2. NT (with Intel cards) supports Fast EtherChannel... [snip]
The fairness of this is dubious... Linux probably has some advantages on some hardware as well. Pardon me, but is this a driver issue (just making sure)? Is this more a capability of the intel cards, or NT?
Last I heard Nt was terrible with gigibit ethernet, and linux, Netware, Solaris, et. al. kicked ass on the tests, getting over 800Mb/sec throughput - NT IIRC was stuck at less than 350Mb/sec. So to even out why not stick a gigabit ethernet adpter in the linux box and a Gb ethernet switch? If you don't think this is fair, then how is it fair that they can do that little trick with NT?
3. Intel adapters on NT can offload the TCP checksum calculation to hardware. Linux can not. I don't know if SP4 added that support to NT4 or not. It is definitely in NT5 (I worked on some code to take advantage of it).
This definitely sounds like a driver issue. Is it?
4. If NT uses NetBEUI it will beat Samba. NetBEUI is much faster than NetBIOS over IP.
This is definitely true and should not be allowed. I don't know anyone who uses NT over NETBEUI as a file server... everyone uses IP. Well, maybe some folks do, but, NETBEUI is definitely "trending" towards non-exisitence (for reasons other than speed).
One day a year, slashdot runs on NT, just to see the difference - on the same machine it runs linux. Maybe VA could donate an identical box just for marketing purposes. Of course CT would have to stomach figuring out how to convert slashdot to run on NT (no small task I imagine - does MySQL even run on win32?)
The Mylex raid controllers are the ones for linux, not the AMI MegaRAID. Not to mention the Mylex is a great performer for NT as well. Everyone knows that; I'm surprised Dell ships the AMI controller with linux. VA uses Mylex.
I thought Be had no security built into the filesystem and no partitioning of user/system data... haven't we learned from the mistakes of windows and macintosh?
And another thing - Linux is working towards ease of use, which none of the BSD's are. That's an important feature in general purpose operating system, much more important than worrying about a little bloat.
Yes! This is something BSD'er never take into account. Linux is much easier to use; I know that if 10 months ago I had installed free BSD I probably would have gotten as far as I have with linux. I'm not talking about GNOME and KDE here, but bash (much more sensible than csh for a new user) and a nice installer.
Let's face it - for a PC person whose never been exposed to unix it is very difficult - overwhelming - at first. Linux makes it easier. BSD probably has not gotten a single windows -> unix convert, FWIW.
I've always gotten horribly slow connections from them, too many people always hitting it (mostly gamers I think). It was great back in '95 or so, but that place is too crowded now...
what did Yogi Berra say... "No one goes to that restaurant anymore - it's too crowded."
This is a little piece Camille Paglia of Salon wrote in response to a reader letter. Yeah, I'm posting it, but it's short, and very good.
Last week's horrifying massacre at Columbine High School in a suburb of Denver has brought widespread attention to clique-formation in high school -- a pitiless process that has remained amazingly consistent for the past 60 years. The arrogant jocks and debs still sublimely sail over the cowering nerds and wallflowers, who compensate by organizing their own pecking order, in minute gradations of status painfully obvious to everyone.
"We are hierarchical animals," I declared in my first book. Rousseauist liberals and armchair leftists (like Michel Foucault) think hierarchy is imposed on free-flowing human innocence by unjust external forces, like the government and the police. But hierarchy is self-generated on every occasion by any group, especially in a philosophical vacuum. As an atheist, I acknowledge that religion may be socially necessary as an ethical counterweight to natural human ferocity. The primitive marauding impulse can emerge very swiftly in the alienated young.
Your question about the terrorism suffered by artistic and sensitive boys is certainly close to my heart. I have theorized that most male homosexuality begins not at birth but in a failure of male bonding -- in the early rebuffing of sensitive boys by other males, first fathers and brothers and then the taunting in-groups of the schoolyard. This wound can make a homoerotic Michelangelo or a homicidal maniac, depending on circumstance and talent.
Guns are not the problem in America, where nature is still so near. These shocking incidents of school violence are ultimately rooted in the massive social breakdown of the Industrial Revolution, which disrupted the ancient patterns of clan and community. Our middle-class culture is affluent but spiritually empty. The attractive houses of the Columbine killers are mere shells, seething with the poisons of the isolated nuclear family and its Byzantine denials.
