He should install Cygwin/X and use PuTTY for the forwarding. The shell is nowhere near as slick as the Linux shell, but the functionality is there, particularly the X forwarding. He could use OpenSSH on Cygwin if he's not big on PuTTY, but the GUI integration and screen logging is better in PuTTY.
"X is still here in 2002, and its progeny will be in place 15 years from now. It will be worked on by CS students who got their MS working on various "Berlin's"."
It's not that they're insensitive. It's that some are trying to appear smart by poking holes in the theory, and others are looking for holes to excuse the unpopular position that they DO NOT CARE.
The idiots who are trying to appear smart by poking holes in the theory are ignoring that whether or not man is responsible is irrelevant. Yes, it is irrelevant. Yes, the overwhelming evidence is that man is responsible, but even if man is NOT responsible, 1/3 of amphibians are STILL dying out and climate change is still happening. Even if it is part of a natural cycle of global extinction, climate change is STILL happening.
For those who do not care. They have a very reasonable position. If we do nothing, it will not impact them in their lifetime. It's their children's problem, it's somebody else's problem, why should we change and put in all the resources and effort and hardship into fixing problems now when they 1. Might not actually be all that serious, 2. People in future generations might be able to fix it more easily with their technology. 3 People in future generations may simply adapt to the change using their technology e.g. relocating, rebuilding, new energy sources etc.
FFS, it IS happening. IF you don't care, just say "I DON'T CARE", but don't pretend that it is not happening and that there is not a good lump of evidence that regardless of whether or not man caused it, that there is something that man can do about it.
Global economic change is global and will not affect your retirement and will not seriously affect your SUV or whatever it is that you're concerned that the eco-bunnies are going to take away from you. Not in your lifetime anyway. Go along with it and stop making stupid arguments about the semantics. It is a new economy based on a theory that regardless of the cause, if we continue as we're continuing, future generations have a very good chance of being completely and totally FUCKED.
Ditto in Berlin, although it is 1 Euro or some similar novelty price. I've seen it so often that I've stopped paying attention. I'm not sticking around long enough for a 2 year contract.
I wouldn't say "clearly" evil. The absolute Good/Evil thing has always been a PITA for me. It's a very Judeo-Christian concept. For D&D I define Good as a reverence for humanoid life and Evil as a disregard for humanoid life.
If you take an overly righteous paladin as an example, just because you're lawful good, doesn't mean you're a nice person or even effective at what you do. You can be an arrogant, righteous a**hole, shoving your vision of what's right and good down everyone's throat (as long as you believe it is in their best interest).
Assuming that he's not deeply misguided, you could bump up his wisdom, change around his motives and dump his intellect so that he'd be Neutral Evil. I guess it's the only alignment in D&D which would work because otherwise he'd have no clerical spell casting abilities.
You're right that it doesn't fit with "Lawful Good" because it is clearly unlawful. If his motive is for profit and power regardless of the impact to human life, then he's evil.
Give the man some credit though. He's running a country into the ground. I don't think any idiot could pull that off. It takes one with real gifts.
The 18 intelligence is just because he's managed to get into the position of power. We haven't. I suspect he's very shrewd, dumbing down his appearance so as to appeal to the "average" man, and not look like a know-it-all. It's all part of his game.
Naw, he's using the law to change the law. Sending people to Guantanamo, creating stuff like the Patriot Act, even using the presidency to accomplish his bizzare goals. It all reeks of Lawful.
Evil has an implication of his motives. I like to think he's lawful good, but profoundly unwise.
If I had to draw it up:
George W. Bush, Human Level 24 Specialty Priest of Republicanism, Level 1 fighter Lawful Good (see further)
Str: 13 (he does ranching stuff every once in a while, slightly above average) Int: 18 (he's president... freaky though it may be) Wis: 2 (6 -4) (I hold hope that he's not evil.) Dex: 6 (The Segway?) Con: 10 (he's kinda small and wiry) Cha: 18 (he's the president... that's not an accident)
George is on a religious crusade to preserve and spread American values and quality of life. He's an unfortunately powerful man who believes that he can do this by commanding armies to usurp governments and liberate oil.
George's already low natural wisdom has been reduced by his possession of a cursed (-4 Wisdom) "Crucifix of Divine Communion".
While in public, George can instantly disarm an audience, changing an unfavourable response into a favourable one, typically through verbal or physical comedy. Unless immune (see below) everyone who can hear or see George must save vs. spell at -8 or be distracted from the core issue for 1d20 days.
