True, but when you set up new accounts via the initial computer setup screen (this is in XP Pro, at least), by default they're created as Administrators.
Further, there's no option to override this from the setup screen. You have to wait for the machine to finish installing, then go fix it manually in the control panel.
Microsoft seems to want you to be logged in as root all the time, so it's their fault if this increases the damage inflicted when a program intended for normal users is exploited.
My first printer: $400 (HP LaserJet IIp+, ahhh..) Current printer: $30
I don't care how far technology has come, you can't cut the price of the average consumer printer that much without flushing quality down the crapper.
I haven't owned a printer since the old HP died my first year of college. I can't find one that I like as much that isn't huge and costs $1200. I don't really need a printer anyway. Paper is so passe`:).
Well, I'm not a D&D guy (never knew anyone into it, never played it myself outside NWN) and I still loved NWN. I played it on Windows (and will continue until Linux is a decent gaming platform), and the game simply rules.
Intermixing it with random bouts of Chrono Trigger and the FF series on ZSNES makes my gaming life complete. Of course, I play some Counter-Strike too.
Well then, this boils down to whether Red Hat has a viable business model or not.
If Red Hat can't support themselves while the community uses the rights granted to them by the GPL and various other Open Source licenses, then we have a much bigger problem than just Red Hat going out of business.
FWIW, I don't know if they can or not. I'd like to hope so. That said, I'm not going to purposefully limit my rights just to avoid finding out.
I installed BT using the.exe and clicked on a.torrent file in Phoenix (didn't even restart the browser). It said "open with default application (bittorrent)" and I clicked OK.
I guess I don't have to ask you how to get it working in a reasonable browser. Thank goodness.
I had avoided BT in the past just because I figured I didn't really need it enough to waste time setting it up. With how easy it was I can't see any reason not to have it just in case. I'm getting pretty good speeds on the RH9 download, too. What a nifty thing.
Well, I loved Princess Mononoke, but it's not that I'm strictly about "artsy". Indeed, I feel that Mononoke has some great action and really like the fact that I can enjoy it at more than an artistic level. The first time I saw it I was packing up my apartment to move and not really paying attention. The cool action sequences kept me in the mix enough to not turn it off. But, I digress...
I enjoyed Bubblegum Crisis Tokyo 2040. It may have tried to give itself a bit of artistic legitimacy, but it was basically about cute girls in tight outfits beating the crap out of big monsters. I also liked Scryed, Ah! My Goddess, and Real Bout High School. I'd definitely consider those more pop entertainment than artistic achievements.
OTOH, I didn't really care for NGE, even though most people who like anime would call that heresy.
You're right. If you like it (and that seems to be the case), nuts to me. I'm certainly no film critic, and I tend to hate film critics myself.
I've just always felt that D is one of those anime whose success over here was more largely determined by its ubiquity in video rental stores and Wal-Marts than its actual quality. The explanation for its availabilty, to me at least, probably lies in your point 2.
I am sorry if I was a little harsh in my derision of one of your favorites. I certainly don't blame you for defending your choice. My bad:).
I agree that the top-tier anime is underappreciated. The fact that Spirited Away was only playing in one small, independent (I think) theater in all of Atlanta is a shame. That shame is elevated to almost criminal levels when you consider that you could have gone to any one of the giant multiplexes with stadium seating and seen fucking Swimfan (*shudder*) a half dozen times a day.
That said, Vampire Hunter D was worthless. I wouldn't put it in the category of underappreciated anime any more than I would Swimfan. It was appreciated just enough by the fact that it showed up on home video:).
Indeed. You're right. I'm not trying to imply that the OSS community has to work on anything more than anything else. I'm happy for the free stuff I get and the huge bodies of source code I learn from, no matter what it is.
I'm also not trying to imply that some OSS projects are more important than others (intrinsically; some certainly are to me).
But, just as much as this statement is true:
People work on what interests them and just because they work on project doesn't mean they'd be interested in working on another project even if it were similar.
I feel that this is true:
People who work on this project might (though it's certainly not guaranteed), were it not around, work on one of the other projects that I mentioned.
It is, certainly, their prerogative to do so. I'm ecstatic they're doing anything at all. But, personally, for the sake of my own selfishness, I hope this doesn't happen.
