More importantley: how about we get a DECENT beginners book? Correction, how about we just drop all beginners books completly?
This is going to be modded troll, I can just feel it - but I stand firmly behind that. I do a *lot* of PHP development - and I can't count the times that I see this "cool script" out there that does this "awesome thing". Then, I take a look at it, the entire thing is a hack job, and it's labeled "Joe's First Script".
We don't need beginners books, we need more experienced PHP devs in the first place, and a beginner's book is only going to maul the already horrible ratio of those "know PHP", and those who can actually use it, correctly.
(That quite obviously came off strong, but I am sick and tired of people who have made money doing PHP, coming to me and asking me why they've got a parse error on line 15, yet line 15 consists of "print('hihi.');" )
Okay, so let's assume here, that Sun is successful in "merging" Red Hat and Linux into one. First off, Microsoft has basically already done so, as any benchmark of windows vs. "linux" is Red Hat. Keep this point in mind.
So, we've had Microsoft preaching that linux IS Red Hat, for a while now.
Have the/. linux users gone down as a result?
Have any of you switched your Red Hat (read: any linux distro) systems to windows server?
I know I know, businesses may have. But have YOU?
Apply the same to Sun, and take note of their respective sizes. Assuming that Sun pulls the "merge" off, just what exactly will it affect, compred to microsoft? MS isn't making any big dents (yet, time will tell), so how could Sun? (In a completly closed-mind view.)
I know, I know, in two years, MS might be a thing of the past, and then in 4 years, if it's not a SCO server then it's not worth anything. I won't debate how the future works, as it really is pointless.
If I may remind you all of a quote of Linus, which goes something to the point of, "My goals were never to destroy Microsoft. That will be a completly unintentional side effect." (Yeah, that's probably a horrible 'quote', but live with it, you get the point.)
So, why should you care if Sun does this? Sun can spout all the FUD they want, as can Microsoft, as can 'Red Hat' (read: any linux distro), but that doesn't change the fact that some PR FUD changed actual benchmarks, it doesn't change the prices, and it doesn't change what really works. If Sun does the job better than linux, go for Sun I say. If linux does it better, go with linux.
Just take note: using the 'PR' view, we should ALL be using Microsoft Server, linux it's worth 2 cents, and Sun is some upstart with millions, who's preaching against a 2 cent OS.
while (true); do wget http://www.mozilla.org/products/firefox/download.h tml?http%3A//ftp.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla.org/firef ox/releases/0.10/firefox-1.0PR-i686-linux-gtk2+xft -installer.tar.gz; done;
Not about the electronic voting or anything, but that is pretty dang funny.
I think he's got some points being funny though. I mean, how many people do you know who becoome so obsessed with this election, that even a mention of "a different" canidate will get you a glare?
Peopel need to tone it down a bit. Stuff like that really provides some needed comedy, when it's really needed too.
I walk down the hall talking to some people, and they say that this year is going to end up sucking. "Why's that?" I ask. "Because I've got several massive projects due in the start of December, my grandma is on the verge of death, and to top it all off, Bush might get re-elected."...
This guy isn't even of legal age to vote, and he was literally thinking that Bush being re-elected is by far worse than anything else at the moment.
Come on people, live a little, joke a little. Rock on Dave Barry.
>Valid point there, but letting the bullies chase you off IM gives them a (limited) victory, and you still live with the knowledge that they're continuing to defame you behind your back.
Agreed. Blocking/etc won't fix your problem by any means. However, all my post was supposed to do was disippate the FUD concerning IM, and how others make it out to be an infinte amount more dangerous than real life situations.
As far as your point on how it doesn't change much, well, I won't go there. Seeing as it changes per person and everyone is differnet....meh. You get the point, I'm sure.
I'll openly admit that I'm in this "age group". I'm 16.
If my parents knew that I had just told you people my age, my mom at least would completly flip out and be scared that someone is coming to abduct me based on this alias and that age. (But that's a different story. This is/., and I would expect that at least most of you have more common sense than that.)
I recently had a friend who went point-blank suicidal. I'll refer to him as a he, but note I'm not disclosing that. He threatened that he was both cutting himself and was holding a gun (.45 to be precise, a shotgun) to their head.
