"real sense of" as opposed to "sense of". There is a difference, one feels like speed and motion and one *is* speed and motion as far as your brain is concerened. The point was, to really fool the brain into thinking it is moving an integral part is motion blur. Is that better?
ps dont claim someone says something and then simplify what they said to fit into the context of your flame. its poor form.
motion blur is an integral part in fooling the brain into thinking it is seeing real motion. its like looking out a car window as you move as seeing things blur in the extremes of your vision. without that blur there is no real sense of speed or motion.
even though i know you are trolling ill bite because right now the cold medacine im on is telling me too. colds suck.
unix should have died.
i mean come on its a brutal system. often times there is no semblance of order to the way things are layed out. common utilities dont follow a common arg system. there are pieces from every other god forsaken os on the planet thrown in. it doesnt have a constistant look or feel. different unix branches can often be so different its almost impossible for one person who is good with one to even use the other. its tried to destroy itself many times with stupid brain dead pushes and standards.
hmph. yeah unix should be dead... and so should the one animal that it resembles, Humans. oh well, maybe next year.
ps i use unix everyday, irix even, so its ok for me to call for the death of the beast.
No bad habits... and you advocate sending them to get certifications?
I'm sorry but most certification programs do nothing but teach people bad habits. Asside from Cisco's, very few of them deal with real world scenarios that a typical admin will experience. And a certification is not experience... its nothing but a bit of fact learning and memorization for things that will prolly not ever get used much in the real world.
A Certifcation doesn't show a desire to stay current, it shows a desire to pad one's salary.
Bring in young admins who are eager and smart. Its that simple. They needs certifications to prove they are smart... simple lay out a couple of problems (some of which have nothing to do with computers) and ask them how they would solve them.
Keep code isolated? Where do you work? In the real world lots of people touch other people's code because thats the only way its ever going to work. Source control is a wonderous thing... learn it.
Anything that gets people into space and more people caring about getting to space is a good thing.
People tend to forget everyone used to say is it a good thing for everyone to have a car, to fly, to have a tv even? Well it might not be... but its great for everyone to have the choice. I'm all for commercialization of space. Hell if people saw what typical advertising budgets were for some of the fortune 500 and how little it costs to get into space compared I think they would be for it too. Does it really matter to you if this shuttle mission is sponsored by Coke? If they want to spend advertising dollars on something a bit more worthwhile than a 30 second spot during the SuperBowl; let them!
I don't care if its a Nike shuttle using Pepsi fuel on Sears Mission #17; if it can get me into space. Yay!
"Use this form if you are NOT a member of SAGE but have submitted data to the SAGE System Admnistrator Salary Survey 2000 and wish to have the results posted to you. We have made this form using 'USENIX look and feel' to..."
and for those who don't know BellSouth is *huge* in many emerging markets. they pretty much dominate southern central american and all of south america (in wireless) which is an exploding economy region. i fully expect bellsouth to end up being one of the worlds largest communications companies in 10-15 years.
"nothing like the symbiosis achieved by the rest of the world's organism"
I see this time and time again stated as one of the bad things about humans. But this simply is *not* true. How the hell did it come to be a common (and incorrect) knowledge that all animals form a natural balance with their enviroment? Was it the line from the matrix?
If this were true why would one deviation of a genetic path win out over another? Wouldn't they form a balance?
What about forms of plants that overrun others? How is this a balance?
What about sharks, which will eat a place empty and then have to move on?
The simple fact is that there are *very* few balances in nature. People that keep saying that there are either don't want to admit this or haven't done much research on their own. They take something said somewhere and go with it because it supports their cause.
Itanium isn't for the desktop market. Its for the large server market... this is Intel's last big chance to get rid of other big iron makers (like Sun; or at least I think so).
With that said, all the "production" servers I help look after have at least 1gig of ram per cpu. In the case of DB boxes that goes up to 2gig per cpu... Oracle eats memory for lunch, dinner, breakfast and sometimes as a snack. With typical DB size exploding over the last couple of years the ability to have 4+gig ram per cpu is a definite need.
One of the first forms of goverment ever, was a weird form of democracy. Anyone who owned land (which was most male people at the time) in one of Mesopotamia's earliest goverment's could vote for the "president/leader/king". Didn't last too long though...
Do you think your once overzealous (now calmed) ego is still hurting OpenBSD? Or has time calmed the fires?
In the early days the open fighting between the NetBSD (we won't take changes until hell freezes over) and the OpenBSD (we are the best, you suck) camps was pretty unattractive, to say the least.
