They could also try to secure the installations with expanding urethane foam sealant. This is the stuff the Mythbusters used to "prank a car", and that Mike Rowe used a few weeks ago to seal a mine shaft.
You do realize "your" (assuming you are a professional sysadmin) network is used by users, correct?
They don't want to have to know about racks or buildings. They just want to print, or get a file from a network share. A local DNS server will make things easier for them, and keep things easy for you.
Of course, your attitude is the reason we have/etc/hosts.;-)
Some chimp skin is white. Some is pitch black. Some is in between. Some is mottled.
Anatomical differences between the Common Chimpanzee and the Bonobo are slight, but in sexual and social behaviour there are marked differences. The Common Chimpanzee has an omnivorous diet, a troop hunting culture based on beta males led by an alpha male, and highly complex social relationships. The Bonobo, on the other hand, has a mostly frugivorous diet and an egalitarian, nonviolent, matriarchal, sexually receptive behaviour.[8] The exposed skin of the face, hands and feet varies from pink to very dark in both species, but is generally lighter in younger individuals, darkening as maturity is reached.
Although it may be healthy to project personalities onto things (I'm a little skeptical, though I could maybe be persuaded by somebody who doesn't go around making sweeping psychiatric diagnoses of people he's never met) that hardly justifies encoding those projections into names.
There's a simple, practical reason for using names: IP addresses can be hard to remember. There's a simple, practical reason for using "themed" name spaces: coming up with dozens/hundreds of names can be hard.
Well it's not the "weight" that makes it ineligible (though that might have something to do with it).
I've ordered some pretty heavy things from Amazon, using Prime. They are very clear about what is eligible and what isn't -- essentially, it has to be stored at one of Amazon's warehouses. Weight/bulkiness can be a factor here, especially if they already have a product of the same "kind" in the warehouse.
Like a diode it only conducts electricity in one direction, so that shoots the -x,0,+x idea out the window.
Uh, no it doesn't.
This is how CMOS gates work... using P-types and N-types to handle the different voltage "paths". Hell, this is how most modern amplifiers work. Remember how sinusoidal voltages are both positive and negative?
And you don't want a "linear" transistor as a switch. Good thing switching transistors are nowhere near linear.
Honestly, I don't get what the big deal about TV weather reports is. I don't watch TV, so I see what the weather is like when I look out the window in the morning. This has never proved to be a problem.
That's nice. You must live in a more temperate climate.
We'll get an inch of ice overnight here. Roads become extremely unsafe (and you often can't tell just by looking). Schools, businesses, roads close. During some winter storms, it is warm and safe all morning, and suddenly becomes very dangerous in the middle of the afternoon. If you are not informed, you will venture out unaware of severe weather heading your way.
Radio is an option, but I'd have to pay for one of those too.
Eh, GCC's error messages on that kind of thing make debugging pretty easy. And if you're using a predictive/distributed compiler system with GCC (like XCode does with GCC/distcc), you will only have to recompile the buggy module once fixed.
And how am I going to go to the arcade after sending my manager "compiling, @ arcade for an hour" if I have to sit there watching it?
Maintain a cache of domain records from an authoritative source (which can be itself, in the case of the 11 root servers or internal network domain name servers).
Oh, you were trying to make the GP look dumb. Failure.
Let me tell you a little something about my Dock...
Before Leopard, I used to keep my "real" root-level Applications folder in the Dock. I had it organized by "type" of application -- "Sound, Video, and Graphics" was one of my sub-folders, for example. I had a few other often used folders in there too. Before Leopard, clicking on a folder icon brought up a Finder window. I kept my 5-8 most used applications in the Dock too. Stacks RUINED my workflow (well, that and dumb ass ports of Windows applications not using.app bundles). Luckily, there is a relatively simple hack to turn Stacks off.
On the other hand, my loss (potentially) is your gain. Stacks were designed for the kind of arrangement you want. (The kind of arrangement I really don't want.) Your first complaint is sheer laziness. Granted, I get where you're coming from (especially since you had already switched back), but there's nothing kludgy about using a feature for it's intended purpose.
I agree about anonymous icons. They suck. And some of my favorite keyboard shortcuts changed between Tiger and Leopard. (Which is kind of hard to fix, since they're committed to muscle memory. I don't even "know" what I'm pressing, but I don't get what I expect) Fuckers.
Now if they could 'stack' applications and leave room for the documents that would be great...there you go, back into the windows format again.
You can. Put Aliases to your favorite applications in the Applications directory in your home folder. Remove dock icons for those applications. Place Applications folder in dock. The Finder icon will remain, but that's hardly intrusive, and could be useful.
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They could also try to secure the installations with expanding urethane foam sealant. This is the stuff the Mythbusters used to "prank a car", and that Mike Rowe used a few weeks ago to seal a mine shaft.
http://www.homeenvy.com/db/9/49.html
You do realize "your" (assuming you are a professional sysadmin) network is used by users, correct?
They don't want to have to know about racks or buildings. They just want to print, or get a file from a network share. A local DNS server will make things easier for them, and keep things easy for you.
Of course, your attitude is the reason we have /etc/hosts. ;-)
Use something like:
fun_name.number.rack.building.region.company.com
then the connection to "fun_name" is obvious.
