I advise everyone to STAY THE FUCK AWAY FROM TERACOPY! I mean hey, look at the screenshot of the full version, it says it is copying Morcheeba's album "The Antidote", while the songs clearly are from the album "Charango", PLUS they're in the wrong order!
Also, everyone knows that "Big Calm" is the best Morcheeba album, ever. So not only does the tool fuck up everything, it doesn't have any taste, either.
No, you don't understand the point. (Hear that WHOOOSH?) The mother's point was that when Ballmer speaks of "value", he means it in a business way (TCO et al.), while the 13-year-old doesn't give a shit about that so Ballmer's mention of "value" is just a Pawlowian response with no relevancy to the situation. Actually "she's 13" is a pretty good retort to make that point clear to the audience.
Amen. I haven't contributed to the English Wikipedia much, but I see the phenomenon you quote on German Wikipedia a lot. New articles get deleted left and right by regulars who don't know shit about the topic at hand or think it's not notable, even if it e.g. covers an online event in which several hundred people participated non-stop for 72 hours straight. Of course such "editors" won't discuss the reasons, either. It definitely drove me away from contributing, and several other people I know.
Netcraft won't confirm it yet, but if said attitude is prevalent enough, it *will* kill Wikipedia, or turn it into a page with a three-digit number of editors again. And that, over time, will render it quite useless, as the information in it degrades.
I had the same problem four years ago. At the time, TB couldn't import from Eudora at all, but to be frank it's Eudora's fault because Eudora fucks up the headers and does other nasty stuff to what was told to be "da original mbox format".
If the built-in import doesn't work, look up bug 3157 in TB's bugzilla and download the perl scripts which are in the discussion. They worked just fine for me.
Thanks so much for posting that link. Actually said parody triggered my first visit to slashdot, IIRC it was featured at wired.com a few days after it came out, so I can now exactly tell how long I'm wasting my time here.
I loved the link in one of the slashboxes that said "Steve Ballmer is fat and bald". At that time, I had no idea who Steve Ballmer was, and what would become of him. Gosh, that was a different Doctor O back then.
This place has made me a critical, pragmatic cynic with a skewed sense of humour.
I agree with the other poster, that's one of the most impressive and insightful posts I've ever read in my years of reading this time sink which is slashdot. Welcome to my friends list.
I've also got Alzheimer's in the family, and it's the only thing I fear. Not so much for myself, even though it must be horrifying to be completely disoriented most of the time. No, I fear becoming a burden to my wife and/or three children. It's mostly a single relative + husband/spouse who care for the Alzheimer's patient, not several people, because as you describe ist, it's mentally draining big deal, so the burden usually isn't distributed, but laying on a "selected few". I'm thinking about doing a "Patientenverfügung" (I'm German), which is a piece of legalese that allows a set of relatives or other people I name to decide not to prolong my life if I need "technical help" to survive. That would allow me to kill or at least injure myself in a "bright moment", should I really get into the situation of being cursed with Alzheimer's.
My deepest respect for you. And remember, you know by the tone of your grandma that she really means you when she says "I love you". Don't let the trolls make you doubt it. Every Alzheimer's patiens has those bright moments, even in the final stages, and most try to use it to let their loved ones know they love them. (My grandfather once told me during a bright moment that he kind of watches himself when he's "inoperable", but can't influence it, and just sits there and waits to be able to get "his mind back" as he put it. That impressed me and changed my perception of the disease, but I digress.)
Too many people still only have analog TVs. So what? I'm in Germany, and my analog TV runs pretty well with my DVB-T receiver, and those receivers are under EUR 40 (approx. 55 USD) now. If they'd switch off analog TV tomorrow, people would bitch a few weeks, get a receiver and be done with it.
Only shadow on the horizon is that they're thinking about encrypting it in order to charge for the service. At the moment, it's all free.
