In our local LUG, we have been discussing similar topics. We are fortunate to hava some luggers with political experience and they provided to us good guidelines.
Inorder to get the attention of your representatives (yes, this means the ones from your State. Comitee members form other states are much less influentiable), do the following:
-Use snail-mail only.
It is the only really taken seriously. Think, how many people could send an e-mail? How many people would bother to use USPS (snail-mail)?
-Use very polite tone and writting style.
Politics is a bit different from slashdot:)
-Be clear, go to the point.
Try writting first some drafts and show it to some people. Maybe you are not clear enough. How many pliticians have been through MIT? Most of them are lawyers with no ide on technology (just chek yesterday's CSPAN-s vote, when that guy form Indiana (?) got all his speech against "hackers that come through the electric grids and put in danger the watter damms....". No, it is not a joke. Is real.
-Inform your representative that you are a professional that follows politics that affect your field of work. Sign with something like "John SixPak, Software Engineer, Your City, CA90210"
-State clearly that you vote, that you vote regularly and this matter will affect your vote casting in the next election.
Be very clear and explicit about it. After all, voting is the way to tell politicians if we agree with them or not.
-If you want to be taken extra-seriously, use FedEx or UPS to deliver your letter.
-Last, but not least, urge your friends and colleagues to do the same. This is called "lobbying". And this is what politicians understand. Maybe they pay attention to big-money donnors. But, afterall, if they do not get re-electedby you and your friends, they won't get any money form Washington, DC.
Enjoy
Now Bin Laden is in trouble!
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Hey! Wait a minute!
IANAL but...
Bert images are copyrighted. Bert images cannot be used without express authorisation (and royalties money exchanging hands) of Bert's creator and/or his descendants.
Bert images, including all pictures, sounds, AquaBert Themes, KBert applications.... are the own propierty of a Big Nasty Corporation that goes for RIAA, DMCA and PYOAH (Put Your Own Acronym Here)!
So, now Bin Ladin is in deep trouble!
According to tomorrow's edition of The Walled Street Joornal , Bin Ladin has been sued:
"...Our Big & Mean Entertainment Corporation(TM) Cannot and Will Not Rest(TM) until the defendant, alledgedly Bin Laden, gets dragged into Court to defend himself for alledged copyright violation of the DMCA law. "
"(...) I don't know what those terrorists were thinking, an unknown VP commented. We offer [terrorism] prime time coverage of their activities [see 20010911 news] for a fee, as stated in the Chapter 17, Title 4, Point 3B of the DMCA) and what do we get in return? Copyright Infringement! Make No Mistake, He Will Be Sued. And the same holds true for his associates, The Taliban Trust For International Terrorism and Women Repression Inc. "
"(...) They [Bin Laden and the Talibans] will all pay *Huge* fines thay lay in the billions and billions (Carl Sagan's trademarked voice goes here) of Good Old American Dolars..."
Talibans, be warned!
If you thought that the US Air Force & Cruise Missile Delivery Co. was a bunch of bad ' n ' nasty guys, well, now you are beign confronted by the Entertainment Industry!
Mine was working great... but it died. It is on a home computer. Linux only. Good ventilation, usual stuff. No silly overcloking nor anything wierd. Plain desktop system. I even have a fan blowing air under the HDD!
After about 6 months of home use, I had trouble with my e-mail (using Kmail). Configuration got screwed up? I checked configuration, created new user, copyed config files in new user... and it didn't work.
Bug in old KDE 2.0? I tried upgrading to KDE 2.2.1. No success. I tried uninstalling and installing back the whole KDE 2.2.1 thing. No success. Still problems. Bad ones.
Software problem? The software was OK. I tried with other users. So next I checked the partition.
Oh Boy! CLinks! Clanks! It was an ReiserFS (I like to play safe). And some nasty errors showed up on the mail files.
I managed to save most of my email, copying the files to another partition. The/home partition was all clingy. Some mail files went through lotsa clings and clangs. Unable to be recovered whatsoever.
