...discovering that part of the site even does not support Linux Ahem... and what is that part, exactly? I just browsed dilbert.com on several Linux machines (Firefox 2 with flash plugin, Debian testing and FC) and saw nothing that would seem non-functional.
Having said that, I absolutely agree that the new design is bloated, clunky, and horribly slow. There is absolutely no need to use flash anywhere but in the mashups.
Christians killed all male civilians... in city of Srebrenica, Bosnia, in 1994 only because civilians were - guess what - Muslims. The Srebrenica massacre was indeed a war crime and has been commonly recognized as such. Your statement, however, is wrong on so many levels:
Christians? The perpetrators grew up in the good old Communist Yugoslavia, where the state religion was Atheism and no career growth was ever possible without it. Who are you calling Christian, a Communist party functioner and then Serbian president Milocevic? Or an army general Mladic thought to order the massacre, who reported to the Communist party during all his career? Or the Scorpions security forces officers, no less loyal to the Communist party?
Killed because they were Muslim? Sorry, no: the Yugoslavian war was territorial, not religious. Even the article that you cite admits that: "a fierce struggle for territorial control... ensued among the three major groups in Bosnia: Bosniak, Serb, and Croat.". And let's not forget that the Serbs were war victims just as much as the Bosnians; both suffered because they lived in a particular area, not because they were going to a particular church.
The last but not the least, using a tragedy as a pretext for flawed thesises like "Christians bad, Muslims good" (replace the confession names any way you wish) is, IMHO, not exactly ethical. More on attempts to capitalize on the Srebrenica events can be found, e.g., in a recent review Using War as an Excuse for More War.
...we get port sweeps every day coming from china. Probably so, but I'd guess that you're also getting port sweeps from Russia, Korea, various others, and from within the US - Am I right? Hardly. In my university (top 50), well over 90% of such attack attempts (and port scans are just a small fraction of those, mind you) come from China. Connection attempts from Russia happen much, much less often, and those from other sources are extremely rare exceptions.
Yes I understand your scepticism. I used to think along same lines until having had looked at Snort logs.
Whatever URL I put in got back a javascript redirect to a page apparently telling me I had to use IE. Not an easy thing to do in Ubuntu. Use NoScript (https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/722) and/or User Agent Switcher (https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/59). That is exactly what they were designed for.
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... and it has been free for Ubuntu, as indicated on their web page (http://www.ksplice.com/pricing)
...discovering that part of the site even does not support Linux Ahem... and what is that part, exactly? I just browsed dilbert.com on several Linux machines (Firefox 2 with flash plugin, Debian testing and FC) and saw nothing that would seem non-functional.Having said that, I absolutely agree that the new design is bloated, clunky, and horribly slow. There is absolutely no need to use flash anywhere but in the mashups.
Christians? The perpetrators grew up in the good old Communist Yugoslavia, where the state religion was Atheism and no career growth was ever possible without it. Who are you calling Christian, a Communist party functioner and then Serbian president Milocevic? Or an army general Mladic thought to order the massacre, who reported to the Communist party during all his career? Or the Scorpions security forces officers, no less loyal to the Communist party?
Killed because they were Muslim? Sorry, no: the Yugoslavian war was territorial, not religious. Even the article that you cite admits that: "a fierce struggle for territorial control... ensued among the three major groups in Bosnia: Bosniak, Serb, and Croat.". And let's not forget that the Serbs were war victims just as much as the Bosnians; both suffered because they lived in a particular area, not because they were going to a particular church.
The last but not the least, using a tragedy as a pretext for flawed thesises like "Christians bad, Muslims good" (replace the confession names any way you wish) is, IMHO, not exactly ethical. More on attempts to capitalize on the Srebrenica events can be found, e.g., in a recent review Using War as an Excuse for More War.
...we get port sweeps every day coming from china. Probably so, but I'd guess that you're also getting port sweeps from Russia, Korea, various others, and from within the US - Am I right? Hardly. In my university (top 50), well over 90% of such attack attempts (and port scans are just a small fraction of those, mind you) come from China. Connection attempts from Russia happen much, much less often, and those from other sources are extremely rare exceptions.Yes I understand your scepticism. I used to think along same lines until having had looked at Snort logs.