Casting time is instantaneous, however anyone who's affected twice by the spell (see above: 1d20 days) develops a permanent immunity from the affect. Perceiving further gaffes as evidence of incompetence.
--
Clerical Spell: Alter Fox News Broadcast Level 8 Components: V,M Casting Time: 8 hours
When cast, a Fox News broadcast will appear during prime time, extolling the virtues of George.
The material component is a telephone and a political favour. The telephone is not consumed in the casting.
When cast, George will be able to alter an election outcome for a state.
The material components are electronic voting machines and money. The voting machines must be distributed prior to the election. Both the machines, the money and the reputation of the voting machine manufacturer are consumed in the casting of the spell.
FWIW I'm in the same boat. I need a tower form factor for a few reasons, but a Xeon Core 2 Quad is ridiculous overkill in the processer. I want an imac spec'ed unit at an imac price in a tower form factor. The imac is good value for what it is, but I need a tower. Apple doesn't make one at that price point. So I bought a PC instead.
I think a lot of us on slashdot are in this boat.
That I agree with completely. Not so much about the iMac, but if the Mac Mini were in a tower, I'd have ripped out the 80GB drive, replaced it with a reasonable desktop drive, added a whack of cheap RAM and used it for amateur video work. Aside from all the concessions on style and size, the specs of the mini are fine for that. The extra money on a bleeding edge system is better spent on a decent camera, sound and lighting.
On one hand you're telling me that you're paying a premium for style. On the other hand you're telling me that you're not paying a premium for a Mac.
Whatever.
I was shopping for a low end silent desktop. I looked at the mac mini and compared it to the Dells. It was clear that the low end mac mini was pointless. The DVD burner was mandatory for me. The notebook HDD was a pointless expense for a performance hit and seriously, little gain in noise reduction.
For digital out, I used a reasonable pair of USB speakers. I don't have a component audio system to plug into, but it drives a pair of Sennheizer headphones very well for me.
Sorry I didn't spot the 1.6 GHz machine, I was on the Canadian site. Maybe it got pulled, maybe it's back, I'm not sure. I don't know how it makes your point that you can dig through the site for the cheapest bargain so as to say the mac mini is not obsolete.
Ironically, I wanted the thing for amateur video editing. I wanted MacOS. I was willing to pay a premium. After shopping around on the Mac site, I determined that I needed to buy a tower machine just to get an entry level system which would meet my needs.
The low end Dell with a big HDD and a couple expansion cards will smoke anything Apple sells in the price range... in Apple's traditional niches.
The cheapest Dell doesn't even sell a 1.83GHz Dual core processor. You need to compare something other than the cheapest mac mini. It's antiquated. You can't find a PC that incapable and slow, regardless of Bluetooth and wifi. An 80GB HDD in a desktop? Are you serious? Video out is critical to you, and you seriously expect me to believe that 80 GB is enough to touch video?
Also ditch the Bluetooth and Wifi in a desktop. It's just not needed and can be tossed in with a USB key. It just makes for a stupid comparison. Of course no PC manufacturer offers it in an OEM package. It's pointless.
Back in the days when I DMed... I'd wait for the player to say "I summon a saltwater scrag" or some other nonsense. Then they'd get some Kobold or something who behaves like a saltwater scrag. Then I'd ask them: "Has your character ever actually *seen* a saltwater scrag? How do you *know* that this isn't one?
Players should never need the monster manual. DMs who are playing or NPCing should not ever draw on knowledge of the monster manual to inform their characters. I'd take it so far as to have a character get bonus experience for walking into something the player knew was going to be trouble... e.g., expecting a wolf to be alone, or not expecting Kobolds to lay traps and cooperate.
The same applies for weaknesses. If a player uses silver on a werewolf without the character having reason to know about the weakness, then either they were sold cursed silver, or these werewolves are just a little bit different.
But then I'm kind of old-school. I don't see the point in the modern rules.
I didn't say or even imply that Cuba wasn't communist. I said that Cuba *needs* communism.
When Communism was lifted from East Berlin, Western interests immediately began laying claim to their old properties. The difference here is the amount of foreign interest. As long as the Cuban land owned by Americans is not returned to the children of those Americans, there will continue to be trade embargoes. In order for the U.S. to lift trade embargoes, most of the property in Cuba may be forced into the hands of Americans. This is *not* going to help the Cubans at all.
To put it more simply. If *your* family had a resort expropriated in Havana, would you be happy to see Disney purchase it from the Cuban government?
