Slony. But although I've poked around at it, I've never given it the time to try and get it working.
It seems... well, strange to me. Doesn't work in the way I expect.
Yes, but if that is all he wants to do, then doing that will mean he's happy.
What is happiness really? What makes you happy? You only want the ability to criticise your government because you think you might need it.
Linus - if you're reading this, which I know you are, and if you take my advice, which I know you do: Beer, barbeque, and your woman. Or a spliff. Whatever you like. Just relax. Breathe deeply. Yoga. Meditation. Tantric sex. Kinky sex. Whatever. Just relax man. You've done the hard work. And now just sit back, and watch Linux trounce over Windows and *BSD.
For me, I just plug in (for example) a new network card, and hey presto, the right kernel module is loaded, and it is available for use. Connecting to the internet? That'll be called DHCP (for the majority now).
Yeah, it's not like Microsoft pours millions of dollars into making the workings of a computer obvious and making a full help system which people can access by clicking the start button and choosing 'Help', is it?
If I click my K (located in the same place as the Windows Start button), 7th link up is Help. What's your point again?
A good example to bad IRC channels is the Wikipedia one. The servers had a major outage today, and the error message said: Visit the IRC channel for more info. So in I go.
It's people basically discussing their sexlives, and the treatment of women in Islam, and if you ask a single question about the foundation servers, you get kicked. Which seems pretty bad to me.
I can understand in non-"official" IRC support channels, but when it's listed officially by the site/distro/software website, it should maintain a friendly, semi-professional image. As it's the first place people trying out Linux or new software might experience. Of course, #n00bsWTF on irc.l33thax0rs.nu can do what the hell they like.
I remember my first days with Linux. I tried man, and I couldn't work out how to quit it, so I Ctrl Z'd it each time. Upon logout, I got the warning about stopped jobs. Little things like that are confusing. vi is confusing. (vim less so). You can scroll up in less, but not in more. Simple things for us are ultra confusing to people that don't know Linux. Think back to the days when you knew nothing about Linux/Unix, and remember them when helping out people in the same boat.
I've never understood the attraction of IRC. I understand it even less when seeking technical help.
It all depends on the people running it, and if it's infested with little kiddies who have been given ops for some reason. 2 of the best IRC channels I've used are the postgres one, and the vserver one. Always really knowledgable people there, if not the actual developers. If you look them up, and visit them though, don't spoil that.:)
Plus your average mail server will hold your mail, and keep trying for 5 days before giving up. So, as long as 1 of Yahoo's servers is up for a decent period in a 5 day period, mail shouldn't be lost. Course, users might be annoyed with the delays.:)
screw Gitmo, just shoot each of these bastards on sight. Shoot on sight and be done with it. There, no prison, no complaints. Just a lot of dead bastards.
"Dude", what the fuck are you talking about? You have invented some kind of amazing new technology that can identify a terrorist visually? You can't just shoot people that have been accused (probably due to political reasons) of something. You have to prove it using an open system. What if (surprise surprise) your administration has been lying to you (WMD's?), and most of those people in Guantanamo are just poor schmoes who happened to be in Afghanistan, and didn't like the US steamroller rolling right over them.
They might not. I grant you. They might all be highly dangerous terrorists who have a pile of nukes hidden somewhere, and thus can't be let out. But if that's the case, charge them, convict them (fairly), and play the game by the rules.
Maybe that's because I'm not a criminal trying to get away with something. Hm.
Completely naive. So you're never going to say anything against the current or future administrations? Because we've **all** broken the law in some way. And given enough trawling, and records, I bet I could find something to charge you with.
Seems like if you're shipped there, you're automatically guilty, and if you're automatically guilty, you have to stay there until you stop being guilty. Is this one of those cases using the new extradition system, whereby the US doesn't have to show any evidence to the UK - it just has to say "Hand him over", and he gets sent?
Still, just label him a terrorist, even though he claims he's nothing more than a script kiddie, and then people aren't allowed to say no.
People, people, people. At first, when you're trying to move from Windows to Linux, it seems very hard. Everything is just that bit different enough to almost make it worthwhile giving up.
I didn't "trust" Linux with my hard drive partitions, so I would power down, unplug the IDE from the Windows drive, and plug it into the Linux one. Eventually, I learnt that it was Windows more likely to "accidentally" mess up my Linux partitions.
I kept backups of all my data on the Windows drive, until I realise that Linux has alternatives to all the programs I use, and they work fine. (Getting mail out of the PST file was a pain)
But a few months later on, things start making sense. You actually start to understand why the screwy security features like the one that means you can't just type "progname" in a directory with progname in it are there. And all of a sudden, you can work perfectly well again, with the occasional paste of an error from/var/log/syslog into Google or readthefuckingmanual.net.
