No, the governor doesn't appoint judges, they get elected in this state. They do, of course, sign bills, appoint directors of state agencies, and are involved in the state budget negotiations. As I said elsewhere, Olympia is uniquely dependent on state goverment, so that is a major consideration for me.
Dino Rossi is, at least, the most electable candidate for Governor that the Republican Party has put forward in many years. I have to give them credit for figuring that out finally.
We'll just have to wait and see how things go after the primary -- then the MADNESS BEGINS.
Ellen Craswell was a woman who ran for governor on the Republican ticket in 1996 against Gary Locke. She was so far to the right (wanted to reduce state government by 2/3rds, sell the state universities, very religiously conservative) that not only did she lose in a landslide to Gary "The Human Weenie" Locke, but later left the Republican Party because it wasn't conservative enough. Perhaps she disapproved of the Republican Party's support of the alphabet and use of fire. I actually met her while she was running for Governor. She reminded me of Nancy Reagan somewhat, but not as pleasant.
I'm not sure I'd say Dino Rossi is a moderate Republican, but he's not as out there as some. That said, I'm pulling for Ron Sims in the gubernatorial election. I suppose I'd vote for Gregoire in the general if need be, but I wouldn't be thrilled.
For what it's worth, I live in Olympia, and since the state is Olympia's only "industry" of note, having a Democratic administration is essential to Olympia's economic well-being. That, and I'm hunting around for a job, and the state is my only real option for being able to work in Olympia in the computing field.
Ah, a Washington Republican. That might not be so bad then, unless you're on The Other Side of the Mountains. Usually, the Republicans in Western WA (not all, of course) seem to be fairly reasonable people. Of course, the only ones who usually do at all well in statewide races are the really moderate Republicans (I'm thinking Ralph Munro here). That said, there's still a number of people like Ellen Craswell out there. You're not like her, are you?
Sure he's done useful stuff, like the "Sex Tips for Geeks" (has anyone actually ever used those) and remaking the Jargon File to update the hacker image to fit himself.
OK, you're right. He's pretty useless. At least he likes Jaegermeister, I hear.
... will there be a massive shift to BSD-style licenses. I like the BSD license just fine, but I'd be concerned that if the GPL is ruled invalid, that the BSD license wouldn't be valid either.
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Found the misspelling.
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I didn't say choice was bad. I just said that I didn't see the need to use exim.
Incidentally, I'm a FreeBSDer, not a Windows guy. Did you miss the part where I was talking about the Ultra? I was putting Debian on the Ultra because unpatched Solaris 8 didn't like le0 for some reason, and the other copy of Solaris I had wouldn't work in its CD-ROM for some reason, and FreeBSD-5 doesn't work on Ultra 1's.
I make sure I keep up on the sendmail advisories, never fear. I'm not a fool.
I've just spent enough time to learn how sendmail works that I don't see learning yet another MTA as being especially necessary. Besides, you can do some neat stuff with sendmail.
I understand sendmail, I like sendmail, and sendmail works. Forgive me if I don't feel the need to use some random unproven MTA.
It annoyed me to no end yesterday when I was installing Debian on my Ultra 1 and it went and installed exim for no apparent reason. As soon as I get around to it, I intend to remove exim and get sendmail on there. I want a functional mailer.
Erp. I meant that I didn't have a CD burner at work. I just finally got one at home a couple of months ago. Onwards...
I am certainly not going out and buying a Zip drive now. I didn't even buy this one - I scored it at work. It's slow and awful, but does what it needs. When my work gets a CD burner, I'll never look at the Zip Drive again.
In re: floppies: Backing up your entire system on floppies is ridiculous. I'd prefer to back up to CD or tape, depending on how much stuff I was backing up. Floppies are still handy, though, for boot disks or if you don't have a CD burner and can't afford one (which was my situation for a while). Remember, some BIOS's can't boot from CD. I've been burned by that before. Floppies have saved my ass a few times now.
As for the USB: I will admit that USB has its uses. I still think that it shouldn't be a big deal to have PS/2 and old school serial on your PC is all. I'll admit FireWire seems pretty neat (but FireWire vs. SCSI is a different argument).
Can't say I've ever seen one. I'll take your word for it, though.
Get a print server for your old printers Not a bad idea, assuming I could find room for it.
ZIP drives are slow, kludgy, low-capacity, and have a tendency to click your media (and drive) to death
True, but it's the most reliable way I can move stuff back and forth from work to home. I don't have a CD burner at home. I do have Zip drives both places.
Will the 0.02% of the population using dumb-terminals on their home PCs please stand up?
/me stands up.
As for the ports being kludgy and slow, why on earth do you need your keyboard or mouse to be fast? It's not like you're going to overflow the port or something.
As for USB not being trustworthy, I have never cared for it. It's never struck be as being that great of a replacement for perfectly decent technology. You can use it all you want. I would like the choice at least.
PS/2: Tried, true, and works with my old IBM clicky-clacky keyboard. I love that keyboard, and it's waaay more durable than any newer keyboard. I've spilled beer on it and it continues clacking away.
Parallel Port: I'd like to keep using my older printers and my old parallel Zip Drive. It's slow, but handy sometimes.
Serial Ports: How else are you supposed to hook up a dumb terminal to your computer. USB?
Seriously, there's no reason to drop these devices. Why not include them with the newer stuff.
That has to be one of the stupidest fucking things I have ever spent thirty seconds reading.
