Windows Server 2003, evolved from Windows NT and Windows 2000 and is lauded by Davis as "an enterprise-grade operating system without too many qualifications."
of course it's taken out of context. This is/. remember;)
...I'm sure the guy dosen't know a lick of lisp, prolog, ocaml, etc. That the USPTO will issue such broad patents for things for which the 'inventor' has no concrete implementation whatsoever... It's just sickening.
is posted here. Hope someone mirrors/bittorents it.
Re:Please be respectful on this topic
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Working with ADHD?
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For many of us, this is a subject that is close to heart and quite frankly, many are tired of the obvious jokes and unacceptance. ADHD is real, it's here, so please, even if you don't have it, please respect it for what it is.
Cannonaicly appropos tolerance asside, but I'm sorry, I just can't do that. I strongly believe that ADHD dosen't exist [outside of socialy popular thinking]... It's not that I support the modern notions of depression as being a chemical imbalance, and merely look down on ADHD as insufficiently a medical condition, and put it up to a flaw in character.
Instead, I see ADHD, and most every other contmporary psychiatric diagnosis, as being a sham... an unfortunate error of our time, much like bleeding with leeches was in the medival era.
...But worse than that, I do not believe it to be 'merely' an error, but instead both an evolved usefull mechanism of the social machinery, and beyond that, an examplar of certian ways of modern psychological ideology....The human mind is an inordinately wonderfull and complicated thing, but there has been an unfortunate grossly simplified reductionism in it's analysis... back to skinerians [BF Skinner, that is], who have [perhaps in some shortsighted, but nontheless noble attempt], attempted to deconstruct the complexities of the human mind into such simple building blocks, that they fail to see the forest for the trees, as it were.
To get to the point; I don't believe there is such a thing as a 'chemical imbalance' in the brain, that is merely some physical error, that in and of itself causes inadvertant errors in the psyche, symptoms such as inattention, unhappiness, anxiety, depression, etc.
I believe that in every instance, such emotions are the inevitable output of the rational and symbolic mind, [and, yes, it's interplay and feedback with the limbic system, emotional hardwire algorithyms, etc]. Someone who is depressed has a reason to be depressed they may not even be directly consciously and overtly aware of the reason [Freud, however wrong he was on many points, hit the tail on the not-looked-at head with the notion of defense mechanisms {and, indeed, much of general conventional human personal existance is too often largely defined by such (someone may be an intelligent specialist, a great physicist, mathematician, or rocket scientist... but still goes home and beats there children and watches professional football with a bud light)}]*
People who are depressed have a real reason to be depressed. Even the fact that [although this is somewhat open to statistical scritiny / counteraguement] a brain scan of a depressed person can have different properties from a delighted or satisfied person, dosen't mean that the substance and cause of that sorrow or elation, isn't nontheless a matter entirely of the cognitive and symbolic content of their minds.
In other words, it's not a hardware problem instead, it's a matter of the structure of a person and their psychological relation to interaction with the necisities of the world around and outside of them.
Beyond that, even... I firmly believe that modern psychicatry is a fraud, more than that, an evil. It helps to obviate the otherwise legitimate symptoms of disatisfaction with the current life [an unhappy] person finds themselves within, and instead helps to numb them into a zombified tolerance and satisfaction with a status quo that their inner self is otherwise screaming out against...I had a friend when I was in middle school, who came to doubt the structure [and, more specifically, stricture] of their lives; the normal [hopefully] process of adolescance and coming into oneself. She began to disagree and fight with her parents, to cease applying herself diligantly to the schoolwork she considered foolish and uninteresting... she read a lot, and wrote poetry.... And her parents, seeing her difficulties in life, got
It's not far away... there are already prototypes, and it will probably be widely commercially available any time now. It allows you to see through walls, clothes, etc. And with passive terrahertz imagers, it won't even require irradiating the subject with radio waves. The possible infringements of privacy are amazing.
