Sure. Which OS? Get back to me when you've got it running on AIX, FreeBSD, OpenBSD, NetBSD, SCO, OSX, Linux, Solaris and the other *nixes that KDE runs on. Until then, it will have to be implemented at a higher level.
As I recall, it was classed as an herbal. I did not refer to the state or philosophical nature of Fen Phen, but rather the legal classification (and resulting poor regulation) under which it was sold.
They also heavily fund public broadcasting and the arts. In fact, when the Vioxx thing happened, that was the first association I made to their corporate name. A very ethical company indeed.
Fen-Phen was an herbal, and thus not under the purvey of the FDA. In addition, when examined, it turned out not to have the ingredients it was advertised as having (it lacked ephedrine, for instance). When you're scamming people with herbal remedies, it's easy to take one more step and just sell "magic pills" made of starch.
Lua is a fantastic language for embedding... even if you have no interest whatsoever in game programming, it is worth a download to play with the system.
Funny, you talk quite a bit about "socialism" and "demographic data".
Me? I see it as a guy asking a question and a bunch of people commenting on it. I'm not sure what you might call it in modern parlance, but I refer to this social activity as... "talking".
You can do this in person, too. In fact, I and several other people get together on Wednesday nights to construct the highly refined social dynamic known as "chatting over beers". Give me a $50k grant, and I'll start a study.
Ask yourself this.. Is it worth your time trying to figure out open source if it can do this, or Pay a consultant, or buy commerical hardware/software and hope for the best?
The first thing I'd do is talk to a bunch of different people and see what they think. There's a new thing called the "Internet" that allows you to do this. You might look into it - it hasn't quite gotten the whole "beer" aspect down yet, but I've heard good things about Hefe Weizen via IPv6.
Heh. So I hit Truckstop.net's site, and it appears that I was right for the wrong reason. There's now a "We sued Sprint because the equipment they sold us was faulty, they just shut off our bandwidth" press release linked in the center of the first page on the website.
Sumbitch. And I just paid for another month. I'd be wary about Sprint if you're looking to partner.
Well, he's also asking a large group of people who are more likely to be using a paid service and have experiences with the user end and/or be admins for pay-per-play wifi companies.
Truckstop.net uses a nice and easy system for the user end. I can't recall the software off the top of my head, but a simple Google will find it - they did several press releases about the software they were using, and the software company has Truckstop.net listed as a success story on their website. Obviously, this means they are a commercial software provider. But it works well with my Linux laptop and my SO's Powerbook... and keeps us from using the same account at the same time. I've renewed a few times, and it was a easy "pick a plan, add minutes" affair.
Of course, I know all this because they are currently down, and I was Googling to see who their bandwidth provider is (since they blame it on them). Looks like Sprint. Other than the current outage, good service.
KDE does something vaguely similar with the audiocd:// URL.
Reiser4 could accomplish something like this, if I've read correctly. You can access files as directories containing virtual subfiles. Those are provided by plugins, the most obvious being to set metadata and ACL information.
Not all that implausible. When a company loses a bird, they are sometimes sell them for various uses or for salvage potential. In at least one case, the purchasing company managed to get a satellite that had been injected into orbit incorrectly back into a useful orbit, thus making a serious (but high risk) profit.
One of the coolest "minor" things I've seen was a result of that. I had refilled a water bottle from the office water cooler and stuck it in the office freezer. I got on some calls and didn't get a chance to remove it until much later.
Normally I'd use it to make "instant iced coffee"... so I started to pour it into a cup. It poured out as a liquid and started piling up in a column of ice. VERY odd visual effect - it looked like something CG happening in real life. I called over some coworkers, and they thought it was one of the coolest things they had seen. It looked a bit like a "dribble castle", for those who have made them at the beach.
We tried to reproduce it later, but it never happened again.
Yes, I'd say that Postal 2 should not be given to young children. So I agree with them. The rest of the press release has such terrible and heavy handed censorship endorsement as:
"To parents and grandparents faced with confusing advertising and a vague and poorly promoted rating system for videogames, I say this: Take the time to learn about the worst games and steer clear of them. While I doubt that many parents or grandparents would deliberately put a copy of Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas in the hands of a pre-teen, it is all too easy to see how that could happen today."