So I got myself an old drive and, while trying to install a linux on that 2nd drive, inorder to burn a CD from a reliable system, I made a mistake. With all the panic and pressure, I obliterated my partition table on the IBM 60 GB Desktar IDE-100 HDD instead of backing up the partition table.
OH boy!
It has been more than a month. I am still trying to recover that partition table. parted / gparted are no good: they have issues with ReiserFS and extended aprtitions (my data is on a ReiserFS extended partition).
I am very sad. I actualy bought that disk because it was an expensive IBM disk, because I wanted my data safe.
Of course the place where I bought it have ofered to replace it. But recovering the data costs many $$$ that I do not have, specially after getting layed off by a big blue company.
With the easy basic firewall setting ("select Medium during install" I say it is very easy), then add portsentry (the default install is pretty good, at least with Mandrake rpm).
Then, use TinyFirewall or BastilleFirewall, with its Tk GUI. And be up to date with security fixes.
Then you have a very strong system. In an easy, GUI, no-brainer way.
Enjoy!
NuSphere MySQL is your answer Re:Show me...
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This one is very easy:
http://www.nusphere.com/products/mysqladv.htm
It's been very well rated by InfoWorld, ComputerWorld... yes, Windows-type magazines.
Of course, it comes at a price (small price, $299)... but how much do you pay for Access and the other tools?
I say it is a winner for Small Office development, that is, "Access-land".
Enjoy!
Re:About time they invented a new kind of war!
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I say use Quake Arena. It is multiplatform (runs on Linux) and you can setup a server on a non-alligned country (Switzerland?).
Get some bots around (i.e.: innocent civilians), some secret doors (secret founding) and broadcast using RealVideo (again, multi-platform).
It can be something like "PS-Doom". http://psdoom.sourceforge.net/ , a Doom for World Leaders.
Jihad means Struggle (more or less). And there are several possible Jihads.
Jihad of the mind. When You have a confussed mind
Jihad of the soul. When you are facing a religious struggle, with all the questions about religion, meaning of life...
Jihad of the Sword. When you have to "get your sword" and defend yourself (you, your family...). It does not mean Holy War.
I don't remember know what is the forth "jihad". But sure it was not a "let's kill all non-muslims!" thing.
Also, I would like to note that in the Muslim religion, there are different non-believers: The people from the Book and the rest. The People from the Book are all the Christians, Catholics, Jewish... that share fundamental pieces of Holy Writtings (Bible, Torah,...). And the Al-Coran explicitely says that they are "brothers" and should not be harmed.
And this is all what I remember form my talks with Medieval Historians, so long ago...
Yes, insert in the search box the library name that gets "barfed out" as you say. And then you get the list of packages that contain that library.
The very good thing: you get the results in RPM packages!!! And also you get the distribution that ships them. So finding RPM libraries for your distro never was that easy.
Actualy, they bombard with energized particles. No radioactive material. Lifespan, less than a second. The only problem: heat. Like when Ogg discovered fire. Not bad, hu?
I have lived in Barcelona (Europe) for about 10 years.
There, surface public transportation (bus, taxi) was changing from diesel to propane. I came across some news (on paper): now the ratio is 50% of vehicles run on propane. And all the new buses must be propane-powered. Cheaper and cleaner. This is why some of the Taixs have little trunk-space and they smell "funny" in the outside (like your kitchen.)
Underground transportation and train run on electricity. Either water-generated (water-jumps) or nuclear-generated.
Also, new public buildings (like libraries and museums) being built, must have some sun-poweerd cells. The result: they give energy back to the power grid during the day, more than the one needed during the night.
Insulation is big. It's astounding how much energy is wasted in the US of A! All those suppa-duppa AC units that are set on 'Highest' because it's easier than insulate your doors, windows and walls. And driers being used with only a pair of socks!
100% of buildings are brick-and-mortar. Wood-construction is very uneficient to insulate the inside of a house.
