consumer editions" on me.
"Big Ticket" items by most in the retail industry (where my old job was) and those items are supposed to last at least 10 years, I don't see 5 years as being a long time.
Windows 2000 is just leaving mainstream support and entering extended support phase (see this link to check the details). Microsoft will still issue security hotfixes and will gladly assisst you with non security hotfixes for a fee or a support contract. According to their lifecycle, all software business products are supported for at least 10 years.
from the article: Microsoft will officially stop supporting Windows 2000 by the end of this month
I am not a MS fan, but I have certainly learned to take all and any MS slashdot bashing with more than a grain of salt (more like a truck load). In this case, the submitter is clearly FUDing MS and W2K in a desperate attempt to get his article published. A strategy that seems to work quite well in this newsboard.
The server is currently netware 3.12. The damn thing is a beast....
Now that you mention it, Netware 3.12 does have a reputation for indestructibility. There are several anecdotes out there regarding long forgotten netware servers which just refused to die. My favorite one is the following:
One such tale involves a remodeling project that uncovered a NetWare 3.11 server walled up in an old wiring closet that everybody had forgotten about. The machine had been running for seven or eight years, happily serving up files and print jobs without missing a packet. Uptime numbers were enhanced by the administrator's ability to dynamically reconfigure the server without having to reboot it.
http://www.everything2.com/index.pl?node=ed
maybe I could just sell these chumps the Brooklyn Bridge and the iron from the Eiffel Tower.
Darl? Is that you?
You know, I learned to type without looking at the keyboard during my first semester in my college's computer room.
There were times, particularly towards the end of the reporting periods, that all the humanities chicks chose to do their computing assignments. Some of these girls were scantly dressed (it was scorching summer outside) and had a great looking body *drool*.
At the time, I was a 6 digit typer and I sporadically had to look at the keyboard. Needless to say that when the summer ended, I could type with all my eleve^H^H^H^H ten digits and without even having to look at the screen!
I'll make two remarks to your opinion:
- Your analogy is flawed; if there were WMD orbiting the plannet and aiming at the US, then you would have a valid point. But at this point a more valid analogy would be We should point our guns to Tibet, in case those crazy monks decide to attack us with stones.
- I can guarantee you that Chinesee ocupation of Tibet has had a much more profound impact than any possible armed resistance the Tibeteans could have offered when the Chinese invaded them. The strength of the Tibeteans lies in the exposed brutality of their adversaries, not the amount of restistance they could have presented when the invation took place.
As I said before, the key issue here is balance of power. Unless you want guns being pointed your way, make sure you dont point yours the way of your neighbours.I'd say there's a high liklihood.
Yea, which will only increase if somebody else build's it first. Balance of power is the key phrase to remember in this situation. If the US puts guns in the sky, China or many other countries who feel rightly threatened by the US will rush to follow. It will be back to the cold war days, it seems Americans enjoy the feeling of having guns pointed at you.
Doesn't BBC America have commercials?
I haven't seen BBC America, but BBC World, as delivered by DirecTV Latinamerica, is comercial free. No adds besides self promotion of other BBC shows. It is a real shame that other BBC channels are only viewable in the UK for I recall them being add free too last time I visited.
Maybe your cable company is chipping in those comercials as a way of thanking you for your unconditional support?
You mean, like, so you can pirate games and not pay for them, right? Hehe
I don't mean to generalize, but the singe most played application on my Xbox is XBMC. I barely play any Xbox games on this console.
There are compeling reasons out there to mod your console, and playing pirated games is only one of them. I have seen modded Xboxes sold to the unwashed masses for up to 800 U.S. Some of the principal adverts of them are DVD viewing (all regions, PAL/NTSC), viewing of worldwide TV stations and listening of worldwide radio stations.
just done a complete remake of eps 4-6 if he wasnt happy with them
OMG... I hope you are kidding about this. At this point we have purist complaining who shoots first, added scenes and edited dialogs. Had George chosen to do deeper surgery on the original trilogy, I can imagine him receiving death threats and at least one suicidal bombing in his general proximity.
Not to mention:
/whatever your messaging platform is)
1. All your servers run under the exact same hardware, configuration, and settings.
2. All your servers run the exact same services (because we all know how useful is to have 5 different servers running Exchange / Qmail
3. You have the spare duplicate servers to build and test all the pristine locked down images.
In short, grandparent post must either work in his basement or in Disneyland!