The solution to this is easy: have cable and DSL! That may not apply to some people, but I could get that for 90$ (CDN) a month (of course i'd need a little extra routing equipment but I already have a small LAN... nothing a linux router with 3 eth cards couldn't handle:)). Although I have a friend who's tried the local cable and DSL providers and the cable was never as fast or as reliable as the DSL (which, btw, is down about 3 hours a year here). My DSL is also faster than I hear from a lot of people - 1.4Mbps down and 384Kbps up. With the current quality, it would take a lot more speed for me to switch to cable... and even then I'm not always downloading huge files. With a good server I can download a CD in 30-45 minutes, and that's good enough. ---
When my parents want to know how to install winzip, they ask me. They don't go to Future Shop and pay 40$ to get it done. If they wanted to build a WAN connecting 5 locations with 500-1000 computers each, then they would pay for it, but for most things they can just go to me, and they do, because they don't need to pay for something that simple (to me). ---
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or try my new id: fuckyou69g, fuckyourself. It's the first thing that came to mind:) ---
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My english teacher once told a story about a kid who sucked at math, but always knew what the teacher would answer... ---
You know that person who claims to be the 15-year old hacker who wrote the linux module/application/nuclear-warhead-controller-that -can-only-target-Redmond you have a question about? Maybe he is. ---
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In the latest issue of linux journal there's a letter from someone high up in the IT deparment of a large company who never hires someone with certification - but then who's to say it's not a 10-year old kid?;) ---
Hopefully they'll get one by reading this article rather then getting burned badly.
As much as the article almost seemed to be written by one of the lawyers who fear him so much, it didn't metion one person who had any problems because of his advice... and it did collectively mention all the people who benefited from it. I'm wondering if anyone here took the time to read past the title. This is nothing like a 15 year old playing with the stock market - this is a 15 year old giving people help they might otherwise have to pay a lot more for! ---
Since you read the article, you should know that the majority of the people he answered felt his answer was helpful - after intentional attacks from other lawyers they even voted him up to #1! As the article says, a lot of those questions don't require "depth or complexity of knowledge". ---
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You don't! It's all a plan to arrest people! But i gotta run now, Majestic 12 troops seem to be coming... ---
Here's what the author thinks about the internet, and the real point of the story:
"Morris Bart was a tiny widget inside the same magnificent American instrument of destruction that the Internet has so eloquently upgraded."
After talking about how adults fear rapid change, he proves it. Just another fool. He can insult Americans as much as he wants, but he's really attacking the Internet.
But the real funny thing is this: in one part of the long article (90% of which is just introducing the subject), the author says that people who accept good advice from anyone will have an advantage. And then he says it's wrong for a 15 year old to give out legal advice. According to his information, "By July 1, Marcus was ranked No. 10 out of 150 or so experts in AskMe.com's criminal-law division, many of whom were actual lawyers.". ---
Buttcrack, SK? They must only be a couple hundred KM from here, so they might get it soon.
But even then, i'm not sure Canadians need free DSL that much - Sympatico gives very fast DSL (have you seen the speeds in the US?) at a very low price (have you seen their prices?). You would almost think that some DSL providers in the US are trying to give the same price per Kbps as a modem, but I get 1.5Mbps dn/384Kbps up for 45$ a month. ---
Mother tree to maple leaf, deploying Special Agent Stockwell Day to create controversy and disorder! Expecting half of slashdotters to resign in the next few weeks. ---
well, no, there's actually still us DSL users who get very fast DSL that works very well for less than some of you probably pay for limited dial-up, never mind the cheap DSL that's only 5x as fast as dial-up when it even works... But it would be sad to see the number of intelligent people on the internet (and slashdot) diminish. ---
hopefully some dictator will have gotten tired of them and nuked them by then (because mine expires in 2k9 too... better add another 27000 days just to be safe)! ---
I think the link to the other slashdot story, the one everyone follows first, is confusing everyone. This is not about removing useful information from the boot process!! Linus was just saying that we don't need to be told the version and authors of every module and driver every time we start our computers. AFAIK, he is for useful messages at boot time, he just doesn't want the boot process to look like a movie with the credits at the start.
