I don't have a buzz-word to spit for you as an answer right now, as someone that uses Mac, Windows, Red hat, would.
And THAT's why slacks rocks! I have a server that's already runed OS2, Free and Open BSD, red hat, suse..damn, even Plan 9 hehe
and except from plan9, i runned everything for at least 11months. and at least 3 full installs of each. That's more than enough for a benchmark of the ease of use for the sysadm....I'm not interested in performance in this server. btw, It's always been a Pentium MMX 100@133 with a good intel mother board and PCI network cards and mere 32Mb of ram. Nothing fancy.
The fact is that i don't have time to deal with that machine. It simply have to work. Every install was made with less than a day -usualy a rainy sunday- and all the maintenance was done remote while waiting time pass at work. So, now that i've choose slack -since version 4- i'm pretty sure it's the one that bother me less than the rest. The buzz word to convince you... well, i still lack it. Cuz i don't need any buzz word to convince *myself* that's slack is what i should use.
But, keep in mind that my experience is purely for server stuff... this machine don't even have a screen! The only time i used it as a desktop, was to run X+blackbox+Opera
I've only one friend that uses slackware9.1 at his workstation, but since he already used freeBsd4 i don't think he counts. And if you want a workstation you shouldn't look into linux. Use a bootleg copy of Windows, it runs the newer games while you'r slacware sidekick keeps the worms at bay:)
Slack 4 is not THAT old considering that slacks don't age so kickly:) Now, if you use red hat, then a day or two without the automatic update, you can't even boot the machine Besides, they've jumped a lot of version numbers.
well. If you fell confortably with Yast, then i sugest you keep that SuSe. If you fell that Yast was a pain in the ass, then the best way to migrate is: 1. copy your/home 2. install slack in "new install" mode. 3. restore/home 4. no 4, you'r already done
whatever their plan with this no-overclock policy is, they seems to make profit with it, because every now and them they release something like this.
I've strugled with an old Pmmx chip that cruchs my packets back home to downclock it and make it live long... wait.. maybe their goal is to stop downcloack. Maybe their chips ALREADY come overclocked and hence, with a live so short that you will change computers faster then the moore law can count hertz units increments! (i.e. you will have two computers market as gigaHertz before you buy any teraHertz)
My 700mhz Atlhon couldn't keep it up. Almost 20s~1min to open apps (from kmail, to yast)
And yast is now just like the package manage from irix. 30min reading the installed ones. 30min tweaking the/etc files for the new one. Besides all the packages are so tweaked to fit in suse's "fixes" that you will NEVER be able to run some outsider.
Well, i'm back to windows (yeah, you read right) with my slackware sidekick.
My gf is now using it. it runs better in hers 1.3ghz duron. But she's stuck with the suse rpms. For example, if you try to install firefox 0.9 NOTHING will work until you reinstall the 0.8 from the rpm.
The only thing i was able to run was Xine. Because i endured the headache to make it work... screw codec pattent.
Yeah.. they're obiviously trying to run the new version of steam!...Ah! and don't forget the T3 they hired from AT&T to download HL2 with. The final prove FBI needed is that the T3 was at 100% usage for 2 months, and then went to 0%. Two months, just enough time for steam to get the new HL2 patchs.
Valve is once again reminded of how much we owe to the gaming community
oh the great gaming community. The only entity in the world that can endure 3 weeks of download for a download engine that will rape your system and make you wait more 3 weeks every time you want to play a simple game online while it download some simple "patchs"
And now, with news that the creator of bitorrent (yeah, you all know who he is, i bet you've seen his face some ten times already) have been hired by valve, we can count on the system-raping-download-program to make you use your bandwidth to make others users waste their times downloading more patches! (not to mention seeing the guys face everytime you play CS)
Now, the final question.. if every week you have to get 100mb or more of patches... why the hell they take so long to release the damn thing?!?!
It's not like they're finishing it...
I must say that html should be dead and buried for a frigging long time!
html was MEANT to parse the content of texts. It has tags like quote, emphasis, code and even some obscure and never used bibliografic reference ones.
html today is USED to fake a editoring software like quark, pagemaker or TeX. Designers use photoshop to conceive webpages, then webmasters uses zillion of tables --that were supposed to display data-- to create a presentation for the text...and then throw in some scripts to make dirty work arounds for something in the presentation that can't be done with tables only.
So, everyone is obviously hitting a nail to the wall with a screw driver.
GET A F*&%# HAMMER FOR GOD SAKE!
flash is a standard today because it was the first! It's dirtly coded, it is ugly, slow, it changes it's action script syntax in every release to something worse and the tool's UI is a constant remake of the first one, made by some programer with no sense of usability. But, it was the first. The first to realize that html should be dead. I hate flash because it's like hitting a nail to the wall with an envil.
Java on the other hand was a great concept. But they where too megalomaniac. They basicaly switched the screw driver you were hitting the nail with a 20ton truck. You will get the nail nailed, but you have to get a license, spend some hours aiming and manouvering for each nail, and it can break down the wall.
well, i for one welcome the new discrepant-standards-for-the-same-shit overlords....Since i have no option.
