Why not add in the George Orwell line from 1984 about how we were always at war.
How the heck do you WIN the War on Terrorism? As long as there's one poor, disnefranchised person who feels his life is worthless except to strike out, there will be terrorism. I heard someone say War on Terror is like War on Wind or War on Rain.
Someone please send an ambassador to Terrorism and ask for surrender.
Unfinished business. It was a loose end from Gulf War I on maintenance.
Of course that says NOTHING about what it is, now. I guess it didn't "spontaneously organize into a Reagon-style free market democracy," as some expected it to.
Actually, I *almost* agree with you. The real problem is that Windows Wizards work most of the time. But when they don't, they work against you - even worse than not being there. They get in your way and make it hard to do things manually.
I began preparing to leave RedHat when RH8.1 never happened, and they went staight to RH9. After looking for a while, and evaluating various distributions on their maintainability, etc, I came to a different realization: For home use, this is supposed to be a hobby. What the heck am I doing looking at maintainability as a prime criteria, when I should be looking at fun and the learning experience?
So I ended up going with Gentoo. But far from being merely 133t, I find it incredibly maintainable, and I have never had such an easy time installing more, and more varied, software on any system. That includes Linux and Windows. I'll agree that Gentoo is still too intense for a novice, but with a little experience it brings a LOT to the table.
Darn! I just commented on this topic elsewhere, and nixed my mod points. I wish I'd read your post, first.
Remember - the 7-year fishing expedition that began with Whitewater cost something in the realm of $85e6. The 9/11 inquiry cost $15e6, and was carefully held short. It's important to know where our priorities lay, after all.
As for media bias, as far as I can tell, *all* stories are reported. From what I can tell, it's also possible that journalists still have that classic liberal bias. But IMHO the real issue is the difference between stories that get reported, then dropped, and stories that get hammered. Consider how *often* we heard about blue dresses in the news, and how reports of faulty intelligence on Iraq came and went.
Martha is the decoy to draw our attention away from the Enron trials. Notice that we haven't heard ANYTHING about Enron since Martha's problems started getting press noise.
After all, with Martha we're talking the major crime of some $50-100k of ill-gotten gains. Whereas Enron merely destroyed the life savings and retirements of many people. We must keep our sense of perspective, here, and keep the Law on focus against criminals like Martha.
Incidentally, a few seconds with google news and Enron, and I find that the directors are paying $168e6 or their own cash to settle a lawsuit, and Ken Lay is setting up his own website, including paying to get it onto search engines. No mention of jail time.
Along that line, losing something like $144e3 got Bill Clinton a 7-year fishing expedition, IIRC costing us something like $80e6. I won't presume guilt, but I hear smoke in the range of many times $1e9 for the current administration, and nothing has gotten significant investigation, nor is it likely to.
I can see a kernel patch to export some extra information and/or extra tuning hooks via proc or sysfs, but IMHO the algorithms themselves should be outside the kernel, running in a daemon.
It's probably most important that a balance between free and proprietary remain.
Without free, corporations get this silly idea that they want to own the whole pie. They can't get their heads around the fact that by making the pie "free" it gets soooooo much bigger, that their piece of that bigger pie is itself bigger than the whole pie they could have owned. Think of the days of CompuServe, GEnie, The Source, Prodigy, and AOL. Then think of the Internet. The fact that the ONLY ones of the originals who survived were the ones that embraced Internet connection is telling.
Giving up the free element Balkanizes the market.
At the same time, sometimes proprietary can fund and drive things that are difficult to get worked on for free. Think non-glamorous things, of which at the moment I'm at a loss to give an example.
So in your neck'n'neck vegetable race, did any of the vegetables consume less energy to go the given distance? No fair sticking pieces of copper and zinc into them, and this is a "vegetable" race, so you can't use lemons or other citrus fuits, either.
OTOH, when they were in grade school, one of my kids' friends plugged line current into a pickle. (under adult supervision, of course) It made some pretty flickers of light inside, and rather smelled. But it didn't go any faster than your vegetables, even with all that power applied.
But I suspect my next system will be from the Biblical Via C3 series. I want to build a MythTV, and Via C3 is about the only game in town, if you want to run fanless.
For that matter, if I ever buy a new server, instead of using cast-offs, I'd be inclined to get a Via C3 for that, too. Performance isn't everything in every application. Sometimes power is important, too.
