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There is no such thing as a Open Source government -- No Government at all would be nice! All kind of government is evil and are in it only for the power. You have read Noam Chomsky, you should know.
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I agree. We (Brazil) "sell" our orange juice to you and you sell us 3x expensive shitty coca-cola.
Globalization = Imperialism.
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neither under state socialism.... Because there always will be the mass of poor people, there always will be exploitation, there always will be control under capitalism -- under this system, the technology is a WEAPON, it creates unemployement, it creates dependency, it creates dessocialization, and it creates _power_ to who owns the tech. Only in a society without hierarchic power and without money technology can do good.
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How come an AltaVista search for "Rupert Tollefsen" turns up
http://www.geocities.com/A thens/Agora/7256/mindread.html
when that page doesn't even mention him?

I think we should be told.

Hold on, there's a knock at the door...

Mostly he writes song parodies, such as "Eat It", which is a parody of Michael Jackson's "Beat It", or "Living in the 'Fridge", which is a parody of Aerosmith's (?) "Living on the Edge". He also does jokey polkas that are medleys of various contemporary songs, and occasionally does silly songs where both lyrics and music are his own, like "Dare to be Stupid". I don't think you'll hear him on the radio too much, although he got his start on Dr. Demento, a radio show devoted to noveltly songs.

Lyrics to some of his songs are available here.

Tucker was an "individualist anarchist", and the question of how to interpret the individualist anarchists politically is the source of an enormous argument between anarchists of the right and left today. See An Anarchist FAQ for the left's version, and the Anarchist Theory FAQ for the right's version.

Anyway, there is certainly such a thing as socialism outside of Marxism.

FreeBSD has been extremely stable for us. We've seen over 180 days of uptime on a machine serving over 4 million HTTP requests per day. Performance has been impressive too. With disk striping using ccd we've been able to serve over 12 million HTTP requests per day on a PPro200 with 128MB of memory.

K:
1. Decent stack-ordered task switching
2. Good desktop switching (if you only use 2 windows)
3. Task manager useful and non-intrusive when 'hidden'
4. Good enough of a file manager
5. Easily configurable

I wouldn't mind a slimmer kde without all of the superfluous stuff as an option.

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Anyone want to try my newsreader? Download mp3s, etc off of usenet in the comfort of your own linux:

http://www.geocit ies.com/ResearchTriangle/Forum/3838/dolphin.html

Because it is a perfectly applicable validation of Libertarian Socialist theory and practice.

You don't think that the GNU and Linux communities are a perfect example of the structure of anarchy?

In socialism there are no private corporations. How does this lead to the conlusion that Libertarian Socialists want people left to deal with only the gov't, when they want to *eliminate* it?

Libertarian Socialism: No private corporations, no government.

You may as well RTFM (or at least the FAQ.)

-kx

Check out this story (English) or this page (German) and think again...

Check out the following link: http://www.geocities.com/SiliconV alley/Program/3555

The has source -- and binaries -- for a Windows NT driver (Wave to Disk) -- a Linux version has existed for a long time -- which will save any audio stream to disk by pretending to be a sound card. Proprietary copy protection schemes currently proposed work above the device level, and will fail to this approach.

The RIAA aren't going to win this.

For more information, email us.

They called GNU "Gee Is Not Unix"! Had to write to the Straits Times of Singapore to get it right.

Also, my 'unofficial' take on parts of the Singapore Linux Conference and my mail to the newspaper is here on my web-site. Today (9th March) there's another article in the press about RMS's talk at the National University of Singapore. This time they got the GNU right (but still spelled Gnu) - duh? (Straits Times online only releases todays edition at 12 noon local time).

Visit my homepage for the OS/2 version of Stella, or the Stella Homepage for version for Linux, Mac, Amiga, and many other operating systems(even winblows).

Sounds like you're a candidate for Hell Revealed: http://www.geocities.com/Hollywood/ 4704/hr.html

There'll be at least one mailing list, also starting soon, and a CVS repository.

If you like this kind of thing, run out to the archive and grab some interpreters and games.

If you want to play Infocom games, you can get all-but-two of them on the Masterpieces of Infocom CD. For more information, try http://www.geocities.com/TimesS quare/3177/infocom.htm. Comes with windoze binaries, but you can run most of the adventures under Linux (or anything else) by downloading an interpreter such as Frotz. 'Swhat I do.

For gobs of other information, go to Yahoo and search for "interactive fiction".

Plugh!

The project is over at: http://www.geocities.com/R esearchTriangle/Facility/6309/, and you can e-mail me at: jd9812@my-dejanews.com

I'm slowly migrating the pages relevent to the software side of this project over to the GNU web server. Hopefully, software will start migrating over there sometime soon, too.

