Was the "one day it just stopped and has never worked since" around distribution upgrade time, perhaps? Of course a reinstall of linux with a backed up home directory is both faster, easier, and safer than the same under windows...
You have to go back to the old Sun OS and BSD stuff of the 80s. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SunOS The old Sun workstations (and sun workstations http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SUN_workstation ) were very popular at universities. Unix then was kind of a closed and open source. It was commercial, but everyone who bought the hardware had the source code. So patches commonly went beck in if they were good. When virtual memory started extending shutdown times, some shorter commands were needed. Especially when there was an environmental reason to shutdown and save your work NOW. I am not sure, but I think "shutdown -rfn" was actually in common use before fsck was.
Funny, now that I look back... Early VMS and Unix was a community a lot like modern open source. Probably because it started with a lot of the same people, and GNU was cheaper.
What kind of lame joke is that? Having a lot of storage is now limited to the Microsoft crowd? Can Linux not handle 2TB? My computer at home has a 2TB RAID array. Is it necessary to work for Microsoft if you want to run a TB or more of storage? Most NAS devices are 1TB or more.
Hell, Seagate has a 1.5TB Barracuda drive for less than $150. So are you saying that you need to work for Microsoft in order to afford a $150 drive, or are you saying that only Windows is capable of using a drive that size? I'm confused where you think the humor is.
It was a joke about code bloat, of which Microsoft has been a leader for quite some time. But you are right in that now I could say Mozilla, or many other places. And while size goes up, transfer speeds do not. That is why so many operating systems take so long to boot, and so many programs take so long to load. You thinking of "space is cheap, use it all" doesn't factor in the other costs, like speed, power use, and the fact that I may want to store other things too... Efficiency is a good thing.
Yeah, things like this would happen, but also, how easy would it be for a small but dedicated group of pranksters to deliberately behave in odd, amusing or offensive ways to train the AIs?
AI09 says "I herd u leik tentacle pr0n"
You have to have been involved when it occurred. There is a reason -f is skip fsck, not just fsck. We knew what it meant, but we had to have something to put in the manual.
Only to sites already cached. The more unusual sites would just be all gone. What do you bet http://downforeveryoneorjustme.com/ is not cached by your DNS server right now?
Just played it again, and now that you mentioned it, the graphics do look dated. But at the time, I was too into the game to notice. And I would get the rewrite, or reboot.
So you are saying that looking at all of the slashdot code, and actually understanding it breaks your mind? Well that explains this nasty system choking javascript then.
They are suing him and others. But he is the only one it the courts venue... What they get from suing him is securing a friendly venue. But in Texas, judges are positions voted on. Piss off the residents, and look for a new job.
First of all there is no requirement that you be profiting from copyright infringement for you to have broken the law. And secondly, how exactly would one make a profit from downloading a song?
This may surprise you, but the law is not the same in every country. In spite of industry attempts...
Selling an AK for self/home defense is kind of misguided. The slug from an AK will cut through interior walls with relative ease and remain intact even after several trajectory altering contacts. Not a caliber of choice for indoor use.
If you are outside, shooting in, it's great though.
Horses for courses... It would be a bad choice for apartment dwellers. But on a country home on 12 acres (like he mentioned in the video) it is a good choice. And frangible rounds are helpful in dense environments.
Also many people get stuck on how the gun looks... A CZ-52 pistol has far more penetration than an AR-15, but the AR-15 gets all the bad press.
MSI Eclipse SLI - one of the top gaming mobos right now. Well known to brick themselves during BIOS updates regardless of the method used. Had to RMA mine but all was well once they sent me a working and updated one.
RMA for a BIOS update? And people thought a floppy was bad...
It looks more like a routing problem with ACT 2000, which in in Antigua with them. Also google shows nothing about them being down, so it is probably recent. If it isn't up later tonight, I have a Slashdot story to submit!:)
This might be a nuisance, but I actually BOUGHT both of those motherboards with the intention of using those power saving features... in Linux! I couldn't take them back for a refund, the manufacturer told me too bad, so I'm stuck with them.
Oh, yes you can. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Implied_warranty In your case, Warranty of Fitness. And you can bring this case in a local JP court without an attorney, and include your costs to do so. Usually the threat is enough.
The reason that they get away with it is that we let them.
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I thought it was "Think Different, just like everyone else"
Is it set to that old King Missile song?
Was the "one day it just stopped and has never worked since" around distribution upgrade time, perhaps? Of course a reinstall of linux with a backed up home directory is both faster, easier, and safer than the same under windows...
I'm going to go out on a limb and say that 2% unemployment is more healthy than 15% unemployment...
And morbid obesity is healthier than starving to death. There is a middle ground that is better than both.
I mean, come on, this is just begging for some steam punk artwork!
