...the only lemmings which willingly throw themselves from cliffs and into the ocean are the ones driven to do it by documentary-makers out to make a point.
In a similar vein, the only pirhana that will actually strip a cow in seconds are the ones penned up in a short section of river and starved for weeks - and even then, the cow has to be bleeding into the water to set them off. There are also vegetarian pirhana which are visually indistinguishable from their non-rabidly carnivorous ecological cousins.
Applying this principle ("everything you know is wrong") to SCOX: think about the observation that someone has had the resources to prop up their bizarre blackmail scam for a whole year despite the lack of a tangible taint of merit and the clumsiest hick lawyers you ever saw, and let that worry you instead of the glaring deficiencies in their technical arguments.
...which had the Z80 CPU generating the video directly, leaving only interframe gaps for computing.
Since the greeblie had no interrupts and they were too lazy to quantise the BASIC interpreter so that they could run it in the interframe and still generate reasonably consistent sync pulses, the screen went away completely while programs ran. A modern monitor would go postal, faced with a constantly appearing/vanishing sync pulse train but TVs are kind of used to dealing with cruddy signals.
I think the Sinclair was branded a Timex in the UK.
Ironic that at least two Caldera employees have, with Caldera's blessing, contributed code to Linux. End of case, you can all go home now.
Perhaps Linus should send a similar letter to SCOX and the same addressees, requiring them to guarantee that none of their SCOX or derivative code includes any contributions from the Linux codebase?
Why do you think there's talk of shutting NASA down every six months or so?
Shutting them down just once would probably be enough. But there would inevitably be a replacement - would it be better or worse than what we have? Why?
...what happens to you as a result of that suckiness is largely a consequence of your responses to it. You can amplify or limit the suckiness. Or do nothing about it.
The ball's in your court. It always is. Hit a few more practice shots and see what happens. You can never say you've truly failed unless there is no hope of ever trying again.
He'll learn about the true meaning of Christmas, anyway. (-: Is that a random enough reply for you? My first idea for a response was "scratch the "more", and probably the "informed", too".:-)
..."Hey! This -ing rock bit my -ing foot! And now it's flashing its carborundum-plated fangs at me... er, why is my foot saying 'ssssss...'? Hey, now everything's going bla..."; is that communicative enough for you? (-:
I side with Z, except on the point of NASA's efficiency. NASA's middle name is "Efficiency", but sadly their first name is "Lacks".
Giving mankind any firm target for research is a win, because otherwise we'd never get off our collective asses to achieve anything that didn't produce an immediate profit. Welcome to Human Nature 101.
If you take an Atheistic viewpoint, that would be bad because the first sizeable rock to come and kiss us means the end of all sapient life on Earth. If you take a concensus religious point of view, that would be bad because we're failing to live up to our responsiblities (to housekeep Gaia, or manage God's little preserve for us, or whatever).
...they'll lose contact with the capsule as it aerobrakes into Utah, never to regain it.
Later, traces of it will be found in the UnixWare source (well, hey, the supporting documentation they've filed doesn't leave much else out), and D'ohl will start charging people USD$1500 a grain for the use of his dust.
Did I mention that Daniel Lyons is a troll? If the uninformed didn't ever take him seriously, you could safely ignore him and thereby instantly improve your life. Unfortunately, there will always be the uninformed. So take them time to point out that he's been 100% consistently wrong about Linux since Day One, and shows no sign of changing his habits.
Debian automatically restarts affected services after applying security updates, in every case?
Yes, and the pedant in question would have made absolutely sure, which is the attribute that appears to have most upset the indigent paper tiger (catching said pedant in a mistake is one of those once-in-a-lifetime experiences, very frustrating for someone insecure in their abilities (which pretty much defined said paper tiger)).
I haven't had much practice on Debian but do remember it restarting services. I know that Mandrake does that, sometimes annoyingly often (e.g. upgrade Apache and all associated modules, you might see a dozen restarts).
Does it automatically reboot the machine when it upgrades the kernel also?
Yup. At least, I'm sure that this one does, because all of his other ones do, too (and wait until Sunday morning, and send him email before and after).
it's entirely possible that this server running unattended for four years was a significant security hole in its own right
Most of my gateway machines only expose one service (SSH) and that on a non-standard port and sometimes also IP-restricted, so the likelihood of someone stumbling across a service that they can crack even several years after the last update are epsilon. This dude is more paranoid than I. Bet on something that gives you a chance of winning.
One of my clients spent AUD$1500 buying one of these and having me fit it out with a Flash disk as a router supporting BGP (and much other stuff, if he ever needs it there). The alternative was paying AUD$6000 and on up (several outfits seriously quoted him well clear of AUD$20,000 for new Cisco gear), and other than when the owner one day using shutdown -h instead of shutdown -r to try to cure a problem that in the event was being caused by something else, it's had a flawless, zero-maintenance run.
Andrew Warenczak, the guy who designed the box, is looking at making a half-height version, making 4 completely independent servers in one RU of 19" rack.
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which is not completely honest but I suspect he's right. You can plot the efficiency graph ahead quite accurately. It doesn't account for stuff like cyclones (hurricanes, tornadoes, thieves) ripping the panels from the roof, but I suspect that's not common.
These are little whistles that automagically kick in as the blades spin fast enough to be dangerous. They work well (in different sizes) for kangaroos and insects.
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Here in Oz, 't'was Sinclair.
Read the less simplistic analysis a few comments above.
...the only lemmings which willingly throw themselves from cliffs and into the ocean are the ones driven to do it by documentary-makers out to make a point.
