FreeBSD is now even better suited as standard platforms for ERP systems. Good ERP systems started out on AS/400 systems which provided the most robustness. Theyve since moved to Java and Windows 2000. Supporting and consulting for ERP systems on Windows2000 systems is huge business and the first big ERP software company that will support FreeBSD will grab a new market.
You're right about the practical cooling methods we might use soon, but as the visual distance gets longer, for lower wavelengths we might need VERY cool CCDs, unless we have to move to radio arrays.
So as we try to see farther and farther, we need to get more infrared pictures. And we need to send bigger and bigger fridges into space with bigger cameras inside.
Soon they'll try the ultimate, using the recent MIT laser cooling technique to bring down the temperature to below 1 kelvins. Now thats when the ambient cosmic background radiation will become a pain.
Ive photographed in the night, and I know you need to keep the shutter open for up to a minute or more. I wonder if those giant freezers can hold still as they orbit around a planet that orbits around the sun. They will soon be needing LONG exposure times.
Them infidels go hic hic hic all the way to be a 100. Maybe everyone will start eating the grapes where wine is not allowed.
Or maybe drinking alcohol, stinking, not shaving armpits, running away from battle, eating too much fat and having too much sex are all prequisites of living longer. I know one of the above is.
Gettext is an important piece of software. So are the 137 other projects by GNU including GCC. Each project sees many minor version releases and many major number releases. Each project is used for many operating systems.
I kind of understood the importance of GCC 3.0. This article however completely fails to explain why one particular project's one particular minor number on one particular OS stands out of the million or so permutations of these.
There are two main things about qmail that gives it the edge.
1) It is a collection of small daemons. In the UNIX spirit. This cuts on the bugs and allows injection of emails into various stages, and developing addons much easier.
2) It has a structured config file system. Again thats truly like UNIX. You just go to one file, open it in an editor, usually has less than a screenfull of lines, edit it, close and reHUP the daemon. Imagine the same for sendmail. At the least you have to run make for it.
To be fair, I havent tried postfix, but after qmail, Ive kinda lost motivation to try anything else.
Now I like the looks of the desktop, the fact that Sun is bringing forward Linux and that my skills will have a bigger market in the future. But yet another distro confuses me. Why anyway?
I can understand Knoppix being based on Debian. It is Debian only prettier, so all debian packages will work with Knoppix. Knoppix also brings great hardware detection with it. Theres RedHat and SuSE, while I hate the fact that these two are incompatible with debian packages, they at least have compatible RPM packages with each other. Theyre also quite big and proprietary which makes it worth learning them. Hate it also that RedHat is not LSB, makes it tougher for software developers to package them for RedHat and SuSE.
Theres Gentoo and Slackware, each in its own niche. Then theres Lindows, Ximian Lycoris all competing with each other on the desktop (I know lycoris is based on debian too). Thats too many distros already. More so than the niches among current Linux users. One step forward is several distros use deb packaging and almost all can install RPM packages. But it still instills dependancy mayhem. Now you have a Sun distro that possibly uses its own packaging as WELL as RPM. So you need to install an RPM package that depends on another package on Mad Hatter. The other is already installed from.tar.gz but the system doesnt have it in its package database. Once you force the RPM package to install and fix scripts by hand, the system doesnt know the RPM application is installed since you didnt use Sun's package. Damn.
And of course you'll definitely have to install all of GTK and KDE dependency libraries to use various X applications. Total install size will exceed 2GB and overall the system will run slower and in the desktop, will have more problems than Windows XP. THATS how badly standards are needed in Linux.
Before Earl Grey, before the Brits were hooked on Tea, in central and south Asian countries people drank tea all the time. The best flavors are known to come from Quetta, Pakistan where hundereds of professional tea tasters in the markets there blend tea imported from Kenya to Sri Lanka to China to India and export them. Quetta's tea is well known in other cities of Pakistan and many places around the world.
Earl Grey seems to be closest in taste to the tea commonly drunk in Pakistan, yet its not quite that good either. It has a papery taste. I was hooked to the non-brand name tea of Quetta until I came to the USA and had to contend myself with Eary Grey between the times when my visiting friends would bring me some from Quetta.
