It's hard to believe that the hardware kept working for 19 years, particularly the hard drives, but just as surprising the power supply (which tends to suck in so much dust and lint that they eventually die from overheating). The cooling fans also tend to give up the ghost after about 5 years as well.
I'm more interested in how you backed up the server to USB when all of the computers were made before USB ports existed.
You'd be surprised of how robust things were 20-25 years ago. I had to check the server on a small health care center in my home town and it was a simple i386 that had been running non-stop for *several* years. I even recall the green screen having text *written* on it due to being on without a screen saver.
I happen to be an "it guy" and I can assure you I am far away from being "pro-Microsoft" or any closed protocols for that matter. Just to give you a simple example: Skype is giving me lots of headaches in the office network.
Give me IMAP, give me LDAP, give me jabber...(you get the idea, right?) and you can use whatever you want as long as it respects standards.
Specially in the second part, when I talk about the LPI ( Ley de Propiedad Intelectual = Intellectual Property Law).
The thing is that the "Copia Privada" right, only applies when the source is a legal one. The trick comes here: "downloading music from another use" isn't a legal but "alegal" source. Therefore, the act of sharing copyrighted is "alegal"
Yes. Paying you 300 euros per hour and not letting you calling sick when you are not sick is slavery, no doubt.
First: sources?
Second: Your company doesn't let you call sick when you are not and they can't *force* you to work. They can (and probably should) fire you. That's all.
Well, calling in sick if you are not sick is grounds for layoff. Yes, they can't lay off all ATCs yet, because there are no replacement for now, but hopefully they made a list of all these people that wanted to get a paid free day in the middle of the longest weekend of the year and leave 600,000 people without vacations.
The real number was 300.000, not 600.000.
I guess going from a salary of 900,000 euros a year to something like 1000-1500 if you are lucky and find a job doing something else will put things in perspective.
That's not right. At least in Spanish. Definition of the word legal: "Prescrito por ley y conforme a ella." Which is "prescribed by law and according to it". Therefore, something not illegal doesn't automatically make it legal. That's when "alegal" kicks in.
You might be using the word "legal" in a biased way;)
We can't expect the laws to define absolutely every aspect of the human (or alien!) experience.
FYI this is not the first time we've gone into "Estado de Alerta".
It is obvious you can still live without flying for a day or two, nobody says that. The thing is they did what they did at the time they did it! At the opening of what is called a "puente" in spanish slang: some non-working days kept close enough so you can get one holiday day at your work and have 5 days in a raw of no work. What does that represent? Probably the most active 5 days in plane movement of the whole year. Imagine there is an enormous accident and doctors/surgeons decide to go "on strike" at that moment: what would you think then? are they negotiating or are they blackmailing you(the government, that is)?
I see your point though. However I'm afraid that you , as I said before, don't see the whole picture in this.
Regards
PS: TVE can mention whatever they want. The reason to keep the "Estado de Alerta" is because Christmas' eve is tomorrow;)
File sharing is not "legal" in Spain. It is something called, in the law world, "alegal" which means something is not regulated nor prohibited. To give a weird example: it is legal to say something because you have the right of free speech but... would it be legal to kill an e.t.? Right now, with the law in hands, that would be "alegal".
To give you an idea of the authoritarianism of Spain's government, around three weeks ago it issued a State of Alert because of striking ATCers which came down to, "If you refuse to work, you will be sent to jail." (Conversely, work sets you free.) Note that Spanish ATC was civilian, but an argument was formed that by striking you are denying people freedom of movement. This is probably one of the most Orwellian interpretations of "freedom" Western Europe has seen in recent years, and is the first time quasi-martial law has been enforced in Spain since the fall of Franco.
This is not the sort of government that is about to sympathise with filesharing arguments. It is, like all authoritarian governments, a stickler for procedure, and that's the only real reason this law didn't pass.
These is just bu*****t
They did not go on strike. No they did not. They just stopped working and paralyzed the whole country.
Don't get me wrong, I understand most of what they are asking for but... theirs was not the right way of doing things!
The government did the only thing they could have to keep the country working. I do not like what happened but feels right to me that "desperate situations require desperate measures".
I'm not saying I agree with what the government did to this group of people but, again, how they reacted was totally unreasonable and they relied on the fact that they control the whole Spanish air traffic and could block the country. That's not going on strike, that's not negotiating: that's blackmailing!
Have a look at the whole picture please and not only to what you wanna see
When you oppose someone or something that strongly the human mind is capable of amazing cognitive dissonance; no matter how illogical the reasoning or how hypocritical your position, you can find a way to explain how all of your problems are somehow their fault and that nothing you've done could have in any way contributed to it.
The explanation for this "dissonance" is quite simple: it's really easy to complain about someonelse's acts or behavior rather than accepting your faults and try to fix them
That just doesn't make sense. Internal antennaes may have come to a point where the performance is similar to what we had a few years back with external antennaes. However... wouldn't the same internal antenna placed "outside" have better performance? Of course it would.
