Heh. I'm in high school, and I'm taking my third semester of electronics courses (digital, microprocessor [wiring Motorola 6802's from scratch -- classy], and audio); everyone has a scope at their workstation, and using them to analyze and debug our circuits is fundamental to the course. It's a great class.
As you wish. If you can afford to shoot yourself in the foot like that, be my guest. Does it suck? Yes. It sucks a lot. Is being passive-aggressive to their end users really the way to fix it? I don't think a "your ISP is broken, switch" attutide will get very far with most AOL users.
And I'm well aware that it can have any originating address you please. That's not/spoofing/, and taking advantage of it hardly makes you a spammer.
Contrast that to most unix mailers: You have to deliberatly save the file to disk, chmod +x it, and then run it with./. Yeah, a bit harder eh? Nobody I know will be able to manage this.
Um. You say that last bit like it's a good thing. UNIX software is getting easier to use. If you're running Nautilus, say, you certainly don't need to get to the command prompt to run a file. You'll probably be "able" to run it inside the MUA eventually, and can't you already with, say, Evolution? Isn't Evolution the mail client most Linux newbies would be most likely to use? I mean, it looks just like Outlook and it's feature-rich. No learning curve and lots of functionality. (Not that only newbies use Evolution or something silly like that. I use it, heh.) It just seems a bit shortsighted to say that there will "never" be a SoBig for Linux because the fools that would run it won't be able to figure it out. There are some genius fools out there.
"WinXP just resets when a major error occurs. If you're still complaining about BSOD, you haven't used Windows recently."
That's quite possibly the most absurd thing I've read today! I don't care how it crashes, I want it to not crash! And I assure you, my friend, it has certainly not been removed. I've seen BSOD's on XP boxen, and no lie.
And while we're sharing personal stories, it's not uncommon for my dad's XP desktop to slowly grind its way to a halt and/beg/ for a reboot. I'd almost rather it would just BSOD and get it over with.
I don't think I've ever used 27,000 different command line tools, a 300 page book, or, for that matter, a newsgroup full of newbie-haters to configure my software. I have been known to RTFM early and often, and I've saved myself a lot of grief that way. I've had way fewer problems with bad documentation on my Linux boxen then I have with Microsoft products, and the Linux ones with poor documentation at least seem to follow the principle of least surprise. Have you ever tried to get Microsoft's Network Load Balancing to work properly with any sort of complexity? Dear god! The documentation even openly contradicts itself, and the more advanced configurations are hopeless without it, because it's just so unintuitive.
The invulnerability of the Internet has probably always been a lie anyway. If you physically took out a few key data centers, traffic would be horribly crippled. Remember the train wreck in the tunnel in Baltimore a year or two ago that cut fiber running through the cable? I became totally unable to hold a connection to the West Coast and everything just really sucked. You're entirely correct that this would exaggerate the problem, I think, but I'm not sure it's enough to really worry about.
Please, learn Python. I know far too many people that started with BASIC that reflexively fall back on "goto" as the way to solve a problem. *twitch* Though I started with BWBASIC, before graduating to Pascal and C. I just picked Python up recently; it's very easy to learn.
Well. Technically, the current usage of RAM is a misnomer anyway, since we only use it to refer to read-write memory. ROMs have generally been random-access, too, for a Rather Long Time.
So, yes, it should be replaced by a more specific term.
Can't help but think that that sounds suspiciously like the Magi. Scientist, woman, and mother, wasn't it? Persona, woman, and mother, there and here. Huh.
I agree fully. Things not "just working" is the biggest problem I have with Linux. It hasn't yet proven to be a deal killer, though. I was having Big Problems maintaining a SuSE 6.4 install on this box... it ended up working out so that the RPM system was utterly useless and I was compiling everything from source. It worked fine until I tried to install Evolution. Oh god. I was installing dependencies for dependencies for dependencies. And then I got Debian. x_x apt-get, words can not express how much I loveth thee. apt-get install [nameofpackage], and it DOES. And it automatically grabs the dependencies! And no compiling involved at any step. Upgrading the *entire system* is as easy as apt-get update; apt-get upgrade. It's just wow. o.o Most things on this system have been working automagically since then. Even printer configuration over the home LAN went easily, thanks to the printconfig tool. Agreed, too, that a lot of the tools just don't exist under Linux... but they'd be out of my price range, anyway, so what the hey.
