this guy can't type. sorry it would disturb your sense of aesthetics but he needs vr to DO HIS FUCKING JOB. so i hope it does take off. and when it does, just buy earplugs until you can have some consideration for people who might not be as fortunate as you.
they won't be tracking most of my purchases - i left america back in 1998 when i realised far too many of my fellow citizens were spending far too much time discussing clinton's penis and not nearly enough time paying attention to laws like the dmca and dozens of others. or the widening gap between rich and poor. or dealing honestly and constructively with the multitude of injustices in american society. or seriously working on environmental, health and waste issues.
instead, people were more interested in clinton's penis, the amazing efficiency of private industry (how efficient were they really?), and buying suv's.
no one was all that interested in protecting freedom - maybe their pet freedoms but no one elses.
as far as i can see, things haven't changed much.
and actually, come to think of it, the us gov't does track a lot of my activity. eschelon is alive and well and has been for years. sounds like domestic american citizens will be getting a taste of what the rest of the world has gotten. if it feels invasive and wrong, keep in mind that unlike the rest of the world you guys have a say.
i think if you search on my name, you'll find that i offer a great deal of help. in fact just this week a person sent me mail thanking me for an answer i found and posted regarding laptops nearly three years ago.
the fact is that microsoft is actively trying to destroy linux and free software. they don't believe in competition, they believe in monopoly. they believe in putting free software developers and admins out of work. and they use a slew of tactics to do that.
i do think people should have choice. i have nothing against other closed source software publishers like oracle, sun, compaq or apple. but then that's because they are not actively targeting my hobby, my livelihood and the hobbies/livelihoods of my friends. they do compete, but not in an agressive and frequently unethical manner.
so, yes, i'm annoyed by people that support such an organisation. and i'm utterly disgusted by people that support such organisations and have the utter gall to then come to communities which have a large number of free software users with a question about how to spooge off our work.
so rant all you want, that's my perception and i'm sticking to it. i'm more then willing to help people who are not blatently unethical.
you're an ms reseller. then i suggest you contact ms and ask them what options you have.
see, i don't mean to be rude but you've chosen to work at what i'd consider to be an unethical company. that is your right.
you're asking a question with goofy restrictions on the answer to help a company that funds a company that is actively hostile to the members of this community.
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ok, if windows and other ms apps are so cheap for companies to buy compared to the rest of the money they spend on computers, why does ms have $30 billion in the bank? did the tooth fairy make a mistake one night?
Re:Make that "old skool BSD license"
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wrong.
on the off chance you stuck a reading lamp up your ass before planting your head in it...
first, the gpl does not require you to assign copyright to "them." what you probably mean is that the fsf *REQUESTS* that you grant them copyright to gpl'd software (you still retain your own). this way if someone violates your copyright, you can tell the fsf and they'll go sic their lawyers on the violator. the courts won't listen to the fsf if they don't haven't been assigned status by the authors. likewise, lawyers are expensive so the fsf is doing you a *FAVOUR* by offering to do that for authors of gpl'd software.
secondly the gpl requires authors to maintain credit within source files. not advertising, but credits in the source files have to stay.
tmda. i've been using it for several months and it blocks pretty much all spam i get. currently my tmda pending directory has over 700 files which are all most likely spam. i hold them for a week and then i delete them.
or rather tmda holds them for a week and then cron deletes them.
no one has had trouble reaching me. if you'd like to check out tmda, see here. and if you'd like to see what it's like to email a tmda protected address, mail me at kevin@ie.suberic.net.
btw, i'm not a tmda developer, i just happily use their s/w. it is of course free s/w.
yes, in europe that's true. however that's only because no country in europe is that large. folks in russia, australia, or some south american country might have the same roam-less situation as americans and yet still be able to roam around the world.
i note you still fail to note the main thrust of my argument that mobile phone access is cheaper, more ulbiquitous and improving at a faster rate then in the usa in spite of your theory.
fascinating theory. however practice does not bear it out. mobile phones are cheaper here in europe, we have a more mature and more usable network, and costs are staying the same or falling. plus new services are coming online every day - roaming functions for prepaid customers, picture messaging, gprs, etc.
