I breath a sigh of relief every time someone combats the "use open source" with "blah blah blah, AutoCAD, blah blah blah". It's like you're reading my mind.
AutoCAD has barely acceptable performance when running on *great* hardware, let alone a virtualized instance or whatever concoction the avoid-windows-at-all-costs crowd would come up with. Not to say the grandparent-commenter falls into this category but very often people do.
When people step into my computer room they usually note the PC, macbook, G5 and solaris box and give me the 50 questions. My usual response is "AutoCAD, travel, Final Cut/Logic/everyday use & ZFS storage pool".
when someone ejects their card prematurely, you need to have a flashing red light and a siren going off shrieking "you're an idiot! step away from the voting machine! please learn to follow directions!" on repeat.
of course - making people wait for their verifible printed ballot might work too.
which, i do not know how anyone would implement an anonymous paper ballot... maybe just have it print out a bunch of squiggles a la the standard UPS label so in the event of a conflict someone can take their ticket to the counter, check the vote and receive a simple yes/no of whether or not that vote was counted... obviously not say "who" it counted towards, just that it was counted and was recorded in the system... i dunno.
yeah that did look promising back in the day but (humorously enough)... someone we all know is confirming that the G/OBSD project is dead/dying...:/
maybe someday.
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alive and kicking indeed... now if only i could get someone at openbsd to mate with some of the developers at gentoo and have them produce a flavor of portage which works 100% with openbsd and in a non kludgy manor...
hah thats the one thing i hate about almost all bsd's... ports/packages...
please please please let someone port portage/gentoo package management to openbsd... please...:(
(with that said... there is absolutely nothing but the base os and bash installed on the openbsd box... thank god. ill say it again... i hate ports/packages setups.)
masturbating monkey? yes. my 23" cinema display and surround sound give a great pornographic experience....
sadly, i dont have much spare time... the mac/windows machines update automagically... the bsd one i update once a year (whenever a shiny new version comes out..) and my webserver only allows ssh2 logins via private key so i dont often update that unless its for ssh or apache...:/ eh i guess i slack off with the whole "administration" aspect of my machines but hey...
never had a virus... never been a victim of adware... and never see a blue screen (except when autodesk decided to unlease autocad 2002LT upon the world.)
i count my lucky stars.
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sad part is i just pre-ordered the openbsd 4.4 cd set... hah. im not sure if i should be proud or ashamed.
then again, i sometimes think im the last of the right-os-for-the-job heretics... openbsd on my firewall. solaris (with zfs) on my fileserver... mac os x on my main desktop... (i dabble in photoshop and video.. mostly failed fark contests. ha) and windows vista on my macbook pro (along side of os x of course)... because i do a lot of autocad/solidworks stuff on the side. my webserver runs gentoo..
i guess you could call me a glutton for punishment.
...actually taken the time to install Windows 1 and then upgrade it all the way to Vista one version at a time? I wonder what kind of relics you'd end up finding in the registry and hard drive.. heh. almost makes me want to do it.
i'm on a mac, and not using firefox... not using adblock... nothing.
and by page 2 i was so furious with having to close each fucking float-in ad that i gave up on reading the article...
guess ill just go back to work now... on my g5 desktop, macbook pro laptop runnng vista... firewall server running openbsd and the rest of my computers running gentoo linux...
oh, and fuck zealotry. right tool for the right job. sometimes the right tool costs a bit more money. deal with it.
What's amusing is that when I read the parent thread I said to myself, "Nah, that's Gentoo..." And I say that as a person who only uses OpenBSD and Gentoo (as far as free OS's are concerned).
If you can't afford to buy a lottery ticket, why then are you buying it? If you have a "problem", then I would say that the rest of the world is profiting from your "problem". Essentially reducing you to an example for others. Taking advantage of the weak who don't have the employ of the willing strong to protect them is not only our national pastime. It's our duty.
