I managed to quit smoking after 16 years of two-packs a day, but I can't shake my caffeine addiction. I've been drinking coffee for decades, and find if I don't have a cup before noon, I get a wicked headache.
I guess I just decided to continue on with the coffee, as long as it's not hurting me any other way.
Ok, I guess it's time for the "Age pissing contest". In 1987, I was just finishing-up my first 10 years in the U.S. Navy. I was an Aviation Electronics Technician stationed in Virginia Beach, Virginia, in an F-14 Fighter Squadron, VF-32.
Oh, and I was doing my coding on 8088 and 80286 machines in x86 Assembler. I hadn't even heard of Unix at that time. Just MS-DOS.
My first taste of Perl came in 1998, working as a consultant to the Naval Aviation Depot in Jacksonville, Florida. I've been using it on an almost daily basis ever since, and I must say that even with it's (sometimes) obfuscated syntax, it really does make easy tasks easy, and hard tasks possible.
I don't know... I ran 10.2.x on two iMacs at home for a year, applying all the security fixes and upgrades without one single hitch. And my two iMacs run 24x7.
Right after wiping the hard drives and doing a clean install of Panther, I did get one kernel panic on one of the iMacs, but that was within the first week of install, and I haven't (knock-on-wood) had another one since.
I use my iMacs for pretty much everything. I do have a FreeBSD server and a Linux workstation, but since I got the iMacs, I have mainly used them.
Heheheh. I remember carrying one of these around. I believe they weighed-in at around 25 lbs.
Back then, I would have given a lot for a 9 lb computer!
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By the way, Gentoo community is not fanatic, as many try to represent here. It's very friendly. The chance to hear RTFM is more on Debian forums.
Sorry, but I must disagree with this statement for two reasons:
1. Debian has been around a hell of a lot longer than Gentoo and it's FAQ's and documentation are very well written and maintained. The people that answer questions on the discussion groups have generally been doing this for a long time, and have answered the same questions over and over and over and..... Get the point?
2. I read a lot of comments from all kind of Linux users, but the ones I keep reading the most about tend to be Gentoo users, who keep preaching about how wonderful Gentoo is. Maybe this isn't fanatasism in your book, but it is in mine.
I bought mine back in 1993, when I started college. I've kept it the whole time. My wife recently decided to go back to college (after many, many years off), and I just stuck a new set of batteries in the old TI-85, dusted off the book, and that's what she's been using. Amazing what you can still do with an old Z80 processor!
Several months ago, we had the IT support folks trying to get a Windows 98 machine (yeah, I know. Unfortunately, we need to run Windows 98 on some of the machines) running for our testing, but they were having trouble with the built-in NIC. The system was a Dell, I don't remember the designation. Anyway, the IT support people thought the built-in NIC had croaked, so I grabbed my trusty KNOPPIX CD out of my desk drawer, stuck it in the CD-ROM drive and rebooted. When it came up, the system saw the network with no problems. I even showed the techs how to ping another computer on the network.
I had really liked KNOPPIX before then (that's why it was in my drawer!), but after that, I really loved it. I now give away copies of the latest KNOPPIX CD at my Linux user's group meetings.
Way to go Klaus!
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Y'know, in spite of all the press you see, understand that the only legal action SCO has entered into is a *contract* suit against IBM. If they win that suit, there are no consequences for anybody but IBM.
While this may be technically true, the main reason Red Hat filed suit aginst SCO is because of the damage SCO is doing to Red Hat's business, not because of the law suit, but because of the statements Darl McBride and the rest of the "gang of three" keep making to pump-up their stock price. All Red Hat wants is for SCO to either put-up or shut-up.
Also, as mentioned above, there were vague threats issued against Red Hat, SuSE and others by the SCO management several months ago.
but don't go whining to the feds demanding they regulate a free and open communications channel.
Actually, it's not a free communications channel. You, me, and everyone else that connects to the internet has to pay for that connection.
Unlike television and radio, where advertisements are a necessary requirement in order to enjoy free reception (if you have cable, it's your own fault! TV and radio are broadcast free to you) of the programs, spam actually unnecessarily consumes bandwidth and time, especially for those on dial-up and/or metered accounts, and enriches no body but the spammer.
