(As a side note, people who brag about high uptime is equally retarded for the opposite reason... they're usually the one missing the important updates)
What? In a couple of weeks I will shut down a box with 1247 days of uptime because of a hardware upgrade. All the important updates were done on that box continuously. Why would updates destroy your uptime when you use a real server OS and do some preliminary testing of the updates?
Not here. Here you can pay almost everything with direct debit.
The only reason I have a credit card is because I have to order stuff from the US sometimes.
And also being in an IT department of a retailer which used direct debit, and ponders every now and then whether to also allow credit cards, but always decides not to, I can also say the setup on the retailer side is also simpler and cheaper. (About a quarter of the cost credit cards would have)
I'd really rather see something new and different, a genuinely innovative new interface, as different from the ribbon as the ribbon is from pull-down menus.
You might be interested in buying the new car I'm going to build. It actually has a steering wheel that works the other way around, when you turn it left you drive right and the other way around. That is SO innovative. Oh, and I switched the break and gas pedal, to get some more innovation.
Why do they have to completely change the user interface in big software products from version to version? Even before Office 2007 the "New Document..." templates first opened in an extra window, then in the sidebar, then in an extra window again from version to version.
LOTS of people who use computers these days have very little clue about computers. I have to support them at work. Telling them to "click on 'File' in the left-most menu, then on 'Open'" is pretty easy. Trying to tell them to click on something that moves around, and appears / disappears all the time is pretty impossible. These are people who are only able to remember "I have to klick on the icon in the top left corner of the desktop to start program X". When things move around to different places they are lost.
Yep. Many browsers also have a history of pages you have been. Normally anything where you mis-typed the server doesn't end up in the history because the browser knows it couldn't connect. Now that typos might end up in the history.
OTOH, there are words in German childrens programs that get bleeped out in prime-time American shows.;-P
Well, I just have to vote Pirate in September and see if it makes a difference.
Any company I worked for so far NEVER made any plans to to even begin TESTING anything major until the equivalent of SP1 was out at least a few months.
With that testing usually taking up at least a year, the "deployment" phase when the test were successful would start around the time the NEXT version comes out.
So I predict that IF we ever deploy windows 7 it would most likely be a few month before windows 8 comes out.
That looks nice maybe as part of a Hollywood OS in a movie when you see it one or at MAXIMUM two times, but I would imagine anyone actually trying to work with that for more than few minutes will need a bucket to barf in, because he will start to feel queezy pretty soon.
Whoever came up with the idea of animating desktops should be shot.
But google for it WITH quotes, or you get an heart attack when you see the "Results 1 - 10 of about 2,000,000" that get's returned when you Google without quotes.
Hey!! I have a great Idea for that secondary verification system!
The credit card companies just need to give the credit card holders little, colourful, pieces of paper with currency amounts printed on them. When someone makes a monetary transaction with the credit card, they also have to hand over the right amount of those pieces of paper!
... is to put the Network.automatic-ntlm-auth.trusted-uris setting in a more "visible" place in the configuration in the Windows version than just accessible via the about:config interface, which no "normal" user will ever find.
Possible even have the "logon-domain" environment variable already in there so it just needs to be checked to allow it.
I have found that 90% of our corporates Intranet works just fine in Firefox when I allow NTLM authentication. The exception being statistical pages which use Excel web components.
lpd is still a smaller than CUPS, and should be good enough if you only have one (or even a few) printer and you don't need a fancy web interface to configure and administrate them.
Yep. It's basically the same principle from a technology point of view.
The difference is that 90% of mainframe users understood at least the basic principles of the technology they needed.
These days you can't just sell or rent people the technology they need, you have to wrap it in marketing speech and buzzwords so that they get clouds of happy smoke, too.;-P
And the "application metadata" they talk about in the article basically just looks like the thing that is done during "installation" on traditional system. E.g. "tuning" the cloud so that the application runs smoothly and securely looks basically just like creating the right users with the right permissions and right ulimits and setting up various parameters of the OS correctly when you install an traditional application on a traditional OS.
So it would seem, if the creator of the application also writes the stuff that is needed to install the application, whether it's a traditional "install script" or "application meta-data" happy smoke, then it is his.
When he doesn't know how to do it and asks the provider to install and tweak his application, then that additional metadata belongs to the providers, and the provider shouldn't have to give that away for free.
because giving me a bunch of version numbers that mean nothing to me doesn't give me a reason to change my opinion.
So is your argument that version numbers mean something or that they mean nothing? What is it now?;-P
One of the standard version number schemes is that any n.0 release is something where they changed great parts of the underlying n-1 version to some new framework or did a mayor rewrite, or something like that. Of course when your software is the base a lot of other developers have to use, you need to get a version out to those developers early, so that they can prepare for the release.
