If I was an evil M$ overlord, I would definitely attempt to mess up projects like wine
Microsoft don't need to mess up Wine. That project is a gap-filler for people who for one reason or another just can't or won't do without Windows, so Microsoft's share of the market's headspace is assured.
Microsoft's bugaboo has to be whose users who are prepared to switch completely to another OS, forfeiting all dependence on Windows APIs. I personally hope there are more of these than Microsoft thinks. If my only choice for a given piece of software is to run it under Wine, I would rather just do without.
Skilled trades are not paid peanuts, and are not easily replaced by unskilled immigrants.
Indeed. A good plumber or electrician is set for life: he is guaranteed permanent employment at salaries higher than academics at many universities can expect.
Well, I don't know where you live, but right here, a good analytical chemist with a BSc can expect quite a decent income. I sort of drifted into this, and forensic molecular analysis, after having spent many years working as a systems programmer.
Going back to school to learn about this is a quick cure for anybody who still insists on calling computing a science; I have come to think that computing is no more of a science than psychology.
And psychologists are (in my perhaps overly jaundiced opinion) on a level little higher than marketing consultants.
There are still lots of mechanical engineering courses where students are expected to learn the basics of machine-shop work. And a damn good thing too. This is one of the things that keeps Mech Eng fun: being able to design and actually build fearsome contraptions.
Where is this box? I'm fairly active, but I don't have it/can't find it.
I guess it might depend on your karma. It appears on the top-right of the/. homepage, but I guess if you can't see the box you'll just have to use adblock (or/etc/hosts) like I used to before.
man, Slashdot looks like shit with Adblock disabled
Not any more. If you're a good boy, you get to disable ads on/. while you're logged in. I now just get a little box saying "Ads disabled [tick] Thanks again for helping make Slashdot great!".
Part of it might be to to with getting older. When I was in my 20s, I must have thought I was invincible, the way I carried on. Decades later, with a catalogue of (fortunately more or less innocuous) industrial injuries, I seem to have got the message.
Which is why, when dealing with novices, I now try to stress the point that there is nothing uncool or wimpish about taking a few extra seconds for simple safety precautions.
Well, that shitty stuff is an instantly available substance for dealing with those pesky lenses. I guess the job of maintaining those cameras could prove mighty unpopular.
The claim that Mac/Linux/*nix are all as vulnerable as Windows is specious. Every one of the exploits previously mentioned depends on the stupidity, gullibility or laziness of the user, not on the insecurity of the system.
Microsoft shills and astroturfers can bleat all they want, but Windows systems are simply rotten to the core when it comes to security. I'm not claiming that *nix (including OS X) systems will always be 100% immune to malware, but at least they do a good job of keeping casual exploits out of the works.
Whereas in Windows, attempting to continually patch holes in something that was initially designed as a single-user system to make it safer in a networked world is always going to be problematic.
Whatever else we may think about Apple, they made a sound, pragmatic decision when they threw out the old OS 9 architecture and replaced it with what is essentially a BSD-like system with their own work on top to make it pretty. Unix, by its very nature, is actually quite hard to crack if sensible operating defaults are followed.
Does anyone still use any Microsoft products any more? After all, I thought Linux and OS X occupied something like 98% of the market. Nobody would ever notice if Microsoft stopped making its services available to these countries, much less care.
Microsoft were competing unfairly long before they became a monopoly, and this is also illegal.
This is true, but Microsoft had very good mentors. IBM was hardly a stranger to the notion of abuse of power. But even so, the world might have been a different place if IBM hadn't allowed Microsoft to pull out the rug from underneath it, and from that point we might ponder what would have happened if IBM hadn't subsequently ploughed so much money and resources into Linux.
I can see this might end up hijacking the thread, which wasn't really my intention, but I think it's interesting...
Hmmm, HTML seems to work. Do we really need/. to accept over 100,000 different characters as input?
HTML works for that character. There are hundreds of common ones (e.g. the ° entity) that don't work. We probably don't need all possible unicode characters to be accepted, but it wouldn't hurt. The general idea is to facilitate communication, and excluding non-English or symbol character sets is not the most clever way to go about this.
