How about "follows 9-year-old RFCs such as 1521 to the recommended level" and "doesn't automatically execute viruses in fifty different ways, with exciting new exploits discovered daily" before you start wishing for gee-whiz-bang new features of dubious usefulness?
You should be able to get email and read it, without the text appearing as an attachment and the attachments wiping your hard drive, before you start worrying about icorporating every program on your system into your email interface.
Sony would have to be completely out of their minds to give her the information she's requesting.
If they do, she'll find some online slight that TECHNICALLY could have been prevented (if Sony had assigned an administrator to watch over this kid 24/7 and intervene), and use that as the basis of another lawsuit against Sony for "not preventing my son's death".
Hopefully she'll advance in her grief to the point where she can give her lawyer an embarrassed phone call and put a stop to this lashing out.
For now, though, she's in denial over the fact that if her kid was screwed up psychologically enough to off himself, the odds are it had less to do with the game company with which he spent 1/2 his time for the last couple of years, and more to do with the parents with whom he spent 2/3 of his time for his entire life...
You also get to choose to some extent what dependencies you want your programs to have. If you don't care about KDE, you can set it up so no programs with optional KDE support have it compiled in. This is unlike.rpms and.debs where you're at the mercy of whoever built the package.
No, this is LIKE.rpms and.debs, where you can download the source package and compile to your heart's content.
But with RPM and dpkg, you have the option of easy install of binaries for systems that don't need specially-compiled versions.
Before you cut and run, better check out the competition.
Road Runner charges $300 a month for a static IP, and that's on TOP of the $79 a month you have to pay for a "business" account before they'll even offer it.
Re:A quick run-down of what ORBZ is (i.e. was)
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It was more widely used that most people know; Spamcop used it. (And as of last check was still attempting to, although I've emailed them, perhaps they've fixed it by now.)
Because of that, I bet lots of people who have never heard of ORBZ were "using" it.
But there's no reason to despair; there are many others still functioning, and new ones coming up all the time.
I personally know a couple having this problem. I didn't pull it out of my ass.
Their lawyer is handling several couples in this boat.
The fact that most of them don't have this problem doesn't mean it isn't a chronic problem. Two US Presidential administrations have been involved in this particular case.
Anybody who thinks Germany is a bastion of freedom should try having a child by a German woman while living there, and then moving to the United States.
There's a very good chance your children won't be allowed to come with you, even if your wife does.
but perhaps the defendant would have thought more carefully about what he was saying if he knew it could be proven he said it.
If you are going to sign your name to a piece of paper, you think more carefully about what you're writing on it. Perhaps the same might be true of signed emails.
I know I don't say anything I wouldn't want attributed to my name in my emails since I started signing them.
Not mine. I sign every one digitally. They can be forged, but only if you break into my box and hack my GnuPG secret keyring passphrase.
Walk into court with a forged email from me, and I'll walk in with my sent-mail folder, showing I've signed every email for a long time, with every exception being documentable as to why.
Oh, maybe the US government could forge my signature, but then again, they could also hold a gun to my head and make me sign anyway.
This is an example of why you should cryptographically sign your emails, whether that be with PGP, S/MIME, or something else.
In this case, it would have made the plaintiff's case easier to prove, which seems like a bad thing if you're the defendant, but perhaps the defendant would have thought more carefully about what he was saying if he knew it could be proven he said it.
But more importantly, in countries where digital sigs carry the same legal force as paper sigs (such as the United States), signing all your emails establishes an identity trail so that, if somebody else later forges an email with a forged signature, you can show a body of evidence that you use a different signature, and that therefore it isn't yours, it's just one that says your name.
Since there isn't a "digital driver's license" to use to "prove" the validity of an esig, this body of evidence could be very useful to you in court.
Remember the recent episode of identity theft Nick Petreley experienced? In part, this happened because he didn't establish an electronic identity in one place where he had a chance. In his case, it was a web account, not a digital sig, but a digital sig case could be far worse, because it would almost HAVE to involve the courts to be resolved.
Wouldn't you rather have more evidence in your favor, not less?
One of the projects for which I do Unix administration has both Solaris and NT servers (Linux is coming, shhhhh, don't tell anybody).
