People are going to get this thing, thinking its finally a version of linux that runs windows apps well. But its not! Its reputation will affect linux too. I wish it never came about. What is wrong with debian? Theres lots of other points I hate about Lindows, its name, the way it charges to download free software, debian does this already but it works better and its free! I also hate the way it runs as root. I believe this is a Microsoft project actually, to get people going away from linux and back to windows. I hate it so much, I slam it every chance I get to people who ask me about linux.
I think a seven year old should first learn respect for for the CDs. I mean education is the aim of the game. Letting them learn all these hi tech skills on the computer, should really include teaching him how to respect CDs and hardware etc.
I think once he destroys his favourite disk, and learns that such behaviour means that one of his possessions is no longer available to him, then he will have learnt a lesson more useful to him than whatever the software itself is trying to teach.
Heh. Waste of time. That was so easy. They gave it to you with a few words missing in each file, it was a fill in the gaps exercise. Besides, I think only 2 or 3 people actually did it, and everyones work was basically derived from those versions. The fill in the gaps nature of the assignment meant that the cheat-o-matic software they usually use to check assignments wasnt appropriate here.
It was so easy, took about 10 minutes. Who was your tutor anyway?
And no, I don't want some compressed DivX;-) format or anything. I want raw DVD quality, no compression.
Yes DivX is exactly what you need. Storing video is large enough compressed to store it on hard disk (as opposed to something saner like CD) let alone uncompressed. Do you own shares in a hard drive company or something? These raw movies are huge!
Don't you remember in Jurassic Park, when the chick goes in and uses the Quadras or whatever they were, and she says, hey this is unix, I know this. It was obviously AUX.
Hahaha, when a young Palestinian grows up and sees all his friends murdered in cold blood, by Israeli soldiers, paid for by American tax dollars. He tends to think fuck it, if I'm going to die young anyway, I may as well do something good for my people that the world notices (well the part of the world outside the USA anyway, where independant media isn't classed as "terrorist propaganda", and views other than the very censored CNN version are expressed.)
The Israelis are the agressor, the bad guys here, and the Palestinians have always been the victims.
I don't pay to see hollywood movies, the whole point of the post was urging people to pirate these movies, which I admit, I enjoy, I just don't want to fund the murder of Palestinians.
I think my computer was mostly made in Taiwan, It probably does contain parts made by an American firm.. Oh well..
I download, store and share copyrighted material not so much as a money saving measure, but more because I have a real ethical aversion to seeing some of my money going to into the American Tax budget, (yes most of these copyright holders are American firms), which then gets passed on to Israel, to help the apartheid regime there and the murder of Palestinians.
Its not so much a deliberate boycott, but it does turn out that I don't really need to spend money on anything America produces, its music and television shows included.
Oh well, at least its American soldiers that get their turn to suffer, I guess there is justice after all. How much does the U.S. military spend on supporting apartheid in Israel and the killing of Palestinians again? I think America is in for a shock once the sympathy wears off, and people start to look at the world through other than American media channels.
Oh but don't you see, it was the killing of Jesus that made the whole faith possible... The more Jesuses we kill, the more bad stuff we can be forgiven for for free! The more we can sin!
If I was the pope, I would start wholesale slaughter of virgin births as soon as possible.
i believe intervening with the processes that naturally produce humans is acting directly against the will of God.
So what? It seems that through history the following things have been against the will of God on an off and on basis:
Eating meat on fridays.
Using condoms and other contraceptives.
Being protestant.
The earth going around the sun.
Harry Potter.
So how about we let the christians and other superstitous people deprive themselves of whatever advances and technology we come up with, while they argue amongst themselves, (or rather, blindy obey the will of the pope) about such matters as whats going to be banned this week, or what northern irish school to throw stones at this weekend.
Meanwhile the rest of the world should be free to enjoy the benefits of modern science.
"Well, first we prove the most cherished tenet of their faith false...."
Um, haven't they just prooved that virgin birth is possible? (Well scientifically possible anyway, and practically possible to 21st century scientists, don't know if this technology was available in the ancient middle-east.)
What I want to know, is how does the software manage to leverage the use of the cluster. They mention that programs wont need to be changed to take advantage of the clustering. How can this be? It doesn't mention much about this Houston software that seems to handle it. Usually applications have to be especially written for clustering. The website also doesn't seem to mention what tasks this system is really good for.
Im not in America, but I get sick of hearing people complain about how its not free anymore. Its only 1 country. Things are a lot worse in many countries and a lot better in some too. If you want to improve then vote libertarian.
By reading your question, it sounds like you want to send out mail via your ISPs SMTP using an e-mail address for a webdomain not hosted by them. Any GOOD ISP will not let you do this.
