Freezing a giant part of the states tax income, and then trying to increase services year after year is not a winning plan.
Or - hold on, here comes the craziness - they could just stop spending more money. My boss put his own Prop. 13 on me: I can't just arbitrarily increase the income I collect from him. I can and do adjust my spending according to how much is coming in, though.
But that's just me and my obvious failure to grasp economic laws that affect individuals but never governments.
Also, does anyone find really strange that slashdot would put the CSS definition files in the images.slashdot.org domain?
No. Besides the caching setups that other people have mentioned, IIRC the webserver on images is highly tuned for dumping huge amounts of static data across a network. Contrast with the main servers, which are equally and oppositely tuned for dynamic content.
My daughter says you can get all sorts of new music and movies for free off the Internet. At least, that's what I'm getting ready to tell the RIAA in court next week.
I couldn't even get X running on FreeBSD and it's supposed to be easier to configure.
I actually like FreeBSD as a desktop machine (it's what I'm posting from right now). The mailing lists are very newbie-friendly and helpful if you're into such things.
Continuing the discussion of older packages, you should know that I'm a debian guy so I'm used to being 10 years behind everybody else - but on the other hand, I always know that what I install is going to work.
In the interest of full disclosure, I was a Debian guy until I got tired of waiting for X.org, new KDE releases, and other such things. I used Gentoo for a while until Reiser ate my/usr partition, so I recently switched (back) to FreeBSD.
I never mentioned anything about servers. The poster favored using OpenBSD instead of RedHat, and since RedHat is a popular desktop distro, I was using KDE to highlight the main reason why I thought OpenBSD is unsuitable in that role.
what specific application has been updated that is not included in OpenBSD?
Its server applications seem somewhat more up-to-date. That's probably due to the way it's used most often, as well as the fact that point releases of server software don't tend to be dramatically different than previous versions. That is, Apache 1.3.28 isn't radically different from 1.3.29, and staying current isn't quite as big a deal. On the other hand, do you really want to be using Firefox 1.0.1 (the version available in 3.7) these days?
Even on a desktop system, I can't imagine that I'd want something that just came out yesterday.
I understand about yesterday, but shipping with a version of KDE that was old two months before release seems a little behind the times.
I hope I don't sound like I'm chanting KDE! KDE! KDE!. That just happened to be the biggest thing I installed when I was experimenting with OpenBSD as a desktop, and the first package to make me start noticing how old a lot of the 3rd-party software really was when the release came out.
That said, I'm not an OpenBSD evangelist. I just didn't think that you made a very good point there.
Fair enough. By the same token, I'm not an OpenBSD hater at all. However, people who advocate replacing RedHat with OpenBSD really need to be aware of what they're asking for. Swapping out a DNS, Postfix, or Apache server would probably be an upgrade. Switching it in for a desktop probably would not be.
OpenBSD didn't support in-place package upgrades until 3.7; you had to make a list of installed packages, delete them, then install the new versions. {Free,Net}BSD made ports/package upgrades so easy that maintaining OpenBSD seemed like a chore by comparison.
You're still told not to make your own kernel. Every other Free Unix on the planet is happy to tell you how to compile your own locally-customized kernel, but the OpenBSD guys make it sound like only 1337 k1dd13s and other jackasses would want to do this.
Their packages are ancient. I don't want to install KDE 3.3.2 (came out November 2004) on an OS release that came out in May 2005. I don't expect to get packages that came out yesterday from a release that came out 5 months ago (even if {Free,Net}BSD and most Linuxes manage it), but I'd like to at least have the versions that were current when that release was made.
Those are my top three. OpenBSD is slick, and I love using it for applications where 99% of the functionality I need can be provided by the base system. For services that change rapidly, though, it's more of a hassle than I'm willing to put up with.
Secure Linux on the desktop? Sure (although I'd hate to give up my FreeBSD desktop system). OpenBSD on the desktop? Shoot me now.
