IT makes all those dinky little connections; the browser makes JUST ONE connection to the proxy server.
Certainly, it wouldn't be hard to do this. (Squid, anyone?)
It may be that my understanding is a bit off, but I don't think so.
-Ben
When things get INTERESTING
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3Dwm Updates
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Is when you take technology like this and combine with this stuff here: http://www.evil3d.net/reviews/dti_vw/
We've all gotten used to "3d" games on a very "2d" monitor - time to press forward!
Oh, and you know it has to be said: "Can you run a beowulf cluster inside 3dwm?" =^)
-Ben
Re:See what happens when you rely on NT
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Gee, somebody who GETS IT!
Take a PC, install a default copy of RH 6.2, hook it up to a static IP DSL modem. Come back in a month or two, and you'll find that you have at least 1 or 2 "volunteer" sysadmins!
The difference between NT and Linux is that you are given the control to make Linux VERY secure. You just aren't given the low-level control needed to make NT anywhere NEAR as secure.
It takes time, and extreme attention to detail - bit it CAN be done.
The people that do 'net 'til they drop are not somehow being "destroyed" by a force they cannot control - they are doing what they want!
This study made me think, too.
I spend a significant amount of time online, and while reading this wondered if I was being "sucked in" to being a zombie or something.
Before the 'net, I was a bookworm.
So, has it REALLY made any difference?
I'd have to say YES! Communicating with other people via the computer IS MORE SOCIAL than reading another Niven or Bova novel.
I also enjoy it more.
And, nobody that I know is going to argue that I'm "anti-social" - I go to lunches and barbecue with my family and spend plenty of time with my (very sexy) wife.
I'm reminded of a Digital VAX 7/1150 (or was it 711/50? I don't remember) I worked on. It was the size of two refridgerators, and required TWO room air conditioners to keep temperatures in the room reasonable - to deliver roughly the processing power of a '286...
But it was an AWESOME machine. And, mapping out memory that was bad was something it did on the fly! It would find a bad memory spot, and do one of several things with it:
1) Stop using it;
2) If the problem was intermittent, it would only store PROGRAM CODE there - which, if the memory was bad, it could re-load from the hard disk!
3) If the memory tested good for a while doing program code, (a few days, I think) it would return that RAM to general use.
An amazing machine - with some features that pale even a big, powerful *nix box today.. For example, versioning of just about EVERYTHING... *:1, *:2, *:3, etc, and while there was a "root" user (called admin on this system) there could be more than one! (My login, "dirdisb" was a "root" login too, and you could always tell when you looked at a file whether admin or dirdisb actually did it - much better than *nix style, IMHO)
I seem to recall that there was a patch or something you could apply that would make it use ALL hard disk space to create as many versions as possible of documents - or just 10. (we used the latter)
This machine, as slow as it was, would comfortably handle 20 simultaneous users! (granted, no X-windows or GUI at all)
With patches such as this badram patch (which IMHO should be added to the kernel by default) we are getting some of these really cool features back...
"why is RedHat getting so rich off of a free product"
Who says they are "getting rich" ? Have you examined their revenue stream, comparing it to, oh, say, Microsoft, or Oracle?
"I'm sick and tired of people thinking they can make money off the open source movement"
You should not only be friendly and gracious to these "people", you should be thankful that these companies/people have devoted the resources they have towards bettering the Linux you use. (If you do) Where do you think the almost user-friendly RPM came from?
Have you in ANY WAY contributed to the "open source movement" other than to threaten to burn CDs?
I find it both ironic and disgusting that what was once the center of information and free exchange of ideas is becoming the bastion of censorship - the public library.
Talk about values getting turned around?
When we have libraries that restrict the flow of information - schools and public institutions banning religous expression in the name of "religeous freedom" - and "rights" like the "right to bear arms" and "the right to travel freely" become "priveledges" subject to license, (a license is legal permission to perform an act that's otherwise illegal) it might sometimes seem that Mr. Orwell, with his 1948 classic "1984" was closer to the mark than we'd all like to admit.
More and more doublespeak piling up here...
How much will YOU accept from whatever form "big brother" takes?
About 8 months ago I signed up for DSL service - I had to agree to the terms of service in an immutable contract for a year.
since then, the package that I purchased (perfect for me!) has been retracted - they've now repackaged the deal, stripped out all the extras, and lowered the monthly fee $10.
