Brilliant, you almost got me there. DJB's approach to standards is to write his own incompatible version. As for user friendly, he can't even put the man pages where they can be found.
Other than not watching for dead processes, what exactly is the problem with/etc/init.d? Certainly, the collections of links in/etc/rc.d can be a handful, but if these are giving you grief, why aren't you running a BSD startup?
Yeah, right. You'd rather play phone tag to get everyone to schedule a meeting than have Outlook find a time.
As to telling people you're busy, I used to set 'me time' as an appointment in my calendar. A couple of hours in the morning to catch up was perfect and I had a recurring appointment that people didn't mess with.
OK, let's turn this around. Mail is another collaboration tool along with group scheduling. Why wouldn't you have them integrated with a common security infrastructure, directories and so on. It's a cohesive combination of tasks.
As for Postfix, when a Manager comes along and says that he needs to be able to schedule meetings with his team, you'll get Outlook/Exchange or you'll get another job.
The French and Germans had a profitable business with Oil for Food, so Haliburton staged a hostile takeover. What scares me is that it's almost believable.
How about the phone companies have wholesale pricing. If you put a call onto my network you pay me $x/min. You then pass this back to the guy who made the call. It means that each link in the chain is a customer of the next guy and believe me, billing systems are the part they get right every time. Given that phone companies are evil, greedy bastards do you think they will trust each other to share costs? No, they'll treat each other as customers. It's one of the reasons why it's cheaper to call some countries and not others.
You want to put digital data on an audio carrier that is then digitized? Depending on your carrier, digital phone is encoded at, IIRC, ~8-16 kbps. The other part of the equation is the same people use UDP instead of TCP. You send a packet instead of taking the time to handle a complete connection.
Spammers like to send you a message to call them back. They give you the number of a $50/min line. They started that crap in Australia and got smacked. They're now blitzing the TV with ads for ring-tones and other crap.
1. Crash transition with no fallback. Risky. 2. Having less technical users handle the changes without ramping up the help desk. Risky. 3. Breaking peoples' email. You're a bloody idiot. I used to be able to break almost anything and people could deal with it, but break the phones or the email and things get very bad, very fast.
Special interests in media. Modern politics is all about money and media. The two go together. Telling media special interests where to go would be a real smart move for a politician. He'd end up with fair and balanced reporting.
I understood what you meant. It's just that because you might need it in an emergency, many phones make it too damn easy to make the call. Some old phones would dial emergency when the keypad was locked. You could mash keys until you got through. Now put that in your pocket and have fun.
The next time. How many do you have? You're more likely to choke on a chicken bone or be in a road accident. Getting attention in either of these cases would be helpful.
I know a while back in Australia, 000, directory assistance and IIRC faults were the same people. Mates called Telstra for something and got put on hold for emergency calls.
Yep, totally ridiculous until grandma leaves her phone in her pocket, ready to dial 911, mashes the keys and gets a SWAT team in her face. It's even better for the people who actually needed the cops.
In the past, many phones have accidentally dialed emergency numbers. This was such a problem that they may have wanted you to know that the phone you left in your bag, pocket, whatever was making an emergency call. I used to have a Nokia that SIM/no SIM was designed to call 112[1] under any circumstances, even having the keypad locked. Lock the keypad and mash keys. It would ignore everything until it saw a 1, another 1, a 2, and dial. Stupid 'features' that supposedly forced changes to the Australian '000' [2] system.
[1] Standard GSM emergency number. [2] Our version of 911. Probably selected because it was hard to accidentally dial it on a rotary.
Be careful with the words 'no one.' I've seen what the guys who got EFT machines into the European system had to do. It included serious security measures and Motorola providing chip schematics to the bankers. If an EFT machine can be built that tough then so can a voting machine.
The letter of the contract and the spirit it was written under are: if you change your machine, you'll let us know and decide if we have to certify it again. Changing enough around to justify a new model number should be an indicator that this needed to happen. What you don't understand is that companies live and die on contract language. I've worked on contracts that had damages of $200,000 a day for late delivery. These guys have no excuses.
And to your other point, I have a federal election in two days. I have to vote just like everybody else. I get a white piece of paper for the Senate and a green piece of paper for the House. That's it. We don't need machines to handle the voting. This race is close, we may not know the winner until Sunday.
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Brilliant, you almost got me there. DJB's approach to standards is to write his own incompatible version. As for user friendly, he can't even put the man pages where they can be found.
Other than not watching for dead processes, what exactly is the problem with
daemontools is not too bad once you know it's on the box. Documentation helps too.
/etc/init.d mechanisms soon.
