So you prefer a significant other that does not like going bowling with you? The one that likes to watch a movie with you not, hmm? The one that you leave at home when you go rock climbing? You will talk to her but she will stare blankly when you try to explain how you saved the day with an elegant SQL query? The one that does not see a difference between Wolfenstein3D and Battlefield?
I've submitted the story. I'm so sorry I could not deliver a more newsworthy eruption. I'll do my best next time to at last bring the GPS satellites down.
To discover how something works I turn to the documentation. If it wasn't for a random page on the Internet I would have no chance to discover that "Win32_Products" is the class that i need. Yes, PowerShell is a powerful tool, but there is too much of various objects that I might encounter. I will need object X today and Y in a month and they have nothing in common - except perhaps the formatting/selecting cmdlets. In Linux I learned at about 20 utils 15 years ago (binutils/textutils/fileutils)|. Just a basic form of those - and I can quickly find out any advanced options for them in a man page. They all work with files and text stream. And I can accomplish every task with them by just re-using the same utils. I don't have to discover what do they return.
P.S.: It seems to me that for some reason you assume that -e option for one program (e.g. grep) has something to do with -e option for some other/unrelated program (e.g. ps). Why would one expect that is beyond me.
-- I love the undecipherable command-line wizardry. I'm not an idiot, but how-the-fuck would I know what "-e" does on some random command? There is just no way without trawling through man pages using a command-line reader with no mouse support and keyboard shortcuts I don't know. Compare this to a sample PowerShell pipeline "Get-Process -Name 'n*' | sort -Descending PagedMemorySize". You'd have a hard time finding an IT engineer that can't figure out what that does.
Once a year I hit a task that makes me think "this could be probably best done with PowerShell". Last time it was: list installed packages and their versions. So I fire up PowerShell window and... have no idea how to solve the task. So I start googling and find out that what I want is Get-WmiObject. That can list a lot of things including the installed software. That is decided by the parameter "-Class" which should be followed by a string. The allowed values of that string can be obtained by running "Get-WmiObject -List". There is 1024 of them! And can be probably more depending on your system. Of course the documentation does not list them. The right one in my case was probably "Win32_Product". But I have no idea whether it really lists all that I want or only software from MS or only software installed using.msi, or 32-bit software or software that made the Right Thing(tm) during installation,...
So perhaps the linux commandline arguments look undecipherable to you. But I'll take them over PowerShell any day.
I have a harddisk in the drawer that has fallen on the floor in 1997 and makes a rattling noise when powered up. I have some very personal files there that I would love to get back...
Buying X MB of data transfer actually means that you expect to need Y MB of data where Y < X but you pay for X when you actually should only pay for Y. For a consumer it is obviously disadvantageous. But your comment suggests that you want more of that.
You know why you know that? Because your/. id has 4 digits. The users with 4 digits in id have seen those shenanigans. Or more likely heard about them from sub-4-digit users when they get high.
Unless someone boots from a USB stick. Or get's hold of an old backup media. Or.... I encrypt my sensitive documents regardless of whether they are in my home directory or not.
Over here (central Europe) it is a standard bank service that I tell to the bank "company XY may draw once a month a sum of money up to S from my account". Works for electricity, phone, ISP,... The company XY does not have unfettered access to my account. I set up the S to be 1.5-times of the usual sum. Apart from occasional check that everything is right I don't have care about the whole thing at all. I'm in favor of going paperless. My bank actually e-mails the monthly balance sheet PGP encrypted. Some companies send e-mails with encrypted PDF or ZIP attachment.
That said, there are agreements that countries have signed regarding use of airspace, so this is indeed highly irregular, even if it is not actually an act of war.
I would really enjoy if you could let your imagination loose and describe what would happen if Air Force One was forced to land and some peon expressed the desire to search, uh sorry, to have a nice cup of coffee inside.
We're doing it to them and they're doing it to us.
Oh really? Do you have anything to backup a story that EU or perhaps NATO members are spying on US? I mean bugging-US-Embassy level, not compiling-newspaper-articles level, of course. Oh boy, now that would be a Story with capital S I would love to see.
they monitor the kinect camera, and they can see which ads have an effect and are watched.
That's great, isn't it? They can learn that no ads have an affect and no ads are watched and it's pointless trying to cram more of them down my throat.
I'm a FOSS proponent and long time Linux user. But (or perhaps because of that) I don't believe in the "many eyes" mantra. How many people, do you think, really know how OpenSSL works inside? Or mozilla password manager? Or any other similar project? While the code is out there for everyone to see, the number of people that really know how it works inside and have solid background in cryptography can be counted on fingers on your hands. And I don't even start on readability of that code. I tried.
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As I suggested earlier, it's a new motto of US: "What are they going to do about that? Attack?"
