A while back I recall reading (on/.?) about how Microsoft was asking for input from the community regarding what Linux has that Windows does not, ans what people would want with Windows in that respect. Besides all the obvious answers, one of the first that came to mind was the lack of a comfortable CLI. Of course there's the DOS prompt, but it's just not as easy to call an application as it is in a traditional *nix shell (let's put aside Cygwin for the moment).
What I find interesting is how so far, instead of Microsoft making their CLI easier to use, Linux is playing some sort of catch-up game with GUI's and desktops. I have to wonder if Microsoft heard the CLI issue as a major wish-list request when they did their study, and acurately concluded that users would be scrambling to make Linux ready for the desktop, not to make Windows ready to be CLI-friendly.
I got to the article page and saw a glossary in the left column-bar and thought, "hrm, this must be the words this dog knows." Then I saw "carbohydrate" when I clicked "C". My bad.
The director's initial intention was for Chronicles to be the first of a trilogy. There's some talk of all that in this interview.
I remember when I saw "Pitch Black" years ago, friends and I would say that the Riddick character was probably among the top ten bad asses in recent movies. Dislocating his own shoulders to escape from being tied up? C'mon!
"The books were great, and the first two movies were pretty much exactly what I had imagined while reading the book. But that made the movie boring."
I'm not sure I'd go so far as to say that about every book-to-movie translation. I don't think many people who saw the "Lord of the Rings" movies would say they were bored because they knew what would happen next from reading the books.
You're probably right about employers considering PhD's as overqualified for certain jobs, and you'd think that the PhD's would figure that out and simply not post that they have their PhD...? I understand that certain employers would fire someone for lying about their educational background on their resume, but would they really fire someone because they claimed less education than they really earned?
I'm in the same boat -- baby due in Nov.! I hate to alter the subject a little, but do any SysAdmins have advice along the same subject for SysAdmin fathers-to-be?
"Please mod the parent post down as troll, he's making obviously false claims just to draw attention."
False claims? When did I say anything I said was fact? I'll freely admit it's all opinion, although I'm still in awe at how people will condone unhealthy lifestyles. I'll also freely admit I was posting to draw attention, too, but not with false claims. Please.
You're making claims yourself, and anonymously I might add.
"Anyone else think that just staying as healthy and active as you can is the best way to go, rather than literally hoping for a miracle?
I may get flamed for this, but I'll say it anyway...This is why obesety is a problem in the U.S. People look for that miracle drug or easy-out diet that they can just "do" and see results that will last them a lifetime. The results from such things may last their lifetime, albeit perhaps shorter that it may have been if they made a lifestyle change. Keeping healthy and fit is not something meant to be done for short spurts throughout your life where you lose weight, gain it back, lose it again, etc. like a yo-yo. The key to successfully keeping your weight under control is to make a change that you'll keep for life and not tire of in a few months/years.
Want to follow the Atkins Diet? Fine, but can you see yourself doing it for the rest of your life? If so, and it works for you, great! Stick with it! The key is sticking with something. Personally I may see people chomping on a T-Bone steak for breakfast and it makes me want to hurl, and I have a really hard time believing they'll stick with that for more than a couple years. Then again, some people with overeating issues may find the thought of never drinking sugary sodas ever again in their lives be impossible to imagine.
The thing is, if they find some miracle drug that staves off aging, it'll just make it much easier for something else to kill people off, as it'll just be another excuse for people not to want/have to keep fit and healthy. And can you imagine the costs of healthcare and food with an overpopulated world of unhealthy, overweight people?
Why does information such as speed, distance etc. need to be given visually? Why not create some sort of artificial speech device that translates the data into an audible signal that you then hear with a set of headphones or speaker in the helmet? Put a button or buttons on your glove or handlebar and it spits out the info for you to hear.
Of course if you do this, make sure any headphones don't interfere with hearing what's around you, such as a car horn. A quick snippet of "twenty-two k" shouldn't interfere with safety.
Whenever I've dealt with Dell, I've just made it seem as if I was doing what they were asking me to. When I know it's a hard drive issue (tell-tale death clicks) and am running Linux, I don't want to have to explain all of it to a robotic techsupport guy on the other end of the phone, who's required to read from a script.
