Ubuntu is still far behind Microsoft Windows, when it comes to Windows compatibility. That is so true.
However, people can run crossover office for $40, as cheap as an antivirus, and it's a one-time sale. People who are adventurous can figure out how to install office with Wine (probably one of the best supported installs).
People can also make a VM with Windows in it. Which is what I do, since I sometimes have to do remote desktop.
First problem - finding NORMAL people. By this I assume you mean people that aren't immediately addicted or become overly dependent very quickly.
Actually, I meant people who are not criminals, demonized, or marginalized for their choice of chemicals. I think that pharmaceuticals are far far worse than my first two categories (except cigs, maybe). People are completely trusting of their doctors, who are completely trusting of the sponsorship of the drug companies. I'm far, far, far more selective about what I put in my body than most people, even though it includes illegal substances, and things child-drugging alcoholic valium-popping H3-driving soccer moms consider dangerous.
The second problem is there are certainly people that can handle drugs but there is a large number of people that cannot. How do you separate them out? The people that will utterly freak out on PCP or LSD. The people that after three doses of coke will do literally anything for the next, including sell their children, rob relatives, etc.
We could continue as a culture suggesting that people not do drugs. For categories 2 through 4, I'm suggesting at the very least NOT throwing some 19-year old in prison because he was at a low point when someone offered him some coke. I'm suggesting that if someone does acid, he shouldn't have to worry about asking for help if he gets freaked out. I'm not saying people SHOULD do drugs. I will not ever do any of my class 4 drugs. I think that the current system of what is essentially abstinence-only education is bullshit and non-functional. If I had been better-educated about drugs, I wouldn't have called a whole bunch of people the first time I did mushrooms.
I'm merely suggesting that a more permissive society lends itself to children coming to the proper people for answers for difficult questions, rather than having to learn about drugs from drug dealers. Try learning about a Ford from a Ford dealer. Or a computer from a computer salesman (why yes, it DOES play with your balls!).
As far as I know, there isn't a test you can give someone that will say they can handle some drug.
An educated and judicious acid-user (not abuser) can tell if someone will have problems when they take it. Educating people about the drug, again, is the safest plan. I am now very very very educated. After a few bad experiences, I found erowid.org, and it has kept me healthy when I did drugs I was going to do anyway (though I may have taken some of those trips back now), and it kept me safe and sane knowing what was going to happen to me and knowing that I'd done everything I could to keep safe.
Ever seen any of the above behavior? It's not pretty and current laws pretty much prevent them from being confined in any way until they actually do something to harm others.
I have seen my best friend from childhood end up hooked on crystal meth. It was a lack of education, and a lack of hope. The inexistence of support structures, the pressure from land developers to get poor mexicans off their prime golf-course real estate, and finally, him being careless. I went back to Mexico, and he wouldn't smoke weed anymore because it made him feel sick. He smoked with me once, and got sick and lashed out at me so violently that I almost fainted. I tripped with him, pleaded with him, tried to get him to get his motherfucking visa so I could pay for his ticket up to the US so he could get out of his toxic environment. I tried everything short of duct-taping him to a tree. Now, in retrospect, I would have. He had an alcoholic father, and a family that used to ride our asses about weed before we ever smoked, and they were friendly to us when we finally started. His mother ended up fucking his dad's best friend, and his dad moved back to Sinaloa, and he was stuck being the asshole head of family that his two sisters and his mother berated. Nobody gave a fuck about him. So yes, I have seen the problems with drugs, I just don't see where any of the above would have been made any worse by him not being considered a criminal and a piece of shit, and a little bit of straightforward education.
Until somebody figures out a way to grind pirated games into a fine powder to be snorted or smoked that causes hallucinations, birth defects, and profuse, acute, addictive behavior Isn't that pretty much how crystal meth is made? There are grades to drugs. I think that if you rank drugs from safest to most dangerous, you'd get something like:
with the caveat that category 2 can make you flip out and run in front of a car provided you're not of calm disposition and there's no one around to sit on your head until you calm down. If you made the first category completely legal, decriminalized the second and third for posession in the home, and made the "punishment" for the 4th category a rehabilitation program that provided work for people if they desired it, then you would have a much less burdened system, and people would actually have a chance at surviving the system.
