Do you understand that what you did would have been considered professional incomptetence in a multiuser, critical system commercial enviroment? I'm not trying to put you down. It's a serious question intended to help bring you edification.
Your argument has no bearing on the practices of a professional admin who would have maintained system stability by not doing what you did in the first place.
And having done what you did, could you refer to your pen and paper log of all changes you had ever made to the sytem, right down to editing a single character in a script, to help you track down the problem?
Note that your system remained functioning even after you had made your changes though, until something else changed.
Rule One: Do not touch a running, stable system. Do not make any changes, and a reboot is a change,hence the poster's annoyance at the Windows guy rebooting his sytem. Taking your own argument at face value that could have caused the system to go down, so. ..don't do that if there is no known need.
Rule Two: Make all changes on a test box first, and test them.
Rule Three: Log all changes, even the editing of a single character in a script, in a real notebook that you can refer to even if every computer in the world goes down at once.
And yes, Rule Four: When you do make any change to a live box, test it immediately.
Which is, I pressume, what the poster had to waste at least part of his day doing after someone rebooted a perfectly functioning box.
Home user think: Reboots of my box, which was never stabilized to begin with, solve problems. Changes to my box may make it run better.If there is greater problem a reboot will invoke it, alerting me to the fact that it is there by crashing my box.
Critical system admin think: Stabilize my box so there are no known problems, then leave it alone. It already does what it's supposed to do, so changes are unnecssary. If something causes a greater problem a reboot may just invoke it and crash my box, so, don't do that.
I don't see any movement from RedHat and Novell to sell Linux to Small/Medium Businesses.
Which empirical evidence suggests has nothing to do with whether my business runs Red Hat or not. Red Hat even has a clue that I exist. Microsoft does not.
The vast majority of Linux installations still fly under the radar, particularly in the Small/Medium businesses, because the big players don't even have their radar focused in that direction. Which of the "players" in the market has half a clue about the existence of my friend who still runs his million dollar business on Peachtree on FreeDOS?
Nobody cares about us because there's no money in us individually. We pinch every penny and rely on our own expertise. We'll go with the cheap to free solutions and don't buy no support contracts.
But we're everywhere, slowly cranking out Linux installed base and user expertise.
What is it about a business letter that you miss in the header that requires the signature at the end?
No, it isn't an email analogy, it is simply my perception, however eccentric it might be ( and I am not averse to eccentricity)that the header is the header, but my mark is my mark; and they are two different things, even though they convey the same nominal information.
From my perspective it is per arbeitszwang. I have chosen to act in this manner, no matter how much its motivation may confound you.
Dude, you just have to keep up with the memos. I think you'll find this one actually under the leopard. He likes to sit on odd bits of paper.
The whole thing reminds me of a 20 or 30 year old Playboy cartoon though. Two guys are standing on a highrise balcony looking at the moon, which, instead of "The Man in the Moon" displays a Playboy rabbit head logo and one is saying to the other:
"I wonder how much it cost him?"
I guess it'll mean war with the Lunatics when they actually do it, for deploying Weapons of Mass Delusion, or something.
And why shouldn't they? Are you required to keep every piece of paper that ever goes through your hands, or every email that might pass through your inbox, because someday you might violate some law and be prosecuted for it?
You aren't required to tie your own noose, and there are even provisions to assume you are innocent until found guilty/liable and Morgan Stanley is being found liable for behavior after the suit was filed, which changes the rules.
Certainly you are required to retain some records for legal purposes, but they all also have an expiration date for that legal requirement.
In the not too distant future that legal requirement for business email will be three years, at which point you'd have to be an idiot not to just delete it all.
Even Microsoft has legal rights in this country, and any right you deny to them you simply deny to yourself. Beware of the emotional response.
Yeah, but that's just certain elements of the government, who happen to gain control now and again. They're very crude people who harm America's real foreign policy as promoted by "real" Americans.
Bombing a country back to the stone age removes any profit potential from them. It's important to gain control of a country intact in order to extract the most out of it. If they have nothing there's nothing for us to steal ^H^H^H^H^H buy.
This is the function of the World Bank and other such institutions. In the guise of helping a nation to develop they sieze complete economic control of a nation in such manner that the nation can never release its chains. Foreign insolvency is not the problem that the press likes to tout it as, it is the deliberate tactic. We, with malice aforethought, drive them into insolvancy, because a country irreducably indebted to us is "ours." We own that country.
