All the customization I need is a vim session away. You just *can't* beat text files. Spare me the "But grandma can't even use emacs!" arguments. I'm just using what _I_ like. (Which, coincidentally, does not involve Ubuntu, or whatever the hell Mandrake evolved into.)
Linux has always had this problem solved, but Windows doesn't have an easy way of going about this.
Linux? Hell, *NIX has been that flexible for, oh I don't know...as long as Windows has been around? Heck, used to be that drives were so small, you had to be able to split applications from their data.
Most of Microsoft's products suffer from a cultural problem;
20_Yrs_Ago: "Hm, where should programs go? I know! Someplace called 'Program Files', yeah, with a space in the path and everything. It'll live in the root of the disk!" Future_Thinkers: "Ah, um, excuse me, Mr. PHB. That might be a bad idea. See, the rest of the computing world is laying out Operating Systems like so and...." 20_Yrs_Ago: "Whoa?! Where the HELL did you come from?!?! *BLAM*" Future_Thinkers: "Ah!! Ahh! You shot me! You shot me in the leg!!" 20_Yrs_Ago:*BLAM* *BLAM* *BLAM* *BLAM* *BLAM* *BLAM* *BLAM* *BLAM* *BLAM* *click* *click* Future_Thinkers:..... 20_Yrs_Ago: "Geez, that's the fourth one this week. Where are these guys coming from?!"
What? Wow. I just picked up a Seagate FreeAgent Go 640GB drive for $80 at Office Depot last week. They were even giving away network-enabled docking stations for ONE DOLLAR.
I picked up an extra drive and three of those docks.
Best NAS I ever bought.
I applaud the efforts of the Ubuntu community. They seem to have whole-heartedly gathered up a Linux distro under the "Year of the Linux Desktop!!1!" flag and stood in front of the tanks that are Windows-users-looking-for-something-better.
Truely a noble cause. But one that I will stay away from.
Windows users learned bad habits (not their fault), then apply flawed logic based on those habits to a wholly different environment (definitely their fault). If you have a problem with a Gnome theme, CHANGE THE DAMN THEME!
Seriously, it's not that difficult. Hell, it's in the Gnome documentation.
And those guys (sysadmins?) shouting about their userbase taking up pitchforks and screamin about "lost productivity"; The site sysadmin's should have tested things before they pushed out the LTS update to their "Enterprise". It's not hard to roll a fix and push it out, it just takes a wee bit of time.
Note: This doesn't apply if you're wielding an MCSE, need a mouse to delete files, and dumped Ubuntu onto 500 Ph.Ds in the past year because you/they/everyone wanted to "Stick it to the Man". For that, you deserve to be lynched over something as trivial as Title bar buttons.
At first I was inclined to comment on my old elementary school, which had a huge (fenced-in) playground, and how after I paid the school a visit a few decades later, the playground had been reduced to a tenth (no joke!) of the size. The rest of the field left to grow out of control, and the jungle-gyms of yore long gone. However, one thing I think bears pointing out; We have almost eliminated all forms of natural selection in our world, and we're suffering from it, people. Sometimes you have to just let the problems solve themselves...
If you're going to shill with a sub-million UID account, you should get your facts straight. "Outlook" is a client, and no, it's not the best one out there, that's a matter of opinion, with the only alternative choice typically being Lotus Notes.
If you really meant "the best mail server", you probably ment to say "Microsoft Exchange", although I would have said "sendmail" or "Whatever Sun/Oracle calls their mail server now", or "anything except Domino".
"Hey guys! This is Mike over here at Linspire! Listen, I'm calling from 2002 so I have to make this short; We have this great idea called 'Click-N-Run', where people will be able to use a client-side application to buy Linux software from commercial 3rd party vendors. We're gonna be huge!"
Strip Club!
Anyone too hung up on "Political Correctness" won't go. Weeds out the problem people pretty fast.
Bonus points if you catch a secretary moonlighting!
Ya know, I was half tempted to denounce you as racist, but after re-re-reading your post, you make a very valid point regarding "Cultural Divides".
Especially the language barrier. I've picked up a few Rosetta Stones, and let me tell you; our Database Admins all hail from a Middle part of the East, and they really burn people in their native tongue.
Why is it *every* time I hear something about the UK and their "latest idea" for "policing the masses", I wind up getting flashbacks of a certain Stanly Kubrick movie????
Seriously, that man was warning you people!
(specifically the part where Alex DeLarge's ex-gangbanger friends wind up as cops)
Was about to mod you up until you suggested Google kill it's own (compromised) employees. That's stupid on so many levels.
I whole-heartedly agree, however that was merely intended sarcasm directed at the bar that the PRC has set when dealing with dissenters. A bit too subtle on the toung-in-cheek, I suppose.
