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NACI: Gov't of South Africa Pushes Open Source
GNU lover writes "National Advisory Council on Innovation in South Africa
has issued a release concering the use of Open Source and the digital divide." The use of open source in the 3rd/2nd world is one way to get around licensing costs - at least more honest then pirating.
A Conversation with Human Resources
Human Resources Representative: Good afternoon, Rob Melda.
Rob Melda: Hi.
HR: As you may have heard, we have been conducting interviews with certain personnel lately. In the current economic climate, our company is looking to reduce costs wherever possible. This may also, unfortunately, include "right-sizing" in certain departments head counts. In order to be absolutely fair, we are giving the persons whose positions are being considered for right-sizing the opportunity to justify their current positions worth. Do you understand?
Rob Melda: You're going to fire me?
HR:No, Rob Melda. "Right-sizing" is not about firing people. Based on your answers to a few questions, your departments head count will be evaluated. This may include shifting of positions and responsibilities, adjustments to salaries, and in some cases individuals may be released from employment. Does this help you understand?
Rob Melda: I guess so...
HR: Alright, lets begin. According to our files, your present position is Unix Systems Administrator, is that correct?
Rob Melda: Uhh, yeah.
HR: And what responsibilities, in your view, does your position entail?
Rob Melda: I administer to the Unix systems, which includes 4 GNU/Linux Samba servers, 8 load-balanced GNU/Linux Apache web servers, and a FreeBSD firewall... Hey, if you're looking to fi.. err, "right-size" somebody, why don't you look at the two NT admin guys? After all, they have much less experience than me; they're just a bunch of paper MCSEs, which just means you memorized a bunch of stuff and passed a test. They don't have any real admin experience, like with a GNU/Linux system.
HR: We'll get to that in just a moment. In what ways would you say your expertise is vital to the continued operation of these servers?
Rob Melda: Well, I know just about everything there is to know about GNU/Linux and the associated operating system utilities.
HR: Mmmhmmm. In this email from the director of IS, he tells me that the company is considering the elimination of Linux from the environment in order to lower our TCO -- total cost of operation, I think? No, total cost of ownership. He says we are considering replacing these servers with Windows 2000 Advanced Server, running IIS 5. What do you think about this?
Rob Melda: That's a stupid idea. Winbl... err, Windows is extremely difficult to administer. You have to keep up with new security patches coming out every 2 hours, and on top of all that you have to deal with the Blue Screen of Death every day, and Microsoft charges you like 500 bucks every time you call them.
HR: So Windows is much harder to administer than Linux?
Rob Melda: That's right. As a matter of fact, if you just got rid of the Microsl... err, Microsoft boxen, you could replace them with GNU/Linux and save some money on the licenses right there.
HR: Explain this to me. If Windows is so difficult to administer, why are the NT administrators able to support twice as many servers, given their limited "real world" experience, and the fact that they are only "paper MCSEs"?
Rob Melda: Err, they're probably just not doing their job. After all, my FreeBSD box has a 279 day uptime. Their Microsh... err, Microsoft boxen are up and down every week because of security patches.
HR: Yes, the FreeBSD firewall is an interesting topic. We had an outside security consultant come in, and he found that the FreeBSD firewall had not been patched for a vulnerability in a program called "Open SSH". The NT servers were up-to-date on patches, and properly secured. In addition, a large proportion of helpdesk tickets are called in because of issues with the Samba file servers. How do you respond to this?
Rob Melda: What? Gaah, the OpenSSH exploit was only a local root exploit!! There's no reason to take down a server with almost 300 days uptime to patch it!! And those people just have problems because they are running Windows 2000 on their PCs!! Microsoft deliberately changed the SMB standard to cripple open source competitors!! If the users weren't so obsessed with using their Outlook calendars and their Powerpoint presentations, they could just use Mandrake or something with StarOffice, and everything would be fine!!
