For years, and years in the United States we fought forest fires in an absolute manner. When you see a fire, put it out completely, ASAP. And slowly fuel that should have burned built up. Until eventually the fires that did break out were so intense that they couldn't fight them anymore. Now that the world population is approaching 7 billion, am I the only one who finds this analogy terrifying?
If we left our dead to rot at our feet, I might be concerned. Yes, I know, we're the fuel, and viruses the fire; but we're like dry brush and tinder that can move, wet itself down when it sees fire in the distance, build firewalls, make back-fires, etc.
Whether it's called a pandemic or not, [...] we might be in a kind of apocalyptic situation and what we're really seeing now with H1N1 is that in most cases the disease is [...]."
God forbid, don't teach em python first. Learn assembly, c++, ML, fortran
This seems to me like saying you should learn to drive an F1 car, or a Model T, before being allowed anything with an automatic gearbox.
I would say driving a car is like running a program. Designing or repairing a car is a much better analogy. And in that case, learning the old designs, and the physics they used is much better than "run this diagnostic tool; replace factory-made black-box widget". Learning assembly or C forces a person to recognize the limits of the machine (and thus the limits of interpreted languages).
I have to use the manufacturer's GUI. Windows XP's GUI apparently doesn't know the magic. Also, I have to do _real_ voodoo: The machine will only get an IP address if
It's the first connection after an AP reboot
or the first device to have connected to the AP after a reboot is still on (or rejoins)
Sometimes needs the passphrases reentered.
The issues don't exist for linux, or other devices, so it's not the AP.
Obviously, it's a vendor-driver quality issue, not a Microsoft issue (just like not having drivers for Linux wouldn't be a Linux issue).
No. In Windows, USB wireless does NOT Just Work(tm). I have to work voodoo _every_time_ I use my USB wireless dongle on my gaming machine (Windows).
Linux wireless does Just Work(tm). And it's so easy and GUIfied, it makes me wonder why a company who makes the hardware can't commission better drivers and GUIs for Windows.
POHMELFS is a filesystem that can do what a lot of people have been wanting to do for a while: Use that extra 100GB (or TB/PB for our future readers) that no one ever uses on their workstations as redundant distributed network storage, or the same for clusters instead of buying dedicated storage machines. Of course, this requires Linux with kernel 2.6.30 running on all those workstations.
Let's put it this way: I saw a drive by download on a fully patched Vista SP2 machine with IE8 on Friday. If the user had been in the admin group, it could have been owned. Now with http://www.microsoft.com/technet/security/Bulletin/MS09-025.mspx I'm not so sure (why does it say valid creds are needed? Could a drive-by exploit it?).
'Ih you av umfing, at i is ver naure ih ver ompleh, wi any goal... en you nee oen oure oo ave any in stan ces of ih becau nobohy ill be able oo do an unpendnd imprendrenshun of ih.'
I HATE installing and especially configuring new OSes!
If you ever find you need to do a lot of that, RH (IIRC, even back in the old RH5,6,7 days) has a auto-configuration dealy-who called kickstart which can auto-configure a new install for you, just like the previous install. Occasionally comes in handy (not quite as handy as Ghost/partimage, but sometimes the hardware differences are just too much for Ghost/partimage, or you want to have a clean setup).
When RHEL6 comes out, you might be using hardware from 2010-2011. I see something similar to a chicken and egg problem. Or maybe it's closer to the short story "The Gift of the Magi"; You give RH time to make a new version, letting your hardware age... and eventually RH gifts you with a comb, but you sold your hair!
You're looking for "Hear, hear!" as in "Hear, Ye! Hear Ye!" or "Listen to me!"
Sorry, we each have our grammar-nazi burdens to bear. I just bared mine.
99.999% can't see the Grand Canyon.
100% of us can't *smell* the *pretty* *colors*
Yes, pretty==good, and the Milky Way is pretty, but mankind has been fighting darkness at night for millennia. We finally beat it. Unless you're going to say that seeing the stars regularly is good for our mental health because it's part of our original environment or lack of stars-sight makes us vulnerable to cancer, I'll take my well-lit night any day. err, night. You know what I mean.
A friend of mine has some of those. They're brightly colored, and have different numbers on them (one number per die). He can make any type of die-roll by seeing which one falls first into the holes of his specially crafted rolling-table (green felt, like the ones in Vegas). Not Gen Con portable though.
That's not a fair characterization. They planned a security update to be released a month later. A MONTH. And they did suggest turning off a feature that never should have existed and is not trivial to turn off remotely.
pentuple-redundant flight control computers, but how many sensors? If all five computers get the same wrong data, they'll all agree on the same wrong course of action.
Apple agreed to the app and it was in the appstore for a day, then pulled it without word. Then they agreed to put it back up, then after waiting a long while, they finally said "no" without explanation. I would say they broke the original agreement to sell the tethering app through the app store because someone in their dev group said it was supposed to be a killer feature in iphone OS 3.0. Abuse of monopoly power.
Or... They killed the nullriver app because AT&T told them to behind the scenes. Collusion and abuse of monopoly power.
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For years, and years in the United States we fought forest fires in an absolute manner. When you see a fire, put it out completely, ASAP. And slowly fuel that should have burned built up. Until eventually the fires that did break out were so intense that they couldn't fight them anymore. Now that the world population is approaching 7 billion, am I the only one who finds this analogy terrifying?
