That's just a bogus gimmick. If you register at the comdex site (send them your name, email, address, etc), or actually buy one of the programs (like Linux Global Summit) you can get the exhibit pass for free. Plus I've seen thousands of places also offering this "deal", people have sent me chain letter style emails, "Oh look, you can get this for free!".
It's all marketing. But what I wanna know, is can I get a refund of the $45, since I've already registered and paid the $195?
Could it be said that only MS-type people would fall for this? If someone came up and said, "Hey, join this class, all you have to do it point and click," I'd be rather scepticle. But that's me, not these 12.:)
There needs to be a stigma attached to sucking at academics, otherwise it turns out to be ok to sit on welfare and do nothing but have barbecues in your driveway during the day, and lots of sex at night.
Unfortunately today the common chant all over the country (media especially) is that being offended (negative stigmas) is the #1 problem we have and must be stopped. As well, coddling stupidty is the chic thing now, to show you "care," which just happens to be the primary trait people want in others (take Clinton, for example, he doesn't stand for any principles, but he cares so it's all right). So I don't see much anything possible for a good 10 years or so.
One of my favorite stupid people stories is from a couple years back when like 80 or so high school seniors all get on a water slide and it collapses under the weight. I guess physics wasn't a required class there. Sure there were signs saying only one person allowed on the slide at a time, no horseplaying, people told them not to do it, etc. But dammit, it's the pool's fault that it collapsed, and they needed suing. A group of them even had the balls to go on NBC's dateline to say, "It's not our fault," and to get sympathy. Does anyone know what ever became of that lawsuit? If the kids win, the slide is constructed to hold 80-100 people (more likely put out of business, but anyway), then 200 people will jump on and another lawsuit is launched. And we go on forever, coddling stupidity, punishing normal people.
Anyway, that's my piece. We're in a sad state here in the US, and it won't get any better anytime soon.
Most of the USPS will be unharmed because the system is run like a beowulf cluster. Little post offices all over the country collect a very small amount of mail destined for some lawyer/company's office. Not until it all arrives at the post office of the lawyer/company would it get bogged down. Even then, how much would 75,000 envelopes weigh? The could probably fit in a mail truck or two. So it's not like they're bogged down to the point of collapsing.
On the other hand, I could see the post master general on another stamp hike, "Due to the proliferation of companies demanding domains from individuals, and Slashdot.org, we will not have to increase postage rates for the next 10 years."
This is a common attitude I've seen as well. For computer geeks like myself (except that they are MS-lovers), I've gotten them to not immediately dismiss Linux by showing them my system and all I can do with it; things like IP masq'ing your home LAN to the Internet, the LRP (it does all that from a floppy?), KDE (it really does ease their minds that Linux is this terrible/difficult OS), Samba (so they can keep a Win box around and communicate with it), VMWare (though it'll cost money, it's still worthwhile), INN and Suck (mirroring all newsgroups that I want), Apache (for custom bookmark homepage, or web development at home instead of having to upload pages to the ISP), etc.
That works great for computer people, for others this approach works to an extent. Concentrate on end-user apps, KOffice will be powerful once it's out (or maybe it is now, haven't gotten around to trying it), or StarOffice/WordPerfect, various EMail readers, stability, etc. Although one thing these people like to do is just shut off the power without properly shutting down. Then they end up with bunches in lost+found. Perhaps mixing locate with md5sums of files, then automatically moving things that match up out of lost+found to their proper location would help a bit.
Most people can be swayed by real-life demonstrations. Show them that they can do what the do currently, only better, more of it, most stable. And on top of all that, most all of it is free.
It comes down to the MS philosophy that since you don't have source code to the OS, you can never be sure when you need to reboot. So, do reboot for everything. That way you can be assured the computer will re-read the registry, etc and load all the new settings.
In Linux, I know shutting down a device with ifconfig, and bringing it up with a new ip does just that. So there's no reboot necessary.
One thing I've wanted to do but never got around to it is to sit in say a large IRC channel, like #linux, there's always 100+ in there. Then just sit back and see how many times someone tries to telnet/ftp/etc into your box.
Something like that done live during a security seminar would certainly drive the point that you can't take this lightly.
The one suggestion I saw the most in the previous article was a way to see what a moderator has done, by moderate number 123 or so, to keep their anonymity.
Does XFree have anything in it to handle two normal 2d cards? Or could you just run a second X server, and have one monitor be display:0, and the other:1?
If someone wants Linux, looks at an FTP site and sees it's huge, they're at least a tiny bit computer saavy. If they can do that much, it wouldn't be unreasonable for them to search the internet for people selling RedHat (or any big distribution). A modest search is bound to turn up places like Cheapbytes with $2 CDs. And there you have it, RedHat (or whomever) is not making much of a profit off of you.