Google probably isn't firing them because the ones you find are the sloppy ones, and the ones you WANT to find are more clever and will require some pressure on the sloppier ones... which you lose if you terminate them as employees.
True, but this brings me back to my sarcastic comment; by applying the PRC's solution to most of their problems, you eliminate 90% of the problem. Sure it amounts to setting the house on fire to roast a pig, but it gets the job done.
Keep in mind, I don't approve of attempted mass-murder as a general rule. However, I'm really getting sick of all the malicious traffic coming out of China, and I'm curious to see a corporation apply that tactic.
Just to watch events unfold that result in a "Terms of Employment" that would enable a legalized Supervillian-Henchman dynamic would be immensely interesting. If anyone could fund the legal research required, that would be Google.
I'm leaving the "Post Anonymously" box unchecked deliberately here, so when I say this, pay attention;
I don't have a problem with Google extending their business out to the Chinese, ${DIETY} knows we have tons of American corporations outright outsourcing everything they can over there. However, one thing I take offense to is this notion of "investigating" the matter.
FIRE. THEM.
Seriously, Google, there's an estimated 1.3 billion Chinese over there. Even if half of a percent of the population is qualified to fill your cubicles, that means there's over 500,000 candidates. Half that, and you could staff Microsoft. Realistically, I'd bet they only need something like 5,0000 employees, so this really can't be *that* hard.
What's that? Not enough qualified technical people over there in the PRC? Well, heck, what's the Chinese version of an H1-B? Let's just import some employees from the States or something! Give 'em a dose of their own medicine!
While we're at it, use this opportunity to send a message to everyone in China that thinks is cool to f*ck with you; Kill. Every. PRC Employee. Bonus points if the PRC government gives you a "Best Place to Work in the Country!" award for the effort. After all, the Chinese human rights movement hasn't exactly turned out to be the fad everyone was hoping for, and I'm pretty sure the penalty for uttering anything remotely negative about the People's Republic of China is an immediate curb-stomping. So this amounts to a win-win (rounded off, of course).
P.S: To the 60-something grammar nazis that pointed out the incorrect usage of "in lieu". Congratulations, you managed to briefly turn another article on something remotely interesting into yet another debate about the English language, and it's proper use thereof. Next time I Mod, I'm torching the every post that attempts to be elitist via such corrections.
Hm, to quote a near-forgotten troll; "You Do It Wrong"
ProTip: Hit linuxquestions.org and post a detailed outline of your problem. Be sure to include things like versions, names of distributions, and how many servers^H^H^H^H^H^H^H desktops you're having this issue on.
I'm sure you're not running X on bootup on a server, right?
Rather than strip-search everyone, rifle thru their bags, steal their travel-sized hygiene products and lighters, why don't we just pull a full-stop on all this "Security Theater" B.S. and do a total 180;
Imagine walking into an airport, grabbing your ticket, and being issued a Glock with low-grain, soft-head rounds (I'm thinking about something that can't pass thru a hull).
Heck, it's already been shown that a bullet-sized hole at 30,000 feet doesn't cause explosive decompression. Let's just throw in a few hollow-points.
I guarantee the next guy that stands up and screams "Dirka, dirka! Muhammad Jihad!" would have a *very* interesting story to tell his lil harem in the after life.
In fact, just because I'm sleeping, that doesn't mean I'm not working. I have woken many times with the solution to a problem I had been trying to solve for days clear in my mind, that bubbled up from my subconscious while in delta (dream state.)
Confirmed: It's not what's in the coffee. I've had a few "Eureka!" moments at really odd times. Mostly when I'm outside having imbibing caffeine/nicotine. The one's I *really* hate are when something wakes me in the dead of night.
If I don't commit it to paper right then, I'll lose the idea. Worse yet, my grasp around the details starts to slip as I feverishly scribble on the back of an envelope.
Slashdot Mirror
Crimey! Slashdot needs a "Hide all comments from UIDs >1M"
You may all go to hell, but I will...
...continue to use fluxbox.
All the customization I need is a vim session away. You just *can't* beat text files. Spare me the "But grandma can't even use emacs!" arguments. I'm just using what _I_ like. (Which, coincidentally, does not involve Ubuntu, or whatever the hell Mandrake evolved into.)
Peace.
Linux has always had this problem solved, but Windows doesn't have an easy way of going about this.
Linux? Hell, *NIX has been that flexible for, oh I don't know...as long as Windows has been around? Heck, used to be that drives were so small, you had to be able to split applications from their data.
Most of Microsoft's products suffer from a cultural problem;
20_Yrs_Ago: "Hm, where should programs go? I know! Someplace called 'Program Files', yeah, with a space in the path and everything. It'll live in the root of the disk!" .....