British companies have even tried to grab the Basmati rice of India and Pakistan, some company in the USA tried to patent that. Call it what you will, even the stamp of the name of a white guy doesnt make it QUITE as good in taste as the original Quetta tea or India Basmati. Grape seeds for wine and recipes for beer were stolen from Europe a long time ago but Americans still prefer to import the genuine article from Europe. Nothing beats the original.(Except maybe copies of Sega ROMS:)
FPS gamers who play games like Counterstrike, Quake series, Unreal and others can be identified easily. Look around for thin tall bodies with loose skeletal structures with jeans and T-shirts. Most often they come with long hair too. They all are slightly hunch-backed and can never sit straight in a chair. They've thin hyperactive arms and move the mouse around with the thumb and ring-finger only.
The RPG types are generally heavier in build, mostly with fat, and lean too close to the monitor. Not as impulsive as the FPS types, they seem to be too careful with their choice of keypresses. They can also be more emotionally expressive and when you talk to them, sound a little 'younger' in the head. This is compared to the FPS types who act a little autistic and avoid conversation altogether.
Then there are the 'jolly' gamers who play sim online, railroad tycoon etc. They are the most social of all and go on almost as if their listeners are as excited about their gameplay as they are. They also seem to grow up to become 'hairdressers' if you know what I mean.
Legacy gamers are people stuck in time. They cannot fathom replacing their SNES and Genesis game ROMS with Halflife2 and Doom3. They're generally slightly older and lazier types, laid back in the chair, swinging it sideways as if nothing exciting is happening on the screen, while they finish off their Sonic2 game the 127th time. They also come with small parchments scribbled with cheat codes, and fatality/babality and other codes for mortal kombat and street fighter. Hate to say it but they're the stinkiest of the group.
Theres another group I cant quite find a word for. The high-schoolers? These are the ones who live on the edge, visiting game stores and all. They dress like highscoolers trying to dress hip, have small social groups many of whom wear Napster shirts. They use all the latest P2P software simultaneously downloading the latest movies and games. Most of them have Playstation2s at home and the latest ATI video card in the computer, and are saving up for Doom3, HL2, GTA4.
Last but not the least, there is the professional white-collar team who cannot be recognised as gamers. They dont look or act like they play games. They carry suitcases, are well-dressed, heck might even have relationships. But in their cubicles, they become the all-reigning masters of snood and tetris!
She will function just fine until the SoBig.F attack installs a backdoor in her. Before you know it she will be spewing spam transmitting voyeur video from a little girl's bedroom to paid websites.
Maybe her big brother will replace the code with a quake2 time demo and hand it a real gun.
I'll bet it has been designed with Republican propaganda... "Democrat"... "Please dont vote for them. That is a bad word" "Bomb Iraq" "That is a wonderful sentence" "You are a good girl" "Join the navy"
What if it instructs the little girl to call a certain phone line at a certain date. Gotta love phone-line DDoS attacks.
I dont agree with.. create an epic storyline to gather and keep players. The first rule I think is that the MMORPG game world should be big and diverse. In Anarchy Online, the world is huge, you keep walking forever, and there are so many levels, weapons, enemies etc you dont even know the tip of the iceberg. Basically you start out a street-level player doing small trade stuff and not even know the higher political level players. As you climb higher, you know too much about the game to pry yourself away or even try another MMORPG, and youve invested too much in your player there.
One thing, players should NEVER be able to buy game objects by paying the game company. I would never play such MMORPGs. Someone just comes along, hasnt played the game much and blow you to pieces.
Oh yeah, and the game should have a good social side and not just military and trade. You should be able to make friends and rely on them in small teams. Since youre in a team of real people that makes it REALLY hard to quit the game, thats like quitting your society.
The number of SCO stories on slashdot in itself shows the real intent of SCO. Attention!
