What city do you live in? I'm living in Minneapolis, where you can walk into pretty much any bar and see a killer band playing live, with a good-sized crowd if the opening band didn't drive them away. A few people are saying we might be the next Seattle.
You're a youngster, I guess. Minneapolis is not the next Seattle...it was the first Seattle, and without Minneapolis from '81 to about '86 there likely would have been no Seattle.
Go buy Husker Du's Flip Your Wig and Warehouse: Songs and Stories and the Replacements' Let it Be and Tim and be enlightened. Every Seattle band worth anything were great admirers of the Huskers and the 'Mats. Add in a dash of Black Flag and the Minutemen from the West Coast and Minor Threat from the East, mix in some dreary weather and a bunch of bored middle class kids, and you have the complete recipe for grunge. Miraculously, and probably accidentally, one of those bored middle class kids had a John Lennon-like skill for writing incredibly catchy songs that weren't utter tripe.
And speaking of music critical writing, I really enjoyed Michael Azzerad's story of American indie rock Our Band Could Be Your Life: Scenes from the American Indie Underground 1981-1991. He starts with the monster Black Flag and rarely strays from the True Path of indie righteousness as it tells the history of some of America's best (though often little known) bands. Highly recommended, extremely enlightening and inspiring. Read it, and you'll get the story of a dog named "Mark Farner from Grand Funk Railroad", and you'll know what it means to jam econo. Those are good things to know.
I've worked with every RH version from 5.2 to 9 as well as ES2.1 and EL3. I've used up2date and yum, both with poor results (usually related to rhn_register failing to contact the registration server so that I can register the product). I've tried to use apt4rpm a few times, but was always stymied by mirror problems. Maybe these were all mirror problems and I'm just unlucky, but the end result is that most every RH box I've seen in the past few years uses source installations for its production work, obviating the value of the RPM database for things like filesystem verification and dependency checking.
I have not seen this problem with yum or up2date. The Fedora mirrors have been exceedingly overworked lately, but that's no fault of yum or up2date--merely an indicator of popularity of the distro. The Red Hat up2date repository for paying clients always work well. For Fedora we run our own mirrored yum repository, and have zero problems.
Use of source installations for production work is just foolishness on the part of the folks maintaining the installations you've seen, and has nothing to do with any lack in the dependency management provided by Red Hat or Fedora.
up2date and yum both run fine on Red Hat versions going all the way back to version 6.2...though there are no repositories for versions quite that old.
apt-get has always worked fine for me on my desktop system (I use it for the CCRMA audio packages), though I much prefer yum. Overworked mirrors are just a fact of life in a world where there are a lot more takers than givers...but, unless you're paying for the service, I don't think there's much point in complaining.
The lack of dependency management is crippling when you're used to something better.
Yes, a lack of dependency management is crippling. But Red Hat (and Fedora) have dependency management. I'm not sure where you would have gotten the notion that it didn't.
and some aspects like it's packages are refreshingly good
Ahem...If spewing files willy nilly across the filesystem with no regard for what was already there can be called good. Or even a package.
The Mac OS X "package manager" is hideous. Give me RPMs and yum, or debs and apt, any day.
Yes, I know of what I speak...I've packaged quite a lot of stuff for Mac OS X, and will do a lot more packaging for Mac OS X in the future. There is are very good reasons why darwinports and fink exist and have chosen to use something other than Mac OS X pkg files for their distributions.
So...Pretty? Yes. Well-designed? Definitely not. Complete? Not by a mile.
SCO would already be dead now, without the 86 million in funding they received from Microsoft (through a shill capital firm, so it all looks innocent, of course). So, without Microsoft, we wouldn't have SCO to rant about.
IBM is far larger and more powerful than both SCO and Microsoft put together.
Um...No. Market cap disagrees with you on the odd assertion that IBM is bigger than Microsoft. (Market penetration is more subjective and difficult to pin down, but I think Windows is in far more places than IBM products. Number of employees might put IBM in the same league as Microsoft, but I can't find those numbers quickly...)
Anyway, the market caps:
MSFT = 305.45B IBM = 159.86B
In plain english, Microsoft is nearly twice the size of IBM, according to the stock market. And if money equals power, as seems as good an indicator of power as any, Microsoft wields significantly more power than IBM.
