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Just unplug your computer.
Of course, television is just a primative version of blogging, except it's very one-way, so you'd better unplug that, too!
Books! Books are an even more one-way version of some asshat publishing his opinion, and you can't unplug those. Well, I suppose you can go on burning them, if you like.
What, with all the atomic weapons testing happening off the shore of Okinawa every year, Godzilla, Gamora or Mothra will certaily level the Japanese chip makers, leaving Intel and AMD, er, Pinky and the Brain to take over the world!
What? There's no such thing as Godzilla? Has anybody told Johnny Socko about this?
that "dumbing down" the UNIX operating system might well create more problems than it solves.
BTW, with the filesystem root gone, there was a data loss - that day's sales (it was a telemarketing firm). The system was poorly configured - there was only *one* partition, the root partition (well, swap, but there's not a lot of data to be recovered there).
And in truth, while the after-action report seemed both specific and complete, I have often wondered what else was going on to permit the kind of devastation we saw from a single mistake.
Bottom line - the cryptic, two- and three-letter commands which typify UNIX are best left unchanged. Redesigning the system to use 'dir' instead of 'ls' (for example) would break literally millions of executables and scripts. Aliasing UNIX commands to their MS-DOS counterparts should only be done by and for professionals who understand the underlying UNIX commands, not so that personnel with only MS-DOS experience can use the system.
Those who disagree are certainly free to get the source of the LINUX OS and put their theory into practice.
No, I can't list them . . . but I know that I have encountered "This command must be run from Windows" when typing a command in a CLI window runnung under Windows.
Granted, that may have been under Win98 or even Win95 (both of which had DOS modes which I wasn't using at the time). XP has been a pretty good performer for me, and I haven't seen too many of those idiosyncratic behaviors which used to put me off of MS-Windows.
Nowadays, my preference for LINUX is just that - a personal preference. Not too long ago, I could've given you a laundry list of things to hate about Windows, but I have to give the crew from Redmond their due - they've really come a long way since MS-DOS 2.1 (my first experience with MS software).
And my mistake has been bothering to respond to posts which obviously originate from folk of lesser intellect.
Disagreeing with me is fine - hell, given the number of mistakes I make in a given day, it's expected. Still, I'd rather recieve an education than an insult.
Ahhh . . . the short week between Christmas and New Year's Day . . . about 30% of the work force is present today, and we're doing 0.00001% of the work . . . no wonder I'm bored!
I presume that the only mode of address you understand is the insult - it would seem to be a premise well-supported by your posts here.
That said, my IQ measures out at 138 - not especially imposing, but certainly not an idiot. I assert that I am not knowingly lying (it is possible that I have made honest mistakes, but I have not lied).
My error? Hoping that perhaps you will work out whatever bile you must and start to think before hitting "submit".
Perhaps the gentleman who created the alias did something more evil than I thought, or perhaps AIX 1.9.24 had a bug. Either way, there's a reason I specified that "nothing" wasn't the correct answer to my question.
However, Windows XP x_86 edition is still in beta, per Microsoft. It still refuses to load drivers for two of my PCI cards - PCI cards which SuSE 10.0 correctly recognized.
I'd still like to see Dell selling bare-metal.
Incidentally, I should recommend you consider more carefully before hitting "Submit". While the information you have provided is undoubtedly correct, coupling it with insults seriously reduces your effectiveness in disseminating that knowledge.
In fact, I objected strenuously. I was shouted down (because if I had prevailed, they would've had to hire personnel with UNIX experience to run the RS-6000). As it stood (or so management reasoned), with alias'es in place, all we needed was people with MS-DOS experience.
I was one of three people to survive that learning experience. The bodies of the dead were cast back to the pit of despair, wherein live the unemployed.
There's a misleading truth here - you're right in pointing out that most users won't benefit from the wider architecture (in fact as you rightly pointed out, certain operations will suffer a performance hit on 64-bit systems). That said, d'you suppose a similar conversation might have taken place over the 8086 chip? The first 80286? Finally, the '386 with its true 16-bit wide operations?
The same argument could well have been applied to the 80386 (IIRC, that's when they incorporated the math coprocessor right on the CPU, isn't it?). 90% of users didn't need (and didn't profit from) a math coprocessor, which is why the 8087/80287 didn't just fly off the shelves. When the pentium floating-point debacle happened, an even smaller percentage of users were likely to ever bump into the bug (FP doesn't mean what most users think). Nowadays, the math coprocessor and FP math are somewhat more used than they were then - not much, but somewhat. The average end-user doesn't need 64-bit? Hmmm . . . better add the word yet.
Yes, I learned on a tty using an acoustic modem to communicate with an HP mainframe running BASIC. (cue audience laughter)
Did I need <humor> tags?
BTW, aliasing is just a great way to get yourself (or somebody else) in trouble -- it's a useful tool for the experienced, but it can cause no end of grief in the hands of a neophyte. I remember from firsthand experience (no urban myth) the time a fellow employee with root access decided to see if the 'del' command had any help. Just our luck, a 'helpful' sysadmin had alias'ed "del=rm". Do you know what happened when my associate typed "del/? "
And don't tell me "nothing" (which is essentially what should've happened). Hint: the server was down in less than 300ms.
