He spends an hour a weekend removing spyware from his daughter's computer
If this is an every-weekend thing, he really needs to consider a change of tactics: Spend an hour a weekend beating some sense into his stupid stupid daughter! (and/or himself)
Even the *really* dumb punters that come to me with computers loaded to the gills with spyware crap don't come back with repeat problems after the first time. Clean the computers, put a couple of blocking whassnames, remove MSIE, MS Lookout Express, MSN Messenger, MS Media Player, replace with Firefox, Thunderbird, GAIM or Miranda IM and Media Player Classic/Real Alternative/Quicktime Alternative. Beat a bit of sense into the punter (not much, just an inkling of a clue is usually enough) and they go away... usually never to be re-infected.
What I find really interesting about this little hoo-haa is that, whilst eBay are pretending to be good citizen and making sure that buyers and sellers do The Right Thing(tm) with respect to Australian Goods and Services Tax (GST), they're cheating the Australian Government out of massive amounts of tax revenue at the same time.
Take an example: I sold an item on ebay.com.au recently. I'm an Australian tax paying Australian citizen living in Australia, I used the services of the Australian eBay subsidiary to sell an item to another Australian citizen/resident/taxpayer, made the financial dealing in Australian dollars between Australian banks. Following the deal, eBay Australia sent me an invoice for services rendered, a fee in Australian dollars which they require to be paid to my choice of an Australian bank account or by mailing a cheque or money order to an Australian address.
So I ask for an Australian Tax Invoice in accordance with Australian law. It seemed a reasonable request to me.
Now, all of a sudden, eBay are dancing around alternating between calling themselves "eBay Inc.", an American company, and "eBay AG" (what is that, Swiss, or German or something). They won't answer communications about Australian tax, their 'support' monkeys just hit the 'random diversion' button and send off irrelevant "Thank-you for contacting eBay support, here's some information about... a Duck" type replies.
I've had it with the fockers, after this little carry on, I'm gonna start whingeing at the tax office and the consumer whassname!
It's Austrailia charging sales tax on eBay auctions
Not quite. It's a 'Goods and Services Tax'. Australia doesn't have sales tax as such anymore - the GST was introduced a few years ago as a far easier to implement, apply and administer alternative. Trouble is, eBay seem to think they're exempt.
In Australia that's exactly what you're required by law to do.
You'd make less of a fool of yourself if you didn't waffle about subjects that you clearly know nothing about.
These types of activities are specifically excluded from Australian Goods and Services Tax (GST). If you're selling something privately, its not your usual business, etc, etc, then you don't have to provide a tax invoice, collect GST, etc. If you're selling to a business, then that business is required by law to withhold 48.5% of their payment to you in lieu of your providing them with a Tax Invoice and an Australian Business Number (ABN) unless you supply them with a receipt and a copy of the Statement by a supplier (reason for not quoting an ABN to an enterprise) form.
This isn't rocket science, its a standard and accepted way of operating privately within the tax system. I do it every time I provide a one-off service to a business in my capacity as a private individual, and I've never had a problem, nor has anyone come after me for GST.
Tax system here is a goddamn joke.
No, it's not. It actually works pretty well if you RTFM. It's certainly a damn sight better than the old system.
(It's worse for land. You're charged income tax on the money you use to buy the land, stamp duty when you buy, land tax every year by the state government, and land rates by the local council every quarter. Then when you sell the property there's a vendor tax. If you've made any money by renting it out that's more income tax you've got to pay.).
Now you're trying desperately to support a weak argument with a total non sequitur. Property taxes in Australia, particularly the ones you describe, are state matters, and have absolutely nothing to do with the Federal tax system that the article is about.
I suspect the logic is, if you're sending out requests for web and email through the same port, there might be conflicts?
Why would there be conflicts? A TCP connection is defined by four things... source IP, source port, destination IP, destination port. So long as any one of those four things is different from all the other connections currently being handled by, well, anyone, then it's a unique connection and its not going to tread on any other's toes.
Getting a box to listen on port 80 for SMTP and HTTP is gonna be a little trickier, but I suspect that isn't what you're trying to do.
Invariably, the reason is because his account is configured to the wrong SMTP server, depending on where he his located.
1) Configure his mail client to speak SMTP to mailhost.domainthatIcontrol.com, and to speak DNS to dnshost.domainthatIcontrol.com.
2)
Configure bind on dnshost.domainthatIcontrol.com to give different answers to the forward lookup on mailhost.domainthatIcontrol.com depending on where the request comes from.
