I'd have a talking-to with the sysadmin in charge. He apparently doesn't know how to run things up the pole, which is a crucial qualification for a sysadmin. As someone else said - get in touch with your sales rep, he knows what to do.
I have never had these kinds of problems with IBM.
I call BS. Perhaps incompetence on your part. 15+ emails? In 6 months? Yeah, that is incompetent. A sysadmin who has a serious problem and only sends 15 emails to the supplier in half a year deserves to be on his ass in the street, no severance.
BTW, the problem with your DS300 Fiber SAN is easy to identify. You are trying to use an iSCSI device as a Fiber SAN device. THAT WON'T WORK.
A half-pound black powder bomb with steel BBs would be well more than enough
Rubbish. Timothy McVeigh - 168 people. Typical car bomber at a marked - 20-30 people. These are big bombs. Often in crowded places. Taking down an airliner will be quite different.
Even though I don't agree with the stupid security "measurements" taken, this is just absurd and not particularly well thought through.
It does take a significant sized bomb to kill, say 200, people in a security line. Even if they are densely packed at the time. It takes a very, very small bomb to kill the same amount of people once they are on the plane. Even if they are far less densely packed. The bomb it self may only kill one, or even zero people. The plane hitting the ground after dropping 10K feet on the other hand...
Linux's versioned DLL system is a much better and simpler solution
Rubbish. As anyone who has worked with various Unices could explain to you, you can have your app load a different version of a library by either just changing its name, or more commonly, soft-linking to it. Interestingly this may or may not be a good thing. Soft linking a "version 2" of a dynamic library to a version 3 can create its own set of problems. It happens all the time on Unix variations.
Adding versioning and checksums to the regime of loading dynamically linked libraries is universally a good thing, the new MS way of doing it is vastly superior to the old MS way and also vastly superior to the (much older) Linux/Unix way. I am willing to bet that as Linux gets more and more traction in the corporate world, Linus will find a way to duplicate the MS functionality though probably not the method. It is simply a good idea.
I am currently running Chrome. It opens pages in separate executables to limit problems to a specific tab or page. It is fast. It is quite reliable. If it was developed the way you are suggesting it would probably be able to open about five pages or tabs before your computer buckled under the weight of Chrome alone. OK, slight exaggeration to prove a point.
Statically linking everything would be phenomenally stupid. DLLs exist for very good reasons, and their design at MS is not horrid. The main difference between the situation at MS and with something link Linux is that people have been consistent in using versioning in DLL (shared libraries) on various versions of Unix. The fact that MS mandates versioning is a good thing and developers need to adapt. Yes, DLL hell will still be an issue, but that is not because we have DLLs, it's because so many programmers out there are inept and incompetent. Including developers working for MS.
Static linking is not bad... my installers were always SMALLER when using static
How easy it is to show that you do not understand anything at all... who cares what size your installers are? If everybody followed the "I'll just statically link everything" the average Windows computer would need 32G of memory just to function (exaggerated to make a point).
DLLs are good, but they have problems. Static linking is bad for anything slightly more advanced than a "Hello World" application.
Because you can't really expect your customers to upgrade their apps,
No, you can't. Really. Remember, the vast majority of business software, in sales and in number of titles, is proprietary software written in-house or by some consulting dude. A significant portion of this software is mission-critical and replacing it is mostly nor practical (cost) or it is impossible since the original author and often the source code, is long gone/dead etc.
Backwards compatibility is a huge issue for business apps, and Microsoft has been doing a phenomenal job of it. Not that this stops the whiners from whining.
As a developer, the keyboard is crucial. Nobody except Apple comes close to Lenovo Keyboards. Want to survive a 10 year or more as a developed using a Laptop, get one with a good keyboard. In my experience there are two suppliers. Lenovo is way ahead of the pack.