And theyre getting good press coverage. Slashdot is really helping them in that sense. But then again the allegations are colossal and in theory undermines the Linux kernel's use. Of course in real, the allegations arent even spelled out, and it has seemed they're busy looking for BSD code in Linux as they prepare their case.
Most companies out there dont take the time to understand this case, and some big ones do try to play it safe and fork out money, which can create a domino effect among scared companies. Microsoft would just encourage this and ask its affiliated well-connected consulting companies to tilt their views towards SCO, no matter how difficult it is for knowledgeable consultants to take SCO seriously.
Of course SCO will eventually go down and the allegations will be proven false. So who really benefits here? SCO by now knows IBM is too big to give in and they're really not making enough off SCO-Linux licenses. Its Microsoft that has been considering Linux as its No. 1 enemy and would benefit in instilling fear about Linux among companies.
So what does that tell you? SCO is an extremely dumb company that killed itself for no benefit, or is Microsoft trying to pull a good one? They've declared war.
Unless you buy that vehicle to drive your 3 little kids on the highway to school, and everyone including yourself and your kids know whats wrong with the car.
And the best way to go. For a REALLY mission-critical system, the actually controlling software and CPU should be hardened 8-bit system with possibly an external 32-bit cpu for monitoring and data reporting purposes. The monitoring CPU, the main server, the engineer's workstations, their laptops and PDAs, their home computers and even their watches have a better chance of running into bugs and crashing than the core controlling CPU that is 8-bit running a VERY well-audited 32kb OS running on hardened dies and chips.
Anyone remembers a BSOD on their C-64? Neither do I.
The same nuclear power plants and train control stations that had been hit by viruses were subsequently slashdotted by geek resumes in email to replace the imbeciles that ran those places. The DDoS attacks prompted the FBI to enforce a no-geek-shall-send-his-resume-to-a-microsoft-based -crashed-company-no-matter-how-badly-they-need-a-r eplacement policy.
If we can build accounting software under GPL for free, we can fix up nuclear safety control systems using C/java on FreeBSD.. for free. Nah, if they're dumb enough to pay for MCSEs they should pay for real skill.
You're right, but things arent so simple in Afghanistan either. Heck youve got everyone from India, China, France, USA, Britain, Iran, Saudi, Pakistan directly involved there. Are they any less respectable unless they win the war? Russians for one seem to respect Afghans a little more now.
Noone is inherently 'evil'. The very use of this word seeps of ignorance. I hate to make it sound like a flame but the 19 suicide bombers on 9/11 were motivated simply because they thought they were right. They were never taught the compassion of local populations the way veterans teach us of the Vietnamese. The vast Arab populations view the pilots of the B-52s the same way Americans view those 19. I just cannot believe in a universal good or evil. I'm muslim and I've seen the Taliban's idea of good and evil.
As long as kids level german armies in Wolfenstein, its only fair to do the same to the Vietnamese and enjoy it. The fact that veterans are so compassionate about their populations only shows how people would feel about these targets now if wars had been fought agaist these people years ago.
Sadly warfare is no longer a man-to-man issue now. Most 'enemy' casualties are due to cluster bombs on civilians nowadays, where GIs dont have to clean body parts. They can remain emotionally tough for subsequent conflicts Republicans will come up with.
So what youre basically saying is that because the USA didn't win the Vietnam War, we should treat that war with respect?
How come all Germans, Italians and Japanese are evil, heck all Iraqis and Afghans are evil too, but not the ones who defeated Americans?
The principles on which the Vietcong fought were just as 'evil' as the principles of Saddam and Bin Laden and Hitler at that time. All the soldiers on the enemy side in these conflicts were 'innocent'.
Games that show conflicts like the Vietnam which stirs emotions and shows the real pains of war are less dangerous to our minds than wars in which the enemies are treated as utterly evil: Wolfenstein for example, and some newer games in which you flatten Arab populations.
Apart from being 'funny', honestly why would Alan Cox need any degree or certification? He can go to any Linux development company and put his resume on the table:
Alan Cox.
