As long as a glitch in a display driver is still allowed to crash your server without warning,
Most businesses with critical servers aren't going to be running buggy third-party display drivers on the machines. Haven't you heard about driver signing? This ain't NT 4.0 and you need to get over dragging in NT 4.0 issues. Makes you look like that's the last version of a MS product you worked with. Makes your arguement look tired and old.
I, for one, couldn't live without the tab completion (or any number of other meta-keys can be set up to trigger completion) that can easily be enabled for the Windows 2000 command prompt if you install and mess with the TweakUI Control Panel element. It sure as heck isn't a scripting prompt like/bin/bash or/bin/csh but there is a lot that's been added since command.com.
A lot of the good stuff in Windows these days can be attributed to the pressure being put on Microsoft by the Unix competition. Which is really good for anybody who has to use the MS stuff. I'd sure as hell hate for Microsoft to only be competing with Novell like in the old days.
But I came to it from a long time on Slackware, and having done a little experimenting with Red Hat 4.3 which was a MUCH better and far less buggy release than 5.0.
We looked at using that Ramtron FRAM ages ago at a project I worked on. Problem is, it's single sourced technology. At the time I remember that the thing that appealed to me most about it was it's write-life was so much longer than the EEPROM we were using at the time (which was and is available from many, many vendors). For the small data logging application we were designing, the FRAM had a lot of appeal, but it doesn't seem like the technology has grown at all since we last considered it, and that was back in about 1996-7. I see 2003 dates on Ramtron's website, but nothing really new.
Back ages ago, I think maybe in about 1994, I set up an old 286 machine with Microsoft's LanMan Client and TCP/IP to connect to a Samba share on a 486 Linux box I had. I set it up initially on the 286 using a hard drive, but after I had it working I pared it down so that the DOS boot and client software would fit on a single boot floppy. I pulled all but the floppy drive on the 286 and the 'C' drive on the machine became the Samba share.
I then took my Windows 3.1 diskettes and installed Windows on the 'C drive' of the 286. Windows installed nicely. It didn't even know it was on a network drive, when I went to the pathetic and vestigal 'network support' settings for the Windows system now living on the Samba share, it didn't know there was a network at all.
This floppy diskette could be taken to any other machine that had that same ethernet card in it (I believe it was a 3C503) and boot up that 'C' drive and have a working system.
I thought it was cool but didn't do a heck of a lot with it after that point. It wasn't that interesting to run Windows 3.1 on a 286 at that point, but it showed me some of the potential of Linux.
In a project I coded for in Assembly, marketing had a hell of a time coming up with enough arcane features and weird twists to the product spec to fill the whole 8K of program memory in the controller.
They did in the end, of course. That's marketing's job, isn't it?
I think you can get them from places like Jameco. But they're cheaper on eBay. And the cheapest way to get all the chips for an 8088 SBC project is to find a bunch of old XT motherboards to strip. All the important chips were socketed on XT motherboards.
Get rid of my High Density Diskettes (HDD) and replace them with Single Sided Diskettes (SSD) ???
That would be expensive, because the old drives are expensive when you find them from collectors on eBay, besides which I would have far less storage capacity (180K instead of the 1.44M I have now).
It reminds me of the short period back in the day when I ran my BBS on a three floppy diskette PC system. The third floppy diskette was a 5-1/4" 720K drive (quad density) but users complained about the slowness, and this was 1200 baud users.
I think that's fine, you think that's fine, but there are tons of people out there that want to run services on their box at home. They'll be very angry if they're filtered out of existence.
That's why you have a small block of DHCP addresses to serve out temporarily, and most of the boxes on your network assigned static IPs. It's not all one or the other way, you know...
In a past slashdot article (maybe this story is its dupe), Hewlet-Packard's representative and Kevin Mitnick's DOJ prosecutor debated (slandered) Kevin saying they know all about security and all Kevin is capable of doing is being a criminal.
In the particular case of Kevin, which you cite, it's common knowledge that he's not particularly technically bright. He's by no means 'dull' or an idiot, but he's nothing that special. His area of expertise was in deceit and lying, which is sometimes euphemistically called 'human engineering.'
You can engage in myth-based hero worship as much as you like. That's who and what he is.
But I thought this was an open discussion about 'hackers' in general, not about some malcontent who became a media darling.
There's no such thing as a popular vote for President.
There are popular votes in fifty states.
Journalists running around gathering up vote counts from fifty states, all collected by various means, and summing it up and calling it a 'popular vote' is irrelevant.
It's definite established fact that Algore lost the popular vote in his home state of Tennessee, though, which is quite unusual. And it's definite established fact that the Tennessee electoral vote would have elected him.
What is it about the guy that he can't even win the 'favorite son' vote from the people who know him best?