Good thing it's not Microsoft we're talking about...But then again, it would have to be a company with little to lose to take such a bold risk on an attack so flimsy and immoral.
If the NYT wanted to protect their copyrights you would be required to have a _Payed_for_ registration that you would have to log into, the content would only be available in an encrypted format and you would have to actually read it with an application that is distributed either by the NYT, or by a vendor that they use to provide that service.
That's a subtle troll, right?
So, if we wanted SCO to respect the copyright on the Linux kernel, we'll have to do all of that?
And if I write an article on my website, and I don't want others to republish the article on their website under their own copyright banner, I have to jump through those hoops, too?
How about the books at the library? If they didn't want us republishing them, they would encrypt them, right?
I wonder if they discovered something we don't know...
They don't have to know anything we don't know to be confident of the outcome of this debacle. SCO have built a sand castle out of expedient fabrications. Courts have done stupid things in the past, but it would take an exceedingly stupid judge on an exceedingly bad day to look at this and see anything other than the dying litigious gasp of a company taken over by ravening weasels staging an epic pump and dump.
This is such a farcical case, in any reasonable world, the heads of SCO would be in prison by now...And even in this mad world of ours, it isn't unlikely that the SEC will have some words with Darl and company before this is all over.
How big a problem will this be as most people/companies register common mispellings along with the right domain and make the mispellings point to the right site?
This was likely one of the primary motivations for this maneuver...to encourage formerly unnecessary registrations.
I've never registered mispellings of my companies domains, and the thought never even crossed my mind until now. I'm sure the crooks at Verisign saw this angle, in addition to the tons of free eyeballs.
as for mozilla, there is a slight problem with porting it to Plan 9 -- the browser sources are twice the size of the entire Plan 9 operating system (including the PostScript viewer).
And why is this a problem? Mozilla is big, yes, but why should that be a problem specific to porting it to Plan 9 as opposed to porting it to some other larger OS? OS size to application size ratio is a new "problem" to me, and I reckon you'll have to explain it to me a bit more plainly.
but are said to be hosted on private warez FTP sites
Sorry, that's leet warez bullshit, no matter how you spin it. I'm all for being able to make backups of your rightfully purchased items. I'm not, however, of the opinion that placing those so-called "backups" onto an FTP "warez" site is a defensible practice. If you disagree so strongly with the protection schemes used by Nintendo, don't buy the product. There is no monopoly on video games, and there is no law forcing you to play video games rather than riding a bike or walking on the beach or playing chess. You have many choices for video games: Nintendo, Sony, Microsoft, and Windows/Mac/Linux games. Among those choices there are varying levels of copy protection, many are even Open Source. Make your choices wisely, be an informed consumer, and stop pretending like warez are a noble pursuit.
By purchasing Nintendo, despite the copy protection schemes, you make it clear that you will tolerate such behavior by games producers. By breaking the protection schemes and publishing the games, you make it clear that the schemes are not strong enough or enforced strongly enough, leading to more efforts into making them more difficult to break (and making it more difficult for legitimate users to make those "backup" copies you're so fond of). It also gives content producers more incentive to seek legal remedy to the problem. There is no win here, for honest consumers or the producers.
Way to make the case for Open Source, guys...
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I just sent a letter to the NY Times yesterday because they framed the argument about SCO in the same terms as SCO, saying that OSS developers "shun intellectual property". I asserted that we rely on intellectual property to defend our GPL rights just as much as the proprietary software market relies on proprietary software to defend their rights, and that OSS developers in general had no interest in shunning intellectual property.
Guess I was wrong about some OSS folks, huh? Mod chips and making your own games...that's cool and nerdy. Warez...that's doofus leet bullshit. I'm not interested in leet bullshit. Too bad I can't mod the original story.
I'll second this one. jEdit saved me hours of work on a book written in DocBook XML. The auto-completion of tags is simply perfect--it really couldn't have been implemented any nicer than it has been. For most things I still use vim, and I have a pretty nice set of vim macros for tag insertion and editing, but it really doesn't compare to the ease of writing XML with jEdit.
