This show needs to be expanded. It needs to be broadcast over conventional radio to bring the good word of/. to the unconverted, sinful Microsoft-using masses. They need to be shown the way of our Linus. They need to learn The Right Way. Every time a windows user reaches for his reset button he lets out a cry for salvation and unknowingly longs for words from a Geek well-versed in The Source. This cry must be answered. We must reach down to those who let out this cry. We must reach down to those who must use a radio for news for they lack the faith that their packets will reach their destination, the faith that their computer can run weeks and months without faltering, and the faith that one day we all men will walk the face of the earth, PalmPilot in hand, knowing that they are free, at last, from the tyrany of bloated, buggy, software.
It's a horrible shame when anyone dies young, but I never met the man. None of the media pundits who are following the "breaking story" were his close personal friends.
His father died a decade before I was born. The only Kennedy that I have first hand memories of is Ted.
The Kennedy's are NOT our fscking royal family. I feel sorry for the friends and family of him and his wife, but for the rest of us I say let it go!
He may have been a swell guy, but none of the TV mourners knew him. It's phony, they've been sold a bill of goods. We're supposed to believe the lie of Camelot. The Kennedy family made it's fortune by bootlegging booze during prohibition. That is not something that we should emulate or hold in high regard.
Too bad, but I won't lose a minute's sleep over this.
If a man hunts something to extinction, that's natural. If our farts cause a certain plant to wither and die, that's natural. If we kill a bird to extinction because a few million bead-swinging freaks think that the feathers are funky, that's not natural.
Sadly, it is natural, if you want to get technical. Humans, like animals, have reproductive instincts. Just like birds with pretty feathers tend to reproduce, so too do attractive humans -- only we're so smart, we've designed customizeable "feathers" for ourselves to make ourselves more attractive. Thus wearing the whatever-bird feathers, as well as platform shoes or Tommy Hilfiger shirts, is a natural, if rather twisted, result of our reproductive instincts. So we slaughter other species so we can make more of our own -- doesn't that just brighten your day?
Why not? Obviously the preferable solution would be to responsibly manage populations back to viable levels, but in the case of extinct species, I say go for it. If someone is willing to pay to grow dodo birds, then I say more power to him/her.
Of course I tend to be radically pro-biotech (from extensive Shadowrun gaming) but I can't see much of a downside.
I've had a similar problem. I origninally had the "domain" setting filled in on one of the relevant dial-up properties sheets (i forget which), and when I blanked out the field, the problem disappeared. That was a simple network that only used netbeui on the lan.
What if you have a 1-way cable modem? I get download speeds of up to half a T1 thru a T1 at times, but sending goes through the phone line as a (maybe 28.8/33.6?) Kind of pitiful, but my cable co. (RCN) won't upgrade until 3Q/4Q of 2000.
-= NJV =-
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I'd just like to take the time out to say that Quake3 really kicks ass...it's so much more stable under linux then it is on windoze...that's all I have to say...Quake & Linux forever!!!!
I know a company that is going public in September . I am a good friend of the person who is taking the company public. I am not allowed, under SEC code, to get in on the IPO pre facto. How is it possible for RED HAT to discriminate as to who can get in on this IPO? Does anyone know the answer to this? Does ETRADE have some get out of jail free voucher with the Securities and Exchange Commission? I don't see how this is possible!
This story is a farse. For RED HAT to send such a message would be a direct violation of the SEC code and could very well affect their IPO status. I would say that RED HAT isn't going to go very far if they did in fact send this message. Looks like another case of email fraud to me.
``Worse, they spammed lots of non-US people, that aren't even eligible.'' I must have missed the RFC on ``determining US taxresidency from email address''. I'm not a US resident either, and I got the note (4 times!), but I'm not upset. (Well, I'm not the SEC's biggest fan, but I'm certainly not upset with Red Hat because they weren't able to perfectly execute on what I think is an excellently nice plan.) I don't even want to think about what kind of hoops they had to jump through to give special opportunity to what are, from the SEC's perspective, just a bunch of randomly chosen email addresses.
1 hour being 13% of the daily tv watched in a home, means that 7.6923076923 hours of TV is watched in that home per day.
