There is a world of difference between being poorer than average and being in POVERTY. Poverty is when your survival is threatened by a lack of resources. That's what Sally Struthers is going on about on the tube and it's real. Those people DIE from lack of food, clean water, medicine and just about every thing 'poor' Americans take for granted.
Pudgy kids who have to settle for Walmart sneakers instead of Nikes are NOT in poverty, their families are just in the lower quintile of the income distribution curve. I should know, been there, done that, would still have the T-shirt but the damn hand me down thing didn't hold up. Great incentive to learn a marketable skill though.
Yes, there are people here in the US of A who fall on hard times and thanks to the post atomic family lack much of a safety net. But with the hundreds of billions of dollars we are spending on public charity, if they aren't being helped it sure as hell isn't for lack of trying.
How can anyone say we actually have poverty in the USA? Poverty? Go to Africa if you want to see poverty. Sorry, but when the #1 problem among the 'poor' is obesity the word has lost it's meaning.
Yup, you had better. Do you really think Apple can afford to be left out of Palladium when you MUST have it to download any copyrighted content or buy anything with a credit card? Especially after Steve Jobs showed the world he is Bill Gate's bitch with the whole bundle IE for $100Mil and a new version of Office/Mac deal.
The only thing that will stop that scenario is a few million refusniks who decide to give Palladium the DIVX treatment and let it sit on the shelf. The only way that happens is continued availability of an alternative. Generic PPC boards would be just as workable as x86 if the pricing is viable.
Sure I can go back to HellSouth DSL. Pay the same price for a dynamic IP over PPPoE, dig out the crappy USB Alcatel Stingray and stick it on the laptop (only dual boot machine I have left) before calling tech support. Sounds yummy.
p.s. The actually wouldn't talk to me until I answered "Which version of Windows" while I was trying to tell them my Alcatel Speedtouch Pro (Which they provide to their business customers so it isn't unknown to them) had dropped the line sync light. Never got a usable answer to "What does my OS have to do with the modem losing line sync?"
Because the smart ones among us know that if we can't get a critical mass of users in the next couple of years the game is over. Microsoft IS going to try closing the platform which means we won't be able to 'free ride' on the commodity hardware market which built up around DOS/Windows. If we don't have enough users willing to fork over hard currency to keep the Taiwainese and Chinese board makers going we are all hosed.
Switchover time. If AC drops you need a few seconds to heat up the fuel cell and get it producing a stable output current. So you need a battery capable of carrying the whole 1KW load and power the internal electronics while this process is happening.
> The guns they give you the right to use are > irrelevant in today's conflicts.
Which is why I firmly believe that the 2nd Amendment gives us the right to keep & bear any arms short of a WMD. Any personal arms, any crew served weapons up to and including main battle tanks, fighters, bombers, field artillery, ground to air missle batteries, etc. I would object to but could accept rules limiting some of those toys to militia companies with some sort of registration and some regs as to security measures to prevent criminals from gaining easy access.
There IS precedent. Private militia companies used to possess cannon, private individuals used to own and operate armed ships, etc.
> Our founding fathers did not have a whole lot of > confidence in the American people
You are partly right. The Founding Fathers designed our system of government based on the assumption that EVERYBODY was greedy self centered bastards. Which was why they gave us a system where power was divided and set against itself. The people and the states were intended to provide a check against the feds, the feds and the people against the states and yes, the machinery of govt was supposed to be a defense against irrational impulses arising from the masses. Three branches in the Federal government designed to battle over turf and thereby keep each other in line, or at least too busy arguing to get much done.
Too bad it didn't work. The states got eliminated as an independent power base after the failure of the War for Southern Independence. The three branches of the Federal government don't check each other based on anything other than the opposite party controlling a branch these days. And the People have been brainwashed into mindless mush.
Uneducated fool. Not really your fault, the blame probably belongs to the school system....
The Founding Fathers knew exactly what they were doing when they made the President indirectly elected. The idea was the same as the Senate, to make geography count a little instead of just raw headcount. The less populous states never would have joined the Republic had it not been setup that way because they would have been powerless in the face of the swarming masses in the Northeastern states.
