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This description sounds like Data General in their dying days. The tragedy of Data General was they kept an accountant on as CEO *after* they had reconstructed themselves around the AViiON and CLARiiON product ranges. The only vision was to find a buyer and cash in. The dying company was left with a middle-managers adept at survival who painted themselves in a corner by sacking staff and closing offices. Sun's saving grace is they still have enough top execs available with a technological vision for the future. Unfortunately Sun PS recently sacked a bunch of long-time techs (read expensive payouts) without checking customer contracts. They are now rehiring after spending hundreds of millions on payouts as there is noone to fulfill the obligations.
Thanks for the reference. The table of contents of the book look good. I had just decided last night to put together an in-house talk on "Free Software: is it safe?". I planned to take a even-handed approach to it and this book looks like it addresses a lot of the issues.
So far. Christmas lunch at Mother-in-Law's next door. Played "Apples to Apples" with my teenagers. Played Cooperative Quake - "Hipnotic" expansion with son. Or rather I followed the carnage he left behind and still manged to get killed in all sort of creative ways. Went through all the papers that have piled up other past year. Sent off 8 forms/bills as a result! Still got a few US magazine subs to send off as well.
Stuff to do.
Plan to volunteer tomorrow cleaning a large carpet. Get CD-Burning working. Fix GLX DRI problem on my son's PC. Solve Lothlorian and Kodiak newbie quests on 3k.org:3000 - what a tragedy my char Grin is. Last incarnation spent a total of 24 hours in Lothlarian alone. I can only dream of solving Attrition! Work my way through a few chapters of HTDP. Finish reading "My Name is Legion" and a few text books with tags 1/3 the way through them. Play golf. Set goals for 2003.Hmm. I'll be happy with all that.
Remember, Microsoft invented "embrace and extend" and FUD.
Perhaps the former, but for the latter, you can thank IBM. They perfected FUD in the Mainframe market when the finally had some competition in the form of a disgruntled engineer, Gene Amdahl.
My Palm Vx is the first diary I have used for more than 6 months. The alarm feature has been invaluable . I can schedule my life better than ever before. And my bus commute is often spent using LispME or , until I recently got a winner, iRogue
EVACS
was successfully trialled last year in the ACT, Australia elections for a limited number of polling booths. The source is available here. Phillip Green, the electoral commissioner, was discussing the developments for next time. There was one whinging politician who lost, but it was more accurate than previous hand-counting methods.
Sour Grapes
Also, did anyone see a post with a signature that said "linus" on it? I think I did, and was wondering what that referred to in 1985. Here it is below:
Henry Spencer @ U of Toronto Zoology {allegra,ihnp4,linus,decvax}!utzoo!henry
Probably a "Peanuts" Fan. I expect the first host to be named was "Snoopy"
Don't forget. When Jobs' NeXT jetissoned it's manufacturing plant and limped along as a Software/OS company, it branched out into NeXStep for Intel. I could never afford/justify spending the money on a 486/66 required to run it though.
As I was driving along recently, I noticed there was no advertising in roadside gutters. All that bare concrete screaming for attention. Looks like Acclaim now has achieved that, metaphorically.
Otters Noses, Badgers spleens. Oh, and Albatross as well. As long as it comes with wafers. And Salmon mousse, We all have the right to eat Salmon mousse and the right to be entertained by a Cabaret singer and dancer afterwards, regardless of our physical wellbeing.
I evaluated bunch of filter products a few years ago for a customer. Smartfilter nudged out SquidGuard because of the lower admin overhead.
They run it in audit mode on a small amount of categories considered inappropriate. The user has a choice to continue to the site after receiving a warning, and must explain their choice if they appear in our weekly reports.
Porn surfing at work went from about 1% of traffic to about 1,000 hits a week (counting ads as well).
They have been catching big downloaders for about two years before that. It certainly keeps those MP3 and warez doodz at bay. I can't undestand the economics of downloading. To download a CD in Australia costs A$90 or more for most sites. If you can get away with someone else paying for it, then it is "free"
I could speak volumes on the subject but the fact is that in this country despite all the noise and chest beating when it comes down to it i have NEVER seen an issue of censorship here. I saw the Global Village idiot campaign and basically ignored it - having lived and worked overseas i have seen what REAL censorship looks like and we DONT have it here.
