You would think so, but the funny thing is that the parties are fantastic money makers. The receive a ton of donations from individuals which in my opinion is pocket change in comparison to corporate contributions behind the scenes.
Do the 2 major parties pay for anything out of pocket?
The Libertarian party EXACTLY aligns with my ideals, why would I choose a party that "closely" aligns with my ideals!?
You also stated. "Yes, it is so much easier to want other people to come around to your point of view than it is to dirty yourself and compromise your ideals by joining a party that has a chance of winning."
I find this incredibly funny, you think it is a cut that he chooses to voice his opinion and yet you think it is good to "dirty yourself and compromise your ideals".
Wow... that is "insightful", now I am convinced to switch parties. hehehe
They all are, however if you are asking in terms of ballot access then that would be "Libertarian". The Libertarian candidate is on 49 state ballots, well ahead of the other parties.
Friday on PBS' NOW with Bill Moyers, the four major third-party candidates take on the issues they believe are being ignored by the two main political parties. On the evening of the second Presidential debate in St. Louis, NOW's David Brancaccio moderates a conversation between the candidates that were excluded: Reform Party Presidential nominee Ralph Nader and Green Party candidate David Cobb and between Constitution Party candidate Michael Peroutka and Libertarian Party candidate Michael Badnarik.
NOW with Bill Moyers airs Friday, October 8, at 9 p.m. on PBS: check local listings
No worries, this is being worked on. A local Tucson, Arizona company is setting up a Wi-Fi network along the border to protect us from low wage workers!
I'll be damned if they keep the cost of our marijuana, and home building down!
I am all for the exchange of ideas and a fostering of ties between communities. I would believe that the community of hackers would not shun the idea like our government counterparts have shunned other such opportunities.
I for one would browse their LUG's online community site often and with interest.
Hmmm ok. You have definitely been through the problem solving phase of things. Unless you already have....try this:
1. Partition the drive "first", half for windows, half "empty"....do this with fdisk from a linux cd (knoppix, slax, slackware, whatever)
2. Install windows to the primary partition (don't waste time updating yet, in case it blows up again)
3. Install Linux (I prefer Mandrake over fedora on a laptop, servers I recommend slackware or debian) - Partition the disk: a./boot (128MB, primary) b. swap (512MB, Primary) c. / (2048MB, primary) d. (all remaining, extended) e (all other partitions/usr/home/var... on extended)
* In a nutshell this is how I partition my laptop.
4 Choose "lilo" for boot loader, install to MBR (this really should not be an issue and is generally the easiest boot)
5 Make sure you "add" the windows OS in the bootloader configuration during the Mandrake installation. (going on memory here) If the install does not prompt you, then edit/etc/lilo.conf and add "windows" to it.
Then run/sbin/lilo to update the boot loader.
I hope this helps man, sorry you have had to go through so much trouble with this.
When dual-booting (since 1998) I almost always advocate a second platter for linux. This is not always an available option such as on a laptop. In this case installing linux on a portion of the same disk is necessary.
Did you use a partitioning tool? I have done this once and not had any issues however I have had friends who have had issues.
I will generally use fdisk (on linux as windows fdisk is limited in comparison) to partition the drive in 2 halves (windows partition, and free space) prior to installation of windows.
I load windows, then I load linux on the free space which I may partition in a number of ways depending on my use. I like to have a separate/boot, (though I use the mbr) I like to have an Ext2 partition for my kernels. All other partitions are Ext3 as I am more familiar with the Ext* FS than other journaled FS types.
I am curious to know what your steps were when you originally partitioned and installed the 2 OS's.
Sorry to beat a dead horse, but this topic is interesting.;-)
"Trickle-down Economics" is pure myth. There is no such thing. It's a nice idea and, like a lot of get-rich-quick schemes, is based on a few grains of truth.
This is Blasphemy! Reagan is turning over in his huge expensive tomb! Trickle-down Economics works.... Republicans Rule!
