Now, on the beach in a resort in some dirty third-world country, that's another story.
That's Mister dirty third-world country to you, matey.
Have you seen the cleanliness of London or New York lately?
This technology, once the price/bandwidth drops to a reasonable level, will enable me to move out of my dirty, noisy but beloved Georgetown, Guyana to the far Rupununi Savannah's.
Best advice in any posting for months. If I had any mod points, I'd up this one!
I have learned more in the last three years by building a variety of boxes using SUSE, Red Hat (5, 6, 7), Mandrake (7, Corporate) and a few floppy-based distributions than I would have done if I had tried to learn just one distro and make it fit to the many and varied tasks for which I built the boxes.
Get two or three distro's and build each one on the same box to do the task you want done. The one which builds best and feels good is the one you should go with.
Down the road, you'll need to build another box to do some totally different task at which point a different distro will rise to the top.
ill behaved software will have their XP credentials yanked, if too much BSOD events are logged
This is scary because it is entirely possible that the BSOD attributed to your driver is actually cause by someone else's f$%kup - MS or ANOther third party.
If I learned one thing in my years with a Scandanavian telecoms company (whose name rhymes with Perikson) it is that the real culprit frequently lies way up the line.
This whole thing stinks. The XP logo thing is a cheap marketing moneyspinner like so many that have gone before.
Absolutely. Hugely insightful. Here in Guyana, the government are wetting themselves at the propspect of exploiting our lower salary expectations, our english language heritage, the fact that we're 5 hours by plane from Miami and in the same same timezone as the eastern US.
Leave aside minor irritations like poor literacy, bad infrastructure and unreliable electricity (no, wait, strike that last one off...), Guyana wants IT jobs.
Look at Costa Rica - where else outside USA and Ireland did Intel set up a chip plant?!
Compete globally or lose. This is not an endorsement of WTO or G8.
Crackers would surely figure out very fast machines with IP address in a certain range are part of this project.
Seems to me that the Honeypot boys (and, of course, gerls) might have put some flagitiously powerful boxes emulating some more modest boxes on their little lan.
Even their website is so, well, modest, anyone would be taken in.
I take it that the IP of honeypot is a world away from their actual honypot?
And on to a security question - is TurboLinux Server harder than RH or Debian? I don't want to spend the dollars without knowing. Answers on a postcard please to McDermott, Guyana (seriously - there are only two persons with that surname in the country - I'm one and the other is my wife!)
There is an elections petition here in Guyana contesting the results of a March 2001 General Election. Central to this case is whether there was deliberate or inadvertant manipulation of data on an SQLServer database system.
As a member of a technical oversight team advising the Elections Commission, no doubt I'll have my day in court.
Bottom line, we'll see what this court will accept as evidence. I'll report back.
However, the wheels of justice grind slowly here in the developing world. A petition filed in early 1998 was only concluded in January 2001!
So, I would like to hear other persons experience of this and will watch this discussion with both eyes.
In the North Rupununi savannah's of Guyana, there is an FM radio station (Radio Paiwomak) which relies entirely on solar panels. They broadcast 4-6 hours daily to the surrounding Amerindian communities. It's quite something.
My experience in Guyana suggests that the PV side of solar energy is the easy part. The correct setup and, critically, maintenance of the inverters and batteries is where most installations fall down.
My former boss has a lovely setup at his retreat house up the mighty Essequibo River - miles and miles from the nearest road, nevermind power grid. He has 4 panels which track the sun (delivers about 20% more) and the seasons (negligable this close to the equator). Trace/Heart Interface inverter/charge controller and four big deep cycle gel-filled truck batteries. Runs a DC fridge, 12-15 low power flourescents and, on really hot days, a fan.
Expect to be belittled repeatedly much in the same way MS is
Not belittled, BOYCOTTED. C'mon/. - crusade against this kind of shite from Adobe. I'm off to their website and will email them to the effect that I'll never buy their products if they cannot do the KIllustrator developer the COURTESY of a polite request prior to sending in the scum sucking bottom feeders.
Damn right, they've pissed me off.
Dubbya B on /. - take me now Lord.
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Wow. Dubbya B (as we Irish like to call W.B.Yeats) quoted - in full - on/.
I'm originally from Sligo, some 8km down the road from Glencar Lake (where Yeats is said to have written this poem).
In an 1888 letter to Katherine Tynan, Yeats said 'my poetry...is almost all a flight into fairy land, from the real world...The chorus to the "stollen child" sums it up - That it is not the poetry of insight and knowledge but of longing and complaint - the cry of the heart against necessity. I hope some day to alter that and write poetry of insight and knowledge'
This he did indeed go on and do. Here's a extract poem which, though I have not seen AI yet, may address the topical movie's theme:
He wishes for the Cloths of Heaven
Had I the heavens embroidered cloths
Enwrought with golden and silver light
The blue and the dim and the dark cloths
Of night and light and the half-light,
I would spread the cloths under your feet:
But I, being poor, have only my dreams;
I have spread my dreams under your feet;
Tread softly because you tread on my dreams.
