I just installed Sarge yesterday, my first time installing Debian (second Linux install ever, after RH7.2 a few years ago), and I'm no expert but I didn't have any problem. The way I see it, there's really no need for "Joe User" ever to install an OS (especially Debian), he probably wants to buy a computer that's already set up to run, or have a nerdy friend come over and do the installation -- so there's no use for a graphical installer, hiding or dressing up the partitioning process, etc.
Of course, there's nothing wrong with making those changes if there's demand for them, I just don't see it as a pressing need.
(Oh, and I've found Debian really great so far, it's a terrific OS and I'm going to recommend it to everyone and offer to install it.)
I think the most revealing thing about those correspondences is how indistinguishable Al Qaeda's views are, in content and tone, from the likes of Democratic Underground or Michael Moore -- or generalizing, from today's hard-core left. Even in a large-ish number of Slashdot posts in this thread, ideas and lines, whole paragraphs are seemingly lifted directly from the AQ playbook, especially the last bit of the Atlantic piece, i.e. the notes written by Osama bin Laden himself. It's frankly disturbing, although I suppose by this point I should have become accustomed to it (what with "America didn't deserve 9/11, BUT..." etc., from barely a few days after 9/11).
As a (probably necessary) disclaimer, let me add that I'm not saying this to "score political points," I myself am libertarian coming from a liberal angle, and by no means think that liberalism itself is wrong or that there's a problem with the whole of today's left wing. But, the so-called "international community" (Europeans, some Africans, Asians, etc.) and the really hardcore American left who harshly condemn Bush, "neo-cons," Zionists, etc. etc., are deeply sick, and should observe how closely their views mirror those of deranged Islamists bent on the destruction of the West (of the non-Islamic world as a whole, really).
Q. In June, SCO reported that Unix licensing revenue through its SCOsource division totaled just $11,000 in the quarter that ended April 30 - a 99% drop-off from $8.25 million in the same quarter last year. What happened there?
A. In the day-to-day business, we have some speed bumps that come up from our [intellectual property] issues. In the previous quarter, we had several large licensing deals, but you can't repeat those every quarter. It's not really as brutal as people might expect.
"SCOsource is the Linux users' shakedown program. Apparently, no one is paying up. It took in $11,000 last quarter. That's not a typo. President and CEO Darl McBride paid more lip service to 'increasing shareholder value,' but you really have to wonder about the viability of his vision when his firm's most engrossing initiative brings in less money than the guys who mow lawns in my neighborhood."
Hah, that's hilarious, thanks for posting it. That guy comes across as the most infantile, half-witted paranoiac. I'm sort of amazed they'd put that up on a public server at their domain, let alone have him talk on their behalf. Honestly, he writes like some weirdo internet conspiracy theorist, raving about death threats and Nazis and other schizoid fantasies, and contradicting himself every third sentence.
I'd sort of enjoy reading more of it -- can you link any? It's like an inside view of a demented teenager with a learning disability, or a psycho-thriller novel.
And that's only for the ones who got caught. The risk-reward ratio changes dramatically when only x% of crooks get caught, and furthermore we all know that nobody thinks he'll be the dummy who gets found out.
Still, regulations, the possibility of prison time, the destruction of one's career, etc., do serve as some deterrent, and I don't think it's overly optimistic to think that the overwhelming majority of exces and investors will play it straight, whether for fear of repercussions or by their own integrity.
Question: how do you know you wouldn't be working for terrorists? Answer: Ultimately there's no way to know. Hell there are some who allege that Bush is a terrorist and plenty who'd agree with them (although I'd prefer to remain on the fence over that one).
You have a rather strange (and extreme) take on terrorism. Sure, a few loonies call Bush the "real terrorist" (I see that a fair bit on T-shirts here in Montreal, Canada), but for an enlightened person to take that few come off as, as I said, extreme.
To some degree I feel right now as if my own government are little better than a bunch of terrorists anyway.
Admittedly they're (NZ) de-militarizing and thus aiding terrorism, but it's again a bit of a stretch to call the New Zealand government terrorists.