This is sarcasm btw, I agree with soloport and offer my own rant:
Nothing like a rich movie star coming up with a way to give the poor people money through the rich people. hmmmm.... I blame previous generations for not seeing the idiocy behind this one. I was a kid during Reagan, so I am not to blame!
When I was working at Genuity and watching all the smaller companies bomb out, I knew it was only a matter of time until we experienced lay-offs. Sure enough Genuity axed 15% of the employees in early 2001, more and more of my friends at Genuity lost their jobs in the next couple years. Apparently Genuity was an expense that Verizon could no longer afford, as in 2003 Genuity was sold off to Level 3 communications.
It was 2001 NOT 2000 that was the start of all the employment issues....I had plenty of job offers in 2000. Very few in 2001....I know this because I went back to school in 2001. That is a whole other topic...and I'll rant about universities and useless faculty on another day.
So let's recap.... 2000: the Economy was still strong enough to support a tier 1 ISP and the companies that used it's services. 2001: We welcome a new president into office, wall street issues a report that we will enter a recession.
Shortly after "sell sell sell", hmmm you'd think that 1929 would have taught us a lesson. Apparently we as americans are too stupid, blind and lazy to pay attention to what is important. Forget trying to get the average citizen to give a damn about history, which was one of my favorite subject and I KNOW many students hated it!
Sorry for the rant, go back to your "reality" series and keep up with the group!
The WinXP partition is using ntfs. Mandrake 10 official with lilo as the boot loader.
That is a weird issue, it does not appear that the culprit has been identified on the Mandrake bug report, I would be interested to know what the cause is. As to the BIOS, since it is a Compaq laptop the BIOS is fairly limited, not much one can change. I do typically use LBA mode, so perhaps this is why I have not seen the issue!?
Anyone have access to a better (more configurable) BIOS image for the presario laptops (1505us)...any compaq/HP guys on/.?
hmmmm....
Were you able to rebuild the MBR or was the partition table completely hosed?
Over the past 4 years I and many others have been struggling to survive. In 2001 our focus changed direction to wars and I believe that the American people were pushed aside.
Some time after 9/11/2001 I sent an e-mail to the white house addressed to the president (yeah I knew it was futile but I was being optimistic). In this e-mail I addressed the concern of the airline industry having financial woes due to the grounding of all commercial aircraft for 3 days.
My opinion and suggestion was to NOT dump our tax dollars directly into the airlines, and to shift that spending to the Information Technology industry. Now I am not for a bunch of corporate government hand-outs; however I believe the hand-out to the airline industry was simply a band-aid.
A much better approach would have been to build up an industry that had been directly responsible for the abundant growth of the airline industry in the 90's, that would be Information Technology.
Information Technology is the future and for some reason we are being ignored. We are constantly being told that employment is up, jobs are available. Perhaps the president and his constituents should venture forth from the East coast.
California (silicon valley), Arizona (Silicon Desert) and Washington (silicon forest) all have felt the current administrations corruption and disregard first hand. We have been ignored and apparently the future is NOT where we are heading, over the last 4 years we have actually regressed. I do feel it is a fault of the current administration, and not just a mere coincidence.
Another hit to the American people was the idiocy of the tax refund from our surplus. Granted the 300 helped me a bit while I was unemployed however it did NOT help me keep my 401K. It is NOT helping me now.
My Question: In short Mr Badnarik, what are your thoughts on the current state of affairs with regards to unemployment in general and specifically the Information Technology Industry?
Why does it have to be 'lazy' sysadmins? Lazy has nothing to do with it, being able to 'think' something faster than type, mouse click, speak or what have you; for forced input is the point.
Now granted even the slowest of minds would most likely toast modern computers, however this will have many more advantages than for helping the 'lazy'.
Personally I will love to see the day when this is fully integrated into PC's!
Uh let's not leave out the fact that their are a ton of aid programs for non-resident, non-citizen students. I know, I am going to school (nights) and I talk to quite a few that receive these benefits.
My friends are hard workers and know their stuff, however I would think we would attempt to train our own before we train others.
I would have to agree with all of what was stated by the "master" post. I would add just one extra detail, those of us who have kids and need what little income we can get often tend to take lesser paying jobs in a related field or in a different field all together.
