Problem is then, you've got american companies that are huge, they can afford to buy competitors in other countries. Now if you've got TONS of american companies owning Telecommunications, Media, transport, etc. It takes away the local culture. We don't need wars anymore. Captialism is as far more powerful weapon. You can subplant entire cultures, without ever fireing a weapon...
AFIAK miller was classified as "Like sex in a cannoe, Fucking close to water".
I used to think that I couldn't write, that I just didn't have the inspiration. After actually reading your dribble, I am insipired. If you can actually make a living on sell this shite as journalism or even something to read, I know I can at least be *ok*.
Holed up in his California cocoon, Lucas seemed to fall out of touch with post-9/11 America.
And just what the hell is this? It would sundenly be *good* to re-edit the whole moive to make it more patriotic? That part with the bridge in Spiderman is SO post 9/11 it's not even funny. I mean how the fuck does that suddenly fit in? It's there to capitalize on 9/11. Maybe if they replaced the sith lords with Osamma bin-laden look alikes you'd be happier... damn. I'm with the trolls on this one, you suck dead dog ass, in a major way!
But software patents can seriously harm Opensource software, by "protecting" themselves and the community, they are legitmizing the use of them. It's really hard to fight against something that you are supporting....
Is it not agreed in OSS community that software patents are bad?? The argument that their protecting the community is garbage. The money effort should be put into fighting software patents.
As a Canadian, I pride myself on the proper use of the English language. But today I am humbled. Please tell me your not American... I don't know if I could bare the thought of my grammer being corrected by an American. Nothing personal.
Complaining about others inactions, helps no one's goals except those you both seek to defeat. Educating people on the subject, does far more then telling them they are wrong in what they are doing. Simply not buying a product does nothing. Telling people why they shouldn't buy it, educating them on how they can effect some change (no matter how small) is empowering....
I think initially they were worried about loss of control/dilution of their product. Now I think they realize just how powerful having open specs on their product can be. Instead of having to hire dozens of progammers/managers/support personal, they can rely on the opensource community. Now if they had a program where by developers got cheaper units, in return for producing code...... that would catch like wild fire, for the shear coolness factor:)
I'm 22 now, I dropped out of highschool to work full time, as a computer technician. I've since run two companies (both of which failed, but did allow me to earn a reasonable income). And now I'm a Network/Sys admin. I hold the most seinor technical positon in my division. Which acually isn't saying much, I work with people 30-40, some of whom have been in the IT business for years. I can't even talk to them about our own products and how they work, as none of them are very technically adept. The experience has been great, but now that I've reached my peak here (I can't learn much more here) I am looking for work else where. I've had a few phone calls, but no interviews. I know if I got an interview I would be able to prove my abilites, and experience through the way I carry myself, but that doesn't mean squat unless I get the interview. I'm now thinking about finishing highschool (taking an equivelency test), and am now looking at getting certified (LPI, SAIR, I'm already A+). I'd say if you want to work right away, keep up with some level of schooling, and focus on getting all the other pieces of paper you can..
Well it seems like most of the/. audience is more inclined to install openoffice instead of staroffice. Staroffice is geared towards for the "business world". Not for functionality, but simply brand recognition. Much in the same way people will buy RedHat Linux, over Debian. Redhat is a company, people now how to deal with companies, they do not (yet)know how to deal with communties for software. I'll use staroffice, tell my tech friends to install openoffice, but when I present the idea of using a different office package, I'll suggest StarOffice.
I've been using matrox products since the Millenium II (I'm on a G400 32mb now). Always rock solid 2D performance, and quality. Their 3D is usually a little different then everyone else's (i.e. environmental bump mapping), but solid. It's nice to see their going to be ahead of the curve in release the the next, next generation video card. I think this will give them a jump start in sales, for the gamer that hasn't used matrox before. The users of current Matrox cards will also be a huge market, as there customers are extremley loyal to them. All this goodness, and their still a Private company (and Canadian no less).
We're not talking about just cash, these companies own patents on drugs that save lives. They want it to be illegal for a company to produce it without their consent. This in theory sounds good, but the problem is they're stopping companies from producing cheaper versions. Patent protection of drugs in developing countries helps only the patent holders. I do agree, it does (and I did) make it a simple evil coporation issue. But it is true to some extent, they want total control. Even at the cost of human lives.
Ok hows this: they have help but there holding it over their heads, out of reach, is that better. Their in action (putting profits over people) is causing deaths and pain. Would you really not give needed drugs to a child simply because their parent cannot afford it?
Every single citizen does NOT have their own personal body guard looking out for them at all times. Why the hell should a coporation or group of corporations have that type of protection, paid for by the people? This is insane. If they want their IP protected, they should pay for it themselves. This is the RIAA we're talking about, they got multi-billion dollar companies behind them. But they want the people who keep them in business to pay to protect them... What's next!? wait, don't answer that I don't want to know.
