I would strongly suggest turnkeylinux as a great preconfigured LAMP server that is based upon the current LTS version of ubuntu. it's easy to set up and use, features webmin for general administration which is pretty nice, and it's super easy to roll out... I often use this for virtual machine or vps web hosting accounts due to it's easy setup and preconfigured LAMP environment... there's not a whole lot to go wrong, and it's really easy to use.
this is precicely why i suggested a "safe for work" tag as only businesses and "legitimate informational sites" should use it and anybody who writes a page that could be even misconstrued as nsfw shouldn't tag their page and have it "grayspace"
I agree with it being "a bad idea to officially designate a particular online expression as objection" but i still think that there's room for a tag of some sort... I think the idea is right but the implementation is wrong.
I think it would be more prudent to flag content as safe for work instead of not safe for work. a SFW tag could easily be integrated into ultra-legitimate sites such as news sites, business sites, and most other standard internet sites, thereby allowing browsers to filter all but flagged content in the workplace. I think that this is a better approach because it's mostly the people who WANT to read the safe-for-work content and not the nsfw stuff, therefor, make them change as there's no way (that maintains openness and online freedoms) to make people tag their content any which way to be "compliant" with any modern convention (or any convention at all). doing it that way, also leaves blogs and personal sites in the "gray" unprotected area whereby content is MOSTLY safe for work but the content creators don't want to (and shouldn't have to) limit themselves to purely safe for work content.
I think it's better to have a wider "gray space" of unknown content (and a large number of business and family oriented sites supporting the "i'm safe for work" tag) than force people who MAY have objectionable content to tag their pages as such and become instantly blacklisted by automated software.
I am personally offended by digital rights management software. As a guy who uses multiple operating envirionments (linux, OS X, beos, windows xp, QNX, and a couple of others) I need data compatibility across all of my platforms. digital media has been pretty much standardized by way of open formats and codecs. people with either multiple computers, or multiple operating environments are plagued to use proprietary and mostly inferior operating environments (read windows) in order to play back new media... this is ridiculous! not to mension that the more layers of DRM you apply the more opprotunity that the playback isn't going to work anyway. I should not have to jump through hoops to play "legitimately obtained" media.
now that those socially and legally honnored arguments are out of the way everything comes back to one simples statement that hackers (no, i'm not talking about crackers here, i'm talking about persons who creatively solve technical problems) have always stated. "information is ment to be free". I'm a strong believer in this statement. the nature of information is that it can be stored on any medium. can be broadcast to anyone, and is difficult to control. intelectual property is just plain a bad idea. donationware, shareware, etc. is fine, but users should never be forced to pay for information that can be stored and shared freely at no expense to the content creator. rebroadcasting and redistributing of all media should be perfectly legal under fair use. if you are going to make something public then leave it public, don't make every single user pay for it.
so long as there is DRM, there will be a group of good, dedicated hackers to creatively circumvent these crazy limitations and a band of followers.
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I personally chose a 3ware SATA controler running an 8 drive (7+ hot spare) raid5 array and i haven't regretted it since... I work in a big university bookstore running redhat ES3 (please don't flame, i know it's junk, but it's supported junk and my boss insisted). the raid array was used to increase performance to a moderately acceptable speed in our database i/o... it does it's job very well.
there is no reason why i can't do this with my internal sound... i own a macintosh... powermac/powerbook g4's and above, if they have line in, have 24 bit sampling onboard and sound just as good if not better than a TBSC or audigy2.
with a media converter (which was reccomended) one can use copper gigabit... one plugs one end of the media converter into the fiber, the other into shielded cat5e to a copper gigabit device... it's easy, and for the bandwidth, relitively inexpensive.
wtf, it's not stealing... there is nobody being disadvantaged... media is coppied, not stolen, there is no disadvantaging the end user, if i could go to sears with a little raygun, point it at a product, duplicate it, and take it home, i would... at which point i suspect that there would be little need for currency under those circumstances anyway. now, in this current situation, an artist signs on with a label in a contract, the label publishes the music, the end user pays the record store, the record store pays the label, the label uses that money to sue people, the artist makes barely enough to eat and pay the rent. i'm not seeing how it disadvantages anyone but the record label because by means of darwinian evolution shouldn't exist in the near future anyhow. artists should begin to make deals with record stores and or make their music downloadable on web sites... i would hapily part with my hard earned cash if i knew it were going directly into the hands of the artist that i know and love. i'm all for supporting the artist, but the labels are obsolete.
hey, I signed up for "unlimited" internet... if they dare cut me off for "excessive usage" i'm going to send a bunch of lawyers in a VW bus with LART written on the side to my isp where they will say "NO YUO!" and hopefully get me some money in the process... or at least a bandwidth upgrade
So, you're basically saying that we have no right to express our cultural differences?
this is not what i am trying to say at all. What i'm trying to say is everyone should be free to express their cultural differences withought fear of being pissed upon by other cultures.