In Germany when you change your address, you have to inform the special municipal department -Wohnanmeldegungamt- (department of names and addresses)of the change Well, it's Einwohnermeldeamt (resident registration office), and the fun part is that it's even worse. The complete process includes:
1) Going to the Einwohnermeldeamt of the place you've been living before, spend several hours in waiting rooms full of seriously pissed off people and get a written "deregistration" confirmation. 2) Going to the Einwohnermeldeamt of the new place, spend several hours in waiting rooms full of seriously pissed off people, show said confirmation, and also give them the copy of the registration form you hopefully bought in some store because you *can't* get it at the Einwohnermeldeamt. 3) Then there's some payola, they update your ID (yes, we have *real* ID and don't just use our SSN or driver's license, this is Germany after all) with a small sticker and a rubber stamp, and you're done. 4) Even though you've just told the Government your new address, you have to repeat that process also for the registration of your car, your GEZ fees (a mandatory fee that's used to finance state television), the tax office, and many others I won't quote because my anger really starts coming up now.
Oh, and all of this costs money. Yeah. Depending on where you live, the fees easily add up to a three-digit amount. And did I mention that you have to perform all of this in the first three days after your move? If you don't, you get prosecuted and pay a pretty hefty fee. I mean hey, I don't have FUCKING ANYTHING ELSE TO DO in the first days in the new house, like, say, unpacking boxes or reassembling the furniture that I have someplace to sleep.
I'll stop now, but you can see that Germany bureaucracy really sucks balls, and can drive you mad. Actually it does so almost always whenever you have to deal with it and many people do outrageous things to not be forced to deal with it.
And, being German, I don't see why people mod you Funny, because I think you're pretty much spot on. Then again, at least it's not boring here.
I wasn't referring to your post only, but the general tendency I've noticed in other posts, too. It's no question that sending 104-page bills (those were printed on both sides) is pretty stupid, especially for a service with a flat fee.
I'm amazed and a bit shocked that there are so many people here who think that paperless billing is an acceptable idea. It isn't, because:
1) It can be manipulated after the fact. "What were you suing us for? Look at your online bill, it says nothing about the 4-hour-call to Farkistan you claim we've wrongfully charged you for." 2) You can't prove the manipulation. "That so-called 'print' you have, it's trivial to fake out *anything*. Anybody can save an online bill to his local computer and change anything to his liking, and print it." 3) Sooner or later (usually sooner), the telco fucks up your billing. It's inevitable. And when trouble strikes, with a paper bill you have nice physical proof of their fuckup, nicely delivered in a dated envelope, printed with their type of toner on their business letter sheets.
Here in Germany, the telcos tend to default to online billing and you have to pay for paper bills. I gladly do, because of all the above. I've yet to encounter a telco or ISP that *never* fucks up billing.
(They're usually fighting with legacy billing systems which don't scale so well with the flood of clients they get as monopolization continues. That's a dragon that's *very* difficult to slay, because you can't just halt the system to migrate it, and you must make sure that it supports all existing business processes. The last thing alone can even give very experienced integrators sleepless nights and lots of headaches. I think it's just the natural result of growing complexity in business processes. It's your call whether you blame them for it or just shrug it off. I do the latter.)
No possibility of adding multicasting?? Wtf does this even mean?
Sorry to ruin it for you, but if you don't even know what that means, you're not in a position of judging *any* protocol.
Another hint for you: Just because it seems to work well for you on a small scale doesn't mean it is a good protocol (i.e. scaling well, little overhead, easily extendable, etc.).
I have no idea what you're talking about, and have never heard a horror story like that. Actually your mixed bag of HDDs doesn't matter at all, as you're obviously putting all your VMs in the same place. I do believe you that installing grub manually having a fucked up drive configuration is hard, but fail to see WTF it has to do with VMware.
Booting from the Windows CD is as hard as putting the CD into your physical drive and starting the VM. If it doesn't find your CD-ROM in autodetect mode, then just tell it which one in/dev/ it is (duh), or simply insert the.ISO you have of the CD into the virtual drive.
As for "getting the config file working", WTF were you trying? I have never had to fiddle with *any* config files since I use VMware. Fire up the GUI app, run "create VM" wizard, insert CD, start up VM, done.
