> Before I was making $15,000/year after taxes. I worked my ass off to get a raise and now I make $16,000/year. That is a marginal tax of 80%! I would have been much happier to not work as hard and stay at $15,000 than to work myself to the bone for a measly $1,000.
WHAT?
you're telling me you wouldn't work for a 7% raise? I'm sure your current employer would absolutely love to hear that.
Go ahead. Walk into his office right now and say "if I don't get at least a 10% raise this year, I'm going home to sit on my butt and eat Cheesy Poofs."
Watch as he looks at you for a second and says, "ok - here's a dollar to buy some on your way home."
I mean, really. I'm voting Libertarian, not Socialist, but I can still do math.:)
obviously you never collected the gas-tank caps off of cars sitting idle in the campus parking lot! Those things were collector's items, man. I bet you could sell one on e-bay for at least 10 bucks.;)
and if you were one of the guys who got your gas-tank cap stolen.... um, it wasn't me:)
AFAIK, no judge in the United States or elsewhere has ruled that it is a crime to own or distribute DeCSS or css-auth.
The only related ruling is the one by Judge Kaplan, which states that it is not allowed in the State of New York to post a hyperlink that targets a copy of the DeCSS source code. Period.
This is not a wide ruling. It does not cover other methods of distribution. It does not cover distribution outside of New York. These things are not illegal, in New York or elsewhere.
Go forth, ye huddled, ye unwashed masses, and buy a DVD today with the express purpose of watching it on a Linux box using DeCSS!
I used to believe that. Then I reconsidered. The problem is not that religion (an outside influence) causes one to become less intelligent. The problem is that less intelligent people are drawn to religion.
It's probably a survival instinct that's evolved. Think about it. If you instinctively know that you can't be trusted to make your own decisions, your natural impulse is going to be to find the closest person willing to make decisions for you, and thrust control over your life into their hands.
In earlier times, this was a good thing because it ensured one's survival (and thus, a greater species population). The downside being that it frees the less intelligent to breed and spread their genes. Thus, you have a self-perpetuating cycle.
Not much can be done about this. If people who don't trust themselves don't find religion, they find politics. Or friends. Any person willing to tell them what to do, they follow because it ensures their survival (according to their instincts).
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If I'm like most other people here, we're reading this at work. And I don't know about anyone else, but I definitely bemoan the lack of a soundcard in my workstation.
I've seen your.sig before and I mean to check up on it, but I keep forgetting before I get home.
This will be the day! I will write it down (on the back of the speeding ticket I got on the way to work - see, cops ARE useful for something) and look it up when I get home!
The truncate() bugs are gone entirely, as of 2.4.0-test6 (they're up to test8 now, with test-9 well under way). They were originally uncovered due to a bug in Mutt, actually (good thing, too).
They've been in there (more or less) since 2.2.3 or thereabouts, but nothing ever triggered the bug until the also-bugy Mutt code. So it's definitely not something that you're *likely* to have problems with, by any stretch of the imagination. But, it's good to find it and get it out.
Umm - he's not a Linux advocate, he's a GNU advocate. He apparently prefers the FreeBSD kernel to the Linux kernel to run his GNU system.
That doesn't make him a hypocrite, it means you've been reading the wrong things into his words.
He'd rather that people call Linux "GNU/Linux" because it's the Linux kernel on top of a GNU system. He probably says his webserver is running on "GNU/FreeBSD". I don't have a problem with that.
Now, if the web server were running closed source software or something, then that would be hypocrisy. RMS is a Free Software advocate and a GNU advocate, not a Linux advocate.
Nethack has better graphics (and I'm not talking about X11 tile-mode either).
I greatly prefer seeing an '@' and envisioning my elven ranger standing at the entrance to the Dungeons of Doom, then walking into a cavern and seeing sky through the far wall because the clipping plane is halfway through the tunnel.
> If K-Mart (and any other retailers who follow) are anywhere near as successful as movie theaters have been at carding 'kiddies' then I really
> don't think that we have anything to worry about as far as a serious increase in warez over this.
I remember when I was 16 years old, I went to the movies with my 18 year old girlfriend. The woman refused to sell me a ticket to see whatever we were going to see (The Crow?) because I was not 17.
That was one of the most humiliating experiences of my life. The person behind the counter had an extremely snide attitude and I was treated by this woman as though I were a criminal for attempting to take my girlfriend on a date to the cinema.
Until this point, I had thought that the ratings were guidelines. 'PG' stands for 'Parental Guidance Suggested', right? Wrong. I thought that NC-17 was illegal to watch for a 16 year old. I thought R-rated movies were open access. I have been subsequently informed that my previous ideas were correct. I was humiliated just for the purpose of making this woman feel as though she were doing something good and virtuous. She had no legal reason for keeping me from buying a ticket.
This is why it makes me extremely upset to see things like this happen. I do not wish to see more teenagers put through what I was put through, or even worse, for infractions of somebody else's moral code.
