Damn, I haven't heard the term MAD used in quite a while.
Mutually Assured Destruction is the reason we're all still here. In 1980 I was five years old. I spent a lot of time fretting about mushroom clouds and the damn Ruskies and mutants and stalks growing out of my head.
Then one day my dad explained it simply.
"Quit worrying, it won't happen" "Dad, but the bombs and the fallout and.." "Boy, we know and they know that its all retarded because we'd just kill each other and what's the point in that? And if it does happen there's nothing you can about it because you'll be dead along with everyone else. Now go cut the grass before I launch an H-Bomb called my foot up your ass."
A lot of communities in the U.S. (mine included) have voted to increase taxes so utility companies can run everything underground. Where I live they've finished half of the city. We have a road that splits the city and those on the south side have everything buried.
OK, its the greater (cough) St. Louis Metropolitan area. I've lived in cities here that still use power/telephone poles and have spent days with out both. Since I've moved to where I am now, not even a flicker. Ice storms, ridiculously high winds, snow...doesn't affect me.
I was out walking my dog after a severe thunderstorm (the weather guy had his sleeves rolled up so you know it was severe) and it was weird to see half the town black and my half lit up.
But that costs lots and lots of $'s. They have to get permissions, pay off landowners and councils, disrupt traffic, rape sheep.
And even though it has been pointed out before, the U.S. is very, very, very, very large. That's part of the reason unless you live in a very large city that commuter rail lines don't work.
Except for that one that our government built with help from the Reptilians with Grey technology that moves at hyper speed from Los Angeles to (scary music) Area 51 and then to New York!!
Um, I cut my teeth on Infocom games and loved them. I then moved to Sierra and was marveled by the immersive graphical worlds they created. Kings Quest 1 (the original) still has better graphics than a lot of Linux games.
I've written batch files in the normal Windows shell, using Winzip with 256 bit encryption that take less time than trying to read the documentation for any Linux backup tool.
Nice try with the Net Meeting crap, nobody uses it and you know that.
The defrag tool in Windows isn't written by Microsoft so try again. It actually does a better job than watching my XFS tools kill my MythTV storage directory. Oh, and don't forget that most of the Linux defrag is imaginary. Journals my ass.
Remote Desktop, I add a remote user and I'm done. I don't have to worry about the X server and my X client not liking each other. It just works.
I just tried it for giggles and hit 1.88M/sec. Its nice having the neighborhood cable box in your back yard.
Then again, things like this always make me shake my head and smile. In 1983ish-85ish I had a Tandy 1000 EX (CoCo II before that) with a 300 baud modem that had a push button (I'd really wanted an acoustic coupler) to activate the connection. I remember looking at files on our local BBS's that were 100k and thinking, "Dad's going to kill me if I tie up the phone line that long."
Remember getting up at 1:00am to start a 100kb download so you're parents wouldn't pickup the phone and hear dsa;lh;wre;ljasdf?
The combination of HTTP and HTML has been proven to be enormously successful. Gopher would have needed some major work to make it as flexible as HTML. Web would have probably have replaced Gopher in any case. The design of the web is more practical and better thought out than gopher.
Snot, milk, soda and beer just shot out my nose at the hilarity of this statement.
I've had XP running as my primary home computer for 13 months 15 days and 3 hours 16 minutes without any kind of virus protection and have not had any kind of infection.
My theory is that you're such a geek your wife wants nothing to do with you and you're going to "those" porn sites that are guaranteed to infect your system. Pun intended.
The days of BSOD and M$ are done and have been for almost a decade.
I have a co-worker who has a daughter that's a Limewire/Facebook/Myspace junkie. Her computer was completely smoked to the point where the only things that worked were the spyware/malware apps. I was able to get Windows telnet server started on it and go in and clean it up from the shell.
I write backup scripts in the Windows shell using old school DOS tricks. Its a hell of a lot faster than writing it in VB or C and doesn't require my users to have to do anything other than double-click the icon.
Anybody here ever use Bart's Boot Disks? Take a look at the genius of some the batch files used.
If you're a lawyer your are not a very good one. Why not take it one step further and sue Google, since they are the agent that got you in trouble.
Companies have been running security and credit checks for decades. Why do you think you're supposed to include references on your resume? Potential employers are calling 10% for your work history and 90% to find out about your character.
In the industry I'm in if you have a bad credit history then you are not getting hired.
Another example, your trying to decide what daycare/pre-school/school to put your child in, wouldn't you want them to have researched every employee to the nth degree before you left your child with them?
Wouldn't you hope before going in for a medical procedure that the hospital dug into every nook and cranny to make sure the surgeon didn't have the shakes because he/she was an alcoholic.
