Isn't that the sort of comment made by any descent red blooded Yank? Hey, fair's fair. Just last week I heard some dimwit from Michigan accusing Canadians of having a Soviet-Style government because of their medicare system. I did give him the benefit of the doubt at the time because of the nastiness in New York, but I know that his ilk are all too common in the Yoo Ess.
The *only* way to have a decent broadband system is to have a public utility installed. California learned this the hard way when it came to its power system. If you expect that you'll get competative service from the multinational communications giants you're kidding yourself because it's only a matter of time before they'll all be one giant bloody company anyway.
God help us, indeed... and those words don't come easily for an atheist.
You do realise, of course, that green ketchups used to be quite common. It was Heinz that standardised on red around the turn of the last century.
It's still the best ketchup though.
It's too bad, because it was an otherwise nicely argued piece. As much as I think Bush is a dimwit, RMS's argument would have been much stronger had he avoided the obvious.
It would be really fucked up if they were down there, and they were watching it all unfold on CNNBSABC.
I waver back and forth between there being absolutely no chance for those caught underground, and this scenario where they're living in a pocket of an underground city. The reality, I fear, is that the amount of debris, as well as ruptured gas and water mains would have made that part of the building pretty well uninhabitable.
Your, apparently pointless, post is noted, although I was just thinking this morning that a more appropriate reference would be that of Lot's wife turning to stone when they fled Sodom.
"Likewise also as it was in the days of Lot; they did eat, they drank, they bought, they sold, they planted, they builded; But the same day that Lot went out of Sodom it rained fire and brimstone from heaven, and destroyed them all. Even thus shall it be in the day when the Son of man is revealed. In that day, he which shall be upon the housetop, and his stuff in the house, let him not come down to take it away: and he that is in the field, let him likewise not return back. Remember Lot's wife." Luke 17:28-32.
Of course, the religious trot out these old stories whenever something horrible happens and point out that it is the end of days etc, etc, bla, bla, bla.
If there's a god then I don't want to know him, cause he's a jerk.
And this has come to be about 5 thousand fucking times since they nailed that nice guy to the cross. Spout enough bullshit and some of it is bound to come true and you biblical prigs will wave it above your fucking heads every goddamn time.
Are they as fat as all the North American children these days. I can't believe how many porkers there are running around. It's becoming a fashion statement it seems. Especially for boys. I was driving up north (in Quebec) and saw this sign for a place called Super Aqua Club (a waterslide for those who don't speak french:) Anyway, this sign shows these two ten year olds who probably weighed in at about 160 lbs each. Tabarnac!
And if you drive south of here and cross the US border it extends to all age groups.
Why the hell don't we just use GigE? It's here now. It works. It can be networked. It's supported by all OS's. It's backward compatible with 10 and 100 Mb devices.
Thank you for pointing out how incredibly lame the Hemos comment was. Slashdot could really use an editorial submission process to snip out these inane quips, and perhaps jettison all Katz movie reviews.
Erm, this is the point of credit reportting agencies. Contact them and get it set right. It takes some doing but they will fix the problem. And BTW, almost anyone CAN get that info from the credit reporting agency. I was in a similar situation and had to contact the two big agencies (Equifax and Trans Union) to get them to correct the problem (I found out about it when applying for a mortgage.) Took me about one month to straighten out the mess but they were very prompt and professional and helpful (although seriously under equiped in their phone centre)
On another occasion, someone did get some of my personal info and applied for a credit card with my name and address and a fake mother's maiden name. This was a Canadian applying for an American Credit Card. The CC Company had put a flag on these applications because of fraud and notified me. They advised me to contact Equifax and Trans Union and let them know that this had happened so that a flag could be put on my report so that if this happened again I would automatically be contacted again. And just last week I was contacted when applying for a loan to verify that it was me who was actually applying. This is a good thing, if you ask me.
You're right about the rest though, 'tis a scary thought that the gubmint's got this info.
No biggie. Your implanted GPS will have to be aligned to your eSin (electronic Social Identity Number) and if there's a disparity between the two the new missile defense system will kick in and eliminate the disparity.
