If you mean section as in the games, apple, books, science (the links on the left side of the page)type categories, it's for the same reason that we don't have a Microsoft section/. is way too biased against them. There is a story about Apache like 4 times a year but it still has it's own section. If you mean sections as in hardware, encryption, software, gnome, music (the icons that appear beside a story) there already is one. It's called Caldera.
It is obvious that they are not going to own up to the code until they are forced to in court. Right now we are just hearing all kinds of stupid accusations.
When are we going to see this stuff argued in a courtroom?
The State of Utah is predominately Mormon. So yeah, Novell is probably run by Mormons.
Well I don't mean to troll, but that's a silly connection. The largest church in California is the Catholic church, but I wouldn't assume Cisco is being run by catholics. A poster farther down made a great annalogy, I wouldn't assume SuSE is being run by the German government just because most of the employees are German.
Let's keep religion out of the whole SCO/Novell/'Anything else techie' argument when it has absolutely nothing to do with religion at all.
Have you thought about trying the local high school? Don't laugh, it's actually a good idea. You will be amazed at the talent you can find in a high school, and most of the would-be-artists would love a chance to display thier talent.
Here is what you do:
Get to know the art teacher
Propose an 'Art Contest'
Make a one page write up about what you are looking for
Let the kids enter art submissions
Offer a cash reward to the winner(s), along with the carrot of being given the chance to work on a "real video game!"
Of course a lot of it will be crap, but I think you will be amazed at the amount of real talent you will find.
I love the looks of this board, and I'll probably get one, but the only problem I have, is from time to time I put my HD in another computer for trouble shooting. If a power surge, rouge program, or virus damages my drive, a lot of times I can transfer the drive to a different computer an still get many of my files. Also, I have taken my HD to other peoples houses when other means of transfer are exhausted.
It seems like this would lock you into one hardware format.
if you are an Solaris administrator and get plagued with user questions about basic tasks, maybe you should have your boss buy a few copies of Solaris 9 For Dummies for your users
Think about this sentance before you start flaming the dummies books. The author caught the main point right there. I would never buy this book for myself but it sounds like a great thing to buy for other users at my company. I am a UNIX sysadmin, but we don't have any Solaris boxen. If we ever did get one, I feel confident that some man pages, the dead tree manual and some message boards would be enough for me to hack my way through the Solaris caveats, but I would rather eat rocks then set up a training session when I would have to teach middle management how to use the system. If I was forced to do just that, I would probably have them each get a copy of this book as the take home material.
Don't discount the Dummies books, they are a good thing (tm), if not for everyone.
I was making a comparison between.NET and previous MS Web offerings. I never said that they were the first to do it, or that it is better/worse than Java. I am forced by my boss to use a MS-Centric development enviorment and.NET is much better than VBScript with ASP.
Sure, there are differences but it's mainly because you are calling different objects, but the language is still the same. As opposed to VB6 vs VBScript/ASP. Simmilar syntax but completely separate languages with major differences.
If my boss tells me to write a web app, I write a web app. If he tells me to use.NET I use.NET. All I'm saying is that.NET is a vast improvement over what MS has offered previously.
Here is the much awaited link to the amazon page from which this comment is stolen.
That's cute. Accuse me of stealing while posting AC? That's brave of you. I promise you though, I have never read that Amazon review, because I never go to Amazon.com. They do not promise to keep your personal info from 3rd parties, so I don't use thier site. Let alone post reviews.
