I'm sitting on the train, on my way work. In front of me sit a guy and a girl, the guy is complaining about how the job market sucks. He just can't find a job doing anything other than cleaning toilets. He's "got skills that no one seems to care about" and he's "really wasting his talents" swinging a mop.
Now, I'm not sure what his talents and skills are. What I do know is he's got 6 piercings in his face and about 8 in his ears. He has a tattoo on his neck that appears to be a gangsta with a pistol. Underneath the cartoon thug it says, "4-LIFE".
Wow. I am absolutely stunned that this type of discrimination is going on! I have no problem whatsoever with someone like this serving my fries, cutting my lawn or picking up my garbage.
This is outrageous that this fine young man can't make a go in this world!
Folks. Sometimes you can't make your own rules. I know you are smarter than the rest of the world. I know your personal sense of style and individuality is what everyone should embrace and hearld. But we don't. You look like a fucking jackass. Is it a coincidence that the prison yard is a ocean of inked skin? Is it?
The 30 Mb Video Stream is intense! Wow. This really is a spectacutar sight to see. I wish that paint drying cam from last week was on a fast connection like this!
absolutely stunning... you guys have got to see this thing!
Have never had trouble with any of the commercial or GPL apps on Redhat or even FC3.
Stick with what works, you'll be better off. We had some Debian boxes when an old pro-Debian admin was still around. The commercial stuff we relied upon had trouble with the D.
It's interesting that the looney left will often accuse the right of fearmongering in order to push an agenda. However, every time you turn around these eackjobs protest anything and everything no matter how weak their "proof" is. They are afraid of EVERYTHING except the obvious.
I can only hope that when we have finally developed nano-machines someone can figure out how to create one to eradicate the earth of these foil hatters.
>I would have used the linux box but it has been busy running a similar PAR for about 2.5 days now. Identical machines, same software, one crashes, the other just carries on working...
You are a software engineer and you say that it's the same software?
Wow. First time I've seen an identical build run on both XP And OSX.. That's amazing. If it's the same software line for line, I'll buy you a truckload of 30" LCD's
Thanks actually for the link to the ftp ap. I paid for Transmit 3.x and I have not been able to find anything like it that's free.
I stand by the rest of my post.
I've been running XP Pro for three years on the machine that is used for video and audio editing. I've never seen a BSOD or any type of spaz out except when I'm using Quicktime(!!!). The only time I've know XP to randomly freak out is when it's running on complete crap hardware (EMachines eg.) and when folks use the generic ram. The system is running constantly and never turned off. Occasionally rebooted to reset the External Canopus ADCV300 which is somewhat flakey. Apple has a tighter control on the hardware which causes less OS panics.
1) There are people who respond to this article who keep referring to a Blue Screen Of Death. I haven't seen one of these in about 5 years. This either means that a) the people referring to the BSOD because it's a much talked about windows occurance that was a feature on an OS that is at least 6-7 years old and don't realize that it just doesn't happen on the newer OS's becuase they are a) lying mac fanbois or b) they are using really old windows software and are stupid.
2) People are assuming that since a seemingly impartial source is pulling a number out of their ass, it must be accurate.
3) People actually think that the MAC is impervious to virii and malware. Anyone ever take a root kit and run it on the mac? Works quite nicely. I've never seen a virus for the PC as powerful as a r00tkit for *nix. Someone with a little programming experience and the ability to execute a script can write a virus for the mac. Quite easily. Mac folks, you day is coming. Enjoy it while it lasts.
4) People don't seem to understand that Windows is no Mac is no Linux. They are not interchangable. I have a Mac and I have a Windows Box. I love OSX. I love the look and the feel. What I don't love is the amazing lack of software to do anything that interest me that I Can't already do on an XP box. Outside of Photoshop and Final Cut, the 64 Bit Opteron beats the crap out of the G5 hands down for abou half the price. I'm still looking for a FREE Ftp program for my MAC other than the command line. WTF people?
5) I appreciate that people are idealistic and are willing to make decisions based on some screwy ideal they have about what they think makes a better world, OS, et al. But being idealistic doesn't mean that you are automatically right and in a better place morally. In most cases, you are just a simple minded ecentric that people don't understand and therefore are given the street cred that you are "edgy", "cutting edge" and "visionary". It's one reason most folks group MAC users in with the Vegans, Goths, and Envrio-freaks. Face it, you're just a little wacky and think you can actually change the world with a rhyme and a different point of view. You can't. Just deal with it.
