I guess Slashdot has gotten to the point where they're so desperate for hits that they have to rely on people bitching about slashdot, rather than even pretending to have integrity.
They've got about as much credibility as the RIAA at this point. If it weren't for the comments, they wouldn't have anything at all.
I don't see "hands" as a requirement for being a sys admin, mentioned anywhere in the article.
I think hands are a must for the sys admin job, especially if you don't want to be a Jr. Sys Admin and perform backups (with your teeth!) all your life.
I worked for a relatively large institution, in the capacity of a Sys Admin, and I know for a fact that you need some serious hands.
Everquest is a game full of people who want to "win" and "be the best" at any cost.
Nah, the author is that kind of person. I don't play EQ, but a good chunk of my friends do. They don't seem interested in "winning" and "being the best." They are interested in improving their character, and spend a good chunk of time doing it, but life (for them) comes first.
When we're all downstairs smoking, I never hear them whining about how tough it is, only happily planning their next session.
Like so many other people here, I think the author should get a life so that his EQ "life" isn't so important to draw out this sort of vitriol.
Slashdot is about nerds, and stuff that matters to them. A given story may "matter" to a large chunk of the audience, but its not even implied that it will matter to all of them.
If the site's slogan was "Boycott the MPAA", and the URL was "boycottmpaa.org", I'd understand your confusion. If you want to have a discussion about boycotting the MPAA, seek a site that specializes in it, or create one.
With all of the effort they're putting into building this, and all the effort being put into defeating it (which they should learn from), I can see the PRC becoming the world's leading firewall vendor.
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You answered your own question: its because they don't have any customers to support.
This is a double edged sword. Say what you will about MS, they've done a very good job maintaining compatibility with previous versions of Windows - because their customers insisted.
OTOH, a lot of the problems with both security and stability came from this backward compatibility.
Its quite possible that by breaking compatibility that Apache 2.0 will avoid those same pitfalls.
driving with night-vision active at night (and software to filter out glare of incoming high-beams), and use the same software to highlight road signs and banner-block ugly billboards with pictures of trees or background patterns by day. Interface with GPS...
I'd be happy if I could get a camera/monitor system that would do this. I'd get rid of that front windshield...
I'll be impressed when Verizon and the other cellcos decide to offer real mobile broadband at flat-rate pricing
That would impress me, too, since its been demonstrated repeatedly that flat rate pricing is a good way to lose money, unless that flat rate is exhorbitantly high. Paying by the bit is the only way that makes sense - 3G or landline.
How would _you_ like to be a clone? Imagine growing up knowing, or finding out later, that you're a replicant, and your death-clock is ticking faster than others'?
Uuuhhhh, wasn't that what _all_ the dead dot coms were saying? Not that Loki's nearly as bad as some were, but their story doesn't seem all that different.
If its a truly viable business plan, it'll pop back up later, perhaps when profitablity isn't "in a year or two more".
The poster is guity only of imprecise phrasing. It should've reflected the costs of such conversions. Right now, it costs more to create hydrogen than the income converting the hydrogen to energy would create. A hydrogen-based economy doesn't exist because of the costs involved, not the physics behind it.
a) untrue, or at least outdated info. Win2K runs just fine on machines with eight to thirty two procs.
b) I have, and I have seen, servers that run for hundreds of days, rebooting only for hardware and major patches. Gee, just like Linux.
c) Some of those boxes are running the whole back office suite.
I would've happily chimed with agreement had we been talking about NT4. Linux is sometimes better, sometimes worse, than Win2k, and a lot of it has to do with the skills of the people running the machines, in both cases.
There are higher end Unix solutions that blow Win2K _and_ Linux away, but the article isn't talking about those, its talking about Linux.
This is the Linux zealotry that so many other posters have warned against.
A better idea: leave them there, and create software which identifies them. Ever notice that they aren't there during commercials? What better way to determine whether a commercial is running or not? Easy fast forwarding, or volume off, at least until you're sued.
