I run a large testing Facility in the Telecom industry. I believe that we could use the SolarisX86 in the Labs for free under this license. Do I understand that correctly, we previously had 1 SolarisX86 box, and this was several years ago. We would have like to have had more, but these days, we've relied for heavily on Linux where possible. We still have some HPUX, and Solaris on Sun hardware etc, but if we could freely use the SolarisX86 in a test environment, that would Great!!!
(if not, we'd just keep using Linux, but diversity is important in this case)
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Its not just you.
Actually, Ive had problems with the site ever since they moved from the east coast host to the west coast.
Good. Im glad you get it. Yes, Muslims suck, and the religion is repulsive, repressive, and vile. Of course, that could be said of several religions.
Clearly this was a terrible accident, and not related to the muslim terrorists plagueing our planet these days...
Handy Tip from the Article..
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German police fear that the youths will turn to more lethal ammunition than potatoes. Tests have shown that such a bazooka firing an empty film canister filled with sand and the cardboard centres of toilet rolls filled with cement could penetrate brickwork.
Anyone want to guess what they will be firing from these things next?
My favorite part of the article is..
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Where the CTO for Counterpane Internet Security says: "I believe that within a few years hacking insurance will be ubiquitous," Schneier said. "The notion that you must rely on prevention is just as stupid as building a brick wall around your house. That notion is just wrong."
Uh, my house has brick walls on all sides for that very purpose..
I guess he is saying that now we should all just forget about applying patches, and installing firewalls. We should just buy insurance for when we get hacked.
I really didnt understand the post after the first read, but now that Ive actually read the article, (yes, I really did!), I see that Its a joke. Its amusing and all, but this one paragragh actually makes sense!
That leads to the install itself. Yes, windows installing has gotten 100 times better since the days of DOS. Finally, users don't have to type "a:/setup" or "a:/install" anymore. And thank God "Sys c:" is history. And for the sake of all that is holy, good riddance to "format c:/s". But there's one thing that has always bothered me: What if I want to do a Clean Install and still have all my applications that I installed on let's say Win98? Here's what you can do: You can do a clean install beside Win98, but you won't have all your applications on XP. You can also upgrade win98 and most of your applications, if not all will move to XP. However, what if there is an application that I NEED that won't run on XP. Or what if XP dies. Then I have no Win98. I'd like to see an upgrade feature that let's me keep my existing Win98 installation as WELL as upgrade Windows 98 to XP at the same time. Until this happens, Windows is just not ready.
Just goes to show that even in humor there often lies truth....
Adding the 1 doesn't make any sense. That must be an error. The 1 is simply a steering digit which signals the switch to the type of call. In this case, the 1 comes from the country code for the US and Canada. The one gets stripped off by the local access switch, and the call basically routes based on the 10 digit number. (There are some other digits stuffed in front of the number at that point, but that's not relevant here.) So adding the 1 doesn't create any new numbers. I don't think they want to create a "2" for example. That would end up created a second Country code for the United States.
What they may have to do is make the area codes 4 digits or something like that.
Incidentally, The country codes with only 1 digit are 1-US and Canada, and 2-Russia
First, and obviously, its a lot easier to convice someone the second and third time around. Thats why the double jeopardy law exists in the first place. It is unfair to the innocent, and it is much more likely that more innocents will be convicted if such laws didnt exist.
Second, Most Norwegians I know speak better english than I do. They can certainly conjegate present tense verbs with no problem. Whats your story?
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And, lets not forget the most famous case of double jeopardy. Even though it ended in a Civil retrail instead of criminal.
O.J. (for better or for worse) was acquitted. Yet through the loophole of Civil vs. criminal trials, he was tried again for civil damages and found guilty. This was a sham. This loophole should be closed. A not guilty verdict should mean just that. (again, this is not a testimony to his guilt or innocence, but rather an on topic comment that Not Guilty should mean Not Guilty!) Even in the case of DVD Jon.
And BTW, if he is convicted, wont we all sleep better at night knowing that he is off the streets!?!