HR: There's no reason to get excited, Rob Melda. These are just questions we have to ask. Now, given that you say Linux is far easier to administer than Windows, is there any reason to believe that if we bring on another NT administrator, he or she would be unable to support the Linux and BSD systems until they get migrated to Windows 2000?
Rob Melda: No... err, YES. It is easier, but... they just wouldn't understand!! There is a lot you have to know!! It's not just all point and click and all that kiddie stuff!!! It's really hard, you have to be able to compile kernels and edit conf files!! They couldn't do what I do!!!
HR: OK, Rob Melda, I can understand your anxiety. We'll move away from that subject. Now, is there any possibility that you see for us to use your skills in another position? For instance, would you be interested in earning your MCSE to become a junior administrator when we roll out the new Windows 2000 servers?
Rob Melda: NO!! I DON'T USE THAT MICROTRASH!! IT'S NOT LIKE I'M INTERESTED IN GETTING A BLUE SCREEN OF DEATH EVERY 2 SECONDS AND SPENDING THE REST OF THE TIME LISTENING TO STUPID USERS ASKING IDIOT QUESTIONS. OPEN SOURCE DOES EVERYTHING I NEED IT TO.
HR: Well, that tells us just about everything we need to know. Rob Melda, your input is of course appreciated, and we will be taking all your comments under advisement. Your department head will be contacting you soon to let you know about any change in your employment status. Thank you for your time.
Rob Melda: BYE.
2 January 2002
Civilian death toll is not big news
OPINION/Vincent Browne
The Irish Times
http://www.ireland.com/newspaper/opinion/2002/010
More than 100 civilians were killed in a small village, Qalaye Naizi, in eastern Afghanistan by bombs dropped from US aircraft on Sunday. A cameraman who visited the village after the bombing said he could see huge craters blasted by bombs. Amid the destruction were scraps of flesh, pools of blood and clumps of what appeared to be human hair. On Thursday last, US warplanes killed 40 civilians in Ghazni, south-west of Kabul. Also recently, 65 people, including tribal elders, were killed by US bombing while they were travelling in a convoy to Kabul to take part in the inauguration ceremony of the Afghan interim government.
On October 11th, more than 160 civilians were killed in a bombing raid in Karam, west of Jalalabad. Of the 60 mud huts in the village, 40 were destroyed.
On October 18th, the central market place, Sarai Shamali, near Kandahar, was bombed and 47 civilians were killed. On October 23rd, low-flying US gunships fired on the farming villages of Bori Chokar and Chowkar-karez, north of Kandahar, killing 93 civilians.
On November 10th, villages in the Khakrez district were bombed and more than 150 civilians were killed. On November 18th, bombing by US B52s killed again more than 150 civilians.
On the morning of Sunday, December 1st, B52 bombers made four passes over the village of Kama Ado, south-west of Jalalabad. The planes dropped 25 bombs each of 1,000 pounds.
Prof Marc Herold, of the departments of economics and women's studies at the University of New Hampshire, has published his estimate of the number of civilians killed in the bombardment of Afghanistan by US forces from October 7th, when the bombing started, to December 7th.
He relied only on official news agency reports, major newspapers in the US, Britain, Pakistan and India, and broadcast organisations, notably the BBC. He has calculated that in the period covered by his research the number of people killed has been 3,767, an average of 62 civilians per day. The total is well in excess of the number of people killed in the World Trade Centre and the Pentagon on September 11th (that figure is now estimated at around 3,100).
Assuming that the average killing rate has been maintained since December 7th, the total number of civilians killed in Afghanistan is now (as of New Year's Day) 5,317. Prof Herold acknowledges that his tabulation is based only on killings reported in the mainstream media. What of killings in remote areas of Afghanistan which never got recorded in the major news outlets? What of the people who have later died of wounds inflicted by the bombing?
And how about the number of people who have died as a direct result of the war; people denied access to food aid (over one million people were said by the aid agencies to be at risk at the outset of the bombing), people who have died because electricity was cut off, because hospitals were bombed, because their access to food was shut down?
