I agree, partitioning can be daunting for a new user. I found RH 5.2 to have a workable compromise between easy (Workstation and Server options) and complete (custom option). Disk Druid needs to have better on-line help, as does the install process in general. The written manual is great, but people are used to hand holding.
That being said, a windows 98 install on a bare computer (unpartioned, unformatted hard drive) is much harder. If you try to run the install without a formatted partion in place you will receive a cryptic message about free space which stops halfway through and freezes the computer hard. You then must format and partition using command line tools fdisk and format which are worse than diskdruid in user friendlyness. All this with no online docs I could find from MS documenting the experience. The actual install is "pretty" and fairly understandable, an experience Linux installs could strive towards. But it does not allow power users to do what needs to be done, requires multiple reboots, and had drivers for less hardware (Matrox Millenium G200, Etherlink 3900) than my linux install.
He ripped on Emacs for bloat, but I think he showed appropriate reverence for GCC and the GPL. While his discussion of GNU userland programs might get RMS's hackles up, it is clear to me that he cares more deeply about the Linux kernel and its design than any particular implementation of an OS that includes it. It's more kernel hackers arrogance than irreverence of the great GNU.
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Mp3 search engines allow RIAA to easily and cheaply find copyright violators whom they can prosecute. Unfortunately for them that would be prohibitively expensive and wouldn't amount to much because very few Mp3 site operators have a lot of money or make money from their site.
So they use strongarm tactics to control the flow of information. It is not illegal to publish the Anarchist's cookbook so how can it be illegal to make a MP3 search site.
I agree censorware is the problem, although not in the way you mean. I mean censorware in the generic sense of software filtering.
Any automated system will always be fatally flawed notwithstanding any attempt to separate sex and art. Even human beings can not do so; witness the homoerotic photographs by Robert Maplethorpe, which virtually all photographers would call art, but which you might reasonably not. An automated system can never come close to even this level of cognition. The state of the art at this time is some limited language parsers and extremely limited image recognition. Until computers are far more intelligent than us, an automated system will always have many false positives and false negatives.
No human system can be close to complete. Unless you have a "human proxy" (a person checking each page in real time before the recipient views it), or an accepted list instead of a banned list you cannot come close to blocking objectionable material with a human system.
Furthermore I know I don't want my kids going to some teacher's class who that morning looked up his latest kiddie porn on the net. I've seen the logs, believe me there are teachers out there doing this First of all, the fact that you know this almost certainly constitutes a criminal invasion of privacy. Even the organization you hate did not have access to the identities of the accessors. Secondly, a teacher can view a kiddie porn magazine in the bathroom, should you install cameras in there to monitor this (manned by perfect image recognition software of course).
The only solution is to ban Internet access altogether or station a censor at every monitor. As I have pointed out all censorware is fundamentally flawed for the technical reasons stated above.
I don't care what anyone says but pornography is addictive. Until you turn 18, you shouldn't be able to access it, because it will mess you up, just look at Ted Bundy who attributed some of his problems to porn. You would put the statements of a serial killer above the freedoms of a child? I think that speaks for itself. I hope that you didn't try to for this information on Yahoo since the serial killers section was blocked.
This report was truly well researched and eye opening. As a fairly liberal person and a college student, I have always been opposed to censorship in any form. Censorship of the Internet seems to me to be the most insidious form of censorship possible since it limits the absolutely magical thing about the Internet, free flow of ideas without national borders or monetary exchange.
I believe that your report will go a long way to reassure zealots that students in school are extremely restrained, even inhibited. Anyone who thinks about the matter for more than a few moments must realize that this would be the case, no student wants to be caught with sallacious materials on their screen.
Truly the Internet has a great deal of lousy content and even some criminal content, but the potential for unfettered information gathering is unprecedented. I think that we should be far more worried about the corporate influence on the internet and students' viewing of banner ads than we should about the inadvertent or intentional viewing of pornography.
Finally, should we force searches of backpacks for copies of The Anarchist's Cookbook or Playboy? Should we monitor notes passed in class for sexual content and innuendo? Or should we teach students about beauty, science, knowledge, and community, and trust them to push the back button when they stumble upon the slums of the Internet.
Thank you for bringing this issue to the forefront, a perfect example of the immense positive potential of the Internet.
linpack is a linear algebra suite, it is used for supercomputer testing because many real world problems involve large matrix manipulations and because optimized libraries are widely available.