I never really understood it before! Electronics have a tendency to get smaller over time. The whole goal is to make things smaller and more powerful.
However, if you notice, Apple is the only company that is ever "emulated", "copied", or as this screwy teaser states, "aped"?! wtf is that?
You never see, the "Moto Razr Clone", or a comparison to any other manufacturer when one company finally catches up and comes up with the trends or the norm. Why is this?
If you are a mac fanboi you might make some self serving fanboi comment like, "Well Apple creates a successful line of product and the others copy it!." Well. I would argue that either Dell or Gateway (can't remember which) actually had the computer in an LCD package before the half globe imacs were ever rumoured to be released. Apple didn;t copy Dell or Gateway, that was the trend and a natural progression. Make computers take up less space.
Interestingly the media completely ignores anything remotely interesting unless Apple has it's name attached.
Wonder why? Because alot of "media types" who consider themselves above the fray use Mac's. People have a natural tendency to rally around their own flag.
Remember the good old days when creating extensions to specs (MS) used to bring the wrath of the world. It's ok now hoever because Mozilla has done it!
I think this is a great story, and I'd like to take this as a good indication that Open Source is being accepted more, HOWEVER....
I think it might actually be a disservice to students who may lose out on being trained on an operating system that, let's face it, is used by what, 95%+ of the desktops in business.
Learning, and I mean REALLY learning Excel is nearly invaluable. I had no idea what it could actually do until the business types started sending these excel sheets out during projects. At work my machine is Linux, at home it's dual boot. I spend most of my time in Linux but there are just too many instances where I have to boot into XP to really get shit done.
You obviously don't understand that we eco-freaks who so arrogantly tell the rest of you nature hating meat eating breeders that you have no right to take advantage of nature, have this mother-earth granted ability to declare the Red Cocked Fruit Faced Ass Warbler to be extinct because we just haven't seen it lately on walk about. Geez..
You whining lazy fucktard. Being an admin is not always easy. But there are more tools at your disposal than you can shake a stick at to make it easier.
I'll come in to your obviously backwards organization and within a week or two have all your windows machines locked down, virus free, firewalled off, spyware free and user proof..
Just be a fucking admin for christs sake. Don't go and "upgrade" (ha). You obviously must be a business that doesn't really do much business stuff. Getting industrial grade business software on the mac is a joke.
I've been trying to explain to the feds for months now that the SS#'s and personal info that I stole and subsequently used to open credit card accounts, buy cars and hit the roulette wheel was simply my way to show how easy it was go obtain that information and use it in a negative way.
BTW. Be careful. Not all supa-dope-hot escorts in Vegas are what they seem! She WAS hot for a cop though.
Great. Now when client call with complaints that data is either being corrupted via contact form or I can honestly look them in the eye and say, "It's the users fault!"
Sorry. I was using "PC" like all software manufacturers do. "PC" or "MAC" to denote what their software is compatible with. I know "PC" is a general term that applies to everything that is not a mainframe or supercomputer.
Ok. I know this might be something you never actually thought of before. You know, being blinded by the whole "M$ SuX0rs y0!" thing you've got going. It sometimes gets in the way of the obvious.
MOST EDUCATIONAL SOFTWARE IS PC BASED. Yes. You can use open office. I think it's a great ap. Firefox for the browser. But occasionally other software is being used, especially in the lower grades. This software is not available for *nix.
If you really want to help the Open Source movement, write some good educational software and release it.
Ok. Go back to hating Microsoft now and do nothing to actually help spread the gospel of open source.
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I'm sitting on the train, on my way work. In front of me sit a guy and a girl, the guy is complaining about how the job market sucks. He just can't find a job doing anything other than cleaning toilets. He's "got skills that no one seems to care about" and he's "really wasting his talents" swinging a mop.
Now, I'm not sure what his talents and skills are. What I do know is he's got 6 piercings in his face and about 8 in his ears. He has a tattoo on his neck that appears to be a gangsta with a pistol. Underneath the cartoon thug it says, "4-LIFE".
