Actually unless I'm mistaken it's Mandrake 7.0 ******************************************** Superstition is a word the ignorant use to describe their ignorance. -Sifu
You are absolutely right. I remember hearing that my religious org. sent millions of dollars worth of food, clothing, supplies, etc to starving people in Africa ( I don't remember where ) but the government redistributed it to themselves, their friends and families and the rest of it ended up rotting in warehouses and on docks. The people that were intended to get the help never got it.
Many governments in such countries cry for money to "help us feed the poor!" And more often than not it gets pocketted by those same officials.
******************************************** Superstition is a word the ignorant use to describe their ignorance. -Sifu
Umm correct me if I'm wrong but I thought that they had a patch for their changes that you could apply to your xfree86 source and compile yourself. Maybe this would solve your problem? **************************************** **** Superstition is a word the ignorant use to describe their ignorance. -Sifu
If this is what's going on you can get ready for a LOT more FUD coming down the pipe.
Especially now that the MS FTC trial is coming to a close and the final arguments are in. ******************************************** Superstition is a word the ignorant use to describe their ignorance. -Sifu
He can still install it. Just on the reboot after the install you have to boot from the floppy and edit the/etc/rc.d/rc.sysinit file and comment out the section that does the udma stuff. GeekBoy ***************************************** *** Superstition is a word the ignorant use to describe their ignorance. -Sifu
I use to play it. It was good. My favorites though were Faery Tale adventure (best rpg I've ever played) which I'm playing again on the amiga emulator on my Linux box, Demons Winter, and Phantasy 3: The Return of Nikodemus. Man were those good games. I still haven't found anything I have as much fun playing. Nowadays you have nice eye candy, bad game play.
Cheers. *************************************** ***** Superstition is a word the ignorant use to describe their ignorance. -Sifu
So, we screw our own people instead of supporting them. Makes me wonder how many people are in this comminity because they think that they can get something for nothing. This stinks. I was SOOO mad when I read this. I was planning on moving my own project over there.
I do have to say though that this isn't just our community who does this. My brother and I were forced out of business b/c our "customers" wouldn't pay up either and we had no recourse that we could afford at that point to collect from them, contracts or no contracts. It costs money to sue in Canada.
I'll just say this about my experience: never take on accountants and real estate companies as clients they are the worst.
My sympathies to Chris. I've been there. It sucks, especially when your own community has pulled the shaft on you. If that's what you like doing though Chris take what you've learned and start again. This time though screen you customers and get payment in advance. If they don't pay you take their site off line within a couple days of their payment being overdue. You have to play tough. Put it in the contract. I'd also say charge a late fee on payments, or if they continue not to pay have a clause where you can confiscate their stuff. You want to be nice but you have to stick up for yourself too.
I'd follow the admonishment of one of the other posters. Post a list of the dead-beats on the web for all to see. I'd like to know who to throw the rocks at.
Good luck in the future.
Sheldon. ************************************** ****** Superstition is a word the ignorant use to describe their ignorance. -Sifu
Because they want to hit AOL where it hurts. It's war, it's business. Compete with and overt your enemies strengths not his weaknesses. I would reason that AOL makes more money from AIM than ICQ. ******************************************** Superstition is a word the ignorant use to describe their ignorance. -Sifu
What employer would that be. I'll develop for Linux any time. ******************************************* * Superstition is a word the ignorant use to describe their ignorance. -Sifu
It all comes down to natural selection. Whenever there is a paradigm shift in technology (i.e. technological revolution) there are people that are unable, for whatever the circumstances, to adapt. If you cannot adapt the necessary skills, for whatever reason, that are necessary to survive, then you die (or at least have a hard time).
Any time there exists something that offers an advantage to people it will always create a disparity between people who can adapt to it and those who can't; and that disparity will widen and the lines will constantly be redrawn.
It's happened before (industrial revolution) and it will continue to happen. It's a natural process and no matter how much we want to remove the disparity, you can't save everyone.
We evolve with technology or we become extinct. Simple rule. Self evidently true.
******************************************** Superstition is a word the ignorant use to describe their ignorance. -Sifu
I said that they were different. Not smarter. Yes the ones at my company are ... well. Lets just say I think the pointy hair managers are making the decisions. ************************************** ****** Superstition is a word the ignorant use to describe their ignorance. -Sifu
I come from a sales background dealing with the average "joe user." (I worked sales while getting my comp-sci degree). The only way to successfully make a sale and compete against you competitors is to
1) Find out the persons "needs" (read *wants*) 2) Tie down the customer to those "needs" that map to a feature set in your product. Then hammer on the features that are unique to your product over the competition. 3) Explain each feature, the benefit of it to the customer, and then tie down (i.e. get him to agree with you) and then close.
