How curious. The first sentence or two were the best ones:
Nominum Releases BIND 9
Oct 06 2000
Redwood City, California -- October 6, 2000 -- The Internet Software Consortium (ISC) has announced the release of BIND 9, written by Nominum, Inc. [...]
For example, Jose Padilla was a U.S. Citizen, picked up on U.S. territory, and put into solitary confinement without being allowed to see talk to a lawyer and without any charges against him.
But... but he was a bad guy! He kicked his dog, peed on the American flag, tore the tag off of his mattress, returned his DVDs without rewinding them, did not have his pet spayed or neutered, only looked one way before crossing, and was personally at the controls of both planes that crashed into the World Trade Center. The President said so, and he has... um... papal infallibility or something like that. It's in the Constimutution.
There's an ammendamament about it too. Part of it was scribbled in the margin and only seems to appear on the original copy in Raleigh, but I'm sure it's still legal.
"All persons born or naturalized in the United States, and subject to the jurisdiction thereof, are citizens of the United States and of the State wherein they reside. No State shall make or enforce any law which shall abridge the privileges or immunities of citizens of the United States; nor shall any State deprive any person of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law; nor deny to any person within its jurisdiction the equal protection of the laws unless they're, like, all bad guys or French or something and we all know it. Then the, you know, states can hit them with sticks and pour tea up their noses and that's still cool. Seriously."
Seriously? What? What can you do from a C64 shell on an iPhone?
You can violate the app store rules by running a general purpose BASIC interpreter.
3.3.2 An Application may not itself install or launch other executable code by any means, including without limitation through the use of a plug-in architecture, calling other frameworks, other APIs or otherwise. No interpreted code may be downloaded and used in an Application except for code that is interpreted and run by Apple's Published APIs and built-in interpreter(s).
You could, for example, type '10 PRINT "BOOBIES!"', press "R", "SHIFT", "U" and "ENTER" and suddenly have possibly objectionable content on your iPhone which has not been screened by the Elders of Cupertino. Even worse, you could bring out a stack of Compute's Gazettes and type in a whole lot more software that Apple never even dreamed of approving, and that lets you shortcut the whole approval process.
That would be bad, in case you lost track somewhere. Apple doesn't like that and does not want to set a precedent for selling "Jailbreak" apps through their own app store.
if I could 'burn' a new car from a car 'blank' for the price of a few pennies every time I left the house I would.
But wouldn't it be even better if you could 'burn' a new car with a nuclear warhead in the trunk, and give every one who had ever ridden in your car a big red button so they could completely destroy it and every single copy that you had ever made any time they wanted to? Wouldn't you feel a whole lot happier that way?
At 12-months-plus-one-second all of a sudden my Red Hat updates stopped working.
Really? You were unable to download new RPMs and install them because your support was cut off? That's horrible. That's a serious bug. And --
Oh, really? I see. That's not what you were talking about. You wanted RedHat to continue to monitor your system and provide you with instant fixes through their premium update channel, which you had paid for, even after you stopped paying for it. So now you're upset that you have to wait for official releases like the rest of the plebes.
Give MS a break. At least you can buy the OS, instead of leasing it.
You really might want to read thosee licenses you keep agreeing to some time. You're not _buying_ jack.
This is why most serious servers allow you to remotely power them back up via some kind of ILO or RAC device which runs independently of the CPU or even an old SRM or ARC console which is active after the OS shuts down. If a server is worth keeping up, then it's probably worth spending a little extra for server class hardware and connecting and configuring the management port.
If for some reason this isn't possible, there's always the option of an IP accessible power bar which lets you power cycle the server remotely. An eight plug power bar with a web interface costs less than $200, so it's hard to justify the cost benefits of letting a critical server sit around for an hour or more waiting for someone to walk up to it and push the power button.
'That's absolutely horrible,' exclaimed Arthur, 'the most revolting
thing I've ever heard.'
'What's the problem Earthman?' said Zaphod, now transfering his
attention to the animal's enormous rump.
'I just don't want to eat an animal that's standing there
inviting me to,' said Arthur, 'It's heartless.'
'Better than eating an animal that doesn't want to be
eaten,' said Zaphod.
'That's not the point,' Arthur protested. Then he thought about it
for a moment. 'Alright,' he said, 'maybe it is the point. I don't
care, I'm not going to think about it now. I'll just... er... I
think I'll just have a green salad,' he muttered.
'May I urge you to consider my liver?' asked the animal,
'it must be very rich and tender by now, I've been force-feeding
myself for months.'
If you really insist in "building" a team out of people who don't know jack each other, simple way: Grab them all for an afternoon, put them in a pub, sit down with them and get them drunk.
"Hi, Mr. Opportunist? This is Barry from HR. Could you come to my office right now to talk about these complaints we've been receiving please? Steve, the recovering alcoholic, John the Mormon and Judy, who is pregnant, all seem to have taken exception to your recent 'team building' initiatives."
For example, I can choose not to listen to people who are so terrified of rational discourse that they consider every dissenting opinion to be "bashing".
Essentially what you're asking is "Why are quick updates so popular? Back in my day we had to WAIT for the MAIL" and I hope that after reading my comment you realize how ridiculous it is to bash Twitter so much.
So basically all you have to do is believe that every other form of communication takes a Really Long Time to complete and then suddenly the advantages to doing everything Instantly(tm) with Twitter(tm) become obvious.
Now if you'll excuse me it's almost time for the emailman to come by and make his daily delivery. I don't want to miss this or I'll have to wait until tomorrow to find out anything.
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When will they learn that the zoom control is only for big kids to use?
Depends on if you're home when it happens.
How curious. The first sentence or two were the best ones:
For the rest, you can just trust that USENIX won't try to rewrite their own history any time soon.
