After reading through James with reference to Matthew I would say that James has a is speaking about the ideas from the sermon on the mount. He tends to blend references along with personal view points. This seems to coorespond with whether he was there or not. Ie. He is more likely to quote a OT scripture and use his own words to describe things found in the NT.
I do not get the impression that he gave the sermon on the mount, but that he is expressing the ideas as he heard them from Jesus.
I am trying to find the sermon on the mount in James, but have been unsuccessful. Can you give me the reference or a link to something online?
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I have never ran into the conflict where I wanted to post to a story as much as I wanted to moderate. I can understand the overall reasoning for not allowing moderation and commenting. I am wondering if limiting it to specific threads would be enough? I suppose someone would try to make problems in that setup as well. The issue is after reading flat and newest post I moderated several comments up I found a comment with a question and no "full" response. So I decided to respond. This of course kills all the previous moderations that you do. So is there any solution?
BTW, is there some area for discussing these sort of things? It would be nice to have a forum or something dedicated to talking about how slashdot runs it self.
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You could use Asterisk with Vonage, but you would need a FXO card (from Digium, ebay, or somewhere) for connecting. Vonage does not give SIP info or support its use (they actively try to prevent this). They do have a software version for $4.99/month but it is limited in its minutes (and is in addition to your current plan). If you want to use bring your own device (BYOD) you do have many choices: Libretel, VoicePulse (connect.voicepulse.com only), NuFone, Broadvoice, etc.
Broadvoice was the first I saw that offered unlimited for BYOD. I have seen one other since then but can not find the link or name handy.
The plans Broadvoice offers are very good if you are really needing unlimited. They also have pretty good international plans. I do not know if they have a toll-free number. You could always get that through someone else (such as NuFone for $0.02/min). Asterisk can handle the different accounts just fine. For outgoing it would use the unlimited, but accepts calls from either.
Regarding porting numbers... that something I see slowly happening with each provider. Maybe it would be possible to drop the vonage account type down to the limited $14.95/month and just have a message stating the new phone numbers if you can not port.
I agree that it is much easier for the rich to stay rich, but there there are many examples of Start-ups (that make it) created by people from "average" (non-rich) famlies.
Take a look at Martin Neath, Steve Jobs (father a machinist for a company that manufactured lasers; mother an accountant), Herb Kelleher [Southwest Airlines] (father was general manager of Campbell Soup Co), etc.
Even Steve Balmer's father was just a manager at Ford. You could say that Pierre Omidyar [eBay] had a backup since his father was a physician, but he was not some large business owner or have lots of investments (eg. he had money made as a doctor).
Most of these people and thousands of other succesfull CEOs/Entrepreneurs have made it because of who they are. They have the drive and the instinct and the luck to make it happen. Luck is a huge part of it... but you should read about "Making your own luck". A great magazine showing company after company created by the average Joe is Inc.
I am not saying that there are not tons of companies created or ran by CEOs from rich (and possibly corrupt) familes, just that being a succesful start-up/CEO/entrepreneur does not require coming from a rich/well-to-do family. I would say that quite a few of the companies that are corrupt have been "taken over" by corrupt people. Look at Wal-Mart for instance. Sam Walton had to work hard to pay is own way through college, and worked hard later creating the company. His father was a farm loan appraiser (after being a farmer). What type of risk do the current owners have? They fit your profile, but not Sam Walton, the founder.
I believe most people do not have the desire and drive to make it. So you have a smaller portion of people that would actually become company founders and CEOs. Of those you can find different degrees of morals and ethics... You also have the "well-to-do" families that can give there family members a "boost" into a high-up position. That family member may not have had the desire before... but it can actually "grow" in you as you are moving through the motions (this can happen just by being around entrepreneurs repeatly). Unfortunetly when you are "given" a position w/o working hard for it there can be a large lack of appreciation and responsibility. This can happen no matter what, but is much more likely when you "have it easy".
This is pretty long winded, so I will step off my soap box and leave it at that.
I can tell you first hand (I worked in Enterprise Support at Dell) that they try to by the cheapest parts available, just above the will not break line. The 2650 (and its kin) are a perfect example (the 25xx series was bad too). They ended up shipping a pair of PCI nics because the onboard was so much crap. There have been continuous BIOS updates to work around various hardware bugs. There have been stop shipments while new hardware suppliers are found for various chips (because the % of failures got to high... this has to do with the number of support calls you handle, dodging RMA, etc).
