I don't have to assume, actually - it's pretty easy to discover that those beliefs were held by most Lutherans of the time, and not only in Germany but also in the US and UK.
Niemoller was, at one point, supportive of the Nazis; but he not only came to realize their racism was harmful to society but actually did something about it.
It's really worth reading about all this. We all live in the shadow of WW2 - organizations like Al Quaeda and Likud are the direct result of the global anti-semitism of the 1930s and 40s.
I seem to recall Pastor Niemoeller was a Lutheran minister... and that Martin Luther was a noted anti-semite? Didn't many Lutheran clergymen applaud Kristallnacht?
Or did somebody slip me some of the same crack George the Second's obviously been smoking too much of? Let's google and see:
"In 1935, the Nazis published a popular edition of [Luther's] pamphlet The Jews and Their Lies, in which he wrote: 'So we are even at fault in not avenging all this innocent blood of Our Lord and of the Christians which they shed for 300 years after the destruction of Jerusalem.... We are at fault in not slaying them.'"
Ah, yes, I thought so. Much, much more easily accessible with a little googling.
Mostly quite old - and I think all of them worked with RH 6.2 and possibly RH7.x as well.
Without rummaging through the basement, I know I had an fx3d, an fx3dplus (which is very different from the fx3d, oddly enough) and an AWE-32 with a wavetable plug-in on it, as well as the previously mentioned antique Sound Blaster. The others were much more recent vintage and thus less memorable, but they all worked in Win98 (which has the only non-linux OS I had available at the time).
Most of my hardware can be charitably described as "vintage". The less charitable would call it "trash", which is appropriate since I get most of my stuff from trash cans and recycling bins.
...does this mean I could legally get a copy of RedHat Enterprise Server, and install it on as many machines as I want?
Yes. That's basically the Red Hat business model as it exists outside RH corporate fantasyland - remarkably similar to shareware in practice.
My employers wanted me to spend more time on making their systems better, so they purchased Red Hat's up2date service ("subscriptions") which dramatically reduced the time I was spending on patching the servers. Reduced it to nearly zero, in fact, since patching rarely requires my personal attention any more. A good deal for everyone involved, but Red Hat basically sold us one shrink-wrapped set of CDs per version the first two years. Then we reached a pivot point where up2date became worthwhile for us, and we were happy to see Red Hat profit from this, so that they'd stay in business and continue to sell us support.
Hardware support is very narrow in linux as compared to Windows, and narrower still in certain areas, and narrower still in Red Hat. This is best illustrated by the Red Hat sound card support - I tried seven different cards in RH9 before I found one that worked. All seven (including the giant ISA Sound Blaster w/non-IDE CD port) worked fine under Windows 98.
You are lucky enough to have the same hardware as somebody with coding skillz, basically. If Alan Cox and Miguel de Icaza have the same camera you have, that explains why it's easy to use!
As the hardware vendors have clued in (look at how Adaptec has woken up!) this situation has gotten better for the newer hardware, but it's actually gotten worse for "legacy" hardware as the kernel hackers have gotten more affluent and better equipped. The hardware vendors have no incentive to keep old stuff working, after all - they want to sell you a new card.
Wow, good non-point. I take it you're one of those annoying folks who thinks everyting is too mainstream? You seem to be assuming that people only use.NET technologies because of the fancy buzzwords.
Let me guess, you hate most popular music and instead tell everyone how much you love the "Screaming Frog Orgasms", "The Wicket Pence Dog Sperms", or some other fringe group that people bring up when they want to show how elevated their tastes are?
Yes, absolutely. Your incisive analysis of my post has left me flopping about the office in epileptic fits of self-relevation.
I'll have to listen to some "Wet Onion" music to calm myself now (as soon as I wipe the spittle off my all-black clothing).
Oddly enough, there are also lots of people making money and creating software without using.NET!
Many of them aren't using OOP, Java, or "post-relational databasing" either. Or, what was the computer innovation to end all... hmmm... oh, yeah, COBOL! The "language of business", that makes you taller, more attractive to members of the opposite sex, and gets the crabgrass out of your lawn.
It's a great mystery, but it seems that dressing up the latest incremental modification of existing paradigms with buzzwords and hype is seen as desireable by many people - particularly those who need to see whatever they are doing as the One True Way.
