I read about a guy a few years back that got on every junk mail list he could. He rolls the accumulated paper into logs for his cabin. Somebody else pays for his heat all winter long.
I think the reason why the supporters of the competing Liberty Alliance project for Internet authentication are flat-out scared of Mono is that they know that if Mono succeeds, it would essentially validate Microsoft's.NET initiative for Internet authentication, since.NET and Mono operate on more or less the same concepts.
And once that validation takes place and MS milks all they can from it, they make changes that break Mono and they are once again the only game in town.
"Any, and I mean any god dammit, attempt to restrict access to source code is evil according to GNU Values."
That is a pretty strong statement and smacks in the face of the "Magna Carta" of those GNU Values, ie the GPL. The GPL _does_ restrict access to source code! Albeit, in a way that turns the traditional role of copyright on it's face, but then you are condemining _all_ restrictions on source code right;)
The poster said restrict "access to" source code, not restrict the ways that source code may be used. The condemnation wasn't restrictions on source code, but restrictions to the source code. The restriction is that you don't restrict access to source.
I don't see how that's possible. Sometimes I get so involved in my work that I wait to go to the bathroom until the very last second and if I'm too late my Levis don't help a bit.
Actually, it doesn't say it just rained, but the Biblical account says that the fountains of the deep opened up. As long as we're speculating, could that phenomenon (the fountains) have cause a great deal of tectonic activity that in turn set into motion what is now called continental drift and in the process some smaller land masses could have slid into heretofore non-existent channels.
Eeep! I didn't even see "tounge" (what the heck is that anyway?). I enjoy making a point as much as the next guy, I just hate it when I do it inadvertently.
...let me break it to you uptime bigots out there:
Perhaps you should have replied to one then. However, I will take some exception to your assertion that uptime is useless. Try to convince someone with an unstable box that uptime isn't important. I know, you'd swing that around to downtime being the real issue (and you'd be correct), but most OS's have a difficult time measuring their own downtime.
Are they complainin' that it's down or that it ain't up?
...unfortunately, there aren't very many handicapped open source developers.
That's even worse than the statistic used in the article. How do you know how many open source developers are handicapped? Surely impairment is something that occurs across demographics. I mean geeks aren't immune. Somebody's gotta be buyin' all those black-rimmed glasses (and the tape that holds 'em together).
Nothing quite like having to move a few hundred servers to break your uptime records.
What? You couldn't put them on a cart with their UPS and rush them to the new spot while still running? That many boxes could really skew the "my OS is better than your OS" data...
Seems to me Larry Ellison is being rather opportunistic here...
A business that isn't opportunistic to some degree will fail. With businesses involved in disaster recovery for instance, not stepping up marketing efforts in light of 9/11 would be foolish. People's minds are more tuned to the message, as they should have been before the events. I think the difference between that scenario and what Ellison is doing is that he is trying to use the tragedies to create a perceived need for something that will be of little real value and might cause considerable harm. In short, he's not far removed from those collecting for bogus charities "helping" New York Police and Firefighters' families.
Hmm. Your Linux Magazine must be totally different than the US version. US version doesn't come with a coverdisk and (as far as I know) has always been in English.
That said, I read Linux Journal, Linux Magazine (US Version) and only get Linux Format when the coverdisk contains something large that I want or several somethings that add up to large. All three have their merits, but the coverdisk idea is one I'd like to see the US mags pick up (I remember Maximum Linux had a coverdisk, but it's now kaput!).
Maybe it's me but i think that maybe this experiment would work better in the birds natural habitat, because numerous studies have proven time and time again that animals act really funny when placed in captivity.
Good thoughts. That's why I'm building my wind tunnel in the willows.
As to animals acting funny in captivity, is that why captive chimps are almost always cast in comedies rather than dramatic roles?
But IBM had merely replaced them all with a single Linux box.
I've seen the commercial too, but couldn't tell if that was a rack full of Linux boxen or an IBM mainframe. I'm guessing the former, but the use of the singular caused me to question my assumption. Anybody know by lookin'? We've got IBM boxen here, but they're all AIX and Windows (except the one on my desk....).