Some chimp skin is white. Some is pitch black. Some is in between. Some is mottled.
Although it may be healthy to project personalities onto things (I'm a little skeptical, though I could maybe be persuaded by somebody who doesn't go around making sweeping psychiatric diagnoses of people he's never met) that hardly justifies encoding those projections into names.
There's a simple, practical reason for using names: IP addresses can be hard to remember.
There's a simple, practical reason for using "themed" name spaces: coming up with dozens/hundreds of names can be hard.
Well it's not the "weight" that makes it ineligible (though that might have something to do with it).
I've ordered some pretty heavy things from Amazon, using Prime. They are very clear about what is eligible and what isn't -- essentially, it has to be stored at one of Amazon's warehouses. Weight/bulkiness can be a factor here, especially if they already have a product of the same "kind" in the warehouse.
For example, these are Prime Eligible drum kits:
http://www.amazon.com/s/qid=1233619009/ref=sr_nr_n_2?ie=UTF8&rs=11970381&bbn=11970481&rnid=11970381&rh=n%3A11091801%2Cn%3A11970241%2Cn%3A11970381%2Cp_76%3A1%2Cn%3A11970481
(I don't know about that "ref=" stuff in the link. I won't make any money if you look)
Like a diode it only conducts electricity in one direction, so that shoots the -x,0,+x idea out the window.
Uh, no it doesn't.
This is how CMOS gates work... using P-types and N-types to handle the different voltage "paths". Hell, this is how most modern amplifiers work. Remember how sinusoidal voltages are both positive and negative?
And you don't want a "linear" transistor as a switch. Good thing switching transistors are nowhere near linear.
Funny, my DSL connection is pulling less than 128 kbps right now...
Honestly, I don't get what the big deal about TV weather reports is. I don't watch TV, so I see what the weather is like when I look out the window in the morning. This has never proved to be a problem.
That's nice. You must live in a more temperate climate.
We'll get an inch of ice overnight here. Roads become extremely unsafe (and you often can't tell just by looking). Schools, businesses, roads close. During some winter storms, it is warm and safe all morning, and suddenly becomes very dangerous in the middle of the afternoon. If you are not informed, you will venture out unaware of severe weather heading your way.
Radio is an option, but I'd have to pay for one of those too.
Unless they are trying to hear the latest news about the local winter storm...
Eh, GCC's error messages on that kind of thing make debugging pretty easy. And if you're using a predictive/distributed compiler system with GCC (like XCode does with GCC/distcc), you will only have to recompile the buggy module once fixed.
And how am I going to go to the arcade after sending my manager "compiling, @ arcade for an hour" if I have to sit there watching it?
Tai-chi isn't a martial art. It is a meditative exercise, by design.
Context! We were complaining about gaudy and intrusive JavaScript -- that is, slashdot -- so I wrote some.
Funny, I gave it a try. http://www.gillette.com/en-US/#/shopnow/ is promising, but they redirect to an apparently affiliated pharmacy.
I'll give you 50 cents for every dollars worth of MS stock.
When? I might be interested in selling a futures contract with MS underlying.
Me too!
You can simulate a blink tag with simple JavaScript. Something like
function blink (on, off) {
i = 0;
while (i < 99999) {
i++;
}
on.style("display:none");
off.style("display:on");
blink (off, on);
}
Note the tail recursion, for speed.
Maintain a cache of domain records from an authoritative source (which can be itself, in the case of the 11 root servers or internal network domain name servers).
Oh, you were trying to make the GP look dumb. Failure.
He didn't write "xor".
Meh, we all look simian. We are great apes, after all. Bush had big ears though.
Let me tell you a little something about my Dock...
Before Leopard, I used to keep my "real" root-level Applications folder in the Dock. I had it organized by "type" of application -- "Sound, Video, and Graphics" was one of my sub-folders, for example. I had a few other often used folders in there too. Before Leopard, clicking on a folder icon brought up a Finder window. I kept my 5-8 most used applications in the Dock too. Stacks RUINED my workflow (well, that and dumb ass ports of Windows applications not using .app bundles). Luckily, there is a relatively simple hack to turn Stacks off.
On the other hand, my loss (potentially) is your gain. Stacks were designed for the kind of arrangement you want. (The kind of arrangement I really don't want.) Your first complaint is sheer laziness. Granted, I get where you're coming from (especially since you had already switched back), but there's nothing kludgy about using a feature for it's intended purpose.
I agree about anonymous icons. They suck. And some of my favorite keyboard shortcuts changed between Tiger and Leopard. (Which is kind of hard to fix, since they're committed to muscle memory. I don't even "know" what I'm pressing, but I don't get what I expect) Fuckers.
I'm using XMonad for the same purpose, but I always forget what is on which workspace.
Now if they could 'stack' applications and leave room for the documents that would be great...there you go, back into the windows format again.
You can. Put Aliases to your favorite applications in the Applications directory in your home folder. Remove dock icons for those applications. Place Applications folder in dock. The Finder icon will remain, but that's hardly intrusive, and could be useful.
Always avoid alliteration.
Sounds like Apple's Application Bundle system. Thanks for sharing, I'm looking into it.