Unless the HR manager is a college assistant who has Bonzi Buddy installed on her Windows laptop, Alan will get hired. I suppose some larger companies have policies to honor degrees at all levels of the management and Senior Cox is getting ambitious. In that case it kinda gets sad to see him planning to manage rather than code.
Say a movie stinks but theyve invested a few millions into its marketing. Would the posters say it stinks? Would the ads say it stinks? How would you find out?
So before messaging people would pay for the movie and watch it, and then 5 minutes into the movie they would go 'oh crap another one'.
Now they're feeling the pressure to make good movies.
By the way Hulk and Tomb Raider2 both were good, and I watched it because people told me they were good. I certainly would'nt have watched Tomb Raider2 otherwise. And please don't compare Gigli to these, although the Gigli ads tried to portray it as a good movie.
Yeah Sympatico here did well. My servers did not have UPSes though and did go out, but they booted back online by themselves so no issue.
The Toronto Public Library systems were out for a while though. Libraries here are still closed. Those were I suppose the only major servers that did go out.
When I heard Air Canada is running all their systems on Windows, I immediately thought I should send out letters as a consultant to their CIO offering a Linux replacement for simple servers. Depending on what adapters and IO cards they're using, I believe I could switch their entire structure at least here in Toronto.
There are plenty of Linux techies here in Toronto wandering about unemployed while the companies are investing in Microsoft.
Darl stands in the court hallways happy to have initiated the best plan of his life, the destruction of Linux for pure profit. As he steps outside the courthouse, a snotty kid with a napster T-shirt stares at him and says ALL YOUR BASE ARE BELONG TO US.
Darl isnt sure the kid is American at all, speaking with that grammer. However in the months and years unfolding, the whole empire of his Bill Gates godfather sees their base slowly 'belong' to them, the evil them.
One million lines of code eh? The corporates came with the intent to enslave the UNIX gurus in the 80s. They stole the UNIX trademark and sold the code expensive, became fat with wealth. It simply bewilders them to see another flag rise with Linux and the geek flocks finding a new sense of purpose start shipbuilding the new vessel than will be bigger and better and will not sink like the Titanic AT&T UNIX. Some of the corporates finally become believers the way Romans did having seen Jesus come back to life in a different form. IBM pays tributes in the order of $1 billion dollars. Novell and others offer their full support. The gospel spreads.
But this only infuriates the great satan who sends SCO down for another showdown. Now the time has arrived. There is jubilation in the crowds. There is something in the air that tells of impending doom to the devils. The opensource developers may be unpaid fans coding all night in their bedrooms but revolutions of such magnitude are manufactured by the hard work of believers by the millions.
The CEO of the worlds biggest corporation can see the iceberg before him but he can do nothing but blow the horns. He will soon be on his knees admiring the resolve of his enemies.
The investors work hard to get information on everything 'happening' out there. We can leave the gospel spreading to them entirely.
What intrigues me is how the geek culture becomes a highly organised selfcontained community able to entertain itself, enforce laws on itself and adjust to the small revolutions inside. Theres a whole new language to deal with the community as well as political and legal lobbying. This is more sophisticated than certain ethnic groups, mafias, religions or other thinking groups in these countries.
We dont need a press at all. We churn out enough high quality software to turn heads and we're present in the best of universities and companies. Heck the business leaders of tommorow are learning from us now and will have great respect for this community years from now. It wasnt press that put the geeks in Sun and took $1 billion from IBM. Our social affects echoing throughout the technology market speaks for itself.
Slashdot is an online machinery that is geared towards the benefit of the free software community. Throw some challenges to the free software community at slashdot and watch thousands of brilliant minds load-balanced working like a huge beowulf processing information online (a bit like SETI) to achieve the commonly understood goal; in this case to defend Linux.
If you want millions of man-hours with full motivation and some of the best skill to work for you for free, go to slashdot provided the task is enormously beneficial to the free software community. No corporation can spend any amount of capital or hire any number of people to match the productivity of geeks running on fuel that is pizza and beer to change the world.
