Comment Re:amused that they talk about the DT environs (Score 1) 136
Do I detect a green sheen of envy, mr 135100?
Do I detect a green sheen of envy, mr 135100?
Truth!
I do know all of those operating systems, and many more. But, I was trying to inject a bit of humour too! If you take Linux, or anything (hint *BSD/Debian users...) too seriously, you annoy people, and make them less likely to use your operating system. Slackware (come on, *think* about the name!!!) is never going to be able to take itself too seriously! And that is why I still use it, as well as Mint, Mac OS, and Windows 7 (at least on this system...). One of the few nice things you can do since Apple switched to Intel from Motorola/PPC hardware!
Thanks...:-)
As usual, the newbies are clueless about humour/sarcasm...mixed with a bit of truth.
I've been using Linux since kernel 0.12 or so...and was using Slackware before it was Slackware!
Actually, us Slackware Users us whatever the fsck we want, because we know how to do it all! CDE, KDE, Gnome, Enlightenment, raw X, screen, and anything else we can dig up. We not only know how to use it, we customize it so that other users on the same machine have a hard time time using it! What's more, we probably also know how to use Ubuntu, Mint, Fedora, RHEL, CentOS, SUSE, Debian, Arch, *BSD, Solaris, AIX, HP-UX, Mac OS (7-10), and another dozen operating systems that most of you haven't heard of! We can even make Windows useful! We Kick OS BUTT!
All single OS users must cringe in the shadow of our awesomeness!
Really!
Even that's not good enough. I work in the electronics industry and the educated and schooled engineers fuck up far more than the merely "educated but unschooled" I.T. staff. And this is saying a lot, because we are a Windows shop.
Well there's your problem!
Windows aims to be a simple OS for the masses...as opposed to Unix which is aimed at computer geeks and engineers.
I would be surprised to see the same comment ending in..."AIX shop" or "Solaris shop" for example.
ttyl
Farrell
How many hours/days will it be before they are pwned?
That is, pwned by someone other than the NSA...:-)
Books can be very immersive! For example, back when I first read Larry Niven's book Ringworld, I had an interesting experience...
I was bicycling through a bunch of allotment gardens, and noticed on plot had nothing but sunflowers...and I started to panic. SUNFLOWERS!!! Then I realized that it was cloudy that day, so I was safe....then I figuratively kicked myself...I was on Earth, not Ringworld!
That's Immersive!
Unix, and by extension, Linux does exactly what you tell it to, no more, no less.
First of all, if your server is filling up so fast, why don't you have any tools that monitor it? Even simple tools like old Big Brother (Or one of it's open source clones) will notify you with an email, SMS message to your phone, or even a voice call. Also, if all your logs are not compressed except for the current ones, then you don't have logrotate.d configured properly, and if you have lots of servers, then you probably have a devoted remote logserver.
Basically, what you are complaining about is that *you* don't know how to set up logging, monitoring and management on a Linux system.
Windows server management is much more SysAdmin intensive than Linux server management. Most Linux Boxes are "fire and forget" after they have been configured. Windows boxes decay quickly, and need a great deal more upkeep from the SysAdmin.
I just found the information on the device I have...it's called the Konexx KOUPLER, and it's pretty snazzy! Their web site claims speeds up to 26.4 Kbps. But I guess that is under ideal conditions...Web site says they still sell it, and it's $150 US.
More information here: http://www.konexx.com/koupler.htm
p.s. I have no connection with these guys other than the fact I have used their product in the past, and found it to be a wonderful part of a Road Warriors's toolkit!
Wow, I can now dust off my high-speed acoustic coupler! It would plug into the phone line out on a modem, and give you a decent percentage of the 14.4 Kbaud, say anywhere from 40-80%, depending on the phone, etc. I bought it because it meant that I could do support on Unix systems even if the only net connection I had available was a pay phone!
So let's change the rules...create a Kickstarter campaign to fund a patent-bounty system. If funded, the fund pays out $10 per-patent that is squashed. Suddenly, it becomes a game for people to compete with each other to kill off patents. Even if a person can only do one an hour, that is better pay than minimum wage in many US States, or around the world. And once a year, they can throw a conference, and give out awards to the top "sharp-shooters" who kill off the most patents!
Turn killing bad patents into a game where you can make money, and we can have the patent-trolls slain in short order!
Of course, ebooks being just text, (HTML zipped for the epub format, for example), I would not be surprised if a good spelling and grammar check software wouldn't render this attempt at DRM useless...or will they try to outlaw spelling/grammar check software as DRM circumvention tools?
Ever been in an ICU recently? All that remote monitoring technology was "government science" developed for space travel. This internet? Yup, More government science money. Use a microwave oven? Yup, government money!
Basic science research is needed to develop ideas and test theories that could later be developed into mass use products!
Get hold of portable property. -- Charles Dickens, "Great Expectations"
