To those who modded my original comment as Flamebait:
It is clear the original AC poster confused two totally separate things, Islamic Society of North America and Iranian Students News Agency.
Not only that, his claims about the former are unsubstantiated, and parrots certain political factions and pressure groups.
Arabs and Persians are two different ethnicites (Semitic and Aryan in roots) and languages (Semitic and Indo-European). Being Arab American does not mean that you can read Persian. Far from it, the vast majority of each group are not able to read the language of the other group at all, despite the fact that the script is almost the same.
So, either he was severely confused, and prejudiced, or he is intentionally trolling.
Where I live (Southern Ontario), the days are starting to get a bit longer. Sunset is around 5:18 or so, as opposed to December where it is 16:45 or so. So I am going home while there is still some natural light, and not total darkness.
Everyone knows that December 21 is the shortest day in the year, don't they (at least most of the world, the Northern Hemisphere).
Also, BBC while being a great news resource, often go into sensationalistic journalism from time to time (don't they all?).
When I saw that, I sent it to a co-worker. We get this stuff every week for 4 months every year. A heavy snow storm is when you cannot take the car out of the garage and have to shovel the walkway in order for the garage door to open, and when four family members take a whole day in shifts clearing it!
And we have it easy here! The Maritimes (Eastern seaboard provinces of Canada) are getting pummeled every three days with a heavy storm (by Canadian standards).
Under Linux, a tape drive can be used effectively to backup a home network, specially when you have offsite storage (e.g. take the monthly backup to a friend or to your work).
Granted, this is only for 10 or 20 GB worth of data, but I am not even half there yet. This does not apply to guys who have a, let's say extensive, collection of movies, or have a huge set of, ahem, images.
Wherever you have red tape government agencies in countries notorious for being too by the book, you get this when new technologies surface.
In Egypt there were similar funny stories about police when enforcing intellectual property rights in the mid 1990s.
They were confused on how to validate that you have a valid Windows license. At some point, owning a genuine Microsoft manual, or having the original CD, or having the holographic license would be valid licenses.
In theory, one can then have one license applied to three machines. A relative of mine asked the officer that question, and as I recall, the officer said Yes.
I don't know the situation now, but bungling things is part of the learning process (i.e. culture shock) they have to go through.
However, my comment was about stereotypes. Arabs are the enemy within now, and people cannot tell the difference between Pakistanis and Arabs. Perhaps they know they are "from that troublesome part of the world" or that they both are Muslim.
If you recall, even GW Bush fell in that trap. He said he would not fire a missle to hit a tent and a camel's ass. Afghanistan has no camels, nor are they nomads in tents!
But the Bedouin Arab streotype prevail, all the way from the White House to Slashdot. Sad really, because it is sheer ignorance and prejudice.
Except for this part: Calling the New Jersey phone number reveals someone with a thick Arab accent announcing "you have reached paksys software..."
Pakistanis are not Arabs, nor do they speak Arabic, nor are Arabic and Urdu (the language spoken by most Pakistanis) belong to the same linguistic family.
The one thing that I wish PHP would take advantage of in Apache 2.0 is the ability to run code as a user other than the web server. Every time I bring this up with the PHP developers, nobody really runs with it. A feature like this would make PHP much better in shared systems and prevent people from having to do weird things to ensure security. I guess PHP is not that great for shared systems right now.
suExec for PHP is available. My ISP has switched to PHP suExec several weeks ago. I noticed that something was different when cookies was not set properly, and the PHPSESSID was set in the URL (ugly, so I noticed).
This facility makes PHP runs as the user him/herself, instead of the Apache user (just like you wanted). This is a more secure environment for sure.
You need to have a php.ini file with the parameters you want, in your public_html directory, to override the defaults (e.g. how the PHPSESSID is handled, by a cookie, or in the URL, how long a session is valid for,...etc.)
The same goes for off-lease machines sold at many computer stores too. An off lease P3-900 IBM Thinkpad with 256MB and DVD ROM used to be 680$Cdn or so. Last week it was 650$Cdn, and other stores had good deals for 699$Cdn.
I am monitoring the prices myself because I need to replace my P2-300 128MB machine with something more current. I don't want to spend over a 1000$Cdn though.
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It would be really interesting to try to study and correlate some apparently phenomona in animal behavior and sociology.
For example, swarming of locusts is one such phenomenon. It does not happen every year. It does not happen everywhere. Yet, when it happens it takes the shape of enormous disasters, such as what has been happening in Africa, the Middle East and Australia. Even Cyprus and the Canary Islands are affected!
