After being gifted all the benefits and the same peace-of-mind enjoyed by so many of us relying on Linux, will you consider recommending Richard Stallman et al as a Knight of the British Empire?
I cannnot think of a finer moment than watching steaming video of a naked sword reflecting the sallow yet awesome visage of Stallman from each shoulder.
(There are so very few formal honors for the fewer intrepid and truly distinguished software engineers.)
I went through the same process recently, looking at everything I could find to move from UBB. Whatever I tried came up short on performance or features except O'Reilly software's WebBoard.
I know this package is outside your existing platform, but I've found it reliable and extremely resilient under a heavy load (1000 posts with binary attachments per day). It's also ready to go out-of-the-box and scriptable. Customization is as easy as HTML.
It comes with real-time paging, a variety of chat features, SMTP notification with listservs and.ZIP digests, and NNTP support. Administration is web-based and well implemented.
Drawback is the cost: about $1000 for the software plus an NT box. You don't need to fool with IIS as it runs best with the included web server.
The first issue, whether FamilyPC conconcted they story, can be solved by producing "Tricia". Tricia presumably has her receipt and the game although not the expansion pack as claimed. It's fair to assume she bought the Half-Life: Game of the Year edition and the game title was an editorial misfire. Cash or not, the receipt will tell.
Regardless, I think Mr. Pitchford did have a mental lapse and should have taken his reservations at the top of the.plan update all the way through to a second thought. This has nothing to do with Sierra, Valve, or Gearbox; the OpFor pack will be M-rated. CompUSA is responsible but, even so, hasn't broken a law as there isn't a penal enforcement component to the industry agreement. It's a kind of good-faith compromise.
That's the point of the FamilyPC sidebar: legislation with teeth. An argument for media content enforcement indistinguishable from, say, tobacco laws. Why play into it, Randy? Why hold yourself as evidence for your opposition?
Market Bulletin: We think our friends at the Gartner Group used a flawed model for a recent prediction about migration costs to Windows 2000. Here's why.
This is the same bogus big-developer-to-big-IT-clearinghouse dialectic; I've also noticed this last year.
This is a problem. Philo, born about 25 B.C., was a progressive theologian and an ardent apologist. He was not an Egyptian (though his nephew became the apostate Tiberius Alexander, Prefect of Egypt) but was a very respected memeber of the Jewish colony of Alexandria. His many hegiras to Jerusalem are recorded both from Alexandria and from procurators records in Jerusalem.
The Jews believe he was in or around Jerusalem throughout the period of these New Testament events. His lack of knowledge of Jesus has been considered glaring evidence against the existence of a great phophet in the region (and not just by Jewish scholars). He is referenced often when the complete lack of historical evidence beyond the New Testament is noticed.
Photius, chief among Christian scholars refuting Philo's whereabouts, notes the problem and concludes this most eager theologian could not have missed the slightest rumor of a Prophet. He concludes, therefore, that Philo was never there or was dead! before being critical of the Gosphels. Philo never made a pilgrimage to the Holy City? Impossible.
(Philo was certainly in his prime at the time of Jesus's prediliction and most prolific in the years afterward. In 39AD, he made the trip to Rome to protest Roman graven images in the jewish temples. His was given audience with Caius Caligula himself.)
There are many ambivalent posts here that I empathize with. Let me try to explain why this strikes nerves.
There are two perennial sectarian subjects that seem to seek a focus at any opportunity: the exalted status of faith and the old ideological 'fight for the children'.
