Nevertheless, the old LIGS (Linux Installation and Getting Started) guide is still (although now decidedly dated) a useful guide. The emphasis here is on Linux rather than Unix. There are differences, and in this day and age, probably the majority of Unix (read BSD) heads approach it only after some exposure to Linux.
but most still keep a copy of Internet Explorer around just in case.
Three or four years ago, I might have agreed that might be a useful idea. That was about the last time I encountered a real show-stopper of a site that needed a Windows box to do the job (in this case it was an online banking session my sister needed).
But for my own purposes, I've been running alternative browsers exclusively on Linux since 1997 without any major problems. The simple fact is that if web developers make it hard for me to get around their site, I simply leave it and don't come back.
End of story.
Actually, I think they have been pretty much getting the messsage over the last few years; cutting out sections of your market unnecessarily doesn't make good business sense.
It's worth bearing in mind that of all the antibiotics that have been identified, the majority are of fungal origin. And of those which have been examined, only some twenty percent have been deemed sufficiently safe to be used therapeutically.
Even some of the accepted ones can be pretty scary; one that comes to mind is vancomycin, a "last resort" antibiotic which in some cases can cause hearing loss and/or kidney failure.
... I don't know how this works for those of you in the US, but here in Australia, if you want a DSL connection, you are pretty much required to maintain (i.e. pay rental for) a land-line, whether you use it for calls or not.
Having said that, a friend of mine let his line rental lapse some months ago, and his ADSL connection hasn't been unplugged yet, so maybe it's worth a go...;-)
...but happy for the powers that be to use one of the few tools they have to give us some small protection from suicidal, religiously deranged nihilists.
In the absence of a -1: Idiotic moderation tag, I'll bite.
If your administration is incapable of considering the problem in terms other than those taken straight from Orwell's "1984" then Uncle Sam has got himself in a terrible jam. [A virtual beer to anyone who spots the reference without consulting Google;-)]
A start would be an acknowledgement that the US is supposed to be a part of the global community, not just an overlord. The overbearing attitude of the US does not engender warm and fuzzy feelings for Americans. It makes the rest of us think you are stupid, arrogant shits and want to wipe that dumb complacent smirk off your face.
Sure, some religiously deranged individuals take that to extremes, but they are not nihilists. Look it up.
In any case, religious derangement might almost be seen as a mitigation for their actions by comparison with some of the religiously-inspired so-called "Christian" idiocies many of us have heard. Religious fervour, however, does not excuse those among the President's associates who are using this so-called "war on terror" as a means to make money by the barrowload.
here are lots of critical legacy apps that nobody wants to pay to build replacements to - and I doubt any of them are under 40. But man, they all know their stuff.
Heh... reminds me of a certain major European merchant bank I worked for (name suppressed to protect the guilty) where the source code for a certain portion of their transaction processing software had been lost for at least 10 years before I started work there.
A select few of us had the unenviable task of maintaining it by hacking directly on the binary. It would probably have been quicker in the end to completely re-write it, but we regarded it as a convenient job security tool for dealing with hostile management...
In the case of Vim it is correct, with the possible exception of Teco.
I would concur with the latter; indeed, Data General (back in the days of AOS/VS) used to bundle a version of Teco under the name of SPEED. Its only drawback was that the memory usage was quite heavy - but only at the user's end when trying to remember all those commands.;-)
But, of course, most people these days tend to forget that Emacs started out as a set of macros for TECO (Tape Editor and COrrector).
I used Mandriva for 5 years, few months ago I moved to Ubuntu and I am not going back. Quality is important to me.
I used Mandrake (when it was still called that) for about 4 months in 2001. At the time, I sort of liked it (but with lots of reservations about their scripts and the rpm package system), but having cut my teeth on SLS and subsequently Slackware, I never had the feeling they were very serious about the distribution.
For real quality, IMHO, Slackware is hard to beat for any purpose. I still use it exclusively for all my desktop systems, and for most of my servers.
Isn't it more likely that Apple wants Mac OS X its multi-OS Macs to "just work" with the other operating systems, able to achieve a high degree of interoperability without forcing the other platforms to support HFS+?
Err, how?
The only thing that has to access the filesystem directly is the kernel itself. For others to interoperate with the machine all they need is an appropriate abstraction layer such as NFS or Samba; they don't need to know anything about HFS+, ZFS or any of the other filesystems directly.