When we want to shut it all down for a software load, first we call the NT administrators and they take between 1 and 1.5 hours shutting down the software on the NT servers. Several people are involved in this.
Then one of us spends 10 minutes shutting down all the software on the Solaris servers.
Then they go physically load software on each Windows NT box by hand, while I push a patch out automatically to all the Unix boxen.
Then I start the software on the Unix servers back up for about 10 minutes.
Then they reboot all the NT servers and log back into them (because crucial pieces require it be logged in) for half an hour to an hour.
The cost for all that extra time and manpower absolutely, positively gets paid by you every time you ship a package.
If those NT servers were converted to Unix or Linux, my team could support them with our existing manpower, and all those other guys could go work for UPS or something.
Re:GPG, OpenPGP, and what needs saving
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The problem isn't that Bad Guys will do all of those things on purpose to compromise security.
The problem is that well-meaning programmers will do all of those things by accident, and it's a damn sight harder to do so with an executable.
This time, he claims the GPL is at odds with 'commercialization' of software, without which the government gets a smaller tax take.
And in a related story, he also claims that the sun rises in the east and sets in the west, that water is wet, and that fish gotta swim, birds gotta fly.
His claim is correct; the question is whether it's RELEVANT, not whether it's ACCURATE.
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How about "follows 9-year-old RFCs such as 1521 to the recommended level" and "doesn't automatically execute viruses in fifty different ways, with exciting new exploits discovered daily" before you start wishing for gee-whiz-bang new features of dubious usefulness?
You should be able to get email and read it, without the text appearing as an attachment and the attachments wiping your hard drive, before you start worrying about icorporating every program on your system into your email interface.
Sony would have to be completely out of their minds to give her the information she's requesting.
If they do, she'll find some online slight that TECHNICALLY could have been prevented (if Sony had assigned an administrator to watch over this kid 24/7 and intervene), and use that as the basis of another lawsuit against Sony for "not preventing my son's death".
Hopefully she'll advance in her grief to the point where she can give her lawyer an embarrassed phone call and put a stop to this lashing out.
For now, though, she's in denial over the fact that if her kid was screwed up psychologically enough to off himself, the odds are it had less to do with the game company with which he spent 1/2 his time for the last couple of years, and more to do with the parents with whom he spent 2/3 of his time for his entire life...
Anyone have an alternative geek-news website that isn't full of shit today?
Here, this should be about your speed.
http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=linux-kernel&m=101 770381312800&w=2
You also get to choose to some extent what dependencies you want your programs to have. If you don't care about KDE, you can set it up so no programs with optional KDE support have it compiled in. This is unlike .rpms and .debs where you're at the mercy of whoever built the package.
.rpms and .debs, where you can download the source package and compile to your heart's content.
No, this is LIKE
But with RPM and dpkg, you have the option of easy install of binaries for systems that don't need specially-compiled versions.
Not to start a licensing flame war but... Can you relicense a derivative of an GPL library(QT) into LGPL?
You can if you own the copyright, or convince the copyright owner to license it to you via different terms.
This whole thing has been hashed out before, for that last several years. It's part of the reason GNOME exists. Where were you people, under a rock?
A Linux distribution with a BSD-like ports system. How revolutionary.
Try to keep an open mind.
I have found that generally, when somebody tells me to keep an open mind, their brain has fallen out of the opening in theirs.
Amazingly it looks just like gnome 1.4.
And we all know a windowing environment isn't "good" unless the look and feel changes with every release, right?
$0&$0
Sure, but mine works from the shell prompt; yours requires wrapping.
If you wanna wrap, then try this one Joey Hess gave me:
perl -e 'fork while time'
...which has the added benefit of being poetry.
Ok. Try this one:
:|:&};:
:(){
I promise you that will terminate after a finite number of loops.
Before you cut and run, better check out the competition.
Road Runner charges $300 a month for a static IP, and that's on TOP of the $79 a month you have to pay for a "business" account before they'll even offer it.
It was more widely used that most people know; Spamcop used it. (And as of last check was still attempting to, although I've emailed them, perhaps they've fixed it by now.)
