There's still quite a lot of high class bits and pieces from exploding dot.bom companies and the downturn generally whizzing past on ebay. I got quite a nice new scsi drive and video card at sensible prices off there. Both still working well after six months.
They have created software which is so faulty that it's caused losses to other people counted in the Billions of Dollars. ( The cost of time needed to clean up after all the viruses and worms. )
They have charged hundreds and thousands of dollars for bits of plastic worth cents. That's a con job netting 40 Billion Dollars.
They have totally abused their monopoly position, and thus seriously impeded the progress of innovation in the data processing industry.
They are now demanding money from people on a regular basis to provide continued access to their programs. In my country that's called a protection racket.
Those are the reasons why they are nothing more than a criminal gang and should do time.
... thinking that they can control the internet in South Africa by controlling the.za domain name servers.
This is about as silly as thinking you can control the phone system by controlling the publication of a 'phone directory.
Look at these alternatives. It would be:-
Quite possible - technically anyway - for South Africa to share the.sa top-level domain name with Saudi Arabia.
Not very difficult to re-organise the whole country in a grass roots and ad hoc way as third-level domains under southafrica.com, southafrica.org, and southafrica.net. The root nameservers for the country would then not be in the country and thus not under the juristiction of the Government of South Africa which would then left with only the gov.za domain to worry about. Looking in from afar, it would seen that that might be a very suitable solution.
Forget about the Domain Name Service altogether. All the good names have gone, and we can just use numbers instead. Try putting http://64.28.67.150/ into your browser location bar window and see what happens - I promise you it's absolutely safe. We all use numbers to make 'phone calls, don't we? Works dosn't it? Also because the vast majority of accesses are off a link in some e-mailed document or off a search engine, the DNS is somewhat irrelevent now anyway.
Just a few thoughts for the Government of the Republic of South Africa to think about before they start getting stroppy with guns etc.
name is totally
A truly good product design would have the act of pulling the cartridge out of the game machine turn it off before any damage could be done.
They are not the only ones. My Cell Phone's 'On' switch is shared with the 'No' button. That's completely barmy and totally counter-intuitive! I cut several people off by pressing the 'On' button to hopefully talk to the caller, but it was programmed to be 'No', so I cut the buggers off. Poor sods, and very embarrassing for me. Ericsson, are you listening? No, I didn't think so. Somebody, please so kind and tell the silly half-wits.
Similarly the 'Submit' and 'Preview' buttons on this form are around the wrong way. ( Most people using computers work from left to right. ) This is presumably the reason why we are blessed, sic, with so many obviously "first cut" postings.
See the risks digest for many more of these idiotic carryings on. They'd be funny if they weren't tragic. Don't get me started on road design and the traffic laws.
While it's perhaps inappropriate for Air Traffic Control software to be Open Source in the traditional sense of the words; it is very appropriate to open the code for open peer review because:-
Our nations' taxes paid for it.
Our nations' safety depend on it.
Our travellers' time is valuable.
The developers need to know that the world is watching their keystrokes, so that they are encouraged to press the correct buttons.
That is why it is correct to open the code to public view.
This is the reason you get dialtone reliably when you pick up the 'phone. It would work for Air Traffic Control too.
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Hundreds of pages of good solid stuff available for free from here Do the decent thing and buy a copy from the site though.
Put one of the 'Drop-in' Linux dists on the desktops. Let them play with / evaluate it inside the familiar Windoze evironment.
Tell them that as soon as they are happy to use the Linux environment all the time the company will get rid of the Windows stuff and share the savings made 50 / 50 with the staff.
Tell them the truth that it's an intelligent career move too.
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What do I get in my $75.95 product purchase that I don't get in the free project?
If by "absorbed and then reflected" you mean "scattered", and "condensed water molecules form in the atmosphere" you mean "it's raining" then you are more or less correct.
For a rainbow to be seen the sun has to be both behind the viewer and unobscured by clouds.
The purpose of the experiment was an attempt to discover how much of this sort of general knowledge is in fact general to the teaching profession.
Judging by the number of responses to my posting, I fear that the answer is "very little". Tragic actually.
