You can only sue for famages. They would have to somehow prove, in dollars, how they were damaged by this. You can't just sue someone because you think what they did was wrong - you have to be damaged by their actions.
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Jesus, moderator, can't you take a joke? I am going to jave Joe Pesci find you and put your head in a vice for this moderation!
Did you disable him in your account settings? I know I did a long time ago, and I had almost forgotten about it, and then I wondered why I didn't see this hellmout series. Then I remembered that I disabled the viewing of his shitty articles. And I was happy.
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So why does every0ne kill themselves there?
Oh, you live in Canada. nevermind.
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I worked in a lab for a year helping people, and I tried to help as much as possible, and I wasn't the one who corrupted their files (even people I didn't care for).
They used floppy disks.
I don't care what anyone says, floppy disks are made like pieces of shit now. They used to be made much better. Floppies were never a sure way to store any data, but they used to be much more durable and longer lasting than they are now. Not sure why the quality has dropped so much, but if anyone knows, I would be interested (other than the obvious price drop).
Still, it was funny to watch people come and try to open a 20 page document on their floppy, then have it fail, and I would have to say there is nothing I can do.
Then I would teach them about network storage... I figured once that had one major fuckup with a floppy, they were all ears to learn a little about what their network drive was for.
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You've got to love the anonymous coward's replies to God himself.
You have a point, but a good IT person should be able to learn just about anything - and a good employer should give them the supplies (time, books, etc.) that they need to learn new skills.
This is true whether you are in a mixed, unix, or linux shop. New technologies evolve rapidly, even if you stay with the same platform. And because of this, I think IT workers should be flexible and learn any technology their employer needs them to.
Right. With things like OSes, it is nearly impossible to give unbiased reviews. It's not like CPU chips where we can run the same exact benchmarks to two different chips, and nearly everything else is the same. OSes are just different enough that of course results can be scewed and biases, on heavily concentrated on thigns one OS does better than the other.
I just know it is a biased source, and read it as such. Just like reading left-wing or right-wing news sources. Just know what you are reading and let the reader think it out for themselves.
Articles like this from a technical source are kind of pointless. Us Unix guys like unix better and see it as a better solution to many problems, and vice versa with the Windows camp.
There are lots of frothing-at-the-mouth microsoft people that are jsut as big as a zealot as some hardcore linux people.
I think the bottom line is still to determine your problem, then determine your solution. For many problems, Linux is the better and cheaper solution.
Example: say all you want to do is store and serve static web pages: I think it would be hard to argue that Windows would have a lower TCO than linux, and linux is trivial to set up these days to perform these tasks.
Another Example: For groupware, one may look at all the software out there, and then go with Windows because it runs Outlook. This is fine - if they need those features and Outlook is a better solution, then that's what they should go with. In another few years, linux will likely be veyr easy to set up like windows is, to do many common tasks. With this will come cheaper admins, and more linux. And at this point, the TCO of linux will have dropped even further, and Microsoft will have to continually adjust their strategy to compete.
Mandrake also has an ia64 port of their distrobution. I just installed it a few weeks ago (version 8.1 I believe).
RedHat does as well, but their installer would lock up at the end of the install every time, with no errors in the install log. I installed Mandrake after I could not get RedHat to install.
Actually, it has been proven numerous times that the tobacco companies add nicotine well above and beyond what comes naturally with tobacco leaves. check it out if you don't believe me.
I have crshed Win2k Advanced server quite a number of times. Here are the latest few I can remember:
Had three downloads coming down with Mozilla, nearly maxing out my connection (each about 700KB/s). Then, the machine bluescreened and said TCPIP.SYS (or something similar to do with networking... i forget exactly what it was) had dumped.
Another instance was when I accidentally started 3 instances of outlook. The machine just bluescreened and rebooted. these are two different machinines. They are dual boot Linux/Win2k, and Linux works fine doing the same (type of) thing.
I have also crashed linux, so don't think I am just trashing the NT kernel. Linux and NT could both use some work to get where some of the commercial unixes are. But, I think Win2k and Linux are fairly solid, but there is definately room for both kernels to improve, and we don't need to get started on the older VM problems either.
I remember one day about a year ago when we managed to crash an N-class HPUX server. I thought the world might end - it is that stable. We found out it was a hardware failure that didn't manifest until several months down the road. Still, HPUX and Sub boxes are a lot more stable than windows or Linux, luckily that gap is getting smaller though and we get more stability for less money.
