I know this is Slashdot, so the majority of users have not had sex.
I wonder if this stereotype is really true? Everyone likes to make this joke, but I suspect that the number of 30-year-old virgins (even in tech) is pretty low.
I was a total dork in high school, but I started getting laid at 15, in the early 90s. Maybe it helped that I was a C-average student.:)
What is the median age for slashdot readership these days, anyhow? CmdrTaco, run some polls!
I'll stick with publicly-funded NASA rather than a corner-cutting for-profit space corporation... they tend to have a little less death, tyvm.
That's just stupid. Clearly you don't understand how capitalism works... Here's a hint: (Uncontrolled) Explosions and/or death != good business (unless you're halliburton). Therefore, that sort of thing will be kept to a minimum. Or the companies will go out of business. Either way, duh.
You may recall the early 1960's in the US when the back of the bus was a stigmatized area. Blacks in back, whites rode up front.
Blah blah blah... I seriously doubt the submitter was thinking of Ms. Parks when he made the comment... You ever heard the song called, "The wheels on the bus"? "The driver on the bus says, 'Move on back, Move on back, Move on back'... etc." It's simple logic. If everyone tries to find a seat at the front of the bus, the driver will have to wait longer to close the door and move on to the next stop.
It's understandable that most Americans under a certain age have little to no experience with public transportation. Sad. Maybe if gas prices keep going toward sanity, this situation will change.
No, I'm not a european socialist commie... I am just an american who's had the pleasure of living in the denser parts of new england, so I have an appreciation for good public transit.
and everyone forgets that children, specifically young children mimic tv far less than they mimic parents.
Holy crap (shit?)! You have really hit this one right on the nose. It's soooo easy for people to bitch and moan about "society" turning their children into little monsters, when in fact it's their own damn fault for not establishing healthy boundaries (i.e. "parental guidance") and setting good examples.
I speak as the parent of a 4yo who has had plenty of time to observe lots of rugrats and munchkins. Without fail, the kids who are holy terrors are the ones whose parents give up on establishing authority in the relationship, and don't bother to model socially constructive behavior. Not that I'm perfect, but I do my best to teach empathy via the golden rule, and rudeness is not tolerated.
As an aside, I was a father for 3 years before getting a puppy. I think dealing with junior members of both species is pretty similar... It's all about establishing boundaries. Kids (and dogs) push boundaries in annoying ways because it's their way of understanding their place in the world. Once they've figured out how they fit into things, they're much easier to deal with (assuming you've given them appropriate boundaries). <sarcasm>Boy I can't wait for adolescence to roll around...</sarcasm>
Maybe you have a different definition of "user friendly." Lets see what my experiences are:
I love these kinds of posts. "I have tried 14 different Linux distros and they all suck and why can't stuff just work and oh by the way I have some screwball hardware that maybe 200 other people in the world still use."
Moral of the story: Shitty hardware == shitty results.
Just the other day, one of my very close friends (who works in a high performance computing lab at a major university)...
And what does this friend do for the lab? Scan student ID badges and watch for horseplay? If you had said that this friend was a sysadmin, or even a programmer, your argument might carry more weight.
Having spent most of a decade as a sysadmin, and several more years doing software, I/could/ run something 1337 like gentoo or slack. But these days I just want to use the computer, not screw around. So I use Ubuntu. Saying that Ubuntu is responsible for your friend's ignorance is just silly. Your friend is responsible for her ignorance.
Being the good, close friend that you are, you might want to introduce this person to Google, on teh internets. It's a good way to learn about things like filesystems. Also goat pr0n.
I used it when I was running an ISP a few years ago. Used a replicated MySQL backend behind three authoritative servers. Also used dnscache for recursors in front of all the customers.
All your zone data is stored in DB tables, so it's easy to hack together a frontend, or integrate with CRM or whatever. I wish Rails had existed back then for all the CRUD that I wrote by hand.:/
Almost 200 comments and only one DOOM joke? Sigh. I must be old.
Go ahead moderators, do your worst. I was moderating back before the times when you were still playing with Duplos and crapping in your pants. Oh, that was last night? Well, then...
