I was thinking the same thing. I'm actually wondering if they may actually have not realized that it was satire. There was a really interesting John Stewart / Karen Hughes interview during the presidental campaign where Karen Hughes said something like, oh I loved yesterdays show about Kerry's character and flip flopping , he skies to the left and then skies to the right and then back to the left. And Stewart pauses for a second and says, something like that was satire. An even then Hughes just didn't get it.
The other part of this is, I think Kristol from the weekly standard was being serious when he said he pushed for Colbert to be part of the show. Kristol does get Colbert's humor. I also think Kristol isn't really that much of a Bush fan but he has the street creds w/ the administration that when Kristol said something like conservative pro-bush satire, they didn't understand exactly what it meant.
On the other hand I still somewhat surprised the entire speech wasn't precleared by the whitehouse. To be honest, even the bush & bush 2 speech was pretty eviscerating, perhaps the whole thing actually was precleared and they are actually okay w/ it?
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I run a synth podcast show and because of legal reasons have had many contacts w/ labels (me contacting them for permission, not them busting me) and I can not emphasize how cool the nettwerk label is :
Nettwerk Music Group is Canada's leading privately owned record label and artist management company. Nettwerk is responsible for managing some of Canada's biggest artists like Sarah McLachlan, Avril Lavigne, Barenaked Ladies and many others. Nettwerk has several offices located around the world including offices in New York, Los Angeles and London; with our main office right next to Granville Island in Vancouver, B.C.
Litigation is destructive, it must stop.... as per Nettwerk copyrights, we have never sued anybody and all our music is open source to encourage fans to share it with others and help us promote our Artists. As per those Artists we manage on other labels (Majors), we take issue with those labels claiming that litigating our fans is in our interest, as it clearly is not.
Even the smaller indie labels have not taken a stand as strong as Nettwerk has. Nettwerk is indie, but they carry Sarah Maclachlan, Delerium, Avril Lavigne and bands of that size, so they aren't exactly small.
If the US, the 3rd world and everyone had signed the treaty and it had come to pass then they would be obligated under the treaty. The hypothetical here is, if they had signed the treaty. Of course they did not so, the point is moot. But the *disadvantage* because of the free reign given to china/india is actually a long term advantage because the max/capita that those countries would ever have gotten to a level that matched the US.
No I think we are in agreement though for perhaps different reasons. I am saying *kyoto* is bad because of the random setting of the emissions clock to 1990. The exception for 3rd world countries *perhaps* makes sense (but not really), but it is unfair to other 1st world countries and/or 2nd world countries that are now stuck using traditional energy resources at their 1990 levels, while the US which used such a giant share back in 1990 will always be allowed to.
Because then no other country would ever be allows to compete w/ the US economy. No other country would ever be able to use the vast resources / person that the US does. It would legislate the fact that the U.S. must be the only large, cheap energy using country because of the use of 1990 as the marker. That is not a level playing field. That is not fair economics. Thats cronyism.
I can't agree w/ this more.. Thats what I never liked about kyoto 1990 was an arbitrary # to base carbon emissions on..Since the soviet union has collapsed they have tons of excess emissions, the 3rd world countries are exempt but any first world country that is not the U.S. is at a disadvantage because their emissions per person are nowhere close to the US range. Why should the U.S. have a random economic advantage on a world-wide treaty?
Well garageband for instance is free w/ new macs, $79 new and $39 for students/academic price as part of ilife. It really works well for this sort of stuff and basically lets you relevel, loop and layer multiple tracks and remix beyond the 4 simultaneous inputs. Its not high end software but it definitely does the job for dirt cheap and isn't complex software and is remarkably stable. No I didn't really ask everyone in the literal sense btw:)
Why not use what everyone uses, a laptop? Its a cheap multitrack recorder on a machine that someone has already bought for school/work and far better quality than minidisc. This is the first i've heard of using a minidisc as a band.. Hell you can get a maudio 410 (4 channel in, 10 channel out) w/ lossless 96khz sampling, firewire for $300. Portable and high quality if you have a laptop lying around.