The reason I upgraded to a paper-based DayRunner was that Palm abandoned Grafitti for Jot. Yeah, I know about the patent licensing issues (Xerox owned the idea of single penstroke character recognition, or something equally asinine, IIRC), but Jot was an absolute travesty compared to Graffiti. Yes, it had a shallower learning curve. That was great for the first two days of owning your first ever Palm. However, I've never talked to anyone who was as effective after a month of Jot as after a month of Graffiti. It just never seemed to work right.
I really lost out when I bought my latest Palm a couple of years ago, an m130. It came with OS 4.1.2, whose whole claim to fame is that it "replaces Graffiti with Graffiti 2 on the same Palm OS 4.1 code base". Since the m130 is a ROM-based model, that also means I can't "backgrade" to Graffiti - I'm stuck with Jot forever. Yay.
I couldn't care less about Palm's Outlook integration or lack thereof. For me, it died whenever they destroyed the most important feature: its handwriting recognition. See ya, Palm. At least my DayRunner has a place to put a pen and pictures of the kids.
SplashID is my Palm password vault of choice. Windows and Mac users can also sync it with the associated desktop program. If only it would sync with KDE Wallet, it could be my most favoritist Palm application ever.
Correct or not, Republicans have the reputation as the "big money" party. Many people called for campaign finance limitations, advertising limitations, and other restrictions that almost seemed tailor-made to benefit Democrats.
People saw this and declared it good.
Fast forward a few years. Correct or not, Democrats have the reputation as the "Internet savvy" party. Many people called for blog limitations, and other restrictions that almost seemed tailor-made to benefit Republicans.
People saw this and screamed bloody murder.
See, what goes around has a funny way of coming back around. Many of us said from the very beginning that any political speech restrictions were very, very bad, but no one listened then. At long last, welcome to our point of view. There's plenty of room for all of us, as long as we agree that all restrictions on rights are bad - even the ones that might benefit us individually in the short term.
SHA-1, SHA-224, SHA-256, SHA-384, and SHA-512 are the required secure hash algorithms for use in U.S. Federal applications, including use by other cryptographic algorithms and protocols, for the protection of sensitive unclassified information. FIPS PUB 180-1 also encouraged adoption and use of SHA-1 by private and commercial organizations.
However, one thing that tweaks me about both DEs, still, is that they go out and clone xterm. Uuh, why?
<feed object="troll">For starters, because xterm doesn't have tabs. Second, because most people don't want to edit.Xdefaults to change their console font. Those two alone are enough for me.</feed>
Of course, when you port the application to a 64bit environment you have to start worrying about data type sizes and the way the application reads and writes the files stored on disk.
Unless, of course, you've standardized on a widely used text-based format, which is the approach OpenOffice took. That also neatly sidesteps the whole problem of endianness differences between platforms; store the values internally however you want, but exchange them in a set, portable format.
Nice try, but anyone talented and fast enough to write this thing in 15 days doesn't need their money.
Except for budding young geniuses currently still in school who could use the heck out of several years' worth of allowance. "Mom, can I quit high school to start my career?" doesn't fly in a lot of households, particularly since kids that smart are probably college-bound and most universities frown on dropouts.
But I've yet to find something which does everything gnus does and is usable from the CLI or GUI.
True, but moving to an IMAP setup made that a much easier migration. I can trivially swap between email clients as the situation demands - I don't depend on being able to access one particular client's mail store. I realize this isn't an option for everyone, but if you have that ability you might want to check out some of the other setups.
I switched from Emacs to Kate about a year ago, since it took forever to transfer files between a certain FTP server and Emacs' singlethreadedness meant I couldn't do anything else until it was finished. That's no longer an issue and I'd like to go back (or at least have a nice visit), but:
1. I still don't see an obvious way to use WebDAV. Since much of my development involves hacking Zope over DAV, this is absolutely critical. Is there a nice, robust WebDAV package for Emacs?
