When we inevitable lose the battle (the government does have a tendency to get their way in these things), do we get to reap the benefits of a total information society? I mean, will there be a searchable database where I can find out where I left my keys? That link to that awesome video i saw on sometube.com that i can't remember? If i remembered to feed the cat?
It kind of stinks around here - i have seen a LOT of dentists, and more and more are not carrying nitrous. Almost 2k a tooth to 'stabilize' it (RC + Crown). The nitrous is the only thing that makes it tolerable. Being in the dentists chair since i was 3, it's become part of the experience. unfortunately recently most of my treatments have been extractions of tooths where the root canal has failed (molars). The dentist uses Ketamine to put me under. At least im not aware of the yankage - the dentist said last time he tried to pull, the tooth was so fragile that the crown seperated very easily during the extraction. So glad i was asleep. I've had an endo drill right into my pulp chamber while i could still feel it - no amount of marcane/septicane helped. Broke her chair.:/
Unfortunately users don't come in DLL and you can't legally overflow their buffers without their permission, although if you ask in a technical enough way they will let you.
I don't think microsoft is truly committed to the shell at the present time - it started as somone's pet project. And microsoft has produced some products that, in my professional experience, have about the same amount of problems as many corporate unix apps such as oracle and peoplesoft. I can fault them for a few things, but, i see so many computers on a day to day basis.. i would say less than 5% are actual MS problems or things MS could adequately prevent.
Why am i writing this? I'm not going to get drawn into a philisophical conversation that is impossible to win on slashdot. It's like going to the middle east and saying Islam is bad[tm]. Not only are you rejected, you may be killed for it if your views are too out of the mainstream.
Slashdot has always been anti-microsoft, and in most cases zealously so, but this is just taking it too far. Many valid points are made here, but if the community wants to keep its self-respect, it makes no sense to allow blatantly inflammatory and untrue stories to come across the front page like this. I am a beta tester for Monad. it is nothing special - wmic + cmd + more scripting abilities. msh is not ready for prime time. I can't honestly believe that we're now bashing microsoft in the damned if they do damned if they don't way. They don't release it because it's not ready - the bastards can't write a program! They do release it and it's not up to snuff. Damn them! They released more faulty software!
I understand the nature of slashdot. I used to be one of the linux zealots prowling the area. I read the front page and, very rarely, the articles. Not quite sure what made me do it this time. But letting disinformation such as this leak to the front page scares me, when useful stories from people are ignored all the time.
This is my newest pet peeve. Tech support, outsourced, gets a crash course it seems in provinding support. They never do it well. I've had the fortune of calling Microsoft's professional line several times, and i always get someone who is 1) difficult to understand, and 2) not any more knowledgable in the app than i am. I don't call tech support for the "Two heads are better than one" approach, i call tech support to hear "Yes, we've seen that before, here's how to fix it." Unfortunately i haven't heard something like that since my Sun days. And another thing - when they start troubleshooting at a step you tried 3 hours ago and say "we have to try this sir"... grrr.. i get angry *instantly* at that. 0 to pissed in one processor tick.
Disclaimer: I have nothing at all against Indians - however, i do believe if i call tech support i should be able to clearly understand you. I've worked in a call center before and clarity was an important benchmark - i guess if you can get people to work for small wages your standards go down a bit too. Unfortunately it looks like Outsorcing for tech support is here to stay, as unappealing as that may be. Sprint, Dell, Microsoft... grr. I call upon Shiva to bitch slap them all!
"Mod parent up". *snicker*. Okay, so not funny - it's been a long, long morning (I hate AIX.)
I wish my parents could have been more like that when it came to the internet. I did the linux thing though, so if i didn't want them to see something, i just flipped out of X really quick.
If my parents knew how to come and figure out which VT X was on.. I'd be so frickin amazed, i wouldn't care.
Then again, growing up gay, i had certain secrets to keep.