You're right. It's factual because it's just factual
You are either amazingly dumb or just trolling. Things are factual because you can not falsify them. You haven't even come up with a hypothesis, let alone a falsifiable theory. What you have is what is called conjecture, or superstition as is the case for you.
For fuck's sake, how old are you? 14?
Sigh. You have presented absurd, and highly speculative personal conjecture as fact. You claim that something that can not be observed, let alone tested and falsifiable is "fact". There is nothing you have said here that could have come out of the mind of anything but a raving lunatic or a religious nut case. Which are you?
Facts are easy things to deal with. They are testable. They are falsifiable. They are observable. You have presented rambling opinions. Clear evidence that you are a lunatic and either in a hospital for people of your kind, or more likely, still living with your parents.
because accepting factual information as factual information
Something stated by you isn't factual just because you believe it to be so. For something to be factual it must be possible to test and falsify. Your statement isn't correct, it isn't even wrong. Look up the concept of "not even wrong".
What are you doing on Slashdot? Slashdot is for geeks and geeks have brains. People with brains know what differentiates facts from hallusinations. You do not. You would not even know how to formulate a falsifiable hypothesis.
Give me hard evidence to prove that I live in my mom's non-existent basement.
I don't have to, where ever your carcass is located at any point in time, your mind is forever locked inside your moms basement.
I used a single disease, there are numerous. Also, as I explained, given your reasoning we should also neuter young blacks and Hispanics in the US. They are far more expensive than a few in-bred children.
The question is simple, who decides? The government or the individual. If the government decides, based on what criteria? Economics? Then we have to severely limit the freedoms of a lot of people in the US. I am just using race as an example.
You state rubbish opinions like "the west has lost it's will to live", which are so amazingly dumb, and can not possibly be neither true nor false since the statement in and of it self is absurd. Then you think it is fact.
What happened to you? Did you lose your will to live?
Try with substance. Try with things you can back up with numbers. Your mumbo-jumbo is worse than the childish absurdities spouted by superstitious Muslims and Christians.
What does going outside have to do with anything
It seems you have never been there, too busy in your mothers basement concocting absurd ideas with no sustantiating facts.
Are you on drugs or something?
You are the one with the hallusinatoric mumbo-jumbo about a whole part of the world who has lost its will to live.
Even in the absence of conundrums such as this, reason alone cannot solve our problems
If you think that any of what you proposed above has anything to do with reason or logic I am not at all surprised that you think logic can not solve problems.
Very good point, and well put. Living by instincts only is what makes an animal. Evaluating and analyzing our instinctive reactions and discarding what is illogical and dumb (which a lot of instinctive reactions are) is what makes us human.
Actually, it is not. It is continually improving. It has been improving for thousands of years. There is not a single measure where we are worse off now than we were 100 years ago. The more we move away from infantile superstitions like Christianity, Islam and other mindnumbingly stupid fairy tales, the better off we are.
When you say you want less religion you really just mean less Christianity
No, I mean less religion. Even Islam is losing its grip on its slaves, that is why it is lashing out as hard as it is right now. Islam is turning to extreme violence because it knows it is going to die as we know it today. It is being replaced by MTV, Target and Gucci, and the Imams hate it.
do liberals ever have anything to say about that
What does "liberals" have to do with this. I, for one, am not a liberal. I think that the way G. W. Bush increased the size of the federal government proves that he was a socialist. Don't get me started on the continuing excess we'll see going forward. The only reason Obama is not going to grow the federal government as much as Bush did is that there is never going to be enough money ever again for that kind of growth. The moron who sat in the White House the eight years before Obama spent it all on fluff and pork.
Sigh - newsflash for you: Western civilization has never been as civilized as it is today. People have never suffered less. Violent crime on the whole is way down compared to our near and not-so-near history.
A little more rational thought and a lot less religion and we'll be fine.
Five minutes of fucking Google. Try it. Now where did you get your numbers?
