Sorry man, you're posting a comment that just proves you're way too old to be commenting on/.
First, most of the current batch of MCSEs (is that acronym still allowed?) will be replying to you asking for the 800 number for Dr. Dos. I suggest you send them to the Dr. Who site.
Second, your reference to an obscure company called Digital Research will confuse the weenies. DRI.COM now resolves to a site for Colburn's Travels. It appears Mr. Colburn has achieved more mileage from the site than DRI ever did. Check the stats.
Lastly, you're really confusing people with the whole concept of a 'spurious' error. Microsoft has - through the determined, repetitive, and consistent application of "innovation" - eliminated all spurious errors from the code-base. All errors are now completely intentional, rational and self-explanatory. Click here for more information.:)
I wouldn't let an AOL address bother me, but I once had a job candidate present his resume to me with his email address pimpboy@h*tm*il.com displayed prominently at the top. Needless to say...
Our cable company (Rogers) decided to bill us for a non-existent mobile phone account, apparently because the phone subscriber's last name and ours were similar. Spent months talking/fighting/threatening Rogers to get them to cease attributing these bills to us, and we finally succeeded.
Fast forward 6 months, and all of a sudden we're swamped with 5-6 automated voice messages daily (!) from Iqor. They'd obviously bought the bad paper and were trying to collect. I called them back and explained the situation, and the nice, reasonable, well-paid agent said they would clear it up internally and stop contacting us.
Fast forward another year, and we've only recently stopped being harrassed by these dirtbags. It was an unending litany of lies from their agents, off-hour calls, up to a dozen automated calls per day, etc., etc. Only when I asked them for all documentation pertaining to the alleged debt, their legal Canadian address where they could be served, and declared my intent to file suit and/or lodge complaints with every authority I could contemplate did they finally manage to stop the calls.
Rogers and Iqor - a fucking scumbag match made in heaven!
Borland C++... the printed manuals it came with were incredible. DOS, Windows, dBase, WP all had incredible printed manuals too. Man have times changed.
No shit. I just recycled a massive collection of manuals that I found (forgot) in the basement - DOS, SCO Unix 3.2, Turbo C + Pascal, etc. Talk about documentation. Out of this world! Microsoft used to be awesome, but Borland was king!
Now you drop 5 large for a server OS, and get a DVD with half-baked PDFs (or CHMs, even worse) for reference and that's it. Oh, you want API docs. Pay your subscription here. Oh, you wanted _accurate_ docs, well.... Maybe the EU has them:)
Times have certainly changed. Now if you want documentation for a friggin' LANGUAGE you need to BUY it separately. Never saw that one coming...
Thank gawd I'm a child of the 70's: free sex, free (mostly) drugs, and free docs!!!
Ha, that made me laugh. At an old biotech I used to work at the IT department had a standard '3-D' response to any issue.
D1: DIFFUSE: Yes, we are caring and totally empathize with your situation
D2: DEFER: But you must understand that that our hands our tied because the (x) has said (y)
D3: DEFENESTRATE: Therefore, we must decline your request at this time.
It worked like a friggin' charm every time. And we'd gang up on the poor hapless PHB. A senior IT guy would walk in, ready to FIX THE PROBLEM. The first thing he'd ask for was a status update. We'd invariably respond with "Well, it's a D2 right now, but we're still looking into it", and he'd quickly bump it up to a "D3". Then we'd go for a nice extended lunch, and the PHB would be left scratching his head wondering where all his clout had evaporated to.
Fuck, I loved IT before it all caved in and we became computer janitors.
Do you know if this distro is available publicly? I'm really interested in it because by default it blocks write access to IDE devices. Would be a great help in rescuing disks (something I do too much of sadly).
They are the administrator as well as the user. There is no expectation of security since nobody else is involved. Windows derives much of its architecture and style from this method of computing.
And then they came out with WFW 3.11. Holy shit - a network!!! 15 years later and they still haven't got their shit together. C'mon - it's all one big dog and pony show. Why defend the monopolist fucktards.
DOS could reasonably said to have no expectation of security. Windows - post 3.0 - does not have the same excuse. Networking , and network security, pre-dated WFW 3.11 by many, many years. Maybe Bill should have done a bit more than just rip off CP/M.