It is getting real tiresome reading the continual sour grapes from the devotees of Al "Sore Loser" Gore talking about Bush pulling a 'coup' by winning the election according to the pre existing rules of the game. Bush won Florida according to every count and recount, including the one published almost a year later by the Miami Herald and the rest of the liberal press. Bush won the electoral college. Therefore Bush WON. And if there was any doubt, the spanking the Dems just took should have put them to rest. The Democrats are now a minority party and barring a miracle are likely to remain one for years.
Of course the Republicans only won by virtually becoming Democrats, but that is a bitch for another day.
Nah, everybody knows what it means so it is a pretty effective shorthand. And considering the latest news (that everyone with a functioning braincell already knew) about their 85% margins on Windows and 75+% on Office that pretty much sums them up. They are pretty much a cash machine.
Doesn't bother me either way. Think it through. If they are looking for the payola that means M$ will be paying every country on the planet in just another year or two. Who would want to be left off the gravy train if all you have to do is say "We might migrate" and millions of dollars flow out of Redmond And they can do it again in a year or two. Bribes only work when you are trying to prevent the appearance of a 'showcase' installation and they are a stopgap measure at best.
Eventually we will get a few governments converting simply because M$ has succeeded too well at getting the US Govt to lean on poor countries on the 'piracy' issue. Since they CAN'T pay they only really have two choices, get M$ to donate licenses or migrate.
Longterm M$ needs a better answer than paying their customers to use their product. These tactics are just to buy time to come up with a real strategy. That will be the time for fear. They are now clear of the Justice Dept and are free to act. Expect them to act as soon as Bill G and Monkey Boy come up with a plan they like.
All civilivations are build upon a few basic ideas. America is built on the idea that "All men are endowed by their creator with certain inalienable rights...." Basically we take certain rights as a given and argue about the consequences and details which arise from them.
Communism was based on the idea that "The State is everything" and everything derived from that. All of the other social/political have their "core idea(s)" Not all of these ideas are true. Communism's recently failed the real world test for example.
History is quickly deciding the issue in favor of our idea in as much as just about anyone who CAN get into a nation state based on these ideas of "Western Civilization" votes for them with their feet. Since "political science" is an oxymoron, such antedotal evidence is about the best that can be offered for now.
> I think it's more a freedom derived from certain > inalienable rights.
Just backwards. The ballot box rests firmly upon the cartridge box. It is the RTKBA that makes us a truly Free People because it is that Right that ensures that ultimate political power is derived FROM the people. Without arms we would be subjects instead of individually independent Citizens charged personally by the Founding Fathers with keeping our Republic.
When the State has broken the covenent established by the Constituition & Bill of Rights it is a duty laid upon YOU and each and every one of us to replace the chains which bind our government to it's enumerated duties by any means necessary. That duty was our part of the bargain to have a Government of and by the People. We lapsed in our duties and the chains which bind the State are fast rusting away.
> As it leaves the definition of "hate speech" wide open...
Put a different way, the definition of "hate speech" is whatever those in power hate. Advocating "hate crimes" or "hate speech" laws is therefore ITSELF a hate crime and should be allowed to collapse into a singularity of recursion while sane people laugh uproariously at the idiots advocating it. Guess we just don't have enough sane people left for that to happen anymore.
> The fact is, laws that "mandate tolerance," such as > civil rights legislation...
A very strong case could be made that much of the so called "civil rights" legislation has been a net negative in that it created the whole 'victimology mentality'. Laws regulating relations between private citizens are evil, regardless of what 'greater good' they purport to serve.
The parts of the Civil Rights Act mandating equal access and protection by the government are redundant since the Constuition already forbids that sort of thing. "Since you guys won't stop violating people's Constituitional Rights we are passing a Law to make you stop." Ya, right. Democrat Logic at it's finest.
> Our European friends may gently remind us that > it's a luxury to debate philosophy...
If you can't win the argument that self govenment under a Constituition (oh wait, most europeans don't actually HAVE the protection of a Constituition & Bill of Rights...) is a better form of government, they DESERVE to fall into anarchy and dictatorship again. You can't destroy liberty to save it. And yes, I'm starting to worry whether our beloved Shrub isn't forgetting that essential truth as well.
> The US recently arrested a citizen who was making a > website for Al-Qaeda.
