"Why should a physicist writing a paper have to know about files and directories?"
Well, he shouldn't. If you're going to abstract something away, ABSTRACT THE FUCKER AWAY. Get rid of it, don't let the user touch it (except through a proper administrative interface). Don't just slap a bit of useless chrome (Program Manager, Start Menu) over the filesystem and then the first time J. Random Luser wants to install a program or open a file that's not in the 10 recent files dangling off the Start Menu, he's got to know about Files And Directories...
Of course, if you could persuade people to actually PUSH F1 and READ THE FUCKING MANUAL...
But then, if you could do that, your name's probably Jesus Christ and you spend your days walking on water anyway. --
You maintain that you're *innocent*. (And from what I know of what happened, my personal belief is that you are).
That's a world away from being convicted and not appealing, thereby implicitly putting your hands up and saying, "it's a fair cop, guv. You got me bang to rights". --
All the pay-as-you-talk schemes that I know of in the UK go like this:
1. Buy card (say, £10 worth)
2. Scratch off silvery stuff to reveal long number
3. Call customer services and recite number
4. There is no step 4, you're done. --
The guy who asked about dealing with W2K and AD in his UNIX network, now that's worthy.
Daft little questions that can be answered in a few seconds with Google, that's not.
A rule of thumb might be "if, with a search engine, you can turn up something that looks like a halfway reasonable answer within 5 minutes, then it's prolly not worth asking".
And moderation's turned to shite, too; complaining about the editorial state of a post (the spelling's fixed now, I notice) is neither flamebait (do we expect a reasonable standard of spelling and grammar from/. editors or not?), nor offtopic (I'm talking about the sodding post, for gawds sake), nor redundant (I'm not mentioning anything twice...). But moderators don't moderate properly any more, if they ever did. Ho hum.
Personally, I reckon/. should dump the moderation system and ban anonymous posting, and leave it at that. --
It appears that daring to complain that a/. editor can't be bothered to read all the way through a 4-line story is "flamebait". Or perhaps "redundant". No, it's a legitimate complaint. Is it really too much to ask that the editors actually edit?
Because it's becoming quite clear to me that Slashdot has abandoned any notion of quality journalism in favour of posting stupid questions that could be answered in 5 minutes on Google...
I was unfortunate enough to catch a few moments of WCWWF PsychoNitroSlapMyBitchUpDown or something whilst randomly channelhopping and it was one of the funniest things I've ever seen.
"Grr. I'm hard, me. I'm going to come round your house and punch your face in with my forearm and then leap off the furniture onto you!"
This freak show^W^Wsport is a pisstake, right?
The dead giveaway, of course, is the much higher than normal preponderence of mullets... --
Well, that's just wrong - at least here in the North East. NTL do cable modems, you have to buy the modem for £150 and then it's £40 a month for always-on access.
Make of that what you will. And stop making me sound like an NTL salesman, cuz I'm not:) --
I'm on NTLWorld, and after waiting a VERY long time to get my CD, have found it to be a very satisfactory service.
And as an NTL customer, it costs me precisely nothing. Nil, nix, nada, zilch.
Only things are that the far end will disconnect you if you go idle for 20 minutes, and it disconnects after two hours anyway. However, you can just redial immediately. --
I can do that on my Abit BE6-II board, because it has a Highpoint HPT366 ATA-66 controller which can be active at the same time as the ATA-33 controller. There are two sockets each for ATA-33 and ATA-66, giving you your eight IDE devices. --
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W2K Workstation comes with a telnet server.
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This is two kids at each end of the yard going "yah boo sucks to you too".
Because each of these "operating systems" locks up totally while you're copying files to the floppy disk drive...
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"Why should a physicist writing a paper have to know about files and directories?"
Well, he shouldn't. If you're going to abstract something away, ABSTRACT THE FUCKER AWAY. Get rid of it, don't let the user touch it (except through a proper administrative interface). Don't just slap a bit of useless chrome (Program Manager, Start Menu) over the filesystem and then the first time J. Random Luser wants to install a program or open a file that's not in the 10 recent files dangling off the Start Menu, he's got to know about Files And Directories...
Of course, if you could persuade people to actually PUSH F1 and READ THE FUCKING MANUAL...
But then, if you could do that, your name's probably Jesus Christ and you spend your days walking on water anyway.
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For that kind of price, why don't you get a PROPER computer?
Get yerself a beefy Alpha box instead.
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I parsed "Netscape 5.0" as "Netscape 6.0".
Sorry...
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Opera is not based on IE.
Neoplanet is.
Netscape 5.0 is based on Mozilla, not the other way around.
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You're in the process of *appealing*.
