The copyright stuff was started under Paul Martin's watch.
The millitary stuff was badly needed. We have search and rescue hellicopters that if they were civillian would have been grounded 10 years ago that have well known problems with componant failure. We keep promising other countries we will send our troops to do humanitarian and peacekeeping work and then have to rent planes to get them there and then we have to borrow equipment from other governments when we get there.
It seems to me that talk of medicinal pot and gay marriage have been used for far too long to distract the populace from more pressing issues.
This law may happen or not and if it does I will hold it against Harper.. but don't blame Him for Martin's and Cretien's mistakes.
It's more because being ineficiant will annoy any good German.
In the town I spent my high school years in they repaved one of the main roads only to dig up a section less than a week later to upgrade the water lines.
A German city planner would have a stroke seeing that.. a North American city planner would just shrug and just not worry about it.
Did my research and these are outright lies. There is never any evidence that the Heratige Front had any say at all in the old Reform party let alone have the Reform party as a wing.
It's an exact quote fom the ruling. INAL but it's saying that you can even patent the result of putting a bunch of parts together even if each part was used exactly as it was designed to be used.
Having been in Ontario for one NDP term and BC for two. I'm rather glad they don't have much of a say at all. NDP policies of feed the unions and Tax the rich tend to drive the economy down rather than up. NDP platform last election was pretty much a joke as well.
Your also playing with words when you say "lowest tax bracket" as if it means the poor will get taxed more. In Canada if your below a certain income level you don't pay income tax. The poorest are now getting a break on their sales tax while still not paying income tax. It's also important to note that the IMF was against the change because they worry we won't be able to tax old people enough since they make no income.
Damn Canada has gone right wing all of the sudden. First they elect a Canadian version of Bush and now this...
The Conservatives weren't in power last fall when this was signed, the Liberals were. The change in power was in January. Also keep in mind that the Liberal party had been trying for awhile to implement a Canadian version of the DMCA
Remember the Progressive Conservatives (PCs) who had the largest majority ever elected to Canadian parliment under Prime Minister Mulroney (1980s). He turned hard to the right and did as he pleased. The upshot was that he pissed the population off so bad that they were reduced to 2 seats in parliment after the next election.
It wasn't the shift to the right that did him in. It was the unpopular tax (GST) that he put into place followed by his first moves at cutting programs and moving towards getting the spiralling deficit under control. The two seats part was him chosing a hand picked sucessor (scapegoat) to take over the party. The problem was that she was politically inexperianced and should NEVER have been put in charge. Fun lines like "would you want something that ugly representing Canada internationally?" followed by ad campaigns making fun of Cretien's partially paralysed face finished the job. They would have lost for doing the right thing but putting someone in charge who just didn't know when to shut up caused a lindslide loss and pretty much finished off one of Canada's oldest political forces.
The Liberal party kept their hold on power for 13 years by blatant FUD. The new (reform / alliance / Conservative) party was too new and while the Liberal party had ALL THE SAME THINGS being said by backbenchers they were able to scare people into thinking that the conservative party would actually do them. Personally I found the whole tactic sickening.
I did however find the last election to be very entertaining.. it's a pity the next election won't be so fun to watch.
The servers have a/Nickserv command if your irc client doesn't support that then you can create an alias and it's something like/quote nickserv or/raw nickserv depending on your client. For sending the password you can enter it in with your server settings but that only works on some irc nets (freenode etc).
The main risk of not doing it that way is that if there is a netsplit and for some reason a server doesn't have it's nick quarantine lines setup correctly someone can pretend to be nickserv and just log all ident requests.
You can do better than that.. On freenode the server password gets sent to nickserv so you can just put it in your connection settings.
But your right.. anyone who does a/msg nickserv these days is an idiot.
A lot seems wrong with this story... I don't see any info to collaberate what happened and what few details there are fly in the face of what I remember from my server donation days.
The minute they drop their claims they are defenseless against IBM's counter claims. The best they can do right now is drag it out as long as possible in order to make as much money for themselves before the company gets sued into bankrupcy.