Each tile is custom-made for the particular part of the shutle it goes on. There may be some tiles that are very similar in shape, but not exact - varying thicknesses, edge interfaces, etc. Plus, if i recall correctly, the damage from the thermal blanket was to the Leading-edge RCC and tiles, not just the tiles, and im not sure what's required to change out RCC, but i have a feeling a spacewalk won't do it.
Columbia, if i recall correctly, had no docking ring for the space station anyways - there would have been spacewalks involved, at high speeds, and im not sure how much fuel, if any, the shuttle has after the EFT seperates, but i'm sure it's not enough to switch orbits. It's nice to theorize though..
I'll look into it.. it wont spend a lot of time assuming i don't know what im doing in UNIX at all, will it? I mean, i'm pretty decent at solaris and sparc hardware.. but when it comes to IBM stuff, i dont even know hardware designations.
Damnit man, here i am trying to learn AIX for my job... and you're making me biased against it. (Okay, truth be told, i already didn't like it. The hardware it runs on is sweet in some cases, but the OS kind of makes me shudder.) I much prefer solaris.
My least favorite is, like you said, the proprietary crap they've strung in, such as the lpp directory and errpt. AIX can swing for all i care.
I had the experience of going to an IBM training course for WebSphere. The way IBM does things as a company is kind of strange.. i mean, dude, the CHAIRS had obscure numbering schemes. The hardware looked like it was TRYING to be 1980's back to the future looking crap.. it didn't look cool, and i dont think it ever did. Everything down to their phones - you don't dial 9 to get out, you dialed this three digit code.. To dial 911 you had to dial an 8 digit number to route through IBM's emergency services hotline. WTF?! Once you called them i wouldnt be surprised if you got questions like "Okay, the fire.. can you get the exact measurments and rate of spread? Okay, approximate temperature? Did you apply the -asbestos patch to the building? No? Well, then call back - we can't solve your problem until we go through the prereq of removing asbestos, which may indeed exacerbate the problem in this situation. Bye."
I see commercial unixes continuing to thrive for at least a few more years. Linux still isn't mature enough in the opinions of many corporations and sysadmins to handle the workload. Sure, the kernel support, etc is there, but until the Itanium becomes mainstream and middle ground software vendors begin supporting, en-masse, linux or another free operating system, the enterprise will still be overall lukewarm.
The Itanium will be a very positive thing for Linux, as it will likely be the Intel unix that replaces SCO and DG-UX's niche. There's another whole topic that can be written about the future of commercial unix processors.. AIX and HPUX run on Itanium natively. Solaris may or may not (they got it to run back in '99). The SPARC processor, long one of the leading hardware architectures, is going to suffer to the EPIC/VLIW capabilities of the Itanium, from what I can tell. The future looks grim right now, but don't count commercial vendors out yet. I'm sure there are a few tricks up sun's sleeve - they're already looking towards preliminary designs for the sparc VI and VII, and multicore sparc chips.
This is the kind of argument i dislike getting involved in, but i felt compelled somehow to put my $0.02 in. Being an objectivist on slashdot is akin to being a gay atheist in a Baptist church. You either get converted or killed, and most people don't bother with conversion anymore.
I just want to let you know, that most of what you said went through one hemisphere and out the other - however, since you started stating chemical formulas, i'm going to stand here and look impressed.
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if you've something to hide, you shouldn't even be here
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When we inevitable lose the battle (the government does have a tendency to get their way in these things), do we get to reap the benefits of a total information society? I mean, will there be a searchable database where I can find out where I left my keys? That link to that awesome video i saw on sometube.com that i can't remember? If i remembered to feed the cat?
1) Post unsubstantiated story regarding any Microsoft product malfunctioning.
2) Slashdot engine automatically posts
3) you know the rest.
I've been reading slashdot for so very long now, it's almost like an addiction, but i think it's finally time i erased my bookmark.
I have to admit though i'm pleased that, at the current time, the kneejerk reaction so typical of the slashdot community hasn't fired yet.
It's not 1998 anymore. Microsoft software isn't perfect, but neither is anything else created by human hands.
Bye, community. It's been.. well, i'm not sure how to properly describe it.