Oracle for example does it that way, too. They release ".0" versions pretty early, so that all the vendors that write client software can start testing and programming early. It's quite clear there, too, that those version should not be used in production systems.
The ones at fault are the distros in this case, for switching to KDE 4.0 by default.
Funny enough, I use Gentoo which usually is one of the first to switch to newer versions of software by default, yet when I last checked the default was still the 3.5 version.
Furthermore, I just DID Google for "Open Office" and didn't find any fishy site on the first 10 or so result pages (90% of those were pages form the original openoffice.org, the rest seemed to be direct download links from respectable sites, mostly computer magazines.)
What IS kinda funny is that there were NO "Sponsored Links" in the result. When you Google for "Office Software" there ARE sponsored links.
Hmmmmm... Maybe the scammers were had a place in the "Sponsored Links" and Google has already disabled them for Open Office?
Plus, there is one special additional returns policy in Germany for anything done online or over the phone:
The contract can be canceled within 14 days by the customer, then from the laws point of view the contract did never happen. (Even if it was originally a valid offer, which this was most probably not anyway, since the price was not made absolutely clear beforehand.)
People who live far enough north that they need to heat their house with heating oil need to move south to where their yard isnt covered in snow three months out of the year.
If all the people who need heating need to move south, then all the people who need air conditioning would need to move north, too.
Now that would make for quite some overpopulated areas with much of the planet left empty.;-P
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If you update something and there is no reboot needed do do it, why should you reboot?
(As a side note, people who brag about high uptime is equally retarded for the opposite reason... they're usually the one missing the important updates)
What? In a couple of weeks I will shut down a box with 1247 days of uptime because of a hardware upgrade. All the important updates were done on that box continuously. Why would updates destroy your uptime when you use a real server OS and do some preliminary testing of the updates?
;-P
Not here. Here you can pay almost everything with direct debit.
The only reason I have a credit card is because I have to order stuff from the US sometimes.
And also being in an IT department of a retailer which used direct debit, and ponders every now and then whether to also allow credit cards, but always decides not to, I can also say the setup on the retailer side is also simpler and cheaper. (About a quarter of the cost credit cards would have)
I'd really rather see something new and different, a genuinely innovative new interface, as different from the ribbon as the ribbon is from pull-down menus.
You might be interested in buying the new car I'm going to build. It actually has a steering wheel that works the other way around, when you turn it left you drive right and the other way around. That is SO innovative. Oh, and I switched the break and gas pedal, to get some more innovation.
Why do they have to completely change the user interface in big software products from version to version? Even before Office 2007 the "New Document..." templates first opened in an extra window, then in the sidebar, then in an extra window again from version to version.
LOTS of people who use computers these days have very little clue about computers. I have to support them at work. Telling them to "click on 'File' in the left-most menu, then on 'Open'" is pretty easy. Trying to tell them to click on something that moves around, and appears / disappears all the time is pretty impossible. These are people who are only able to remember "I have to klick on the icon in the top left corner of the desktop to start program X". When things move around to different places they are lost.
Yep. Many browsers also have a history of pages you have been. Normally anything where you mis-typed the server doesn't end up in the history because the browser knows it couldn't connect. Now that typos might end up in the history.
OTOH, there are words in German childrens programs that get bleeped out in prime-time American shows. ;-P
Well, I just have to vote Pirate in September and see if it makes a difference.
Any company I worked for so far NEVER made any plans to to even begin TESTING anything major until the equivalent of SP1 was out at least a few months.
With that testing usually taking up at least a year, the "deployment" phase when the test were successful would start around the time the NEXT version comes out.
So I predict that IF we ever deploy windows 7 it would most likely be a few month before windows 8 comes out.
We're all LOST you insensitive clod!
No, where are not. We know perfectly well where WE are. But some of those young dorks MOVED EVERYTHING ELSE.
That looks nice maybe as part of a Hollywood OS in a movie when you see it one or at MAXIMUM two times, but I would imagine anyone actually trying to work with that for more than few minutes will need a bucket to barf in, because he will start to feel queezy pretty soon.
Whoever came up with the idea of animating desktops should be shot.
Differences like "Being Blue" in English means being sad, but "Being Blue" in German means being drunk?
Does that mean the "Big Blue" is now sad AND drunk?
Or does it mean that IBM is now known as the "Big Mauve" in some countries?
its RealDVD product is equipped with piracy protections
So I can buy one of those, and just paste it to the bulk off my ship while I sail through the Strait of Hormuz?
Maybe the Somali pirates should sue the RIAA for abusing their trademark?
Well, when the whole DNS scheme goes down the drain after ICANN starts to do money-making scheme like these, we can still go back to /etc/hosts.
Should be a lot easier today with big hard drives, file systems that support big files and things like rsync.
Technology is finally ready for ~531.3 GB /etc/hosts files.
