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Thanks Alex for the nice review. I'm glad you liked the book and that you find it useful. I'm also happy that you received the book in the hacker spirit that it was written.
We spent a lot of time working on the projects to get them just right for nearly every situation, so the instructions are very accurate. If you find a variation that doesn't work, be sure to submit it to us over at the website.
If you don't mind, I have two corrections to your review:
1) My last name is spelled WOLBER (as noted in a previous post). 2) (SHAMELESS PLUG) I spend the majority of my time at my business rather than the LUG:)
It's Wolber
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Some people are getting MySQL errors so here's a copy I managed to snag:
According to Nat's blog and numerous other blogs, Chema Celorio died yesterday skydiving in Mexico.
"The always enthusiastic and charming Chema Celorio died yesterday skydiving in Mexico.
For those of you not in Ximian who don't know, Chema started and ran our Mexico City office, led the Ximian Setup Tools team a few years ago, was in charge of the team that managed our contract with HP, led the Ximian Desktop for a while, was one of the creators of GNOME Love, and was recently our lead sales engineer for Europe.
Chema was one of the most loving, passionate people I have known. Being around Chema always made you want to do more and try harder. He was always questioning himself, trying to grow, taking on new challenges and never backing down.
When I went to visit our office in Mexico I stayed at Chema's house and gripped the door handle on his car till my nuckles turned white when he drove us to work. Whenever he wasn't on sales trips or skydiving he seemed to be in my office asking good hard questions and always pushing for us to do more.
Chema was easy to love, and he will be easy to miss. "
I had to read 3/4ths of that stupid letter to finally get to the point. Apparently they contend that a license, like the GPL, strips the profit motive from a work, and is inherently illegal. To justify this, it pontificates broadly on some recent court cases and the constitutional basis for copyright law.
Just because the constitution defined copyright to help protect profit motives and thus speed along innovation, that does not mean we cannot use copyright law in a different way.
I'd like to direct Darl McBride to the ninth ammendment to the constitution of the United States of America. To paraphrase, it basically means that if something hasn't been outlawed, it's legal. Or in other words, nothing is illegal until it has been outlawed. When it comes to using copyright in a different way, that means that there's no law saying that we cannot use an existing law in a way that it wasn't intended (so long as that doesn't break any existing laws).
Yeah, it's a rather weak legal point, but if that's what you're screaming, then you've probably missed my larger point. Every (weak and rambling) point that the article puts forth can be countered by hundreds of examples that prove that this new use of copyright law fits in the mold of what the founding fathers intended. Innovation is happening under this model, the masses have found a way to be involved and to contribute to OSS and the greater good is being served every step of the way. To anyone who cannot see that, I would respectfully question their motives and/or their awareness of temporal reality.
In general, everytime a technology is passed one more step up the food chain, it get obscured and lost more and more. Eventually the technology vanishes altogether. I'm not a big SuSE fan, but it sure would be a damn shame if XD were to become a merger casualty...
Just got back from the 6:00am showing of the movie and I was pretty impressed. Nothing was overdone like the big fight scene in Reloaded. There were some great twists and turns. The back channel plots were great and the end came together beautifully. It was also very academic in some respects, which probably explains why general audiences (read "unwashed masses") won't "get" it. You don't necessarily have to be glued to every word to understand what's going on, but it helps having seen the other two movies along with the Animatrix a few times. You should definitely not go into the movie expecting it to be a self contained story.
In a lot ways, I understand the bad reviews. It's a lot like where Open Source was a few years ago. It was very hard at times to get people to understand the benefits of it. I am sure that in time people will see the message of this movie and that the trilogy will be a real classic.
I talked with one of Phoenix's engineers about this at LinuxWorld. This is not the end of the world, in fact it might be a useful tool. None of the engineers support the "you must go through MS to run this computer". It's just a way for the OS to know the machine hasn't been tampered with. I'll also refer you to Linus's LKML post on allowing DRM into the kernel...
