Do you have any idea what you are talking about? What makes a computer a "desktop" machine, what makes it a "server"?
Putting windows XP on it (as he was attempting) definitely makes it a desktop. Right about the time the eleventh incoming network connection (not the eleventh connected machine) hits it.
This was an office with 4 workstations. They needed a place to dump files for access - not a server
Then buy a cheap NAS box FFS.
On the other hand, if you do need a server, do not (repeat --NOT--) attempt to use windows frigging XP. It is not a server OS. It has a ten connection (not ten connected workstations - ten _connections_) limit on network access.
Use the right tool for the job. Choose Linux, choose MS, choose BSD, choose Apple, but do NOT choose XP for a server OS, it is not.
It really depends on what he's using it for, doesn't it? If it's just to use as a simple file and print server,
Then a Linux box or a dedicated NAS/print box (which is probably running Linux anyway) is the right solution.
Either way, XP (as proposed in the article) is the wrong solution. It is not designed to be a server and is deliberately crippled. It has a ten connection inbound limit (5 on xp home, I think) which you could easily run into with four workstations using it for file and print [it is not "ten connected machines" it is "ten connections"].
It's probably a blessing in disguise that XP didn't (re)install for this guy - it would only have caused problems later.
Putin has a lot of friends, or at least people who play along and don't upset him. Power buys that.
Anyone from the outside investing in Russia should know full well that it is a high-stakes gamble. The state could shut you down at any time - but ont he other hand, Putin can't afford to do that too often since he'd scare all that money away. So you just try to keep your head down and not be one of the ones he picks on.
Windows is (relatively) easy (at least as easy as Linux) to setup and administer.
Windows is not (always) easy to install, and never has been, unless you happen to be lucky with the hardware - in which case everything just works.
s/Windows/Linux
They are about the same in terms of install. Some hardware Linux will be a breeze, and Windoze will be a bitch, other hardware visa-versa. In either case you really need a second net connected machine to get help and download stuff and with a CD burner and (especially in the windoze case) a FDD and some floppies. Yes, floppies, that work, in 2007. No, you won't always need them, but if you do and you don't have them, you are f***ed.
So what's with Grandma ? Simple:
Grandma's first experience with windows is setup (maybe) and admin - "enter your timezone" "setup your internet connection" "activeate windows". Not that hard, typically no hardware stuff to go wrong. Grandma's first experience with Linux, in contrast, is installation. Much harder (unless you are lucky with the hardware - just as with Windoze).
Linux is going up against an incumbent market leader. That is always hard, you have to be better, not just "as good". In this case, the incumbent is also typically preinstalled by default - which means Linux has to be a _lot_ _better_ at install.
How can refusal to cooperate with an investigation itself be illegal?
Because the law makers chose to make it so. The rights to silence, non-self-incrimination etc. have all been curtailed, usually under the guise of anti-terrorism but also driving laws.
It is, for example, an offence (in the UK) to refuse to tell the police who was driving your car at a particular time (for speed camera purposes).
So where did they go wrong ? They developed on the most widely used _free software_ standards compliant browser, and then probably fixed for IE like you suggest.
And where on earth did "Microsoft agenda" come from ? - these developers are clearly free software (browser) users.
I don't know where Opera is now, but I've had problems in the past on that browser with very limited (or non existant) support for DOM and CSS (overflow IIRC) standards, to the extent that I just gave up trying to support Opera and went with Mozilla + IE support.
If something works in Firefox and IE and not in Opera then I'd bet on Opera being the one at fault anyway. Practically everyone can run Firefox, and supporting that browser should be a priority, supporting minority commercial closed-source browsers should be way down the list.
Regular pornography exists in abundance, but men still chase women in droves trying to get laid.
According to mainstream scientific concensus, men have been doing so for many 1000s of years _before_ they started to make the earliest cave drawings, let alone porn.
The sexual behaviour patterns drive the creation and aquisition of the porn (as in inferior, but easier to obtain, substitute), not the other way round.
