It looks like the folks who make the Linux based Video Disk Recorder have a new standard to live up to."
So what you're saying is that they'll need to get used to writing really buggy software and releasing patches for their software the day it is released...
... and if you don't agree with me, be intelligent and post why... don't moderate!
Cute... Moderation Totals: Troll=1, Total=1.
Folks, I'm not trolling here... simply trying to make a point that it would be nice to see productive dialouge about the book being reviewed rather than seeing the program it covers get bashed to death... but bashing sendmail doesn't get modded as "Troll" or "Off-Topic"... how ironic...
Seriously people... if you don't like sendmail, don't come in and bash it on a sendmail book review (btw: all of those posts SHOULD be modded off-topic).
If you like another mail program, DO A BOOK REVIEW ON THAT MAIL PROGRAM and share your "wisdom" with the rest of us.
As for sendmail, it is not meant for Windows weenies or wanna be Unix sysadmins, only for "real" Unix admins and those that wish to use a VERY robust product and are willing to learn the product to reap the rewards. I personally feel that this book is a great quick reference for when you have a brain fart and don't feel like mulling through the O'Reiley "bat-book" for a simple answer... but nothing can ever replace "the real thing"....
... and if you don't agree with me, be intelligent and post why... don't moderate!
Just my $0.02 cents
... preparing to dodge all of the "clippies" that will be thrown at me by the NT admins... "
I can see ho wthis may appeal to women .... but ..
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Let's be frank... women LOVE to chat. I don't mean to be sexist here, but it is the truth. However, many women are VERY self-concious of their appearence... so many of them will stay home instead of "going out", as others who have posted before me suggested. This will give an arena to those people who feel "ugly", or that have a hard time going out, or that live in the middle of no-where (or in a dead town) to virtuall go out and chat with people. This can be good in that it is better that people, in general, interact with people instead of turning into isolationists... it isn't healthy...
HOWEVER,.... this type of virtual reality world isn't healthy either. It allows people to make themselves look any way they want to "look" without any of the hard work. It also could make real interperson communication more difficult for people since they will rely on a sim like this as a crutch. But most importantly, a sim like this will allow people to settle for the status-quo instead of actually doing something to improve themselves. Since people won't see the real them online, they feel less and less inclined to take care of themselves both from a health and an appearance aspect.
The bottom line of all this rambling: This company COULD make quite a killing since this game will obviously appeal to the market of women (a market that is realatively untapped in the computer world... compaired to that of men), which in turn will draw men to it... but at a great cost to socity as a whole. This game could possibly become a sociological disaster in that the game encourages VERY unhealthy behaviour for long periods of time. Games like this can actually ruin people's lives... just ask some of the EverQuest junkies from around the world.
(* prepares to dodge all of the fireballs and weapons that will be thrown my way from those junkies *)
Thats great that they're going to share some of their "trade secrets", but it won't do anyone any good if they can't land a job!!
So basically, they're going to help flood the programming world with young, ambitious "game" programmers that won't know how to or want to do anything but make video games...
This will lead to flooding the market (even worse than it already is) with badly designed games that have a couple of pieces of eye candy...
Actually, I wonder how many apps Blizzard just got for their Unix sysadmin position...
... I think that would clearly illustrate just how flooded the market is with "computer people" that want to work in the video game market...
The biggest problem will be the number of lives a school like this will ruin... these people will TRY to get a job with an established video game company... then TRY to start up their own video game company after 6+ months of unemployment... then they'll rush a crappy product to market so that they don't starve to death...
Trust me... I have a company like this... and one our programmers did this!!!!
(btw: our games don't make money... it is our web hosting and web design that makes money and allows us to keep making games.... so how are unemployed people going to make games if you have to pay to keep games running?????)
</Venting >
More on the restrictive wall cavity ...
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Besides the problems with insulation...
Lets say you work somewhere that doesn't have too much insulation in the walls...
Would you REALLY want to send the sound from the fans into the wall, where it is hollow and can reverbirate? That doesn't seem to make much sence either...
Why not isulate your comuter box and use liquid coolong if you're looking for a "cool" box with no noise??
If you REALLY want cool and quiet, you're going to have to pay for it....
I doubt that google could afford subscriptions to every web site to spider their content...
But even better, this would DEFINATELY stop those annoying email bots from collecting email addresses from web pages!!!!
This may not be the best answer to making web sites profitable, but may have indirectly found a way to keep people like Ralsky (the famous email spammer)from refreshing his spam email lists!!!
This just might be a good idea.... it MIGHT make spamming cost prohibitive!!!!
HURRAY FOR MICROPAYMENTS!!! - they saved my mailbox!
(but made it too expensive for me to read email too):)
I could actually make a few dollars from the games m friends and I developed at www.coldfirestudios.com.
