Ridiculous? It looks pretty practical to me. Mount a few rocket launchers on it, some kevlar, bullet-proof glass, and maybe one of those zippy little machine guns off an A-10, and things take on a different perspective.
> "I'll dedicate the two next months of my life to learn SELinux"
Why is learning something new so horrid? I know a lot of admins (sorry, most are windows admins) that are very troubled when they can't fully understand something in 10 seconds. These same guys will sit there staring at a progress bar for two hours during a windows update though (wtf?). Some things worth learning _will_ take time, and some things you learn won't be worth it. You need to take that risk sometimes, even if it seems to suck at first.
You could try Open Office, it's an Open Source alternative to grapics-editing/word-processing. The Gimp is a powerful little graphics editor that FP notes will do CMYK. You can also check out audacity for audio editing.
Note: these afromentioned products are usually considered mediocre by some, but the good things are that these products are not owned by a vendor-lockin, DRM entrenched, royalty grubbing, patent whoring, corporation. They are freely available, free to copy, free to use, and free to be developed by anyone in the world. You can even write, or contribute to, the code yourself if you are so inclined. A model based on worldwide collaboration is simply better than one developed behind closed windows.
The management and pricing systems of proprietary software is unprincipled. The ethics and support methods are abhorrent, un-reliable and un-reasonable. The entire system reeks of snake-oil. These things may not be relavant to you, and I would complain some more, but I've run out of retorts. If you don't like what I've said, maybe go do a bittorrent search for porn and your mom. It's there, trust me.
Yep. And if you boot something like Knoppix you can keep the OS on cdrom and storage on the raid device. Samba config goes on a usb key. I have two servers in a corporate environment running software raid 5 and booting knoppix. Updates are nearly impossible, but you can keep the updates on the usb key (tzdata) and untar right over the top of UNIONFS after boot. Either that or just download a fresh Knoppix version (I've gone through 3 versions now). The software raid in Linux is surprisingly stable. I had one drive go bad on one of the servers a couple months ago. mdadm emailed me, I informed the dept. of the downtime, and at the end of the day I replaced the drive and rebuilt the array. Everything worked like the howto said. Very nice.
> Where does closing the lid come in to play here?
There is an innate need within women to group a collection of shortcomings for later use. It's similar to stacking cannonballs in a nice neet pile for use should a skirmish arise. The toilet seat issue (as well as the toilet paper over/under issue) is simply an assured way of having enough cannon balls for the pile. Ergo:
- If the seat is up when you piss, you must remember to put it down. - If the seat is down when you piss, you must remember to put it up.
Furthermore, if toilet paper is to be replaced on the roll holder, you must examine the toilet paper to see which way the pretty design is printed. This design must be visible and dictates which way the roll should hang. (Note: the same rule is applied to paper towel). I do not understand the reason for artwork on something I wipe my ass with, but surmise it is solely there for the reason of stockpiling cannonballs.
I find it less trouble to simply piss in the sink.
"injected their mice with a painful compound, put them on a cold plate and measured the amount of time the mice spent flinching their hind legs in response to the pain. "
You know, if mice ever undergo a genetic mutation causing them to become a dominant species over us, we are sooooooooo fucked.
rtfa? "OpenGL and DirectX games and apps in a virtual machine on your Mac, without shutting down OS X!".
The difference is you don't use software rendering. This can be a boon for cad that isn't as demanding as gaming, but still needs hardware gl to perform well. Apparently Quake 4 is running "full speed" whatever that means, so maybe removing the software rendering layer takes a large chunk of overhead away.
People. Get off the denial job already. Vista is not magically going to become the upgrade you were hoping for; No matter how many studies, weblogs, reviews, taste tests, or procto exams happen, Vista sucks, end of story. Microsoft will come out with service packs this fall, there will be all sorts of heavy breathing once again, but it's going to be the same historical disappointment. Microsoft needs to get their shit together and stop robbing people.
There was something called integrity. I don't think there is as much of a focus on it anymore as there should be. The focus has shifted into mostly monetary interest; on both the part of the employee and the employer.
I've met people that can write some pretty ideal code, but the problem is these are usually very difficult people to work with. Idealism is a nice start, but when you get into the gray area of people and personalities it's not a good fit. Why? Because everyone has a different idea of what is "right". There needs to be enough flexibility on a team for people to accept this or projects go tits up. When they do, the Idealists always stand around for a couple days bitching about it while everyone else slops things together to get them out the door.
Clue: At this point, nobody really cares hearing about the "right" way to do it. We just want to get the damn thing done. Standing around, pissing-and-moaning, is like putting and anchor on a sinking ship.
A man walks into a store to buy a bag of starch. If each isle is 30 meters long, and each shelf is 27 inches high how many bags of starch can the grocer fit in the Cereal isle? How many bags of starch can the man fit in his grocery cart? For extra credit, calculate the time it will take the man to return the bags of starch when his wife sees him unload them in the garage.
"not to assert Microsoft's patents against those customers for the customers use of products and services of Novell for which Novell receives revenue. "
So where does free software fall in this statement. Does Novell receive revenue for all the FLOSS it distributes? Sounds like BOHICA time to me.
There seems to be a large mass of people that *wish* C would go away, that I agree with. If you want it gone, you may as well take databases and operating systems with it.
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I could use it as a big jump drive.
I want to know where else to shop.
Ridiculous? It looks pretty practical to me. Mount a few rocket launchers on it, some kevlar, bullet-proof glass, and maybe one of those zippy little machine guns off an A-10, and things take on a different perspective.
> "I'll dedicate the two next months of my life to learn SELinux"
Why is learning something new so horrid? I know a lot of admins (sorry, most are windows admins) that are very troubled when they can't fully understand something in 10 seconds. These same guys will sit there staring at a progress bar for two hours during a windows update though (wtf?). Some things worth learning _will_ take time, and some things you learn won't be worth it. You need to take that risk sometimes, even if it seems to suck at first.