My point is that while you can sum up the steps to independence from Windows in one sentence in reality things are nowhere near as simple as you claim.
Yes, they are, and the other comments in this thread (and FWIW in *any* thread I see VMware discussed) show it, too. Nobody is having the hard time you have obviously, and that should get you thinking. Maybe it's just that the pile of patchwork hardware you use has some obscure problem or it's simply a case of PEBKAC.
Geez, I'd have expected drones of people crying "WTF I tried it and had to install lots of strange stuff like kernel headers and gcc and make", but "VMware won't find my CD-ROM and BTW, I can't install grub" really makes my day.:)
Only that it wouldn't get you nowhere. The point is having the stable OS as your system and installing the brittle one in the VM, so that you can rebuild the brittle one with a click of your mouse.
Oh, interesting. I didn't know of Beryl. I tried to try compiz however, but failed for the same reason everything else 3D fails for me - I have a multi-head Matrox card and have no idea how to enable OpenGL for it. It used to be a checkbox in Mandrake back then, but kubuntu and friends don't have that checkbox and I really don't feel like digging down X11's configuration options again to enable something I barely use.
Beryl however seems as if it might be worth it. Exposé really boosts my productivity, and I'd love to have it on my kubuntu box.
(So if there's a simple way of enabling OpenGL, I'd love to hear it.;) )
Taking one example, how many people in their late twenties think that getting married to someone you only met six months ago, divorcing that person a few years later, getting back together with an ex a few months after said divorce and having a baby with that person after only a few weeks or months of being together is mature?
Aw, c'mon. Did you ever consider that they might just follow their emotions, and that that might actually be *good*? Would it be better to stay with someone you don't love any more, and have the kid(s) live with that situation , or to end the relationship and eventually form a new family with someone else, and have yourself and your kids living together happily?
As for marrying someone after six months - what's so wrong about that? If it fits, it fits. I knew I'd marry my wife the day I met her. I didn't need years to find out. I don't have to drink the whole ocean to know the water is salty, neither.
Being a father of three, I strongly agree with you on the early baby in the new relationship, however. Children aren't a toy or relationship glue, they're human beings. And you're responsible for them. That's a HUGE responsibility - the largest you can ever have. That is a whole different beast than deciding whether to marry someone. If your marriage fails after some years, you can split up peacefully, and find new love again. But your kids rely on you, and rightly so. You're responsible for them. And for yourself.
Life is short. Be happy. Marry who you want when you want it. And don't waste your time and energy by feeling you're superiour to *anyone* when you probably can't *ever* get *any* insight into their minds. Try to understand people, and even if you don't, consider it might not be them being inferior but just you lacking some experience required to understand them. It's not a question of intelligence or superiority, and even if it were, it would be irrelevant. Intelligence doesn't mean anything. Living your life to your personal max is everything that counts, and finding out what that is is the most fun part of the voyage.
Rankism is a pointless waste of everyone's time. Don't fall for it. Life is short. The earlier you realize that, the more time you'll have to live happily instead of simply existing.
it would not change the fact that the code just isn't there in most applications to exploit the second button...at least well
That's simply not true - I use the right mouse button in all applications I use, and I notice almost no differences between my OSX, Ubuntu and Windows boxes.
Maybe you care to name a handful of applications which fall under your above mentioned category? Maybe I'm just getting you wrong or you haven't even used a Mac much.
(And about that middle mouse button - I have set it up with Exposé's "show all windows" feature, and that boosts my productivity with a lot of open windows *greatly*. Just middle-click to see all windows and left-click on the one you want to switch. I'm eagerly awaiting an Exposé clone for X11, it just ain't coming...)
Hell, I'm ready to make the switch to Ubuntu, but for my slavery to Quicken.
Then switch to Ubuntu, download VMWare Server (free as in beer), install your Windows license in a VM, put Quicken on it and be done. With the snapshots in VMware you can easily test install stuff and just roll back to the state before the install if you don't like the results. Burn the VM onto a DVD and never reinstall Windows again.