In the mainstream world of computing (joe user), it's features that sell. The feature of stability is hard to sell to the average user b/c they a) expect it to be stable (and if you try to push this too much they'll lose confidence in you and your product and go somewhere else where your competitor will tell them all their products are stable and get the sale). b) It's not glamorous.
The "feature" of not being bloated doesn't sell because it has much less "features" compared to the "bloated software" (which normal people really care very little about until they have to upgrade). The software industry read *MS* has done a good job of ingraining people with the mentality that they NEED the latest bloat.
High tech, enterprise companies are different b/c they have IT staff. But small businesses are the same as joe user b/c usually the suits are dumber than stumps. ***************************************** *** Superstition is a word the ignorant use to describe their ignorance. -Sifu
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Hey,
I appreciated the fact you posted the article too. ******************************************** Superstition is a word the ignorant use to describe their ignorance. -Sifu
Was it just me or was there an undercurrent of bigotry, prejudice and racism in that article nicely clothed in a wrapper of political correctness? Not only that it dripped with a thinly veiled bitterness.
Oh, of coure, I forgot. All us white middle class folk are part of a conspiracy to oppress everyone else. For her information it has nothing to do with race or class (I'm 1/2 chinese myself). Don't peg people with race or class labels. Only the small minded do that. I'm not saying that there aren't minority groups and that they don't get oppressed sure they do. BUT, you can't define a "minority" group by race and class alone, if you are to do it at all.
She should get off her, we are so down-trodden holier than thou, "horse." Wake up, your type of thinking that labels and classifys others and then pre-judges them based on YOUR arbitrary classifications is EXACTLY like that of those other small minded bigots who I image, and you insinuate, persecuted and oppressed you. We need to realise that people are people no matter where you go. We all have the same wants and needs, hopes and dreams, as everyone else. Whether your white, black, hispanic, asian, whatever. Judge people on the merit of WHO THEY ARE, not where they come from, what they look like or how much money they make.
The pity is that she has failed to realise that she has become just like those "racist bigots" that she hates so much. Poisoning yourself with bitterness will not make you a better person. I sympathise but we all have issues. Ever had to deal with the extreme loneliness of being from a bi-racial family? (man I hate using this terminology, but it's probably the only thing you'll understand). You're of two different cultures but belong to none, not accepted by either side. Until you stop looking at everything through the glasses of race and start drawing on the strength that your unique background gives you. Same thing for anyone from a single minority. But you can't get to that point in your personal growth without letting go of the bitterness, hate and frustration that you've accumulated. It starts with forgivness. Sounds cheesy but it's true.
Cheers.
******************************************** Superstition is a word the ignorant use to describe their ignorance. -Sifu
This is a good way for Sun to cash in on the Linux wave without embracing Linux itself.
They are scared of Linux, as are all of the other UNIX Vendors. Sco and Sun are just starting to show their paranoia. *************************************** ***** Superstition is a word the ignorant use to describe their ignorance. -Sifu
Notes: Due to the changes in this kernel's buffer code, you may want to disable the update (bdflush) daemon in your init scripts.
