When I was reading that, I couldn't believe all the equipment they use to produce that show. I haven't watched it in a long time, and I guess I'm ignorant, but from what I've seen SP looks like a competent animator could do an episode by hand in a short time.
I wonder how many animators it took to produce those Warner borthers shorts (which look to me like they have 20 times the number of frames of south park).
The market is pushing the salary into the 100k+ plus range for someone with the necessary experience to handle even a relatively small network, never mind what the really large companies like State Farm insurance or Wells Fargo bank have.
Really? That is not my experience at all... average MSCE makesbetween 40k and 55k, unix sysadmins with programming experience seem to be around 45-80k depending on experience and other skills. 100k to manage a small network? I don't think so - I wish.
But it is very popular, at least for oracle's workgroup server. It seems all the vendors are forcing people to move to NT. What pain.
The drive letters start to really get in the way. You actually can't have an OFI compliant install under NT because of the drive letters (unless you install everything on the same partition).
OEM is kinda nice but you don't need it. The oracle courses heavily stress the cli tools, even under NT.
Yeah, my "boss" is such a person. Completely clueless, and he calls me 20-30x a day asking me how to do all manner of stupid shit. Lately I've been very short with him. What an idiot.
I think he is referring to "site admins" - the type that isn't really an administrator at all anyway, probably just the most computer literate in the office who takes care of adding users and such.
This kind of person definitely couldn't handle the cli, I've met enough of them to know. And they don't write batch files either.
that thing Ken Thompson was talking about when he was bashing linux and mp3?
What good is it if it isn't Free (an open standard)? After the shit people have tried to pull with gif, I don't think anyone is willing to go with a proprietary "standard" anymore.
umm.. it is you who are unable to understand that the GUI is not some holy grail of computing.
it is you do does not understand that there might be people who think differently from you
no one is pouting. If you actually listen, there are very good arguments for why the cli exists and why people like it. People hate NT because the provided administration tools are useable by idiots but worthless for professionals. Sorry.
I'm not going to take this apart, but the author makes two very poor assertions:
unix must be taken out of linux
No - unix must be made invisible. I can do this now.
linux is poorly designed for the end user
Linux can be made into an appliance anyone can use, but they will have very little freedom over it. This is very attractive to bussinesses, but does not solve the home user problem.
The problem is not "taking unix out of it" or any nonsense like that. The problem is system administration. With any unix system, someone has to be the admin. That is the problem. I doubt that linux will ever solve that problem entirely, but I think enough progress has been made so that it will be attractive to most people who have some curiosity and intelligence. Windows does not solve this problem either - not even close. I don't know how many times people at work come to me with their fscked windows machines. "What did I do? It just stopped working." they ask.
Designing a UI for people who hate computers is frankly, a total bullshit idea. They need appliances, like set top boxes, not PC's. If they want that level of ease and hand holding, they're going to have to give up the freedoms that we enjoy. That is a fact.
but because it was incoherent. This is writing? I could hardly glean a point from this rambling babble, although it was more or less inocuous and mildly entertaining. It reads worse than some of the anti-windows rants on usenet, which (sometimes) are funny.
Funnny, but a "fake" grappling match could be just as exciting to watch as a "fake" standup.
There is a lot of flashy stuff in BJJ and greco-roman, it never gets used because no one falls for it after a point.
But it WOULD look good in a movie. Does anyone remember wathcing Dan Severn throw what-his-name around like a rag doll (the back suplexes) in the UFC? The crown freaked out over that.
Nice to know some other groundfighter's on slashdot. Yes, stand up fighting is basically bs.
I guess the public would not be too excited by armbars, ankle locks chokes and so forth.
Watching a grappling master take out a moron might be interesting for the uninitiated, but watching two grappling masters go at it I think they might find boring (hence all the stupid rules in the ufc)
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Yes I have the same problem. I used to be quite fat (about 225# and 5'8") but got down to a very slim (for my build) 165#. Mainly from running, a lot (8-10 miles), every day.
I have always been strict about no junk food, and all my co workers think I am a health food freak, but the truth is I'm a food snob. I love to cook and I love to eat.
Since I started using linux I think I put on 15 pounds and have gone long streches without running. I need to cut this shit out.
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Think about what you just said.. We are meat, but we can't produce those 8 ameino acids.
Other animals are meat, but they can? That doesn't make much sense
Yes, well it's kinda funny that a gorilla can turn into a 500lb creature that can pick up your car and throw it on a strict diet of twigs and berries.. oh wait - they have a different physiology:-)
I happen to like BSD, I just don't like the snobbery of (some of) their users (like you). Linux people never flame BSDers, it always starts the other way 'round. And of course, no, not all of them are like that.
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score all the ridiculous fragmentation posts down as trolls (because 9/10 of them are). So a herd of BSD users saw fit to come and flame linux. Go back to BSD, I don't care what you use.
And while I'm off topic, why does everyone moderate up posts by famous people, even if they're trolls or otherwise off topic or uninteresting? It's annoying. "Oh, I noticed jwz/Tom Christiansen/RMS/ESR made a post! I'll have to score that as a '10'". Who cares? We're all in this together.
Slashdot Mirror
You got my interest, but the site is down (and has been for some time evidently). Is it anywhere else?
I will use squirm/squid/regexp to block all religeous sites and make sure my children's minds are not contaminated with that poison.
He looks EXACTLY like the unix hacker from the dilbert cartoon.
