So, could Postgres be used to develop a Lotus Notes type application with replicated databased for e-mail, calendars, team rooms, etc?
It's not Notes, but it is gunning to be an Exchange replacement. I have been testing it to replace our Exchange 5.0 server and it seems to work rather well. A little slow yet but they are addressing speed issues. It is very nice having all my Outlook and Exchange data somewhere I trust, and that can be backed up easily, and can be accessed outside of Outlook and MAPI. Steltor CorporateTime would have worked but Oracle's trashed it.
In fact, most abuse seems to come from parents or immediate family.
As a parent, I'm not worried about strangers abusing my children. I'm worried about them taking my children, abusing them, and then abandoning their body in some cornfield or dumpster. I'd be willing to put money on the fact that "stranger danger" has absolutely nothing to do with reported abuse and everything to do with abduction.
Today, there are numerous distros available that have such excellent installers that installation is a moot topic, except for Debian, Slack and Gentoo.
I haven't a clue what you're blathering about; Slackware 9 and 9.1 detect the network and CD on install, and standard hotplug takes care of pretty much everything else on boot.
I won't stand behind any distro that plasters GNU/ in front of everything as some kind of rituatlistic sacrifice to RSM. I will also not stand behind any distro with a manditory dependency-tracking package manager unless it happens to accurately track the deps for every single piece of Linux software available to me.
Anything less than total software dependency tracking means that at one point or another, I will ultimately have two dependency managers running: the one that came with the distribution and the one in my head. And that, my friends, is worse than having no dependency management at all. Give me Slackware and if you absolutely must have dependency management, tack on something. Hell I'm sure that Swaret will do it, and it doesn't get in the way like.deb and.rpm management does.
that's for the same reason one of my clients' elevator system is powered by a 100 year old solid state system. he walked me upstairs to show it off. lots of zapping and clicking noises.
Sorry dude, that ain't solid state. I work for a solid state power electronics manufacturer. You're describing old contactor-based motion control. Solid-state is all done with SCRs or IGBTs (or depending on age, GTOs even) -- no zapping or clicking unless something is hellishly wrong.
What is interesting is that there are 1 million proved cases of child abuse (presumably, the article talks about parents) every year, but for some strange reason we rarely hear about these abusers going to jail. Nobody even seems to hate them much. But their victims, especially those who were completely fucked up as kids, and became paedophiles, are commonly hated more than murderers.
Actually no I have a lower opinion of child abusers/molesters.
I know one thing. If I ever decide that I want to fuck a 5-year old girl, I will fuck my own daughter. It seems that in the eyes of society this isn't really a serious crime ("thankfully", not everyone believes in the rational and calm responses)...
These decisions should be made by researchers and lawmakers, not by you and Bubba the Ass-Rapist. People are sentenced to particular, specific sentences. Rape is not included. If the research shows that it should be, put it in the law, don't just pretend it's not a problem with some hollow justification about how maybe it does 'em some good. Get some fucking scruples.
I agree, but at the same time unless you're been a vegetable the past few years it is common fucking knowledge that this goes on in prison. To me that is one more deterrent to the people committing these crimes in the first place.
The work has indicated that the physical development of the brain gets screwed up when a child is subjected to abuse. Once those neural pathways are set, they're pretty much unchangable.
I don't doubt it, but I also know that the human brain is capable of some amazing feats of reprogramming (severe injury, rehabilitation, etc.) -- If severe trauma can screw you one way, why not screw you enough to make you think about what you're screwed up to do in the first place?
I think we all have that little part inside of us that feels that way. However, I believe it is important to construct laws and take action based on a rational, calm response and we must all strive to keep the reactionary, violent, aggressive thoughts that eminate from the so-called "reptillian" part of our brain under control.
Totally, 100% agree. At the same time, though, I think that we've gone too far in some respects -- rational and calm is good, but I do not believe that a lot of these laws were done rationally and calmly.
