If RedHat were really into free software or something, they'd find a way to buy it, make it open-source or something, and end up allowing *other distros* to carry it as well. And that'd be cool, and a killer app indeed.
I've also wondered about this 'control' thing - it appears bigtime in encryption, and carries on into trade wars (cows eating the wrong kind of bananas, was it?:) , etc. Always "Uncle Sam knows best" syndrome, and there's one big and easy counter-example I could throw in to blow the idea out of the water...
Is there no way of getting those in government who have "power" to exert it responsibly, for the people's good, rather than to forward their own agendas as politicians? (Given that voting for one party or another just brings in another load of megalomaniac politicians...)
Well, it probably doesn't do reliability in the wake of hardware (sounds like a hard thing at the best of times), but you can add Zope for 'making pretty pictures easy', too:)
Actually I thought I saw this article somewhere else recently, and posted a followup there - this bit about business sense being the only sense really got on my wick, and it still does today!
As I see it (and I used to work for a database company, supporting one or two linux offerings), the otherwise-commercial RDBMS vendors are all merely trying to get on the bandwagon as a way to making customers later, so the best way to keep linux "pure" is to stick with something like postgresql (for features and completeness) or MySQL (for speed at the expense of features).
Sort of. I don't mind the background (limited) and some speculation (very limited). What I really objected to was the feeling that alternate sentences were interesting or stating the blindingly (pathetic pun intended) obvious. Hence the comment about target audience - it seems to be trying to appeal to nobody of all areas, rather than anybody in one field.
I don't buy any 'invasion of privacy' stuff - if it violates the law of the land by transferring pr0n over a state boundary (or whatever dodgy rule they have in the US) then it violates it. And someone who breaks the law deserves their ass kicked. (Of course, that law being a bit off is a different matter - you discuss the law first and break it second, not the other way round, though.)
Is one allowed to say he's one sick bunny, these days?
Nope, the NFS speed is totally useless. If you want speed, the best thing I've encountered is ncp (check freshmeat) - it's basically tar over the network, you just stick a server in the destination directory, and push stuff over - gets quite a high bandwidth utilisation.
Use mutt. I believe it has support for gpg as well as pgp, natively.
Alternatively, if your editor supports a pipe-through-command function (! in vim, etc) you can pipe the whole mail through pgps -at and enter the signing password blind, and hey presto, it'll replace the mail with a PGP-signed version of itself...
I once got Coda up & running, even over a modem. Something I'm not sure about, though: I know that with NFS, everything stays on the server and is dished-up for all to see. However, the impression I got with Coda was that you have a server into which you put clients, all of whom are saying 'I've got this share available'. So the file stays on the client, and other clients' requests go via the server to the client.
NFS works fine for me - especially on redhat and/or suse boxes. I do occasionally have problems getting the blasted thing to accept incoming requests, but by & large that's a simple config thing *somewhere*.
Hmmm, funny. I was going to recommend proftpd, as at least it works; of course there's always ncftpd instead - a search on freshmeat.net should find plenty of ftpds though:)
Freedom dance? At least our queen doesn't demand the keys to every door in the country like your poxy government continually threatens to with encryption, so ner!:P
Interesting exchange with my manager this past week: "VNC - it does *this* - and you mean it's FREE?!" "Of course! What else would I be doing downloading it?!"
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The way I see it, it's better to have world domination through more valuable signal strength from fewer geeks than more noise by bums-on-seats windoze lusers.
It's *mindshare* that counts as to "who wins", if you're playing that game, not how many slave-peasants you have in tow...
FWIW There is a difference between the cases I mentioned - in the first one it's a set-up, in the second the kid is aware it's a cop and is providing the information to *assist* the cop (a probably-good thing) rather than to forward trade towards the baddie (a Bad Thing).
I'd agree though, the mandatoriness of the life sentence is crap too though.
"Otherwise he was certainly providing that information on the basis that it would be used to commit a crime."
Bullshit. Otherwise, he was providing information either to a known cop as part of a set-up, which renders the whole thing invalid, or he was only saying that person/might/ have something, and the "cop" needn't have got any, or he was providing information on the basis that it would be used to/spot/ a crime and bring those involved to justice.
I think it considerably more likely that some injustice was done to this chap, and ought to be rectified.
MP3s should be entirely legal. Rather than screwing around with those who believe in free noise as well as free speech (and possibly free beer), why don't the courts clamp down on the music industry instead?
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Is a patent really issuable to something that's been in use for a few thousand years already?
;)
This would, however, be a tie-in to RedHat.
:(
If RedHat were really into free software or something, they'd find a way to buy it, make it open-source or something, and end up allowing *other distros* to carry it as well. And that'd be cool, and a killer app indeed.
How come I can't see it happening any day soon?
I've also wondered about this 'control' thing - it appears bigtime in encryption, and carries on into trade wars (cows eating the wrong kind of bananas, was it? :) , etc.
Always "Uncle Sam knows best" syndrome, and there's one big and easy counter-example I could throw in to blow the idea out of the water...
Is there no way of getting those in government who have "power" to exert it responsibly, for the people's good, rather than to forward their own agendas as politicians?