Documentation updates. 3c527 net card driver added. MTRR support added for Cyrix 6x86, Cyrix 6x86MX, Cyrix mII, AMD K6-2 (stepping 8 or higher) and K6-3. Netwinder Rockwell WaveArtist sound system driver added. #PCMCIA NE2000 net card driver added. Major Netwinder (ARM) architecture. Alpha architecture updates. ARM architecture updates. x86 IRQ code updates. x86 MCA support updates. Cyrix 6x86 coma bug workaround added. x86 SMP code updates. Large m68k architecture updates. MIPS architecture updates. Major PowerPC architecture updates. Macintosh architecture updates. SPARC architecture updates. SPARC64 architecture updates. Minor IDE driver update. Ramdisk driver updates. Generic Non-IDE CD-ROM driver updates. Lineprinter driver updates. PlanB frame grabber driver added. Cadet radio card driver updates. Zoltrix radio card driver updates: Radio strength and stereo scans now use somewhat less CPU. minor SpecialX multiport serial board driver updates: It appears that IO base and IRQ are now configurable with module parameters. act2000 ISDN driver updates. Parport driver updates. de4x5 net card driver updates: Workaround for buggy SROM in Motorola embedded boards, PCI/EISA probing order changed. Locking changes in various drivers: SCSI drivers, net card drivers. Minor EQL net device driver update. ethertap net card driver updates. PPP driver updates. WaveLAN net card driver updates. IBM MCA SCSI driver updates. MegaRAID SCSI driver updates. Generic SCSI driver updates. ad1816 sound driver updates. ESS sound driver updates. USB driver updates: OHCI-HCD and OHCI-HCD virtual root hub support added. USB mouse driver updates. Minor Matrox framebuffer console driver updates: CHRP and PReP fixes. Framebuffer console drivers updated. Minor ADFS filesystem driver update. Minor AutoFS update. Minor a.out binary loader updates. Minor ELF binary loader updates. Filesystem buffer code updates. Disk quota code updates. ext2 filesystem driver updates. VFS updates. Minix filesystem driver updates. NFS filesystem driver updates. /proc virtual filesystem driver updates. Minor QNX4 filesystem driver update. Minor SMB filesystem driver update. Memory management code updates. Scheduler updates. Net code updates. ipv4 updates. Minor ipv6 updates. IRDA drivers updated. SunRPC updates. Unix domain sockets code updated. Minor MenuConfig update. XConfig updates. ******************************************** Superstition is a word the ignorant use to describe their ignorance. -Sifu
I hear you there. My wife never completed high school and the media has her completely fooled. Funny how education can open your eyes. That or just hanging out on slashdot:) ******************************************** Superstition is a word the ignorant use to describe their ignorance. -Sifu
It was interesting to see in the article how the number of high-tech degrees has fallen since 1990. You can directly link that with the situation in schools that brought about the Colorado Shootings, and the treatment of geeks in society. In North American culture being athletically skilled is more important that being scientifically skilled. Most people especially middle and low class families (the men in them particularly), go to sports bars, games, sit at home watching ESPN with a "Bud" (I think "Bud" is popular b/c it's one syllable). Fathers are proudest when their sons make the football team. We see this behaviour reinforced through TV, Media, and within families and schools. It's cool the be the captain of the football team. And if you are you chances of getting the best looking girl(s) in school are the highest.(I sense a warped evolution, natural selection impact here). If you are a geek, nerd, whatever your intelligence is not paraded or reinforced. It's not cool and it's not a social focus. Further, geeks and nerds have been the center of ridicule in the media for a long time. Just look at the show Family Matters. The main character Steve Earkle is very smart but protrayed in a fasicious manner, always the brunt of jokes, always the problem, always the looser.
Hmm. I wonder why kids aren't flocking to the sciences.
However, this is not true of other cultures. Take a look at the Chinese (which I am) or East Indian cultures (both of which are not very cool in the US). Their cultures heavily emphasise academic achievement, especially in the sciences. Math, Physics, Computer Science, Medicine, are all fields that are held in high esteem in these societies and cultures. You have more status not less if you choose one of these fields, and less status not more if you are focused on sports. Actually focusing on sports is discouraged. They also encourage going all the way in school, not just high school or a bachelors.
Interesting on how this shows up in the numbers. 45% of all doctoral graduates are foreign. Hmm. Wonder why.
Cheers, GeekBoy.
******************************************** Superstition is a word the ignorant use to describe their ignorance. -Sifu
You know, just like alot of you my school years up until university were utter hell. I can't begin to describe the overwhelming emotions of fear, anger, hurt and bitterness that consume me when I think back on them. I learned to harden myself and I pushed all of those emotions down deep. It never affected me and I didn't think it would because, like I told everyone "I don't care what people think about me." After such a long time of keeping that burden pushed down inside of me I thought nothing of it.
However, after reading all of the postings and the hellmouth articles it finally started to hit me. Those emotions finally rose up and I can honestly say I shed a few tears. In post after post I found people I could finally relate to and who were feeling what I was/had felt. Call it geek therapy, or whatever, but it was nice to not feel like an outcast.
