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How exactly will the hundreds of people living underground in Philadelphia and New York gain access to the 'net? If you don't understand what I'm saying, go to Suburban Station (sub-urban, get it? most people don't) under Center City Philly and keep looking for holes and grimy stairways leading downwards. You may have to walk a ways out along the rail tunnels if there has been a clean-up recently. True, you may become a protein resource, but you'll get an education... I've never had the balls to go very deep, but there are at least six levels down there. And not very many TVs... --Charlie
I've got a ten-node network in my basement that I built out of discarded Pentiums I picked up for free in various places. I recently have been offered a free satellite dish (one of the older, large TV dishes) with a motorized positioner and associated electronics. I'm considering converting the network into a beowulf and seeing if I can descramble satellite traffic, without having any idea of what's up there, where to point the dish, or any prior experience with DSP. Do you think it's doable? (Ignoring for the moment my own idiocy in attempting such a thing - assume I'm Einstein on smart pills for the sake of the question:^) --Charlie
Of course, nobody in their right mind depends on a graphical installer for linux - they restrict the hardware too much. Linux is supposed to have broad hardware compatibility, and these graphical installers a la Caldera's piece of shit break that concept. Type the word "text" at the first prompt of the Red Hat install and get the good ol' curses version, which runs on anything including ttl monitors. Set up X later if you've got the hardware to support it (many of my systems do not, and don't need X to run DNS for example). --Charlie
Good god, yes, don't you guys know the simplest rules of internetting? DON'T ALLOW PACKETS WITH LOOPBACK OR RFC1918 ADDRESSING TO PROPAGATE FREELY - kill them at the gate - DON'T ALLOW PACKETS WITH SOURCE ADDRESSES OUTSIDE YOUR NETWORK TO PROPAGATE FREELY - only take them incoming, not outgoing - DON'T ALLOW PACKETS WITH DESTINATION ADDRESSES OUTSIDE YOUR NETWORK TO PROPAGATE FREELY - only outgoing, not incoming. This is trivial to implement in any Cisco router (without recourse to dedicated firewalls) and should be part of the basic ruleset for your firewall in case the router is compromised. If all non-backbone ISP networks were required to follow these rules we wouldn't have a DOS problem, because it'd be easy to trace the perpetrators and they'd move on to tearing the wings off flies, or some other similar pursuit. --Charlie
I do and do and do for these kids, and this is the thanks I get.
Everyone's always talking about what hosers the guys at NSI are. Yet, I'm old enough to have gotten several domains directly from Jon Postel, and I have never known NSI to screw anyone who wasn't actively trying to be a dick. Sure, they yank domains from cybersquatters, because otherwise it'd be impossible to control the costs of doing business on the Internet. What makes a cybersquatter less reprehensible than a company that is just trying to serve the needs of the majority of their customers? NSI has made a couple of big mistakes, and they've been crippled by Jon's death. But they are not the evil moneygrubbers the propaganda makes them out to be. In fact, for years they didn't even charge for domains despite having the legal right to do so. What exactly are the motivations of the people who insist that they are evil? I don't see the AlterNIC guys in the headlines too often anymore... are they mad that nobody paid any attention to them, or something? They had good ideas but poor public relations, it seems to me. --Charlie
Are you kidding? MS has repeatedly sabotaged Novell by releasing such gems as the Microsoft IPX transport in NT 3.51 - which wreaked HAVOC on Novell nets. Novell spends literally millions of dollars reverse engineering the Windows networking APIs so that they can ship drivers for MS Windows. The losers in the game are people running alternative OSes like MacOS, BeOS, OS/2, etc., because Novell is forced to spend the majority of their efforts on countering the new problems engendered by every MS windows version and/or patch. Microsoft claims they don't/purposely/ sabotage Novell, it's just that those silly IPX, SPX, and now NCP over IP networking stacks are so damned inferior to that wonderful LANMAN/NetBIOS networking gag kack arf (I'm choking on my own irony here guys - or maybe that's bile). --Charlie I am the Borax, and I can flux welds.