Some of the systems are very solid. But how are you going to know this on the outside? The 2450 was very solid (after some BIOS updates), but thats old hardware now.
Of course as long as people keep pushing for lower and lower prices (as a primary focus), the hardware will just keep getting more unrealiable. And the quick replacements of the crappy hardware makes people become numb to to the idea of failures often. Then you have people that switch from Compaq to Dell, because of Compaq failures... and become blind to the Dell problems because of their hate for Compaq issues and a wish for something reliable.
So my vote picking a vendor or build your own goes with... Close your eyes and pick your poison.
While I agree that what the IT staff is doing makes it harder for others to deal with them, I know first hand (from the tech side and management side) that many people in the IT staff start doing this after having their opinions/suggetions repeatedly being ignored for a long period of time. To really making things successful you need the IT and non-IT staff valuing each others contribution to the company. It is OK that the VP can't read email.. his smarts "can" be elsewhere. The IT staff should respect the decisions made by the non-IT people, but if there are technical decisions they need to be listened to by someone that can understand both the business aspects and technical aspects. That way both parties are happy.
I don't consider either posters trolls.. just biased on there views. Or at least leaving the other side out of the comments.
Slashdot is one place I do not block ads on. They are usually relevant and if I am not going to subscribe, but read as often as I do, I feel it would not be cool to get rid of the ads. I do block most other adverts when surfing elsewhere though (with Firefox blocking).
That's absurdly twisted logic. That's like saying that simply having a cell phone means that you are volunteering to receive calls at your expense from anyone that wants to sell you something.
No, it like saying that by looking at your caller ID and answering the phone you are volunteering to receive calls at your expense from anyone that wants to sell you something.
Actually the only expense you have with answering the phone call is your time. If it is a collect call or anything just answering the phone does not accept those cost. With email you will have to pay for disk space, bandwidth, etc if you "pick up the phone."
The test creates, reads, and deletes 25000, 1024 byte files. All files are created in a single directory. You can get the test script and see further results at http://ridicule.net/~ixx/test_fs.html
There are two 1gig partions (Maxtor 6GB UDMA 33), formatted for ext2 and reiserfs. I run the test on each partion 3 times then reformat, switching partions (reiserfs on first ext2 on second). I used 4096 as the block size for both file systems.
I have a 21inch IBM monochrome, but I can't get it to sync in X. I have been wanting to use it as my main display because of its crispness (seeing this model on someone elses computer).
notice I have the term.replace stuff. Thats so spaces are turned into + rather than %20 via the escape. I added the replace stuff to the google and slashdot search. The re= and the {} need to be added along with the replace.
Oh yeh here is a search for eBay Computer section:
I personally use alt-left and alt-right often. I would rather do that than right click or go to the navigation bar.
as far as the personal toolbar goes, i have many links under diff categories. my bookmark file is huge so i use the toolbar for links to places i want to go (other than freshmeat, slashdot, and google). I have a search folder with web search, auction stuff, and other things... then a linux folder which is actually just there because debian put it there and i have not had time to move useful links else where.... and well it does not take up much room:) i have a news menu with several news sites (linuxfocus, gnustep newswire, black.box, openbsd security, etc), a reading menu with some sites with online books and stories, a audio/video menu with some shoutcast and icecast servers...
Anyhow I do not want to put single click links on there.... Though I must have these javascript links! I will figure out somewhere to put them! Thanks.
I had problems with netscape "loosing" the entries in preferences.js which is why I started editing the binary. I would like to do it in.Xdefaults since it does not mess with that. I have hope that that is possible since the shop url can be changed there.