So, I pay $50/month to get static IP - you can get Dynamic IP for $40 - but to get static now is $70/month!
Every month I come out $20 AHEAD because of this contract! Plus, I can renew the contract and retain the service unchanged.
Windows is a GUI built on the foundation of DOS - not much in the way of heritage, and the result shows all too well.
Ever had a buggy program crash your whole computer? (Happens all the time on my Windoze box)
Linux on the other hand, is this awesomely stable sky-scraper grade foundation - with a tent on it.
KDE isn't so bad, I've been using it about 1 1/2 years and I like some of the features it has.
But, let's face it. KFM tries to be a browser - and it ain't. It sucks. And you can't (easily) by-pass kfm to use netscape, either.
When I last evaluated Gnome, it crashed twice on me within an hour or so - negating the most compelling reason to use Linux. (yeah, it's been a little while)
But, I haven't seen anything in Gnome that blows my socks off!
A decent (and I do mean something that doesn't make me want to think of things to say to justify it's existence when I show it to new users) file manager, along with a DECENT browser would be very good foundational steps towards a desktop-ready linux.
-Ben
PS: Of course, when we finally HAVE a "desktop ready" Linux, are we even going to have a desktop to invade? From what I read, we're all going to use alarm clocks and microwaves to do our e-mail and slash-dorking in the future!
Some time back, I figured I'd pick up Perl - it being the "standard" language - and immediately got lost. I tried two different books, as well as an online howto, and got NOWHERE.
PHP, on the other hand, I picked up pretty much immediately with just the phpbuilder site and php.net. At the former site, people were very helpful and I was producing something meaningful (almost) immediately!
I liked it so much I sold my business (computer shop) and now work as a Web developer. (Currently building a full-fledged auction site!) It's fun and rather straightforward.
Couple of caveats:
1) Mixing PHP and HTML sounds nice, (and is for tiny projects) but for any project of any size, you want to implement and use templates from PHPLIB or FastTemplate classes. Otherwise, you get overwhelmed trying to keep track of what it's supposed to look like and what tags and blah blah blah.
2) For mid-to-large size projects, USE OOP!
3) date functions suck in PHP. When saving a date
in a database, don't bother with fancy date functions, as PHP uses 32 bit integer *nix epoch internally to calculate dates - just save the date as an integer and work from there. Limits your dates to 1970-2032, but it's at least consistent since you aren't going from Integer -> db date format -> integer -> final output, you are instead going Integer -> integer -> final output, and PHP can't handle dates outside this effectively anyway.
4) Rather than write for particular database, (Postgres/MySQL) or even to ODBC (which can create driver headaches) write to a generic "db" class you write yourself - and then make that class manage the database. That way, porting to another platform is as easy as updating that single class.
Not sure why I'm telling you all of this - but take it for what it's worth.
I started on a 486/133, 16 MB ram, 500 HD about 1 1/2 years ago.
Basically, a "free" machine. I was rather un-impressed with its performance until I discovered that it was running Apache, MySQL, Sendmail, and a whole TON of other services.
I was STUNNED!
It ran for ~ 7 months, 24x7, with NO PROBLEMS other than configuration.
I was STUNNED!
But, if I had gone in thinking this was going to be a replacement for Windows, I would've been skeptical from the get-go.
It replaces Windows on the SERVER side. It's almost OK as a client. (I use it, but mostly because I like to work in *nix when writing code for my *nix server)
What's perhaps funny is that although my main workstation is a pretty decent 400 Mhz system w/16 MB AGP card, 13 GB Hd, etc., the server on which I test and demo all my work is a P-100 w/2gb HD and a couple of NICs - not even a monitor or mouse to its name!
PHP had no function for directly sending e-mail thru an outside server, instead assuming you had local mail services.
I hunted around for some means to get the prototype out the door, and managed to (quickly) hack together something that more or less did it.
I posted it, sloppy tho it may be, to help whoever else might use it.
And used it is! Somebody else came along and added to it, somebody else made a class out of it, somebody else extended the class, I fixed a few bugs when I needed it for something else, somebody else fixed something I missed...
It's a small example, but it communicates the idea...
This is open-source at work! Everybody contributes a bit, and everybody reaps the rewards!
Would I open-source my work? In many cases, YES! I can now produce better software for my boss because of open-sourcing this particular function!
