In yet another breathtaking installment of Krang's Happy BS Hour, Frankestein and co. seek to convince a weary world that they will make their lives easier. Except, of course, they have to contend with their greatest and most fiendishly unbeatable arch-enemy, their own track record.
I've now had to delete my Exchange profile in Entourage and rebuild the MS database a dozen times. In the interim, I've "sent" updates to meetings that were never touched, lost meetings I haven't even so much as hovered over since accepted and had enough formatting errors in Word:Mac show up in the MS Word version to literally crash both apps, even after performing "compatibility checks" each time. This rapidly becomes very, very uncool when, say, meeting with a CTO.
As happy as the idea of a cross-platform (especially to iPhone) MS Office install would make me, all I can say is: "Don't you believe it." Whether through spite, confused market strategy or sheer, blinding ignorance, Microsoft has for decades utterly failed to even be compatible with itself. I will believe it when I see it - on someone else's hardware.
I suppose with the proliferation of regular ol' home workstations, standards have lagged, but if you're gonna geek out and go linux, why would you sacrifice its core virtues?
Using separate volumes is not just the (obvious) question of security, it's one of data integrity and better system performance. IMHO, at the very least, you should isolate/home,/tmp, any archival directories (to the end sectors), of course/swap (don't believe for one second that a swapfile is the same as a separate partition; the filesystem overhead alone nullifies that assumption) and of course,/boot, which should be unmounted and remounted read-only (if at all) once the init process is complete.
Yeah, it doesn't make a meaningful impact if you're just surfing, but... if that's what you're doing, you probably stopped reading this two paragraphs ago.
Only on Slashdot can the previous post get modded "interesting". Funny on its own, of course, but on the other hand tragic, as it shows just how little the mods pay attention.
Doctor dude #1 who screws around with Windows professionally was better able to lock down a box than doctor dude #2 who kinda likes linux but has no clue about its core operation. In an effort to keep him from becoming glum, doctor dude #1 convinces doctor dude #2 that it's really not his fault; it's the system.
Microsoft service provider prints up story, er, study. Bored Slashdot editor clicks "OK".
I think this built-in inefficiency is to control the population, no?
No.
At no point will evolution favor inefficiency for inefficiency's sake. There is always an ulterior, efficient motive. In the case of sex, it's forced genetic diversity. One possible scenario for its promulgation could have been a cyclical death-scenario for some manner of simple organism (say, a recurring chemical change in a lake due to a hot spring or toxic runoff) wherein the asexual descendants (a.k.a. clones) would be successful and dominate for long periods but die off in vast waves whenever the environment changed drastically and rapidly. Those that developed sex and its subsequent genetic diversity had a greater chance of fostering enough differing offspring that at least some of their descendants made it through the local cataclysm.
Regardless, it's certainly not an inherent "inefficiency".
It would make sense to introduce sex or its analogue to any life-imitating algorithm, as the implications for the evolution of "mix, match and reward" permutations are many, complex and certainly worthy of further analysis.
It's hard to imagine a better development than this! Excellent! Terry McAuliffe had brought the party to its knees with his Republican-Lite approach to leading the DNC. Screw that. Dean is the man!
Few things are as amusing as watching people get all worked up into a lather denouncing the choice. What, exactly, is wrong with having an intelligent, passionate leader? America has become such a country of clucking chickens that we not only accept the degradations to our liberties performed by the current monkey admin, but now even the dissenters are afraid of having a leader with a voice. Grow some balls, people.
The old idea of being Not-As-Evil-As-Our-Opponents is dead. It's time to pick up the populist trail where we left it years ago.
Oh, and PS weirdo rightist fascists - Dean is not a 'leftie'. He's left-of-center, certainly, but he's barely moderate, let alone "far-left". Readjust that sociopathically-slanted political spectrum you've got before you slide into the abyss of fascism. Just a friendly tip.
Didn't MS's whatshisface JUST say that Windows is more secure than Linux? Hoo-hoo!
So, tell us again, just HOW is a system based on a more monolithic design more secure than a bunch discrete components interfacing through an open standard?
Can you explain your company's seeming obsession with the new Longhorn product's visual-trick aspects compared to its apparently mere passing interest with its less-visible changes? I won't ask for a roll-out schedule, but it seems that once Longhorn ships, we can look forward to things like flapping, tiltable windows while the WinFS has been shelved.