Indeed. I stopped playing video games a long time ago. The scenery and weaponry changes, but the game is pretty much the same. Run, shoot, regenerate, run shoot... lather rinse repeat... The shining exception, IMHO, has been the Sims and Warcraft type games.
So the obvious solution is a distributed RBL. Just how to do that is a whole different story. A lot of persnickity problems to work out. Looks like a lot of fun. If you're interested, drop me a line. Add my username to the domain in my URL above for my e-mail address...
Yeesh guys, go easy on these people. They bust their asses every day for us. Their GPL enforcement queue is usually about 50 cases deep. They're on the phones and on capital hill every day educating and lobbying industry groups and politicians. Say what you will about the GPL, you don't even have to like it or agree with it and perhaps you even think RMS is a narrow minded prick (for the most part RMS isn't even involved in the day to day operations at the fsf). They are making life easier for all of us.
Rather than boast about all of the work they do, they quietly work behind the scenes just so you can play Monday morning quarterback. They have one fulltime systems administrator who is *INCREDIBLY* overworked. They are doing everything they can to keep the boat together. Last year they were over $315,000 in the red. Thanks to the FSF associate program and some skillful fundraising they're back in the black.
Want to help? Go get your FSF associate membership. It's not that expensive and it goes a long way towards helping to protect your freedoms.
Incidentally, this is also old news. They had MD5 sums verified, and the servers were patched up and back online almost two full weeks ago. None of the software was trojaned.
Who am I? Just another hacker who bothered to pay for an associate membership (#1142)...
If anyone from Microsoft is reading this, take this advice to heart:
You would gain an amazing amount of respect that you desperately need if you stopped fighting Linux and made an effort to join the community. Many of my customers are chomping at the bit to dump Microsoft and go Linux on the desktop. The day is coming when that'll be possible. I've already begun the migration with the help of CrossoverOffice.
Inaction on your part is creating a vacuum in the marketplace. Someone will fill it like they always do. Unfortunately for you, this time you won't be able to use your competitive advantage to stop them.
Actually electric motors used in cars have much more torque than gas motors. The fastest acceleration from 0-60 in a four wheeled vehicle was done with an electric car. Do a google for John Whaland(sp?) for more information.
Have you considered simply downloading the updates from any redhat mirror site? I do it for free. In fact, I maintain an archive of them and use rsync on a nightly basis to keep it fresh. It's a one line script in my cron.daily directory... Each morning I look at the cron messages to determine if anything new was downloaded. If it's necessary I'll just do an "rpm -Fvh *.rpm" in my downloads directory.
I remember driving through Pennsylvania late at night about 4 years ago with my Son and girlfriend in the car. We were looking for a decent place to stay. We found this hole-in-the-wall town that had an old, but rather quaint looking, hotel called the Genetti. That morning, as I was packing up the car, I noticed the pictures of some very famous people on the wall, such as baseball legend Pete Rose as well as a few presidents IIRC. I remember thinking about what a neat place the Genetti was and that I might like to come back again some day.
It's really neat to see that the Genetti is going to be the center of attention for this town's revitalization on Sunday. If I didn't live so far away (Seattle, Washington USA) I'd probably make the trek out there to watch the fun.
The students could make a real statement simply by not defending themselves and accepting the 97.8 trillion dollar judgement. I believe that the result would get a *LOT* of press. It would go a long way towards convincing the world of what the RIAA really is (hired thugs and extortionists who only benefit the recording companies, not the artists).
-Chuck
P.S. Yo, I can take care of my own "--" sig mark. You don't need to add an extra one for me...
It doesn't get any better than this. Some really cool stuff ends up here. Pretty much every type of fitting, wiring, harness, computer, rack cage, etc etc etc etc etc ends up here. It's truly like being in a candy store. Bring your cash though, 'cause that's all they accept.