One stipulation: That the new system use more flexible and current programming languages--Java and the Extensible Markup Language-- rather than OS 390 to gather, compute and deliver data to the media outlets.
That sounds great. People who have no idea how to accomplish the goal telling the people tasked with doing it, how it should be done. I can't believe it failed. They should have laid out what they wanted to acheive and left the rest up to the designers on how to meet those goals...
Also, some interesting older information on the VNS can be found a the Votescam website. Although they seem to have a few extreme views, along with some wild conspiracy theories..
I walked up to an ATM machine in Paris, just two weeks ago, which was out of order an booting with an OS/2 Warp screen. I thought Id traveled back in time...
When I was a kid, we had to crawl for miles on our hands and knees over hot coals in the freezing rain jus to stand in line to pay $1000 to rent disk space on a 5Mb drive......
I think a more consistent criticism of Open Source, is that it's copying features too slowly. I'd settle for full feature for feature equality with the competition. Innovation will come along at it's own pace.
An article at PCMagazine that touches on that same attitude is Here. (Item #2)
Other Internet hackers have already captured this code and provided a Windows 9x front-end that illiminates the need to know and understand command-line functions. This addition is called cuntlits.exe and contains nude buttons and offensive language.
I have no problem with nudity or offensive language, but all in proper context. The above paragraph just makes the whole thing sound like a stupid joke.
Anyone remember "mood rings"? They changed color based on something, probably body heat, and each color supposedly meant what mood you were in.. Yeah, they were really cool in the 5th grade, but anyway, The inventor of those, might be able to claim prior art.. I would like to see some of the technical details.
Do they need to know how to install the OS first, or should I let them look that up on their own while I make them power-users?
I would think they should already know how to install the OS. I think an intro to linux class and a power user class would have to be two separate things.
What distributions of Linux and BSD should they be first introduced to? (I'm only familiar with Debian, and I know virtually nil about *BSD.)
I think you answered your own question there. If you only are familiar with Debian, and you are teaching the class, you'd better stick with Debian.
Initially, do they need to be more adept at the GUI, or do they first need to know how to use the shell?
SHELL!!!
Should I give away Debian CDs no-questions-asked, or should I talk with the almighty Parents so little Daniel doesn't install Linux over Dad's 'work computer.'
Hopefully, after your first class they will know not to do that. Hand out the disks would be my vote.
The exhibits themselves are always free. You just show up, and register, and you are in.
They charge the exhibitors, and they also charge for the tutorials, and conferences. You can buy a flex-pass for about $3000 and the tutorials are about $800 for a 1 day class.
The keynote speeches are all also free, but you have to collect tickets beforehand.
This is a bizarre problem in the US. Why is there so much porn spam?
John Dvorak actually published an article today regarding this sam subject. One good quote is The porn purveyors have taken my freedom to choose away from me. Push technology now pushes porn at me whether I like it or not.
he goes on, but you can read the entire article here
Actually, I think it was the author of the article (Matthew Thomas), who "missed the boat". His points 3 and 4 aren't really valid either. There is definately a problem with modern software inheriting problems from previous generations of computer hardware. Microsoft's battles with the whole 640K barrier thing is a good example, which they have only recently manged to get past. Other examples abound, but I have to get back to work..:-)
He goes on in point 2 to complain about the quit or exit commands in the problems, explaining that they are there because in the beginning, Operating systems didn't multitask.
He says "We have the technology. So why do we still punish people by including "Quit" or "Exit" menu items in programs? Cruft."
What is he trying to say? That once a program is running, it should run forever? Why shouldn't I be able to close Netscape when I'm done? How is this Cruft?
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I run a large testing Facility in the Telecom industry. I believe that we could use the SolarisX86 in the Labs for free under this license. Do I understand that correctly, we previously had 1 SolarisX86 box, and this was several years ago. We would have like to have had more, but these days, we've relied for heavily on Linux where possible. We still have some HPUX, and Solaris on Sun hardware etc, but if we could freely use the SolarisX86 in a test environment, that would Great!!!