With my job I get hom from work at between 6:30-7:30 pm, I turn the TV on when I get home and turn it off when I go to sleep at approximately 2:00am. That's 7 hours and 30 minutes of the TV being on, granted I only watch 2-3 hours actively, but the TV is on for that time.
That is the big question, IMHO. Who is going to buy singles for 99 cents... or even a dime for that matter? And what happens when my drive crashes or the download fails? The cybersavvy might know what to do but the average Joe can't even program a VCR let alone navigate the complexities.
The average Joe would pay, because the average Joe can find www.mtv.com a lot easier than an underground mp3 site. But the average Joe is also on a modem, and would get disconnected, etc. fairly often. I would imagine that the site will have some way to deal with this -- not charging until download completes, etc. As for hard drive crashes, tough luck...I don't get a refund from record companies when I lose a cd.
But here's a question: why can't radio stations, who have a license or something to broadcast 'singles' over the air, 'broadcast' them over the net via mp3 for free?
I meant democracy in the ancient Athenian sense, where things are decided by the land-owning class of citizens.;-) That would be the debian developers. I do understand that Joe User doesn't get to vote on Debian issues.
I said 'democratic' as a counter-example to the benevolent tyranny of Red Hat or Slackware, where a corporation or extremely select group of individuals decides what goes into the distro.
AFAIK, all it takes to be a Debian developer is the willingness to read the mailing lists and a well-signed PGP/GPG key. There's no 'code quota' that says you have to contribute a certain amount to be able to vote.
They will search a limited amount of respectable online sellers, auctions, and classifieds for the selected PDA. Using this, I've found you can get a PalmIIIx for $265 to $275 and a plain PalmIII even cheaper.
You have to constantly watch the deals though. Some are for a limited time. But, If you don't mind having your POP account flooded with email, you can have DealTime send you updates on the deals everyday.
You also might want to see if the prices come down, too. One day I saw a PalmIIIx for $265 then $289 the next from the same company.
If you want to search even more sources, try PriceWatch.com. They will search hundreds of online merchants. Some are big time companies, others are small little stores from the middle of nowhere. The prices are guaranteed [sp?] for a little while, so if a little brat from some small little buisness jacks up the price on you, you only have to pay the PriceWatch price.
#include "disclaimer.h"
I haven't used either of these methods to buy a PalmIIIx yet, so I can't personally reccomend them. But, I am currently searching for a PalmIIIx on DealTime. In other words, if it turns out they rip you off, you've been warned.
[Who would win in a fight, the normal Mr. Spock or a Fuzzy Logic Mr. Spock?]
>I have to give you this, you have a slight point.. But the catch is that other companies also have access to that property, just like the cable company does..
Actually in my state you'd be incorrect. The cable companies come to agreements with municipalities to establish exclusive rights to sell their service within it.
TCI is NOT ALLOWED to sell their services to me because I don't live two miles south east of where I currently live.
Adelphia has chosen not to offer broadband internet access where I live in order to persue the more affluent communities to to the north of Pittsburgh.
This is screwed up. I should have had broadband TWO YEARS AGO. Time Warner put the fiber optics in place then because they were planning to do it but Adelphia bought them out and is stalling.
What I'm saying is that either should be allowed. That they should either be allowed to put the cables in place OR lease access to the lines from Adelphia.
What's wierd is that over two years ago Time Warner Cable who bought out Cablevision put fiber optics in the area. We have cable that will and does support two way transmissions. I can order pay per view eventsfrom the box withouth using a phone line. It's because they're only spending the time putting cable modems in areas where rich and influential politicians live that I don't have one.
What I'm saying is that either should be allowed. That they should either be allowed to put the cables in place OR lease access to the lines from Adelphia.
What's wierd is that over two years ago Time Warner Cable whou bought out Cablevision put fiber optics in the area. We have cable that will and does support two way transmissions. I can order pay per view eventsfrom the box withouth using a phone line. It's because they're only spending the time putting cable modems in areas where rich and influential politicians live that I don't have one.
The argument here is not whether AOL will be able to compete. If AOL's group loses, AOL will be able to find SOME way to profit from broadband, whether it be laying its own lines, or (I think) paying an existing cable company to offer AOL services, which I think could be profitable for both companies given AOL's marketing. They just don't WANT to pay.
