to pull in techno-wannabe's, not/.ers and other 'real' talent.
"April 6, 1999
Thanks for checking out our source code! I plan to use this space to post special messages to those who are helping to improve our web site -- by making our source code the best it can be. The fact that you are peeking behind the scenes at our site means you can make an important difference to this Internet effort. I'm grateful for your help and support in this campaign. Now let's keep working to build the 21st Century of our dreams!
Al Gore"
meaning, "If you are bright enough to click 'view source' in your browser, we want you to think you can be part of our elite techno-political team."
This seems aimed at people who don't really know that much, but just enough to jump on his bandwagon and regurgitate his tripe to anyone who will listen (or who they can corner)!
I think this might be pretty effective at attracting this (probably pretty large) segment of almost-clueless voters who know just enough to be able to boot their computer, browse the web, and find their way to the voting boot.
well, duh... read the faq, it says they will have to verify the hit by analyzint the data themselves. Do you think they will announce they found ET when Johnny cracks the code and starts sending false positives?
I don't think so...
(not that I disagree that it would be nice to get the source, just don't follow the argument)
well, it works here fine (linux firewall)
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I have a linux box (486) that just does masquerading for my machines at home here, I just fired up setiathome on my PII450 box and it connected thru my firewall fine, so I'm happy.:-)
Either I miss your point or you are not talking about 5.2 - it *does* create default partitions if you choose workstation or server class install.
From spending some time on redhat.general and redhat.config and redhat.x.general, the majority of problems people seem to have are with 1) video cards not supported in 3.3.2 of xfree86 and 2) winmodems
There should be a bright pink card that falls out of the box when you open the RH 5.2 distribution that says "look at this list of supported video hardware, if your card isn't on it, go to www.xfree86.org and dl 3.3.3.1 - if you have a winmodem, go buy a new modem before you try to install RedHat Linux 5.2"
This would eliminate 20-30% of posts on these newsgroups by prople having trouble installing Redhat 5.2
Which is why a checker is needed. I didn't say a spellchecker is needed because/.ers can't spell (although that seems to be the general inference, not intentionally implied).
Now why didn't *I* think of that. You are entirely correct, no amount of military attack or occupation has been able to overcome the ethnic hatred between these groups for hundreds of years.
Sabotage their culture! What an elegant and simple solution!;-) Turn them into vacant, morally bankrupt, selfish, materialistic [sp?] MTV-drones (read: Americans), they will no longer have any motivation to do anything, much less go on genocidal expeditions.
"We don't, as a population, know where the nation is let alone the political details of the reasons for the coflict."
Where is the nation of Kosovo? Er, that's rather the point isn't it? There is no 'nation' in the geographic sense, is there? The ethnic Albanians (at least the KLA?) want to create a seperate state from the Yugo's, Kosovo is a 'province' or something of Yugoslavia.
I know this is somewhat off-topic, but I think it lends credence to your argument that most of the US population doesn't know what the conflict is about, or where it is, or what the US/NATO goal(s) is(are) in the conflict.
But then most US citizens are only dimly aware of anything that happens outside of the US anyway, unless there is a really good sound-bite on the news about a couple hundred americans being blown up by a car-bomb.
No one understands or cares, that's why we go in with push-button warfare. I'm not saying its right or wrong (I'll keep that opinion to myself), its just sad that the average American has so little knowledge or interest in world affairs. (as in, "screw the news, what time is 'the simpsons' on?")
This is a time-honored tradition, it only lasts one day, most people expect it. I am enjoying it.
prepared to not get real news today
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Oh foo! Go to CNN if you can't take one day of senseless siliness! Then come back tomorrow, for crying out loud. I fully expected not to read anything credible today on anything but CNN or Reuters.
All you who are crying foul at a pile of steaming AFD stories are too thin-skinned, or you take things too-seriously (which is rather the whole point, eh?)
