I hate to play on car analogy, but the Chevy Genuine Advantage would permit you to replace your engine, but your just no longer allowed to put any fuel in the car.
I don't normally "me too", but just in case anyone wants to hear it from a non-AC, that's been my experience too. Each particular version of XP I've dealt with, (Home, HomeOEM, Pro, ProOEM, ProVolumeLicence) immediately refuses a key from a different type. If there are exceptions to this I haven't encountered them.
Wow, I didn't think you were still around. You've outlived 'YOU ARE SO FIRED' and 'Lose, not loose', you should be proud, and I'm especially honoured to have conversed with you.
More like 'web access to a computer with network access to the database', which is probably all of the computers on the floor - it is in a lot of places I've seen.
I don't know for sure how you'd do it on OSX, but you want to read up on "noexec", that's the option you can use in a linux/etc/fstab on a partition which will not permit the kernel to execute files directly from that disk. You could, of course, copy them to a partition and execute them there, but that's very deliberate.
I don't think the term 'WTF' was in wide use at that stage either, or even the use of Fuck as a noun.
Seriously though, even "mouse" would mean only one thing - a small rodent - at first, but wouldn't take too long to explain. Anyway, Dvorak and Zonk: Whoop de fucking doo - someone from the 1920s being dazzled by what we've got today is no more astonishing than the idea of dumping someone in a completely foreign country in the same timezone.
I mean, we all know language has evolved a little, and in our own (comparitively short) life experiences we've seen generations of technology (which may or may not impress us, but all the same we acknowledge how different things are now), but the idea that someone from the '20s would be so shocked by it probably runs through the minds of people as young as eight.
Still, I gotta admit, the only reason I'm reading a Dvorak thread is because they're some of the funniest around, and I'd say the only reason there's more than five comments here is probably the same.
Because that only fucks the disks controller, which can be worked around. Anyone who's got any flash equipment will probably want the controller out of their way anyway.
Well, you're not entirely correct anyway - depending on your definition of umpteen million, this is bound to be greater than the error checking employed by your drives and transport mechanisms. Even with MD5 / SHA1, there's still a chance of a bit error escaping undetected.
Rather than add components to it to speed it up in areas it's lacking (everywhere) I'd rather see a ground-up rewrite of portage, but without the QA of Debian, it's hard to say whether that alone will lift Gentoo's game.
In spite of my dissatisfaction with it, I still use Gentoo after about three years now, again I like the ideas, just not the execution.
The thing with Gentoo (I'm a current and long time masochist user) is that you're the QA.
Whether a given package is 'stable' or not depends on the maintainer. Some of them are useless or gone so even the 'unstable' versions are a year old, on the other hand they're marked 'stable' as soon as it compiles on the dev's machine and seems to work (read: the app is started, and then 'tested' by quitting it). If it starts when its told, and quits when it's told, that's stable for Gentoo.
The idea of portage isn't bad (hell, it's only an offshoot of BSD ports), except for the following facts:
The package database (/usr/portage) chosen is the slowest possible way to do it. The only way it could be slower is by forcing you to store the lot on floppies.
For each package available, about 16 inodes of your disk are taken up by hierachys of tiny files and directories, which uses much more disk space than is necessary.
Most or all of portage is written in Python. Consequently, even 'emerge --help' takes longer than booting your system. Combined with the most inefficient package database possible, even just determining what packages are availble for upgrade is a walk-away-and-get-a-coffee job.
If you install more than one package at once, you've got to stare at your monitor for the entire process, as important post-install information scrolls by from time to time. Users seem to have given up requesting that these important messages are held until after the operation, and then displayed with 'more'.
While most Gentoo zealots like to hang around places like slashdot spouting 'All I've got to do is emerge -u --deep world and my system's up to date', this is also documented as a fast road to a non-running system of broken packages.
After all this, you're left wondering what Gentoo Portage actually does for you that wouldn't be any more painful than following Linux-from-scratch guide anyway.
Basically, Portage sucks because of Gentoo, not the other way around. The idea is excellent. The execution sucks.
That might be the case with things like electricity, but I doubt the cost of metering local phone calls would amount to much. It's entirely automated anyway, and they probably log every call made even if not for billing.
Where I live, businesses are charged for local calls, households get them free, unless you go on some lower monthly fee plan and pay for local calls per minute.
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What I really love about vim is that no matter what obscure language I might end up writing in during my computer science studies, there always seem to be a syntax highligt setting for vim.
Dude, you could edit/dev/kmem and vim would somehow figure out syntax highlighting for it.
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I must have been using them for about two years now, as well, they're great!
