How come none of the mirrors have something like a Mandrake72-inst.tar.gz or some way of grabbing the entire archive in one compressed file? It would make things a lot easier on users to only have to grab one or two files, and it would also reduce the bandwidth needed when a new release comes out as it would be a compressed archive!
Although ISO files are also not compressed, they are easier to grab and faster than using an FTP utility to grab everything under the i586 directory - having to setup and tear down an FTP get connection for every file really slows things down.
Does anyone know of a utility that will break an ISO file down into its individual files without burning it to a CD? It seems like a waste to actually burn it to a CD when I have more than enough drive space to hold the whole un-ISO-ed archive.
Any ideas on what is behind this seemingly world-wide push to form a global totalitarian state? Every day I see one more step made into the "plan" to turn us all into unthinking robots who will need a pass to go to the bathroom. Do the "powers that be" really think that the entire populace is evil, or what? I just don't get it. I try to live my life in a peaceful manner, and I see 99% of the people around me doing the same, and I even live in the downtown area of a metropolitan area. There are people of all races and backgrounds in my neighborhood, lots of different outlooks, but we all get along, even help each other out. Things are not as bad as the media wants to make things seem. Humans by nature are peaceful people and the entropy sorts itself into patterns. Just because there is one bad egg in a 100 is absolutely no reason to take away the rights of the many, just because of the few.
Is it too late to work within the system, or just too early to start killing the bastards?
At what level would you draw such a line? What about someone making a penny less or more? No matter what you are getting paid, it is under the understanding that it is based on a 40 hour work week. Anything more than that must be compensated. It was great when the bank I used to work for realized that legally, us Senior System Engineers did not meet the legal definition of "exempt" and thus began paying us overtime!:)
Any job that expects you to carry a pager for freee, even if you are salary, is bullshitting you. Quit as soon as you can find another job.
Several years ago, I was home sick with a 102 degree fever. I spent a couple hours playing Tetris, then went back to bed where the weird fever dreams kicked in. It was Jesus throwing large (50+ pounds) chunks of dirt (with brightly/strangely colored plants attached) down from heaven and I had to stack the correctly or the Earth would be destroyed. It was horribly strange dream (please make it go away!!) that counts as one of the weirdest fever dreams I have ever had.
It was up there with hallucinating that there were assorted candy bars floating in a spiral around my bedroom when I had a fever from tonsilitus when I was about four years old...)
Ameritrade (The giant internet stock trading companies) runs on Apache - they millions of hits per day. They have around 40 servers clustered, but could probably reduce that to 10 by installing hardware SSL accelerators, as they are doing all SSL by software, which takes most of the machines power.
Union Pacific Railroad is in the midst of converting everything over from NT to Apache running on Solaris. The NT webservers were way too unstable, crashing several times per week.
Where I work, Microsoft salespeople came into our group, and started telling us that IIS is behind 70% of ALL e-commerce sites. We laughed them out of the building. We asked to be explained why to use their product, we did not ask them to lie to us about made-up things. iPlanet had just told us a few weeks ago that THEY have 70% of the eCommerce market. Hmmm... That adds up to 140%, someone must have been doing math in the vicinity of a black hole again...
Don't believe the marketspeak - it's usually fabricated, unverifiable bullshit. Tell them "Show me the money - set up identical Apache and IIS servers here and prove your distorted figures."
I adminned IIS servers for 5 years, and just in the last year started doing Apache. At first, the lack of a GUI is intimidating, but once you get familiar with the configuration file, you find that Apache can do all kinds of things that IIS never dreamed of...
I tried it last week. It rotted. Everything was screwed up. Could not even use JDK1.2.2 - segfault every time. Bad. Figured maybe the install went wrong, so tried a fresh install, same problem, but this time my backspace/delete keys stopped working too...
"One guy in particular really screwed up and landed in prison as a result of his spiraling down into addiction..."
Hmmm... Looks like a system error here - person with a medically-treatable problem (addiction to a substance) - is thrown in Criminal University to "deal" with it, instead of receiving greatly needed treatment.
Fix the system. Stop punishing people with medical problems.
I tried it out last week. Wasn't very impressed. The install finished with neither Backspace or Delete working (All that worked was CTRL-H) and JDK 1.2.2 segfaulted every time I used javac or java. With JDK1.3 for Linux still in the pre-release state, and my primary use is for Java development, I had no choice but to abandon ship and go to Mandrake 7.1...
They've got a LONG way to go with that product before I'd want to put in on my machine. As a mail product, Microsoft Exchange beats it to death, one of the few things that MS has done right. Notes is the lamest, kludgiest pile of shit that I have ever been forced to use...
As far as Domino's web-serving abilities... I think IBM is beginning to move beyond the stink of that product. All versions of WebSphere (NT to OS/390) now come instead with IBM HTTP Server 5.1 which is simply a re-branded Apache 1.3.12.
Domino is dying, and I can't wait until it is gone...
