Actually, i think that 1984 isn't as genious as it appears to be. Simply Orwell did for a big part live totalitarianism and the sliding into it, during the spanish civil war. 1984 is his last book, but in fact it is the result of all his former books (think "animal's farm"), that were all elaborated upon his experience. The part of genious in 1984 stands in the way Orwell uses to have his message delivered, his style, and the idea of placing the story in a world of strong (science-)fiction, thus allowing to explore in very explicit ways a lot of the aspects of totalitarianism.
Though i guess he's less well-known to american readers, André Malraux followed a path similar to Orwell, and added political involvment to it. Of course his style is very much different (Malraux tend to write more like a journalist, without any SF or so), and he wrote books on a lot of other topics, but his books about the spanish civil war and all the danger of totalitarianism also give a very string insight of it. Of course, you could add a bunch of Russian authors also, such as Soljenitsine. Finally, this time closer to Orwe'lls work, Huxley's "Brave new world" should also be noted.
that's what's cool about free software: the choice. soon there will be several distros based on GNUStep, and trying to get the best of OSX world into Linux. so the ones who like OSX will choose these ones, and the others will go Novell-SuSE/Mandrake:-)
No, it's via DSL, not cable. Cable is generally very crappy in France, because of the way it was developped. Most cable companies were recently sold by their former owners, for cheap, and unless a miracle, they'll go bankrupt in the near future, because they won't be able to catch up with DSL or Digital TV Broadcasting over the air.
Well... - TV comes for free (well, included in the 29,99 main fee) ! You have to pay if you want _more_ than the 100 channels of the "basic" fee. Well, ok, you have to, because the "basic" fee is essentially broadcasting foreign and crappy local channels. - They provide you a static IP. that rocks: i bought my domain name, and a mini-itx of course running linux to serve it at that IP. - The FreeBox itself is running Linux, though it is the property of Free and you don't have the right to modify it. - Free.fr uses IPoA, not PPPoE/A : cool ! the FreeBox behaves as an ethernet bridge. - connection is done very simply by DHCP: no login/password ! the DSLAM knows you after all ! - plenty of extensions available (WiFi) or soon available (hard disk) - lots of customization through their interface, also included in 29,99 (router mode, change interleave/fastpath, change reverse DNS,...) - support available through NNTP (that's good, because their 0,34euros/min hotline isn't working very well)
It's really not bad, and it was done smart way... For instance TV is multicasted from their central infrastructure to all the DSLAMs through fiber. Then when you zap using the remote control, it sends an order to the DSLAM, that selects for you the channel you want to watch, and send it to the freebox using raw ATM cells (thus sparing the IP encap).
On the bad side, all this is a bit complex, especially if you add that the phone cable from home to DSLAM still belongs to Free.fr #1 competitor, France Telecom. So there are lots of problems, though the things are slowly improving.
Oh and i live 3.1km from DSLAM, and get "only" 5Mb/s... but that's ADSL... (i'm too far from DSLAM to get real benefit of ADSL2+) I think that soon i should get RE-ADSL2, which should help improving things a bit.
Actually, several clues tend to prove a meteor isn't the cause of permian extinction. For instance, there should be a thin layer of irridium (or any other stuff) coming from the meteor or its explosion/impact, and laying on the ground after the blast... Also their proof about having found the meteor impact site doesn't seem very convincing. Now, they need to explain why we don't find such clues, and they haven't done it yet.
For now, the only convincing scenario involves volcanism and oceanic methan tanks (methan is stored inside ocean, both dissolved and inside seabed). Big volcanism activity in what is today Siberia (and there are proofs of it) increases mean temperature for about 5-10 C by producing greenhouse effect. Then with such increase, methan starts to evaporate from ocean, induces more greenhouse effect, and mean temperature goes up 5-10C more. At the same time, it kills life in the ocean. That 10-20C increase in mean temperature is enough to kill 80% of species on the surface of the ground. So that scenario explains everything better than the meteor theory.
Forgive my bad English... I think that this explanation could be found on some american scientific website, so feel free to post the link. Oh, and you can find more info there
well, if i understand (feet ?? hey, meters !!!), it's something like this. it's a European company that started at first in Belgium and France, and it's very very common here.
