Oh, proud to be an American. Bet you're proud to commit the deadly sin of pride, too.
Obviously, we don't share the same religious beliefs. Nice to live in a country where that is ok.
And for your reference, pride to live in a free country is not the same as the Catholic concept of the 7 deadly sins, of which pride is one. You definately misunderstand the concept of what I am saying, probably on purpose, but still. This is not the same. But like I said, you know that, you just don't care, AC.
To any other fools out there, its actually a form of humility. If you can't figure that out, don't bother: you never will because you don't want to.
I can understand how someone can love their country, but that doesn't mean we should trust our government.
By no means do i have blind faith in my government. Love for country would dictate that you DONT do that.
But I don't assume that everything our government does is illegal either. Ruby Ridge was messed up. So was Waco, no matter how nutty they were. I still haven't figured out how Vince Foster commited suicide with a gun, didn't drop it, and didn't make a drop of blood. So yea, I questions alot.
The Posse Commitatus Act [hooah4health.com] is effectively dead and has been for years before 11th Sept 2001.
I see that YOU feel that way, and some other may FEEL that way. Not everyone agrees, however, and there is by NO MEANS a majority that agrees with you on that point. Its an interesting point, but thats all.
The military helps in drug smuggling, which makes sense since the border patrol and state police can not do much outside of our borders. Look, I will freely admit my government has fucked up more than a few times, lately and not lately. But you say we 'regularly' kill innocents, yet I spent most of my life in Texas, and know these incidents to be exceedingly rare. Your most recent example, as tragic as it is, IS 6 years ago and exaggerates the problem.
I find it ironic that one of your examples of how free the US is is that you have the right to be a Nazi.
Makes perfect sense. Someone who TRULY believes in free speech is willing to fight to protect YOUR right to say and believe the things that most offend them.
If you would not stand up and defend someone's right to THINK and TALK about things that offend you but are legal, then you don't believe in free speech. Only protecting what you believe in is facism.
On a side note, two things: The US has banned the burning of crosses [in public at least] as constituting racial harassment (the term used was somewhat different, but I forget, just having heard it on the radio.) maybe the Nazi/Jew thing will be dealt with in the same manner, in the future.
Bullshit. The US did NOT ban it. It ruled in that form it wasn't protected speech. you can burn all the crosses you want in your yard, just not in someone elses. get your facts straight. this is also a STATE law. not all states have laws regarding crosses. this is FUD.
I know it's like shooting fish in a barrel, and a pretty easy riposte, but......maybe they wouldn't have to rise up, if the US (and other developed, Northern Bloc countries) didn't enable, arm and support their butcherous leaders in the bloody first place!
The EU has the most flagerant violations of UN regulations when it comes to arms, so get off your high horse. I agree that the US should not be providing arms to much anyone, but France, Germany, Russia, holy shit, they do it so illegally to support their economies. NO comparison. Either giving arms is wrong, but its a matter of degrees.
And yes, if they would stand up. Many Americans have died standing up for what they believed. From the Revolutionary War to the Vietnam Protests at Berkeley. Even in the face of overwhelming odds.
It isn't fully formed yet, but the Big brother Beast is growing in the womb; limbs and features, already visible. Police State? Maybe not today, but someday, soon, and perhaps for the rest of your life.
My god, you are paranoid. I live here and I am not nearly as worried as you. Once again, COMPARE the liberties here and anywhere. There are HUGE debates on this here. During every war, EVERY WAR before 1980, the US suspended either Habius Corpus, Press access, etc. Not since 1980. Right now, the US has more war time liberty than any other nation has ever enjoyed. PERIOD. Go study history. Even during war, our liberties outweight any other country. This is just paranoid FUD.
Let me tell you something, I have to work with the police most every day because of one of the businesses I own (a pawn shop, just own it, dont work there) and on any given day if a cop gives me a problem, I tell him to go to hell and get out of my shop. Can YOU do that in most of Europe? Yea right....
Unless the 'mall' you refer to was a major government building or an airport, I don't believe you. I've lived in the US most of my life and visited many a mall, and never had to go through a metal detector or been searched in one. Your story is implausable unless you completely misunderstood or your guest was lying for some reason.