The Samba team likes Linus, is all in favor of Linux, but they PRE-DATE the linux community and are compatible with many other systems. Although I cannot officially speak for them. In fact, there was briefly a Samba for Netware downloadable from Netware.com - for people wanting to convert from NT to Novell - but it has been removed it from their site because people were using it to convert from Novell to Linux/Samba! LDAP with a NDS back end is becoming the industry standard these days - all its competitors are in fact imitators - but there's no reason the linux community couldn't make an LDAP/mySQL bastard that would serve the same purpose without the annoying per-seat licensing costs. Bob Hart stated (at Brainshare in Utah) that Red Hat would be very interested in funding development of open-source directory software, preferably with broad compatibility via LDAP. Jitsu (author of Pandora's encryption logic) could probably clone NDS if sufficiently motivated/funded. Not that I speak for him or NMRC either. --Charlie I am the Lorax, and I speak for the trees.
Riflip mapping is a joke anyway - it's like claiming you've mapped the ocean because you know where all the islands are at high tide. Damn, cap'n, ran aground AGAIN! --Charlie
[snip,snip] Feb 29 04:04:33 GASBAG kernel: Swansea University Computer Society NET3.035 for Linux 2.0 Feb 29 04:04:33 GASBAG kernel: NET3: Unix domain sockets 0.13 for Linux NET3.035. Feb 29 04:04:33 GASBAG kernel: Swansea University Computer Society TCP/IP for NET3.034 Feb 29 04:04:33 GASBAG kernel: IP Protocols: IGMP, ICMP, UDP, TCP Feb 29 04:04:33 GASBAG kernel: Swansea University Computer Society IPX 0.34 for NET3.035 Feb 29 04:04:33 GASBAG kernel: IPX Portions Copyright (c) 1995 Caldera, Inc. Feb 29 04:04:33 GASBAG kernel: Charlie's kernel hacks installed (don't tell mom!) Feb 29 04:04:33 GASBAG kernel: VFS: Diskquotas version dquot_5.6.0 initialized [snip,snip]
Kerberos? I thought the three-headed dog that guarded the gates of Hades was called "Cerebus"?
There's no "soft C" (pronounced like S) in ancient Greek - only a "hard C" (pronounced like K). So the spelling is optional in English, choose your fave...
This is why the Boston Celtics are a laff - Greek "Keltoi" or "people of the axe" somehow ended up as "Seltiks".
Hmmm.. a "medieval plant"? There aren't too many of those, most plant genera exist for longer periods of time. The Mandrake root is a focus of superstition and mystery in European and Asian cultures from the dawn of recorded history to the present. Supposedly this is because the root looks like a human being, and in fact this may have once been true. It's occasionally true today, but all the mandrakes I've ever seen had more than two legs. On the other claw, the crabs in Shimonseki strait all seem to have the faces of drowned Samurai on their backs - because the ones that don't have such markings are eaten by the local fisherfolk. Perhaps most mandrakes were once bifurcate, and human gathering practices have selected away from any strong resemblance to a human profile. I dunno.
Now, the real definition of Mandrake, for linux geeks - Mandrake is a shortish, grizzled oldtimer with a slight accent (when speaking English) a pleasant manner, and a high degree of technical expertise. He puts out the GNU/Linux Mandrake distribution, which was originally based on Red Hat but has diverged recently due to the incredible number of advances made in the Open Source software community - Red Hat and Mandrake have differing ideas (hooray for that!) about what should be in their distributions, and we the consumers of pre-packaged GNU/Linux are the winners in that we have two choices for high quality distros.
Go learn to use a search engine, and you can find out a lot more about mandrake roots, linux distributions, and related topics. Start at Dogpile, which is a meta-search engine, and that will provide you with links both to your topics of research and other search engines.
--Charlie We were all newbies once. Except me, of course. I was born with a silicon chip up my nose.
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NASA HST crew partez this weekend, and I managed to luck into an invite! Hoo-AH! Now to figure out how to get around the tie-or-tux "black-tie optional" requirement... maybe I can dust off that old Universal Life Church Ministries' certificate and dummy up a clerical collar...
-Charlie
You have to wonder why the original post was moderated to "funny". The slaughter perpetrated in the name of redemption is amusing to someone? I guess they haven't lost any close friends or family members yet. Irony isn't neccessarily humorous. But of course irony is an unknown dimension to most Americans, we're too used to hearing the word misused every night on network jellovision.
And I can statistically prove that smoking is good for you - after all, the vast majority of dead people did not smoke. Think about it .
