It is based on the AIX kernel with technology from AIX, UnixWare and PTX added. That tech will also be put into AIX 6000 where appropriate making Monterey IA-64 and AIX 6000 source compatible. Now whether IBM calls it AIX and SCO calls it UnixWare and Sequent, PTX remains to be seen or perhaps a totally new name that is company independent.
Re:Ways to avoid torment in public schools by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday April 28, @02:03PM EDT Anonymous Coward writes: "So if there are any school administrators or teachers reading this, I suggest you look to your conciences- please try to prevent this kind of thing from happening."
Having had a miserable school life and having had to defend myself physically time and again during junior high and early high school, I make it a point to have zero tolerance for bullying. I teach middle school in Northern NJ.
I also make it clear to the victims that this is their school as much as it is the bully's and they have a right to come here and enjoy the experience. Anyone who interferes with that will be dealt with.
There is no reason why a student should have to come to school with that "raw" feeling in his stomach as he contemplates a day filled with terror.
The trouble is that you are right about many administrators and teachers ignoring the rights of the students they are supposed to serve. A part of a teacher's responsiblity, in my opinion, is to be a role model - and accept each student for who she is. Inherent in this is that each student has a right to be and no one has the right to impinge on their rights.
Perhaps im biased being a somewhat happy ASP-MS-SQLer, can someone point me to any whitepapers, articles etc comparing load capabilities between Apache and IIS.
I have been part of large scale IIS sites and have had some problems with heavy load and IIS difficulties, but from my recent readings here it seems that sometimes/. can get/.d (well a little bit anyways):)
Just trying to seperate the facts from the ideologues. Any info appreciated
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Posted by GhostX:
I don't know what the *official* way to do this is, but I did it this way: first, I started in Gnome, I used the gnome switcher tool in system utilities to switch to KDE: I then had two panels, the Gnome and KDE panel. Then, I switched to Afterstep.
From Afterstep I had only the file manager from KDE, and nothing, seemingly, from Gnome. The file manager was in the form of the autostart folder, etc on my desktop. Then, I found a Gnome panel app in the bin, the mem and cpu one, and ran it. That started up the Gnome panel in Afterstep.
The Gnome panel has the KDE panel on it, through the "foot". So, that is how I got all three window manangers to work in one with 5.9.
I don't think this is the end of the world, but I think it's a good idea if done well. A discretly placed "COKE-A-COLA" can that you can click on to go to the web page would be great.
Today on TV I saw that there was another school shooting...In CANADA! Now explain to me how in Canada, a country with "Sane" and "Sensible" gun control laws.
Things that make you go "hmmmmmmmmmmm?"
LK
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Posted by Lord Kano-The Gangster Of Love:
>>Check your facts. TV was invented by Manfred von Ardenne and first presented to the world on the Funkausstellung 1931 in Berlin. See here.
I have seriously not used a floppy disk with either of my macs at home in nearly three years. There is nothing that a floppy can do that a CDROM or a network can't do better.
To be totally honest, I'm beginning to feel that removable storage in general is headed for extinction. I can just pop my hard drive out and move it elsewhere- why mess with a Jaz?
I'm 49 years old and teach math at a middle school in New Jersey.
I grew up in the Bronx with all the emotional and physical pain that could be bestowed upon an "outcast".
I know what it's like to go to school with that raw feeling in your stomach and wonder how you're going to have to defend yourself that day.
I am now especially sensitive to my students who don't fit into the "mold" and suffer because of it. I have zero tolerance for kids who pick on other kids and tell my students that they have a right to come to school without having to fear being bullied.
Unfortunately, I have noticed that some of my colleagues are not as sensitive and are not paying closer attention. Kids are coming to school worried about being bullied and some of us adults are turning a deaf ear.
Students must be able to demand that school personnel look out for their safety and stop bullying in its tracks. Smarts and talent need to be the number one asset in school; not sports, physical attributes, and popularity. Teachers and adminstrators can help.
To my principal's credit, we have an honors day program at the end of each marking period. Honor roll and principal list students are recognized and parents are welcome to attend. A guest speaker is invited to give a speech on how education helped them become successful.
However, we still have a long way to go.
