Even better, there could be a "config dir" for each user, $CONFIG, in/etc/joeuser, or why not/config/joeuser.
You've never administered a system that made heavy use of automounted home directories, have you? That'd be a bitch to administer over multiple machines. Sure, it works fine for a single host, but as soon as the home directories are shared, life becomes less fun.
My flawed memory gets in the way too, but wasn't HPs file manager/program manager replacement sued as well, for copying the Mac interface too closely? IIRC, certain interface elements, like the trash can, were deemed as copyrightable, but M$ settled such things with Apple by holding Office over their heads...
With a VOIP WiFi "cell phone" you could conceivable talk to anyone in range (peer-to-peer) at no cost, and to anyone connected to the internet if you are in range of a
base station.
Now, as a company trying to make money off of people's voice conversations, this helps me how? I don't mean to be cynical as hell, but the cell phone companies have spent a load o' cash on infrastructure, and they want a return on their investment. If peer-to-peer phone service ala Nextel becomes the norm, it creates a revenue problem for them.
I'm not going to go in to the security implications of my phone number and conversations being routed through a non-trusted infrastructure as you describe. I could not trust that I was the only one able to make calls based on my phone number, nor that I was the only one able to receive calls. Long distance network access and billing is another issue with this, and the security of it. Long distance is free with your phone now partially because AT&T is a long distance provider, as is Sprint, etc. The peering arrangements with other providers so their customers cell phones work in other areas include long-distance trunk access (at least as I understand it).
In other words, admin was incompetent. He or she would probably have the same problems with anything -- Windows Terminal Server (!), database servers, etc.
Computers are useless if you don't know how to use them.
Not once you count administration -- a few servers and stateless boxes on the desk, or a few servers and stateful boxes on the desk. You choose which is cheaper. TCO, baby...
I'm running sunrays -- we have a pair of X1s (single processor, slow boxes) running for over 30 stations, and it's/fine/. You don't run compute jobs on those boxes -- you ssh to another box and run your compute-intensive jobs there. Simple enough.
Most likely, if it's too slow to use after 20 users on a 16-processor box, the box is not the bottleneck (unless every one of those users is re-encoding multiple mpeg files to Divx or similar). A much more likely bottleneck is a piss-poor network design. These things need some serious everfucking bandwidth (my only complaint about it -- I mean, it's a remote framebuffer -- give it simple acceleration functions, even on the level of a ET4000 or a Mach 8!)
At least Linux won't likely be left out of the loop if it passes...
Why does this say that? I didn't see any thing defining "open source code", nor anything that stated any patents must be freely licensed, etc. There's a very simple way around that -- give away the source, but patent-encumber it so that nobody can use any implementation without paying large licensing fees. Now, you'll only be able to get your Linux distribution in a bloody box by buying it, not by leeching an ISO from a ftp site -- and Microsoft (with their patent on the DRM OS) collecting the ca$h.
Assuming that you actually mean 2.4.9, Redhat patches holy hell out of the kernels that are shipped.
Besides that, linus switched to a new VM in 2.4.10, which doesn't work as well. The new VM actually doesn't pass internal testing at Redhat without failing, or so I've read. Last I knew, they used the Cerberus test suite that was originally developed by VA (*back when they actually sold hardware instead of having a questionable business model based on advertising on/.).
I'm glad you haven't been playing Crazy Taxi or (the one I'm having fun with) Simpsons Road Rage. They're basically the same game, but the Simpsons game, despite some ugly rendering bugs, just rocks.
What other game can you play and hear Ralph Wiggum say "My pee came out!" when you hit another person? Or the old man saying "Thanks for the ride, I think you knocked loose that kidney stone..." I will admit that I was disturbed when Abe asked me to take him to something called "Grandma's Place"... because he was horny. I've only heard that once, wonder if it was supposed to be in the final version.
My GF is similar she cannot sleeo with her alarm clock by her bed as it gives her nightmares
My alarm clock gives me nightmares too. I hate mornings. Especially mornings on Mondays, Tuesdays, Wednesdays, Thursdays, Fridays, and (when I have to work) Saturdays.
That's about current iWhack prices, in real money, dammit. I'll probably get tagged as redundant, but hey. It's from Time CANADA, so it's probably $1299 CA.
Tested vulnerable back to 4.3 (earliest one available to test). Vulnerability of versions 4.3 is not known; assume that ALL VERSIONS of AIM are vulnerable. (At least if you believe the fine people on Bugtraq).
Please, don't use this version. It can suck a golf ball through a garden hose.
Try the Ximian packaging (www.ximian.com). It's quite a bit better. I still don't like everything about it, but it's a hell of a lot better than Sun's packaging. If you're going to evaluate Gnome, give it a fair shot.
Um... you really should quote the tags if you want to do an intelligent troll -- you're telling us to forget about all tags.
I can't say that I disagree -- ASCII rules. But in case you actually meant to point out a few tags that we could use, try typing < for <, and > for >.
