This even applies to small pacific island governments. Now the NU-Government seems to have some gripes (questionable accounting on part of.nu for the 25% share of the revenues etc), but stuff like that should first be sorted out in court.
Overall the NU government seem basicly to demand more money - an act that is consistent with the NU telco cutting off the nation's only internet cafe last year while demanding excessive new "registration fees" without providing any services for that.
I don't sympathize with the NU governement too much, though, because their primary motive seems to be to weed out all pr0n domains under.nu . Which is both utterly nonsensical and will probably sustantially reduce the domain revenues, both because of reduced customer base and runaway enforcement costs.
Anti pr0n crusades aren't only useless, they are morally corrupt, too.
[...] don't have the time to spend a couple of weeks trying to recompile a kernel. [And no, it's obviously not the actual compile time - it's the fiddling: What happens if I set this flag? What happens if I don't set that flag? Oops, that didn't work - maybe if I were to change that to this... Getting the configuration just right can take nigh unto forever.]
Huh ?
Your default install kernel has been compiled from GENERIC, too. Copying GENERIC to MYVERYOWNKERNEL, inserting option "IPDIVERT" somewhere and remaking that is a matter of about 10 minutes (less on a fast machine)
You dont have to write your kernel file from scratch...
If I had found some luser installing ZoneAlarm on his machine, I would have - re-Ghosted his machine without even asking him - directly complained to his manager. (back when I was network admin)
So-called "personal firewalls" are useless crap. And lusers are not supposed to install any security related or system software without permission from IT. Period.
Nope. That particular case is not so much about 'modernization' but about sheer survival.
The City of Berlin has inherited both Eastern and Western Berlin Universities, and simply cant finance them any more. Berlins is, for othert reasons, utterly bankrupt anyway (they managed to ruin their own state bank by corruption a few years ago and they never got over losing all those subsidies they got when they still were "insulated" West-Berlin).
Berlin now runs (= finances; there are no University endowments in Germany) 3 (!) large Universities and a Handfull small ones as well.
The should have closed Humbold Universitat (the eastern one) directly after reunification - it was just a big nest of old Stasi hands and Communist Party officials anyway.
Now I have some sympathy for the basically nonsensical "student strike", but it remains utterly nonsense, of course - they just refuse to get something they still essentially get for free)
They will have to get used to some (low) amount of tuitition fee, and a bunch of academics will loose their job.
I don't cvare what kind of sheep or goat you consider Mr Lay to be.
He and his gang commited one of the largest thieveries the US ever saw, he ruined thousands of decent people.
He and his gang (i.e all to Enron execs, including the whole board over the whole time this went on) should get long prison sentences.
Instead 2 or 3 people (mostly Fastow) are sacrificed and the rest goes free and is even permitted to keep their belongings, instead of beeing forced to compensate the victims with all they own.
Seriously, someone found an ethernet card that Linux *doesn't* support?
Intel EtherExpress Pro Intelligent Server Adapter. (that are those with an i960 on board)
That was a major hurdle in a project where we tried to convert a bunch of Windows servers to Linux. I still have a box full of these standing around jusrt in case a windows guy needs one. And they were f** expensive, too.
(Yes, I know, there's "experimental" support for this thing floating around at SuSE. No, back when we tested that, it didn't work)
- Just checked. doesnt even work from gnome-terminal to gnome-terminal Ctrl-Insert copies but also inserts a tilde character (~) into the original source. Same for Xterm - here is ";5~" inserted.
- works inconsistently/randomly: mark text a, copy (ctrl-insert) mark text b, paste (shift-insert). Result should be text a (thats the one you copied) but result in KEdit is text b
- Several Versions of Mozilla just crashed when getting URLs pasted
- I never can rely on all applications getting cut'n'paste text at all. I have seen numerous occasions not getting any. Dialog Box Text fields e.g. often ignore paste keys.
Im sure it all works fine as long as you stay within your toolkit of choice and its world. But X is all X apps - and it should just friggin work with all of them.
Lets do some speculation on the quesion of German government involvement.
