Never, ever do an update. I've never, ever had one go well. SuSE especially. Do like Packard Bell tech support always recommended. . . format & reinstall, and avoid problems.
SuSE has typically adhered to a "quarterly" release format, which means 6.0, 6.1, 6.2, 6.3 and then 7.0. It's been pretty regular the past few releases, except for 8.0 which has been a bit long in coming.
Bad old days in the sense that the privileged few (rich) get a fast, superior experience, and the rest of us that use the industry standard get a crappy experience.
So, what, you're denying this kidnapping takes place? It does. Do a web search. There are relatives searching for their lost family members. Coastal defense in Japan is not a laughing matter, no matter how ridiculous it might seem to a jaded Western liberal.
Boy, you're ignorant. Japan has the highest-quality military in Asia. And it's not tiny, either, despite the "SDF" label.
I'm not going to even get into it, but the Constitution you refer to was written by Americans, not the Japanese themselves. The repeal of Article 9 has been debated for many years, and Japan may well repudiate it in the next few years, and become a "normal" nation with seagoing navy and overseas bases.
That's a rather outdated and simplistic attitude. There is a very sizable faction of Japanese who would like nothing better than to declare Japan a nuclear power and begin dominating the Pacific again. These aren't wierdo radicals, either, big-time politicians think this way, among them the Governor of Tokyo. Didn't the Prime Minister of Japan make a big stink a few years back , by visiting a military cemetery to pay respect to men who were undisputedly war criminals far worse than any Serbian. Now what was that about strict attitudes again?
Yeah - let's hope the strategically important U.S. supercomputer industry gets run out of business by ruthless Japanese competition, and the U.S. no other options than to purchase whatever lowest-bidder technology the Japanese choose to offer.
You might be intentionally burying your head in the sand, but it's a fact that Japanese companies will always choose to increase market share at the expense of profitability. Once they put their foreign competitors out of business and get the market share, they really don't know what to do with it (their 1980s economy burst over 10 years ago and they haven't fixed it yet).
North Korea and China, mainly. Did you know that North Korea sends spy ships to the Japanese coast? They drop off commandos, who kidnap Japanese citizens, who are taken back to North Korea, where presumably they provide some kind of intelligence regarding current events in Japan. I'm not kidding, this really happens and is a sore spot between Japan and North Korea (Japan wants its citizens back). Japan's MSDF recently sunk a spy ship that opened fire when it was intercepted.
Now admit you're ignorant of the security situation in East Asia and we'll go on. "Who are they defending themselves from". . . what a Chomskyite statement. Believe it or not, a military is in fact necessary even for pacifist regimes like Japan.
That's a really ignorant thing to say. Embarrasing, actually, that you have no idea of what the real computing world is like. Just because you have a linux box with 0.01 load doesn't mean there's not a market for Real Unix, that solves Real Problems.
As a matter of fact, Solaris completely kicks linux's ass when it comes to handling large loads. When overloaded, linux will sieze and stop, but solaris just degrades gracefully. You mean you don't have system loads in the 100.0-300.0 range? We did frequently at my last job.
Hardware support in Solaris x86 was excellent. It's likely the folks misleading you about the hardware support attempted to simply cram Solaris x86 on any old box, instead of first consulting the Hardware Compatiblility List. If you build a box with hardware from this list, it will run Solaris x86. If you do not, it will not run. This small fact seems to escape the vast majority of people who install Solaris x86. (other symptoms of this disease: questions like, "how do I triple boot linux and windows 2000?" when the solution offered by the FAQ works quite well.)
Bottom line: RTFM. Solaris x86 isn't a hacker toy like linux, it's a real tool for real work, that really not too many people will ever need.
A poor home-grown OS (no offence) called Cougar or TFlops which doesn't even support X11 or sockets.
Yeah, everybody knows any computer that can't support netris or even plain old tetris is poor indeed.
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I've always felt uneasy about the Drake equation, but I've never been able to put my finger on exactly why.
"Drake's equation is a statistical calculation, but with no other example for life, we're doing statistics with N=1."
And that's what's always bothered me. It always irked me how Sagan smoothly insisted that life would become intelligent, and the way he calmly made assertions about which he had nothing but his own opinion to back up!
You know a jurisdiction that fines for littering? Around here, the cops couldn't be less interested in giving littering tickets, they just want to stop you for one headlight and hope you have warrants.
You cannot defeat that which you do not understand. I think that you really can't talk about spam prevention unless you have one-on-one familiarity with programs like Atomic Harvester. Spammers certainly do (many, many other programs can be found with a google search for email harvester). Without knowledge of who the developers of these programs are, what kind of work they do, their track record in other projects, etc, it's pretty pointless to talk about spam-blocking in an educated manner.
Matter of fact, I think it'd be a good idea to have an open-source email harvester. . . it'd give the good guys an idea of what works and what doesn't, and of course the open-source version would be free, polite to webservers, and best of all would steal thousands of sales from the real bad guys, the fellows who write spambots. (ObPipeDream) With any luck one of them would steal the code and resell it, and the GPL could get a slam-dunk court test.
