I have absolutely 0 (zero) clue on how to run this with my Riva-patched XFree. Never been able to run any GL enhanced software for that matter. Anyone knows?
That's the name of the anomaly I'm talking about. Also it could just be hydrocephaly, a common anomaly (poet Baudelaire suffered from it) where liquid accumulates inside the skull from early childood, causing the skull (soft at birth) to grow. It's now cured by... drilling a hole!
I remember reading an article in scientific american where they talked about some weird disease which made the bones grow forever (at least, until death!), so that the skull would become several centimeters thick, the spine would solidify completely... and actually one viking king suffered of it, and the legend says that he survived a hit by a huge two-handed sword on the head... well upon examination of his skeleton, this is not a legend, there inded was a mark of the hit on his skull.
The point? The cranium looked mostly like the picture on www.starchildproject.com, except for the fact that the eye balls' orbit looked different, but it makes sense to assume that the disease could evolve as shown on the website.
What fascinates me the most about conspiracy theorist is the fact that there's ALWAYS simpler, less far fetched, less absurd ways to explain the 'weird' events, but they always choose the craziest explanation. An ET... yeah right.
Apparently, the fact that salaries and money matters are usually discussed less openly in Europe, and esp. in France, leads to the job market being less open about it, and the salaries to be actually LESSER. Tax also have something to do with it, but all considered...
Working as a sysadmin / developer / head tech. person for a small web company, I make about $40k a year. That's rather good here compared to what's OFFERED usually. Note the emphasis on OFFERED... that means that if you blindly accept the initial offer on a job interview, you'll get much less than that... however you're going to be extremely surprised to notice that, as you tell them to "fuck off" and get up to leave, they quickly apologize and timidly ask you to stay and offer something better.
Also the policy on stock options around here (France) is not exactly clear, and actually the law on it isn't clear.
Funny story: my cousin, who worked in microelectronics in the valley making good money for 18 months, came back and was looking for a short term job doing web stuff. He went to one service company, they did'nt want to discuss salary on the phone. On the spot they offered him... $2000 a month! What a joke. He laughed at them and they seemed not to understand! "You're wasting my time", he told them, "don't you have any idea what the market is?" And indeed, he quickly found something much better paid.
I think this is a sad sign: if true, with this deal, Red Hat has shown that they are not confident about their own business strategy. Now they compensate for this by buying up other (profitable) companies.
A company buying another one, a sign of not being confident with their own business strategy?????? What are you smoking? I don't get all the alarmists posts here AT ALL. This buyout makes complete sense. They complement each other's business, RedHat has all the resources to buy them, RedHat can't become a monopoly (ever heard of Mandrake????)...
By guessing passwords (even if they were easy ones), they were not observing their own privacy statements.
Not only were'nt they observing their privacy statement, they were certainly infringing computer crime laws. Makes me wonder, what's the difference between what they did and the reason why Mitnick was jailed???
Plus, they have no valid reason to do so; they could always have ASKED for the passwords first. And isn't the police, for instance, required to have a valid injunction to do that kind of thing? Hm....
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A little reminder in time line for those gov't-bashing libertarians who believe that Linux's and OSS can overthrow MS by themselves and therefore are a proof that 'gov't' intervention is useless in this case... When did the Microsoft trial began? About a year ago, isn't it? And since when did Linux start to become mainstream? About the same time, isn't it? I can't claim that it would'nt have happened otherwise, but no one can claim the opposite either...
live in Zimbabwe (bottommost choice, pure chance!), am interested in fishing, football, knotting, and cooking, and my email address is fuck@you. At least that what I claim everytime I have to register to some website. Let's all be REGISTRATION denizens!
... So you can perfectly integrate a GPL part into BSD. The only problem is that the whole thing then has to be distributed under the GPL. (If I understand properly). Now people could still develop BSD under the Berkeley license, provide Reiser FS as an add-on, so that commercial types could rip off the BSD code, only without ReiserFS.