Why not just make a box for each candidate and make each voter place some kind of anonymous ballot in the box of who they're voting for. And, just to make sure that someone doesn't accidentally mix the ballots together during the counting process the machine could mark off who you voted for on the ballot. Pretty simple, no smudges no "questionable marks"...
Make it really obnoxious too - large colorful print. Ask each person two or three times if they're POSITIVE that's who they want to vote for...
Then at the end of the day all you'd have to do is count up how many ballots in each box. Presto! We have a winner.
And then, if someone comes up after they vote and says "I'm not sure if I did it right, I think I put my vote in the wrong slot." You shoot them in the face, point blank and broadcast it on live television.
and that my friend, is the beauty of innovation. if people willingly choose to give him money when he is giving his stuff away for free, than he's doing what we all try to achieve. profit. If thats not what "earning" your money is about, then I'm not sure I know what is.
> Will corporate America allow their information technology assets to be thus put at risk of compromise?
Yes. The answer to that is a resounding YES. Why? You know why - because corporate "America" is terrified of what would happen if they didn't. They would get public disapproval - and that isn't going to line their pockets. And what's worse is the public is too consumed by propaganda to know any better. These are people who are reactive, lazy and slow. I'll even be cynical and say they're stupid and greedy. That is the definition of corporate America. Lazy, greedy people.
They will put their computers at risk. They will put the entire American network infrastructure in jeopardy. And I will laud every single cracker out their white/black and otherwise who makes them pay for their filthy actions and pitiful existence.
afaik, youre only barred from linking to/writing about gambling sites that arent specificially regulated by state/federal law. ie: gambling sites that are hosted in other countries.
the REAL problem with the law where it says youre not allowed to write about/link to these sites. fuck that. what really sucks is that i'm not gonna be young enough to ENJOY the next civil war. where the people get tired of being fucked in the ass by lawmakers... and the streets become open war. its probably gonna take another 100-200 years and another 25-50 worthless, scum bag presidents for the people of this nation to collectively say "fuck that" and start killing everyone who even suggests any encroachments upon the rights our forefathers died for.
im no consitutional fundamentalist... but the first ammendment is not something that the people of this country have given up because they dont know any better. its something they're giving up so they dont have to go through the trouble of ignoring things they dont want to hear... so they dont have to change the channel when they dont agree with whats on tv.. so they dont have to tolerate people with vastly different religious beliefs.... just so they can have a government regulated, peaceful existance..
guess what. those people dont deserve to breath the same air as me. they disgust me and should be shot in the face on tv...
its almost paradoxical.. i completely believe that people have the right to hate/dislike and generally disagree with others and in that fashion make their own lives good how they see fit... however - i also dont believe that you have the right to life liberty and happiness if you have to do so at the expense of taking it away from others. either play nice or get the fuck out of my sandbox.
people who shoot themselves in the foot generally learn something from it - when they dont, they blow off another toe. its natures way of fucking those who cant survive. we would all be wise to let it run its course.
coincidentally, im shooting myself in the foot by even writing this. but then again - i'm a believer in karma and i believe that my good karma outweighs my elitist outburst.
as long as people continue to be so nonchalant about their computers as if they were some granted necessity... no, right... which allows them to live - as opposed to another responsibility that can aid in their life - they will continue to get what they deserve. DESERVE. moreover, as long as elitist IT personel like myself continue to help these people for next to nothing - we get what WE deserve. everything comes full circle. always.
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I breath a sigh of relief every time someone combats the "use open source" with "blah blah blah, AutoCAD, blah blah blah". It's like you're reading my mind.
AutoCAD has barely acceptable performance when running on *great* hardware, let alone a virtualized instance or whatever concoction the avoid-windows-at-all-costs crowd would come up with. Not to say the grandparent-commenter falls into this category but very often people do.
