> Other distros do. Mandrake, Red Hat, SeSU all have superb hardware detection. Knoppix is different only in that it detects hardware on startup, which is the only way to make a CD-only, no-install distro.
FWIW, since around 7.0, Red Hat has re-detected hardware on startup, and will notice if anything has been added, removed, or changed.
I don't mess with SuSE much, but I vaguely remember that they have been doing it even longer. (Don't quote me on that part, though.)
> Well, I'm hoping that a democratic republic helps to even out some of the chances of getting someone elected that lives out several sigma on the bell curve.
> With a lottery, any fool can win. Listen to a few radio talk shows or some of my in-laws someday and you'll even begin to believe that Dick Cheney is better.
Yeah, it could be risky using the lottery for the presidency or the supreme court. But it might work for the legislature, where we probably have more than a double handful of "several sigmas" members already. At least a lottery would only give us a few, and even those would be scattered in all directions.
The more I think about it, the more I like the idea.
BTW, historical note: during at least some periods the Athenian democracy actually did assign most of their offices by lot. Though AFAIK they didn't have any offices where an individual would wield excessive power. Also, it was a small society and more constrained by a narrower set of normative values than ours is. (Socrates merely questioned those norms, and they considered him such a dangerous looney that they offed him.)
> Given the amounts of money MS rolls out, if MS wanted a foot in the door in Nambibia, they could easily afford to network & outfit the entire country's school system.. THEN they would surely listen.
I don't know, I'm not sure I'd want to do business with a pusher who wouldn't give me my first fix for free.
> So do you give up control of your machines to Microsoft or to crackers? Right now we've chosen Microsoft, and I'm not completely convinced that the other alternative wouldn't be better.
Or the other other alternative, Linux. It seems to be increasingly the mainstay of CS departments everywhere. Probably for other reasons, but the one you mention should be sufficient in itself.
Unfortunately the DMCA forbids them from putting any of Leonardo's work on the Web, since he used a simple encryptation system and didn't write them an access license.
> I'm not trying to troll here, but I never did quite understand punk. What is the purpose?
Rebellion. It's a common theme in pop music. Sometimes the rebellion is against society at large; at other times it is merely a musical rebellion. And the musical rebellions can be against either styles or institutions. It seems to me that terms like "new wave" and "alternative" are clearly intended to mean "not the BOF stuff your uncle listens to".
Just a couple of historical notes that I find interesting:
By 1976 Pete Townshend was already refering to himself as a BOF in interviews, though his own band had been considered outrageous a mere decade before. He seems to have seen the punk movement as a changing of the guard. For one of the songs on his band's '76 album he penned these words -
So goodbye all you punks, stay young and stay high;
Give me my checkbook and I'll crawl off to die.
He may have seen this situation developing as early as '73, where the song "The Punk vs. the Godfather" on Quadrophenia seems to be an overlay of two conflicting metaphors, one portraying himself as the punk and the music industry as the godfather, but another portrying himself as a musical godfather and the upcoming generation of new bands as the rebellious punks -
GODFATHER:
... And yet I live your future out By pounding stages like a clown. And on the dance floor broken glass, The bloody faces slowly pass, The numbered seats in empty rows - It all belongs to me, you know.
The more things change, the more they stay the same.
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> 50 years from now high school physics students will laugh at us. "Ha, these idiots believed in all sorts of kooky stuff".
Do today's highschool physics students laugh at the scientists of 50 years ago?
> I'll follow the assumption that since faxes kill trees that they would be regulated.
Presumably the typical legislator notices the huge pile of junk faxes, but not the huge pile of deleted e-mail. Remember that this is a headache for staffers rather than for the legislator.
> Honestly, in this day and age a 2,000 byte e-mail is NO load on our servers or infrastructure.
Funny, within the past week my mail admin has sent out notice that excessive spam is causing delays in the distribution of legitimate mail from off-site.
Also, you seem to be getting uSpam. I can filter with 90% accuracy by deleting all the messages > 10KB in my inbox. 2KB is a typical size for the legitimate messages I get. Spam tends to use huge amounts of sloppy HTML and/or large attachments.
