You americans are really funny people. Having a health insurance is prescribed by most european governments, and it's much less expensive than in the US. Go and tell your local president (who'll surely hear it the first time), or - better - elect someone else. Instead of gambling away your health at eBay.
Of course you're right, and of course users _will_ use other DNS servers to access these sites.
This is why an employee of the ISP said that "this will only hurt 'Fritzchen stupid'".
As long as they do it to Nazis, and as long as they censor by using false dns entries, I don't care much.
The problem with this is - they won't. This is just the beginning, and don't think that Germany is far away enough from the US. This will someday happen to you, too, and it will happen to any content which contradicts the prevailing opinion, as long as YOU won't do anything against.
1. You're right, job market is pretty tight now. In Germany, where I live, this means that having a Diplom (highest university degree in Germany) is no guarantee for getting a job at all. Companies seek for high educated people with work experience.
2. There still are some companies that are doing very well, e.g. specializing on PC hardware installations or user training. These "smaller" jobs are a pretty good way for the not-so-experienced lateral entry to get employed in this sector and to learn how to work in productive environments.
I don't know if this exists in the US too, but in Germany and many other European countries there are labor offices who support you by paying a vocational retraining, when you've been unemployed for a year or so. I know many teachers and history students etc. who did retrainings like this, and it seems to work.
At this time, switching to this economy sector is like going through a door labeled "no entrance". Don't expect people behind it to be happy you're there, but also don't let them spoil the party;-)
As you've probably seen in the video (and no, it isn't a fake, this issue has also been reported by german computer mags), when removing the cooler the cpu's core _melts_. At a temperature noone would expect anything else.
When your cooler suddenly stops cooling, this will force you to buy a new cpu, and probably also a new mainboard. Even if the computer is stopped after 2 or 3 seconds.
And the problem is - you can't build in two coolers. Modern servers have multiple power supplies, voltage regulators etc pp. But when your cooler stops, just for 4 or 5 seconds, you can throw away your cpu and mainboard. And that's not cheap if it's a multiprocessor board. Hope you have a good guarantee arrangement.
Very impressive statement, I completely agree with it.
I don't filter ads, but I have no special reason why I don't. I'm surfing the web about 8 hours a day for my work, and I got used to ads. They don't bother me if they aren't huge and don't try to catch my full attention.
There are only two sites where I look at or even click on the ads: slashdot and german newsticker Heise Online. Both have ads which are informing or sometimes funny.
I hope/.'s upcoming "new size" will not make me forget about this and ignore the ads. Because then, slashdot will be nothing but just another site full of ads - there are lots of them, I don't need another one.
In german language there's a saying: "Fewer is often more". I think this will also apply to your advertising revenues.
Yes, the Linux Kernel is not a GNU project, but it is licensed under the GNU Public License.Many very important parts of a "Linux Distribution" have been developed or ported by FSF - "GNU".
But would anyone say that a modern "Linux Distribution" is able to fulfill all needs with a kernel and a few utils? A "Linux Distribution" isn't in fact a Linux Distribution, as it distributes much more than just the kernel.
It's a distribution of Linux, the GNU utils, and so many many more things many of us use in daily life.
So could you please stop bothering about where a specific software comes from? We know GNU is great, we wouldn't have come so far without the FSF, and neither did we without Linux. Nor without the glibc, egcs + gcc, pam, rpm + deb, samba, apache, etc etc etc.
All of these are credited the way they deserve it, and all of these have either Free or Open source.
So what's this discussion good for? Can anybody tell me? If the Big Bad Business comes and steals our Open Source software and all that stays for us is Free Software, we're still good enough for keeping up with them. But for this it is essential that we develop Free (or at least Open Source) Software all together, and not against each other.
So please stay quiet, take a seat, have a sandwich and a jolt and go ahead doing the things you're really good at. I don't give a f*** about if we call it GNU/Linux or not, do it if you want, but I say you have to name it "GNU/XFree86/Apache/..../Linux" then.
German gouvernment initiated a Green Card for exactly your purposes a few months ago. You can apply for such a work permission, you'll get one (since it's not well accepted, it seems) and after that you're allowed to work for at least 5 years in Germany (iirc).
"You Americans" have a pretty ugly law, I must say.
I really can't believe that it's up to YOU to remove the comment, without a single word from a court.
I think German web mail provider GMX(.de|.ch|.net|.li) had the GPL'd application acmemail running.. I can't prove it, but nearly the whole html code looked the same, and they didn't even translate the submission buttons e.g.
Of course their source code isn't free or even open.
It's a pity that proving this is difficult. The community could get a really cool web mailer;)
I wonder why you're searching for "some" guest speaker. How badly organised must a LUG be if it doesn't have any topics to talk about?
I'd say, just make some meetings about OpenSource projects, ideas or geek-friendly stuff.. and then simply join the mailing lists and news groups on that subject and ask if there's someone near your university who's able to speak about it.
