When you are a large institution who have (over)paid consultants to create workflow tools on your intranet, upgrading is far from free.
The new approved browser will have to be validated against your existing tools, then you'll have to do rewrites where you had horrible IE6 kludges.
The cost of the software isn't the issue, it's the cost of delivering your applications on that platform that is the issue.
With that said it provides a wonderful example of why organisations should avoid proprietary extensions to standards. One day the world will move on and you'll be stuck with an un-integrateable piece of shit platform.
Eoin is a perfectly standard spelling in Gaelic, we tend to use too many vowels, a friend of mine, Aoife (pronounced eefa) has great fun in other English speaking countries. Now try Aodhan,;)
Which puts Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz in 7th place with 1.85 of the changes between Linux 2.6.12 and Linux 2.6.30. I always knew students had way too much spare time;)
Their mail tech support is hilarious, I had a similar but different problem, mail from eircom customers never reached my domain. This was due to an extinct domain with my domain name having been hosted on Indigo back in the day.
I rang them to get them to remove their MX record for the domain, their responses were hilarious:
"Which mail client are you using?" "pine(just for kicks:)"
"What is the account number of your hosting account?"
...
After 3 days of this shit I eventually began each call with "Do you know what an MX record is?" Eventually I got a guy who sounded insulted by the question, half an hour later it was working, but their tech-support guys are beyond ignorant.
I think you missed the point somewhat, all GUI configs suck to a greater or lesser extent, anyone administering a server should know their job and as a result be able to issue the commands required to analyse and resolve problems without the ladybird book picture version of the interface.
A GUI interface is always slower, unless you have a hideous shell with no tab completion and limited editing of your command history and an inability to copy/paste, but that's due to neglect of the shell rather than an intrinsic failing of the paradigm. mind you I've heard nice things about powershell from MSFT using friends, apparently it competes with Unix/OSX shells.
You have hit on the essential point, western agriculture uses 10 calories of fuel energy for each calorie of food energy we produce. Folks we're eating dinosaurs
I also garden and friends have remarked that they never new that lettuce was supposed to taste of anything. My niece and nephews eat carrots and tomatoes from the garden as though they were sweets, the varieties I grow are not viable for the supermarket economy.
We actually produce more food than the world population needs, farming in developing countries is damaged by dumping of western agriculture surpluses in their economies.
I could rant on this one all day but suffice it to say that this study was.... flawed
An astronomer, a physicist and a mathematician were holidaying in Scotland.
Glancing from a train window, they observed a black sheep in the middle of a
field.
"How interesting," observed the astronomer, "all Scottish sheep are black!"
To which the physicist responded, "No, no! Some Scottish sheep are black!"
The mathematician gazed heavenward in supplication, and then intoned,
"In Scotland there exists at least one field, containing at least one sheep,
at least one side of which is black."
Which has been completely ignored by civilised society and at no cost as Europeans continue to trade according to European law with Cuba, Iran and other countries.
The ability for law enforcement to monitor calls is standard in all telecoms infrastructures. That the legal system in Iran is even dodgier than that in the US is irrelevant, I don't see them suffering a huge PR disaster because two ignorant half-wits decide to mouth off in the hope of garnering some apple-pie flavoured publicity
You are either a troll a fool or an MS marketing droid. While Linux adoption on the desktop may still be limited, in the server room Linux and Solaris are more common than Windows server for many reasons, not least the registry concept. Apache is more secure, no argument available to contradict this. I'm sure others have stated this elsewhere in this thread, but i's one in the morning and I'm back from the pub, yet your drivel is more likely to cause me to puke than the ten pints of Guinness I've enjoyed this evening (Go on Leinster)
One of the downsides of election cycles is that they really only care about what happens in the next 3->5 years (adjust for your local conditions). As a result we see rampant "short-termism". No politician is going to go out of their way to sponsor legislation that isn't going to generate good press by the next election
A friend, who subsequently became a Debian maintainer, arrived over to me with probably the same 2 disk distribution I had a kernel, a shell, a compiler and vi. After that it was roll your own. At the time I was an occasional building laborer, a whole new world became available to me, though I had no net access at the time, so we wrote our own tools and games. Since then I've worked as an Apache admin, a mod_perl programmer and currently maintain enterprise Tomcat and C apps on Solaris and RHEL. That first distro gave me the freedom to experiment without the resources of a college or company to pay for the tools. My girlfriend of the time became an ace C++ coder (she remains an intimidatingly smart friend), in fact by introducing us to Linux Al changed all our lives, cheers amck;)
Or as the Jesuits used to say, "Give me the child to 7 and I will give you the man".
