Packages should never even touch configfiles without asking for permission in triplicate.
I'm not familiar with the package in question, but I assume it also installed some binaries. If it found that there already was a configfile of that name, it should have asked what to do.
If setting up the caching-nameserver was a matter of changing config options, you don't need a package for that, you need a HOWTO.
Plus-adressing isn't exactly a new idea, but it's nice that they've implemented it. Makes it easier to trace which bastard site has been selling my address:-)
> You're going to have to point to a verifiable study saying 10% of the population is homosexual.
Meh,it's been years since I've been actually active in the movement, but that's the ballpark figure that gets thrown around mostly, and it comes from Kinsey. However, I just did some quick looking around for more recent numbers, and found http://www.familyresearchinst.org/FRI_AIM_Talk.html . This is a summary of a number of studies, and since it's by Paul Cameron of the FRI, notable for not being very gay-minded, I doubt that he'll be overstating the numbers.
Numbers, as expected, vary wildly, from 0.6% (Kurdeck & Schmitt, 1987) to 10.7% for males and 7.4% for females (FRI-Dallas, 1984). Cameron's interpretation is to average 35 studies, and this points him to a number of less than 5% for both men and women, still not an unimportant number.
One of the major problems in getting accurate numbers, is the inherent fluidity of sexuality - you're not either gay or straight, and even adding bisexual to the list doesn't clear things up. At what point does a straight person become a gay man ? When, in a drunken stupor, a guy picks up a broad that turns out to have a surprise for him, and he's so drunk and horny that he fucks it anyway ? When a woman is happily married and even has children, but when they go swinging she happily gets it on with women ?
It's not an easy thing to determine, but I'll agree that Kinsey's estimate was very probably on the high side.
> I know hundreds of people, but very few of them are homosexual. I simply don't believe that one in ten people is homosexual.
I also know hundreds of people (hey, we both have a life) and you'll not be surprised to learn that well over 10%, probably a lot higher, are gay. In my first-name alphabetized phone book, out of the 20 first people there's 6 gays.
Your personal experience will obviously be strongly related to your personal environment. You've already admitted to an 'aversion to homosexuality', so obviously you're not going to have a lot of gay friends.
And yes, btw, I do go out in straight clubs as well - I'm even a member of the board in one of the major local youth centers.
> same reason you occasionally get horribly deformed animals
Why, thank you:-)
I'd nevertheless like to point out that, unlike the random mutations (and probably well below 1% occurence) of horribly deformed animals, homosexuality is a rather consistent mutation. The debate about nature vs. nurture is still on, and will probably be so for a long time to come, but most everyone agrees that it'll probably turn out to be a bit of both.
However, if *you* have some verifyable studies saying that I'm a horribly deformed animal, I'll happily oblige. Don't go asking for studies, and then start throwing around totally groundless numbers and theories.
Just as a matter of curiosity, btw, I wonder if you enjoy anal sex with your other-sex partners? If you do (and a lot of surprisingly straight men *and* women do), you might want to reconsider that "yuck"-factor of yours. Just saying:-)
As long as you don't take it out on me, you're allowed to think what you want of me.
However, as forms of homosexuality have been around in humankind for several thousand years now, exist in most all cultures on all continents and have been documented in quite a few species taking into account availability of members of the opposite sex; I cannot help but surmise that a genetic component is involved.
That, in turn, raises the question of why an obvious evolutionary dead-end hasn't gone right out by now, but instead currently manifests in about 10% of the population ?
I've realized a long time ago, and this article's comments confirm it again, that there's two types of admins: the anal, by-the-book type, who tend to give their machines very clean, logical names with lots of meaning, and which nobody but them manages to remember; and the chaotic, playful type, who give their machines names from various more-or-less-known sets of words, which contain no information about the machine at all, but are easy to remember by most people who work with them on a regular basis.
The schematic naming is very interesting from a management perspective: just looking at the name will tell you everything from what the machine does to what colour of underwear the operator who installed it was wearing. In my experience, however, users tend to see a random string of characters, and fail to extract the information from the name. Also, was it ap or app, prod or prd,...
The chaotic naming is utterly useless from a management perspective, beyond using distinct sets for distinct projects. However, to a certain degree, it antropomorphizes the servers, which makes the names way easier to remember for most humans.
Both approaches are equally valid - it just depends on your personal preference. I have insufficient datapoints to make any kind of statistically valid inference, but I have the strong impression that Windows engineers tend to go for strict naming, while *nix engineers tend to go for the chaotic approach. YMMV.
> are left with a very one-sided governmental system
Only because Americans for some reason still accept this two-party system of theirs. Most democratic countries have an almost absurd number of parties vying for power.
Additionally, obligatory voting means that most everyone casts a vote - even if you're not very politically inclined, as long as you're there anyway you're at least going to tell the current gubment wether or not you like them.
> The pendulum once disturbed never quite regains its balance.