*Navigator*stopLoading.tipString: stop this infernal beast *Navigator*stopLoading.documentationString: stop this infernal beast *toolBar*stopLoading.labelString: halt
*Navigator*back.tipString: get back jack *Navigator*back.documentationString: get back jack *toolBar*back.labelString:
*Navigator*reload.tipString: reload and fire *Navigator*reload.documentationString: this looks funny... restart this bugger *toolBar*reload.labelString: reload
*Navigator*home.tipString: go to your van down by the river *Navigator*home.documentationString: go to your van down by the river *toolBar*home.labelString: casa
*Navigator*search.tipString: find it *Navigator*search.documentationString: find it *toolBar*search.labelString: hallazgo
*Navigator*destinations.tipString: freshmeat app index *Navigator*destinations.documentationString: freshmeat app index *toolBar*destinations.labelString: [fm]
*myshopping.tipString: Go to Slashdot *myshopping.documentationString: News for Nerds. Stuff that matters. *toolBar*myshopping.labelString: slashdot *strings.22495:http://www.slashdot.org/
*Navigator*print.tipString: kill a tree *Navigator*print.documentationString: kill a tree *toolBar*print.labelString: print
When I tried using something similar to the shopping lines then it did not do anything. I had to add *Navigator*...
This might mean communicator does not work with this, but maybe the browser portion would respond to *Navigator...
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After reading through James with reference to Matthew I would say that James has a is speaking about the ideas from the sermon on the mount. He tends to blend references along with personal view points. This seems to coorespond with whether he was there or not. Ie. He is more likely to quote a OT scripture and use his own words to describe things found in the NT.
I do not get the impression that he gave the sermon on the mount, but that he is expressing the ideas as he heard them from Jesus.
I am trying to find the sermon on the mount in James, but have been unsuccessful. Can you give me the reference or a link to something online?
I have never ran into the conflict where I wanted to post to a story as much as I wanted to moderate. I can understand the overall reasoning for not allowing moderation and commenting. I am wondering if limiting it to specific threads would be enough? I suppose someone would try to make problems in that setup as well. The issue is after reading flat and newest post I moderated several comments up I found a comment with a question and no "full" response. So I decided to respond. This of course kills all the previous moderations that you do. So is there any solution?
BTW, is there some area for discussing these sort of things? It would be nice to have a forum or something dedicated to talking about how slashdot runs it self.
You could use Asterisk with Vonage, but you would need a FXO card (from Digium, ebay, or somewhere) for connecting. Vonage does not give SIP info or support its use (they actively try to prevent this). They do have a software version for $4.99/month but it is limited in its minutes (and is in addition to your current plan). If you want to use bring your own device (BYOD) you do have many choices: Libretel, VoicePulse (connect.voicepulse.com only), NuFone, Broadvoice, etc.
Broadvoice was the first I saw that offered unlimited for BYOD. I have seen one other since then but can not find the link or name handy.
The plans Broadvoice offers are very good if you are really needing unlimited. They also have pretty good international plans. I do not know if they have a toll-free number. You could always get that through someone else (such as NuFone for $0.02/min). Asterisk can handle the different accounts just fine. For outgoing it would use the unlimited, but accepts calls from either.
Regarding porting numbers... that something I see slowly happening with each provider. Maybe it would be possible to drop the vonage account type down to the limited $14.95/month and just have a message stating the new phone numbers if you can not port.
I agree that it is much easier for the rich to stay rich, but there there are many examples of Start-ups (that make it) created by people from "average" (non-rich) famlies.
Take a look at Martin Neath, Steve Jobs (father a machinist for a company that manufactured lasers; mother an accountant), Herb Kelleher [Southwest Airlines] (father was general manager of Campbell Soup Co), etc.
Even Steve Balmer's father was just a manager at Ford. You could say that Pierre Omidyar [eBay] had a backup since his father was a physician, but he was not some large business owner or have lots of investments (eg. he had money made as a doctor).
Most of these people and thousands of other succesfull CEOs/Entrepreneurs have made it because of who they are. They have the drive and the instinct and the luck to make it happen. Luck is a huge part of it... but you should read about "Making your own luck". A great magazine showing company after company created by the average Joe is Inc.
I am not saying that there are not tons of companies created or ran by CEOs from rich (and possibly corrupt) familes, just that being a succesful start-up/CEO/entrepreneur does not require coming from a rich/well-to-do family. I would say that quite a few of the companies that are corrupt have been "taken over" by corrupt people. Look at Wal-Mart for instance. Sam Walton had to work hard to pay is own way through college, and worked hard later creating the company. His father was a farm loan appraiser (after being a farmer). What type of risk do the current owners have? They fit your profile, but not Sam Walton, the founder.
