Could we please take about thirty fucking seconds to read a goddamned article? It wasn't a software switch, it was the ENTIRE FUCKING SYSTEM, HARDWARE AND ALL, that was replaced. The UNIX systems were old-ass and needed replacement.
I guess my question is, should the problem have been addressed before now, or is it common practice to wait for a catastrophic success like this to occur before addressing the problem ?
You're right. The incompetent dipshit that let this happen should have been fired beforehand. How the fuck can you forget to do something that's part of your BASIC FUCKING DUTIES?
No, it wouldn't. You schedule the reboot during shift change. No planes are landing, no safety issues. It doesn't matter how often the system is rebooted, what matters is WHEN it is rebooted. Uptime means absolutely nothing to those with actual jobs to do.
You have to remember that any piece of free software that tries to make money via ads is anathema to Free software and should be shunned as much as possible, regardless of any and all potential uses said software has.
Maybe you should fuck off until you learn a better argument. What you're saying basically boils down to "M$ is a bunch of mean doodie-heads." That wasn't convincing in the third grade and it's even more fucking lame now.
If it WAS cheap enough, people would pop for the Cd and install it.
How fucking naive and stupid are you? AOL charges a fucking monthly fee for its services. Are you going to pay $20 a month to use Windows?
Your problem is, you're a fucking moron that can't bend your puny human brain around the fact that some companies simply don't give a fuck about your stupid goddamned jerkoff software utopia and actually try to MAKE MONEY by selling software. I'm sorry, but developing commercial software costs money. Get the fuck over it, pull your head out of your ass, and join us here in the real world where nobody gives a shit about your social retardation-fueled emphasis on software freedom and all anyone REALLY gives a fuck about is emailing their friends and playing solitaire.
So you've never installed a patch for, or upgraded Sendmail? So you're running on 20+ year old kludge code? If you're going to talk about stupid shit, be more careful.
Opening your article with a statement like "This article looks at why open source software may currently be less secure than its commercial counterparts" is likely to so polarize Open Source developers that most won't even bother to read the rest of the article.
"Yeah, we don't agree with this statement which we know to be factually correct when applied to commercial software, so we're all going to put our fingers in our ears and pretend we don't hear it."
I swear OSS developers are the most childish assholes I've ever seen. "Oh, he's just writing this to sell a book." "It's just more M$ FUD." What the fuck ever. He brings up good points, ones that NEED to be addressed. Simply ignoring them or writing them off makes you no better than the proprietary vendors you purport to hate.
Note to parent poster: I wasn't referring specifically to you.;)
When was the last time that a Linux patch installed a firewall, and fixed several bugs that dipshit programmers were using as 'features'?
Anyway, you're simply falling back on the kind of pompous cock bullshit the guy that wrote the article was bitching about. Namely, the excessively childish "Well, M$ sucks so we don't have to do things right." Fucking idiot.
It's actually still a question mark on which movie was first. Sky Captain, The Immortel (it's French... apparently the French don't have the letter "A"), and Sin City were all done this way. I was really surprised to hear Sin City was taking this same approach.
And the "ORIGINAL goal" of the Gnu project was actually achieved, albeit only with the help of an independent group under Linus Torvalds writing the kernel.
The original goal was to implement a complete Free UNIX-like operating system with the HURD as its kernel. So what's up with the HURD?
The facts don't have a goddamned thing to do with Bush, you dumbass. They have to do with an electoral voter spouting his mouth off. Pull your head out of your ass.
I hate Square, and RPG's in general. I just think it's really fucking stupid when something happens like this and automatically people jump in saying "Well, they should have just picked up development from the fans." No, they should not have. It is not in any way in their interest to do so. Okay, a large portion of development was done. How much? Was it more than Square, or any other company, could do in six months or so?
Quite easily, when someone cites stupid shit as reasons for their opinion. "Pretty stuff is pointless because I use Linux on servers." No shit? Really?
Three distros, with three different installation methods. Would it be too fucking hard to just accept a fucking standard across all distros? Fuck choice. Sometimes choice is just fucking pointless.
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No, it wouldn't. You schedule the reboot during shift change. No planes are landing, no safety issues. It doesn't matter how often the system is rebooted, what matters is WHEN it is rebooted. Uptime means absolutely nothing to those with actual jobs to do.
You have to remember that any piece of free software that tries to make money via ads is anathema to Free software and should be shunned as much as possible, regardless of any and all potential uses said software has.
Active defense can be as little as issuing a C&D.
Maybe you should fuck off until you learn a better argument. What you're saying basically boils down to "M$ is a bunch of mean doodie-heads." That wasn't convincing in the third grade and it's even more fucking lame now.
The old nvidia drivers, alongside several audio apps, all cause massive kernel panics on my Linux box. What's your point?
When you're going to die because you can't pirate software, you MIGHT have a point. Until that time, shut the fuck up you goddamned moron.
Your problem is, you're a fucking moron that can't bend your puny human brain around the fact that some companies simply don't give a fuck about your stupid goddamned jerkoff software utopia and actually try to MAKE MONEY by selling software. I'm sorry, but developing commercial software costs money. Get the fuck over it, pull your head out of your ass, and join us here in the real world where nobody gives a shit about your social retardation-fueled emphasis on software freedom and all anyone REALLY gives a fuck about is emailing their friends and playing solitaire.
Tell me, exactly, how asking the largest collection of nerds on the net isn't doing research. Then go fuck yourself.
So you've never installed a patch for, or upgraded Sendmail? So you're running on 20+ year old kludge code? If you're going to talk about stupid shit, be more careful.
I swear OSS developers are the most childish assholes I've ever seen. "Oh, he's just writing this to sell a book." "It's just more M$ FUD." What the fuck ever. He brings up good points, ones that NEED to be addressed. Simply ignoring them or writing them off makes you no better than the proprietary vendors you purport to hate.
Note to parent poster: I wasn't referring specifically to you.
When was the last time that a Linux patch installed a firewall, and fixed several bugs that dipshit programmers were using as 'features'?
Anyway, you're simply falling back on the kind of pompous cock bullshit the guy that wrote the article was bitching about. Namely, the excessively childish "Well, M$ sucks so we don't have to do things right." Fucking idiot.
It's actually still a question mark on which movie was first. Sky Captain, The Immortel (it's French... apparently the French don't have the letter "A"), and Sin City were all done this way. I was really surprised to hear Sin City was taking this same approach.
It's kind of funny that it is ONLY AC's that ever say anything about the lack of content in my posts.
Hear that whooshing sound? That's my ENTIRE FUCKING POINT flying over your head at supersonic speeds.
The facts don't have a goddamned thing to do with Bush, you dumbass. They have to do with an electoral voter spouting his mouth off. Pull your head out of your ass.
I hate Square, and RPG's in general. I just think it's really fucking stupid when something happens like this and automatically people jump in saying "Well, they should have just picked up development from the fans." No, they should not have. It is not in any way in their interest to do so. Okay, a large portion of development was done. How much? Was it more than Square, or any other company, could do in six months or so?
Because Square is quite capable of making their own damn games, maybe?
This MIGHT be insightful, had the grandparent not said pretty much this exact thing.
Mmmmmm.... terabyte...
Wrong. ILM and Pixar's renderfarms have RAM in the terabytes. Rendering the complex shit they do is EXTREMELY memory intensive.
Quite easily, when someone cites stupid shit as reasons for their opinion. "Pretty stuff is pointless because I use Linux on servers." No shit? Really?
Three distros, with three different installation methods. Would it be too fucking hard to just accept a fucking standard across all distros? Fuck choice. Sometimes choice is just fucking pointless.