BUT, I've never hurt anyone or committed a crime with a gun. If you want to take away a gun from me, you are a control freak who cannot let anyone else exhibit individuality. My 30+ years of not intentionally harming anyone contrasts sharply with the gun control maniacs who want to seize or destroy the property of people (e.g. me) who have never done them any harm. From where I'm sitting, it's that simple. Anyone who wishes to steal or destroy the property of other people who HAVE DONE NO HARM in the name of PREVENTING HARM is a thief at heart.
Let's all fight a war for peace! --Charlie
Love Me, I'm a Liberal
By Phil Ochs
I cried when they shot Medgar Evers Tears ran down my spine I cried when they shot Mr. Kennedy As though I'd lost a father of mine But Malcolm X got what was coming He got what he asked for this time So love me, love me, love me, I'm a liberal
I go to civil rights rallies And I put down the old D.A.R. I love Harry and Sidney and Sammy I hope every colored boy becomes a star But don't talk about revolution That's going a little bit too far So love me, love me, love me, I'm a liberal
I cheered when Humphrey was chosen My faith in the system restored I'm glad the commies were thrown out of the A.F.L. C.I.O. board I love Puerto Ricans and Negros as long as they don't move next door So love me, love me, love me, I'm a liberal
The people of old Mississippi Should all hang their heads in shame I can't understand how their minds work What's the matter don't they watch Les Crain? But if you ask me to bus my children I hope the cops take down your name So love me, love me, love me, I'm a liberal
I read New republic and Nation I've learned to take every view You know, I've memorized Lerner and Golden I feel like I'm almost a Jew But when it comes to times like korea There's no one more red, white and blue So love me, love me, love me, I'm a liberal
I vote for the democtratic party They want the U.N. to be strong I go to all the Pete Seeger concerts He sure gets me singing those songs I'll send all the money you ask for But don't ask me to come on along So love me, love me, love me, I'm a liberal
Once I was young and impulsive I wore every conceivable pin Even went to the socialist meetings Learned all the old union hymns But I've grown older and wiser And that's why I'm turning you in So love me, love me, love me, I'm a liberal
Good luck trying to read it. Seems like an incredible number of people are interested in high-performance video on linux. Are you listening, video card makers? --Charlie
And, of course, Windows 2000 will include real-time disk defragging purchased from Diskeeper, which is one of the many Scientologist "front" organizations that contribute their earnings directly back to the mother cult.
Novell is heavily, though only quasi-officially, involved with the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints - but the Mormons, unlike the Scientologists, are not considered to be dangerous criminal organizations by several nations.
Do a search at your favorite engine for "dianetics+scientology+criminal". On Alta Vista, you'll get 114 web pages devoted to slamming Scientology and their practices. Look for German language sites and you'll probably find even more!
"Social Responsibility" implies not supporting terrorists or exclusionist religions, in my book.
--Charlie "I think I should GAIN karma for baiting Xians"
Hmmm.... the Pinkertons could have a WORSE name when they are already identified with the hanging of Black Jack Kehoe, and numerous murders and beatings of unionizers and striking workmen? It's not like they had any real evidence on Kehoe (and it's hard not to sympathize with the Mollies when Irish immigrants were being starved, beaten and worked to death in the mines so that fat-cat mine owners could increase their already obscene wealth). And what about the Pinkertons' mowing down steelworkers with Gatling guns during the Carnegie era? I am continually astounded by slashdotters' ignorance of basic history. I mean, this is RECENT history, dudes, not like the stuff I normally dredge up! --Charlie
>He who controls the past controls the future. He who controls the present controls the past. - George Orwell, "1984", 1948
You might want to check the attribution on your.sig - I think some guy named "ChickPea" (or maybe "Garbonzo") made this remark in the Roman Senate long before Orwell was born.
--Charlie
PS- Do people who read too much get turned in to WAVE too? --CTB
I don't think anyone underestimates the tremendous value of the work the Samba team has done, particularly Tridge & Jeremy. I personally am very grateful for the Email help you guys have given me with implementation.
However, as Samba (and the Samba team) has grown, the software has become more difficult to obtain and install. As a specific example; if I want/need TNG, I can't download a package from my linux distributor of choice and.rpm it in; I have to do a CVS load, which is not just more difficult, I think it would be quite intimidating for system managers who haven't ever coded in a CVS environment. Furthermore, HPUX users (who are essentially already burning in hell, because they have to use HPUX) often don't have a "real" C compiler, or CVS capabilities, so they can only get what somebody else ports - and there is no HPUX 11.00 precompile of TNG available from any reputable source that I know of. So, the question is, will this trend continue, or will the Samba team make a real release on a more definite schedule than "real soon now"? The current code split makes planning difficult.