Five minutes of Google, and I didn't even have to fuck her. I think the "official" number of defects in brother-sister relationships is about 30%. Still a little more than half of what is the case if one parent has a dominant genetic defect (such as Huntington's).
It was to Nazi sentiment, specifically that of eugenics.
Depends on which part of his sentence you read. I think most people try to put their salient points first, and he said: "You seem to have a very weird definition of "freedom", the Nazi Germany kind of it seems, where the state can decide who shall and shall not mate with each". In other words, he was talking about individual freedom.
The dude being a dumb-ass and dragging Hitler (Stalin would have been more relevant) into the debate ends his sentence with some nonsense about eugenics, but that doesn't relate to what was his point, that you have a weird definition of "freedom".
Eugenics is not even an appropriate in this situation
Which is the second proof that the dude you answered is a dumb ass. The fist was stupidly dragging Hitler in to prove a point where Stalin would have been a better example.
Unless you are a white supremacist or a neo-Nazi, you will always be offended by being compared to Hitler.
It makes me sad to see that you say that. What you are offended by is your choice. If you are offended by intellectual midgets trying to brand you with moronic, and ill-chosen nonsense, then you have as much of a problem as the tapeworm that just tried to insult you. Stop getting insulted. Being insulted is something you choose. Once you stop being insulted by morons you can consider your self an adult.
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I'd have a talking-to with the sysadmin in charge. He apparently doesn't know how to run things up the pole, which is a crucial qualification for a sysadmin. As someone else said - get in touch with your sales rep, he knows what to do.
I have never had these kinds of problems with IBM.
I call BS. Perhaps incompetence on your part. 15+ emails? In 6 months? Yeah, that is incompetent. A sysadmin who has a serious problem and only sends 15 emails to the supplier in half a year deserves to be on his ass in the street, no severance.
BTW, the problem with your DS300 Fiber SAN is easy to identify. You are trying to use an iSCSI device as a Fiber SAN device. THAT WON'T WORK.
blast all bags at once and you have nice explosion
And somewhere between 1/20th and half of the casualties of one plane crash.
A half-pound black powder bomb with steel BBs would be well more than enough
Rubbish. Timothy McVeigh - 168 people. Typical car bomber at a marked - 20-30 people. These are big bombs. Often in crowded places. Taking down an airliner will be quite different.
Even though I don't agree with the stupid security "measurements" taken, this is just absurd and not particularly well thought through.
It does take a significant sized bomb to kill, say 200, people in a security line. Even if they are densely packed at the time. It takes a very, very small bomb to kill the same amount of people once they are on the plane. Even if they are far less densely packed. The bomb it self may only kill one, or even zero people. The plane hitting the ground after dropping 10K feet on the other hand...
Linux's versioned DLL system is a much better and simpler solution
Rubbish. As anyone who has worked with various Unices could explain to you, you can have your app load a different version of a library by either just changing its name, or more commonly, soft-linking to it. Interestingly this may or may not be a good thing. Soft linking a "version 2" of a dynamic library to a version 3 can create its own set of problems. It happens all the time on Unix variations.
Adding versioning and checksums to the regime of loading dynamically linked libraries is universally a good thing, the new MS way of doing it is vastly superior to the old MS way and also vastly superior to the (much older) Linux/Unix way. I am willing to bet that as Linux gets more and more traction in the corporate world, Linus will find a way to duplicate the MS functionality though probably not the method. It is simply a good idea.
TFA problem is easily resolved by statically linking the stuff.
Which is about equivalent to using a shot gun to cure a tooth ache. Yes, your ache is gone, but so is your head.
I am currently running Chrome. It opens pages in separate executables to limit problems to a specific tab or page. It is fast. It is quite reliable. If it was developed the way you are suggesting it would probably be able to open about five pages or tabs before your computer buckled under the weight of Chrome alone. OK, slight exaggeration to prove a point.