Wow. I am absolutely stunned that this type of discrimination is going on! I have no problem whatsoever with someone like this serving my fries, cutting my lawn or picking up my garbage.
This is outrageous that this fine young man can't make a go in this world!
Folks. Sometimes you can't make your own rules. I know you are smarter than the rest of the world. I know your personal sense of style and individuality is what everyone should embrace and hearld. But we don't. You look like a fucking jackass. Is it a coincidence that the prison yard is a ocean of inked skin? Is it?
The 30 Mb Video Stream is intense! Wow. This really is a spectacutar sight to see. I wish that paint drying cam from last week was on a fast connection like this!
absolutely stunning... you guys have got to see this thing!
Heard the hype, tried it, quickly dumped it.
Have never had trouble with any of the commercial or GPL apps on Redhat or even FC3.
Stick with what works, you'll be better off. We had some Debian boxes when an old pro-Debian admin was still around. The commercial stuff we relied upon had trouble with the D.
It's interesting that the looney left will often accuse the right of fearmongering in order to push an agenda. However, every time you turn around these eackjobs protest anything and everything no matter how weak their "proof" is. They are afraid of EVERYTHING except the obvious.
I can only hope that when we have finally developed nano-machines someone can figure out how to create one to eradicate the earth of these foil hatters.
Three letters. P-G-P
Crack my 4096 bit key, go ahead
Food4Less DOES Rock. And it's actually owned by Kroger, so go figure.
Trader Joes is a yuppie place trying to sell itself as a hippie place. Some things are expensive, the two buck chuck however is not. And it's gooood.
>I would have used the linux box but it has been busy running a similar PAR for about 2.5 days now. Identical machines, same software, one crashes, the other just carries on working...
You are a software engineer and you say that it's the same software?
Wow. First time I've seen an identical build run on both XP And OSX.. That's amazing. If it's the same software line for line, I'll buy you a truckload of 30" LCD's
Thanks actually for the link to the ftp ap. I paid for Transmit 3.x and I have not been able to find anything like it that's free.
I stand by the rest of my post.
I've been running XP Pro for three years on the machine that is used for video and audio editing. I've never seen a BSOD or any type of spaz out except when I'm using Quicktime(!!!). The only time I've know XP to randomly freak out is when it's running on complete crap hardware (EMachines eg.) and when folks use the generic ram. The system is running constantly and never turned off. Occasionally rebooted to reset the External Canopus ADCV300 which is somewhat flakey. Apple has a tighter control on the hardware which causes less OS panics.
1) There are people who respond to this article who keep referring to a Blue Screen Of Death. I haven't seen one of these in about 5 years. This either means that a) the people referring to the BSOD because it's a much talked about windows occurance that was a feature on an OS that is at least 6-7 years old and don't realize that it just doesn't happen on the newer OS's becuase they are a) lying mac fanbois or b) they are using really old windows software and are stupid.
2) People are assuming that since a seemingly impartial source is pulling a number out of their ass, it must be accurate.
3) People actually think that the MAC is impervious to virii and malware. Anyone ever take a root kit and run it on the mac? Works quite nicely. I've never seen a virus for the PC as powerful as a r00tkit for *nix. Someone with a little programming experience and the ability to execute a script can write a virus for the mac. Quite easily. Mac folks, you day is coming. Enjoy it while it lasts.
4) People don't seem to understand that Windows is no Mac is no Linux. They are not interchangable. I have a Mac and I have a Windows Box. I love OSX. I love the look and the feel. What I don't love is the amazing lack of software to do anything that interest me that I Can't already do on an XP box. Outside of Photoshop and Final Cut, the 64 Bit Opteron beats the crap out of the G5 hands down for abou half the price. I'm still looking for a FREE Ftp program for my MAC other than the command line. WTF people?
5) I appreciate that people are idealistic and are willing to make decisions based on some screwy ideal they have about what they think makes a better world, OS, et al. But being idealistic doesn't mean that you are automatically right and in a better place morally. In most cases, you are just a simple minded ecentric that people don't understand and therefore are given the street cred that you are "edgy", "cutting edge" and "visionary". It's one reason most folks group MAC users in with the Vegans, Goths, and Envrio-freaks. Face it, you're just a little wacky and think you can actually change the world with a rhyme and a different point of view. You can't. Just deal with it.