Also, does the ongoing rancor directed toward Win95/98 support found on Samba team mailing lists indicate that there will never be adequate support for these very popular desktops?
And finally, how do you feel about HP's shameful lack of attribution in their release of Samba for HPUX? I noticed that when Blackdown got dissed by Sun everyone was up in arms, but I never saw any beefs from the Slashreaders when HP announced CIFS support without crediting you guys.
Roblimo, I hope you won't filter any of these questions out... JA can hand hardball questions, I've seen him do it.
Hmmm. At least I can type. What made you think I'm a hippie? I'm curious since I don't think of myself that way. And I wasn't referring to "Planet of the Apes" but rather to the taxpayer-funded grants that were used to teach gorillas sign language. Once the money ran out (according to unconfirmed rumors) the gorillas were reallocated to medical research. Oh my god, I actually replied to a reply to one of my posts. I must be slipping. Does anybody have any links to sites showing relative intelligence studies for pigs, dolphins, dogs, etc.? I have stuff in hardcopy only and can't find any active links to any real science. --Charlie
As some religious headcase said in an earlier post, I know I'll be flamed for this but Truth must be proclaimed.
HUMANS ARE ANIMALS. They are not vegetables or minerals. Humans gain their distinction from other forms of animal life by having (relatively) high intelligence, opposable thumbs, and language. If we are going to raise animals for spare parts, we should raise humans. For the medical implications of cross-species transplantation, particularly as it pertains to mutation of virii, see the CRT site. For the ethical implications think about the fact that a human baby is demonstrably less intelligent than an adult pig. For the moral implications think about human history. Once upon a time Victorian naturalists hunted pygmies to be stuffed and displayed in museums (similar displays can still be found at the Mütter Museum in Philadelphia - note the Mütter is not responsible for any atrocities). There was a time when dolphins were considered expendable in the name of cheap tinned tuna. There was a time when people with epicanthic folds were not considered human by "educated" Europeans - note that some of these "scientists" (such as the man who popularized the term Mongoloid for humans with Down's Syndrome) had never met an Asian person. Today we think of the racists and specists of the past as ignorant savages. Because we (most of us, that is) have met people of other colors, of other ethnic backgrounds, etc. and know them to be like us, we abhor historical cruelties and hypocrisy. Have you ever met an educated, language-using primate? Oh, I forgot, rumor has it most of them were slaughtered for medical research when the grants ran out. There still may be one or two around though. Did you know that pigs are smarter than most primates? --Charlie
Well, it's true that common sound & video system support across hardware platforms is in its' infancy on Linux (yes, I know great strides are being made, go help) BUT if Real's coders were any good it would not be a big hairy deal to compartmentalize hardware specific functions. What's annoying to me is that I couldn't download.rpms easily on my generic Win98 PC at work because the flippin' RealPlayer grabbed the extension association. I had to hack the registry to fix this, incidentally, since I couldn't modify their association in the usual fashion. I like to use the fat pipes at work to download stuff for my home linux boxen and sneakernet the.rpms home on zip disks, it's quick and easy during off-business hours. --Charlie
No. Gasoline will burn with excellent impulse (that is, propulsive volumetric increase per unit weight) when mixed with air (normal nitrogen/argon/oxygen mix your lungs use) at about a 16-to-1 ratio. A fifty-gallon drum of liquid gasoline does not usually ignite if you toss a lit cigarette into it (yes I have witnessed this) but typically the highly volatile nature of the liquid ensures that there are flamable vapors directly above the surface of the liquid - these vapors are readily ignited by any open flame. Hydrogen, on the other claw, is explosive under some conditions and flammable in pretty much any oxygen bearing atmosphere. The main problems with fuel cells are size, weight, heat, and interface contamination. --Charlie
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How exactly will the hundreds of people living underground in Philadelphia and New York gain access to the 'net?