It has been revealed that the code for/bin/ash was actually originally intended to power supersonic nuclear submarines! This becomes more clear if you read some of the original comments and function names.
(flash to picture of a little girl tugging on a woman's skirt) Mommy, what does function fire_torpedoes() do?
Don't let this happen to you! Use/bin/csh whenever possible!
Little kid, some kind of mental problem, really good at video games...
Now we need Nintendo of America to sponsor a big contest for all the ADD kids out there - the winner gets a copy of Super Mario 3! Or a poster of Natalie Portman, naked, petrified, etc...
Is this the same judge that looked at the person who testified that all source code is speech and said "That's exactly the kind of thing I've been waiting to hear for this entire trial."?
Something is very wrong here...
I'm not interested in having the next-door neighbors listen to my conversations with their baby monitor, and I'm not interested in having law-enforcement being able to pinpoint my location any easier than they can already.
That's the problem with anything that maintains a continuous connection with other equipment. It can be tracked easily. Even if you encrypt your conversation, your physical location can still be found.
Maybe a dynamic DNS server using my laptop over a cell modem would provide enough layers of abstraction to keep somebody from finding me quickly. I wouldn't count on it though, unless you change your IP address once every ten minutes or so. That might do it.
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> Before I was making $15,000/year after taxes. I worked my ass off to get a raise and now I make $16,000/year. That is a marginal tax of 80%! I would have been much happier to not work as hard and stay at $15,000 than to work myself to the bone for a measly $1,000.
:)
WHAT?
you're telling me you wouldn't work for a 7% raise? I'm sure your current employer would absolutely love to hear that.
Go ahead. Walk into his office right now and say "if I don't get at least a 10% raise this year, I'm going home to sit on my butt and eat Cheesy Poofs."
Watch as he looks at you for a second and says, "ok - here's a dollar to buy some on your way home."
I mean, really. I'm voting Libertarian, not Socialist, but I can still do math.
correct me if I'm wrong, but isn't it only segmented in real processor mode?
Linux runs in protected mode 100% of the time after it's loaded by the BIOS.
hmm... well, I don't know what your experience has been, and I've never tried running notepad.exe (why would I, when I have vi?).
However, I've gotta say that Blade Runner by Westwood Studios runs exceptionally well.
wine blade.exe
yeah!
wine /mnt/cdrom/setup.exe
it worked for Blade Runner, Diablo 2, Die By The Sword, Heavy Gear, and Final Fantasy 8, so I don't know why it wouldn't work for Office 2K.
Judging by Intel's recent track record, if they made web pages, they'd end up with this.
obviously you never collected the gas-tank caps off of cars sitting idle in the campus parking lot! Those things were collector's items, man. I bet you could sell one on e-bay for at least 10 bucks. ;)
:)
and if you were one of the guys who got your gas-tank cap stolen.... um, it wasn't me
umm... just one question...
:)
doesn't a negative nice value give processes MORE processor time?
Plus, that could be considered redemption of the wayward user, since his processes are all becoming nicer
Doh! ::slaps himself on the forehead::
I need more coffee...
> Just curious, where is a good place to go if you are currently developing or interested in collaborating in Linux-based game development?
http://sourceforge.net/foundry/games is where you want to go.
they've got resources for developers and loads of hosted projects that are just itching for another coder.
Go for it!
I think it was Rampart, if I recall correctly. Kind of frightening to see that and realize they're running NT on the box.
It took a lot of bitching to the Putt-Putt manager (man, those guys are tight-wads), but I finally got my 25 cents back.
> Personally, I'd prefer a setup where you define the maximum limit of the swap file by the size of its partition.
umm, that is how it's defined...
$ free
total used free
(cutting out the stuff about actual RAM...)
Swap: 145112 20328 124784
I'm using 20 megs of swap out of a possible 145 megs (or so).
but in any case, if you need to add more swap space (say I needed an extra 55 megs of swap), it's not too hard.
dd if=/dev/zero of=swapfile bs=1024768 count=55
mkswap swapfile
swapon swapfile
AFAIK, no judge in the United States or elsewhere has ruled that it is a crime to own or distribute DeCSS or css-auth.
The only related ruling is the one by Judge Kaplan, which states that it is not allowed in the State of New York to post a hyperlink that targets a copy of the DeCSS source code. Period.
This is not a wide ruling. It does not cover other methods of distribution. It does not cover distribution outside of New York. These things are not illegal, in New York or elsewhere.
Go forth, ye huddled, ye unwashed masses, and buy a DVD today with the express purpose of watching it on a Linux box using DeCSS!
I used to believe that. Then I reconsidered. The problem is not that religion (an outside influence) causes one to become less intelligent. The problem is that less intelligent people are drawn to religion.
It's probably a survival instinct that's evolved. Think about it. If you instinctively know that you can't be trusted to make your own decisions, your natural impulse is going to be to find the closest person willing to make decisions for you, and thrust control over your life into their hands.
