Show them the ease of modprobe, the powerfulness of iptables, the fun of piping and redirecting, mixing of filesystems and drives in the directory-hierarchy and mounting of ISO-images(!). Inprint in their heads that the machine does not need to be rebooted after updates and installations, ip-adress-changes and change of configuration. Show them the power of root, the joy of grep and the top of it all, the geniality of config-files, and NO REGISTRY.
We must not forget to give credit to Al Gore, the USENET inventor, and the man with the initiative to restore the archives. Thanks, Al.
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I would like to thank all of you who have contributed with your comments here on slashdot in regards to this case in the last two days. You have been an invaluble source for extensive information far beyond what any comercial news-source could ever be. You have given a human perspective to the unimaginable.
Whyt is it not just called "Finite Matrix" instead?
The old story of underqualifyed support-people.
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Phone-support: Hello, this is the Micr..., 'scuse me, Cisco phone-support line. What can I do for you?
Hemos: My Cisco router melted down. Can you please send someone over to fix it?
PS: Melted down? Did you put it in your oven too? You _do: know what a router is, don't you?
H: What I mean is that it's broken. It won't route traffic any more. I don't know what's wrong with it.
PS: Of course you dont, dear, noone knows. I'll send a nice young woman over to check up on yo.. sorry, check it out for you. Will tomorrow be okay?
H: No, I need to have it fixed right away, I have 1.000.000 visitors per. day, and I don't want to have any downtime.
PS: I'm sorry dear. But I can help you from here, if you want to. Just right-click on "My network-places" on your desktop. You see it right there, on the left hand side of the screen?
Would't it be possible to encrypt signals with DES, and have the units change their keys every 3-4 seconds? With the power of small chips theese days, such a thing would not be very difficult to implement.
This comment reminds me of a story about the time when a weapons-factory in Norway was being internationally boycotted for making granades used in whalig. But when the stupid animal-activists found out that the grenades produced were only being used to kill human beings, noone cared anymore, and the boycott was called off.
We see theese kind of things popping up everywhere. "Pirate-protection" on cds, computergames, compressed music, vcrs, dvds, harddisks and now, as if it wasn't enough, The game of profit-maximizing makes buissiness out of encrypting signals in the 1m wire between my computer and my monitor.
I have to ask myself one question - WHY? Why are someone allowed to control my pc? Why are someone allowed to limit the use of services I have legaly purchased? If I purchase something, I like to think of it as my own. I own my car, my tv, my bike and my books. I can do with it what I find delightful or funny - whenever I feel like it.
Unfortunately some fuckhead came up with the idea of "licence-agreements" - and worst of all, most governments in the world allows this kind of development-brake to be switched on. If I would like to know how this pc operates (it runs winME), I'm not allowed to. I'm tried to be prevented from having my DVDs copied, someone tries to prevent me from copying my purchased music, someone is trying to have my purchased books time-limited, someone is trying to stop me from taping TV-shows, and now - as the top of the "kransekake", as we say in Norway, someone wants to keep me from listening in on the signal MY OWN pc tries to send to MY OWN terminal.
I liked to think of my own as my own. Just as Linus pronounces linux as linux. But I'm not allowed to.
This has got to stop. If this common policy continues, we are not allowed to change the lightbulbs in our own homes, we won't be allowed to open the hood on our cars, we won't be allowed to install our own car-stereo, and we won't be allowed to not watch commercials.
Someone has got to say NO at some point, or civilisation is going down - driven to the ground by its own hunger for profit.
I'm not a communist - far from it, but I do want to point out a communist fact, manely that the people are in charge. Or, for you american citizens, you were in charge. Then you found out that you had to let the money take control, and now it's the buissinessmen in the USA that litterally controls your lives. And when I thought you'd seen what you have become, you elect - of all the idiots in your country, Mr. George W. Bush as your president. I've gotta laugh. But everywhere else in the world, I would like you to think about what kind of control you want over your own life. Think abiut it the next time you are to elect your representate to the natonal-government.
Of course we don't want to steel things - but then again, that's why we BUY it. What we are really doing nowadays is renting stuff - but noone calls it that. I wonder why...
No, there's no other reason. We want to get what we want free of charge. Why? Cause we're cheap and selfish, and extreemely greedy. And we're proud of it!
A country that lets people patent obvious technology has STUUPID politicians.
As of now, I consider USA a shitty country. How can you let someone keep a patent secret, and then try to enforce it after it has been "re-invented" and widespread?
The "freedom" you talk about all the time in USA, what can I say? YOUR KIND OF FREEDOM STINKS!
Linux on handhelt pcs is probably a good thing, but a question that comes to mind is "Who is going to develop the software?" A lot of the linux-community's goal and target is open source, and "community-based"-software development. Things that don't pay off and take plenty of time. I have certain doubts that there will be a lot of oupen-source software to these things because of the small mass of customers. And with nearly no open-source-software, what's the point?
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The relevant results are due to kartoo's new "hamster-rank"-system. They are small, smart and they don't fly away. They don't pick on you eather.
This guy also built his own network-booster out of an old loudspeaker. Now, that's what I call a genious.
