Thank you for dredging up *that* old memory! Now I'm going to have JCL nightmares for weeks! One of these days I'm going to burn those old punched cards in the basement.
Even for the sysadmins it depends on the environment. I work for a large company and few users work weekends. So I do my weekend system chores on Saturday morning when my family is sleeping in. (Yes, that's when most wives clean the house. Oh well, you can't do everything.)
On the other hand, I used do sysadmin for a group that worked weekends routinely - and most nights! I had to put my foot down about scheduling maintenance. They eventually disbanded that group as they were driving everyone (including management) crazy.
I'm assuming that you never actually tried this scenario that you are detailing. Let's take a survey. What is the likely response (after the initial shock)?
1. Buy you a new and better one
2. Tell all her friends and then Demand that you learn to behave yourself and never do that again if you ever want to see her again
I think you nailed it. I can't imagine an actual human being saying 'Look honey, cute bears'. It must have been a joke. Maybe the whole question was a joke.
This is like those keychain tags for gas at Mobile or Exxon. The idea is that the purchase is small, so it's not worth the seller's trouble to get a signature. And, those gas tags don't work from far away - you don't wind up paying for someone else's gas at the next pump. I'm guessing that these little capsules don't have much of a range either, despite what was written.
Oh, and as far as passing out. If you pass out in a public place, there are lots and lots of bad things that can happen to you. Perhaps you should avoid that practice.
>For example, your neighbor might not even know his/her computer is using illegal software, maybe johnny from down the street set it up for them and just let it go. I know, they should know better, but the fact is, most people just don't.
Maybe I run with the wrong crowd, but to my knowledge, the above case is very, very common. But Johnny's neighbor (his name is probably Fred) won't bother installing the updates either! He hasn't touched his settup for years. When it gets messed up, he just reinstalls from that old CD with "Windows 98" scrawled on it in permanant marker. "Non-registered user" is not necessarily equal to "computer savvy". Under the proposed scheme, if it is ever adopted, some vulnerable systems will be patched and some (many) won't be.
But why expend the resources to make those adjustments? Adjustments require extra fuel. Adjustments are useful if the target is moving significantly, but in this case, the targets were usually sitting ducks, moving slowly wrt the missile. Sitting duck=precalculated flight path= no arc.
More likely it was an earth-ism. Earth gravity causes missiles (from, say, a modern day fighter jet) to arc. So that's what the artists envisioned.
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>In particular, do not promote any post whose content is basically "Darl is going to jail", because these posts are wrong.
Right or wrong, they do serve their intended purpose - as an excuse to post those violent (and sometimes very explicit) prison fanatasies that we have all come to love so much on Slashdot.
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Good one! If you really did that, what are you doing here on this page? You had me there for a second.
Yes, I realise Caldera changed their name to SCO. Who knows, there might be some old caldera software being used somewhere, but that's not worth a whole topic. On a constructive note, maybe we should take up a collection for the cost of slashdot changing the topic name (and saying goodby to the mouse ears icon).
Allow me to clarify. In the slashdot preferences, you have to exclude the caldera topic in order to exclude SCO stories. This is because there is no SCO topic on slashdot (amazing!) and all SCO stories are dumped in the caldera topic. Clear?
Suggestion for parent: Go to your slashdot preferences and filter out caldera stories. You will never have to see mouse-ears-on-a-globe again. As for me, bring 'em on!
I agree, but I don't agree 100%. For example, single CD's such as Knoppix are but one of many options for cheap distribution of CD's. Also, let's-not-take-a-chance-on-any-but-the-top-seller is a sort of manager-think that might not be so prevalent in places that are struggling to establish themselves technologically.
But I agree with what you say about pirating in general and I'll take the point even further. Pirated proprietary cds "compete" quite aggressively with open source everywhere. And yes, I'm talking about the USA and other high-tech nations too.
Hmmm. Maybe I should have read the article? Maybe I could set a good example? Then more posters would read the article. I could make this a better world! Maybe... Nahhhh. (Apologies to Steve Martin)
Gartner is not saying anything about Linux or BSD users making plans to migrate off just in case. "A less controversal OS" in this context means anything but Open Server or UnixWare.
If you want to make Linux better, does it follow that you want to crush Microsoft? This is more a pick at the article than at the above post, but I want to be picky about this. How would you define "Crushing Microsoft"? As a 97% share of the desktop droping to 95%? That would only seem like a crushing failure to a company built on a philosophy of paranoia and greed. Oh wait...
Coming from a UNIX background, Linux first appealed to me as a hot new flavor of UNIX. My interest was (and is) mainly with its use as a server and for scientific computing. I would venture to guess that quite a few Linux developers share that perspective.
Still, as a user and a sysadmin for a "real" OS's (VMS/*NIX/Linux), DOS and Windows always looked rather shoddy to me - still do. So it's a very nice thing that there are viable alternatitives to Windows on the desktop. Alternatives are good.
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A goto tatoo would seem dangerous, because goto is a dangerous command. But you would have to be both super-geeky and middle-aged to understand it.
I tried this, but the acousic modem makes scary noises. And those two padded cups look weird.