Amd your point? Al-Qaeda is a terrorist organization. Ever heard of the legal concept of "Conspiracy"? Not a very hard stretch to assume someone knowingly working for Al-Qaeda might be a co-conspiator[sp].
> What would happen to you in the US if you said that > Al Quaida is doing the right thing.
That is easy. Cynthia Mckinney was voted out of office, but no other action was taken against her.
> What happens to you, if you publish an article on how to > build a "circumvention device".
The goons sometimes come after you. But I suspect the feds won't have the balls to try sending me to jail for my.sig We still have a chance of winning the DMCA battle.
> In fact, I would be more afraid of saying what I think > in the US than I am in the EU...
BS. We still have the tattered vestiges of a Constituition & Bill of Rights protecting specific enumerated Rights like the Right to say and publish whatever we want. (Libel laws don't prevent speech, they just make you responsible for certain damages caused to others.) We also have the socialist twits at the ACLU that do manage to serve a useful purpose by defending a lot of 1st Amendment cases. For the most part, europeans have no Rights, just privledges revokable at the pleasure of the State.
Sorry, but I have to burst your bubble here. Last time I read a history book Israel was formally in a state of War with every nation in the Arab world with the exception of Egypt (since Camp David) and Jordan (very recent treaty?), declared by the arabs. Israel showed what I'd call great restraint (ok, after being leaned on by the US, GB etc.) in not finishing the last war and imposing a peace treaty on their own terms. After all, they HAD just spanked the ass off of all comers. Instead they allowed them to remain in a "State of War" for PR reasons, so they wouldn't all get deposed as losers.
And of course if they were to treat the Palestanians[sp] like the Arabs treated the Jews upon the founding of Israel they would have driven them all from the land and been done with it. The fact that they take the continual terrorism from Arafat and keep trying to negotiate instead of putting his head on a pike says a lot.
btw, A Terrorist AIMS at civilian targets. A Freedom Fighter or soldier aims at military ones, and sometimes misses. So don't try to draw any moral similarities between the IDF and PLO/Hamas, etc. Again, Israel is showing almost suicidal restraint in not declaring Hamas, Islamic Jihad, etc. outlaw groups and shooting known members on sight instead of picking off a leader or two now and then.
So yes, there IS a right and wrong side in the Middle East. The Arabs are WRONG. Israel is not always RIGHT, but since the US has to pick a side it should be obvious that we would pick the side that is (sorta, if you can call an oxymoron like a socialist theocracy with capitalist tendancies) a popularly elected democracy against medieval thugs that get off blowing up schoolchildren.
I know waving the PLO flag is popular here on/., but screw it, I got the Karma to burn getting modded Flamebait/Troll for speaking uncomfortable truths to you brainwashed victims of "higher education".
Of course not. Please report to the nearest re-education center for a refresher course in political correctness. You appear to have forgotten several of the fundamental rules and are a menace to society.
o Only White Males may exhibit racism, sexism or any other improper thought.
o In case of doubt, for example when a Rap singer sings about "bitches and Ho's" or "killin' whitey" or even "killin' cops", see the above rule.
o All cultures are equally valid and may not be criticized; with the sole exception of "Western style representive governments" which, as all sane people know, are nothing but shams created by dead white guys to oppress the downtrodden. Failure to profess hatred for any product of the Western Mind is therefore defacto evidence of insanity and the person making any such statement may safely be ignored or instituitionalized as needed.
o The supposed "fact" that Marx was a White Male European is a lie by the elite white establishment intended to confuse and deceive.
I used PPPoE with a Linksys & BellSouth DSL for better than a year without any problems. What's your bitch with it? And DSL != PPPoE. I'm now of DirectvDSL and they are a super clean pipe. While I have to use their router to get my static IP, while waiting for it to arrive I had an Alcatel Speedtouch Pro in dumb bridge mode doing plain vanilla DHCP on the Linksys. Just depends who you get service from.
Actually you CAN upgrade one from Linux. Remove the password and then use tftp. Their mutant Windows tftp has been modified to send the password, which isn't part of the TFTP protocol. But if the password is null the normal tftp works just fine. I have upgraded mine (I have the BEFW1S4 with the wireless included) twice in the approx two years I have owned it and I don't do Windows.
