Did anyone find this odd? want faster connections but aren't willing to pay for broadband
willing to pay for broadband? More like "unable to get broadband". Even though Broadband prices are quite steep, it's usually not a deterrant. No, the fact that most people have no choice is the real problem.
Now, put that in the context of the article. Who do you know that can't get broadband but can get a good dialup connection? Most of the time if a person can't get broadband, they can't get over 26K dialup either. Great, so some of my stuff is compressed, I'm still downloading a pokey rate.
Can't wait to find out how many people jump in on this one only to find they've been mislead:-)
back in the MFM days you could pull out the drive and drop it about 1 inch to fix a stuck bearing. Can't count how many times I did that on my Seagate 40MB MFM. Finally got smart and made a quick release latch out of duct tape. That drive is around somewhere, still works too IIRC.
I know I'll be unpopular by saying this, but thanks for all the hard work. You guys have a lot of experience handling rediculous loads, so when stuff like this comes around,/. stands firm. While the rest of the internet is slowing to a crawl, I can depend on pretty nice response times from you. On Sept 11,/. was one of the only news sites that was actually responding. When I can't get a TV, I'll be checking/. for war coverage. I know a lot of people are complaining that war isn't "News for Nerds", but it most certainly is news and I'm glad/. has stepped up to the call of duty on this one.
Windows XP still has a blue screen. It only comes up during a failed boot (start deleting random DLLs and you'll get the fatal exception). Basically, a blue screen means one thing: reinstall.
As long as there is Windows, there will always be a blue screen.
I've got a friend in MN. One winter night he and his buddies decided to have some fun with Onstar. Knowing that the call center is somewhere in Florida or California, they drove onto Mille Lacs lake (a very huge lake for those of you who don't know, it's larger than most counties). They called up Onstar to ask for directions:
Onstar: "hello?"
Friend: "We're lost. Can you help us find our way back?"
O: "Sure, hold on. Hmm.. this must not be working right. It says you're in the middle of a lake!"
F: "I know. We need to find our way back to shore"
O: "????"
F: "We're in Minnesota. There's ice on our lakes here"
O: "???? How are you in the middle of a lake?"
F: "We drove out on the ice"
O: "Why would you do that?"
F: "Ice fishing"
O: "?????"
F: "Can you direct us to the nearest landing?"
O: "Umm.. hang on a second. I need to get my supervisor."
1. you can have the same and more with apt (works wonderfull with RH)
yes, but if there's an e-mail list for exploits with apt, I'm unaware of it. RHN seems to work better in Redhat than apt, no comparison on Debian based distros that apt hauls ass.
No sysadmin in his right mind will allow RHN to reboot his mashines
It doesn't reboot your machine unless you tell it to.
I trust Redhat not to slip spyware and weird license agreements into the kernel I'm downloading. I trust that it's an honest to God GPL'd kernel. Why? Because I'm a trusting person, and I haven't had any freakish incidents with Redhat.
I don't trust Microsoft. I don't want code with God knows what hacked in with a license agreement that takes away my first born while installing.
While I'm on the subject, I received an e-mail from Microsoft before I recieved the e-mail from RHN. I then had the option of doing a Windows Update or installing it manually. I chose manual, because MS doesn't know about my machine and I want to keep it that way.
I don't doubt that you have reasons for using a 2.0.x kernel. I know old software has its value. I just want to know, why? What makes 2.0.x better for you than a 2.2 or 2.4 kernel?
Man, what have these trolls come to. At least that "Alan Thicke is dead" dude takes the time to write a convincing post. This idiot can't even spell Stephen!!/. has digressed to the point where even trolls can't troll correctly.
Got an e-mail this morning from Redhat Network that a new kernel was available to solve this vulnerability. up2date got my machine patched hours before the/. post.
If you're running Redhat, RHN is a valuable tool that no admin should be without.