On the other hand, we don't see the names of other ISP's in AOL's coalition. Why? Because they are small companies. They can't afford to lay enough lines to offer their own service, and they can't afford to work with multi-billion dollar cable companies (and small cable companies are hard to come by these days). So they will be squeezed out as broadband replaces modem.
A defeat of AOL's coalition will result in an oligopoly (is that a real word?) of cable internet service, between the cable companies and a weaker but still large AOL.
I use Debian. I love Debian. I am an experienced sysadmin, so I don't personally have much use for a prettified GUI installation. Some of my friends would, however, and I would like to encourage them to use Debian.
So the question is, why aren't these enhancements folded back into Debian? I don't follow debian-devel anymore; are the developers simply not receptive to these ideas? Debian is a very free and democratic distribution. If your ideas are good, they will be included.
I have to wonder if the people behind this Stormix simply want to be a "name" and want to differentiate themselves for no particular reason other than ego.
Of course, I could be wrong. Besides, the best thing about the GPL is that the Debian project has the right to re-incorporate any derived works back into the fold, unless they make key components like the installer non-free. That would suck and would be cause to avoid Stormix altogether.
So, my question is, why not just contribute these packages to Debian itself?
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Posted by oNZeNeMo (guns'n ammo):
/. to the unconverted, sinful Microsoft-using masses. They need to be shown the way of our Linus. They need to learn The Right Way. Every time a windows user reaches for his reset button he lets out a cry for salvation and unknowingly longs for words from a Geek well-versed in The Source. This cry must be answered. We must reach down to those who let out this cry. We must reach down to those who must use a radio for news for they lack the faith that their packets will reach their destination, the faith that their computer can run weeks and months without faltering, and the faith that one day we all men will walk the face of the earth, PalmPilot in hand, knowing that they are free, at last, from the tyrany of bloated, buggy, software.
This show needs to be expanded. It needs to be broadcast over conventional radio to bring the good word of
Posted by Lord Kano-The Gangster Of Love:
It's a horrible shame when anyone dies young, but I never met the man. None of the media pundits who are following the "breaking story" were his close personal friends.
His father died a decade before I was born. The only Kennedy that I have first hand memories of is Ted.
The Kennedy's are NOT our fscking royal family. I feel sorry for the friends and family of him and his wife, but for the rest of us I say let it go!
He may have been a swell guy, but none of the TV mourners knew him. It's phony, they've been sold a bill of goods. We're supposed to believe the lie of Camelot. The Kennedy family made it's fortune by bootlegging booze during prohibition. That is not something that we should emulate or hold in high regard.
Too bad, but I won't lose a minute's sleep over this.
LK
Posted by Lord Kano-The Gangster Of Love:
linn-ucks is that way that Linus pronounces it. If you invent something YOU get to decide how it's name is pronounced.
LK
Posted by Lord Kano-The Gangst:
Tripp nearly ran afoul of the law because it was telephone conversations that she taped.
I think that it would have been legal if they had been in Tripp's house or car.
Also it is one of the FEW cases where ignorance of the law is a VALID excuse.
Wierd stuff anyway.
LK
Posted by Solar Jetman:
If a man hunts something to extinction, that's natural. If our farts cause a certain plant to wither and die, that's natural. If we kill a bird to extinction because a few million bead-swinging freaks think that the feathers are funky, that's not natural.
Sadly, it is natural, if you want to get technical. Humans, like animals, have reproductive instincts. Just like birds with pretty feathers tend to reproduce, so too do attractive humans -- only we're so smart, we've designed customizeable "feathers" for ourselves to make ourselves more attractive. Thus wearing the whatever-bird feathers, as well as platform shoes or Tommy Hilfiger shirts, is a natural, if rather twisted, result of our reproductive instincts. So we slaughter other species so we can make more of our own -- doesn't that just brighten your day?
Why not? Obviously the preferable solution would be to responsibly manage populations back to viable levels, but in the case of extinct species, I say go for it. If someone is willing to pay to grow dodo birds, then I say more power to him/her.
Of course I tend to be radically pro-biotech (from extensive Shadowrun gaming) but I can't see much of a downside.
