I googled for it as well, coming up with nothing. I was told about the tournament by a class-mate that did the Seal (Kustjägare) training during military service. I will try and locate more information about said tournament. I was in looking through www.armen.mil.se earlier, but got distracted, so will look for stuff about this tournament later.
What is in the tournament? They are dropped off, somewhere in the archipelago outside Stockholm, given a destination and an objective, and then they are on their way. Two guys, one canoe per team and whatever equipment they have elected to take with them. Not sure if there are other troups looking for these guys while they are 'in transit'.
Yeah.. Reminds me of the joint training operation between Swedish armed forces and NATO forces in the mountain range between Sweden and Norway (was told this by my Captain when doing military service).
A platoon of 'Mountain Seals' (Fjälljägare) from Sweden (probably Arvidsjaur) captured the whole company of NATO troups (Seals outnumbered about 6:1) in less than 24 hours. Gives me SOOOO much faith in NATO troupes I positively glow.
I suppose it just goes to show that having significant financial backing doesn't automatically make good soldiers.
There is an annual canoe tournament between Norwegian, Danish, Swedish and US Navy Seals. To the best of my knowledge, the US Navy Seals has never finished better than fourth despite carrying better and more expensive equipment than any other participant nation.
Would be interesting to have the Russian Spetsnaz participate in that tournament as well, for nothing else than to demonstrate how easily they would win I suppose.
Well, NatWest (bank in the UK) shifted their whole banking system, including cashpoints, to Windows NT. It took them a long time, they based it on NT 3.51 which was heavily re-written to strip a lot of crud out and was patched heavily for security and usability at large expense.
Once the system went live they had a well publicised problem where NT did not appear to release ports (fast enough or at all) causing the links between the cashpoints and the main system to fail, so customers went for a couple of days unable to withdraw cash from the cashpoints.
Now however, it appears to be working better. But it is hardly the WinNT you could get your hands on at PCWorld...
(I would not use NatWest on principle because of them running NT, but that is a different issue.)
Perhaps a patent could be allowed to run for up to four years if it was deemed to have taken serious effort to develop, and automatically lapse it once R&D costs are covered?
I like the 6 months / 2 years approach as the system is less likely to be abused by companies patenting anything and everything they can think of, even if there is demonstrateably tons of prior art (One click shopping and double clicking with mouse for example). It also provides ample time to recoup R&D costs, if you have not made your money back in two years (remember that you research things, and when you have the idea in place, you patent it, so you should be able to have prototype etc in place by the time patent is granted) the idea was lousy or just simply wrong for the market.
The outcry in US would be loud enough to hear across the Atlantic if anyone pushed this idea through in the USPTO. Imagine all them cashcow patents that has been in place for about 6-7 years, with 13-14 years left to run that suddenly expired and became PD. Or all new patent applications that automatically lapse after six months because the company that applied for them never intended to use them at all, just collect royalties on them for 20 years.. (IIRC patents run for 20 years in the US, yes?)/A
From what I have gathered, again, not been working in Sweden for a long time, but you are considered a "high income earner" if you earn above about SEK 300,000 a year. (About US$43,000 or so.)
So the REAL income difference between someone earning around SEK 280,000 and someone earning SEK 400,000 a year is not SEK 120,000 minus tax, but perhaps more like SEK 70,000 due to how tax is calculated. (Disclaimer, I have ripped the numbers out of my a**e just to illustrate a point, they are not the actual numbers, you'd need to check with an accountant or a representative of the Swedish IRS for the actual numbers.:)
Basically, if someone earns SEK 1,000,000 a year, we consider it feasible to pay SEK 600,000 in tax on that, while someone earning SEK 200,000 feasibly should only pay around SEK 65,000 in tax.
I can imagine high income earners in the US screaming blue murder at the very thought of this concept.../A
I take your point, but stand by my comment. I do not have to go to an insurance company and pay them for medical insurance on money that already has been taxed. Saying that, there are private medical insurances for those that want them here in Europe. But why bother when the 'free' health care is there, and good enough?/A
'Here' is relative my friend. 'Here' for me is UK, not US, and I chose to come here for a very specific reason and I fully intend to move back to Sweden in the next 3-5 years.