If these guys donate Linux can they get as much credit by marking it up to the same huge numbers that clueless admins will be impressed by
As much as your post was probably intended to be a "donate something free" joke, there's an element of truth in what you say.
I work for one of the big four Universities in Sydney, Australia and well, we got (and continue to be) royally screwed by these IBM 'donations'.
Let me put it clearly: There is NO donation, the equipment that IBM claim to donate is not free. The way IBM work on these deals is that they ponce about making announcements and press releases and say look look, we gave all these free computers to this University, aren't we good corporate citizens and on the other side, they're shoving exclusive access deals under the noses of the IT purchasing folks in the individual faculties that 'benefit' from the 'donations'.
Basically, what IBM really say is "agree to buy all of your IT infrastructure from us for the next n years, or the donation is off".
Since the big announcements have often already been made, you're trapped between a rock and a hard place.
From a technical administration and IT purchasing point of view in these instritutions, 'donation' is just IBM-speak for 'Pwn3d'.
Once IBM have pwn3d you, you're screwed. On simple factors: It takes me 10 working days to get a written quote out of IBM for a thinkpad. I can generate the same written quote for a Dell Lattitude online in minutes - Dell give me direct access to the corporate ordering system. It taks IBM six weeks to deliver a Thinkpad once I've ordered it, an equivalent Dell takes a maximum of ten days. If I call IBM for support, I get patched through to darkest India (this is large corporate support remember - I get better IBM support from google). Dell give me no-extra-charge Gold Client support, speaking to actual English speakers who are actually in the same city as me.
But no, IBM made a 'donation', so I've got to be the good corporate citizen and buy from IBM.
So don't for a minute be suckered by this good citizen stuff IBM would have you believe. IBM don't even piss about with that long term strategy of building product knowledge into kids who will buy out of familiarity when they reach positions where they make reccomending and buying decisions, no. IBM set out to pwn their victims short term, first generation, right now. The load schools with tech equipment and reap the benefits 10 years later is a relatively honourable approach that Apple pioneered in the early eighties, but IBM are way too impatient for that.
Fuckers.
Re:Outsourced ?.
on
Layoffs at OSDL
·
· Score: 2, Interesting
Also Opensource should be world wide - based on the distribution of intelligence rather than $$$
That's precisely why there's very little significant OSS coming out of India. Read The Cathedral and the Bazaar and Homesteading the Noosphere and then read The Magic Cauldron. Take particular note of the bits about 'massive independant peer review', the ownership, tenure, customs and in particular the discussion of the quality of the programmers that make it in open source.
When you're done there, pick any forum on any web site anywhere in the world and look at the discussions of outsourcing to the third world and the devastating quality, communication and reputational problems that companies that make the mistake of outsourcing to India and similar third world countries suffer. Look at the standing joke that IBM, Dell, and Telstra technical support have become as a direct and specific result of their corporate decision to outsource to India.
Then come back here again and explain to us how exactly OSDN opening an office in darkest India would be a good thing.
Australian Customs are pretty strict on guns, and things that look like guns. Even the Old Namco Gun-Con for the original Playstation wasn't allowed in until the importers/manufacturers put flourescent orange tape up the sides. I wonder how we'll go with this one.
Having said that, one does see obviously illegal-import gaming 'guns' for sale at markets and stuff from time to time, and at least one online store in Australia claims to have stock of this PistolMouse, so some folks are sneaking under the radar.
Vertical mice aren't anything new though. I've been using the 3M 'Renaissance Mouse' for years now - I've got four of them in various places at home and work. A couple of random images courtesy google image search here.
A key point I've found with the 3M mice is that they're pretty hard to control for a few days, and you never really regain the fine control that you have with a regular horizontal mouse. I can't help but wonder if the relative lack of control will be a problem for gamers. Remember, this 'gun' must slide around on the surface of a table, so it's going to operate like a vertical mouse, not a free-moving gun. I often keep two mice plugged into my computers - one of these for long-term comfort, and a regular mouse for when I need fine control, say with photoshop or the Gimp.
By the way, do you guys ever wonder how these people access the internet and use Windowz when every software license mentions Syria, N Korea and other terrorist countries as a nono?
Easy Campesie: Open Source. The Open Source Definition has a clause that reads "The license must not discriminate against any person or group of persons.". So, if you want to call your software license an open source license, you can't put the "No Bad Guys" clause in there. Since there's plenty of software out there being released under licenses that are Open Source Initiative (OSI) approved, I'm thinking getting on the net legally (for western values of "legal") is easy.