In a similar vein, the only pirhana that will actually strip a cow in seconds are the ones penned up in a short section of river and starved for weeks - and even then, the cow has to be bleeding into the water to set them off. There are also vegetarian pirhana which are visually indistinguishable from their non-rabidly carnivorous ecological cousins.
Applying this principle ("everything you know is wrong") to SCOX: think about the observation that someone has had the resources to prop up their bizarre blackmail scam for a whole year despite the lack of a tangible taint of merit and the clumsiest hick lawyers you ever saw, and let that worry you instead of the glaring deficiencies in their technical arguments.
...which had the Z80 CPU generating the video directly, leaving only interframe gaps for computing.
Since the greeblie had no interrupts and they were too lazy to quantise the BASIC interpreter so that they could run it in the interframe and still generate reasonably consistent sync pulses, the screen went away completely while programs ran. A modern monitor would go postal, faced with a constantly appearing/vanishing sync pulse train but TVs are kind of used to dealing with cruddy signals.
I think the Sinclair was branded a Timex in the UK.
IBM?
Novell?
SGI?
Sun?
SCOX has appendicitis?
Ironic that at least two Caldera employees have, with Caldera's blessing, contributed code to Linux. End of case, you can all go home now.
Perhaps Linus should send a similar letter to SCOX and the same addressees, requiring them to guarantee that none of their SCOX or derivative code includes any contributions from the Linux codebase?
At least one par in there sounded very... Pratchett. Nice speech. (-:
Shutting them down just once would probably be enough. But there would inevitably be a replacement - would it be better or worse than what we have? Why?
...what happens to you as a result of that suckiness is largely a consequence of your responses to it. You can amplify or limit the suckiness. Or do nothing about it.
The ball's in your court. It always is. Hit a few more practice shots and see what happens. You can never say you've truly failed unless there is no hope of ever trying again.
He'll learn about the true meaning of Christmas, anyway. (-: Is that a random enough reply for you? My first idea for a response was "scratch the "more", and probably the "informed", too". :-)
...after they switched to BSD, it was pretty much inevitable, no?
..."Hey! This -ing rock bit my -ing foot! And now it's flashing its carborundum-plated fangs at me... er, why is my foot saying 'ssssss...'? Hey, now everything's going bla..."; is that communicative enough for you? (-:
I side with Z, except on the point of NASA's efficiency. NASA's middle name is "Efficiency", but sadly their first name is "Lacks".
Giving mankind any firm target for research is a win, because otherwise we'd never get off our collective asses to achieve anything that didn't produce an immediate profit. Welcome to Human Nature 101.
If you take an Atheistic viewpoint, that would be bad because the first sizeable rock to come and kiss us means the end of all sapient life on Earth. If you take a concensus religious point of view, that would be bad because we're failing to live up to our responsiblities (to housekeep Gaia, or manage God's little preserve for us, or whatever).
...discovers DNA similar to D'ohl MacBarratry's"?
That's the headlines, anyway. (-:
...they'll lose contact with the capsule as it aerobrakes into Utah, never to regain it.
Later, traces of it will be found in the UnixWare source (well, hey, the supporting documentation they've filed doesn't leave much else out), and D'ohl will start charging people USD$1500 a grain for the use of his dust.
Yes, very funny and you forgot the \n.
Did I mention that Daniel Lyons is a troll? If the uninformed didn't ever take him seriously, you could safely ignore him and thereby instantly improve your life. Unfortunately, there will always be the uninformed. So take them time to point out that he's been 100% consistently wrong about Linux since Day One, and shows no sign of changing his habits.
I'd recommend a very recent KDevelop with all of the fruit.
:-) so it counts as an IDE.
Blender can spit out programmed demos (-: read: "games"
Yes, and the pedant in question would have made absolutely sure, which is the attribute that appears to have most upset the indigent paper tiger (catching said pedant in a mistake is one of those once-in-a-lifetime experiences, very frustrating for someone insecure in their abilities (which pretty much defined said paper tiger)).
I haven't had much practice on Debian but do remember it restarting services. I know that Mandrake does that, sometimes annoyingly often (e.g. upgrade Apache and all associated modules, you might see a dozen restarts).
Yup. At least, I'm sure that this one does, because all of his other ones do, too (and wait until Sunday morning, and send him email before and after).
Most of my gateway machines only expose one service (SSH) and that on a non-standard port and sometimes also IP-restricted, so the likelihood of someone stumbling across a service that they can crack even several years after the last update are epsilon. This dude is more paranoid than I. Bet on something that gives you a chance of winning.
I understand that the runtime is slightly larger, and I'm not sure about the gtk/GL stuff, but Ruby in general is highly portable.
Andrew Warenczak, the guy who designed the box, is looking at making a half-height version, making 4 completely independent servers in one RU of 19" rack.
Posted from the world's only 2.6-ready-OOtB Linux distribution: Mandrake 9.2. Running 2.6.0-1mdk as I type. Also running XFree86 4.4 recompiled (rpm -bb) from Cooker with no issues: if I was any more leading-edge, people would be throwing chunks of frozen foam at me. (-:
which is not completely honest but I suspect he's right. You can plot the efficiency graph ahead quite accurately. It doesn't account for stuff like cyclones (hurricanes, tornadoes, thieves) ripping the panels from the roof, but I suspect that's not common.
These are little whistles that automagically kick in as the blades spin fast enough to be dangerous. They work well (in different sizes) for kangaroos and insects.
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