Nota Bene: I don't know specifically where Cannes is held, to be honest. It just seems so French it has be to France. Anyway, the point is that MM's 9/11 fits the agenda of the EMEs and thus it is of little surprise that MM won the Palm d'Grease award. News would have been a rejection of the movie given its premise, believe-you-me.
Are you suggesting that the jury was brainwashed by the French?
LOL. Just as there was no need to brainwash the Amway Convention attendees that Glister is the best toothpaste regardless how obviously its name invokes images of oral Blisters, the Cannes attendees and judges needed no prompting to buy the commonly shared agenda pandered to by Mickey Moore.
For those of you needing pendantic handholding:
Cannes is a bastion of the Entertainment media elite and is held in France.
The Entertainment media elit (EME) are not known for liking things American, right-of-center, or center, conservative, libertarian, Republican, Reagan-esque, Bush, etc. In fact, the EME are rather left, liberal (thankfully, proudly so), globalist (as opposed to nationalistic American; or, as some call it, American patriotic). Many of the EME are on record (and film, TV, print, etc) as being against Bush (moveon.org), against the War on Terror, against the war in Iraq, etc. Many rather blame the US for 9/11. Many EME's use their entertainment credentials to attempt to influence public sentiment and policy (rights avaiable under the US Constitution and guaranteed by the US Gov't). Examples: Babs, Sean "Snort" Penn, etc.
France is the natural antagonist to America vis-a-vis the War on Terror and, if you must separate them, the war in Iraq. France stood against America (stronger than it did against Hitler, but I digress) in the UN and has its hands dirty in the under-reported oil-for-scoundrels scandal. France and the French widely believe Bush/Cheney pulled off 9/11 themselves (but they also count Jerry Lewis as a comedic genius).
If there was ever a movie made FOR CANNES it was Mickey Moore's 9/11. Fantastic understanding of one's audience and venue, I'll grant him that.
In second half of 2001 I wrote a program as a contractor for a dope who pre-sold it as a completed application (I found out later) and I was always being hurried (understandibly) to finish deadlines much sooner by the ultimate client. Anyway, thinking the problem was with me (and not a unethical middleman telling two stories to the endmen) I buckled down with coffee, then esspresso, then RedBull to push the sleep from my brain and meet the client's expectations. (Nota Bene: That is stupid).
I downed cases of RedBull a week. Costco was my supplier, Officer. I also gained 70 lbs. Whee.
So, imagine how happy I was to see Sugar Free RedBull. Sure, it has calories, but not nearly as many. I've lost 50 of those pounds and though I've had project deadlines that push the boundaries of sleep since, I have kept the weight off thanks to SFRB.
I wouldn't have latched on to RedBull if I could have located Time Release Caffedrine capsules. Great stuff, it was but I can't find it anywhere. Oh... to explain my love for Time Release Caffedrine, allow me to repost the following:
In 1990 I had a boooorrrrriiiinnnggg programming job customizing a mid-range Unix-based COBOL-written accounting package.
Snore.
On top of this I also was placed in the "air conditioner" room of my
employer's "office" (the front 1/4 of his house) -- behind me was a
very large window unit that pumped out A/C cold and white noise bold. Snore.
So while our NCR Tower did have a couple curses games, there was no
FrozenBubble or "Stay Awake" Quake to assist a poor coding monkey
(eep). Falling asleep just meant more notes written by the boss'
nuerotic wife, whose moment of joy in the two years I knew her was
receiving a prescription for Prozac (I jest not).
I needed help. And I found it: Caffedrine with Time Release Action for the Light Lift and Steady Buzz that Lasts and Lasts.
Gone were the tummy twirls of NoDoz, multitudinal bathroom breaks due
to copious coffee consumption (remember, avoiding Mrs Neurosis' Handy
Dandy Notebook is a bonus), and shaky hands that leads to increased ^H-action and accompanying decreased productivity.
But the things are no where to be found anymore. Instead, all I can
find are the single tablet Caffedrines that don't offer the time
released goodness of the Contact-looking predecessor.
In 1990 I had a boooorrrrriiiinnnggg programming job customizing a mid-range Unix-based COBOL-written accounting package. Snore.
On top of this I also was placed in the "air conditioner" room of my employer's "office" (the front 1/4 of his house) -- behind me was a very large window unit that pumped out A/C cold and white noise bold. Snore.
