Outlook 2003 does provide a warning at about 1.9G and will no longer let you add new content, but you can still read, remove, archive, etc. They also introduced a "new" PST format with a hard limit greater than 2GB (but, only readable by newer Outlook versions).
Well, ok then. I suppose that's nice of them, but I would think that they could have added that to some of their service packs, or at least have it generate an error message other than "the interface has encountered an unknown error"
But bully on them for getting something right after something like 8 years producing outlook for Windows.
oh, boo, you bastards. really. In related MS-bashing, yesterday, I had a client whose Outlook pst file hit 2GB.
Does anyone know what happens when your PST file hits 2GB? You can't delete, move, archive, send, or receive messages. You know what you have to do? You have to download a tool from MS (implying that they know this is a problem) that will shave off 25 or 50 megs of messages and discard it (!), then you run their scanpst application, which repairs the broken PST. Holy shit.
Searching for error message brought up several things that I tried before I got to this one. Then I found the application, backed everything up, ran the truncator, ran the fixer, and 2 hours later, voila! everything worked.
So, here's a thought. Why not, instead of setting an arbitrary point where things just stop working, we could set up ANOTHER warning arbitrary point that says something like "Your PST file has reached 1.5GB. At 2GB, Outlook will break." Why not, I say?
First it was 64k, was it? Now it's 2GB that should be enough for anybody. Great. Thank you. Thanks. Thanks. Super thanks.
Now, in context, when I say that I will bend over and pick up silverlight, would you please not mod me troll? Jesus.
But I've been hearing reports on/. since the beginning of the year of ATI linux drivers coming soon. How about we wait until they're actually release before bothering to give them any support.
1. You're new here, aren't you? 2. ATI is under new management, or haven't you heard?
Plus, isn't AMD generally considered pretty good for Linux support? Not that it's not mostly to the NFORCE chipsets' credit, but AMD purchased ATI because their Nforce "monopoly" was over, so Linux users were no longer locked into broken Intel chipsets if they purchased an Intel processor. Am I right?
Am I the only person who suspected that AMD would, in due time, put Linux driver support as one of its main priorities? I seemed to be one of the few (excuse me while I toot my own horn) that Snape killed Dumbledore because Dumbledore wanted him to, so maybe.
If some poor researcher loses funding, and industry realizes they had something good to say or study, they'll get the money quick enough, plus they can decide who to offer it to and at what price. The only issue is that there ARE legitimate research projects that nobody will pay for because they don't have a definite payoff. Or a high probability of working. Now, I agree that the govt grant thing is a little ridiculous as I know someone who essentially studied to be a grant writer, but it's even more extreme than the current implementation to cut all funding.
Does someone have a list of govt funded research we currently take for granted?
I haven't read the Foutainhead (having tried reading Atlas Shrugged first), and I don't know who this skullforce fellow is, but this whole thing is pretty goddamn soothing to my soul for some reason.:-)
a I-IV-V, repeat 4 times, and then do a V-vi-ii-I (just making this crap up, I bet that sounds pretty bad) Actually, according to my bass, the I IV V is the weak part. I'd make it a I V IV, then it sounds ok.
A-ha, ha. Aha. I understand. That's a freaking toughy. I suppose if you don't make any money on the song, there's nothing for anybody to recoup. If you DO make money on the song, you would settle. Nobody's got the balls to take civil action on someone that not only caused no damage to anyone, but also didn't make any money.
The issue with Mr. Harrison is he made money on the song and it became popular. In the case of the Rolling Stones "Anybody Seen My Baby?" and KD Lang's "Constant Craving," they just amiably worked it out. http://iorr.org/asmb/index.htm
I'm not so sure. The issue with your question as I see it is that it assumes that there could possibly be an answer for all this crap. There are limited guidelines to determine what's fair use and what's not, but it's always up to the discretion of SOMEBODY, and unfortunately, you don't really get to pick who that person IS.