Don't be surprised if there are variants with all of the normal
Yeah, right. You'd rather play phone tag to get everyone to schedule a meeting than have Outlook find a time.
As to telling people you're busy, I used to set 'me time' as an appointment in my calendar. A couple of hours in the morning to catch up was perfect and I had a recurring appointment that people didn't mess with.
OK, let's turn this around. Mail is another collaboration tool along with group scheduling. Why wouldn't you have them integrated with a common security infrastructure, directories and so on. It's a cohesive combination of tasks.
As for Postfix, when a Manager comes along and says that he needs to be able to schedule meetings with his team, you'll get Outlook/Exchange or you'll get another job.
The French and Germans had a profitable business with Oil for Food, so Haliburton staged a hostile takeover. What scares me is that it's almost believable.
Try politicians and appointees instead of generals and you have it right.
It depends on who gets the building contracts.
It's just lazy journalists. They meant break/broke and the spell-checker gave them brick.
I knew there was a problem when companies started listing 'licensing engineers' in their schedules of rates.
How about the phone companies have wholesale pricing. If you put a call onto my network you pay me $x/min. You then pass this back to the guy who made the call. It means that each link in the chain is a customer of the next guy and believe me, billing systems are the part they get right every time. Given that phone companies are evil, greedy bastards do you think they will trust each other to share costs? No, they'll treat each other as customers. It's one of the reasons why it's cheaper to call some countries and not others.
You want to put digital data on an audio carrier that is then digitized? Depending on your carrier, digital phone is encoded at, IIRC, ~8-16 kbps. The other part of the equation is the same people use UDP instead of TCP. You send a packet instead of taking the time to handle a complete connection.
Your alternative requires you to be in a fixed location, unless your using a mobile phone as a modem. In that case, the billing is far worse.
echo evian | rev
or what's evian backwards?
Spammers like to send you a message to call them back. They give you the number of a $50/min line. They started that crap in Australia and got smacked. They're now blitzing the TV with ads for ring-tones and other crap.
1. Crash transition with no fallback. Risky.
2. Having less technical users handle the changes without ramping up the help desk. Risky.
3. Breaking peoples' email. You're a bloody idiot. I used to be able to break almost anything and people could deal with it, but break the phones or the email and things get very bad, very fast.
OK, Steve, but you've got plenty of minions to fix it for you.
Special interests in media. Modern politics is all about money and media. The two go together. Telling media special interests where to go would be a real smart move for a politician. He'd end up with fair and balanced reporting.
I understood what you meant. It's just that because you might need it in an emergency, many phones make it too damn easy to make the call. Some old phones would dial emergency when the keypad was locked. You could mash keys until you got through. Now put that in your pocket and have fun.
The next time. How many do you have? You're more likely to choke on a chicken bone or be in a road accident. Getting attention in either of these cases would be helpful.
I know a while back in Australia, 000, directory assistance and IIRC faults were the same people. Mates called Telstra for something and got put on hold for emergency calls.
Yes, but you'll have to show up for court.
Yep, totally ridiculous until grandma leaves her phone in her pocket, ready to dial 911, mashes the keys and gets a SWAT team in her face. It's even better for the people who actually needed the cops.
In the past, many phones have accidentally dialed emergency numbers. This was such a problem that they may have wanted you to know that the phone you left in your bag, pocket, whatever was making an emergency call. I used to have a Nokia that SIM/no SIM was designed to call 112[1] under any circumstances, even having the keypad locked. Lock the keypad and mash keys. It would ignore everything until it saw a 1, another 1, a 2, and dial. Stupid 'features' that supposedly forced changes to the Australian '000' [2] system.
[1] Standard GSM emergency number.
[2] Our version of 911. Probably selected because it was hard to accidentally dial it on a rotary.
Be careful with the words 'no one.' I've seen what the guys who got EFT machines into the European system had to do. It included serious security measures and Motorola providing chip schematics to the bankers. If an EFT machine can be built that tough then so can a voting machine.
The letter of the contract and the spirit it was written under are: if you change your machine, you'll let us know and decide if we have to certify it again. Changing enough around to justify a new model number should be an indicator that this needed to happen. What you don't understand is that companies live and die on contract language. I've worked on contracts that had damages of $200,000 a day for late delivery. These guys have no excuses.
And to your other point, I have a federal election in two days. I have to vote just like everybody else. I get a white piece of paper for the Senate and a green piece of paper for the House. That's it. We don't need machines to handle the voting. This race is close, we may not know the winner until Sunday.
Absolutely, but they then hung a big 'catch me' sign on it. Breaching contract is one thing, but being stupidly obvious about it is another.