Before everyone starts scoffing at how much Micro$oft sucks, I just want to say that.NET is really the best product that MS has produced in a very long time. And when I say.NET I am referring to both the object library and the.NET server. I'm with the rest of/. when I say that I would rather be on a UNIX based platform, but like many of you due to my job I am forced to deal with a Windows Server environment if I like it or not, and as much as I have tried to hate it, I have actually been quite impressed with what you can do with Visual Studio and.NET When you write a.NET web application you use the same code (meaning VB.NET, C# etc, as opposed to ASP, or VB Script) that you would use when writing a desktop app, and the fist time the page is accessed, the web server compiles all the code into dll's on the fly. Converting my existing ASP apps into.NET has tripled the performance using the same hardware. This method is very very fast. Fast to develop and fast to benchmark. It would take me months to write a C/C++ cgi app to do the same thing that I can pump out in an afternoon with VB.NET. And more intuitive I might add.
6000 emails in 3 days? That doesn't sound like nearly enough for a serious spammer. I had a web server compromised by a spammer last year and I received more than 6000 bounce-backs in less than three days before I found the hole and patched it up. It seems to me like a professional spammer would have several servers at several IP's and get way more spam than that. Especially when you include complaint email.
I think you are touching on an important point here that a lot of people miss. We all know that one of the big reasons that personal computers running DOS became so popular was the ability to twiddle with the hardware yourself. Part of the whole experience has always been being able to go down to the local hardware store and buy an upgrade card/chip/disk and fiddle with it till it worked. It is frustrating a lot of times and you might cuss a bit but overall it is fun to do. The part that we forget about is that the other half of the fun was that the OS itself was a tinker tool! I spent a lot of time back in the day doing thinks like customizing my prompt, tweaking my memory management, and writing batch files to simplify tasks. This was all before linux or the Internet existed, and since being a kid I didn't have access to any UNIX machine, this was all I had. As time went on and MS continued to release their products, I found more and more of my control over the system being taken away from me. I could still play with the hardware but MS was doing everything it could to maintain complete control over how things worked on my machine and giving me "permission denied" errors. Permission denied?! It's my computer! At about the time of Windows 98 I had finally got sick of loosing control and started looking for an alternative. That is when I discovered Linux. I found to my amazement that not only was there an OS that gave me COMPLETE control over my machine, but that it was totally free! It was very liberating! My love of tinkering had early on led me to an interest in programming, so I had become quite good at QBASIC since that was the only thing available to me in DOS. Now with Linux I found an amazing collection of development tools, and along with the help of the newly formed internet to get my questions answered I grew up to be a professional developer.
My point is, "user friendly" isn't always a good thing, and it doesn't appeal to all people. In fact I see many Linux distros making the same mistake as MS in this area. The key is increasing "ease-of-use" while maintaining "user-control". This is why I love Debian. If you are a Linux noob, just the very act of installing it will make you learn more about your computer. Why is this bad? The end user isn't nearly as stupid as most people assume (and yes I have done help desk support). The problem is that people are trained to be stupid. They are milked along and so protected from icky-computer stuff that they don't let themselves believe that they can do anything with their computer unless it is all taken care of for them. Even if they are smart people! Of course there are certain things that need explaining to noobs such as "what is this hda1 stuff?" and how to use the man pages, but if you actually let people figure things out, it is amazing how much they will learn.
I say Debian shouldn't change a thing. And if they take my advice, they may not ever be at the top of the market share, but the user base will never dry up. As more and more Linux flavors make the same mistakes as Windows has, right down to the poor UI, more and more people will turn to TRUE GNU/Linux.
Yes, but it stopped when the gold started coming out of the ground. They still had to get it off the island. Even if they did that, the dentist would certainly sue and try to get it all, or most of it. There were a lot of loose ends.
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I don't drink beer you insensitive clod!
I currently have a keg (no I'm not making this up) of root beer in my kitchen.
He wrote the second book first? Well I guess it's no worse than the starwars episodes. Still though, the book doesn't really seem to call for a prequill.
I just finished the Cryptonomicon and I gotta say, I HATE the ending. It was a great book, but it just all of a sudden stoped with no resolution of plot. Did ephityte(2) go under to the dentist? Did Enoch Root explain to Randy about his fathers roll in WWII? Is Amy a lesbian?! We may never know!
