Sudo doesn't really make anything safer, it just makes one's commands trackable. But if you fuck something up, you'll usually know well before before someone checks the system messages file in any case. Or if you don't, you probably have no business being a sysadmin.
Incidentally, if a Unix vet has sufficient grey hairs in his ample beard, he won't bother with that new-fangled vi(m) either, let alone emacs or pico. He will use the One True Editor. Emacs was originally built as a suite of macros for this, but I never really got to grips with emacs. The only drawback to TECO was the memory usage involved in remembering all those cryptic commands. However, it was, and is the most powerful and scriptable text (originally tape) editor ever created.
Back in the early '90s many of us were still using TECO (rebadged as "SPEED" on Data General mini/mainframes) for quick-and-dirty-but-so-fast-it-became-permanent batch processing of job control CLI files.
We have more interesting things to do, like see how long we can keep a Slashdot thread going...
I'm not sure that has anything to do with Unix veterans - more likely, someone who just has too much time on his hands. Incidentally, I have been told (by some AC who had succeeded in provoking me into a very silly argument spanning some 10 days, ending up with both of us in total harmonious agreement) that Slashdot caps such exchanges at 2 weeks.
That incongruous image crossed my mind too. (For the Merkins around here, suspenders are what some ladies use to keep their stockings up.)
Incidentally, the earlier remark about neck beards is just silly. If a Unix admin wants to shave, he'll shave. Otherwise he'll just let his beard grow in its naturally unkempt (and occasionally scraggly) form.
Yes, but the submission says Space might not be the best place to have sex.
I'm inclined (from my imaginative perspective) to disagree. I don't personally give a damn about procreation (and my wife and I are well past our optimum time for that in any case), but zero-G sex sounds like great fun to me.
Same here. Our mutual proposal (such as it was) went along the lines of "yeah, it might be a way to spend an afternoon. Are we going to invite the parents?".
Whatever works - we've been together for 25 years, and married for 21.
The BOFH usually ends up getting his ass kicked in one way or another. It can be very tempting to abuse power - and I have to confess to having been a little capricious myself at times back in the days when I was an operator on a certain mainframe site, when asshat branch managers routinely dumped shit in my general direction while I was trying to get my job done.
But my point is that the BOFH or sysadmin has to retain a certain level of integrity. If you leave your job (even if you are "asked" to leave) you don't go dropping timebombs on your ex-employer if you ever want to get hired again. There is sometimes an expectation that the sysadmin can't be trusted, but the reality is that most are perfectly capable of appreciating the simple reality that it is in their own best interests to not shit in their own nests.
Perhaps a bit of perspective is called for here. We're not sending Triffids or Daleks to Mars anytine soon.
The kind of bitty little laser they're talking about is unlkely to "hurt" anything bigger than a few cells of mould or bacteria. If you're seriously expecting them to come back to bite us on the ass, you're in for a long wait.
You have to start somewhere, since Nero signally failed to exterminate the fathers of the Roman church. Sometimes if you want something done right, you have to do it yourself, but it helps if you're born in the right era.
No mention whatsoever was mentioned of your non-existent lord. Unless of course he too goes around sodomising kids etc. In which case your lord deserves to get his ass kicked.
I think how Android updates get held back is shameful... Besides fragmenting the community it also leaves gaping security holes open.
Agreed. The only upside is for the telcos: it gives them lots and lots of time to think of more crapware to load on your phone. That in itself is the single best reason to root your phone.
But some of us might be stuck when it comes to Gingerbread anyway, as (I'm told) it requires more RAM than a lot of older (and some new) devices offer. I suspect I'm in that boat with my Sony/Ericsson Xperia X10 Mini Pro. However, none of the alternatives afford that sort of compact form factor (a big plus for me), so I will remain content to lie in the bed that I made.
Yes, tablets have less capability and have a different form factor than laptops
Of course, the different form factor is what makes it a tablet rather than a laptop.;-) My only grizzle is that nobody seems inclined to put a laptop's capabilities into a non-clunky tablet. I don't need it to be super-fast, just usable for the same tasks. I'm not comfortable with Apple's concept of a device designed to run only whatever content Apple sells - one thing at a time, just like in the old DOS days.
Nor am I happy with it running Android, though I am comfortable with my phone doing so. I don't expect that much of my phone, but the bigger device should allow more and better capabilities, not just the same software rattling around in a bigger box.
I am hardly new here, and I am well accustomed to the notion that the average/. reader has the attention span of a flea, but could we at least make some token attempt to stay on topic?
What is amazing is if we disconnect the net those things go down anyway.
Probably not. That is a tool you can only wield once, and for a limited amount of time. Those of us in the world outside the US will see this action as an act of terrorism in itself, and will take steps to work around it. From that point, the relevance of the US will be non-existent.
