Babbage's engine was a theoretical exercise which was never actually built - at least at the time. It demanded engineering tolerances way beyond what was available back then.
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I was not aware the Germans ever got near Moscow, or even tried to. They did not have enough men to go for Moscow and the Caucausus, so they went for the Caucausus and the oil.
I think you mean 'Einsatzgruppen'. That was a harmless-looking name for the units who went in to wipe out the Jewish population. They left the Russian population more-or-less alone.
The real brutality against the Russians and (to a lesser extent) Ukranians started later. That did not affect the way the armies fought, but it made for a vicious resistance organisation behind the German lines.
As to why the Germans were in that area in the first place: it had (imho) very little to do with the name and a lot more to do with oil. The German war machine was having problems getting hold of fuel and there was a lot available a bit further over.
Sure, Hitler considered the land vacant and available for colonising, but that was to be the next stage after the Russians had been defeated.
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The German general in charge of their army wanted to retreat, but Hitler ordered him to fight to the last drop of blood - for propaganda reasons.
Retreating would have allowed the Germans to fight again another day. In the end, he (the general) surrendered when surrounded and running out of food and ammunition. Hitler was incandescent (which was normal for him anyway).
Waibel are a company that seemingly had a special relationship with Ziff-Davies (sp?) - they advertised a lot with ZD and always got ecstatic product reviews. The ZD Magazine 'PC Direkt' took this a very long way, no issue was complete with out a review of Waibel's latest offering to humanity.
C't are very independent and recently did a comparison of around 15 PCs from a number of mail-order firms. Dell came out as the least worst, Waibel were apparently selling pirated copies on Win98 with their poorly built PCs. This is not the first time that C't have caught a company doing this. None of the reviews was favourable, although I thought myself that their criteria were a bit harsh in some respects.
C't did not single Waibel out, Gateway (for instance) also received an awful review.
My personal experience: Three of my friends have bought PCs from Gateway, most recently in November. All were very happy.
One guy at work bought a PC from Waibel, it has a proprietary Motherboard which means he can't get BIOS updates, and the original documentation was poorly photocopied and incomplete.
Guess which company I do not recommend.
Your mileage may vary.
SuSE has one central config file which they use for virtually everything -/etc/rc.config. When you update your system, the previous version is saved as/etc/rc.config.rpmsave. The upgrade process sends root a mail saying this.
It is quite possible that some of the config files generated from rc.config are not saved. Config files that are outside this system - smb.conf for example - are either renamed smb.conf.rpmsave or the new one is created as smb.conf.rpmnew. The upgrade process sends root a mail in each case saying this.
If I update my system, it makes sense to backup configuration files first. Saying that the 'austrian community finds SuSE ******' because some newbies not only forgot to save their config files but could not find the updated ones afterwards, could reasonably be called flamebait.
Maybe I should look at the at.linux newsgroups some time, I can't imagine that they are as bad as you think.
SuSE often issue semi-official releases in between their normal ones. I have run into horrible difficulties in the past upgrading to them - make sure you save everything important first.
I have the evaluation copy as a CD in a German magazine and will be trying it later this evening (reckless fool!)
SuSE add various 'features' to a kernel; ReiserFS is one example, usb support also made it there before it got to the main branch. 2.2.17 came out just before SuSE 7.0 was released so they did not have time to add their extensions.
My personal experience is these SuSE kernels are slightly less reliable than normal ones, I had a nasty problem on my laptop with SuSE 6.4 that was fixed by upgrading to a 'normal' kernel the next time one came out.
I work on mainframes and have done for a large number of years. Configuring and compiling a Linux kernel using (for example) 'make menuconfig' is something I have no problems with. Installing new.rpms is also trivial.
Patching the kernel to support ReiserFS is something else completely - I have no idea how to do this at all. Does this make me computer-illiterate? I use Linux for my job, you may (for all I know) be a kernel maintainer but for me it is a desktop and server OS.
Linux has been trying to move into the mainstream for a while now, a reliable Journaling FS that can be activated simply is something I *need* - hardware errors and even some kernel problems (try rebooting with a smbmounted directory loaded) mean that I sometimes need to hit that button. Why are you trying to reserve Linux as a niche-OS for the ultra pure-at-heart?
The guys responsible for this are the guys at Linux One (code LINX) - a very well known distribution operating out of Nevada.