The competition of multiple attempts to approach the same thing is nothing but healthy. Let's not forget the rampent cross-pollination that takes place in the even moderately succesfull software products. I just set up firewire for my new miniDV camcorder the other night, and I couldn't help but notice examples of it everywhere. One utility used a version of quicktime4linux [from heroinewarrior/cinelerra fame]. FFmpeg [and it's libavcodec subsystem], which started out as a streaming server [and still is] has been adopted all over the place in video land. But I still like to use xvid with mencoder, cause it's artifacts are somehow preferable to my own personal psychvisual aesthetics. I don't mean to ramble [very little sleep, what with my new toy last night, and having to get up for work this morning;) ]... but I would strongly argue that in all cases the diversity and multitude of the free software world is one of it's greatest strengths. Emacs vs. vim vs. etc, gdb vs. ddd vs etc, mencoder vs. transcode vs. etc...
I find myself wondering if the currently prevalent conformist patriotic meme running about these days has somehow begun to infect people in more bizare respects.
Battle for the desktop? Pshaw. The honest fact is, that linux is -far more- usuable on the desktop to a serious computer user. Has been for a good while. As for the lusers out there who buy $40-$60 ieee1394 cables at best buy, and have learned to pop in a disk and see an installation wizard pop up, so they can dutifully click OK and I ACCEPT a few times... That is the beloved desktop, that we think linux should strive towards?!
There will be some companies, lindows or whomever, who will encapsulate the marvelous sophistication and subtletie of linux, into a comfortable and homogonized straitjacket world of user-friendly bliss. I have no problem with that, indeed, the multifarious oppurtunities of open source encourage all manner of repackaging and redesign. Which is a Good Thing.
Although, how is an under-appreciated movie, to be moderated up, as it is obviously not well known? Heh.
This is really a great movie, a moving and very intelligent dystopia, that oddly enough, was produced as a 'showtime original movie' [which are usually softcore porn or bad action flicks]. Someone with vision somehow managed to get the money to produce this, however.
It's really good. As a story, it's better than Brazil, if you can overlook the cheap production values and low-budget special effects.
It's also one of those rare cases where the movie is actually better than the literature on which it's based. It's based on a Kurt Vonegutt(sp?) short story that was only a page or two, more an allegory than a full fledged story. Whomever wrote the script ran with the ideas of the story and turned it into a length movie. It's a truly beautifull, subversive, and deep story, that no one has ever heard of.
It fails on include/linux/sched.h with default patch options. Which kind of sucks. You can get it to 'work' by giving patch a fuzz-factor of 3, but then the build fails. Not a very usefull patch.
cd/usr/src
mv linux-2.4.20 linux-2.4.20_OLD
bzcat/otherhome/stor/src/linux/linux-2.4.20.tar.bz2 | tar xv
cd linux-2.4.20
patch -p1
fails at include/linux/sched.h
If you do 'patch -p1 -F 3' instead, it won't fail, but the fuzz factor obviously leads to a patch error, as the compilation breaks [as soon as include/linux/sched.h is included, BTW]
I mean, I appreciate knowing that my system is horribly vulnerable, but a WORKING FIX would sure be nice.
I just ssh in to support them
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Because I have my mom and dad running linux. Have for years, since before mozilla came down the pike. They were perfectly content with the old binary-only netscape and staroffice. Now they run mozilla and openoffice, and those are the only types of application that most non-technophiles really ever run. Oh, and the gnome games, of course. [Mom couldn't get by without solitare and mah-jong]. Linux not ready for the desktop? Phhhht.
83. As long as the Linux development process remained uncoordinated and random, it posed little or no threat to SCO, or to other UNIX vendors, for at least two major reasons: (a) Linux quality was inadequate since it was not developed and tested in coordination for enterprise use and (b) enterprise customer acceptance was non-existent because Linux was viewed by enterprise customers as a "fringe" software product.
