The thing here is that if you get a segfault, and you've compiled in debugging symbols then you can get gdb to do a backtrace and send it to the developer who can then try to work out the problem. I'm unsure HOW you do that in Windows.
Yeah, sendmail configurations files are SO human readable! Cartoon readable more like - the O'Reilly book calls the syntax a cross-between cartoon swear words and line noise.
I guess that it depends on how Trustix defines "per server". With MS Windows 2000 "per server" you pay for a server and you can have a limited number of users connected to the server at one time before you have to upgrade to include more users (except for IIS, where this is unlimited).
I don't know how Trustix charge... do they charge for a server with unlimited numbers of people connecting to it (say with Samba) or do they charge per number of users connected to it?
Oh the irony... that's one of Sydney's "recycle bins" they are there for recycling PET bottles, newspapers, etc Either he's nicked someone's bin (and they now don't recycle) or he ain't recycling those things anymore.
It looks like they have removed their main contact email address cause of the amount of email they were getting:
The original message was received at Thu, 25 Apr 2002 15:00:41 +1000 from c16832.rivrw4.nsw.optusnet.com.au [211.28.68.198]
----- The following addresses had permanent fatal errors ----- <davenger@radlight.net> (reason: 550 Unknown local part davenger in <davenger@radlight.net>)
----- Transcript of session follows ----- ... while talking to mx00.schlund.de.:
>>> RCPT To:<davenger@radlight.net>
<<< 550 Unknown local part davenger in <davenger@radlight.net> 550 5.1.1 <davenger@radlight.net>... User unknown
Final-Recipient: RFC822; davenger@radlight.net Action: failed Status: 5.1.1 Remote-MTA: DNS; mx00.schlund.de Diagnostic-Code: SMTP; 550 Unknown local part davenger in <davenger@radlight.net> Last-Attempt-Date: Thu, 25 Apr 2002 15:00:43 +1000
Subject: RadLight query From: Chris Sherlock <zzz@zzz.optusnet.com.au> Date: Thu, 25 Apr 2002 15:05:57 -0700 To: davenger@radlight.net
Hi, I was looking for a good DivX Player recently and I was considering your product. I pay for ShareWare and licensed products because pirating is unethical.
My question, however, is that I saw on slashdot http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=02/04/24/194620 4 that your software actually uninstalls ad-aware, a software program that I really like. First of all, how is this ethical? Secondly, why do you need to do this and if you would be spying on me without my consent why would I ever want to use your software? Thirdly, I have never ever heard of a program actively removing another program, surely this is illegal?
Anyway, your software looks promising if not for the fact that you appear to have spyware included in it and the fact that you remove software from my computer.
That's good for you. In America it appears that you have lots of competition. Great. In Australia we have two cable companies, and the other one sucks worse than Optus@Home!
Now if we had competition then that would be OK.
Maybe if a class action was started because of the AUP then that would be good though.
That's nothing. You should see what happened when they tried to introduce Cane Toads into Australia.
Basically these were introduced to control sugar cane pests that was ravaging sugar cane plantations in Queensland. Unfortuneately, most cane toads seem to have more of an appetite for Australian animals (insects and small mammals) and ignored the sugar cane pests.
With no normal checks and balances (this animal has no real predators over here!) the cane toad has become a major pest. Australian animals can't eat it because it either squirts poison at them and paralyzes or kills them. It's also killed off some frog breeds (not sure of the right term here!) because each one can lay up to 30,000 eggs in a sticky string - pools are filled with the eggs and nothing else can use the pools. Then they hatch and eat everything in sight.
In short they are butt-ugly, poisonous breeding machines. Mind you some people have found some pretty interesting uses for them:
Take out the poison glands and use them as pets
dip them in metholated spirits, light them and use them for a game of night-golf - cruel yet strangely hilarious
smoke them, apparently their poison is a powerful hallucinagen
run over them with their combis ("The best way of running over them is head first - they make a nice bang")
All this (apart from toad golf) was documented in an ABC documentary of cane toads entitled Cane Toads, An Unnatural History.
What we need is for somebody to write a whole new OS around the Linux kernel. The first goal of this OS should be "the command line is always useful, but never necessary." The second goal should be "this OS does not try to outthink the user, but think with the user."
Actually this is already being done by a few people: GNOME and KDE. Of course there is LinuxConf, but to tell you the truth I don't really like it.
A little off-topic, but I find the RedHat install very nice indeed! Mind you I'm running Debian at the moment and although the installation was not so, uh, nice I quite like playing around with it.
