Heh, not every website is a 50 line PHP hack made by a kid. You can do extremely powerful things with a website and those things can require complex programming skills. And that programming can be done in Perl.
In Word, change tracking, fonts and outlines are always getting screwed up. Sometimes changes will revert one version for no reason. Fonts will change and in outlines, things frequently disappear. In Powerpoint, slides can look horrible on the screen while printing fine. Excel has given me no major problems except some minor formatting issues.
I am not a power user of Office or OO.o, I mostly use emacs. When I do use 00.o, I run into trouble often enough to know that someone who uses it all day, every day is going to have a lot of problems (if they have to interact with MS office.)
I have been using OO for quite some time. I am using the most current version but it still fairly frequently mangles documents when passed back and forth between MS Office and OpenOffice. Same with Powerpoint. Even if your whole company migrates, you still have to deal with people who use Microsoft Office.
Ah, yes, the ballroom. Getting new marble floors in mine next week. Geeves has been very good at coordinating all the work. Good chap, that Geeves. On the same note, Slashdot keeps rejecting my "Ask Slashdot: Upgrading your Ballroom to IPv6?" story (and all my other ballroom related stories.)
Ah, this is the secret. I really must stop using Flamebait...Troll as subjects!
No, those are best used in the first sentence your post. As in, "This will probably get modded flamebait, but..." or "I'm not trying to troll here but..."
Is anyone SERIOUSLY arguing for the right to disseminate the creations of other people for free?
Did you buy this account from someone? People on Slashdot constantly argue that that is ok. What exactly is the difference between AutoCAD 2004 and an mp3? In my mind, there is none when it comes to the legality of downloading it off the internet. -1 Troll, but it is illegal in both examples unless the artist or author gives implicit consent.
Set up a a couple of raid storage devices in two or three data centers, preferably one on another continent than the one you live. Set up some sort of auto-syncing mechanism and be sure to change out your disks twice a year for extra safety. Actually, it would be best to buy all new equipment yearly. Also, contract at least two remote backup services to backup your data nightly. Do this, and you can be sure your data will be safe forever (barring nuclear war or a massive asteroid striking earth.)
Did India outsource its voting machines? Seems like maybe it's not just a matter of incompetent programmers. Maybe e-voting is actually hard to accomplish.
Slashdot Mirror
"Website programming".
Tee-hee. I still laugh when I see that phrase.
Heh, not every website is a 50 line PHP hack made by a kid. You can do extremely powerful things with a website and those things can require complex programming skills. And that programming can be done in Perl.
Linux, Apache, Mysql, and Perl. They changed the world forever.
Can you give some examples?
In Word, change tracking, fonts and outlines are always getting screwed up. Sometimes changes will revert one version for no reason. Fonts will change and in outlines, things frequently disappear. In Powerpoint, slides can look horrible on the screen while printing fine. Excel has given me no major problems except some minor formatting issues.
I am not a power user of Office or OO.o, I mostly use emacs. When I do use 00.o, I run into trouble often enough to know that someone who uses it all day, every day is going to have a lot of problems (if they have to interact with MS office.)
I have been using OO for quite some time. I am using the most current version but it still fairly frequently mangles documents when passed back and forth between MS Office and OpenOffice. Same with Powerpoint. Even if your whole company migrates, you still have to deal with people who use Microsoft Office.
Je ne se quoi?
It means, well, it means... Uh, actually, I don't know quite how to describe it.
Can you imagine the virus you could write if you could change the instruction set of the cpu?
Uh, no.
"I see that you are (insert processor mumbojumbo.) Would you like me to reconfigure my instruction sets?"
your ballroom
Ah, yes, the ballroom. Getting new marble floors in mine next week. Geeves has been very good at coordinating all the work. Good chap, that Geeves. On the same note, Slashdot keeps rejecting my "Ask Slashdot: Upgrading your Ballroom to IPv6?" story (and all my other ballroom related stories.)
Just smoke a shitload of it and you'll see.
Similar to saying "I had a burger and coke for lunch," when you really had a burger and Pepsi. TiVo is becomming part of American culture.
Yeah, It's kind of like when you say, "I just took a shit and wiped my ass with kleenex." In reality, you didn't actually take the shit anywhere.
All my clones own Tivos. That's seven subscribers when before, it'd only be one.
I'd love a home brew, thanks. Ale or lager? And do you brew all-grain or extract?
Thought I'd share a data point for what it's worth...
About the only thing more worthless than simple anecdotal evidence would be attempting to extrapolate trends from data gathered on Slashdot.
"Let's Fight!"
<mouth keeps moving for several seconds>
Oh, wait. Those kung foo movies were always like that.
Ah, this is the secret. I really must stop using Flamebait...Troll as subjects!
No, those are best used in the first sentence your post. As in, "This will probably get modded flamebait, but..." or "I'm not trying to troll here but..."
not warning users when they are using 'root'.
admin@local host #su
Password:
WARNING YOU ARE NOW ROOT!
#adduser fred
WARNING YOU ARE ROOT, ARE YOU SURE YOU WANT TO DO THIS? (Y/N) Y
#passwd fred
WARNING YOU ARE ROOT, ARE YOU SURE YOU WANT TO DO THIS? (Y/N) Y
Changing password for user fred.
New password:
I read that headline and thought: Michael Moore.
I really dig them root name servers.
Bah. DNS is for outsourcing anyway.
Is anyone SERIOUSLY arguing for the right to disseminate the creations of other people for free?
Did you buy this account from someone? People on Slashdot constantly argue that that is ok. What exactly is the difference between AutoCAD 2004 and an mp3? In my mind, there is none when it comes to the legality of downloading it off the internet. -1 Troll, but it is illegal in both examples unless the artist or author gives implicit consent.
That's where I used to get the majority of my cracks (when I used cracks.)
Will this be Star Trek 0? And thus not subject to the even/odd curse? I guess the film will probably be not too bad, not too good.
Why'd O'Reilly use dogs for the covers of OSX books?
Set up a a couple of raid storage devices in two or three data centers, preferably one on another continent than the one you live. Set up some sort of auto-syncing mechanism and be sure to change out your disks twice a year for extra safety. Actually, it would be best to buy all new equipment yearly. Also, contract at least two remote backup services to backup your data nightly. Do this, and you can be sure your data will be safe forever (barring nuclear war or a massive asteroid striking earth.)
Did India outsource its voting machines? Seems like maybe it's not just a matter of incompetent programmers. Maybe e-voting is actually hard to accomplish.