You also have tons of automatic dispensers (machines for coffee, sodas, sandwiches) of much smaller size everywhere, but i think it should exist in the US. However i'm surprised that such shops didn't exist before.
and this site is not up to date, considering that this version(8 tons for GTO) and this version(10.5 tons to GTO) of Ariane 5 now exists, and that this one will be there soon too, this last one being able of 23 tons max payload into GTO for dual launch.
LOL ! I bet you've never been in such countries... DVDs and CDs cost practically nothing, simply because they are copied locally, illegally as you may guess... this is in fact the #1 source for the "Big Piracy", that MPAA/RIAA/others want to fight against with taxes on blank CDs and so on.
believe me, a CD in some market around Moscow costs nothing ($1 or $2), and has been illegally copied in some more-or less hidden small factory not very far from there.
copyright is a luxury in such countries, and nobody gives a damn about MPAA/RIAA fantasies. Region coding is only a problem from people from EU, USA and Australia, and maybe Japan, that's all.
and here is the IHS (integrated heat spreaders) at anandtech.
yes, it is in fact very good news they decided to add it. putting and removing heatsink+fan on AMD CPU is not that easy to do nowadays (thermal paste and so on). fortunately it's not something you do every day....
the (off-)topic was Reagan's "Star Wars", not Reagan's action in a braoder way.
Afghanistan is another story, since the first mistake was made by USSR by sending Red Army there, and Reagan exploited it the same way USSR (and China) exploited VietNam war, but recent history proved that it was playing with fire in some aspects. It was however a good idea, because it forced USSR to face the eventuality that their dictature could have an end, since they were unable to maintain the Empire with the use of the Red Army. This paved the way for reformist to gain voice, of course, but, that changes nothing, the system was doomed to fail since the 60's, as it in the facts became a pure dictature, with no or very few link to communism, and an economy that was about to die because of that situation.
Then about keeping oil prices law.. let me laugh.. the two "shocks", in the 70's, made the petroleum prices fly high, and secret treaties didn't change that a lot. Moreover, i'm not very sure of that, but i think a great part of Russian petroleum was used inside the Soviet Empire, they exported only a bit, mostly to buy food.. but, to that aspect, it was already a failure of the system, since the 60's, as i noticed. And depriving the people from food only push them closer to their leaders, as Saddam's recent history proved again. As a contrary, don't underestimate the role of the Pope. His clear position in Poland was extremely important. You don't need only money to fight, faith helps a lot, especially in such desperate situations, because it pushed the people away from their leaders, a thing that all the money funding Solidarnosc couldn't do.
this is all what Perestroïka and Glasnost attempt were about: opening the system just enough to break from the "frozen age", instituted by Brezhnev and continued by Andropov and Tchernenko.
In fact, Khroutchev knew what would happen to USSR since the 60's, it was written in the rock. When he tried to develop agriculture and housing to provide food and housing to every sovietic, and failed (they had to buy wheat to the US...), they knew their system will die, because it wasn't economically efficient, and not only in the computer area. I've been there, and can tell u that not only communist "computers" are funny (ever seen the inside of a Russian spaceship a soyuz or whatever ?), but, moreover, their housing is a nightmare, falling apart and so.
Brezhnev and Company attempts were just to keep the dictature up for a bit more time, so that they keep their power a bit more time. Gorbatshev was young, he knew it couldn't last for decades, so he HAD to change the system. (btw, China DID change it in the same way, using "Market Communism")
From the 70's on to the 80's, the main occupation of sovietic people was to look for food, and clothes and so, NOT to work. Imagine their lives, going every morning to their work for a few hours, with their bag "in case" they find something to buy - anything, clothes, food, shoes, whatever.
In all that disaster, all the stuff about Reagan's "Star Wars" is simply a joke. Karol Wotjyla and Lech Walesa did more for the end of the Soviet Empire than Ronald Reagan.
end of the French Revolution, which is usually said to end with the execution of the King in January 1793 execution was on 21st of January, 1793, right, but something is wrong in the analysis. 3 analysis are possible: 1- French revolution took place in 1789 (Bastille and so on), and ends same year, when the king recognizes the Assembly and privileges are abolished 2- French revolution is dated 1789-1792. In September 1792, the rolyalty is abolished, and the first Republic starts 3- French revolution is dated 1789-1795. In October 1795, the "Convention" stops, after war against France has ended in 1794 and Robespierre has been executed same year.1794 is also the end of the regime of the "Comités" (Comitee in English, Soviet in Russian).After one year killing those Jacobins who headed that Comités regime, in October 1795, the first stable regime, "Directoire", is established.
