The article is actually about creating high-quality installation programs, so the title is misleading. Here is a link to a copy that is better formatted, but not as well edited:
Everything needs to be on the same Ground circuit. It is necessary to avoid ground loops.
"They draw LARGE spikes of current sporadically."
I don't think this is correct. I have designed power supplies, and I don't immediately think of any reason why the power input of a switching power supply should vary differently from the power output. The only surge is when the hard disks spin up, but with SCSI there is a means to stagger the spin-up.
In my opinion, IBM top executives with little technical education killed OS/2. They called OS/2 "Warp", a term for something so bent that it is useless.
They aren't any smarter today. They have contracted with their ad agency for those stupid DB2 ads which show dorky guys in space suits. The ads show the lack of knowledge and interest of the ad agency writers in IBM's products. The IBM execs are not smart enough to know they're horrible.
Only technically educated people can manage a technically educated company.
Open Source is an act of love. Influencing people by killing them and
destroying their property is an act of hate, or at least socially backward
behavior.
I think the haters should contact the lovers to see if the lovers want their
software used for an alternative purpose.
Some UPSs switch. Some are always online. You want the latter for a RAID array.
The second paragraph is important. Check your input power. Everything attached to your network should be wired to the same power circuit. Otherwise there is a possibility for feeding large spurious signals to your hardware through the power line.
I honestly was not bashing Microsoft. I am more pro-Microsoft than Bill Gates. If he were pro-Microsoft, he wouldn't let his company be so abusive. The bad PR is dragging his company down.
Anyhow, at the present time, my comment is moderated, "Troll". Since, to be a troll, it would have to be factually incorrect, it is not a troll. I suppose Bill has been moderating again.
What I want to know is, how did my earlier post
about Microsoft abuses get moderated "Redundant"? I looked, and I didn't see
another post remotely like it. Bill, was that you? Did you moderate my comment
down?
Governments have a DUTY not to allow themselves to be manipulated.
I notice that it takes a long time for abuses to be recognized, and to be
stopped. Societies do not have efficient means for stopping a determined
abuser, particularly one that exploits the lack of technical knowledge of its
customers.
Meanwhile, Microsoft has been continuing exactly as it did before, testing the
limits. Perhaps there should be several new anti-trust and abuse-of-commerce
cases.
With Windows XP, Microsoft seems to be trying to blur the distinction between
its computers and its customer's computers. Windows XP sometimes resembles a
trojan (except that you must pay for it). Numerous operating system programs
call Bill:
Microsoft Media Player (tells Bill the music you like)
Microsoft Direct Play Voice Test
Microsoft Help and Support Center
Microsoft Help Center Hosting Server
Microsoft Application Error Reporting
Microsoft Management Console
Microsoft Volume Shadow Copy Service
MS DTC Console program
Services and Controller app
Run DLL as an app
Windows Explorer
Microsoft Office keeps a number in each file you create that identifies
your computer. No one has said why.
Microsoft porn search looks on your hard drive for those photos of your
wife. Okay, maybe not, but you aren't sure are you?
These are just the ones I know about. There may be others.
It is such a relief to use Linux! With Linux, there may be problems, but I
know that they aren't caused deliberately. Linux is an OS that does not
involve me in adversarial behavior.
It is amazing that the Chinese never think to go to a local guest house for foreign backpack travelers (like the Amiga guest house in Taipei), and ask for help with their English.
I wrote a letter to the web master:
Daniel,
You need help with the English on your web site.
I suggest you find someone who speaks English well at the Amiga guest house in Taipei. There are many well-educated travelers who would work cheaply to help edit your English.
Also the main page has some coding problems. The menu should be at the top. The page size should not be limited, because with some monitors and resolutions, it is not possible to see the menu.
People with no technical education often think they can participate sensibly in a technical enterprise. They often use an immense amount of energy hiding the fact that they cannot.
The acting performances by Academy Award winners are, literally, bland and unconvincing compared to the acting performances of managers trying to pretend that they can manage a business they don't understand.
The craziest ideas of the rich get attention.
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SSSCA Editorials
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· Score: 1, Troll
It is a world in which the craziest ideas of the rich get a lot of attention.
