Highly recommended teen-movie "Show Me Love"
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A teen-movie that completely avoids the usual type 1A Hollywood script for teenflicks is "Show Me Love" (or "Fucking Åmål", as the original, Swedish, title is); quite understandable, as it's not a Hollywood movie in the first place. Because the movie isn't in English, it might be hard to get by in the US (and indeed, most of the world), but if you do, it's definitely worth seeing. I know that there is a subtitled version available. IMDB entry here.
Well, I do actually enjoy most teen movies, despite having passed my teenage a long time ago. The main reason is that they seldom require a deep analysis, but can rather just be enjoyed even when you're a bit tired. Of course, there are exceptions: there are definitely teen-movies that do require (or at least encourage) some thought, and for that matter, are suitable to bring a date to; for instance Dead Poets' Society (a personal favourite of mine; partly because Robin Williams really ACTS rather than overacts in this movie.
Of course, you can seldom accuse the actors in the teen-movies of excelling themselves when it comes to acting (think Clueless or Drive Me Crazy, for instance...), but there are exceptions here too (again, Dead Poets' Society) and 10 Things I Hate About You.
And, come to think about it, why even complain about the simplistic storylines of the teenflicks? It's not like they attempt to be deep; no hidden pretensions.
People Used to complain about the slowness and memory footprint of Emacs???
Amongst Swedish (and the Swedish-speaking Finnish) Computer-Science students, there is an often sung song about how bloated Emacs is. And before anyone gets a flamefest started: yes, even the Emacs:ians I know happily sings along and admits that Emacs IS slow and bloated. Depending on hardware of course.
(To be honest, VIM is also a bit on the large side nowadays, but it's fully usable on my 486slc2 with 16MB memory, something I can't say about Emacs.
If this is what you get from the article, you've missed the point. The article isn't about the server-side HTML-code, but about the client-side representation of it; that is, the way a web-browser both renders HTML and handles HTTP etc. And while the majority of the web is indeed made up of novices, hopefully the majority of web-browser programmers aren't.
"I was lucky to be in the right place at the right time with something that a bunch of other people found useful," LaStrange explained. "I exchanged some e-mail with the Enlightenment developers about a year ago. It turns out the ugliness of twm inspired them to write Enlightenment--much like the ugliness of uwm inspired me."
Ahhhh. So that's why Enlightenment is so ugly?!:^) Nahhhhh. But I wish the Enlightenment people could've taken a hint when it comes to CPU-usage. TWM really shows off here (oh, Enlightenment does too, but on the other scale.)
This seems almost as intelligent as the article I read in a Swedish computer-magazine just the other day, where they said that the fact that SuSE, Red Hat et al. makes money on support-deals, certification-programs and so on will cause Linux to become non-free (both liberty and beer free)...
Sigh... The downfall of mankind will probably be industry-analysts.
My guess is that this is their server's way of saying "I've been slashdotted; too many people requesting this page at the moment, give me a break, will ya?!"
If I'm not all mistaken, this is due to a problem in XFRee, not in the Linux-kernel. You should be able to solve this problem by updating to a later version of XFree (possibly a CVS-version is needed.)
Re:The real 'end' for 2.0.38?
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Well, I for one certainly hope so. The less bug-reports for me to handle, the better... I can't say that I've been drowned in reports, though.
The reason a lot of people run v2.0.xx is that this kernel-series is well tested and most bugs documented, hence its behaviour is mostly predictable.
Nope, it doesn't. The tower-model of the PowerMac G4 does have a fan for the power-supply (but no other fans, something that makes me thankful; I love my G4...), but the Cube doesn't have any fans. To avoid overheating, the power-supply is external, much similar to other nice computers, such as the Commodore 64/128, Amiga 500/600/1200 etc.
You can still do both. It is still possible to tilt your foot while pushing it forward, right?! (At least, I know *I* can do so.)
Oh, and as for your point, you can do a LOT with a racing-car that you can't do with an ordinary car. It's all a question about striking a proper balance between the level of complication and the level of maximum prestanda. In most cases the average user rather wants ease of use.
Ok, this is probably seriously off-topic, but the fact is that a lot of research going on around this. The experiments involve a car that has a combined gas- and breakpedal. To accelerate, you tilt your foot forward, and to slow down you ease up on the tilt. To break, you simply put the pedal to the metal, so to speak. The results are pretty amazing. Most people get used to this in no-time, and the range from full speed to stop decreases with several meters. Combine this with a Tiptronic/Sensonic transmission (basically a combination of a normal transmission and an automatic, which means all your 4/5/6 gears but no pedal) and you're there.