"There are more fools than knaves in the world, else the knaves would not have enough to live upon." (Samuel Butler, 1612-1680)
If I had time to respond to the spam, even 1% of the spam, then I wouldn't really have a spam problem, would I?
Spam is harmful to business because it eats up unbelievable amounts of man-hours already. You're proposing that we dramatically increase the amount of time spent dealing with it, and that's not really feasible in the Bush miracle economy.
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the government could appoint someone to kick your ass every time you go to fill up
Hey, the government doesn't need to do that! I got volunteers lining up outside my office already!
Strangely enough, I did recognize him on the street in NYC a few years back. Heard an Aussie accent, realized the man was talking about rsync... so I buttonholed him with a bunch of (probably inane) samba questions.
But the tags need to be surgically implanted, with small explosive charges (just enough to remove the child's head efficiently) to prevent tampering.
Then we won't need truant officers, the school principals can just use remote-control detonators, instead. Think of the cost savings!
Don't blame me, I voted for Kodos.
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You are, m'man. Keep up the good work.
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Umm, you get the SAME deal as the "rich people" if you take the SAME depreciation.
I understand your point, but from where I'm standing anyone who owns a business and can afford a Hummer is way rich. I can't do those things, I don't have near enough money and given my situation I'm not likely to get that much money either. Kids to feed and all that.
"Rich" is a relative judgement, after all. Lots of people think I'm rich 'cause I can afford a Toyota.
This is what it's all about, after all... the hydrogen fuel cell is not about decreasing dependency on foreign oil, it's about maintaining dependency on foreign oil.
Your clean H2 for your vehicle will be produced at gas stations, by oil zaibatsu franchisees, from gasoline. All the money will continue to flow to the same entrenched interests - that's why they are supporting fuel cells instead of hybrids and other alternatives.
Because the gasoline delivery infrastructure already exists, and it's the only energy delivery system we've got that can handle the requirements of the unbelievable number of cars we've got on the road. The grid certainly can't take the increased load required to break water down, and building new facilities will cost more than using existing ones, so the old boys believe have the edge.
Fuel cells have never been the best option for private vehicles. Nonetheless, that's where we'll probably end up... at least it's a good thing from a pollution standpoint - there's a silver lining for you!
You'll keep wasting gas until you can't afford it.
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Your attitude is the reason for this paragraph in the article:
By introducing a small but steadily rising tax on petrol, America would do far more to encourage innovation and improve energy security than all the drilling in Alaska's wilderness. Crucially, this need not be, and should not be, a matter of raising taxes in the aggregate. The proceeds from a gasoline tax ought to be used to finance cuts in other taxes--this, surely, is the way to present them to a sceptical electorate.
I didn't buy mine for the fuel economy, exactly; I bought it to cut Saudi funding for terrorism, to undermine support for ill-considered US military adventuring, and because the Prius puts out 90% less pollution than the typical gas-hogging Detroit POS.
Some things do not need to be optimized for speed and efficiency above all other concerns. Sex is one of them. Elections are another.
Not all so-called "advances in science" are based on a percieved optimization for "speed and efficiency".
Robotic prostitutes would cut down on non-consensual abuse of sex workers, unwanted pregnancies, number of abortions, and transmission of disease, and probably would have other social benefits I haven't thought of yet.
One need merely optimize for customer pleasure, within the target demographic (Which would be patrons of prostitutes I'd guess).
And incidentally, I'm really tired of all the "we need a constitutional amendment" knee-jerk reactions I hear all the time. If constitutional amendments weren't incredibly infrequent, they'd be no more useful than any other law.
For less work than it cost you to build the Windows 2003 server, you could have installed MONDO.
To restore a machine that's been backed up with mondo, you do this:
1) Boot mondo CD. 2) Wait for restore to finish (mondo can call for additional CDs, or load files from elsewhere on your local network, or even from Red Hat's site for OS files) 3) Reboot.
You're done! On one of my large servers, with 128 GB of files, it takes a while. But much faster than DLT (and I've found DLT hardware to be so failure-prone I don't even use it anymore, personally -- I prefer Mammoth2 and AIT.)
Sounds like you're blaming your failure to admin your linux box correctly on linux itself, and then making a somewhat bogus claim on behalf of windows.
Once you get a little more *nix experience, you'll be able to do a better job. The big problem with *nix is the harsh learning curve.
