Who do you trust? a habitual liar or a over the top filmmaker?
Why should I trust either? Neither is wholly reliable.
in fact in light of the previous 4 presidents... I trust the random homeless guy more. Let's look at them:
Reagan - 'the Teflon president'. nuff said.
Bush I - a pit bull when campaigning (with his attack dog, Lee Atwater) but otherwise pretty reliable. He had a tendency to make bad choices when filling important posts (J Danforth, anyone?) but did his best otherwise
Clinton - apart from thinking he was JFK, he did pretty well. Although his foreign policy in the first 4 years was clueless.
Bush II - maybe he really believes what he says. One of the worst 3 presidents in US history.
I thought Federal laws (like this one) would overrule State laws. That makes it rather difficult to found a state like that within the borders of the US.
Have you ever been to Hong Kong? My visit was from before the handover, but it seemed that their economic success was based on:
Good Education
A very high population density
Low wages
Not a model I'd want to follow. That was a subjective view - maybe someone else knows more about the place.
The sum total of SuSE 9.1.rpm updates (not the patches) is 313MB, but that includes kernel versions optimised for smb, athlon and the default one along with two different levels of several packages.
SuSE 8.1 weighs in at almost 1GB, but they have two (or more) levels of several different packages there including the three kernel versions and the kernel source. Don't ask me why, I use rsync and that annoys the hell out of me;-) If I try and clean up my local directory of these old dupes, the next rsync serves them up again.
There are a couple of points here:
I could just (and did) download the rpms here without any problems, Microsoft impose restrictions which limit my ability to download fixes for other people using rsync.
No-one blew me off the web within seconds when I started downloading, the SuSE firewall was adequate for the task and not many of the updates were security-related anyway. Saying that SuSE 9.1 has had less time to accumulate security problems would be very misleading though, WinXP is the newest version available so that is the one we measure. As for the XP update CD from Microsoft, the newest available for the German version is from October.
I thought the 'Professional Upgrade' version just had less paper documentation than the 'full Professional' version. I have certainly done fresh installs with 'Upgrade' versions.
Novell are simply not being stupid here by giving you what is available, although I suppose that not all companies manage to be that flexible.
While I rather like the idea of War Surfing, there are not going to be too many free access-points on a beach.
One nasty side-effect will be that ships are liable to become rather more paranoid about passing windsurfers. San Diego (there is a naval base there, right?) might even have to ban them from certain areas. Not my problem, but 'thanks Intel'. NOT.
1 - should that not be 'hordes'? Hoardes are places where things are being hoarded.
2 - you have just made an excellent case for browsing at +2 or above. I think you have a rose-tinted view of the 'good old days' though - the Natalie-Portman / Hot-Grits / fp / BSD-is-dead stuff has been around for years. Slashdot's high noise/signal ratio is really nothing new.
There was a discussion in this area recently on the Unisys newsgroup. It did not go quite the same way in that people were looking at emulating more recent machines. That is something that would make more sense.
Having looked at the pdf of the Univac I documentation, I would have to ask: why would anyone want to emulate that? The machine itself is miniscule by any normal standards (as to 'would it run linux?', try running linux with 1000 words of memory) and it's peripherals are just insane.
Many years ago, I had to program a PDP 8. It had a 3-bit instruction field, 9-bit addresses (I think - this is almost 30 years ago) including a 'paging' bit. The lowest 256 words were always accessible, and you could select which 256-word 'page' you would be accessing if the leftmost addressing bit was set. You could program the thing - in assembler - by tweaking the 12 switches on the front panel, or using paper tape. No-one ever made it plausible to me why anyone would want to.
I never worked with Fastrands, but was told that they took hours to rotate up to speed and that they often lost data with 'bad spots'. You missed something, each Fastrand sector was 28 words of 36 bits.
That user's manual for the Univac I is amazing - 1000 (decimal) words of memory.
I suppose this is offtopic for everyone else, but that is my 50th birthday and setting that date when I am trying to avoid thinking of my 49th is very very insensitive. 16 months off and they have to pick that date. No, I won't be there.
Ouch, never heard of that particular one. I see it runs on Macs (which I have never been exposed to) and was originally perpetrated back in 1988. The horror of it all:-)
Why did'nt they introduce a new operator? Something like (that gets eaten, I meant the chars: less-than, equals, greater-than or even vice versa) or =0=? Is that operator considered useful by those who use the language?
Let me guess. Your name is Brown, you run the Marquis de Sade Institute and you just wrote a book on a related subject which no-one seems to be taking seriously. The point of your posting was so that you could say: "the well known and prolific Slashdot poster, Mr A. C., agrees with me in all points".
