Looks like MS fails the apple test they made a big deal about with google.
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That claim was pretty well justified. The poster said that mass usage would mess up the community, a feature of gentoo they appreciate. This doesn't seem all that ridiculous to me, since everything gets less personal as it gets bigger. Obviously, as far as technical issues go, mass usage of Gentoo would only increase the developer base and improve the system. However, I have to agree that this is pretty unlikely since the number of person-hours necessary to set up a fully optimised gentoo farm over a binary distro like, say, debian or RH, is going to be significantly larger than the difference in performance for almost all corporations. This is especially true in cases where the corporation is getting new computers every year or two and so there's even less time to recoup the lost time with a little added speed.
As with everyone before me, I'm not saying Gentoo's bad, just that it is unlikely to catch on in large corporate scenarios.
The problem here is that floppies are only 1.44 Mb, and the time it takes you to swap floppies around doesn't really count since it's not actual computer speed time.
it was funnier in my head, honest
Okay, I'm probably being trolled, but I'll bite anyway:
When a new kernel release comes out, nobody forces you to use it. You don't see routers using the development kernel very often, now do you? The whole development cycle for open source software is vastly different from that of a proprietary system like Windows because the cycles are different lengths. I'll let you read about cathedrals and bazaars on your own time, but anyway, back to the issue. A kernel patch is something only a relatively savvy user who knows what they're doing will attempt. Windows worms, like lovsan, are not transmitted through any conscious action on the part of the box owner. In order to prevent them, the user has to be aware of what is going on security wise. Now, don't get me wrong on this, I read about the RPC hole that spawned lovsan and patched right away, as should most windows users, since there are auto updates...but an unstable kernel release that's called stable and sticks around for a few weeks is hardly comparable to a hole that existed, unnoticed, for about a decade. As far as your sig goes, do you see a site like that for Microsoft? Do you honestly believe their programmers are so much better that they have a significantly smaller error rate? A huge and open bug database in the open source world helps eliminate those bugs. I know, I know...troll, whatever, I'm sick of not ranting.
Actually, it's not down...I got no errors so I kept waiting and eventually a page showed up at this site. It's amazing! They must be paying out the nose for bandwidth overage. According to netcraft, they're being hosted by Webhost, which runs apache on RH. Oh, wow, it looks like the WebHost AUP says no spamming! It's sad that they define it right there...So, I guess they actually do not get charged for extra bandwidth usage, from what I can see of WebHost's setup policies. Interesting to note that they offer win and linux/freebsd and the windows boxen are more expensive.
...BETTER idea, like say perhaps getting permission to call?
I can see it now...
*brrring*
"hello? I was just about to eat..."
(quiet and fast) "Hello sir or madam, would you like to be bothered tonight with some great offers?"
"What?"
"Well, today I'm offering you some extraordinary knives, great for the kitchen."
"Oh..."
*click*
Oh come on. That said 0 remote holes in whatever until the first ssh hole came out. I'm sure they'll update their web site when they get around to it, it's been a long day. Seriously, this group of people has amazing integrity and make arguably the most secure os capable of opening a tcp connection. It's not like any distro of linux can claim exactly "two remote holes" in as long as they've existed. Microsoft certainly can't. Why is this not modded as flamebait?
If old people in Florida actually MEANT to push 1 thing and missed, could this catch it and say "No, I think you meant to vote for Candidate X"? I think this could revolutionize voting in the USA...Maybe it could even be used to replace congress...it's like I, Robot...but without the 3 laws! Hooray!
So far nobody's come up with an explanation that I've read, but I'm thinking either too many people with A/C (which I think would have been diagnosed already) or solar activity, which has taken out the grid in eastern Canada before...
embetterment?
I now wait for the requisite 20 seconds before my snappy 1-line witticism can be posted. I'm not funny anymore but the time's up so oh well!
It's not that W told them to do it, it's that there's a war-mongering maniac (toned up for slashdot) in office and a new toy's just been discovered. Anyone I personally would have voted for would make sure that either A: this disappears or B: nobody ever uses it -- because arms races lead to arms surplusses and that is the stuff that gets sold to terrorists. But then again, if someone I had voted for were in office, the defense budget would have gotten slashed in favor of better education/health care.
Not only that, but I think most people have been disillusioned as to the purpose of bigger better weapons. When nuclear weapons were being developed, it was to create something that would make future warfare impossible (same with the machine gun) but we know how that turned out. Nuclear weapons technology also had applications in the private sector and may yet solve the global power problem (fusion). Meanwhile, this thing seems to be purely for killing:
But the development of a new weapon that spans the gap between the explosive power of nuclear and conventional weapons would remove this restraint, giving commanders a way of increasing the amount of force they can use in a series of small steps.
Why am I paying for the development of a whole new type of weapon when I can't afford school because of the resession? The cold war is over already, and massive defense spending is what caused this deficit mess we're in now...sorry for the end rant, but I'm kind of pissed.
Funny, I was just reading "Starship Troopers" last night...but no, there are bans on that:
In the 1950s, the US backed away from developing nuclear mini-weapons such as the "Davy Crockett" nuclear bazooka that delivered an explosive punch of 18 tonnes of TNT. These weapons blurred the divide between the explosive power of nuclear and conventional weapons, and the government feared that military commanders would be more likely to use nuclear weapons that had a similar effect on the battlefield to conventional weapons.
That's what you're thinking of...this is not actually a nuke.
That's the problem with mathematicians, no perspective. If it were i, everyone would get all confused when they try to work with phasers (no, not the star trek kind).
That depends on the probability of the next number you say being 2. If it is exactly the same as the next number you pick being [0-9]*, then yes, 2 is a 'truly random' number. The randomness of a number is not determined by the number itself, but by the method used to pick the number.
