Too bad that the real work to be done here was largeley undertaken previously by the "Kernel Janitors". This is a genuinely community-based effort, designed EXACTLY to remediate the less-than-glorious issues within existing kernel trees.
And, Hey!
They are training aspiring kernel developers, who can hone their skills and become intimately familiar with kernel internals by contributing in a meaningful way! Even if it's just repairing bad use of whitespace...
I loved and used Gnome for a good few years there. Back when it was Owen and Raster and Miguel and Havoc - until 2.0. I gave Gnome 2 about a year, before I just couldn't deal anymore.
On a whim, I installed SuSE 8.sumthin on a spare box. The short story is that SuSE left (great distro - but terrible pain to build other's sources on)and KDE 3.1 stayed... Now I am living with Orth's debs of CVS on my Debian box.
A rat done bit my sister Nell with Whitey on the moon.
Her face and arms began to swell and Whitey's on the moon.
I can't pay no doctor bills but Whitey's on the moon.
Ten years from now I'll be payin' still while Whitey's on the moon.
The man just upped my rent last night cuz Whitey's on the moon.
No hot water, no toilets, no lights but Whitey's on the moon.
I wonder why he's uppin me. Cuz Whitey's on the moon?
I was already givin' him fifty a week but now Whitey's on the moon.
Taxes takin' my whole damn check,
The junkies makin' me a nervous wreck,
The price of food is goin' up,
And as if all that shit wasn't enough:
A rat done bit my sister Nell with Whitey on the moon.
Her face and arms began to swell but Whitey's on the moon.
Was all that money I made last year for Whitey on the moon?
How come there ain't no money here? Hmm! Whitey's on the moon.
Ya know, I just about had my fill of Whitey on the moon.
I think I'll send these doctor bills
airmail special...
to Whitey on the moon.
I think that the next patent that ought to be pursued in court is the symbolic representation of language as phonetically derived characters. 'Twas recently discovered to be the proerty of a company forming just next week, to assume such rights.
Bush Mission to Mars: it's all about militarizing space
Excerpts from Bush's "space exploration" speech delivered earlier today:
America is proud of our space program. The risk-takers and visionaries of this agency have expanded human knowledge, have revolutionized our understanding of the universe and produced technological advances that have benefited all of humane's (sic) doing an excellent job.
Certainly, some of it has benefited people who live in affluent nations -- most notably, the aerospace industry, otherwise known as the "defense" industry. The vast majority of mankind, however, lives under conditions of grinding poverty and the advances gained from the space program do not benefit them in the least. In fact, many of the "technological advances" of the aerospace industry have resulted in widespread death and destruction -- for instance, the development and use of stealth bombers and cruise missiles. For untold numbers of Iraqis and Afghans, the American space program translates into GPS guided bombs killing their children.
Our investment in space exploration helped to create our satellite telecommunications network and the Global Positioning System.
See the previous comment.
Our first goal is to complete the International Space Station by 2010. We will finish what we have started.
Bush's "first goal" is to realize plans spelled out by the Commission to Assess United States National Security Space Management and Organization, chaired by Donald Rumsfeld in 2001. A report issued by the Commission demands the US "have the option to deploy weapons in space to deter threats to and, if necessary, defend against attacks on U.S. interests." In other words, the US will build a new generation of space-based weapons to further realize Pax Americana. Of course, this will motivate other countries (most notably China) to waste money and precious resouces on developing space weapons of their own, initiating an arms race.
In fact, China has already started its own space weapons program, according to a report released by the Department of Defense. "The report focuses on the current and probable future course of that country's growing military-technological prowess, including the use of space to assure military advantage," Leonard David writes for Space.com. "This year's report cites a comment from Captain Shen Zhongchang from the Chinese Navy Research Institute. He envisions, according to the DoD, a weaker military defeating a superior one by attacking its space-based communications and surveillance systems." For more on the strategic thinking of the Chinese, see Chinese Views of Future Warfare.
[Secretary of the Air Force Pete Aldrich] has tremendous experience in the Department of Defense and the aerospace industry. And he is going to begin this important work right away.
Aldrich does have "tremendous experience" -- he is the overseer of the Defense Departmenta(TM)s Missile Defense Support Group (MDSG) and reports to the DoD's Senior Executive Council (SEC) and the Missile Defense Agency. "The SEC, which is chaired by Deputy Defense Secretary Paul Wolfowitz and includes the service secretaries and Aldridge, recently was assigned the task of considering whether elements of the Ballistic Missile Defense System (BMDS) should move to production and deployment," writes Alaska Missile Defense Early Bird Weekly.
In other words, Reagan's Star Wars reinvented.
"[The] real scandal [of BMDS is] that the defense being developed won't work -- and few in Washington seem to know or ca
One billion won't do dink for going to Mars. But it will serve nicely as a BOONDOGGLE to funnel cash at Halliburton - who have been cozied-up with NASA for Martian drilling...
"Yeah, a billion will do. To start. Then we can figure out this special Mars-drill thing, or whatever..."
Slashdot Mirror
"If I have a computer, why would I care about television?"
It's really what I get, for bypassing privoxy for a little while... Not again!
No thanks!
Too bad that the real work to be done here was largeley undertaken previously by the "Kernel Janitors". This is a genuinely community-based effort, designed EXACTLY to remediate the less-than-glorious issues within existing kernel trees.
And, Hey!
They are training aspiring kernel developers, who can hone their skills and become intimately familiar with kernel internals by contributing in a meaningful way! Even if it's just repairing bad use of whitespace...