The press release specifically and repeatedly mentions that this is aimed at seven and eight year olds. I'd also say that they shouldn't watch animated tenticle rape anime. Does this mean that I'm against anime? No... but I *would* mention something if I saw a parent getting a DVD of "Legend of the Overfiend" for their seven year old kid.
The core message is "Parents and grandparents: you may not play videogames, so be aware that there are videogames out there that aren't appropriate for little kids". Something that I doubt the majority of people here would disagree with.
It was the pro-video game guy who presented them in a vertical list. The list officially appears in the joint press release and is clearly identified as being in alphabetic order (which also makes it clear that it is more than just the ICCR that endorses this... in fact, the article linked to by Slashdot is downright misleading):
The five groups -- the Interfaith Center on Corporate Responsibility (ICCR), the National Council of Women's Organizations, Mothers Against Violence in America, Center for Advancement of Public Policy, Justice and Witness Ministries of the United Church of Christ and NYC Council Member Eric Gioia -- highlighted 10 video games as the worst in terms of violence (in alphabetical order): (1) Doom 3; (2) Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas; (3) Gunslinger Girls 2; (4) Half Life 2; (5) Halo 2; (6) Hitman: Blood Money (releases in 2005); (7) Manhunt; (8) Mortal Combat: Deception; (9) Postal 2; and (10) Shadow Heart. The list of problem games also extends to all earlier versions of the problem games, such as the Grand Theft Auto series and Hit Man series. The groups also voiced their concerns about a free, Web-based game "America's Army," which is used to promote enlistment in the U.S. Army, but is accessible to the youngest of children.
Corporation or individual, it makes no difference. You never said if the mechanic owned his own shop or worked for a global mega-corporation, and the key thing is: it doesn't matter.
If they can do it (and stay in business) and reimburse you, they are a good company. If they don't, they aren't. If they can't, well, that happens.
Being a small three man shop or being a huge billion dollar company makes no difference. They are both made up of individuals, and they do something and (hopefully) make a living doing it.
Sounds like you dealt with incompetence or bad luck. Both are found in great quantities in the real world... I just don't see a courtroom as an answer to either. Things balance out - at some point you'll look at something someone was paying you to do and say to yourself "Oh crap - I should have done it a different way".
Nope. Nor will the fellow allergic to peanuts get his money back for the time spent reading the menu at the local Thai restaurant. Nor can the person who bought the wrong oil filter return the filter to Pep Boys and demand $100 more back because of labor and time when you discovered it wouldn't fit.
I just got a bunch of furnature from Ikea. One package had something missing (a whole cloth bag, not something minor). I can return it, but I have to drive an hour and a half away to do so. I can't charge them for the time, and even if I could, it is petty and contributes to the general decline of society. They have generally good QC, and I'm generally happy.
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Soo...you make symbolic links from/etc/cron* to files in your ~/usr/etc/cron folder, then run unison to sync the dotfiles in your home directory with files in your ~/usr/etc/dot?
Not quite - I symlink the cron files as you say, but they mostly do things like report IP back to a dyndns, check for updates and watch for various things. The dotfiles are actually symlinked from my home directory to the files in $HOME/usr/etc/dot. For instance,
Because I want different settings on each machine, but I want to back up the settings.
My agreement with myself is that things can get messy in my home directory, but only below the first level of folders.
I'm almost the opposite. I can let $HOME/tmp get messy, but when something moves into the "official" hierarchy, I make sure it is spelled and positioned correctly. For some things, I use four digit directories to prevent an overwhelming number of files. For instance, my girlfriend is seriously into corsets, so I wind up with lots of pictures of corsets. They exist in groups of about 150 or so in a set of directories that look like:
pub/image/fandom/costuming/corset/0001
pub/image/fandom/costuming/corset/0002
pub/image/fandom/costuming/corset/0003 ...and a few named ones...
pub/image/fandom/costuming/corset/baycon2004
pub/image/fandom/costuming/corset/bone
I currently have about 40 directories in tmp/image that are pending being backed up, indexed and placed into pub/image.
bin - contains a set of script files that do personal things, plus a handful of binaries.