Unfortunately, that comment alone probably killed a lot of familes from watching it.
Even more unfortunate is that the comment wasn't alone. As FatherOfThree I was disappointed at the downward turn and don't really understand why the dialog can't be funny without it. There were things in the cartoon that cracked my entire family up (well, mom didn't get it...). Not that The Tick is some paragon of family values, but the cartoon held this adult's attention without the baggage that makes the live version unsuitable for family viewing (Actually, if it's not suitable for family viewing, I don't watch even when the family's not around. Seems hypocritical to me. Kind of like smoking but telling the kids not to.)
Anyhow.... was this a result of FOX's desire to "push the envelope" (when I watch COPS I think it's hilarious that there's a "not suitable" disclaimer for the show when it's usually not as vulgar or violent as the promos for other FOX shows) or does it represent a direction you would have taken the cartoon given a prime time slot? (I don't know if the comic book dialog was closer to the live action or the animated though.)
Other than that aspect, much of the dialog kept that absurdity I was hoping for, I thought the costumes were great, I didn't even mind that two of my favorite regulars had been transmogrified into Batmanuel and Captain Liberty (OK, that one doesn't seem to have the potential of American Maid flinging deadly stiletto heels as "secret" weapon). The moving antennae were great, Arthur's wings..... Patrick Warburton IS The Tick, I'm convinced.
I started playing with UNIX while in the marketing dept. at AT&T. Found I liked it better than the political dance that was marketing. I left AT&T during the bloodbath that followed divestiture and went to work for a startup formed by other ex-AT&T employees. It was there that I started working with UNIX on a more or less full-time basis, sharing minor admin duties with one of the partners. Moved on to DBMS application development on AT&T SysV and then AIX. Got a consulting gig that was supposed to last 3 months (went to 9 mos.) was hired as a DBMS programmer and was asked to move to sysadmin when it was discovered that I had expertise where the existing sysadmin had gaps and vice versa.... Now, here I am! The whole journey started in 1983 to official status as sysadmin early this year.
I started this message 5 hours ago and just got back to finishing it! Now, what does "internet time" mean again?
Just our crime rates are lower, our economic wealth is greater and people may drink alcohol on the streets.
The European cards also keep your souffles and softdrinks from going flat as well as purify the air you breathe. Amazing....
Most European countries have far stricter immigration laws, are smaller than many states in the US and there are a host of other differences that make your comparison an apples/oranges kind of thing. As for the greater wealth, I'm not even going to bother....
BUT, what if you had to present a ID card which contained a photograph of yourself (hard to fake), and also had biometric ID terminals: present thumb here for thumb scan, etc.
How is a photograph hard to fake? Transfer all the data from the real card to the forged card with the criminal's pic. As for the biometrics idea, you'd starve to death before the red tape could be untangled in the event you lost a limb. Use multiple digits from both hands? What if you lost both hands in a press or piece of farm machinery?
I heard about a guy waiting to be processed at a police station. The officers thought he was nervously chewing his fingernails. They found out he was chewing off his fingerprints! Gee, maybe software pirates would gouge out the eye the retinal scan was done on and get to wear a patch like real pirates...
...all I'm saying is that it's human nature to get over things in about 3-6 months, of course, not including the people who were directly affected by it.
While it's true that the effect of the attacks will diminish in our collective consciousness, don't forget that all kinds of laws are on the books because some mother of a victim (real mother, not like the "mother of all victims") wouldn't go away until somebody ramrodded a law through that could make her feel that her loss was not in vain.
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I read about a guy a few years back that got on every junk mail list he could. He rolls the accumulated paper into logs for his cabin. Somebody else pays for his heat all winter long.
I think the reason why the supporters of the competing Liberty Alliance project for Internet authentication are flat-out scared of Mono is that they know that if Mono succeeds, it would essentially validate Microsoft's .NET initiative for Internet authentication, since .NET and Mono operate on more or less the same concepts.
