From what I've been told, udev isn't quite there yet. I got the impression the gentoo team will move in that direction but for now they say to just use devfs under 2.6. Do that and also mkdir/sys and emerge the sysfs tools and you'll get sysfs up and running. Thats about all I did before moving the system to slackware.
Could be a bunch of things actually. You have support for your drive controller compiled in right? And support for the IDE drive? And you are passing the right "root=/dev/hda(blah)"? Mandrake uses devfs if I recall correctly. You'll probably need to have that enabled in 2.6. Maybe they're doing something else.
I run reiser on my laptop and before going XFS, ran it with 2.6 on my Abit KD7 which isn't a far cry from your IC.
Frankly, I wouldn't describe the parent as a seasoned Linux user. I upgraded 4 distros - Slackware, Gentoo, Debian, and a friends Fedora to 2.6 - probably not spending more than 30 minutes on any machine. Most of that was the new config file.
"Less technically inclined" has nothing to do with it. Computer skills are largely a matter of experience. I've used linux as my desktop for roughly 6 years. I can do most day to day system's administration things much faster than other people. Does this mean I'm more skilled? Probably not. I can also do most systems' administration tasks in Windows much faster than other people. Why? Because I've already addressed the issues or fixed the problems before. 2.6 is a new experience for most people and until they gain experience building it, its going to be hard. The same if you've never built a kernel before. So practice. And, uh, keep a boot disk around:).
This really isn't a job either. Its me putzing around until my security clearance goes through. With any luck that'll be done in 2 weeks or so. Oh well.
I think it depends on the version and ours doesn't do that. That little icon comes up by the clock but I just open it and play the non-animated (html) demo and close it and then it leaves me alone. My part time job, we only use OS X so I don't see alot of XP installs anymore.
Umm, you failed civics didn't you?:) If you look at your amendments:
Article XVI.
The Congress shall have power to lay and collect taxes on incomes, from whatever source derived, without apportionment among the several States, and without regard to any census or enumeration.
And that my friends, is why the 16th amendment is the most hated. The standing army thing is probably justified under the elastic clause. You can look that one up:).
Right, I think anna_kornikova.jpg.vbs completely blew your argument out of the water. Average joe, doesn't know the difference and really doesn't care..vbs files,.exe files, and.com files shouldn't be executable as attachments. I believe this is the way it is by default in patched versions of OE and Outlook. As I use Evolution, I wouldn't know.
They arrested him. That's his "person". To get his license they would (presumably) have to search through his wallet. Again thats his person. They can frisk him down for weapons but (IANAL) probably not route through his wallet without probable cause.
Here in PA its the same way (you have to surrender you license if the state says so). But I can't imagine them fining someone for a cluttered one. Generally you have to have the magstripe intact to get into bars so keeping the thing together is in the licensee's interest:).
Responding to my own post but oh well. I read the ACLU amicus brief. Terry v. Ohio states that a police officer must have probable cause to arrest an individual. Terry allows the officer to ask a moderate number of questions in order to satisfy himself BUT, the person being questioned does not have to answer them. The officer cannot arrest the person unless he has probable cause. Nevada law, however, says a person MUST identify themselves (give their name). This goes against Terry's right to refuse to answer questions by the officer.
The question of the case then, I guess, is whether the Nevada law requiring a person to give their name to an officer is Constitutional. I'm hoping they vote no and the ruling overturned.
The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be violated, and no warrants shall issue, but upon probable cause, supported by oath or affirmation, and particularly describing the place to be searched, and the persons or things to be seized.
In the US, people (theoretically) have the right to not have people looking through all of their stuff. The idea being that this would lead to abuses by government officals as per what happened under colonial government. So the question in this case is: was this request "unreasonable"? He needs a legitmate reason for requesting information (which he probably had). It is probably his "investigating an investigation" reason for doing this that caused all of hubub.
You tear things apart at the seems and stitch it into new things. Opensource seems to have always been about that. Projects will fork if there is a major issue that can't be worked around.
And who is tearing who apart?. As the post says derived works can be distributed under the GPL. The next version of the GPL will probably take into account patents and issues between these two licenses can probably be worked out then.
I disagree. I think the only way to change the 2 party system is to amend the Constitution in the way elections are run. I'd like to see run-off elections for President and Senator, and the replacement of elector districts within a state with proportional representation. The latter being a way to eliminate the problem of Gerrymandering which has basically marginalized voters.