If you don't understand what I'm saying, go to Suburban Station (sub-urban, get it? most people don't) under Center City Philly and keep looking for holes and grimy stairways leading downwards. You may have to walk a ways out along the rail tunnels if there has been a clean-up recently. True, you may become a protein resource, but you'll get an education... I've never had the balls to go very deep, but there are at least six levels down there. And not very many TVs...
--Charlie
I've got a ten-node network in my basement that I built out of discarded Pentiums I picked up for free in various places. I recently have been offered a free satellite dish (one of the older, large TV dishes) with a motorized positioner and associated electronics. :^)
I'm considering converting the network into a beowulf and seeing if I can descramble satellite traffic, without having any idea of what's up there, where to point the dish, or any prior experience with DSP. Do you think it's doable? (Ignoring for the moment my own idiocy in attempting such a thing - assume I'm Einstein on smart pills for the sake of the question
--Charlie
I have one word for you. NORIEGA.
--Charlie
Of course, nobody in their right mind depends on a graphical installer for linux - they restrict the hardware too much. Linux is supposed to have broad hardware compatibility, and these graphical installers a la Caldera's piece of shit break that concept.
Type the word "text" at the first prompt of the Red Hat install and get the good ol' curses version, which runs on anything including ttl monitors. Set up X later if you've got the hardware to support it (many of my systems do not, and don't need X to run DNS for example).
--Charlie
Good god, yes, don't you guys know the simplest rules of internetting? DON'T ALLOW PACKETS WITH LOOPBACK OR RFC1918 ADDRESSING TO PROPAGATE FREELY - kill them at the gate - DON'T ALLOW PACKETS WITH SOURCE ADDRESSES OUTSIDE YOUR NETWORK TO PROPAGATE FREELY - only take them incoming, not outgoing - DON'T ALLOW PACKETS WITH DESTINATION ADDRESSES OUTSIDE YOUR NETWORK TO PROPAGATE FREELY - only outgoing, not incoming.
This is trivial to implement in any Cisco router (without recourse to dedicated firewalls) and should be part of the basic ruleset for your firewall in case the router is compromised.
If all non-backbone ISP networks were required to follow these rules we wouldn't have a DOS problem, because it'd be easy to trace the perpetrators and they'd move on to tearing the wings off flies, or some other similar pursuit.
--Charlie
I do and do and do for these kids, and this is the thanks I get.
Everyone's always talking about what hosers the guys at NSI are. Yet, I'm old enough to have gotten several domains directly from Jon Postel, and I have never known NSI to screw anyone who wasn't actively trying to be a dick.
Sure, they yank domains from cybersquatters, because otherwise it'd be impossible to control the costs of doing business on the Internet. What makes a cybersquatter less reprehensible than a company that is just trying to serve the needs of the majority of their customers?
NSI has made a couple of big mistakes, and they've been crippled by Jon's death. But they are not the evil moneygrubbers the propaganda makes them out to be. In fact, for years they didn't even charge for domains despite having the legal right to do so.
What exactly are the motivations of the people who insist that they are evil? I don't see the AlterNIC guys in the headlines too often anymore... are they mad that nobody paid any attention to them, or something? They had good ideas but poor public relations, it seems to me.
--Charlie
Are you kidding? MS has repeatedly sabotaged Novell by releasing such gems as the Microsoft IPX transport in NT 3.51 - which wreaked HAVOC on Novell nets. Novell spends literally millions of dollars reverse engineering the Windows networking APIs so that they can ship drivers for MS Windows. The losers in the game are people running alternative OSes like MacOS, BeOS, OS/2, etc., because Novell is forced to spend the majority of their efforts on countering the new problems engendered by every MS windows version and/or patch. /purposely/ sabotage Novell, it's just that those silly IPX, SPX, and now NCP over IP networking stacks are so damned inferior to that wonderful LANMAN/NetBIOS networking gag kack arf (I'm choking on my own irony here guys - or maybe that's bile).
Microsoft claims they don't
--Charlie
I am the Borax, and I can flux welds.
The Samba team likes Linus, is all in favor of Linux, but they PRE-DATE the linux community and are compatible with many other systems. Although I cannot officially speak for them.
In fact, there was briefly a Samba for Netware downloadable from Netware.com - for people wanting to convert from NT to Novell - but it has been removed it from their site because people were using it to convert from Novell to Linux/Samba!
