I can see it coming. Someone crying, "The coffee industry misled the public about coffee's addictive properties and increased the caffeine dosage to secure market share in spite of well known health risks."
And something equivalent of the Tobacco industry lawsuits...
Agreeded. One of the indicators of a corrupt society is a goverment with a myriad of laws and selective enforcement of those laws upon whomever they want to or don't like.
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This is how I know that time travel does not exist. Simply that in our past there has been no recorded event of someone or something coming from the back from future to visit. If time travel was ever made possible don't you think that we would be hearing from them by now?
I work as a web developer for www.cjhunter.com (ContractJobHunter) which specializes in contract work for IT/IS and technical disciplines.
Contracting is not for the faint of heart. Most contract jobs are full-time and last for 6 to 9 months. The tools of the contracting trade are an excellent set of technical skills, good connections with recruiters and staffing firms, and utilizing websites like ours, dice.com and others.
I would suggest that you line up a contract job, give your current job your two weeks notice and take the plunge into contract work. The trick is to keep the contract jobs coming after your current contract job is up.
First off, Microsoft Windows has at least 3 layers legacy cruft that are all messed together. DOS, Win16 and Win32 etc. The OpenWindows project would not fix Windows itself as it has already been Broker By Design. Then there are the numerous undocumented areas of the windows kernel which would need to be mapped out and documented. Also you would need a good amount of kernel tallent to pump out the nessessary code. Last that I'd heard windows95 was something like 10 million lines of code or more. OpwnWindows would definitely be a long term project. An open source windows clone is not impossible but would be a labor of blood, sweat and tears to produce. Never the less if the project gained momentum I would contribute as the goal is admirable.
It's all about people. Not to get wierd on you:), but I believe that Linux is about giving power to people. Linux is about rebellion and defiance, an anathema to corruption (speak not of it getting corrupted itself) and a way to perpetuate good technology, in the face of technological and economic and marketing forces working against it.
Continuing this theme a depiction of a revolution of freedom and renaissance coming from Linux Users would represent Linux well. Grab your history books and check out all of the adventitious art. Such as the national revoltutions and wars. Linux is more than an operating system. Linux is a product of a free thinking community that knowns no limitation. Like others have said shown the community. Show their intention, passion, and vision. Stress important fundementals such as innovation, support, security, freedom and openness. These are the roots that Linux was built upon.
I would like to see an open Win32 to UNIX transplatform development kit. Wine is not (IMO at least for a time to come) a good solution for Win32 interoperability. For one it's slow, as it has to emulate the Windows environment which is a cludge to begin with and two, emulation in any form leads to object incompatibility. Windows apps were only designed on Windows. So apps that use special interfaces which wine cannot supply either because the issues are too complex to emulate (like driver dependent software) or require some system resource, are then non-operational in the wine environment. In a desktop environment you want conformity among your applications. Such as a common toolkit, application integration, and standard API. A development kit such as I mentioned could optimize the win32 API translation and standardize on a toolkit making it practical to port Win32 to UNIX. I'm sure there's plenty of issues but definitely worth looking into.
with the subject of the government and encryption. For some reason the government (at least in the US) still thinks that they can control encryption and that publicly availible strong encryption is a bad thing for everyone. As long as the Internet is too big to police and people what their privacy there isn't much that can be done.
Ok so GCC and what not get ported to the PSX2 so we all can develope for the system. The PSX2 comes loaded with firewire, USB and DVD-ROM capabilities for IO. There are firewire hard drives soon to be available (and if not already). So I'm sure you could find a way to boot to one of those devices as soon as Linux has support. I'm not a kernel developer but it would seem to me that it would not be a great amount of effort to port the Linux kernel to the PSX2.
I really don't care what happens to Microsoft as long as the market has something to fall back. Releasing the source to windows would give any Microsoft competitor a fair advantage. Including Linux with WINE! I say this is a good well rounded punishment.
Most kiddy games are made to run on win3.1. I think they do that because they would loose the dumb parent market who never upgrade. Use WINE! ---------
So what if he did? The idea was to get the kernel out. Freezing is a good thing because developement can go on forever tring to get new features included and perfected. It's just not realistic. Take the new things that work and publish them now. There's plenty of time for finish work to be included in the 2.2.x series. ---------
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The definition of a cult is quite simple. A cult hides it's core beliefs from it's members a religion does not.
adieu
lieu
Mathieu
Well this sucks!
Oh my goodness, the slashdot editors actually revealed the words for a sighted acronym. Unprecedented!
Looking back at ENIAC we can now say that the first version of Scorched Earth was born.
Code:Example:
Use my handy grep command on the dictionary
/usr/share/dict/words
$ grep 'eu$'
adieu
lieu
Mathieu
Hmmm, not alot here to work with. Well maybe next TLD.