Also, look at how some teens hanging out or at a bar would be under peer pressure and herd mentality and do something stupid like doing cat calls to passing females, or beating up someone of a different ethnicity, or just doing cat calls.
Or look at demonstrations that go out of control, such as the ones against the WTO in Seattle and in other places. Things can get out of control and you have damaged shops and cars.
All this has nothing to do with software. But it is very interesting to see what factors are at play when an individual decides to go with the flow against his better judgement, causing damage to others.
Agree with the sentiment, but put it in its right magnitude, and you can see why Windows is the sole platform here.
How many people all over the world are like you, with CPU cycles to spare on non Wintel boxes?
How many PCs are around the world, and how many run Windows?
How many of those are used at home or small business?
Don't get me wrong, I am a UNIX/Linux fan, and dislike Windows. But if you want volume, Windows is where it is at the moment. Having said that, they have to release something more portable in the future. Just like SETI and others did.
Slackware was the very first distro of Linux that I ran, way back in the 1990s. It was me and some relatives frustrated with Windows and trying out that new Linux thing.
I have since moved to Red Hat, then Mandrake, but Slackware has that special feel to it.
Got to thank you for that, and wish you well!
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The surviving Minoans clearly were scattered across the world...the Phoenecians, the Carthaginians, and many other ancient Semitic cultures (the Sephardic Jews and the Arabs) may all be descended from them. So were the Pelasgians. And perhaps the Philistines of the Biblical era.
The rest of your post is sound, but this part is inaccurate.
It is possible that the Phoenicians descended from Minoans, or at least took some technology/culture from the remnants that escaped/survived the eruption. But, the Carthaginians are descendants of the Phoenicians. The former are actually colonies of the latter on the South North African and Iberian coasts.
As for Jews and Arabs, they could not have descended from Minoans. The Arab hinterland is Arabia, far to the south east. The Sephardic Jews are descendants of Jews from Spain who were expelled. Nothing to do with Minoans.
The Philistines probably originated from the Sea People, the Peleset branch mentioned in Egyptian Papyrii. Others in the super-group are Shardana (Sardinians?), Shekelesh (Sicilians?), Lukka (Lycians?), Ekwesh (Achaean?), Teresh (Etruscans?), Tjekker, Weshesh, Meshwesh, and Danuna. They are mentioned in two waves, around 1220 B.C, and 1186 BC, which is several centuries late for the Thera eruption.
The strategy by Ashcroft is simple: arrest a bunch of people and claim there is a big terrorist plot of cell. Make a big splash about it by a press conference, with a lot of T-word sprinkled in. Portray that as a major win against the war in terror. The accused are often of Middle Eastern descent, blacks, converts to Islam, or some other visible minority.
In the eyes of the public, they were protected from a big evil. Maximum media impact.
Then, after a year or more, the people are either quietly freed, or charged with petty felonies. If they are not citizens, they are deported because of immigration issues.
This is what I see wrong, and hence the spraying pepper to prevent elephants on the lawn analogy.
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And, for the non-Java crowd here, PHP5 has SQLite bundled with it.
It seems that this can revolutionize how ISPs do hosting in the future, since its setup is much easier and low overhead.
We may see proliferation of applications running on SQLite in the future.
To those who modded my original comment as Flamebait:
It is clear the original AC poster confused two totally separate things, Islamic Society of North America and Iranian Students News Agency.
Not only that, his claims about the former are unsubstantiated, and parrots certain political factions and pressure groups.
Arabs and Persians are two different ethnicites (Semitic and Aryan in roots) and languages (Semitic and Indo-European). Being Arab American does not mean that you can read Persian. Far from it, the vast majority of each group are not able to read the language of the other group at all, despite the fact that the script is almost the same.
So, either he was severely confused, and prejudiced, or he is intentionally trolling.
You say you are Arab American. This web site is in Persian, as you can see from Archive.org . So how come you know all this about them?
You seem to be confusing ISNA (Iranian Students News Agency, the subject of this Slashdot article) with ISNA (Islamic Society of North America)?
The latter ISNA is a well reputed Muslim organization in America and not related to promoting terrorism nor fake charities.
An Arab American would most likely spelled it as Quran and not Koran too.
You being an Anonymous Coward tells me that are trolling, and not just confused.
I have to question this 'short days' thing.
Where I live (Southern Ontario), the days are starting to get a bit longer. Sunset is around 5:18 or so, as opposed to December where it is 16:45 or so. So I am going home while there is still some natural light, and not total darkness.
Everyone knows that December 21 is the shortest day in the year, don't they (at least most of the world, the Northern Hemisphere).