The two boys from Littleton had every right to feel abused, had a right to hate those who were abusing them. Trouble was-they went to the next level and acted on their feelings.
Members of society paid the ultimate price and so did the boys. What a shame.
>>Guns aren't the problem; they're but one of dozens of symptoms.
People are the problem, we are imperfect and we will always be. The tools we use to express that imperfection are irrelevent.
>>"The sun never sets on the British Empire"; it does now. The Merkin Empire will be one for the coroners, too; attitudes like your will only hasten the day of the autopsy.
It was attitudes like mine that quickened the erosion of the British Empire, It was attitudes like mine that helped the Roman Empire to end.
The survival of my country means little, it is the survival of my culture which is important.
Every empire, every civilization faces it's decline one day.
On the other side of the pond, many countries have gone through various deaths and rebirths over the past few thousand years. It is of no consequence if the king (metaphor) survives, it is only important if the culture survives, people can, have, do, and will rebuild when all that they have known is destroyed.
Nonetheless, that's merely an academic arguement. Neither you, nor I will live to see the fall of the USA.
It's not that much of a miracle, at least in Austria (and I think in other European countries too) calculus is part of the curriculum during normal math courses for the last 2-3 years of highschool... go figure:)
Microsoft uses security via obscurity. Their bugs become "features."
Re:Europeans, Canadians, and self loathing America
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Posted by Lord Kano-The Gangster Of Love:
>>The average income in Germany is higher than in the USA.
Before taxes or after?
>>The TV, the telephone, the light bulb, the computer, the web and the Linux kernel were all developed in Europe.
TV, was inventd by a man named Philo Farnsworth, he was an American farmer.
Bell was obviously an American, as was Edison.
Early computers were just an evolution of a chinese invention. Perhaps http was developed in europe, but the internet (arpanet at the time) was invented right here in the US.
Even though Linus was in europe, he got help from people all over the world.
>>Not to forget the 20 Million Soviet soldiers that left their life during WWII. You're a little bit US-centric, you even say "Americans" and mean US citizens.
The soviets did contribute much ot the war effort, But who stormed the beach at Normandy? I use the term Americans, because they's how we refer to ourselves. I call myself an American, not a United States of American.
Thanks for these links. This may be the first decent coverage TIME has given a major news story in years. I'm sure the concept that movies, video games, and goth culture don't necessarily lead to murder will be foreign to the TV news networks, but at least one news outlet in a position to influence people is saying it.
Of course, since they're a Time-Warner publication, I'm sure they'll be accused of "protecting their own interests" by some fundamentalist wankers, but hey, ain't that America?
Can you sue? I think it's a great idea. These guys (http://www.kclink.com/spam/index.html) actually did so. The last update on the case was several months back, but it's still a fascinating story. Whenever someone you don't know sends an email you didn't solicit and probably don't want, they've decided their right to get their message across supercedes your server space and bandwidth. Once you inform them that you're going to start charging for that space, sue away.
I pay for a PO box. So by this ruling I can prevent any junk mail sender from sending crud to my box. My PO Box is a limited resource, the Post Office would frown pretty heavily if I suddenly started getting 1 Ton of catalogues every day. Personally I think Intel will lose this one on appeal, although I hope they win since I really despise spammers.
Europeans, Canadians, and self loathing Americans
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Posted by Lord Kano-The Gangster Of Love:
I believe that the reason we've got people attempting to use the recent tragedy in Colorado to disarm the American populace is multifaceted.
One of which is that the Europeans and Canadians are jelous of the freedom and prosperity that we have in the USA. As I'm sure most of us have experienced, it's like when you get a roomfull of your classmates angry at you for "ruining the grading curve".
I believe that the Europeans carry a cultural bias against us because many of the early immagrants to this land were ejected from european nations. Now we have the most powerful nation on the planet. Like when the geek who get's picked on by Johnny Football hero grows up to invent something that cost more than Johnny's gas pumping job will allow him to afford.
Self loathing among Americans is once again on the rise. There are some in our midst who feel guilt at the great advances we've made. They have been seduced by the hope of being glamorous like the eurotrash imagery that they are fed in the tabloids and from hollywood. In order to purge themselves of that guilt they concentrate on the negative aspects of our country. We've got x nmber of homeless...We had y number of murders last year...Only z of us could afford health insurance last year.