We can call them "/etc/hosts v2.0"
If 1) and 2) are true, then there is a high probability that
3) You don't care if your web server is down for a few hours/days.
is also true.
Also, 1) would be most likely fixed without charge, if you have the normal OS security updates enabled on your web server.
Oh, it can still be perfectly sterile.
Sterilizing something, that is killing off everything on and in it that lives, is pretty easy.
But completely removing DNA and other particles isn't. There could still be DNA particles from the person who picked the cotton in the cotton swabs.
When you have a little cell in the swab, there is no easy way to figure out if that is a human cell or a cotton cell, and remove all human cells.
And there *definitely* still is cotton DNA in the cotton swab.
But google for it WITH quotes, or you get an heart attack when you see the "Results 1 - 10 of about 2,000,000" that get's returned when you Google without quotes.
Hey!! I have a great Idea for that secondary verification system!
The credit card companies just need to give the credit card holders little, colourful, pieces of paper with currency amounts printed on them. When someone makes a monetary transaction with the credit card, they also have to hand over the right amount of those pieces of paper!
Ehhhhh.... Waitaminute .....
... is to put the Network.automatic-ntlm-auth.trusted-uris setting in a more "visible" place in the configuration in the Windows version than just accessible via the about:config interface, which no "normal" user will ever find.
Possible even have the "logon-domain" environment variable already in there so it just needs to be checked to allow it.
I have found that 90% of our corporates Intranet works just fine in Firefox when I allow NTLM authentication. The exception being statistical pages which use Excel web components.
lpd is still a smaller than CUPS, and should be good enough if you only have one (or even a few) printer and you don't need a fancy web interface to configure and administrate them.
Yep. It's basically the same principle from a technology point of view.
The difference is that 90% of mainframe users understood at least the basic principles of the technology they needed.
These days you can't just sell or rent people the technology they need, you have to wrap it in marketing speech and buzzwords so that they get clouds of happy smoke, too. ;-P
And the "application metadata" they talk about in the article basically just looks like the thing that is done during "installation" on traditional system. E.g. "tuning" the cloud so that the application runs smoothly and securely looks basically just like creating the right users with the right permissions and right ulimits and setting up various parameters of the OS correctly when you install an traditional application on a traditional OS.
So it would seem, if the creator of the application also writes the stuff that is needed to install the application, whether it's a traditional "install script" or "application meta-data" happy smoke, then it is his.
When he doesn't know how to do it and asks the provider to install and tweak his application, then that additional metadata belongs to the providers, and the provider shouldn't have to give that away for free.
Amen, brother.
In our company we achieved a pretty good uptime of our major systems last year.
We had only 3 major outages of something longer than a few hours. Two of them where because some kill-switch in the software was triggered.
One bug in a Citrix License server, one was this vmware problem.
The third outage was a backhoe cutting a cable.
because giving me a bunch of version numbers that mean nothing to me doesn't give me a reason to change my opinion.
So is your argument that version numbers mean something or that they mean nothing? What is it now? ;-P
One of the standard version number schemes is that any n.0 release is something where they changed great parts of the underlying n-1 version to some new framework or did a mayor rewrite, or something like that. Of course when your software is the base a lot of other developers have to use, you need to get a version out to those developers early, so that they can prepare for the release.
Oracle for example does it that way, too. They release ".0" versions pretty early, so that all the vendors that write client software can start testing and programming early. It's quite clear there, too, that those version should not be used in production systems.
The ones at fault are the distros in this case, for switching to KDE 4.0 by default.
Funny enough, I use Gentoo which usually is one of the first to switch to newer versions of software by default, yet when I last checked the default was still the 3.5 version.
If the *user* wants to turn it on, the user can trigger that relay in the power supply with the "on" switch.
If the device wants to turn *itself* on to kill all humans and take over the world, that plan is foiled as an added bonus. ;-P
Furthermore, I just DID Google for "Open Office" and didn't find any fishy site on the first 10 or so result pages (90% of those were pages form the original openoffice.org, the rest seemed to be direct download links from respectable sites, mostly computer magazines.)
What IS kinda funny is that there were NO "Sponsored Links" in the result. When you Google for "Office Software" there ARE sponsored links.
Hmmmmm... Maybe the scammers were had a place in the "Sponsored Links" and Google has already disabled them for Open Office?
Plus, there is one special additional returns policy in Germany for anything done online or over the phone:
The contract can be canceled within 14 days by the customer, then from the laws point of view the contract did never happen. (Even if it was originally a valid offer, which this was most probably not anyway, since the price was not made absolutely clear beforehand.)
People who live far enough north that they need to heat their house with heating oil need to move south to where their yard isnt covered in snow three months out of the year.
If all the people who need heating need to move south, then all the people who need air conditioning would need to move north, too.
Now that would make for quite some overpopulated areas with much of the planet left empty. ;-P