Statically linking everything would be phenomenally stupid. DLLs exist for very good reasons, and their design at MS is not horrid. The main difference between the situation at MS and with something link Linux is that people have been consistent in using versioning in DLL (shared libraries) on various versions of Unix. The fact that MS mandates versioning is a good thing and developers need to adapt. Yes, DLL hell will still be an issue, but that is not because we have DLLs, it's because so many programmers out there are inept and incompetent. Including developers working for MS.
Static linking is not bad ... my installers were always SMALLER when using static
How easy it is to show that you do not understand anything at all... who cares what size your installers are? If everybody followed the "I'll just statically link everything" the average Windows computer would need 32G of memory just to function (exaggerated to make a point).
DLLs are good, but they have problems. Static linking is bad for anything slightly more advanced than a "Hello World" application.
Because you can't really expect your customers to upgrade their apps,
No, you can't. Really. Remember, the vast majority of business software, in sales and in number of titles, is proprietary software written in-house or by some consulting dude. A significant portion of this software is mission-critical and replacing it is mostly nor practical (cost) or it is impossible since the original author and often the source code, is long gone/dead etc.
Backwards compatibility is a huge issue for business apps, and Microsoft has been doing a phenomenal job of it. Not that this stops the whiners from whining.
As a developer, the keyboard is crucial. Nobody except Apple comes close to Lenovo Keyboards. Want to survive a 10 year or more as a developed using a Laptop, get one with a good keyboard. In my experience there are two suppliers. Lenovo is way ahead of the pack.
This is not science
Good to see you admit that. It is religious mumbo-jumbo and the only place it is true is inside your head. I'd say "brain", but you don't have one.
I hope you get well soon. Try to ask a doctor for a new brain. A monkey brain will suffice.
You're right. It's factual because it's just factual
You are either amazingly dumb or just trolling. Things are factual because you can not falsify them. You haven't even come up with a hypothesis, let alone a falsifiable theory. What you have is what is called conjecture, or superstition as is the case for you.
For fuck's sake, how old are you? 14?
Sigh. You have presented absurd, and highly speculative personal conjecture as fact. You claim that something that can not be observed, let alone tested and falsifiable is "fact". There is nothing you have said here that could have come out of the mind of anything but a raving lunatic or a religious nut case. Which are you?
Facts are easy things to deal with. They are testable. They are falsifiable. They are observable. You have presented rambling opinions. Clear evidence that you are a lunatic and either in a hospital for people of your kind, or more likely, still living with your parents.
because accepting factual information as factual information
Something stated by you isn't factual just because you believe it to be so. For something to be factual it must be possible to test and falsify. Your statement isn't correct, it isn't even wrong. Look up the concept of "not even wrong".
What are you doing on Slashdot? Slashdot is for geeks and geeks have brains. People with brains know what differentiates facts from hallusinations. You do not. You would not even know how to formulate a falsifiable hypothesis.
Give me hard evidence to prove that I live in my mom's non-existent basement.
I don't have to, where ever your carcass is located at any point in time, your mind is forever locked inside your moms basement.
I think it's a fact because it is a fact.
You just proved that you are a brainless moron.
Cry some more.
And again
If I live in an apartment by myself
You apparently think so.
I used a single disease, there are numerous. Also, as I explained, given your reasoning we should also neuter young blacks and Hispanics in the US. They are far more expensive than a few in-bred children.
The question is simple, who decides? The government or the individual. If the government decides, based on what criteria? Economics? Then we have to severely limit the freedoms of a lot of people in the US. I am just using race as an example.
You state rubbish opinions like "the west has lost it's will to live", which are so amazingly dumb, and can not possibly be neither true nor false since the statement in and of it self is absurd. Then you think it is fact.
What happened to you? Did you lose your will to live?
Try with substance. Try with things you can back up with numbers. Your mumbo-jumbo is worse than the childish absurdities spouted by superstitious Muslims and Christians.
What does going outside have to do with anything
It seems you have never been there, too busy in your mothers basement concocting absurd ideas with no sustantiating facts.