Reminds me of a story. Ok first of all I'm all for 'big name' commercial products to be ported to Linux. There's plenty of reasons. And if they're not free... well nobody forces you to use them. Anyway, I did some consulting for one big american media company who relies heavily on networking for its business. Like, the reliability of their network is a matter of life and death to them. More exactly, 1 hour without network could mean, what, a direct loss of $1 million, not counting the indirect loss from disgrunstled customers etc... Aaaanyway... I was to install a mail server there for a specific purpose... So I ask the guy in charge of the firewall to open SMTP for me... Aaaah... It takes him hours to figure how to do it... yeah, complicated manoeuver indeed. I look over his shoulder, and there's like, a hundred of useless rules in his setting. He could'nt even know what they were for. So what, he opens port 25. Great. He learnt something that day, port 25=SMTP. I set up my thingie, and shit, it does not work! What the fuck is wrong. After 30 min of struggling, I start to realize that the DNS server is not working. I inform the guy. "Oh but you never told me you needed the DNS!" AAAAAAAHHHHHHHH. So he turns on the DNS. I go back to the server. Still does not work! This time, I can't get incoming connections! Back to the guy. "Oh yeah I thought you just needed DNS." WTF???? Ok back to the machine. I CAN'T GO OUTSIDE!!!! I CAN'T OPEN OUTGOING SMTP SESSIONS!!!! AAAAHH!!! The guy had forbidden outgoing SMTP connections... for 'SECURITY REASONS'!!!!!!!! AHAHHHHAHAHHAHA. I try to not LART him. The scariest part, of course, was the fact that despite his misplaced paranoia, there were probably dozens of REAL security threats wide open in his configuration. Bottom line: a GUI will not make a network administrator. And if a sysadmin is expensive, that's because there's a reason to it!
The only restriction applies if you SELL a product (be it commercial or open source, I believe) that REQUIRES MySQL to run. There you have to pay a license, about $200 per server / product?
And if you can't afford that they have released an older version of MySQL under the GPL.
They made only 10% OF 2 BILLIONS. Err. You have certainly heard of that classic bank computer system crack, where the cracker puts 1 cent on his account taken from each account. Hey, it's only 1 cent, so it's not really theft, right!!!
Sorry, don't have the URL handy, you might find this on scientific american's site... anyway, it's been proven that IQ has been and is rising continuously since the beginning of the century. This has been attributed to the higher exposure to brain-stimulating activities; think about it, being exposed to computers makes your brain bigger!
Let me ask you a question. Would you feel differently is there was a manufacturer whose faulty materials was causing planes to self-destruct and blow up in mid flight?
The only problem with your flawed argument is that Toshiba is not a manufacturer of faulty material for planes and that no one died or is even known to have suffered the least with this problem.
Yeah, there are laws against Nazi propaganda. And I won't complain about them. Now, even if you can *theoretically* say anything in the US, what happens when your neighbours start ostracizing you? Not your problem anymore because it's not the bloody 'government' who's doing bad things? Typical libertarian silliness -- it can only be wrong if it's from the govt -- and vice versa
What I feared is actually happening here... notice how all the jokes made on the death of those spammers are moderated down? That's the real problem with/.'s moderation system: it incites people to act POLITICALLY CORRECTLY. Yeah, the fact that those spammer died amuses me. Am I cruel? Yeah maybe. So what? I'm against the death penalty, personally. How many of those 'moderators' who labelled all those jokes as 'troll' or 'flamebait' are actually sick death penalty-happy right wing americans? Most of them, I believe.
Death is'nt funny? Hey, I've got bad news for you folks: WE ARE ALL GOING TO DIE. And those guys are ALREADY dead. Tough. Shit happens. Plus they were crooks. Not just spammers, crooks, who probably ripped many people of their life's savings.
You merkins listen: KEEP YOUR 'POLITICAL CORRECTNESS' CRAP FOR YOURSELF.
Q: "How do you call a spammer floating dead in the river?" A: "Pollution" Q: "How do you call all the spammers floating dead in the river?" A: "The solution" Yeah, it's reaaaaally baaaad to wish someone's death.
And get on the bandwagon of SmartWorker. For those who have no idea what it is, it's similar to Zope, except that it's written in Perl. It leverage the most popular web open source tech: mod-perl, apache and MySQL (Yeah, yeah, not really open source but close enough). It's close to an application server in functionality, but without much of the overhead and of the complexity. It allows to write simplify greatly complex web apps. Actually you end writing them in a way that looks like regular GUI apps.
