I blame the French. Take an etymology course and learn word history, and you'll know why we have this unsuited system.
laughter, manslaughter, man's laughter: all 3 should logically have a similar sound but do not
Actually, laughter and "man's laughter" rhyme completely. Your beef is between slaughter and laughter, but the difference between manslaughter and "man's laughter" has engendered many a man's laughter over the years. Why remove such a rich source of wordplay from a language?
"TFA is nonsense, written by an uneducated fool."
I can only assume that people who can't see past common spelling/grammar mistakes must have comprehension skills similar to those found in a compiler.
It's fine to extend yourself into editor mode for people who are new to the language, but what a joy it is to trade ideas with people and not have glaring errors break the flow of thought or worse, entirely confuse it.
Aren't there still cell-phone scanners? Why would anyone enter a CC number via cell phone if anyone within cell range could be listening in or recording CC info?
"We are saddened, saddened, that samzenpus would use this vitriolic language in today's uncertain political atmosphere, and hope to impress upon all slashdotters that he was not expressing a desire for Motorola to glue deadly murder devices to their buttocks. Thank you."
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For instance, how do you search a file for text, using Windows Server 2000 or 2003 tools? Show only the first or last x lines of a file? Dependably schedule an item to run whether you are logged in or not? Determine which versions of which applications are installed?
Searching a file for text can be done with 'find' on win2k3 machines. Find is like grep's lesser brother, but it works for simple tasks. The part I always forget is that the double quotes for the search text are required. If you're talking about a binary file, you have to use strings.exe from sysinternals first.
Scheduling can usually be done via schtasks, or at. You usually have to import as SYSTEM to ensure things run unattended. Everything else you mentioned is spot-on. "psinfo -s @computerlist.txt" will give you some basic software info (not always versions) Also, MS bought sysinternals, so pstools is not quite 3rd party any more, just not default installation.
The biggest problem with using psexec is that things like wmic fail completely. There are a lot of other programs (mostly install shield setups) that can't even be run in silent mode via psexec, but run fine via a scheduled run (which psexec can set up).
If you are used to "admining" *nix boxes, then working with Linux is easier. If all you've ever done is admin Windows, then working with Windows is a hell of a lot easier. It's always cheaper and easier to go with what you already know; that is the advantage that most Microsoft sales are now built on.
With decades of DOS->Win3->Win95->Win98[se]->NT4->Win2k->WinXP->Win2k3->Vista->Win7->Win2k8 under my belt, and only starting Solaris with 2.6 and Linux with RH 5 (pre-RHEL), I'd say I'm more of a Windows sysadmin. But getting Windows to do what I want is frustrating because as a *nix sysadmin as well, I _know_ the grass is greener on the other side, and there are cases where things that _should_ be easy on Windows just aren't. Granted, things like ADS are 1000% better than puppet or cfengine, but ADS is not the panacea for mass administration that marketing puppets claim.
Who brought up IT? The story is about a software developer and I can't find the words IT or "Information Technology" anywhere in the summary.
Ask anyone in HR if software developers are part of IT. The only places that will say "no" are companies that exclusively produce computer programs. Everywhere else, in-house programmers fall under the IT umbrella.
Weird... how many enter computer science in the hopes of a career in information technology. It wouldn't be so weird if many entered law school in the hopes of entering the paralegal field, or if many entered medical school in the hopes of a career in nursing, or entered a curriculum of fluid dynamics in the hopes of a solid plumbing career... but this only happens with CS and IT. Hey... I have an idea... why overshoot the Moon, when you can just study information technology instead?
Because CS programs usually provide a basic level of understanding of computers and computation that 2-year "IT" programs at your local junior college don't? Because the higher levels of the curricula give CS students an edge over their IT brethren?
I, for one, have found precious little reason to use differential calculus nor descrete math and probability permeatations, nor set theory, while administrating computer systems or supporting applications or users. YMMV
I've used set theory (more for notation), and logic, but I learned the logic from philosophy classes. Plus, if my job can find a way to move all of the hardware to offshore (including desktops), then I always have basic programming skills to fall back on.
I say hogwash. Admining *nix systems is much easier than Windows boxes. I'm constantly having to do simple things like "do $foo on boxes 1-24,35-90,102-150" on both windows and *nix boxes, and unless sshd and bash are installed on the windows boxes, it quickly devolves into stupid DOS tricks to properly run things like wmic via psexec (which doesn't work natively).