Shrek for one, aside form Ogres & Princesses, you've got clear inter-species (even more confused since the animals are voiced by humans) bestial abuse: blockquote> Donkey: [desperately talking] I don't want to rush into a... physical relationship... I'm not that emotionally ready for a... uh... commitment of this... uh... magnitude! Really, that's the word I'm looking for, magnitude... Huh! Hey, that is unwanted physical contact! Hey! What're you doing? Okay, okay, okay... let's just back up a little and take this one step at a time... I mean, we should really get to know each other first, you know, as friends or maybe even as pen pals, you know, coz I'm on the road a lot, but I just love to get a card... Hey, hey, hey, don't do that, that's my *tail*, that's my personal tail, you're gonna tear it off! I don't give permission to... Hey, what're you gonna do next? Oh, no, no, no, no... no!
This is a harmless wee donkey being abused by a bloody great dragon, I mean how abusive do you need to get ?
A Hybrid Hard Drive is a new type of hard drive with an integrated non-volatile flash memory buffer. If your machine is equipped with a Hybrid Hard Drive, Windows Vista takes advantage of this hardware to boot, hibernate, and resume use more quickly. Hybrid Hard Drive technology can also improve system reliability and battery life.
Although I agree with you, it's still partly due to restraint too. Without restraint, we could just nuke the whole of Iraq into glass and be done with it.
Gonna make it a teensy bit expensive to get the oil out after isn't it ? Forgotten the real reason for this whole thing so soon ?
Not only have you flattened all the existing infrastructure, but your guys are going to have to rebuild it in 40C heat whilst wearing NBC suits.
Indeed. But how come, Win2k and XP hibernation features work damn near perfect and Vista doesn't?
I have had multiple problems with XP hibernation - failure to resume, failure to hibernate in the first place "insufficient resources", and on occaisions, waking from standby (whilst in the laptop bag) in order to hibernate, failing to hibernate and then burning all the remaining battery power trying to catch the laptop/bag on fire to tell me it failed to hibernate.
In contrast, colleagues who've switched to vista rave about how good and bobust the hibernation/sleep support is...
Look, we know the mice paid for it to be built around 2 million years ago - it says so in The Book.
But, lets look at both theories anyway.
1. the mice, 2m years ago, pay for the planet to be built to look like it is billions of years old, with fake fossils etc. buried as part of the construction process
2. God makes the planet 6k years ago, with dinosaurs and everything, then floods it when Noah's got two of everything into the ark. Except Noah forgot about all the dinosaurs, because they were small and easy to miss, especially the sauropods (behemoth) which Noah thought were on board but were hiding behind some reeds. Oh, sorry that was Job:40. Oops, Job was after the flood. Guess the dinosaurs maybe made it onto the ark after all. Seems that even the ID guys can't agree on that one.
Anyhow, lets look at the supporting evidence, ie. the fossil record:
Could it be fakes buried by the (far more advanced than us) builders of the planet to look millions of years old ? Difficult to disprove that one.
Could it be the victims of the flood buried in the sediments from the flood ? Hmmm, yep could fit too.
Ah, teeny weeny problem with the second one. People - lack of. According to the biblical accounts, lots of people should have perished in the flood alongside the dinosaurs. So, people bones should be common in the fossil record alongside the dinosaurs. Nope.
Since that just about wraps it up for the flood, we're left with the super advanced Magratheans building it all 2million years ago for the mice. All cleverly faked to look millions of years older.
QED - it was the mice.
Now try to disprove the mice / Magratheans theory you crazy Darwinists.
They might feel terrorized, but generally speaking their heads will still be attached to the rest of them after the lawyers are through.
This does make it rather different to more traditional "reigns of terror" such as the example given (french revolution).
We should be careful about using exaggerated and inappropriate terminology - or we end up no better than people who equate copying your friend's $10 CD with rape and murder on the high seas.
Not only are they (for the most part) not going out looking for it, but the fact that the other half _is_ local (and waiting for them at home) actually seems to make them more likely to want to pull all-nighters.
Standards-wise it uses non-standard extensions (embrace and extend) which have crept into use, so now code is tied to gcc (because it is written in gcc not in C/C++). Bugs with gcc have adversely impacted kernel dev - remember when Linux moved to C++. Neat idea, in theory - write mostly in C but compile in C++ to get stronger type checking etc. Didn't last long - gcc/g++ was too buggy to cope.
GCC historically also had very poor support for x86 ISA (possibly still does) because it was really designed for more RISC-like processors with plenty of registers.