The part that hurt the most is that my wife and I don't see eye to eye on this issue. She bought into the media hype and fanatacism and not only tries to justify it but defends it too. So I printed out the two articles and some of the comments and took them home for her to read. I really needed her to understand. First of all I had to almost force her to read it, secondly she got only past the first page and a half and said that that was too much reading for her for one day. I felt like saying "What not enough pictures for you?" She promised to read more of it later, but I doubt that she will. That made me feel even worse.
I guess that's what you get when Mr.Geek marries Ms.Popularity.
Anyone have their familiy not get it or actually turn on you for telling them the truth?
******************************************** Superstition is a word the ignorant use to describe their ignorance. -Sifu
Regardless of the whining and paranoia I think that growth for Linux companies is good. It proves that Linux is growing and that the Open Source model works. The stronger we can get those companies the better it will be for all linux users.
It flies in the face of MS FUD and since MS is on FUD campaign in the press recently b/c they are scared of linux, we need all of the DE-FUDDING we can get. As long as we keep seeing stuff like "Linux is the number one choice of ISP's" the safer we are. ******************************************** Superstition is a word the ignorant use to describe their ignorance. -Sifu
I agree. I'm a *ga sp* mormon too. Did you detect an Anti-Mormon sentiment there or was it just me being overly sensitive? However, I do have to agree with one poster, most mormons are very clicky.
I think these guys are 2 low class social-rejects who got very lucky. I'm disappointed in your article Jon. Though you had more brains than that. ******************************************* * Superstition is a word the ignorant use to describe their ignorance. -Sifu
Slashdot Mirror
Actually unless I'm mistaken it's Mandrake 7.0
********************************************
Superstition is a word the ignorant use to describe their ignorance. -Sifu
You are absolutely right.
I remember hearing that my religious org. sent millions of dollars worth of food, clothing, supplies, etc to starving people in Africa ( I don't remember where ) but the government redistributed it to themselves, their friends and families and the rest of it ended up rotting in warehouses and on docks. The people that were intended to get the help never got it.
Many governments in such countries cry for money
to "help us feed the poor!" And more often than not it gets pocketted by those same officials.
********************************************
Superstition is a word the ignorant use to describe their ignorance. -Sifu
They aren't out yet but I'd like to see:
:)
Warcraft III and
Theif II
Also, any and all FRPG's
********************************************
Superstition is a word the ignorant use to describe their ignorance. -Sifu
Umm correct me if I'm wrong but I thought that* ****
they had a patch for their changes that you
could apply to your xfree86 source and compile
yourself. Maybe this would solve your problem?
***************************************
Superstition is a word the ignorant use to describe their ignorance. -Sifu
If this is what's going on you can get ready
for a LOT more FUD coming down the pipe.
Especially now that the MS FTC trial is coming
to a close and the final arguments are in.
********************************************
Superstition is a word the ignorant use to describe their ignorance. -Sifu
He can still install it. Just on the reboot after the install you have to boot from the floppy and edit the /etc/rc.d/rc.sysinit file and comment out the section that does the udma stuff. GeekBoy* ***
****************************************
Superstition is a word the ignorant use to describe their ignorance. -Sifu
I use to play it. It was good.
* *****
My favorites though were Faery Tale adventure
(best rpg I've ever played) which I'm playing again on the amiga emulator on my Linux box,
Demons Winter, and Phantasy 3: The Return of Nikodemus. Man were those good games. I still haven't found anything I have as much fun playing.
Nowadays you have nice eye candy, bad game play.
Cheers.
**************************************
Superstition is a word the ignorant use to describe their ignorance. -Sifu
So, we screw our own people instead of supporting them. Makes me wonder how many people are in this comminity because they think that they can get something for nothing. This stinks. I was SOOO mad when I read this. I was planning on moving my own project over there.
* ******
I do have to say though that this isn't just our community who does this. My brother and I were forced out of business b/c our "customers" wouldn't pay up either and we had no recourse that we could afford at that point to collect from them, contracts or no contracts. It costs money to sue in Canada.
I'll just say this about my experience: never take on accountants and real estate companies as clients they are the worst.
My sympathies to Chris. I've been there. It sucks, especially when your own community has pulled the shaft on you. If that's what you like doing though Chris take what you've learned and start again. This time though screen you customers and get payment in advance. If they don't pay you take their site off line within a couple days of their payment being overdue. You have to play tough. Put it in the contract. I'd also say charge a late fee on payments, or if they continue not to pay have a clause where you can confiscate their stuff. You want to be nice but you have to stick up for yourself too.