In no way, the death of Louis XVI is an important date as for the French Revolution, simply because when he was executed, he wasn't in charge for quite a long time already.
Now as for Copyright. It was invented in Anne Stuart's act in 1710, in a very light way, to protect authors. But the protection was very thin, and short in time (two periods of 14 years). This law was therefore present in the "American Colonies", and the US Congress passed it as a US law, in the Constitution on 17th September 1790. But, after that, the French Revolution "improved" it a lot. In 1777, Beaumarchais created the first association of authors, as a lobby to negociate prices of author's work for every use of it being done, not only in printing, but also for instance playing theatre (so not only pure copy right, but more widely author right). This paved the way for a law, much larger than the 1710 English one. In 1789, Declaration of Human Rights recognizes implicitely Authors Rights (Articles 11 and 17), though not explicitely. The law was passed by the Assembly on 19th January 1791, and improved again in 1793.
So as a whole, absolutely nothing is clear in that. The principle was invented as a law, a thin one, in England in 1710, though the idea of it as always been known (Platon, the Greek philosopher, asks for it 4 centuries BC). And the French Revolution, a few years later, improves it a lot. Considering Beaumarchais action, it's pretty clear that, at least in France, the aim was really to protect authors.
what is important to notice is that, in those two markets, they're not monopolies.
there are other big service companies (Accenture, Cap Gemini Ernst & Young, etc.), and in the mainframes, they have competition from Sun, SGI, or PC networks. It's only on very big mainframes that i don't think they have competitors anymore, but it's a niche market (in spite of the price of one of these babies).
btw, i understand absolutely nothing about what is done in my RH 7.2 about that ! neither prelink nor objprelink seems to be installed or available as packages. very strange because the guy making prelink is from redhat.
even more strange, here is a trace of exec: $ LD_DEBUG=statistics konqueror 02593: 02593: runtime linker statistics: 02593: total startup time in dynamic loader: 197802673 clock cycles 02593: time needed for relocation: 191792475 clock cycles (96.9%) 02593: number of relocations: 20241 02593: number of relocations from cache: 33562 02593: time needed to load objects: 5807702 clock cycles (2.9%)
considering the low level of relocations, i assume there is some (obj)prelink done somewhere. from what i discussed once with bero, i think it's fully prelinked. but, there are no/etc/prelink.conf or.cache or/usr/sbin/prelink..
moreover, where to find a true website about prelink, FAQ, HOWTO and stuff ? all i can get is mail archive, which is completely clueless. to add to my confusion, i found that. well, as u've understood, i'm lost, and i can't even access to people.redhat.com to download the damn thing, i don't know why, but connection's refused. clues anyone ?
and, finally, did someone try to compare prelink and objprelink, or the combination of the two, to see which method is the fastest/more efficient ?
The difference between VIA and SiS when you consider running Linux on it is very simple: VIA hasn't given the specs of its chipsets, the drivers are reverse-engineered. SiS has. So SiS chipsets are supported far better on Linux...
technically, the first powered flight of a machine heavier than air was by Clement Ader's Eole, in 1890, as you can see here.
however, Ader's planes lacked evolved flight controls (no tail, and thus very difficult to pilot), and the lack of power of the steam engine was another big issue.
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Actually, i think that 1984 isn't as genious as it appears to be. Simply Orwell did for a big part live totalitarianism and the sliding into it, during the spanish civil war.
1984 is his last book, but in fact it is the result of all his former books (think "animal's farm"), that were all elaborated upon his experience. The part of genious in 1984 stands in the way Orwell uses to have his message delivered, his style, and the idea of placing the story in a world of strong (science-)fiction, thus allowing to explore in very explicit ways a lot of the aspects of totalitarianism.
