on the radio awhile ago. The thing about it if you listen to him or read his stuff for any length of time it becomes clear that he really has not clue about the power we the geeks have. He really does think that all the big companies have all the good tools and that we as people have no tools to fight them. What he does not understand is that many people (that would be most of us) have and have the knowledge to use tools that are as good or better than what the corps and the gov have. For example check out rubberhose. This kind of stuff is power and it is the power in the hands of the people who know and maintain the tech to do everything he wants the government to do. His idea is that the only thing that can stand up to a large corp is a large government. He just does not understand that we the people have the tools to do this for ourselves.
Making this a legal part of hard drives would be very hard. It would require that somehow they get import controls on hard drives. That they get all the older drives out there to convert etc. etc. More likely is that some software just would not work on drives that do not have it. Think about it you can get DVDS that do not have or use the MPAAs copy protection it is not a legal mandate that they have to have it. You just can't have certain content if you don't. The same would go for drives odds are all the drive builders would build drives that have it and that don't. Just like Sony builds a DVD player that can use more than one region code. It would then be about content and OSS would win another one. Not to say it is not scary but unless you try and crack it to use some bit of software that needs it on a drive that does not have the protection it would never be illegal to have drives that do not have the protection and use software that does not care.
Oh get off it. No one is asking them to install software or admin the stinking boxen just to set down and work with some stuff. My 5 year old does very well on a Debian box thank you very much. He has been using a web browser since he was about ~3 and does very well with netscape for alot of the web content that is out there. As far as kids programs go check out the Debian Jr. stuff very cool most of it. Now it is not so much edutainment (Although the Arthur Titles seem to work well under Wine) as educational but still he loves the Letters and Numbers apps. I really don't understand what part of start up the program let them play with letters or whatever for awhile shut it down open a browser point them to www.pbskids.org let them play for a while. Go and do something else is so hard. Hell my 2 year old can do the freaking letters game. There is nothing hard about it. Now what parts of using Linux that would clearly be end user type stuff is hard?
Wanting to go open source is not always about money. I go opensource in everything I can and will search long and hard for a opensource solution. The firms I work with can more that afford closedsource alternatives. The issue is control as in who has it and I feel that any business that would give control of their software to another company does not understand the issues involved. This is why I know use the term open source instead of free. While free is more accurate opensource better convays the idea that it is about the source not the cost. That having been said having freeside set up configure and train you on their opensource product is a great idea.
This is kind of OT but in anycase. If you don't know what it is (I did not) follow the link and read about rubberhose. It is simply very cool and important they deserve to have our support. I'm going to send in a/. story on this it is important stuff.
Have you looked at the back or Running Linux? I saw something in there. In any case on the only LinuxPPC box that I deal with on a regular basis it has a Logitech trackball that works very well.
Not really true. I do a bit of consulting on the side (setting up and running networks for SOHOs between about 5-20 users). The really cool thing is if you have someone who knows what they are doing setting up a solid backend with Linux and *BSD is not really that hard and can be made to be almost unbreakable. In a pretty small/static network it does not take alot to admin it. I'm thinking most of the not-for-profits who would benefit most from this type of program could easily find someone willing to donate the couple of hours a week it would take to maintain such a system in particular since most of it could be done with SSH:). Maintaing the front end would not be that much harder if you were able to do it right from the start. I think for the backend there is no choice anyone not using *BSD and/or Linux needs to have the facts explained to them and in many situations it could work just as well on the front end.
Ok this is going nowhere fast. No as a matter of fact I do not feel superior now. And lets see who is the dick. Had you not changed my nick the link would have said "Here it is have fun" It would be you who is the dick.
I have to agree it has long been common knowledge that low level types get treated like dirt. But the tech fields do make a easy target for this kind of thing. For whatever reasons most people working at any tech firm are going to tend to be white and male or h1b visa types. Therefore it is very easy to claim that they are behind the curve in the race area. There may or may not be more that the firms can do about this but I don't think it is really their fault. Also keep in mind m$ has *very* deep pockets and are kind of hated by alot of people. I don't at the moment see alot of substance to this one, but with more info my mind could change.
No in truth you pay through the nose for the software. They will release the code but they won't GPL it and god have mercy on your soul if you do anything they don't like with it.
But of course to build a Niven ring you would have to clean out the solar system, to include the Oort cloud. And so there would be no Earth to send them to but you could toss them into Sol. In any case sign me up. I'll send you my resume.
This from O'Reilly if nothing else there are enough online chapters to give you an idea if it might be something you are looking for. Also just to echo while Netware may suck GroupWise and NDS are very good things and both can run on *nix.
