BTW, one of the reasons that shit has hit the fan as it did is that the Red Cross was NOT ALLOWED into New Orleans this whole time. It may sound like a tin-foil type thing, but it's right there on their website: http://www.redcross.org/faq/0,1096,0_682_4524,00.h tml
Beside this, many countries and National Guard units were ready to go in and help but were unable to because of FEMA and Homeland Security.
Wow... that video is pretty sad, though not in the way the reporter makes it out to be. The only thing I found really foul about it is the stupid cop trying to cover her ass instead of saying "look.. we need this stuff. It's not being flown in from anywhere else and it's not like they can buy it. Why the hell are people so outraged about this looting? The Walmarts will get their total loss insurance anyway, but this stuff, that people NEED, is THERE on the shelves of these stores. What are they expecting people to do, go and starve? Not use clean clothes and shoes that are already there? I just cannot comprehend people that are openly advocating shooting these "looters".
There was another video out earlier of a black lady walking out with a cart filled with shoes. The reporter was trying to guilt her about taking all this stuff while she's saying that her whole family and others NEED SHOES! It's an emergency, people are dying and with all this going on, trying to survive gets you shot at.
Later on, it was reported on CNN that something like 70% of the people at the convention center didn't have shoes.
What are people really expecting when nothing is being done and people are forced to take things into their own hands?
This thing with Gentoo is that the USE flags also apply to dependency management. What makes it really useful is that if you specify USE=ldap, then the package you're emerging will also download the ldap libraries, as well as compile the specific program with support for it. If you tell it not to use ldap, it will keep ldap off your system if you don't need it. In the end, this adds up to saving you a lot of clutter and some secutiry risks.
I just installed a second Gentoo box, a lowly Pentium 2 400mhz with 128mb RAM and read up on distcc. It certainly makes compiling Gentoo a LOT faster when the otherwise poor underpowered box can ask my AthlonXP 2400 for some compiling help.
It also requires rather minimal configuratio on my part and for the most part "Just Works[tm]"
A totally computer illiterate friend of mine has been complaining about pop-ups, spyware and slowness for ages using WinXP
One day I came over and installed Fedora Core 2. He even said it looks more professional then Windows to him due to the fonts and Gnome 2.6. He's very happy using Firefox, Evolution, OpenOffice and Gaim among others.
And until he decides to start learning it on his own, I can always ssh in and upgrade his system or whatever.
The ability and freedom for people to choose to use IE, for example, as a browser with their email client of choice instead of being locked into Mozilla for both tasks.
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BTW, one of the reasons that shit has hit the fan as it did is that the Red Cross was NOT ALLOWED into New Orleans this whole time. It may sound like a tin-foil type thing, but it's right there on their website: http://www.redcross.org/faq/0,1096,0_682_4524,00.h tml
Beside this, many countries and National Guard units were ready to go in and help but were unable to because of FEMA and Homeland Security.
Wow... that video is pretty sad, though not in the way the reporter makes it out to be. The only thing I found really foul about it is the stupid cop trying to cover her ass instead of saying "look.. we need this stuff. It's not being flown in from anywhere else and it's not like they can buy it. Why the hell are people so outraged about this looting? The Walmarts will get their total loss insurance anyway, but this stuff, that people NEED, is THERE on the shelves of these stores. What are they expecting people to do, go and starve? Not use clean clothes and shoes that are already there? I just cannot comprehend people that are openly advocating shooting these "looters".
There was another video out earlier of a black lady walking out with a cart filled with shoes. The reporter was trying to guilt her about taking all this stuff while she's saying that her whole family and others NEED SHOES! It's an emergency, people are dying and with all this going on, trying to survive gets you shot at.
Later on, it was reported on CNN that something like 70% of the people at the convention center didn't have shoes.
What are people really expecting when nothing is being done and people are forced to take things into their own hands?
yeah, well.. no more fraternizing for you then.
With enough thrust....
Hey now... Corporations are people too you know!
Basically what pyr0 said. The athlon box has march=athlon-xp and the P2 has march=pentium2.
This thing with Gentoo is that the USE flags also apply to dependency management. What makes it really useful is that if you specify USE=ldap, then the package you're emerging will also download the ldap libraries, as well as compile the specific program with support for it. If you tell it not to use ldap, it will keep ldap off your system if you don't need it. In the end, this adds up to saving you a lot of clutter and some secutiry risks.
I just installed a second Gentoo box, a lowly Pentium 2 400mhz with 128mb RAM and read up on distcc. It certainly makes compiling Gentoo a LOT faster when the otherwise poor underpowered box can ask my AthlonXP 2400 for some compiling help.
It also requires rather minimal configuratio on my part and for the most part "Just Works[tm]"
Hehe.. now if only I had a beowolf cluster....
Ditto here.
A totally computer illiterate friend of mine has been complaining about pop-ups, spyware and slowness for ages using WinXP
One day I came over and installed Fedora Core 2. He even said it looks more professional then Windows to him due to the fonts and Gnome 2.6. He's very happy using Firefox, Evolution, OpenOffice and Gaim among others.
And until he decides to start learning it on his own, I can always ssh in and upgrade his system or whatever.
hmm...
perizzle -pizzle 's/\b(\w)\w+\b/$1izzlizzle/g'
The ability and freedom for people to choose to use IE, for example, as a browser with their email client of choice instead of being locked into Mozilla for both tasks.