Isn't Nominum that company that was formed about ten years ago for the purpose of developing the open source BIND and DHCP for ISC?
Yeah, these guys.
And now they're turning around and saying "Don't use that open source BIND because it's crap. We should know, we wrote it!"
But... but he was a bad guy! He kicked his dog, peed on the American flag, tore the tag off of his mattress, returned his DVDs without rewinding them, did not have his pet spayed or neutered, only looked one way before crossing, and was personally at the controls of both planes that crashed into the World Trade Center. The President said so, and he has... um... papal infallibility or something like that. It's in the Constimutution.
There's an ammendamament about it too. Part of it was scribbled in the margin and only seems to appear on the original copy in Raleigh, but I'm sure it's still legal.
"All persons born or naturalized in the United States, and subject to the jurisdiction thereof, are citizens of the United States and of the State wherein they reside. No State shall make or enforce any law which shall abridge the privileges or immunities of citizens of the United States; nor shall any State deprive any person of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law; nor deny to any person within its jurisdiction the equal protection of the laws unless they're, like, all bad guys or French or something and we all know it. Then the, you know, states can hit them with sticks and pour tea up their noses and that's still cool. Seriously."
And to see the possible effects of their involvement with toxic waste, go see Gamera.
Donations to the "Francesco Fonti And His Family And Their Pets Memorial Fund" can be sent to their former neighbours in Calabria.
Horror show. You could peet it with vellocet or synthemesc or drencrom or one or two other veshches.
Xenopsylla cheopis says 'Hi'. In addition to being a close friend of mice, it also carries something you might know as the Bubonic Plague.
It killed a hundred million people in the 14th century. Is that dangerous enough for you, or would you like something more lethal?
How ironic.
You can violate the app store rules by running a general purpose BASIC interpreter.
You could, for example, type '10 PRINT "BOOBIES!"', press "R", "SHIFT", "U" and "ENTER" and suddenly have possibly objectionable content on your iPhone which has not been screened by the Elders of Cupertino. Even worse, you could bring out a stack of Compute's Gazettes and type in a whole lot more software that Apple never even dreamed of approving, and that lets you shortcut the whole approval process.
That would be bad, in case you lost track somewhere. Apple doesn't like that and does not want to set a precedent for selling "Jailbreak" apps through their own app store.
But wouldn't it be even better if you could 'burn' a new car with a nuclear warhead in the trunk, and give every one who had ever ridden in your car a big red button so they could completely destroy it and every single copy that you had ever made any time they wanted to? Wouldn't you feel a whole lot happier that way?
Paul Sweazey thinks that you would like that.
Really? You were unable to download new RPMs and install them because your support was cut off? That's horrible. That's a serious bug. And --
Oh, really? I see. That's not what you were talking about. You wanted RedHat to continue to monitor your system and provide you with instant fixes through their premium update channel, which you had paid for, even after you stopped paying for it. So now you're upset that you have to wait for official releases like the rest of the plebes.
You really might want to read thosee licenses you keep agreeing to some time. You're not _buying_ jack.
You're suggesting that they patch critical security flaws right away. The only difference here is the quality of their excuse.
Then maybe they shouldn't break the law. Or am I thinking too hard again?
This is why most serious servers allow you to remotely power them back up via some kind of ILO or RAC device which runs independently of the CPU or even an old SRM or ARC console which is active after the OS shuts down. If a server is worth keeping up, then it's probably worth spending a little extra for server class hardware and connecting and configuring the management port.
If for some reason this isn't possible, there's always the option of an IP accessible power bar which lets you power cycle the server remotely. An eight plug power bar with a web interface costs less than $200, so it's hard to justify the cost benefits of letting a critical server sit around for an hour or more waiting for someone to walk up to it and push the power button.
I'm just waiting for one of the thieves to return to the same store trying to get service for one of the stolen computers.
Why would eBay care? You might have better luck complaining to marca instead, since he just bought the frakkin' thing.
'That's absolutely horrible,' exclaimed Arthur, 'the most revolting thing I've ever heard.'
'What's the problem Earthman?' said Zaphod, now transfering his attention to the animal's enormous rump.
'I just don't want to eat an animal that's standing there inviting me to,' said Arthur, 'It's heartless.'
'Better than eating an animal that doesn't want to be eaten,' said Zaphod.
'That's not the point,' Arthur protested. Then he thought about it for a moment. 'Alright,' he said, 'maybe it is the point. I don't care, I'm not going to think about it now. I'll just ... er ... I
think I'll just have a green salad,' he muttered.
'May I urge you to consider my liver?' asked the animal, 'it must be very rich and tender by now, I've been force-feeding myself for months.'
Or, for Canadian viewers, "The Beachcombers 2049".
Until some dickhead wearing mirror shades and a black trenchcoat came around and wrecked everything. That part would really suck.
"Hi, Mr. Opportunist? This is Barry from HR. Could you come to my office right now to talk about these complaints we've been receiving please? Steve, the recovering alcoholic, John the Mormon and Judy, who is pregnant, all seem to have taken exception to your recent 'team building' initiatives."
Yes, there certainly is.
That's shocking. It's almost as if he's in charge of _exactly the same country_ as the last guy was.
Don't they have a tradition of launching all three hundred million people into the sun every four years so they can get a clean start on things?
For example, I can choose not to listen to people who are so terrified of rational discourse that they consider every dissenting opinion to be "bashing".
So basically all you have to do is believe that every other form of communication takes a Really Long Time to complete and then suddenly the advantages to doing everything Instantly(tm) with Twitter(tm) become obvious.
Now if you'll excuse me it's almost time for the emailman to come by and make his daily delivery. I don't want to miss this or I'll have to wait until tomorrow to find out anything.