, an old version around the Dos 3 days. My dad used to bring it home from work and sometimes let me play on it before we got a pc (we had a commodore 128 at the time).
I was a young n00b and whilst in a directory typed "del..". Whoops, there goes the parent directory (which was c:\).
Boy was I worried, turned out there was nothing important on the system anyway and that it simply had to be re-imaged.
Ah, I have fond memories of that old laptop, must have waid as much as I did back then (and the fan was louder than the one on my athlon;o) I must say that I'm glad del.. was disabled in later versions of DOS.
...Plesk, Ensim and our own in-house system. We're going to phase out ensim because
It's a real bitch to upgrade packages on the server from the distro supplier - most packages will break ensim
You have to wait for their updates (for instance we had to manually fix sendmail until they deigned to release a patch weeks later to fix a remote execution flaw)
It costs too much for what you really get, since hosting is becoming increasingly commoditised getting margins down is important.
It's nowhere near the most user-friendly of the available offerings
Counter to this, we also run Plesk 6 on and absolutely love it. I can upgrade Apache, PHP and MySQL RPM's without fear of breaking plesk (just have to remove the ssl reserved word in mysql 4+ and then compile the srpm).
It also looks a lot nicer than ensim and our clients seem to find the interface much easier.
...has a coating like this to stop animal rights protesters/random activist students from daubing their tags/anti testing messages on the side of the building. IIRC it doesn't stop grafitti going on, just makes sure it comes off with water.
...these kids with the riced out neon take part in street races which can lead to the death of themselves and/or innocent bystanders.
There was a case in Birmingham a few years ago when two guys racing down a city street plowed into a queue of people outside a nightclub (Dome 2) killing four of them.
...it's a stock photo from one of the thousands of different image corpi, so probably some no-name part-time model who also does the sears catalogue every now and then.
Microsoft, on the other hand, would probably have a nightmare on their hands as I suspect they've not taken any consideration for endianness
In theory, not so. You see, Windows NT was designed from the ground up to run on mulitple architectures aided by the Hardware Abstraction Layer (HAL), that's how they did all those ports of windows with a much smaller team than they have now...all they had to do was write the subsystem for a particular chip and wham, windows runs.
I don't know what's happened to the HAL since NT 4, but I would expect it's still a big part of XP, even Microsoft isn't dumb enough to tie themselves into one architecture, what if Intel and AMD both go bust (yeah, I know, not likely, but stranger things have happened)?
...I've got a modicum of common sense and can make out what the gist of it is, however, a lot of people glaze over/don't understand/can't be bothered to understand due to verbosity, that was the point I was trying (badly) to make.
I might think that programmers make code needlessly complex so that the average person can't understand them
The difference is that the average person will probably never have to look at source code, whereas they will probably click through hundreds of EULA's if they ever own a computer.
...I reckong they're written that way to pad the pockets of as many lawyers as possible. You need a lawyer to write one and you nearly need a lawyer/law degree to understand one.
They're also written that way so that people just blank out and click next without knowing what draconian terms they are agreeing to.
...we've got a few clients who host with rackspace, but after this we've recommended that they find another provider.
Rackspace have come out of this with egg on their faces and I seriously hope that it hurts their business big-time. I also hope that they will be compensating indymedia and all the other sites hosted on those servers for the lost time, aggrivation and general shittyness of the whole thing.
you tell them you want postgresql or you'll move to another host who costs the same, probably co-los in the same datacentre and offers the features you require.
I've even seen free hosting deals with postgresql on.
your company produces a product that somehow incorporates/depens on MySQL, in which case you want it for all developers, but not anyone else. Brilliant, set that up in AD and your set, the devs have MySQL on ANY terminal they use whilst those people who aren't in the dev group are blissfully unaware it even exists.
all you have to do is enter your smtp server in the php.ini file and you can send mail fine. Personally, I use phpmailer as it gives you lots more features.
...that they can pull out and cross license/threaten Kodak in court with too?
I remember a few months ago Kodak taking Sony to court over digital photography, at which point Sony said something like "Sure, but we've got twice as many patents as you and you're infringing a whole bunch of them".
Kodak used to make some decent products (their old cine cameras were damn nice), now they're nothing more than a shell company selling re-badged third-world manufactured crap and trying to hustle real companies for money, oh how the mighty hath fallen.
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...as CCNE's and the like.
using WINE (or crossover probably so they get support).
, an old version around the Dos 3 days. My dad used to bring it home from work and sometimes let me play on it before we got a pc (we had a commodore 128 at the time).
