'scsiadd' is quite important, as are 'smartctl', 'sensors', 'nagios', and 'mrtg'. Perhaps there should be a top ten list, not of the ten most-used commands, but the ten most-work-saving programs.
$ awk '{print $1}'.zsh_history | sort | uniq -c | sort -rn | head -10
2378 ssh
1856 ls
1246 cd
496 mysql
448 find
431 wget
428 man
419 less
407 su
393 grep
Surely you must have meant that Yahoo's price per click is 10 cents, not ten dollars.
The value Yahoo provides is that you can just buy your way to the top. If you sell socks and you want to pay $1/click to get the top search result for transmission fluid, go right ahead. Google won't allow you to do that. On Google you can bid as much as you like but your irrelevant ad will never be shown. Yahoo on the other hand will happily take your money. Hence, Yahoo is for spammers.
Betamax didn't win because Sony were being morons and keeping the technology proprietary. JVC came along and gave away the VHS technology. The case has nothing to do with the better product. All else being equal, a good product/will/ sell itself.
Brought to you by Cisco, Sun, CA, Brocade, NetApp, McData, and Fujitsu. In other words, the same bunch of jerks who got you into this mess in the first place. Great. I'll expect something really useless like Ultra Wide iSCSI or some other bullshit, for only $999 per node, of course.
They aren't even talking about the root servers. They are only talking about the root zone file, a file of plain text. The USA doesn't control the root servers, and neither does any other single nation or organization. The root servers use the ICANN root zone out of sheer practicality. For anyone to claim that the US controls the Internet is to understand both the technology and the fundamental nature of power.
So when "journalists" say "the Internet's core infrastructure" they really mean a few lines of ASCII text. And when I say "journalists" I really mean "bunch of asshats".
Do you know why Roche, and so many other pharmaceutical companies, are based in Switzerland? Because when they were founded there Switzerland had no intellectual property laws and did not recognize any such foreign laws. So Roche, Ciba, and the rest set themselves up in Switzerland ripping off patented formulas from the UK and elsewhere.
Now that Roche have got themselves a nice protectionism program going with the patent system, they don't think any other company, or nation in this case, should do to them what they did to their UK competitors. If any of the founding bandits were still haunting the boardroom at Roche, they would recognize the supreme justice of the current situation.
Tamiflu was developed by Roche, a Swiss company, with research done in the UK, Japan, Switzerland, the USA, and -- quite a surprise to you and those like you, I'm sure -- China. Your muddleheaded jingoism has no basis in fact.
What's the deal with the ratcheting up of thread counts lately? I go into Bed Bath and Beyond or some other consumer hell and even the off-brand junk is advertising 1000-2000 threads. It's silly because most of those fabrics are still junk, but junk with a lot of threads. Personally, after going through two expensive sets of name-brand, high-thread bedding that hardly lasted 3 years, I bought a set from a hotel supplier. They don't specify it, but if I had to guess, I'd say the thread count is 250 or so. They feel great and are like-new after years of use.
As for bleach, try hanging your bedding in the sun. It works great and costs nothing.
It doesn't matter what power the Department of Commerce exercises over ICANN. Neither body exercises any control over the root server operators. ICANN's output is purely advisory as far as the root servers are concerned. For that matter, the list of root servers is totally advisory. You, or any network, could decide to switch root systems at any time, for any reason.
If the DoC were to become heavy-handed with ICANN, the root server operators would probably not go along. The same would be true if the EU pretends they are in charge. Anybody can ride around saying "I am your King!", but the Internet is still an autonomous collective.
Of course Slashdot prints half-truths and fearmongering 26 times a day, but it is fascinating to watch the mainstream press get this story wrong so many times. This argument is about the contents of a *text file*, one which the USA does not even currently control. ICANN publishes the root DNS information, and the root operators, who are dozens of independent, international parties, can choose to accept or decline. If the UN, the EU, or the National Hockey League wants to publish their own root information, they are perfectly free to do so. Why don't they put their zone out and see if anyone adopts it?
Perhaps you'd like to explain to the audience how I can have an implied contract with HBO, a party with whom I have never met, spoken, or otherwise communicated? There has to be some act which causes the contract (implied or explicit), and no such event could have caused a contract between me and HBO, since they have never supplied me with any thing of value, nor any service, and I have never paid nor otherwise compensated HBO.
My agreement is solely with Comcast. If you cannot understand this, I guess you should go back to law school and start from the beginning.
You are clearly on crack. There are NO terms of service. I didn't agree to anything, implied or otherwise, other than that I would pay $20/month for the service. I literally called the cable operator, said "I want HBO", gave my credit card number, and THAT'S IT. Nobody talked about any kinds of terms, and none came in the mail. Also, as I think any reasonable person would agree, my only agreement in this case is with Comcast. I have no agreement with HBO.
Signed what? I called my cable operator, gave them my credit card number, and my HBO service was turned on before I even hung up the phone. I have no contract with HBO.