We have about 50,000-60,000 tons of nuclear waste in america right now. ... So what about 100 tons? How large is that? http://myweb.tiscali.co.uk/celynog/Brittany/kerloa s.htm 100 ton rock. lets assume that nuclear waste is 2x more dense then the rock so slice it in 2 and that is the size of our waste after 1 year.
100 != 100,000. It's not half the size of that rock, it's 500 of those rocks.
I know some of my former colleagues read/., so maybe they'll spot this (hi guys!).
When I was sysadmin for a certain Boston-based startup, we moved into new digs that didn't include a proper server room. What I wound up with was a tiny office with enough room for a couple of 42U racks. This being our build farm, you might imagine that it got pretty hot in there. It did, and leaving the door open didn't help. Nor did setting up a couple of fans.
I knew I wasn't going to get a real server room, and we weren't going to get a separate A/C system for just this tiny little room. So, I decided to sell my boss on a portable A/C unit. Not one of the window units; one of the freestanding units with a flexible exhaust duct. I didn't want to snake the duct out the door (it was about 1.5' in diameter), and the room wasn't near an outside wall (not that I would have been able to cut through the wall anyhow). So I bought an adapter for the end of the duct that allowed it to replace a ceiling tile. Problem solved? Nope.
The A/C was exhausting nicely into the space above the ceiling tiles, but for some reason it was just not working very efficiently. I climbed up on a chair and looked around, and realized that the walls extended above the tiles all the way up to the true ceiling. Crap. So, I decided to make some after-hours "modifications" involving a drywall saw. Presto, some stealth vents into the surrounding areas. Problem solved? Almost.
The thing about A/C is that it dries the air as it cools it. In the winter, you don't notice too much condensation. In the summer, that damned tank fills up every few hours. And the unit shuts down before the tank overflows, which is good, but it means that the server room has a tendency to get really hot before someone gets in to lug the stupid tank all the way to the other side of the offices to the sink.
So, with an online order for a submersible pump (like for fountains), a couple of float switches, some pvc tubing, and a visit to the home goods store on the first floor, I've got a solution to the condensation problem: A humidifier on the outside of the server room! Yes, I know, I'm a genius. Email me for details about where to send the MacArthur grant.
It actually worked pretty well. Of course, a real server room with a real HVAC system designed by an actual HVAC engineer would have been best. But sometimes you just don't get what you want. In a later job, I did actually get to build out my own server room. Proper A/C was at the top of my list.:)
I'm not an American nor do I pretend to understand American politics but how can a vote swing from 30-0 to the other way?
In the US system of government, at both federal and state levels, legislation must pass through both houses of congress (legislative branch) and then be signed into law by the president/governor (executive branch). There are variations on the path that aren't worth getting into for this discussion.
So, the bill passed the CA state Senate, but was killed in the House of Representatives. Two completely different sets of people. The intent of having two legislative bodies is to get different perspectives on an issue. Representatives are (re-)elected every two years, and therefore tend to take a short-term perspective on issues, looking at what's going to look best to their constituents who will be voting on their re-election (or contributing campaign dollars, as the case may be). Senators are supposedly able to take a bigger-picture view because they have a longer term (six years), and aren't scrambling to please constituents as much as Representatives.
This is the theory. In practice, I don't know how well it works. I think the only thing that's really going to make a major difference is some serious campaign finance reform, at both the State and Federal levels. And I have little hope for that happening because it's like asking pigs to vote on whether they'll voluntarily get less slop in their troughs. Yeah, right.
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Ruby Seems ALOT like Perl, Atlest to me, anyway lets hope this doesnt flop like other projects in the OSS wild
Umm... Ruby has been around for a decade. It's huge in Japan, where it was created. It has gained prominence here in the West because of Rails, but it's a great general-purpose language.
As for its similarities with Perl, I describe Ruby as the lovechild of Perl/Smalltalk. I've made some good money hacking in Perl, but after having discovered Ruby two years ago Perl is just painful to look at, much less program in.
Any dolt with a 3rd-grade reading comprehension level has already figured it out: "A traveler frustrated with recent changes to airport security procedures found himself detained in Milwaukee after writing a message critical of the TSA's leader on a plastic bag presented for screening."