As well as the extensions, gcc/g++ was historically very poor at following standards in the first place. A (scarily large) number of years ago I taught myself c++ (moving from C) to get a job. Bought textbooks, fired up Linux box, Emacs, gcc/g++... and nothing worked. Even basic textbook examples confused gcc/g++.
Fine, C++ must be too new I thought, taught myself from just the textbooks, passed the interviews, got a job. Windows, but at least it would pay the rent (could have been worse - I could have taken the SCO job instead...). First day with visual C++, I was all prepared to be smug about how much better free software was. Wrong (and I was gutted). Visual C++ was more standards compliant, not 100%, but way, way ahead of gcc.
Gcc didn't _start_ to catch up until egcs, when it forked away from FSF/RMS. The FSF fork stagnated and died. That progress you see today is because people were prepared to push for progress _despite_ RMS/FSF.
Credit RMS with the 1980s compiler by all means, but for the one you have today, the credit is elsewhere. With RMS in charge you'd probably still have a compiler worse than what _Microsoft_ had a decade ago.
RMS also ensured we could fork the code, of course, as did Linus. Linus did more though - he gave up control of the copyright so even he can't change licence now. RMS insists on keeping control.
This overlooks that plenty of companies need to _test_ on home edition as that may be (one) target environment.
Testing on VMs is massively easier than the old days of separate physical test machines with multi-boot, and re-installing / re-imaging to get back to a clean state after each test.
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Here is the mission statement that they live their lives by:
If they are really living their _lives_ by their _employer's_ mission statement, then something is seriously wrong - that is slavery, not employment.
Do you have any idea what you are talking about? What makes a computer a "desktop" machine, what makes it a "server"?
Putting windows XP on it (as he was attempting) definitely makes it a desktop. Right about the time the eleventh incoming network connection (not the eleventh connected machine) hits it.
'Cause he didn't need a server?
This was an office with 4 workstations. They needed a place to dump files for access - not a server
Then buy a cheap NAS box FFS.
On the other hand, if you do need a server, do not (repeat --NOT--) attempt to use windows frigging XP. It is not a server OS. It has a ten connection (not ten connected workstations - ten _connections_) limit on network access.
Use the right tool for the job. Choose Linux, choose MS, choose BSD, choose Apple, but do NOT choose XP for a server OS, it is not.
It really depends on what he's using it for, doesn't it? If it's just to use as a simple file and print server,
Then a Linux box or a dedicated NAS/print box (which is probably running Linux anyway) is the right solution.
Either way, XP (as proposed in the article) is the wrong solution. It is not designed to be a server and is deliberately crippled. It has a ten connection inbound limit (5 on xp home, I think) which you could easily run into with four workstations using it for file and print [it is not "ten connected machines" it is "ten connections"].
It's probably a blessing in disguise that XP didn't (re)install for this guy - it would only have caused problems later.
Putin has a lot of friends, or at least people who play along and don't upset him. Power buys that.
Anyone from the outside investing in Russia should know full well that it is a high-stakes gamble. The state could shut you down at any time - but ont he other hand, Putin can't afford to do that too often since he'd scare all that money away. So you just try to keep your head down and not be one of the ones he picks on.
Windows is (relatively) easy (at least as easy as Linux) to setup and administer.
Windows is not (always) easy to install, and never has been, unless you happen to be lucky with the hardware - in which case everything just works.
s/Windows/Linux
They are about the same in terms of install. Some hardware Linux will be a breeze, and Windoze will be a bitch, other hardware visa-versa. In either case you really need a second net connected machine to get help and download stuff and with a CD burner and (especially in the windoze case) a FDD and some floppies. Yes, floppies, that work, in 2007. No, you won't always need them, but if you do and you don't have them, you are f***ed.
So what's with Grandma ? Simple:
Grandma's first experience with windows is setup (maybe) and admin - "enter your timezone" "setup your internet connection" "activeate windows". Not that hard, typically no hardware stuff to go wrong. Grandma's first experience with Linux, in contrast, is installation. Much harder (unless you are lucky with the hardware - just as with Windoze).
Linux is going up against an incumbent market leader. That is always hard, you have to be better, not just "as good". In this case, the incumbent is also typically preinstalled by default - which means Linux has to be a _lot_ _better_ at install.
Where did you expect it to be published ? Microsoft.com ? Novell.com ?
3 years ?
