>BSDLed code can be converting to anything . .. > . . . propietary, or GPLed or whatever.
are you sure about this? this doesn't make intuitive sense to me. how could BSDL'd code be GPL'd if the original BSD-type license has to be included? doesn't a BSD-type license prevent the restrictions imposed by the GPL?
>If someone wishes to, he could make some> >changes to PostgreSQL and GPL his forked version.
i didn't think it was possible to convert BDSL'd code to GPL'd code.
when i read a BSDL i notice that the one requirement is that i keep the license intact. wouldn't this prevent me from re-releasing the code under the GPL?
>What I don't understand is the love for MySQL >when there is a better alternative available >which is just as free
the question to ask about freedom isn't "how free?". the question to ask is "what kind of freedom?". MySQL is GPL'd and this offers a different kind of freedom than the PostgreSQL license offers. this may be part of the draw to MySQL.
the single most immediate impact you (a single individual) can have on global warming is to stop taking airline flights.
airlines dump CO2 high in the atmosphere where it has a magnified effect on global warming.
Re:You misunderstand what capitalism is.
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what makes a capitalist is one thing.
that one thing is whether or not someone redistributes the surplus produced by another.
being in business for yourself (with no employees) does *not* make you a capitalist.
working for a corporation does *not* make you a capitalist. the capitalist is the board of directors or whoever decides how to spend the company profits.
if you hire a single employee for your business you are a capitalist (assuming your business isn't a cooperative).
if you invest in the stock market you are a capitalist because you are indirectly redistributing the surplus of other people.
more simply but less accurately:
in a two person business where *one* person (the boss) decides how the money the business makes is divided between the other person, themselves, and the business (reinvestment), that activity makes the boss a capitalist.
in a two person business where *both* people decide how the money the business makes is divided between themselves and the business (reinvestment), these two people are *not* capitalists. this business arrangement is called a cooperative.
>And however contained the waste from a nuclear >reactor is right now, the problem nobody's solved >yet is how to keep it contained on time scales >far longer than the history of human >civilization.
[from: http://www.washingtonmonthly.com/archives/individu al/2004_06/004081.php#187315] -- As for the negatives of nuclear, the first one that comes to most people's minds is nuclear waste. Again the truth is that it can be handled quite ably with EXISTING TECHNOLOGY. Spent nuclear fuel can be reprocessed to extract the uranium and plutonium and then be reused in nuclear reactors. Combine this with breeder reactors which can convert thorium into uranium and then be used in existing nuclear reactors as fuel.
The wastes from reprocessing can safely be contained via a number of processes using existing technologies such as glassification and can then be stored for about a hundred years until they become safely inert. Somce of those wastes can also be recovered and used in medical procedures, such as cobalt and cesium.
Using this complete fuel cycle, and combining it with the depleted uranium from nuclear weapons production and using the weapons grade uranium and plutonium from destroyed nuclear weapons would make it unneccesary to mine a single more ounce of uranium from the ground for the NEXT 500 YEARS. This is also considering using nuclear power for 100% of electrical generation of America and taking into account electrical usage growth projected.
[from: http://www.washingtonmonthly.com/archives/individu al/2004_06/004081.php#187814] -- I have discussed spent nuclear fuel many times. The solution is not burial but reprocessing. You recover the U-238 and Pu-239 and Pu-241 from the fuel, and mix it with fresh fuel. Add to this all the highly enriched U-235 and the Pu-241 and the left over U-238 from production of Nuclear Weapons.
If you were to combine that with Breeder Reactors, then you could convert Thorium-232 to Uranium-233 and have even more fuel.
Thorium is a very abundant element, and were have literally thousands of tons of it as a waste product of mining and processing phosphorus and gypsum.
Combine that, and it would not be necessary to mine a single ounce of Uranium out of the ground for the next 500 years.
The waste produced from SNF reprocessing can also be much morew easily dealt with then SNF itself. All the residual radioactivity will become inert in about a hundred years (certainly this is much more appealing than the 10,000 years necessary for SNF, isn't it??). Plus the waste can be glassified, making it much more stable and unlikely to leak into groundwater.