It takes care of all the persistence / session issues, you 'just' have to write the logic behind it... and not the technicalities that you have to rewrite in eeeeevery CGI/module.
Currently, the problem (for me!) is that all the presentation has to be hardcoded in Perl. You don't do any HTML, hopefully, you only manipulated high level objects. However, that's a problem for me who works closely with web page designers, and who is lazy enough to want them to deal with all the crappy HTML issues...
And since it's open source, well I decided to start working on this, so ASAP I will start implementing an XML interface to it, à la libglade, so that the HTML drone can take care of this aspect.
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I have absolutely 0 (zero) clue on how to run this with my Riva-patched XFree. Never been able to run any GL enhanced software for that matter. Anyone knows?
Eh.
That's the name of the anomaly I'm talking about. Also it could just be hydrocephaly, a common anomaly (poet Baudelaire suffered from it) where liquid accumulates inside the skull from early childood, causing the skull (soft at birth) to grow. It's now cured by ... drilling a hole!
The point? The cranium looked mostly like the picture on www.starchildproject.com, except for the fact that the eye balls' orbit looked different, but it makes sense to assume that the disease could evolve as shown on the website.
What fascinates me the most about conspiracy theorist is the fact that there's ALWAYS simpler, less far fetched, less absurd ways to explain the 'weird' events, but they always choose the craziest explanation. An ET ... yeah right.
It made danish people, new zealanders, swedes, indians, and frenchies laugh in our parisian office ...
Apparently, the fact that salaries and money matters are usually discussed less openly in Europe, and esp. in France, leads to the job market being less open about it, and the salaries to be actually LESSER. Tax also have something to do with it, but all considered ...
Working as a sysadmin / developer / head tech. person for a small web company, I make about $40k a year. That's rather good here compared to what's OFFERED usually. Note the emphasis on OFFERED ... that means that if you blindly accept the initial offer on a job interview, you'll get much less than that ... however you're going to be extremely surprised to notice that, as you tell them to "fuck off" and get up to leave, they quickly apologize and timidly ask you to stay and offer something better.
Also the policy on stock options around here (France) is not exactly clear, and actually the law on it isn't clear.
Funny story: my cousin, who worked in microelectronics in the valley making good money for 18 months, came back and was looking for a short term job doing web stuff. He went to one service company, they did'nt want to discuss salary on the phone. On the spot they offered him ... $2000 a month! What a joke. He laughed at them and they seemed not to understand! "You're wasting my time", he told them, "don't you have any idea what the market is?" And indeed, he quickly found something much better paid.
I think this is a sad sign: if true, with this deal, Red Hat has shown that they are not confident about their own business strategy. Now they compensate for this by buying up other (profitable) companies.
A company buying another one, a sign of not being confident with their own business strategy?????? What are you smoking? I don't get all the alarmists posts here AT ALL. This buyout makes complete sense. They complement each other's business, RedHat has all the resources to buy them, RedHat can't become a monopoly (ever heard of Mandrake????) ...
I'm just amazed.
By guessing passwords (even if they were easy ones), they were not observing their own privacy statements.
Not only were'nt they observing their privacy statement, they were certainly infringing computer crime laws. Makes me wonder, what's the difference between what they did and the reason why Mitnick was jailed???
Plus, they have no valid reason to do so; they could always have ASKED for the passwords first. And isn't the police, for instance, required to have a valid injunction to do that kind of thing? Hm ....
(except for waste)?
That's a big 'except'.
A little reminder in time line for those gov't-bashing libertarians who believe that Linux's and OSS can overthrow MS by themselves and therefore are a proof that 'gov't' intervention is useless in this case ... ...
When did the Microsoft trial began? About a year ago, isn't it? And since when did Linux start to become mainstream? About the same time, isn't it?
I can't claim that it would'nt have happened otherwise, but no one can claim the opposite either
live in Zimbabwe (bottommost choice, pure chance!), am interested in fishing, football, knotting, and cooking, and my email address is fuck@you.
At least that what I claim everytime I have to register to some website.
Let's all be REGISTRATION denizens!
... So you can perfectly integrate a GPL part into BSD. The only problem is that the whole thing then has to be distributed under the GPL. (If I understand properly).