The main point to ditch (is that word right?) external antenas was:
- They tend to break
Is it that far ago that we don't even remember that many people had an unusable cell phone after six months because they had a broken antenna? Gosh, I'm just 27 and I do remember!
To resume: getting internal antennaes wasn't the best for reception but it was for other things thay are important too:)
I've read some comments here talking about the "tax" known as "canon digital" here in Spain.
I just want to explain that it is not a *tax*. The amount of money got from this "canon" is not used by the goverment but by a *private organization* (CEDRO for books, SGAE for music...).
What do I want to point with this? Well, the money is managed by a private organization. That is *NO TAX*. They decide what to do with that money and how to give it to the "artists/writers/whatever".
[angry comment] To go even further, 80% of money they get from the "canon" is paid by the law system in Spain. Ain't that ridiculous? Material obviously not used for copyright infridgment has to pay for the "canon"! [/angry comment]
It has also been said that we citiziens pay for every CD/DVD/HD/TV/whatever with canon. That is not *exactly* true. The company that is selling the CD/DVD/... pays for it and, therefore, increseas the price to keep the benefits but the user is *not* paying the "canon". There is a difference legally speaking.
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And surprisingly konqueror uses a dolphin kpart for file management...
It's hard to believe that the hardware kept working for 19 years, particularly the hard drives, but just as surprising the power supply (which tends to suck in so much dust and lint that they eventually die from overheating). The cooling fans also tend to give up the ghost after about 5 years as well.
I'm more interested in how you backed up the server to USB when all of the computers were made before USB ports existed.
You'd be surprised of how robust things were 20-25 years ago. I had to check the server on a small health care center in my home town and it was a simple i386 that had been running non-stop for *several* years. I even recall the green screen having text *written* on it due to being on without a screen saver.
Where did those words go?
... a split-process model (this already shipped in mobile Firefox, should ship in desktop late this year)...
*THIS* is something I would really like to see in Firefox.
Keep up the good work :)
Regards
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Is there by any change a pdf/ebook version of your book?
Anyway: thanks for sharing your knowledge
It gets dark in Spain at 9pm in the summer, but they are out having beers till 3am.
Could that be related to... *temperature*?
In Spain is *HOT* in the summer. That's the reason why 75% of the country kinda lives at night (summer time at least).
Regards
I happen to be an "it guy" and I can assure you I am far away from being "pro-Microsoft" or any closed protocols for that matter. Just to give you a simple example: Skype is giving me lots of headaches in the office network.
Give me IMAP, give me LDAP, give me jabber...(you get the idea, right?) and you can use whatever you want as long as it respects standards.
Most of the books I wanna buy are *CHEAPER* on real paper than in ebook format. WHAT THE H***?
Hardware keyboard, ships with xterm, has easily accessible number keys, and no jailbreaking needed.
And you can connect to vpns...
And has X so you can do X forwarding... (although I don't use this much)
And it has cron...
Well, it's a full linux computer on your hands! Do I need to say more?
Regards
If it is the law, give me proof. ;)
You should check my comment on Osnews: http://www.osnews.com/thread?454581
Specially in the second part, when I talk about the LPI ( Ley de Propiedad Intelectual = Intellectual Property Law).
The thing is that the "Copia Privada" right, only applies when the source is a legal one. The trick comes here: "downloading music from another use" isn't a legal but "alegal" source. Therefore, the act of sharing copyrighted is "alegal"
Best regards
File-sharing, even of copyrighted material is perfectly legal in Spain.
Source?
Just for the record illegal!=alegal.
You can actually do alegal things without being punished: the law says that. However, that doesn't make those things legal!
It is *not* the same
No, if it isn't illegal it is legal. It is a pretty binary term.
That's the thing. It's not a binary term, at least in the Spanish language. (although many think, as you do, it is).
Regards
It’s worth noting that our enterprise product, Skype Connect , is working normally
From: http://www.skype.com/content/skype/intl/en-us/StatusUpdate.html?cm_mmc=PXTW|0700_B6-_-downtime-20101222-2
Yes. Paying you 300 euros per hour and not letting you calling sick when you are not sick is slavery, no doubt.
First: sources?
Second: Your company doesn't let you call sick when you are not and they can't *force* you to work. They can (and probably should) fire you. That's all.
Well, calling in sick if you are not sick is grounds for layoff. Yes, they can't lay off all ATCs yet, because there are no replacement for now, but hopefully they made a list of all these people that wanted to get a paid free day in the middle of the longest weekend of the year and leave 600,000 people without vacations.
The real number was 300.000, not 600.000.
I guess going from a salary of 900,000 euros a year to something like 1000-1500 if you are lucky and find a job doing something else will put things in perspective.
Again... sources?
Well, yes, file sharing is legal. File sharing of copyrighted material is not. It is (in Spain) "alegal".