Im using an IR reciever I built, with the help of a friend, to control winamp using a regular remote control. Does anyone know if there is a Linux project for this sort of thing?

The specs and winamp module can be found at
http://www.geociti es.com/SiliconValley/Sector/3863/infrared.html

The IR reciever/demodulator is not available anymore so I used a radioshack reciever.

Hey, this site for some reason reminds me: for decidedly more low-tech corporate terror, check out the utterly classic Temp Slave! If you luck out and come across one of TS!'s published-at-Kinko's issues on a newsstand, give it a shot. The "Best Of" book is available from their page or at bookstores. It's an anthology of millenial horror stories from temps within the corporate beast. The misery that flows from these tales is like therapy to those who can identify with them, and leave everyone else thankful that they can't.

Talk about mixing apples and oranges! Is any of this post relevant or even factual?
Very clever use of red herrings and argument switching, and confusing the general
with the specific. Also note the use of the two wrongs make a right argument.

But it is true. MS Windows is one of the cheapest OSes available to run on the PC.
There are few that are cheaper or free.

A quick tour around the net produced these prices for PC and Desktop OS's:
(obviously not a definitive or complete survey)

Linux free or nominal cost, less than $50, for CD
MS DOS 6.22 upgrade $46.95 from beyond.com
PC DOS 7.0 upgrade $51.45 from beyond.com
MacOS 8.5 $99 from Apple
BeOS R4 $99.95 ($69.95 special offer) from Be
Amiga OS 3.1 $90 to $104 (depending on model) from Compuquick
Windows 98 $177.95 from beyond.com
Windows 95 $178.94 from beyond.com
OS/2 Warp 4.0 $275 from IBM
Windows NT Workstation 4.0 $281.95 from beyond.com

These are the prices for the OS by itself.

So, while the statement is *correct*, since there are so few desktop OS's, Windows
is at the high end. Next time, check the facts.

Caution, content free statement ahead!
However, if Justice plans to throw the price of the OSin Microsoft's face then
all they will end up doing is playing the OJ glove trick.

Here comes the old apples and oranges trick, flavored with rumor and innuendo (the
Apple won't share with Be argument - LinuxPPC shows how real that one is, see also
here.) along with that problem with the facts, see prices above.
Let's see... on Mac you only have ONE commercial choice (Be used to be a choice,
which is still is provided you don't have a G3 - because be proprietary they won't
let Be in on the specs). Mac OS is NOT cheap. They have a monopoly on their side.

Curious. The article was about MS not Apple, and yet here we have Apple dragged in
as a red herring. So if what Apple is doing is wrong then it is ok for MS to do it.
Clever argument indeed.

And a bogus one. Yes Apple has a monopoly on Apple systems. MS has a monopoly on
Windows. No one else makes Windows. IBM did for a time, but MS went out of their
way to stop IBM. Another example of an apples and oranges argument. The monopoly
MS has is with the desktop OS market. That's what the article is about.

The problem with MS is that by their own success they got even more successful
and larger. Try to find apps in a store for other than Windows.

Can you say monopoly? But the point that there are plenty of applications for Windows
is not a problem. The problem is that MS uses its monopoly power to set prices above
the industry norms. That's the point of the article, the profit margins. Its called
gouging, and it is in no way good for the consumer.

So what was the point of this news article? If anything it supports MS's claim about
pricing. OS/2 has always been priced too high.. its one reason I gave up following it.
Any of the commercial Unix softwares is priced in la-la land.

The point, as I mentioned above, is that due to their monopoly hold on the desktop OS
market, MS can set the price to whatever they want. Again, it is the profit margin
that is the key number here. Capitalism is designed to prevent such price fixing. If the
market cannot then the Government needs to step in. Thus we have antitrust law.

The question that begs to be anwsered... just what does Justice consider a fair
price for an operating system?

Say what? Have you completely missed the point of not just the article but the entire
trial? This has nothing to do with the price of operating systems. The article raises
a specific question about the price of MS OS's in relation to the market and whether
or not MS abuses their monopoly on desktop OS's when it comes to pricing.

Stay tuned for more Apple bashing. (Feel free to skip this part as it is irrelevant
blathering.)
When will Justice tag other manufacturers about their proprietary stance on their
platforms? Since they are beating on MS for dominating their market why not beat on Apple?
After all its not like you can go outside of Apple easily for your OS. Hell, Apple went
out of their way to stop clone makers. If that isn't the definition of a monopolistic
attitude then nothing is.

MS is a bunch of money-hungry we have to control the world of PCs, but they are
not unique in their actions, and definitely not unique in the monolopistic state
that Justice claims.