Religious institutions have refined their indoctrination techniques over centuries and consequently could be viewed by those of us who view religion as offering a misguided view of the universe we live in as dangerous.
After that the degree of danger offered depends on how absolute their beliefs are, snake handlers being one extreme and Unitarians the other within the Christian churches
Free speech, fair trial, freedom of assembly are fairly nebulous rights mainly exercised by a few radical wingnuts in the view of the "plain people", however the right to sell goods and services "off books" is something the the "plain people" cherish and hold dear.
Not to mention Drugs hookers and blackjack (or whatever that damn meme is:)
You jest, but we currently have US lobbyists acting for US companies in the EU attempting to remove the concept of independent open standards from Europe's ICT policy framework, so that all attempts at interoperation will result in a payment to someone. Any notion of a commons is clearly anathema to some companies and cultures.
Oh as Buffet put it, it's only when the tide goes out you know who's swimming without trunks on.
The use and abuse of terms like "highly leveraged" to mean, "We bought the company with its future earnings and haven't had to throw a penny in to the deal" and the greed-blindness of individual speculators has led to a mindset where myself and Rosco are the only ones out here who owe nothing, own our property free and clear, and... OH SHIT MY PENSION, just when I was feeling smug.
Right you dumb Wall street fuckers, repeat after me "Correlation is not causation, now up to the top storey and jump you greedy lemmings, jump
Actually royal navy subs have a long and proud tradition of becoming caught in fishing gear and attempting to drag the vessel above beneath the waves.
http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9807E2D91139F93AA25757C0A964948260
Took ages to get them to admit to it too, until one vessel managed to stay afloat and landed a sonar array, another sadly sank, but an rn sub went back to Faslane with a damaged periscope.
You mean Great Britain already faced terrorists and it ended without having to sign away all our rights a mandatory 28 day lock-up when your reach 18?
Yup, not only that but when they tried detention without trial (internment) it increased the ranks of the terrorists as those wrongly detained and their families felt the state was at war with them.
When they got around to talking about the grievances and addressing peoples concerns peaceful settlement became possible. It would appear that short of genocide you can't oppress a population indefinitely.
Slashdot Mirror
Tried to, but wget doesn't see the outside world from within it :(
With that said it provides a wonderful example of why organisations should avoid proprietary extensions to standards. One day the world will move on and you'll be stuck with an un-integrateable piece of shit platform.
Then use the cpan CLI tool or if you're using Debian use the prebuilt apt packages
There is, we even have our own flag, it's just like yours, but on fire (Apologies to Rob Newman)
Eoin is a perfectly standard spelling in Gaelic, we tend to use too many vowels, a friend of mine, Aoife (pronounced eefa) has great fun in other English speaking countries. Now try Aodhan, ;)
Which puts Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz in 7th place with 1.85 of the changes between Linux 2.6.12 and Linux 2.6.30. I always knew students had way too much spare time ;)
I rang them to get them to remove their MX record for the domain, their responses were hilarious:
After 3 days of this shit I eventually began each call with "Do you know what an MX record is?" Eventually I got a guy who sounded insulted by the question, half an hour later it was working, but their tech-support guys are beyond ignorant.
A GUI interface is always slower, unless you have a hideous shell with no tab completion and limited editing of your command history and an inability to copy/paste, but that's due to neglect of the shell rather than an intrinsic failing of the paradigm. mind you I've heard nice things about powershell from MSFT using friends, apparently it competes with Unix/OSX shells.
I also garden and friends have remarked that they never new that lettuce was supposed to taste of anything. My niece and nephews eat carrots and tomatoes from the garden as though they were sweets, the varieties I grow are not viable for the supermarket economy.
