Yes and yes, and it does a lot more. (g)vim has been my editor of choice for quite some time, I've tried emacs but it came close to giving me rsi with its weird button combo's. Vim is very extensible and is the ultimate coders editor imho, I never reach for the mouse or the arrow buttons but keep my fingers on home row...
Emacs has given me too much frustration and I'll stay with vim for the superior (if not easy to learn) interface.
OK, so I do security, software development and UNIX (mostly BSD) system administration. But I listen mostly to drum and bass, reggae, dub and some hip hop. So do a lot of my colleagues here. Is this because I'm dutch or what? Don't IT people listen to many dance music types? The hard and fast dnb keeps my working pace nice and fast, while reggae and dub is good to chill out a bit. Hip hop is rarely played when working but more when at home. Any other people here who have the same tastes?
BTW, I do find it rather fitting that MS pro's listen to the most popular crap as they are using the most popular crap as well. These are the people that think that when something is popular
Disclaimer: I rarely ever play games and am addicted to social contact, especially the contact of my girlfriend.
Spend most time with your girl and put game time in the time you cant be with her, so game when she wants to do something for herself, or during her work hours. (if your off work that is) If shes sleeping might seem like a good idea at first but I'd rather be sleeping with my girl in my arms than do anything else in the world. But if you rather play games than spend time with your girl you should check your priorities and maybe break up. Personally I'd choose for the girl, playing with her is much more fun than playing with the computer...;)
Well, here in the netherlands there are a lot of geeks who do smoke weed, I'm one of them, if its nicely grown weed it gives me a focus on what I'm doing. I code very well when I smoked a nice joint. The problem is starting the work, but when finally started its like your in your own coding world and you can visualise the entire structure of the code, even better than when you are sober.
I've tried cocaine a few times and didn't really like that, MDMA was more fun but one should not do that often either. And these are party drugs, not drugs you take when your alone in front of your computer.
But then again I think that weed as a drug is less harmfule than alcohol for many reasons which I won't go into unasked.;)
From reading the text of this article I'm starting to fear that MS will own the console market soon. Is this what we really want, I don't like the prospect of everything which is slightly computer related being made by MS. I mean most of the people here want windows to dissapear from the desktop and I'm kinda one of them in the way that I think that one player in industry is bad for the consumer.
But what if the Xbox really starts to be the dominant home media center? Will MS try to muscle out linux or any other competitor by making things incompatible, they have done so in the past...
Imagine things like xbox live not working if you have a linux/openbsd firewall on the border or that you need to have a windows box to do some certain new cool thing on the xbox.
This might sound a bit irrational but I don't want to be locked into a MS world, I don't have anything against companies but I still think competition is healthy and want to see the choice between multiple console vendors to continue for another few years. I don't want to see sony or nintendo die because MS marketed their Xbox too well...
I know your trying to be funny, but here in.nl most women do shave their legs. And my norwegian, swedish and scottish girlfriends did that as well. So where did that rumour ever come from?
As a sysadmin I have to take care of many computers, the only way to refer to them easily is by name. I kinda have a thing for egyptian and greek mythological characters tho. I'm typing this in on icarus the laptop. The nameservers are called hathor and osiris. The monitoring server is called anubis and the database server is called sia. I have a lot more but I won't go into those...
I honestly never had a problem with getting basic sound working under linux. Not with my SB Live or with this integrated VIA soundcard in my laptop. What I do have a problem with on linux is getting midi to work or getting multiple programs to use sound at the same time. Also the sound servers really suck, I recently switched to KDE with arts and I had to shut down arts because it seems that when I use arts output my laptop just deadlocks after a while and I have to push the power button to shut down the laptop. I am using ALSA so that might be the problem. (Maybe arts doesn't like ALSA) The only shame is all the native KDE apps don't have sound now I killed arts so suggestions are welcomed. I'm using a fully up to date gentoo FYI.
I haven't used ESD for ages, but when I used it I hated it just as much as I hate arts now.
Well at least mac users will allways have LaTeX, which, if I understand the use of pagemaker from the rest of the comments, was made to fill the same niche, composing documents to print on dead tree... If you never tried LaTeX, try it out, the output is very nice.