Had heard of a couple of those. Most aren't replacements for BIND though. I counted:
2 Written in JAVA. i.e. toys. Would never survive a real load without excessive hardware. (I.e. big ass Xeons like MCSE's put NT on)
2 Packages still in beta
3 stub DNS proxies intended for home LAN users
And finally two more interesting entries. MyDNS was obviously aimed at large hosting farms with it's DB based backend and MaraDNS was actually kinda interesting. Have to read that site in more detail since it might actually qualify as a general purpose BIND replacement.
> > and we both already know that so don't > > bother with beating that dead horse.
> Such Style! Such Wit! Such Argument! Such > Rhetoric! Such Unquestionable Authority!
Hmm. Looks like we do both agree djbdnd is NOT Open Source or Free Software. Obviously this does not bother you, but I will not use closed software when a viable Free equivelent is available. Neither is going to change the mind of the other so why are we beating this dead horse?
> The Open Source community could use a few > more people like Dan.
Why? Has he EVER released an Open Source or Free Software program? Until he does he is only slightly more useful than Microsoft/SUN/Oracle/J. Random Shareware author. He releases unfree software with licenses that allow free redistribution of unmodified copies. Hell, I could redistribute IE under those terms with only a small amount of hoop jumping. That doesn't make Microsoft a member of the Open Source community.
You djb fanboys are almost as rabid as Amigans. Both of groups need to face reality. The Amiga is DEAD and djbdns will never see widespread use. Both failed in the marketplace due to self inflicted wounds. Nobody questions the technical quality of djbdns, but that still won't get it shipped in any OS because of the wierd non-free license is was released under.
Maybe I just haven't bothered to look hard enough, but I didn't know there were any other Open Source name servers out there. djbdns doesn't count and we both already know that so don't bother with beating that dead horse.
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There is a world of difference between being poorer than average and being in POVERTY. Poverty is when your survival is threatened by a lack of resources. That's what Sally Struthers is going on about on the tube and it's real. Those people DIE from lack of food, clean water, medicine and just about every thing 'poor' Americans take for granted.
Pudgy kids who have to settle for Walmart sneakers instead of Nikes are NOT in poverty, their families are just in the lower quintile of the income distribution curve. I should know, been there, done that, would still have the T-shirt but the damn hand me down thing didn't hold up. Great incentive to learn a marketable skill though.
Yes, there are people here in the US of A who fall on hard times and thanks to the post atomic family lack much of a safety net. But with the hundreds of billions of dollars we are spending on public charity, if they aren't being helped it sure as hell isn't for lack of trying.
How can anyone say we actually have poverty in the USA? Poverty? Go to Africa if you want to see poverty. Sorry, but when the #1 problem among the 'poor' is obesity the word has lost it's meaning.
Yup, you had better. Do you really think Apple can afford to be left out of Palladium when you MUST have it to download any copyrighted content or buy anything with a credit card? Especially after Steve Jobs showed the world he is Bill Gate's bitch with the whole bundle IE for $100Mil and a new version of Office/Mac deal.
The only thing that will stop that scenario is a few million refusniks who decide to give Palladium the DIVX treatment and let it sit on the shelf. The only way that happens is continued availability of an alternative. Generic PPC boards would be just as workable as x86 if the pricing is viable.
Sure I can go back to HellSouth DSL. Pay the same price for a dynamic IP over PPPoE, dig out the crappy USB Alcatel Stingray and stick it on the laptop (only dual boot machine I have left) before calling tech support. Sounds yummy.
p.s. The actually wouldn't talk to me until I answered "Which version of Windows" while I was trying to tell them my Alcatel Speedtouch Pro (Which they provide to their business customers so it isn't unknown to them) had dropped the line sync light. Never got a usable answer to "What does my OS have to do with the modem losing line sync?"
Because the smart ones among us know that if we can't get a critical mass of users in the next couple of years the game is over. Microsoft IS going to try closing the platform which means we won't be able to 'free ride' on the commodity hardware market which built up around DOS/Windows. If we don't have enough users willing to fork over hard currency to keep the Taiwainese and Chinese board makers going we are all hosed.
