Funny how any time I've tried to do anything as direct and brutal as that to/etc/passwd the shadow password stuff just gets mean and doesn't let the proverbial user 'foo' do much of anything.
For a lot of the cross platform apps, it's simply a matter of:
unpack the source tarball change to the source directory ./configure make
I primarily use NetBSD, which is supposedly the most obscure of the three free BSD's. Just about anything I want to do is available for it. Except I haven't found a CDDA2WAV or CDParanoia app that works with IDE.
Well, technically, it can then be said that Hotmail originally ran on BSD. The fact that it was switched to NT and then back to BSD doesn't make that untrue.
Considering that the browser market targets desktop machines, whereas the Unix market targets server machines, the fact that IE 5 is superior to Netscape 4 should sell millions and millions of client OSes (read: Windows), whereas the fact that Unix is more stable than NT should sell thousands and thousands of server OSes (read: Unices like BSD). Clue: the sales money gets made in the volume market. The service/maintanence money gets made in the server market. Conclusion: there's money for everybody (but always second-place apps for those who run the server OS on their desktop)
I walk around at work using keyboards on at least a half dozen different keyboards each day. Some new Compaq keyboards on OS/2 and Windows machines, some Sun keyboards, wretched old keyboards from long-dead systems that get plugged into the hidden keyboard port on the embedded-OS/2 product my group develops code to work with. Every keyboard in existence seems to have a different place for certain important keys. Tilde is probably the worst. And inevitably I'm telneting from somewhere else in the company and really need that tilde to point home.
I don't buy this idea that "hackers" have no need for legends on keys. Maybe prima-donna hackers who carry their special keyboard with them in a little slipcase, but the rest of us down in the trenches work with what's out there.
Disease resistant plants are fine. But, then, so are anti-biotic resistant diseases. It's all a matter of point of view. Remember, diseases are animals too, often enough.
And humans are a damned tough species. The epidemics now raging in parts of the world (AIDS, etc.) might be needed to make us stronger. Don't try telling that to humans who are hurting from the diseases, however. We're talking about the 'big picture' ethics here.
If anti-biotics could kill of all the germs, it would lead to the extinction of the germ species. Even smallpox hasn't been rendered extinct. Improvements in medicine eradicated it as a disease, but they keep some living samples on hand in storage.
You might want to avoid eating Bald Eagles. They're the top of a food chain. Plus, they're really just slightly more attractive buzzards. A Bald Eagle prefers to eat carrion, or drive another animal away from their kill, to hunting for it's own food. They're road-kill eaters. I always think about that when I see some hyped up "Eagle" logo on a patriotic or athletic display.
According to this reasoning, we should immediately stop trying to find cures for diseases. It's a natural part of evolution. By curing diseases we are trying to interfere with evolution.
I'm curious what it answers. Since they openly said that they may have sent it to multiple email addresses, how do they know what person is associated with which email address? Is the offer keyed in some way to the email address?
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Funny how any time I've tried to do anything as direct and brutal as that to /etc/passwd the shadow password stuff just gets mean and doesn't let the proverbial user 'foo' do much of anything.
Sheesh, Microsoft Bob is as pink as they come!
Something to add to what you just said:
Boring=Stable
NewKernelEveryWeek=Unstable
For a lot of the cross platform apps, it's simply a matter of:
unpack the source tarball
change to the source directory
./configure
make
I primarily use NetBSD, which is supposedly the most obscure of the three free BSD's. Just about anything I want to do is available for it. Except I haven't found a CDDA2WAV or CDParanoia app that works with IDE.
You forgot the all important bitmap of Bob (still available at a few places in Slackware).
All Hail Bob.
Well, technically, it can then be said that Hotmail originally ran on BSD. The fact that it was switched to NT and then back to BSD doesn't make that untrue.
Considering that the browser market targets desktop machines, whereas the Unix market targets server machines, the fact that IE 5 is superior to Netscape 4 should sell millions and millions of client OSes (read: Windows), whereas the fact that Unix is more stable than NT should sell thousands and thousands of server OSes (read: Unices like BSD). Clue: the sales money gets made in the volume market. The service/maintanence money gets made in the server market. Conclusion: there's money for everybody (but always second-place apps for those who run the server OS on their desktop)
You probably do the same thing when you screw up zip codes.
I walk around at work using keyboards on at least a half dozen different keyboards each day. Some new Compaq keyboards on OS/2 and Windows machines, some Sun keyboards, wretched old keyboards from long-dead systems that get plugged into the hidden keyboard port on the embedded-OS/2 product my group develops code to work with. Every keyboard in existence seems to have a different place for certain important keys. Tilde is probably the worst. And inevitably I'm telneting from somewhere else in the company and really need that tilde to point home.
I don't buy this idea that "hackers" have no need for legends on keys. Maybe prima-donna hackers who carry their special keyboard with them in a little slipcase, but the rest of us down in the trenches work with what's out there.
Almost everything I can find for sale in Target appears to be made in China . . .
Disease resistant plants are fine. But, then, so are anti-biotic resistant diseases. It's all a matter of point of view. Remember, diseases are animals too, often enough.
And humans are a damned tough species. The epidemics now raging in parts of the world (AIDS, etc.) might be needed to make us stronger. Don't try telling that to humans who are hurting from the diseases, however. We're talking about the 'big picture' ethics here.
"You'll have pie in the sky when you die, sucker."
p.s. You're not going anywhere, anytime soon. You'd have to drag a whole biosphere with you, and you've obviously clueless to what that even means.
I hear it's resulted in the widespread infection of many people by nihilism.
Research HAS to go on.
I can echo your sentiment for the most part, but progress is not necessarily a purely linear thing.
Many people who are the most shrill about how Research MUST go on are really talking about Tenure and scientific grant funding, etc.
Speak for yourself.
It's really a pity that scientists can't generate a selective virus that only kills off the most nihilistic.
If anti-biotics could kill of all the germs, it would lead to the extinction of the germ species. Even smallpox hasn't been rendered extinct. Improvements in medicine eradicated it as a disease, but they keep some living samples on hand in storage.
You might want to avoid eating Bald Eagles. They're the top of a food chain. Plus, they're really just slightly more attractive buzzards. A Bald Eagle prefers to eat carrion, or drive another animal away from their kill, to hunting for it's own food. They're road-kill eaters. I always think about that when I see some hyped up "Eagle" logo on a patriotic or athletic display.
They won't find human debris on the moon. It is far from an inert environment. They'll find craters just like we did.
Actually, not having babies is participating in evolution too.
So is killing babies that don't look like you.
So is sneezing in the maternity ward.
So is Teletubbies... er... oh whatever....
According to this reasoning, we should immediately stop trying to find cures for diseases. It's a natural part of evolution. By curing diseases we are trying to interfere with evolution.
I'm curious what it answers. Since they openly said that they may have sent it to multiple email addresses, how do they know what person is associated with which email address? Is the offer keyed in some way to the email address?
Nope, he's just looking for a rental tomcat to do stud service.
His queen is in heat.
Ergonomic mice aren't ergonomic at all if you're left handed. They're anti-ergonomic.
The guy dressed in all-black with the goatee would look stupid no matter what kind of chair he was sitting in.