Well, then it seems that weather got it wrong this winter:-)
Here in Spain we're having the coldest winter in the last 25 years, or 40
years depending on the place. Record minimum temperatures of -20 Celsius, or
"only" -8 Celsius here where my parents live. It's not too warm usually
(maybe -3 or -4 on the coldest nights), but this year this cold has been
accompanied by the driest weather in another 25 years too, for this dates. And
*that* is strange. Specially, because before this dry period we had the most
rainy period of another bunch of years. It usually rains a lot here (Galicia,
northwest of Spain), so the "most rainy" part is not that surprising:-) The
drought (is that the word?) *is* surprinsing.
Weird, indeed. You see, I'm not a green fanatic, but this' not normal, and the
reports around the globe of huge rains in Brazil and other events have made me
think a lot about the... well, the "that" effect, I don't know how to say it
in english O:-) You know, that effect that causes global warming and that is
screwing the ozone in the south pole. Is this strange winter another
consequence?
(I *love the entire scene. It's among the best in the movie...)
You see, I'm all too cinical (cynical? Argh. My english is getting worse each moment O:-)) with almost everything, but the part of Boromir crying because he was not "up to the task", because he tried to steal the Ring from Frodo, and then the part when he tries to "clean his sins" by saving Merry and Pippin... well, it gives me shakes, and maybe a bit more;-) Wonderful part of the book, and very well done in the film, IMHO.
I was slightly disappointed though with how often Peter Jackson decided to delve into his roots as a horror movie maker
Completely agree. The Uruk-Hai (damn, I don't remember if that's the spelling; I deserve punishment for being so unpure!:-/;-))) was much the typical "bad boy" of B-series films to me. The film had a few bits of this kind of films, if you understand what I mean.
Anyway, one big doubt: what was the origin of Uruk-Hai according to the film? In the spanish translation, it was "orcos y duendes" ("orcs and... pucks?", I'm not sure of the words O:-)), and not "orc and human", as it should. Is it just that the spanish translation sucks, or is it something real?
You know, I think that, without taking any merit away from these planes, much of the "feeling" that people (including their "maintainers") have about them is that they're "vintage".
It's much like people that love to customize old cars (like Jeff Beck;-)) or motorcycles, or people that like old (60's, 70's) electric guitars. Vintage items have something that's just "cool", it seems.
I think that this "coolness" is because the vintage items were "up-to-date" when you were younger, and you liked them very much those days. So, it's a mix between pure nostalgy and collectionism behaviour.
It's not exactly the same with B-52's, but I think there's a little of it:-)
Well, in my (limited) knowledge, there are companies that use VPNs for far more than checking email. For example, synchronising SQL databases which are in different delegations, or transferring the info about profits of that day to a central server, or...
These are things that *need* to be encrypted.
Though many times it's also as you say, of course. But that's another problem:-)
If they don't allow VPN, you just have to avoid them. The problem is for people that can't avoid them, because the company is the only one that gives service in their area, or the like.
>Anyhow, to make a long story short, I decided to install Debian woody.
Ouch.
Many people say I'm crazy when I tell them so, but I believe that sid ("experimental" version of Debian) is more stable than woody. This is, if you're willing to upgrade every day:-) And I say this because software is updated daily, and possible bugs (i.e., packaging bugs, not only software bugs) are fixed quite fast.
Maybe now that woody is frozen this is not true (I hope so!:-)), but a few months ago upgrading to woody was not fun, at least for me. A few packages that I needed were not in their best shape (i.e., not working), and the ones at sid worked fine.
Of course, living the bleeding edge has its disadvantages. For example, when a wrongly packaged "tar" attempts to remove every cpio dependant package in your system, or when the new X configuration package configures your X System - wrongly. Not to speak of those libc6 updates that crash a lot of programs in the system, of course (which only happened once in the 1 - 1 1/2 year I've been using sid).