The acids used in the recovery processes can be recycled. Thus eliminating that as a waste.
i've standardized on Debian but have been wondering if i should take a look at Fedora.
in all honesty i'm not that comfortable with the fact that Fedora is being sponsored by Red Hat. i have nothing against Red Hat, i just learned long ago that my clients' long-term interests were best served by not being dependent on an OS company (thus the natural selection of Debian).
on the other hand, there seems to be a lot of enthusiasm behind Fedora, so i'm interested.
can folks that have a lot of experience with Debian and Red Hat give me some perspective on choosing between Debian and Fedora? i only want to focus on one distro.
i'm not concerned that i'm currently invested in Debian i'm just interested in providing my customers with the best possible solutions.
just the other day i was looking for a new web host and a window popped up with a sales person asking me if he could help.
i was very annoyed.
i told him that i *was* considering purchasing a host plan, but i decided definitely not to purchase a plan after experienced the unrequested sales pop-up.
if on the other hand there was button that i could push to open a pop-up for a sales question when *i* wanted chat, now that would be very helpful.
i'm a consultant and i have *hundreds* of clients.
i will never buy or recommend a samsung (or any other manufacturer's) computer (or motherboard) with the Phoenix Core Managed Environment (cME) BIOS.
in fact, i already tell my customers that i will *NOT* support these devices.
i *will buy* non-DRM'd motherboards from every other possible source. the day that this becomes impossible will be the day i quit the computer consulting business.
>Cleanest computers come from elderly, >upper class people, filthiest computers >come from poor people who usually have >lower hygiene standards and more likely >to SMOKE than the upper class folks.
i work on a lot of computers too and i have noticed smokers in *all* economic brackets.
additionally, i no longer work on the computers of smokers. i can't even take the computer off-site to a smoke-free environment to work on it because it emits irritating smoke particulates due to being run a smoke filled environment. i highly recommend choosing this to all consultants who dislike working on smokey computers.
"What is astonishing about vom Saal's wombmate studies is how little it takes to dramatically change the tune. Hormones are exceptionally potent chemicals that operate at concentrations so low that they can be measured only by the most sensitive analytical methods. When considering hormones such as estradiol, the most potent estrogen, forget parts per million or parts per billion. The concentrations are typically parts per trillion, one thousand times lower than parts per billion. One can begin to imagine a quantity so infinitesimally small by thinking of a drop of gin in a train of tank cars full of tonic. One drop in 660 tank cars would be one part in a trillion; such a train would be six miles long.
The striking lifelong differences between a pretty sister and ugly sister stem from no more than a thirty-five parts per trillion difference in their exposure to estradiol and a one part per billion difference in testosterone. Using the gin and tonic analogy, the pretty sister's cocktail had 135 drops of gin in one thousand tank cars of tonic and the ugly sister's 100 drops-a difference that might not be detectable in a glass much less in a tank car flotilla.
This is a degree of sensitivity that approaches the unfathomable, a sensitivity, vom Saal says, "beyond people's wildest imagination." If such exquisite sensitivity provides rich opportunities for varied offspring from the same genetic stock, this same characteristic also makes the system vulnerable to serious disruption if something interferes with normal hormone levels-a frightening possibility that first dawned on vom Saal when Theo Colborn called him to talk about synthetic chemicals that could act like hormones."
some studies have even shown that as the dose is lowered toxicity increases and as the dose is increased toxicity approaches zero! this turns our traditional understanding of toxicity on it's head.
read these two issues of Rachel's Environment & Health News for an intro to toxicity:
low dose endocrine disruptors are only beginning to be investigated but compelling evidence already exists that indicates they may have significant health impacts.
makes me also wonder about the myriad undiscovered toxic effects of chemicals that we brush off today as nothing to be concerned about.
"Standard time in time zones was instituted in the U.S. and Canada by the railroads on 18 November 1883. Before then, time of day was a local matter, and most cities and towns used some form of local solar time, maintained by some well-known clock (for example, on a church steeple or in a jeweler's window). The new standard time system was not immediately embraced by all, however.