Public transportation available lata at night/early in the morning + tough DUI checkpoints in the city. So it makes so much sense to leave the car home and take the subway/bus/taxi! Last trains running at 3:00 AM and first trains at 5:30 AM, are all packed with young people. Also, the central Taxi station is at the heart of the city, making it easy to get there. Same for night busses.
For $15/month you can use all the busses and subways that you want. It's called the "month-pass". Cheap, convenient...
Driving age: 18 years-old + expensive driving classes + expensive tests + gas running at $5 per gallon + little parking + you can go shopping walking.
Anyway, this means that "cool people" from"cool & modern cities" can use public transportation. And it's cheap and convenient.
Actualy, it is like a Cancer. Or even more, MS Office is a Pac-Man like application. So useless, so dumb...
And, oh! yes!, it's unamerican and endangeres business around the world, by threatening their intellectual property by forcing yo to accept silly virus-like licenses.
Actualy, my box, when it had a Windows98SE partition, was rendered useless almost everytime that I did WindowsUpdate. Thanks God that my MoBo came with Norton Ghost, so I was ready to go back live in minutes. My system is pretty plain, no flashy stuff, no "wonderboards" nor "wizbang SCSI" cards. Not even USB stuff! And the software was original.
So I got tired of this non-sense. I deleted the partition and went happy thereafter with only Mandrake on my box.
I just blame myself for buying expensive software that just plain didn't work stable as a rock. Linux is stable. Now, I'm happy:)
Maybe you have something not ok? My updates go ok.
Now it's like a "tradition": log-in, su, MandrakeUpdate, select updates, install, check the mail, go read/. , start Quanta+ to do web development, start xmms to listen to my music...
No problems here. What are your problems? Can I help you? I'll be pleased to do so. Contact me if you wish through email.
You can use a front-end to urpmi called MandrakeUpdate.
Just select the "sources" as the http or ftp or CD-ROM or directory where your RPM packages are located. MandarkeUpdate / urpmi will check dependencies, locate needed rpm packages needed to fulfill dependencies and then it will ask you that you need those packages. If you agree, it will install them all.
Have you ever had an RPM say that it couldn't be installed because it depends on lib****.so.4? I have, and I've even had that file in the correct directory. Compare that to dpkg, which tells you which package you need to install in order to fulfil the dependency.
It looks like you have never seen MandrakeUpdate (the GUI front-end to urpmi). Yes, it checks which other rpm packages you need in order to get your selected packages installed right.
MandrakeUpdate tells you which package you need to install in order to fulfil the dependency. And, if you agree, it auto select and install those dependent packages.
Slashdot Mirror
Yup.
And 8000 representatives will be much harder to grease...err...to buy...err... to fund their foundations.
Even Microsoft will have a problem there!
:)
..and Sen. Helms will **not** be running for re-election next year.
Hi,
:)
In our local LUG, we have been discussing similar topics. We are fortunate to hava some luggers with political experience and they provided to us good guidelines.
Inorder to get the attention of your representatives (yes, this means the ones from your State. Comitee members form other states are much less influentiable), do the following:
-Use snail-mail only.
It is the only really taken seriously. Think, how many people could send an e-mail? How many people would bother to use USPS (snail-mail)?
-Use very polite tone and writting style.
Politics is a bit different from slashdot
-Be clear, go to the point.
Try writting first some drafts and show it to some people. Maybe you are not clear enough. How many pliticians have been through MIT? Most of them are lawyers with no ide on technology (just chek yesterday's CSPAN-s vote, when that guy form Indiana (?) got all his speech against "hackers that come through the electric grids and put in danger the watter damms....". No, it is not a joke. Is real.
-Inform your representative that you are a professional that follows politics that affect your field of work. Sign with something like "John SixPak, Software Engineer, Your City, CA90210"
-State clearly that you vote, that you vote regularly and this matter will affect your vote casting in the next election.
Be very clear and explicit about it. After all, voting is the way to tell politicians if we agree with them or not.
-If you want to be taken extra-seriously, use FedEx or UPS to deliver your letter.