It kind of stinks around here - i have seen a LOT of dentists, and more and more are not carrying nitrous. Almost 2k a tooth to 'stabilize' it (RC + Crown). The nitrous is the only thing that makes it tolerable. Being in the dentists chair since i was 3, it's become part of the experience. unfortunately recently most of my treatments have been extractions of tooths where the root canal has failed (molars). The dentist uses Ketamine to put me under. At least im not aware of the yankage - the dentist said last time he tried to pull, the tooth was so fragile that the crown seperated very easily during the extraction. So glad i was asleep. I've had an endo drill right into my pulp chamber while i could still feel it - no amount of marcane/septicane helped. Broke her chair. :/
Unfortunately users don't come in DLL and you can't legally overflow their buffers without their permission, although if you ask in a technical enough way they will let you.
I don't think microsoft is truly committed to the shell at the present time - it started as somone's pet project. And microsoft has produced some products that, in my professional experience, have about the same amount of problems as many corporate unix apps such as oracle and peoplesoft. I can fault them for a few things, but, i see so many computers on a day to day basis.. i would say less than 5% are actual MS problems or things MS could adequately prevent.
Why am i writing this? I'm not going to get drawn into a philisophical conversation that is impossible to win on slashdot. It's like going to the middle east and saying Islam is bad[tm]. Not only are you rejected, you may be killed for it if your views are too out of the mainstream.
Slashdot has always been anti-microsoft, and in most cases zealously so, but this is just taking it too far. Many valid points are made here, but if the community wants to keep its self-respect, it makes no sense to allow blatantly inflammatory and untrue stories to come across the front page like this. I am a beta tester for Monad. it is nothing special - wmic + cmd + more scripting abilities. msh is not ready for prime time. I can't honestly believe that we're now bashing microsoft in the damned if they do damned if they don't way. They don't release it because it's not ready - the bastards can't write a program! They do release it and it's not up to snuff. Damn them! They released more faulty software!
I understand the nature of slashdot. I used to be one of the linux zealots prowling the area. I read the front page and, very rarely, the articles. Not quite sure what made me do it this time. But letting disinformation such as this leak to the front page scares me, when useful stories from people are ignored all the time.
is more akin to the bastard child of wmic and cmd; at least the beta i last saw was.
We have MSDN Business Critical support, and we also buy support blocks for non-BC use. Regardless, we get dumbasses.
One thing is for sure, short of a seance, we wont be getting Chris Lotta (starscream) or Orson Wells (Unicron) to do any voices. :(
This is my newest pet peeve. Tech support, outsourced, gets a crash course it seems in provinding support. They never do it well. I've had the fortune of calling Microsoft's professional line several times, and i always get someone who is 1) difficult to understand, and 2) not any more knowledgable in the app than i am. I don't call tech support for the "Two heads are better than one" approach, i call tech support to hear "Yes, we've seen that before, here's how to fix it." Unfortunately i haven't heard something like that since my Sun days. And another thing - when they start troubleshooting at a step you tried 3 hours ago and say "we have to try this sir"... grrr.. i get angry *instantly* at that. 0 to pissed in one processor tick.
Disclaimer: I have nothing at all against Indians - however, i do believe if i call tech support i should be able to clearly understand you. I've worked in a call center before and clarity was an important benchmark - i guess if you can get people to work for small wages your standards go down a bit too. Unfortunately it looks like Outsorcing for tech support is here to stay, as unappealing as that may be. Sprint, Dell, Microsoft... grr. I call upon Shiva to bitch slap them all!
However, this redundant system is only used during launch..
"Mod parent up". *snicker*. Okay, so not funny - it's been a long, long morning (I hate AIX.)
I wish my parents could have been more like that when it came to the internet. I did the linux thing though, so if i didn't want them to see something, i just flipped out of X really quick.
If my parents knew how to come and figure out which VT X was on.. I'd be so frickin amazed, i wouldn't care.
Then again, growing up gay, i had certain secrets to keep.