Yup, I know that the other prisoners are meant with the 'large powerful gentlemen of ambivalent sexuality'. It is the assumption that homosexual rape should be part of a prison sentence that I find obnoxious, especially coming from the country which imprisons the highest percentage of it's citizens of any developed country. That England/English (I forget which) woman's boyfriend had already attracted attention for abuse of prisoners in a prison at home.
I can handle those guys doing time at a 'club fed', although they should not have the Diana Ross option - they should actually have to be there.
As to the point behind the point, living here and knowing Germany's history makes me rather sensitive when other countries start behaving in a similar fashion. An essential part of the Nazi behaviour was the assumption that their victims were subhuman. That assumption is the same one we are seeing now. Even if I were German, that would have been a pathetic cheap shot. I would have to be about 71 years old now to have been involved in Hitler's bid for world domination. 'Old Europe' remember horrors that others seem to want to repeat. I shudder to think how people like Ashcroft/Rumsfeld would be behaving if the US did not have a 200 year democratic tradition.
That sounds like functionality I wish I had known about when I had problems with grub.
Unfortunately I never found it and finally ended up reverting to lilo. If something goes wrong there (while installing SuSE 9.1 for example) then in goes a Knoppix CD, and I run lilo using the lilo.conf on hda. Simple, and foolproof enough for this inflexible fool.
40 odd years ago, Algol60 was defined. The 'equality' operator ('=', I think!) was defined as being 'roughly equal' for floating-point numbers. This turned out to be a bad thing(tm) so no-one has repeated that particular mistake since.
whoever bribed that guy should be put away for a similar length of time.
a large fine for others involved.
confiscation of property.
exposure to boy groups all day (now I'm starting with cruel and unusual punishments!)
In the UK you can be declared 'unfit to be a director of a company', although that does not really fit the craahm in this particular case - the article does not say at which level within NEC this behaviour was initiated.
You raise another point. This need to spend a few years in a confined with large (in more ways than one) powerful gentlemen of ambivalent sexuality who are being fed tripple (sic) doses of viagra in their meals attitude is plugged a lot on/. and seems to be popular in the US nowadays.
Examples - all 9.11 related - off the top of my head are:
There was a general trawl of Pakistanis in NY state after 9.11, one prison warder was suspended for the serious violence they were subjected to before they were either released without charges being pressed, or deported as illegal immigrants.
In a recent exercise, an american donned the orange overalls and was put into the Guantanamo Bay facility. Serious violence was apparently used on him, it ceased when he managed to show them the uniform he was wearing underneath. Of the 5 (?) british muslims who landed up there before being released without charge, one also came back as a torture victim and all of them reported being asked the same idiotic questions day after day by people who did not have a clue.
A lot of the people in those Iraqi jails who were simply in the wrong place at the wrong time, ended up being beaten up, abused or killed.
Bottom line is: people who are locked up for often spurious reasons are considered prey. Is that what the US now stands for?
Someone at NEC needs to be prosecuted over this, and then (if found guilty) imprisoned or fined. No rape, no abuse, nothing. Is that what the US now stands for?
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Why should I trust either? Neither is wholly reliable.
in fact in light of the previous 4 presidents... I trust the random homeless guy more.
Let's look at them:
Have you ever been to Hong Kong? My visit was from before the handover, but it seemed that their economic success was based on:
- Good Education
- A very high population density
- Low wages
Not a model I'd want to follow. That was a subjective view - maybe someone else knows more about the place.SuSE 8.1 weighs in at almost 1GB, but they have two (or more) levels of several different packages there including the three kernel versions and the kernel source. Don't ask me why, I use rsync and that annoys the hell out of me
There are a couple of points here:
Saying that SuSE 9.1 has had less time to accumulate security problems would be very misleading though, WinXP is the newest version available so that is the one we measure. As for the XP update CD from Microsoft, the newest available for the German version is from October.
I thought the 'Professional Upgrade' version just had less paper documentation than the 'full Professional' version. I have certainly done fresh installs with 'Upgrade' versions.
Novell are simply not being stupid here by giving you what is available, although I suppose that not all companies manage to be that flexible.
While I rather like the idea of War Surfing, there are not going to be too many free access-points on a beach.
One nasty side-effect will be that ships are liable to become rather more paranoid about passing windsurfers. San Diego (there is a naval base there, right?) might even have to ban them from certain areas. Not my problem, but 'thanks Intel'. NOT.
1 - should that not be 'hordes'? Hoardes are places where things are being hoarded.