Back in the day, Apple did a series of time/motion studies
Yeah, and i just read a study from philip morris that smoking may actualy prevent cancer, baldness and has a side effect of increasing my penis and attracting more woman!
I browse/. with +3 for funnies... and the whole topic had ONE, one fucking +4 funny! the other had +5 but was twenty lines long, what kind of +5 funny is more than twenty line long???
Anyway... I'm pretty sure there's prior art for it. I remember using it since i was 2! It was a device called wall that had a translucent window, that you used to look to the street, you know?
yeah, maybe we're not "system administrators" to Microsoft cause we never did their expensive mouse clicking solution expert courses, where they will tell you the secret hand-shake of the MSCsysadm and the secret registry keys that will prove that a certified sysadm have been contacted, proving the usefulness of the expensive course.
after reading this on the/. front page, i runned the windows update, that i don't visit for more than a year...
and after some time, a windows pops up with the text: "The software you are instaling has not passed the Windows Logo testing to verify its compatibility with Windows XP. bla bla bla" "This software will *not be instaled*. Contact your system administrator."
Ok, so i contact myself, and wonders what the hell?!?
I just give M$ a lot of information about the operating system that i'm running... they wrote the frign thing, and even so, they don't know what will run in it, or what will pass their own crap compatibility verification!
but well, that's it... i just click "OK" --the only button-- and see the same windows appears 3 times more... and blissfuly keep my ignorance of what's going on with the instalation.
Bochs for the old dos games, and Wine for new ones (like, counter strike or warcraft 3 --ok, not so *new* ones) and you're free of the windows 98 price tag and dual boot
The worm seems to install a ftp server on infected machines. So, wouldn't it be nice to have every box that detects a connection on port 554, reply with an upload of a new wallpaper to the infected windows box with some message like "install a firewall, moron"
I consider it a public service. Maybe you can even deduct the bandwith for the upload from you tax.
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oops, i forgot to tell the real reason:
fortunes at every logon by *default*
I don't have a buzz-word to spit for you as an answer right now, as someone that uses Mac, Windows, Red hat, would.
...I'm not interested in performance in this server. btw, It's always been a Pentium MMX 100@133 with a good intel mother board and PCI network cards and mere 32Mb of ram. Nothing fancy.
:)
And THAT's why slacks rocks!
I have a server that's already runed OS2, Free and Open BSD, red hat, suse..damn, even Plan 9 hehe
and except from plan9, i runned everything for at least 11months. and at least 3 full installs of each. That's more than enough for a benchmark of the ease of use for the sysadm.
The fact is that i don't have time to deal with that machine. It simply have to work. Every install was made with less than a day -usualy a rainy sunday- and all the maintenance was done remote while waiting time pass at work. So, now that i've choose slack -since version 4- i'm pretty sure it's the one that bother me less than the rest. The buzz word to convince you... well, i still lack it. Cuz i don't need any buzz word to convince *myself* that's slack is what i should use.
But, keep in mind that my experience is purely for server stuff... this machine don't even have a screen!
The only time i used it as a desktop, was to run X+blackbox+Opera
I've only one friend that uses slackware9.1 at his workstation, but since he already used freeBsd4 i don't think he counts. And if you want a workstation you shouldn't look into linux. Use a bootleg copy of Windows, it runs the newer games while you'r slacware sidekick keeps the worms at bay
Slack 4 is not THAT old considering that slacks don't age so kickly :)
/home /home
Now, if you use red hat, then a day or two without the automatic update, you can't even boot the machine
Besides, they've jumped a lot of version numbers.
well. If you fell confortably with Yast, then i sugest you keep that SuSe. If you fell that Yast was a pain in the ass, then the best way to migrate is:
1. copy your
2. install slack in "new install" mode.
3. restore
4. no 4, you'r already done
"intel blocks overclock yada yada yada"
Does history never stop repeating itself?
whatever their plan with this no-overclock policy is, they seems to make profit with it, because every now and them they release something like this.
I've strugled with an old Pmmx chip that cruchs my packets back home to downclock it and make it live long... wait.. maybe their goal is to stop downcloack. Maybe their chips ALREADY come overclocked and hence, with a live so short that you will change computers faster then the moore law can count hertz units increments! (i.e. you will have two computers market as gigaHertz before you buy any teraHertz)
> "The article is full of links, screenshots and diagrams."
Now, THAT's an article i'd read
i got the 5Cds SuSe9.1 Pro. pure deception.
/etc files for the new one. Besides all the packages are so tweaked to fit in suse's "fixes" that you will NEVER be able to run some outsider.
My 700mhz Atlhon couldn't keep it up. Almost 20s~1min to open apps (from kmail, to yast)
And yast is now just like the package manage from irix. 30min reading the installed ones. 30min tweaking the
Well, i'm back to windows (yeah, you read right) with my slackware sidekick.
