One more comment, don't blame the OS for a fundamentally broken tool. I don't blame Windows for registry hell. It could be better, IMHO, but it's not broken.
But you're right. RedHat, SuSE, Apple, Microsoft, et al should not be breaking config settings with management tools.
Even with Linux you could have configuration information in Ldap, NIS, hell, even tied with NT in Active Directory or via samba.
Personally, there's a bit of me that's CRYING out for change management software that actually manages changes... Add a user here, delete a configuration item here, oops, broke the system, revert and try again. I'd build it, but you just have to know there's tools out there to do this already, or are nearly there already, and just need some careful tending...
Once you get past the OS and the Internet Information Server, MS has ZERO hold on the horizontal server enterprise application market, so any competition they can bring is by definition "fair". As fair as anything Oracle and SAP will let them get away with. If it brings costs down for the end-user, that's only good for the end-user.
Or against your software vendor? Or against other users? Having written software for and with people, and in tandem to other people writing software to interact with mine, I always take this mentality. Someone, somewhere, OS or 3rd party app or my coworker, will trounce some configuration change I had made. It would be nice if such a feature was built into the OS, like if/etc was stored in subversion and I could mount svn://hostname/myhost-etc as/etc... Would be nice, no?
I've longed for some change management at the OS level for some time. I'd like version controlled filesystems too, for version upgrades. Install software, doesn't work, rollback the filesystem to pre-upgrade, and continue as if it had never happened.
1. Why? Every school I've ever been to has had an extensive intercom system, if not telephones in every classroom. 2. I could agree with this, but would think that it would be impossible to meet inside a building constructed in such a manner.
But the real answer is that my 6035 keypad barely worked, the built in microphone didn't work, and the headset jack didn't work, so while I could receive and make calls, no one could hear me. While I had the Asurian lost/breakage coverage, I didn't have the extended warranty and I couldn't get the phone repaired for less than it's trade-in value of $100 unless I broke it and paid $50 for the Asurian replacement, which could have been refurbished (what a sentence).
So, I looked around, at the 7035 (Color, OS4, 3G, 1GB SD card, MP3 playback) and decided it was a worthy upgrade for me. I then tried to give the 6035 away as a usable PalmPilot but no one would take it.
It may indeed be, but I was forced into it quite by surprise and photoshop was indeed all I am familiar with. We do catalog layout, package design, and almost post-sized prints of our catalog pages.
Then I tried using it as a layout tool for my patio stones. That's when I busted a GB.:-)
Methods are methods. Like all things in business, sir, it's the end result that counts. Someday, maybe I'll learn Illustrator and Pagemaker.
I don't need that much memory. Just be able to use a fraction thereof. Once upon a time, 32bits was enough for me. But my computers now have 2GB of ram and 3 GBs of swap, and I routinely eat into my swap file.
I'd be happy right now with process space around 4 GBs, but Windows and Linux reserve at least 1GB for themselves (Windows reserves 2GB - why the hell that decision was made still boggles my mind).
There is if you A) secure your machine properly and stay up on your patches B) don't install random crap software on your production boxes you don't need C) Don't let unauthorized people touch the box.
Change management isn't hard for code, it's not hard for production deployments either.
mwave.com. I've had issues with RMAs with them, an ECS k7S5a pro (POS). No issues getting a refund on the mobo. I'll use mwave in a heartbeat. Very satisfied.
MicroX / PartsPC on the other hand, finally had to resort to a chargeback and a fedex return w/o RMA before they sent me the RMA via email... absolute idiots.
Your first mistake was not packing those machines back in their boxes and shipping them back unpaid for. Burn-in on assembly should have been mandatory.
Or if you don't do simple things like make config files read only, you deserve the same fate. Something as simple as using RCS to store file changes would prevent this problem.
Something a b-tree like registry will not be able to give us.
Schools seem to me to be the perfect place to position cellphone blockers or picocells that shut out phones that aren't authorized.
Unlike that poor kid in my math class who carried a pager cuz his mom was hovering on deaths door, I surely didn't need to carry a cellphone back then.
No, they will all charge. Used to be a year ago I'd get my weather alerts for nothing, and 200+ SMS messages per month for no extra money. Now, Verizon is slapping me with $.10 a piece for them when I got a new phone and signed a new contract. In hindsight, I shouldn't have signed a new agreement, but I wanted a new phone and took the discount.