I don't know how you got modded as funny and not flamebait.
Regardless, you raise an interesting point. What exactly is "America's version of free"? I think a lot of people don't understand "free speech" especially when it applys to businesses. I should preface this by saying I don't know anything about New Zealand law, or how much of this would apply in this case.
The US Constitution ensures that the government will not abridge free speech (yes I know that is still happens, DCMA, Patriot act, etc). This has NO BEARING on privatly owned property such as homes, businesses etc. Free speech is only promised on "public" property, i.e. property owned by the government such as streets, parks, campuses (some of them anyway). The mass storage space of an ISP is NOT public property, it is private! Sure you are paying them for the privilage of putting things on those hard drives, but does that give you licence to do whatever you want with their property? No!
It is all too natural to have a knee-jerk emotional response to this kind of story, but I tend to side on the ISP on this one. Think about it this way. Imagine someone comes to you and says "Your front lawn is in a very visable spot, I would like to pay you a monthly fee if you allow me to put up an ad sign." You agree, and at first they guy puts up a sign for some local store but then the next day you come home and they sign says "THIS GUYS WIFE IS A COW!". What would you do? Protect his free speech and leave the sign up? No, you would keep his money give him back his sign and never do business with him again, and it would be your right because it was your house. Similarly an ISP owns all the servers. You pay them for the privilage of using them but does that mean that you can set up an anti-AOL site on an AOL web server? No, they have control over their own property. They can take down your site and terminate your account for any reason they see fit except on the basis of race, gender or religion.
Don't forget that businesses have rights and freedoms too. To me this is very similar to the argument about banning smoking in "public" places. A ban on smoking in public places would mean government buildings/property. That would be fine, but if you ban smoking in a resturaunt then you are telling that owner that he can't smoke on his own property. In this case it is the owner of the resturaunt that should decide if he wants to allow smoking and if people don't like it they are free to go to a different place to eat, just like the ISP can decide what goes on thier servers and people are free to get a different provider.
Don't get me wrong, I don't smoke and I personally hate eating in a place that is full of smoke, but I would never support a law that infringes on someones freedom, even the freedom of a business.
I agree with you about the book, but one of the authors of the book has an article that has been very usefull to me. It is a list of the top ten things he learned while working on the book. I wish I had read this before I bought th... oh wait, my company bought the book for me <grin>.
Among other helpfull things is a detailed explanation of OSX startup items (startup is totally different than other *NIX), A list of all the root folders and what OSX uses them for, and some caveats about symlinks and the finder.
The server running our family domain is an old SE/30. It runs totaly headless because the onboard video went out, the ram is maxed way past what you are supposed to be able to put in it, it runs MK linux, and at last count was hosting 15 domains. The surpizing thing is just how fast it is! I never notice any lag when I connect and I'm about 1500 miles away!
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If you mean section as in the games, apple, books, science (the links on the left side of the page)type categories, it's for the same reason that we don't have a Microsoft section /. is way too biased against them. There is a story about Apache like 4 times a year but it still has it's own section. If you mean sections as in hardware, encryption, software, gnome, music (the icons that appear beside a story) there already is one. It's called Caldera.
http://www.planettribes.com/allyourbase/story.shtm l
Somebody set up us the bomb.
All your base are belong to us.
It is obvious that they are not going to own up to the code until they are forced to in court. Right now we are just hearing all kinds of stupid accusations.
When are we going to see this stuff argued in a courtroom?
So yeah, Novell is probably run by Mormons.
Well I don't mean to troll, but that's a silly connection. The largest church in California is the Catholic church, but I wouldn't assume Cisco is being run by catholics. A poster farther down made a great annalogy, I wouldn't assume SuSE is being run by the German government just because most of the employees are German.
Let's keep religion out of the whole SCO/Novell/'Anything else techie' argument when it has absolutely nothing to do with religion at all.