I did have to upgrade my computer to make it fast enough to keep up with my typing, but that was a few hundred bucks well spent (my old 750MHz CPU was due for an update anyway, so I got an Athlon 2400XP, and jEdit can keep up with my typing now...just barely, but it does keep up). I see why people complain about the slowness of Java, but I've tried several other similar editors in other languages (nedit comes to mind as a nice editor that is fast and reliable) but jEdit does more of the things I use the Right Way.
atime can be quite useful for caches, like client and proxy web caches
Ummm, no. The most popular web proxy cache (Squid) benefits from having atime disabled, on any filesystem. atime is just not enough information to make expiry decisions, so proxy caches keep their own expiry data and have no use for file system atime.
If I had moderator points, I'd mod this what it deserves, but I don't. So I will instead burn a little karma to point and laugh at the parent poster and the moderators who were befuddled enough to moderate this "Interesting".
Look folks, if you want to waste your own time trolling, that's fine...but don't waste Hans' time on this drivel by moderating trolls up.
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There is prior art. There are at least three pseudo-spy-ware companies that do this. I will not name them, since I'd rather they disappear into oblivion. An Open Source solution to do this would be awesome, of course.
I know I'm feeding the troll...but, it's worth mentioning that whether Ani sucks (actually she is pretty incredible live--I was seriously disappointed when I bought one of her records though) isn't the point.
She makes a good living, sells a lot of records at very good margins, and does what she loves (I presume). The advice is sound...Get your ass on the road, and if you have something worth listening too (and sometimes even if you don't), making a living will eventually follow. It is easier if you live in a bigger city that can support a few 'local heroes' so you can play profitably once a week without travelling far from home, while you're holding a day job to pay the rent and save some money for larger tours. Then you branch out from there, starting with frequent small tours ("Thanks for coming out, we've just returned from our triumphant world tour of Texas!") and finally jump into larger regional or nationwide tours and festivals.
There are enough examples of bands doing this successfully that it can't really be argued to be a fluke: Superchunk (who signed to a major after years going it alone, and then returned to indie status because they made a better living that way), Bob Mould, the Elephant 6 collective, etc. These bands aren't necessarily recording 'gold' everytime they go into the studio, nor are they filling arenas, but they are making a good living doing what they love and playing for fans that will stick with them for years. Seems like a pretty sustainable business model, rather than a Make Money Fast Scheme that some folks think making a record ought to be.
When would you ever need to share a password? (Don't answer that...The answer is never.) Groups are for working with teams. SetGID bits are for working with teams. Sharing passwords is the bizarre action of someone who doesn't know better.
Immediate death is the answer. Kill them. They are like animals. AND WE SHOULD TREAT THEM LIKE ANIMALS!!!!!!!
I have never been inundated with penis enlargement offers, or pump and dump scams, by my dog or any other animal I've ever come in contact with. Animals are basically good folks, with little desire or motivation to cause me suffering (provided I don't threaten them in some way).
Comparing something as dirty and despicable as a spammer to an innocent animal is rather low. And suggesting that the natural response to an animal is to kill it is pretty horrible.
That said, I reckon you're right about spammers. I don't much care for the death penalty, but well, I think it would certainly reduce spam if applied to known spammers. And anything that reduces spam is OK in my book.
Compaq just has a habit of making laptops that overheat, and attempting to beat the customer into submission with sluggish support people who make you go through the whole rigamarole every time the box breaks again.
I had a PIII laptop a few years back that went in for service five times (and cost me about two man-weeks of support phone calls). I finally gave up, and sent certified letters to the president, and VP of the laptop division. A couple of days later (I lived in Houston at the time), the laptop division guy called, apologized and sent us the next model up (with DVD upgrade, faster CPU though it was a Celery that ran cooler) the next day.
I won't complain too much, because I'm still using that same laptop. Though the battery life is slightly less than 23 seconds, on a good day. (Ok, seriously, the battery lasts about 20 minutes, and never did much better than that, even when new.)
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What city do you live in? I'm living in Minneapolis, where you can walk into pretty much any bar and see a killer band playing live, with a good-sized crowd if the opening band didn't drive them away. A few people are saying we might be the next Seattle.
You're a youngster, I guess. Minneapolis is not the next Seattle...it was the first Seattle, and without Minneapolis from '81 to about '86 there likely would have been no Seattle.