My gf is now using it. it runs better in hers 1.3ghz duron. But she's stuck with the suse rpms. For example, if you try to install firefox 0.9 NOTHING will work until you reinstall the 0.8 from the rpm.
The only thing i was able to run was Xine. Because i endured the headache to make it work... screw codec pattent.
Yeah.. they're obiviously trying to run the new version of steam! ...Ah! and don't forget the T3 they hired from AT&T to download HL2 with. The final prove FBI needed is that the T3 was at 100% usage for 2 months, and then went to 0%. Two months, just enough time for steam to get the new HL2 patchs.
And now, with news that the creator of bitorrent (yeah, you all know who he is, i bet you've seen his face some ten times already) have been hired by valve, we can count on the system-raping-download-program to make you use your bandwidth to make others users waste their times downloading more patches! (not to mention seeing the guys face everytime you play CS)
Now, the final question.. if every week you have to get 100mb or more of patches... why the hell they take so long to release the damn thing?!?!
It's not like they're finishing it...
It's all part of the show.
The tutorial campaing in half life 2 will be the arrest, by swat, of 3 filty hackers living in some college dorm.
If you've been to an E3 then you know what people at the gaming industry are capable of... bunch of reviewer whores...
I must say that html should be dead and buried for a frigging long time!
...and then throw in some scripts to make dirty work arounds for something in the presentation that can't be done with tables only.
...Since i have no option.
html was MEANT to parse the content of texts. It has tags like quote, emphasis, code and even some obscure and never used bibliografic reference ones.
html today is USED to fake a editoring software like quark, pagemaker or TeX. Designers use photoshop to conceive webpages, then webmasters uses zillion of tables --that were supposed to display data-- to create a presentation for the text
So, everyone is obviously hitting a nail to the wall with a screw driver.
GET A F*&%# HAMMER FOR GOD SAKE!
flash is a standard today because it was the first! It's dirtly coded, it is ugly, slow, it changes it's action script syntax in every release to something worse and the tool's UI is a constant remake of the first one, made by some programer with no sense of usability. But, it was the first. The first to realize that html should be dead. I hate flash because it's like hitting a nail to the wall with an envil.
Java on the other hand was a great concept. But they where too megalomaniac. They basicaly switched the screw driver you were hitting the nail with a 20ton truck. You will get the nail nailed, but you have to get a license, spend some hours aiming and manouvering for each nail, and it can break down the wall.
well, i for one welcome the new discrepant-standards-for-the-same-shit overlords.
i love the smell of poly-brominated-diphyenyl ethers in the morning.
Moron, don't you know the meaning of "miss"?
Just imagine seeing trinity dying in your screen saver some months before the movie get released
I will post here and lost my moderation since it was of no use... it lacks the "+5 totaly weirdo" option
Yeah, it's realy nice WHEN YOU HAVE THE TIME TO!
A more REAL list would be
(1) wake up late
(2) run to work
(3) eat on crapy places, the only ones that hapens to exist near your job
(4) get out on the last second to go to college
(5) eat a fried-thing at the college cafeteria, or loose the 1st class
(6) get home totaly wreked
(7) wow! a 5 hours sleep before you wake up late on item #1
I browse /. with +3 for funnies... and the whole topic had ONE, one fucking +4 funny! the other had +5 but was twenty lines long, what kind of +5 funny is more than twenty line long???
Anyway... I'm pretty sure there's prior art for it. I remember using it since i was 2! It was a device called wall that had a translucent window, that you used to look to the street, you know?
Game companies should invest in broadband titles and then just remove the copy protection.
yeah, maybe we're not "system administrators" to Microsoft cause we never did their expensive mouse clicking solution expert courses, where they will tell you the secret hand-shake of the MSCsysadm and the secret registry keys that will prove that a certified sysadm have been contacted, proving the usefulness of the expensive course.
after reading this on the /. front page, i runned the windows update, that i don't visit for more than a year...
and after some time, a windows pops up with the text:
"The software you are instaling has not passed the Windows Logo testing to verify its compatibility with Windows XP. bla bla bla"
"This software will *not be instaled*. Contact your system administrator."
Ok, so i contact myself, and wonders what the hell?!?
I just give M$ a lot of information about the operating system that i'm running... they wrote the frign thing, and even so, they don't know what will run in it, or what will pass their own crap compatibility verification!
but well, that's it... i just click "OK" --the only button-- and see the same windows appears 3 times more... and blissfuly keep my ignorance of what's going on with the instalation.
>> and win98se for games
Bochs for the old dos games, and Wine for new ones (like, counter strike or warcraft 3 --ok, not so *new* ones) and you're free of the windows 98 price tag and dual boot
The worm seems to install a ftp server on infected machines. So, wouldn't it be nice to have every box that detects a connection on port 554, reply with an upload of a new wallpaper to the infected windows box with some message like "install a firewall, moron"
I consider it a public service. Maybe you can even deduct the bandwith for the upload from you tax.
Seriuosly. Anyone here still uses mousepads? You must be kidding!