I agree. I fly all over the US, and have lived in 12 states. There is no comparison. That was one of the things about 9-11, smug Europeans thinking we would have to put up with the police the way they do. I dont think so.
Let me tell you something: when i board a plane, you don't see military or marshalls. I haven't seen any military presence at ALL in a year. (in some very large airports). Its just FUD. You guys from Europe need to come visit. It would blow you away. We tolorate different points of view, we don't tolorate a police state. its just rediculous to compare
As usual, there is a group calling the US a police state. First of all, we do not put soldiers in our civilian population, we put them other people's civilian population. Perhaps if other countries would simply rise up and kill their own butcherous leaders, we wouldnt have to. We already did ours, in 1776, and now they are our friends.
But on the issue of police states, to compare to France or Germany, which are quite liberal and free states:
In America, you can still be a Nazi. its tolorated here in the name of free speech. Not so in France and Germany. Cant sell Nazi stuff either. America, we tolorate the worse scum in the name of free speech. We would rather KNOW who they are anyway.
In America, there must 'probable cause' not just 'reasonable suspician' like most of Europe, before a search warrant can be execused. I know this will cause arguements from the uninformed. dont bother replying, just set me as foe.
In the US, it is ILLEGAL to put the military on the boarders, or to act as police except in emergencies (airports after 9-11 for instance). Not so in most other places.
So like the US or not, to call it a police state is as stupid as the Information Minister in Baghdad swearing that there are no troops downtown. Its what you WANT to be true, but its FUD.
Ok, im done, i just get tired of self loathing Americans and other jealous types. Personally, Im pretty damn proud to be an American.
I agree with you in theory, but the upgrade path for CPUs has never been very good anyway, unless you were making very minor upgrades. Assuming most people are like me, and don't consider a new cpu until the new is 2x the speed of the old, this has been a problem even if you stuck with Intel. Bought a 300, cant put a 600 in the slot(66 vs 100 bus), same with 400 / 800 coppermine, etc. The upgrade path for MOST people has always required a new motherboard, most of the time.
I personally like my ibm servers, which have a planer board. You upgrade the whole support chip/cpu/socket in one whack, without tearing out the whole system. Of course, its more expensive (and reminiscent of the old S100 bus Northstars;) ) but it would be the easiest way to upgrade the cpu since the chipset features change so often. Or a similar system that makes leaves the pci slots (and all your adapters) alone.
But this is just my experience: Its easier to replace the whole motherboard anyway, unless you are only marginally upgrading the cpu. My GUESS is that the main reason there is no easy upgrade path for significant jumps in cpu speed is there is no one wanting to make it easy, rather, they want you to buy a whole new system.
Judging by how well they maintain their web site, the RIAA couldn't care less if the entire Internet and all computers curled up and died tomorrow.
The RIAA dictionary defines the Internet as:
Internet n. A pirating device used to transfer illegal intellectual property, trade encryption circumventing devices, and communicate plots against the RIAA. Theoretically capable of email, browsing and other network functions.
That way, you're protected against the (admittedly rather remote) possibility that you might somehow hit the ENTER key right after you've typed only part of the command, say,
rm -rf ~/
Ok, I almost posted as AC, but I will go ahead, stand up, and admit I have done a similar thing when newer to linux (5.x days). I sat there, mouth gapping open, not knowing if I should laugh, shit, or cry. I didnt have any production machines, just learning machines, and did EVERYTHING as root.
I learned many things that day, to put -rf last, and to not take the name root in vain.;) Very good advice on your part.
I got karma to burn so i will say you are correct, they are full of it and uneducated. It is amazing that common foods can cause real problems in some people. But yea, you are correct.
No matter how hard I try to burn karma, I still get modded up more than down. Oh well.
I'm not asking this in a trolling way, just merely curious...
What do you eat if you want to totally avoid sugar and processed flour? Heck, even fruits and veggies all have sugar in them, so being a vegetarian wouldn't save you.