Maybe this is an erroneous reference to SuSE's corporate governance, which probably follows German laws. If so, then 50% - 1 of their board (Aufsichtsrat) members are elected by employees, and this structure might be seen as unusual by a company like Novell, which never (AFAIK) owned publicly listed companies here.
Another explanation would be that some German authority owns a part of the "old" company and not the holding (the web site only lists holding investors)
Because *that* company (Novell for example), could easily be taken over by Microsoft. Microsoft would love to buy out and crush the Linux distros.
I think they could easily do that anyway. RH, Suse, Mandrake and a few smaller ones together are probably cheaper than one of Microsoft's infamous advertizing blitzes.
IMO, they know they could kill al Linux vendors, but they can't kill Linux. Linux companies are ultimately a function of market demand - if you destroy all of them, new ones will crop up and replace them.
that the cut and paste problems you are having are related to issues with the X clients and not with the X servers themselves.
This is really irrelevant. Fact is, in X, working Cut and Paste and text marking even between as simple things as terminal and editor windows is the exception, not the rule.
I don't care the least if that is a client or server side issue. If it is client side (I doubt it) then X doesn't provide client programmers with enough and easy tools to implement it correctly.
And JWZ's Pull-Down-menus aren't the whole story anyway. Functioning Cut and Paste also requires the keyboard shortcuts (both CTRL-Insert/Shift-Insert and Ctrl-C/Ctrl-V to work and work the same all the time. I find myself preferring Teraterm to an XFree Box over the real thing even if the latter is only a KVM key switch away, simply because in reality, those frigging apps do not or not correctly support basic stuff like cut and paste.
What Enron did in California (price gouging) was unethical certainly, but legal.
Since I lack the appropriate curses right now, let's just call your unqualified utterings pig piss . Enron settled most allegations, for ridiculous low sums, doubtlessly brokered by their good old chaps in DC.
Good lord. If he googled a bit more about vtun he would have seen responses in defense of it, as well as asking to go beyond theoretical garbage to proving the insecurity.
If you call that a defense, you know zilch about cryptography.
If you know zilch about cryptography you are not qualified to offer an informed opinion about the topic at hand.
If you can not offer an informed opinion, you should shut up. Or post anonymously.
q.e.d.
He says nothing new.
Which speaks volumes about vtunnel author's qualities.
How often did you hear that ? Time to fight back ? Tired of that phrase ? Maybe you shouldn't - since nobody does it, right now.
It is time to fight back. No, I don't mean to step up to protect your rights. To Speak out against the overreach of copyright law. "Getting involved" or some such nonsense.
The problem is, all that is really defense. And defense, by definition, is war on the territory your enemy choses, at the time of your enemie's choice. You are doomed to loose.
You ... are... doomed... to looose!
It is now time to take the fight to the enemy. The RIAA, by suing ordinary citizens and publicly declaring its intent to instill fear in everyone's hearts, has officially declared war. War on You, The People. And still it is You The People who governs this land. Now this is personal, and this is everyone's fight. Stop begging for mercy from an overbearing oponent. Write off the those who get sued - that is Their War, and Their time. Those few are doomed anyway, soldiers who have fallen, if you want so.
Now your target is the music industry itself. Destroy the music industry. Defeat them utterly ! Attack their livelyhood. Drive them to bankruptcy ! Identify their weaknesses, and attack them there.
Destroy the music industry
It is up to you! You The People. Pass laws that undermine their revenue. Pass laws that curb their marketing. Seize their IP assets for misuse. Pass taxes that reduce their profits, have DAs raid their coke snorting execs, destroy the careers of their political lackeys. Do whatever it takes.
And, above all, be open with it. Cry out loud, that nothing will satisfy you than their utter defeat. Go and win the public debate. Dont appeal to politicians, appeal to the people. Be Creative to get your message out. Others have well developed tactics for that - use them. Drive them into defense. Get them into hiding. Make it so that music execs' children will hesitat to admit their parent's jobs. That churches exclude them from posts. Make them universally hated and feared. Make it that their execs cant even sleep at night any more because their fear of you, and of failure, is haunting their dreams.
And then go out for the kill. And kill the beast, have no mercy! Dismantle the RIAA, RICO the Big five, put their execs to jail, and fire the rest.
