Your comment is correct, but I found your aside concerning the US's North American neighbours to be somewhat amusing:)
I think it would be truer to say that the US is no longer much of a threat to Canada and Mexico, and not the other way around. After all, who invaded who in 1812 and 1846?
After reading a sampling of ESR's views on Islam & Muslims, I would rather not, thank you very much.
I suppose one could use quotations from Hitler to advocate animal rights (he was a reknowned animal lover), but sometimes, the source is just too odious to bear. Similarly with ESR.
Flamebait disclaimer: I have been running Gentoo on all of my machines for over a year now, so don't take this as an anti-Gentoo comment.
stow and ebuilds aren't really operating in the same space.
rpm,deb,portage = full blown package managers, controlling everything under/usr. These can start with source (or pre-compiled binaries), and handle everything from installation to dependency-handling, etc (with varying degrees of efficiency).
stow = simple symlink manager, providing an easy way to maintain order within/usr/local, for those apps I compile and install manually (and, for whatever reason, don't want to repackage as an ebuild/rpm/whatever)
There are times when one does create one's own ebuilds (v simple) or rpms (slightly more involved). For all other occasions, stow is a helpful tool:)
This whole "Islamic = bad, anti-Islamic = good" theme is pathetic, and its a crying shame that the post to which I'm responding was given a +5. Speaks volumes about the bigotry/ignorance (take your pick) of the moderators themselves, as well as the original poster.
Oh, and in response to your claims: "It is Pakistan that has always attacked India." False.
" Successive Pakistani regimes have shown they have no qualms about speaking lies and twisting the truth as long as it serves the purpose of fueling the hate against India." Funny - I don't read/see half as much Indian-bashing on Pakistani media as I see Paki-bashing coming out of India. Also, during times of stress and/or actual conflict, Pakistani media are sometimes banned in India (recent example, Dawn website during Kargil incident). The corollory never happens. Doesn't quite fit with your theory of "twisting the truth".
"Pakistan's armed forces can't be trusted." Hmm. For all their faults, the Pakistan armed forces are probably the most professional and disciplined organisation in the whole country. Erratic decisions made in the past have usually been by CIVILIAN leaders.
"He'll launch the "Islamic bomb" against India to ensure martyrdom for himself and his "religion". "
Again, typical mindless Paki/Muslim-bashing. The raison d'etre for Pakistan's nuclear programme has ALWAYS been to achieve parity with India.
"Large parts of Pakistan's NWFP are actually not exactly under administrative control of the government. " Yes, so what. From Pakistan's inception, those areas were deliberately given loose autonomy, and this has been codified into the Constitution (a policy instigated by Jinnah). Thats what THEY wanted. Why is that any of your concern?
"Fear of Nuclear holocaust. "
Really? Who exactly were Pakistan threatening with nuclear holocaust? News to me, and I'm sure most people in Pak.
"The fact that Pakistan is the centre of Islamic terrorism. "
Yawn, Here we go again. New World Order's definition of a terrorist = "a Muslim with a gun".
Not trying to nitpick or anything (interesting interview), but there does seem to be an apparent contradiction in Matt's answers.
1) And if you didn't hear me mention so-called 'clustering' solutions currently available from unnamed vendors, it's because they can't actually deliver these things -- not true Q.O.S. That's my opinion, anyway. Using a cluster to hide the fact that the underlying systems crash regularly is an extremely dangerous way to manage a computing environment.
2) Q.O.S. means having redundant hardware at the very least.
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I think it would be truer to say that the US is no longer much of a threat to Canada and Mexico, and not the other way around. After all, who invaded who in 1812 and 1846?
After reading a sampling of ESR's views on Islam & Muslims, I would rather not, thank you very much.
I suppose one could use quotations from Hitler to advocate animal rights (he was a reknowned animal lover), but sometimes, the source is just too odious to bear. Similarly with ESR.
Flamebait disclaimer: I have been running Gentoo on all of my machines for over a year now, so don't take this as an anti-Gentoo comment.
/usr. These can start with source (or pre-compiled binaries), and handle everything from installation to dependency-handling, etc (with varying degrees of efficiency).
/usr/local, for those apps I compile and install manually (and, for whatever reason, don't want to repackage as an ebuild/rpm/whatever)
:)
stow and ebuilds aren't really operating in the same space.
rpm,deb,portage = full blown package managers, controlling everything under
stow = simple symlink manager, providing an easy way to maintain order within
There are times when one does create one's own ebuilds (v simple) or rpms (slightly more involved). For all other occasions, stow is a helpful tool
This whole "Islamic = bad, anti-Islamic = good" theme is pathetic, and its a crying shame that the post to which I'm responding was given a +5. Speaks volumes about the bigotry/ignorance (take your pick) of the moderators themselves, as well as the original poster.
Oh, and in response to your claims:
"It is Pakistan that has always attacked India."
False.
" Successive Pakistani regimes have shown they have no qualms about speaking lies and twisting the truth as long as it serves the purpose of fueling the hate against India."
Funny - I don't read/see half as much Indian-bashing on Pakistani media as I see Paki-bashing coming out of India. Also, during times of stress and/or actual conflict, Pakistani media are sometimes banned in India (recent example, Dawn website during Kargil incident). The corollory never happens. Doesn't quite fit with your theory of "twisting the truth".
"Pakistan's armed forces can't be trusted."
Hmm. For all their faults, the Pakistan armed forces are probably the most professional and disciplined organisation in the whole country. Erratic decisions made in the past have usually been by CIVILIAN leaders.
"He'll launch the "Islamic bomb" against India to ensure martyrdom for himself and his "religion". "
Again, typical mindless Paki/Muslim-bashing. The raison d'etre for Pakistan's nuclear programme has ALWAYS been to achieve parity with India.
"Large parts of Pakistan's NWFP are actually not exactly under administrative control of the government. "
Yes, so what. From Pakistan's inception, those areas were deliberately given loose autonomy, and this has been codified into the Constitution (a policy instigated by Jinnah). Thats what THEY wanted. Why is that any of your concern?
"Fear of Nuclear holocaust. "
Really? Who exactly were Pakistan threatening with nuclear holocaust? News to me, and I'm sure most people in Pak.
"The fact that Pakistan is the centre of Islamic terrorism. "
Yawn, Here we go again. New World Order's definition of a terrorist = "a Muslim with a gun".
Not trying to nitpick or anything (interesting interview), but there does seem to be an apparent contradiction in Matt's answers.
... :)
1) And if you didn't hear me mention so-called 'clustering' solutions currently available from unnamed vendors, it's because they can't actually deliver these things -- not true Q.O.S. That's my opinion, anyway. Using a cluster to hide the fact that the underlying systems crash regularly is an extremely dangerous way to manage a computing environment.
2) Q.O.S. means having redundant hardware at the very least.
Or perhaps I'm missing something