Just break that addiction. Do it. It's a bit strange at first, but you have to do it sometime. Do it now. Why not?
The Sun Solaris "killall" command kills *all* processes.
Yep. Found that out the hard way. killall httpd on Solaris does not do quite what you think.
Stupid lame Sun. Why can't they stick to the right way of doing things. Linux has been around for much longer than them, so they should damn well stick to the standards.*
No - you can see both sides of an argument, and not agree with them both. I admire people who have principles and stick to them. However, this doesn't mean to say I agree with those principles all the time. See?
Forgive my ignorance, but (running OOfice 1.1.5 (binary due to AMD64, blah blah)), I don't have an ODF option? Or is it the native OpenOffice document formats?
(I know this is a KOffice thread, but maybe some knowledgable people are reading).
Yep, that's the issue. Basically, it doesn't matter why, but they don't support it. And that sucks. Sort of like Red Hat and the mp3 stuff. Just flash up a message, and let the user decide. "You're about to install MP3 support for XMMS - are you aware that the MP3 support might be subject to patents worldwide, and do you absolve Red Hat from all responsibilities?"
You know what most pisses me off about Debian? I can't apt-get install mod_security because of their licencing issues.
I'm really glad they have principles. I really am. I admire them for sticking to their guns. But because of this, I have to jump through hoops, and use third party packages, or install the apache source packages and build against them.
It's all a lot of faffing around. Have 2 repositories. One for people that want only the most GPL'd, clean packages. And another one where they put the same packages, as well as the ones that people want.
Debian aren't going to change the world with this system, and they're just going to make it hard for people to have a complete system as they want.
Now, here come all the posts telling me "You just need to do this", or "Point your apt at this server", or x, y, z. Why not just have a setup flag or a config file - perhaps if/etc/allow-other-packages exists, it works.
I want to know how, if I put a random string on my webpage (say ioeuhncio38u9384hynfxiuhfnx847uvh04897x ), and wait for Google to index it, that searching for that string will return my page in milliseconds. It obviously can't be a pre-executed query. So how the hell do they do that? SELECT * FROM index WHERE text ILIKE '%foo%' just won't cut it.
I'd love to know how search engines do do it - anyone reading this worked for one?
Does anyone else think it's a happy coincidence that the Earth day is 24 hours long, and that humans work on a 24 hour day pattern?
It's very fortuitious.
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Yeah, I mean, Google. Haha. What a bunch of losers they must be. Oracle? Heh. Red Hat. Terrible.
Slony. But although I've poked around at it, I've never given it the time to try and get it working.
It seems... well, strange to me. Doesn't work in the way I expect.
Yes, but if that is all he wants to do, then doing that will mean he's happy.
What is happiness really? What makes you happy? You only want the ability to criticise your government because you think you might need it.
Linus - if you're reading this, which I know you are, and if you take my advice, which I know you do: Beer, barbeque, and your woman. Or a spliff. Whatever you like. Just relax. Breathe deeply. Yoga. Meditation. Tantric sex. Kinky sex. Whatever. Just relax man. You've done the hard work. And now just sit back, and watch Linux trounce over Windows and *BSD.
People need to stop telling people what to do/think/say
For me, I just plug in (for example) a new network card, and hey presto, the right kernel module is loaded, and it is available for use. Connecting to the internet? That'll be called DHCP (for the majority now).
You sure you're not stuck in the late 90s?
If I click my K (located in the same place as the Windows Start button), 7th link up is Help. What's your point again?
A good example to bad IRC channels is the Wikipedia one. The servers had a major outage today, and the error message said: Visit the IRC channel for more info. So in I go.
It's people basically discussing their sexlives, and the treatment of women in Islam, and if you ask a single question about the foundation servers, you get kicked. Which seems pretty bad to me.
I can understand in non-"official" IRC support channels, but when it's listed officially by the site/distro/software website, it should maintain a friendly, semi-professional image. As it's the first place people trying out Linux or new software might experience. Of course, #n00bsWTF on irc.l33thax0rs.nu can do what the hell they like.
I remember my first days with Linux. I tried man, and I couldn't work out how to quit it, so I Ctrl Z'd it each time. Upon logout, I got the warning about stopped jobs. Little things like that are confusing. vi is confusing. (vim less so). You can scroll up in less, but not in more. Simple things for us are ultra confusing to people that don't know Linux. Think back to the days when you knew nothing about Linux/Unix, and remember them when helping out people in the same boat.