This article, and others like it that I've read, seem a little bit mean-spirited. OLPC is, after all, a charity organization - a noble one at that -, and not some high-volume order fulfillment logistics operation. All these articles suggest a crass, inflated-expectation, instant-gratification, "I WANT IT NOW!", type of consumerism to me.
I'm in Canada, and waited 7 weeks for my XO to arrive. No biggie. I've waited almost as long for Dell to ship correctly configured servers on occasion. Those were biggies. Were my expectations appropriate for each company? I think so.
I'm sure that OLPC will honor all their commitments and get these orders out as soon as they can. Sometime s**t happens, and things falls through the cracks. People should just take a deep breath, and ask themselves if they'd rather have their XO right now, or have the one they donated delivered first.
So far, very few VPN clients have been released/recoded for Vista. That's a definite deal-breaker for me, and the reason I 'unofficially' asserted my downgrade rights with my recent Dell laptop. Like I'm gonna run an an XP VM just to have some IPSEC love! Right!
Why must every OSX article refer to "fear of the command line" or some other silly reference to it. It's been seven fucking years since OSX debuted. It's UNIX. Get over it people - we're all fairly comfortable with sh by now.
I never see these patronizing predicates in Windows articles where one must enter something into the shell. Seems to be some kind of hand-wringing phenomenon that only affects Mac authors. I don't know if it's some kind of weird CLI hubris ala the 'Ruby on Rails/glossy black Macbook' crowd, or if the authors sincerely think that people are scared of the CLI (even weirder since it's a dev oriented article). Whatever, I wish all these authors would just skip over their CLI anxieties and move on.
If they really wanted to get scared using a command line on a Mac then they should have tried MachTen on System 7. 'Nuff said.
I've been holding off a new Apple purchase because I'm (a) waiting for Leopard to be released, and (b) waiting for a decent hardware refresh. I'm sure a lot of people who were planning to purchase in late spring are now doing the same thing.
If Apple does both the above, it would probably make for a nice little uptick in these stats on the Mac side. If they offer Santa Rosa MacBooks and Core2 Duo Minis (fingers x'd) they'll do well. If they can get their head out of their rear ends and release a competitively priced, expandable mid-tower then it could be a significantly larger uptick.
As for Vista stats, who cares? The Ultimate (ooh, ahh) version lasted all of 2 days on my new notebook. Then again, I have outrageous requirements -- I wanted to use my IPSEC VPNs. What a F.P.O.S!
...even get submitted. A lightning ball of marketing cheese if I ever saw one. I had to stop when I saw Exchange 2K7 was on the list. Musta paid big buckeroos for placement of a glowing review of that unreleased steaming pile of, um... software.
If you add up the 'content' related products -- web video, software, movies, music, phone "entertainment", and games -- you get an amount of $111 BILLION!
Its incredulous that some people think the value of this ephemeral pirated 'content' is equivalent to the entire years output of all the citizens of a nation like Singapore, not to mention the remaining 150 plus countries.
"...Microsoft's past practices now involve a couple of years of doing the right thing.
Sure, there's a few blemishes (genuine advantage, DRM) mixed in with that good stuff, but overall MS has been doing a decent job lately. Perhaps it's time you all try looking at it with a balanced outlook rather than immediately thinking the worst."
Remind me to ask you for your opinion five years from now. I have no doubt the response would be both entertaining and enlightening!
I was ordering a new Dell PC online yesterday. For some reason the order kept refusing to include the XP Pro media kit. Called Dell, got put through to an Indian lady 'Online Sales Asst' who had absolutely no idea what I was talking about. Escalated me to someone who's VM box was full which caused immediate disconnection.
Called Dell back, asked for a Sales rep (it's like my 12th system this past year). Finally got routed to a sales rep in India (asked him). I then chose not to place the order with him, since I didn't feel comfortable handing my CC information to someone 10,000 miles away - operating with little oversight, rudimentary knowledge of English, and in a country whose laws and practices regarding information privacy are probably sub-standard at best.
I eventually completed the online order instead. It wasn't xenophobia or some other politically incorrect impulse that caused me to cancel the order with the online rep. I'm a Canadian, and live in a community heavily populated by South Asians. I just didn't have that comfort level handing over my CC info to this fellow.