A mail client is one thing I never find myself wanting for on any platform. Even if you don't like Mozilla's bundled client (I don't), Windows users have The Bat!, Eudora, and Mulberry. I even heard Microsoft makes a mail client or two. Mac users have Eudora and Mulberry plus Mail.app and another Microsoft client. UNIX/Linux users get the always-fabulous mutt as well as Evolution and KMail. Oh, and Mulberry:D. It seems somewhere in that mess you could find one or two that meet your needs. I know I did, one for each platform. And I'm really picky about my e-mail...
That said, I did just switch to Phoenix from Mozilla because I like its interface slightly better. It may load a little faster too, but with my main client machines all being 1.1ghz or better and the same browser instance being open most of the day I don't really notice.
I don't use Mozilla's mail client, so I suppose there could be features missing or a stand-aloneness that some people want. In that case, go for it.
I just hope this doesn't take someone's time who would be working on GNOME, KDE, OO.org, or a decent replacement for Macromedia Freehand/Adobe Illustrator:).
I just use mutt for the CLI, Mulberry for the GUI, and IMP when, for some strange reason, I need webmail. If you use IMAP everything stays in one happy place, and procmail+bogofilter handles sorting the mail before any of the MUAs touch it. A cron job updates bogofilter's lists periodically from the separate Trash boxes all three clients use, and they all use the same remote draft, saved, and record mailboxes.
I can think of a couple sort-of-good reasons for a mail client to take your approach, but for me at least it just makes more sense to have a couple different programs that are the very best at exactly what they're designed to do.
This thing has been around for five years and the only version available for download is a beta? Not only that, I have to register with you to download it? It's only available as a CGI binary? It's only compatible with MySQL? There's no IDE/editor, or even syntax files for things like Vim? The license is hopelessly incomplete, and not even in the tarball? There's no source code, so I can't make it meet my needs even if I'm willing to resort to adding huge chunks of functionality to it?
It says this in the README? Hey, it's a beta. What do you expect?
Gee, I can't imagine why I continue to use "clunky" and "cumbersome" technologies like some of the ones you mention! I'll switch to Escapade right away! I'm sure IBM and Sun will be right behind me. Hell, probably even Microsoft after they realize ASP has been officially made obsolete by Escapade.
I thought this was a good troll at first. I was wishing I had mod points to mark it "Funny". Then I started to fear you were serious. For fuck's sake...
Escapade might work for you (heh), but suggesting people should ditch the other technologies you mentioned in favor of what looks like a zero-featured, sketchy ColdFusion makes me want to vomit. Are you high?
This is probably flamebait and a troll, or just me feeding one. I'm willing to risk it based on your low UID and homepage link that mentions Escapade. If you just trolled me, it's the best one ever. Otherwise, die.
Indeed. I saved my read spam and ham in different "Trash" mailboxes for a couple months, then I ran them through bogofilter to make the appropriate good and bad lists (only about 2500 messages total). I put bogofilter at the bottom of my procmailrc after all my mailing lists and put anything that set it off into a "Spam" mailbox.
Not a single false positive or negative over literally thousands of messages. I'm getting ready to trust bogofilter enough to stop checking the Spam box altogether. Of course, I'll keep it around so that the filter can keep training itself on the messages that end up there. I don't dread opening mutt in the morning anymore (90% of my spam seems to come while I'm asleep). Whoopie!
I thought Cowboy Bebop's voices were done fairly well, but Rurouni Kenshin? It has by far the worst dubbing of any CN anime so far. Much of the goofy humor of the show (one of its best qualities) is lost because the people doing the voices sound like they just crawled out of bed. Not to mention Kenshin's... odd way of speaking just doesn't seem to work properly in English.
Each of the three episodes I've tried to watch on CN have resulted in me giving up and watching a subbed version of the same episode before the commercial break.
More on topic, I'm glad CN is putting Trigun on the air. They may have struck out with Rurouni Kenshin in my book, but they've hit their share of home runs. They've certainly done a lot to increase anime's exposure among semi-regular people. I've even caught my anime-hater roommates watching Cowboy Bebop from time to time:).
Not to be too much of a troll, but I count a Windows 2000 box among the ones sitting in my bedroom. I finished this game last year.
