> I may be wrong here, but I really thought that SMP support for the linux kernel was only available in the 2.1.x and the 2.2.x series of the kernel.
You are wrong:-) SMP has existed since 1.3.somethingorother, I think. It does exist in 2.0.x, but is implemented in a fairly inefficient way. The 2.1.x/2.2.x SMP is a much better, more scalable implementation.
> -Clinton collected many FBI files on his enemies
Clinton didn't do this, one of the lower level flunkies in the White house did. I doubt whether Clinton ever knew about this. In any case, Ken Starr was not able to find any illegal acts despite years of investigation.
> -He illegally took foreign campaign ontributions from countries like China in exchange for favors (can you say "Most Favored Nation Status"?).
Because of loopholes in the laws that were added by REPUBLICANS when the law was passed in the 70's, these contributions were legal. I think that they were inappropriate, but they were legal.
> -He has always been pretty anti-military, but calls air strikes whenever he gets in hot water.
Being pretty anti-military???? He just proposed the largest peacetime military spending increase since Reagan. And he has continued to keep military spending at 85% of Cold War levels, despite the fact that the Cold War has been over for years. I would love to see a President that is truly anti-military, willing to stand up to the charge of "soft on defense spending" to spend money on things that are truly good for the country. He wants to increase the defense budget 110 billion dollars, but one or two billion cannot be spared to rebuild school buildings.
> -He destroy the lives of innocent citizens for stupid political pay-offs (Travel Office, Billy Dale)
Unlike other politicians? Unlike Ken Starr? Unlike many who were attacked by the Reagan Administration for their opposition to the government's Central America policies? Unlike Republican attacks on people like Anita Hill? This is nothing new in modern American politics. Both sides do it. It is despicable, but not impeachable.
These things do matter, but the upshot of most of this is to discredit the entire system, not just Republicans or Democrats. Clinton is a product of a system that uses power to support the rich, at the expense of others, and uses cheap moralizing and demagoguery to destroy its enemies.
I was able to catch the early news coverage of refund day on three of the four local television stations. The fourth station (KTVU channel 2) does not have an early news show. All three stations that I saw had good stories on the event, with interviews with the various participants. All of the stations highlighted Linux as an alternative to Windows, and all of them pronounced Linux correctly. All three stations had at least soundbytes from Eric Raymond, and from a Microsoft PR flack. None of the three portrayed the Linux advocates as weidos, crazies, or anything else derogatory. and none were particularly nice to Microsoft either. There were lots of pictures of penguins on t-shirts and signs. It was really great to see all this publicity!
In terms of quality and accuracy, I would have to rate the local CBS affiliate the highest - Channel 5, KPIX. They made the exact issue of why people want the rebate, why people use Linux, and the EULA allows them to ask for a refund. They also did a better job of explaining how the OEMs and Microsoft pass the problem back and forth between each other. They also had the best balance between the Microsoft spokesman and the various Refund day people. A transcript of their report is at: http://www.kpix.com/news/newswiz/mon630.htm This link may only work on 2/15 - I could not find a date-specific link.
Channel 4, KRON, the local NBC affiliate, did a pretty good job, with better coverage of the actual event. They were the only ones showing the Microsoft people not letting people in the elevator going up to their office. They also had the longest story, with the most interviews. One of the news anchors, Suzanne Shaw, explained after the story ended that Linux was started by Linus, that it is available free, and that "nobody owns it." She actually sounded like a Linux user. Their story is available on the web at: http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/ramhurl.cgi?file=1 999/02/15-refund_kronv.rm
KGO - Channel 7, the ABC affiliate, did what I thought was the worst story - among other things they spelled Eric Raymond's name wrong - Eric Ramen!!! They also did not make it clear exactly why people would expect a refund, or how the EULA was involved. All in all, it wasn't a bad report, just the weakest of the three. As far as I can tell, video or text for this story is not available on their website
I was really impressed by the amount of coverage the story got from all three stations. I'm looking forward to 10pm, where the local Independent / Fox affiliate has their news hour. They are the most popular local news broadcast, and do very good coverage of local news stories.
A friend of mine has been bringing his electrically powered couches to Burning Man for three years now. They are a very cool geek project, because he has built custom electronic motor controllers based on the PIC embedded CPU. All the design, programming and other details are home-built. It is a much cleaner design than the gas powered one - no fumes, much lower cost to run, and it is controlled via an electric wheelchair joystick. One electric motor power each side of the couch, and it drives sorta like a tank. It can turn on a dime! And the best part is that it hardly looks like he is driving. Its top speed on a good smooth surface is about 20MPH. Another friend of his has made a couch capable of about 35MPH. There are also electrically powered end tables, Lazy Boy recliners, desk chairs, and other wild stuff. It is a an incredible fun to ride on these things.
has has some pictures of electric furniture racing. The couch pictured on the left is my friend Greg's, he is sitting on the far right wearing the straw hat.
