Dude, did you even BOTHER to read the text of the executive order? Nowhere does it state or imply "mandatory internet censorship", it does say:
(3) The potential for new or existing tools and capabilities to educate and empower parents, teachers, and others to prevent or to minimize the risks from unlawful conduct that involves the use of the Internet
It also happens to state that the working group should take into consideration current "Internet policy", which promotes self-regulation "and an appreciation of the Internet as an important medium both domestically and internationally for commerce and free speech."
There doesn't appear to be anything bad about this at all really. You don't have a problem with "the illegal sale of guns, explosives, controlled substances, and prescription drugs, as well as fraud and child pornography"?
Hell, they didn't even mention warez or illegally exported crypto stuff!
I have one. They ROCK. Instead of carrying around 5 different notebooks at school, I have 5 different categories in memopad. I can touch type on it. I can email my notes to friends, save them, print them out, back them up. Very nice.
I meant to say RMS has the emotional, ethical appeal. And to the other poster - I couldn't give less of a damn about free software on any other platform than Linux. And Free/Open Software, or however you choose to describe it, is what the advancement of Linux is all about.
We need both ESR and RMS, and both their styles of rhetoric. ESR has a practical appeal, gunning for businesses to Open Source. ESR has an emotional, ethical appeal which draws in the intellectual, philosophy reading crowd.
Together, they attack Open Source or Free Software from two different angles to two different types of people. Both types are important to the advancement of Linux.
Well, I just got done doing some comparison shopping. buy.com is cheaper than amazon. And they have a low price guarantee - they'll match the price and give you $1 if you find it within 7 days.
I got cryptonomicon for $4 less, 5 or 6 dvd's for $3-6 less, and the only one that was more expensive was $0.60 more, and I submitted the price match, so I'll get $1.60 off.
Dagnabbit, they don't even have their long over announced patch for Civ:CTP out. I'd like to be able to play network games with glibc 2.1 as well as play with windows users.
Re:There's a little more info in the Bugtraq post.
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It's about 4hrs slower than the teardrop fix, if your calculations are correct. Still, much faster than any patch or bugfix MS has ever made.
This is assuming that existence is by definition linear. That's the way we experience time and life, but I have my doubts that that's the way it really is.
No no no. As has been said before, don't use apache, use zeus. On both NT & Linux. The purpose here is supposed to be to test the underlying OS, not the web server. If you use apache for linux, you should use apache for NT, and you can't do that as apache for NT isn't up to par with apache for linux.
Also, they say that linux folks may be present, but will they pay linux people's travel costs and missed time at work for those like Linus whose jobs are not linux "enterprise" related?
What I'm wondering about is, what if the linux community does respond, and they have 4/500 people show up as members of the linux community to oversee the testing? hehehehehe.
Quite frankly, I think that MS should have challenged a linux vendor to come forward for the testing.
Shel Silversteins books have given many children a love of reading, of literature.
I used A Light in the Attic extensively during my tutoring of a 3rd grader this semester, and gave my student the book at the end.
I grew up on his poems, loved them as a child because they were cute and silly. And I've found new appreciation for them as an adult, with the breadth of emotion and meaning in many (not all, but many) of them (The Giving Tree, Old Man and Little Boy, Deaf Donald, and Hitting come to mind), and their ability to draw in children who wouldn't read otherwise.
I'm sitting here at work, eyes watering, about to cry.:(
I found Caldera 2.2 to be missing quite a few things. While it's nice that it's geared towards non-techie/non-linux users, it leaves a lot to be desired for someone who is.
For example, there's no rxvt, no compress, no uncompress, no pine, no jed/joe/jove/pico.
I guess you're supposed to use vi/emacs/kedit, but frankly vi's no fun and emacs can be slow, and kedit is no good if you're not running X.
The lack of rxvt in inexcusable, IMHO, because no matter how great kvt is, it just doesn't work with the vga font and there's no way to turn of utmp/wtmp logging, so it's no good for bitchx, and if you have 10 of the darn things open, you have 10 logins.
Likewise the lack of compress/uncompress. I know it's not used that much anymore, but it's still handy to have in a base install.
The installation is fairly nice. Since it's geared at desktop users I'm not going to scream to loudly about the fact that there's no non-X based install option. I experienced on hitch with the install, it automagically installs lilo to the MBB instead of the MBR since it comes with Boot Magic. I already had lilo installed, so I had to go back and fdisk/mbr from a boot floppy to get to my miniscule doze partition to install boot magic.