How ironic that our super-sophisticated warplanes were raining bombs on Belgrade even as American students were slaughtering each other -- a devastating revelation about the psychological maladies of the United States that Yugoslavia's amoral President Slobodan Milosevic was quick to point out and gloat over. When the American house is in such disorder, we look like fools and hypocrites in exporting our vision of democracy to far-flung corners of the world -- particularly when orchestrated violence is our tool.
Alas, the Columbine bloodbath already seems to be the rationale for increased surveillance of young people, who are now exhorted to snitch on each other to the authorities. The brooding apartness of Leonardo da Vinci, Lord Byron or Emily Bronte; the shrinking shyness of John Keats; the passive-aggressive reclusiveness of Emily Dickinson; the erratic moodiness of Edgar Allan Poe or Charles Baudelaire -- all will now be defined as antisocial, potentially dangerous behavior not to be tolerated by the omnipotent group, which will dispatch counselors of every stripe to coerce conformity. The totalitarian brave new world is upon us.
For me, the lesson of Columbine is that primary and secondary education, as it gradually expanded over the past century, has massive systemic problems. We are warehousing students from childhood to early adulthood, channeling them toward middle-class professional jobs that they may or may not want. Young, male, hormonally driven energy is trapped and stultified by school, with its sterile regimentation into cubical classrooms and cramped rows of seats.
I found naggingly unsettling the aggressively upbeat, we're-all-family public discourse of the Columbine faculty and staff, particularly when juxtaposed with the bland, sometimes indistinguishably WASPy faces of the students themselves. The conflict between individualism and the norm can be brutal: bourgeois "niceness" is its own imperialism. Fantasies of student revenge go way back to "Carrie" (1976), Brian De Palma's film version of Stephen King's novel, where a tormented teen unleashes her occult force to incinerate her high school. The rock revolution began with a pounding Bill Haley song blared over the credits of "Blackboard Jungle" (1955), with its juvenile delinquents on the rampage against teachers and authority.
Today's busy, busy, busy high school education seems to prepare young people for nothing. There are too many posh cars in the parking lot and too much stress on extracurricular activities. Just as I have argued for lowering the age of sexual consent to 14, so do I now propose that young people be allowed to leave school at 14 -- as they did during the immigrant era, when families needed every wage to survive. Unfortunately, in our service-sector economy, entry-level manual labor is no longer widely available.
At home, American teenagers are being simultaneously babied and neglected, while at school they have become, in effect, prisoners of the state. Primary school should be stripped down to the bare bones of grammar, art, history, math and science. We need to offer optional vocational and technical schools geared to concrete training in a craft or trade. Practical, skills-based knowledge gives students a sense of mastery, even if they don't stay in that profession. A wide range of careers might be pedagogically developed, such as horticulture and landscape design; house construction and outfitting; automotive and aviation mechanics; restaurant culinary arts; banking, accounting, investment and small business management.
The mental energy presently being recreationally diverted by teens to the Internet and to violent video games (one of the last arenas for masculine action, however imaginary) is clearly not being absorbed by school. We have a gigantic educational assembly line that coercively processes students and treats them with Ritalin or therapy if they can't sit still in the cage. The American high school as social scene clearly spawns internecine furies in sexually stunted young men -- who are emotionally divorced from their parents but too passive to run away, so that they turn their inchoate family hatreds on their peers. Like the brainy rich-kid criminals Leopold and Loeb (see the 1959 film "Compulsion"), the Columbine killers were looking for meaning and chose the immortality of infamy, the cold ninth circle of the damned.
In closing, let me declare again my utter opposition to NATO's airstrikes on Yugoslavia, an inept strategy that is being lavishly funded by American taxpayers instead of the Europeans who supposedly need protection from Balkan unrest. Serbian nationalism did not begin with Milosevic and will not end with him. Inflating this petty dictator into the new Hitler and then exaggerating NATO's benevolence will not solve the problem. We have stumbled into an ancient civil war, and we immediately used the horrors of aerial bombardment (terrorizing the civilian population and permanently traumatizing children) without attempting even the most rudimentary first steps of multinational embargo and blockade.
No matter what paper-thin agreement is reached among our cynical leaders to temporarily resolve this issue, we have poisoned a whole generation (notably in Russia and Greece) against us by demonstrating to the world not that we will intervene for justice but that we will interfere unjustly and arbitrarily whenever there is a pause in our all-absorbing sex and crime spectacles, that endless cycle of reruns that binds Hollywood to the Oval Office.
If I'm running my window manager and desktop locally, but an app, say, netscape, remotely, is there an easy way (in Xfree) to have a menu item or desktop short cut that points to this app? Or am I stuck with telneting in and launching it from the command line?
