Stalingrad, Hiroshima, Dresden are no comparison. I am from New York, and I can say that a few square blocks is awful, but nothing close to an entire city. I was recently in Italy. We passed through Terni on the way to Spoleto. Almost all of the towns we passed were old Medieval towns. Terni had almost no old buildings. Most looked like they were built in the 50s. Then I read that during WW2 it was reduced to rubble. That is true widespread destruction.
If I sign a piece of paper in front of witnesses that gives you complete legal authorization for you to kill me and you do so, you still go to jail for murder.
Digital's good for some things, film's for others. When you can have a near-grainless 16x20 from digital as you can from Velvia, I will believe it.
If you want a picture to send to grandma or even an 8x10 enlargement of a good color photograph, then it's probably even with a good scanner and printer. I scan color pictures that I take that did not quite come out right in print, and photoshop does it justice. Just that printing beyond 8x10 is not there yet, but I haven't tried Pictography.
When digital can do all that B&W custom processing can do, then I will be very impressed. Currently, B&W comes out flat flat flat, but acceptable for a snapshot.
When there is a Foveon-like full-35mm-frame 11+MP chip as fast as CCD, then we are talking a much more level playing field. When I can afford all that in a Canon SLR, then I go buy one:)
1) patchck and Patch Manager both suck. I use patch bundles from Sun, which RH lacks. up2date sucks if you are not a paying customer and traffic is high (such as with any popular security problem). apt-get rocks.
2)Install in/usr/local and put that first in path. I have never had to manage the Solaris default Perl. CPAN works with the/usr/local copy and all the solaris perl-dependent scripts have/bin/perl hardcoded in the shebang.
3)Solaris package system needs improvement, but I have learned to like it. PKZIP? What are you talking about? The Sol pkg format is a bunch of directories, a checksum/mapping file, and an info file. It is not zipped. Neither are datastreams made by pkgtrans. The BSD pkg format is a tar.gz file, and I find that it's the simplest out there.
4)SDS is mildly retarded in that you really should have more than 3 disks for the state databases not to barf all over the place if you lose a disk. I am no fan of the Linux version, either, though. Veritas is my friend, but is $$$.
5)UFS non-default journaling pisses me off.
6)HP-UX is one of the most irritating operating systems ever invented. God, it does not come with a trace utility, nor a sniffer, and iostat has ONE option. Some Solaris tunables are dynamic, in that you can use adb (hahaha) to do it. I wish Sun would do sysctl.
7)Oh you mean like/usr/bin/ta? Well that's nothing. Try every unix distro in the world having/usr/bin/ed in it. Ed, along with nroff, were on AT&T Unix version 1.0.0
8)Agreed, but won't happen for backwards compat reasons. Sun just got around to adding the -h option to things like df and du in Sol 9. I don't blame Sun for all of that stuff thought: OpenSSH no longer supports ports, so Sun did the right thing with distributing thier own version with Sol 9, and even not trying to do privsep until the wrinkles are ironed out. As for the other GNU utils, Sol 9 comes with some on the stock OS and on the Companion CD. Though Sol 9 comes with Gnu equivs prefixed with "g" which makes the need for a for loop to wrap "ln" to symlink to the proper names. Unfortunately they need to include SysV tar to untar all of the old SysV tars out there!
9)I have sucessfully avoided using Sun as an X terminal for years. Long live Linux, FreeBSD and (recently) cygwin.
10)See 8) Perhaps GNU should work on being compatible with all the SysV variants of it's utils? I doubt that would work in practice though. RMS would throw a clot.
11)Sun emasculated Linux by not supporting it for high-end server features. Once Linux can do Dynamic System Domains, DR and AP on SPARC, it will be a landmark point for Linux.
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Stalingrad, Hiroshima, Dresden are no comparison. I am from New York, and I can say that a few square blocks is awful, but nothing close to an entire city. I was recently in Italy. We passed through Terni on the way to Spoleto. Almost all of the towns we passed were old Medieval towns. Terni had almost no old buildings. Most looked like they were built in the 50s. Then I read that during WW2 it was reduced to rubble. That is true widespread destruction.
If I sign a piece of paper in front of witnesses that gives you complete legal authorization for you to kill me and you do so, you still go to jail for murder.
Digital's good for some things, film's for others. When you can have a near-grainless 16x20 from digital as you can from Velvia, I will believe it.
:)
If you want a picture to send to grandma or even an 8x10 enlargement of a good color photograph, then it's probably even with a good scanner and printer. I scan color pictures that I take that did not quite come out right in print, and photoshop does it justice. Just that printing beyond 8x10 is not there yet, but I haven't tried Pictography.
When digital can do all that B&W custom processing can do, then I will be very impressed. Currently, B&W comes out flat flat flat, but acceptable for a snapshot.
When there is a Foveon-like full-35mm-frame 11+MP chip as fast as CCD, then we are talking a much more level playing field. When I can afford all that in a Canon SLR, then I go buy one
1) patchck and Patch Manager both suck. I use patch bundles from Sun, which RH lacks. up2date sucks if you are not a paying customer and traffic is high (such as with any popular security problem). apt-get rocks.
/usr/local and put that first in path. I have never had to manage the Solaris default Perl. CPAN works with the /usr/local copy and all the solaris perl-dependent scripts have /bin/perl hardcoded in the shebang.
/usr/bin/ta? Well that's nothing. Try every unix distro in the world having /usr/bin/ed in it. Ed, along with nroff, were on AT&T Unix version 1.0.0
2)Install in
3)Solaris package system needs improvement, but I have learned to like it. PKZIP? What are you talking about? The Sol pkg format is a bunch of directories, a checksum/mapping file, and an info file. It is not zipped. Neither are datastreams made by pkgtrans. The BSD pkg format is a tar.gz file, and I find that it's the simplest out there.
4)SDS is mildly retarded in that you really should have more than 3 disks for the state databases not to barf all over the place if you lose a disk. I am no fan of the Linux version, either, though. Veritas is my friend, but is $$$.
5)UFS non-default journaling pisses me off.
6)HP-UX is one of the most irritating operating systems ever invented. God, it does not come with a trace utility, nor a sniffer, and iostat has ONE option. Some Solaris tunables are dynamic, in that you can use adb (hahaha) to do it. I wish Sun would do sysctl.
7)Oh you mean like
8)Agreed, but won't happen for backwards compat reasons. Sun just got around to adding the -h option to things like df and du in Sol 9. I don't blame Sun for all of that stuff thought: OpenSSH no longer supports ports, so Sun did the right thing with distributing thier own version with Sol 9, and even not trying to do privsep until the wrinkles are ironed out. As for the other GNU utils, Sol 9 comes with some on the stock OS and on the Companion CD. Though Sol 9 comes with Gnu equivs prefixed with "g" which makes the need for a for loop to wrap "ln" to symlink to the proper names. Unfortunately they need to include SysV tar to untar all of the old SysV tars out there!
9)I have sucessfully avoided using Sun as an X terminal for years. Long live Linux, FreeBSD and (recently) cygwin.
10)See 8) Perhaps GNU should work on being compatible with all the SysV variants of it's utils? I doubt that would work in practice though. RMS would throw a clot.
11)Sun emasculated Linux by not supporting it for high-end server features. Once Linux can do Dynamic System Domains, DR and AP on SPARC, it will be a landmark point for Linux.
Uhhh....
Contax N Digital anyone?