Yes, it probably could have been, with enough wisdom and foresight, and some luck. Our governments have had plenty of the third, and not much of the first two. This was at least as true one hundred years ago.
At the end of the nineteenth century, the responsible, right-thinking enviornmentalists were draining swamps to stop the spread of disease; Now, we're trying to restore wetlands.
What should we be planning for now? Planners are often wrong, rarely uncertain
I'm no debian expert; Mandrake is my primary system, and my favorite; I have one partition devoted to a Knoppix hard-disk install. That was pretty easy, and hardware detection worked perfectly. That might be a good way to start, then you could copy over the XF86config to real debian. I've also heard great things about Mepis install and support, but I haven't used it myself.
Debian based distros seem to be generating a lot of buzz just now. Reviews of Lindows, Lycoris, Mepis, and all the Knoppix-varients seem like they`re everywhere.
Part of this I attribute to Redhat`s less-than graceful move away from the desktop (I know that`s an oversimplication...). Fedora is there, but I think Redhat made it too obvious that users would be leaving Redhat and moving to something else. People thought, "Well, if I`m leaving Redhat anyway, maybe this is a good time to try something else." The biggest "something else" to Redhat is Debian.
Another cause might be the brilliant success of Knoppix. It`s easy to try, and easy to like. Of course, it runs a little slowly from the CD, but a hard-drive install is easy. And what do you do after you install? Atpget update.
Of course, the commercial distros are actively working to get people to use and buy their product, but I`m not sure how much that really has to do with it. Right now these companies are benefiting from the Debian buzz, and they will contunue to benefit until they do something to antagonize their customers.
...something monumental must be going on in the world of computing for these technology titans simultaneously to discover something that is so profound and yet so hard to name.
Monumental indeed! We may be witnessing the birth of a new marketing strategy.
I've wondered this myself. Maybe what's needed with these live distros is some kind of re-mastering utility. I guess this would have to be in conjunction with a HD install. Mepis is one to watch. It seems to make HD install very easy, and could handle updates there, but of course sacrificing portability.
Another possibility is frequent update CD's for a fee, maybe with club membership or something
Mandrake may have the desktop experience to do this well, but the field is very competitive. With all the variants of knoppix out there, they need to stand out from a big crowd. Selling it with a USB key might help to differentiate it from the others, and of course there's urpmi.
ya see, this is why us hackers (in the original "total freedom of information" sense) taking the long view are so totally opposed to intellectual "property".
When the computer is so tightly integrated with your mind that it's effectively become a part of you, intellectual "property" law enforcement amounts to thought crime enforcement. And DRM is mind control. Just plain evil.
The right to know should be a basic human right. The right to say should be a basic human right. And if human is expanded to man-machine, that should apply to our computers too.
So, WAKE UP. Fight for your right to know. Do NOT hand people power to "own" YOUR copy of some information just because it's like THEIR copy. THEIR copy is NOT DIMINISHED by your having a copy.
It's NOT WRONG to copy information, any information. Let no person, natural or legal, tell you it is.
LQ) If you couldn't use Mandrake what Linux distribution would you use?
GD) This is the most difficult question I ever had to answer in an interview!:-) That's a frightening question actually because I can't see any alternative that could fit my requirements: friendly, full-featured, powerful, stable, fully open-sourced...
So, if there were no Mandrake it would be neccessary to create one!
I just did a quick search for Lewis Hyde; looks like an interseting guy. Some similiar things have been in my mind lately, about having stuff around that I don't need. I should really give some things away, so they can be where they're used and useful. I think Dante put the hoarders and wasters together in the same circle of hell.
I think there's a reference to old 'gifts' called mathoms(?). Whoever had one would give it to the next person who was due a gift, and so on.
Traditional buisness practice
on
Stealth Inflation
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· Score: 2, Insightful
Many companies have a policy of "settle on audit". They adjust their business practices so that any errors will be in their favor; then if they're caught they apologize and settle. This is similar to an earlier policy called "Devil take the hindmost".
Here's an important point. At the end of the email, Werner Koch writes:
Thanks
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Phong Nguyen [4] analyzed the implementation of GnuPG's cryptographic
parts and found this vulnerability. He also developed actual code to
mount the attack and was so kind to give me enough time to have a look
at his paper and to gather a list of known type 20 keys owners.
I am really sorry for this,
Werner
Open source isn't bug-free, but we thank the guy who finds the problem, take responsibility, and fix it.
"Another explanation is more likely. And, yes, a quick search turns up a May 2003 article from Slate that debunks this rumor. It turns out that Time Inc. only had permission from the publisher to post the content for a limited time."
just cut down. Drink one bottle of really good beer, two days a week. Sierra Nevada Stout is my current favorite. Have one every Tuesday and Thursday night; It'll give you something to look forward to, and your life will be more than a dreary wasteland of carrot sticks and mineral water.
I've played this off and on since 1979, and I still haven't finished it. I finally got by the snake in about 1986; And I'm not going to read any more of this thread, just in case!
Slashdot Mirror
But the larger question is, what is this society coming to?
The Transparent Society
I'm not thrilled about this, but if it has to exist, I'd rather we all have access to the information than just a select few.