For the most part, the media in the US, Britain and here have been indifferent to this slaughter. It is not that these atrocities have got no coverage, although precious little, it is that they are rarely highlighted and never drawn together to present the full awful picture of what is going on.
For instance, yesterday's New York Times carried no mention of the killing of the 100 civilians in Qalaye Naizi on Sunday night. The Washington Post carried the story in an inside page, as did the Los Angeles Times. There was no mention in the Boston Globe.
Sky News and CNN carried the story in its news bulletins on Monday but in secondary slots after reports of the launch of the euro (which was hardly news at all since we all knew about this for years).
As I was out of Ireland on Monday I don't know how RTÉ television news treated the story but it rated behind a thoroughly innocuous statement from the European Central Bank on the 1p.m. radio news. The RTÉ website news carried no mention of the bombing on Monday evening. When stories of these slaughters are carried at all they are prefaced by denials by the US military. And even when the US military acknowledge a slaughter, it is carried as though it was of no consequence.
When a Pentagon spokesman was asked about the bombing of Chowkar-karez on October 23rd when at least 93 civilians were killed, he said: "The people are dead because we wanted them dead." When asked about the incident, Donald Rumsfeld said: "I cannot deal with that particular village." And that was that.
And, of course, nobody in government or in politics has a word to say about it, not in the US, not in Britain, and certainly not here.
This is not quite a new barbarism as the obscenities engaged in by both sides in the second World War, and then carried to a refinement in the Vietnam war, were the precursors of all this.
But there was a hope (wasn't there?) after the Vietnam war that we had entered into a more civilised era; that no more would the slaughter of innocents be condoned or acquiesced in.
But we should have known. We remained silent while Iraq was bombarded in 1991 and Yugoslavia in 1999, and the new canon of "humanitarian bombing" was sanctioned. Where next? Iraq again? Or Somalia? Or Sudan? What matter.
Have a happy new year.
At times of war, such as now, we have to be the best and on our toes. The enemy and the evil that lives in the middle east are devious and cunning. They have no regard for human lives (as we sadly remember from a few months back), they are not human and they advocate religions of pure violence.
We have to evolve beyond these animals and make ourselves the cream of human achievement.
It is true, in times of peace, space exploration is a must for evolving oursevles. But, the time for explorations is not now, we are at war, we need to defend oursevles, we need to route the money we spend into things that would help save our neighbors.
There are evil nations in the middle east and asia, that are bent on the destruction of our culture and society. We as a race that is proud to call oursevles the forerunners and the most virtus of all humanity, need to defend the core basis of our existance. And in so doing, we need to wipe this evil from earth.
Nuclear space expoloration is also one good thing we are doing. Nuclear research is one good thing. Because this would cut our dependencies with the facist Mohammedian regimes in the middle east that stole our oil wells in middle of last century and are exorting high prices for the energy we run our cars in.
We need to look for alternative forms of energy for our survival. We need to cut our bonds with the rest of the shits out there. We need nuclear, we need defense. We need to look after each and everyone of us Americans.
God bless america
At times of war, such as now, we have to be the best and on our toes. The enemy and the evil that lives in the middle east are devious and cunning. They have no regard for human lives (as we sadly remember from a few months back), they are not human and they advocate religions of pure violence.
I'm trying to imagine a more inflammatory beginning. It actually strains the mind to do so. Pure violence? PURE 100% VIOLENCE? They are not human? Did this philosophy come out of a crackerjack box? The thinking behind it obviously did.
And you posted as an AC because obviously either the user registration process is beyond you or you are afraid to stand up for what you (supposedly) believe. That's just lovely.
When you grow up, you can come join the rest of us who realize life isn't entirely binary (black/white, on/off, good/evil) and that how you think about other people says a lot about who you are, then come back and join the discussion. And feel free to stand up and be counted by name.