Really. That was far beyond stupid. Whoever wrote that should be ashamed of themselves. Slashdot should be ashamed for linking to it. Whoever submitted it should be shot.
If it's free registration, I think it's perfectly reasonable to post a link to the article and let people know it requires registration. The majority of us are all grown up now. We can choose whether or not view an article. Not making us look for it is a simple courtesy.
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Dino Rossi is, at least, the most electable candidate for Governor that the Republican Party has put forward in many years. I have to give them credit for figuring that out finally.
We'll just have to wait and see how things go after the primary -- then the MADNESS BEGINS.
Ellen Craswell was a woman who ran for governor on the Republican ticket in 1996 against Gary Locke. She was so far to the right (wanted to reduce state government by 2/3rds, sell the state universities, very religiously conservative) that not only did she lose in a landslide to Gary "The Human Weenie" Locke, but later left the Republican Party because it wasn't conservative enough. Perhaps she disapproved of the Republican Party's support of the alphabet and use of fire. I actually met her while she was running for Governor. She reminded me of Nancy Reagan somewhat, but not as pleasant.
For what it's worth, I live in Olympia, and since the state is Olympia's only "industry" of note, having a Democratic administration is essential to Olympia's economic well-being. That, and I'm hunting around for a job, and the state is my only real option for being able to work in Olympia in the computing field.
Ah, a Washington Republican. That might not be so bad then, unless you're on The Other Side of the Mountains. Usually, the Republicans in Western WA (not all, of course) seem to be fairly reasonable people. Of course, the only ones who usually do at all well in statewide races are the really moderate Republicans (I'm thinking Ralph Munro here). That said, there's still a number of people like Ellen Craswell out there. You're not like her, are you?
Well, I suppose that would explain the ruins of a Long John Silver's that Viking 2 found in the 70s.
OK, you're right. He's pretty useless. At least he likes Jaegermeister, I hear.
sigh Maybe I'm wrong...
Sure, Microsoft's based in Washington, but there are other operating systems found here.
Maybe it should be more clear and say that the beta of KDevelop 3.0 is out now, perhaps?
When I get home tonight, I'll look at the copy of OpenServer that I picked up for free a while back. Maybe it will enlighten the situation.
Sigh....
This sure doesn't look good.
We started using FreeBSD. It's stable, doesn't cost a bundle, and isn't dependent on .rpm's. Just my thought.
Incidentally, I'm a FreeBSDer, not a Windows guy. Did you miss the part where I was talking about the Ultra? I was putting Debian on the Ultra because unpatched Solaris 8 didn't like le0 for some reason, and the other copy of Solaris I had wouldn't work in its CD-ROM for some reason, and FreeBSD-5 doesn't work on Ultra 1's.
I've just spent enough time to learn how sendmail works that I don't see learning yet another MTA as being especially necessary. Besides, you can do some neat stuff with sendmail.
It annoyed me to no end yesterday when I was installing Debian on my Ultra 1 and it went and installed exim for no apparent reason. As soon as I get around to it, I intend to remove exim and get sendmail on there. I want a functional mailer.
I wouldn't buy a computer that looks like a lamp. I want my computer to look like a computer, damn it.
I am certainly not going out and buying a Zip drive now. I didn't even buy this one - I scored it at work. It's slow and awful, but does what it needs. When my work gets a CD burner, I'll never look at the Zip Drive again.
In re: floppies: Backing up your entire system on floppies is ridiculous. I'd prefer to back up to CD or tape, depending on how much stuff I was backing up. Floppies are still handy, though, for boot disks or if you don't have a CD burner and can't afford one (which was my situation for a while). Remember, some BIOS's can't boot from CD. I've been burned by that before. Floppies have saved my ass a few times now.
As for the USB: I will admit that USB has its uses. I still think that it shouldn't be a big deal to have PS/2 and old school serial on your PC is all. I'll admit FireWire seems pretty neat (but FireWire vs. SCSI is a different argument).
Can't say I've ever seen one. I'll take your word for it, though.
Get a print server for your old printers Not a bad idea, assuming I could find room for it.
ZIP drives are slow, kludgy, low-capacity, and have a tendency to click your media (and drive) to death
True, but it's the most reliable way I can move stuff back and forth from work to home. I don't have a CD burner at home. I do have Zip drives both places.
Will the 0.02% of the population using dumb-terminals on their home PCs please stand up?
As for the ports being kludgy and slow, why on earth do you need your keyboard or mouse to be fast? It's not like you're going to overflow the port or something.
As for USB not being trustworthy, I have never cared for it. It's never struck be as being that great of a replacement for perfectly decent technology. You can use it all you want. I would like the choice at least.
Parallel Port: I'd like to keep using my older printers and my old parallel Zip Drive. It's slow, but handy sometimes.
Serial Ports: How else are you supposed to hook up a dumb terminal to your computer. USB?
Seriously, there's no reason to drop these devices. Why not include them with the newer stuff.
Besides, USB is not to be trusted.
Next thing you know, they're going to take away our serial ports and PS/2 ports. Bastards.
Really. That was far beyond stupid. Whoever wrote that should be ashamed of themselves. Slashdot should be ashamed for linking to it. Whoever submitted it should be shot.
If it's free registration, I think it's perfectly reasonable to post a link to the article and let people know it requires registration. The majority of us are all grown up now. We can choose whether or not view an article. Not making us look for it is a simple courtesy.