http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/The_Arch_Way
read it 3 or 4 times before my first install. more about the details than the philosophy like debians but thats more important to me until I see something that disagrees with my beliefs.
I care because I don't want to be forced to decide to ignore it or switch distros if they were to be next to sign an agreement with MS. I don't think I could in good conscious use their distro anymore, nevermind edit the wiki or report bugs. its a fundamentally wrong thing to do and I don't want to support it in any way.
linspire isn't any good? I am no expert on that particular distro but I have always kinda assumed it was worthless. at the moment I am very happy with arch and intend to keep using it for quite a while. hopefully it is small enough to be under M$ radar. it also helps that it appears to not have a real for profit group at its head to sell our of our souls off for us.
current administration? I wasn't making any political statement. if you think getting your party of choice into office means all this will clear up in a week you are as much of a blind sheep as the people who you are condemning. the fact is you should never trust the government no matter who is in charge. never let them out of your sight, because as they say, power corrupts.
I play video games because its an enjoyable way to get my mind off the stresses of life. horrible gory violence, murder and theft without consequences, the ability to kill any foe instantly by jumping on its head, all very not like real life. its that realization that makes those games fun, kids realize that and play them too. adults who don't play video games think it means their kids expect to jump on their heads killing them with blood spurting everywhere followed by a pillaging of the town. sounds to me like people just being afraid of anything they aren't familiar with.
please note that despite the rumors I was never convicted of jumping on that fire breathing biped turtle
Obviously, I am just saying that webmail is an easier tool for me to use were I to choose to try to steal trade secrets. no one is going to think twice of me typing up an email, a camera is still likely to draw attention.
while I do question its usefulness as a real business tool compared to a blackberry, I think the security risk question is overly hyped. I think having web access so I can use a personal webmail account to send whatever I want out to anyone I want unfiltered by IT or corporate security[different from network security] is a bigger risk to my employers trade secrets.
I also think that there really needs to be an open standard for interaction with the servers these devices need to talk to so that one server can talk to anybodies pda/phone. I know I don't want to implement different software for each different model of cell phone.
I'm sure it can if your server is fast enough. people where I work can't get on our citrix server without cable. times out every time. and yeah 768k down is the absolute fastest dsl I can find in the area.
if you are referring to me, take note, otherwise ignore my paranoia. I specifically said internet. I needed internet for my job, and dsl in my area is not fast enough to cut it. I also would have had to add a landline which doubles the cost of the supposedly cheaper and definitely slower dsl internet. dsl is not fast enough to connect before the timeout of some companies citrix servers, which means we need cable internet.
comcast once required a notarized letter from my landlord stating that I was not resident at a particular address while a previous resident was before I could turn on my service. unless of course I wanted to pay off the $300 in back charges said resident owed. left me without internet for a week since my landlord was on vacation. needless to say they are getting canceled the day FIOS is available in my area.
not that "whopping" in reference to erricson is a comment made by marketing while "paltry" is a comment made about iphone by the internet "nothing is ever good enough" crowd. I would imaging apple's marketing crew has made synonymous claims about the iphone. I also the the iphone seems to get more billing as a fun device and an ipod plus a phone makes people think they need more memory, I know I would want more than that in a mp3 player. erricsons device seems more towards the power professional at a quick glance. 8 gig is a lot more spreadsheets and tps reports than it is brittany spears tracks.
first of all, expire software patents in one year instead of 20 and you can divide the number of patents held in your post by 20 across the board.
also keep in mind that I never said that I felt the length of patent terms was the only issue with software patents. there obviously needs to be more review to prove that an idea isn't "reasonably obvious" before a patent is handed out. we all agree they should be far less vague than the board is allowing right now. I also feel that it should be required to prove that an idea is stolen and not independently developed to win an infringement suit.
the list goes on if I felt like typing more, I just felt like sharing that one point about the lifespan of patents that I rarely see come up in/. software patent flame wars.
so my small company is free to have its idea stolen by a larger software company who has more marketing money to get customers for my idea just because they have the marketing money I don't? thats what I see patents as designed for and I don't see the evil in it.
I don't have any problem with a company wanting to be the only one out there making a buck on some idea one of their engineers came up with for the first year. no one gets hurt and they get the benefit of their short term monopoly on the idea to make it worth their while to come up with new things. with a 20 year lifespan their is a good chance the originator is the only person who will ever make money on the idea, which hurts everyone because other companies can never use it in their next big idea. its a balancing act, their needs to be a benefit for people to come up with new ideas, then they expire and some one expands on it with the next patentable idea. and so on.
