it sure wasnt an engineer. the math is pathetic at best. the gre only test up to geometry. when i started studying for it i was dumbfounded. like most of my classmates, i hadn't had geometry since 9th or 10th grade. i was really disappointed that they didnt have any differential equations or at least integral calculus.
now the verbal was also pretty bad. they had words in the english language i had never even seen before. as a grad student i met people from china who scored almost perfect on the verbal but couldn't speak or write an english sentence to save their lives. essentially they did the equilivent of memorizing a dictionay.
the analytical was the best part. it actually tested your ability to think and solve problems.
so who is the gre for? engilsh/liberal arts majors.
they had a subject exam for engineering. i took it the last semester it was offered. it was really too broad. it covered basic math (for an engineer), process control, thermodynamics, chemistry, circuits, physics, statics, mechanics and materials. it had something for almost every engineering field (except civil and industrial). there was really no way to prepare for this and it sucked a big one. it was so pathetic that the one offered last december is supposed to be the last enginering subject exam the gre folks are going to give. i must say that future engineers are lucky for that.
the company that owns max linux has many magazines. the number you called is probably a general customer service number. so as long as the other 114 magazines owned by this company are still around they will probably still have a job. they probably werent answering too many phone calls for maximum linux anyways.
I just wonder, why do Windows magazines/books sell and Linux ones don't? Is it just being
abnormal?
i wouldnt say that linux books and magazines dont sell. i can't speak for magazines, but i have no problem buying books. on my shelf right now i have 8 books from oreilly. while only one of them is linux specific i use them all to do things in linux. the reason online documentation is better in my opinion is because of the searchability. It takes a while to dig throuh a perl book to get an example. if you have the perl cdreference it's much faster.
i dont think that people who use linux are afraid of the "mainstream". personally i look at it like this: i could go and spend $35 for a book on X, but why should i if i can get the info i need out of a man page. if i dont use X that much a book on it really isnt that necessary. i would consider buying the book on X if it provided more insight than the howtos and the documentation that came with X. Bind comes to mind when thinking about buying a book.
lets face it, a lot of the books out there are just reprints of the howtos anyways. they dont really provide any more insight into the programs just a nicer package. this is why i think oreilly is successful. they take what they will admit is a unique approach to deal with concepts that average linux users would see as are hard to deal with. they accomplish this by providing good example which are normally clear and concise.
so, in so many words, if people want to successfully publish information about linux they should provide more information than is available for free. people who just rehash stuff thats already out there will most likely fail in the long term.
note that i'm not condeming maximum linux. i really dont know what they covered. i dont really like magazines that much (linux or otherwise).
he VESA Local was hard to work with, and you
only had one slot,
i built quit a few machines with more than one VLB slot, where did you get this from? they did make nice graphics cards though. there were also good controllers and scsi cards too.
for the most part i would think the os should be caching frequently accessed files like web pages and scripts. the platapus would be better at preventing the/. effect if you accessed the memory as ram. it's probably all of the spawned httpd processes that kill the servers.
i didnt know until i looked it up on google. really thought godwins law aside-compareing the loss of your stolen cable to the bombing of perl harbor is pathethic. it really devalues those who lost their lives.
i pretty much agree with you totally. i think the beef we have is not with the companies, but with the government. people need to start bitching to the senators and reps for their state. i think the companies are just playing the game better at this point-they have alot more to gain in the short term, but we have alot more to loose in the long term.
actually consider this: until laws were passed companies could (and did) do whatever they wanted to the environment. was it right? no, but they didnt care. i think you are right about confusing what is correct with what is lawful. i dont believe intercepting and decoding signals is right-there really isnt a way to justify it in my mind.
i also agree with you the dmca is seriously flawed, and i also believe it is unconstitutional. if it is repealed does it make intercepting and decoding tv signals right? i dont believe so. i still feel you are using a service that you havent paid for. alot of people think that just because you are screwing over a big corporation it is ok. it would be nice to see people protesting by not watching tv instead of stealing it.
