And yet another incredibly biased news post... that says a lot of the poster.
I agree with that prime minister. Not everyone should learn to code. We really don't need more mediocre developers.
Exactly what this guy said. Stop trying to get people to stay at the office all the time. If you want to give someone a bonus, give him money or free days. I for one don't give a rats ass about free snacks, free lunch, free coffe, nor afteroffices. I want freedom. No phone calls when I'm out of work, no absurd schedules, no constant priority changing, nor that ridiculous expetation to "multitask". Today's fashion is to want everything faster and try to keep people at the office for as long as possible. FUCK THAT. I'm no teenager, I know better.
If it were cheap, non-plasticky, water and shockproof, medium size and with several years of battery life I'd probably get one... but only if my Timex Expedition gives up first.
Reasons I still use Windows for my desktops: Consistency between OS parts, direction as a whole, design, software and hardware compatibility, stability (it hangs so much less often than a Linux *desktop* nowadays), driver support and last but not least I can play decent (contemporary) games. This is right now, I'm not talking about the future nor the past.
I still prefer Linux for most of my servers though. Command line only of course.
It is functional up to some extent, I agree with that. But it's also plain fugly. Too much info cluttered in a single screen is not good. Books are definitely not like that, as they usually have a single column with one single topic per page. If you want to change topic you have to switch to another page. Wikipedia shows too much info in too little space, and that makes it look needlessly confusing and difficult to read. It could surely use some modern techs like AJAX and HTML5 to make it faster and show/hide content on demand as needed by the reader. There's really no need to show EVERYTHING you've got at the same time, that's too 90's and has evolved to more dynamic sites for a good reason. Take Google as an example. How much info and functionality Google has? And yet it still manages to have simple and clean interfaces. Compare the Google front page with the Wikipedia front page and you'll easily see what I mean.
I'd do it, but then protest and start looking for another job somewhere else.
Throttling is unethical and should be illegal, because an ISP provides Internet, not Web or e-mail, so the users should be able to use any protocol they want. If you have to, raise the fees, but don't lie/cheat/steal from the customers...
It's not a nice situation, good luck!
The article is not even worth reading if it says that Red Hat is Linux (I've read it anyway:P ). If they'd used Gentoo the results would have been VERY different... but anyway, it a very shallow comparison, I mean, just the time it takes to patch vulnerabilities means nothing.
I think an important point about installing from source is the security. When building the program you can specify which things you will be using and which you won't. That way you can disable many 'open doors' you won't need, and minimize the footprint (attack surface) of the programs you run on your servers.
And about the performance difference... it CAN be considerable, many times it won't, but a few times a program will be really faster when compiled from source with the right options. So I believe you should ask yourself how often do you install new software on the servers, and how much time do you have to do so. Usually, the time it takes to compile a program in a server is pretty short, so I don't see a real reason for not doing it if you use some automated system like Gentoo's portage.
The traditional way is not always the safer, nor the best. Every sysadmin should be conscious enough to find the better way, and let go RH;)
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And yet another incredibly biased news post... that says a lot of the poster. I agree with that prime minister. Not everyone should learn to code. We really don't need more mediocre developers.
...that's because he's an idiot.
Exactly what this guy said. Stop trying to get people to stay at the office all the time. If you want to give someone a bonus, give him money or free days. I for one don't give a rats ass about free snacks, free lunch, free coffe, nor afteroffices. I want freedom. No phone calls when I'm out of work, no absurd schedules, no constant priority changing, nor that ridiculous expetation to "multitask". Today's fashion is to want everything faster and try to keep people at the office for as long as possible. FUCK THAT. I'm no teenager, I know better.
...are so idiotic they shouldn't even be here.
The IT world is full of "bubble boys". It really is a shame.
...and I don't care.
...that women act like lemmings?
No. Stop spamming Slashdot.
If it were cheap, non-plasticky, water and shockproof, medium size and with several years of battery life I'd probably get one... but only if my Timex Expedition gives up first.
Why the fuck is this on Slashdot?
Reasons I still use Windows for my desktops: Consistency between OS parts, direction as a whole, design, software and hardware compatibility, stability (it hangs so much less often than a Linux *desktop* nowadays), driver support and last but not least I can play decent (contemporary) games. This is right now, I'm not talking about the future nor the past. I still prefer Linux for most of my servers though. Command line only of course.
Unfortunately, this is about right. But always remember the reason: Idiots outnumber us.
Single hash passwords have been a bad idea for a while now. If you're a dev, PBKDF2 would be a better choice.
Started back in the 90's: Slackware->Gentoo->Ubuntu->Windows 7 :)
You could definitely spot a trend there, and believe me it's not laziness.
It is functional up to some extent, I agree with that. But it's also plain fugly. Too much info cluttered in a single screen is not good. Books are definitely not like that, as they usually have a single column with one single topic per page. If you want to change topic you have to switch to another page. Wikipedia shows too much info in too little space, and that makes it look needlessly confusing and difficult to read. It could surely use some modern techs like AJAX and HTML5 to make it faster and show/hide content on demand as needed by the reader. There's really no need to show EVERYTHING you've got at the same time, that's too 90's and has evolved to more dynamic sites for a good reason. Take Google as an example. How much info and functionality Google has? And yet it still manages to have simple and clean interfaces. Compare the Google front page with the Wikipedia front page and you'll easily see what I mean.
You should ask HIM.... duh!
I'd do it, but then protest and start looking for another job somewhere else. Throttling is unethical and should be illegal, because an ISP provides Internet, not Web or e-mail, so the users should be able to use any protocol they want. If you have to, raise the fees, but don't lie/cheat/steal from the customers... It's not a nice situation, good luck!
If the ice it's really coming back... I'd like to know why :)
The article is not even worth reading if it says that Red Hat is Linux (I've read it anyway :P ). If they'd used Gentoo the results would have been VERY different... but anyway, it a very shallow comparison, I mean, just the time it takes to patch vulnerabilities means nothing.
emerge, nano, cat, less, grep, ps, kill, nohup and of course a lot of bash.
I think an important point about installing from source is the security. When building the program you can specify which things you will be using and which you won't. That way you can disable many 'open doors' you won't need, and minimize the footprint (attack surface) of the programs you run on your servers.
;)
And about the performance difference... it CAN be considerable, many times it won't, but a few times a program will be really faster when compiled from source with the right options. So I believe you should ask yourself how often do you install new software on the servers, and how much time do you have to do so. Usually, the time it takes to compile a program in a server is pretty short, so I don't see a real reason for not doing it if you use some automated system like Gentoo's portage.
The traditional way is not always the safer, nor the best. Every sysadmin should be conscious enough to find the better way, and let go RH