[SNIPPED]
Detroit kept local time until 1900 when the City Council decreed that clocks should be put back twenty-eight minutes to Central Standard Time. Half the city obeyed, half refused. After considerable debate, the decision was rescinded and the city reverted to Sun time. A derisive offer to erect a sundial in front of the city hall was referred to the Committee on Sewers. Then, in 1905, Central time was adopted by city vote."
the notion of living according to local solar time is very appealing to me. i wonder how my natural rhythms might be different from what they are now and how i would feel if i lived more in harmony with the ebb and flow of light.
it's interesting to note that *when* plants and animals receive sunlight has a huge effect on their existence. not only that, the whole environment the plant or animal exists in changes with the arrival of sunlight (other critters wake up, temperatures rise, moisture levels change, etc.). the whole biology is mind-bogglingly complex.
it seems to me that standardizing time adds more complexity to an already complex system that already works fine without the notion of _time_. i also notice that the desire for knowing the answer to "what time is it?" is deeply rooted in a desire for control.
human attempts to control biological systems has seemingly contributed to a vast destabilizing of our environment everywhere on earth. moving back to true local solar time seems like something that might move us back in the direction of our natural rhythms and encourage us to relinquish the notion of needing to control.
on Christmas Eve i decided to have a potluck with my friends. i told them all to bring candles because i wanted to turn of the electricity while we ate. this was partially inspired by some of my friends that have instituted "no-electricity sundays" in their home. every sunday (for the whole day) of every week they turn the juice off at the breaker box.
after everyone arrived i lit all the candles, but i left some of the lights on. i was concerned that there would not be enough light. after the potluck ended i realized that being accustomed to having daytime quantities of light available at night led me to choose to leave electric lights on. realizing this led me to dine by candlelight (with even fewer candles) for my Christmas dinner. the dimness of the candle light made me much more aware that it was the evening. it also caused me to reflect on the sustainability of using electricity and contemplate how i might use less of it.
please mod this up for the.sig in this moment i'm very much enjoying it's profound implications. thanks:)
Re:DVD-Rs go 8x
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unless your hard drives are part of a RAID array, i'd say they were *less* reliable than DVDs. i've heard the same reports about DVDs _and_ CDs. i've been working on computers for over 20 years. i've never seen one burnt CD go bad.
i've also only purchased the highest quality burners and media. i just purchased my first DVD burner (haven't even installed it yet). a Pioneer DVR-106D. read the reviews, this is considered to be the most reliable DVD burner out there. i still need to finish my research on reliable DVD media. then i'll make the move from CDs to DVDs.
finally, i have seen many HDs stop working. i'd *much* rather have an occasional DVD stop working than have a 300GB hard drive die. don't forget that hard drive manufacturers recently dropped their three year warranties in favor of one year (i know there are still some three year warranties out there). this doesn't make me more confident in hard drives.
having installed and admin'd a few community labs, my current opinion is that they should offer the kitchen sink. anything less is a disservice to the community. providing opportunities should be the name of the game. not just "office productivity" apps (geez, are these the things that attracted us to computers?!!?) install games, audio apps (headphones for public spaces), cd-burners, video editing apps, programming tools, network utilities, DTP apps, etc.
configure the machines to be easily rebuilt. if you don't know how to do this run all the machines off Knoppix CDs.
and that segues into the last but not least most important point. install some free *nix on the machines. community labs should be enabling NOT disabling. if you install all kinds of proprietary software you are making people dependent on tools that are by and large poorly supported. imagine installing Knoppix on all the systems and then making Knoppix CDs available to the users so that they can use the same tools at home! that's the cherry on top of a community lab sundae.
hmmm, i'm a bit hesitant to contribute my time and energy to this database without a stronger guarantee of public ownership.
from the Internet Book List site:
Policy and ownership IBList is not a commercial venture, nor a real legal entity in any sense. All the data on IBList has been entered by its users. We the creators of IBList, while giving it our best effort, do not guarantee the accuracy nor the quality of the information within the website. We do reserve the right to correct any errors we find within and remove or change any material we find abusive or otherwise unsuitable. We do not claim any ownership over the user-submitted data.
didn't the IMdb start out as a public database? then there was the CDDB fiasco. freedb says everything is GPL'd. i didn't think you could GPL data, can you?
i'd also like to know i'll be able to download the database file prior to contributing.
