I am looking for an affordable and reliable Virtual Private Server/User Mode Linux host. I am using jvds.com currently, but have found that when I'm abroad their site is slow. Even when I'm in the states it's slow.
I don't know a lot about OpenBSD, so I'll just assume it is actually better. Is there a reason the GNU/Linux community hasn't adopted it?
iptables isn't all bad. I remember using ipchains -- that was much less functional, though I admit I didn't want to mess with iptables when it came out because it was hard for me to figure out. I also blamed that on my ignorance.:)
ipfwadm (which I only used for a few months before I switched distros early in my GNU/Linux career) was also pretty immature.
This isn't me saying, "it could be worse." It's me saying, "it's getting better."
Maybe it is time to reevaluate what tool we use. maybe someone could write a iptables->pf syntax converter so the current rather mature tools could migrate easily.
Now that I think about it -- that's last statement is really saying something. We've gotten to a point in our market penitration that we have to consider all the mature tools that would require some API considency, and the lack of API consistency could make significant damage that it couldn't in the past.
I guess that's a tricky place for OSS. It is hard to make declarations about radical shifts, because everything has to be done by consensus. But I guess it also means we're a good model for consensus-based development.
Maybe the real world has some lessons to learn from OSS devel.
I worry about having to make the decision because I don't want to have to upgrade myself or my kids so they can stay competative.
Read the other responses to my original post. One had a good point about Einstein and Mozart.
And intelligence is overrated. It might help your work, but it doesn't necessarily add to the value of your life.
I have the same opinions about ritalin -- the world (or at least america) has demanded people (including young kids) be able to concentrate for 10 hours straight so people pop these pills.
But being able to concentrate and drone on for 10 hours sucks and doesn't add anything to your life.
Being able to modify behavior, strength, brain capacity, etc just makes us more and more compelled to be the same as everyone else, even when this magical person we're all trying to be doesn't exist, and everyone who follows in his footsteps leads an empty life.
This discoveries are pretty fantastic, but they worry me.
Right now the technology doesn't exist to artificially increase yours or your baby's intelligence using artificially generated brain cells. But everytime I see an article like this, I realize that by the time I die there will be some serious questions people will be making like, "is it okay to up my intelligence by 10 points?"
I don't want to have to make those kinds of decisions, or to live in a world where it will be possible. because once a handful of people start doing things like that the rest of us have a lot of pressure to do the same. if 2 percent of people start doing that it makes the rest of us a lot less competative.
these kinds of things already happen, they're just not physiological. there started to be people working crazy overtime, and their peers had no choice but to do the same in order to compete.
but as much as i don't like sacrificing time at home, the question of "how much overtime do i work" is really tiny compared to "how much do i f*ck with my kids brain?"
Thank you for correcting me. I'm no expert. My first post was just to show people that this was not a Sunni/Shi'a or Protestant/Catholic kind of thing.
I'm in Tel Aviv now. Just getting a handle on the diaspora and local politics (vs. what you see when you read the papers in the states)
if you read the rest of my comment you'd see that i mentioned that sephardic jews were originally from the iberian peninusla -- aka "spain and portugal."
and mizrahim also includes jews from ethiopia, if i'm not mistaken.
It's not a subset of the jewish religion, it is where those jews came from.
in modern usage, ashkenazis come from europe. Sephardic jews come from the near/middle east.
the definitions are a little different though. Ashkenazis are, by definitions, supposed to be jews whos family came from germany or eastern europe. sephardics, oddly enough, are supposed to be descended from families from spain or portugal.
the latter makes a little more sense, though. a lot of iberian jews were expelled during the spanish inquisition. many fled to the near east.
A lot of people seem to be saying that kids are given too much freedom, and that is why they are so reckless when they become adults.
I disagree. I think that kids are irresponsible because they don't have enough resposibility. And responsibility can only come with freedom -- the freedom to make choices and make mistakes.
This is a different kind of freedom than the freedom to play computer games all day or get expensive gadgets without working. It is a much more mature freedom.
But you can't pick and choose what freedoms they get, because otherwise it isn't real freedom. If you're going to be a responsible parent you need give them the responsibility related freedoms (jobs, self-motivated education and the sense that their gadgets come from money saved up in a responsible way, though possibly with parental subsidy) with the other kids of freedoms (allowed to stay out late, go to parties, etc.)