But anyway, I'm happy using "sid". I hadn't yet a problem that didn't get fixed with a quick update, or that damaged my system so severely that it couldn't be repaired. In fact, the most dangerous thing that happened to me was the libc6 thing, and that solved in a pair of days (the time I took between updates). So, for me "sid" is perfectly usable. I've just set up a crontab entry to do a "apt-get -y -d dist-upgrade" every day, and I do the upgrade by hand in a breeze when I get home.
The problem is that, if someone gets your copy of nmap and uses it, he/she can't kill or harm someone phisically. And with a gun, he/she will.
So, though I understand your point (and the pro-gun rights one), for me a gun is still a gun: something that can only be used to kill or harm another being. That's its only purpose, and saying that it's not is only demagogy. IMHO, of course, and I'm totally open to someone showing me I'm wrong with reasons.
Because you can also use a gun to open a door or to test if your computer can resist a hard impact, but it's not the best way to do it. Though it may be the funniest, I don't know:-)
> I do have the same sort of problem;
> one of my roomates is, shall we say, "new" to the whole Internet thing.
> As far as I can tell, if his computer's on, Chat (MS Msngr) and
> Morpheus are running. Some day,
> he'll grow out of it;), but until then...
Yes, I see that it's the same problem we have here:-) I discussed about it a few times with some friends that have been "connected" for a while, and it's clear that this is only for a while, while he "discovers" Internet. Maybe in a few months he'll be a little more polite with network bandwitdth, but right now he's quite a PITA:-)
Thank you very much for your help, anyway:-) The problem is that I haven't got a Linux router, but a 3com 812 (bugs included); so, I'll check carefully the link you've given me to see what I can do:-)
In the flat I share with 3 friends, Morpheus/Kazaa just screws the connection (ADSL, 256Kbits). When one of the guys (including me sometimes, to be sincere O:-)) downloads more than 1 file at once, everything, from IRC to web surfing, lags badly. Junkbuster even timeouts when doing DNS queries. Go figure.
That brings me to the point of traffic control. It's implemented in 2.4.x kernels through tc ("Traffic Control"), in the iproute package. But, looking at the Advanced Routing HowTo, it's damned complex. In my little and non-very-TCP/IP-knowledgeable opinion, of course.
Again in my opinion, simple things should be simple. And tc use didn't looked like that last time I checked. Does anyone know of a better way of handling this, besides pre-2.4 things like traffic shaper?
I think that if I only could set priorities for TCP traffic (by port or IP, for example), that could be great. I could set IRC/ssh on the highest priority, then www, and last ftp and "unknown TCP" (which is what Etherape tells me that Kazaa traffic is:-)).
Man, salaries in USA have to be totally amazing, because spending 2000 US$ in a computer, only for gaming, seems to me like quite overkill. Damn Big Overkill (tm).
I don't know around there, but here in Spain 2000 US$ is, more or less, 3.5-4 times what I earn each month, and almost twice of a "good but not all that special" salary.
Some examples: a friend of a friend, which is teacher in a public school, earns 1300 US$ (translated from pesetas, of course:-)). And he's got a "minor degree" (3 years of study) only. He's got an Audi A4, to say it that way, while "chief executives" in private firms that earn about 2200 US$ drive in big badass BMWs.
More examples: my MSI-6330 mobo (Pro2, I think: it has ATA100, while the "Pro" only had ATA66) and Duron 800 costed, 4-5 months ago, about 200 US$ (36000 pesetas, to be exact). The thinkgeek case that Hemos tells is a fine one, but... well, it just costs a lot. A normal case here costs about 50 US$. The one picked by Hemos costs 230 US$.
So, if Hemos spends 2000 bucks in a computer *for playing games*... Hemos, man, did you buy the Ferrari yet?:-)
Ok. All my friends tell me that I'm very picky for these things, but I must
tell them or I'll burst into pieces:-)
Boromir's hair is dark! And not semi-blonde or almost-red like it
appears in the trailer. Wrong wrong wrong. Dark. He's a descendant of
the Westernesse men, and so his hair is dark. It's said in several
places in the book. His hair is dark. Do you know what color is
Boromir's hair? Good boy.