As far as making a living off GPL software, I've seen stories of people doing it in Linux Journal's Linux Means Business section. You can charge for the installation, maintenance, training, etc for say, a Point-of-Sale system. Just find a place to sell it to that doesn't have a Linux guru on hand.:)
Let's face it, there is no way to avoid lawsuits today. Everyone is offended by something, and being offended is our nations top priority to avoid. There is more sensitivity put into avoiding this than the family of a car accident victim on the news. My brother was killed in December, and the local news just had to be there at 6am showing every detail of it, live. That's how his wife found out. Trust me, it's not a way you'll want to learn about something like this. But don't get me started on the media.:)
Hell, my old university put in some wheelchair accessible entrances to one of the buildings a few years back. They were sued because they put the ramps on the side of the building, not the front main entrance. They were obviously shunning handicaps into using a different entrance. What else could it possibly be?? Well, until you went in that entrance, and found right near that door is where the elevator is. They did it for what they thought would be the convenience of handicap people, the building was long, and they'd have to roll a long distance to get to the elevator if they used the main, middle entrace. And yet, they were sued. I left before it was finally settled though, so don't know what the outcome was.
I know Netscape has some SDK to customize many parts of the browser. Where I work, they have the whole Properties->Advanced->Proxies section greyed out so you can't edit it. That's one alternative, until someone figures out you can download Netscape off their ftp and install a new version over the protected. I don't know if Netscape has a SDK to customize the Linux version...
Ouch. But you have got me wondering, is there some web site that is sort of a big repository of cable info for different parts of the country (or world)?
I have been in talks about a job there in Jacksonville. If the cable is that bad, what about outlieing areas? I'd definately want to know what sort of TV/Internet access I can get and the best area to get it if I do move down there.
It would be a nice sort of site, a Slashdot of city geek services.
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Not all MediaOners have modems. Out here in mid-illinois, there is no hope of it. Rarely does anyone at the office even know what a cable modem is.
In today's US, you can be guaranteed everything pisses at least one person off. So, in the spirit of political correctness, all must be banned.
I'd say, shut down the Internet, yeah! That'll solve it. And libraries, where do they get off having books that any kid can read, that's ridiculous. The constitution? It was made during the time of slavery, the writers had slaves, so it's all demonspawn. Yeah. The bible? Who pays any attention to that any more, come on. With all it's, "Thou shall not murder," and stuff. How can they expect us to go through life without murdering at least a handful of people! It's my constitutional right!
(For those readers with no sense, this was sarcastic, not literal.)
So, it's RedHat's fault for having a full CD's worth of packages. Or that you're connection is 56k. Yes, they should only have libc, a kernel, and maybe ls. That way it'll be fair to everyone.
Nonetheless, the point is that you can still download it youself, even if it takes a while. It's there, the server doesn't ban you if your rate drops below 100 k/s or anything. Your connection is your business, and only you can change that.
So, start writing code to do it. Sitting back and just wishing doesn't get anything done. You could start simply by writing a program that converts the files to a format the other can use. Then move on to writing code within both to allow them to use the other's format.
Some of the best programs started out by just being a program one person wanted, and then millions of others found useful too. Worldwide popularity is all that can come of it.
Every other phrase out of MS execs is, "users request it" about every confounded feature of MS program. Even the good Mr. Muth said you need OS integration to embed a spreadsheet into a word processor. Why? Because users request it. Forget corba, integration's the way to go...
Rather than downgrading Glibc, just remove the "#include " line in driver.c. It worked for me. Credit goes to another thread where some kind fellow posted patches, and I just skimmed through them and found this...
I like the User Space box. I can put my own links and all, but how about making it easier to add/change it via some scripts and lynx? I attempted to, and it erased all my other settings, because I didn't explicitly specify them in the URL. I was looking to place my IP in that area when my PPP link dies/reconnects.
I may have even crashed slashdot, it was giving server errors for like 10 minutes after I did that. But's it looks fixed now. I just had to go back in and re-add all my info. But it's still a hassle. A script would have to read in all the current settings, and re-save them, just to change the user space bit.
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That's just a bogus gimmick. If you register at the comdex site (send them your name, email, address, etc), or actually buy one of the programs (like Linux Global Summit) you can get the exhibit pass for free. Plus I've seen thousands of places also offering this "deal", people have sent me chain letter style emails, "Oh look, you can get this for free!".
It's all marketing. But what I wanna know, is can I get a refund of the $45, since I've already registered and paid the $195?