I used to have a dial-up account with Northwest Link circa 1998. They are quite possibly the rudest, most disorganized people I have ever worked with. They double billed me for the first three months of my service, and then they proceeded to bill me for 3 months of service after I cancelled my account.
I cancelled my account in mid 1999 because I got DSL. I received confirmation of this. Four months later I received a collection agency notice saying that I had not been paying my bill (on an account that I had cancelled). I responded with plenty of evidence that I had cancelled the account. The mailed response ignored any of my evidence and re-iterated the original claim. I finally called the NWLINK offices and talked to the NWLINK collections guy. I don't recall his name, but the collections guy sounded like the most crochety old man I had ever heard. I stated my case and his response was, "Pay your damn bill! We don't run a charity here!!!". It was as if he hadn't even heard a word I said, or as my father likes to say, "we were having two spearate conversations". I got the feeling that he thought I was some punk kid trying to scam NWLINK out of a few months of service.
I will never again do business with them. To those who have asked me about Internet Service Providers over the last 4 years, I have advised that they not do business with NWLINK either. I doubt I've made any impact on their bottom line, however I can assure you that the $75.00 they got out of me cost them at least ten customers. I mean really, all they had to do was treat me with a little respect regardless of who was right and who was wrong...
Bar none, the wittiest comment I have seen in the 4 years that I've been reading slashdot. Well done!
Front page editorial...
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To the extent that people read it and gain some insight into what Microsoft is actually thinking about Linux and Open Source Software, it's useful. To the extent that anyone draws a conclusion from this document like "we've got Microsoft on the run", that's just idiotic.
Hey Michael, why don't you post your editorial opinions in here with the rest of us unwashed masses. Your arrogance is quite amusing...
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Tim,
No worries, thanks for fixing it!
-Chuck
No problem. Happens all the time :)
Thanks Alex for the nice review. I'm glad you liked the book and that you find it useful. I'm also happy that you received the book in the hacker spirit that it was written.
:)
We spent a lot of time working on the projects to get them just right for nearly every situation, so the instructions are very accurate. If you find a variation that doesn't work, be sure to submit it to us over at the website.
If you don't mind, I have two corrections to your review:
1) My last name is spelled WOLBER (as noted in a previous post).
2) (SHAMELESS PLUG) I spend the majority of my time at my business rather than the LUG
My last name is spelled *WOLBER*, not *WOBLER*...
Reminds me of a quote I once read:
"Never underestimate the bandwidth of a station wagon full of magnetic tapes hurtling down the highway!" -Unknown
Some people are getting MySQL errors so here's a copy I managed to snag:
According to Nat's blog and numerous other blogs, Chema Celorio died yesterday skydiving in Mexico.
"The always enthusiastic and charming Chema Celorio died yesterday skydiving in Mexico.
For those of you not in Ximian who don't know, Chema started and ran our Mexico City office, led the Ximian Setup Tools team a few years ago, was in charge of the team that managed our contract with HP, led the Ximian Desktop for a while, was one of the creators of GNOME Love, and was recently our lead sales engineer for Europe.
Chema was one of the most loving, passionate people I have known. Being around Chema always made you want to do more and try harder. He was always questioning himself, trying to grow, taking on new challenges and never backing down.
When I went to visit our office in Mexico I stayed at Chema's house and gripped the door handle on his car till my nuckles turned white when he drove us to work. Whenever he wasn't on sales trips or skydiving he seemed to be in my office asking good hard questions and always pushing for us to do more.
Chema was easy to love, and he will be easy to miss. "
Descanse En Paz
I had to read 3/4ths of that stupid letter to finally get to the point. Apparently they contend that a license, like the GPL, strips the profit motive from a work, and is inherently illegal. To justify this, it pontificates broadly on some recent court cases and the constitutional basis for copyright law.
Just because the constitution defined copyright to help protect profit motives and thus speed along innovation, that does not mean we cannot use copyright law in a different way.