Because of that, I bet lots of people who have never heard of ORBZ were "using" it.
But there's no reason to despair; there are many others still functioning, and new ones coming up all the time.
My favorite new one is NJABL; Not Just Another BlackList.
Spamcop has a lovely one, and Osirus is excellent as well.
I personally know a couple having this problem. I didn't pull it out of my ass.
Their lawyer is handling several couples in this boat.
The fact that most of them don't have this problem doesn't mean it isn't a chronic problem. Two US Presidential administrations have been involved in this particular case.
Anybody who thinks Germany is a bastion of freedom should try having a child by a German woman while living there, and then moving to the United States.
There's a very good chance your children won't be allowed to come with you, even if your wife does.
Quoting myself:
but perhaps the defendant would have thought more carefully about what he was saying if he knew it could be proven he said it.
If you are going to sign your name to a piece of paper, you think more carefully about what you're writing on it. Perhaps the same might be true of signed emails.
I know I don't say anything I wouldn't want attributed to my name in my emails since I started signing them.
Not mine. I sign every one digitally. They can be forged, but only if you break into my box and hack my GnuPG secret keyring passphrase.
Walk into court with a forged email from me, and I'll walk in with my sent-mail folder, showing I've signed every email for a long time, with every exception being documentable as to why.
Oh, maybe the US government could forge my signature, but then again, they could also hold a gun to my head and make me sign anyway.
This is an example of why you should cryptographically sign your emails, whether that be with PGP, S/MIME, or something else.
In this case, it would have made the plaintiff's case easier to prove, which seems like a bad thing if you're the defendant, but perhaps the defendant would have thought more carefully about what he was saying if he knew it could be proven he said it.
But more importantly, in countries where digital sigs carry the same legal force as paper sigs (such as the United States), signing all your emails establishes an identity trail so that, if somebody else later forges an email with a forged signature, you can show a body of evidence that you use a different signature, and that therefore it isn't yours, it's just one that says your name.
Since there isn't a "digital driver's license" to use to "prove" the validity of an esig, this body of evidence could be very useful to you in court.
Remember the recent episode of identity theft Nick Petreley experienced? In part, this happened because he didn't establish an electronic identity in one place where he had a chance. In his case, it was a web account, not a digital sig, but a digital sig case could be far worse, because it would almost HAVE to involve the courts to be resolved.
Wouldn't you rather have more evidence in your favor, not less?
You wanna make plasma? Light a match.
Why? The SV-24 can already hold a motherboard that handles faster chips.
Better would be an even smaller case, for people who don't need even the one PCI slot.
It's the same here at FedEx, Bruce.
One of the projects for which I do Unix administration has both Solaris and NT servers (Linux is coming, shhhhh, don't tell anybody).
When we want to shut it all down for a software load, first we call the NT administrators and they take between 1 and 1.5 hours shutting down the software on the NT servers. Several people are involved in this.
Then one of us spends 10 minutes shutting down all the software on the Solaris servers.
Then they go physically load software on each Windows NT box by hand, while I push a patch out automatically to all the Unix boxen.
Then I start the software on the Unix servers back up for about 10 minutes.
Then they reboot all the NT servers and log back into them (because crucial pieces require it be logged in) for half an hour to an hour.
The cost for all that extra time and manpower absolutely, positively gets paid by you every time you ship a package.
If those NT servers were converted to Unix or Linux, my team could support them with our existing manpower, and all those other guys could go work for UPS or something.
The problem isn't that Bad Guys will do all of those things on purpose to compromise security.
The problem is that well-meaning programmers will do all of those things by accident, and it's a damn sight harder to do so with an executable.
It was Reagan's DOJ that walked away from the IBM antitrust case.
And today, look at the terrible things IBM is doing to us all because of this!
Why in the world does XP need this feature disabled,
Why in the world does FreeBSD still barf on shared IRQs?
This time, he claims the GPL is at odds with 'commercialization' of software, without which the government gets a smaller tax take.
And in a related story, he also claims that the sun rises in the east and sets in the west, that water is wet, and that fish gotta swim, birds gotta fly.
His claim is correct; the question is whether it's RELEVANT, not whether it's ACCURATE.