Microsoft provides a defrag utility in Windows XP, and Windows 2000, and 98, and 95.
FUD aside, they did this because they pretty much had to. The FAT16 and FAT32 filesystems were (are), not to put too fine a point on it, a godawful piece of crap that desparately needed regular defragging to remain functional. If they're using the same filesystem in Vista, the need won't go away.
I'd like to see the reference about only filling drive to 60-70% max
It might not even be written down any more. Back in the day (here I'm talking about 20 years+ ago) in the mini and mainframe world, this was pretty much a truism that everybody just knew, and many of us sysadmins had to spend quite a lot of time juggling drive usage in order to get the best access rates.
I still try to maintain that amount uf usage on any machine I want to behave sweetly, although I haven't done any formally quantified benchmarks on this for some time.
The first machine I worked on (a Burroughs B3700) had 128K of usable memory, and that was enough, then. OK, all the street lights in the area used to dim when we fired it up, but it was faster in some respects than the non-core-memory machine we replaced it with (a Honeywell DPS7).
I seem to recall that Apple give you a choice of filesystems at install time, one of which they describe as a "Unix filesystem" (presumably UFS). IIRC that supports hard linking, if you like that.
Hmmm. Curious survey results there. Although I don't fall into those categories (my next computer will be built by myself, and it will run Linux as usual) I'm not entirely surprised by a preference for Mac. But the difference there is so big, the immediate suspicion that comes to my mind is that someone has been stacking votes...
I wouldn't count on it. There's a different kind of justice for the rich than for the poor, and Ralsky has had plenty of time to scrape the cream off the top.
This reasoning is absurd - if you are penalised for not having one, then it is not voluntary in any meaningful sense of the word.
Not quite. I am gainfully employed, albeit on a minimum wage. Don't get me wrong, I'm not complaining about that. However, this circumstance being what it is, I do not qualify for any welfare assistance. Hence there's no point in my applying for this card, so I won't. Ergo, it is not compulsory.
The myth has grown up that computers should not need this, even though they are more complex than cars.
Hmmm... I guess you're not a mechanic. A computer with failing components or subsystems will typically make its displeasure manifest by not functioning at all.
A car, however, can be defective in any number of ways and still be driveable. The issue here is how many people one is prepared to kill by doing so. I don't personally know of any cases where viruses/spyware/malware have actually killed or maimed anyone, do you?
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Three weeks?
Be still, my heart.
I've got an old Linux box here that has nearly three years
uptime...
Nevertheless, the old LIGS (Linux Installation and Getting Started) guide is still (although now decidedly dated) a useful guide. The emphasis here is on Linux rather than Unix. There are differences, and in this day and age, probably the majority of Unix (read BSD) heads approach it only after some exposure to Linux.
Three or four years ago, I might have agreed that might be a useful idea. That was about the last time I encountered a real show-stopper of a site that needed a Windows box to do the job (in this case it was an online banking session my sister needed).
But for my own purposes, I've been running alternative browsers exclusively on Linux since 1997 without any major problems. The simple fact is that if web developers make it hard for me to get around their site, I simply leave it and don't come back.
End of story.
Actually, I think they have been pretty much getting the messsage over the last few years; cutting out sections of your market unnecessarily doesn't make good business sense.
Almost; if you run "sudo su" (assuming your sudoers file allows this) then nothing thereafter is logged.
In Japanese.
Maybe.
The reasoning sounds pretty shaky, though - to the extent that I am curious as to who was rash enough to fund it.
It's worth bearing in mind that of all the antibiotics that have been identified, the majority are of fungal origin. And of those which have been examined, only some twenty percent have been deemed sufficiently safe to be used therapeutically. Even some of the accepted ones can be pretty scary; one that comes to mind is vancomycin, a "last resort" antibiotic which in some cases can cause hearing loss and/or kidney failure.
Having said that, a friend of mine let his line rental lapse some months ago, and his ADSL connection hasn't been unplugged yet, so maybe it's worth a go... ;-)
"Flesh Gordon" :-P
Heh... I was going to post a nice little ascii-art picture of a frothing beer-mug, but was foiled by that damn lameness filter... :-)
In the absence of a -1: Idiotic moderation tag, I'll bite.