Thank you for dredging up *that* old memory! Now I'm going to have JCL nightmares for weeks! One of these days I'm going to burn those old punched cards in the basement.
1975, when men were men, and women were men, and .... At least the old gender-confused language beats the current practice of calling people "heads".
I know that the parent post was meant to be a serious post, but the very idea of a vi security flaw is the funniest thing I've read all week.
Even for the sysadmins it depends on the environment. I work for a large company and few users work weekends. So I do my weekend system chores on Saturday morning when my family is sleeping in. (Yes, that's when most wives clean the house. Oh well, you can't do everything.)
On the other hand, I used do sysadmin for a group that worked weekends routinely - and most nights! I had to put my foot down about scheduling maintenance. They eventually disbanded that group as they were driving everyone (including management) crazy.
But consider the long term. It's possible to get your children addicted too!
1. Buy you a new and better one
2. Tell all her friends and then Demand that you learn to behave yourself and never do that again if you ever want to see her again
3. Leave and never look back.
I vote for #3 myself.
I think you nailed it. I can't imagine an actual human being saying 'Look honey, cute bears'. It must have been a joke. Maybe the whole question was a joke.
This is like those keychain tags for gas at Mobile or Exxon. The idea is that the purchase is small, so it's not worth the seller's trouble to get a signature. And, those gas tags don't work from far away - you don't wind up paying for someone else's gas at the next pump. I'm guessing that these little capsules don't have much of a range either, despite what was written.
Oh, and as far as passing out. If you pass out in a public place, there are lots and lots of bad things that can happen to you. Perhaps you should avoid that practice.
>For example, your neighbor might not even know his/her computer is using illegal software, maybe johnny from down the street set it up for them and just let it go. I know, they should know better, but the fact is, most people just don't.
Maybe I run with the wrong crowd, but to my knowledge, the above case is very, very common. But Johnny's neighbor (his name is probably Fred) won't bother installing the updates either! He hasn't touched his settup for years. When it gets messed up, he just reinstalls from that old CD with "Windows 98" scrawled on it in permanant marker. "Non-registered user" is not necessarily equal to "computer savvy". Under the proposed scheme, if it is ever adopted, some vulnerable systems will be patched and some (many) won't be.
>You can't recover unused missile fuel, so why not waste it?
D'oh! You are so right.
But why expend the resources to make those adjustments? Adjustments require extra fuel. Adjustments are useful if the target is moving significantly, but in this case, the targets were usually sitting ducks, moving slowly wrt the missile. Sitting duck=precalculated flight path= no arc.
More likely it was an earth-ism. Earth gravity causes missiles (from, say, a modern day fighter jet) to arc. So that's what the artists envisioned.
>In particular, do not promote any post whose content is basically "Darl is going to jail", because these posts are wrong.
Right or wrong, they do serve their intended purpose - as an excuse to post those violent (and sometimes very explicit) prison fanatasies that we have all come to love so much on Slashdot.
Good one! If you really did that, what are you doing here on this page? You had me there for a second.
Yes, I realise Caldera changed their name to SCO. Who knows, there might be some old caldera software being used somewhere, but that's not worth a whole topic. On a constructive note, maybe we should take up a collection for the cost of slashdot changing the topic name (and saying goodby to the mouse ears icon).
Allow me to clarify. In the slashdot preferences, you have to exclude the caldera topic in order to exclude SCO stories. This is because there is no SCO topic on slashdot (amazing!) and all SCO stories are dumped in the caldera topic. Clear?
Suggestion for parent: Go to your slashdot preferences and filter out caldera stories. You will never have to see mouse-ears-on-a-globe again. As for me, bring 'em on!
I agree, but I don't agree 100%. For example, single CD's such as Knoppix are but one of many options for cheap distribution of CD's. Also, let's-not-take-a-chance-on-any-but-the-top-seller is a sort of manager-think that might not be so prevalent in places that are struggling to establish themselves technologically.
But I agree with what you say about pirating in general and I'll take the point even further. Pirated proprietary cds "compete" quite aggressively with open source everywhere. And yes, I'm talking about the USA and other high-tech nations too.
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Hmmm. Maybe I should have read the article? Maybe I could set a good example? Then more posters would read the article. I could make this a better world! Maybe ... Nahhhh. (Apologies to Steve Martin)
Gartner is not saying anything about Linux or BSD users making plans to migrate off just in case. "A less controversal OS" in this context means anything but Open Server or UnixWare.
If you want to make Linux better, does it follow that you want to crush Microsoft? This is more a pick at the article than at the above post, but I want to be picky about this. How would you define "Crushing Microsoft"? As a 97% share of the desktop droping to 95%? That would only seem like a crushing failure to a company built on a philosophy of paranoia and greed. Oh wait...
Coming from a UNIX background, Linux first appealed to me as a hot new flavor of UNIX. My interest was (and is) mainly with its use as a server and for scientific computing. I would venture to guess that quite a few Linux developers share that perspective.
Still, as a user and a sysadmin for a "real" OS's (VMS/*NIX/Linux), DOS and Windows always looked rather shoddy to me - still do. So it's a very nice thing that there are viable alternatitives to Windows on the desktop. Alternatives are good.