Did you Google? Obviously not.
Or a type casting error
I hate to play on car analogy, but the Chevy Genuine Advantage would permit you to replace your engine, but your just no longer allowed to put any fuel in the car.
I don't normally "me too", but just in case anyone wants to hear it from a non-AC, that's been my experience too. Each particular version of XP I've dealt with, (Home, HomeOEM, Pro, ProOEM, ProVolumeLicence) immediately refuses a key from a different type. If there are exceptions to this I haven't encountered them.
Wow, I didn't think you were still around. You've outlived 'YOU ARE SO FIRED' and 'Lose, not loose', you should be proud, and I'm especially honoured to have conversed with you.
More like 'web access to a computer with network access to the database', which is probably all of the computers on the floor - it is in a lot of places I've seen.
Obviously you haven't seen how the (+1, Informative) gets dished out.
I thought it was just small-talk around the milli-water cooler
Basically any decision for change would be a step in the right direction.
I don't know for sure how you'd do it on OSX, but you want to read up on "noexec", that's the option you can use in a linux /etc/fstab on a partition which will not permit the kernel to execute files directly from that disk. You could, of course, copy them to a partition and execute them there, but that's very deliberate.
Whoosh!
Seriously though, even "mouse" would mean only one thing - a small rodent - at first, but wouldn't take too long to explain. Anyway, Dvorak and Zonk: Whoop de fucking doo - someone from the 1920s being dazzled by what we've got today is no more astonishing than the idea of dumping someone in a completely foreign country in the same timezone.
I mean, we all know language has evolved a little, and in our own (comparitively short) life experiences we've seen generations of technology (which may or may not impress us, but all the same we acknowledge how different things are now), but the idea that someone from the '20s would be so shocked by it probably runs through the minds of people as young as eight.
Still, I gotta admit, the only reason I'm reading a Dvorak thread is because they're some of the funniest around, and I'd say the only reason there's more than five comments here is probably the same.
Because that only fucks the disks controller, which can be worked around. Anyone who's got any flash equipment will probably want the controller out of their way anyway.
Well, you're not entirely correct anyway - depending on your definition of umpteen million, this is bound to be greater than the error checking employed by your drives and transport mechanisms. Even with MD5 / SHA1, there's still a chance of a bit error escaping undetected.
Rather than add components to it to speed it up in areas it's lacking (everywhere) I'd rather see a ground-up rewrite of portage, but without the QA of Debian, it's hard to say whether that alone will lift Gentoo's game.
In spite of my dissatisfaction with it, I still use Gentoo after about three years now, again I like the ideas, just not the execution.
Whether a given package is 'stable' or not depends on the maintainer. Some of them are useless or gone so even the 'unstable' versions are a year old, on the other hand they're marked 'stable' as soon as it compiles on the dev's machine and seems to work (read: the app is started, and then 'tested' by quitting it). If it starts when its told, and quits when it's told, that's stable for Gentoo.
The idea of portage isn't bad (hell, it's only an offshoot of BSD ports), except for the following facts:
The package database (/usr/portage) chosen is the slowest possible way to do it. The only way it could be slower is by forcing you to store the lot on floppies.
For each package available, about 16 inodes of your disk are taken up by hierachys of tiny files and directories, which uses much more disk space than is necessary.
Most or all of portage is written in Python. Consequently, even 'emerge --help' takes longer than booting your system. Combined with the most inefficient package database possible, even just determining what packages are availble for upgrade is a walk-away-and-get-a-coffee job.
If you install more than one package at once, you've got to stare at your monitor for the entire process, as important post-install information scrolls by from time to time. Users seem to have given up requesting that these important messages are held until after the operation, and then displayed with 'more'.
While most Gentoo zealots like to hang around places like slashdot spouting 'All I've got to do is emerge -u --deep world and my system's up to date', this is also documented as a fast road to a non-running system of broken packages.
After all this, you're left wondering what Gentoo Portage actually does for you that wouldn't be any more painful than following Linux-from-scratch guide anyway.
Basically, Portage sucks because of Gentoo, not the other way around. The idea is excellent. The execution sucks.
Besides, trying to shoot someone's point given as fact down with only a Wikipedia link is pretty weak anyway.
I've definitely been choking something, that's for goddamn sure.
Where I live, businesses are charged for local calls, households get them free, unless you go on some lower monthly fee plan and pay for local calls per minute.
Dude, you could edit /dev/kmem and vim would somehow figure out syntax highlighting for it.
To see an opening like that just begging for that comeback, how intelligent you must be.
The X Window System. And you're excused.
Incidentally, that's the word you should have used too.
(Head explodes).