1) Yes it does lack a journaled filesystem. And so did lunix until recently. It will have one when BSD users demand it... it won't be based on IBM code though, thats GPL'd.
2) only recently? define? FreeBSD has been on ELF for quite a while now going by lunix standards.
3)...
I don't see how JFS is a showstopper. Can you explain? How often do you need to do a fsck anyhoo?
BSD's IP stack is single threaded. I'd assume it doesn't do too well in the MindCraft tests because of this. Then again which MindCraft tests? I always tend to get better performance out of FreeBSD+apache then lunix+apache on identical hardware... on SAMBA stuff though it isn't even close; lunix wins hands down everytime under real loads.
Well if you got lots of money and lots of cool stuff. Take the phillips pronto supercrazy remote and you can build a macro button on your TiVo page that fastforwards at the highest speed for a set amount of time and then hits play again. Not super elegant, but it works.
The phillips pronto btw is the coolest "wow" factor gadget i've ever owned for non techies. Everyone and i do mean everyone who plays with it wants one until they hear the price.
As usual many people are quick to let their opinions ly as act around here... thats okay. Slashdot is definetly an opinion driven site.
However those who keep say using sendmail and a myriad of other programs to do enterprise wide email and more just haven't had to do this in the real world. IMAP will break down. Even with MBX format for everything once you get 100-150 employees and the average mailbox hits around 80 meg per user you must then goto distributed servers. This isn't pretty or fun and a real bitch to maintain, because you will have to maintain it. Once your company hits 200 or so and the typical mailbox has grown to 120 meg... its over.
Why? Not just because of the email load... but because at 150+ your company must have a calendar solution. This is how Exchange gets pushed through the door in a lot of places as an "intranet" package... even though we all know how far short it falls in providing such. The calendaring is weak... delegation is weak... there are no real simple ways to build web based tools... etc...
What do you do then? Well you either have to goto Exchange or Notes. Nothing else is really close to these in terms of overall 3rd party apps and management appeal.
It is really choosing the lesser of two evils... we made the choice for notes. Notes sucks. The client has the worst interface ever (well this side of an amiga app). The server proc hangs on our solaris boxes all the time... the clustering in it is retarded. At first we thought we were really screwed. But as time wore on we got used to the admin quirks of notes and much to our suprise users actually started to really like it. Notes has now replaced a lot of one off products for databases... it is the standard calendaring tool and most importantly of all it made management happy. Sure its not the best thing (hell we still have all our mail pass through a sendmail server first) but it is a real enterprise wide solution that was the same setup cost as Exchange and with a MUCH lower operations cost per year.
The USA is not the home of the crazy uptight puritans... it is now the home of the slutty girls, fat guys and people who do too many drugs while watching over paid athletes on their large tvs, while neglecting their children who are out in the streets trying to pawn off their fancy cars for cash to buy cell phones and makeup before their 12th birthday.
Or maybe I'm thinking of Canada... nope, no gravy or mayonaise... im right, thats the USA.
As someone who has used IE on unix... touting that its available for Solaris (etc...) is about the same as saying McDonalds has a great new fish sandwhich. Yah its prolly fish, and it may be okay, but great? IE for unix, simply, sucks. Try it.
I'm not saying nutscrape is any better, but at least it exists on all the forms of unix that I run into everyday.
I love stores that want do this (like Fry's and CompUSA)... mostly because I just walk past the person. The conversation usually goes like this:
employee: "Excuse me I need to look at that bag!"
me: "No thanks," as I walk out the door.
employee looks dumbfounded and sits back down, dejected.
Whats bothers me most about this whole bag checking thing is that in big cities (like SF/NYC) these stores won't usually check your bag/backpack when you come in... so if you have no spine you are basically allowing them to search your bag everytime you go in one of these places. Fun.
1. a. A literary work in which human vice or folly is attacked through irony, derision, or wit.
b.The branch of literature constituting such works. See Synonyms at caricature.
2. Irony, sarcasm, or caustic wit used to attack or expose folly, vice, or stupidity.
This info has been floating around for quite a while... more importantly sega has already admitted to working on another console internally.
So don't think the dreamcast is sega's last box. It may be the last box they build exclusively by themselves but they are way too far ahead in the arcade realm to stop building hardware.
