Yeah. He admitted it after the fact tho, in the Eighties when all the Joseph Campbell claptrap got dragged out for fun. To be honest, if Star Wars is our Nibelungenlied, then we could do much, much worse.
The opening shot with the sidekicks arguing as they leave the battle is an obvious pull by Lucas from this classic. The droids walk away from the escape pod after miraculously surviving the battle and bicker and fuss. Don't even get me on the General(Toshiro Mifune)/Obi-wan comparison. When Lucas starts pulling long focal length shots with lots of rain and horses, his title as the primo ripoff artist will be sealed.
Well there isn't much MS can do other than pull Outlook from production. As a Helpdesker, you would definitely tell anyone who was worried about a virus to update defs on spec. This is a good practice, unlike the use of the vectoring Outlook program. Of course, some M$ shill will claim that its not M$ fault and it is a user issue, but that would just be the monkeys aping their master Bill and his minions.
Just when you thought amavis was the cure for the odd little virus the odd little user would pass along, here comes Klez.H. Our helpdesk account receives 200+ "WARNING VIRUS IN MAIL ADDRESSED TO YOU" from amavisd. Yesterday, as I am on the security bitch list, I get a call from a "Senior Security Admin" for the Naval Intelligence Service (is there such a thing???). He was complaining that their sensitive e-mail accounts were getting hundreds of e-mails from foobar.edu e-mail addresses and that we need to put a stop to it. Take clue-by-four from scabbard. Take aim. Beat. This cat didn't even know what the Klez virus is and claims to be a security maven for the military. WTFE. After he yelled at me for lecturing him on how to read e-mail headers, he asked me what the solution was. Simple: ban the use of Outlook. Huff. Huff. Huff. "We can't do that! We have a contract with Microsoft."
Linux is a way of developing software whereas piracy is copying.
But in a sense, Linux is copying. It is a Unix-LIKE operating system, which attempts to give the feel of being on a classic Unix OS machine without the requisite licensure requirements other than those promoted by itself (the GPL). So, Linux is a copy, but not piracy sense the creator did not take source code from the original to create the copy. He merely looked at what that original did and mimed it. Therefore it is copying in the mimetic sense, not the representing sense, where one merely takes the code, compiles it and represents the copy as an original. Where's Judith Butler when you need her?
Well there is those two peasants again. Don't they become vassals (wanted or otherwise) of Toshiro Mifune? Read: Obi-wan Kenobi. I think the similarities are stronger than simply a lifted scene. Of course, we could be putting a bit too much brain power into this anyhoo.:-)
Wrong. In the Hidden Fortress, as the two peasants leave the battle scene at the beginning, they walk away and argue after their inexplicable escape. A New Hope has r2d2 and c3po walking into the desert after the battle and their miraculous escape by lifepod. They argue and fuss. Sure the dialog is not the same and the plots of the two movies are dissimilar, but this pull is much more than a tip-of-the-hat. I'd equate it to the various movies depicting baby carriages tumbling down stairs a la Battleship Potemkin -- a wretched example being "The Untouchables."
That's me "treasonous." I would rather live in a country that has just laws and doesn't lock up whole classes of people (Africans) and pushes other countries into conflict by meddling in their internal affairs. Countries that learn from their mistakes. The US that won WWII is long fucking gone. It taught the lessons and then forgot them. Now you have a place that allows fascists to steal elections under a system rigged to empower the rich. Doesn't it sicken you that GERMANY is a freer and more just country than the US? You are a thoroughly propagandized troll who will live and tie under your master's thumb without once feeling free becuase the only real price you ever paid for freedom was $12.88 a Walmart.
Anyhoo, I grew up speaking German so what's the fucking difference? I am sure you would have loved Germany's policies toward those who dissent if they had won WWII. They labelled them treasonous and shot them. Isn't that what you are doing, you fascist.
Um. Jackass. That's Benjamin Franklin. Also, remember: Christ was poor (in material wealth) as, well, a church mouse. If getting to heaven means being Christ-like as possible, you better start shedding that 401-K and stock options.