"I would love to switch but I need $windows_app" is not a viable excuse anymore.
If you need assistance with installing VMWare Server under Ubuntu, feel free to ask.
The exciting in-flight business is airdrops. Cargo is rigged on the ground for airdrop, but it's the Loadmaster that's responsible to see that a) it gets rigged right, and b) the drop gets executed. When you're standing at the front of a full cargo compartment, and you open a 10x10 foot (3m x 3m for you non-Imperial unit people) hole in the back of your aircraft at 1500 feet altitude and 225 knots, push a button and watch your entire load of cargo exit the aircraft, well, that's exciting. Unfortunately, it's really hard to describe in text.
Yeah, I know exactly what you mean. I was driving that CLK 430 Kompressor of the PHB at 280 km/h (174 mph for you merkins) on the Autobahn when my coworker wondered whether the button to automatically open the trunk would work at that speed. "If they are good designers", he mused, "they have turned the button off when driving."
Long story short, they're not so good designers.
Unfortunately, it's really hard to describe in text. But it sure was as exciting as your experience, as *my* stuff was on the back seats, as opposed to the coworkers' and PHB's stuff.
Interesting. I accidently closed the tab directly after clicking "submit", but it did go through. Why does it take several seconds from submit to response page then?
I just hope you didn't friend me as a Linux priest, because I'm not. I'm from the "use the best tool for the job" crowd and just getting *very* pragmatic with age. Personally, I use OSX at work and Linux/FreeBSD at home, but that's really only because they fit my usage patterns best. I was on Windows quite a long time, and still use it at work for, say, 10-20% of the time. I'm just getting sick and tired of it, because compared to the alternatives, it has really lost a lot of ground, and Vista is not making it better. Mac OS and Linux have improved significantly in the last 7 years while Windows has actually gotten worse. IMHO Microsoft has a serious problem here. Maybe Vista will *really* be a huge flop and get them working on a completely new OS, designed from the ground with security in mind, that would be great. I mean, with their monopoly, they also have the power to force the market to the new version, if they have the balls to take the flak just this once. Apple has done it with OSX, and there is no reason why Microsoft couldn't.
That was my Microsoft rant of the day. If you feel like dancing or getting naked, don't worry about me.
I looked at the features and liked the management console, but apart from that, what does it give me over a ssh -CX user@host? Everyone I support has at least 6 MBits with 768kBits upstream, and that's *very* responsive with plain vanilla compressed X forwarding as offered by OpenSSH, available for Linux (bummer), OSX, the BSDs and even for Windows through Cygwin-X-on-USB-stick-no-installation-required-tha nk-you.
Mind you, I'm curious, not trolling.
And: My pet peeve is that the VMware Server console on the remote machine sometimes runs shitty through X forwarding, but you can always just tunnel a connection for a locally running VMWare Server console, that works like a charm.
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I advise everyone to STAY THE FUCK AWAY FROM TERACOPY! I mean hey, look at the screenshot of the full version, it says it is copying Morcheeba's album "The Antidote", while the songs clearly are from the album "Charango", PLUS they're in the wrong order!
Also, everyone knows that "Big Calm" is the best Morcheeba album, ever. So not only does the tool fuck up everything, it doesn't have any taste, either.
Savages. Probably they aren't even circumcised.
No, you don't understand the point. (Hear that WHOOOSH?) The mother's point was that when Ballmer speaks of "value", he means it in a business way (TCO et al.), while the 13-year-old doesn't give a shit about that so Ballmer's mention of "value" is just a Pawlowian response with no relevancy to the situation. Actually "she's 13" is a pretty good retort to make that point clear to the audience.
Amen. I haven't contributed to the English Wikipedia much, but I see the phenomenon you quote on German Wikipedia a lot. New articles get deleted left and right by regulars who don't know shit about the topic at hand or think it's not notable, even if it e.g. covers an online event in which several hundred people participated non-stop for 72 hours straight. Of course such "editors" won't discuss the reasons, either. It definitely drove me away from contributing, and several other people I know.