The other side of a MythTV might well be running a few games on the side, to take advantage of the bigger screen. That calls for a different type of video card than just TV playback. Any suggestions for a decent 3D card without a fan?
Are you running Kerberos under/with the LDAP, as well? I'm trying to proceed in this direction, though I want to start with LDAP/SASL/Kerberos first, and add Samba after. There have been two readily available documents on how to do this, though I don't have URLs handy at the moment. I've also seen rumblings that the Samba team doesn't like OpenLDAP, and is planning to add their own LDAP service to a future release. So I'm not sure how that will play out against the solution I'm pursuing.
How well could a ground-based camera take a picture of the shuttle? How about with all of the fancy adaptive optics that everyone says will render the Hubble expensively irrelevant? How about if the shuttle shines a laser down to Earth, to help 'calibrate' the adaptive optics? How about if the ground station could illuminate the shuttle with lasers, possibly with a series of colors to check specific aspects of the TPS condition? (Stay away from the windows, please!)
This is why they're planning on confining shuttle missions to the ISS. Any TPS damage only affects reentry, and the ISS would suffice as a lifeboat, and buy time. It's just not terribly feasible to keep always keep a second shuttle on hand as a rescue vehicle. If a shuttle is damaged during ascent, it is feasible for the astronauts to camp out at the ISS until: * Some method of tile repair is cooked up, and sent up on a Progress. * Another shuttle is prep'ed and sent to the ISS to bring them home. * Send up a few Soyuz capsules over a few weeks to ferry the astronauts home. In the meantime, the shuttle will have had consumables on hand for it's planned mission duration, and the ISS supplies can be stretched, with this taken into account on a Progress resupply mission.
Because in light of current events, clearly there was no threat to the US from terrorism, as evidenced by WTC1, the Cole, embassies, etc. OTOH, there was a clear and present danger that required focusing ALL of our State Dept. attention on scrapping the ABM treaty and deploying some form of the old Star Wars program.
The SR71 was almost as predictable as a spy satellite. The stuff it burned as fuel was unlike any other jet fuel, so it had its own dedicated fleet of tankers for in-air refueling. In addition, it leaked fuel when cold, so didn't bother taking off with a full load - just enough to get up and heat up a bit. Then it would refuel in-air with its operational load.
So all one needed to do was keep an eye on the tankers for the SR71. When they flew, it was a good indicator that the SR71 was going to fly. See which tankers were flying, and you had some indication of where the SR71 was going to fly.
Certainly not as predictable as an orbit, but at least a clear indication.
To replace the SR71 with a "better" spy plane, you don't even need something to fly higher or faster, just something of roughly equal capability with simpler logistics.
This is a fine line. Some people seem to practically worship capitalism and the free market, without thinking everything through. I could comment more, but have deleted it, for now.
Let's for the moment assume pure quarter-by-quarter profit motive, with respect to the asteroid issue. In that setting, it will NEVER be worth it for ANY company to solve the problem of detecting and deflecting asteroids or comets. ANY such work comes right off the bottom line, and becomes a competitive disadvantage. Besides, in any given year, or any given decade, or any given century, the probability of an asteroid/comet impact is vanishingly small. So without SOMEONE to say, "Spend at least a little resource on this societal problem," it just won't get done. Period. At the same time, geological history suggests that over some *long* period the Earth does get hit with big rocks, any big hit will end the free market, as we know it, and there's not way to use statistics to say, "It positively won't happen in the next decade or century."
I believe that there's a balance needed between socialism and capitalism, and too far toward *either* is both wrong and in the long run, detrimental. Isn't raw capitalism simply law-of-the-jungle played out with economic instead of physical force? It took thousands of years of socialization to progress beyond might-makes-right to the rule of Law, and substantial parts of the globe haven't really even gotten there, yet. IMHO the US is currently sliding towards an economic might-makes-right savagery.
You missed my point. I have nothing against making life enjoyable, it's just the need for balance, and spending some time/resource on necessary things, too. There ought to be plenty of time for both.
It's not that making life enjoyable is bad, on it's own.
It's when there are other things that *ought* to be getting done, but we're too busy using *the same technology* to make life enjoyable and *not* doing those things.