Have you tried going to the genius bars at the apple store? You now have to make an appt because they are so popular but the customer service at those things are beyond brilliant, about 1/2 of the customer base seems to be ipod related, but they will sit down and work w/ you until it is sorted out.
So sad but its obvious Quinn is talking about Stallman in sandles. Quinn is the MA open source guy and Stallman is unequivocally the most idealistic, free software guru that has come out of the MA area and the go to guy for all things free software. Who would I listen to, Quinn or Stallman.. Stallman of course. Who has a habit of rubbing "open source" people the wrong way, Stallman of course. Who do you think Quinn is talking about as being a thorn in "open sources" business friendly side? Stallman of course. What a cheap "ad hominem" shot.
When I first started advertising I have posted to all the 'aggregators" and I can tell you from looking at my logs, no one comes from those things. The Itunes searching thing works reasonably well. What does work is looking at myspace/livejournal groups that have similar interests at least for electro/synth.. So I would say it really depends on what you like, if you listen to emo, find the emo groups, if you listen to goth, the goth groups, college indie, the college indie groups. Online magazines will have a links/radio section (for us its industrial nation and sideline as the big two).
If your genre/music interests isn't really specialized to have magazines the two aggregators that seem to actually be useful are
Try the apple itunes directories via searching and
m4a aka aac are much better. The quality is much smoother and it is very easy to setup hyperlinking and skipping, image based chapters (for each song). These things work both on the downloaded.m4a file w/in itunes as well as the web based quicktime plugin. As itunes is so ubiquitous/free and quicktime also free I dont think there is much of a downside of going this route.
To see an example of this, that I recently created check out :
If they are trying to show how easy it is to find child porn why don't they do the searches themselves? It seems to me all they have to do is take a list of search terms and plug it into google and analyze the results? Why do they need googles list? I think they are doing the Total information Awareness trick. They will use the google info to set precedence for a larger search, then datamine that to find suspicious activity for which they will use that info to get warrants for.
Its funny you say that there is a variation of the theme that really hits the poor in the US. At least those people w/out "excellent" credit and it involves much more than typical credit card bills. Most of the housing loans that go to those w/out excellent credit have a "prepayment" penalty. That is you are not allowed to overpay your debt and *must* carry the interest payments for the full term of the loan. If you look at a 30 year fixed about 85% of ones initial payments are all interest, so in essence you are buying your home w/ the banking equivalent of a credit card and making minimum payments.
Yea but the #1 complaint about the express is the fact there is no "remote control" I use the airport express myself and have always had a laptop around to act as a remote control but i could imagine extending this to the kitchen or some area where laptops are not usually. It would have been nice if the boombox had a ethernet/wireless connection so one didn't need the airport wireless more importantly have some way to act like a remote control and/or show title/artist/artwork for streamed music on the ipod screen. The way to do this right now is to use the mac mini instead hooked up to a proper stereo and a small screen but thats still a bit of a hack..
I've actually wondered the same thing. It would be a simple way around anti-prostitution laws in any state i.e. people would pay money to make movies of themselves in a sex with an "actress." That would be fascinating court case to watch.
You know what it is, I have 1500 cds or so and I lost many months of my life ripping those to a blank 250 gig drive. (Moreover its on a remote machine). I went back through and rated all my highly rated songs and don't really want to go do it again by picking out songs "i like" again. To mimic the itunes rating the uniform frequency random doesn't work as it is more coarse grained than the itunes rating system, what you would really want to do to make it match is do something like N/(15) % of the time play songs rated N and leave that on for a long time. I'm sure that can be done w/ apple script but it seems a bit silly when all the info is sitting in an xml file somewhere..
I understand what you are saying w/ regards to changing music tastes
Not random, random but random based on song ratings. I listen to all my highly rated songs at uniform frequency because those are the songs I like. I.E. the smart play list plays highly rated songs > 3* and randomly plays new albums I do not know if I like yet. Using song play frequency is worse than using song ratings to *rate* how the user rates the song because of the new album bias. There is a mechanism for seeing how the user likes a song its called song rating, the comparison software ignores.