kinda off topic: there really isnt that much on tv thats worth watching-imagine what would happen if people started reading again instead of watching tv. you would see nike sending books out with their swoosh surrounding the page numbers. people have turned into walking billboards. it's sad when people will pay more for clothing with advertisements.
i agree with you on this. i believe the government is the place to go to bitch about these issues. i would think the corporations that produce the content do so based on laws (copyright). it's no secret that they are here to make money. if people are dissatisfied they should turn to the government and not the companies. wether or not i agree with the companies, they are just trying to protect their interests. this is to be expected-they are businesses.
i realize that the dmca was passed by lobbying by companies. if our sheep like population is happy to sit back and let their rights be taken away, what can we do?
my point is not to blame the companies. they are operating in their interests within the law. if you want to blame someone look at the corruption in washington (i like to imagine a huge fire personally). smile and feel that warm fuzzy feeling your senators leave in your belly when they pass bills in the wee hours of the night. dont say "i have the right to do..." you lost that right at 3:40 in the morning.
Why should it be illegal to decrypt something that is physically passing through me as I
write this? I never asked them to broadcast their signal through me. Same with cellphones and all that. If
the signal is passing through my body, then IMO I have every right to do what I want with that signal.
lets extend this a bit...
i'm a company who uses river water in a process. hey the company didnt ask the river to flow through the earth and if they want to take that water and add polutants to it then who are we to stop them.
well until we pass laws they can do whatever they want. i realize you live in canada and our laws dont apply, hell i'm surprised that canada doesnt declare direct tv a natural resource. they could harvest it and resell it to the people in the us at a lower rate. they could even use nafta to strongarm the us govt into letting them do it. what a tangent... until laws are passed you can continue to live off of the direct tv tit if you will. just dont pretend you are doing something your not. you are taking advantage of service oriented buisness and not paying for the product you are consuming. the arguments here are mainly justification for taking something...
the truth of the matter is that people in the us are breaking the dmca i believe when they use these cards to decrypt the signals. do i agree with the dmca? not really. do i break the law? yes. am i going to pretend that it's ok to steal software, tv signals, etc because the people i am stealing from are wealthy? NO! people stop trying to justify what you are doing and admit that it is stealing. at the very least admit you are taking advantage of a company.
you brought ww2 into this. really though to compare the loss or your precious cable to the lives lost at perl harbor is sad. thats the point when any rational discussion ended.
They
should either broadcast their stuff in the clear, and rely on the law to protect them, or they should rely on
technology, and have no copyright apply to their work. They shouldn't be able to have both, especially
not when the law portion is as draconian as the DMCA.
lets apply this to your property:
either you should lock your door and protect your property or rely on the law and not bother with the lock.
but wait this is information... its different than physical property...
really thought. whos to tell a person/company what they can and cannot do with their copyrighted information?
its nice that you compare the loss of cable tv to the bombing of perl harbor. this really makes a statement about how screwed up our society is. it like when seinfeld was canceled... it felt like the holocaust.
it finally crapped out on mandrake 7.2 after it finished classifying the rings. i'm trying it on redhat 7.0 now. so far it has made it past the point where redhat 6.2 died.
when i run make it gives me this error
Copying ring1 functions from kernel directory... /bin/sh: shopt: command not found
make: *** [image/ring1] Error 1
any ideas? looks like it is hanging on line 81 of the Makefile.
another way to look at the previous post:
sure you dont have a need for a version of any os in your native language, but consider the people from your country that are expirencing your problem now (or in the future).