Maybe I'm wrong, but I think I've seen Legolas' eyebrows (I think that's
the word)... black. And he's a blonde elf. Someone explain to me. Is it some
kind of fashion? Blonde elves with black eyebrows get more chicks? Did he run
out of painting when trying to dye his hair blonde? What color is his other
corporal hair? Has he any other corporal hair, by the way? If not, that
could explain that appeal that men had for elven girls. You know, "the bear
and the men, the more hairy the more cute" (totally untranslatable saying
around here)
I'm not going to speak about the whole mess that I feel will be introducing
Arwen into the mix. But it will be. I'm not going to say that it's
fundamentally wrong and that the film could be better without her
(though Liv Tyler is utterly cute, of course). But it could be.
Anyway, I'm looking forward a lot to see P. Jackson's film. These are only
a few glitches that I don't think can spoil the whole film. It's just that I'm
very anal with this kind of things:-)
>I'd like to see each of these cowardly terrorist recieve slow and painful deaths
I wouldn't. Though in times like this I understand why some people agree with death penalty.
I think that we should get the authors of this crime and get them to watch what they did: the people jumping from the buildings, the children orphaned, the mutilated ones, the families destroyed.
If *that* doesn't affect them, killing them is not worth. That's what they're asking for. And many of their followers would think they are martyrs, and many would follow their steps, giving no end to this whole nightmare.
But don't ask me what I would do if I had one of the culprits in front of me. I may very well forget all my beliefs and substitute them for genuine animal rage.
>psychologists are showing up at school bus stops to deal
>with kids whose parents aren't coming home.
My god.
I didn't realize the tragedy of this all until I read this. I was feeling
quite sorry for all the dead, but the real tragedy is for the still living.
Just imagine you're a 5-10 old kid. Imagine what would mean to you. It
hurts just to try.
Who's the one to tell these kids why their parents are late today?
I think I just couldn't.
--
Xouba,
who just yesterday thought that life was not so bad.
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Well, then it seems that weather got it wrong this winter :-)
:-) The
... well, the "that" effect, I don't know how to say it
Here in Spain we're having the coldest winter in the last 25 years, or 40
years depending on the place. Record minimum temperatures of -20 Celsius, or
"only" -8 Celsius here where my parents live. It's not too warm usually
(maybe -3 or -4 on the coldest nights), but this year this cold has been
accompanied by the driest weather in another 25 years too, for this dates. And
*that* is strange. Specially, because before this dry period we had the most
rainy period of another bunch of years. It usually rains a lot here (Galicia,
northwest of Spain), so the "most rainy" part is not that surprising
drought (is that the word?) *is* surprinsing.
Weird, indeed. You see, I'm not a green fanatic, but this' not normal, and the
reports around the globe of huge rains in Brazil and other events have made me
think a lot about the
in english O:-) You know, that effect that causes global warming and that is
screwing the ozone in the south pole. Is this strange winter another
consequence?
- The "KDE is trash, GNOME rules" posts ..." posts like this one :-)
- The "KDE rules, GNOME is trash" posts
- The "Expect
You see, I'm all too cinical (cynical? Argh. My english is getting worse each moment O:-)) with almost everything, but the part of Boromir crying because he was not "up to the task", because he tried to steal the Ring from Frodo, and then the part when he tries to "clean his sins" by saving Merry and Pippin ... well, it gives me shakes, and maybe a bit more ;-) Wonderful part of the book, and very well done in the film, IMHO.
So yes, I agree with you :-)
Completely agree. The Uruk-Hai (damn, I don't remember if that's the spelling; I deserve punishment for being so unpure! :-/ ;-))) was much the typical "bad boy" of B-series films to me. The film had a few bits of this kind of films, if you understand what I mean.
Anyway, one big doubt: what was the origin of Uruk-Hai according to the film? In the spanish translation, it was "orcos y duendes" ("orcs and ... pucks?", I'm not sure of the words O:-)), and not "orc and human", as it should. Is it just that the spanish translation sucks, or is it something real?
You know, I think that, without taking any merit away from these planes, much of the "feeling" that people (including their "maintainers") have about them is that they're "vintage".
