Most modern DNS servers will automatically update their hints file each time they're restarted, by making a request to whichever root they connected to for the current list.
Is this a problem with Linux itself? I guess not since the device manufacturers will not create (or allow someone to create) a native driver.
So if you know the actual problem, why are you trolling with the OMG - it doesn't work crap?
Every computer I've installed Ubuntu on in the last couple of years has worked perfectly, unless it required a proprietry driver to get some piece of hardware working, and you can hardly blame the people writing kernel modules if someone won't give them the specs for their hardware.
To claim that the British government is turning Nazi would be a little extreme, but I'm starting to doubt that the top levels are trying to help anybody but themselves.
There's no state sanctioned violence against Jews, but reading about how to make explosives is enough to get you taken into custody without charge. I got stop by police in Heathrow, and asked for identification, while waiting for a plane.
According to the piece of paper I was handed telling me about it, they need due cause to stop you. Or they can just claim it's related to terroism, and do whatever they like.
And then of course you've got Gordan Brown, who was "promised" the job of prime minister for several years... that's not exactly my idea of democracy.
We have a server here with an uptime of > 3 years.
No ones even sure what it does anymore (if anything), but it has the company uptime record, which saved it from being powered down last time we were clearing out unneeded machines from the data center.
Why does making money have to rule out any chance of also making products that will benefit people.
I think dolls (and toys in general) are one of the few products where advertising will actually make a difference to sales levels.
Kids watching TV will see an advert for Bratz dolls, and then go screaming to mummy or daddy about how they want one. If enough children do that, then everyone else they know also needs one, because they won't be able to play with their friends otherwise.
I have a feeling that they could be just as successful making dolls that don't promote being a shallow idiot.
I wish I had some mod points, because that's a fine summing up of the working life.
I always work on the basis that if the good days happen more often then the bad, then I'm happy with my job, and should stick around.
Once the bad days start to happen more then the good, it's time to start looking for a new job, because I'll be damned if I'm going to spend 8 hours a day doing something I'm not happy with.
I've seen the effects doing that have on me, and no amount of money can make you happy in the long term.
I don't have any kids, but my brother is about to finish high school, and my advice for him is to find something that he enjoys doing, and find a way to make money from it. If it doesn't work out, try something else, and eventually you'll end up somewhere you're happy, and things just fall into place from there.
If it gets to you that IT is a neccesary evil, go and work for a company that specialises in IT.
The first couple of years of working, I was at a small design agency run by a man who didn't really understand computers. All he knew was that he needed to be able to do websites to stay in business, so he hired some developers, and assumed we worked in the same way as graphic designers.
We clashed horribly, because he seemed to think that you could just "do things faster" if sales happened to promise we'd have everything done by the end of the day.
I'm now working for an ISP, started in the CEO's basement, and life is a whole heap more satisfying - if you've had to spend all day debugging something, then the managers can understand why (unless it was a genuine fuck up), because they can all write code themselves.
I'm one of the few people who is actually quite looking forward to the coming rush of outsourcing IT work, because the company I'm working for is one of the ones that is set up and ready to take on the work. We're already the sysadmins for several large companies, and it wouldn't surprise me if we start moving into being a full-blown outsourced IT department soon.
I'd rather be working for myself, but until I'm in a position to do so, I'm quite happy here.
That's ok, they don't actually have to port it anyway - the Mono project has already done that for them.
I'm not convinced that.Net is the right tool for most users anyway
If you've got an inhouse development team, or money to contract some development out, then using a real development environment makes a lot of sense, and the.Net interface allows some pretty powerful features to be added to Office.
Your average Excel user doesn't want to sit down and learn a new language though, they just want their spreadsheets to work, and in most environments, that's the sort of person doing any "development".
I can't find a definition for nutrileum, but I did manage to find one for "pentapeptide":
Pentapeptide: A peptide consisting of five amino acids.
Yup. It's got amino acids. Five of them.
