So, I have to say, I was surprised to see a story on Slashdot with so many damn hyperlinks in it. Not to mention that some of them were rather trollish.
"Rocket Jets"? No, they did have a rocket powered plane, I have a book with the specs on it, but I don't have it with me at the moment. From what I recall, it was not a very useful aircraft as the rocket could only burn for about 10 minutes (not sure on the exact number).
I don't know about the 90% death rate, are you sure you're not confusing it with the Messerschmitt Bf 109? It was a traditional prop plane, but very high preformance and, thus, difficult to fly. The narrow wheel base and high landing speeds made it difficult to land, and the torque from the engine would sometimes cause pilots to lose control on takeoff. Also, the pilot could lose control in dives because the control surfaces were not big enough for the high speeds and the controls would become sluggish. The accident death rate was no where near 90%, but it was higher than other similar aircraft.
The Messerschmitt 262 was the famous German jet during the war. Here's a link to a page about it.
When people started looking to break the sound barrier, the British tried to do it with jets, but the Americans wisely decided that a supersonic jet would have too many complications, and decided to use a rocket powered aircraft to do it. The Bell X-1, flew by Chuck Yeager, was a rocket powered aircraft, but it landed as a glider, and appearently wasn't that difficult to land.
Except that this is the web, and Google links per page and per subject. If a page on my website is linked more than a page on CNN.com, I have a higher link factor for that page, even though CNN.com itself is linked to a billion times more than my website.
Putting something on CNN.com dosen't immedently mean it's going to be linked alot, just like putting something on my website dosen't mean that it won't be.
Also, because google indexes everything and returns results based on subject, I'm still in their database (unlike at a library where they can only subscribe to so many journals) and a page of mine with only one or two links will float to the top if the search is specific enough.
I want to do something bigger than myself, something that has a real potential to help people in a serious way. I want to leave behind a legacy of good will when I'm wrom food.
I realize that programming free software is perhaps not the most noble thing one could possibly do, but it is what I'm good at. Free Software gives me the ability to use my skills as a programmer to do something really great, even if it is small in the big picture.
Laugh at it if you want, but that's the reason I write Free Software, not because of ego, or because I can, but because I believe that I am helping people --and that makes me feel good.
You've managed to be a Karma Whore and a troll all in one post! I am simply amazed, and in awe, at your accomplishment.
I mean, I've seen good trolls before, but your alluding to the Communists is superb. A lesser troll would have blown his wad and turned the post into a anti-RMS rant that would have been modded through the floor, but you walk the knife edge just so as to leave the moderators reeling.
I really thought slashdot trolling had decended to the level of twelve year olds posting penis birds and goatse.cx links, but you've proved me wrong.
So you're still a troll, and a karma whore, but you deserve all the karma you're going to get from this just because of your outstanding style.
Hold off, there are seven comments on the story now, and I'm getting 3kbps on the mp3. They might just have the bandwith throttled so much that it is the bottleneck, and not the server.
out of that 1% of users I would guess 90% had a copy of Windows that was able to play the games faster and sooner.
I don't use Windows at all, but I:
Do not really play games (tetris, lxdoom, nethack, and xbill are the only ones I can think of off-hand).
Avoid using non-free software as much as possible, so I'm not going to go shell out $40 for a peice of non-free software that I don't really need.
Have a crappy Riva 128 card in my desktop box that I'm not going to replace until I actaully need a real card, so I'm locked out of anything that uses GL anyway.
So I think your 90% using Windows is a bit high, but I would suspect that only 10% or less of the GNU/Linux users would be willing to buy Loki games.
BTW: I think GNU/Linux has something like 3% of the desktop. Call it nitpicking, but you are something like 1.5 magnitudes off off 8-).
MIME attachments won't have the execute permission set, which means that a script would have to be saved to disk and executed by the user with the command
$ bash virus.sh
Or the user would have to set the execute permissions himself:$ chmod u+x virus.sh
$virus.sh
Granted, a mail reader could be written to do all of this itself after the user ``clicks'' on the attachment, but I am aware of none that exist at the present time that have that ``feature''.
Plus, since GNU/Linux (and all Unices) is a multi-user permissions based system, sircam would only be able to touch those files to which the user has read access. As long as the administrater isn't reading his mail as root, you'll never have to worry about some luser mailing his/etc/shadow to you.
