"I will vote for you, and contribute to your campaign. If you betray my trust, I will vote for your opponent in the next election, and contribute twice as much to his campaign as I did to yours."
It's a good idea, but how much will you give me for keeping your trust? Or is this "all stick, no carrot"? I just don't know that honesty is really a growth industry.
Wait......this...is a joke....right? *snicker*, *guffaw!*.
"Laugh all you want, Monkey Boy." - John Whorfin
I, for one, still play X-Wing and TIE Fighter (and a few other games unplayable/unsupported in NT/2000/XP). Why, what do you use your Microsoft OSes for?
3) Please give us step-by-step instructions for updating *anything* on a *nix based box (one per variant and packager please... one where you compile the source yourself on each variant.. oh and one where you do not run any XWindow system whatsoever.)
apt-get update && apt-get dist-upgrade
Updates all of my packages on the distro of my choice, Debian. (If you need help, it's kind of like Windows Update, except that it works, and I excercise control over whose updates I trust.)
(Although, in the interest of full disclosure, I am 1)... post[ing] that from a Windows box; I got it copy of Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic for Xmas, and it freaking rocks. Thus, I'm using my X(P)box right now.)
If you really want to compile from sources yourself, I'm sure that someone around here can help you with Gentoo and the emerge command.
emerge sync && emerge packagename, I think. So simple, even an MCSE (me) can do it.
"In production" can mean a lot of things... according to Whedonesque, "Joss Whedon hints that the movie has still a very long way to go before it gets made. "If I start talking about it before there is [anything definitive to say], it lessens the chance that [it will get made]."
Indeed. In fact, it sounds like they're not studying the technology, they're studying the management practices.
"They have been studying Linux extensively. Part of their study has been on how Linux has been able to maintain a high level of consistency in the kernel while groups around it maintain maximum flexibility," Enderle said.
It's doublefunny that "The newly formed division... will report to Senior Vice President Brian Valentine, the Redmond, Washington, company said."
You know what's funny? It's been almost thirty years since the original Star Wars movie (ANH, whatever), and all of the quotes in this thread are from that one.
Where are the Phantom Menace or Attack of the Clones quotes? "I don't like your Windows server. It's coarse and rough and irritating--not like you. Your linux server is soft and smooth." Or whatever.
I mean, according to Matthew Szulik, more advanced OSes are inappropriate for the casual computer user because you have to futz around with things like filesystem drivers:
"I would argue that from the device-driver standpoint and perhaps some of the other traditional functionality, for that classic consumer purchaser, it is my view that (Linux) technology needs to mature a little bit more."
Szulik gave an example of his 90-year-old father going to a local retailer in order to purchase a computer with Linux: "We know painfully well what happens. He will try to get it installed and either doesn't have a positive experience or puts a lot of pressure on your support systems," he said.
So now that you'll either not "have a positive experience or put[s] a lot of pressure on [y]our support systems" trying to install a digital camera or flash media under Windows, do you think that Microsoft will have to drop their desktop distribution?
(UP UP DOWN DOWN LEFT RIGHT LEFT RIGHT A B A B) anyone?
But how do I do (select select start)? Also, you are a clever, clever man.
Re:I do the same, with no expiration...
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However, I hate expiry. If I already have a good password like xjxuj494o4ol4 that I can really remember and type, I use that. Even if I use a password like that for a few years who is really going to crack it?
Okay, I'll byte:
Anyone with physical access to your machine. You don't use this on your notebook, do you?
Anyone with a copy of John, access to your/etc/shadow, and a little free time:^)
On a Windows machine, anyone with access to your network, its precious SMB packets, and a copy of L0phtcrack (or John, or... ), and a little free time...
Anyone running a kernel rootkit on your machine - "it could never happen", I know, and the gun was always unloaded
If it's also your POP3 email account password ("I have had the same simple password on a number of sites for over ten years now, with no problems - even letting a number of friends and co-workers know what the password is a number of times!" So I'm guessing it's not your high-security password...), anyone attached to and sniffing your network, perhaps just running dsniff, to make it extra easy
Assuming the above, if you're wireless, anyone within 802.11 (call it 300 feet for casual use) range of you
If you're using it on websites, whatever script kid who comprimises THAT e-commerce server, Hotmail, etc., etc., etc.