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it sure wasnt an engineer. the math is pathetic at best. the gre only test up to geometry. when i started studying for it i was dumbfounded. like most of my classmates, i hadn't had geometry since 9th or 10th grade. i was really disappointed that they didnt have any differential equations or at least integral calculus.
now the verbal was also pretty bad. they had words in the english language i had never even seen before. as a grad student i met people from china who scored almost perfect on the verbal but couldn't speak or write an english sentence to save their lives. essentially they did the equilivent of memorizing a dictionay.
the analytical was the best part. it actually tested your ability to think and solve problems.
so who is the gre for? engilsh/liberal arts majors.
they had a subject exam for engineering. i took it the last semester it was offered. it was really too broad. it covered basic math (for an engineer), process control, thermodynamics, chemistry, circuits, physics, statics, mechanics and materials. it had something for almost every engineering field (except civil and industrial). there was really no way to prepare for this and it sucked a big one. it was so pathetic that the one offered last december is supposed to be the last enginering subject exam the gre folks are going to give. i must say that future engineers are lucky for that.
use LaTeX? want an online reference manager that
the company that owns max linux has many magazines. the number you called is probably a general customer service number. so as long as the other 114 magazines owned by this company are still around they will probably still have a job. they probably werent answering too many phone calls for maximum linux anyways.
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I just wonder, why do Windows magazines/books sell and Linux ones don't? Is it just being abnormal?
i wouldnt say that linux books and magazines dont sell. i can't speak for magazines, but i have no problem buying books. on my shelf right now i have 8 books from oreilly. while only one of them is linux specific i use them all to do things in linux. the reason online documentation is better in my opinion is because of the searchability. It takes a while to dig throuh a perl book to get an example. if you have the perl cdreference it's much faster.
i dont think that people who use linux are afraid of the "mainstream". personally i look at it like this: i could go and spend $35 for a book on X, but why should i if i can get the info i need out of a man page. if i dont use X that much a book on it really isnt that necessary. i would consider buying the book on X if it provided more insight than the howtos and the documentation that came with X. Bind comes to mind when thinking about buying a book.
lets face it, a lot of the books out there are just reprints of the howtos anyways. they dont really provide any more insight into the programs just a nicer package. this is why i think oreilly is successful. they take what they will admit is a unique approach to deal with concepts that average linux users would see as are hard to deal with. they accomplish this by providing good example which are normally clear and concise.
so, in so many words, if people want to successfully publish information about linux they should provide more information than is available for free. people who just rehash stuff thats already out there will most likely fail in the long term.
note that i'm not condeming maximum linux. i really dont know what they covered. i dont really like magazines that much (linux or otherwise).
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it's a shame that maximum linux didn't even get the scoop on their own demise. there isnt even a mention of it on their webpage.
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We also have a registration pending on the Secure Shell mark.
they dont have that one yet.
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sorry. it's a habit, but i think you know what i mean.
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he VESA Local was hard to work with, and you only had one slot,
i built quit a few machines with more than one VLB slot, where did you get this from? they did make nice graphics cards though. there were also good controllers and scsi cards too.
use LaTeX? want an online reference manager that
for the most part i would think the os should be caching frequently accessed files like web pages and scripts. the platapus would be better at preventing the /. effect if you accessed the memory as ram. it's probably all of the spawned httpd processes that kill the servers.
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reincarnation of VESA
is this really true? can you provide a link? thanks
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i didnt know until i looked it up on google. really thought godwins law aside-compareing the loss of your stolen cable to the bombing of perl harbor is pathethic. it really devalues those who lost their lives.
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sorry for the confusion. i was lumping all who use hacked boxes to get direct tv. no offense intended.
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i pretty much agree with you totally. i think the beef we have is not with the companies, but with the government. people need to start bitching to the senators and reps for their state. i think the companies are just playing the game better at this point-they have alot more to gain in the short term, but we have alot more to loose in the long term.
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actually consider this: until laws were passed companies could (and did) do whatever they wanted to the environment. was it right? no, but they didnt care. i think you are right about confusing what is correct with what is lawful. i dont believe intercepting and decoding signals is right-there really isnt a way to justify it in my mind.
i also agree with you the dmca is seriously flawed, and i also believe it is unconstitutional. if it is repealed does it make intercepting and decoding tv signals right? i dont believe so. i still feel you are using a service that you havent paid for. alot of people think that just because you are screwing over a big corporation it is ok. it would be nice to see people protesting by not watching tv instead of stealing it.
kinda off topic: there really isnt that much on tv thats worth watching-imagine what would happen if people started reading again instead of watching tv. you would see nike sending books out with their swoosh surrounding the page numbers. people have turned into walking billboards. it's sad when people will pay more for clothing with advertisements.