It's a form of indentured servitude on the scale of nations.
Here's how indentured servitude works. You find someone in desperate need of money and loan them some in exchange for papers of indenture. You make sure that the amount of money you loan them (and they must take the amount you offer or leave it)excedes the amount you will pay them (under minimum wage)during the term of their indenture. You include in the terms of their indenture that they must do certain business arrangements through you alone. You then immediately invoke those business arrangements, recouping the money you "loaned" them right off the bat. Effectively you have indebted them for life without spending a penny, and they cannot free themselves from their indenture without removing the debt to you.
America is very, very good at doing this to entire nations without dropping a single bomb and destroying the very resources we are after.
Have you ever wondered exactly where the dollars being spent to "aid" the tsunami victims are going? They are being used to remove the victims from their ancestral lands on the valuable seaside, deport them to inland refuge camps (where they must remain, having now been divested entirely of property, money and rights), and fund foreign owned luxury resorts and casinos on beaches.
I've watched this happen from the inside of third world countries, and there is a certain sad, sick beauty to the way we go about it. We've got it down to a fucking science.
This is the reason "they hate us." It isn't because of "what we have." It's because of how we went about getting what we have, which used to be theirs by birthright.
And if we would simply act as honest, open market trading partners we might well actually earn the right to be considered the true light of the world.
Up until about the Spanish-American war we still held that possibility in our hands (see Twain's essay "To the Person Sitting in Darkness," and if you kinda squint in the dark over how we handle the native populace), and then we pissed it all away. Quite likely unrecoverably.
Well yes, that's exactly what this is all about, which is why the blurb mentions the India/Saudi Arabia thing. It isn't really about physical security, it's about commerce, especially when you bear in mind that America exports the restricted knowledge for profit.
It does, however, serve to illustrate why America was once called, by a foreign commentator, "the most schizophrenic country." Schizophrenia, of course, does not mean "split personality," it means a certain lack of focus, an inablility to "hold one's self together" sufficiently to function. "Scatterbrained," if you will.
"Thorazine is used for the treatment of schizophrenia (severe disruptions in thought and perception). It is also prescribed for the short-term treatment of severe behavioral disorders in children, including explosive hyperactivity and combativeness; and for the hyperenergetic phase of manic-depressive illness (severely exaggerated moods)."
Not to mention Plasma TVs and DVD players . . . (Don't laugh, I'm halfway serious.)
I have a friend who, before the invasion of Afghanistan, argued that we shouldn't leave there until we insured that every household had a TV and DVD player.
He was serious. He considered that a sign of American democracy. I don't think he considered the irony inherent in our obtaining those particular items from China, an actual neighbor of Afghanistan.
". ..competition keeps the world healty."
Indeed. I lived through the Japanese coming over here with their "funny little cars" that GM and Ford laughed at, and watched those funny little cars procede to eat GM and Ford's lunch. Even the VW Beetle getting here first and selling well didn't buy them a clue. Had we been competing with the world all along this never would have been possible and we would have had better American cars all along. Now the car with the most American made content is a Honda (which serves as an example of how protectionism doesn't always work out the way you might expect. Approach that approach with caution).
Why stop them from developing their country?
But dude, then they'd be able to compete with us. What would be the point of having a World Bank to insure developing countries can never develop if we're just going to turn around and allow them to develop?
And do you know why? Because it's an numeric encoding of your fucking fingerprint.
"No, no sir. We don't require photo ID to take out a book. What we do is take a photograph and then convert that to a unique numeric code called a jpeg. So you see, your fears are completely ungrounded."
". ..fees bars and the like for having a TV set, radio or HiFi equipment. Even when the spanish TV stations are either public or earns their income from publicity We are paying IP for TV Commarcials!
And the funniest of all this is that it's not the TV stations which receive the money, nor the publicists, it's SGAE themselves."
Who are, in turn, the agents of the people who write and record the songs. It's how songwriters and composers get paid for the use of their works and is the same the world over. Yeah, there's a bit of "double dipping" going on, because the radio stations are also paying to broadcast the music in the first place.
"The people at the SGAE are not specially smart, the are real *assholes* who could let Dubya seem intelligent. So people are much more upset as it would have been if they behaved like real loobyist instead of playing Bozo the clown."
