This doesn't change the fact that WAY more people complain about ubuntu f$cking their machine than everyone else combined.
The question is, is it "WAY more people" proportional to how many people actually use the different distros?
Proportions are everything. Bonds, McGwire (and a few others) may have a higher single-season home run record than Babe Ruth, but Ruth hit more home runs that season than the average team did that same season. Proportionally, Bonds and McGwire are pushovers.
The GNOME encryption utility has this integrated. I established a key for connecting to my server at work in seconds with a few clicks and my remote password.
So Ubuntu, Fedora, etc.. Linux distributions have this solved.
Thank you for providing this analysis for people to read.
It's the same reason that water droplets form spheres... it minimizes the surface-area/volume ratio.
And for combat and presenting a low target profile, that's the ratio to minimize.
On the other hand, if radiation emissions energy is dependent only on volume, minimizing the SA/V ratio also makes you quite a hot (if small) radiator.
It can't be done without generating a lot of unnecessary bandwidth, though, and harshing major on dialup users (who are already getting their asses kicked hard enough.)
On the other hand, it also makes the malicious site owner have to pay more for bandwidth, and that bandwidth is wasted cash since it isn't giving them any effective data.
A guy that I knew had an interesting variation on this:
If he ever got a telemarketing call (this was pre-do-not-call-list) he would inform them that he'd be happy to discuss whatever products and services that they wanted to tell him about, but he would assess them a $1,000 consulting fee for his time. In addition, for each instance that they contacted him in the future, the $1,000 fee would apply immediately since, having been informed about the contract, their call obviously indicated that they wished to pay him the money for the consult.
He then let them know that he was recording the conversation (which was true), and asked if they agreed to the terms.
He told me that their responses were varied, and hilarious.
For what it's worth, I agree with you. On the other hand, that's what Microsoft uses to refer to the various versions of a product (they seem to alternate between "SKU" and "Edition" with no rhyme or reason why one word is used over the other), so that's what I used to refer to them. I don't like it, but at least it's not as horribly misused as phrases like "begs the question" (at least "SKU" in this context could potentially be referring to a real Stock Keeping Unit).
See, Microsoft is a nominalist then. It makes perfect sense.;)
I agree with you totally about our grievous misuse of the phrase "begging the question."
Also, your examples aren't quite right. You're referring to instances of a bag of chips or a glass of lemonade, while the Windows Server SKU references are to types of items that can be sold.
You'll have to work hard to convince me that a bag of chips or a glass of lemonade are not instances of types of items that can be sold. Then you'll need to tell me how the sellability (it's not a word, I know) of the item/SKU/barcode in question changes the validity of my perfectly absurd example.
Either way, we're wayyyy off topic though. SO maybe we're supposed to quite while we're ahead.
Many, many people seem to like misusing the term SKU. At least, I think they're misusing the term. After all, I wouldn't tell my wife "Wow, these new Doritos bar codes are mighty tasty! Pass me a bar code of that lemonade."
So what gives?
My theory is that the people talking this way about SKUs are not misusing the term at all. There are just a lot of people out there geeky enough to be inventory management nominalists. It truly is a thing of beauty to behold.
Next we'll read another story about how some "1337 hacker hacked into another person's machine" at IP address 127.0.0.1, erased all their files, and somehow, the "other person" was able to hack their machine and do the same thing...
For fun, don't forget that any (numerically valid) IP addy starting with 127. is going right back to localhost.
Some script kiddies might be sly enough not to fall for 127.0.0.1 but go on ahead and try to take "you" out at 127.45.101.18 though.
Maybe they used two (or a multiple thereof) different infection venctors per virus? That'd make 6% a possible score if a particular virus were detected only via some vectors but not others.
This was why I set up a class wiki for my students to complete some assignments on.
As long as they completed their work, they were allowed to use the talk features to socialize. Constructive development of tech social skills, and no risk of creepy freaks from the offline world. I controlled registration and since it was a wiki, everything was public.
Which isn't to say, of course, that any of my students weren't ALSO on bebo or myspace or the rest, but given the socio-economic status of the district I teach in, I'm pretty sure that ALL of them weren't, so it was a learning experience for at least some of them and a safe place for all of them.
The better that the kids of today can learn to deal with technology with a level head and asses the risks, the better off they'll be. I'm a proponent of educating rather than insulating.
Mix in just enough equivocation and try to hit that magic balance between healthy skepticism and mindless sycophancy.
Working hard to try and fly beneath the bullshit detectors out there. But you overplayed it, I think, with:
Ultimately I choose to pursue a different career path; it was a tough decision that I may grow to regret in the next couple years. I look forward to seeing the technologies in the development pipeline come to fruition.
I don't recall reinstalling Windows 95 twelve times - eight times - over the life of a 75 MHz Packard Bell. What the hell are you doing to these machines?