Also, BBC while being a great news resource, often go into sensationalistic journalism from time to time (don't they all?).
They made a big deal out of Scotland's recent snow, and even put up a picture gallery of it.
When I saw that, I sent it to a co-worker. We get this stuff every week for 4 months every year. A heavy snow storm is when you cannot take the car out of the garage and have to shovel the walkway in order for the garage door to open, and when four family members take a whole day in shifts clearing it!
And we have it easy here! The Maritimes (Eastern seaboard provinces of Canada) are getting pummeled every three days with a heavy storm (by Canadian standards).
Exactly what I thought. I have been using System V since R2, and SVR4 since it first came out (before Solaris came out even).
I have seen it as : SVR4, System V Release 4, or SysVr4 even ...
But System VR4 ? Never saw it spelled this way, and indicates little familiarity with the subject matter.
This was covered before on Slashdot Monsanto Wins Case Over Patented Canola .
I still think that removable media (e.g. tape) is the most effective form of backup.
Under Linux, a tape drive can be used effectively to backup a home network, specially when you have offsite storage (e.g. take the monthly backup to a friend or to your work).
Granted, this is only for 10 or 20 GB worth of data, but I am not even half there yet. This does not apply to guys who have a, let's say extensive, collection of movies, or have a huge set of, ahem, images.
Wherever you have red tape government agencies in countries notorious for being too by the book, you get this when new technologies surface.
In Egypt there were similar funny stories about police when enforcing intellectual property rights in the mid 1990s.
They were confused on how to validate that you have a valid Windows license. At some point, owning a genuine Microsoft manual, or having the original CD, or having the holographic license would be valid licenses.
In theory, one can then have one license applied to three machines. A relative of mine asked the officer that question, and as I recall, the officer said Yes.
I don't know the situation now, but bungling things is part of the learning process (i.e. culture shock) they have to go through.
You are technically right.
However, my comment was about stereotypes. Arabs are the enemy within now, and people cannot tell the difference between Pakistanis and Arabs. Perhaps they know they are "from that troublesome part of the world" or that they both are Muslim.
If you recall, even GW Bush fell in that trap. He said he would not fire a missle to hit a tent and a camel's ass. Afghanistan has no camels, nor are they nomads in tents!
But the Bedouin Arab streotype prevail, all the way from the White House to Slashdot. Sad really, because it is sheer ignorance and prejudice.
Nice detective work. Really helpful.
Except for this part: Calling the New Jersey phone number reveals someone with a thick Arab accent announcing "you have reached paksys software..."
Pakistanis are not Arabs, nor do they speak Arabic, nor are Arabic and Urdu (the language spoken by most Pakistanis) belong to the same linguistic family.
Add this to your list:
7.61 user seconds on an Intel Pentium III (Katmai) stepping 03, 550 MHz.
After scanning a news article about Canadian politics, the system responded correctly to the question, 'Who is Canada's prime minister?'
Everyone knows he is Tim Horton!
The one thing that I wish PHP would take advantage of in Apache 2.0 is the ability to run code as a user other than the web server. Every time I bring this up with the PHP developers, nobody really runs with it. A feature like this would make PHP much better in shared systems and prevent people from having to do weird things to ensure security. I guess PHP is not that great for shared systems right now.
suExec for PHP is available. My ISP has switched to PHP suExec several weeks ago. I noticed that something was different when cookies was not set properly, and the PHPSESSID was set in the URL (ugly, so I noticed).
This facility makes PHP runs as the user him/herself, instead of the Apache user (just like you wanted). This is a more secure environment for sure.
You need to have a php.ini file with the parameters you want, in your public_html directory, to override the defaults (e.g. how the PHPSESSID is handled, by a cookie, or in the URL, how long a session is valid for, ...etc.)
Exactly. Just like the mad cow scare did not impact much the local prices of beef, despite low exports to US, Europe and Japan.
The beef producers complain about not being able to sell their cattle, the consumer does not see lower prices.
Where is the difference? The middleman pockets it!
I don't mean to nitpick or anything like that, but I have noticed that prices are dropping here in Canada in the last month or so.
TigerDirect had this Acer TravelMate 2303LCH for 839$Cdn about 2 weeks ago. It is 1.5MHz Celeron, but has 256MB
They also have this Systimax laptop for 877$Cdn. It is a 2.0 Celeron, but with only 128MB.
The same goes for off-lease machines sold at many computer stores too. An off lease P3-900 IBM Thinkpad with 256MB and DVD ROM used to be 680$Cdn or so. Last week it was 650$Cdn, and other stores had good deals for 699$Cdn. I am monitoring the prices myself because I need to replace my P2-300 128MB machine with something more current. I don't want to spend over a 1000$Cdn though.