The initial proposal WAS for censorship, lucky some people were paying attention. There was a whole lot of problems with the legislation that were totally unworkable. If everyone ignored it and let the Govt have their way, our web surfing would have been dictated by some anonymous droid in the US updating a filter list. Filtering is good and appropriate for employers and parents. It is not, however, a magic pill that will make the Internet a safe place for all.
Why ? what reason ? so you can look at the site before it goes
How can I look? I said the URL is immaterial. I have no intention of peering at kiddie porn. How do we know it is just that? Ignorance is not bliss. "Trust us, we're from the Govt" does not cut it with me.
PS your webiste appears to be down anthony..
Thanks. I was afraid of that. My ISP has dropped routes 4 times over the last month. Grrr.
Have never heard of this group anywhere but slashdot. The URL list is indeed kept hidden but the average man in the street is not in the least bit interested in it - i have never come across a site that i cannot get to and from memory the submission is voluntary.
Never heard of EFA? You must be new to the Internet in Australia. Many of us in Australia in a number of organisations and Political parties have banged our head up against the brick wall that is Richard Alston, John Howard and Brian Harradine to get Australia's naive censorhip laws stopped/repealed/fixed. You never saw the "Global Village Idiot" Campaign? The EFA was at the forefront of this campaign. A last minute semi-sensible implimentation was nutted out with the IIA at the 11th hour(see URL ref below)
A country has a right to prohibit the import or availity of certainf thibgs, publcations, movies, pictures, magazines etc - no one will argue that the prohibition of kiddie porn mags is a bad thing (no one i wont shoot on sight will argue it anyway....) but they will argue about this mythical list that may not even exist (no one has ever actually seen it)
The IIA Code of Practice shows that Overseas URLs are not blocked but can become the subject of investigation with cooperation of the relevant overseas authorities. It is the list of sites taken down that is the subject of the secrecy. It is absolute stupidity that the names and description of the sites are not published. The URLs are immaterial. Democracy requires transparency in decision-making, not this secrecy.
The ABA can issue takedown notices to Australian-hosted sites that fail the Censorship guidelines. This just means the site often goes overseas.
If the Government says that the list will direct people to disgusting sites, then that means that the takedown of Australian content just caused a relocation of the content. The Overseas Content reported list is still important, however they don't need to quote URLs here either.
Basically i see this as a storm in a teacup and im sure other aussies feel the same way.
I think you should speak on behalf of yourself and leave it up to others to express what they think and say.
You work in securities, and you base your analysis off a single bad salesdork? Now I know what goes into the average stock pick. "I liked the guy. Buy."
Huh? read his post again. Then figure out the difference between "security industry" and "securities industry".
After many trips I have experienced the full gamut of the cultural challenge of "paying a penny" in Japan. First experience was at Narita airport. Standing at the urinal and the cleaning lady wanders by. I soon learnt of the "cocoon world" Japanese seem to develop around them. Conscious obliviousness I think it is.
Next to confront one is the "squat over the floor mounted model." I am a tad slow and it took me a few visits to Japan to realise that it is safest and more practical to completely remove one's trousers before attempting this trick. And if you are "out in the boonies", make sure you have a good supply of tissues as "roll paper" isn't always available. The trains often have an intersting compromise where they sometimes have an elevated "squatter". More often though, now there are "Western style" toilets appropriately signed.
The latest high-tech toilet I encountered in the DaiIchi, Nagoya had two jets. Presumably from the quite explicit diagrams, one jet was for either sex and the other was shaped for women. Press the wrong button and you get a soggy scrotum.
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This description sounds like Data General in their dying days. The tragedy of Data General was they kept an accountant on as CEO *after* they had reconstructed themselves around the AViiON and CLARiiON product ranges. The only vision was to find a buyer and cash in. The dying company was left with a middle-managers adept at survival who painted themselves in a corner by sacking staff and closing offices. Sun's saving grace is they still have enough top execs available with a technological vision for the future. Unfortunately Sun PS recently sacked a bunch of long-time techs (read expensive payouts) without checking customer contracts. They are now rehiring after spending hundreds of millions on payouts as there is noone to fulfill the obligations.