I wonder how many 'good' IT folks in general are scraping by working 2 jobs trying to make ends meet and still come up short. Unemployment is still VERY high, and this isn't the folks that turn it into a career these are the folks that have been attempting careers!
Working hard long hours and for lesser wages does not make it easy to start a business which would entail even more hours worked with perhaps less income.
Why is it that we would all want one of these merely to save the 15 seconds it takes to use our credit/debit card? Does our privacy mean 'that' little to us? This to me is NOT a cool technology, but a potential danger to our already corroding way of life.
I want a disclaimer on these products, because I want nothing to do with them. I see no real productive need for RFID devices.
So what we are hoping for is disclaimers on products that are equipped with these little devices. So we can avoid purchasing them!
Such electronics that I see as being a potential problem would be, watches, cell phones, pda's, audio players (electronic, digital, analog).
Then again I am being antagonistic, I am certain we can trust our corporations to not insert these little devices into any and every product they can (for market research of course which is in no way evil).
So if SCO is found to have filed a false claim in the court, can System V be (appropriately) ripped away from them? If so, how likely would it be that the previous patent holder (which I assume would have the claim) would just release it to the public!?
It certainly wouldn't harm any of the "unix" vendors, as Linux has already done that. IMHO
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You would think so, but the funny thing is that the parties are fantastic money makers. The receive a ton of donations from individuals which in my opinion is pocket change in comparison to corporate contributions behind the scenes.
Do the 2 major parties pay for anything out of pocket?
The Libertarian party EXACTLY aligns with my ideals, why would I choose a party that "closely" aligns with my ideals!?
... that is "insightful", now I am convinced to switch parties. hehehe
You also stated. "Yes, it is so much easier to want other people to come around to your point of view than it is to dirty yourself and compromise your ideals by joining a party that has a chance of winning."
I find this incredibly funny, you think it is a cut that he chooses to voice his opinion and yet you think it is good to "dirty yourself and compromise your ideals".
Wow
Feel free to check out the Ballot Access Status!
They all are, however if you are asking in terms of ballot access then that would be "Libertarian". The Libertarian candidate is on 49 state ballots, well ahead of the other parties.
Friday on PBS' NOW with Bill Moyers, the four major third-party candidates take on the issues they believe are being ignored by the two main political parties. On the evening of the second Presidential debate in St. Louis, NOW's David Brancaccio moderates a conversation between the candidates that were excluded: Reform Party Presidential nominee Ralph Nader and Green Party candidate David Cobb and between Constitution Party candidate Michael Peroutka and Libertarian Party candidate Michael Badnarik.
NOW with Bill Moyers airs Friday, October 8, at 9 p.m. on PBS: check local listings
This will be happening check the badnarik site in the next few days.
He has been invited to EVERY third party debate, however he has not accepted any of the invitations.
It appears that the Badnarik site is being /.'d please view the cornel site for more information on the debate until the bandwidth usage subsides.
No worries, this is being worked on. A local Tucson, Arizona company is setting up a Wi-Fi network along the border to protect us from low wage workers!
I'll be damned if they keep the cost of our marijuana, and home building down!
I am all for the exchange of ideas and a fostering of ties between communities. I would believe that the community of hackers would not shun the idea like our government counterparts have shunned other such opportunities.
I for one would browse their LUG's online community site often and with interest.
The fact that many of use have call blocking, privacy features, and answering services/machines. I can't say that I would even answer a poll call.
Aside from the sheer fact that Polls are slanted and do NOT include all of the candidates!
Hmmm ok. You have definitely been through the problem solving phase of things. Unless you already have....try this:
/boot (128MB, primary) /usr /home /var ... on extended)
/etc/lilo.conf and add "windows" to it.
/sbin/lilo to update the boot loader.