Be careful not to sue them though, they have some very high-powered lawyers (much more articulate than you) and would take *very* *unkindly* to someone damaging their IPO chances. So would the SEC.
So keep yoah beautiful head down and don't bite off more than you can chew.
So what happens if someone in Usbekistan grabs the specs and puts them up on the net? Does this then make them publicly available and the person who did this liable for prosecution in a country that could not care less anyway?
The GPL (for instance) is routinely ignored in China so China would seem be another good candidate.
Assuming you are the same AC as before, and that you *really are* serious, go to http://www.tucows.com/ and then on via the operating system of your choice (try win95) to the software menus.
There, you will see hundreds of applications; freeware, shareware and (I think) demos doing everything their authors could imagine. A lot of them duplicate each other. Welcome to the real world.
As for Ivory Towers, where are you? Cuba? China? A company that only uses M$ products? Duplication is normal, otherwise we would all be using whatever text processors were available in 1985.
Konquerer is another web browser with lots of lovely add-ons. If it is the best, I will move to it. If not, Mozilla should be ready by then.
The old notion of RMS-style "Free Software", with it's conotations of socialism and collectivism . ..
Would it help you if you saw it as naked capitalism: 'May the best product win'?
Who the hell is supposed to lay down which compiler, browser, editor, GUI or whatever I wish to use? You? No way. Welcome to the old Eastern Europe. Sorry, but that idea has nothing to recommend it - nothing at all.
The cooling units on water-cooled mainframes I have worked with were *not* portable. Water was pumped around to a cooling unit and back again in a closed circuit. I think the circuit did need topping up occasionally, though.
The whole unit weighed the best part of a ton. There were two independent circuits in case one fell out.
This has nothing to do with AOL being American - that sort of legal racism is one thing that is not involved here.
The German government will eventually have to come up with a law defining ISP responsibility (as will the British govt); until then, this sort of stupidity can hit anywhere. No laws have been passed yet because the parliaments consist of people who do not have a clue in this area.
It was a Bavarian court that found Felix Somm (the then head of Compuserve Germany) guilty of disseminating pornography and handed down a suspended prison sentence. Then as now, the company were held responsible for what users (in another country) had posted on the web.
That verdict provoked uproar in Germany and did not survive the appeal. It is too early to see if this bit of idiocy is going to go the same way, but the waves it is making are not as visible.
The previous verdict was considered an embarrassment to Germany in general and Bavaria in particular.
Slashdot has carried a number of stories recently where similar pressure was brought to bear in the US.
The issue then was not defamation, but the end-result went the same way. Some legal department (or the FBI) pressures an ISP to remove something they host, the ISP has the choice of fighting it for no reward or simply pulling the plug on a site. Demon fought and lost, the US ISPs in the stories we read here simply pulled the plug.
There are also parallels here with the case in Bavaria/Germany where Felix Somm of Compuserve actually received a suspended prison sentence (if my memory serves me right) before winning the appeal. Compuserve had been held responsible for pornographic content that came in over the web.
On a totally different level, Justice Morland was the judge in *this* case. He has afaik a history of interesting rulings, rulings not necessarily backed by the evidence. I hope Demon have better luck in the appeal.
I have not been following Napster and it's clones in the past, but this seems different. How does it recognise a file? Does it just use the filename?
So I take linux-2.0.10.tar.gz, rename it linux-2.2.14.tar.gz somewhere and watch people fall into very large holes? Rebranding Win 3.11 as Win98TE would be even more fun, and no-one would even be able to sue without admitting that they were pirating software.
I like to have control over where my downloads come from and this program looks like a license to self-destruct for it's users.
Andrew Tridgell took over smbmount starting with version 2.0.5., the documentation has not kept pace with this change.
My question, do you need help weeding out documentation that is no longer correct? While my technical background (no NT, only basic Linux) means that a lot of stuff is over my head, some of the documentation obviously needs pruning and I would be available for that.
A related question: is John Terpstra still in the project?
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Babbage's engine was a theoretical exercise which was never actually built - at least at the time. It demanded engineering tolerances way beyond what was available back then.
Do you mean Leningrad?
I think you mean 'Einsatzgruppen'. That was a harmless-looking name for the units who went in to wipe out the Jewish population. They left the Russian population more-or-less alone.