Talk about bad "user interfaces". The god forsaken thing is "un-navigable", I've never seen such a confusing bunch of drivel in my life. I can't believe anyone would want to look at it.
"Chaos Manor" is right. What a load.
the talent is there, they don't have the balls
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These are obviously a weak rip off of the iMac. Pathetic. Pc companies don't have any panache. That is the real problem.
Custom cases NEED a "door" to cover the beige 5.25" drives. They also need a little style.
At least my home computer is one of those MASSIVE 80's AT cases that I rescued from work. It's kinda cool, but only because it so big. AFAIK, the best pc cases are still at California PC Products.
I remember my first experience with unix was in the early ninties on an SCO multi-user machine. It was always fucking up, and the admin had gone out of his way to make it as ugly and unuseable as possible. This probably delayed me really learning unix by several years.
This guy - Michels - is a serious weenie. I don't like him. SCO a rebel? A "rebellious corporation"? Give me a break. Only an Apple fan could believe that a corporation could be "rebellious". 'Nix users aren't that gullible or stupid.
Perhaps you are using a different definition of the word superlative than the one in my dictionary. What these people did, and what Hitler did, are certainly not what I would call "Of the highest quality or degree."
The word "superlative" does not imply any sort of value judgement whatsoever (most horrible, most evil, worst - these are superlatives, no?). Certainly what they did was "of the highest degree".
After reading reports about their diaries, I think it's obvious they were out for some retribution, but I am still impressed with the indiscriminacy and meaninglessness of the whole thing. They planned it out rather well (and for a long time, evidently).
It still doesn't quite square that they were abused people looking for revenge, since they didn't (from the reports I've read) take their revenge out on anyone in particular. It was certainly part of the motive, but certainly not the whole story. It only stands to reason that if they wanted to take out jocks and homecoming queens, they would done this at the prom, a pep rally, or something like that. The amount of planning that went into the massacre only makes it more confusing.
but it's clunkier, not as pretty, and unless we all use Netscape for news (the easiest thing to do in X, since just clicking on a news url in Navigator brings up Messenger and automatically downloads the group), we won't be able to post in HTML (unless everyone agrees not to bitch), which I kinda like.
That said, it's less convenient (but hey, if you can't figure it out, maybe you don't belong on slashdot), and a totally different dynamic. It'd be a hell of a lot faster, though, and MUCH easier to read.
Of course, news.slashdot.org could have other uses too, like permanent slashdot newsgroups. I can think of a few right now.
I also think we would get to know each other better, and it would build a better sense of community.
If they were enraged by jocks teasing them, why did they shoot everyone in the library? Hard to find jocks and other popular types in the library. If you look at the list of victims, there doesn't seem to be any method to it at all. If they wanted to get revenge on "popular students", why not crash the prom? It doesn't make sense.
What the people can't accept is that the massacre was utterly meaningless. You have to consider a few things:
they had no intention of getting away with it (i.e., living through it)
there was no clear target - they were indiscriminate
I just think they wanted attention; they wanted to do something superlative. When life is meaningless (and most surburban youth are upset at meaninglessness of bourgeouis life), there isn't anything else left. This doesn't look like the "suffering chilld being driven over the edge" thing to me.
They were obsessed with Hitler. Hitler was definitely superlative. I guess they could have done something great, but slaughtering a crowd of helpless people is a lot easier than self sacrifice.
None of the mirrors seem to have it yet.
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I haven't tried but about five or six of them, though.
Is there a place where I can get an ISO image of the CD, like for Debian?
I got as far as 57 days before I wanted to upgrade kernels. I hated rebooting, it made me feel sick... I really have sympathy for you. Now I try to reboot my machine every 10-15 days so I don't get addicted to uptimes. I can bear rebooting a machine with 10 days, but 317?
On a lighter note, it really is time to upgrade if this is he machine you work on... I mean, a lot has happened in the last 317 days, kernel-wise.
When Rob links to idiots like this, he should simply inform tham that they've been linked to slashdot, and that they may read opinions of their article at slashdot, and could remind/.'ers that they don't need to flame-mail the guy since he already knows where to get his flames.
Slashdot Mirror
The fairness of this is dubious ... Linux probably has some advantages on some hardware as well. Pardon me, but is this a driver issue (just making sure)? Is this more a capability of the intel cards, or NT?