So while our NCR Tower did have a couple curses games, there was no FrozenBubble or "Stay Awake" Quake to assist a poor coding monkey (eep). Falling asleep just meant more notes written by the boss' nuerotic wife, whose moment of joy in the two years I knew her was receiving a prescription for Prozac (I jest not).
I needed help. And I found it: Caffedrine with Time Release Action for the Light Lift and Steady Buzz that Lasts and Lasts. Gone were the tummy twirls of NoDoz, multitudinal bathroom breaks due to copious coffee consumption (remember, avoiding Mrs Neurosis' Handy Dandy Notebook is a bonus), and shaky hands that leads to increased ^H-action and accompanying decreased productivity.
But the things are no where to be found anymore. Instead, all I can find are the single tablet Caffedrines that don't offer the time released goodness of the Contact-looking predecessor.
ThinkGeek! Bring back Time Release Caffedrine!
Thank goodness I am at Starbucks...
Re:Help on Copyright Law for Poor SCOX
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That's actually related to how I learned about the drivel, er, content, posted on darlmcbride.com; someone posted in the Yahoo!Finance CALD forum (AKA SCOX Forum) that Darl's site should become a "cite" in the case via Novell's lawyers. Dunk, meet slam. Slam, Dunk.
Help on Copyright Law for Poor SCOX
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Perhaps SCOX, so bedraggaled with its failing business and launghingstock license offerings hasn't had the resources necessary to devote a fine eye towards matters of intellectual propert laws such as copyrights. Fortunately, there is an expert on IP Law who has published his salient thoughts on this subject to benefit the world. Perhaps we could kindly point SCOX to this great resource to assist them in this confusing arena of proper attribution and distribution with prior permission. Below is an excerpt:
Intellectual Property Rights Explained
If [SCO] wants to develop products for enterprise corporations, it must respect and follow the rule of law. These rules include contracts, copyrights and other intellectual property laws. For several months SCO has been involved in a contentious legal case that we filed against IBM. What are the underlying intellectual property principles that have put SCO in a strong position in this hotly debated legal case? I'd summarize them in this way:
1. "Fair use" applies to educational, public service and related applications and does not justify commercial misappropriation. Books and Internet sites intended and authorized for the purpose of teaching and other non-commercial use cannot be copied for commercial use....
2. Copyright attributions protect ownership and attribution rights--they cannot simply be changed or stripped away. This is how copyright owners maintain control of their legal rights and prevent unauthorized transfer of ownership....
3. In copyright law, ownership cannot be transferred without express, written authority of a copyright holder....
4. Transfer of copyright ownership without express written authority of all proper parties is null and void.
5. Use of derivative rights in copyrighted material is defined by the scope of a license grant. An authorized derivative work may not be used beyond the scope of a license grant. License grants regarding derivative works vary from license to license--some are broad and some are narrow. In other words, the license itself defines the scope of permissive use, and licensees agree to be bound by that definition....
Oops, almost forgot to give attribution to the source! Ha, ha, almost slipped, and when trying to give examples of following copyright laws -- that would have been too ironic, don't you think? Anyway, here's the source for the above prescient insight into IP Laws for poor old SCO:
An open source toolkit to make software for a closed source product to compliment the open sourced installer of programs for their closed source platform....Hmmm....
(((***imagining***)) Welcome to Hell. Here's your Complimentary Sorbet! MMmmmMMM. That's just takes the edge off, doesn't it? Oh, I almost forgot! Please enjoy this refreshing Wintermint gum at your leisure! Now, please step towards the Isle of Sadistic Torment...yes, follow the guard with the camera, thank you. (((***/imaging***)))
....Yeah....better than it was but still not as good as that other vacation spot.
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This URL above in Slashdot is the only place I've ever advertised my online resume.
I can vouch for this. In fact, you may have received an email from "me" -- slashdot@rjamestaylor.com -- purporting to have important documents in a.PIF file for you to signe for your m0rgauges kwick a`prval [sic]. I can't tell you how much second-hand-spam (spam from anti-spam engines telling you the message "you" sent is ladden with a virus and usually containing the virus for your review, etc.) I get claiming "Slashdot, you have a virus!" The only place on the 'Net I referrence slashdot is kuro5hin -- kidding (that's the way to keep your inbox clean) -- is here.