This is severely off-topic of course. Lead poisoning didn't contribute at all to the droning stupidity of Algore's campaign rants.
Ummmm... wedding bands are the inexpensive ones. It's the 'engagement' ring which often costs a mint. The wedding band is just a plain band of gold. Ours were about $70 for the pair, and there wasn't much design put into them, just specifying the size. Or are people wearing something really weird and ornate now for a wedding ring?
I get Brand Name spindles of CDRs for about $3 after the rebates though. I haven't seen spindles of CDRs for $3 anywhere. The closest I have seen are those scary ones at CompUSA that NOBODY should be buying. The no-brand ones shrinkwrapped without a spindle through the hole, that sit on dusty shelves for weeks.
Nowhere did I claim my SBC was going to take over the world. Hell, I haven't been thinking of running an antiquated Time Sharing OS on it, but I guess I could bolt on the support hardware needed...
And SBCs aren't 'IT' in the first place. Embedded controllers aren't 'IT'. IT is things like copying and fax machines, information appliances like computers used primarily for word processing, spreadsheets, etc. You know, those boring uses for computers, using them like staplers and stuff.
I get pissed when my contracting agent refers to the work I do as 'IT,' particularly with the stench of death that has in the job market these days.
In case you hadn't heard, no, the computer operator does not sit in a glass walled room in a white lab coat any longer. The computer operator no longer has the privledge of scheduling when 'jobs' will be run. It's not necessary any more for 'mere users' to adopt servile attitudes when around the computer operator.
And the 'mere users' are NOT going to put up with the clock being rolled back to those dark ages. Certain companies with control-freaks at the top of the corporate ladder might make that mistake, but their products can be replaced in the market by products from competitors not living their lives mired in a 1970's-era IT mindset.
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As long as a glitch in a display driver is still allowed to crash your server without warning,
Most businesses with critical servers aren't going to be running buggy third-party display drivers on the machines. Haven't you heard about driver signing? This ain't NT 4.0 and you need to get over dragging in NT 4.0 issues. Makes you look like that's the last version of a MS product you worked with. Makes your arguement look tired and old.
I, for one, couldn't live without the tab completion (or any number of other meta-keys can be set up to trigger completion) that can easily be enabled for the Windows 2000 command prompt if you install and mess with the TweakUI Control Panel element. It sure as heck isn't a scripting prompt like /bin/bash or /bin/csh but there is a lot that's been added since command.com.
A lot of the good stuff in Windows these days can be attributed to the pressure being put on Microsoft by the Unix competition. Which is really good for anybody who has to use the MS stuff. I'd sure as hell hate for Microsoft to only be competing with Novell like in the old days.
So basically, you're saying "It isn't UNIX, which is what I am used to."
Gotta do better than that. Makes you look like a steam engineer encountering his first electric motor.
Red Hat 5.0 Sucked.
Extremely badly.
There were binaries broken all over.
But I came to it from a long time on Slackware, and having done a little experimenting with Red Hat 4.3 which was a MUCH better and far less buggy release than 5.0.
5.0 bit a lot of people in the ass.
Ancient history, tho, and O.T.
Is MacOS from now on only going to converge it's version numbers, like TeX, which adds a digit with each release?
They can't call a version eleven OS X, so maybe that's the plan.
We looked at using that Ramtron FRAM ages ago at a project I worked on. Problem is, it's single sourced technology. At the time I remember that the thing that appealed to me most about it was it's write-life was so much longer than the EEPROM we were using at the time (which was and is available from many, many vendors). For the small data logging application we were designing, the FRAM had a lot of appeal, but it doesn't seem like the technology has grown at all since we last considered it, and that was back in about 1996-7. I see 2003 dates on Ramtron's website, but nothing really new.
Back ages ago, I think maybe in about 1994, I set up an old 286 machine with Microsoft's LanMan Client and TCP/IP to connect to a Samba share on a 486 Linux box I had. I set it up initially on the 286 using a hard drive, but after I had it working I pared it down so that the DOS boot and client software would fit on a single boot floppy. I pulled all but the floppy drive on the 286 and the 'C' drive on the machine became the Samba share.
I then took my Windows 3.1 diskettes and installed Windows on the 'C drive' of the 286. Windows installed nicely. It didn't even know it was on a network drive, when I went to the pathetic and vestigal 'network support' settings for the Windows system now living on the Samba share, it didn't know there was a network at all.
This floppy diskette could be taken to any other machine that had that same ethernet card in it (I believe it was a 3C503) and boot up that 'C' drive and have a working system.
I thought it was cool but didn't do a heck of a lot with it after that point. It wasn't that interesting to run Windows 3.1 on a 286 at that point, but it showed me some of the potential of Linux.