It's an aphorism, but it's still true: "security" isn't a product (like a password), it's a process. Just because you have strong passwords, and decent newtork security (firewalls, NAT, etc.), never assume that you're invulnerable or too small to attack. I don't mean to sound snarky, but I think that you should always assume that passwords will be comprimised somehow, given enough time.
(Tim throws Gareth's stapler - inscribed with Gareth's name - out of a window.)
Gareth: "What if that killed someone?" Tim: "Well then... they'll think you're the murderer, it's got your name on it" Gareth: "Why would a murderer put his name on a murder weapon?" Tim: "To stop people borrowing it"
Note the date on that article, February 17, 2000. It was based on Microsoft's most recent annual report (at the time), 1999.
"A significant portion of the wages Microsoft pays to its employees comes in the form of stock options rather than in cash. Compared to the rest of the industry, the amount of cash Microsoft pays its programmers is at best mediocre. It attracts and retains employees via stock options..."
"So there you have it. $3.1 billion from a tax loophole [the "Stock option income tax benefits."], $1.3 billion from its employees [payroll deductions to exercise those options], and $0.7 billion from put warrants combine to give Microsoft over $5 billion from its own stock in fiscal 1999. And it avoided paying $9 billion in wages. All that from a company that only had $7.8 billion in net income. And as long as the stock keeps going up, they can keep doing that ad infinitum."
Options to buy MSFT at $120, anyone? The MS class of 1999 ought to be vesting any time now.
Obligatory Simpsons reference: Disco Stu's "Can't Stop the Learnin' Disco Academies"... Disco Stu: Did you know that disco record sales were up 400/ for the year ending 1976? If these trends continue... A-y-y-y!
Seriously. From this day forward, I will make GOD DAMN sure that I never say anything that would be politically correct. So if you niggas have a problem with that, you can take it up with this white cracka. Bitchlap and out
"... they are baseball terms as well as butt-sex terms."
Made me think of the Office: Gareth: "My dad, for example, he's not as cosmopolitan or as educated as me and it can be embarrasing you know. He doesn't understand all the new trendy words - like he'll say 'poofs' instead of 'gays', 'birds' instead of 'women', 'darkies' instead of 'coloureds'."
Follow curses-based menus to create partitions and select bootloader. Reboot.
No packages to select, no painful Debian installer, just an easy desktop Debian installation in about 15 minutes (total install, depnding on RAM and CDROM speed). For more fun, after installation, a quick
apt-get update && apt-get dist-upgrade
brings you up2date with the latest packages - you'll never even miss the Red Hat Network, I promise. (For graphical management, apt-get install synaptic. So simple, even a recovering MCSE can do it!):^)
P.S. - "...which makes vi commands seem intuitive"? Why, vi is intuitive! In my day, we had ed and we liked it! We typed uphill, both ways in the snow...
But the showstopper was a filmed spoof of The Matrix (screencaps available here), with Gates and Steve Ballmer as Morpheus and Neo respectively, and including a jab at Linux.
A nuclear accident at a lunar-based waste disposal site propels our moon out of Earth orbit and into deep space. The 311 residents of Moonbase Alpha find themselves adrift in space with no way to control their course through the interstellar void.
At least it's not a lame "CHA.." scratched into the surface.
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"I will vote for you, and contribute to your campaign. If you betray my trust, I will vote for your opponent in the next election, and contribute twice as much to his campaign as I did to yours."
It's a good idea, but how much will you give me for keeping your trust? Or is this "all stick, no carrot"? I just don't know that honesty is really a growth industry.
Wait......this...is a joke....right? *snicker*, *guffaw!*.
"Laugh all you want, Monkey Boy." - John Whorfin
I, for one, still play X-Wing and TIE Fighter (and a few other games unplayable/unsupported in NT/2000/XP). Why, what do you use your Microsoft OSes for?
