NFS is inherently flawed in it's transaction acknowledgement and retry behavior.
Back before M$ had Linux to kick around, there was the UNIX-Haters Handbook. I worked at Apollo/HP with a UNIX-Hater zealot. He enlightened me on the serious flaws in NFS, which I had experienced first-hand on a few occasions.
A quote from the book: (page 287) So even though NFS builds its reputation on being a "stateless" file system,
it's all a big lie. The server is filled with state--a whole disk worth. Every
single process on the client has state. It's only the NFS protocol that is
stateless. And every single gross hack that's become part of the NFS "standard"
is an attempt to cover up that lie, gloss it over, and try to make it
seem that it isn't so bad.
When I first read RMS' comments 15 years ago, I thought he was a crackpot. I worked for a large computer vendor (Wang) and could not comprehend the concepts he espoused.
Now I have aged and benefitted first hand from the freedom of software. Now I comprehend what he is trying to say and I recognize the benefit of open source software.
With that said, he still come across as a crackpot who is so entrenched in his views he will not budge. However, that is not necessarily a bad thing. Without gcc there would be a lot less free software.
...to find the combined talents of computer geek and pastry chef. Most haxx0rs notion of baking is the unwrapping of ring-dings (or ho-hos, Suzy-Q's, snowballs, or twinkies). Hmmmm. I smell a poll.
The sad part was realizing how many people were friends solely because I could fix their computers. Once I stopped being their free 24/7 tech support line they disappeared.
It is a more general social plague. The same formula applies to pickup trucks. I helped move many "friends" who I have not heard from since the move.
I have setup my wife with Mozilla Suite for the last year (running on WinXP). She was having trouble with a website that said it needed IE.
She asked, "Do I have Internet Explorer on my computer?"
I nearly cried tears of joy. I almost said, "No." However, having opened the Infect Exponentially client myself for the same reasons, I told her the truth.
Now if we can just get all websites to work equally well with all browsers...
I have been using T-Bird 0.8 for a while and am generally pleased. However, I still have to fire up Outlook Express once in a while to do one thing. Usenet Newsgroups. Why? T-Bird has no "Combine and Decode" feature.
I'm sure the T-Bird team will drop everything to ensure you can still download your alt.sex.binaries... If you are that lazy to gather your pr0n, just go to an fscking newstand - top row.
Remember, it's in "Application Data" and not "Local Settings\Application Data", and also please note all these directories for hidden for some stupid reason.
No kidding! Microsoft seems intent on keeping the unwashed masses ignorant of these very important details. Imagine how many lus3rs will be wailing and gnashing teeth when they realize they have lost all their digital photos and MP3s. fscking MS could do a much better job of educating the public, rather than keeping everything hidden.
I'd be happy if I could just specify where the data is stored like most apps (even Microsoft ones).
I've been using Mozilla/Netscape mail for years. If Thunderbird is similar, then you should be able to specify an alternate location for your mail dir. I think you have to create a new user profile, but that isn't too big a deal. I just deleted the default profile once I got mine configured right. I've successfully kept my email dir alive since Netscape 6.0. I clone the entire tree to removable storage. Mozilla is actually one of the few apps that got it right. The registry points to the application install, but everything else is outside the registry.
Now that Thunderbird 1.0 is out, I am preparing to migrate to Firefox/Thunderbird.
Microsoft... just is usually more usable, better integrated, more reputable, and cheaper than the competition. Of course, once they have eliminated the competition, they no longer have anyone to copy.
Wha-wha-whaaaaaaaaaaat?
More usable? Are you refering to the feature-bloated Office suite, or the maze-of-config-dialogs OS?
Integrated? By that do you mean their divergence from standards (Java), conforming to MS APIs, or "All your software are belong to us."
Reputable? Where? Inside Microsoft? Ok, I agree, the unwashed masses and PHBs would probably fit the bill there.
Cheaper? Do you mean compared to the free alternatives (Linux), or the one bundled with the overpriced hardware (MacOS)?
I'll wholeheartedly agree with your comment about competition. Embrace. Extend. Destroy.
Sorry. I was feeling particularly mean this morning. I was just taking it out on Macfolk. It is my displaced aggression for being harassed by the gcc crowd for my embrace of Java.:-)
I guess I better hurry up and finish the first one. I was really enjoying it, but I burnt out before completion. I know it's good to have longevity in a game, but this was a bit much.
I am in a company that began outsourcing to India 10 years ago. As such, we have already established a lot of global infrastructure. We save major ca$h using VOIP for India to US calls.
Also, many developing countries do not have reliable telco infrastructures. Since India began using VOIP, the quality of the calls has improved and the lost connections has dropped dramatically.
Perhaps this is a real-world example of how the original design goals of TCP/IP have improved communication. If you plan for unreliable communication, you can actually make it better.
Sadly, it is not the open formats that will make or break the open source offices suites.
For me, a veteran MS Office hater, my litmus test is compatability with MS Office formats. Unfortunately, OpenOffice does not score all A's in this dept. Perhaps the odds are stacked against them.