If the tech support dude asks me to run the diagnostic tools, I tell them I don't have one. If they tell me I need to run it, one magically appears ("...oh WAIT! Here it is nevermind!"). Then I just make shuffling noises near the phone, bang on a nearby keyboard, etc. to make it sound as if I'm doing as I'm told. Sometimes I'll say, "let me go get it" and put them on hold, sit and sip my coffee for a few minutes, then come back on the phone with "ok, got it now." I've even sucessfully gotten by Dell's tech support dweebs without having the system physically in front of me!
When you've dealt with tech support enough times, you can eventually figure out how to get around their scripts and get what you want. I used to be able to answer their "try this" questions with "already did that," but they've smartened up a little and now demand that I do those things again with them on the phone.
7.2 Restricted Activities. Your Information and your activities (including your payments and receipt of payments) through our Service shall not: (a) be false, inaccurate or misleading; (b) be fraudulent or involve the sale of counterfeit or stolen items; (c) consist of providing yourself a cash advance from your credit card (or helping others to do so), (d) be related in any way to gambling and/or gaming activities, including but not limited to payment or the acceptance of payments for wagers, gambling debts or gambling winnings, regardless of the location or type of gambling activity (including online and offline casinos, sports wagering and office pools), with the exception of payments for gaming transactions that are expressly authorized by law in the jurisdiction of both the sender and the recipient of the payment; (e)violate PayPal's Acceptable Use Policy; (f) infringe on any third party's copyright, patent, trademark, trade secret or other property rights or rights of publicity or privacy; (g) violate any law, statute, ordinance, contract or regulation (including, but not limited to, those governing financial services, consumer protection, unfair competition, antidiscrimination, or false advertising); (h) be defamatory, trade libelous, unlawfully threatening or unlawfully harassing; (i) be obscene or contain child pornography; (j) contain any viruses, Trojan horses, worms, time bombs cancelbots, easter eggs or other computer programming routines that may damage, detrimentally interfere with, surreptitiously intercept or expropriate any system, data or other personal information; or (k) create liability for us or cause us to lose (in whole or in part) the services of our ISP's or other suppliers. If you use, or attempt to use the Service for purposes other than sending and receiving payments and managing your account, including but not limited to tampering, hacking, modifying or otherwise corrupting the security or functionality of Service, your account will be terminated and you will be subject to damages and other penalties, including criminal prosecution where available.
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So I guess what they consider "obscene" (outside of child porn) is up in the air.
You have to wonder if many of the people who have had their accounts "mysteriously" deactivated or put on hold really were doing something bad (in the eyes of PayPal) afterall. I'm sure there's got to be people claiming total innocence and crying foul, when in fact they don't want you to know they did a little gambling on the side with the PayPal money or subscribed to an adult porn site, or heck maybe commited some sort of fraud. If they claimed any of those things, their complaints wouldn't hold up a full 100%.
I'm not defending the heavy-handed operations of EBay/PayPal, but I also wouldn't want to look at things from only one perspective. I think people should be able to do whatever they want with their PayPal money, but really the best thing to do is immediately withdraw what you have as soon as you get it.
Has anyone found a way to attach an IR device to their PC to allow it to change channels? A TV card on a PC can change channels, but only when you plug the coax straight in, sans cable box (thus not allowing pay channels to be recorded). I believe the Tivo comes with something that changes your cable box channels for you, but I could be wrong.
The problem I have in my environment is that some developers want root access on the main fileserver -- where we keep user home dirs and the mainline source. There are occasions when they want to change ownership on files or directories, and they're not able to do so unless they're root (or sudo'ing chown). When someone messes up a root command there...well, there's hell to pay for them and me. It's happened more than once and sometimes the abuser simply never learns.
One thing I've done that seems to work out quite well is chroot jails. I then allow them to sudo just the script that puts them in the chroot'ed jail, and then they're in a locked-down area to pretty much do as they please. Within that jail are the mainline source files which they can then chown to their heart's desire. The files are on a netapp with hourly snapshots, so anything really bad can be reversed quite easily.