I don't think it's something that can be avoided necessarily, because sooner or later you'll write some Shakespeare or something (not calling you a monkey, lol).
The basic argument I would use in court, if my infringement were accidental is: 1. Rock N Roll is becoming a standard music type, like Jazz or Classical, and as such has typical band format (guitar, drums, bass, man with tight pants squealing "baby baby baby") 2. My music theory expert can explain why it makes sense that two people would do a I-IV-V, repeat 4 times, and then do a V-vi-ii-I (just making this crap up, I bet that sounds pretty bad), because it creates a certain emotional state. 3. Given the limited number of band layouts in a rock trio or four-piece, inclusive the dynamic and tonal range of the individual instruments, it's likely that the arrangement for a particular piece would be identical or near-identical 4. Given the homogenized nature of our world-wide experience and especially in rock, the limited number of major initial influences, it's highly likely that we are influenced by many of the same artists and songs, whether we like to think so.
Not sure how well this would work, but unless I subconsciously transferred a crappy radio song from my brain onto a piece of paper, I'd have a fighting chance. Plus, again, I make no money. The Chiffons didn't sue anybody who was poor. They sued Mr. Harrison.
Also, another tactic I use is writing weird fucking music that is certainly not traditional. If you live in the Tampa Bay, my band is playing at the Dunedin Brewery open mic this Wednesday sometime between 9 and 10. But you probably don't. We rock.
I am not a very bright person and I credit Dianetics and others of it's ilk for the 27 point decrease in my IQ score. hahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha!
Thank you troll. I've read difficult to read books. I just think that self-centered, self-serving, greedy, small-minded twats don't write my favorite literature.
But we all like stuff that speaks to us, so go nuts, buddy.
I can think of no clearer example of 'stupid' than the common practice of the simple minded to read a couple hundred words of something as deep and integral to an individuals philosophy and proclaim that it is: 'STUPID'. So what you're saying is that in reading my opinion--which was no longer than a few hundred words--you've declared me stupid? Does this not by your reckoning make you stupid? Of course it does.
Thanks, I'll be here all night.
Really, I hate books where all the people in it are detestable. Speaking of detestable, the first girl I knew who listed Ayn Rand as one of her heroes had affirmations written on her mirror that talked about how despicable and stupid humans were. Then I read half the first Chapter of Atlas Shrugged (I lied in my previous post), and saw a pattern.
Anyway, I digress. Point is, you just called yourself stupid. Good job.
Is there some sort of liability insurance for songwriters just in case someone unwittingly copies part of a copyrighted song into his own work? You copyright stuff, and if someone screws you over and they make a bunch of money, you take it from them using the legal system. Admittedly, if it's big company, you're worse off, but if it's a cut-and-dried case I don't think it's hard to recoup you're money.
I'm not saying you shouldn't do business with the RIAA if you want to. You could do business with a smaller label. I don't know.
I don't think it is that humans just lost the ability to create good music, it is more likely that the system does not reward talented people enough to keep them making music. Or something...
I think you're mostly right on. However, good musicians ARE making music. It's just that the big distribution channels won't play nice with artists, so people who are good and who value their integrity won't play the Come-Record-Label-Please-Fuck-My-Ass-And-Take-My-M oney game.
If you don't love making music, get a job at 7-11 or better. If you do love making music, make it, and refuse to comprimise your integrity. You will be much happier in the end. If you are by chance one of the few artists who gets a good deal from the RIAA, then take it. Take it cautiously, and be sure to thoroughly examine the candy before you stick it in your mouth.
People using Vista are very likely to just have bought a new computer since the beginning of the year, and have no idea why things don't work with it. Right, then they call their ISP, and they explain that Vista is broken. And the person is upset. But it's still a matter of something broken not being allowed on the network. Since it's supposedly a broken DHCP request, the people could buy a router and be done with it.
The funny thing is that that monopoly is no longer being humored, because the monopoly has been acting unconscionably for 10 years, and people don't have to put up with it anymore. It sucks that little people are getting squished, but Microsoft has (and arguably in this case, still is) squished the little people because they felt like it.