It all depends on the people running it, and if it's infested with little kiddies who have been given ops for some reason. 2 of the best IRC channels I've used are the postgres one, and the vserver one. Always really knowledgable people there, if not the actual developers. If you look them up, and visit them though, don't spoil that. :)
Plus your average mail server will hold your mail, and keep trying for 5 days before giving up. So, as long as 1 of Yahoo's servers is up for a decent period in a 5 day period, mail shouldn't be lost. Course, users might be annoyed with the delays. :)
Yep, it's used on Anonet in varying numbers, and works very well.
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"Dude", what the fuck are you talking about? You have invented some kind of amazing new technology that can identify a terrorist visually? You can't just shoot people that have been accused (probably due to political reasons) of something. You have to prove it using an open system. What if (surprise surprise) your administration has been lying to you (WMD's?), and most of those people in Guantanamo are just poor schmoes who happened to be in Afghanistan, and didn't like the US steamroller rolling right over them.
They might not. I grant you. They might all be highly dangerous terrorists who have a pile of nukes hidden somewhere, and thus can't be let out. But if that's the case, charge them, convict them (fairly), and play the game by the rules.
Completely naive. So you're never going to say anything against the current or future administrations? Because we've **all** broken the law in some way. And given enough trawling, and records, I bet I could find something to charge you with.
Seems like if you're shipped there, you're automatically guilty, and if you're automatically guilty, you have to stay there until you stop being guilty. Is this one of those cases using the new extradition system, whereby the US doesn't have to show any evidence to the UK - it just has to say "Hand him over", and he gets sent?
Still, just label him a terrorist, even though he claims he's nothing more than a script kiddie, and then people aren't allowed to say no.
People, people, people. At first, when you're trying to move from Windows to Linux, it seems very hard. Everything is just that bit different enough to almost make it worthwhile giving up. /var/log/syslog into Google or readthefuckingmanual.net.
I didn't "trust" Linux with my hard drive partitions, so I would power down, unplug the IDE from the Windows drive, and plug it into the Linux one. Eventually, I learnt that it was Windows more likely to "accidentally" mess up my Linux partitions.
I kept backups of all my data on the Windows drive, until I realise that Linux has alternatives to all the programs I use, and they work fine. (Getting mail out of the PST file was a pain)
But a few months later on, things start making sense. You actually start to understand why the screwy security features like the one that means you can't just type "progname" in a directory with progname in it are there. And all of a sudden, you can work perfectly well again, with the occasional paste of an error from
Just break that addiction. Do it. It's a bit strange at first, but you have to do it sometime. Do it now. Why not?
Yep. Found that out the hard way. killall httpd on Solaris does not do quite what you think.
Stupid lame Sun. Why can't they stick to the right way of doing things. Linux has been around for much longer than them, so they should damn well stick to the standards.*
* Please don't feed me.
No - you can see both sides of an argument, and not agree with them both. I admire people who have principles and stick to them. However, this doesn't mean to say I agree with those principles all the time. See?
Forgive my ignorance, but (running OOfice 1.1.5 (binary due to AMD64, blah blah)), I don't have an ODF option? Or is it the native OpenOffice document formats?
(I know this is a KOffice thread, but maybe some knowledgable people are reading).
Yep, that's the issue. Basically, it doesn't matter why, but they don't support it. And that sucks. Sort of like Red Hat and the mp3 stuff. Just flash up a message, and let the user decide. "You're about to install MP3 support for XMMS - are you aware that the MP3 support might be subject to patents worldwide, and do you absolve Red Hat from all responsibilities?"
You know what most pisses me off about Debian? I can't apt-get install mod_security because of their licencing issues.
/etc/allow-other-packages exists, it works.
I'm really glad they have principles. I really am. I admire them for sticking to their guns. But because of this, I have to jump through hoops, and use third party packages, or install the apache source packages and build against them.
It's all a lot of faffing around. Have 2 repositories. One for people that want only the most GPL'd, clean packages. And another one where they put the same packages, as well as the ones that people want.
Debian aren't going to change the world with this system, and they're just going to make it hard for people to have a complete system as they want.
Now, here come all the posts telling me "You just need to do this", or "Point your apt at this server", or x, y, z. Why not just have a setup flag or a config file - perhaps if
I want to know how, if I put a random string on my webpage (say ioeuhncio38u9384hynfxiuhfnx847uvh04897x ), and wait for Google to index it, that searching for that string will return my page in milliseconds. It obviously can't be a pre-executed query. So how the hell do they do that? SELECT * FROM index WHERE text ILIKE '%foo%' just won't cut it.
I'd love to know how search engines do do it - anyone reading this worked for one?
Does anyone else think it's a happy coincidence that the Earth day is 24 hours long, and that humans work on a 24 hour day pattern?
It's very fortuitious.