It only took me 10 days to catch the error and cancel my weather alerts. Nothing worth $.10 per day when I have Weather Alerts in Firefox.
Or how much money they'll spend in labor and paperwork just to freeze and collect those assets? And how much they'll end up paying once your bankrupt and/or on the public dole because you no longer have a house and cannot get a job?
Remember: government is nothing but legions of people on their own individual power trips who think they know what's best for you.
Which is why I so love anarchy. At least then you know the universe truly is chaos and everyone's out for themselves.
Which are only useful if your medical expenses are under the magic 18% of gross income you need in order to deduct them. Otherwise, it doesn't matter. pre-tax, post-tax, it's still money in your pocket, just money that you didn't have to loan the government interest free.
Your friend should have had all the documents, and never have given up originals. With original documents, you don't need the original tax returns, so I'd say your buddy screwed himself.
Common sense, people.
3 years of using Turbotax web, and 8 years of Turbotax before that. 1 year of H&R Block, and I wasn't impressed.
Don't know if you've been watching TV lately, but Intuit has been guaranteeing their results for 3 or 4 years now. Since I've never had issues with my taxes, I've never had occasion to use the feature. Anyone out there get burned by Turbotax?
I've been doing catalog tearsheets for sometime in Photoshop, and I'm routinely getting up to gigabyte+ images. With WIN32 restricting me artifically to 2GB total memory usage per program, I cannot do much better than this without 64 bit support. And in a year or two, I may be pushing that limit.
32 bits is just barely sufficient for me now.
With most processors on the market in the next 2 or three years being 64 bit, who cares? It's the next wave.
Actually, that is not true. There were many 32 bit apps back in the day. Those of us who remember the hell that was Win32s will shudder remembering it. Microsoft new about the chicken and egg issue, so they built something to help people start migrating code so the platform would have lots of application support.
Needless to say, as much as windows95 sucked, I'd still love to be using it today (with USB support, please). It's successors were not very impressive in comparison.
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One more comment, don't blame the OS for a fundamentally broken tool. I don't blame Windows for registry hell. It could be better, IMHO, but it's not broken.
But you're right. RedHat, SuSE, Apple, Microsoft, et al should not be breaking config settings with management tools.
Even with Linux you could have configuration information in Ldap, NIS, hell, even tied with NT in Active Directory or via samba.
Personally, there's a bit of me that's CRYING out for change management software that actually manages changes... Add a user here, delete a configuration item here, oops, broke the system, revert and try again. I'd build it, but you just have to know there's tools out there to do this already, or are nearly there already, and just need some careful tending...
Any ideas, anyone?
Or they're expiring shortly...
Once you get past the OS and the Internet Information Server, MS has ZERO hold on the horizontal server enterprise application market, so any competition they can bring is by definition "fair". As fair as anything Oracle and SAP will let them get away with. If it brings costs down for the end-user, that's only good for the end-user.
If the whole Warp crusade looked more like a sleek Ferrari than a twisted hippy anti-war rally, OS/2 might command a large share of the desktop today.
Or against your software vendor? Or against other users? Having written software for and with people, and in tandem to other people writing software to interact with mine, I always take this mentality. Someone, somewhere, OS or 3rd party app or my coworker, will trounce some configuration change I had made. It would be nice if such a feature was built into the OS, like if /etc was stored in subversion and I could mount svn://hostname/myhost-etc as /etc... Would be nice, no?
I've longed for some change management at the OS level for some time. I'd like version controlled filesystems too, for version upgrades. Install software, doesn't work, rollback the filesystem to pre-upgrade, and continue as if it had never happened.
1. Why? Every school I've ever been to has had an extensive intercom system, if not telephones in every classroom.
2. I could agree with this, but would think that it would be impossible to meet inside a building constructed in such a manner.
Kyocera 6035 to Kyocera 7035.
But the real answer is that my 6035 keypad barely worked, the built in microphone didn't work, and the headset jack didn't work, so while I could receive and make calls, no one could hear me. While I had the Asurian lost/breakage coverage, I didn't have the extended warranty and I couldn't get the phone repaired for less than it's trade-in value of $100 unless I broke it and paid $50 for the Asurian replacement, which could have been refurbished (what a sentence).
So, I looked around, at the 7035 (Color, OS4, 3G, 1GB SD card, MP3 playback) and decided it was a worthy upgrade for me. I then tried to give the 6035 away as a usable PalmPilot but no one would take it.
