It stops your console scrolling, in a word - sometimes makes it so you can pageup/down as well. Of course, that's presuming you know what a "console" is.
Newbies? Who needs them? The days were when newbies wanted to *know* things. Nowadays those of us with more than a milli-brain seem to be expected to pander to them. Get a clue!
I'm a Christian too. Don't take this as an indictment of anything other than your willingness to consider evolution as a "possibility."
First: we must take it as a given that evolution played absolutely no part whatsoever in human origins -- or in the origins of anything else. There is no way to reconcile the scientific cosmology with Genesis 1. Genesis 1 says the earth existed before the sun, that plants existed before the sun, that birds existed before land animals, etc. Genesis 2 says that God made man from dust (not gorillas). These declarations are utterly incompatible with evolution.
For goodness' sake, wake up and smell the coffee! There is no incompatibility between scientific cosmology (is there any other kind?) and Gen.1: - the two are describing totally different aspects of the same thing: cosmology deals with how, and the Bible with "why". The bible presents it in a *poetic* fashion, so if you take it literally that things happened quite that way, you're mad. IMHO, at least:)
That said, I'm not fond of having gorillas as ancestors, but I do wish you literalists would stop confusing what-you-call-cosmology with what-you-call-evolution with something-you-don't-read-as-poetry!
From somewhere in the south-west of London, then, it was a similar sort of experience. Lighting got a bit strange and duller around the moment of totality (elsewhere); with 96.5% coverage it wasn't anything like as dark as it could be, but there was a slight drop in temperature and illumination (sort of twilight).
...I've just got my photos back (1hr processing!) and have some OK ones, the best being taken through those special specs held across the lens (I don't believe in filtering - some of the lens-flare shots are cool anyway!).
Quite good fun, and as has already been noted, an excuse not to work:)
It will bomb among the Linux savvy, but will be a hit in the Windows croud (which is much larger...)
..which is an inherently Bad Thing, imo. I don't WANT a crowd of ex-windows-thought-I'd-try-it-out people knocking my door down asking for support, "piglet, what's linux? what's lilo? does it look like windoze??', simply because there are more of them; I want there to be more intelligentsia than dumbos. Who said Microsoft's old company mission statement was right??
Let's let linux conquer both the server AND the desktop worlds equally. Then I'll be happy.
The problems are that neither all machines are listed in DNS, nor or all web servers running on port 80, let alone that not-all pages are linked from somewhere!
I wonder how this ties-in with evolution of the fittest, where maybe 'fit' includes the idea that some members of the species have a little common sense?!
Honestly, I can't agree more with Douglas Adams' point about knowing mankind had gone insane when he saw instructions on a packet of toothpicks.
Remove the instructions, let common sense reign freer in the courts (just for those asses who'd sue because the sun was off-colour), I say!
Yes, I've deployed squid and OpenSSL, but never used mod_perl to my knowlege.
However, all 3 are only a matter of installing packages. You grab squid*.rpm and you're away, or you select mod_perl in dselect (Debian, of course) and apache reconfigures & restarts itself.
This much is definitely easy; what I will grant folks is that there's more backend processing and order tracking, and maybe the RSA license will cost a bit.
You can get apache, openssl, squid2 and webalizer with SuSE 6.1 - indeed they're all open-source.
I've been to the linked site and read around a bit - it seems full of nothing but marketroid-drivel., but then again I think e-commerce == hype + forms + hype + ssl + hype + CGI, so what do I know?;)
What about RedHat's "package" is worth the remaining $100 ?
Erm... FWIW I thought there was a windoze version:) It's not as though I'd want to use it, being a (predictable) linux chap, but I understand it exists, albeit alpha-ware:)
Mutt is also configureable - or if you have an external editor like vim/vi/emacs you can always pipe the entire document through pgp -at or the equivalent gpg command...
Otherwise, I think there might be a learning curve getting all these windoze weenies onto FreeBSD:8]
Even better still... why bother with PGP with all its commercial connotations and export problems, when you can do much the same things with GnuPG without export restriction (no IDEA or RSA)?
(It doesn't support all the key formats of PGP but things generated in GnuPG can be imported into PGP with no problem...)
Otherwise I agree entirely. Everyone should use ssh, gnupg/pgp-according-to-taste; I also like the idea further down this thread concerning double-encrypting things so you can say you've decrypted it and it is an encrypted file. The alternative is to get the government to back off the 1-level encrypted file as a valid format anyway...
Well, I've just had a quick look at the screenshots. The first was the most off-putting, with "Storm linux. We make linux look good." (in caps) totally contradicting the grammar in "You must now create partitions for Storm to install on top of". Eeeurgh!