Here is my anecdotal evidence: A few months ago, my workplace laptop hard drive died. I always personally install everything, so after I got WinXP installed, along with various other apps I use, I came to the office suite. I decided I would see how long I could live on OpenOffice while working in the midst of corporate environment that treats MS products like open standards. For example, you can't get very far in our internal website without IE.
I tried. I really tried. In the end I had to install MS Office. It wasn't the authoring of documents that failed, it was the viewing of everybody else's documents. Most of the issues were formatting and layout issues. A big issue with MS Word documents was the visiblity of change tracking edits. All the changes were visible by default in OpenOffice, which resulted in very hard-to-read documents. Excel files were also difficult to import. I had a few with complex layouts of images, etc. which were practically unreadable in OpenOffice. One of the final nails in the coffin was a password protected spreadsheet - OpenOffice could not open it.
I am a voracious open-source advocate in a climate that equates quality with cost. After being forced to use Lotus Notes, I wrote a POP3 bridge server to interface with Lotus Notes, just so I could continue using Mozilla. Our IT dept. deemed it necessary to turn off POP3 on their server for "security" reasons.
Message to OpenOffice - please give MS format compatability your highest priority. It is the only way to breech the MS Office monopoly.
Ok ok. Maybe burned was a strong word. Maybe you need to chill out.
The money grubbing dept. comes from releasing two versions of the film, knowing full well that people will buy them. As I stated in another response, they could get a single version out, instead of two.
You are so kind. I never implied that I didn't know. What I didn't explicitly say is that I felt the financial pinch when I bought the extended FotR. I realized I was going to spend many more $$ if I followed the same pattern.
I would rather they released the extended version with the original theatrical release as a separate disc. Or, if they actually used the full DVD spec, they could run both versions off the same disc. With proper use of branching, this can be done. But I digress...
For the effort they put into the behind the scenese crap, they could get the extended version out in time for an initial DVD release.
I really don't need to spend a weekend watching someone else do their job. I should force Peter Jackson to watch 24 hours of footage showing me writing software.
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That's only five.
Should we start building the factories now?
NFS is inherently flawed in it's transaction acknowledgement and retry behavior.
Back before M$ had Linux to kick around, there was the UNIX-Haters Handbook. I worked at Apollo/HP with a UNIX-Hater zealot. He enlightened me on the serious flaws in NFS, which I had experienced first-hand on a few occasions.
A quote from the book: (page 287)
So even though NFS builds its reputation on being a "stateless" file system, it's all a big lie. The server is filled with state--a whole disk worth. Every single process on the client has state. It's only the NFS protocol that is stateless. And every single gross hack that's become part of the NFS "standard" is an attempt to cover up that lie, gloss it over, and try to make it seem that it isn't so bad.
If you have not tried Azureus, you have not felt the full power of bittorrent.
When I first read RMS' comments 15 years ago, I thought he was a crackpot. I worked for a large computer vendor (Wang) and could not comprehend the concepts he espoused.
Now I have aged and benefitted first hand from the freedom of software. Now I comprehend what he is trying to say and I recognize the benefit of open source software.
With that said, he still come across as a crackpot who is so entrenched in his views he will not budge. However, that is not necessarily a bad thing. Without gcc there would be a lot less free software.
...to find the combined talents of computer geek and pastry chef. Most haxx0rs notion of baking is the unwrapping of ring-dings (or ho-hos, Suzy-Q's, snowballs, or twinkies). Hmmmm. I smell a poll.
I couldn't have said it better myself.
Do you work for Sun? I keeed. I keeeed.
At home, I've never had any. Ever.
Same here. I tell all my friends and family that before fixing their computers. I have 4 Pee Cees with WinXP. The main thing is we run Mozilla.
The sad part was realizing how many people were friends solely because I could fix their computers. Once I stopped being their free 24/7 tech support line they disappeared.
It is a more general social plague. The same formula applies to pickup trucks. I helped move many "friends" who I have not heard from since the move.
I have setup my wife with Mozilla Suite for the last year (running on WinXP). She was having trouble with a website that said it needed IE.
She asked, "Do I have Internet Explorer on my computer?"
I nearly cried tears of joy. I almost said, "No." However, having opened the Infect Exponentially client myself for the same reasons, I told her the truth.
Now if we can just get all websites to work equally well with all browsers...
I have been using T-Bird 0.8 for a while and am generally pleased. However, I still have to fire up Outlook Express once in a while to do one thing. Usenet Newsgroups. Why? T-Bird has no "Combine and Decode" feature.
I'm sure the T-Bird team will drop everything to ensure you can still download your alt.sex.binaries... If you are that lazy to gather your pr0n, just go to an fscking newstand - top row.
Remember, it's in "Application Data" and not "Local Settings\Application Data", and also please note all these directories for hidden for some stupid reason.
No kidding! Microsoft seems intent on keeping the unwashed masses ignorant of these very important details. Imagine how many lus3rs will be wailing and gnashing teeth when they realize they have lost all their digital photos and MP3s. fscking MS could do a much better job of educating the public, rather than keeping everything hidden.
