1. http://www.attrition.org, various random "hackers", and possibly Packetstorm have been dissing JP (and vice versa) for a while. He claims they are malicious hackers and script kiddies, they claim he is clueless and a careless self-aggrandizing journalist.
2. This is purely subjective, but I have heard a lot of good comments being made about
Packetstorm on this discussion and not many good comments about JP.
3. I would love to know the actual root of their conflict and why exactly they are going
after each other like this. I don't think we have gotten the full truth from either side.
Conclusion: This is just another episode in "Hacker Wars:The Phantom Lawsuit" (Or maybe
"As to whether the company plans to go public, Latman declined to comment. But one can only speculate, given that the company recently changed its name from Microworkz Computer Corp. to Microworkz.com"
Yeah Nocturna, Thats our favorite hobby, digging up copper wires from way underground so that we can use it for jewelry. And oh that beautiful plastic in those fibres! We just can't resist that can we?
Oh well, nobody is going to read this anyway since this thread is nearly dead.
I am an African and a daily slashdotter and I like OSS and all that good stuff. However, I have been dissapointed by the tone of some guys who seem to think that Africans are (1) Not on the internet (2)Do not need to be on the internet.
This is all about communication people! Do you think there is anyone who doesn't need more ability to communicate? How could that possibly be negative?
For a report on the existing infrastructure check out this
As to the people who say we should deal with the food supply first.... Man!! What kind of economics is that? How can you deal with one issue in isolation to others? So we just stop all economic activity/life and concentrate on agriculture for oh 50 years or so. Puh - leaze!! How realistic is that? Overall economic growth will increase income and opportunities for a lot of people and be a much more long term solution than airlifting another aid package.
To the people who ask "do African really want this?" I can only speak for the people I know and the answer is DEFINITELY YES!! I don't know one African no matter how radical anti - west etc. who would be against this kind of development. OK not everyone knows about the Internet, but even the "average guy on the street" knows that (1) its brand new amazing technology (2) Its good for the continent's economy and will make it more attractive for international business.
Who would be against that?
For the guy who who said something like "AFRICA HAS A LOT OF F*** PROBLEMS!! So don't even try to deny it!" Hey, nice to see you know the glass is half empty. Sure they are problems, but what continent doesn't have problems? What exactly is the thrust of that particular argument? Problems exist and they should be dealt with, and stronger Telecommmunications infrastructure is part of the solution.
Well, thats the end of my rant.
I can't wait for this thing to become operational!
I have lived in Africa for about 17 years and while this does not make me an expert, I humbly offer my opinions on this issue.
Q: Is it true that Africa has no need for such technology and no computers to take advantage of it? A: Compared to the US, there are very few computers and little infrastructure. However, most large commercial organisations, universities, NGOs etc in urban areas have lots of computers (mostly for word processing and stuff). The rate of penetration has been increasing rapidly in the last couple of years, and the trend is definately going to continue.
A major obstacle has been lack of infrastructure esp. bandwidth. This project seems likely to help in that regard so it WILL have an impact on the ordinary citizens because productivity of the economy is likely to go up, leading to a higher GDP.
Q: Are all African countries embroiled in violent civil war and mired in corruption? A: As far as corruption, to my knowledge this is a problem in much of Africa. As to the violent civil war part this is simply not true. Armed conflict is taking place in much of Africa, but not everywhere. Recent conflicts have focused around Central Africa in Angola and Congo and also in Ethiopia, Liberia, Algeria, Uganda and Sudan. Note that there are more than 50 countries in Africa, and I'd say that the vast majority of these are stable (from a military perspective). Of course you have political turmoil but thats another issue.
In the west we only hear about Africa when conflict occurs, but hey what's so exciting about people living together peacefully year after year?
1. His main criticism, as I understood, was the undemocratic nature of the Star Wars universe. I had never thought about this and I actually found this very interesting. However, as many have pointed out, the idea of heroes is extremely common through out literature(not just SF). If he seriously aims to criticize every author who has used larger than life characters, then why does he just focus on Star Wars? I respect his opinion as to what constitutes good SF, but I feel this is a cheap shot.
2. As far as Anakin being the equivalent of Hitler, I can't really agree with that. Just because Hitler was the incarnation of evil in real life, and Vader is the incarnation of evil in Star Wars that does not make them equivalent. Now this is pretty dicey territory, but what makes most people consider Hitler really evil was his systematic extermination of Jewish people FOR ABSOLUTEDLY NO REASON( ie there weren't exactly a threat to the Reich or anything). This is not to say that mass murder is OK under any circumstances, but I think we can make distinctions. First of all Vader could never be Hitler but one of his general's (OK the top general, Goering I guess). Secondly Vader is a pretty equal opportunity oppressor as far as I can tell. Its all about power not particular groups. Of course the destruction of Alderaan is pretty evil (he doesn't do it, but he supports it). But its not systematic genocide as far as I can tell.
