Nope... I'm talking default IOS of Linux vs XP with service pack 2... tried it head to head on the exact same hardware over the exact same netwokr connection.
It's amazing how people assumed no sense of humor in my post while showing none themselves.
I guess I forgot to add a funny face at the end of my post. 8^) (there, now nothing can be found to be stupid or wrong)
...or, you could back up all the config files you like/need, including your entire profile, desktop, menus, etc. and carry it around on a flash drive like I do.
Ha farking ha... 1h 45m from install to having a working, up to date and configured system running http, https, php, java, tomcat, mysql, mail server, ftp server, remote X access, and the desktop set up the way I want it... fully firewalled and secure.
Windows: 6 hours from install to just having the current updates.
So in order for the TCO and ROI of using Microsoft software to be cost effective you have to partner with Microsoft so they give you the software for free?
I run multiple flavors of *nix and various other OSs including Windows at my company... I'm on hour 3 of trying to get an XP box to activate, after swapping out its motherboard and running a repair, becasue it thinks the copy of XP that was pre-installed by Dell isn't legal.
Even if the server is set to UTC or GMT... they don't and cannot produce a patch to fix this issue.
For those of us servicing the U.S. and the international community every piece of software running on the server has to determine, instance by instance, whether it's servicing an area that's affected by the DST change and update the date for that instance only.
What a frickin' nightmare!
All the oil that's supposedly being saved by this change is going to be wasted by programmers having to work late trying to program around this stupidity.
I guess I should have had the foresight to write a library that I could use in all of my software to manually and arbitrarily adjust for DST changes... my bad!
I guess that depends on whether you're stating opinion or fact. Everyone is entitled to their opinion no matter how stupid it is.
None of these cases will ever go anywhere.
"I never made any claim that my blogg is a lagitimate source of factual material" case dismissed. If it works for Fox news it should certainly work for a blog.
Our VP has his e-mails printed out for him by his assistant becasue Outlook is too difficult for him to use.
I.T. would be a lot easier and effecient if it wasn't for the morons who make the decisions....Should we be expecting the "Older I.T. people don't keep their skills up to date" or the "Paperless Office" article next?
While squelching any technology they can't use to their (financial) advantage.
I would compile a list of all the great technology that no longer exists becasue of Microsoft's predatory business practices but I wouldn't want to make Slashdot have to upgrade its SQL servers again.
The LI in LIDAR stands for light as the RA in RADAR stands for radio.
Laser Imaging Detection and Ranging is sort of like DVDs being called Digital Versital Disks instead of Digital Video Disks after they realized they could be used for things other than video. I just love it when acronyms end up meaning more than on thing.
I can only assume they called their completely useless and overly expensive toy Sonar because it's using a frequency of light that's on the low (deep blue, ocean, submarine) end of the visual spectrum... though that still makes very little sense.
Can't you put your eye out with one of those things?
If the Diabold voting machines don't fail by design due to corruption then we're talking about the most incompetent computer company in the history of the world.
Taking into consideration the members of the Bush administration that are major stockholders I think a cruise missle might be in order.
True... though I would think of leaving the inner solar system to be at Mars' orbit. You're not leaving a city when you're half way to the next city... but, obviously, he didn't give a very helpful reference.
You can also consider that a considerable amount of the dark spot that is the Earth in the photograph is probably also cast shadow. I would think that the only way that the moon could be showing up in the image at all is if it's creating a void in the sunlight much, much larger than its true size.
None the less... the size of the Sun is almost impossible to wrap my head around... and to think there are stars out there that make ours look tiny by comparison is just... well, I don't even know.
I'm gonna' say: consume it quitely without much hoopla. http://www.gulker.com/2006/04/09.html
Keep in mind how far away from the Sun the Earth is in that image.
The idea that any US military hardware or software is produced outside of the US is idiocy. Let's hope the US never has to count on its ability to manufacture anything the next time a madman tries to take over the world.
Slashdot Mirror
Oh... thank you very much.
(you forgot to include sarcasm tags in your message)
You assume I wasn't laughing.
Here, I'll add one for you too 8^)
There now it's all funny.
Where else could the discussion go but immediately degrade into a giant shitstorm? I just thought I would get it over with.
Nope... I'm talking default IOS of Linux vs XP with service pack 2... tried it head to head on the exact same hardware over the exact same netwokr connection.
It's amazing how people assumed no sense of humor in my post while showing none themselves.
I guess I forgot to add a funny face at the end of my post. 8^) (there, now nothing can be found to be stupid or wrong)
...or, you could back up all the config files you like/need, including your entire profile, desktop, menus, etc. and carry it around on a flash drive like I do.