I don't know about the rest of Quebec but after living in Montreal these past few years I'd call what gets spoken here "Frenglish" more than I would it "french".
The problem isn't the IOS it's the slow processor and small amount of RAM they put i the things. Upgrading to 1ghz really does wonders for network throughput.
The distance is not the only limiting factor. The quality of the phone cabling in the building it's going to is often a very large limiting factor.
The DSL modem is also potentially a limiting factor. Some modems just seem to have speed caps even at ADSL2+. It's often worse if the modem contains a NAT.
Speaking of NAT.. Those stupid broadbad routers people keep buing from Linksys, D-Link etc also take a big chunk out of the speed. I can't tell you how often people have noticed a speedup after replacing their router with a PC running Linux as a NAT.
And don't even get started on ADSL2+ right now.. I'm running tests for an ISP in Montreal Canada and it seems like the DSLAM and modems got shipped pre beta. I actually have a modem that locks SOLID as soon as it synchs on a 2+ signal.
Wow, very interesting code. Quick, in 10 seconds, how do you say "Our operative in Munich was tailed, so we switched to our Spanish connection. Either Ahmed or Siddiq, I'm not sure, but he has to know that if the transfer happened less than a month ago to not try to clear the funds.
"Our German friend said he couldn't make it to the party so our spanish friend is comming instead"?
It's vague enough not to reveal anything if you don't know what the topic was before hand. Avoiding keywords is easy
Assuming you mean 21 physical ethernet ports, goddamn that sounds an awful way to be doing things (5 quad port cards and an onboard NIC ?). Have you considered investing in a switch that does 802.1q vlan tagging and cutting down the number of physical connections to, say, two or three ?
You are exactly right 5 quad port cards and and onboard. I considered a managed switch but this way was actually much cheaper.
Don't mind at all! The firewall is actually a new install from a few weeks ago that I did for a customer. It's actually new hardware but the rare item is the 5 quad port ethernet cards in it. I'm atually a bit torn on whether to upgrade it. On one hand it's live with customers. On the other hand I have an email from Andrew Morton asking me if the latest kernel fixes the problem.
The sparc, on the other hand, was something I picked up on ebay a few weeks ago first kernel I tried failed to compile but that was fixed but the kernel guys rather quickly. Since it's my toy I will probably upgraded that every time I feel like it. The only thing it needs to do reliably is check my C code for bugs that show up better on big endian machines.
What would really help the code quality of the Linux kernel is to start refactoring subsystem code and throwing out the old stuff that oughtn't be used anymore. Less code means less space to hide bugs in.
Wow! what an insight.. You just desciribed exactly what is happening. The problem is that in this refactoringy device drivers develop bugs that need to be fixed. The problem is that the kernel developers can't possibly test every driver and now they have to wait for bug reports.
As someone who is resbposible for many of those bug reports I can tell you it's not the fetures that break things. It's things like driver API cleanups that don't get all of the older drivers.
The result is that if you have reasonably common hardware the kernel is getting much more stable but for things like my non PCI sparc(compile problem with some options) or my 21 ethernet port firewall (needs special options to boot or it crashes) it has gotten more buggy.
I'm not sure a freeze will do much to fix it as a large part of the problem is that all these somewhat rare things need testing.
I still find these things get fixed rather quickly when I report them even without the freeze.
Not true.. many isps are now checking SPF records. I had a problem with mine and several large mail providers (Canada.com, yahoo and others) stopped accepting mail from me.
I love SPF because the spammers seem to have started checking for SPF on the domain before pretending to send from it. My 6 year old domain used to get a flood of bounces every couple months as some idiot would send several thousand messages pruportedly from *@innerfire.net. Now I havn't had a problem in months.
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And that is why I always replaced the turbo button with a jumper.
The copyright stuff was started under Paul Martin's watch.
The millitary stuff was badly needed. We have search and rescue hellicopters that if they were civillian would have been grounded 10 years ago that have well known problems with componant failure. We keep promising other countries we will send our troops to do humanitarian and peacekeeping work and then have to rent planes to get them there and then we have to borrow equipment from other governments when we get there.
