Because Republicans are very unlikely to agree with me on issues involving personal privacy, gay rights, corporate rights, HMO liability, environmental issues, police searches, and yes, abortion.
Seeing as I have no idea who exactly might be picked on either side, it's a bit of a crap shoot on any given issue, but democratic beliefs tend to mirror my own a little more accurately than republican beliefs, though both are mirrors of the funhouse variety.
Maybe I hate W because he seems to be slightly dumber than some fenceposts I know. I don't trust his ability to do critical analysis when presented with conflicting expert opinion, or to coherently negotiate with other nations.
Maybe it's because in Texas the governor has very little power due to a very weird constitution, and he hasn't had any real experience, but even the little bit he's had seems to be indicitive of a man who'll cut my taxes and make the rest of the country suffer.
Maybe I don't like the idea of a Republican dominated Supreme Court.
Maybe I forgot to buy into the character assassination of Gore.
You must have some sort of problem with linux. This is a valuable, and technically interesting addition to the Linux kernel, and all you can do is act like everybody in the world who needs 256MB DIMMs also has $135 ready.
I know you're just trolling, and I shouldn't respond, but for students, and anybody who has access to memory modules that are experiencing known, predictable faults, this would be great. Not everybody has some fancy $30,000/year job, y'know.
Are you kidding? It'll be even more discount, it's brilliant marketing. What's the phone call cost? Somewhere around oh say... a dime. Now let's say 0.1% of the people who call decide they want to become a customer. Now they're getting customers for $100 each, a bargain considering what the per customer profit is at a brokerage, even a discount brokerage.
Odds are that their linux-derivative OS is just Linux, with different startup scripts, that then runs non-free software. This would mean that in return for buying a kiosk and hassling them, you'd get a copy of the kernel, and a couple libraries.
Supreme Court scare tactics? You're right, it is scary, the idea that the balance of the supreme court will be greatly shifted by the next president, especially if an issue that you care about is potentially in danger of being brought to trial.
This is one of thos commonly cited ideas, this notion that because the top 10% pays 1/3 of all taxes, that they're disproportionately taxed, and it's true. They should pay more. After all, they also receive more than 1/3 of the income.
I'm not some money-hating liberal either, I'm a member of the group that I think should pay more taxes.
First of all yes, root gets lots of e-mail, all of which should be forwarded away to some admin's mailbox (or more likely to some admin's automated mail parser). You should never ever ever need to manually read root's e-mail.
As for cleartext mail passwords, well, you *can* do it that way, or you can use OPIE, APOP, KPOP, SSL, IMAP with GSS, IMAP with CRAM-MD5, regular POP or IMAP over ssh or IPSec.... Hell, you could even use NTLM if you're auth'ing against an Exchange server or something.
Really, there's no excuse for sending your admin passwords across the wire cleartext. They should have to work to get access to your machines.
A maximum compensation of $120/week with a workload that's likely to cost far more than that if you value the employee's free time at the same rate as (loaded weekly salary / 40) per hour.
I don't know your location, but I'd assume that the above number would usually range from $50 to $150 depending on all the standard salary factors.
This means that the proposed compensation, in return from never knowing whether or not you'll be forced to cancel your plans without any notice, possibly multiple times in a week, would be the same as they're willing to pay for between 45 minutes and 2 and a half hours of your regularly scheduled work time.
Obviously, this isn't very important to the person who is trying to get you to carry the pager. I'd treat it as such. If they insist that e-mail is mission critical, I'd insist that only the e-mail server be considered as such, and agree on software to monitor it for you. At least that way you won't get calls from people who can't figure out how to use Outlook.
as for not letting your clients carry a laptop without a case, well.... what are you, their mother? Why do you care?
I carry a laptop in a backpack most of the time, and my laptops have hit the ground more times than I care to think about. Even with treating them with approximately the same amount of care I give to rocks or dirt, they usually last about a year.
nah, not very very dangerous... theoretically there might be a remotely exploitable hole that would allow a remote attacker to gain access as the local user. That's bad but certainly not very very dangerous, as long as root isn't reading mail with pine (and why would root be reading mail at all).
