Yes- unfortunately it is easier for white people to be successful in our society. Therefore, they are worthy of more ridicule when they do not succeed.
Is that you, Michael Moore? I didn't like your book Stupid White Men at all. I think you should have changed the title to the singular and used it for the name of your autobiography.
Why is it so common to refer to people who live in trailer parks as stupid and poor? How about if I said 'slums'? Why is it okay to pick on rural white poor as being stupid and inbred, but not inner city minorities?
No, I don't live in a trailer park. I live in the city. Yes, I have seen the rural misery of some of these places. On the other hand, trailer parks provide a cheap way of having a house and also moving it when you want. It is economically efficient. And it doesn't cost the taxpayer money the way so-called Public Housing does.
I am not the only one unhappy with the very poor support of linux by many wifi chip vendors. Intersil seems to be the only one even close to being open, and you have to sign all sorts of agreements to get the specs (legally). My understanding of this is that a lot of the functions are being moved from the chip hardware to system software, so it's not just a device driver required to use these newer cards. Vendors don't want everyone to see their programming.
The prism2 were the first really popular wireless cards, partly because of low cost but also because of the ability to write drivers for them. I wish other manufacturers wouldn't be so reticent about their support. I actually prefer it if they keep the cards smart and the systems dumb, because it increases portability and compatibility. It probably adds to the cost though.
BBN (Bolt Beranak & Newman -- one of the inventors of the internet) has had this government contact building what is called the 'bodylan' - among other things, a pill can be swallowed which will allow satellites to track you from orbit (until excreted).
I've heard this 3rd hand so I could have some of the details wrong -- anyone care to add/correct?
(shrug) Maybe one of the reasons why I was bored with it was because I don't like breakfast cereal. In any case, there's a lot of places where he strays off course enough that the book becomes overly large. I can read pretty fast and will stay up all night reading a book that excites me, but still this one got bogged down a few times.
Stephenson has a great mind, no doubt. The mind is backed by a tremendous ego. This is important for a writer, otherwise they become too hash of a self critic and no book ever sees the press. However, and editor is usually the devil's advocate against the writer's ego, challenging and filtering concepts so what comes out the end doesn't seem like a long UseNet pos. I don't know who is doing Stephenson's editing, but they need to be a bit more foreceful with him: for one, cutting out more. How many pages were spent describing breakfast cereal in Cryptonomicon? This is up there with John Galt's forty page speech in Atlas Shrugged, in terms of Too Much. It's a difficult task, writing less, it is like writing really tight, optimized code. It's a skill that Stephenson, or his editors, need to acquire. Along with better proofreaders for spelling and grammar.
In spite of all this criticism, I do enjoy his works.
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A couple of years ago, Richard Formato (WW1RF) released Yagi Genetic Optimizer, the third edition of his software for using genetic algorithms for antenna design. This stuff does really work, and is useful. It's freeware, but for ms-dos, here
I don't listen to the crap that comes out of the RIAA companies, this is what I have been trying to say all along. I listen to stuff by small, independant labels, many of them from places other than the US. Why would I want to subsidize Hollywood?! This is just as bad as the municipalities that use tax money to subsidize their sports teams.
I've had an access point with public access set up in the middle of a major city for several years now, and have never seen a SINGLE spam attempt. As much as I hate spammers, I think this 'warning' is just hype.
There is a lot of complaints saying that this use of bittorrent for downloading brand-new redhat ISOs is somehow piracy or immoral. I disagree. Before RedHat and the rest of the commercial linux distibutions came along, there was Linux. There was GNU. There were plenty of people writing software, protocols, architecture, doing support and configuration for free. RedHat and the others realized this had value, and that in spite of it being free they could make money at it. They knew the risks they were taking, and went forth anyhow. Has the difficulty of downloading new versions of Red Hat contributed to some sales growth of RH? Yes. Have others (cheapbytes, etc) profited by selling copies of RH? yes. Will RH sales go down because of BitTorrent distribution? If so, probably not very much. RH has much bigger things to worry about: The SCO suit against IBM, Dealing with Sun dropping their own distribution and what it means to RH, Mandrakesoft, competition from MCSE training and support vendors branching into Linux, etc.
One thing that all linux vendors want is more use of their distributions, and linux as a whole, by the populace. Linux still has a very small market share, and anything that helps improve this market share is good for all the companies involved. This is called taking the long view. RH should know this, as others have. To do what they've done, and survive in this economic downturn of catastrophic porportions, seems to indicate they have a bit of business clue, unlike many in this field. More power to them, but I am not going to buy their CDs. I am a Debian user and Slackware before that, but I am very interested in seeing what RedHat has done.