If your administration is incapable of considering the problem in terms other than those taken straight from Orwell's "1984" then Uncle Sam has got himself in a terrible jam. [A virtual beer to anyone who spots the reference without consulting Google ;-)]
A start would be an acknowledgement that the US is supposed to be a part of the global community, not just an overlord. The overbearing attitude of the US does not engender warm and fuzzy feelings for Americans. It makes the rest of us think you are stupid, arrogant shits and want to wipe that dumb complacent smirk off your face.
Sure, some religiously deranged individuals take that to extremes, but they are not nihilists. Look it up.
In any case, religious derangement might almost be seen as a mitigation for their actions by comparison with some of the religiously-inspired so-called "Christian" idiocies many of us have heard. Religious fervour, however, does not excuse those among the President's associates who are using this so-called "war on terror" as a means to make money by the barrowload.
Of course, you could say the same with just as much accuracy for Emacs or TECO. It's really the rodent-driven editors that slow you down.
^x^c dammit...
Heh... reminds me of a certain major European merchant bank I worked for (name suppressed to protect the guilty) where the source code for a certain portion of their transaction processing software had been lost for at least 10 years before I started work there.
A select few of us had the unenviable task of maintaining it by hacking directly on the binary. It would probably have been quicker in the end to completely re-write it, but we regarded it as a convenient job security tool for dealing with hostile management...
I would concur with the latter; indeed, Data General (back in the days of AOS/VS) used to bundle a version of Teco under the name of SPEED. Its only drawback was that the memory usage was quite heavy - but only at the user's end when trying to remember all those commands. ;-)
But, of course, most people these days tend to forget that Emacs started out as a set of macros for TECO (Tape Editor and COrrector).
I used Mandrake (when it was still called that) for about 4 months in 2001. At the time, I sort of liked it (but with lots of reservations about their scripts and the rpm package system), but having cut my teeth on SLS and subsequently Slackware, I never had the feeling they were very serious about the distribution.
For real quality, IMHO, Slackware is hard to beat for any purpose. I still use it exclusively for all my desktop systems, and for most of my servers.
Err, how?
The only thing that has to access the filesystem directly is the kernel itself. For others to interoperate with the machine all they need is an appropriate abstraction layer such as NFS or Samba; they don't need to know anything about HFS+, ZFS or any of the other filesystems directly.
FUD aside, they did this because they pretty much had to. The FAT16 and FAT32 filesystems were (are), not to put too fine a point on it, a godawful piece of crap that desparately needed regular defragging to remain functional. If they're using the same filesystem in Vista, the need won't go away.
It might not even be written down any more. Back in the day (here I'm talking about 20 years+ ago) in the mini and mainframe world, this was pretty much a truism that everybody just knew, and many of us sysadmins had to spend quite a lot of time juggling drive usage in order to get the best access rates.
I still try to maintain that amount uf usage on any machine I want to behave sweetly, although I haven't done any formally quantified benchmarks on this for some time.
The first machine I worked on (a Burroughs B3700) had 128K of usable memory, and that was enough, then. OK, all the street lights in the area used to dim when we fired it up, but it was faster in some respects than the non-core-memory machine we replaced it with (a Honeywell DPS7).
I seem to recall that Apple give you a choice of filesystems at install time, one of which they describe as a "Unix filesystem" (presumably UFS). IIRC that supports hard linking, if you like that.
Hmmm. Curious survey results there. Although I don't fall into those categories (my next computer will be built by myself, and it will run Linux as usual) I'm not entirely surprised by a preference for Mac. But the difference there is so big, the immediate suspicion that comes to my mind is that someone has been stacking votes...
He'll probably be a free man within weeks.
I think you're forgetting that it was all paid for by the US taxpayer. Of course, politicians forget that too, but that's what you pay them for... :-{
Seems to me as if you're all talking about making it hard for yourselves. Why not simply take the opportunity to ditch Windows altogether?
Not quite. I am gainfully employed, albeit on a minimum wage. Don't get me wrong, I'm not complaining about that. However, this circumstance being what it is, I do not qualify for any welfare assistance. Hence there's no point in my applying for this card, so I won't. Ergo, it is not compulsory.
Q.E.D.
Hmmm... I guess you're not a mechanic. A computer with failing components or subsystems will typically make its displeasure manifest by not functioning at all.
A car, however, can be defective in any number of ways and still be driveable. The issue here is how many people one is prepared to kill by doing so. I don't personally know of any cases where viruses/spyware/malware have actually killed or maimed anyone, do you?