I also wouldn't use it on a slow computer as compiling source code can take awhile.
1) d/l the source onto fastbox. 2) Compile on fastbox with the compile flags set for slowbox, so it produces binaries optimised for slowbox. 3) Transfer binaries to slowbox. 4) Prof^H^H^H^H^H^H^H
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The Germans did not start WWI. It was started by a Serb assassinating an Austro-Hungarian duke.
A more critical analysis will reveal that all the colonial powers (Britain, France, Germany, Russia, Japan etc) were itching to have a go at eachother to claim a bigger stake each for their own ends of colonies in Africa and Asia.
Germany may have admitted full liability for WWI at the treaty of Versailles, but this admission was under duress, and did not change the facts. The humiliation of this admission was a contributing factor to the popularity of the regime that started WWII.
The blame for WWI should be equally shared by all the greedy colonial powers that existed at the beginning of the 20th century.
The poor Serb who supposedly started the war was just a spark in an already volatile climate, and if not for him then something else would have started it sooner or later.
One thing never changes - as long as there exist super powers with the ability to hurt each other, eventually mutual fear will drive them to conflict.
If Europe and America did not have the perceived mutual threat of China, they would eventually start to eye eachother suspiciously.
Finally, no country has universal freedom for all of its citizens. Remember the golden rule: Those who have the gold make the rules.
There is no plural, as virus is a plural word in latin already
Really? What declension does the word virus belong to? I seem to recall that some declensions in latin have both the singular and plural ending in -us but it's ages since I studied latin - over a decade ago. I'm not even sure any more how to spell declension.
As to your other question, I use AT&T Wireless. I'm in Seattle and it seems to be the most reliable in this area. Good reception, very few dropped calls, and reasonable pricing (as long as you stay in your own calling area).
Where I live, I have only twochoices of mobile phone providers.
What if the person calling you is in a different country and you don't want to incur insane international rates on your cell phone?
You mean you pay to receive calls ?!?!? Shouldn't the person making the call pay for it, unless you accept a collect call. What phone company are you with?
I had a man yell at me for his monitor not working after our shop installed a modem. After going over all of the simple problems, including "is it plugged in", I drove to his house. The monitor was not plugged in.
That's why I have developed the skill of asking the same question in different ways. You could also ask the customer which port is the monitor plugged into? Cust says what's a port? which gives you the opportunity to get the customer to actually look at the back of the computer and monitor.
Yes, the customer is stupid. And, yes, the customer is always right. If you want to work in any kind of service industry you have to learn to suffer fools.
Why is it that without visible policing most people will steal like this? If you were in a shop and nobody was looking would you really steal food and clothes and walk away?
First of all, people who duplicate copyrighted materials don't see it as being as bad as stealing physical property. A better analogy would be walking into a bookstore, taking a book of the shelf, going into the office at the back of the store and photocopying the book, then putting the book back on the shelf and walking out with the photocopy (even that is not a good analogy because it involves stealing toner and paper, so let's say you bring your own paper and toner).
I'm not saying that it's okay to infringe on other people's copy right, but don't compare it to stealing physical property.
Also, let's drop the P word. Copying stuff is not comparable to rape, murder and pillage on the high seas.
But everybody can do their share by simply educating people If only it was that easy. I try all the time to point out some of the issues that we discuss on/. but most people just don't care as long as they don't think it's effecting them. I've recently joined a group here that promotes open standards in government, education etc: NZOSS , but it's so hard to convince people who just don't grasp the concepts. Here in sheepland^W New Zealand at least. The dutch are perhaps a bit more forward thinking, zmooc.
From the article: Sharman Networks...should be held accountable by U.S. laws.
Bzzzt! Wrong! They should be held accountable by Autralian and Vanuatan laws. The United States (Je naait 't steeds:-) does not have jurisdiction over the world. Not that they'd have any trouble getting an Australian court to bend over for the US.
If I owned a company and got a summons from a US court I would RSVP that I am declining the invitation (and contact a lawyer to prepare for any possible extradition hearing).
I don't think my government would send me over there unless the US told them I'd killed someone or something like that.
Bzzzt! I used it until 1997 when I switched to Linux. I dual booted between OS/2 and Linux (using OS/2's boot manager) until 1998 (or early 1999 - memory is vague).
I had to create the linux partition as a fat partition using OS/2's fdisk and then reformat it under linux as ext2 with lilo as the second stage loader.
If IBM made an opensource version of presentation manager as an X11 wm or even as a replacement for X11, I'd use it.
OS/2 was the fastest OS on the x86 platform (because it was designed around x86 and sacrificed portability for gains on a specific platform - pros and cons of this desighn decision left as an exercise for the reader).
Oh wait, they want it on disk? Do they want it in Word or PDF format?:)
A serious answer to a facecious question: Probably.gz
My/var/log/ directory contains a few of those. I assume they're the old logs produced by the default crontab that my distro installed. I delete them from time to time.