Yes, there is a bunch of other stuff in there, but I don't see anything stopping the Secretary of the Treasury from using this for political purposes. If you go to an anti-war demonstration, you just might be undermining efforts to promote political reform in Iraq (as defined by the Bush administration).
The "undermining efforts to promote economic reconstruction and political reform in Iraq" phrase is in 1.i.B in the document. If you look, because of 1.i, both 1.i.A and 1.i.B only apply to persons committing "an act or acts of violence" with the purpose or effect of 1.i.A or 1.i.B
So, if someone committed an act of violence at an anti-war demonstration, and said act of violence was intended to undermine progress in Iraq, then yes, that person would be hosed. But anyone who doesn't act violently is immune from that clause. Unless.....
Anyone want to take a wager on whether the Bush administration would engage in Clintonesque "it depends on what the meaning of violent is" semantic dancing?
The parable warns you against the breaking of the basket, not against you mishandling the basket or acting stupid in general.
Poorly made baskets aren't mythical.
Ubuntu runs well and upgrades as gracefully as Debian.
True! My computer has been running Ubuntu since 4.10. Upgrading to the latest stable has never needed more than a little repository tweak and an aptitude dist-upgrade. It's gone from 4.10-->5.04-->5.10-->6.06 and is still purring like a kitten.
The 4.10-->5.04 jump broke X, but that was fixed with a single command.
I can compare this to my experience of upgrading a Debian server from Woody to Sarge. Worked fine until the poor thing tried to reboot, at which point things went horribly wrong. Never even got a useable terminal out of it. Probably user error on my part or the fact that I'd had to go in an undo a whole lot of weird apt package pinning that the person who'd set up the server had done.
Anyway. I can attest to Ubuntu upgrading gracefully. Moreso with each new version.:)
...or just use "sudo su" to login to root whenever you want without needing to activate the account. (This only works as a user with appropiate sudo priveleges of course.)
If people's gripe is that you can't get a root shell in Ubuntu without fully enabling the root account, they're mistaken.
Be careful about using that plan to get a dedicated Second Life box running. SL is CPU-limited rather than GPU-limited in terms of graphics candy. More memory on the graphics card is a great thing, but if what I've read is correct (which it may not be, of course) the CPU is a big determining factor in the SL experience.
There are groups of residents petitioning to get the game's transform and lighting functions onto the GPU rather than the CPU.
The free account doesn't give you land ownership rights. With a free account you won't be setting up your own store or any other type of virtual space. However, space to sell your goods is available on other people's property for rental fees to be paid in Linden dollars.
In this fashion, you can easily be cashflow positive in real life dollars without spending a penny of your money on the game.
But I save images regularly from the Net, and after a few hundred image saves, Firefox becomes almost unusable and must be restarted, which indicates a serious memory leak to me.
My wife had the same problem. An enormous list in the Downloads window (even if it's not set to display) can cause problems for Firefox. (memory hogging) You have to "clean up" the Downloads window; remove the list of completed downloads, or the program can start to crawl. There's a preference you can set that will cause Firefox to clear the list each time the program is closed, or to automatically clear individual downloads when they complete.
Slashdot Mirror
The question is, is it "WAY more people" proportional to how many people actually use the different distros? Proportions are everything. Bonds, McGwire (and a few others) may have a higher single-season home run record than Babe Ruth, but Ruth hit more home runs that season than the average team did that same season. Proportionally, Bonds and McGwire are pushovers.
The GNOME encryption utility has this integrated. I established a key for connecting to my server at work in seconds with a few clicks and my remote password.
So Ubuntu, Fedora, etc.. Linux distributions have this solved.
Thank you for providing this analysis for people to read.
It's the same reason that water droplets form spheres... it minimizes the surface-area/volume ratio.
And for combat and presenting a low target profile, that's the ratio to minimize.
On the other hand, if radiation emissions energy is dependent only on volume, minimizing the SA/V ratio also makes you quite a hot (if small) radiator.
On the other hand, it also makes the malicious site owner have to pay more for bandwidth, and that bandwidth is wasted cash since it isn't giving them any effective data.
A guy that I knew had an interesting variation on this:
If he ever got a telemarketing call (this was pre-do-not-call-list) he would inform them that he'd be happy to discuss whatever products and services that they wanted to tell him about, but he would assess them a $1,000 consulting fee for his time. In addition, for each instance that they contacted him in the future, the $1,000 fee would apply immediately since, having been informed about the contract, their call obviously indicated that they wished to pay him the money for the consult.
He then let them know that he was recording the conversation (which was true), and asked if they agreed to the terms.
He told me that their responses were varied, and hilarious.
The LTS versions are every two years. (every 4th of the 6 month releases)
See, Microsoft is a nominalist then. It makes perfect sense. ;)
I agree with you totally about our grievous misuse of the phrase "begging the question."
You'll have to work hard to convince me that a bag of chips or a glass of lemonade are not instances of types of items that can be sold. Then you'll need to tell me how the sellability (it's not a word, I know) of the item/SKU/barcode in question changes the validity of my perfectly absurd example.