(if not, we'd just keep using Linux, but diversity is important in this case)
Its not just you.
Actually, Ive had problems with the site ever since they moved from the east coast host to the west coast.
Good. Im glad you get it. Yes, Muslims suck, and the religion is repulsive, repressive, and vile. Of course, that could be said of several religions.
Clearly this was a terrible accident, and not related to the muslim terrorists plagueing our planet these days...
German police fear that the youths will turn to more lethal ammunition than potatoes. Tests have shown that such a bazooka firing an empty film canister filled with sand and the cardboard centres of toilet rolls filled with cement could penetrate brickwork.
Anyone want to guess what they will be firing from these things next?
Where the CTO for Counterpane Internet Security says:
"I believe that within a few years hacking insurance will be ubiquitous," Schneier said. "The notion that you must rely on prevention is just as stupid as building a brick wall around your house. That notion is just wrong."
Uh, my house has brick walls on all sides for that very purpose..
I guess he is saying that now we should all just forget about applying patches, and installing firewalls. We should just buy insurance for when we get hacked.
I really didnt understand the post after the first read, but now that Ive actually read the article, (yes, I really did!), I see that Its a joke. Its amusing and all, but this one paragragh actually makes sense!
/s". But there's one thing that has always bothered me: What if I want to do a Clean Install and still have all my applications that I installed on let's say Win98? Here's what you can do: You can do a clean install beside Win98, but you won't have all your applications on XP. You can also upgrade win98 and most of your applications, if not all will move to XP. However, what if there is an application that I NEED that won't run on XP. Or what if XP dies. Then I have no Win98. I'd like to see an upgrade feature that let's me keep my existing Win98 installation as WELL as upgrade Windows 98 to XP at the same time. Until this happens, Windows is just not ready.
That leads to the install itself. Yes, windows installing has gotten 100 times better since the days of DOS. Finally, users don't have to type "a:/setup" or "a:/install" anymore. And thank God "Sys c:" is history. And for the sake of all that is holy, good riddance to "format c:
Just goes to show that even in humor there often lies truth....
(Lies truth???)
What is a Benjamin?
Money?
Just a guess. Im not sure.
Yes, 7. Thank you.
I don't know why I typed a 2 there.
Adding the 1 doesn't make any sense. That must be an error. The 1 is simply a steering digit which signals the switch to the type of call. In this case, the 1 comes from the country code for the US and Canada. The one gets stripped off by the local access switch, and the call basically routes based on the 10 digit number. (There are some other digits stuffed in front of the number at that point, but that's not relevant here.) So adding the 1 doesn't create any new numbers. I don't think they want to create a "2" for example. That would end up created a second Country code for the United States.
What they may have to do is make the area codes 4 digits or something like that.
Incidentally, The country codes with only 1 digit are 1-US and Canada, and 2-Russia
How those this show?????
The Norwegian system still have??????
First, and obviously, its a lot easier to convice someone the second and third time around. Thats why the double jeopardy law exists in the first place. It is unfair to the innocent, and it is much more likely that more innocents will be convicted if such laws didnt exist.
Second, Most Norwegians I know speak better english than I do. They can certainly conjegate present tense verbs with no problem. Whats your story?
And, lets not forget the most famous case of double jeopardy. Even though it ended in a Civil retrail instead of criminal.
O.J. (for better or for worse) was acquitted. Yet through the loophole of Civil vs. criminal trials, he was tried again for civil damages and found guilty. This was a sham. This loophole should be closed. A not guilty verdict should mean just that. (again, this is not a testimony to his guilt or innocence, but rather an on topic comment that Not Guilty should mean Not Guilty!) Even in the case of DVD Jon.
And BTW, if he is convicted, wont we all sleep better at night knowing that he is off the streets!?!
WTF?
Dued,
Whats your problem with words that end in "e"?