I do wonder how long it will take for the US to (slowly but surely) migrate towards the social security network that is in effect in most of the European countries. Serious question, not joking on this one./A
Oh well, if we are to have patents in EU, why not adopt the Japanese style of patent management. You get your patent if deemed sufficiently unique (might be a tricky one considering the EPO track record of checking prior art) but then, and here-in lies the beauty, you have to demonstrate that you are using the patent within six month of it being issued or you lose it and it goes into the Public Domain. After two years, it automatically becomes Public Domain.
Now that is a system that I think most people could live with. It should also ensure that a patent will actually be USED as otherwise is becomes PD after just six months.
Now, if only the USPTO could be cajoled into adopting the same system...
Well, I have three active cell-phones, two on different UK subscriptions, and one on a Swedish subscription. While it might seem odd that someone might have five, it is by no means impossible./A
Not been in Sweden for the last 7 years, so I am a little out of date on the taxation system, but basically you pay an amalgamate income tax averaging (depending on what area in the country you live in) around 30-32% on your base income. As over 80% of the working population are members of a labour union, they pay 1-1.5% extra towards that (hey, you want a decent amount of cash per month for a while if made redundant, no?).
If you have an extra job to make some extra cash, you fall into the marginal tax bracket where you pay 40-60% tax. The more you earn, the higher the tax rate (yes, we believe that if you are pulling in over a million a year, you can afford to pay a wad in tax). VAT is 25%, but some things are exempt. Spot tax on fuel, tobacco and alcohol push prices up on those things. A liter of petrol is around US$ 1.25-1.30 or so. A bottle (0.7l) of Absolut Vodka would cost you around US$ 30 or so.
Saying this, we pay a very small fee when we go see a doctor (to prevent abuse of the system by people that just feel lonely) and health care is essentially free, no need for expensive medical insurance as that is what we pay tax for.
The thing people in "government should not tax us at all" countries seem to miss is that the population in Sweden, although we probably complain about taxes as much as anyone else does, actually want this social security network that the taxes pay for. When I go to the dentist, I know I will be able to afford it, I will not need to sell my car or remortgage the house to pay the dentists bill. I rate that as a good thing.
If I for some reason, lose my job and something exceptional happens that means I default on my mortgage or something, social security will make sure I at least have a roof over my head and I can eat until I get back on my feet and can get a job.
Had I had mod points, you would have got one, -1 Troll.
Enough people on here are bashing Michael Moore because he is showing politicians for what they are, liars, cheats and downright stupidly dangerous. Where is the harm in doing that? Being aware of how bad the politicians really are is a good thing, right? Right??
If more people in the US took a critical look on your politicians, perhaps US would be a better liked country internationally. Lets face it, most americans are clever and nice people but simply a little too trusting in their 'leaders'. For the rest of the world, we look at your leaders, shake our heads in fear and disgust and silently wonder how the hell you people could allow such nut-cases to get elected to office.
Michael Moore does a decent job pointing out what is blindingly obvious to most people outside the US. Rather than just bashing him because what he says doesn't happen to agree with what you currently believe is the truth, how about searching and digging for the actual facts, take a critical look at _all_ the facts, both the ones supporting your current beliefs and the ones that don't, then at least be courageous enough to admit if you were wrong if the sum of the evidence shows something else to be true than what you believed was the case.
The problem with Linux lately is the annoying lack of stability and binary backward compatability.
I have noticed very little, if anything, breaking when I moved from 2.4.21 to 2.6.x on SuSE 9.0, a distro compiled for and shipped with a 2.4 kernel.
For example, the new threading libraries break all sorts of applications until you recompile the apps against the new library. This is particularly painful with commercial applications or for companies that need to provide support.
Sun, IBM, HP, etc have all been able to enhance the functionality of their proprietary Unix systems without breaking binary compatability. It is a shame that the linux kernel people do not care to do so.
That has absolutely nothing to do with the kernel "Linux". That has to do with updates to glibc and pthreads libraries. There is nothing preventing you from running a glibc2.1 with a kernel 2.0.5, 2.2.10, 2.4.18 or 2.6.4 running on top of it.