The startup screen is nifty, minimizing what you see on boot, change anything around, recompile your kernel, and you're bound to get a bunch of big red "FAIL"'s next to events though. The Caldera Open Admin System can be confusing, and the apps are not well integrated. They really need a gnome/kde control panel type interface that unites the apps.
I have to mention the price point. It's $29.99 at CompUSA, with a $10.00 mail in rebate. The RedHat box sitting next to it on the shelf is $79.99. Which is a newbie, who doesn't know if he'll stick with linux, more likely to pick up? Probably Caldera. Will Caldera help the newbie stick with Linux? Probably not.
At any rate, I've gone back to my home-burned Linux Mandrake 5.3 (RedHat 5.2 with kde and some updates), with an obscene number of hacks and changes.:)
Personally, I can't wait for a glibc based slackware.
NeoPlanet's "hack of mozilla" will be a commercial product maintained by NeoPlanet.
GTK-Mozilla is no more. GTK has been adopted as the X front-end for all unix Mozilla ports, has been for awhile.
The ability for people to "rip off the source" is one of the powers of OSS. It's a GOOD THING. And why has it taken so long? Can we say almost a 100% rewrite? Jeez.
Mozilla is the open source netscape browser. Netscape will use Mozilla as a basis for Communicator. Anyone is free to make their own custom Mozilla using the source code, provided they follow the license.
While I don't believe this is the case even for a second,if one proceeds on the assumption that this is true, MS is still in trouble. MS Office is their bread and butter. Kill that... ooooh.:)
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The principal in consideration here is an old one, your rights end where anothers begin. Laws exist to clarify where those rights actually end.
I for one wish we could live in a world where laws were unecessary, but I don't see it as really feasible.
Taking this EO as the start of a slide down the slippery slope to fascism is just plain reactionary, paranoid bullshit.
It also happens to state that the working group should take into consideration current "Internet policy", which promotes self-regulation "and an appreciation of the Internet as an important medium both domestically and internationally for commerce and free speech."
There doesn't appear to be anything bad about this at all really. You don't have a problem with "the illegal sale of guns, explosives, controlled substances, and prescription drugs, as well as fraud and child pornography"?
Hell, they didn't even mention warez or illegally exported crypto stuff!
This reminds me of the Gargoyle's in SnowCrash.
At least I think that's what they were called.
Internet wired, video enabled data hounds.
I have one. They ROCK. Instead of carrying around 5 different notebooks at school, I have 5 different categories in memopad. I can touch type on it. I can email my notes to friends, save them, print them out, back them up. Very nice.
I meant to say RMS has the emotional, ethical
appeal. And to the other poster - I couldn't
give less of a damn about free software on
any other platform than Linux. And Free/Open
Software, or however you choose to describe it,
is what the advancement of Linux is all about.
I find it interesting that it doesn't even
rate an entry on the andovernews.com page.
I noticed they have a cartoon of the day.
Wouldn't it be cool if they carried uf?
We need both ESR and RMS, and both their styles of
rhetoric. ESR has a practical appeal, gunning for
businesses to Open Source. ESR has an emotional,
ethical appeal which draws in the intellectual,
philosophy reading crowd.
Together, they attack Open Source or Free Software
from two different angles to two different types
of people. Both types are important to the
advancement of Linux.
They are different sides of the same coin.
bladeenc is quite good if you use 160k/sec+
Better than l3enc/mp3enc at any rate.
Well, I just got done doing some comparison shopping. buy.com is cheaper than amazon. And
they have a low price guarantee - they'll match
the price and give you $1 if you find it within
7 days.
I got cryptonomicon for $4 less, 5 or 6 dvd's
for $3-6 less, and the only one that was more
expensive was $0.60 more, and I submitted the
price match, so I'll get $1.60 off.
Pretty cool I must say.
Dagnabbit, they don't even have their long over announced patch for Civ:CTP out. I'd like to be able to play network games with glibc 2.1 as well as play with windows users.
It's about 4hrs slower than the teardrop fix, if your calculations are correct. Still, much faster than any patch or bugfix MS has ever made.
This is assuming that existence is by definition
linear. That's the way we experience time and life, but I have my doubts that that's the way
it really is.
I was there. It was fun. I was a little messed up tough. :)
:)
Me, Octx, Rob & Mandrake... and some drunk kid from linux radio....
How about a /box that shows what the current dev
and stable kernels are? That would save the postings...