-Last, but not least, urge your friends and colleagues to do the same. This is called "lobbying". And this is what politicians understand. Maybe they pay attention to big-money donnors. But, afterall, if they do not get re-electedby you and your friends, they won't get any money form Washington, DC.
Enjoy
Hey! Wait a minute!
.... are the own propierty of a Big Nasty Corporation that goes for RIAA, DMCA and PYOAH (Put Your Own Acronym Here)!
IANAL but...
Bert images are copyrighted. Bert images cannot be used without express authorisation (and royalties money exchanging hands) of Bert's creator and/or his descendants.
Bert images, including all pictures, sounds, AquaBert Themes, KBert applications
So, now Bin Ladin is in deep trouble!
According to tomorrow's edition of The Walled Street Joornal , Bin Ladin has been sued:
"...Our Big & Mean Entertainment Corporation(TM) Cannot and Will Not Rest(TM) until the defendant, alledgedly Bin Laden, gets dragged into Court to defend himself for alledged copyright violation of the DMCA law. "
"(...) I don't know what those terrorists were thinking, an unknown VP commented. We offer [terrorism] prime time coverage of their activities [see 20010911 news] for a fee, as stated in the Chapter 17, Title 4, Point 3B of the DMCA) and what do we get in return? Copyright Infringement! Make No Mistake, He Will Be Sued. And the same holds true for his associates, The Taliban Trust For International Terrorism and Women Repression Inc. "
"(...) They [Bin Laden and the Talibans] will all pay *Huge* fines thay lay in the billions and billions (Carl Sagan's trademarked voice goes here) of Good Old American Dolars..."
Talibans, be warned!
If you thought that the US Air Force & Cruise Missile Delivery Co. was a bunch of bad ' n ' nasty guys, well, now you are beign confronted by the Entertainment Industry!
Oh boy!
/home partition was all clingy. Some mail files went through lotsa clings and clangs. Unable to be recovered whatsoever.
Mine was working great... but it died. It is on a home computer. Linux only. Good ventilation, usual stuff. No silly overcloking nor anything wierd. Plain desktop system. I even have a fan blowing air under the HDD!
After about 6 months of home use, I had trouble with my e-mail (using Kmail). Configuration got screwed up? I checked configuration, created new user, copyed config files in new user... and it didn't work.
Bug in old KDE 2.0? I tried upgrading to KDE 2.2.1. No success. I tried uninstalling and installing back the whole KDE 2.2.1 thing. No success. Still problems. Bad ones.
Software problem? The software was OK. I tried with other users. So next I checked the partition.
Oh Boy! CLinks! Clanks! It was an ReiserFS (I like to play safe). And some nasty errors showed up on the mail files.
I managed to save most of my email, copying the files to another partition. The
So I got myself an old drive and, while trying to install a linux on that 2nd drive, inorder to burn a CD from a reliable system, I made a mistake. With all the panic and pressure, I obliterated my partition table on the IBM 60 GB Desktar IDE-100 HDD instead of backing up the partition table.
OH boy!
It has been more than a month. I am still trying to recover that partition table. parted / gparted are no good: they have issues with ReiserFS and extended aprtitions (my data is on a ReiserFS extended partition).
I am very sad. I actualy bought that disk because it was an expensive IBM disk, because I wanted my data safe.
Of course the place where I bought it have ofered to replace it. But recovering the data costs many $$$ that I do not have, specially after getting layed off by a big blue company.
Oh boy! I'm pissed!
Hi,
Why would an opensource project start distributing its product with copy-protected CDs?
As a proof of concept? But it is silly...
I guess I would stay with my old rsync or direct CVS...
Wait a minute! Is this a software thing? or something else?
Regards
> What's the Linux replacement for PowerPoint?
Kpresenter?
StarOffice?
WebBrowser + HTML presentation?
I have used all of them. They all work great.
Are you aware of Bastille-Tk ? A GUI front-end for your favourite firewall, Bastille.
Do you know the GUI front-end for nmap?
Do you know etherape? It's GUI
Do you know the MandrakeSecurity tab on Mandrake Control Center? Clik, click, click = your system is secure.