It's hard to find something when you don't know what you're searching.
Question: What does a company, when they have more customers than they can attend?
Answer: They enlarge. They move into a larger building, hire new staff or source out.
How do _we_, the open source community, solve this problem right now?
-> Outsourcing: SuSE, RedHat and other companies focus on training, support and consulting.
-> Prevention: There are a few dozens of howtos and faqs, and the application's documentations improve and enlarge.
-> Own support: Developers, project maintainers and many many mailing lists and IRC channels provide support to newbies, but these get crowded more and more (e.g.: IRCNet channel #linux)
So far, so good. But in my opinion, we could do better:
Why do I see on any project's homepage a call for new developers, but none for an editor?
The concept "let's sit down and write an OS" worked fine so far, what about the concept "let's sit down and create documentation, Q&As and Howtos for this OS"?
Open Source developers often get reputation from their work. Looks fine in a letter of application when you can show a reference code from the linux kernel or any other large project.
And I guess, that would be the same in the media branch. So why GNU, OSDN etc. don't face on the facts and help improving the service? Let's call for editors and lecturers. Let's make LDP source no. 1 for questions on Linux.
When starting this, Rich Stallman argued that software should be free, because he had the idea that being able to choose one's software leaves control where it belongs to - at the user.
But what if the user's unable to take control, because he doesn't understand?
In my opinion, giving *good* manuals with the source and providing support and training is the last step towards Free Software. And - to get another bit more illusionary - let's see what comes next.
One cannot test an ADD by simply asking questions like "can you concentrate on [...]". There are many approved methods to diagnose ADD, and modern psychiatry isn't damned to GUESS a neurologic syndrome anymore.
See another doctor, one that you trust in and who's specialized on ADD. Let your son make those concentration tests, PETs, EEGs and HAWIK-Rs. You'll save his life!
And.. btw..read Hallowell's "Driven to Distraction".
There's nobody expect those who think ADD's just a lag of discipline I'd whished they had ADD.. you'll see what it means.
It's not that ADD people often can't build up a career.. they're often damned to fail in life!
Even though Ritalin isn't the only medication prescribed to treat ADD, it helps saving thousands of lifes that otherwise would have been destroyed by depresion, drug abuse (to self-medicate ADD) or crimes.
Talk with an ADD family and you'll know it's an illness. Talk with some of the most important marketing CEOs and you'll learn they have ADD.
Slashdot Mirror
You americans are really funny people.
Having a health insurance is prescribed by most european governments, and it's much less expensive than in the US. Go and tell your local president (who'll surely hear it the first time), or - better - elect someone else. Instead of gambling away your health at eBay.
apt-get welfare_system
Of course you're right, and of course users _will_ use other DNS servers to access these sites.
This is why an employee of the ISP said that "this will only hurt 'Fritzchen stupid'".
As long as they do it to Nazis, and as long as they censor by using false dns entries, I don't care much.
The problem with this is - they won't. This is just the beginning, and don't think that Germany is far away enough from the US. This will someday happen to you, too, and it will happen to any content which contradicts the prevailing opinion, as long as YOU won't do anything against.
1. You're right, job market is pretty tight now. In Germany, where I live, this means that having a Diplom (highest university degree in Germany) is no guarantee for getting a job at all. Companies seek for high educated people with work experience.
;-)
2. There still are some companies that are doing very well, e.g. specializing on PC hardware installations or user training. These "smaller" jobs are a pretty good way for the not-so-experienced lateral entry to get employed in this sector and to learn how to work in productive environments.
I don't know if this exists in the US too, but in Germany and many other European countries there are labor offices who support you by paying a vocational retraining, when you've been unemployed for a year or so. I know many teachers and history students etc. who did retrainings like this, and it seems to work.
At this time, switching to this economy sector is like going through a door labeled "no entrance". Don't expect people behind it to be happy you're there, but also don't let them spoil the party
As you've probably seen in the video (and no, it isn't a fake, this issue has also been reported by german computer mags), when removing the cooler the cpu's core _melts_. At a temperature noone would expect anything else.
When your cooler suddenly stops cooling, this will force you to buy a new cpu, and probably also a new mainboard. Even if the computer is stopped after 2 or 3 seconds.
And the problem is - you can't build in two coolers. Modern servers have multiple power supplies, voltage regulators etc pp. But when your cooler stops, just for 4 or 5 seconds, you can throw away your cpu and mainboard. And that's not cheap if it's a multiprocessor board. Hope you have a good guarantee arrangement.
Very impressive statement, I completely agree with it.
/.'s upcoming "new size" will not make me forget about this and ignore the ads. Because then, slashdot will be nothing but just another site full of ads - there are lots of them, I don't need another one.
I don't filter ads, but I have no special reason why I don't. I'm surfing the web about 8 hours a day for my work, and I got used to ads. They don't bother me if they aren't huge and don't try to catch my full attention.
There are only two sites where I look at or even click on the ads: slashdot and german newsticker Heise Online. Both have ads which are informing or sometimes funny.