Last I heard Nt was terrible with gigibit ethernet, and linux, Netware, Solaris, et. al. kicked ass on the tests, getting over 800Mb/sec throughput - NT IIRC was stuck at less than 350Mb/sec. So to even out why not stick a gigabit ethernet adpter in the linux box and a Gb ethernet switch? If you don't think this is fair, then how is it fair that they can do that little trick with NT?
This definitely sounds like a driver issue. Is it?
This is definitely true and should not be allowed. I don't know anyone who uses NT over NETBEUI as a file server ... everyone uses IP. Well, maybe some folks do, but, NETBEUI is definitely "trending" towards non-exisitence (for reasons other than speed).
"Slashdot on NT" Day
One day a year, slashdot runs on NT, just to see the difference - on the same machine it runs linux. Maybe VA could donate an identical box just for marketing purposes. Of course CT would have to stomach figuring out how to convert slashdot to run on NT (no small task I imagine - does MySQL even run on win32?)
I mean really. There can't be too many people doing this.
Most file servers I've seen are single CPU machines with less than 1GB RAM and huge amounts of disk.
The Mylex raid controllers are the ones for linux, not the AMI MegaRAID. Not to mention the Mylex is a great performer for NT as well. Everyone knows that; I'm surprised Dell ships the AMI controller with linux. VA uses Mylex.
I thought Be had no security built into the filesystem and no partitioning of user/system data ... haven't we learned from the mistakes of windows and macintosh?
Yes! This is something BSD'er never take into account. Linux is much easier to use; I know that if 10 months ago I had installed free BSD I probably would have gotten as far as I have with linux. I'm not talking about GNOME and KDE here, but bash (much more sensible than csh for a new user) and a nice installer.
Let's face it - for a PC person whose never been exposed to unix it is very difficult - overwhelming - at first. Linux makes it easier. BSD probably has not gotten a single windows -> unix convert, FWIW.
I hear this a lot - conventional wisdom says not to use linux as an NFS server, if you need free NFS, BSD is probably better.
I've always gotten horribly slow connections from them, too many people always hitting it (mostly gamers I think). It was great back in '95 or so, but that place is too crowded now ...
... "No one goes to that restaurant anymore - it's too crowded."
what did Yogi Berra say
"I could really use a study that says a breakup of Micros~1 would hurt consumers."
"I could really use a study that says linux is slower than NT."
"I could REALLY usea study that sys consumer love Micros~1."
- Bill_Ga~1
You get the idea.
Then all the toadies and stooges run in all directions, money in hand, trying to find one.
This is a little piece Camille Paglia of Salon wrote in response to a reader letter. Yeah, I'm posting it, but it's short, and very good.
Last week's horrifying massacre at Columbine High
School in a suburb of Denver has brought widespread
attention to clique-formation in high school -- a pitiless
process that has remained amazingly consistent for the
past 60 years. The arrogant jocks and debs still sublimely
sail over the cowering nerds and wallflowers, who
compensate by organizing their own pecking order, in
minute gradations of status painfully obvious to everyone.
"We are hierarchical animals," I declared in my first book.
Rousseauist liberals and armchair leftists (like Michel
Foucault) think hierarchy is imposed on free-flowing
human innocence by unjust external forces, like the
government and the police. But hierarchy is
self-generated on every occasion by any group,
especially in a philosophical vacuum. As an atheist, I
acknowledge that religion may be socially necessary as
an ethical counterweight to natural human ferocity. The
primitive marauding impulse can emerge very swiftly in
the alienated young.
Your question about the terrorism suffered by artistic and
sensitive boys is certainly close to my heart. I have
theorized that most male homosexuality begins not at
birth but in a failure of male bonding -- in the early
rebuffing of sensitive boys by other males, first fathers
and brothers and then the taunting in-groups of the
schoolyard. This wound can make a homoerotic
Michelangelo or a homicidal maniac, depending on
circumstance and talent.
Guns are not the problem in America, where nature is still
so near. These shocking incidents of school violence are
ultimately rooted in the massive social breakdown of the
Industrial Revolution, which disrupted the ancient patterns
of clan and community. Our middle-class culture is
affluent but spiritually empty. The attractive houses of the
Columbine killers are mere shells, seething with the
poisons of the isolated nuclear family and its Byzantine
denials.
How ironic that our super-sophisticated warplanes were
raining bombs on Belgrade even as American students
were slaughtering each other -- a devastating revelation
about the psychological maladies of the United States
that Yugoslavia's amoral President Slobodan Milosevic
was quick to point out and gloat over. When the American
house is in such disorder, we look like fools and
hypocrites in exporting our vision of democracy to
far-flung corners of the world -- particularly when
orchestrated violence is our tool.