I'm glad they finally got a Linux client out, but Bioware really dropped the ball on this one. If they bitch about a lack of Linux sales like id did with Quake3, I'm going to be supremely disappointed (this is, of course, assuming that NWN doesn't suck like Q3 did, which it doesn't).
I like to support Linux (and *BSD:D) development by buying alt-os versions of games when they are released. But I, like almost every non-fundamentalist Linux user, have access to a Windows box and am not going to wait around for a year to play a game I want to play on the OS of my choice.
So thanks, Bioware. You haven't really done anything for me, but at least you kept your promise.
I'm kind of drunk at this point, and have had a few sleeping pills, so bear with me:). I'm slightly more eloquent when I'm sober, but feel the need to give thanks now.
Thanks for making Slackware. I may have initially gotten FBSD on one of my very old boxes (I'm only 21, so define "very old" as you see fit), but it was Slackware on a 486 where I became what I would consider semi-competent.
At this point I may have moved to other OS's and even distros with most of my production boxen for the sake of support contracts and package management, but I consider Slackware invaluable for the learner and recommend it to everyone who asks me "how do I learn UNIX?"
I'm happy to hear you've made another release, and have decided I will find some hardware to run it on. Slackware represents some of the happiest times I've ever had with a UNIX-like OS, and I'm determined not to forget about it anytime soon.
I'm just one guy, but I'm sure I echo thousands of others when I say, "Please keep up the good work. I owe a lot to you." Thanks man. If you're ever in Atlanta, let me know and I'll buy you and David Cantrell a beer:).
This hurts IBM and BEA a lot more than it will hurt Microsoft. Moving a Microsoft shop to J2EE is hard. They're two totally different things. It's like trying to turn a toy factory into a car factory.
Re-training and re-certifying all your developers is likely to hurt your pocketbook a lot more than the cost of a Windows license, or even a Websphere license, even if it is (and it is) ridiculously expensive. Thus, we're not going to see a mass exodus away from.NET, no matter how much I'd love that.
Moving a Weblogic shop to JBoss is easy. You just start dealing with a different company. Most smart companies do this all the time when they see a better deal. You call a different support number, maybe spend a week or so in a class learning what's different, and save a lot of money. Of course, the fact that JBoss is widely regarded as being more developer-friendly than the big commercial servers is great, too.
I'm glad Sun is offering to do this. I'm not surprised they had to think long and hard before doing so.
I can't see a problem with having helpful vendor specific features if you're clear about the fact that they are vendor specific.
Scenario 1: You want the ability to easily move between servers. You avoid using the vendor specific features of the various servers. Everything works out fine.
Scenario 2: You don't care about moving between servers. You use handy vendor specific feature A and are able to get up and running faster as a result. Again, everything works out fine.
In 99% of cases I'd go for scenario 1, but I certainly wouldn't be pissed to have scenario 2 available to me, just in case.
There's virtually no non-trivial J2EE application you can just take from one J2EE server to another. Even if both of the servers are officially compliant, say Websphere to Weblogic, there's still enough things left up to the container vendor in the J2EE spec that you're going to need to make modifications for everything to work properly.
Anyone who tells you that you can just deploy a J2EE app on any J2EE server is either lying to you, has never used J2EE, or is deploying apps where someone already put in the necessary time ensuring it works on a bunch of different servers.
The current main idea is to isolate the needed modifications to the application deployment descriptors as much as possible, rather than having to change the actual code.
I'm fairly comfortable editing Java code, and don't have any plans to begin making money off of Java code, so it doesn't do much for me. But in a large enterprise where the developers are far removed from the administrators or for a company trying to make money selling closed-source Java, I suppose this element of J2EE could be a big win.
Additionally, J2EE is fairly young in a lot of ways, and continually evolving. The more widely-implemented vendor-specific features will almost certainly gain official support in later versions of the spec, so as time goes on the situation should continue to get better and porting between servers should only get easier.
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True, but when you set up new accounts via the initial computer setup screen (this is in XP Pro, at least), by default they're created as Administrators.
Further, there's no option to override this from the setup screen. You have to wait for the machine to finish installing, then go fix it manually in the control panel.
Microsoft seems to want you to be logged in as root all the time, so it's their fault if this increases the damage inflicted when a program intended for normal users is exploited.