To steal an amusing phrase from Bugtraq: "Pine, from the same people who brought you WU-FTP and UW imap"
Or if your player has been modified in the manner that mine has. I don't have a region-free dvd player, my player requires me to switch the region that the player will be at the moment, so it can be a region 3 or a region 1 but never both a region 3 and a region 1.
I'm assuming this won't affect me, or my habit of buying DVDs from regions other than my specified ones. I'd actually be rather shocked if it did.
No offense, but I don't think it's a matter of not profitable enough, I think it's a matter of it being a timesuck that distracts them from an OS that people actually use. I mean, if you spend 5% of your time on a product that 0.02% of your subscriber population uses, well, that's dumb.
You, and all the people who are agreeing with you are either
not in the real world
independently wealth (see above)
dumb
I say cheers to RedHat for being bold enough to support Sparc in the first place, and again for being smart enough to drop said support. I hope they are able to improve the core capabilities by removing Sparc from their support, design, and testing.
Besides, I'm sure that nine out of ten of you whiners don't even own a Sparc and are just upset in principle, that you're no longer getting something for free.
the big deal is that there isn't a USA and an international flavor anymore, there's one, count 'em one, flavor of RSA, and everything can feel free to depend on it.
what occured was a very useful change, it gets rid of a lot of USA_RESIDENT dependencies, simplifies things, and let's us americans use RSA commercially without a license, and use a fine implementation of it too.
oh, and as long as you're securing your system, shouldn't you change syslogd_flags to "-ss", have a firewall_enable="YES", edit rc.firewall appropriately and choose a firewall_type, edit Xservers in/etc/X11/xdm to ave a -nolisten tcp option tagged on... if you're running gnome, you probably want ORBIIOPIPv4=0
ORBIIOPIPv6=0 added to your/usr/local/etc/orbitrc, kern_securelevel_enable="YES" should be set as well as kern_securelevel="3"...etc etc etc...
I hate replying to an AC troll, but this AC does have a point. Even things such as setting the defaults in orbitrc to be ORBIIOPIPv4=0
ORBIIOPIPv6=0 would be great start. The RHAT defaults are a little unusual, but overall I have to say keep up the good work. RHAT 6.2 is the in-house OS used on any proliants, and it, with kickstart, has worked out pretty well.
it's an ftp-only release, no CDs will be burnt until November when 4.2 will be rolling our way.
There was a lot of people who wanted to ditch rsaref and use better rsa implementations, so this release grants them that ability, for the small price of a little bandwidth.
you can come close, but you'll NEVER make it. i mean yesterday i was fighting a bug in PHP of all things, and when i tried attaching gdb to apache, discovered a bug in FreeBSD's binutils, where you can't get into the internals of a shared object despite having symbols properly loaded.
that means, without writing a single bug, i had to deal with a) a bug in PHP and b) a bug in binutils which made it hard to find the bug in PHP. ----------------------------
You're right, we shouldn't spend any money on scientific research until we cure all the ills of our society, cultural or otherwise. To do otherwise would be pure evil! ----------------------------
maybe i said that because, *gasp*, i really did expect that mentioning FreeBSD as a valuable source of potential design information for Linux would cross religious barriers, and get me marked as flamebait.
Impossible you think? Then look at the maturity which exudes from your reply to my message, and think about what you've added to the/. community. The answers, in case you missed them, are both negative. And that's *really* common, especially among the karma whores who play the/. game very well, as long as the goal isn't the disemmination of useful information or the creation of interesting dialogue. I'm referring instead to the people who think that a goatse.cx or rotten.com link is the coolest thing on the planet. ----------------------------
That's exactly my point. Your suggestion for how to implement this in the package manager means you turn the package manager into a web browser. Either way it's out of scope. ----------------------------
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Because Republicans are very unlikely to agree with me on issues involving personal privacy, gay rights, corporate rights, HMO liability, environmental issues, police searches, and yes, abortion.
Seeing as I have no idea who exactly might be picked on either side, it's a bit of a crap shoot on any given issue, but democratic beliefs tend to mirror my own a little more accurately than republican beliefs, though both are mirrors of the funhouse variety.
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"Don't trolls get tired?"