When people step into my computer room they usually note the PC, macbook, G5 and solaris box and give me the 50 questions. My usual response is "AutoCAD, travel, Final Cut/Logic/everyday use & ZFS storage pool".
when someone ejects their card prematurely, you need to have a flashing red light and a siren going off shrieking "you're an idiot! step away from the voting machine! please learn to follow directions!" on repeat.
of course - making people wait for their verifible printed ballot might work too.
which, i do not know how anyone would implement an anonymous paper ballot... maybe just have it print out a bunch of squiggles a la the standard UPS label so in the event of a conflict someone can take their ticket to the counter, check the vote and receive a simple yes/no of whether or not that vote was counted... obviously not say "who" it counted towards, just that it was counted and was recorded in the system... i dunno.
yeah that did look promising back in the day but (humorously enough)... someone we all know is confirming that the G/OBSD project is dead/dying... :/
maybe someday.
alive and kicking indeed...
now if only i could get someone at openbsd to mate with some of the developers at gentoo and have them produce a flavor of portage which works 100% with openbsd and in a non kludgy manor...
*dreaming* :(
theres something i havent listened to in a while...
**opens itunes**
thank you AC, you've been wonderful.
hah thats the one thing i hate about almost all bsd's... ports/packages...
please please please let someone port portage/gentoo package management to openbsd... please... :(
(with that said... there is absolutely nothing but the base os and bash installed on the openbsd box... thank god. ill say it again... i hate ports/packages setups.)
masturbating monkey? yes. my 23" cinema display and surround sound give a great pornographic experience....
sadly, i dont have much spare time... the mac/windows machines update automagically... the bsd one i update once a year (whenever a shiny new version comes out..) and my webserver only allows ssh2 logins via private key so i dont often update that unless its for ssh or apache... :/ eh i guess i slack off with the whole "administration" aspect of my machines but hey...
never had a virus... never been a victim of adware... and never see a blue screen (except when autodesk decided to unlease autocad 2002LT upon the world.)
i count my lucky stars.
sad part is i just pre-ordered the openbsd 4.4 cd set... hah. im not sure if i should be proud or ashamed.
then again, i sometimes think im the last of the right-os-for-the-job heretics... openbsd on my firewall. solaris (with zfs) on my fileserver... mac os x on my main desktop... (i dabble in photoshop and video.. mostly failed fark contests. ha) and windows vista on my macbook pro (along side of os x of course)... because i do a lot of autocad/solidworks stuff on the side. my webserver runs gentoo..
i guess you could call me a glutton for punishment.
It's too bad witty farkicisms aren't appreciated on /. otherwise I'd have to give you a "this".
If only I had mod points...
you sir, are supporting your argument with valid examples and precedents...
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what the fuck are you doing here on
hehehe, nice work.
- FJM
...actually taken the time to install Windows 1 and then upgrade it all the way to Vista one version at a time? I wonder what kind of relics you'd end up finding in the registry and hard drive.. heh. almost makes me want to do it.
i'm on a mac, and not using firefox... not using adblock... nothing.
and by page 2 i was so furious with having to close each fucking float-in ad that i gave up on reading the article...
guess ill just go back to work now... on my g5 desktop, macbook pro laptop runnng vista... firewall server running openbsd and the rest of my computers running gentoo linux...
oh, and fuck zealotry. right tool for the right job. sometimes the right tool costs a bit more money. deal with it.
What's amusing is that when I read the parent thread I said to myself, "Nah, that's Gentoo..."
And I say that as a person who only uses OpenBSD and Gentoo (as far as free OS's are concerned).
What can I say, I'm a glutton for punishment.
Thank you.
I was starting to worry that the whole point of the article was lost on the entire slashdot crowd.
If you can't afford to buy a lottery ticket, why then are you buying it?
If you have a "problem", then I would say that the rest of the world is profiting from your "problem". Essentially reducing you to an example for others. Taking advantage of the weak who don't have the employ of the willing strong to protect them is not only our national pastime. It's our duty.