Can you fill me in on the joke? I don't get the connection. Is Novell run by mormons or something?
Here is what you do:
- Get to know the art teacher
- Propose an 'Art Contest'
- Make a one page write up about what you are looking for
- Let the kids enter art submissions
- Offer a cash reward to the winner(s), along with the carrot of being given the chance to work on a "real video game!"
Of course a lot of it will be crap, but I think you will be amazed at the amount of real talent you will find.I love the looks of this board, and I'll probably get one, but the only problem I have, is from time to time I put my HD in another computer for trouble shooting. If a power surge, rouge program, or virus damages my drive, a lot of times I can transfer the drive to a different computer an still get many of my files. Also, I have taken my HD to other peoples houses when other means of transfer are exhausted. It seems like this would lock you into one hardware format.
Think about this sentance before you start flaming the dummies books. The author caught the main point right there. I would never buy this book for myself but it sounds like a great thing to buy for other users at my company. I am a UNIX sysadmin, but we don't have any Solaris boxen. If we ever did get one, I feel confident that some man pages, the dead tree manual and some message boards would be enough for me to hack my way through the Solaris caveats, but I would rather eat rocks then set up a training session when I would have to teach middle management how to use the system. If I was forced to do just that, I would probably have them each get a copy of this book as the take home material.
Don't discount the Dummies books, they are a good thing (tm), if not for everyone.
I was making a comparison between .NET and previous MS Web offerings. I never said that they were the first to do it, or that it is better/worse than Java. I am forced by my boss to use a MS-Centric development enviorment and .NET is much better than VBScript with ASP.
Sure, there are differences but it's mainly because you are calling different objects, but the language is still the same. As opposed to VB6 vs VBScript/ASP. Simmilar syntax but completely separate languages with major differences.
If my boss tells me to write a web app, I write a web app. If he tells me to use .NET I use .NET. All I'm saying is that .NET is a vast improvement over what MS has offered previously.
That's cute. Accuse me of stealing while posting AC? That's brave of you. I promise you though, I have never read that Amazon review, because I never go to Amazon.com. They do not promise to keep your personal info from 3rd parties, so I don't use thier site. Let alone post reviews.
Before everyone starts scoffing at how much Micro$oft sucks, I just want to say that .NET is really the best product that MS has produced in a very long time. And when I say .NET I am referring to both the object library and the .NET server. /. when I say that I would rather be on a UNIX based platform, but like many of you due to my job I am forced to deal with a Windows Server environment if I like it or not, and as much as I have tried to hate it, I have actually been quite impressed with what you can do with Visual Studio and .NET .NET web application you use the same code (meaning VB.NET, C# etc, as opposed to ASP, or VB Script) that you would use when writing a desktop app, and the fist time the page is accessed, the web server compiles all the code into dll's on the fly. Converting my existing ASP apps into .NET has tripled the performance using the same hardware. This method is very very fast. Fast to develop and fast to benchmark. It would take me months to write a C/C++ cgi app to do the same thing that I can pump out in an afternoon with VB.NET. And more intuitive I might add.
I'm with the rest of
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Go ahead and flame me now.
Can you use OOo via comand line? If so you can applescript it that way.
6000 emails in 3 days? That doesn't sound like nearly enough for a serious spammer. I had a web server compromised by a spammer last year and I received more than 6000 bounce-backs in less than three days before I found the hole and patched it up. It seems to me like a professional spammer would have several servers at several IP's and get way more spam than that. Especially when you include complaint email.
My point is, "user friendly" isn't always a good thing, and it doesn't appeal to all people. In fact I see many Linux distros making the same mistake as MS in this area. The key is increasing "ease-of-use" while maintaining "user-control". This is why I love Debian. If you are a Linux noob, just the very act of installing it will make you learn more about your computer. Why is this bad? The end user isn't nearly as stupid as most people assume (and yes I have done help desk support). The problem is that people are trained to be stupid. They are milked along and so protected from icky-computer stuff that they don't let themselves believe that they can do anything with their computer unless it is all taken care of for them. Even if they are smart people! Of course there are certain things that need explaining to noobs such as "what is this hda1 stuff?" and how to use the man pages, but if you actually let people figure things out, it is amazing how much they will learn.
