I'd like to point out that Wicca does not "recruit people". Wicca is a religion of converts. Wiccans do not proselytize at all. Proselytizing is a Christian concept.:)
I'm Asatruar, but I originally came from Wicca. A lot of my pagan/heathen friends are also into computers like I am.
I don't think this is any big deal, as those interested in computers come from a wide range of religions.
I'd be interested in seeing statistics on how many neo-pagans/heathens are interested in computers, and what percentage of those geeks study or follow neo-pagan religions. It'd certainly be interesting to find out.
I personally think computer's are Loki's domain because they are so tempermental.:)
You all might want to check out Gabber. It's an XML-based messaging protocol that encompasses AIM and ICQ at the moment. It's very extensible. (Did I spell that word right?)
We also have solar and wind being really important sources.
When my state (NJ) de-regulated the power companies, I immediately signed up for Green Mountain. They generate their electricity through Solar, Wind, and Hydroelectric.
Granted, I am still waiting for my signature form because they require a signature in order to switch you over.
People need to cut their consumption down, but the problem is that in the United States, everything is so far apart and we don't have a very good public transportation system. If I lived close enough to ride my bike to work or could take a bus or train, I definitely would do it!
Sport Utility Vehicles, on the other hand, should be kept to the same pollution restrictions as cars. I think that they are contributing all too much to the pollution problem. I was kind of hoping the rise in gas prices would deter people from buying these behemoths.:(
It's been a little hard to keep track of WINE because some things work on an older version and then break in the later version.
For example, running Starcraft. It worked for about an hour for me before totally locking up my machine. As far as I could tell, Battlenet never worked.
Has anyone ever gotten Tribes or Diablo 2 working under WINE?
It's come a long way since its inception, but it has a long way to go. The only game I ever got running properly in WINE was Unreal.
Hey I'm all for giant women. The bigger the better.:)
Seriously though, Genetic engineering is pretty scary. Look at all the GM crops. People in Britain will not buy GM food, so the farmers were told by the British gov't to slash and burn their crops and they are now suing Advanto.
Unfortunately, the genie is out of the bottle, and there has been conclusive evidence of horizontal gene flow from plants to animals. How would you like some Scorpion DNA in an Apple? They are already doing it. A lot of Biotech companies like Monsanto are extremely short-sighted when it comes to proper research and testing. There's no way of telling how much damage has already been done and how much more damage will occur.
Can anyone offer URL's for constantly updating junkbuster blockfiles? I'd like to keep mine up to date.
Another nice thing I have going is I have a VPN to my home machine from work. When I browse from work, I use my home machine as my web proxy (Junkbuster). The result: completely anonymous and encrypted web browsing from work. Pretty slick, eh?
It seems mostly geared toward PDA's (Palm, Handspring) and Windows. Microsoft even had their "Freedom to Innovate" stand there giving out buttons and everything. It was quite disturbing.
I was disappointed in PC Expo. The "Linux Pavilion" only consisted of Redhat and LinuxMall. (Which I picked up a copy of Quake 3 and the 'Microsoft closes its doors' poster.)
I also noticed BE was not there this year.
It was about 90 degrees outside and the A/C was working overtime to compensate for the 100's of warm bodies, monitors and computers there.
Needless to say, I spent a full 2 hours there, then went elsewhere in the City in search of cold beer and good pizza.:)
Hmm.. not sure about this. Why would anyone want a terminal window that's tilted at a weird angle? I'd get a big crick in my neck trying to work that way.:)
Did John Woo's famous signature make it into MI2? You know, the one where the good guy and bad guy aim huge guns right at each other's faces and pause at that moment? (You see it a lot in Chow Yun Fat HK movies that Woo directed.)
In a capitalist society, it all comes down to money. If Epic starts seeing a lot of money coming from the Linux sector, it's not going to be as open to making ports to it because they cost time and money.
All we can do is send our support and monies to Linux games to support those ends. Hopefully, the gaming companies will wake up and start porting to Linux and other platforms.
We had Apple//g's in High School. At the time I was there they were just being replaced by Mac Plus machines.
They were great to learn on, but kids like me and my friends would hack them a lot. One of my friends brought in MacTools and we changed one of the computers to read "Welcome to Fuckheads" (instead of "Welcome to Macintosh") where the smiley computer comes on at boot time.
Needless to say the teacher was not impressed. On lunch hour we'd go into the Apple// room and play games, and most of the time the teacher sitting in the room there had no clue what we were doing.
I think computers in a school can be a two-edged sword. They can be great time wasters (games) or great tools in learning. We have to use them wisely.
Linux is becoming more and more popular in schools, and let's face it, it has better security so we can keep the hacking to a minimum.
I often wish I had a laptop when I was in high school to take notes on, but I didn't think they made laptops then. (If they did, they were huge and properly bigger than my backpack!)