Yeah, I started to read it once, and I couldn't get past the first section, which goes something like this:
Who is Milton Farbley? In the days of his youth his tongue would dry out and the dryness would make him hate the world. But was it the world he hated, or himself? Was it that he was poor, and therefore stupid? Now, old, his ass chapped from all the walking around, he started to question if other people weren't as unbearably lame as he himself.
And so I skipped ahead about 50 pages:
and it was all like, the betrayal perpetrated by Susan was pleasing to her uterus. It made it squinch tight like a ball of rubber bands when she twisted the...
Then another 50...
John couldn't bear to look at himself. Weathered features not even barely covering up an expression of rank stupidity that peirced his stupid soul with it's stupid stupidity. God how John hates himself.
Then another 50...
...but why? the steamy night was fucking unpleasant, and she could only bear to breathe shallowly while thinking of how stupid and goddamn filthy other people were. God--if there is in fact a God--how she hates those fucking people.
And so on. I'm pretty sure I got a good idea of the point of the book without having to subject myself to more than 40 random paragraphs or so. Everyone I've ever met that says they idolize Ayn Rand turns out to be a self-involved, spoiled whore.
God I hate her. But truly, do I hate her more than I hate myself? It was a muggy, shitty Sunday in St Petersburg, FL, and he began to question whether he was just posting to slashdot in a vain attempt to eke a teensy bit of self-recognition out of the Internet once again, or did he really believe that posting some inane bullshit about Ayn Rand was truly noteworthy?
He got up from his mother's computer;smelled the stale milk from the bottom of his empty coffee cup. God, he had to take a shit. And he bets it's going to be smelly, because God is spiteful like that....
It's a bit like learn to count with Microsoft Word...
1..2..6..95..97..2000..2002..2003...2007
It's obvious....
I don't know what you're comparing this to, but I'll bite. The difference between Ubuntu and Microsoft Word is that Ubuntu has at least one release per year, which makes the integer progression smooth. Even 95, 97, 2000 is pretty good. But then, how many people have you heard say they have Windows 97 because they have Word 97, and that's what comes up on their screen?
And I think they really should drop the nickname when it would cause confusion rather than clarification. As long as it's not printed on the CD cover or shown on every login, the nickname is free to be used among those who are comfortable with it. Like here on Slashdot. Right. As long as it's a codename, then it's fine. I would personally try a sentence like:
"Linux supports our needs x, y, z. I would suggest Ubuntu Linux, because I administrate several systems running Ubuntu already. In addition, Ubuntu has excellent community and paid support. The next version 8.04, slated to be released in 8/04 (yoinks!) is a Long Term Support version, which means it will have security updates for 5 years on our server."
I don't know where the code name comes up in the conversation, but if people look into it and have a negative reaction to it, ask what the hell kind of pasty nerd they'd prefer code their applications. That's all I'm saying. What profession doesn't use code names to talk about things they work with?
I guess, given all the comments on here, I'll take corporate blowhard for the win.
on the new development sandbox server And by the way, I think sandboxes sound childish and stupid.
Why does Slashdot taste like day old bread bought from the register.co.uk so often? Because people who read the register are really lazy and won't post the stories on Slashdot until the next day?
I think people are moderately screwed with printing if vendors don't start supporting Linux. Linux has the best hardware support of all OSes, however, volunteers can't keep up with every printer that's out there.
Just about every printer I've ever hooked up to a Feisty box installed without any prodding whatsoever. I think that it could be slightly more smooth on people if the printer DOESN'T work, and they could recommend you buy a printer that's compatible with your computer next time. I know it's a problem for migration, but people migrate to OS X and have to purchase new peripherals all the freaking time.
It just rocks the "free shit" boat if you have to make purchases, which is a shame. Buy a Samsung (vendor supported Linux drivers) or an HP (lots of community support).