My you do have low standards. Canonical produces one of the worse Linux distributions out there.
They take Debian and make it up to date and usable. Except for Gentoo (one of the truly worst in my opinion; fun for a year, but I'd rather not have a core or two constantly compiling), nothing else as visible is as bleeding edge and willing to use non-free elements for the sake of usability.
They've got a rare chance to design an interface for people who don't already have expectations of how to use a computer.
So they have a rare chance to engender expectations that run counter to the rest of the computing world's expectations, to purposefully create a knowledge rift?
Music today is heavily marketed and targeted for maximum sales with minimum work. This means they take something that sold before and make more of it.
If you liked it, the music today is *great*. If you don't like it, then there's *nothing* to listen to and it's all crap. It's actually all mediocre.
"In the old days", there was *real* crap. What was available was whatever was made and that was *anything*. Therefore there was *real* crap, but SOMEONE liked it. Someone who today would never get a look in because it "wouldn't sell". There were also some real gems but they didn't get repeated again and again until you got sick of it. There was VARIATION.
I'm sorry, but there is no reason for Muskrat Love to have played as many times as it did on the radio. It did make all of the other songs enjoyable though.
This god we're talking about.
He know's everything that's happening and can do absolutely anything.
He he literally knows about children being raped to death and does nothing, nothing to stop it despite supposedly having both the knowledge and the means.
That's one damned evil god you've got there.
lets try a thought experiment.... lets say we have a person. An all-powerful, all-knowing person (to make the analogy work).
Upon creating a universe, and deciding to give its denizens free will, he corrects everything they ever do wrong, including their wrong thoughts and desires... Um wait, what happened to free will? That free-will thing must be pretty important if the person decides not to intervene on a regular, all-encompassing basis. And it is.
How can anyone admire scumbag politicians like Obama, Bush and Clinton above someone like Bill Gates or Steve Jobs? People are stupid.
Even Bush and Obama are more concerned with Jobs than themselves. Heck, they're always talking about recreating more Jobs (presumably after he passes).
I have no idea of the level of data, but if you can verify the 2.2% Pakistani and Scottish in the neighborhood by other means (not hard since minority populations tend to be more vocal about their heritage, and might post such on Facebook), then you know that anyone else is English.
You are missing the entire point of taxes. Taxes are supposed to (help) balance the economic equation. Taxes are supposed to (help) keep the relative distribution of wealth stable across the long term.
Huh? Are you smoking crack? Taxes are a gentrified extortion scheme. A knight builds a castle, declares himself a lord, and starts collecting protection money from the local peasants. A lord builds a bigger castle, declares himself a baron, and starts collecting protection money from local lords. Skip a bit and the King collects protection money from local Dukes and Grand Dukes. And they use this money to build more and bigger castles and fight other kings who are muscling in on their serfs and turf.
Skip a bit again, and the taxes are a portion of any government, used to pay for things commonly used (roads, emergency services), or to allow for government bureaucracy, and potentially government growth. Taxes are only used to "balance the economic equation" in pure communist societies like Smurf Village. Everywhere else, taxes are a polite and orderly way to pay a bully with a sword and a horse.
But if only 1/20 of the profiles are from people who actually registered with the site...
Sure, populating such a database from scraped data from facebook etc is tacky and unethical. But my attention is drawn to a mention in the submission of census data.
Last time I looked, the Australian Bureau of Statistics didn't release data collected about identifiable individuals. Have they suddenly changed that policy, and if so, why?
My guess is that when taken into account with everything else they're scraping, the non-identifiable info from a census becomes identifiable.
Facebook says Bobby Tim lives at 1234 Fake Street. The Census says two people live at 1234 Fake street, both black. Ergo, Bobby Tim is black.
Facebook says FakeBobby Tim lives at 1234 FakeFake Street. The Census says no one lives at 1234 FakeFake street. It's a residential zone, but probably an abandoned house. FakeBobby Tim's address data from Facebook is potentially Fake.
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laughter, manslaughter, man's laughter: all 3 should logically have a similar sound but do not
Actually, laughter and "man's laughter" rhyme completely. Your beef is between slaughter and laughter, but the difference between manslaughter and "man's laughter" has engendered many a man's laughter over the years. Why remove such a rich source of wordplay from a language?
"TFA is nonsense, written by an uneducated fool." I can only assume that people who can't see past common spelling/grammar mistakes must have comprehension skills similar to those found in a compiler.