If we left our dead to rot at our feet, I might be concerned. Yes, I know, we're the fuel, and viruses the fire; but we're like dry brush and tinder that can move, wet itself down when it sees fire in the distance, build firewalls, make back-fires, etc.
Whether it's called a pandemic or not, [...] we might be in a kind of apocalyptic situation and what we're really seeing now with H1N1 is that in most cases the disease is [...]."
Fun with selective editing!
God forbid, don't teach em python first. Learn assembly, c++, ML, fortran
This seems to me like saying you should learn to drive an F1 car, or a Model T, before being allowed anything with an automatic gearbox.
I would say driving a car is like running a program. Designing or repairing a car is a much better analogy. And in that case, learning the old designs, and the physics they used is much better than "run this diagnostic tool; replace factory-made black-box widget". Learning assembly or C forces a person to recognize the limits of the machine (and thus the limits of interpreted languages).
Is it even legal to charge a fee for credit-card use? Debit-card, maybe (like a withdrawal from an ATM).
The issues don't exist for linux, or other devices, so it's not the AP.
Obviously, it's a vendor-driver quality issue, not a Microsoft issue (just like not having drivers for Linux wouldn't be a Linux issue).
No. In Windows, USB wireless does NOT Just Work(tm). I have to work voodoo _every_time_ I use my USB wireless dongle on my gaming machine (Windows). Linux wireless does Just Work(tm). And it's so easy and GUIfied, it makes me wonder why a company who makes the hardware can't commission better drivers and GUIs for Windows.
POHMELFS is a filesystem that can do what a lot of people have been wanting to do for a while: Use that extra 100GB (or TB/PB for our future readers) that no one ever uses on their workstations as redundant distributed network storage, or the same for clusters instead of buying dedicated storage machines. Of course, this requires Linux with kernel 2.6.30 running on all those workstations.
Well, there were semi-recent updates for 10.5 too.
Let's put it this way: I saw a drive by download on a fully patched Vista SP2 machine with IE8 on Friday. If the user had been in the admin group, it could have been owned. Now with http://www.microsoft.com/technet/security/Bulletin/MS09-025.mspx I'm not so sure (why does it say valid creds are needed? Could a drive-by exploit it?).
I'm so sorry. Let me make a rainbow for you:
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'Ih you av umfing, at i is ver naure ih ver ompleh, wi any goal... en you nee oen oure oo ave any in stan ces of ih becau nobohy ill be able oo do an unpendnd imprendrenshun of ih.'
In other words, it gives ICANN even stronger dominance over internet naming.
Technically, it gives local ISPs stronger dominance over internet naming. Not that they can enforce it beyond their fiefdom...
He's trying to say Weevil, but he can't form his lips to make the "w" sound.
Spluh, Mon!
I HATE installing and especially configuring new OSes!
If you ever find you need to do a lot of that, RH (IIRC, even back in the old RH5,6,7 days) has a auto-configuration dealy-who called kickstart which can auto-configure a new install for you, just like the previous install. Occasionally comes in handy (not quite as handy as Ghost/partimage, but sometimes the hardware differences are just too much for Ghost/partimage, or you want to have a clean setup).
When RHEL6 comes out, you might be using hardware from 2010-2011. I see something similar to a chicken and egg problem. Or maybe it's closer to the short story "The Gift of the Magi"; You give RH time to make a new version, letting your hardware age... and eventually RH gifts you with a comb, but you sold your hair!
Fedora 4 support has long since expired so there was no way to keep it updated.
At that point, it's just a slackware machine. Download the source for new versions of stuff and compile. ;)
Here here.
You're looking for "Hear, hear!" as in "Hear, Ye! Hear Ye!" or "Listen to me!"
Sorry, we each have our grammar-nazi burdens to bear. I just bared mine.
99.999% can't see the Grand Canyon.
100% of us can't *smell* the *pretty* *colors*
Yes, pretty==good, and the Milky Way is pretty, but mankind has been fighting darkness at night for millennia. We finally beat it. Unless you're going to say that seeing the stars regularly is good for our mental health because it's part of our original environment or lack of stars-sight makes us vulnerable to cancer, I'll take my well-lit night any day. err, night. You know what I mean.
As opposed to.. spherical dice?
A friend of mine has some of those. They're brightly colored, and have different numbers on them (one number per die). He can make any type of die-roll by seeing which one falls first into the holes of his specially crafted rolling-table (green felt, like the ones in Vegas). Not Gen Con portable though.
That's not a fair characterization. They planned a security update to be released a month later. A MONTH. And they did suggest turning off a feature that never should have existed and is not trivial to turn off remotely.
Amy could probably be replaced and the rastafarian guy, but most of the others cannot
But don't replace Amy's voice with Hermes', because that would be weird.
pentuple-redundant flight control computers, but how many sensors? If all five computers get the same wrong data, they'll all agree on the same wrong course of action.
Like the $99 iphone?
Apple agreed to the app and it was in the appstore for a day, then pulled it without word. Then they agreed to put it back up, then after waiting a long while, they finally said "no" without explanation. I would say they broke the original agreement to sell the tethering app through the app store because someone in their dev group said it was supposed to be a killer feature in iphone OS 3.0. Abuse of monopoly power. Or... They killed the nullriver app because AT&T told them to behind the scenes. Collusion and abuse of monopoly power.