This may change soon.
There is a GAIM Voice and Video project, that is a friendly fork off the main GAIM project.
Hope something good comes out of this, since I too use Yahoo on Windows because of voice.
It would be really interesting to try to study and correlate some apparently phenomona in animal behavior and sociology.
For example, swarming of locusts is one such phenomenon. It does not happen every year. It does not happen everywhere. Yet, when it happens it takes the shape of enormous disasters, such as what has been happening in Africa, the Middle East and Australia. Even Cyprus and the Canary Islands are affected!
Also, look at how some teens hanging out or at a bar would be under peer pressure and herd mentality and do something stupid like doing cat calls to passing females, or beating up someone of a different ethnicity, or just doing cat calls.
Or look at demonstrations that go out of control, such as the ones against the WTO in Seattle and in other places. Things can get out of control and you have damaged shops and cars.
All this has nothing to do with software. But it is very interesting to see what factors are at play when an individual decides to go with the flow against his better judgement, causing damage to others.
Did you look at SQL Ledger?
Don't know if it will fit your needs or not, but my brother has been using it successfully to run a small business for a few years.
He was even interviewed by the Egypt LUG about it, as a case study.
Yes, works fine in Arabic too: FireFox 1.0 on Windows 2000.
It is not that hard, now that handling non-Latin character sets is well standardized, with ISO-8859 and UTF-8 and such.
I have been using Gallery myself for a few years, and I agree it is great.
One nitpick though: it has never required MySQL at all. All its data are in flat files.
Isn't that what Echelon does already?
I mean, filter certain keywords, and associations from ALL communications (IRC included?)
Agree with the sentiment, but put it in its right magnitude, and you can see why Windows is the sole platform here.
How many people all over the world are like you, with CPU cycles to spare on non Wintel boxes?
How many PCs are around the world, and how many run Windows?
How many of those are used at home or small business?
Don't get me wrong, I am a UNIX/Linux fan, and dislike Windows. But if you want volume, Windows is where it is at the moment. Having said that, they have to release something more portable in the future. Just like SETI and others did.
Partick, get well soon.
Slackware was the very first distro of Linux that I ran, way back in the 1990s. It was me and some relatives frustrated with Windows and trying out that new Linux thing.
I have since moved to Red Hat, then Mandrake, but Slackware has that special feel to it.
Got to thank you for that, and wish you well!
The surviving Minoans clearly were scattered across the world...the Phoenecians, the Carthaginians, and many other ancient Semitic cultures (the Sephardic Jews and the Arabs) may all be descended from them. So were the Pelasgians. And perhaps the Philistines of the Biblical era.
The rest of your post is sound, but this part is inaccurate.
It is possible that the Phoenicians descended from Minoans, or at least took some technology/culture from the remnants that escaped/survived the eruption. But, the Carthaginians are descendants of the Phoenicians. The former are actually colonies of the latter on the South North African and Iberian coasts.
As for Jews and Arabs, they could not have descended from Minoans. The Arab hinterland is Arabia, far to the south east. The Sephardic Jews are descendants of Jews from Spain who were expelled. Nothing to do with Minoans.
The Philistines probably originated from the Sea People, the Peleset branch mentioned in Egyptian Papyrii. Others in the super-group are Shardana (Sardinians?), Shekelesh (Sicilians?), Lukka (Lycians?), Ekwesh (Achaean?), Teresh (Etruscans?), Tjekker, Weshesh, Meshwesh, and Danuna. They are mentioned in two waves, around 1220 B.C, and 1186 BC, which is several centuries late for the Thera eruption.
I don't know what is unclear about what I said.
The strategy by Ashcroft is simple: arrest a bunch of people and claim there is a big terrorist plot of cell. Make a big splash about it by a press conference, with a lot of T-word sprinkled in. Portray that as a major win against the war in terror. The accused are often of Middle Eastern descent, blacks, converts to Islam, or some other visible minority.
In the eyes of the public, they were protected from a big evil. Maximum media impact.
Then, after a year or more, the people are either quietly freed, or charged with petty felonies. If they are not citizens, they are deported because of immigration issues.
This is what I see wrong, and hence the spraying pepper to prevent elephants on the lawn analogy.
Simple, isn't it?
Here is what he said about Islam: Islam is a religion in which God requires you to send your son to die for him. Christianity is a faith in which God sent his Son to die for you."
No Islamofascits there (whatever that means, another ambiguous emotional term that is often used without definition).