It would be nice if it was an option. Itunes has the song rating option which for many people is what *one* really listens to. Going by what gets played, is a coarse grained version of song rating. Of course some people dont bother to rate songs at all and some people are fickle and may no longer like their highly rated songs, but barring that having each song rated on a 1-5 scale says more about how one likes the song than just what happens to get played (especially since the point of itunes means one can listen to a whole slew of music on random)
My cousin just bought a 1 bedroom in Chicago for about $500k as a second weekend home. He is a doctor and can afford it but I think part of the problem is chicagos housing market is much more in vein w/ NYC/SF. I know people who make $65k be told by realtors and mortgage companies that they can buy a $500k home in SF. The problem is they dont see any homes in their area that are cheaper and all their friends have done the same thing (I think over 1/2 of new loans in SF are interest only now) and if the banks say they can be responsible for that sort of debt then it must be okay. The problem is $65k is only about $3k and change a month, and the people who make that want the downtown apartment ($1.5k+) and are probably right out of college (college loans) and feel a bit of indulgence coming on for their first proper job (Plasma, new car etc).
I think part of the issue is that people who make $65k think they are rich. They are rich to some extent if they acted wisely, but the "mainstream" consumer culture lifestyle for the 20 something single crowd (i.e. $30 entrees at restaurants, $8 cocktails, downtown rental, design w/in reach, west elm furniture, whole foods shopping, $200 diesel jeans) are really catering to people who make $100k+ w/ no kids and comfortably w/ two incomes. So people who make $80k are surprised they've bled off so much of their $4k and change a month.
Those things are a bit weird. They look like X terminals but they are "not", weirdly it looks like they are at least friends of X terminals as xmodmap works in a manner.
Take a look at this entry. It looks like xmodmap works on the sunray except for when you switch terminals *if* the terminal has a different keyboard mapping.
You may need to run xmodmap.xmodmaprc as a startup script for gnome/jds3 as they mention as well.
I'm curious if this works.
If you get that working, there should be way of running that script whenever you "hotdesk" to a new terminal and fixing the keyboard flush (by keeping the previous keyboards country code in a file and comparing that to the new keyboards countrycode).
What is a bit funny about this thread is when I added the addendum about the ctrl-capslock swap doesn't work on the mac machines, people pointed out they finally fixed that feature w/ 10.4 when they replied to my post. So what is fantastic is I now finally have my powerbook w/ the capslock ctrl swapped like the sun keyboards:)
Its funny you say that as I know a lot of people who like it that way. In fact I do the exact same thing on standard pc keyboards (swap caps lock and ctrl). The capslock is hardly ever used while ctrl is used quite a bit (think emacs) so swapping them makes it *much* easier to extensively use the ctrl key instead of stretching the pinky down.
That said, for linux and sun I think you should like into Xmodmap Not only can you software swap the ctrl and capslock back to the pc position (or as I do swap pc keyboards to the sun position) you can remap the del key to backspace (which I agree is in the wrong place).
Actually if you aren't running X on your sun box the standard place to fix the stupid backspace issue is using stty in your.profile (or whatever shell you use)
stty erase ^?
In any case that will fix your backspace issue. I'm surprised you dont like the ctrl-capslock switch as it really does make life easier..
anyway regardless of how you like it there is no need to purchase an external keyboard for unix systems (except for the mac which has some funky hardware capslock which prevents switching:(:( )
I may be mistaken but since macos X is a BSD you should be able to just add
accounted true daytime time
to/etc/login.conf
where accounted turns accounting on and where time is the time in seconds but can prefixed in the unix way i.e. 2h is 2 hours.
daytime limits the total wall clock time allowed per day. You can also set per session limits (sessiontime) and total times per week (weektime) as well, if you would like as well. use the command warntime to set the end of time warning, but it may send this to the login tty rather than to X (or whatever the mac graphics are).
I believe the issue is that the ID group *is* not arguing about any evidence of the judeo-christian concept of god but arguing that instead that there is "evidence" in the paleontological record that shows "irreducible complexity" which proves the existence of a creator in the sense that is outside of evolutionary history. ID argues *just* this. The extrapolation to a judeo-christian god is explicitly and carefully not made by the ID community (though you and I know that that is exactly what they are thinking). The proper ID response to the use of FSM would be to state in fact ID states only that there is evidence for a super natural creator in the paleontological record and moreover in "machinery" of living organisms (an argument that can be done scientifically). Most importantly, whether that creator is FSM or a judeo-christian god is outside the realm of ID and science and is simply religion. Hense FSM is may be defined as a new religion and not science. while ID is not a religion but an examination of the archeological record and biological complexity for evidence of "supernatural tampering" and is therefore science.