It's the most logical versioning system I've ever seen, because you know how old the release is. And you can't get confused by anything, at all. Higher number? Newer OS. Lower number? Older OS. As a practice, try arranging the following versions in the right order:
6.06 5.11 7.04 8.04 7.10 20.01
I bet you can do it. Plus, tell me when they were released. Now rearrange the following and tell me what date they were released (month/year):
Windows Vista Windows 3.11 Windows XP Windows Millenium Windows NT 4 DOS 6 Windows 2000 Windows 2000 SP1 Windows 2000 SP2 Windows 2000 SP3 Windows 2000 SP4 Windows XP SP2 Windows XP SP1 Windows NT 4 SP1, etc
So people wouldn't build a business on Zamboni, would they? How about Fidalgo? Would you manage your mail with Touchdown? How about let your kids run Whistler? I mean, really. You should berate people for being morons if they can't read a code name without letting it alter their opinion of the viability of the product in their IT infrastructure.
If people don't like things made by people with a sense of humor, maybe they should get the fuck out the tubes and stop blocking my passage.
Really, the notion that the US funded bin Laden is ridiculous on the face of it, as bin Laden is fucking loaded. Seriously, the man's a billionaire. He didn't need CIA money or guns. The idea that "we gave them all their money and weapons" is at best a gross mischaracterization I stand corrected, however, I was talking about the US Restistance Fighter Starter Kit that we give violent groups when we need to use them for something. Not that we've funded them since we got them rolling.
Good info, though. I'm just saying that we've of late been starting wars based on logical fallacies, and I have a hard time believing that it's not on purpose. And unnecessary.
You never hear anyone who speaks loudly condemn both sides for their ethical failures over the years. Why does everyone have to declare one side or the other innocent of all crimes?
In this case, the reason is that we have been revving up for war against Iran for the past year, at least. The war propaganda is ratcheting up. We are saying that they have ties to Al Qaeda, that there will be another 9/11 if we don't do something, that they obviously have WMDs. This sounds familiar, doesn't it? Regardless of how evil Israel is, we're not going to bomb the Israelis. We're ARE planning on bombing Iran. So the poster was drawing a comparison against this aggressive, possessive, cruel nation that is our ally, and this other nation that we want to kill. Because comparisons help with critical thinking.
The funny thing to me about the connections to Al Qaeda debate is that as far as I know, we gave them all their money and weapons originally, didn't we? But that's not a connection, that's history.
But 99% of the knocking Vista posts here are 100% ignorant prattle and nothing more. I find most of the ignorant prattle correlates directly to my experience as freelance break/fix computer guy and it consultant. Not that the people posting know what they're talking about, but it's pretty accurate, IMO. Just because you have a good experience with Vista doesn't mean it's overwhelmingly good.
If a home user has a system that doesn't work, they take it back to BestOfficeCompCity and ask for help. The people there will not objectively look at the person's needs and suggest something that helps them. They will pull repairs from the price list, and hit them with a $200 bill after swapping the gfx card (admittedly, they don't don't need a GeForce 7600GT Xbillion anyway, right?), then send them home. These people will run into the same problems again. Office users should not be using Vista. However regular people go out to buy a new laptop for work, and they end up with Vista laptop because they don't know any better.
My friend Rob just purchased a Thinkpad, and when he called in to get them to not put Vista on there, they told him that they have a contract with MS which requires them to put an MS OS on there. The Windows XP preinstall is a $100 upgrade! You think maybe Vista sales are somehow skewed? I know this is off-topic. Whatever.
Every time my client Helen connected to the internet via dial-up, Vista would ask if it was a home/office/public network, and I couldn't get it to not ask again. Helen is 80, and while I have never seen anyone over 70 operate a computer with the slow, plodding command that she wields, she doesn't like things different, because goddammit, she just wants to check her mail and translate stuff for the Dali museum.
Every time I use Vista it hurts. It asks me too much crap, it's too slow. I know I could disable the pretties, but most people get attached to the pretties, and complain when you take them away.