If computers are controlled, there will be kits to build uncontrolled ones
from ICs. People will bring in uncontrolled computers across the border. Old,
uncontrolled computers, of which there are many tens of millions, will go up
in value. People will network their old computers to their new computers, so
that they can bypass control.
Personal computers have been one of the best things to come along in many
years, and rich people want to destroy the growth.
This idea has the same sensibility as the U.S. government trying to outlaw
privacy by trying to outlaw encryption.
The craziness is not limited to issues surrounding copyright. The U.S.
government engages in violence to enhance the profits of the weapons
manufacturers and oil companies. See What should be the response to
violence?
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If even one person does not know it is a joke, it is not a joke. It is hostility. Yes, it is low-level hostility, but it is hostility.
This story was an interesting way to show how few people read the story!
Read what is being advertised! Then decide if it is serious.
Living in the U.S., Spain, England, or Australia, it is easy for us to forget:
20% of the people in the world go hungry every day.
Only a small percentage of people in the world have access to a telephone.
A large percentage do not have access to safe water.
For people living in the U.S., it is easy to forget that most places in the world to not have a developed infrastructure.
Advertising is very powerful. The effect of this advertising will be to more firmly establish in reader's minds that Microsoft people are liars.
Back in MY day, we programmed with ones and zeroes. We didn't have any of those new-fangled Assemblers.
The country has a lot more people than you might guess, considering its size:
Population of Nigeria: 108.20 million.
Source: Nigeria Business Info
Only a billion dollars of the taxpayer's money to read other people's mail? The U.S. government will take 10.
portanto = consequently
clareza = clarity
obrigatoriamente = necessarily
garantindo = guaranteeing
separando = separating
The article is actually about creating high-quality installation programs, so the title is misleading. Here is a link to a copy that is better formatted, but not as well edited:
Creating Integrated High Quality Linux Installation Programs
FHS is the FileSystem Hierarchy Standard, an important standard.
I love Brazil and Brazilian culture, but not everything about the culture is wonderful. Brazilians generally don't like to give attention to detail.
The article is still partly in Portuguese:
sobretudo = above all
destacado = detached (apparently he means that KDE is the most developed)
I emailed the author about the HTML problems.
Everything needs to be on the same Ground circuit. It is necessary to avoid ground loops.
"They draw LARGE spikes of current sporadically."
I don't think this is correct. I have designed power supplies, and I don't immediately think of any reason why the power input of a switching power supply should vary differently from the power output. The only surge is when the hard disks spin up, but with SCSI there is a means to stagger the spin-up.
I've had a lot of problems installing H-P devices. H-P has become a sloppy company, in my opinion.
I don't think Carly Fiorina is better than Lew Platt, the former CEO. It has been a long time since H-P has had a real leader.
In my opinion, IBM top executives with little technical education killed OS/2. They called OS/2 "Warp", a term for something so bent that it is useless.
They aren't any smarter today. They have contracted with their ad agency for those stupid DB2 ads which show dorky guys in space suits. The ads show the lack of knowledge and interest of the ad agency writers in IBM's products. The IBM execs are not smart enough to know they're horrible.
Only technically educated people can manage a technically educated company.
Open Source is an act of love. Influencing people by killing them and destroying their property is an act of hate, or at least socially backward behavior.
I think the haters should contact the lovers to see if the lovers want their software used for an alternative purpose.
Sounds like good advice in the post above.
Some UPSs switch. Some are always online. You want the latter for a RAID array.
The second paragraph is important. Check your input power. Everything attached to your network should be wired to the same power circuit. Otherwise there is a possibility for feeding large spurious signals to your hardware through the power line.
I honestly was not bashing Microsoft. I am more pro-Microsoft than Bill Gates. If he were pro-Microsoft, he wouldn't let his company be so abusive. The bad PR is dragging his company down.
Anyhow, at the present time, my comment is moderated, "Troll". Since, to be a troll, it would have to be factually incorrect, it is not a troll. I suppose Bill has been moderating again.
Governments have a duty to do the right thing. They don't always do it. That doesn't mean it is not worth saying, however.
