Stop threatening, mate. Just do it, remove all copies and go to StarOffice (side note: new StarOffice motto should be "sucks slightly less, and you get the source!"). The more that do it the sooner we can all get weaned from Office (which is imho the only reason to run windows anyway)
I'm sorry, but I hold the German trademark rights to the character string "298301", under the business category of "Stuff (DK 001a)." You will have to pay me 15 pfennig every time somebody in the Bundesrepublik downloads this comment from Slashdot. (tee hee hee)
... you can prevent an NFS crash from hanging other systems that mount the NFS disk, there are some options to mount_nfs which need to be changed from the defaults. It differs from system to system however so I won't say 'do it this way' but there is some hope. You're right though, the long term solution is to replace NFS with something less crufty.
Are these photos interesting because a) the ice cap is melting, b) these huge icebergs are going to wander into shipping lanes, c) they're just so damn big, or d) some other reason?
No. It's shelf ice, not land (cap) ice. Their melting will have no effect on sea level, unlike land (icecap) ice.
Unlikely. Not many ships go down there. Slightly fewer return. Most ships have radar now anyway.
Yes.
Yes. Breakup of the shelf ice is thought to be a symptom of a warming Southern Ocean.
Yeah, you're right. I was just reading about how opossums in Australia were being electrocuted in huge numbers because the cable lines were being strung too close to the HVAC lines. Not only that, America's Girl (tm), Meg Ryan, is now dating an Australian. And Mel Gibson (another Australian) is playing an American in a movie! That's way, way too much to be a coincidence. We've been had. All this time we thought the real threat was from Canada! Now thanks to your keen alertness we know we're going to have to start monitoring this Antipodean conspiracy as well. Good on ya.
is that readers really *want* to hear good things about their community, rather than serious evaluations.
Horsepucky. Nothing sours people on products / communities / whatever more quickly than stuff not operating as reviewed. If they want exaggerated claims they can read the box or the press release. Saplings grow into great oaks if and only if they are fit. Encouraging bad saplings with a pretense of objectivity just lets bad genes into the pool. Honest reviews will encourage natural selection.
My opinion? The small websites that don't have the budget to buy their own products should not do reviews. Or they should cheerfully admit they are becoming small tools of the manufacturers, allowing readers to weight the results accordingly. Thanks for asking.
Yep I said this the other day but the post got drowned in the noise. No worries. Another thing CR is really good at is disclosing exactly what they do. This is not really a problem for computer hdwe review sites as the readership has demanded it for a while, but you see this disclosure go down rapidly as the readership increases until you get to the glossy magazine columnists who tell you nothing... unless it's Pournelle.
Great replies. How TUX fits in with the kernel makes more sense to me now. Seems safe and sane. I withdraw my previous objections;) -- on to the ftp module (another great idea, but make it sftp)!
Ooh. Message for the perl gods then: call it something else...please Wasn't it just a few months ago that Larry Wall was saying he was going to leave Perl alone for a while? I welcomed that, this is a bit more ominous. Great to develop a 'new thing inspired by perl' but if it's not perl, don't call it perl...
Bring back pascal! What this country needs is strong type checking and a good national buffer defense! Vote for me in the next e-lection and I promise new F(nord)ederal regulations to require bounds checking for arrays and strings in all alpha, beta, and gold releases of all new compilers and interpreters. These evil buffer overflows must be stopped! Thank you, thank you very much.
I nearly drowned from beer inhalation when I learned about this ummm...feature from a friend whose firm is an early adopter of W2K. Not that the umm...feature itself existed (what sysadmin hasn't at one time or another wished for an umm...feature like this to protect hisorher systems from lusers), but that Solitaire was one of those protected system files you couldn't delete without it being resurrected. I was ROTFLABBTMN when I heard that.
It took me over an hour just to read the Sharky article, let alone the Tom's article. {enable flamebait mode} 90% of/. commentors don't bother to read the articles anyway, what do you expect? {disable flamebait mode} So you're one of 10%, perhaps.;)
They don't make Gear. They sell it, however, although they've told me they don't support Gear any more. On the other hand, the program they've replaced it with does not work with my Panasonic jukebox! AARRRRRRGH! I agree Gear stinks but on the other hand it does work...