Someone should send the leading music indutry people a good book on the history of another large and powerful institution. An association of huge wealth and immense power, that grew arrogant and became so full of itself that it started to ignore and trample those who actually ruled the land.
And when the last Templar Knights agonized towards their deaths on the fires on Paris streets, their once mighty order became all but a footnote of failure in history.
Or a perpetual memento: "Such is the fate of those, who deem themselves above all others, and their power beyond limits"
Attorneys ? Hmmm. well... lawyering in Germany is heavily regulated. Ambulance chasing, result based payment contracts, suing for ridiculous damages over something minor, all these favourite hobbies you american lawyers so love can get you disbarred here faster than you can say "constitution". Oh, we don't have punitive damages either.
So, you might have another thought about that. Or two...
"Inconvenienced ISPs"... pfff... Absent meaningfull regulation, the ISPs are the only wall we have against the spammers. Therefore any ISP who hosts spammers is as guilty as sthe spammer himself. The ISP is a criminal against The Net, a defiant one, at that, and I would support absolutely every legal means taken against him, even if those means would include physical attacks, killing, torture, whatever.
Would these ISPs behave, we'd have no spam problem. They would have draconian TOS contracts nailing every spammer immediately, and they would do what it takes to enforce them.
As it is, the Spammer attacks the communication of mankind itself. This is such an enormouzs crime that most singular issues pale against it. He is, therefore, beyond redemption or humanity, has voided whateveer right to decency, compassion or respect he might have had, and should be attacked by all means available.
So. Spammer-Friend, go and spew your irrespon-sible drivel somewhere else.
I'm getting sick of this Bush-Haters balling up their fists and stamping their little feet at anything he does. They're just hell-bent on revenge at all costs. What sad little lives.
It doesn't occur to you that they just happen to have a point, does it ?
And you are deaf to any rationale about that whatsoever, aren't you ? Who needs arguments anyway...
Ooops. The most powerful nation in the world, with the most advanced economy and the best universities (all that according to numerous slashdot posters' frequent assertions) can not even run a simple power supply system without freuquent large scale outages.
Aren't you US guys not a little embarassed to have a power systems which ranges sligtly in front of, say, Swaziland, in terms of reliability ?
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pacta sunt servanda.
.nu for the 25% share of the revenues etc), but stuff like that should first be sorted out in court.
This even applies to small pacific island governments. Now the NU-Government seems to have some gripes (questionable accounting on part of
Overall the NU government seem basicly to demand more money - an act that is consistent with the NU telco cutting off the nation's only internet cafe last year while demanding excessive new "registration fees" without providing any services for that.
what an unfortunate situation.
.nu . Which is both utterly nonsensical and will probably sustantially reduce the domain revenues, both because of reduced customer base and runaway enforcement costs.
I don't sympathize with the NU governement too much, though, because their primary motive seems to be to weed out all pr0n domains under
Anti pr0n crusades aren't only useless, they are morally corrupt, too.
"But the judge said: ... The facts of this case lie before me (knock, knock, knock) Case dismissed... This girl was in her working clothes..."
Huh ?
Your default install kernel has been compiled from GENERIC, too. Copying GENERIC to MYVERYOWNKERNEL, inserting option "IPDIVERT" somewhere and remaking that is a matter of about 10 minutes (less on a fast machine)
You dont have to write your kernel file from scratch...
If I had found some luser installing ZoneAlarm on his machine, I would have
- re-Ghosted his machine without even asking him
- directly complained to his manager.
(back when I was network admin)
So-called "personal firewalls" are useless crap.
And lusers are not supposed to install any security related or system software without permission from IT. Period.
ahem.... WTF are chickflicks ?
(sorry, no native English speaker here)
Nope. That particular case is not so much about 'modernization' but about sheer survival.
The City of Berlin has inherited both Eastern and Western Berlin Universities, and simply cant finance them any more. Berlins is, for othert reasons, utterly bankrupt anyway (they managed to ruin their own state bank by corruption a few years ago and they never got over losing all those subsidies they got when they still were "insulated" West-Berlin).
