>> We wanted to equalize everyone, and we did. As a result, the politically active class shrunk (no incentive to be involved anymore), and stopped recruiting others.
Are you sure this is the case? I'm not convinced, until I see some figures. The percentage of people of voting age actually voting may have gone down since the 1920's or 1930's, but I'm guessing its still a lot higher than it was in 1800. Each group given the right to vote(blacks, women, etc.) has dramatically increased the percentage of adults who vote, and you know it.
The reason we don't vote is because we feel it won't make a difference. I have a friend in Utah who already knows he is going to throw away his vote because that state is giving its electoral votes to Bush. It really doesn't matter that he would prefer Gore or Nader, his vote is going to get thrown away.
If we had a real democracy, where a vote really was a vote, I think we would see a much higher turnout and more participation.
As a side note, I suggest you go back and reexamine your patrician viewpoints. You are not better than anyone else because you were born into a good family and have money. We don't need a class of superiors making decisions for us. As far as I'm concerned, there is very little difference between people that can't be explained by environment. Regardless of your background or wealth or your families social status you should have the opportunity to succeed in this country. Abraham Lincoln had that opportunity in his day - he was among the poorest of the poor growing up. Today he probably would not have the same chance -you need lots of money and social status to become President. The only way we can reclaim that opportunity for everyone is to make each person's vote count. And that is a step toward real democracy and away from republican government.
I have a SQL Server powering a website on the internet. The website is also sitting behind an OpenBSD Firewall.
Now, no one from Microsoft is going to tell me that using an OpenBSD firewall is going to make my website more secure. Yet this is the type of thing that a good sysadmin will be able to do. You have to understand enough not to be dependent on any particular vendor.
Conversely, when I first became a sysadmin, I learned the concepts rather than the actual commands first. Regardless of what system you use(I started on AIX), the basic tasks are the same. You have to monitor the system, add/replace hardware, add/delete users, maintain a backup scheme, etc. etc. The actual commands or buttons you push are trivial. The concepts are what is important.
I can't recall a single book I've read on SQL Server that did not instruct the reader to change the sa password immediately after installing. That is one of the most basic principles and if you don't know that, you have no business installing SQL Server at the professional level.
The fact that there might be someone out there clueless enough to omit this essential step is a far greater security concern than the fact that MS didn't include the changing of the sa password in the install wizard. Bottom line is, if you expect to be secure, you have to have people who know what they are doing. Someone has to read between the lines of all the GUI's and wizards and actually know what is going on.
>> I don't quite understand how it can be as soon as next year, but then suddenly it will take at least 5 years.
From my point of view, the PC's in my business need to have 1)an Office suite capable of opening and saving Office documents(.doc,.xls, etc) 2)Web browser and email capability 3) terminal emulation, specifically IBM 3151. Complex graphical applications, games, etc are not used and/or needed on the average PC on my network.
I suspect there are many others just like myself who only need to provide basic Office, browsing, and shell services on their PC networks. That's why Linux is nearly there, whereas replacing Windows for home use will take longer. Linux doesn't yet have the widespread games, graphics programs, etc. that make Windows popular with home users.
That, I hope, sufficiently explains the 1-year for business vs. the 5 years for home user difference that Linux was speaking of.
The MySQL site lists "Alternative Formats" to the HTML documentation, but the link is not active yet.
My suggestion for you would be to download a program like WebCopier(you can find it at tucows) so you can download the whole directory at once, no clicking required. I'm not sure what the Linux equivalent would be, but there's undoubtedly something on freshmeat. Then do a global search and replace from the mysql site to your own site or directory. Besides, wouldn't you prefer HTML to PDF?:)
>> it really does make a difference to programme quality.
If the difference in the British and American versions of 'Whose Line Is It Anyway' is any kind of indication of the general difference between British and American TV, I most wholeheartedly agree.
I'm an American, but you Brits have us beat in the humor(humour?) on TV department. By a long way.
>> It's a shame it won't occur to anyone outside the geek community that the reason MICROS~1 can't port Office to Linux is that they can't write anything in an environment where they can't freely hack the OS to get around problems.
Then how do you explain MS Office for Macintosh? And besides, why they freely hack the Linux OS? Perhaps even offer a distro?
The MySQL online manual is very thorough. Print it, and it would be better than the books that are out there.