Then maybe you'll be able to contribute to the discussion in an adult fasion. There are those who actually understand that the enemies of our way of life _are_ entirely human and this is the greatest part of the tragedy. It'd be really convenient to kick them out of the species, but life don't work that way.
God, that kind of rubbish makes me ill. But I guess that makes for a great trolling, now doesn't it? I only hope you're a slashtroll, because if you aren't, you've got some serious psychological damage.
-- Mal: "Well they tell you: never hit a man with a closed fist. But it is, on occasion, hilarious."
I'd be more impressed if you used pi for your random digits.
Yes, but here's my question:
Why does setting the 'foe' setting to -5 not put these posts under my -1 threshold? I mean, Taco said orignially that it was supposed to be a "kill-file" like feature, and it sure as hell isn't.
I don't want to browse at 0! But since Taco 1) won't prevent page-widening posts and 2) won't make the foe-list work how it -should-, I may have to.
The enemies of Democracy are
Does this imply the presence of Karma Pimps?
Yes...they're also known as moderators...
You're using her as bait, Master!
.. would be to clean up the "HTML" produced by Microsoft Word for their report. My eyes are burning!
You smell that? Do you smell that? ...Napalm, son. Nothing else in the world smells like that. I love the smell of napalm in the morning. You know, one time we had a hill bombed, for twelve hours. When it was all over I walked up. We didn't find one of 'em, not one stinkin' dink body. The smell, you know that gasoline smell, the whole hill. Smelled like... victory. Someday this war's gonna end...
Why not start with convincing the natives that raping infants will *not* cure HIV? Sounds like a better place to start than going on about Open Source.
I spell-check them.
Editors probably think I'm all snobby or something.
Most women are shy about their bodies. Even if you've got the world's most gorgeous woman in bed with you, she's going to worry about how you like her body. Tell her it's beautiful, tell her which parts you like best, tell her anything, but get her to trust you enough to let you down between her legs. Now stop and look at what you see. Beautiful, isn't it? There is nothing that makes a woman more unique than her pussy. I know. I've seen plenty of them. They come in all different sizes, colors and shapes; some are tucked inside like a little girl's cunnie and some have thick luscious lips that come out to greet you. Some are nested in brushes of fur and others are covered with transparent fuzz. Appreciate your woman's unique qualities and tell her what makes her special. Women are a good deal more verbal than men, especially during love-making. They also respond more to verbal love, which means, the more you talk to her, the easier it will be to get her off. So all the time you're petting and stroking her beautiful pussy, talk to her about it.
Now look at it again. Gently pull the lips apart and look at her inner lips, even lick them if you want to. Now spread the tops of her pussy up until you can find her clit. Women have clits in all different sizes, just like you guys have different sized cocks. It doesn't mean a thing as far as her capacity for orgasm. All it means is more of her is hidden underneath her foreskin.
Whenever you touch a woman's pussy, make sure your finger is wet. You can lick it or moisten it with juices from inside her. Be sure, by all means, to wet it before you touch her clit because it doesn't have any juices of it's own and it's extremely sensitive. Your finger will stick to it if it's dry and that hurts. But you don't want to touch her clit anyway. You have to work up to that. Before she becomes aroused, her clit is too delicate to be handled. Approach her pussy slowly.
Women, even more so than men, love to be teased. The inner part of her thigh is her most tender spot. Lick it, kiss it, make designs on it with the tip of your tongue. Come dangerously close to her pussy, then float away. Make her anticipate it. Now lick the crease where her leg joins her pussy. Nuzzle your face into her bush. Brush your lips over her slit without pressing down on it to further excite her.
After you've done this to the point where your lady is bucking up from her seat and she's straining to get more of you closer to her, then put your lips right on top of her slit. Kiss her, gently, then harder. Now use your tongue to separate her pussy lips and when she opens up, run your tongue up and down between the layers of pussy flesh. Gently spread her legs more with your hands. Everything you do with a woman you're about to eat must be done gently. Tongue-fuck her. This feels devine. It also teases the hell out of her because by now she wants some attention given to her clit.