People don't vote because they see no incentive for voting. The perception is that elected officals have little interest in their constitutents. Combine this with the general notion that "my one vote doesn't matter" and people find other things to do with their time.
Also, I don't find your "the media has brainwashed us into believe they only Dems and Reps matter" to be extremely enlightening. Voters practice strategic voting (well the majority anyway). They may want to vote for Nader but realize he doesn't have a chance. As such, they'll vote for Kerry. The other thing to consider is the Mean Voter Theorem (yes, I too have a degree in politics and can flip burgers). People who gain the most votes in elections are those that can basically stand in the middle of the crowd and pull in the liberals and the conservatives. Thats why there is such a little difference between Dems and Reps. They both basically have to stay in the middle of the voter pool to win.
Oh, and my last bone to pick is about the Oligarcy. While I agree with you, you could just as easy have a Oligarcy with 3 parties or 4. Just so long as the same people have a presence and power in government. Term limits would seem to be the logical solution to this (indeed the founders of the Constitution thought of this although 228 years later, nothing has been done). Thomas Paine outlined the best reasons for term limits in Common Sense in 1776.
Anyway thats just one PolSci geek's ramblings. So , uh, all we need is to re-write the electoral system - NO PROBLEM!:)
Simply put: I don't like OS X. Its not because I think Linux is superior; OS X just doesn't go with my personal preferences. I realize you excluded that option from your question but I feel that most people who run linux on Macs do so becasue they prefer linux. Hence my machine at work has only Yellow Dog on it (this also has the side affect of keeping everyone else away from that machine:)).
Oh, and as someone responsible for patching all of those OS X boxes let me say that the machines are only as secure as the patches you apply to them. If you don't patch the OS X machines, or the linux machines, or the windows machines, they're going to be vulnerable. I'd say at the moment I've applied as many patches to the Linux machine as security updates to the OS X machines. The windows machines (two of them) are currently unpluged in a corner so I feel they're pretty safe at the moment.:)
In terms of the technology, we've basically got all of the desktop applications solved. Between OpenOffice.org, GNOME, Mozilla and a number of other projects, the stack of stuff people generally use on the desktop is pretty much there.
Which really makes me wish that GNUCash was in that group. I do everything (word processing, email, spreadsheets, gaming) on Linux inside Gnome except for managing my finances. I keep a windows box with Quicken around for that. GNUCash could replace that for me but probably not before GNUCash-2 which is supposed to be GTK2. I heard they were short on developers and that was stalling progress on that. I guess personal finance doesn't have much of a place on a business desktop and gets less attention. I've been playing around with SQL-Ledger but thats a bit overkill for my needs.
That aside I love Gnome and am looking forward to 2.6 and Epiphany 1.2.:)
Remember what happened when Microsoft tried to "embrace and extend" Java with Windows extentions, Sun was able to kick Microsoft completely out of the Java business.
They released C# to directly challenge Java. I think the word "kick" is a misnomer. MS decided to go with its own language in place of Java.
I have 3 desktops and a laptop. One desktop I built, one I pulled out of the trash (its actually a fairly decent machine) and the laptop I bought refurbed for 400 dollars. Its a 366 pentium 2 that I'm typing this on... outside, sitting next to the pond on 802.11b.
When I need power I'll sit at my desk with the athlon but sometimes its nice to sit outside and work.
AOL folded Netscape and Apple is very far from OpenSource. Some things (like Darwin) you can look at the source but I don't think I'll be downloading a GPL-ed Final Cut Pro any time soon:).
It sort of is; its just really damn slow. The reason the (unwashed) "kazaa masses) want upload disabled is so they aren't on the RIAA radar screen.
Since I only use BT for downloading linux (slackware) ISOs and patchfiles from id software, I don't mind uploading as well. I do cap the upload rate, however. Given that I have a tiny amount of upload for alot of download I make sure ti doesn't use so much upload to choke off the download. Beyond that, I don't care about giving back.
Originally it was: "In the Netherlands there is a newspaper reporting this proofs MyDoom was initialy spread by organised crime in a dark plot to wage cyber-war and steal confidential data from our computers."
Slashdot Mirror
From what I've been told, udev isn't quite there yet. I got the impression the gentoo team will move in that direction but for now they say to just use devfs under 2.6. Do that and also mkdir /sys and emerge the sysfs tools and you'll get sysfs up and running. Thats about all I did before moving the system to slackware.
Could be a bunch of things actually. You have support for your drive controller compiled in right? And support for the IDE drive? And you are passing the right "root=/dev/hda(blah)"? Mandrake uses devfs if I recall correctly. You'll probably need to have that enabled in 2.6. Maybe they're doing something else.