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FreeBSD is now even better suited as standard platforms for ERP systems. Good ERP systems started out on AS/400 systems which provided the most robustness. Theyve since moved to Java and Windows 2000. Supporting and consulting for ERP systems on Windows2000 systems is huge business and the first big ERP software company that will support FreeBSD will grab a new market.
And THEN we'll find work.
I stand corrected on the numbers.
You're right about the practical cooling methods we might use soon, but as the visual distance gets longer, for lower wavelengths we might need VERY cool CCDs, unless we have to move to radio arrays.
So as we try to see farther and farther, we need to get more infrared pictures. And we need to send bigger and bigger fridges into space with bigger cameras inside.
Soon they'll try the ultimate, using the recent MIT laser cooling technique to bring down the temperature to below 1 kelvins. Now thats when the ambient cosmic background radiation will become a pain.
Ive photographed in the night, and I know you need to keep the shutter open for up to a minute or more. I wonder if those giant freezers can hold still as they orbit around a planet that orbits around the sun. They will soon be needing LONG exposure times.
Them infidels go hic hic hic all the way to be a 100. Maybe everyone will start eating the grapes where wine is not allowed.
Or maybe drinking alcohol, stinking, not shaving armpits, running away from battle, eating too much fat and having too much sex are all prequisites of living longer. I know one of the above is.
Gettext is an important piece of software. So are the 137 other projects by GNU including GCC. Each project sees many minor version releases and many major number releases. Each project is used for many operating systems.
I kind of understood the importance of GCC 3.0. This article however completely fails to explain why one particular project's one particular minor number on one particular OS stands out of the million or so permutations of these.
Original poster please enlighten us.
There are two main things about qmail that gives it the edge.
1) It is a collection of small daemons. In the UNIX spirit. This cuts on the bugs and allows injection of emails into various stages, and developing addons much easier.
2) It has a structured config file system. Again thats truly like UNIX. You just go to one file, open it in an editor, usually has less than a screenfull of lines, edit it, close and reHUP the daemon. Imagine the same for sendmail. At the least you have to run make for it.
To be fair, I havent tried postfix, but after qmail, Ive kinda lost motivation to try anything else.
Yet Another Distro
.tar.gz but the system doesnt have it in its package database. Once you force the RPM package to install and fix scripts by hand, the system doesnt know the RPM application is installed since you didnt use Sun's package. Damn.
Now I like the looks of the desktop, the fact that Sun is bringing forward Linux and that my skills will have a bigger market in the future. But yet another distro confuses me. Why anyway?
I can understand Knoppix being based on Debian. It is Debian only prettier, so all debian packages will work with Knoppix. Knoppix also brings great hardware detection with it. Theres RedHat and SuSE, while I hate the fact that these two are incompatible with debian packages, they at least have compatible RPM packages with each other. Theyre also quite big and proprietary which makes it worth learning them. Hate it also that RedHat is not LSB, makes it tougher for software developers to package them for RedHat and SuSE.
Theres Gentoo and Slackware, each in its own niche. Then theres Lindows, Ximian Lycoris all competing with each other on the desktop (I know lycoris is based on debian too). Thats too many distros already. More so than the niches among current Linux users. One step forward is several distros use deb packaging and almost all can install RPM packages. But it still instills dependancy mayhem. Now you have a Sun distro that possibly uses its own packaging as WELL as RPM. So you need to install an RPM package that depends on another package on Mad Hatter. The other is already installed from
And of course you'll definitely have to install all of GTK and KDE dependency libraries to use various X applications. Total install size will exceed 2GB and overall the system will run slower and in the desktop, will have more problems than Windows XP. THATS how badly standards are needed in Linux.
Before Earl Grey, before the Brits were hooked on Tea, in central and south Asian countries people drank tea all the time. The best flavors are known to come from Quetta, Pakistan where hundereds of professional tea tasters in the markets there blend tea imported from Kenya to Sri Lanka to China to India and export them. Quetta's tea is well known in other cities of Pakistan and many places around the world.