Morning Troll );, but in any case OpenBSD is more secure out of the box than most Linux distros this is true but trust me I have seen some *BSD boxes that are wide open (we are talking winders open here) this is because people think that they have OpenBSD and they are safe they then go ahead add a slew of ports and open up all kinds of stuff. The simple fact is while it might be harder to secure a initial install of most Linux distros (Debian is quite easy if you want to be security minded when you first install and you have host security as a goal) most of them can be made almost as secure as a OpenBSD box and of course if you would rather use that then *BSD (and I can think of several places where I would) then it is important to know how. The thing I do agree with you on is reading about why OpenBSD is so secure by default and understanding the thought process behind it can *really* help in securing your Linux boxen. In short winders is the enemy *BSD and Linux can and do live very well together. So get over it and lets all have some fun.:)
AFAIK, most of the Greek/Roman epics to which you refer would have been pre year 1000. I can't think of any that where that late. Please inform me if I'm wrong. But you are right about the money thing. This is people voting for what they have read and since people don't read the classics anymore they are not there. The real crime here is not have Shakespeare (in the original Klingon of course) or the greats of the 19th century at all.
All I can say is that I'm shocked Harry Potter? It was good but the number 5 book of the last 1000 years I think not. Backstreet Boys? People will not be talking about that one in 1000 years. Special Edition. Naw the first edition sure that should have been up there but of course it really should have been Empire. That list is just sad of course it tells us where we are at. So to sum up we have a world where everybody celebrates a century a year early because they can't count to 10 and then votes for crap like this as the "best" I think I'll be killing myself now. Bye all.
I think the term "creationist" has a definition and that my paraphrase of it was pretty close. I would say that as I am defining terms you would not be a creationist. I also believe in God (read the full post). But you are right on a couple of points traditional evolutionary thinking does have some flaws but IMHO and I suspect you can agree with this so does a straight everything was put in place in 6 days ~4000 years ago viewpoint (which is what a strict creationist (as I understand and use the term and as I think most people do means someone who thinks Genises (SP?) 1 is a literal account of the creation) has some *very* serious flaws. Perhaps at this point in the game the best we can do is to describe what we see and know that somewhere, somehow there is a plan for it all. This is what I believe and what I think the official statement on the subject by my church mean at the end of the day. Do some research and you will see that there are some very serious problems with most English translations of the first book of the Bible (got around not being able to spell very well there) and that if you look at the Hebrew alot of it ends up making more sense and that science and religion really are not that far away from each other on this point. In short I was discounting "creationists" and from your post I would say that that term (as I defined it and as I think the first poster was using it) does not describe you or me but does describe some of the people who give religion a bad name. cheers.
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on the radio awhile ago. The thing about it if you listen to him or read his stuff for any length of time it becomes clear that he really has not clue about the power we the geeks have. He really does think that all the big companies have all the good tools and that we as people have no tools to fight them. What he does not understand is that many people (that would be most of us) have and have the knowledge to use tools that are as good or better than what the corps and the gov have. For example check out rubberhose. This kind of stuff is power and it is the power in the hands of the people who know and maintain the tech to do everything he wants the government to do. His idea is that the only thing that can stand up to a large corp is a large government. He just does not understand that we the people have the tools to do this for ourselves.
Making this a legal part of hard drives would be very hard. It would require that somehow they get import controls on hard drives. That they get all the older drives out there to convert etc. etc. More likely is that some software just would not work on drives that do not have it. Think about it you can get DVDS that do not have or use the MPAAs copy protection it is not a legal mandate that they have to have it. You just can't have certain content if you don't. The same would go for drives odds are all the drive builders would build drives that have it and that don't. Just like Sony builds a DVD player that can use more than one region code. It would then be about content and OSS would win another one. Not to say it is not scary but unless you try and crack it to use some bit of software that needs it on a drive that does not have the protection it would never be illegal to have drives that do not have the protection and use software that does not care.
Oh get off it. No one is asking them to install software or admin the stinking boxen just to set down and work with some stuff. My 5 year old does very well on a Debian box thank you very much. He has been using a web browser since he was about ~3 and does very well with netscape for alot of the web content that is out there. As far as kids programs go check out the Debian Jr. stuff very cool most of it. Now it is not so much edutainment (Although the Arthur Titles seem to work well under Wine) as educational but still he loves the Letters and Numbers apps. I really don't understand what part of start up the program let them play with letters or whatever for awhile shut it down open a browser point them to www.pbskids.org let them play for a while. Go and do something else is so hard. Hell my 2 year old can do the freaking letters game. There is nothing hard about it. Now what parts of using Linux that would clearly be end user type stuff is hard?
Wanting to go open source is not always about money. I go opensource in everything I can and will search long and hard for a opensource solution. The firms I work with can more that afford closedsource alternatives. The issue is control as in who has it and I feel that any business that would give control of their software to another company does not understand the issues involved. This is why I know use the term open source instead of free. While free is more accurate opensource better convays the idea that it is about the source not the cost. That having been said having freeside set up configure and train you on their opensource product is a great idea.
This is kind of OT but in anycase. If you don't know what it is (I did not) follow the link and read about rubberhose. It is simply very cool and important they deserve to have our support. I'm going to send in a /. story on this it is important stuff.
I think the whole point is that in this setup they would not have too.
Have you looked at the back or Running Linux? I saw something in there. In any case on the only LinuxPPC box that I deal with on a regular basis it has a Logitech trackball that works very well.
