Well Sonny, back then most of the OS only even saw the first 640K so I don't think having "less than 2MB" was really a problem.
It was also not really that unusual to have main storage that wasn't bootable, requiring to boot off a floppy drive. And that floppy drive was only even capable of 1.4M max; a lot of disks were half that. You wouldn't even be able to use 2M of RAM booting if you wanted too; booting isn't hard to do.
You could boot off a floppy, and have plenty of room to run an apache webserver. You don't really need a second floppy unless you have a GUI.
Reminds me of what a friend from the local BBS told me in the electronic message he sent requesting hardware installation assistance: "I got MEGABYTES! MEGABYTES! Beer too, please help install"
You still don't know that systemd is modular? Do you even understand the difference between a compilation unit, and a binary distro package? Doesn't your distro also include source packages?
Me, if I had whiny complaints about software I'd at least want to understand the basic vocabulary so as not to be a complete ass, but obviously YMMV.
I will say that I'm glad that systemd works fine with SysV init scripts, because I wouldn't want to rewrite the ones I already have, but that said, I sure as fuck wouldn't want to be stuck writing new ones when there is an option.
Do you know why distro maintainers don't split systemd's compilation units into different distro packages? Because none of the whiners even have a use case. It turns out, 100% of their problems are based on being aliterate and not reading the friendly manual.
And if you don't know what aliterate means, please post a reply telling me I spelled illiterate wrong, I could use a good belly-laugh.
I just wanted to say that for software developers, slackware was always a perfectly good desktop OS. It is mainly non-developers who will feel the dependency/configuration pains. Software developers have to manage that shit anyways.
As somebody who started with slackware, learned linux, and then switched to RedHat, I have to call bullshit on this one.
If you already knew UNIX, all there was to "learning linux" for the average user was learning how to compile a kernel; back then it was often necessary in order to get all your hardware working. New USB device? You might need to compile the kernel again. And that was exactly the same on every distro. And then when the kernel's module system was more mature, and they could just ship all the compiled binaries, then the kernel became the same as any other *nix; something users don't need to know about.
And for sysadmins, you'd need to learn ipchains and a few things, but those are the same on slackware or RedHat.
Switching from csh to bash was a bigger change than the total net difference between slackware and RedHat.
Slackware was my first distro too; I spent $5 on a lame magazine to get the bundled Slackware 3.0 CD. Everything in the magazine was mainstream stuff about windoze, but they did get a sale with that CD on the front.
(Note: Magazines were a popular form of information distribution before broadband internet; they were like a snapshot of a website, printed out on expensive paper)
It was great! I went open source and never looked back. I've run a few different linux distros over the years, and spent a few years on various *BSD versions, but at the time slackware was the best. Distros were not yet really well integrated, the dependency management wasn't that great yet, and the configure, make, make install pattern worked much better.
Then I spent over 3 days downloading slackware 3.5 on dialup. Fun times. It would have only taken 2 days if not for FTP restarts.
Why go to the effort of writing such a poor explanation when you can just quote Wikipedia?
Because
argument from authority is for idiots
wikipedia is a very low quality source for giving a simple, clear explanation
People who don't want to communicate, they just want to read wikipedia, they're not reading your words to find wikipedia, because you're not Wikipedia
Those are the reasons I didn't. Had I considered it, I would have also rejected it in this case because their explanation is of much lower quality than what I presented, with all sorts of irrelevant words about things like subdivision of currency, and the exchange symbol is, the etymology, even colloquial synonyms. That's all besides the point; the point is that the word "yuan" tells you that the payment is currency, it doesn't tell you which currency. The specific name of Chinese currency is Renminbi. If you're trying to hand a Chinese person US dollars, and they refuse to accept it, they won't demand "yuan," which you're already trying to hand them, they'll demand Renminbi. And if you're trying to press a credit card on them, and they demand "yuan," they didn't demand Chinese currency, they only demanded some form of cash. Colloquialisms will be more casual.
When you paste from wikipedia, you show you can operate a mouse, but you don't show that you understand anything, nor do you engage in communication. Nor have you even practiced a communication form. And often, you won't have even shown an ability to categorize information based on the current context.
You start off with the claim, (paraphrased) "1 can't equal 1, because you didn't count to 0 yet."
It gets dumber from there.
No, I didn't claim that agriculture increased leisure time; I claimed that agriculture increased the amount of leisure time that took place on a full enough stomach that the mind might be thinking of other things than food; and I made a connection between the amount of leisure time that hunter-gatherer's have being connected to their resource access. Which is obvious. And furthermore, average leisure time in the community doesn't tell you anything about primitive art, because not every member of the community was equally as productive in producing art. A city with less mean leisure time than a hunter-gatherer village still has much, much, much higher peak leisure time within the community. Is art expected to be produced exclusively by the lower classes? No.
