As to yours though.. I wouldn't want spaces in my commands. How do you tell where the command ends and the arguments begin?
As for man... man is the MANual. That's not that bad is it? Ok, help might be a little better but it's not a big deal unless you are very closed minded. It's really a history thing. Man wasn't just somebody's idea of a help command. Unix (or Unics as it was called back then) originally actually had a manual. As in dead trees paper! It got big. Real big. One day Dennis Ritchie accidentally dropped a copy and killed his dog. Flattened the poor girl like a pancake. After that he decided it needed to be digital. Man is a digital copy of that original dog killing book plus decades of additions and updates. Thus it is man(ual).
Now should manual have been "manual" or maybe the real whole title "Unix Programmers Manual"? It might be easier to remember. 5 years after you learned that command and you are still typing it 5 times a day would you still appreciate the ease of using real whole English words? Are you that abc? (abreviationally challenged) Or do you just really love typing. Is your r/l name Mavis Beacon?
That's how a lot of Unix commands are, they make plenty of sense with history. I'm sure grep and the others all have their own stories. Well.. not all. How much of a story does it take to come to ls is a lazy way to type list? Oh, yah, you are AbC. Sorry about that.
Yes, the history of decades old programming decisions isn't really something you want to learn to use an OS (or any other software). But what's the alternative? Throw everything out x number of years and start over? It sounds great when you are a hopeless newbie but once you actually learn something do you want to do it all over again every 10 years just to make it easy for the next batch of basement kiddies? Your clock is ticking too you know! Now get off my lwn!!!! (lawn)
P.S. Ok, Ok, I made up the dog part of the story. But it COULD have happened! The rest was real. Actually, I don't KNOW that it didn't happen... hmm....
Well.. Apple used it's Turkish delight, lured away 1/2 to 3/4 of the geeks and turned them into hipster zombies. Then Ubuntu cleaved off another 2/3 of our population turning them into Apple hipster zombie wannabies. Finally the remaining Geek population had nothing left to fight about when the emacs fanbois started getting laid and decided that was more important leaving the remaining vi faithful lonely in their mother's basements with nothing good to do. Didn't you wonder where lulzsec came from?
Why? If the lowest level plans are sold at a loss then raise the price on them. If customers just aren't paying their bills then cancel their service and send them to collections. Either way I don't see 'firing' customers as being a good reason to have a scoring system.
On the other hand... at most of these companies those 'senior' representatives probably get better pay and commission for keeping a customer. The smaller profits made on a low tier customer might just not be worth sending them there. That only really makes sense if you expect the customer to keep calling back and doing it again. Otherwise even a small profit margin should make up for the 5-20 minutes they spend talking to the representative and any commission after a little while. Maybe a good scoring system should be how often they call, threaten to cancel and get a better deal.
That's awesome! I'm going to tell my friend who thinks he is stuck in an AT&T contract about this right now. Maybe he can reduce his plan to become a 0 or a 1 and then call to cancel! Is that all there is to it? Or would he need bad credit too?
Just so long as it isn't too realistic. Woo Hoo! Low gravity flab! It could be hard to get good excercise at 1/6th the gravity. But then again at least there wouldn't be as much sag...
I think Android Tablets have been hurt by all the cheap stuff that was released with old versions of Android that don't include the Google Marketplace. Sure.. Google warned it wasn't ready but consumers don't listen. They got burnt and will shy away from Android tablets for quite a while to come even though the newer ones should be just fine. Google should have rushed a tablet market place out for the old "smartphone-only" OSs even if they sucked on the Tablet. By not doing so they just made it worse.
I should never have written that comment. Now Chrome is failing 2 times out of 3! I'm just about back to Firefox. I don't get it though. It's not my computer, my work computer is pretty much stock Win7, my home computer is Gentoo and I have seen it on a couple WinXP machines too. There is nothing common between them but the problem. And yet.. I find it hard to believe that Chrome could develop fanbois while being this unreliable. Come on fanbois... explain how to make your favorite browser work!
Does anybody else remember when Mozilla was an OSS project and not a company? When it was just a bunch of volunteers replacing all the source code that used to be Netscape Communicator? Look how many other projects survive just fine without corporate backing. What has happened?
Chrome fans seem so angry when someone prefers a different browser! I go back and forth between the two. Chrome is fast. Chrome now has most of the extensions I used to stick with Firefox for. Chrome seems to be more stable than it used to be. On three computers and under 3 OSs (Gentoo, WinXP & Win7) I have seen the same problem with Chrome. Everything is going fine and suddenly it acts like the internet connection is gone. Usually it only happens in one tab, open a new one, close the bad one and you are ok again. But then you lose all the 'back button' history! Occasionaly I can't get chrome back w/o rebooting! Newer versions seem to do this a lot less than old ones. I still see it happen though.