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Yes, Matrox releases the (binary only) HAL. ATI gives specs freely to the XFree86 developers. If you want somebody who's less technically competent than you to be able to use the card, for $DEITY's sake, get the ATI. The 3d accelerated drivers ship with a modern distro (I use RedHat primarily), unlike decent drivers for any Nvidia cards or the HAL for the Matrox. Some distros may bend their ideology for the sake of the binary drivers, but you won't see that from Debian or RedHat (I'm thinkin' Caldera here...).
My point is that the drivers are likely to be better overall for the ATI products, even if it takes an extra couple of weeks to get into CVS at XFree86.org. Also, I'm willing to take a slightly lower performance card to make the point that I want specs released. If you want hardware vendors to do the right thing here, vote with you wallet. $.02
Actually, it's using UltraSparc IIe chips. It's basically a USIIi with the bus interface from a III (based on conversation with a Sun engineer). It was done as an experiment to get the front side bus right, probably for the IIIi, and they figured out that it was better than the IIi, used it in the Blade 100, the X1, and IIRC the T1.
Ah, but I bring my laptop with me. I show them that CD A works perfectly in the laptop's CD drive. I show them that CD B is not a CD and cannot be read (by the CD Player application of course). This will be more effective if the laptop is running Windows, due to the average level of knowledge of a retail worker (Oh, it's not compatible with Linux, the CD is fine!)
Of course, this only happens the/second/ time I bring in the CD to swap for the same one. I can only exchange it for the same CD, since it's defective, but it will cost the store and record company quite a bit if I open four CDs and only pay for one, and probably get an apology and a swap if I can demonstrate this clearly. I can also say that this isn't a CD that works in any other computer, in my car (since I have an Aiwa CDC-MP3 -- a computer), etc.
You have to prove to the store that every CD of that title is broken. That's the only way to place pressure back on the record company.
I'm willing to bet that more than 1% of people will not that their CD doesn't work in their computer at home or at work, or in a new walkman (that handles MP3s), or in a new car deck, etc. This is going to backfire badly, I hope. If those of us who do note it immediately raise holy hell, it'll make it more obvious.
Bzzzzzt! Nope. Sketcher is a registered trademark of Fractal Design corp. if I recall correctly (or whoever bought them out). It's a raster graphics product, not vector, but it's sufficiently similar to qualify as trademark dilution.
And people wonder why software names are often very odd, like the Gimp...
I'll sacrifice my familiarity with PhotoShop and just use the GIMP for that price...)
There are some things that the Gimp can *not* do. It's been a while since I worked in the publishing industry, but the big thing that the Gimp can't do is color separation -- and it probably never will, since the techniques are patent-encumbered. I'm guessing that the patents are still many years from expiration as well.
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My flawed memory gets in the way too, but wasn't HPs file manager/program manager replacement sued as well, for copying the Mac interface too closely? IIRC, certain interface elements, like the trash can, were deemed as copyrightable, but M$ settled such things with Apple by holding Office over their heads...
But, I've been wrong before.
If you're eliminating Microsoft products, why do you need samba? :)
Now, as a company trying to make money off of people's voice conversations, this helps me how? I don't mean to be cynical as hell, but the cell phone companies have spent a load o' cash on infrastructure, and they want a return on their investment. If peer-to-peer phone service ala Nextel becomes the norm, it creates a revenue problem for them.
I'm not going to go in to the security implications of my phone number and conversations being routed through a non-trusted infrastructure as you describe. I could not trust that I was the only one able to make calls based on my phone number, nor that I was the only one able to receive calls. Long distance network access and billing is another issue with this, and the security of it. Long distance is free with your phone now partially because AT&T is a long distance provider, as is Sprint, etc. The peering arrangements with other providers so their customers cell phones work in other areas include long-distance trunk access (at least as I understand it).
In other words, admin was incompetent. He or she would probably have the same problems with anything -- Windows Terminal Server (!), database servers, etc.
Computers are useless if you don't know how to use them.
Not once you count administration -- a few servers and stateless boxes on the desk, or a few servers and stateful boxes on the desk. You choose which is cheaper. TCO, baby...
I'm running sunrays -- we have a pair of X1s (single processor, slow boxes) running for over 30 stations, and it's /fine/. You don't run compute jobs on those boxes -- you ssh to another box and run your compute-intensive jobs there. Simple enough.
Most likely, if it's too slow to use after 20 users on a 16-processor box, the box is not the bottleneck (unless every one of those users is re-encoding multiple mpeg files to Divx or similar). A much more likely bottleneck is a piss-poor network design. These things need some serious everfucking bandwidth (my only complaint about it -- I mean, it's a remote framebuffer -- give it simple acceleration functions, even on the level of a ET4000 or a Mach 8!)
I'm thinking of subscribing, but I wouldn't want to do so if they're corrupt as well.
You actually think that any of them aren't corrupt? I thought somebody with a three-digit uid would have been much more cynical by now...
Actually, a friend of mine sells cars... I can't stop being disturbed by the fact that he's /good/ at it. Fun people to drink with though....