Now, I'm for eye-candy as much the next guy, but in what way do you feel that being able to turn a window backwards will increase people's productivity more than actual real enhancements like WinFS? Why the push on videocard manufacturers to create absurd specifications when it seems that there is so much work that needs to be done in your own backyard first?
It's difficult not to be jaded and assume that the answer to most of these issues is that you are building a flashier desktop to promote the appearance of being "further ahead" to the developing markets while sacrificing true advancement in the name of flashy bling-bling. Have you got an answer that fits the facts better?
What kind of a bizarre tag is that? The point of fining someone in a legal system is to enforce the rule of law, not to get free dough for worthwhile causes.
Gee, if there's anything that would make my ultimate geek-masturbatory fantasy-come-true of going up into space any better, it would definitely be sitting next to a redneck football fan.
I, for one, applaud that another distro has the balls to enter what is increasingly a saturated market for minimalist distros. There must be two dozen micro-distros for really tiny embedded/small-footprint apps and about the same number of the next-larger variety, which seems to be the target niche of this system.
So, why do I applaud yet another entry in this gladiatorial matinee? Because it seems to be (as others have already mentioned) gentooish without being gentoo. As much as I love the ideology behind gentoo, it is a little self-defeating in the (ironically) places where it was meant to be most effective: weak systems. If you've ever tried compiling from a stage 1 on a pentium-133, you will know what I mean. Between the copying, set-up, compiling and post-config, it easily becomes a week-long install. (Well, if you only attend to it post-commute, that is.)
Given that the only people who actually still use P-133s for anything are (usually impatient) techies hacking out a sideproject, it's nice to see yet another distro enter the competition and allow us to make another choice without needing to postpone the project by yet another week for testing.
Is that why every major government intelligence house in the Western world devotes so many employees to it? Because oddly, I've never heard of a phrenologist working for the CIA and the astrologer/psychic they hired a few decades ago as a consultant was unceremoniously relieved of her duties after a string of nothing but failures, whereas the handwriting analysis unit is still around.
This should come as no suprise to anyone who is familiar with broadcast interviews and recorded seminars given by this man. The barely contained rage and insecurity evident in his body english as well as his face and eyes during moments like those infamous Windows crashes in the middle of presentations is telling. I'd bet my left tootsie some serious headrolling occured after those little booboos. He is certainly a vain and troubled man.
Wouldn't you be, though, if you were smart enough to know that your codehouse creates the most derided, the most reviled, the most attacked products in the world; to be have amassed the world's biggest fortune selling stuff to people that seem to garner nothing but resentment and to feel (perhaps rightly) the paranoia that everyone is out to get you?
The surprise here isn't that he's unstable but rather that we haven't yet found the bodies.
In case it might help you understand, child, the original post was whiny not because the story is not fit for Slashdot's audience, but because this is old news.
> 1. Science does not reveal truth, it searches for fact and tries to creat models for predicting facts.
What are facts if not "truth"? What kind of Orwellian pulpiteering is that? Am I to assume that based on your statement above, you have a better, more reliable system for "revealing truth"? What is it? Please share.
> (Didn't Harrison Ford give a lecture on this?)
I had a headache once.
> 2. It is equally incorrect, and very unfair, to suggest that any religious fanatic is opposed to what science may generate.
Actually, it's axiomatic - practically tautological. Additionally, "equally" incorrect to what? You haven't established any other inaccuracies. Nor have you given any basis to explain why it's unfair to point out the undeniable truth - that zealots, by definition, aggressively dismiss contrary evidence.
> ...your energy is far better directed at those specific kinds of religious zealot or ignorant culture, rather than at the Union or Religion as a whole.
Untrue when the Union in question feels it's better to kill Brown People(TM) rather than fund the generation of knowledge and that this Union is being run by adherents of one particular Religion, one of whose most amusing vagaries is the notion that the universe was made by your dad.
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In yet another breathtaking installment of Krang's Happy BS Hour, Frankestein and co. seek to convince a weary world that they will make their lives easier. Except, of course, they have to contend with their greatest and most fiendishly unbeatable arch-enemy, their own track record.
I've now had to delete my Exchange profile in Entourage and rebuild the MS database a dozen times. In the interim, I've "sent" updates to meetings that were never touched, lost meetings I haven't even so much as hovered over since accepted and had enough formatting errors in Word:Mac show up in the MS Word version to literally crash both apps, even after performing "compatibility checks" each time. This rapidly becomes very, very uncool when, say, meeting with a CTO.