3. "Fear lead to anger...." I don't think the point is that any anger is wrong but that if you act out of anger you can make bad decision. This is one of the things that has drawn me about SW. The premise is that no one is born evil but any body can turn to the "dark side" either by misfortune or through their own action. This idea of course has an intrinsic emotional appeal and is probably one of the reasons for SW's success. But at the risk of sounding moralistic I don't think it is too far off base. Who doesn't know the subtle temptations of the dark side that can underlie even justified emotions. Self-interest can lead to greed, anger can lead to murderous rage etc etc. OK this is admittedly extrapolating a lot but I personally feel it is not a bad concept to consider.
It's when a director relentlessly tries fiddling with our cultural moral compass that we should sit up and take notice. I'll trust Steven Spielberg with such power, because he's earned it. He's proved again and again that he loves this civilization -- an open society of rambunctious citizens -- that gave him so much. He's one of us, only more so.
George Lucas, on the other hand, should stick to producing simple action-adventure films -- good clean fun -- and lay off preaching. It's simply not where his gifts lie. d
And what exactly was this movie? It seemed like action adventure to me with a bit of story line thrown in. In any case, I don't think it has any pretensions to high art or anything like that. If the people like it they will see it, otherwise they won't, either way it doesn't seem like brain washing to me(unless the people want to brainwashed -- but who's fault is that?).
Basically interesting essays just a bit one sided.
I just saw this script over at Netcraft that outputs the webserver and OS any particular site is running. Can be useful if you want to quickly show your boss that the competitor who is trouncing you is running Linux and Apache.
I just saw this script over at Netcraft that outputs the webserver and OS any particular site is running. Can be useful if you want to quickly show your boss that the competitor who is trouncing you is running Linux and Apache.
I followed some links from this page and I finally arrived here. (http://www.unix-vs-nt.org/webservers.html). Hotmail of course has been the property of M$ for over one and a half years now (since early 1998). So, if Micro$oft does not trust NT to run one of their most popular and critical services( critical in terms of requiring continuous up time) , what does that tell us? I think we can draw our own conclusions.
I just tried this applet and it works. The result is rather amusing. I'm just wondering, why are the NAACP and the ACLU put in the same category as terrorism and bombs? They may be left-wing and controversial to some, but they don't seem to pose a security threat. But thats just my opinion.
The article was funny but I just want to clarify a small detail.
M'wana Ndeti is described as being a member of the bantu tribe. Actually no such tribe exists. Just about all of the people of eastern, central and southern africa are classified as "bantu" which is sort of a broad category like "Northern European" or "East Asian". I am a bantu myself from across the border in Tanzania. Other than that it was a truly hilarious article.
Slashdot Mirror
1. http://www.attrition.org, various random "hackers", and possibly Packetstorm have been dissing JP (and vice versa) for a while. He claims they are malicious hackers and script kiddies, they claim he is clueless and a careless self-aggrandizing journalist.
2. This is purely subjective, but I have heard a lot of good comments being made about
Packetstorm on this discussion and not many good comments about JP.
3. I would love to know the actual root of their conflict and why exactly they are going
after each other like this. I don't think we have gotten the full truth from either side.
Conclusion: This is just another episode in "Hacker Wars:The Phantom Lawsuit" (Or maybe
Script Kiddie Wars?)
Here's the link. Quite interesting actually.
http://www.ct.heise.de/ct/english/99/13/186-1/
Or click here .
"We have, on the other hand, never heard of an NT support contract supplying NT kernels specially designed for customer problems."
-Article in C't computer magazine. (link is around here somewhere.....).
"As to whether the company plans to go public, Latman declined to comment. But one can only speculate, given that the company recently changed its name from Microworkz Computer Corp. to Microworkz.com"
Story is here
Hmm... Any other potential "converts"?
Yeah Nocturna,
Thats our favorite hobby, digging up copper wires from way underground so that we can use it for jewelry. And oh that beautiful plastic in those fibres! We just can't resist that can we?
Oh well, nobody is going to read this anyway since this thread is nearly dead.
I am an African and a daily slashdotter and I like OSS and all that good stuff. However, I have been dissapointed by the tone of some guys who seem to think that Africans are (1) Not on the internet (2)Do not need to be on the internet.
.... Man!! What kind of economics is that? How can you deal with one issue in isolation to others? So we just stop all economic activity/life and concentrate on agriculture for oh 50 years or so. Puh - leaze!!
This is all about communication people! Do you think there is anyone who doesn't need more ability to communicate? How could that possibly be negative?
For a report on the existing infrastructure check out this
As to the people who say we should deal with the food supply first
How realistic is that? Overall economic growth will increase income and opportunities for a lot of people and be a much more long term solution than airlifting another aid package.
To the people who ask "do African really want this?" I can only speak for the people I know and the answer is DEFINITELY YES!! I don't know one African no matter how radical anti - west etc. who would be against this kind of development. OK not everyone knows about the Internet, but even the "average guy on the street" knows that (1) its brand new amazing technology (2) Its good for the continent's economy and will make it more attractive for international business.
Who would be against that?