In fact, I got the O'Reilly book on MySQL(don't get this one, get the New Riders book if you need to have a book.) and I found myself referring to the MySQL help file for most things. I certainly trust it more than the book for correct information.
Is your school going to give you a PhD without making you sign over your work to UMI? I highly doubt it. No more likely, you will sign over your work or you won't get your doctorate.
hey, I'm a Christian too, but I've given up trying to interpret the Bibles prophetic messages. One thing I keep recalling - you won't know the day or the hour. I've seen so many different versions of the end that now I believe in none of them.
Fer instance, you believe, as many others do, that there will be a 'one-world' government. But think about it. The 'mark of the beast' technology is already here, ready to be deployed. Do you really see the U.S. giving up its sovreignty in the next 10 or 20 years? I just don't see it happenning. Not to mention that the original prophets had never even heard of the western hemisphere. Their final government was really more a modern version of the Roman Empire(city with seven hills). I've seen a few end-of time interpretations that claim the antichrist govt. will form out of the European Union - a sort of Hitler or Napoleon on steroids.
The thing is, if you go by a strict interpretation, you are almost certainly going to be wrong and you are setting yourself up for disappointment when things don't go as you planned and you find out you are not the perfect Christian soldier you thought yourself to be.
Its your character and your faith that matter, not your interpretation of prophecy. Developing these will help you far more than trying to divine the future.
If you've ever read Joseph Campbell you'll realize that people live by their myths. They are so deep-seated that they influence thought even after years of school.
Something like this might fly in Europe but not in the U.S. One of our deep seated myths(as has been posted many times in this discussion) is the 666/number of the beast myth. People have been saying for years how the antichrist will take over the government and force everyone to be branded with a number(barcode) - if you refuse the mark you will not be able to buy or sell anything and therefore will perish.
Regardless of any advantages a digital implant might bring, this prevalent myth will destroy its chances in the U.S. It will be interesting to see if it takes off in Europe while the U.S. denies this technology because of its superstition.
Personally, I side with the fundamentalists and zealots on this issue. A digital tracking device is just too much of an invasion of privacy and is subject to too much abuse to make it worthwhile.
C'mon, this guy is running a laundry. What great ideals is he promoting? The right to display porn in front of a junior high school? He has a technical issue, but I fail to see the great social consenquence of any action he could possibly take.
The real problem with filtering software is that it blocks sites that rightfully should be let through. But again, this is a laundry, not a school and not a library. My suggestion would be for this person to help out with an open-source filter, if there is such a thing. Perhaps his laundry business could contribute to the development of such a project. But I don't see the social implication of a laundry employing restricive software, even if it does block worthwhile sites. If its illegal for him to show any pr0n whatsoever, protesting the law by allowing it anyway(especially in front of a school) is not going to further his cause.
by providing user logins. You wouldn't check out books from a library to anyone off the street unless they had a library card and by the same token users of your service should have an account. Make sure they understand the terms of using that account and that their usage will be monitored.
I think that will be at least as effective as any filter, but if you have to, filter by words stronger than 'breast'. You should still be able to get rid of most of the pr0n if you check all the metatags.
I hope you're right. I stopped buying Nike as well. However, what corporatism does not breed is people who think for themselves. Given the choice of actively examining your life and choosing the easy obvious way, most people will choose the latter. Which is why Microsoft, Coca-Cola, and Britney Spears are so popular. Certainly not because they are the best choices for people to make. Its what has been spoon-fed to as(aka 'The Blue Pill')
Since 99% of perl programmers can't stand Windows, something like the following should really look obfuscated(its ASP, with perl as the scripting language):
#
$Conn = $Server->CreateObject("ADODB.Connection");
# Open a system DSN
#
$Conn->Open( "ADOSamples" );
# Execute an SQL Query
#
$RS = $Conn->Execute( "SELECT * FROM Orders" );
# Read a property to get the number of columns
# present in the Recordset returned from the
# query.
#
$count = $RS->Fields->{Count};
# Print out the names of each column
#
for ( $i = 0; $i
$Response->Write( $RS->Fields($i)->Name );
$Response->Write(" ");
};
# Loop the Recordset until there are no more records
#
while ( ! $RS->{EOF} ) {
for ( $i = 0; $i
$Response->Write(" ");
$Response->Write($RS->Fields($i)->{Value});
$Response->Write(" ");
};
# Move to the next record
#
$RS->MoveNext();
};
# Close the Recordset
#
$RS->Close();
$Conn->Close();
%>
Of course, a real entry would leave out the comments. Whaddya think? Would this qualify?