I'd follow the admonishment of one of the other posters. Post a list of the dead-beats on the web for all to see. I'd like to know who to throw the rocks at.
Good luck in the future.
Sheldon.
*************************************
Superstition is a word the ignorant use to describe their ignorance. -Sifu
Because they want to hit AOL where it hurts.*
It's war, it's business. Compete with and overt
your enemies strengths not his weaknesses.
I would reason that AOL makes more money from
AIM than ICQ.
*******************************************
Superstition is a word the ignorant use to describe their ignorance. -Sifu
What employer would that be.* *
I'll develop for Linux any time.
******************************************
Superstition is a word the ignorant use to describe their ignorance. -Sifu
It all comes down to natural selection. Whenever there is a paradigm shift in technology (i.e. technological revolution) there are people that are unable, for whatever the circumstances, to adapt. If you cannot adapt the necessary skills, for whatever reason, that are necessary to survive, then you die (or at least have a hard time).
Any time there exists something that offers an advantage to people it will always create a disparity between people who can adapt to it and those who can't; and that disparity will widen and the lines will constantly be redrawn.
It's happened before (industrial revolution) and it will continue to happen. It's a natural process and no matter how much we want to remove the disparity, you can't save everyone.
We evolve with technology or we become extinct.
Simple rule. Self evidently true.
********************************************
Superstition is a word the ignorant use to describe their ignorance. -Sifu
I said that they were different.* ******
Not smarter. Yes the ones at my company are
... well. Lets just say I think the pointy hair
managers are making the decisions.
*************************************
Superstition is a word the ignorant use to describe their ignorance. -Sifu
Hi,
* ****
We use at the company I work for on about 1000 desktop workstations. It works great and makes life a hell of alot easier for us CSA's.
Cheers
***************************************
Superstition is a word the ignorant use to describe their ignorance. -Sifu
Unfortunatly you are right.
* ***
I come from a sales background dealing with the
average "joe user." (I worked sales while getting
my comp-sci degree). The only way to successfully
make a sale and compete against you competitors is
to
1) Find out the persons "needs" (read *wants*)
2) Tie down the customer to those "needs" that
map to a feature set in your product. Then
hammer on the features that are unique to your
product over the competition.
3) Explain each feature, the benefit of it to the
customer, and then tie down (i.e. get him to
agree with you) and then close.
It goes like this.
Qualify,
Feature -> Advantage -> Benefit -> TieDown
Feature -> Advantage -> Benefit -> TieDown
Feature -> Advantage -> Benefit -> TieDown
.....
close
close
close
(i.e. close the sale)
In the mainstream world of computing (joe user),
it's features that sell. The feature of stability
is hard to sell to the average user b/c they
a) expect it to be stable (and if you try to
push this too much they'll lose confidence in
you and your product and go somewhere else
where your competitor will tell them all
their products are stable and get the sale).
b) It's not glamorous.
The "feature" of not being bloated doesn't sell
because it has much less "features" compared to
the "bloated software" (which normal people
really care very little about until they have
to upgrade). The software industry read *MS* has
done a good job of ingraining people with the
mentality that they NEED the latest bloat.
High tech, enterprise companies are different
b/c they have IT staff. But small businesses are
the same as joe user b/c usually the suits are
dumber than stumps.
****************************************
Superstition is a word the ignorant use to describe their ignorance. -Sifu
Hey,
*
I appreciated the fact you posted the article too.
*******************************************
Superstition is a word the ignorant use to describe their ignorance. -Sifu
Was it just me or was there an undercurrent of
bigotry, prejudice and racism in that article
nicely clothed in a wrapper of political
correctness? Not only that it dripped with a
thinly veiled bitterness.
Oh, of coure, I forgot. All us white middle class
folk are part of a conspiracy to oppress everyone
else. For her information it has nothing to
do with race or class (I'm 1/2 chinese myself).
Don't peg people with race or class labels.
Only the small minded do that. I'm not saying
that there aren't minority groups and that they
don't get oppressed sure they do. BUT, you can't
define a "minority" group by race and class
alone, if you are to do it at all.
She should get off her, we are so down-trodden
holier than thou, "horse." Wake up, your
type of thinking that labels and classifys others
and then pre-judges them based on YOUR arbitrary
classifications is EXACTLY like that of those other
small minded bigots who I image, and you insinuate,
persecuted and oppressed you. We need to realise
that people are people no matter where you go.