If you listen long to Christian media, you will sense a preoccupation with persecution. The Christian is under siege. The mass media consists of "anti-Christian bigots". Gov. Ventura is a bigot. When it is suggested that 'bigot' does not apply to ideological matters, that pure assertions should be taken on their own merit---that faith must merit respect and not be guaranteed the dispensation of respect---a peculiar sort of cult insanity is exposed. The burden of proof lies completely on the believer and not on the unbeliever or the disbeliever? The Romans used a stake for crucifixion---at no time anywhere did they employ a crossbeam? The great historian Philo-Judaeus, born before Jesus and living long after the time of his reputed death, lived in Jerusalem during Christ's miraculous birth and the Herodian massacre? He was there for Christ's supposed grand entry into Jerusalem and for the crucifixion with attendant earthquake, magic darkness, and resurrection with the many witnesses to his heavenward ascent that amazed the world? And he makes no mention of Jesus or anything remotely like this story in his comprehensive history of the Jews during his life? The only other autochthonous historian, Justin of Tiberius, was a native of Galilee and in his incredibly detailed history we know how the crops did in each of these years, masses of political gossip, and have complete martial account of the land without a single mention of the savior?
This is war! Attend Christian soldiers! This "free inquiry" is conspiracy! Myth discrimination! The Focus on the Family Christian Attorney's mailing list starts chugging. The Religious Liberties Protection Act has just passed in the House. CBN calls scientists elitist "bullies" (this from the chosen people). There is now an act in the New York senate introduced by Sen. Maltese making it a crime to "ridicule religious beliefs or practices".
One prime front in that war is for the minds of the children. I attended a Catholic pre-school! I once read, "With other subjects we wait until the child has the mental maturity to grasp them. We do not start a child on analytical chemistry or solid geometry. We begin with small numbers and lesser skills in every subject---except religion. [...] other subjects wait, until the child is old enough to understand and evaluate it. But, for religion and the churches, it is literally the child or nothing; for if they fail to get the child, it is a matter of time before they get nothing."
Even if we're talking about high-schoolers, mature minds, there is a desire for no discontinuity between early Sunday school and secondary education in these ontological matters. Mention in the context of science ironically reifies the Creation as a scientific 'live option'. I remember coming around about the time I read this by Arthur Schopenhauer, "There is no absurdity so obvious that it cannot be firmly planted in the human head if you only begin to impose it before the age of five, by constantly repeating it with an air of great solemnity."
The resort to force of force when force of reason does not apply keeps its edge for all its repetition. It's the hot button for many like me. The Mediterranean societies of the time of Paul's Gospel weren't in a substantively inferior position to Enlightenment Europe; the western world seemed then poised for a scientific revolution. What came next is known as the Dark Ages: a supranational theocracy. So, unfair as it may be, I now see these ideas as arresting the development of humanity for over fifteen hundred years. Evolution is at least constructive. How much do you want to give up for a fable? Is all the allegory in history worth kissing Hank's ass?
of Dr. Huffman doing what he loved can be found here.
Dr. Huffman was another modest genius whose work doesn't fit in the hoary pigeonholes of Nobel candidates but is as ubiquitous as the DSP. It's no surprise he seems anonymous; these are the sort of stories that make me so often grateful for/.
Make it the size of a notebook battery (with a recharging lithium ion cell) and I'll take it. Better add a locking switchblade punch-down tool. Remember 12 Angry Men?
"The client says he came at the block overhanded and down, like this. Everyone knows that's not how you use one a them Victorinox punchdowns. Down straight, but you come up from the bottom pair; snap it out and up, like that see..
The hex set, tweezers, and DIP switch pen/probe are useful. Beyond that, the rest doesn't look up to snuff. Here's what I could use when traveling:
1.) Inspection mirror!
2.) Internal flashlight with short fiber optic concentrator (like those US $5 attachments for Mag lights) hinged opposite so it can be directed at the mirror.
3.) Guillotine-style wire stripper (like a cigar snip with distension tension).
4.)Ratchet crimper for RJ-11. (move it over for second crimp on RJ-45).
5.)Ratchet screwdriver with long, thin extension.
6.) Flip out RJ-11 or RJ-45 coupler and MDI-X adapter. (Use snap in modules for what you need to carry.)
7.) Maybe a basic voltmeter?
8.) Magnifier. (Great for fiber too)
9.) TP time domain reflectometer:) or simple cable tester and a toothbrush for those 3AM-in-wiring-closet moments.