84. Prior to IBM's involvement, Linux was the software equivalent of a bicycle. UNIX was the software equivalent of a luxury car. To make Linux of necessary quality for use by enterprise customers, it must be re-designed so that Linux also becomes the software equivalent of a luxury car. This re-design is not technologically feasible or even possible at the enterprise level without (1) a high degree of design coordination, (2) access to expensive and sophisticated design and testing equipment; (3) access to UNIX code, methods and concepts; (4) UNIX architectural experience; and (5) a very significant financial investment.
85. For example, Linux is currently capable of coordinating the simultaneous performance of 4 computer processors. UNIX, on the other hand, commonly links 16 processors and can successfully link up to 32 processors for simultaneous operation. This difference in memory management performance is very significant to enterprise customers who need extremely high computing capabilities for complex tasks. The ability to accomplish this task successfully has taken AT&T, Novell and SCO at least 20 years, with access to expensive equipment for design and testing, well-trained UNIX engineers and a wealth of experience in UNIX methods and concepts.
86. It is not possible for Linux to rapidly reach UNIX performance standards for complete enterprise functionality without the misappropriation of UNIX code, methods or concepts to achieve such performance, and coordination by a larger developer, such as IBM./blockquote
Are Rsbep - FEC for dvbackup
and
dvbackup
Using them is relatively straightforward. Actually, it looks like rspep is a generic implementation of reed solomon error correction, which would make it usefull to storing information on any somewhat lossy or error-prone media.
Easy to defeat, just use spamming software that dynamically increases it's connection pool whenever it encounters a 'slow' SMTP recipient. Even if a large part of the net population were running this, the spammer could just spawn thousands of simultanious (slowed down, yes) connections, and still maximize his bandwidth utilization. If it takes 2 minutes to send each message, it dosen't matter if he's sending 5000 messages at once!
I believe linux, for example, allows up to 8192 open sockets, and I think this can be changes with a sysctl command, and most definitely could be with a few changes to kernel headers.
Sure, it would take a machine with decent memory, but that's not too hard to find.
Easy to defeat, just use spamming software that dynamically increases it's connection pool whenever it encounters a 'slow' SMTP recipient. Even if a large part of the net population were running this, the spammer could just spawn thousands of simultanious (slowed down, yes) connections, and still maximize his bandwidth utilization. If it takes 2 minutes to send each message, it dosen't matter if he's sending 5000 messages at once!
I believe linux, for example, allows up to 8192 open sockets, and I think this can be changes with a sysctl command, and most definitely could be with a few changes to kernel headers.
Sure, it would take a machine with decent memory, but that's not too hard to find.
Normally, I'm not the conspiracy-theory type, tending more towards occam's razor and healthy skepticism, but
This article , on an admitedly rather left-leaning publication, if at all accurate in merely it's factual assertions, disturbs me to no end. And of course, there's no mention in the mainstream media.
...in which the current dumb-user-centric model has ascended to the point that it begins to conquer volition and personal descision making. The computer tells you what ingrediants to pick in the kitchen, it worrys about how many guests you have, and then tells you a recipie apropos to them... perhaps, soon enough, an earpiece will tell you what to say to them...
This level of automation is only apropriate to the mentally handicapped or infirm! Computers are wonderfull things, if you want to understand them and tell them to solve a problem... but if ms's ideal vision of the future is a world in which you are incapable of deciding on your own what to do, a world of insurgent 'user friendliness' to the point that the computers are directing our behavior [in a socially usefull and constructive way, no doubt] instead of using them as tools... it's ugly, and it's the ultimate fulfillment of user-friendliness. I just can't wait for the 'so I'm a women now' birds and the bees wizards to instruct parents and children on that special path of adolescance [only $99.95 for this special upgrade pack!]
Scary.