Lots of salad, nuts, meats, fish, eggs, cheese, butter. No transfats, no carbs (almost NONE anyway, 20 to 30g per day). Cholesterol is going down, weight is going down. For lunch today, I had a 1 pound steak with half an onion, lightly grilled. for breakfast I had a double cheeseburger, no bun. for dinner, another steak with lots of salad. Best health of my entire life. I am loosing about 2 to 3 pounds per week, very slow but manageable. I eat pretty heavy, and loose plenty. atkinscenter.com has info, the plan has been around 30 years and has shown to lower cholesterol. I didnt believe it at first, and studied it for almost a year before trying it. I feel so good, I wouldn't go back, regardless of weight. skin is better, sleep is WAY better, tone is better. AND I lost all the weight while I quit smoking (ha!). Over 20# for me, 30# for the wife. Ok, enough OT, Im just a real believer of this natural approach.
Besides which, there is evidence that diet soda drinks are mildly carcinogenic and may slow down the metabolism enough to negate the fact that they are less caloric.
Aspertame (Nutrisweet) is the one that may slow down metabolism. I wouldn't say its proven yet, but compelling enough I don't use it. I do use acesulfame potasium (like Sunnett) and sucrolose (Splenda) which haven't shown to do that, and don't affect blood sugar. The only carcinogenic I can think of is saccarin, which was found to not be cancer causing in reasonable amounts anyway. I use it, too. Oh, and I don't eat sugar. Or white flour. Ever. There is a good reason.
But on another note, we keep talking about price, but its all in the volume. You can't get commercial rates for an in house soda fountain.
Following that logic since your IP is publicly available you don't have any grounds to complain if people begin to DoS you. The result is the same.
Close but no cigar. In any legal action, intent matters. Accidently killing someone is manslaughter, not murder, for instance. Sometimes its not a crime at all.
In order to prove a criminal act, you have to demonstrate either 1) malice of forethought or a desire to cause damage (like a DDOS attack) or 2) Negligence. Negligence is hard to prove here, since it is not negligent to LINK, its the entire purpose OF the WWW.
I mean, if you don't want to be linked, put a password up or take some steps to warn/ask to not be linked. Irresponsible doesn't equal criminal, and I don't see where this is irresponsible. Unfortunate, but not negligent, IMHO.
You are right, its an interesting read. I did notice that the author disagrees completely with you tho...
I don't belive that people should have to get permission to link to another site, in general. If you put something on the Web without putting a password on it or whatever, you're explicitly allowing others to link to it -- at least in my opinion.
...but not to worry. It is the proverbial 'Does the tree make a sound in the woods' question, every answer is right and wrong:) good read, wish you hadnt posted as AC so more would see it linked here.
Maybe you guys should start mirroring the sites you link to...
Which raises an interesting question: Should/. 'ask' permission to link? That seems to be what they are implying. I undertstand their frustration, but since when does any news agency (or quazi-news) ever ASK to point toward content? Anyone have an example?
You couldn't address my point reasonably, so you play the sexism card.
The shear volume of people jumping up and down defending her demonstrates this. This isn't the first time I have noticed it (and certainly not just on/.) Another great example of tolorance for free speech here on/.
It all boils down to the fact that I found the article sub par. I have called plenty of other articles sub par without everyone freaking out. Its called an opinion. I have mine, you have yours. But my observation that people seem to JUMP to the defense of a female author out of some sense of misplaced chivalry is still valid.
Its so ironic how people are so afraid of hearing an opinion that differs from their own. The majority of people I have marked as friend are people whose opinions are radically DIFFERENT than mine. If you are afraid of hearing someone who sees things different than you, fine, mark me as foe and move on.
But getting back on topic, the article still sucked.
How else would you be able to see if, for example, a certain Linux distro bombs when reformatting the FAT32 to EXT3?
My point is most people are not running multiple partitions so its not valid. Most people are running a single partition unless they are running windows 95a which didnt support fat32 and >2gb drives very well. Most people would either add another drive, or use Partition Magic to open up space. But there is no reason to format it. The first thing you do with any distro install is destroy that partition and create new ones.