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Do you know how many wind/solar power system exist, and are relied upon to provide power 24x7? Tons. They use battery's, it stores energy for times when there is a "cloudy day". And as for the jets we could develop system of side thrusters that move it out of harms way. We can use GPS to triangulate the position of the planes and the exact amount of thrust required. This could be handled automatically by a computer........ that was a joke.
Debian doesn't aim to have the latest and greatest (if you want that try mandrake). It aims to be stable, so that means NOT putting in stuff like kde 3.0, or XFree 4.2. Why is that so hard to understand? Mandrake is much more like windows, debian is much more like a BSD. Mandrake puts in the latest wiz-bang features (I do agree that XFS ACLs w/ samba is an awesome combo), which reduces the overall stability of the system. Debian puts only tried and true packages into stable. Which do you want running on your mission critical server?
I was looking at getting a NAS device for a new project. I ruled out IDE based, mainly for performance reasons. I looked at Dell's (Windows based) which are exactly the same as their servers except they cost (literally) thousands more, for less of a configuration. I was not about to go out and pay 3k for "managment" software (especially when every system that was going to access was Linux based, it seemed kind of odd). I ended up just getting a decked out system for less money, installed Linux on it and am some what happy. I would like to manage it like an appliance, complete with a web and/or java interface. I couldn't find a existing Linux distro for such a thing (striped down fit in like 20mb, or even CD based). If something like that existed, people could chose the HW they want (be it Pentium w/ 16mb of ram or Dual Athlon 1ghz with HW RAID), instead of being forced to pay thousands for pretty simple software.
I use Freeswan in a production environment. I have Embedded Linux routers using freeswan connecting to Linux boxes. They VPNs are relatively simple, 2 outgoing connections to central systems. I did find there was a large learning curve at the beginning, but now it takes 5 min to setup a new vpn tunnel. The systems have been extremely reliable. I've never had a problem (other than net congestion) with keeping the tunnels up. A lot of the tunnels have 80+ days of uptime. As for compiling, most modern distros include IPSec (trustix, mandrake, etc.) or there are options like Astaro. Having a CTO "turn down your volume" based on the fact that you have to compile software, doesn't say anything about the quality or reliability of the software, that's a personal decision by CTO not to use OSS. I do agree it's not point and click, and that would be nice, but to say it's unusable in a business environment is just untrue. It's not pretty but it works, and works well.
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Problem is then, you've got american companies that are huge, they can afford to buy competitors in other countries. Now if you've got TONS of american companies owning Telecommunications, Media, transport, etc. It takes away the local culture. We don't need wars anymore. Captialism is as far more powerful weapon. You can subplant entire cultures, without ever fireing a weapon...
AFIAK miller was classified as "Like sex in a cannoe, Fucking close to water".
Don't they have laws protecting telecom stuff?
i.e. Europe's major backbone shouldn't be held by an american company...
Sometimes I feel like I'm watching a bad episode of Highlander when I observe the Linux crowd.
Wow, now that's a flame. I didn't think anyone actually watched that shite.
I used to think that I couldn't write, that I just didn't have the inspiration. After actually reading your dribble, I am insipired. If you can actually make a living on sell this shite as journalism or even something to read, I know I can at least be *ok*.
Holed up in his California cocoon, Lucas seemed to fall out of touch with post-9/11 America.
And just what the hell is this? It would sundenly be *good* to re-edit the whole moive to make it more patriotic? That part with the bridge in Spiderman is SO post 9/11 it's not even funny. I mean how the fuck does that suddenly fit in? It's there to capitalize on 9/11. Maybe if they replaced the sith lords with Osamma bin-laden look alikes you'd be happier... damn. I'm with the trolls on this one, you suck dead dog ass, in a major way!
But software patents can seriously harm Opensource software, by "protecting" themselves and the community, they are legitmizing the use of them.
It's really hard to fight against something that you are supporting....
Is it not agreed in OSS community that software patents are bad?? The argument that their protecting the community is garbage. The money effort should be put into fighting software patents.
As a Canadian, I pride myself on the proper use of the English language. But today I am humbled. Please tell me your not American... I don't know if I could bare the thought of my grammer being corrected by an American. Nothing personal.
Complaining about others inactions, helps no one's goals except those you both seek to defeat. Educating people on the subject, does far more then telling them they are wrong in what they are doing. Simply not buying a product does nothing. Telling people why they shouldn't buy it, educating them on how they can effect some change (no matter how small) is empowering....
just a thought.
I think initially they were worried about loss of control/dilution of their product. Now I think they realize just how powerful having open specs on their product can be. Instead of having to hire dozens of progammers/managers/support personal, they can rely on the opensource community. :)
Now if they had a program where by developers got cheaper units, in return for producing code...... that would catch like wild fire, for the shear coolness factor
I'm 22 now, I dropped out of highschool to work full time, as a computer technician. I've since run two companies (both of which failed, but did allow me to earn a reasonable income). And now I'm a Network/Sys admin. I hold the most seinor technical positon in my division. Which acually isn't saying much, I work with people 30-40, some of whom have been in the IT business for years. I can't even talk to them about our own products and how they work, as none of them are very technically adept. The experience has been great, but now that I've reached my peak here (I can't learn much more here) I am looking for work else where. I've had a few phone calls, but no interviews. I know if I got an interview I would be able to prove my abilites, and experience through the way I carry myself, but that doesn't mean squat unless I get the interview. I'm now thinking about finishing highschool (taking an equivelency test), and am now looking at getting certified (LPI, SAIR, I'm already A+). I'd say if you want to work right away, keep up with some level of schooling, and focus on getting all the other pieces of paper you can..