Marx: "The first social institution that fails under capitalism is the family." -- Kapital I (I think)
Whatever. The war on Terrorism won't last until the next election. Bush will never be able to kill Bin Laden (the key to electoral success for the idiot). Hank Kissinger, who should be on trial at the Hague along with Milosevic for the Dirty Wars in Cambodia, Bolivia and Chile, is pulling the strings on foreign policy (if you can call it that). And the real evil emperor, Dick "HAsn't seen an Oil Deal or CIA Front that's too Dirty" Cheney has finally got the chance to rule from behind the curtain.
The racist baiting of China will get the US smacked down like a beeeeeotch. The Chinese have no qualms about killing millions to prove a point , which makes them morally equivalent to the US. The American public is stupid enough to vote for Bush, but is not stupid enough to grind through another Cold War with evil White emperors sending their kids off to the slaughter for God and Country. Makes me want to move to the EU, where fascism is called by its real name, not jingoed patriotism.
It does TCP resets and is ANOTHER piece of equipment that requires maintenance. Besides all of that functionality is rolling out via Cisco/Extreme/Juniper competing border routers so getting another vendor to deal with is not sense. Also, we tested packeteer and the biggest offenders merely set up VPN links to off-campus and defeated the resetter.
Logically, yes. Reality, no. Simply that there is one customer (the university) who wants the service in an area dictates that the cost will be extraordinary as it is the only demander of the service. Most businesses want only a T-1 or frame-relay setup and are not going to demand an OC-12. So we are the only ones asking, therefore we get screwed. Also, in Sweden, I imagine that IT infrastructure is probably controlled by a quasi-governmental or srtictly governmental entity whose concerns are probably not centered on profit solely. Correct if wrong, please.
Wrong. Only if you have a homogenous set of equipment do you have even similar code bases. The Cat5 series follows the RFC then extends it with a set of MIBS that has no similarity to any other equipment that Cisco makes. That other equipment is usually the product of some smaller company like Grand Junction which Cisco gobbled. That is M$-like behavior. Ever play with Extreme (focus of most of Cisco's FUD recently)? Sweet stuff.
We have a faculty only network link to the outside world that runs about 60% less than the Student's DS3 (44.2MBps) and I don't think you understand the nature of I2 and what it does. Read the article. Also, unused fibre is a a reality, but isn't a lot of it obsolete pulls? And the real trick isn't getting the dark fiber online, it is convincing shitty companies like Qwest that it needs to be utilized.
Price is related to geography. Think about it. A pull to Atlanta is 331KM, to chicago: 970Km. Plus all the infrastrucure is controlled by incompetent companies like Qwest and BellSouth who hold monopolies and price accordingly.
Banning goes against the concept of the "University." We only shut ports down for illegal activity and only if it is reported to us. We don't look for it (other than security issues). You have many more masters in academia than in industry. Imagine a world run by PHBs and PhDs, where some of the PHBs have PhDs. Frightnening, no?
As a network administrator at an I2 University, I can tell you that your lamentable ping times are directly attributable to P2P apps. Throw more bandwidth at it? Wrong. We went from 1 DS-3 to 3 DS-3s and it took 2 days for the I2 and Dorm links to become saturated. Traffic analysis showed 75% to 80% of the traffic was FastTrack alone. Turn off your music sharing software and get the sorority girl next door to stop serving up 5000 songs to the world and your will see incredible performance increases. By doing some evil Cisco (the M$ of networking) proprietary tweaks we throttled Kazaa and other Fastrack type stuff and the performance rebounded. What happened next? The Helpdesk starts getting bitches about how slow Kazaa is! To be honest with you, when we get calls from kids complaining about the speeds of their online gaming, we laugh. I always have them read the Acceptible Use Policy and then tell them to get back to studying. We are not the intramural playing fields. Get over it.
