Weren't there stories of the famous inventor just getting up and leaving his lab and going to the movies whenever a particularly hard problem had him stumped, and coming back later with the answer?
He accredited it to letting go of the conscious thought required to "think" about the problem and letting the brain continue working on it subconsciously while he focused 100% on the entertainment of the movie.
I would say this is more of a key to the reason than the sleep itself. When you're asleep, your brain continues doing whatever it does to solve problems, but your conscious self and all your preconceived notions of how to handle the problem are no longer in the way, so to speak.
No, they had backups. It's not the important point -- Apple needs to teach the GUI's to read configuration files better -- especially the GUI in front of Apache.
Doesn't work if the person above you isn't interested in fixing it and would rather use your pain as their gain -- "we put out yet another fire today"... without mentioning the the entire fire was completely avoidable.
Sun releases a new platform that won't even run their flagship OS (Solaris 9). Yet another indication that Sun is floundering and doesn't know what they're doing anymore, is the impression this gives me. Wow.
If anyone were actually driving the technology "somewhere" at Sun, would they really let hardware get out the door that can't even run their main OS? This is "back room lab" quality hardware that made it out of the company labs with a Sun badge on it and a manual, but it's not ready for prime-time yet. No company that has a clear technology vision and proper oversight of what's shipping as product would do this.
Sun's still in their tailspin. I use and enjoy their older hardware that came from a day when the company had a vision to provide the best Unix platforms on the planet. (I said they had a vision, I didn't say if they hit it perfectly...) But more and more it looks like they're just lost and floundering and riding on their old systems and sales of mid-range boxes that are hideously overpriced.
I just wanted to screw with anyone who thinks it important, since mine just happened to be lower to prove a point -- that someone would respond to my stupid flamebait.
I guess it worked, I got a rise out of you.;-)
Smile and enjoy the humor of how stupid it is to worry about one's Slashdot number. Relax....
They're all... what they are. Learn 'em all, be a real pro and not a snot-nosed zealout.* I agree with ya.
* While still bitching loudly to all in the room about stupid things like HP-UX not setting your damn terminal type for you correctly or not having "EDITOR" set in the shell by default to SOMETHING SANE.;-)
Yeah, agreed. Some places even turn the "oh my god X blew up, fire fire!" and then the resulting three days of putting Humpy Dumpty back up on the wall into some kind of sick twisted view of "normal" and start to enjoy the "congratulations party" at the end of every fire.
Ohh, we're so smart we figured out how to do X right!
Meanwile the seasoned admin is over in the corner thinking... "yeah, but if you'd just planned for that problem and designed it out up-front like we used to..."
Sad, isn't it? There are more and more workplaces where the truly professional admins aren't even consulted about how to "build things right" because of simply being outnumbered in his/her own department by "peers" who don't know what they're doing these days. Not a good trend.
Uh, I think you may have missed the whole point of the GNU Public License all that software is licensed under, big guy.
Learn to be your own "support". "Network" with other people who use and need the software you use to work too.
Hello? Why does everyone think Service Contracts, SLA's and big bills pay for any better support than the people who write the software in the first place? (RedHat and most distros don't write the majority of what they're selling!)
I hope the so-called "linux professionals" that ONLY know/use RedHat do go back to the evil empire. Or at least far far away.
Linux is linux. Learn and teach and test on linux. Not packaging tools. Even LPI.org gave in to the packaging tool crap and split their tests up... a good linux guru knows ALL of the packaging tools and their strengths and weaknesses.
Yup, as I always suspected -- take development away from the company and move it to truly open and you get a product far superior to RedHat's. Gee... go figure.
p.s. Professionals don't care about uptime when security patches are at stake. Patching is obviously the way to go. l33t kiDDi3z worry about uptime.
I think layers 8 and 9 of the OSI networking model have affected the brains of those who claim RedHat is still the "easiest" distro to use.
(Layer 8, religion.. Layer 9, politics...)
Mandrake, Knoppix, and a whole bunch of other commercial distros do a much much better job at hardware autodetection and configuration than Kudzu/RedHat ever did nowadays.
People are just sheep about such things... they remember how "easy" RH 5.2 was over Slackware in the mid-90's and just keep right on believing... Layer 8, baby...
Because (in order you presented them): 1. They're too lazy to learn on their own and need other people to do their work for them. 2. See #1. 3. Because they drive cars that look good too.
WTF? Linux is linux. If you can run one, you can run another. Pay for RHEL or download another one and don't pay. That seems the only choice here unless you're running commercial software on linux that requires a specific distro (stupid).
My wife's parents and sibling are all about as tall as you guys. If you ever get a chance to purchase/build your own house, look into raising everything. They did this customization to their home to everything from the kitchen counters to the bathroom toilets, and loved it.
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Weren't there stories of the famous inventor just getting up and leaving his lab and going to the movies whenever a particularly hard problem had him stumped, and coming back later with the answer?
He accredited it to letting go of the conscious thought required to "think" about the problem and letting the brain continue working on it subconsciously while he focused 100% on the entertainment of the movie.
I would say this is more of a key to the reason than the sleep itself. When you're asleep, your brain continues doing whatever it does to solve problems, but your conscious self and all your preconceived notions of how to handle the problem are no longer in the way, so to speak.
No, they had backups. It's not the important point -- Apple needs to teach the GUI's to read configuration files better -- especially the GUI in front of Apache.
