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Here's an idea for those with some spare cash and the courage of your convictions. Buy a SCO share! You are now a shareholder and have rights as such to ask questions of your board at the next shareholders meeting. In fact why not get together with your friends and others and all buy one share and take turns to ask Darl and the rest of the board difficult questions. Obviously this is cheapest and easiest for people who live near SCO headquarters.
These are some of the tactics that comedian and activist Mark Thomas used, along with others, in the (eventually) sucessful fight to stop the Ilisu Dam project in Turkey - and they were fighting a lot more than little old SCO (see http://www.ilisu.org.uk/ to see the hit list)
Please can you clear this up once and for all (the FAQ is ambiguious IMO) - Once UnitedLinux is released, will I be able to download and install it for free? (preferably by dl'ing an iso) If not, what possible incentive do independent developers have for making packages for UL? Why should we give to you when you don't give to us?
When I was offered my current job, the only good bit of negotiating pay and conditions that I did was persuede them to buy me and ergonomic keyboard (the one we settled on was from goldtouch mainly because it didn't have a great big numeric keypad making my trackball miles away).
At the job previous to this I had suffered pain down the back of my hand from stiff cherry keyboards. The best comprimise we found there was an apple imac keyboard - it has a soft positive action and because it doesn't have a insert, del, home, end. pgup, pgdn block it minimised the distance to mouse / trackball.
Another nice keyboard I had the trackball in the keyboard, where the arrow keys should be (which took a bit of getting used to - the arrow key were shifted up, and the others moved elsewhere). Unfortunately the build quality wasn't so good and some of the keys stopped working after 12-14 months (I had thought the trackball would be the first to die).
Well ok it's not a philips, it's a Beatman made by Freecom, and it's not mine - I bought it for my girlfriends birthday (don't tell her it's not til next week;-).
Anyway - it's great. I'm no audiofile, but to me it sounds fantastic, as good as my friends cd walkman, and of course much better than tapes.
In the UK CF or smartmedia are about 60quid for 128Mb - whereas these are a pound a disc (=180Mb). I did't realise just how small they the player is until it arrived.
One advantage they have over HD players is that it's easy for novices to put on the music they want - just pop in the mini cd with the album (out of 3 or 4) you want and press play. Don't get me wrong HD players are cool but they'd have to have a pretty clever UI to make it easy to find what you want amidst 20gigs worth.
For PHP just create a dir, e,g incs, chown it to nobody.nobody then chmod 700 incs. Now put all your sensitive data into a file incs/setup.inc, chown and chmod it as above then in all your other scripts,
include('incs/setup.inc');
Also htaccess the incs dir so that it isn't readable by apache.
If the hosting company didn't know that leave now!
Surely the way to go for an inexpensive player is to have a network card in there rather than hd connector? I already have 10G of mp3s in my server at home - it would be cheaper for me to wire up some cat5 rather than buy another hd for that machine.
While your in the uk you could use www.uklinux.net - it's a 'free' isp which donates money to free (as in FSF / Open Source) software development in the UK.
The phone calls cost the same as the other free ISP such as Freeserve, Virgin, plus the webserver has mod_perl and php (and there are going to have postgres and mysql too!). With the more popular free isps the demand is so high that it can sometimes be difficult to get a connection and sometimes you even get dropped out in the middle of something - this has never happened to me with uklinux, presumably because they're still small (it's only been up a month or so).
You can sign up using their webform, and presumably they'd accept your US address.
Personally I have a Canon 4300 which is reasonable (for the price). More recently a friend bought an Epson 460 which is pretty nice. But I would recommend a visit to the Unix printer compatability db before any purchase;
One problem that I have encountered in discussions about censorship is countering the argument that anyone who opposes such a scheme is in some way condoning pornography.
Well if you support freedom of speech and expression then unfortunately there will be some "pornography" (whatever that means). It really is simple - either you believe in freedom or you don't. It's fairly black or white. If you give in to those say that certain words, pictures or thoughts should be banned then you are taking the first steps down the road to giving that state control of your life.
It is quite frightening that at the end of the twentieth century with all of history to draw upon (particularly the events of this century) that governments/countires/people are still scared by words, music, and pictures. Personally I find education, unemployment, famine, overpopulation, climate change, nuclear safety, etc much more deserving of my elected officials attention.
One thing that always shocks me about peoples attitudes to censorship in "free" countries is that they always assume that censorship is somehow benign - that it is easy to cut out those things that are bad and those that are good - and that it will work.