Berlin now runs (= finances; there are no University endowments in Germany) 3 (!) large
Universities and a Handfull small ones as well.
The should have closed Humbold Universitat (the eastern one) directly after reunification - it was just a big nest of old Stasi hands and Communist Party officials anyway.
Now I have some sympathy for the basically nonsensical "student strike", but it remains utterly nonsense, of course - they just refuse to get something they still essentially get for free)
They will have to get used to some (low) amount of tuitition fee, and a bunch of academics will loose their job.
I don't cvare what kind of sheep or goat you consider Mr Lay to be.
He and his gang commited one of the largest thieveries the US ever saw, he ruined thousands of decent people.
He and his gang (i.e all to Enron execs, including the whole board over the whole time this went on) should get long prison sentences.
Instead 2 or 3 people (mostly Fastow) are sacrificed and the rest goes free and is even permitted to keep their belongings, instead of beeing forced to compensate the victims with all they own.
The whole Enron affair is a travesty of justice.
That was a major hurdle in a project where we tried to convert a bunch of Windows servers to Linux. I still have a box full of these standing around jusrt in case a windows guy needs one. And they were f** expensive, too.
(Yes, I know, there's "experimental" support for this thing floating around at SuSE. No, back when we tested that, it didn't work)
- Just checked. doesnt even work from gnome-terminal to gnome-terminal Ctrl-Insert copies but also inserts a tilde character (~) into the original source. Same for Xterm - here is ";5~" inserted.
- works inconsistently/randomly: mark text a, copy (ctrl-insert) mark text b, paste (shift-insert). Result should be text a (thats the one you copied) but result in KEdit is text b
- Several Versions of Mozilla just crashed when getting URLs pasted
- I never can rely on all applications getting cut'n'paste text at all. I have seen numerous occasions not getting any. Dialog Box Text fields e.g. often ignore paste keys.
Im sure it all works fine as long as you stay within your toolkit of choice and its world. But X is all X apps - and it should just friggin work with all of them.
Lets do some speculation on the quesion of German government involvement.
Maybe this is an erroneous reference to SuSE's corporate governance, which probably follows German laws. If so, then 50% - 1 of their board (Aufsichtsrat) members are elected by employees, and this structure might be seen as unusual by a company like Novell, which never (AFAIK) owned publicly listed companies here.
Another explanation would be that some German authority owns a part of the "old" company and not the holding (the web site only lists holding investors)
IMO, they know they could kill al Linux vendors, but they can't kill Linux. Linux companies are ultimately a function of market demand - if you destroy all of them, new ones will crop up and replace them.
Nope. Caldera is SCO. The whole fucking situation is entirely a making of Ray Noorda himself.
I don't care the least if that is a client or server side issue. If it is client side (I doubt it) then X doesn't provide client programmers with enough and easy tools to implement it correctly.
And JWZ's Pull-Down-menus aren't the whole story anyway. Functioning Cut and Paste also requires the keyboard shortcuts (both CTRL-Insert/Shift-Insert and Ctrl-C/Ctrl-V to work and work the same all the time. I find myself preferring Teraterm to an XFree Box over the real thing even if the latter is only a KVM key switch away, simply because in reality, those frigging apps do not or not correctly support basic stuff like cut and paste.
Put away your pink sunglasses...
For reference see:
Enron Trader pleads Guilty, General situation, Enron settles for fraudulent billing, an Enron competitor charged, California doesn't like the FERC's soft stance stance
The only acceptable substitute for intelligence is silence.
If you call that a defense, you know zilch about cryptography.
If you know zilch about cryptography you are not qualified to offer an informed opinion about the topic at hand.
If you can not offer an informed opinion, you should shut up. Or post anonymously.
q.e.d.
Which speaks volumes about vtunnel author's qualities.
I give you a good reason not to use Windows: doing so would put me in league with hapless ultra-lame troll-babies like you.
'nuff said. Which you much fun with your mostly dead windoze
How often did you hear that ? Time to fight back ? Tired of that phrase ? Maybe you shouldn't - since nobody does it, right now.
... are ... doomed ... to looose!