They convienently leave out that x*230 have homes. That y*5000 are living in relative safety.
Guns are made the target because our attitude towards them is unique in the world. In this country the PEOPLE have the power to determine their own destiny. We can't be forceable quieted by the government if we say something too unpopular. Or if we tell a secret that the government doesn't want out. Or if we refuse to have the conditions of our lives dictated to us. A few individuals among us have been silenced, but there are many more carrying on the work.
The fact that Kevin Harris shot and killed William Degan and was later AQUITTED of murder charges because Agent Degan was involved in an illegal operation is proof that the system we have in place can and does work.
People all over the world bash the US, but they're more than happy to take our aid in the form of money from the international monetary fund or the world bank. Who gives the most to the UN? We do.
The US has enough gun laws on the books right now (actually we have too many). If law enforcement was allowed to enforce them properly we wouldn't need any more. Bill Clinton claims that the brady Act stopped the sale of over 250,000 guns to people who were prohibited from owning them. If that's te case why have there not been 250,000 prosecutions for attempting ti illegally obtain a gun? Why because it's a sham, it's a lie. They want to change the way we think about firearms. They've even thrown out the Red Herring of "sporting arms". The 2nd amendment has nothing to do with sporting. Not target shooting, not duck hunting, not necessarily even home defense. The words of the men who wrote the constitution confirm this.
Before you atttempt to make us into potential victims like yourselves, just keep in mind the last time your "safe" european countries were in trouble, it was a bunch of tobacco smoking, gun toting Americans who bailed you out.
Guns availability is not the issue, remember Dunblane Scotland? No matter how tight your controls are, there will always be nutcases who go berzerk and attack innocent people.
After all, in the 1930's-1940's Germany had nice restrictive laws related to guns. http://www.jpfo.org/L-laws.htm
Sorry for the rant, but I've grown weary of outsiders and know-notings telling us how to run our country.
If this guy had printed his letter and sent it COD to all of these employees in their office locations, would you support that right? This is basically what he has done by trying to use Intel's network to deliver it. Sure, if he did, Intel could sort all of his COD letters out and have the post office return them to the sender, but that would require Intel to expend the manpower to do so. It's simply not this man's right to use up resources of Intel's to get his story out.
I see, so Intel should be expected to expend the amdin resource to block his mails, and then he simply starts sending from another address and the update their filters so he moves again, and on and on and on. As a advocate for freespeech I have to tell you that this was not protected freespeech. If he wants to make his site and then post announcements about it in the appropriate intel related newsgroups, and get TV networks to publish his story, whatever, then that is protected speech. But he does not have the right to use the resources of Intel to deliver his speech to the Intel owned email boxes of this employees. I'm glad they went after him because idiots like that are the ones who water down our right to free speech.
How much do you want to bet that Intel will buy up Cygnus inside of a year? They already worked together to tune Linux for Intel Pentium workstations, and now they're working on the IA-64 architecture. Intel is increasingly Linux-friendly (one of their execs is a keynote speaker at the next LinuxWorld) and Cygnus is a key player in making sure that Linux runs well on Intel's architecture. I think Intel has seen the writing on the wall, and they have a tendency to buy up useful companies.
Just a thought. We'll see.
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Maybe I should read it again. I tried 20 years ago and I thought it an oversized self-indulgent book - like a pompous academic talking to himself. I gave up after 100 pages because I didn't see the point.
But so many others here like it, so like I said, maybe I should try again.
Slashdot Mirror
Posted by Army No. Va.:
It is based on the AIX kernel with technology from AIX, UnixWare and PTX added. That tech will also be put into AIX 6000 where appropriate making Monterey IA-64 and AIX 6000 source compatible. Now whether IBM calls it AIX and SCO calls it UnixWare and Sequent, PTX remains to be seen or perhaps a totally new name that is company independent.
Posted by Bobeld:
Re:Ways to avoid torment in public schools
by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday April 28, @02:03PM EDT
Anonymous Coward writes:
"So if there are any school administrators or teachers reading this, I suggest you look to your conciences- please try to prevent this kind of thing from happening."