Neither of these beliefs were true before the internet and now they are just laughable.
The political pressure for censorship will always be there - certainly in the UK right wing politions will always be able to tap into the middle class prudishness about sex - the important thing is which way is the tide turning. In the UK in terms of print, film, and video, the boundaries of censorship *seem* to be moving back. The right wing will try to make the internet the new battleground - so far in oz they have had a small (but hopefully irrelevant) victory.
Havoc, You just finished writing a book, you write the Gnome weekly news, regularly post on the newsgroup, you code, are involved in Gnome and Debian, and work for RedHat. Man, where do you find the time? Do you have 36 hour days or what? Please share you organizational/motivational tips. grek
... Redhat tended to put more bleeding edge stuff in whereas the likes of debian (or slackware) were more cautious and waited to make things rock solid. It did seem like it took forever for debian 2.1 to come out but by all accounts debian is rock solid - although I should say that I haven't run debian in a while so YMMV.
RedHat has always been a bit of a pain with x.0 because they always seem to be the first with the newest glibc/egcs/kernel. 5.2 was so much better than 5.0 or 5.1 (which I heard some people call Service Pack 1;-)
Also to balance out the horror stories my install was no problem. In fact at the smae time I had the unfortunate task of installing win98 on my other hd. RH 6.0 installed in about 30-40 minutes and everything except my PNP modem (I know, I know, but it was cheap) worked out of the box, and the modem took another ten minutes to fix. win98 on the other hand took 10 reboots (including an off/on) before I had an even usable system (about an hour and a half later).
However windows 98 'ran out' of IRQs for my dizzying array of hardware, so I couldn't have a modem, ethernetcard, and soundcard on all at once. Also it wouldn't play ball with my video card (Cirrus Logic Laguna). In the end I had to install 95, to at least get a decent video mode although I still had the IRQ problem.
So however bad you may think RedHat has got (or is getting) they no way near as bad as MS (in my experience).
Religious OS zealots are not only confined to linux. I've read comments here, usenet, zdnet, etc from people who are religious about MS, os2, *BSD, Solaris, HURD, Amiga, hell even the Sinclair Spectrum. It's common behaviour of a segment of any userbase/fanbase. Have you never met anyone who's religious about a particular make of car, stereo, tv, etc, or a writer, actor, director, musician?
*Possibly* there are proportionaly more linux zealots (I doubt it) but you have to remember that coming from closed source OSs to the GPL world of linux can be such a `revalation' that its natural for folks to get a bit evangelical now and again.
Undoubtedly any theories we, or anyone in the media, come up with will be far too simple, but what the heck here goes;
From what I've heard and seen in the media (not always that reliable I know) it seems these young men were craving some kind of social acceptence. One of the "trenchcoat mafia" was interviewed and she said that to those they considered friends they were "really sweet guys" but that if they didn't like you "you better watch out". The social rejection they encountered in high school seems a very plausible cause (to me).
So feeling rejected by society they join/form a subculture and enjoy past-times which society deems "antisocial", Marylin Manson, Doom, Hitler, etc. These are symptoms of the real problem.
Naturally society isn't going to blame itself so it blames the symtoms and not the cause.
Finally I offer a test in such cases for deciding whether something is a sympton or a cause. It's simple - make a list of all the reasons the media, or whomever, is using. Then imagine that you had the power to wipe that thing from the planet. Then try to imagine whether they would still have done it. If the answer is yes then that thing is a symptom, answer no and it's a possible cause. E.g.
On a planet without Maryin Manson would they have still done it? Yes. Symptom.
On a planet without Doom would they have still done it? yes - symptom.
In a highschool were they didn't feel like social outcasts would they have still done it? Probably not - probable cause.
You'll never be able to nail down ONE thing as a cause because it's almost certainly more complicated than that (e.g. where were their parents while they were becoming neo nazis - if thats not just another convenient media label) but you can certainly weed out a lot of symptoms.
...because it seems obvious to me that no-one sells *linux*, they sell the value added stuff they produce, like easy installation, manuals, support, etc.
The raw materials, the kernel, GNU, and GPL apps are "free" but it's a non-trivial thing to put them all together and produce a working computer. I don't have the time (or prob. the ability) to do this so I can choose to pay RedHat, SuSe, Debian, Caldera, etc, for their particular packing of everyting into a neat bundle.
In fact since I can download the distros via ftp or purchase them at 2UKP per cd, i.e. get them for free or next to free, this is a particularly strange kind of fraud.