LDAP with a NDS back end is becoming the industry standard these days - all its competitors are in fact imitators - but there's no reason the linux community couldn't make an LDAP/mySQL bastard that would serve the same purpose without the annoying per-seat licensing costs.
Bob Hart stated (at Brainshare in Utah) that Red Hat would be very interested in funding development of open-source directory software, preferably with broad compatibility via LDAP.
Jitsu (author of Pandora's encryption logic) could probably clone NDS if sufficiently motivated/funded. Not that I speak for him or NMRC either.
--Charlie
I am the Lorax, and I speak for the trees.
Riflip mapping is a joke anyway - it's like claiming you've mapped the ocean because you know where all the islands are at high tide.
Damn, cap'n, ran aground AGAIN!
--Charlie
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Feb 29 04:04:33 GASBAG kernel: Swansea University Computer Society NET3.035 for Linux 2.0
Feb 29 04:04:33 GASBAG kernel: NET3: Unix domain sockets 0.13 for Linux NET3.035.
Feb 29 04:04:33 GASBAG kernel: Swansea University Computer Society TCP/IP for NET3.034
Feb 29 04:04:33 GASBAG kernel: IP Protocols: IGMP, ICMP, UDP, TCP
Feb 29 04:04:33 GASBAG kernel: Swansea University Computer Society IPX 0.34 for NET3.035
Feb 29 04:04:33 GASBAG kernel: IPX Portions Copyright (c) 1995 Caldera, Inc.
Feb 29 04:04:33 GASBAG kernel: Charlie's kernel hacks installed (don't tell mom!)
Feb 29 04:04:33 GASBAG kernel: VFS: Diskquotas version dquot_5.6.0 initialized
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Oh, the humanity...
--Charlie
Kerberos? I thought the three-headed dog that guarded the gates of Hades was called "Cerebus"?
There's no "soft C" (pronounced like S) in ancient Greek - only a "hard C" (pronounced like K). So the spelling is optional in English, choose your fave...
This is why the Boston Celtics are a laff - Greek "Keltoi" or "people of the axe" somehow ended up as "Seltiks".
--Charlie
Hmmm.. a "medieval plant"? There aren't too many of those, most plant genera exist for longer periods of time.
The Mandrake root is a focus of superstition and mystery in European and Asian cultures from the dawn of recorded history to the present. Supposedly this is because the root looks like a human being, and in fact this may have once been true. It's occasionally true today, but all the mandrakes I've ever seen had more than two legs. On the other claw, the crabs in Shimonseki strait all seem to have the faces of drowned Samurai on their backs - because the ones that don't have such markings are eaten by the local fisherfolk. Perhaps most mandrakes were once bifurcate, and human gathering practices have selected away from any strong resemblance to a human profile. I dunno.
Now, the real definition of Mandrake, for linux geeks - Mandrake is a shortish, grizzled oldtimer with a slight accent (when speaking English) a pleasant manner, and a high degree of technical expertise. He puts out the GNU/Linux Mandrake distribution, which was originally based on Red Hat but has diverged recently due to the incredible number of advances made in the Open Source software community - Red Hat and Mandrake have differing ideas (hooray for that!) about what should be in their distributions, and we the consumers of pre-packaged GNU/Linux are the winners in that we have two choices for high quality distros.
Go learn to use a search engine, and you can find out a lot more about mandrake roots, linux distributions, and related topics. Start at Dogpile, which is a meta-search engine, and that will provide you with links both to your topics of research and other search engines.
--Charlie
We were all newbies once. Except me, of course. I was born with a silicon chip up my nose.
NASA HST crew partez this weekend, and I managed to luck into an invite! Hoo-AH! Now to figure out how to get around the tie-or-tux "black-tie optional" requirement... maybe I can dust off that old Universal Life Church Ministries' certificate and dummy up a clerical collar...
-Charlie
You have to wonder why the original post was moderated to "funny". The slaughter perpetrated in the name of redemption is amusing to someone? I guess they haven't lost any close friends or family members yet.
Irony isn't neccessarily humorous. But of course irony is an unknown dimension to most Americans, we're too used to hearing the word misused every night on network jellovision.
And I can statistically prove that smoking is good for you - after all, the vast majority of dead people did not smoke. Think about it .