I believe most people do not have the desire and drive to make it. So you have a smaller portion of people that would actually become company founders and CEOs. Of those you can find different degrees of morals and ethics... You also have the "well-to-do" families that can give there family members a "boost" into a high-up position. That family member may not have had the desire before... but it can actually "grow" in you as you are moving through the motions (this can happen just by being around entrepreneurs repeatly). Unfortunetly when you are "given" a position w/o working hard for it there can be a large lack of appreciation and responsibility. This can happen no matter what, but is much more likely when you "have it easy".
This is pretty long winded, so I will step off my soap box and leave it at that.
I can tell you first hand (I worked in Enterprise Support at Dell) that they try to by the cheapest parts available, just above the will not break line. The 2650 (and its kin) are a perfect example (the 25xx series was bad too). They ended up shipping a pair of PCI nics because the onboard was so much crap. There have been continuous BIOS updates to work around various hardware bugs. There have been stop shipments while new hardware suppliers are found for various chips (because the % of failures got to high... this has to do with the number of support calls you handle, dodging RMA, etc).
Some of the systems are very solid. But how are you going to know this on the outside? The 2450 was very solid (after some BIOS updates), but thats old hardware now.
Of course as long as people keep pushing for lower and lower prices (as a primary focus), the hardware will just keep getting more unrealiable. And the quick replacements of the crappy hardware makes people become numb to to the idea of failures often. Then you have people that switch from Compaq to Dell, because of Compaq failures... and become blind to the Dell problems because of their hate for Compaq issues and a wish for something reliable.
So my vote picking a vendor or build your own goes with... Close your eyes and pick your poison.
While I agree that what the IT staff is doing makes it harder for others to deal with them, I know first hand (from the tech side and management side) that many people in the IT staff start doing this after having their opinions/suggetions repeatedly being ignored for a long period of time. To really making things successful you need the IT and non-IT staff valuing each others contribution to the company. It is OK that the VP can't read email.. his smarts "can" be elsewhere. The IT staff should respect the decisions made by the non-IT people, but if there are technical decisions they need to be listened to by someone that can understand both the business aspects and technical aspects. That way both parties are happy.
I don't consider either posters trolls.. just biased on there views. Or at least leaving the other side out of the comments.
Slashdot is one place I do not block ads on. They are usually relevant and if I am not going to subscribe, but read as often as I do, I feel it would not be cool to get rid of the ads. I do block most other adverts when surfing elsewhere though (with Firefox blocking).
Actually the only expense you have with answering the phone call is your time. If it is a collect call or anything just answering the phone does not accept those cost. With email you will have to pay for disk space, bandwidth, etc if you "pick up the phone."
How about marking an edited comment as edited. And put a link to the original version.
My reply is a bit late...
The test creates, reads, and deletes 25000, 1024 byte files. All files are created in a single directory. You can get the test script and see further results at http://ridicule.net/~ixx/test_fs.html
There are two 1gig partions (Maxtor 6GB UDMA 33), formatted for ext2 and reiserfs. I run the test on each partion 3 times then reformat, switching partions (reiserfs on first ext2 on second). I used 4096 as the block size for both file systems.
A summary of the results is:
Ext2
Write: 77 seconds
Read: 63 seconds
Delete: 6 seconds
Reiserfs
Write: 9 seconds
Read: 29 seconds
Delete 3 seconds
Disk usage first line is before creation, second line is after creation.
File system usage (given by df) for ext2:
Filesystem 1k-blocks Used Available Use%
/dev/hdd1 1007960 20 956736 1%
/dev/hdd1 1007960 100512 856244 11%
File system usage (given by df) for reiserfs:
Filesystem 1k-blocks Used Available Use%
/dev/hdd2 1024092 32840 991252 4%
/dev/hdd2 1024092 60920 963172 6%
Here is some background on /opt
http://www.pathname.com/fhs/2.0/fhs-3.8.html
I have a 21inch IBM monochrome, but I can't get it to sync in X. I have been wanting to use it as my main display because of its crispness (seeing this model on someone elses computer).
href="http://slashdot.org/article.pl? sid=netscape i guess i should preview more often
Start here:
http://slashdot.org/articles.pl?sid=ne tscape
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=nets cape
http://slashdot.org/sid=netscape If anyone cares to continue with tips, etc.