This idea has serious potential!!
No,I don't like the idea (personally) of having to pay to view web sites, but from a business point of view, this sounds good! The people that play my games do EVERYTHING they can to block the advertisements that we put on our site. We don't charge them to use the site, but viewing the banner ads is apparently too much to ask.
I don't like the idea of having to charge people to play my games, but if the "whole internet" moved in that direction, then it may not be a bad idea... although I think you'll see bandwidth prices bottom out since no one will be using the 'net then:)
This is progress. Using economies of scale they would be able to construct truly awe-inspiring sets,
HUH!!???
This isn't progress... this is buying out the competition!!
No longer would I have to sit and watch unattractive boring people like Ted Koppel or that fat chick from CNN tell me about the war in Iraq
Do you REALLY want Keanu Reeves and Tori Spelling giving you the news??? They might look good after many takes, but I don't think too many actors are going to hold their own on any good debate shows or if they have to improv. when the teleprompter goes down...
Where do I sign up!
First, shouldn't that be in the form of a question?
Secondly, the answer is: NO WHERE!!!
This is a terrible idea! Imagine every web page with Mickey Mouse's face on it!! Porn wouldn't look so good at that point...
Or even worse... that damn AOL triangle in the upper left corner of all web pages... and all emails come with the "You've got mail.wav" attached to them.... AHHHHHHH!!!!!
'Opponents of the proposed rules fear that, taken together, they ultimately could lead to a few powerful conglomerates controlling the flow of electronic information, from programming of television and radio news and entertainment to owning the pipes that connect people to the Internet.
Yoda almost had it right...
Fear leads to anger
Anger leads to hate
Hate... leads to a few powerful conglomerates controlling the flow of electronic information???
Yes, foreign students could potentially represent a risk to national security, but get real! As posted above, (and from listening to the hundreds of foreign grad students I went to grad school with) most students that come from abroad, especiall those involved in any type of decent research (and that can get into MIT!!!) are going to stay here! They stand to lose more by going back to wher ethey came from. In the U.S., they know that they will get paid better wages and that they can provide a more stable future for their families.
Now past the security issue... why would they want to stop foreign students from working on a grant? From the mounths of several profs I have had in the past, I quote: foreign "students work harder than American most American students. They are not distracted by friends, family, and other extra curricular activities. They are taught to please those in authority, and are willing to work for the priviledge to sta in this (the U.S.) country. They will work harder because they have much more to lose!"
That statement couldn't be spoken any better! I was an American grad student at one point, and although I worked pretty hard, I will admit that most of the foriegn students worked much harder than I did... and they worked MANY more hours than I did! I couldn't keep up because of family obligations and obligations to my business that I was running while in school. Most American students have something else other than school going on in their life during their graduate career... it is just a simple fact of life.
So again, why wouldn't the gov't want to take advantage of people that are willing to give them more bang for their buck?
I don't like what I have just stated, because I do believe that many Americans are being passed over for terrific opportunites because of what I just said, but it is the (sad) truth. The PhD.'s of this nation see that, so what can't the people running the gov't???
Just my $0.02 cents...
(BTW: I didn't do any grad work in Language Arts, so please don't flame me for bad grammar or my mack of good keyboard skills)
it just seems like there's a huge push to get underdeveloped areas on the 'net instead of taking care of necessities first
I "think" that the "deep thinkers" are thinking that educating these people w/ the Internet will teach them how to take care of themselves. They are probably thinking this will open their ees to a whole new world of possibilities and ideas that they are not accustomed to....
But honestly, I think it is more like the scene in the "Sum of All Fears" where the people that live in huts, selling nuclear bomb materials to terrorists are putting pleas on the Internet for help. The "deep thinkers", like those people on TV that want you to feed a child for 70 cents per day, don't want to be bothered by raising money for these people any more... they want them to go out there and beg for money themselves!
Don't pump out stuff that is free to use for comercial products!
The old (and maybe current, I haven't read it lately) license for MySQL clearly stated that MySQL could be used for software NOT developed for resale!!
Just add one line to your license agreement... and Microshaft can't use it. If you even think they did, sue the pants off of them for taking advantage of a poor, open source developer. Juries love to help an underdog:)
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So what you're saying is that they'll need to get used to writing really buggy software and releasing patches for their software the day it is released
OK, I give ...
....
...
.. but they are mine) :)
My "debugger" from the parent post probably works best with interpreted languages, but I still don't like most debuggers
I feel like I accomplish something if I debug it myself
Besdies, many GUI debuggers just aren't that user friendly (but I'm not saying print statements are either
In Java:
System.println("MyVar = "+MyVar);
In C:
printf("MyVar is %d\n", MyVar);
In C++:
cout
In PHP
echo "MyVar is $MyVar <br>";
In Perl
print "MyVar is $MyVar\n";
Works better than any debugger I've ever used
Imagine a beowulf cluster in the back of one of these ...