When I say "has often been credited" I mean by that poor sort of self-appointed 'cultural commentator'---the reminiscing critic. I was thinking of mass media and not the stage. I wouldn't have thought of "Beyond the Fringe" anyway.
Qualifies? I earnestly wish I could say. I've heard of the run only in reference to Dudley Moore's 'early years' unfortunately. I've never seen any of the material staged or read the scripts. If you can point me in the right direction . . .
I've read that Peter Cook was offered a television series based on the plays by Ed Sullivan which fell apart due to, according to Cook, the medium's "restrictive nature".
Intellectual as allusive to literature, art, philosophy, etc. is surprising in comedy on the television. MP wouldn't be so enduring if it had become common practice.
A good fraction of the FC shows could not have been filmed in studio. Did they project these segments during the performance? I can't think that would work for some scripts I remember.
I think its funny. "Why" is a philosophical question. (I've often thought there deserved a fourth 'division' of philosophy---epistemology, metaphysics, ethics, and comedy/drollery.) I answer with this: I can hardly remember truly laughing in response to comedic writing for a sitcom, serial troop, stand-up act, or for many film comedies. I've laughed so enthusiastically at the work of Monty Python that it's bordered on vomiting.
Monty Python has often been credited as the first popular media 'intellectual comedy'. They dared to be actually critical in uncompromising satire that might matter to an audience television programming at the time would not risk flattering. Some of their work in the Flying Circus, such as the "Epilogue: A Question of Belief" where a humanist theological philosopher (atheist) and a Catholic bishop elect to take the evenings debate into the wrestling ring, have been routinely censored in re-broadcast in the United States. (Ironic: the humanist body slams the hellfire out of the vicar immediately and without pause. The show is quickly cut out ie. censored in the skit itself. The announcer later lies about the outcome in a voice-over during the credits.)
I don't believe in rights-of-passage or geekdom. I noticed only recently my father, an old attorney, has the complete video library bootlegged when not commercially available, and the two script compendiums. He doesn't own even a CD player. My job in the computer industry is incidental.
I knew they were filmed in large part before an audience (when the form/content could be shot on a sound stage) but had assumed, as with sitcoms today, that the laughs were dubbed in and not that the audience was picked up with directional mics.
and a day off. Go to your local video store (if in the US, UK, or Australia). You now have a reason to look forward;)
And now for something completely digital . . .
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Monty Python Turns 30
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Note: the Flying Circus DVDs are now shipping. I received the first thirteen episodes last week. You can get them at pythonline (now showing the 'It Worked! The Apache Web Server is Now Installed on this Web Site!' message. Patience and good for them!) or DVD Express. I was hoping for the ability to disable the laugh track (exept when part of the sketch). Small disappointment though.
One worthy question that didn't make the cut was very interesting. Would you consider selling a annual subscription to a searchable database of all (or a topic subset of) O'Reilly texts?
Could third-party support organizations such as Linuxcare serve as resellers? The idea of having Fatbrain, as you might have suggested, offer something like Microsoft's TechNet subscription plan for *nix technologies is appealing to me. In fact, I'll promise my subscription to you if it's less than $500 per year.
So we're talking about a cgi error on a Solaris box whereby *yawn* the password is not tested in the array? And so, another *YAWN (excuse me)* opportunity to seize Microsoft's tradmark duplicity . . .