Of course, some on the list are legal already. And if someone else has some other ideas, I'm open to them. But people's perception of drugs is very skewed by fear-based propaganda, and sometimes the mere fact that something is illegal makes people think it's immoral. Does someone know the ridiculous statistic on percentage of our packed jails that are non-violent drug offenders? Even if you just freed the weed people, we would be far less burdened.
And then we'd really have the resources we need to go after PIRATES! ARRRGGHH!!!
I'm going to stick with the side that says drug dealing is the more destructive industry to the well-being of humanity. I think if drugs were legal, it would allow NORMAL people to purchase drugs and know they were not being sneaky and evil. This would allow real, honest individuals to import drugs, which would in turn put more pressure on drug cartels to stop using child slave labor. This would greatly decrease the amount of damage the cocaine trade does to the world. Also, the fact that people would be able to purchase drugs that weren't cut with arsenic or baking soda or CAL or something nice and random would make drugs safer for sneaky kids (please, think of the kids) and adults alike.
But that's just my opinion. Oh, and it's pretty much shared by several ex-narc cops, fwiw.
I hope you're not being serious. I mean, really, disc? I've still got the original Doom 2 floppies - the game isn't as recent as you make it sound. I think he may have been referring to the original sanskrit on clay disc distribution that failed early on.
So was it a silent smoke detector, or were you THAT stoned?
I actually had smoke from burning sage set off a smoke alarm after I had gone to sleep. I woke up to this loud, infernal solid whine, found the alarm, pressed the button, it didn't turn off, tore it off the wall and tried to pry it open, threw it across the room, cartoon-style jumping up and down stomped on it, failed at taking the battery cover off, tore it in half, yanked out the battery, realized I had just demolished the wrong smoke detector, genuinely whimpered, ran towards where the hell the sound must have been coming from, found the actual smoke detector, and repeated.
Boy was it nice when that fucking thing turned off.:-)
I agree with everything that you're saying. I just mean that a compelling argument is not going to get computerphobes to switch OSes without at least test-driving what they're installing. I guess the fact that it'll resize the windows partition and install in parallel is pretty damn nifty, though.
But still, people are freaked out very easily by PCs. I migrate people to Linux whenever it's prudent, which is more often with every release of Ubuntu. One thing I left out of my post is that in Mexico, it makes great sense to install Linux, because people have to save up forever to just get the super-taxed hardware, then pay for Windows (bleah) AND spend an entire week's salary every year on Norton?
By the way, your sig says you spend your entertainment dollars elsewhere for 7 years.. 7 years!! Nice work. Where do you spend it? I'm not GP, and this is just stuff I know of: alternativetentacles.com (alice donut is awesome) nitro records epitaph records k records
so there's stuff. There's been stuff for a long long time. I still buy some RIAA stuff, but it's somewhat of a deterrent, since I have tons of music over the past 20-30 years that I can buy that's not RIAA.
And again I said "He's free to do whatever the heck he wants". But we're still free to call him a loon. Yeah, and while we're on the topic, what's up with that Jesus guy? Walking around, talking to people, not paying taxes, telling people they shouldn't kill each other...
And Ghandi! What a fuck THAT guy was. Sitting around, changing the world. And that's to say NOTHING of the Buddha, who left his kingdom without king so he could sit around and meditate...
I sure hate people like RMS. Why doesn't he do what everyone else does?
You would have to have sensors like this on all bridges and take into account the design tolerances of the bridge It's even more expensive, I imagine, to clear out all the cars. Plus, it'll be paid for by whoever owns the road, I suppose, be it the municipality or the federal govt. And I imagine that one would prioritize according to traffic, and frankly, how likely the stupid thing is to collapse with little to no warning.
Plus, from TF summary, the things detect rebar snapping, and all sorts of things. So it probably creates a composite picture, and doesn't just go off whenever you smoke weed like those goddamn smoke alarms.:-)
No, it's not. Well, to GP's credit, you're generally a tad closer than 5m to your computer. It's a 5m whisper is what it is. But I guess the rating on this is done in a completely silent science lab with guys in white coats and clipboards walking around, going, "Yeessss.... Mmmm-hmmmm.... I see...."