Now people could still develop BSD under the Berkeley license, provide Reiser FS as an add-on, so that commercial types could rip off the BSD code, only without ReiserFS.
That this guy will be in the Bahamas 12 hours after his IPO?
Reminds me of a story. Ok first of all I'm all for 'big name' commercial products to be ported to Linux. There's plenty of reasons. And if they're not free ... well nobody forces you to use them. ... ... I was to install a mail server there for a specific purpose ... So I ask the guy in charge of the firewall to open SMTP for me ... Aaaah ... It takes him hours to figure how to do it ... yeah, complicated manoeuver indeed. I look over his shoulder, and there's like, a hundred of useless rules in his setting. He could'nt even know what they were for. ... for 'SECURITY REASONS'!!!!!!!! AHAHHHHAHAHHAHA.
Anyway, I did some consulting for one big american media company who relies heavily on networking for its business. Like, the reliability of their network is a matter of life and death to them. More exactly, 1 hour without network could mean, what, a direct loss of $1 million, not counting the indirect loss from disgrunstled customers etc
Aaaanyway
So what, he opens port 25. Great. He learnt something that day, port 25=SMTP. I set up my thingie, and shit, it does not work!
What the fuck is wrong. After 30 min of struggling, I start to realize that the DNS server is not working. I inform the guy. "Oh but you never told me you needed the DNS!" AAAAAAAHHHHHHHH. So he turns on the DNS. I go back to the server. Still does not work! This time, I can't get incoming connections! Back to the guy. "Oh yeah I thought you just needed DNS." WTF???? Ok back to the machine. I CAN'T GO OUTSIDE!!!! I CAN'T OPEN OUTGOING SMTP SESSIONS!!!! AAAAHH!!!
The guy had forbidden outgoing SMTP connections
I try to not LART him. The scariest part, of course, was the fact that despite his misplaced paranoia, there were probably dozens of REAL security threats wide open in his configuration.
Bottom line: a GUI will not make a network administrator. And if a sysadmin is expensive, that's because there's a reason to it!
Me neither ... and actually I hardly ever administrate my servers from the console ... so I guess it will be possible to administrate remotely ...
... methan was an element. I thought its molecule was made of one atom of carbon and four of hydrogen. But maybe I'm wrong.
Gee ...
Sorry, don't have the URL handy, you might find this on scientific american's site ... anyway, it's been proven that IQ has been and is rising continuously since the beginning of the century. This has been attributed to the higher exposure to brain-stimulating activities; think about it, being exposed to computers makes your brain bigger!
Let me ask you a question. Would you feel differently is there was a manufacturer whose faulty materials was causing planes to self-destruct and blow up in mid flight?
The only problem with your flawed argument is that Toshiba is not a manufacturer of faulty material for planes and that no one died or is even known to have suffered the least with this problem.
Yeah, there are laws against Nazi propaganda. And I won't complain about them. Now, even if you can *theoretically* say anything in the US, what happens when your neighbours start ostracizing you? Not your problem anymore because it's not the bloody 'government' who's doing bad things? Typical libertarian silliness -- it can only be wrong if it's from the govt -- and vice versa
Death is'nt funny? Hey, I've got bad news for you folks: WE ARE ALL GOING TO DIE. And those guys are ALREADY dead. Tough. Shit happens. Plus they were crooks. Not just spammers, crooks, who probably ripped many people of their life's savings.
You merkins listen: KEEP YOUR 'POLITICAL CORRECTNESS' CRAP FOR YOURSELF.
Q: "How do you call a spammer floating dead in the river?"
A: "Pollution"
Q: "How do you call all the spammers floating dead in the river?"
A: "The solution"
Yeah, it's reaaaaally baaaad to wish someone's death.
It takes care of all the persistence / session issues, you 'just' have to write the logic behind it ... and not the technicalities that you have to rewrite in eeeeevery CGI/module.
Currently, the problem (for me!) is that all the presentation has to be hardcoded in Perl. You don't do any HTML, hopefully, you only manipulated high level objects. However, that's a problem for me who works closely with web page designers, and who is lazy enough to want them to deal with all the crappy HTML issues ...
And since it's open source, well I decided to start working on this, so ASAP I will start implementing an XML interface to it, à la libglade, so that the HTML drone can take care of this aspect.
Cool, heh?