I've found that if I do a search of OpenBSD.org for my problem and don't find it quickly, I can ask someone where to look for how to do whatever it is I'm trying to do and they've always been very nice and helpful. The OpenBSD community is not nice to people who want personalized hand holding through the most basic of tasks, but then again, it's not my desktop environment of choice. Furthermore, the online documentation is as good as the OS is solid. This isn't zealotry, I'm too much of a newbie to OpenBSD for that, but asking Theo how to set up NAT kind of deserves a bit of a harsh rebuke. This OS is definitely the best for single cpu servers that I've found, and its community is only harsh because that encourages reading the (extensive, good) documentation.
It really is true that people who can't read a HOWTO shouldn't be setting up servers, and therefore shouldn't be using OpenBSD.
These robots seem radio controlled...so who's to stop a terrorist from getting a signal jammer and rendering these things useless...or a more powerful transmitter and taking them over?
Researchers said yesterday they were hopeful that the rabbit work would lead to a new and plentiful source of embryonic stem cells for research and, eventually, for medical use.
Seems like it's not out of morbid curiosity to me.
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Looks like MS fails the apple test they made a big deal about with google.
As with everyone before me, I'm not saying Gentoo's bad, just that it is unlikely to catch on in large corporate scenarios.
The problem here is that floppies are only 1.44 Mb, and the time it takes you to swap floppies around doesn't really count since it's not actual computer speed time.
it was funnier in my head, honest
Okay, I'm probably being trolled, but I'll bite anyway:
When a new kernel release comes out, nobody forces you to use it. You don't see routers using the development kernel very often, now do you? The whole development cycle for open source software is vastly different from that of a proprietary system like Windows because the cycles are different lengths. I'll let you read about cathedrals and bazaars on your own time, but anyway, back to the issue. A kernel patch is something only a relatively savvy user who knows what they're doing will attempt. Windows worms, like lovsan, are not transmitted through any conscious action on the part of the box owner. In order to prevent them, the user has to be aware of what is going on security wise. Now, don't get me wrong on this, I read about the RPC hole that spawned lovsan and patched right away, as should most windows users, since there are auto updates...but an unstable kernel release that's called stable and sticks around for a few weeks is hardly comparable to a hole that existed, unnoticed, for about a decade. As far as your sig goes, do you see a site like that for Microsoft? Do you honestly believe their programmers are so much better that they have a significantly smaller error rate? A huge and open bug database in the open source world helps eliminate those bugs. I know, I know...troll, whatever, I'm sick of not ranting.
But visual studio 6 was the first to come out after 1...
and here...you can find more people to blame for your delayed start to dinner.
Actually, it's not down...I got no errors so I kept waiting and eventually a page showed up at this site. It's amazing! They must be paying out the nose for bandwidth overage. According to netcraft, they're being hosted by Webhost, which runs apache on RH. Oh, wow, it looks like the WebHost AUP says no spamming! It's sad that they define it right there...So, I guess they actually do not get charged for extra bandwidth usage, from what I can see of WebHost's setup policies. Interesting to note that they offer win and linux/freebsd and the windows boxen are more expensive.
I can see it now...
*brrring*
"hello? I was just about to eat..."
(quiet and fast) "Hello sir or madam, would you like to be bothered tonight with some great offers?"
"What?"
"Well, today I'm offering you some extraordinary knives, great for the kitchen."
"Oh..."
*click*
Oh come on. That said 0 remote holes in whatever until the first ssh hole came out. I'm sure they'll update their web site when they get around to it, it's been a long day. Seriously, this group of people has amazing integrity and make arguably the most secure os capable of opening a tcp connection. It's not like any distro of linux can claim exactly "two remote holes" in as long as they've existed. Microsoft certainly can't. Why is this not modded as flamebait?
If old people in Florida actually MEANT to push 1 thing and missed, could this catch it and say "No, I think you meant to vote for Candidate X"? I think this could revolutionize voting in the USA...Maybe it could even be used to replace congress...it's like I, Robot...but without the 3 laws! Hooray!
I, for one, welcome our new paperclip leaders...until I find a big magnet...
So far nobody's come up with an explanation that I've read, but I'm thinking either too many people with A/C (which I think would have been diagnosed already) or solar activity, which has taken out the grid in eastern Canada before...
So why hasn't North Korea been nudged since we helped them set up a nuclear weapons program and listed them in the axis of evil?
embetterment?
I now wait for the requisite 20 seconds before my snappy 1-line witticism can be posted. I'm not funny anymore but the time's up so oh well!
It's not that W told them to do it, it's that there's a war-mongering maniac (toned up for slashdot) in office and a new toy's just been discovered. Anyone I personally would have voted for would make sure that either A: this disappears or B: nobody ever uses it -- because arms races lead to arms surplusses and that is the stuff that gets sold to terrorists. But then again, if someone I had voted for were in office, the defense budget would have gotten slashed in favor of better education/health care.
That's the problem with mathematicians, no perspective. If it were i, everyone would get all confused when they try to work with phasers (no, not the star trek kind).
That depends on the probability of the next number you say being 2. If it is exactly the same as the next number you pick being [0-9]*, then yes, 2 is a 'truly random' number. The randomness of a number is not determined by the number itself, but by the method used to pick the number.
The time between two decay events of a radioactive isotope is truly random, and exists in our universe.
Yes, I was under the impression that j was the square root of negative 1 and that "i" was current.
Don't forget the EE type nerds.
It really is true that people who can't read a HOWTO shouldn't be setting up servers, and therefore shouldn't be using OpenBSD.
These robots seem radio controlled...so who's to stop a terrorist from getting a signal jammer and rendering these things useless...or a more powerful transmitter and taking them over?
I think I have that in JKII...force shield or some such.