Though i guess he's less well-known to american readers, André Malraux followed a path similar to Orwell, and added political involvment to it. Of course his style is very much different (Malraux tend to write more like a journalist, without any SF or so), and he wrote books on a lot of other topics, but his books about the spanish civil war and all the danger of totalitarianism also give a very string insight of it. Of course, you could add a bunch of Russian authors also, such as Soljenitsine. Finally, this time closer to Orwe'lls work, Huxley's "Brave new world" should also be noted.
actually another project is getting there close.
:-)
that's what's cool about free software: the choice. soon there will be several distros based on GNUStep, and trying to get the best of OSX world into Linux. so the ones who like OSX will choose these ones, and the others will go Novell-SuSE/Mandrake
No, it's via DSL, not cable. Cable is generally very crappy in France, because of the way it was developped. Most cable companies were recently sold by their former owners, for cheap, and unless a miracle, they'll go bankrupt in the near future, because they won't be able to catch up with DSL or Digital TV Broadcasting over the air.
Well... ...)
... but that's ADSL... (i'm too far from DSLAM to get real benefit of ADSL2+) I think that soon i should get RE-ADSL2, which should help improving things a bit.
- TV comes for free (well, included in the 29,99 main fee) ! You have to pay if you want _more_ than the 100 channels of the "basic" fee. Well, ok, you have to, because the "basic" fee is essentially broadcasting foreign and crappy local channels.
- They provide you a static IP. that rocks: i bought my domain name, and a mini-itx of course running linux to serve it at that IP.
- The FreeBox itself is running Linux, though it is the property of Free and you don't have the right to modify it.
- Free.fr uses IPoA, not PPPoE/A : cool ! the FreeBox behaves as an ethernet bridge.
- connection is done very simply by DHCP: no login/password ! the DSLAM knows you after all !
- plenty of extensions available (WiFi) or soon available (hard disk)
- lots of customization through their interface, also included in 29,99 (router mode, change interleave/fastpath, change reverse DNS,
- support available through NNTP (that's good, because their 0,34euros/min hotline isn't working very well)
It's really not bad, and it was done smart way... For instance TV is multicasted from their central infrastructure to all the DSLAMs through fiber. Then when you zap using the remote control, it sends an order to the DSLAM, that selects for you the channel you want to watch, and send it to the freebox using raw ATM cells (thus sparing the IP encap).
On the bad side, all this is a bit complex, especially if you add that the phone cable from home to DSLAM still belongs to Free.fr #1 competitor, France Telecom. So there are lots of problems, though the things are slowly improving.
Oh and i live 3.1km from DSLAM, and get "only" 5Mb/s
http://www.adiumx.com/ It's libGaim + Cocoa GUI.
Actually, several clues tend to prove a meteor isn't the cause of permian extinction. For instance, there should be a thin layer of irridium (or any other stuff) coming from the meteor or its explosion/impact, and laying on the ground after the blast... Also their proof about having found the meteor impact site doesn't seem very convincing.
Now, they need to explain why we don't find such clues, and they haven't done it yet.
For now, the only convincing scenario involves volcanism and oceanic methan tanks (methan is stored inside ocean, both dissolved and inside seabed).
Big volcanism activity in what is today Siberia (and there are proofs of it) increases mean temperature for about 5-10 C by producing greenhouse effect. Then with such increase, methan starts to evaporate from ocean, induces more greenhouse effect, and mean temperature goes up 5-10C more. At the same time, it kills life in the ocean.
That 10-20C increase in mean temperature is enough to kill 80% of species on the surface of the ground.
So that scenario explains everything better than the meteor theory.
Forgive my bad English... I think that this explanation could be found on some american scientific website, so feel free to post the link.
Oh, and you can find more info there
Did we look at the same demo, about "HTML hiding" ?
? id =demo_pop&l=http://www.anti-leech.com&html=tes t
I just found out it was a simple script launched thru javascript pointing to the following location:
http://www.anti-leech.com/html/load_crypted.php
and there the source code can be retrieved very easily...
well, if i understand (feet ?? hey, meters !!!), it's something like this. it's a European company that started at first in Belgium and France, and it's very very common here.
You also have tons of automatic dispensers (machines for coffee, sodas, sandwiches) of much smaller size everywhere, but i think it should exist in the US. However i'm surprised that such shops didn't exist before.
and this site is not up to date, considering that this version(8 tons for GTO) and this version(10.5 tons to GTO) of Ariane 5 now exists, and that this one will be there soon too, this last one being able of 23 tons max payload into GTO for dual launch.