Don't make asumptions.
Ha farking ha... 1h 45m from install to having a working, up to date and configured system running http, https, php, java, tomcat, mysql, mail server, ftp server, remote X access, and the desktop set up the way I want it... fully firewalled and secure.
Windows: 6 hours from install to just having the current updates.
Any more funny jokes?
So in order for the TCO and ROI of using Microsoft software to be cost effective you have to partner with Microsoft so they give you the software for free?
I run multiple flavors of *nix and various other OSs including Windows at my company... I'm on hour 3 of trying to get an XP box to activate, after swapping out its motherboard and running a repair, becasue it thinks the copy of XP that was pre-installed by Dell isn't legal.
Doesn't seem a good use of my time to me.
Indeed. Especially since they squashed the .xxx domain.
On the contrary...
Even if the server is set to UTC or GMT... they don't and cannot produce a patch to fix this issue.
For those of us servicing the U.S. and the international community every piece of software running on the server has to determine, instance by instance, whether it's servicing an area that's affected by the DST change and update the date for that instance only.
What a frickin' nightmare!
All the oil that's supposedly being saved by this change is going to be wasted by programmers having to work late trying to program around this
stupidity.
I guess I should have had the foresight to write a library that I could use in all of my software to manually and arbitrarily adjust for DST changes... my bad!
"The Fox appeal was largely on an argument that it is not technically illegal for a broadcaster to deliberately distort the news on television..."
Google: Fox News Monsanto
How magic a word is depends entirely on how much money you have.
I guess that depends on whether you're stating opinion or fact. Everyone is entitled to their opinion no matter how stupid it is.
None of these cases will ever go anywhere.
"I never made any claim that my blogg is a lagitimate source of factual material" case dismissed.
If it works for Fox news it should certainly work for a blog.
Indeed... I love these bullshit articles.
...Should we be expecting the "Older I.T. people don't keep their skills up to date" or the "Paperless Office" article next?
Our VP has his e-mails printed out for him by his assistant becasue Outlook is too difficult for him to use.
I.T. would be a lot easier and effecient if it wasn't for the morons who make the decisions.
While squelching any technology they can't use to their (financial) advantage.
I would compile a list of all the great technology that no longer exists becasue of Microsoft's predatory business practices but I wouldn't want to make Slashdot have to upgrade its SQL servers again.
You obviously have no soul.
Lucas is a fallen hero at best.
When can I get the unfudged up version of THX-1138?
Do you have anything better to do than being a snotty cocksucker?
The LI in LIDAR stands for light as the RA in RADAR stands for radio.
Laser Imaging Detection and Ranging is sort of like DVDs being called Digital Versital Disks instead of Digital Video Disks after they realized they could be used for things other than video. I just love it when acronyms end up meaning more than on thing.
I can only assume they called their completely useless and overly expensive toy Sonar because it's using a frequency of light that's on the low (deep blue, ocean, submarine) end of the visual spectrum... though that still makes very little sense.
Can't you put your eye out with one of those things?
You could call it radar I suppose... and you can, apparently, charge a lot of money for it.
If it wasn't for fair use rap wouldn't be legal.
It's a laser... but it's called sonar... it causes an incredible amount of waste to produce... and serves no purpose?
Is it a stupidity detector?
If the Diabold voting machines don't fail by design due to corruption then we're talking about the most incompetent computer company in the history of the world.
Taking into consideration the members of the Bush administration that are major stockholders I think a cruise missle might be in order.
True... though I would think of leaving the inner solar system to be at Mars' orbit. You're not leaving a city when you're half way to the next city... but, obviously, he didn't give a very helpful reference.
You can also consider that a considerable amount of the dark spot that is the Earth in the photograph is probably also cast shadow. I would think that the only way that the moon could be showing up in the image at all is if it's creating a void in the sunlight much, much larger than its true size.
None the less... the size of the Sun is almost impossible to wrap my head around... and to think there are stars out there that make ours look tiny by comparison is just... well, I don't even know.
That's one big ball o' fire!
"Leaving the inner solar system" would put it somewhere near Mars' orbit... what's a few million miles.
I'm gonna' say: consume it quitely without much hoopla.
http://www.gulker.com/2006/04/09.html
Keep in mind how far away from the Sun the Earth is in that image.
Good to know.
The idea that any US military hardware or software is produced outside of the US is idiocy. Let's hope the US never has to count on its ability to manufacture anything the next time a madman tries to take over the world.