Either way, we're wayyyy off topic though. SO maybe we're supposed to quite while we're ahead.
Many, many people seem to like misusing the term SKU. At least, I think they're misusing the term. After all, I wouldn't tell my wife "Wow, these new Doritos bar codes are mighty tasty! Pass me a bar code of that lemonade."
So what gives?
My theory is that the people talking this way about SKUs are not misusing the term at all. There are just a lot of people out there geeky enough to be inventory management nominalists. It truly is a thing of beauty to behold.
For fun, don't forget that any (numerically valid) IP addy starting with 127. is going right back to localhost.
Some script kiddies might be sly enough not to fall for 127.0.0.1 but go on ahead and try to take "you" out at 127.45.101.18 though.
I was wondering that myself.
Maybe they used two (or a multiple thereof) different infection venctors per virus? That'd make 6% a possible score if a particular virus were detected only via some vectors but not others.
This was why I set up a class wiki for my students to complete some assignments on.
As long as they completed their work, they were allowed to use the talk features to socialize. Constructive development of tech social skills, and no risk of creepy freaks from the offline world. I controlled registration and since it was a wiki, everything was public.
Which isn't to say, of course, that any of my students weren't ALSO on bebo or myspace or the rest, but given the socio-economic status of the district I teach in, I'm pretty sure that ALL of them weren't, so it was a learning experience for at least some of them and a safe place for all of them.
The better that the kids of today can learn to deal with technology with a level head and asses the risks, the better off they'll be. I'm a proponent of educating rather than insulating.
Shill 2.0
Mix in just enough equivocation and try to hit that magic balance between healthy skepticism and mindless sycophancy.
Working hard to try and fly beneath the bullshit detectors out there. But you overplayed it, I think, with:
I don't recall reinstalling Windows 95 twelve times - eight times - over the life of a 75 MHz Packard Bell. What the hell are you doing to these machines?
It's his son's computer. Use your imagination. ;)
The "undermining efforts to promote economic reconstruction and political reform in Iraq" phrase is in 1.i.B in the document. If you look, because of 1.i, both 1.i.A and 1.i.B only apply to persons committing "an act or acts of violence" with the purpose or effect of 1.i.A or 1.i.B
So, if someone committed an act of violence at an anti-war demonstration, and said act of violence was intended to undermine progress in Iraq, then yes, that person would be hosed. But anyone who doesn't act violently is immune from that clause. Unless.....
Anyone want to take a wager on whether the Bush administration would engage in Clintonesque "it depends on what the meaning of violent is" semantic dancing?
The parable warns you against the breaking of the basket, not against you mishandling the basket or acting stupid in general. Poorly made baskets aren't mythical.
Ubuntu runs well and upgrades as gracefully as Debian.
True! My computer has been running Ubuntu since 4.10. Upgrading to the latest stable has never needed more than a little repository tweak and an aptitude dist-upgrade. It's gone from 4.10-->5.04-->5.10-->6.06 and is still purring like a kitten.
The 4.10-->5.04 jump broke X, but that was fixed with a single command.
I can compare this to my experience of upgrading a Debian server from Woody to Sarge. Worked fine until the poor thing tried to reboot, at which point things went horribly wrong. Never even got a useable terminal out of it. Probably user error on my part or the fact that I'd had to go in an undo a whole lot of weird apt package pinning that the person who'd set up the server had done.
Anyway. I can attest to Ubuntu upgrading gracefully. Moreso with each new version. :)
Check out trickle for Linux/*BSD/what-have-you.
...or just use "sudo su" to login to root whenever you want without needing to activate the account. (This only works as a user with appropiate sudo priveleges of course.) If people's gripe is that you can't get a root shell in Ubuntu without fully enabling the root account, they're mistaken.
Be careful about using that plan to get a dedicated Second Life box running. SL is CPU-limited rather than GPU-limited in terms of graphics candy. More memory on the graphics card is a great thing, but if what I've read is correct (which it may not be, of course) the CPU is a big determining factor in the SL experience.
There are groups of residents petitioning to get the game's transform and lighting functions onto the GPU rather than the CPU.
The free account doesn't give you land ownership rights. With a free account you won't be setting up your own store or any other type of virtual space. However, space to sell your goods is available on other people's property for rental fees to be paid in Linden dollars.
In this fashion, you can easily be cashflow positive in real life dollars without spending a penny of your money on the game.
But I save images regularly from the Net, and after a few hundred image saves, Firefox becomes almost unusable and must be restarted, which indicates a serious memory leak to me.
:)
My wife had the same problem. An enormous list in the Downloads window (even if it's not set to display) can cause problems for Firefox. (memory hogging) You have to "clean up" the Downloads window; remove the list of completed downloads, or the program can start to crawl. There's a preference you can set that will cause Firefox to clear the list each time the program is closed, or to automatically clear individual downloads when they complete.
Do that, and it'll work like a charm for you!