I never really understood it before! Electronics have a tendency to get smaller over time. The whole goal is to make things smaller and more powerful.
However, if you notice, Apple is the only company that is ever "emulated", "copied", or as this screwy teaser states, "aped"?! wtf is that?
You never see, the "Moto Razr Clone", or a comparison to any other manufacturer when one company finally catches up and comes up with the trends or the norm. Why is this?
If you are a mac fanboi you might make some self serving fanboi comment like, "Well Apple creates a successful line of product and the others copy it!." Well. I would argue that either Dell or Gateway (can't remember which) actually had the computer in an LCD package before the half globe imacs were ever rumoured to be released. Apple didn;t copy Dell or Gateway, that was the trend and a natural progression. Make computers take up less space.
Interestingly the media completely ignores anything remotely interesting unless Apple has it's name attached.
Wonder why? Because alot of "media types" who consider themselves above the fray use Mac's. People have a natural tendency to rally around their own flag.
Nothing to see here really.
Yea. I know several people who are otherwise considered smart, even though they are democrats.
Odd isn't it.
Remember the good old days when creating extensions to specs (MS) used to bring the wrath of the world. It's ok now hoever because Mozilla has done it!
hmmm. Because safari sucks balls. I use the 'fox on the mac.
Folks, the score is Team A 95, Team B 3. It looks like Team B is poised to finally beat Team A. What a game! What a game!
I first used ARexx which was Amigas port(?) or possibly a rename(?)
It was awesome for programming games used in BBS systems or for even writing a BBS.
I loved it.
I think this is a great story, and I'd like to take this as a good indication that Open Source is being accepted more, HOWEVER....
I think it might actually be a disservice to students who may lose out on being trained on an operating system that, let's face it, is used by what, 95%+ of the desktops in business.
Learning, and I mean REALLY learning Excel is nearly invaluable. I had no idea what it could actually do until the business types started sending these excel sheets out during projects. At work my machine is Linux, at home it's dual boot. I spend most of my time in Linux but there are just too many instances where I have to boot into XP to really get shit done.
Simian,
You obviously don't understand that we eco-freaks who so arrogantly tell the rest of you nature hating meat eating breeders that you have no right to take advantage of nature, have this mother-earth granted ability to declare the Red Cocked Fruit Faced Ass Warbler to be extinct because we just haven't seen it lately on walk about. Geez..
You whining lazy fucktard. Being an admin is not always easy. But there are more tools at your disposal than you can shake a stick at to make it easier.
I'll come in to your obviously backwards organization and within a week or two have all your windows machines locked down, virus free, firewalled off, spyware free and user proof..
Just be a fucking admin for christs sake. Don't go and "upgrade" (ha). You obviously must be a business that doesn't really do much business stuff. Getting industrial grade business software on the mac is a joke.
I've been trying to explain to the feds for months now that the SS#'s and personal info that I stole and subsequently used to open credit card accounts, buy cars and hit the roulette wheel was simply my way to show how easy it was go obtain that information and use it in a negative way.
BTW. Be careful. Not all supa-dope-hot escorts in Vegas are what they seem! She WAS hot for a cop though.
Great. Now when client call with complaints that data is either being corrupted via contact form or I can honestly look them in the eye and say, "It's the users fault!"
Sorry. I was using "PC" like all software manufacturers do. "PC" or "MAC" to denote what their software is compatible with. I know "PC" is a general term that applies to everything that is not a mainframe or supercomputer.
Ok. I know this might be something you never actually thought of before. You know, being blinded by the whole "M$ SuX0rs y0!" thing you've got going. It sometimes gets in the way of the obvious.
MOST EDUCATIONAL SOFTWARE IS PC BASED. Yes. You can use open office. I think it's a great ap. Firefox for the browser. But occasionally other software is being used, especially in the lower grades. This software is not available for *nix.
If you really want to help the Open Source movement, write some good educational software and release it.
Ok. Go back to hating Microsoft now and do nothing to actually help spread the gospel of open source.
::Huge deficits
:: imaginary dragons
:: a new mecca for terrorism
:: erosion of freedom
Mainly moral deficits
Those two "dragons" that flew into the WTC you mean?
Well at least you've pegged which religion is spawing the terrorists.
Now this is your true "imaginary dragon". Take off the tin foil hat and take your meds.