Having had a miserable school life and having had to defend myself physically time and again during junior high and early high school, I make it a point to have zero tolerance for bullying. I teach middle school in Northern NJ.
I also make it clear to the victims that this is their school as much as it is the bully's and they have a right to come here and enjoy the experience. Anyone who interferes with that will be dealt with.
There is no reason why a student should have to come to school with that "raw" feeling in his stomach as he contemplates a day filled with terror.
The trouble is that you are right about many administrators and teachers ignoring the rights of the students they are supposed to serve. A part of a teacher's responsiblity, in my opinion, is to be a role model - and accept each student for who she is. Inherent in this is that each student has a right to be and no one has the right to impinge on their rights.
Posted by GoPatGo:
Why don't you stop grasping at straws and get the real fucking issue for once.
Enlighten us. What is the real fucking issue that he's not getting? It may help.
Posted by Ken Clean Air System:
/. can get /.d (well a little bit anyways) :)
Hey all,
Perhaps im biased being a somewhat happy ASP-MS-SQLer, can someone point me to any whitepapers, articles etc comparing load capabilities between
Apache and IIS.
I have been part of large scale IIS sites and have had some problems with heavy load and IIS difficulties, but from my recent readings here it seems that sometimes
Just trying to seperate the facts from the ideologues. Any info appreciated
Posted by GhostX:
I don't know what the *official* way to do this is, but I did it this way: first, I started in Gnome, I used the gnome switcher tool in system utilities to switch to KDE: I then had two panels, the Gnome and KDE panel. Then, I switched to Afterstep.
From Afterstep I had only the file manager from KDE, and nothing, seemingly, from Gnome. The file manager was in the form of the autostart folder, etc on my desktop. Then, I found a Gnome panel app in the bin, the mem and cpu one, and ran it. That started up the Gnome panel in Afterstep.
The Gnome panel has the KDE panel on it, through the "foot". So, that is how I got all three window manangers to work in one with 5.9.
And, it is cool.
Posted by afds:
I don't think this is the end of the world, but I think it's a good idea if done well. A discretly placed "COKE-A-COLA" can that you can click on to go to the web page would be great.
Posted by Lord Kano-The Gangster Of Love:
Today on TV I saw that there was another school shooting...In CANADA! Now explain to me how in Canada, a country with "Sane" and "Sensible" gun control laws.
Things that make you go "hmmmmmmmmmmm?"
LK
Posted by Lord Kano-The Gangster Of Love:
i nventors/dead980709/deadinventors.html
>>Check your facts. TV was invented by Manfred von Ardenne and first presented to the world on the Funkausstellung 1931 in Berlin. See here.
Check Yours.
http://eagle2.online.discovery.com/stories/dead
>>Did I mention who invented the car?
This I concede. However I never disputed it.
LK
Posted by hyperman:
I have seriously not used a floppy disk with either of my macs at home in nearly three years. There is nothing that a floppy can do that a CDROM or a network can't do better.
To be totally honest, I'm beginning to feel that removable storage in general is headed for extinction. I can just pop my hard drive out and move it elsewhere- why mess with a Jaz?
Posted by Bobeld:
I'm 49 years old and teach math at a middle school in New Jersey.
I grew up in the Bronx with all the emotional and physical pain that could be bestowed upon an "outcast".
I know what it's like to go to school with that raw feeling in your stomach and wonder how you're going to have to defend yourself that day.
I am now especially sensitive to my students who don't fit into the "mold" and suffer because of it. I have zero tolerance for kids who pick on other kids and tell my students that they have a right to come to school without having to fear being bullied.
Unfortunately, I have noticed that some of my colleagues are not as sensitive and are not paying closer attention. Kids are coming to school worried about being bullied and some of us adults are turning a deaf ear.
Students must be able to demand that school personnel look out for their safety and stop bullying in its tracks. Smarts and talent need to be the number one asset in school; not sports, physical attributes, and popularity. Teachers and adminstrators can help.
To my principal's credit, we have an honors day program at the end of each marking period. Honor roll and principal list students are recognized and parents are welcome to attend. A guest speaker is invited to give a speech on how education helped them become successful.
However, we still have a long way to go.
