I usually find that I have to agree to about 8 EULAs (actually counted that many just setting up office and patching a new Dell box), evenly spaced throughout the entire installation. I can't just set it up and go do something else, I have to sit there and watch it for 30-45 minutes - Always annoyed the hell out of me.
Note the label "FileSystem" in the Nautilus screenshot.
It doesn't matter in the least what that label is, could be FileSystem, MySomethingOrOther, iCrap or BunchOFlyingMonkeys - grandma does not read labels to figure out how to do what she needs, she memorizes the specific sequences of clicks for her pre-determined tasks.
Can't locate tax.pm in @INC (@INC contains:/usr/local/lib/perl5/5.8.0/i686-linux/usr/local/lib/perl5/5.8.0/usr/local/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.8.0/i686-linux/usr/local/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.8.0/usr/local/lib/perl5/site_perl.) at -e line 1.
BEGIN failed--compilation aborted at -e line 1.
What about when the rules are complete bullshit? Or when those who make the rules, don't follow the rules?
States are specifically prohibited from doing this sort of thing (and with good reason). Here they are using a rather dubious concept to get around the language prohibiting the practice.
* Microsoft is evil, stupid, moronic, evil, nasty, unsafe, did I mention evil?
Well... yeah, they are, what's really the problem with admitting that? We know something about the company and their track-record, why should that not be allowed to colour our current opinion of them?
GNU/Linux itself is more or less a remake of Unix. MySQL reimplemented SQL. Samba emulates Microsoft's protocol, etc.
Ok, the first one is of course true, the other two are a little odd. SQL is a language, MySQL is a database engine which implements that language - that's how things work, that's why you have language specs in the first place. It's a little like saying that MS's VisualStudio "reimplements" C++.
Samba's only raison d'être is to talk Microsoft's SMB/CIFS protocol. Is Microsoft emulating opensource with Outlook because outlook can receive mail from Sendmail? or because IE will do DNS resolution by talking to BIND?
I have a Linksys 8 port gigabit switch and I can definitely confirm that it's a bit of a beast when it comes to noise (for a switch anyway). I have enough stuff running to drown it out completely, but I can definitely see how some people would be greatly annoyed.
Of course you don't need gigabit, but how many things do you actually need?
It's rather simple - technical specifics aside, gigative will transfer data faster than fast ethernet, it doesn't matter if it's twice as fast, or five times as fast (which is quite doable with home gig gear) - it's faster.Of course you argue that there is no point to transferring files faster; well, let's imagine a hypothetical situation where I, working from home want to transfer 5 or 6 gigs of genomic data (in my case) from my RAID server (which has lots of long-term storage) to my workstation (which has the fast processors and the fast drives) for a bit of processing. Now, I would rather not sit there for 12 hours waiting for it to transfer.
I am sure you can see how such a situation can be generalized to almost any kind of voluminous data.
Thanks for the link, btw, looks really interesting.
Don't really see the point of this - Linux has excelled RAID support in the kernel and RAID tools; its not like these motherboards to actual hardware RAID.
Why is there "Oracle" and "SQL Server", one which is cool, both historically and as a product brand, and one which is straightforward and easy to remember (if nothing else), but the OS community as "PostgreSQL"?
Can't agree with you there - "SQL Server" is a very lame name, whereas Postgres (which is what you would normally refer to it as) just sounds cool.
drop the 'H' in John, if that was your first name, and call it done?
I believe the idea there is to highlight their Windows interoperability (such as it is), so the name is specifically designed to be a combination of "Linux" and "Windows."
I'm no security expert, but it seems that the status quo you are describing seems to be no firewall and externally mounted NFS shares? With NFS being the bastion of security that it is, perhaps it's not a bad idea to introduce some changes. (Of course management cheapness is another matter entirely.)
Oh, by the way: if I remember correctly there's a memory advantage to using "undef" as the hash value in this case over the integer "1"... though using "1" would certainly score you points in golf.
The reason isn't "strokes", it's just that 1 evaluates to true. Hashes are often used as a "bag" structure where you just want to see if something exists or not, and doing if($bar{foo}) seems nicer than if(exists $foo{bar}) - just personal preference I guess.
I did it the first time made it easy to modify it to record the context that each line was found in.
Yep, and the over advantage for the more explicit loop over the lines is the opportunity to normalize the lines before comparing them, which is something you'll often want to do with this sort of problem.
Why does this seem so hard for people to get through their heads - most/. people (at least most vocal/. people) like Apple and dislike the new Napster.
Much the same as they like Linux, Mozilla, Apache and dislike MS, SCO, RIAA.
Why is it so hard to understand that people have preferences, and like some things and dislike others; even if the reasoning behind it might not measure up to your exacting standards. We are under no obligation to be objective here, or to be "fair" to multinational conglomerates. Neither are the "editors" of/., for that matter.