I'd be happy if I could just specify where the data is stored like most apps (even Microsoft ones).
I've been using Mozilla/Netscape mail for years. If Thunderbird is similar, then you should be able to specify an alternate location for your mail dir. I think you have to create a new user profile, but that isn't too big a deal. I just deleted the default profile once I got mine configured right. I've successfully kept my email dir alive since Netscape 6.0. I clone the entire tree to removable storage. Mozilla is actually one of the few apps that got it right. The registry points to the application install, but everything else is outside the registry.
Now that Thunderbird 1.0 is out, I am preparing to migrate to Firefox/Thunderbird.
Those responsible for caching the cache have been sacked.
Wha-wha-whaaaaaaaaaaat?
- More usable? Are you refering to the feature-bloated Office suite, or the maze-of-config-dialogs OS?
- Integrated? By that do you mean their divergence from standards (Java), conforming to MS APIs, or "All your software are belong to us."
- Reputable? Where? Inside Microsoft? Ok, I agree, the unwashed masses and PHBs would probably fit the bill there.
- Cheaper? Do you mean compared to the free alternatives (Linux), or the one bundled with the overpriced hardware (MacOS)?
I'll wholeheartedly agree with your comment about competition. Embrace. Extend. Destroy.I'm moving to punchcards ...
Aren't you worried about dangling chads? Would those be q-bits?
Anybody have Java equivalents of these toy programs? I want to play in my native tongue.
Sorry. I was feeling particularly mean this morning. I was just taking it out on Macfolk. It is my displaced aggression for being harassed by the gcc crowd for my embrace of Java. :-)
the heavens sang hallelujah, and the valleys did overflow with bounty, and the land was rid of pestilence, and all was good.
Big whoopdy doo. Keep paying top ca$h for your Mac, somehow convincing yourself that you're part of some Intelligentsia movement.
I already finished Doom3 over a month ago.
Like a deer in the headlights. What a n00b.
Nevertheless, the story is worthy. The FCC should not have so much power over the media.
I guess I better hurry up and finish the first one. I was really enjoying it, but I burnt out before completion. I know it's good to have longevity in a game, but this was a bit much.
I am in a company that began outsourcing to India 10 years ago. As such, we have already established a lot of global infrastructure. We save major ca$h using VOIP for India to US calls.
Also, many developing countries do not have reliable telco infrastructures. Since India began using VOIP, the quality of the calls has improved and the lost connections has dropped dramatically.
Perhaps this is a real-world example of how the original design goals of TCP/IP have improved communication. If you plan for unreliable communication, you can actually make it better.
Sadly, it is not the open formats that will make or break the open source offices suites.
For me, a veteran MS Office hater, my litmus test is compatability with MS Office formats. Unfortunately, OpenOffice does not score all A's in this dept. Perhaps the odds are stacked against them.
Here is my anecdotal evidence: A few months ago, my workplace laptop hard drive died. I always personally install everything, so after I got WinXP installed, along with various other apps I use, I came to the office suite. I decided I would see how long I could live on OpenOffice while working in the midst of corporate environment that treats MS products like open standards. For example, you can't get very far in our internal website without IE.
I tried. I really tried. In the end I had to install MS Office. It wasn't the authoring of documents that failed, it was the viewing of everybody else's documents. Most of the issues were formatting and layout issues. A big issue with MS Word documents was the visiblity of change tracking edits. All the changes were visible by default in OpenOffice, which resulted in very hard-to-read documents. Excel files were also difficult to import. I had a few with complex layouts of images, etc. which were practically unreadable in OpenOffice. One of the final nails in the coffin was a password protected spreadsheet - OpenOffice could not open it.
I am a voracious open-source advocate in a climate that equates quality with cost. After being forced to use Lotus Notes, I wrote a POP3 bridge server to interface with Lotus Notes, just so I could continue using Mozilla. Our IT dept. deemed it necessary to turn off POP3 on their server for "security" reasons.
Message to OpenOffice - please give MS format compatability your highest priority. It is the only way to breech the MS Office monopoly.
Ok ok. Maybe burned was a strong word. Maybe you need to chill out.
The money grubbing dept. comes from releasing two versions of the film, knowing full well that people will buy them. As I stated in another response, they could get a single version out, instead of two.
You are so kind. I never implied that I didn't know. What I didn't explicitly say is that I felt the financial pinch when I bought the extended FotR. I realized I was going to spend many more $$ if I followed the same pattern.
I would rather they released the extended version with the original theatrical release as a separate disc. Or, if they actually used the full DVD spec, they could run both versions off the same disc. With proper use of branching, this can be done. But I digress...
For the effort they put into the behind the scenese crap, they could get the extended version out in time for an initial DVD release.
I really don't need to spend a weekend watching someone else do their job. I should force Peter Jackson to watch 24 hours of footage showing me writing software.
That is what I am waiting for. After I got burned on the 2 versions of FotR, I resolved myself to wait for the trilogy box set.
Of course, I couldn't wait THAT long. So I bought the theatrical versions of TT and RotK.
Anyway you slice it, the money grubbing dept. is in full gear in Middle Earth.