Clinton didn't make statements like 'your either with us or against us' either, which really doesn't go over well with most people. Clinton at least knew that the US isn't the only country that matters in the world.
Oh and we indeed also don't like that he's a conservative republican either but we would over look that easily if he reacted like a modest human being, not like a chimpanzee on an ego trip...
But thats giving him too much credit, everybody knows chimps are relatively intelligent animals...
Well, I got that from IRC.;) But dutch people also have referred to their country as NL in real life... AFAIK, United States citizens do the same when they say 'US'. They both just didn't start as a tld but became it because those abbreviations where common when the tld started.
I (as a dutchman) call bullshit on that, Clinton was a popular US president here in.nl. Sure we made american jokes, but those where on the same level as belgian jokes, which means they wheren't serious at all. Bush has been the worst PR your country has had in quite some time. He makes your country look like a t-rex with the brain that goes with it...
Well, no offence but the ending was an enormous let down and not true at all to the novel. That kinda ruined the 3d part for me. It was entertaining for the rest but I'm not about to forgive Jackson for the alternative ending.
It depends on your business plan, IBM wants to make money on hardware and services, the software is more of a burden than a money maker in their case. In this business model the GPL indeed makes perfect sense. But you can also make money out of taking the BSD base, hacking some nice features in it, optimizing it for your hardware and sell it as a hardware firewall.
Sure if companies want to open source their code GPL is a good license for them, because this will keep their own software on par with competitors who might have stolen the code and enhanced it if it where BSD.
But you can still just take from BSD what you want, which is nice for everyone. A lot of operating systems have this code in them, making them better for it, like I said in my tcp example, this imho is a good thing.
Both business models make sense, my only point was that the BSD has about as much going for it as the GPL if you look at it a little different.
As for your falacies regarding freedom and the BSD and GPL licenses, those have been dealt with thoroughly before, except to say that your attitude works well for a small project, but for a large project (especially a large, self-contained project like a whole OS), the GPL offers you the developer more freedom and protection from greedy folks than the BSD would.
Well, a small nitpick but there are largeself-contained projects written under mainly the BSD license. The three examples are actually complete operating systems. Sure companies use the code for their own products (You wouldn't believe how many hardware appliances are BSD based) but is that actually bad? I mean would you rather have all those appliances writing their own TCP/IP stack which will have lots of bugs and therefore make for shitty firewalls/routers/whatevers which companies will use anyway because it has such a pretty windows client or whatever, this will fuck up parts of the net imho. I code under BSD myself because it makes for less stress for myself and for others. If you BSD license your code that version will allways remain open for other people to use, and thats what you want with open sourcing your app right? That people actually use it?
IMHO writing under the gpl makes it less fun to code for me because then I'd have to worry about other people using my code in a way the GPL's writers didn't intend. GPL is fun to write an open source competitor to closed source in but I think standards will originate in BSD because if its in BSD, everybody can use it. This is one of the factors in how TCP/IP became the standard on the internet.
Well for my tastes gnome is a little too bloated, sure this is fine if you want all the menus and (ugh) nautilus. But I prefer a desktop based on the nice light gtk based XFCE4 and replace it's desktop module with the sweet gtk based rox desktop/filer. But I guess it's all about personal taste.
I ran into a mysterious bug with KUser which deleted my root password... the only solution to this problem was to reinstall the base system from the CD.
Why not just reboot the system with ctrl+alt+del and boot -s at the prompt you get if you press any key before it loads the kernel? After that just mount the root filesystem r/w with mount / -o rw and mount/usr, then type passwd root, and you can change your password.
This will work if you don't have single user password protection on, or have ctrl+alt+del disabled in the kernel. Or if you have encrypted your hard drive using GEOM.
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Yes and yes, and it does a lot more. (g)vim has been my editor of choice for quite some time, I've tried emacs but it came close to giving me rsi with its weird button combo's. Vim is very extensible and is the ultimate coders editor imho, I never reach for the mouse or the arrow buttons but keep my fingers on home row...
Emacs has given me too much frustration and I'll stay with vim for the superior (if not easy to learn) interface.