This part confused me: "Tobey has experienced mild discomfort in his back, which is in the final stages of healing"
So, what's the problem? I know his back needs to be fully healed, but if it's in the final stages of healing, why not delay production until it's healed? All too often sequels have alternate actors playing the main characters, and I refuse to see such movies. If Tobey's not in the sequel, I probably won't see it.
So, we need a new industry that will grow and grow, supposedly like IT does (did). I remember in college just 5 years ago... in my entire class of 100, about 10 of us actually knew what we were doing. The other 90 were laid off assembly line workers trying to make an easy buck and thought they'd give this computer thing a try. The market is getting saturated with idiots with their MCSEs, it's only natural that IT is a tougher field. I was laughed at when I took a government IT job, a lot lower pay than private companys (dot coms especially). Now I laugh at them, for I have a job in IT, making more than they do at Burger King.
Here's what I don't get. Pirates are even recreating the hologram, when you purchase the software it looks like you're getting a legit copy. I think the message is then "don't buy anything, just download it".
maybe I'm reading into this wrong, but isn't the MPAA/MS the ones funding terrorism?
Some group in Russia is stealing software/DVDs and selling them for profit, that money is going to terrorist groups (supposedly). Is this my fault? Not really. I've never paid money for pirated software, so I know I'm not supporting anyone.
It looks to me like MICROSOFT is the culprit. They're the ones putting software out there to be pirated. The MPAA is releasing DVDs that are getting pirated. Funny, I've never heard of anyone making money pirating linux CDs.
So, listen to Microsoft. Stop supporting piracy. Support open source.
I have a lot of users who disagree with you on that. Coreldraw is a pretty nice product.
All Corel products are plagued by frequent crashing. It's best to wait to upgrade, until at least SP4 is out. WP8 had SEVEN major service packs, and the bugs still aren't worked out. That aside, Corel still makes a better product than MS ever has.
I know the history of WP. I give Corel credit for making it as viable as it is in the word processor market. Had it not been for Corel acquiring WP, I think it would have died a long time ago.
WP5.1 for DOS hauled ass. It was WAY ahead of its time, Microsoft was just getting into the word processor market and producing lowsy products. Other tools like Wordstar and PFS:Professional Write couldn't compete.. WP was in a class all its own.
Say what you will about WP, but I have a clerical staff that I support that's threatening to burn down my house if I take WP9 away from them.
WP10 offers nothing that 9 didn't. I can't tell you how many users we have on NOVELL Wordperfect 6.1. I don't think it's a very good word processor, but people won't even upgrade to a newer version of WP, let alone godawful Word. I'm amazed at how many Novell WP6.1 installs I still support. Oh, and yes it works in Windows XP.
WP8 is pretty decent, although moving it into a multiuser environment like 2K/XP (never tried NT4) didn't go over so well. It likes having full control of the machine. WP9 is the nicest Windows version of WP to date. All things considered, WP5.1 for DOS still hauls ass. No doubt about it.
Later on this post will not make any sense, but in the original post of the article, MS is spelled "Micrososoft". It will no doubt be fixed, and the parent will be modded as OT.
Wordperfect was the best Word processor ever made. Version 7 wasn't great, but WAY better than Word Version 8 was good Version 9 (2000) was awesome. Version 10 (2002) is crap.
Coreldraw freaking rocked. Version 8 was great. Version 9 hauled ass. Version 11 is complete crap.
My office has been a Corel shop for a long time. Corel consistantly put out products that beat everybody else senseless. I don't know where they went wrong, if their loss in market share sent them into layoffs which sent out bad code which forced shops like us to go the MS way.. I don't know.
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Did anyone find this odd?
:-)
want faster connections but aren't willing to pay for broadband
willing to pay for broadband? More like "unable to get broadband". Even though Broadband prices are quite steep, it's usually not a deterrant. No, the fact that most people have no choice is the real problem.
Now, put that in the context of the article. Who do you know that can't get broadband but can get a good dialup connection? Most of the time if a person can't get broadband, they can't get over 26K dialup either. Great, so some of my stuff is compressed, I'm still downloading a pokey rate.