Both of these kinds of freedom prepares them for the adult world, where you are free to go to parties and have to pay the bills. What happens now is kids get out of high school and either go to college and get drunk all the time and get into abusive (receiving or giving) relationships that don't give them any real training in another life responsibilty, building mature relationships, or they go into the work force and have a really hard time dealing with 9 to 5 jobs because they've never had to balance fun freedoms with responsible ones.
This causes a lot of problems. We have a culture that romanticizes our youth. Why is it this way? I think it is this way primarily for the same reasons kids go off to college and act irresponsibly -- they're not ready for life responsibilities and dream of the care-free past. Unfortunately, that just leads to sucky adult lives.
If you learn how to balance fun and responsibility as a youth, with parental support and guidance when you mess up, then your life is fuller.
I blame parents, not the system. Parents need to decide that they don't need to work as much, that the schools job isn't to raise mature adults, and that being scared that your kid might f-up on your watch and shame you isn't an excuse to reign them in until they leave the house (so it's someone else's problem.)
Even if you want to blame the system, it isn't like it is taking away your ability to parent. Computer games and T.V. are rotting your kids minds? Then don't have a T.V.! Your kids have weird ideas about relationships and sex? Then you'd better sit your butt down and talk to them about it -- not just a lecture as to why something is or isn't good, but a heart-to-heart talk where the goal is for you to respect the other.
I can't think of a single parental role that the system has taken away that you can't take back if you choose to.
And if you say you need to work jobs to pay the bills, then I suggest you own less stuff and you start getting politically active and fight to remove us from a system that requires every generation work more than the one before it.
Maybe plastic letters that I wear on my undershirt that point down and say "suck it, dickhead." And plastic bra and undies for my girl with a sign that says, "instant access! free! we just need your credit card for age verification!"
But seriously -- I'd harass them. Make them waste time on searching me individually. I'd do because this is ridiculous.
I'd rather risk the 0.00001% chance of dying than have to subject myself to any more security. The threat of violence is a reality. But I don't lose sleep over it. It just isn't worth it.
my girlfriend's looking to get a 12-inch powerbook before the fall. any mac gurus know whether there will be an upgraded line of powermacs before then. if so, when? if not, would it happen before years end?
I don't know how the welfare benefits are in Australia, but my concern here isn't that there would be litigation, but that people would actually just happily stay on the welfare rolls because they can then work on whatever project they'd like. I personally would love to see that happen, but it would be bad for the welfare program.
While the second looked pretty, for some reason I couldn't understand anything past the Risk level 9 line. I know my vocabular doesn't stretch that far, but I don't think I understood a single word!
I'll admit I screen my hardware, but I've had very little trouble with CUPS using System-Admin->Printing in GNOME 2.10.1 (ubuntu.) I clicked "new printer," "forward" (aka "next'), and "apply." it detected it and selected the driver. I didn't have to do anything but make sure it was right.
I don't know anything about fedora. I also have had trouble in the past with using my own ppd files. But I think the interface was just fine.
As for general printing problems? There are plenty. Just because your printer works in OO.o doesn't mean it will work in GIMP, for instance. (same with copy/paste, btw.)
"Critisizm is fine. Backing it up is much harder."
it doesn't even have to be legit criticism -- someone can ask a worthwhile question without knowing why it is worthwhile, or, if they doing, without being able to prove it.
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I am looking for an affordable and reliable Virtual Private Server/User Mode Linux host. I am using jvds.com currently, but have found that when I'm abroad their site is slow. Even when I'm in the states it's slow.
Any recommendations?
Thanks!
Yeah. You're probably right.
It's sad, though, that people believe in such simple logic. "You don't like me, then you must like all the people who aren't like me."
I don't know a lot about OpenBSD, so I'll just assume it is actually better. Is there a reason the GNU/Linux community hasn't adopted it?
:)
iptables isn't all bad. I remember using ipchains -- that was much less functional, though I admit I didn't want to mess with iptables when it came out because it was hard for me to figure out. I also blamed that on my ignorance.
ipfwadm (which I only used for a few months before I switched distros early in my GNU/Linux career) was also pretty immature.
