I did the same thing with the M$ ad as with almost all others: I ignored it. I'm not sure why so many people were pissing and moaning about it. I ignore the product reviews (I can't afford most of the stuff they review) so I can't tell you whether or not they are biased towards advertisers. But as I have not yet seen a review of FrontPage or something like that, it doesn't seem that the M$ ad has changed anything (and the last Samba article I remember was from before the M$ ad, so that doesn't even count.)
I believe that 'naked guy' was Guido von Nosssmmdmd (Can't remember his last name. Sorry) This was a good case in point. The supplement was among the best intros to Python I have read. Much better than the stuff online.
I wouldn't discount the importance of toilet reading material. That alone is almost worth it to me. (Married and have a kid, so the bathroom is the closest thing to private time I have.) Then there is bedtime reading material (even though I'm married, there's still at least five down days per month, so no comments from the peanut gallery;)
And, one of the biggies: sometimes I can't get online (phone in use or number busy, or cable modem doesn't work, or hosed an installation/upgrade, etc.) and I need some material. It's in the dead tree format. Also, the level of writing is usually far superior than that that I find online.
Let me again mention portability of the format. I'm in the doctor's office with my wife. I don't own a laptop, and can't get wireless access even if I did. So the magazine keeps me busy.
There used to be Maximum Linux, which wasn't that great. I subscribe both to LJ and LM. Honestly, I'd like to see them merge. I only like 40-60% of the content of either magazine for any one issue.
And you're damned right about Linux Mag. I have an issue index from a homebrewing magazine that was thicker than the latest Linux Mag.
Far be it for me to defend Ashcroft (I agree that he wins the pissing on the constitution contest. And how can I have any love for a man soundly thrashed in an election against a dead man?) but at least we elected the people who confirmed him. The people who elected George the Lesser were picked by his father and the old fuddy-duddy before him. (And what the hell is with the veneration of Ronald Reagan? I'd love to rant about it, but I might be here all day)
Mostly on, but I don't believe that some of the abuses of power are looked down upon by the average USian. Take the Emancipation Proclamation. Absurd and insulting. (Absurd that it freed slaves in areas not under federal control. Insulting in that loyal states, like Maryland, were allowed to retain slaves.) Yet given the serious deficincies of both legal and moral nature, it is touted by the average Joe as one of the greatest things done by Lincoln.
But I must agree 100%: this bombing was a pissant little thing compared to the Civil War. The Civil War is essentially the Big Thing (tm) that threw out the old Federal system, and ushered in the era of big government, not to mention national unity, etc, etc. WWII is perhaps close in scale to the changes wrought.
Can't believe no one got this. That quote "All men..." is from the Declaration of Independence, which is not a formal position of the US gov't. (Of course, most USians think it is. I don't think it is, but think it should be.)
Originally, all laws were supposed to apply to all people in the US equally. But apparantly, 'some animals are more equal than others'.
Where the hell did you get this lame ass transcription? Geez, next time let the Shakespeare copying monkeys at the keyboard. Is there a preview button for postings to the home page?
Who the hell are you, CT's kid brother. What are you in such a rush to post for? Are you this incompetent, or just drunk?
Oh, gee, maybe you're like Timmy (TIMMMMYYYYY!!!!) and I've just offended some poor PC shmuck.
Stuff in a SCSI card, and load up the drives. Hopefully, when you spend $20k on kit, there is someone at the place who knows how to recompile a kernel.
Sounds almost like you are describing some sort of database model. There must be somebody who has something like this going. Shouldn't be too hard, either. (Of course, what the hell do I know? I'm just an MBA who knows enough bash scripting and SQL to really screw things up).
Step one in using shipping companies: don't buy extra insurance for expensive shit.
Dude, if it was so important, how come you didn't spend $5 or even $50 for insurance on the shit?
Not sure how it works in Canada, but you might say in the US that giving the package gave them a bailment. They have to take care of your shit. Now, it would be expected that you might have some dings on your boxen, and some other problems. But showing the condition of your stuff should prove more than exceptional incompetance. So, even if they denied the bailment, you could show that the damage was so agregious that it should have been forseeable.
At this point, I think the real question is: what is the condition of the drives? This might be your only recourse at this point.