Can't wait to find out how many people jump in on this one only to find they've been mislead
nevermind, it's listed as stable on linux-ntfs.sourceforge.net
Is this a GPL'd feature? Last I checked, the linux-NTFS project was unable to resize an NTFS partition.
[W]ho makes major software purchases at Office Depot anyway?
Government. Since it costs 3 times as much, it must be better.
back in the MFM days you could pull out the drive and drop it about 1 inch to fix a stuck bearing. Can't count how many times I did that on my Seagate 40MB MFM. Finally got smart and made a quick release latch out of duct tape. That drive is around somewhere, still works too IIRC.
Slashdot team:
/. stands firm. While the rest of the internet is slowing to a crawl, I can depend on pretty nice response times from you. On Sept 11, /. was one of the only news sites that was actually responding. When I can't get a TV, I'll be checking /. for war coverage. I know a lot of people are complaining that war isn't "News for Nerds", but it most certainly is news and I'm glad /. has stepped up to the call of duty on this one.
I know I'll be unpopular by saying this, but thanks for all the hard work. You guys have a lot of experience handling rediculous loads, so when stuff like this comes around,
Windows XP still has a blue screen. It only comes up during a failed boot (start deleting random DLLs and you'll get the fatal exception). Basically, a blue screen means one thing: reinstall.
As long as there is Windows, there will always be a blue screen.
Does anyone remember the crap "jokes" last year (who hasn't slit their wrists?)
I didn't slit my wrists until AFTER I installed Wheatonix *shudder*
Look at Bay Networks and Netgear:
Bay Networks: the other Cisco. High end stuff, high end price, worth every penny.
Netgear: the other Linksys. Cheap, dependable hardware.
Could it be that Cisco is just trying to compete against Bay Networks in all markets?
I've got a friend in MN. One winter night he and his buddies decided to have some fun with Onstar. Knowing that the call center is somewhere in Florida or California, they drove onto Mille Lacs lake (a very huge lake for those of you who don't know, it's larger than most counties). They called up Onstar to ask for directions:
Onstar: "hello?"
Friend: "We're lost. Can you help us find our way back?"
O: "Sure, hold on. Hmm.. this must not be working right. It says you're in the middle of a lake!"
F: "I know. We need to find our way back to shore"
O: "????"
F: "We're in Minnesota. There's ice on our lakes here"
O: "???? How are you in the middle of a lake?"
F: "We drove out on the ice"
O: "Why would you do that?"
F: "Ice fishing"
O: "?????"
F: "Can you direct us to the nearest landing?"
O: "Umm.. hang on a second. I need to get my supervisor."
1. you can have the same and more with apt
(works wonderfull with RH)
yes, but if there's an e-mail list for exploits with apt, I'm unaware of it. RHN seems to work better in Redhat than apt, no comparison on Debian based distros that apt hauls ass.
No sysadmin in his right mind will allow
RHN to reboot his mashines
It doesn't reboot your machine unless you tell it to.
There is one difference: who do you trust?
I trust Redhat not to slip spyware and weird license agreements into the kernel I'm downloading. I trust that it's an honest to God GPL'd kernel. Why? Because I'm a trusting person, and I haven't had any freakish incidents with Redhat.
I don't trust Microsoft. I don't want code with God knows what hacked in with a license agreement that takes away my first born while installing.
While I'm on the subject, I received an e-mail from Microsoft before I recieved the e-mail from RHN. I then had the option of doing a Windows Update or installing it manually. I chose manual, because MS doesn't know about my machine and I want to keep it that way.
I don't doubt that you have reasons for using a 2.0.x kernel. I know old software has its value. I just want to know, why? What makes 2.0.x better for you than a 2.2 or 2.4 kernel?
Man, what have these trolls come to. At least that "Alan Thicke is dead" dude takes the time to write a convincing post. This idiot can't even spell Stephen!! /. has digressed to the point where even trolls can't troll correctly.