Of course ID is not science but the reasoning has nothing to do w/ the any suppositions of a creator (FSM or judeo-christian or turtles all the way down) which ID explicitly never talks about. The problem w/ ID is the use of "irreducible complexity" as a "proof" for "that which makes irreducible complexity." This argument is a variation of the "god of the gaps" proof for god. The problem of course is its not so much a proof but a definition of "god" or "evidence for a supernatural creator" is defined by that which does not seem to have evidence naturalistically, where for people like Behe that complexity of DNA and amino acid interactions is that evidence. As our understanding of complex systems and evolutionary processes addresses the specific "irreducibly complex" evidence that behe and their cohorts they will move to another gap. Their definition is not a proof for the existence but a definition that is based on human ignorance that is that "gap".
In this sense, and it is much weaker is FSM relevant because FSM can be defined to be the god of the gaps in the same sense that any other creator but again that is not what ID is arguing, what they are arguing is that the god of the gaps argument is legitimate not *what* the god of the gaps is.
The FSM is funny, I am about to buy one of their shirts because they come off well and have a good sense of humor but I think its a mistake to argue that FSM is a "counter-proof" for ID.
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I was thinking the same thing. I'm actually wondering if they may actually have not realized that it was satire. There was a really interesting John Stewart / Karen Hughes interview during the presidental campaign where Karen Hughes said something like, oh I loved yesterdays show about Kerry's character and flip flopping , he skies to the left and then skies to the right and then back to the left. And Stewart pauses for a second and says, something like that was satire. An even then Hughes just didn't get it.
The other part of this is, I think Kristol from the weekly standard was being serious when he said he pushed for Colbert to be part of the show. Kristol does get Colbert's humor. I also think Kristol isn't really that much of a Bush fan but he has the street creds w/ the administration that when Kristol said something like conservative pro-bush satire, they didn't understand exactly what it meant.
On the other hand I still somewhat surprised the entire speech wasn't precleared by the whitehouse. To be honest, even the bush & bush 2 speech was pretty eviscerating, perhaps the whole thing actually was precleared and they are actually okay w/ it?
I run a synth podcast show and because of legal reasons have had many contacts w/ labels (me contacting them for permission, not them busting me) and I can not emphasize how cool the nettwerk label is :
.... as per Nettwerk copyrights, we have never sued anybody and all our music is open source to encourage fans to share it with others and help us promote our Artists. As per those Artists we manage on other labels (Majors), we take issue with those labels claiming that litigating our fans is in our interest, as it clearly is not.
Check out their about page :
Nettwerk Music Group is Canada's leading privately owned record label and artist management company. Nettwerk is responsible for managing some of Canada's biggest artists like Sarah McLachlan, Avril Lavigne, Barenaked Ladies and many others. Nettwerk has several offices located around the world including offices in New York, Los Angeles and London; with our main office right next to Granville Island in Vancouver, B.C.
Litigation is destructive, it must stop
Even the smaller indie labels have not taken a stand as strong as Nettwerk has. Nettwerk is indie, but they carry Sarah Maclachlan, Delerium, Avril Lavigne and bands of that size, so they aren't exactly small.
If the US, the 3rd world and everyone had signed the treaty and it had come to pass then they would be obligated under the treaty. The hypothetical here is, if they had signed the treaty. Of course they did not so, the point is moot. But the *disadvantage* because of the free reign given to china/india is actually a long term advantage because the max/capita that those countries would ever have gotten to a level that matched the US.
No I think we are in agreement though for perhaps different reasons. I am saying *kyoto* is bad because of the random setting of the emissions clock to 1990. The exception for 3rd world countries *perhaps* makes sense (but not really), but it is unfair to other 1st world countries and/or 2nd world countries that are now stuck using traditional energy resources at their 1990 levels, while the US which used such a giant share back in 1990 will always be allowed to.