Likely as not, the only thing to get these ideas out of their heads is to use their own favourite means; a law-suit. Simply(?) find a few applications (at least more than one, preferably from different, non-opensource manufactors) that breaks so heavily on a CPRM-disk that it corrupts your on-disk data. Best would be if these programs are backup-utilities, scandisk or similar.
However powerful the MPAA/RIAA are, they still won't be as threatening as a class-action law-suit against all the Hard-Disc manufactors...
We are also the only company with clients for Windows, Linux, and Mac.
Get your facts straight, please. For instance, the Distributed.net effort has clients for Acorn RISCOS, AmigaOS, AIX, BeOS, OpenBSD, NetBSD, FreeBSD, BSD/OS, DEC UNIX/OSF1, PC-DOS/MS-DOS, HPUX, Linux, MacOS X, MacOS, Novell NetWare, NeXTStep, IBM OS/2, IBM OS/390, QNX, SCO Unix, SGI IRIX, Sequent DYNIX, SINIX, Solaris/SunOS, DEC VMS, Windows 95/98/NT/200 and Windows 3.x. More clients are under development. So while it is nice to hear that you have support for more than just Windows, please don't believe that you are on top. I bet that SETI@home has clients for more than Windows/Linux/MacOS too.
Oh, and as for sandboxing: at least for Linux, something like User-mode Linux would be an excellent choice.
Noooo... Please don't, because each extra user that sticks to v2.0 becomes my trouble instead of the corporate bug-munching crowd on linux-kernel. Yes, I admit I was stupid when I accepted maintainership, but someone had to.
Regards: David Weinehall, maintainer of the v2.0 kernel-series.
Then you're completely missing the point of the RC5 initiative. It started off to convince the US-government (and proably others) that 56-bit (and 64-bit, for the current initiative) encryption just isn't enough.
While you may argue that 64-bit keys seem safe as they've withstood several years of Distributed.net attempts, this argument is off the target, because some messages simply require decade-long secrecy or even century-long (of course, for true security, those shouldn't be sent by mail at all, but encryption can be used for on-disk information too.)
Some posters seem to get confused by the incorrect information given. Red Hat didn't ship with a developmental kernel; they shipped with gcc 2.96, which is a developmental branch of gcc. This has been discussed a lot on Slashdot already, and if I remember correctly, everyone except Red Hat's CEO agreed that is was a bad decision... But it's old news now.
Bugs in userspace has very little to do with where the kernel is headed next... But of course, there are probably distro-specific bugs in the kernel too, as most vendors costumise their kernels.
In the latest v2.4.0test11pre-patches, this should be solved, mostly. There are still some problems with PCMCIA to be solved, but they should be ironed out before the release.
Well, at least both the upcoming v2.2.18-kernel and the somewhat more distant v2.4.0-kernel will support the Pentium IV, eventhough GCC might not yet optimise for it. The Pentium IV is such a heat-source that using rep; nop on spinlocks is a requirement to avoid thermal throttling...
Evidently, the US idea of what liberalism is parts from what most liberal thinkers (John Locke, John Stuart Mill, John Rawls et al.) considered it to be, and indeed, what most liberal parties throughout the world stands for.
Central thoughts of liberalism are for instance the economic independence of the individual, the freedom to do anything as long as your act does not impose restrictions on other individuals freedom. The liberal principle is that any limitations on liberty must be justified. John Rawls, for instance, says:
Each person is to have an equal right to the most extensive total system of equal basic liberties compatible with a similar system for all
An interesting view on the US misconception of what liberalism is, can be found in this quote (taken from the article "Waco and liberal corruption" by Llewellyn H. Rockwell, Jr., available ;;he re.
In the former Soviet Union and its former East Bloc, in Latin America, and in much of Europe, the term liberal refers to those who want a society and economy free from the shackles of state control. Pascal Salin of the University of Paris has just come out with a massive volume with the title "Liberalism," the purpose of which is to recapture the full sense of the term as used by Ludwig von Mises in his 1927 book of the same name.
In this tradition, liberalism means individual rights, capitalism, decentralism. The horrible reality is that in America, the term liberalism refers to the exact opposite: the unquestioned power of the executive to carry off state violence, as in Waco, and to do so with neither permission nor reprisal from any other branch of government or the media.
Centralism is something generally frowned upon from a liberal point of view. Indeed, the political movements that do defend centralism are generally conservatism and socialism.
I do get a feeling that the corruption of the term liberalism has something to do with the fact that the US political arena is basically divided into two parties, each ranging from liberalism to conservatism in their opinions. Most other democratic countries do have more than two parties that have a chance to get their voices heard in the political arena, which nurtures the refinement of political idealogy and consequential politics rather than ad hoc decisions based on the decisions popularity among the masses or the "sponsors" of the parties or its candidates.
