Man, I wish some hacker would grab email from a couple of important figures in the Netherlands and post said data all over.
Encryption is not illegal in the Netherlands (yet?), it's just that the ISP's are not allowed to interfere with the wiretap systems installed. They're not yet braindead enough to prohibit secure http, but it wouldn't surprise me when they did.
I also hear there are plans to force all traffic to be logged and keep those logs for some years. Would be heaven for storage media manufacturers...
Luckily, my fantastic ISP XS4All offers SSH access to their FreeBSD shell servers, still allowing me to access my mail securely. Apparently SSH usage is not widespread enough for the government to care.
Oh, and before you thought this was just something typical of the American government and all the Europeans were laughing at you; we've had this kind of monitoring here in the Netherlands for some time now. To the extent that ISP's are not allowed to offer encrypted services such as IMAP over SSL.
On the other hand, consider this. It is becoming a more and more common view that human life on earth might not make it through the 21st century. Although there are many different possible causes for this (nuclear war, famine, disease, other environmental effects), I think that they all have the common factors of human stupidity and ignorance.
What would happen if the average human became more intelligent? Although it might just be that the dumber people always get the leading roles; I don't think there are many ways in which this would be a negative development for our race. Provided it's done properly ofcourse, and not unnecessarily hasted by commercial interests.
Except he was posting AC, which makes it rather hard to karma whore. But what about modding down as "overrated" all posts containing three or more grammar/spelling mistakes in a single sentence? Oh wait...
DVDAuthor is definitely worth the effort, and the best (only) program for this type of work under Linux. There's just one thing I'm missing: the ability (possibly a seperate program) to dump the contents of an existing DVD to a DVDAuthor-compatible structure.
The reason I'm looking for this is that I like to make copies of my rare & expensive DVD's (and remove the restrictions on skipping warnings and such while I'm at it). Backing up dual-layer DVD's to two single-layer recordables is a major pain since it forces me to hexedit the.ifo files by hand for the 2nd DVD.
dvdbackup, another related program, promises to be able to easily split DVD's some day, but I'm not sure work is still being done on it, and the DVDAuthor format is more versatile anyway.
and if as a race we could be more open with our sexuality
There were actually many cultures that were much more open about sexuality than ours. But then Christianity spread over the earth, telling everyone how sinful they were.
I think that there are different kinds of intelligence. One kind is the kind that helps you to easily solve difficult mathematic problems and other purely technical things. This, I believe, is the sort of intelligence IQ tests measure.
Another kind is what I like to call "creative intelligence", meaning one's ability to think out of the box and come up with interesting tasks to perform without need for stimulation.
I'd say mr. Wilson's intelligence probably consists mostly of the first, persons like RMS and Linus lean more towards the second. Being a "genius" probably involves having a pretty good dose of both (think Albert Einstein).
Wrong. In windows (as an example, there are many others) I can drag some files from one window to another to move them. When I release the mouse, they are moved. That is an OS command. If however I realise I moved the wrong files, I can quickly hit ctrl-Z (or click Undo) and it moves them back where they were. Now you might argue the semantics and say that "doing the reverse" is not the same as "undo", but what's important is the end effect. I _can_ undo file manipulations.
What exactly does this have to do with GUI vs. CLI? An "undo" function can be just as easily built into both. The fact that most CLI's do not have one has more to do with the preferences of the average user; it's not related to the method of giving commands.
I don't know which distro you are using, but in Debian, the vast majority of man pages are excellent.
The fact that manpages do not always include examples shouldn't be a problem: the principle of command-line arguments is quite simple to understand, and man pages normally list the descriptive "long" version ("--option" in addition to "-o"), which makes it quite easy to quickly skip to the one you need. The argument that unix commands are not always descriptively named certainly doesn't apply to long command-line options.
There's the natural course of geek development and we should mess with it as little as possible.
Although intended to be funny, I wish people had taught me this years ago. Spent years trying to "fit in" at school, but ultimately found out that it's much more fun to simply do what you really like. Once I got that principle to my thick skull, my social life suddenly expanded greatly as well (without any special effort in that direction).
It's not what you enjoy to do that makes your peers accept you, it's being honest & proud about the things you enjoy, no matter what those are.
Which is exactly why GPL is less free than BSD type licences.