Oh, if you want to send hate mail (no one takes time to say nice things; hate motivates) you'll need to invent a different username than the one I post; I gave up looking for ham to slashdot@rjamestaylor.com, though I have discovered exactly three real messages out of the $plethora_synonym of spam, second-hand-spam and two-fisted-spam-fu (don't ask) swamping my little'ol Outlook Express 4.0 Inbox (kidding).
I wanna buy it (I don't mind paying for my Free software) and install it but I don't want a physical shipment nor do I want to install 9.0 first. But physical shipment is all that's offered.
How do I make the LiveCD boot on my HD?
This is a very nice distribution, even though I had to manually setup my ATI Raedon card with my Dell 1600x1400 LCD. Small annoyance.
(BTW, note the differences bewteen 9.1 Personal and Professional; if you still need professional (!) then note the difference between the $60 update and the $90 new purchase; hint, it has nothing to do with existing software.)
Thank you! I was reading the article waiting for the paragraph where the agent with the cigarette hanging out of her mouth made him undress for the camera, or the agents made him stand on a box with fake electrical wires on his thumbs, or when Agent Smith took away his mouth -- something more than the inisidious asking of questions.
The same people who think the gov't was overreaching by asking questions probably blame the same gov't for not putting 9/11 together before it happened and stopping it. Maybe not, but where is the harm in asking questions? BTW, the cops don't need a warrant to ask questions. If you decide not to answer them, your right and mine, they may well get a warrant to hold you.
There is no story here. He has not been blacklisted. No one would even know about the questioning if he didn't tell about it. Sorry, there is a story here: ask for information about the subterranean structure under a public facility supporting over 50,000 people and expect to have a couple questions asked of you why you'd want to know.
My response? Thank goodness someone is paying attention and looking out for the 50,000 people at UT! And doing it without violating the rights of the one they want to ask questions of.
(BTW, I have no idea what UT Watch is, but I assumed from the way the story was written that the student had nothing to do with and may not have heard about the group; that is until the end where it turns out he's worked with UT Watch with webcams and websites, etc. Er, why not just say upfront, "They asked about my involvement with UT Watch which I explained was limited to superficial contact over...;" point is, to me at the beginning of the article the question seemed perposterous and a sign of the agents' wild assumptions; but it turns out that the agents at least pegged this student as having more to do with the group, what ever it is and what ever it does with no implication of terrorism meant, than the typical student -- the agents seem to have made a valid connection in this case! Why didn't the student or the article pursue the line of reasoning, "Hmm. These agents are making sure that no one with terroristic intentions is seeking this information, which I don't have, but they asked about this specific group, which I happen to have contact with on a superficial level; I wonder if there is something more going on than I know?" But, of course, its the gov't that is suspect here. Unless terrorists hit. Then the gov't is ineffective.
1. Sun bundles stuff that other distros can't. e.g. StarOffice (which has features that OpenOffice doesn't), Macromedia Flash, Java, RealPlayer, etc.
Xandros and Lindows have StarOffice, too, at around the same price point. Flash, Java, RealPlayer, too.
4. Unlike many ad-hoc distros, JDS is founded upon the idea of being a consolidated desktop.
While Barney Fife Linux may not match JDS, Xandros is beta testing its distributed management desktop now. Expect more to follow.
If with my limited distribution experience I can point to similiar features being offered right now from existing distributions this is a good thing -- competition is good for the customer.
I didn't mention SUSE (the new capitalization) because I haven't seen it since Novell acquired it; but I look forward to Novell's SUSE offering and seeing with Novell's backing SUSE fares at continuing to raise the bar at server, workstation and even desktop distributions.
It's funny to see the emergence of criticism against all the choices available with Linux -- kind of like the overwhelming sensation of a Breshnev-Era Soviet citizen walking into a Western supermarket "Too many choices! How many kinds of coffee must one have? How many different kinds of salt?" Choice no longer just means "Home or Pro," "Standard or Enterprise Architect?"
I was hoping you'd ask that. Yes, you.:) Anyway, that was my first thought: hide behind the plausible deniability. At a managed hosting facility if someone walks out with a server, drive array, whatever, there is one company to blame and one crew to investigate. Co-lo's are well protected when they shouldn't be and wide open when they should be. It's a toss up.
I don't want people around my servers that I don't have a business relationship with so I can hold them accountable for screwing something up. (See, I did learn something from Darl.)