Just my 0.02 SEK. (If anyone wonders, I'm a member of the Swedish Centerparty, which is a liberal (in the non-US sense) decentralist party, following the liberalist school known as eco-humanism.
Well, I personally only use floppy-disks to install Debian on computers that lack a CD-drive... Of course, not everyone's got a 10Mb connection at home like me, and a computer with a CD-recorder connected to it...
LS-120 isn't very realiable. They've got quite some troubles, and the only thing that they beat ZIP-drives on is that you can use regular floppies in them too. Apart from this, an ATA ZIP-drive is really a good solution. VERY cheap (bulk 100MB:ers are about $70, at least here in Sweden... And the external USB-version is about $80. No major bucks.
I almost never use FTP-transfers, though. Why? Too unsecure; I don't want my password broadcasted unencrypted to everyone... scp, on the other hand, is perfectly fine.
People screamed a lot at Apple for not including floppy drives in their newer computers. Well... I've never missed it so far in my G4. I might have if the computer had lacked USB, 100Mbit Ethernet built-in, Firewire and a DVD-drive. But it doesn't; it comes with all of this...
Of course Slashdot should follow the same rules of pressethics as normal newspapers, but I must say that I've yet to see a case where this has not been the case. The transgressions into murky waters are all made in the open fora by persons not being members of the paper-staff.
One could of course argue that normal newspapers are held responsible for what they publish, be it open letters from the readers or not, but I believe this is pretty much impossible to enforce for an online medium, eventhough there are strong movements to censor webcontent.
The number one reference in all these issues should be the Electronic Frontier Foundation which handle exactly these
kind of issues.
Don't let people censor you; this a question of freedom of speech. Any freedom comes with an obligation however, and that is not to abuse it to hurt someone else. People not taking their responsibility risk undermining their own rights.
Now there are sites that really need to reconsider their contents, however, for instance MacOS Rumors, where a lot of the rumors seem more or less invented because of lack of real news. Oh, and how about Microsoft's allegations about Linux that now and then pop up... But I guess that's just mistakes, nothing made on purpose:^)
Well, I don't know about BFS, but HFS (not HPFS, which doesn't contain streams) changed into HFS+ which still isn't documented publically as for all I know, and NTFS changed quite a lot with Win2K; at least enough for any mounting of a Win2K NTFS on a non Win2K system to corrupt it... And if I know Microsoft correctly, the next version of NTFS will contain a similar change.
What I mean, however, is that as long as the filesystem is non-open, we can't be sure that we've managed to implement the filesystem 100% correctly.
Of course, if Be says that the existing documentation of BeFS is complete then sure, we can probably trust them. I wouldn't bet on this for NTFS and HFS+, though...
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A teen-movie that completely avoids the usual type 1A Hollywood script for teenflicks is "Show Me Love" (or "Fucking Åmål", as the original, Swedish, title is); quite understandable, as it's not a Hollywood movie in the first place. Because the movie isn't in English, it might be hard to get by in the US (and indeed, most of the world), but if you do, it's definitely worth seeing. I know that there is a subtitled version available. IMDB entry here.
Well, I do actually enjoy most teen movies, despite having passed my teenage a long time ago. The main reason is that they seldom require a deep analysis, but can rather just be enjoyed even when you're a bit tired. Of course, there are exceptions: there are definitely teen-movies that do require (or at least encourage) some thought, and for that matter, are suitable to bring a date to; for instance Dead Poets' Society (a personal favourite of mine; partly because Robin Williams really ACTS rather than overacts in this movie.
Of course, you can seldom accuse the actors in the teen-movies of excelling themselves when it comes to acting (think Clueless or Drive Me Crazy, for instance...), but there are exceptions here too (again, Dead Poets' Society) and 10 Things I Hate About You.
And, come to think about it, why even complain about the simplistic storylines of the teenflicks? It's not like they attempt to be deep; no hidden pretensions.
People Used to complain about the slowness and memory footprint of Emacs???
Amongst Swedish (and the Swedish-speaking Finnish) Computer-Science students, there is an often sung song about how bloated Emacs is. And before anyone gets a flamefest started: yes, even the Emacs:ians I know happily sings along and admits that Emacs IS slow and bloated. Depending on hardware of course.
(To be honest, VIM is also a bit on the large side nowadays, but it's fully usable on my 486slc2 with 16MB memory, something I can't say about Emacs.