LOL ! I bet you've never been in such countries...
DVDs and CDs cost practically nothing, simply because they are copied locally, illegally as you may guess... this is in fact the #1 source for the "Big Piracy", that MPAA/RIAA/others want to fight against with taxes on blank CDs and so on.
believe me, a CD in some market around Moscow costs nothing ($1 or $2), and has been illegally copied in some more-or less hidden small factory not very far from there.
copyright is a luxury in such countries, and nobody gives a damn about MPAA/RIAA fantasies. Region coding is only a problem from people from EU, USA and Australia, and maybe Japan, that's all.
i reply to myself: u're right, it's not enough ;-)
do a :a phviz-1.7.7-1.i386.rpm
rpm -Uvh ftp://fr2.rpmfind.net/linux/rhcontrib/7.2/i386/gr
it'll work aftewards
and here is the IHS (integrated heat spreaders) at anandtech.
yes, it is in fact very good news they decided to add it. putting and removing heatsink+fan on AMD CPU is not that easy to do nowadays (thermal paste and so on). fortunately it's not something you do every day....
the (off-)topic was Reagan's "Star Wars", not Reagan's action in a braoder way.
Afghanistan is another story, since the first mistake was made by USSR by sending Red Army there, and Reagan exploited it the same way USSR (and China) exploited VietNam war, but recent history proved that it was playing with fire in some aspects. It was however a good idea, because it forced USSR to face the eventuality that their dictature could have an end, since they were unable to maintain the Empire with the use of the Red Army. This paved the way for reformist to gain voice, of course, but, that changes nothing, the system was doomed to fail since the 60's, as it in the facts became a pure dictature, with no or very few link to communism, and an economy that was about to die because of that situation.
Then about keeping oil prices law.. let me laugh.. the two "shocks", in the 70's, made the petroleum prices fly high, and secret treaties didn't change that a lot. Moreover, i'm not very sure of that, but i think a great part of Russian petroleum was used inside the Soviet Empire, they exported only a bit, mostly to buy food.. but, to that aspect, it was already a failure of the system, since the 60's, as i noticed. And depriving the people from food only push them closer to their leaders, as Saddam's recent history proved again.
As a contrary, don't underestimate the role of the Pope. His clear position in Poland was extremely important. You don't need only money to fight, faith helps a lot, especially in such desperate situations, because it pushed the people away from their leaders, a thing that all the money funding Solidarnosc couldn't do.
this is all what Perestroïka and Glasnost attempt were about: opening the system just enough to break from the "frozen age", instituted by Brezhnev and continued by Andropov and Tchernenko.
In fact, Khroutchev knew what would happen to USSR since the 60's, it was written in the rock. When he tried to develop agriculture and housing to provide food and housing to every sovietic, and failed (they had to buy wheat to the US...), they knew their system will die, because it wasn't economically efficient, and not only in the computer area. I've been there, and can tell u that not only communist "computers" are funny (ever seen the inside of a Russian spaceship a soyuz or whatever ?), but, moreover, their housing is a nightmare, falling apart and so.
Brezhnev and Company attempts were just to keep the dictature up for a bit more time, so that they keep their power a bit more time.
Gorbatshev was young, he knew it couldn't last for decades, so he HAD to change the system. (btw, China DID change it in the same way, using "Market Communism")
From the 70's on to the 80's, the main occupation of sovietic people was to look for food, and clothes and so, NOT to work. Imagine their lives, going every morning to their work for a few hours, with their bag "in case" they find something to buy - anything, clothes, food, shoes, whatever.
In all that disaster, all the stuff about Reagan's "Star Wars" is simply a joke. Karol Wotjyla and Lech Walesa did more for the end of the Soviet Empire than Ronald Reagan.
end of the French Revolution, which is usually said to end with the execution of the King in January 1793
execution was on 21st of January, 1793, right, but something is wrong in the analysis.