I wasn't going to tell this but I will. One day a server at a non-controlled environment (it wasn't a big named place and no I'm not going to name it) went down hard. Call into the service line and the system was back on line in a few minutes -- not bad, I'm thinking -- log in, 'w' and uptime is... 110 days. Eh? Call into service center to find out what happened -- the tech will have to get back to me. Turns out a large(r) sized customer (Fries with that?) in the adjacent rack had to squeeze in the small space between them and knocked our Cat5 cable out of the switch (which means the cable's snappy-thingy no worky-worky). Wait for it:
A week later, he came back.
That, my friends, foe, freaks and fans is when I decided to move to managed hosting with Rackspace.
Or, if you can't afford solo, go managed hosting with a company like Rackspace.
I do.
I've been to one of their data centers. I met the former black ops specialist who's responsible for building them up and locking them down. Take a router? Ha. You can't get in door of the datacenter, much less into the datacenter.
I'll go back to my own equipment when I need my 1000th redundant DB master. Then I think I can afford to build the redundantly powered, redundantly backed up, quadratically backboned, overly secured, continuously manned building that goes around important production servers. Funny how the facility is usually left out of the equation not only of the cost but of the requirements for 24x7 uptime.
I've seen one too many people lingering in the XO co-lo facility on Barranca in Irvine, CA (last time I was there, anyway) reading the ID tags and ip addresses of the servers in adjacent cages. No thanks. I think I can begin to keep out Internet intruders, but physical accessors always have an advantage (cloop.o or not).
Wherein I am to detail my duties with our application clusters. We've been running full press for a few months scaling from a couple self-hosted boxes in the closet to dozens of servers over at EV1^W (kidding, Joey) RackSpace. So, it's time to step back and write it down so that other people can read the scribbled notes and carry on once I do.
But then I recalled last summer when my father had a heart attack and, due to a string of complications was going to have more than usual risky surgery. If all went well, then it would be considered a minor surgery, but if not... Sunday evening before the Monday morning surgery my family gathered with my alert yet sober dad and began to have "the talk." Eventually he began to tell us the financial arrangements he had made for our step mother and finally he told us his passwords and password methodology. Something about disclosing the initimate, closely held passwords made me realize he might really not make it.
After a few somber minutes my brother broke the silence and said that, strangely enough, he had developed a similar way of creating and remembering passwords as had my dad. I, wanting to try to keep things serious relunctantly gave out my methodology, too, which was coincidentally similar to both my dad and my brother's way. The laughter not only broke the tension, it strengthened our bond.
Everything turned out well; we are quite thankful.
Having a cable modem with Cox Communication in Orange County that regularly pulls down 300Kbps b2b data feeds throwing a little hammer script to simply retrieve the sites that are being discussed so that, in my leisure, I can evaluate if they truly are scammers or not is but a blip.
I did note that a number of sites are hosted at free hosting sites, such as those by yahoo, etc. These are monitored for bandwidth hogs and shutdown when they hit their alloted limit (miniscule), thus protecting the free host and sending the leech elsewhere or to buy bandwidth. I seriously doubt legitimate banks are using Free! Web! Hosting! At! Yahoo!, don't you?
But, then again, guess who is still employing the COBOL programmers...
And, yes, it's the greedy, the desperate, the unprincipled and the gullible who are taken by the scams.
One other thing:
>>> a commercial from an American company that's basically doing the same thing
Thank you for your thought out, reasoned, researched and properly scoped findings. I'll remember to avoid TV and American companies. Since I already avoid TV (I haven't had broadcast TV or Cable TV or Satellite TV since 1990; I selectively watch DVDs but that's about it) I'm confident I've got that one down pat, but can you help me with non-American companies I should patronize for my:
groceries, gasoline, electricity, ISP services, hosting services, personal computers (how much American ownership is OK before the company is contaminated?), automobiles (I've owned Hondas since 1997; I think they've spilled over to the "American" side of the company thing since then, haven't they?), coffee, phone service, clothing, medicine and health services (oops!), education, travel services, entertainment, housing, furniture, flatware, dishes, flooring, fixtures, exercise equipment, yard services, insurance, and anything else I may have left out?
I'd really appreciate being able to rid myself of the United States of SCAMerican companies ASAP. Please help.
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"shure" --- every so often it surfaces that I've done one too many voiceover recording sessions with cheap-ass equipment.
Is that clear? Oki-Data^WDokie.
