why on earth do all distribs get all the modules installed and enabled by default? most people do not need SSL, and those who need it should be able to change the httpd.conf to load the module accordingly?
i think it is questionnable to have apache running by default. users who want a server should know enough to turn it on by hand. but turning SSL on by default is just plain wrong.
i would not blame the openSSL team either. there is a reason why they do not ship as 1.0...
the Metro Atlanta Rapid (sic) Transit Authority has had a proptotype of this with a Dasani commercial between the Dunwoody and Sandy Springs station for more than a year now.
in my office building, one of the two rolls of paper is 'locked' by a little sticker which urges you to 'help save earth's resources by finishing the first roll first'- it also mentions that it is a patented device.
>>Innovation may be tolerated, depending on circumstances. Disruptive technology will be eliminated at all costs.
>Two counter-examples: > > * The PC - essentially destroyed the existing computer industry. It won despite opposition because it was so compelling. > * The Internet - highly disruptive to a number of industries. It won because it hit several existing industries hard and didn't compete wholly with one, so the opposition was split.
well, these two were launched by IBM and the DoD, which are not exactly good examples of 'average citizen'.
the reason some movies are released several months later in europe is not a technical issue, but a marketing issue.
the studios send actors and the director to TV shows before the release of a movie to promote it, and it is hard to do it on american TV networks and european ones at the same time.
for most movies the different soundtracks are produced simultaneously, the dubbing is rarely done afterward.
The drawback of the STL is that debuggers do not know about it yet, for the most part, and show you the implementation of the STL objects instead of their semantic values.
>Amateurs don't need safety nets because no one uses their code and no one cares if it breaks. > >Professionals do, though. People use the code professionals write. When I'm riding on an airplane I care if the software breaks.
This is all relative. You do want some safety checks but i am glad that planes do not have to carry all the measuring equipment that is hooked onto reactors in testing labs. This is why i do not like java.
people complaining about grades on introductory courses are pathetic.
introductory courses are designed to help you find out what you are good at. if you do not enjoy the class or pass it painlessly you will hurt yourself by going on with that discipline.
freshman classes are like your first week with the company. you might not be fired if you look substr() in a manual, but that might be an indication that you should not be given the really tough string parsing module as main responsibility.
failing a freshman class does not mean that you are not given any degree, it should be a signal that you might want to not chose that particular disciplin as a major.
How can a particular combination of bits on a CD crash your computer, much less "cause damage to your computer"?
a CD only becomes a sequence of bit once a CD reader has translated the magneto optic structure of the disc into information. the way this information is encoded is standardized. if a particular CD is violating this standard the decoding from physical structure to information fails. this is similar to a hardware failure, and only in your dreams can drivers handle all and any kind of HD failures. drivers are included in the kernel and are not in user space. a driver failure can have unpredictable consequences.
> My point was that writing code intended to crash >a system isn't hard at all if you're not using a >real operating system. It wouldn't be hard to >destroy the registry or corrupt the master boot >record, especially if the user in question >happens to have administrator privlages.
well..drivers happen to be the least controlable pieces of code. and that is true whatever OS you are using... there is a reason why mission critical machines have as few peripherals as possible. no driver can pretend to react gracefully to all hardware failures, and a driver running amok is bad.
i have crashed a sun workstation with 100+ days uptime with a bad audio CD. drivers happen to be the processes the scheduler has the least control over... i could see that mount process trashing badly, and even root could not kill it.
so you think a system where all but a couple of representatives belong to two parties who are massively funded by corporate lobbies is more democratic?
or maybe a real democracy is a democracy where you can be elected president without a majority of votes, and with a command of the english language that would make you fail english 101 in a german high school?
no..what then? the fact that the incarceration rate is second only to china?
several posts have been comparing this to diesel generators pointing how this does not stand the competition.
H is not a good source of energy. But the availability of fuel cells makes it a nice way to store and transport energy, and that was the big missing link for most renewable energies. now the energy produced by wind or sun can be stored (relatively) cheaply, and solar powered houses might survive cloudy weeks. producing H from electricity uses water ( it does not have to be drinkable water) and the byproduct is oxygen.
>>The oil economy does infinitely more harm than good...
>Seems like completely uninformed bogosity to me.
last time i looked, the countries who relied on oil were not exactly ocuntries in which i would want to be an average citizen ( except for norway). would you?
>Fair enough, but how would this be changed if oil went away?
I did not say it would be better. I was just reacting to someone that claimed the end of fossile fuel economy would be bad for the fossile fuel producers. I was just pointing oil is a blessing which has been misused in most cases.
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why on earth do all distribs get all the modules installed and enabled by default? most people do not need SSL, and those who need it should be able to change the httpd.conf to load the module accordingly?
i think it is questionnable to have apache running by default. users who want a server should know enough to turn it on by hand. but turning SSL on
by default is just plain wrong.
i would not blame the openSSL team either. there is a reason why they do not ship as 1.0...
L
the Metro Atlanta Rapid (sic) Transit Authority has had a proptotype of this with a Dasani commercial between the Dunwoody and Sandy Springs station for more than a year now.
L
If you leave the bones in when you are making your chicken broth you ARE manufacturing gelatine. No
need to look further.
