almost all o fthose poor conditions did not exist until industrialized European countries and the United States decided to change them into colonies
Africa was being used/abused by european powers long before the US was the US. If we're going to toss blame around, toss it in the right direction.
Lets not forget the US was a colony, under the control of a colonial power. The French, English, Dutch and Spanish hold the blame for most of the colonization. Do you people not remeber what was meant by the "British Empire"? Now I have no problem with the pratice of colonization, it opened up the world through it's exploration and moved modern (I.E. western) civilazation to the hights it now enjoys.
I also see this as largely an issue of evolution. The third world is evolving, some things will die off, others will be made stronger. Nothing wrong with that.
Milestek has 36" or 42" enclosures. They're the std 19" size. I think they run around $450 and have locking doors. If you want to rackmount everything but dont need an enclosure, get a relay rack and cut it down to size. An 84" aluminum relay rack will cost you $120 max and could be cut down with a hack saw.
I agree, that was sort of my point. There are a bunch of valid issues, then there's the boogy man. Peoples unreasonable fears are more powerful than facts.
WTF are you smoking. What part of "Red Hat is using PostgreSQL" Did you not understand? It's going to be the same fucking souce. Any changes Red Hat makes can go into the original, the same holds true for any source developed by Great Bridge.
Wrong! They do pop up on the screen in the case of the StarOffice install. There is a nice pretty windows like window that pops up and tell you of two different ways to install the program (Single user and a network install). Then the same doc goes on to tell you how to start the program. Remember to RTFM.
An hour? Really? Hey I have an Idea. When you install something, read the docs that come with it. They're like magic, they hold all sorts of great info. Like how to start the thing.
The worst possible senerio, would be if M$ software was the defacto std. used for the "data" transfer, or nightly "backups". You would then trully be owned by Microsoft. Wouldn't that sux, everything that is you held in a very proprietary format.
After a "restore", or "hardware" upgrade, you just wouldn't work quite as well as you did to start with. Once or twice a day your eyes would glaze over with a blue color and you'd shit yourself. A hard reset would be the only thing that would bring you back.
It would be really cool to be able to upload your current knowledge/soul/personality (or what ever) to a new system (body) every 20 years or so. You could start out with a new fresh 20 year old body and trade it in when you hit 40. Also if you did a nightly backup of the stuff that makes you "you", and you had a major system failure (Say you die or something), you could then just restore to the new body.
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It's a fucking file manager, a cool file manager, but a file manager none the less. And your claim that the Open Source community couldn't even come close to the level of coding zen that Easel has, well I don't know what to say to that. You do realise that all of KDE (not just the file manager) was coded by unpaid hackers, oh and then there is this small part of the OS, you may have heard of it. It's called the kernel, you know, the Linux kernel.
How can you compare a software companies product (M$, Win2k) to a comapny that makes a hardware/software solution? Do you really want to compare Win2K on a low end pentium to Solaris8 on a nice ultra sparq? I think you need to give your argument some thought.
when ever I see that. As for my DSL speeds, my plan through verison is rated at 640 down 90 up. I have seen some big download speeds (600 ish), but I find I'm most often waiting for the server I'm pulling data off of. VA's ftp server is often really slow. I think that's one part of broadband that doesn't get much ink. If broadband becomes global (or just nation wide in the US), big sites will find they need more bandwidth just to keep up. What good is 640k download speeds if I can only get 8k from my fav kernel mirror?
It's fast, you can hack it till hi-test runs through your veins but it's not all that pretty.
Function before form.
M$ Windows == 89 camaro rs
It's pretty, hacking it requires a ton of expensive tools, and often leaves you with a broken car. It's performance is no where near what the packaging leads you to believe it is.
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almost all o fthose poor conditions did not exist until industrialized European countries and the United States decided to change them into colonies
Africa was being used/abused by european powers long before the US was the US. If we're going to toss blame around, toss it in the right direction.
Lets not forget the US was a colony, under the control of a colonial power. The French, English, Dutch and Spanish hold the blame for most of the colonization. Do you people not remeber what was meant by the "British Empire"? Now I have no problem with the pratice of colonization, it opened up the world through it's exploration and moved modern (I.E. western) civilazation to the hights it now enjoys.
I also see this as largely an issue of evolution. The third world is evolving, some things will die off, others will be made stronger. Nothing wrong with that.
but they will never allow them to achieve the stability that will allow them to choose not to be exploited.