Go buy Husker Du's Flip Your Wig and Warehouse: Songs and Stories and the Replacements' Let it Be and Tim and be enlightened. Every Seattle band worth anything were great admirers of the Huskers and the 'Mats. Add in a dash of Black Flag and the Minutemen from the West Coast and Minor Threat from the East, mix in some dreary weather and a bunch of bored middle class kids, and you have the complete recipe for grunge. Miraculously, and probably accidentally, one of those bored middle class kids had a John Lennon-like skill for writing incredibly catchy songs that weren't utter tripe.
And speaking of music critical writing, I really enjoyed Michael Azzerad's story of American indie rock Our Band Could Be Your Life: Scenes from the American Indie Underground 1981-1991. He starts with the monster Black Flag and rarely strays from the True Path of indie righteousness as it tells the history of some of America's best (though often little known) bands. Highly recommended, extremely enlightening and inspiring. Read it, and you'll get the story of a dog named "Mark Farner from Grand Funk Railroad", and you'll know what it means to jam econo. Those are good things to know.
Because putting the engine in the front and the drive in the back is like asking God to kick you in the ear when it snows.
You'll have to ask God to kick some snow down Texas way before I worry about that.
I've worked with every RH version from 5.2 to 9 as well as ES2.1 and EL3. I've used up2date and yum, both with poor results (usually related to rhn_register failing to contact the registration server so that I can register the product). I've tried to use apt4rpm a few times, but was always stymied by mirror problems. Maybe these were all mirror problems and I'm just unlucky, but the end result is that most every RH box I've seen in the past few years uses source installations for its production work, obviating the value of the RPM database for things like filesystem verification and dependency checking.
I have not seen this problem with yum or up2date. The Fedora mirrors have been exceedingly overworked lately, but that's no fault of yum or up2date--merely an indicator of popularity of the distro. The Red Hat up2date repository for paying clients always work well. For Fedora we run our own mirrored yum repository, and have zero problems.
Use of source installations for production work is just foolishness on the part of the folks maintaining the installations you've seen, and has nothing to do with any lack in the dependency management provided by Red Hat or Fedora.
up2date and yum both run fine on Red Hat versions going all the way back to version 6.2...though there are no repositories for versions quite that old.
apt-get has always worked fine for me on my desktop system (I use it for the CCRMA audio packages), though I much prefer yum. Overworked mirrors are just a fact of life in a world where there are a lot more takers than givers...but, unless you're paying for the service, I don't think there's much point in complaining.
The lack of dependency management is crippling when you're used to something better.
Yes, a lack of dependency management is crippling. But Red Hat (and Fedora) have dependency management. I'm not sure where you would have gotten the notion that it didn't.
and some aspects like it's packages are refreshingly good
Ahem...If spewing files willy nilly across the filesystem with no regard for what was already there can be called good. Or even a package.
The Mac OS X "package manager" is hideous. Give me RPMs and yum, or debs and apt, any day.
Yes, I know of what I speak...I've packaged quite a lot of stuff for Mac OS X, and will do a lot more packaging for Mac OS X in the future. There is are very good reasons why darwinports and fink exist and have chosen to use something other than Mac OS X pkg files for their distributions.
So...Pretty? Yes. Well-designed? Definitely not. Complete? Not by a mile.
- SCO
SCO would already be dead now, without the 86 million in funding they received from Microsoft (through a shill capital firm, so it all looks innocent, of course). So, without Microsoft, we wouldn't have SCO to rant about.
IBM is far larger and more powerful than both SCO and Microsoft put together.
Um...No. Market cap disagrees with you on the odd assertion that IBM is bigger than Microsoft. (Market penetration is more subjective and difficult to pin down, but I think Windows is in far more places than IBM products. Number of employees might put IBM in the same league as Microsoft, but I can't find those numbers quickly...)
Anyway, the market caps:
MSFT = 305.45B
IBM = 159.86B
In plain english, Microsoft is nearly twice the size of IBM, according to the stock market. And if money equals power, as seems as good an indicator of power as any, Microsoft wields significantly more power than IBM.
Good thing it's not Microsoft we're talking about...But then again, it would have to be a company with little to lose to take such a bold risk on an attack so flimsy and immoral.
