Sort of reminds me of when I was walking by VCRs in Walmart that were marked "Y2k compatible". Which is nice to know that your VCR won't be sucked into a time vortex because of some spacial anomalie that makes it incompatible with the millennium
$112? ouch. Well if Sun wanted SO to seem like legit software by stuffing a price tag on it, then that's probably about right for an office suite. It still hurts for regular people like me. I was hoping it would hit the more consumer frienly price of around $60. Not that I care really since I use Open office anyway. At work (bing the IT guy) my boss comes buy and says "let me show you something on Word". Then I informed her I didn't have MS office installed - since I think that would be a waste of money on me. She seemed to be grasping for words at how someone could possibly survive without MS Office. But truthfully I like Open Office a lot more than MS Office, with the exception of the splash screen - but 30 seconds with a resource hacker to swap the bitmaps takes care of that
yeah, I wondered this myself since I still have a geocities account. Well I haven't used the mail side of it since Geocities was assimilated into the Yahoo collective - mainly because I never got the POP3 address to ever work again. Assumably they'll just cut off POP3 access to your account and force you to use the cheese ball Yahoo webmail stuff.
A few years ago I jumped ship at Geocities due to the entire pop-up window thing. I've never looked back. Sure I'll pay for having a webpage, pop3 mail, and FTP access (which is a laughable thing to charge for in the first place). Would I pay for this crap from Yahoo? There's no fucking way!
Well that's sort of the problem: they offer redhat, and only redhat. And really, would you wan't a 'everything but the kitchen sink install', on a server anyway? The first thing I do when I get a dell server is fdisk the thing and partition it the way I want. Besides which - reguardless of whether you upgrade the kernel or not, you should recompile the kernel and remove all the junk that Red Hat puts in by default. It would be nice if Dell at least offered other distros (like IBM). Really, just saying it's linux compatable is enough for me, although having a cd with it is nice.
Boss: How many lines of code did you do today?
Coder: 1
Boss: [next day], how many lines did you do today?
Coder: 1
Boss: [day 3] how many lines did you do today?
Coder: 1
Boss: how come you only do one line per day
Coder: Actually I'm working on the same line.
Boss: How many lines is the damn program?!?
Coder: 1
Boss: You're programming in Perl again arent you...
If you had a whole month to back it up, why did you send it to a recovery company? It seems to me the second you start to hear a click from a hard drive you should start backing it up immediately on a routine schedule. This is high precision technology here where the heads float on a cushion of air millionths of an inch from the HD surface - scraping and clicking sounds are an indicator that something very bad is going to happen...
RedHag 7.2 and I have to say that I prefer the FreeBSD
Actually I agree, but the only thing I would like with the BSD installer is for better descriptions of the packages, since I have the feeling I'm skipping stuff that might be useful mainly because I'm not sure what the thing really does (and the description is not too helpful either). At work my machine runs FreeBSD despite the fact that I've been trying to standardize on RH linux (not by choice). I've tried installing RH 7.2 around 5 times, and 7.1 - 3 times, and I can't get either of them to actually take. Neither of them will write to the boot sector, and neither ends up in a bootable state via another bootloader either. Hell even the boot floppy won't work. In contrast FreeBSD glides through the install with no problems.
Actually I like the idea of an interesting looking animated splash screen. I wonder if this could be an option somehow merged into the main FreeBSD tree? I don't think I'd actually trust any strange distro that forks from the base system...
The installer, and the overall level of "spit shine" is better than I've seen anywher
I'm a happy FreeBSD user, but I think the installer still needs work. In a lot of ways it's still un-intuitive, and I think it needs to be a bit more descriptive about the packages (Red Hat did this right). The other annoying thing about the installer is that it doesn't DO a whole lot for configuring various stuff. For instance: if I select bash as my default shell, it would be nice if I got some sort of freaking.bashrc SOMEWHERE on the system! (no, you have to make one yourself). If you want window maker as your desktop environment, good luck. the majority of the programs won't be on the programs list, and the ones that are listed probably aren't even installed.
With that said FreeBSD can be a pain in the ass to set up initially, but once that's done you can basically clone most of the config stuff for the rest of eternity - it's just a hurdle that beginners shouldn't have to go through IMHO.
Actually I encourage users on the systems I admin to use a pass phrase instead of just a word. Although I tell them to make an entire sentance with each word separated by a number - preferably with the last letter of each word capitalized. Not TOO hard to remember, and secure enough...
