Anyone who gamed in Windows 95 had at least a couple bootdisks laying around for DOS games
>HmnpH< Nonsense I had two commands
ldac.bat
and svac.bat
ldac.bat <configname> loaded autoexec and config.sys saved in c:\configs\$configname
svac.bat saved the current set-up to c:\configs\
I have resisted wandering in to this thread as it's bloody obvious that a CLI app can do some things better and a GUI app is more suited to others. Every day I write a 'bash|perl' script that makes my and my colleagues life easier, once a month I throw a few of them that are related together give the result a few parameters and document it for internal use, I've even been known to throw a Tk interface on it where a script is very popular, combining both worlds.
Weirdly we are not using a shell script to edit images, (we do to produce thumbnails though, imagemagick is a fine set of tools), so yes, the right tool for the job.
As most users don't deal with raw data so the brightly coloured tool with the foam protected edges and warning to stand back and wait while it operates is more suited for them than the carefully assembled auger, bicycle sprocket and chainsaw combination but you know which one bores though a terabyte of data first (that's right the one with the bits of finger hanging off of it where something went wrong in testing;) ). beat that for a bad analogy
Flamebait? I thought it was a hilarious (though completely off-topic) parody. I'm afraid that's how USians appear to those of us in civilised countries these days. Get yourselves a social safety net, a decent healthcare system and half a clue in your dealings with the outside world and your country would be a truly amazing place.
I have to agree, CPAN means I can throw an interface over a module inside half an hour, it's not the way to develop final use code but for rapid solutions to one-off problems it's unbeatable.
While there may not be many opensource replacements for Exchange, there are standards compilant ones.
As soon as you said POP3 you went off the deep end. No corporation is going to migrate from MAPI (MS's weird IMAP clone) to POP3, and frankly, there is no reason why they should.
So use an IMAP compliant mailserver already. Outbreak can use it as can any MUA released in the last decade.
And that doesn't even touch the other crap that you're going to need to provide to get people off Exchange. You need shared calendars, shared email folders, and fancy LDAP mail directories, and shared contacts, tasks, notes...There is no open source product out there that provides half that stuff.
No single product perhaps but there are several that provide part of that functionality and individual companies that specialise in integrating them.
Then lets talk about the Crackberry, and all the goddamn executives that make you make everything friendly to their goddamn PDAs.
There are a number of applications available which provide mail/calendar/directory functionality through tomcat/websphere for PDAs/phones/browsers with shared calendars, group scheduling and all the other tedious corporate stuff.
we use critical path's solution, no it wasn't written for love but it runs on Linux and works through the browser interface for Linux desktops and my bog-standard phone as well as him upstairs' PDA collection.
Not evil, just not very nice to know;)
The corporation is indeed an interesting film, the basic thesis is that we have gone from ocasionally allowing corporations to come together to raise large sums of capital for the public good but now any greedy fecker can form a corporation with the sole aim of making money.
While money is all well and good it isn't actually the sole motivator of sane people (note to Ayn Rand) and when it becomes so the behaviour of the individual in question becomes psychopathic.
Microsoft's desire to dominate the industry in which it's earning its money and complete intolerance of competition make it a classic psycho.
While Turkey (and Iran) would prefer to avoid an independent Kurdistan, I have an alternate reading of the Shia/Sunni split being inimical to US interests, imagine that whoever has their hand up the arse of the Bush puppet has a long term plan, now picture if you will a long drawn out proxy war between Iran and Saudi-Arabia, imagine both sides competing in the sale of oil in order to arm the respective sides in an escalating civil war, imagine china and the west providing them with all the rope they need.
It's just about possible that some controlling interest has thought this through to this position, alternatively it was pointless destabilisation of a crap but functional country that has led to a long term civil war.
Truly, we need the stupid to start killing themselves again. With the advent of birth control, human evolution is starting to go backwards. In 100 years they will talk about the benevolent reign of George Bush the Wise.
You raise a very interesting point, those who take advantage of the opportunities presented to them in western society tend to reproduce at a much lower rate than those who get hammered and start breeding while the more capable are still in education.
The fact that educated women want to establish a career before becoming mothers means that they start a family in their late thirties and consequently have fewer kids, sometimes they have no family at all as it is too late for treatment when they discover infertility issues. Basically the smart people aren't replacing themselves.
Fuck, I sound like some Eugenics Nazi but really stop running yourselves down, have a shower and go out and breed people!
When the facts on the ground change, I change my mind, what do you do?
