RTFA, a dummy hit the EPO button and the place died.
So, uh, when you turn off a light, do you think of it as a power failure? It was most certainly not a power failure. Nothing actually failed. In fact, everything worked perfectly.
the scientists do not work independently of the moneymen.
This goes double for industry. You invent something, the company patents it. You might be the inventor, but the company is the assignee. It is their patent to do with what they please. I have patents in a mixture of software and biology. Where I work, and I assume it is pretty much the same in most places, if the company wants to patent it, you have no choice. I am not against patents, but if you work for a corporation and they want to patent your invention, you will have little choice other than refusing, then quiting. And even that might not be enough.
Oh, man, you don't know how many times I see that on resumes today. Everyone who has a blog and wrote some little rinky dink peice of software under their little fake business puts that on their resume. Fact is, they are just another out of work programmer trying to fill the 3 year gap.
When did using computers or the internet become an "experience"? They're tools, nothing more.
Your 386 running OpenBSD is a tool. Your $4000 gaming and multimedia box is a tool used for 'experiencing' things. Sort of like a pinto vs jag. No one says a jag is just a car to get you from point a to point b.
Why are you using Red Hat Enterprise 3WS at home instead of Fedora Core or something else?
Excuse me? BUT WHY THE FUCK SHOULD I NOT BE USING IT? Seriously, what the fuck? Are you dictating distros now? Is that the current mantra? Fucking christ, you people are so duplicitious.
You are welcome - but it's not any easier to put all that onto XP box + critical updates + anti spyware.
lol, what? You think the general public installs that?? I don't. I batten down the hatches on my netscreen, write scripts to log ssh brute force attacks and have tripwire page me on critical notices. But my mom, brother and wife? Again, lol, they roll with the punches. "Don't use outlook or IE" - what the hell else can you do - "Oh, you need linux 'cause it's Free (not free, let me bore you for an hour explaining that), oh what, you can't read the email grandma sent you, well let me tell you about how Micro$oft is teh suXors and blah blah fucking blah...."
(posting from a RHE3 ws box, via firefox using tor/privoxy THANKS SLASHDOT! cause I'm banned - I am no Microsoft/Apple fanboy and I have no agenda)
For a Linux junky you made some very surprising overstatements. Few days ago I reinstalled Fedora 3 all updates, flash and java plugins, Real player, mp3 addons, xine (for DVD), mplayer + mplayer plugin, TT fonts, Nintendo emulator - all together took around 4 hours.
All these but mplayer were rpm installs, so it's pretty easy. Mplayer is also not too hard to compile but takes time on a slow machine, plus takes another chunk of time to re-configure prelinking, so Windows media plays nicely.
Granted, I had all updates, additional rpms and tarballs ready on a home server
Thanks for the additional examples, I forgot to add them in my original post.
Uh, where's your financial package? Oh, gnucash you say? Oh, yes, I just installed that on a new Red Hat Enterprise 3ws box at home. Gnome, what? I prefer KDE... Okay then, don't forget these packages - oh, and by the way, these are only available for Fedora core, so please spend hours digging for rhe3.0ws rpms prior to figuring that little aspect out.
Oh, and to use the canonical expample of my wife - well she's installed $30 version of Quicken, planned out 2005 investments, did our taxes and is having a glass of wine with one of her friends while I am hunting down gnome-vfs-devel-1.0.5-15 - WTF?!?!! I just installed gnome-vfs-1.0.5-15.i3 86.rpm, why do I need devel?!?!?!?! Red Carpet channels???? Didn't they used to be 'free'? Or was that'Free', cause now they want money...where the fucking fuck are those channels...deja news...oh, yeah, now it's goooooooooooogle....fuck...now they have appended the posts....shit they used to only do that with.binary....ok, this is a very serious tangent.....fuck, i need a beer.
(and this no joke, this all happened to me - a ten year vet of linux who abandoned Windows completeley upon the discovery of gnucash and JPilot several years ago - one week ago today.)
In a way, FOSS has forced me to learn a bit more about what I'm using....The subjective here is have I lost or gained? Me? I reckon I've gained.
And that is the defining difference between me/you (0.0001%) vs my wife (99.9999%) of the world. I want gain computer knowledge and experience whereas my wife, well, she wants to watch Ignignot cleverly trick Meatwad into stealing racks of DVDs and to smoke while he does so.
Look up the following: Mplayer, Kaffeine, Xine, LibDVDRead and BZFlag
Dude, you are preaching to the choir. I am a full on linux junky and have been for many years. But tell me, who's the fool: My boss (who has been in the computer business for 30 years) who is given a perfectly capable dual boot(linux/xp) laptop and asks me how do view a dvd under linux OR my wife with fuckall computer experience who can buy an ATHF dvd off ebay, stick it into her XP laptop and be watching it (with sound) inside of 10 seconds?
Me? I will spend the hour or two it takes me now (as opposed to the weeks or months it would have taken me 3 or more years ago) to figure out how to get it to work. My boss - I'll set it up for him, 'cause he's an idiot. My wife? She'll have watched the dvd three times before I'm done.