I like to know that I haven't screwed up the machine's ability to boot properly.
And since I'm not the only person with superuser privs, I like to make sure my cohorts haven't screwed up the machine's boot process, either.
You don't know unless you test. Patching's a good excuse to do a test boot - you're logged on anyway, and you can justify any interuption of services by pointing to the need for the patch.
We don't EVER install a patch on a production machine without testing it first on some less crucial machine.
Any machine that accepts connections from outside the firewall (SMTP, IMAPS, HTTPS, & SSH are all we take, and only to specific machines) gets any remotely exploitable bug patched ASAP. Typically I will run the patch on a non-production machine for 24 hours to make sure it's reasonably stable, then patch.
Once the patch has proved itself in production on the remotely accessible machines, say for a week or so, we load it everywhere else.
Stuff that's not remotely exploitable is dealt with on a more relaxed schedule, generally at least two weeks after the patch has begun testing on a non-production machine. Sometimes longer.
We also always test our backup strategies before loading MS or HP patches, since sometimes they completely trash the system.
HP-UX patches come out months or years after the exploit, Microsoft patches come out weeks or months late, DEC patches used to come out within days (Oh, how we miss ye DEC) and BSD and linux come out within hours, usually.
we're using an MTA with a proven security, reliability and performance track record, all for the cost of only my time, which was significantly less than the cost of Windows+Exchange
And there's your basic value proposition of Open Source Software. I actually send money to the software creators/vendors (well, OK, sometimes I send pizza instead) and it's *still* vastly cheaper than proprietary software.
Less money flushed down licensing ratholes = more money converted to profit = bigger paycheck for me.
The formula doesn't work if your bosses are swindlers, though - they just fatten their own paychecks.
It'd be pretty easy in GNU awk, which is the most advanced awk out there.
Jurgen Kahrs implemented socket IO in GNU awk around 1997. See Robbins' O'Reilly book "Effective Awk Programming" for more details, it's a great book (even though I think the name is lousy).
If the number of FTP commands you wanted to implement is K, I'd guesstimate you'd need about 30 + (K*2) lines of Gawk to implement a reasonably bulletproof FTP.
Gawk ships with most linux distros, but many of them are shipping outdated versions.
Thomas Jefferson was a self-proclaimed Unitarian, not a "Deist" as somebody has labeled him. The Unitarian Universalists of America have districts named after both TJ and his scientist/philosopher friend Joseph Priestley.
That label might be more accurate for Washington, really - AFAIK he never claimed to be Episcopal, and attended several churches of different denomination.
Jefferson's OPPONENTS accused him of "deistical beliefs" (a phrase which has little or no meaning, then or now) and he DENIED it.
If this is an example of how the system would work, it's just another heap of propaganda and bad journalism. They grabbed somebody else's chart of US president's religions and didn't check it out!
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I don't have to assume, actually - it's pretty easy to discover that those beliefs were held by most Lutherans of the time, and not only in Germany but also in the US and UK.
Niemoller was, at one point, supportive of the Nazis; but he not only came to realize their racism was harmful to society but actually did something about it.
It's really worth reading about all this. We all live in the shadow of WW2 - organizations like Al Quaeda and Likud are the direct result of the global anti-semitism of the 1930s and 40s.
I seem to recall Pastor Niemoeller was a Lutheran minister... and that Martin Luther was a noted anti-semite? Didn't many Lutheran clergymen applaud Kristallnacht?
Or did somebody slip me some of the same crack George the Second's obviously been smoking too much of? Let's google and see:
"In 1935, the Nazis published a popular edition of [Luther's] pamphlet The Jews and Their Lies, in which he wrote: 'So we are even at fault in not avenging all this innocent blood of Our Lord and of the Christians which they shed for 300 years after the destruction of Jerusalem.... We are at fault in not slaying them.'"
Ah, yes, I thought so. Much, much more easily accessible with a little googling.
Mostly quite old - and I think all of them worked with RH 6.2 and possibly RH7.x as well.
Without rummaging through the basement, I know I had an fx3d, an fx3dplus (which is very different from the fx3d, oddly enough) and an AWE-32 with a wavetable plug-in on it, as well as the previously mentioned antique Sound Blaster. The others were much more recent vintage and thus less memorable, but they all worked in Win98 (which has the only non-linux OS I had available at the time).