Jabber declaims: Ve-a knoo better. Boot dues unyune ilse? Soore-a, zee techneecelly meended peuple in zee vurld reeleeze-a thet thees is PR, und thet M$ is chuck fooll oo'hules. Veet mecru furooses, Beck Ooreeffice-a, hutmeeel, zee peeng-oo-deet und a sloo ooff oozeer issooes thet ere-a nefer qooeete-a 'resulfed' in zee techneecel sense-a, zee cumpooter pruffesseeunels und un increeseeng noomber ooff knooledgeeble users ere mure-a und mure-a syeeng evey frum M$. Zee sooccess ooff Leenoox is a testement tu thet. Boot zee fest mejureety ooff zee cumpooter users oooot zeere-a, zee oones thet theenk Meecrusufft is zee oonly sufftvere cumpuny oooot zeere, zee oones thet soobscreebe-a tu Meecrusufft Internet und doonlued a noo ferseeun ooff zee Internet iferydey, und fex by huldeeng zee peper beffure zee muneetur *Bork Bork Bork*, und cumpleeen vhee zeeur coop hulder breeks... Zeey're-a zee oones vhu pey guud muney intu M$ cuffers, und foond zee bloot-fest und PR cempeega. M$ mede zee PC eccesseeble tu furtooelly iferyune, und noo preys oon zee ignurunce ooff zee eferebe-a user. Vhet's needed is un oorguneezed iffffurt et idooceteeng zee mum-n-pup cumpooter user. Vhet's needed is a vey tu tell zee troot, becoose-a M$ feels tu du su.
I'd like a guilty/not-guilty radio button at least. NG selection triggers an e-mail for virtual or live court appearance. Alternately, you should be able to elect to send evidence and arguments by smarmy power-point presentation or simply give the judge an URL and password for defense materials.
There's one for developers given the profitability of specialized prison control systems and the like.
I've been running 2 and 3 power segment redundant power supplies on 4 server farms for the last few years and had one fail for the first time only recently.
A nice non-tech fellow from accounting was interested in checking out our premise equipment---just out of curiosity. Toward the end of the tour, he tripped on a slim fiber bundle behind a relay rack after answering his cell phone. In his other hand was a tall 20+ ounce styrofoam cup filled with tea. Of course, it's contents hit the rear of a Dell PowerEdge 6300 (running Oracle and all of great importance) alarming two units in the triple-redundant power supply. The server ran on the third. The other two were destroyed but later replaced hot. Slide in the new and press a button.
Much of what I think is possible with TECH CORPS remains to be seen in many regions. Note, with not from TECH CORPS. As I understand it, regional members need to find the applications. Then they submit a proposal and get the equipment, money, counsel, and support from volunteer executives (the slick, winning, exponent types).
An advocacy organization such as this may be just what he/she is looking for with practical benefits dealing exactly with those questions he/she hinted at such as understanding the legal framework of philanthropy and public schools.;) How to deal with objections to what some will see as an open media channel. How to re-focus the bureaucrat who will not see beyond liabilities toward the necessity of perpetuating technology savvy etc. These are not trivial problems. They've probably done the legwork . . . lawyers and all.
My advice to Paranoid Diatribe is to take what is offered expressly for someone with such a heart. Take it and run with it. Realize the hope of those who have worked to form a national organization in order to fill in the fusty details and enable your charity. Corny? Finish one project then decide.
Many posters here feel disenfranchised and unappreciated afterward. Understandable. So what. Try it anyway.
(Contact me, even, if you like. Layne Hansen [lhansen@jensenprecast.com]---an IT exec in Nevada)
There is a chartered and operational TECH CORPS chapter in Salt Lake; contact Ginny Gale[ggale@media.utah.edu] or Dory Jensen[djensen@techcorps.org], national Director of State Organization.
TECH CORPS a national non-profit organization, funded through corporate contributions, and implemented through state chapters. Their purpose is to marshal the talents of volunteer IT professionals to benefit public schools. They will have some real answers to your questions earned through experience in dealing with school districts nationwide and coordinating volunteer systems implementation/integration projects. Visit techcorps.org for more information.
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After being gifted all the benefits and the same peace-of-mind enjoyed by so many of us relying on Linux, will you consider recommending Richard Stallman et al as a Knight of the British Empire?
I cannnot think of a finer moment than watching steaming video of a naked sword reflecting the sallow yet awesome visage of Stallman from each shoulder.
(There are so very few formal honors for the fewer intrepid and truly distinguished software engineers.)