It seems to me that talk of medicinal pot and gay marriage have been used for far too long to distract the populace from more pressing issues.
This law may happen or not and if it does I will hold it against Harper.. but don't blame Him for Martin's and Cretien's mistakes.
It's more because being ineficiant will annoy any good German. In the town I spent my high school years in they repaved one of the main roads only to dig up a section less than a week later to upgrade the water lines. A German city planner would have a stroke seeing that.. a North American city planner would just shrug and just not worry about it.
Did my research and these are outright lies. There is never any evidence that the Heratige Front had any say at all in the old Reform party let alone have the Reform party as a wing.
It's an exact quote fom the ruling. INAL but it's saying that you can even patent the result of putting a bunch of parts together even if each part was used exactly as it was designed to be used.
Having been in Ontario for one NDP term and BC for two. I'm rather glad they don't have much of a say at all. NDP policies of feed the unions and Tax the rich tend to drive the economy down rather than up. NDP platform last election was pretty much a joke as well.
Your also playing with words when you say "lowest tax bracket" as if it means the poor will get taxed more. In Canada if your below a certain income level you don't pay income tax. The poorest are now getting a break on their sales tax while still not paying income tax. It's also important to note that the IMF was against the change because they worry we won't be able to tax old people enough since they make no income.
The Conservatives weren't in power last fall when this was signed, the Liberals were. The change in power was in January. Also keep in mind that the Liberal party had been trying for awhile to implement a Canadian version of the DMCA
Remember the Progressive Conservatives (PCs) who had the largest majority ever elected to Canadian parliment under Prime Minister Mulroney (1980s). He turned hard to the right and did as he pleased. The upshot was that he pissed the population off so bad that they were reduced to 2 seats in parliment after the next election.
It wasn't the shift to the right that did him in. It was the unpopular tax (GST) that he put into place followed by his first moves at cutting programs and moving towards getting the spiralling deficit under control. The two seats part was him chosing a hand picked sucessor (scapegoat) to take over the party. The problem was that she was politically inexperianced and should NEVER have been put in charge. Fun lines like "would you want something that ugly representing Canada internationally?" followed by ad campaigns making fun of Cretien's partially paralysed face finished the job. They would have lost for doing the right thing but putting someone in charge who just didn't know when to shut up caused a lindslide loss and pretty much finished off one of Canada's oldest political forces.
The Liberal party kept their hold on power for 13 years by blatant FUD. The new (reform / alliance / Conservative) party was too new and while the Liberal party had ALL THE SAME THINGS being said by backbenchers they were able to scare people into thinking that the conservative party would actually do them. Personally I found the whole tactic sickening.
I did however find the last election to be very entertaining.. it's a pity the next election won't be so fun to watch.
The servers have a /Nickserv command if your irc client doesn't support that then you can create an alias and it's something like /quote nickserv or /raw nickserv depending on your client. For sending the password you can enter it in with your server settings but that only works on some irc nets (freenode etc).
The main risk of not doing it that way is that if there is a netsplit and for some reason a server doesn't have it's nick quarantine lines setup correctly someone can pretend to be nickserv and just log all ident requests.
You can do better than that.. On freenode the server password gets sent to nickserv so you can just put it in your connection settings. But your right.. anyone who does a /msg nickserv these days is an idiot.
A lot seems wrong with this story... I don't see any info to collaberate what happened and what few details there are fly in the face of what I remember from my server donation days.
MS/Sun? No. It's IBM they need to worry about.
The minute they drop their claims they are defenseless against IBM's counter claims. The best they can do right now is drag it out as long as possible in order to make as much money for themselves before the company gets sued into bankrupcy.
I don't know about the rest of Quebec but after living in Montreal these past few years I'd call what gets spoken here "Frenglish" more than I would it "french".
I could be wrong but he said DOS not windows. Dell offeres Freedos as an option to work around Microsoft's no OSless PC rule.
The problem isn't the IOS it's the slow processor and small amount of RAM they put i the things. Upgrading to 1ghz really does wonders for network throughput.