Regarding Florida, I guess it depends on perspective. Cuba doesn't have ghettos, and every Cuban has healthcare. Some might call all of Cuba a ghetto, but I don't think that's an accurate portrayal of the country.
I don't think the U.S. could do it if they tried. The old money in the U.S. has too much political clout and personal interest in carving up Cuba for themselves. Cubans would be worse off than the Florida ghettos if the U.S. touched them.
"According to geographer and Cuban Comandante Antonio Núñez Jiménez, 75% of Cuba's best arable land was owned by foreign individuals or foreign (mostly U.S.) companies. One of the first policies by the newly formed Cuban government was eliminating illiteracy and implementing land reforms. Land reform efforts helped to raise living standards by subdividing larger holdings into cooperatives. Comandante Sori Marin, nominally in charge of land reform, objected and fled and eventually was executed. Many other anti-Batista, but not Marxist, rebel leaders were forced in to exile, purged in executions, or in failed uprisings such as those of the Beaton brothers."
Cuba needs communism. They should probably follow China's lead and open up the borders culturally and keep a tight stranglehold on passports, but the land is the property of the people, managed by the government.
Poor Cuba. I hope they get a good leader. Else they're screwed.
I have been using Linux daily since 1995. Almost exclusively on servers. Back in 1995, Windows 3.1, OS/2 and Desqview were the competition. Linux on the desktop was promising. It was important. 13 years have passed. Windows XP and MacOS are the competition. Linux has proven itself on the server, but on the Desktop, it is an inferior end user experience.
Despite that, here are some legitimate reasons to run Linux on the desktop:
To have easy access to development tools
Professional Improvement (you operate Linux servers and want to keep up on things)
Academic curiosity
Privacy, Security and Identity control... i.e., a trustable platform
Protection against obsolesence in file formats and software (although this has been weakening as core libraries are abandoned and hardware marches on)
Fear of corporations
A strong conviction about intellectual property rights(don't install Flash, DeCSS or MP3 encoding software!)
Little money and a strong moral conviction not to pirate software
Multiuser capabilities
Some of these reasons are IMHO very legitimate. Arguing that Linux is easy to use or offers a superior desktop experience is a disservice.
This robotic fly has almost none of it. The little fly doesn't even have a control system. It's about as meaningful as a propeller that can't even support its own fuel. There aren't even control surfaces.
The guys who put it together must be embarrassed at the media attention. Cool device, but not revolutionary or anything.
No. It's my opinion that dividing the efforts of development over more than one desktop environment hurts the community.
Trolltech is not a charity. They're a commercial interest which is using the GPL and KDE to promote the use of their library. Their for-profit motives directly caused the fragmentation of the Linux desktop.
The only reason they adopted the GPL was to slow the Harmony project, satisfy Debian and to retain their potentially lucrative position in the Linux desktop marketplace. Their continued use of the GPL instead of the LGPL discourages closed source and dual licensed apps from targeting KDE. That's not to say that it doesn't happen, but that it *discourages* it without explicit licensing or special agreements.
If you don't care about closed source or dual licensed apps, then that's a difference of opinion. I personally think they're vital for Linux to be a success on the Desktop.
Slashdot Mirror
He should install Cygwin/X and use PuTTY for the forwarding. The shell is nowhere near as slick as the Linux shell, but the functionality is there, particularly the X forwarding. He could use OpenSSH on Cygwin if he's not big on PuTTY, but the GUI integration and screen logging is better in PuTTY.
The Berlin Consortium was one of them.
Quoting Slashdot from 6 years ago:
"X is still here in 2002, and its progeny will be in place 15 years from now. It will be worked on by CS students who got their MS working on various "Berlin's"."
http://ask.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=02/05/29/0024242
It's not that they're insensitive. It's that some are trying to appear smart by poking holes in the theory, and others are looking for holes to excuse the unpopular position that they DO NOT CARE.
The idiots who are trying to appear smart by poking holes in the theory are ignoring that whether or not man is responsible is irrelevant. Yes, it is irrelevant. Yes, the overwhelming evidence is that man is responsible, but even if man is NOT responsible, 1/3 of amphibians are STILL dying out and climate change is still happening. Even if it is part of a natural cycle of global extinction, climate change is STILL happening.
For those who do not care. They have a very reasonable position. If we do nothing, it will not impact them in their lifetime. It's their children's problem, it's somebody else's problem, why should we change and put in all the resources and effort and hardship into fixing problems now when they 1. Might not actually be all that serious, 2. People in future generations might be able to fix it more easily with their technology. 3 People in future generations may simply adapt to the change using their technology e.g. relocating, rebuilding, new energy sources etc.