This is a solution meant for the "big guys". The one's who require absolute, or near absolute failover. The suits are willing to spend this kind of cash because they're looking for piece of mind. I'm sure we could all slap something together for them in a week or two that would do the same for 40K but would it keep runniing for a couple years with minimal attention and would it be easy to configure and keep running?
If you think you can do it for 40K then you've obviously got yourself a golden opportunity, call up the venture capitalists today! Okay, tomorrow.
Where do we start? How do we get our X server's properly configured? How about all the rest of our configuration files, from fstab, to exports, to modules.conf conf.modules, and sysconfig. Everything under/etc has a different format.
We start by defining a common format, in XML, and use filters to convert between the old and the new formats for these files until the libraries are written to read/write the new formats from the applications that need them (backwards compatible filters would probably be a GOOD THING for a while, just to keep a version of these files around... you could even have a daemon watching the files to decide if they've changed for those who go ahead and edit the old format.)
The need for this is for simplification of configuration. A simple GUI (ala window's regedit) could be written to configure. I'm not suggesting that we should use a flatfile database like the windows registry. Not in the least. Just that every application should store its data in the same format and use the same configuration editor to tweak the guts and that the configuration should be stored in a common location under/etc to avoid conflicting with the legacy (excuse the term) application configuration files.
Of course, this could be extended to user configuration for programs as well so that all configuration data ends up in one location under $HOME. This sure would be a nice way to backup one's configuration without jumping through hoops.
Am I reinventing the wheel? Is anyone doing working towards doing something like this?
And when selecting text in an EDIT control, widget, whatever, don't select the text into the clipboard automatically. This drives me nuts. Text should only be selected into the clipboard automatically in a read only widget.
Amazing what CompSci-students can create when they really should do real work.
I'll assume, for your sake, that you were trying to be cute and that the above was a misdirected quip with the aim to amuse. But the truth is that when I was in university I did some of the most creative work that I ever did, granted it was mostly useless but it did prepare me for the real world.
Life is not all work. Arbeit macht Frei. Not always.
Bzzzt. Been there. Done the pronunciation debate years ago. The pronunciation is not LEEnucks. The 'i' is short, as in pit. Why am I even bothering. Sheesh.
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The *only* way to have a decent broadband system is to have a public utility installed. California learned this the hard way when it came to its power system. If you expect that you'll get competative service from the multinational communications giants you're kidding yourself because it's only a matter of time before they'll all be one giant bloody company anyway.
God help us, indeed ... and those words don't come easily for an atheist.
You do realise, of course, that green ketchups used to be quite common. It was Heinz that standardised on red around the turn of the last century.
It's still the best ketchup though.
It's too bad, because it was an otherwise nicely argued piece. As much as I think Bush is a dimwit, RMS's argument would have been much stronger had he avoided the obvious.
Of course, Micro$oft must have just paid out quite a few bribes to the federal government to get them to back off ... took them long enough!
I waver back and forth between there being absolutely no chance for those caught underground, and this scenario where they're living in a pocket of an underground city. The reality, I fear, is that the amount of debris, as well as ruptured gas and water mains would have made that part of the building pretty well uninhabitable.
- "Likewise also as it was in the days of Lot; they did eat, they drank, they bought, they sold, they planted, they builded; But the same day that Lot went out of Sodom it rained fire and brimstone from heaven, and destroyed them all. Even thus shall it be in the day when the Son of man is revealed. In that day, he which shall be upon the housetop, and his stuff in the house, let him not come down to take it away: and he that is in the field, let him likewise not return back. Remember Lot's wife." Luke 17:28-32.
Of course, the religious trot out these old stories whenever something horrible happens and point out that it is the end of days etc, etc, bla, bla, bla.If there's a god then I don't want to know him, cause he's a jerk.
And this has come to be about 5 thousand fucking times since they nailed that nice guy to the cross. Spout enough bullshit and some of it is bound to come true and you biblical prigs will wave it above your fucking heads every goddamn time.
And if you drive south of here and cross the US border it extends to all age groups.