I did not say I was only going out to find news with my particular slant on it. I simply said I was going out of my way to avoid 'news' that is plain propaganda for an unjust cause. I actively seek news sources that are as un-biased as possible.
The current government of the United States was not elected by the people. And that is a fact. Any nation which will allow someone to take charge of the country by openly abusing the system should be ashamed of itself. It is painfully obvious that some people are quite happy to see a trigger happy maniac take over in the white house. I however would like to accredit the american population with a little more sense than that, so that leaves foul play as the method for 'Dubya' to sieze power. How long before he tries to amend the constitution to allow him to sit more time in the white house?
With regards to your comments about France, you are simply showing that you know little to nothing about France, and that you have whole-heartedly bought into the propaganda your government is feeding you. As you so kindly point out, seek information that does not only support your own position. Personally I read news I do not agree with, because somewhere in there, there is a grain of truth, hence why I watch British news, Swedish News, Russian News and Arabic News. I should perhaps find some African source as well, and a South American source and a Canadian source. That should cover most things.
As for anti-semitism, it is the obvious way you hard-stance right-wing people react whenever someone dare criticise your foreign policy. When you grow up and realise that the world is not your private playground, perhaps you will stop shouting your head of about anti-semitism and anti-sionism.
I have nothing against the people reading Slashdot, I have very little against most of the people in the world. I do however have a few things against the rising facism and nazism that is rearing its ugly head in various corners of the earth. Lately and most notably in the american government. I am for all actions that restrict the power the american nation wields outside its own borders. I am for a global government that is fair and just, preventing school-ground bully boys running rampage. I am for even and just trade between nations. I am for a world court which has no restrictions in jurisdiction, where no-one can hide from the responsibility of their actions, where war-criminals, wether they are called Saddam Hussein, Idi Amin, George W Bush or Tony Blair, are held responsible for their actions and ultimately will have to face the consequences of their actions. I realise that for the ultra-nationalistic hard-right in the United States, this is a nightmare scenario that at all costs must be avoided. So much more a reason to drive it though and ensure it happens.
This is a the exact reason why I have started learning russian. To be able to get my hands on news that are not from the 'Mouth of Sauron', i.e. U.S. biased news. Okay, people, I am heavily anti-american, but it is your government I have a beef with, not the people in the country. I know several very nice americans that I get along with just fine.
Personally I found that Swedish news quite neutral in its reporting of the war, but the overall sentiment was quite against the war, understandably so as well. ITAR-TASS usually is a good source of news as well, and they do have a section of their website in english, so there is no excuse not to sneak a peak.
USA really does seem to thrive on paranoia, and the people with most paranoia seems to be fast-tracked to high positions in the government and assorted TLA's. USA is already very very close to the type of state described in '1984' by Orwell, and it seems to do all it can to surpass the nightmare portrayed in the book.
Hopefully the citizens of USA will realise what is happening and either overthrow the government that is doing this against them, or leave the country behind on a permanent basis.
For being a country striking its chest and proclaiming to be the only true democracy in the world, USA is one of the most un-free countries in the world considering the continuous manipulation of its citizens to ensure that no-one speaks up too loudly against what is going on.
The person asking the actual question mentions the international crypto patch available from the kernel.org ftp-sites and that the patch is for kernel 2.4.3.
Well, I am running kernel 2.4.13-ac5 with LVM and the above mentioned patch and it is working quite well for me. There is one snag with it and that is that when applying the patch, the main Makefile in/usr/src/linux (or where-ever that is pointing) needs amending. Look in Makefile.rej for the lines (two of them) with a + prepended and you see which ones they are. I add them manually since it is very little to type.
Once kernel is patched, enable loop crypto and the various ciphers you want to use, build, install and boot kernel. Follow instructions in the crypto directory in the patched kernel tree for how to make the crypto aware mount, umount and losetup binaries. Replace the originals when they are built. Now, create a file, 64 MB in size, use losetup to attach to a/dev/loop? file, then mke2fs on the loop device twice(!) as it doesn't seem to take the first time. Mount the loop device as normal.