Now what I would like to see would be a nice Wizard based interface to configuring and installing the Linux kernel! And something that is the equivalent of the Device Manager that they have in the Windows 9x series... yeah, that's right - I like some of the Win9x series stuff!
Anyway, just my 2c worth. I haven't posted to Slashdot in a long while.
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Why should you use a text editor at all for configuring the desktop???
The thing here is that if you get a segfault, and you've compiled in debugging symbols then you can get gdb to do a backtrace and send it to the developer who can then try to work out the problem. I'm unsure HOW you do that in Windows.
Yeah, sendmail configurations files are SO human readable! Cartoon readable more like - the O'Reilly book calls the syntax a cross-between cartoon swear words and line noise.
Sounds remarkably related to the Tampa spying">Tampa spying debacle Australia had last year.
And you call POSIX compatibility in Win2k what?
Sounds like my washing machine at home!
I guess that it depends on how Trustix defines "per server". With MS Windows 2000 "per server" you pay for a server and you can have a limited number of users connected to the server at one time before you have to upgrade to include more users (except for IIS, where this is unlimited).
I don't know how Trustix charge... do they charge for a server with unlimited numbers of people connecting to it (say with Samba) or do they charge per number of users connected to it?
The original passage (and people, read it!) is Luke 10:25-37 for all those who want to check it out for themselves.
Oh the irony... that's one of Sydney's "recycle bins" they are there for recycling PET bottles, newspapers, etc Either he's nicked someone's bin (and they now don't recycle) or he ain't recycling those things anymore.
Announced on Kuro5hin first: http://www.kuro5hin.org/story/2002/8/7/134934/3810
http://www.politechbot.com/p-03394.html
Chris
Basically McAfee sucks. We have it at work on our Win9x clients and it runs like a dog! and you can turn it off in about 5 seconds.
It's better on Windows 2000... luckily cause I'm not sure how to turn it off on a Win2K machine!!!!
The Epson C70 and C80 actually uses a pigment based ink - I've seen some tests done on them and they are pretty cool! It's pretty water resistant.
It has no car program or flight simulator.
That's good for you. In America it appears that you have lots of competition. Great. In Australia we have two cable companies, and the other one sucks worse than Optus@Home!
Now if we had competition then that would be OK.
Maybe if a class action was started because of the AUP then that would be good though.
Whoops, when I said the ABC I meant the Australian Broadcasting Commission
Basically these were introduced to control sugar cane pests that was ravaging sugar cane plantations in Queensland. Unfortuneately, most cane toads seem to have more of an appetite for Australian animals (insects and small mammals) and ignored the sugar cane pests.
With no normal checks and balances (this animal has no real predators over here!) the cane toad has become a major pest. Australian animals can't eat it because it either squirts poison at them and paralyzes or kills them. It's also killed off some frog breeds (not sure of the right term here!) because each one can lay up to 30,000 eggs in a sticky string - pools are filled with the eggs and nothing else can use the pools. Then they hatch and eat everything in sight.
In short they are butt-ugly, poisonous breeding machines. Mind you some people have found some pretty interesting uses for them:
All this (apart from toad golf) was documented in an ABC documentary of cane toads entitled Cane Toads, An Unnatural History.
Check it out: http://www.digsmagazine.com/laze/flick_CaneToads.
And we all die from nuclear radiation. Hey, I've seen Terminator and Terminator 2!
...the "clever country", the "recession we had to have", "no child will live in poverty by 1990"...
Perhaps he was just not saying anything he agreed with?
Ah, hello? Music is a product!
Music is a product of a musicians workmanship.
How can you distinguish between the two?
If you don't beleive me get it straight from the horses mouth!
Same here! why isn't this one modded up to funny????
Maybe the moderators were having a bad day...
Actually this is already being done by a few people: GNOME and KDE. Of course there is LinuxConf, but to tell you the truth I don't really like it.
A little off-topic, but I find the RedHat install very nice indeed! Mind you I'm running Debian at the moment and although the installation was not so, uh, nice I quite like playing around with it.
Now what I would like to see would be a nice Wizard based interface to configuring and installing the Linux kernel! And something that is the equivalent of the Device Manager that they have in the Windows 9x series... yeah, that's right - I like some of the Win9x series stuff!
Anyway, just my 2c worth. I haven't posted to Slashdot in a long while.
Actually, if you read at 1 or 2 threshold, there's no need to listen to idiotic comments like that guys.
Hey, if someone hadn't quoted it, I would have seen it!