FWIW I agree that there is no need for anyone to go round replicating the Windoze GUI under linux. It's fair enough that fvwm95 exists, of course, but I for one think it would help bring it home to the population as a whole that there are more ways to operate than Maximise, Minimise and Nuke.
I didn't see that many installation methods - what was it, CD, NFS and something else? What about multi-CD-over-samba or NFS, for example?
The installer does look cuter than debian's, even in text mode. But how do the run-time package-manglement tools look?
Agree. Anyone thinking of a m$loth "natural" keyboard, take a good look at the cursor key set before you buy. I cannot fit all 3 pinkies on to an area so small, so it'd rule out Duke Nukem for starters. Guess that's why I'm not using one of them either:)
I'm fortunate to have a classic guitar background, so I know what you mean. Initially, when you're either out of practice or positioning is bad, the left hand hurts like blazes. If all you do is "powerchord" (wth?) then the chances are you could benefit from a bit of proper fingering instruction. One thing to work on: you don't need to grip the neck like grim death - you should be able to at least play a full bar-chord without the thumb touching the neck at all.
As far as (back to computing:) keyboards and mice go, I've found the Trust ergonomic keyboard to be useful, and logitech mice over m$loth ones, to be useful... but I need a better chair than this crappy bar-stool all day long... ~Tim --
For some strange reason I'm glad vital life-services don't depend on Internet services administered by anyone on this kind of regime!;8/
You also can quit moaning and get another job.
ISTR I was first interviewed for a job doing a 6hr week for £9000/yr in a crappy internet-hosting sort of startup. I can't say I'm all that sorry to have not had a completely compatible skill-set, given that I'm now on of that:8)
Perhaps it's stating the obvious but it occurs to me the best thing is not for the UN to "tax" mails (be they long or whatever), but instead for a large organisation like Amnesty International to make a simple java applet available securely so that whenever one wants to make a donation, you can just click over -->there, sort of thing. This avoids all the problems inherent in taxation and you can at least find out pretty easily who's on the receiving end.
Anyone want to code it for them, that's the question?:)
1 epistle every 11s isn't normal, even for me, but lots of people using spam bulk-delivery tools might stand a chance of bringing that up a bit, mightn't it?
Yeah, sort of. I think it's like this: a) if you concentrate on 'what happened before' then you end up with a Terminator film pair, done before. b) if you don't know where your temporal gland is pointing, you end up with Back to the Future, also done before c) if you concentrate too much on the hi-tech effects you end up with Lawnmower Man (1 & 2) d) if you concentrate on the violence and kicking of butt, you end up with a Jackie Chan movie. e) if you concentrate too much on "computers" you end up with Hackers [note: I only saw the trailers here and they alone turned me off], sort of "A unix workstation! I know how to use that!".
Not that there's anything particularly wrong with any of the above films, and indeed I like the majority of them. What sets The Matrix apart is the way the "VR" bits are behind the plot but not as tackily done as LM2, for example.
ISTM something that explains the previous history of the film, the hinted-at war, sky problems and attempts to code The Matrix, whilst taking it further forward (here I'll leave the relevant folks to use some imagination!) simultaneously, would be good.
Aha.. well I used to play more guitar and now my weight's gone up a bit too. I wonder...:)
Actually, I'm not that unhappy with it really... slows me down a bit, I'm sure, but I think maybe eating more clementines might help by staving off the hunger a bit... we shall see:) ~Tim --
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It stops your console scrolling, in a word - sometimes makes it so you can pageup/down as well.
Of course, that's presuming you know what a "console" is.
Newbies? Who needs them? The days were when newbies wanted to *know* things. Nowadays those of us with more than a milli-brain seem to be expected to pander to them. Get a clue!
~Tim
--
I'm a Christian too. Don't take this as an indictment of anything other than your willingness to
consider evolution as a "possibility."
First: we must take it as a given that evolution played absolutely no part whatsoever in human
origins -- or in the origins of anything else. There is no way to reconcile the scientific
cosmology with Genesis 1. Genesis 1 says the earth existed before the sun, that plants existed
before the sun, that birds existed before land animals, etc. Genesis 2 says that God made man
from dust (not gorillas). These declarations are utterly incompatible with evolution.
For goodness' sake, wake up and smell the coffee!
