I've hated slashdot since the day I came here. That's why I keep coming back.
Honestly, though, there have been trolls and firstposters for as long as I've come here, and it's just what you deal with.
Thank the gods/. ditched that Katz journalist, though. If you think idle is bad, you haven't experienced the great mindless stupor that once haunted these halls.... or have I just had his postings blocked this whole time? He is gone, right?
I just like knowing others are seeing this. I should really be more lazy, though. I spent yesterday morning casting those numbers (and variants I found in my logs) to CHARs in MySQL to see what the crap they were trying to do.
I find that those girls are too contorted and their body shapes too scary for my tastes. Any girl whose shoulders are twice as wide as her hips looks freakish to me. Even guys that are that abnormal look weird to me.
I agree. The divers and swimmer women are where it's at. There are some hot Canuck divers this year!
No, I don't watch it for patriotism, or for the sports. Just the babes.
Sadly, both of mine supported it, and Hatch even strongly opposed the amendment that would've allowed the existing lawsuits to go forward.
I never have voted for either of their rotting carcasses to remain in office, and I never will, so no faith lost, I suppose. Just confirmation that they are both nuts.
When I was an undergrad in CS four years back, there were girls on my course offering sex in return for completing their programming assignments. I never took one of them up on this offer. To this day I have no idea why....
If they're anything like the majority of the girls in my CS program, I have an idea why.
That said, my hands are large enough that I usually can't reach the bottom 20% of the can. If they widened the Pringles can design so that my hands could reach the lingering chips on the bottom, that'd make my decade.
Yes, but that would make it less entertaining to watch people try to reach the bottom 20% of the can. That's up to two solid decades of humor for me, and counting!
I agree with the slow news, but to clarify the Xen point:
Redhat has also included Xen for quite some time, if you take that to mean since earlier this year. They've also been touting their virtualization abilities since RHEL 5.
Novell also offers virtualization (through Xen), and you'll notice that they take the same stance as RedHat: Our virtualization is hot as snot, and nothing can compare.
I'm glad everyone is making cool front ends to Xen. Point and drool folk need that. But please, make the companies put credit where it's due!
I do buy that for sight, but what about sound? I would point the blame more at short term and long term memory, their appropriate'bus speed', and a possible glitch there. The image processing alone wouldn't account for the audio portion of Deja Vu I experience...
"They are going to be very happy everytime this alert system is used, they're going to reach a lot more people to scare them now."
Well put. Is this the same country we were almost a century ago? While it's spoken against a backdrop of the Great Depression, it fits today:
"...let me assert my firm belief that the only thing we have to fear is fear itself--nameless, unreasoning, unjustified terror which paralyzes needed efforts to convert retreat into advance."
While that's often quoted, what about the following sentence in the same address?
"In every dark hour of our national life a leadership of frankness and vigor has met with that understanding and support of the people themselves which is essential to victory." (from FDR's first inaugural address)
I am beginning to think this is one dark hour of our national life where our leadership is failing to learn that principle, or have learned the opposite too well...
Just a link to some of the drama, in case a Google search be beyond ye...
I would consider this a problem, judging by the amount of posts there. For once, I'm glad I own neither a Dell or an Apple laptop. Oh wait. I'm always glad I don't own one of those:)
"Out of all you wonderfully articulate people, nobody has anything interesting to say?"
Sure. You spelled misconception incorrectly:)
Come on. Incorrect spelling and grammar are some of the finer points of Slashdot. You could change it from "News for Nerds" to "Fifth Grade Proofreading Test" without much trouble.
Those darn CRN folks, always leaving parts of the quotes out. Here's a reprint, I put Darl's original comments missing from the report in '[]'.
"During the last 25 years, SCO has been committed to [destroying the reputability of] the Unix platform and continues to reaffirm its commitment [to make fools of ourselves while the rest of the world actually accomplishes something useful]," Darl McBride, SCO president, said in a teleconference Tuesday morning.
I applaud him for finally admitting what his company has been doing. Of course, he can shove his BMWs up his/dev/null.
"the answer would be to VMotion them off to another server"
Yeah, but this causes the poster's complaint of needing more than one box to run virtualization in a sane manner. Everything has an inherent flaw, the need for redundant boxes is virtualization's.
"Does that attitude draw the line between a degree and a cert?"
Hey, there's a difference between knowing the path and walking the path...
I tried at the RHCE recently, and missed it by one point (I got the RHCT, which is okay, I guess). I didn't do any classes or anything, I went off what I know from my experience. I obviously didn't know everything covered, since I missed it, but I do feel I had more fun with it than someone who sits down, crams it for a week, and then tries to remember it all. It reaffirmed my opinion that I do know a bit, too.
So, if you're going through it to pass it, it's going to suck, and I'd recommend chewing glass for more of the same fun. If you're going through it to learn something, or if you learn something and then see if you're certifiable, I think you'd like it much more, and you'll get more out of it.