We all have the same wants and needs, hopes and
dreams, as everyone else. Whether your white,
black, hispanic, asian, whatever. Judge people
on the merit of WHO THEY ARE, not where they
come from, what they look like or how much money
they make.
The pity is that she has failed to realise that
she has become just like those "racist bigots"
that she hates so much. Poisoning yourself with
bitterness will not make you a better person.
I sympathise but we all have issues. Ever had to
deal with the extreme loneliness of being from
a bi-racial family? (man I hate using this
terminology, but it's probably the only thing
you'll understand). You're of two different
cultures but belong to none, not accepted by
either side. Until you stop looking at everything
through the glasses of race and start drawing
on the strength that your unique background
gives you. Same thing for anyone from a single
minority. But you can't get to that point in
your personal growth without letting go of the
bitterness, hate and frustration that you've
accumulated. It starts with forgivness. Sounds
cheesy but it's true.
Cheers.
********************************************
Superstition is a word the ignorant use to describe their ignorance. -Sifu
This is a good way for Sun to cash in on the Linux wave without embracing Linux itself.
They are scared of Linux, as are all of the other UNIX Vendors. Sco and Sun are just starting to show their paranoia.
**************************************
Superstition is a word the ignorant use to describe their ignorance. -Sifu
Here is the URL to the changelog
.
/proc virtual filesystem driver updates.
http://edge.linuxhq.com/changelist.cgi?show=2.2
And for those who are really lazy:
Notes: Due to the changes in this kernel's buffer code, you may want to disable the update (bdflush) daemon
in your init scripts.
Documentation updates.
3c527 net card driver added.
MTRR support added for Cyrix 6x86, Cyrix 6x86MX, Cyrix mII, AMD K6-2 (stepping 8 or higher)
and K6-3.
Netwinder Rockwell WaveArtist sound system driver added.
#PCMCIA NE2000 net card driver added.
Major Netwinder (ARM) architecture.
Alpha architecture updates.
ARM architecture updates.
x86 IRQ code updates.
x86 MCA support updates.
Cyrix 6x86 coma bug workaround added.
x86 SMP code updates.
Large m68k architecture updates.
MIPS architecture updates.
Major PowerPC architecture updates.
Macintosh architecture updates.
SPARC architecture updates.
SPARC64 architecture updates.
Minor IDE driver update.
Ramdisk driver updates.
Generic Non-IDE CD-ROM driver updates.
Lineprinter driver updates.
PlanB frame grabber driver added.
Cadet radio card driver updates.
Zoltrix radio card driver updates: Radio strength and stereo scans now use somewhat less CPU.
minor SpecialX multiport serial board driver updates: It appears that IO base and IRQ are now
configurable with module parameters.
act2000 ISDN driver updates.
Parport driver updates.
de4x5 net card driver updates: Workaround for buggy SROM in Motorola embedded boards, PCI/EISA
probing order changed.
Locking changes in various drivers: SCSI drivers, net card drivers.
Minor EQL net device driver update.
ethertap net card driver updates.
PPP driver updates.
WaveLAN net card driver updates.
IBM MCA SCSI driver updates.
MegaRAID SCSI driver updates.
Generic SCSI driver updates.
ad1816 sound driver updates.
ESS sound driver updates.
USB driver updates: OHCI-HCD and OHCI-HCD virtual root hub support added.
USB mouse driver updates.
Minor Matrox framebuffer console driver updates: CHRP and PReP fixes.
Framebuffer console drivers updated.
Minor ADFS filesystem driver update.
Minor AutoFS update.
Minor a.out binary loader updates.
Minor ELF binary loader updates.
Filesystem buffer code updates.
Disk quota code updates.
ext2 filesystem driver updates.
VFS updates.
Minix filesystem driver updates.
NFS filesystem driver updates.
Minor QNX4 filesystem driver update.
Minor SMB filesystem driver update.
Memory management code updates.
Scheduler updates.
Net code updates.
ipv4 updates.
Minor ipv6 updates.
IRDA drivers updated.
SunRPC updates.
Unix domain sockets code updated.
Minor MenuConfig update.
XConfig updates.
********************************************
Superstition is a word the ignorant use to describe their ignorance. -Sifu
OK. Cool and I want one.
How would you get Linux on it though? It's got
an Intel compatable chip and an Alpha motherboard.
Anyone know? Is there a project working on this?