Spam is like all that junk mail you get in your snail mail box every day, except the spammer doesn't even have to pay bulk postage rates.
Whereas TV and radio ads are a kind of symbiosis, where you agree to watch the ads (whether you really do or not), and you get the programming for free, spam is like a parasite. It rides along on the internet, not paying for the bandwidth it steals from people, and clogging their in-box with worthless junk.
Get off of your bloody high-horse, asshole. I'll bet your job hasn't been out-sourced to India, China or Korea yet.
This is all about profit. The corporations want to make more profit, and the way to do it is to get rid of expensive American workers and get cheap over-sea's labor. Your skills don't mean squat to them. There's no such thing as being so valuable that you can't be replaced by three Indian programmers that cost the company less combined than your salary did.
Wake the fuck up and start doing something about it before we're all working at Wal-Mart or McDonald's.
Then why don't you return the CD and demand your money back, because the CD is obviously "damaged".
As long as people keep paying for copy protected CD's, the industry will keep making them that way. If you want the freedom to play YOUR music when and where you want, then you need to heed the following advice:
Vote with your wallet.
Well this is easy...
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for a bit over an hour now. I just created a new rule in my OS X Mail.app, and I have them automatically transfered into my Trash file. I wish I had thought about that before. I think I received maybe 50 of them before I created the rule.
Because IBM steadfastly maintains that SCO doesn't have the right to terminate their license. If they filed for a temporary injunction, it would be tantamount to admitting that SCO does indeed have the right to terminate the license.
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Anyone know how much 14,800 yen is in US Dollars?
According to the OS X 10.3 calculator, $139.49
Good idea. I actually like green tea. I will look into getting some that I can take into work.
It would make a refreshing change... Sometimes the coffee at work is pretty nasty, and that's from a 15-year Navy vet!
I managed to quit smoking after 16 years of two-packs a day, but I can't shake my caffeine addiction. I've been drinking coffee for decades, and find if I don't have a cup before noon, I get a wicked headache.
I guess I just decided to continue on with the coffee, as long as it's not hurting me any other way.
You should really try Google!
JOVIAL Lives! website at Hill AFB
Scroll down the page to the section marked: "Available Products".
Ok, I guess it's time for the "Age pissing contest". In 1987, I was just finishing-up my first 10 years in the U.S. Navy. I was an Aviation Electronics Technician stationed in Virginia Beach, Virginia, in an F-14 Fighter Squadron, VF-32.
Oh, and I was doing my coding on 8088 and 80286 machines in x86 Assembler. I hadn't even heard of Unix at that time. Just MS-DOS.
My first taste of Perl came in 1998, working as a consultant to the Naval Aviation Depot in Jacksonville, Florida. I've been using it on an almost daily basis ever since, and I must say that even with it's (sometimes) obfuscated syntax, it really does make easy tasks easy, and hard tasks possible.
Thanks Larry!
I don't know... I ran 10.2.x on two iMacs at home for a year, applying all the security fixes and upgrades without one single hitch. And my two iMacs run 24x7.
Right after wiping the hard drives and doing a clean install of Panther, I did get one kernel panic on one of the iMacs, but that was within the first week of install, and I haven't (knock-on-wood) had another one since.
I use my iMacs for pretty much everything. I do have a FreeBSD server and a Linux workstation, but since I got the iMacs, I have mainly used them.
Heheheh. I remember carrying one of these around. I believe they weighed-in at around 25 lbs.
Back then, I would have given a lot for a 9 lb computer!
By the way, Gentoo community is not fanatic, as many try to represent here. It's very friendly. The chance to hear RTFM is more on Debian forums.
..... Get the point?
Sorry, but I must disagree with this statement for two reasons:
1. Debian has been around a hell of a lot longer than Gentoo and it's FAQ's and documentation are very well written and maintained. The people that answer questions on the discussion groups have generally been doing this for a long time, and have answered the same questions over and over and over and
2. I read a lot of comments from all kind of Linux users, but the ones I keep reading the most about tend to be Gentoo users, who keep preaching about how wonderful Gentoo is. Maybe this isn't fanatasism in your book, but it is in mine.
I bought mine back in 1993, when I started college. I've kept it the whole time. My wife recently decided to go back to college (after many, many years off), and I just stuck a new set of batteries in the old TI-85, dusted off the book, and that's what she's been using. Amazing what you can still do with an old Z80 processor!