I'm an independent IT consultant. I naturally find these out-sourced call-centers repugnant by definition, but realize they are a fact of life. But surely Dell can do better! Why is basic comprehension of my problem an option? The original responder had zero clues as to what I was talking about. Why was the Tier 2 rep's voice-mail full? Why isn't Dell monitoring this crap?
Finally, why aren't they building call-centers in New Orleans, or other impoverished places in USA and Canada? Y'know - where English is not a second language, and they'll be happy for minimum wage? Sheesh!
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Let it be aimed at Rob Ford!
And typing in all those freaking hex codes from Compute! Wonder what Jim Button is up to...
Nothing good can come of this...
Sorry man, you're posting a comment that just proves you're way too old to be commenting on /.
:)
First, most of the current batch of MCSEs (is that acronym still allowed?) will be replying to you asking for the 800 number for Dr. Dos. I suggest you send them to the Dr. Who site.
Second, your reference to an obscure company called Digital Research will confuse the weenies. DRI.COM now resolves to a site for Colburn's Travels. It appears Mr. Colburn has achieved more mileage from the site than DRI ever did. Check the stats.
Lastly, you're really confusing people with the whole concept of a 'spurious' error. Microsoft has - through the determined, repetitive, and consistent application of "innovation" - eliminated all spurious errors from the code-base. All errors are now completely intentional, rational and self-explanatory. Click here for more information.
then the only option is protectionism.
I wouldn't let an AOL address bother me, but I once had a job candidate present his resume to me with his email address pimpboy@h*tm*il.com displayed prominently at the top. Needless to say...
Can't reach _any_ Michael Geist sites (from either my cable and DSL conns). Coincidence? I think not!!!
Our cable company (Rogers) decided to bill us for a non-existent mobile phone account, apparently because the phone subscriber's last name and ours were similar. Spent months talking/fighting/threatening Rogers to get them to cease attributing these bills to us, and we finally succeeded.
Fast forward 6 months, and all of a sudden we're swamped with 5-6 automated voice messages daily (!) from Iqor. They'd obviously bought the bad paper and were trying to collect. I called them back and explained the situation, and the nice, reasonable, well-paid agent said they would clear it up internally and stop contacting us.
Fast forward another year, and we've only recently stopped being harrassed by these dirtbags. It was an unending litany of lies from their agents, off-hour calls, up to a dozen automated calls per day, etc., etc. Only when I asked them for all documentation pertaining to the alleged debt, their legal Canadian address where they could be served, and declared my intent to file suit and/or lodge complaints with every authority I could contemplate did they finally manage to stop the calls.
Rogers and Iqor - a fucking scumbag match made in heaven!
No shit. I just recycled a massive collection of manuals that I found (forgot) in the basement - DOS, SCO Unix 3.2, Turbo C + Pascal, etc. Talk about documentation. Out of this world! Microsoft used to be awesome, but Borland was king!
Now you drop 5 large for a server OS, and get a DVD with half-baked PDFs (or CHMs, even worse) for reference and that's it. Oh, you want API docs. Pay your subscription here. Oh, you wanted _accurate_ docs, well.... Maybe the EU has them :)
Times have certainly changed. Now if you want documentation for a friggin' LANGUAGE you need to BUY it separately. Never saw that one coming...
Thank gawd I'm a child of the 70's: free sex, free (mostly) drugs, and free docs!!!
It worked like a friggin' charm every time. And we'd gang up on the poor hapless PHB. A senior IT guy would walk in, ready to FIX THE PROBLEM. The first thing he'd ask for was a status update. We'd invariably respond with "Well, it's a D2 right now, but we're still looking into it", and he'd quickly bump it up to a "D3". Then we'd go for a nice extended lunch, and the PHB would be left scratching his head wondering where all his clout had evaporated to.
Fuck, I loved IT before it all caved in and we became computer janitors.Thanks for the Helix link, dbill. That'll work just fine.
Do you know if this distro is available publicly? I'm really interested in it because by default it blocks write access to IDE devices. Would be a great help in rescuing disks (something I do too much of sadly).
They are the administrator as well as the user. There is no expectation of security since nobody else is involved. Windows derives much of its architecture and style from this method of computing.