Who here wishes their job was like that? Especially if you were one of those guys that crashes cars to see how awesome they mangle the body.
And then there is the issue of Joe Newbie who installed Ubuntu because his friend told him it was leet. He goes to www.apple.com to download iTunes to sync music with his iPod.
I think Joe Newbie's friend is an irresponsible dickhead. For the record.
Of course he won't find what he is looking for and will resort to Googling "Linux iPod" to find some hackish pages about using hackish programs.
If he were an Ubuntu user, he could go to the Ubuntu Newbie forums, and ask someone how to use his iPod in Ubuntu, and someone would say:
Run the Music player under Applications > Audio/Video fking noob.
or they'd say
Applications > Utilities > Terminal sudo apt-get install amarok then type your password then run amarok from Applications > Audio/Video fking noob.
or they'd say
Applications > Add/Remove Search for ipod fking noob.
It's far less hackish than wmv support on Macs. Or mov support on Windows. Or hell, even mov support on Macs. Why, Steve, must you fuck with me everytime I use Quicktime? -Nathan
That is exactly the problem with Linux. It's always almost ready dor the desktop. And it will always stay that way as long as there isn't a standard interface and and a good office suite that does MS'.doc format. Sad but true.
I think that with Linux completely or partially taking over in govt in Peru, Brazil, France, Largo (right around the corner from me in St Pete, FL), the Dept of Transportation (or the FAA?), etc, it's doing pretty well.
I have more and more people ask me about Linux. My mother runs Linux, and my friend Brian got an old Thinkpad for 5 dollars (stellar deal, because the screen's screwy) that runs Ubuntu just fine. The shop I used to work at, two years ago, the guy (an IIS-using, Access-loving, Windows-recommending motherfucker if I ever met one) was adamant about not offering Linux to customers. Now, he's set up a few laptops for his kids on Ubuntu, and shocked at how good it is, always has an Ubuntu machine available for sale. The Internet Cafe I worked at in Mexico now has systems running Linux, and will install it on people's PCs.
Sure, Linux has been "on the verge of a breakthrough" for 8 years. Has the Desktop experience been better than decent? Not really. Has it been cohesive? Nope. Has it been easy enough for a regular middle-ager to use without suffering major breakdown? No way. It depends on how you define "the verge," and I have to say that NOW Ubuntu 7.04 fulfills all of the above for an average person with fair problem solving ability, and who is willing to use the Ubuntu n00b forum.
There is NO reason for the average home user to install a completely new OS they've never seen. The hurdle for Linux is to get on enough work PCs that people are relatively comfortable enough with it, so that next virus they get, or next Norton Death Knell, they leap off their burning Windows install onto something stable.
Having a specific day to "appreciate" anything is stupid, if you do a good job and treat people well you will be appreciated every day.
My mom used to work an office job, and on employee appreciation day she got a mug that said "You're Appreciated" on it. I thought that someone somewhere must have laughed his ass off when he thought that up.
But really, I perform sysadmin services for clients, and people give me shit, complain about me, and have even yelled at me for stuff such as Internet failures, power failures, their own failures, etc. It makes me see why people charge way too much, fuck people over, and berate them. I, however, am getting out of the field, because I'd rather not be an asshole. But I sympathize with the assholes who are keeping their shitty well-paying jobs so their kids can have health insurance and go to nice schools.
I also think that the problem with your logic is that if you're an exceptional sysadmin, you have minimal contact with the people who use the computers you administrate, and people just don't notice anything. Because there's not a problem. Sysadmin is a problem-oriented job, oftentimes.
Whatever. People thank me, and on occasion I get the sense that a client or a client's employee is appreciating me. So it CAN happen. It just really really doesn't happen every day.
If I remember correctly, SATA does not have a standard interface Out of curiosity, did IDE have a standard interface when it started, or did everyone adopt the most popular one? I'm guessing that the field was less of a cluster[pillowfight] back then, but it still seems like there'd be no reason for it to be any different than it is now... IA64, AMD64, for one example. SATA's just a wee baby yet. It'll standardize, becuase it would be a big absurd pile of crap if it didn't. And big stupid piles of crap are bad for business, unless of course they're called Windows.