Switchover time. If AC drops you need a few seconds to heat up the fuel cell and get it producing a stable output current. So you need a battery capable of carrying the whole 1KW load and power the internal electronics while this process is happening.
> The guns they give you the right to use are
> irrelevant in today's conflicts.
Which is why I firmly believe that the 2nd Amendment gives us the right to keep & bear any arms short of a WMD. Any personal arms, any crew served weapons up to and including main battle tanks, fighters, bombers, field artillery, ground to air missle batteries, etc. I would object to but could accept rules limiting some of those toys to militia companies with some sort of registration and some regs as to security measures to prevent criminals from gaining easy access.
There IS precedent. Private militia companies used to possess cannon, private individuals used to own and operate armed ships, etc.
> Our founding fathers did not have a whole lot of
> confidence in the American people
You are partly right. The Founding Fathers designed our system of government based on the assumption that EVERYBODY was greedy self centered bastards. Which was why they gave us a system where power was divided and set against itself. The people and the states were intended to provide a check against the feds, the feds and the people against the states and yes, the machinery of govt was supposed to be a defense against irrational impulses arising from the masses. Three branches in the Federal government designed to battle over turf and thereby keep each other in line, or at least too busy arguing to get much done.
Too bad it didn't work. The states got eliminated as an independent power base after the failure of the War for Southern Independence. The three branches of the Federal government don't check each other based on anything other than the opposite party controlling a branch these days. And the People have been brainwashed into mindless mush.
Very sad.
Uneducated fool. Not really your fault, the blame probably belongs to the school system....
The Founding Fathers knew exactly what they were doing when they made the President indirectly elected. The idea was the same as the Senate, to make geography count a little instead of just raw headcount. The less populous states never would have joined the Republic had it not been setup that way because they would have been powerless in the face of the swarming masses in the Northeastern states.
It is getting real tiresome reading the continual sour grapes from the devotees of Al "Sore Loser" Gore talking about Bush pulling a 'coup' by winning the election according to the pre existing rules of the game. Bush won Florida according to every count and recount, including the one published almost a year later by the Miami Herald and the rest of the liberal press. Bush won the electoral college. Therefore Bush WON. And if there was any doubt, the spanking the Dems just took should have put them to rest. The Democrats are now a minority party and barring a miracle are likely to remain one for years.
Of course the Republicans only won by virtually becoming Democrats, but that is a bitch for another day.
Nah, everybody knows what it means so it is a pretty effective shorthand. And considering the latest news (that everyone with a functioning braincell already knew) about their 85% margins on Windows and 75+% on Office that pretty much sums them up. They are pretty much a cash machine.
> it's interface is more lightweight than Hotmail, I can
> even access it via a links or lynx web browser.
Have you tried it recently? The signin page always gets submitted via https so unless you have a very new Lynx you are screwed.
Doesn't bother me either way. Think it through. If they are looking for the payola that means M$ will be paying every country on the planet in just another year or two. Who would want to be left off the gravy train if all you have to do is say "We might migrate" and millions of dollars flow out of Redmond And they can do it again in a year or two. Bribes only work when you are trying to prevent the appearance of a 'showcase' installation and they are a stopgap measure at best.
Eventually we will get a few governments converting simply because M$ has succeeded too well at getting the US Govt to lean on poor countries on the 'piracy' issue. Since they CAN'T pay they only really have two choices, get M$ to donate licenses or migrate.
Longterm M$ needs a better answer than paying their customers to use their product. These tactics are just to buy time to come up with a real strategy. That will be the time for fear. They are now clear of the Justice Dept and are free to act. Expect them to act as soon as Bill G and Monkey Boy come up with a plan they like.
All civilivations are build upon a few basic ideas. America is built on the idea that "All men are endowed by their creator with certain inalienable rights...." Basically we take certain rights as a given and argue about the consequences and details which arise from them.
Communism was based on the idea that "The State is everything" and everything derived from that. All of the other social/political have their "core idea(s)" Not all of these ideas are true. Communism's recently failed the real world test for example.
History is quickly deciding the issue in favor of our idea in as much as just about anyone who CAN get into a nation state based on these ideas of "Western Civilization" votes for them with their feet. Since "political science" is an oxymoron, such antedotal evidence is about the best that can be offered for now.