Why would you run any general-purpose operating system on a point-of-sale terminal? It seems like the sort of job that is best handled by existing specialized operating systems. IBM has had cash registers for eons, with printers, scanners, and so forth. What happened to that software? Was it difficult to make those peripherals work with Linux? For that matter, why would you use an x86 CPU in a cash register?
Those of you who have used the old-school NCR ATMs with the green-screen text interface know of what I speak. The new Windows ATMs are 3 times slower and 100 times less reliable. One wonders why the rush to abandon the old software that worked perfectly well.
1) Pressure monitoring system incorrectly "detects" cabin depressurization. 2) klaxons, etc 3) Pilots, confused and unable to acknowledge warning in time, watch in horror as their plane descends into other traffic at lower flight level.
--or--
3) Commercial aircraft makes unauthorized change of flight level over major downtown area. Traffic control cannot contact cockpit. National Guard F-16 fires a missile into the engine, killing everybody.
I do think the HTPC community is generally ignorant and ill-informed, yes. But the graphics manufacturers are not retarded, they are exploitative: they see this mass of ignorant, ill-informed people as an opportunity to sell some $400 parts. And here you are, claiming that video scaling is anything other than a simple filtering operation.
Unless of course you would like to share the magical secret of video scaling which you seem to think was not implemented in hardware until after 2002.
That must be some ass-bad programming, because I just tried scaling a DVD to full screen on a 2048x1536 display, and it worked perfectly well on a Rage 128, a Matrox Millenium II, and a Matrox G400, all of which are at least 4 years out of production. The r128 is in a machine with a 400MHz PowerPC, too. So if you are having trouble getting 720p output from modern hardware, your software is to blame.
Eh? A Matrox Millienium was perfectly able to scale and convert the colorspace of 1920x1080 video. That card had no fan and came out 8 years ago (at least).
Linux works for those who work on Linux. Do you understand how this program has been developed? It's a free operating system, for crying out loud. It's not developed by top-down management.
I could not possibly care less about my attitude hindering the adoption of Linux. Linux has been adopted by the only audience about which I care: myself. If there's something bothering you about Linux, please fix it. Then you will be much happier. Otherwise just use the operating system you prefer.
By the way, are you aware than Linux can be used without the X Window System?
Oh no, well if you are going to dump Linux, Kofi Annan is going to have to get on the batphone and demand that thousands of skilled hackers work around the clock until you are satisfied!
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'scsiadd' is quite important, as are 'smartctl', 'sensors', 'nagios', and 'mrtg'. Perhaps there should be a top ten list, not of the ten most-used commands, but the ten most-work-saving programs.
$ awk '{print $1}' .zsh_history | sort | uniq -c | sort -rn | head -10
2378 ssh
1856 ls
1246 cd
496 mysql
448 find
431 wget
428 man
419 less
407 su
393 grep
The value Yahoo provides is that you can just buy your way to the top. If you sell socks and you want to pay $1/click to get the top search result for transmission fluid, go right ahead. Google won't allow you to do that. On Google you can bid as much as you like but your irrelevant ad will never be shown. Yahoo on the other hand will happily take your money. Hence, Yahoo is for spammers.
Betamax didn't win because Sony were being morons and keeping the technology proprietary. JVC came along and gave away the VHS technology. The case has nothing to do with the better product. All else being equal, a good product /will/ sell itself.
If you're drawing 20A and only serving up 3 megabits, you're doing something seriously wrong.
Brought to you by Cisco, Sun, CA, Brocade, NetApp, McData, and Fujitsu. In other words, the same bunch of jerks who got you into this mess in the first place. Great. I'll expect something really useless like Ultra Wide iSCSI or some other bullshit, for only $999 per node, of course.
You mean, like the DNS system we already have? The one operated by dozens of independent parties all over the world?
I agree, it is neat.
They aren't even talking about the root servers. They are only talking about the root zone file, a file of plain text. The USA doesn't control the root servers, and neither does any other single nation or organization. The root servers use the ICANN root zone out of sheer practicality. For anyone to claim that the US controls the Internet is to understand both the technology and the fundamental nature of power.
So when "journalists" say "the Internet's core infrastructure" they really mean a few lines of ASCII text. And when I say "journalists" I really mean "bunch of asshats".
Like the UK, Japan, and Switzerland, where the flu drug in question was developed?
Do you know why Roche, and so many other pharmaceutical companies, are based in Switzerland? Because when they were founded there Switzerland had no intellectual property laws and did not recognize any such foreign laws. So Roche, Ciba, and the rest set themselves up in Switzerland ripping off patented formulas from the UK and elsewhere.
Now that Roche have got themselves a nice protectionism program going with the patent system, they don't think any other company, or nation in this case, should do to them what they did to their UK competitors. If any of the founding bandits were still haunting the boardroom at Roche, they would recognize the supreme justice of the current situation.
