I have to ask, is the whole PPPoE really that common in the US? because I don't know of any ISPs in here in Sweden who use it (Chello probably would probably use it if it helped them limit your bandwidth usage)
wrong software is any software, right? I ran a couple of putty windows on a fresh win98 install, this caused the sound card driver to crash the system...
Can you imagine what they'd do if the FULL source for a worm like Code Red was released? You never played "human code red"? on some machines that let anyone write to the www root dir you could copy the user's warez/mp3s there and then download them, quite hilarious...
Assumes you know things without telling you it assumes you know them While I haven't used Linux for a while, I do remember when I first started using it a few years ago. And I definitely say that this was the biggest problem I had, that documentation assumed that you knew something which you most likely wouldn't know if you were reading that particular piece of documentation... (And asking questions in IRC channels (like #linuxhelp) about unclear documentation would get the answer 'RTFM!')
The main purpose of crypto is not to directly inflict harm upon another human being. The main purpose of a gun is to inflict harm upon another human being. 'nuf said.
As someone who lives in the far northern parts of Sweden, let me tell you that there has already been some (very little) snow in parts of northern sweden, and the sub is even furthern up north.
I was in Gothenburg to demonstrate, and most locals I met had nothing against the legitimate protests and some were actually quite upset that national/international media didn't really mention the large demonstrations that took place, just how there were several hundred "violent anarchists" throwing rocks at the police. Or how about the police surrounding Hvitfeldtska? I was there and saw how the police started hitting (peaceful,sitting) protesters when some of the people inside the school managed to get out (they got out far from where the crowd was. This was never reported by any other media than local Gothenburg papers and left-wing papers. And during the friday night "reclaim the streets" event, there were a lot more cops than people participating in the event (I didn't see how the situation around the police officer who fired at the demonstrators was, there were to many cops around for me to be able to see...)
Oh yeah, even though most left-wing people are against the kind of violence that heppened there, and although they said so, the right-wing politicians and media were still screaming about how all people left of center were evil because they didn't say that they were against the violence...
...courts will look at him as a hero, "protecting his livelyhood". Doubtable, especially if he/she shot someone who wasn't looting (I don't know how it works in the US, but in europe most large protests are mainly non-violent with 1-2% of protesters being violent in some way)
Ironically while Europeans are the people that have the most to gain from cable modems and DSL modems, the aspects of the old monopolies still stand and prevent the customer from getting a fast internet connection - this is chaning but very slowly. What parts of europe would that be? Sweden has one of the worlds most modern phone systems, and most people I know who want broadband have it. I'm guessing this is the same for several other scandinavian countries...
/Mikael Jacobson
"But surely we won't be still stuck with Linux in 25 years!?"
Ok, I just have to reply to this troll/flamebait...
US scientists built the internet.
They may have built the arpanet, but there have been non-US nodes on the 'net since at least the early '80s.
US companies and individuals provided 99% of the content, shopping, and entertainment on the internet just until this year. ROFL!
US companies manufacture most of the hardware involved, wrote all of the software involved...
A lot of hardware is manufactured in asia, and software is written pretty much everywhere, since you are on/. I could just mention every slashdotters favorite OS, Linux, originally from Finland.
...and host 98+% of the domains involved.
Please show me some real stats to back this claim up and I'll believe you.
/Mikael Jacobson
"But surely we won't be still stuck with Linux in 25 years!?"
Clarification: I of course meant that unlike content on the internet, you need massive amounts of equipment to produce gasoline/electricity, not to mention the effort that goes into it, not exactly something that Joe Sixpack could ever do on his own...
"But surely we won't be still stuck with Linux in 25 years!?"
Feeding the troll:
You buy a car, why pay for gas?
Why do you think, because a car needs fuel. You bought the TV, why pay for electricity?
Because electricity can, just like gasoline, power a lot more than your TV, and it's really cheap... You ate yesterday, why pay for food today? That would be like saying "You paid the ISP last month, why should you pay them this month."
