I can't imagine anyone, even a lunatic, would ever think that MS's products are the best. What will 2000 do? Crash. The code base for windows is an ugly mess full of kludges. That is why they continuously push the release dates back. Windows 98 was originally windows 97. Linux on the other hand has a much more easily manageable code base. Any advantage NT has will be short lived at best. I'll bet you own stock in Microsoft, right?
Wine will never be a complete 100% compatible implementation of the windows API. Even microsoft cannot implement a 100% compatible implementation of the win 3.x api in 95 or 98. Their answer to compatibility problems is naturally that we should upgrade to the win32 version of program X. Wine will never achieve 100% compatibility, instead what we will see are windows applications that are designed to run on wine as well as win9x/2000. All wine has to do is get 98% or more of the way there and achieve a reasonable market share. Of course we will also see microsoft intentionally breaking their products so that they will not run on wine. Which come to think of it may actually help wine since it would be like shining a spotlight on incompatibilities and creating the need to resolve them. Who knows, if that happens wine may be more compatible than windows, or at least more stable.
The USSR no longer exists. Russia assumed all of the legal responsibilities of the former soviet union. Our treaty is now basically with them. Which brings us to the core of the matter, which is what exactly are they in a position to do about it? Very little. The new ABM technology isn't being developed with the russians in mind at all. We aren't worried about the Russians deciding to nuke us, we don't have to because they know they would lose. We are worried about some piss ant little dictator in the middle east getting a hold of a nuke and using it on us or our NATO allies. Same holds true for North Korea. Obviously we would survive and turn that country into a radioactive hole in the ground, but it would be better to stop the incoming missle in the first place. The united states is the alpha dog in world affairs. Developing ABM technology in spite of treaties is simply our way of pissing on the fire hydrant.
If you've ever seen motherboards with TX-Pro, VX-Pro, or BX-pro on the chipset heatsink, then you've seen a PC chips board. These boards are at the bottom of the barrel when it comes to quality. Now it may be possible that the company has raised its standards and begun producing at least passable boards, but I'll believe that when I see it. I've had nothing but problems with these boards. I'd much rather see a vendor like Tyan or Abit or Soyo bundle linux with their boards. Who knows, maybe they will.:)
Are you nuts? Easier?? What the hell is easier supposed to mean? You still have busy work in any class, that is what makes it a drag, not the material you are studying. I'd much rather take a more advanced class so that I would have a snowball's chance in hell of learning something. Remedial classes are used to babysit, not to educate.
Being young is a crime in this country. When I was in high school a group of convicts were brought in to give us a lecture every year. They would sit up on the stage and talk about how hard their lives have been because they chose to commit the crimes they did. Why were they at my high school? Because of the unconscious belief that most of us were up to no good and needed to be "scared straight." I would expect this at places like juvenile hall, but at a normal high school in medium sized town in a affluent part of the state? This new software business is even more sad. The very idea that a piece of software would be able to look into a person's soul and see what lies there is absurd. Even a highly trained and experienced psychologist or psychiatrist cannot always do that. Sounds to me like snake oil. Parent's and teachers are hysterical about what happened in Colorado and some con artist has now taken advantage of that. Sad, sad, sad, all around.
Go reguritate that MS fud somewhere else. You really ought to have more respect for yourself. At least learn what you're talking about before you open your mouth. NT is indirectly based off of VMS which is itself 30 odd year old technology. C which windows itself is written in, originated with the second version of unix in 1970. C++ first appeared 15 years ago. TCP/IP which is what drives the internet, is 25 years old itself. The basic design for the CRT in your computer monitor dates back to when Eisenhower was president. Of course all of these things have been improved over time, just like Unix. NT is an attempt to copy unix in many ways. Many of the functions and features it implements are open standards that originate with unix. If unix is so old and decrypet(sp) how come Microsoft can't come up with something better?
