UF is funny when it's not running fanfic that fawns over Linux or OSS. I liked the general geek stuff, like when the dustpuppy understood the idea of christmas decorations after looking at a modem rack. Or The Smiling Man. I mean the occasional references to geek culture are nice, but when you try to look like an insider by regurgitating every reference you can come up with, you look more like a reporter ("that there newfangled internet...") than an insider.
Tools written in perl will become available on brain-damaged systems that don't have those tools available, and you can take the SAME file to a different platform to get those tools ported. Think of it as a cast while the broken underlying OS sets. Or a crutch if it never does. Not perfect, but available.
The other aim of the project is to reduce the usage of backtick subs in perl scripts. These are what makes perl slow -- I have a driver and display architecture for some LED display boards written entirely in perl. It speed up by a factor of three when I removed the numerous calls to system utilities in favor of a "native" solution.
Microsoft couldn't begin to match something like slashdot and a userbase so fanatically loyal it makes Apple look mild. Many of the flamers here will grow up and settle down, but they'll *still* be loyal to Linux. Linux gets so much press coverage, one issue of Sun Weekly had more articles on Linux than Sun. If that's not visibility and mindshare, I don't know what is.
Add on. And laughably unstable. It comes with warnings plastered all over it telling you how beta it is. God forbid they should try sshd. Fact: I cannot reinstall an NT machine over the network and telnet in to reconfigure it. This is SOP where I work, where we reinstall regularly because it guarantees standard configuration (every bit of user data is on NFS servers -- yes I hate NFS too)
> (2) Web based tools for adminning NT (built-in).
Not my area. I'm guessing regedit isn't one of those though. Correct me if I'm wrong.
> (3) Windows-based remote tools for adminning NT.
Unbundled. Defeats the purpose of standard admin tools.
> I'm just saying that I personally don't have as much pain with NT as you all have. I don't know why.
You've never had to limp over to the server room on a sprained ankle and bruised kneecap again and again to reboot the server because el bossman doesn't spring for remote admin tools? Remember this "it works out of the box, nothing extra needed" mentality is what sells NT in the first place, so most installations do NOT have all these wonderful third party tools. Or in the case of the telnetd, they're simply too unstable.
To be fair, it was Sun who started this nonsense on PC filesystems with PCNFS. Of course that MS couldn't write a real filesystem to beginwith... Someone at Sun is probably cackling with delight at how MS is sticking with a hack used by a product abandoned eons ago.
I rather imagine a lot of your work indeed involves going ON-SITE to fix NT servers because they have no remote accessability without "Remote Admin by SchmoeCorp" that only works with SchmoeCorp's client of course, and of course has to be installed physically, creating a nice bootstrap problem.
It *IS* the tools that suck. NT on the whole is probably comparable with many commercial Unixen, but when you have to use blunt tools like User Manager and Server Manager, or when you have to go moving around the whole registry then remotely load a corrupted hive (which NT does its damndest to make inconvenient), that you really start itching to put a bullet through the thing.
What is it about NT that makes otherwise perfectly good SA's so incompetent that they can't keep it running? Some kinda distortion vortex?
Heh, I've always called that little nub the "keyboard clitoris" myself. Hate using those now? Try it when the rubber is worn off and you're pressing on a sharp little metal post. Makes me very good at using keyboard controls now.
Not one single layman gives a damn about these. They want to drop in a half-life CD and start blasting away. For Apple to get the gamer market is going to be nigh impossible. SOHO might be a good target market, though that damn kiddie-sized mouse doesn't make a good impression on the sales floor.
Probably wouldn't happen until there was an RFC submitted for it and a protocol number assigned by the IANA. Somewhere John Postel is screaming. Or laughing madly.
One class defines two interfaces, both interfaces have a method called "Object connect(Object)". No scope resolution operator exists. You lose. Yes, it's contrived, but it happened. I could NOT recompile the system (it was deployed and running), so I had to write an adaptor. Not pretty.
Yeah, only Linux propoganda is allowed on slashdot. NT is Bad and Evil and Can't Do Anything and Clubs Baby Seals. Anything NT does well is a troll because NT can't do anything well. No thought toward anything positive in NT is allowed, because there is nothing positive.