So, until Microsoft writes a port Outlook and starts certifying ``Linux Engineers'', no, there won't be a sircam for GNU/Linux.
Hardware compatibility problems have been solved, and the idea to adopt an open-source platform still stands.
This year, 1,400 schools will be equipped with external modems, and Ibarra plans to install Linux on those computers.
Dosen't sound like they're giving up to me. Also, they already have twenty schools running on GNU/Linux. They have schools already on it and they're planning to add more, it's just not a fast or as wide-spread as they had hoped. Just because a project dosen't go off as well as expected dosen't mean it is a failure.
Was Linux 2.4 a failure because it shipped a year late?
Never use MySQL to store anything important. Use PostgreSQL, InterBase, or some other Open Source DBMS which passes the ACID test.
Check
here for a discussion of the problems with MySQL.
The difference, though, is that MySQL does not pretend to be a real DBMS. It's problems are well known and documented. Even Las Alamos couldn't mistake it for one. MS SQL, on the other hand, is marketed as a enterprise level RDBMS. Consequently, its users have an expectation of a resonable level of quality.
In short, it is acceptable for MySQL to lose data, it is not acceptable for PostgreSQL, Oracle, Interbase, MS SQL, or any other database in their league to behave in a similar manner.
I use the WHOIS database to find out who's responsible when I get spammed or when I detect a hacking attempt. Fact is, having a bunch of anonymous thirteen year old kids running around DoSing people, or having assholes kill your mail server with a million "FREE HOT XXX" messages is bad enough. If they're able to do it with impunity, nevery having to worry about their ISP getting a phone call, it'll be out of control.
We continue to discover that the trust based internet simply does not work. There are too many shitholes willing to take advantage of it. The only way we can have any sort of order is to have responsibility. Having the ability to, with one command, get a email addres, phone number, and snail mail address of someone responsible for every IP and domain on the internet is invaluable.
I specifically asked the sales rep if I could run my own mail/web servers. That was one of my requirements for buying broadband service (I had the choice between both cable and DSL). They filter outgoing SOCKS and Windows networking, but nobody has any buisness running those on a public network anyhow.
I got a static IP for no extra cost, but as I understand, that was because they were just rolling out dhcp in my area, so I'm not sure if you can still get that.
All in all, service has been tolerable. I get disconnected every once in a while, pretty much at random, but it happens so infrequently that it's not really a bother to me. They also appearently have a cap on upstream bandwith, but it's not so slow as to impede my mail or web site all that much.
Anyhow, to sum it up, AT&T@home is ok, but you really can't expect much better for $50/mo.
Is it because it is not a third world nation with a mushrooming population like India? Is it because most of its population dosen't live in abject poverty like Africa?
Oh, no, it's because a linux distribution was developed in china so you had to omit the country to "prove" your point.
Since when has the development of a linux distribution been a mark of cultural autonomy anyhow? Last I checked, there were no Finnish Linux distributions.
I run testing/unstable on my workstation, but I do/only/ run stable on my servers. Testing is not good because security patches take much longer to hit it.
Since I'm runing stable on my servers, I can simply put security.debian.org in my/etc/apt/sources.list and apt-get upgrade to automagically install all new security updates, which makes keeping my box up to date/very/ easy.
Also, I've had enough problems with unstable (and they occur in testing from time to time as well) that I know better than to apt-get upgrade to anything but stable on a box serving a web site or thousands of mail messages a day.
Lets ask Google what it thinks.
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There is a mountian not far from it from which the visibility is quite good. It looks like J Random Air Force base, only a lot smaller, just a few buildings, two hangars (IIRC), and a really long runway. There arn't any houseing units or anything which are normally around air bases.
Also, I know there are pictures of it on the 'net (they were on slashdot not too long ago), ether from the mountian or from satellites flying over the base.
You don't really think the Air Force would be stupid enough to leave the alien ship tied down on the tarmac, do you?
Larry Wall talked about it in a speech once (might have been Postmodern) where he joked that the replacement to C should be called P, Going through the letters of BCPL.
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But what really sucks is that Slashcode's inane . link exposer for people who are too stupid to look at the bottom of their browser's window to see the URL that they're clicking on has basically ruined this joke.
"Rocket Jets"? No, they did have a rocket powered plane, I have a book with the specs on it, but I don't have it with me at the moment. From what I recall, it was not a very useful aircraft as the rocket could only burn for about 10 minutes (not sure on the exact number).