Case in point: Space Tourism I'd *love* to be a space tourist. If it ever gets down into my price range while I'm healthy enough, I will. But if we get *so* preoccupied with space tourism that we don't think or prepare for comet/asteroid detection and deflection, that's bad. If tourism prevents exploration, that's bad. At the moment, I don't think this situation exists. In fact, I think space tourism will make people *more* conscious of the things we ought to be doing in space, and more supportive of them.
But preoccupation with entertainment at the expense of real goals is something to watch out for.
By the time you're hauling batteries and welding, you're out of the realm of 'kid' that I was complaining about. I'm thinking about little overweight 5 year olds riding an electric car for kids.
Don't even need a nuke. It's even possible a nuke would be counterproductive, and stick the mass there even harder.
Look back about a month or so ago. In Western Utah they were doing some sort of desalination thing, and pumping the brine deep underground. There were also minor tremors nearby in Colorado. Turned out that the brine was lubricating a fault, and the tremors were little slips.
They stopped pumping the brine in Utah.
Which in a way is really dumb, because the pressure down there is building. Letting it out in lots of small slips is better than having it go off in a big one. But I guess in the US we're so into the blame game that we'd rather have a catastrophic accident that we can't get blamed for than minor incidents that we can.
So you don't need, maybe don't even want, a nuke. Just a pumping station for ocean water.
I don't know what my cable company will do, except that it will likely co$t more dollar$. I'm already thinking of switching from cable modem to DSL, which just became available to me. It's not quite as fast, but the TOS are better and it's cheaper. It's tempting to go dish at the same time, except that would blow any PVR plans.
My preferred card would be the PVR-500, and get 2 tuners in one. But I get the impression that its support is not quite there yet, either. (It might be that the PVR-500 is effectively 2 PVR-150's on one card.) I also get the impression that work is proceeding on both cards, and it's a matter of time, not release of documentation.
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Just lost my mod points. Sorry.
Why not add in the George Orwell line from 1984 about how we were always at war.
How the heck do you WIN the War on Terrorism?
As long as there's one poor, disnefranchised person who feels his life is worthless except to strike out, there will be terrorism.
I heard someone say War on Terror is like War on Wind or War on Rain.
Someone please send an ambassador to Terrorism and ask for surrender.
Unfinished business. It was a loose end from Gulf War I on maintenance.
Of course that says NOTHING about what it is, now. I guess it didn't "spontaneously organize into a Reagon-style free market democracy," as some expected it to.
Just "emerge quake3"
Actually, I *almost* agree with you. The real problem is that Windows Wizards work most of the time. But when they don't, they work against you - even worse than not being there. They get in your way and make it hard to do things manually.
I began preparing to leave RedHat when RH8.1 never happened, and they went staight to RH9. After looking for a while, and evaluating various distributions on their maintainability, etc, I came to a different realization: For home use, this is supposed to be a hobby. What the heck am I doing looking at maintainability as a prime criteria, when I should be looking at fun and the learning experience?
So I ended up going with Gentoo. But far from being merely 133t, I find it incredibly maintainable, and I have never had such an easy time installing more, and more varied, software on any system. That includes Linux and Windows. I'll agree that Gentoo is still too intense for a novice, but with a little experience it brings a LOT to the table.
Darn! I just commented on this topic elsewhere, and nixed my mod points. I wish I'd read your post, first.
Remember - the 7-year fishing expedition that began with Whitewater cost something in the realm of $85e6. The 9/11 inquiry cost $15e6, and was carefully held short. It's important to know where our priorities lay, after all.
As for media bias, as far as I can tell, *all* stories are reported. From what I can tell, it's also possible that journalists still have that classic liberal bias. But IMHO the real issue is the difference between stories that get reported, then dropped, and stories that get hammered. Consider how *often* we heard about blue dresses in the news, and how reports of faulty intelligence on Iraq came and went.
The problem is YOUR incumbent. MY incumbent is ok, or at least it would prove disastrous to my state to lose his seniority.
Unfortunately, anyone in any state can make this same statement, and feel equally truthful.
Martha is the decoy to draw our attention away from the Enron trials. Notice that we haven't heard ANYTHING about Enron since Martha's problems started getting press noise.
After all, with Martha we're talking the major crime of some $50-100k of ill-gotten gains. Whereas Enron merely destroyed the life savings and retirements of many people. We must keep our sense of perspective, here, and keep the Law on focus against criminals like Martha.