It's fine to extend yourself into editor mode for people who are new to the language, but what a joy it is to trade ideas with people and not have glaring errors break the flow of thought or worse, entirely confuse it.
Maybe fdisk wasn't the right approach to solve this problem.
No one reads at 0 any more? Anonymous Coward made a funny!
Aren't there still cell-phone scanners? Why would anyone enter a CC number via cell phone if anyone within cell range could be listening in or recording CC info?
"We are saddened, saddened, that samzenpus would use this vitriolic language in today's uncertain political atmosphere, and hope to impress upon all slashdotters that he was not expressing a desire for Motorola to glue deadly murder devices to their buttocks. Thank you."
-FakeCmdrTaco
Yeah, but this was "Lack of planning on your part, does constitute a destructive job on my part."
For instance, how do you search a file for text, using Windows Server 2000 or 2003 tools? Show only the first or last x lines of a file? Dependably schedule an item to run whether you are logged in or not? Determine which versions of which applications are installed?
Searching a file for text can be done with 'find' on win2k3 machines. Find is like grep's lesser brother, but it works for simple tasks. The part I always forget is that the double quotes for the search text are required. If you're talking about a binary file, you have to use strings.exe from sysinternals first.
Scheduling can usually be done via schtasks, or at. You usually have to import as SYSTEM to ensure things run unattended.
Everything else you mentioned is spot-on.
"psinfo -s @computerlist.txt" will give you some basic software info (not always versions) Also, MS bought sysinternals, so pstools is not quite 3rd party any more, just not default installation.
The biggest problem with using psexec is that things like wmic fail completely. There are a lot of other programs (mostly install shield setups) that can't even be run in silent mode via psexec, but run fine via a scheduled run (which psexec can set up).
If you are used to "admining" *nix boxes, then working with Linux is easier. If all you've ever done is admin Windows, then working with Windows is a hell of a lot easier. It's always cheaper and easier to go with what you already know; that is the advantage that most Microsoft sales are now built on.
With decades of DOS->Win3->Win95->Win98[se]->NT4->Win2k->WinXP->Win2k3->Vista->Win7->Win2k8 under my belt, and only starting Solaris with 2.6 and Linux with RH 5 (pre-RHEL), I'd say I'm more of a Windows sysadmin. But getting Windows to do what I want is frustrating because as a *nix sysadmin as well, I _know_ the grass is greener on the other side, and there are cases where things that _should_ be easy on Windows just aren't. Granted, things like ADS are 1000% better than puppet or cfengine, but ADS is not the panacea for mass administration that marketing puppets claim.
Who brought up IT? The story is about a software developer and I can't find the words IT or "Information Technology" anywhere in the summary.
Ask anyone in HR if software developers are part of IT. The only places that will say "no" are companies that exclusively produce computer programs. Everywhere else, in-house programmers fall under the IT umbrella.
Weird... how many enter computer science in the hopes of a career in information technology. It wouldn't be so weird if many entered law school in the hopes of entering the paralegal field, or if many entered medical school in the hopes of a career in nursing, or entered a curriculum of fluid dynamics in the hopes of a solid plumbing career... but this only happens with CS and IT. Hey... I have an idea... why overshoot the Moon, when you can just study information technology instead?
Because CS programs usually provide a basic level of understanding of computers and computation that 2-year "IT" programs at your local junior college don't? Because the higher levels of the curricula give CS students an edge over their IT brethren?
I, for one, have found precious little reason to use differential calculus nor descrete math and probability permeatations, nor set theory, while administrating computer systems or supporting applications or users. YMMV
I've used set theory (more for notation), and logic, but I learned the logic from philosophy classes. Plus, if my job can find a way to move all of the hardware to offshore (including desktops), then I always have basic programming skills to fall back on.
I say hogwash. Admining *nix systems is much easier than Windows boxes. I'm constantly having to do simple things like "do $foo on boxes 1-24,35-90,102-150" on both windows and *nix boxes, and unless sshd and bash are installed on the windows boxes, it quickly devolves into stupid DOS tricks to properly run things like wmic via psexec (which doesn't work natively).
My you do have low standards. Canonical produces one of the worse Linux distributions out there.
They take Debian and make it up to date and usable. Except for Gentoo (one of the truly worst in my opinion; fun for a year, but I'd rather not have a core or two constantly compiling), nothing else as visible is as bleeding edge and willing to use non-free elements for the sake of usability.