The open source movement is driven by the work of people who use what they create. This is why we have great operating systems like linux and *BSD. Great development tools like gcc. But what we don't have are a lot of great open source end user applications. There is gimp and I'm sure there are a few more examples of great open source apps, but not many. The open source model works best for the underlying layers used to create and run applications, not the applications themselves. This is why we probably won't ever see a truly great open source word processor or spreadsheet or whatever that is not in some way a commercial venture. Programmers have to eat and most of us do like money. There is little incentive to create things that you yourself won't use "just because." There is a lot of incentive to create tools to make tools to make applications you are going to use or are being paid to develop. That is where open source has always been and that is where it will be in the future.
The number one asset that microsoft has is the windows API. Because microsoft defines the API they are able to include hidden calls that only they know about. Some of these calls are simply faster implementations of other calls which are already documented. Others are unique. Either way it gives their applications an out of the box advantage over anything a competitor might develop. Wine threatens this hidden control by exposing the existence and nature of each call. Some of these calls have even been implemented in wine. Wine also has a slight chance of someday competing with microsoft in defining the windows API itself. If wine implements new and better calls that developer's make use of, Microsoft's control of the API will be threatened. Microsoft of course does not like this but they cannot directly attact wine because of the boiling water they are already in for anti-trust violations. So rather than attack wine they simply "embrace and extend," all to prevent the windows API from becoming open. Gates is a tricky SOB and that is also the kind of person he hires. The model Microsoft follows is that business is a form of warfare. Those of us who want to see Linux/*BSD/whatever succeed need to remember that and pay attention to what our customer's want. If we don't give it to them, MS surely will, even if their version is bloated and buggy.
I'm using an ensoniq es1370 based card under linux. It works very well and has excellent sound and is very quiet noise wise. I've used it to record live tracks and it does an excellent job at this. It also requires fewer cpu cycles than an ISA based card. PCI is not only a faster bus, but a more efficient one. The cpu is able to service hardware interrupts through it faster than it can through the ISA bus. Believe it or not a soundcard does use up cpu cycles when it is used. If you have a component that grabs CPU time, and they all do, your system will run better if its PCI based. This is why some people will try and tell you that your system will run faster if you get rid of all your ISA cards. Some people interpret this to mean that if you get rid of all your ISA cards, your ISA bus will just sit there idle and not do anything and that this is the reason for the speed increase. This isn't the case though. The speed increase comes from the fact that your cards get serviced more quickly on PCI, not because ISA isn't being used anymore. In fact ISA is being used. Things like serial ports, parallel ports, the floppy port. All these are branched off of the ISA bus. Like everything else however, they only use CPU cycles when they are in use.
Don't worry so much about fitting in with others or being what they want to you to be. Be yourself. The people who are at the top of the social structure aren't there because they try to "fit in." They are there because they set the standard that others try to fit into. It's amazing what respect and admiration do when applied to a group.
It's really kind of sad that there is this stereotype that says if someone is intelligent and interested in scientific or technical things, then they are a social outcast with no ability to interact with others. Nothing could be further from the truth. While there are people out there like that, there are just as many people who have absolutely no interest in anything technical but who couldn't get a date from a calendar.
I personally believe that this whole business about "geeks" having some disorder or another whether it be autism or ADD or what have you, is socio-politically motivated. You take the best and brightest and any among them who you cannot control you label as defective. It's really very simple. Educators are the pawns of those who control the society. They want people who do what they are told and think what they are told to. Someone like me who laughs at them and tells them where to go is a threat. So they reach into a hat and pull out a diagnosis for a condition that I'm now supposed to have. You wouldn't believe the things they tried to tell me growing up. The only thing they couldn't say, at least not with a straight face, was that I was stupid. I was told I had ADD when I didn't. I was told I had a learning disorder when I was always one of the top three students in any class. I was told I had problems with basic skills when that was demonstrably false. I never really listened to any of it. I knew they were full of it and putting on a show, I just didn't realize why at the time. I think they thought that if they could convince me I was defective then I would try to be what they wanted me to in order to prove I wasn't. Psychological warfare is always facinating.
"Microsoft, the bugs go in before the name goes on."