The different colours does faintly make sense due to vitamins, but it's just symptomatic of people's blind belief in advertising.
You know the whole "5 a day" bullshit? According to my doctor the reccomended amount of fruit and veg to get (at minimum, more isn't going to hurt) is 12 portions a week.
But of course then the supermarkets wouldn't sell as much fruit and veg, and yoghurt makers couldn't slap a "we have the bare minimum of fruit" sticker on the lid to get people eating one everyday.
And then of course you have all these "friendly bacteria" drinks... if the bacteria in your stomach needs topping up every day, how the fuck have we survived thousands of years without tiny bottles of milk to keep us going?
I frequently wake up from some kind of mindless daze in the middle of a commercial and realize... "oh, WTF am I doing?!", then start fast forwarding. This can even happen more than once or twice in the very same program.
I speak from experience here... if you put down the bong, and watch something with some actual content, then that's less likely to happen;)
God that crap pisses me off. My flatmate does it all the time, and in the UK the ad breaks aren't even that long.
If I spend any ammount of time watching TV with him, my head will be stuffed with information on how the Blue Breasted Chiggalillys of China are building a huge port out at sea to prevent the allies from getting the most votes for Nancy.
All I can say is thank God I can record TV on my laptop and actually watch a whole show.
You download TV, and then decide to watch American Idol?
Do feel free to jump in front of the nearest bus. You'll be doing the genepool a favour. Maybe if we get enough people removing themselves, "I should be famous because my mummy loves me" TV will slowly die out.
I kind of enjoy the pseudo-science adverts... in a "my God, is anyone stupid enough to believe that" way.
"Eat as many colours of fruit and veg as you can" "Now with pentapeptides" "6 blades and a vibrating massage strip"
That combined with the volume increase for adverts is usually enough to make me just turn off the TV, and wait until my computer has finished recording the program so I can edit out adverts.
You can have capitalism without encouraging people to spend more than they have on crap they don't need.
I think you've hit the nail on the head there.
The problem isn't that people are buying things, it's that they're buying things that are truly unneccesary, and in some cases actually harmful.
Taking the example of Bratz dolls, if I had children, I wouldn't even consider buying them. As far as I can see, they're teaching children that being succesful is the same as being famous. For any reason, no matter how degrading.
It appears that society agrees though. The person named as the most popular role model in the UK for teenage girls recently was Amy Winehouse. Which leads me to think I should probably leave the country, before another generation of kids grow up who believe they're entitled to fame just because they exist, instead of having to work for it. After all, if Amy can do it just by getting wasted in front of cameras now and again, why shouldn't they?
If my CA issued me with an insecure certificate, then I'd expect them to be reissuing for free whatever there usual policy is.
Sure as hell I wouldn't be paying for the priviledge of having a known problem fixed - especially since it doesn't actually cost them anything more then a process or two to regenerate a certificate.
I don't know about a full blown certificate agency, but where I'm working it shouldn't be too much work, since we use CF Engine to distribute certificates out to our servers from a central repository.
It would still be nice if we didn't have to fix problems caused by some idiot with no understanding of crypto though.
Downloading the patch is step one - you also need to regenerate any certificates made with OpenSSL since 2005, since they can't be guaranteed to be secure.
This has the potential to turn into a huge pain in the arse for Debian based shops, who will need to reissue SSL certificates, SSH keys, and a whole host of other essential elements of their security infrastructure.
Thanks for the reminder - I live in London, and it was all anyone could talk about all day.
I was kind of pissed that all it managed to do was wake me up. Not in the sense that I knew what was going on, I just woke up, rolled over, and went back to sleep.
But then it's a natural event, and the British are excellent at overreacting to that sort of thing. Just wait for it to snow again, and watch the entire country grind to a halt.
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Providing recipies for spam flavoured muffins.
Mmmmm... malicious
Most modern DNS servers will automatically update their hints file each time they're restarted, by making a request to whichever root they connected to for the current list.