We actually produce more food than the world population needs, farming in developing countries is damaged by dumping of western agriculture surpluses in their economies.
I could rant on this one all day but suffice it to say that this study was.... flawed
"How interesting," observed the astronomer, "all Scottish sheep are black!"
To which the physicist responded, "No, no! Some Scottish sheep are black!"
The mathematician gazed heavenward in supplication, and then intoned, "In Scotland there exists at least one field, containing at least one sheep, at least one side of which is black."
You owe me a new keyboard, or at least first option on the manuscript ;)
Hi pdboddy Try using middle button to open link in new tab ;)
Which has been completely ignored by civilised society and at no cost as Europeans continue to trade according to European law with Cuba, Iran and other countries.
The ability for law enforcement to monitor calls is standard in all telecoms infrastructures. That the legal system in Iran is even dodgier than that in the US is irrelevant, I don't see them suffering a huge PR disaster because two ignorant half-wits decide to mouth off in the hope of garnering some apple-pie flavoured publicity
You are either a troll a fool or an MS marketing droid. While Linux adoption on the desktop may still be limited, in the server room Linux and Solaris are more common than Windows server for many reasons, not least the registry concept. Apache is more secure, no argument available to contradict this. I'm sure others have stated this elsewhere in this thread, but i's one in the morning and I'm back from the pub, yet your drivel is more likely to cause me to puke than the ten pints of Guinness I've enjoyed this evening (Go on Leinster)
One of the downsides of election cycles is that they really only care about what happens in the next 3->5 years (adjust for your local conditions). As a result we see rampant "short-termism". No politician is going to go out of their way to sponsor legislation that isn't going to generate good press by the next election
Who did you think wrote vi. Though in all fairness they don't compare, vi is just an editor
A friend, who subsequently became a Debian maintainer, arrived over to me with probably the same 2 disk distribution I had a kernel, a shell, a compiler and vi. After that it was roll your own. At the time I was an occasional building laborer, a whole new world became available to me, though I had no net access at the time, so we wrote our own tools and games. Since then I've worked as an Apache admin, a mod_perl programmer and currently maintain enterprise Tomcat and C apps on Solaris and RHEL. That first distro gave me the freedom to experiment without the resources of a college or company to pay for the tools. My girlfriend of the time became an ace C++ coder (she remains an intimidatingly smart friend), in fact by introducing us to Linux Al changed all our lives, cheers amck;)
Religious institutions have refined their indoctrination techniques over centuries and consequently could be viewed by those of us who view religion as offering a misguided view of the universe we live in as dangerous.
After that the degree of danger offered depends on how absolute their beliefs are, snake handlers being one extreme and Unitarians the other within the Christian churches
Not to mention Drugs hookers and blackjack (or whatever that damn meme is :)
check out gimpshop.
Take a look at this article in the Linux Journal
The use and abuse of terms like "highly leveraged" to mean, "We bought the company with its future earnings and haven't had to throw a penny in to the deal" and the greed-blindness of individual speculators has led to a mindset where myself and Rosco are the only ones out here who owe nothing, own our property free and clear, and ... OH SHIT MY PENSION, just when I was feeling smug.
Right you dumb Wall street fuckers, repeat after me "Correlation is not causation, now up to the top storey and jump you greedy lemmings, jump
Actually royal navy subs have a long and proud tradition of becoming caught in fishing gear and attempting to drag the vessel above beneath the waves. http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9807E2D91139F93AA25757C0A964948260 Took ages to get them to admit to it too, until one vessel managed to stay afloat and landed a sonar array, another sadly sank, but an rn sub went back to Faslane with a damaged periscope.
You mean Great Britain already faced terrorists and it ended without having to sign away all our rights a mandatory 28 day lock-up when your reach 18?
Yup, not only that but when they tried detention without trial (internment) it increased the ranks of the terrorists as those wrongly detained and their families felt the state was at war with them.
When they got around to talking about the grievances and addressing peoples concerns peaceful settlement became possible. It would appear that short of genocide you can't oppress a population indefinitely.