Unfortunately most games now days don't really stand out as "classic" material. Hell most of my arcade accomplishments happened on games most people haven't heard of; such as 1943 and Shinobi - and that's when the arcade was still pretty popular. Sadly the arcade is continually in decline - and will probably just be the mark of an era (like malt shops in the 50s). I guess with the extremely good console games and good PC games, the ol arcade just doesn't catch the attention of modern youth. But no matter how good console systems get, they can never really top the feeling of defeating a total stranger standing next to you, and seeing the look on his face when you royally kick his ass at a game. Course I don't think I'll miss the episodes where I was the one getting pounded.
wow, those are really good stats compared to what I see. Back during 0.9.7 when I used Win 98 Mozilla used to be able to completely take all the memory available. Which I found rather amusing not even having enough memory to open up a DOS prompt (big white screen that says "not enough memory"). I've still noticed that if you open a new window for an image with a link such as [a href="this.jpg" target="_blank"]... that Mozilla's memory usage goes way up. Usually I'm sitting around 220M in memory (on win2k now). Sorta annoying having to re-open mozilla to read some of my scanned comic books - that have an index page generated by a perl script with links as described as above...
What is with Realplayer now anyway? I don't know of anyone that doesn't think Realplayer was a pile of garbage to begin with, but now it's totally out of control. After just 10 minutes of the thing I un-installed it (I'm not sure why you couldn't...). Considering they're probably going up against a life or death scenerio against Microsoft now, they're practically digging their own grave with the load of crap they call a player now. It makes you wonder about the sanity of whoever is in control of it all (if anyone).
Yeah, I think people tend to miss the point that for the most part a DBMS is probably way more rubust than something like Fat32. More than NTFS? Probably not, but they're looking for other advantages. The real question is how hard will it be to purposly trash the filesystem. A whole new generation of viruses trying to do the age ol 'trash the fat table' type of attack.
maybe because just about any other OS you would dual boot into, can read AND WRITE to fat32. Using win2k, I use NTFS for the program junk, but have a fat 32 partition for the pile of stuff I use between Win2k and FreeBSD.
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"Why hasn't this been adopted by the Unix community?"
I think you just said it yourself with the words "double-click"
Sort of reminds me of when I was walking by VCRs in Walmart that were marked "Y2k compatible". Which is nice to know that your VCR won't be sucked into a time vortex because of some spacial anomalie that makes it incompatible with the millennium
I think what they're referring to is , once you're in our upgrade cycle - MS will OWN your office
if by UNIX you mean the Internet, then yeah, sorta.
$112? ouch. Well if Sun wanted SO to seem like legit software by stuffing a price tag on it, then that's probably about right for an office suite. It still hurts for regular people like me. I was hoping it would hit the more consumer frienly price of around $60. Not that I care really since I use Open office anyway. At work (bing the IT guy) my boss comes buy and says "let me show you something on Word". Then I informed her I didn't have MS office installed - since I think that would be a waste of money on me. She seemed to be grasping for words at how someone could possibly survive without MS Office. But truthfully I like Open Office a lot more than MS Office, with the exception of the splash screen - but 30 seconds with a resource hacker to swap the bitmaps takes care of that
yeah, I wondered this myself since I still have a geocities account. Well I haven't used the mail side of it since Geocities was assimilated into the Yahoo collective - mainly because I never got the POP3 address to ever work again. Assumably they'll just cut off POP3 access to your account and force you to use the cheese ball Yahoo webmail stuff.
A few years ago I jumped ship at Geocities due to the entire pop-up window thing. I've never looked back. Sure I'll pay for having a webpage, pop3 mail, and FTP access (which is a laughable thing to charge for in the first place). Would I pay for this crap from Yahoo? There's no fucking way!
Well that's sort of the problem: they offer redhat, and only redhat. And really, would you wan't a 'everything but the kitchen sink install', on a server anyway? The first thing I do when I get a dell server is fdisk the thing and partition it the way I want. Besides which - reguardless of whether you upgrade the kernel or not, you should recompile the kernel and remove all the junk that Red Hat puts in by default. It would be nice if Dell at least offered other distros (like IBM). Really, just saying it's linux compatable is enough for me, although having a cd with it is nice.
Boss: How many lines of code did you do today?
Coder: 1
Boss: [next day], how many lines did you do today?
Coder: 1
Boss: [day 3] how many lines did you do today?
Coder: 1
Boss: how come you only do one line per day
Coder: Actually I'm working on the same line.
Boss: How many lines is the damn program?!?
Coder: 1
Boss: You're programming in Perl again arent you...
If you had a whole month to back it up, why did you send it to a recovery company? It seems to me the second you start to hear a click from a hard drive you should start backing it up immediately on a routine schedule. This is high precision technology here where the heads float on a cushion of air millionths of an inch from the HD surface - scraping and clicking sounds are an indicator that something very bad is going to happen...