I think that's fair.
My first printer: $400 (HP LaserJet IIp+, ahhh..)
:).
Current printer: $30
I don't care how far technology has come, you can't cut the price of the average consumer printer that much without flushing quality down the crapper.
I haven't owned a printer since the old HP died my first year of college. I can't find one that I like as much that isn't huge and costs $1200. I don't really need a printer anyway. Paper is so passe`
Well, I'm not a D&D guy (never knew anyone into it, never played it myself outside NWN) and I still loved NWN. I played it on Windows (and will continue until Linux is a decent gaming platform), and the game simply rules.
Intermixing it with random bouts of Chrono Trigger and the FF series on ZSNES makes my gaming life complete. Of course, I play some Counter-Strike too.
Silly, it's not elitism when you're doing it to someone else!
Oh, wait...
Well then, this boils down to whether Red Hat has a viable business model or not.
If Red Hat can't support themselves while the community uses the rights granted to them by the GPL and various other Open Source licenses, then we have a much bigger problem than just Red Hat going out of business.
FWIW, I don't know if they can or not. I'd like to hope so. That said, I'm not going to purposefully limit my rights just to avoid finding out.
I installed BT using the .exe and clicked on a .torrent file in Phoenix (didn't even restart the browser). It said "open with default application (bittorrent)" and I clicked OK.
I guess I don't have to ask you how to get it working in a reasonable browser. Thank goodness.
I had avoided BT in the past just because I figured I didn't really need it enough to waste time setting it up. With how easy it was I can't see any reason not to have it just in case. I'm getting pretty good speeds on the RH9 download, too. What a nifty thing.
Well, I loved Princess Mononoke, but it's not that I'm strictly about "artsy". Indeed, I feel that Mononoke has some great action and really like the fact that I can enjoy it at more than an artistic level. The first time I saw it I was packing up my apartment to move and not really paying attention. The cool action sequences kept me in the mix enough to not turn it off. But, I digress...
:).
I enjoyed Bubblegum Crisis Tokyo 2040. It may have tried to give itself a bit of artistic legitimacy, but it was basically about cute girls in tight outfits beating the crap out of big monsters. I also liked Scryed, Ah! My Goddess, and Real Bout High School. I'd definitely consider those more pop entertainment than artistic achievements.
OTOH, I didn't really care for NGE, even though most people who like anime would call that heresy.
You're right. If you like it (and that seems to be the case), nuts to me. I'm certainly no film critic, and I tend to hate film critics myself.
I've just always felt that D is one of those anime whose success over here was more largely determined by its ubiquity in video rental stores and Wal-Marts than its actual quality. The explanation for its availabilty, to me at least, probably lies in your point 2.
I am sorry if I was a little harsh in my derision of one of your favorites. I certainly don't blame you for defending your choice. My bad
I agree that the top-tier anime is underappreciated. The fact that Spirited Away was only playing in one small, independent (I think) theater in all of Atlanta is a shame. That shame is elevated to almost criminal levels when you consider that you could have gone to any one of the giant multiplexes with stadium seating and seen fucking Swimfan (*shudder*) a half dozen times a day.
:).
That said, Vampire Hunter D was worthless. I wouldn't put it in the category of underappreciated anime any more than I would Swimfan. It was appreciated just enough by the fact that it showed up on home video
Indeed. You're right. I'm not trying to imply that the OSS community has to work on anything more than anything else. I'm happy for the free stuff I get and the huge bodies of source code I learn from, no matter what it is.
I'm also not trying to imply that some OSS projects are more important than others (intrinsically; some certainly are to me).
But, just as much as this statement is true:
People work on what interests them and just because they work on project doesn't mean they'd be interested in working on another project even if it were similar.
I feel that this is true:
People who work on this project might (though it's certainly not guaranteed), were it not around, work on one of the other projects that I mentioned.
It is, certainly, their prerogative to do so. I'm ecstatic they're doing anything at all. But, personally, for the sake of my own selfishness, I hope this doesn't happen.