Beware the bearers of FALSE gifts & their BROKEN PROMISES. Much PAIN but still time. BELIEvE. There is GOOD out there. We OPpose DECEPTION. Conduit CLOSING. Acknowledge
let's encourage ISP's to destroy accessibility to an essential service on the internet, in a misbegotten attempt to lessen illegitimate access. I don't want my connection censored! I enjoy having home broadband and running my own little server on it. My sendmail is set up to disable relaying, it's not like it's hard, and that is the true solution to spam. Spammers will always find a service that allows them the access they need, but this idiotic talk of blocking/censoring vital services/protocals doesn't help the rest of us.
BTW: Cause I run my own port 25 and have a static IP and a domain name, I get hardly any spam, personally. Why? Because I give out a different novel seperate address to everyone, and keep them all aliased to forward to my main account. If one becomes contaminated by spam, I simply delete it. If it actually was an address I gave to a correspondant [and not to some website, which is almost universally is] I only have to inform one person of a new address... come to think of it, that's only happened once...
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An excellent article
...from the moscow times. Oh the irony.
Also, has an extensive bibliography of other links at the bottom.
of course it's taken out of context. This is
...I'm sure the guy dosen't know a lick of lisp, prolog, ocaml, etc. That the USPTO will issue such broad patents for things for which the 'inventor' has no concrete implementation whatsoever... It's just sickening.
is posted here. Hope someone mirrors/bittorents it.
Cannonaicly appropos tolerance asside, but I'm sorry, I just can't do that. I strongly believe that ADHD dosen't exist [outside of socialy popular thinking]... It's not that I support the modern notions of depression as being a chemical imbalance, and merely look down on ADHD as insufficiently a medical condition, and put it up to a flaw in character.
...But worse than that, I do not believe it to be 'merely' an error, but instead both an evolved usefull mechanism of the social machinery, and beyond that, an examplar of certian ways of modern psychological ideology. ...The human mind is an inordinately wonderfull and complicated thing, but there has been an unfortunate grossly simplified reductionism in it's analysis... back to skinerians [BF Skinner, that is], who have [perhaps in some shortsighted, but nontheless noble attempt], attempted to deconstruct the complexities of the human mind into such simple building blocks, that they fail to see the forest for the trees, as it were.
...I had a friend when I was in middle school, who came to doubt the structure [and, more specifically, stricture] of their lives; the normal [hopefully] process of adolescance and coming into oneself. She began to disagree and fight with her parents, to cease applying herself diligantly to the schoolwork she considered foolish and uninteresting... she read a lot, and wrote poetry.... And her parents, seeing her difficulties in life, got
Instead, I see ADHD, and most every other contmporary psychiatric diagnosis, as being a sham... an unfortunate error of our time, much like bleeding with leeches was in the medival era.
To get to the point; I don't believe there is such a thing as a 'chemical imbalance' in the brain, that is merely some physical error, that in and of itself causes inadvertant errors in the psyche, symptoms such as inattention, unhappiness, anxiety, depression, etc.
I believe that in every instance, such emotions are the inevitable output of the rational and symbolic mind, [and, yes, it's interplay and feedback with the limbic system, emotional hardwire algorithyms, etc]. Someone who is depressed has a reason to be depressed they may not even be directly consciously and overtly aware of the reason [Freud, however wrong he was on many points, hit the tail on the not-looked-at head with the notion of defense mechanisms {and, indeed, much of general conventional human personal existance is too often largely defined by such (someone may be an intelligent specialist, a great physicist, mathematician, or rocket scientist... but still goes home and beats there children and watches professional football with a bud light)}]*
People who are depressed have a real reason to be depressed. Even the fact that [although this is somewhat open to statistical scritiny / counteraguement] a brain scan of a depressed person can have different properties from a delighted or satisfied person, dosen't mean that the substance and cause of that sorrow or elation, isn't nontheless a matter entirely of the cognitive and symbolic content of their minds.
In other words, it's not a hardware problem instead, it's a matter of the structure of a person and their psychological relation to interaction with the necisities of the world around and outside of them.