RedHag 7.2 and I have to say that I prefer the FreeBSD
Actually I agree, but the only thing I would like with the BSD installer is for better descriptions of the packages, since I have the feeling I'm skipping stuff that might be useful mainly because I'm not sure what the thing really does (and the description is not too helpful either). At work my machine runs FreeBSD despite the fact that I've been trying to standardize on RH linux (not by choice). I've tried installing RH 7.2 around 5 times, and 7.1 - 3 times, and I can't get either of them to actually take. Neither of them will write to the boot sector, and neither ends up in a bootable state via another bootloader either. Hell even the boot floppy won't work. In contrast FreeBSD glides through the install with no problems.
Actually I like the idea of an interesting looking animated splash screen. I wonder if this could be an option somehow merged into the main FreeBSD tree? I don't think I'd actually trust any strange distro that forks from the base system...
The installer, and the overall level of "spit shine" is better than I've seen anywher
.bashrc SOMEWHERE on the system! (no, you have to make one yourself). If you want window maker as your desktop environment, good luck. the majority of the programs won't be on the programs list, and the ones that are listed probably aren't even installed.
I'm a happy FreeBSD user, but I think the installer still needs work. In a lot of ways it's still un-intuitive, and I think it needs to be a bit more descriptive about the packages (Red Hat did this right). The other annoying thing about the installer is that it doesn't DO a whole lot for configuring various stuff. For instance: if I select bash as my default shell, it would be nice if I got some sort of freaking
With that said FreeBSD can be a pain in the ass to set up initially, but once that's done you can basically clone most of the config stuff for the rest of eternity - it's just a hurdle that beginners shouldn't have to go through IMHO.
# hostname
BallandChain
Actually I encourage users on the systems I admin to use a pass phrase instead of just a word. Although I tell them to make an entire sentance with each word separated by a number - preferably with the last letter of each word capitalized. Not TOO hard to remember, and secure enough...
Unfortunately most games now days don't really stand out as "classic" material. Hell most of my arcade accomplishments happened on games most people haven't heard of; such as 1943 and Shinobi - and that's when the arcade was still pretty popular. Sadly the arcade is continually in decline - and will probably just be the mark of an era (like malt shops in the 50s). I guess with the extremely good console games and good PC games, the ol arcade just doesn't catch the attention of modern youth. But no matter how good console systems get, they can never really top the feeling of defeating a total stranger standing next to you, and seeing the look on his face when you royally kick his ass at a game. Course I don't think I'll miss the episodes where I was the one getting pounded.
Too bad the guy died...
Don't worry. He has two more lives. He just has to start from the beginning of the stage.
wow, those are really good stats compared to what I see. Back during 0.9.7 when I used Win 98 Mozilla used to be able to completely take all the memory available. Which I found rather amusing not even having enough memory to open up a DOS prompt (big white screen that says "not enough memory"). I've still noticed that if you open a new window for an image with a link such as [a href="this.jpg" target="_blank"]... that Mozilla's memory usage goes way up. Usually I'm sitting around 220M in memory (on win2k now). Sorta annoying having to re-open mozilla to read some of my scanned comic books - that have an index page generated by a perl script with links as described as above...
"it's free, whaddaya expect?"
The analogy for this would be:
You go to Mexico on vacation. Do you PAY for bottled water, or do you get it for free from that old lady with 3 teeth missing. Hmm...
What is with Realplayer now anyway? I don't know of anyone that doesn't think Realplayer was a pile of garbage to begin with, but now it's totally out of control. After just 10 minutes of the thing I un-installed it (I'm not sure why you couldn't...). Considering they're probably going up against a life or death scenerio against Microsoft now, they're practically digging their own grave with the load of crap they call a player now. It makes you wonder about the sanity of whoever is in control of it all (if anyone).
How long did IE take to get to 3.0?
Quite a bit faster since there was no 1.0 (and 3.0 still sucked IMHO - 4x was okay)
Fan of the future? Feh... where's the liquid nitrogen dammit?!
Yeah, I think people tend to miss the point that for the most part a DBMS is probably way more rubust than something like Fat32. More than NTFS? Probably not, but they're looking for other advantages. The real question is how hard will it be to purposly trash the filesystem. A whole new generation of viruses trying to do the age ol 'trash the fat table' type of attack.
maybe because just about any other OS you would dual boot into, can read AND WRITE to fat32. Using win2k, I use NTFS for the program junk, but have a fat 32 partition for the pile of stuff I use between Win2k and FreeBSD.
Taking a cue from the success of distributed computing in the SETI @home project to search for intelligent life, Microsoft has decided to take the initative and use distributed computing to look for intelligent windows users.
Ho ho....... there goes my karma
Voice recognition is still waiting for that killer must have app.
and we all know what that would be: doing hardcore Perl regular expressions in Vi.