Comment: Missing option (Score 1) 171
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Comment: Re:Joyous upturn of hope! (Score 1) 94
He coined a word for it, "Eucatastrophe".
Comment: Re:What's wrong with ILO? (Score 1) 104
Debugging installation failures on hosts in a dev environment, probably 20 times a day. I just need to see what the installer reported and to interact with it. These fancy interfaces give you all the bells and whistles but seem to end up making the basics unreliable. 19200 works fine for me.
Comment: Re:What's wrong with ILO? (Score 1) 104
How long have you got?
ILO often hangs (as in the ILO *server*) when extremely long lines are sent to it. Some features as licensed on per-host basis. Unless you only have one supplier you end up with having to use a mixture of tools to do the same operations.
I haven't used one of these proprietary tools that doesn't suck big-time. The worst offender is Dell's Java KVM. I have to fire up a Windows VM whenever I have to use it.
Once configured serial just works.
Comment: I think that's a typo (Score 1) 262
They meant to say "Nearly sold ONE".
Comment: Re:What moron judge allowed this? (Score 1) 527
Yes, how long have you been asleep for?
+ - German Court Affirms GPL: Source Must Match Executable
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Alsee (515537) writes "Fantec was found to be distributing Linux based media players with an incorrect (older) version of source code. Fantec blamed their Chinese supplier for the problem, but a German Court ruled Fantec was responsible for ensuring their own compliance with the GPL. "According to the court, the company should have checked the completeness of the sources themselves or with the help of experts, even if that would have incurred additional costs." I propose a better solution. If your company is subcontracting software development simply use the supplied source to compile your executable."
Comment: Definately a nerd... (Score 1) 267
because Terry Pratchett said so.
Comment: Re:doesn't work (Score 1) 597
As TFA points out, that always works fine when your requirements are *all* known an are completely static. That rarely happens in most fields.
Beyond 'hello world' that's always the case. Let alone in real-world projects the dates change, the team members change etc.
Comment: I live in the UK... (Score 1) 187
we don't get summers here.
Comment: Useful.. (Score 1) 235
for visiting the mother-in-law.
Comment: Is there one for throwing a chair at a phone... (Score 0) 214
or should I patent that before Ballmer does?
Comment: Funny.. (Score 0) 1091
Recently I found myself struggling with a question I should easily have been able to answer: Why would anyone want to use Windows as their everyday desktop (or laptop) operating system?
Comment: Bunnies ain't cuddly (Score 4, Insightful) 372
They can rip each other to shreds if the mood takes them.
Comment: Re:This isn't nearly as bad as the division bug (Score 1) 292
It fixed it, but new programmers shouldn't be forced to deal with stuff like that.
You're new here aren't you? Software always has to fix up the screwups the hardware engineers made.