And once that validation takes place and MS milks all they can from it, they make changes that break Mono and they are once again the only game in town.
Exchange Connector only hurts the people who are already using Exchange.
Isn't that like rubbing salt into an open wound?
"Any, and I mean any god dammit, attempt to restrict access to source code is evil according to GNU Values."
;)
That is a pretty strong statement and smacks in the face of the "Magna Carta" of those GNU Values, ie the GPL. The GPL _does_ restrict access to source code! Albeit, in a way that turns the traditional role of copyright on it's face, but then you are condemining _all_ restrictions on source code right
The poster said restrict "access to" source code, not restrict the ways that source code may be used. The condemnation wasn't restrictions on source code, but restrictions to the source code. The restriction is that you don't restrict access to source.
what's the ignition temperature of a paper plate?
451 degrees Fahrenheit
Hence the title of Ray Bradbury's Farenheit 451 that deals with the burning of books.
Ho ho, I got you beat.
Are you missin' a ho?
The city is kept dry due to levies...
I don't see how that's possible. Sometimes I get so involved in my work that I wait to go to the bathroom until the very last second and if I'm too late my Levis don't help a bit.
Actually, it doesn't say it just rained, but the Biblical account says that the fountains of the deep opened up. As long as we're speculating, could that phenomenon (the fountains) have cause a great deal of tectonic activity that in turn set into motion what is now called continental drift and in the process some smaller land masses could have slid into heretofore non-existent channels.
Maybe it was a (cough) sophisticated guess based on the amount of barnacles, coral, silt, whatever that has accumulated on the "city".
Eeep! I didn't even see "tounge" (what the heck is that anyway?). I enjoy making a point as much as the next guy, I just hate it when I do it inadvertently.
I just "figgerd" you was keyin' off my use of the word "ain't".
English is my native tounge, and it pains me to see it butchered - especially when I'm holding the cleaver.
...let me break it to you uptime bigots out there:
Perhaps you should have replied to one then. However, I will take some exception to your assertion that uptime is useless. Try to convince someone with an unstable box that uptime isn't important. I know, you'd swing that around to downtime being the real issue (and you'd be correct), but most OS's have a difficult time measuring their own downtime.
Are they complainin' that it's down or that it ain't up?
...unfortunately, there aren't very many handicapped open source developers.
That's even worse than the statistic used in the article. How do you know how many open source developers are handicapped? Surely impairment is something that occurs across demographics. I mean geeks aren't immune. Somebody's gotta be buyin' all those black-rimmed glasses (and the tape that holds 'em together).
Nothing quite like having to move a few hundred servers to break your uptime records.
What? You couldn't put them on a cart with their UPS and rush them to the new spot while still running? That many boxes could really skew the "my OS is better than your OS" data...
Seems to me Larry Ellison is being rather opportunistic here...
A business that isn't opportunistic to some degree will fail. With businesses involved in disaster recovery for instance, not stepping up marketing efforts in light of 9/11 would be foolish. People's minds are more tuned to the message, as they should have been before the events. I think the difference between that scenario and what Ellison is doing is that he is trying to use the tragedies to create a perceived need for something that will be of little real value and might cause considerable harm. In short, he's not far removed from those collecting for bogus charities "helping" New York Police and Firefighters' families.
Hmm. Your Linux Magazine must be totally different than the US version. US version doesn't come with a coverdisk and (as far as I know) has always been in English.
That said, I read Linux Journal, Linux Magazine (US Version) and only get Linux Format when the coverdisk contains something large that I want or several somethings that add up to large. All three have their merits, but the coverdisk idea is one I'd like to see the US mags pick up (I remember Maximum Linux had a coverdisk, but it's now kaput!).
Thank you for your (small) beowulf cluster of replies. So, any idea how many virtual Linuxes can be run on the low end of that series?
Cool. Looks like an invisible keyboard/brass knuckle combo!
The downside could be local gangstas see you "air typing" and mistake it for gang signs.
Maybe it's me but i think that maybe this experiment would work better in the birds natural habitat, because numerous studies have proven time and time again that animals act really funny when placed in captivity.