A ferrari vs. lambo vs. porsche shootout is pointless, yet many magazines do them. How to build a $10,000 small block engine is pointless, yet there is at least one or two per year in hot rod.
Many publications do pointless things. Not always is the point "this matters". Sometimes it is "isn't this some cool shit?"
Like the Linux kernel source. I'm not going to monkey with it, but a handful of others will.
Yes, you can get a patch to kernel 2.foo very quickly. But it can take weeks/months for RH to get a package out. Perhaps M$ can get the code fixed, but not quickly send out a package (and in some ways they do. They send out hotfixes, and only later service packs).
Why? In both instances, the companies have to make sure that by fixing one problem, they don't create several others.
So yes, you can get quick fixes to Samba, the kernel, etc. But it takes time for commercial vendors to roll out the patches.
(And, having said all that, I used to use Progeny, and am switching to Debian. They get out patched packages really damned fast.)
While I agree with the sentiment, the logic is faulty. The tires resulted in deaths. To my knowledge, nobody has been killed by a BSOD.
(Of course, there is also some evidence that the drivers were at fault at least as much as the tires. And, there is the argument that microsoft has done vast economic damage to the country, including government and other businesses. But I don't think either of these really has to do with your question.)
I have the cut version. A buddy of mine and I in HS bought comics through NEC (neither of us had a driver's license at the time to hit a local shop). Somehow or another (letter published?) he got one of the uncut number 2's. Saw him two or three weeks ago at HS reunion (10 yr). He's still got it.
While I think the south ca. 1860 was a bunch of rotten bastards, they were well within their rights to secede. The federal government was overstepping their bounds (and not just WRT slavery). So, the first Republican president was as dead set against states' rights as any other president (with the possible exception of FDR).
Since that time (and before. Look up the Whiskey Rebellion) there have been numerous cases of the Fed riding roughshod over the states.
FWIW, while DMCA, SSSCA, etc. get all of the press, water rights, highway appropriations, etc. are the bread and butter of governments (federal, state, and local).
All in all, you are right. Like you, I'm very glad to see that some states have remembered that they are sovereign over the federal government. Not only that, but they are doing it for the right reasons (not just to keep 'funny looking people' out of schools). But it won't last. If it weren't for our current state of national unity, I wouldn't at all be surprised to see Ashcroft threaten to make it harder for the states to use the resources of the DOJ if they didn't knuckle under to this decision.
A problem with the US justice system: you have to examine only the case at hand for the time at hand. IOW, if I kill somebody while on bail, that can't be used as evidence at the first trial. Similarly, MS shafting people now has no bearing on the events of ca. 5 years ago.
It gets really weird when you consider that the 'penalty' can take later actions into account. Or at least it seems that way. Not sure about the law.
But, if what a poster said yesterday is correct, it doesn't matter. The EU can take XP into account, Win2002, or whatever. (And contrary to the belief of some, especially in Redmond, the European market DOES matter. As does the Chinese market. And the Indian market, etc, etc, etc. The US is still the biggest fish in the pond. But if all those middle sized fish pulled in the same direction, the big fish would have no choice but to follow. And here's another hint: the US ain't gettin' smaller, but China (and others) are getting bigger.)
You are probably correct. As has been stated in other articles on the topic, much of this case is water under the bridge, crying over spilt milk, etc. Netscape is gone, the property of AOL.
But, a comment I read (presumably from a European reader. Also, not one that I can verify. I'm just an ignant 'Merican) said that the EU (or some body) can keep adding new tactics to their actions against MS. This would mean that while the browser competition might be all over but for the shouting, the MS file/print sharing is alive and well.
So, much like the Revolutionary War (or the War of Colonial Insurrection), and the war of 1812, we gotta look to the French to bail us out.
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I did the same thing with the M$ ad as with almost all others: I ignored it. I'm not sure why so many people were pissing and moaning about it. I ignore the product reviews (I can't afford most of the stuff they review) so I can't tell you whether or not they are biased towards advertisers. But as I have not yet seen a review of FrontPage or something like that, it doesn't seem that the M$ ad has changed anything (and the last Samba article I remember was from before the M$ ad, so that doesn't even count.)
I believe that 'naked guy' was Guido von Nosssmmdmd (Can't remember his last name. Sorry) This was a good case in point. The supplement was among the best intros to Python I have read. Much better than the stuff online.