Again, I highly doubt you're a lawyer because you would know how much legal trouble a company would get in if they didn't do their due diligence for every employee.
Or you're an ambulance chaser and make your money off of these companies.
I honestly believe that a lot of you haven't used Windows recently. I have XP running on 50 computers with 20 of those being laptop scattered all over the US. I can't remember the last time I had to fix a problem that directly involved Windows XP. 99.9% of my issues are due to drivers and third-party software that we use.
Its real easy, you make one install, tweaked and setup how the company needs it. You test it and then use that to build all the rest of the machines. If you encounter a problem on one it is very easy to fix on the rest.
Sure, I love Linux. I have three servers in my basement with over 600 hours of HD tv stored on them plus all my DVD, CD's and old VHS tapes. I have MythTV machines that are tweaked to where you'd have to be an inch away to hear any sound coming from them hooked up to all my TV's. Its great, took four fucking years to get right but it works now and I'm happy.
I don't have time to do that at work. I'm one person supporting 50 people. I don't have time to retrain them on Open Source software and we sure as hell aren't going to pay someone to do it. We hired a kid fresh out of college two years ago. It was our first hire in five years and the youngest hire we've ever had. It took her 1/10th of the time to get up to speed on our software (not Windows, the programs we use) than anyone else.
You know why? The interfaces were familiar and she knew where to look for things because that's what she had been using her whole computer life.
Its not as simple as Year of the Linux Desktop. So many of you have no idea how the business world works.
Take that large IT budget and use it to raise the pay level of the teachers. Take a smaller chunk of it to buy a clue hammer to beat into the heads of the parents that teachers are not there to raise their children but to educate them.
85% of the teachers at the High School I went to are on food stamps yet they still teach. They teach because they have a passion for it and I feel I received an excellent education. My parents taught me how to behave in a civilized world which made me more open to learning.
Computers are not going to change education. That starts in the home when parents actually give a shit about their children and discipline them properly.
I ran into my third grade teacher the other day while working on a phone system at a church. He remembered me and laughed about some of the stuff I pulled back then. He's 87. When he retired from teaching he started driving the school bus. When he couldn't drive the bus anymore he worked in the kitchen. When his arthritis wouldn't let him do that he became the receptionist for the church and school.
We don't need computers, we need parents who teach their children to respect their teachers.
This is exactly what the Linux pundits (I am one to a point) don't get.
Corporations have tons of proprietary software written in 1985 that they still rely on today. Have you ever looked at a bank employee's terminal. Some of them still have DOS apps that connect back to the mainframe. There are still a buttload of ATMS's that run on OS/2.
I've said it before and I'll repeat, I work in the insurance industry. There are really only three major players when it comes to Agency Management systems. None of those are Linux based, they all tightly integrate with Office and Exchange and they just freaking work. My main W2K3 + SQL 2003 server (120gb database) just works.
Now, when I need support I pick up the phone and have someone in two minutes. Do I pay a premium for that, hell yes but its worth every damn penny. Companies have budgets, they plan for economic times like these. Some of you supposed IT guys need to pull your heads out of your asses and spend a day actually watching customer service or human resources do their work. You'll get a better understanding of the company overall.
By the way, the Arby's down the street from us...the drive through screen has said Linux-2.2.26-whatever...... for the last six months. I asked them when it was going to get fixed and the manager looked at me like I was an alien.
OO, Gimp, and Inkscape are no where near as good as what they are trying to replace. If you're anpainter, do you go buy shitty brushes and crappy paint/canvases?
No, you get the best that you can afford. Can we just rename Slashdot, Linux Club with the occasional interesting story (once a year) that doesn't turn into a Linux vs. Microsoft bullshit thread.
Slashdot Mirror
Damn, I haven't heard the term MAD used in quite a while.
Mutually Assured Destruction is the reason we're all still here. In 1980 I was five years old. I spent a lot of time fretting about mushroom clouds and the damn Ruskies and mutants and stalks growing out of my head.
Then one day my dad explained it simply.
"Quit worrying, it won't happen"
"Dad, but the bombs and the fallout and.."
"Boy, we know and they know that its all retarded because we'd just kill each other and what's the point in that? And if it does happen there's nothing you can about it because you'll be dead along with everyone else. Now go cut the grass before I launch an H-Bomb called my foot up your ass."
Really put things in perspective.
A lot of communities in the U.S. (mine included) have voted to increase taxes so utility companies can run everything underground. Where I live they've finished half of the city. We have a road that splits the city and those on the south side have everything buried.
OK, its the greater (cough) St. Louis Metropolitan area. I've lived in cities here that still use power/telephone poles and have spent days with out both. Since I've moved to where I am now, not even a flicker. Ice storms, ridiculously high winds, snow...doesn't affect me.