It may indeed be, but I was forced into it quite by surprise and photoshop was indeed all I am familiar with. We do catalog layout, package design, and almost post-sized prints of our catalog pages.
:-)
Then I tried using it as a layout tool for my patio stones. That's when I busted a GB.
Methods are methods. Like all things in business, sir, it's the end result that counts. Someday, maybe I'll learn Illustrator and Pagemaker.
I don't need that much memory. Just be able to use a fraction thereof. Once upon a time, 32bits was enough for me. But my computers now have 2GB of ram and 3 GBs of swap, and I routinely eat into my swap file.
I'd be happy right now with process space around 4 GBs, but Windows and Linux reserve at least 1GB for themselves (Windows reserves 2GB - why the hell that decision was made still boggles my mind).
There is if you A) secure your machine properly and stay up on your patches B) don't install random crap software on your production boxes you don't need C) Don't let unauthorized people touch the box.
Change management isn't hard for code, it's not hard for production deployments either.
mwave.com. I've had issues with RMAs with them, an ECS k7S5a pro (POS). No issues getting a refund on the mobo. I'll use mwave in a heartbeat. Very satisfied.
MicroX / PartsPC on the other hand, finally had to resort to a chargeback and a fedex return w/o RMA before they sent me the RMA via email... absolute idiots.
Your first mistake was not packing those machines back in their boxes and shipping them back unpaid for. Burn-in on assembly should have been mandatory.
Or if you don't do simple things like make config files read only, you deserve the same fate. Something as simple as using RCS to store file changes would prevent this problem.
Something a b-tree like registry will not be able to give us.
Schools seem to me to be the perfect place to position cellphone blockers or picocells that shut out phones that aren't authorized.
Unlike that poor kid in my math class who carried a pager cuz his mom was hovering on deaths door, I surely didn't need to carry a cellphone back then.
So you're telling me that receiving SMS and cellular phone calls is Free in Europe, Asia, Africa and the Middle East?
News to me, story at 11!
No, they will all charge. Used to be a year ago I'd get my weather alerts for nothing, and 200+ SMS messages per month for no extra money. Now, Verizon is slapping me with $.10 a piece for them when I got a new phone and signed a new contract. In hindsight, I shouldn't have signed a new agreement, but I wanted a new phone and took the discount.
It only took me 10 days to catch the error and cancel my weather alerts. Nothing worth $.10 per day when I have Weather Alerts in Firefox.
Spoken like a true AC trolling Slashdot 20 minutes after finishing playing Counterstrike:Source while jerking off to pictures of his little sister...
Or how much money they'll spend in labor and paperwork just to freeze and collect those assets? And how much they'll end up paying once your bankrupt and/or on the public dole because you no longer have a house and cannot get a job?
Remember: government is nothing but legions of people on their own individual power trips who think they know what's best for you.
Which is why I so love anarchy. At least then you know the universe truly is chaos and everyone's out for themselves.
Which are only useful if your medical expenses are under the magic 18% of gross income you need in order to deduct them. Otherwise, it doesn't matter.
pre-tax, post-tax, it's still money in your pocket, just money that you didn't have to loan the government interest free.
Your friend should have had all the documents, and never have given up originals. With original documents, you don't need the original tax returns, so I'd say your buddy screwed himself.
Common sense, people.
3 years of using Turbotax web, and 8 years of Turbotax before that. 1 year of H&R Block, and I wasn't impressed.
Don't know if you've been watching TV lately, but Intuit has been guaranteeing their results for 3 or 4 years now. Since I've never had issues with my taxes, I've never had occasion to use the feature. Anyone out there get burned by Turbotax?
I've been doing catalog tearsheets for sometime in Photoshop, and I'm routinely getting up to gigabyte+ images. With WIN32 restricting me artifically to 2GB total memory usage per program, I cannot do much better than this without 64 bit support. And in a year or two, I may be pushing that limit.
32 bits is just barely sufficient for me now.
With most processors on the market in the next 2 or three years being 64 bit, who cares? It's the next wave.
/. has a profanity blacklist?
Wow.
Actually, that is not true. There were many 32 bit apps back in the day. Those of us who remember the hell that was Win32s will shudder remembering it. Microsoft new about the chicken and egg issue, so they built something to help people start migrating code so the platform would have lots of application support.
Needless to say, as much as windows95 sucked, I'd still love to be using it today (with USB support, please). It's successors were not very impressive in comparison.