You can see the waterfall in the hills above the lake here
Now that the WWW has been hijacked by the PHB's Usenet is still the only place where, once I've lurked and solved problems and gained knowledge for a while, I feel guilty about not giving anything back. If I have the chance, I will post a repsonse to someone's cry for help.
But this chance rarely comes as I usually see a response there already. Some people out there obviously stay online and pounce on posts! Thank you guys/gals.
High-profile - certainly. Expensive? Have you seen receipts? Carefully planned - again, you're speculating. You lose credibility with this sort of comment.
I need to see evidence of Microsoft's fear of Linux/GPL - not opinion. I share the opinion mind you - I just want some hard evidence that it's not random.
One major driver for me towards Linux/Open Source etc was the difficulty in doing web database development using MS Access/ODBC/ASP etc. By difficulty I mean web hosting on *nix was US$10 a month and included mySQL/PHP/PERL. On the other hand, NT hosting including database hosting was ten times that price.
So, I had to abandon my Access and FP skills and learn or procure mySQL and PHP skills.
I still haven't seen anything as easy for ME to use for quick and nasty development as Access/FP. I did download AbriaSoft but couldn't get it to work - sorry guys - the fault probably lay between the keyboard and the chair!
If RH put this together well, I would certainly consider it.
But if they're going after Larry Ellison, then count me out. My clients are just getting over the "relational" in RDBMS - they're not ready for Oracle or any RH flavour thereof!
Slightly off topic (but saves me two posts) - nice to see RH in the black.
She must be a luddite. My wife would beat me to death with the four year old PDA and spend the life insurance on an iPAQ or two weeks in Tobago or whatever....
Like my more affluent brothers and sisters in California, I am regularly treated to the absence of electricity. My UPS ensures that I don't lose any data - I shut down my one or more Linux boxes (note - will implement APC auto shutdown one of these days) then my Win2k box.
Then I take out a book or a jotter and use a pencil and paper for a while.
And, you know - it's great.
The only noises are my (distant) neighbours' generators kicking in and the huge variety of birdlife in the marshy area opposite my home getting on with their lives.
Now, I ask you. Who gives a flying fuck whether one set of interconnect cables is better than the next?
"Especially considering third world countries, who are by definition poor, are still striving to get online."
Not just online but just get computing at all! The cost of hardware, software and bandwidth is very high in developing countries. For example: T1 in Guyana approximately US$26,000 per month. For those of you running at 1600x1200 that's US twenty six thousand per month.
Anything at all which saves money will be taken up - especially as the pressure to respect intellectual property rights (aka Government departments actually having to buy software - "you mean I have to pay US2,000 for that CD-ROM?")
Having said all that, Guyana is still pretty much an MS shop. Our foreign minister (since "laterally promoted") even invited Bill Gates to come and visit. I think they wanted him to buy the country or something.
But I digress. Linux is slowly making it's presence felt here. And, natch, almost ALWAYS installed on hard disks recently fdisked free of Windows!
You're absolutely right. My point in an earlier post was (or perhaps wasn't exactly) that if the international institutions get preoccupied protecting the rights of Micro$oft or D3ll or whoever, the real, flesh and blood human rights side of things will be ignored. But I hear you.
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If a US (or UK, or Irish, or Italian) soldier shoots a civilian in a military engagement that's one thing. But if they commit rape or torture - well, I hope you agree with me that this is something entirely different.
In an ideal world, anyone committing a crime against humanity would be answerable to an international court.
In practise, the big boys (your US Presidents, your Chinese leaders) get away with it and the little boys (your Milosevic, your [name your own little despot]) will scapegoat anyone they can.
We have allowed international institutions to be weakened because we didn't like the medicine they prescribed for us (by us I mean US, UK, and other developed countries).
That's where we're at folks. Read "No Logo" by Naomi Klein. (www.fireandwater.com) Growing up in the late 60s and 70s, I saw the UN as an antidote to the cold war. It was hamstrung in both legs by that cold war. Now it plays second fiddle to WTO.
The Hague and similar institutions seek to implement global laws. The laws they implement are flawed and uneven and there is no concensus. But look at the world today - every issue of global significance had economic implications which prevent rational discussion at G7 and US/Europe/Asia summit levels.
It would be a shame to perfect the Hague Treaty as it relates to intellectual property and leave the human rights unfinished. But, because the politicians who must conduct the negotiations are so influenced by the corporate lobby, this is what may happen.