2. After several years, I still don't know how to set the Emacs fonts and hate the defaults on my system. Where, oh where, do I configure that? Do I need to hack.Xdefaults or is there something a little more click-and-drool friendly?
I felt the same way for a long time, but still eventually migrated to Kmail. Gnus' single-threading had begun to drive me nuts, and while it's possible to create extremely powerful filters with elisp, sometimes it nice to let the program do that work for you.
Yeah, there are things I still miss, but most of the features that kept me on Gnus for years are the ones that I realized I hated given up in concept more than in reality.
He told me that one of the drugs that they gave him to weaken his system (anti rejection) was based on the dye that Coke uses in their soft drinks..
Oooh, and a glass of Coke can dissolve a nail. Eek! In other news, table salt is made of a metal that explodes in water plus a poisonous gas.
Seriously, there are quite a few chemicals in colas. I'm sure that some of them are structurally similar to other chemicals that have good or bad biological effects, but I'm not sure why that would be interesting.
"[Critics] paint the frighteningly surreal image of a worst-case scenario: a transplanted face being rejected and sloughing away, leaving the patient worse off than before."
You thought Michael Jackson jury duty was awful before? God bless those poor souls during the next round.
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Or - hold on, here comes the craziness - they could just stop spending more money. My boss put his own Prop. 13 on me: I can't just arbitrarily increase the income I collect from him. I can and do adjust my spending according to how much is coming in, though.
But that's just me and my obvious failure to grasp economic laws that affect individuals but never governments.
No. Besides the caching setups that other people have mentioned, IIRC the webserver on images is highly tuned for dumping huge amounts of static data across a network. Contrast with the main servers, which are equally and oppositely tuned for dynamic content.
My daughter says you can get all sorts of new music and movies for free off the Internet. At least, that's what I'm getting ready to tell the RIAA in court next week.
I actually like FreeBSD as a desktop machine (it's what I'm posting from right now). The mailing lists are very newbie-friendly and helpful if you're into such things.
Continuing the discussion of older packages, you should know that I'm a debian guy so I'm used to being 10 years behind everybody else - but on the other hand, I always know that what I install is going to work.
In the interest of full disclosure, I was a Debian guy until I got tired of waiting for X.org, new KDE releases, and other such things. I used Gentoo for a while until Reiser ate my /usr partition, so I recently switched (back) to FreeBSD.
So taken.
1. why are you running KDE on a server?
I never mentioned anything about servers. The poster favored using OpenBSD instead of RedHat, and since RedHat is a popular desktop distro, I was using KDE to highlight the main reason why I thought OpenBSD is unsuitable in that role.
what specific application has been updated that is not included in OpenBSD?
Its server applications seem somewhat more up-to-date. That's probably due to the way it's used most often, as well as the fact that point releases of server software don't tend to be dramatically different than previous versions. That is, Apache 1.3.28 isn't radically different from 1.3.29, and staying current isn't quite as big a deal. On the other hand, do you really want to be using Firefox 1.0.1 (the version available in 3.7) these days?
Even on a desktop system, I can't imagine that I'd want something that just came out yesterday.
I understand about yesterday, but shipping with a version of KDE that was old two months before release seems a little behind the times.
I hope I don't sound like I'm chanting KDE! KDE! KDE!. That just happened to be the biggest thing I installed when I was experimenting with OpenBSD as a desktop, and the first package to make me start noticing how old a lot of the 3rd-party software really was when the release came out.
That said, I'm not an OpenBSD evangelist. I just didn't think that you made a very good point there.
Fair enough. By the same token, I'm not an OpenBSD hater at all. However, people who advocate replacing RedHat with OpenBSD really need to be aware of what they're asking for. Swapping out a DNS, Postfix, or Apache server would probably be an upgrade. Switching it in for a desktop probably would not be.
Those are my top three. OpenBSD is slick, and I love using it for applications where 99% of the functionality I need can be provided by the base system. For services that change rapidly, though, it's more of a hassle than I'm willing to put up with.