(I must be given props for delaying the Windows-bashing for so very long)
1998 (it was not uncommon to see Redhat boxes on store shelves) Red Hat is hardly a movement. I understand that we had Mandrake and Debian, but have you objectively examined the curve in the rate of progress? No, you haven't.
I don't do things without question, and experience has taught me better than to believe crap that's being spewed by rabid fanboys. Right, so that rules out Torvalds, RMS, Ballmer, Jobs, and, err.... maybe something like 10% of Windows users, 50% of Mac users, and 30% of Linux users (I'm not only talking about desktops here)? Not everybody. I think that you're much more likely to be the kind of person who labels people he doesn't agree with knuckleheads, rabid fanboys, and kiddo. In other words, a pompous ass.
As for being schooled, like I said, I've already been a voice in the community. So you're saying that you can throw out all your books once you're on TV? (or maybe livejournal in your case (nested parenthesis needed to point out that I'm being facetious, because you've demonstrated that it may just go right over your head))
I know you're probably all 40 or something, but grow up. I used to know this guy who would always use the argument, "I have 37 years on your ass," and you remind me of him. My thoughts on the argument? Just because you're old doesn't mean you're not stupid.
Actually, knucklehead, I was the exec editor of an open source enterprise magazine. Right, and flamebait is insulting people just because you're an asshole. And I don't mean "you" in the general sort of sense.
No Unix or Unix-like distro has been and they've been around a heck of a lot longer than windows. I know several people on Ubuntu who struggle with Windows. Plus, saying Unix has been around a long time and it's going nowhere is like saying, in 1994, that the internet has been around a long time, and it's going nowhere. The initiative towards a widespread Linux desktop has been around a few years, max. OSS movements take a while to rev up, and this one's doing quite nicely.
Be quiet, be schooled, thank the nice man as he leaves.
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Ubuntu is still far behind Microsoft Windows, when it comes to Windows compatibility.
That is so true.
However, people can run crossover office for $40, as cheap as an antivirus, and it's a one-time sale. People who are adventurous can figure out how to install office with Wine (probably one of the best supported installs).
People can also make a VM with Windows in it. Which is what I do, since I sometimes have to do remote desktop.
It's hardly infeasible.
the tripping and the trying to get the visa wasn't at the same time. :-)
Actually, I meant people who are not criminals, demonized, or marginalized for their choice of chemicals. I think that pharmaceuticals are far far worse than my first two categories (except cigs, maybe). People are completely trusting of their doctors, who are completely trusting of the sponsorship of the drug companies. I'm far, far, far more selective about what I put in my body than most people, even though it includes illegal substances, and things child-drugging alcoholic valium-popping H3-driving soccer moms consider dangerous.
We could continue as a culture suggesting that people not do drugs. For categories 2 through 4, I'm suggesting at the very least NOT throwing some 19-year old in prison because he was at a low point when someone offered him some coke. I'm suggesting that if someone does acid, he shouldn't have to worry about asking for help if he gets freaked out. I'm not saying people SHOULD do drugs. I will not ever do any of my class 4 drugs. I think that the current system of what is essentially abstinence-only education is bullshit and non-functional. If I had been better-educated about drugs, I wouldn't have called a whole bunch of people the first time I did mushrooms.
I'm merely suggesting that a more permissive society lends itself to children coming to the proper people for answers for difficult questions, rather than having to learn about drugs from drug dealers. Try learning about a Ford from a Ford dealer. Or a computer from a computer salesman (why yes, it DOES play with your balls!).
An educated and judicious acid-user (not abuser) can tell if someone will have problems when they take it. Educating people about the drug, again, is the safest plan. I am now very very very educated. After a few bad experiences, I found erowid.org, and it has kept me healthy when I did drugs I was going to do anyway (though I may have taken some of those trips back now), and it kept me safe and sane knowing what was going to happen to me and knowing that I'd done everything I could to keep safe.