Actually any good ISP SHOULD let us do this, provided you are connecting from an IP number owned by the ISP.
If they didn't allow this, then we would be stuck with only using email addresses provided by ISP, which is not an option for say a student flat like ours, where we want to have our own email addresses, but don't want to restrict ourselves to webmail, or purchasing email addresses from the ISP.
With my $50 per month, uncapped, flat rate TDSL line, port 25 is unfirewalled both directions. I can send directly to most places, but sometimes have trouble as the dynamic IPs given to dialup users, are on spam lists. The solution:
They provide 2 outgoing smtp servers, the first one, rewrites any From: header with your official t-online email address.
The second one, which one has to register for, relays and preserves the From: address.
Both these servers only accept connections from ip numbers they own.
This is ideal, as it is flexible, and prevents against spammers. The only thing is the fact I now rely on the t-online server, which hasn't been a problem so far.
We used Allegro CL and the cl-http web server to implement very rapidly a web based sql-tutor, it used threads, integrated perfectly with ODBC, JavaScript, and even functions contained in a windows dll.
http://ictg.canterbury.ac.nz:8000/sql-tutor/
Dont know if this link still works from everywhere.
His article is similar to the following:
Cars suck because they don't scale, if we build them to carry more than 1000 people, they get too big and heavy for the materials we build them with to hold together.
If we drive them faster than 400km/h they are too dangerous for the roads, and use too much petrol.
But, if you use a car normally, they are fine. Just as gnutella is fine if you keep hosts and hops to a reasonable level, not the silly settings the author of the article assumed.
An anology to his argument is this:
Cars suck because they do not scale, as soon as you drive them above 400 km/h, they use way too much petrol, and are very dangerous.
As soon as you try and build them to carry more than 1000 people at once, they get too big and heavy for the materials they are made of.
You will note that Gnutella is sweet as with hosts and hops set to a reasonable level, not the rediculously high 8 and 8 as assumed in the article.
In the same way, cars are sweet as if you drive them at a sensible level, and build them to a sensible size.
You know, this whole thing could have been avoided, if the lindows project was Michael sitting in his bedroom coding after hours, and submitting the code to sourceforge, as a completely free distro, like debian. As soon as you try and make a business out of it, the lawers have something to target.
Thats why guntella will survive where napster and all the others will fail.
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People are going to get this thing, thinking its finally a version of linux that runs windows apps well. But its not! Its reputation will affect linux too. I wish it never came about. What is wrong with debian? Theres lots of other points I hate about Lindows, its name, the way it charges to download free software, debian does this already but it works better and its free! I also hate the way it runs as root.
I believe this is a Microsoft project actually, to get people going away from linux and back to windows.
I hate it so much, I slam it every chance I get to people who ask me about linux.
I think a seven year old should first learn respect for for the CDs. I mean education is the aim of the game. Letting them learn all these hi tech skills on the computer, should really include teaching him how to respect CDs and hardware etc.
I think once he destroys his favourite disk, and learns that such behaviour means that one of his possessions is no longer available to him, then he will have learnt a lesson more useful to him than whatever the software itself is trying to teach.
Heh. Waste of time. That was so easy. They gave it to you with a few words missing in each file, it was a fill in the gaps exercise. Besides, I think only 2 or 3 people actually did it, and everyones work was basically derived from those versions. The fill in the gaps nature of the assignment meant that the cheat-o-matic software they usually use to check assignments wasnt appropriate here.
It was so easy, took about 10 minutes. Who was your tutor anyway?
And no, I don't want some compressed DivX ;-) format or anything. I want raw DVD quality, no compression.
Yes DivX is exactly what you need. Storing video is large enough compressed to store it on hard disk (as opposed to something saner like CD) let alone uncompressed. Do you own shares in a hard drive company or something? These raw movies are huge!
Hey if I cant get some ass on /. where can I get it? ICQ is starting to dry up..
Hey your niece Christin is hot. How old is she?
Can I get her number?
Thanks..
Don't you remember in Jurassic Park, when the chick goes in and uses the Quadras or whatever they were, and she says, hey this is unix, I know this. It was obviously AUX.
Hahaha, when a young Palestinian grows up and sees all his friends murdered in cold blood, by Israeli soldiers, paid for by American tax dollars. He tends to think fuck it, if I'm going to die young anyway, I may as well do something good for my people that the world notices (well the part of the world outside the USA anyway, where independant media isn't classed as "terrorist propaganda", and views other than the very censored CNN version are expressed.)
The Israelis are the agressor, the bad guys here, and the Palestinians have always been the victims.
I don't pay to see hollywood movies, the whole point of the post was urging people to pirate these movies, which I admit, I enjoy, I just don't want to fund the murder of Palestinians.