Secure Linux on the desktop? Sure (although I'd hate to give up my FreeBSD desktop system). OpenBSD on the desktop? Shoot me now.
I really lost out when I bought my latest Palm a couple of years ago, an m130. It came with OS 4.1.2, whose whole claim to fame is that it "replaces Graffiti with Graffiti 2 on the same Palm OS 4.1 code base". Since the m130 is a ROM-based model, that also means I can't "backgrade" to Graffiti - I'm stuck with Jot forever. Yay.
I couldn't care less about Palm's Outlook integration or lack thereof. For me, it died whenever they destroyed the most important feature: its handwriting recognition. See ya, Palm. At least my DayRunner has a place to put a pen and pictures of the kids.
SplashID is my Palm password vault of choice. Windows and Mac users can also sync it with the associated desktop program. If only it would sync with KDE Wallet, it could be my most favoritist Palm application ever.
People saw this and declared it good.
Fast forward a few years. Correct or not, Democrats have the reputation as the "Internet savvy" party. Many people called for blog limitations, and other restrictions that almost seemed tailor-made to benefit Republicans.
People saw this and screamed bloody murder.
See, what goes around has a funny way of coming back around. Many of us said from the very beginning that any political speech restrictions were very, very bad, but no one listened then. At long last, welcome to our point of view. There's plenty of room for all of us, as long as we agree that all restrictions on rights are bad - even the ones that might benefit us individually in the short term.
Source: Wikipedia
<feed object="troll">For starters, because xterm doesn't have tabs. Second, because most people don't want to edit .Xdefaults to change their console font. Those two alone are enough for me.</feed>
KDE's WAF an KidAF scores are pretty high in my household. Maybe you need to upgrade your W?
Erm, that's what KDE 4 is.
Unless, of course, you've standardized on a widely used text-based format, which is the approach OpenOffice took. That also neatly sidesteps the whole problem of endianness differences between platforms; store the values internally however you want, but exchange them in a set, portable format.
Like Oracle?
MS has shown proficiency at crushing their small competitors. They don't seem to have had as much luck with the big guys, though.
Q: How can I use up this palette of red ink pens we bought at auction?
Exactly how old are you?
Except for budding young geniuses currently still in school who could use the heck out of several years' worth of allowance. "Mom, can I quit high school to start my career?" doesn't fly in a lot of households, particularly since kids that smart are probably college-bound and most universities frown on dropouts.
SWEET! Maybe people will find something less trite than "aye aye, captain!" to say to me when we first meet.
Them: Kirk, huh? Knocked over any cities lately?
Me: Yeah! Thanks for asking!
It also apparently subpixel antialiasing on Windows 3.1 (according to the Wikipedia screenshot). Pretty slick, those Cello devs...
True, but moving to an IMAP setup made that a much easier migration. I can trivially swap between email clients as the situation demands - I don't depend on being able to access one particular client's mail store. I realize this isn't an option for everyone, but if you have that ability you might want to check out some of the other setups.
1. I still don't see an obvious way to use WebDAV. Since much of my development involves hacking Zope over DAV, this is absolutely critical. Is there a nice, robust WebDAV package for Emacs?
2. After several years, I still don't know how to set the Emacs fonts and hate the defaults on my system. Where, oh where, do I configure that? Do I need to hack .Xdefaults or is there something a little more click-and-drool friendly?
Yeah, there are things I still miss, but most of the features that kept me on Gnus for years are the ones that I realized I hated given up in concept more than in reality.
Oooh, and a glass of Coke can dissolve a nail. Eek! In other news, table salt is made of a metal that explodes in water plus a poisonous gas.
Seriously, there are quite a few chemicals in colas. I'm sure that some of them are structurally similar to other chemicals that have good or bad biological effects, but I'm not sure why that would be interesting.
You thought Michael Jackson jury duty was awful before? God bless those poor souls during the next round.