use LaTeX? want an online reference manager that
i agree with you on this. i believe the government is the place to go to bitch about these issues. i would think the corporations that produce the content do so based on laws (copyright). it's no secret that they are here to make money. if people are dissatisfied they should turn to the government and not the companies. wether or not i agree with the companies, they are just trying to protect their interests. this is to be expected-they are businesses.
i realize that the dmca was passed by lobbying by companies. if our sheep like population is happy to sit back and let their rights be taken away, what can we do?
my point is not to blame the companies. they are operating in their interests within the law. if you want to blame someone look at the corruption in washington (i like to imagine a huge fire personally). smile and feel that warm fuzzy feeling your senators leave in your belly when they pass bills in the wee hours of the night. dont say "i have the right to do..." you lost that right at 3:40 in the morning.
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Why should it be illegal to decrypt something that is physically passing through me as I write this? I never asked them to broadcast their signal through me. Same with cellphones and all that. If the signal is passing through my body, then IMO I have every right to do what I want with that signal.
lets extend this a bit...
i'm a company who uses river water in a process. hey the company didnt ask the river to flow through the earth and if they want to take that water and add polutants to it then who are we to stop them.
well until we pass laws they can do whatever they want. i realize you live in canada and our laws dont apply, hell i'm surprised that canada doesnt declare direct tv a natural resource. they could harvest it and resell it to the people in the us at a lower rate. they could even use nafta to strongarm the us govt into letting them do it. what a tangent... until laws are passed you can continue to live off of the direct tv tit if you will. just dont pretend you are doing something your not. you are taking advantage of service oriented buisness and not paying for the product you are consuming. the arguments here are mainly justification for taking something...
the truth of the matter is that people in the us are breaking the dmca i believe when they use these cards to decrypt the signals. do i agree with the dmca? not really. do i break the law? yes. am i going to pretend that it's ok to steal software, tv signals, etc because the people i am stealing from are wealthy? NO! people stop trying to justify what you are doing and admit that it is stealing. at the very least admit you are taking advantage of a company.
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However there is also a widely- recognized codicil that any intentional triggering of Godwin's Law in order to invoke its thread-ending effects will be unsuccessful.
you brought ww2 into this. really though to compare the loss or your precious cable to the lives lost at perl harbor is sad. thats the point when any rational discussion ended.
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They should either broadcast their stuff in the clear, and rely on the law to protect them, or they should rely on technology, and have no copyright apply to their work. They shouldn't be able to have both, especially not when the law portion is as draconian as the DMCA.
lets apply this to your property: either you should lock your door and protect your property or rely on the law and not bother with the lock.
but wait this is information... its different than physical property...
really thought. whos to tell a person/company what they can and cannot do with their copyrighted information?
use LaTeX? want an online reference manager that
its nice that you compare the loss of cable tv to the bombing of perl harbor. this really makes a statement about how screwed up our society is. it like when seinfeld was canceled... it felt like the holocaust.
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update that works for redhat 6.2 http://lgp.linuxcare.com.au/lgp-2.4.0a.tar.bz2
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the author sent me a patch to take care of the tempfile stuff in rh 6.2
download patch here
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it finally crapped out on mandrake 7.2 after it finished classifying the rings. i'm trying it on redhat 7.0 now. so far it has made it past the point where redhat 6.2 died.
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previously it was failing on rh 6.2. the make file has made it to the ring3 functions on mandrake 7.2.
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when i run make it gives me this error
/bin/sh: shopt: command not found
Copying ring1 functions from kernel directory...
make: *** [image/ring1] Error 1
any ideas? looks like it is hanging on line 81 of the Makefile.
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http://sage.che.pitt.edu/~harrold/mirrors/Final-0. 2-30pct-index_32.png
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i'm not familiar with basque; where is it spoken?
another way to look at the previous post:
sure you dont have a need for a version of any os in your native language, but consider the people from your country that are expirencing your problem now (or in the future).
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