Imaging drives is a good idea, but it's not always an option. We have to have just about every version of Unix & Linux since about four years ago, in-house and running, for development and mostly support/bug issues with our product. I can't see how it'd be easy to image HPUX 11.0, AIX 4.3.3, Tru64 4.0F, Solaris, *insert every release of Linux here*, etc. It's just too much! And because the devs are extremely picky with NFS performance, no matter how fast you make it with existing technology, they get pretty whiney about needing to use local disk space for build areas. Although, build areas are easily recreatable so...
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What I find interesting is how so far, instead of Microsoft making their CLI easier to use, Linux is playing some sort of catch-up game with GUI's and desktops. I have to wonder if Microsoft heard the CLI issue as a major wish-list request when they did their study, and acurately concluded that users would be scrambling to make Linux ready for the desktop, not to make Windows ready to be CLI-friendly.
Sorry...mostly talking to myself here, I know. ;-)
Looks like he was embarassed by his about page and took it down.
I got to the article page and saw a glossary in the left column-bar and thought, "hrm, this must be the words this dog knows." Then I saw "carbohydrate" when I clicked "C". My bad.
I remember when I saw "Pitch Black" years ago, friends and I would say that the Riddick character was probably among the top ten bad asses in recent movies. Dislocating his own shoulders to escape from being tied up? C'mon!
I'm not sure I'd go so far as to say that about every book-to-movie translation. I don't think many people who saw the "Lord of the Rings" movies would say they were bored because they knew what would happen next from reading the books.
I'd love to use something like KDE or Gnome, but every time I give it a try, it's just so bulky and slow, comparatively.
...but it certainly looks like a huge arse lure to me.
You're probably right about employers considering PhD's as overqualified for certain jobs, and you'd think that the PhD's would figure that out and simply not post that they have their PhD...? I understand that certain employers would fire someone for lying about their educational background on their resume, but would they really fire someone because they claimed less education than they really earned?
Exactly the attitude I already follow. So I guess the answer is -- change nothing. Thanks :)
I'm in the same boat -- baby due in Nov.! I hate to alter the subject a little, but do any SysAdmins have advice along the same subject for SysAdmin fathers-to-be?
Segways + waterfront + GWB = Hilarity!
False claims? When did I say anything I said was fact? I'll freely admit it's all opinion, although I'm still in awe at how people will condone unhealthy lifestyles. I'll also freely admit I was posting to draw attention, too, but not with false claims. Please.
You're making claims yourself, and anonymously I might add.
I may get flamed for this, but I'll say it anyway...This is why obesety is a problem in the U.S. People look for that miracle drug or easy-out diet that they can just "do" and see results that will last them a lifetime. The results from such things may last their lifetime, albeit perhaps shorter that it may have been if they made a lifestyle change. Keeping healthy and fit is not something meant to be done for short spurts throughout your life where you lose weight, gain it back, lose it again, etc. like a yo-yo. The key to successfully keeping your weight under control is to make a change that you'll keep for life and not tire of in a few months/years.
Want to follow the Atkins Diet? Fine, but can you see yourself doing it for the rest of your life? If so, and it works for you, great! Stick with it! The key is sticking with something. Personally I may see people chomping on a T-Bone steak for breakfast and it makes me want to hurl, and I have a really hard time believing they'll stick with that for more than a couple years. Then again, some people with overeating issues may find the thought of never drinking sugary sodas ever again in their lives be impossible to imagine.
The thing is, if they find some miracle drug that staves off aging, it'll just make it much easier for something else to kill people off, as it'll just be another excuse for people not to want/have to keep fit and healthy. And can you imagine the costs of healthcare and food with an overpopulated world of unhealthy, overweight people?
Why does information such as speed, distance etc. need to be given visually? Why not create some sort of artificial speech device that translates the data into an audible signal that you then hear with a set of headphones or speaker in the helmet? Put a button or buttons on your glove or handlebar and it spits out the info for you to hear.
Of course if you do this, make sure any headphones don't interfere with hearing what's around you, such as a car horn. A quick snippet of "twenty-two k" shouldn't interfere with safety.