A mail client is one thing I never find myself wanting for on any platform. Even if you don't like Mozilla's bundled client (I don't), Windows users have The Bat!, Eudora, and Mulberry. I even heard Microsoft makes a mail client or two. Mac users have Eudora and Mulberry plus Mail.app and another Microsoft client. UNIX/Linux users get the always-fabulous mutt as well as Evolution and KMail. Oh, and Mulberry :D. It seems somewhere in that mess you could find one or two that meet your needs. I know I did, one for each platform. And I'm really picky about my e-mail...
:).
That said, I did just switch to Phoenix from Mozilla because I like its interface slightly better. It may load a little faster too, but with my main client machines all being 1.1ghz or better and the same browser instance being open most of the day I don't really notice.
I don't use Mozilla's mail client, so I suppose there could be features missing or a stand-aloneness that some people want. In that case, go for it.
I just hope this doesn't take someone's time who would be working on GNOME, KDE, OO.org, or a decent replacement for Macromedia Freehand/Adobe Illustrator
I just use mutt for the CLI, Mulberry for the GUI, and IMP when, for some strange reason, I need webmail. If you use IMAP everything stays in one happy place, and procmail+bogofilter handles sorting the mail before any of the MUAs touch it. A cron job updates bogofilter's lists periodically from the separate Trash boxes all three clients use, and they all use the same remote draft, saved, and record mailboxes.
I can think of a couple sort-of-good reasons for a mail client to take your approach, but for me at least it just makes more sense to have a couple different programs that are the very best at exactly what they're designed to do.
You bring up a good point, though. Wouldn't there be a market for a bank that didn't have all this fine print?
I know I'd sign up, even if it cost me a few bucks a month over First Union (who has pissed me off a few times lately, anyway).
Well I'm really waiting for the flesh and blood version, myself. Perhaps playing so many violent video games over the years has warped my mind.
This thing has been around for five years and the only version available for download is a beta? Not only that, I have to register with you to download it? It's only available as a CGI binary? It's only compatible with MySQL? There's no IDE/editor, or even syntax files for things like Vim? The license is hopelessly incomplete, and not even in the tarball? There's no source code, so I can't make it meet my needs even if I'm willing to resort to adding huge chunks of functionality to it?
It says this in the README?
Hey, it's a beta. What do you expect?
Gee, I can't imagine why I continue to use "clunky" and "cumbersome" technologies like some of the ones you mention! I'll switch to Escapade right away! I'm sure IBM and Sun will be right behind me. Hell, probably even Microsoft after they realize ASP has been officially made obsolete by Escapade.
I thought this was a good troll at first. I was wishing I had mod points to mark it "Funny". Then I started to fear you were serious. For fuck's sake...
Escapade might work for you (heh), but suggesting people should ditch the other technologies you mentioned in favor of what looks like a zero-featured, sketchy ColdFusion makes me want to vomit. Are you high?
This is probably flamebait and a troll, or just me feeding one. I'm willing to risk it based on your low UID and homepage link that mentions Escapade. If you just trolled me, it's the best one ever. Otherwise, die.
Indeed. I saved my read spam and ham in different "Trash" mailboxes for a couple months, then I ran them through bogofilter to make the appropriate good and bad lists (only about 2500 messages total). I put bogofilter at the bottom of my procmailrc after all my mailing lists and put anything that set it off into a "Spam" mailbox.
Not a single false positive or negative over literally thousands of messages. I'm getting ready to trust bogofilter enough to stop checking the Spam box altogether. Of course, I'll keep it around so that the filter can keep training itself on the messages that end up there. I don't dread opening mutt in the morning anymore (90% of my spam seems to come while I'm asleep). Whoopie!
Doesn't have them... yet! Muahahaha!
An episode of Aqua Teen Hunger Force will do more to warp a child's mind in 15 minutes than all the under-shirt boobies in the world.
God I love that show.
I thought Cowboy Bebop's voices were done fairly well, but Rurouni Kenshin? It has by far the worst dubbing of any CN anime so far. Much of the goofy humor of the show (one of its best qualities) is lost because the people doing the voices sound like they just crawled out of bed. Not to mention Kenshin's... odd way of speaking just doesn't seem to work properly in English.
:).
Each of the three episodes I've tried to watch on CN have resulted in me giving up and watching a subbed version of the same episode before the commercial break.