First of all, even when someone is convicted of one of these crimes we never know with 100% certainty that the guy really is guilty. There have been a few rape convictions that have been overturned in recent years based on DNA testing that proved the poor shmuck who spent the last 10 years in jail getting gangraped every day was innocent all along. Do you feel sorry for that particular 'rapist'?
Yes, I would feel sorry for that particular 'rapist' -- Nothing is 100%. Wrongly jailing people is always a potential problem but it certainly does not detract my lack of feeling bad for the vast majority of people who are in prison.
As far as child molesters go, I think it's fairly well accepted at this point that many of these people were victims of child molestation themselves. The early abuse caused irreperable changes in their brain chemistry which made them more likely to commit deviant acts. Obviously, we need these freaks off the street since they can never be rehabilitated. But I'm not sure that sentencing them to a lifetime of being raped is really the right thing to do.
I dunno, I'm no doctor but I'm willing to bet that being violently raped a few times in prison would certainly help reverse some of that irreversible brain chemistry. If for nothing else I am certain that it would make some of these rapists think twice about what they're doing. Yes they have these urges but after being the victim of their own crime they very well might decide to try harder to resist the urges.
There is a reason we have the clause "unusual punishment" in our legal system. Our rehabilitation system thinks it's pretty clever by not performing the abuse themselves but turning a blind eye when prisoners do it to each other. But prison rape is something that no prisoner should have to endure, regardless of what crime they were convicted of.
I tend to agree but as I get older and see more and more bullshit babying and coddling of the convicted and worrying more about them than their victims I tend to start thinking that these people deserve some of their own medicine. While a murderer is certainly not a rapist is certainly not an arms trafficker, prison rape is brutal enough to sway people's consciences and not normally deadly.
Laptop screen energy saver. When my laptop goes into screensaver I just have a black screen. But it doesn't turn off the backlight, it just goes black. I've found no way to make this work. Not saying there isn't a way, but this is the kind of thing that drives me crazy... let alone someone who just expects everything to work.
try Option "DPMS" in your card specification in/etc/X11/XF86Config. Worked for me.
The beef in McD's in Canada is from Canada though, thankyouverymuch... We only have ONE case of BSE and it seems it came from an American cow anyway.:-)
Isn't Olestra the stuff that claims "anal seepage" as a side effect? I think I'll take my chances with the runs...
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What exactly is wrong with using wireless and nly allowing VPN connections to do anything? Preferably with something like X509 certificates and good strong crypto? Yeah they can find your link but they can't do anything with it.:-)
Perhaps for the very first IDE drives... Nowadays you just tell the ATA controller the same thing you tell the SCSI controller. There's no "waiting for the sector to appear under the heads" -- at least not on the level you're proposing there is.
That's not even talking about multiple sectors per interrupt, (U)DMA and so on and so forth... I mean jeez if you're gonna compare these technologies at least stick to the same decade.
LFS does NOT put the compiler on the final image unless you want it there. I make CF-booting LFS firewalls and can fit the kenrel, iptables, iproute2, IPSec with NAT-T and X.509 support, PERL (yes PERL) and other goodies on a 16M CF disk.
What are some of the 911 workarounds?? I am currently in the process of purchasing a voice PRI and reselling it ot a number of businesses in town and this is one of my concerns. I was thinking maybe being able to set CID on outgoing and registering the various DIDs with the proper addresses but I'm not sure how well it works.
In my case, anyway, all the termination points are unmoving so I might be able to get away with 911 by setting the CID on outgoing. Hopefully, anyway.:-)
Maybe it's just wishful thinking on my part, but didn't the Gravis UltraSound (Max) eat into this market as well? I know it sure as hell blew the doors off of the SBPro/16 and did honest wavetable synthesis before it was the norm.
Each vendor has their own proprietary encryption format (for the content) and will only work with QPSK and QAM headend equipment that they manufacture.