...so are you telling me that l33t 5p33k is all because of a damned butterfly?!
If the tech support dude asks me to run the diagnostic tools, I tell them I don't have one. If they tell me I need to run it, one magically appears ("...oh WAIT! Here it is nevermind!"). Then I just make shuffling noises near the phone, bang on a nearby keyboard, etc. to make it sound as if I'm doing as I'm told. Sometimes I'll say, "let me go get it" and put them on hold, sit and sip my coffee for a few minutes, then come back on the phone with "ok, got it now." I've even sucessfully gotten by Dell's tech support dweebs without having the system physically in front of me!
When you've dealt with tech support enough times, you can eventually figure out how to get around their scripts and get what you want. I used to be able to answer their "try this" questions with "already did that," but they've smartened up a little and now demand that I do those things again with them on the phone.
...that's a moon!
7.2 Restricted Activities. Your Information and your activities (including your payments and receipt of payments) through our Service shall not: (a) be false, inaccurate or misleading; (b) be fraudulent or involve the sale of counterfeit or stolen items; (c) consist of providing yourself a cash advance from your credit card (or helping others to do so), (d) be related in any way to gambling and/or gaming activities, including but not limited to payment or the acceptance of payments for wagers, gambling debts or gambling winnings, regardless of the location or type of gambling activity (including online and offline casinos, sports wagering and office pools), with the exception of payments for gaming transactions that are expressly authorized by law in the jurisdiction of both the sender and the recipient of the payment; (e)violate PayPal's Acceptable Use Policy; (f) infringe on any third party's copyright, patent, trademark, trade secret or other property rights or rights of publicity or privacy; (g) violate any law, statute, ordinance, contract or regulation (including, but not limited to, those governing financial services, consumer protection, unfair competition, antidiscrimination, or false advertising); (h) be defamatory, trade libelous, unlawfully threatening or unlawfully harassing; (i) be obscene or contain child pornography; (j) contain any viruses, Trojan horses, worms, time bombs cancelbots, easter eggs or other computer programming routines that may damage, detrimentally interfere with, surreptitiously intercept or expropriate any system, data or other personal information; or (k) create liability for us or cause us to lose (in whole or in part) the services of our ISP's or other suppliers. If you use, or attempt to use the Service for purposes other than sending and receiving payments and managing your account, including but not limited to tampering, hacking, modifying or otherwise corrupting the security or functionality of Service, your account will be terminated and you will be subject to damages and other penalties, including criminal prosecution where available.
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So I guess what they consider "obscene" (outside of child porn) is up in the air.
I'm not defending the heavy-handed operations of EBay/PayPal, but I also wouldn't want to look at things from only one perspective. I think people should be able to do whatever they want with their PayPal money, but really the best thing to do is immediately withdraw what you have as soon as you get it.
Even the bid of "all the gold in Gondor" doesn't give it away as a Photoshop? ;-)
Hey now! This one sure looked like the real thing! ;-)
Has anyone found a way to attach an IR device to their PC to allow it to change channels? A TV card on a PC can change channels, but only when you plug the coax straight in, sans cable box (thus not allowing pay channels to be recorded). I believe the Tivo comes with something that changes your cable box channels for you, but I could be wrong.
Y'know, I'm just that geeky. I just can't pass that change up.
One thing I've done that seems to work out quite well is chroot jails. I then allow them to sudo just the script that puts them in the chroot'ed jail, and then they're in a locked-down area to pretty much do as they please. Within that jail are the mainline source files which they can then chown to their heart's desire. The files are on a netapp with hourly snapshots, so anything really bad can be reversed quite easily.
Imaging drives is a good idea, but it's not always an option. We have to have just about every version of Unix & Linux since about four years ago, in-house and running, for development and mostly support/bug issues with our product. I can't see how it'd be easy to image HPUX 11.0, AIX 4.3.3, Tru64 4.0F, Solaris, *insert every release of Linux here*, etc. It's just too much! And because the devs are extremely picky with NFS performance, no matter how fast you make it with existing technology, they get pretty whiney about needing to use local disk space for build areas. Although, build areas are easily recreatable so...
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