If this is what you get from the article, you've missed the point. The article isn't about the server-side HTML-code, but about the client-side representation of it; that is, the way a web-browser both renders HTML and handles HTTP etc. And while the majority of the web is indeed made up of novices, hopefully the majority of web-browser programmers aren't.
Ahhhh. So that's why Enlightenment is so ugly?! :^) Nahhhhh. But I wish the Enlightenment people could've taken a hint when it comes to CPU-usage. TWM really shows off here (oh, Enlightenment does too, but on the other scale.)
This seems almost as intelligent as the article I read in a Swedish computer-magazine just the other day, where they said that the fact that SuSE, Red Hat et al. makes money on support-deals, certification-programs and so on will cause Linux to become non-free (both liberty and beer free)...
Sigh... The downfall of mankind will probably be industry-analysts.
My guess is that this is their server's way of saying "I've been slashdotted; too many people requesting this page at the moment, give me a break, will ya?!"
If I'm not all mistaken, this is due to a problem in XFRee, not in the Linux-kernel. You should be able to solve this problem by updating to a later version of XFree (possibly a CVS-version is needed.)
Well, I for one certainly hope so. The less bug-reports for me to handle, the better... I can't say that I've been drowned in reports, though.
The reason a lot of people run v2.0.xx is that this kernel-series is well tested and most bugs documented, hence its behaviour is mostly predictable.
So if this makes it into the next processors from Intel, we can expect something akin to porcupines?! An interesting prospect...
Nope, it doesn't. The tower-model of the PowerMac G4 does have a fan for the power-supply (but no other fans, something that makes me thankful; I love my G4...), but the Cube doesn't have any fans. To avoid overheating, the power-supply is external, much similar to other nice computers, such as the Commodore 64/128, Amiga 500/600/1200 etc.
You can still do both. It is still possible to tilt your foot while pushing it forward, right?! (At least, I know *I* can do so.)
Oh, and as for your point, you can do a LOT with a racing-car that you can't do with an ordinary car. It's all a question about striking a proper balance between the level of complication and the level of maximum prestanda. In most cases the average user rather wants ease of use.
Ok, this is probably seriously off-topic, but the fact is that a lot of research going on around this. The experiments involve a car that has a combined gas- and breakpedal. To accelerate, you tilt your foot forward, and to slow down you ease up on the tilt. To break, you simply put the pedal to the metal, so to speak. The results are pretty amazing. Most people get used to this in no-time, and the range from full speed to stop decreases with several meters. Combine this with a Tiptronic/Sensonic transmission (basically a combination of a normal transmission and an automatic, which means all your 4/5/6 gears but no pedal) and you're there.
Likely as not, the only thing to get these ideas out of their heads is to use their own favourite means; a law-suit. Simply(?) find a few applications (at least more than one, preferably from different, non-opensource manufactors) that breaks so heavily on a CPRM-disk that it corrupts your on-disk data. Best would be if these programs are backup-utilities, scandisk or similar.
However powerful the MPAA/RIAA are, they still won't be as threatening as a class-action law-suit against all the Hard-Disc manufactors...
Then again, I'm not a lawyer...
Get your facts straight, please. For instance, the Distributed.net effort has clients for Acorn RISCOS, AmigaOS, AIX, BeOS, OpenBSD, NetBSD, FreeBSD, BSD/OS, DEC UNIX/OSF1, PC-DOS/MS-DOS, HPUX, Linux, MacOS X, MacOS, Novell NetWare, NeXTStep, IBM OS/2, IBM OS/390, QNX, SCO Unix, SGI IRIX, Sequent DYNIX, SINIX, Solaris/SunOS, DEC VMS, Windows 95/98/NT/200 and Windows 3.x. More clients are under development. So while it is nice to hear that you have support for more than just Windows, please don't believe that you are on top. I bet that SETI@home has clients for more than Windows/Linux/MacOS too.
Oh, and as for sandboxing: at least for Linux, something like User-mode Linux would be an excellent choice.
Noooo... Please don't, because each extra user that sticks to v2.0 becomes my trouble instead of the corporate bug-munching crowd on linux-kernel. Yes, I admit I was stupid when I accepted maintainership, but someone had to.
Regards: David Weinehall, maintainer of the v2.0 kernel-series.
Then you're completely missing the point of the RC5 initiative. It started off to convince the US-government (and proably others) that 56-bit (and 64-bit, for the current initiative) encryption just isn't enough.
While you may argue that 64-bit keys seem safe as they've withstood several years of Distributed.net attempts, this argument is off the target, because some messages simply require decade-long secrecy or even century-long (of course, for true security, those shouldn't be sent by mail at all, but encryption can be used for on-disk information too.)