Evolution is based on survival of the fittest. Survival meaning growing up and managing to have kids of your own before you croak. Nowadays there is no survival of the fittest, nearly everyone survives. Evolution is not some mysterious force that mutates genes for the better and never for the worse. The only thing that is going to ensure the continued development of the human race is genetic engineering. Either that or some huge catastrophe that sets things back to where you actually do have to be fit to survive.
There is a definite trend towards classifying someone who is unusual as having some disorder or another. It's a socio-political change, not a genuine increase in how well science understands people. There is no such thing as normal. You'll meet every kind of person in the world except an average one. We are all different. Saying that someone has a disorder because they fall someplace in the outer fringes is inaccurate. There may be people out there who are geeks and who suffer from some form of autism. But that does not mean that every geek out there who may also have bad social skills is autistic. Autism, as I'm sure you know, is a very definite medical condition. Mysterious yes, but very definite. The whole geek=autistic thing seems to me to be applied to the stereotype of what a geek is, than to anyone who might call themselves that.
Well that depends on what you mean by "acting out." If you mean simply acting in a way that the teachers don't like, then that is a pretty poor definition because it means that in order to not "act out" someone has to cater to the whims of a glorified babysitter. But then again you might mean being destructive. Being destructive or violent is not exactly a geek trait. Geeks are more likely to be the opposite.
Why complain and worry about a corrupt school system when you can teach your kid at home?
People complain that our educational system is poor and no one seems to be able to agree on how to fix it, or even what the problem is. Well why should anyone let that situation prevent their child from excelling? Why should any of us put up with a bunch of grade A bravo sierra when we can teach our kids at home and give them the education they deserve?
Don't leave your childs intellectual development in the hands of a bunch of glorified babysitters and psycho-political hacks.
The NEA abhors the idea of home schooling because it threatens their base of power and puts a spot light on their incompetence. In my opinion this is exactly what needs to be done.
"Microsoft, the bugs go in the before the name goes on."
The education of our children should not be controlled by the NEA or anyone ultimately but ourselves. People have it in their mind that they are just supposed to hand their kids over to the school system to be educated. The only problem is, the school system doesn't work. People complain about the school system when they aren't willing to take things into their own hands. If you want something done right, you have to do it yourself after all.
Don't blame your problems on a supposed condition that you don't even have. This whole nerdiness=autism business is nothing more than a clever ruse. Its the same with ADD. You take people who are exceptionally bright and talented, but who don't fit into a school's concept of what bright and talented should mean, and you convince them and everyone else that they are somehow defective. It's really very transparent to someone like me who has dealt with it first hand. I was a lot like you growing up. Early on I had very poor social skills. I mean really bad. This problem persisted into high school when I decided it was time for things to change. I had never learned the basic things that other people learn at age five. I didn't understand how people worked and how interacting with them worked. I didn't understand the politics that are everpresent in all human relationships. But I learned. I spent two years breaking down everything I knew about people and every area where I was having problems and I tackled it all. I won. In truth it took longer than two years, but those first two years were the most intense and fun. To this day I'm still learning, but then so is everyone. I've basically caught up is all. Not everything in my life is perfect, but then again who can claim otherwise without lying. My first try at college was a disaster, but for different reasons than yours. While you have a hard time listening to others, I have none. That is where I learn the most, listening in class. I have a VERY hard time completing assignments. I spent 12 years refusing to do useless busywork and now that the work is vital and important, I have a hard time doing it. Sitting down and trying brings up all the bullshit I had to deal with from my parents about it, things I'm only starting to be able to deal with and get behind me. Its not because I'm autistic or have ADD or anything like that. It's something that I'm dealing with now and someday I'll kick its ass too.
Whatever your problems are, deal with them and don't give up. Don't make the mistake of blaming them on some condition or disorder. The interesting thing about all these disorders is that there isn't supposed to be much you can do about them. Its a convenient way to avoid responsibility if you ask me. Your successes and your failures are no one's but your own. Cop-outs don't change whats happened in the past or make the future any better. They don't even make you feel better because deep down you know that you're lying to yourself when you claim them.