I'd like to direct Darl McBride to the ninth ammendment to the constitution of the United States of America. To paraphrase, it basically means that if something hasn't been outlawed, it's legal. Or in other words, nothing is illegal until it has been outlawed. When it comes to using copyright in a different way, that means that there's no law saying that we cannot use an existing law in a way that it wasn't intended (so long as that doesn't break any existing laws).
Yeah, it's a rather weak legal point, but if that's what you're screaming, then you've probably missed my larger point. Every (weak and rambling) point that the article puts forth can be countered by hundreds of examples that prove that this new use of copyright law fits in the mold of what the founding fathers intended. Innovation is happening under this model, the masses have found a way to be involved and to contribute to OSS and the greater good is being served every step of the way. To anyone who cannot see that, I would respectfully question their motives and/or their awareness of temporal reality.
-Chuck
In general, everytime a technology is passed one more step up the food chain, it get obscured and lost more and more. Eventually the technology vanishes altogether. I'm not a big SuSE fan, but it sure would be a damn shame if XD were to become a merger casualty...
Just got back from the 6:00am showing of the movie and I was pretty impressed. Nothing was overdone like the big fight scene in Reloaded. There were some great twists and turns. The back channel plots were great and the end came together beautifully. It was also very academic in some respects, which probably explains why general audiences (read "unwashed masses") won't "get" it. You don't necessarily have to be glued to every word to understand what's going on, but it helps having seen the other two movies along with the Animatrix a few times. You should definitely not go into the movie expecting it to be a self contained story.
In a lot ways, I understand the bad reviews. It's a lot like where Open Source was a few years ago. It was very hard at times to get people to understand the benefits of it. I am sure that in time people will see the message of this movie and that the trilogy will be a real classic.
I definitely give it two thumbs up.
Looks like it's time to rent a server in California. I could make a fortune tracking these lusers down!
I talked with one of Phoenix's engineers about this at LinuxWorld. This is not the end of the world, in fact it might be a useful tool. None of the engineers support the "you must go through MS to run this computer". It's just a way for the OS to know the machine hasn't been tampered with. I'll also refer you to Linus's LKML post on allowing DRM into the kernel...
Indeed. I stopped playing video games a long time ago. The scenery and weaponry changes, but the game is pretty much the same. Run, shoot, regenerate, run shoot... lather rinse repeat... The shining exception, IMHO, has been the Sims and Warcraft type games.
So the obvious solution is a distributed RBL. Just how to do that is a whole different story. A lot of persnickity problems to work out. Looks like a lot of fun. If you're interested, drop me a line. Add my username to the domain in my URL above for my e-mail address...
Care to explain specifics?
Yeesh guys, go easy on these people. They bust their asses every day for us. Their GPL enforcement queue is usually about 50 cases deep. They're on the phones and on capital hill every day educating and lobbying industry groups and politicians. Say what you will about the GPL, you don't even have to like it or agree with it and perhaps you even think RMS is a narrow minded prick (for the most part RMS isn't even involved in the day to day operations at the fsf). They are making life easier for all of us.
Rather than boast about all of the work they do, they quietly work behind the scenes just so you can play Monday morning quarterback. They have one fulltime systems administrator who is *INCREDIBLY* overworked. They are doing everything they can to keep the boat together. Last year they were over $315,000 in the red. Thanks to the FSF associate program and some skillful fundraising they're back in the black.
Want to help? Go get your FSF associate membership. It's not that expensive and it goes a long way towards helping to protect your freedoms.
Incidentally, this is also old news. They had MD5 sums verified, and the servers were patched up and back online almost two full weeks ago. None of the software was trojaned.
Who am I? Just another hacker who bothered to pay for an associate membership (#1142)...
If anyone from Microsoft is reading this, take this advice to heart:
You would gain an amazing amount of respect that you desperately need if you stopped fighting Linux and made an effort to join the community. Many of my customers are chomping at the bit to dump Microsoft and go Linux on the desktop. The day is coming when that'll be possible. I've already begun the migration with the help of CrossoverOffice.