...
...
....
In Soviet Russia, the truck out smarts you
1) Build truck, 2) ????, 3) Profit!
Take a bunch of these over to N. Korea and tell them "all your base belong to us"
So lets sum it up
Imagine the SmarTruck II beowulf cluster in Soviet Russia where all there base belong to us. Profit!
Move on
Cute
Folks, I'm not trolling here
Seriously people ... if you don't like sendmail, don't come in and bash it on a sendmail book review (btw: all of those posts SHOULD be modded off-topic).
... but nothing can ever replace "the real thing" ....
... and if you don't agree with me, be intelligent and post why ... don't moderate!
... preparing to dodge all of the "clippies" that will be thrown at me by the NT admins ... "
If you like another mail program, DO A BOOK REVIEW ON THAT MAIL PROGRAM and share your "wisdom" with the rest of us.
As for sendmail, it is not meant for Windows weenies or wanna be Unix sysadmins, only for "real" Unix admins and those that wish to use a VERY robust product and are willing to learn the product to reap the rewards. I personally feel that this book is a great quick reference for when you have a brain fart and don't feel like mulling through the O'Reiley "bat-book" for a simple answer
Just my $0.02 cents
Let's be frank ... women LOVE to chat. I don't mean to be sexist here, but it is the truth. However, many women are VERY self-concious of their appearence ... so many of them will stay home instead of "going out", as others who have posted before me suggested. This will give an arena to those people who feel "ugly", or that have a hard time going out, or that live in the middle of no-where (or in a dead town) to virtuall go out and chat with people. This can be good in that it is better that people, in general, interact with people instead of turning into isolationists ... it isn't healthy ...
.... this type of virtual reality world isn't healthy either. It allows people to make themselves look any way they want to "look" without any of the hard work. It also could make real interperson communication more difficult for people since they will rely on a sim like this as a crutch. But most importantly, a sim like this will allow people to settle for the status-quo instead of actually doing something to improve themselves. Since people won't see the real them online, they feel less and less inclined to take care of themselves both from a health and an appearance aspect.
... compaired to that of men), which in turn will draw men to it ... but at a great cost to socity as a whole. This game could possibly become a sociological disaster in that the game encourages VERY unhealthy behaviour for long periods of time. Games like this can actually ruin people's lives ... just ask some of the EverQuest junkies from around the world.
....
HOWEVER,
The bottom line of all this rambling: This company COULD make quite a killing since this game will obviously appeal to the market of women (a market that is realatively untapped in the computer world
(* prepares to dodge all of the fireballs and weapons that will be thrown my way from those junkies *)
Just my $0.02 cents
Yes, this is Andrew ...
... but the real question is ... who are you??
NO ONE IS HIRING!!!!!
...
...
...
... I think that would clearly illustrate just how flooded the market is with "computer people" that want to work in the video game market ...
... these people will TRY to get a job with an established video game company ... then TRY to start up their own video game company after 6+ months of unemployment ... then they'll rush a crappy product to market so that they don't starve to death ...
... I have a company like this ... and one our programmers did this!!!!
... it is our web hosting and web design that makes money and allows us to keep making games .... so how are unemployed people going to make games if you have to pay to keep games running?????)
/Venting >
< Venting >
Thats great that they're going to share some of their "trade secrets", but it won't do anyone any good if they can't land a job!!
So basically, they're going to help flood the programming world with young, ambitious "game" programmers that won't know how to or want to do anything but make video games
This will lead to flooding the market (even worse than it already is) with badly designed games that have a couple of pieces of eye candy
Actually, I wonder how many apps Blizzard just got for their Unix sysadmin position
The biggest problem will be the number of lives a school like this will ruin
Trust me
(btw: our games don't make money
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Besides the problems with insulation ...
...
...
....
Lets say you work somewhere that doesn't have too much insulation in the walls
Would you REALLY want to send the sound from the fans into the wall, where it is hollow and can reverbirate? That doesn't seem to make much sence either
Why not isulate your comuter box and use liquid coolong if you're looking for a "cool" box with no noise??
If you REALLY want cool and quiet, you're going to have to pay for it
Hmmmm
TV shows are digitally stored and transmitted
A + B = C
Can you "C" the answer?
What could it "B"??
Is this really "A" hard question???
Just shake your head and smirk
I failed sharing, so I don't have an upload bill you insensitive clod!
.... wow!!
But my download bill
j/k
I doubt that google could afford subscriptions to every web site to spider their content ...
.... it MIGHT make spamming cost prohibitive!!!!