Not really true. I do a bit of consulting on the side (setting up and running networks for SOHOs between about 5-20 users). The really cool thing is if you have someone who knows what they are doing setting up a solid backend with Linux and *BSD is not really that hard and can be made to be almost unbreakable. In a pretty small/static network it does not take alot to admin it. I'm thinking most of the not-for-profits who would benefit most from this type of program could easily find someone willing to donate the couple of hours a week it would take to maintain such a system in particular since most of it could be done with SSH :). Maintaing the front end would not be that much harder if you were able to do it right from the start. I think for the backend there is no choice anyone not using *BSD and/or Linux needs to have the facts explained to them and in many situations it could work just as well on the front end.
Damn straight forget Mars I wanna go to Limbo. Being rather chaotic I think I'd fit in rather well.
In that case I take the stupid back.
Ok this is going nowhere fast. No as a matter of fact I do not feel superior now. And lets see who is the dick. Had you not changed my nick the link would have said "Here it is have fun" It would be you who is the dick.
I have to agree it has long been common knowledge that low level types get treated like dirt. But the tech fields do make a easy target for this kind of thing. For whatever reasons most people working at any tech firm are going to tend to be white and male or h1b visa types. Therefore it is very easy to claim that they are behind the curve in the race area. There may or may not be more that the firms can do about this but I don't think it is really their fault. Also keep in mind m$ has *very* deep pockets and are kind of hated by alot of people. I don't at the moment see alot of substance to this one, but with more info my mind could change.
here they even have a update that is not on the nytimes page yet.
is here use and abuse it.
Here it is, stupid.
Read the FAQ as to why this does not happen. Wait for a couple of hours they will be back up.
No in truth you pay through the nose for the software. They will release the code but they won't GPL it and god have mercy on your soul if you do anything they don't like with it.
It was in fact the very act of viewing the pics that the french were bitching about.
Of course this is all being paid for out ot Tito's pocket and has nothing at all to do with you. Grow up and stuff.
But of course to build a Niven ring you would have to clean out the solar system, to include the Oort cloud. And so there would be no Earth to send them to but you could toss them into Sol. In any case sign me up. I'll send you my resume.
This from O'Reilly if nothing else there are enough online chapters to give you an idea if it might be something you are looking for. Also just to echo while Netware may suck GroupWise and NDS are very good things and both can run on *nix.
Morning Troll );, but in any case OpenBSD is more secure out of the box than most Linux distros this is true but trust me I have seen some *BSD boxes that are wide open (we are talking winders open here) this is because people think that they have OpenBSD and they are safe they then go ahead add a slew of ports and open up all kinds of stuff. The simple fact is while it might be harder to secure a initial install of most Linux distros (Debian is quite easy if you want to be security minded when you first install and you have host security as a goal) most of them can be made almost as secure as a OpenBSD box and of course if you would rather use that then *BSD (and I can think of several places where I would) then it is important to know how. The thing I do agree with you on is reading about why OpenBSD is so secure by default and understanding the thought process behind it can *really* help in securing your Linux boxen. In short winders is the enemy *BSD and Linux can and do live very well together. So get over it and lets all have some fun. :)
AFAIK, most of the Greek/Roman epics to which you refer would have been pre year 1000. I can't think of any that where that late. Please inform me if I'm wrong. But you are right about the money thing. This is people voting for what they have read and since people don't read the classics anymore they are not there. The real crime here is not have Shakespeare (in the original Klingon of course) or the greats of the 19th century at all.
All I can say is that I'm shocked Harry Potter? It was good but the number 5 book of the last 1000 years I think not. Backstreet Boys? People will not be talking about that one in 1000 years. Special Edition. Naw the first edition sure that should have been up there but of course it really should have been Empire. That list is just sad of course it tells us where we are at. So to sum up we have a world where everybody celebrates a century a year early because they can't count to 10 and then votes for crap like this as the "best" I think I'll be killing myself now. Bye all.
I think the term "creationist" has a definition and that my paraphrase of it was pretty close. I would say that as I am defining terms you would not be a creationist. I also believe in God (read the full post). But you are right on a couple of points traditional evolutionary thinking does have some flaws but IMHO and I suspect you can agree with this so does a straight everything was put in place in 6 days ~4000 years ago viewpoint (which is what a strict creationist (as I understand and use the term and as I think most people do means someone who thinks Genises (SP?) 1 is a literal account of the creation) has some *very* serious flaws. Perhaps at this point in the game the best we can do is to describe what we see and know that somewhere, somehow there is a plan for it all. This is what I believe and what I think the official statement on the subject by my church mean at the end of the day. Do some research and you will see that there are some very serious problems with most English translations of the first book of the Bible (got around not being able to spell very well there) and that if you look at the Hebrew alot of it ends up making more sense and that science and religion really are not that far away from each other on this point. In short I was discounting "creationists" and from your post I would say that that term (as I defined it and as I think the first poster was using it) does not describe you or me but does describe some of the people who give religion a bad name. cheers.