Still, when Chrome IS working it is clearly faster than Firefox. Thus, I go back and forth depending on which one I am more annoyed with at the moment.
I miss the days before I got hooked on browser extensions. Konqueror was fast AND stable.
Science is a methodology for finding truths, not a body of truths.
One can accept the facts of how an electric circuit works to light a lightbulb for example without accepting the facts of how man-made CO2 in the atmosphere warms the Earth. This does not have anything to do with accepting or rejecting science.
Rejecting results of experiments and observations conducted using the scientific method because they do not fit with one's preconceived notions or they are not conducive to making a profit is rejecting science.
True.. but with all the prison cells that would be vacated by legalizing drugs we could afford to make the penalties for driving under the influence very very discouraging.
Do you host them at home or are you using some collocation service? I ask because some years back I used to do this. One of the main reasons that I stopped was that my messages started getting flagged as spam. It turned out that the customer ip ranges for Comcast, the biggest cable internet provider in the US was listed in a bunch of blacklists. They just assumed that anything originating from a non-commercial home internet connection was either spam or a malware infection. That was years ago and I have assumed that it probably has only gotten worse. Do you have this problem?
But why shouldn't we have devices that cater to both groups? Are we really that small a minority? I'm sure the geek crowd today is bigger than the early computer adopters of the 70s and 80s. And yet... that was big enough a market to found an industry. Why does giving the average user their Angry Birds have to take away from us?
And is there any security threat to a port being open that does NOT have an active service on it? If so what is the attacker cracking? The TCP/IP stack itself?
Why have an active service on any port if you aren't using it?
As far as I can tell firewalls are useful if you aren't sure what services are running on your network and cannot or do not feel like cleaning them up. Or... as a lazy way to make services accessible only on the LAN. For the former use I can understand on a LAN with many users. It may just be impossible to police. For the latter... that is just lazy. What server worth it's salt can't be configured to only accept connections from the LAN and ignore all others?
On the other hand, all firewalls I have seen are prone to err. Perhaps an update fails leaving it in an unusable state. Or the user tries to configure some fancy rules resulting in this or that internet service not working. As an example I know a guy who works in IT security now. When he was still in school he liked to run his own email server. That was back before all the home ISP IPs were blacklisted by most smtp hosts. Most of the time his email didn't work. Not because of his smtp server but because he was tweaking his firewall rules. Eventually I learned that the only way to reach him was to call him on the phone. I guess he liked learning about that security stuff though and now he loves his job.
I just don't see the point of a firewall unless you are in a situation where you cannot control your own LAN. I do think that services should be limited to what one actually uses and then should be actively updated though.
Ha, Typical BOFH statement. What if you don't spend all your time on the LAN? What if you actually USE ssh on a regular basis from outside locations. I guess you run an ethernet cord from home to work to the coffee shop and any other place you go?
Yes, Kindle is pretty good about making your purchased books available to you on many platforms. Still... as you mentioned they can always reach out and delete your property. And.. if Kindle ever goes away you lose it all. And... there is no guarantee Kindle will be available for any given future platform... And if you build your own platform there will be no Kindle for it...
For those last two points there is web access. Assuming you have a web browser on the new platform. And assuming that you have internet access wherever you are when you want to read your book.
Better yet, why not just separate the wifi from the laptop. Use a usb wifi adapter or an external wifi antenna. That seems a lot easier than how they did do it.
What an imagination you have! As if there are any chicks of any age in your mom's basement! Ha Ha. Well.. I guess sometimes there is one... your mom come down to tell you to get a job...
No. The device that DOES satisfy all his requirements is the hard to find one. The N900 is the easy to find alternative that ALMOST gets there. It's called compromise. Sometimes you just have to do it.
Whenever and wherever this topic comes up (even on ham blogs) people say the same things. Many are dead, many are inactive, etc...
Yes, this is true. So? That has been true since the original hams turned old. If licenses are up then that likely means that all categories, inactive, dead and ACTIVE are up.
When somebody is looking for something that is rare, non-existent, hard to find or really expensive it isn't a bad thing to mention but... here is something much easier to get that is ALMOST what you are looking for...
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GP was a joke I am sure.
As to yours though.. I wouldn't want spaces in my commands. How do you tell where the command ends and the arguments begin?