The chairman of the secret six group, a secretive Mr. G, arrived to the meating wearing a penguin-suit to conceal his identity
Show them the ease of modprobe, the powerfulness of iptables, the fun of piping and redirecting, mixing of filesystems and drives in the directory-hierarchy and mounting of ISO-images(!). Inprint in their heads that the machine does not need to be rebooted after updates and installations, ip-adress-changes and change of configuration. Show them the power of root, the joy of grep and the top of it all, the geniality of config-files, and NO REGISTRY.
We must not forget to give credit to Al Gore, the USENET inventor, and the man with the initiative to restore the archives.
Thanks, Al.
I would like to thank all of you who have contributed with your comments here on slashdot in regards to this case in the last two days. You have been an invaluble source for extensive information far beyond what any comercial news-source could ever be. You have given a human perspective to the unimaginable.
Again, thank you. And God bless us all.
Whyt is it not just called "Finite Matrix" instead?
Hemos: My Cisco router melted down. Can you please send someone over to fix it?
PS: Melted down? Did you put it in your oven too? You _do: know what a router is, don't you?
H: What I mean is that it's broken. It won't route traffic any more. I don't know what's wrong with it.
PS: Of course you dont, dear, noone knows. I'll send a nice young woman over to check up on yo.. sorry, check it out for you. Will tomorrow be okay?
H: No, I need to have it fixed right away, I have 1.000.000 visitors per. day, and I don't want to have any downtime.
PS: I'm sorry dear. But I can help you from here, if you want to. Just right-click on "My network-places" on your desktop. You see it right there, on the left hand side of the screen?
You can't see it coming, can you? "EMI joins forces with the creators of cdrecord..."
Would't it be possible to encrypt signals with DES, and have the units change their keys every 3-4 seconds? With the power of small chips theese days, such a thing would not be very difficult to implement.
To rip the electronic-stuff out and use the tower as a refigerator?
That their webserver can not keep up with their filesystem anyway...
This comment reminds me of a story about the time when a weapons-factory in Norway was being internationally boycotted for making granades used in whalig. But when the stupid animal-activists found out that the grenades produced were only being used to kill human beings, noone cared anymore, and the boycott was called off.
People are more important than animals!
We see theese kind of things popping up everywhere. "Pirate-protection" on cds, computergames, compressed music, vcrs, dvds, harddisks and now, as if it wasn't enough, The game of profit-maximizing makes buissiness out of encrypting signals in the 1m wire between my computer and my monitor. I have to ask myself one question - WHY? Why are someone allowed to control my pc? Why are someone allowed to limit the use of services I have legaly purchased? If I purchase something, I like to think of it as my own. I own my car, my tv, my bike and my books. I can do with it what I find delightful or funny - whenever I feel like it. Unfortunately some fuckhead came up with the idea of "licence-agreements" - and worst of all, most governments in the world allows this kind of development-brake to be switched on. If I would like to know how this pc operates (it runs winME), I'm not allowed to. I'm tried to be prevented from having my DVDs copied, someone tries to prevent me from copying my purchased music, someone is trying to have my purchased books time-limited, someone is trying to stop me from taping TV-shows, and now - as the top of the "kransekake", as we say in Norway, someone wants to keep me from listening in on the signal MY OWN pc tries to send to MY OWN terminal. I liked to think of my own as my own. Just as Linus pronounces linux as linux. But I'm not allowed to. This has got to stop. If this common policy continues, we are not allowed to change the lightbulbs in our own homes, we won't be allowed to open the hood on our cars, we won't be allowed to install our own car-stereo, and we won't be allowed to not watch commercials. Someone has got to say NO at some point, or civilisation is going down - driven to the ground by its own hunger for profit. I'm not a communist - far from it, but I do want to point out a communist fact, manely that the people are in charge. Or, for you american citizens, you were in charge. Then you found out that you had to let the money take control, and now it's the buissinessmen in the USA that litterally controls your lives. And when I thought you'd seen what you have become, you elect - of all the idiots in your country, Mr. George W. Bush as your president. I've gotta laugh. But everywhere else in the world, I would like you to think about what kind of control you want over your own life. Think abiut it the next time you are to elect your representate to the natonal-government. Of course we don't want to steel things - but then again, that's why we BUY it. What we are really doing nowadays is renting stuff - but noone calls it that. I wonder why...
Unfortunately it is mozilla 0.7 that followes the Ximian-packages. That is not very good, since mozilla 0.8 is much more stable and robust.
How about jus calling it "Filter" with the slogan: "We filter it all" or "The best filter in the world"
I want to buy myself one of those shuttles too!
No, there's no other reason. We want to get what we want free of charge. Why? Cause we're cheap and selfish, and extreemely greedy. And we're proud of it!
I'd love a smart me!
How about just launching the nukes at the trash, and taking care of two problems in one smack? Moihoihoi
A country that lets people patent obvious technology has STUUPID politicians.
As of now, I consider USA a shitty country. How can you let someone keep a patent secret, and then try to enforce it after it has been "re-invented" and widespread?
The "freedom" you talk about all the time in USA, what can I say? YOUR KIND OF FREEDOM STINKS!
Twice - at the same time!
A country that let people patent obvious technology has stupid politicians!
Linux on handhelt pcs is probably a good thing, but a question that comes to mind is "Who is going to develop the software?" A lot of the linux-community's goal and target is open source, and "community-based"-software development. Things that don't pay off and take plenty of time. I have certain doubts that there will be a lot of oupen-source software to these things because of the small mass of customers. And with nearly no open-source-software, what's the point?