I suppose that depends on how you define "value". Personally, having Free Software and using Free Software has done more to "maximize the value" of my computer far more than anything else I can think of.
I agree with you 100%. However, if anyone asks me for a recomendation, do you really think I am going to tell them to go with my solution? Hell no. I have spent the last 10 years tinkering with linux and bsd, getting it to satisfy my every computer related need from personal to professional. It works for me because I will work for it. It was a hell of lot harder in 1995 than it is in 2005, but outside of the server environment, (F|f)ree is not ready for the real world. And cynically, I think it never will be. </-1 flamebait backed by real world experience>
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If I can't download a movie I want, I definitely will not be buying it. I can't afford it.
The MPAA does not lose money because I never had any plans to buy in the first place.
And that justifies you being able to get it for free? Setting aside your idiotic logic, you are stealing you fucking fucktard.
you have to use 'binary' for case sensitive searches.
mysql> create table name ( name char(10) );
Query OK, 0 rows affected (0.05 sec)
mysql> insert into name ( name ) values ('Forrest');
Query OK, 1 row affected (0.00 sec)
mysql> select * from name where binary name = 'forrest';
Empty set (0.01 sec)
mysql> select * from name where binary name = 'Forrest';
+---------+
| name |
+---------+
| Forrest |
+---------+
It's nice to see that venture capitalists are beginning to drop the ball again. A sure sign of the economy improving.
Why doesn't mail work like MSN, ICQ, etc? I've never received a single piece of spam that way :|
What? ICQ spam irrated me right off of ICQ forever more than 6 years ago.
Don't forget 'not knowing'.
RTFA, a dummy hit the EPO button and the place died.
So, uh, when you turn off a light, do you think of it as a power failure? It was most certainly not a power failure. Nothing actually failed. In fact, everything worked perfectly.
Larry Wall might be listening.
the scientists do not work independently of the moneymen.
This goes double for industry. You invent something, the company patents it. You might be the inventor, but the company is the assignee. It is their patent to do with what they please. I have patents in a mixture of software and biology. Where I work, and I assume it is pretty much the same in most places, if the company wants to patent it, you have no choice. I am not against patents, but if you work for a corporation and they want to patent your invention, you will have little choice other than refusing, then quiting. And even that might not be enough.
Now people who know nothing about ripping people off can rip off people who know nothing about being ripped off.
Who doesn't spend at least 20% of their workday doing things other than work?
It had better run linux.
Everyone has to push the crash cart around.
Oh, man, you don't know how many times I see that on resumes today. Everyone who has a blog and wrote some little rinky dink peice of software under their little fake business puts that on their resume. Fact is, they are just another out of work programmer trying to fill the 3 year gap.
Bringing the traffic accidents of the world to a screen near you.
A news organization servering up news to the entire world over the internet has a powerful backend. I mean, who would have guessed?
And I am going to make him tatoo "I have AIDS" on his forehead.
Goldenpalace.com buys it.
When did using computers or the internet become an "experience"? They're tools, nothing more.
Your 386 running OpenBSD is a tool. Your $4000 gaming and multimedia box is a tool used for 'experiencing' things. Sort of like a pinto vs jag. No one says a jag is just a car to get you from point a to point b.
Why are you using Red Hat Enterprise 3WS at home instead of Fedora Core or something else?
Excuse me? BUT WHY THE FUCK SHOULD I NOT BE USING IT? Seriously, what the fuck? Are you dictating distros now? Is that the current mantra? Fucking christ, you people are so duplicitious.
You are welcome - but it's not any easier to put all that onto XP box + critical updates + anti spyware.
lol, what? You think the general public installs that?? I don't. I batten down the hatches on my netscreen, write scripts to log ssh brute force attacks and have tripwire page me on critical notices. But my mom, brother and wife? Again, lol, they roll with the punches. "Don't use outlook or IE" - what the hell else can you do - "Oh, you need linux 'cause it's Free (not free, let me bore you for an hour explaining that), oh what, you can't read the email grandma sent you, well let me tell you about how Micro$oft is teh suXors and blah blah fucking blah...."
(posting from a RHE3 ws box, via firefox using tor/privoxy THANKS SLASHDOT! cause I'm banned - I am no Microsoft/Apple fanboy and I have no agenda)
For a Linux junky you made some very surprising overstatements. Few days ago I reinstalled Fedora 3 all updates, flash and java plugins, Real player, mp3 addons, xine (for DVD), mplayer + mplayer plugin, TT fonts, Nintendo emulator - all together took around 4 hours.
All these but mplayer were rpm installs, so it's pretty easy. Mplayer is also not too hard to compile but takes time on a slow machine, plus takes another chunk of time to re-configure prelinking, so Windows media plays nicely.
Granted, I had all updates, additional rpms and tarballs ready on a home server
Thanks for the additional examples, I forgot to add them in my original post.