There is some details in the fstab man-page for how to set up an fstab entry for an encrypted e2fs. You can not (although the man-page says so) give the key-size in the fstab entry. (At least I can not do that.)
Well, my first brush with Unix was at university. Solaris on very slow Sparc stations. I did pick up some Unix there, but as I flunked and dropped out I didn't get much experience, but I had seen bits and was intrigued. I then, more or less, slipped on a banana-skin into a job with IBM in Stockholm, working in the AIX Competence Center. I had no previous experience, so they gave me an AIX Administration course and off I went, learning from the others in the team and doing the easier problems first. I was not good enough to keep when times got a little worse, so left IBM after six months, but managed to get the ASA and ASP certificates in the last week I was there.
I moved to UK, got a job as Field Engineer, roaming around the south-east fixing problems at customers, but also helping out on the helpdesk side as AIX was the prefered Unix this company sold its customers. Due to various reasons I had to move up to Midlands and changed job at the same time. This time I had sufficent experience to be hired as a Technical Analyst. In real terms I was still a helpdesk person but was doing system admin work as well, looking after the SP and all the smaller AIX boxes in the computer room.
Since I left there, I have been working as a contractor and mainly IBM has been calling on my services. I still do System Admin stuff, but I have steadily been moving towards Linux. I will not give up AIX, but Linux is more fun.:)
The morale of the story? Know what you want, work towards it and have a degree of luck. I have not had a degree, and no-one has ever bothered to ask about it. My CV speaks for itself and my customers are happy. Curiosity, a desire to learn new things, ability to pick up and understand new things quickly and not being a social moron/disaster counts for more than you think.
Very good work by the scientists, but this by no means mean that there is going to be help tomorrow for people with bonemarrow cancer or other problems where bloodcells are of use. The scientists face years of work before they can have a method available that would allow large scale manufacturing of bloodcells of any possible type. And that is if they are allowed to continue their work that is.
That flip-side of the coin is of course if this is just research that will lead on to something darker, more sinister. Personally I would much prefer if cloning of full beings, human or not, was prevented until it can be proven that the human race is capable of coping with all aspects of the philosophy and mindset around cloning. Unfortunately I can see this already being ruined by corporate greed and to be used as a tool by the rich to get richer and to "keep the masses at bay"...
And this would be good for hygien challenged individuals how? Read first, mark as troll later.... OK?
This type of clothes, although a great scientific feat, will not exactly promote better hygien. If you can walk around for days or weeks without washing, and these clothes make you smell irresistible - I would hardly call these clothes 'the best thing since sliced bread'. Geeks might, on average, have a harder time keeping clean, but these types of clothes is NOT an excuse for letting things slip even further.
Nothing beats a good healthy shower and a bar of soap!
Hmm.. "Italian Tie" (or is that "Sicilian Tie" ?) springs to mind as that ought to shut him up good... The lawyer that is.. Perhaps it would work on Barney as well.. Who knows.....
What I would like from an employer is that two weeks a year is set aside, on a slightly floating basis, for courses. The type of courses I would go on are generally a week in one go meaning I would like to go to two courses per year. This is what I would expect from a half-decent employer. Currently I am not getting that from where I work and I have voiced my opinion.
If you and your employer can not come to a agreement, you could vote with your feet and simply go to a company more inclined to better their employees. I would personally be quite happy to perhaps sign some sort of contract with my employer about not leaving within a certain time of having received a course that they paid for. After all, they pay to educate me, I should give some of that knowledge back.
Alternatively, argue for higher pay plus perhaps two weeks earmarked for training per year and set the extra money aside for training.
There will be no IBM Linux distribution. IBM has "blessed" four, RedHat, Caldera, SuSE and TurboLinux. IBM will not expend the effort of trying to create their own niche in the market when they can use an already existing distribution.
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I googled for it as well, coming up with nothing. I was told about the tournament by a class-mate that did the Seal (Kustjägare) training during military service. I will try and locate more information about said tournament. I was in looking through www.armen.mil.se earlier, but got distracted, so will look for stuff about this tournament later.