Most of my hardware can be charitably described as "vintage". The less charitable would call it "trash", which is appropriate since I get most of my stuff from trash cans and recycling bins.
My employers wanted me to spend more time on making their systems better, so they purchased Red Hat's up2date service ("subscriptions") which dramatically reduced the time I was spending on patching the servers. Reduced it to nearly zero, in fact, since patching rarely requires my personal attention any more. A good deal for everyone involved, but Red Hat basically sold us one shrink-wrapped set of CDs per version the first two years. Then we reached a pivot point where up2date became worthwhile for us, and we were happy to see Red Hat profit from this, so that they'd stay in business and continue to sell us support.
Hardware support is very narrow in linux as compared to Windows, and narrower still in certain areas, and narrower still in Red Hat. This is best illustrated by the Red Hat sound card support - I tried seven different cards in RH9 before I found one that worked. All seven (including the giant ISA Sound Blaster w/non-IDE CD port) worked fine under Windows 98.
You are lucky enough to have the same hardware as somebody with coding skillz, basically. If Alan Cox and Miguel de Icaza have the same camera you have, that explains why it's easy to use!
As the hardware vendors have clued in (look at how Adaptec has woken up!) this situation has gotten better for the newer hardware, but it's actually gotten worse for "legacy" hardware as the kernel hackers have gotten more affluent and better equipped. The hardware vendors have no incentive to keep old stuff working, after all - they want to sell you a new card.
I'll have to listen to some "Wet Onion" music to calm myself now (as soon as I wipe the spittle off my all-black clothing).
Oddly enough, there are also lots of people making money and creating software without using .NET!
Many of them aren't using OOP, Java, or "post-relational databasing" either. Or, what was the computer innovation to end all... hmmm... oh, yeah, COBOL! The "language of business", that makes you taller, more attractive to members of the opposite sex, and gets the crabgrass out of your lawn.
It's a great mystery, but it seems that dressing up the latest incremental modification of existing paradigms with buzzwords and hype is seen as desireable by many people - particularly those who need to see whatever they are doing as the One True Way.
"There are more fools than knaves in the world, else the knaves would not have enough to live upon." (Samuel Butler, 1612-1680)
If I had time to respond to the spam, even 1% of the spam, then I wouldn't really have a spam problem, would I?
Spam is harmful to business because it eats up unbelievable amounts of man-hours already. You're proposing that we dramatically increase the amount of time spent dealing with it, and that's not really feasible in the Bush miracle economy.
Strangely enough, I did recognize him on the street in NYC a few years back. Heard an Aussie accent, realized the man was talking about rsync... so I buttonholed him with a bunch of (probably inane) samba questions.
Really nice guy, took it all in stride.
Thanks, Tridge, and congratulations!
But the tags need to be surgically implanted, with small explosive charges (just enough to remove the child's head efficiently) to prevent tampering.
Then we won't need truant officers, the school principals can just use remote-control detonators, instead. Think of the cost savings!
Don't blame me, I voted for Kodos.
You are, m'man. Keep up the good work.
"Rich" is a relative judgement, after all. Lots of people think I'm rich 'cause I can afford a Toyota.
This is what it's all about, after all... the hydrogen fuel cell is not about decreasing dependency on foreign oil, it's about maintaining dependency on foreign oil.
Your clean H2 for your vehicle will be produced at gas stations, by oil zaibatsu franchisees, from gasoline. All the money will continue to flow to the same entrenched interests - that's why they are supporting fuel cells instead of hybrids and other alternatives.
Because the gasoline delivery infrastructure already exists, and it's the only energy delivery system we've got that can handle the requirements of the unbelievable number of cars we've got on the road. The grid certainly can't take the increased load required to break water down, and building new facilities will cost more than using existing ones, so the old boys believe have the edge.
Fuel cells have never been the best option for private vehicles. Nonetheless, that's where we'll probably end up... at least it's a good thing from a pollution standpoint - there's a silver lining for you!
Myself, I already drive a car that gets over 40 mpg, and the government *did* give me a tax break for it. Not as good a deal as they give rich people for buying Humvees, but every time I see the price of gas go up a notch... I get a little chuckle.