Population is NOT increasing endlessly - the human growth rate is SLOWING DOWN and our population world-wide is expected to DECLINE by ~ 2070. (Read this in our local investigative weekly, BTW)
It seems that there's a gap of 1-2 generations before the availability of birth control is accepted by the populace. America was lucky because there were few people here while this "acceptance" phase was taking place, so our population has stabilized at a rather low density.
Also, population growth is largely regulated by the stability of the govornment governing the region in question.
People have fewer kids if they know or think that they actually *can* save for the future and provide for their livelyhood in old age, rather than have their kids do it in an unknown, uncertain future.
World-wide, we've seen an increase in the stability of many govornments of "problem areas" - No. Africa, for example, and the more widespread acceptance of birth control in areas like central America.
Where we've seen alot of contention between open-source guys and corporations is where the corporations "give away" hardware in order to get you to run their software.
The 'net workstation whose software is hard-coded to use their Internet services, or the video game console given away so you have to buy their game cartridges.
The value of that hardware is NOT THE HARDWARE - it's the fact that it works only with their service - making you buy the service to use this hardware - and that's where the corporation gets their return.
Break this line, and you'll see plenty of cease-and-desist letters!
More examples? Buy an Ink-Jet printer for $50, only to buy cartridges for $28. Buy a full-fledged digital camera for $250, only to pay $130 for another memory cartridge. Try to buy a consumer electronics device from Montgomery Wards without an "extended service contract" - they'll almost run you out of the store. (at least here)
It's a most common ploy - get the consumer "in the door" by giving away the core for free or very cheap, then make the money on the periphery.
In this example, the hits to the web-page/advertising dollars from their software are the periphery the company is planning on profiting from.
They could (and quite rightly, tho they don't know how to say it) consider the hardware as "IP", as the hardware is linked to THEIR software.
Unfortunately, putting something on the Internet is being legally interpreted as "publishing" - and this applies to e-mail as well. (much e-mail ends up forwarded and put on e-mail list archives, etc)
Do you have a responsibility, as a business owner, to see what you are "publishing"?
Unfortunately, the answer seems to be "yes".
But, people don't resent an "open" solution if they know it's there. Nobody minds a camera posted over their head if it's obvious, especially if they can SEE what's being/has been recorded.
Here's what I would do:
1) Provide company e-mail addresses to those employees that need them.
2) Provide PRIVATE e-mail addresses (hosted at an outside ISP) for personal use. Maybe even include dial-up access as well. (cheap, what, $15 or less in most areas?)
3) Filter in only those messages originating AS an internal user.
4) Make a local web-page that lets everybody inside the business SEE all e-mails that have been sent in a "revolving door" deal. Also allow anybody to view e-mails by user, date, recipient, etc.
Like with software, we're finding more and more that the best policy is the OPEN one...
From here, it looks like those guys at Debian should be ground up and sold for fertilizer! It's obvious they know NOTHING about Linux and are just masquerading as "security experts"...
Sex! Lots and lots of wild, free, and fun ground-pounding, mind-numbing, rafter rattling sex!
And I'm NOT talking about a long shower. (You're married now, right?)
After working your body over, with all those endorphins and everything flying all over the place, you'll realize that all that stuff you were so anxious about just doesn't really matter now...
Even if every user of Napster stopped buying records, this would be a trivial number of people
Last I knew, there were 29 *million* registered Napster users. This is a trivial number of people? I'd say that having 10% of the US' population boycotting CDs would have quite a noticable impact on CD sales - especially since Napster users are, by nature, going to be music fans.
Slashdot Mirror
Is that they haven't tried this system.
Use a proxy server!
IT makes all those dinky little connections; the browser makes JUST ONE connection to the proxy server.
Certainly, it wouldn't be hard to do this. (Squid, anyone?)
It may be that my understanding is a bit off, but I don't think so.
-Ben
We've all gotten used to "3d" games on a very "2d" monitor - time to press forward!
Oh, and you know it has to be said: "Can you run a beowulf cluster inside 3dwm?" =^) -Ben
Gee, somebody who GETS IT!
Take a PC, install a default copy of RH 6.2, hook it up to a static IP DSL modem. Come back in a month or two, and you'll find that you have at least 1 or 2 "volunteer" sysadmins!
The difference between NT and Linux is that you are given the control to make Linux VERY secure. You just aren't given the low-level control needed to make NT anywhere NEAR as secure.
It takes time, and extreme attention to detail - bit it CAN be done.
-Ben
But don't you get it?