plus there's still the fact that my mobile phone works here in ireland, and across nearly every developed country in the world. today. right now. (when roaming i have to pay to receive calls)
you're missing a slew of pressures. many businesses in europe purchase a large number of phones for their sales, tech and other mobile staff members. they have account managers who handle telecoms costs and will look for services that have cheap rates for their calling patterns - that includes calls from land line based staff members to mobile based staff members. some mobile networks are cheaper to call then others - and for the same reason that "friends and family" programs in america exist to boos subscribers.
essentially you're promoting a theory that has no basis in fact. the facts actually completely dispute what you theorise and have for over 10 years. you're like the wireless worlds version of the flat earth society.
you made a lot of good points until the small projects with a small number of people bit. that's crap. free and open bsd use cvs for one thing; they are not small.
cvs works for developers with a clue about cvs. that's not to say that a better version control system couldn't be developed - one can and should. but saying cvs is crap for large projects is demonstrably false.
Re:Creationism and Short Sightedness
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what does it mean, "i am a christian?" the problem is that a lot of people say "i'm a christian," and it means a lot of things. it means they supported the crusades. it means they supported the inquisition. it means they denied rights to irish catholics before irish independence. it means they killed american indians. it means acted as colonial powers. it means they stood silent while children were physically or sexually abused.
or does it mean none of those?
in my lifetime i've heard christians say fags must die - in boston a guy had a four foot high placard on his car proclaiming that gays will burn in hell. i've heard christians berating single mothers - and i saw the hurt look in the eyes of my single mother. i've seen them hover over poorly performing college students hoping to convince them to drop out and join their church. i've seen them try to stop stem cell research. i've seen them try to stop a 13 year old rape victim from getting an abortion. i've seen them shout abuse at women going to an abortion clinic. i've heard them explain that white people were created and blacks evolved.
very few christians supported all of those things, but a lot of christians supported some of them.
really, you mean the service in the states that's policed by the us postal inspectors? you're aware that if i were to receive pretty much any spam i now get by email by the usps instead i could report it to the uspi, yes? most spam i get is illegal - pyramid schemes, fraud and illegal services. and the only way to economically do mail shots is to get the mail registered as junk mail which the post office can track.
so yeah, i do get mail. and while it can be one-way comms if it's in any way illegal i can get my government to track those people down.
in normal human interaction i get to see who i'm talking to. no one has the right to one-way communication between private parties.
there might be some concern about communications between a private person and a person acting on behalf of the government, but then again that's not what we're talking about.
to put it more directly: you've dressed up mr. strawman all cute-n-cuddly but ya know what? he's still a fucking bundle of straw. piss off.
> it is just these stupid managers with their multibillion enterprises... They just don't know how to run their businesses.
actually, if you've been watching the economy lately you'll note that they're multimillion dollar enterprises...
why does it hurt when i do this...
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there's an old joke about a guy going to a doctor who complains that it hurts when he holds both his arms above his head and yodels. (or something like that) the punch line?
don't do that.
unionfs with two fs's really isn't all that great idea. and no offence, but unionfs with more then two fs's is monumentally stupid. where do new files get created? how do you deal with conflicts? what happens with files that you edit? what if you remove a file that exists on more then one fs?
there are a slew of different answers to these questions so either the kernel inflicts (and yes, i mean inflicts) policy or you have to provide a way to configure all those options. should mounting fs's get as complicated as firewall rules?
there are lots of solutions to your problem. pick one of them rather then a bigger problem.
did you chack google? a little ways down searching on debian hosting i see a link to tummy.com and their debian hosting. add in the word "web" and the search seems to have even more on offer.
