• (cs) in reply to loneprogrammer
    loneprogrammer:

    Anonymous:
    Makes you wonder why Linux developers rolled their own. (Answer: NIH)

    No.  The short answer is that the BSD license is different from the GPL license.  Also, BSD sucks.

     



    Um ... BDS sucks?


    Open BSD is probably the most secure OS out there and they give it away for FREE with no strings attached .... I'd hardly call that sucking!


    The only reason Linux don't use the BSD TCP/IP implementation is because Stallamn hates the BSD guys! It would not prevent linux being kept under the GPL because the BSD liscence says that you can do just about anything with the code as long as you credit the BSD guys. Basically petty politics within the open source comunity.

  • (cs) in reply to JamesCurran

    Why am I not surprised that Microsoft didn't write this? (I love double negatives). An obscure and unhelpful (but it works) command line utility. Yep, describes unix in a nut shell.

  • (cs) in reply to clockwise
    clockwise:
    Why am I not surprised that Microsoft didn't write this? (I love double negatives). An obscure and unhelpful (but it works) command line utility. Yep, describes unix in a nut shell.


    clockwise:
    Why am I not surprised that Microsoft didn't write this? (I love double negatives). An obscure and unhelpful (but it works) command line utility. Yep, describes unix in a nut shell.


    Obscure and unhelpful????


    It does EXACTLY what it says it does, tells you what IP is bound to what name or what name is bout to what IP. You just type:


    nslookup name


    or


    nslookup ip


    It really doesn't get any simpler. If that's too obscure and unhelpful for you then I doubt you are cut out for a career in IT becuase things get sooo much more complicated than that!

  • YT (unregistered) in reply to sinistral
    sinistral:
    For once, we can't blame Microsoft for a gross problem in their software.  Although if it had Google like intelligence, maybe you would get something like "Did you mean to type nslookup webservices.initech-global.com in a command shell?"


    No Google doesn't do that.
  • James Schend (unregistered) in reply to StarLite

    Real people run real resolutions, 1024x768 is soooooo 1998

    That's great, but at work I don't get to buy my own monitor.

  • (cs) in reply to Hank Miller

    hank, you don't know many OSes then, or their relative "popularity", whatever that is!

    does VMS use BSD code ?

    AIX ?

    how about Netware ?

    plan9 ?

    hurd ?

    AmigaOS?

    HP-UX ?

    Solaris ?

    ULTRIX ?

    VAX?

    SunOS?


    If everyone used the BSD stack then this would be pretty moot :


    http://www.insecure.org/nmap/nmap-fingerprinting-article.html


  • (cs) in reply to Stan Rogers
    Stan Rogers:
    JThelen:
    I'm running w/e the current version of Firefox, and it renders quite fine.  I dunno why everyone else seems to have issues with the fox;  I haven't had a single one that I always hear people complaining about.  I do have an issue though.. I can't use the emoticon panel.  Aside from that, replies work, quotes work, etc, etc.


    Same here, although I've never tried the emoticon thingies. It's not Firefox that's the problem, it's teeny-tiny screens. At 1024X768, running Firefox or IE6 maximized, you have to scroll right very slightly to see the whole image. At 1280X1024, it all fits. At 800X600, I'd imagine the image would take a bit o' scrollin'.


    Ah.. I suppose that would explain why I don't have any issues with it on either one of the 21" Trinitrons runnign @ 1600X1200 :P

    As for the Emoticon panel, in IE you can click them to insert, but it doesn't work so well for the fox [:'(]  However, i usually keep an IE window open in the background, so getting to em isn't terribly hard;  just an extra bit of work I'd rather not go through.


  • (cs) in reply to Tom
    Tom:
    The biggest WTF here is that the person was using Microsoft Idiot Exploiter.


    There are certain workspaces out there where the users aren't allowed to choose their browser.  Also, a lot of folks post here at work.  I personally use the fox at work, but there's a lot of stuff out there that I don't have the option to use it.  Thus, IE. 

    Besides, we all know that it's called MS Internet Exploder.  [;)]
  • (cs) in reply to JThelen
    JThelen:
    ... the fox

    Must people give software cutesy names?
  • (cs) in reply to rsynnott
    rsynnott:
    JThelen:
    ... the fox

    Must people give software cutesy names?


    Must people be complete and total asshats about things they disagree with? 
  • Charlie Collins (unregistered) in reply to loneprogrammer

    No it was INITECH.

    Thats the funny part of this damn thread, your company is acutally named Initech, LOL.

    http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0151804/quotes

  • Charlie Collins (unregistered) in reply to Charlie Collins
    loneprogrammer:

    kengray:
    "initech"

    wasn't that the company in Office Space?

    No.  It was OfficeTech.

     



    Sorry, in my previous comment I was trying to reply to the above specific comment (hence I hit "reply" to a specific comment, but I dont see how the replies in this forum are related to said specific comments but rather they appear related to the original post).

    Anyway, the comment was that "Initech" was indeed the name of the company in OfficeSpace, not OfficeTech, and thats pretty damn funny.
  • (cs) in reply to Charlie Collins
    Anonymous:
    loneprogrammer:

    kengray:
    "initech"

    wasn't that the company in Office Space?

    No.  It was OfficeTech.

     



    Sorry, in my previous comment I was trying to reply to the above specific comment (hence I hit "reply" to a specific comment, but I dont see how the replies in this forum are related to said specific comments but rather they appear related to the original post).

    Anyway, the comment was that "Initech" was indeed the name of the company in OfficeSpace, not OfficeTech, and thats pretty damn funny.


    While the company from OfficeSpace was indeed Initech, I think you'd find that we get a lot of stuff from there.  However, the reason we get so much stuff from a company called Initech is because Alex has a sense of humor and has also seen OfficeSpace.  Then again, find someone in this field who hasn't dealt with a situation you could imagine seeing in either OfficeSpace or Dilbert.

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