BUT, I've never hurt anyone or committed a crime with a gun. If you want to take away a gun from me, you are a control freak who cannot let anyone else exhibit individuality. My 30+ years of not intentionally harming anyone contrasts sharply with the gun control maniacs who want to seize or destroy the property of people (e.g. me) who have never done them any harm. From where I'm sitting, it's that simple. Anyone who wishes to steal or destroy the property of other people who HAVE DONE NO HARM in the name of PREVENTING HARM is a thief at heart.
Let's all fight a war for peace!
--Charlie
Love Me, I'm a Liberal
By Phil Ochs
I cried when they shot Medgar Evers
Tears ran down my spine
I cried when they shot Mr. Kennedy
As though I'd lost a father of mine
But Malcolm X got what was coming
He got what he asked for this time
So love me, love me, love me, I'm a liberal
I go to civil rights rallies
And I put down the old D.A.R.
I love Harry and Sidney and Sammy
I hope every colored boy becomes a star
But don't talk about revolution
That's going a little bit too far
So love me, love me, love me, I'm a liberal
I cheered when Humphrey was chosen
My faith in the system restored
I'm glad the commies were thrown out
of the A.F.L. C.I.O. board
I love Puerto Ricans and Negros
as long as they don't move next door
So love me, love me, love me, I'm a liberal
The people of old Mississippi
Should all hang their heads in shame
I can't understand how their minds work
What's the matter don't they watch Les Crain?
But if you ask me to bus my children
I hope the cops take down your name
So love me, love me, love me, I'm a liberal
I read New republic and Nation
I've learned to take every view
You know, I've memorized Lerner and Golden
I feel like I'm almost a Jew
But when it comes to times like korea
There's no one more red, white and blue
So love me, love me, love me, I'm a liberal
I vote for the democtratic party
They want the U.N. to be strong
I go to all the Pete Seeger concerts
He sure gets me singing those songs
I'll send all the money you ask for
But don't ask me to come on along
So love me, love me, love me, I'm a liberal
Once I was young and impulsive
I wore every conceivable pin
Even went to the socialist meetings
Learned all the old union hymns
But I've grown older and wiser
And that's why I'm turning you in
So love me, love me, love me, I'm a liberal
There are thousands of hospitals on the Internet, and they are randomly distributed throughout the .edu .com .org and (more recently) .md domains.
.MED for the medical/industrial complex!
We need
--Charlie
Good luck trying to read it. Seems like an incredible number of people are interested in high-performance video on linux.
Are you listening, video card makers?
--Charlie
And, of course, Windows 2000 will include real-time disk defragging purchased from Diskeeper, which is one of the many Scientologist "front" organizations that contribute their earnings directly back to the mother cult.
Novell is heavily, though only quasi-officially, involved with the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints - but the Mormons, unlike the Scientologists, are not considered to be dangerous criminal organizations by several nations.
Do a search at your favorite engine for "dianetics+scientology+criminal". On Alta Vista, you'll get 114 web pages devoted to slamming Scientology and their practices. Look for German language sites and you'll probably find even more!
"Social Responsibility" implies not supporting terrorists or exclusionist religions, in my book.
--Charlie
"I think I should GAIN karma for baiting Xians"
Hmmm.... the Pinkertons could have a WORSE name when they are already identified with the hanging of Black Jack Kehoe, and numerous murders and beatings of unionizers and striking workmen?
It's not like they had any real evidence on Kehoe (and it's hard not to sympathize with the Mollies when Irish immigrants were being starved, beaten and worked to death in the mines so that fat-cat mine owners could increase their already obscene wealth). And what about the Pinkertons' mowing down steelworkers with Gatling guns during the Carnegie era?
I am continually astounded by slashdotters' ignorance of basic history. I mean, this is RECENT history, dudes, not like the stuff I normally dredge up!
--Charlie
>He who controls the past controls the future. He who controls the present controls the past. - George Orwell, "1984", 1948
.sig - I think some guy named "ChickPea" (or maybe "Garbonzo") made this remark in the Roman Senate long before Orwell was born.
You might want to check the attribution on your
--Charlie
PS-
Do people who read too much get turned in to WAVE too?
--CTB
I don't think anyone underestimates the tremendous value of the work the Samba team has done, particularly Tridge & Jeremy. I personally am very grateful for the Email help you guys have given me with implementation.
.rpm it in; I have to do a CVS load, which is not just more difficult, I think it would be quite intimidating for system managers who haven't ever coded in a CVS environment.