Ummm...You still have to configure the software to start with.
CFengine also requires configuration, and Webmin provides a nice module for it.
If the NYT wanted to protect their copyrights you would be required to have a _Payed_for_ registration that you would have to log into, the content would only be available in an encrypted format and you would have to actually read it with an application that is distributed either by the NYT, or by a vendor that they use to provide that service.
That's a subtle troll, right?
So, if we wanted SCO to respect the copyright on the Linux kernel, we'll have to do all of that?
And if I write an article on my website, and I don't want others to republish the article on their website under their own copyright banner, I have to jump through those hoops, too?
How about the books at the library? If they didn't want us republishing them, they would encrypt them, right?
Yeah...That was definitely a troll.
I wonder if they discovered something we don't know...
They don't have to know anything we don't know to be confident of the outcome of this debacle. SCO have built a sand castle out of expedient fabrications. Courts have done stupid things in the past, but it would take an exceedingly stupid judge on an exceedingly bad day to look at this and see anything other than the dying litigious gasp of a company taken over by ravening weasels staging an epic pump and dump.
This is such a farcical case, in any reasonable world, the heads of SCO would be in prison by now...And even in this mad world of ours, it isn't unlikely that the SEC will have some words with Darl and company before this is all over.
How was this post "Informative"? Read the article, folks! The "diet" in question has nothing to do with weight loss. It has to do with length of life.
How big a problem will this be as most people/companies register common mispellings along with the right domain and make the mispellings point to the right site?
This was likely one of the primary motivations for this maneuver...to encourage formerly unnecessary registrations.
I've never registered mispellings of my companies domains, and the thought never even crossed my mind until now. I'm sure the crooks at Verisign saw this angle, in addition to the tons of free eyeballs.
Ah, so it is simply a matter of philosophy. You want small and simple...but it doesn't seem that is what the original poster wanted.
;-)
I can certainly see why a lack of interest in a port from the people capable of doing a port would be a problem.
Journey, huh?
Just because they're ugly, doesn't mean they're good...
as for mozilla, there is a slight problem with porting it to Plan 9 -- the browser sources are twice the size of the entire Plan 9 operating system (including the PostScript viewer).
And why is this a problem? Mozilla is big, yes, but why should that be a problem specific to porting it to Plan 9 as opposed to porting it to some other larger OS? OS size to application size ratio is a new "problem" to me, and I reckon you'll have to explain it to me a bit more plainly.
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but are said to be hosted on private warez FTP sites
Sorry, that's leet warez bullshit, no matter how you spin it. I'm all for being able to make backups of your rightfully purchased items. I'm not, however, of the opinion that placing those so-called "backups" onto an FTP "warez" site is a defensible practice. If you disagree so strongly with the protection schemes used by Nintendo, don't buy the product. There is no monopoly on video games, and there is no law forcing you to play video games rather than riding a bike or walking on the beach or playing chess. You have many choices for video games: Nintendo, Sony, Microsoft, and Windows/Mac/Linux games. Among those choices there are varying levels of copy protection, many are even Open Source. Make your choices wisely, be an informed consumer, and stop pretending like warez are a noble pursuit.
By purchasing Nintendo, despite the copy protection schemes, you make it clear that you will tolerate such behavior by games producers. By breaking the protection schemes and publishing the games, you make it clear that the schemes are not strong enough or enforced strongly enough, leading to more efforts into making them more difficult to break (and making it more difficult for legitimate users to make those "backup" copies you're so fond of). It also gives content producers more incentive to seek legal remedy to the problem. There is no win here, for honest consumers or the producers.
I just sent a letter to the NY Times yesterday because they framed the argument about SCO in the same terms as SCO, saying that OSS developers "shun intellectual property". I asserted that we rely on intellectual property to defend our GPL rights just as much as the proprietary software market relies on proprietary software to defend their rights, and that OSS developers in general had no interest in shunning intellectual property.
Guess I was wrong about some OSS folks, huh? Mod chips and making your own games...that's cool and nerdy. Warez...that's doofus leet bullshit. I'm not interested in leet bullshit. Too bad I can't mod the original story.