I have done this more than a few times, so many are freaking out over this point, but MOST people dont have a bunch of partitions, and decide to use ONE for Linux. It just isnt that way.
Actually, I am well under control. I just think it was a bad article, and said so, and every hard dick jumps to a ladies defense. No one ever acts this way if someone puts down an article unless its by a girl around here. Before you argue back, look back. I have.
I think its funny how sexist some of you are. Patronising. I think she is probably a big enough girl she can handle one person not liking her article.
Jesus, dude. How many different ways does he have to spell "RTFA" for you? She was trying to replicate conditions of someone switching from Windows to Linux, which involves starting with FAT or NTFS partitions on an existing hard drive
No it doesnt. You dont know what you are talking about.
She put it on a seperate partition, NOT on a fat32 partition. IF you used partition magic or another drive to open the space, you would NOT format it as fat16 because you have to split it for seperat/boot, / and SWAP partitions anyway. Formatting it as fat16 is a silly waste of time and shows she doesnt understand what is going on. The fat16 partition she so carefully makes, is destroyed FIRST THING when you install. its irrelevent.
The point was to be fair to all the installations by giving them common ground. She's clearly a bit smarter than the average user, and yet still had problems with the various linux distros. That point seems to be completely lost on you.
No, the point you missed is that there is no reason to FAT 32 a partition before you install Linux. Since it is on a wholey seperate partition, it is senseless to format it FAT32, since it SHOULD be EXT3 when its installed. Its just a useless step. Once again, from a technical writer, I would expect more. Or less actually. Just drop the partition completely and let the install program do it, for instance.
THAT is the point YOU seem to have missed. It was unnecesarry and rediculous to do, formatting them to anything. And she should have know it.
No. I think average is upgrading every 3 or 4 releases. Letsee, 95, 98,me,2k,xp (which has been out 2 years) and now she is average? No, the average person may be running 98 or me, but not 95.
a file is set immutable, by something or other.
I have installed more distributions of Linux and every other OS than you can imagine. Never have I ever had an installer do that. I have never had software set an immutable bit. I googled it and can't find much either. Nope. Not likely. Not impossible, but I am betting I have installed a couple hundred more boxes than you if you think this was the problem.
And then you insult her: she wrote an honest critique of her experiances.
I could write a critique or review of Italian suites over $1000, but you know what? I still wouldn't know shit about $1000 suits. I am not going to "be sweet to her" simply because she wrote an article. It wasn't a good article. The information is flawed, the premise is flawed, the execution was terrible. And I don't use Linux on the desktop, Im not advocating anything. I don't HAVE a favorite OS. I use them all. 95-XP, bsd, linux, and even OSX when I can. But I know a lame article when I see one.
Whatever. I'm tired of reading posts by pricks that can't take one whiff of honest criticism. Go smoke another with Ellen.
Thats the problem: you are the prick that can't take me criticising her article. If someone doesnt want to be criticized, then they shouldnt publish. She is touted as a technical writer, but I question her credentials as well.
And Ellen is entirely too young for me to be smoking one with. Maybe in a few years.
Well, you shrieking geeks...Yea that was a nice intro.
Before each installation, I deleted the Linux partitions from the drives and restored them to formatted FAT32... ah, fat drives very technical thing to do.
This is more of an experiment to see how ready Linux is for the average Windows-user than how it stacks up for my own migration to Linux. .... She runs windows 95, and she thinks she is average?
I had well-known, mass-market video cards with chipsets that were allegedly supported, but getting a GUI to show up was never a sure thing....no comment....
Root gets locked out of files....ok, im no genious here, but root can't get locked out of files. Really.
Ok, enough of her stupidity. This girl reminds me of Ellen Feiss, the girl from the Apple/Switch commmercials, whose computer ate her paper, so she had to write another, and it wasnt as good? (wasn't as good as that joint she smoked maybe) Cute, but dumb as a bag of hammers.
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Oh, proud to be an American. Bet you're proud to commit the deadly sin of pride, too.
Obviously, we don't share the same religious beliefs. Nice to live in a country where that is ok.