Uh, where's your financial package? Oh, gnucash you say? Oh, yes, I just installed that on a new Red Hat Enterprise 3ws box at home. Gnome, what? I prefer KDE... Okay then, don't forget these packages - oh, and by the way, these are only available for Fedora core, so please spend hours digging for rhe3.0ws rpms prior to figuring that little aspect out.
/usr/home/me/half_of_last_saturday
. 22-7.i386.rpm gtkhtml-1.1.9-5.i386.rpm libglade-0.17-12.2.i386.rpm gtkhtml-devel-1.1.9-5.i386.rpm libglade-0.17-12.2.i386.rpm.1 guile-1.6.4 libglade-devel-0.17-12.2.i386.rpm guile-1.6.4-17.i386.rpm libgnomeprint15-0.37-7.1.i386.rpm guile-1.6.4.tar.gz libxml-1.8.17r pm Guppi-0.40.2.tar.gz libxml-1.8.17.tar.gz- 11.i386.rpm g-wrap-1.3.4 oaf-0.6.10-8.i386.rpm3 86.rpm libbonobo-devel-2.4.0-1.i386.rpm rc1.4
.binary....ok, this is a very serious tangent.....fuck, i need a beer.
$ls
bonobo-1.0.2 2-7.i386.rpm gnucash-1.8.9.tar.gz libghttp-devel-1.0.9-8.i386.rpm
bonobo-devel-1.0
gal-0.24-2.i386.rpm Guppi-0.40.2 libxml-1.8.17-9.2.src.rpm
gal-devel-0.24-2.i386.
GConf-1.0.9-11.i386.rpm Guppi-0.40.3-16.i386.rpm libxml-devel-1.8.17-9.i386.rpm
GConf-devel-1.0.9
gnome-print-0.29-6.src.rpm g-wrap-1.3.4.tar.gz oaf-0.6.10-8.i386.rpm.1
gnome-print-0.37-7.1.i38 6.rpm libbonobo-2.4.0-1.i386.rpm oaf-devel-0.6.10-8.i386.rpm
gnome-vfs-1.0.5-15.i
gnome-vfs-devel-1.0.5-15.i386.rpm libcapplet0-1.4.0.1-13.i386.rpm redcarpet
gnome-vfs-devel-1.0.5-15.i386.rpm.1 libgal23-0.24-2.i386.rpm slib-3a1-1.noarch.rpm
gnucash-1.8.9 libghttp-1.0.9-8.i386.rpm
Oh, and to use the canonical expample of my wife - well she's installed $30 version of Quicken, planned out 2005 investments, did our taxes and is having a glass of wine with one of her friends while I am hunting down gnome-vfs-devel-1.0.5-15 - WTF?!?!! I just installed gnome-vfs-1.0.5-15.i3 86.rpm, why do I need devel?!?!?!?! Red Carpet channels???? Didn't they used to be 'free'? Or was that'Free', cause now they want money...where the fucking fuck are those channels...deja news...oh, yeah, now it's goooooooooooogle....fuck...now they have appended the posts....shit they used to only do that with
(and this no joke, this all happened to me - a ten year vet of linux who abandoned Windows completeley upon the discovery of gnucash and JPilot several years ago - one week ago today.)
In a way, FOSS has forced me to learn a bit more about what I'm using....The subjective here is have I lost or gained? Me? I reckon I've gained.
And that is the defining difference between me/you (0.0001%) vs my wife (99.9999%) of the world. I want gain computer knowledge and experience whereas my wife, well, she wants to watch Ignignot cleverly trick Meatwad into stealing racks of DVDs and to smoke while he does so.
Look up the following: Mplayer, Kaffeine, Xine, LibDVDRead and BZFlag
Dude, you are preaching to the choir. I am a full on linux junky and have been for many years. But tell me, who's the fool: My boss (who has been in the computer business for 30 years) who is given a perfectly capable dual boot(linux/xp) laptop and asks me how do view a dvd under linux OR my wife with fuckall computer experience who can buy an ATHF dvd off ebay, stick it into her XP laptop and be watching it (with sound) inside of 10 seconds?
Me? I will spend the hour or two it takes me now (as opposed to the weeks or months it would have taken me 3 or more years ago) to figure out how to get it to work. My boss - I'll set it up for him, 'cause he's an idiot. My wife? She'll have watched the dvd three times before I'm done.
I suppose that depends on how you define "value". Personally, having Free Software and using Free Software has done more to "maximize the value" of my computer far more than anything else I can think of.
I agree with you 100%. However, if anyone asks me for a recomendation, do you really think I am going to tell them to go with my solution? Hell no. I have spent the last 10 years tinkering with linux and bsd, getting it to satisfy my every computer related need from personal to professional. It works for me because I will work for it. It was a hell of lot harder in 1995 than it is in 2005, but outside of the server environment, (F|f)ree is not ready for the real world. And cynically, I think it never will be. </-1 flamebait backed by real world experience>