..". Whoops, there goes the parent directory (which was c:\).
;o) I must say that I'm glad del .. was disabled in later versions of DOS.
I was a young n00b and whilst in a directory typed "del
Boy was I worried, turned out there was nothing important on the system anyway and that it simply had to be re-imaged.
Ah, I have fond memories of that old laptop, must have waid as much as I did back then (and the fan was louder than the one on my athlon
...Plesk, Ensim and our own in-house system. We're going to phase out ensim because
Counter to this, we also run Plesk 6 on and absolutely love it. I can upgrade Apache, PHP and MySQL RPM's without fear of breaking plesk (just have to remove the ssl reserved word in mysql 4+ and then compile the srpm).
It also looks a lot nicer than ensim and our clients seem to find the interface much easier.
...has a coating like this to stop animal rights protesters/random activist students from daubing their tags/anti testing messages on the side of the building. IIRC it doesn't stop grafitti going on, just makes sure it comes off with water.
Hastings.
...these kids with the riced out neon take part in street races which can lead to the death of themselves and/or innocent bystanders.
There was a case in Birmingham a few years ago when two guys racing down a city street plowed into a queue of people outside a nightclub (Dome 2) killing four of them.
...it's a stock photo from one of the thousands of different image corpi, so probably some no-name part-time model who also does the sears catalogue every now and then.
...kicked the bucket in 2002 IIRC.
Microsoft, on the other hand, would probably have a nightmare on their hands as I suspect they've not taken any consideration for endianness
In theory, not so. You see, Windows NT was designed from the ground up to run on mulitple architectures aided by the Hardware Abstraction Layer (HAL), that's how they did all those ports of windows with a much smaller team than they have now...all they had to do was write the subsystem for a particular chip and wham, windows runs.
I don't know what's happened to the HAL since NT 4, but I would expect it's still a big part of XP, even Microsoft isn't dumb enough to tie themselves into one architecture, what if Intel and AMD both go bust (yeah, I know, not likely, but stranger things have happened)?
...I've got a modicum of common sense and can make out what the gist of it is, however, a lot of people glaze over/don't understand/can't be bothered to understand due to verbosity, that was the point I was trying (badly) to make.
I might think that programmers make code needlessly complex so that the average person can't understand them
The difference is that the average person will probably never have to look at source code, whereas they will probably click through hundreds of EULA's if they ever own a computer.
...I reckong they're written that way to pad the pockets of as many lawyers as possible. You need a lawyer to write one and you nearly need a lawyer/law degree to understand one.
They're also written that way so that people just blank out and click next without knowing what draconian terms they are agreeing to.
...we've got a few clients who host with rackspace, but after this we've recommended that they find another provider.
Rackspace have come out of this with egg on their faces and I seriously hope that it hurts their business big-time. I also hope that they will be compensating indymedia and all the other sites hosted on those servers for the lost time, aggrivation and general shittyness of the whole thing.
you tell them you want postgresql or you'll move to another host who costs the same, probably co-los in the same datacentre and offers the features you require.
I've even seen free hosting deals with postgresql on.
your company produces a product that somehow incorporates/depens on MySQL, in which case you want it for all developers, but not anyone else. Brilliant, set that up in AD and your set, the devs have MySQL on ANY terminal they use whilst those people who aren't in the dev group are blissfully unaware it even exists.
Unless they use InnoDB database tables and then, shock horror, they have transactions (and foreign keys).
Check the sourceforge project
...whereas H-264 is rooted in older technology, DCT and the like.
The BBC guys are doing some really neat stuff that is going to be pushing the boundaries of video compression for some time to come.
all you have to do is enter your smtp server in the php.ini file and you can send mail fine. Personally, I use phpmailer as it gives you lots more features.
...do it the BOFH way and arrange for him to have a little, *ahem*, accident in the server room.
...you should never try to extort more from someone than it would cost to have you killed. Lawyers beware ;o)
...if he gives you his root password and ip address he'll have been rooted, moron.
...brainwashed, unable to think for themselves republican. Have fun whilst america goes down the toilet for the next four years.
...that their logo is similar to The Birmingham University Guild of Students logo, heh, whodathunkit.
...that they can pull out and cross license/threaten Kodak in court with too?
I remember a few months ago Kodak taking Sony to court over digital photography, at which point Sony said something like "Sure, but we've got twice as many patents as you and you're infringing a whole bunch of them".
Kodak used to make some decent products (their old cine cameras were damn nice), now they're nothing more than a shell company selling re-badged third-world manufactured crap and trying to hustle real companies for money, oh how the mighty hath fallen.