Good point. In part you are describing a minor problem with documentation. Poor or less-than-complete (to use less judgmental terms) documentation is even now something that is not addressed well by developers, both in the closed and open source models. I'd think Satan will be handing out ice skates before Joe Hacker will say "Naw, I don't feel like coding on this project, I'll write documentation instead." (note to knee-jerk responders -- not everyone who uses an open source product can (or wants to) read the code to figure out what it's supposed to do). Of course, now nobody is expected to read what documentation is present because it goes without saying that it's not what you need to know... sigh...
Yes, and CR's computer hardware reviews are a joke. But that's not what I was talking about. They have their standards, and they stick to them. Those who presume to provide objective reviews of software should do the same, and clearly explain what those are. If they are not sufficient to answer the questions you have ('oh but they didn't check it's performance using antialiased Klingon fonts,' or 'all we did with this program was check email and we did not check the automatic diaper cleaning feature'), then you will not expect it to work.
The publishers of Consumer Reports have an excellent record of providing unbiased reviews of all kinds of commercial products. Their claims of objectivity have been tested in the courts, which is far more than most webzines can claim!
One of the reasons for their success is their strict refusal of all offers of free products (nor do they solicit). They obtain their products as a regular consumer would.
Their procedures are briefly documented on their Web page.
Competent reviewers who wish to remain objective should adhere to these guidelines.
Naw, don't think so. We need unifying domains, not ones to split 'us' up more -- that only suits the purposes of the direct marketroid collective. This is a dumb idea. Sorry,.rms;)
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Just do it, remove all copies and go to StarOffice (side note: new StarOffice motto should be "sucks slightly less, and you get the source!"). The more that do it the sooner we can all get weaned from Office (which is imho the only reason to run windows anyway)
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Hell, I feel that way about almost all C++ code. {insert grin object}
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So, in other words, it is a real programming language! Hahahahahaha! Great! I love it! More, more!
ps: You can have my FORTRAN compiler when you pry it from between my cold, dead, ummm... 9-track tapes. {grin}
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No. It's shelf ice, not land (cap) ice. Their melting will have no effect on sea level, unlike land (icecap) ice.
Unlikely. Not many ships go down there. Slightly fewer return. Most ships have radar now anyway.
Yes.
Yes. Breakup of the shelf ice is thought to be a symptom of a warming Southern Ocean.
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"Dick, I'm very disappointed."
Best scene in the movie, imho.
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Horsepucky. Nothing sours people on products / communities / whatever more quickly than stuff not operating as reviewed. If they want exaggerated claims they can read the box or the press release. Saplings grow into great oaks if and only if they are fit. Encouraging bad saplings with a pretense of objectivity just lets bad genes into the pool. Honest reviews will encourage natural selection.
My opinion? The small websites that don't have the budget to buy their own products should not do reviews. Or they should cheerfully admit they are becoming small tools of the manufacturers, allowing readers to weight the results accordingly. Thanks for asking.
WWJD -- What Would Jimi Do?
WWJD -- What Would Jimi Do?
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call it something else...please
Wasn't it just a few months ago that Larry Wall was saying he was going to leave Perl alone for a while? I welcomed that, this is a bit more ominous. Great to develop a 'new thing inspired by perl' but if it's not perl, don't call it perl...
WWJD -- What Would Jimi Do?
WWJD -- What Would Jimi Do?
WWJD -- What Would Jimi Do?
WWJD -- What Would Jimi Do?
WWJD -- What Would Jimi Do?
WWJD -- What Would Jimi Do?
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One of the reasons for their success is their strict refusal of all offers of free products (nor do they solicit). They obtain their products as a regular consumer would.
Their procedures are briefly documented on their Web page.
Competent reviewers who wish to remain objective should adhere to these guidelines.
WWJD -- What Would Jimi Do?
Air travel engineers (aerospace engineers?) umm, do it with a Saturn V? No, that's not it either.
Sigh. Off to the library.
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Naw, don't think so. We need unifying domains, not ones to split 'us' up more -- that only suits the purposes of the direct marketroid collective. This is a dumb idea. Sorry, .rms ;)
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Only if you mention Robert Heinlein in the same sentence ;)
ps: there is no cabal
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