In a WinTel corporate environment, users who open unsolicited email with viruses attached get a slap on the cheek. Anyone attempting DDE between M$ and non-M$ applications get, say, a sharp dig in the ribs.
Anyone opening Instant Messenger gets a flying kick in the chest.
The potential is enormous. Just put the vest on the Dress Code and away you go.
Spot on! Most intelligent post I've read on OSS and Linux in years. I have paying clients who have hired me to put Linux solutions in for them. They trust me to deliver a solution and support it. I know about Linux because I pute SUSE on an old 386 some years ago. Then RH 5/6/7 and now Mandrake Corporate Server (obviously the 386 is now a web-enabled microwave oven). I spend as much spare time trying new things as possible. Samba, MySQL, PHP, etc etc. The investment of my spare time has allowed me to earn a living from the technology.
Of course, the same could be said for Microsoft or any other technology. However, I couldn't sit at home with a room full of pirated M$ software - my conscience wouldn't stand it.
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That's Mister dirty third-world country to you, matey.
Have you seen the cleanliness of London or New York lately?
This technology, once the price/bandwidth drops to a reasonable level, will enable me to move out of my dirty, noisy but beloved Georgetown, Guyana to the far Rupununi Savannah's.
Best advice in any posting for months. If I had any mod points, I'd up this one!
I have learned more in the last three years by building a variety of boxes using SUSE, Red Hat (5, 6, 7), Mandrake (7, Corporate) and a few floppy-based distributions than I would have done if I had tried to learn just one distro and make it fit to the many and varied tasks for which I built the boxes.
Get two or three distro's and build each one on the same box to do the task you want done. The one which builds best and feels good is the one you should go with.
Down the road, you'll need to build another box to do some totally different task at which point a different distro will rise to the top.
But stop procrastinating and get in there!
This is scary because it is entirely possible that the BSOD attributed to your driver is actually cause by someone else's f$%kup - MS or ANOther third party.
If I learned one thing in my years with a Scandanavian telecoms company (whose name rhymes with Perikson) it is that the real culprit frequently lies way up the line.
This whole thing stinks. The XP logo thing is a cheap marketing moneyspinner like so many that have gone before.
Leave aside minor irritations like poor literacy, bad infrastructure and unreliable electricity (no, wait, strike that last one off...), Guyana wants IT jobs.
Look at Costa Rica - where else outside USA and Ireland did Intel set up a chip plant?!
Compete globally or lose. This is not an endorsement of WTO or G8.
Seems to me that the Honeypot boys (and, of course, gerls) might have put some flagitiously powerful boxes emulating some more modest boxes on their little lan.
Even their website is so, well, modest, anyone would be taken in.
I take it that the IP of honeypot is a world away from their actual honypot?
And on to a security question - is TurboLinux Server harder than RH or Debian? I don't want to spend the dollars without knowing. Answers on a postcard please to McDermott, Guyana (seriously - there are only two persons with that surname in the country - I'm one and the other is my wife!)
As a member of a technical oversight team advising the Elections Commission, no doubt I'll have my day in court.
Bottom line, we'll see what this court will accept as evidence. I'll report back.
However, the wheels of justice grind slowly here in the developing world. A petition filed in early 1998 was only concluded in January 2001!
So, I would like to hear other persons experience of this and will watch this discussion with both eyes.
My experience in Guyana suggests that the PV side of solar energy is the easy part. The correct setup and, critically, maintenance of the inverters and batteries is where most installations fall down.
My former boss has a lovely setup at his retreat house up the mighty Essequibo River - miles and miles from the nearest road, nevermind power grid. He has 4 panels which track the sun (delivers about 20% more) and the seasons (negligable this close to the equator). Trace/Heart Interface inverter/charge controller and four big deep cycle gel-filled truck batteries. Runs a DC fridge, 12-15 low power flourescents and, on really hot days, a fan.
Oh - 2 laptops too!
NO NO NO NO.
Adobe have sent in the lawyers who are acting with ham-fisted insensitivity.
This behaviour is callous and typically corporate and is morally wrong.
Wow, this rush of righteous indignation is amazing. Anyone got Jesse Helm's email address??
Not belittled, BOYCOTTED. C'mon /. - crusade against this kind of shite from Adobe. I'm off to their website and will email them to the effect that I'll never buy their products if they cannot do the KIllustrator developer the COURTESY of a polite request prior to sending in the scum sucking bottom feeders.
Damn right, they've pissed me off.
I'm originally from Sligo, some 8km down the road from Glencar Lake (where Yeats is said to have written this poem).