Alas, the Columbine bloodbath already seems to be the
rationale for increased surveillance of young people, who
are now exhorted to snitch on each other to the
authorities. The brooding apartness of Leonardo da
Vinci, Lord Byron or Emily Bronte; the shrinking shyness
of John Keats; the passive-aggressive reclusiveness of
Emily Dickinson; the erratic moodiness of Edgar Allan
Poe or Charles Baudelaire -- all will now be defined as
antisocial, potentially dangerous behavior not to be
tolerated by the omnipotent group, which will dispatch
counselors of every stripe to coerce conformity. The
totalitarian brave new world is upon us.
For me, the lesson of Columbine is that primary and
secondary education, as it gradually expanded over the
past century, has massive systemic problems. We are
warehousing students from childhood to early adulthood,
channeling them toward middle-class professional jobs
that they may or may not want. Young, male, hormonally
driven energy is trapped and stultified by school, with its
sterile regimentation into cubical classrooms and
cramped rows of seats.
I found naggingly unsettling the aggressively upbeat,
we're-all-family public discourse of the Columbine faculty
and staff, particularly when juxtaposed with the bland,
sometimes indistinguishably WASPy faces of the
students themselves. The conflict between individualism
and the norm can be brutal: bourgeois "niceness" is its
own imperialism. Fantasies of student revenge go way
back to "Carrie" (1976), Brian De Palma's film version of
Stephen King's novel, where a tormented teen unleashes
her occult force to incinerate her high school. The rock
revolution began with a pounding Bill Haley song blared
over the credits of "Blackboard Jungle" (1955), with its
juvenile delinquents on the rampage against teachers
and authority.
Today's busy, busy, busy high school education seems to
prepare young people for nothing. There are too many
posh cars in the parking lot and too much stress on
extracurricular activities. Just as I have argued for
lowering the age of sexual consent to 14, so do I now
propose that young people be allowed to leave school at
14 -- as they did during the immigrant era, when families
needed every wage to survive. Unfortunately, in our
service-sector economy, entry-level manual labor is no
longer widely available.
At home, American teenagers are being simultaneously
babied and neglected, while at school they have become,
in effect, prisoners of the state. Primary school should be
stripped down to the bare bones of grammar, art, history,
math and science. We need to offer optional vocational
and technical schools geared to concrete training in a
craft or trade. Practical, skills-based knowledge gives
students a sense of mastery, even if they don't stay in that
profession. A wide range of careers might be
pedagogically developed, such as horticulture and
landscape design; house construction and outfitting;
automotive and aviation mechanics; restaurant culinary
arts; banking, accounting, investment and small business
management.
The mental energy presently being recreationally diverted
by teens to the Internet and to violent video games (one
of the last arenas for masculine action, however
imaginary) is clearly not being absorbed by school. We
have a gigantic educational assembly line that coercively
processes students and treats them with Ritalin or
therapy if they can't sit still in the cage. The American high
school as social scene clearly spawns internecine furies
in sexually stunted young men -- who are emotionally
divorced from their parents but too passive to run away,
so that they turn their inchoate family hatreds on their
peers. Like the brainy rich-kid criminals Leopold and
Loeb (see the 1959 film "Compulsion"), the Columbine
killers were looking for meaning and chose the
immortality of infamy, the cold ninth circle of the damned.
In closing, let me declare again my utter opposition to
NATO's airstrikes on Yugoslavia, an inept strategy that is
being lavishly funded by American taxpayers instead of
the Europeans who supposedly need protection from
Balkan unrest. Serbian nationalism did not begin with
Milosevic and will not end with him. Inflating this petty
dictator into the new Hitler and then exaggerating NATO's
benevolence will not solve the problem. We have
stumbled into an ancient civil war, and we immediately
used the horrors of aerial bombardment (terrorizing the
civilian population and permanently traumatizing children)
without attempting even the most rudimentary first steps
of multinational embargo and blockade.
No matter what paper-thin agreement is reached among
our cynical leaders to temporarily resolve this issue, we
have poisoned a whole generation (notably in Russia and
Greece) against us by demonstrating to the world not that
we will intervene for justice but that we will interfere
unjustly and arbitrarily whenever there is a pause in our
all-absorbing sex and crime spectacles, that endless
cycle of reruns that binds Hollywood to the Oval Office.