doc - contains documents that I've created. Broken down quite carefully:
doc/coding - personal projects
doc/fandom - various groups and activities I do
doc/karma - a large software project I work on
doc/life - real world things: maps and notes about camp sites and dating ideas, family things
doc/photo - photos I have taken organized by date (doc/photo/year/month/day)
doc/photo/found - photos of friends I have found
doc/projects - various projects I work on, the cast I direct, etc.
doc/songs - songs I have written and notes on covers I perform
doc/system - notes on hardware, software and my network
doc/text - essays, stories, etc. that I have written
doc/work - memos and invoices (actual work files are below
ks - my primary work project, a large source tree
pub - data files I've downloaded or ripped/encoded.
pub/games - roms for emulators
pub/image - very organized images from all over the place, from 10th century tapestries to scans of Manning's fetish lineart.
pub/music - organized by genre
pub/text - ebooks (first level is erotica, fiction, nonfiction, reference, rpg and scripts).
pub/video - very very organized and quite deep. I've been encoding my extensive DVDs and VHS collection for quite awhile now.
usr - contains system settings, in $HOME so I can sync (more info later)
usr/etc/cron - network wide cronfiles, these sync everything and are symlinked.
usr/etc/dot - all my dot files ($HOME/.*). rc files and config directories. I sync my settings and back them up.
usr/etc/fileindex - index of pub (since pub doesn't exist on my laptop when I'm not NFSed to it).
usr/etc - also contains hosts and ssh info.
usr/install - tarballs and rpms to install everything the way I like it.
usr/log - chat logs and the like
usr/palm - my palm apps and backup/sync directories. I can drop text files in here and they appear as ebooks on my palm. Go KPilot!
usr/share - contains various media and configuration files. Top level under this are ( desktop fonts icons kde kde.betty kde.riffraff ksubtle menu.betty music people sound wallpaper ). The kde.hostname directories are my configs for my laptop and desktop, and $HOME/.kde/share symlinks to them. Thus my kde config is backed up and synced. music here are startup/shutdown and alert music. people are face shots of individuals for use in PIM apps. icons is a personal set of icons.
work - contains a directory for each client.
www - contains a mirror for each of the sites I maintain (my personal ones - the professional ones are way too big).
In addition to the above, I have a directory named pool on my laptop - that's media files (a few movies, tv shows, some talk radio programs) that I know I can delete without worry since they are in pub on the home file server. Stuff to watch when I'm waiting or bored.
I also have a tmp, which on my laptop NFS mounts to tmp on my home server. It contains inbound and unsorted items. I get about four gigs, burn, index the disc and then move them into pub. I can recreate pub with my spindles and index.
Finally I have a $HOME/betty on my laptop. My laptop's name is betty, and it contains anything that I downloaded directly to the laptop and I want to keep... sort of the opposite of $HOME/pool. Things here go to $HOME/tmp, and then go through the "burn/index/move to pub" cycle.
As a result, I can find any file I want in nearly a terabyte of data that goes back 25 years, some of it Apple ][ files BBS logs. I am not done indexing my offline media - I need to get a high quality turntable for some virgin vinyl that has content that has never been released on CD. Plus some VHS tapes that have never been (and is unlikely to be) released on DVD. I also have a small collection of 16mm and 35mm trailers for various odd and cult films.
Well, one unaccounted for variable is the fact that there are large numbers of hispanics in those counties that tend to be very Catholic. That's not true through most of the rest of Florida (at least not as much as in the tricounty area).
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Me? I see it as a guy asking a question and a bunch of people commenting on it. I'm not sure what you might call it in modern parlance, but I refer to this social activity as... "talking".
You can do this in person, too. In fact, I and several other people get together on Wednesday nights to construct the highly refined social dynamic known as "chatting over beers". Give me a $50k grant, and I'll start a study.
Ask yourself this.. Is it worth your time trying to figure out open source if it can do this, or Pay a consultant, or buy commerical hardware/software and hope for the best?
The first thing I'd do is talk to a bunch of different people and see what they think. There's a new thing called the "Internet" that allows you to do this. You might look into it - it hasn't quite gotten the whole "beer" aspect down yet, but I've heard good things about Hefe Weizen via IPv6.