>> We will see stability evolve from these new Non-State Actors as stability arose following the Franco-Prussian war in Europe. The Great Peace.
Bullshit.
We will see the world turned into walled communities, where those inside live high on the hog, and those outside get to live in shantytowns and garbage dumps. That's where the corporate republic is leading us.
Corporations do not care about anything except the bottom line. They could care less about any ideals such as freedom or love for your fellow man. They don't give a shit about the environment. They don't give a shit that they rape 3rd world countries and leave the citizens there with nothing. As long as their stock value looks good, that's all that matters.
Is replying to an offtopic post also offtopic? Guess I'll find out when my karma takes a dive.:)
At any rate, Hemos gave a perfectly satisfactory answer to this in a previous article. Slashdot/Andover contracts with all of their advertisers independently and does not deal directly with ad companies. However, certain advertisers have all their advertising done through doubleclick et. al. So to display those ads on Slashdot, they have to pull it from the doubleclick ad server.
I'm not trying to kiss up to anyone here, just pointing out that I believe Slashdot is not being hypocritical by displaying ads that come off a doubleclick server. However, they probably should figure out a way for those ads not to set a cookie.
did any one notice the windows error was actually the windows hardware wizard? Go back and look. The windows hardware wizard is what pops up automatically when new plug & play hardware is installed.
Now I've never worked with these billboard systems before so I have to ask: Exactly how does a live billboard encounter a situation where the add hardware wizard pops up?
I can see it now. Two geeks are assigned to replace the video card for this system.
Geek #1: OK, #2, this is your first time on this job so you might be surprised. That billboard takes a video signal just like any other monitor. Its just an average PC system so this job will be cake.
Geek #2: Cool! So all we have to do is take a spare monitor and a video card up there.
Geek #1: Well yeah, but we don't need the monitor. We'll just watch the progress from the billboard.
>> If not, it's time you spend some time reading the kirch papers over at unix-vs-nt.org
Please. That has got to be one of the most biased things I've ever seen. How could you possibly get a good idea of how NT or Win2K performed in comparison to Solaris or Linux by reading that. Its no different than accepting the (Microsoft sponsored) mindcraft benchmarks, which show NT and IIS to be head and shoulders above everything else as a web server.
Bias is bias no matter where it comes from and I will religiously avoid it when it comes time to making decisions. The kirch papers can only possibly serve to make you feel good about choosing Linux/Solaris, while mindlessly spewing the evils of Microsoft. They certainly can't be classed as intelligent analysis or comparison.
It amazes me to see all the comparisons between NT and BSD and between IIS and Apache. I've used all of the above and yes, whatever BSD/Apache can do, so can NT/IIS. You probably need 5X as much processor speed and RAM to do the same things, but Windows & IIS can still pretty much do the same work as BSD and Apache.
The real problem IMHO is that Microsoft has nothing that even remotely compares to Sendmail. Without a world-class SMTP server(and Sendmail is the only one that I know of) I just don't see how they could handle a project of this magnitude.
I know there is a Sendmail for NT, but is it as solid and reliable as the UNIX version? My experience working with SMTP on NT tells me it wouldn't be, because it doesn't integrate with the OS as nicely as it does with UNIX. Correct me if I'm wrong.
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Are you sure this is the case? I'm not convinced, until I see some figures. The percentage of people of voting age actually voting may have gone down since the 1920's or 1930's, but I'm guessing its still a lot higher than it was in 1800. Each group given the right to vote(blacks, women, etc.) has dramatically increased the percentage of adults who vote, and you know it.
The reason we don't vote is because we feel it won't make a difference. I have a friend in Utah who already knows he is going to throw away his vote because that state is giving its electoral votes to Bush. It really doesn't matter that he would prefer Gore or Nader, his vote is going to get thrown away.
If we had a real democracy, where a vote really was a vote, I think we would see a much higher turnout and more participation.
As a side note, I suggest you go back and reexamine your patrician viewpoints. You are not better than anyone else because you were born into a good family and have money. We don't need a class of superiors making decisions for us. As far as I'm concerned, there is very little difference between people that can't be explained by environment. Regardless of your background or wealth or your families social status you should have the opportunity to succeed in this country. Abraham Lincoln had that opportunity in his day - he was among the poorest of the poor growing up. Today he probably would not have the same chance -you need lots of money and social status to become President. The only way we can reclaim that opportunity for everyone is to make each person's vote count. And that is a step toward real democracy and away from republican government.
