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by meaty 14y ago
Pain in the arse because there is no easy eay of determining which was the master. Instead of a hierarchy, you have a hierarchy with a temporal aspect as well poorly mapped to a non temporal hierarchy. The metadata is still not opaque (its
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by meaty 14y ago
That's an installed toolchain, not a properly working one.
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by meaty 14y ago
We're also an oracle java certified and redhat certified and VMware certified and more of our kit is on Linux, so it's not biased :) My point is that we're citably competent all the way through.
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by meaty 14y ago
I'm sitting in front of a 1280x800 14" unit here and am quite happy. I can't see the pixels thanks to TrueType in Windows. Retina/high DPI displays are no advantage for my combination of eyes and brain. I have a 22" 1920x1080 display on my
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by meaty 14y ago
So basically it's a ticking bomb waiting to go in the trash. At that price, no way. SSD's do fail, sometimes by accident, sometimes by software bugs. Some muppet added a swap partition to one of our build servers with a Samsung 830 and the
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by meaty 14y ago
Fair point. Unfortunately most software doesn't behave well with that on Windows. This is a shortcoming of traditional GDI+ based Windows apps however, not of WPF based Metro apps.
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by meaty 14y ago
Actually I think I want exactly that too :)
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by meaty 14y ago
Good point. Not a ThinkPad. I'm rather worried about how Lenovo have gone all experimental. I still want an old fashioned black brick with a clitmouse.
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by meaty 14y ago
I can't see anything on a 1080p screen at 12" and considering my eyesight isn't all that bad, I imagine it's not going to sell for most people.
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by meaty 14y ago
> Fire your email and/or network admins. I'm serious. I only receive a couple hundred emails and send a few dozen, so maybe I'm not a heavy user like you are, but I literally can't remember the last time Mail.app crashed. It's always wo
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by meaty 14y ago
So... doing "find . -type f -name ' .jpg' -print" is outside of your capabilities?* No but doing that when iPhoto stores backups of your images is a pain in the arse. b) talking to the library from apps - the UI was horrible and inconsist
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by meaty 14y ago
I wouldn't install rails on a windows box. That's like mixing acid and base together. Forget it. Use Linux. Even I said I have a Linux VM. Try PowerShell ISE v3 if you want a shell for windows. That's actually a pretty scary powerful bit of
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by meaty 14y ago
Yes and that isn't actually the problem I had :)
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by meaty 14y ago
It was unbearable because the abstraction was inconsistent when it came to: a) talking to the library from the command line - the mapping between the UI and the filesystem was completely abstract. b) talking to the library from apps - the U
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by meaty 14y ago
As it should be—they've had time to work on the issues and should be competitive by now. Yes this is it. But I wasn't getting that with OSX. In '06, it was pretty good compared to say Windows XP but since '08 it's been declining rapidly i
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by meaty 14y ago
No - email on iOS is a piece of shit. It regularly drops connections to exchange, mail bombs people when sending a message and IMAP is unreliable as hell as well. Not only that, it starts to lag unbearably after a few days (up to iOS 6). I
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by meaty 14y ago
Yes I know. I've tried Windows 8 and I don't like it, but thanks to the culture of support and choice, I'm not all that bothered as Windows 7 is good and supported for another 7 years (until 2020). Something (Windows Blue?) may come along a
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by meaty 14y ago
Agreed. It doesn't just work. It works until you want an opinion, then it stabs you in the face repetitively. My first encounter of this was the stupid filesystem abstraction iPhoto decided to enforce upon me. After removing iPhoto, it was
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by meaty 14y ago
Perhaps I'm strange. I always seem to be going the opposite way to everyone else. I've fallen in love with Windows again. It just works. Power management rocks, battery life is good (8 hours on my 2007 Lenovo T61!), the hardware is damn che
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by meaty 14y ago
I actually tripped over this a couple of days ago after getting frustrated with puppet's rubyness (I hate ruby with a passion). Looks rather nice. Will try it out next time I do any debian kit provisioning. Perhaps it's just I'm getting old
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by meaty 14y ago
It's Top Gear. From a journalistic point of view, they are akin to the Daily Mail or Harry Potter. The outcome is decided up front. They won't win a rematch, even if they do.
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by meaty 14y ago
Yuck. RTTI is C++'s goto.
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by meaty 14y ago
That is until a computer is capable of reason, which I personally think will never happen. I'm not suggesting some other technology will not be able to reason, but it's not going to be a jumped up Turing machine.
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by meaty 14y ago
The thing is that you are sacrificing your freedom to it. You're being slowly locked into another incompatible platform. One of the great freedoms of open source software is to go "fuck you disty, I'm off to another one". When all your stuf
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by meaty 14y ago
Only by turning the display and controller off after 20-30 seconds.
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by meaty 14y ago
Neckbeard here. We don't mind it being fixed. But we'd prefer it was fixed with something which was better engineered and fitted into the entire ecosystem. For example, the *BSD's have a completely different init system and dependency chain
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by meaty 14y ago
This doesn't surprise me at all. I've had so much Apple kit pack in on me it's unreal. It got to the point I dumped it all and switched to a 5 year old Lenovo unit which has been flawless. While they look pretty, I'm not sure the engineerin
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by meaty 14y ago
They ought to fix all the pretty basic bugs and commit to actually supporting their customers before they bite this off. LaunchPad is a testament to the shit state Ubuntu is in. All the windows are broken so we'll knock half the building do
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by meaty 14y ago
Yay more "not invented here". The list of OS's is going to be: MacOS X, windows, Linux and completely separately Ubuntu by time they've replaced everything. Canonical are turning into a 1990's style Unix vendor. We haven't forgotten that cr
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by meaty 14y ago
That sucks. My nephew managed to get out of it by calling his manager at Tesco "fucking spineless arse licking cunt". Worked wonders. He now fixes laptops at the local computer shop for a reasonable amount of cash.

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