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Sumbitch. And I just paid for another month. I'd be wary about Sprint if you're looking to partner.
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Truckstop.net uses a nice and easy system for the user end. I can't recall the software off the top of my head, but a simple Google will find it - they did several press releases about the software they were using, and the software company has Truckstop.net listed as a success story on their website. Obviously, this means they are a commercial software provider. But it works well with my Linux laptop and my SO's Powerbook... and keeps us from using the same account at the same time. I've renewed a few times, and it was a easy "pick a plan, add minutes" affair.
Of course, I know all this because they are currently down, and I was Googling to see who their bandwidth provider is (since they blame it on them). Looks like Sprint. Other than the current outage, good service.
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Reiser4 could accomplish something like this, if I've read correctly. You can access files as directories containing virtual subfiles. Those are provided by plugins, the most obvious being to set metadata and ACL information.
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Normally I'd use it to make "instant iced coffee"... so I started to pour it into a cup. It poured out as a liquid and started piling up in a column of ice. VERY odd visual effect - it looked like something CG happening in real life. I called over some coworkers, and they thought it was one of the coolest things they had seen. It looked a bit like a "dribble castle", for those who have made them at the beach.
We tried to reproduce it later, but it never happened again.
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Yes, I'd say that Postal 2 should not be given to young children. So I agree with them. The rest of the press release has such terrible and heavy handed censorship endorsement as:
"To parents and grandparents faced with confusing advertising and a vague and poorly promoted rating system for videogames, I say this: Take the time to learn about the worst games and steer clear of them. While I doubt that many parents or grandparents would deliberately put a copy of Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas in the hands of a pre-teen, it is all too easy to see how that could happen today."
The press release specifically and repeatedly mentions that this is aimed at seven and eight year olds. I'd also say that they shouldn't watch animated tenticle rape anime. Does this mean that I'm against anime? No... but I *would* mention something if I saw a parent getting a DVD of "Legend of the Overfiend" for their seven year old kid.
The core message is "Parents and grandparents: you may not play videogames, so be aware that there are videogames out there that aren't appropriate for little kids". Something that I doubt the majority of people here would disagree with.
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The five groups -- the Interfaith Center on Corporate Responsibility (ICCR), the National Council of Women's Organizations, Mothers Against Violence in America, Center for Advancement of Public Policy, Justice and Witness Ministries of the United Church of Christ and NYC Council Member Eric Gioia -- highlighted 10 video games as the worst in terms of violence (in alphabetical order): (1) Doom 3; (2) Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas; (3) Gunslinger Girls 2; (4) Half Life 2; (5) Halo 2; (6) Hitman: Blood Money (releases in 2005); (7) Manhunt; (8) Mortal Combat: Deception; (9) Postal 2; and (10) Shadow Heart. The list of problem games also extends to all earlier versions of the problem games, such as the Grand Theft Auto series and Hit Man series. The groups also voiced their concerns about a free, Web-based game "America's Army," which is used to promote enlistment in the U.S. Army, but is accessible to the youngest of children.
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Unless you want to argue that H comes after P in the alphabet, your point isn't very valid.
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If they can do it (and stay in business) and reimburse you, they are a good company. If they don't, they aren't. If they can't, well, that happens.
Being a small three man shop or being a huge billion dollar company makes no difference. They are both made up of individuals, and they do something and (hopefully) make a living doing it.
Sounds like you dealt with incompetence or bad luck. Both are found in great quantities in the real world... I just don't see a courtroom as an answer to either. Things balance out - at some point you'll look at something someone was paying you to do and say to yourself "Oh crap - I should have done it a different way".
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I just got a bunch of furnature from Ikea. One package had something missing (a whole cloth bag, not something minor). I can return it, but I have to drive an hour and a half away to do so. I can't charge them for the time, and even if I could, it is petty and contributes to the general decline of society. They have generally good QC, and I'm generally happy.
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Not quite - I symlink the cron files as you say, but they mostly do things like report IP back to a dyndns, check for updates and watch for various things. The dotfiles are actually symlinked from my home directory to the files in $HOME/usr/etc/dot. For instance,
There are some that look like:
Because I want different settings on each machine, but I want to back up the settings.