Now, no one from Microsoft is going to tell me that using an OpenBSD firewall is going to make my website more secure. Yet this is the type of thing that a good sysadmin will be able to do. You have to understand enough not to be dependent on any particular vendor.
Conversely, when I first became a sysadmin, I learned the concepts rather than the actual commands first. Regardless of what system you use(I started on AIX), the basic tasks are the same. You have to monitor the system, add/replace hardware, add/delete users, maintain a backup scheme, etc. etc. The actual commands or buttons you push are trivial. The concepts are what is important.
The fact that there might be someone out there clueless enough to omit this essential step is a far greater security concern than the fact that MS didn't include the changing of the sa password in the install wizard. Bottom line is, if you expect to be secure, you have to have people who know what they are doing. Someone has to read between the lines of all the GUI's and wizards and actually know what is going on.
From my point of view, the PC's in my business need to have 1)an Office suite capable of opening and saving Office documents(.doc, .xls, etc) 2)Web browser and email capability 3) terminal emulation, specifically IBM 3151. Complex graphical applications, games, etc are not used and/or needed on the average PC on my network.
I suspect there are many others just like myself who only need to provide basic Office, browsing, and shell services on their PC networks. That's why Linux is nearly there, whereas replacing Windows for home use will take longer. Linux doesn't yet have the widespread games, graphics programs, etc. that make Windows popular with home users.
That, I hope, sufficiently explains the 1-year for business vs. the 5 years for home user difference that Linux was speaking of.
My suggestion for you would be to download a program like WebCopier(you can find it at tucows) so you can download the whole directory at once, no clicking required. I'm not sure what the Linux equivalent would be, but there's undoubtedly something on freshmeat. Then do a global search and replace from the mysql site to your own site or directory. Besides, wouldn't you prefer HTML to PDF? :)
"Vaporware is a victimless crime. Kind of like punching someone in the dark."
If the difference in the British and American versions of 'Whose Line Is It Anyway' is any kind of indication of the general difference between British and American TV, I most wholeheartedly agree.
I'm an American, but you Brits have us beat in the humor(humour?) on TV department. By a long way.
correction for the above why can't they freely hack the Linux OS?
Then how do you explain MS Office for Macintosh? And besides, why they freely hack the Linux OS? Perhaps even offer a distro?
Which probably explains why one of the biggest goals in the slashcode is database independence.
With 200,000+ users, slashdot is not exactly a small application anymore.
In fact, I got the O'Reilly book on MySQL(don't get this one, get the New Riders book if you need to have a book.) and I found myself referring to the MySQL help file for most things. I certainly trust it more than the book for correct information.
Is your school going to give you a PhD without making you sign over your work to UMI? I highly doubt it. No more likely, you will sign over your work or you won't get your doctorate.
Fer instance, you believe, as many others do, that there will be a 'one-world' government. But think about it. The 'mark of the beast' technology is already here, ready to be deployed. Do you really see the U.S. giving up its sovreignty in the next 10 or 20 years? I just don't see it happenning. Not to mention that the original prophets had never even heard of the western hemisphere. Their final government was really more a modern version of the Roman Empire(city with seven hills). I've seen a few end-of time interpretations that claim the antichrist govt. will form out of the European Union - a sort of Hitler or Napoleon on steroids.
The thing is, if you go by a strict interpretation, you are almost certainly going to be wrong and you are setting yourself up for disappointment when things don't go as you planned and you find out you are not the perfect Christian soldier you thought yourself to be.
Its your character and your faith that matter, not your interpretation of prophecy. Developing these will help you far more than trying to divine the future.
Something like this might fly in Europe but not in the U.S. One of our deep seated myths(as has been posted many times in this discussion) is the 666/number of the beast myth. People have been saying for years how the antichrist will take over the government and force everyone to be branded with a number(barcode) - if you refuse the mark you will not be able to buy or sell anything and therefore will perish.
Regardless of any advantages a digital implant might bring, this prevalent myth will destroy its chances in the U.S. It will be interesting to see if it takes off in Europe while the U.S. denies this technology because of its superstition.
Personally, I side with the fundamentalists and zealots on this issue. A digital tracking device is just too much of an invasion of privacy and is subject to too much abuse to make it worthwhile.