- It's really sad that today I looked up some syntax on the mySQL site and prayed it was the same on MSSQL.
You must be joking.What's wrong with the on-line documentation that came with your legitimate copy of MSSQL? What's wrong with Google?
I shure hate to think what happens when you can't find Diesel for your diesel Mercedes ... :)
Anyway, at least the backdoor password will still be intact:
Nota Bene: I don't know specifically where Cannes is held, to be honest. It just seems so French it has be to France. Anyway, the point is that MM's 9/11 fits the agenda of the EMEs and thus it is of little surprise that MM won the Palm d'Grease award. News would have been a rejection of the movie given its premise, believe-you-me.
LOL. Just as there was no need to brainwash the Amway Convention attendees that Glister is the best toothpaste regardless how obviously its name invokes images of oral Blisters, the Cannes attendees and judges needed no prompting to buy the commonly shared agenda pandered to by Mickey Moore.
For those of you needing pendantic handholding:
Cannes is a bastion of the Entertainment media elite and is held in France.
- The Entertainment media elit (EME) are not known for liking things American, right-of-center, or center, conservative, libertarian, Republican, Reagan-esque, Bush, etc. In fact, the EME are rather left, liberal (thankfully, proudly so), globalist (as opposed to nationalistic American; or, as some call it, American patriotic). Many of the EME are on record (and film, TV, print, etc) as being against Bush (moveon.org), against the War on Terror, against the war in Iraq, etc. Many rather blame the US for 9/11. Many EME's use their entertainment credentials to attempt to influence public sentiment and policy (rights avaiable under the US Constitution and guaranteed by the US Gov't). Examples: Babs, Sean "Snort" Penn, etc.
- France is the natural antagonist to America vis-a-vis the War on Terror and, if you must separate them, the war in Iraq. France stood against America (stronger than it did against Hitler, but I digress) in the UN and has its hands dirty in the under-reported oil-for-scoundrels scandal. France and the French widely believe Bush/Cheney pulled off 9/11 themselves (but they also count Jerry Lewis as a comedic genius).
If there was ever a movie made FOR CANNES it was Mickey Moore's 9/11. Fantastic understanding of one's audience and venue, I'll grant him that.- FYI, if you read through the responses below, you'll find that four of the nine jurors were Americans. Only one was French.
The judges nationality is not the point of my comment. "People in France" does not equate to "French people." That I have to explain this is telling.I'm shocked! Shocked, I tell you! Shocked!
(Why can't people who so easily draw inferences between oil price and Haliburton not see the obvious bias inherent in Cannes picking MM's 9/11?)
I downed cases of RedBull a week. Costco was my supplier, Officer. I also gained 70 lbs. Whee.
So, imagine how happy I was to see Sugar Free RedBull. Sure, it has calories, but not nearly as many. I've lost 50 of those pounds and though I've had project deadlines that push the boundaries of sleep since, I have kept the weight off thanks to SFRB.
I wouldn't have latched on to RedBull if I could have located Time Release Caffedrine capsules. Great stuff, it was but I can't find it anywhere. Oh... to explain my love for Time Release Caffedrine, allow me to repost the following:
On top of this I also was placed in the "air conditioner" room of my employer's "office" (the front 1/4 of his house) -- behind me was a very large window unit that pumped out A/C cold and white noise bold. Snore.
So while our NCR Tower did have a couple curses games, there was no FrozenBubble or "Stay Awake" Quake to assist a poor coding monkey (eep). Falling asleep just meant more notes written by the boss' nuerotic wife, whose moment of joy in the two years I knew her was receiving a prescription for Prozac (I jest not).
I needed help. And I found it: Caffedrine with Time Release Action for the Light Lift and Steady Buzz that Lasts and Lasts. Gone were the tummy twirls of NoDoz, multitudinal bathroom breaks due to copious coffee consumption (remember, avoiding Mrs Neurosis' Handy Dandy Notebook is a bonus), and shaky hands that leads to increased ^H-action and accompanying decreased productivity.
But the things are no where to be found anymore. Instead, all I can find are the single tablet Caffedrines that don't offer the time released goodness of the Contact-looking predecessor.
-
ThinkGeek! Bring back Time Release Caffedrine!
Thank goodness I am at Starbucks...That's actually related to how I learned about the drivel, er, content, posted on darlmcbride.com; someone posted in the Yahoo!Finance CALD forum (AKA SCOX Forum) that Darl's site should become a "cite" in the case via Novell's lawyers. Dunk, meet slam. Slam, Dunk.