I beg to differ. Neither can be said to be more free than the other. The GPL text may be more restrictive than BSD-like licenses, but the GPL also creates an environment that is in some ways more free than others. The distribution of GPL code under the GPL can never be restricted by copyright law, not even by the author of a program based on existing GPL code. Code released under "more free" licence types can be restricted in their distribution by copyright, and copyright is no less of an artificial restriction than the GPL.
Unless I'm totally misunderstanding your post, I never said that. What I meant (and IMHO, stated quite clear enough) was that if you contribute to a GPL project, there's no way that contribution can end up in a non-GPL (and thus, non-free) project, unlike some other free licenses out there.
I'm not saying that this is always better, but it does matter to a lot of people.
Maybe because free-ness isn't the only factor that's important? If you support GPL licensed projects, you can be sure that your support will never directly aid non-free projects.
apt-get install pornview
(no seriously, it exists...)
On a slightly more serious note, gqview (viewer) mplayer (movies) and pan (binary news downloads) would probably satisfy (oops did I just say that?) your requirements quite well. A slightly hesitant "have fun" would probably be in place here...
Couldn't agree more, Steve "XP Raw Sockets" Gibson's "career" is just one long ego trip. Doesn't care if what he says makes any sense as long as it gets him attention.
Although I wouldn't touch anything related to Real with a 10 foot pole either, there are plenty of more reliable/credible ways to come to that conclusion.
Interesting idea! Since the information density in a documentary can be far higher than in a normal movie, this might actually be feasible with some hours of material.
The main audience would probably consist of the people who are interested enough in Tolkien's work to have read LotR multiple times before the movies were released, but not patient enough to actually work through The Silmarillion (from what I have observed, The Silmarillion is to Tolkien fans what the Bible is to Christians: most of them have a copy, but very few have read it entirely).
Still, it would merely be a convenient source of information, devoid of most of the emotion and drama that is present even in The Silmarillion. Ultimately, the only way to really experience The Silmarillion is to just read it. And in some way it comforts me that that will probably remain the only way.
Agreed. If someone is interested in how an opensource program works, that person simply looks at the source code, and possibly even finds bugs to fix or report. If someone is interested in how a closed-source program works, he/she will have to learn things like reverse engineering. Searching for info on how to do this will probably drive that person into the black hat community very quickly.
Personally, I quited liked the Silmarillion. It's not exactly easy reading, but if you keep pen & paper handy and take your time, it can be quite rewarding for those really fascinated by Middle-Earth.
Though I have to agree that there should never be a Silmarillion movie. The information density in The Silmarillion is much, much higher compared to LotR. If The Silmarillion had been written in the same style as LotR, it would probably be many thousands of pages long. There's no way that can be transformed into a watchable movie.
Should Peter Jackson really feel the need to make more Tolkien movies even after The Hobbit, I think he should look at the tale of Beren and Luthien (one of the more independent chapters from The Silmarillion, and not as complex as the rest of the book).
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Man, I wish some hacker would grab email from a couple of important figures in the Netherlands and post said data all over.
Encryption is not illegal in the Netherlands (yet?), it's just that the ISP's are not allowed to interfere with the wiretap systems installed. They're not yet braindead enough to prohibit secure http, but it wouldn't surprise me when they did.
I also hear there are plans to force all traffic to be logged and keep those logs for some years. Would be heaven for storage media manufacturers...
Luckily, my fantastic ISP XS4All offers SSH access to their FreeBSD shell servers, still allowing me to access my mail securely. Apparently SSH usage is not widespread enough for the government to care.
Oh, and before you thought this was just something typical of the American government and all the Europeans were laughing at you; we've had this kind of monitoring here in the Netherlands for some time now. To the extent that ISP's are not allowed to offer encrypted services such as IMAP over SSL.
What would happen if the average human became more intelligent? Although it might just be that the dumber people always get the leading roles; I don't think there are many ways in which this would be a negative development for our race. Provided it's done properly ofcourse, and not unnecessarily hasted by commercial interests.
Except he was posting AC, which makes it rather hard to karma whore.
But what about modding down as "overrated" all posts containing three or more grammar/spelling mistakes in a single sentence? Oh wait...
The reason I'm looking for this is that I like to make copies of my rare & expensive DVD's (and remove the restrictions on skipping warnings and such while I'm at it). Backing up dual-layer DVD's to two single-layer recordables is a major pain since it forces me to hexedit the .ifo files by hand for the 2nd DVD.
dvdbackup, another related program, promises to be able to easily split DVD's some day, but I'm not sure work is still being done on it, and the DVDAuthor format is more versatile anyway.