So maybe apt-get + this could be Something Good. Hmm. Too bad this won't be a Debian package because it's non-free, but that shouldn't really present any issues.
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Oh god, will they, please? Perhaps the best bit of the entire announcement is that the Blogspot service will be hosted on the Google servers. Better servers are perhaps the thing Blogger and LiveJournal need most. LJ is particularly frustratingly slow at times. Blogger just breaks.
No, actually; I have an affected board. It's a Soyo 5SSM Socket-A Micro-ATX board. With a 450mHz K6-2. Any other partisan whining or smarmy jokes you'd like to share?
Would Global Crossing do anything but laugh and throw their hands up? How complex would it be to block Kazaa traffic? It would probably end up looking weird to a lot of non-Kazaa users if a range of ports suddenly stopped working, and I dearly hope it's beyond GC's capacity to analyze packets (every single one... that's a lot of packets.) in real-time.
Since it obviously has nothing at all to do with, oh, I don't know, supply, demand, and economies of scale. Point being: Simpsons is wildly popular and is almost guaranteed to sell better than an import series that wouldn't have nearly the same market penetration. Also (guessing here), Simpsons probably wouldn't have to be licensed separately from an animation studio, ne? That media syndicate's big enough to do its own DVD dirty work.
Well. The bits that aren't about treasure hunting or arbitrarily killing people or saving the world with supernatural powers.... That actually is about it, isn't it! o.O;
kamisama ga Wired ni iru...
And *NOW* they're running shows on MTV2, too! It's painful. And I think they just spun off a couple other channels, too.
MTV and VH1 (also: VH1 Classic) are both owned by Viacom. It shows, huh.
I was kind of put off by the way Lain was drawn in the first few episodes, but I kind of grew to like it. It wasn't an anime like Noir where the art jumps out at you and shouts PRETTY! but then I didn't think it was ugly, either. There's something about the way the characters are drawn that just feels a little off if you aren't expecting it, perhaps. What was it about the art that you didn't like?
The other thing about Lain, as one of my friends put it, is that "it tends to do something to people's brains that rhymes with sucks but starts with an F." Lain really plays with your mind... and it's entirely legal, too. =^_^=
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Heh. I'm in high school, and I'm taking my third semester of electronics courses (digital, microprocessor [wiring Motorola 6802's from scratch -- classy], and audio); everyone has a scope at their workstation, and using them to analyze and debug our circuits is fundamental to the course. It's a great class.
As you wish. If you can afford to shoot yourself in the foot like that, be my guest. Does it suck? Yes. It sucks a lot. Is being passive-aggressive to their end users really the way to fix it? I don't think a "your ISP is broken, switch" attutide will get very far with most AOL users.
/spoofing/, and taking advantage of it hardly makes you a spammer.
And I'm well aware that it can have any originating address you please. That's not
Remind me how you can spoof your own email address or how it would magically be spamming if you did.
Yeah, you're being a twit. Just because it's broken doesn't mean you don't have to deal with it.
That's security through obscurity. Widespread diversity helps the ecosystem; it does not generally help the individuals.
Well. That's one sort of "action", I guess.
Javascript isn't allowed in LiveJournals. Too much of a security hazard.
(Not that only newbies use Evolution or something silly like that. I use it, heh.)
It just seems a bit shortsighted to say that there will "never" be a SoBig for Linux because the fools that would run it won't be able to figure it out. There are some genius fools out there.
That's quite possibly the most absurd thing I've read today! I don't care how it crashes, I want it to not crash! And I assure you, my friend, it has certainly not been removed. I've seen BSOD's on XP boxen, and no lie.
And while we're sharing personal stories, it's not uncommon for my dad's XP desktop to slowly grind its way to a halt and /beg/ for a reboot. I'd almost rather it would just BSOD and get it over with.
I don't think I've ever used 27,000 different command line tools, a 300 page book, or, for that matter, a newsgroup full of newbie-haters to configure my software. I have been known to RTFM early and often, and I've saved myself a lot of grief that way. I've had way fewer problems with bad documentation on my Linux boxen then I have with Microsoft products, and the Linux ones with poor documentation at least seem to follow the principle of least surprise. Have you ever tried to get Microsoft's Network Load Balancing to work properly with any sort of complexity? Dear god! The documentation even openly contradicts itself, and the more advanced configurations are hopeless without it, because it's just so unintuitive.
Go on, keep comparing. I want to hear this.
dee aych see who?