Check it out. See if her clit has gotten hard enough to peek out of it's covering. If so, lick it. If you can't see it, it might still be waiting for you underneath. So bring your tongue up to the top of her slit and feel for her clit. You may barely experience it's presence. But even if you can't feel the tiny pearl, you can make it rise by licking the skin that covers it. Lick hard now and press into her skin. Gently pull the pussy lips away and flick your tongue against the clit, hood covered or not. Do this quickly. This should cause her legs to shudder.
When you sense she's getting up there toward orgasm, make your lips into an O and take the clit into your mouth. Start to suck gently and watch your lady's face for her reaction. If she can handle it, begin to suck harder. If she digs it, suck even harder. Go with her. If she lifts her pelvis into the air with the tension of her rising orgasm, move with her, don't fight her. Hang on, and keep your hot mouth on her clit. Don't let go. That's what she'll be saying too: 'Don't stop. Don't ever stop!' There's a reason for that, most men stop too soon.
Just like with cock sucking, this is something worth learning about and worth learning to do well. I know a man who's a lousy fuck, simply lousy, but he can eat pussy like nobody I know and he never has trouble getting a date. Girls are falling all over him. But back to your pussy eating session...
There's another thing you can do to intensify your woman's pleasure. You can finger-fuck her while she's enjoying your clit-licking talents. Before, during or after. She'll really like it. In addition to the erogenous zones surrounding her clit, a woman has another extremely sensitive area at the roof of her vagina. This is what you rub up against when you're fucking her.
Well, since your cock is pretty far away from your mouth, your fingers will have to do the fucking. Take two fingers. One is too skinny and three is too wide and therefore can't get deep enough. Make sure they're wet so you don't irritate her skin. Slide them inside, slowly at first, then a little faster. Fuck her with them rhythmically. Speed up only when she does. Listen to her breathing. She'll let you know what to do.
If you're sucking her clit and finger-fucking her at the same time, you're giving her far more stimulation than you would be giving her with your cock alone. So you can count on it that she's getting high on this. If there's any doubt, check her out for symptoms. Each woman is unique. You may have one who's nipples get hard when she's excited or only when she's having an orgasm. Your girl might flush red or begin to tremble. Get to know her symptoms and you'll be a more sensitive lover.
When she starts to have an orgasm, for heaven's sakes, don't let go of that clit. Hang in there for the duration. When she starts to come down from the first orgasm, press your tongue along the underside of the clit, leaving your lips covering the top. Move your tongue in and out of her cunt. If your fingers are inside, move them a little too, gently though, things are extremely sensitive just now. If you play your cards right, you'll get some multiple orgasms this way. A woman stays excited for a full hour after she's had an orgasm.
Do you realize the full impact of that information? The potential? One woman was clocked at 56 orgasms at one sitting. Do you know what effect you would have on a woman you gave 56 orgasms to? She'd be yours as long as you wanted her.
The last advice I have for you is this: After you've made her come, made her your slave by giving her the best head she's ever had, don't leave her alone just yet. Talk to her, stroke her body, caress her breasts. Keep making love to her quietly until she's come all the way down.
A man can get off and go to sleep in the same breath and feel no remorse, no sense of loss. But a woman by nature requires some sensitivity from her lover in those first few moments after sex. Oral sex can be the most exciting sexual experiences you can have. But it's what you make it. Take your time, practice often, pay attention to your lover's signals, and most of all, enjoy yourself.
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I am an experienced IT Manager, and Consultant interested in joining your team.
I would like to take this opportunity to tell you a little about my background.
