Once it took 10 minutes and then I complained and got a $20 credit.

Well, it only took 25 years, but Server's finally catching up to Linux and BSD I actually have been impressed with Server since 2000, after NT4 it was basically amazing.

@Dashrender Damn straight! The worst McDonald's in the world is in Hongkong, that I've tried. Oh my god, it was disgusting, and it wasn't anything specific to the region, it was supposed to be a damn hamburger.

@nadnerB said:

@tonyshowoff said:

@nadnerB said:

@tonyshowoff said:

The slowest, worst written blogging system in existence is great? Well, I guess some people enjoy herpes too.

lol, bad experience(s), eh?
Out of genuine interest, what's your favourite?

Bad experience? I developed on the WordPress code base in the past, it literally is one of the worst code bases there is. It's extremely disorganised, doesn't properly meet any standard in existence, and even today the code is approached as if it's written in PHP 4.1. WordPress has more vulnerabilities than almost any other equally popular piece of software, and also their crappy API leads to crappy plugins which also have tons of vulnerabilities. The key people in WordPress don't know how to program, that's the primary issue.

I don't have a favourite, they're all shit, and ironically WordPress is the best because it's easiest to get going and has so many options available. It's poorly executed. Turn on query log sometime, a regular page load will probably be about 100 database queries, many of them identical, which screams incompetence. It's sort of funny, WordPress attempts to promote caching tools for problems they themselves have created.

Here's some more detail:

http://community.spiceworks.com/topic/post/4257928

Righto, well that's a good read
I would imagine a lot of things are just as messed up

All you have to do with a crappy piece of software is add a bunch of themes and then people will accept it.

When it comes to projecting dates for technology, I usually see people say either "basically tomorrow" or "a billion years from now" and they're always wrong. People tend to forget technological change does have essentially a set pattern and keeps doubling in speed. People tend to over estimate that doubling or vastly underestimate it, and I think that's primarily a difference between optimists and people who have been disappointed with predictions in the past. If the prediction doesn't fall within what's likely possible in The Law of Accelerating Returns then it almost certainly won't happen.

Given the technology, I'd say mass production is likely in 5 years, but the problem is mass to them may not be mass to us. If they're creating even 10 million units a year, that's mass production, but it's likely to be fairly expensive to where it doesn't touch your daily life, therefore most people would say "ah, see, I told you, didn't' happen in 5 years," when it actually did. What you're really wanting is "when is it cheap enough for me to throw away" and that may indeed be 10 - 15 years, depending on many other factors and over all application.

@Dashrender We may have a rat burger situation like in Demolition Man.

@thecreativeone91 said:

@tonyshowoff said:

@nadnerB said:

@tonyshowoff said:

@nadnerB said:

@tonyshowoff said:

The slowest, worst written blogging system in existence is great? Well, I guess some people enjoy herpes too.

lol, bad experience(s), eh?
Out of genuine interest, what's your favourite?

Bad experience? I developed on the WordPress code base in the past, it literally is one of the worst code bases there is. It's extremely disorganised, doesn't properly meet any standard in existence, and even today the code is approached as if it's written in PHP 4.1. WordPress has more vulnerabilities than almost any other equally popular piece of software, and also their crappy API leads to crappy plugins which also have tons of vulnerabilities. The key people in WordPress don't know how to program, that's the primary issue.

I don't have a favourite, they're all shit, and ironically WordPress is the best because it's easiest to get going and has so many options available. It's poorly executed. Turn on query log sometime, a regular page load will probably be about 100 database queries, many of them identical, which screams incompetence. It's sort of funny, WordPress attempts to promote caching tools for problems they themselves have created.

Here's some more detail:

http://community.spiceworks.com/topic/post/4257928

Righto, well that's a good read
I would imagine a lot of things are just as messed up

All you have to do with a crappy piece of software is add a bunch of themes and then people will accept it.

Wait where you talking about wordpress or windows?

Yes

Gotta love that strict typing!

I know I sure do

@Dashrender Oh hell yes. That's all I have to say about that.

@scottalanmiller said:

Here is what they eventually said...

Thank you for the follow up on this issue. After closer review, it appears the build failed to complete. This resulted in the droplet not being created. You will want to re-attempt creating the droplet. If you have any further questions or concerns, please don't hesitate to let us know.

Complain I say, complain!

A shitty country just got shittier, $20 says they complete screw up the implementation and people are getting free food or it just fails completely.

@scottalanmiller Thank you. Should have an eyeball or something, that'd be nice :X

All you need to know:
http://serverfault.com/a/458639/220158

@Carnival-Boy said:

CUT? TUC? Too many 3 letter acronyms!

Just the french and english versions of the same thing, temps universel coordonné and coordinated universal time

@scottalanmiller THERE'S SO MUCH I NEED TO SAY ABOUT O, S, HO SCALE TRAINS AH!!!

Here you go:

echo "alias ifconfig='ip'" >> ~/.bashrc

Ironically alias is also deprecated in bash.

@Carnival-Boy said:

@Dashrender said:

GMT changes based on the season.

No it doesn't. Unless I've gone mad.

Gives a whole new meaning to "it's the time of the season"

@Minion-Queen said:

I hate being cold. I mean I HATE HATE HATE being cold. Warm is awesome. I lived in an African Jungle for a year and loved the hot, sticky I can deal with but hot I love.

I lived in Novosibirsk, Siberia, the winters were great and beautiful, like a Christmas card. Summer it got up to a high of about 24C / 75F, and even that was approaching too hot, thank god it didn't last long. Africa? No way dude, no... way... Hell, I once went to Dubai and refused to leave my hotel room until nightfall.

@thanksajdotcom said:

@thecreativeone91 said:

@thanksajdotcom said:

@tonyshowoff said:

I answered this on Spiceworks already, but for the sake of cross posting since you did, I will say again: get a new drive, lowering quality is always a terrible idea, you can't go from lossy to lossy without destroying quality.

You did? I don't see the response, unless I'm just not recognizing your handle over there.

Then you didn't read the content of them.

I did. But he's Tony over here and Antal? over there...I think.

Yeah, I got all alias here, so the cops can't stay on my trail.

@scottalanmiller said:

@Carnival-Boy said:

On my Windows, I can't set GMT as a timezone. The only options are UTC plus or minus n hours. Regardless, it has to be a fudge, since we're operating in two different times zones (GMT & BST) and Windows only allows you to set one (plus a tick box for Daylight Saving Time).

That's bizarre. I can set (and have) GMT on my Windows. And on my Linux.

GMT is used interchangeably with UTC a lot, as evident even on this thread. However the main issue with GMT was the lack of leap seconds so it was slowly falling behind UTC, but not any more since they're now in some goofy balance I think.