Inaction on your part is creating a vacuum in the marketplace. Someone will fill it like they always do. Unfortunately for you, this time you won't be able to use your competitive advantage to stop them.
Actually electric motors used in cars have much more torque than gas motors. The fastest acceleration from 0-60 in a four wheeled vehicle was done with an electric car. Do a google for John Whaland(sp?) for more information.
Have you considered simply downloading the updates from any redhat mirror site? I do it for free. In fact, I maintain an archive of them and use rsync on a nightly basis to keep it fresh. It's a one line script in my cron.daily directory... Each morning I look at the cron messages to determine if anything new was downloaded. If it's necessary I'll just do an "rpm -Fvh *.rpm" in my downloads directory.
and even if I did, the TiVo solution doesn't work with DirecTV units (for now, anyway).
Gee, that's news to me. I guess I'll have to tell my TiVo and DirecTV unit (that have been cooperating nicely for over a year now) to stop working...
I remember driving through Pennsylvania late at night about 4 years ago with my Son and girlfriend in the car. We were looking for a decent place to stay. We found this hole-in-the-wall town that had an old, but rather quaint looking, hotel called the Genetti. That morning, as I was packing up the car, I noticed the pictures of some very famous people on the wall, such as baseball legend Pete Rose as well as a few presidents IIRC. I remember thinking about what a neat place the Genetti was and that I might like to come back again some day.
It's really neat to see that the Genetti is going to be the center of attention for this town's revitalization on Sunday. If I didn't live so far away (Seattle, Washington USA) I'd probably make the trek out there to watch the fun.
The students could make a real statement simply by not defending themselves and accepting the 97.8 trillion dollar judgement. I believe that the result would get a *LOT* of press. It would go a long way towards convincing the world of what the RIAA really is (hired thugs and extortionists who only benefit the recording companies, not the artists).
-Chuck
P.S. Yo, I can take care of my own "--" sig mark. You don't need to add an extra one for me...
It doesn't get any better than this. Some really cool stuff ends up here. Pretty much every type of fitting, wiring, harness, computer, rack cage, etc etc etc etc etc ends up here. It's truly like being in a candy store. Bring your cash though, 'cause that's all they accept.
I used to have a dial-up account with Northwest Link circa 1998. They are quite possibly the rudest, most disorganized people I have ever worked with. They double billed me for the first three months of my service, and then they proceeded to bill me for 3 months of service after I cancelled my account.
I cancelled my account in mid 1999 because I got DSL. I received confirmation of this. Four months later I received a collection agency notice saying that I had not been paying my bill (on an account that I had cancelled). I responded with plenty of evidence that I had cancelled the account. The mailed response ignored any of my evidence and re-iterated the original claim. I finally called the NWLINK offices and talked to the NWLINK collections guy. I don't recall his name, but the collections guy sounded like the most crochety old man I had ever heard. I stated my case and his response was, "Pay your damn bill! We don't run a charity here!!!". It was as if he hadn't even heard a word I said, or as my father likes to say, "we were having two spearate conversations". I got the feeling that he thought I was some punk kid trying to scam NWLINK out of a few months of service.
I will never again do business with them. To those who have asked me about Internet Service Providers over the last 4 years, I have advised that they not do business with NWLINK either. I doubt I've made any impact on their bottom line, however I can assure you that the $75.00 they got out of me cost them at least ten customers. I mean really, all they had to do was treat me with a little respect regardless of who was right and who was wrong...
Bar none, the wittiest comment I have seen in the 4 years that I've been reading slashdot. Well done!
-1 TROLL
To the extent that people read it and gain some insight into what Microsoft is actually thinking about Linux and Open Source Software, it's useful. To the extent that anyone draws a conclusion from this document like "we've got Microsoft on the run", that's just idiotic.
Hey Michael, why don't you post your editorial opinions in here with the rest of us unwashed masses. Your arrogance is quite amusing...