Take that, and the likely complete disregard for Western Capitalist Pig software licenses that probably exists, and they can use all of the same software we use, only free-of-charge even for the commercial stuff!
It starts out as "The Plaintiff Daniel Wallace......"
and in the damages section changes to "The Defendant Daniel Wallace..."
I don't see the problem. He'll be a defendant before all of this is over, perhaps he's just pre-empting his eventual status. He doesn't appear to be stocked up on confidence, does he!
2. the IDS alerts then trigger shutting down their switch port and notify an admin. Depending on your switch port mapping database, you can even email the user.
It's not hard, but its harder to get right. Having IDS disable services without human evaluation/intervention has the potential to leave you open to an effectively self-enforced DOS attack.
The classic example is the IDS that shuts of port 25 for a couple of minutes whenever it detects an apparent attack. All you've gotta do to effectively DOS that is send a single 'looks like an attack' every four and a half minutes and they'll never receive any email.
Actually, the one I'm thinking of originally appeared on my radar in the form of a 'Singapore Girl' riding in a London Cab looking all serene, etc, etc. The fourth bit of the 'poem' that I'm looking for is, I think, actually the first... ie:
blah..blah..something..something
all around the world
never go away without you
my singapore girl
I could be completely wrong, but I think the one you quote - "great way to fly" is more recent. Thanks for buying into the discussion though - I'm sure we'll get to the bottom of this eventually. Maybe a post on airliners.net might be worth a try
It's illegal to share it though, because only the copyright holder has exploitation rights.
What does 'exploitation' mean in this context I wonder? I'd interpret it to mean "share for profit", does "share without profit" (ie: give copies to your friends, gratis) also constitute 'exploitation'?
RealPlayer is actually fairly competent on Linux, without being overblown.
Real Player is actually fairly competent on Win32 if you install it in the form of Real Alternative. Its effectively Real Player without the ad/spy/bloat ware and Media Player Classic bundled in a Win32 installer that Your Mumma could install. Very nice.
Just noticed that the same folks are doing something called Quicktime Alternative. Must give that a try too:-)
This cooperation may include Comcast providing available personally identifiable information about you to law enforcement or system administrators, including, but not limited to, username, subscriber name, and other account information.
That's all well and good, but is that legal? It depends on the jurisdiction I suppose, but if its not legal to share that kinda of information where Comcast are, then the clause is worthless (to them - very profitable to their victims!).
You can write anything you like in a contract, but if its not legal to do what the contract says you will do, a court won't uphold the contract.
Comcast could (and truth be known, Microsoft probably do) include a clause that says "In consideration of The Service you will deliver to us the genitals of your first born son on the third night after the first full moon following his first birthday". Unless they happen to stumble into a jurisdiction where trade in body parts is legal, they're shit out of luck as far as collecting on the deal goes.
Lots of people put wild and crazy stuff in contracts "because they can". Most times, all it takes is to point it out to the customer and say "Look, you signed... genitals please, now" and the customer will, ahem, swallow it. Occasionally you get a more astute punter who recognises that what they've been asked to do "just ain't right" and pushes back.
When Al Qaeda flew 737s into the world trade towers
No-one ever flew 737s into the world trade towers. ITYM 767s. The ones that landed in the pentagon and the paddock were 757s.
And anyway, WTF does any of this have to do with terrorism? It's a ridiculous link - a way to invoke Godwin without actually mentioning the 'n' word perhaps?
RBLs are advisory. RBLs do not block email. Which parts of this are y'all having so much damn trouble with. The operators of about 8 different RBL lists advise me (in response to a request for information that I initiate) that the MTA that has just contacted me is coming from an IP address that is known to have been used recently by a spammer. I choose to refuse to accept the proposed email delivery from that source on the strength of advice from one or more RBLs. (eight different ones, as it happens, on my home postfix server. It takes a full fifteen seconds for my smtp daemon to answer when you connect 'cos of all the lookups!!!).
Why is it so damn hard to grasp? Realtime Blackhole Lists do not block spam. Administrators and their policies block spam, and they've every right to choose what arrives on their boxes and what doesn't!
The original poster (article) has no right to get upset at anyone for my decision not to accept email from him. All he gets to do is F.O.A.D. Getting his royal whinge frontpage on slashdot is nice for him, but it's not a right or a guarantee.