I've seen similar assertions made on/. over the years I've been reading, and it seems really narrow-minded. Why does everything MS does have to be to "control" whatever it is that they're doing? I sure that they'd love to "own" the Internet and bleed it for all its worth, but isn't it conceivable that they're just trying to make money? They're not fools, they can see that the PC-era is coming to an end. From reading this site, one could come to the conclusion that since the PC-era is ending, they should just lay down and die. Sure, some of the things they try are dumb, but then, so are a lot of the things that have been tried by other companies. _Everyone_ is trying to "tame this internet thing".
All MS (and other companies) need to do is offer enough people - maybe not you, and maybe not me - services they are willing to pay for to actually make a buck or two (billion).
I'm just waiting for a news article to say that Microsoft is buying some land for a new building, so I can read the slashdot raving about how MS is trying to monopolize land and buildings.
could you open a remote file from within the included Windows text editor 7 years ago? And would selecting the "save" option cause it to be uploaded back to the remote location?
Yup. Notepad in NT 3.5 and WfW used UNCs just fine, in multiple protocols.
Did you have a command prompt that supported scrollback and multiple tabbed sessions? Yes to the first, for the second you had to *gasp* open a whole other window.
Could you disable popup windows, but keep the rest of Javascript in your web browser?
I don't remember Mosaic having JavaScript at all.
Could you log your windowing events to stderr?
Not to stderr, you had to run a utility to watch for OutputDebugString (even then, the output was sparse). I still don't bother, in NT or FreeBSD.
I can see a problem with it. Sure, not all OSS programmers are rabid zealots with nothing but Free World Domination on their minds.
However, what if one or both hired programmers are? And they put GPL code into the source, and wait until *after* its released to say anything?
Wouldn't the employer be obligated to release code that they would've preferred to keep?
Paranoid? Sure. Impossible scenario? Far from it.
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Yes, poor old IBM doesn't have any money to do this. We should all donate!
What the hell are you talking about?
Looks the same in IE6, Mozilla 1.1, and Opera 7 beta 2. It took all of 15 seconds to test...
A new low, indeed.
I guess Slashdot has gotten to the point where they're so desperate for hits that they have to rely on people bitching about slashdot, rather than even pretending to have integrity.
They've got about as much credibility as the RIAA at this point. If it weren't for the comments, they wouldn't have anything at all.
I don't see "hands" as a requirement for being a sys admin, mentioned anywhere in the article.
I think hands are a must for the sys admin job, especially if you don't want to be a Jr. Sys Admin and perform backups (with your teeth!) all your life.
I worked for a relatively large institution, in the capacity of a Sys Admin, and I know for a fact that you need some serious hands.
Everquest is a game full of people who want to "win" and "be the best" at any cost.
Nah, the author is that kind of person. I don't play EQ, but a good chunk of my friends do. They don't seem interested in "winning" and "being the best." They are interested in improving their character, and spend a good chunk of time doing it, but life (for them) comes first.
When we're all downstairs smoking, I never hear them whining about how tough it is, only happily planning their next session.
Like so many other people here, I think the author should get a life so that his EQ "life" isn't so important to draw out this sort of vitriol.
Slashdot is about nerds, and stuff that matters to them. A given story may "matter" to a large chunk of the audience, but its not even implied that it will matter to all of them.
If the site's slogan was "Boycott the MPAA", and the URL was "boycottmpaa.org", I'd understand your confusion. If you want to have a discussion about boycotting the MPAA, seek a site that specializes in it, or create one.
An exquisitely rendered turd is still a turd.
Where's the screenshot?
Yep, it's being used in Lee's Performance Khakis. According to this Slate article, it works, too.
Hopefully, it isn't just Stage 1 of liquifying things, seeing as how these are pants.
Despite what another poster thinks, I consider this "Diamond Age cool". This is because I have to do my own laundry.
You've never fucked her as long and as hard as the RIAA will.
...and on /., we'll debate which language is the best one...
With all of the effort they're putting into building this, and all the effort being put into defeating it (which they should learn from), I can see the PRC becoming the world's leading firewall vendor.
You answered your own question: its because they don't have any customers to support.
This is a double edged sword. Say what you will about MS, they've done a very good job maintaining compatibility with previous versions of Windows - because their customers insisted.
OTOH, a lot of the problems with both security and stability came from this backward compatibility.