I bought CHarlie Calvert's "Mastering Delphi Programming". Half the book was on the CD. Took it back, that does me no good. I wont buy such stupid things. Make a bigger book, charge me more money, whatever, but when I buy a book, it'd better have the whole book in the book.
Is there perhaps some law that can apply here? Maybe the one about "Not providing services advertised" or something like that?
It's been a big mess here... All SAMBA configurations stopped working,
the JDK (Sun version 1.2.2-006) segfaults every time I try to use it, more weirdness...
I did a backup, and wiped the drive, then installed clean, and still cannot get
JDK 1.2.2 still doesn't work. My main use is as a Java development box,
so it's either go back to RH6.2 or Mandrake 7.1 for me. I think I'll go
Mandrake... It seems better done...
I dunno what the deal is, or how to fix it - Neither my backspace or my delete key work now. The only way to backspace is by hitting CTRL-H. Seems pretty simple, can anyone point me in the right direction on how to fix it?
Good point. However, if we want to look at actions, lets check out how many people
Bush has allowed to be killed - like 400 people. There's no way I'm
going to beleive that they were ALL guilty, even if we assume a
very minimal margin of error of 1%, that's still FOUR INNOCENT PEOPLE
who have been killed, just to sate GWB's political posturing.. Absolutely sickening and depressing.
Maybe I misread your post. I took it as I should vote for Bush... And, I didn't say
that I based my vote on how anybody looks, I said I get a really intense feeling
of 'ungood' when I listen to GWB speak. Everything he has said seems completely disconnected from the real problems.
I want less government - I do not see the Repubs bringing us less government,
last time they were in office I saw more big brotherish shit that I have in the last 8 years.
Sure, it's a sold out, votes to the highest bidder thing, just like the other party does, but doesn't feed us lies
about a smaller government...
I look at it more that I am voting against Bush, than voting FOR Gore. Sure, I could throw away my vote on a Libertarian candidate, like I have the last two elections,
or I can realize that I'd sure rather have a geeky president than a murderer president.
I registered to vote as a Libertarian. I went to the primaries, and was shocked to find out that half the things to vote for had NO ONE under them, fill in the blank. I half-jestingly wrote in my friends for the different offices. It was a fucking joke.
The people who were handing out the ballots had a hard time even finding the correct ballot for the Libertarian party, they finally found one, and had to have some guy signed it - it hadn't even been signed as "official" yet... Apparently I was the first one to show up that day (And it was getting close to the end of the day) that was Libertarian.
All I could do is smile and say "Well, it doesn't look like my votes are going to do much good, huh?"
I guess I'm stuck voting for the lesser of two evils in the presidential election, Gore is pretty unimpressive, but I'm going to vote for him. GWB reminds me of Councilor/Darth Sidious from SWE1, definite disconnection from reality there, everything he says makes me distrust everything he says. My internal bullshit/untrustable filters indicate 100% BS, bright lights flashing and sirens going off. (Although, I gotta say Liebermann LOOKS more like Darth Sidious!:)
Status of Libertarian party in Omaha Nebraska: Near Dead. Really disappointing...
More reason that we need to get into direct-vote, non-representative government. I know there are a lot of strong arguments against it, that it could possibly turn the whole thing into a mob-mentality popularity contest, but ain't that what we already have?
Direct voting would sure get people interested again, knowing that their vote will not just get ignored by their representatives. How many times have we seen that happen - a majority vote for an issue, but our "esteemed, wise" representative chooses to ignore the constituency and vote otherwise, saying "It's for the greater good, and I'm a professional, so I know what is better for you..."
That's just it though - the government agencies will be powerless to control a media conglomerate this big if they do something illegal. They effectively control the thoughts of 90% of the population - the unthinking, lemming-like, sheepclones that believe in any such crap fed them by the media. The government becomes essentially irrelevant after this move. Think about it...
Don't all big corps get to do what they want these days?
This will be so good for me as a consumer, yah sure... Maybe the EU is not as corrupt.
Now playing near you: Damien Part XVI - Steve Case. The plot is about how Steve beats Bill Gates to the punch in the race to bring Armageddon to fruition. Steve will play himself, as he looks just like the guy who played Damien in the previous movies.
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Although ISO files are also not compressed, they are easier to grab and faster than using an FTP utility to grab everything under the i586 directory - having to setup and tear down an FTP get connection for every file really slows things down.
Does anyone know of a utility that will break an ISO file down into its individual files without burning it to a CD? It seems like a waste to actually burn it to a CD when I have more than enough drive space to hold the whole un-ISO-ed archive.
Is it too late to work within the system, or just too early to start killing the bastards?
So, uh, please enlighten us to what the actual message ID is...
Any job that expects you to carry a pager for freee, even if you are salary, is bullshitting you. Quit as soon as you can find another job.
It was up there with hallucinating that there were assorted candy bars floating in a spiral around my bedroom when I had a fever from tonsilitus when I was about four years old...)
"Woof woof"
"Good dog!"
Haha. :) Actually, I'm doing all my recent coding in Java, which is for men living in THIS millenium, not some antiquated C language...