L
in my office building, one of the two rolls of paper is 'locked' by a little sticker which urges you to 'help save earth's resources by finishing the first roll first'- it also mentions that it is a patented device.
L
Matlab does not run on big iron. Big problems need big iron.
oliver the red complains that:
> 2.4 isn't SMP reliable(read the 2.6 change log!!!)
and goes from there to:
>I might let my mum use the 2.6 kernel, but for the next 2 years shell be using windows.
i wonder what your mum is doing that needs a multi-processors machine, oliver......
>Why you would pick a place in downtown Raleigh for an RTP party is beyond me
why? what is wrong with raleigh?
I can't believe all you know of meshell is that duet with John Mellencamp. What kind of trailer park radio are you listening to?
Meshell Ndegeocello is kickass bass player and one the few musicians who did not compromise after getting a few hits.
She is also very involved in race and sex politics, and has taken positions against the recording industry's monopoly.
She is touring now. If you like the mp3, do not miss the show.
do not be so proud of your ignorance.
she is one of the best living musician touring these days. the irony is that her website used to give away mp3s....
L
>>Innovation may be tolerated, depending on circumstances. Disruptive technology will be eliminated at all costs.
>Two counter-examples:
>
> * The PC - essentially destroyed the existing computer industry. It won despite opposition because it was so compelling.
> * The Internet - highly disruptive to a number of industries. It won because it hit several existing industries hard and didn't compete wholly with one, so the opposition was split.
well, these two were launched by IBM and the DoD, which are not exactly good examples of 'average citizen'.
the reason some movies are released several months
later in europe is not a technical issue, but a
marketing issue.
the studios send actors and the director to TV shows before the release of a movie to promote it, and it is hard to do it on american TV networks and european ones at the same time.
for most movies the different soundtracks are produced simultaneously, the dubbing is rarely
done afterward.
L
The drawback of the STL is that debuggers do not
know about it yet, for the most part, and show
you the implementation of the STL objects instead
of their semantic values.
>Amateurs don't need safety nets because no one uses their code and no one cares if it breaks.
>
>Professionals do, though. People use the code professionals write. When I'm riding on an airplane I care if the software breaks.
This is all relative. You do want some safety checks but i am glad that planes do not have to carry all the measuring equipment that is hooked
onto reactors in testing labs. This is why i do not like java.
people complaining about grades on introductory courses are pathetic.
introductory courses are designed to help you find out what you are good at. if you do not enjoy the class or pass it painlessly you will hurt yourself by going on with that discipline.
L
freshman classes are like your first week with the company. you might not be fired if you look substr() in a manual, but that might be an indication that you should not be given the really tough string parsing module as main responsibility.
failing a freshman class does not mean that you are not given any degree, it should be a signal that you might want to not chose that particular disciplin as a major.
How can a particular combination of bits on a CD crash your computer, much less "cause damage to your computer"?
a CD only becomes a sequence of bit once a CD reader has translated the magneto optic structure of the disc into information. the way this information is encoded is standardized. if a particular CD is violating this standard the decoding from physical structure to information fails. this is similar to a hardware failure, and only in your dreams can drivers handle all and any kind of HD failures. drivers are included in the kernel and are not in user space. a driver failure can have unpredictable consequences.
> My point was that writing code intended to crash >a system isn't hard at all if you're not using a >real operating system. It wouldn't be hard to >destroy the registry or corrupt the master boot >record, especially if the user in question >happens to have administrator privlages.
well..drivers happen to be the least controlable pieces of code. and that is true whatever OS you are using... there is a reason why mission critical machines have as few peripherals as possible. no driver can pretend to react gracefully to all hardware failures, and a driver running amok is bad.
i have crashed a sun workstation with 100+ days uptime with a bad audio CD. drivers happen to be
the processes the scheduler has the least control over... i could see that mount process trashing badly, and even root could not kill it.
infinite loops in drivers are BAD...
well done..!
>they live in pseudo-democratic goverment
so you think a system where all but a couple of representatives belong to two parties who are massively funded by corporate lobbies is more democratic?
or maybe a real democracy is a democracy where you can be elected president without a majority of votes, and with a command of the english language that would make you fail english 101 in a german high school?
no..what then? the fact that the incarceration rate is second only to china?
the good news is even if you own a copy of word or subscribe to AOL you won't be drafted.
several posts have been comparing this to diesel generators pointing how this does not stand the competition.
H is not a good source of energy. But the availability of fuel cells makes it a nice way to store and transport energy, and that was the big missing link for most renewable energies. now the energy produced by wind or sun can be stored (relatively) cheaply, and solar powered houses might survive cloudy weeks. producing H from electricity uses water ( it does not have to be drinkable water) and the byproduct is oxygen.
Laurent
>>The oil economy does infinitely more harm than good...
>Seems like completely uninformed bogosity to me.
last time i looked, the countries who relied on oil were not exactly ocuntries in which i would want to be an average citizen ( except for norway). would you?
>Fair enough, but how would this be changed if oil went away?
I did not say it would be better. I was just reacting to someone that claimed the end of fossile fuel economy would be bad for the fossile fuel producers. I was just pointing oil is a blessing which has been misused in most cases.