I was out walking my dog after a severe thunderstorm (the weather guy had his sleeves rolled up so you know it was severe) and it was weird to see half the town black and my half lit up.
But that costs lots and lots of $'s. They have to get permissions, pay off landowners and councils, disrupt traffic, rape sheep.
And even though it has been pointed out before, the U.S. is very, very, very, very large. That's part of the reason unless you live in a very large city that commuter rail lines don't work.
Except for that one that our government built with help from the Reptilians with Grey technology that moves at hyper speed from Los Angeles to (scary music) Area 51 and then to New York!!
We all know that today is/was April 1st. We all know Slashdot will roll out a whole bunch of crappy jokes. It is getting really old.
Here's a thought...how about one really well thought, well planned, actually funny joke.
1. So I should just stick with gzip or bzip2?
2. It went from 31.47 "signs per second" to 62.77. So the older kernel take one second less than the new one? News!
3. Sorry, this is the part where I started nodding off.
4. zzzzzzzz
Wait, huh! Sorry, other than those four points every graph was within like .00001 signs or seconds or iterations of each other.
Surely it is the year of the linux desktop!
I'd like to see these results compared to a Windows machine.
Um, I cut my teeth on Infocom games and loved them. I then moved to Sierra and was marveled by the immersive graphical worlds they created. Kings Quest 1 (the original) still has better graphics than a lot of Linux games.
Evidently Mr. Stallman never left 1997:
http://www.stallman.org/
I'm sure its completely standardized to every standard know to mankind but it sucks.
This is considered brief:
http://www.bacula.org/en/dev-manual/Brief_Tutorial.html
The sixth result involves rsync.
I've written batch files in the normal Windows shell, using Winzip with 256 bit encryption that take less time than trying to read the documentation for any Linux backup tool.
Nice try with the Net Meeting crap, nobody uses it and you know that.
The defrag tool in Windows isn't written by Microsoft so try again. It actually does a better job than watching my XFS tools kill my MythTV storage directory. Oh, and don't forget that most of the Linux defrag is imaginary. Journals my ass.
Remote Desktop, I add a remote user and I'm done. I don't have to worry about the X server and my X client not liking each other. It just works.
Do you really believe that these things involve anything more than "I'm uber-geek, all shall bow before me" contests?
If these "Pwn20wn" things were serious then they wouldn't be advertised on here.
Also you suck and so does your grammar, gramer, grammer, gemmar. Fuck, somebody write me a Linux grammar checker.
I just tried it for giggles and hit 1.88M/sec. Its nice having the neighborhood cable box in your back yard.
Then again, things like this always make me shake my head and smile. In 1983ish-85ish I had a Tandy 1000 EX (CoCo II before that) with a 300 baud modem that had a push button (I'd really wanted an acoustic coupler) to activate the connection. I remember looking at files on our local BBS's that were 100k and thinking, "Dad's going to kill me if I tie up the phone line that long."
Remember getting up at 1:00am to start a 100kb download so you're parents wouldn't pickup the phone and hear dsa;lh;wre;ljasdf?
The combination of HTTP and HTML has been proven to be enormously successful. Gopher would have needed some major work to make it as flexible as HTML. Web would have probably have replaced Gopher in any case. The design of the web is more practical and better thought out than gopher.
Snot, milk, soda and beer just shot out my nose at the hilarity of this statement.
and tftp would have been an important part of the internet instead of a rarely used protocol.
Obviously you don't do a lot of network admin.
Yep, sounds like every other Linux project to me.
Announce something cool
Ask the community to donate time
Sit back and watch Linux users bitch about no release.
Actually being able to see it would be truely remarkable.
Didn't your RTFM noob, You don't need that feature.
I've had XP running as my primary home computer for 13 months 15 days and 3 hours 16 minutes without any kind of virus protection and have not had any kind of infection.
My theory is that you're such a geek your wife wants nothing to do with you and you're going to "those" porn sites that are guaranteed to infect your system. Pun intended.
The days of BSOD and M$ are done and have been for almost a decade.
As the great Jack Buck said,
"Excuse me while I stand up and applaud."
Your post has to be one of the most intelligent I've ever seen on here.
There is no way I'm going to sit on my couch with a pair of "TV glasses" and stare at the wall.
"Hey baby, wanna come over for dinner and a "TV glasses" movie?"
How the hell would you make out?
That's right, Slashdot...my bad.
Really?
I have a co-worker who has a daughter that's a Limewire/Facebook/Myspace junkie. Her computer was completely smoked to the point where the only things that worked were the spyware/malware apps. I was able to get Windows telnet server started on it and go in and clean it up from the shell.
I write backup scripts in the Windows shell using old school DOS tricks. Its a hell of a lot faster than writing it in VB or C and doesn't require my users to have to do anything other than double-click the icon.