You maintain that you're *innocent*. (And from what I know of what happened, my personal belief is that you are).
That's a world away from being convicted and not appealing, thereby implicitly putting your hands up and saying, "it's a fair cop, guv. You got me bang to rights".
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given that the Moon is actually moving *away* from us.
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What's that then?
All the pay-as-you-talk schemes that I know of in the UK go like this:
1. Buy card (say, £10 worth)
2. Scratch off silvery stuff to reveal long number
3. Call customer services and recite number
4. There is no step 4, you're done.
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...I get another one couriered to me FOC within 24 hours.
Now, I can't speak for the levels of service than US phone providers give, but that's what Orange do for me.
And yes, as another poster pointed out, Orange give me minutes back if they drop a call.
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...and I think you are, then they've been used in UK mobile phones for at least four years, too.
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"There aren't any other creatures on the planet even close to our intelligence."
No, the sea-going mammals are waaaaay ahead of us.
Think about it.
They've figured out that all you need to do is swim about, have fun, have sex, eat fish and play.
Compare that to YOUR working week and tell me who's more intelligent.
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But i betcha most of that is shared memory with other apps.
Duh. When will people learn to read the output of top?
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A kernel rebuild on my machine takes about 10 minutes. (PII 350, 128MB RAM)
Installing the NVIDIA drivers takes about 5.
And what are you using to do NAT on NT? That has a big impact on how long it takes...
And as for ALSA... not really an issue if Mandrake detects your soundcard out of the box (like it does for most of them these days).
(BTW. Using the stock kernel doesn't really have all that much impact at all on modern PCs.)
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The Mojo system, currently being discussed as an alternative for the new K5, is one.
The trust metric, as practiced at Advogato, is another.
The bottom line is that there are Better Ways.
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The guy who asked about dealing with W2K and AD in his UNIX network, now that's worthy.
/. editors or not?), nor offtopic (I'm talking about the sodding post, for gawds sake), nor redundant (I'm not mentioning anything twice...). But moderators don't moderate properly any more, if they ever did. Ho hum.
/. should dump the moderation system and ban anonymous posting, and leave it at that.
Daft little questions that can be answered in a few seconds with Google, that's not.
A rule of thumb might be "if, with a search engine, you can turn up something that looks like a halfway reasonable answer within 5 minutes, then it's prolly not worth asking".
And moderation's turned to shite, too; complaining about the editorial state of a post (the spelling's fixed now, I notice) is neither flamebait (do we expect a reasonable standard of spelling and grammar from
Personally, I reckon
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It appears that daring to complain that a /. editor can't be bothered to read all the way through a 4-line story is "flamebait". Or perhaps "redundant". No, it's a legitimate complaint. Is it really too much to ask that the editors actually edit?
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Because it's becoming quite clear to me that Slashdot has abandoned any notion of quality journalism in favour of posting stupid questions that could be answered in 5 minutes on Google...
http://www.computer.org/annals/an1997/a1055abs.
Ah well. The advertisers get their clicks and that's what matters these days.
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Wow.
Takes me half an hour.
And that includes the time taken to eat the pizza.
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I was unfortunate enough to catch a few moments of WCWWF PsychoNitroSlapMyBitchUpDown or something whilst randomly channelhopping and it was one of the funniest things I've ever seen.
"Grr. I'm hard, me. I'm going to come round your house and punch your face in with my forearm and then leap off the furniture onto you!"
This freak show^W^Wsport is a pisstake, right?
The dead giveaway, of course, is the much higher than normal preponderence of mullets...
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Not nearly enough incest :)
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I was already paying for NTL cable + telephone.
The impact of NTLWorld on my monthly outgoings is therefore zero. Well, it's better than that because I no longer pay for my internet calls.
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That's from here:
http://www.uk.research.att.com/vnc/
Nowt to do with Citrix.
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Well, that's just wrong - at least here in the North East. NTL do cable modems, you have to buy the modem for £150 and then it's £40 a month for always-on access.
:)
Make of that what you will. And stop making me sound like an NTL salesman, cuz I'm not
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I'm on NTLWorld, and after waiting a VERY long time to get my CD, have found it to be a very satisfactory service.
And as an NTL customer, it costs me precisely nothing. Nil, nix, nada, zilch.
Only things are that the far end will disconnect you if you go idle for 20 minutes, and it disconnects after two hours anyway. However, you can just redial immediately.
--
I can do that on my Abit BE6-II board, because it has a Highpoint HPT366 ATA-66 controller which can be active at the same time as the ATA-33 controller. There are two sockets each for ATA-33 and ATA-66, giving you your eight IDE devices.
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