But these P2P apps adapt (simply because they are evil) and we are already seeing increases traffic. So guess what? We have to buy more bandwidth. I wonder if Joe Taxpayer likes the idea that his pennies on the dollar toward education go for through bandwidth at a blackhole so kids can playu Quake instead of studying. We roll the 622Mbps link on July 1 with one of those badass Juniper routers ($80000) to boot.
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Yeah. He admitted it after the fact tho, in the Eighties when all the Joseph Campbell claptrap got dragged out for fun. To be honest, if Star Wars is our Nibelungenlied, then we could do much, much worse.
The opening shot with the sidekicks arguing as they leave the battle is an obvious pull by Lucas from this classic. The droids walk away from the escape pod after miraculously surviving the battle and bicker and fuss. Don't even get me on the General(Toshiro Mifune)/Obi-wan comparison. When Lucas starts pulling long focal length shots with lots of rain and horses, his title as the primo ripoff artist will be sealed.
Well there isn't much MS can do other than pull Outlook from production. As a Helpdesker, you would definitely tell anyone who was worried about a virus to update defs on spec. This is a good practice, unlike the use of the vectoring Outlook program. Of course, some M$ shill will claim that its not M$ fault and it is a user issue, but that would just be the monkeys aping their master Bill and his minions.
Just when you thought amavis was the cure for the odd little virus the odd little user would pass along, here comes Klez.H. Our helpdesk account receives 200+ "WARNING VIRUS IN MAIL ADDRESSED TO YOU" from amavisd. Yesterday, as I am on the security bitch list, I get a call from a "Senior Security Admin" for the Naval Intelligence Service (is there such a thing???). He was complaining that their sensitive e-mail accounts were getting hundreds of e-mails from foobar.edu e-mail addresses and that we need to put a stop to it. Take clue-by-four from scabbard. Take aim. Beat. This cat didn't even know what the Klez virus is and claims to be a security maven for the military. WTFE. After he yelled at me for lecturing him on how to read e-mail headers, he asked me what the solution was. Simple: ban the use of Outlook. Huff. Huff. Huff. "We can't do that! We have a contract with Microsoft."
Linux is a way of developing software whereas piracy is copying.
But in a sense, Linux is copying. It is a Unix-LIKE operating system, which attempts to give the feel of being on a classic Unix OS machine without the requisite licensure requirements other than those promoted by itself (the GPL). So, Linux is a copy, but not piracy sense the creator did not take source code from the original to create the copy. He merely looked at what that original did and mimed it. Therefore it is copying in the mimetic sense, not the representing sense, where one merely takes the code, compiles it and represents the copy as an original. Where's Judith Butler when you need her?
Well there is those two peasants again. Don't they become vassals (wanted or otherwise) of Toshiro Mifune? Read: Obi-wan Kenobi. I think the similarities are stronger than simply a lifted scene. Of course, we could be putting a bit too much brain power into this anyhoo. :-)
Wrong. In the Hidden Fortress, as the two peasants leave the battle scene at the beginning, they walk away and argue after their inexplicable escape. A New Hope has r2d2 and c3po walking into the desert after the battle and their miraculous escape by lifepod. They argue and fuss. Sure the dialog is not the same and the plots of the two movies are dissimilar, but this pull is much more than a tip-of-the-hat. I'd equate it to the various movies depicting baby carriages tumbling down stairs a la Battleship Potemkin -- a wretched example being "The Untouchables."
Star Wars Episode III: "I wipe my ass with your money"
Nope. Cato ended speeches thusly. It is a joke on George Bush. Think About It.
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That's me "treasonous." I would rather live in a country that has just laws and doesn't lock up whole classes of people (Africans) and pushes other countries into conflict by meddling in their internal affairs. Countries that learn from their mistakes. The US that won WWII is long fucking gone. It taught the lessons and then forgot them. Now you have a place that allows fascists to steal elections under a system rigged to empower the rich. Doesn't it sicken you that GERMANY is a freer and more just country than the US? You are a thoroughly propagandized troll who will live and tie under your master's thumb without once feeling free becuase the only real price you ever paid for freedom was $12.88 a Walmart.