I have seen my best friend from childhood end up hooked on crystal meth. It was a lack of education, and a lack of hope. The inexistence of support structures, the pressure from land developers to get poor mexicans off their prime golf-course real estate, and finally, him being careless. I went back to Mexico, and he wouldn't smoke weed anymore because it made him feel sick. He smoked with me once, and got sick and lashed out at me so violently that I almost fainted. I tripped with him, pleaded with him, tried to get him to get his motherfucking visa so I could pay for his ticket up to the US so he could get out of his toxic environment. I tried everything short of duct-taping him to a tree. Now, in retrospect, I would have. He had an alcoholic father, and a family that used to ride our asses about weed before we ever smoked, and they were friendly to us when we finally started. His mother ended up fucking his dad's best friend, and his dad moved back to Sinaloa, and he was stuck being the asshole head of family that his two sisters and his mother berated. Nobody gave a fuck about him. So yes, I have seen the problems with drugs, I just don't see where any of the above would have been made any worse by him not being considered a criminal and a piece of shit, and a little bit of straightforward education.
Until somebody figures out a way to grind pirated games into a fine powder to be snorted or smoked that causes hallucinations, birth defects, and profuse, acute, addictive behavior
Isn't that pretty much how crystal meth is made? There are grades to drugs. I think that if you rank drugs from safest to most dangerous, you'd get something like:
1 weed, salvia, cigarettes
2 mushrooms, lsd
3 alcohol, cocaine, crack, opium, xanax, demerol
4 heroin, crack, crystal meth, methadone, paxil
with the caveat that category 2 can make you flip out and run in front of a car provided you're not of calm disposition and there's no one around to sit on your head until you calm down. If you made the first category completely legal, decriminalized the second and third for posession in the home, and made the "punishment" for the 4th category a rehabilitation program that provided work for people if they desired it, then you would have a much less burdened system, and people would actually have a chance at surviving the system.
Of course, some on the list are legal already. And if someone else has some other ideas, I'm open to them. But people's perception of drugs is very skewed by fear-based propaganda, and sometimes the mere fact that something is illegal makes people think it's immoral. Does someone know the ridiculous statistic on percentage of our packed jails that are non-violent drug offenders? Even if you just freed the weed people, we would be far less burdened.
And then we'd really have the resources we need to go after PIRATES! ARRRGGHH!!!
I'm going to stick with the side that says drug dealing is the more destructive industry to the well-being of humanity.
I think if drugs were legal, it would allow NORMAL people to purchase drugs and know they were not being sneaky and evil. This would allow real, honest individuals to import drugs, which would in turn put more pressure on drug cartels to stop using child slave labor. This would greatly decrease the amount of damage the cocaine trade does to the world. Also, the fact that people would be able to purchase drugs that weren't cut with arsenic or baking soda or CAL or something nice and random would make drugs safer for sneaky kids (please, think of the kids) and adults alike.
But that's just my opinion. Oh, and it's pretty much shared by several ex-narc cops, fwiw.
I hope you're not being serious. I mean, really, disc? I've still got the original Doom 2 floppies - the game isn't as recent as you make it sound.
I think he may have been referring to the original sanskrit on clay disc distribution that failed early on.
So was it a silent smoke detector, or were you THAT stoned?
:-)
I actually had smoke from burning sage set off a smoke alarm after I had gone to sleep. I woke up to this loud, infernal solid whine, found the alarm, pressed the button, it didn't turn off, tore it off the wall and tried to pry it open, threw it across the room, cartoon-style jumping up and down stomped on it, failed at taking the battery cover off, tore it in half, yanked out the battery, realized I had just demolished the wrong smoke detector, genuinely whimpered, ran towards where the hell the sound must have been coming from, found the actual smoke detector, and repeated.
Boy was it nice when that fucking thing turned off.
I agree with everything that you're saying. I just mean that a compelling argument is not going to get computerphobes to switch OSes without at least test-driving what they're installing. I guess the fact that it'll resize the windows partition and install in parallel is pretty damn nifty, though.
But still, people are freaked out very easily by PCs. I migrate people to Linux whenever it's prudent, which is more often with every release of Ubuntu. One thing I left out of my post is that in Mexico, it makes great sense to install Linux, because people have to save up forever to just get the super-taxed hardware, then pay for Windows (bleah) AND spend an entire week's salary every year on Norton?