So you prefer a significant other that does not like going bowling with you? The one that likes to watch a movie with you not, hmm? The one that you leave at home when you go rock climbing? You will talk to her but she will stare blankly when you try to explain how you saved the day with an elegant SQL query? The one that does not see a difference between Wolfenstein3D and Battlefield?
How is that cheating? I thought that is a simple demand and supply rule.
I've submitted the story. I'm so sorry I could not deliver a more newsworthy eruption. I'll do my best next time to at last bring the GPS satellites down.
Those who would give up Essential Liberty to purchase a little Temporary Safety, deserve neither Liberty nor Safety. -- Benjamin Franklin
Wait ... what?
Don't know. But they damn sure know how to multiply.
To discover how something works I turn to the documentation. If it wasn't for a random page on the Internet I would have no chance to discover that "Win32_Products" is the class that i need. Yes, PowerShell is a powerful tool, but there is too much of various objects that I might encounter. I will need object X today and Y in a month and they have nothing in common - except perhaps the formatting/selecting cmdlets. In Linux I learned at about 20 utils 15 years ago (binutils/textutils/fileutils)|. Just a basic form of those - and I can quickly find out any advanced options for them in a man page. They all work with files and text stream. And I can accomplish every task with them by just re-using the same utils. I don't have to discover what do they return.
P.S.: It seems to me that for some reason you assume that -e option for one program (e.g. grep) has something to do with -e option for some other/unrelated program (e.g. ps). Why would one expect that is beyond me.
Once a year I hit a task that makes me think "this could be probably best done with PowerShell". Last time it was: list installed packages and their versions. So I fire up PowerShell window and ... have no idea how to solve the task. So I start googling and find out that what I want is Get-WmiObject. That can list a lot of things including the installed software. That is decided by the parameter "-Class" which should be followed by a string. The allowed values of that string can be obtained by running "Get-WmiObject -List". There is 1024 of them! And can be probably more depending on your system. Of course the documentation does not list them. The right one in my case was probably "Win32_Product". But I have no idea whether it really lists all that I want or only software from MS or only software installed using .msi, or 32-bit software or software that made the Right Thing(tm) during installation, ...
So perhaps the linux commandline arguments look undecipherable to you. But I'll take them over PowerShell any day.
I have a harddisk in the drawer that has fallen on the floor in 1997 and makes a rattling noise when powered up. I have some very personal files there that I would love to get back ...
In my experience the smb:// kioslave crashes often and fish:// (i.e. ssh) kioslave is quite slow to read directory content.
Buying X MB of data transfer actually means that you expect to need Y MB of data where Y < X but you pay for X when you actually should only pay for Y. For a consumer it is obviously disadvantageous. But your comment suggests that you want more of that.
Name three things that cannot be exchanged for real cash.
You know why you know that? Because your /. id has 4 digits. The users with 4 digits in id have seen those shenanigans. Or more likely heard about them from sub-4-digit users when they get high.
Unless someone boots from a USB stick. Or get's hold of an old backup media. Or .... I encrypt my sensitive documents regardless of whether they are in my home directory or not.
You get amazing footage?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZmXTsxxT9po
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rxPaUUaxGlM
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r0RCYUa3Kbg
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YXnOzsRaYU0
Over here (central Europe) it is a standard bank service that I tell to the bank "company XY may draw once a month a sum of money up to S from my account". Works for electricity, phone, ISP, ... The company XY does not have unfettered access to my account. I set up the S to be 1.5-times of the usual sum. Apart from occasional check that everything is right I don't have care about the whole thing at all. I'm in favor of going paperless. My bank actually e-mails the monthly balance sheet PGP encrypted. Some companies send e-mails with encrypted PDF or ZIP attachment.
Btw, I was missing also the 1753 pounds conversion: that seems to be at about 760kg.
Like when some heavily armed Apache helicopters enter the airspace of a sovereign country and head in direction of the capital city?
Is that a new motto of US State Department? That would clarify a lot.
I would really enjoy if you could let your imagination loose and describe what would happen if Air Force One was forced to land and some peon expressed the desire to search, uh sorry, to have a nice cup of coffee inside.
Oh really? Do you have anything to backup a story that EU or perhaps NATO members are spying on US? I mean bugging-US-Embassy level, not compiling-newspaper-articles level, of course. Oh boy, now that would be a Story with capital S I would love to see.
That's great, isn't it? They can learn that no ads have an affect and no ads are watched and it's pointless trying to cram more of them down my throat.
True. Except he is fugitive from USA. That makes him special. Or can you point out dozens of such?
I'm a FOSS proponent and long time Linux user. But (or perhaps because of that) I don't believe in the "many eyes" mantra. How many people, do you think, really know how OpenSSL works inside? Or mozilla password manager? Or any other similar project? While the code is out there for everyone to see, the number of people that really know how it works inside and have solid background in cryptography can be counted on fingers on your hands. And I don't even start on readability of that code. I tried.
Isn't then the knife a weapon of mass destruction too?