The same could've been said of colonial America in the days prior to the revolution.
I'm just now reading Dune. Thanks, you made my day.
Every Linux Distro already has the needed tools to get the job done, they're all the same for the most part.
useradd
userdel
usermod
ifconfig
route
vi or emacs to mod conf files
etc.
People who _Need_ a gui tool to get the job done really should do them self a favor and learn the basics.
Milestek has 36" or 42" enclosures. They're the std 19" size. I think they run around $450 and have locking doors. If you want to rackmount everything but dont need an enclosure, get a relay rack and cut it down to size. An 84" aluminum relay rack will cost you $120 max and could be cut down with a hack saw.
I agree, that was sort of my point. There are a bunch of valid issues, then there's the boogy man. Peoples unreasonable fears are more powerful than facts.
scratch that. I was thinking about someting else. Soory for the lame comment.
send it to the sun. problem solved,
power plant failures, radiation, power plant waste and the boogy man.
I think Nukes are a great power source, and if we could just send the waste and used up fuel into the sun, we'd have most of the troubles fixed.
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/. are getting so fucking lame.
WTF are you smoking. What part of "Red Hat is using PostgreSQL" Did you not understand? It's going to be the same fucking souce. Any changes Red Hat makes can go into the original, the same holds true for any source developed by Great Bridge.
Wow people on
Wrong! They do pop up on the screen in the case of the StarOffice install. There is a nice pretty windows like window that pops up and tell you of two different ways to install the program (Single user and a network install). Then the same doc goes on to tell you how to start the program. Remember to RTFM.
An hour? Really? Hey I have an Idea. When you install something, read the docs that come with it. They're like magic, they hold all sorts of great info. Like how to start the thing.
Oh Please. You get the same crap from the Gnome/Helix/Ximian crowd.
It was a god DAMN file manager. What a load of crap your chewing on.
The worst possible senerio, would be if M$ software was the defacto std. used for the "data" transfer, or nightly "backups". You would then trully be owned by Microsoft. Wouldn't that sux, everything that is you held in a very proprietary format.
After a "restore", or "hardware" upgrade, you just wouldn't work quite as well as you did to start with. Once or twice a day your eyes would glaze over with a blue color and you'd shit yourself. A hard reset would be the only thing that would bring you back.
Oh man!, I fell dirty. A Schwarzzenegger movie? Trust me, this is just a coincidence.
It would be really cool to be able to upload your current knowledge/soul/personality (or what ever) to a new system (body) every 20 years or so. You could start out with a new fresh 20 year old body and trade it in when you hit 40. Also if you did a nightly backup of the stuff that makes you "you", and you had a major system failure (Say you die or something), you could then just restore to the new body.
It's a fucking file manager, a cool file manager, but a file manager none the less. And your claim that the Open Source community couldn't even come close to the level of coding zen that Easel has, well I don't know what to say to that. You do realise that all of KDE (not just the file manager) was coded by unpaid hackers, oh and then there is this small part of the OS, you may have heard of it. It's called the kernel, you know, the Linux kernel.
Well he is touted as the great innovator. I'd just like to know what he innovates.
How can you compare a software companies product (M$, Win2k) to a comapny that makes a hardware/software solution? Do you really want to compare Win2K on a low end pentium to Solaris8 on a nice ultra sparq? I think you need to give your argument some thought.
when ever I see that. As for my DSL speeds, my plan through verison is rated at 640 down 90 up. I have seen some big download speeds (600 ish), but I find I'm most often waiting for the server I'm pulling data off of. VA's ftp server is often really slow. I think that's one part of broadband that doesn't get much ink. If broadband becomes global (or just nation wide in the US), big sites will find they need more bandwidth just to keep up. What good is 640k download speeds if I can only get 8k from my fav kernel mirror?
Unix == 69 plymouth Road Runner 440 six pack
It's fast, you can hack it till hi-test runs through your veins but it's not all that pretty.
Function before form.
M$ Windows == 89 camaro rs
It's pretty, hacking it requires a ton of expensive tools, and often leaves you with a broken car. It's performance is no where near what the packaging leads you to believe it is.
Oh I'm about to fall of my chair. This is so funny.
I've often wanted to meet Bill just to ask him this. Does Bill contribute any code to any of Microsoft's products? If yes, how much?