Yeah I agree. He didn't have good questions to answer in the first place. Garbage in, Garbage out. (or "Shit I/O" as I say).
Let this be a lesson to the crack head mods to really think about modding when the next interview comes up. Ahh, who am i kidding. The mods don't give a flying monkey fucking a football.
Well, he is not so much telling them to embrace open source, but to borrow from them.
More specifically, he thinks Microsoft needs to stop looking over it's shoulder and actually invent and innovate, intead of maintaining the status quo.
He is also saying that Microsoft has not yet realized that software is nearing the end of its life as a shrinkwrapped-box product. It is quickly becoming just a commodity, and part of an overall package.
One other point he made is that the One-Size-Fits-All approach does not always work anymore - i.e., people don't need a whole Office Suite, or a whole Windows platform for some things. They may just want one little piece of it.
Overall, a pretty good read, nothing ground-breaking or anything.
I also concur about the snow iBook/dual USB screen. I have one and it is great. This powerbook must have a different display, because the older ibook displays are beauties.
I agree. To anyone who has not seen a great paint hob, I'm sorry.
There is nothing more beautiful (in the auto realm) that a perfectly done black paint job. Not the job you get from the factory - a true professional job. It has incredible depth, gloss, and a certian glow. Hard to explain.
I am perfectly aware of this, but it is awkward to do with one hand, and should not require two hands to emulate a right click.
I would prefer 5 buttons, so it is not a windows lock in. it is a good idea.
What most people who say "You can plug any mouse you want to" don't realize is this:
I have a mac ibook. It only has one mouse button. When I am using it on the couch, in my bed, etc., NO - I can't plug any old mouse in. I want to fucking buttons at least on the laptop. It is annoying that I have one 8 square inch button, when two or three would be so much more useful.
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I though Bash Microsoft Day was on Wednesdays now. Did I miss the memo?
Yeah, right. Whatever.. this guy is a maroon.
Personally, I thought he was a burnt sienna, but I guess that depends on who you ask.
You can only sue for famages. They would have to somehow prove, in dollars, how they were damaged by this. You can't just sue someone because you think what they did was wrong - you have to be damaged by their actions.
Jesus, moderator, can't you take a joke? I am going to jave Joe Pesci find you and put your head in a vice for this moderation!
Did you disable him in your account settings? I know I did a long time ago, and I had almost forgotten about it, and then I wondered why I didn't see this hellmout series. Then I remembered that I disabled the viewing of his shitty articles. And I was happy.
So why does every0ne kill themselves there?
Oh, you live in Canada. nevermind.
I worked in a lab for a year helping people, and I tried to help as much as possible, and I wasn't the one who corrupted their files (even people I didn't care for).
They used floppy disks.
I don't care what anyone says, floppy disks are made like pieces of shit now. They used to be made much better. Floppies were never a sure way to store any data, but they used to be much more durable and longer lasting than they are now. Not sure why the quality has dropped so much, but if anyone knows, I would be interested (other than the obvious price drop).
Still, it was funny to watch people come and try to open a 20 page document on their floppy, then have it fail, and I would have to say there is nothing I can do.
Then I would teach them about network storage... I figured once that had one major fuckup with a floppy, they were all ears to learn a little about what their network drive was for.
You've got to love the anonymous coward's replies to God himself.
I agree with you.
You have a point, but a good IT person should be able to learn just about anything - and a good employer should give them the supplies (time, books, etc.) that they need to learn new skills.
This is true whether you are in a mixed, unix, or linux shop. New technologies evolve rapidly, even if you stay with the same platform. And because of this, I think IT workers should be flexible and learn any technology their employer needs them to.
Right. With things like OSes, it is nearly impossible to give unbiased reviews. It's not like CPU chips where we can run the same exact benchmarks to two different chips, and nearly everything else is the same. OSes are just different enough that of course results can be scewed and biases, on heavily concentrated on thigns one OS does better than the other.
I just know it is a biased source, and read it as such. Just like reading left-wing or right-wing news sources. Just know what you are reading and let the reader think it out for themselves.
Articles like this from a technical source are kind of pointless. Us Unix guys like unix better and see it as a better solution to many problems, and vice versa with the Windows camp.
There are lots of frothing-at-the-mouth microsoft people that are jsut as big as a zealot as some hardcore linux people.