Is balogna only balogna when it is packaged in Balogna, Germany, otherwise it is just ordinary meat?
If it's not German, then it's what we call phony baloney.
(Thank you, thank you. Tip your waitresses, I'll be here all night...)
Next thing you know, you'll be telling us to think for ourselves!
If someone tells me to thinks for myself, and I do it, then did I?
Sorry. You were just #1 with Google.
Try google, or P2P net of choice. I'm sure you'll find it.
A quick Googling yields this.
Of course, everything I know about Canada, I learned from South Park.
(Also, Free Enterprise was awesome! Made me cringe a lot, but mainly from self-recognition.)
3) Please give us step-by-step instructions for updating *anything* on a *nix based box (one per variant and packager please... one where you compile the source yourself on each variant.. oh and one where you do not run any XWindow system whatsoever.)
... post[ing] that from a Windows box; I got it copy of Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic for Xmas, and it freaking rocks. Thus, I'm using my X(P)box right now.)
apt-get update && apt-get dist-upgrade
Updates all of my packages on the distro of my choice, Debian. (If you need help, it's kind of like Windows Update, except that it works, and I excercise control over whose updates I trust.)
(Although, in the interest of full disclosure, I am 1)
If you really want to compile from sources yourself, I'm sure that someone around here can help you with Gentoo and the emerge command.
emerge sync && emerge packagename , I think. So simple, even an MCSE (me) can do it.
I don't think you can rely on NORAD.
Hey, if you couldn't rely on NORAD, they wouldn't keep the Stargate there.
(By the way, did you see the Has Santa Changed? page on the website? Looks like Santa stopped to pose with Carter at NORAD in 2002. Hmm...)
IMDB says it's in production right now.
"In production" can mean a lot of things... according to Whedonesque, "Joss Whedon hints that the movie has still a very long way to go before it gets made. "If I start talking about it before there is [anything definitive to say], it lessens the chance that [it will get made]."
Indeed. In fact, it sounds like they're not studying the technology, they're studying the management practices.
"They have been studying Linux extensively. Part of their study has been on how Linux has been able to maintain a high level of consistency in the kernel while groups around it maintain maximum flexibility," Enderle said.
It's doublefunny that "The newly formed division... will report to Senior Vice President Brian Valentine, the Redmond, Washington, company said."
That's Brian Valentine, of "Linux is the long-term threat against our core business. Never forget that!" and Our products just aren't engineered for security."
Best of luck with that.
Or, perhaps someone will come up with the bright idea to let you shoot packets whilst in the 3d game...
Kind of like psDooM (as seen on Slashdot), but at the network level? I'll betcha it could be done.
You know what's funny? It's been almost thirty years since the original Star Wars movie (ANH, whatever), and all of the quotes in this thread are from that one.
Where are the Phantom Menace or Attack of the Clones quotes? "I don't like your Windows server. It's coarse and rough and irritating--not like you. Your linux server is soft and smooth." Or whatever.
Remember "Bob" from Microsoft? The predecessor to "Clippy"?
The REAL legacy of Microsoft Bob, from Wikipedia:
Microsoft Bob was a project managed by Melinda French, who later married Bill Gates to become Melinda Gates.
I mean, according to Matthew Szulik, more advanced OSes are inappropriate for the casual computer user because you have to futz around with things like filesystem drivers:
"I would argue that from the device-driver standpoint and perhaps some of the other traditional functionality, for that classic consumer purchaser, it is my view that (Linux) technology needs to mature a little bit more." Szulik gave an example of his 90-year-old father going to a local retailer in order to purchase a computer with Linux: "We know painfully well what happens. He will try to get it installed and either doesn't have a positive experience or puts a lot of pressure on your support systems," he said.
So now that you'll either not "have a positive experience or put[s] a lot of pressure on [y]our support systems" trying to install a digital camera or flash media under Windows, do you think that Microsoft will have to drop their desktop distribution?
(UP UP DOWN DOWN LEFT RIGHT LEFT RIGHT A B A B) anyone?