Posted by Lord Kano-The Gangst:
Why feel bad for her, this means that we're just one step closer to (possibly) clearing Gus' name.
LK
Posted by Wolfgang A. Mozart:
An awesome discovery in any time, but especially in light of the 30th anniversary of the first lunar landing.
Posted by Huygens:
I've had a similar problem. I origninally had the "domain" setting filled in on one of the relevant dial-up properties sheets (i forget which), and when I blanked out the field, the problem disappeared. That was a simple network that only used netbeui on the lan.
Posted by NJViking:
What if you have a 1-way cable modem? I get download speeds of up to half a T1 thru a T1 at times, but sending goes through the phone line as a (maybe 28.8/33.6?) Kind of pitiful, but my cable co. (RCN) won't upgrade until 3Q/4Q of 2000.
-= NJV =-
Posted by OGL:
Oh yeah that whole 2 day delay...what a shocker.
-W.W.
Posted by OGL:
I'd just like to take the time out to say that Quake3 really kicks ass...it's so much more stable under linux then it is on windoze...that's all I have to say...Quake & Linux forever!!!!
-W.W.
Posted by Moneycrawler:
I know a company that is going public in September . I am a good friend of the person who is taking the company public. I am not allowed, under SEC code, to get in on the IPO pre facto. How is it possible for RED HAT to discriminate as to who can get in on this IPO? Does anyone know the answer to this? Does ETRADE have some get out of jail free voucher with the Securities and Exchange Commission? I don't see how this is possible!
Posted by Moneycrawler:
This story is a farse. For RED HAT to send such a message would be a direct violation of the SEC code and could very well affect their IPO status. I would say that RED HAT isn't going to go very far if they did in fact send this message. Looks like another case of email fraud to me.
Posted by shaver@netscape.com:
``Worse, they spammed lots of non-US people, that aren't even eligible.'' I must have missed the RFC on ``determining US taxresidency from email address''. I'm not a US resident either, and I got the note (4 times!), but I'm not upset. (Well, I'm not the SEC's biggest fan, but I'm certainly not upset with Red Hat because they weren't able to perfectly execute on what I think is an excellently nice plan.) I don't even want to think about what kind of hoops they had to jump through to give special opportunity to what are, from the SEC's perspective, just a bunch of randomly chosen email addresses.
Posted by Lord Kano-The Gangst:
Check your math Rob.
1 hour being 13% of the daily tv watched in a home, means that 7.6923076923 hours of TV is watched in that home per day.
With my job I get hom from work at between 6:30-7:30 pm, I turn the TV on when I get home and turn it off when I go to sleep at approximately 2:00am. That's 7 hours and 30 minutes of the TV being on, granted I only watch 2-3 hours actively, but the TV is on for that time.
That's not unrealistic.
LK
Posted by Lord Kano-The Gangst:
I would pay $0.99 for a song. I hate paying $17.99 for a CD that has three songs that I actually like.
I'd have about a grand in savings if I didn't pay for 8 songs that suck ass every time I buy a CD.
LK
Posted by Solar Jetman:
That is the big question, IMHO. Who is going to buy singles for 99 cents... or even a dime for that matter? And what happens when my drive crashes or the download fails? The cybersavvy might know what to do but the average Joe can't even program a VCR let alone navigate the complexities.
The average Joe would pay, because the average Joe can find www.mtv.com a lot easier than an underground mp3 site. But the average Joe is also on a modem, and would get disconnected, etc. fairly often. I would imagine that the site will have some way to deal with this -- not charging until download completes, etc. As for hard drive crashes, tough luck...I don't get a refund from record companies when I lose a cd.
But here's a question: why can't radio stations, who have a license or something to broadcast 'singles' over the air, 'broadcast' them over the net via mp3 for free?
I meant democracy in the ancient Athenian sense, where things are decided by the land-owning class of citizens.
I said 'democratic' as a counter-example to the benevolent tyranny of Red Hat or Slackware, where a corporation or extremely select group of individuals decides what goes into the distro.
AFAIK, all it takes to be a Debian developer is the willingness to read the mailing lists and a well-signed PGP/GPG key. There's no 'code quota' that says you have to contribute a certain amount to be able to vote.
If you want to get a PalmIII[x], try www.DealTime.com.