I went through the same process recently, looking at everything I could find to move from UBB. Whatever I tried came up short on performance or features except O'Reilly software's WebBoard.
.ZIP digests, and NNTP support. Administration is web-based and well implemented.
I know this package is outside your existing platform, but I've found it reliable and extremely resilient under a heavy load (1000 posts with binary attachments per day). It's also ready to go out-of-the-box and scriptable. Customization is as easy as HTML.
It comes with real-time paging, a variety of chat features, SMTP notification with listservs and
Drawback is the cost: about $1000 for the software plus an NT box. You don't need to fool with IIS as it runs best with the included web server.
The first issue, whether FamilyPC conconcted they story, can be solved by producing "Tricia". Tricia presumably has her receipt and the game although not the expansion pack as claimed. It's fair to assume she bought the Half-Life: Game of the Year edition and the game title was an editorial misfire. Cash or not, the receipt will tell.
.plan update all the way through to a second thought. This has nothing to do with Sierra, Valve, or Gearbox; the OpFor pack will be M-rated. CompUSA is responsible but, even so, hasn't broken a law as there isn't a penal enforcement component to the industry agreement. It's a kind of good-faith compromise.
Regardless, I think Mr. Pitchford did have a mental lapse and should have taken his reservations at the top of the
That's the point of the FamilyPC sidebar: legislation with teeth. An argument for media content enforcement indistinguishable from, say, tobacco laws. Why play into it, Randy? Why hold yourself as evidence for your opposition?
Today on the Windows 2000 Professional front/contents page there's this link and byline:
Oops. Gartner's Migration Model Flawed
Market Bulletin: We think our friends at the Gartner Group used a flawed model for a recent prediction about migration costs to Windows 2000. Here's why.
This is the same bogus big-developer-to-big-IT-clearinghouse dialectic; I've also noticed this last year.
This is a problem. Philo, born about 25 B.C., was a progressive theologian and an ardent apologist. He was not an Egyptian (though his nephew became the apostate Tiberius Alexander, Prefect of Egypt) but was a very respected memeber of the Jewish colony of Alexandria. His many hegiras to Jerusalem are recorded both from Alexandria and from procurators records in Jerusalem.
The Jews believe he was in or around Jerusalem throughout the period of these New Testament events. His lack of knowledge of Jesus has been considered glaring evidence against the existence of a great phophet in the region (and not just by Jewish scholars). He is referenced often when the complete lack of historical evidence beyond the New Testament is noticed.
Photius, chief among Christian scholars refuting Philo's whereabouts, notes the problem and concludes this most eager theologian could not have missed the slightest rumor of a Prophet. He concludes, therefore, that Philo was never there or was dead! before being critical of the Gosphels. Philo never made a pilgrimage to the Holy City? Impossible.
(Philo was certainly in his prime at the time of Jesus's prediliction and most prolific in the years afterward. In 39AD, he made the trip to Rome to protest Roman graven images in the jewish temples. His was given audience with Caius Caligula himself.)
There are many ambivalent posts here that I empathize with. Let me try to explain why this strikes nerves.
There are two perennial sectarian subjects that seem to seek a focus at any opportunity: the exalted status of faith and the old ideological 'fight for the children'.
If you listen long to Christian media, you will sense a preoccupation with persecution. The Christian is under siege. The mass media consists of "anti-Christian bigots". Gov. Ventura is a bigot. When it is suggested that 'bigot' does not apply to ideological matters, that pure assertions should be taken on their own merit---that faith must merit respect and not be guaranteed the dispensation of respect---a peculiar sort of cult insanity is exposed. The burden of proof lies completely on the believer and not on the unbeliever or the disbeliever? The Romans used a stake for crucifixion---at no time anywhere did they employ a crossbeam? The great historian Philo-Judaeus, born before Jesus and living long after the time of his reputed death, lived in Jerusalem during Christ's miraculous birth and the Herodian massacre? He was there for Christ's supposed grand entry into Jerusalem and for the crucifixion with attendant earthquake, magic darkness, and resurrection with the many witnesses to his heavenward ascent that amazed the world? And he makes no mention of Jesus or anything remotely like this story in his comprehensive history of the Jews during his life? The only other autochthonous historian, Justin of Tiberius, was a native of Galilee and in his incredibly detailed history we know how the crops did in each of these years, masses of political gossip, and have complete martial account of the land without a single mention of the savior?