Because then no other country would ever be allows to compete w/ the US economy. No other country would ever be able to use the vast resources / person that the US does. It would legislate the fact that the U.S. must be the only large, cheap energy using country because of the use of 1990 as the marker. That is not a level playing field. That is not fair economics. Thats cronyism.
I can't agree w/ this more.. Thats what I never liked about kyoto 1990 was an arbitrary # to base carbon emissions on..Since the soviet union has collapsed they have tons of excess emissions, the 3rd world countries are exempt but any first world country that is not the U.S. is at a disadvantage because their emissions per person are nowhere close to the US range. Why should the U.S. have a random economic advantage on a world-wide treaty?
Well garageband for instance is free w/ new macs, $79 new and $39 for students/academic price as part of ilife. It really works well for this sort of stuff and basically lets you relevel, loop and layer multiple tracks and remix beyond the 4 simultaneous inputs. Its not high end software but it definitely does the job for dirt cheap and isn't complex software and is remarkably stable. No I didn't really ask everyone in the literal sense btw :)
Why not use what everyone uses, a laptop? Its a cheap multitrack recorder on a machine that someone has already bought for school/work and far better quality than minidisc. This is the first i've heard of using a minidisc as a band.. Hell you can get a maudio 410 (4 channel in, 10 channel out) w/ lossless 96khz sampling, firewire for $300. Portable and high quality if you have a laptop lying around.
Have you tried going to the genius bars at the apple store? You now have to make an appt because they are so popular but the customer service at those things are beyond brilliant, about 1/2 of the customer base seems to be ipod related, but they will sit down and work w/ you until it is sorted out.
So sad but its obvious Quinn is talking about Stallman in sandles. Quinn is the MA open source guy and Stallman is unequivocally the most idealistic, free software guru that has come out of the MA area and the go to guy for all things free software. Who would I listen to, Quinn or Stallman.. Stallman of course. Who has a habit of rubbing "open source" people the wrong way, Stallman of course. Who do you think Quinn is talking about as being a thorn in "open sources" business friendly side? Stallman of course. What a cheap "ad hominem" shot.
I have recently started running a podcast myself
The focus of this podcast is reasonably specific : electro,new wave, goth, industrial, ebm, synth, electroclash, new wave :
http://www.bloosqr.com/
When I first started advertising I have posted to all the 'aggregators" and I can tell you from looking
at my logs, no one comes from those things. The Itunes searching thing works reasonably well. What does work is looking at myspace/livejournal groups that have similar interests at least for electro/synth..
So I would say it really depends on what you like, if you listen to emo, find the emo groups, if you listen to goth, the goth groups, college indie, the college indie groups. Online magazines will have a links/radio section (for us its industrial nation and sideline as the big two).
If your genre/music interests isn't really specialized to have magazines the two aggregators that seem to actually be useful are
Try the apple itunes directories via searching and
podcast directory
http://www.podcastdirectory.com/
the best
-bloosqr
m4a aka aac are much better. The quality is much smoother and it is very easy to setup hyperlinking and skipping, image based chapters (for each song). These things work both on the downloaded .m4a file w/in itunes as well as the web based quicktime plugin. As itunes is so ubiquitous/free and quicktime also free I dont think there
t /the%20Podcast.html
is much of a downside of going this route.
To see an example of this, that I recently created check out :
http://www.bloosqr.com/the%20essence/the%20Podcas
-best
-bloosqr
If they are trying to show how easy it is to find child porn why don't they do the searches themselves? It seems to me all they have to do is take a list of search terms and plug it into google and analyze the results? Why do they need googles list? I think they are doing the Total information Awareness trick. They will use the google info to set precedence for a larger search, then datamine that to find suspicious activity for which they will use that info to get warrants for.
Its funny you say that there is a variation of the theme that really hits the poor in the US. At least those people w/out "excellent" credit and it involves much more than typical credit card bills. Most of the housing loans that go to those w/out excellent credit have a "prepayment" penalty. That is you are not allowed to overpay your debt and *must* carry the interest payments for the full term of the loan. If you look at a 30 year fixed about 85% of ones initial payments are all interest, so in essence you are buying your home w/ the banking equivalent of a credit card and making minimum payments.