The real brutality against the Russians and (to a lesser extent) Ukranians started later. That did not affect the way the armies fought, but it made for a vicious resistance organisation behind the German lines.
As to why the Germans were in that area in the first place: it had (imho) very little to do with the name and a lot more to do with oil. The German war machine was having problems getting hold of fuel and there was a lot available a bit further over.
Sure, Hitler considered the land vacant and available for colonising, but that was to be the next stage after the Russians had been defeated.
Retreating would have allowed the Germans to fight again another day. In the end, he (the general) surrendered when surrounded and running out of food and ammunition. Hitler was incandescent (which was normal for him anyway).
Waibel are a company that seemingly had a special relationship with Ziff-Davies (sp?) - they advertised a lot with ZD and always got ecstatic product reviews. The ZD Magazine 'PC Direkt' took this a very long way, no issue was complete with out a review of Waibel's latest offering to humanity.
C't are very independent and recently did a comparison of around 15 PCs from a number of mail-order firms. Dell came out as the least worst, Waibel were apparently selling pirated copies on Win98 with their poorly built PCs. This is not the first time that C't have caught a company doing this. None of the reviews was favourable, although I thought myself that their criteria were a bit harsh in some respects.
C't did not single Waibel out, Gateway (for instance) also received an awful review.
My personal experience: Three of my friends have bought PCs from Gateway, most recently in November. All were very happy.
One guy at work bought a PC from Waibel, it has a proprietary Motherboard which means he can't get BIOS updates, and the original documentation was poorly photocopied and incomplete.
Guess which company I do not recommend.
Your mileage may vary.
SuSE has one central config file which they use for virtually everything - /etc/rc.config. When you update your system, the previous version is saved as /etc/rc.config.rpmsave. The upgrade process sends root a mail saying this.
It is quite possible that some of the config files generated from rc.config are not saved. Config files that are outside this system - smb.conf for example - are either renamed smb.conf.rpmsave or the new one is created as smb.conf.rpmnew. The upgrade process sends root a mail in each case saying this.
If I update my system, it makes sense to backup configuration files first. Saying that the 'austrian community finds SuSE ******' because some newbies not only forgot to save their config files but could not find the updated ones afterwards, could reasonably be called flamebait.
Maybe I should look at the at.linux newsgroups some time, I can't imagine that they are as bad as you think.
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Their desktop version comes on 3 CDs
Their server version comes on 6 CDs or 1 DVD.
This one fits on 1 CD - maybe one or two things are missing
SuSE often issue semi-official releases in between their normal ones. I have run into horrible difficulties in the past upgrading to them - make sure you save everything important first.
I have the evaluation copy as a CD in a German magazine and will be trying it later this evening (reckless fool!)
SuSE add various 'features' to a kernel; ReiserFS is one example, usb support also made it there before it got to the main branch. 2.2.17 came out just before SuSE 7.0 was released so they did not have time to add their extensions.
My personal experience is these SuSE kernels are slightly less reliable than normal ones, I had a nasty problem on my laptop with SuSE 6.4 that was fixed by upgrading to a 'normal' kernel the next time one came out.
I work on mainframes and have done for a large number of years. Configuring and compiling a Linux kernel using (for example) 'make menuconfig' is something I have no problems with. Installing new .rpms is also trivial.
Patching the kernel to support ReiserFS is something else completely - I have no idea how to do this at all. Does this make me computer-illiterate? I use Linux for my job, you may (for all I know) be a kernel maintainer but for me it is a desktop and server OS.
Linux has been trying to move into the mainstream for a while now, a reliable Journaling FS that can be activated simply is something I *need* - hardware errors and even some kernel problems (try rebooting with a smbmounted directory loaded) mean that I sometimes need to hit that button. Why are you trying to reserve Linux as a niche-OS for the ultra pure-at-heart?
The guys responsible for this are the guys at Linux One (code LINX) - a very well known distribution operating out of Nevada.
Be careful not to sue them though, they have some very high-powered lawyers (much more articulate than you) and would take *very* *unkindly* to someone damaging their IPO chances. So would the SEC.
So keep yoah beautiful head down and don't bite off more than you can chew.
I am not 'the Slashdot crowd', I am me and speak only for myself. Sometimes not even that.