I think the bottom line is still to determine your problem, then determine your solution. For many problems, Linux is the better and cheaper solution.
Example: say all you want to do is store and serve static web pages: I think it would be hard to argue that Windows would have a lower TCO than linux, and linux is trivial to set up these days to perform these tasks.
Another Example: For groupware, one may look at all the software out there, and then go with Windows because it runs Outlook. This is fine - if they need those features and Outlook is a better solution, then that's what they should go with. In another few years, linux will likely be veyr easy to set up like windows is, to do many common tasks. With this will come cheaper admins, and more linux. And at this point, the TCO of linux will have dropped even further, and Microsoft will have to continually adjust their strategy to compete.
Before anyone does it, no matter how tempting, please no blue screen penis enlarger jokes.
thanks.
Mandrake also has an ia64 port of their distrobution. I just installed it a few weeks ago (version 8.1 I believe).
RedHat does as well, but their installer would lock up at the end of the install every time, with no errors in the install log. I installed Mandrake after I could not get RedHat to install.
This was on a first generation (lion) itanium.
Actually, it has been proven numerous times that the tobacco companies add nicotine well above and beyond what comes naturally with tobacco leaves. check it out if you don't believe me.
are you sure?
Inte did produce a Pentium III 400MHz. It was one of their "Mobile" processors.
I have crshed Win2k Advanced server quite a number of times. Here are the latest few I can remember:
Had three downloads coming down with Mozilla, nearly maxing out my connection (each about 700KB/s). Then, the machine bluescreened and said TCPIP.SYS (or something similar to do with networking... i forget exactly what it was) had dumped.
Another instance was when I accidentally started 3 instances of outlook. The machine just bluescreened and rebooted. these are two different machinines. They are dual boot Linux/Win2k, and Linux works fine doing the same (type of) thing.
I have also crashed linux, so don't think I am just trashing the NT kernel. Linux and NT could both use some work to get where some of the commercial unixes are. But, I think Win2k and Linux are fairly solid, but there is definately room for both kernels to improve, and we don't need to get started on the older VM problems either.
I remember one day about a year ago when we managed to crash an N-class HPUX server. I thought the world might end - it is that stable. We found out it was a hardware failure that didn't manifest until several months down the road. Still, HPUX and Sub boxes are a lot more stable than windows or Linux, luckily that gap is getting smaller though and we get more stability for less money.
Yeah I agree. He didn't have good questions to answer in the first place. Garbage in, Garbage out. (or "Shit I/O" as I say).
Let this be a lesson to the crack head mods to really think about modding when the next interview comes up. Ahh, who am i kidding. The mods don't give a flying monkey fucking a football.
Well, he is not so much telling them to embrace open source, but to borrow from them.
More specifically, he thinks Microsoft needs to stop looking over it's shoulder and actually invent and innovate, intead of maintaining the status quo.
He is also saying that Microsoft has not yet realized that software is nearing the end of its life as a shrinkwrapped-box product. It is quickly becoming just a commodity, and part of an overall package.
One other point he made is that the One-Size-Fits-All approach does not always work anymore - i.e., people don't need a whole Office Suite, or a whole Windows platform for some things. They may just want one little piece of it.
Overall, a pretty good read, nothing ground-breaking or anything.
I also concur about the snow iBook/dual USB screen. I have one and it is great. This powerbook must have a different display, because the older ibook displays are beauties.
The imperial unit is assloads, not buttloads. An imperial assload is roughly equivilant to 2.4 metric buttloads. Unless you are in Canada.
you mean spray on.
I agree. To anyone who has not seen a great paint hob, I'm sorry.
There is nothing more beautiful (in the auto realm) that a perfectly done black paint job. Not the job you get from the factory - a true professional job. It has incredible depth, gloss, and a certian glow. Hard to explain.
I am perfectly aware of this, but it is awkward to do with one hand, and should not require two hands to emulate a right click. I would prefer 5 buttons, so it is not a windows lock in. it is a good idea.
They can put them on a bootable CD. duh.
What most people who say "You can plug any mouse you want to" don't realize is this:
I have a mac ibook. It only has one mouse button. When I am using it on the couch, in my bed, etc., NO - I can't plug any old mouse in. I want to fucking buttons at least on the laptop. It is annoying that I have one 8 square inch button, when two or three would be so much more useful.
I think one button likers are in the minority.