"The interface and commands are nothing like what people are used to today."
In what way is this true? emacs under X comes up with the standard Files/Edit/Options/etc menus and a set of standard-looking icons. Even if you don't learn the control-character keyboard operations you can use it with a mouse just like Notepad. The only thing that might take a novice a moment to figure out is that when you try to open a file, you don't get a modal dialog pop-up, you have to either type in a filename in the minibuffer, or select it in a dired window. This is a better user interface in my opinion.
People who think emacs has a big learning curve have probably used some crippled Windows variant and not the real thing.
I suspect they are just following IBM's lead six months later on this one. Box makers have to go with what their customers want. Its too easy to switch vendors if someone else gives you better price/performance/features.
The files might be the same, but the directory structures used to be very different, so they needed different RPMs. That isn't as much a problem anymore, though there are still differences.
Another issue is prerequisites. One distro might distribute Gtk, another Gtk2, or whatever.
My biggest problem with software installations is that they say something like "Make sure you have version 3 of foolib" but give you no clue how to find that out, or how to update to the version that you need.
I think people weren't ready to face a movie where the only good acting was by a 10-year old girl. Tina Majorino was excellent. Kevin Costner and Dennis Hopper and the script writers should all have drowned.
To quote Bill Gates "That's the stupidest thing I've ever heard!" Why would you change the behavior of a standard window control for one program? You already have Ctrl-W, right mouse menu, or the correct control to close the tab, and you want a fourth way?
"if you flick that switch at the wall it CAN NOT DO ANYTHING
Maybe you didn't notice that the switch on the wall is now connected to the network, too. Who would want an ordinary wall switch, when you can have a Windows 2012 SmartSwitch (TM).
"you'd never get a remote turn on for a stove"
I guess no-one will ever put appliances in their kitchen that automatically turn on at a preset time so your dinner will be ready. That's way too Jetsons.
You want the database design to be efficient at handling any size file. When extending, truncating or changing a file it can't, for example, read the whole file and rewrite it. You want a software layer that converts file operations into database operations cleverly (consolidate writes, etc.). And you want to be able to recover when something goes wrong in the middle of an update - like unexpected power off, software gone amuck, or device full. Also, you want to store not only the conventional hierarchical filesystem structure, but also all the metadata that would be useful for doing queries for a content-addressed scheme. That means some fairly sophisticated indexing. While you're at it, through in versioning, snapshot copy and automatic backup. Report back next week.
Which would be a valid point unless you were running the result through OCR and then discarding the scanned image like, say, if you wanted to scan sheet music and convert it to MIDI files or something. But who would want to do that?
Because/. has that 8-hour interrogation to prove who you really are so no marketing geeks ever get on here and try to pretend that they are unbiased users.
You are going to the advisory site. It has text describing the html code, not the html code itself. A link to the actual exploit code was posted below by AC. It is here
After 5 years of pissing away my time with sendmail, I am looking at a different MTA on the next server (scheduled to be deployed next month). So I did the obvious, clearly scientific test: running the sucks-rules-o-meter on MTA's. The results:
I did "sucks" vs "rocks". The word "rules" appears in too many places that refer to mail configuration rules.
When the machines have captured all the humans, put backpacks on them, and given them virtual reality systems even more powerful then Game Boy, then you will understand.
One difference between server-class SCSI or Fibre and cheap IDE disks is that SCSI generates a lot more ECC information and has on-board routines to try aggressive tactics to recover the data when a disk surface error pops up. They are also more rugged to support 24/7 duty cycle. So what you are describing might be better handled by using a single SCSI drive then to try to make a silk purse out of a Maxtor ear.
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In Japan ... oh, wait.
emacs - Escape Meta Alt Control Shift
Anyone who uses emacs should have their head examined. Fortunately, that's built in.
And finally: M-x yow
"The interface and commands are nothing like what people are used to today."
In what way is this true? emacs under X comes up with the standard Files/Edit/Options/etc menus and a set of standard-looking icons. Even if you don't learn the control-character keyboard operations you can use it with a mouse just like Notepad. The only thing that might take a novice a moment to figure out is that when you try to open a file, you don't get a modal dialog pop-up, you have to either type in a filename in the minibuffer, or select it in a dired window. This is a better user interface in my opinion.