> I think it's more a freedom derived from certain
> inalienable rights.
Just backwards. The ballot box rests firmly upon the cartridge box. It is the RTKBA that makes us a truly Free People because it is that Right that ensures that ultimate political power is derived FROM the people. Without arms we would be subjects instead of individually independent Citizens charged personally by the Founding Fathers with keeping our Republic.
When the State has broken the covenent established by the Constituition & Bill of Rights it is a duty laid upon YOU and each and every one of us to replace the chains which bind our government to it's enumerated duties by any means necessary. That duty was our part of the bargain to have a Government of and by the People. We lapsed in our duties and the chains which bind the State are fast rusting away.
> As it leaves the definition of "hate speech" wide open...
Put a different way, the definition of "hate speech" is whatever those in power hate. Advocating "hate crimes" or "hate speech" laws is therefore ITSELF a hate crime and should be allowed to collapse into a singularity of recursion while sane people laugh uproariously at the idiots advocating it. Guess we just don't have enough sane people left for that to happen anymore.
Perhaps Wonko the Sane had the right idea.....
> The fact is, laws that "mandate tolerance," such as
> civil rights legislation...
A very strong case could be made that much of the so called "civil rights" legislation has been a net negative in that it created the whole 'victimology mentality'. Laws regulating relations between private citizens are evil, regardless of what 'greater good' they purport to serve.
The parts of the Civil Rights Act mandating equal access and protection by the government are redundant since the Constuition already forbids that sort of thing. "Since you guys won't stop violating people's Constituitional Rights we are passing a Law to make you stop." Ya, right. Democrat Logic at it's finest.
> Our European friends may gently remind us that
> it's a luxury to debate philosophy...
If you can't win the argument that self govenment under a Constituition (oh wait, most europeans don't actually HAVE the protection of a Constituition & Bill of Rights...) is a better form of government, they DESERVE to fall into anarchy and dictatorship again. You can't destroy liberty to save it. And yes, I'm starting to worry whether our beloved Shrub isn't forgetting that essential truth as well.
> The US recently arrested a citizen who was making a
> website for Al-Qaeda.
Amd your point? Al-Qaeda is a terrorist organization. Ever heard of the legal concept of "Conspiracy"? Not a very hard stretch to assume someone knowingly working for Al-Qaeda might be a co-conspiator[sp].
> What would happen to you in the US if you said that
.sig We still have a chance of winning the DMCA battle.
> Al Quaida is doing the right thing.
That is easy. Cynthia Mckinney was voted out of office, but no other action was taken against her.
> What happens to you, if you publish an article on how to
> build a "circumvention device".
The goons sometimes come after you. But I suspect the feds won't have the balls to try sending me to jail for my
> In fact, I would be more afraid of saying what I think
> in the US than I am in the EU...
BS. We still have the tattered vestiges of a Constituition & Bill of Rights protecting specific enumerated Rights like the Right to say and publish whatever we want. (Libel laws don't prevent speech, they just make you responsible for certain damages caused to others.) We also have the socialist twits at the ACLU that do manage to serve a useful purpose by defending a lot of 1st Amendment cases. For the most part, europeans have no Rights, just privledges revokable at the pleasure of the State.
Sorry, but I have to burst your bubble here. Last time I read a history book Israel was formally in a state of War with every nation in the Arab world with the exception of Egypt (since Camp David) and Jordan (very recent treaty?), declared by the arabs. Israel showed what I'd call great restraint (ok, after being leaned on by the US, GB etc.) in not finishing the last war and imposing a peace treaty on their own terms. After all, they HAD just spanked the ass off of all comers. Instead they allowed them to remain in a "State of War" for PR reasons, so they wouldn't all get deposed as losers.
/., but screw it, I got the Karma to burn getting modded Flamebait/Troll for speaking uncomfortable truths to you brainwashed victims of "higher education".
And of course if they were to treat the Palestanians[sp] like the Arabs treated the Jews upon the founding of Israel they would have driven them all from the land and been done with it. The fact that they take the continual terrorism from Arafat and keep trying to negotiate instead of putting his head on a pike says a lot.
btw, A Terrorist AIMS at civilian targets. A Freedom Fighter or soldier aims at military ones, and sometimes misses. So don't try to draw any moral similarities between the IDF and PLO/Hamas, etc. Again, Israel is showing almost suicidal restraint in not declaring Hamas, Islamic Jihad, etc. outlaw groups and shooting known members on sight instead of picking off a leader or two now and then.