Are you on drugs or something?
You are the one with the hallusinatoric mumbo-jumbo about a whole part of the world who has lost its will to live.
Even in the absence of conundrums such as this, reason alone cannot solve our problems
If you think that any of what you proposed above has anything to do with reason or logic I am not at all surprised that you think logic can not solve problems.
Get well soon.
Deny or ignore your own instincts at your peril
Very good point, and well put. Living by instincts only is what makes an animal. Evaluating and analyzing our instinctive reactions and discarding what is illogical and dumb (which a lot of instinctive reactions are) is what makes us human.
The West is dying culturally and demographically, it has lost its will to live.
That is simply rubbish, unsubstantiated rubbish.
Even immigrants who come to the West, and their descendants, stick to Islam and oppose Western culture.
Again, complete baloney.
Do you ever venture outside the doors of your mom's house?
Western civilization is going down the toilet.
Actually, it is not. It is continually improving. It has been improving for thousands of years. There is not a single measure where we are worse off now than we were 100 years ago. The more we move away from infantile superstitions like Christianity, Islam and other mindnumbingly stupid fairy tales, the better off we are.
When you say you want less religion you really just mean less Christianity
No, I mean less religion. Even Islam is losing its grip on its slaves, that is why it is lashing out as hard as it is right now. Islam is turning to extreme violence because it knows it is going to die as we know it today. It is being replaced by MTV, Target and Gucci, and the Imams hate it.
do liberals ever have anything to say about that
What does "liberals" have to do with this. I, for one, am not a liberal. I think that the way G. W. Bush increased the size of the federal government proves that he was a socialist. Don't get me started on the continuing excess we'll see going forward. The only reason Obama is not going to grow the federal government as much as Bush did is that there is never going to be enough money ever again for that kind of growth. The moron who sat in the White House the eight years before Obama spent it all on fluff and pork.
Sigh - newsflash for you: Western civilization has never been as civilized as it is today. People have never suffered less. Violent crime on the whole is way down compared to our near and not-so-near history.
A little more rational thought and a lot less religion and we'll be fine.
At the risk of invoking Godwin, your "paradise" could easily devolve into Dr. Mengele's laboratory, no?
No, it couldn't, and in a debate it proves one thing, and one thing only, that the debater that is recovering from brain-removal surgery. Grow up!
Are you actually advocating the complete abandonment of all moral principles
If you think so, you are just proving my point above. I am advocating not legislating them, which is different from abandoning them.
Five minutes of fucking Google. Try it. Now where did you get your numbers?
Five minutes of Google, and I didn't even have to fuck her. I think the "official" number of defects in brother-sister relationships is about 30%. Still a little more than half of what is the case if one parent has a dominant genetic defect (such as Huntington's).
It was to Nazi sentiment, specifically that of eugenics.
Depends on which part of his sentence you read. I think most people try to put their salient points first, and he said: "You seem to have a very weird definition of "freedom", the Nazi Germany kind of it seems, where the state can decide who shall and shall not mate with each". In other words, he was talking about individual freedom.
The dude being a dumb-ass and dragging Hitler (Stalin would have been more relevant) into the debate ends his sentence with some nonsense about eugenics, but that doesn't relate to what was his point, that you have a weird definition of "freedom".
Eugenics is not even an appropriate in this situation
Which is the second proof that the dude you answered is a dumb ass. The fist was stupidly dragging Hitler in to prove a point where Stalin would have been a better example.
Unless you are a white supremacist or a neo-Nazi, you will always be offended by being compared to Hitler.
It makes me sad to see that you say that. What you are offended by is your choice. If you are offended by intellectual midgets trying to brand you with moronic, and ill-chosen nonsense, then you have as much of a problem as the tapeworm that just tried to insult you. Stop getting insulted. Being insulted is something you choose. Once you stop being insulted by morons you can consider your self an adult.