> Ok, this maybe a bit off topic, but i think a majority of/.ers would be extremely suprised at how creative Firefly [fox.com] is. Its funny, refreshing, and the writting has been incredible. Not to mention the great job of the cast.
Also, people who watch the first episode and haven't been back might want to give it another try. E1 was by far the worst episode they've aired. The characters are really starting to get interesting.
> While I'd normally agree, if its protected by some kind of protection (htaccess) - even if its really weak, accessing in would be cracking, same as if a door in a house is open, you still cant nick the TV.
No, the correct analogy is "if you stand naked in your doorway you can't complain about everyone seeing your naughties".
> > Due to the viral nature of the GPL, any software compiled using GCC could be considered a "derivative work" of the GCC, thus forcing that software to be open-source under the terms of the GPL
> I find it remarkable that anyone could actually read the GPL and believe this myth.
And I find it remarkable that you think anyone actually reads their software licenses!
> 2. The car manufacturer is making hand over fist money on the car, and the parts are horrendously marked up.
Mostly 2. That's also the economic motive behind car theft. There's a huge countereconomy for laundering the parts of stolen cars and feeding them back into parts stores.
> actually, it's a combo of the paint, the material that the painted object is made out of and the angle of the object to the radar source that make it stealthy. Now a jammer, THERE's the ticket buster....
Just mount a coffee can on your fender, pack it full of shredded aluminum foil and gunpowder, wire your radar detector to set it off, and you can slip through the speed trap in a cloud of chaff.
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> Other distros do. Mandrake, Red Hat, SeSU all have superb hardware detection. Knoppix is different only in that it detects hardware on startup, which is the only way to make a CD-only, no-install distro.
FWIW, since around 7.0, Red Hat has re-detected hardware on startup, and will notice if anything has been added, removed, or changed.
I don't mess with SuSE much, but I vaguely remember that they have been doing it even longer. (Don't quote me on that part, though.)
> My favorite part is how FBI agents will now "discretely" arrive at victims' offices.
The guys in black trenchcoats? Uh, those are our network consultants. Yeah, network consultants.
> They don't have much money but they have a huge need for computers, so Linux is their best choice.
I suspect that if you drew a map you'd find an inverse square law, with the net deployment of Linux rising rapidly with distance from Redmond.
> Migrating computers is easy enough - the hard part is migrating users.
Not so. If you migrate the computers, the users will find themselves migrated as soon as they show up for work the next morning.
It's keeping them happy that's the hard part.
> Police in the UK are also piloting a Linux desktop system.
Whereas in the USA the DoJ is Pilateing anything that competes with Windows.
> Well, I'm hoping that a democratic republic helps to even out some of the chances of getting someone elected that lives out several sigma on the bell curve.
> With a lottery, any fool can win. Listen to a few radio talk shows or some of my in-laws someday and you'll even begin to believe that Dick Cheney is better.
Yeah, it could be risky using the lottery for the presidency or the supreme court. But it might work for the legislature, where we probably have more than a double handful of "several sigmas" members already. At least a lottery would only give us a few, and even those would be scattered in all directions.
The more I think about it, the more I like the idea.
BTW, historical note: during at least some periods the Athenian democracy actually did assign most of their offices by lot. Though AFAIK they didn't have any offices where an individual would wield excessive power. Also, it was a small society and more constrained by a narrower set of normative values than ours is. (Socrates merely questioned those norms, and they considered him such a dangerous looney that they offed him.)
> Given the amounts of money MS rolls out, if MS wanted a foot in the door in Nambibia, they could easily afford to network & outfit the entire country's school system.. THEN they would surely listen.
I don't know, I'm not sure I'd want to do business with a pusher who wouldn't give me my first fix for free.
> Considering that Judge Colleen Kollar-Kotelly was appointed by the very conservative Ronald Reagan
Judges sometimes show remarkable independence after being "packed" onto the bench.
> and the Justice Department is under control of the reactionary John Ashcroft
Judges don't generally suck up to whoever is running the JD.
Looking at her record would probably give a better prediction of her behavior.
> So do you give up control of your machines to Microsoft or to crackers? Right now we've chosen Microsoft, and I'm not completely convinced that the other alternative wouldn't be better.