In an 1888 letter to Katherine Tynan, Yeats said 'my poetry...is almost all a flight into fairy land, from the real world...The chorus to the "stollen child" sums it up - That it is not the poetry of insight and knowledge but of longing and complaint - the cry of the heart against necessity. I hope some day to alter that and write poetry of insight and knowledge'
This he did indeed go on and do. Here's a extract poem which, though I have not seen AI yet, may address the topical movie's theme:
He wishes for the Cloths of Heaven
Had I the heavens embroidered cloths
Enwrought with golden and silver light
The blue and the dim and the dark cloths
Of night and light and the half-light,
I would spread the cloths under your feet:
But I, being poor, have only my dreams;
I have spread my dreams under your feet;
Tread softly because you tread on my dreams.
You can see the waterfall in the hills above the lake here
Now that the WWW has been hijacked by the PHB's Usenet is still the only place where, once I've lurked and solved problems and gained knowledge for a while, I feel guilty about not giving anything back. If I have the chance, I will post a repsonse to someone's cry for help.
But this chance rarely comes as I usually see a response there already. Some people out there obviously stay online and pounce on posts! Thank you guys/gals.
And thank you Jim Ellis. Rest in peace.
High-profile - certainly. Expensive? Have you seen receipts? Carefully planned - again, you're speculating. You lose credibility with this sort of comment.
I need to see evidence of Microsoft's fear of Linux/GPL - not opinion. I share the opinion mind you - I just want some hard evidence that it's not random.
So, I had to abandon my Access and FP skills and learn or procure mySQL and PHP skills.
I still haven't seen anything as easy for ME to use for quick and nasty development as Access/FP. I did download AbriaSoft but couldn't get it to work - sorry guys - the fault probably lay between the keyboard and the chair!
If RH put this together well, I would certainly consider it.
But if they're going after Larry Ellison, then count me out. My clients are just getting over the "relational" in RDBMS - they're not ready for Oracle or any RH flavour thereof!
Slightly off topic (but saves me two posts) - nice to see RH in the black.
Last month I gave the Pro to my GF
You gave your girlfriend a four year old PDA?
She must be a luddite. My wife would beat me to death with the four year old PDA and spend the life insurance on an iPAQ or two weeks in Tobago or whatever....
The best of luck in your relationship sir!
If it's $20 then I can live with it and install Linux on an iPAQ. If, on the other hand, it's $100 then that's a different cauldron of octopus.
Any answers anyone?
Then I take out a book or a jotter and use a pencil and paper for a while.
And, you know - it's great.
The only noises are my (distant) neighbours' generators kicking in and the huge variety of birdlife in the marshy area opposite my home getting on with their lives.
Now, I ask you. Who gives a flying fuck whether one set of interconnect cables is better than the next?
Not just online but just get computing at all! The cost of hardware, software and bandwidth is very high in developing countries. For example: T1 in Guyana approximately US$26,000 per month. For those of you running at 1600x1200 that's US twenty six thousand per month.
Anything at all which saves money will be taken up - especially as the pressure to respect intellectual property rights (aka Government departments actually having to buy software - "you mean I have to pay US2,000 for that CD-ROM?")
Having said all that, Guyana is still pretty much an MS shop. Our foreign minister (since "laterally promoted") even invited Bill Gates to come and visit. I think they wanted him to buy the country or something.
But I digress. Linux is slowly making it's presence felt here. And, natch, almost ALWAYS installed on hard disks recently fdisked free of Windows!
In an ideal world, anyone committing a crime against humanity would be answerable to an international court.
In practise, the big boys (your US Presidents, your Chinese leaders) get away with it and the little boys (your Milosevic, your [name your own little despot]) will scapegoat anyone they can.
We have allowed international institutions to be weakened because we didn't like the medicine they prescribed for us (by us I mean US, UK, and other developed countries).
Here endeth the rant.
The Hague and similar institutions seek to implement global laws. The laws they implement are flawed and uneven and there is no concensus. But look at the world today - every issue of global significance had economic implications which prevent rational discussion at G7 and US/Europe/Asia summit levels.
It would be a shame to perfect the Hague Treaty as it relates to intellectual property and leave the human rights unfinished. But, because the politicians who must conduct the negotiations are so influenced by the corporate lobby, this is what may happen.
RMS makes some good points though!
In a WinTel corporate environment, users who open unsolicited email with viruses attached get a slap on the cheek. Anyone attempting DDE between M$ and non-M$ applications get, say, a sharp dig in the ribs.
Anyone opening Instant Messenger gets a flying kick in the chest.
The potential is enormous. Just put the vest on the Dress Code and away you go.
Yours in empowering the client...
seem - vb.
appear, look, give the impression
seam - vb.
closure, ridge, line of stitching, joint
From the Macrosift Word 2000 thesarus.
Accordingly, I take it you mean "and combine them seamlessly"
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Of course, the same could be said for Microsoft or any other technology. However, I couldn't sit at home with a room full of pirated M$ software - my conscience wouldn't stand it.