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"real sense of" as opposed to "sense of". There is a difference, one feels like speed and motion and one *is* speed and motion as far as your brain is concerened. The point was, to really fool the brain into thinking it is moving an integral part is motion blur. Is that better?
ps dont claim someone says something and then simplify what they said to fit into the context of your flame. its poor form.
motion blur is an integral part in fooling the brain into thinking it is seeing real motion. its like looking out a car window as you move as seeing things blur in the extremes of your vision. without that blur there is no real sense of speed or motion.
even though i know you are trolling ill bite because right now the cold medacine im on is telling me too. colds suck.
unix should have died.
i mean come on its a brutal system. often times there is no semblance of order to the way things are layed out. common utilities dont follow a common arg system. there are pieces from every other god forsaken os on the planet thrown in. it doesnt have a constistant look or feel. different unix branches can often be so different its almost impossible for one person who is good with one to even use the other. its tried to destroy itself many times with stupid brain dead pushes and standards.
hmph. yeah unix should be dead... and so should the one animal that it resembles, Humans. oh well, maybe next year.
ps i use unix everyday, irix even, so its ok for me to call for the death of the beast.
No bad habits... and you advocate sending them to get certifications?
I'm sorry but most certification programs do nothing but teach people bad habits. Asside from Cisco's, very few of them deal with real world scenarios that a typical admin will experience. And a certification is not experience... its nothing but a bit of fact learning and memorization for things that will prolly not ever get used much in the real world.
A Certifcation doesn't show a desire to stay current, it shows a desire to pad one's salary.
Bring in young admins who are eager and smart. Its that simple. They needs certifications to prove they are smart... simple lay out a couple of problems (some of which have nothing to do with computers) and ask them how they would solve them.
Keep code isolated? Where do you work? In the real world lots of people touch other people's code because thats the only way its ever going to work. Source control is a wonderous thing... learn it.
Anything that gets people into space and more people caring about getting to space is a good thing.
People tend to forget everyone used to say is it a good thing for everyone to have a car, to fly, to have a tv even? Well it might not be... but its great for everyone to have the choice. I'm all for commercialization of space. Hell if people saw what typical advertising budgets were for some of the fortune 500 and how little it costs to get into space compared I think they would be for it too. Does it really matter to you if this shuttle mission is sponsored by Coke? If they want to spend advertising dollars on something a bit more worthwhile than a 30 second spot during the SuperBowl; let them!
I don't care if its a Nike shuttle using Pepsi fuel on Sears Mission #17; if it can get me into space. Yay!
Whats your favorite kinda vodka to drink on days when you are stumped?
I like Finlandia.
Perhaps you should have gone through the survey:
"Use this form if you are NOT a member of SAGE but have submitted data to the SAGE System Admnistrator Salary Survey 2000 and wish to have the results posted to you. We have made this form using 'USENIX look and feel' to..."
and for those who don't know BellSouth is *huge* in many emerging markets. they pretty much dominate southern central american and all of south america (in wireless) which is an exploding economy region. i fully expect bellsouth to end up being one of the worlds largest communications companies in 10-15 years.
Thats the wire that holds the shadow mask up.
"nothing like the symbiosis achieved by the rest of the world's organism"
I see this time and time again stated as one of the bad things about humans. But this simply is *not* true. How the hell did it come to be a common (and incorrect) knowledge that all animals form a natural balance with their enviroment? Was it the line from the matrix?
If this were true why would one deviation of a genetic path win out over another? Wouldn't they form a balance?
What about forms of plants that overrun others? How is this a balance?
What about sharks, which will eat a place empty and then have to move on?
The simple fact is that there are *very* few balances in nature. People that keep saying that there are either don't want to admit this or haven't done much research on their own. They take something said somewhere and go with it because it supports their cause.
Wrong market.
Itanium isn't for the desktop market. Its for the large server market... this is Intel's last big chance to get rid of other big iron makers (like Sun; or at least I think so).
With that said, all the "production" servers I help look after have at least 1gig of ram per cpu. In the case of DB boxes that goes up to 2gig per cpu... Oracle eats memory for lunch, dinner, breakfast and sometimes as a snack. With typical DB size exploding over the last couple of years the ability to have 4+gig ram per cpu is a definite need.
even further back...
One of the first forms of goverment ever, was a weird form of democracy. Anyone who owned land (which was most male people at the time) in one of Mesopotamia's earliest goverment's could vote for the "president/leader/king". Didn't last too long though...
Hi Theo,
Do you think your once overzealous (now calmed) ego is still hurting OpenBSD? Or has time calmed the fires?
In the early days the open fighting between the NetBSD (we won't take changes until hell freezes over) and the OpenBSD (we are the best, you suck) camps was pretty unattractive, to say the least.
1) Yes it does lack a journaled filesystem. And so did lunix until recently. It will have one when BSD users demand it... it won't be based on IBM code though, thats GPL'd.
...
2) only recently? define? FreeBSD has been on ELF for quite a while now going by lunix standards.