And for your reference, pride to live in a free country is not the same as the Catholic concept of the 7 deadly sins, of which pride is one. You definately misunderstand the concept of what I am saying, probably on purpose, but still. This is not the same. But like I said, you know that, you just don't care, AC.
To any other fools out there, its actually a form of humility. If you can't figure that out, don't bother: you never will because you don't want to.
I can understand how someone can love their country, but that doesn't mean we should trust our government.
By no means do i have blind faith in my government. Love for country would dictate that you DONT do that.
But I don't assume that everything our government does is illegal either. Ruby Ridge was messed up. So was Waco, no matter how nutty they were. I still haven't figured out how Vince Foster commited suicide with a gun, didn't drop it, and didn't make a drop of blood. So yea, I questions alot.
The Posse Commitatus Act [hooah4health.com] is effectively dead and has been for years before 11th Sept 2001.
I see that YOU feel that way, and some other may FEEL that way. Not everyone agrees, however, and there is by NO MEANS a majority that agrees with you on that point. Its an interesting point, but thats all.
The military helps in drug smuggling, which makes sense since the border patrol and state police can not do much outside of our borders. Look, I will freely admit my government has fucked up more than a few times, lately and not lately. But you say we 'regularly' kill innocents, yet I spent most of my life in Texas, and know these incidents to be exceedingly rare. Your most recent example, as tragic as it is, IS 6 years ago and exaggerates the problem.
I find it ironic that one of your examples of how free the US is is that you have the right to be a Nazi.
Makes perfect sense. Someone who TRULY believes in free speech is willing to fight to protect YOUR right to say and believe the things that most offend them.
If you would not stand up and defend someone's right to THINK and TALK about things that offend you but are legal, then you don't believe in free speech. Only protecting what you believe in is facism.
On a side note, two things: The US has banned the burning of crosses [in public at least] as constituting racial harassment (the term used was somewhat different, but I forget, just having heard it on the radio.) maybe the Nazi/Jew thing will be dealt with in the same manner, in the future.
Bullshit. The US did NOT ban it. It ruled in that form it wasn't protected speech. you can burn all the crosses you want in your yard, just not in someone elses. get your facts straight. this is also a STATE law. not all states have laws regarding crosses. this is FUD.
I know it's like shooting fish in a barrel, and a pretty easy riposte, but......maybe they wouldn't have to rise up, if the US (and other developed, Northern Bloc countries) didn't enable, arm and support their butcherous leaders in the bloody first place!
The EU has the most flagerant violations of UN regulations when it comes to arms, so get off your high horse. I agree that the US should not be providing arms to much anyone, but France, Germany, Russia, holy shit, they do it so illegally to support their economies. NO comparison. Either giving arms is wrong, but its a matter of degrees.
And yes, if they would stand up. Many Americans have died standing up for what they believed. From the Revolutionary War to the Vietnam Protests at Berkeley. Even in the face of overwhelming odds.
It isn't fully formed yet, but the Big brother Beast is growing in the womb; limbs and features, already visible. Police State? Maybe not today, but someday, soon, and perhaps for the rest of your life.
My god, you are paranoid. I live here and I am not nearly as worried as you. Once again, COMPARE the liberties here and anywhere. There are HUGE debates on this here. During every war, EVERY WAR before 1980, the US suspended either Habius Corpus, Press access, etc. Not since 1980. Right now, the US has more war time liberty than any other nation has ever enjoyed. PERIOD. Go study history. Even during war, our liberties outweight any other country. This is just paranoid FUD.
Let me tell you something, I have to work with the police most every day because of one of the businesses I own (a pawn shop, just own it, dont work there) and on any given day if a cop gives me a problem, I tell him to go to hell and get out of my shop. Can YOU do that in most of Europe? Yea right....
Unless the 'mall' you refer to was a major government building or an airport, I don't believe you. I've lived in the US most of my life and visited many a mall, and never had to go through a metal detector or been searched in one. Your story is implausable unless you completely misunderstood or your guest was lying for some reason.