This is war! Attend Christian soldiers! This "free inquiry" is conspiracy! Myth discrimination! The Focus on the Family Christian Attorney's mailing list starts chugging. The Religious Liberties Protection Act has just passed in the House. CBN calls scientists elitist "bullies" (this from the chosen people). There is now an act in the New York senate introduced by Sen. Maltese making it a crime to "ridicule religious beliefs or practices".
One prime front in that war is for the minds of the children. I attended a Catholic pre-school! I once read, "With other subjects we wait until the child has the mental maturity to grasp them. We do not start a child on analytical chemistry or solid geometry. We begin with small numbers and lesser skills in every subject---except religion. [...] other subjects wait, until the child is old enough to understand and evaluate it. But, for religion and the churches, it is literally the child or nothing; for if they fail to get the child, it is a matter of time before they get nothing."
Even if we're talking about high-schoolers, mature minds, there is a desire for no discontinuity between early Sunday school and secondary education in these ontological matters. Mention in the context of science ironically reifies the Creation as a scientific 'live option'. I remember coming around about the time I read this by Arthur Schopenhauer, "There is no absurdity so obvious that it cannot be firmly planted in the human head if you only begin to impose it before the age of five, by constantly repeating it with an air of great solemnity."
The resort to force of force when force of reason does not apply keeps its edge for all its repetition. It's the hot button for many like me. The Mediterranean societies of the time of Paul's Gospel weren't in a substantively inferior position to Enlightenment Europe; the western world seemed then poised for a scientific revolution. What came next is known as the Dark Ages: a supranational theocracy. So, unfair as it may be, I now see these ideas as arresting the development of humanity for over fifteen hundred years. Evolution is at least constructive. How much do you want to give up for a fable? Is all the allegory in history worth kissing Hank's ass?
and an article with a good exposition. Bricolage . . . fine word for this eulogy.
of Dr. Huffman doing what he loved can be found here.
/.
Dr. Huffman was another modest genius whose work doesn't fit in the hoary pigeonholes of Nobel candidates but is as ubiquitous as the DSP. It's no surprise he seems anonymous; these are the sort of stories that make me so often grateful for
Thanks David.
Make it the size of a notebook battery (with a recharging lithium ion cell) and I'll take it. Better add a locking switchblade punch-down tool. Remember 12 Angry Men?
"The client says he came at the block overhanded and down, like this. Everyone knows that's not how you use one a them Victorinox punchdowns. Down straight, but you come up from the bottom pair; snap it out and up, like that see..
The hex set, tweezers, and DIP switch pen/probe are useful. Beyond that, the rest doesn't look up to snuff. Here's what I could use when traveling:
:) or simple cable tester and a toothbrush for those 3AM-in-wiring-closet moments.
1.) Inspection mirror!
2.) Internal flashlight with short fiber optic concentrator (like those US $5 attachments for Mag lights) hinged opposite so it can be directed at the mirror.
3.) Guillotine-style wire stripper (like a cigar snip with distension tension).
4.)Ratchet crimper for RJ-11. (move it over for second crimp on RJ-45).
5.)Ratchet screwdriver with long, thin extension.
6.) Flip out RJ-11 or RJ-45 coupler and MDI-X adapter. (Use snap in modules for what you need to carry.)
7.) Maybe a basic voltmeter?
8.) Magnifier. (Great for fiber too)
9.) TP time domain reflectometer
10.) Pill holder. (hari-kiri, headaches, irregularity, gastic reflux, ulcer, anti-hair loss, stimulants, sedatives, etc.)