It's probably too late now, but you could have called Imagine and asked for a refund on your subscription.
(I was going to change it to Maximum PC, but haven't read every issue since they changed their editorial content a year or so ago.)
I wouldn't discount the importance of toilet reading material. That alone is almost worth it to me. (Married and have a kid, so the bathroom is the closest thing to private time I have.) Then there is bedtime reading material (even though I'm married, there's still at least five down days per month, so no comments from the peanut gallery;)
And, one of the biggies: sometimes I can't get online (phone in use or number busy, or cable modem doesn't work, or hosed an installation/upgrade, etc.) and I need some material. It's in the dead tree format. Also, the level of writing is usually far superior than that that I find online.
Let me again mention portability of the format. I'm in the doctor's office with my wife. I don't own a laptop, and can't get wireless access even if I did. So the magazine keeps me busy.
There used to be Maximum Linux, which wasn't that great. I subscribe both to LJ and LM. Honestly, I'd like to see them merge. I only like 40-60% of the content of either magazine for any one issue.
And you're damned right about Linux Mag. I have an issue index from a homebrewing magazine that was thicker than the latest Linux Mag.
Far be it for me to defend Ashcroft (I agree that he wins the pissing on the constitution contest. And how can I have any love for a man soundly thrashed in an election against a dead man?) but at least we elected the people who confirmed him. The people who elected George the Lesser were picked by his father and the old fuddy-duddy before him. (And what the hell is with the veneration of Ronald Reagan? I'd love to rant about it, but I might be here all day)
Mostly on, but I don't believe that some of the abuses of power are looked down upon by the average USian. Take the Emancipation Proclamation. Absurd and insulting. (Absurd that it freed slaves in areas not under federal control. Insulting in that loyal states, like Maryland, were allowed to retain slaves.) Yet given the serious deficincies of both legal and moral nature, it is touted by the average Joe as one of the greatest things done by Lincoln.
But I must agree 100%: this bombing was a pissant little thing compared to the Civil War. The Civil War is essentially the Big Thing (tm) that threw out the old Federal system, and ushered in the era of big government, not to mention national unity, etc, etc. WWII is perhaps close in scale to the changes wrought.
Can't believe no one got this. That quote "All men..." is from the Declaration of Independence, which is not a formal position of the US gov't. (Of course, most USians think it is. I don't think it is, but think it should be.)
Originally, all laws were supposed to apply to all people in the US equally. But apparantly, 'some animals are more equal than others'.
Where the hell did you get this lame ass transcription? Geez, next time let the Shakespeare copying monkeys at the keyboard. Is there a preview button for postings to the home page?
Who the hell are you, CT's kid brother. What are you in such a rush to post for? Are you this incompetent, or just drunk?
Oh, gee, maybe you're like Timmy (TIMMMMYYYYY!!!!) and I've just offended some poor PC shmuck.
Stuff in a SCSI card, and load up the drives. Hopefully, when you spend $20k on kit, there is someone at the place who knows how to recompile a kernel.
You're right. If the guy is so enamored of /., he shouldn't have a problem (and should be quite proud) to have his email posted for the world to see.
Sounds almost like you are describing some sort of database model. There must be somebody who has something like this going. Shouldn't be too hard, either. (Of course, what the hell do I know? I'm just an MBA who knows enough bash scripting and SQL to really screw things up).
Step one in using shipping companies: don't buy extra insurance for expensive shit.
Dude, if it was so important, how come you didn't spend $5 or even $50 for insurance on the shit?
Not sure how it works in Canada, but you might say in the US that giving the package gave them a bailment. They have to take care of your shit. Now, it would be expected that you might have some dings on your boxen, and some other problems. But showing the condition of your stuff should prove more than exceptional incompetance. So, even if they denied the bailment, you could show that the damage was so agregious that it should have been forseeable.
At this point, I think the real question is: what is the condition of the drives? This might be your only recourse at this point.
Sounds like the screen on the IBM ThinkPad 360P. Those hinges were really cool... Until you used them for about six months...
No, it sounds like the ram increase will give you the necessary time to make the switch.
(OK, that's a bit pollyanna-ish, but if you were that close...)