The script kiddies who o3wNz my computer eveytime I go online probably clean them up for me:-)
...a book that's been translated so many times all of it's meaning is most likely lost
FUD. Septuagint, textus receptus, DS scrolls, masoretic etc are all available to modern translators. The odd subtlety is occassionally lost in the translation, but the general gist is not lost. And if the subtleties of the original are that important to you, learn ancient hebrew and ancient greek, or pick through the commentaries written by those who have (taking all commentaries with a pinch of salt of course).
Sorry, I just have to reply to this sort of FUD. If you don't want to believe it - fine. Just don't parrot the tired old "translated so many times" cliche.
This eventaully boils down to the old command-line vs. GUI argument
Why should one have to choose between the two? How hard is it to make a gui front end to edit crontab (or any other CLI based tool) while still leaving the option there to delve into CLI or editing config files in a text editor, on the odd occassion that you need to. Get the best of both worlds. IFAICT most linux distros and other unices offer GUI front ends anyway.
Yes, the academic community who write the software do so to distribute it. But not every company that uses it is into re-distribution.
If a company does want to re-distribute, under GPL they can do so gratis if they also share their own mods, or they can negotiate a fee with the research institute if they want to distribute binary only products.
I.e. if you get it gratis, you gotta share. If you don't want to share, you can still negotiate non-GPL terms with the tax-funded organisation that did the ground work for you.
The way I see it, if Foo-Corp wants to use gratis-ware and make money from it, they should pay the developers instead of letting the tax-payer pay the developers.
GPL does not preclude to original developer from offering different licence terms as an alternative.
Myth - If you use and modify GPL code inhouse, you have to give away all your code.
Truth - If you use and modify GPL code inhouse, you are free to keep it inhouse. GPL only comes into effect if you want to distribute your GPL based code outside your organisation.
Vader was simply an immature Jedi who lacked the serenity to accept the things he could not change, which made him vulnerable to the seduction of the dark side. It was his son's refusal to be similarly seduced that opened his eyes to where he was really at.
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I also wouldn't use it on a slow computer as compiling source code can take awhile.
1) d/l the source onto fastbox.
2) Compile on fastbox with the compile flags set for slowbox, so it produces binaries optimised for slowbox.
3) Transfer binaries to slowbox.
4) Prof^H^H^H^H^H^H^H
The Germans did not start WWI. It was started by a Serb assassinating an Austro-Hungarian duke.
A more critical analysis will reveal that all the colonial powers (Britain, France, Germany, Russia, Japan etc) were itching to have a go at eachother to claim a bigger stake each for their own ends of colonies in Africa and Asia.
Germany may have admitted full liability for WWI at the treaty of Versailles, but this admission was under duress, and did not change the facts. The humiliation of this admission was a contributing factor to the popularity of the regime that started WWII.
The blame for WWI should be equally shared by all the greedy colonial powers that existed at the beginning of the 20th century.
The poor Serb who supposedly started the war was just a spark in an already volatile climate, and if not for him then something else would have started it sooner or later.
One thing never changes - as long as there exist super powers with the ability to hurt each other, eventually mutual fear will drive them to conflict.
If Europe and America did not have the perceived mutual threat of China, they would eventually start to eye eachother suspiciously.
Finally, no country has universal freedom for all of its citizens. Remember the golden rule: Those who have the gold make the rules.
It's already on the desktop, whether it's ready or not.
Therefore it's a moot point.
There is no plural, as virus is a plural word in latin already
Really? What declension does the word virus belong to?
I seem to recall that some declensions in latin have both the singular and plural ending in -us but it's ages since I studied latin - over a decade ago. I'm not even sure any more how to spell declension.
I'm read and re-read the original question, and nowhere can I find any reference to asking the gummint permission to have sex.
Am I missing something?
Only if you REDISTRIBUTE the binaries as well! This makes it sound like any in-house change must be published.
See the journal in my sig for discussion on this issue.
As to your other question, I use AT&T Wireless. I'm in Seattle and it seems to be the most reliable in this area. Good reception, very few dropped calls, and reasonable pricing (as long as you stay in your own calling area).
Where I live, I have only two choices of mobile phone providers.
What if the person calling you is in a different country and you don't want to incur insane international rates on your cell phone?
You mean you pay to receive calls ?!?!?
Shouldn't the person making the call pay for it, unless you accept a collect call. What phone company are you with?
And I bet more people would help me out in a fight. Who -hasn't- wanted to beat on the Cellphone Asshole(tm) at one point? ;)
If a Cellphone Asshole(tm) attacks you for accidently spilling your drink on him, I'll come to your aid.
I had a man yell at me for his monitor not working after our shop installed a modem. After going over all of the simple problems, including "is it plugged in", I drove to his house. The monitor was not plugged in.
That's why I have developed the skill of asking the same question in different ways.
You could also ask the customer which port is the monitor plugged into? Cust says what's a port? which gives you the opportunity to get the customer to actually look at the back of the computer and monitor.
Yes, the customer is stupid. And, yes, the customer is always right.
If you want to work in any kind of service industry you have to learn to suffer fools.