By the way, your sig says you spend your entertainment dollars elsewhere for 7 years.. 7 years!! Nice work. Where do you spend it?
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I'm not GP, and this is just stuff I know of:
alternativetentacles.com (alice donut is awesome)
nitro records
epitaph records
k records
Check this out:
http://www.riaaradar.com/zeitgeist_topamazonsafe.
so there's stuff. There's been stuff for a long long time. I still buy some RIAA stuff, but it's somewhat of a deterrent, since I have tons of music over the past 20-30 years that I can buy that's not RIAA.
And again I said "He's free to do whatever the heck he wants". But we're still free to call him a loon.
Yeah, and while we're on the topic, what's up with that Jesus guy? Walking around, talking to people, not paying taxes, telling people they shouldn't kill each other...
And Ghandi! What a fuck THAT guy was. Sitting around, changing the world. And that's to say NOTHING of the Buddha, who left his kingdom without king so he could sit around and meditate...
I sure hate people like RMS. Why doesn't he do what everyone else does?
Geez, pay attention. It comes from the TAP:1 7&cid=20105421
http://politics.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=2606
You would have to have sensors like this on all bridges and take into account the design tolerances of the bridge
:-)
It's even more expensive, I imagine, to clear out all the cars. Plus, it'll be paid for by whoever owns the road, I suppose, be it the municipality or the federal govt. And I imagine that one would prioritize according to traffic, and frankly, how likely the stupid thing is to collapse with little to no warning.
Plus, from TF summary, the things detect rebar snapping, and all sorts of things. So it probably creates a composite picture, and doesn't just go off whenever you smoke weed like those goddamn smoke alarms.
That's a ******* loud whisper!!
No, it's not.
Well, to GP's credit, you're generally a tad closer than 5m to your computer. It's a 5m whisper is what it is. But I guess the rating on this is done in a completely silent science lab with guys in white coats and clipboards walking around, going, "Yeessss.... Mmmm-hmmmm.... I see...."
Who here wishes their job was like that? Especially if you were one of those guys that crashes cars to see how awesome they mangle the body.
I think Joe Newbie's friend is an irresponsible dickhead. For the record.
If he were an Ubuntu user, he could go to the Ubuntu Newbie forums, and ask someone how to use his iPod in Ubuntu, and someone would say:
Run the Music player under Applications > Audio/Video
fking noob.
or they'd say
Applications > Utilities > Terminal
sudo apt-get install amarok
then type your password
then run amarok from Applications > Audio/Video
fking noob.
or they'd say
Applications > Add/Remove
Search for ipod
fking noob.
It's far less hackish than wmv support on Macs. Or mov support on Windows. Or hell, even mov support on Macs. Why, Steve, must you fuck with me everytime I use Quicktime?
-Nathan
I can't believe you read the articles. 1053r
That is exactly the problem with Linux. It's always almost ready dor the desktop. And it will always stay that way as long as there isn't a standard interface and and a good office suite that does MS' .doc format. Sad but true.
I think that with Linux completely or partially taking over in govt in Peru, Brazil, France, Largo (right around the corner from me in St Pete, FL), the Dept of Transportation (or the FAA?), etc, it's doing pretty well.
I have more and more people ask me about Linux. My mother runs Linux, and my friend Brian got an old Thinkpad for 5 dollars (stellar deal, because the screen's screwy) that runs Ubuntu just fine. The shop I used to work at, two years ago, the guy (an IIS-using, Access-loving, Windows-recommending motherfucker if I ever met one) was adamant about not offering Linux to customers. Now, he's set up a few laptops for his kids on Ubuntu, and shocked at how good it is, always has an Ubuntu machine available for sale. The Internet Cafe I worked at in Mexico now has systems running Linux, and will install it on people's PCs.
Sure, Linux has been "on the verge of a breakthrough" for 8 years. Has the Desktop experience been better than decent? Not really. Has it been cohesive? Nope. Has it been easy enough for a regular middle-ager to use without suffering major breakdown? No way. It depends on how you define "the verge," and I have to say that NOW Ubuntu 7.04 fulfills all of the above for an average person with fair problem solving ability, and who is willing to use the Ubuntu n00b forum.