1. Partition the drive "first", half for windows, half "empty"....do this with fdisk from a linux cd (knoppix, slax, slackware, whatever)
2. Install windows to the primary partition (don't waste time updating yet, in case it blows up again)
3. Install Linux (I prefer Mandrake over fedora on a laptop, servers I recommend slackware or debian)
- Partition the disk:
a.
b. swap (512MB, Primary)
c. / (2048MB, primary)
d. (all remaining, extended)
e (all other partitions
* In a nutshell this is how I partition my laptop.
4 Choose "lilo" for boot loader, install to MBR (this really should not be an issue and is generally the easiest boot)
5 Make sure you "add" the windows OS in the bootloader configuration during the Mandrake installation. (going on memory here) If the install does not prompt you, then edit
Then run
I hope this helps man, sorry you have had to go through so much trouble with this.
I can't leave this one alone it seems.
/boot, (though I use the mbr) I like to have an Ext2 partition for my kernels. All other partitions are Ext3 as I am more familiar with the Ext* FS than other journaled FS types.
;-)
When dual-booting (since 1998) I almost always advocate a second platter for linux. This is not always an available option such as on a laptop. In this case installing linux on a portion of the same disk is necessary.
Did you use a partitioning tool? I have done this once and not had any issues however I have had friends who have had issues.
I will generally use fdisk (on linux as windows fdisk is limited in comparison) to partition the drive in 2 halves (windows partition, and free space) prior to installation of windows.
I load windows, then I load linux on the free space which I may partition in a number of ways depending on my use. I like to have a separate
I am curious to know what your steps were when you originally partitioned and installed the 2 OS's.
Sorry to beat a dead horse, but this topic is interesting.
"Trickle-down Economics" is pure myth. There is no such thing. It's a nice idea and, like a lot of get-rich-quick schemes, is based on a few grains of truth.
.... Republicans Rule!
This is Blasphemy! Reagan is turning over in his huge expensive tomb! Trickle-down Economics works
This is sarcasm btw, I agree with soloport and offer my own rant:
Nothing like a rich movie star coming up with a way to give the poor people money through the rich people. hmmmm.... I blame previous generations for not seeing the idiocy behind this one. I was a kid during Reagan, so I am not to blame!
When I was working at Genuity and watching all the smaller companies bomb out, I knew it was only a matter of time until we experienced lay-offs. Sure enough Genuity axed 15% of the employees in early 2001, more and more of my friends at Genuity lost their jobs in the next couple years. Apparently Genuity was an expense that Verizon could no longer afford, as in 2003 Genuity was sold off to Level 3 communications.
It was 2001 NOT 2000 that was the start of all the employment issues....I had plenty of job offers in 2000. Very few in 2001....I know this because I went back to school in 2001. That is a whole other topic...and I'll rant about universities and useless faculty on another day.
So let's recap....
2000: the Economy was still strong enough to support a tier 1 ISP and the companies that used it's services.
2001: We welcome a new president into office, wall street issues a report that we will enter a recession.
Shortly after "sell sell sell", hmmm you'd think that 1929 would have taught us a lesson. Apparently we as americans are too stupid, blind and lazy to pay attention to what is important. Forget trying to get the average citizen to give a damn about history, which was one of my favorite subject and I KNOW many students hated it!
Sorry for the rant, go back to your "reality" series and keep up with the group!
The WinXP partition is using ntfs. Mandrake 10 official with lilo as the boot loader.
/.?
That is a weird issue, it does not appear that the culprit has been identified on the Mandrake bug report, I would be interested to know what the cause is. As to the BIOS, since it is a Compaq laptop the BIOS is fairly limited, not much one can change. I do typically use LBA mode, so perhaps this is why I have not seen the issue!?
Anyone have access to a better (more configurable) BIOS image for the presario laptops (1505us)...any compaq/HP guys on
hmmmm....
Were you able to rebuild the MBR or was the partition table completely hosed?
Not to start a flame war or anything but...
;-)
..(as well as BIOS issues).. sooooo did you accidentally type the wrong FS type in your post?
IS this an RPM based distro problem?
I've had no such issues, and I have several dual-boot Win2K/Slackware WinXP/Slackware boxes.
They are all running the 2.6 kernel (2.6.3 thru 2.6.8.1) and I have not come upon this issue. GO SLACKWARE!