2 - you have just made an excellent case for browsing at +2 or above. I think you have a rose-tinted view of the 'good old days' though - the Natalie-Portman / Hot-Grits / fp / BSD-is-dead stuff has been around for years. Slashdot's high noise/signal ratio is really nothing new.
There was a discussion in this area recently on the Unisys newsgroup. It did not go quite the same way in that people were looking at emulating more recent machines. That is something that would make more sense.
Having looked at the pdf of the Univac I documentation, I would have to ask: why would anyone want to emulate that? The machine itself is miniscule by any normal standards (as to 'would it run linux?', try running linux with 1000 words of memory) and it's peripherals are just insane.
Many years ago, I had to program a PDP 8. It had a 3-bit instruction field, 9-bit addresses (I think - this is almost 30 years ago) including a 'paging' bit. The lowest 256 words were always accessible, and you could select which 256-word 'page' you would be accessing if the leftmost addressing bit was set. You could program the thing - in assembler - by tweaking the 12 switches on the front panel, or using paper tape. No-one ever made it plausible to me why anyone would want to.
I never worked with Fastrands, but was told that they took hours to rotate up to speed and that they often lost data with 'bad spots'.
You missed something, each Fastrand sector was 28 words of 36 bits.
That user's manual for the Univac I is amazing - 1000 (decimal) words of memory.
I suppose this is offtopic for everyone else, but that is my 50th birthday and setting that date when I am trying to avoid thinking of my 49th is very very insensitive. 16 months off and they have to pick that date. No, I won't be there.
I thought that was one of the Stephen-King-is-dead type trolls, but it appears to be correct.
Ouch, never heard of that particular one. I see it runs on Macs (which I have never been exposed to) and was originally perpetrated back in 1988. The horror of it all :-)
Why did'nt they introduce a new operator? Something like (that gets eaten, I meant the chars: less-than, equals, greater-than or even vice versa) or =0=? Is that operator considered useful by those who use the language?
That was offtopic. To be ontopic in this thread, you have to be discussing pr0n :-)
Let me guess.
Your name is Brown, you run the Marquis de Sade Institute and you just wrote a book on a related subject which no-one seems to be taking seriously.
The point of your posting was so that you could say: "the well known and prolific Slashdot poster, Mr A. C., agrees with me in all points".
nah - what I meant was that no-one since has implemented '=' as meaning 'nearly, but not necessarily exactly =' in a language.
Even if I were German, that would have been a pathetic cheap shot. I would have to be about 71 years old now to have been involved in Hitler's bid for world domination.
'Old Europe' remember horrors that others seem to want to repeat. I shudder to think how people like Ashcroft/Rumsfeld would be behaving if the US did not have a 200 year democratic tradition.
That sounds like functionality I wish I had known about when I had problems with grub.
Unfortunately I never found it and finally ended up reverting to lilo. If something goes wrong there (while installing SuSE 9.1 for example) then in goes a Knoppix CD, and I run lilo using the lilo.conf on hda. Simple, and foolproof enough for this inflexible fool.
40 odd years ago, Algol60 was defined. The 'equality' operator ('=', I think!) was defined as being 'roughly equal' for floating-point numbers.
This turned out to be a bad thing(tm) so no-one has repeated that particular mistake since.
whoever bribed that guy should be put away for a similar length of time.
a large fine for others involved.
confiscation of property.
exposure to boy groups all day (now I'm starting with cruel and unusual punishments!)
In the UK you can be declared 'unfit to be a director of a company', although that does not really fit the craahm in this particular case - the article does not say at which level within NEC this behaviour was initiated.
This need to spend a few years in a confined with large (in more ways than one) powerful gentlemen of ambivalent sexuality who are being fed tripple (sic) doses of viagra in their meals attitude is plugged a lot on
Examples - all 9.11 related - off the top of my head are:
Bottom line is: people who are locked up for often spurious reasons are considered prey. Is that what the US now stands for?
Someone at NEC needs to be prosecuted over this, and then (if found guilty) imprisoned or fined. No rape, no abuse, nothing. Is that what the US now stands for?
Thanks, now we can all RTFM.
I work for an Air Traffic Control, so This one is the best of a marvellous bunch.
Unpossible! Google Cache is slashdotted, although it did load after a couple of minutes.
the vendor decides what ships.
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It certainly interests enough people, although maybe it is just a slow day today.Well, he's kind of like SCO. He makes a claim, has no real evidence to back it up, and then twists facts to make it seem like he was right all along
Now that sounds like WMD and Iraq.
or is not in the US, you unimaginative clod.