Congratulations. You're the recipient of today's "Stick in the mud" award. Wear it proudly. Now take a bath.
I'm not too worried since I had my first cup of coffee over 30 years ago. If it really caused that much damage I'd be dead by now.
But damn those shirts are ugly. Yeeks!
I'm not about to complain to that robot though.
Why the hell don't we just use GigE? It's here now. It works. It can be networked. It's supported by all OS's. It's backward compatible with 10 and 100 Mb devices.
Hey nillnuts, he was referring to the 'm' for milli; as opposed to the M for mega. Pinhead.
Thank you for pointing out how incredibly lame the Hemos comment was. Slashdot could really use an editorial submission process to snip out these inane quips, and perhaps jettison all Katz movie reviews.
Erm, this is the point of credit reportting agencies. Contact them and get it set right. It takes some doing but they will fix the problem. And BTW, almost anyone CAN get that info from the credit reporting agency. I was in a similar situation and had to contact the two big agencies (Equifax and Trans Union) to get them to correct the problem (I found out about it when applying for a mortgage.) Took me about one month to straighten out the mess but they were very prompt and professional and helpful (although seriously under equiped in their phone centre)
On another occasion, someone did get some of my personal info and applied for a credit card with my name and address and a fake mother's maiden name. This was a Canadian applying for an American Credit Card. The CC Company had put a flag on these applications because of fraud and notified me. They advised me to contact Equifax and Trans Union and let them know that this had happened so that a flag could be put on my report so that if this happened again I would automatically be contacted again. And just last week I was contacted when applying for a loan to verify that it was me who was actually applying. This is a good thing, if you ask me.
You're right about the rest though, 'tis a scary thought that the gubmint's got this info.
Thank god for George W. He arrived just in time.
This is a solution meant for the "big guys". The one's who require absolute, or near absolute failover. The suits are willing to spend this kind of cash because they're looking for piece of mind. I'm sure we could all slap something together for them in a week or two that would do the same for 40K but would it keep runniing for a couple years with minimal attention and would it be easy to configure and keep running?
If you think you can do it for 40K then you've obviously got yourself a golden opportunity, call up the venture capitalists today! Okay, tomorrow.
Where do we start? How do we get our X server's properly configured? How about all the rest of our configuration files, from fstab, to exports, to modules.conf conf.modules, and sysconfig. Everything under /etc has a different format.
... you could even have a daemon watching the files to decide if they've changed for those who go ahead and edit the old format.)
/etc to avoid conflicting with the legacy (excuse the term) application configuration files.
We start by defining a common format, in XML, and use filters to convert between the old and the new formats for these files until the libraries are written to read/write the new formats from the applications that need them (backwards compatible filters would probably be a GOOD THING for a while, just to keep a version of these files around
The need for this is for simplification of configuration. A simple GUI (ala window's regedit) could be written to configure. I'm not suggesting that we should use a flatfile database like the windows registry. Not in the least. Just that every application should store its data in the same format and use the same configuration editor to tweak the guts and that the configuration should be stored in a common location under
Of course, this could be extended to user configuration for programs as well so that all configuration data ends up in one location under $HOME. This sure would be a nice way to backup one's configuration without jumping through hoops.
Am I reinventing the wheel? Is anyone doing working towards doing something like this?
Speaking of typical ...
Mozilla is broken in this respect too.
I've not had these problems in the least since the Font Deuglification HOWTO appeared on the scene. See the
FDU for details.
Amazing what CompSci-students can create when they really should do real work.
I'll assume, for your sake, that you were trying to be cute and that the above was a misdirected quip with the aim to amuse. But the truth is that when I was in university I did some of the most creative work that I ever did, granted it was mostly useless but it did prepare me for the real world.
Life is not all work. Arbeit macht Frei. Not always.
ACL's, extended attributes. Who supports what best? XFS as far as I've observed, although my experience with JFS under Linux are limited.
And XFS works like a champ with LVM.
Bzzzt. Been there. Done the pronunciation debate years ago. The pronunciation is not LEEnucks. The 'i' is short, as in pit. Why am I even bothering. Sheesh.