PICS was a w3c recommendation a decade ago.
Is everyone using it after ten years ? Clue: No.
How can refusal to cooperate with an investigation itself be illegal?
/ the-rights-of-suspects/the-rights-of-suspects-in-t he-police-station/curtailment-of-the-right-to-sile nce.shtml
/ the-rights-of-suspects/anti-terrorism-powers/anti- terrorism-powers.shtml
Because the law makers chose to make it so. The rights to silence, non-self-incrimination etc. have all been curtailed, usually under the guise of anti-terrorism but also driving laws.
It is, for example, an offence (in the UK) to refuse to tell the police who was driving your car at a particular time (for speed camera purposes).
Some links:
RIPA activation: http://publicaffairs.linx.net/news/?p=513
Driving: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/5383726.stm
General rights to silence: http://www.yourrights.org.uk/your-rights/chapters
Offence to fail to cooperate with terrorism stop-and-search (note: no suspicion is required for this type of stop and search anymore): http://www.yourrights.org.uk/your-rights/chapters
RTFA - they coded to Firefox.
So where did they go wrong ? They developed on the most widely used _free software_ standards compliant browser, and then probably fixed for IE like you suggest.
And where on earth did "Microsoft agenda" come from ? - these developers are clearly free software (browser) users.
I don't know where Opera is now, but I've had problems in the past on that browser with very limited (or non existant) support for DOM and CSS (overflow IIRC) standards, to the extent that I just gave up trying to support Opera and went with Mozilla + IE support.
If something works in Firefox and IE and not in Opera then I'd bet on Opera being the one at fault anyway. Practically everyone can run Firefox, and supporting that browser should be a priority, supporting minority commercial closed-source browsers should be way down the list.
Regular pornography exists in abundance, but men still chase women in droves trying to get laid.
According to mainstream scientific concensus, men have been doing so for many 1000s of years _before_ they started to make the earliest cave drawings, let alone porn.
The sexual behaviour patterns drive the creation and aquisition of the porn (as in inferior, but easier to obtain, substitute), not the other way round.
Shrek for one, aside form Ogres & Princesses, you've got clear inter-species (even more confused since the animals are voiced by humans) bestial abuse:
blockquote>
Donkey: [desperately talking] I don't want to rush into a... physical relationship... I'm not that emotionally ready for a... uh... commitment of this... uh... magnitude! Really, that's the word I'm looking for, magnitude... Huh! Hey, that is unwanted physical contact! Hey! What're you doing? Okay, okay, okay... let's just back up a little and take this one step at a time... I mean, we should really get to know each other first, you know, as friends or maybe even as pen pals, you know, coz I'm on the road a lot, but I just love to get a card... Hey, hey, hey, don't do that, that's my *tail*, that's my personal tail, you're gonna tear it off! I don't give permission to... Hey, what're you gonna do next? Oh, no, no, no, no... no!
This is a harmless wee donkey being abused by a bloody great dragon, I mean how abusive do you need to get ?
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You are probably kicking yourself for not patenting it when you thought of it.
You and me both.
Luckily you know you've got decades to avoid that particular fate...
Although I agree with you, it's still partly due to restraint too. Without restraint, we could just nuke the whole of Iraq into glass and be done with it.
Gonna make it a teensy bit expensive to get the oil out after isn't it ? Forgotten the real reason for this whole thing so soon ?
Not only have you flattened all the existing infrastructure, but your guys are going to have to rebuild it in 40C heat whilst wearing NBC suits.
Indeed. But how come, Win2k and XP hibernation features work damn near perfect and Vista doesn't?
I have had multiple problems with XP hibernation - failure to resume, failure to hibernate in the first place "insufficient resources", and on occaisions, waking from standby (whilst in the laptop bag) in order to hibernate, failing to hibernate and then burning all the remaining battery power trying to catch the laptop/bag on fire to tell me it failed to hibernate.
In contrast, colleagues who've switched to vista rave about how good and bobust the hibernation/sleep support is...
YMMV. YHMV (your hardware may vary).
100% of the people that have have ever caused harm on an airline have been ragheads.
Bull.
Garland Grant (look it up).
[Only need one counter example to prove your 100% wrong]
Look, we know the mice paid for it to be built around 2 million years ago - it says so in The Book.
But, lets look at both theories anyway.