Or the other other alternative, Linux. It seems to be increasingly the mainstay of CS departments everywhere. Probably for other reasons, but the one you mention should be sufficient in itself.
> This is what happens when the left and right brain get bored and start talking with each other.
No, schizophrenia is what happens when the left and right brain get bored and start talking with each other.
I suppose that just goes to show that you can't trust the weatherman.
Unfortunately the DMCA forbids them from putting any of Leonardo's work on the Web, since he used a simple encryptation system and didn't write them an access license.
He may have seen this situation developing as early as '73, where the song "The Punk vs. the Godfather" on Quadrophenia seems to be an overlay of two conflicting metaphors, one portraying himself as the punk and the music industry as the godfather, but another portrying himself as a musical godfather and the upcoming generation of new bands as the rebellious punks -The more things change, the more they stay the same.> I'm not trying to troll here, but I never did quite understand punk. What is the purpose?
Rebellion. It's a common theme in pop music. Sometimes the rebellion is against society at large; at other times it is merely a musical rebellion. And the musical rebellions can be against either styles or institutions. It seems to me that terms like "new wave" and "alternative" are clearly intended to mean "not the BOF stuff your uncle listens to".
Just a couple of historical notes that I find interesting:
By 1976 Pete Townshend was already refering to himself as a BOF in interviews, though his own band had been considered outrageous a mere decade before. He seems to have seen the punk movement as a changing of the guard. For one of the songs on his band's '76 album he penned these words -
> 50 years from now high school physics students will laugh at us. "Ha, these idiots believed in all sorts of kooky stuff".
Do today's highschool physics students laugh at the scientists of 50 years ago?
> This theory is just that, a theory.
And that's all a theory is supposed to be.
> I'll follow the assumption that since faxes kill trees that they would be regulated.
Presumably the typical legislator notices the huge pile of junk faxes, but not the huge pile of deleted e-mail. Remember that this is a headache for staffers rather than for the legislator.
> Honestly, in this day and age a 2,000 byte e-mail is NO load on our servers or infrastructure.
Funny, within the past week my mail admin has sent out notice that excessive spam is causing delays in the distribution of legitimate mail from off-site.
Also, you seem to be getting uSpam. I can filter with 90% accuracy by deleting all the messages > 10KB in my inbox. 2KB is a typical size for the legitimate messages I get. Spam tends to use huge amounts of sloppy HTML and/or large attachments.
> Hello master. This is an automated message to let you know that I am being stolen.
And you thought the Kidnapped Robot Problem was just an academic exercise!
> Ok, this maybe a bit off topic, but i think a majority of
Also, people who watch the first episode and haven't been back might want to give it another try. E1 was by far the worst episode they've aired. The characters are really starting to get interesting.
> I saw it last night....it was...well...pathetic
I've tried to watch it a couple of times, and it doesn't hold my attention.
> Pretty hard to check your email when your computer is the back of some guy's van.
How many angels can dance on the head of a pin? Do you get the same answer if you assume they're doing the Samba instead of the Funky Chicken?
In our next episode we'll discuss whether balrogs have wings, and if so, whether their wingpits smell as bad as their armpits.
> While I'd normally agree, if its protected by some kind of protection (htaccess) - even if its really weak, accessing in would be cracking, same as if a door in a house is open, you still cant nick the TV.
No, the correct analogy is "if you stand naked in your doorway you can't complain about everyone seeing your naughties".
> > Due to the viral nature of the GPL, any software compiled using GCC could be considered a "derivative work" of the GCC, thus forcing that software to be open-source under the terms of the GPL
> I find it remarkable that anyone could actually read the GPL and believe this myth.
And I find it remarkable that you think anyone actually reads their software licenses!
> 2. The car manufacturer is making hand over fist money on the car, and the parts are horrendously marked up.
Mostly 2. That's also the economic motive behind car theft. There's a huge countereconomy for laundering the parts of stolen cars and feeding them back into parts stores.
> actually, it's a combo of the paint, the material that the painted object is made out of and the angle of the object to the radar source that make it stealthy. Now a jammer, THERE's the ticket buster....
Just mount a coffee can on your fender, pack it full of shredded aluminum foil and gunpowder, wire your radar detector to set it off, and you can slip through the speed trap in a cloud of chaff.