|
|
Marc Clifton wrote: the observatory is downlinking data to help engineers determine what caused it to suspend science operations last week.
Unexpected pointer to void?
|
|
|
|
|
Nah, probably an unplanned update to Windows 10.
There are two types of people in this world: those that pronounce GIF with a soft G, and those who do not deserve to speak words, ever.
|
|
|
|
|
Mike Mullikin wrote: Nah, probably an unplanned update to Windows 10.
What ? there was nobody on telescope to say NO to the nagging popup ?
Can't believe it. 
Patrice
“Everything should be made as simple as possible, but no simpler.” Albert Einstein
|
|
|
|
|
"All of these worlds are yours except Europa. Attempt no upgrades there"
|
|
|
|
|
I think it tried turning itself off then on again...
|
|
|
|
|
An hour’s drive from Wichita, Kansas, in a little town called Potwin, there is a 360-acre piece of land with a very big problem. The dangers of defaults
OK, maybe not defaults exactly, but "The dangers of imprecise data returned as though it were precise" doesn't fit on the bumper sticker.
|
|
|
|
|
"Toto, I've a feeling we're not in Kansas anymore." Dorothy.
«The truth is a snare: you cannot have it, without being caught. You cannot have the truth in such a way that you catch it, but only in such a way that it catches you.» Soren Kierkegaard
|
|
|
|
|
NASA is trying to resuscitate its planet-hunting Kepler spacecraft, in a state of emergency 75 million miles away. Quick! Someone call Bruce Willis!
|
|
|
|
|
I wonder what we were doing when it was actually in that mode, 75 million years away, and... I wonder if that is still there in the same mode.
The sh*t I complain about
It's like there ain't a cloud in the sky and it's raining out - Eminem
~! Firewall !~
|
|
|
|
|
V'ger is that which seeks the Creator.
GCS d--- s-/++ a- C++++ U+++ P- L- E-- W++ N++ o+ K- w+++ O? M-- V? PS+ PE- Y+ PGP t++ 5? X R++ tv-- b+ DI+++ D++ G e++>+++ h--- ++>+++ y+++* Weapons extension: ma- k++ F+2 X
If you think 'goto' is evil, try writing an Assembly program without JMP. -- TNCaver
"When you have eliminated the JavaScript, whatever remains must be an empty page." -- Mike Hankey
If a coffee bean is between the Earth and the Sun, is it a Java Eclipse? -- Sascha Lefèvre
/xml>
|
|
|
|
|
Sterilize imperfections!
The difficult we do right away...
...the impossible takes slightly longer.
|
|
|
|
|
|
Torvalds pledges to dedicate the next 25 years of his life to usurping Windows. Looking forward to all the future Year of Linux announcements
|
|
|
|
|
At the pace Microsoft is open sourcing the packages, Linux has nothing up his sleeves that can surprise us. Or maybe he has it up somewhere, other than sleeve.
The sh*t I complain about
It's like there ain't a cloud in the sky and it's raining out - Eminem
~! Firewall !~
|
|
|
|
|
I wish the Desktop were much thinner than it is.
The problem with desktop is that it so bloated that it barely runs on devices -- laptops, etc...
Why not have hot swappable add-ins and only run what I need at the time instead of all these services going crazy in the background.
Thin Desktop is what we want!  
modified 10-Apr-16 17:52pm.
|
|
|
|
|
Afzaal Ahmad Zeeshan wrote: Linux has nothing up his sleeves that can surprise us.
It does; it could simply not repeat the mistakes of Windows.
Like being a security issue, or forcing updates 
Bastard Programmer from Hell 
If you can't read my code, try converting it here[^]
|
|
|
|
|
He won't have to wait that long for Microsoft to totally fubar Windows. Then again, if he really wants to beat MS, maybe he should focus not on the OS but on the desktop environments available for Linux. They're all crap, and the #2 reason I don't use Linux. The #1 reason is the other thing he should focus on -- I do NOT, EVER, NEVER EVER EVER, want to have to run "sudo apt-get" to install something. And when I install it, it should automatically create a desktop shortcut or some other easily accessible shortcut, so I don't have to figure out how to put a link to a bash .sh file on my desktop myself. Oh yeah, and figure out where the stupid environment setting is to make .sh files executable. F***ing insanity if you as me.
It's the simple things in life.
Marc
|
|
|
|
|
Not that I'm I Torvalds fan, but he doesn't have much control over #1. That's entirely up to the people putting out the individual software packages. Here's my experience with JetBrains IDE's on Linux:
1 - Download file from website.
2 - Find file in downloads folder.
3 - Right-click / Extract Here
4 - Double click install.sh
5 - Click through dialogs
After that I have icons in my "Start" menu, and on my desktop.
So it's already entirely possible to have a rather user-friendly install process. But how many open source developers are interested in actually putting work into their install process? Not many I'd wager.
|
|
|
|
|
Linux won't ever provide a usable desktop.
Linux developers insist that users behave in the way the developers expect them to do - and that's the other way round from correct application development. The desktop is for users, nit for developers. And when users behave badly, developers have a lot of work of making it fool-proof.
Several years ago, a WYSIWYG interface was provided for a text editor (emacs?, I do not remember exactly) with a SuSE distribution. You could not use it: pressed enter two times to add some empty space to be filled later, a message popped up requiring me to define a new format definition for that. Hey, I wanted to type, not to define formats! With the next distribution, it was no more included. Miserable failure the Linux way.
|
|
|
|
|
DevOps, as we know it, is dead. Perhaps not many people agree with me, but the age of DevOps is just about over. Then again, perhaps this won’t come as a surprise to some. Good thing I didn't take the time to learn it then
|
|
|
|
|
Was it even alive?
GCS d--- s-/++ a- C++++ U+++ P- L- E-- W++ N++ o+ K- w+++ O? M-- V? PS+ PE- Y+ PGP t++ 5? X R++ tv-- b+ DI+++ D++ G e++>+++ h--- ++>+++ y+++* Weapons extension: ma- k++ F+2 X
If you think 'goto' is evil, try writing an Assembly program without JMP. -- TNCaver
"When you have eliminated the JavaScript, whatever remains must be an empty page." -- Mike Hankey
If a coffee bean is between the Earth and the Sun, is it a Java Eclipse? -- Sascha Lefèvre
/xml>
|
|
|
|
|
Author of the Tiobe monthly language popularity index sees both Visual Basic and Visual Basic .Net dropping from the top 10 within a year "The king is gone, but he's not forgotten"
|
|
|
|
|
When Microsoft misses language parity for a third time in a row (this time with .NET Core) you have to take the hint.
|
|
|
|
|
About elephanting time. Unfortunately (without looking at the list), it's probably being replaced with equal shyte, like Ruby, Python, or Javascript.
Marc
|
|
|
|
General 
News 
Suggestion 
Question 
Bug 
Answer 
Joke 
Praise 
Rant 
Admin 
Submit an article or tip