Twenty years ago, AT&T was broken up into Baby Bells, now we're back to "medium sized" AT&T's (Bell South, Bell Atlantic, Pacific Bell.. etc..)
Some sort of controls placed on Microsoft would be better, such as not forcing OEM's to bundle only Windows, giving refunds back to customers who don't want Windows, and a revamp of their outrageous licensing policies.
Either way, Opensource will triumph over closed source because we're faster and better. It's like the small, fast mammal (Open Source) running around the huge lumbering dinosaur (Microsoft).
.. and that dinosaur has just looked up into the sky and realized it's beginning to snow.
Here we have the most evil of software companies teaming up with the most evil of fundies.
What a great country we live in, where huge groups of ultra conservatives can have deep pockets and huge lobbies so they can tell me how to have sex, what religion I should be, and now.. what operating system I should run.
I hope the two of them get knocked down together. If both are discredited, the world has just been done a great justice.
I want to run my old DOS T.A.G. BBS under Linux. Is there a utility that will fool T.A.G. into thinking that incoming telnet session is an incoming modem?
I wonder if WWIV has been ported to Linux yet. WWIV was my favorite.
I ran a BBS for 7 years.. WWIV, T.A.G., and Telegard. I miss the good old days. Long live "Storm Surge"!
I attended a Linux University workshop from SGI last Friday and at the Linux Security breakout session, the gentleman from SGI who does a lot of work with the NSA and the government said that SGI is working on making Linux C2 and B1 compliant. These should be finalized sometime next year. Auditing is one of the components that still needs to be worked on just to make Linux at least C2 compliant.
For the B1 compliancy, there has to be further security checks (like mandatory security access on the FS)
A lot of this good stuff will be coming from IRIX, which has been pretty secure in and of itself. We should be seeing a lot of security added to Linux this year.
It's 128 bit security and generally pretty fast. I'm a little wary about giving out bank acct. #'s to other companies. Only my bank has to know about the payment info.
I'd check on the privacy policies. I wonder if they're a bit dubious.
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I'd like to point out that Wicca does not "recruit people". Wicca is a religion of converts. Wiccans do not proselytize at all. Proselytizing is a Christian concept. :)
Fialar
I don't think this is any big deal, as those interested in computers come from a wide range of religions.
I'd be interested in seeing statistics on how many neo-pagans/heathens are interested in computers, and what percentage of those geeks study or follow neo-pagan religions. It'd certainly be interesting to find out.
I personally think computer's are Loki's domain because they are so tempermental. :)
Fialar
Vingolf Fellowship
Fialar
Fialar
Doesn't seem to work.
morpheus:~# apt-get install evolution
Reading Package Lists... Done
Building Dependency Tree... Done
E: Couldn't find package evolution
I even did apt-get update, even looked in dselect.
Evolution is not in there.
Fialar
Actually, it's not cheaper. Gas prices in the U.S. are kept artificially low. Look at the prices in Europe; they are about 4x more.
Fialar
When my state (NJ) de-regulated the power companies, I immediately signed up for Green Mountain. They generate their electricity through Solar, Wind, and Hydroelectric.
Granted, I am still waiting for my signature form because they require a signature in order to switch you over.
People need to cut their consumption down, but the problem is that in the United States, everything is so far apart and we don't have a very good public transportation system. If I lived close enough to ride my bike to work or could take a bus or train, I definitely would do it!
Sport Utility Vehicles, on the other hand, should be kept to the same pollution restrictions as cars. I think that they are contributing all too much to the pollution problem. I was kind of hoping the rise in gas prices would deter people from buying these behemoths. :(
Fialar
Heh.. cool.. Another Tom Murphy.
We are EVERYWHERE!
It's been a little hard to keep track of WINE because some things work on an older version and
then break in the later version.
For example, running Starcraft. It worked for about an hour for me before totally locking up my machine. As far as I could tell, Battlenet never worked.
Has anyone ever gotten Tribes or Diablo 2 working under WINE?
It's come a long way since its inception, but it has a long way to go. The only game I ever got running properly in WINE was Unreal.
Fialar
Seriously though, Genetic engineering is pretty scary. Look at all the GM crops. People in Britain will not buy GM food, so the farmers were told by the British gov't to slash and burn their crops and they are now suing Advanto.
Unfortunately, the genie is out of the bottle, and there has been conclusive evidence of horizontal gene flow from plants to animals. How would you like some Scorpion DNA in an Apple? They are already doing it. A lot of Biotech companies like Monsanto are extremely short-sighted when it comes to proper research and testing. There's no way of telling how much damage has already been done and how much more damage will occur.
Fialar
Another nice thing I have going is I have a VPN to my home machine from work. When I browse from work, I use my home machine as my web proxy (Junkbuster). The result: completely anonymous and encrypted web browsing from work. Pretty slick, eh?
