"Sendmail is the single most apalling thing about Unix systems. The sooner someone comes up with a modern, easily configurable alternative the better. "
One word: qmail.
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You assume that the experience of these phenomenon is simply impossible. The fact is that many otherwise rational people have experienced both God and the antithesis. Many of them you accept as scientific authority, but not as religious. Why? A few names to drop: Einstein, Decartes, Pascal.
Also, let mo observe that you have probably never tried to duplicate their "religious" experiments. Just because the religious experiment takes most of a lifetime to do doesn't invalidate it.
Objectivity is a myth we aspire to, not a real object, and anyone who's seriously studied science knows it. The lack of objective observability merely makes religion open to question, not false.
As for the AC bit... I speak the truth. Why should I hide? I notice tho, that you seem to feel a need to hide.
"Every thing that is evil fears the light." -- Jesus of Nazareth, 31AD.
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In your statement "Afterall no one has observed a demon since the beginning of time" is an implicit assumption of exactly the kind of demon that I explicitly reject as oversimplified.
As for seeing them... Many historical accounts exist of people seeing things that they took to be demons. Just because you reject the accuracy of these accounts does not privilege you to deny their existence.
"I don't think alarmism and relying on the paranormal is the answer either."
Reality check... You are using the worxd paranormal as thought it, in and of itself, proves something.
As soon as you can explain human thought in purely rationalist (!=rational) terms, I will concede that this topic is paranormal. However, I regard the prescense of non-physical influences on human thought as no less normal than human thought.
If something verifiably exists, the fact that you have not directly observed it does not make it "para-normal".
"Unless there are demons from Hell lurking in American high schools,"
Has it occurred to you, Jon, that there ARE demons from Hell in American high schools? It would sure explain a lot. And I don't think half-baked rationalism can explain what is happening to our society.
Don't be foolish enough to think that the demonic images in "Buffy" are the real thing. The genuinely demonic is far more common and far more pernicious than anything in media. See C.S. Lewis' "Screwtape Letters" for a chilling (and sometimes funny) example of what Demonic activity really looks like.
The "right" way to do this would be to make the gecko widget into a bonobo/baboon control that could be embedded in Gnome apps. I would assume that something similar could be done in the KDE world.
This widget approach is not really directly comparable (as I understand) to the IE CaptiveX control. There is not going to be the kind of insulation between mozilla changes and this widget that a true component environment would provide.
However, this could be a straw man kind of problem -- I haven't read the source.
Basically, right now it's very difficult to filter web content unless you want to pay out the wazoo to companies that provide site lists.
With any luck, the Aussie gov't list will be publically available. So, we would at last have a good, public list of objectionable sites.
Do I believe in censorship? No. But I do wish that there was some easy way to avoid depravity on the net for me and my children and the businesses (and churches) I serve without spending thousands a year on server side proxy software.
Whatever happened to the Opera port that TrollTech was supposed to be doing? I looked at the apropriate web sites a couple of days ago and there has been no update.
Err... Actually, MCC was the first distro. FWIW, the big advantage of SLS when it came out was that it had X-Windows! Forget "advance enterprise support" -- we were just wired that we would get to play xtank at home.
Does this mean that Linuk might be able to run on them?
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This guy is clearly a loon. Most Christians do NOT believe the nonsense he spouts, and I suspect that it is a spoof.
Christianity is about God himself dying on the cross so that we might have divine help to overcome Sin in our lives. That is, first God accepts us as His children, then he makes us more worthy of that acceptance (we're never really Holy enough.)
It is not about proclaiming who is saved and who is not, and it certainly has nothing to do with rating TV shows.
Even moreso, It's not really about avoiding Sin -- although we do try to avoid Sin because we love God and he hates Sin. What this guy seems to believe in is a kind of ritualistic purity and legalism which is more Muslim or Jewish than Christian.
I thank God that I don't have to live under that kind of system. Don't think that's what God is about.