I run reiser on my laptop and before going XFS, ran it with 2.6 on my Abit KD7 which isn't a far cry from your IC.
Frankly, I wouldn't describe the parent as a seasoned Linux user. I upgraded 4 distros - Slackware, Gentoo, Debian, and a friends Fedora to 2.6 - probably not spending more than 30 minutes on any machine. Most of that was the new config file.
:).
"Less technically inclined" has nothing to do with it. Computer skills are largely a matter of experience. I've used linux as my desktop for roughly 6 years. I can do most day to day system's administration things much faster than other people. Does this mean I'm more skilled? Probably not. I can also do most systems' administration tasks in Windows much faster than other people. Why? Because I've already addressed the issues or fixed the problems before. 2.6 is a new experience for most people and until they gain experience building it, its going to be hard. The same if you've never built a kernel before. So practice. And, uh, keep a boot disk around
I cannot believe you made a profit joke. Seriously. Good luck with your interviews. Always a fun time.
This really isn't a job either. Its me putzing around until my security clearance goes through. With any luck that'll be done in 2 weeks or so. Oh well.
I think it depends on the version and ours doesn't do that. That little icon comes up by the clock but I just open it and play the non-animated (html) demo and close it and then it leaves me alone. My part time job, we only use OS X so I don't see alot of XP installs anymore.
Funny, my CAC disc doesn't do that ...
Umm, you failed civics didn't you? :) If you look at your amendments:
:).
Article XVI.
The Congress shall have power to lay and collect taxes on incomes, from whatever source derived, without apportionment among the several States, and without regard to any census or enumeration.
And that my friends, is why the 16th amendment is the most hated. The standing army thing is probably justified under the elastic clause. You can look that one up
Right, I think anna_kornikova.jpg.vbs completely blew your argument out of the water. Average joe, doesn't know the difference and really doesn't care. .vbs files, .exe files, and .com files shouldn't be executable as attachments. I believe this is the way it is by default in patched versions of OE and Outlook. As I use Evolution, I wouldn't know.
Umm, no, Sunbird is a Mozilla product. Its the standalone version of their Calender.
They arrested him. That's his "person". To get his license they would (presumably) have to search through his wallet. Again thats his person. They can frisk him down for weapons but (IANAL) probably not route through his wallet without probable cause.
:).
Here in PA its the same way (you have to surrender you license if the state says so). But I can't imagine them fining someone for a cluttered one. Generally you have to have the magstripe intact to get into bars so keeping the thing together is in the licensee's interest
Responding to my own post but oh well. I read the ACLU amicus brief. Terry v. Ohio states that a police officer must have probable cause to arrest an individual. Terry allows the officer to ask a moderate number of questions in order to satisfy himself BUT, the person being questioned does not have to answer them. The officer cannot arrest the person unless he has probable cause. Nevada law, however, says a person MUST identify themselves (give their name). This goes against Terry's right to refuse to answer questions by the officer.
The question of the case then, I guess, is whether the Nevada law requiring a person to give their name to an officer is Constitutional. I'm hoping they vote no and the ruling overturned.
Amendment 4 of the US Constitution:
The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be violated, and no warrants shall issue, but upon probable cause, supported by oath or affirmation, and particularly describing the place to be searched, and the persons or things to be seized.
In the US, people (theoretically) have the right to not have people looking through all of their stuff. The idea being that this would lead to abuses by government officals as per what happened under colonial government. So the question in this case is: was this request "unreasonable"? He needs a legitmate reason for requesting information (which he probably had). It is probably his "investigating an investigation" reason for doing this that caused all of hubub.
Actually I'm not worried.
:).
You tear things apart at the seems and stitch it into new things. Opensource seems to have always been about that. Projects will fork if there is a major issue that can't be worked around.
And who is tearing who apart?. As the post says derived works can be distributed under the GPL. The next version of the GPL will probably take into account patents and issues between these two licenses can probably be worked out then.
In the mean time, I'll still be using boa
I disagree. I think the only way to change the 2 party system is to amend the Constitution in the way elections are run. I'd like to see run-off elections for President and Senator, and the replacement of elector districts within a state with proportional representation. The latter being a way to eliminate the problem of Gerrymandering which has basically marginalized voters.
:)
People don't vote because they see no incentive for voting. The perception is that elected officals have little interest in their constitutents. Combine this with the general notion that "my one vote doesn't matter" and people find other things to do with their time.