If something is not ilegal, then it's legal.
That's not right. At least in Spanish. Definition of the word legal: "Prescrito por ley y conforme a ella." Which is "prescribed by law and according to it". Therefore, something not illegal doesn't automatically make it legal. That's when "alegal" kicks in.
You might be using the word "legal" in a biased way ;)
We can't expect the laws to define absolutely every aspect of the human (or alien!) experience.
I totally agree :)
FYI this is not the first time we've gone into "Estado de Alerta".
It is obvious you can still live without flying for a day or two, nobody says that. The thing is they did what they did at the time they did it! At the opening of what is called a "puente" in spanish slang: some non-working days kept close enough so you can get one holiday day at your work and have 5 days in a raw of no work. What does that represent? Probably the most active 5 days in plane movement of the whole year. Imagine there is an enormous accident and doctors/surgeons decide to go "on strike" at that moment: what would you think then? are they negotiating or are they blackmailing you(the government, that is)?
I see your point though. However I'm afraid that you , as I said before, don't see the whole picture in this.
Regards
PS: TVE can mention whatever they want. The reason to keep the "Estado de Alerta" is because Christmas' eve is tomorrow ;)
I'll copy+paste myself from Osnews:
File sharing is not "legal" in Spain. It is something called, in the law world, "alegal" which means something is not regulated nor prohibited. To give a weird example: it is legal to say something because you have the right of free speech but... would it be legal to kill an e.t.? Right now, with the law in hands, that would be "alegal".
To give you an idea of the authoritarianism of Spain's government, around three weeks ago it issued a State of Alert because of striking ATCers which came down to, "If you refuse to work, you will be sent to jail." (Conversely, work sets you free.) Note that Spanish ATC was civilian, but an argument was formed that by striking you are denying people freedom of movement. This is probably one of the most Orwellian interpretations of "freedom" Western Europe has seen in recent years, and is the first time quasi-martial law has been enforced in Spain since the fall of Franco.
This is not the sort of government that is about to sympathise with filesharing arguments. It is, like all authoritarian governments, a stickler for procedure, and that's the only real reason this law didn't pass.
These is just bu*****t
They did not go on strike. No they did not. They just stopped working and paralyzed the whole country.
Don't get me wrong, I understand most of what they are asking for but... theirs was not the right way of doing things!
The government did the only thing they could have to keep the country working. I do not like what happened but feels right to me that "desperate situations require desperate measures".
I'm not saying I agree with what the government did to this group of people but, again, how they reacted was totally unreasonable and they relied on the fact that they control the whole Spanish air traffic and could block the country. That's not going on strike, that's not negotiating: that's blackmailing!
Have a look at the whole picture please and not only to what you wanna see
Regards
When you oppose someone or something that strongly the human mind is capable of amazing cognitive dissonance; no matter how illogical the reasoning or how hypocritical your position, you can find a way to explain how all of your problems are somehow their fault and that nothing you've done could have in any way contributed to it.
The explanation for this "dissonance" is quite simple: it's really easy to complain about someonelse's acts or behavior rather than accepting your faults and try to fix them
That just doesn't make sense. Internal antennaes may have come to a point where the performance is similar to what we had a few years back with external antennaes. However... wouldn't the same internal antenna placed "outside" have better performance? Of course it would.
The main point to ditch (is that word right?) external antenas was:
- They tend to break
Is it that far ago that we don't even remember that many people had an unusable cell phone after six months because they had a broken antenna? Gosh, I'm just 27 and I do remember!
To resume: getting internal antennaes wasn't the best for reception but it was for other things thay are important too :)
Furthermore, you could even be wrong there: who says both said of the coin are exactly the same? In fact, they usually are not ;)
Maybe one of the sides has more than a 50% due to it's shape...
I've read some comments here talking about the "tax" known as "canon digital" here in Spain.
I just want to explain that it is not a *tax*. The amount of money got from this "canon" is not used by the goverment but by a *private organization* (CEDRO for books, SGAE for music...).
What do I want to point with this? Well, the money is managed by a private organization. That is *NO TAX*. They decide what to do with that money and how to give it to the "artists/writers/whatever".
[angry comment]
To go even further, 80% of money they get from the "canon" is paid by the law system in Spain. Ain't that ridiculous? Material obviously not used for copyright infridgment has to pay for the "canon"!
[/angry comment]
It has also been said that we citiziens pay for every CD/DVD/HD/TV/whatever with canon. That is not *exactly* true. The company that is selling the CD/DVD/... pays for it and, therefore, increseas the price to keep the benefits but the user is *not* paying the "canon". There is a difference legally speaking.
I just wanted to inform you slashdot readers ;)
Regards
Am I the only one to notice the buttons on the *RIGHT* for the Chromium/Chrome browser on those screenshots?
If they move the buttons to the left, I expect every window to have them there...
PS: I know it's Chromium's fault for doing things that the window manager is supposed to do. However, that does not matter to the end user.