You didn't even understand the words, why do you bother trying to argue with them? Plus you're spewing words without even thinking about if they make sense. You say I don't understand how the breast works? I'll throw down the gauntlet on that one, moron! Show your work, what words did I use that imply that? Because you seem unaware that lack of food causes a mother to have a hard time producing enough milk. Open a book for the first time in your life. Yesterday in the park I saw 4 deer; a mother, father, and two babies. The mother was furiously chewing leaves; everybody else was standing around. Typical. You don't need to measure her boobs to figure out why she's so hungry.
Yes. That translates to "10 billion units of cash."
The Chinese yuan is called the renminbi. As in, 10 billion renminbi.
American yuan is called the US dollar. As in, 1.5 billion US dollars.
If you go to China and try to pay for lunch by bartering chickens, and the shopkeeper insists on being paid yuan, that doesn't mean he only accept renminbi; he might very happily accept dollars, or any other type of yuan that is convertible to renminbi.
Sorry kid, the old words didn't disappear just because the new word was really groovy.
Now get off the lawn, I spilled my meds somewhere in this field and I'm gonna sit here and watch the grass grow until I either remember where I dropped them, or forget why I'm sitting here.
Many Europeans were that small 200 years ago, because they were from countries that had had hundreds of years of war and related reduced nutrition, but most of northern Europe including the UK was much taller, as their wars were being fought more often in other people's countries.
offside is a great rule for young kids, where there might be a huge difference in running speed between the players, but when they're old enough to be dividing the teams up based on skill then it seems to be a poor rule.
It isn't enough to punish the player, you have to punish their teammates, and also fine the team, and the punishments have to be stronger than the potential benefit of the actions. All the stakeholders that potentially benefit from the action have to be punished, when there is a history of narrower punishments being ineffective.
In most American sports, if there is video evidence that a player was lying and deceived a referee and it affected the outcome of a game, that whole team risks being fined, losing credit for wins, the player is likely to be banned from some number of games, etc.
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It is impossible to be sure, because it's old enough it might be lying about its age.
Well Sonny, back then most of the OS only even saw the first 640K so I don't think having "less than 2MB" was really a problem.
It was also not really that unusual to have main storage that wasn't bootable, requiring to boot off a floppy drive. And that floppy drive was only even capable of 1.4M max; a lot of disks were half that. You wouldn't even be able to use 2M of RAM booting if you wanted too; booting isn't hard to do.
You could boot off a floppy, and have plenty of room to run an apache webserver. You don't really need a second floppy unless you have a GUI.
Reminds me of what a friend from the local BBS told me in the electronic message he sent requesting hardware installation assistance: "I got MEGABYTES! MEGABYTES! Beer too, please help install"
Yeah. magabytes: 2 of them.
You still don't know that systemd is modular? Do you even understand the difference between a compilation unit, and a binary distro package? Doesn't your distro also include source packages?
Me, if I had whiny complaints about software I'd at least want to understand the basic vocabulary so as not to be a complete ass, but obviously YMMV.
I will say that I'm glad that systemd works fine with SysV init scripts, because I wouldn't want to rewrite the ones I already have, but that said, I sure as fuck wouldn't want to be stuck writing new ones when there is an option.
Do you know why distro maintainers don't split systemd's compilation units into different distro packages? Because none of the whiners even have a use case. It turns out, 100% of their problems are based on being aliterate and not reading the friendly manual.
And if you don't know what aliterate means, please post a reply telling me I spelled illiterate wrong, I could use a good belly-laugh.
I just wanted to say that for software developers, slackware was always a perfectly good desktop OS. It is mainly non-developers who will feel the dependency/configuration pains. Software developers have to manage that shit anyways.
As somebody who started with slackware, learned linux, and then switched to RedHat, I have to call bullshit on this one.
If you already knew UNIX, all there was to "learning linux" for the average user was learning how to compile a kernel; back then it was often necessary in order to get all your hardware working. New USB device? You might need to compile the kernel again. And that was exactly the same on every distro. And then when the kernel's module system was more mature, and they could just ship all the compiled binaries, then the kernel became the same as any other *nix; something users don't need to know about.
And for sysadmins, you'd need to learn ipchains and a few things, but those are the same on slackware or RedHat.
Switching from csh to bash was a bigger change than the total net difference between slackware and RedHat.
Slackware was my first distro too; I spent $5 on a lame magazine to get the bundled Slackware 3.0 CD. Everything in the magazine was mainstream stuff about windoze, but they did get a sale with that CD on the front.
(Note: Magazines were a popular form of information distribution before broadband internet; they were like a snapshot of a website, printed out on expensive paper)
It was great! I went open source and never looked back. I've run a few different linux distros over the years, and spent a few years on various *BSD versions, but at the time slackware was the best. Distros were not yet really well integrated, the dependency management wasn't that great yet, and the configure, make, make install pattern worked much better.
Then I spent over 3 days downloading slackware 3.5 on dialup. Fun times. It would have only taken 2 days if not for FTP restarts.
Those are just units for the negative space; they're not building the part they counted using donuts. They're just hungry.