Well it seems like most of the /. audience is more inclined to install openoffice instead of staroffice. Staroffice is geared towards for the "business world". Not for functionality, but simply brand recognition. Much in the same way people will buy RedHat Linux, over Debian. Redhat is a company, people now how to deal with companies, they do not (yet)know how to deal with communties for software.
I'll use staroffice, tell my tech friends to install openoffice, but when I present the idea of using a different office package, I'll suggest StarOffice.
I've been using matrox products since the Millenium II (I'm on a G400 32mb now). Always rock solid 2D performance, and quality. Their 3D is usually a little different then everyone else's (i.e. environmental bump mapping), but solid. It's nice to see their going to be ahead of the curve in release the the next, next generation video card. I think this will give them a jump start in sales, for the gamer that hasn't used matrox before. The users of current Matrox cards will also be a huge market, as there customers are extremley loyal to them. All this goodness, and their still a Private company (and Canadian no less).
We're not talking about just cash, these companies own patents on drugs that save lives. They want it to be illegal for a company to produce it without their consent. This in theory sounds good, but the problem is they're stopping companies from producing cheaper versions. Patent protection of drugs in developing countries helps only the patent holders. I do agree, it does (and I did) make it a simple evil coporation issue. But it is true to some extent, they want total control. Even at the cost of human lives.
It's not now, but if we don't do something about it, it will become so.
Ok hows this: they have help but there holding it over their heads, out of reach, is that better. Their in action (putting profits over people) is causing deaths and pain. Would you really not give needed drugs to a child simply because their parent cannot afford it?
Every single citizen does NOT have their own personal body guard looking out for them at all times. Why the hell should a coporation or group of corporations have that type of protection, paid for by the people? This is insane. If they want their IP protected, they should pay for it themselves. This is the RIAA we're talking about, they got multi-billion dollar companies behind them. But they want the people who keep them in business to pay to protect them... What's next!? wait, don't answer that I don't want to know.
Do you know how many wind/solar power system exist, and are relied upon to provide power 24x7?
Tons. They use battery's, it stores energy for times when there is a "cloudy day". And as for the jets we could develop system of side thrusters that move it out of harms way. We can use GPS to triangulate the position of the planes and the exact amount of thrust required. This could be handled automatically by a computer........ that was a joke.
I think their feeling it now.... time outs, high ping times. These must be the working of the devil and his evil minions. Muahahahahahha Muahahahaha
where does it end?
I am Canadian
Debian doesn't aim to have the latest and greatest (if you want that try mandrake). It aims to be stable, so that means NOT putting in stuff like kde 3.0, or XFree 4.2. Why is that so hard to understand?
Mandrake is much more like windows, debian is much more like a BSD. Mandrake puts in the latest wiz-bang features (I do agree that XFS ACLs w/ samba is an awesome combo), which reduces the overall stability of the system. Debian puts only tried and true packages into stable. Which do you want running on your mission critical server?
I was looking at getting a NAS device for a new project. I ruled out IDE based, mainly for performance reasons. I looked at Dell's (Windows based) which are exactly the same as their servers except they cost (literally) thousands more, for less of a configuration. I was not about to go out and pay 3k for "managment" software (especially when every system that was going to access was Linux based, it seemed kind of odd). I ended up just getting a decked out system for less money, installed Linux on it and am some what happy. I would like to manage it like an appliance, complete with a web and/or java interface. I couldn't find a existing Linux distro for such a thing (striped down fit in like 20mb, or even CD based). If something like that existed, people could chose the HW they want (be it Pentium w/ 16mb of ram or Dual Athlon 1ghz with HW RAID), instead of being forced to pay thousands for pretty simple software.
It's an IDE based system, would you want to run a DB on an IDE system, even if it's dedicated to just file serving?
I use Freeswan in a production environment. I have Embedded Linux routers using freeswan connecting to Linux boxes. They VPNs are relatively simple, 2 outgoing connections to central
systems. I did find there was a large learning curve at the beginning, but now it takes 5 min to setup a new vpn tunnel. The systems have been extremely reliable. I've never had a problem (other than net congestion) with keeping the tunnels up. A lot of the tunnels have 80+ days of uptime. As for compiling, most modern distros include IPSec (trustix, mandrake, etc.) or there are options like Astaro. Having a CTO "turn down your volume" based on the fact that you have to compile software, doesn't say anything about the quality or reliability of the software, that's a personal decision by CTO not to use OSS. I do agree it's not point and click, and that would be nice, but to say it's unusable in a business environment is just untrue. It's not pretty but it works, and works well.