Fialar
My friend had to register at the actual computer terminal. It had a Windows frontend (what looked to be IE5 in 'Kiosk/Fullscreen' mode)
When he submitted the form, it blew up and I
noticed the little "Apache" tag at the bottom.
I asked the guy who was assisting people with registration if they ran Linux for their backend and he said he didn't know.
Fialar
It seems mostly geared toward PDA's (Palm, Handspring) and Windows. Microsoft even had
:)
their "Freedom to Innovate" stand there giving out buttons and everything. It was quite disturbing.
I was disappointed in PC Expo. The "Linux Pavilion" only consisted of Redhat and LinuxMall.
(Which I picked up a copy of Quake 3 and the 'Microsoft closes its doors' poster.)
I also noticed BE was not there this year.
It was about 90 degrees outside and the A/C was working overtime to compensate for the 100's of warm bodies, monitors and computers there.
Needless to say, I spent a full 2 hours there, then went elsewhere in the City in search of cold beer and good pizza.
Fialar
Hmm.. not sure about this. Why would anyone want a terminal window that's tilted at a weird angle? :)
I'd get a big crick in my neck trying to work that way.
Fialar
Did John Woo's famous signature make it into MI2?
You know, the one where the good guy and bad guy
aim huge guns right at each other's faces and pause at that moment?
(You see it a lot in Chow Yun Fat HK movies that Woo directed.)
In a capitalist society, it all comes down to money. If Epic starts seeing a lot of money coming from the Linux sector, it's not going to be as open to making ports to it because they cost time and money.
All we can do is send our support and monies to Linux games to support those ends. Hopefully, the gaming companies will wake up and start porting to Linux and other platforms.
Can the gov't make you give up your PGP keys even if you're e-mailing a friend from work with it?
Fialar
We had Apple //g's in High School. At the time I was there they were just being replaced by Mac Plus machines.
// room and play games, and most of the time the teacher sitting in the room there had no clue what we were doing.
They were great to learn on, but kids like me and my friends would hack them a lot. One of my friends brought in MacTools and we changed one of the computers to read "Welcome to Fuckheads" (instead of "Welcome to Macintosh") where the smiley computer comes on at boot time.
Needless to say the teacher was not impressed. On lunch hour we'd go into the Apple
I think computers in a school can be a two-edged sword. They can be great time wasters (games) or great tools in learning. We have to use them wisely.
Linux is becoming more and more popular in schools, and let's face it, it has better security so we can keep the hacking to a minimum.
I often wish I had a laptop when I was in high school to take notes on, but I didn't think they made laptops then. (If they did, they were huge and properly bigger than my backpack!)
Fialar
Moderator: get a life and realize that people have every right to voice their opinions.
Twenty years ago, AT&T was broken up into Baby Bells, now we're back to "medium sized" AT&T's
(Bell South, Bell Atlantic, Pacific Bell.. etc..)
Some sort of controls placed on Microsoft would be better, such as not forcing OEM's to bundle only Windows, giving refunds back to customers who don't want Windows, and a revamp of their outrageous licensing policies.
Either way, Opensource will triumph over closed source because we're faster and better.
It's like the small, fast mammal (Open Source) running around the huge lumbering dinosaur (Microsoft).
.. and that dinosaur has just looked up into the sky and realized it's beginning to snow.
Fialar
Here we have the most evil of software companies
teaming up with the most evil of fundies.
What a great country we live in, where huge groups of ultra conservatives can have deep pockets and huge lobbies so they can tell me how to have sex, what religion I should be, and now.. what operating system I should run.
I hope the two of them get knocked down together.
If both are discredited, the world has just been done a great justice.
I'm actually not surprised by this.
The bigger they are the harder they fall.
Fialar
I want to run my old DOS T.A.G. BBS under Linux.
Is there a utility that will fool T.A.G. into
thinking that incoming telnet session is an
incoming modem?
I wonder if WWIV has been ported to Linux yet.
WWIV was my favorite.
I ran a BBS for 7 years.. WWIV, T.A.G., and Telegard. I miss the good old days.
Long live "Storm Surge"!
All the mirrors seem to only have up to pre3.
Got a URL for pre4?
Many thanks!
Fialar
I attended a Linux University workshop from SGI last Friday and at the Linux Security breakout session, the gentleman from SGI who does a lot of work with the NSA and the government said that SGI is working on making Linux C2 and B1 compliant. These should be finalized sometime next year. Auditing is one of the components that still needs to be worked on just to make Linux at least C2 compliant.
For the B1 compliancy, there has to be further security checks (like mandatory security access on the FS)
A lot of this good stuff will be coming from IRIX, which has been pretty secure in and of itself.
We should be seeing a lot of security added to Linux this year.
Fialar
It's 128 bit security and generally pretty fast.
I'm a little wary about giving out bank acct. #'s
to other companies. Only my bank has to know about the payment info.
I'd check on the privacy policies. I wonder if they're a bit dubious.