The question is who is the Canadian Prime Minister speaking to? Who exactly is he going to try and fix the copyright for? Is it Canadian citizens or is it the Canadian music industry? This is the real question ya'll should be concentrating on.
There was an unused domain I wanted to purchase a year or so ago. They guy paid in 10 years in advance for the domain. All of the WHOIS information was bogus. The address pointed to a a chip manufacturer, I forget which though. The domain have no DNS records. It was just a dead domain. Basically there was no way to track down the owner of this unused domain to make an offer to buy the domain. The registrar wouldn't help. They wouldn't even contact their own customer to ask that they fix their WHOIS information. Maybe I should have made a complaint to ICANN and gotten the domain revoked. To this day the domain still hasn't been used and still has no valid WHOIS or DNS records. What a waste.
2006? Yikes! That's a long time to go without an update to their product line. The PS3 better be a billy badass when it comes out. It had better be *something* to account for this lengthy delay. I guess I'll go ahead and spring for a PS2. They are pretty cheap now.
I kept eye-balling PS2s on sale here there and yonder. I'm very tempted to buy one. Then I think about how long the PS2 has been on the street and I decide that maybe I should wait until the PS3 comes out. The only question is when?!
Thanks for the reply. That's not the.so I'm after. The one I'm trying to get compiled is the PHP shared library that PHP loads for pgsql support, pgsql.so ATB is a really handy program that makes it quick and easy to compile and install any number of known Apache modules and accessories. No muss no fuss. Apache gets preconfigured for it and all. That's the pretty intro to it. The other side of the coin is that it doesn't always work. I'm going to have to dump it one of these days and go back to build Apache and friends by hand I guess.
If you only compile MySQL or Postgres support into your PHP...
You know what? I've been trying to do this very thing for two days now and I can not get Apachetoolbox to compile a pgsql.so so I can have a working PHP installation w/ pgsql support. I have to have this tomorrow and I can not find any place that makes any mention of this. It is ubber annoying. This one stinkin' little shared library is holding up the entire project.:-(
You need to read between the lines in what he wrote. What he's asking for is where can he find some good quality Gopher Porn. If memory serves me correctly that particular niche of beastiality is illegal everywhere but Arkansas, Utah and Washington, DC. Oh, I almost forgot. It's still legal by local ordinance in Boca Raton, Florida, legislation bought and paid for by local spammers.
I loved Emailer! That's got to be the best MUA I've ever used, at the time. Of course now it's missing features like Bayes classification but still... Emailer was great. I bought a copy of Powermail just because it reminded me so much of Emailer.
I probably didn't spell out my thoughts on hardware very well. I do carry support contracts on all my critical pieces of hardware. All of our new Dell servers have next day replacement. It's worth paying for HW support because it's not something the average guru can repair unlike software which is almost always able to be fixed. As a netadm we had maintenance on all our campus network switches. It's just a good way to go. Does that make more sense? Yes for HW. No for open source SW.
Here's another perspective. I've been admining Linux systems for years and I have never had pay for Linux support. I contend that a compotent sysadm using an open source piece of software needs no support other than what's available freely online in FAQs, web forums, newsgroups, mailing lists and his own professional experience. They certainly don't need commercial support. Hardware is a different story. How many people do you know that can still perform component-level repair? How likely do you think it is that a compotent component-level repair technician can get a schematic for an IBM mobo? First I suspect they'll not know what you're asking for. Then once they do realize what you're asking for they'll laugh out loud under the grease their shorts. After that they'll probably suspect you have bad intentions for the data you're asking for and sic their legal team on you.
I always compile from source for *any* outward-facing daemons on all of my servers. I do this for many reasons. 1) I can strip out all the unnecessary modules, plugins, features and other crap from the installation that I don't need. This streamlines the overall installation. This has been benefits: 1a) It removes all unneeded features and leaves you only with what you need. The fewer compiled in features the fewer chances their are for your installation to be vulnerable to attack. 1b) The less misc crap that's compiled in the CPU has to deal with the better. Less crap means it will run noticeably faster. 2) I can provide compile-time optimizations for my specific system, not some generic everything's supported package like what Redhat builds. This lets me select which gcc optimizations I want to use, not some Redhat engineer that's trying to compile a binary that will work on almost any x86 system. Think about the Redhat-compiled kernels. Talk about bloatware. They have to build a kernel that will run on almost any system out of the box. That means you have an unbelievable amount of crap compiled in that you sure as hell don't need. Eliminating that bloat provides a significant performance boost.
That said, perhaps you two can come to a sort of compromise. You didn't say what distro you're using some I'm going to assume you're using Redhat. You could use RH's source RPM functionality to both compile packages the way you want them compiled and yet make it easy to distibute them to other machine and update them with little overhead. It's not too terribly hard to do. Frankly I won't ever do it this way but I can understand if someone does. I currently maintain an identical directory structure on all machines of tarballs (NFS shared of course) and host-specific source files (exploded tarballs in an organized fashion of course). I can quickly copy and paste the previous./configure options from the older release (after reading the Changelog and docs) and get that package compiled and installed within minutes. A few minutes per host doesn't hurt me any.