Good thoughts. That's why I'm building my wind tunnel in the willows.
As to animals acting funny in captivity, is that why captive chimps are almost always cast in comedies rather than dramatic roles?
But IBM had merely replaced them all with a single Linux box.
I've seen the commercial too, but couldn't tell if that was a rack full of Linux boxen or an IBM mainframe. I'm guessing the former, but the use of the singular caused me to question my assumption. Anybody know by lookin'? We've got IBM boxen here, but they're all AIX and Windows (except the one on my desk....).
Unfortunately, that comment alone probably killed a lot of familes from watching it.
Even more unfortunate is that the comment wasn't alone. As FatherOfThree I was disappointed at the downward turn and don't really understand why the dialog can't be funny without it. There were things in the cartoon that cracked my entire family up (well, mom didn't get it...). Not that The Tick is some paragon of family values, but the cartoon held this adult's attention without the baggage that makes the live version unsuitable for family viewing (Actually, if it's not suitable for family viewing, I don't watch even when the family's not around. Seems hypocritical to me. Kind of like smoking but telling the kids not to.)
Anyhow.... was this a result of FOX's desire to "push the envelope" (when I watch COPS I think it's hilarious that there's a "not suitable" disclaimer for the show when it's usually not as vulgar or violent as the promos for other FOX shows) or does it represent a direction you would have taken the cartoon given a prime time slot? (I don't know if the comic book dialog was closer to the live action or the animated though.)
Other than that aspect, much of the dialog kept that absurdity I was hoping for, I thought the costumes were great, I didn't even mind that two of my favorite regulars had been transmogrified into Batmanuel and Captain Liberty (OK, that one doesn't seem to have the potential of American Maid flinging deadly stiletto heels as "secret" weapon). The moving antennae were great, Arthur's wings..... Patrick Warburton IS The Tick, I'm convinced.
I started playing with UNIX while in the marketing dept. at AT&T. Found I liked it better than the political dance that was marketing. I left AT&T during the bloodbath that followed divestiture and went to work for a startup formed by other ex-AT&T employees. It was there that I started working with UNIX on a more or less full-time basis, sharing minor admin duties with one of the partners. Moved on to DBMS application development on AT&T SysV and then AIX. Got a consulting gig that was supposed to last 3 months (went to 9 mos.) was hired as a DBMS programmer and was asked to move to sysadmin when it was discovered that I had expertise where the existing sysadmin had gaps and vice versa.... Now, here I am! The whole journey started in 1983 to official status as sysadmin early this year.
I started this message 5 hours ago and just got back to finishing it! Now, what does "internet time" mean again?
Just our crime rates are lower, our economic wealth is greater and people may drink alcohol on the streets.
The European cards also keep your souffles and softdrinks from going flat as well as purify the air you breathe. Amazing....
Most European countries have far stricter immigration laws, are smaller than many states in the US and there are a host of other differences that make your comparison an apples/oranges kind of thing. As for the greater wealth, I'm not even going to bother....
BUT, what if you had to present a ID card which contained a photograph of yourself (hard to fake), and also had biometric ID terminals: present thumb here for thumb scan, etc.
How is a photograph hard to fake? Transfer all the data from the real card to the forged card with the criminal's pic. As for the biometrics idea, you'd starve to death before the red tape could be untangled in the event you lost a limb. Use multiple digits from both hands? What if you lost both hands in a press or piece of farm machinery?
I heard about a guy waiting to be processed at a police station. The officers thought he was nervously chewing his fingernails. They found out he was chewing off his fingerprints! Gee, maybe software pirates would gouge out the eye the retinal scan was done on and get to wear a patch like real pirates...
...all I'm saying is that it's human nature to get over things in about 3-6 months, of course, not including the people who were directly affected by it.
While it's true that the effect of the attacks will diminish in our collective consciousness, don't forget that all kinds of laws are on the books because some mother of a victim (real mother, not like the "mother of all victims") wouldn't go away until somebody ramrodded a law through that could make her feel that her loss was not in vain.