Why do you think they call it Apple Darwin, anyway?
I can vouch for this. In fact, you may have received an email from "me" -- slashdot@rjamestaylor.com -- purporting to have important documents in a .PIF file for you to signe for your m0rgauges kwick a`prval [sic]. I can't tell you how much second-hand-spam (spam from anti-spam engines telling you the message "you" sent is ladden with a virus and usually containing the virus for your review, etc.) I get claiming "Slashdot, you have a virus!" The only place on the 'Net I referrence slashdot is kuro5hin -- kidding (that's the way to keep your inbox clean) -- is here.
Oh, if you want to send hate mail (no one takes time to say nice things; hate motivates) you'll need to invent a different username than the one I post; I gave up looking for ham to slashdot@rjamestaylor.com, though I have discovered exactly three real messages out of the $plethora_synonym of spam, second-hand-spam and two-fisted-spam-fu (don't ask) swamping my little'ol Outlook Express 4.0 Inbox (kidding).
They also bought that "All the news that's fit to print" crap from that NY outfit. "All the news that fits, 'To print!'"
>>I think I'll count my donation to SuSE as my charitable donation for the year.
'Cause heaven knows, Novell needs the money... eh... no.
I want to buy, I just want to Download it instead of ship it.
Question:
I wanna buy it (I don't mind paying for my Free software) and install it but I don't want a physical shipment nor do I want to install 9.0 first. But physical shipment is all that's offered.
How do I make the LiveCD boot on my HD?
This is a very nice distribution, even though I had to manually setup my ATI Raedon card with my Dell 1600x1400 LCD. Small annoyance.
(BTW, note the differences bewteen 9.1 Personal and Professional; if you still need professional (!) then note the difference between the $60 update and the $90 new purchase; hint, it has nothing to do with existing software.)
The same people who think the gov't was overreaching by asking questions probably blame the same gov't for not putting 9/11 together before it happened and stopping it. Maybe not, but where is the harm in asking questions? BTW, the cops don't need a warrant to ask questions. If you decide not to answer them, your right and mine, they may well get a warrant to hold you.
There is no story here. He has not been blacklisted. No one would even know about the questioning if he didn't tell about it. Sorry, there is a story here: ask for information about the subterranean structure under a public facility supporting over 50,000 people and expect to have a couple questions asked of you why you'd want to know.
My response? Thank goodness someone is paying attention and looking out for the 50,000 people at UT! And doing it without violating the rights of the one they want to ask questions of.
(BTW, I have no idea what UT Watch is, but I assumed from the way the story was written that the student had nothing to do with and may not have heard about the group; that is until the end where it turns out he's worked with UT Watch with webcams and websites, etc. Er, why not just say upfront, "They asked about my involvement with UT Watch which I explained was limited to superficial contact over ...;" point is, to me at the beginning of the article the question seemed perposterous and a sign of the agents' wild assumptions; but it turns out that the agents at least pegged this student as having more to do with the group, what ever it is and what ever it does with no implication of terrorism meant, than the typical student -- the agents seem to have made a valid connection in this case! Why didn't the student or the article pursue the line of reasoning, "Hmm. These agents are making sure that no one with terroristic intentions is seeking this information, which I don't have, but they asked about this specific group, which I happen to have contact with on a superficial level; I wonder if there is something more going on than I know?" But, of course, its the gov't that is suspect here. Unless terrorists hit. Then the gov't is ineffective.
Sheesh.)
to avoid buying other peoples ...
[I can't do it]...
[name of the pda]
If with my limited distribution experience I can point to similiar features being offered right now from existing distributions this is a good thing -- competition is good for the customer.
I didn't mention SUSE (the new capitalization) because I haven't seen it since Novell acquired it; but I look forward to Novell's SUSE offering and seeing with Novell's backing SUSE fares at continuing to raise the bar at server, workstation and even desktop distributions.
It's funny to see the emergence of criticism against all the choices available with Linux -- kind of like the overwhelming sensation of a Breshnev-Era Soviet citizen walking into a Western supermarket "Too many choices! How many kinds of coffee must one have? How many different kinds of salt?" Choice no longer just means "Home or Pro," "Standard or Enterprise Architect?"