Sorry, maybe it's 'cos it's so late, but I can't figure out how to contact you offline via slashdot. Very interested in what your company is doing, would you mind dropping me an email at from-slashdot-exekewtable@sonicbluebear.com please.
The Challenger incident (you Americans like to call it 'disaster' apparently!) was mission STS-51-L. The Columbia incident was mission STS-107.
AFAICS, NASA assigns a new mission number pretty much every time someone gets it in his head that it would be a good idea to fly a mission to achive "x". In practice, not all missions that are assigned numbers actually fly - some get canned for various reasons. Missions don't necessarily fly in numerical order. Various reasons - delays, political expediency, changing degrees of importance, readiness of payload, crew, shuttle to fly, etc, etc, cause missions to occur out of sequence sometimes.
I can't believe no-one posted the Gentoo Rice page
on
Gentoo 2005.0 Released
·
· Score: 0, Troll
Slashdot Mirror
If this is an every-weekend thing, he really needs to consider a change of tactics: Spend an hour a weekend beating some sense into his stupid stupid daughter! (and/or himself)
Even the *really* dumb punters that come to me with computers loaded to the gills with spyware crap don't come back with repeat problems after the first time. Clean the computers, put a couple of blocking whassnames, remove MSIE, MS Lookout Express, MSN Messenger, MS Media Player, replace with Firefox, Thunderbird, GAIM or Miranda IM and Media Player Classic/Real Alternative/Quicktime Alternative. Beat a bit of sense into the punter (not much, just an inkling of a clue is usually enough) and they go away... usually never to be re-infected.
This isn't rocket science.
Take an example: I sold an item on ebay.com.au recently. I'm an Australian tax paying Australian citizen living in Australia, I used the services of the Australian eBay subsidiary to sell an item to another Australian citizen/resident/taxpayer, made the financial dealing in Australian dollars between Australian banks. Following the deal, eBay Australia sent me an invoice for services rendered, a fee in Australian dollars which they require to be paid to my choice of an Australian bank account or by mailing a cheque or money order to an Australian address.
So I ask for an Australian Tax Invoice in accordance with Australian law. It seemed a reasonable request to me.
Now, all of a sudden, eBay are dancing around alternating between calling themselves "eBay Inc.", an American company, and "eBay AG" (what is that, Swiss, or German or something). They won't answer communications about Australian tax, their 'support' monkeys just hit the 'random diversion' button and send off irrelevant "Thank-you for contacting eBay support, here's some information about... a Duck" type replies.
I've had it with the fockers, after this little carry on, I'm gonna start whingeing at the tax office and the consumer whassname!
Not quite. It's a 'Goods and Services Tax'. Australia doesn't have sales tax as such anymore - the GST was introduced a few years ago as a far easier to implement, apply and administer alternative. Trouble is, eBay seem to think they're exempt.
You'd make less of a fool of yourself if you didn't waffle about subjects that you clearly know nothing about.
These types of activities are specifically excluded from Australian Goods and Services Tax (GST). If you're selling something privately, its not your usual business, etc, etc, then you don't have to provide a tax invoice, collect GST, etc. If you're selling to a business, then that business is required by law to withhold 48.5% of their payment to you in lieu of your providing them with a Tax Invoice and an Australian Business Number (ABN) unless you supply them with a receipt and a copy of the Statement by a supplier (reason for not quoting an ABN to an enterprise) form.
This isn't rocket science, its a standard and accepted way of operating privately within the tax system. I do it every time I provide a one-off service to a business in my capacity as a private individual, and I've never had a problem, nor has anyone come after me for GST.
Tax system here is a goddamn joke.
No, it's not. It actually works pretty well if you RTFM. It's certainly a damn sight better than the old system.
(It's worse for land. You're charged income tax on the money you use to buy the land, stamp duty when you buy, land tax every year by the state government, and land rates by the local council every quarter. Then when you sell the property there's a vendor tax. If you've made any money by renting it out that's more income tax you've got to pay.).
Now you're trying desperately to support a weak argument with a total non sequitur. Property taxes in Australia, particularly the ones you describe, are state matters, and have absolutely nothing to do with the Federal tax system that the article is about.
Why would there be conflicts? A TCP connection is defined by four things... source IP, source port, destination IP, destination port. So long as any one of those four things is different from all the other connections currently being handled by, well, anyone, then it's a unique connection and its not going to tread on any other's toes.