Tamiflu was developed by Roche, a Swiss company, with research done in the UK, Japan, Switzerland, the USA, and -- quite a surprise to you and those like you, I'm sure -- China. Your muddleheaded jingoism has no basis in fact.
What's the deal with the ratcheting up of thread counts lately? I go into Bed Bath and Beyond or some other consumer hell and even the off-brand junk is advertising 1000-2000 threads. It's silly because most of those fabrics are still junk, but junk with a lot of threads. Personally, after going through two expensive sets of name-brand, high-thread bedding that hardly lasted 3 years, I bought a set from a hotel supplier. They don't specify it, but if I had to guess, I'd say the thread count is 250 or so. They feel great and are like-new after years of use.
As for bleach, try hanging your bedding in the sun. It works great and costs nothing.
It doesn't matter what power the Department of Commerce exercises over ICANN. Neither body exercises any control over the root server operators. ICANN's output is purely advisory as far as the root servers are concerned. For that matter, the list of root servers is totally advisory. You, or any network, could decide to switch root systems at any time, for any reason.
If the DoC were to become heavy-handed with ICANN, the root server operators would probably not go along. The same would be true if the EU pretends they are in charge. Anybody can ride around saying "I am your King!", but the Internet is still an autonomous collective.
Of course Slashdot prints half-truths and fearmongering 26 times a day, but it is fascinating to watch the mainstream press get this story wrong so many times. This argument is about the contents of a *text file*, one which the USA does not even currently control. ICANN publishes the root DNS information, and the root operators, who are dozens of independent, international parties, can choose to accept or decline. If the UN, the EU, or the National Hockey League wants to publish their own root information, they are perfectly free to do so. Why don't they put their zone out and see if anyone adopts it?
My agreement is solely with Comcast. If you cannot understand this, I guess you should go back to law school and start from the beginning.
You are clearly on crack. There are NO terms of service. I didn't agree to anything, implied or otherwise, other than that I would pay $20/month for the service. I literally called the cable operator, said "I want HBO", gave my credit card number, and THAT'S IT. Nobody talked about any kinds of terms, and none came in the mail. Also, as I think any reasonable person would agree, my only agreement in this case is with Comcast. I have no agreement with HBO.
Signed what? I called my cable operator, gave them my credit card number, and my HBO service was turned on before I even hung up the phone. I have no contract with HBO.
Why would you run any general-purpose operating system on a point-of-sale terminal? It seems like the sort of job that is best handled by existing specialized operating systems. IBM has had cash registers for eons, with printers, scanners, and so forth. What happened to that software? Was it difficult to make those peripherals work with Linux? For that matter, why would you use an x86 CPU in a cash register?
Those of you who have used the old-school NCR ATMs with the green-screen text interface know of what I speak. The new Windows ATMs are 3 times slower and 100 times less reliable. One wonders why the rush to abandon the old software that worked perfectly well.
1) Pressure monitoring system incorrectly "detects" cabin depressurization.
2) klaxons, etc
3) Pilots, confused and unable to acknowledge warning in time, watch in horror as their plane descends into other traffic at lower flight level.
--or--
3) Commercial aircraft makes unauthorized change of flight level over major downtown area. Traffic control cannot contact cockpit. National Guard F-16 fires a missile into the engine, killing everybody.
Is it? I've been wondering this lately. I still have an ET4000 2MB card layout around, but it doesn't seem as fast in text mode as the Millenium.
I do think the HTPC community is generally ignorant and ill-informed, yes. But the graphics manufacturers are not retarded, they are exploitative: they see this mass of ignorant, ill-informed people as an opportunity to sell some $400 parts. And here you are, claiming that video scaling is anything other than a simple filtering operation.
Unless of course you would like to share the magical secret of video scaling which you seem to think was not implemented in hardware until after 2002.
I won't hold my breath.
That must be some ass-bad programming, because I just tried scaling a DVD to full screen on a 2048x1536 display, and it worked perfectly well on a Rage 128, a Matrox Millenium II, and a Matrox G400, all of which are at least 4 years out of production. The r128 is in a machine with a 400MHz PowerPC, too. So if you are having trouble getting 720p output from modern hardware, your software is to blame.
Eh? A Matrox Millienium was perfectly able to scale and convert the colorspace of 1920x1080 video. That card had no fan and came out 8 years ago (at least).
Linux works for those who work on Linux. Do you understand how this program has been developed? It's a free operating system, for crying out loud. It's not developed by top-down management.
I could not possibly care less about my attitude hindering the adoption of Linux. Linux has been adopted by the only audience about which I care: myself. If there's something bothering you about Linux, please fix it. Then you will be much happier. Otherwise just use the operating system you prefer.
By the way, are you aware than Linux can be used without the X Window System?
Oh no, well if you are going to dump Linux, Kofi Annan is going to have to get on the batphone and demand that thousands of skilled hackers work around the clock until you are satisfied!