I don't think that patents are an entirely faulty method of protecting software that is innovative. the real reason I feel that they are horrible for software is their 20 year lifespan. compare that to Moore's law. a single lucky patent of the right idea can guarantee you a monopoly for generations of software. 20 years is likely enough to get you sole rights to an idea for all of its useful lifetime. imagine if the patent for the typewriter were to be set to expire next year? as society continues to advance at faster rates the lifetime of a patent needs to get accordingly shorter or it will stifle creativity and slow human advances to a rate set by the lifespan of the patent.
of course they expect/var/www/html to always be the docroot. its an ACL. it expects certain important files to be in their default location so it can allow/deny access appropriately. if there is no way to change the config so selinux can be told the new docroot then there is a problem. personally I couldn't tell you how or if it can be changed but I wager its in the documentation somewhere.
saying that you can't install things while selinux is running is a flaw of selinux is like complaining about needing to be root to install things. its job is to keep shit from changing, changes like installing mysql could be done while it was running it wouldn't be doing its job. disabling it long enough to make changes is just like su or sudo to get temporary root access inside your normal user environment.
disclaimer -- I may be completely off base because I don't use it in a production environment, I disable it during install whenever putting a fedora box up for use.
I would have to second the backing of vi/vim. I am not a programmer but I do some basic bash scripting and I write every one of my scripts in vi.
In my experience the simplest app that can do the job is the best. no BS "features" interfering with what I am trying to do and fewer resources used to do it.
well marketing now tells us the number of cores is the only important factor in performance. this has 4, most desktop pc processors are 2 right now, that makes it exactly twice as fast as current processors.
if only more people saw it that way. I find myself thinking the exact same thing more and more often all the time. though I am only old enough to actually pay attention for a few years now so this may have been an issue for quite some time. my knowledge of basic history tells me it is getting worse though. lots of people talk about wanting small government, how do these "save me from my own stupidity" laws ever get far enough for me to see them in the news?
I am concerned about people wanting to make decisions about who's life is more important than whose based on genetic dispositions to certain health issues. I don't think I should be passed up for a liver transplant from years of hard drinking because I have a genetic predisposition to parkinsons or diabetes.
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you must not be a good law abiding republican citizen. if you were you'd have nothing to fear.
http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/The_Arch_Way read it 3 or 4 times before my first install. more about the details than the philosophy like debians but thats more important to me until I see something that disagrees with my beliefs.
I care because I don't want to be forced to decide to ignore it or switch distros if they were to be next to sign an agreement with MS. I don't think I could in good conscious use their distro anymore, nevermind edit the wiki or report bugs. its a fundamentally wrong thing to do and I don't want to support it in any way.
you may be right but I thought it was the trademark suit with MS because they originally called it lindows.
linspire isn't any good? I am no expert on that particular distro but I have always kinda assumed it was worthless. at the moment I am very happy with arch and intend to keep using it for quite a while. hopefully it is small enough to be under M$ radar. it also helps that it appears to not have a real for profit group at its head to sell our of our souls off for us.
current administration? I wasn't making any political statement. if you think getting your party of choice into office means all this will clear up in a week you are as much of a blind sheep as the people who you are condemning. the fact is you should never trust the government no matter who is in charge. never let them out of your sight, because as they say, power corrupts.
I've been assuming that since before they admitted they were using it to look for terrorist.
I play video games because its an enjoyable way to get my mind off the stresses of life. horrible gory violence, murder and theft without consequences, the ability to kill any foe instantly by jumping on its head, all very not like real life. its that realization that makes those games fun, kids realize that and play them too. adults who don't play video games think it means their kids expect to jump on their heads killing them with blood spurting everywhere followed by a pillaging of the town. sounds to me like people just being afraid of anything they aren't familiar with.
please note that despite the rumors I was never convicted of jumping on that fire breathing biped turtle
I just heard on dw-tv that 90 million people voted. I bet I could make quite a bit of money selling that database of emails
Obviously, I am just saying that webmail is an easier tool for me to use were I to choose to try to steal trade secrets. no one is going to think twice of me typing up an email, a camera is still likely to draw attention.
while I do question its usefulness as a real business tool compared to a blackberry, I think the security risk question is overly hyped. I think having web access so I can use a personal webmail account to send whatever I want out to anyone I want unfiltered by IT or corporate security[different from network security] is a bigger risk to my employers trade secrets.
I also think that there really needs to be an open standard for interaction with the servers these devices need to talk to so that one server can talk to anybodies pda/phone. I know I don't want to implement different software for each different model of cell phone.