I say Debian shouldn't change a thing. And if they take my advice, they may not ever be at the top of the market share, but the user base will never dry up. As more and more Linux flavors make the same mistakes as Windows has, right down to the poor UI, more and more people will turn to TRUE GNU/Linux.
Yes, but it stopped when the gold started coming out of the ground. They still had to get it off the island. Even if they did that, the dentist would certainly sue and try to get it all, or most of it. There were a lot of loose ends.
I currently have a keg (no I'm not making this up) of root beer in my kitchen.
He wrote the second book first? Well I guess it's no worse than the starwars episodes. Still though, the book doesn't really seem to call for a prequill.
I just finished the Cryptonomicon and I gotta say, I HATE the ending. It was a great book, but it just all of a sudden stoped with no resolution of plot. Did ephityte(2) go under to the dentist? Did Enoch Root explain to Randy about his fathers roll in WWII? Is Amy a lesbian?! We may never know!
Regardless, you raise an interesting point. What exactly is "America's version of free"? I think a lot of people don't understand "free speech" especially when it applys to businesses. I should preface this by saying I don't know anything about New Zealand law, or how much of this would apply in this case.
The US Constitution ensures that the government will not abridge free speech (yes I know that is still happens, DCMA, Patriot act, etc). This has NO BEARING on privatly owned property such as homes, businesses etc. Free speech is only promised on "public" property, i.e. property owned by the government such as streets, parks, campuses (some of them anyway). The mass storage space of an ISP is NOT public property, it is private! Sure you are paying them for the privilage of putting things on those hard drives, but does that give you licence to do whatever you want with their property? No!
It is all too natural to have a knee-jerk emotional response to this kind of story, but I tend to side on the ISP on this one. Think about it this way. Imagine someone comes to you and says "Your front lawn is in a very visable spot, I would like to pay you a monthly fee if you allow me to put up an ad sign." You agree, and at first they guy puts up a sign for some local store but then the next day you come home and they sign says "THIS GUYS WIFE IS A COW!". What would you do? Protect his free speech and leave the sign up? No, you would keep his money give him back his sign and never do business with him again, and it would be your right because it was your house. Similarly an ISP owns all the servers. You pay them for the privilage of using them but does that mean that you can set up an anti-AOL site on an AOL web server? No, they have control over their own property. They can take down your site and terminate your account for any reason they see fit except on the basis of race, gender or religion.
Don't forget that businesses have rights and freedoms too. To me this is very similar to the argument about banning smoking in "public" places. A ban on smoking in public places would mean government buildings/property. That would be fine, but if you ban smoking in a resturaunt then you are telling that owner that he can't smoke on his own property. In this case it is the owner of the resturaunt that should decide if he wants to allow smoking and if people don't like it they are free to go to a different place to eat, just like the ISP can decide what goes on thier servers and people are free to get a different provider.
Don't get me wrong, I don't smoke and I personally hate eating in a place that is full of smoke, but I would never support a law that infringes on someones freedom, even the freedom of a business.
Among other helpfull things is a detailed explanation of OSX startup items (startup is totally different than other *NIX), A list of all the root folders and what OSX uses them for, and some caveats about symlinks and the finder.
The server running our family domain is an old SE/30. It runs totaly headless because the onboard video went out, the ram is maxed way past what you are supposed to be able to put in it, it runs MK linux, and at last count was hosting 15 domains. The surpizing thing is just how fast it is! I never notice any lag when I connect and I'm about 1500 miles away!
I wonder if this is the idea behind the "revolutionary" yet proprietary SymDesk protocols?