I'll second this one. jEdit saved me hours of work on a book written in DocBook XML. The auto-completion of tags is simply perfect--it really couldn't have been implemented any nicer than it has been. For most things I still use vim, and I have a pretty nice set of vim macros for tag insertion and editing, but it really doesn't compare to the ease of writing XML with jEdit.
I did have to upgrade my computer to make it fast enough to keep up with my typing, but that was a few hundred bucks well spent (my old 750MHz CPU was due for an update anyway, so I got an Athlon 2400XP, and jEdit can keep up with my typing now...just barely, but it does keep up). I see why people complain about the slowness of Java, but I've tried several other similar editors in other languages (nedit comes to mind as a nice editor that is fast and reliable) but jEdit does more of the things I use the Right Way.
atime can be quite useful for caches, like client and proxy web caches
Ummm, no. The most popular web proxy cache (Squid) benefits from having atime disabled, on any filesystem. atime is just not enough information to make expiry decisions, so proxy caches keep their own expiry data and have no use for file system atime.
If I had moderator points, I'd mod this what it deserves, but I don't. So I will instead burn a little karma to point and laugh at the parent poster and the moderators who were befuddled enough to moderate this "Interesting".
Look folks, if you want to waste your own time trolling, that's fine...but don't waste Hans' time on this drivel by moderating trolls up.
(and go patent the idea while he checks his karma)
There is prior art. There are at least three pseudo-spy-ware companies that do this. I will not name them, since I'd rather they disappear into oblivion. An Open Source solution to do this would be awesome, of course.
I know I'm feeding the troll...but, it's worth mentioning that whether Ani sucks (actually she is pretty incredible live--I was seriously disappointed when I bought one of her records though) isn't the point.
She makes a good living, sells a lot of records at very good margins, and does what she loves (I presume). The advice is sound...Get your ass on the road, and if you have something worth listening too (and sometimes even if you don't), making a living will eventually follow. It is easier if you live in a bigger city that can support a few 'local heroes' so you can play profitably once a week without travelling far from home, while you're holding a day job to pay the rent and save some money for larger tours. Then you branch out from there, starting with frequent small tours ("Thanks for coming out, we've just returned from our triumphant world tour of Texas!") and finally jump into larger regional or nationwide tours and festivals.
There are enough examples of bands doing this successfully that it can't really be argued to be a fluke: Superchunk (who signed to a major after years going it alone, and then returned to indie status because they made a better living that way), Bob Mould, the Elephant 6 collective, etc. These bands aren't necessarily recording 'gold' everytime they go into the studio, nor are they filling arenas, but they are making a good living doing what they love and playing for fans that will stick with them for years. Seems like a pretty sustainable business model, rather than a Make Money Fast Scheme that some folks think making a record ought to be.
When would you ever need to share a password? (Don't answer that...The answer is never.) Groups are for working with teams. SetGID bits are for working with teams. Sharing passwords is the bizarre action of someone who doesn't know better.
Immediate death is the answer. Kill them. They are like animals. AND WE SHOULD TREAT THEM LIKE ANIMALS!!!!!!!
I have never been inundated with penis enlargement offers, or pump and dump scams, by my dog or any other animal I've ever come in contact with. Animals are basically good folks, with little desire or motivation to cause me suffering (provided I don't threaten them in some way).
Comparing something as dirty and despicable as a spammer to an innocent animal is rather low. And suggesting that the natural response to an animal is to kill it is pretty horrible.
That said, I reckon you're right about spammers. I don't much care for the death penalty, but well, I think it would certainly reduce spam if applied to known spammers. And anything that reduces spam is OK in my book.
Compaq just has a habit of making laptops that overheat, and attempting to beat the customer into submission with sluggish support people who make you go through the whole rigamarole every time the box breaks again.
I had a PIII laptop a few years back that went in for service five times (and cost me about two man-weeks of support phone calls). I finally gave up, and sent certified letters to the president, and VP of the laptop division. A couple of days later (I lived in Houston at the time), the laptop division guy called, apologized and sent us the next model up (with DVD upgrade, faster CPU though it was a Celery that ran cooler) the next day.
I won't complain too much, because I'm still using that same laptop. Though the battery life is slightly less than 23 seconds, on a good day. (Ok, seriously, the battery lasts about 20 minutes, and never did much better than that, even when new.)