Netcraft won't confirm it yet, but if said attitude is prevalent enough, it *will* kill Wikipedia, or turn it into a page with a three-digit number of editors again. And that, over time, will render it quite useless, as the information in it degrades.
I had the same problem four years ago. At the time, TB couldn't import from Eudora at all, but to be frank it's Eudora's fault because Eudora fucks up the headers and does other nasty stuff to what was told to be "da original mbox format".
If the built-in import doesn't work, look up bug 3157 in TB's bugzilla and download the perl scripts which are in the discussion. They worked just fine for me.
Thanks so much for posting that link. Actually said parody triggered my first visit to slashdot, IIRC it was featured at wired.com a few days after it came out, so I can now exactly tell how long I'm wasting my time here.
;)
I loved the link in one of the slashboxes that said "Steve Ballmer is fat and bald". At that time, I had no idea who Steve Ballmer was, and what would become of him. Gosh, that was a different Doctor O back then.
This place has made me a critical, pragmatic cynic with a skewed sense of humour.
Thanks!
I agree with the other poster, that's one of the most impressive and insightful posts I've ever read in my years of reading this time sink which is slashdot. Welcome to my friends list.
I've also got Alzheimer's in the family, and it's the only thing I fear. Not so much for myself, even though it must be horrifying to be completely disoriented most of the time. No, I fear becoming a burden to my wife and/or three children. It's mostly a single relative + husband/spouse who care for the Alzheimer's patient, not several people, because as you describe ist, it's mentally draining big deal, so the burden usually isn't distributed, but laying on a "selected few". I'm thinking about doing a "Patientenverfügung" (I'm German), which is a piece of legalese that allows a set of relatives or other people I name to decide not to prolong my life if I need "technical help" to survive. That would allow me to kill or at least injure myself in a "bright moment", should I really get into the situation of being cursed with Alzheimer's.
My deepest respect for you. And remember, you know by the tone of your grandma that she really means you when she says "I love you". Don't let the trolls make you doubt it. Every Alzheimer's patiens has those bright moments, even in the final stages, and most try to use it to let their loved ones know they love them. (My grandfather once told me during a bright moment that he kind of watches himself when he's "inoperable", but can't influence it, and just sits there and waits to be able to get "his mind back" as he put it. That impressed me and changed my perception of the disease, but I digress.)
Only shadow on the horizon is that they're thinking about encrypting it in order to charge for the service. At the moment, it's all free.
1) Going to the Einwohnermeldeamt of the place you've been living before, spend several hours in waiting rooms full of seriously pissed off people and get a written "deregistration" confirmation.
2) Going to the Einwohnermeldeamt of the new place, spend several hours in waiting rooms full of seriously pissed off people, show said confirmation, and also give them the copy of the registration form you hopefully bought in some store because you *can't* get it at the Einwohnermeldeamt.
3) Then there's some payola, they update your ID (yes, we have *real* ID and don't just use our SSN or driver's license, this is Germany after all) with a small sticker and a rubber stamp, and you're done.
4) Even though you've just told the Government your new address, you have to repeat that process also for the registration of your car, your GEZ fees (a mandatory fee that's used to finance state television), the tax office, and many others I won't quote because my anger really starts coming up now.
Oh, and all of this costs money. Yeah. Depending on where you live, the fees easily add up to a three-digit amount. And did I mention that you have to perform all of this in the first three days after your move? If you don't, you get prosecuted and pay a pretty hefty fee. I mean hey, I don't have FUCKING ANYTHING ELSE TO DO in the first days in the new house, like, say, unpacking boxes or reassembling the furniture that I have someplace to sleep.
I'll stop now, but you can see that Germany bureaucracy really sucks balls, and can drive you mad. Actually it does so almost always whenever you have to deal with it and many people do outrageous things to not be forced to deal with it.
And, being German, I don't see why people mod you Funny, because I think you're pretty much spot on. Then again, at least it's not boring here.
I wasn't referring to your post only, but the general tendency I've noticed in other posts, too. It's no question that sending 104-page bills (those were printed on both sides) is pretty stupid, especially for a service with a flat fee.