I hope
In german language there's a saying: "Fewer is often more". I think this will also apply to your advertising revenues.
Where's the problem??
Yes, the Linux Kernel is not a GNU project, but it is licensed under the GNU Public License.Many very important parts of a "Linux Distribution" have been developed or ported by FSF - "GNU".
But would anyone say that a modern "Linux Distribution" is able to fulfill all needs with a kernel and a few utils? A "Linux Distribution" isn't in fact a Linux Distribution, as it distributes much more than just the kernel.
It's a distribution of Linux, the GNU utils, and so many many more things many of us use in daily life.
So could you please stop bothering about where a specific software comes from? We know GNU is great, we wouldn't have come so far without the FSF, and neither did we without Linux. Nor without the glibc, egcs + gcc, pam, rpm + deb, samba, apache, etc etc etc.
All of these are credited the way they deserve it, and all of these have either Free or Open source.
So what's this discussion good for? Can anybody tell me? If the Big Bad Business comes and steals our Open Source software and all that stays for us is Free Software, we're still good enough for keeping up with them. But for this it is essential that we develop Free (or at least Open Source) Software all together, and not against each other.
So please stay quiet, take a seat, have a sandwich and a jolt and go ahead doing the things you're really good at. I don't give a f*** about if we call it GNU/Linux or not, do it if you want, but I say you have to name it "GNU/XFree86/Apache/..../Linux" then.
German gouvernment initiated a Green Card for exactly your purposes a few months ago. You can apply for such a work permission, you'll get one (since it's not well accepted, it seems) and after that you're allowed to work for at least 5 years in Germany (iirc).
See this link for further information.
Armin.
"You Americans" have a pretty ugly law, I must say.
;-)
I really can't believe that it's up to YOU to remove the comment, without a single word from a court.
You should do something against the DMCA
I think German web mail provider GMX(.de|.ch|.net|.li) had the GPL'd application acmemail running .. I can't prove it, but nearly the whole html code looked the same, and they didn't even translate the submission buttons e.g. ;)
Of course their source code isn't free or even open.
It's a pity that proving this is difficult. The community could get a really cool web mailer
I wonder why you're searching for "some" guest speaker. How badly organised must a LUG be if it doesn't have any topics to talk about?
.. and then simply join the mailing lists and news groups on that subject and ask if there's someone near your university who's able to speak about it.
I'd say, just make some meetings about OpenSource projects, ideas or geek-friendly stuff
It's hard to find something when you don't know what you're searching.
Armin.
Question: What does a company, when they have more customers than they can attend?
Answer: They enlarge. They move into a larger building, hire new staff or source out.
How do _we_, the open source community, solve this problem right now?
-> Outsourcing: SuSE, RedHat and other companies focus on training, support and consulting.
-> Prevention: There are a few dozens of howtos and faqs, and the application's documentations improve and enlarge.
-> Own support: Developers, project maintainers and many many mailing lists and IRC channels provide support to newbies, but these get crowded more and more (e.g.: IRCNet channel #linux)
So far, so good. But in my opinion, we could do better:
Why do I see on any project's homepage a call for new developers, but none for an editor?
The concept "let's sit down and write an OS" worked fine so far, what about the concept "let's sit down and create documentation, Q&As and Howtos for this OS"?
Open Source developers often get reputation from their work. Looks fine in a letter of application when you can show a reference code from the linux kernel or any other large project.
And I guess, that would be the same in the media branch. So why GNU, OSDN etc. don't face on the facts and help improving the service? Let's call for editors and lecturers. Let's make LDP source no. 1 for questions on Linux.
When starting this, Rich Stallman argued that software should be free, because he had the idea that being able to choose one's software leaves control where it belongs to - at the user.
But what if the user's unable to take control, because he doesn't understand?
In my opinion, giving *good* manuals with the source and providing support and training is the last step towards Free Software. And - to get another bit more illusionary - let's see what comes next.
Armin.
Well, you've seen the wrong doctor, I guess.
.. btw ..read Hallowell's "Driven to Distraction".
One cannot test an ADD by simply asking questions like "can you concentrate on [...]". There are many approved methods to diagnose ADD, and modern psychiatry isn't damned to GUESS a neurologic syndrome anymore.
See another doctor, one that you trust in and who's specialized on ADD. Let your son make those concentration tests, PETs, EEGs and HAWIK-Rs. You'll save his life!
And
There's nobody expect those who think ADD's just a lag of discipline I'd whished they had ADD .. you'll see what it means.
It's not that ADD people often can't build up a career .. they're often damned to fail in life!
Even though Ritalin isn't the only medication prescribed to treat ADD, it helps saving thousands of lifes that otherwise would have been destroyed by depresion, drug abuse (to self-medicate ADD) or crimes.
Talk with an ADD family and you'll know it's an illness. Talk with some of the most important marketing CEOs and you'll learn they have ADD.