I'm pretty sure the llama is tired of getting its ass whipped.
Re:Close it anyway MSFT or stop the default Admins
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Despite what you say, they are trainable.
I got my sister (15, and understands precisely nothing technical about computers), after much yelling, screaming, and misunderstanding (this one mostly on my part), to use an unprivledged user for normal work and to make changes and install as Administrator.
That said, not only are default accounts admins, but you cannot only have unprivledged accounts; you must have a named admin in addition to Administrator. Very dumb.
Same here, but usually for the whole current paragraph.
The only thing a grammar checker could really help me with is misplaced modifiers. And even then, that "error" is IMO sometimes useful. Ambiguity isn't always a bad thing.
It's also definitely not my fault if somebody else can't understand sentences with 7+ clauses >:}
Grammar checking is mostly worthless now. It's good for seeing whether you have used the wrong properly-spelled syntactic word. I mostly get false positives. Until the grammar checker has a basic understanding of what you are writing about and maybe an understanding of your writing tendencies, it will be mostly worthless.
As far as Linux sound support, I must be 5 years behind the times; and yet, it seems as though nothing has been happening on that front for the past three. What have I missed (besides the obviousness of ALSA)?
Next computer for me (1.5 yrs away): 2+ ~20GB 10-15kRPM SCSI drives (probably used), attached to a PCI-X SCSI controller (likely new), in RAID 0 As many large IDE and SATA drives as I can get my hands on, in RAID 1 or 5
The SCSI controller is no more than $150, and used SCSI drives can be had for not much at all. And who said SCSI was expensive?
After reading the rest of the comments: I agree, SFF is a better route to go for "mobile gaming only" machines.
OK... One of these, $499 Two of these, $250.98 x2 And so on...
Come on, be the ultimate performance whore. Take the performance hit of registered RAM. Spend the $3500-4000 for one bitchin' portable system. Just wait until the dual-cored chips; you'll have four effective processors. Don't listen to those who say SMP doesn't isn't worth it. If even the sound mixes in a different thread, even if the other processor only handles OS tasks, you'll gain some performance.
Or maybe I'm just obsessed with dual procs and power. I mean, what do you think I'm saving up for right now?
"Leander, the federal government's got the atom bomb. What you got?" -- Earl Long, to Leander Perez, the boss of Plaquemines Parish, and outspoken segregationalist, in 1959.
While other states have histories of political corruption, none are as interesting as Louisiana's.
Because the Internet can now provide freedom of information at a constant cost (for all practical purposes), "free as in speech" implies "free as in beer." So if you have the "vocabulary" to configure the software yourself, you don't have to pay someone else to do the job for you.
It is IMO (it's sort of a 'zen' feeling) necessary for someone to seriously advocate freedom for every idea, even if there is no chance of it happening in the forseeable future. Also, the next logical step from free software is free firmware.
Everything* is Windows. There are a few legacy Novell servers on the backend, but I don't know what they do.
The head of the technology dept. is a former DEC engineer. He also teaches AP CompSci, so I got to learn some of his opinions. Many of those opinions are the same that Microsoft holds. For instance, he believes that "quick and dirty" takes prescedence over "correct." He believes that the simplicity of the UNIX plaintext configuration is inferior to a Windows Registry-type database. He's definitely not part of the "hacker" culture, and I'm not sure if he really understands the GPL.
* Every computer also has Novell Zenworks, running on a stripped down version of Red Hat, for the purpose of reimaging the machines. This is stupid in several ways:
1. This is the boot process of each computer: POST -> lilo -> Zenworks -> DHCP fails -> change the active partition to the FAT one and reload the bootloader -> reboot -> POST -> lilo -> FAT -> Windows boots. Takes forever.
2. If you can't effectively lock down a computer so that people can't screw it up, either you or the OS is not doing its job.
3. If you're going to go so far as to reimage machines, why do you need to spend money for a tool that performs the equivalent of dd if=image of=/dev/hda?
Doing such a thing fits an extended definition of "bill of attainder." The Supreme Court does not take kindly to infringement of those rights reserved for the Judiciary. A legal smackdown would result.
From where would such an attack from below come? If the commercial distros become cancerous, it is possible to bypass them. From the other companies we will have beaten in your hypothetical situation? Supposedly, we in OSS are self-motivated; that would kill that theory. From the BSD crowd? For fear of being modded Troll, I'm not even going there.
Realistically, that leaves only internal instability as knocking us down from the top, once we get there.
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I'm pretty sure the llama is tired of getting its ass whipped.
Despite what you say, they are trainable.
I got my sister (15, and understands precisely nothing technical about computers), after much yelling, screaming, and misunderstanding (this one mostly on my part), to use an unprivledged user for normal work and to make changes and install as Administrator.
That said, not only are default accounts admins, but you cannot only have unprivledged accounts; you must have a named admin in addition to Administrator. Very dumb.
Same here, but usually for the whole current paragraph.
The only thing a grammar checker could really help me with is misplaced modifiers. And even then, that "error" is IMO sometimes useful. Ambiguity isn't always a bad thing.
It's also definitely not my fault if somebody else can't understand sentences with 7+ clauses >:}
Um... libsafe too? You don't necessarily need NX if you can do it from software, and it's surely even more effective if you layer the two.