Getting a box to listen on port 80 for SMTP and HTTP is gonna be a little trickier, but I suspect that isn't what you're trying to do.
1) Configure his mail client to speak SMTP to mailhost.domainthatIcontrol.com, and to speak DNS to dnshost.domainthatIcontrol.com.
2) Configure bind on dnshost.domainthatIcontrol.com to give different answers to the forward lookup on mailhost.domainthatIcontrol.com depending on where the request comes from.
3) Profit!!!
Did they teach you that in RHCE class?
As much as your post was probably intended to be a "donate something free" joke, there's an element of truth in what you say.
I work for one of the big four Universities in Sydney, Australia and well, we got (and continue to be) royally screwed by these IBM 'donations'.
Let me put it clearly: There is NO donation, the equipment that IBM claim to donate is not free. The way IBM work on these deals is that they ponce about making announcements and press releases and say look look, we gave all these free computers to this University, aren't we good corporate citizens and on the other side, they're shoving exclusive access deals under the noses of the IT purchasing folks in the individual faculties that 'benefit' from the 'donations'.
Basically, what IBM really say is "agree to buy all of your IT infrastructure from us for the next n years, or the donation is off".
Since the big announcements have often already been made, you're trapped between a rock and a hard place.
From a technical administration and IT purchasing point of view in these instritutions, 'donation' is just IBM-speak for 'Pwn3d'.
Once IBM have pwn3d you, you're screwed. On simple factors: It takes me 10 working days to get a written quote out of IBM for a thinkpad. I can generate the same written quote for a Dell Lattitude online in minutes - Dell give me direct access to the corporate ordering system. It taks IBM six weeks to deliver a Thinkpad once I've ordered it, an equivalent Dell takes a maximum of ten days. If I call IBM for support, I get patched through to darkest India (this is large corporate support remember - I get better IBM support from google). Dell give me no-extra-charge Gold Client support, speaking to actual English speakers who are actually in the same city as me.
But no, IBM made a 'donation', so I've got to be the good corporate citizen and buy from IBM.
So don't for a minute be suckered by this good citizen stuff IBM would have you believe. IBM don't even piss about with that long term strategy of building product knowledge into kids who will buy out of familiarity when they reach positions where they make reccomending and buying decisions, no. IBM set out to pwn their victims short term, first generation, right now. The load schools with tech equipment and reap the benefits 10 years later is a relatively honourable approach that Apple pioneered in the early eighties, but IBM are way too impatient for that.
Fuckers.
That's precisely why there's very little significant OSS coming out of India. Read The Cathedral and the Bazaar and Homesteading the Noosphere and then read The Magic Cauldron. Take particular note of the bits about 'massive independant peer review', the ownership, tenure, customs and in particular the discussion of the quality of the programmers that make it in open source.
When you're done there, pick any forum on any web site anywhere in the world and look at the discussions of outsourcing to the third world and the devastating quality, communication and reputational problems that companies that make the mistake of outsourcing to India and similar third world countries suffer. Look at the standing joke that IBM, Dell, and Telstra technical support have become as a direct and specific result of their corporate decision to outsource to India.
Then come back here again and explain to us how exactly OSDN opening an office in darkest India would be a good thing.
this oughta be good.
IMTS "they're pretty hard to control accurately for a few days, until you get used to them", or WTTE.
Having said that, one does see obviously illegal-import gaming 'guns' for sale at markets and stuff from time to time, and at least one online store in Australia claims to have stock of this PistolMouse, so some folks are sneaking under the radar.
Vertical mice aren't anything new though. I've been using the 3M 'Renaissance Mouse' for years now - I've got four of them in various places at home and work. A couple of random images courtesy google image search here.
A key point I've found with the 3M mice is that they're pretty hard to control for a few days, and you never really regain the fine control that you have with a regular horizontal mouse. I can't help but wonder if the relative lack of control will be a problem for gamers. Remember, this 'gun' must slide around on the surface of a table, so it's going to operate like a vertical mouse, not a free-moving gun. I often keep two mice plugged into my computers - one of these for long-term comfort, and a regular mouse for when I need fine control, say with photoshop or the Gimp.
Easy Campesie: Open Source. The Open Source Definition has a clause that reads "The license must not discriminate against any person or group of persons.". So, if you want to call your software license an open source license, you can't put the "No Bad Guys" clause in there. Since there's plenty of software out there being released under licenses that are Open Source Initiative (OSI) approved, I'm thinking getting on the net legally (for western values of "legal") is easy.