This was told to me over, heh, IM. (Once I realized he was serious, I called the police, meh, that's beside the point.) But, let me comment a bit on this story.
"I have kids coming into school upset daily because of what happened on the Internet the night before," Ms. Yuratovac said. " 'We were online last night and somebody said I was fat,' or 'They asked me why I wear the same pair of jeans every day,' or 'They say I have Wal-Mart clothes.' "
*gasp* Let's sit down and think here. Is this really any worse at all than something like this happening in real life? Here's a hint: it's not, it's actually easier to work with than it is in real life. Why is this? It's called the "block" button. Harsh as this may sound, if they sit there and listen to such things, all the while in perfect control and having the ability to change that, then it is in my opinion partially their fault for not clicking the block button and actually dealing with it.
Amanda has her Internet messages automatically forwarded to her cellphone, and by the end of the game she had received 50 - the limit of its capacity.
I'm going to assume ICQ or MSN were used for this, which makes it (sending of IMs to a phone) incredibly easy. MSN, it's a matter of right-clicking and hitting 'Sent to mobile device'. ICQ, just check the SMS button.
The end user is in perfect control of this, should they want this to happen. MSN it's a checkbox in the options to turn it off (which must be turned on in the first place, mind you), and ICQ it's essentially the same thing. There was nothing preventing "Amanda" from not being subjected to this. From this story, everything that happened could have been prevented with about 45 seconds of clicking. (Okay, the exception being things like this, but again, turn the phone off. There are ways of preventing this. Of course, I really, really would like to see something like an whitelist/blacklist for phone text messages in the future.)
Some of you may ask why I'm essentially "assulting the abused." I am 16, I do know what it's like when this happens, and I do know that, at times, it can cause things such as counseling, etc. etc. etc. I am not assuming that life is perfect and everyone enjoys a perfect life with no one harassing them.
It goes back to a point I made earlier: IM is not any different than real life, except in the fact that it's exponentially easier to deal with. It's the internet. If they spam your e-mail, get a new e-mail. Harass you via SMS web-to-phone? Turn it off.
Then deal with the "offenders" in real life, compared to sitting there and listening.
Like, duh? Hello? These kids don't need advice on how to stay safe online, they need a reality check. In every scneario described, it could have been changed. You hear stories like this, other/.'ers linking to people commiting suicide as a result of talking on IM to people, but really, sit down, and think. IM is not any different than real life. If someone can convince someone, push some over the edge, over the instant messenger, I shudder to think what that person would be vulnerable to in real life.
The instant messenger should be considered just as dangerous as real life, at very very most, because you don't have to be there, you have a choice not
Now, my reasoning. The Sun. <-- See that? Well, a lot of you won't know what it is. It's the "sun". It's bright, and it represents light, which a majority of you (me included) dislike. It's too unlike our housing areas (parent's basements).
The IT theme reminds all geeks everywhere of "real life".
I don't know why it took me this long to figure it out...
There's always the shutdown -a, true. But patching without RPC? That alone means right-click is basically useless, and a grand many other things die. COULD I have patched without the disconnect network and other patch source? Yes, but it would have been a royal pain in the butt.
You could also set the service to "do nothing" on failure, there's a lot that you COULD do, but it's still going to have issues regardless.
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More importantley: how about we get a DECENT beginners book? Correction, how about we just drop all beginners books completly?
This is going to be modded troll, I can just feel it - but I stand firmly behind that. I do a *lot* of PHP development - and I can't count the times that I see this "cool script" out there that does this "awesome thing". Then, I take a look at it, the entire thing is a hack job, and it's labeled "Joe's First Script".
We don't need beginners books, we need more experienced PHP devs in the first place, and a beginner's book is only going to maul the already horrible ratio of those "know PHP", and those who can actually use it, correctly.
(That quite obviously came off strong, but I am sick and tired of people who have made money doing PHP, coming to me and asking me why they've got a parse error on line 15, yet line 15 consists of "print('hihi.');" )
MSN-M actually re-encodes all images as PNGs, and sends those. Likewise, if it couldn't render the JPEG, I doubt it'd be converted and usable.
Am I the only one who saw that photo linked in the story, and thought, "Borg"?
Are you really that suprised?
Read: telemarkerters.