The people that do 'net 'til they drop are not somehow being "destroyed" by a force they cannot control - they are doing what they want!
This study made me think, too.
I spend a significant amount of time online, and while reading this wondered if I was being "sucked in" to being a zombie or something.
Before the 'net, I was a bookworm.
So, has it REALLY made any difference?
I'd have to say YES! Communicating with other people via the computer IS MORE SOCIAL than reading another Niven or Bova novel.
I also enjoy it more.
And, nobody that I know is going to argue that I'm "anti-social" - I go to lunches and barbecue with my family and spend plenty of time with my (very sexy) wife.
-Ben
I'm reminded of a Digital VAX 7/1150 (or was it 711/50? I don't remember) I worked on. It was the size of two refridgerators, and required TWO room air conditioners to keep temperatures in the room reasonable - to deliver roughly the processing power of a '286...
But it was an AWESOME machine. And, mapping out memory that was bad was something it did on the fly! It would find a bad memory spot, and do one of several things with it:
1) Stop using it;
2) If the problem was intermittent, it would only store PROGRAM CODE there - which, if the memory was bad, it could re-load from the hard disk!
3) If the memory tested good for a while doing program code, (a few days, I think) it would return that RAM to general use.
An amazing machine - with some features that pale even a big, powerful *nix box today.. For example, versioning of just about EVERYTHING... *:1, *:2, *:3, etc, and while there was a "root" user (called admin on this system) there could be more than one! (My login, "dirdisb" was a "root" login too, and you could always tell when you looked at a file whether admin or dirdisb actually did it - much better than *nix style, IMHO)
I seem to recall that there was a patch or something you could apply that would make it use ALL hard disk space to create as many versions as possible of documents - or just 10. (we used the latter)
This machine, as slow as it was, would comfortably handle 20 simultaneous users! (granted, no X-windows or GUI at all)
With patches such as this badram patch (which IMHO should be added to the kernel by default) we are getting some of these really cool features back...
Guys,
It's NOT like anybody's saying there is "one" distro that anyone and everyone follows, and that NOBODY ELSE can modify...
Take a look at Red Hat and Mandrake. I consider them to be more one and the same than different.
How is the future pictured any different?
-Ben
PS: Low blow, slashdot! Just because I use RH as a baseline for development doesn't mean I don't know how to secure a box... script kiddies indeed!
It appears that this is NOT something to hold in opposition to Ext3 - but rather that this is part of the latest versions ext3!
Sort of like saying: "Forget all that Red Hat and Debian crap... LONG LIVE LINUX! " ?
Thanks for the link, however.
You are a knot-head.
"why is RedHat getting so rich off of a free product"
Who says they are "getting rich" ? Have you examined their revenue stream, comparing it to, oh, say, Microsoft, or Oracle?
"I'm sick and tired of people thinking they can make money off the open source movement"
You should not only be friendly and gracious to these "people", you should be thankful that these companies/people have devoted the resources they have towards bettering the Linux you use. (If you do) Where do you think the almost user-friendly RPM came from?
Have you in ANY WAY contributed to the "open source movement" other than to threaten to burn CDs?
Somehow, I doubt it.
Open ass, remove head, says I!
"CD-ROM for playing/ripping audio CDs $25"
This simply defies description. If you cut to the bone, you MIGHT get a burner for just over $100.
$25 will get you a used, 6x CD-ROM on E-bay. (but you can FORGET about "ripping" anything...
"One Cheap CPU, mobo & case" - sure. But it's really hard to get a 386 to do anything meaningful...
I'd guess your age at about 14...
-Ben
I can make a web browser with just ONE LINE of code....
/usr/local/netscape/netscape &
- Complete with navigation buttons, scroll bars, the works!
I find it both ironic and disgusting that what was once the center of information and free exchange of ideas is becoming the bastion of censorship - the public library.
Talk about values getting turned around?
When we have libraries that restrict the flow of information - schools and public institutions banning religous expression in the name of "religeous freedom" - and "rights" like the "right to bear arms" and "the right to travel freely" become "priveledges" subject to license, (a license is legal permission to perform an act that's otherwise illegal) it might sometimes seem that Mr. Orwell, with his 1948 classic "1984" was closer to the mark than we'd all like to admit.
More and more doublespeak piling up here...
How much will YOU accept from whatever form "big brother" takes?