I'm not so sure that I agree. Any units are an artifact of customary usage and agreement (which is why fuel efficiency is always measured in terms of hogsheads to the furlong).
Making a set of units circularly dependent on each other does nothing to impair its practical usefulness. In fact it does the opposite: it reinforces the set as a self-defined and consistent system. Saying a kilogram weighs (OK, is just as massive) as this packet of play-doh is as good a starting point as any, so long as everybody agrees to such an arbitrary measure. And apparently, by accepting the mass of a specific lump of iridium, held under lock and key in a basement far away, we are doing just that.
Until one day measurements of some toxic substance/medicinal drug/anything requiring milligram measurement start being significantly lighter/heavier than they should be in the given sample.
Cause we're not talking homeopathy here.
I should hope hope not. Homeopathy isn't far removed from voodoo.
But ultimately, how often is the original standard ever retrieved from its glass case? If the answer is "never, except to clean it", then the standard itself is meaningless. The kilogram essentially "weighs" as much as everybody agrees it does, and in that sense behaves exactly like a form of currency.
"Facebook never tells you they declined the request."
A simple solution here would be to include a refusal field, allowing messages like "Fuck off you sleazy creep, how about you try hitting on someone else".
"Narcissistic personality disorder (NPD) is a personality disorder."
It quite possibly is, but that doesn't really tell us anything meaningful or useful. The trouble with the psychology/psychiatry disciplines is that they have a tendency to trap their patients/victims in an endless loop of self-doubt from which they rarely escape, while practitioners' theories seem to mutate from year to year without any very solid evidence.
Getting back to the point, though:
The simple fact is that people haven't changed since before the internet became available. If someone crosses you out of their address book, it means that they have grown out of you, or been left behind by you, or that you have pissed them off, or that you're nothing but a sad git who doesn't have the courage to face the fact that you're past your youth, or any of a host of other reasons. The important things are to stand tall and know who your real friends are. And I can guarantee you won't have 5,000 of them.
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Sudo doesn't really make anything safer, it just makes one's commands trackable. But if you fuck something up, you'll usually know well before before someone checks the system messages file in any case. Or if you don't, you probably have no business being a sysadmin.
That's why you comment your work
[sigh] The real programmer doesn't need comments. The intent of the code should be obvious.
Incidentally, if a Unix vet has sufficient grey hairs in his ample beard, he won't bother with that new-fangled vi(m) either, let alone emacs or pico. He will use the One True Editor. Emacs was originally built as a suite of macros for this, but I never really got to grips with emacs. The only drawback to TECO was the memory usage involved in remembering all those cryptic commands. However, it was, and is the most powerful and scriptable text (originally tape) editor ever created.
Back in the early '90s many of us were still using TECO (rebadged as "SPEED" on Data General mini/mainframes) for quick-and-dirty-but-so-fast-it-became-permanent batch processing of job control CLI files.
We have more interesting things to do, like see how long we can keep a Slashdot thread going...
I'm not sure that has anything to do with Unix veterans - more likely, someone who just has too much time on his hands. Incidentally, I have been told (by some AC who had succeeded in provoking me into a very silly argument spanning some 10 days, ending up with both of us in total harmonious agreement) that Slashdot caps such exchanges at 2 weeks.
That incongruous image crossed my mind too. (For the Merkins around here, suspenders are what some ladies use to keep their stockings up.)
Incidentally, the earlier remark about neck beards is just silly. If a Unix admin wants to shave, he'll shave. Otherwise he'll just let his beard grow in its naturally unkempt (and occasionally scraggly) form.
Yes, but the submission says Space might not be the best place to have sex.
I'm inclined (from my imaginative perspective) to disagree. I don't personally give a damn about procreation (and my wife and I are well past our optimum time for that in any case), but zero-G sex sounds like great fun to me.
... and (OMG) Facebook and (OMG) Twitter would stop working.
I wonder if these people would like any help. I have a couple of machines I could install XP on for that purpose...
Of course, on an even sadder note, there's also that rather ugly case of the dive honeymoon that happened off Australia not so long ago.
Romance died by strangulation..
Same here. Our mutual proposal (such as it was) went along the lines of "yeah, it might be a way to spend an afternoon. Are we going to invite the parents?".
Whatever works - we've been together for 25 years, and married for 21.
BAs? I thought a BA was a Bearded Anthropologist, but I don't see how that connects...
The BOFH usually ends up getting his ass kicked in one way or another. It can be very tempting to abuse power - and I have to confess to having been a little capricious myself at times back in the days when I was an operator on a certain mainframe site, when asshat branch managers routinely dumped shit in my general direction while I was trying to get my job done.