The first millenium had 999 years. Yep, we just cut one off. Just like that. Retroactively even, since of course the calendar changed quite a bit.
I know some pencil-necks are quivering with impotent rage that not every convention of mankind is mathematically precise, but most of us accept it and plan to party this year like the next begins the next millenium. Because according to society's ever-sloppy definition, it is. Try to get over it.
> No matter what is said ISP's are libel for content that they have had compaints about and have done nothing to fix, especially if they recieved more than 1 complaint about it.
I would say that the signs and shouts of linux this and linux that from the great unshaved might have, i dunno, perhaps shown them to be a special interest group?
i wonder if they beat each other up about how to pronounce "linux"
Feh. You don't *need* reflection if your language is decently polymorphic in the first place. Having to manually convert primitive types into their class representations is ridiculous -- why can't I simply call a method on an int and have the compiler generate the appropriate code? And how about that lack of templates? Or namespace protection in interfaces? If we're not going to have MI, I'd at least like to not worry about name collisions in interfaces.
Considering Intel invented the damn chip, yeah. It's an example of PHB's at Intel more concerned with short-term profits. IBM is a collossus -- they still dwarf Microsoft, and at IBM, lifetime employment for their researchers at least is still a reality.
Hell, this is the same company that's been doing research in *teleportation*. Fast propogation time? How's zero grab ya?
April Fools Day is in APRIL. The owner of this domain is probably peeing his pants laughing, the domain registration money and site design time well spent.
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I ask for Halflife, I get told to run Quake or xbill. I ask for photoshop I get told to use gimp. The apps aren't there.
OSS is indeed a MS acronym. For OLE Structured Storage. Those "magic" folders like printers and dial-up networking and control panels are OSS.
UF is funny when it's not running fanfic that fawns over Linux or OSS. I liked the general geek stuff, like when the dustpuppy understood the idea of christmas decorations after looking at a modem rack. Or The Smiling Man. I mean the occasional references to geek culture are nice, but when you try to look like an insider by regurgitating every reference you can come up with, you look more like a reporter ("that there newfangled internet ...") than an insider.
Tools written in perl will become available on brain-damaged systems that don't have those tools available, and you can take the SAME file to a different platform to get those tools ported. Think of it as a cast while the broken underlying OS sets. Or a crutch if it never does. Not perfect, but available.
The other aim of the project is to reduce the usage of backtick subs in perl scripts. These are what makes perl slow -- I have a driver and display architecture for some LED display boards written entirely in perl. It speed up by a factor of three when I removed the numerous calls to system utilities in favor of a "native" solution.
... what an 3L33T Beowulf cluster -
- "Sir, beowulf spoof detected. Setting coordinates. Reentry of bird at coordinates in two minutes."
Microsoft couldn't begin to match something like slashdot and a userbase so fanatically loyal it makes Apple look mild. Many of the flamers here will grow up and settle down, but they'll *still* be loyal to Linux. Linux gets so much press coverage, one issue of Sun Weekly had more articles on Linux than Sun. If that's not visibility and mindshare, I don't know what is.
> (1) Telnet tools for adminning NT (add-on).
Add on. And laughably unstable. It comes with warnings plastered all over it telling you how beta it is. God forbid they should try sshd. Fact: I cannot reinstall an NT machine over the network and telnet in to reconfigure it. This is SOP where I work, where we reinstall regularly because it guarantees standard configuration (every bit of user data is on NFS servers -- yes I hate NFS too)
> (2) Web based tools for adminning NT (built-in).
Not my area. I'm guessing regedit isn't one of those though. Correct me if I'm wrong.
> (3) Windows-based remote tools for adminning NT.
Unbundled. Defeats the purpose of standard admin tools.
> I'm just saying that I personally don't have as much pain with NT as you all have. I don't know why.
You've never had to limp over to the server room on a sprained ankle and bruised kneecap again and again to reboot the server because el bossman doesn't spring for remote admin tools? Remember this "it works out of the box, nothing extra needed" mentality is what sells NT in the first place, so most installations do NOT have all these wonderful third party tools. Or in the case of the telnetd, they're simply too unstable.