So what are the reasons the NSA doesn't like us having large keys?
Furthermore why should what the NSA wants be the law of the land? This is a democracy, at least on paper. Last time I checked this was supposed to be a government of the people by the people for the people. What the NSA wants just doesn't figure into that in any way I can see.
Why do you think the feds had to resort to tax evasion to nail capone? Not all criminals are stupid, just one ones who usually get caught. If I were a criminal you can bet your ass I would be using the strongest crypto I could possibly find. Assuming of course that doing so would help me cover whatever I was doing.
Linux is Unix. As much as Unixware or Solaris or *BSD are. True the kernel is completely rewritten from scratch, but just how much code do you think that the kernel for FreeBSD and Solaris have in common? Or Even Unixware and Solaris, both of them being SysV4 based? Not to mention all of the libraries and utilities that go together with the kernel to create a functioning system. Unix is not an operating system but an idea of what an operating system should be. All of the unix variants, including Linux, align themselves with this idea to a greater or lesser extent. To say that linux is different from Solaris is true. To say that it differs from FreeBSD it also true. But to say that it is different from Unix is like saying that Solaris is different from Unix. Neither statement is true because there is no One True Unix to compare any variant to. At best there is Posix, and linux is Posix complaint.
I've been a tech for almost ten years now and I've worked on more AMD systems than you've ever laid eyes on. I've never seen any problems with the K6 dying after a while. If you have seen problems I would be much more likely to believe that you've got cheapy POS motherboards that WILL die after a couple of years. Take one of those supposedly dead K6's and drop it in a known good motherboard and see what happens. The only K6 that would concievably have the kind of problem you're describing is the K6-233 because it is essentially a 200 that has been overclocked. It uses 3.2 volts instead of 2.8 like all the other K6-1's. I would be willing to believe that those might die after a couple of years, but that doesn't mean the design or the manufacture of the K6 line in general is faulty.
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I can't imagine anyone, even a lunatic, would ever think that MS's products are the best. What will 2000 do? Crash. The code base for windows is an ugly mess full of kludges. That is why they continuously push the release dates back. Windows 98 was originally windows 97. Linux on the other hand has a much more easily manageable code base. Any advantage NT has will be short lived at best. I'll bet you own stock in Microsoft, right?
Wine will never be a complete 100% compatible implementation of the windows API. Even microsoft cannot implement a 100% compatible implementation of the win 3.x api in 95 or 98. Their answer to compatibility problems is naturally that we should upgrade to the win32 version of program X. Wine will never achieve 100% compatibility, instead what we will see are windows applications that are designed to run on wine as well as win9x/2000. All wine has to do is get 98% or more of the way there and achieve a reasonable market share. Of course we will also see microsoft intentionally breaking their products so that they will not run on wine. Which come to think of it may actually help wine since it would be like shining a spotlight on incompatibilities and creating the need to resolve them. Who knows, if that happens wine may be more compatible than windows, or at least more stable.
The USSR no longer exists. Russia assumed all of the legal responsibilities of the former soviet union. Our treaty is now basically with them. Which brings us to the core of the matter, which is what exactly are they in a position to do about it? Very little. The new ABM technology isn't being developed with the russians in mind at all. We aren't worried about the Russians deciding to nuke us, we don't have to because they know they would lose. We are worried about some piss ant little dictator in the middle east getting a hold of a nuke and using it on us or our NATO allies. Same holds true for North Korea. Obviously we would survive and turn that country into a radioactive hole in the ground, but it would be better to stop the incoming missle in the first place. The united states is the alpha dog in world affairs. Developing ABM technology in spite of treaties is simply our way of pissing on the fire hydrant.
If you've ever seen motherboards with TX-Pro, VX-Pro, or BX-pro on the chipset heatsink, then you've seen a PC chips board. These boards are at the bottom of the barrel when it comes to quality. Now it may be possible that the company has raised its standards and begun producing at least passable boards, but I'll believe that when I see it. I've had nothing but problems with these boards. I'd much rather see a vendor like Tyan or Abit or Soyo bundle linux with their boards. Who knows, maybe they will. :)
Are you nuts? Easier?? What the hell is easier supposed to mean? You still have busy work in any class, that is what makes it a drag, not the material you are studying. I'd much rather take a more advanced class so that I would have a snowball's chance in hell of learning something. Remedial classes are used to babysit, not to educate.
