Earlier today, the FCC and Tom Wheeler finally gave the go-ahead for the merger between Time-Warner cable and Charter Communcations.
The timing of the statement from Youtube is interesting; its a "shot across the bow" (a warning) IMHO directed towards the big content + delivery cartels. And Youtube may in fact win in the long run, just IMHO.
" If this story is accurate, this is more of Microsoft trying to control what should be under your sole command and ownership, and that's not acceptable."
I switched to linux full-time in 1997 (same year I started hanging out here) and this is the EXACT reason why. Their whole business model and philosophy just pissed me off no end when it shows in their products and marketplace behavior. Still going strong with slackware on the desktop, every day.
Similar here. No sports tho, the only reason I haven't cut it yet is because I don't have an antenna/converter box. I only watch chans 2. 3. and 4 anyhow, and that is only on Saturdayafternoons usually. The only reason I pay TimeWarner is for the internet basically.
May I be the first to say YES its about time... its gotten to the point where there is little reason for me to own a conventional TV anymore. This would fit the bill nicely, if they could adhere to the original promise of cable TV (no ads in exchange for subscription fees)
Y'know, that sounds about like when they got started, what with NutScrape dying and freed up the code to become Mozilla/FF. They were even the anti-corporate choice for a while. So yeah, this story feels real familiar.
ISTR my first linux install (1997) was around 150 megs. It grew to 450 megs with XFree86 downloaded from tsx-11@MIT. FWIW my HDD was 500 megs and RAM was 128 megs on a 486DX.
The size and sheer waste of the newer stuff tends to aggravate me; particularly on websites that could easily do the same job with HTML and instead choose to use a wall of javascript by monkeys on crack. Newer distros remind me of that.
Ya, wouldn't that make the marketing companies subject to the HIPAA laws? All of a sudden maybe this doesn't look like such a great opportunity to them, if they can be sued into oblivion.
"The whole controversy could have been avoided if systemd was properly designed as a plug-in component. System starts up under the old init. At some point (after the basic system has been brought up), an rc script or inittab starts systemd (a series of event listeners) to deal with hot-plugging and such. Make sure it doesn't block others from listening."
Just like inetd has been doing since time began. Borrowing a few tricks from years past, there is absolutely no reason why inetd needs to be used *only* for starting inet servers. Inetd can be used to start and manage anything. Most folks just don't get that creative with their systems -- I sure don't! I saw that trick in an O'Reilly book yrs ago.
So, to make your point even stronger, the capability that you speak of has already been around for decades. But nobody actually seems to play with it.
In my case, yes. I have a desktop PC and nothing else. I like it that way, life is already complicated enough without adding onto it. Thank goodness I kept my Rand McNally Atlas. You get the overview of a city and region on one page, and the following pages show the zoomed-in detailed views. The pages are laminated into some kind of waterproof plastic.
Its been well over a decade since those were real problems. That said, I would give you more credibility if you hadn't posted as AC. And FWIW, I've been using Linux as an everyday desktop since 1997. Yes, it actually was a bit harder back then, you had to do some reading and understanding. Nowdays, stick the disc in and reboot.
Oh shit yeah, you too? It actually makes my day to read your posts, coming back after a decade absence but yeah those were the days... I actually went thru the archives and started collecting all the troll posts. I remember posting a new kernel version or something and you would have a 300-comment thread just like you say
I think maybe this is what the situation is -- I can recall easily when the entire discussion thread would be a gem and not just a few posts here and there. Of course, the industry itself was on fire back then, late 90's -early 2000's. And yes even the trolls were better. I saved an entire file full of them for future reference;) IMHO the time when Tom outed APK was the ultimate.
That's a lot of money, full stop. Nothing else needed to be said after that. Where can I get a job like that? I mean since the price of labor is going down and all... This is PROOF that ability and hard work has exactly jack shit to do with compensation or the Majick Fairytale Free Market.
Yeah, but you didn't jack it while wearing an iWatch running Win95. Sometimes people do shit just to see if it can be done. Like cramming a full-blown system into a tiny device.
Maybe if the VM is being used for dev work, but not for a server or a desktop. The way I learned *nix is, if you have to reboot more than 1x or 2x a year, yer doing it wrong.
The specific unspecified behavior is called text logging to stderr which has been around for *decades* aong other trhings. Yeah I suppose I could rewrite ~15 yrs worth of scripts to check for an exit status of 127, but that still doesn't give me a *reason* why it tanked. Which night be real handy for an if-then-else situation. So yes, the point stands.
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Earlier today, the FCC and Tom Wheeler finally gave the go-ahead for the merger between Time-Warner cable and Charter Communcations.
The timing of the statement from Youtube is interesting; its a "shot across the bow" (a warning) IMHO directed towards the big content + delivery cartels. And Youtube may in fact win in the long run, just IMHO.