I don't know about the 90% death rate, are you sure you're not confusing it with the Messerschmitt Bf 109? It was a traditional prop plane, but very high preformance and, thus, difficult to fly. The narrow wheel base and high landing speeds made it difficult to land, and the torque from the engine would sometimes cause pilots to lose control on takeoff. Also, the pilot could lose control in dives because the control surfaces were not big enough for the high speeds and the controls would become sluggish. The accident death rate was no where near 90%, but it was higher than other similar aircraft.
The Messerschmitt 262 was the famous German jet during the war. Here's a link to a page about it.
When people started looking to break the sound barrier, the British tried to do it with jets, but the Americans wisely decided that a supersonic jet would have too many complications, and decided to use a rocket powered aircraft to do it. The Bell X-1, flew by Chuck Yeager, was a rocket powered aircraft, but it landed as a glider, and appearently wasn't that difficult to land.
Uhh, you don't value his opinion because of a character he played on a show that ended production years ago?
Oh, no, I get it, you're just a troll.
So: // [Usenet] Abbreviation: "Go Away, Troll". See {troll}.
From Jargon File (4.2.3, 23 NOV 2000) [jargon]:
GoAT
DWIM (Do What I Mean) sucks. Having a fuckload of AI just to save him the trouble of typing about twelve more characters is not a good idea.
Except that this is the web, and Google links per page and per subject. If a page on my website is linked more than a page on CNN.com, I have a higher link factor for that page, even though CNN.com itself is linked to a billion times more than my website.
Putting something on CNN.com dosen't immedently mean it's going to be linked alot, just like putting something on my website dosen't mean that it won't be.
Also, because google indexes everything and returns results based on subject, I'm still in their database (unlike at a library where they can only subscribe to so many journals) and a page of mine with only one or two links will float to the top if the search is specific enough.
Yeah, but it was 45 seconds that I'm not getting back.
I know it sounds corny, but it's true.
I want to do something bigger than myself, something that has a real potential to help people in a serious way. I want to leave behind a legacy of good will when I'm wrom food.
I realize that programming free software is perhaps not the most noble thing one could possibly do, but it is what I'm good at. Free Software gives me the ability to use my skills as a programmer to do something really great, even if it is small in the big picture.
Laugh at it if you want, but that's the reason I write Free Software, not because of ego, or because I can, but because I believe that I am helping people --and that makes me feel good.
You've managed to be a Karma Whore and a troll all in one post! I am simply amazed, and in awe, at your accomplishment.
I mean, I've seen good trolls before, but your alluding to the Communists is superb. A lesser troll would have blown his wad and turned the post into a anti-RMS rant that would have been modded through the floor, but you walk the knife edge just so as to leave the moderators reeling.
I really thought slashdot trolling had decended to the level of twelve year olds posting penis birds and goatse.cx links, but you've proved me wrong.
So you're still a troll, and a karma whore, but you deserve all the karma you're going to get from this just because of your outstanding style.
I salute you sir.
Hold off, there are seven comments on the story now, and I'm getting 3kbps on the mp3. They might just have the bandwith throttled so much that it is the bottleneck, and not the server.
Well, it's not about stallman's ego, it's about making people realize that there is more to Free Software than the apolitical views of Linus.
BTW, here's a quote from one of Stallman's speeches (it was very well recieved):
I don't use Windows at all, but I:
So I think your 90% using Windows is a bit high, but I would suspect that only 10% or less of the GNU/Linux users would be willing to buy Loki games.
BTW: I think GNU/Linux has something like 3% of the desktop. Call it nitpicking, but you are something like 1.5 magnitudes off off 8-).
MIME attachments won't have the execute permission set, which means that a script would have to be saved to disk and executed by the user with the command
$ bash virus.sh
Or the user would have to set the execute permissions himself:$ chmod u+x virus.sh
$virus.sh
Granted, a mail reader could be written to do all of this itself after the user ``clicks'' on the attachment, but I am aware of none that exist at the present time that have that ``feature''.
Plus, since GNU/Linux (and all Unices) is a multi-user permissions based system, sircam would only be able to touch those files to which the user has read access. As long as the administrater isn't reading his mail as root, you'll never have to worry about some luser mailing his /etc/shadow to you.
So, until Microsoft writes a port Outlook and starts certifying ``Linux Engineers'', no, there won't be a sircam for GNU/Linux.