Oh, funny story. If, in Tiger, you change your user password, your keychain password doesn't change, and it asks you for authentication every time you open Safari, Mail.app, or anything that accesses your keychain. Cancel or Allow, indeed. -Nathan
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Well, ok then. I suppose that's nice of them, but I would think that they could have added that to some of their service packs, or at least have it generate an error message other than "the interface has encountered an unknown error"
But bully on them for getting something right after something like 8 years producing outlook for Windows.
oh, boo, you bastards. really. In related MS-bashing, yesterday, I had a client whose Outlook pst file hit 2GB.
Does anyone know what happens when your PST file hits 2GB? You can't delete, move, archive, send, or receive messages. You know what you have to do? You have to download a tool from MS (implying that they know this is a problem) that will shave off 25 or 50 megs of messages and discard it (!), then you run their scanpst application, which repairs the broken PST. Holy shit.
Searching for error message brought up several things that I tried before I got to this one. Then I found the application, backed everything up, ran the truncator, ran the fixer, and 2 hours later, voila! everything worked.
So, here's a thought. Why not, instead of setting an arbitrary point where things just stop working, we could set up ANOTHER warning arbitrary point that says something like "Your PST file has reached 1.5GB. At 2GB, Outlook will break." Why not, I say?
First it was 64k, was it? Now it's 2GB that should be enough for anybody. Great. Thank you. Thanks. Thanks. Super thanks.
Now, in context, when I say that I will bend over and pick up silverlight, would you please not mod me troll? Jesus.
1. You're new here, aren't you?
2. ATI is under new management, or haven't you heard?
Plus, isn't AMD generally considered pretty good for Linux support? Not that it's not mostly to the NFORCE chipsets' credit, but AMD purchased ATI because their Nforce "monopoly" was over, so Linux users were no longer locked into broken Intel chipsets if they purchased an Intel processor. Am I right?
Am I the only person who suspected that AMD would, in due time, put Linux driver support as one of its main priorities? I seemed to be one of the few (excuse me while I toot my own horn) that Snape killed Dumbledore because Dumbledore wanted him to, so maybe.
Oh, and [/spoiler], btw
Excuse me while I take my pants off, and bend over to inspect your newest offering. Free the world! Vote Microsoft.
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If some poor researcher loses funding, and industry realizes they had something good to say or study, they'll get the money quick enough, plus they can decide who to offer it to and at what price.
The only issue is that there ARE legitimate research projects that nobody will pay for because they don't have a definite payoff. Or a high probability of working. Now, I agree that the govt grant thing is a little ridiculous as I know someone who essentially studied to be a grant writer, but it's even more extreme than the current implementation to cut all funding.
Does someone have a list of govt funded research we currently take for granted?
I haven't read the Foutainhead (having tried reading Atlas Shrugged first), and I don't know who this skullforce fellow is, but this whole thing is pretty goddamn soothing to my soul for some reason. :-)
a I-IV-V, repeat 4 times, and then do a V-vi-ii-I (just making this crap up, I bet that sounds pretty bad)
Actually, according to my bass, the I IV V is the weak part. I'd make it a I V IV, then it sounds ok.
A-ha, ha. Aha. I understand. That's a freaking toughy. I suppose if you don't make any money on the song, there's nothing for anybody to recoup. If you DO make money on the song, you would settle. Nobody's got the balls to take civil action on someone that not only caused no damage to anyone, but also didn't make any money.
The issue with Mr. Harrison is he made money on the song and it became popular. In the case of the Rolling Stones "Anybody Seen My Baby?" and KD Lang's "Constant Craving," they just amiably worked it out. http://iorr.org/asmb/index.htm
I'm not so sure. The issue with your question as I see it is that it assumes that there could possibly be an answer for all this crap. There are limited guidelines to determine what's fair use and what's not, but it's always up to the discretion of SOMEBODY, and unfortunately, you don't really get to pick who that person IS.