The guy is karma whoring to get eyeballs on his sig: buyindie.tld [buyindie.tld] -- For owners and seekers of unique places
The first Brothers In Arms game had me in tears after the opening mission. For those who haven't played it, basically it starts you eight days into the Normandy invasion, in the middle of an intense firefight which ends with your position being overrun by Axis armor and your squadmates all killed in front of you. You can run around and shoot, but no matter what you do the ending is the same. The next mission is your standard WWII FPS opener, with the D-Day jump, and the game progresses linearly.
I don't cry easily, but I think what happened was that I was just totally unprepared for the level of intensity of that mission. There was no buildup that allowed me to become jaded and used to the violence. I've played many a FPS, and I don't recall ever reacting that way to in-game violence. For what it's worth, perhaps I have a bit of PTSD from the opening scene of Saving Private Ryan. I saw it in the theater when it came out, and I wasn't right for some days afterward. The rest of the movie was OK, but that opening scene really drew me in to the horror and complete randomness of battlefield death. You can be the most incredible soldier of all time, but if you just happen to be on the landing craft that all the mg-42s are trained on, it sucks to be you.
I was in my late teens/early twenties when that movie came out... I think maybe I identified with the kids dying on that beach because I was the same age. My reaction probably represents an internalization of the fact that I am not, after all, immortal. I don't think most people really grasp mortality until at least that age.
I wish politicians would understand how horrible war is. It's necessary sometimes, but it really should be a last resort, after everything else has failed.
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How could this thread go on so long without a reference to Harrison Bergeron?
:P
It's our sub-standard educational system. Can't have that subversive stuff rotting the minds of our children, you know.
(I was just about to make a Harrison Bergeron post, you insensitive clod!)
Unless we're going to be composing a Linux Administration HOWTO: Best of Bloopers.
What an awesome idea! With an embedded MIDI of "Yakety Sax" (from Benny Hill, you philistines) playing in the background... That'd be great.
I know this is Slashdot, so the majority of users have not had sex.
:)
I wonder if this stereotype is really true? Everyone likes to make this joke, but I suspect that the number of 30-year-old virgins (even in tech) is pretty low.
I was a total dork in high school, but I started getting laid at 15, in the early 90s. Maybe it helped that I was a C-average student.
What is the median age for slashdot readership these days, anyhow? CmdrTaco, run some polls!
I'll stick with publicly-funded NASA rather than a corner-cutting for-profit space corporation... they tend to have a little less death, tyvm.
That's just stupid. Clearly you don't understand how capitalism works... Here's a hint: (Uncontrolled) Explosions and/or death != good business (unless you're halliburton). Therefore, that sort of thing will be kept to a minimum. Or the companies will go out of business. Either way, duh.
Yo ow m a nw kybord!
You may recall the early 1960's in the US when the back of the bus was a stigmatized area. Blacks in back, whites rode up front.
... etc." It's simple logic. If everyone tries to find a seat at the front of the bus, the driver will have to wait longer to close the door and move on to the next stop.
Blah blah blah... I seriously doubt the submitter was thinking of Ms. Parks when he made the comment... You ever heard the song called, "The wheels on the bus"? "The driver on the bus says, 'Move on back, Move on back, Move on back'
It's understandable that most Americans under a certain age have little to no experience with public transportation. Sad. Maybe if gas prices keep going toward sanity, this situation will change.
No, I'm not a european socialist commie... I am just an american who's had the pleasure of living in the denser parts of new england, so I have an appreciation for good public transit.
and everyone forgets that children, specifically young children mimic tv far less than they mimic parents.
Holy crap (shit?)! You have really hit this one right on the nose. It's soooo easy for people to bitch and moan about "society" turning their children into little monsters, when in fact it's their own damn fault for not establishing healthy boundaries (i.e. "parental guidance") and setting good examples.
I speak as the parent of a 4yo who has had plenty of time to observe lots of rugrats and munchkins. Without fail, the kids who are holy terrors are the ones whose parents give up on establishing authority in the relationship, and don't bother to model socially constructive behavior. Not that I'm perfect, but I do my best to teach empathy via the golden rule, and rudeness is not tolerated.
As an aside, I was a father for 3 years before getting a puppy. I think dealing with junior members of both species is pretty similar... It's all about establishing boundaries. Kids (and dogs) push boundaries in annoying ways because it's their way of understanding their place in the world. Once they've figured out how they fit into things, they're much easier to deal with (assuming you've given them appropriate boundaries). <sarcasm>Boy I can't wait for adolescence to roll around...</sarcasm>
Yes, this is OT, but I just wanted to congratulate Corgha on a well-delivered smackdown. It's rare that I laugh out loud at comments anymore...