What I'd like to see them do, with or without using Zeus, is to publish cost/performance ratios on software alone.
We know that Linux isn't perfect, it's still evolving, ever more rapidly.
I'm going to work on a response to their bullet list. Should be interesting.
Dagnabbit something icky happened to the url.
It's actually http://www.zeus.co.uk/
No no no. As has been said before, don't use apache, use zeus. On both NT & Linux. The purpose here is supposed to be to test the underlying OS, not the web server. If you use apache for linux, you should use apache for NT, and you can't do that as apache for NT isn't up to par with apache for linux.
Also, they say that linux folks may be present, but will they pay linux people's travel costs and missed time at work for those like Linus whose jobs are not linux "enterprise" related?
What I'm wondering about is, what if the linux community does respond, and they have 4/500 people show up as members of the linux community to oversee the testing? hehehehehe.
Quite frankly, I think that MS should have challenged a linux vendor to come forward for the testing.
Easy answer: None.
No X at all. Make it a server oriented distro.
Shel Silversteins books have given many children
:(
a love of reading, of literature.
I used A Light in the Attic extensively during my
tutoring of a 3rd grader this semester, and gave
my student the book at the end.
I grew up on his poems, loved them as a child because they were cute and silly. And I've found new appreciation for them as an adult, with the breadth of emotion and meaning in many (not all, but many) of them (The Giving Tree, Old Man and Little Boy, Deaf Donald, and Hitting come to mind), and their ability to draw in children who wouldn't read otherwise.
I'm sitting here at work, eyes watering, about to cry.
Typos abound. No warranties express or implied. :)
:)
I wonder if Rob will ever implement the ability
for use non-AC's to edit our posts.
I found Caldera 2.2 to be missing quite a few things. While it's nice that it's geared towards non-techie/non-linux users, it leaves a lot to be desired for someone who is.
/mbr from a boot floppy to get to my miniscule doze partition to install boot magic.
:)
For example, there's no rxvt, no compress, no uncompress, no pine, no jed/joe/jove/pico.
I guess you're supposed to use vi/emacs/kedit, but frankly vi's no fun and emacs can be slow, and kedit is no good if you're not running X.
The lack of rxvt in inexcusable, IMHO, because no matter how great kvt is, it just doesn't work with the vga font and there's no way to turn of utmp/wtmp logging, so it's no good for bitchx, and if you have 10 of the darn things open, you have 10 logins.
Likewise the lack of compress/uncompress. I know it's not used that much anymore, but it's still handy to have in a base install.
The installation is fairly nice. Since it's geared at desktop users I'm not going to scream to loudly about the fact that there's no non-X based install option. I experienced on hitch with the install, it automagically installs lilo to the MBB instead of the MBR since it comes with Boot Magic. I already had lilo installed, so I had to go back and fdisk
The startup screen is nifty, minimizing what you see on boot, change anything around, recompile your kernel, and you're bound to get a bunch of big red "FAIL"'s next to events though. The Caldera Open Admin System can be confusing, and the apps are not well integrated. They really need a gnome/kde control panel type interface that unites the apps.
I have to mention the price point. It's $29.99 at CompUSA, with a $10.00 mail in rebate. The RedHat box sitting next to it on the shelf is $79.99. Which is a newbie, who doesn't know if he'll stick with linux, more likely to pick up? Probably Caldera. Will Caldera help the newbie stick with Linux? Probably not.
At any rate, I've gone back to my home-burned Linux Mandrake 5.3 (RedHat 5.2 with kde and some updates), with an obscene number of hacks and changes.
Personally, I can't wait for a glibc based slackware.
What ticks me off is they're advertising the compressed space, assuming a 2:1 compression ratio. The media is only 15GB
NeoPlanet's "hack of mozilla" will be a commercial product maintained by NeoPlanet.
GTK-Mozilla is no more. GTK has been adopted as the X front-end for all unix Mozilla ports, has been for awhile.
The ability for people to "rip off the source" is one of the powers of OSS. It's a GOOD THING. And why has it taken so long? Can we say almost a 100% rewrite? Jeez.
Mozilla is the open source netscape browser. Netscape will use Mozilla as a basis for Communicator. Anyone is free to make their own custom Mozilla using the source code, provided they follow the license.
While I don't believe this is the case even for a second,if one proceeds on the assumption that this is true, MS is still in trouble. MS Office is their bread and butter. Kill that... ooooh. :)
Isn't it interesting... the damn kid who did the
shooting doesn't make the list of responislbe parties.