A ferrari vs. lambo vs. porsche shootout is pointless, yet many magazines do them. How to build a $10,000 small block engine is pointless, yet there is at least one or two per year in hot rod.
Many publications do pointless things. Not always is the point "this matters". Sometimes it is "isn't this some cool shit?"
Like the Linux kernel source. I'm not going to monkey with it, but a handful of others will.
Let me play devil's advocate (seriously):
Yes, you can get a patch to kernel 2.foo very quickly. But it can take weeks/months for RH to get a package out. Perhaps M$ can get the code fixed, but not quickly send out a package (and in some ways they do. They send out hotfixes, and only later service packs).
Why? In both instances, the companies have to make sure that by fixing one problem, they don't create several others.
So yes, you can get quick fixes to Samba, the kernel, etc. But it takes time for commercial vendors to roll out the patches.
(And, having said all that, I used to use Progeny, and am switching to Debian. They get out patched packages really damned fast.)
While I agree with the sentiment, the logic is faulty. The tires resulted in deaths. To my knowledge, nobody has been killed by a BSOD.
(Of course, there is also some evidence that the drivers were at fault at least as much as the tires. And, there is the argument that microsoft has done vast economic damage to the country, including government and other businesses. But I don't think either of these really has to do with your question.)
No Press Release, no info, no nothing. But they are going to give me a toy for free, so let me pimp them here.
(PS, please be nice to them. They might advertise on my site.)
(PPS, Microsoft bad. Linux good.)
Love,
CT
I have the cut version. A buddy of mine and I in HS bought comics through NEC (neither of us had a driver's license at the time to hit a local shop). Somehow or another (letter published?) he got one of the uncut number 2's. Saw him two or three weeks ago at HS reunion (10 yr). He's still got it.
That's SOP around here. I submitted an article about RedHat buying a good sized chunk of VA. It was rejected.
I mean, it's not as if we are posting insider information. This stuff is coming from PR, Yahoo, Cnet, etc.
Unfortunately, the pillow biter from MD already caved in.
Not to mention that his staff was less than helpful.
This is merely a fluke.
While I think the south ca. 1860 was a bunch of rotten bastards, they were well within their rights to secede. The federal government was overstepping their bounds (and not just WRT slavery). So, the first Republican president was as dead set against states' rights as any other president (with the possible exception of FDR).
Since that time (and before. Look up the Whiskey Rebellion) there have been numerous cases of the Fed riding roughshod over the states.
FWIW, while DMCA, SSSCA, etc. get all of the press, water rights, highway appropriations, etc. are the bread and butter of governments (federal, state, and local).
All in all, you are right. Like you, I'm very glad to see that some states have remembered that they are sovereign over the federal government. Not only that, but they are doing it for the right reasons (not just to keep 'funny looking people' out of schools). But it won't last. If it weren't for our current state of national unity, I wouldn't at all be surprised to see Ashcroft threaten to make it harder for the states to use the resources of the DOJ if they didn't knuckle under to this decision.
A problem with the US justice system: you have to examine only the case at hand for the time at hand. IOW, if I kill somebody while on bail, that can't be used as evidence at the first trial. Similarly, MS shafting people now has no bearing on the events of ca. 5 years ago.
It gets really weird when you consider that the 'penalty' can take later actions into account. Or at least it seems that way. Not sure about the law.
But, if what a poster said yesterday is correct, it doesn't matter. The EU can take XP into account, Win2002, or whatever. (And contrary to the belief of some, especially in Redmond, the European market DOES matter. As does the Chinese market. And the Indian market, etc, etc, etc. The US is still the biggest fish in the pond. But if all those middle sized fish pulled in the same direction, the big fish would have no choice but to follow. And here's another hint: the US ain't gettin' smaller, but China (and others) are getting bigger.)
You are probably correct. As has been stated in other articles on the topic, much of this case is water under the bridge, crying over spilt milk, etc. Netscape is gone, the property of AOL.
But, a comment I read (presumably from a European reader. Also, not one that I can verify. I'm just an ignant 'Merican) said that the EU (or some body) can keep adding new tactics to their actions against MS. This would mean that while the browser competition might be all over but for the shouting, the MS file/print sharing is alive and well.
So, much like the Revolutionary War (or the War of Colonial Insurrection), and the war of 1812, we gotta look to the French to bail us out.