But at the end of the day, it still strikes me as idiotic to invest in hardware with new and useful abilities only to run an operating system which doesn't take advantage of those new and useful abilities.
Besides, frankly, I just happen to be a *NIX fanboy (although as I get older, I am becoming more tolerant of both Windoze and Windolts).
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Of course, television is just a primative version of blogging, except it's very one-way, so you'd better unplug that, too!
Books! Books are an even more one-way version of some asshat publishing his opinion, and you can't unplug those. Well, I suppose you can go on burning them, if you like.
You must be about as nervous as a Christian Scientist with appendicitis!
What? There's no such thing as Godzilla? Has anybody told Johnny Socko about this?
they would not be alive.
Somebody had to say it.
BTW, with the filesystem root gone, there was a data loss - that day's sales (it was a telemarketing firm). The system was poorly configured - there was only *one* partition, the root partition (well, swap, but there's not a lot of data to be recovered there).
And in truth, while the after-action report seemed both specific and complete, I have often wondered what else was going on to permit the kind of devastation we saw from a single mistake.
Bottom line - the cryptic, two- and three-letter commands which typify UNIX are best left unchanged. Redesigning the system to use 'dir' instead of 'ls' (for example) would break literally millions of executables and scripts. Aliasing UNIX commands to their MS-DOS counterparts should only be done by and for professionals who understand the underlying UNIX commands, not so that personnel with only MS-DOS experience can use the system.
Those who disagree are certainly free to get the source of the LINUX OS and put their theory into practice.
Again, thank you for reaffirming my faith in /.'ers in general.
Granted, that may have been under Win98 or even Win95 (both of which had DOS modes which I wasn't using at the time). XP has been a pretty good performer for me, and I haven't seen too many of those idiosyncratic behaviors which used to put me off of MS-Windows.
Nowadays, my preference for LINUX is just that - a personal preference. Not too long ago, I could've given you a laundry list of things to hate about Windows, but I have to give the crew from Redmond their due - they've really come a long way since MS-DOS 2.1 (my first experience with MS software).
Disagreeing with me is fine - hell, given the number of mistakes I make in a given day, it's expected. Still, I'd rather recieve an education than an insult.
Ahhh . . . the short week between Christmas and New Year's Day . . . about 30% of the work force is present today, and we're doing 0.00001% of the work . . . no wonder I'm bored!
Nowadays, it's called 'M' by some. It's still a disease.
That's still what happened at Idelman Telemarketing in Omaha Nebraska around March of 1989.
Thanks for postulating that there might be a way my assertion was true, rather than assuming that I must be a liar.
No? Well, I think you are in error, and it might be correct to think before hitting submit.
(There. Wasn't that better than calling you the pig-fucking moron you obviously are?)
I'm sure you saw a horse with two heads. I'm even sure you sucked on the smaller one.
That said, my IQ measures out at 138 - not especially imposing, but certainly not an idiot. I assert that I am not knowingly lying (it is possible that I have made honest mistakes, but I have not lied).
My error? Hoping that perhaps you will work out whatever bile you must and start to think before hitting "submit".
Perhaps the gentleman who created the alias did something more evil than I thought, or perhaps AIX 1.9.24 had a bug. Either way, there's a reason I specified that "nothing" wasn't the correct answer to my question.
I'd still like to see Dell selling bare-metal.
Incidentally, I should recommend you consider more carefully before hitting "Submit". While the information you have provided is undoubtedly correct, coupling it with insults seriously reduces your effectiveness in disseminating that knowledge.
Believe or not as you see fit; given my choice, I think I shall trust my memory over your ballocks.
I think HP also offered HP-UX for it, didn't they?
2) Rest finger on key until key sinks
3) Repeat.
Yeah, I remember!
I was one of three people to survive that learning experience. The bodies of the dead were cast back to the pit of despair, wherein live the unemployed.
The same argument could well have been applied to the 80386 (IIRC, that's when they incorporated the math coprocessor right on the CPU, isn't it?). 90% of users didn't need (and didn't profit from) a math coprocessor, which is why the 8087/80287 didn't just fly off the shelves. When the pentium floating-point debacle happened, an even smaller percentage of users were likely to ever bump into the bug (FP doesn't mean what most users think). Nowadays, the math coprocessor and FP math are somewhat more used than they were then - not much, but somewhat. The average end-user doesn't need 64-bit? Hmmm . . . better add the word yet.
Yes, I remember acoustic modems, paper tty's (with a paper-tape punch attached - woo, hoo!).
I used to be a geek - then I acquired a sense of humor and achieved maximum nerdosity.
Did I need <humor> tags?
BTW, aliasing is just a great way to get yourself (or somebody else) in trouble -- it's a useful tool for the experienced, but it can cause no end of grief in the hands of a neophyte. I remember from firsthand experience (no urban myth) the time a fellow employee with root access decided to see if the 'del' command had any help. Just our luck, a 'helpful' sysadmin had alias'ed "del=rm". Do you know what happened when my associate typed "del /? "
And don't tell me "nothing" (which is essentially what should've happened). Hint: the server was down in less than 300ms.
Besides, frankly, I just happen to be a *NIX fanboy (although as I get older, I am becoming more tolerant of both Windoze and Windolts).
That said, I like the way *NIX handles it. As somebody elsewhere must've asked, "What's in a name?"