Anybody here ever use Bart's Boot Disks? Take a look at the genius of some the batch files used.
Seriously, it is 2009, can we knock off the stupid M$.
If you're a lawyer your are not a very good one. Why not take it one step further and sue Google, since they are the agent that got you in trouble.
Companies have been running security and credit checks for decades. Why do you think you're supposed to include references on your resume? Potential employers are calling 10% for your work history and 90% to find out about your character.
In the industry I'm in if you have a bad credit history then you are not getting hired.
Another example, your trying to decide what daycare/pre-school/school to put your child in, wouldn't you want them to have researched every employee to the nth degree before you left your child with them?
Wouldn't you hope before going in for a medical procedure that the hospital dug into every nook and cranny to make sure the surgeon didn't have the shakes because he/she was an alcoholic.
Again, I highly doubt you're a lawyer because you would know how much legal trouble a company would get in if they didn't do their due diligence for every employee.
Or you're an ambulance chaser and make your money off of these companies.
Um, did you pull those numbers out of your butt?
This data would like to argue with you.
0.83% is quite a bit different than 25%.
I honestly believe that a lot of you haven't used Windows recently. I have XP running on 50 computers with 20 of those being laptop scattered all over the US. I can't remember the last time I had to fix a problem that directly involved Windows XP. 99.9% of my issues are due to drivers and third-party software that we use.
Its real easy, you make one install, tweaked and setup how the company needs it. You test it and then use that to build all the rest of the machines. If you encounter a problem on one it is very easy to fix on the rest.
Sure, I love Linux. I have three servers in my basement with over 600 hours of HD tv stored on them plus all my DVD, CD's and old VHS tapes. I have MythTV machines that are tweaked to where you'd have to be an inch away to hear any sound coming from them hooked up to all my TV's. Its great, took four fucking years to get right but it works now and I'm happy.
I don't have time to do that at work. I'm one person supporting 50 people. I don't have time to retrain them on Open Source software and we sure as hell aren't going to pay someone to do it. We hired a kid fresh out of college two years ago. It was our first hire in five years and the youngest hire we've ever had. It took her 1/10th of the time to get up to speed on our software (not Windows, the programs we use) than anyone else.
You know why? The interfaces were familiar and she knew where to look for things because that's what she had been using her whole computer life.
Its not as simple as Year of the Linux Desktop. So many of you have no idea how the business world works.
Take that large IT budget and use it to raise the pay level of the teachers. Take a smaller chunk of it to buy a clue hammer to beat into the heads of the parents that teachers are not there to raise their children but to educate them.
85% of the teachers at the High School I went to are on food stamps yet they still teach. They teach because they have a passion for it and I feel I received an excellent education. My parents taught me how to behave in a civilized world which made me more open to learning.
Computers are not going to change education. That starts in the home when parents actually give a shit about their children and discipline them properly.
I ran into my third grade teacher the other day while working on a phone system at a church. He remembered me and laughed about some of the stuff I pulled back then. He's 87. When he retired from teaching he started driving the school bus. When he couldn't drive the bus anymore he worked in the kitchen. When his arthritis wouldn't let him do that he became the receptionist for the church and school.
We don't need computers, we need parents who teach their children to respect their teachers.
This is exactly what the Linux pundits (I am one to a point) don't get.
Corporations have tons of proprietary software written in 1985 that they still rely on today. Have you ever looked at a bank employee's terminal. Some of them still have DOS apps that connect back to the mainframe. There are still a buttload of ATMS's that run on OS/2.
I've said it before and I'll repeat, I work in the insurance industry. There are really only three major players when it comes to Agency Management systems. None of those are Linux based, they all tightly integrate with Office and Exchange and they just freaking work. My main W2K3 + SQL 2003 server (120gb database) just works.
Now, when I need support I pick up the phone and have someone in two minutes. Do I pay a premium for that, hell yes but its worth every damn penny. Companies have budgets, they plan for economic times like these. Some of you supposed IT guys need to pull your heads out of your asses and spend a day actually watching customer service or human resources do their work. You'll get a better understanding of the company overall.
By the way, the Arby's down the street from us...the drive through screen has said Linux-2.2.26-whatever...... for the last six months. I asked them when it was going to get fixed and the manager looked at me like I was an alien.
Google secretly bought Slashdot for $20 and a bag of Frito's BBQ style.
CHROME!
OO, Gimp, and Inkscape are no where near as good as what they are trying to replace. If you're anpainter, do you go buy shitty brushes and crappy paint/canvases?
No, you get the best that you can afford. Can we just rename Slashdot, Linux Club with the occasional interesting story (once a year) that doesn't turn into a Linux vs. Microsoft bullshit thread.