Maybe I hate W because he seems to be slightly dumber than some fenceposts I know. I don't trust his ability to do critical analysis when presented with conflicting expert opinion, or to coherently negotiate with other nations.
Maybe it's because in Texas the governor has very little power due to a very weird constitution, and he hasn't had any real experience, but even the little bit he's had seems to be indicitive of a man who'll cut my taxes and make the rest of the country suffer.
Maybe I don't like the idea of a Republican dominated Supreme Court.
Maybe I forgot to buy into the character assassination of Gore.
Maybe I'm just smarter than you.
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"Don't trolls get tired?"
You must have some sort of problem with linux. This is a valuable, and technically interesting addition to the Linux kernel, and all you can do is act like everybody in the world who needs 256MB DIMMs also has $135 ready.
I know you're just trolling, and I shouldn't respond, but for students, and anybody who has access to memory modules that are experiencing known, predictable faults, this would be great. Not everybody has some fancy $30,000/year job, y'know.
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"Don't trolls get tired?"
Are you kidding? It'll be even more discount, it's brilliant marketing. What's the phone call cost? Somewhere around oh say... a dime. Now let's say 0.1% of the people who call decide they want to become a customer. Now they're getting customers for $100 each, a bargain considering what the per customer profit is at a brokerage, even a discount brokerage.
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"Don't trolls get tired?"
Odds are that their linux-derivative OS is just Linux, with different startup scripts, that then runs non-free software. This would mean that in return for buying a kiosk and hassling them, you'd get a copy of the kernel, and a couple libraries.
Oh yeah, let me help with that genius project.
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"Don't trolls get tired?"
Supreme Court scare tactics? You're right, it is scary, the idea that the balance of the supreme court will be greatly shifted by the next president, especially if an issue that you care about is potentially in danger of being brought to trial.
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"Don't trolls get tired?"
This is one of thos commonly cited ideas, this notion that because the top 10% pays 1/3 of all taxes, that they're disproportionately taxed, and it's true. They should pay more. After all, they also receive more than 1/3 of the income.
I'm not some money-hating liberal either, I'm a member of the group that I think should pay more taxes.
--
"Don't trolls get tired?"
First of all yes, root gets lots of e-mail, all of which should be forwarded away to some admin's mailbox (or more likely to some admin's automated mail parser). You should never ever ever need to manually read root's e-mail.
As for cleartext mail passwords, well, you *can* do it that way, or you can use OPIE, APOP, KPOP, SSL, IMAP with GSS, IMAP with CRAM-MD5, regular POP or IMAP over ssh or IPSec.... Hell, you could even use NTLM if you're auth'ing against an Exchange server or something.
Really, there's no excuse for sending your admin passwords across the wire cleartext. They should have to work to get access to your machines.
--
"Don't trolls get tired?"
A maximum compensation of $120/week with a workload that's likely to cost far more than that if you value the employee's free time at the same rate as (loaded weekly salary / 40) per hour.
I don't know your location, but I'd assume that the above number would usually range from $50 to $150 depending on all the standard salary factors.
This means that the proposed compensation, in return from never knowing whether or not you'll be forced to cancel your plans without any notice, possibly multiple times in a week, would be the same as they're willing to pay for between 45 minutes and 2 and a half hours of your regularly scheduled work time.
Obviously, this isn't very important to the person who is trying to get you to carry the pager. I'd treat it as such. If they insist that e-mail is mission critical, I'd insist that only the e-mail server be considered as such, and agree on software to monitor it for you. At least that way you won't get calls from people who can't figure out how to use Outlook.
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"Don't trolls get tired?"
oookay... so then i just use a high-pass filter and they're gone... (or a low-pass filter if you mean the 1-19Hz range).
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"Don't trolls get tired?"
a) so don't buy one.
b) so don't buy one.
as for not letting your clients carry a laptop without a case, well.... what are you, their mother? Why do you care?
I carry a laptop in a backpack most of the time, and my laptops have hit the ground more times than I care to think about. Even with treating them with approximately the same amount of care I give to rocks or dirt, they usually last about a year.
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"Don't trolls get tired?"
nah, not very very dangerous... theoretically there might be a remotely exploitable hole that would allow a remote attacker to gain access as the local user. That's bad but certainly not very very dangerous, as long as root isn't reading mail with pine (and why would root be reading mail at all).
