That made me wonder about the maturity of linux as a desktop platform, even more than before.
I'd just assume there would be a way to print envelopes/labels from linux. Even if it was an OO.o template, or some such. It's a fairly simple task.
Sad. Wake me when they come up with the calculator or cardfile clones.
I always wonder what this kind of people wants with Linux. Linux is what we, the hackers, makes it; what is in Linux is what comes from programming nice things.
So, what you say is: "Please make Linux nice as I like it! I will go to sleep and you do the hacking. Once in a while I will wake up, whine and curse, and then go back to sleep!"
Linux is not free as in "comes out of a tap". Some people make these things. You don't pay them money, but you should pay some homage and respect; or please go away!
(As a child I was a cap scout. When we went on field camps we made all sorts of cool things out of wood and stones and some rope. We were all thrilled by the things we could do ourselves. But there was this guy who basically missed his TV and his comfort zone. He didn't help and he critized everything. I guess he didn't get why all the jokes were on him. He should never have been a scout anyway...)
When ever you come a cross thoughts that can be a danger to the free wild life, please collect them and bring them to a park ranger.
Many thoughts hurt the eco systems because they are alien to the environment or may attract the wild life to intake them as food. At first it is hard to detect, but they accumulate and when measureable it might already be too late.
The park ranger will happily receive the wrong thoughts and put them away in think tanks where they are isolated from the wild nature. It is very important to prevent them from contact with the real world.
This message is sponsored by Microsoft, who actively supports all collection of thoughts into tanks
Do I hear anybody laughing at the call for organisation of IT-workers in Unions? When everybody declares that unions are a thing of the past, well the real screwing can begin...
So what is new here? If I am not mistaking here, this would be a step back to hosts.txt. Most sites these days have a second-level domain A record like http://slashdot.org/ . If the TLD is going away, all sites will be in the same zone and we could just as well distribute one big hosts.txt every friday.
stupid idea, but at least it would give control back to ICANN/IANA unless... Arrrrggggghhhhhhhh!
Let us make a new internet without companies, whiners, spammers and haX0rz.
Who wants minitar, when you can get GNU tar with a lot more options? Even GNU tar can do backup over network! There might even be a --wireless-net=yes in the next release.
The way harddisk are made these days it would be possible to claim an increase in useable space, if you could find some way to hack into the firmware.
Disks of today have no direct mapping from head, cylinder and track number to physical location on the platter. Rather there is an internal table of the mapping with room for remapping potential weak sectors to unused space. When the head signal is getting close to be inconclusive the just read sector is written at a spare sector, the mapping table is updated, and the old one is marked as bad.
If this article had show how to manipulate the disk so a number of the spare sectors could be used for enlarging the disk it would have been interesting...
It is very important to watch that we don't foster any zealots that would do things that would leave a bad impression of our movement
I see this text as a warning to us and not to them. If we educate our followers to the notion that we are nailed by the big companies and we are not able to operate in a democracy, we will see people crossing the line.
"We are winning! The actions done by the big ones are reactive and defensive. We walk on down the sober path and we will not be stopped!" That is the fact, so we need no terrorism. Teach them that!
... and maybe we could use mammals or even primates or maybe even humans.
And we could have them placed in large power plants, and we could show them movies or have them play videogames, and then we could serve them drinks and food intraveneous.
What a blast! who would be able to refuse this offer?
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Welcome to Jerry Springer Show and tonight we will meet Essie O who claims her boyfriend Herbie M is seeing a secret lover Lee Knox and giving away her jewellery.
Jerry:Essie O, you say that...
Essie O:I say that my [beep] boyfriend is [beep] with that [beep] [beep]...
Jerry:Hold it, hold it there. Please don't use coarse lanuage here. How long have you been together?
Essie O:We have been going out for like 4, or like 5 years now you know, and we are now having a baby now you know, and now you know he has been so hard on me not to see no friend and all...
Jerry:So you have a relationship?
Essie O:Sorta way, but we are not moving any closer, 'cause he's like spending big money on stuff like toying with his mainframes and all that work on AIX and we are not comming to a place where we can talk about our new thing with baby and all you know
Jerry:And now you are mad at...
Essie O:Yes, 'cause hes's talking and talking about love and things, but I know he is seeing a [beep] whose name is Lee Knox
Herbie M:She is lying...
Essie O:I'm no [beep] lying man. You say you have work to do on AIX, and you go out seeing that [beep] [beep]! You are a cheater and a [beep] and a [beep]. I don't trust you for a dime man
Jerry:Your language please. Herbie M, is that true?