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I agree, partitioning can be daunting for a new user. I found RH 5.2 to have a workable compromise between easy (Workstation and Server options) and complete (custom option). Disk Druid needs to have better on-line help, as does the install process in general. The written manual is great, but people are used to hand holding.
That being said, a windows 98 install on a bare computer (unpartioned, unformatted hard drive) is much harder. If you try to run the install without a formatted partion in place you will receive a cryptic message about free space which stops halfway through and freezes the computer hard. You then must format and partition using command line tools fdisk and format which are worse than diskdruid in user friendlyness. All this with no online docs I could find from MS documenting the experience. The actual install is "pretty" and fairly understandable, an experience Linux installs could strive towards. But it does not allow power users to do what needs to be done, requires multiple reboots, and had drivers for less hardware (Matrox Millenium G200, Etherlink 3900) than my linux install.
He ripped on Emacs for bloat, but I think he showed appropriate reverence for GCC and the GPL.
While his discussion of GNU userland programs might get RMS's hackles up, it is clear to me that he cares more deeply about the Linux kernel and its design than any particular implementation of an OS that includes it. It's more kernel hackers arrogance than irreverence of the great GNU.
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Sorry about the blank post, I pressed Enter instead of tab.
Mp3 search engines allow RIAA to easily and cheaply find copyright violators whom they can prosecute. Unfortunately for them that would be prohibitively expensive and wouldn't amount to much because very few Mp3 site operators have a lot of money or make money from their site.
So they use strongarm tactics to control the flow of information. It is not illegal to publish the Anarchist's cookbook so how can it be illegal to make a MP3 search site.
I agree censorware is the problem, although not in the way you mean. I mean censorware in the generic sense of software filtering.
Any automated system will always be fatally flawed notwithstanding any attempt to separate sex and art. Even human beings can not do so; witness the homoerotic photographs by Robert Maplethorpe, which virtually all photographers would call art, but which you might reasonably not. An automated system can never come close to even this level of cognition. The state of the art at this time is some limited language parsers and extremely limited image recognition. Until computers are far more intelligent than us, an automated system will always have many false positives and false negatives.
No human system can be close to complete. Unless you have a "human proxy" (a person checking each page in real time before the recipient views it), or an accepted list instead of a banned list you cannot come close to blocking objectionable material with a human system.
Furthermore I know I don't want my kids going to some teacher's class who that morning looked up his latest kiddie porn on the net. I've seen the logs, believe me there are teachers out there doing this First of all, the fact that you know this almost certainly constitutes a criminal invasion of privacy. Even the organization you hate did not have access to the identities of the accessors. Secondly, a teacher can view a kiddie porn magazine in the bathroom, should you install cameras in there to monitor this (manned by perfect image recognition software of course).
The only solution is to ban Internet access altogether or station a censor at every monitor. As I have pointed out all censorware is fundamentally flawed for the technical reasons stated above.
I don't care what anyone says but pornography is addictive. Until you turn 18, you shouldn't be able to access it, because it will mess you up, just look at Ted Bundy who attributed some of his problems to porn. You would put the statements of a serial killer above the freedoms of a child? I think that speaks for itself. I hope that you didn't try to for this information on Yahoo since the serial killers section was blocked.
This report was truly well researched and eye opening. As a fairly
liberal person and a college student, I have always been opposed to
censorship in any form. Censorship of the Internet seems to me to be
the most insidious form of censorship possible since it limits the
absolutely magical thing about the Internet, free flow of ideas without
national borders or monetary exchange.
I believe that your report will go a long way to reassure zealots that
students in school are extremely restrained, even inhibited. Anyone who
thinks about the matter for more than a few moments must realize that
this would be the case, no student wants to be caught with sallacious
materials on their screen.
Truly the Internet has a great deal of lousy content and even some
criminal content, but the potential for unfettered information gathering
is unprecedented. I think that we should be far more worried about the
corporate influence on the internet and students' viewing of banner ads
than we should about the inadvertent or intentional viewing of
pornography.
Finally, should we force searches of backpacks for copies of The
Anarchist's Cookbook or Playboy? Should we monitor notes passed in
class for sexual content and innuendo? Or should we teach students
about beauty, science, knowledge, and community, and trust them to push
the back button when they stumble upon the slums of the Internet.
Thank you for bringing this issue to the forefront, a perfect example of
the immense positive potential of the Internet.
linpack is a linear algebra suite, it is used for supercomputer testing because many real world problems involve large matrix manipulations and because optimized libraries are widely available.