WTF did Sun ever want to mess with Linux for? Leave it for the slashdot weenies to play with in their bedrooms and concentrate on shifting some more of those F15Ks on platinum service contracts.
How long is it now since Sun showed they had the first fucking idea which direction they were trying to go in? Every change of direction and half-baked new idea makes them look more and more stupid.
I dearly hope they get a grip before it's too late.
Nope. All the people who bash CDE have never really tried to use it. It's as fast as you could ever want, and rock-solid stable. It's also easy to tweak, if you take a little time to learn.
GNOME for me, especially on Solaris, is flaky as fuck and offers little CDE doesn't except for pretty graphics. But then that's what sells stuff for the cluelees "my Gentoo boxen" haX0r wannabes on Slashdot.
If you were taking a strong radioactive source into space, wouldn't you have to shield it in lead? Isn't weight *very* important when designing anything to be launched into space?
Would you want to put something very radioactive in a very confined space with 7 people?
Would you want to launch a strong radioactive source on top of a chemical rocket which always has a (slight) possiblitly of crashing?
Somehow I doubt it. People need to calm down. What happened is bad enough without trying to frighten yourself, and others, with wild speculation.
With something made of metal and ceramic hitting the atmosphere at 12,000mph, things like this can *always* happen.
Space exploration is hard and it is dangerous, and there's always the chance of an accident. All the people on board new this, all their families and colleagues on the ground knew this, but *they did it anyway*.
I just hope the powers that be don't use their deaths as an excuse to write off what's left of the space programme.
> Linux is totally beautiful when it comes to simplicity
Every distribution is different, often very different. Every distribution is full of crap you'll never need, and each one requires a different set of tools and knowledge to safely remove said crap.
Solaris is unchanging, predictable, and easier to pare down than any Linux I've ever worked with. Indeed, Sun are generally accused of not supplying enough apps with the OS, but I think that's good. You just add in what you need and it's easier to keep track of just what's installed. Keeps things simple.
As a hotch-potch of BSD, SysV, with however many desktops, scripting languages and all, backed up by scant documentation, I often find it hard to believe Linux was ever designed at all, for *any* hardware. I certainly wouldn't tout it as being "beautifully simple".
To go out on a limb here, sys-admins who complain about how tough their job is are invariably bad at it.
If you're a good admin, you know your OS(es), you know your apps. You get along with your users because you take the time to understand what it is that they want to do, so you are able to help them do it. For this reason I don't think telecommuting is a good way to be a sys-admin, much as I'd like it to be.
To be a good admin you have the people skills to pretty much disregard most of the half-baked ideas you get from management and users whilst making them think you're going out of your way to accomodate them.
The best admins I've worked with have always been smart, friendly people with a wide range of interests. The worst have always been small minded, power crazed Linux bores with chips on their shoulders.
Peter King is a hero. I have bought more 'limited edition of 17, lathe cut clear polycarbonate 8"' singles than is strictly good for me.
In the world of obscure and difficult music, vinyl has always been the medium of choice. I'm still an enthusuastic music buyer, and I'd say 7 out of every 10 things I buy are on vinyl.
You can argue about frequency response and "warmth" and ripping all you want, but the simple fact is CDs and CD players just aren't cool. Records and record players are.
Getting the appeal of vinyl is like getting the appeal of modern art or classic cars. You do, or you don't. It's not something you can reason out and justify.
If you're remotely interested in what I have to say, I've been through this argument before on my website.
At the risk of going OT, could someone explain, for the benefit of us backwards Brits, exactly how syndication works and why it stops things getting DVD/video releases?
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WTF did Sun ever want to mess with Linux for? Leave it for the slashdot weenies to play with in their bedrooms and concentrate on shifting some more of those F15Ks on platinum service contracts.
How long is it now since Sun showed they had the first fucking idea which direction they were trying to go in? Every change of direction and half-baked new idea makes them look more and more stupid.
I dearly hope they get a grip before it's too late.
Journalling filesystem? DiskSuite, or put "logging" into your vfstab.
You really don't need VxVM unless you've got *lots* of disks.
The best epsiode is the one where Bart answers Mrs Krabbappel's (sp?) lonely hearts ad. The worst is the one with the racehorse and the jockeys.