FFS, it IS happening. IF you don't care, just say "I DON'T CARE", but don't pretend that it is not happening and that there is not a good lump of evidence that regardless of whether or not man caused it, that there is something that man can do about it.
Global economic change is global and will not affect your retirement and will not seriously affect your SUV or whatever it is that you're concerned that the eco-bunnies are going to take away from you. Not in your lifetime anyway. Go along with it and stop making stupid arguments about the semantics. It is a new economy based on a theory that regardless of the cause, if we continue as we're continuing, future generations have a very good chance of being completely and totally FUCKED.
Ditto in Berlin, although it is 1 Euro or some similar novelty price. I've seen it so often that I've stopped paying attention. I'm not sticking around long enough for a 2 year contract.
I'm not sure, I only use Flashblock, but on Youtube, Flashblock is great. You click a video and it starts loading.
You click back and forward, the video doesn't reload. The flash is blocked.
Mr Polygamousranchkid.
Before you go to bed, I suggest you count the number of sheep in your coral. You might find that there is one more there than you would expect.
I wouldn't say "clearly" evil. The absolute Good/Evil thing has always been a PITA for me. It's a very Judeo-Christian concept. For D&D I define Good as a reverence for humanoid life and Evil as a disregard for humanoid life.
If you take an overly righteous paladin as an example, just because you're lawful good, doesn't mean you're a nice person or even effective at what you do. You can be an arrogant, righteous a**hole, shoving your vision of what's right and good down everyone's throat (as long as you believe it is in their best interest).
Assuming that he's not deeply misguided, you could bump up his wisdom, change around his motives and dump his intellect so that he'd be Neutral Evil. I guess it's the only alignment in D&D which would work because otherwise he'd have no clerical spell casting abilities.
You're right that it doesn't fit with "Lawful Good" because it is clearly unlawful. If his motive is for profit and power regardless of the impact to human life, then he's evil.
Give the man some credit though. He's running a country into the ground. I don't think any idiot could pull that off. It takes one with real gifts.
The 18 intelligence is just because he's managed to get into the position of power. We haven't. I suspect he's very shrewd, dumbing down his appearance so as to appeal to the "average" man, and not look like a know-it-all. It's all part of his game.
Naw, he's using the law to change the law. Sending people to Guantanamo, creating stuff like the Patriot Act, even using the presidency to accomplish his bizzare goals. It all reeks of Lawful.
Evil has an implication of his motives. I like to think he's lawful good, but profoundly unwise.
If I had to draw it up:
I think they got the title mixed up.
OEM, Volume License or full retail?
That I agree with completely. Not so much about the iMac, but if the Mac Mini were in a tower, I'd have ripped out the 80GB drive, replaced it with a reasonable desktop drive, added a whack of cheap RAM and used it for amateur video work. Aside from all the concessions on style and size, the specs of the mini are fine for that. The extra money on a bleeding edge system is better spent on a decent camera, sound and lighting.
I would be buying the MAC for the OS.
On one hand you're telling me that you're paying a premium for style. On the other hand you're telling me that you're not paying a premium for a Mac.
Whatever.
I was shopping for a low end silent desktop. I looked at the mac mini and compared it to the Dells. It was clear that the low end mac mini was pointless. The DVD burner was mandatory for me. The notebook HDD was a pointless expense for a performance hit and seriously, little gain in noise reduction.
For digital out, I used a reasonable pair of USB speakers. I don't have a component audio system to plug into, but it drives a pair of Sennheizer headphones very well for me.
Sorry I didn't spot the 1.6 GHz machine, I was on the Canadian site. Maybe it got pulled, maybe it's back, I'm not sure. I don't know how it makes your point that you can dig through the site for the cheapest bargain so as to say the mac mini is not obsolete.
Ironically, I wanted the thing for amateur video editing. I wanted MacOS. I was willing to pay a premium. After shopping around on the Mac site, I determined that I needed to buy a tower machine just to get an entry level system which would meet my needs.
The low end Dell with a big HDD and a couple expansion cards will smoke anything Apple sells in the price range... in Apple's traditional niches.
You certainly can't compare the combo-drive mac mini. Is it really a CDRW DVD machine? Isn't that completely obsolete? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Combo_drive
The cheapest Dell doesn't even sell a 1.83GHz Dual core processor. You need to compare something other than the cheapest mac mini. It's antiquated. You can't find a PC that incapable and slow, regardless of Bluetooth and wifi. An 80GB HDD in a desktop? Are you serious? Video out is critical to you, and you seriously expect me to believe that 80 GB is enough to touch video?