Why is it that without visible policing most people will steal like this? If you were in a shop and nobody was looking would you really steal food and clothes and walk away?
First of all, people who duplicate copyrighted materials don't see it as being as bad as stealing physical property.
A better analogy would be walking into a bookstore, taking a book of the shelf, going into the office at the back of the store and photocopying the book, then putting the book back on the shelf and walking out with the photocopy (even that is not a good analogy because it involves stealing toner and paper, so let's say you bring your own paper and toner).
I'm not saying that it's okay to infringe on other people's copy right, but don't compare it to stealing physical property.
Also, let's drop the P word. Copying stuff is not comparable to rape, murder and pillage on the high seas.
But everybody can do their share by simply educating people /. but most people just don't care as long as they don't think it's effecting them.
If only it was that easy. I try all the time to point out some of the issues that we discuss on
I've recently joined a group here that promotes open standards in government, education etc: NZOSS , but it's so hard to convince people who just don't grasp the concepts. Here in sheepland^W New Zealand at least.
The dutch are perhaps a bit more forward thinking, zmooc.
From the article:
:-) does not have jurisdiction over the world. Not that they'd have any trouble getting an Australian court to bend over for the US.
Sharman Networks...should be held accountable by U.S. laws.
Bzzzt! Wrong! They should be held accountable by Autralian and Vanuatan laws. The United States (Je naait 't steeds
If I owned a company and got a summons from a US court I would RSVP that I am declining the invitation (and contact a lawyer to prepare for any possible extradition hearing).
I don't think my government would send me over there unless the US told them I'd killed someone or something like that.
No one has really used OS/2 since 1995
Bzzzt! I used it until 1997 when I switched to Linux.
I dual booted between OS/2 and Linux (using OS/2's boot manager)
until 1998 (or early 1999 - memory is vague).
I had to create the linux partition as a fat partition using OS/2's
fdisk and then reformat it under linux as ext2 with lilo as the second stage loader.
If IBM made an opensource version of presentation manager as an X11 wm or even as a replacement for X11, I'd use it.
OS/2 was the fastest OS on the x86 platform (because it was designed around x86 and sacrificed portability for gains on a specific platform - pros and cons of this desighn decision left as an exercise for the reader).
Oh wait, they want it on disk? Do they want it in Word or PDF format? :)
.gz
/var/log/ directory contains a few of those. I assume they're the old logs produced by the default crontab that my distro installed.
:-)
A serious answer to a facecious question:
Probably
My
I delete them from time to time.
The script kiddies who o3wNz my computer eveytime I go online probably clean them up for me
...a book that's been translated so many times all of it's meaning is most likely lost
FUD. Septuagint, textus receptus, DS scrolls, masoretic etc are all available to modern translators. The odd subtlety is occassionally lost in the translation, but the general gist is not lost.
And if the subtleties of the original are that important to you, learn ancient hebrew and ancient greek, or pick through the commentaries written by those who have (taking all commentaries with a pinch of salt of course).
Sorry, I just have to reply to this sort of FUD. If you don't want to believe it - fine. Just don't parrot the tired old "translated so many times" cliche.
This eventaully boils down to the old command-line vs. GUI argument
Why should one have to choose between the two? How hard is it to make a gui front end to edit crontab (or any other CLI based tool) while still leaving the option there to delve into CLI or editing config files in a text editor, on the odd occassion that you need to.
Get the best of both worlds. IFAICT most linux distros and other unices offer GUI front ends anyway.
Laws are not made to be moral or to be in the best interest of everybody. They are made by those with power so that they will keep the power.
Of course. It's the golden rule:
Those who have the gold make the rules.
It sucks but it has been that way since the dawn of history.
Or like spoiling The Titanic by saying "the ship sinks".
Yes, the academic community who write the software do so to distribute it. But not every company that uses it is into re-distribution.
If a company does want to re-distribute, under GPL they can do so gratis if they also share their own mods, or they can negotiate a fee with the research institute if they want to distribute binary only products.
I.e. if you get it gratis, you gotta share. If you don't want to share, you can still negotiate non-GPL terms with the tax-funded organisation that did the ground work for you.
The way I see it, if Foo-Corp wants to use gratis-ware and make money from it, they should pay the developers instead of letting the tax-payer pay the developers.
GPL does not preclude to original developer from offering different licence terms as an alternative.
Once again I refer people to The "GPL is Viral" Myth
I refer folks to my earlier post The "GPL is viral" Myth
Myth - If you use and modify GPL code inhouse, you have to give away all your code.
Truth - If you use and modify GPL code inhouse, you are free to keep it inhouse.
GPL only comes into effect if you want to distribute your GPL based code outside your organisation.
Well, Vader switched to good at the end of Jedi
Vader was simply an immature Jedi who lacked the serenity to accept the things he could not change, which made him vulnerable to the seduction of the dark side.
It was his son's refusal to be similarly seduced that opened his eyes to where he was really at.
I really do find strinkingly large simularities between the way the Nazi's do things and the way ...