You said, "I don't suppose you're aware that the bin-Laden family provided the financial backing for George W. Bush's first oil company, did you?"
I'm aware. I wrote a book about these kinds of things. Including the links, it is about 660 pages: What should be the response to violence?
What I want to know is, how did my earlier post about Microsoft abuses get moderated "Redundant"? I looked, and I didn't see another post remotely like it. Bill, was that you? Did you moderate my comment down?
Governments have a DUTY not to allow themselves to be manipulated.
I notice that it takes a long time for abuses to be recognized, and to be stopped. Societies do not have efficient means for stopping a determined abuser, particularly one that exploits the lack of technical knowledge of its customers.
Meanwhile, Microsoft has been continuing exactly as it did before, testing the limits. Perhaps there should be several new anti-trust and abuse-of-commerce cases.
With Windows XP, Microsoft seems to be trying to blur the distinction between its computers and its customer's computers. Windows XP sometimes resembles a trojan (except that you must pay for it). Numerous operating system programs call Bill:
- Microsoft Media Player (tells Bill the music you like)
- Microsoft Direct Play Voice Test
- Microsoft Help and Support Center
- Microsoft Help Center Hosting Server
- Microsoft Application Error Reporting
- Microsoft Management Console
- Microsoft Volume Shadow Copy Service
- MS DTC Console program
- Services and Controller app
- Run DLL as an app
- Windows Explorer
- Microsoft Office keeps a number in each file you create that identifies
your computer. No one has said why.
- Microsoft porn search looks on your hard drive for those photos of your
wife. Okay, maybe not, but you aren't sure are you?
- These are just the ones I know about. There may be others.
It is such a relief to use Linux! With Linux, there may be problems, but I know that they aren't caused deliberately. Linux is an OS that does not involve me in adversarial behavior.The site is in Chinglish.
It is amazing that the Chinese never think to go to a local guest house for foreign backpack travelers (like the Amiga guest house in Taipei), and ask for help with their English.
I wrote a letter to the web master:
Daniel,
You need help with the English on your web site.
I suggest you find someone who speaks English well at the Amiga guest house in Taipei. There are many well-educated travelers who would work cheaply to help edit your English.
Also the main page has some coding problems. The menu should be at the top. The page size should not be limited, because with some monitors and resolutions, it is not possible to see the menu.
Michael
Venture Capital Links:
The Venture Capital Marketplace (See the VC Directory: Many Resources.)
Finance Web (Lists VC Companies.)
Venture Capital on the Net Links (Large Free Database)
National Venture Capital Association (Select NVCA Members.)
Infon Venture Capital Database ($99)
YAHOO! Venture Capital Firms Listings
I don't have any connection with these companies. I cannot comment on their usefulness.
People with no technical education often think they can participate sensibly in a technical enterprise. They often use an immense amount of energy hiding the fact that they cannot.
The acting performances by Academy Award winners are, literally, bland and unconvincing compared to the acting performances of managers trying to pretend that they can manage a business they don't understand.
Here is an article about that subject: An Engineer's View of Venture Capitalists
Here is more background information about ArsDigita:
ArsDigita VCs v. Co-founders: The battle for control of ArsDigita Corporation
To me, the entire dispute was very interesting.
See this for background about ArsDigita:
ArsDigita: From Start-Up to Bust-Up by Philip Greenspun
It is a world in which the craziest ideas of the rich get a lot of attention. If computers are controlled, there will be kits to build uncontrolled ones from ICs. People will bring in uncontrolled computers across the border. Old, uncontrolled computers, of which there are many tens of millions, will go up in value. People will network their old computers to their new computers, so that they can bypass control.
Personal computers have been one of the best things to come along in many years, and rich people want to destroy the growth.
This idea has the same sensibility as the U.S. government trying to outlaw privacy by trying to outlaw encryption.
The craziness is not limited to issues surrounding copyright. The U.S. government engages in violence to enhance the profits of the weapons manufacturers and oil companies. See What should be the response to violence?
Mozilla works great already, and Version 1.0 will be a beautiful gift to the entire world.