What is in the tournament? They are dropped off, somewhere in the archipelago outside Stockholm, given a destination and an objective, and then they are on their way. Two guys, one canoe per team and whatever equipment they have elected to take with them. Not sure if there are other troups looking for these guys while they are 'in transit'.
Yeah.. Reminds me of the joint training operation between Swedish armed forces and NATO forces in the mountain range between Sweden and Norway (was told this by my Captain when doing military service).
A platoon of 'Mountain Seals' (Fjälljägare) from Sweden (probably Arvidsjaur) captured the whole company of NATO troups (Seals outnumbered about 6:1) in less than 24 hours. Gives me SOOOO much faith in NATO troupes I positively glow.
I suppose it just goes to show that having significant financial backing doesn't automatically make good soldiers.
There is an annual canoe tournament between Norwegian, Danish, Swedish and US Navy Seals. To the best of my knowledge, the US Navy Seals has never finished better than fourth despite carrying better and more expensive equipment than any other participant nation.
Would be interesting to have the Russian Spetsnaz participate in that tournament as well, for nothing else than to demonstrate how easily they would win I suppose.
Mod me as troll and see if I care...
Well, NatWest (bank in the UK) shifted their whole banking system, including cashpoints, to Windows NT. It took them a long time, they based it on NT 3.51 which was heavily re-written to strip a lot of crud out and was patched heavily for security and usability at large expense.
Once the system went live they had a well publicised problem where NT did not appear to release ports (fast enough or at all) causing the links between the cashpoints and the main system to fail, so customers went for a couple of days unable to withdraw cash from the cashpoints.
Now however, it appears to be working better. But it is hardly the WinNT you could get your hands on at PCWorld...
(I would not use NatWest on principle because of them running NT, but that is a different issue.)
I didn't know the 'swedish' chef was dutch... /A
Perhaps a patent could be allowed to run for up to four years if it was deemed to have taken serious effort to develop, and automatically lapse it once R&D costs are covered?
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I like the 6 months / 2 years approach as the system is less likely to be abused by companies patenting anything and everything they can think of, even if there is demonstrateably tons of prior art (One click shopping and double clicking with mouse for example). It also provides ample time to recoup R&D costs, if you have not made your money back in two years (remember that you research things, and when you have the idea in place, you patent it, so you should be able to have prototype etc in place by the time patent is granted) the idea was lousy or just simply wrong for the market.
The outcry in US would be loud enough to hear across the Atlantic if anyone pushed this idea through in the USPTO. Imagine all them cashcow patents that has been in place for about 6-7 years, with 13-14 years left to run that suddenly expired and became PD. Or all new patent applications that automatically lapse after six months because the company that applied for them never intended to use them at all, just collect royalties on them for 20 years.. (IIRC patents run for 20 years in the US, yes?)
From what I have gathered, again, not been working in Sweden for a long time, but you are considered a "high income earner" if you earn above about SEK 300,000 a year. (About US$43,000 or so.)
:)
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So the REAL income difference between someone earning around SEK 280,000 and someone earning SEK 400,000 a year is not SEK 120,000 minus tax, but perhaps more like SEK 70,000 due to how tax is calculated. (Disclaimer, I have ripped the numbers out of my a**e just to illustrate a point, they are not the actual numbers, you'd need to check with an accountant or a representative of the Swedish IRS for the actual numbers.
Basically, if someone earns SEK 1,000,000 a year, we consider it feasible to pay SEK 600,000 in tax on that, while someone earning SEK 200,000 feasibly should only pay around SEK 65,000 in tax.
I can imagine high income earners in the US screaming blue murder at the very thought of this concept...
I take your point, but stand by my comment. I do not have to go to an insurance company and pay them for medical insurance on money that already has been taxed. Saying that, there are private medical insurances for those that want them here in Europe. But why bother when the 'free' health care is there, and good enough? /A
'Here' is relative my friend. 'Here' for me is UK, not US, and I chose to come here for a very specific reason and I fully intend to move back to Sweden in the next 3-5 years.