1. the mice, 2m years ago, pay for the planet to be built to look like it is billions of years old, with fake fossils etc. buried as part of the construction process
2. God makes the planet 6k years ago, with dinosaurs and everything, then floods it when Noah's got two of everything into the ark. Except Noah forgot about all the dinosaurs, because they were small and easy to miss, especially the sauropods (behemoth) which Noah thought were on board but were hiding behind some reeds. Oh, sorry that was Job:40. Oops, Job was after the flood. Guess the dinosaurs maybe made it onto the ark after all. Seems that even the ID guys can't agree on that one.
Anyhow, lets look at the supporting evidence, ie. the fossil record:
Could it be fakes buried by the (far more advanced than us) builders of the planet to look millions of years old ? Difficult to disprove that one.
Could it be the victims of the flood buried in the sediments from the flood ? Hmmm, yep could fit too.
Ah, teeny weeny problem with the second one. People - lack of. According to the biblical accounts, lots of people should have perished in the flood alongside the dinosaurs. So, people bones should be common in the fossil record alongside the dinosaurs. Nope.
Since that just about wraps it up for the flood, we're left with the super advanced Magratheans building it all 2million years ago for the mice. All cleverly faked to look millions of years older.
QED - it was the mice.
Now try to disprove the mice / Magratheans theory you crazy Darwinists.
They might feel terrorized, but generally speaking their heads will still be attached to the rest of them after the lawyers are through.
This does make it rather different to more traditional "reigns of terror" such as the example given (french revolution).
We should be careful about using exaggerated and inappropriate terminology - or we end up no better than people who equate copying your friend's $10 CD with rape and murder on the high seas.
No no no, _married_ is the best of all worlds.
:-) ]
Not only are they (for the most part) not going out looking for it, but the fact that the other half _is_ local (and waiting for them at home) actually seems to make them more likely to want to pull all-nighters.
[ me, cynical, nah !
In part, that self-selects - techies that do understand that will tend to become managers.
Say what ? You hire techies who have girlfriends ?
Why ? Why take the productivity hit when there's such a massive pool of talented geek labour* that is never going to have this problem ?
*large parts of it reading right here...
GCC has been a mixed blessing.
Standards-wise it uses non-standard extensions (embrace and extend) which have crept into use, so now code is tied to gcc (because it is written in gcc not in C/C++). Bugs with gcc have adversely impacted kernel dev - remember when Linux moved to C++. Neat idea, in theory - write mostly in C but compile in C++ to get stronger type checking etc. Didn't last long - gcc/g++ was too buggy to cope.
GCC historically also had very poor support for x86 ISA (possibly still does) because it was really designed for more RISC-like processors with plenty of registers.
As well as the extensions, gcc/g++ was historically very poor at following standards in the first place. A (scarily large) number of years ago I taught myself c++ (moving from C) to get a job. Bought textbooks, fired up Linux box, Emacs, gcc/g++... and nothing worked. Even basic textbook examples confused gcc/g++.
Fine, C++ must be too new I thought, taught myself from just the textbooks, passed the interviews, got a job. Windows, but at least it would pay the rent (could have been worse - I could have taken the SCO job instead...). First day with visual C++, I was all prepared to be smug about how much better free software was. Wrong (and I was gutted). Visual C++ was more standards compliant, not 100%, but way, way ahead of gcc.
Gcc didn't _start_ to catch up until egcs, when it forked away from FSF/RMS. The FSF fork stagnated and died. That progress you see today is because people were prepared to push for progress _despite_ RMS/FSF.
Credit RMS with the 1980s compiler by all means, but for the one you have today, the credit is elsewhere. With RMS in charge you'd probably still have a compiler worse than what _Microsoft_ had a decade ago.
RMS also ensured we could fork the code, of course, as did Linus. Linus did more though - he gave up control of the copyright so even he can't change licence now. RMS insists on keeping control.
Linux was once c++, but it was given up because the compiler was so buggy.
Maybe that was the IBM c++ compiler. Must remember to tell Linus he should have used gcc/g++ for a non-buggy compiler.
This overlooks that plenty of companies need to _test_ on home edition as that may be (one) target environment.
Testing on VMs is massively easier than the old days of separate physical test machines with multi-boot, and re-installing / re-imaging to get back to a clean state after each test.