I thought that's what the CAM was for? I am probably being overly naive about the whole procedure but I had throught that the system provided the CAM with the questions, the CAM responded with the answers (typical ZK tests) and if the answer was correct the signal came through. I know that the CAMs are relatively low-speed devices (if you pull the CAM out of your receiver you get a few seconds of video before it konks out) so they're not acutally decrypting the stream... but jeez... You'd figure they'd have learned by now. Ugh.
No chance this thing has Nagravision capability, is there?
Preload Moz and see how it rates for load time. MS "cheats" by preloading IE so it starts up really fast. KDE does the same thing with Konqueror; I have a browser window up in under 0.5s when I hit Alt-K.
I believe that the latest Mozilla really is faster than IE6 for nested tables. No scientific data but definately observed to be faster.
Finally, I really do like OO over MS office. There are some quirks to work out, but I find it generally works much better than MS Office (97, 2000 and 2003 which is a bloated piece of horse shit.)
I've seen that too -- linux software RAID (RAID1) absolutely spanked my DPT 2044UW2 RAID controller on an aging P2/233. On this P4 I'm also using software RAID since I've definately got CPU to spare and UW3 disks.
Been there, done that... My problem was TCQ of (default of) 8 with DeathStar drives... Completely ate several reiserfs partitions. I lost some stuff, but most of it was recoverable.
the only reason I'm using reiser is because it will do online resize (bigger) -- a big bonus with LVM. I might take a look at jfs or xfs though, I hear they kick some ass too.
Does anyone know if the MSN-T Or nextgen-msn-t is actually stable form jabberd yet? The latest one I tried (1.2.8pre10 I think?) segfaulted in the pthread code about every 3-8 minutes.
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Besides, two spaces after a period is for typewriters. For years now the typographic standard has been one space at the end of sentences.
I've never understood why they got rid of that; I think that two spaces afer a period looks much nicer, even on todays word processors.
So, could Postgres be used to develop a Lotus Notes type application with replicated databased for e-mail, calendars, team rooms, etc?
It's not Notes, but it is gunning to be an Exchange replacement. I have been testing it to replace our Exchange 5.0 server and it seems to work rather well. A little slow yet but they are addressing speed issues. It is very nice having all my Outlook and Exchange data somewhere I trust, and that can be backed up easily, and can be accessed outside of Outlook and MAPI. Steltor CorporateTime would have worked but Oracle's trashed it.
In fact, most abuse seems to come from parents or immediate family.
As a parent, I'm not worried about strangers abusing my children. I'm worried about them taking my children, abusing them, and then abandoning their body in some cornfield or dumpster. I'd be willing to put money on the fact that "stranger danger" has absolutely nothing to do with reported abuse and everything to do with abduction.
Today, there are numerous distros available that have such excellent installers that installation is a moot topic, except for Debian, Slack and Gentoo.
I haven't a clue what you're blathering about; Slackware 9 and 9.1 detect the network and CD on install, and standard hotplug takes care of pretty much everything else on boot.
I won't stand behind any distro that plasters GNU/ in front of everything as some kind of rituatlistic sacrifice to RSM. I will also not stand behind any distro with a manditory dependency-tracking package manager unless it happens to accurately track the deps for every single piece of Linux software available to me.
Anything less than total software dependency tracking means that at one point or another, I will ultimately have two dependency managers running: the one that came with the distribution and the one in my head. And that, my friends, is worse than having no dependency management at all. Give me Slackware and if you absolutely must have dependency management, tack on something. Hell I'm sure that Swaret will do it, and it doesn't get in the way like .deb and .rpm management does.
that's for the same reason one of my clients' elevator system is powered by a 100 year old solid state system. he walked me upstairs to show it off. lots of zapping and clicking noises.
Sorry dude, that ain't solid state. I work for a solid state power electronics manufacturer. You're describing old contactor-based motion control. Solid-state is all done with SCRs or IGBTs (or depending on age, GTOs even) -- no zapping or clicking unless something is hellishly wrong.