What do they stop at? Nothing.
And Shaw fibre. And (insert random ISP).
Okay, so let's assume here, that Sun is successful in "merging" Red Hat and Linux into one. First off, Microsoft has basically already done so, as any benchmark of windows vs. "linux" is Red Hat. Keep this point in mind.
/. linux users gone down as a result?
Have any of you switched your Red Hat (read: any linux distro) systems to windows server?
So, we've had Microsoft preaching that linux IS Red Hat, for a while now.
Have the
I know I know, businesses may have. But have YOU?
Apply the same to Sun, and take note of their respective sizes. Assuming that Sun pulls the "merge" off, just what exactly will it affect, compred to microsoft? MS isn't making any big dents (yet, time will tell), so how could Sun? (In a completly closed-mind view.)
I know, I know, in two years, MS might be a thing of the past, and then in 4 years, if it's not a SCO server then it's not worth anything. I won't debate how the future works, as it really is pointless.
If I may remind you all of a quote of Linus, which goes something to the point of, "My goals were never to destroy Microsoft. That will be a completly unintentional side effect." (Yeah, that's probably a horrible 'quote', but live with it, you get the point.)
So, why should you care if Sun does this? Sun can spout all the FUD they want, as can Microsoft, as can 'Red Hat' (read: any linux distro), but that doesn't change the fact that some PR FUD changed actual benchmarks, it doesn't change the prices, and it doesn't change what really works. If Sun does the job better than linux, go for Sun I say. If linux does it better, go with linux.
Just take note: using the 'PR' view, we should ALL be using Microsoft Server, linux it's worth 2 cents, and Sun is some upstart with millions, who's preaching against a 2 cent OS.
Form your own opinions, people. Chill.
At my school, I was asked to write a voting booth for the school. It's done via PHP and MySQL.
I wrote it. I've got the access which I technically don't have.
Pedro for President, anyone?
The apps in their system tray? "Oh, they've always been there, leave them be."
The MP3 collection? "Yeah, I did that myself, better undo what I did to make it run faster."
while (true); do wget http://www.mozilla.org/products/firefox/download.h tml?http%3A//ftp.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla.org/firef ox/releases/0.10/firefox-1.0PR-i686-linux-gtk2+xft -installer.tar.gz; done;
/. needs a new modifier: "+5 Awesome"
Yes, I knew someone who fit into the above category would post saying just that. Sure enough, you did.
No, I have no intentions of trying to change your mind either. And yes, you're right we should care.
But come on, joke a little, loosen up. That's all I'm trying to say.
Not about the electronic voting or anything, but that is pretty dang funny.
...
I think he's got some points being funny though. I mean, how many people do you know who becoome so obsessed with this election, that even a mention of "a different" canidate will get you a glare?
Peopel need to tone it down a bit. Stuff like that really provides some needed comedy, when it's really needed too.
I walk down the hall talking to some people, and they say that this year is going to end up sucking. "Why's that?" I ask. "Because I've got several massive projects due in the start of December, my grandma is on the verge of death, and to top it all off, Bush might get re-elected."
This guy isn't even of legal age to vote, and he was literally thinking that Bush being re-elected is by far worse than anything else at the moment.
Come on people, live a little, joke a little. Rock on Dave Barry.
From the google search linked, there's a reason that those forums are crawling. Actually, mine is still trying to connect to the server.
/. geeks gotta get their pr0n, after all.
Lot of
Google this alias of mine (ScytheBlade1), grab an e-mail, and get ahold of me.
>Valid point there, but letting the bullies chase you off IM gives them a (limited) victory, and you still live with the knowledge that they're continuing to defame you behind your back.
Agreed. Blocking/etc won't fix your problem by any means. However, all my post was supposed to do was disippate the FUD concerning IM, and how others make it out to be an infinte amount more dangerous than real life situations.
As far as your point on how it doesn't change much, well, I won't go there. Seeing as it changes per person and everyone is differnet....meh. You get the point, I'm sure.
Yeah I'm kinda slow, you know, me being a /. geek, and having never owned a gun.
;)
Thanks for telling me though
Yeah, I've gotta watch that "intilligent" thing. The long part was probably what really got you though, right? ;)
I'll openly admit that I'm in this "age group". I'm 16.