As far as the value... I'd like to say I'd be fine without it, but it's nice to have some written proof I know stuff, since a degree is years away. I guess you're not in that boat, though.
"While snobs can be encountered for just about any OS you care to name, the Linux snobs are particularly shrill."
Hey, don't forget that Linux users are simply trying to emulate Unix users, so while we're shrill, we're a watered-down version of the Unix variety.
I really don't find anything wrong with being told to check the FAQ, read the man pages, and the increasingly common "Google is your friend" response. It tells me that many people have had the same problems, and now there's answers. Of course, it's degrees more helpful if someone says the above and includes a link to the FAQ, the Google search, or the online documentation.
What bugs the CRAP out of me is people who ask questions, and never write back to say a solution worked. I think that step in protocol is often passed.
"Linux users need to understand that when disillusioned Windows users come to them asking for help with Linux, they effectively become representatives of Linux...ambassadors, if you will...and they need to behave accordingly."
True... but what's accordingly? I expect most of us don't have Turret's syndrome, as the Linux "gurus" in the article did, but at the same time, I assume we're all too busy to fall on our faces over every question. I want to make it clear that in addition to saying "Google is your friend", or "Read the FAQ", there will inevitably be a link to a result, or to the FAQ. This is the difference between someone saying "I can't help you, get outta here" and "I can't help you, but here's someone who can".
While I can see that some wouldn't like to read the entire documentation, it seems easier to do so than to have an entire stranger guess at your situation, what you expect as your end result, and to have that person sift through the documentation for you. Who knows if they understood what you want? When they respond, after many hours of research, with a completely different answer than what you need, and you tell them it's not what you wanted, I think they have every right to tell you to RTFM (with a link to TFM).
So... expect cordiality, but please expect to do some work yourself.
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You are absolutely correct. That percentage is FAR higher than 70!
I've hated slashdot since the day I came here. That's why I keep coming back.
Honestly, though, there have been trolls and firstposters for as long as I've come here, and it's just what you deal with.
Thank the gods /. ditched that Katz journalist, though. If you think idle is bad, you haven't experienced the great mindless stupor that once haunted these halls. ... or have I just had his postings blocked this whole time? He is gone, right?
Or like better beer, a rich regional culture and history, better cuisine, better wine.
I agree, a great site!
Just looking over the links it feels like I'm reading a list of the Great Old Ones!
I just like knowing others are seeing this. I should really be more lazy, though. I spent yesterday morning casting those numbers (and variants I found in my logs) to CHARs in MySQL to see what the crap they were trying to do.
Ah, /.! Another reason to just stop trying.
I find that those girls are too contorted and their body shapes too scary for my tastes. Any girl whose shoulders are twice as wide as her hips looks freakish to me. Even guys that are that abnormal look weird to me.
I agree. The divers and swimmer women are where it's at. There are some hot Canuck divers this year!
No, I don't watch it for patriotism, or for the sports. Just the babes.
Sadly, both of mine supported it, and Hatch even strongly opposed the amendment that would've allowed the existing lawsuits to go forward.
I never have voted for either of their rotting carcasses to remain in office, and I never will, so no faith lost, I suppose. Just confirmation that they are both nuts.
When I was an undergrad in CS four years back, there were girls on my course offering sex in return for completing their programming assignments. I never took one of them up on this offer. To this day I have no idea why....
If they're anything like the majority of the girls in my CS program, I have an idea why.At least we've finally come to realize that astronauts do in fact need a cup on the outside of their gear, just like Storm Troopers.
Web 3.0? What is that supposed to be? A LAMP application hooked up to a cage of weasels?
That said, my hands are large enough that I usually can't reach the bottom 20% of the can. If they widened the Pringles can design so that my hands could reach the lingering chips on the bottom, that'd make my decade.
Yes, but that would make it less entertaining to watch people try to reach the bottom 20% of the can. That's up to two solid decades of humor for me, and counting!I agree with the slow news, but to clarify the Xen point:
Redhat has also included Xen for quite some time, if you take that to mean since earlier this year. They've also been touting their virtualization abilities since RHEL 5.
Novell also offers virtualization (through Xen), and you'll notice that they take the same stance as RedHat: Our virtualization is hot as snot, and nothing can compare.
I'm glad everyone is making cool front ends to Xen. Point and drool folk need that. But please, make the companies put credit where it's due!
And I can tell you ARE experienced thanks to your incorrect usage of "its" and "your".
But I'm too busy waiting in line for Transformers.
I think you're on to something. Just look for the largest arrival of giardia patients in the local hospitals, and we've found the cause.
Ha! Earthquakes! Really...
1. Their penis sizes
2. Jessica Alba
3. Angelina Jolie
4. Pay increases for Congress
5. Junkets
s/Congress/Managers/ and I'm pretty sure that's the agenda from the last IT leadership meeting my superiors held...