I was hoping you'd ask that. Yes, you. :) Anyway, that was my first thought: hide behind the plausible deniability. At a managed hosting facility if someone walks out with a server, drive array, whatever, there is one company to blame and one crew to investigate. Co-lo's are well protected when they shouldn't be and wide open when they should be. It's a toss up.
I don't want people around my servers that I don't have a business relationship with so I can hold them accountable for screwing something up. (See, I did learn something from Darl.)
I wasn't going to tell this but I will. One day a server at a non-controlled environment (it wasn't a big named place and no I'm not going to name it) went down hard. Call into the service line and the system was back on line in a few minutes -- not bad, I'm thinking -- log in, 'w' and uptime is ... 110 days. Eh? Call into service center to find out what happened -- the tech will have to get back to me. Turns out a large(r) sized customer (Fries with that?) in the adjacent rack had to squeeze in the small space between them and knocked our Cat5 cable out of the switch (which means the cable's snappy-thingy no worky-worky). Wait for it:
That, my friends, foe, freaks and fans is when I decided to move to managed hosting with Rackspace.Or, if you can't afford solo, go managed hosting with a company like Rackspace.
I do.
I've been to one of their data centers. I met the former black ops specialist who's responsible for building them up and locking them down. Take a router? Ha. You can't get in door of the datacenter, much less into the datacenter.
I'll go back to my own equipment when I need my 1000th redundant DB master. Then I think I can afford to build the redundantly powered, redundantly backed up, quadratically backboned, overly secured, continuously manned building that goes around important production servers. Funny how the facility is usually left out of the equation not only of the cost but of the requirements for 24x7 uptime.
I've seen one too many people lingering in the XO co-lo facility on Barranca in Irvine, CA (last time I was there, anyway) reading the ID tags and ip addresses of the servers in adjacent cages. No thanks. I think I can begin to keep out Internet intruders, but physical accessors always have an advantage (cloop.o or not).
But then I recalled last summer when my father had a heart attack and, due to a string of complications was going to have more than usual risky surgery. If all went well, then it would be considered a minor surgery, but if not... Sunday evening before the Monday morning surgery my family gathered with my alert yet sober dad and began to have "the talk." Eventually he began to tell us the financial arrangements he had made for our step mother and finally he told us his passwords and password methodology. Something about disclosing the initimate, closely held passwords made me realize he might really not make it.
After a few somber minutes my brother broke the silence and said that, strangely enough, he had developed a similar way of creating and remembering passwords as had my dad. I, wanting to try to keep things serious relunctantly gave out my methodology, too, which was coincidentally similar to both my dad and my brother's way. The laughter not only broke the tension, it strengthened our bond.
Everything turned out well; we are quite thankful.
I wonder if Dad changed his...never mind...
Having a cable modem with Cox Communication in Orange County that regularly pulls down 300Kbps b2b data feeds throwing a little hammer script to simply retrieve the sites that are being discussed so that, in my leisure, I can evaluate if they truly are scammers or not is but a blip.
I did note that a number of sites are hosted at free hosting sites, such as those by yahoo, etc. These are monitored for bandwidth hogs and shutdown when they hit their alloted limit (miniscule), thus protecting the free host and sending the leech elsewhere or to buy bandwidth. I seriously doubt legitimate banks are using Free! Web! Hosting! At! Yahoo!, don't you?
But, then again, guess who is still employing the COBOL programmers...
And, yes, it's the greedy, the desperate, the unprincipled and the gullible who are taken by the scams.
One other thing:
>>> a commercial from an American company that's basically doing the same thing
Thank you for your thought out, reasoned, researched and properly scoped findings. I'll remember to avoid TV and American companies. Since I already avoid TV (I haven't had broadcast TV or Cable TV or Satellite TV since 1990; I selectively watch DVDs but that's about it) I'm confident I've got that one down pat, but can you help me with non-American companies I should patronize for my:
groceries, gasoline, electricity, ISP services, hosting services, personal computers (how much American ownership is OK before the company is contaminated?), automobiles (I've owned Hondas since 1997; I think they've spilled over to the "American" side of the company thing since then, haven't they?), coffee, phone service, clothing, medicine and health services (oops!), education, travel services, entertainment, housing, furniture, flatware, dishes, flooring, fixtures, exercise equipment, yard services, insurance, and anything else I may have left out?
I'd really appreciate being able to rid myself of the United States of SCAMerican companies ASAP. Please help.
Thanks.