Q: I have more than three personal telephone numbers. How can I register all of those numbers?
A: You may register up to three telephone numbers at one time on the National Do Not Call Registry Web site. If you have more than three personal telephone numbers, you will have to go through the registration process more than once to register all of your numbers. There is a limit on the number of phone numbers you can register in this manner.
You can only register one phone number each time you call the National Do Not Call Registry at 1-888-382-1222; for TTY, call 1-866-290-4236. You must call from the phone number you wish to register.
During the Nuremberg trials, Germany asserted that it was "self defence" when it attacked other countries unilaterally and unprovoked,
The Tribunal asked on what basis it it said that?
Germany replied, "we and we alone, unilaterally, get to decide when it is 'self defence' for our country to attack another country, unilaterally and unprovoked"
The Tribunal considered, and fully rejected this position. People were hung for that, in fact, as you know.
Today, Bush and company formalize their loud and clear declaration that they assert unilaterally the right to do exactly what was condemned at Nuremberg.
-- taken from: misc.activism.progressive - A relevant quote for today (for peace activists) - posted 20 Mar 2003
If not me, who? If not now, when? I choose LOVE Iraqi children 50% of the population
this is the text of a sign i held this morning in my downtown intersection. the text was bordered by images of Iraqi children from here: Thomson Gallery #2
i received the peace sign from two out of three drivers, the rest gave me the finger.
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>BSDLed code can be converting to anything . . .
> . . . propietary, or GPLed or whatever.
are you sure about this? this doesn't make intuitive sense to me. how could BSDL'd code be GPL'd if the original BSD-type license has to be included? doesn't a BSD-type license prevent the restrictions imposed by the GPL?
i'm confused.
>If someone wishes to, he could make some>
>changes to PostgreSQL and GPL his forked version.
i didn't think it was possible to convert BDSL'd code to GPL'd code.
when i read a BSDL i notice that the one requirement is that i keep the license intact. wouldn't this prevent me from re-releasing the code under the GPL?
>What I don't understand is the love for MySQL
>when there is a better alternative available
>which is just as free
the question to ask about freedom isn't "how free?". the question to ask is "what kind of freedom?". MySQL is GPL'd and this offers a different kind of freedom than the PostgreSQL license offers. this may be part of the draw to MySQL.
the single most immediate impact you (a single individual) can have on global warming is to stop taking airline flights.
airlines dump CO2 high in the atmosphere where it has a magnified effect on global warming.
what makes a capitalist is one thing.
that one thing is whether or not someone redistributes the surplus produced by another.
being in business for yourself (with no employees) does *not* make you a capitalist.
working for a corporation does *not* make you a capitalist. the capitalist is the board of directors or whoever decides how to spend the company profits.
if you hire a single employee for your business you are a capitalist (assuming your business isn't a cooperative).
if you invest in the stock market you are a capitalist because you are indirectly redistributing the surplus of other people.
more simply but less accurately:
in a two person business where *one* person (the boss) decides how the money the business makes is divided between the other person, themselves, and the business (reinvestment), that activity makes the boss a capitalist.
in a two person business where *both* people decide how the money the business makes is divided between themselves and the business (reinvestment), these two people are *not* capitalists. this business arrangement is called a cooperative.
>reactor is right now, the problem nobody's solved
>yet is how to keep it contained on time scales
>far longer than the history of human
>civilization.
[from: http://www.washingtonmonthly.com/archives/individ
--
As for the negatives of nuclear, the first one that comes to most people's minds is nuclear waste. Again the truth is that it can be handled quite ably with EXISTING TECHNOLOGY. Spent nuclear fuel can be reprocessed to extract the uranium and plutonium and then be reused in nuclear reactors. Combine this with breeder reactors which can convert thorium into uranium and then be used in existing nuclear reactors as fuel.
The wastes from reprocessing can safely be contained via a number of processes using existing technologies such as glassification and can then be stored for about a hundred years until they become safely inert. Somce of those wastes can also be recovered and used in medical procedures, such as cobalt and cesium.