Am I just waaay out in left field?
********************************************
Superstition is a word the ignorant use to describe their ignorance. -Sifu
I hear you there. My wife never completed high school and the media has her completely fooled. :)
Superstition is a word the ignorant use to describe their ignorance. -Sifu
Funny how education can open your eyes. That or just hanging out on slashdot
********************************************
It was interesting to see in the article how the number of high-tech degrees has fallen since 1990. You can directly link that with the situation in schools that brought about the Colorado Shootings, and the treatment of geeks in society. In North American culture being athletically skilled is more important that being scientifically skilled. Most people especially middle and low class families (the men in them particularly), go to sports bars, games, sit at home watching ESPN with a "Bud" (I think "Bud" is popular b/c it's one syllable). Fathers are proudest when their sons make the football team. We see this behaviour reinforced through TV, Media, and within families and schools. It's cool the be the captain of the football team. And if you are you chances of getting the best looking girl(s) in school are the highest.(I sense a warped evolution, natural selection impact here). If you are a geek, nerd, whatever your intelligence is not paraded or reinforced. It's not cool and it's not a social focus. Further, geeks and nerds have been the center of ridicule in the media for a long time. Just look at the show Family Matters. The main character Steve Earkle is very smart but protrayed in a fasicious manner, always the brunt of jokes, always the problem, always the looser.
Hmm. I wonder why kids aren't flocking to the sciences.
However, this is not true of other cultures. Take a look at the Chinese (which I am) or East Indian cultures (both of which are not very cool in the US). Their cultures heavily emphasise academic achievement, especially in the sciences. Math, Physics, Computer Science, Medicine, are all fields that are held in high esteem in these societies and cultures. You have more status not less if you choose one of these fields, and less status not more if you are focused on sports. Actually focusing on sports is discouraged. They also encourage going all the way in school, not just high school or a bachelors.
Interesting on how this shows up in the numbers. 45% of all doctoral graduates are foreign. Hmm. Wonder why.
Cheers,
GeekBoy.
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You know, just like alot of you my school years up until university were utter hell. I can't begin to describe the overwhelming emotions of fear, anger, hurt and bitterness that consume me when I think back on them. I learned to harden myself and I pushed all of those emotions down deep. It never affected me and I didn't think it would because, like I told everyone "I don't care what people think about me." After such a long time of keeping that burden pushed down inside of me I thought nothing of it.
However, after reading all of the postings and the hellmouth articles it finally started to hit me. Those emotions finally rose up and I can honestly say I shed a few tears. In post after post I found people I could finally relate to and who were feeling what I was/had felt. Call it geek therapy, or whatever, but it was nice to not feel like an outcast.
The part that hurt the most is that my wife and I don't see eye to eye on this issue. She bought into the media hype and fanatacism and not only tries to justify it but defends it too. So I printed out the two articles and some of the comments and took them home for her to read. I really needed her to understand. First of all I had to almost force her to read it, secondly she got only past the first page and a half and said that that was too much reading for her for one day. I felt like saying "What not enough pictures for you?" She promised to read more of it later, but I doubt that she will. That made me feel even worse.
I guess that's what you get when Mr.Geek marries Ms.Popularity.
Anyone have their familiy not get it or actually turn on you for telling them the truth?
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Superstition is a word the ignorant use to describe their ignorance. -Sifu
Regardless of the whining and paranoia I think that growth for Linux companies is good. It proves that Linux is growing and that the Open Source model works. The stronger we can get those companies the better it will be for all linux users.
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It flies in the face of MS FUD and since MS is on FUD campaign in the press recently b/c they are scared of linux, we need all of the DE-FUDDING we can get. As long as we keep seeing stuff like "Linux is the number one choice of ISP's" the safer we are.
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Superstition is a word the ignorant use to describe their ignorance. -Sifu
ON HP-UX With IE it's actually:
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wmerh02t-206> du -s microsoft
64814 microsoft
bigger.
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Superstition is a word the ignorant use to describe their ignorance. -Sifu
I agree. I'm a *ga sp* mormon too. Did you detect
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an Anti-Mormon sentiment there or was it just me
being overly sensitive? However, I do have to
agree with one poster, most mormons are very clicky.
I think these guys are 2 low class social-rejects
who got very lucky. I'm disappointed in your
article Jon. Though you had more brains than that.
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Superstition is a word the ignorant use to describe their ignorance. -Sifu