:)
But even better, this would DEFINATELY stop those annoying email bots from collecting email addresses from web pages!!!!
This may not be the best answer to making web sites profitable, but may have indirectly found a way to keep people like Ralsky (the famous email spammer)from refreshing his spam email lists!!!
This just might be a good idea
HURRAY FOR MICROPAYMENTS!!! - they saved my mailbox!
(but made it too expensive for me to read email too)
I like this system!!!
,I don't like the idea (personally) of having to pay to view web sites, but from a business point of view, this sounds good! The people that play my games do EVERYTHING they can to block the advertisements that we put on our site. We don't charge them to use the site, but viewing the banner ads is apparently too much to ask.
... although I think you'll see bandwidth prices bottom out since no one will be using the 'net then :)
I could actually make a few dollars from the games m friends and I developed at www.coldfirestudios.com.
This idea has serious potential!!
No
I don't like the idea of having to charge people to play my games, but if the "whole internet" moved in that direction, then it may not be a bad idea
Why would you register a domain name through VeriSign anyways???
Use register.com's Name Bargain!!
BTW: Anyone know of a RELIABLE place that is cheaper than this??
HUH!!???
This isn't progress
Do you REALLY want Keanu Reeves and Tori Spelling giving you the news??? They might look good after many takes, but I don't think too many actors are going to hold their own on any good debate shows or if they have to improv. when the teleprompter goes down
First, shouldn't that be in the form of a question?
Secondly, the answer is: NO WHERE!!!
This is a terrible idea! Imagine every web page with Mickey Mouse's face on it!! Porn wouldn't look so good at that point
Or even worse
Hey, waht about the other conglomerate, "SBC-20th Century Fox-Viacom-ABC-Amazon-Microsoft Corp (MSNBC)-DirectTV, an Enron Company"
(They have more experience with lawyers and court rooms
Yoda almost had it right
Fear leads to anger
Anger leads to hate
Hate
Yes, foreign students could potentially represent a risk to national security, but get real! As posted above, (and from listening to the hundreds of foreign grad students I went to grad school with) most students that come from abroad, especiall those involved in any type of decent research (and that can get into MIT!!!) are going to stay here! They stand to lose more by going back to wher ethey came from. In the U.S., they know that they will get paid better wages and that they can provide a more stable future for their families.
... why would they want to stop foreign students from working on a grant? From the mounths of several profs I have had in the past, I quote: foreign "students work harder than American most American students. They are not distracted by friends, family, and other extra curricular activities. They are taught to please those in authority, and are willing to work for the priviledge to sta in this (the U.S.) country. They will work harder because they have much more to lose!"
... and they worked MANY more hours than I did! I couldn't keep up because of family obligations and obligations to my business that I was running while in school. Most American students have something else other than school going on in their life during their graduate career ... it is just a simple fact of life.
...
Now past the security issue
That statement couldn't be spoken any better! I was an American grad student at one point, and although I worked pretty hard, I will admit that most of the foriegn students worked much harder than I did
So again, why wouldn't the gov't want to take advantage of people that are willing to give them more bang for their buck?
I don't like what I have just stated, because I do believe that many Americans are being passed over for terrific opportunites because of what I just said, but it is the (sad) truth. The PhD.'s of this nation see that, so what can't the people running the gov't???
Just my $0.02 cents
(BTW: I didn't do any grad work in Language Arts, so please don't flame me for bad grammar or my mack of good keyboard skills)
If anyone downloaded these files, let me know and I will put them on my OC-12 connection ....
As Jar Jar would say: "Mesa gotsa lotsa bandwidth"
Email me at adavis@coldfirestudios.com if you'd like me to post them.
I went there ...
/.'ed site????
All it said was "Panel Offline"
Another
I "think" that the "deep thinkers" are thinking that educating these people w/ the Internet will teach them how to take care of themselves. They are probably thinking this will open their ees to a whole new world of possibilities and ideas that they are not accustomed to
But honestly, I think it is more like the scene in the "Sum of All Fears" where the people that live in huts, selling nuclear bomb materials to terrorists are putting pleas on the Internet for help. The "deep thinkers", like those people on TV that want you to feed a child for 70 cents per day, don't want to be bothered by raising money for these people any more
(j/k)
I can't even afford my wired connection, let alone anone else's wireless conection!
Sorry to be stingey, but I need to read
This is what the creators will be saying as soon as they see a Paramount Studios IP address in their web logs
Don't pump out stuff that is free to use for comercial products!
... and Microshaft can't use it. If you even think they did, sue the pants off of them for taking advantage of a poor, open source developer. Juries love to help an underdog :)
The old (and maybe current, I haven't read it lately) license for MySQL clearly stated that MySQL could be used for software NOT developed for resale!!
Just add one line to your license agreement