;-)) or motorcycles, or people that like old (60's, 70's) electric guitars. Vintage items have something that's just "cool", it seems.
:-)
It's much like people that love to customize old cars (like Jeff Beck
I think that this "coolness" is because the vintage items were "up-to-date" when you were younger, and you liked them very much those days. So, it's a mix between pure nostalgy and collectionism behaviour.
It's not exactly the same with B-52's, but I think there's a little of it
>Most business users use VPN to check .... email.
...
:-)
Well, in my (limited) knowledge, there are companies that use VPNs for far more than checking email. For example, synchronising SQL databases which are in different delegations, or transferring the info about profits of that day to a central server, or
These are things that *need* to be encrypted.
Though many times it's also as you say, of course. But that's another problem
Don't use this companies. Period.
If they don't allow VPN, you just have to avoid them. The problem is for people that can't avoid them, because the company is the only one that gives service in their area, or the like.
Ehm ... for a non-native english speaker ... what are "cane toads"? O:-)
I'm sure it won't work as intented. We all know what happened with rabbits, right?
;-)
And besides, we all have seen "Jurassic Park", didn't we?
>Anyhow, to make a long story short, I decided to install Debian woody.
:-) And I say this because software is updated daily, and possible bugs (i.e., packaging bugs, not only software bugs) are fixed quite fast.
:-)), but a few months ago upgrading to woody was not fun, at least for me. A few packages that I needed were not in their best shape (i.e., not working), and the ones at sid worked fine.
Ouch.
Many people say I'm crazy when I tell them so, but I believe that sid ("experimental" version of Debian) is more stable than woody. This is, if you're willing to upgrade every day
Maybe now that woody is frozen this is not true (I hope so!
Of course, living the bleeding edge has its disadvantages. For example, when a wrongly packaged "tar" attempts to remove every cpio dependant package in your system, or when the new X configuration package configures your X System - wrongly. Not to speak of those libc6 updates that crash a lot of programs in the system, of course (which only happened once in the 1 - 1 1/2 year I've been using sid).
But anyway, I'm happy using "sid". I hadn't yet a problem that didn't get fixed with a quick update, or that damaged my system so severely that it couldn't be repaired. In fact, the most dangerous thing that happened to me was the libc6 thing, and that solved in a pair of days (the time I took between updates). So, for me "sid" is perfectly usable. I've just set up a crontab entry to do a "apt-get -y -d dist-upgrade" every day, and I do the upgrade by hand in a breeze when I get home.
Gee. Sorry for the rant O:-)
The problem is that, if someone gets your copy of nmap and uses it, he/she can't kill or harm someone phisically. And with a gun, he/she will.
:-)
So, though I understand your point (and the pro-gun rights one), for me a gun is still a gun: something that can only be used to kill or harm another being. That's its only purpose, and saying that it's not is only demagogy. IMHO, of course, and I'm totally open to someone showing me I'm wrong with reasons.
Because you can also use a gun to open a door or to test if your computer can resist a hard impact, but it's not the best way to do it. Though it may be the funniest, I don't know
> I do have the same sort of problem; ;), but until then...
:-) I discussed about it a few times with some friends that have been "connected" for a while, and it's clear that this is only for a while, while he "discovers" Internet. Maybe in a few months he'll be a little more polite with network bandwitdth, but right now he's quite a PITA :-)
:-) The problem is that I haven't got a Linux router, but a 3com 812 (bugs included); so, I'll check carefully the link you've given me to see what I can do :-)
> one of my roomates is, shall we say, "new" to the whole Internet thing.
> As far as I can tell, if his computer's on, Chat (MS Msngr) and
> Morpheus are running. Some day,
> he'll grow out of it
Yes, I see that it's the same problem we have here
Thank you very much for your help, anyway
Great point. And totally true.
:-)).
In the flat I share with 3 friends, Morpheus/Kazaa just screws the connection (ADSL, 256Kbits). When one of the guys (including me sometimes, to be sincere O:-)) downloads more than 1 file at once, everything, from IRC to web surfing, lags badly. Junkbuster even timeouts when doing DNS queries. Go figure.