It's a fairly nice set of Foundation Classes modeled on VCL from borland. I like it, but then again I'm a C++ Builder and OWL person, so it is very familiar.
You've got two kids... Who are in what boils down to a gang.
You've got a society with no moral standards -- that has, in essence, told these kids to find themselves as the ultimate morality.
You've got parents who are absent enough not to notice that their kids are making dozens of pipe bombs. ("Wow johnny... We're so glad to see your interest in gardening! Could you put some of that fertilizer on the petunias? And plumbing too!")
You've got a total demise of common courtesy, to the point that these kids are mercilessly harassed without anyone in authority making any attempt to protect them.
Finally, they are presented, daily, in every media, with graphic violence, sexual depravity, and moral degeneracy.
And we blame the Internet? Or guns?
The problem is that:
1) Parents are pursuing self-fulfillment instead of raising their kids. I know it makes people happy to have a job -- great. Have one. But don't neglect your kids. If you can't have self esteem without a job, then don't have kids! 2) Society has trashed all moral standards in favor of a bunch of feel-good psycho-babble. 3) Children are taught that truth is relative. 4) The schools neither teach nor discipline. 5) Moral degeneracy has taken over everything people see and here. We are continually being assaulted with sex and violence -- in the bassest possible form.
Get a clue people. And don't do this to/your/ kids.
This is only the start people -- our schools are going to be war-zones until we turn around. And all the gun control or warning labels in the world won't change that.
Here's the $64K question: could this be easily adapted to be an XWindows alternative for low-end systems? If GTK were ported to it, you could probably get most of the apps you want.
Of course, I know SO little about GEM it's pathetic. Can someone more knowledgable comment?
"While freedom from external authority is important" -- i.e. I never said it wasn't (this pretty mich is the assumption that all the comments on this thread have made). But freedom from external authority without requisite character changes (freedom from our own failures) has, invariably, led to evil.
If you look at all the greatest atrocities in history, they have come when someone, anyone, was freed from accountability for their own actions.
I'm afraid that this is what too many "pseudo-enlightenment" people mean by freedom: a lack of accountability.
Actually, I agree with this mostly. I just think that external freedom without freedom of the mind is of infinitely less value than freedom of the mind (and Spirit) without external freedom.
It all comes down to freedom. This is what men, all men naturally desire.
However, what mankind most needs to be freed from is not outside authority, but the failings of our own character. "For what I do is not the good I want to do; no, the evil I do not want to do--this I keep on doing." (Paul of Tarsus, c. 60AD).
This is still true today. People still do that which they would rather not, then cover it up in an attempt to think themselves free agents. While freedom from external authority is important, it is far less interesting than freedom from the domination of our own failings.
As long as we continue to look to politics (or anything external) for our freedom, we are wasting our time. If my mind and heart are free, then I will be free, even in chains.
This orticle is really lame. Basically, I would interpret it as FUD from Redmond trying to make people think that Linux is more fragmented than it actually is.
Why doesn't Informix run well in Caldera? Because Caldera is running totally out of date, bug-ridden libraries.
Also, as I recall (and I am an informix DBA), Informix wouldn't run on Redhat 5 at first because it didn't support glibc.
Yeah... but it does kind of "taste" like VMS. To this day, I do not understand why MS didn't go with a UNIX kernel.
Of course, it seems to me that most of NT's problems are tied up in Win32 -- NOT the kernel (as is often erroneously assumed). The only problem with the NT kernel is that it simply does not tolerate ony hardware faults.
Imagine what linux would be like if X were grossly unstable (depending on the video card, it can be) and it were the only environment that users were allowed to see.
What it means is that NASA is actually breaking away from the mystique of custom, over-priced solutions. Which greatly increasess our chances of living on the moon in our old age.
Does Windows suck -- YES. Does it matter? I mean, we're talking about email here. With any luck, we'll have another USS Yorktown style incident.:)
I have to admit though that the 10Base-2 is a bit harder to swallow.