And for all you people who want this to be optional - if it is done (and I hope it is), it will be fully optional. If you're one of the 0.0000000001% of people who actually need to know this, you can always find the version information and credits for any driver. That's all Linus wants to remove from the boot messages, and I hope he gains support on this, because I want to use my computer, not read the full credits for the kernel 5 times a day.
note: I do not currently use linux, but I plan to install the Mandrake Powerpack I recently bought as soon as I get my new computer running. This may cause a few innacuracies in my post, but I belive that I know enough (and I do have some linux experience) to correct the mistaken ideas too many people seem to have gotten from this story ---
I think you missed the point - Linus is saying the boot process shouldn't look like a movie with the credits at the start. He is telling developers that the users don't need to be told the version and authors of every module each time they boot. I agree. ---
Did you actually read the post? (did I even need to ask that question?) Linus says that his name, in the one place it shows up in this log, was placed there by someone else, and it could be changed to any name for all he cared. ---
This isn't about the same thing as the slashdot story linked from it. This is about not telling you you're using HardwareDriver 1.34.135 by Abjkl Magdinadf. That is exactly the kind of thing we don't need - if I want to know the name of the person who wrote my drivers, i'll find the information myself. I don't need to be told every time I start my computer. This is optional - the messages like this should be removed from the boot process, and if you want to know you can just get the version information. ---
It depends. If you want to send the data over a network, render it, and have it come back, forget it. A LAN may not have noticable lag for multiplayer, but it's not enough to replace the system bus. If you were thinking of the data being re-broadcast over the network for observers or having a fixed scene rendered (or anything where the program controling the rendering and the rendering hardware are on the same computer), it would be possible. ---
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The solution to this is easy: have cable and DSL! That may not apply to some people, but I could get that for 90$ (CDN) a month (of course i'd need a little extra routing equipment but I already have a small LAN... nothing a linux router with 3 eth cards couldn't handle :)). Although I have a friend who's tried the local cable and DSL providers and the cable was never as fast or as reliable as the DSL (which, btw, is down about 3 hours a year here). My DSL is also faster than I hear from a lot of people - 1.4Mbps down and 384Kbps up. With the current quality, it would take a lot more speed for me to switch to cable... and even then I'm not always downloading huge files. With a good server I can download a CD in 30-45 minutes, and that's good enough.
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try fuckyou69g/fuckyourself, and stay logged in. Pass it on.
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hey, you shouldn't discriminate against people who don't have showers! it's not their fault that they rely of their in-laws for hygiene!
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When my parents want to know how to install winzip, they ask me. They don't go to Future Shop and pay 40$ to get it done. If they wanted to build a WAN connecting 5 locations with 500-1000 computers each, then they would pay for it, but for most things they can just go to me, and they do, because they don't need to pay for something that simple (to me).
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or try my new id: fuckyou69g, fuckyourself. It's the first thing that came to mind :)
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My english teacher once told a story about a kid who sucked at math, but always knew what the teacher would answer...
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You can also look it up at www.everything2.com.
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Thanks for the link - I wanted to up my time from 3000 to 30000 days. See previous discussion for more information.
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You know that person who claims to be the 15-year old hacker who wrote the linux module/application/nuclear-warhead-controller-that -can-only-target-Redmond you have a question about? Maybe he is.
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In the latest issue of linux journal there's a letter from someone high up in the IT deparment of a large company who never hires someone with certification - but then who's to say it's not a 10-year old kid? ;)
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Hopefully they'll get one by reading this article rather then getting burned badly.
As much as the article almost seemed to be written by one of the lawyers who fear him so much, it didn't metion one person who had any problems because of his advice... and it did collectively mention all the people who benefited from it. I'm wondering if anyone here took the time to read past the title. This is nothing like a 15 year old playing with the stock market - this is a 15 year old giving people help they might otherwise have to pay a lot more for!
