I used to live in St. John near Pullman, and when the St. John telephone company started offering dialup accounts to the local residents, almost everybody in town with a computer wanted one.
It's really great for people in Eastern Washington, some who literally live in the middle of nowhere (I lived on a plot of about 500 acres of family farmland) find that the internet is a godsend for information. Broadband access would make the internet more enjoyable for everyone.
Oh, and by the way, most of the people I've met in Eastern Washington are some of the smartest, most down to earth and enjoyable that I think I'll ever meet.
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"Oh well, as long as BSD has some cool "3l33t d00d" image"
Why do I see this every time a BSD/Linux argument comes up? Anyone who makes a choice based on how it will effect their image, or "leetness," is nothing but a lamb and should be shaved naked anyhow.
"openbsd might be marginally more secure as long as you don't install anything besides the defualt software, but then it only runs on 1 x86 processor, so using it as a serious server is pretty much out of the question."
I'm a big OpenBSD fan. Lack of SMP support is not going to drive me away from choosing OpenBSD for the majority of work that I do. There really is no reason that most servers would need multiple CPUs, unless the applications you run are constantly hitting over 80% or so usage on your current CPU.
If I was in some situation that required SMP support, I would evaulate which OS provided the best support for it, as well as check up on any other qualities I might like to have in that OS which I choose to use. I have used both Linux and FreeBSD on light dual Pentium 3 machines, and really haven't noticed much difference between the two. So, in that case, I obviously stayed with FreeBSD because it is my personal preference.
Honestly, I don't know where the argument is. Everyone seems to be arguing over how many CPUs which OS can run, and in the case of someone earlier stating that Linux could run on 32 CPUs, well, why are you all worried about such a thing when the majority of you will never own - or even see such a machine in your lifetime?
I don't mean to burst your bubble, but support for hardware architectures besides Alpha and Intel seems to be going nowhere, especially Sparc. This is very disappointing to someone like me who might like to use FreeBSD on old Sun workstations, though OpenBSD and NetBSD are still there.
Also, LFS is on it's way. NetBSD has resumed development, and a journaling file system should soon be available across most BSD systems - assuming development continues. If it doesn't, something like ReiserFS might have to be imported.
Just what the hell is this all about? Nothing that I've seen has indicated that there's any trend towards decline of BSD use.
If you're getting your information from Usenet, that could be the main flaw in your survey. Not all users of operating systems are going to be discussing issues on Usenet. I would guess only about 1/4 of the userbase DOES communicate there. From what I've seen, _Usenet_ is nearing it's death.
If you'd like to get a more accurate idea of the amount of users openly communicating with eachother, check the mailing lists of the respective OS. You'll see much larger numbers, which once again, don't even come close to representing the total userbase.
Hasn't it been said before that no matter how well-kept a democracy may be, it will almost never last for more than ten generations? I wouldn't be sure this is absolutely true, as the Greeks managed to stave off total political decay for hundreds of years until the Romans had conquered them (still, their democracy was a bit different). However, it seems that there is no perfect government, and I doubt there ever will be.
As much as people like to think that Humans aren't territorial animals, we definetely are, we just manage to collaborate for our own good. As a result, mankind will always stick out as a sore thumb in nature (which we will soon destroy). Human nature keeps us from achieving harmony - greed, lust, hatred - all these things which drive us are indesctructable. We will never rid ourselves of them, and as a result, eventually we will destroy ourselves completely.
We have only been on this planet for a geological blink of an eye, and the simple truth is that we are just a trend.
Good morning pilots. I'm Admiral Wyman, and I'll be laying out your mission plan for you. Hope you all got a good nights rest!
Mission outline:
Corporate conspiracies and suppressive organizations have been causing much traffic on the message board of a one "Slashdot.org" lately. Intel beleives that through the use of confusion tactics, they may be planning to turn the youth and misinformed adult population of both America and world against their governments and fellow citizens.
We have to prevent this, as well as save the publics ability to continue trading of music, despite overwhelming corporate support of these organizations that are built to destroy such abilities.
Misson objective:
1. Destroy headquarters of SDMI
2. If possible, strafe any personnel and/or supply vehicles fleeing or entering the targets.
This will be a multi-pronged operation. Flight groups will be launched over Washington D.C., as well as California. Obviously, you are part of the California group. The Washington D.C. group will attempt to destroy RIAA headquarters. Our efforts are synchronized so that neither the RIAA or SDMI may launch counterattacks from their anti-air missile sites. That's right, these have been confirmed to exist, so be careful.
Your FA-18s are now being readied. This is a precision operation, people! All eggs must hit the nest! The operation will commense at 08:00. Dismissed!