Some posters seem to get confused by the incorrect information given. Red Hat didn't ship with a developmental kernel; they shipped with gcc 2.96, which is a developmental branch of gcc. This has been discussed a lot on Slashdot already, and if I remember correctly, everyone except Red Hat's CEO agreed that is was a bad decision... But it's old news now.
Bugs in userspace has very little to do with where the kernel is headed next... But of course, there are probably distro-specific bugs in the kernel too, as most vendors costumise their kernels.
In the latest v2.4.0test11pre-patches, this should be solved, mostly. There are still some problems with PCMCIA to be solved, but they should be ironed out before the release.
Well, at least both the upcoming v2.2.18-kernel and the somewhat more distant v2.4.0-kernel will support the Pentium IV, eventhough GCC might not yet optimise for it. The Pentium IV is such a heat-source that using rep; nop on spinlocks is a requirement to avoid thermal throttling...
Evidently, the US idea of what liberalism is parts from what most liberal thinkers (John Locke, John Stuart Mill, John Rawls et al.) considered it to be, and indeed, what most liberal parties throughout the world stands for.
Central thoughts of liberalism are for instance the economic independence of the individual, the freedom to do anything as long as your act does not impose restrictions on other individuals freedom. The liberal principle is that any limitations on liberty must be justified. John Rawls, for instance, says:
An interesting view on the US misconception of what liberalism is, can be found in this quote (taken from the article "Waco and liberal corruption" by Llewellyn H. Rockwell, Jr., available ; ;he re.
Centralism is something generally frowned upon from a liberal point of view. Indeed, the political movements that do defend centralism are generally conservatism and socialism.
I do get a feeling that the corruption of the term liberalism has something to do with the fact that the US political arena is basically divided into two parties, each ranging from liberalism to conservatism in their opinions. Most other democratic countries do have more than two parties that have a chance to get their voices heard in the political arena, which nurtures the refinement of political idealogy and consequential politics rather than ad hoc decisions based on the decisions popularity among the masses or the "sponsors" of the parties or its candidates.
Just my 0.02 SEK. (If anyone wonders, I'm a member of the Swedish Centerparty, which is a liberal (in the non-US sense) decentralist party, following the liberalist school known as eco-humanism.
Well, I personally only use floppy-disks to install Debian on computers that lack a CD-drive... Of course, not everyone's got a 10Mb connection at home like me, and a computer with a CD-recorder connected to it...
LS-120 isn't very realiable. They've got quite some troubles, and the only thing that they beat ZIP-drives on is that you can use regular floppies in them too. Apart from this, an ATA ZIP-drive is really a good solution. VERY cheap (bulk 100MB:ers are about $70, at least here in Sweden... And the external USB-version is about $80. No major bucks.
I almost never use FTP-transfers, though. Why? Too unsecure; I don't want my password broadcasted unencrypted to everyone... scp, on the other hand, is perfectly fine.
People screamed a lot at Apple for not including floppy drives in their newer computers. Well... I've never missed it so far in my G4. I might have if the computer had lacked USB, 100Mbit Ethernet built-in, Firewire and a DVD-drive. But it doesn't; it comes with all of this...
Of course Slashdot should follow the same rules of pressethics as normal newspapers, but I must say that I've yet to see a case where this has not been the case. The transgressions into murky waters are all made in the open fora by persons not being members of the paper-staff.
One could of course argue that normal newspapers are held responsible for what they publish, be it open letters from the readers or not, but I believe this is pretty much impossible to enforce for an online medium, eventhough there are strong movements to censor webcontent.
The number one reference in all these issues should be the Electronic Frontier Foundation which handle exactly these kind of issues.
Don't let people censor you; this a question of freedom of speech. Any freedom comes with an obligation however, and that is not to abuse it to hurt someone else. People not taking their responsibility risk undermining their own rights.
Now there are sites that really need to reconsider their contents, however, for instance MacOS Rumors, where a lot of the rumors seem more or less invented because of lack of real news. Oh, and how about Microsoft's allegations about Linux that now and then pop up... But I guess that's just mistakes, nothing made on purpose :^)
Well, I don't know about BFS, but HFS (not HPFS, which doesn't contain streams) changed into HFS+ which still isn't documented publically as for all I know, and NTFS changed quite a lot with Win2K; at least enough for any mounting of a Win2K NTFS on a non Win2K system to corrupt it... And if I know Microsoft correctly, the next version of NTFS will contain a similar change.
What I mean, however, is that as long as the filesystem is non-open, we can't be sure that we've managed to implement the filesystem 100% correctly. Of course, if Be says that the existing documentation of BeFS is complete then sure, we can probably trust them. I wouldn't bet on this for NTFS and HFS+, though...