Future_Thinkers: "Ah, um, excuse me, Mr. PHB. That might be a bad idea. See, the rest of the computing world is laying out Operating Systems like so and...."
20_Yrs_Ago: "Whoa?! Where the HELL did you come from?!?! *BLAM*"
Future_Thinkers: "Ah!! Ahh! You shot me! You shot me in the leg!!"
20_Yrs_Ago: *BLAM* *BLAM* *BLAM* *BLAM* *BLAM* *BLAM* *BLAM* *BLAM* *BLAM* *click* *click*
Future_Thinkers:
20_Yrs_Ago: "Geez, that's the fourth one this week. Where are these guys coming from?!"
What? Wow. I just picked up a Seagate FreeAgent Go 640GB drive for $80 at Office Depot last week. They were even giving away network-enabled docking stations for ONE DOLLAR. I picked up an extra drive and three of those docks. Best NAS I ever bought.
"It's" is a conraction. It means "it is."
I think you mean't "contraction"
Ah, so that's the mystery behind Vault 108's "Gary" clones!!! Thanks!
cases where would-be burglars injured themselves while robbing a house and successfully sued.
Can't sue if you're shot dead in the middle of the night whilst robbing the home of someone whom feared for their life and the lives of their family.
$DIETY bless Texas.
I applaud the efforts of the Ubuntu community. They seem to have whole-heartedly gathered up a Linux distro under the "Year of the Linux Desktop!!1!" flag and stood in front of the tanks that are Windows-users-looking-for-something-better. Truely a noble cause. But one that I will stay away from.
Windows users learned bad habits (not their fault), then apply flawed logic based on those habits to a wholly different environment (definitely their fault). If you have a problem with a Gnome theme, CHANGE THE DAMN THEME!
Seriously, it's not that difficult.
Hell, it's in the Gnome documentation.
And those guys (sysadmins?) shouting about their userbase taking up pitchforks and screamin about "lost productivity"; The site sysadmin's should have tested things before they pushed out the LTS update to their "Enterprise". It's not hard to roll a fix and push it out, it just takes a wee bit of time.
Note: This doesn't apply if you're wielding an MCSE, need a mouse to delete files, and dumped Ubuntu onto 500 Ph.Ds in the past year because you/they/everyone wanted to "Stick it to the Man". For that, you deserve to be lynched over something as trivial as Title bar buttons.
At first I was inclined to comment on my old elementary school, which had a huge (fenced-in) playground, and how after I paid the school a visit a few decades later, the playground had been reduced to a tenth (no joke!) of the size. The rest of the field left to grow out of control, and the jungle-gyms of yore long gone. However, one thing I think bears pointing out; We have almost eliminated all forms of natural selection in our world, and we're suffering from it, people. Sometimes you have to just let the problems solve themselves...
Rules One and Two, Dickhead.
Outlook is the best mail server there is.
If you're going to shill with a sub-million UID account, you should get your facts straight. "Outlook" is a client, and no, it's not the best one out there, that's a matter of opinion, with the only alternative choice typically being Lotus Notes. If you really meant "the best mail server", you probably ment to say "Microsoft Exchange", although I would have said "sendmail" or "Whatever Sun/Oracle calls their mail server now", or "anything except Domino".
"Hey guys! This is Mike over here at Linspire! Listen, I'm calling from 2002 so I have to make this short; We have this great idea called 'Click-N-Run', where people will be able to use a client-side application to buy Linux software from commercial 3rd party vendors. We're gonna be huge!"
I've heard of "art imitating life imitating art" (and vice versa), but what do you call it when a church starts collecting fingerprints?
If this sort of thing becomes the standard, I can only imagine the kinds of abuses that will pop up...not that the actual church would abuse anyone
Oh well, at least the Church of Satan doesn't fingerprint...and they're recruiting at my college!!
Strip Club! Anyone too hung up on "Political Correctness" won't go. Weeds out the problem people pretty fast. Bonus points if you catch a secretary moonlighting!
Ya know, I was half tempted to denounce you as racist, but after re-re-reading your post, you make a very valid point regarding "Cultural Divides". Especially the language barrier. I've picked up a few Rosetta Stones, and let me tell you; our Database Admins all hail from a Middle part of the East, and they really burn people in their native tongue.
Well that's good news, because the American ones like to plant drugs as a practical joke.
Why is it *every* time I hear something about the UK and their "latest idea" for "policing the masses", I wind up getting flashbacks of a certain Stanly Kubrick movie???? Seriously, that man was warning you people! (specifically the part where Alex DeLarge's ex-gangbanger friends wind up as cops)
Go ahead, Monkeedude, keep arguing that this is going to be some sort of Secure(tm), Well-Thought-Out(tm) implementation.