If I'm running my window manager and desktop locally, but an app, say, netscape, remotely, is there an easy way (in Xfree) to have a menu item or desktop short cut that points to this app? Or am I stuck with telneting in and launching it from the command line?
...
Exceeed can do this
Talk about bad "user interfaces". The god forsaken thing is "un-navigable", I've never seen such a confusing bunch of drivel in my life. I can't believe anyone would want to look at it.
"Chaos Manor" is right. What a load.
Custom cases NEED a "door" to cover the beige 5.25" drives. They also need a little style.
At least my home computer is one of those MASSIVE 80's AT cases that I rescued from work. It's kinda cool, but only because it so big. AFAIK, the best pc cases are still at California PC Products.
We should make our own cases.
emacs:
use ctrl-space to mark the beginning of a block of text, then move your pointer to the other end.
The text in between is automatically selected.
The unix editors are nothing like the windows editors. emacs requires about 15 hours of solid pratice before you can use it at all, really.
For vi, even longer.
There are a few graphical editors (that come with gnome or kde) that do what you want.
I remember my first experience with unix was in the early ninties on an SCO multi-user machine. It was always fucking up, and the admin had gone out of his way to make it as ugly and unuseable as possible. This probably delayed me really learning unix by several years.
This guy - Michels - is a serious weenie. I don't like him. SCO a rebel? A "rebellious corporation"? Give me a break. Only an Apple fan could believe that a corporation could be "rebellious". 'Nix users aren't that gullible or stupid.
The word "superlative" does not imply any sort of value judgement whatsoever (most horrible, most evil, worst - these are superlatives, no?). Certainly what they did was "of the highest degree".
After reading reports about their diaries, I think it's obvious they were out for some retribution, but I am still impressed with the indiscriminacy and meaninglessness of the whole thing. They planned it out rather well (and for a long time, evidently).
It still doesn't quite square that they were abused people looking for revenge, since they didn't (from the reports I've read) take their revenge out on anyone in particular. It was certainly part of the motive, but certainly not the whole story. It only stands to reason that if they wanted to take out jocks and homecoming queens, they would done this at the prom, a pep rally, or something like that. The amount of planning that went into the massacre only makes it more confusing.
'nuff said.
I hate to use such a trite term, but I think it was a bonding experience for us all.
Yes, it does make more sense in some ways ...
but it's clunkier, not as pretty, and unless we all use Netscape for news (the easiest thing to do in X, since just clicking on a news url in Navigator brings up Messenger and automatically downloads the group), we won't be able to post in HTML (unless everyone agrees not to bitch), which I kinda like.
That said, it's less convenient (but hey, if you can't figure it out, maybe you don't belong on slashdot), and a totally different dynamic. It'd be a hell of a lot faster, though, and MUCH easier to read.
Of course, news.slashdot.org could have other uses too, like permanent slashdot newsgroups. I can think of a few right now.
I also think we would get to know each other better, and it would build a better sense of community.
What the people can't accept is that the massacre was utterly meaningless. You have to consider a few things:
I just think they wanted attention; they wanted to do something superlative. When life is meaningless (and most surburban youth are upset at meaninglessness of bourgeouis life), there isn't anything else left. This doesn't look like the "suffering chilld being driven over the edge" thing to me.
They were obsessed with Hitler. Hitler was definitely superlative. I guess they could have done something great, but slaughtering a crowd of helpless people is a lot easier than self sacrifice.
I haven't tried but about five or six of them, though.
Is there a place where I can get an ISO image of the CD, like for Debian?
I got as far as 57 days before I wanted to upgrade kernels. I hated rebooting, it made me feel sick ... I really have sympathy for you. Now I try to reboot my machine every 10-15 days so I don't get addicted to uptimes. I can bear rebooting a machine with 10 days, but 317?
On a lighter note, it really is time to upgrade if this is he machine you work on ... I mean, a lot has happened in the last 317 days, kernel-wise.
I'm an idiot? As if I care WTF the "stupidity of the day" is. I don't pay attention to that trash; but certainly you get the point.
Micros~1 has wasted billions of lifetimes of otherwise happy people rebooting their crap OS. They should be held accountable - for manslaughter!
When Rob links to idiots like this, he should simply inform tham that they've been linked to slashdot, and that they may read opinions of their article at slashdot, and could remind /.'ers that they don't need to flame-mail the guy since he already knows where to get his flames.
This would save bandwidth.