I'm amazed and a bit shocked that there are so many people here who think that paperless billing is an acceptable idea. It isn't, because:
1) It can be manipulated after the fact. "What were you suing us for? Look at your online bill, it says nothing about the 4-hour-call to Farkistan you claim we've wrongfully charged you for."
2) You can't prove the manipulation. "That so-called 'print' you have, it's trivial to fake out *anything*. Anybody can save an online bill to his local computer and change anything to his liking, and print it."
3) Sooner or later (usually sooner), the telco fucks up your billing. It's inevitable. And when trouble strikes, with a paper bill you have nice physical proof of their fuckup, nicely delivered in a dated envelope, printed with their type of toner on their business letter sheets.
Here in Germany, the telcos tend to default to online billing and you have to pay for paper bills. I gladly do, because of all the above. I've yet to encounter a telco or ISP that *never* fucks up billing.
(They're usually fighting with legacy billing systems which don't scale so well with the flood of clients they get as monopolization continues. That's a dragon that's *very* difficult to slay, because you can't just halt the system to migrate it, and you must make sure that it supports all existing business processes. The last thing alone can even give very experienced integrators sleepless nights and lots of headaches. I think it's just the natural result of growing complexity in business processes. It's your call whether you blame them for it or just shrug it off. I do the latter.)
Sorry to ruin it for you, but if you don't even know what that means, you're not in a position of judging *any* protocol.
Another hint for you: Just because it seems to work well for you on a small scale doesn't mean it is a good protocol (i.e. scaling well, little overhead, easily extendable, etc.).
Booting from the Windows CD is as hard as putting the CD into your physical drive and starting the VM. If it doesn't find your CD-ROM in autodetect mode, then just tell it which one in
As for "getting the config file working", WTF were you trying? I have never had to fiddle with *any* config files since I use VMware. Fire up the GUI app, run "create VM" wizard, insert CD, start up VM, done.
Yes, they are, and the other comments in this thread (and FWIW in *any* thread I see VMware discussed) show it, too. Nobody is having the hard time you have obviously, and that should get you thinking. Maybe it's just that the pile of patchwork hardware you use has some obscure problem or it's simply a case of PEBKAC.
Geez, I'd have expected drones of people crying "WTF I tried it and had to install lots of strange stuff like kernel headers and gcc and make", but "VMware won't find my CD-ROM and BTW, I can't install grub" really makes my day.
Only that it wouldn't get you nowhere. The point is having the stable OS as your system and installing the brittle one in the VM, so that you can rebuild the brittle one with a click of your mouse.
Oh, interesting. I didn't know of Beryl. I tried to try compiz however, but failed for the same reason everything else 3D fails for me - I have a multi-head Matrox card and have no idea how to enable OpenGL for it. It used to be a checkbox in Mandrake back then, but kubuntu and friends don't have that checkbox and I really don't feel like digging down X11's configuration options again to enable something I barely use.
;) )
Beryl however seems as if it might be worth it. Exposé really boosts my productivity, and I'd love to have it on my kubuntu box.
(So if there's a simple way of enabling OpenGL, I'd love to hear it.
Aw, c'mon. Did you ever consider that they might just follow their emotions, and that that might actually be *good*? Would it be better to stay with someone you don't love any more, and have the kid(s) live with that situation , or to end the relationship and eventually form a new family with someone else, and have yourself and your kids living together happily?
As for marrying someone after six months - what's so wrong about that? If it fits, it fits. I knew I'd marry my wife the day I met her. I didn't need years to find out. I don't have to drink the whole ocean to know the water is salty, neither.
Being a father of three, I strongly agree with you on the early baby in the new relationship, however. Children aren't a toy or relationship glue, they're human beings. And you're responsible for them. That's a HUGE responsibility - the largest you can ever have. That is a whole different beast than deciding whether to marry someone. If your marriage fails after some years, you can split up peacefully, and find new love again. But your kids rely on you, and rightly so. You're responsible for them. And for yourself.