So if you know the actual problem, why are you trolling with the OMG - it doesn't work crap?
Every computer I've installed Ubuntu on in the last couple of years has worked perfectly, unless it required a proprietry driver to get some piece of hardware working, and you can hardly blame the people writing kernel modules if someone won't give them the specs for their hardware.
That was indeed the difference engine at the Science Museum.
Which reminds me, I should head down there some evening. I've not been since I moved to London.
To claim that the British government is turning Nazi would be a little extreme, but I'm starting to doubt that the top levels are trying to help anybody but themselves.
There's no state sanctioned violence against Jews, but reading about how to make explosives is enough to get you taken into custody without charge. I got stop by police in Heathrow, and asked for identification, while waiting for a plane.
According to the piece of paper I was handed telling me about it, they need due cause to stop you. Or they can just claim it's related to terroism, and do whatever they like.
And then of course you've got Gordan Brown, who was "promised" the job of prime minister for several years... that's not exactly my idea of democracy.
We have a server here with an uptime of > 3 years.
No ones even sure what it does anymore (if anything), but it has the company uptime record, which saved it from being powered down last time we were clearing out unneeded machines from the data center.
Remember - it's not rape if you shout surprise first ;)
Why does making money have to rule out any chance of also making products that will benefit people.
I think dolls (and toys in general) are one of the few products where advertising will actually make a difference to sales levels.
Kids watching TV will see an advert for Bratz dolls, and then go screaming to mummy or daddy about how they want one. If enough children do that, then everyone else they know also needs one, because they won't be able to play with their friends otherwise.
I have a feeling that they could be just as successful making dolls that don't promote being a shallow idiot.
I wish I had some mod points, because that's a fine summing up of the working life.
I always work on the basis that if the good days happen more often then the bad, then I'm happy with my job, and should stick around.
Once the bad days start to happen more then the good, it's time to start looking for a new job, because I'll be damned if I'm going to spend 8 hours a day doing something I'm not happy with.
I've seen the effects doing that have on me, and no amount of money can make you happy in the long term.
I don't have any kids, but my brother is about to finish high school, and my advice for him is to find something that he enjoys doing, and find a way to make money from it. If it doesn't work out, try something else, and eventually you'll end up somewhere you're happy, and things just fall into place from there.
If it gets to you that IT is a neccesary evil, go and work for a company that specialises in IT.
The first couple of years of working, I was at a small design agency run by a man who didn't really understand computers. All he knew was that he needed to be able to do websites to stay in business, so he hired some developers, and assumed we worked in the same way as graphic designers.
We clashed horribly, because he seemed to think that you could just "do things faster" if sales happened to promise we'd have everything done by the end of the day.
I'm now working for an ISP, started in the CEO's basement, and life is a whole heap more satisfying - if you've had to spend all day debugging something, then the managers can understand why (unless it was a genuine fuck up), because they can all write code themselves.
I'm one of the few people who is actually quite looking forward to the coming rush of outsourcing IT work, because the company I'm working for is one of the ones that is set up and ready to take on the work. We're already the sysadmins for several large companies, and it wouldn't surprise me if we start moving into being a full-blown outsourced IT department soon.
I'd rather be working for myself, but until I'm in a position to do so, I'm quite happy here.
No.
White, high school (equivalent) education, and in the UK.
Things like American Idol just piss me off. To many people jumping up and down screaming to be rich and famous because it's their right.
What happened to people becoming rich and famous because they worked hard, rather then managing to get the most phone in votes on a Saturday evening?
That's ok, they don't actually have to port it anyway - the Mono project has already done that for them.
.Net is the right tool for most users anyway
.Net interface allows some pretty powerful features to be added to Office.
I'm not convinced that
If you've got an inhouse development team, or money to contract some development out, then using a real development environment makes a lot of sense, and the
Your average Excel user doesn't want to sit down and learn a new language though, they just want their spreadsheets to work, and in most environments, that's the sort of person doing any "development".