You have to go back to the old Sun OS and BSD stuff of the 80s. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SunOS The old Sun workstations (and sun workstations http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SUN_workstation ) were very popular at universities. Unix then was kind of a closed and open source. It was commercial, but everyone who bought the hardware had the source code. So patches commonly went beck in if they were good. When virtual memory started extending shutdown times, some shorter commands were needed. Especially when there was an environmental reason to shutdown and save your work NOW. I am not sure, but I think "shutdown -rfn" was actually in common use before fsck was.
Funny, now that I look back... Early VMS and Unix was a community a lot like modern open source. Probably because it started with a lot of the same people, and GNU was cheaper.
What kind of lame joke is that? Having a lot of storage is now limited to the Microsoft crowd? Can Linux not handle 2TB? My computer at home has a 2TB RAID array. Is it necessary to work for Microsoft if you want to run a TB or more of storage? Most NAS devices are 1TB or more.
Hell, Seagate has a 1.5TB Barracuda drive for less than $150. So are you saying that you need to work for Microsoft in order to afford a $150 drive, or are you saying that only Windows is capable of using a drive that size? I'm confused where you think the humor is.
It was a joke about code bloat, of which Microsoft has been a leader for quite some time. But you are right in that now I could say Mozilla, or many other places. And while size goes up, transfer speeds do not. That is why so many operating systems take so long to boot, and so many programs take so long to load. You thinking of "space is cheap, use it all" doesn't factor in the other costs, like speed, power use, and the fact that I may want to store other things too... Efficiency is a good thing.
I just bought a 2TB hard drive for a trivial sum. Hard drive constraints should never be a concern these days.
So how is it working for Microsoft?
Yeah, things like this would happen, but also, how easy would it be for a small but dedicated group of pranksters to deliberately behave in odd, amusing or offensive ways to train the AIs? AI09 says "I herd u leik tentacle pr0n"
I thought you said odd...
You have to have been involved when it occurred. There is a reason -f is skip fsck, not just fsck. We knew what it meant, but we had to have something to put in the manual.
Remember when "shutdown -rfn" would work? Ahh... The days of youth.
Only to sites already cached. The more unusual sites would just be all gone. What do you bet http://downforeveryoneorjustme.com/ is not cached by your DNS server right now?
Where do we buy or steel these "fresh ideas" you speak of?
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Spaceward Ho!
But I have no idea how to reboot that one.
Just played it again, and now that you mentioned it, the graphics do look dated. But at the time, I was too into the game to notice. And I would get the rewrite, or reboot.
:)
By the way, this last time I played it in WINE.
So you are saying that looking at all of the slashdot code, and actually understanding it breaks your mind? Well that explains this nasty system choking javascript then.
They are suing him and others. But he is the only one it the courts venue... What they get from suing him is securing a friendly venue. But in Texas, judges are positions voted on. Piss off the residents, and look for a new job.
First of all there is no requirement that you be profiting from copyright infringement for you to have broken the law. And secondly, how exactly would one make a profit from downloading a song?
This may surprise you, but the law is not the same in every country. In spite of industry attempts...
Selling an AK for self/home defense is kind of misguided. The slug from an AK will cut through interior walls with relative ease and remain intact even after several trajectory altering contacts. Not a caliber of choice for indoor use.
If you are outside, shooting in, it's great though.
Horses for courses... It would be a bad choice for apartment dwellers. But on a country home on 12 acres (like he mentioned in the video) it is a good choice. And frangible rounds are helpful in dense environments.
Also many people get stuck on how the gun looks... A CZ-52 pistol has far more penetration than an AR-15, but the AR-15 gets all the bad press.
Well, in this case, it would for you. Like I do my best to ignore Desperate Housewives, so it doesn't bother me at all.
MSI Eclipse SLI - one of the top gaming mobos right now. Well known to brick themselves during BIOS updates regardless of the method used. Had to RMA mine but all was well once they sent me a working and updated one.
RMA for a BIOS update? And people thought a floppy was bad...
It looks more like a routing problem with ACT 2000, which in in Antigua with them. Also google shows nothing about them being down, so it is probably recent. If it isn't up later tonight, I have a Slashdot story to submit! :)
If you wants last weeks, you can get it in seconds on Hulu. Now if you want season 1, you will have a long wait.
That is a gap they can fill, but they refuse to do so reasonably.
This might be a nuisance, but I actually BOUGHT both of those motherboards with the intention of using those power saving features... in Linux! I couldn't take them back for a refund, the manufacturer told me too bad, so I'm stuck with them.
Oh, yes you can. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Implied_warranty In your case, Warranty of Fitness. And you can bring this case in a local JP court without an attorney, and include your costs to do so. Usually the threat is enough.
The reason that they get away with it is that we let them.
And yet, somehow you found the time to post to his article. Perhaps you doth protest too much... :)
This isn't such an annoying issue anymore. Most BIOSes these days have a built-in flasher, and can read the BIOS from any local FAT filesystem...
Oh, damn. Here come the Microsoft lawyers...