In earlier times, this was a good thing because it ensured one's survival (and thus, a greater species population). The downside being that it frees the less intelligent to breed and spread their genes. Thus, you have a self-perpetuating cycle.
Not much can be done about this. If people who don't trust themselves don't find religion, they find politics. Or friends. Any person willing to tell them what to do, they follow because it ensures their survival (according to their instincts).
If I'm like most other people here, we're reading this at work. And I don't know about anyone else, but I definitely bemoan the lack of a soundcard in my workstation.
.sig before and I mean to check up on it, but I keep forgetting before I get home.
I've seen your
This will be the day! I will write it down (on the back of the speeding ticket I got on the way to work - see, cops ARE useful for something) and look it up when I get home!
I like more bits and I cannot lie!
You other brothers can't deny!
The truncate() bugs are gone entirely, as of 2.4.0-test6 (they're up to test8 now, with test-9 well under way). They were originally uncovered due to a bug in Mutt, actually (good thing, too).
They've been in there (more or less) since 2.2.3 or thereabouts, but nothing ever triggered the bug until the also-bugy Mutt code. So it's definitely not something that you're *likely* to have problems with, by any stretch of the imagination. But, it's good to find it and get it out.
Umm - he's not a Linux advocate, he's a GNU advocate. He apparently prefers the FreeBSD kernel to the Linux kernel to run his GNU system.
That doesn't make him a hypocrite, it means you've been reading the wrong things into his words.
He'd rather that people call Linux "GNU/Linux" because it's the Linux kernel on top of a GNU system. He probably says his webserver is running on "GNU/FreeBSD". I don't have a problem with that.
Now, if the web server were running closed source software or something, then that would be hypocrisy. RMS is a Free Software advocate and a GNU advocate, not a Linux advocate.
Nethack has better graphics (and I'm not talking about X11 tile-mode either).
I greatly prefer seeing an '@' and envisioning my elven ranger standing at the entrance to the Dungeons of Doom, then walking into a cavern and seeing sky through the far wall because the clipping plane is halfway through the tunnel.
> If K-Mart (and any other retailers who follow) are anywhere near as successful as movie theaters have been at carding 'kiddies' then I really
> don't think that we have anything to worry about as far as a serious increase in warez over this.
I remember when I was 16 years old, I went to the movies with my 18 year old girlfriend. The woman refused to sell me a ticket to see whatever we were going to see (The Crow?) because I was not 17.
That was one of the most humiliating experiences of my life. The person behind the counter had an extremely snide attitude and I was treated by this woman as though I were a criminal for attempting to take my girlfriend on a date to the cinema.
Until this point, I had thought that the ratings were guidelines. 'PG' stands for 'Parental Guidance Suggested', right? Wrong. I thought that NC-17 was illegal to watch for a 16 year old. I thought R-rated movies were open access. I have been subsequently informed that my previous ideas were correct. I was humiliated just for the purpose of making this woman feel as though she were doing something good and virtuous. She had no legal reason for keeping me from buying a ticket.
This is why it makes me extremely upset to see things like this happen. I do not wish to see more teenagers put through what I was put through, or even worse, for infractions of somebody else's moral code.
I was expecting to hear something like:
/bin/ash was actually originally intended to power supersonic nuclear submarines! This becomes more clear if you read some of the original comments and function names.
/bin/csh whenever possible!
It has been revealed that the code for
(flash to picture of a little girl tugging on a woman's skirt) Mommy, what does function fire_torpedoes() do?
Don't let this happen to you! Use
Doesn't this make you think of it?
Little kid, some kind of mental problem, really good at video games...
Now we need Nintendo of America to sponsor a big contest for all the ADD kids out there - the winner gets a copy of Super Mario 3! Or a poster of Natalie Portman, naked, petrified, etc...
Why is it that everything Apple deals with is called a "Cube" now? You've got the G4-Cube, now the N-Cube... where will it end?
Will they release MacOS/Cube to run on the I-Cube?
Is this the same judge that looked at the person who testified that all source code is speech and said "That's exactly the kind of thing I've been waiting to hear for this entire trial."? Something is very wrong here...
I'm not interested in having the next-door neighbors listen to my conversations with their baby monitor, and I'm not interested in having law-enforcement being able to pinpoint my location any easier than they can already.
That's the problem with anything that maintains a continuous connection with other equipment. It can be tracked easily. Even if you encrypt your conversation, your physical location can still be found.
Maybe a dynamic DNS server using my laptop over a cell modem would provide enough layers of abstraction to keep somebody from finding me quickly. I wouldn't count on it though, unless you change your IP address once every ten minutes or so. That might do it.
edit /etc/X11/xdm/Xservers
/usr/X11R6/bin/X -- -dpi 100 -nolisten tcp
on the line that actually starts the server, add -- -nolisten tcp
here's an example (from my box here at work):
:0 local