Thanks for the reference. The table of contents of the book look good. I had just decided last night to put together an in-house talk on "Free Software: is it safe?". I planned to take a even-handed approach to it and this book looks like it addresses a lot of the issues.
Chris. Heard him speak in 1989.
My 6310 came with a pale imitation of it. No downloads required. No royalties either.
So far. Christmas lunch at Mother-in-Law's next door. Played "Apples to Apples" with my teenagers. Played Cooperative Quake - "Hipnotic" expansion with son. Or rather I followed the carnage he left behind and still manged to get killed in all sort of creative ways. Went through all the papers that have piled up other past year. Sent off 8 forms/bills as a result! Still got a few US magazine subs to send off as well.
Stuff to do. Plan to volunteer tomorrow cleaning a large carpet. Get CD-Burning working. Fix GLX DRI problem on my son's PC. Solve Lothlorian and Kodiak newbie quests on 3k.org:3000 - what a tragedy my char Grin is. Last incarnation spent a total of 24 hours in Lothlarian alone. I can only dream of solving Attrition! Work my way through a few chapters of HTDP. Finish reading "My Name is Legion" and a few text books with tags 1/3 the way through them. Play golf. Set goals for 2003.Hmm. I'll be happy with all that.
Remember, Microsoft invented "embrace and extend" and FUD.
Perhaps the former, but for the latter, you can thank IBM. They perfected FUD in the Mainframe market when the finally had some competition in the form of a disgruntled engineer, Gene Amdahl.
Whenever I make a purchase from http://www.everythinglinux.com.au, I make sure I add a Debian Donation or two to the order.
My Palm Vx is the first diary I have used for more than 6 months. The alarm feature has been invaluable . I can schedule my life better than ever before. And my bus commute is often spent using LispME or , until I recently got a winner, iRogue
EVACS was successfully trialled last year in the ACT, Australia elections for a limited number of polling booths. The source is available here. Phillip Green, the electoral commissioner, was discussing the developments for next time. There was one whinging politician who lost, but it was more accurate than previous hand-counting methods. Sour Grapes
Not that I don't have a lot of time for LISP and it's bretheren, but Larry did make a reference to toe-nail clippings when talking about LISP :-)
I knew that blind guy on ST-TNG was underrrated
Also, did anyone see a post with a signature that said "linus" on it? I think I did, and was wondering what that referred to in 1985. Here it is below:
Henry Spencer @ U of Toronto Zoology {allegra,ihnp4,linus,decvax}!utzoo!henry
Probably a "Peanuts" Fan. I expect the first host to be named was "Snoopy"
Don't forget. When Jobs' NeXT jetissoned it's manufacturing plant and limped along as a Software/OS company, it branched out into NeXStep for Intel. I could never afford/justify spending the money on a 486/66 required to run it though.
As I was driving along recently, I noticed there was no advertising in roadside gutters. All that bare concrete screaming for attention. Looks like Acclaim now has achieved that, metaphorically.
Otters Noses, Badgers spleens. Oh, and Albatross as well. As long as it comes with wafers. And Salmon mousse, We all have the right to eat Salmon mousse and the right to be entertained by a Cabaret singer and dancer afterwards, regardless of our physical wellbeing.
I evaluated bunch of filter products a few years ago for a customer. Smartfilter nudged out SquidGuard because of the lower admin overhead.
They run it in audit mode on a small amount of categories considered inappropriate. The user has a choice to continue to the site after receiving a warning, and must explain their choice if they appear in our weekly reports.
Porn surfing at work went from about 1% of traffic to about 1,000 hits a week (counting ads as well).
They have been catching big downloaders for about two years before that. It certainly keeps those MP3 and warez doodz at bay. I can't undestand the economics of downloading. To download a CD in Australia costs A$90 or more for most sites. If you can get away with someone else paying for it, then it is "free"
I could speak volumes on the subject but the fact is that in this country despite all the noise and chest beating when it comes down to it i have NEVER seen an issue of censorship here. I saw the Global Village idiot campaign and basically ignored it - having lived and worked overseas i have seen what REAL censorship looks like and we DONT have it here.