Actually, following the threads from this post, I realized the thing I had found funniest about it was the followup by Jeff Liebermann, which can be found here:
Liebermann's solution to the problem of deamons in Unix was this (quoting from his post):
The solution to your problem is not to switch to NT but to upgrade to a new personal operating system that does not require the fear of daemons. I recommend Judaism 1.0 which had been offering an un-advertised competative upgrade for the last 6,000 years. Check your phone directory for the address of your nearest authorized services center for details.
I haven't read that group in a couple of years, but when I did, Jeff Liebermann was a regular poster who gave very high quality answers to SCO questions. Also, in the followups there is a description of the origin of the term daemon for 'system background process':
I once saw a post in one one of the SCO newsgroups about how daemons were evil, and is every unix full of them. The original looked sincere enough that I didn't really think it was a troll. It of course started a huge flamefest.
Thanks to DejaNews, I have a link to it: http://www.dejanews.com/[ST_rn=qs]/getdoc.xp?AN= 279660590
They were shoes that had the heel slightly lower than the toe. It wasn't a huge difference, and there was supposedly had some health benefit to this arrangement - better posture, more foot comfort or something. I was a kid in the mid-70's when they made a big media splash. I thought they sank without a trace in the 80's, but I guess I was wrong.
I'm glad someone finally figured this out. One of my favorite pages suffers from this problem, but I never told the author, because I had no idea if it was my browser of her page. Now I know, and I can tell her how to fix it! Thanks!
I have to respectfully disagree with this. I just can't get into computer shoot-em-up games, no matter how complex they are. Quake is better than most, but there is nothing like a shiny metal ball, an angled table, and a couple of flippers. Video games can never replace the tactile experience of a good pinball game. For me (and I understand this is a personal thing) there is no comparison.
I read the article, and just for a laugh reproduced the AltaVista searches mentioned. Here the the numbers: Article Today (1/13/99) % Diff Windows 2,530,775 11,506,413 455 Linux 502,053 2,003,198 399 Solaris 251,513 800,206 318 HP/UX 105,833 99,610 6% less FreeBSD 81,781 317,334 388 MacOS 70,851 219,970 310 UnixWare 23,386 49,320 210 Ultrix 15,133 34,040 225 Digital Unix --- 13,380 - OpenBSD 11,892 26,400 222
Interesting, but I bet Windows gets LOTS of non-Microsoft related hits.
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Can we now start the 'Free Hardware Foundation', Stan Kelly-Bootle's idea of the logical extension of the FSF? I think this is a great idea :-)
Eric
> I may be wrong here, but I really thought that SMP support for the linux kernel was only available in the 2.1.x and the 2.2.x series of the kernel.
:-) SMP has existed since 1.3.somethingorother, I think. It does exist in 2.0.x, but is implemented in a fairly inefficient way. The 2.1.x/2.2.x SMP is a much better, more scalable implementation.
You are wrong
Eric
> -Clinton collected many FBI files on his enemies
Clinton didn't do this, one of the lower level flunkies in the White house did. I doubt whether Clinton ever knew about this. In any case, Ken Starr was not able to find any illegal acts despite years of investigation.
> -He illegally took foreign campaign ontributions from countries like China in exchange for favors (can you say "Most Favored Nation Status"?).
Because of loopholes in the laws that were added by REPUBLICANS when the law was passed in the 70's, these contributions were legal. I think that they were inappropriate, but they were legal.
> -He has always been pretty anti-military, but calls air strikes whenever he gets in hot water.
Being pretty anti-military???? He just proposed the largest peacetime military spending increase since Reagan. And he has continued to keep military spending at 85% of Cold War levels, despite the fact that the Cold War has been over for years. I would love to see a President that is truly anti-military, willing to stand up to the charge of "soft on defense spending" to spend money on things that are truly good for the country. He wants to increase the defense budget 110 billion dollars, but one or two billion cannot be spared to rebuild school buildings.
> -He destroy the lives of innocent citizens for stupid political pay-offs (Travel Office, Billy Dale)
Unlike other politicians? Unlike Ken Starr? Unlike many who were attacked by the Reagan Administration for their opposition to the government's Central America policies? Unlike Republican attacks on people like Anita Hill? This is nothing new in modern American politics. Both sides do it. It is despicable, but not impeachable.
These things do matter, but the upshot of most of this is to discredit the entire system, not just Republicans or Democrats. Clinton is a product of a system that uses power to support the rich, at the expense of others, and uses cheap moralizing and demagoguery to destroy its enemies.
Eric
I was able to catch the early news coverage of refund day on three of the four local television stations. The fourth station (KTVU channel 2) does not have an early news show. All three stations that I saw had good stories on the event, with interviews with the various participants. All of the stations highlighted Linux as an alternative to Windows, and all of them pronounced Linux correctly. All three stations had at least soundbytes from Eric Raymond, and from a Microsoft PR flack. None of the three portrayed the Linux advocates as weidos, crazies, or anything else derogatory. and none were particularly nice to Microsoft either. There were lots of pictures of penguins on t-shirts and signs. It was really great to see all this publicity!