Also ditch the Bluetooth and Wifi in a desktop. It's just not needed and can be tossed in with a USB key. It just makes for a stupid comparison. Of course no PC manufacturer offers it in an OEM package. It's pointless.
Duh.
d'oh
...read more carefully.
"Cuba" not "Cubans". Ugh. It's like I'm trapped in a Fox news interview.
Back in the days when I DMed... I'd wait for the player to say "I summon a saltwater scrag" or some other nonsense. Then they'd get some Kobold or something who behaves like a saltwater scrag. Then I'd ask them: "Has your character ever actually *seen* a saltwater scrag? How do you *know* that this isn't one?
Players should never need the monster manual. DMs who are playing or NPCing should not ever draw on knowledge of the monster manual to inform their characters. I'd take it so far as to have a character get bonus experience for walking into something the player knew was going to be trouble... e.g., expecting a wolf to be alone, or not expecting Kobolds to lay traps and cooperate.
The same applies for weaknesses. If a player uses silver on a werewolf without the character having reason to know about the weakness, then either they were sold cursed silver, or these werewolves are just a little bit different.
But then I'm kind of old-school. I don't see the point in the modern rules.
Yeah and the sky is blue.
I didn't say or even imply that Cuba wasn't communist. I said that Cuba *needs* communism.
When Communism was lifted from East Berlin, Western interests immediately began laying claim to their old properties. The difference here is the amount of foreign interest. As long as the Cuban land owned by Americans is not returned to the children of those Americans, there will continue to be trade embargoes. In order for the U.S. to lift trade embargoes, most of the property in Cuba may be forced into the hands of Americans. This is *not* going to help the Cubans at all.
To put it more simply. If *your* family had a resort expropriated in Havana, would you be happy to see Disney purchase it from the Cuban government?
Regarding Florida, I guess it depends on perspective. Cuba doesn't have ghettos, and every Cuban has healthcare. Some might call all of Cuba a ghetto, but I don't think that's an accurate portrayal of the country.
I don't think the U.S. could do it if they tried. The old money in the U.S. has too much political clout and personal interest in carving up Cuba for themselves. Cubans would be worse off than the Florida ghettos if the U.S. touched them.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cuban_Revolution
Cuba needs communism. They should probably follow China's lead and open up the borders culturally and keep a tight stranglehold on passports, but the land is the property of the people, managed by the government.
Poor Cuba. I hope they get a good leader. Else they're screwed.
I have been using Linux daily since 1995. Almost exclusively on servers. Back in 1995, Windows 3.1, OS/2 and Desqview were the competition. Linux on the desktop was promising. It was important. 13 years have passed. Windows XP and MacOS are the competition. Linux has proven itself on the server, but on the Desktop, it is an inferior end user experience.
Despite that, here are some legitimate reasons to run Linux on the desktop:
Some of these reasons are IMHO very legitimate. Arguing that Linux is easy to use or offers a superior desktop experience is a disservice.
Strongly agreed. Except about the brilliant part. Linus *may* be a brilliant programmer, I'm not sure either way.
Although... imagine the dot com boom with Stallman as the Linux spokesperson :-)
It's amazing stuff.
This robotic fly has almost none of it. The little fly doesn't even have a control system. It's about as meaningful as a propeller that can't even support its own fuel. There aren't even control surfaces.
The guys who put it together must be embarrassed at the media attention. Cool device, but not revolutionary or anything.
Are they still relevant?
Can I filter out articles linking to them?
"core digital error"
It sounds like a prostate exam gone horribly wrong.
Red ring? digit? core? eww.
No. It's my opinion that dividing the efforts of development over more than one desktop environment hurts the community.
Trolltech is not a charity. They're a commercial interest which is using the GPL and KDE to promote the use of their library. Their for-profit motives directly caused the fragmentation of the Linux desktop.
The only reason they adopted the GPL was to slow the Harmony project, satisfy Debian and to retain their potentially lucrative position in the Linux desktop marketplace. Their continued use of the GPL instead of the LGPL discourages closed source and dual licensed apps from targeting KDE. That's not to say that it doesn't happen, but that it *discourages* it without explicit licensing or special agreements.
If you don't care about closed source or dual licensed apps, then that's a difference of opinion. I personally think they're vital for Linux to be a success on the Desktop.