That's when someone like RMS (or the successor to ESR) needs to come in and break out a can of whoop ass.
Could it be said that only MS-type people would fall for this? If someone came up and said, "Hey, join this class, all you have to do it point and click," I'd be rather scepticle. But that's me, not these 12. :)
There needs to be a stigma attached to sucking at academics, otherwise it turns out to be ok to sit on welfare and do nothing but have barbecues in your driveway during the day, and lots of sex at night.
Unfortunately today the common chant all over the country (media especially) is that being offended (negative stigmas) is the #1 problem we have and must be stopped. As well, coddling stupidty is the chic thing now, to show you "care," which just happens to be the primary trait people want in others (take Clinton, for example, he doesn't stand for any principles, but he cares so it's all right). So I don't see much anything possible for a good 10 years or so.
One of my favorite stupid people stories is from a couple years back when like 80 or so high school seniors all get on a water slide and it collapses under the weight. I guess physics wasn't a required class there. Sure there were signs saying only one person allowed on the slide at a time, no horseplaying, people told them not to do it, etc. But dammit, it's the pool's fault that it collapsed, and they needed suing. A group of them even had the balls to go on NBC's dateline to say, "It's not our fault," and to get sympathy. Does anyone know what ever became of that lawsuit? If the kids win, the slide is constructed to hold 80-100 people (more likely put out of business, but anyway), then 200 people will jump on and another lawsuit is launched. And we go on forever, coddling stupidity, punishing normal people.
Anyway, that's my piece. We're in a sad state here in the US, and it won't get any better anytime soon.
Most of the USPS will be unharmed because the system is run like a beowulf cluster. Little post offices all over the country collect a very small amount of mail destined for some lawyer/company's office. Not until it all arrives at the post office of the lawyer/company would it get bogged down. Even then, how much would 75,000 envelopes weigh? The could probably fit in a mail truck or two. So it's not like they're bogged down to the point of collapsing.
On the other hand, I could see the post master general on another stamp hike, "Due to the proliferation of companies demanding domains from individuals, and Slashdot.org, we will not have to increase postage rates for the next 10 years."
Makes you wonder what'll happen in the next year and half with the presidential election...
I can see it now, the winner making his thanks speech, "I'd like to thank God, my family, and Slashdot for their overwhelming support..."
Microsoft contends that it is not even legal to use a 3rd party web server package such as O'Reilly's with NT Workstation.
That's certainly interesting, but where do you get it? Is there something in the workstation EULA that says you can't run server programs?
This is a common attitude I've seen as well. For computer geeks like myself (except that they are MS-lovers), I've gotten them to not immediately dismiss Linux by showing them my system and all I can do with it; things like IP masq'ing your home LAN to the Internet, the LRP (it does all that from a floppy?), KDE (it really does ease their minds that Linux is this terrible/difficult OS), Samba (so they can keep a Win box around and communicate with it), VMWare (though it'll cost money, it's still worthwhile), INN and Suck (mirroring all newsgroups that I want), Apache (for custom bookmark homepage, or web development at home instead of having to upload pages to the ISP), etc.
That works great for computer people, for others this approach works to an extent. Concentrate on end-user apps, KOffice will be powerful once it's out (or maybe it is now, haven't gotten around to trying it), or StarOffice/WordPerfect, various EMail readers, stability, etc. Although one thing these people like to do is just shut off the power without properly shutting down. Then they end up with bunches in lost+found. Perhaps mixing locate with md5sums of files, then automatically moving things that match up out of lost+found to their proper location would help a bit.
Most people can be swayed by real-life demonstrations. Show them that they can do what the do currently, only better, more of it, most stable. And on top of all that, most all of it is free.
Some people will never be happy. That's primarily what that is.
KDE's obviously the biggest project using Qt. There are a few other applications that use it as well though.
It comes down to the MS philosophy that since you don't have source code to the OS, you can never be sure when you need to reboot. So, do reboot for everything. That way you can be assured the computer will re-read the registry, etc and load all the new settings.
In Linux, I know shutting down a device with ifconfig, and bringing it up with a new ip does just that. So there's no reboot necessary.
One thing I've wanted to do but never got around to it is to sit in say a large IRC channel, like #linux, there's always 100+ in there. Then just sit back and see how many times someone tries to telnet/ftp/etc into your box.
Something like that done live during a security seminar would certainly drive the point that you can't take this lightly.
The one suggestion I saw the most in the previous article was a way to see what a moderator has done, by moderate number 123 or so, to keep their anonymity.
Otherwise, it looks great.