Personally I'm looking into switching to Gentoo. It sounds like it matches my style of administration better than RH (anything's better than RH). You might consider trying it out as well. portage is supposed to be excellent.
I don't know about ya'll but I live in a tiny town. No, I don't mean I live in a town with 25,000 people (I swear, you city folks). I don't even live in a town with 10,000 people. My town has 231 residents, not counting cats or dogs. That's it. We really don't have much of a traffic problem in these parts. The only traffic delays we encounter might be cattle on the road, road construction, a tractor or combine, or a trooper on a ticket binge. If you want to avoid traffic congestion then move away from the traffic.
I agree. No one company should be allowed to give a candidate money IMHO. If they want to donate money then let them donate it to the party (or if parties are eliminated, donate it to that year's campaign fund for whatever office you want to support) and let it be divided equally between the candidates.
TV/Movies/Music:
Ranked #7 overall of the industries contributing to the 2002 election cycle with a grand total of $39,902,175. 78% went to Democrats, 22% to Republicans.
You can view TV/Movies/Music's contribution history here.
Who are the top contributor's in TV/Movies/Music? You can find that out here. The top 6 contributors and their funds for the 2002 election cycle are:
I suppose it's possible. I rather doubt it will happen though. I think this is fairly common practice, ie sueing for a declaratory judgement against the threat of being sued. The kid was sueing to preempt legal action because of a law. [H] is sueing to keep Infinium Bastard Phantom Consoles from being able to sue them. Similar but I don't think either is a precident for the other. Interesting idea though. BTW, nice nick. My thoughts exactly!
In response to you and the others that replied, all at once. I could have sworn the G5 was out before the Opteron. I remember contemplating whether to wait for the Opteron when I built my last PC or whether I should bite the bullet and pay the extra for a nice G5. At least that's what I thought I remember. It looks like ya'll have sources though so I concede defeat. I could have sworn though...
Maybe you should RTFA. No individual customers complained to the BBB about Apple. Dell did, and I quote:
Acting on a tip from Apple rival Dell, the council's National Advertising Division (NAD) "determined that the evidence provided by Apple did not provide a reasonable basis for its broad unqualified claims that its Power Mac G5 is 'the world's fastest, most powerful personal computer' and that it 'edged out the competition on integer.'"
And again...
A Dell representative said in an e-mail: We "notified NAD because we felt there were some inaccuracies in Apple's advertisement and wanted to act on behalf of consumers in the marketplace who deserve accurate information on which to base their purchase decisions...Essentially, we felt that clarity in the marketplace benefits consumers, and NAD agreed."
Just to exercise my fingers a little more I'll repeat myself. No individual customers complained to the BBB about Apple. Dell did. This is comparable to Ford making a tip to the BBB about Chevy's claim that their mid-sized SUV gets the best overall mileage of all other currently available mid-sized SUVs.
I don't believe the Opterons were available at that time either, making the G5 even better. Apple really was the fastest at that time. I don't know why people keep arguing with us (you and I and others) on this point.
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The question is who is the Canadian Prime Minister speaking to? Who exactly is he going to try and fix the copyright for? Is it Canadian citizens or is it the Canadian music industry? This is the real question ya'll should be concentrating on.
There was an unused domain I wanted to purchase a year or so ago. They guy paid in 10 years in advance for the domain. All of the WHOIS information was bogus. The address pointed to a a chip manufacturer, I forget which though. The domain have no DNS records. It was just a dead domain. Basically there was no way to track down the owner of this unused domain to make an offer to buy the domain. The registrar wouldn't help. They wouldn't even contact their own customer to ask that they fix their WHOIS information. Maybe I should have made a complaint to ICANN and gotten the domain revoked. To this day the domain still hasn't been used and still has no valid WHOIS or DNS records. What a waste.
2006? Yikes! That's a long time to go without an update to their product line. The PS3 better be a billy badass when it comes out. It had better be *something* to account for this lengthy delay. I guess I'll go ahead and spring for a PS2. They are pretty cheap now.
I kept eye-balling PS2s on sale here there and yonder. I'm very tempted to buy one. Then I think about how long the PS2 has been on the street and I decide that maybe I should wait until the PS3 comes out. The only question is when?!
Thanks for the reply. That's not the .so I'm after. The one I'm trying to get compiled is the PHP shared library that PHP loads for pgsql support, pgsql.so ATB is a really handy program that makes it quick and easy to compile and install any number of known Apache modules and accessories. No muss no fuss. Apache gets preconfigured for it and all. That's the pretty intro to it. The other side of the coin is that it doesn't always work. I'm going to have to dump it one of these days and go back to build Apache and friends by hand I guess.