I switched to linux full-time in 1997 (same year I started hanging out here) and this is the EXACT reason why. Their whole business model and philosophy just pissed me off no end when it shows in their products and marketplace behavior. Still going strong with slackware on the desktop, every day.
Imagine a threesome with Janet Reno and Margaret Thatcher. There, now you need brain-bleach.
Similar here. No sports tho, the only reason I haven't cut it yet is because I don't have an antenna/converter box. I only watch chans 2. 3. and 4 anyhow, and that is only on Saturdayafternoons usually. The only reason I pay TimeWarner is for the internet basically.
May I be the first to say YES its about time... its gotten to the point where there is little reason for me to own a conventional TV anymore. This would fit the bill nicely, if they could adhere to the original promise of cable TV (no ads in exchange for subscription fees)
Y'know, that sounds about like when they got started, what with NutScrape dying and freed up the code to become Mozilla/FF. They were even the anti-corporate choice for a while. So yeah, this story feels real familiar.
ISTR my first linux install (1997) was around 150 megs. It grew to 450 megs with XFree86 downloaded from tsx-11@MIT. FWIW my HDD was 500 megs and RAM was 128 megs on a 486DX.
The size and sheer waste of the newer stuff tends to aggravate me; particularly on websites that could easily do the same job with HTML and instead choose to use a wall of javascript by monkeys on crack. Newer distros remind me of that.
Ya, wouldn't that make the marketing companies subject to the HIPAA laws? All of a sudden maybe this doesn't look like such a great opportunity to them, if they can be sued into oblivion.
"The whole controversy could have been avoided if systemd was properly designed as a plug-in component. System starts up under the old init. At some point (after the basic system has been brought up), an rc script or inittab starts systemd (a series of event listeners) to deal with hot-plugging and such. Make sure it doesn't block others from listening."
Just like inetd has been doing since time began. Borrowing a few tricks from years past, there is absolutely no reason why inetd needs to be used *only* for starting inet servers. Inetd can be used to start and manage anything. Most folks just don't get that creative with their systems -- I sure don't! I saw that trick in an O'Reilly book yrs ago.
So, to make your point even stronger, the capability that you speak of has already been around for decades. But nobody actually seems to play with it.
In my case, yes. I have a desktop PC and nothing else. I like it that way, life is already complicated enough without adding onto it. Thank goodness I kept my Rand McNally Atlas. You get the overview of a city and region on one page, and the following pages show the zoomed-in detailed views. The pages are laminated into some kind of waterproof plastic.
Its been well over a decade since those were real problems. That said, I would give you more credibility if you hadn't posted as AC. And FWIW, I've been using Linux as an everyday desktop since 1997. Yes, it actually was a bit harder back then, you had to do some reading and understanding. Nowdays, stick the disc in and reboot.
Oh shit yeah, you too? It actually makes my day to read your posts, coming back after a decade absence but yeah those were the days... I actually went thru the archives and started collecting all the troll posts. I remember posting a new kernel version or something and you would have a 300-comment thread just like you say
I think maybe this is what the situation is -- I can recall easily when the entire discussion thread would be a gem and not just a few posts here and there. Of course, the industry itself was on fire back then, late 90's -early 2000's. And yes even the trolls were better. I saved an entire file full of them for future reference ;) IMHO the time when Tom outed APK was the ultimate.
Maybe they ran out of disk space.
Just tried the Wayback Machine, it won't allow due to robots
Seconded. I started coming back here lately after taking a break in 2002.
The difference is that it feels "sterile" now.
"Nope, they didn't. It's still same loose spaghetti all the way down it's been since they ever started."
After digestion, I presume.
LOL "fully blowed" thanks! :D w95/98 is the entire reason I switched to linux way back then, and I'm still on it.
That's a lot of money, full stop. Nothing else needed to be said after that. Where can I get a job like that? I mean since the price of labor is going down and all... This is PROOF that ability and hard work has exactly jack shit to do with compensation or the Majick Fairytale Free Market.
Yeah, but you didn't jack it while wearing an iWatch running Win95. Sometimes people do shit just to see if it can be done. Like cramming a full-blown system into a tiny device.
Maybe if the VM is being used for dev work, but not for a server or a desktop. The way I learned *nix is, if you have to reboot more than 1x or 2x a year, yer doing it wrong.
This is one of the main things that bugs me so much. You could have systemd and emacs for a complete desktop solutuion.
Tits!
Loans are not income, therefore they are not taxed :D maybe that was his thinking?
The specific unspecified behavior is called text logging to stderr which has been around for *decades* aong other trhings. Yeah I suppose I could rewrite ~15 yrs worth of scripts to check for an exit status of 127, but that still doesn't give me a *reason* why it tanked. Which night be real handy for an if-then-else situation. So yes, the point stands.