But it could have been a lot better managed...
Yes, it probably could have been, with enough wisdom and foresight, and some luck. Our governments have had plenty of the third, and not much of the first two. This was at least as true one hundred years ago.
At the end of the nineteenth century, the responsible, right-thinking enviornmentalists were draining swamps to stop the spread of disease; Now, we're trying to restore wetlands.
What should we be planning for now? Planners are often wrong, rarely uncertain
Is another that's been around for a while, but I've never used it myself.
It's here.
I'm no debian expert; Mandrake is my primary system, and my favorite; I have one partition devoted to a Knoppix hard-disk install. That was pretty easy, and hardware detection worked perfectly. That might be a good way to start, then you could copy over the XF86config to real debian. I've also heard great things about Mepis install and support, but I haven't used it myself.
Debian based distros seem to be generating a lot of buzz just now. Reviews of Lindows, Lycoris, Mepis, and all the Knoppix-varients seem like they`re everywhere.
Part of this I attribute to Redhat`s less-than graceful move away from the desktop (I know that`s an oversimplication...). Fedora is there, but I think Redhat made it too obvious that users would be leaving Redhat and moving to something else. People thought, "Well, if I`m leaving Redhat anyway, maybe this is a good time to try something else." The biggest "something else" to Redhat is Debian.
Another cause might be the brilliant success of Knoppix. It`s easy to try, and easy to like. Of course, it runs a little slowly from the CD, but a hard-drive install is easy. And what do you do after you install? Atpget update.
Of course, the commercial distros are actively working to get people to use and buy their product, but I`m not sure how much that really has to do with it. Right now these companies are benefiting from the Debian buzz, and they will contunue to benefit until they do something to antagonize their customers.
"The graveyards are full of indispensable men."
But it is kind of rough...
Story on BBC.
I think this guy's resignation shows some of the integrity that's lately been questioned.
Monumental indeed! We may be witnessing the birth of a new marketing strategy.
I've wondered this myself. Maybe what's needed with these live distros is some kind of re-mastering utility. I guess this would have to be in conjunction with a HD install. Mepis is one to watch. It seems to make HD install very easy, and could handle updates there, but of course sacrificing portability.
Another possibility is frequent update CD's for a fee, maybe with club membership or something
Mandrake may have the desktop experience to do this well, but the field is very competitive. With all the variants of knoppix out there, they need to stand out from a big crowd. Selling it with a USB key might help to differentiate it from the others, and of course there's urpmi.
I didn't post the first one. I just copied it, trying for subtle irony. Maybe too clever by half?
ya see, this is why us hackers (in the original "total freedom of information" sense) taking the long view are so totally opposed to intellectual "property".
When the computer is so tightly integrated with your mind that it's effectively become a part of you, intellectual "property" law enforcement amounts to thought crime enforcement. And DRM is mind control. Just plain evil.
The right to know should be a basic human right. The right to say should be a basic human right. And if human is expanded to man-machine, that should apply to our computers too.
So, WAKE UP. Fight for your right to know. Do NOT hand people power to "own" YOUR copy of some information just because it's like THEIR copy. THEIR copy is NOT DIMINISHED by your having a copy.
It's NOT WRONG to copy information, any information. Let no person, natural or legal, tell you it is.
LQ) If you couldn't use Mandrake what Linux distribution would you use?
GD) This is the most difficult question I ever had to answer in an interview! :-) That's a frightening question actually because I can't see any alternative that could fit my requirements: friendly, full-featured, powerful, stable, fully open-sourced...
So, if there were no Mandrake it would be neccessary to create one!
I just did a quick search for Lewis Hyde; looks like an interseting guy. Some similiar things have been in my mind lately, about having stuff around that I don't need. I should really give some things away, so they can be where they're used and useful. I think Dante put the hoarders and wasters together in the same circle of hell.
Yes, thanks, that's what I was thinking of. I grant your superior knowledge. The ladies will be impressed; you just have to find the right lady!
I think there's a reference to old 'gifts' called mathoms(?). Whoever had one would give it to the next person who was due a gift, and so on.
Many companies have a policy of "settle on audit". They adjust their business practices so that any errors will be in their favor; then if they're caught they apologize and settle. This is similar to an earlier policy called "Devil take the hindmost".
"Another explanation is more likely. And, yes, a quick search turns up a May 2003 article from Slate that debunks this rumor. It turns out that Time Inc. only had permission from the publisher to post the content for a limited time."
Well, that's all right then...
I just checked diebold at mailinator.com, on the off chance that someone might have sent the memos there. No Messages.
just cut down. Drink one bottle of really good beer, two days a week. Sierra Nevada Stout is my current favorite. Have one every Tuesday and Thursday night; It'll give you something to look forward to, and your life will be more than a dreary wasteland of carrot sticks and mineral water.
I've played this off and on since 1979, and I still haven't finished it. I finally got by the snake in about 1986; And I'm not going to read any more of this thread, just in case!
Trying to fairly distribute the money is going to be more trouble than it's worth. Unless it's a lot of money; Then you should grab it and run :)
"What's with the recent rise in all these source based, do it from source distributions?"
Well, it's more fun than looking for work.