Take that, and the likely complete disregard for Western Capitalist Pig software licenses that probably exists, and they can use all of the same software we use, only free-of-charge even for the commercial stuff!
You just don't get it, do you MORAN!
They mispelled 'Moran'. Should read 'Moran Says GPL is a price fixing scheme".
Morans.
I don't see the problem. He'll be a defendant before all of this is over, perhaps he's just pre-empting his eventual status. He doesn't appear to be stocked up on confidence, does he!
It's not hard, but its harder to get right. Having IDS disable services without human evaluation/intervention has the potential to leave you open to an effectively self-enforced DOS attack.
The classic example is the IDS that shuts of port 25 for a couple of minutes whenever it detects an apparent attack. All you've gotta do to effectively DOS that is send a single 'looks like an attack' every four and a half minutes and they'll never receive any email.
blah..blah..something..something
all around the world
never go away without you
my singapore girl
I could be completely wrong, but I think the one you quote - "great way to fly" is more recent. Thanks for buying into the discussion though - I'm sure we'll get to the bottom of this eventually. Maybe a post on airliners.net might be worth a try
What does 'exploitation' mean in this context I wonder? I'd interpret it to mean "share for profit", does "share without profit" (ie: give copies to your friends, gratis) also constitute 'exploitation'?
Real Player is actually fairly competent on Win32 if you install it in the form of Real Alternative. Its effectively Real Player without the ad/spy/bloat ware and Media Player Classic bundled in a Win32 installer that Your Mumma could install. Very nice.
Just noticed that the same folks are doing something called Quicktime Alternative. Must give that a try too :-)
Is it just me, or is Adobe being just a teensy bit hypocritical here?
That's all well and good, but is that legal? It depends on the jurisdiction I suppose, but if its not legal to share that kinda of information where Comcast are, then the clause is worthless (to them - very profitable to their victims!).
You can write anything you like in a contract, but if its not legal to do what the contract says you will do, a court won't uphold the contract.
Comcast could (and truth be known, Microsoft probably do) include a clause that says "In consideration of The Service you will deliver to us the genitals of your first born son on the third night after the first full moon following his first birthday". Unless they happen to stumble into a jurisdiction where trade in body parts is legal, they're shit out of luck as far as collecting on the deal goes.
Lots of people put wild and crazy stuff in contracts "because they can". Most times, all it takes is to point it out to the customer and say "Look, you signed... genitals please, now" and the customer will, ahem, swallow it. Occasionally you get a more astute punter who recognises that what they've been asked to do "just ain't right" and pushes back.
Let the fun begin.
No-one ever flew 737s into the world trade towers. ITYM 767s. The ones that landed in the pentagon and the paddock were 757s.
And anyway, WTF does any of this have to do with terrorism? It's a ridiculous link - a way to invoke Godwin without actually mentioning the 'n' word perhaps?
RBLs are advisory. RBLs do not block email. Which parts of this are y'all having so much damn trouble with. The operators of about 8 different RBL lists advise me (in response to a request for information that I initiate) that the MTA that has just contacted me is coming from an IP address that is known to have been used recently by a spammer. I choose to refuse to accept the proposed email delivery from that source on the strength of advice from one or more RBLs. (eight different ones, as it happens, on my home postfix server. It takes a full fifteen seconds for my smtp daemon to answer when you connect 'cos of all the lookups!!!).
Why is it so damn hard to grasp? Realtime Blackhole Lists do not block spam . Administrators and their policies block spam, and they've every right to choose what arrives on their boxes and what doesn't!
The original poster (article) has no right to get upset at anyone for my decision not to accept email from him. All he gets to do is F.O.A.D. Getting his royal whinge frontpage on slashdot is nice for him, but it's not a right or a guarantee.
Hi Dave,
Sorry, maybe it's 'cos it's so late, but I can't
figure out how to contact you offline via slashdot. Very interested in what your company is doing, would you mind dropping me an email at from-slashdot-exekewtable@sonicbluebear.com please.
Thanks!
B747SP
AFAICS, NASA assigns a new mission number pretty much every time someone gets it in his head that it would be a good idea to fly a mission to achive "x". In practice, not all missions that are assigned numbers actually fly - some get canned for various reasons. Missions don't necessarily fly in numerical order. Various reasons - delays, political expediency, changing degrees of importance, readiness of payload, crew, shuttle to fly, etc, etc, cause missions to occur out of sequence sometimes.
... so here it is! GENTOO is Rice