The distance is not the only limiting factor. The quality of the phone cabling in the building it's going to is often a very large limiting factor.
The DSL modem is also potentially a limiting factor. Some modems just seem to have speed caps even at ADSL2+. It's often worse if the modem contains a NAT.
Speaking of NAT.. Those stupid broadbad routers people keep buing from Linksys, D-Link etc also take a big chunk out of the speed. I can't tell you how often people have noticed a speedup after replacing their router with a PC running Linux as a NAT.
And don't even get started on ADSL2+ right now.. I'm running tests for an ISP in Montreal Canada and it seems like the DSLAM and modems got shipped pre beta. I actually have a modem that locks SOLID as soon as it synchs on a 2+ signal.
Wow, very interesting code. Quick, in 10 seconds, how do you say "Our operative in Munich was tailed, so we switched to our Spanish connection. Either Ahmed or Siddiq, I'm not sure, but he has to know that if the transfer happened less than a month ago to not try to clear the funds.
"Our German friend said he couldn't make it to the party so our spanish friend is comming instead"?
It's vague enough not to reveal anything if you don't know what the topic was before hand. Avoiding keywords is easy1: There was no real downtime. Just a crash on boot that also helpfully suggested the boot option I needed to work around the problem.
2: This customer customer doesn't ever consider the long term cost only the startup.
3: I don't care about 2 because I get payed by the hour for on site work.
Assuming you mean 21 physical ethernet ports, goddamn that sounds an awful way to be doing things (5 quad port cards and an onboard NIC ?). Have you considered investing in a switch that does 802.1q vlan tagging and cutting down the number of physical connections to, say, two or three ?
You are exactly right 5 quad port cards and and onboard. I considered a managed switch but this way was actually much cheaper.
Don't mind at all! The firewall is actually a new install from a few weeks ago that I did for a customer. It's actually new hardware but the rare item is the 5 quad port ethernet cards in it. I'm atually a bit torn on whether to upgrade it. On one hand it's live with customers. On the other hand I have an email from Andrew Morton asking me if the latest kernel fixes the problem. The sparc, on the other hand, was something I picked up on ebay a few weeks ago first kernel I tried failed to compile but that was fixed but the kernel guys rather quickly. Since it's my toy I will probably upgraded that every time I feel like it. The only thing it needs to do reliably is check my C code for bugs that show up better on big endian machines.
What would really help the code quality of the Linux kernel is to start refactoring subsystem code and throwing out the old stuff that oughtn't be used anymore. Less code means less space to hide bugs in.
Wow! what an insight.. You just desciribed exactly what is happening. The problem is that in this refactoringy device drivers develop bugs that need to be fixed. The problem is that the kernel developers can't possibly test every driver and now they have to wait for bug reports.
As someone who is resbposible for many of those bug reports I can tell you it's not the fetures that break things. It's things like driver API cleanups that don't get all of the older drivers.
The result is that if you have reasonably common hardware the kernel is getting much more stable but for things like my non PCI sparc(compile problem with some options) or my 21 ethernet port firewall (needs special options to boot or it crashes) it has gotten more buggy.
I'm not sure a freeze will do much to fix it as a large part of the problem is that all these somewhat rare things need testing.
I still find these things get fixed rather quickly when I report them even without the freeze.
Your forgetting that much of this spam was sent from machines that were broken into.. If nothing else that was a crime.
Plus theres the bestiality sites he was spamming for.
Not true.. many isps are now checking SPF records. I had a problem with mine and several large mail providers (Canada.com, yahoo and others) stopped accepting mail from me. I love SPF because the spammers seem to have started checking for SPF on the domain before pretending to send from it. My 6 year old domain used to get a flood of bounces every couple months as some idiot would send several thousand messages pruportedly from *@innerfire.net. Now I havn't had a problem in months.
More traffic == more CPU load == more heat. It's probably overheating and locking up. Try pointing a fan at it and see if that helps.
Indeed.. I already see spam that seems to do exactly this.. usually adverting non existant child porn on the victim's site.