When I say "has often been credited" I mean by that poor sort of self-appointed 'cultural commentator'---the reminiscing critic. I was thinking of mass media and not the stage. I wouldn't have thought of "Beyond the Fringe" anyway.
Qualifies? I earnestly wish I could say. I've heard of the run only in reference to Dudley Moore's 'early years' unfortunately. I've never seen any of the material staged or read the scripts. If you can point me in the right direction . . .
I've read that Peter Cook was offered a television series based on the plays by Ed Sullivan which fell apart due to, according to Cook, the medium's "restrictive nature".
Intellectual as allusive to literature, art, philosophy, etc. is surprising in comedy on the television. MP wouldn't be so enduring if it had become common practice.
A good fraction of the FC shows could not have been filmed in studio. Did they project these segments during the performance? I can't think that would work for some scripts I remember.
I think its funny. "Why" is a philosophical question. (I've often thought there deserved a fourth 'division' of philosophy---epistemology, metaphysics, ethics, and comedy/drollery.) I answer with this: I can hardly remember truly laughing in response to comedic writing for a sitcom, serial troop, stand-up act, or for many film comedies. I've laughed so enthusiastically at the work of Monty Python that it's bordered on vomiting.
Monty Python has often been credited as the first popular media 'intellectual comedy'. They dared to be actually critical in uncompromising satire that might matter to an audience television programming at the time would not risk flattering. Some of their work in the Flying Circus, such as the "Epilogue: A Question of Belief" where a humanist theological philosopher (atheist) and a Catholic bishop elect to take the evenings debate into the wrestling ring, have been routinely censored in re-broadcast in the United States. (Ironic: the humanist body slams the hellfire out of the vicar immediately and without pause. The show is quickly cut out ie. censored in the skit itself. The announcer later lies about the outcome in a voice-over during the credits.)
I don't believe in rights-of-passage or geekdom. I noticed only recently my father, an old attorney, has the complete video library bootlegged when not commercially available, and the two script compendiums. He doesn't own even a CD player. My job in the computer industry is incidental.
I knew they were filmed in large part before an audience (when the form/content could be shot on a sound stage) but had assumed, as with sitcoms today, that the laughs were dubbed in and not that the audience was picked up with directional mics.
Thanks for the backround!
and a day off. Go to your local video store (if in the US, UK, or Australia). You now have a reason to look forward ;)
Note: the Flying Circus DVDs are now shipping. I received the first thirteen episodes last week. You can get them at pythonline (now showing the 'It Worked! The Apache Web Server is Now Installed on this Web Site!' message. Patience and good for them!) or DVD Express.
I was hoping for the ability to disable the laugh track (exept when part of the sketch). Small disappointment though.
One worthy question that didn't make the cut was very interesting. Would you consider selling a annual subscription to a searchable database of all (or a topic subset of) O'Reilly texts?
Could third-party support organizations such as Linuxcare serve as resellers? The idea of having Fatbrain, as you might have suggested, offer something like Microsoft's TechNet subscription plan for *nix technologies is appealing to me. In fact, I'll promise my subscription to you if it's less than $500 per year.
ftp.xfree86.org/pub/XFree86/snapshots/3.9.16/
What about the *nix, BeOs, and Mac?
Its not a question of stupidity but ubiquity. The idea is to make the source available.
So we're talking about a cgi error on a Solaris box whereby *yawn* the password is not tested in the array? And so, another *YAWN (excuse me)* opportunity to seize Microsoft's tradmark duplicity . . .