3 analysis are possible:
1- French revolution took place in 1789 (Bastille and so on), and ends same year, when the king recognizes the Assembly and privileges are abolished
2- French revolution is dated 1789-1792. In September 1792, the rolyalty is abolished, and the first Republic starts
3- French revolution is dated 1789-1795. In October 1795, the "Convention" stops, after war against France has ended in 1794 and Robespierre has been executed same year.1794 is also the end of the regime of the "Comités" (Comitee in English, Soviet in Russian).After one year killing those Jacobins who headed that Comités regime, in October 1795, the first stable regime, "Directoire", is established.
In no way, the death of Louis XVI is an important date as for the French Revolution, simply because when he was executed, he wasn't in charge for quite a long time already.
Now as for Copyright.
It was invented in Anne Stuart's act in 1710, in a very light way, to protect authors. But the protection was very thin, and short in time (two periods of 14 years). This law was therefore present in the "American Colonies", and the US Congress passed it as a US law, in the Constitution on 17th September 1790.
But, after that, the French Revolution "improved" it a lot.
In 1777, Beaumarchais created the first association of authors, as a lobby to negociate prices of author's work for every use of it being done, not only in printing, but also for instance playing theatre (so not only pure copy right, but more widely author right). This paved the way for a law, much larger than the 1710 English one.
In 1789, Declaration of Human Rights recognizes implicitely Authors Rights (Articles 11 and 17), though not explicitely.
The law was passed by the Assembly on 19th January 1791, and improved again in 1793.
So as a whole, absolutely nothing is clear in that. The principle was invented as a law, a thin one, in England in 1710, though the idea of it as always been known (Platon, the Greek philosopher, asks for it 4 centuries BC). And the French Revolution, a few years later, improves it a lot.
Considering Beaumarchais action, it's pretty clear that, at least in France, the aim was really to protect authors.
Gnutella is a nightmare
try mutella, u'll be surprised...
Will you include Mozilla 0.9.9 or Mozilla 1.0 in the release (well, if Moz1.0 is out by that date) ?
well.. they're into services and mainframes.
what is important to notice is that, in those two markets, they're not monopolies.
there are other big service companies (Accenture, Cap Gemini Ernst & Young, etc.), and in the mainframes, they have competition from Sun, SGI, or PC networks. It's only on very big mainframes that i don't think they have competitors anymore, but it's a niche market (in spite of the price of one of these babies).
you're perfectly right. notably in France, it was the case.
btw, i understand absolutely nothing about what is done in my RH 7.2 about that !
/etc/prelink.conf or .cache or /usr/sbin/prelink..
neither prelink nor objprelink seems to be installed or available as packages. very strange because the guy making prelink is from redhat.
even more strange, here is a trace of exec:
$ LD_DEBUG=statistics konqueror
02593:
02593: runtime linker statistics:
02593: total startup time in dynamic loader: 197802673 clock cycles
02593: time needed for relocation: 191792475 clock cycles (96.9%)
02593: number of relocations: 20241
02593: number of relocations from cache: 33562
02593: time needed to load objects: 5807702 clock cycles (2.9%)
considering the low level of relocations, i assume there is some (obj)prelink done somewhere. from what i discussed once with bero, i think it's fully prelinked. but, there are no
moreover, where to find a true website about prelink, FAQ, HOWTO and stuff ? all i can get is mail archive, which is completely clueless.
to add to my confusion, i found that.
well, as u've understood, i'm lost, and i can't even access to people.redhat.com to download the damn thing, i don't know why, but connection's refused. clues anyone ?
and, finally, did someone try to compare prelink and objprelink, or the combination of the two, to see which method is the fastest/more efficient ?
The difference between VIA and SiS when you consider running Linux on it is very simple:
VIA hasn't given the specs of its chipsets, the drivers are reverse-engineered. SiS has.
So SiS chipsets are supported far better on Linux...
you should switch to 2.4.18-rc2-ac2, it has a nice patch for SiS chipsets inside, faster and even more stable...
work is already in progress.
KDE can import GTK/GNOME themes.
And, the other day, launching my favorite GNOME app using KDE, the systray icon/menu went in the right place.
Well, you may smile at such things, but it works, and it's a beginning....
well, not exactly
technically, the first powered flight of a machine heavier than air was by Clement Ader's Eole, in 1890, as you can see here.
however, Ader's planes lacked evolved flight controls (no tail, and thus very difficult to pilot), and the lack of power of the steam engine was another big issue.