I was just thinking along those lines. I have an old Apple laptop with a dying HDD that is spending its last days acting as an occasional media server for movies and stuff downloaded off the internet. If only this wall-wart had an HDMI output, it would make a perfect drop-in replacement if combined with a biggish external HDD.
Oh well, I guess one day it's bound to happen. I can wait.
I can see a future for plastics, but to use the technology to produce fuel for burning is rushing towards the same dead end we've been following for ages.
I can just imagine my hypothetical grandchildren asking me what we did with all that oil.
I don't really suspect there's anything sinister going on here
Nor do I. However, what it does mean is that Google has utterly failed to get the penetration they need to get Chrome accepted by the average user. By essentially consigning it to the Windows-only camp, Google has alienated Linux and OS X users, so they won't bother picking Chrome up even when (or if) it does become available for their platform.
When I compare Firefox across ubuntu and windows it is noticeably slower and uglier in linux
Hmmm. Maybe you have a bad build. Or maybe it's something specific to Ubuntu. Firefox is at least as quick on my Arch Linux machine by comparison with any Windows implementation I've seen. And ugly? We are talking about a distribution that favours baby-poo brown for its default theme here. I rest my case...
my previous experience where Ubuntu managed to hose the partition tables of two discs
I'm not a fan of Ubuntu in particular, but that doesn't ring true. It is far more likely that your HDDs or your motherboard managed to hose the partition tables. You can pretty much take your pick of any of the filesystems supported under Linux, they are all supported very well, and can be counted on to be reliable.
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If I was an evil M$ overlord, I would definitely attempt to mess up projects like wine
Microsoft don't need to mess up Wine. That project is a gap-filler for people who for one reason or another just can't or won't do without Windows, so Microsoft's share of the market's headspace is assured.
Microsoft's bugaboo has to be whose users who are prepared to switch completely to another OS, forfeiting all dependence on Windows APIs. I personally hope there are more of these than Microsoft thinks. If my only choice for a given piece of software is to run it under Wine, I would rather just do without.
That Lambrusco stuff is brilliant pantie remover.
:-}
...on the principle of "Rene Pogel" (leg opener), maybe, but you don't want to drink that lolly-water yourself...
The post to which you replied said nothing to do with the agenda you seem to be pushing. I suggest you take your inappropriate rants elsewhere.
Skilled trades are not paid peanuts, and are not easily replaced by unskilled immigrants.
Indeed. A good plumber or electrician is set for life: he is guaranteed permanent employment at salaries higher than academics at many universities can expect.
Well, I don't know where you live, but right here, a good analytical chemist with a BSc can expect quite a decent income. I sort of drifted into this, and forensic molecular analysis, after having spent many years working as a systems programmer.
Going back to school to learn about this is a quick cure for anybody who still insists on calling computing a science; I have come to think that computing is no more of a science than psychology.
And psychologists are (in my perhaps overly jaundiced opinion) on a level little higher than marketing consultants.
Well, just think.
You really do NOT want swarf on your block and tackle, do you?
There are still lots of mechanical engineering courses where students are expected to learn the basics of machine-shop work. And a damn good thing too. This is one of the things that keeps Mech Eng fun: being able to design and actually build fearsome contraptions.
:-D
Long live Steampunk.
Where is this box? I'm fairly active, but I don't have it/can't find it.
/. homepage, but I guess if you can't see the box you'll just have to use adblock (or /etc/hosts) like I used to before.
I guess it might depend on your karma. It appears on the top-right of the
In any case, it's easily enough taken care of. In a terminal window, just
/var/folders/*
$ sudo rm -rf
Password: **************
...and likewise with the other directories mentioned in the article. No need to depend on Safari to do a thorough job of it.
man, Slashdot looks like shit with Adblock disabled
/. while you're logged in. I now just get a little box saying "Ads disabled [tick] Thanks again for helping make Slashdot great!".
Not any more. If you're a good boy, you get to disable ads on
Part of it might be to to with getting older. When I was in my 20s, I must have thought I was invincible, the way I carried on. Decades later, with a catalogue of (fortunately more or less innocuous) industrial injuries, I seem to have got the message.
Which is why, when dealing with novices, I now try to stress the point that there is nothing uncool or wimpish about taking a few extra seconds for simple safety precautions.
Well, that shitty stuff is an instantly available substance for dealing with those pesky lenses. I guess the job of maintaining those cameras could prove mighty unpopular.