To steal an amusing phrase from Bugtraq: "Pine, from the same people who brought you WU-FTP and UW imap"
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"Don't trolls get tired?"
That's odd, I mean, why would it be Windows, it's not like Microsoft has a monopoly or anything... oh... wait... never mind.
"Don't trolls get tired?"
you must not like George Carlin then.
Who says rape isn't funny? I think it's hilarious. Imagine Bugs Bunny raping Elmer Fudd.
"Don't trolls get tired?"
Or if your player has been modified in the manner that mine has. I don't have a region-free dvd player, my player requires me to switch the region that the player will be at the moment, so it can be a region 3 or a region 1 but never both a region 3 and a region 1.
I'm assuming this won't affect me, or my habit of buying DVDs from regions other than my specified ones. I'd actually be rather shocked if it did.
"Don't trolls get tired?"
He does know something you don't know.
"Don't trolls get tired?"
You, and all the people who are agreeing with you are either
- not in the real world
- independently wealth (see above)
- dumb
I say cheers to RedHat for being bold enough to support Sparc in the first place, and again for being smart enough to drop said support. I hope they are able to improve the core capabilities by removing Sparc from their support, design, and testing.Besides, I'm sure that nine out of ten of you whiners don't even own a Sparc and are just upset in principle, that you're no longer getting something for free.
"Don't trolls get tired?"
the big deal is that there isn't a USA and an international flavor anymore, there's one, count 'em one, flavor of RSA, and everything can feel free to depend on it.
/etc/X11/xdm to ave a -nolisten tcp option tagged on... if you're running gnome, you probably want ORBIIOPIPv4=0
/usr/local/etc/orbitrc, kern_securelevel_enable="YES" should be set as well as kern_securelevel="3"...etc etc etc...
what occured was a very useful change, it gets rid of a lot of USA_RESIDENT dependencies, simplifies things, and let's us americans use RSA commercially without a license, and use a fine implementation of it too.
oh, and as long as you're securing your system, shouldn't you change syslogd_flags to "-ss", have a firewall_enable="YES", edit rc.firewall appropriately and choose a firewall_type, edit Xservers in
ORBIIOPIPv6=0 added to your
"Don't trolls get tired?"
I hate replying to an AC troll, but this AC does have a point. Even things such as setting the defaults in orbitrc to be ORBIIOPIPv4=0
ORBIIOPIPv6=0 would be great start. The RHAT defaults are a little unusual, but overall I have to say keep up the good work. RHAT 6.2 is the in-house OS used on any proliants, and it, with kickstart, has worked out pretty well.
"Don't trolls get tired?"
it's an ftp-only release, no CDs will be burnt until November when 4.2 will be rolling our way.
There was a lot of people who wanted to ditch rsaref and use better rsa implementations, so this release grants them that ability, for the small price of a little bandwidth.
"Don't trolls get tired?"
elegant and bugless code... yeah... right.
you can come close, but you'll NEVER make it. i mean yesterday i was fighting a bug in PHP of all things, and when i tried attaching gdb to apache, discovered a bug in FreeBSD's binutils, where you can't get into the internals of a shared object despite having symbols properly loaded.
that means, without writing a single bug, i had to deal with a) a bug in PHP and b) a bug in binutils which made it hard to find the bug in PHP.
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You're right, we shouldn't spend any money on scientific research until we cure all the ills of our society, cultural or otherwise. To do otherwise would be pure evil!
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maybe i said that because, *gasp*, i really did expect that mentioning FreeBSD as a valuable source of potential design information for Linux would cross religious barriers, and get me marked as flamebait.
/. community. The answers, in case you missed them, are both negative. And that's *really* common, especially among the karma whores who play the /. game very well, as long as the goal isn't the disemmination of useful information or the creation of interesting dialogue. I'm referring instead to the people who think that a goatse.cx or rotten.com link is the coolest thing on the planet.
Impossible you think? Then look at the maturity which exudes from your reply to my message, and think about what you've added to the
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That's exactly my point. Your suggestion for how to implement this in the package manager means you turn the package manager into a web browser. Either way it's out of scope.
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because they should.
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