Incidentally, a few seconds with google news and Enron, and I find that the directors are paying $168e6 or their own cash to settle a lawsuit, and Ken Lay is setting up his own website, including paying to get it onto search engines. No mention of jail time.
Along that line, losing something like $144e3 got Bill Clinton a 7-year fishing expedition, IIRC costing us something like $80e6. I won't presume guilt, but I hear smoke in the range of many times $1e9 for the current administration, and nothing has gotten significant investigation, nor is it likely to.
I can see a kernel patch to export some extra information and/or extra tuning hooks via proc or sysfs, but IMHO the algorithms themselves should be outside the kernel, running in a daemon.
It's probably most important that a balance between free and proprietary remain.
Without free, corporations get this silly idea that they want to own the whole pie. They can't get their heads around the fact that by making the pie "free" it gets soooooo much bigger, that their piece of that bigger pie is itself bigger than the whole pie they could have owned. Think of the days of CompuServe, GEnie, The Source, Prodigy, and AOL. Then think of the Internet. The fact that the ONLY ones of the originals who survived were the ones that embraced Internet connection is telling.
Giving up the free element Balkanizes the market.
At the same time, sometimes proprietary can fund and drive things that are difficult to get worked on for free. Think non-glamorous things, of which at the moment I'm at a loss to give an example.
So in your neck'n'neck vegetable race, did any of the vegetables consume less energy to go the given distance? No fair sticking pieces of copper and zinc into them, and this is a "vegetable" race, so you can't use lemons or other citrus fuits, either.
OTOH, when they were in grade school, one of my kids' friends plugged line current into a pickle. (under adult supervision, of course) It made some pretty flickers of light inside, and rather smelled. But it didn't go any faster than your vegetables, even with all that power applied.
But I suspect my next system will be from the Biblical Via C3 series. I want to build a MythTV, and Via C3 is about the only game in town, if you want to run fanless.
For that matter, if I ever buy a new server, instead of using cast-offs, I'd be inclined to get a Via C3 for that, too. Performance isn't everything in every application. Sometimes power is important, too.
The other side of a MythTV might well be running a few games on the side, to take advantage of the bigger screen. That calls for a different type of video card than just TV playback. Any suggestions for a decent 3D card without a fan?
This sounds like the perfect excuse - to the boss at work or the CFO at home - to step up to 64-bit machines across the board.
Plus maybe it meets with Intel's original timeline of when we were all going to need 64-bit desktops, anyway.
Are you running Kerberos under/with the LDAP, as well? I'm trying to proceed in this direction, though I want to start with LDAP/SASL/Kerberos first, and add Samba after. There have been two readily available documents on how to do this, though I don't have URLs handy at the moment. I've also seen rumblings that the Samba team doesn't like OpenLDAP, and is planning to add their own LDAP service to a future release. So I'm not sure how that will play out against the solution I'm pursuing.
How well could a ground-based camera take a picture of the shuttle?
How about with all of the fancy adaptive optics that everyone says will render the Hubble expensively irrelevant?
How about if the shuttle shines a laser down to Earth, to help 'calibrate' the adaptive optics?
How about if the ground station could illuminate the shuttle with lasers, possibly with a series of colors to check specific aspects of the TPS condition? (Stay away from the windows, please!)
This is why they're planning on confining shuttle missions to the ISS. Any TPS damage only affects reentry, and the ISS would suffice as a lifeboat, and buy time. It's just not terribly feasible to keep always keep a second shuttle on hand as a rescue vehicle. If a shuttle is damaged during ascent, it is feasible for the astronauts to camp out at the ISS until:
* Some method of tile repair is cooked up, and sent up on a Progress.
* Another shuttle is prep'ed and sent to the ISS to bring them home.
* Send up a few Soyuz capsules over a few weeks to ferry the astronauts home.
In the meantime, the shuttle will have had consumables on hand for it's planned mission duration, and the ISS supplies can be stretched, with this taken into account on a Progress resupply mission.
So let's all just wait for the elevator.
Let's also hope it isn't right around the corner, just like fusion power has been for decades.
I like the idea of the elevator - I'm just not waiting.
Because in light of current events, clearly there was no threat to the US from terrorism, as evidenced by WTC1, the Cole, embassies, etc.