Jesus, you crazy folks are always ready to pull the trigger on your race-biased arrests flare gun, aren't you? If I was pulled over and had a suspended license, I'd be fucked too, regardless of what tint my skin might be.
"It is rare to see the police pursue a violent crime or the drug BOSSES with the same zeal that they do speeders and drug users. In fact, I'd be willing to bet that going after speeders and drug users probably represents over 90% of what the police DOES!"
Yes, this sounds absolutely true. I was taken to the hospital one night after taking a large amount of acid, and only because I was high enough to walk into a friend's house and agree with his mom when she asked to take me there. The officer that was in the hospital was more worried about gaining information about my friends then asking me about where I obtained the drug. He even tried to threaten me with talk of charging posession, even though I had already ingested the drug long ago. He also presented many leading questions, which if I had been sober at the time, would have pointed out to him.
If a squad of police officers raided my home, I would find it very hard to resist the urge to produce my gun and ask them to persue a more worthy cause.
I enjoy listening to MP3s on my computer, and I have a very good argument for doing so: I had heard my first bit of my favorite band, Toad the Wet Sprocket, by downloading one of their MP3 files from Napster. From there, I bought all of their CDs. I would say that they (whoever publishes their records) gained more money than they lost from me downloading MP3s, in this case.
Thank you, I've never heard it put so well. I agree whole-heartedly.
~~~
With respect to the issues raised in this bill, our government would be a lot better in serving its people if it would stop focusing on the drug in anti-drug and instead focus on abuse and ways to help people who abuse drugs to reduce their abuse. And stop putting people in jail. And stop taking away their property and savings. Before 1906, no drug had the status of being illegal in our country. It is less than a 100 years later and it is very clear the so-called War on Drugs (which is really a war against the American people) is a total failure, except for the money and power it gives to corrupt politicians to keep forcing these laws onto the citizens of the United States (and now Columbia) at the cost of our liberty and freedom.
Plus, if they used RIP they'd be caging themself to a 15 hop limit. If RIP was still used on the mainstream internet today, the majority of the sites you visited would do nothing but spit back a "Destination unreachable" message.
Hell, @Home is such a large network that they probably would exceed 15 hops within their own net!
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Exactly. That would be another good reason to not live in the US - few freeloaders.
If you could manage to get with your office's intern, I doubt you would hesitate for more than a minute.
I used to live in St. John near Pullman, and when the St. John telephone company started offering dialup accounts to the local residents, almost everybody in town with a computer wanted one. It's really great for people in Eastern Washington, some who literally live in the middle of nowhere (I lived on a plot of about 500 acres of family farmland) find that the internet is a godsend for information. Broadband access would make the internet more enjoyable for everyone. Oh, and by the way, most of the people I've met in Eastern Washington are some of the smartest, most down to earth and enjoyable that I think I'll ever meet.
Best guess at MS' lookalike: ActivePeer
"Oh well, as long as BSD has some cool "3l33t d00d" image"
Why do I see this every time a BSD/Linux argument comes up? Anyone who makes a choice based on how it will effect their image, or "leetness," is nothing but a lamb and should be shaved naked anyhow.
"openbsd might be marginally more secure as long as you don't install anything besides the defualt software, but then it only runs on 1 x86 processor, so using it as a serious server is pretty much out of the question."
I'm a big OpenBSD fan. Lack of SMP support is not going to drive me away from choosing OpenBSD for the majority of work that I do. There really is no reason that most servers would need multiple CPUs, unless the applications you run are constantly hitting over 80% or so usage on your current CPU.
If I was in some situation that required SMP support, I would evaulate which OS provided the best support for it, as well as check up on any other qualities I might like to have in that OS which I choose to use. I have used both Linux and FreeBSD on light dual Pentium 3 machines, and really haven't noticed much difference between the two. So, in that case, I obviously stayed with FreeBSD because it is my personal preference.
Honestly, I don't know where the argument is. Everyone seems to be arguing over how many CPUs which OS can run, and in the case of someone earlier stating that Linux could run on 32 CPUs, well, why are you all worried about such a thing when the majority of you will never own - or even see such a machine in your lifetime?
I don't mean to burst your bubble, but support for hardware architectures besides Alpha and Intel seems to be going nowhere, especially Sparc. This is very disappointing to someone like me who might like to use FreeBSD on old Sun workstations, though OpenBSD and NetBSD are still there.
Also, LFS is on it's way. NetBSD has resumed development, and a journaling file system should soon be available across most BSD systems - assuming development continues. If it doesn't, something like ReiserFS might have to be imported.
Just what the hell is this all about? Nothing that I've seen has indicated that there's any trend towards decline of BSD use.