It is time to fight back. No, I don't mean to step up to protect your rights. To Speak out against the overreach of copyright law. "Getting involved" or some such nonsense.
The problem is, all that is really defense. And defense, by definition, is war on the territory your enemy choses, at the time of your enemie's choice. You are doomed to loose.
You
It is now time to take the fight to the enemy. The RIAA, by suing ordinary citizens and publicly declaring its intent to instill fear in everyone's hearts, has officially declared war. War on You, The People. And still it is You The People who governs this land. Now this is personal, and this is everyone's fight. Stop begging for mercy from an overbearing oponent. Write off the those who get sued - that is Their War, and Their time. Those few are doomed anyway, soldiers who have fallen, if you want so.
Now your target is the music industry itself. Destroy the music industry. Defeat them utterly ! Attack their livelyhood. Drive them to bankruptcy ! Identify their weaknesses, and attack them there.
Destroy the music industry
It is up to you! You The People. Pass laws that undermine their revenue. Pass laws that curb their marketing. Seize their IP assets for misuse. Pass taxes that reduce their profits, have DAs raid their coke snorting execs, destroy the careers of their political lackeys. Do whatever it takes.
And, above all, be open with it. Cry out loud, that nothing will satisfy you than their utter defeat. Go and win the public debate. Dont appeal to politicians, appeal to the people. Be Creative to get your message out. Others have well developed tactics for that - use them.
Drive them into defense. Get them into hiding. Make it so that music execs' children will hesitat to admit their parent's jobs. That churches exclude them from posts. Make them universally hated and feared. Make it that their execs cant even sleep at night any more because their fear of you, and of failure, is haunting their dreams.
And then go out for the kill. And kill the beast, have no mercy! Dismantle the RIAA, RICO the Big five, put their execs to jail, and fire the rest.
Someone should send the leading music indutry people a good book on the history of another large and powerful institution. An association of huge wealth and immense power, that grew arrogant and became so full of itself that it started to ignore and trample those who actually ruled the land.
And when the last Templar Knights agonized towards their deaths on the fires on Paris streets, their once mighty order became all but a footnote of failure in history.
Or a perpetual memento: "Such is the fate of those, who deem themselves above all others, and their power beyond limits"
So, you might have another thought about that. Or two...
YOU just don't get it.
... Absent meaningfull regulation, the ISPs are the only wall we have against the spammers. Therefore any ISP who hosts spammers is as guilty as sthe spammer himself. The ISP is a criminal against The Net, a defiant one, at that, and I would support absolutely every legal means taken against him, even if those means would include physical attacks, killing, torture, whatever.
"Inconvenienced ISPs"... pfff
Would these ISPs behave, we'd have no spam problem. They would have draconian TOS contracts nailing every spammer immediately, and they would do what it takes to enforce them.
As it is, the Spammer attacks the communication of mankind itself. This is such an enormouzs crime that most singular issues pale against it. He is, therefore, beyond redemption or humanity, has voided whateveer right to decency, compassion or respect he might have had, and should be attacked by all means available.
So. Spammer-Friend, go and spew your irrespon-sible drivel somewhere else.
And go to hell.
I phoned MS support after getting that email (I have MS Gamevoice, which only works wirth Messenger up to 4.6)
They told me on the phone it was a virus email.
I'm getting sick of this Bush-Haters balling up their fists and stamping their little feet at anything he does. They're just hell-bent on revenge at all costs. What sad little lives.
...
It doesn't occur to you that they just happen to have a point, does it ?
And you are deaf to any rationale about that whatsoever, aren't you ? Who needs arguments anyway
Nah, it's just all those little bush haters.
Ooops. The most powerful nation in the world, with the most advanced economy and the best universities (all that according to numerous slashdot posters' frequent assertions) can not even run a simple power supply system without freuquent large scale outages.
Aren't you US guys not a little embarassed to have a power systems which ranges sligtly in front of, say, Swaziland, in terms of reliability ?
Ooops...
... ahem ... less attentive conduct.
Imagine for a moment, that Lady had had a cam in her classroom when she got into trouble for
Now, instead of getting fined for negligence while teaching, Ashcroft's bullies would pursue her for what ?