So go get a coke, read the paper or get back to work. Maybe ponder a little why a few prank stories upset you so much. Gaze at your navel for a while and maybe you will finally get this whole thing.
Or don't - see if I care. Rob, don't change a thing, its great!
Cookies - now *that's* geek humor!
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uh, my sexual preference is not there, but religion (misspelled) income_bracket, iq, last_time_you_brushed_teeth, mothers_maiden_name, visa_num (I use American Express, dammit!) soc_sec_num and high_school_gpa (dropped out) are all there!
:-) Funny stuff!
Cookies - now *that's* geek humor!
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That's a riot!
visa, ssn, gpa, last time you brushed your teeth, it's all there!
Man its scary how much your privacy can be compromised just by surfing the 'net!;-)
Well, from hanging around a couple of the redhat newsgroups, I have seen this issue of the CD connected to the sound card at least a couple times, even had this issue myself.
When I got my 4x SoundBlaster bundled with a SB16 card, the instructions *told* me to connect the IDE cable to the sound card. (this was a 486). This machine was the first Linux install I attempted. When I installed to a more current PC, I obviously did not have this issue.
Even the HOWTO mentions that linux treats this as ide3, and you should reconnect the CD as a slave on one of the other ide interfaces.
Oh, gee wow, an objective write up of two microsoft employees' experience in trying to install Linux!
Man, the whole time I was reading this, I kept thinking this sounded like they were handed "talking points" to make sure they put the right FUD slams in.
How transparent. Let's see them hand a PC with OS/2 installed and ask them to dual-boot install Windows 98!
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Nope, sorry - he threw out the only 266 mhz 386 ever in existance! :-)
to pull in techno-wannabe's, not /.ers and other 'real' talent.
"April 6, 1999
Thanks for checking out our source code! I plan to use this space to post
special messages to those who are helping to improve our web site -- by making
our source code the best it can be. The fact that you are peeking behind the
scenes at our site means you can make an important difference to this Internet
effort. I'm grateful for your help and support in this campaign. Now let's
keep working to build the 21st Century of our dreams!
Al Gore"
meaning, "If you are bright enough to click 'view source' in your browser, we want you to think you can be part of our elite techno-political team."
This seems aimed at people who don't really know that much, but just enough to jump on his bandwagon and regurgitate his tripe to anyone who will listen (or who they can corner)!
I think this might be pretty effective at attracting this (probably pretty large) segment of almost-clueless voters who know just enough to be able to boot their computer, browse the web, and find their way to the voting boot.
well, duh... read the faq, it says they will have to verify the hit by analyzint the data themselves. Do you think they will announce they found ET when Johnny cracks the code and starts sending false positives?
I don't think so...
(not that I disagree that it would be nice to get the source, just don't follow the argument)
I have a linux box (486) that just does masquerading for my machines at home here, I just fired up setiathome on my PII450 box and it connected thru my firewall fine, so I'm happy. :-)
Are you sure about that? I could swear I read a while ago that it would. That anyone who had http trough a proxy would be able to use this.
sure here it is! (from their FAQ)
Are there any issues concerning the SETI@home software and firewalls?
SETI@home uses the HTTP protocol, and should work through any firewall that allows outgoing Web traffic.
http://setiathome.ssl.berkeley.edu/faq.html
...who noticed a very wide gap (yawning chasm, even) between the Title and intro of this article and the actual content!
Got to the bottom, said "hmmm... what was this supposed to be about again?"
Either I miss your point or you are not talking about 5.2 - it *does* create default partitions if you choose workstation or server class install.
From spending some time on redhat.general and redhat.config and redhat.x.general, the majority of problems people seem to have are with 1) video cards not supported in 3.3.2 of xfree86 and 2) winmodems
There should be a bright pink card that falls out of the box when you open the RH 5.2 distribution that says "look at this list of supported video hardware, if your card isn't on it, go to www.xfree86.org and dl 3.3.3.1 - if you have a winmodem, go buy a new modem before you try to install RedHat Linux 5.2"
This would eliminate 20-30% of posts on these newsgroups by prople having trouble installing Redhat 5.2
Which is why a checker is needed. I didn't say a spellchecker is needed because /.ers can't spell (although that seems to be the general inference, not intentionally implied).