If you're getting your information from Usenet, that could be the main flaw in your survey. Not all users of operating systems are going to be discussing issues on Usenet. I would guess only about 1/4 of the userbase DOES communicate there. From what I've seen, _Usenet_ is nearing it's death.
If you'd like to get a more accurate idea of the amount of users openly communicating with eachother, check the mailing lists of the respective OS. You'll see much larger numbers, which once again, don't even come close to representing the total userbase.
Hasn't it been said before that no matter how well-kept a democracy may be, it will almost never last for more than ten generations? I wouldn't be sure this is absolutely true, as the Greeks managed to stave off total political decay for hundreds of years until the Romans had conquered them (still, their democracy was a bit different). However, it seems that there is no perfect government, and I doubt there ever will be.
As much as people like to think that Humans aren't territorial animals, we definetely are, we just manage to collaborate for our own good. As a result, mankind will always stick out as a sore thumb in nature (which we will soon destroy). Human nature keeps us from achieving harmony - greed, lust, hatred - all these things which drive us are indesctructable. We will never rid ourselves of them, and as a result, eventually we will destroy ourselves completely.
We have only been on this planet for a geological blink of an eye, and the simple truth is that we are just a trend.
Good morning pilots. I'm Admiral Wyman, and I'll be laying out your mission plan for you. Hope you all got a good nights rest!
Mission outline:Corporate conspiracies and suppressive organizations have been causing much traffic on the message board of a one "Slashdot.org" lately. Intel beleives that through the use of confusion tactics, they may be planning to turn the youth and misinformed adult population of both America and world against their governments and fellow citizens.
We have to prevent this, as well as save the publics ability to continue trading of music, despite overwhelming corporate support of these organizations that are built to destroy such abilities.
Misson objective:1. Destroy headquarters of SDMI
2. If possible, strafe any personnel and/or supply vehicles fleeing or entering the targets.
This will be a multi-pronged operation. Flight groups will be launched over Washington D.C., as well as California. Obviously, you are part of the California group. The Washington D.C. group will attempt to destroy RIAA headquarters. Our efforts are synchronized so that neither the RIAA or SDMI may launch counterattacks from their anti-air missile sites. That's right, these have been confirmed to exist, so be careful.
Your FA-18s are now being readied. This is a precision operation, people! All eggs must hit the nest! The operation will commense at 08:00. Dismissed!
Note: This will be moderated down instantly.Jesus, you crazy folks are always ready to pull the trigger on your race-biased arrests flare gun, aren't you? If I was pulled over and had a suspended license, I'd be fucked too, regardless of what tint my skin might be.
"It is rare to see the police pursue a violent crime or the drug BOSSES with the same zeal that they do speeders and drug users. In fact, I'd be willing to bet that going after speeders and drug users probably represents over 90% of what the police DOES!"
Yes, this sounds absolutely true. I was taken to the hospital one night after taking a large amount of acid, and only because I was high enough to walk into a friend's house and agree with his mom when she asked to take me there. The officer that was in the hospital was more worried about gaining information about my friends then asking me about where I obtained the drug. He even tried to threaten me with talk of charging posession, even though I had already ingested the drug long ago. He also presented many leading questions, which if I had been sober at the time, would have pointed out to him.
If a squad of police officers raided my home, I would find it very hard to resist the urge to produce my gun and ask them to persue a more worthy cause.
I enjoy listening to MP3s on my computer, and I have a very good argument for doing so: I had heard my first bit of my favorite band, Toad the Wet Sprocket, by downloading one of their MP3 files from Napster. From there, I bought all of their CDs. I would say that they (whoever publishes their records) gained more money than they lost from me downloading MP3s, in this case.
Oh and not to mention all the "FP!" messages and all the kids using their l337 talk.
Please, no more distributions of Linux. I don't care who they're made by.
Schema is also a term for a layout, model, etc. He used the word correctly.
Thank you, I've never heard it put so well. I agree whole-heartedly.
~~~ With respect to the issues raised in this bill, our government would be a lot better in serving its people if it would stop focusing on the drug in anti-drug and instead focus on abuse and ways to help people who abuse drugs to reduce their abuse. And stop putting people in jail. And stop taking away their property and savings. Before 1906, no drug had the status of being illegal in our country. It is less than a 100 years later and it is very clear the so-called War on Drugs (which is really a war against the American people) is a total failure, except for the money and power it gives to corrupt politicians to keep forcing these laws onto the citizens of the United States (and now Columbia) at the cost of our liberty and freedom.
Plus, if they used RIP they'd be caging themself to a 15 hop limit. If RIP was still used on the mainstream internet today, the majority of the sites you visited would do nothing but spit back a "Destination unreachable" message. Hell, @Home is such a large network that they probably would exceed 15 hops within their own net!