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I do wonder how long it will take for the US to (slowly but surely) migrate towards the social security network that is in effect in most of the European countries. Serious question, not joking on this one.
Oh well, if we are to have patents in EU, why not adopt the Japanese style of patent management. You get your patent if deemed sufficiently unique (might be a tricky one considering the EPO track record of checking prior art) but then, and here-in lies the beauty, you have to demonstrate that you are using the patent within six month of it being issued or you lose it and it goes into the Public Domain. After two years, it automatically becomes Public Domain.
Now that is a system that I think most people could live with. It should also ensure that a patent will actually be USED as otherwise is becomes PD after just six months.
Now, if only the USPTO could be cajoled into adopting the same system...
Well, I have three active cell-phones, two on different UK subscriptions, and one on a Swedish subscription. While it might seem odd that someone might have five, it is by no means impossible. /A
RE: Taxation in Sweden
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Not been in Sweden for the last 7 years, so I am a little out of date on the taxation system, but basically you pay an amalgamate income tax averaging (depending on what area in the country you live in) around 30-32% on your base income. As over 80% of the working population are members of a labour union, they pay 1-1.5% extra towards that (hey, you want a decent amount of cash per month for a while if made redundant, no?).
If you have an extra job to make some extra cash, you fall into the marginal tax bracket where you pay 40-60% tax. The more you earn, the higher the tax rate (yes, we believe that if you are pulling in over a million a year, you can afford to pay a wad in tax).
VAT is 25%, but some things are exempt. Spot tax on fuel, tobacco and alcohol push prices up on those things. A liter of petrol is around US$ 1.25-1.30 or so. A bottle (0.7l) of Absolut Vodka would cost you around US$ 30 or so.
Saying this, we pay a very small fee when we go see a doctor (to prevent abuse of the system by people that just feel lonely) and health care is essentially free, no need for expensive medical insurance as that is what we pay tax for.
The thing people in "government should not tax us at all" countries seem to miss is that the population in Sweden, although we probably complain about taxes as much as anyone else does, actually want this social security network that the taxes pay for. When I go to the dentist, I know I will be able to afford it, I will not need to sell my car or remortgage the house to pay the dentists bill. I rate that as a good thing.
If I for some reason, lose my job and something exceptional happens that means I default on my mortgage or something, social security will make sure I at least have a roof over my head and I can eat until I get back on my feet and can get a job.
Totally off topic, but hey.
Had I had mod points, you would have got one, -1 Troll.
Enough people on here are bashing Michael Moore because he is showing politicians for what they are, liars, cheats and downright stupidly dangerous. Where is the harm in doing that? Being aware of how bad the politicians really are is a good thing, right? Right??
If more people in the US took a critical look on your politicians, perhaps US would be a better liked country internationally. Lets face it, most americans are clever and nice people but simply a little too trusting in their 'leaders'. For the rest of the world, we look at your leaders, shake our heads in fear and disgust and silently wonder how the hell you people could allow such nut-cases to get elected to office.
Michael Moore does a decent job pointing out what is blindingly obvious to most people outside the US. Rather than just bashing him because what he says doesn't happen to agree with what you currently believe is the truth, how about searching and digging for the actual facts, take a critical look at _all_ the facts, both the ones supporting your current beliefs and the ones that don't, then at least be courageous enough to admit if you were wrong if the sum of the evidence shows something else to be true than what you believed was the case.
The problem with Linux lately is the annoying lack of stability and binary backward compatability.
I have noticed very little, if anything, breaking when I moved from 2.4.21 to 2.6.x on SuSE 9.0, a distro compiled for and shipped with a 2.4 kernel.
For example, the new threading libraries break all sorts of applications until you recompile the apps against the new library. This is particularly painful with commercial applications or for companies that need to provide support.
Sun, IBM, HP, etc have all been able to enhance the functionality of their proprietary Unix systems without breaking binary compatability. It is a shame that the linux kernel people do not care to do so.
That has absolutely nothing to do with the kernel "Linux". That has to do with updates to glibc and pthreads libraries. There is nothing preventing you from running a glibc2.1 with a kernel 2.0.5, 2.2.10, 2.4.18 or 2.6.4 running on top of it.