Oh, yeah, right. Sure, that will work. One proclamation from a far-away corporate boardroom, and a tried-and-true promotion method for independent entrepeneurs is thrown away forever? I think we both know that those signs won't be going away any time soon, the Herbalife dupes are too ingrained in the desperate chase for sales to change.
Treating the commons as if it belonged to you exclusively, instead of as if it belongs to everyone, is the cause of this sign plague.
If MS fails, they arrange it so their product is the only choice availible, by tying it to their other products (Office, IE). Don't fool yourself into thinking MS engages in wasteful old-style Macy's-vs-Gimbel's type competition.
Hah, the thing won't dive lower than 1000 feet, anyway. Plus, it doesn't even have a deck gun. What kind of crappy submarine doesn't even have a deck gun?
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Never, ever do an update. I've never, ever had one go well. SuSE especially. Do like Packard Bell tech support always recommended. . . format & reinstall, and avoid problems.
SuSE has typically adhered to a "quarterly" release format, which means 6.0, 6.1, 6.2, 6.3 and then 7.0. It's been pretty regular the past few releases, except for 8.0 which has been a bit long in coming.
Since this whole article/discussion is irrelevant anyway, let's all take a look at yahoo's great pic of the day, for some unintentional humor instead.
Bad old days in the sense that the privileged few (rich) get a fast, superior experience, and the rest of us that use the industry standard get a crappy experience.
So, what, you're denying this kidnapping takes place? It does. Do a web search. There are relatives searching for their lost family members. Coastal defense in Japan is not a laughing matter, no matter how ridiculous it might seem to a jaded Western liberal.
I'm not going to even get into it, but the Constitution you refer to was written by Americans, not the Japanese themselves. The repeal of Article 9 has been debated for many years, and Japan may well repudiate it in the next few years, and become a "normal" nation with seagoing navy and overseas bases.
That's a rather outdated and simplistic attitude. There is a very sizable faction of Japanese who would like nothing better than to declare Japan a nuclear power and begin dominating the Pacific again. These aren't wierdo radicals, either, big-time politicians think this way, among them the Governor of Tokyo. Didn't the Prime Minister of Japan make a big stink a few years back , by visiting a military cemetery to pay respect to men who were undisputedly war criminals far worse than any Serbian. Now what was that about strict attitudes again?
You might be intentionally burying your head in the sand, but it's a fact that Japanese companies will always choose to increase market share at the expense of profitability. Once they put their foreign competitors out of business and get the market share, they really don't know what to do with it (their 1980s economy burst over 10 years ago and they haven't fixed it yet).
Now admit you're ignorant of the security situation in East Asia and we'll go on. "Who are they defending themselves from". . . what a Chomskyite statement. Believe it or not, a military is in fact necessary even for pacifist regimes like Japan.
Oh, God no, not proprietary USR hardware that gives superior connection speeds! Not a return to the bad old days!
As a matter of fact, Solaris completely kicks linux's ass when it comes to handling large loads. When overloaded, linux will sieze and stop, but solaris just degrades gracefully. You mean you don't have system loads in the 100.0-300.0 range? We did frequently at my last job.
Bottom line: RTFM. Solaris x86 isn't a hacker toy like linux, it's a real tool for real work, that really not too many people will ever need.
A poor home-grown OS (no offence) called Cougar or TFlops which doesn't even support X11 or sockets.
Yeah, everybody knows any computer that can't support netris or even plain old tetris is poor indeed.
"Drake's equation is a statistical calculation, but with no other example for life, we're doing statistics with N=1."
And that's what's always bothered me. It always irked me how Sagan smoothly insisted that life would become intelligent, and the way he calmly made assertions about which he had nothing but his own opinion to back up!
You know a jurisdiction that fines for littering? Around here, the cops couldn't be less interested in giving littering tickets, they just want to stop you for one headlight and hope you have warrants.
Whatever you do, don't fall for the "$5 bill in the guitar case" trick. Nobody's going to donate a five, the musician isn't fooling anyone.
The only web operation I know of worth reading is radioshack sucks dot com. Much better than the one you mentioned.
Matter of fact, I think it'd be a good idea to have an open-source email harvester. . . it'd give the good guys an idea of what works and what doesn't, and of course the open-source version would be free, polite to webservers, and best of all would steal thousands of sales from the real bad guys, the fellows who write spambots. (ObPipeDream) With any luck one of them would steal the code and resell it, and the GPL could get a slam-dunk court test.
Treating the commons as if it belonged to you exclusively, instead of as if it belongs to everyone, is the cause of this sign plague.
If MS fails, they arrange it so their product is the only choice availible, by tying it to their other products (Office, IE). Don't fool yourself into thinking MS engages in wasteful old-style Macy's-vs-Gimbel's type competition.
To say that Windows 2000 was an upgrade to Windows 98 is just idiotic and not true.
Hah, the thing won't dive lower than 1000 feet, anyway. Plus, it doesn't even have a deck gun. What kind of crappy submarine doesn't even have a deck gun?
Another flash-enabled applet with a similar tour, but of Japan, is availible by clicking here.
Hm, that's not actually an arcade game. O well.
Anyone without a basic (and I mean basic)knowledge of microcomputing is no longer allowed to use the word "micron" in a post.