First here is a CNet linux section search:
} if(term){ re= /\ /g; location.href='http://www.help.com/cgi-perl/search .pl?catpath=%2F2%2F191%2F226%2F537&query ='+escape(term.replace(re,"+"))+'&num=100&sa=Googl e+Search';}
} if(term){re= /\ /g;location.href='http://search-desc.ebay.com/sear ch/search.dll?MfcISAPICommand=GetResult& ht=1&ebaytag1=ebayreg&srchdesc=y&category0=160&min Price=&maxPrice=&ebaytag1code=0&SortProp erty=MetaEndSort&st=0&query='+escape(term.replace( re,"+"))}
javascript:{void(term=prompt('Searchword:',''))
notice I have the term.replace stuff. Thats so spaces are turned into + rather than %20 via the escape. I added the replace stuff to the google and slashdot search. The re= and the {} need to be added along with the replace.
Oh yeh here is a search for eBay Computer section:
javascript:{void(term=prompt('Searchword:',''))
haha! those are great.
:) i have a news menu with several news sites (linuxfocus, gnustep newswire, black.box, openbsd security, etc), a reading menu with some sites with online books and stories, a audio/video menu with some shoutcast and icecast servers...
I personally use alt-left and alt-right often. I would rather do that than right click or go to the navigation bar.
as far as the personal toolbar goes, i have many links under diff categories. my bookmark file is huge so i use the toolbar for links to places i want to go (other than freshmeat, slashdot, and google). I have a search folder with web search, auction stuff, and other things... then a linux folder which is actually just there because debian put it there and i have not had time to move useful links else where.... and well it does not take up much room
Anyhow I do not want to put single click links on there.... Though I must have these javascript links! I will figure out somewhere to put them! Thanks.
btw if you want to make a mirror of the members area off usb.org w/wget do something like:
wget -m --http-user=1211 --http-passwd=cypherpunk -np http://www.USB.org/members/devclass.html
the -np will make it so you do not get parent directories.
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didn't mean to post anonymous on that last mirror post.
Btw the my netscape change for freshmeat is:
s hmeat.net/");
config("toolbar.places.default_url","http://fre
I had problems with netscape "loosing" the entries in preferences.js which is why I started editing the binary. I would like to do it in .Xdefaults since it does not mess with that. I have hope that that is possible since the shop url can be changed there.
There is probably some string.# that will let you do it, but I do not know what it is.
.Xdefaults:
Anyhow here are my changes to
*Navigator*viewSecurity.tipString: insecurity
*Navigator*viewSecurity.documentationString: insecurity
*toolBar*viewSecurity.labelString: security
*Navigator*stopLoading.tipString: stop this infernal beast
*Navigator*stopLoading.documentationString: stop this infernal beast
*toolBar*stopLoading.labelString: halt
*Navigator*back.tipString: get back jack
*Navigator*back.documentationString: get back jack
*toolBar*back.labelString:
*Navigator*reload.tipString: reload and fire
*Navigator*reload.documentationString: this looks funny... restart this bugger
*toolBar*reload.labelString: reload
*Navigator*home.tipString: go to your van down by the river
*Navigator*home.documentationString: go to your van down by the river
*toolBar*home.labelString: casa
*Navigator*search.tipString: find it
*Navigator*search.documentationString: find it
*toolBar*search.labelString: hallazgo
*Navigator*destinations.tipString: freshmeat app index
*Navigator*destinations.documentationString: freshmeat app index
*toolBar*destinations.labelString: [fm]
*myshopping.tipString: Go to Slashdot
*myshopping.documentationString: News for Nerds. Stuff that matters.
*toolBar*myshopping.labelString: slashdot
*strings.22495:http://www.slashdot.org/
*Navigator*print.tipString: kill a tree
*Navigator*print.documentationString: kill a tree
*toolBar*print.labelString: print
When I tried using something similar to the shopping lines then it did not do anything. I had to add *Navigator*...
This might mean communicator does not work with this, but maybe the browser portion would respond to *Navigator...
Check out my reply above for a link on prefences.js. On the scrolling you would have to mess with the X config. The X input extension most likely.
Try help.com (CNET) go into the linux section. Do some searches in there for maping mouse buttons to scrolling.
Go checkout http://developer.ne tscape.com/docs/manuals/deploymt/jsprefs.htm for all the preferences w/descriptions. Be sure and make a copy of the changes you make in case they get over written at some point and you need to add them to preferences.js again.