Earl Grey seems to be closest in taste to the tea commonly drunk in Pakistan, yet its not quite that good either. It has a papery taste. I was hooked to the non-brand name tea of Quetta until I came to the USA and had to contend myself with Eary Grey between the times when my visiting friends would bring me some from Quetta.
British companies have even tried to grab the Basmati rice of India and Pakistan, some company in the USA tried to patent that. Call it what you will, even the stamp of the name of a white guy doesnt make it QUITE as good in taste as the original Quetta tea or India Basmati. Grape seeds for wine and recipes for beer were stolen from Europe a long time ago but Americans still prefer to import the genuine article from Europe. Nothing beats the original.(Except maybe copies of Sega ROMS:)
FPS gamers who play games like Counterstrike, Quake series, Unreal and others can be identified easily. Look around for thin tall bodies with loose skeletal structures with jeans and T-shirts. Most often they come with long hair too. They all are slightly hunch-backed and can never sit straight in a chair. They've thin hyperactive arms and move the mouse around with the thumb and ring-finger only.
The RPG types are generally heavier in build, mostly with fat, and lean too close to the monitor. Not as impulsive as the FPS types, they seem to be too careful with their choice of keypresses. They can also be more emotionally expressive and when you talk to them, sound a little 'younger' in the head. This is compared to the FPS types who act a little autistic and avoid conversation altogether.
Then there are the 'jolly' gamers who play sim online, railroad tycoon etc. They are the most social of all and go on almost as if their listeners are as excited about their gameplay as they are. They also seem to grow up to become 'hairdressers' if you know what I mean.
Legacy gamers are people stuck in time. They cannot fathom replacing their SNES and Genesis game ROMS with Halflife2 and Doom3. They're generally slightly older and lazier types, laid back in the chair, swinging it sideways as if nothing exciting is happening on the screen, while they finish off their Sonic2 game the 127th time. They also come with small parchments scribbled with cheat codes, and fatality/babality and other codes for mortal kombat and street fighter. Hate to say it but they're the stinkiest of the group.
Theres another group I cant quite find a word for. The high-schoolers? These are the ones who live on the edge, visiting game stores and all. They dress like highscoolers trying to dress hip, have small social groups many of whom wear Napster shirts. They use all the latest P2P software simultaneously downloading the latest movies and games. Most of them have Playstation2s at home and the latest ATI video card in the computer, and are saving up for Doom3, HL2, GTA4.
Last but not the least, there is the professional white-collar team who cannot be recognised as gamers. They dont look or act like they play games. They carry suitcases, are well-dressed, heck might even have relationships. But in their cubicles, they become the all-reigning masters of snood and tetris!
She will function just fine until the SoBig.F attack installs a backdoor in her. Before you know it she will be spewing spam transmitting voyeur video from a little girl's bedroom to paid websites.
... "Please dont vote for them. That is a bad word" "Bomb Iraq" "That is a wonderful sentence" "You are a good girl" "Join the navy"
Maybe her big brother will replace the code with a quake2 time demo and hand it a real gun.
I'll bet it has been designed with Republican propaganda... "Democrat"
What if it instructs the little girl to call a certain phone line at a certain date. Gotta love phone-line DDoS attacks.
I dont agree with.. create an epic storyline to gather and keep players. The first rule I think is that the MMORPG game world should be big and diverse. In Anarchy Online, the world is huge, you keep walking forever, and there are so many levels, weapons, enemies etc you dont even know the tip of the iceberg. Basically you start out a street-level player doing small trade stuff and not even know the higher political level players. As you climb higher, you know too much about the game to pry yourself away or even try another MMORPG, and youve invested too much in your player there.
One thing, players should NEVER be able to buy game objects by paying the game company. I would never play such MMORPGs. Someone just comes along, hasnt played the game much and blow you to pieces.
Oh yeah, and the game should have a good social side and not just military and trade. You should be able to make friends and rely on them in small teams. Since youre in a team of real people that makes it REALLY hard to quit the game, thats like quitting your society.
The number of SCO stories on slashdot in itself shows the real intent of SCO. Attention!