Sorry, your optimism sounds like it comes off a cereal box, or that you were spoon fed ideology in 'social studies' class.
Without idealism there is nothing to hope for; without hope there is no future.
So, you're basically saying that we have no right to express our cultural differences?
this is not what i am trying to say at all. What i'm trying to say is everyone should be free to express their cultural differences withought fear of being pissed upon by other cultures.
Sorry, your optimism sounds like it comes off a cereal box, or that you were spoon fed ideology in 'social studies' class.
Without idealism there is nothing to hope for; without hope there is no future.
The internet was designed to be a free comunications medium from the ground up. It was ment to be open. another case: I know many children ~age 10-16 who use the internet constantly for games, school research, comunication, etc. they don't have the money to pay a penny per page. the only way they afford the internet in the first place is on a monthly fee paid to an isp from their parrents (which i personally think is too much).
I personally think that isp's shouldn't charge for internet access. I currently use Juno's free service to connect to the internet and hack my way arround their stupid banner software because it shouldn't be there in the first place. i'm not hurting anyone by doing so and to me, the banner software is unauthorized code to be running on my machine just as a virus or trojan horse.
the internet was made to be free (as in speech) but should also be free (as in beer). - i also believe this should be so for every comunications medium.
we've spent too long waging wars simply trying to manage the resources of our little blue planet. we are not black, white, gay, strait, catholic, protistant, jewish, american, japanese, german, italian, sweedish, polish, chineese, korean, etc. etc. etc. we are humans!!! look at the big picture. we are extreemly insignificant beings in the universe. so please, i emplore you. discontinue violence, oppression, prejudice, greed. the time is right for change.
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I would strongly suggest turnkeylinux as a great preconfigured LAMP server that is based upon the current LTS version of ubuntu. it's easy to set up and use, features webmin for general administration which is pretty nice, and it's super easy to roll out... I often use this for virtual machine or vps web hosting accounts due to it's easy setup and preconfigured LAMP environment... there's not a whole lot to go wrong, and it's really easy to use.
this is precicely why i suggested a "safe for work" tag as only businesses and "legitimate informational sites" should use it and anybody who writes a page that could be even misconstrued as nsfw shouldn't tag their page and have it "grayspace"
I agree with it being "a bad idea to officially designate a particular online expression as objection" but i still think that there's room for a tag of some sort... I think the idea is right but the implementation is wrong. I think it would be more prudent to flag content as safe for work instead of not safe for work. a SFW tag could easily be integrated into ultra-legitimate sites such as news sites, business sites, and most other standard internet sites, thereby allowing browsers to filter all but flagged content in the workplace. I think that this is a better approach because it's mostly the people who WANT to read the safe-for-work content and not the nsfw stuff, therefor, make them change as there's no way (that maintains openness and online freedoms) to make people tag their content any which way to be "compliant" with any modern convention (or any convention at all). doing it that way, also leaves blogs and personal sites in the "gray" unprotected area whereby content is MOSTLY safe for work but the content creators don't want to (and shouldn't have to) limit themselves to purely safe for work content. I think it's better to have a wider "gray space" of unknown content (and a large number of business and family oriented sites supporting the "i'm safe for work" tag) than force people who MAY have objectionable content to tag their pages as such and become instantly blacklisted by automated software.
go go richard stallman! go go richard stallman! go go richard stallman!! YOU MIGHTY MORPHIN' RICHARD STALLMAN!