Naturally I would not be accepting direct offers from Al Qaeda, Israel or the PLA -- but the reality is that there are few nations who can honestly say they've never committed a terrorist act anyway.
Huh?! Sorry, but Israel's not some terrorist fly-by-night like Al Qaeda or the PLO, they're a modern, democratic state that's at the vanguard of the fight against terrorism. Hell, Israel's probably done more to combat terrorism (and killed more terrorists) than all other nation-states combined.
Great job on the tech. side of things, but politically, get a grip on reality, man.
I suppose it's somewhat inappropriate to post "classified ads" or the like in a Slashdot thread, although maybe by doing so I'll help get/. to innovate in that field;)
I've started working on a model that I'm quite confident will both be profitable and allow for easy and effective user- and project owner-funded development of open source software. I have the skills and most of the capital (it takes very little w.r.t. basic operations), but in order to speed up the to-market time and develop a better service, I'm looking for one or a few people with LAMP experience who have a strong desire to work on this sort of project.
If you're interested, e-mail me at daniel@istop.com, I'll give further details and we can discuss your participation.
As other posters have pointed out, sites like Slashdot aren't really blogs. In point of fact, not only are they not blogs, they're only partially collaborative (each to a varying degree), so it seems kind of nonsensical to write them up.
Let me slip in a plug, then, and say that for a REAL collaborative blog you can check out the site in my sig, and the interesting aspect of its collaborative nature is that you're invited to contribute.
First of all, there should be a -1: Tin-foil hat option. Anyway, in Canada the government can seize your property without any kind of warrant, or even notification. Next. look up the Notwithstanding Clause. Finally, Canada also recently psased "anti-terrorism" laws similar to what you're complaining about.
All in all, neither country is perfect, and neither is heading down a slippery slope toward having "neither liberty or safety" (all right, please stop bashing us over the head with that quote, I know it's not just you but all of Slashdot). You've got plenty of liberties in both countries, and pretty incontestably more in the U.S. Now put down your George Orwell and enjoy the good life.
I definitely agree with you that Wikibooks is very far from readiness for use in the classroom -- that much is clear. But it already contains some books suitable for personal use, and a few that are approaching overall suitability. You make the comparison to Wikipedia to point out that the model might be more appropriate for the latter than for the former, but I think it demonstrates rather the surprising efficacy of the model: do you think very many people gave the idea of a free, user-written encyclopedia any chance of succeeding before Wikipedia really took off? (Of course, one's free to argue that Wikipedia itself still isn't a success).
"See the main page, it has a selection of languages. Wouldn't it be nice that it should be moved into user preference page and stored into a cookie so that this kind of page should be encountered exactly once in a lifetime?"
I'd actually totally forgotten about that; there's a much easier solution, simply bookmark the "Main page" (i.e. your language's page, rather than the index with links to the various languages). I haven't seen the index page since I started at Wikibooks.
Anyway, I see your points and clearly the idea of open-content textbooks isn't for everyone, regardless of whether it's even a functional model. But I do have confidence that it will become usable as its userbase reaches a sizable population, and I hope that at some point you'll give it another try and perhaps go on making contributions to and use of Wikibooks.
For those of you who are interested in free (as in speech and beer) textbooks, please check out Wikibooks. It's a Wiki, like the Wikipedia, but wholly devoted to offering free books (primarily textbooks).
I'm not involved in running Wikibooks, I just use it and contribute to it, and I think it's a great project worth spreading the word about; plus, the more people contribute to it, the better it is.
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Why is parent post modded -1, Flamebait?
... mods on crack.
Ah, the usual
I just installed Sarge yesterday, my first time installing Debian (second Linux install ever, after RH7.2 a few years ago), and I'm no expert but I didn't have any problem. The way I see it, there's really no need for "Joe User" ever to install an OS (especially Debian), he probably wants to buy a computer that's already set up to run, or have a nerdy friend come over and do the installation -- so there's no use for a graphical installer, hiding or dressing up the partitioning process, etc.
Of course, there's nothing wrong with making those changes if there's demand for them, I just don't see it as a pressing need.