OK, so I do security, software development and UNIX (mostly BSD) system administration. But I listen mostly to drum and bass, reggae, dub and some hip hop. So do a lot of my colleagues here. Is this because I'm dutch or what? Don't IT people listen to many dance music types? The hard and fast dnb keeps my working pace nice and fast, while reggae and dub is good to chill out a bit. Hip hop is rarely played when working but more when at home. Any other people here who have the same tastes?
BTW, I do find it rather fitting that MS pro's listen to the most popular crap as they are using the most popular crap as well. These are the people that think that when something is popular
Disclaimer: I rarely ever play games and am addicted to social contact, especially the contact of my girlfriend.
;)
Spend most time with your girl and put game time in the time you cant be with her, so game when she wants to do something for herself, or during her work hours. (if your off work that is) If shes sleeping might seem like a good idea at first but I'd rather be sleeping with my girl in my arms than do anything else in the world. But if you rather play games than spend time with your girl you should check your priorities and maybe break up. Personally I'd choose for the girl, playing with her is much more fun than playing with the computer...
Why do so few nerds smoke weed or coke
;)
Well, here in the netherlands there are a lot of geeks who do smoke weed, I'm one of them, if its nicely grown weed it gives me a focus on what I'm doing. I code very well when I smoked a nice joint. The problem is starting the work, but when finally started its like your in your own coding world and you can visualise the entire structure of the code, even better than when you are sober.
I've tried cocaine a few times and didn't really like that, MDMA was more fun but one should not do that often either. And these are party drugs, not drugs you take when your alone in front of your computer.
But then again I think that weed as a drug is less harmfule than alcohol for many reasons which I won't go into unasked.
From reading the text of this article I'm starting to fear that MS will own the console market soon. Is this what we really want, I don't like the prospect of everything which is slightly computer related being made by MS. I mean most of the people here want windows to dissapear from the desktop and I'm kinda one of them in the way that I think that one player in industry is bad for the consumer.
But what if the Xbox really starts to be the dominant home media center? Will MS try to muscle out linux or any other competitor by making things incompatible, they have done so in the past...
Imagine things like xbox live not working if you have a linux/openbsd firewall on the border or that you need to have a windows box to do some certain new cool thing on the xbox.
This might sound a bit irrational but I don't want to be locked into a MS world, I don't have anything against companies but I still think competition is healthy and want to see the choice between multiple console vendors to continue for another few years. I don't want to see sony or nintendo die because MS marketed their Xbox too well...
1. Run a good anti spy ware tool like spybot or ad aware.
:)
2. Don't use IE or Outlook
3. Don't use Kazaa or most other p2p clients
4. Don't run any and every program you come across
This helped my friends a lot, my father was really offended by spyware and who can blame him, he's a firefox fan till the end now...
I wouldnt mind posting about it if my mother or one of my grandmothers would be alive, but I know my mother did. She was quite vain.
I know your trying to be funny, but here in .nl most women do shave their legs. And my norwegian, swedish and scottish girlfriends did that as well. So where did that rumour ever come from?
gspot@gmail.com ;)
As a sysadmin I have to take care of many computers, the only way to refer to them easily is by name. I kinda have a thing for egyptian and greek mythological characters tho. I'm typing this in on icarus the laptop. The nameservers are called hathor and osiris. The monitoring server is called anubis and the database server is called sia. I have a lot more but I won't go into those...
Since when do people name their devices with the TLA for "Piece of shit"?
Some of us would also argue that you can't run MySQL instead of Oracle. Postgres is a better option in this case.
I honestly never had a problem with getting basic sound working under linux. Not with my SB Live or with this integrated VIA soundcard in my laptop. What I do have a problem with on linux is getting midi to work or getting multiple programs to use sound at the same time.
Also the sound servers really suck, I recently switched to KDE with arts and I had to shut down arts because it seems that when I use arts output my laptop just deadlocks after a while and I have to push the power button to shut down the laptop.
I am using ALSA so that might be the problem. (Maybe arts doesn't like ALSA) The only shame is all the native KDE apps don't have sound now I killed arts so suggestions are welcomed.
I'm using a fully up to date gentoo FYI.
I haven't used ESD for ages, but when I used it I hated it just as much as I hate arts now.