People who think emacs has a big learning curve have probably used some crippled Windows variant and not the real thing.
I suspect they are just following IBM's lead six months later on this one. Box makers have to go with what their customers want. Its too easy to switch vendors if someone else gives you better price/performance/features.
The files might be the same, but the directory structures used to be very different, so they needed different RPMs. That isn't as much a problem anymore, though there are still differences.
Another issue is prerequisites. One distro might distribute Gtk, another Gtk2, or whatever.
My biggest problem with software installations is that they say something like "Make sure you have version 3 of foolib" but give you no clue how to find that out, or how to update to the version that you need.
I think people weren't ready to face a movie where the only good acting was by a 10-year old girl. Tina Majorino was excellent. Kevin Costner and Dennis Hopper and the script writers should all have drowned.
At my company we have: "Software Gone Wild: the video"
To quote Bill Gates "That's the stupidest thing I've ever heard!" Why would you change the behavior of a standard window control for one program? You already have Ctrl-W, right mouse menu, or the correct control to close the tab, and you want a fourth way?
"need to infer and compel in to people"
You missed this wonderful construction. Sounds like a self-proclaimed "jurnallist" to me.
queue a record - DBM
cue a record - disk jockey
QA record - terrible
First off, recent Linux distros have become big, bloated and hard to learn. Save yourself a lot of trouble and go with Redhat 5.1.
Second, many studies have shown that command line is more productive than GUI, so don't install X.
You'll find that your users will love having a choice of software, instead of being locked into a single application.
email: mail, elm or pine
word processor: troff or LaTex
web browsing: Lynx or wget
The list goes on and on.
Enjoy!
"if you flick that switch at the wall it CAN NOT DO ANYTHING
Maybe you didn't notice that the switch on the wall is now connected to the network, too. Who would want an ordinary wall switch, when you can have a Windows 2012 SmartSwitch (TM).
"you'd never get a remote turn on for a stove"
I guess no-one will ever put appliances in their kitchen that automatically turn on at a preset time so your dinner will be ready. That's way too Jetsons.
I was going to ask what happened to the Ridgid Tool calender.
You want the database design to be efficient at handling any size file. When extending, truncating or changing a file it can't, for example, read the whole file and rewrite it. You want a software layer that converts file operations into database operations cleverly (consolidate writes, etc.). And you want to be able to recover when something goes wrong in the middle of an update - like unexpected power off, software gone amuck, or device full. Also, you want to store not only the conventional hierarchical filesystem structure, but also all the metadata that would be useful for doing queries for a content-addressed scheme. That means some fairly sophisticated indexing. While you're at it, through in versioning, snapshot copy and automatic backup. Report back next week.
Which would be a valid point unless you were running the result through OCR and then discarding the scanned image like, say, if you wanted to scan sheet music and convert it to MIDI files or something. But who would want to do that?
Because /. has that 8-hour interrogation to prove who you really are so no marketing geeks ever get on here and try to pretend that they are unbiased users.
From the Grisoft License Agreement for the free version:
You must not use the program in a network or on more than one computer.
You are going to the advisory site. It has text describing the html code, not the html code itself. A link to the actual exploit code was posted below by AC. It is here
After 5 years of pissing away my time with sendmail, I am looking at a different MTA on the next server (scheduled to be deployed next month). So I did the obvious, clearly scientific test: running the sucks-rules-o-meter on MTA's. The results:
I did "sucks" vs "rocks". The word "rules" appears in too many places that refer to mail configuration rules.
RATING Exchange 1819 188
RATING Exim 29 33
RATING Postfix 49 140
RATING Qmail 59 250
RATING Sendmail 229 84
When the machines have captured all the humans, put backpacks on them, and given them virtual reality systems even more powerful then Game Boy, then you will understand.
One difference between server-class SCSI or Fibre and cheap IDE disks is that SCSI generates a lot more ECC information and has on-board routines to try aggressive tactics to recover the data when a disk surface error pops up. They are also more rugged to support 24/7 duty cycle. So what you are describing might be better handled by using a single SCSI drive then to try to make a silk purse out of a Maxtor ear.
LOL
Pingus - it just needs some level designers.
Also nothing wrong with Samba for filesharing; plus it does printer sharing.