However, as Samba (and the Samba team) has grown, the software has become more difficult to obtain and install. As a specific example; if I want/need TNG, I can't download a package from my linux distributor of choice and
Furthermore, HPUX users (who are essentially already burning in hell, because they have to use HPUX) often don't have a "real" C compiler, or CVS capabilities, so they can only get what somebody else ports - and there is no HPUX 11.00 precompile of TNG available from any reputable source that I know of.
So, the question is, will this trend continue, or will the Samba team make a real release on a more definite schedule than "real soon now"? The current code split makes planning difficult.
Also, does the ongoing rancor directed toward Win95/98 support found on Samba team mailing lists indicate that there will never be adequate support for these very popular desktops?
And finally, how do you feel about HP's shameful lack of attribution in their release of Samba for HPUX? I noticed that when Blackdown got dissed by Sun everyone was up in arms, but I never saw any beefs from the Slashreaders when HP announced CIFS support without crediting you guys.
Roblimo, I hope you won't filter any of these questions out... JA can hand hardball questions, I've seen him do it.
Hmmm. At least I can type. What made you think I'm a hippie? I'm curious since I don't think of myself that way.
And I wasn't referring to "Planet of the Apes" but rather to the taxpayer-funded grants that were used to teach gorillas sign language. Once the money ran out (according to unconfirmed rumors) the gorillas were reallocated to medical research.
Oh my god, I actually replied to a reply to one of my posts. I must be slipping. Does anybody have any links to sites showing relative intelligence studies for pigs, dolphins, dogs, etc.? I have stuff in hardcopy only and can't find any active links to any real science.
--Charlie
As some religious headcase said in an earlier post, I know I'll be flamed for this but Truth must be proclaimed.
HUMANS ARE ANIMALS. They are not vegetables or minerals. Humans gain their distinction from other forms of animal life by having (relatively) high intelligence, opposable thumbs, and language. If we are going to raise animals for spare parts, we should raise humans. For the medical implications of cross-species transplantation, particularly as it pertains to mutation of virii, see the CRT site. For the ethical implications think about the fact that a human baby is demonstrably less intelligent than an adult pig. For the moral implications think about human history.
Once upon a time Victorian naturalists hunted pygmies to be stuffed and displayed in museums (similar displays can still be found at the Mütter Museum in Philadelphia - note the Mütter is not responsible for any atrocities). There was a time when dolphins were considered expendable in the name of cheap tinned tuna. There was a time when people with epicanthic folds were not considered human by "educated" Europeans - note that some of these "scientists" (such as the man who popularized the term Mongoloid for humans with Down's Syndrome) had never met an Asian person.
Today we think of the racists and specists of the past as ignorant savages. Because we (most of us, that is) have met people of other colors, of other ethnic backgrounds, etc. and know them to be like us, we abhor historical cruelties and hypocrisy.
Have you ever met an educated, language-using primate? Oh, I forgot, rumor has it most of them were slaughtered for medical research when the grants ran out. There still may be one or two around though. Did you know that pigs are smarter than most primates?
--Charlie
Well, it's true that common sound & video system support across hardware platforms is in its' infancy on Linux (yes, I know great strides are being made, go help) BUT if Real's coders were any good it would not be a big hairy deal to compartmentalize hardware specific functions. .rpms easily on my generic Win98 PC at work because the flippin' RealPlayer grabbed the extension association. I had to hack the registry to fix this, incidentally, since I couldn't modify their association in the usual fashion. I like to use the fat pipes at work to download stuff for my home linux boxen and sneakernet the .rpms home on zip disks, it's quick and easy during off-business hours.
What's annoying to me is that I couldn't download
--Charlie
No. Gasoline will burn with excellent impulse (that is, propulsive volumetric increase per unit weight) when mixed with air (normal nitrogen/argon/oxygen mix your lungs use) at about a 16-to-1 ratio. A fifty-gallon drum of liquid gasoline does not usually ignite if you toss a lit cigarette into it (yes I have witnessed this) but typically the highly volatile nature of the liquid ensures that there are flamable vapors directly above the surface of the liquid - these vapors are readily ignited by any open flame.
Hydrogen, on the other claw, is explosive under some conditions and flammable in pretty much any oxygen bearing atmosphere.
The main problems with fuel cells are size, weight, heat, and interface contamination.
--Charlie