/Mikael Jacobson
"But surely we won't be still stuck with Linux in 25 years!?"
If AA guns are useless against high flying aircraft, how did B-17s, B-29s and Lancasters get knocked down by German and Japanese flak during the second world war? Because they had to be at a pretty low altitude when dropping their bombs (if they wanted to stand any chance of actually hitting anything).
/Mikael Jacobson
"But surely we won't be still stuck with Linux in 25 years!?"
If we were to include those from other parts of the world (which is what I meant), that percentage would surely be lower. That would depend on what parts of the world you are speaking of, because in some parts broadband access is probably more common than in the US whilst in other places hardly anyone owns a computer, and if they do, they will most likely not have xDSL/cable access...
/Mikael Jacobson
"But surely we won't be still stuck with Linux in 25 years!?"
I just bought a Mach 3 razor, and realized that they could make a mint on it even if they gave it away... they do actually give it away, here in Sweden they sent one to pretty much every 18-year old male, probably hoping for us all to be morons...
/Mikael Jacobson
"But surely we won't be still stuck with Linux in 25 years!?"
The information about how to implement this in your own drivers/game is still out there, they just made sure that the risk of it affecting the majority in a bad way wasn't quite as big.
/Mikael Jacobson
"But surely we won't be still stuck with Linux in 25 years!?"
Slashdot Mirror
The gathering the parent poster was talking about is this The Gathering. It's in norway...
/Mikael Jacobson
I know this is gonna sound stupid, but why are you running Linux on Alpha boxen? Never heard of Tru64?
/Mikael Jacobson
I have to ask, is the whole PPPoE really that common in the US? because I don't know of any ISPs in here in Sweden who use it (Chello probably would probably use it if it helped them limit your bandwidth usage)
/Mikael
If the biggest gun is nukes then are three of those that have the biggest gun (remember MAD?)
/Mikael Jacobson
I'm pretty sure the Gameboy came out around '89, not '85
/Mikael Jacobson
wrong software is any software, right? I ran a couple of putty windows on a fresh win98 install, this caused the sound card driver to crash the system...
/Mikael Jacobson
Can you imagine what they'd do if the FULL source for a worm like Code Red was released?
You never played "human code red"? on some machines that let anyone write to the www root dir you could copy the user's warez/mp3s there and then download them, quite hilarious...
/Mikael Jacobson
Assumes you know things without telling you it assumes you know them
While I haven't used Linux for a while, I do remember when I first started using it a few years ago. And I definitely say that this was the biggest problem I had, that documentation assumed that you knew something which you most likely wouldn't know if you were reading that particular piece of documentation...
(And asking questions in IRC channels (like #linuxhelp) about unclear documentation would get the answer 'RTFM!')
/Mikael Jacobson
I don't think there are any 100GB SCSI drives, but I know that there are 181GB ones...
/Mikael Jacobson
click on "bilder", that's where the few pictures I have are.
/Mikael Jacobson
The main purpose of crypto is not to directly inflict harm upon another human being.
The main purpose of a gun is to inflict harm upon another human being.
'nuf said.
/Mikael Jacobson
As someone who lives in the far northern parts of Sweden, let me tell you that there has already been some (very little) snow in parts of northern sweden, and the sub is even furthern up north.
/Mikael Jacobson
I was in Gothenburg to demonstrate, and most locals I met had nothing against the legitimate protests and some were actually quite upset that national/international media didn't really mention the large demonstrations that took place, just how there were several hundred "violent anarchists" throwing rocks at the police.
Or how about the police surrounding Hvitfeldtska? I was there and saw how the police started hitting (peaceful,sitting) protesters when some of the people inside the school managed to get out (they got out far from where the crowd was. This was never reported by any other media than local Gothenburg papers and left-wing papers.
And during the friday night "reclaim the streets" event, there were a lot more cops than people participating in the event (I didn't see how the situation around the police officer who fired at the demonstrators was, there were to many cops around for me to be able to see...)