But how do I do (select select start)? Also, you are a clever, clever man.
Okay, I'll byte:
It's an aphorism, but it's still true: "security" isn't a product (like a password), it's a process. Just because you have strong passwords, and decent newtork security (firewalls, NAT, etc.), never assume that you're invulnerable or too small to attack. I don't mean to sound snarky, but I think that you should always assume that passwords will be comprimised somehow, given enough time.
(Tim throws Gareth's stapler - inscribed with Gareth's name - out of a window.)
Gareth: "What if that killed someone?" Tim: "Well then... they'll think you're the murderer, it's got your name on it" Gareth: "Why would a murderer put his name on a murder weapon?" Tim: "To stop people borrowing it"
Note the date on that article, February 17, 2000. It was based on Microsoft's most recent annual report (at the time), 1999.
"A significant portion of the wages Microsoft pays to its employees comes in the form of stock options rather than in cash. Compared to the rest of the industry, the amount of cash Microsoft pays its programmers is at best mediocre. It attracts and retains employees via stock options..."
"So there you have it. $3.1 billion from a tax loophole [the "Stock option income tax benefits."], $1.3 billion from its employees [payroll deductions to exercise those options], and $0.7 billion from put warrants combine to give Microsoft over $5 billion from its own stock in fiscal 1999. And it avoided paying $9 billion in wages. All that from a company that only had $7.8 billion in net income. And as long as the stock keeps going up, they can keep doing that ad infinitum."
Options to buy MSFT at $120, anyone? The MS class of 1999 ought to be vesting any time now.
Obligatory Simpsons reference: Disco Stu's "Can't Stop the Learnin' Disco Academies"...
Disco Stu: Did you know that disco record sales were up 400/ for the year ending 1976? If these trends continue... A-y-y-y!
Seriously. From this day forward, I will make GOD DAMN sure that I never say anything that would be politically correct. So if you niggas have a problem with that, you can take it up with this white cracka. Bitchlap and out
Herbert? Herbert Kornfeld, is that you?
"... they are baseball terms as well as butt-sex terms."
Made me think of the Office:
Gareth: "My dad, for example, he's not as cosmopolitan or as educated as me and it can be embarrasing you know. He doesn't understand all the new trendy words - like he'll say 'poofs' instead of 'gays', 'birds' instead of 'women', 'darkies' instead of 'coloureds'."
Personally, I support butt-sex term limits!
so we went with using the Firefly 'verse.
And, ain't a power in the 'verse can stop you...
On a closely related note, we LIKED Jewel Saite.
I was in the same boat with respect to Red Hat; Debian has turned into my favorite post-RH Linux largely on the basis of ease of installation.
Download a Knoppix .iso, make CD
Boot system with Knoppix CD
Open console, type
Follow curses-based menus to create partitions and select bootloader. Reboot.
brings you up2date with the latest packages - you'll never even miss the Red Hat Network, I promise. (For graphical management, apt-get install synaptic. So simple, even a recovering MCSE can do it!)No packages to select, no painful Debian installer, just an easy desktop Debian installation in about 15 minutes (total install, depnding on RAM and CDROM speed). For more fun, after installation, a quick
P.S. - "...which makes vi commands seem intuitive"? Why, vi is intuitive! In my day, we had ed and we liked it! We typed uphill, both ways in the snow...
But the showstopper was a filmed spoof of The Matrix (screencaps available here), with Gates and Steve Ballmer as Morpheus and Neo respectively, and including a jab at Linux.
But I totally get Ballmer as Neo - you've seen his matrix training film.
The Leauge of Nations and the Catholic Church both predate the UN, and both are very arguably "supra-national" organizations
An excellent comparison: when you get right down to it, the UN is like the Vatican, but for atheists. (With the predictble results.)
September 13th, 1999
A nuclear accident at a lunar-based waste disposal site propels our moon out of Earth orbit and into deep space. The 311 residents of Moonbase Alpha find themselves adrift in space with no way to control their course through the interstellar void.
At least it's not a lame "CHA.." scratched into the surface.