Beyond that, even... I firmly believe that modern psychicatry is a fraud, more than that, an evil. It helps to obviate the otherwise legitimate symptoms of disatisfaction with the current life [an unhappy] person finds themselves within, and instead helps to numb them into a zombified tolerance and satisfaction with a status quo that their inner self is otherwise screaming out against
SUBDERMAL GPS
+ Reality TV
+ Cops
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Running man, here we come!
Don't forget about the total lunar eclipse coming in less than a week. [May 16]. Very romantic! Have fun.
I watched it in mplayer with no dificulties whatsoever. Did you bother to install the QT codecs? Duh.
It's not far away... there are already prototypes, and it will probably be widely commercially available any time now. It allows you to see through walls, clothes, etc. And with passive terrahertz imagers, it won't even require irradiating the subject with radio waves. The possible infringements of privacy are amazing.
Total rubbbish!
;) ]... but I would strongly argue that in all cases the diversity and multitude of the free software world is one of it's greatest strengths. Emacs vs. vim vs. etc, gdb vs. ddd vs etc, mencoder vs. transcode vs. etc...
The competition of multiple attempts to approach the same thing is nothing but healthy. Let's not forget the rampent cross-pollination that takes place in the even moderately succesfull software products. I just set up firewire for my new miniDV camcorder the other night, and I couldn't help but notice examples of it everywhere. One utility used a version of quicktime4linux [from heroinewarrior/cinelerra fame]. FFmpeg [and it's libavcodec subsystem], which started out as a streaming server [and still is] has been adopted all over the place in video land. But I still like to use xvid with mencoder, cause it's artifacts are somehow preferable to my own personal psychvisual aesthetics. I don't mean to ramble [very little sleep, what with my new toy last night, and having to get up for work this morning
I find myself wondering if the currently prevalent conformist patriotic meme running about these days has somehow begun to infect people in more bizare respects.
Battle for the desktop? Pshaw. The honest fact is, that linux is -far more- usuable on the desktop to a serious computer user. Has been for a good while. As for the lusers out there who buy $40-$60 ieee1394 cables at best buy, and have learned to pop in a disk and see an installation wizard pop up, so they can dutifully click OK and I ACCEPT a few times... That is the beloved desktop, that we think linux should strive towards?!
There will be some companies, lindows or whomever, who will encapsulate the marvelous sophistication and subtletie of linux, into a comfortable and homogonized straitjacket world of user-friendly bliss. I have no problem with that, indeed, the multifarious oppurtunities of open source encourage all manner of repackaging and redesign. Which is a Good Thing.
Although, how is an under-appreciated movie, to be moderated up, as it is obviously not well known? Heh.
This is really a great movie, a moving and very intelligent dystopia, that oddly enough, was produced as a 'showtime original movie' [which are usually softcore porn or bad action flicks]. Someone with vision somehow managed to get the money to produce this, however.
It's really good. As a story, it's better than Brazil, if you can overlook the cheap production values and low-budget special effects.
It's also one of those rare cases where the movie is actually better than the literature on which it's based. It's based on a Kurt Vonegutt(sp?) short story that was only a page or two, more an allegory than a full fledged story. Whomever wrote the script ran with the ideas of the story and turned it into a length movie. It's a truly beautifull, subversive, and deep story, that no one has ever heard of.
to linux-2.4.20
It fails on include/linux/sched.h with default patch options. Which kind of sucks. You can get it to 'work' by giving patch a fuzz-factor of 3, but then the build fails. Not a very usefull patch. /usr/src /otherhome/stor/src/linux/linux-2.4.20.tar.bz2 | tar xv
cd
mv linux-2.4.20 linux-2.4.20_OLD
bzcat
cd linux-2.4.20
patch -p1
fails at include/linux/sched.h
If you do 'patch -p1 -F 3' instead, it won't fail, but the fuzz factor obviously leads to a patch error, as the compilation breaks [as soon as include/linux/sched.h is included, BTW]
I mean, I appreciate knowing that my system is horribly vulnerable, but a WORKING FIX would sure be nice.