I review on a VB book for beginners? Come on. This isn't news and I don't think it matters.
So when someone rear ends you do the tanks explode and launch a ballistic missle defense?
It's true. Open Source does kill jobs, but what he failed to mention is that it specifically kills Microsoft jobs!
IMHO. Open Source requires more highly skilled workers but in less quantity.
I can see it coming. Someone crying, "The coffee industry misled the public about coffee's addictive properties and increased the caffeine dosage to secure market share in spite of well known health risks."
And something equivalent of the Tobacco industry lawsuits...
How is this any diffent than using iptables to block network viruses?
# Block Code Red Virus
iptables -t filter -A INPUT -i eth0 -p tcp --dport http -m string --string "/default.ida?" -j DROP
Agreeded. One of the indicators of a corrupt society is a goverment with a myriad of laws and selective enforcement of those laws upon whomever they want to or don't like.
This is how I know that time travel does not exist. Simply that in our past there has been no recorded event of someone or something coming from the back from future to visit. If time travel was ever made possible don't you think that we would be hearing from them by now?
I work as a web developer for www.cjhunter.com (ContractJobHunter) which specializes in contract work for IT/IS and technical disciplines.
Contracting is not for the faint of heart. Most contract jobs are full-time and last for 6 to 9 months. The tools of the contracting trade are an excellent set of technical skills, good connections with recruiters and staffing firms, and utilizing websites like ours, dice.com and others.
I would suggest that you line up a contract job, give your current job your two weeks notice and take the plunge into contract work. The trick is to keep the contract jobs coming after your current contract job is up.
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First off, Microsoft Windows has at least 3 layers legacy cruft that are all messed together. DOS, Win16 and Win32 etc. The OpenWindows project would not fix Windows itself as it has already been Broker By Design. Then there are the numerous undocumented areas of the windows kernel which would need to be mapped out and documented. Also you would need a good amount of kernel tallent to pump out the nessessary code. Last that I'd heard windows95 was something like 10 million lines of code or more. OpwnWindows would definitely be a long term project. An open source windows clone is not impossible but would be a labor of blood, sweat and tears to produce. Never the less if the project gained momentum I would contribute as the goal is admirable.
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Continuing this theme a depiction of a revolution of freedom and renaissance coming from Linux Users would represent Linux well. Grab your history books and check out all of the adventitious art. Such as the national revoltutions and wars. Linux is more than an operating system. Linux is a product of a free thinking community that knowns no limitation. Like others have said shown the community. Show their intention, passion, and vision. Stress important fundementals such as innovation, support, security, freedom and openness. These are the roots that Linux was built upon.
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Also here is a link to Heroes of Might and Magic III web page.
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I would like to see an open Win32 to UNIX transplatform development kit. Wine is not (IMO at least for a time to come) a good solution for Win32 interoperability. For one it's slow, as it has to emulate the Windows environment which is a cludge to begin with and two, emulation in any form leads to object incompatibility. Windows apps were only designed on Windows. So apps that use special interfaces which wine cannot supply either because the issues are too complex to emulate (like driver dependent software) or require some system resource, are then non-operational in the wine environment. In a desktop environment you want conformity among your applications. Such as a common toolkit, application integration, and standard API. A development kit such as I mentioned could optimize the win32 API translation and standardize on a toolkit making it practical to port Win32 to UNIX. I'm sure there's plenty of issues but definitely worth looking into.
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How about Darth Binks the super ninja sith lord. IMO Jar Jar is an attempt at creating a loveable comedy personality that back fired terribly.
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with the subject of the government and encryption. For some reason the government (at least in the US) still thinks that they can control encryption and that publicly availible strong encryption is a bad thing for everyone. As long as the Internet is too big to police and people what their privacy there isn't much that can be done.
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Ok so GCC and what not get ported to the PSX2 so we all can develope for the system. The PSX2 comes loaded with firewire, USB and DVD-ROM capabilities for IO. There are firewire hard drives soon to be available (and if not already). So I'm sure you could find a way to boot to one of those devices as soon as Linux has support. I'm not a kernel developer but it would seem to me that it would not be a great amount of effort to port the Linux kernel to the PSX2.
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This book has been out for a long time and there's nothing new in it. I'm waiting for the third edition myself.
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I really don't care what happens to Microsoft as long as the market has something to fall back. Releasing the source to windows would give any Microsoft competitor a fair advantage. Including Linux with WINE! I say this is a good well rounded punishment.
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Most kiddy games are made to run on win3.1. I think they do that because they would loose the dumb parent market who never upgrade. Use WINE!
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So what if he did? The idea was to get the kernel out. Freezing is a good thing because developement can go on forever tring to get new features included and perfected. It's just not realistic. Take the new things that work and publish them now. There's plenty of time for finish work to be included in the 2.2.x series.
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