Being young is a crime in this country. When I was in high school a group of convicts were brought in to give us a lecture every year. They would sit up on the stage and talk about how hard their lives have been because they chose to commit the crimes they did. Why were they at my high school? Because of the unconscious belief that most of us were up to no good and needed to be "scared straight." I would expect this at places like juvenile hall, but at a normal high school in medium sized town in a affluent part of the state? This new software business is even more sad. The very idea that a piece of software would be able to look into a person's soul and see what lies there is absurd. Even a highly trained and experienced psychologist or psychiatrist cannot always do that. Sounds to me like snake oil. Parent's and teachers are hysterical about what happened in Colorado and some con artist has now taken advantage of that. Sad, sad, sad, all around.
Go reguritate that MS fud somewhere else. You really ought to have more respect for yourself. At least learn what you're talking about before you open your mouth. NT is indirectly based off of VMS which is itself 30 odd year old technology. C which windows itself is written in, originated with the second version of unix in 1970. C++ first appeared 15 years ago. TCP/IP which is what drives the internet, is 25 years old itself. The basic design for the CRT in your computer monitor dates back to when Eisenhower was president. Of course all of these things have been improved over time, just like Unix. NT is an attempt to copy unix in many ways. Many of the functions and features it implements are open standards that originate with unix. If unix is so old and decrypet(sp) how come Microsoft can't come up with something better?
The open source movement is driven by the work of people who use what they create. This is why we have great operating systems like linux and *BSD. Great development tools like gcc. But what we don't have are a lot of great open source end user applications. There is gimp and I'm sure there are a few more examples of great open source apps, but not many. The open source model works best for the underlying layers used to create and run applications, not the applications themselves. This is why we probably won't ever see a truly great open source word processor or spreadsheet or whatever that is not in some way a commercial venture. Programmers have to eat and most of us do like money. There is little incentive to create things that you yourself won't use "just because." There is a lot of incentive to create tools to make tools to make applications you are going to use or are being paid to develop. That is where open source has always been and that is where it will be in the future.
The number one asset that microsoft has is the windows API. Because microsoft defines the API they are able to include hidden calls that only they know about. Some of these calls are simply faster implementations of other calls which are already documented. Others are unique. Either way it gives their applications an out of the box advantage over anything a competitor might develop. Wine threatens this hidden control by exposing the existence and nature of each call. Some of these calls have even been implemented in wine. Wine also has a slight chance of someday competing with microsoft in defining the windows API itself. If wine implements new and better calls that developer's make use of, Microsoft's control of the API will be threatened. Microsoft of course does not like this but they cannot directly attact wine because of the boiling water they are already in for anti-trust violations. So rather than attack wine they simply "embrace and extend," all to prevent the windows API from becoming open. Gates is a tricky SOB and that is also the kind of person he hires. The model Microsoft follows is that business is a form of warfare. Those of us who want to see Linux/*BSD/whatever succeed need to remember that and pay attention to what our customer's want. If we don't give it to them, MS surely will, even if their version is bloated and buggy.
I'm using an ensoniq es1370 based card under linux. It works very well and has excellent sound and is very quiet noise wise. I've used it to record live tracks and it does an excellent job at this. It also requires fewer cpu cycles than an ISA based card. PCI is not only a faster bus, but a more efficient one. The cpu is able to service hardware interrupts through it faster than it can through the ISA bus. Believe it or not a soundcard does use up cpu cycles when it is used. If you have a component that grabs CPU time, and they all do, your system will run better if its PCI based. This is why some people will try and tell you that your system will run faster if you get rid of all your ISA cards. Some people interpret this to mean that if you get rid of all your ISA cards, your ISA bus will just sit there idle and not do anything and that this is the reason for the speed increase. This isn't the case though. The speed increase comes from the fact that your cards get serviced more quickly on PCI, not because ISA isn't being used anymore. In fact ISA is being used. Things like serial ports, parallel ports, the floppy port. All these are branched off of the ISA bus. Like everything else however, they only use CPU cycles when they are in use.