There is no incompatibility between scientific cosmology (is there any other kind?) and Gen.1: - the two are describing totally different aspects of the same thing: cosmology deals with how, and the Bible with "why". The bible presents it in a *poetic* fashion, so if you take it literally that things happened quite that way, you're mad. IMHO, at least
That said, I'm not fond of having gorillas as ancestors, but I do wish you literalists would stop confusing what-you-call-cosmology with what-you-call-evolution with something-you-don't-read-as-poetry!
~Tim
--
From somewhere in the south-west of London, then, it was a similar sort of experience. Lighting got a bit strange and duller around the moment of totality (elsewhere); with 96.5% coverage it wasn't anything like as dark as it could be, but there was a slight drop in temperature and illumination (sort of twilight).
:)
...I've just got my photos back (1hr processing!) and have some OK ones, the best being taken through those special specs held across the lens (I don't believe in filtering - some of the lens-flare shots are cool anyway!).
Quite good fun, and as has already been noted, an excuse not to work
~Tim
--
The phrase "I should be so lucky" comes to mind! :P
:)
~Tim
--
It will bomb among the Linux savvy, but will be a hit in the Windows croud (which is much larger...)
..which is an inherently Bad Thing, imo. I don't WANT a crowd of ex-windows-thought-I'd-try-it-out people knocking my door down asking for support, "piglet, what's linux? what's lilo? does it look like windoze??', simply because there are more of them; I want there to be more intelligentsia than dumbos. Who said Microsoft's old company mission statement was right??
Let's let linux conquer both the server AND the desktop worlds equally. Then I'll be happy.
Incidentally, what about SuSE and YaST?
~Tim
--
...that when it came to capacity, 1 Kb was 1024 bytes, but 1Mb was 1024 x 1000 bytes, so 1M = 1000K...
;8]
Perhaps a more worthy poll question would be "do you count off the sizes in `ls -l` in 3s or 2s?"
~Tim
--
The problems are that neither all machines are listed in DNS, nor or all web servers running on port 80, let alone that not-all pages are linked from somewhere!
~Tim
--
You could always do something constructive with procmail though.. either bounce it straight back or stick an EXITCODE in or something :)
~Tim
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-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE-----
:)
9 U+0OehDWsnfST3/9
Hash: SHA1
Foo!
That's just totally evil. As a protest, this is signed using GnuPG - properly
GPL'd and everything
Restricting everyone's right to communicate in any fashion they like is
basically assuming everyone's guilty until proven innocent, which sucks.
~PigleT
-----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE-----
Version: GnuPG v0.9.8 (GNU/Linux)
Comment: For info see http://www.gnupg.org
iEYEARECAAYFAjeh5wcACgkQh3MeQyZWueRh+wCeJfrfIVL
r+cAnj1Iwfg2WeMPV9tU0dng/5pRMBHD
=t61T
-----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
~Tim
--
Honestly, I can't agree more with Douglas Adams' point about knowing mankind had gone insane when he saw instructions on a packet of toothpicks.
Remove the instructions, let common sense reign freer in the courts (just for those asses who'd sue because the sun was off-colour), I say!
~Tim
--
Yes, I've deployed squid and OpenSSL, but never used mod_perl to my knowlege.
However, all 3 are only a matter of installing packages. You grab squid*.rpm and you're away, or you select mod_perl in dselect (Debian, of course) and apache reconfigures & restarts itself.
This much is definitely easy; what I will grant folks is that there's more backend processing and order tracking, and maybe the RSA license will cost a bit.
Oh well...
~Tim
--
Same old suits-must-pay scenario, and I guess it's only too true.
Question is, then, what can we do about it?
~Tim
--
You can get apache, openssl, squid2 and webalizer with SuSE 6.1 - indeed they're all open-source.
;)
I've been to the linked site and read around a bit - it seems full of nothing but marketroid-drivel., but then again I think e-commerce == hype + forms + hype + ssl + hype + CGI, so what do I know?
What about RedHat's "package" is worth the remaining $100 ?
~Tim
--
Erm... FWIW I thought there was a windoze version :) :)
:8]
It's not as though I'd want to use it, being a (predictable) linux chap, but I understand it exists, albeit alpha-ware
Mutt is also configureable - or if you have an external editor like vim/vi/emacs you can always pipe the entire document through pgp -at or the equivalent gpg command...
Otherwise, I think there might be a learning curve getting all these windoze weenies onto FreeBSD
~Tim
--
Even better still... why bother with PGP with all its commercial connotations and export problems, when you can do much the same things with GnuPG without export restriction (no IDEA or RSA)?
:)
(It doesn't support all the key formats of PGP but things generated in GnuPG can be imported into PGP with no problem...)