They will search a limited amount of respectable online sellers, auctions, and classifieds for the selected PDA. Using this, I've found you can get a PalmIIIx for $265 to $275 and a plain PalmIII even cheaper.
You have to constantly watch the deals though. Some are for a limited time. But, If you don't mind having your POP account flooded with email, you can have DealTime send you updates on the deals everyday.
You also might want to see if the prices come down, too. One day I saw a PalmIIIx for $265 then $289 the next from the same company.
If you want to search even more sources, try PriceWatch.com. They will search hundreds of online merchants. Some are big time companies, others are small little stores from the middle of nowhere. The prices are guaranteed [sp?] for a little while, so if a little brat from some small little buisness jacks up the price on you, you only have to pay the PriceWatch price.
#include "disclaimer.h"
I haven't used either of these methods to buy a PalmIIIx yet, so I can't personally reccomend them. But, I am currently searching for a PalmIIIx on DealTime. In other words, if it turns out they rip you off, you've been warned.
[Who would win in a fight, the normal Mr. Spock or a Fuzzy Logic Mr. Spock?]
Posted by Lord Kano-The Gangst:
>I have to give you this, you have a slight point.. But the catch is that other companies also have access to that property, just like the cable company does..
Actually in my state you'd be incorrect. The cable companies come to agreements with municipalities to establish exclusive rights to sell their service within it.
TCI is NOT ALLOWED to sell their services to me because I don't live two miles south east of where I currently live.
Adelphia has chosen not to offer broadband internet access where I live in order to persue the more affluent communities to to the north of Pittsburgh.
This is screwed up. I should have had broadband TWO YEARS AGO. Time Warner put the fiber optics in place then because they were planning to do it but Adelphia bought them out and is stalling.
LK
Posted by Lord Kano-The Gangst:
What I'm saying is that either should be allowed. That they should either be allowed to put the cables in place OR lease access to the lines from Adelphia.
What's wierd is that over two years ago Time Warner Cable who bought out Cablevision put fiber optics in the area. We have cable that will and does support two way transmissions. I can order pay per view eventsfrom the box withouth using a phone line. It's because they're only spending the time putting cable modems in areas where rich and influential politicians live that I don't have one.
LK
Posted by Lord Kano-The Gangst:
What I'm saying is that either should be allowed. That they should either be allowed to put the cables in place OR lease access to the lines from Adelphia.
What's wierd is that over two years ago Time Warner Cable whou bought out Cablevision put fiber optics in the area. We have cable that will and does support two way transmissions. I can order pay per view eventsfrom the box withouth using a phone line. It's because they're only spending the time putting cable modems in areas where rich and influential politicians live that I don't have one.
LK
Posted by Solar Jetman:
The argument here is not whether AOL will be able to compete. If AOL's group loses, AOL will be able to find SOME way to profit from broadband, whether it be laying its own lines, or (I think) paying an existing cable company to offer AOL services, which I think could be profitable for both companies given AOL's marketing. They just don't WANT to pay.
On the other hand, we don't see the names of other ISP's in AOL's coalition. Why? Because they are small companies. They can't afford to lay enough lines to offer their own service, and they can't afford to work with multi-billion dollar cable companies (and small cable companies are hard to come by these days). So they will be squeezed out as broadband replaces modem.
A defeat of AOL's coalition will result in an oligopoly (is that a real word?) of cable internet service, between the cable companies and a weaker but still large AOL.
Yuck.
I use Debian. I love Debian. I am an experienced sysadmin, so I don't personally have much use for a prettified GUI installation. Some of my friends would, however, and I would like to encourage them to use Debian.
So the question is, why aren't these enhancements folded back into Debian? I don't follow debian-devel anymore; are the developers simply not receptive to these ideas? Debian is a very free and democratic distribution. If your ideas are good, they will be included.
I have to wonder if the people behind this Stormix simply want to be a "name" and want to differentiate themselves for no particular reason other than ego.
Of course, I could be wrong. Besides, the best thing about the GPL is that the Debian project has the right to re-incorporate any derived works back into the fold, unless they make key components like the installer non-free. That would suck and would be cause to avoid Stormix altogether.
So, my question is, why not just contribute these packages to Debian itself?