The initial proposal WAS for censorship, lucky some people were paying attention. There was a whole lot of problems with the legislation that were totally unworkable. If everyone ignored it and let the Govt have their way, our web surfing would have been dictated by some anonymous droid in the US updating a filter list. Filtering is good and appropriate for employers and parents. It is not, however, a magic pill that will make the Internet a safe place for all.
Why ? what reason ? so you can look at the site before it goes
How can I look? I said the URL is immaterial. I have no intention of peering at kiddie porn. How do we know it is just that? Ignorance is not bliss. "Trust us, we're from the Govt" does not cut it with me.
PS your webiste appears to be down anthony..
Thanks. I was afraid of that. My ISP has dropped routes 4 times over the last month. Grrr.
Have never heard of this group anywhere but slashdot. The URL list is indeed kept hidden but the average man in the street is not in the least bit interested in it - i have never come across a site that i cannot get to and from memory the submission is voluntary.
Never heard of EFA? You must be new to the Internet in Australia. Many of us in Australia in a number of organisations and Political parties have banged our head up against the brick wall that is Richard Alston, John Howard and Brian Harradine to get Australia's naive censorhip laws stopped/repealed/fixed. You never saw the "Global Village Idiot" Campaign? The EFA was at the forefront of this campaign. A last minute semi-sensible implimentation was nutted out with the IIA at the 11th hour(see URL ref below)
A country has a right to prohibit the import or availity of certainf thibgs, publcations, movies, pictures, magazines etc - no one will argue that the prohibition of kiddie porn mags is a bad thing (no one i wont shoot on sight will argue it anyway....) but they will argue about this mythical list that may not even exist (no one has ever actually seen it)
The IIA Code of Practice shows that Overseas URLs are not blocked but can become the subject of investigation with cooperation of the relevant overseas authorities. It is the list of sites taken down that is the subject of the secrecy. It is absolute stupidity that the names and description of the sites are not published. The URLs are immaterial. Democracy requires transparency in decision-making, not this secrecy.
The ABA can issue takedown notices to Australian-hosted sites that fail the Censorship guidelines. This just means the site often goes overseas. If the Government says that the list will direct people to disgusting sites, then that means that the takedown of Australian content just caused a relocation of the content. The Overseas Content reported list is still important, however they don't need to quote URLs here either.
Basically i see this as a storm in a teacup and im sure other aussies feel the same way.
I think you should speak on behalf of yourself and leave it up to others to express what they think and say.unmount? what does that do? I've got a umount on my boxen.
You work in securities, and you base your analysis off a single bad salesdork? Now I know what goes into the average stock pick. "I liked the guy. Buy."
Huh? read his post again. Then figure out the difference between "security industry" and "securities industry".
Katakana pr0n sigs. What'll they think of next...
Correcting my own mistake:- it is configurable in guile.
There is also Scheme Constraints Window Manager I played with it a while back, but WindowMaker is still my choice, for reasons of inertia and loyalty.
That got a smile. I love puns.
After many trips I have experienced the full gamut of the cultural challenge of "paying a penny" in Japan. First experience was at Narita airport. Standing at the urinal and the cleaning lady wanders by. I soon learnt of the "cocoon world" Japanese seem to develop around them. Conscious obliviousness I think it is.
Next to confront one is the "squat over the floor mounted model." I am a tad slow and it took me a few visits to Japan to realise that it is safest and more practical to completely remove one's trousers before attempting this trick. And if you are "out in the boonies", make sure you have a good supply of tissues as "roll paper" isn't always available. The trains often have an intersting compromise where they sometimes have an elevated "squatter". More often though, now there are "Western style" toilets appropriately signed.
The latest high-tech toilet I encountered in the DaiIchi, Nagoya had two jets. Presumably from the quite explicit diagrams, one jet was for either sex and the other was shaped for women. Press the wrong button and you get a soggy scrotum.
The warm seats are definitely a plus in winter.