Only way to fit in the material? How about volume 1 and volume 2? I'd pay for it, if it was all printed.
It came out this week, so maybe not such a big idea. But I am NOT reloading my OS again, Mandrake 7.1 is where I stay for now.
Union Pacific Railroad is in the midst of converting everything over from NT to Apache running on Solaris. The NT webservers were way too unstable, crashing several times per week.
Where I work, Microsoft salespeople came into our group, and started telling us that IIS is behind 70% of ALL e-commerce sites. We laughed them out of the building. We asked to be explained why to use their product, we did not ask them to lie to us about made-up things. iPlanet had just told us a few weeks ago that THEY have 70% of the eCommerce market. Hmmm... That adds up to 140%, someone must have been doing math in the vicinity of a black hole again...
Don't believe the marketspeak - it's usually fabricated, unverifiable bullshit. Tell them "Show me the money - set up identical Apache and IIS servers here and prove your distorted figures."
I adminned IIS servers for 5 years, and just in the last year started doing Apache. At first, the lack of a GUI is intimidating, but once you get familiar with the configuration file, you find that Apache can do all kinds of things that IIS never dreamed of...
Um, what's a Manga movie??
I have to write production code and cannot do it reliably on 1.3 till it's final release.
Dumped it, using Mandrake 7.1, much better...
Hmmm... Looks like a system error here - person with a medically-treatable problem (addiction to a substance) - is thrown in Criminal University to "deal" with it, instead of receiving greatly needed treatment.
Fix the system. Stop punishing people with medical problems.
I tried it out last week. Wasn't very impressed. The install finished with neither Backspace or Delete working (All that worked was CTRL-H) and JDK 1.2.2 segfaulted every time I used javac or java. With JDK1.3 for Linux still in the pre-release state, and my primary use is for Java development, I had no choice but to abandon ship and go to Mandrake 7.1...
As far as Domino's web-serving abilities... I think IBM is beginning to move beyond the stink of that product. All versions of WebSphere (NT to OS/390) now come instead with IBM HTTP Server 5.1 which is simply a re-branded Apache 1.3.12.
Domino is dying, and I can't wait until it is gone...
Is there perhaps some law that can apply here? Maybe the one about "Not providing services advertised" or something like that?
I did get JDK 1.3 (RC1) working, but what's the deal with JDK 1.2.2??
It's been a big mess here... All SAMBA configurations stopped working, the JDK (Sun version 1.2.2-006) segfaults every time I try to use it, more weirdness... I did a backup, and wiped the drive, then installed clean, and still cannot get JDK 1.2.2 still doesn't work. My main use is as a Java development box, so it's either go back to RH6.2 or Mandrake 7.1 for me. I think I'll go Mandrake... It seems better done...
I dunno what the deal is, or how to fix it - Neither my backspace or my delete key work now. The only way to backspace is by hitting CTRL-H. Seems pretty simple, can anyone point me in the right direction on how to fix it?
I look at it more that I am voting against Bush, than voting FOR Gore. Sure, I could throw away my vote on a Libertarian candidate, like I have the last two elections, or I can realize that I'd sure rather have a geeky president than a murderer president.
The people who were handing out the ballots had a hard time even finding the correct ballot for the Libertarian party, they finally found one, and had to have some guy signed it - it hadn't even been signed as "official" yet... Apparently I was the first one to show up that day (And it was getting close to the end of the day) that was Libertarian.
All I could do is smile and say "Well, it doesn't look like my votes are going to do much good, huh?"
I guess I'm stuck voting for the lesser of two evils in the presidential election, Gore is pretty unimpressive, but I'm going to vote for him. GWB reminds me of Councilor/Darth Sidious from SWE1, definite disconnection from reality there, everything he says makes me distrust everything he says. My internal bullshit/untrustable filters indicate 100% BS, bright lights flashing and sirens going off. (Although, I gotta say Liebermann LOOKS more like Darth Sidious! :)
Status of Libertarian party in Omaha Nebraska: Near Dead. Really disappointing...
More reason that we need to get into direct-vote, non-representative government. I know there are a lot of strong arguments against it, that it could possibly turn the whole thing into a mob-mentality popularity contest, but ain't that what we already have?
Direct voting would sure get people interested again, knowing that their vote will not just get ignored by their representatives. How many times have we seen that happen - a majority vote for an issue, but our "esteemed, wise" representative chooses to ignore the constituency and vote otherwise, saying "It's for the greater good, and I'm a professional, so I know what is better for you..."
That's just it though - the government agencies will be powerless to control a media conglomerate this big if they do something illegal. They effectively control the thoughts of 90% of the population - the unthinking, lemming-like, sheepclones that believe in any such crap fed them by the media. The government becomes essentially irrelevant after this move. Think about it...
This will be so good for me as a consumer, yah sure... Maybe the EU is not as corrupt.
Now playing near you: Damien Part XVI - Steve Case. The plot is about how Steve beats Bill Gates to the punch in the race to bring Armageddon to fruition. Steve will play himself, as he looks just like the guy who played Damien in the previous movies.