Herbie M:I know Lee Knox, and we are old friends from high school. She is very nobel and do a lot for a lot of many people man. I talked to her last Saturday you know and...
Essie O:And you [beep] her on any day of the week...
Herbie M:No [beep] man, I love you honey...
Essie O:Don't you honey me here, when you are honeying somebody else. I see no nobel thing of that [beep] and you have no business running with her whan we are building a relationship
Jerry:And you say that your jewellery...
Essie O:Yeah, he's taking the things he's been giving to me and some of my old stuff you know, and he is saying all sort of sweet things to he while he is robbing me blind you know, and now he's is trying to impress that [beep] with my best...
Herbie M:I'm giving no jewllery of yours to nobody. Why would I give things to you and take it out of your things again man. I give no jewellery of yours away...
Essie O:He do too...
Jerry:But is it so, please welcome Noue L... You are...
Noue L:I am Essie O's class mate from high school, we were best friends thereand we share everything then. I lent her all of my things to do any business with, and when we went to the prom, she was using my jewellery...
Jerry:And, you have a say on the jewellery what Essie O is talking about when she says that...
Noue L:Yes, she is now refering to my jewellery as it now is hers to keep. It is alright she is using it and she can wear it on as often as she wants, but...
Essie O:No, it is my now. How can you talk like this to me man? You don't remember that you gave these...
Noue L:No, it is not like this at all. All that I said was, that you could borrow it for as long time that you wanted. You have no business stopping Herbie M in...
Essie O:You don't know that this [beep] is giving your possessions to a [beep] who is [beep] with my man...
Noue L:I know Lee Knox very well, and she is allowed to...
Essie O:You're a [beep] and a [beep]...
Jerry:Stop it there. And again please watch your language! Let us
[Customer] Hello, I lost all my data, what should I do?
[Helpline] Well, let's see if your data really is lost...
[Customer] How would I know?
[Helpline]Use another PC! Go to our website and download ReKovver.exe.
You need to run this from a diskette on your PC.
[Customer] Would you guide me through?
[Helpline] Sure.
(Half an hour later...)
[Customer] It just says "No Results". Are my data lost then?
[Helpline] I am affraid that is the fact, Ma'am.
[Customer] So what do I do now to get on?
[Helpline] Do you have any close friends or relatives who would
support you from here?
[Customer] I am not sure...
[Helpline] Then I must insist that you don't hang up before
we agree that it is fine to do so!
[Customer] Please help me...
[Helpline] You must first think of something really wonderful
that is non-cyber.
[Customer] Pardon?
[Helpline] You lost some valuables in the computer, so to
get over the devastating expirience you must think of valuables
you can't loose in this manner.
[Customer] My wristwatch?
[Helpline] I don't know how valuable your wristwatch is,
but I would go for something along the line of your kids,
your parents or going barbercue in the mountains.
(Half an hour later...)
[Customer] I think that I can manage now...
[Helpline] If you get desparate, then please call back.
My name is Joe Counsel, and it has been a pleasure to help
Well, unlimited is by ordinary people understood as to satisfy your "need", not your "greed".
If you go to a restaurant with "unlimited" drinks, it means that you may fill your glass an unspecified large number of times, but not that you may pipe it to at tanker parked outside.
I am sure that you can get away with a peak load higher, but do you really want to be like those compulsive people who fill their pockets with "free" mustard packets, disposable utensils, salt and peppar, and truck loads of paper towels?
That's the heart of MS's position: they want to be able to use everybody else's IP for free while still forcing everyone else to pay to use MS IP.
Oh please, would you?
The story of these slides (MS or not), is that software funded by tax money, or are research done "for the general technological advance" should maybe be released under a more relaxed license, rather than a political licence.
The outstanding phrase of the slides is: "GPL -- good the individual, bad for the industri", saying that: it is good for privately developed software to demand a giveback of co-developers if they add to your software, but projects that has been paid by everybody, including the industry, should be usable in a way that makes sense to more than the OSS crowd.
You don't loose anything by MS downloading software developed by DoD or NASA or whatnot and put in their own software, since the development is already paid for, and you can download it too.
I don't mind that people release under GPL and consider it to be reasonable that others should give back if they release derived works, it is fine. I prefer to release software under BSD or the dual Perl AL/GPL, since it makes better sense to me, and that is fine with me that other people "steal" the code since my concern is that my code gets used even by MS. So be it.
But tax paid code (or industrial funded code) is really a different story.
Lets face it: current computers and humans are both as bad as each other at randomness. The fact that computers have to "calculate" randomness is a bad sign in itself [...]