Opinion and anecdote:
Grammar checking is mostly worthless now. It's good for seeing whether you have used the wrong properly-spelled syntactic word. I mostly get false positives. Until the grammar checker has a basic understanding of what you are writing about and maybe an understanding of your writing tendencies, it will be mostly worthless.
That has got to be the most embarassing and pathetic way to die. I would not want that one listed in my obituary.
In other words, should we start patenting everything we can get our hands on?
Sonic X is doing pretty good, but we'll have to wait and see how it finishes out.
The English dub makes me want to hang myself.
As far as Linux sound support, I must be 5 years behind the times; and yet, it seems as though nothing has been happening on that front for the past three. What have I missed (besides the obviousness of ALSA)?
Genius is often mistaken for insanity.
Next computer for me (1.5 yrs away):
2+ ~20GB 10-15kRPM SCSI drives (probably used), attached to a PCI-X SCSI controller (likely new), in RAID 0
As many large IDE and SATA drives as I can get my hands on, in RAID 1 or 5
The SCSI controller is no more than $150, and used SCSI drives can be had for not much at all. And who said SCSI was expensive?
After reading the rest of the comments:
I agree, SFF is a better route to go for "mobile gaming only" machines.
OK...
One of these, $499
Two of these, $250.98 x2
And so on...
Come on, be the ultimate performance whore. Take the performance hit of registered RAM. Spend the $3500-4000 for one bitchin' portable system. Just wait until the dual-cored chips; you'll have four effective processors. Don't listen to those who say SMP doesn't isn't worth it. If even the sound mixes in a different thread, even if the other processor only handles OS tasks, you'll gain some performance.
Or maybe I'm just obsessed with dual procs and power. I mean, what do you think I'm saving up for right now?
CyberPower Xplorer X64-8000
I don't know about tech support or quality (never bought from these guys), but you could configure a nominally good gaming laptop for about $1700.
Athlon64 3200+
1GB RAM (the low-latency Corsair stuff, even)
Radeon Mobility 9700
802.11g mini-PCI
XP Pro (wimp...)
$1774.00
Again, on paper this is a steal. YMMV.
"Leander, the federal government's got the atom bomb. What you got?" -- Earl Long, to Leander Perez, the boss of Plaquemines Parish, and outspoken segregationalist, in 1959.
While other states have histories of political corruption, none are as interesting as Louisiana's.
According to a story in yesterday's New Orleans paper
It has a name, you know: the Times-Picayune. A little respect, please.
Anyway, it sounds just like our corrupt idiot-officials.
Computer teacher [yelling across crowded a computer lab]: "OK, [name], your new password is 'temp.' That's T-E-M-P 'temp.'"
As you can imagine, much fun was had with this one.
Oh, he's not the admin, they've got two other guys for that.
Because the Internet can now provide freedom of information at a constant cost (for all practical purposes), "free as in speech" implies "free as in beer." So if you have the "vocabulary" to configure the software yourself, you don't have to pay someone else to do the job for you.
It is IMO (it's sort of a 'zen' feeling) necessary for someone to seriously advocate freedom for every idea, even if there is no chance of it happening in the forseeable future. Also, the next logical step from free software is free firmware.
And let me tell you, what a monoculture!
Everything* is Windows. There are a few legacy Novell servers on the backend, but I don't know what they do.
The head of the technology dept. is a former DEC engineer. He also teaches AP CompSci, so I got to learn some of his opinions. Many of those opinions are the same that Microsoft holds. For instance, he believes that "quick and dirty" takes prescedence over "correct." He believes that the simplicity of the UNIX plaintext configuration is inferior to a Windows Registry-type database. He's definitely not part of the "hacker" culture, and I'm not sure if he really understands the GPL.
* Every computer also has Novell Zenworks, running on a stripped down version of Red Hat, for the purpose of reimaging the machines. This is stupid in several ways:
1. This is the boot process of each computer: POST -> lilo -> Zenworks -> DHCP fails -> change the active partition to the FAT one and reload the bootloader -> reboot -> POST -> lilo -> FAT -> Windows boots. Takes forever.
2. If you can't effectively lock down a computer so that people can't screw it up, either you or the OS is not doing its job.
3. If you're going to go so far as to reimage machines, why do you need to spend money for a tool that performs the equivalent of dd if=image of=/dev/hda?
I just realized that my 3 year-old OEM-built comp's mobo takes RDRAM. Oh fuck.
And then I remembered about the magic of eBay, where you can get 2x512MB of never-used RDRAM for about $100.
So between that and nvclock + a chipset cooler, I just might be set until I can save up for a dual Opteron "because I want to splurge" machine.
s/OSS/Free Software/
That was an error in terms.
OK then, file that under "internal conflict."
Besides, stupider things have happened.
Doing such a thing fits an extended definition of "bill of attainder." The Supreme Court does not take kindly to infringement of those rights reserved for the Judiciary. A legal smackdown would result.
From where would such an attack from below come? If the commercial distros become cancerous, it is possible to bypass them. From the other companies we will have beaten in your hypothetical situation? Supposedly, we in OSS are self-motivated; that would kill that theory. From the BSD crowd? For fear of being modded Troll, I'm not even going there.
Realistically, that leaves only internal instability as knocking us down from the top, once we get there.
True (engineering) talent is universal and is always in demand everywhere*. If you're good enough, there will be a place for you.
* obvious exaggeration, but you get the point