Having held in the past opinions that differ from those you currently hold should be no shame, lying about what you have said/believed in the past shows a lack of intelectual honesty and integrity that is worrying in someone whose role is to interpret events and decide policy on the basis of their interpretation.
Declaration: The above opinions may be effected by my belief that the current US president is a fsking muppet
I genuinely have difficulty with the whole second-life/sadville thing. Is it just the kids who didn't get bored with the whole clique thing by the time they left school or what?
Mod parent up, if I had a weeks work for every user who uses a machine at home and thinks they know all there is to know about computing as a result I'd be rushed off my feet, hang on I am, got to go.
To the best of my knowledge a far greater proportion of child sex abuse involves family members, individuals abusing positions of trust etc... Perhaps the solution is to outlaw gaurdianship of children, lock 'em all into a "safe" cage until they're 16, there may be a feral society problem, however if we had televisions providing non-stop "informative" programming they'd learn stuff I'm sure.
The furore over internet child abuse is great for headline writers, the combination of two topics which catch peoples attention and of course legislators do love their headlines. I'm surprised we don't see more of this kind of cross-topic headline grabbing. Legislation to outlaw the use of
iPods to smuggle polonium
Segways by terrorists
..
Oh maybe the headline writers didn't take best advantage of the oppertunity presented by the recent "No luxury goods for short fat dictators" legislation
It is cultural, but not nesesacrily in the way you think, US pop culture worships vacous bampots that contribute nothing to society.
The media has indeed become the message.
For example Paris Hilton has more "respect" as accorded by your society than George Smoot, yet who won a Nobel prize for Physics?
At the risk of sounding like a sad ranting old fart, hedonism and degeneracy have a grip on your pop culure that is actually damaging your society. I'm not calling for a introduction of the Burka and religious police, just a greater understanding in the culture of what actually makes a difference.
I'm of a similar background, self-taught in QBasic, Turbo Pascal, Perl, C, C++.
Since finding Perl I've written most of my tools in it and these days if I want to develop a GUI quickly I do the logic in Perl, the database on MySQL and the front end in Tcl/Tk.
Granted Perl's a whole new command set for "Power users" to learn and doesn't provide portability for personal VB apps, however for my quick and dirty development of tools that I and others in the company use every day I find the combination untouchable.
The number of available modules for Perl, particularly for administration/network tools, and the simplicity of Tcl/Tk make for very rapid development of tools, granted the abscence of anti-aliased fonts and other eye candy does break the "Pretty is a feature" rule but hey, it's for admins not users.
In fairness a lot of software is only supported on particular distros. The company I'm working for offer support on Solaris and RHEL4. However we have a drop in appliance that's running on Gentoo, you don't reconfigure it, log onto it or touch it.
So yes, if you have total control of a box you can roll your own but where your software is sharing a server with others you stick to an industry standard. Today the standard for Linux is RedHat.
Personally I prefer Debian but have fallen for Ubuntu in a big way. (Pretty is a feature).
The EU is new to this trust-busting business: the US has been doing it for 100 years.
That'd be why the US got so far with the whole breaking it up into three divisions thing (Legal, Marketing and PR I believe was a popular sugestion of the time)
There are plenty of examples of "useless" science: black holes, dark matter, superfluidity. You may not care (busy playing your new PS3?). The rest of us really do.
I could be wrong ( no, no it happens sometimes) but the point the GP appeared to be making is that the pursuit of pure knowledge is of itself a worthwhile goal. There have over the centuries been many discoveries without an apparent pupose at the time. However as well as being a species of exploreres and scientists we're also (as slashdot's ppopulation would exemplify) inveterate tinkerers, that "pure" science discovery would do a lovely job there as a fundamental priciple of my new device.
Have you considered that they didn't have the means to do it? And that low-scale slaughter were widespread at the time? Witch hunts, jews killings, various pogroms,... were not that rare, and no one cared.
Actually Medieval Christianity managed to completely eliminate the Carthars. A group of co-religionists who had a minor difference over the Council of Nicene. This was, per capita, a greater crime of genocide than even the Nazi's achieved
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ldac.bat
and svac.bat
ldac.bat <configname> loaded autoexec and config.sys saved in c:\configs\$configname
svac.bat saved the current set-up to c:\configs\
I have resisted wandering in to this thread as it's bloody obvious that a CLI app can do some things better and a GUI app is more suited to others. Every day I write a 'bash|perl' script that makes my and my colleagues life easier, once a month I throw a few of them that are related together give the result a few parameters and document it for internal use, I've even been known to throw a Tk interface on it where a script is very popular, combining both worlds.