The funny thing is, that is really easy to construct a randomness hardware device. A zener diode can generate a lot of white noise just below its saturation point, so a circuit like this will do the trick:
For some reasonal values of the resistors and capacitors this would give a constant flow of ones and zeros that comes right out of the blue air (funny enough literally speaking) with more entropy than we will ever need.
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But, ... I am from Europe.
So, what you say is: "Please make Linux nice as I like it! I will go to sleep and you do the hacking. Once in a while I will wake up, whine and curse, and then go back to sleep!"
Linux is not free as in "comes out of a tap". Some people make these things. You don't pay them money, but you should pay some homage and respect; or please go away!
(As a child I was a cap scout. When we went on field camps we made all sorts of cool things out of wood and stones and some rope. We were all thrilled by the things we could do ourselves. But there was this guy who basically missed his TV and his comfort zone. He didn't help and he critized everything. I guess he didn't get why all the jokes were on him. He should never have been a scout anyway...)
Would you rather have metered Internet than footage?
Many thoughts hurt the eco systems because they are alien to the environment or may attract the wild life to intake them as food. At first it is hard to detect, but they accumulate and when measureable it might already be too late.
The park ranger will happily receive the wrong thoughts and put them away in think tanks where they are isolated from the wild nature. It is very important to prevent them from contact with the real world.
This message is sponsored by Microsoft, who actively supports all collection of thoughts into tanks
Do I hear anybody laughing at the call for organisation of IT-workers in Unions? When everybody declares that unions are a thing of the past, well the real screwing can begin...
stupid idea, but at least it would give control back to ICANN/IANA unless ... Arrrrggggghhhhhhhh!
Let us make a new internet without companies, whiners, spammers and haX0rz.
Who wants minitar, when you can get GNU tar with a lot more options? Even GNU tar can do backup over network! There might even be a --wireless-net=yes in the next release.
Disks of today have no direct mapping from head, cylinder and track number to physical location on the platter. Rather there is an internal table of the mapping with room for remapping potential weak sectors to unused space. When the head signal is getting close to be inconclusive the just read sector is written at a spare sector, the mapping table is updated, and the old one is marked as bad.
If this article had show how to manipulate the disk so a number of the spare sectors could be used for enlarging the disk it would have been interesting...
Mmmmmmm, nice! Nature programmes as in... nature programmes?
It is very important to watch that we don't foster any zealots that would do things that would leave a bad impression of our movement
I see this text as a warning to us and not to them. If we educate our followers to the notion that we are nailed by the big companies and we are not able to operate in a democracy, we will see people crossing the line.
"We are winning! The actions done by the big ones are reactive and defensive. We walk on down the sober path and we will not be stopped!" That is the fact, so we need no terrorism. Teach them that!
And we could have them placed in large power plants, and we could show them movies or have them play videogames, and then we could serve them drinks and food intraveneous.
What a blast! who would be able to refuse this offer?
Jerry:Essie O, you say that ...
Essie O:I say that my [beep] boyfriend is [beep] with that [beep] [beep] ...
Jerry:Hold it, hold it there. Please don't use coarse lanuage here. How long have you been together?
Essie O:We have been going out for like 4, or like 5 years now you know, and we are now having a baby now you know, and now you know he has been so hard on me not to see no friend and all ...
Jerry:So you have a relationship?
Essie O:Sorta way, but we are not moving any closer, 'cause he's like spending big money on stuff like toying with his mainframes and all that work on AIX and we are not comming to a place where we can talk about our new thing with baby and all you know
Jerry:And now you are mad at ...
Essie O:Yes, 'cause hes's talking and talking about love and things, but I know he is seeing a [beep] whose name is Lee Knox
Herbie M:She is lying ...
Essie O:I'm no [beep] lying man. You say you have work to do on AIX, and you go out seeing that [beep] [beep]! You are a cheater and a [beep] and a [beep]. I don't trust you for a dime man
Jerry:Your language please. Herbie M, is that true?
Herbie M:I know Lee Knox, and we are old friends from high school. She is very nobel and do a lot for a lot of many people man. I talked to her last Saturday you know and ...
Essie O:And you [beep] her on any day of the week ...
Herbie M:No [beep] man, I love you honey ...
Essie O:Don't you honey me here, when you are honeying somebody else. I see no nobel thing of that [beep] and you have no business running with her whan we are building a relationship
Jerry:And you say that your jewellery ...