The invulnerability of the Internet has probably always been a lie anyway. If you physically took out a few key data centers, traffic would be horribly crippled. Remember the train wreck in the tunnel in Baltimore a year or two ago that cut fiber running through the cable? I became totally unable to hold a connection to the West Coast and everything just really sucked. You're entirely correct that this would exaggerate the problem, I think, but I'm not sure it's enough to really worry about.
Well. They actually end up importing seafood, too...
Please, learn Python. I know far too many people that started with BASIC that reflexively fall back on "goto" as the way to solve a problem. *twitch*
Though I started with BWBASIC, before graduating to Pascal and C. I just picked Python up recently; it's very easy to learn.
Asked as a high school student looking at colleges -- what school did you go to?
Well. Technically, the current usage of RAM is a misnomer anyway, since we only use it to refer to read-write memory. ROMs have generally been random-access, too, for a Rather Long Time.
So, yes, it should be replaced by a more specific term.
But the rest of it? Yeah, you're right.
Can't help but think that that sounds suspiciously like the Magi. Scientist, woman, and mother, wasn't it? Persona, woman, and mother, there and here. Huh.
Looks like the conclusion to be drawn here is "everything but OS-native support is unusable." Highly disappointing.
So, what are you going to do?
I agree fully. Things not "just working" is the biggest problem I have with Linux. It hasn't yet proven to be a deal killer, though. I was having Big Problems maintaining a SuSE 6.4 install on this box... it ended up working out so that the RPM system was utterly useless and I was compiling everything from source.
It worked fine until I tried to install Evolution.
Oh god. I was installing dependencies for dependencies for dependencies.
And then I got Debian. x_x apt-get, words can not express how much I loveth thee. apt-get install [nameofpackage], and it DOES. And it automatically grabs the dependencies! And no compiling involved at any step. Upgrading the *entire system* is as easy as apt-get update; apt-get upgrade. It's just wow. o.o
Most things on this system have been working automagically since then. Even printer configuration over the home LAN went easily, thanks to the printconfig tool.
Agreed, too, that a lot of the tools just don't exist under Linux... but they'd be out of my price range, anyway, so what the hey.
So maybe apt-get + this could be Something Good. Hmm. Too bad this won't be a Debian package because it's non-free, but that shouldn't really present any issues.
Oh god, will they, please? Perhaps the best bit of the entire announcement is that the Blogspot service will be hosted on the Google servers. Better servers are perhaps the thing Blogger and LiveJournal need most. LJ is particularly frustratingly slow at times. Blogger just breaks.
No, actually; I have an affected board. It's a Soyo 5SSM Socket-A Micro-ATX board.
With a 450mHz K6-2.
Any other partisan whining or smarmy jokes you'd like to share?
The gaul of some people is pretty amazing.
Yeah! Those bloody French!
Would Global Crossing do anything but laugh and throw their hands up? How complex would it be to block Kazaa traffic? It would probably end up looking weird to a lot of non-Kazaa users if a range of ports suddenly stopped working, and I dearly hope it's beyond GC's capacity to analyze packets (every single one... that's a lot of packets.) in real-time.
Since it obviously has nothing at all to do with, oh, I don't know, supply, demand, and economies of scale.
Point being: Simpsons is wildly popular and is almost guaranteed to sell better than an import series that wouldn't have nearly the same market penetration. Also (guessing here), Simpsons probably wouldn't have to be licensed separately from an animation studio, ne? That media syndicate's big enough to do its own DVD dirty work.
Well. The bits that aren't about treasure hunting or arbitrarily killing people or saving the world with supernatural powers. ... That actually is about it, isn't it! o.O;
kamisama ga Wired ni iru...
And *NOW* they're running shows on MTV2, too! It's painful. And I think they just spun off a couple other channels, too. MTV and VH1 (also: VH1 Classic) are both owned by Viacom. It shows, huh.
I was kind of put off by the way Lain was drawn in the first few episodes, but I kind of grew to like it. It wasn't an anime like Noir where the art jumps out at you and shouts PRETTY! but then I didn't think it was ugly, either. There's something about the way the characters are drawn that just feels a little off if you aren't expecting it, perhaps. What was it about the art that you didn't like?
The other thing about Lain, as one of my friends put it, is that "it tends to do something to people's brains that rhymes with sucks but starts with an F." Lain really plays with your mind... and it's entirely legal, too. =^_^=