I use dead OS's. All the time. They don't know there dead.
[Prepares to slapped down -1: Flamebait] Yeah, well, with *BSD, it's kinda like large animal... it takes a while for the message that it's dead to travel through the nervous system and the brain to take notice of it.
Most people running these new kernels are doing so on a server, not the desktop.
Where do you run your server? Just so I can avoid ever getting any hosting there, since you obviously have a fetish for upgrading everything to the latest unstable releases.
Although having said that I'm running 2.6.0-test2 (On my desktop. And I finished setting it up yesterday.) and everything is running smoothly (more smoothly... the preemptive kernel is quick.)
It does annoy me though when people who are meant to know what they're doing don't, and continue not to know what they're doing. I work at computer training centre as the Sysadmin, which comes with support for the clients from "you've got your mouse upside down" (try saying that to someone without lauging), to "WTF? How did you manage to start a recalibration of the smart board, it's not even plugged into the machine." and the clients will learn.
The staff (the ones meant to do the teaching) don't - two or three times a week I'll show one member of staff how to do something, and everytime I have to explain that a menu is the bit at the top of the window (which is what the program is in). The first couple of times I thought they just needed some time to let it sink in. I'm bored of explaining it now, they simply aren't listening to me, and I have better things to do with my time than walk them through Windows 101. Such as getting the Exchange server back online again.
It was a figure of speech - I meant to *ask* them, and make sure they know there's a market out there.
And I have in fact made the decision between two games in the past based on one of them having Linux support, and the other not. I also let the developers of both games know about that.
Well gee, my biggest annoyance with Windows is that it doesn't run Linux games.
That's not a Linux annoyance, that's a game developers annoyance - if you want to play games on Linux, then bitch at the developers... get some friends to bitch at them as well, and suddenly the developers will see a market.
Who decided that white on black was the right colour combination for one of the biggest mailing list archives out there?
Did someone really sit down and say "Hey, we're building a site where people are gonna sit and read large ammounts of text. How about we choose the worst combination of colours for long term reading known to man."
Being able to play games is irrelavent to this discussion on using Linux in Windows based *office* though.
I don't know about you, but I certainly wouldn't be happy to hear people I'm paying money to do work for me complain that the new IT infrastructure doesn't let them play games on the day of release.
If you've got at least a DHCP server running, you can use a Gentoo live CD for it. It's not ideal, since you have to go through the Gentoo install sequence, but I guess if you're looking for something like that, you're gonna be customising anyway.
When you boot a Gentoo Live CD, it starts an SSH server on whatever address it picks up.
[DISCLAIMER: I don't actually use Gentoo, although I did for a while.]
Have you tried using those things for anything other than presentations and watching movies? It's horrible.
Or maybe that's just the one we have at work, which I actually have to use for real stuff every now and then when I'm setting up the interactive whiteboard.
The people who want to RP (clearly the minority) need to get together and do it, and fight off the barbarians if they try to invade (the non-RPers).
Now there's an idea - treat the non-RPers as an element of the RP world. Treat them literally as barbarians who don't speak your language, and kill them on sight - they'd quickly learn not to cross the borders on their own.
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[Prepares to slapped down -1: Flamebait]
Yeah, well, with *BSD, it's kinda like large animal... it takes a while for the message that it's dead to travel through the nervous system and the brain to take notice of it.
Well, if you insist, but only cos I'm bored.
"No, you shouldn't have done."
Thankyou, I hadn't been made aware of this before, it's good to know.
Where do you run your server? Just so I can avoid ever getting any hosting there, since you obviously have a fetish for upgrading everything to the latest unstable releases.
Although having said that I'm running 2.6.0-test2 (On my desktop. And I finished setting it up yesterday.) and everything is running smoothly (more smoothly... the preemptive kernel is quick.)
Someone noticed.
It does annoy me though when people who are meant to know what they're doing don't, and continue not to know what they're doing. I work at computer training centre as the Sysadmin, which comes with support for the clients from "you've got your mouse upside down" (try saying that to someone without lauging), to "WTF? How did you manage to start a recalibration of the smart board, it's not even plugged into the machine." and the clients will learn.
The staff (the ones meant to do the teaching) don't - two or three times a week I'll show one member of staff how to do something, and everytime I have to explain that a menu is the bit at the top of the window (which is what the program is in). The first couple of times I thought they just needed some time to let it sink in. I'm bored of explaining it now, they simply aren't listening to me, and I have better things to do with my time than walk them through Windows 101. Such as getting the Exchange server back online again.
It was a figure of speech - I meant to *ask* them, and make sure they know there's a market out there.
And I have in fact made the decision between two games in the past based on one of them having Linux support, and the other not. I also let the developers of both games know about that.
Well gee, my biggest annoyance with Windows is that it doesn't run Linux games.
That's not a Linux annoyance, that's a game developers annoyance - if you want to play games on Linux, then bitch at the developers... get some friends to bitch at them as well, and suddenly the developers will see a market.
And more to the point - why are you running screen savers on your server in the first place?
Who decided that white on black was the right colour combination for one of the biggest mailing list archives out there?
Did someone really sit down and say "Hey, we're building a site where people are gonna sit and read large ammounts of text. How about we choose the worst combination of colours for long term reading known to man."
Because watching professional level players is a great sight - try it some time if you havn't yet.
"But who would rather watch than play? When all you need is a football, why use the same pitch to be a spectator?"
My guess is there are plenty with SMTP as well... certainly our printer at work talks both SNMP and SMTP.
I saw just the other day a link to an entire OS written in Java, with the commands implemented as classes. JNode
I miss my CyberTool... you've gone and reminded me of what excellent tools they are.
I went and put it down one day, and when I went to pick it back up again, it was gone. Guess it'll teach me to work in a school.
Great timing there... I'm trying not to laugh as someone reports a mugging they were involved in next to me ;)
If you're in a work enviroment, you're there to do work, not to play around with the Latest And Greatest OS.
That's what you have a computer at home for.
Am I the only one who thinks that the people who thought that setting up nimhbattery.com were shooting for a niche from the begining?
;)
I mean come on folks, at least have a wide enough mind to cover *all* types of rechargable battery
Being able to play games is irrelavent to this discussion on using Linux in Windows based *office* though.
I don't know about you, but I certainly wouldn't be happy to hear people I'm paying money to do work for me complain that the new IT infrastructure doesn't let them play games on the day of release.
If you've got at least a DHCP server running, you can use a Gentoo live CD for it. It's not ideal, since you have to go through the Gentoo install sequence, but I guess if you're looking for something like that, you're gonna be customising anyway.
When you boot a Gentoo Live CD, it starts an SSH server on whatever address it picks up.
[DISCLAIMER: I don't actually use Gentoo, although I did for a while.]
Eeeek! NOOOO!
Have you tried using those things for anything other than presentations and watching movies? It's horrible.
Or maybe that's just the one we have at work, which I actually have to use for real stuff every now and then when I'm setting up the interactive whiteboard.
I believe it's a photocopying/printing shop.
Don't quote me on that though.
What's the -4 for?
Although I guess picking up the really bad ones could be funny.
Sorry... too late - you can already integrate Access with IE using web forms.
Next please.
He seems intelligent to me - I sure as hell wouldn't be posting links to a scanned copy of *anything* on Slashdot ;)
As such: ... newbies educate you.
In soviet Russia...
Now there's an idea - treat the non-RPers as an element of the RP world. Treat them literally as barbarians who don't speak your language, and kill them on sight - they'd quickly learn not to cross the borders on their own.