Yeah, this is the same the world over as well. Resista los parásitos, amigo.
It was a market driven technogeek paradise. It was all bells, whistles, "lickability," flash this, buzzword that, complete and utter vapor could turn industries, and even the stock market, on its head overnight. Fast women chased the nerds with pockets full of even faster money and high paying jobs flowed like water, even for kids who weren't even out of high school yet and the first order of the day when you got to "work" was often a Nerf(tm) fight or fragfest.
The insane frequently mistake their insanity for paradise.
No, that sort of shit ain't likely to come back in our lifetimes.
Technology marches on, and paradise can be found anywhere you find someone with a terminal, soldering iron or lath exclaming to hisself at three in the morning, "Oh. ..wow!" Although it usually requires a bit of capital it isn't about the bloody corporate budget. It belongs to the technologists, not the IT infrastructure.
Sorry about your job, kid, but really, I *did* try to warn you back in the day.
The real trick is actually knowing wtf you are doing
Ya think? Out of the whole review this is the one sentence that jumped out of the parenthesis at me.
It does not merely concern me, it scares the bejeezus out of me.
And just what is a guy like this going to do when he brings his newly minted certification to me, looking for a job, with no relevant work experience, and my first response is. ..
"Well, that's ok, it doesn't necessarily shut you out, just describe to me, in detail, how you set up and administer your home network." ?
I know, I know, in today's world I'm a "weirdo," but I don't want to see your cert, I want to see what you can do before I hire you, so yes, you might want to have "tried the commands yourself" before you actually come to me for a job based on skill with those commands.
Now if you lack those skills that doesn't even mean I won't hire you, but you might have to be willing to spend some time mopping floors before I let you near a live terminal, and I assume I'm even going to have to teach you how to do that properly, which costs me time and money that comes out of what I can afford to pay you.
So why don't you just learn your shit before you show up at my door, k?
I've posted "read a book" any number of times in this very forum. I guess I'll have to start appending what I thought was the obvious corollary: Now do something.
. . . the Linux community is defined by its individuals' refusal to either follow or be given a direction.
Who woulda thunk that a community based on the concept that you should be able to control your software at the lowest levels would tend to gather up its first adherents from the ranks of the sheepdogs, rather than from the herd of sheep.
Originally he came up with an efficient solution to a problem created in an arbitrary manner, and he saw it fade into obscurity. The funny thing is that now you have to question whether or not he is disappointed he did not become the leader you say Linux so desperately needs.
Are you refering to his suggestion, many years ago, that Microsoft should be smart and make its next OS Linux based, or are you just confusing him with the keyboard guy?
. ..there aren't any that are good at the kind of leadership required, because it's a very new kind of leadership.
Who the hell wants to herd a bunch of sheepdogs anyway? They're worse than bloody cats, if only because they yap all the time.
But a good leader will not need to do the pushing that a strong one does.
Well, as long as they're pushing they're at least leading from behind. It's the bloody "Follow me" pullers that will be outright rejected by the alpha dogs, which good sheepdogs inherently are.
The commercial houses will remain the home of the beta dogs until free software becomes viewed as mainstream. It's just the nature of the beast. Then the sheep will be a none issue, as they'll just fall into line.
I've always been amused by people refering to the hordes of grey suited yuppies driving their BMWs in herds to their "good jobs" where they do what they're told and otherwise live private lives driven by comformity to an arbitrary standard as "alpha males."
It's a pretty good joke from the sheepdog perspective, but it certainly does make the herding easier if the sheep think they're the ones who are powerful and in control.
. ..it's an expensive thing to do because people tend to hog all gold reserves for monetary purposes.
When someone recently asked me what the current value of gold was, and I answered:
"Well, pretty much the same as always. It's got a low melting temperature, can often be found in a fairly pure state, it's highly maleable, doesn't oxidize,conducts electricity reasonably well and it's kinda pretty if that's the sort of thing you think is pretty."
. ..the larger the diamond is, the more likely there's a significant impurity in it. Impurities drive down the price of diamonds significantly.
Which they have because they are created in an impure environment. Even with current technology one of the ways to identify a man made diamond is that it's "too pure" and "too perfect."
Thus DeBeers again have managed to have it both ways. Purity drives up the cost of a natural diamond, but makes a man made diamond worth less.