The two boys from Littleton had every right to feel abused, had a right to hate those who were abusing them. Trouble was-they went to the next level and acted on their feelings.
Members of society paid the ultimate price and so did the boys. What a shame.
Posted by FascDot Killed My Previous Use:
'nuff said.
Posted by Lord Kano-The Gangster Of Love:
>>Guns aren't the problem; they're but one of dozens of symptoms.
People are the problem, we are imperfect and we will always be. The tools we use to express that imperfection are irrelevent.
>>"The sun never sets on the British Empire"; it does now. The Merkin Empire will be one for the coroners, too; attitudes like your will only hasten the day of the autopsy.
It was attitudes like mine that quickened the erosion of the British Empire, It was attitudes like mine that helped the Roman Empire to end.
The survival of my country means little, it is the survival of my culture which is important.
Every empire, every civilization faces it's decline one day.
On the other side of the pond, many countries have gone through various deaths and rebirths over the past few thousand years. It is of no consequence if the king (metaphor) survives, it is only important if the culture survives, people can, have, do, and will rebuild when all that they have known is destroyed.
Nonetheless, that's merely an academic arguement. Neither you, nor I will live to see the fall of the USA.
LK
Posted by Da ShRiKe:
:)
It's not that much of a miracle, at least in Austria (and I think in other European countries too) calculus is part of the curriculum during normal math courses for the last 2-3 years of highschool... go figure
Posted by chiem:
Microsoft uses security via obscurity.
Their bugs become "features."
Posted by Lord Kano-The Gangster Of Love:
>>The average income in Germany is higher than in the USA.
Before taxes or after?
>>The TV, the telephone, the light bulb, the computer, the web and the Linux kernel were all developed in Europe.
TV, was inventd by a man named Philo Farnsworth, he was an American farmer.
Bell was obviously an American, as was Edison.
Early computers were just an evolution of a chinese invention. Perhaps http was developed in europe, but the internet (arpanet at the time) was invented right here in the US.
Even though Linus was in europe, he got help from people all over the world.
>>Not to forget the 20 Million Soviet soldiers that left their life during WWII. You're a little bit US-centric, you even say "Americans" and mean US citizens.
The soviets did contribute much ot the war effort, But who stormed the beach at Normandy? I use the term Americans, because they's how we refer to ourselves. I call myself an American, not a United States of American.
LK
Posted by Perkolater:
Thanks for these links. This may be the first decent coverage TIME has given a major news story in years. I'm sure the concept that movies, video games, and goth culture don't necessarily lead to murder will be foreign to the TV news networks, but at least one news outlet in a position to influence people is saying it.
Of course, since they're a Time-Warner publication, I'm sure they'll be accused of "protecting their own interests" by some fundamentalist wankers, but hey, ain't that America?
-David
Posted by katwoman:
Can you sue? I think it's a great idea. These guys (http://www.kclink.com/spam/index.html) actually did so. The last update on the case was several months back, but it's still a fascinating story. Whenever someone you don't know sends an email you didn't solicit and probably don't want, they've decided their right to get their message across supercedes your server space and bandwidth. Once you inform them that you're going to start charging for that space, sue away.
Kat
Posted by The Evil Dwarf from Hell:
I pay for a PO box. So by this ruling I can prevent any junk mail sender from sending crud to my box. My PO Box is a limited resource, the Post Office would frown pretty heavily if I suddenly started getting 1 Ton of catalogues every day. Personally I think Intel will lose this one on appeal, although I hope they win since I really despise spammers.
Posted by Lord Kano-The Gangster Of Love:
I believe that the reason we've got people attempting to use the recent tragedy in Colorado to disarm the American populace is multifaceted.
One of which is that the Europeans and Canadians are jelous of the freedom and prosperity that we have in the USA. As I'm sure most of us have experienced, it's like when you get a roomfull of your classmates angry at you for "ruining the grading curve".
I believe that the Europeans carry a cultural bias against us because many of the early immagrants to this land were ejected from european nations. Now we have the most powerful nation on the planet. Like when the geek who get's picked on by Johnny Football hero grows up to invent something that cost more than Johnny's gas pumping job will allow him to afford.