In india actually dried cow dung is used directly as a fuel in the form of "cow cakes" and is in fact a "traditional fuel"
a de7/india/Woman_cooking.html
C ourses/so191/SouthAsReadings/IndiaEnergySuccess.ht ml
http://www.mcps.k12.md.us/curriculum/socialstd/gr
"Refining" of cow dung has been going on for a long time for even more efficiency is used all the time
Check out this article from 1995 that converts cow dung to methane which is used in power plants and the left over slurry is used a fertilizer..
http://www.faculty.fairfield.edu/faculty/hodgson/
Yea but the #1 complaint about the express is the fact there is no "remote control" I use the airport express myself and have always had a laptop around to act as a remote control but i could imagine extending this to the kitchen or some area where laptops are not usually. It would have been nice if the boombox had a ethernet/wireless connection so one didn't need the airport wireless more importantly have some way to act like a remote control and/or show title/artist/artwork for streamed music on the ipod screen. The way to do this right now is to use the mac mini instead hooked up to a proper stereo and a small screen but thats still a bit of a hack..
I've actually wondered the same thing. It would be a simple way around anti-prostitution laws in any state i.e. people would pay money to make movies of themselves in a sex with an "actress." That would be fascinating court case to watch.
You know what it is, I have 1500 cds or so and I lost many months of my life ripping those to a blank 250 gig drive. (Moreover its on a remote machine). I went back through and rated all my highly rated songs and don't really want to go do it again by picking out songs "i like" again. To mimic the itunes rating the uniform frequency random doesn't work as it is more coarse grained than the itunes rating system, what you would really want to do to make it match is do something like
N/(15) % of the time play songs rated N and leave that on for a long time. I'm sure that can be done w/ apple script but it seems a bit silly when all the info is sitting in an xml file somewhere..
I understand what you are saying w/ regards to changing music tastes
Not random, random but random based on song ratings. I listen to all my highly rated songs at uniform frequency because those are the songs I like. I.E. the smart play list plays highly rated songs > 3* and randomly plays new albums I do not know if I like yet. Using song play frequency is worse than using song ratings to *rate* how the user rates the song because of the new album bias. There is a mechanism for seeing how the user likes a song its called song rating, the comparison software ignores.
It would be nice if it was an option. Itunes has the song rating option which for many people is what *one* really listens to. Going by what gets played, is a coarse grained version of song rating. Of course some people dont bother to rate songs at all and some people are fickle and may no longer like their highly rated songs, but barring that having each song rated on a 1-5 scale says more about how one likes the song than just what happens to get played (especially since the point of itunes means one can listen to a whole slew of music on random)
My cousin just bought a 1 bedroom in Chicago for about $500k as a second weekend home. He is a doctor and can afford it but I think part of the problem is chicagos housing market is much more in vein w/ NYC/SF. I know people who make $65k be told by realtors and mortgage companies that they can buy a $500k home in SF. The problem is they dont see any homes in their area that are cheaper and all their friends have done the same thing (I think over 1/2 of new loans in SF are interest only now) and if the banks say they can be responsible for that sort of debt then it must be okay. The problem is $65k is only about $3k and change a month, and the people who make that want the downtown apartment ($1.5k+) and are probably right out of college (college loans) and feel a bit of indulgence coming on for their first proper job (Plasma, new car etc).
I think part of the issue is that people who make $65k think they are rich. They are rich to some extent if they acted wisely, but the "mainstream" consumer culture lifestyle for the 20 something single crowd (i.e. $30 entrees at restaurants, $8 cocktails, downtown rental, design w/in reach, west elm furniture, whole foods shopping, $200 diesel jeans) are really catering to people who make $100k+ w/ no kids and comfortably w/ two incomes. So people who make $80k are surprised they've bled off so much of their $4k and change a month.
Those things are a bit weird. They look like X terminals but they are "not", weirdly it looks like they are at least friends of X terminals as xmodmap works in a manner.
.xmodmaprc as a startup script for gnome/jds3 as they mention as well.