More on topic, I'm glad CN is putting Trigun on the air. They may have struck out with Rurouni Kenshin in my book, but they've hit their share of home runs. They've certainly done a lot to increase anime's exposure among semi-regular people. I've even caught my anime-hater roommates watching Cowboy Bebop from time to time
Not to be too much of a troll, but I count a Windows 2000 box among the ones sitting in my bedroom. I finished this game last year.
:D) development by buying alt-os versions of games when they are released. But I, like almost every non-fundamentalist Linux user, have access to a Windows box and am not going to wait around for a year to play a game I want to play on the OS of my choice.
I'm glad they finally got a Linux client out, but Bioware really dropped the ball on this one. If they bitch about a lack of Linux sales like id did with Quake3, I'm going to be supremely disappointed (this is, of course, assuming that NWN doesn't suck like Q3 did, which it doesn't).
I like to support Linux (and *BSD
So thanks, Bioware. You haven't really done anything for me, but at least you kept your promise.
I'm kind of drunk at this point, and have had a few sleeping pills, so bear with me :). I'm slightly more eloquent when I'm sober, but feel the need to give thanks now.
:).
Thanks for making Slackware. I may have initially gotten FBSD on one of my very old boxes (I'm only 21, so define "very old" as you see fit), but it was Slackware on a 486 where I became what I would consider semi-competent.
At this point I may have moved to other OS's and even distros with most of my production boxen for the sake of support contracts and package management, but I consider Slackware invaluable for the learner and recommend it to everyone who asks me "how do I learn UNIX?"
I'm happy to hear you've made another release, and have decided I will find some hardware to run it on. Slackware represents some of the happiest times I've ever had with a UNIX-like OS, and I'm determined not to forget about it anytime soon.
I'm just one guy, but I'm sure I echo thousands of others when I say, "Please keep up the good work. I owe a lot to you." Thanks man. If you're ever in Atlanta, let me know and I'll buy you and David Cantrell a beer
He's right, though.
.NET, no matter how much I'd love that.
This hurts IBM and BEA a lot more than it will hurt Microsoft. Moving a Microsoft shop to J2EE is hard. They're two totally different things. It's like trying to turn a toy factory into a car factory.
Re-training and re-certifying all your developers is likely to hurt your pocketbook a lot more than the cost of a Windows license, or even a Websphere license, even if it is (and it is) ridiculously expensive. Thus, we're not going to see a mass exodus away from
Moving a Weblogic shop to JBoss is easy. You just start dealing with a different company. Most smart companies do this all the time when they see a better deal. You call a different support number, maybe spend a week or so in a class learning what's different, and save a lot of money. Of course, the fact that JBoss is widely regarded as being more developer-friendly than the big commercial servers is great, too.
I'm glad Sun is offering to do this. I'm not surprised they had to think long and hard before doing so.
I can't see a problem with having helpful vendor specific features if you're clear about the fact that they are vendor specific.
Scenario 1: You want the ability to easily move between servers. You avoid using the vendor specific features of the various servers. Everything works out fine.
Scenario 2: You don't care about moving between servers. You use handy vendor specific feature A and are able to get up and running faster as a result. Again, everything works out fine.
In 99% of cases I'd go for scenario 1, but I certainly wouldn't be pissed to have scenario 2 available to me, just in case.
There's virtually no non-trivial J2EE application you can just take from one J2EE server to another. Even if both of the servers are officially compliant, say Websphere to Weblogic, there's still enough things left up to the container vendor in the J2EE spec that you're going to need to make modifications for everything to work properly.
Anyone who tells you that you can just deploy a J2EE app on any J2EE server is either lying to you, has never used J2EE, or is deploying apps where someone already put in the necessary time ensuring it works on a bunch of different servers.
The current main idea is to isolate the needed modifications to the application deployment descriptors as much as possible, rather than having to change the actual code.
I'm fairly comfortable editing Java code, and don't have any plans to begin making money off of Java code, so it doesn't do much for me. But in a large enterprise where the developers are far removed from the administrators or for a company trying to make money selling closed-source Java, I suppose this element of J2EE could be a big win.
Additionally, J2EE is fairly young in a lot of ways, and continually evolving. The more widely-implemented vendor-specific features will almost certainly gain official support in later versions of the spec, so as time goes on the situation should continue to get better and porting between servers should only get easier.
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Um. I shoot people so that there AREN'T witnesses. Fuck this gun!