Yup. It's got amino acids. Five of them.
The different colours does faintly make sense due to vitamins, but it's just symptomatic of people's blind belief in advertising.
You know the whole "5 a day" bullshit? According to my doctor the reccomended amount of fruit and veg to get (at minimum, more isn't going to hurt) is 12 portions a week.
But of course then the supermarkets wouldn't sell as much fruit and veg, and yoghurt makers couldn't slap a "we have the bare minimum of fruit" sticker on the lid to get people eating one everyday.
And then of course you have all these "friendly bacteria" drinks... if the bacteria in your stomach needs topping up every day, how the fuck have we survived thousands of years without tiny bottles of milk to keep us going?
I stand corrected - it was indeed 2006 looking at the advisory again.
I speak from experience here... if you put down the bong, and watch something with some actual content, then that's less likely to happen
God that crap pisses me off. My flatmate does it all the time, and in the UK the ad breaks aren't even that long.
If I spend any ammount of time watching TV with him, my head will be stuffed with information on how the Blue Breasted Chiggalillys of China are building a huge port out at sea to prevent the allies from getting the most votes for Nancy.
All I can say is thank God I can record TV on my laptop and actually watch a whole show.
You download TV, and then decide to watch American Idol?
Do feel free to jump in front of the nearest bus. You'll be doing the genepool a favour. Maybe if we get enough people removing themselves, "I should be famous because my mummy loves me" TV will slowly die out.
I kind of enjoy the pseudo-science adverts... in a "my God, is anyone stupid enough to believe that" way.
"Eat as many colours of fruit and veg as you can"
"Now with pentapeptides"
"6 blades and a vibrating massage strip"
That combined with the volume increase for adverts is usually enough to make me just turn off the TV, and wait until my computer has finished recording the program so I can edit out adverts.
No, not really.
But then I buy my beer to drink it, rather then to jerk off into it.
I think you've hit the nail on the head there.
The problem isn't that people are buying things, it's that they're buying things that are truly unneccesary, and in some cases actually harmful.
Taking the example of Bratz dolls, if I had children, I wouldn't even consider buying them. As far as I can see, they're teaching children that being succesful is the same as being famous. For any reason, no matter how degrading.
It appears that society agrees though. The person named as the most popular role model in the UK for teenage girls recently was Amy Winehouse. Which leads me to think I should probably leave the country, before another generation of kids grow up who believe they're entitled to fame just because they exist, instead of having to work for it. After all, if Amy can do it just by getting wasted in front of cameras now and again, why shouldn't they?
If my CA issued me with an insecure certificate, then I'd expect them to be reissuing for free whatever there usual policy is.
Sure as hell I wouldn't be paying for the priviledge of having a known problem fixed - especially since it doesn't actually cost them anything more then a process or two to regenerate a certificate.
I don't know about a full blown certificate agency, but where I'm working it shouldn't be too much work, since we use CF Engine to distribute certificates out to our servers from a central repository.
It would still be nice if we didn't have to fix problems caused by some idiot with no understanding of crypto though.
Downloading the patch is step one - you also need to regenerate any certificates made with OpenSSL since 2005, since they can't be guaranteed to be secure.
This has the potential to turn into a huge pain in the arse for Debian based shops, who will need to reissue SSL certificates, SSH keys, and a whole host of other essential elements of their security infrastructure.
Thanks for the reminder - I live in London, and it was all anyone could talk about all day.
I was kind of pissed that all it managed to do was wake me up. Not in the sense that I knew what was going on, I just woke up, rolled over, and went back to sleep.
But then it's a natural event, and the British are excellent at overreacting to that sort of thing. Just wait for it to snow again, and watch the entire country grind to a halt.
That's always been the case - Windows has a habit of overwriting your MBR, causing Grub to stop loading.