-Ben
About 8 months ago I signed up for DSL service - I had to agree to the terms of service in an immutable contract for a year.
since then, the package that I purchased (perfect for me!) has been retracted - they've now repackaged the deal, stripped out all the extras, and lowered the monthly fee $10.
So, I pay $50/month to get static IP - you can get Dynamic IP for $40 - but to get static now is $70/month!
Every month I come out $20 AHEAD because of this contract! Plus, I can renew the contract and retain the service unchanged.
It's not ALWAYS a bad thing...
-Ben
www.freshmeat.net
Duh.
No sarcasm, either!
Windows is a GUI built on the foundation of DOS - not much in the way of heritage, and the result shows all too well.
Ever had a buggy program crash your whole computer? (Happens all the time on my Windoze box)
Linux on the other hand, is this awesomely stable sky-scraper grade foundation - with a tent on it.
KDE isn't so bad, I've been using it about 1 1/2 years and I like some of the features it has.
But, let's face it. KFM tries to be a browser - and it ain't. It sucks. And you can't (easily) by-pass kfm to use netscape, either.
When I last evaluated Gnome, it crashed twice on me within an hour or so - negating the most compelling reason to use Linux. (yeah, it's been a little while)
But, I haven't seen anything in Gnome that blows my socks off!
A decent (and I do mean something that doesn't make me want to think of things to say to justify it's existence when I show it to new users) file manager, along with a DECENT browser would be very good foundational steps towards a desktop-ready linux.
-Ben
PS: Of course, when we finally HAVE a "desktop ready" Linux, are we even going to have a desktop to invade? From what I read, we're all going to use alarm clocks and microwaves to do our e-mail and slash-dorking in the future!
Dunno.
Some time back, I figured I'd pick up Perl - it being the "standard" language - and immediately got lost. I tried two different books, as well as an online howto, and got NOWHERE.
PHP, on the other hand, I picked up pretty much immediately with just the phpbuilder site and php.net. At the former site, people were very helpful and I was producing something meaningful (almost) immediately!
I liked it so much I sold my business (computer shop) and now work as a Web developer. (Currently building a full-fledged auction site!) It's fun and rather straightforward.
Couple of caveats:
1) Mixing PHP and HTML sounds nice, (and is for tiny projects) but for any project of any size, you want to implement and use templates from PHPLIB or FastTemplate classes. Otherwise, you get overwhelmed trying to keep track of what it's supposed to look like and what tags and blah blah blah.
2) For mid-to-large size projects, USE OOP!
3) date functions suck in PHP. When saving a date
in a database, don't bother with fancy date functions, as PHP uses 32 bit integer *nix epoch internally to calculate dates - just save the date as an integer and work from there. Limits your dates to 1970-2032, but it's at least consistent since you aren't going from Integer -> db date format -> integer -> final output, you are instead going Integer -> integer -> final output, and PHP can't handle dates outside this effectively anyway.
4) Rather than write for particular database, (Postgres/MySQL) or even to ODBC (which can create driver headaches) write to a generic "db" class you write yourself - and then make that class manage the database. That way, porting to another platform is as easy as updating that single class.
Not sure why I'm telling you all of this - but take it for what it's worth.
-Ben
I started on a 486/133, 16 MB ram, 500 HD about 1 1/2 years ago.
Basically, a "free" machine. I was rather un-impressed with its performance until I discovered that it was running Apache, MySQL, Sendmail, and a whole TON of other services.
I was STUNNED!
It ran for ~ 7 months, 24x7, with NO PROBLEMS other than configuration.
I was STUNNED!
But, if I had gone in thinking this was going to be a replacement for Windows, I would've been skeptical from the get-go.
It replaces Windows on the SERVER side. It's almost OK as a client. (I use it, but mostly because I like to work in *nix when writing code for my *nix server)
What's perhaps funny is that although my main workstation is a pretty decent 400 Mhz system w/16 MB AGP card, 13 GB Hd, etc., the server on which I test and demo all my work is a P-100 w/2gb HD and a couple of NICs - not even a monitor or mouse to its name!
Ah well.
A small example of it at work...
p e=snippet&id=35
http://www.phpbuilder.com/snippet/detail.php?ty
It all started with this itch...
PHP had no function for directly sending e-mail thru an outside server, instead assuming you had local mail services.
I hunted around for some means to get the prototype out the door, and managed to (quickly) hack together something that more or less did it.
I posted it, sloppy tho it may be, to help whoever else might use it.