For the guy who who said something like "AFRICA HAS A LOT OF F*** PROBLEMS!! So don't even try to deny it!" Hey, nice to see you know the glass is half empty. Sure they are problems, but what continent doesn't have problems? What exactly is the thrust of that particular argument? Problems exist and they should be dealt with, and stronger Telecommmunications infrastructure is part of the solution.
Well, thats the end of my rant.
I can't wait for this thing to become operational!
Robert Rwebangira
I have lived in Africa for about 17 years and while this does not make me an expert, I humbly offer my opinions on this issue.
Q: Is it true that Africa has no need for such technology and no computers to take advantage of it?
A: Compared to the US, there are very few computers and little infrastructure. However, most large commercial organisations, universities, NGOs etc in urban areas have lots of computers (mostly for word processing and stuff). The rate of penetration has been increasing rapidly in the last couple of years, and the trend is definately going to continue.
A major obstacle has been lack of infrastructure
esp. bandwidth. This project seems likely to help in that regard so it WILL have an impact on the ordinary citizens because productivity of the economy is likely to go up, leading to a higher GDP.
Q: Are all African countries embroiled in violent civil war and mired in corruption?
A: As far as corruption, to my knowledge this is a problem in much of Africa. As to the violent civil war part this is simply not true. Armed conflict is taking place in much of Africa, but not everywhere. Recent conflicts have focused around Central Africa in Angola and Congo and also in Ethiopia, Liberia, Algeria, Uganda and Sudan. Note that there are more than 50 countries in Africa, and I'd say that the vast majority of these are stable (from a military perspective). Of course you have political turmoil but thats another issue.
In the west we only hear about Africa when conflict occurs, but hey what's so exciting about people living together peacefully year after year?
Just my 0.02$
2. As far as Anakin being the equivalent of Hitler, I can't really agree with that. Just because Hitler was the incarnation of evil in real life, and Vader is the incarnation of evil in Star Wars that does not make them equivalent. Now this is pretty dicey territory, but what makes most people consider Hitler really evil was his systematic extermination of Jewish people FOR ABSOLUTEDLY NO REASON( ie there weren't exactly a threat to the Reich or anything). This is not to say that mass murder is OK under any circumstances, but I think we can make distinctions. First of all Vader could never be Hitler but one of his general's (OK the top general, Goering I guess). Secondly Vader is a pretty equal opportunity oppressor as far as I can tell. Its all about power not particular groups. Of course the destruction of Alderaan is pretty evil (he doesn't do it, but he supports it). But its not systematic genocide as far as I can tell.
3. "Fear lead to anger ...." I don't think the point is that any anger is wrong but that if you act out of anger you can make bad decision. This is one of the things that has drawn me about SW. The premise is that no one is born evil but any body can turn to the "dark side" either by misfortune or through their own action. This idea of course has an intrinsic emotional appeal and is probably one of the reasons for SW's success. But at the risk of sounding moralistic I don't think it is too far off base. Who doesn't know the subtle temptations of the dark side that can underlie even justified emotions. Self-interest can lead to greed, anger can lead to murderous rage etc etc. OK this is admittedly extrapolating a lot but I personally feel it is not a bad concept to consider.
It's when a director relentlessly tries fiddling with our cultural moral compass that we should sit up and take notice. I'll trust Steven Spielberg with such power, because he's earned it. He's proved again and again that he loves this civilization -- an open society of rambunctious citizens -- that gave him so much. He's one of us, only more so.
George Lucas, on the other hand, should stick to producing simple action-adventure films -- good clean fun -- and lay off preaching. It's simply not where his gifts lie. d
And what exactly was this movie? It seemed like action adventure to me with a bit of story line thrown in. In any case, I don't think it has any pretensions to high art or anything like that. If the people like it they will see it, otherwise they won't, either way it doesn't seem like brain washing to me(unless the people want to brainwashed -- but who's fault is that?).
Basically interesting essays just a bit one sided.
Just my opinion.
I just saw this script over at Netcraft that outputs the webserver and OS any particular site is running.
Can be useful if you want to quickly show your boss that the competitor who is trouncing you is running Linux and Apache.
I just saw this script over at Netcraft that outputs the webserver and OS any particular site is running.
Can be useful if you want to quickly show your boss that the competitor who is trouncing you is running Linux and Apache.
I followed some links from this page and I finally arrived here. (http://www.unix-vs-nt.org/webservers.html). Hotmail of course has been the property of M$ for over one and a half years now (since early 1998). So, if Micro$oft does not trust NT to run one of their most popular and critical services( critical in terms of requiring continuous up time) , what does that tell us? I think we can draw our own conclusions.
I just tried this applet and it works. The result is rather amusing. I'm just wondering, why are the NAACP and the ACLU put in the same category as terrorism and bombs? They may be left-wing and controversial to some, but they don't seem to pose a security threat. But thats just my opinion.
The article was funny but I just want to clarify a
small detail.
M'wana Ndeti is described as being a member of the
bantu tribe. Actually no such tribe exists. Just about all of the people of eastern, central and southern africa are classified as "bantu" which is sort of a broad category like "Northern European" or "East Asian". I am a bantu myself from across the border in Tanzania. Other than that it was a truly hilarious article.