I'm running five computers off of my cable modem from AT&T@home with one static IP.
It's called Network Address Translation, and Linux has been able to do it for years.
Hardware compatibility problems have been solved, and the idea to adopt an open-source platform still stands.
This year, 1,400 schools will be equipped with external modems, and Ibarra plans to install Linux on those computers.
Dosen't sound like they're giving up to me. Also, they already have twenty schools running on GNU/Linux. They have schools already on it and they're planning to add more, it's just not a fast or as wide-spread as they had hoped. Just because a project dosen't go off as well as expected dosen't mean it is a failure.
Was Linux 2.4 a failure because it shipped a year late?
I have Mozilla set to use xpdf to open pdf files. I'd be suprised if Konqueror couldn't do something similar.
Never use MySQL to store anything important. Use PostgreSQL, InterBase, or some other Open Source DBMS which passes the ACID test.
Check here for a discussion of the problems with MySQL.
The difference, though, is that MySQL does not pretend to be a real DBMS. It's problems are well known and documented. Even Las Alamos couldn't mistake it for one. MS SQL, on the other hand, is marketed as a enterprise level RDBMS. Consequently, its users have an expectation of a resonable level of quality.
In short, it is acceptable for MySQL to lose data, it is not acceptable for PostgreSQL, Oracle, Interbase, MS SQL, or any other database in their league to behave in a similar manner.
Micheal is appearently having a bad day, so, like anyone who isn't from there would do, he's taking it out on Canada.
See, no reason to get your panties in a knot about it, it's the natural thing to do.
I use the WHOIS database to find out who's responsible when I get spammed or when I detect a hacking attempt. Fact is, having a bunch of anonymous thirteen year old kids running around DoSing people, or having assholes kill your mail server with a million "FREE HOT XXX" messages is bad enough. If they're able to do it with impunity, nevery having to worry about their ISP getting a phone call, it'll be out of control.
We continue to discover that the trust based internet simply does not work. There are too many shitholes willing to take advantage of it. The only way we can have any sort of order is to have responsibility. Having the ability to, with one command, get a email addres, phone number, and snail mail address of someone responsible for every IP and domain on the internet is invaluable.
I specifically asked the sales rep if I could run my own mail/web servers. That was one of my requirements for buying broadband service (I had the choice between both cable and DSL). They filter outgoing SOCKS and Windows networking, but nobody has any buisness running those on a public network anyhow.
I got a static IP for no extra cost, but as I understand, that was because they were just rolling out dhcp in my area, so I'm not sure if you can still get that.
All in all, service has been tolerable. I get disconnected every once in a while, pretty much at random, but it happens so infrequently that it's not really a bother to me. They also appearently have a cap on upstream bandwith, but it's not so slow as to impede my mail or web site all that much.
Anyhow, to sum it up, AT&T@home is ok, but you really can't expect much better for $50/mo.
Is it because it is not a third world nation with a mushrooming population like India? Is it because most of its population dosen't live in abject poverty like Africa?
Oh, no, it's because a linux distribution was developed in china so you had to omit the country to "prove" your point.
Since when has the development of a linux distribution been a mark of cultural autonomy anyhow? Last I checked, there were no Finnish Linux distributions.
I run testing/unstable on my workstation, but I do /only/ run stable on my servers. Testing is not good because security patches take much longer to hit it.
Since I'm runing stable on my servers, I can simply put security.debian.org in my /etc/apt/sources.list and apt-get upgrade to automagically install all new security updates, which makes keeping my box up to date /very/ easy.
Also, I've had enough problems with unstable (and they occur in testing from time to time as well) that I know better than to apt-get upgrade to anything but stable on a box serving a web site or thousands of mail messages a day.
Search for: "Linux sucks":
Results 1 - 10 of about 2,320. Search took 0.62 seconds.
Search for: "BSD sucks":
Results 1 - 10 of about 32. Search took 0.11 seconds.
I rest my case.
Also, I know there are pictures of it on the 'net (they were on slashdot not too long ago), ether from the mountian or from satellites flying over the base.
You don't really think the Air Force would be stupid enough to leave the alien ship tied down on the tarmac, do you?
BCPL is the language frome which B was begot.
Larry Wall talked about it in a speech once (might have been Postmodern) where he joked that the replacement to C should be called P, Going through the letters of BCPL.
So, in 2090, then, we should be programming in L.
Troll.