Another way of looking at it is. If you do not want to commit aid in a felony do not run Freenet.
Exactly! That's the whole bloody point of the thing.
You want to make it about absolute freedom of speech? Limit it to just text files.
You have a peculiar definition of "absolute," nor do I see any reason why picutures of my violin should be banned from the net.
You could then say anything you want.
Your point of view of what constitutes kiddy porn also diverges from that of many of the people who decide just what is and is not felony kiddie porn. Here's a clue for you, virtually everything on the Internet is a felony, somewhere. Just ask Yahoo! about it.
My current desktop wallpaper would be considered felony pornography by some. It's a family portrait. You can clearly see the faces of my wife and underage daughter.
Freenet is taking it too far into complete freedom of action including that which harms people.
Nobody has ever been harmed by a file transfer, the only action possible by Freenet. I'm afraid I now have to consider you one of those people who when the words "kiddie porn" are invoked has a mind that clouds over. Rational discussion is not possible in such a situation.
Sure if you want a warz and porn P2P network knock yourself out but admit it. Do not wrap it up in Freedom of Speech.
Except, of course, that that is innately part of freedom of speech. Jefferson himself even argued this. "Warz" only exists as a governmental form of limitation of speech, one that Jefferson felt was innately opposed to the very concept of republicanism and every other provision of the American Constitution. Porn has always been protected by the Constitution (bearing in mind that the Constitution did not apply to local government until after the Civil War).
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Do you understand that what you did would have been considered professional incomptetence in a multiuser, critical system commercial enviroment? I'm not trying to put you down. It's a serious question intended to help bring you edification.
,hence the poster's annoyance at the Windows guy rebooting his sytem. Taking your own argument at face value that could have caused the system to go down, so. . .don't do that if there is no known need.
Your argument has no bearing on the practices of a professional admin who would have maintained system stability by not doing what you did in the first place.
And having done what you did, could you refer to your pen and paper log of all changes you had ever made to the sytem, right down to editing a single character in a script, to help you track down the problem?
Note that your system remained functioning even after you had made your changes though, until something else changed.
Rule One: Do not touch a running, stable system. Do not make any changes, and a reboot is a change
Rule Two: Make all changes on a test box first, and test them.
Rule Three: Log all changes, even the editing of a single character in a script, in a real notebook that you can refer to even if every computer in the world goes down at once.
And yes, Rule Four: When you do make any change to a live box, test it immediately.
Which is, I pressume, what the poster had to waste at least part of his day doing after someone rebooted a perfectly functioning box.
Home user think: Reboots of my box, which was never stabilized to begin with, solve problems. Changes to my box may make it run better.If there is greater problem a reboot will invoke it, alerting me to the fact that it is there by crashing my box.
Critical system admin think: Stabilize my box so there are no known problems, then leave it alone. It already does what it's supposed to do, so changes are unnecssary. If something causes a greater problem a reboot may just invoke it and crash my box, so, don't do that.
KFG
I don't see any movement from RedHat and Novell to sell Linux to Small/Medium Businesses.
Which empirical evidence suggests has nothing to do with whether my business runs Red Hat or not. Red Hat even has a clue that I exist. Microsoft does not.
The vast majority of Linux installations still fly under the radar, particularly in the Small/Medium businesses, because the big players don't even have their radar focused in that direction. Which of the "players" in the market has half a clue about the existence of my friend who still runs his million dollar business on Peachtree on FreeDOS?
Nobody cares about us because there's no money in us individually. We pinch every penny and rely on our own expertise. We'll go with the cheap to free solutions and don't buy no support contracts.
But we're everywhere, slowly cranking out Linux installed base and user expertise.
KFG
What is it about a business letter that you miss in the header that requires the signature at the end?
No, it isn't an email analogy, it is simply my perception, however eccentric it might be ( and I am not averse to eccentricity)that the header is the header, but my mark is my mark; and they are two different things, even though they convey the same nominal information.
From my perspective it is per arbeitszwang. I have chosen to act in this manner, no matter how much its motivation may confound you.
KFG
Exactly.
KFG
Ya ever notice that the cops don't like to go where there's a lot of crime?
KFG
Britney is banned in space too.
And here I was thinking that was the only reasonable place to send her.