Do you know about WebMin? Run nmap and whatever you want through https. Yes, this means your Browser. That's a GUI, isn't it?
Enjoy!
I recall reading that he points out "... costs of shipping CDs to Thaland..." (sorry, right now, the web is Slashdoted).
So he is talking about a Thai experience. Sure that in Thai, $2500 is a lot of money. check the GNP per capita and all that.
:)
Exactly.
I was mostly unpleased of reading this part.
With the easy basic firewall setting ("select Medium during install" I say it is very easy), then add portsentry (the default install is pretty good, at least with Mandrake rpm).
Then, use TinyFirewall or BastilleFirewall, with its Tk GUI. And be up to date with security fixes.
Then you have a very strong system. In an easy, GUI, no-brainer way.
Enjoy!
This one is very easy:
http://www.nusphere.com/products/mysqladv.htm
It's been very well rated by InfoWorld, ComputerWorld... yes, Windows-type magazines.
Of course, it comes at a price (small price, $299)... but how much do you pay for Access and the other tools?
I say it is a winner for Small Office development, that is, "Access-land".
Enjoy!
I say use Quake Arena. It is multiplatform (runs on Linux) and you can setup a server on a non-alligned country (Switzerland?).
Get some bots around (i.e.: innocent civilians), some secret doors (secret founding) and broadcast using RealVideo (again, multi-platform).
It can be something like "PS-Doom". http://psdoom.sourceforge.net/ , a Doom for World Leaders.
Yes.
Jihad means Struggle (more or less). And there are several possible Jihads.
Jihad of the mind. When You have a confussed mind
Jihad of the soul. When you are facing a religious struggle, with all the questions about religion, meaning of life...
Jihad of the Sword. When you have to "get your sword" and defend yourself (you, your family...). It does not mean Holy War.
I don't remember know what is the forth "jihad". But sure it was not a "let's kill all non-muslims!" thing.
Also, I would like to note that in the Muslim religion, there are different non-believers: The people from the Book and the rest. The People from the Book are all the Christians, Catholics, Jewish... that share fundamental pieces of Holy Writtings (Bible, Torah, ...). And the Al-Coran explicitely says that they are "brothers" and should not be harmed.
And this is all what I remember form my talks with Medieval Historians, so long ago...
Regards, with sadness
Hi,
:)
Instead of google, I use rpmfind.net.
Yes, insert in the search box the library name that gets "barfed out" as you say. And then you get the list of packages that contain that library.
The very good thing: you get the results in RPM packages!!! And also you get the distribution that ships them. So finding RPM libraries for your distro never was that easy.
Try it. It's great
Cold war didn't kill many people.
Tell that to the families of the Chinese's and Soviets' 1.5 million soldiers or so that died in the Cold War in "frontier incidents".
Not funny.
The previous poster is talking in Kelvin degrees. Kelvin is the way of calculating temperatures in Termodynamics and about everything else.
The Kelvin zero is -273 Celsius IIRC (yes, minus 273 Celsius). This is what is called "absolute zero".
Celsius zero is +273 Kelvin. And, then, to get your Farenheit, you do Farenheit=32+(Celsius/5)*9 , so its roughly Farenheit = 32 + (Celsius/2).
Now, 26.7 Kelvin is roughly a 1/10 of 273 Kelvin.
Here's your 10-factor!.
Enjoy.
Actualy, they bombard with energized particles. No radioactive material. Lifespan, less than a second. The only problem: heat. Like when Ogg discovered fire. Not bad, hu?
Some notes:
I have lived in Barcelona (Europe) for about 10 years.
There, surface public transportation (bus, taxi) was changing from diesel to propane. I came across some news (on paper): now the ratio is 50% of vehicles run on propane. And all the new buses must be propane-powered. Cheaper and cleaner. This is why some of the Taixs have little trunk-space and they smell "funny" in the outside (like your kitchen.)
Underground transportation and train run on electricity. Either water-generated (water-jumps) or nuclear-generated.