I agree. I fly all over the US, and have lived in 12 states. There is no comparison. That was one of the things about 9-11, smug Europeans thinking we would have to put up with the police the way they do. I dont think so.
Let me tell you something: when i board a plane, you don't see military or marshalls. I haven't seen any military presence at ALL in a year. (in some very large airports). Its just FUD. You guys from Europe need to come visit. It would blow you away. We tolorate different points of view, we don't tolorate a police state. its just rediculous to compare
As usual, there is a group calling the US a police state. First of all, we do not put soldiers in our civilian population, we put them other people's civilian population. Perhaps if other countries would simply rise up and kill their own butcherous leaders, we wouldnt have to. We already did ours, in 1776, and now they are our friends.
But on the issue of police states, to compare to France or Germany, which are quite liberal and free states:
In America, you can still be a Nazi. its tolorated here in the name of free speech. Not so in France and Germany. Cant sell Nazi stuff either. America, we tolorate the worse scum in the name of free speech. We would rather KNOW who they are anyway.
In America, there must 'probable cause' not just 'reasonable suspician' like most of Europe, before a search warrant can be execused. I know this will cause arguements from the uninformed. dont bother replying, just set me as foe.
In the US, it is ILLEGAL to put the military on the boarders, or to act as police except in emergencies (airports after 9-11 for instance). Not so in most other places.
So like the US or not, to call it a police state is as stupid as the Information Minister in Baghdad swearing that there are no troops downtown. Its what you WANT to be true, but its FUD.
Ok, im done, i just get tired of self loathing Americans and other jealous types. Personally, Im pretty damn proud to be an American.
I agree with you in theory, but the upgrade path for CPUs has never been very good anyway, unless you were making very minor upgrades. Assuming most people are like me, and don't consider a new cpu until the new is 2x the speed of the old, this has been a problem even if you stuck with Intel. Bought a 300, cant put a 600 in the slot(66 vs 100 bus), same with 400 / 800 coppermine, etc. The upgrade path for MOST people has always required a new motherboard, most of the time.
;) ) but it would be the easiest way to upgrade the cpu since the chipset features change so often. Or a similar system that makes leaves the pci slots (and all your adapters) alone.
I personally like my ibm servers, which have a planer board. You upgrade the whole support chip/cpu/socket in one whack, without tearing out the whole system. Of course, its more expensive (and reminiscent of the old S100 bus Northstars
But this is just my experience: Its easier to replace the whole motherboard anyway, unless you are only marginally upgrading the cpu. My GUESS is that the main reason there is no easy upgrade path for significant jumps in cpu speed is there is no one wanting to make it easy, rather, they want you to buy a whole new system.
Judging by how well they maintain their web site, the RIAA couldn't care less if the entire Internet and all computers curled up and died tomorrow.
The RIAA dictionary defines the Internet as:
Internet n. A pirating device used to transfer illegal intellectual property, trade encryption circumventing devices, and communicate plots against the RIAA. Theoretically capable of email, browsing and other network functions.
That way, you're protected against the (admittedly rather remote) possibility that you might somehow hit the ENTER key right after you've typed only part of the command, say,
;) Very good advice on your part.
rm -rf ~/
Ok, I almost posted as AC, but I will go ahead, stand up, and admit I have done a similar thing when newer to linux (5.x days). I sat there, mouth gapping open, not knowing if I should laugh, shit, or cry. I didnt have any production machines, just learning machines, and did EVERYTHING as root.
I learned many things that day, to put -rf last, and to not take the name root in vain.
I notice all the idiots post as AC.
I got karma to burn so i will say you are correct, they are full of it and uneducated. It is amazing that common foods can cause real problems in some people. But yea, you are correct.
No matter how hard I try to burn karma, I still get modded up more than down. Oh well.
I'm not asking this in a trolling way, just merely curious...
What do you eat if you want to totally avoid sugar and processed flour? Heck, even fruits and veggies all have sugar in them, so being a vegetarian wouldn't save you.
