I used to run a small BBS myself, and I resented being responsible for what my users said. Some of the comments posted in echos (I was on FidoNet) brought shame and ridicule to everyone on my board, especially me.
However, I wound up needing to police my users. Unfortunately, it appears that ISP's will need to do the same thing to avoid people putting all of their users in their killfiles. (I know a few people who have all AOL users in USENET killfiles, for instance.)
It all goes to show that a few bad users can ruin the rep of any ISP. I think it's the ISP's good-faith requirement to suspend or delete accounts of bad users, but I don't know if a law making such behavior mandatory is necessary. Any ISP that wouldn't suspend a user that crossposts a pyramid-scheme solicitation to 5,000,000 people won't conform to the law anyway.
I hate to rain on everyone's parade, but this site looked just at tad too professional not to be taken at face value. Furthermore, this story should be in the "humor" category, not the PalmPilot category.
There are simply too many people out there who might take this story by a literal interpretation. Laziness would drive people not to read all the way to the end, where the tiny disclaimer was.
April 1 was over a month ago. Let's have some real news.
I noticed one key point, however minor, that might make the difference between LSL's version and the stock RH 6.0 offered by CheapBytes, LinuxMall, and even Red Hat themselves. They include the 2.2.7 kernel, a hair up from the bundled kernel. Additionally, they include a trial of some back-up software and KDE and GNOME.
I'd be very interested to hear from people whether this minor change makes a big difference, whether for good or for bad. RPM's can be tied to specific kernels and/or distributions, and Red Hat's install procedure works almost entirely with RPM, if memory serves correctly.
Lastly, I wonder how intuitive KDE and GNOME might be. I've seen mixed reaction to LSL's handling of it in prior distributions.
Personally, I'm sticking with CheapBytes... although I could download it over my cable modem (provided I had enough free HD space), they gave me excellent service when I bought from them last.
Red Hat is selling two "official" versions, though. The more basic version sells for $39.95, and is currently on sale. The one you're talking about includes more software and won't be on sale until May 10.
Still, even $77 isn't bad for an operating system when it comes with all sorts of useful software (GPL'd and otherwise) and support from the company. Even the academic version of Windows NT costs over $100, and includes fewer bundled programs.
And last of all, yes, college Ethernets do rule.:)
One of my friends bought himself a Crosspad (he's a distributor, so he got it cheaply). He also bought the stylish leather portfolio for it. The device is impressive -- not only because it recognizes decent handwriting with more than decent quality, but because it imports pictures seamlessly. Moreover, it looks very inconspicuous. When I'm typing on my GoType keyboard or even just writing Graffiti on my PalmPilot, I get curious people staring at me or interrupting me. A Crosspad is a bit thicker than a normal pad, and it beeps (this can be disabled), but aside from that it looks and works pretty much like a normal pad of paper.
The truly wicked could setup a procmail rule to feed mail from linux-kernel-patch directly to uudecode and then invoke/usr/src/linux/scripts/patch-kernel on the resulting file....
I've heard some pretty convincing "evidence" of objectionable material when certain songs get played backwards. However, the material only is audible when you play the song backwards. Therefore, unless you listen to everything backwards, why should it have any effect on you at all?
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I used to run a small BBS myself, and I resented being responsible for what my users said. Some of the comments posted in echos (I was on FidoNet) brought shame and ridicule to everyone on my board, especially me.
However, I wound up needing to police my users. Unfortunately, it appears that ISP's will need to do the same thing to avoid people putting all of their users in their killfiles. (I know a few people who have all AOL users in USENET killfiles, for instance.)
It all goes to show that a few bad users can ruin the rep of any ISP. I think it's the ISP's good-faith requirement to suspend or delete accounts of bad users, but I don't know if a law making such behavior mandatory is necessary. Any ISP that wouldn't suspend a user that crossposts a pyramid-scheme solicitation to 5,000,000 people won't conform to the law anyway.
I hate to rain on everyone's parade, but this site looked just at tad too professional not to be taken at face value. Furthermore, this story should be in the "humor" category, not the PalmPilot category.
There are simply too many people out there who might take this story by a literal interpretation. Laziness would drive people not to read all the way to the end, where the tiny disclaimer was.
April 1 was over a month ago. Let's have some real news.
I noticed one key point, however minor, that might make the difference between LSL's version and the stock RH 6.0 offered by CheapBytes, LinuxMall, and even Red Hat themselves. They include the 2.2.7 kernel, a hair up from the bundled kernel. Additionally, they include a trial of some back-up software and KDE and GNOME.
I'd be very interested to hear from people whether this minor change makes a big difference, whether for good or for bad. RPM's can be tied to specific kernels and/or distributions, and Red Hat's install procedure works almost entirely with RPM, if memory serves correctly.
Lastly, I wonder how intuitive KDE and GNOME might be. I've seen mixed reaction to LSL's handling of it in prior distributions.
Personally, I'm sticking with CheapBytes... although I could download it over my cable modem (provided I had enough free HD space), they gave me excellent service when I bought from them last.
Red Hat is selling two "official" versions, though. The more basic version sells for $39.95, and is currently on sale. The one you're talking about includes more software and won't be on sale until May 10.
:)
Still, even $77 isn't bad for an operating system when it comes with all sorts of useful software (GPL'd and otherwise) and support from the company. Even the academic version of Windows NT costs over $100, and includes fewer bundled programs.
And last of all, yes, college Ethernets do rule.
One of my friends bought himself a Crosspad (he's a distributor, so he got it cheaply). He also bought the stylish leather portfolio for it. The device is impressive -- not only because it recognizes decent handwriting with more than decent quality, but because it imports pictures seamlessly. Moreover, it looks very inconspicuous. When I'm typing on my GoType keyboard or even just writing Graffiti on my PalmPilot, I get curious people staring at me or interrupting me. A Crosspad is a bit thicker than a normal pad, and it beeps (this can be disabled), but aside from that it looks and works pretty much like a normal pad of paper.
YMMV.
The truly wicked could setup a procmail rule to feed mail from linux-kernel-patch directly to uudecode and then invoke /usr/src/linux/scripts/patch-kernel on the resulting file ....
That's sick. That's wicked. That's demented.
I love it.
You won't need to stay up until midnight to get your tickets. The press release stated that they would go on sale at 3:00 PM on May 12.
Now as for staying up until 3:00? Hmm...
You saved your company all that much, and all you could ask for is Linux certification?
Damn... maybe I'm not too skilled in business politics, but if I did that for my employer, I'd want a car or something. Anyone? Anyone?
I've heard some pretty convincing "evidence" of objectionable material when certain songs get played backwards. However, the material only is audible when you play the song backwards. Therefore, unless you listen to everything backwards, why should it have any effect on you at all?