Why not just make a box for each candidate and make each voter place some kind of anonymous ballot in the box of who they're voting for. And, just to make sure that someone doesn't accidentally mix the ballots together during the counting process the machine could mark off who you voted for on the ballot. Pretty simple, no smudges no "questionable marks"...
Make it really obnoxious too - large colorful print. Ask each person two or three times if they're POSITIVE that's who they want to vote for...
Then at the end of the day all you'd have to do is count up how many ballots in each box. Presto! We have a winner.
And then, if someone comes up after they vote and says "I'm not sure if I did it right, I think I put my vote in the wrong slot." You shoot them in the face, point blank and broadcast it on live television.
and that my friend, is the beauty of innovation. if people willingly choose to give him money when he is giving his stuff away for free, than he's doing what we all try to achieve. profit. If thats not what "earning" your money is about, then I'm not sure I know what is.
And if your cranberry juice drink was only 75% juice would you still think it was so tasty?
You shouldn't have posted AC man. I have mod points and you deserve them.
JESUS, "their" should read "there". I'm apparently not on my word-usage game right now.
> Will corporate America allow their information technology assets to be thus put at risk of compromise?
Yes. The answer to that is a resounding YES. Why? You know why - because corporate "America" is terrified of what would happen if they didn't. They would get public disapproval - and that isn't going to line their pockets. And what's worse is the public is too consumed by propaganda to know any better. These are people who are reactive, lazy and slow. I'll even be cynical and say they're stupid and greedy. That is the definition of corporate America. Lazy, greedy people.
They will put their computers at risk. They will put the entire American network infrastructure in jeopardy. And I will laud every single cracker out their white/black and otherwise who makes them pay for their filthy actions and pitiful existence.
Way to go guys. Bring on the chaos.
almost true..
afaik, youre only barred from linking to/writing about gambling sites that arent specificially regulated by state/federal law. ie: gambling sites that are hosted in other countries.
the REAL problem with the law where it says youre not allowed to write about/link to these sites. fuck that. what really sucks is that i'm not gonna be young enough to ENJOY the next civil war. where the people get tired of being fucked in the ass by lawmakers... and the streets become open war. its probably gonna take another 100-200 years and another 25-50 worthless, scum bag presidents for the people of this nation to collectively say "fuck that" and start killing everyone who even suggests any encroachments upon the rights our forefathers died for.
im no consitutional fundamentalist... but the first ammendment is not something that the people of this country have given up because they dont know any better. its something they're giving up so they dont have to go through the trouble of ignoring things they dont want to hear... so they dont have to change the channel when they dont agree with whats on tv.. so they dont have to tolerate people with vastly different religious beliefs.... just so they can have a government regulated, peaceful existance..
guess what. those people dont deserve to breath the same air as me. they disgust me and should be shot in the face on tv...
its almost paradoxical.. i completely believe that people have the right to hate/dislike and generally disagree with others and in that fashion make their own lives good how they see fit... however - i also dont believe that you have the right to life liberty and happiness if you have to do so at the expense of taking it away from others. either play nice or get the fuck out of my sandbox.
sorry about the rant... im really edgy...
i love you. and on the off chance that youre a hot english teacher of the female pursuasion - id want you to have my children.
but thats not likely... youre probably just some dude whos bored... and now, if you dont mind - im gonna go vomit on myself.
people who shoot themselves in the foot generally learn something from it - when they dont, they blow off another toe. its natures way of fucking those who cant survive. we would all be wise to let it run its course.
coincidentally, im shooting myself in the foot by even writing this. but then again - i'm a believer in karma and i believe that my good karma outweighs my elitist outburst.
as long as people continue to be so nonchalant about their computers as if they were some granted necessity... no, right... which allows them to live - as opposed to another responsibility that can aid in their life - they will continue to get what they deserve. DESERVE. moreover, as long as elitist IT personel like myself continue to help these people for next to nothing - we get what WE deserve. everything comes full circle. always.
sad but true - "locks are made to keep innocent people out"