I am personally offended by digital rights management software. As a guy who uses multiple operating envirionments (linux, OS X, beos, windows xp, QNX, and a couple of others) I need data compatibility across all of my platforms. digital media has been pretty much standardized by way of open formats and codecs. people with either multiple computers, or multiple operating environments are plagued to use proprietary and mostly inferior operating environments (read windows) in order to play back new media... this is ridiculous! not to mension that the more layers of DRM you apply the more opprotunity that the playback isn't going to work anyway. I should not have to jump through hoops to play "legitimately obtained" media. now that those socially and legally honnored arguments are out of the way everything comes back to one simples statement that hackers (no, i'm not talking about crackers here, i'm talking about persons who creatively solve technical problems) have always stated. "information is ment to be free". I'm a strong believer in this statement. the nature of information is that it can be stored on any medium. can be broadcast to anyone, and is difficult to control. intelectual property is just plain a bad idea. donationware, shareware, etc. is fine, but users should never be forced to pay for information that can be stored and shared freely at no expense to the content creator. rebroadcasting and redistributing of all media should be perfectly legal under fair use. if you are going to make something public then leave it public, don't make every single user pay for it. so long as there is DRM, there will be a group of good, dedicated hackers to creatively circumvent these crazy limitations and a band of followers.
I personally chose a 3ware SATA controler running an 8 drive (7+ hot spare) raid5 array and i haven't regretted it since... I work in a big university bookstore running redhat ES3 (please don't flame, i know it's junk, but it's supported junk and my boss insisted). the raid array was used to increase performance to a moderately acceptable speed in our database i/o... it does it's job very well.
there is no reason why i can't do this with my internal sound... i own a macintosh... powermac/powerbook g4's and above, if they have line in, have 24 bit sampling onboard and sound just as good if not better than a TBSC or audigy2.
with a media converter (which was reccomended) one can use copper gigabit... one plugs one end of the media converter into the fiber, the other into shielded cat5e to a copper gigabit device... it's easy, and for the bandwidth, relitively inexpensive.
wtf, it's not stealing... there is nobody being disadvantaged... media is coppied, not stolen, there is no disadvantaging the end user, if i could go to sears with a little raygun, point it at a product, duplicate it, and take it home, i would... at which point i suspect that there would be little need for currency under those circumstances anyway. now, in this current situation, an artist signs on with a label in a contract, the label publishes the music, the end user pays the record store, the record store pays the label, the label uses that money to sue people, the artist makes barely enough to eat and pay the rent. i'm not seeing how it disadvantages anyone but the record label because by means of darwinian evolution shouldn't exist in the near future anyhow. artists should begin to make deals with record stores and or make their music downloadable on web sites... i would hapily part with my hard earned cash if i knew it were going directly into the hands of the artist that i know and love. i'm all for supporting the artist, but the labels are obsolete.
hey, I signed up for "unlimited" internet... if they dare cut me off for "excessive usage" i'm going to send a bunch of lawyers in a VW bus with LART written on the side to my isp where they will say "NO YUO!" and hopefully get me some money in the process... or at least a bandwidth upgrade
so, somebody must be capping these episodes. anybody wanna give me a url/ftp or other point of access to these caps?!? much appreciated
So, you're basically saying that we have no right to express our cultural differences?
this is not what i am trying to say at all. What i'm trying to say is everyone should be free to express their cultural differences withought fear of being pissed upon by other cultures.
Sorry, your optimism sounds like it comes off a cereal box, or that you were spoon fed ideology in 'social studies' class.
Without idealism there is nothing to hope for; without hope there is no future.
The internet was designed to be a free comunications medium from the ground up. It was ment to be open. another case: I know many children ~age 10-16 who use the internet constantly for games, school research, comunication, etc. they don't have the money to pay a penny per page. the only way they afford the internet in the first place is on a monthly fee paid to an isp from their parrents (which i personally think is too much).
I personally think that isp's shouldn't charge for internet access. I currently use Juno's free service to connect to the internet and hack my way arround their stupid banner software because it shouldn't be there in the first place. i'm not hurting anyone by doing so and to me, the banner software is unauthorized code to be running on my machine just as a virus or trojan horse.
the internet was made to be free (as in speech) but should also be free (as in beer). - i also believe this should be so for every comunications medium.
we've spent too long waging wars simply trying to manage the resources of our little blue planet. we are not black, white, gay, strait, catholic, protistant, jewish, american, japanese, german, italian, sweedish, polish, chineese, korean, etc. etc. etc. we are humans!!! look at the big picture. we are extreemly insignificant beings in the universe. so please, i emplore you. discontinue violence, oppression, prejudice, greed. the time is right for change.
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