You know what? I've been trying to do this very thing for two days now and I can not get Apachetoolbox to compile a pgsql.so so I can have a working PHP installation w/ pgsql support. I have to have this tomorrow and I can not find any place that makes any mention of this. It is ubber annoying. This one stinkin' little shared library is holding up the entire project. :-(
Your village called. They want their idiot back.
You need to read between the lines in what he wrote. What he's asking for is where can he find some good quality Gopher Porn. If memory serves me correctly that particular niche of beastiality is illegal everywhere but Arkansas, Utah and Washington, DC. Oh, I almost forgot. It's still legal by local ordinance in Boca Raton, Florida, legislation bought and paid for by local spammers.
I guess that means you've never heard of Microsoft. :-)
I loved Emailer! That's got to be the best MUA I've ever used, at the time. Of course now it's missing features like Bayes classification but still... Emailer was great. I bought a copy of Powermail just because it reminded me so much of Emailer.
I probably didn't spell out my thoughts on hardware very well. I do carry support contracts on all my critical pieces of hardware. All of our new Dell servers have next day replacement. It's worth paying for HW support because it's not something the average guru can repair unlike software which is almost always able to be fixed. As a netadm we had maintenance on all our campus network switches. It's just a good way to go. Does that make more sense? Yes for HW. No for open source SW.
Debian made it into the 21st century? No way!
In short, Support? Who needs it? Not me. Do you?
That said, perhaps you two can come to a sort of compromise. You didn't say what distro you're using some I'm going to assume you're using Redhat. You could use RH's source RPM functionality to both compile packages the way you want them compiled and yet make it easy to distibute them to other machine and update them with little overhead. It's not too terribly hard to do. Frankly I won't ever do it this way but I can understand if someone does. I currently maintain an identical directory structure on all machines of tarballs (NFS shared of course) and host-specific source files (exploded tarballs in an organized fashion of course). I can quickly copy and paste the previous ./configure options from the older release (after reading the Changelog and docs) and get that package compiled and installed within minutes. A few minutes per host doesn't hurt me any.
Personally I'm looking into switching to Gentoo. It sounds like it matches my style of administration better than RH (anything's better than RH). You might consider trying it out as well. portage is supposed to be excellent.
I don't know about ya'll but I live in a tiny town. No, I don't mean I live in a town with 25,000 people (I swear, you city folks). I don't even live in a town with 10,000 people. My town has 231 residents, not counting cats or dogs. That's it. We really don't have much of a traffic problem in these parts. The only traffic delays we encounter might be cattle on the road, road construction, a tractor or combine, or a trooper on a ticket binge. If you want to avoid traffic congestion then move away from the traffic.
I agree. No one company should be allowed to give a candidate money IMHO. If they want to donate money then let them donate it to the party (or if parties are eliminated, donate it to that year's campaign fund for whatever office you want to support) and let it be divided equally between the candidates.
TV/Movies/Music:
Ranked #7 overall of the industries contributing to the 2002 election cycle with a grand total of $39,902,175. 78% went to Democrats, 22% to Republicans.
You can view TV/Movies/Music's contribution history here.
Who are the top contributor's in TV/Movies/Music? You can find that out here. The top 6 contributors and their funds for the 2002 election cycle are:
Saban Capital Group $9,333,000
Shangri-La Entertainment $6,731,000
Viacom Inc $2,016,891
AOL Time Warner $1,502,806
Walt Disney Co $1,212,364
Vivendi Universal $1,184,249
See anybody we know?
Orrin Hatch: TV/Movies/Music $152,360
Patrick Leahy: TV/Movies/Music $178,000
I mean after all we give convicted rapists Academy Awards. /end sarcasm
I suppose it's possible. I rather doubt it will happen though. I think this is fairly common practice, ie sueing for a declaratory judgement against the threat of being sued. The kid was sueing to preempt legal action because of a law. [H] is sueing to keep Infinium Bastard Phantom Consoles from being able to sue them. Similar but I don't think either is a precident for the other. Interesting idea though. BTW, nice nick. My thoughts exactly!
Yes, this is a very good example too.
In response to you and the others that replied, all at once. I could have sworn the G5 was out before the Opteron. I remember contemplating whether to wait for the Opteron when I built my last PC or whether I should bite the bullet and pay the extra for a nice G5. At least that's what I thought I remember. It looks like ya'll have sources though so I concede defeat. I could have sworn though...
And again...
Just to exercise my fingers a little more I'll repeat myself. No individual customers complained to the BBB about Apple. Dell did. This is comparable to Ford making a tip to the BBB about Chevy's claim that their mid-sized SUV gets the best overall mileage of all other currently available mid-sized SUVs.
pssst... It won't happen. It will be delayed. This you can take to the bank.
I don't believe the Opterons were available at that time either, making the G5 even better. Apple really was the fastest at that time. I don't know why people keep arguing with us (you and I and others) on this point.