Is everyone clear on that now?
Nope. All the people who bash CDE have never really tried to use it. It's as fast as you could ever want, and rock-solid stable. It's also easy to tweak, if you take a little time to learn.
GNOME for me, especially on Solaris, is flaky as fuck and offers little CDE doesn't except for pretty graphics. But then that's what sells stuff for the cluelees "my Gentoo boxen" haX0r wannabes on Slashdot.
If you were taking a strong radioactive source into space, wouldn't you have to shield it in lead? Isn't weight *very* important when designing anything to be launched into space?
Would you want to put something very radioactive in a very confined space with 7 people?
Would you want to launch a strong radioactive source on top of a chemical rocket which always has a (slight) possiblitly of crashing?
Somehow I doubt it. People need to calm down. What happened is bad enough without trying to frighten yourself, and others, with wild speculation.
With something made of metal and ceramic hitting the atmosphere at 12,000mph, things like this can *always* happen.
Space exploration is hard and it is dangerous, and there's always the chance of an accident. All the people on board new this, all their families and colleagues on the ground knew this, but *they did it anyway*.
I just hope the powers that be don't use their deaths as an excuse to write off what's left of the space programme.
But this guy is right. All the time. In a language some of you might understand, he r0X0r5.
boxii? Oh for *FUCK's* sake...
> Linux is totally beautiful when it comes to simplicity
Every distribution is different, often very different. Every distribution is full of crap you'll never need, and each one requires a different set of tools and knowledge to safely remove said crap.
Solaris is unchanging, predictable, and easier to pare down than any Linux I've ever worked with. Indeed, Sun are generally accused of not supplying enough apps with the OS, but I think that's good. You just add in what you need and it's easier to keep track of just what's installed. Keeps things simple.
As a hotch-potch of BSD, SysV, with however many desktops, scripting languages and all, backed up by scant documentation, I often find it hard to believe Linux was ever designed at all, for *any* hardware. I certainly wouldn't tout it as being "beautifully simple".
To go out on a limb here, sys-admins who complain about how tough their job is are invariably bad at it.
If you're a good admin, you know your OS(es), you know your apps. You get along with your users because you take the time to understand what it is that they want to do, so you are able to help them do it. For this reason I don't think telecommuting is a good way to be a sys-admin, much as I'd like it to be.
To be a good admin you have the people skills to pretty much disregard most of the half-baked ideas you get from management and users whilst making them think you're going out of your way to accomodate them.
The best admins I've worked with have always been smart, friendly people with a wide range of interests. The worst have always been small minded, power crazed Linux bores with chips on their shoulders.
I was listening to some techno and it's all, like, "beep beep beep"
Peter King is a hero. I have bought more 'limited edition of 17, lathe cut clear polycarbonate 8"' singles than is strictly good for me.
In the world of obscure and difficult music, vinyl has always been the medium of choice. I'm still an enthusuastic music buyer, and I'd say 7 out of every 10 things I buy are on vinyl.
You can argue about frequency response and "warmth" and ripping all you want, but the simple fact is CDs and CD players just aren't cool. Records and record players are.
Getting the appeal of vinyl is like getting the appeal of modern art or classic cars. You do, or you don't. It's not something you can reason out and justify.
If you're remotely interested in what I have to say, I've been through this argument before on my website.
Ask him. Go on. I dare you. I double dare you.
At the risk of going OT, could someone explain, for the benefit of us backwards Brits, exactly how syndication works and why it stops things getting DVD/video releases?
Seinfeld.
> Solaris doesn't make Sun any money. It's the hardware that keeps them afloat
/. anyway) sources inform me it's support where Sun makes $$$$.
I hear this a lot, but reliable (relative to
So does this mean I get more pr0n, or less pr0n?
Dilbert has jokes?
On second thoughts, they're probably all posting on Slashdot about their 31337 Gentoo installs.
The article says "there are only two classes of users: the novice, and the expert"
How about all those novices who think they're experts?
4.0 - Mrs_Potato_Head?
That is so yesterday.
But hey, at least I'm honest!
Not very likely given the, erm, complicated, events that led to them breaking up.
Anyway, Amelia's got another band now, Tender Trap, who've already released an album and a couple of singles.
I'll bring you one back next time I'm in Lunar City.