Use:
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for(( i=0; i=2000; i++ ))
do
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instead as you are using bash. Simpler to understand.
I did not say I was only going out to find news with my particular slant on it. I simply said I was going out of my way to avoid 'news' that is plain propaganda for an unjust cause. I actively seek news sources that are as un-biased as possible.
The current government of the United States was not elected by the people. And that is a fact. Any nation which will allow someone to take charge of the country by openly abusing the system should be ashamed of itself. It is painfully obvious that some people are quite happy to see a trigger happy maniac take over in the white house. I however would like to accredit the american population with a little more sense than that, so that leaves foul play as the method for 'Dubya' to sieze power. How long before he tries to amend the constitution to allow him to sit more time in the white house?
With regards to your comments about France, you are simply showing that you know little to nothing about France, and that you have whole-heartedly bought into the propaganda your government is feeding you. As you so kindly point out, seek information that does not only support your own position. Personally I read news I do not agree with, because somewhere in there, there is a grain of truth, hence why I watch British news, Swedish News, Russian News and Arabic News. I should perhaps find some African source as well, and a South American source and a Canadian source. That should cover most things.
As for anti-semitism, it is the obvious way you hard-stance right-wing people react whenever someone dare criticise your foreign policy. When you grow up and realise that the world is not your private playground, perhaps you will stop shouting your head of about anti-semitism and anti-sionism.
I have nothing against the people reading Slashdot, I have very little against most of the people in the world. I do however have a few things against the rising facism and nazism that is rearing its ugly head in various corners of the earth. Lately and most notably in the american government. I am for all actions that restrict the power the american nation wields outside its own borders. I am for a global government that is fair and just, preventing school-ground bully boys running rampage. I am for even and just trade between nations. I am for a world court which has no restrictions in jurisdiction, where no-one can hide from the responsibility of their actions, where war-criminals, wether they are called Saddam Hussein, Idi Amin, George W Bush or Tony Blair, are held responsible for their actions and ultimately will have to face the consequences of their actions. I realise that for the ultra-nationalistic hard-right in the United States, this is a nightmare scenario that at all costs must be avoided. So much more a reason to drive it though and ensure it happens.
This is a the exact reason why I have started learning russian. To be able to get my hands on news that are not from the 'Mouth of Sauron', i.e. U.S. biased news. Okay, people, I am heavily anti-american, but it is your government I have a beef with, not the people in the country. I know several very nice americans that I get along with just fine.
Personally I found that Swedish news quite neutral in its reporting of the war, but the overall sentiment was quite against the war, understandably so as well. ITAR-TASS usually is a good source of news as well, and they do have a section of their website in english, so there is no excuse not to sneak a peak.
USA really does seem to thrive on paranoia, and the people with most paranoia seems to be fast-tracked to high positions in the government and assorted TLA's. USA is already very very close to the type of state described in '1984' by Orwell, and it seems to do all it can to surpass the nightmare portrayed in the book.
Hopefully the citizens of USA will realise what is happening and either overthrow the government that is doing this against them, or leave the country behind on a permanent basis.
For being a country striking its chest and proclaiming to be the only true democracy in the world, USA is one of the most un-free countries in the world considering the continuous manipulation of its citizens to ensure that no-one speaks up too loudly against what is going on.
Just my 0.02 Euro
The person asking the actual question mentions the international crypto patch available from the kernel.org ftp-sites and that the patch is for kernel 2.4.3.
/usr/src/linux (or where-ever that is pointing) needs amending. Look in Makefile.rej for the lines (two of them) with a + prepended and you see which ones they are. I add them manually since it is very little to type.
/dev/loop? file, then mke2fs on the loop device twice(!) as it doesn't seem to take the first time. Mount the loop device as normal.