Well hell, you don't have to be a Scientist to boil a frog!
Mine seemed to be about 180 degrees out from what my true IT career is heading towards.
Perhaps they didn't shake the magic 8-ball hard enough?
Several months ago, we had the IT support folks trying to get a Windows 98 machine (yeah, I know. Unfortunately, we need to run Windows 98 on some of the machines) running for our testing, but they were having trouble with the built-in NIC. The system was a Dell, I don't remember the designation. Anyway, the IT support people thought the built-in NIC had croaked, so I grabbed my trusty KNOPPIX CD out of my desk drawer, stuck it in the CD-ROM drive and rebooted. When it came up, the system saw the network with no problems. I even showed the techs how to ping another computer on the network.
I had really liked KNOPPIX before then (that's why it was in my drawer!), but after that, I really loved it. I now give away copies of the latest KNOPPIX CD at my Linux user's group meetings.
Way to go Klaus!
Y'know, in spite of all the press you see, understand that the only legal action SCO has entered into is a *contract* suit against IBM. If they win that suit, there are no consequences for anybody but IBM.
While this may be technically true, the main reason Red Hat filed suit aginst SCO is because of the damage SCO is doing to Red Hat's business, not because of the law suit, but because of the statements Darl McBride and the rest of the "gang of three" keep making to pump-up their stock price. All Red Hat wants is for SCO to either put-up or shut-up.
Also, as mentioned above, there were vague threats issued against Red Hat, SuSE and others by the SCO management several months ago.
but don't go whining to the feds demanding they regulate a free and open communications channel.
Actually, it's not a free communications channel. You, me, and everyone else that connects to the internet has to pay for that connection.
Unlike television and radio, where advertisements are a necessary requirement in order to enjoy free reception (if you have cable, it's your own fault! TV and radio are broadcast free to you) of the programs, spam actually unnecessarily consumes bandwidth and time, especially for those on dial-up and/or metered accounts, and enriches no body but the spammer.
Spam is like all that junk mail you get in your snail mail box every day, except the spammer doesn't even have to pay bulk postage rates.
Whereas TV and radio ads are a kind of symbiosis, where you agree to watch the ads (whether you really do or not), and you get the programming for free, spam is like a parasite. It rides along on the internet, not paying for the bandwidth it steals from people, and clogging their in-box with worthless junk.
NetBSD was ported to that thing a looonnngggg time ago. Why don't you surf over there and give it a look-see!
How about...
"In Soviet Russia, Dot GNU's you!"
Get off of your bloody high-horse, asshole. I'll bet your job hasn't been out-sourced to India, China or Korea yet.
This is all about profit. The corporations want to make more profit, and the way to do it is to get rid of expensive American workers and get cheap over-sea's labor. Your skills don't mean squat to them. There's no such thing as being so valuable that you can't be replaced by three Indian programmers that cost the company less combined than your salary did.
Wake the fuck up and start doing something about it before we're all working at Wal-Mart or McDonald's.
Then why don't you return the CD and demand your money back, because the CD is obviously "damaged".
As long as people keep paying for copy protected CD's, the industry will keep making them that way. If you want the freedom to play YOUR music when and where you want, then you need to heed the following advice:
Vote with your wallet.
Let's see...
apt-get update && apt-get upgrade...
Damn! wrong distro!
Update: as of 17:05 EST, I have collected 81 of them! They just don't stop coming!
Man, I'm glad I don't run Windows!
for a bit over an hour now. I just created a new rule in my OS X Mail.app, and I have them automatically transfered into my Trash file. I wish I had thought about that before. I think I received maybe 50 of them before I created the rule.
Yes, actually. Look in your ports collection. A real quick grep turned this up:
y abasic/
$ ls | grep basic
bwbasic/
gnomebasic/
pbasic/
wxbasic/
Because IBM steadfastly maintains that SCO doesn't have the right to terminate their license. If they filed for a temporary injunction, it would be tantamount to admitting that SCO does indeed have the right to terminate the license.
You do have to admit they have jumbo coconut balls!
Now die you stinkin' SCO scum! Die! Die! DIE!!!!
(are they dead yet?)
So he needed some pocket money, no big deal. He still has over a billion (US billion) shares left!