I don't think it's something that can be avoided necessarily, because sooner or later you'll write some Shakespeare or something (not calling you a monkey, lol).
The basic argument I would use in court, if my infringement were accidental is:
1. Rock N Roll is becoming a standard music type, like Jazz or Classical, and as such has typical band format (guitar, drums, bass, man with tight pants squealing "baby baby baby")
2. My music theory expert can explain why it makes sense that two people would do a I-IV-V, repeat 4 times, and then do a V-vi-ii-I (just making this crap up, I bet that sounds pretty bad), because it creates a certain emotional state.
3. Given the limited number of band layouts in a rock trio or four-piece, inclusive the dynamic and tonal range of the individual instruments, it's likely that the arrangement for a particular piece would be identical or near-identical
4. Given the homogenized nature of our world-wide experience and especially in rock, the limited number of major initial influences, it's highly likely that we are influenced by many of the same artists and songs, whether we like to think so.
Not sure how well this would work, but unless I subconsciously transferred a crappy radio song from my brain onto a piece of paper, I'd have a fighting chance. Plus, again, I make no money. The Chiffons didn't sue anybody who was poor. They sued Mr. Harrison.
Also, another tactic I use is writing weird fucking music that is certainly not traditional. If you live in the Tampa Bay, my band is playing at the Dunedin Brewery open mic this Wednesday sometime between 9 and 10. But you probably don't. We rock.
I am not a very bright person and I credit Dianetics and others of it's ilk for the 27 point decrease in my IQ score.
hahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha!
Thank you troll. I've read difficult to read books. I just think that self-centered, self-serving, greedy, small-minded twats don't write my favorite literature.
But we all like stuff that speaks to us, so go nuts, buddy.
I can think of no clearer example of 'stupid' than the common practice of the simple minded to read a couple hundred words of something as deep and integral to an individuals philosophy and proclaim that it is: 'STUPID'.
So what you're saying is that in reading my opinion--which was no longer than a few hundred words--you've declared me stupid? Does this not by your reckoning make you stupid? Of course it does.
Thanks, I'll be here all night.
Really, I hate books where all the people in it are detestable. Speaking of detestable, the first girl I knew who listed Ayn Rand as one of her heroes had affirmations written on her mirror that talked about how despicable and stupid humans were. Then I read half the first Chapter of Atlas Shrugged (I lied in my previous post), and saw a pattern.
Anyway, I digress. Point is, you just called yourself stupid. Good job.
Is there some sort of liability insurance for songwriters just in case someone unwittingly copies part of a copyrighted song into his own work?
You copyright stuff, and if someone screws you over and they make a bunch of money, you take it from them using the legal system. Admittedly, if it's big company, you're worse off, but if it's a cut-and-dried case I don't think it's hard to recoup you're money.
I'm not saying you shouldn't do business with the RIAA if you want to. You could do business with a smaller label. I don't know.
I don't think it is that humans just lost the ability to create good music, it is more likely that the system does not reward talented people enough to keep them making music. Or something...
M oney game.
I think you're mostly right on. However, good musicians ARE making music. It's just that the big distribution channels won't play nice with artists, so people who are good and who value their integrity won't play the Come-Record-Label-Please-Fuck-My-Ass-And-Take-My-
Excellent article by Steve Albini:
http://www.mercenary.com/probwitmusby.html
If you don't love making music, get a job at 7-11 or better. If you do love making music, make it, and refuse to comprimise your integrity. You will be much happier in the end. If you are by chance one of the few artists who gets a good deal from the RIAA, then take it. Take it cautiously, and be sure to thoroughly examine the candy before you stick it in your mouth.
People using Vista are very likely to just have bought a new computer since the beginning of the year, and have no idea why things don't work with it.
Right, then they call their ISP, and they explain that Vista is broken. And the person is upset. But it's still a matter of something broken not being allowed on the network. Since it's supposedly a broken DHCP request, the people could buy a router and be done with it.