Come on everybody spell it with me...F...U...D (only this time the F is for Fraud)
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Here's an idea for those with some spare cash and the courage of your convictions. Buy a SCO share! You are now a shareholder and have rights as such to ask questions of your board at the next shareholders meeting. In fact why not get together with your friends and others and all buy one share and take turns to ask Darl and the rest of the board difficult questions. Obviously this is cheapest and easiest for people who live near SCO headquarters.
These are some of the tactics that comedian and activist Mark Thomas used, along with others, in the (eventually) sucessful fight to stop the Ilisu Dam project in Turkey - and they were fighting a lot more than little old SCO (see http://www.ilisu.org.uk/ to see the hit list)
How about memprof?
Please can you clear this up once and for all (the FAQ is ambiguious IMO) - Once UnitedLinux is released, will I be able to download and install it for free? (preferably by dl'ing an iso)
If not, what possible incentive do independent developers have for making packages for UL? Why should we give to you when you don't give to us?
At the job previous to this I had suffered pain down the back of my hand from stiff cherry keyboards. The best comprimise we found there was an apple imac keyboard - it has a soft positive action and because it doesn't have a insert, del, home, end. pgup, pgdn block it minimised the distance to mouse / trackball.
Another nice keyboard I had the trackball in the keyboard, where the arrow keys should be (which took a bit of getting used to - the arrow key were shifted up, and the others moved elsewhere). Unfortunately the build quality wasn't so good and some of the keys stopped working after 12-14 months (I had thought the trackball would be the first to die).
Anyway - it's great. I'm no audiofile, but to me it sounds fantastic, as good as my friends cd walkman, and of course much better than tapes.
In the UK CF or smartmedia are about 60quid for 128Mb - whereas these are a pound a disc (=180Mb). I did't realise just how small they the player is until it arrived.
One advantage they have over HD players is that it's easy for novices to put on the music they want - just pop in the mini cd with the album (out of 3 or 4) you want and press play. Don't get me wrong HD players are cool but they'd have to have a pretty clever UI to make it easy to find what you want amidst 20gigs worth.
I wish I'd bought a Beatman for myself now!
For PHP just create a dir, e,g incs, chown it to nobody.nobody then chmod 700 incs. Now put all your sensitive data into a file incs/setup.inc, chown and chmod it as above then in all your other scripts,
include('incs/setup.inc');
Also htaccess the incs dir so that it isn't readable by apache.
If the hosting company didn't know that leave now!
Have fun
Surely the way to go for an inexpensive player is to have a network card in there rather than hd connector? I already have 10G of mp3s in my server at home - it would be cheaper for me to wire up some cat5 rather than buy another hd for that machine.
While your in the uk you could use www.uklinux.net - it's a 'free' isp which donates money to free (as in FSF / Open Source) software development in the UK.
The phone calls cost the same as the other free ISP such as Freeserve, Virgin, plus the webserver has mod_perl and php (and there are going to have postgres and mysql too!). With the more popular free isps the demand is so high that it can sometimes be difficult to get a connection and sometimes you even get dropped out in the middle of something - this has never happened to me with uklinux, presumably because they're still small (it's only been up a month or so).
You can sign up using their webform, and presumably they'd accept your US address.
grek
Personally I have a Canon 4300 which is reasonable (for the price). More recently a friend bought an Epson 460 which is pretty nice. But I would recommend a visit to the Unix printer compatability db before any purchase;
http://gatekeeper.picant e.com/~gtaylor/pht/printer_list.cg
grek
Well if you support freedom of speech and expression then unfortunately there will be some "pornography" (whatever that means). It really is simple - either you believe in freedom or you don't. It's fairly black or white. If you give in to those say that certain words, pictures or thoughts should be banned then you are taking the first steps down the road to giving that state control of your life.
It is quite frightening that at the end of the twentieth century with all of history to draw upon (particularly the events of this century) that governments/countires/people are still scared by words, music, and pictures. Personally I find education, unemployment, famine, overpopulation, climate change, nuclear safety, etc much more deserving of my elected officials attention.
One thing that always shocks me about peoples attitudes to censorship in "free" countries is that they always assume that censorship is somehow benign - that it is easy to cut out those things that are bad and those that are good - and that it will work.
Neither of these beliefs were true before the internet and now they are just laughable.