In a project I coded for in Assembly, marketing had a hell of a time coming up with enough arcane features and weird twists to the product spec to fill the whole 8K of program memory in the controller.
They did in the end, of course. That's marketing's job, isn't it?
I think you can get them from places like Jameco. But they're cheaper on eBay. And the cheapest way to get all the chips for an 8088 SBC project is to find a bunch of old XT motherboards to strip. All the important chips were socketed on XT motherboards.
Get rid of my High Density Diskettes (HDD) and replace them with Single Sided Diskettes (SSD) ???
That would be expensive, because the old drives are expensive when you find them from collectors on eBay, besides which I would have far less storage capacity (180K instead of the 1.44M I have now).
It reminds me of the short period back in the day when I ran my BBS on a three floppy diskette PC system. The third floppy diskette was a 5-1/4" 720K drive (quad density) but users complained about the slowness, and this was 1200 baud users.
Or better yet, move all the fiance' stuff down into the basement. Why the heck does anybody put up with that stuff?
The Commodore 64 and the PC Junior did it too.
What the heck is 'freedom of technology'??
I think that's fine, you think that's fine, but there are tons of people out there that want to run services on their box at home. They'll be very angry if they're filtered out of existence.
That's why you have a small block of DHCP addresses to serve out temporarily, and most of the boxes on your network assigned static IPs. It's not all one or the other way, you know...
In a past slashdot article (maybe this story is its dupe), Hewlet-Packard's representative and Kevin Mitnick's DOJ prosecutor debated (slandered) Kevin saying they know all about security and all Kevin is capable of doing is being a criminal.
In the particular case of Kevin, which you cite, it's common knowledge that he's not particularly technically bright. He's by no means 'dull' or an idiot, but he's nothing that special. His area of expertise was in deceit and lying, which is sometimes euphemistically called 'human engineering.'
You can engage in myth-based hero worship as much as you like. That's who and what he is.
But I thought this was an open discussion about 'hackers' in general, not about some malcontent who became a media darling.
Any 'wire mesh canopy' that keeps out birds is gonna gather them up as debris on the wire mesh. Or is there some wiping mechanism involved?
Either way, wind power is really really noisy. It's a major NIMBY issue.
There's no such thing as a popular vote for President.
There are popular votes in fifty states.
Journalists running around gathering up vote counts from fifty states, all collected by various means, and summing it up and calling it a 'popular vote' is irrelevant.
It's definite established fact that Algore lost the popular vote in his home state of Tennessee, though, which is quite unusual. And it's definite established fact that the Tennessee electoral vote would have elected him.
What is it about the guy that he can't even win the 'favorite son' vote from the people who know him best?
This is severely off-topic of course. Lead poisoning didn't contribute at all to the droning stupidity of Algore's campaign rants.
Huh?
Linux was meant to be a cool hack. Besides which, this is a discussion about a BSD Operating System.
Ummmm... wedding bands are the inexpensive ones. It's the 'engagement' ring which often costs a mint. The wedding band is just a plain band of gold. Ours were about $70 for the pair, and there wasn't much design put into them, just specifying the size. Or are people wearing something really weird and ornate now for a wedding ring?
I get Brand Name spindles of CDRs for about $3 after the rebates though. I haven't seen spindles of CDRs for $3 anywhere. The closest I have seen are those scary ones at CompUSA that NOBODY should be buying. The no-brand ones shrinkwrapped without a spindle through the hole, that sit on dusty shelves for weeks.
C sucks for any task where you have less than a few K of data memory.
Nowhere did I claim my SBC was going to take over the world. Hell, I haven't been thinking of running an antiquated Time Sharing OS on it, but I guess I could bolt on the support hardware needed...
And SBCs aren't 'IT' in the first place. Embedded controllers aren't 'IT'. IT is things like copying and fax machines, information appliances like computers used primarily for word processing, spreadsheets, etc. You know, those boring uses for computers, using them like staplers and stuff.
I get pissed when my contracting agent refers to the work I do as 'IT,' particularly with the stench of death that has in the job market these days.
In case you hadn't heard, no, the computer operator does not sit in a glass walled room in a white lab coat any longer. The computer operator no longer has the privledge of scheduling when 'jobs' will be run. It's not necessary any more for 'mere users' to adopt servile attitudes when around the computer operator.
And the 'mere users' are NOT going to put up with the clock being rolled back to those dark ages. Certain companies with control-freaks at the top of the corporate ladder might make that mistake, but their products can be replaced in the market by products from competitors not living their lives mired in a 1970's-era IT mindset.
Me, I am hoping that some dweeb who posts advocacy comments on Slashdot isn't in charge of a support team with a $25M payroll....