There is NO reason for the average home user to install a completely new OS they've never seen. The hurdle for Linux is to get on enough work PCs that people are relatively comfortable enough with it, so that next virus they get, or next Norton Death Knell, they leap off their burning Windows install onto something stable.
a Rosencrantz to Microsoft's Hamlet.
This, of course, is from the beloved children's story, "Rosencrantz's Web."
My mom used to work an office job, and on employee appreciation day she got a mug that said "You're Appreciated" on it. I thought that someone somewhere must have laughed his ass off when he thought that up.
But really, I perform sysadmin services for clients, and people give me shit, complain about me, and have even yelled at me for stuff such as Internet failures, power failures, their own failures, etc. It makes me see why people charge way too much, fuck people over, and berate them. I, however, am getting out of the field, because I'd rather not be an asshole. But I sympathize with the assholes who are keeping their shitty well-paying jobs so their kids can have health insurance and go to nice schools.
I also think that the problem with your logic is that if you're an exceptional sysadmin, you have minimal contact with the people who use the computers you administrate, and people just don't notice anything. Because there's not a problem. Sysadmin is a problem-oriented job, oftentimes.
Whatever. People thank me, and on occasion I get the sense that a client or a client's employee is appreciating me. So it CAN happen. It just really really doesn't happen every day.
Thread modders are a dyeing breed.
Your post is freaking king, though. (please stop freaking him. he has heart trouble)
1. the < thing only works if you put a ; at the end of it.
2. it
3. couldn't tell ya
shit. can I get a hand? what the hell are you all doing sitting around letting me make myself look stupid?
bastards.
shit. I must escape the lt's
and employees get six. <---joke
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Lucky the Seagate consumer drives have a five-year warranty ;)
and employees get six. ---joke
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You really need a monospaced font to get the full effect of this.
If I remember correctly, SATA does not have a standard interface
Out of curiosity, did IDE have a standard interface when it started, or did everyone adopt the most popular one? I'm guessing that the field was less of a cluster[pillowfight] back then, but it still seems like there'd be no reason for it to be any different than it is now... IA64, AMD64, for one example. SATA's just a wee baby yet. It'll standardize, becuase it would be a big absurd pile of crap if it didn't. And big stupid piles of crap are bad for business, unless of course they're called Windows.
(I must be given props for delaying the Windows-bashing for so very long)
1998 (it was not uncommon to see Redhat boxes on store shelves)
Red Hat is hardly a movement. I understand that we had Mandrake and Debian, but have you objectively examined the curve in the rate of progress? No, you haven't.
I don't do things without question, and experience has taught me better than to believe crap that's being spewed by rabid fanboys.
Right, so that rules out Torvalds, RMS, Ballmer, Jobs, and, err.... maybe something like 10% of Windows users, 50% of Mac users, and 30% of Linux users (I'm not only talking about desktops here)? Not everybody. I think that you're much more likely to be the kind of person who labels people he doesn't agree with knuckleheads, rabid fanboys, and kiddo. In other words, a pompous ass.
As for being schooled, like I said, I've already been a voice in the community.
So you're saying that you can throw out all your books once you're on TV? (or maybe livejournal in your case (nested parenthesis needed to point out that I'm being facetious, because you've demonstrated that it may just go right over your head))
I know you're probably all 40 or something, but grow up. I used to know this guy who would always use the argument, "I have 37 years on your ass," and you remind me of him. My thoughts on the argument? Just because you're old doesn't mean you're not stupid.
Actually, knucklehead, I was the exec editor of an open source enterprise magazine.
Right, and flamebait is insulting people just because you're an asshole. And I don't mean "you" in the general sort of sense.
No Unix or Unix-like distro has been and they've been around a heck of a lot longer than windows.
I know several people on Ubuntu who struggle with Windows. Plus, saying Unix has been around a long time and it's going nowhere is like saying, in 1994, that the internet has been around a long time, and it's going nowhere. The initiative towards a widespread Linux desktop has been around a few years, max. OSS movements take a while to rev up, and this one's doing quite nicely.
Be quiet, be schooled, thank the nice man as he leaves.