It was exactly this sort of nonsense which was the root cause of the French revolution. The parallels are there. There will soon be another revolution in the US and this kind of thing will be sorted out most effectively.
Tell them something about the history of unix. Like how it was invented for very good commercial reasons while our little Billy was still in short pants.
Keep the whole thing very 'visual'. Xman, not man.
If you get into command line stuff, remember to use the 'script' command so that they can have a printout of your CLI incantations to the machine, and its responses.
Teach them how to find out more information for themselves. Linux Documentation Project, HOWTOs, the 'info' and 'man' commands./usr/share/doc/*
Explain the 'root' user concepts.
Make sure they understand that rpm is only guaranteed to work properly if the package is for the distribution and release in question.
Explain and demonstrate remote login. ssh, not rsh. VNC for doing it with a GUI.
Don't
Let them loose at the BASH prompt, unless you are certain they can type properly!
Even think about compiling anything.
Bore them out of their brains with hours of BASHing.
Demonstrate installing. You havn't time.
Let on that there are almost always half a dozen apps to do essentially the same thing. Choice is not always appreciated.
is just so obviously and utterly stupid. It will attract terrorist bombs just like bees to a honey-pot. It's seems so incredible to me that this idea should even be be suggested. I can't help but wonder why the TLA outfits are not making descreet enquiries as to the position of the author's loyalties. God bless America, because you will need every blessing you can grab now for use later when you are living under the upcoming Pax Americana, which will, I fear, re-define the meaning of the words "Police State".
So the US - land of the free - is doing a "China". How the wheel turns. Wouldn't it be best to give those folks who want it a "Pure Port", say 81, 801, or perhaps 8081. Then it becomes their responsibility, not that of the governments of the world, to issue permits to use that port number. The "permits" could be in the form of certificates issued by a network secure severs, operated by the "Pure Port Protection Authority", with a white list of Pure Content servers.
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There's still quite a lot of high class bits and pieces from exploding dot.bom companies and the downturn generally whizzing past on ebay. I got quite a nice new scsi drive and video card at sensible prices off there. Both still working well after six months.
FidoNet reincarnation starts tomorrow.
Ask your Daddy, you're to young to understand.
They should do time.
Sling them in the slammer.
Probation after 12 months.
Computer no touchee for at least 3 years.
Why is that not too hash?
- They have created software which is so faulty that it's caused losses to other people counted in the Billions of Dollars. ( The cost of time needed to clean up after all the viruses and worms. )
- They have charged hundreds and thousands of dollars for bits of plastic worth cents. That's a con job netting 40 Billion Dollars.
- They have totally abused their monopoly position, and thus seriously impeded the progress of innovation in the data processing industry.
- They are now demanding money from people on a regular basis to provide continued access to their programs. In my country that's called a protection racket.
Those are the reasons why they are nothing more than a criminal gang and should do time.Don't throw stones in glasshouses.
This is about as silly as thinking you can control the phone system by controlling the publication of a 'phone directory.
Look at these alternatives. It would be:-
- Quite possible - technically anyway - for South Africa to share the
.sa top-level domain name with Saudi Arabia.
- Not very difficult to re-organise the whole country in a grass roots and ad hoc way as third-level domains under southafrica.com, southafrica.org, and southafrica.net. The root nameservers for the country would then not be in the country and thus not under the juristiction of the Government of South Africa which would then left with only the gov.za domain to worry about. Looking in from afar, it would seen that that might be a very suitable solution.
- Forget about the Domain Name Service altogether. All the good names have gone, and we can just use numbers instead. Try putting http://64.28.67.150/ into your browser location bar window and see what happens - I promise you it's absolutely safe. We all use numbers to make 'phone calls, don't we? Works dosn't it? Also because the vast majority of accesses are off a link in some e-mailed document or off a search engine, the DNS is somewhat irrelevent now anyway.
Just a few thoughts for the Government of the Republic of South Africa to think about before they start getting stroppy with guns etc. name is totallyIdentical O/S and a super powerful oo scripting language everywhere for stiching the apps together.
Only half in jest, but it's a viable solution none the less.
Total bull.