Well, I am running kernel 2.4.13-ac5 with LVM and the above mentioned patch and it is working quite well for me. There is one snag with it and that is that when applying the patch, the main Makefile in
Once kernel is patched, enable loop crypto and the various ciphers you want to use, build, install and boot kernel. Follow instructions in the crypto directory in the patched kernel tree for how to make the crypto aware mount, umount and losetup binaries. Replace the originals when they are built. Now, create a file, 64 MB in size, use losetup to attach to a
There is some details in the fstab man-page for how to set up an fstab entry for an encrypted e2fs. You can not (although the man-page says so) give the key-size in the fstab entry. (At least I can not do that.)
Happy hacking....
Once upon a time....
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Well, my first brush with Unix was at university. Solaris on very slow Sparc stations. I did pick up some Unix there, but as I flunked and dropped out I didn't get much experience, but I had seen bits and was intrigued. I then, more or less, slipped on a banana-skin into a job with IBM in Stockholm, working in the AIX Competence Center. I had no previous experience, so they gave me an AIX Administration course and off I went, learning from the others in the team and doing the easier problems first. I was not good enough to keep when times got a little worse, so left IBM after six months, but managed to get the ASA and ASP certificates in the last week I was there.
I moved to UK, got a job as Field Engineer, roaming around the south-east fixing problems at customers, but also helping out on the helpdesk side as AIX was the prefered Unix this company sold its customers. Due to various reasons I had to move up to Midlands and changed job at the same time. This time I had sufficent experience to be hired as a Technical Analyst. In real terms I was still a helpdesk person but was doing system admin work as well, looking after the SP and all the smaller AIX boxes in the computer room.
Since I left there, I have been working as a contractor and mainly IBM has been calling on my services. I still do System Admin stuff, but I have steadily been moving towards Linux. I will not give up AIX, but Linux is more fun.
The morale of the story? Know what you want, work towards it and have a degree of luck. I have not had a degree, and no-one has ever bothered to ask about it. My CV speaks for itself and my customers are happy. Curiosity, a desire to learn new things, ability to pick up and understand new things quickly and not being a social moron/disaster counts for more than you think.
Hope this helps in some way... Good luck!
Very good work by the scientists, but this by no means mean that there is going to be help tomorrow for people with bonemarrow cancer or other problems where bloodcells are of use. The scientists face years of work before they can have a method available that would allow large scale manufacturing of bloodcells of any possible type. And that is if they are allowed to continue their work that is.
That flip-side of the coin is of course if this is just research that will lead on to something darker, more sinister. Personally I would much prefer if cloning of full beings, human or not, was prevented until it can be proven that the human race is capable of coping with all aspects of the philosophy and mindset around cloning. Unfortunately I can see this already being ruined by corporate greed and to be used as a tool by the rich to get richer and to "keep the masses at bay"...
Cynic - who, me?
And this would be good for hygien challenged individuals how? Read first, mark as troll later.... OK?
This type of clothes, although a great scientific feat, will not exactly promote better hygien. If you can walk around for days or weeks without washing, and these clothes make you smell irresistible - I would hardly call these clothes 'the best thing since sliced bread'. Geeks might, on average, have a harder time keeping clean, but these types of clothes is NOT an excuse for letting things slip even further.
Nothing beats a good healthy shower and a bar of soap!
Hmm.. "Italian Tie" (or is that "Sicilian Tie" ?) springs to mind as that ought to shut him up good... The lawyer that is.. Perhaps it would work on Barney as well.. Who knows.....
What I would like from an employer is that two weeks a year is set aside, on a slightly floating basis, for courses. The type of courses I would go on are generally a week in one go meaning I would like to go to two courses per year. This is what I would expect from a half-decent employer. Currently I am not getting that from where I work and I have voiced my opinion.
If you and your employer can not come to a agreement, you could vote with your feet and simply go to a company more inclined to better their employees. I would personally be quite happy to perhaps sign some sort of contract with my employer about not leaving within a certain time of having received a course that they paid for. After all, they pay to educate me, I should give some of that knowledge back.
Alternatively, argue for higher pay plus perhaps two weeks earmarked for training per year and set the extra money aside for training.
Just my £0.02 worth
There will be no IBM Linux distribution. IBM has "blessed" four, RedHat, Caldera, SuSE and TurboLinux. IBM will not expend the effort of trying to create their own niche in the market when they can use an already existing distribution.
Just my £0.02