But my point is that the BOFH or sysadmin has to retain a certain level of integrity. If you leave your job (even if you are "asked" to leave) you don't go dropping timebombs on your ex-employer if you ever want to get hired again. There is sometimes an expectation that the sysadmin can't be trusted, but the reality is that most are perfectly capable of appreciating the simple reality that it is in their own best interests to not shit in their own nests.
Perhaps a bit of perspective is called for here. We're not sending Triffids or Daleks to Mars anytine soon.
The kind of bitty little laser they're talking about is unlkely to "hurt" anything bigger than a few cells of mould or bacteria. If you're seriously expecting them to come back to bite us on the ass, you're in for a long wait.
I wonder how much power this drains. One can only hope they use a better battery than the one in my phone. :-/
You have to start somewhere, since Nero signally failed to exterminate the fathers of the Roman church. Sometimes if you want something done right, you have to do it yourself, but it helps if you're born in the right era.
Taking the Lord's name in vain: Priceless.
No mention whatsoever was mentioned of your non-existent lord. Unless of course he too goes around sodomising kids etc. In which case your lord deserves to get his ass kicked.
I think how Android updates get held back is shameful... Besides fragmenting the community it also leaves gaping security holes open.
Agreed. The only upside is for the telcos: it gives them lots and lots of time to think of more crapware to load on your phone. That in itself is the single best reason to root your phone.
But some of us might be stuck when it comes to Gingerbread anyway, as (I'm told) it requires more RAM than a lot of older (and some new) devices offer. I suspect I'm in that boat with my Sony/Ericsson Xperia X10 Mini Pro. However, none of the alternatives afford that sort of compact form factor (a big plus for me), so I will remain content to lie in the bed that I made.
Yes, tablets have less capability and have a different form factor than laptops
Of course, the different form factor is what makes it a tablet rather than a laptop. ;-) My only grizzle is that nobody seems inclined to put a laptop's capabilities into a non-clunky tablet. I don't need it to be super-fast, just usable for the same tasks. I'm not comfortable with Apple's concept of a device designed to run only whatever content Apple sells - one thing at a time, just like in the old DOS days.
Nor am I happy with it running Android, though I am comfortable with my phone doing so. I don't expect that much of my phone, but the bigger device should allow more and better capabilities, not just the same software rattling around in a bigger box.
I am hardly new here, and I am well accustomed to the notion that the average /. reader has the attention span of a flea, but could we at least make some token attempt to stay on topic?
Android isn't a particularly good example a they made their own fork and aren't contributing anything back.
Sad but true. But I guess none of us should be surprised at the presence and actions of freeloaders.
enough to lift a human weighing up to 150 kilos.
That is one fucking big human that has no business being in the air.
What is amazing is if we disconnect the net those things go down anyway.
Probably not. That is a tool you can only wield once, and for a limited amount of time. Those of us in the world outside the US will see this action as an act of terrorism in itself, and will take steps to work around it. From that point, the relevance of the US will be non-existent.
No showable beginning? No standard.
I'm not so sure that I agree. Any units are an artifact of customary usage and agreement (which is why fuel efficiency is always measured in terms of hogsheads to the furlong).
Making a set of units circularly dependent on each other does nothing to impair its practical usefulness. In fact it does the opposite: it reinforces the set as a self-defined and consistent system. Saying a kilogram weighs (OK, is just as massive) as this packet of play-doh is as good a starting point as any, so long as everybody agrees to such an arbitrary measure. And apparently, by accepting the mass of a specific lump of iridium, held under lock and key in a basement far away, we are doing just that.
Until one day measurements of some toxic substance/medicinal drug/anything requiring milligram measurement start being significantly lighter/heavier than they should be in the given sample. Cause we're not talking homeopathy here.
I should hope hope not. Homeopathy isn't far removed from voodoo.
But ultimately, how often is the original standard ever retrieved from its glass case? If the answer is "never, except to clean it", then the standard itself is meaningless. The kilogram essentially "weighs" as much as everybody agrees it does, and in that sense behaves exactly like a form of currency.
"Facebook never tells you they declined the request."
A simple solution here would be to include a refusal field, allowing messages like "Fuck off you sleazy creep, how about you try hitting on someone else".
"Narcissistic personality disorder (NPD) is a personality disorder."
It quite possibly is, but that doesn't really tell us anything meaningful or useful. The trouble with the psychology/psychiatry disciplines is that they have a tendency to trap their patients/victims in an endless loop of self-doubt from which they rarely escape, while practitioners' theories seem to mutate from year to year without any very solid evidence.
Getting back to the point, though:
The simple fact is that people haven't changed since before the internet became available. If someone crosses you out of their address book, it means that they have grown out of you, or been left behind by you, or that you have pissed them off, or that you're nothing but a sad git who doesn't have the courage to face the fact that you're past your youth, or any of a host of other reasons. The important things are to stand tall and know who your real friends are. And I can guarantee you won't have 5,000 of them.