Hint to RH: make cheap, DVD based offical RedHat available everywhere. With DVD drives $20 these days, there's a huge market out there.
Where the hell are the debian people with a patched kernel? The patch alan cox provided doesn't apply cleanly to the debina modified kernel, so I am trying to hack it up now. But shouldn't someone in charge of security patches at debian have done this and had an update out?
There's a german architect named Albert Speer who has done some work for the german government on this idea, though I understand it to be quite controversial.
Forget www.eli.com, in Cambridge, MA (Boston) -- while it was good when I was a kid and went ther ein 1982, it sucks now. I live in the area and let me tell you, what they charge for their overage sparc 20s and old crap just isn't worth it. Not even close. I know they do a lot of business mail order these days, maybe that explains the horrible attitude. When ever you try to get someone there to ask a question it is like pulling teeth. On top of that, they sell stuff as new that doesn't work. These guys are cheeseballs, I don't know how they stay in business sell Sparcstation 10s for $120. Twenty years ago, this was the tech mecca of mass, but now they suck, and not just a little bit. I hope they go out of business.
The Atari 2600 used the RCA 1802 CPU. This was an early low power consumption chip. A version of the using Silicon-On-Sapphire technology (SoS is used where solid-state devices need to be hardened from the gamma radiation of space) was used in various spacecraft on the 1970s. I heard, though I am unable to provide a URL as a reference, that a number of these Sos 1802 CPUs were used in the Atari 2600. Now this could be interesting, maybe you could use your 2600 in space: Space Invaders indeed!
Anyone who has further details on this, please reply.
Well, then, FreeBSD certainly has come a long way since late 2000, when it couldn't handle more than a thousand or so TCP connections: (Security Advisory)
Personally, I would be very interested in seeing how well the machine in this record-setting example handles an attack of the type mentioned in the above referenced article.
Cromwell was an evil bastard. I wouldn't want him running any computer of mine. Instead, I'd rather take a Cavalier attitude and let the Stewarts run it. They are the Grail Kings!
SCO probably doesn't have any patent that will affect Linux and won't do anything. There's probably some evil powers at work that are paying them to spread FUD.
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Is that you, Michael Moore? I didn't like your book Stupid White Men at all. I think you should have changed the title to the singular and used it for the name of your autobiography.
Why is it so common to refer to people who live in trailer parks as stupid and poor? How about if I said 'slums'? Why is it okay to pick on rural white poor as being stupid and inbred, but not inner city minorities?
No, I don't live in a trailer park. I live in the city. Yes, I have seen the rural misery of some of these places. On the other hand, trailer parks provide a cheap way of having a house and also moving it when you want. It is economically efficient. And it doesn't cost the taxpayer money the way so-called Public Housing does.
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The prism2 were the first really popular wireless cards, partly because of low cost but also because of the ability to write drivers for them. I wish other manufacturers wouldn't be so reticent about their support. I actually prefer it if they keep the cards smart and the systems dumb, because it increases portability and compatibility. It probably adds to the cost though.
BBN (Bolt Beranak & Newman -- one of the inventors of the internet) has had this government contact building what is called the 'bodylan' - among other things, a pill can be swallowed which will allow satellites to track you from orbit (until excreted).
I've heard this 3rd hand so I could have some of the details wrong -- anyone care to add/correct?
(shrug) Maybe one of the reasons why I was bored with it was because I don't like breakfast cereal. In any case, there's a lot of places where he strays off course enough that the book becomes overly large. I can read pretty fast and will stay up all night reading a book that excites me, but still this one got bogged down a few times.
Yeah, I know, _I_ need an editor/proofreader. Two typos, I guess my fingers aren't hitting the keys hard enough:
s/too hash/too harsh/
s/UseNet pos/UseNet post/
On the other hand, at least you don't have to pay for my far from perfect wordsmithery.
Stephenson has a great mind, no doubt. The mind is backed by a tremendous ego. This is important for a writer, otherwise they become too hash of a self critic and no book ever sees the press. However, and editor is usually the devil's advocate against the writer's ego, challenging and filtering concepts so what comes out the end doesn't seem like a long UseNet pos. I don't know who is doing Stephenson's editing, but they need to be a bit more foreceful with him: for one, cutting out more. How many pages were spent describing breakfast cereal in Cryptonomicon? This is up there with John Galt's forty page speech in Atlas Shrugged, in terms of Too Much. It's a difficult task, writing less, it is like writing really tight, optimized code. It's a skill that Stephenson, or his editors, need to acquire. Along with better proofreaders for spelling and grammar.