Slashdot Mirror
what?
this guy can't type. sorry it would disturb your sense of aesthetics but he needs vr to DO HIS FUCKING JOB. so i hope it does take off. and when it does, just buy earplugs until you can have some consideration for people who might not be as fortunate as you.
they won't be tracking most of my purchases - i left america back in 1998 when i realised far too many of my fellow citizens were spending far too much time discussing clinton's penis and not nearly enough time paying attention to laws like the dmca and dozens of others. or the widening gap between rich and poor. or dealing honestly and constructively with the multitude of injustices in american society. or seriously working on environmental, health and waste issues.
instead, people were more interested in clinton's penis, the amazing efficiency of private industry (how efficient were they really?), and buying suv's.
no one was all that interested in protecting freedom - maybe their pet freedoms but no one elses.
as far as i can see, things haven't changed much.
and actually, come to think of it, the us gov't does track a lot of my activity. eschelon is alive and well and has been for years. sounds like domestic american citizens will be getting a taste of what the rest of the world has gotten. if it feels invasive and wrong, keep in mind that unlike the rest of the world you guys have a say.
but as usual, you're not saying much.
hello? moron?
ms was found by the us court system to be a monopoly.
i use linux for many or the reasons he stated, though i came from vendor unicies, not windows. and i deal with pretty much no spam at all:
http://www.tmda.net/ takes care of spam for me.
i think if you search on my name, you'll find that i offer a great deal of help. in fact just this week a person sent me mail thanking me for an answer i found and posted regarding laptops nearly three years ago.
the fact is that microsoft is actively trying to destroy linux and free software. they don't believe in competition, they believe in monopoly. they believe in putting free software developers and admins out of work. and they use a slew of tactics to do that.
i do think people should have choice. i have nothing against other closed source software publishers like oracle, sun, compaq or apple. but then that's because they are not actively targeting my hobby, my livelihood and the hobbies/livelihoods of my friends. they do compete, but not in an agressive and frequently unethical manner.
so, yes, i'm annoyed by people that support such an organisation. and i'm utterly disgusted by people that support such organisations and have the utter gall to then come to communities which have a large number of free software users with a question about how to spooge off our work.
so rant all you want, that's my perception and i'm sticking to it. i'm more then willing to help people who are not blatently unethical.
you're an ms reseller. then i suggest you contact ms and ask them what options you have.
see, i don't mean to be rude but you've chosen to work at what i'd consider to be an unethical company. that is your right.
you're asking a question with goofy restrictions on the answer to help a company that funds a company that is actively hostile to the members of this community.
well gee. how can i put this?
go fuck off.
asshole
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technologies
so the adept browser.
ok, if windows and other ms apps are so cheap for companies to buy compared to the rest of the money they spend on computers, why does ms have $30 billion in the bank? did the tooth fairy make a mistake one night?
what if you type in all lowercase? cds looks wrong, cd's looks better.
just curious.
you know, it doesn't need to be clear. it's his ship, he can use whatever rules he wants. seems like pretty wise rules really.
redhat: kickstart.
solaris: jumpstart.
wrong.
on the off chance you stuck a reading lamp up your ass before planting your head in it...
first, the gpl does not require you to assign copyright to "them." what you probably mean is that the fsf *REQUESTS* that you grant them copyright to gpl'd software (you still retain your own). this way if someone violates your copyright, you can tell the fsf and they'll go sic their lawyers on the violator. the courts won't listen to the fsf if they don't haven't been assigned status by the authors. likewise, lawyers are expensive so the fsf is doing you a *FAVOUR* by offering to do that for authors of gpl'd software.
secondly the gpl requires authors to maintain credit within source files. not advertising, but credits in the source files have to stay.
tmda. i've been using it for several months and it blocks pretty much all spam i get. currently my tmda pending directory has over 700 files which are all most likely spam. i hold them for a week and then i delete them.
or rather tmda holds them for a week and then cron deletes them.
no one has had trouble reaching me. if you'd like to check out tmda, see here. and if you'd like to see what it's like to email a tmda protected address, mail me at kevin@ie.suberic.net.
btw, i'm not a tmda developer, i just happily use their s/w. it is of course free s/w.
true. i was thinking eu, but yes, you're right.
can one go thousands of miles in russia w/o roaming charges?
yes, in europe that's true. however that's only because no country in europe is that large. folks in russia, australia, or some south american country might have the same roam-less situation as americans and yet still be able to roam around the world.