MS is not unique in their desires to rule the market. They are unique in that they
do have an monopoly on desktop OS's and seem to be using that monopoly illegally.

(ps ... I work on an AS/400 - as if anyone else could write an OS for it... )

I hope you are keeping your skills up to date, because MS is hoping to take over this
part of the business with Windows NT. Now I think the AS/400 is a fine system. Until
recently I too worked on them. But why aren't you leveling your monopoly/proprietary
arguments against the AS/400? Could it be that you like the AS/400 but dislike the Mac?

Stop MS from short-selling the server market. Just get off the desktop market for
PCs. No one cares, and its better that there is one dominating standard. The best
bet for Justice is to prevent Microsoft from creating exclusive deals for their
server and hand-held Operating systems. That is where real competition still exists.
If Justice had come to the desktop around the time OS/2 and Win 3.1 were fighting
it out they could have made a difference. Now, they are just making press stories.

Why change your argument now? Why shouldn't there be "one dominating standard" for servers
and handhelds? Why is competition good in these markets but not in the desktop market?
Wouldn't a Windows everywhere be the logical extension of your "one dominating standard"
argument? And by using their profits from their desktop monopoly, they will be very
nicely situated to go after these markets.

And that scares the hell out of me.

SteveM

I have placed something similar to my views on Microsoft, and their products. If you would like to read it, go to the page at http://www.geocities. com/SiliconValley/Network/5389/tech.html.

I have prepared that account of how I see Microsoft, the Anti-MS movement, and their software and even political tactics.

Take with a grain of salt, however, this is merely a view.

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Since when is "government funding" socialist? Socialism is about the people who do the work getting together, doing the work, and managing the product as they see fit. Nationalized industry (as in the USSR) is known as "state capitalism", fyi :)

For more info on libertarian versions of socialism (ie., the various kinds of anarchism), check out the Anarchist FAQ.

companies are downsizing, governments are downsizing and the corporate work environment is getting desperate.

It's because they have to compete with me, and you. Hackers are the new source of wealth. New software and electronic products as well as the huge number of newly "software enhanced" products are generating a larger and larger percentage of the energy in the world economy.

And we can produce software in a living room for sale world-wide. I can set up a shop on Geocities with a credit card merchant account at Wells Fargo for a less than a $500.00. I can then translate my page into 5 languages at bablefish and sell world wide with no added transaction cost. If I weren't so lazy that is. The only thing that can stop us now is our own remotes. I could do all those things, but I sit here at work making somebody else's next million so I can be assured of a paycheck on the 15th and a convenient co-pay at the doctor's. All because making the money for myself would necessarily cut into my discworld time.

Speaking of which, I just mastered Pragi's Fiery Gaze and Endorphin's Floating Friend and became a 4th Level Wizard! Not to mention finding a way to use the soul commands to cast what appear to be free illusions!

Zircephate
Sages of the Unbroken Circle
Wizard's Guild
Ankh-Morpork

companies are downsizing, governments are downsizing and the corporate work environment is getting desperate.

It's because they have to compete with me, and you. Hackers are the new source of wealth. New software and electronic products as well as the huge number of newly "software enhanced" products are generating a larger and larger percentage of the energy in the world economy.

And we can produce software in a living room for sale world-wide. I can set up a shop on Geocities with a credit card merchant account at Wells Fargo for a less than a $500.00. I can then translate my page into 5 languages at bablefish and sell world wide with no added transaction cost. If I weren't so lazy that is. The only thing that can stop us now is our own remotes. I could do all those things, but I sit here at work making somebody else's next million so I can be assured of a paycheck on the 15th and a convenient co-pay at the doctor's. All because making the money for myself would necessarily cut into my discworld time.

Speaking of which, I just mastered Pragi's Fiery Gaze and Endorphin's Floating Friend and became a 4th Level Wizard! Not to mention finding a way to use the soul commands to cast what appear to be free illusions!

Zircephate
Sages of the Unbroken Circle
Wizard's Guild
Ankh-Morpork

I'm working on a project for creating and developing "free" (GPLed) films, drama, etc. (I've mentioned this before, but it deserves repeating. :) To go along with this, I'm writing, and looking for contributions of, GPLed software which will help people to create such works.

I've got the web pages for the Free Film Project over at Geocities at the moment. They're in for some heavy re-writing, just as soon as the net behaves itself & I can connect to Geocities' web-server.

The way I see it, if nobody is really happy with what is being produced, and the "free software" community can produce commercial-grade tools in a relatively short time, there's no reason why we can't just produce our own stuff. Even existing "independents" do very well at producing good films, but add in the whole "free" philosophy and you should end up with something that'll blow the socks off what's being done commercially now.