As happy as the idea of a cross-platform (especially to iPhone) MS Office install would make me, all I can say is: "Don't you believe it." Whether through spite, confused market strategy or sheer, blinding ignorance, Microsoft has for decades utterly failed to even be compatible with itself. I will believe it when I see it - on someone else's hardware.
Talk is cheap. Ballmer is Krang. Krang smash.
I suppose with the proliferation of regular ol' home workstations, standards have lagged, but if you're gonna geek out and go linux, why would you sacrifice its core virtues?
Using separate volumes is not just the (obvious) question of security, it's one of data integrity and better system performance. IMHO, at the very least, you should isolate /home, /tmp, any archival directories (to the end sectors), of course /swap (don't believe for one second that a swapfile is the same as a separate partition; the filesystem overhead alone nullifies that assumption) and of course, /boot, which should be unmounted and remounted read-only (if at all) once the init process is complete.
Yeah, it doesn't make a meaningful impact if you're just surfing, but... if that's what you're doing, you probably stopped reading this two paragraphs ago.
Only on Slashdot can the previous post get modded "interesting". Funny on its own, of course, but on the other hand tragic, as it shows just how little the mods pay attention.
Er, care to elaborate on what's wrong with Salon?
Doctor dude #1 who screws around with Windows professionally was better able to lock down a box than doctor dude #2 who kinda likes linux but has no clue about its core operation. In an effort to keep him from becoming glum, doctor dude #1 convinces doctor dude #2 that it's really not his fault; it's the system.
Microsoft service provider prints up story, er, study. Bored Slashdot editor clicks "OK".
I think this built-in inefficiency is to control the population, no?
No.
At no point will evolution favor inefficiency for inefficiency's sake. There is always an ulterior, efficient motive. In the case of sex, it's forced genetic diversity. One possible scenario for its promulgation could have been a cyclical death-scenario for some manner of simple organism (say, a recurring chemical change in a lake due to a hot spring or toxic runoff) wherein the asexual descendants (a.k.a. clones) would be successful and dominate for long periods but die off in vast waves whenever the environment changed drastically and rapidly. Those that developed sex and its subsequent genetic diversity had a greater chance of fostering enough differing offspring that at least some of their descendants made it through the local cataclysm.
Regardless, it's certainly not an inherent "inefficiency".
It would make sense to introduce sex or its analogue to any life-imitating algorithm, as the implications for the evolution of "mix, match and reward" permutations are many, complex and certainly worthy of further analysis.
It's hard to imagine a better development than this! Excellent! Terry McAuliffe had brought the party to its knees with his Republican-Lite approach to leading the DNC. Screw that. Dean is the man!
Few things are as amusing as watching people get all worked up into a lather denouncing the choice. What, exactly, is wrong with having an intelligent, passionate leader? America has become such a country of clucking chickens that we not only accept the degradations to our liberties performed by the current monkey admin, but now even the dissenters are afraid of having a leader with a voice. Grow some balls, people.
The old idea of being Not-As-Evil-As-Our-Opponents is dead. It's time to pick up the populist trail where we left it years ago.
Oh, and PS weirdo rightist fascists - Dean is not a 'leftie'. He's left-of-center, certainly, but he's barely moderate, let alone "far-left". Readjust that sociopathically-slanted political spectrum you've got before you slide into the abyss of fascism. Just a friendly tip.
Didn't MS's whatshisface JUST say that Windows is more secure than Linux? Hoo-hoo!
So, tell us again, just HOW is a system based on a more monolithic design more secure than a bunch discrete components interfacing through an open standard?
Can you explain your company's seeming obsession with the new Longhorn product's visual-trick aspects compared to its apparently mere passing interest with its less-visible changes? I won't ask for a roll-out schedule, but it seems that once Longhorn ships, we can look forward to things like flapping, tiltable windows while the WinFS has been shelved.
Now, I'm for eye-candy as much the next guy, but in what way do you feel that being able to turn a window backwards will increase people's productivity more than actual real enhancements like WinFS? Why the push on videocard manufacturers to create absurd specifications when it seems that there is so much work that needs to be done in your own backyard first?
It's difficult not to be jaded and assume that the answer to most of these issues is that you are building a flashier desktop to promote the appearance of being "further ahead" to the developing markets while sacrificing true advancement in the name of flashy bling-bling. Have you got an answer that fits the facts better?