Jabber declaims:
Ve-a knoo better. Boot dues unyune ilse? Soore-a, zee techneecelly meended peuple in zee vurld reeleeze-a thet thees is PR, und thet M$ is chuck fooll oo'hules. Veet mecru furooses, Beck Ooreeffice-a, hutmeeel, zee peeng-oo-deet und a sloo ooff oozeer issooes thet ere-a nefer qooeete-a 'resulfed' in zee techneecel sense-a, zee cumpooter pruffesseeunels und un increeseeng noomber ooff knooledgeeble users ere mure-a und mure-a syeeng evey frum M$. Zee sooccess ooff Leenoox is a testement tu thet. Boot zee fest mejureety ooff zee cumpooter users oooot zeere-a, zee oones thet theenk Meecrusufft is zee oonly sufftvere cumpuny oooot zeere, zee oones thet soobscreebe-a tu Meecrusufft Internet und doonlued a noo ferseeun ooff zee Internet iferydey, und fex by huldeeng zee peper beffure zee muneetur *Bork Bork Bork*, und cumpleeen vhee zeeur coop hulder breeks... Zeey're-a zee oones vhu pey guud muney intu M$ cuffers, und foond zee bloot-fest und PR cempeega. M$ mede zee PC eccesseeble tu furtooelly iferyune, und noo preys oon zee ignurunce ooff zee eferebe-a user. Vhet's needed is un oorguneezed iffffurt et idooceteeng zee mum-n-pup cumpooter user. Vhet's needed is a vey tu tell zee troot, becoose-a M$ feels tu du su.
The first two seasons will be available in full on four DVDs, each sold separately. First two volumes are out on 9/28; three and four are due 11/16.
I'd like a guilty/not-guilty radio button at least. NG selection triggers an e-mail for virtual or live court appearance. Alternately, you should be able to elect to send evidence and arguments by smarmy power-point presentation or simply give the judge an URL and password for defense materials.
There's one for developers given the profitability of specialized prison control systems and the like.
E-just Municipal Commerce System
I've been running 2 and 3 power segment redundant power supplies on 4 server farms for the last few years and had one fail for the first time only recently.
A nice non-tech fellow from accounting was interested in checking out our premise equipment---just out of curiosity. Toward the end of the tour, he tripped on a slim fiber bundle behind a relay rack after answering his cell phone. In his other hand was a tall 20+ ounce styrofoam cup filled with tea. Of course, it's contents hit the rear of a Dell PowerEdge 6300 (running Oracle and all of great importance) alarming two units in the triple-redundant power supply. The server ran on the third. The other two were destroyed but later replaced hot. Slide in the new and press a button.
No kidding!
Much of what I think is possible with TECH CORPS remains to be seen in many regions. Note, with not from TECH CORPS. As I understand it, regional members need to find the applications. Then they submit a proposal and get the equipment, money, counsel, and support from volunteer executives (the slick, winning, exponent types).
;) How to deal with objections to what some will see as an open media channel. How to re-focus the bureaucrat who will not see beyond liabilities toward the necessity of perpetuating technology savvy etc. These are not trivial problems. They've probably done the legwork . . . lawyers and all.
An advocacy organization such as this may be just what he/she is looking for with practical benefits dealing exactly with those questions he/she hinted at such as understanding the legal framework of philanthropy and public schools.
My advice to Paranoid Diatribe is to take what is offered expressly for someone with such a heart. Take it and run with it. Realize the hope of those who have worked to form a national organization in order to fill in the fusty details and enable your charity. Corny? Finish one project then decide.
Many posters here feel disenfranchised and unappreciated afterward. Understandable. So what. Try it anyway.
(Contact me, even, if you like. Layne Hansen [lhansen@jensenprecast.com]---an IT exec in Nevada)
There is a chartered and operational TECH CORPS chapter in Salt Lake; contact Ginny Gale[ggale@media.utah.edu] or Dory Jensen[djensen@techcorps.org], national Director of State Organization.
TECH CORPS a national non-profit organization, funded through corporate contributions, and implemented through state chapters. Their purpose is to marshal the talents of volunteer IT professionals to benefit public schools. They will have some real answers to your questions earned through experience in dealing with school districts nationwide and coordinating volunteer systems implementation/integration projects. Visit techcorps.org for more information.