Lots of salad, nuts, meats, fish, eggs, cheese, butter. No transfats, no carbs (almost NONE anyway, 20 to 30g per day). Cholesterol is going down, weight is going down. For lunch today, I had a 1 pound steak with half an onion, lightly grilled. for breakfast I had a double cheeseburger, no bun. for dinner, another steak with lots of salad. Best health of my entire life. I am loosing about 2 to 3 pounds per week, very slow but manageable. I eat pretty heavy, and loose plenty. atkinscenter.com has info, the plan has been around 30 years and has shown to lower cholesterol. I didnt believe it at first, and studied it for almost a year before trying it. I feel so good, I wouldn't go back, regardless of weight. skin is better, sleep is WAY better, tone is better. AND I lost all the weight while I quit smoking (ha!). Over 20# for me, 30# for the wife. Ok, enough OT, Im just a real believer of this natural approach.
Besides which, there is evidence that diet soda drinks are mildly carcinogenic and may slow down the metabolism enough to negate the fact that they are less caloric.
Aspertame (Nutrisweet) is the one that may slow down metabolism. I wouldn't say its proven yet, but compelling enough I don't use it. I do use acesulfame potasium (like Sunnett) and sucrolose (Splenda) which haven't shown to do that, and don't affect blood sugar. The only carcinogenic I can think of is saccarin, which was found to not be cancer causing in reasonable amounts anyway. I use it, too. Oh, and I don't eat sugar. Or white flour. Ever. There is a good reason.
But on another note, we keep talking about price, but its all in the volume. You can't get commercial rates for an in house soda fountain.
Following that logic since your IP is publicly available you don't have any grounds to complain if people begin to DoS you. The result is the same.
Close but no cigar. In any legal action, intent matters. Accidently killing someone is manslaughter, not murder, for instance. Sometimes its not a crime at all.
In order to prove a criminal act, you have to demonstrate either 1) malice of forethought or a desire to cause damage (like a DDOS attack) or 2) Negligence. Negligence is hard to prove here, since it is not negligent to LINK, its the entire purpose OF the WWW.
I mean, if you don't want to be linked, put a password up or take some steps to warn/ask to not be linked. Irresponsible doesn't equal criminal, and I don't see where this is irresponsible. Unfortunate, but not negligent, IMHO.
I don't belive that people should have to get permission to link to another site, in general. If you put something on the Web without putting a password on it or whatever, you're explicitly allowing others to link to it -- at least in my opinion.
...but not to worry. It is the proverbial 'Does the tree make a sound in the woods' question, every answer is right and wrong :) good read, wish you hadnt posted as AC so more would see it linked here.
Maybe you guys should start mirroring the sites you link to...
/. 'ask' permission to link? That seems to be what they are implying. I undertstand their frustration, but since when does any news agency (or quazi-news) ever ASK to point toward content? Anyone have an example?
Which raises an interesting question: Should
1. Hire people with Turretts Syndrome.
2. Install copies of Via Voice
3. ?????
4. Profit!
If i take an erotic novel in txt format and grep it against a list of f*ckf*ck reserved words and run that as a program?
Be careful. It could be a virus.
You couldn't address my point reasonably, so you play the sexism card.
/.) Another great example of tolorance for free speech here on /.
The shear volume of people jumping up and down defending her demonstrates this. This isn't the first time I have noticed it (and certainly not just on
It all boils down to the fact that I found the article sub par. I have called plenty of other articles sub par without everyone freaking out. Its called an opinion. I have mine, you have yours. But my observation that people seem to JUMP to the defense of a female author out of some sense of misplaced chivalry is still valid.
Its so ironic how people are so afraid of hearing an opinion that differs from their own. The majority of people I have marked as friend are people whose opinions are radically DIFFERENT than mine. If you are afraid of hearing someone who sees things different than you, fine, mark me as foe and move on.
But getting back on topic, the article still sucked.
How else would you be able to see if, for example, a certain Linux distro bombs when reformatting the FAT32 to EXT3?
My point is most people are not running multiple partitions so its not valid. Most people are running a single partition unless they are running windows 95a which didnt support fat32 and >2gb drives very well. Most people would either add another drive, or use Partition Magic to open up space. But there is no reason to format it. The first thing you do with any distro install is destroy that partition and create new ones.