Maybe you have a different definition of "user friendly." Lets see what my experiences are:
I love these kinds of posts. "I have tried 14 different Linux distros and they all suck and why can't stuff just work and oh by the way I have some screwball hardware that maybe 200 other people in the world still use."
Moral of the story: Shitty hardware == shitty results.
4 digits are bought.
No, we're just old.
Move on, kiddo.
:)
You forgot "Get off my lawn! Damn kids..."
(from one old fart to another)
Just the other day, one of my very close friends (who works in a high performance computing lab at a major university) ...
/could/ run something 1337 like gentoo or slack. But these days I just want to use the computer, not screw around. So I use Ubuntu. Saying that Ubuntu is responsible for your friend's ignorance is just silly. Your friend is responsible for her ignorance.
And what does this friend do for the lab? Scan student ID badges and watch for horseplay? If you had said that this friend was a sysadmin, or even a programmer, your argument might carry more weight.
Having spent most of a decade as a sysadmin, and several more years doing software, I
Being the good, close friend that you are, you might want to introduce this person to Google, on teh internets. It's a good way to learn about things like filesystems. Also goat pr0n.
Dude... OW!
Not to mention the infection possibilities. An infected nosehair follicle is misery.
Try this:
Nose/Ear Hair Trimmer
I guess $25 may seem steep to some (I got mine via an Amazon reseller), but it works, and it will last a lifetime.
http://www.powerdns.com/
:/
I used it when I was running an ISP a few years ago. Used a replicated MySQL backend behind three authoritative servers. Also used dnscache for recursors in front of all the customers.
All your zone data is stored in DB tables, so it's easy to hack together a frontend, or integrate with CRM or whatever. I wish Rails had existed back then for all the CRUD that I wrote by hand.
Almost 200 comments and only one DOOM joke? Sigh. I must be old.
Go ahead moderators, do your worst. I was moderating back before the times when you were still playing with Duplos and crapping in your pants. Oh, that was last night? Well, then...
We have about 50,000-60,000 tons of nuclear waste in america right now.
...a s.htm 100 ton rock. lets assume that nuclear waste is 2x more dense then the rock so slice it in 2 and that is the size of our waste after 1 year.
So what about 100 tons? How large is that? http://myweb.tiscali.co.uk/celynog/Brittany/kerlo
100 != 100,000. It's not half the size of that rock, it's 500 of those rocks.
I know some of my former colleagues read /., so maybe they'll spot this (hi guys!).
:)
When I was sysadmin for a certain Boston-based startup, we moved into new digs that didn't include a proper server room. What I wound up with was a tiny office with enough room for a couple of 42U racks. This being our build farm, you might imagine that it got pretty hot in there. It did, and leaving the door open didn't help. Nor did setting up a couple of fans.
I knew I wasn't going to get a real server room, and we weren't going to get a separate A/C system for just this tiny little room. So, I decided to sell my boss on a portable A/C unit. Not one of the window units; one of the freestanding units with a flexible exhaust duct. I didn't want to snake the duct out the door (it was about 1.5' in diameter), and the room wasn't near an outside wall (not that I would have been able to cut through the wall anyhow). So I bought an adapter for the end of the duct that allowed it to replace a ceiling tile. Problem solved? Nope.
The A/C was exhausting nicely into the space above the ceiling tiles, but for some reason it was just not working very efficiently. I climbed up on a chair and looked around, and realized that the walls extended above the tiles all the way up to the true ceiling. Crap. So, I decided to make some after-hours "modifications" involving a drywall saw. Presto, some stealth vents into the surrounding areas. Problem solved? Almost.
The thing about A/C is that it dries the air as it cools it. In the winter, you don't notice too much condensation. In the summer, that damned tank fills up every few hours. And the unit shuts down before the tank overflows, which is good, but it means that the server room has a tendency to get really hot before someone gets in to lug the stupid tank all the way to the other side of the offices to the sink.