What is interesting is that there are 1 million proved cases of child abuse (presumably, the article talks about parents) every year, but for some strange reason we rarely hear about these abusers going to jail. Nobody even seems to hate them much. But their victims, especially those who were completely fucked up as kids, and became paedophiles, are commonly hated more than murderers.
Actually no I have a lower opinion of child abusers/molesters.
I know one thing. If I ever decide that I want to fuck a 5-year old girl, I will fuck my own daughter. It seems that in the eyes of society this isn't really a serious crime ("thankfully", not everyone believes in the rational and calm responses)...
That's pretty sick...
I don't recall saying I advocated turning a blind eye to it.
These decisions should be made by researchers and lawmakers, not by you and Bubba the Ass-Rapist. People are sentenced to particular, specific sentences. Rape is not included. If the research shows that it should be, put it in the law, don't just pretend it's not a problem with some hollow justification about how maybe it does 'em some good. Get some fucking scruples.
I agree, but at the same time unless you're been a vegetable the past few years it is common fucking knowledge that this goes on in prison. To me that is one more deterrent to the people committing these crimes in the first place.
The work has indicated that the physical development of the brain gets screwed up when a child is subjected to abuse. Once those neural pathways are set, they're pretty much unchangable.
I don't doubt it, but I also know that the human brain is capable of some amazing feats of reprogramming (severe injury, rehabilitation, etc.) -- If severe trauma can screw you one way, why not screw you enough to make you think about what you're screwed up to do in the first place?
I think we all have that little part inside of us that feels that way. However, I believe it is important to construct laws and take action based on a rational, calm response and we must all strive to keep the reactionary, violent, aggressive thoughts that eminate from the so-called "reptillian" part of our brain under control.
Totally, 100% agree. At the same time, though, I think that we've gone too far in some respects -- rational and calm is good, but I do not believe that a lot of these laws were done rationally and calmly.
First of all, even when someone is convicted of one of these crimes we never know with 100% certainty that the guy really is guilty. There have been a few rape convictions that have been overturned in recent years based on DNA testing that proved the poor shmuck who spent the last 10 years in jail getting gangraped every day was innocent all along. Do you feel sorry for that particular 'rapist'?
Yes, I would feel sorry for that particular 'rapist' -- Nothing is 100%. Wrongly jailing people is always a potential problem but it certainly does not detract my lack of feeling bad for the vast majority of people who are in prison.
As far as child molesters go, I think it's fairly well accepted at this point that many of these people were victims of child molestation themselves. The early abuse caused irreperable changes in their brain chemistry which made them more likely to commit deviant acts. Obviously, we need these freaks off the street since they can never be rehabilitated. But I'm not sure that sentencing them to a lifetime of being raped is really the right thing to do.
I dunno, I'm no doctor but I'm willing to bet that being violently raped a few times in prison would certainly help reverse some of that irreversible brain chemistry. If for nothing else I am certain that it would make some of these rapists think twice about what they're doing. Yes they have these urges but after being the victim of their own crime they very well might decide to try harder to resist the urges.
There is a reason we have the clause "unusual punishment" in our legal system. Our rehabilitation system thinks it's pretty clever by not performing the abuse themselves but turning a blind eye when prisoners do it to each other. But prison rape is something that no prisoner should have to endure, regardless of what crime they were convicted of.
I tend to agree but as I get older and see more and more bullshit babying and coddling of the convicted and worrying more about them than their victims I tend to start thinking that these people deserve some of their own medicine. While a murderer is certainly not a rapist is certainly not an arms trafficker, prison rape is brutal enough to sway people's consciences and not normally deadly.
Yes, I am an asshole.
alias uptime='/usr/bin/uptime | perl -ne "/(\d+) d/&&print 8,q(=)x\$1,D" | figlet -f small'
I don't know what figlet is but that one-liner made me chuckle. Thank you.