When I was reading that, I couldn't believe all the equipment they use to produce that show. I haven't watched it in a long time, and I guess I'm ignorant, but from what I've seen SP looks like a competent animator could do an episode by hand in a short time.
I wonder how many animators it took to produce those Warner borthers shorts (which look to me like they have 20 times the number of frames of south park).
Really? That is not my experience at all ... average MSCE makesbetween 40k and 55k, unix sysadmins with programming experience seem to be around 45-80k depending on experience and other skills. 100k to manage a small network? I don't think so - I wish.
But it is very popular, at least for oracle's workgroup server. It seems all the vendors are forcing people to move to NT. What pain.
The drive letters start to really get in the way.
You actually can't have an OFI compliant install under NT because of the drive letters (unless you install everything on the same partition).
OEM is kinda nice but you don't need it. The oracle courses heavily stress the cli tools, even under NT.
I've never gotten him to compile on my box. It just doesn't work.
Yeah, my "boss" is such a person. Completely clueless, and he calls me 20-30x a day asking me how to do all manner of stupid shit. Lately I've been very short with him. What an idiot.
I think he is referring to "site admins" - the type that isn't really an administrator at all anyway, probably just the most computer literate in the office who takes care of adding users and such.
This kind of person definitely couldn't handle the cli, I've met enough of them to know. And they don't write batch files either.
But I don't see why they couldn't use linuxconf.
that thing Ken Thompson was talking about when he was bashing linux and mp3?
What good is it if it isn't Free (an open standard)? After the shit people have tried to pull with gif, I don't think anyone is willing to go with a proprietary "standard" anymore.
umm .. it is you who are unable to understand that the GUI is not some holy grail of computing.
it is you do does not understand that there might be people who think differently from you
no one is pouting. If you actually listen, there are very good arguments for why the cli exists and why people like it. People hate NT because the provided administration tools are useable by idiots but worthless for professionals. Sorry.
unix must be taken out of linux
No - unix must be made invisible. I can do this now.
linux is poorly designed for the end user
Linux can be made into an appliance anyone can use, but they will have very little freedom over it. This is very attractive to bussinesses, but does not solve the home user problem.
The problem is not "taking unix out of it" or any nonsense like that. The problem is system administration. With any unix system, someone has to be the admin. That is the problem. I doubt that linux will ever solve that problem entirely, but I think enough progress has been made so that it will be attractive to most people who have some curiosity and intelligence. Windows does not solve this problem either - not even close. I don't know how many times people at work come to me with their fscked windows machines. "What did I do? It just stopped working." they ask.
Designing a UI for people who hate computers is frankly, a total bullshit idea. They need appliances, like set top boxes, not PC's. If they want that level of ease and hand holding, they're going to have to give up the freedoms that we enjoy. That is a fact.
... buy them.
but because it was incoherent. This is writing? I could hardly glean a point from this rambling babble, although it was more or less inocuous and mildly entertaining. It reads worse than some of the anti-windows rants on usenet, which (sometimes) are funny.
Funnny, but a "fake" grappling match could be just as exciting to watch as a "fake" standup.
There is a lot of flashy stuff in BJJ and greco-roman, it never gets used because no one falls for it after a point.
But it WOULD look good in a movie. Does anyone remember wathcing Dan Severn throw what-his-name around like a rag doll (the back suplexes) in the UFC? The crown freaked out over that.
Nice to know some other groundfighter's on slashdot. Yes, stand up fighting is basically bs.
I guess the public would not be too excited by armbars, ankle locks chokes and so forth.
Watching a grappling master take out a moron might be interesting for the uninitiated, but watching two grappling masters go at it I think they might find boring (hence all the stupid rules in the ufc)
a good debunking of the whole thing. Thanks.
Yes I have the same problem. I used to be quite fat (about 225# and 5'8") but got down to a very slim (for my build) 165#. Mainly from running, a lot (8-10 miles), every day.
I have always been strict about no junk food, and all my co workers think I am a health food freak, but the truth is I'm a food snob. I love to cook and I love to eat.
Since I started using linux I think I put on 15 pounds and have gone long streches without running. I need to cut this shit out.
Yes, well it's kinda funny that a gorilla can turn into a 500lb creature that can pick up your car and throw it on a strict diet of twigs and berries
ldap isn't a directory, but a means to access one. Sure it should be x.500 based, but that doesn't mean you can't query it with an LDAP client.
I can query NDS with an LDAP client, ya know.
Will we still be using dns in ten years anyway? Won't we have moved to a directory based system by then, using ldap to access it?
Linux is losing what? What is it losing?
I'm starting to think MS is hiring all these AC's to come over here pretending to be BSD users flaming linux. Now that's a good tactic!
I happen to like BSD, I just don't like the snobbery of (some of) their users (like you). Linux people never flame BSDers, it always starts the other way 'round. And of course, no, not all of them are like that.
score all the ridiculous fragmentation posts down as trolls (because 9/10 of them are). So a herd of BSD users saw fit to come and flame linux. Go back to BSD, I don't care what you use.
And while I'm off topic, why does everyone moderate up posts by famous people, even if they're trolls or otherwise off topic or uninteresting? It's annoying. "Oh, I noticed jwz/Tom Christiansen/RMS/ESR made a post! I'll have to score that as a '10'". Who cares? We're all in this together.
If you know this much there is much money to be made on the side if you can find the time. Do you really need to work this much???