Anyhoo, I grew up speaking German so what's the fucking difference? I am sure you would have loved Germany's policies toward those who dissent if they had won WWII. They labelled them treasonous and shot them. Isn't that what you are doing, you fascist.
Marx: "The first social institution that fails under capitalism is the family." -- Kapital I (I think)
Got an apartment there already. See ya and your fascist leaders!
Whatever. The war on Terrorism won't last until the next election. Bush will never be able to kill Bin Laden (the key to electoral success for the idiot). Hank Kissinger, who should be on trial at the Hague along with Milosevic for the Dirty Wars in Cambodia, Bolivia and Chile, is pulling the strings on foreign policy (if you can call it that). And the real evil emperor, Dick "HAsn't seen an Oil Deal or CIA Front that's too Dirty" Cheney has finally got the chance to rule from behind the curtain.
The racist baiting of China will get the US smacked down like a beeeeeotch. The Chinese have no qualms about killing millions to prove a point , which makes them morally equivalent to the US. The American public is stupid enough to vote for Bush, but is not stupid enough to grind through another Cold War with evil White emperors sending their kids off to the slaughter for God and Country. Makes me want to move to the EU, where fascism is called by its real name, not jingoed patriotism.
It does TCP resets and is ANOTHER piece of equipment that requires maintenance. Besides all of that functionality is rolling out via Cisco/Extreme/Juniper competing border routers so getting another vendor to deal with is not sense. Also, we tested packeteer and the biggest offenders merely set up VPN links to off-campus and defeated the resetter.
It has crippled my workplace because it was not a "high-profile" virus and Norton did not ship defs for it early enough.
Logically, yes. Reality, no. Simply that there is one customer (the university) who wants the service in an area dictates that the cost will be extraordinary as it is the only demander of the service. Most businesses want only a T-1 or frame-relay setup and are not going to demand an OC-12. So we are the only ones asking, therefore we get screwed. Also, in Sweden, I imagine that IT infrastructure is probably controlled by a quasi-governmental or srtictly governmental entity whose concerns are probably not centered on profit solely. Correct if wrong, please.
Wrong. Only if you have a homogenous set of equipment do you have even similar code bases. The Cat5 series follows the RFC then extends it with a set of MIBS that has no similarity to any other equipment that Cisco makes. That other equipment is usually the product of some smaller company like Grand Junction which Cisco gobbled. That is M$-like behavior. Ever play with Extreme (focus of most of Cisco's FUD recently)? Sweet stuff.
We have a faculty only network link to the outside world that runs about 60% less than the Student's DS3 (44.2MBps) and I don't think you understand the nature of I2 and what it does. Read the article. Also, unused fibre is a a reality, but isn't a lot of it obsolete pulls? And the real trick isn't getting the dark fiber online, it is convincing shitty companies like Qwest that it needs to be utilized.
We use I2 for H.323 Teleconferencing to broadcast symposiums and such from our Sunsite.
Don't care if they play games. Care when they call complaining about lag when they are responsible ("they" in the student community sense).
Price is related to geography. Think about it. A pull to Atlanta is 331KM, to chicago: 970Km. Plus all the infrastrucure is controlled by incompetent companies like Qwest and BellSouth who hold monopolies and price accordingly.
Banning goes against the concept of the "University." We only shut ports down for illegal activity and only if it is reported to us. We don't look for it (other than security issues). You have many more masters in academia than in industry. Imagine a world run by PHBs and PhDs, where some of the PHBs have PhDs. Frightnening, no?
But these P2P apps adapt (simply because they are evil) and we are already seeing increases traffic. So guess what? We have to buy more bandwidth. I wonder if Joe Taxpayer likes the idea that his pennies on the dollar toward education go for through bandwidth at a blackhole so kids can playu Quake instead of studying. We roll the 622Mbps link on July 1 with one of those badass Juniper routers ($80000) to boot.
Best kimchi in knoxville is at the Oriental Market on Sutherland. Grandma is in the back pickling while you buy inari for sushi. Really cheap too. I did not know that about cucumber style. Sounds delish.