Got an e-mail this morning from Redhat Network that a new kernel was available to solve this vulnerability. up2date got my machine patched hours before the /. post.
If you're running Redhat, RHN is a valuable tool that no admin should be without.
This part confused me:
"Tobey has experienced mild discomfort in his back, which is in the final stages of healing"
So, what's the problem? I know his back needs to be fully healed, but if it's in the final stages of healing, why not delay production until it's healed? All too often sequels have alternate actors playing the main characters, and I refuse to see such movies. If Tobey's not in the sequel, I probably won't see it.
when I started to hear about "imaginary numbers". It's bad enough that we already have as many as we do, now they feel the need to invent some more.
So, we need a new industry that will grow and grow, supposedly like IT does (did). I remember in college just 5 years ago... in my entire class of 100, about 10 of us actually knew what we were doing. The other 90 were laid off assembly line workers trying to make an easy buck and thought they'd give this computer thing a try. The market is getting saturated with idiots with their MCSEs, it's only natural that IT is a tougher field. I was laughed at when I took a government IT job, a lot lower pay than private companys (dot coms especially). Now I laugh at them, for I have a job in IT, making more than they do at Burger King.
Maybe the new industry is fast food.
Here's what I don't get. Pirates are even recreating the hologram, when you purchase the software it looks like you're getting a legit copy. I think the message is then "don't buy anything, just download it".
maybe I'm reading into this wrong, but isn't the MPAA/MS the ones funding terrorism?
Some group in Russia is stealing software/DVDs and selling them for profit, that money is going to terrorist groups (supposedly). Is this my fault? Not really. I've never paid money for pirated software, so I know I'm not supporting anyone.
It looks to me like MICROSOFT is the culprit. They're the ones putting software out there to be pirated. The MPAA is releasing DVDs that are getting pirated. Funny, I've never heard of anyone making money pirating linux CDs.
So, listen to Microsoft. Stop supporting piracy. Support open source.
I have a lot of users who disagree with you on that. Coreldraw is a pretty nice product.
All Corel products are plagued by frequent crashing. It's best to wait to upgrade, until at least SP4 is out. WP8 had SEVEN major service packs, and the bugs still aren't worked out. That aside, Corel still makes a better product than MS ever has.
I know the history of WP. I give Corel credit for making it as viable as it is in the word processor market. Had it not been for Corel acquiring WP, I think it would have died a long time ago.
WP5.1 for DOS hauled ass. It was WAY ahead of its time, Microsoft was just getting into the word processor market and producing lowsy products. Other tools like Wordstar and PFS:Professional Write couldn't compete.. WP was in a class all its own.
Say what you will about WP, but I have a clerical staff that I support that's threatening to burn down my house if I take WP9 away from them.
WP10 offers nothing that 9 didn't. I can't tell you how many users we have on NOVELL Wordperfect 6.1. I don't think it's a very good word processor, but people won't even upgrade to a newer version of WP, let alone godawful Word. I'm amazed at how many Novell WP6.1 installs I still support. Oh, and yes it works in Windows XP.
WP8 is pretty decent, although moving it into a multiuser environment like 2K/XP (never tried NT4) didn't go over so well. It likes having full control of the machine. WP9 is the nicest Windows version of WP to date. All things considered, WP5.1 for DOS still hauls ass. No doubt about it.
Later on this post will not make any sense, but in the original post of the article, MS is spelled "Micrososoft". It will no doubt be fixed, and the parent will be modded as OT.
It's funny in the context. Please mod parent up.
Wordperfect was the best Word processor ever made.
Version 7 wasn't great, but WAY better than Word
Version 8 was good
Version 9 (2000) was awesome.
Version 10 (2002) is crap.
Coreldraw freaking rocked.
Version 8 was great.
Version 9 hauled ass.
Version 11 is complete crap.
My office has been a Corel shop for a long time. Corel consistantly put out products that beat everybody else senseless. I don't know where they went wrong, if their loss in market share sent them into layoffs which sent out bad code which forced shops like us to go the MS way.. I don't know.