It's not like local software clients or network protocols have ever been exploited
Keep that chin up! One day we'll all wish the bad people away!
How many people have gotten back door rootkits by installing pirated versions of Photoshop? A lot.
Hm...and noticed it? I'd wager a slightly smaller fraction that the one's that caught a rootkit when they bought a legitimate audio disc from Sony....
Was about to mod you up until you suggested Google kill it's own (compromised) employees. That's stupid on so many levels.
I whole-heartedly agree, however that was merely intended sarcasm directed at the bar that the PRC has set when dealing with dissenters. A bit too subtle on the toung-in-cheek, I suppose.
Google probably isn't firing them because the ones you find are the sloppy ones, and the ones you WANT to find are more clever and will require some pressure on the sloppier ones... which you lose if you terminate them as employees.
True, but this brings me back to my sarcastic comment; by applying the PRC's solution to most of their problems, you eliminate 90% of the problem. Sure it amounts to setting the house on fire to roast a pig, but it gets the job done.
Keep in mind, I don't approve of attempted mass-murder as a general rule. However, I'm really getting sick of all the malicious traffic coming out of China, and I'm curious to see a corporation apply that tactic.
Just to watch events unfold that result in a "Terms of Employment" that would enable a legalized Supervillian-Henchman dynamic would be immensely interesting. If anyone could fund the legal research required, that would be Google.
... is In Lieu, you insensitive clods!
Okay. Now that right there folks, that was a funny G-Nazi. Jay & Conan called, they need you to cover their timeslots today. :)
I'm leaving the "Post Anonymously" box unchecked deliberately here, so when I say this, pay attention;
I don't have a problem with Google extending their business out to the Chinese, ${DIETY} knows we have tons of American corporations outright outsourcing everything they can over there. However, one thing I take offense to is this notion of "investigating" the matter.
FIRE. THEM.
Seriously, Google, there's an estimated 1.3 billion Chinese over there. Even if half of a percent of the population is qualified to fill your cubicles, that means there's over 500,000 candidates. Half that, and you could staff Microsoft. Realistically, I'd bet they only need something like 5,0000 employees, so this really can't be *that* hard.
What's that? Not enough qualified technical people over there in the PRC? Well, heck, what's the Chinese version of an H1-B? Let's just import some employees from the States or something! Give 'em a dose of their own medicine!
While we're at it, use this opportunity to send a message to everyone in China that thinks is cool to f*ck with you; Kill. Every. PRC Employee. Bonus points if the PRC government gives you a "Best Place to Work in the Country!" award for the effort. After all, the Chinese human rights movement hasn't exactly turned out to be the fad everyone was hoping for, and I'm pretty sure the penalty for uttering anything remotely negative about the People's Republic of China is an immediate curb-stomping. So this amounts to a win-win (rounded off, of course).
P.S: To the 60-something grammar nazis that pointed out the incorrect usage of "in lieu". Congratulations, you managed to briefly turn another article on something remotely interesting into yet another debate about the English language, and it's proper use thereof. Next time I Mod, I'm torching the every post that attempts to be elitist via such corrections.
Hm, to quote a near-forgotten troll; "You Do It Wrong"
ProTip: Hit linuxquestions.org and post a detailed outline of your problem. Be sure to include things like versions, names of distributions, and how many servers^H^H^H^H^H^H^H desktops you're having this issue on.
I'm sure you're not running X on bootup on a server, right?
Rather than strip-search everyone, rifle thru their bags, steal their travel-sized hygiene products and lighters, why don't we just pull a full-stop on all this "Security Theater" B.S. and do a total 180; Imagine walking into an airport, grabbing your ticket, and being issued a Glock with low-grain, soft-head rounds (I'm thinking about something that can't pass thru a hull). Heck, it's already been shown that a bullet-sized hole at 30,000 feet doesn't cause explosive decompression. Let's just throw in a few hollow-points. I guarantee the next guy that stands up and screams "Dirka, dirka! Muhammad Jihad!" would have a *very* interesting story to tell his lil harem in the after life.
Seems like only supervillians have fully-staffed datacenters these days...hopefully Dethklok can turn that trend around.
In fact, just because I'm sleeping, that doesn't mean I'm not working. I have woken many times with the solution to a problem I had been trying to solve for days clear in my mind, that bubbled up from my subconscious while in delta (dream state.)
Confirmed: It's not what's in the coffee. I've had a few "Eureka!" moments at really odd times. Mostly when I'm outside having imbibing caffeine/nicotine. The one's I *really* hate are when something wakes me in the dead of night.
If I don't commit it to paper right then, I'll lose the idea. Worse yet, my grasp around the details starts to slip as I feverishly scribble on the back of an envelope.