As for man... man is the MANual. That's not that bad is it? Ok, help might be a little better but it's not a big deal unless you are very closed minded. It's really a history thing. Man wasn't just somebody's idea of a help command. Unix (or Unics as it was called back then) originally actually had a manual. As in dead trees paper! It got big. Real big. One day Dennis Ritchie accidentally dropped a copy and killed his dog. Flattened the poor girl like a pancake. After that he decided it needed to be digital. Man is a digital copy of that original dog killing book plus decades of additions and updates. Thus it is man(ual).
Now should manual have been "manual" or maybe the real whole title "Unix Programmers Manual"? It might be easier to remember. 5 years after you learned that command and you are still typing it 5 times a day would you still appreciate the ease of using real whole English words? Are you that abc? (abreviationally challenged) Or do you just really love typing. Is your r/l name Mavis Beacon?
That's how a lot of Unix commands are, they make plenty of sense with history. I'm sure grep and the others all have their own stories. Well.. not all. How much of a story does it take to come to ls is a lazy way to type list? Oh, yah, you are AbC. Sorry about that.
Yes, the history of decades old programming decisions isn't really something you want to learn to use an OS (or any other software). But what's the alternative? Throw everything out x number of years and start over? It sounds great when you are a hopeless newbie but once you actually learn something do you want to do it all over again every 10 years just to make it easy for the next batch of basement kiddies? Your clock is ticking too you know! Now get off my lwn!!!! (lawn)
P.S. Ok, Ok, I made up the dog part of the story. But it COULD have happened! The rest was real. Actually, I don't KNOW that it didn't happen... hmm....
Well.. Apple used it's Turkish delight, lured away 1/2 to 3/4 of the geeks and turned them into hipster zombies. Then Ubuntu cleaved off another 2/3 of our population turning them into Apple hipster zombie wannabies. Finally the remaining Geek population had nothing left to fight about when the emacs fanbois started getting laid and decided that was more important leaving the remaining vi faithful lonely in their mother's basements with nothing good to do. Didn't you wonder where lulzsec came from?
Why? If the lowest level plans are sold at a loss then raise the price on them. If customers just aren't paying their bills then cancel their service and send them to collections. Either way I don't see 'firing' customers as being a good reason to have a scoring system.
On the other hand... at most of these companies those 'senior' representatives probably get better pay and commission for keeping a customer. The smaller profits made on a low tier customer might just not be worth sending them there. That only really makes sense if you expect the customer to keep calling back and doing it again. Otherwise even a small profit margin should make up for the 5-20 minutes they spend talking to the representative and any commission after a little while. Maybe a good scoring system should be how often they call, threaten to cancel and get a better deal.
That's awesome! I'm going to tell my friend who thinks he is stuck in an AT&T contract about this right now. Maybe he can reduce his plan to become a 0 or a 1 and then call to cancel! Is that all there is to it? Or would he need bad credit too?
Just so long as it isn't too realistic. Woo Hoo! Low gravity flab! It could be hard to get good excercise at 1/6th the gravity. But then again at least there wouldn't be as much sag...
I think Android Tablets have been hurt by all the cheap stuff that was released with old versions of Android that don't include the Google Marketplace. Sure.. Google warned it wasn't ready but consumers don't listen. They got burnt and will shy away from Android tablets for quite a while to come even though the newer ones should be just fine. Google should have rushed a tablet market place out for the old "smartphone-only" OSs even if they sucked on the Tablet. By not doing so they just made it worse.
Sadly, IOS is going to be king for a while.
I should never have written that comment. Now Chrome is failing 2 times out of 3! I'm just about back to Firefox. I don't get it though. It's not my computer, my work computer is pretty much stock Win7, my home computer is Gentoo and I have seen it on a couple WinXP machines too. There is nothing common between them but the problem. And yet.. I find it hard to believe that Chrome could develop fanbois while being this unreliable. Come on fanbois... explain how to make your favorite browser work!
Are you sure it's lower than average? If so I pitty your janitors. There must be knuckle blood streaks all across your floors!
Does anybody else remember when Mozilla was an OSS project and not a company? When it was just a bunch of volunteers replacing all the source code that used to be Netscape Communicator? Look how many other projects survive just fine without corporate backing. What has happened?
Chrome fans seem so angry when someone prefers a different browser! I go back and forth between the two. Chrome is fast. Chrome now has most of the extensions I used to stick with Firefox for. Chrome seems to be more stable than it used to be. On three computers and under 3 OSs (Gentoo, WinXP & Win7) I have seen the same problem with Chrome. Everything is going fine and suddenly it acts like the internet connection is gone. Usually it only happens in one tab, open a new one, close the bad one and you are ok again. But then you lose all the 'back button' history! Occasionaly I can't get chrome back w/o rebooting! Newer versions seem to do this a lot less than old ones. I still see it happen though.