Also, I don't find your "the media has brainwashed us into believe they only Dems and Reps matter" to be extremely enlightening. Voters practice strategic voting (well the majority anyway). They may want to vote for Nader but realize he doesn't have a chance. As such, they'll vote for Kerry. The other thing to consider is the Mean Voter Theorem (yes, I too have a degree in politics and can flip burgers). People who gain the most votes in elections are those that can basically stand in the middle of the crowd and pull in the liberals and the conservatives. Thats why there is such a little difference between Dems and Reps. They both basically have to stay in the middle of the voter pool to win.
Oh, and my last bone to pick is about the Oligarcy. While I agree with you, you could just as easy have a Oligarcy with 3 parties or 4. Just so long as the same people have a presence and power in government. Term limits would seem to be the logical solution to this (indeed the founders of the Constitution thought of this although 228 years later, nothing has been done). Thomas Paine outlined the best reasons for term limits in Common Sense in 1776.
Anyway thats just one PolSci geek's ramblings. So , uh, all we need is to re-write the electoral system - NO PROBLEM!
Simply put: I don't like OS X. Its not because I think Linux is superior; OS X just doesn't go with my personal preferences. I realize you excluded that option from your question but I feel that most people who run linux on Macs do so becasue they prefer linux. Hence my machine at work has only Yellow Dog on it (this also has the side affect of keeping everyone else away from that machine :)).
:)
Oh, and as someone responsible for patching all of those OS X boxes let me say that the machines are only as secure as the patches you apply to them. If you don't patch the OS X machines, or the linux machines, or the windows machines, they're going to be vulnerable. I'd say at the moment I've applied as many patches to the Linux machine as security updates to the OS X machines. The windows machines (two of them) are currently unpluged in a corner so I feel they're pretty safe at the moment.
Actually, I'm horrible at Tuxracer. Generally I play enemy-territory, quake3, starcraft or frozen-bubble.
:)
Oh and Koules
In terms of the technology, we've basically got all of the desktop applications solved. Between OpenOffice.org, GNOME, Mozilla and a number of other projects, the stack of stuff people generally use on the desktop is pretty much there.
:)
Which really makes me wish that GNUCash was in that group. I do everything (word processing, email, spreadsheets, gaming) on Linux inside Gnome except for managing my finances. I keep a windows box with Quicken around for that. GNUCash could replace that for me but probably not before GNUCash-2 which is supposed to be GTK2. I heard they were short on developers and that was stalling progress on that. I guess personal finance doesn't have much of a place on a business desktop and gets less attention. I've been playing around with SQL-Ledger but thats a bit overkill for my needs.
That aside I love Gnome and am looking forward to 2.6 and Epiphany 1.2.
Remember what happened when Microsoft tried to "embrace and extend" Java with Windows extentions, Sun was able to kick Microsoft completely out of the Java business.
They released C# to directly challenge Java. I think the word "kick" is a misnomer. MS decided to go with its own language in place of Java.
I have 3 desktops and a laptop. One desktop I built, one I pulled out of the trash (its actually a fairly decent machine) and the laptop I bought refurbed for 400 dollars. Its a 366 pentium 2 that I'm typing this on ... outside, sitting next to the pond on 802.11b.
When I need power I'll sit at my desk with the athlon but sometimes its nice to sit outside and work.
I'm looking at one of these:
r od=eMachines_M6807
http://www.emachines.com/products/products.html?p
64-bit and plenty fast though the reviews complain of weight and battery life but I guess that is to be expected.
AOL folded Netscape and Apple is very far from OpenSource. Some things (like Darwin) you can look at the source but I don't think I'll be downloading a GPL-ed Final Cut Pro any time soon :).
I've never had ANY technology have that kind of impact on my development before, unless it was the reverse (making me 3 times LESS productive)
:)
You're talking about slashdot right?
It sort of is; its just really damn slow. The reason the (unwashed) "kazaa masses) want upload disabled is so they aren't on the RIAA radar screen.
Since I only use BT for downloading linux (slackware) ISOs and patchfiles from id software, I don't mind uploading as well. I do cap the upload rate, however. Given that I have a tiny amount of upload for alot of download I make sure ti doesn't use so much upload to choke off the download. Beyond that, I don't care about giving back.
Ah well, they fixed it. Carry on :).
Originally it was:
"In the Netherlands there is a newspaper reporting this proofs MyDoom was initialy spread by organised crime in a dark plot to wage cyber-war and steal confidential data from our computers."