I do buy that for sight, but what about sound? I would point the blame more at short term and long term memory, their appropriate'bus speed', and a possible glitch there. The image processing alone wouldn't account for the audio portion of Deja Vu I experience...
"They are going to be very happy everytime this alert system is used, they're going to reach a lot more people to scare them now."
Well put. Is this the same country we were almost a century ago? While it's spoken against a backdrop of the Great Depression, it fits today:
"...let me assert my firm belief that the only thing we have to fear is fear itself--nameless, unreasoning, unjustified terror which paralyzes needed efforts to convert retreat into advance."
While that's often quoted, what about the following sentence in the same address?
"In every dark hour of our national life a leadership of frankness and vigor has met with that understanding and support of the people themselves which is essential to victory."
(from FDR's first inaugural address)
I am beginning to think this is one dark hour of our national life where our leadership is failing to learn that principle, or have learned the opposite too well...
Just a link to some of the drama, in case a Google search be beyond ye... I would consider this a problem, judging by the amount of posts there. For once, I'm glad I own neither a Dell or an Apple laptop. Oh wait. I'm always glad I don't own one of those :)
"Out of all you wonderfully articulate people, nobody has anything interesting to say?"
:)
Sure. You spelled misconception incorrectly
Come on. Incorrect spelling and grammar are some of the finer points of Slashdot. You could change it from "News for Nerds" to "Fifth Grade Proofreading Test" without much trouble.
Those darn CRN folks, always leaving parts of the quotes out. Here's a reprint, I put Darl's original comments missing from the report in '[]'.
/dev/null.
"During the last 25 years, SCO has been committed to [destroying the reputability of] the Unix platform and continues to reaffirm its commitment [to make fools of ourselves while the rest of the world actually accomplishes something useful]," Darl McBride, SCO president, said in a teleconference Tuesday morning.
I applaud him for finally admitting what his company has been doing. Of course, he can shove his BMWs up his
"the answer would be to VMotion them off to another server"
Yeah, but this causes the poster's complaint of needing more than one box to run virtualization in a sane manner. Everything has an inherent flaw, the need for redundant boxes is virtualization's.
"Oh look, I forgot to use a close quote. Or I used a single quote instead of a doublequote.
Heyba... uh... well, crap. Did you do that on purpose? I can't make fun of it until I know! Very smooth...
"Does that attitude draw the line between a degree and a cert?"
Hey, there's a difference between knowing the path and walking the path...
I tried at the RHCE recently, and missed it by one point (I got the RHCT, which is okay, I guess). I didn't do any classes or anything, I went off what I know from my experience. I obviously didn't know everything covered, since I missed it, but I do feel I had more fun with it than someone who sits down, crams it for a week, and then tries to remember it all. It reaffirmed my opinion that I do know a bit, too.
So, if you're going through it to pass it, it's going to suck, and I'd recommend chewing glass for more of the same fun. If you're going through it to learn something, or if you learn something and then see if you're certifiable, I think you'd like it much more, and you'll get more out of it.
As far as the value... I'd like to say I'd be fine without it, but it's nice to have some written proof I know stuff, since a degree is years away. I guess you're not in that boat, though.
"While snobs can be encountered for just about any OS you care to name, the Linux snobs are particularly shrill."
Hey, don't forget that Linux users are simply trying to emulate Unix users, so while we're shrill, we're a watered-down version of the Unix variety.
I really don't find anything wrong with being told to check the FAQ, read the man pages, and the increasingly common "Google is your friend" response. It tells me that many people have had the same problems, and now there's answers. Of course, it's degrees more helpful if someone says the above and includes a link to the FAQ, the Google search, or the online documentation.
What bugs the CRAP out of me is people who ask questions, and never write back to say a solution worked. I think that step in protocol is often passed.
"Linux users need to understand that when disillusioned Windows users come to them asking for help with Linux, they effectively become representatives of Linux...ambassadors, if you will...and they need to behave accordingly."
True... but what's accordingly? I expect most of us don't have Turret's syndrome, as the Linux "gurus" in the article did, but at the same time, I assume we're all too busy to fall on our faces over every question. I want to make it clear that in addition to saying "Google is your friend", or "Read the FAQ", there will inevitably be a link to a result, or to the FAQ. This is the difference between someone saying "I can't help you, get outta here" and "I can't help you, but here's someone who can".
While I can see that some wouldn't like to read the entire documentation, it seems easier to do so than to have an entire stranger guess at your situation, what you expect as your end result, and to have that person sift through the documentation for you. Who knows if they understood what you want? When they respond, after many hours of research, with a completely different answer than what you need, and you tell them it's not what you wanted, I think they have every right to tell you to RTFM (with a link to TFM).
So... expect cordiality, but please expect to do some work yourself.