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I usually find that I have to agree to about 8 EULAs (actually counted that many just setting up office and patching a new Dell box), evenly spaced throughout the entire installation. I can't just set it up and go do something else, I have to sit there and watch it for 30-45 minutes - Always annoyed the hell out of me.
It doesn't matter in the least what that label is, could be FileSystem, MySomethingOrOther, iCrap or BunchOFlyingMonkeys - grandma does not read labels to figure out how to do what she needs, she memorizes the specific sequences of clicks for her pre-determined tasks.
BEGIN failed--compilation aborted at -e line 1.
Oh well, I tried.
What about when the rules are complete bullshit? Or when those who make the rules, don't follow the rules?
States are specifically prohibited from doing this sort of thing (and with good reason). Here they are using a rather dubious concept to get around the language prohibiting the practice.
Does that really help with your self-respect?
There is an expectation of privacy with internet transactions? That must be knew...
hehe, BDSM.
Is there a muted horn in their logo somewhere?
Well... yeah, they are, what's really the problem with admitting that? We know something about the company and their track-record, why should that not be allowed to colour our current opinion of them?
Ok, the first one is of course true, the other two are a little odd. SQL is a language, MySQL is a database engine which implements that language - that's how things work, that's why you have language specs in the first place. It's a little like saying that MS's VisualStudio "reimplements" C++.
Samba's only raison d'être is to talk Microsoft's SMB/CIFS protocol. Is Microsoft emulating opensource with Outlook because outlook can receive mail from Sendmail? or because IE will do DNS resolution by talking to BIND?
Not sure how that would work - I have several TB in RAID5 in the basement, and transfer to the striped array on the local machine.
It's the EG008W; can't say I know anything about the SD2008.
I have a Linksys 8 port gigabit switch and I can definitely confirm that it's a bit of a beast when it comes to noise (for a switch anyway). I have enough stuff running to drown it out completely, but I can definitely see how some people would be greatly annoyed.
It's rather simple - technical specifics aside, gigative will transfer data faster than fast ethernet, it doesn't matter if it's twice as fast, or five times as fast (which is quite doable with home gig gear) - it's faster.Of course you argue that there is no point to transferring files faster; well, let's imagine a hypothetical situation where I, working from home want to transfer 5 or 6 gigs of genomic data (in my case) from my RAID server (which has lots of long-term storage) to my workstation (which has the fast processors and the fast drives) for a bit of processing. Now, I would rather not sit there for 12 hours waiting for it to transfer.
I am sure you can see how such a situation can be generalized to almost any kind of voluminous data.
Thanks for the link, btw, looks really interesting.
Don't really see the point of this - Linux has excelled RAID support in the kernel and RAID tools; its not like these motherboards to actual hardware RAID.
Can't agree with you there - "SQL Server" is a very lame name, whereas Postgres (which is what you would normally refer to it as) just sounds cool.
drop the 'H' in John, if that was your first name, and call it done?
I believe the idea there is to highlight their Windows interoperability (such as it is), so the name is specifically designed to be a combination of "Linux" and "Windows."
Actually, its the ones pitching to CEOs and fucking their wives.
I'm no security expert, but it seems that the status quo you are describing seems to be no firewall and externally mounted NFS shares? With NFS being the bastion of security that it is, perhaps it's not a bad idea to introduce some changes. (Of course management cheapness is another matter entirely.)
No, they are not.
There - was the "real" discussion everything you expected?
Um, no, I bitch because he's committed the rest of his vast resources to destroying my livelihood (as a software developer).
Incidentally, are you seriously trying to make him look good by comparing him to Dick Cheney? There's a popularity contest that's hard to lose.
Why? She is the one who sells it. Do you really think that whoever writes that idiotic drivel should be getting that money?
The reason isn't "strokes", it's just that 1 evaluates to true. Hashes are often used as a "bag" structure where you just want to see if something exists or not, and doing if($bar{foo}) seems nicer than if(exists $foo{bar}) - just personal preference I guess. I did it the first time made it easy to modify it to record the context that each line was found in.
Yep, and the over advantage for the more explicit loop over the lines is the opportunity to normalize the lines before comparing them, which is something you'll often want to do with this sort of problem.
And that is why you are not a Network Engineer.
At least, we hope you are not.
Why does this seem so hard for people to get through their heads - most /. people (at least most vocal /. people) like Apple and dislike the new Napster.
Much the same as they like Linux, Mozilla, Apache and dislike MS, SCO, RIAA.
Why is it so hard to understand that people have preferences, and like some things and dislike others; even if the reasoning behind it might not measure up to your exacting standards. We are under no obligation to be objective here, or to be "fair" to multinational conglomerates. Neither are the "editors" of /., for that matter.
But did you set up it the bomb?