(Oh, and I've found Debian really great so far, it's a terrific OS and I'm going to recommend it to everyone and offer to install it.)
I think the most revealing thing about those correspondences is how indistinguishable Al Qaeda's views are, in content and tone, from the likes of Democratic Underground or Michael Moore -- or generalizing, from today's hard-core left. Even in a large-ish number of Slashdot posts in this thread, ideas and lines, whole paragraphs are seemingly lifted directly from the AQ playbook, especially the last bit of the Atlantic piece, i.e. the notes written by Osama bin Laden himself. It's frankly disturbing, although I suppose by this point I should have become accustomed to it (what with "America didn't deserve 9/11, BUT..." etc., from barely a few days after 9/11).
As a (probably necessary) disclaimer, let me add that I'm not saying this to "score political points," I myself am libertarian coming from a liberal angle, and by no means think that liberalism itself is wrong or that there's a problem with the whole of today's left wing. But, the so-called "international community" (Europeans, some Africans, Asians, etc.) and the really hardcore American left who harshly condemn Bush, "neo-cons," Zionists, etc. etc., are deeply sick, and should observe how closely their views mirror those of deranged Islamists bent on the destruction of the West (of the non-Islamic world as a whole, really).
This also, from a ComputerWorld interview with Darl McBride:
Q. In June, SCO reported that Unix licensing revenue through its SCOsource division totaled just $11,000 in the quarter that ended April 30 - a 99% drop-off from $8.25 million in the same quarter last year. What happened there?
A. In the day-to-day business, we have some speed bumps that come up from our [intellectual property] issues. In the previous quarter, we had several large licensing deals, but you can't repeat those every quarter. It's not really as brutal as people might expect.
**
"SCOsource is the Linux users' shakedown program. Apparently, no one is paying up. It took in $11,000 last quarter. That's not a typo. President and CEO Darl McBride paid more lip service to 'increasing shareholder value,' but you really have to wonder about the viability of his vision when his firm's most engrossing initiative brings in less money than the guys who mow lawns in my neighborhood."
--the Motley Fool
I thought this was also rather amusing:
;-)
"It looks like Dextre's normally supposed to be attached to something before it performs work."
Sounds like a pretty apt description of Canada as a whole, eh?
You're right -- I meant to add "deluded" and "megalomaniacal," too.
Hah, that's hilarious, thanks for posting it. That guy comes across as the most infantile, half-witted paranoiac. I'm sort of amazed they'd put that up on a public server at their domain, let alone have him talk on their behalf. Honestly, he writes like some weirdo internet conspiracy theorist, raving about death threats and Nazis and other schizoid fantasies, and contradicting himself every third sentence.
I'd sort of enjoy reading more of it -- can you link any? It's like an inside view of a demented teenager with a learning disability, or a psycho-thriller novel.
And that's only for the ones who got caught. The risk-reward ratio changes dramatically when only x% of crooks get caught, and furthermore we all know that nobody thinks he'll be the dummy who gets found out.
Still, regulations, the possibility of prison time, the destruction of one's career, etc., do serve as some deterrent, and I don't think it's overly optimistic to think that the overwhelming majority of exces and investors will play it straight, whether for fear of repercussions or by their own integrity.
It's a 5m long pointy stick for jabbing at theon/off button - yay!!!
A finglonger?
A man can dream...
The only time I ever choose a Windows seat is when the alternative is an aisle seat.
They had electrons in 1870?
Question: how do you know you wouldn't be working for terrorists?
Answer:
Ultimately there's no way to know. Hell there are some who allege that Bush is a terrorist and plenty who'd agree with them (although I'd prefer to remain on the fence over that one).
You have a rather strange (and extreme) take on terrorism. Sure, a few loonies call Bush the "real terrorist" (I see that a fair bit on T-shirts here in Montreal, Canada), but for an enlightened person to take that few come off as, as I said, extreme.
To some degree I feel right now as if my own government are little better than a bunch of terrorists anyway.
Admittedly they're (NZ) de-militarizing and thus aiding terrorism, but it's again a bit of a stretch to call the New Zealand government terrorists.