So yes, there IS a right and wrong side in the Middle East. The Arabs are WRONG. Israel is not always RIGHT, but since the US has to pick a side it should be obvious that we would pick the side that is (sorta, if you can call an oxymoron like a socialist theocracy with capitalist tendancies) a popularly elected democracy against medieval thugs that get off blowing up schoolchildren.
I know waving the PLO flag is popular here on
Of course not. Please report to the nearest re-education center for a refresher course in political correctness. You appear to have forgotten several of the fundamental rules and are a menace to society.
o Only White Males may exhibit racism, sexism or any other improper thought.
o In case of doubt, for example when a Rap singer sings about "bitches and Ho's" or "killin' whitey" or even "killin' cops", see the above rule.
o All cultures are equally valid and may not be criticized; with the sole exception of "Western style representive governments" which, as all sane people know, are nothing but shams created by dead white guys to oppress the downtrodden. Failure to profess hatred for any product of the Western Mind is therefore defacto evidence of insanity and the person making any such statement may safely be ignored or instituitionalized as needed.
o The supposed "fact" that Marx was a White Male European is a lie by the elite white establishment intended to confuse and deceive.
I used PPPoE with a Linksys & BellSouth DSL for better than a year without any problems. What's your bitch with it? And DSL != PPPoE. I'm now of DirectvDSL and they are a super clean pipe. While I have to use their router to get my static IP, while waiting for it to arrive I had an Alcatel Speedtouch Pro in dumb bridge mode doing plain vanilla DHCP on the Linksys. Just depends who you get service from.
Actually you CAN upgrade one from Linux. Remove the password and then use tftp. Their mutant Windows tftp has been modified to send the password, which isn't part of the TFTP protocol. But if the password is null the normal tftp works just fine. I have upgraded mine (I have the BEFW1S4 with the wireless included) twice in the approx two years I have owned it and I don't do Windows.
> You mean, like these?
Had heard of a couple of those. Most aren't replacements for BIND though. I counted:
2 Written in JAVA. i.e. toys. Would never survive a real load without excessive hardware. (I.e. big ass Xeons like MCSE's put NT on)
2 Packages still in beta
3 stub DNS proxies intended for home LAN users
And finally two more interesting entries. MyDNS was obviously aimed at large hosting farms with it's DB based backend and MaraDNS was actually kinda interesting. Have to read that site in more detail since it might actually qualify as a general purpose BIND replacement.
> > and we both already know that so don't
> > bother with beating that dead horse.
> Such Style! Such Wit! Such Argument! Such
> Rhetoric! Such Unquestionable Authority!
Hmm. Looks like we do both agree djbdnd is NOT Open Source or Free Software. Obviously this does not bother you, but I will not use closed software when a viable Free equivelent is available. Neither is going to change the mind of the other so why are we beating this dead horse?
> The Open Source community could use a few
> more people like Dan.
Why? Has he EVER released an Open Source or Free Software program? Until he does he is only slightly more useful than Microsoft/SUN/Oracle/J. Random Shareware author. He releases unfree software with licenses that allow free redistribution of unmodified copies. Hell, I could redistribute IE under those terms with only a small amount of hoop jumping. That doesn't make Microsoft a member of the Open Source community.
You djb fanboys are almost as rabid as Amigans. Both of groups need to face reality. The Amiga is DEAD and djbdns will never see widespread use. Both failed in the marketplace due to self inflicted wounds. Nobody questions the technical
quality of djbdns, but that still won't get it shipped in any OS because of the wierd non-free license is was released under.
Maybe I just haven't bothered to look hard enough, but I didn't know there were any other Open Source name servers out there. djbdns doesn't count and we both already know that so don't bother with beating that dead horse.
Bzzt. Win3.11 had Win32s available. Note the "s" for Subset. Win95 was the first real release of Win32 that saw any kind of real world deployments.
Well on the above mentioned Thinkpads the BIOS screen shows a serial number, a system board serial number an an UUID which looks like a CPUID.