(Given that voting for one party or another just brings in another load of megalomaniac politicians...)
Perhaps it's time someone invented a load-balanced postgresql-running fail-over / cluster thing of some description then :8)
:)
Technology's the same, really - and I happen to like some of the postgresql ways of blitting data from one server to another, too.
Just my $0.002
Well, it probably doesn't do reliability in the wake of hardware (sounds like a hard thing at the best of times), but you can add Zope for 'making pretty pictures easy', too :)
Actually I thought I saw this article somewhere else recently, and posted a followup there - this bit about business sense being the only sense really got on my wick, and it still does today!
As I see it (and I used to work for a database company, supporting one or two linux offerings), the otherwise-commercial RDBMS vendors are all merely trying to get on the bandwagon as a way to making customers later, so the best way to keep linux "pure" is to stick with something like postgresql (for features and completeness) or MySQL (for speed at the expense of features).
Sort of. I don't mind the background (limited) and some speculation (very limited).
:)
What I really objected to was the feeling that alternate sentences were interesting or stating the blindingly (pathetic pun intended) obvious. Hence the comment about target audience - it seems to be trying to appeal to nobody of all areas, rather than anybody in one field.
But that's just my paranoid impression
Yeah?
Maybe journalists should know what they write about or shut up. I don't need to read rubbish that doesn't know what its target audience is.
"All stars emit ultraviolet light, so compact digital cameras sensitive to that wavelength could open a new window on the universe."
Erm, yeah, like I didn't know that?
More to the point, what is a digital camera, at eg 1152x864 resolution, going to see that the big boys can't now?
I think the whole thing is just a tad simplistic but ludicrously optimistic, typical journalist-meets-brains syndrome...
Quite so, well said that chap.
I don't buy any 'invasion of privacy' stuff - if it violates the law of the land by transferring pr0n over a state boundary (or whatever dodgy rule they have in the US) then it violates it. And someone who breaks the law deserves their ass kicked.
(Of course, that law being a bit off is a different matter - you discuss the law first and break it second, not the other way round, though.)
Is one allowed to say he's one sick bunny, these days?
Nope, the NFS speed is totally useless.
If you want speed, the best thing I've encountered is ncp (check freshmeat) - it's basically tar over the network, you just stick a server in the destination directory, and push stuff over - gets quite a high bandwidth utilisation.
Use mutt. I believe it has support for gpg as well as pgp, natively.
Alternatively, if your editor supports a pipe-through-command function (! in vim, etc) you can pipe the whole mail through pgps -at and enter the signing password blind, and hey presto, it'll replace the mail with a PGP-signed version of itself...
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I once got Coda up & running, even over a modem.
Something I'm not sure about, though: I know that with NFS, everything stays on the server and is dished-up for all to see.
However, the impression I got with Coda was that you have a server into which you put clients, all of whom are saying 'I've got this share available'. So the file stays on the client, and other clients' requests go via the server to the client.
Is this a right understanding of the model?
NFS works fine for me - especially on redhat and/or suse boxes.
I do occasionally have problems getting the blasted thing to accept incoming requests, but by & large that's a simple config thing *somewhere*.
as f
Hmmm, funny. I was going to recommend proftpd, as at least it works; of course there's always ncftpd instead - a search on freshmeat.net should find plenty of ftpds though :)
Freedom dance? :P
At least our queen doesn't demand the keys to every door in the country like your poxy government continually threatens to with encryption, so ner!
:8)
Interesting exchange with my manager this past week:
:)
"VNC - it does *this* - and you mean it's FREE?!"
"Of course! What else would I be doing downloading it?!"
Talk about a meeting of the mentalities...
Hear hear!
"I didn't want to buy happiness, I just wanted to rent it for a while"
(T Pratchett)
The way I see it, it's better to have world domination through more valuable signal strength from fewer geeks than more noise by bums-on-seats windoze lusers.
It's *mindshare* that counts as to "who wins", if you're playing that game, not how many slave-peasants you have in tow...
Heeeeeloooooooo baaaby!
;)
Erm...
Now, do I believe you?
I thought the outer few layers had a tendency to regenerate every ~50 days or something anyway...
;)
Imagine being one big barcode from head to toe...
...but not with a herd of zebra around
Erm.. if they're all glued to their screens, why don't I encounter more of them online? ;|
FWIW There is a difference between the cases I mentioned - in the first one it's a set-up, in the second the kid is aware it's a cop and is providing the information to *assist* the cop (a probably-good thing) rather than to forward trade towards the baddie (a Bad Thing).
I'd agree though, the mandatoriness of the life sentence is crap too though.
"Otherwise he was certainly providing that information on the basis that it would be used to commit a crime."
/might/ have something, and the "cop" needn't have got any, or he was providing information on the basis that it would be used to /spot/ a crime and bring those involved to justice.
Bullshit.
Otherwise, he was providing information either to a known cop as part of a set-up, which renders the whole thing invalid, or he was only saying that person
I think it considerably more likely that some injustice was done to this chap, and ought to be rectified.
Oh, I agree entirely :)
MP3s should be entirely legal. Rather than screwing around with those who believe in free noise as well as free speech (and possibly free beer), why don't the courts clamp down on the music industry instead?