This isn't me saying, "it could be worse." It's me saying, "it's getting better."
Maybe it is time to reevaluate what tool we use. maybe someone could write a iptables->pf syntax converter so the current rather mature tools could migrate easily.
Now that I think about it -- that's last statement is really saying something. We've gotten to a point in our market penitration that we have to consider all the mature tools that would require some API considency, and the lack of API consistency could make significant damage that it couldn't in the past.
I guess that's a tricky place for OSS. It is hard to make declarations about radical shifts, because everything has to be done by consensus. But I guess it also means we're a good model for consensus-based development.
Maybe the real world has some lessons to learn from OSS devel.
Leftists have aligned themselves with Islamofascist theocracies that are the direct antithesis of their purported values
Huh? Please elaborate.
I worry about having to make the decision because I don't want to have to upgrade myself or my kids so they can stay competative.
Read the other responses to my original post. One had a good point about Einstein and Mozart.
And intelligence is overrated. It might help your work, but it doesn't necessarily add to the value of your life.
I have the same opinions about ritalin -- the world (or at least america) has demanded people (including young kids) be able to concentrate for 10 hours straight so people pop these pills.
But being able to concentrate and drone on for 10 hours sucks and doesn't add anything to your life.
Being able to modify behavior, strength, brain capacity, etc just makes us more and more compelled to be the same as everyone else, even when this magical person we're all trying to be doesn't exist, and everyone who follows in his footsteps leads an empty life.
This discoveries are pretty fantastic, but they worry me.
Right now the technology doesn't exist to artificially increase yours or your baby's intelligence using artificially generated brain cells. But everytime I see an article like this, I realize that by the time I die there will be some serious questions people will be making like, "is it okay to up my intelligence by 10 points?"
I don't want to have to make those kinds of decisions, or to live in a world where it will be possible. because once a handful of people start doing things like that the rest of us have a lot of pressure to do the same. if 2 percent of people start doing that it makes the rest of us a lot less competative.
these kinds of things already happen, they're just not physiological. there started to be people working crazy overtime, and their peers had no choice but to do the same in order to compete.
but as much as i don't like sacrificing time at home, the question of "how much overtime do i work" is really tiny compared to "how much do i f*ck with my kids brain?"
just not a question i want to have to ask...
Thank you for correcting me. I'm no expert. My first post was just to show people that this was not a Sunni/Shi'a or Protestant/Catholic kind of thing.
I'm in Tel Aviv now. Just getting a handle on the diaspora and local politics (vs. what you see when you read the papers in the states)
if you read the rest of my comment you'd see that i mentioned that sephardic jews were originally from the iberian peninusla -- aka "spain and portugal."
and mizrahim also includes jews from ethiopia, if i'm not mistaken.
It's not a subset of the jewish religion, it is where those jews came from.
in modern usage, ashkenazis come from europe. Sephardic jews come from the near/middle east.
the definitions are a little different though. Ashkenazis are, by definitions, supposed to be jews whos family came from germany or eastern europe. sephardics, oddly enough, are supposed to be descended from families from spain or portugal.
the latter makes a little more sense, though. a lot of iberian jews were expelled during the spanish inquisition. many fled to the near east.
A lot of people seem to be saying that kids are given too much freedom, and that is why they are so reckless when they become adults.
I disagree. I think that kids are irresponsible because they don't have enough resposibility. And responsibility can only come with freedom -- the freedom to make choices and make mistakes.
This is a different kind of freedom than the freedom to play computer games all day or get expensive gadgets without working. It is a much more mature freedom.
But you can't pick and choose what freedoms they get, because otherwise it isn't real freedom. If you're going to be a responsible parent you need give them the responsibility related freedoms (jobs, self-motivated education and the sense that their gadgets come from money saved up in a responsible way, though possibly with parental subsidy) with the other kids of freedoms (allowed to stay out late, go to parties, etc.)
Both of these kinds of freedom prepares them for the adult world, where you are free to go to parties and have to pay the bills. What happens now is kids get out of high school and either go to college and get drunk all the time and get into abusive (receiving or giving) relationships that don't give them any real training in another life responsibilty, building mature relationships, or they go into the work force and have a really hard time dealing with 9 to 5 jobs because they've never had to balance fun freedoms with responsible ones.