Naturally I would not be accepting direct offers from Al Qaeda, Israel or the PLA -- but the reality is that there are few nations who can honestly say they've never committed a terrorist act anyway.
Huh?! Sorry, but Israel's not some terrorist fly-by-night like Al Qaeda or the PLO, they're a modern, democratic state that's at the vanguard of the fight against terrorism. Hell, Israel's probably done more to combat terrorism (and killed more terrorists) than all other nation-states combined.
Great job on the tech. side of things, but politically, get a grip on reality, man.
So now they're going the unconstitutional route?
I suppose it's somewhat inappropriate to post "classified ads" or the like in a Slashdot thread, although maybe by doing so I'll help get /. to innovate in that field ;)
I've started working on a model that I'm quite confident will both be profitable and allow for easy and effective user- and project owner-funded development of open source software. I have the skills and most of the capital (it takes very little w.r.t. basic operations), but in order to speed up the to-market time and develop a better service, I'm looking for one or a few people with LAMP experience who have a strong desire to work on this sort of project.
If you're interested, e-mail me at daniel@istop.com, I'll give further details and we can discuss your participation.
When you ear about thinking machines, do you think of :
... A LEARNING MACHINE" --Ahnold
I think: "My CPU is a neural-net processor
As other posters have pointed out, sites like Slashdot aren't really blogs. In point of fact, not only are they not blogs, they're only partially collaborative (each to a varying degree), so it seems kind of nonsensical to write them up.
Let me slip in a plug, then, and say that for a REAL collaborative blog you can check out the site in my sig, and the interesting aspect of its collaborative nature is that you're invited to contribute.
What the hell are you talking about?
First of all, there should be a -1: Tin-foil hat option. Anyway, in Canada the government can seize your property without any kind of warrant, or even notification. Next. look up the Notwithstanding Clause. Finally, Canada also recently psased "anti-terrorism" laws similar to what you're complaining about.
All in all, neither country is perfect, and neither is heading down a slippery slope toward having "neither liberty or safety" (all right, please stop bashing us over the head with that quote, I know it's not just you but all of Slashdot). You've got plenty of liberties in both countries, and pretty incontestably more in the U.S. Now put down your George Orwell and enjoy the good life.
"but you may not beat the poster for more than forty five minutes"
Shouldn't that be seventy-five centihours?
I definitely agree with you that Wikibooks is very far from readiness for use in the classroom -- that much is clear. But it already contains some books suitable for personal use, and a few that are approaching overall suitability. You make the comparison to Wikipedia to point out that the model might be more appropriate for the latter than for the former, but I think it demonstrates rather the surprising efficacy of the model: do you think very many people gave the idea of a free, user-written encyclopedia any chance of succeeding before Wikipedia really took off? (Of course, one's free to argue that Wikipedia itself still isn't a success).
"See the main page, it has a selection of languages. Wouldn't it be nice that it should be moved into user preference page and stored into a cookie so that this kind of page should be encountered exactly once in a lifetime?"
I'd actually totally forgotten about that; there's a much easier solution, simply bookmark the "Main page" (i.e. your language's page, rather than the index with links to the various languages). I haven't seen the index page since I started at Wikibooks.
Anyway, I see your points and clearly the idea of open-content textbooks isn't for everyone, regardless of whether it's even a functional model. But I do have confidence that it will become usable as its userbase reaches a sizable population, and I hope that at some point you'll give it another try and perhaps go on making contributions to and use of Wikibooks.
Check out Wikibooks.
(Keeping it short cuz I posted about it in a new thread).
For those of you who are interested in free (as in speech and beer) textbooks, please check out Wikibooks. It's a Wiki, like the Wikipedia, but wholly devoted to offering free books (primarily textbooks).
I'm not involved in running Wikibooks, I just use it and contribute to it, and I think it's a great project worth spreading the word about; plus, the more people contribute to it, the better it is.
Even worse who realy wants to hire anybody with the taint of SCO on there resume?
Well, it depends on which definition of taint you mean...
(t'ain't the hee, and t'ain't the haw)
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