Oh yeah, even though most left-wing people are against the kind of violence that heppened there, and although they said so, the right-wing politicians and media were still screaming about how all people left of center were evil because they didn't say that they were against the violence...
/Mikael Jacobson
...courts will look at him as a hero, "protecting his livelyhood".
Doubtable, especially if he/she shot someone who wasn't looting (I don't know how it works in the US, but in europe most large protests are mainly non-violent with 1-2% of protesters being violent in some way)
/Mikael Jacobson
Ironically while Europeans are the people that have the most to gain from cable modems and DSL modems, the aspects of the old monopolies still stand and prevent the customer from getting a fast internet connection - this is chaning but very slowly.
What parts of europe would that be? Sweden has one of the worlds most modern phone systems, and most people I know who want broadband have it.
I'm guessing this is the same for several other scandinavian countries...
/Mikael Jacobson
"But surely we won't be still stuck with Linux in 25 years!?"
Ok, I just have to reply to this troll/flamebait...
/. I could just mention every slashdotters favorite OS, Linux, originally from Finland.
...and host 98+% of the domains involved.
US scientists built the internet.
They may have built the arpanet, but there have been non-US nodes on the 'net since at least the early '80s.
US companies and individuals provided 99% of the content, shopping, and entertainment on the internet just until this year.
ROFL!
US companies manufacture most of the hardware involved, wrote all of the software involved...
A lot of hardware is manufactured in asia, and software is written pretty much everywhere, since you are on
Please show me some real stats to back this claim up and I'll believe you.
/Mikael Jacobson
"But surely we won't be still stuck with Linux in 25 years!?"
That's what you are paying the ISP for!
/Mikael Jacobson
"But surely we won't be still stuck with Linux in 25 years!?"
Clarification: I of course meant that unlike content on the internet, you need massive amounts of equipment to produce gasoline/electricity, not to mention the effort that goes into it, not exactly something that Joe Sixpack could ever do on his own...
"But surely we won't be still stuck with Linux in 25 years!?"
Feeding the troll: You buy a car, why pay for gas?
Why do you think, because a car needs fuel.
You bought the TV, why pay for electricity?
Because electricity can, just like gasoline, power a lot more than your TV, and it's really cheap...
You ate yesterday, why pay for food today?
That would be like saying "You paid the ISP last month, why should you pay them this month."
/Mikael Jacobson
"But surely we won't be still stuck with Linux in 25 years!?"
isn't GiS supposed to be a weekly thing or something?
long week?
/Mikael Jacobson
"But surely we won't be still stuck with Linux in 25 years!?"
If AA guns are useless against high flying aircraft, how did B-17s, B-29s and Lancasters get knocked down by German and Japanese flak during the second world war?
Because they had to be at a pretty low altitude when dropping their bombs (if they wanted to stand any chance of actually hitting anything).
/Mikael Jacobson
"But surely we won't be still stuck with Linux in 25 years!?"
If we were to include those from other parts of the world (which is what I meant), that percentage would surely be lower.
That would depend on what parts of the world you are speaking of, because in some parts broadband access is probably more common than in the US whilst in other places hardly anyone owns a computer, and if they do, they will most likely not have xDSL/cable access...
/Mikael Jacobson
"But surely we won't be still stuck with Linux in 25 years!?"
I just bought a Mach 3 razor, and realized that they could make a mint on it even if they gave it away...
they do actually give it away, here in Sweden they sent one to pretty much every 18-year old male, probably hoping for us all to be morons...
/Mikael Jacobson
"But surely we won't be still stuck with Linux in 25 years!?"
The information about how to implement this in your own drivers/game is still out there, they just made sure that the risk of it affecting the majority in a bad way wasn't quite as big.
/Mikael Jacobson
"But surely we won't be still stuck with Linux in 25 years!?"
The Hobbit was about how Bilbo aquired The Ring.
LOTR was about how Frodo got The Ring from Bilbo and had to destroy it...
/Mikael Jacobson
"But surely we won't be still stuck with Linux in 25 years!?"