i note you still fail to note the main thrust of my argument that mobile phone access is cheaper, more ulbiquitous and improving at a faster rate then in the usa in spite of your theory.
fascinating theory. however practice does not bear it out. mobile phones are cheaper here in europe, we have a more mature and more usable network, and costs are staying the same or falling. plus new services are coming online every day - roaming functions for prepaid customers, picture messaging, gprs, etc.
plus there's still the fact that my mobile phone works here in ireland, and across nearly every developed country in the world. today. right now. (when roaming i have to pay to receive calls)
you're missing a slew of pressures. many businesses in europe purchase a large number of phones for their sales, tech and other mobile staff members. they have account managers who handle telecoms costs and will look for services that have cheap rates for their calling patterns - that includes calls from land line based staff members to mobile based staff members. some mobile networks are cheaper to call then others - and for the same reason that "friends and family" programs in america exist to boos subscribers.
essentially you're promoting a theory that has no basis in fact. the facts actually completely dispute what you theorise and have for over 10 years. you're like the wireless worlds version of the flat earth society.
you made a lot of good points until the small projects with a small number of people bit. that's crap. free and open bsd use cvs for one thing; they are not small.
cvs works for developers with a clue about cvs. that's not to say that a better version control system couldn't be developed - one can and should. but saying cvs is crap for large projects is demonstrably false.
what does it mean, "i am a christian?" the problem is that a lot of people say "i'm a christian," and it means a lot of things. it means they supported the crusades. it means they supported the inquisition. it means they denied rights to irish catholics before irish independence. it means they killed american indians. it means acted as colonial powers. it means they stood silent while children were physically or sexually abused.
or does it mean none of those?
in my lifetime i've heard christians say fags must die - in boston a guy had a four foot high placard on his car proclaiming that gays will burn in hell. i've heard christians berating single mothers - and i saw the hurt look in the eyes of my single mother. i've seen them hover over poorly performing college students hoping to convince them to drop out and join their church. i've seen them try to stop stem cell research. i've seen them try to stop a 13 year old rape victim from getting an abortion. i've seen them shout abuse at women going to an abortion clinic. i've heard them explain that white people were created and blacks evolved.
very few christians supported all of those things, but a lot of christians supported some of them.
so.
which christian are you?
did they use hospital corners when they made their bed?
they should use .the. that way people talk about ogg theora files will say things like, "did you get the dot the file?"
really, you mean the service in the states that's policed by the us postal inspectors? you're aware that if i were to receive pretty much any spam i now get by email by the usps instead i could report it to the uspi, yes? most spam i get is illegal - pyramid schemes, fraud and illegal services. and the only way to economically do mail shots is to get the mail registered as junk mail which the post office can track.
so yeah, i do get mail. and while it can be one-way comms if it's in any way illegal i can get my government to track those people down.
in normal human interaction i get to see who i'm talking to. no one has the right to one-way communication between private parties.
there might be some concern about communications between a private person and a person acting on behalf of the government, but then again that's not what we're talking about.
to put it more directly: you've dressed up mr. strawman all cute-n-cuddly but ya know what? he's still a fucking bundle of straw. piss off.
> it is just these stupid managers with their multibillion enterprises ... They just don't know how to run their businesses.
actually, if you've been watching the economy lately you'll note that they're multimillion dollar enterprises...
there's an old joke about a guy going to a doctor who complains that it hurts when he holds both his arms above his head and yodels. (or something like that) the punch line?
don't do that.
unionfs with two fs's really isn't all that great idea. and no offence, but unionfs with more then two fs's is monumentally stupid. where do new files get created? how do you deal with conflicts? what happens with files that you edit? what if you remove a file that exists on more then one fs?
there are a slew of different answers to these questions so either the kernel inflicts (and yes, i mean inflicts) policy or you have to provide a way to configure all those options. should mounting fs's get as complicated as firewall rules?
there are lots of solutions to your problem. pick one of them rather then a bigger problem.
did you chack google? a little ways down searching on debian hosting i see a link to tummy.com and their debian hosting. add in the word "web" and the search seems to have even more on offer.