Still, when Chrome IS working it is clearly faster than Firefox. Thus, I go back and forth depending on which one I am more annoyed with at the moment.
I miss the days before I got hooked on browser extensions. Konqueror was fast AND stable.
Science is a methodology for finding truths, not a body of truths.
One can accept the facts of how an electric circuit works to light a lightbulb for example without accepting the facts of how man-made CO2 in the atmosphere warms the Earth. This does not have anything to do with accepting or rejecting science.
Rejecting results of experiments and observations conducted using the scientific method because they do not fit with one's preconceived notions or they are not conducive to making a profit is rejecting science.
True.. but with all the prison cells that would be vacated by legalizing drugs we could afford to make the penalties for driving under the influence very very discouraging.
Do you host them at home or are you using some collocation service? I ask because some years back I used to do this. One of the main reasons that I stopped was that my messages started getting flagged as spam. It turned out that the customer ip ranges for Comcast, the biggest cable internet provider in the US was listed in a bunch of blacklists. They just assumed that anything originating from a non-commercial home internet connection was either spam or a malware infection. That was years ago and I have assumed that it probably has only gotten worse. Do you have this problem?
But why shouldn't we have devices that cater to both groups? Are we really that small a minority? I'm sure the geek crowd today is bigger than the early computer adopters of the 70s and 80s. And yet... that was big enough a market to found an industry. Why does giving the average user their Angry Birds have to take away from us?
Or.. after a couple high profile attacks they finally disconnect these critical control systems from the internet and we don't hear about it again.
And is there any security threat to a port being open that does NOT have an active service on it? If so what is the attacker cracking? The TCP/IP stack itself?
Why have an active service on any port if you aren't using it?
As far as I can tell firewalls are useful if you aren't sure what services are running on your network and cannot or do not feel like cleaning them up. Or... as a lazy way to make services accessible only on the LAN. For the former use I can understand on a LAN with many users. It may just be impossible to police. For the latter... that is just lazy. What server worth it's salt can't be configured to only accept connections from the LAN and ignore all others?
On the other hand, all firewalls I have seen are prone to err. Perhaps an update fails leaving it in an unusable state. Or the user tries to configure some fancy rules resulting in this or that internet service not working. As an example I know a guy who works in IT security now. When he was still in school he liked to run his own email server. That was back before all the home ISP IPs were blacklisted by most smtp hosts. Most of the time his email didn't work. Not because of his smtp server but because he was tweaking his firewall rules. Eventually I learned that the only way to reach him was to call him on the phone. I guess he liked learning about that security stuff though and now he loves his job.
I just don't see the point of a firewall unless you are in a situation where you cannot control your own LAN. I do think that services should be limited to what one actually uses and then should be actively updated though.
Ha, Typical BOFH statement. What if you don't spend all your time on the LAN? What if you actually USE ssh on a regular basis from outside locations. I guess you run an ethernet cord from home to work to the coffee shop and any other place you go?
Yes, Kindle is pretty good about making your purchased books available to you on many platforms. Still... as you mentioned they can always reach out and delete your property. And.. if Kindle ever goes away you lose it all. And... there is no guarantee Kindle will be available for any given future platform... And if you build your own platform there will be no Kindle for it...
For those last two points there is web access. Assuming you have a web browser on the new platform. And assuming that you have internet access wherever you are when you want to read your book.
Impossible. There are no good guys!
Better yet, why not just separate the wifi from the laptop. Use a usb wifi adapter or an external wifi antenna. That seems a lot easier than how they did do it.
What an imagination you have! As if there are any chicks of any age in your mom's basement! Ha Ha. Well.. I guess sometimes there is one... your mom come down to tell you to get a job...
No. The device that DOES satisfy all his requirements is the hard to find one. The N900 is the easy to find alternative that ALMOST gets there. It's called compromise. Sometimes you just have to do it.
Facebook has become part of life for almost every human on earth
How do we change that?
Whenever and wherever this topic comes up (even on ham blogs) people say the same things. Many are dead, many are inactive, etc...
Yes, this is true. So? That has been true since the original hams turned old. If licenses are up then that likely means that all categories, inactive, dead and ACTIVE are up.
When somebody is looking for something that is rare, non-existent, hard to find or really expensive it isn't a bad thing to mention but... here is something much easier to get that is ALMOST what you are looking for...