C'mon, this guy is running a laundry. What great ideals is he promoting? The right to display porn in front of a junior high school? He has a technical issue, but I fail to see the great social consenquence of any action he could possibly take.
The real problem with filtering software is that it blocks sites that rightfully should be let through. But again, this is a laundry, not a school and not a library. My suggestion would be for this person to help out with an open-source filter, if there is such a thing. Perhaps his laundry business could contribute to the development of such a project. But I don't see the social implication of a laundry employing restricive software, even if it does block worthwhile sites. If its illegal for him to show any pr0n whatsoever, protesting the law by allowing it anyway(especially in front of a school) is not going to further his cause.
I think that will be at least as effective as any filter, but if you have to, filter by words stronger than 'breast'. You should still be able to get rid of most of the pr0n if you check all the metatags.
#
$Conn = $Server->CreateObject("ADODB.Connection");
# Open a system DSN
#
$Conn->Open( "ADOSamples" );
# Execute an SQL Query
#
$RS = $Conn->Execute( "SELECT * FROM Orders" );
# Read a property to get the number of columns
# present in the Recordset returned from the
# query.
#
$count = $RS->Fields->{Count};
# Print out the names of each column
#
for ( $i = 0; $i $Response->Write( $RS->Fields($i)->Name );
$Response->Write("
");
};
# Loop the Recordset until there are no more records
#
while ( ! $RS->{EOF} ) {
for ( $i = 0; $i $Response->Write(" ");
$Response->Write($RS->Fields($i)->{Value});
$Response->Write("
");
};
# Move to the next record
#
$RS->MoveNext();
};
# Close the Recordset
#
$RS->Close();
$Conn->Close();
%>
Of course, a real entry would leave out the comments. Whaddya think? Would this qualify?
Bullshit.
We will see the world turned into walled communities, where those inside live high on the hog, and those outside get to live in shantytowns and garbage dumps. That's where the corporate republic is leading us.
Corporations do not care about anything except the bottom line. They could care less about any ideals such as freedom or love for your fellow man. They don't give a shit about the environment. They don't give a shit that they rape 3rd world countries and leave the citizens there with nothing. As long as their stock value looks good, that's all that matters.
At any rate, Hemos gave a perfectly satisfactory answer to this in a previous article. Slashdot/Andover contracts with all of their advertisers independently and does not deal directly with ad companies. However, certain advertisers have all their advertising done through doubleclick et. al. So to display those ads on Slashdot, they have to pull it from the doubleclick ad server.
I'm not trying to kiss up to anyone here, just pointing out that I believe Slashdot is not being hypocritical by displaying ads that come off a doubleclick server. However, they probably should figure out a way for those ads not to set a cookie.
Now I've never worked with these billboard systems before so I have to ask: Exactly how does a live billboard encounter a situation where the add hardware wizard pops up?
I can see it now. Two geeks are assigned to replace the video card for this system.
Geek #1: OK, #2, this is your first time on this job so you might be surprised. That billboard takes a video signal just like any other monitor. Its just an average PC system so this job will be cake.
Geek #2: Cool! So all we have to do is take a spare monitor and a video card up there.
Geek #1: Well yeah, but we don't need the monitor. We'll just watch the progress from the billboard.
But the obvious question is: why is sendmail part of OpenBSD and not this?
Please. That has got to be one of the most biased things I've ever seen. How could you possibly get a good idea of how NT or Win2K performed in comparison to Solaris or Linux by reading that. Its no different than accepting the (Microsoft sponsored) mindcraft benchmarks, which show NT and IIS to be head and shoulders above everything else as a web server.
Bias is bias no matter where it comes from and I will religiously avoid it when it comes time to making decisions. The kirch papers can only possibly serve to make you feel good about choosing Linux/Solaris, while mindlessly spewing the evils of Microsoft. They certainly can't be classed as intelligent analysis or comparison.
The real problem IMHO is that Microsoft has nothing that even remotely compares to Sendmail. Without a world-class SMTP server(and Sendmail is the only one that I know of) I just don't see how they could handle a project of this magnitude.
I know there is a Sendmail for NT, but is it as solid and reliable as the UNIX version? My experience working with SMTP on NT tells me it wouldn't be, because it doesn't integrate with the OS as nicely as it does with UNIX. Correct me if I'm wrong.