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You assume that the experience of these phenomenon is simply impossible. The fact is that many otherwise rational people have experienced both God and the antithesis. Many of them you accept as scientific authority, but not as religious. Why? A few names to drop: Einstein, Decartes, Pascal.
Also, let mo observe that you have probably never tried to duplicate their "religious" experiments. Just because the religious experiment takes most of a lifetime to do doesn't invalidate it.
Objectivity is a myth we aspire to, not a real object, and anyone who's seriously studied science knows it. The lack of objective observability merely makes religion open to question, not false.
As for the AC bit... I speak the truth. Why should I hide? I notice tho, that you seem to feel a need to hide.
"Every thing that is evil fears the light." -- Jesus of Nazareth, 31AD.
In your statement "Afterall no one has observed a demon since the beginning of time" is an implicit assumption of exactly the kind of demon that I explicitly reject as oversimplified.
As for seeing them... Many historical accounts exist of people seeing things that they took to be demons. Just because you reject the accuracy of these accounts does not privilege you to deny their existence.
"I don't think alarmism and relying on the paranormal is the answer either."
Reality check... You are using the worxd paranormal as thought it, in and of itself, proves something.
As soon as you can explain human thought in purely rationalist (!=rational) terms, I will concede that this topic is paranormal. However, I regard the prescense of non-physical influences on human thought as no less normal than human thought.
If something verifiably exists, the fact that you have not directly observed it does not make it "para-normal".
"Unless there are demons from Hell lurking in American high schools,"
Has it occurred to you, Jon, that there ARE demons from Hell in American high schools? It would sure explain a lot. And I don't think half-baked rationalism can explain what is happening to our society.
Don't be foolish enough to think that the demonic images in "Buffy" are the real thing. The genuinely demonic is far more common and far more pernicious than anything in media. See C.S. Lewis' "Screwtape Letters" for a chilling (and sometimes funny) example of what Demonic activity really looks like.
The "right" way to do this would be to make the gecko widget into a bonobo/baboon control that could be embedded in Gnome apps. I would assume that something similar could be done in the KDE world.
This widget approach is not really directly comparable (as I understand) to the IE CaptiveX control. There is not going to be the kind of insulation between mozilla changes and this widget that a true component environment would provide.
However, this could be a straw man kind of problem -- I haven't read the source.
Very cool regardless!
I could see this being a good thing.
Basically, right now it's very difficult to filter web content unless you want to pay out the wazoo to companies that provide site lists.
With any luck, the Aussie gov't list will be publically available. So, we would at last have a good, public list of objectionable sites.
Do I believe in censorship? No. But I do wish that there was some easy way to avoid depravity on the net for me and my children and the businesses (and churches) I serve without spending thousands a year on server side proxy software.
Has anyone actually tried this distro? They claim to have sold a Million (!!!) copies last year, which IIRC is more than RedHat.
Whatever happened to the Opera port that TrollTech was supposed to be doing? I looked at the apropriate web sites a couple of days ago and there has been no update.
Please please please somebody moderate this idiot into oblivion. Take me with him!
Err... Actually, MCC was the first distro. FWIW, the big advantage of SLS when it came out was that it had X-Windows! Forget "advance enterprise support" -- we were just wired that we would get to play xtank at home.
Does this mean that Linuk might be able to run on them?
This guy is clearly a loon. Most Christians do NOT believe the nonsense he spouts, and I suspect that it is a spoof.
Christianity is about God himself dying on the cross so that we might have divine help to overcome Sin in our lives. That is, first God accepts us as His children, then he makes us more worthy of that acceptance (we're never really Holy enough.)
It is not about proclaiming who is saved and who is not, and it certainly has nothing to do with rating TV shows.
Even moreso, It's not really about avoiding Sin -- although we do try to avoid Sin because we love God and he hates Sin. What this guy seems to believe in is a kind of ritualistic purity and legalism which is more Muslim or Jewish than Christian.
I thank God that I don't have to live under that kind of system. Don't think that's what God is about.
http://www.guest.net/homepages/mmotta/VDKHome
It's a fairly nice set of Foundation Classes modeled on VCL from borland. I like it, but then again I'm a C++ Builder and OWL person, so it is very familiar.