Why does this say that? I didn't see any thing defining "open source code", nor anything that stated any patents must be freely licensed, etc. There's a very simple way around that -- give away the source, but patent-encumber it so that nobody can use any implementation without paying large licensing fees. Now, you'll only be able to get your Linux distribution in a bloody box by buying it, not by leeching an ISO from a ftp site -- and Microsoft (with their patent on the DRM OS) collecting the ca$h.
Life sucks, don't it?
Assuming that you actually mean 2.4.9, Redhat patches holy hell out of the kernels that are shipped.
Besides that, linus switched to a new VM in 2.4.10, which doesn't work as well. The new VM actually doesn't pass internal testing at Redhat without failing, or so I've read. Last I knew, they used the Cerberus test suite that was originally developed by VA (*back when they actually sold hardware instead of having a questionable business model based on advertising on /.).
What other game can you play and hear Ralph Wiggum say "My pee came out!" when you hit another person? Or the old man saying "Thanks for the ride, I think you knocked loose that kidney stone..." I will admit that I was disturbed when Abe asked me to take him to something called "Grandma's Place" ... because he was horny. I've only heard that once, wonder if it was supposed to be in the final version.
My alarm clock gives me nightmares too. I hate mornings. Especially mornings on Mondays, Tuesdays, Wednesdays, Thursdays, Fridays, and (when I have to work) Saturdays.
Hello Psycho, I'm Somatic! Nice ta meetcha.
Calm down, have some dip.</carlin>
I think that the "AC on Crack" was attempting to use that literary device commonly known as sarcasm. Perhaps you've heard of it.
That's about current iWhack prices, in real money, dammit. I'll probably get tagged as redundant, but hey. It's from Time CANADA, so it's probably $1299 CA.
$1200 -- Time Canada! That's about current iWhack prices, in real money. (No offence intended to the Canadians).
You know, Ballmer is looking a little like the Sarge, isn't he? I mean, he did use the "I know NOTHING!" line during the antitrust trial...
Tested vulnerable back to 4.3 (earliest one available to test). Vulnerability of versions 4.3 is not known; assume that ALL VERSIONS of AIM are vulnerable. (At least if you believe the fine people on Bugtraq).
D'oh.
Try the Ximian packaging (www.ximian.com). It's quite a bit better. I still don't like everything about it, but it's a hell of a lot better than Sun's packaging. If you're going to evaluate Gnome, give it a fair shot.
I can't say that I disagree -- ASCII rules. But in case you actually meant to point out a few tags that we could use, try typing < for <, and > for >.
Yes, Matrox releases the (binary only) HAL. ATI gives specs freely to the XFree86 developers. If you want somebody who's less technically competent than you to be able to use the card, for $DEITY's sake, get the ATI. The 3d accelerated drivers ship with a modern distro (I use RedHat primarily), unlike decent drivers for any Nvidia cards or the HAL for the Matrox. Some distros may bend their ideology for the sake of the binary drivers, but you won't see that from Debian or RedHat (I'm thinkin' Caldera here...).
My point is that the drivers are likely to be better overall for the ATI products, even if it takes an extra couple of weeks to get into CVS at XFree86.org. Also, I'm willing to take a slightly lower performance card to make the point that I want specs released. If you want hardware vendors to do the right thing here, vote with you wallet. $.02
Actually, it's using UltraSparc IIe chips. It's basically a USIIi with the bus interface from a III (based on conversation with a Sun engineer). It was done as an experiment to get the front side bus right, probably for the IIIi, and they figured out that it was better than the IIi, used it in the Blade 100, the X1, and IIRC the T1.
Ah, but I bring my laptop with me. I show them that CD A works perfectly in the laptop's CD drive. I show them that CD B is not a CD and cannot be read (by the CD Player application of course). This will be more effective if the laptop is running Windows, due to the average level of knowledge of a retail worker (Oh, it's not compatible with Linux, the CD is fine!) Of course, this only happens the /second/ time I bring in the CD to swap for the same one. I can only exchange it for the same CD, since it's defective, but it will cost the store and record company quite a bit if I open four CDs and only pay for one, and probably get an apology and a swap if I can demonstrate this clearly. I can also say that this isn't a CD that works in any other computer, in my car (since I have an Aiwa CDC-MP3 -- a computer), etc.
You have to prove to the store that every CD of that title is broken. That's the only way to place pressure back on the record company.
I'm willing to bet that more than 1% of people will not that their CD doesn't work in their computer at home or at work, or in a new walkman (that handles MP3s), or in a new car deck, etc. This is going to backfire badly, I hope. If those of us who do note it immediately raise holy hell, it'll make it more obvious.
Bzzzzzt! Nope. Sketcher is a registered trademark of Fractal Design corp. if I recall correctly (or whoever bought them out). It's a raster graphics product, not vector, but it's sufficiently similar to qualify as trademark dilution.
And people wonder why software names are often very odd, like the Gimp...
There are some things that the Gimp can *not* do. It's been a while since I worked in the publishing industry, but the big thing that the Gimp can't do is color separation -- and it probably never will, since the techniques are patent-encumbered. I'm guessing that the patents are still many years from expiration as well.