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Since you read the article, you should know that the majority of the people he answered felt his answer was helpful - after intentional attacks from other lawyers they even voted him up to #1! As the article says, a lot of those questions don't require "depth or complexity of knowledge".
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You don't! It's all a plan to arrest people! But i gotta run now, Majestic 12 troops seem to be coming...
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Here's what the author thinks about the internet, and the real point of the story: "Morris Bart was a tiny widget inside the same magnificent American instrument of destruction that the Internet has so eloquently upgraded." After talking about how adults fear rapid change, he proves it. Just another fool. He can insult Americans as much as he wants, but he's really attacking the Internet. But the real funny thing is this: in one part of the long article (90% of which is just introducing the subject), the author says that people who accept good advice from anyone will have an advantage. And then he says it's wrong for a 15 year old to give out legal advice. According to his information, "By July 1, Marcus was ranked No. 10 out of 150 or so experts in AskMe.com's criminal-law division, many of whom were actual lawyers.".
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Buttcrack, SK? They must only be a couple hundred KM from here, so they might get it soon. But even then, i'm not sure Canadians need free DSL that much - Sympatico gives very fast DSL (have you seen the speeds in the US?) at a very low price (have you seen their prices?). You would almost think that some DSL providers in the US are trying to give the same price per Kbps as a modem, but I get 1.5Mbps dn/384Kbps up for 45$ a month.
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Mother tree to maple leaf, deploying Special Agent Stockwell Day to create controversy and disorder! Expecting half of slashdotters to resign in the next few weeks.
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well, no, there's actually still us DSL users who get very fast DSL that works very well for less than some of you probably pay for limited dial-up, never mind the cheap DSL that's only 5x as fast as dial-up when it even works... But it would be sad to see the number of intelligent people on the internet (and slashdot) diminish.
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hopefully some dictator will have gotten tired of them and nuked them by then (because mine expires in 2k9 too... better add another 27000 days just to be safe)!
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it's true. They only go up to 180GB at the moment.
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Because I may not want to leave it on all the time...
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I think the link to the other slashdot story, the one everyone follows first, is confusing everyone. This is not about removing useful information from the boot process!! Linus was just saying that we don't need to be told the version and authors of every module and driver every time we start our computers. AFAIK, he is for useful messages at boot time, he just doesn't want the boot process to look like a movie with the credits at the start.
And for all you people who want this to be optional - if it is done (and I hope it is), it will be fully optional. If you're one of the 0.0000000001% of people who actually need to know this, you can always find the version information and credits for any driver. That's all Linus wants to remove from the boot messages, and I hope he gains support on this, because I want to use my computer, not read the full credits for the kernel 5 times a day.
note: I do not currently use linux, but I plan to install the Mandrake Powerpack I recently bought as soon as I get my new computer running. This may cause a few innacuracies in my post, but I belive that I know enough (and I do have some linux experience) to correct the mistaken ideas too many people seem to have gotten from this story
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I think you missed the point - Linus is saying the boot process shouldn't look like a movie with the credits at the start. He is telling developers that the users don't need to be told the version and authors of every module each time they boot. I agree.
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Did you actually read the post? (did I even need to ask that question?) Linus says that his name, in the one place it shows up in this log, was placed there by someone else, and it could be changed to any name for all he cared.
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This isn't about the same thing as the slashdot story linked from it. This is about not telling you you're using HardwareDriver 1.34.135 by Abjkl Magdinadf. That is exactly the kind of thing we don't need - if I want to know the name of the person who wrote my drivers, i'll find the information myself. I don't need to be told every time I start my computer. This is optional - the messages like this should be removed from the boot process, and if you want to know you can just get the version information.
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It depends. If you want to send the data over a network, render it, and have it come back, forget it. A LAN may not have noticable lag for multiplayer, but it's not enough to replace the system bus. If you were thinking of the data being re-broadcast over the network for observers or having a fixed scene rendered (or anything where the program controling the rendering and the rendering hardware are on the same computer), it would be possible.
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