1 999/02/15-refund_kronv.rm
In terms of quality and accuracy, I would have to rate the local CBS affiliate the highest - Channel 5, KPIX. They made the exact issue of why people want the rebate, why people use Linux, and the EULA allows them to ask for a refund. They also did a better job of explaining how the OEMs and Microsoft pass the problem back and forth between each other. They also had the best balance between the Microsoft spokesman and the various Refund day people. A transcript of their report is at:
http://www.kpix.com/news/newswiz/mon630.htm
This link may only work on 2/15 - I could not find a date-specific link.
Channel 4, KRON, the local NBC affiliate, did a pretty good job, with better coverage of the actual event. They were the only ones showing the Microsoft people not letting people in the elevator going up to their office. They also had the longest story, with the most interviews. One of the news anchors, Suzanne Shaw, explained after the story ended that Linux was started by Linus, that it is available free, and that "nobody owns it." She actually sounded like a Linux user. Their story is available on the web at:
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/ramhurl.cgi?file=
KGO - Channel 7, the ABC affiliate, did what I thought was the worst story - among other things they spelled Eric Raymond's name wrong - Eric Ramen!!! They also did not make it clear exactly why people would expect a refund, or how the EULA was involved. All in all, it wasn't a bad report, just the weakest of the three. As far as I can tell, video or text for this story is not available on their website
I was really impressed by the amount of coverage the story got from all three stations. I'm looking forward to 10pm, where the local Independent / Fox affiliate has their news hour. They are the most popular local news broadcast, and do very good coverage of local news stories.
Cheers
Eric
A friend of mine has been bringing his electrically powered couches to Burning Man for three years now. They are a very cool geek project, because he has built custom electronic motor controllers based on the PIC embedded CPU. All the design, programming and other details are home-built. It is a much cleaner design than the gas powered one - no fumes, much lower cost to run, and it is controlled via an electric wheelchair joystick. One electric motor power each side of the couch, and it drives sorta like a tank. It can turn on a dime! And the best part is that it hardly looks like he is driving. Its top speed on a good smooth surface is about 20MPH. Another friend of his has made a couch capable of about 35MPH. There are also electrically powered end tables, Lazy Boy recliners, desk chairs, and other wild stuff. It is a an incredible fun to ride on these things.
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has has some pictures of electric furniture racing. The couch pictured on the left is my friend Greg's, he is sitting on the far right wearing the straw hat.
Eric
Actually, following the threads from this post, I realized the thing I had found funniest about it was the followup by Jeff Liebermann, which can be found here:
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http://www.dejanews.com/[ST_rn=qs]/getdoc.xp?AN
Liebermann's solution to the problem of deamons in Unix was this (quoting from his post):
The solution to your problem is not to switch to NT but to
upgrade to a new personal operating system that does not require
the fear of daemons. I recommend Judaism 1.0 which had been
offering an un-advertised competative upgrade for the last
6,000 years. Check your phone directory for the address of
your nearest authorized services center for details.
I haven't read that group in a couple of years, but when I did, Jeff Liebermann was a regular poster who gave very high quality answers to SCO questions.
Also, in the followups there is a description of the origin of the term daemon for 'system background process':
http://www.dejanews.com/[ST_rn=qs]/getdoc.xp?AN
Its a quote from a Unix review column by one of my personal idols, Stan Kelly-Bootle. The term goes back to CTSS.
Cheers
Eric
I once saw a post in one one of the SCO newsgroups about how daemons were evil, and is every unix full of them. The original looked sincere enough that I didn't really think it was a troll. It of course started a huge flamefest.
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Thanks to DejaNews, I have a link to it:
http://www.dejanews.com/[ST_rn=qs]/getdoc.xp?AN
Enjoy!
Eric
They were shoes that had the heel slightly lower than the toe. It wasn't a huge difference, and there was supposedly had some health benefit to this arrangement - better posture, more foot comfort or something. I was a kid in the mid-70's when they made a big media splash. I thought they sank without a trace in the 80's, but I guess I was wrong.
Eric
> He turned kinda green, and never mentioned creationism again while I was around. (Though he did try to exorcize me a month later...)
Did it work? (the exorcism, that is)
Eric
I'm glad someone finally figured this out. One of my favorite pages suffers from this problem, but I never told the author, because I had no idea if it was my browser of her page. Now I know, and I can tell her how to fix it! Thanks!
> Sorry, quake is better.
I have to respectfully disagree with this. I just can't get into computer shoot-em-up games, no matter how complex they are. Quake is better than most, but there is nothing like a shiny metal ball, an angled table, and a couple of flippers. Video games can never replace the tactile experience of a good pinball game. For me (and I understand this is a personal thing) there is no comparison.
Eric
I read the article, and just for a laugh reproduced the AltaVista searches mentioned. Here the the numbers:
Article Today (1/13/99) % Diff
Windows 2,530,775 11,506,413 455
Linux 502,053 2,003,198 399
Solaris 251,513 800,206 318
HP/UX 105,833 99,610 6% less
FreeBSD 81,781 317,334 388
MacOS 70,851 219,970 310
UnixWare 23,386 49,320 210
Ultrix 15,133 34,040 225
Digital Unix --- 13,380 -
OpenBSD 11,892 26,400 222
Interesting, but I bet Windows gets LOTS of non-Microsoft related hits.
Cheers
Eric