Does XFree have anything in it to handle two normal 2d cards? Or could you just run a second X server, and have one monitor be display :0, and the other :1?
If someone wants Linux, looks at an FTP site and sees it's huge, they're at least a tiny bit computer saavy. If they can do that much, it wouldn't be unreasonable for them to search the internet for people selling RedHat (or any big distribution). A modest search is bound to turn up places like Cheapbytes with $2 CDs. And there you have it, RedHat (or whomever) is not making much of a profit off of you.
:)
As far as making a living off GPL software, I've seen stories of people doing it in Linux Journal's Linux Means Business section. You can charge for the installation, maintenance, training, etc for say, a Point-of-Sale system. Just find a place to sell it to that doesn't have a Linux guru on hand.
Let's face it, there is no way to avoid lawsuits today. Everyone is offended by something, and being offended is our nations top priority to avoid. There is more sensitivity put into avoiding this than the family of a car accident victim on the news. My brother was killed in December, and the local news just had to be there at 6am showing every detail of it, live. That's how his wife found out. Trust me, it's not a way you'll want to learn about something like this. But don't get me started on the media. :)
Hell, my old university put in some wheelchair accessible entrances to one of the buildings a few years back. They were sued because they put the ramps on the side of the building, not the front main entrance. They were obviously shunning handicaps into using a different entrance. What else could it possibly be?? Well, until you went in that entrance, and found right near that door is where the elevator is. They did it for what they thought would be the convenience of handicap people, the building was long, and they'd have to roll a long distance to get to the elevator if they used the main, middle entrace. And yet, they were sued. I left before it was finally settled though, so don't know what the outcome was.
I know Netscape has some SDK to customize many parts of the browser. Where I work, they have the whole Properties->Advanced->Proxies section greyed out so you can't edit it. That's one alternative, until someone figures out you can download Netscape off their ftp and install a new version over the protected. I don't know if Netscape has a SDK to customize the Linux version...
Ouch. But you have got me wondering, is there some web site that is sort of a big repository of cable info for different parts of the country (or world)?
I have been in talks about a job there in Jacksonville. If the cable is that bad, what about outlieing areas? I'd definately want to know what sort of TV/Internet access I can get and the best area to get it if I do move down there.
It would be a nice sort of site, a Slashdot of city geek services.
Not all MediaOners have modems. Out here in mid-illinois, there is no hope of it. Rarely does anyone at the office even know what a cable modem is.
In today's US, you can be guaranteed everything pisses at least one person off. So, in the spirit of political correctness, all must be banned.
I'd say, shut down the Internet, yeah! That'll solve it. And libraries, where do they get off having books that any kid can read, that's ridiculous. The constitution? It was made during the time of slavery, the writers had slaves, so it's all demonspawn. Yeah. The bible? Who pays any attention to that any more, come on. With all it's, "Thou shall not murder," and stuff. How can they expect us to go through life without murdering at least a handful of people! It's my constitutional right!
(For those readers with no sense, this was sarcastic, not literal.)
So, it's RedHat's fault for having a full CD's worth of packages. Or that you're connection is 56k. Yes, they should only have libc, a kernel, and maybe ls. That way it'll be fair to everyone.
Nonetheless, the point is that you can still download it youself, even if it takes a while. It's there, the server doesn't ban you if your rate drops below 100 k/s or anything. Your connection is your business, and only you can change that.
Where might one find the source for this stat, that 60% of oracle servers ship with Linux?
So, start writing code to do it. Sitting back and just wishing doesn't get anything done. You could start simply by writing a program that converts the files to a format the other can use. Then move on to writing code within both to allow them to use the other's format.
Some of the best programs started out by just being a program one person wanted, and then millions of others found useful too. Worldwide popularity is all that can come of it.
Every other phrase out of MS execs is, "users request it" about every confounded feature of MS program. Even the good Mr. Muth said you need OS integration to embed a spreadsheet into a word processor. Why? Because users request it. Forget corba, integration's the way to go...
Rather than downgrading Glibc, just remove the "#include " line in driver.c. It worked for me. Credit goes to another thread where some kind fellow posted patches, and I just skimmed through them and found this...
I like the User Space box. I can put my own links and all, but how about making it easier to add/change it via some scripts and lynx? I attempted to, and it erased all my other settings, because I didn't explicitly specify them in the URL. I was looking to place my IP in that area when my PPP link dies/reconnects.
I may have even crashed slashdot, it was giving server errors for like 10 minutes after I did that. But's it looks fixed now. I just had to go back in and re-add all my info. But it's still a hassle. A script would have to read in all the current settings, and re-save them, just to change the user space bit.
But still, good work, looks great.