First they ignore you,
then they ridicule you,
then they attack you,
and then you win.
Don't worry so much about fitting in with others or being what they want to you to be. Be yourself. The people who are at the top of the social structure aren't there because they try to "fit in." They are there because they set the standard that others try to fit into. It's amazing what respect and admiration do when applied to a group.
It's really kind of sad that there is this stereotype that says if someone is intelligent and interested in scientific or technical things, then they are a social outcast with no ability to interact with others. Nothing could be further from the truth. While there are people out there like that, there are just as many people who have absolutely no interest in anything technical but who couldn't get a date from a calendar.
I personally believe that this whole business about "geeks" having some disorder or another whether it be autism or ADD or what have you, is socio-politically motivated. You take the best and brightest and any among them who you cannot control you label as defective. It's really very simple. Educators are the pawns of those who control the society. They want people who do what they are told and think what they are told to. Someone like me who laughs at them and tells them where to go is a threat. So they reach into a hat and pull out a diagnosis for a condition that I'm now supposed to have. You wouldn't believe the things they tried to tell me growing up. The only thing they couldn't say, at least not with a straight face, was that I was stupid. I was told I had ADD when I didn't. I was told I had a learning disorder when I was always one of the top three students in any class. I was told I had problems with basic skills when that was demonstrably false. I never really listened to any of it. I knew they were full of it and putting on a show, I just didn't realize why at the time. I think they thought that if they could convince me I was defective then I would try to be what they wanted me to in order to prove I wasn't. Psychological warfare is always facinating.
"Microsoft, the bugs go in before the name goes on."
Evolution is based on survival of the fittest. Survival meaning growing up and managing to have kids of your own before you croak. Nowadays there is no survival of the fittest, nearly everyone survives. Evolution is not some mysterious force that mutates genes for the better and never for the worse. The only thing that is going to ensure the continued development of the human race is genetic engineering. Either that or some huge catastrophe that sets things back to where you actually do have to be fit to survive.
There is a definite trend towards classifying someone who is unusual as having some disorder or another. It's a socio-political change, not a genuine increase in how well science understands people. There is no such thing as normal. You'll meet every kind of person in the world except an average one. We are all different. Saying that someone has a disorder because they fall someplace in the outer fringes is inaccurate. There may be people out there who are geeks and who suffer from some form of autism. But that does not mean that every geek out there who may also have bad social skills is autistic. Autism, as I'm sure you know, is a very definite medical condition. Mysterious yes, but very definite. The whole geek=autistic thing seems to me to be applied to the stereotype of what a geek is, than to anyone who might call themselves that.
Well that depends on what you mean by "acting out." If you mean simply acting in a way that the teachers don't like, then that is a pretty poor definition because it means that in order to not "act out" someone has to cater to the whims of a glorified babysitter. But then again you might mean being destructive. Being destructive or violent is not exactly a geek trait. Geeks are more likely to be the opposite.
Why complain and worry about a corrupt school system when you can teach your kid at home?
People complain that our educational system is poor and no one seems to be able to agree on how to fix it, or even what the problem is. Well why should anyone let that situation prevent their child from excelling? Why should any of us put up with a bunch of grade A bravo sierra when we can teach our kids at home and give them the education they deserve?
Don't leave your childs intellectual development in the hands of a bunch of glorified babysitters and psycho-political hacks.
The NEA abhors the idea of home schooling because it threatens their base of power and puts a spot light on their incompetence. In my opinion this is exactly what needs to be done.
"Microsoft, the bugs go in the before the name goes on."
The education of our children should not be controlled by the NEA or anyone ultimately but ourselves. People have it in their mind that they are just supposed to hand their kids over to the school system to be educated. The only problem is, the school system doesn't work. People complain about the school system when they aren't willing to take things into their own hands. If you want something done right, you have to do it yourself after all.