BTW, the Mandrake bug report mentions "Fat32" NOT "ntfs"
BTW, I have also had no issues with regards to the MBR and the bootloader when dual-booting Mandrake 10 "official" with WinXP (my laptop).
Perhaps it is a grub issue, I always choose to use lilo.
Over the past 4 years I and many others have been struggling to survive. In 2001 our focus changed direction to wars and I believe that the American people were pushed aside.
Some time after 9/11/2001 I sent an e-mail to the white house addressed to the president (yeah I knew it was futile but I was being optimistic). In this e-mail I addressed the concern of the airline industry having financial woes due to the grounding of all commercial aircraft for 3 days.
My opinion and suggestion was to NOT dump our tax dollars directly into the airlines, and to shift that spending to the Information Technology industry. Now I am not for a bunch of corporate government hand-outs; however I believe the hand-out to the airline industry was simply a band-aid.
A much better approach would have been to build up an industry that had been directly responsible for the abundant growth of the airline industry in the 90's, that would be Information Technology.
Information Technology is the future and for some reason we are being ignored. We are constantly being told that employment is up, jobs are available. Perhaps the president and his constituents should venture forth from the East coast.
California (silicon valley), Arizona (Silicon Desert) and Washington (silicon forest) all have felt the current administrations corruption and disregard first hand. We have been ignored and apparently the future is NOT where we are heading, over the last 4 years we have actually regressed. I do feel it is a fault of the current administration, and not just a mere coincidence.
Another hit to the American people was the idiocy of the tax refund from our surplus. Granted the 300 helped me a bit while I was unemployed however it did NOT help me keep my 401K. It is NOT helping me now.
My Question:
In short Mr Badnarik, what are your thoughts on the current state of affairs with regards to unemployment in general and specifically the Information Technology Industry?
Why does it have to be 'lazy' sysadmins? Lazy has nothing to do with it, being able to 'think' something faster than type, mouse click, speak or what have you; for forced input is the point.
Now granted even the slowest of minds would most likely toast modern computers, however this will have many more advantages than for helping the 'lazy'.
Personally I will love to see the day when this is fully integrated into PC's!
Uh let's not leave out the fact that their are a ton of aid programs for non-resident, non-citizen students. I know, I am going to school (nights) and I talk to quite a few that receive these benefits.
My friends are hard workers and know their stuff, however I would think we would attempt to train our own before we train others.
just a thought.....
I would have to agree with all of what was stated by the "master" post. I would add just one extra detail, those of us who have kids and need what little income we can get often tend to take lesser paying jobs in a related field or in a different field all together.
I wonder how many 'good' IT folks in general are scraping by working 2 jobs trying to make ends meet and still come up short. Unemployment is still VERY high, and this isn't the folks that turn it into a career these are the folks that have been attempting careers!
Working hard long hours and for lesser wages does not make it easy to start a business which would entail even more hours worked with perhaps less income.
IMHO
This would be due to the large number of news sites linking to SCO and informing the public of the virus' intent.
Cause Microsoft is hurting financially!
Why is it that we would all want one of these merely to save the 15 seconds it takes to use our credit/debit card? Does our privacy mean 'that' little to us? This to me is NOT a cool technology, but a potential danger to our already corroding way of life.
I want a disclaimer on these products, because I want nothing to do with them. I see no real productive need for RFID devices.
Flame me if you wish. I can take it!
So what we are hoping for is disclaimers on products that are equipped with these little devices. So we can avoid purchasing them!
Such electronics that I see as being a potential problem would be, watches, cell phones, pda's, audio players (electronic, digital, analog).
Then again I am being antagonistic, I am certain we can trust our corporations to not insert these little devices into any and every product they can (for market research of course which is in no way evil).
So if SCO is found to have filed a false claim in the court, can System V be (appropriately) ripped away from them? If so, how likely would it be that the previous patent holder (which I assume would have the claim) would just release it to the public!?
It certainly wouldn't harm any of the "unix" vendors, as Linux has already done that. IMHO