This causes a lot of problems. We have a culture that romanticizes our youth. Why is it this way? I think it is this way primarily for the same reasons kids go off to college and act irresponsibly -- they're not ready for life responsibilities and dream of the care-free past. Unfortunately, that just leads to sucky adult lives.
If you learn how to balance fun and responsibility as a youth, with parental support and guidance when you mess up, then your life is fuller.
I blame parents, not the system. Parents need to decide that they don't need to work as much, that the schools job isn't to raise mature adults, and that being scared that your kid might f-up on your watch and shame you isn't an excuse to reign them in until they leave the house (so it's someone else's problem.)
Even if you want to blame the system, it isn't like it is taking away your ability to parent. Computer games and T.V. are rotting your kids minds? Then don't have a T.V.! Your kids have weird ideas about relationships and sex? Then you'd better sit your butt down and talk to them about it -- not just a lecture as to why something is or isn't good, but a heart-to-heart talk where the goal is for you to respect the other.
I can't think of a single parental role that the system has taken away that you can't take back if you choose to.
And if you say you need to work jobs to pay the bills, then I suggest you own less stuff and you start getting politically active and fight to remove us from a system that requires every generation work more than the one before it.
I think people open the links up in new tabs and get to posting.
a couple points:
then why haven't the aliens come here?
(maybe we're the most advanced, or they've agreed not to mess with other life.)
of course maybe it only indicates that there are no ways to travel at sufficient speeds.
No unreasonable searches.
Let's see, what are my options?
Maybe plastic letters that I wear on my undershirt that point down and say "suck it, dickhead." And plastic bra and undies for my girl with a sign that says, "instant access! free! we just need your credit card for age verification!"
But seriously -- I'd harass them. Make them waste time on searching me individually. I'd do because this is ridiculous.
I'd rather risk the 0.00001% chance of dying than have to subject myself to any more security. The threat of violence is a reality. But I don't lose sleep over it. It just isn't worth it.
Thank you very much.
my girlfriend's looking to get a 12-inch powerbook before the fall. any mac gurus know whether there will be an upgraded line of powermacs before then. if so, when? if not, would it happen before years end?
thanks.
Hint: what should you do when shooting into the woods if there could be a person there?
tell them to watch out?
does anyone know if there will be LiveCD versions of these pre-pre-releases?
I'd love to poke around with breezy, but I don't want to break my setup.
Thanks!
I don't know how the welfare benefits are in Australia, but my concern here isn't that there would be litigation, but that people would actually just happily stay on the welfare rolls because they can then work on whatever project they'd like. I personally would love to see that happen, but it would be bad for the welfare program.
ah. thanks.
what does "in scrollback" mean?
thanks.
While the second looked pretty, for some reason I couldn't understand anything past the Risk level 9 line. I know my vocabular doesn't stretch that far, but I don't think I understood a single word!
I'll admit I screen my hardware, but I've had very little trouble with CUPS using System-Admin->Printing in GNOME 2.10.1 (ubuntu.) I clicked "new printer," "forward" (aka "next'), and "apply." it detected it and selected the driver. I didn't have to do anything but make sure it was right.
I don't know anything about fedora. I also have had trouble in the past with using my own ppd files. But I think the interface was just fine.
As for general printing problems? There are plenty. Just because your printer works in OO.o doesn't mean it will work in GIMP, for instance. (same with copy/paste, btw.)
"Critisizm is fine. Backing it up is much harder."
it doesn't even have to be legit criticism -- someone can ask a worthwhile question without knowing why it is worthwhile, or, if they doing, without being able to prove it.
A short commentary on faith:
One, a definition from Hewbrews:
"Faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen."
That is very open to interpretation, so don't be so sure you've figured it out.
A nice comment from one evangelical I like, Jim Wallis,
"Perhaps the greatest heresy of twentieth-century American religion was to make faith into a purely personal matter and a private affair."
It is risky business, protecting faith as you do. Once you say your faith can't be criticized, then you say that faith doesn't have to be developed.