I didn't buy mine for the fuel economy, exactly; I bought it to cut Saudi funding for terrorism, to undermine support for ill-considered US military adventuring, and because the Prius puts out 90% less pollution than the typical gas-hogging Detroit POS.
"The Bat-sploits of the Masked Meddlers will rebound from my giant electronic umbrella!! Nyah, nyah!"
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Robotic prostitutes would cut down on non-consensual abuse of sex workers, unwanted pregnancies, number of abortions, and transmission of disease, and probably would have other social benefits I haven't thought of yet.
One need merely optimize for customer pleasure, within the target demographic (Which would be patrons of prostitutes I'd guess).
And incidentally, I'm really tired of all the "we need a constitutional amendment" knee-jerk reactions I hear all the time. If constitutional amendments weren't incredibly infrequent, they'd be no more useful than any other law.
Well, if they haven't "compiled" then they will have to use an interpreter.
Most of their stuff is in BASIC anyway, so they don't really need a compiler.
For less work than it cost you to build the Windows 2003 server, you could have installed MONDO.
To restore a machine that's been backed up with mondo, you do this:
1) Boot mondo CD.
2) Wait for restore to finish (mondo can call for additional CDs, or load files from elsewhere on your local network, or even from Red Hat's site for OS files)
3) Reboot.
You're done! On one of my large servers, with 128 GB of files, it takes a while. But much faster than DLT (and I've found DLT hardware to be so failure-prone I don't even use it anymore, personally -- I prefer Mammoth2 and AIT.)
Sounds like you're blaming your failure to admin your linux box correctly on linux itself, and then making a somewhat bogus claim on behalf of windows.
Once you get a little more *nix experience, you'll be able to do a better job. The big problem with *nix is the harsh learning curve.
I like to know that I haven't screwed up the machine's ability to boot properly.
And since I'm not the only person with superuser privs, I like to make sure my cohorts haven't screwed up the machine's boot process, either.
You don't know unless you test. Patching's a good excuse to do a test boot - you're logged on anyway, and you can justify any interuption of services by pointing to the need for the patch.
We don't EVER install a patch on a production machine without testing it first on some less crucial machine.
Any machine that accepts connections from outside the firewall (SMTP, IMAPS, HTTPS, & SSH are all we take, and only to specific machines) gets any remotely exploitable bug patched ASAP. Typically I will run the patch on a non-production machine for 24 hours to make sure it's reasonably stable, then patch.
Once the patch has proved itself in production on the remotely accessible machines, say for a week or so, we load it everywhere else.
Stuff that's not remotely exploitable is dealt with on a more relaxed schedule, generally at least two weeks after the patch has begun testing on a non-production machine. Sometimes longer.
We also always test our backup strategies before loading MS or HP patches, since sometimes they completely trash the system.
HP-UX patches come out months or years after the exploit, Microsoft patches come out weeks or months late, DEC patches used to come out within days (Oh, how we miss ye DEC) and BSD and linux come out within hours, usually.
Less money flushed down licensing ratholes = more money converted to profit = bigger paycheck for me.
The formula doesn't work if your bosses are swindlers, though - they just fatten their own paychecks.
Me, or your lyin' eyes?
(As the man said to his wife, on being caught in bed with the housekeeper)
It'd be pretty easy in GNU awk, which is the most advanced awk out there.
Jurgen Kahrs implemented socket IO in GNU awk around 1997. See Robbins' O'Reilly book "Effective Awk Programming" for more details, it's a great book (even though I think the name is lousy).
If the number of FTP commands you wanted to implement is K, I'd guesstimate you'd need about 30 + (K*2) lines of Gawk to implement a reasonably bulletproof FTP.
Gawk ships with most linux distros, but many of them are shipping outdated versions.
Thomas Jefferson was a self-proclaimed Unitarian, not a "Deist" as somebody has labeled him. The Unitarian Universalists of America have districts named after both TJ and his scientist/philosopher friend Joseph Priestley.
That label might be more accurate for Washington, really - AFAIK he never claimed to be Episcopal, and attended several churches of different denomination.
Jefferson's OPPONENTS accused him of "deistical beliefs" (a phrase which has little or no meaning, then or now) and he DENIED it.
If this is an example of how the system would work, it's just another heap of propaganda and bad journalism. They grabbed somebody else's chart of US president's religions and didn't check it out!