Otherwise I agree entirely. Everyone should use ssh, gnupg/pgp-according-to-taste; I also like the idea further down this thread concerning double-encrypting things so you can say you've decrypted it and it is an encrypted file. The alternative is to get the government to back off the 1-level encrypted file as a valid format anyway...
~Tim, GnuPG and PGP keys on website
~Tim
--
Well, I've just had a quick look at the screenshots.
The first was the most off-putting, with "Storm linux. We make linux look good." (in caps) totally contradicting the grammar in "You must now create partitions for Storm to install on top of". Eeeurgh!
FWIW I agree that there is no need for anyone to go round replicating the Windoze GUI under linux. It's fair enough that fvwm95 exists, of course, but I for one think it would help bring it home to the population as a whole that there are more ways to operate than Maximise, Minimise and Nuke.
I didn't see that many installation methods - what was it, CD, NFS and something else? What about multi-CD-over-samba or NFS, for example?
The installer does look cuter than debian's, even in text mode. But how do the run-time package-manglement tools look?
~P
~Tim
--
D'oh!
:P
It's the kernel that makes the OS, not the set of packages and their configuration files around it.
init is just an application, yeah?
Next you'll be telling us Windows 95 OEM1 and OEM2 are separate OSs because of the filesystem support (FAT32), or something.
Troll!
~Tim
--
It's possible for software to be free and support not to be, imo - support is 'wetware', sort of thing.
OTOH if the two are linked (eg "no s/ware without support") then run awaaaayy...
~Tim
--
Agree. Anyone thinking of a m$loth "natural" keyboard, take a good look at the cursor key set before you buy. I cannot fit all 3 pinkies on to an area so small, so it'd rule out Duke Nukem for starters. :)
Guess that's why I'm not using one of them either
~Tim
--
I'm fortunate to have a classic guitar background, so I know what you mean.
:) keyboards and mice go, I've found the Trust ergonomic keyboard to be useful, and logitech mice over m$loth ones, to be useful... but I need a better chair than this crappy bar-stool all day long...
Initially, when you're either out of practice or positioning is bad, the left hand hurts like blazes.
If all you do is "powerchord" (wth?) then the chances are you could benefit from a bit of proper fingering instruction.
One thing to work on: you don't need to grip the neck like grim death - you should be able to at least play a full bar-chord without the thumb touching the neck at all.
As far as (back to computing
~Tim
--
For some strange reason I'm glad vital life-services don't depend on Internet services administered by anyone on this kind of regime! ;8/
:8)
You also can quit moaning and get another job.
ISTR I was first interviewed for a job doing a 6hr week for £9000/yr in a crappy internet-hosting sort of startup. I can't say I'm all that sorry to have not had a completely compatible skill-set, given that I'm now on of that
~Tim
--
Perhaps it's stating the obvious but it occurs to me the best thing is not for the UN to "tax" mails (be they long or whatever), but instead for a large organisation like Amnesty International to make a simple java applet available securely so that whenever one wants to make a donation, you can just click over -->there, sort of thing.
:)
This avoids all the problems inherent in taxation and you can at least find out pretty easily who's on the receiving end.
Anyone want to code it for them, that's the question?
~Tim
--
1 epistle every 11s isn't normal, even for me, but lots of people using spam bulk-delivery tools might stand a chance of bringing that up a bit, mightn't it?
Gee, them email headers. Long things, them...
~Tim
--
Yeah, sort of. I think it's like this:
a) if you concentrate on 'what happened before' then you end up with a Terminator film pair, done before.
b) if you don't know where your temporal gland is pointing, you end up with Back to the Future, also done before
c) if you concentrate too much on the hi-tech effects you end up with Lawnmower Man (1 & 2)
d) if you concentrate on the violence and kicking of butt, you end up with a Jackie Chan movie.
e) if you concentrate too much on "computers" you end up with Hackers [note: I only saw the trailers here and they alone turned me off], sort of "A unix workstation! I know how to use that!".
Not that there's anything particularly wrong with any of the above films, and indeed I like the majority of them. What sets The Matrix apart is the way the "VR" bits are behind the plot but not as tackily done as LM2, for example.
ISTM something that explains the previous history of the film, the hinted-at war, sky problems and attempts to code The Matrix, whilst taking it further forward (here I'll leave the relevant folks to use some imagination!) simultaneously, would be good.
~Tim
--
Aha.. well I used to play more guitar and now my weight's gone up a bit too. I wonder... :)
:)
Actually, I'm not that unhappy with it really... slows me down a bit, I'm sure, but I think maybe eating more clementines might help by staving off the hunger a bit... we shall see
~Tim
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