There were actually many cultures that were much more open about sexuality than ours. But then Christianity spread over the earth, telling everyone how sinful they were.
He probably thought his gf meant "actually, disk size does matter to me".
Ah, one of those questions that should have a "NULL" option. Just like the old "Have you stopped beating you wife yet?".
Another kind is what I like to call "creative intelligence", meaning one's ability to think out of the box and come up with interesting tasks to perform without need for stimulation.
I'd say mr. Wilson's intelligence probably consists mostly of the first, persons like RMS and Linus lean more towards the second. Being a "genius" probably involves having a pretty good dose of both (think Albert Einstein).
What exactly does this have to do with GUI vs. CLI? An "undo" function can be just as easily built into both. The fact that most CLI's do not have one has more to do with the preferences of the average user; it's not related to the method of giving commands.
The fact that manpages do not always include examples shouldn't be a problem: the principle of command-line arguments is quite simple to understand, and man pages normally list the descriptive "long" version ("--option" in addition to "-o"), which makes it quite easy to quickly skip to the one you need. The argument that unix commands are not always descriptively named certainly doesn't apply to long command-line options.
Although intended to be funny, I wish people had taught me this years ago. Spent years trying to "fit in" at school, but ultimately found out that it's much more fun to simply do what you really like. Once I got that principle to my thick skull, my social life suddenly expanded greatly as well (without any special effort in that direction).
It's not what you enjoy to do that makes your peers accept you, it's being honest & proud about the things you enjoy, no matter what those are.
I beg to differ. Neither can be said to be more free than the other. The GPL text may be more restrictive than BSD-like licenses, but the GPL also creates an environment that is in some ways more free than others. The distribution of GPL code under the GPL can never be restricted by copyright law, not even by the author of a program based on existing GPL code. Code released under "more free" licence types can be restricted in their distribution by copyright, and copyright is no less of an artificial restriction than the GPL.
I'm not saying that this is always better, but it does matter to a lot of people.
Maybe because free-ness isn't the only factor that's important? If you support GPL licensed projects, you can be sure that your support will never directly aid non-free projects.
Site doesn't like /. referrals, just click the URL and press Enter on each 403 Forbidden...
(no seriously, it exists...)
On a slightly more serious note, gqview (viewer) mplayer (movies) and pan (binary news downloads) would probably satisfy (oops did I just say that?) your requirements quite well. A slightly hesitant "have fun" would probably be in place here...
Although I wouldn't touch anything related to Real with a 10 foot pole either, there are plenty of more reliable/credible ways to come to that conclusion.
Your links for the c&p impaired:
http://grcsucks.com
http://theregister.co.uk/content/55/24189.html
http://vmyths.com/resource.cfm?id=59&page=1
The main audience would probably consist of the people who are interested enough in Tolkien's work to have read LotR multiple times before the movies were released, but not patient enough to actually work through The Silmarillion (from what I have observed, The Silmarillion is to Tolkien fans what the Bible is to Christians: most of them have a copy, but very few have read it entirely).
Still, it would merely be a convenient source of information, devoid of most of the emotion and drama that is present even in The Silmarillion. Ultimately, the only way to really experience The Silmarillion is to just read it. And in some way it comforts me that that will probably remain the only way.
Coffee machine?
Agreed. If someone is interested in how an opensource program works, that person simply looks at the source code, and possibly even finds bugs to fix or report. If someone is interested in how a closed-source program works, he/she will have to learn things like reverse engineering. Searching for info on how to do this will probably drive that person into the black hat community very quickly.
Argh! I wish I could still mod in this thread so I could have modded you "-1, Mentally Disturbing".
Though I have to agree that there should never be a Silmarillion movie. The information density in The Silmarillion is much, much higher compared to LotR. If The Silmarillion had been written in the same style as LotR, it would probably be many thousands of pages long. There's no way that can be transformed into a watchable movie.
Should Peter Jackson really feel the need to make more Tolkien movies even after The Hobbit, I think he should look at the tale of Beren and Luthien (one of the more independent chapters from The Silmarillion, and not as complex as the rest of the book).
Doubleplusungood!
As already pointed out, it will run on Linux, in fact, there is a 64-bit version for Linux. Download all versions of the demo here.