Don't blame your problems on a supposed condition that you don't even have. This whole nerdiness=autism business is nothing more than a clever ruse. Its the same with ADD. You take people who are exceptionally bright and talented, but who don't fit into a school's concept of what bright and talented should mean, and you convince them and everyone else that they are somehow defective. It's really very transparent to someone like me who has dealt with it first hand. I was a lot like you growing up. Early on I had very poor social skills. I mean really bad. This problem persisted into high school when I decided it was time for things to change. I had never learned the basic things that other people learn at age five. I didn't understand how people worked and how interacting with them worked. I didn't understand the politics that are everpresent in all human relationships. But I learned. I spent two years breaking down everything I knew about people and every area where I was having problems and I tackled it all. I won. In truth it took longer than two years, but those first two years were the most intense and fun. To this day I'm still learning, but then so is everyone. I've basically caught up is all. Not everything in my life is perfect, but then again who can claim otherwise without lying. My first try at college was a disaster, but for different reasons than yours. While you have a hard time listening to others, I have none. That is where I learn the most, listening in class. I have a VERY hard time completing assignments. I spent 12 years refusing to do useless busywork and now that the work is vital and important, I have a hard time doing it. Sitting down and trying brings up all the bullshit I had to deal with from my parents about it, things I'm only starting to be able to deal with and get behind me. Its not because I'm autistic or have ADD or anything like that. It's something that I'm dealing with now and someday I'll kick its ass too.
Whatever your problems are, deal with them and don't give up. Don't make the mistake of blaming them on some condition or disorder. The interesting thing about all these disorders is that there isn't supposed to be much you can do about them. Its a convenient way to avoid responsibility if you ask me. Your successes and your failures are no one's but your own. Cop-outs don't change whats happened in the past or make the future any better. They don't even make you feel better because deep down you know that you're lying to yourself when you claim them.
So what are the reasons the NSA doesn't like us having large keys?
Furthermore why should what the NSA wants be the law of the land? This is a democracy, at least on paper. Last time I checked this was supposed to be a government of the people by the people for the people. What the NSA wants just doesn't figure into that in any way I can see.
Why do you think the feds had to resort to tax evasion to nail capone? Not all criminals are stupid, just one ones who usually get caught. If I were a criminal you can bet your ass I would be using the strongest crypto I could possibly find. Assuming of course that doing so would help me cover whatever I was doing.
I'm sorry but we do not all know that linux isn't good enough for the big time yet.
www.google.com=big time
Linux is Unix. As much as Unixware or Solaris or *BSD are. True the kernel is completely rewritten from scratch, but just how much code do you think that the kernel for FreeBSD and Solaris have in common? Or Even Unixware and Solaris, both of them being SysV4 based? Not to mention all of the libraries and utilities that go together with the kernel to create a functioning system. Unix is not an operating system but an idea of what an operating system should be. All of the unix variants, including Linux, align themselves with this idea to a greater or lesser extent. To say that linux is different from Solaris is true. To say that it differs from FreeBSD it also true. But to say that it is different from Unix is like saying that Solaris is different from Unix. Neither statement is true because there is no One True Unix to compare any variant to. At best there is Posix, and linux is Posix complaint.
Yes and if you call AMD and say "I'm running linux" they will exchange your chip for a new one, no questions asked.
I've been a tech for almost ten years now and I've worked on more AMD systems than you've ever laid eyes on. I've never seen any problems with the K6 dying after a while. If you have seen problems I would be much more likely to believe that you've got cheapy POS motherboards that WILL die after a couple of years. Take one of those supposedly dead K6's and drop it in a known good motherboard and see what happens. The only K6 that would concievably have the kind of problem you're describing is the K6-233 because it is essentially a 200 that has been overclocked. It uses 3.2 volts instead of 2.8 like all the other K6-1's. I would be willing to believe that those might die after a couple of years, but that doesn't mean the design or the manufacture of the K6 line in general is faulty.