To be fair, it was Sun who started this nonsense on PC filesystems with PCNFS. Of course that MS couldn't write a real filesystem to beginwith... Someone at Sun is probably cackling with delight at how MS is sticking with a hack used by a product abandoned eons ago.
I rather imagine a lot of your work indeed involves going ON-SITE to fix NT servers because they have no remote accessability without "Remote Admin by SchmoeCorp" that only works with SchmoeCorp's client of course, and of course has to be installed physically, creating a nice bootstrap problem.
It *IS* the tools that suck. NT on the whole is probably comparable with many commercial Unixen, but when you have to use blunt tools like User Manager and Server Manager, or when you have to go moving around the whole registry then remotely load a corrupted hive (which NT does its damndest to make inconvenient), that you really start itching to put a bullet through the thing.
What is it about NT that makes otherwise perfectly good SA's so incompetent that they can't keep it running? Some kinda distortion vortex?
> 3) Patent every bit of functionality out from under it (this kills all unix as a side effect).
Not like Unix OS's haven't accrued hundreds of patents. Hell, NT probably "violates" some. Good for MS if they do, software patents suck.
Heh, I've always called that little nub the "keyboard clitoris" myself. Hate using those now? Try it when the rubber is worn off and you're pressing on a sharp little metal post. Makes me very good at using keyboard controls now.
> Open Firmware
> RISC
> CHRP/PREP
> AltiVec
Not one single layman gives a damn about these. They want to drop in a half-life CD and start blasting away. For Apple to get the gamer market is going to be nigh impossible. SOHO might be a good target market, though that damn kiddie-sized mouse doesn't make a good impression on the sales floor.
> Something tells me he could get by, if he brought down the price of his software.. just a little
How much is too much money? More than a billion? A million? More than you make?
Probably wouldn't happen until there was an RFC submitted for it and a protocol number assigned by the IANA. Somewhere John Postel is screaming. Or laughing madly.
One class defines two interfaces, both interfaces have a method called "Object connect(Object)". No scope resolution operator exists. You lose. Yes, it's contrived, but it happened. I could NOT recompile the system (it was deployed and running), so I had to write an adaptor. Not pretty.
Yeah, only Linux propoganda is allowed on slashdot. NT is Bad and Evil and Can't Do Anything and Clubs Baby Seals. Anything NT does well is a troll because NT can't do anything well. No thought toward anything positive in NT is allowed, because there is nothing positive.
Nice little lockstep march, ain't it?
Does the IRS get a cut?
The first millenium had 999 years. Yep, we just cut one off. Just like that. Retroactively even, since of course the calendar changed quite a bit.
I know some pencil-necks are quivering with impotent rage that not every convention of mankind is mathematically precise, but most of us accept it and plan to party this year like the next begins the next millenium. Because according to society's ever-sloppy definition, it is. Try to get over it.
> No matter what is said ISP's are libel for content that they have had compaints about and have done nothing to fix, especially if they recieved more than 1 complaint about it.
bull
shit
I would say that the signs and shouts of linux this and linux that from the great unshaved might have, i dunno, perhaps shown them to be a special interest group?
i wonder if they beat each other up about how to pronounce "linux"
Feh. You don't *need* reflection if your language is decently polymorphic in the first place. Having to manually convert primitive types into their class representations is ridiculous -- why can't I simply call a method on an int and have the compiler generate the appropriate code? And how about that lack of templates? Or namespace protection in interfaces? If we're not going to have MI, I'd at least like to not worry about name collisions in interfaces.
Considering Intel invented the damn chip, yeah. It's an example of PHB's at Intel more concerned with short-term profits. IBM is a collossus -- they still dwarf Microsoft, and at IBM, lifetime employment for their researchers at least is still a reality.
Hell, this is the same company that's been doing research in *teleportation*. Fast propogation time? How's zero grab ya?
I take it the Euro-Parliament isn't part of the EU then? Because last I heard, the UK wasn't part of the EU.
April Fools Day is in APRIL.
The owner of this domain is probably peeing his pants laughing, the domain registration money and site design time well spent.
Most people aren't on a multicast backbone, perhaps?