Unless you've just invented a perpetuum mobile, you'll find that a pendulum doesn't actually have a balance.
This whole balance-of-nature thing is nothing but brown fluff. The very basis of nature is change, not balance.
Yes, we - as a species - appear to be causing an inordinate amount of change in a pretty short time, and it looks like we're causing quite a bit of collateral damage as well. However, we will either adapt and change our ways to less damaging ones; or we'll remove ourself from the equation.
Either way, I have the fullest confidence that life will survive, even if individual species won't. We're no more important to the planet than the most common of single-celled organisms.
> That being said, it is far worse to convict an innocent individual than to let a guilty man go free.
Ideologically speaking, this is true, and I fully agree.
However, if you convict an innocent, only he (and by extension a single family) will suffer. If you let a guilty serial killer go free, many more people and families will suffer. I don't want to go explaining the ideology of it all to those who remain behind.
> there wasn't a single person who didn't know instantly from the summary that it meant 70F.
My friday mind followed approximately this path:
- 70 Celcius ? Nah, that's too warm, trees are cold-blooded. - Fucking Americans, use real units. How much would 70 Farenheit be ? - But he didn't actually say farenheit, and I didn't know trees regulate their internal temperature, so maybe he meant angle - But.. 70 degrees to what, precisely ? The trunk? The sun's position ? The branch they grow on ? - Oh fuck this, let's have a look at the comments
Also notice that, true to form, RTFA didn't even occur to me:-p
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Packages should never even touch configfiles without asking for permission in triplicate.
I'm not familiar with the package in question, but I assume it also installed some binaries. If it found that there already was a configfile of that name, it should have asked what to do.
If setting up the caching-nameserver was a matter of changing config options, you don't need a package for that, you need a HOWTO.
Point, but even then, it's still a config file, which should never ever ever be touched by a package update if it's been user-modified.
Rip, indeed.
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Interleaved autoincrement + row(value)-based replication == multimaster write.
Just interleave your autoincrements by the number of masters (still a max of 2?), and have master 1 start at 1, master 2 start at 2 and so on.
Plus-adressing isn't exactly a new idea, but it's nice that they've implemented it. Makes it easier to trace which bastard site has been selling my address :-)
... who tought this was about fuel cell based laptops ?
How do you make cuntwaffles ? Sounds strangely tasty.
> there's nothing to slow you down out there.
Well... expect for a handfull of planets, of course. Those can slow you down pretty hard.
> You're going to have to point to a verifiable study saying 10% of the population is homosexual.
Meh,it's been years since I've been actually active in the movement, but that's the ballpark figure that gets thrown around mostly, and it comes from Kinsey. However, I just did some quick looking around for more recent numbers, and found http://www.familyresearchinst.org/FRI_AIM_Talk.html . This is a summary of a number of studies, and since it's by Paul Cameron of the FRI, notable for not being very gay-minded, I doubt that he'll be overstating the numbers.
Numbers, as expected, vary wildly, from 0.6% (Kurdeck & Schmitt, 1987) to 10.7% for males and 7.4% for females (FRI-Dallas, 1984). Cameron's interpretation is to average 35 studies, and this points him to a number of less than 5% for both men and women, still not an unimportant number.
One of the major problems in getting accurate numbers, is the inherent fluidity of sexuality - you're not either gay or straight, and even adding bisexual to the list doesn't clear things up. At what point does a straight person become a gay man ? When, in a drunken stupor, a guy picks up a broad that turns out to have a surprise for him, and he's so drunk and horny that he fucks it anyway ? When a woman is happily married and even has children, but when they go swinging she happily gets it on with women ?
It's not an easy thing to determine, but I'll agree that Kinsey's estimate was very probably on the high side.
> I know hundreds of people, but very few of them are homosexual. I simply don't believe that one in ten people is homosexual.
I also know hundreds of people (hey, we both have a life) and you'll not be surprised to learn that well over 10%, probably a lot higher, are gay. In my first-name alphabetized phone book, out of the 20 first people there's 6 gays.
Your personal experience will obviously be strongly related to your personal environment. You've already admitted to an 'aversion to homosexuality', so obviously you're not going to have a lot of gay friends.
And yes, btw, I do go out in straight clubs as well - I'm even a member of the board in one of the major local youth centers.
> same reason you occasionally get horribly deformed animals
Why, thank you :-)
I'd nevertheless like to point out that, unlike the random mutations (and probably well below 1% occurence) of horribly deformed animals, homosexuality is a rather consistent mutation. The debate about nature vs. nurture is still on, and will probably be so for a long time to come, but most everyone agrees that it'll probably turn out to be a bit of both.
However, if *you* have some verifyable studies saying that I'm a horribly deformed animal, I'll happily oblige. Don't go asking for studies, and then start throwing around totally groundless numbers and theories.