"Lie down with pigs...
Unless they mean a collar with a buckle and a D-ring...
He couldn't get past booting linux on the thing - not exactly a stunning indictment of MythTV!
I guess that's a name we haven't used for it yet!
It still is one of the ways to keep her happy, though...
Of course, you can integrate lots of hardware with those!
Why didn't I think of it myself?
All the same for the 1n73lKidd13z!
On a whim, I installed SuSE 8.sumthin on a spare box. The short story is that SuSE left (great distro - but terrible pain to build other's sources on)and KDE 3.1 stayed... Now I am living with Orth's debs of CVS on my Debian box.
It's not my business where they com down..."
-- Herr Doktor W.. Von Braun
A rat done bit my sister Nell with Whitey on the moon.
Her face and arms began to swell and Whitey's on the moon.
I can't pay no doctor bills but Whitey's on the moon.
Ten years from now I'll be payin' still while Whitey's on the moon.
The man just upped my rent last night cuz Whitey's on the moon.
No hot water, no toilets, no lights but Whitey's on the moon.
I wonder why he's uppin me. Cuz Whitey's on the moon?
I was already givin' him fifty a week but now Whitey's on the moon.
Taxes takin' my whole damn check,
The junkies makin' me a nervous wreck,
The price of food is goin' up,
And as if all that shit wasn't enough:
A rat done bit my sister Nell with Whitey on the moon.
Her face and arms began to swell but Whitey's on the moon.
Was all that money I made last year for Whitey on the moon?
How come there ain't no money here? Hmm! Whitey's on the moon.
Ya know, I just about had my fill of Whitey on the moon.
I think I'll send these doctor bills airmail special...
to Whitey on the moon.
Summer Samba by Astrid Gilberto
The Cat by James Taylor Quartet
Back in '97. All three started downloading at about the same time - I don't remember which one finished first...
Send Ahnold to Mahhhs!
I think that the next patent that ought to be pursued in court is the symbolic representation of language as phonetically derived characters. 'Twas recently discovered to be the proerty of a company forming just next week, to assume such rights.
Yeah prolly metal on the bottom.
PS/2 plug is cool. You can get a USB adaptor, and have this thing 'till the end of the Epoch!
See you, when we're BOTH in the Gulag, my friend...
I was refering to the common switch mechanism.
REAL model Ms - METAL plate on the bottom, with DIP switches!
Yeah I got the IBM "buckling spring" keyboard, and the GIGANTIC Sony/Sun 20" on my KVM.
Bush Mission to Mars: it's all about militarizing space
Excerpts from Bush's "space exploration" speech delivered earlier today:
America is proud of our space program. The risk-takers and visionaries of this agency have expanded human knowledge, have revolutionized our understanding of the universe and produced technological advances that have benefited all of humane's (sic) doing an excellent job.
Certainly, some of it has benefited people who live in affluent nations -- most notably, the aerospace industry, otherwise known as the "defense" industry. The vast majority of mankind, however, lives under conditions of grinding poverty and the advances gained from the space program do not benefit them in the least. In fact, many of the "technological advances" of the aerospace industry have resulted in widespread death and destruction -- for instance, the development and use of stealth bombers and cruise missiles. For untold numbers of Iraqis and Afghans, the American space program translates into GPS guided bombs killing their children.
Our investment in space exploration helped to create our satellite telecommunications network and the Global Positioning System.
See the previous comment.
Our first goal is to complete the International Space Station by 2010. We will finish what we have started.
Bush's "first goal" is to realize plans spelled out by the Commission to Assess United States National Security Space Management and Organization, chaired by Donald Rumsfeld in 2001. A report issued by the Commission demands the US "have the option to deploy weapons in space to deter threats to and, if necessary, defend against attacks on U.S. interests." In other words, the US will build a new generation of space-based weapons to further realize Pax Americana. Of course, this will motivate other countries (most notably China) to waste money and precious resouces on developing space weapons of their own, initiating an arms race.
In fact, China has already started its own space weapons program, according to a report released by the Department of Defense. "The report focuses on the current and probable future course of that country's growing military-technological prowess, including the use of space to assure military advantage," Leonard David writes for Space.com. "This year's report cites a comment from Captain Shen Zhongchang from the Chinese Navy Research Institute. He envisions, according to the DoD, a weaker military defeating a superior one by attacking its space-based communications and surveillance systems." For more on the strategic thinking of the Chinese, see Chinese Views of Future Warfare.
[Secretary of the Air Force Pete Aldrich] has tremendous experience in the Department of Defense and the aerospace industry. And he is going to begin this important work right away.
Aldrich does have "tremendous experience" -- he is the overseer of the Defense Departmenta(TM)s Missile Defense Support Group (MDSG) and reports to the DoD's Senior Executive Council (SEC) and the Missile Defense Agency. "The SEC, which is chaired by Deputy Defense Secretary Paul Wolfowitz and includes the service secretaries and Aldridge, recently was assigned the task of considering whether elements of the Ballistic Missile Defense System (BMDS) should move to production and deployment," writes Alaska Missile Defense Early Bird Weekly.
In other words, Reagan's Star Wars reinvented.
"[The] real scandal [of BMDS is] that the defense being developed won't work -- and few in Washington seem to know or ca
"Yeah, a billion will do. To start. Then we can figure out this special Mars-drill thing, or whatever..."
Don't believe me? Here's linkage at PETROLEUM NEWS
Who's gonna' be drilled? Just you and me, again...
One key to the right...
You just had to oiss in the lemonade, didn't you!
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