So, with an online order for a submersible pump (like for fountains), a couple of float switches, some pvc tubing, and a visit to the home goods store on the first floor, I've got a solution to the condensation problem: A humidifier on the outside of the server room! Yes, I know, I'm a genius. Email me for details about where to send the MacArthur grant.
It actually worked pretty well. Of course, a real server room with a real HVAC system designed by an actual HVAC engineer would have been best. But sometimes you just don't get what you want. In a later job, I did actually get to build out my own server room. Proper A/C was at the top of my list.
No offense, but everything about that invitation screams "It's a trap!!" /me sighs.
Must I?
Read this: BOFH
I'm not an American nor do I pretend to understand American politics but how can a vote swing from 30-0 to the other way?
In the US system of government, at both federal and state levels, legislation must pass through both houses of congress (legislative branch) and then be signed into law by the president/governor (executive branch). There are variations on the path that aren't worth getting into for this discussion.
So, the bill passed the CA state Senate, but was killed in the House of Representatives. Two completely different sets of people. The intent of having two legislative bodies is to get different perspectives on an issue. Representatives are (re-)elected every two years, and therefore tend to take a short-term perspective on issues, looking at what's going to look best to their constituents who will be voting on their re-election (or contributing campaign dollars, as the case may be). Senators are supposedly able to take a bigger-picture view because they have a longer term (six years), and aren't scrambling to please constituents as much as Representatives.
This is the theory. In practice, I don't know how well it works. I think the only thing that's really going to make a major difference is some serious campaign finance reform, at both the State and Federal levels. And I have little hope for that happening because it's like asking pigs to vote on whether they'll voluntarily get less slop in their troughs. Yeah, right.
Ruby Seems ALOT like Perl, Atlest to me, anyway lets hope this doesnt flop like other projects in the OSS wild
Umm... Ruby has been around for a decade. It's huge in Japan, where it was created. It has gained prominence here in the West because of Rails, but it's a great general-purpose language.
As for its similarities with Perl, I describe Ruby as the lovechild of Perl/Smalltalk. I've made some good money hacking in Perl, but after having discovered Ruby two years ago Perl is just painful to look at, much less program in.
If he is, you just helped him, sunshine.
:P
Nah, I obfuscated it.
$ host buyindie.tld
Host buyindie.tld not found: 3(NXDOMAIN)
Reading comprehension... It's a wonderful thing.
Of course, now I'm sure people are going through the various TLDs just to see what the fuss is all about. I haven't even looked.
Why is this +5 informative?
Any dolt with a 3rd-grade reading comprehension level has already figured it out: "A traveler frustrated with recent changes to airport security procedures found himself detained in Milwaukee after writing a message critical of the TSA's leader on a plastic bag presented for screening."
The guy is karma whoring to get eyeballs on his sig: buyindie.tld [buyindie.tld] -- For owners and seekers of unique places
No, it doesn't. It raises other questions, though.
http://begthequestion.info/
The first Brothers In Arms game had me in tears after the opening mission. For those who haven't played it, basically it starts you eight days into the Normandy invasion, in the middle of an intense firefight which ends with your position being overrun by Axis armor and your squadmates all killed in front of you. You can run around and shoot, but no matter what you do the ending is the same. The next mission is your standard WWII FPS opener, with the D-Day jump, and the game progresses linearly.
I don't cry easily, but I think what happened was that I was just totally unprepared for the level of intensity of that mission. There was no buildup that allowed me to become jaded and used to the violence. I've played many a FPS, and I don't recall ever reacting that way to in-game violence. For what it's worth, perhaps I have a bit of PTSD from the opening scene of Saving Private Ryan. I saw it in the theater when it came out, and I wasn't right for some days afterward. The rest of the movie was OK, but that opening scene really drew me in to the horror and complete randomness of battlefield death. You can be the most incredible soldier of all time, but if you just happen to be on the landing craft that all the mg-42s are trained on, it sucks to be you.
I was in my late teens/early twenties when that movie came out... I think maybe I identified with the kids dying on that beach because I was the same age. My reaction probably represents an internalization of the fact that I am not, after all, immortal. I don't think most people really grasp mortality until at least that age.
I wish politicians would understand how horrible war is. It's necessary sometimes, but it really should be a last resort, after everything else has failed.
Sorry if I bummed anyone out.
Meh.