Now why didn't *I* think of that. You are entirely correct, no amount of military attack or occupation has been able to overcome the ethnic hatred between these groups for hundreds of years.
;-) Turn them into vacant, morally bankrupt, selfish, materialistic [sp?] MTV-drones (read: Americans), they will no longer have any motivation to do anything, much less go on genocidal expeditions.
Sabotage their culture! What an elegant and simple solution!
Great idea! (grrr....)
I mean, sheesh!
"We don't, as a population, know where the nation is let alone the political details of the reasons for the coflict."
Where is the nation of Kosovo? Er, that's rather the point isn't it? There is no 'nation' in the geographic sense, is there? The ethnic Albanians (at least the KLA?) want to create a seperate state from the Yugo's, Kosovo is a 'province' or something of Yugoslavia.
I know this is somewhat off-topic, but I think it lends credence to your argument that most of the US population doesn't know what the conflict is about, or where it is, or what the US/NATO goal(s) is(are) in the conflict.
But then most US citizens are only dimly aware of anything that happens outside of the US anyway, unless there is a really good sound-bite on the news about a couple hundred americans being blown up by a car-bomb.
No one understands or cares, that's why we go in with push-button warfare. I'm not saying its right or wrong (I'll keep that opinion to myself), its just sad that the average American has so little knowledge or interest in world affairs. (as in, "screw the news, what time is 'the simpsons' on?")
This is a time-honored tradition, it only lasts one day, most people expect it. I am enjoying it.
Oh foo! Go to CNN if you can't take one day of senseless siliness! Then come back tomorrow, for crying out loud. I fully expected not to read anything credible today on anything but CNN or Reuters.
All you who are crying foul at a pile of steaming AFD stories are too thin-skinned, or you take things too-seriously (which is rather the whole point, eh?)
So go get a coke, read the paper or get back to work. Maybe ponder a little why a few prank stories upset you so much. Gaze at your navel for a while and maybe you will finally get this whole thing.
Or don't - see if I care. Rob, don't change a thing, its great!
uh, my sexual preference is not there, but religion (misspelled) income_bracket, iq, last_time_you_brushed_teeth, mothers_maiden_name, visa_num (I use American Express, dammit!) soc_sec_num and high_school_gpa (dropped out) are all there!
:-) Funny stuff!
That's a riot!
;-)
visa, ssn, gpa, last time you brushed your teeth, it's all there!
Man its scary how much your privacy can be compromised just by surfing the 'net!
Exactly, what major organization *doesn't* sluff its execs around every 12-18 months? ( i know Mine does)
Now, if they had announced they were splitting into different companies, *that* would be news.
Well, from hanging around a couple of the redhat newsgroups, I have seen this issue of the CD connected to the sound card at least a couple times, even had this issue myself.
When I got my 4x SoundBlaster bundled with a SB16 card, the instructions *told* me to connect the IDE cable to the sound card. (this was a 486). This machine was the first Linux install I attempted. When I installed to a more current PC, I obviously did not have this issue.
Even the HOWTO mentions that linux treats this as ide3, and you should reconnect the CD as a slave on one of the other ide interfaces.
Yup, can't ignore it any longer, it seems.
If this is the best they can do to scare people off by this 'subtle' campaign of mis-information and fear-mongering, they have already lost!
Oh, gee wow, an objective write up of two microsoft employees' experience in trying to install Linux!
Man, the whole time I was reading this, I kept thinking this sounded like they were handed "talking points" to make sure they put the right FUD slams in.
How transparent. Let's see them hand a PC with OS/2 installed and ask them to dual-boot install Windows 98!