In spite of all this criticism, I do enjoy his works.
A couple of years ago, Richard Formato (WW1RF) released Yagi Genetic Optimizer, the third edition of his software for using genetic algorithms for antenna design. This stuff does really work, and is useful. It's freeware, but for ms-dos, here
look at the date it was released ;) damn...just got whacked by that 20 second thing...that sucks, I type too fast for me own good
This was set up back in 1993. However it is for the Solar System only, so it needs further expanding.
I heard that manhole covers are round so they don't fall in the holes.
I don't listen to the crap that comes out of the RIAA companies, this is what I have been trying to say all along. I listen to stuff by small, independant labels, many of them from places other than the US. Why would I want to subsidize Hollywood?! This is just as bad as the municipalities that use tax money to subsidize their sports teams.
I've had an access point with public access set up in the middle of a major city for several years now, and have never seen a SINGLE spam attempt. As much as I hate spammers, I think this 'warning' is just hype.
There is a lot of complaints saying that this use of bittorrent for downloading brand-new redhat ISOs is somehow piracy or immoral. I disagree. Before RedHat and the rest of the commercial linux distibutions came along, there was Linux. There was GNU. There were plenty of people writing software, protocols, architecture, doing support and configuration for free. RedHat and the others realized this had value, and that in spite of it being free they could make money at it. They knew the risks they were taking, and went forth anyhow. Has the difficulty of downloading new versions of Red Hat contributed to some sales growth of RH? Yes. Have others (cheapbytes, etc) profited by selling copies of RH? yes. Will RH sales go down because of BitTorrent distribution? If so, probably not very much. RH has much bigger things to worry about: The SCO suit against IBM, Dealing with Sun dropping their own distribution and what it means to RH, Mandrakesoft, competition from MCSE training and support vendors branching into Linux, etc.
One thing that all linux vendors want is more use of their distributions, and linux as a whole, by the populace. Linux still has a very small market share, and anything that helps improve this market share is good for all the companies involved. This is called taking the long view. RH should know this, as others have. To do what they've done, and survive in this economic downturn of catastrophic porportions, seems to indicate they have a bit of business clue, unlike many in this field. More power to them, but I am not going to buy their CDs. I am a Debian user and Slackware before that, but I am very interested in seeing what RedHat has done.
Hint to RH: make cheap, DVD based offical RedHat available everywhere. With DVD drives $20 these days, there's a huge market out there.
ALl the crap that arista puts out should be PLAY protected. I don't want to hear it, even by accident.
Where the hell are the debian people with a patched kernel? The patch alan cox provided doesn't apply cleanly to the debina modified kernel, so I am trying to hack it up now. But shouldn't someone in charge of security patches at debian have done this and had an update out?
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Yeah I know about those cases. Or at least one.
But no one seems to know who albert speer is, or they'd understand I made a joke. So sad.
There's a german architect named Albert Speer who has done some work for the german government on this idea, though I understand it to be quite controversial.
Forget www.eli.com, in Cambridge, MA (Boston) -- while it was good when I was a kid and went ther ein 1982, it sucks now. I live in the area and let me tell you, what they charge for their overage sparc 20s and old crap just isn't worth it. Not even close. I know they do a lot of business mail order these days, maybe that explains the horrible attitude. When ever you try to get someone there to ask a question it is like pulling teeth. On top of that, they sell stuff as new that doesn't work. These guys are cheeseballs, I don't know how they stay in business sell Sparcstation 10s for $120. Twenty years ago, this was the tech mecca of mass, but now they suck, and not just a little bit. I hope they go out of business.
The Atari 2600 used the RCA 1802 CPU. This was an early low power consumption chip. A version of the using Silicon-On-Sapphire technology (SoS is used where solid-state devices need to be hardened from the gamma radiation of space) was used in various spacecraft on the 1970s. I heard, though I am unable to provide a URL as a reference, that a number of these Sos 1802 CPUs were used in the Atari 2600. Now this could be interesting, maybe you could use your 2600 in space: Space Invaders indeed!
Anyone who has further details on this, please reply.
Personally, I would be very interested in seeing how well the machine in this record-setting example handles an attack of the type mentioned in the above referenced article.
Cromwell was an evil bastard. I wouldn't want him running any computer of mine. Instead, I'd rather take a Cavalier attitude and let the Stewarts run it. They are the Grail Kings!
This guy is a disaster. He'd be even worse than what we have now.
SCO probably doesn't have any patent that will affect Linux and won't do anything. There's probably some evil powers at work that are paying them to spread FUD.
Personally, I am laughin at them.