A truly good product design would have the act of pulling the cartridge out of the game machine turn it off before any damage could be done. They are not the only ones. My Cell Phone's 'On' switch is shared with the 'No' button. That's completely barmy and totally counter-intuitive! I cut several people off by pressing the 'On' button to hopefully talk to the caller, but it was programmed to be 'No', so I cut the buggers off. Poor sods, and very embarrassing for me. Ericsson, are you listening? No, I didn't think so. Somebody, please so kind and tell the silly half-wits.
Similarly the 'Submit' and 'Preview' buttons on this form are around the wrong way. ( Most people using computers work from left to right. ) This is presumably the reason why we are blessed, sic, with so many obviously "first cut" postings. See the risks digest for many more of these idiotic carryings on. They'd be funny if they weren't tragic. Don't get me started on road design and the traffic laws.
That white around the screen dazzels me.
I'd like a black one.
Listening Apple?
Shouldn't it be "Hot-Rodding for nerds of bosth sexes"?
the understanding that she has the absolute right to say "No".
- Our nations' taxes paid for it.
- Our nations' safety depend on it.
- Our travellers' time is valuable.
- The developers need to know that the world is watching their keystrokes,
That is why it is correct to open the code to public view.so that they are encouraged to press the correct buttons.
This is the reason you get dialtone reliably when you pick up the 'phone.
It would work for Air Traffic Control too.
Hundreds of pages of good solid stuff available for free from here
Do the decent thing and buy a copy from the site though.
Let them play with / evaluate it inside the familiar Windoze evironment.
Tell them that as soon as they are happy to use the Linux environment all the time the company will get rid of the Windows stuff and share the savings made 50 / 50 with the staff.
Tell them the truth that it's an intelligent career move too.
What do I get in my $75.95 product purchase that I don't get in the free project?
If by "absorbed and then reflected" you mean "scattered", and "condensed water molecules form in the atmosphere" you mean "it's raining" then you are more or less correct.
For a rainbow to be seen the sun has to be both behind the viewer and unobscured by clouds.
The purpose of the experiment was an attempt to discover how much of this sort of general knowledge is in fact general to the teaching profession.
Judging by the number of responses to my posting, I fear that the answer is "very little". Tragic actually.
MacOS-X.I.IV release
- Why is the sky blue?
- What makes the colors in a rainbow?
Now let's see how many teachers can answer those two simple questions.It would be very intersting to see a slashdot 'vote' of the result by country.
It was exactly this sort of nonsense which was the root cause of the French revolution. The parallels
are there. There will soon be another revolution in the US and this kind of thing will be sorted out most effectively.
This JGenerator is exactly what you want.
- Tell them something about the history of unix. Like how it was invented for very good commercial reasons while our little Billy was still in short pants.
- Keep the whole thing very 'visual'. Xman, not man.
- If you get into command line stuff, remember to use the 'script' command so that they can have a printout of your CLI incantations to the machine, and its responses.
- Teach them how to find out more information for themselves. Linux Documentation Project,
/usr/share/doc/*
- Explain the 'root' user concepts.
- Make sure they understand that rpm is only guaranteed to work properly if the package is for the distribution and release in question.
- Explain and demonstrate remote login. ssh, not rsh. VNC for doing it with a GUI.
Don'tHOWTOs, the 'info' and 'man' commands.
Choice is not always appreciated.
is just so obviously and utterly stupid. It will attract terrorist bombs just like bees to a honey-pot.
It's seems so incredible to me that this idea should even be be suggested.
I can't help but wonder why the TLA outfits are not making descreet enquiries as to the position of the author's loyalties.
God bless America, because you will need every blessing you can grab now for use later when you are living under the upcoming Pax Americana, which will, I fear, re-define the meaning of the words "Police State".
... is not advised.
How the wheel turns. Wouldn't it be best to give those folks who want it a "Pure Port", say 81, 801, or perhaps 8081. Then it becomes their responsibility, not that of the governments of the world, to issue permits to use that port number. The "permits" could be in the form of certificates issued by a network secure severs, operated by the "Pure Port Protection Authority", with a white list of Pure Content servers.
OK, half in jest, but many a true word ...
What does /. think of the idea?
sense to re-program them and use them at election time so that nonsense and corruption is avoided.