KFG
Dude, you just have to keep up with the memos. I think you'll find this one actually under the leopard. He likes to sit on odd bits of paper.
The whole thing reminds me of a 20 or 30 year old Playboy cartoon though. Two guys are standing on a highrise balcony looking at the moon, which, instead of "The Man in the Moon" displays a Playboy rabbit head logo and one is saying to the other:
"I wonder how much it cost him?"
I guess it'll mean war with the Lunatics when they actually do it, for deploying Weapons of Mass Delusion, or something.
KFG
Interesting, you seem to think that corporations have the same rights and privileges as real people.
Haven't a clue where you got that idea, as I posted an exception.
Innocent until proven guilty?
This is a redaction of what I said.
The IRS already makes me keep my income tax info for 7 years.
As noted in my post.
KFG
And why shouldn't they? Are you required to keep every piece of paper that ever goes through your hands, or every email that might pass through your inbox, because someday you might violate some law and be prosecuted for it?
You aren't required to tie your own noose, and there are even provisions to assume you are innocent until found guilty/liable and Morgan Stanley is being found liable for behavior after the suit was filed, which changes the rules.
Certainly you are required to retain some records for legal purposes, but they all also have an expiration date for that legal requirement.
In the not too distant future that legal requirement for business email will be three years, at which point you'd have to be an idiot not to just delete it all.
Even Microsoft has legal rights in this country, and any right you deny to them you simply deny to yourself. Beware of the emotional response.
KFG
Yeah, but that's just certain elements of the government, who happen to gain control now and again. They're very crude people who harm America's real foreign policy as promoted by "real" Americans.
Bombing a country back to the stone age removes any profit potential from them. It's important to gain control of a country intact in order to extract the most out of it. If they have nothing there's nothing for us to steal ^H^H^H^H^H buy.
This is the function of the World Bank and other such institutions. In the guise of helping a nation to develop they sieze complete economic control of a nation in such manner that the nation can never release its chains. Foreign insolvency is not the problem that the press likes to tout it as, it is the deliberate tactic. We, with malice aforethought, drive them into insolvancy, because a country irreducably indebted to us is "ours." We own that country.
It's a form of indentured servitude on the scale of nations.
Here's how indentured servitude works. You find someone in desperate need of money and loan them some in exchange for papers of indenture. You make sure that the amount of money you loan them (and they must take the amount you offer or leave it)excedes the amount you will pay them (under minimum wage)during the term of their indenture. You include in the terms of their indenture that they must do certain business arrangements through you alone. You then immediately invoke those business arrangements, recouping the money you "loaned" them right off the bat. Effectively you have indebted them for life without spending a penny, and they cannot free themselves from their indenture without removing the debt to you.
America is very, very good at doing this to entire nations without dropping a single bomb and destroying the very resources we are after.
Have you ever wondered exactly where the dollars being spent to "aid" the tsunami victims are going? They are being used to remove the victims from their ancestral lands on the valuable seaside, deport them to inland refuge camps (where they must remain, having now been divested entirely of property, money and rights), and fund foreign owned luxury resorts and casinos on beaches.
I've watched this happen from the inside of third world countries, and there is a certain sad, sick beauty to the way we go about it. We've got it down to a fucking science.
This is the reason "they hate us." It isn't because of "what we have." It's because of how we went about getting what we have, which used to be theirs by birthright.
And if we would simply act as honest, open market trading partners we might well actually earn the right to be considered the true light of the world.
Up until about the Spanish-American war we still held that possibility in our hands (see Twain's essay "To the Person Sitting in Darkness," and if you kinda squint in the dark over how we handle the native populace), and then we pissed it all away. Quite likely unrecoverably.
KFG
Well yes, that's exactly what this is all about, which is why the blurb mentions the India/Saudi Arabia thing. It isn't really about physical security, it's about commerce, especially when you bear in mind that America exports the restricted knowledge for profit.
.argh! Where's the Thorazine?
It does, however, serve to illustrate why America was once called, by a foreign commentator, "the most schizophrenic country." Schizophrenia, of course, does not mean "split personality," it means a certain lack of focus, an inablility to "hold one's self together" sufficiently to function. "Scatterbrained," if you will.
Security, money, security, money, security, money. . .