The funny thing is that that monopoly is no longer being humored, because the monopoly has been acting unconscionably for 10 years, and people don't have to put up with it anymore. It sucks that little people are getting squished, but Microsoft has (and arguably in this case, still is) squished the little people because they felt like it.
Hooray!
And so I skipped ahead about 50 pages:
Then another 50...
Then another 50...
And so on. I'm pretty sure I got a good idea of the point of the book without having to subject myself to more than 40 random paragraphs or so. Everyone I've ever met that says they idolize Ayn Rand turns out to be a self-involved, spoiled whore.
God I hate her. But truly, do I hate her more than I hate myself? It was a muggy, shitty Sunday in St Petersburg, FL, and he began to question whether he was just posting to slashdot in a vain attempt to eke a teensy bit of self-recognition out of the Internet once again, or did he really believe that posting some inane bullshit about Ayn Rand was truly noteworthy?
He got up from his mother's computer;smelled the stale milk from the bottom of his empty coffee cup. God, he had to take a shit. And he bets it's going to be smelly, because God is spiteful like that....
I don't know what you're comparing this to, but I'll bite. The difference between Ubuntu and Microsoft Word is that Ubuntu has at least one release per year, which makes the integer progression smooth. Even 95, 97, 2000 is pretty good. But then, how many people have you heard say they have Windows 97 because they have Word 97, and that's what comes up on their screen?
And I think they really should drop the nickname when it would cause confusion rather than clarification. As long as it's not printed on the CD cover or shown on every login, the nickname is free to be used among those who are comfortable with it. Like here on Slashdot.
Right. As long as it's a codename, then it's fine. I would personally try a sentence like:
"Linux supports our needs x, y, z. I would suggest Ubuntu Linux, because I administrate several systems running Ubuntu already. In addition, Ubuntu has excellent community and paid support. The next version 8.04, slated to be released in 8/04 (yoinks!) is a Long Term Support version, which means it will have security updates for 5 years on our server."
I don't know where the code name comes up in the conversation, but if people look into it and have a negative reaction to it, ask what the hell kind of pasty nerd they'd prefer code their applications. That's all I'm saying. What profession doesn't use code names to talk about things they work with?
I guess, given all the comments on here, I'll take corporate blowhard for the win.
on the new development sandbox server
And by the way, I think sandboxes sound childish and stupid.
Why does Slashdot taste like day old bread bought from the register.co.uk so often?
Because people who read the register are really lazy and won't post the stories on Slashdot until the next day?
I think people are moderately screwed with printing if vendors don't start supporting Linux. Linux has the best hardware support of all OSes, however, volunteers can't keep up with every printer that's out there.
Just about every printer I've ever hooked up to a Feisty box installed without any prodding whatsoever. I think that it could be slightly more smooth on people if the printer DOESN'T work, and they could recommend you buy a printer that's compatible with your computer next time. I know it's a problem for migration, but people migrate to OS X and have to purchase new peripherals all the freaking time.
It just rocks the "free shit" boat if you have to make purchases, which is a shame. Buy a Samsung (vendor supported Linux drivers) or an HP (lots of community support).
I think I'll hold out for "Incontinent Iguana."
My vote goes to "Impish Imp." Or if that's redundant, "Impetuous Imp."
Or Ignorant Asshole, though that's not alliterative, and would probably reflect poorly on the quality of the OS.
It's the most logical versioning system I've ever seen, because you know how old the release is. And you can't get confused by anything, at all. Higher number? Newer OS. Lower number? Older OS. As a practice, try arranging the following versions in the right order:
6.06
5.11
7.04
8.04
7.10
20.01
I bet you can do it. Plus, tell me when they were released. Now rearrange the following and tell me what date they were released (month/year):
Windows Vista
Windows 3.11
Windows XP
Windows Millenium
Windows NT 4
DOS 6
Windows 2000
Windows 2000 SP1
Windows 2000 SP2
Windows 2000 SP3
Windows 2000 SP4
Windows XP SP2
Windows XP SP1
Windows NT 4 SP1, etc
As far as silly codenames go, someone might want to know how Feisty Fawn compares to Longhorn, or Dolly, or some crap:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microsoft_codenames
So people wouldn't build a business on Zamboni, would they? How about Fidalgo? Would you manage your mail with Touchdown? How about let your kids run Whistler? I mean, really. You should berate people for being morons if they can't read a code name without letting it alter their opinion of the viability of the product in their IT infrastructure.