And theyre getting good press coverage. Slashdot is really helping them in that sense. But then again the allegations are colossal and in theory undermines the Linux kernel's use. Of course in real, the allegations arent even spelled out, and it has seemed they're busy looking for BSD code in Linux as they prepare their case.
Most companies out there dont take the time to understand this case, and some big ones do try to play it safe and fork out money, which can create a domino effect among scared companies. Microsoft would just encourage this and ask its affiliated well-connected consulting companies to tilt their views towards SCO, no matter how difficult it is for knowledgeable consultants to take SCO seriously.
Of course SCO will eventually go down and the allegations will be proven false. So who really benefits here? SCO by now knows IBM is too big to give in and they're really not making enough off SCO-Linux licenses. Its Microsoft that has been considering Linux as its No. 1 enemy and would benefit in instilling fear about Linux among companies.
So what does that tell you? SCO is an extremely dumb company that killed itself for no benefit, or is Microsoft trying to pull a good one? They've declared war.
Unless you buy that vehicle to drive your 3 little kids on the highway to school, and everyone including yourself and your kids know whats wrong with the car.
And the best way to go. For a REALLY mission-critical system, the actually controlling software and CPU should be hardened 8-bit system with possibly an external 32-bit cpu for monitoring and data reporting purposes. The monitoring CPU, the main server, the engineer's workstations, their laptops and PDAs, their home computers and even their watches have a better chance of running into bugs and crashing than the core controlling CPU that is 8-bit running a VERY well-audited 32kb OS running on hardened dies and chips.
Anyone remembers a BSOD on their C-64? Neither do I.
The same nuclear power plants and train control stations that had been hit by viruses were subsequently slashdotted by geek resumes in email to replace the imbeciles that ran those places. The DDoS attacks prompted the FBI to enforce a no-geek-shall-send-his-resume-to-a-microsoft-based -crashed-company-no-matter-how-badly-they-need-a-r eplacement policy.
If we can build accounting software under GPL for free, we can fix up nuclear safety control systems using C/java on FreeBSD.. for free. Nah, if they're dumb enough to pay for MCSEs they should pay for real skill.
You're right, but things arent so simple in Afghanistan either. Heck youve got everyone from India, China, France, USA, Britain, Iran, Saudi, Pakistan directly involved there. Are they any less respectable unless they win the war? Russians for one seem to respect Afghans a little more now.
Noone is inherently 'evil'. The very use of this word seeps of ignorance. I hate to make it sound like a flame but the 19 suicide bombers on 9/11 were motivated simply because they thought they were right. They were never taught the compassion of local populations the way veterans teach us of the Vietnamese. The vast Arab populations view the pilots of the B-52s the same way Americans view those 19. I just cannot believe in a universal good or evil. I'm muslim and I've seen the Taliban's idea of good and evil.
As long as kids level german armies in Wolfenstein, its only fair to do the same to the Vietnamese and enjoy it. The fact that veterans are so compassionate about their populations only shows how people would feel about these targets now if wars had been fought agaist these people years ago.
Sadly warfare is no longer a man-to-man issue now. Most 'enemy' casualties are due to cluster bombs on civilians nowadays, where GIs dont have to clean body parts. They can remain emotionally tough for subsequent conflicts Republicans will come up with.
So what youre basically saying is that because the USA didn't win the Vietnam War, we should treat that war with respect?
How come all Germans, Italians and Japanese are evil, heck all Iraqis and Afghans are evil too, but not the ones who defeated Americans?
The principles on which the Vietcong fought were just as 'evil' as the principles of Saddam and Bin Laden and Hitler at that time. All the soldiers on the enemy side in these conflicts were 'innocent'.
Games that show conflicts like the Vietnam which stirs emotions and shows the real pains of war are less dangerous to our minds than wars in which the enemies are treated as utterly evil: Wolfenstein for example, and some newer games in which you flatten Arab populations.
Apart from being 'funny', honestly why would Alan Cox need any degree or certification? He can go to any Linux development company and put his resume on the table:
Alan Cox.