I'm pretty sure that BackOffice, which includes Exchange Server, SMS, SQL Server, etc. Generates a fair bit of income for them.
In addition to Backoffice, there are several development platforms that are indeed making money.
One stipulation: That the new system use more flexible and current programming languages--Java and the Extensible Markup Language-- rather than OS 390 to gather, compute and deliver data to the media outlets.
That sounds great. People who have no idea how to accomplish the goal telling the people tasked with doing it, how it should be done. I can't believe it failed. They should have laid out what they wanted to acheive and left the rest up to the designers on how to meet those goals...
Also, some interesting older information on the VNS can be found a the Votescam website. Although they seem to have a few extreme views, along with some wild conspiracy theories..
I walked up to an ATM machine in Paris, just two weeks ago, which was out of order an booting with an OS/2 Warp screen. I thought Id traveled back in time...
When I was a kid, we had to crawl for miles on our hands and knees over hot coals in the freezing rain jus to stand in line to pay $1000 to rent disk space on a 5Mb drive......
I think a more consistent criticism of Open Source, is that it's copying features too slowly. I'd settle for full feature for feature equality with the competition. Innovation will come along at it's own pace.
An article at PCMagazine that touches on that same attitude is Here. (Item #2)
Wow! ha! I must admit, that is a very good point. I doubt that the creators had that in mind, but it is indeed true..
I say, +5 funny....
from the article:
Other Internet hackers have already captured this code and provided a Windows 9x front-end that illiminates the need to know and understand command-line functions. This addition is called cuntlits.exe and contains nude buttons and offensive language.
I have no problem with nudity or offensive language, but all in proper context. The above paragraph just makes the whole thing sound like a stupid joke.
Anyone remember "mood rings"? They changed color based on something, probably body heat, and each color supposedly meant what mood you were in.. Yeah, they were really cool in the 5th grade, but anyway, The inventor of those, might be able to claim prior art.. I would like to see some of the technical details.
Do they need to know how to install the OS first, or should I let them look that up on their own while I make them power-users?
I would think they should already know how to install the OS. I think an intro to linux class and a power user class would have to be two separate things.
What distributions of Linux and BSD should they be first introduced to? (I'm only familiar with Debian, and I know virtually nil about *BSD.)
I think you answered your own question there. If you only are familiar with Debian, and you are teaching the class, you'd better stick with Debian.
Initially, do they need to be more adept at the GUI, or do they first need to know how to use the shell?
SHELL!!!
Should I give away Debian CDs no-questions-asked, or should I talk with the almighty Parents so little Daniel doesn't install Linux over Dad's 'work computer.'
Hopefully, after your first class they will know not to do that. Hand out the disks would be my vote.
The exhibits themselves are always free. You just show up, and register, and you are in.
They charge the exhibitors, and they also charge for the tutorials, and conferences. You can buy a flex-pass for about $3000 and the tutorials are about $800 for a 1 day class.
The keynote speeches are all also free, but you have to collect tickets beforehand.
All of this information is available here.
This is a bizarre problem in the US. Why is there so much porn spam?
John Dvorak actually published an article today regarding this sam subject. One good quote is The porn purveyors have taken my freedom to choose away from me. Push technology now pushes porn at me whether I like it or not.
he goes on, but you can read the entire article here
I agree that this is way out of control.
Actually, I think it was the author of the article (Matthew Thomas), who "missed the boat". His points 3 and 4 aren't really valid either. There is definately a problem with modern software inheriting problems from previous generations of computer hardware. Microsoft's battles with the whole 640K barrier thing is a good example, which they have only recently manged to get past. Other examples abound, but I have to get back to work.. :-)
He goes on in point 2 to complain about the quit or exit commands in the problems, explaining that they are there because in the beginning, Operating systems didn't multitask.
He says "We have the technology. So why do we still punish people by including "Quit" or "Exit" menu items in programs? Cruft."
What is he trying to say? That once a program is running, it should run forever? Why shouldn't I be able to close Netscape when I'm done? How is this Cruft?