That brings me to the point of traffic control. It's implemented in 2.4.x kernels through tc ("Traffic Control"), in the iproute package. But, looking at the Advanced Routing HowTo, it's damned complex. In my little and non-very-TCP/IP-knowledgeable opinion, of course.
Again in my opinion, simple things should be simple. And tc use didn't looked like that last time I checked. Does anyone know of a better way of handling this, besides pre-2.4 things like traffic shaper?
I think that if I only could set priorities for TCP traffic (by port or IP, for example), that could be great. I could set IRC/ssh on the highest priority, then www, and last ftp and "unknown TCP" (which is what Etherape tells me that Kazaa traffic is
Man, salaries in USA have to be totally amazing, because spending 2000 US$ in a computer, only for gaming, seems to me like quite overkill. Damn Big Overkill (tm).
:-)). And he's got a "minor degree" (3 years of study) only. He's got an Audi A4, to say it that way, while "chief executives" in private firms that earn about 2200 US$ drive in big badass BMWs.
... well, it just costs a lot. A normal case here costs about 50 US$. The one picked by Hemos costs 230 US$.
... Hemos, man, did you buy the Ferrari yet? :-)
I don't know around there, but here in Spain 2000 US$ is, more or less, 3.5-4 times what I earn each month, and almost twice of a "good but not all that special" salary. Some examples: a friend of a friend, which is teacher in a public school, earns 1300 US$ (translated from pesetas, of course
More examples: my MSI-6330 mobo (Pro2, I think: it has ATA100, while the "Pro" only had ATA66) and Duron 800 costed, 4-5 months ago, about 200 US$ (36000 pesetas, to be exact). The thinkgeek case that Hemos tells is a fine one, but
So, if Hemos spends 2000 bucks in a computer *for playing games*
Ok. All my friends tell me that I'm very picky for these things, but I must tell them or I'll burst into pieces :-)
Boromir's hair is dark! And not semi-blonde or almost-red like it appears in the trailer. Wrong wrong wrong. Dark. He's a descendant of the Westernesse men, and so his hair is dark. It's said in several places in the book. His hair is dark. Do you know what color is Boromir's hair? Good boy.
Maybe I'm wrong, but I think I've seen Legolas' eyebrows (I think that's the word) ... black. And he's a blonde elf. Someone explain to me. Is it some
kind of fashion? Blonde elves with black eyebrows get more chicks? Did he run
out of painting when trying to dye his hair blonde? What color is his other
corporal hair? Has he any other corporal hair, by the way? If not, that
could explain that appeal that men had for elven girls. You know, "the bear
and the men, the more hairy the more cute" (totally untranslatable saying
around here)
I'm not going to speak about the whole mess that I feel will be introducing Arwen into the mix. But it will be. I'm not going to say that it's fundamentally wrong and that the film could be better without her (though Liv Tyler is utterly cute, of course). But it could be.
Anyway, I'm looking forward a lot to see P. Jackson's film. These are only a few glitches that I don't think can spoil the whole film. It's just that I'm very anal with this kind of things :-)
Xouba
I wouldn't. Though in times like this I understand why some people agree with death penalty.
I think that we should get the authors of this crime and get them to watch what they did: the people jumping from the buildings, the children orphaned, the mutilated ones, the families destroyed.
If *that* doesn't affect them, killing them is not worth. That's what they're asking for. And many of their followers would think they are martyrs, and many would follow their steps, giving no end to this whole nightmare.
But don't ask me what I would do if I had one of the culprits in front of me. I may very well forget all my beliefs and substitute them for genuine animal rage.
--
Xouba
>psychologists are showing up at school bus stops to deal
>with kids whose parents aren't coming home.
My god.
I didn't realize the tragedy of this all until I read this. I was feeling
quite sorry for all the dead, but the real tragedy is for the still living.
Just imagine you're a 5-10 old kid. Imagine what would mean to you. It
hurts just to try.
Who's the one to tell these kids why their parents are late today?
I think I just couldn't.
--
Xouba,
who just yesterday thought that life was not so bad.