With over 10 years in Information Technology, I have had the opportunity to be exposed to
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Resume Highlights:
Education
4 years - University of Michigan, Dearborn, 1995
BS Computer Science / Minor: Electrical Engineering
2 years - Tekhnical College - Livonia Career/Technical College, 1991
AA Computer Information Systems
Certifications
PMI Institute, Certified Project Manager
Microsoft MCSE+I
MSF Certified Project Management Method
CISCO - CCNA
Novell CNE 4.11 NetWare with GroupWise 5.5
Compaq ASE/HP PC/Server (Prolinea, Prosignia, HP6000 etc.)
AIIM Certified Imaging Specialist
In progress: CISCO - CCIE
Industry Recognition
Presenting speaker at COMDEX to introduce new Wireless Applications, 1997
Recognized as co-developer of new infra-red "muxing" technology, 1998
Lectured at University of Michigan School of Engineering. Topic: "New Millennium Systems,"
1996
Lectured at University of Miami, College of Engineering. Topic: "Wireless Computing: How
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Technical Summary
Project Management Methodologies
MSF (Microsoft Solutions Framework)
PMI (Project Management Institute)
Harvard and Stanford studies on project/personnel management
Operating Systems
Microsoft: 3.xx, '95, '98, ME, NT 3.51, 4.0, and 2000, DOS
Macintosh MAC-OS Systems 6 - 8
IBM OS2
IBM S36 mainframe
Unix, and Linux (Red Hat)
JAVA OS
Hardware
PC construction and circuit designs ranging from the 8086 to current technologies; also IBM
S36 and AS/400.
HW/SW/Design of Telxon and Symbol Pen/Voice-based Mobile Computing Solutions
Design and Implementation of RF (Radio) Technology in the workplace. Example: Wireless
LAN, Data Collection, P.O.S., and Route Automation.
Wide variety of HUBS, Routers, Firewalls, and Switches, including Cisco, Bay, CheckPoint,
and Ascend
Software (brief)
Microsoft Suite of Products: Office, BackOffice Suite, Project, Exchange 5.5
Lotus Notes
Various Document Imaging Systems: MIMS3000, Viewstar, FileNet
Databases
MS Access
MS SQL 6.5, 7.0
Oracle 8i with various add-ons including: Spatial, Business Objects, Internet File System
Fox Pro
File Maker Pro
Development Tools
COBOL/RMCOBOL
RPG II
C/C++
Java
Macromedia DreamWeaver
Macromedia Flash
Visual InterDev
J2EE
Assembly
Basic
Visual Basic 6.0
IBM WebSphere v. 3.5
Pen Right! (For use with mobile computers, and touch screen applications)
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Linux is too hard for the average, well-educated American consumer. What makes you think a spear-chucking, HIV positive nigger will do any better?
to all of you posting your stuff to this fucking idiot, and i say it in the nicest way.. How the hell do you know he's legit? his email is fake and promotes the hatred of linux. and "claims" he is Linus Tolvolds LOL. L.Torvalds linuxisforfags@yahoo.com)[hahaha] : "Click Here To Start" gee, on text, wow. so amazing how it does nothing. now im not trying to Troll, or flame. But i already saw someone post their information and this is a scam or stupid joke. So i just want to point the facts out and hope that no one falls for this and posts their info as i said i had already seen. -c00lant
This isnt true, at the point of purchase, it's a purchase, a transaction, and you have all the rights of first sale. The grey area is clicking the "i agree" to form a binding contract to license the use of the software encoded on the product you already purchased. Having already purchased, for instance, Word, when you form the binding contract by clicking the "i agree" microsoft then is required to give you 'compensation' lacking that a contract is not formed, and clicking 'i agree' means nothing. Something more than the Word that you already purchased for instance, a penny counts. And, since you cannot install the product by clicking 'i do not agree,' clicking 'i agree' is required to access the Word that your bought. This is a form of coersion, and invalidates the contract as well. Not having the ability as one of the members of the contract to negotiate the contract, weakens the contract to the users benefit as well. Also, to form a binding contract, you must be in a sound state of mind. Agreeing to MS's terms is a form of insanity, invalidating the contract. And finally, just install after a few beers, cant form a contract when drunk.
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