Laptop screen energy saver. When my laptop goes into screensaver I just have a black screen. But it doesn't turn off the backlight, it just goes black. I've found no way to make this work. Not saying there isn't a way, but this is the kind of thing that drives me crazy... let alone someone who just expects everything to work.
try Option "DPMS" in your card specification in /etc/X11/XF86Config. Worked for me.
Udder bullshit? ha ha ha ha ha ha ha...
:-)
The beef in McD's in Canada is from Canada though, thankyouverymuch... We only have ONE case of BSE and it seems it came from an American cow anyway.
Isn't Olestra the stuff that claims "anal seepage" as a side effect? I think I'll take my chances with the runs...
What exactly is wrong with using wireless and nly allowing VPN connections to do anything? Preferably with something like X509 certificates and good strong crypto? Yeah they can find your link but they can't do anything with it. :-)
Perhaps for the very first IDE drives... Nowadays you just tell the ATA controller the same thing you tell the SCSI controller. There's no "waiting for the sector to appear under the heads" -- at least not on the level you're proposing there is.
That's not even talking about multiple sectors per interrupt, (U)DMA and so on and so forth... I mean jeez if you're gonna compare these technologies at least stick to the same decade.
LFS does NOT put the compiler on the final image unless you want it there. I make CF-booting LFS firewalls and can fit the kenrel, iptables, iproute2, IPSec with NAT-T and X.509 support, PERL (yes PERL) and other goodies on a 16M CF disk.
What are some of the 911 workarounds?? I am currently in the process of purchasing a voice PRI and reselling it ot a number of businesses in town and this is one of my concerns. I was thinking maybe being able to set CID on outgoing and registering the various DIDs with the proper addresses but I'm not sure how well it works.
:-)
In my case, anyway, all the termination points are unmoving so I might be able to get away with 911 by setting the CID on outgoing. Hopefully, anyway.
Maybe it's just wishful thinking on my part, but didn't the Gravis UltraSound (Max) eat into this market as well? I know it sure as hell blew the doors off of the SBPro/16 and did honest wavetable synthesis before it was the norm.
Each vendor has their own proprietary encryption format (for the content) and will only work with QPSK and QAM headend equipment that they manufacture.
I thought that's what the CAM was for? I am probably being overly naive about the whole procedure but I had throught that the system provided the CAM with the questions, the CAM responded with the answers (typical ZK tests) and if the answer was correct the signal came through. I know that the CAMs are relatively low-speed devices (if you pull the CAM out of your receiver you get a few seconds of video before it konks out) so they're not acutally decrypting the stream ... but jeez... You'd figure they'd have learned by now. Ugh.
No chance this thing has Nagravision capability, is there?
Just a couple of data points:
Preload Moz and see how it rates for load time. MS "cheats" by preloading IE so it starts up really fast. KDE does the same thing with Konqueror; I have a browser window up in under 0.5s when I hit Alt-K.
I believe that the latest Mozilla really is faster than IE6 for nested tables. No scientific data but definately observed to be faster.
Finally, I really do like OO over MS office. There are some quirks to work out, but I find it generally works much better than MS Office (97, 2000 and 2003 which is a bloated piece of horse shit.)
I've seen that too -- linux software RAID (RAID1) absolutely spanked my DPT 2044UW2 RAID controller on an aging P2/233. On this P4 I'm also using software RAID since I've definately got CPU to spare and UW3 disks.
Been there, done that... My problem was TCQ of (default of) 8 with DeathStar drives... Completely ate several reiserfs partitions. I lost some stuff, but most of it was recoverable.
the only reason I'm using reiser is because it will do online resize (bigger) -- a big bonus with LVM. I might take a look at jfs or xfs though, I hear they kick some ass too.
Does anyone know if the MSN-T Or nextgen-msn-t is actually stable form jabberd yet? The latest one I tried (1.2.8pre10 I think?) segfaulted in the pthread code about every 3-8 minutes.