Also, new public buildings (like libraries and museums) being built, must have some sun-poweerd cells. The result: they give energy back to the power grid during the day, more than the one needed during the night.
Insulation is big. It's astounding how much energy is wasted in the US of A! All those suppa-duppa AC units that are set on 'Highest' because it's easier than insulate your doors, windows and walls. And driers being used with only a pair of socks!
100% of buildings are brick-and-mortar. Wood-construction is very uneficient to insulate the inside of a house.
Public transportation available lata at night/early in the morning + tough DUI checkpoints in the city. So it makes so much sense to leave the car home and take the subway/bus/taxi! Last trains running at 3:00 AM and first trains at 5:30 AM, are all packed with young people. Also, the central Taxi station is at the heart of the city, making it easy to get there. Same for night busses.
For $15/month you can use all the busses and subways that you want. It's called the "month-pass". Cheap, convenient...
Driving age: 18 years-old + expensive driving classes + expensive tests + gas running at $5 per gallon + little parking + you can go shopping walking.
Anyway, this means that "cool people" from"cool & modern cities" can use public transportation. And it's cheap and convenient.
Actualy, it is like a Cancer. Or even more, MS Office is a Pac-Man like application. So useless, so dumb...
And, oh! yes!, it's unamerican and endangeres business around the world, by threatening their intellectual property by forcing yo to accept silly virus-like licenses.
What? that all this is not about MS Office? Mmm
Consider using WINE . Nowadays, WINE really works for many applications.
Try the CodeWeavers release. CodeWeavers release packages WINE in a GUI installer-config application. It's easy to set up right first time.
Please, give it a try with that software. You will be nicely surprised.
I was.
Celebrating the release of version 1.0 this last July, 4th. let me impersonate a car-dealer:
Do you want a computer-lab in your school?
Do you need 100% uptime?
Do you want to have a maintenance-free environment?
Do you want to teach, not re-install Windows?
... but you do not want to spend $20,000 and need crash-less computers?
Well, we have a solution. The K-12LTSP v.1.0 project
For about $6,000 (less if you already have "old" computers), you can set-up a lab with e-mail, browsers, office suites, image programs...
On Linux, of course.
Newsforge article
K12LTSP home page
Work with Legacy equipment
... and a " girl magnet " as stated on their site:
Salut and education,
Actualy, my box, when it had a Windows98SE partition, was rendered useless almost everytime that I did WindowsUpdate. Thanks God that my MoBo came with Norton Ghost, so I was ready to go back live in minutes. My system is pretty plain, no flashy stuff, no "wonderboards" nor "wizbang SCSI" cards. Not even USB stuff! And the software was original.
So I got tired of this non-sense. I deleted the partition and went happy thereafter with only Mandrake on my box.
I just blame myself for buying expensive software that just plain didn't work stable as a rock. Linux is stable. Now, I'm happy :)
Now it's like a "tradition": log-in, su, MandrakeUpdate, select updates, install, check the mail, go read /. , start Quanta+ to do web development, start xmms to listen to my music...
No problems here. What are your problems? Can I help you? I'll be pleased to do so. Contact me if you wish through email.
Regards
You can use a front-end to urpmi called MandrakeUpdate.
Just select the "sources" as the http or ftp or CD-ROM or directory where your RPM packages are located. MandarkeUpdate / urpmi will check dependencies, locate needed rpm packages needed to fulfill dependencies and then it will ask you that you need those packages. If you agree, it will install them all.
Nifty, uh? I just love t :)
Have you ever had an RPM say that it couldn't be installed because it depends on lib****.so.4? I have, and I've even had that file in the correct directory. Compare that to dpkg, which tells you which package you need to install in order to fulfil the dependency.
It looks like you have never seen MandrakeUpdate (the GUI front-end to urpmi). Yes, it checks which other rpm packages you need in order to get your selected packages installed right.
MandrakeUpdate tells you which package you need to install in order to fulfil the dependency. And, if you agree, it auto select and install those dependent packages.
Isn't that great or what? :)