Thanks.
What kind of a bizarre tag is that? The point of fining someone in a legal system is to enforce the rule of law, not to get free dough for worthwhile causes.
That would be just the best.
:o(
[John Cleese in A fish Called Wanda, caught naked in someone's flat]:
"Well, that changes things a bit..."
I, for one, applaud that another distro has the balls to enter what is increasingly a saturated market for minimalist distros. There must be two dozen micro-distros for really tiny embedded/small-footprint apps and about the same number of the next-larger variety, which seems to be the target niche of this system.
So, why do I applaud yet another entry in this gladiatorial matinee? Because it seems to be (as others have already mentioned) gentooish without being gentoo. As much as I love the ideology behind gentoo, it is a little self-defeating in the (ironically) places where it was meant to be most effective: weak systems. If you've ever tried compiling from a stage 1 on a pentium-133, you will know what I mean. Between the copying, set-up, compiling and post-config, it easily becomes a week-long install. (Well, if you only attend to it post-commute, that is.)
Given that the only people who actually still use P-133s for anything are (usually impatient) techies hacking out a sideproject, it's nice to see yet another distro enter the competition and allow us to make another choice without needing to postpone the project by yet another week for testing.
And yes, the review sucks.
It's always great fun to imagine what could be, but until the money for this actually shows up, there's little point in getting excited.
This is, after all, the administration which just cut Hubble loose. Remember?
Is that why every major government intelligence house in the Western world devotes so many employees to it? Because oddly, I've never heard of a phrenologist working for the CIA and the astrologer/psychic they hired a few decades ago as a consultant was unceremoniously relieved of her duties after a string of nothing but failures, whereas the handwriting analysis unit is still around.
This should come as no suprise to anyone who is familiar with broadcast interviews and recorded seminars given by this man. The barely contained rage and insecurity evident in his body english as well as his face and eyes during moments like those infamous Windows crashes in the middle of presentations is telling. I'd bet my left tootsie some serious headrolling occured after those little booboos. He is certainly a vain and troubled man.
Wouldn't you be, though, if you were smart enough to know that your codehouse creates the most derided, the most reviled, the most attacked products in the world; to be have amassed the world's biggest fortune selling stuff to people that seem to garner nothing but resentment and to feel (perhaps rightly) the paranoia that everyone is out to get you?
The surprise here isn't that he's unstable but rather that we haven't yet found the bodies.
It was a joke. Try and keep your pants on.
hands martyn extra Humor Tablets
Unlike yours, right, Coward?
In case it might help you understand, child, the original post was whiny not because the story is not fit for Slashdot's audience, but because this is old news.
Run along now, there's a good lad.
Yes, D00d, I'm aware it's bloody brilliant.
But the hack has been up for, oh, a WEEK on hackaday, with people already having linked to it previously on here. It's old, redundant news.
It's like reading a newspaper column a week after the Challenger disaster about how nice the clouds in the pictures a week ago were.
Who are the cool-ass moderators that feel that my above post is off-topic, when it is, in fact, highly on-topic?
Who are these jackasses?
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Have we really sunk so low that we now post stories that are substories of previous posted stories?
(whispering)
"!=" = NOT equal to
Posting on /.?
har.har.har
> 1. Science does not reveal truth, it searches for fact and tries to creat models for predicting facts.
...your energy is far better directed at those specific kinds of religious zealot or ignorant culture, rather than at the Union or Religion as a whole.
What are facts if not "truth"? What kind of Orwellian pulpiteering is that? Am I to assume that based on your statement above, you have a better, more reliable system for "revealing truth"? What is it? Please share.
> (Didn't Harrison Ford give a lecture on this?)
I had a headache once.
> 2. It is equally incorrect, and very unfair, to suggest that any religious fanatic is opposed to what science may generate.
Actually, it's axiomatic - practically tautological. Additionally, "equally" incorrect to what? You haven't established any other inaccuracies. Nor have you given any basis to explain why it's unfair to point out the undeniable truth - that zealots, by definition, aggressively dismiss contrary evidence.
>
Untrue when the Union in question feels it's better to kill Brown People(TM) rather than fund the generation of knowledge and that this Union is being run by adherents of one particular Religion, one of whose most amusing vagaries is the notion that the universe was made by your dad.
Well, so much for that asteroid-womprat-bullseyeing mission they were planning for April, then...