Using this complete fuel cycle, and combining it with the depleted uranium from nuclear weapons production and using the weapons grade uranium and plutonium from destroyed nuclear weapons would make it unneccesary to mine a single more ounce of uranium from the ground for the NEXT 500 YEARS. This is also considering using nuclear power for 100% of electrical generation of America and taking into account electrical usage growth projected.
[from: http://www.washingtonmonthly.com/archives/individ
--
I have discussed spent nuclear fuel many times. The solution is not burial but reprocessing. You recover the U-238 and Pu-239 and Pu-241 from the fuel, and mix it with fresh fuel. Add to this all the highly enriched U-235 and the Pu-241 and the left over U-238 from production of Nuclear Weapons.
If you were to combine that with Breeder Reactors, then you could convert Thorium-232 to Uranium-233 and have even more fuel.
Thorium is a very abundant element, and were have literally thousands of tons of it as a waste product of mining and processing phosphorus and gypsum.
Combine that, and it would not be necessary to mine a single ounce of Uranium out of the ground for the next 500 years.
The waste produced from SNF reprocessing can also be much morew easily dealt with then SNF itself. All the residual radioactivity will become inert in about a hundred years (certainly this is much more appealing than the 10,000 years necessary for SNF, isn't it??). Plus the waste can be glassified, making it much more stable and unlikely to leak into groundwater.
The acids used in the recovery processes can be recycled. Thus eliminating that as a waste.
hi all,
i've standardized on Debian but have been wondering if i should take a look at Fedora.
in all honesty i'm not that comfortable with the fact that Fedora is being sponsored by Red Hat. i have nothing against Red Hat, i just learned long ago that my clients' long-term interests were best served by not being dependent on an OS company (thus the natural selection of Debian).
on the other hand, there seems to be a lot of enthusiasm behind Fedora, so i'm interested.
can folks that have a lot of experience with Debian and Red Hat give me some perspective on choosing between Debian and Fedora? i only want to focus on one distro.
i'm not concerned that i'm currently invested in Debian i'm just interested in providing my customers with the best possible solutions.
thanks
here's another copy of the original study with a slightly improved .pdf conversion:
g e. pdf
http://www.ems.org/climate/pentagon_climatechan
just the other day i was looking for a new web host and a window popped up with a sales person asking me if he could help.
i was very annoyed.
i told him that i *was* considering purchasing a host plan, but i decided definitely not to purchase a plan after experienced the unrequested sales pop-up.
if on the other hand there was button that i could push to open a pop-up for a sales question when *i* wanted chat, now that would be very helpful.
peace
i'm a consultant and i have *hundreds* of clients.
i will never buy or recommend a samsung (or any other manufacturer's) computer (or motherboard) with the Phoenix Core Managed Environment (cME) BIOS.
in fact, i already tell my customers that i will *NOT* support these devices.
i *will buy* non-DRM'd motherboards from every other possible source. the day that this becomes impossible will be the day i quit the computer consulting business.
ciao
>Cleanest computers come from elderly,
>upper class people, filthiest computers
>come from poor people who usually have
>lower hygiene standards and more likely
>to SMOKE than the upper class folks.
i work on a lot of computers too and i have noticed smokers in *all* economic brackets.
additionally, i no longer work on the computers of smokers. i can't even take the computer off-site to a smoke-free environment to work on it because it emits irritating smoke particulates due to being run a smoke filled environment. i highly recommend choosing this to all consultants who dislike working on smokey computers.
pay for a static IP number!
open an account with a local ISP and pay the extra few bucks for a static IP
if you don't have a local ISP that will provide static IPs checkout one of the best ISPs in existence, IMHO, that will:
panix.com
delivers national dial-up access, static IPs, shell access, stellar support, and more
if i had some mod points i'd fix this moderation. it is not a troll IMHO.
another reason to be concerned is that biological effects often manifest at *very* low doses.
take for example endocrine disruptors (substances that mimic hormones in your body). read this excerpt from the Chemical Messengers [That Work in Parts per Trillion] chapter in the book Our Stolen Future:
"What is astonishing about vom Saal's wombmate studies is how little it takes to dramatically change the tune. Hormones are exceptionally potent chemicals that operate at concentrations so low that they can be measured only by the most sensitive analytical methods. When considering hormones such as estradiol, the most potent estrogen, forget parts per million or parts per billion. The concentrations are typically parts per trillion, one thousand times lower than parts per billion. One can begin to imagine a quantity so infinitesimally small by thinking of a drop of gin in a train of tank cars full of tonic. One drop in 660 tank cars would be one part in a trillion; such a train would be six miles long.