The political pressure for censorship will always be there - certainly in the UK right wing politions will always be able to tap into the middle class prudishness about sex - the important thing is which way is the tide turning. In the UK in terms of print, film, and video, the boundaries of censorship *seem* to be moving back. The right wing will try to make the internet the new battleground - so far in oz they have had a small (but hopefully irrelevant) victory.
Havoc, You just finished writing a book, you write the Gnome weekly news, regularly post on the newsgroup, you code, are involved in Gnome and Debian, and work for RedHat. Man, where do you find the time? Do you have 36 hour days or what? Please share you organizational/motivational tips. grek
... Redhat tended to put more bleeding edge stuff in whereas the likes of debian (or slackware) were more cautious and waited to make things rock solid. It did seem like it took forever for debian 2.1 to come out but by all accounts debian is rock solid - although I should say that I haven't run debian in a while so YMMV.
;-)
RedHat has always been a bit of a pain with x.0 because they always seem to be the first with the newest glibc/egcs/kernel. 5.2 was so much better than 5.0 or 5.1 (which I heard some people call Service Pack 1
Also to balance out the horror stories my install was no problem. In fact at the smae time I had the unfortunate task of installing win98 on my other hd. RH 6.0 installed in about 30-40 minutes and everything except my PNP modem (I know, I know, but it was cheap) worked out of the box, and the modem took another ten minutes to fix. win98 on the other hand took 10 reboots (including an off/on) before I had an even usable system (about an hour and a half later).
However windows 98 'ran out' of IRQs for my dizzying array of hardware, so I couldn't have a modem, ethernetcard, and soundcard on all at once. Also it wouldn't play ball with my video card (Cirrus Logic Laguna). In the end I had to install 95, to at least get a decent video mode although I still had the IRQ problem.
So however bad you may think RedHat has got (or is getting) they no way near as bad as MS (in my experience).
grek
Religious OS zealots are not only confined to linux. I've read comments here, usenet, zdnet, etc from people who are religious about MS, os2, *BSD, Solaris, HURD, Amiga, hell even the Sinclair Spectrum. It's common behaviour of a segment of any userbase/fanbase. Have you never met anyone who's religious about a particular make of car, stereo, tv, etc, or a writer, actor, director, musician?
*Possibly* there are proportionaly more linux zealots (I doubt it) but you have to remember that coming from closed source OSs to the GPL world of linux can be such a `revalation' that its natural for folks to get a bit evangelical now and again.
grek
Undoubtedly any theories we, or anyone in the media, come up with will be far too simple, but what the heck here goes;
From what I've heard and seen in the media (not always that reliable I know) it seems these young men were craving some kind of social acceptence. One of the "trenchcoat mafia" was interviewed and she said that to those they considered friends they were "really sweet guys" but that if they didn't like you "you better watch out". The social rejection they encountered in high school seems a very plausible cause (to me).
So feeling rejected by society they join/form a subculture and enjoy past-times which society deems "antisocial", Marylin Manson, Doom, Hitler, etc. These are symptoms of the real problem.
Naturally society isn't going to blame itself so it blames the symtoms and not the cause.
Finally I offer a test in such cases for deciding whether something is a sympton or a cause. It's simple - make a list of all the reasons the media, or whomever, is using. Then imagine that you had the power to wipe that thing from the planet. Then try to imagine whether they would still have done it. If the answer is yes then that thing is a symptom, answer no and it's a possible cause. E.g.
On a planet without Maryin Manson would they have still done it? Yes. Symptom.
On a planet without Doom would they have still done it? yes - symptom.
In a highschool were they didn't feel like social outcasts would they have still done it? Probably not - probable cause.
You'll never be able to nail down ONE thing as a cause because it's almost certainly more complicated than that (e.g. where were their parents while they were becoming neo nazis - if thats not just another convenient media label) but you can certainly weed out a lot of symptoms.
grek
...because it seems obvious to me that no-one sells *linux*, they sell the value added stuff they produce, like easy installation, manuals, support, etc.
The raw materials, the kernel, GNU, and GPL apps are "free" but it's a non-trivial thing to put them all together and produce a working computer. I don't have the time (or prob. the ability) to do this so I can choose to pay RedHat, SuSe, Debian, Caldera, etc, for their particular packing of everyting into a neat bundle.
In fact since I can download the distros via ftp or purchase them at 2UKP per cd, i.e. get them for free or next to free, this is a particularly strange kind of fraud.
Come on everybody spell it with me...F...U...D (only this time the F is for Fraud)
grek