I'm sure it can if your server is fast enough. people where I work can't get on our citrix server without cable. times out every time. and yeah 768k down is the absolute fastest dsl I can find in the area.
if you are referring to me, take note, otherwise ignore my paranoia. I specifically said internet. I needed internet for my job, and dsl in my area is not fast enough to cut it. I also would have had to add a landline which doubles the cost of the supposedly cheaper and definitely slower dsl internet. dsl is not fast enough to connect before the timeout of some companies citrix servers, which means we need cable internet.
comcast once required a notarized letter from my landlord stating that I was not resident at a particular address while a previous resident was before I could turn on my service. unless of course I wanted to pay off the $300 in back charges said resident owed. left me without internet for a week since my landlord was on vacation. needless to say they are getting canceled the day FIOS is available in my area.
not that "whopping" in reference to erricson is a comment made by marketing while "paltry" is a comment made about iphone by the internet "nothing is ever good enough" crowd. I would imaging apple's marketing crew has made synonymous claims about the iphone. I also the the iphone seems to get more billing as a fun device and an ipod plus a phone makes people think they need more memory, I know I would want more than that in a mp3 player. erricsons device seems more towards the power professional at a quick glance. 8 gig is a lot more spreadsheets and tps reports than it is brittany spears tracks.
first of all, expire software patents in one year instead of 20 and you can divide the number of patents held in your post by 20 across the board.
/. software patent flame wars.
also keep in mind that I never said that I felt the length of patent terms was the only issue with software patents. there obviously needs to be more review to prove that an idea isn't "reasonably obvious" before a patent is handed out. we all agree they should be far less vague than the board is allowing right now. I also feel that it should be required to prove that an idea is stolen and not independently developed to win an infringement suit.
the list goes on if I felt like typing more, I just felt like sharing that one point about the lifespan of patents that I rarely see come up in
so my small company is free to have its idea stolen by a larger software company who has more marketing money to get customers for my idea just because they have the marketing money I don't? thats what I see patents as designed for and I don't see the evil in it.
I don't have any problem with a company wanting to be the only one out there making a buck on some idea one of their engineers came up with for the first year. no one gets hurt and they get the benefit of their short term monopoly on the idea to make it worth their while to come up with new things. with a 20 year lifespan their is a good chance the originator is the only person who will ever make money on the idea, which hurts everyone because other companies can never use it in their next big idea. its a balancing act, their needs to be a benefit for people to come up with new ideas, then they expire and some one expands on it with the next patentable idea. and so on.
I don't think that patents are an entirely faulty method of protecting software that is innovative. the real reason I feel that they are horrible for software is their 20 year lifespan. compare that to Moore's law. a single lucky patent of the right idea can guarantee you a monopoly for generations of software. 20 years is likely enough to get you sole rights to an idea for all of its useful lifetime. imagine if the patent for the typewriter were to be set to expire next year? as society continues to advance at faster rates the lifetime of a patent needs to get accordingly shorter or it will stifle creativity and slow human advances to a rate set by the lifespan of the patent.
of course they expect /var/www/html to always be the docroot. its an ACL. it expects certain important files to be in their default location so it can allow/deny access appropriately. if there is no way to change the config so selinux can be told the new docroot then there is a problem. personally I couldn't tell you how or if it can be changed but I wager its in the documentation somewhere.
saying that you can't install things while selinux is running is a flaw of selinux is like complaining about needing to be root to install things. its job is to keep shit from changing, changes like installing mysql could be done while it was running it wouldn't be doing its job. disabling it long enough to make changes is just like su or sudo to get temporary root access inside your normal user environment.
disclaimer -- I may be completely off base because I don't use it in a production environment, I disable it during install whenever putting a fedora box up for use.
I would have to second the backing of vi/vim. I am not a programmer but I do some basic bash scripting and I write every one of my scripts in vi.
In my experience the simplest app that can do the job is the best. no BS "features" interfering with what I am trying to do and fewer resources used to do it.
well marketing now tells us the number of cores is the only important factor in performance. this has 4, most desktop pc processors are 2 right now, that makes it exactly twice as fast as current processors.
if only more people saw it that way. I find myself thinking the exact same thing more and more often all the time. though I am only old enough to actually pay attention for a few years now so this may have been an issue for quite some time. my knowledge of basic history tells me it is getting worse though. lots of people talk about wanting small government, how do these "save me from my own stupidity" laws ever get far enough for me to see them in the news?
I am concerned about people wanting to make decisions about who's life is more important than whose based on genetic dispositions to certain health issues. I don't think I should be passed up for a liver transplant from years of hard drinking because I have a genetic predisposition to parkinsons or diabetes.