Well at least mac users will allways have LaTeX, which, if I understand the use of pagemaker from the rest of the comments, was made to fill the same niche, composing documents to print on dead tree...
If you never tried LaTeX, try it out, the output is very nice.
Blackmail's such an ugly word. I prefer extortion. The X makes it sound cool.
Fuck the fucking fuckers
Clinton didn't make statements like 'your either with us or against us' either, which really doesn't go over well with most people. Clinton at least knew that the US isn't the only country that matters in the world.
Oh and we indeed also don't like that he's a conservative republican either but we would over look that easily if he reacted like a modest human being, not like a chimpanzee on an ego trip...
But thats giving him too much credit, everybody knows chimps are relatively intelligent animals...
Well, I got that from IRC. ;)
But dutch people also have referred to their country as NL in real life...
AFAIK, United States citizens do the same when they say 'US'. They both just didn't start as a tld but became it because those abbreviations where common when the tld started.
I (as a dutchman) call bullshit on that, Clinton was a popular US president here in .nl. Sure we made american jokes, but those where on the same level as belgian jokes, which means they wheren't serious at all. Bush has been the worst PR your country has had in quite some time. He makes your country look like a t-rex with the brain that goes with it...
Well, no offence but the ending was an enormous let down and not true at all to the novel.
That kinda ruined the 3d part for me.
It was entertaining for the rest but I'm not about to forgive Jackson for the alternative ending.
It depends on your business plan, IBM wants to make money on hardware and services, the software is more of a burden than a money maker in their case.
In this business model the GPL indeed makes perfect sense.
But you can also make money out of taking the BSD base, hacking some nice features in it, optimizing it for your hardware and sell it as a hardware firewall.
Sure if companies want to open source their code GPL is a good license for them, because this will keep their own software on par with competitors who might have stolen the code and enhanced it if it where BSD.
But you can still just take from BSD what you want, which is nice for everyone. A lot of operating systems have this code in them, making them better for it, like I said in my tcp example, this imho is a good thing.
Both business models make sense, my only point was that the BSD has about as much going for it as the GPL if you look at it a little different.
As for your falacies regarding freedom and the BSD and GPL licenses, those have been dealt with thoroughly before, except to say that your attitude works well for a small project, but for a large project (especially a large, self-contained project like a whole OS), the GPL offers you the developer more freedom and protection from greedy folks than the BSD would.
Well, a small nitpick but there are large self-contained projects written under mainly the BSD license. The three examples are actually complete operating systems.
Sure companies use the code for their own products (You wouldn't believe how many hardware appliances are BSD based) but is that actually bad? I mean would you rather have all those appliances writing their own TCP/IP stack which will have lots of bugs and therefore make for shitty firewalls/routers/whatevers which companies will use anyway because it has such a pretty windows client or whatever, this will fuck up parts of the net imho.
I code under BSD myself because it makes for less stress for myself and for others. If you BSD license your code that version will allways remain open for other people to use, and thats what you want with open sourcing your app right? That people actually use it?
IMHO writing under the gpl makes it less fun to code for me because then I'd have to worry about other people using my code in a way the GPL's writers didn't intend.
GPL is fun to write an open source competitor to closed source in but I think standards will originate in BSD because if its in BSD, everybody can use it. This is one of the factors in how TCP/IP became the standard on the internet.
Well for my tastes gnome is a little too bloated, sure this is fine if you want all the menus and (ugh) nautilus. But I prefer a desktop based on the nice light gtk based XFCE4 and replace it's desktop module with the sweet gtk based rox desktop/filer. But I guess it's all about personal taste.
Because it's as close to Harry Potter's desktop as you can come
I ran into a mysterious bug with KUser which deleted my root password... the only solution to this problem was to reinstall the base system from the CD.
/usr, then type passwd root, and you can change your password.
Why not just reboot the system with ctrl+alt+del and boot -s at the prompt you get if you press any key before it loads the kernel? After that just mount the root filesystem r/w with mount / -o rw and mount
This will work if you don't have single user password protection on, or have ctrl+alt+del disabled in the kernel. Or if you have encrypted your hard drive using GEOM.