They've got a rare chance to design an interface for people who don't already have expectations of how to use a computer.
So they have a rare chance to engender expectations that run counter to the rest of the computing world's expectations, to purposefully create a knowledge rift?
You had it and MIPSed Anonymous!
CPU ADD I.T. AMD MIPSed Anonymous!
Fini. No more replacement puns. Just stop.
Music today is heavily marketed and targeted for maximum sales with minimum work. This means they take something that sold before and make more of it.
If you liked it, the music today is *great*. If you don't like it, then there's *nothing* to listen to and it's all crap. It's actually all mediocre.
"In the old days", there was *real* crap. What was available was whatever was made and that was *anything*. Therefore there was *real* crap, but SOMEONE liked it. Someone who today would never get a look in because it "wouldn't sell". There were also some real gems but they didn't get repeated again and again until you got sick of it. There was VARIATION.
I'm sorry, but there is no reason for Muskrat Love to have played as many times as it did on the radio. It did make all of the other songs enjoyable though.
I'm curious if Comcast will block Conan now that they own the competitor...
This god we're talking about.
He know's everything that's happening and can do absolutely anything.
He he literally knows about children being raped to death and does nothing, nothing to stop it despite supposedly having both the knowledge and the means.
That's one damned evil god you've got there.
lets try a thought experiment.... lets say we have a person. An all-powerful, all-knowing person (to make the analogy work).
Upon creating a universe, and deciding to give its denizens free will, he corrects everything they ever do wrong, including their wrong thoughts and desires... Um wait, what happened to free will? That free-will thing must be pretty important if the person decides not to intervene on a regular, all-encompassing basis. And it is.
How can anyone admire scumbag politicians like Obama, Bush and Clinton above someone like Bill Gates or Steve Jobs? People are stupid.
Even Bush and Obama are more concerned with Jobs than themselves. Heck, they're always talking about recreating more Jobs (presumably after he passes).
I bet there is a direct correlation between IE useragent strings in the poll data and viewing Gates favorably.
And why was there no press conference to announce he had sold $1.4 billion in Apple shares in the 3 days before his announcement.
That's interesting if true. I suppose he figures he can't be thrown in jail if he's dead.
anyone could just smash a window to your house while you are out and walk off with all your posessions.
You just described wealth redistribution.
I have no idea of the level of data, but if you can verify the 2.2% Pakistani and Scottish in the neighborhood by other means (not hard since minority populations tend to be more vocal about their heritage, and might post such on Facebook), then you know that anyone else is English.
You are missing the entire point of taxes. Taxes are supposed to (help) balance the economic equation. Taxes are supposed to (help) keep the relative distribution of wealth stable across the long term.
Huh? Are you smoking crack? Taxes are a gentrified extortion scheme. A knight builds a castle, declares himself a lord, and starts collecting protection money from the local peasants. A lord builds a bigger castle, declares himself a baron, and starts collecting protection money from local lords. Skip a bit and the King collects protection money from local Dukes and Grand Dukes. And they use this money to build more and bigger castles and fight other kings who are muscling in on their serfs and turf.
Skip a bit again, and the taxes are a portion of any government, used to pay for things commonly used (roads, emergency services), or to allow for government bureaucracy, and potentially government growth. Taxes are only used to "balance the economic equation" in pure communist societies like Smurf Village. Everywhere else, taxes are a polite and orderly way to pay a bully with a sword and a horse.
But if only 1/20 of the profiles are from people who actually registered with the site... Sure, populating such a database from scraped data from facebook etc is tacky and unethical. But my attention is drawn to a mention in the submission of census data. Last time I looked, the Australian Bureau of Statistics didn't release data collected about identifiable individuals. Have they suddenly changed that policy, and if so, why?
My guess is that when taken into account with everything else they're scraping, the non-identifiable info from a census becomes identifiable.
Facebook says Bobby Tim lives at 1234 Fake Street. The Census says two people live at 1234 Fake street, both black. Ergo, Bobby Tim is black.
Facebook says FakeBobby Tim lives at 1234 FakeFake Street. The Census says no one lives at 1234 FakeFake street. It's a residential zone, but probably an abandoned house. FakeBobby Tim's address data from Facebook is potentially Fake.
"I like paying taxes; with it I buy civilization"
I'd rather use that money to buy Civilization V.