You've got two kids... Who are in what boils down to a gang.
/your/ kids.
You've got a society with no moral standards -- that has, in essence, told these kids to find themselves as the ultimate morality.
You've got parents who are absent enough not to notice that their kids are making dozens of pipe bombs. ("Wow johnny... We're so glad to see your interest in gardening! Could you put some of that fertilizer on the petunias? And plumbing too!")
You've got a total demise of common courtesy, to the point that these kids are mercilessly harassed without anyone in authority making any attempt to protect them.
Finally, they are presented, daily, in every media, with graphic violence, sexual depravity, and moral degeneracy.
And we blame the Internet? Or guns?
The problem is that:
1) Parents are pursuing self-fulfillment instead of raising their kids. I know it makes people happy to have a job -- great. Have one. But don't neglect your kids. If you can't have self esteem without a job, then don't have kids!
2) Society has trashed all moral standards in favor of a bunch of feel-good psycho-babble.
3) Children are taught that truth is relative.
4) The schools neither teach nor discipline.
5) Moral degeneracy has taken over everything people see and here. We are continually being assaulted with sex and violence -- in the bassest possible form.
Get a clue people. And don't do this to
This is only the start people -- our schools are going to be war-zones until we turn around. And all the gun control or warning labels in the world won't change that.
Here's the $64K question: could this be easily adapted to be an XWindows alternative for low-end systems? If GTK were ported to it, you could probably get most of the apps you want.
Of course, I know SO little about GEM it's pathetic. Can someone more knowledgable comment?
"While freedom from external authority is important" -- i.e. I never said it wasn't (this pretty mich is the assumption that all the comments on this thread have made). But freedom from external authority without requisite character changes (freedom from our own failures) has, invariably, led to evil.
If you look at all the greatest atrocities in history, they have come when someone, anyone, was freed from accountability for their own actions.
I'm afraid that this is what too many "pseudo-enlightenment" people mean by freedom: a lack of accountability.
Actually, I agree with this mostly. I just think that external freedom without freedom of the mind is of infinitely less value than freedom of the mind (and Spirit) without external freedom.
It all comes down to freedom. This is what men, all men naturally desire.
However, what mankind most needs to be freed from is not outside authority, but the failings of our own character. "For what I do is not the good I want to do; no, the evil I do not want to do--this I keep on doing." (Paul of Tarsus, c. 60AD).
This is still true today. People still do that which they would rather not, then cover it up in an attempt to think themselves free agents. While freedom from external authority is important, it is far less interesting than freedom from the domination of our own failings.
As long as we continue to look to politics (or anything external) for our freedom, we are wasting our time. If my mind and heart are free, then I will be free, even in chains.
This orticle is really lame. Basically, I would interpret it as FUD from Redmond trying to make people think that Linux is more fragmented than it actually is.
Why doesn't Informix run well in Caldera? Because Caldera is running totally out of date, bug-ridden libraries.
Also, as I recall (and I am an informix DBA), Informix wouldn't run on Redhat 5 at first because it didn't support glibc.
Dreck.
Yeah... but it does kind of "taste" like VMS. To this day, I do not understand why MS didn't go with a UNIX kernel.
Of course, it seems to me that most of NT's problems are tied up in Win32 -- NOT the kernel (as is often erroneously assumed). The only problem with the NT kernel is that it simply does not tolerate ony hardware faults.
Imagine what linux would be like if X were grossly unstable (depending on the video card, it can be) and it were the only environment that users were allowed to see.
Guys -- this is actually good news!
:)
What it means is that NASA is actually breaking away from the mystique of custom, over-priced solutions. Which greatly increasess our chances of living on the moon in our old age.
Does Windows suck -- YES. Does it matter? I mean, we're talking about email here. With any luck, we'll have another USS Yorktown style incident.
I have to admit though that the 10Base-2 is a bit harder to swallow.