No thanks, I already expressed myself clearly. You seem to feel like there is some idea you want expressed; perhaps you should express it.
To you the word "clock" means, "as how it works in many other sports."
That is not even grammatically complete. Are you really sure you even know how it works in any other sports?
Why go to the effort of writing such a poor explanation when you can just quote Wikipedia?
Because
Those are the reasons I didn't. Had I considered it, I would have also rejected it in this case because their explanation is of much lower quality than what I presented, with all sorts of irrelevant words about things like subdivision of currency, and the exchange symbol is, the etymology, even colloquial synonyms. That's all besides the point; the point is that the word "yuan" tells you that the payment is currency, it doesn't tell you which currency. The specific name of Chinese currency is Renminbi. If you're trying to hand a Chinese person US dollars, and they refuse to accept it, they won't demand "yuan," which you're already trying to hand them, they'll demand Renminbi. And if you're trying to press a credit card on them, and they demand "yuan," they didn't demand Chinese currency, they only demanded some form of cash. Colloquialisms will be more casual.
When you paste from wikipedia, you show you can operate a mouse, but you don't show that you understand anything, nor do you engage in communication. Nor have you even practiced a communication form. And often, you won't have even shown an ability to categorize information based on the current context.
You start off with the claim, (paraphrased) "1 can't equal 1, because you didn't count to 0 yet."
It gets dumber from there.
No, I didn't claim that agriculture increased leisure time; I claimed that agriculture increased the amount of leisure time that took place on a full enough stomach that the mind might be thinking of other things than food; and I made a connection between the amount of leisure time that hunter-gatherer's have being connected to their resource access. Which is obvious. And furthermore, average leisure time in the community doesn't tell you anything about primitive art, because not every member of the community was equally as productive in producing art. A city with less mean leisure time than a hunter-gatherer village still has much, much, much higher peak leisure time within the community. Is art expected to be produced exclusively by the lower classes? No.
You didn't even understand the words, why do you bother trying to argue with them? Plus you're spewing words without even thinking about if they make sense. You say I don't understand how the breast works? I'll throw down the gauntlet on that one, moron! Show your work, what words did I use that imply that? Because you seem unaware that lack of food causes a mother to have a hard time producing enough milk. Open a book for the first time in your life. Yesterday in the park I saw 4 deer; a mother, father, and two babies. The mother was furiously chewing leaves; everybody else was standing around. Typical. You don't need to measure her boobs to figure out why she's so hungry.
Color you stupid, arrogant, and full of shit.
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It's why I went back to writing secure dynamic websites in C with no framework.
I just wish I was joking. It feels like there should be some kind of punchline right here.
It says 10 billion yuan. Is the yuan fictional?
Yes. That translates to "10 billion units of cash."
The Chinese yuan is called the renminbi. As in, 10 billion renminbi.
American yuan is called the US dollar. As in, 1.5 billion US dollars.
If you go to China and try to pay for lunch by bartering chickens, and the shopkeeper insists on being paid yuan, that doesn't mean he only accept renminbi; he might very happily accept dollars, or any other type of yuan that is convertible to renminbi.
I always suspected instragram was just a raspberry pi in a basement somewhere.
You might have been too busy playing with your goats to notice all the people in the news dying falling off cliffs while taking selfies?!
Maybe the rest of them merely knew about it, but were not significantly affected?
Is this the end of civilization as we know it?
Are we there yet?
What about now?
Are you sure?
Maybe we should stop and ask for directions, I was sure we were passing through it about this time last year.
Sorry kid, the old words didn't disappear just because the new word was really groovy.
Now get off the lawn, I spilled my meds somewhere in this field and I'm gonna sit here and watch the grass grow until I either remember where I dropped them, or forget why I'm sitting here.
It didn't need fixing; if you didn't understand it, it isn't a fix to change it to mean the thing you misunderstood it to be.
This could easily be solved by inverting the rule to prevent excessive defense instead of preventing sufficient offense to attempt scoring.
Many Europeans were that small 200 years ago, because they were from countries that had had hundreds of years of war and related reduced nutrition, but most of northern Europe including the UK was much taller, as their wars were being fought more often in other people's countries.
offside is a great rule for young kids, where there might be a huge difference in running speed between the players, but when they're old enough to be dividing the teams up based on skill then it seems to be a poor rule.
Sounds about right; that's how much value it has, the value of identifying a preferred word selection.
I can get more value than that out of soccer ball just kicking it against a wall by myself, you might want to reconsider your hobby.
It isn't enough to punish the player, you have to punish their teammates, and also fine the team, and the punishments have to be stronger than the potential benefit of the actions. All the stakeholders that potentially benefit from the action have to be punished, when there is a history of narrower punishments being ineffective.
In most American sports, if there is video evidence that a player was lying and deceived a referee and it affected the outcome of a game, that whole team risks being fined, losing credit for wins, the player is likely to be banned from some number of games, etc.