The claim that Mac/Linux/*nix are all as vulnerable as Windows is specious. Every one of the exploits previously mentioned depends on the stupidity, gullibility or laziness of the user, not on the insecurity of the system.
Microsoft shills and astroturfers can bleat all they want, but Windows systems are simply rotten to the core when it comes to security. I'm not claiming that *nix (including OS X) systems will always be 100% immune to malware, but at least they do a good job of keeping casual exploits out of the works.
Whereas in Windows, attempting to continually patch holes in something that was initially designed as a single-user system to make it safer in a networked world is always going to be problematic.
Whatever else we may think about Apple, they made a sound, pragmatic decision when they threw out the old OS 9 architecture and replaced it with what is essentially a BSD-like system with their own work on top to make it pretty. Unix, by its very nature, is actually quite hard to crack if sensible operating defaults are followed.
Does anyone still use any Microsoft products any more? After all, I thought Linux and OS X occupied something like 98% of the market. Nobody would ever notice if Microsoft stopped making its services available to these countries, much less care.
;-)
But yeah, you're right, if they dumped compatibility people would get pissed off, because they do want backward compatibility!
Indeed. That's why MSOffice is always backwards-compatible with earlier versions.
Oh wait...
Microsoft were competing unfairly long before they became a monopoly, and this is also illegal.
This is true, but Microsoft had very good mentors. IBM was hardly a stranger to the notion of abuse of power. But even so, the world might have been a different place if IBM hadn't allowed Microsoft to pull out the rug from underneath it, and from that point we might ponder what would have happened if IBM hadn't subsequently ploughed so much money and resources into Linux.
I can see this might end up hijacking the thread, which wasn't really my intention, but I think it's interesting...
Good. That was a flagrant distortion of natural justice, whether it was legal or not.
Hmmm, HTML seems to work. Do we really need /. to accept over 100,000 different characters as input?
HTML works for that character. There are hundreds of common ones (e.g. the ° entity) that don't work. We probably don't need all possible unicode characters to be accepted, but it wouldn't hurt. The general idea is to facilitate communication, and excluding non-English or symbol character sets is not the most clever way to go about this.
I was just thinking along those lines. I have an old Apple laptop with a dying HDD that is spending its last days acting as an occasional media server for movies and stuff downloaded off the internet. If only this wall-wart had an HDMI output, it would make a perfect drop-in replacement if combined with a biggish external HDD.
Oh well, I guess one day it's bound to happen. I can wait.
Am I the only Slashdot reader who isn't dyslexic?
:-|
Guess I shouldn't be surprised.
I can see a future for plastics, but to use the technology to produce fuel for burning is rushing towards the same dead end we've been following for ages.
I can just imagine my hypothetical grandchildren asking me what we did with all that oil.
"We burnt it."
"You did what?"
(Sheepish look.)
I don't really suspect there's anything sinister going on here
Nor do I. However, what it does mean is that Google has utterly failed to get the penetration they need to get Chrome accepted by the average user. By essentially consigning it to the Windows-only camp, Google has alienated Linux and OS X users, so they won't bother picking Chrome up even when (or if) it does become available for their platform.
When I compare Firefox across ubuntu and windows it is noticeably slower and uglier in linux
Hmmm. Maybe you have a bad build. Or maybe it's something specific to Ubuntu. Firefox is at least as quick on my Arch Linux machine by comparison with any Windows implementation I've seen. And ugly? We are talking about a distribution that favours baby-poo brown for its default theme here. I rest my case...
People like her should not be allowed to pass on the genetic trait of broken bones and physical trauma during teen years!
Ummm, wtf? I do hope you're joking. [Whoosh?]
Or, if you have to use WINE, make the use of it completely seamless.
Err, like how? Build it into the kernel? Just so I don't have to feel excluded when conficker 2.0 is released?
Thanks all the same, I'll pass.
my previous experience where Ubuntu managed to hose the partition tables of two discs
I'm not a fan of Ubuntu in particular, but that doesn't ring true. It is far more likely that your HDDs or your motherboard managed to hose the partition tables. You can pretty much take your pick of any of the filesystems supported under Linux, they are all supported very well, and can be counted on to be reliable.