"Thorazine is used for the treatment of schizophrenia (severe disruptions in thought and perception). It is also prescribed for the short-term treatment of severe behavioral disorders in children, including explosive hyperactivity and combativeness; and for the hyperenergetic phase of manic-depressive illness (severely exaggerated moods)."
America is a young nation.
KFG
Not to mention Plasma TVs and DVD players . . . (Don't laugh, I'm halfway serious.)
.competition keeps the world healty."
I have a friend who, before the invasion of Afghanistan, argued that we shouldn't leave there until we insured that every household had a TV and DVD player.
He was serious. He considered that a sign of American democracy. I don't think he considered the irony inherent in our obtaining those particular items from China, an actual neighbor of Afghanistan.
". .
Indeed. I lived through the Japanese coming over here with their "funny little cars" that GM and Ford laughed at, and watched those funny little cars procede to eat GM and Ford's lunch. Even the VW Beetle getting here first and selling well didn't buy them a clue. Had we been competing with the world all along this never would have been possible and we would have had better American cars all along. Now the car with the most American made content is a Honda (which serves as an example of how protectionism doesn't always work out the way you might expect. Approach that approach with caution).
Why stop them from developing their country?
But dude, then they'd be able to compete with us. What would be the point of having a World Bank to insure developing countries can never develop if we're just going to turn around and allow them to develop?
KFG
And do you know why? Because it's an numeric encoding of your fucking fingerprint.
"No, no sir. We don't require photo ID to take out a book. What we do is take a photograph and then convert that to a unique numeric code called a jpeg. So you see, your fears are completely ungrounded."
KFG
". . .fees bars and the like for having a TV set, radio or HiFi equipment. Even when the spanish TV stations are either public or earns their income from publicity We are paying IP for TV Commarcials!
And the funniest of all this is that it's not the
TV stations which receive the money, nor the publicists, it's SGAE themselves."
Who are, in turn, the agents of the people who write and record the songs. It's how songwriters and composers get paid for the use of their works and is the same the world over. Yeah, there's a bit of "double dipping" going on, because the radio stations are also paying to broadcast the music in the first place.
"The people at the SGAE are not specially smart, the are real *assholes* who could let Dubya seem intelligent. So people are much more upset as it would have been if they behaved like real loobyist instead of playing Bozo the clown."
Yeah, this is the same the world over as well. Resista los parásitos, amigo.
KFG
It was a market driven technogeek paradise. It was all bells, whistles, "lickability," flash this, buzzword that, complete and utter vapor could turn industries, and even the stock market, on its head overnight. Fast women chased the nerds with pockets full of even faster money and high paying jobs flowed like water, even for kids who weren't even out of high school yet and the first order of the day when you got to "work" was often a Nerf(tm) fight or fragfest.
.wow!" Although it usually requires a bit of capital it isn't about the bloody corporate budget. It belongs to the technologists, not the IT infrastructure.
The insane frequently mistake their insanity for paradise.
No, that sort of shit ain't likely to come back in our lifetimes.
Technology marches on, and paradise can be found anywhere you find someone with a terminal, soldering iron or lath exclaming to hisself at three in the morning, "Oh. .
Sorry about your job, kid, but really, I *did* try to warn you back in the day.
KFG
Ah, but he didn't use the word, he used the expression.
There's literacy, and then there's understanding.
KFG
. . .has been sacked. Suggestive poses for the moose suggested by. . .
Need more coffee. A brain wouldn't hurt either.
KFG
The real trick is actually knowing wtf you are doing
.
Ya think? Out of the whole review this is the one sentence that jumped out of the parenthesis at me.
It does not merely concern me, it scares the bejeezus out of me.
And just what is a guy like this going to do when he brings his newly minted certification to me, looking for a job, with no relevant work experience, and my first response is. .
"Well, that's ok, it doesn't necessarily shut you out, just describe to me, in detail, how you set up and administer your home network." ?
I know, I know, in today's world I'm a "weirdo," but I don't want to see your cert, I want to see what you can do before I hire you, so yes, you might want to have "tried the commands yourself" before you actually come to me for a job based on skill with those commands.
Now if you lack those skills that doesn't even mean I won't hire you, but you might have to be willing to spend some time mopping floors before I let you near a live terminal, and I assume I'm even going to have to teach you how to do that properly, which costs me time and money that comes out of what I can afford to pay you.