If people don't like things made by people with a sense of humor, maybe they should get the fuck out the tubes and stop blocking my passage.
"Extra apostrophe's launch a lot of snide grammar nazi post's."
I mean, your an adult, I'm an adult. Were all adult's here. Its time we started spelling good.
Really, the notion that the US funded bin Laden is ridiculous on the face of it, as bin Laden is fucking loaded. Seriously, the man's a billionaire. He didn't need CIA money or guns. The idea that "we gave them all their money and weapons" is at best a gross mischaracterization
I stand corrected, however, I was talking about the US Restistance Fighter Starter Kit that we give violent groups when we need to use them for something. Not that we've funded them since we got them rolling.
Good info, though. I'm just saying that we've of late been starting wars based on logical fallacies, and I have a hard time believing that it's not on purpose. And unnecessary.
You never hear anyone who speaks loudly condemn both sides for their ethical failures over the years. Why does everyone have to declare one side or the other innocent of all crimes?
In this case, the reason is that we have been revving up for war against Iran for the past year, at least. The war propaganda is ratcheting up. We are saying that they have ties to Al Qaeda, that there will be another 9/11 if we don't do something, that they obviously have WMDs. This sounds familiar, doesn't it? Regardless of how evil Israel is, we're not going to bomb the Israelis. We're ARE planning on bombing Iran. So the poster was drawing a comparison against this aggressive, possessive, cruel nation that is our ally, and this other nation that we want to kill. Because comparisons help with critical thinking.
The funny thing to me about the connections to Al Qaeda debate is that as far as I know, we gave them all their money and weapons originally, didn't we? But that's not a connection, that's history.
But 99% of the knocking Vista posts here are 100% ignorant prattle and nothing more.
I find most of the ignorant prattle correlates directly to my experience as freelance break/fix computer guy and it consultant. Not that the people posting know what they're talking about, but it's pretty accurate, IMO. Just because you have a good experience with Vista doesn't mean it's overwhelmingly good.
If a home user has a system that doesn't work, they take it back to BestOfficeCompCity and ask for help. The people there will not objectively look at the person's needs and suggest something that helps them. They will pull repairs from the price list, and hit them with a $200 bill after swapping the gfx card (admittedly, they don't don't need a GeForce 7600GT Xbillion anyway, right?), then send them home. These people will run into the same problems again. Office users should not be using Vista. However regular people go out to buy a new laptop for work, and they end up with Vista laptop because they don't know any better.
My friend Rob just purchased a Thinkpad, and when he called in to get them to not put Vista on there, they told him that they have a contract with MS which requires them to put an MS OS on there. The Windows XP preinstall is a $100 upgrade! You think maybe Vista sales are somehow skewed? I know this is off-topic. Whatever.
Every time my client Helen connected to the internet via dial-up, Vista would ask if it was a home/office/public network, and I couldn't get it to not ask again. Helen is 80, and while I have never seen anyone over 70 operate a computer with the slow, plodding command that she wields, she doesn't like things different, because goddammit, she just wants to check her mail and translate stuff for the Dali museum.
Every time I use Vista it hurts. It asks me too much crap, it's too slow. I know I could disable the pretties, but most people get attached to the pretties, and complain when you take them away.
Oh, funny story. If, in Tiger, you change your user password, your keychain password doesn't change, and it asks you for authentication every time you open Safari, Mail.app, or anything that accesses your keychain. Cancel or Allow, indeed.
-Nathan