/., and I would expect that at least most of you have more common sense than that.)
/.'ers linking to people commiting suicide as a result of talking on IM to people, but really, sit down, and think. IM is not any different than real life. If someone can convince someone, push some over the edge, over the instant messenger, I shudder to think what that person would be vulnerable to in real life.
If my parents knew that I had just told you people my age, my mom at least would completly flip out and be scared that someone is coming to abduct me based on this alias and that age. (But that's a different story. This is
I recently had a friend who went point-blank suicidal. I'll refer to him as a he, but note I'm not disclosing that. He threatened that he was both cutting himself and was holding a gun (.45 to be precise, a shotgun) to their head.
This was told to me over, heh, IM. (Once I realized he was serious, I called the police, meh, that's beside the point.) But, let me comment a bit on this story.
"I have kids coming into school upset daily because of what happened on the Internet the night before," Ms. Yuratovac said. " 'We were online last night and somebody said I was fat,' or 'They asked me why I wear the same pair of jeans every day,' or 'They say I have Wal-Mart clothes.' "
*gasp* Let's sit down and think here. Is this really any worse at all than something like this happening in real life? Here's a hint: it's not, it's actually easier to work with than it is in real life. Why is this? It's called the "block" button. Harsh as this may sound, if they sit there and listen to such things, all the while in perfect control and having the ability to change that, then it is in my opinion partially their fault for not clicking the block button and actually dealing with it.
Amanda has her Internet messages automatically forwarded to her cellphone, and by the end of the game she had received 50 - the limit of its capacity.
I'm going to assume ICQ or MSN were used for this, which makes it (sending of IMs to a phone) incredibly easy. MSN, it's a matter of right-clicking and hitting 'Sent to mobile device'. ICQ, just check the SMS button.
The end user is in perfect control of this, should they want this to happen. MSN it's a checkbox in the options to turn it off (which must be turned on in the first place, mind you), and ICQ it's essentially the same thing. There was nothing preventing "Amanda" from not being subjected to this. From this story, everything that happened could have been prevented with about 45 seconds of clicking. (Okay, the exception being things like this, but again, turn the phone off. There are ways of preventing this. Of course, I really, really would like to see something like an whitelist/blacklist for phone text messages in the future.)
Some of you may ask why I'm essentially "assulting the abused." I am 16, I do know what it's like when this happens, and I do know that, at times, it can cause things such as counseling, etc. etc. etc. I am not assuming that life is perfect and everyone enjoys a perfect life with no one harassing them.
It goes back to a point I made earlier: IM is not any different than real life, except in the fact that it's exponentially easier to deal with. It's the internet. If they spam your e-mail, get a new e-mail. Harass you via SMS web-to-phone? Turn it off.
Then deal with the "offenders" in real life, compared to sitting there and listening.
Like, duh? Hello? These kids don't need advice on how to stay safe online, they need a reality check. In every scneario described, it could have been changed. You hear stories like this, other
The instant messenger should be considered just as dangerous as real life, at very very most, because you don't have to be there, you have a choice not
0 comments and it's already /.'d into the ground.
First off: Better theme
Now, my reasoning.
The Sun. <-- See that? Well, a lot of you won't know what it is. It's the "sun". It's bright, and it represents light, which a majority of you (me included) dislike. It's too unlike our housing areas (parent's basements).
The IT theme reminds all geeks everywhere of "real life".
I don't know why it took me this long to figure it out...
What, that a bad thing?
Sound to me like this could have some serious advantages for you.
It's a porn site, isn't it?
/. B) It's a porn site.
There's no denying it now! No site gets 70mbit/sec unless A)
...so how much can you download?
"NIU pays $5 per student per month and is allowed unlimited access to the media for the testers. "
So, what exactly? $5/month for unlimited access to a student to download whatever.
Now THAT I could see take off.
I swear, that's genius. I'm going to have to try that sometime, just for kicks.
There's always the shutdown -a, true. But patching without RPC? That alone means right-click is basically useless, and a grand many other things die. COULD I have patched without the disconnect network and other patch source? Yes, but it would have been a royal pain in the butt.
You could also set the service to "do nothing" on failure, there's a lot that you COULD do, but it's still going to have issues regardless.