I think my computer was mostly made in Taiwan, It probably does contain parts made by an American firm.. Oh well..
Wheres the hypocrisy?
I download, store and share copyrighted material not so much as a money saving measure, but more because I have a real ethical aversion to seeing some of my money going to into the American Tax budget, (yes most of these copyright holders are American firms), which then gets passed on to Israel, to help the apartheid regime there and the murder of Palestinians.
Its not so much a deliberate boycott, but it does turn out that I don't really need to spend money on anything America produces, its music and television shows included.
Or you could just type in man sed and understand even more than most of us who at least know what sed is.
Oh well, at least its American soldiers that get their turn to suffer, I guess there is justice after all.
How much does the U.S. military spend on supporting apartheid in Israel and the killing of Palestinians again?
I think America is in for a shock once the sympathy wears off, and people start to look at the world through other than American media channels.
Oh but don't you see, it was the killing of Jesus that made the whole faith possible... The more Jesuses we kill, the more bad stuff we can be forgiven for for free! The more we can sin!
If I was the pope, I would start wholesale slaughter of virgin births as soon as possible.
i believe intervening with the processes that naturally produce humans is acting directly against the will of God.
So what? It seems that through history the following things have been against the will of God on an off and on basis:
Eating meat on fridays.
Using condoms and other contraceptives.
Being protestant.
The earth going around the sun.
Harry Potter.
So how about we let the christians and other superstitous people deprive themselves of whatever advances and technology we come up with, while they argue amongst themselves, (or rather, blindy obey the will of the pope) about such matters as whats going to be banned this week, or what northern irish school to throw stones at this weekend.
Meanwhile the rest of the world should be free to enjoy the benefits of modern science.
they caused a monkey to have a "virgin birth"
and
"Well, first we prove the most cherished tenet of their faith false...."
Um, haven't they just prooved that virgin birth is possible? (Well scientifically possible anyway, and practically possible to 21st century scientists, don't know if this technology was available in the ancient middle-east.)
What I want to know, is how does the software manage to leverage the use of the cluster. They mention that programs wont need to be changed to take advantage of the clustering. How can this be? It doesn't mention much about this Houston software that seems to handle it. Usually applications have to be especially written for clustering. The website also doesn't seem to mention what tasks this system is really good for.
Im not in America, but I get sick of hearing people complain about how its not free anymore. Its only 1 country. Things are a lot worse in many countries and a lot better in some too. If you want to improve then vote libertarian.
Very very interesting, I would like to see you perform similar research on the dynamics of teh Friend / Enemy system recently added to /.
Thanks for the fine posting.
Kza
Its stabler than the 2.5 series, but you don't learn as much.
Actually any good ISP SHOULD let us do this, provided you are connecting from an IP number owned by the ISP.
If they didn't allow this, then we would be stuck with only using email addresses provided by ISP, which is not an option for say a student flat like ours, where we want to have our own email addresses, but don't want to restrict ourselves to webmail, or purchasing email addresses from the ISP.
With my $50 per month, uncapped, flat rate TDSL line, port 25 is unfirewalled both directions. I can send directly to most places, but sometimes have trouble as the dynamic IPs given to dialup users, are on spam lists. The solution:
They provide 2 outgoing smtp servers, the first one, rewrites any From: header with your official t-online email address.
The second one, which one has to register for, relays and preserves the From: address.
Both these servers only accept connections from ip numbers they own.
This is ideal, as it is flexible, and prevents against spammers. The only thing is the fact I now rely on the t-online server, which hasn't been a problem so far.
http://ictg.canterbury.ac.nz:8000/sql-tutor/
Dont know if this link still works from everywhere.
His article is similar to the following:
Cars suck because they don't scale, if we build them to carry more than 1000 people, they get too big and heavy for the materials we build them with to hold together.
If we drive them faster than 400km/h they are too dangerous for the roads, and use too much petrol.
But, if you use a car normally, they are fine. Just as gnutella is fine if you keep hosts and hops to a reasonable level, not the silly settings the author of the article assumed.
Cars suck because they do not scale, as soon as you drive them above 400 km/h, they use way too much petrol, and are very dangerous.
As soon as you try and build them to carry more than 1000 people at once, they get too big and heavy for the materials they are made of.
You will note that Gnutella is sweet as with hosts and hops set to a reasonable level, not the rediculously high 8 and 8 as assumed in the article.
In the same way, cars are sweet as if you drive them at a sensible level, and build them to a sensible size.
Thats why guntella will survive where napster and all the others will fail.
CNN has inserted ads disguised as news for ages, mostly advertising for support of Jewish apartheid in Israel.