Because I have my mom and dad running linux. Have for years, since before mozilla came down the pike. They were perfectly content with the old binary-only netscape and staroffice. Now they run mozilla and openoffice, and those are the only types of application that most non-technophiles really ever run. Oh, and the gnome games, of course. [Mom couldn't get by without solitare and mah-jong]. Linux not ready for the desktop? Phhhht.
C4 73 DF 4A 97 9C 27 A9 EE 4F B2 BD 55 B5 E0 0F Everyone should check this, before installing.
I recently bought a miniDV camera for only $320 dollars, new. Same price as a drive, faster backup and you can use it as a video camera, too.
Are Rsbep - FEC for dvbackup
and dvbackup
Using them is relatively straightforward. Actually, it looks like rspep is a generic implementation of reed solomon error correction, which would make it usefull to storing information on any somewhat lossy or error-prone media.
In the spirit of repetition...
Easy to defeat, just use spamming software that dynamically increases it's connection pool whenever it encounters a 'slow' SMTP recipient. Even if a large part of the net population were running this, the spammer could just spawn thousands of simultanious (slowed down, yes) connections, and still maximize his bandwidth utilization. If it takes 2 minutes to send each message, it dosen't matter if he's sending 5000 messages at once!
I believe linux, for example, allows up to 8192 open sockets, and I think this can be changes with a sysctl command, and most definitely could be with a few changes to kernel headers.
Sure, it would take a machine with decent memory, but that's not too hard to find.
Easy to defeat, just use spamming software that dynamically increases it's connection pool whenever it encounters a 'slow' SMTP recipient. Even if a large part of the net population were running this, the spammer could just spawn thousands of simultanious (slowed down, yes) connections, and still maximize his bandwidth utilization. If it takes 2 minutes to send each message, it dosen't matter if he's sending 5000 messages at once!
I believe linux, for example, allows up to 8192 open sockets, and I think this can be changes with a sysctl command, and most definitely could be with a few changes to kernel headers.
Sure, it would take a machine with decent memory, but that's not too hard to find.
Normally, I'm not the conspiracy-theory type, tending more towards occam's razor and healthy skepticism, but This article , on an admitedly rather left-leaning publication, if at all accurate in merely it's factual assertions, disturbs me to no end. And of course, there's no mention in the mainstream media.
...in which the current dumb-user-centric model has ascended to the point that it begins to conquer volition and personal descision making. The computer tells you what ingrediants to pick in the kitchen, it worrys about how many guests you have, and then tells you a recipie apropos to them... perhaps, soon enough, an earpiece will tell you what to say to them...
This level of automation is only apropriate to the mentally handicapped or infirm! Computers are wonderfull things, if you want to understand them and tell them to solve a problem... but if ms's ideal vision of the future is a world in which you are incapable of deciding on your own what to do, a world of insurgent 'user friendliness' to the point that the computers are directing our behavior [in a socially usefull and constructive way, no doubt] instead of using them as tools... it's ugly, and it's the ultimate fulfillment of user-friendliness. I just can't wait for the 'so I'm a women now' birds and the bees wizards to instruct parents and children on that special path of adolescance [only $99.95 for this special upgrade pack!]
Scary.
as taken from this ranting article
let's encourage ISP's to destroy accessibility to an essential service on the internet, in a misbegotten attempt to lessen illegitimate access. I don't want my connection censored! I enjoy having home broadband and running my own little server on it. My sendmail is set up to disable relaying, it's not like it's hard, and that is the true solution to spam. Spammers will always find a service that allows them the access they need, but this idiotic talk of blocking/censoring vital services/protocals doesn't help the rest of us.
BTW: Cause I run my own port 25 and have a static IP and a domain name, I get hardly any spam, personally. Why? Because I give out a different novel seperate address to everyone, and keep them all aliased to forward to my main account. If one becomes contaminated by spam, I simply delete it. If it actually was an address I gave to a correspondant [and not to some website, which is almost universally is] I only have to inform one person of a new address... come to think of it, that's only happened once...