How many billions has Treasury spent trying to update computer systems? DoJ (FBI, etc.)? Military (how long did RPAS get kicked around sucking up $$s)? The plain fact is government has a horrible track record with IT spending boondoggles.
This sounds like another one; massive cash outlays today to buy illusory future savings.
Wait a minute...that sounds like most government programs period...:-(
Well, why would a citizen of the US have to be *in* the US for his rights to be respected by the US government?
Note that the US government asserts that a US citizen is still bound by US laws even when outside the US; so ISTM the citizen would be protected as well.
Well, I run it on my laptop (eMachines M5404), which is hardly "high-end", and it runs just fine, even with 7 or 8 files running and other tasks (OpenOffice, XMMX or Timidity, Firefox) or even watching a show.
If you're running *nix, rsync makes backups a breeze. I wrote a couple of scripts that allow me to sync my laptop up with my workstation via ssh (don't even have to mount NFS filesystems).
Sensitive files (GnuCash, etc.) are stored on the HD encrypted, and decrypted onto a RAM-Disk when I work with them. If the laptop gets stolen, sensitive data are pretty safe.
What I do is do a "save configuration as" (from make xconfig) into a file of the form $host-$date.config, and then copy it into my configuration tree.
When I build a new kernel (like right now), I copy this saved config into/usr/src/linux-2.4.21 (for example), and then from make xconfig I do a "load configuration from". Then I do a quick once-over to make sure all is well. If I make changes, it's "save configuration as" again. Then "save and exit" an on to the build.
This way I can reproduce old kernels if need be (like if something breaks with the new one, and I decide to patch the old one and keep using it).
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Indeed. Put a spork in it; we're done.
I'm sorry...
Indeed; this was my first thought also. Hardly staggering at all, is it? I'd mod you up + Informative had I mod points to do so.
The innumeracy of the summary, OTOH, is staggering... Come on, people, at least do a quick back-of-the-envelope sanity check, OK?
How many billions has Treasury spent trying to update computer systems? DoJ (FBI, etc.)? Military (how long did RPAS get kicked around sucking up $$s)? The plain fact is government has a horrible track record with IT spending boondoggles.
This sounds like another one; massive cash outlays today to buy illusory future savings.
Wait a minute...that sounds like most government programs period... :-(
Pfft. I take off and nuke my apartment from orbit. It's the only way to be sure.
Wouldn't this feature tend to lead to confirmation bias in the search results? To me, that radically diminishes the value of the search...
they mounted a scratch monkey first.
Well, why would a citizen of the US have to be *in* the US for his rights to be respected by the US government?
Note that the US government asserts that a US citizen is still bound by US laws even when outside the US; so ISTM the citizen would be protected as well.
Yeah, I'm a hopeless idealist. :-(
My name is Immanuel Pratt Freely, you insensitive clod!
Dude, what do you think is holding the car together?
G.Animal Farm tells this story pretty well, I think.
Gordon.It is a full-featured and low-overhead ORM. Go to http://www.hibernate.org and check out the NHibernate link.
Plus, there are several books avilable from, e.g., O'Reilly, Manning.
Just what I was thinking. Here is more info...
Yeah, they're a bunch of mindless jerks who'll be the first against the wall when the revolution comes.
Well, I run it on my laptop (eMachines M5404), which is hardly "high-end", and it runs just fine, even with 7 or 8 files running and other tasks (OpenOffice, XMMX or Timidity, Firefox) or even watching a show.
But there is more...
Now I see they have pulled the article.
Here is an example of why I maintain that LinuxWorld is dangerous.
They have posted what is obviously a bogus critical secrurity bulletin purportedly from Red Hat, linking to a "patch" located at stanford.edu.
Since when does RH deliver errata via random sites. More likely is that this is an attempt to compromise systems.
And the stars at LinuxWorld exercised no editorial judgement at all, no common sense; they just ran it.
If I were trying to undermine Linux, this is exactly the kind of thing I would do.
If you're running *nix, rsync makes backups a breeze. I wrote a couple of scripts that allow me to sync my laptop up with my workstation via ssh (don't even have to mount NFS filesystems).
Sensitive files (GnuCash, etc.) are stored on the HD encrypted, and decrypted onto a RAM-Disk when I work with them. If the laptop gets stolen, sensitive data are pretty safe.
Gordon.
True, as far as you go.
But how many of those people would have actually subscribed to those additional channels if they had to pay?
Any rational estimate of lost revenue has to take that into account.
Gordon.
You have to feed it (buy stuff) and pay attention to it (buy more stuff) or it will die.
Note also that Canopy Group owns part of Troll Tech. Just how secure are those Qt licenses?
But that 50K *has* to be repaid. How can a person do that on $10-$15/hr, and still have a roof over his head and food in his belly?
Remember that student loans generally can't be discharged via bankruptcy, so that's not even an option.
So it's not just "foolish pride", it's the reality of being faced with a crushing debt burden that can only be paid off with a good job.
Gordon.
What I do is do a "save configuration as" (from make xconfig) into a file of the form $host-$date.config, and then copy it into my configuration tree.
/usr/src/linux-2.4.21 (for example), and then from make xconfig I do a "load configuration from". Then I do a quick once-over to make sure all is well. If I make changes, it's "save configuration as" again. Then "save and exit" an on to the build.
When I build a new kernel (like right now), I copy this saved config into
This way I can reproduce old kernels if need be (like if something breaks with the new one, and I decide to patch the old one and keep using it).
Gordon.