You could try Open Office, it's an Open Source alternative to grapics-editing/word-processing. The Gimp is a powerful little graphics editor that FP notes will do CMYK. You can also check out audacity for audio editing.
Note: these afromentioned products are usually considered mediocre by some, but the good things are that these products are not owned by a vendor-lockin, DRM entrenched, royalty grubbing, patent whoring, corporation. They are freely available, free to copy, free to use, and free to be developed by anyone in the world. You can even write, or contribute to, the code yourself if you are so inclined. A model based on worldwide collaboration is simply better than one developed behind closed windows.
The management and pricing systems of proprietary software is unprincipled. The ethics and
support methods are abhorrent, un-reliable and un-reasonable. The entire system reeks of snake-oil. These things may not be relavant to you, and I would complain some more, but I've run out of retorts. If you don't like what I've said, maybe go do a bittorrent search for porn and your mom. It's there, trust me.
> I would go RAID 5.
Yep. And if you boot something like Knoppix you can keep the OS on cdrom and storage on the raid device. Samba config goes on a usb key. I have two servers in a corporate environment running software raid 5 and booting knoppix. Updates are nearly impossible, but you can keep the updates on the usb key (tzdata) and untar right over the top of UNIONFS after boot. Either that or just download a fresh Knoppix version (I've gone through 3 versions now). The software raid in Linux is surprisingly stable. I had one drive go bad on one of the servers a couple months ago. mdadm emailed me, I informed the dept. of the downtime, and at the end of the day I replaced the drive and rebuilt the array. Everything worked like the howto said. Very nice.
will determine the outcome. It's the American way.
> Where does closing the lid come in to play here?
There is an innate need within women to group a collection of shortcomings for later use. It's similar to stacking cannonballs in a nice neet pile for use should a skirmish arise. The toilet seat issue (as well as the toilet paper over/under issue) is simply an assured way of having enough cannon balls for the pile. Ergo:
- If the seat is up when you piss, you must remember to put it down.
- If the seat is down when you piss, you must remember to put it up.
Furthermore, if toilet paper is to be replaced on the roll holder, you must examine the toilet paper to see which way the pretty design is printed. This design must be visible and dictates which way the roll should hang. (Note: the same rule is applied to paper towel). I do not understand the reason for artwork on something I wipe my ass with, but surmise it is solely there for the reason of stockpiling cannonballs.
I find it less trouble to simply piss in the sink.
> you are not free to make in non-free.
Not entirely true. You are not free to alter-and-incorporate the codebase without making those changes freely avaialable to everyone else.
It's too bad if Tivo goes under, but in the scope of DRM they cannot continue either.
Maybe Microsoft is the only one that wanted it.
"injected their mice with a painful compound, put them on a cold plate and measured the amount of time the mice spent flinching their hind legs in response to the pain. "
You know, if mice ever undergo a genetic mutation causing them to become a dominant species over us, we are sooooooooo fucked.
rtfa? "OpenGL and DirectX games and apps in a virtual machine on your Mac, without shutting down OS X!".
The difference is you don't use software rendering. This can be a boon for cad that isn't as demanding as gaming, but still needs hardware gl to perform well. Apparently Quake 4 is running "full speed" whatever that means, so maybe removing the software rendering layer takes a large chunk of overhead away.
People. Get off the denial job already. Vista is not magically going to become the upgrade you were hoping for; No matter how many studies, weblogs, reviews, taste tests, or procto exams happen, Vista sucks, end of story. Microsoft will come out with service packs this fall, there will be all sorts of heavy breathing once again, but it's going to be the same historical disappointment. Microsoft needs to get their shit together and stop robbing people.
There was something called integrity. I don't think there is as much of a focus on it anymore as there should be. The focus has shifted into mostly monetary interest; on both the part of the employee and the employer.
I've met people that can write some pretty ideal code, but the problem is these are usually very difficult people to work with. Idealism is a nice start, but when you get into the gray area of people and personalities it's not a good fit. Why? Because everyone has a different idea of what is "right". There needs to be enough flexibility on a team for people to accept this or projects go tits up. When they do, the Idealists always stand around for a couple days bitching about it while everyone else slops things together to get them out the door.
Clue: At this point, nobody really cares hearing about the "right" way to do it. We just want to get the damn thing done. Standing around, pissing-and-moaning, is like putting and anchor on a sinking ship.
You can get ZFS with FreeBSD also. http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-current /2007-April/070544.html
looks to me like the SCO car shoved him.
(Pop- up)
[But punch the monkey and you can download bsod here]
"I'll suck the internet dry" seems to be a tad prophetic.
Yes. Dry the cat.
A man walks into a store to buy a bag of starch. If each isle is 30 meters long, and each shelf is 27 inches high how many bags of starch can the grocer fit in the Cereal isle? How many bags of starch can the man fit in his grocery cart? For extra credit, calculate the time it will take the man to return the bags of starch when his wife sees him unload them in the garage.
> While the FDA in the United States is doing what? Standing by turning their cheek?
Since the FDA is a government body, they are bound by contract to
do nothing until:
a) A patent has been infringed
b) Someone has violated the DMCA
c) The RIAA finds out someone copied Sodium Benzoate to CD
"not to assert Microsoft's patents against those customers for the customers use of products and services of Novell for which Novell receives revenue. "
So where does free software fall in this statement. Does Novell receive revenue for all the FLOSS it distributes? Sounds like BOHICA time to me.
SCO has their mitts in it.
There seems to be a large mass of people that *wish* C would go away, that I agree with. If you want it gone, you may as well take databases and operating systems with it.