Its quite possible that by breaking compatibility that Apache 2.0 will avoid those same pitfalls.
driving with night-vision active at night (and software to filter out glare of incoming high-beams), and use the same software to highlight road signs and banner-block ugly billboards with pictures of trees or background patterns by day. Interface with GPS...
I'd be happy if I could get a camera/monitor system that would do this. I'd get rid of that front windshield...
Mark Driver
http://www.blindwino.com/driverjunk15.html
If enough people are confused, would that lend credence to MS' assertion that Lindows violates the Windows trademark?
I'll be impressed when Verizon and the other cellcos decide to offer real mobile broadband at flat-rate pricing
That would impress me, too, since its been demonstrated repeatedly that flat rate pricing is a good way to lose money, unless that flat rate is exhorbitantly high. Paying by the bit is the only way that makes sense - 3G or landline.
How would _you_ like to be a clone? Imagine growing up knowing, or finding out later, that you're a replicant, and your death-clock is ticking faster than others'?
The same as when I realized I wasn't immortal.
Uuuhhhh, wasn't that what _all_ the dead dot coms were saying? Not that Loki's nearly as bad as some were, but their story doesn't seem all that different.
If its a truly viable business plan, it'll pop back up later, perhaps when profitablity isn't "in a year or two more".
The poster is guity only of imprecise phrasing. It should've reflected the costs of such conversions. Right now, it costs more to create hydrogen than the income converting the hydrogen to energy would create. A hydrogen-based economy doesn't exist because of the costs involved, not the physics behind it.
a) untrue, or at least outdated info. Win2K runs just fine on machines with eight to thirty two procs.
b) I have, and I have seen, servers that run for hundreds of days, rebooting only for hardware and major patches. Gee, just like Linux.
c) Some of those boxes are running the whole back office suite.
I would've happily chimed with agreement had we been talking about NT4. Linux is sometimes better, sometimes worse, than Win2k, and a lot of it has to do with the skills of the people running the machines, in both cases.
There are higher end Unix solutions that blow Win2K _and_ Linux away, but the article isn't talking about those, its talking about Linux.
This is the Linux zealotry that so many other posters have warned against.
I don't like it. When am I supposed to take a smoke break?
A better idea: leave them there, and create software which identifies them. Ever notice that they aren't there during commercials? What better way to determine whether a commercial is running or not? Easy fast forwarding, or volume off, at least until you're sued.
I've seen similar assertions made on /. over the years I've been reading, and it seems really narrow-minded. Why does everything MS does have to be to "control" whatever it is that they're doing? I sure that they'd love to "own" the Internet and bleed it for all its worth, but isn't it conceivable that they're just trying to make money? They're not fools, they can see that the PC-era is coming to an end. From reading this site, one could come to the conclusion that since the PC-era is ending, they should just lay down and die. Sure, some of the things they try are dumb, but then, so are a lot of the things that have been tried by other companies. _Everyone_ is trying to "tame this internet thing".
All MS (and other companies) need to do is offer enough people - maybe not you, and maybe not me - services they are willing to pay for to actually make a buck or two (billion).
I'm just waiting for a news article to say that Microsoft is buying some land for a new building, so I can read the slashdot raving about how MS is trying to monopolize land and buildings.
could you open a remote file from within the included Windows text editor 7 years ago? And would selecting the "save" option cause it to be uploaded back to the remote location?
Yup. Notepad in NT 3.5 and WfW used UNCs just fine, in multiple protocols.
Did you have a command prompt that supported scrollback and multiple tabbed sessions?
Yes to the first, for the second you had to *gasp* open a whole other window.
Could you disable popup windows, but keep the rest of Javascript in your web browser?
I don't remember Mosaic having JavaScript at all.
Could you log your windowing events to stderr?
Not to stderr, you had to run a utility to watch for OutputDebugString (even then, the output was sparse). I still don't bother, in NT or FreeBSD.
I can see a problem with it. Sure, not all OSS programmers are rabid zealots with nothing but Free World Domination on their minds.
However, what if one or both hired programmers are? And they put GPL code into the source, and wait until *after* its released to say anything?
Wouldn't the employer be obligated to release code that they would've preferred to keep?
Paranoid? Sure. Impossible scenario? Far from it.