The striking lifelong differences between a pretty sister and ugly sister stem from no more than a thirty-five parts per trillion difference in their exposure to estradiol and a one part per billion difference in testosterone. Using the gin and tonic analogy, the pretty sister's cocktail had 135 drops of gin in one thousand tank cars of tonic and the ugly sister's 100 drops-a difference that might not be detectable in a glass much less in a tank car flotilla.
This is a degree of sensitivity that approaches the unfathomable, a sensitivity, vom Saal says, "beyond people's wildest imagination." If such exquisite sensitivity provides rich opportunities for varied offspring from the same genetic stock, this same characteristic also makes the system vulnerable to serious disruption if something interferes with normal hormone levels-a frightening possibility that first dawned on vom Saal when Theo Colborn called him to talk about synthetic chemicals that could act like hormones."
some studies have even shown that as the dose is lowered toxicity increases and as the dose is increased toxicity approaches zero! this turns our traditional understanding of toxicity on it's head.
read these two issues of Rachel's Environment & Health News for an intro to toxicity:
#754 - Paracelsus Revisited, October 17, 2002
#755 - Paracelsus Revisited -- Part 2, October 31, 2002
low dose endocrine disruptors are only beginning to be investigated but compelling evidence already exists that indicates they may have significant health impacts.
makes me also wonder about the myriad undiscovered toxic effects of chemicals that we brush off today as nothing to be concerned about.
during the last daylight savings time switch i actually went and read a bit about it. what i found particularly interesting were some details behind the creation of standard time:
"Standard time in time zones was instituted in the U.S. and Canada by the railroads on 18 November 1883. Before then, time of day was a local matter, and most cities and towns used some form of local solar time, maintained by some well-known clock (for example, on a church steeple or in a jeweler's window). The new standard time system was not immediately embraced by all, however.
[SNIPPED]
Detroit kept local time until 1900 when the City Council decreed that clocks should be put back twenty-eight minutes to Central Standard Time. Half the city obeyed, half refused. After considerable debate, the decision was rescinded and the city reverted to Sun time. A derisive offer to erect a sundial in front of the city hall was referred to the Committee on Sewers. Then, in 1905, Central time was adopted by city vote."
the notion of living according to local solar time is very appealing to me. i wonder how my natural rhythms might be different from what they are now and how i would feel if i lived more in harmony with the ebb and flow of light.
it's interesting to note that *when* plants and animals receive sunlight has a huge effect on their existence. not only that, the whole environment the plant or animal exists in changes with the arrival of sunlight (other critters wake up, temperatures rise, moisture levels change, etc.). the whole biology is mind-bogglingly complex.
it seems to me that standardizing time adds more complexity to an already complex system that already works fine without the notion of _time_. i also notice that the desire for knowing the answer to "what time is it?" is deeply rooted in a desire for control.
human attempts to control biological systems has seemingly contributed to a vast destabilizing of our environment everywhere on earth. moving back to true local solar time seems like something that might move us back in the direction of our natural rhythms and encourage us to relinquish the notion of needing to control.
on Christmas Eve i decided to have a potluck with my friends. i told them all to bring candles because i wanted to turn of the electricity while we ate. this was partially inspired by some of my friends that have instituted "no-electricity sundays" in their home. every sunday (for the whole day) of every week they turn the juice off at the breaker box.
after everyone arrived i lit all the candles, but i left some of the lights on. i was concerned that there would not be enough light. after the potluck ended i realized that being accustomed to having daytime quantities of light available at night led me to choose to leave electric lights on. realizing this led me to dine by candlelight (with even fewer candles) for my Christmas dinner. the dimness of the candle light made me much more aware that it was the evening. it also caused me to reflect on the sustainability of using electricity and contemplate how i might use less of it.