Just as a matter of curiosity, btw, I wonder if you enjoy anal sex with your other-sex partners? If you do (and a lot of surprisingly straight men *and* women do), you might want to reconsider that "yuck"-factor of yours. Just saying :-)
As long as you don't take it out on me, you're allowed to think what you want of me.
However, as forms of homosexuality have been around in humankind for several thousand years now, exist in most all cultures on all continents and have been documented in quite a few species taking into account availability of members of the opposite sex; I cannot help but surmise that a genetic component is involved.
That, in turn, raises the question of why an obvious evolutionary dead-end hasn't gone right out by now, but instead currently manifests in about 10% of the population ?
I've realized a long time ago, and this article's comments confirm it again, that there's two types of admins: the anal, by-the-book type, who tend to give their machines very clean, logical names with lots of meaning, and which nobody but them manages to remember; and the chaotic, playful type, who give their machines names from various more-or-less-known sets of words, which contain no information about the machine at all, but are easy to remember by most people who work with them on a regular basis.
The schematic naming is very interesting from a management perspective: just looking at the name will tell you everything from what the machine does to what colour of underwear the operator who installed it was wearing. In my experience, however, users tend to see a random string of characters, and fail to extract the information from the name. Also, was it ap or app, prod or prd, ...
The chaotic naming is utterly useless from a management perspective, beyond using distinct sets for distinct projects. However, to a certain degree, it antropomorphizes the servers, which makes the names way easier to remember for most humans.
Both approaches are equally valid - it just depends on your personal preference. I have insufficient datapoints to make any kind of statistically valid inference, but I have the strong impression that Windows engineers tend to go for strict naming, while *nix engineers tend to go for the chaotic approach. YMMV.
> are left with a very one-sided governmental system
Only because Americans for some reason still accept this two-party system of theirs. Most democratic countries have an almost absurd number of parties vying for power.
Additionally, obligatory voting means that most everyone casts a vote - even if you're not very politically inclined, as long as you're there anyway you're at least going to tell the current gubment wether or not you like them.
> The pendulum once disturbed never quite regains its balance.
Unless you've just invented a perpetuum mobile, you'll find that a pendulum doesn't actually have a balance.
This whole balance-of-nature thing is nothing but brown fluff. The very basis of nature is change, not balance.
Yes, we - as a species - appear to be causing an inordinate amount of change in a pretty short time, and it looks like we're causing quite a bit of collateral damage as well. However, we will either adapt and change our ways to less damaging ones; or we'll remove ourself from the equation.
Either way, I have the fullest confidence that life will survive, even if individual species won't. We're no more important to the planet than the most common of single-celled organisms.
Umm...
That makes it either $20 (landline) + $20 (dialup) or $20 (landline) + $50 (broadband).
Thats still $30 more, from where I'm standing.
grisoft.com is the AVG site.
This new AVG crap will notice when you go to google, and pre-fetch and scan all search results.
The iframe loads an invisible (well, 1x1) google query for 100 pages from site:grisoft.com.
Net result of this: Everytime a user hits your page, grisoft gets a hundred hits from their own scanner.
> how the hell GP is proposing to get a quartz crystal large enough
All you need is to find the temple of a species of extra-dimensional alien whose skeleton is made of crystal and shaped like a guitar.
Hey, that almost sounds like a good movie plot !
Both, probably.
12 feet being 3 to 4 metres. Still a difference, true, but not all that much.
> everybody must agree as to what a kilogram is before the unit has any value as a standard.
Is this somehow not the case with all standards ?
Funky. Parent posts the exac same link less than a minute later than parent-1.
One gets +5 informative, and the other 1 Redundant, merely for being a few seconds late in offering the exact same information.
Wonderful.
This might not be all that bad.
All you'll need to do to get acceptable performance out of it, is remove RedTape.dll and reboot.
> That being said, it is far worse to convict an innocent individual than to let a guilty man go free.
Ideologically speaking, this is true, and I fully agree.
However, if you convict an innocent, only he (and by extension a single family) will suffer. If you let a guilty serial killer go free, many more people and families will suffer. I don't want to go explaining the ideology of it all to those who remain behind.
FTA> Absent for the reshoot was Bob Wallace (top center), who died in 2002; after leaving Microsoft in 1983, he pioneered the idea of shareware.
The one guy who left them to do something that actually allows people some choice, dies.
I smell a conspiracy :-)
> there wasn't a single person who didn't know instantly from the summary that it meant 70F.
My friday mind followed approximately this path:
- 70 Celcius ? Nah, that's too warm, trees are cold-blooded.
- Fucking Americans, use real units. How much would 70 Farenheit be ?
- But he didn't actually say farenheit, and I didn't know trees regulate their internal temperature, so maybe he meant angle
- But.. 70 degrees to what, precisely ? The trunk? The sun's position ? The branch they grow on ?
- Oh fuck this, let's have a look at the comments
Also notice that, true to form, RTFA didn't even occur to me :-p
> And it could be absolutely porn-free.
Not to mention, user-free.