Weirdly we are not using a shell script to edit images, (we do to produce thumbnails though, imagemagick is a fine set of tools), so yes, the right tool for the job. ;) ). beat that for a bad analogy
As most users don't deal with raw data so the brightly coloured tool with the foam protected edges and warning to stand back and wait while it operates is more suited for them than the carefully assembled auger, bicycle sprocket and chainsaw combination but you know which one bores though a terabyte of data first (that's right the one with the bits of finger hanging off of it where something went wrong in testing
- Copy this text to a text file on each of your hard drives
- Randomly delete three files on your system
- forward this to everyone in your addressbook.
Your co-operation has been appreciated, thank you.Flamebait? I thought it was a hilarious (though completely off-topic) parody. I'm afraid that's how USians appear to those of us in civilised countries these days.
Get yourselves a social safety net, a decent healthcare system and half a clue in your dealings with the outside world and your country would be a truly amazing place.
I have to agree, CPAN means I can throw an interface over a module inside half an hour, it's not the way to develop final use code but for rapid solutions to one-off problems it's unbeatable.
True, but the misery is easier to bear in comfort
we use critical path's solution, no it wasn't written for love but it runs on Linux and works through the browser interface for Linux desktops and my bog-standard phone as well as him upstairs' PDA collection.
The corporation is indeed an interesting film, the basic thesis is that we have gone from ocasionally allowing corporations to come together to raise large sums of capital for the public good but now any greedy fecker can form a corporation with the sole aim of making money.
While money is all well and good it isn't actually the sole motivator of sane people (note to Ayn Rand) and when it becomes so the behaviour of the individual in question becomes psychopathic.
Microsoft's desire to dominate the industry in which it's earning its money and complete intolerance of competition make it a classic psycho.
It's just about possible that some controlling interest has thought this through to this position, alternatively it was pointless destabilisation of a crap but functional country that has led to a long term civil war.
The fact that educated women want to establish a career before becoming mothers means that they start a family in their late thirties and consequently have fewer kids, sometimes they have no family at all as it is too late for treatment when they discover infertility issues. Basically the smart people aren't replacing themselves.
Fuck, I sound like some Eugenics Nazi but really stop running yourselves down, have a shower and go out and breed people!
Declaration: The above opinions may be effected by my belief that the current US president is a fsking muppet
Here you go, definitve proof the Austrailians are working on it ;)
I genuinely have difficulty with the whole second-life/sadville thing. Is it just the kids who didn't get bored with the whole clique thing by the time they left school or what?
Mod parent up, if I had a weeks work for every user who uses a machine at home and thinks they know all there is to know about computing as a result I'd be rushed off my feet, hang on I am, got to go.
His wife turns up to take him home ;)
The furore over internet child abuse is great for headline writers, the combination of two topics which catch peoples attention and of course legislators do love their headlines. I'm surprised we don't see more of this kind of cross-topic headline grabbing. Legislation to outlaw the use of
- iPods to smuggle polonium
- Segways by terrorists
..
Oh maybe the headline writers didn't take best advantage of the oppertunity presented by the recent "No luxury goods for short fat dictators" legislationPresumably their mail got lost on an Exchange server somewhere ;D
It is cultural, but not nesesacrily in the way you think, US pop culture worships vacous bampots that contribute nothing to society. The media has indeed become the message. For example Paris Hilton has more "respect" as accorded by your society than George Smoot, yet who won a Nobel prize for Physics? At the risk of sounding like a sad ranting old fart, hedonism and degeneracy have a grip on your pop culure that is actually damaging your society. I'm not calling for a introduction of the Burka and religious police, just a greater understanding in the culture of what actually makes a difference.
Since finding Perl I've written most of my tools in it and these days if I want to develop a GUI quickly I do the logic in Perl, the database on MySQL and the front end in Tcl/Tk.
Granted Perl's a whole new command set for "Power users" to learn and doesn't provide portability for personal VB apps, however for my quick and dirty development of tools that I and others in the company use every day I find the combination untouchable.
The number of available modules for Perl, particularly for administration/network tools, and the simplicity of Tcl/Tk make for very rapid development of tools, granted the abscence of anti-aliased fonts and other eye candy does break the "Pretty is a feature" rule but hey, it's for admins not users.
So yes, if you have total control of a box you can roll your own but where your software is sharing a server with others you stick to an industry standard. Today the standard for Linux is RedHat.
Personally I prefer Debian but have fallen for Ubuntu in a big way. (Pretty is a feature).
From what I remember of your faith that makes you a bad Christian, it is an apostolic religion you are obliged to convert the "heathen"