Each tile is custom-made for the particular part of the shutle it goes on. There may be some tiles that are very similar in shape, but not exact - varying thicknesses, edge interfaces, etc. Plus, if i recall correctly, the damage from the thermal blanket was to the Leading-edge RCC and tiles, not just the tiles, and im not sure what's required to change out RCC, but i have a feeling a spacewalk won't do it.
Columbia, if i recall correctly, had no docking ring for the space station anyways - there would have been spacewalks involved, at high speeds, and im not sure how much fuel, if any, the shuttle has after the EFT seperates, but i'm sure it's not enough to switch orbits. It's nice to theorize though..
Now i'm curious... What are the different advantages and disadvantages to different races transporter technologies?
Cloud bootup, eh? Might explain why people here are still bashing windows for instability and 0-uptime problems.
might i suggest upgrading from 98. There are better things out there that have the microsoft logo affixed.
I'll look into it.. it wont spend a lot of time assuming i don't know what im doing in UNIX at all, will it? I mean, i'm pretty decent at solaris and sparc hardware.. but when it comes to IBM stuff, i dont even know hardware designations.
Damnit man, here i am trying to learn AIX for my job... and you're making me biased against it. (Okay, truth be told, i already didn't like it. The hardware it runs on is sweet in some cases, but the OS kind of makes me shudder.) I much prefer solaris.
My least favorite is, like you said, the proprietary crap they've strung in, such as the lpp directory and errpt. AIX can swing for all i care.
I had the experience of going to an IBM training course for WebSphere. The way IBM does things as a company is kind of strange.. i mean, dude, the CHAIRS had obscure numbering schemes. The hardware looked like it was TRYING to be 1980's back to the future looking crap.. it didn't look cool, and i dont think it ever did. Everything down to their phones - you don't dial 9 to get out, you dialed this three digit code.. To dial 911 you had to dial an 8 digit number to route through IBM's emergency services hotline. WTF?! Once you called them i wouldnt be surprised if you got questions like "Okay, the fire.. can you get the exact measurments and rate of spread? Okay, approximate temperature? Did you apply the -asbestos patch to the building? No? Well, then call back - we can't solve your problem until we go through the prereq of removing asbestos, which may indeed exacerbate the problem in this situation. Bye."
IBM ERROR 12938-2391484
They try too hard to be obscure.
Being positive for a second.. Smit is nice.
I see commercial unixes continuing to thrive for at least a few more years. Linux still isn't mature enough in the opinions of many corporations and sysadmins to handle the workload. Sure, the kernel support, etc is there, but until the Itanium becomes mainstream and middle ground software vendors begin supporting, en-masse, linux or another free operating system, the enterprise will still be overall lukewarm.
The Itanium will be a very positive thing for Linux, as it will likely be the Intel unix that replaces SCO and DG-UX's niche. There's another whole topic that can be written about the future of commercial unix processors.. AIX and HPUX run on Itanium natively. Solaris may or may not (they got it to run back in '99). The SPARC processor, long one of the leading hardware architectures, is going to suffer to the EPIC/VLIW capabilities of the Itanium, from what I can tell. The future looks grim right now, but don't count commercial vendors out yet. I'm sure there are a few tricks up sun's sleeve - they're already looking towards preliminary designs for the sparc VI and VII, and multicore sparc chips.
This is the kind of argument i dislike getting involved in, but i felt compelled somehow to put my $0.02 in. Being an objectivist on slashdot is akin to being a gay atheist in a Baptist church. You either get converted or killed, and most people don't bother with conversion anymore.
Lets see..
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Granted, im not even remotely versed in lamespeek.. but thats about how it would look.
I just want to let you know, that most of what you said went through one hemisphere and out the other - however, since you started stating chemical formulas, i'm going to stand here and look impressed.
Forgive me, but i must.
The core idea was almost certainly plagiarized in the Voyager episode "Blink of an Eye"
Okay. Perhaps you put my post into a context you shouldn't have and removed all of the jest I so subtly strung throughout said post.
Without getting into political, social or genomic barriers here, perhaps I should have said "ignorant western ass."