peace
david
please mod this up for the .sig :)
in this moment i'm very much enjoying it's profound implications.
thanks
unless your hard drives are part of a RAID array, i'd say they were *less* reliable than DVDs. i've heard the same reports about DVDs _and_ CDs. i've been working on computers for over 20 years. i've never seen one burnt CD go bad.
i've also only purchased the highest quality burners and media. i just purchased my first DVD burner (haven't even installed it yet). a Pioneer DVR-106D. read the reviews, this is considered to be the most reliable DVD burner out there. i still need to finish my research on reliable DVD media. then i'll make the move from CDs to DVDs.
finally, i have seen many HDs stop working. i'd *much* rather have an occasional DVD stop working than have a 300GB hard drive die. don't forget that hard drive manufacturers recently dropped their three year warranties in favor of one year (i know there are still some three year warranties out there). this doesn't make me more confident in hard drives.
having installed and admin'd a few community labs, my current opinion is that they should offer the kitchen sink. anything less is a disservice to the community. providing opportunities should be the name of the game. not just "office productivity" apps (geez, are these the things that attracted us to computers?!!?) install games, audio apps (headphones for public spaces), cd-burners, video editing apps, programming tools, network utilities, DTP apps, etc.
configure the machines to be easily rebuilt. if you don't know how to do this run all the machines off Knoppix CDs.
and that segues into the last but not least most important point. install some free *nix on the machines. community labs should be enabling NOT disabling. if you install all kinds of proprietary software you are making people dependent on tools that are by and large poorly supported. imagine installing Knoppix on all the systems and then making Knoppix CDs available to the users so that they can use the same tools at home! that's the cherry on top of a community lab sundae.
i suspect paper shredded in these machines could not be reassembled quite so easily:
http://hsmofamerica.com/level_VI.php
hmmm, i'm a bit hesitant to contribute my time and energy to this database without a stronger guarantee of public ownership.
from the Internet Book List site:
Policy and ownership
IBList is not a commercial venture, nor a real legal entity in any sense. All the data on IBList has been entered by its users. We the creators of IBList, while giving it our best effort, do not guarantee the accuracy nor the quality of the information within the website. We do reserve the right to correct any errors we find within and remove or change any material we find abusive or otherwise unsuitable. We do not claim any ownership over the user-submitted data.
didn't the IMdb start out as a public database? then there was the CDDB fiasco. freedb says everything is GPL'd. i didn't think you could GPL data, can you?
i'd also like to know i'll be able to download the database file prior to contributing.
nope, from the website:
Q: I have more than three personal telephone numbers. How can I register all of those numbers?
A: You may register up to three telephone numbers at one time on the National Do Not Call Registry Web site. If you have more than three personal telephone numbers, you will have to go through the registration process more than once to register all of your numbers. There is a limit on the number of phone numbers you can register in this manner.
You can only register one phone number each time you call the National Do Not Call Registry at 1-888-382-1222; for TTY, call 1-866-290-4236. You must call from the phone number you wish to register.
During the Nuremberg trials, Germany asserted that it was "self defence" when it attacked other countries unilaterally and unprovoked,
The Tribunal asked on what basis it it said that?
Germany replied, "we and we alone, unilaterally,
get to decide when it is 'self defence' for our country to attack another country, unilaterally and unprovoked"
The Tribunal considered, and fully rejected this position. People were
hung for that, in fact, as you know.
Today, Bush and company formalize their loud and clear
declaration that they assert unilaterally the right to do exactly
what was condemned at Nuremberg.
--
taken from: misc.activism.progressive - A relevant quote for today (for peace activists) - posted 20 Mar 2003
If not me, who?
If not now, when?
I choose LOVE
Iraqi children
50% of the population
this is the text of a sign i held this morning in my downtown intersection. the text was bordered by images of Iraqi children from here: Thomson Gallery #2
i received the peace sign from two out of three drivers, the rest gave me the finger.
A German citizen notes, "all that was required of most of us: that we do nothing" with regard to what German citizens needed to do to facilitate the rise of Nazi Germany.
peace
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Or even more likely, IMHO, if you were a competitor of UltraDNS.
So the question to ask is, "who would benefit from the demise of UltraDNS?"