:)
:)
Take a look at this entry. It looks like xmodmap works on the sunray except for when you switch terminals *if* the terminal has a different keyboard mapping.
You may need to run xmodmap
I'm curious if this works.
If you get that working, there should be way of running that script whenever you "hotdesk" to a new terminal and fixing the keyboard flush (by keeping the previous keyboards country code in a file and comparing that to the new keyboards countrycode).
What is a bit funny about this thread is when I added the addendum about the ctrl-capslock swap doesn't work on the mac machines, people pointed out they finally fixed that feature w/ 10.4 when they replied to my post. So what is fantastic is I now finally have my powerbook w/ the capslock ctrl swapped like the sun keyboards
ahh heaven
Its funny you say that as I know a lot of people who like it that way. In fact I do the
.profile (or whatever shell you use)
:( :( )
exact same thing on standard pc keyboards (swap caps lock and ctrl). The capslock is hardly ever used while ctrl is used quite a bit (think emacs) so swapping them makes it *much* easier to extensively use the ctrl key instead of stretching the pinky down.
That said, for linux and sun I think you should like into Xmodmap Not only can you software swap the ctrl and
capslock back to the pc position (or as I do swap pc keyboards to the sun position) you can remap the del key to backspace (which I agree is in the wrong place).
Actually if you aren't running X on your sun box the standard place to fix the stupid backspace issue is using stty in your
stty erase ^?
In any case that will fix your backspace issue. I'm surprised you dont like the ctrl-capslock switch as it really does make life easier..
anyway regardless of how you like it there is no need to purchase an external keyboard for unix systems (except for the mac which has some funky hardware capslock which prevents switching
-avi
I may be mistaken but since macos X is a BSD you should be able to just add
/etc/login.conf
D _Basics.html
accounted true
daytime time
to
where accounted turns accounting on and where time is the time in seconds but can prefixed in the unix way i.e. 2h is 2 hours.
daytime limits the total wall clock time allowed per day. You can also set per session limits (sessiontime) and total times per week (weektime) as well, if you would like as well.
use the command warntime to set the end of time warning, but it may send this to the login tty rather than to X (or whatever the mac graphics are).
For the exact format take a look at:
http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2001/01/17/FreeBS
I believe the issue is that the ID group *is* not arguing about any evidence of the judeo-christian concept of god but arguing that instead that there is "evidence" in the paleontological record that shows "irreducible complexity" which proves the existence of a creator in the sense that is outside of evolutionary history. ID argues *just* this. The extrapolation to a judeo-christian god is explicitly and carefully not made by the ID community (though you and I know that that is exactly what they are thinking). The proper ID response to the use of FSM would be to state in fact ID states only that there is evidence for a super natural creator in the paleontological record and moreover in "machinery" of living organisms (an argument that can be done scientifically). Most importantly, whether that creator is FSM or a judeo-christian god is outside the realm of ID and science and is simply religion. Hense FSM is may be defined as a new religion and not science. while ID is not a religion but an examination of the archeological record and biological complexity for evidence of "supernatural tampering" and is therefore science.
Of course ID is not science but the reasoning has nothing to do w/ the any suppositions of a creator (FSM or judeo-christian or turtles all the way down) which ID explicitly never talks about. The problem w/ ID is the use of "irreducible complexity" as a "proof" for "that which makes irreducible complexity." This argument is a variation of the "god of the gaps" proof for god. The problem of course is its not so much a proof but a definition of "god" or "evidence for a supernatural creator" is defined by that which does not seem to have evidence naturalistically, where for people like Behe that complexity of DNA and amino acid interactions is that evidence. As our understanding of complex systems and evolutionary processes addresses the specific "irreducibly complex" evidence that behe and their cohorts they will move to another gap. Their definition is not a proof for the existence but a definition that is based on human ignorance that is that "gap".
In this sense, and it is much weaker is FSM relevant because FSM can be defined to be the god of the gaps in the same sense that any other creator but again that is not what ID is arguing, what they are arguing is that the god of the gaps argument is legitimate not *what* the god of the gaps is.
The FSM is funny, I am about to buy one of their shirts because they come off well and have a good sense of humor but I think its a mistake to argue that FSM is a "counter-proof" for ID.