Essie O:Yeah, he's taking the things he's been giving to me and some of my old stuff you know, and he is saying all sort of sweet things to he while he is robbing me blind you know, and now he's is trying to impress that [beep] with my best ...
Herbie M:I'm giving no jewllery of yours to nobody. Why would I give things to you and take it out of your things again man. I give no jewellery of yours away ...
Essie O:He do too ...
Jerry:But is it so, please welcome Noue L ... You are ...
Noue L:I am Essie O's class mate from high school, we were best friends thereand we share everything then. I lent her all of my things to do any business with, and when we went to the prom, she was using my jewellery ...
Jerry:And, you have a say on the jewellery what Essie O is talking about when she says that ...
Noue L:Yes, she is now refering to my jewellery as it now is hers to keep. It is alright she is using it and she can wear it on as often as she wants, but ...
Essie O:No, it is my now. How can you talk like this to me man? You don't remember that you gave these ...
Noue L:No, it is not like this at all. All that I said was, that you could borrow it for as long time that you wanted. You have no business stopping Herbie M in ...
Essie O:You don't know that this [beep] is giving your possessions to a [beep] who is [beep] with my man ...
Noue L:I know Lee Knox very well, and she is allowed to ...
Essie O:You're a [beep] and a [beep] ...
Jerry:Stop it there. And again please watch your language! Let us
If the management asks you where this or that part comes from, you just answer: It comes with the package from Sun.
What if FSF GPG private key leaked? Would that be nice?
I do not hope they patented the gravity as such. It would be a nuissanse to pay Google to be able to walk on the ground.
[Customer] Hello, I lost all my data, what should I do?
[Helpline] Well, let's see if your data really is lost...
[Customer] How would I know?
[Helpline]Use another PC! Go to our website and download ReKovver.exe. You need to run this from a diskette on your PC.
[Customer] Would you guide me through?
[Helpline] Sure.
(Half an hour later...)
[Customer] It just says "No Results". Are my data lost then?
[Helpline] I am affraid that is the fact, Ma'am.
[Customer] So what do I do now to get on?
[Helpline] Do you have any close friends or relatives who would support you from here?
[Customer] I am not sure...
[Helpline] Then I must insist that you don't hang up before we agree that it is fine to do so!
[Customer] Please help me...
[Helpline] You must first think of something really wonderful that is non-cyber.
[Customer] Pardon?
[Helpline] You lost some valuables in the computer, so to get over the devastating expirience you must think of valuables you can't loose in this manner.
[Customer] My wristwatch?
[Helpline] I don't know how valuable your wristwatch is, but I would go for something along the line of your kids, your parents or going barbercue in the mountains.
(Half an hour later...)
[Customer] I think that I can manage now...
[Helpline] If you get desparate, then please call back. My name is Joe Counsel, and it has been a pleasure to help
If you go to a restaurant with "unlimited" drinks, it means that you may fill your glass an unspecified large number of times, but not that you may pipe it to at tanker parked outside.
I am sure that you can get away with a peak load higher, but do you really want to be like those compulsive people who fill their pockets with "free" mustard packets, disposable utensils, salt and peppar, and truck loads of paper towels?
... I don't!
- Why DMCA is bad.
- That Linux moves into areas where Windows will never go.
- The goverment is spying on you.
- How geeks allways knows how to have fun.
Please mod this up. Pleeeeeease mod this up. Mod up! Mod up! up, up, up!!! (Why are you not modding this up?)It seems like Bill Gates has problems with bathrooms. :-)
The story of these slides (MS or not), is that software funded by tax money, or are research done "for the general technological advance" should maybe be released under a more relaxed license, rather than a political licence.
The outstanding phrase of the slides is: "GPL -- good the individual, bad for the industri", saying that: it is good for privately developed software to demand a giveback of co-developers if they add to your software, but projects that has been paid by everybody, including the industry, should be usable in a way that makes sense to more than the OSS crowd.
You don't loose anything by MS downloading software developed by DoD or NASA or whatnot and put in their own software, since the development is already paid for, and you can download it too.
I don't mind that people release under GPL and consider it to be reasonable that others should give back if they release derived works, it is fine. I prefer to release software under BSD or the dual Perl AL/GPL, since it makes better sense to me, and that is fine with me that other people "steal" the code since my concern is that my code gets used even by MS. So be it.
But tax paid code (or industrial funded code) is really a different story.
I do believe that for sure. Why would he invent the Internet in the first place, if it wasn't for this?
But then again, it really is under any solution provider.
- Sell Linux PCs at cost price and give away StarOffice
- ???
- Profit.
Sorry, couldn't resist.Cost: less than one dollar.