My agreement with myself is that things can get messy in my home directory, but only below the first level of folders.
I'm almost the opposite. I can let $HOME/tmp get messy, but when something moves into the "official" hierarchy, I make sure it is spelled and positioned correctly. For some things, I use four digit directories to prevent an overwhelming number of files. For instance, my girlfriend is seriously into corsets, so I wind up with lots of pictures of corsets. They exist in groups of about 150 or so in a set of directories that look like:
pub/image/fandom/costuming/corset/0001
...and a few named ones...
pub/image/fandom/costuming/corset/0002
pub/image/fandom/costuming/corset/0003
pub/image/fandom/costuming/corset/baycon2004
pub/image/fandom/costuming/corset/bone
I currently have about 40 directories in tmp/image that are pending being backed up, indexed and placed into pub/image.
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bin - contains a set of script files that do personal things, plus a handful of binaries.
doc - contains documents that I've created. Broken down quite carefully:
doc/coding - personal projects
doc/fandom - various groups and activities I do
doc/karma - a large software project I work on
doc/life - real world things: maps and notes about camp sites and dating ideas, family things
doc/photo - photos I have taken organized by date (doc/photo/year/month/day)
doc/photo/found - photos of friends I have found
doc/projects - various projects I work on, the cast I direct, etc.
doc/songs - songs I have written and notes on covers I perform
doc/system - notes on hardware, software and my network
doc/text - essays, stories, etc. that I have written
doc/work - memos and invoices (actual work files are below
ks - my primary work project, a large source tree
pub - data files I've downloaded or ripped/encoded.
pub/games - roms for emulators
pub/image - very organized images from all over the place, from 10th century tapestries to scans of Manning's fetish lineart.
pub/music - organized by genre
pub/text - ebooks (first level is erotica, fiction, nonfiction, reference, rpg and scripts).
pub/video - very very organized and quite deep. I've been encoding my extensive DVDs and VHS collection for quite awhile now.
usr - contains system settings, in $HOME so I can sync (more info later)
usr/etc/cron - network wide cronfiles, these sync everything and are symlinked.
usr/etc/dot - all my dot files ($HOME/.*). rc files and config directories. I sync my settings and back them up.
usr/etc/fileindex - index of pub (since pub doesn't exist on my laptop when I'm not NFSed to it).
usr/etc - also contains hosts and ssh info.
usr/install - tarballs and rpms to install everything the way I like it.
usr/log - chat logs and the like
usr/palm - my palm apps and backup/sync directories. I can drop text files in here and they appear as ebooks on my palm. Go KPilot!
usr/share - contains various media and configuration files. Top level under this are ( desktop fonts icons kde kde.betty kde.riffraff ksubtle menu.betty music people sound wallpaper ). The kde.hostname directories are my configs for my laptop and desktop, and $HOME/.kde/share symlinks to them. Thus my kde config is backed up and synced. music here are startup/shutdown and alert music. people are face shots of individuals for use in PIM apps. icons is a personal set of icons.
work - contains a directory for each client.
www - contains a mirror for each of the sites I maintain (my personal ones - the professional ones are way too big).
In addition to the above, I have a directory named pool on my laptop - that's media files (a few movies, tv shows, some talk radio programs) that I know I can delete without worry since they are in pub on the home file server. Stuff to watch when I'm waiting or bored.
I also have a tmp, which on my laptop NFS mounts to tmp on my home server. It contains inbound and unsorted items. I get about four gigs, burn, index the disc and then move them into pub. I can recreate pub with my spindles and index.
Finally I have a $HOME/betty on my laptop. My laptop's name is betty, and it contains anything that I downloaded directly to the laptop and I want to keep... sort of the opposite of $HOME/pool. Things here go to $HOME/tmp, and then go through the "burn/index/move to pub" cycle.
As a result, I can find any file I want in nearly a terabyte of data that goes back 25 years, some of it Apple ][ files BBS logs. I am not done indexing my offline media - I need to get a high quality turntable for some virgin vinyl that has content that has never been released on CD. Plus some VHS tapes that have never been (and is unlikely to be) released on DVD. I also have a small collection of 16mm and 35mm trailers for various odd and cult films.
For awhile I ou
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