OTOH, there was a clear and present danger that required focusing ALL of our State Dept. attention on scrapping the ABM treaty and deploying some form of the old Star Wars program.
The SR71 was almost as predictable as a spy satellite. The stuff it burned as fuel was unlike any other jet fuel, so it had its own dedicated fleet of tankers for in-air refueling. In addition, it leaked fuel when cold, so didn't bother taking off with a full load - just enough to get up and heat up a bit. Then it would refuel in-air with its operational load.
So all one needed to do was keep an eye on the tankers for the SR71. When they flew, it was a good indicator that the SR71 was going to fly. See which tankers were flying, and you had some indication of where the SR71 was going to fly.
Certainly not as predictable as an orbit, but at least a clear indication.
To replace the SR71 with a "better" spy plane, you don't even need something to fly higher or faster, just something of roughly equal capability with simpler logistics.
Don't you know that on /. it's no longer politically correct to mock or deride Microsoft?
But ... Shatner ... is ... my ... HERO!
This is a fine line. Some people seem to practically worship capitalism and the free market, without thinking everything through. I could comment more, but have deleted it, for now.
Let's for the moment assume pure quarter-by-quarter profit motive, with respect to the asteroid issue. In that setting, it will NEVER be worth it for ANY company to solve the problem of detecting and deflecting asteroids or comets. ANY such work comes right off the bottom line, and becomes a competitive disadvantage. Besides, in any given year, or any given decade, or any given century, the probability of an asteroid/comet impact is vanishingly small. So without SOMEONE to say, "Spend at least a little resource on this societal problem," it just won't get done. Period. At the same time, geological history suggests that over some *long* period the Earth does get hit with big rocks, any big hit will end the free market, as we know it, and there's not way to use statistics to say, "It positively won't happen in the next decade or century."
I believe that there's a balance needed between socialism and capitalism, and too far toward *either* is both wrong and in the long run, detrimental. Isn't raw capitalism simply law-of-the-jungle played out with economic instead of physical force? It took thousands of years of socialization to progress beyond might-makes-right to the rule of Law, and substantial parts of the globe haven't really even gotten there, yet. IMHO the US is currently sliding towards an economic might-makes-right savagery.
You missed my point. I have nothing against making life enjoyable, it's just the need for balance, and spending some time/resource on necessary things, too. There ought to be plenty of time for both.
It's not that making life enjoyable is bad, on it's own.
It's when there are other things that *ought* to be getting done, but we're too busy using *the same technology* to make life enjoyable and *not* doing those things.
Case in point: Space Tourism
I'd *love* to be a space tourist. If it ever gets down into my price range while I'm healthy enough, I will. But if we get *so* preoccupied with space tourism that we don't think or prepare for comet/asteroid detection and deflection, that's bad. If tourism prevents exploration, that's bad. At the moment, I don't think this situation exists. In fact, I think space tourism will make people *more* conscious of the things we ought to be doing in space, and more supportive of them.
But preoccupation with entertainment at the expense of real goals is something to watch out for.
By the time you're hauling batteries and welding, you're out of the realm of 'kid' that I was complaining about. I'm thinking about little overweight 5 year olds riding an electric car for kids.
Don't even need a nuke. It's even possible a nuke would be counterproductive, and stick the mass there even harder.
Look back about a month or so ago. In Western Utah they were doing some sort of desalination thing, and pumping the brine deep underground. There were also minor tremors nearby in Colorado. Turned out that the brine was lubricating a fault, and the tremors were little slips.
They stopped pumping the brine in Utah.
Which in a way is really dumb, because the pressure down there is building. Letting it out in lots of small slips is better than having it go off in a big one. But I guess in the US we're so into the blame game that we'd rather have a catastrophic accident that we can't get blamed for than minor incidents that we can.
So you don't need, maybe don't even want, a nuke.
Just a pumping station for ocean water.
I don't know what my cable company will do, except that it will likely co$t more dollar$. I'm already thinking of switching from cable modem to DSL, which just became available to me. It's not quite as fast, but the TOS are better and it's cheaper. It's tempting to go dish at the same time, except that would blow any PVR plans.
My preferred card would be the PVR-500, and get 2 tuners in one. But I get the impression that its support is not quite there yet, either. (It might be that the PVR-500 is effectively 2 PVR-150's on one card.) I also get the impression that work is proceeding on both cards, and it's a matter of time, not release of documentation.