So why don't you just learn your shit before you show up at my door, k?
I've posted "read a book" any number of times in this very forum. I guess I'll have to start appending what I thought was the obvious corollary: Now do something.
KFG
A few of us old timers are still partially analog.
It makes us warmer and fuzzier.
KFG
. . . the Linux community is defined by its individuals' refusal to either follow or be given a direction.
.there aren't any that are good at the kind of leadership required, because it's a very new kind of leadership.
Who woulda thunk that a community based on the concept that you should be able to control your software at the lowest levels would tend to gather up its first adherents from the ranks of the sheepdogs, rather than from the herd of sheep.
Originally he came up with an efficient solution to a problem created in an arbitrary manner, and he saw it fade into obscurity. The funny thing is that now you have to question whether or not he is disappointed he did not become the leader you say Linux so desperately needs.
Are you refering to his suggestion, many years ago, that Microsoft should be smart and make its next OS Linux based, or are you just confusing him with the keyboard guy?
. .
Who the hell wants to herd a bunch of sheepdogs anyway? They're worse than bloody cats, if only because they yap all the time.
But a good leader will not need to do the pushing that a strong one does.
Well, as long as they're pushing they're at least leading from behind. It's the bloody "Follow me" pullers that will be outright rejected by the alpha dogs, which good sheepdogs inherently are.
The commercial houses will remain the home of the beta dogs until free software becomes viewed as mainstream. It's just the nature of the beast. Then the sheep will be a none issue, as they'll just fall into line.
I've always been amused by people refering to the hordes of grey suited yuppies driving their BMWs in herds to their "good jobs" where they do what they're told and otherwise live private lives driven by comformity to an arbitrary standard as "alpha males."
It's a pretty good joke from the sheepdog perspective, but it certainly does make the herding easier if the sheep think they're the ones who are powerful and in control.
KFG
. . .other optical deficiencies that do not relate to the chemical purity of the stone.
That's why I handled that issue seperately.
KFG
I can make "Rock" Candy crystals by the bloody ton.
KFG
. . .it's an expensive thing to do because people tend to hog all gold reserves for monetary purposes.
When someone recently asked me what the current value of gold was, and I answered:
"Well, pretty much the same as always. It's got a low melting temperature, can often be found in a fairly pure state, it's highly maleable, doesn't oxidize,conducts electricity reasonably well and it's kinda pretty if that's the sort of thing you think is pretty."
They looked at me funny.
KFG
. . .the larger the diamond is, the more likely there's a significant impurity in it. Impurities drive down the price of diamonds significantly.
Which they have because they are created in an impure environment. Even with current technology one of the ways to identify a man made diamond is that it's "too pure" and "too perfect."
Thus DeBeers again have managed to have it both ways. Purity drives up the cost of a natural diamond, but makes a man made diamond worth less.
You're trying to apply logic to the matter.
Silly boy.
KFG
Another way of looking at it is. If you do not want to commit aid in a felony do not run Freenet.
Exactly! That's the whole bloody point of the thing.
You want to make it about absolute freedom of speech? Limit it to just text files.
You have a peculiar definition of "absolute," nor do I see any reason why picutures of my violin should be banned from the net.
You could then say anything you want.
Your point of view of what constitutes kiddy porn also diverges from that of many of the people who decide just what is and is not felony kiddie porn. Here's a clue for you, virtually everything on the Internet is a felony, somewhere. Just ask Yahoo! about it.
My current desktop wallpaper would be considered felony pornography by some. It's a family portrait. You can clearly see the faces of my wife and underage daughter.
Freenet is taking it too far into complete freedom of action including that which harms people.
Nobody has ever been harmed by a file transfer, the only action possible by Freenet. I'm afraid I now have to consider you one of those people who when the words "kiddie porn" are invoked has a mind that clouds over. Rational discussion is not possible in such a situation.
Sure if you want a warz and porn P2P network knock yourself out but admit it. Do not wrap it up in Freedom of Speech.
Except, of course, that that is innately part of freedom of speech. Jefferson himself even argued this. "Warz" only exists as a governmental form of limitation of speech, one that Jefferson felt was innately opposed to the very concept of republicanism and every other provision of the American Constitution. Porn has always been protected by the Constitution (bearing in mind that the Constitution did not apply to local government until after the Civil War).
KFG