At least two friends have complained that OSX Server's Apache/Web GUI has trashed their carefully hand-crafted apache configurations without warning.
Doesn't work if the person above you isn't interested in fixing it and would rather use your pain as their gain -- "we put out yet another fire today"... without mentioning the the entire fire was completely avoidable.
Sun releases a new platform that won't even run their flagship OS (Solaris 9). Yet another indication that Sun is floundering and doesn't know what they're doing anymore, is the impression this gives me. Wow.
If anyone were actually driving the technology "somewhere" at Sun, would they really let hardware get out the door that can't even run their main OS? This is "back room lab" quality hardware that made it out of the company labs with a Sun badge on it and a manual, but it's not ready for prime-time yet. No company that has a clear technology vision and proper oversight of what's shipping as product would do this.
Sun's still in their tailspin. I use and enjoy their older hardware that came from a day when the company had a vision to provide the best Unix platforms on the planet. (I said they had a vision, I didn't say if they hit it perfectly...) But more and more it looks like they're just lost and floundering and riding on their old systems and sales of mid-range boxes that are hideously overpriced.
I just wanted to screw with anyone who thinks it important, since mine just happened to be lower to prove a point -- that someone would respond to my stupid flamebait.
;-)
I guess it worked, I got a rise out of you.
Smile and enjoy the humor of how stupid it is to worry about one's Slashdot number. Relax....
Amen, brother. Sing it loud.
... what they are. Learn 'em all, be a real pro and not a snot-nosed zealout.* I agree with ya.
;-)
Unix is Unix.
Linux is Linux.
BSD is BSD.
They're all
* While still bitching loudly to all in the room about stupid things like HP-UX not setting your damn terminal type for you correctly or not having "EDITOR" set in the shell by default to SOMETHING SANE.
Oh, I thought it was implemented to embarass you about how high your's is. (snicker...)
Nice example of rationalization though.
Moles? Are you there Moles?
You might have indicated that your response was toungue-in-cheek somehow. Smiley face, something.
:-)
The moderators were confused too. It got moderated as a Troll, and by just reading it verbatim, rightly so.
Maybe it needed MORE sarcasm for this crowd to "get it".
Yeah, agreed. Some places even turn the "oh my god X blew up, fire fire!" and then the resulting three days of putting Humpy Dumpty back up on the wall into some kind of sick twisted view of "normal" and start to enjoy the "congratulations party" at the end of every fire.
Ohh, we're so smart we figured out how to do X right!
Meanwile the seasoned admin is over in the corner thinking... "yeah, but if you'd just planned for that problem and designed it out up-front like we used to..."
Sad, isn't it? There are more and more workplaces where the truly professional admins aren't even consulted about how to "build things right" because of simply being outnumbered in his/her own department by "peers" who don't know what they're doing these days. Not a good trend.
Yeah, look at Mandrake if yours is a desktop install. 9.2 is pretty solid if you like KDE.
Uh, I think you may have missed the whole point of the GNU Public License all that software is licensed under, big guy.
Learn to be your own "support". "Network" with other people who use and need the software you use to work too.
Hello? Why does everyone think Service Contracts, SLA's and big bills pay for any better support than the people who write the software in the first place? (RedHat and most distros don't write the majority of what they're selling!)
Welcome to the Bazarre.
You want orderly pews and rows, head back into the Cathedral. Buh-bye now.
The subscriptions auto-renew. Beware.
I hope the so-called "linux professionals" that ONLY know/use RedHat do go back to the evil empire. Or at least far far away.
Linux is linux. Learn and teach and test on linux. Not packaging tools. Even LPI.org gave in to the packaging tool crap and split their tests up... a good linux guru knows ALL of the packaging tools and their strengths and weaknesses.
Linux is linux. Puh-leeze.
... oh lookie, I'm running Linux.
uname -a
Slackware = Linux.
repositories rhymes with...
Ah. That explains it.
Yup, as I always suspected -- take development away from the company and move it to truly open and you get a product far superior to RedHat's. Gee... go figure.
p.s. Professionals don't care about uptime when security patches are at stake. Patching is obviously the way to go. l33t kiDDi3z worry about uptime.
I think layers 8 and 9 of the OSI networking model have affected the brains of those who claim RedHat is still the "easiest" distro to use.
.. Layer 9, politics...)
(Layer 8, religion
Mandrake, Knoppix, and a whole bunch of other commercial distros do a much much better job at hardware autodetection and configuration than Kudzu/RedHat ever did nowadays.
People are just sheep about such things... they remember how "easy" RH 5.2 was over Slackware in the mid-90's and just keep right on believing... Layer 8, baby...
On i386 platforms there are at least four other distros that do a better job than Kudzu for hardware autodetection and installation.
Homework project: Find them.
Because (in order you presented them):
1. They're too lazy to learn on their own and need other people to do their work for them.
2. See #1.
3. Because they drive cars that look good too.
WTF? Linux is linux. If you can run one, you can run another. Pay for RHEL or download another one and don't pay. That seems the only choice here unless you're running commercial software on linux that requires a specific distro (stupid).
I wouldn't go to any University stupid enough to be wasting money on a Linux distro. Which part of free (and Free) does your employer not understand?
Jeb, quit defending your brother George again...
My wife's parents and sibling are all about as tall as you guys. If you ever get a chance to purchase/build your own house, look into raising everything. They did this customization to their home to everything from the kitchen counters to the bathroom toilets, and loved it.