3)
I don't see how JFS is a showstopper. Can you explain? How often do you need to do a fsck anyhoo?
BSD's IP stack is single threaded. I'd assume it doesn't do too well in the MindCraft tests because of this. Then again which MindCraft tests? I always tend to get better performance out of FreeBSD+apache then lunix+apache on identical hardware... on SAMBA stuff though it isn't even close; lunix wins hands down everytime under real loads.
SCO's UnixWare won't cost you anything?
...)
I guess if your soul isn't worth much to you, then yes it won't cost you anything.
(... spent the worst 6 months of my life doing phone tech support for SCO and Novell UnixWare
Well if you got lots of money and lots of cool stuff. Take the phillips pronto supercrazy remote and you can build a macro button on your TiVo page that fastforwards at the highest speed for a set amount of time and then hits play again. Not super elegant, but it works.
The phillips pronto btw is the coolest "wow" factor gadget i've ever owned for non techies. Everyone and i do mean everyone who plays with it wants one until they hear the price.
Bad slashdot posters!
As usual many people are quick to let their opinions ly as act around here... thats okay. Slashdot is definetly an opinion driven site.
However those who keep say using sendmail and a myriad of other programs to do enterprise wide email and more just haven't had to do this in the real world. IMAP will break down. Even with MBX format for everything once you get 100-150 employees and the average mailbox hits around 80 meg per user you must then goto distributed servers. This isn't pretty or fun and a real bitch to maintain, because you will have to maintain it. Once your company hits 200 or so and the typical mailbox has grown to 120 meg... its over.
Why? Not just because of the email load... but because at 150+ your company must have a calendar solution. This is how Exchange gets pushed through the door in a lot of places as an "intranet" package... even though we all know how far short it falls in providing such. The calendaring is weak... delegation is weak... there are no real simple ways to build web based tools... etc...
What do you do then? Well you either have to goto Exchange or Notes. Nothing else is really close to these in terms of overall 3rd party apps and management appeal.
It is really choosing the lesser of two evils... we made the choice for notes. Notes sucks. The client has the worst interface ever (well this side of an amiga app). The server proc hangs on our solaris boxes all the time... the clustering in it is retarded. At first we thought we were really screwed. But as time wore on we got used to the admin quirks of notes and much to our suprise users actually started to really like it. Notes has now replaced a lot of one off products for databases... it is the standard calendaring tool and most importantly of all it made management happy. Sure its not the best thing (hell we still have all our mail pass through a sendmail server first) but it is a real enterprise wide solution that was the same setup cost as Exchange and with a MUCH lower operations cost per year.
No... that was the Commonwealth of States.
The USA is not the home of the crazy uptight puritans... it is now the home of the slutty girls, fat guys and people who do too many drugs while watching over paid athletes on their large tvs, while neglecting their children who are out in the streets trying to pawn off their fancy cars for cash to buy cell phones and makeup before their 12th birthday.
Or maybe I'm thinking of Canada... nope, no gravy or mayonaise... im right, thats the USA.
As someone who has used IE on unix... touting that its available for Solaris (etc...) is about the same as saying McDonalds has a great new fish sandwhich. Yah its prolly fish, and it may be okay, but great? IE for unix, simply, sucks. Try it.
I'm not saying nutscrape is any better, but at least it exists on all the forms of unix that I run into everyday.
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Someone needs to goto the timeout corner.
BAD LITTLE SLASHDOT POSTER, BAD!
*HUG*
I love stores that want do this (like Fry's and CompUSA)... mostly because I just walk past the person. The conversation usually goes like this:
employee: "Excuse me I need to look at that bag!"
me: "No thanks," as I walk out the door.
employee looks dumbfounded and sits back down, dejected.
Whats bothers me most about this whole bag checking thing is that in big cities (like SF/NYC) these stores won't usually check your bag/backpack when you come in... so if you have no spine you are basically allowing them to search your bag everytime you go in one of these places. Fun.
twm is just plain icky.
If you want to show true geekdom then use "ion".
Now thats a window manager.
satire (str) n.
1. a. A literary work in which human vice or folly is attacked through irony, derision, or wit.
b.The branch of literature constituting such works. See Synonyms at caricature.
2. Irony, sarcasm, or caustic wit used to attack or expose folly, vice, or stupidity.
All the conclusions drawn aren't really correct.
This info has been floating around for quite a while... more importantly sega has already admitted to working on another console internally.
So don't think the dreamcast is sega's last box. It may be the last box they build exclusively by themselves but they are way too far ahead in the arcade realm to stop building hardware.