I have done this more than a few times, so many are freaking out over this point, but MOST people dont have a bunch of partitions, and decide to use ONE for Linux. It just isnt that way.
Actually, I am well under control. I just think it was a bad article, and said so, and every hard dick jumps to a ladies defense. No one ever acts this way if someone puts down an article unless its by a girl around here. Before you argue back, look back. I have.
I think its funny how sexist some of you are. Patronising. I think she is probably a big enough girl she can handle one person not liking her article.
Its a crappy article. Get over it.
Jesus, dude. How many different ways does he have to spell "RTFA" for you? She was trying to replicate conditions of someone switching from Windows to Linux, which involves starting with FAT or NTFS partitions on an existing hard drive
/boot, / and SWAP partitions anyway. Formatting it as fat16 is a silly waste of time and shows she doesnt understand what is going on. The fat16 partition she so carefully makes, is destroyed FIRST THING when you install. its irrelevent.
No it doesnt. You dont know what you are talking about.
She put it on a seperate partition, NOT on a fat32 partition. IF you used partition magic or another drive to open the space, you would NOT format it as fat16 because you have to split it for seperat
The point was to be fair to all the installations by giving them common ground. She's clearly a bit smarter than the average user, and yet still had problems with the various linux distros. That point seems to be completely lost on you.
No, the point you missed is that there is no reason to FAT 32 a partition before you install Linux. Since it is on a wholey seperate partition, it is senseless to format it FAT32, since it SHOULD be EXT3 when its installed. Its just a useless step. Once again, from a technical writer, I would expect more. Or less actually. Just drop the partition completely and let the install program do it, for instance.
THAT is the point YOU seem to have missed. It was unnecesarry and rediculous to do, formatting them to anything. And she should have know it.
You think average is upgrading every new release?
No. I think average is upgrading every 3 or 4 releases. Letsee, 95, 98,me,2k,xp (which has been out 2 years) and now she is average? No, the average person may be running 98 or me, but not 95.
a file is set immutable, by something or other.
I have installed more distributions of Linux and every other OS than you can imagine. Never have I ever had an installer do that. I have never had software set an immutable bit. I googled it and can't find much either. Nope. Not likely. Not impossible, but I am betting I have installed a couple hundred more boxes than you if you think this was the problem.
And then you insult her: she wrote an honest critique of her experiances.
I could write a critique or review of Italian suites over $1000, but you know what? I still wouldn't know shit about $1000 suits. I am not going to "be sweet to her" simply because she wrote an article. It wasn't a good article. The information is flawed, the premise is flawed, the execution was terrible. And I don't use Linux on the desktop, Im not advocating anything. I don't HAVE a favorite OS. I use them all. 95-XP, bsd, linux, and even OSX when I can. But I know a lame article when I see one.
Whatever. I'm tired of reading posts by pricks that can't take one whiff of honest criticism. Go smoke another with Ellen.
Thats the problem: you are the prick that can't take me criticising her article. If someone doesnt want to be criticized, then they shouldnt publish. She is touted as a technical writer, but I question her credentials as well.
And Ellen is entirely too young for me to be smoking one with. Maybe in a few years.
Well, you shrieking geeks...Yea that was a nice intro.
.... She runs windows 95, and she thinks she is average?
...ok, im no genious here, but root can't get locked out of files. Really.
Before each installation, I deleted the Linux partitions from the drives and restored them to formatted FAT32... ah, fat drives very technical thing to do.
This is more of an experiment to see how ready Linux is for the average Windows-user than how it stacks up for my own migration to Linux.
I had well-known, mass-market video cards with chipsets that were allegedly supported, but getting a GUI to show up was never a sure thing....no comment....
Root gets locked out of files.
Ok, enough of her stupidity. This girl reminds me of Ellen Feiss, the girl from the Apple/Switch commmercials, whose computer ate her paper, so she had to write another, and it wasnt as good? (wasn't as good as that joint she smoked maybe) Cute, but dumb as a bag of hammers.