Life is short. Be happy. Marry who you want when you want it. And don't waste your time and energy by feeling you're superiour to *anyone* when you probably can't *ever* get *any* insight into their minds. Try to understand people, and even if you don't, consider it might not be them being inferior but just you lacking some experience required to understand them. It's not a question of intelligence or superiority, and even if it were, it would be irrelevant. Intelligence doesn't mean anything. Living your life to your personal max is everything that counts, and finding out what that is is the most fun part of the voyage.
Rankism is a pointless waste of everyone's time. Don't fall for it. Life is short. The earlier you realize that, the more time you'll have to live happily instead of simply existing.
That's simply not true - I use the right mouse button in all applications I use, and I notice almost no differences between my OSX, Ubuntu and Windows boxes.
Maybe you care to name a handful of applications which fall under your above mentioned category? Maybe I'm just getting you wrong or you haven't even used a Mac much.
(And about that middle mouse button - I have set it up with Exposé's "show all windows" feature, and that boosts my productivity with a lot of open windows *greatly*. Just middle-click to see all windows and left-click on the one you want to switch. I'm eagerly awaiting an Exposé clone for X11, it just ain't coming...)
Compared to the pre-installed amaroK, iTunes is a puny attempt at a media player. And it comes with iPod-sync out of the box.
What were you saying again?
Then switch to Ubuntu, download VMWare Server (free as in beer), install your Windows license in a VM, put Quicken on it and be done. With the snapshots in VMware you can easily test install stuff and just roll back to the state before the install if you don't like the results. Burn the VM onto a DVD and never reinstall Windows again.
"I would love to switch but I need $windows_app" is not a viable excuse anymore.
If you need assistance with installing VMWare Server under Ubuntu, feel free to ask.
Yeah, and the driver's last word was "all-OWWWWWwwww".
Yeah, I know exactly what you mean. I was driving that CLK 430 Kompressor of the PHB at 280 km/h (174 mph for you merkins) on the Autobahn when my coworker wondered whether the button to automatically open the trunk would work at that speed. "If they are good designers", he mused, "they have turned the button off when driving."
Long story short, they're not so good designers.
Unfortunately, it's really hard to describe in text. But it sure was as exciting as your experience, as *my* stuff was on the back seats, as opposed to the coworkers' and PHB's stuff.
Interesting. I accidently closed the tab directly after clicking "submit", but it did go through. Why does it take several seconds from submit to response page then?
Oh, my second three-digit-fan. :) Reciprocal.
I just hope you didn't friend me as a Linux priest, because I'm not. I'm from the "use the best tool for the job" crowd and just getting *very* pragmatic with age. Personally, I use OSX at work and Linux/FreeBSD at home, but that's really only because they fit my usage patterns best. I was on Windows quite a long time, and still use it at work for, say, 10-20% of the time. I'm just getting sick and tired of it, because compared to the alternatives, it has really lost a lot of ground, and Vista is not making it better. Mac OS and Linux have improved significantly in the last 7 years while Windows has actually gotten worse. IMHO Microsoft has a serious problem here. Maybe Vista will *really* be a huge flop and get them working on a completely new OS, designed from the ground with security in mind, that would be great. I mean, with their monopoly, they also have the power to force the market to the new version, if they have the balls to take the flak just this once. Apple has done it with OSX, and there is no reason why Microsoft couldn't.
That was my Microsoft rant of the day. If you feel like dancing or getting naked, don't worry about me.
I looked at the features and liked the management console, but apart from that, what does it give me over a ssh -CX user@host? Everyone I support has at least 6 MBits with 768kBits upstream, and that's *very* responsive with plain vanilla compressed X forwarding as offered by OpenSSH, available for Linux (bummer), OSX, the BSDs and even for Windows through Cygwin-X-on-USB-stick-no-installation-required-tha nk-you.
Mind you, I'm curious, not trolling.
And: My pet peeve is that the VMware Server console on the remote machine sometimes runs shitty through X forwarding, but you can always just tunnel a connection for a locally running VMWare Server console, that works like a charm.