And then they came out with WFW 3.11. Holy shit - a network!!! 15 years later and they still haven't got their shit together. C'mon - it's all one big dog and pony show. Why defend the monopolist fucktards.
DOS could reasonably said to have no expectation of security. Windows - post 3.0 - does not have the same excuse. Networking , and network security, pre-dated WFW 3.11 by many, many years. Maybe Bill should have done a bit more than just rip off CP/M.
I'm in Canada, and waited 7 weeks for my XO to arrive. No biggie. I've waited almost as long for Dell to ship correctly configured servers on occasion. Those were biggies. Were my expectations appropriate for each company? I think so.
I'm sure that OLPC will honor all their commitments and get these orders out as soon as they can. Sometime s**t happens, and things falls through the cracks. People should just take a deep breath, and ask themselves if they'd rather have their XO right now, or have the one they donated delivered first.
G1G1 doesn't stand for "Get one, give one".
my first FP!!!
So far, very few VPN clients have been released/recoded for Vista. That's a definite deal-breaker for me, and the reason I 'unofficially' asserted my downgrade rights with my recent Dell laptop. Like I'm gonna run an an XP VM just to have some IPSEC love! Right!
I never see these patronizing predicates in Windows articles where one must enter something into the shell. Seems to be some kind of hand-wringing phenomenon that only affects Mac authors. I don't know if it's some kind of weird CLI hubris ala the 'Ruby on Rails/glossy black Macbook' crowd, or if the authors sincerely think that people are scared of the CLI (even weirder since it's a dev oriented article). Whatever, I wish all these authors would just skip over their CLI anxieties and move on.
If they really wanted to get scared using a command line on a Mac then they should have tried MachTen on System 7. 'Nuff said.
If Apple does both the above, it would probably make for a nice little uptick in these stats on the Mac side. If they offer Santa Rosa MacBooks and Core2 Duo Minis (fingers x'd) they'll do well. If they can get their head out of their rear ends and release a competitively priced, expandable mid-tower then it could be a significantly larger uptick.
As for Vista stats, who cares? The Ultimate (ooh, ahh) version lasted all of 2 days on my new notebook. Then again, I have outrageous requirements -- I wanted to use my IPSEC VPNs. What a F.P.O.S!
...even get submitted. A lightning ball of marketing cheese if I ever saw one. I had to stop when I saw Exchange 2K7 was on the list. Musta paid big buckeroos for placement of a glowing review of that unreleased steaming pile of, um... software.
If you add up the 'content' related products -- web video, software, movies, music, phone "entertainment", and games -- you get an amount of $111 BILLION!
In terms of GDP, this would rank around 57th - between Singapore and New Zealand for example._ GDP_(PPP)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by
Its incredulous that some people think the value of this ephemeral pirated 'content' is equivalent to the entire years output of all the citizens of a nation like Singapore, not to mention the remaining 150 plus countries.
Remind me to ask you for your opinion five years from now. I have no doubt the response would be both entertaining and enlightening!
Called Dell back, asked for a Sales rep (it's like my 12th system this past year). Finally got routed to a sales rep in India (asked him). I then chose not to place the order with him, since I didn't feel comfortable handing my CC information to someone 10,000 miles away - operating with little oversight, rudimentary knowledge of English, and in a country whose laws and practices regarding information privacy are probably sub-standard at best.
I eventually completed the online order instead. It wasn't xenophobia or some other politically incorrect impulse that caused me to cancel the order with the online rep. I'm a Canadian, and live in a community heavily populated by South Asians. I just didn't have that comfort level handing over my CC info to this fellow.
I'm an independent IT consultant. I naturally find these out-sourced call-centers repugnant by definition, but realize they are a fact of life. But surely Dell can do better! Why is basic comprehension of my problem an option? The original responder had zero clues as to what I was talking about. Why was the Tier 2 rep's voice-mail full? Why isn't Dell monitoring this crap?
Finally, why aren't they building call-centers in New Orleans, or other impoverished places in USA and Canada? Y'know - where English is not a second language, and they'll be happy for minimum wage? Sheesh!
If so, bye Steve!
Running it now on Soekris Net-4801 device http://soekris.com/. Sweet. Smooth.