Self loathing among Americans is once again on the rise. There are some in our midst who feel guilt at the great advances we've made. They have been seduced by the hope of being glamorous like the eurotrash imagery that they are fed in the tabloids and from hollywood. In order to purge themselves of that guilt they concentrate on the negative aspects of our country. We've got x nmber of homeless...We had y number of murders last year...Only z of us could afford health insurance last year.
They convienently leave out that x*230 have homes. That y*5000 are living in relative safety.
Guns are made the target because our attitude towards them is unique in the world. In this country the PEOPLE have the power to determine their own destiny. We can't be forceable quieted by the government if we say something too unpopular. Or if we tell a secret that the government doesn't want out. Or if we refuse to have the conditions of our lives dictated to us. A few individuals among us have been silenced, but there are many more carrying on the work.
The fact that Kevin Harris shot and killed William Degan and was later AQUITTED of murder charges because Agent Degan was involved in an illegal operation is proof that the system we have in place can and does work.
People all over the world bash the US, but they're more than happy to take our aid in the form of money from the international monetary fund or the world bank. Who gives the most to the UN? We do.
The US has enough gun laws on the books right now (actually we have too many). If law enforcement was allowed to enforce them properly we wouldn't need any more. Bill Clinton claims that the brady Act stopped the sale of over 250,000 guns to people who were prohibited from owning them. If that's te case why have there not been 250,000 prosecutions for attempting ti illegally obtain a gun? Why because it's a sham, it's a lie. They want to change the way we think about firearms. They've even thrown out the Red Herring of "sporting arms". The 2nd amendment has nothing to do with sporting. Not target shooting, not duck hunting, not necessarily even home defense. The words of the men who wrote the constitution confirm this.
Before you atttempt to make us into potential victims like yourselves, just keep in mind the last time your "safe" european countries were in trouble, it was a bunch of tobacco smoking, gun toting Americans who bailed you out.
Guns availability is not the issue, remember Dunblane Scotland? No matter how tight your controls are, there will always be nutcases who go berzerk and attack innocent people.
After all, in the 1930's-1940's Germany had nice restrictive laws related to guns.
http://www.jpfo.org/L-laws.htm
Sorry for the rant, but I've grown weary of outsiders and know-notings telling us how to run our country.
LK
Posted by Mojoski:
If this guy had printed his letter and sent it COD to all of these employees in their office locations, would you support that right? This is basically what he has done by trying to use Intel's network to deliver it. Sure, if he did, Intel could sort all of his COD letters out and have the post office return them to the sender, but that would require Intel to expend the manpower to do so. It's simply not this man's right to use up resources of Intel's to get his story out.
Posted by Mojoski:
I see, so Intel should be expected to expend the amdin resource to block his mails, and then he simply starts sending from another address and the update their filters so he moves again, and on and on and on. As a advocate for freespeech I have to tell you that this was not protected freespeech. If he wants to make his site and then post announcements about it in the appropriate intel related newsgroups, and get TV networks to publish his story, whatever, then that is protected speech. But he does not have the right to use the resources of Intel to deliver his speech to the Intel owned email boxes of this employees. I'm glad they went after him because idiots like that are the ones who water down our right to free speech.
Posted by Mike@ABC:
How much do you want to bet that Intel will buy up Cygnus inside of a year? They already worked together to tune Linux for Intel Pentium workstations, and now they're working on the IA-64 architecture. Intel is increasingly Linux-friendly (one of their execs is a keynote speaker at the next LinuxWorld) and Cygnus is a key player in making sure that Linux runs well on Intel's architecture. I think Intel has seen the writing on the wall, and they have a tendency to buy up useful companies.
Just a thought. We'll see.
Posted by Birdie37:
I wrote a perl script to do this for me the last time I downloaded RedHat:
http://www.hepl.harvard.edu/~daniel s/compare.pl
Posted by j.r:
Maybe I should read it again. I tried 20
years ago and I thought it an oversized
self-indulgent book - like a pompous
academic talking to himself. I gave up
after 100 pages because I didn't see the
point.
But so many others here like it, so like I said, maybe I should try again.
Posted by ju:
Don/t let them get you...If you do that you lose. The next year of you life will be hell OR the next twenty-five or more years will hell.