Actually, the GPL violations in China do not interest me much either - anyone there who really wants the sources could probable get them anyway.
So what happens if someone in Usbekistan grabs the specs and puts them up on the net? Does this then make them publicly available and the person who did this liable for prosecution in a country that could not care less anyway?
The GPL (for instance) is routinely ignored in China so China would seem be another good candidate.
Assuming you are the same AC as before, and that you *really are* serious, go to http://www.tucows.com/ and then on via the operating system of your choice (try win95) to the software menus.
There, you will see hundreds of applications; freeware, shareware and (I think) demos doing everything their authors could imagine. A lot of them duplicate each other. Welcome to the real world.
As for Ivory Towers, where are you? Cuba? China? A company that only uses M$ products? Duplication is normal, otherwise we would all be using whatever text processors were available in 1985.
Konquerer is another web browser with lots of lovely add-ons. If it is the best, I will move to it. If not, Mozilla should be ready by then.
The old notion of RMS-style "Free Software", with it's conotations of socialism and collectivism . . .
Would it help you if you saw it as naked capitalism: 'May the best product win'?
Who the hell is supposed to lay down which compiler, browser, editor, GUI or whatever I wish to use? You? No way. Welcome to the old Eastern Europe. Sorry, but that idea has nothing to recommend it - nothing at all.
A casual glance at the website indicates that it is a new development, unrelated to kfm.
There was no indication of when this wonderful beast could finally be up and running. Reading between the lines in some places, it is not ready yet.
The cooling units on water-cooled mainframes I have worked with were *not* portable. Water was pumped around to a cooling unit and back again in a closed circuit. I think the circuit did need topping up occasionally, though.
The whole unit weighed the best part of a ton. There were two independent circuits in case one fell out.
This has nothing to do with AOL being American - that sort of legal racism is one thing that is not involved here.
The German government will eventually have to come up with a law defining ISP responsibility (as will the British govt); until then, this sort of stupidity can hit anywhere. No laws have been passed yet because the parliaments consist of people who do not have a clue in this area.
Sounds familiar?
German law knows nothing about ISP liability as such (I think), they are stretching a law here to treate AOL as they would a publishing house.
Then again, AOL *is* a publishing house!
It was a Bavarian court that found Felix Somm (the then head of Compuserve Germany) guilty of disseminating pornography and handed down a suspended prison sentence. Then as now, the company were held responsible for what users (in another country) had posted on the web.
That verdict provoked uproar in Germany and did not survive the appeal. It is too early to see if this bit of idiocy is going to go the same way, but the waves it is making are not as visible.
The previous verdict was considered an embarrassment to Germany in general and Bavaria in particular.
Slashdot has carried a number of stories recently where similar pressure was brought to bear in the US.
The issue then was not defamation, but the end-result went the same way. Some legal department (or the FBI) pressures an ISP to remove something they host, the ISP has the choice of fighting it for no reward or simply pulling the plug on a site. Demon fought and lost, the US ISPs in the stories we read here simply pulled the plug.
There are also parallels here with the case in Bavaria/Germany where Felix Somm of Compuserve actually received a suspended prison sentence (if my memory serves me right) before winning the appeal. Compuserve had been held responsible for pornographic content that came in over the web.
On a totally different level, Justice Morland was the judge in *this* case. He has afaik a history of interesting rulings, rulings not necessarily backed by the evidence. I hope Demon have better luck in the appeal.
Now I know how it works, you are probably right.
I have not been following Napster and it's clones in the past, but this seems different. How does it recognise a file? Does it just use the filename?
So I take linux-2.0.10.tar.gz, rename it linux-2.2.14.tar.gz somewhere and watch people fall into very large holes? Rebranding Win 3.11 as Win98TE would be even more fun, and no-one would even be able to sue without admitting that they were pirating software.
I like to have control over where my downloads come from and this program looks like a license to self-destruct for it's users.
Samba 2.0.7 is in pre-release, it is specifically aimed at fixing Win2k incompatabilities.
Andrew Tridgell took over smbmount starting with version 2.0.5., the documentation has not kept pace with this change.
My question, do you need help weeding out documentation that is no longer correct? While my technical background (no NT, only basic Linux) means that a lot of stuff is over my head, some of the documentation obviously needs pruning and I would be available for that.
A related question: is John Terpstra still in the project?