Unless the HR manager is a college assistant who has Bonzi Buddy installed on her Windows laptop, Alan will get hired. I suppose some larger companies have policies to honor degrees at all levels of the management and Senior Cox is getting ambitious. In that case it kinda gets sad to see him planning to manage rather than code.
Right.
Say a movie stinks but theyve invested a few millions into its marketing. Would the posters say it stinks? Would the ads say it stinks? How would you find out?
So before messaging people would pay for the movie and watch it, and then 5 minutes into the movie they would go 'oh crap another one'.
Now they're feeling the pressure to make good movies.
By the way Hulk and Tomb Raider2 both were good, and I watched it because people told me they were good. I certainly would'nt have watched Tomb Raider2 otherwise. And please don't compare Gigli to these, although the Gigli ads tried to portray it as a good movie.
Yeah Sympatico here did well. My servers did not have UPSes though and did go out, but they booted back online by themselves so no issue.
The Toronto Public Library systems were out for a while though. Libraries here are still closed. Those were I suppose the only major servers that did go out.
When I heard Air Canada is running all their systems on Windows, I immediately thought I should send out letters as a consultant to their CIO offering a Linux replacement for simple servers. Depending on what adapters and IO cards they're using, I believe I could switch their entire structure at least here in Toronto.
There are plenty of Linux techies here in Toronto wandering about unemployed while the companies are investing in Microsoft.
Its mostly C2H6. Unless youve been drinking too much.
Darl stands in the court hallways happy to have initiated the best plan of his life, the destruction of Linux for pure profit. As he steps outside the courthouse, a snotty kid with a napster T-shirt stares at him and says ALL YOUR BASE ARE BELONG TO US.
Darl isnt sure the kid is American at all, speaking with that grammer. However in the months and years unfolding, the whole empire of his Bill Gates godfather sees their base slowly 'belong' to them, the evil them.
One million lines of code eh? The corporates came with the intent to enslave the UNIX gurus in the 80s. They stole the UNIX trademark and sold the code expensive, became fat with wealth. It simply bewilders them to see another flag rise with Linux and the geek flocks finding a new sense of purpose start shipbuilding the new vessel than will be bigger and better and will not sink like the Titanic AT&T UNIX. Some of the corporates finally become believers the way Romans did having seen Jesus come back to life in a different form. IBM pays tributes in the order of $1 billion dollars. Novell and others offer their full support. The gospel spreads.
But this only infuriates the great satan who sends SCO down for another showdown. Now the time has arrived. There is jubilation in the crowds. There is something in the air that tells of impending doom to the devils. The opensource developers may be unpaid fans coding all night in their bedrooms but revolutions of such magnitude are manufactured by the hard work of believers by the millions.
The CEO of the worlds biggest corporation can see the iceberg before him but he can do nothing but blow the horns. He will soon be on his knees admiring the resolve of his enemies.
The investors work hard to get information on everything 'happening' out there. We can leave the gospel spreading to them entirely.
What intrigues me is how the geek culture becomes a highly organised selfcontained community able to entertain itself, enforce laws on itself and adjust to the small revolutions inside. Theres a whole new language to deal with the community as well as political and legal lobbying. This is more sophisticated than certain ethnic groups, mafias, religions or other thinking groups in these countries.
We dont need a press at all. We churn out enough high quality software to turn heads and we're present in the best of universities and companies. Heck the business leaders of tommorow are learning from us now and will have great respect for this community years from now. It wasnt press that put the geeks in Sun and took $1 billion from IBM. Our social affects echoing throughout the technology market speaks for itself.
Slashdot is an online machinery that is geared towards the benefit of the free software community. Throw some challenges to the free software community at slashdot and watch thousands of brilliant minds load-balanced working like a huge beowulf processing information online (a bit like SETI) to achieve the commonly understood goal; in this case to defend Linux.
If you want millions of man-hours with full motivation and some of the best skill to work for you for free, go to slashdot provided the task is enormously beneficial to the free software community. No corporation can spend any amount of capital or hire any number of people to match the productivity of geeks running on fuel that is pizza and beer to change the world.
Bravo.