And used it is! Somebody else came along and added to it, somebody else made a class out of it, somebody else extended the class, I fixed a few bugs when I needed it for something else, somebody else fixed something I missed...
It's a small example, but it communicates the idea...
This is open-source at work! Everybody contributes a bit, and everybody reaps the rewards!
Would I open-source my work? In many cases, YES! I can now produce better software for my boss because of open-sourcing this particular function!
It's really a no-brainer.
-Ben
Oh, but hold on!
Population is NOT increasing endlessly - the human growth rate is SLOWING DOWN and our population world-wide is expected to DECLINE by ~ 2070. (Read this in our local investigative weekly, BTW)
It seems that there's a gap of 1-2 generations before the availability of birth control is accepted by the populace. America was lucky because there were few people here while this "acceptance" phase was taking place, so our population has stabilized at a rather low density.
Also, population growth is largely regulated by the stability of the govornment governing the region in question.
People have fewer kids if they know or think that they actually *can* save for the future and provide for their livelyhood in old age, rather than have their kids do it in an unknown, uncertain future.
World-wide, we've seen an increase in the stability of many govornments of "problem areas" - No. Africa, for example, and the more widespread acceptance of birth control in areas like central America.
The birth rate is DROPPING!
Haynes and Chilton DO PAY ROYALTIES for the drawings and pictures of the cars they describe repairing...
Many of the technical drawings come from the manufacturer!
-Ben
Where we've seen alot of contention between open-source guys and corporations is where the corporations "give away" hardware in order to get you to run their software.
The 'net workstation whose software is hard-coded to use their Internet services, or the video game console given away so you have to buy their game cartridges.
The value of that hardware is NOT THE HARDWARE - it's the fact that it works only with their service - making you buy the service to use this hardware - and that's where the corporation gets their return.
Break this line, and you'll see plenty of cease-and-desist letters!
More examples? Buy an Ink-Jet printer for $50, only to buy cartridges for $28. Buy a full-fledged digital camera for $250, only to pay $130 for another memory cartridge. Try to buy a consumer electronics device from Montgomery Wards without an "extended service contract" - they'll almost run you out of the store. (at least here)
It's a most common ploy - get the consumer "in the door" by giving away the core for free or very cheap, then make the money on the periphery.
In this example, the hits to the web-page/advertising dollars from their software are the periphery the company is planning on profiting from.
They could (and quite rightly, tho they don't know how to say it) consider the hardware as "IP", as the hardware is linked to THEIR software.
So what REALLY constitutes "IP"?
-Ben
Wouldn't it be nice if this were TRUE?
Unfortunately, putting something on the Internet is being legally interpreted as "publishing" - and this applies to e-mail as well. (much e-mail ends up forwarded and put on e-mail list archives, etc)
Do you have a responsibility, as a business owner, to see what you are "publishing"?
Unfortunately, the answer seems to be "yes".
But, people don't resent an "open" solution if they know it's there. Nobody minds a camera posted over their head if it's obvious, especially if they can SEE what's being/has been recorded.
Here's what I would do:
1) Provide company e-mail addresses to those employees that need them.
2) Provide PRIVATE e-mail addresses (hosted at an outside ISP) for personal use. Maybe even include dial-up access as well. (cheap, what, $15 or less in most areas?)
3) Filter in only those messages originating AS an internal user.
4) Make a local web-page that lets everybody inside the business SEE all e-mails that have been sent in a "revolving door" deal. Also allow anybody to view e-mails by user, date, recipient, etc.
Like with software, we're finding more and more that the best policy is the OPEN one...
-Ben
From here, it looks like those guys at Debian should be ground up and sold for fertilizer! It's obvious they know NOTHING about Linux and are just masquerading as "security experts"...
Anybody have some white masks and torches?
(sounds *fun*, eh?)
-Ben
Sex! Lots and lots of wild, free, and fun ground-pounding, mind-numbing, rafter rattling sex!
And I'm NOT talking about a long shower. (You're married now, right?)
After working your body over, with all those endorphins and everything flying all over the place, you'll realize that all that stuff you were so anxious about just doesn't really matter now...
And then coding is... easy!
-Ben
Even if every user of Napster stopped buying records, this would be a trivial number of people
Last I knew, there were 29 *million* registered Napster users. This is a trivial number of people? I'd say that having 10% of the US' population boycotting CDs would have quite a noticable impact on CD sales - especially since Napster users are, by nature, going to be music fans.
-Ben