There's a typical behavior to dismiss any research funded by someone who COULD have a bias. The only problem is, the truly unbiased people don't have an interest in the research!
I don't see a long line of philanthropic entities lineing up to provide competing service.
As much as the communal voice of Slashdot wants to make Microsoft out to be the Great Satan (tm), they DO add positively to our society. (Do you really think those extremely cheap hardware options you have would be there without M$?)
Not really. I let EVERYTHING into my inbox...there's another folder called 'whitelist'. I peruse my inbox occasionally and add folks/subjects/groups to the whitelist move rule as necessary.
Actually, in this case it was to patch the Orinoco drivers to work with kismet and do a little wardriving.
Ended up just booting into XP and using netstumbler.
Okay, we've got a new kernel. That's cool. I've built kernels before in the past...in the past.
Now with RH9, every time I try to make a custom kernal it pooches the system mightily. I'll lose video, or I won't get power, or it'll give LOTS of errors when starting up because I didn't have a Makefile just like Redhat's magic one.
So how would a person compile 2.4.22 and still have the same support as whatever RH9 based build they're currently running?
I've got a NetBSD box running as my external (wild, hairy, unsafe) webserver.
I'd spent quite a bit of time learning Redhat 8, relearned Redhat 9, and again started over with NetBSD. (looking at mandrake, gentoo, and a raft of others as well)
Why is is that these OS's are alike in name only? The package management is entirely different, the disk partitioning is entirely different, heck FINDING files is different ( find * | grep foo vs. find | grep foo)
Enough is slightly different to make it feel like you're learning over from scratch (adduser v. useradd), and enough is COMPLETELY different to prove the point.
One thing I've determined: If I get an applicant who says they know 'Unix' without specifying the flavor will get roundfiled.
I've gotta be in the minority then as changing video cards required a reinstall...and just this morning I went from a functional RH9 system to one I couldn't log into by installing a second network card.
And No, I'm not a clueless newbie. I tried using FIRE to get back in, I brought it up in single user mode and passwd'd root, I still could not log in.
Don't miss the museum of American History. It's not the most exciting title for a museum, but it's got trains, racecars, scale steam generation plants, computers, and other amazing geeky stuff that escapes me at the moment...it's a close second to the Air and Space Smithsonian.
Speaking of the Air and Space Smithsonian, it sure is wierd to walk in the front door and see THE Rutan airplane that flew around the world, and THE airplane Yeager broke the sound barrier in and THE first capsule to put an American in space.
They're not mockups, they're not models or 'artist representations', they're the _actual_items_.
The significant portion of your friends with fraud issues could just as likely be caused by a guy with loose morals at your healthcare provider...or car insurance...or doctor.
Have you ever considered the number of folks that have legitimate access to your name and SSN?
It will always take 11-12 pieces of media to back up my stuff.
Currently that's 11-12 CDR's, it used to be 10-12 floppies, then 10-12 zip disks.
So, I'm not due to upgrade to a DVD writer for a little bit.
Look at grocery store membership cards. They've been out for almost a decade now. Privacy pundits decried that the stores would know WAY TOO MUCH sensitive information by correlating users to their groceries.
I think I've received two mailings in the last four years that said: "Mr. Miller! Here are some wonderful coupons that are tailored to your unique shopping needs!"
Both times the results were laughable. Not a single coupon was for somethind I used, or wanted to use, or might have been persuaded to use, based on the data they've 'gathered'.
For the tinfoil hats out there, if my experience in Government is any indication, Big Brother doesn't have the resources or money or true knowledge to abuse this information the way you think they will.
When was the last time cookies were used to betray your privacy? They were a big hot nasty item in the near recient past too.
So Pale Nerdy folks _aren't_ responsible for all the NHL, NFL, Baseball, and NBA games sold each year? (Which HAS to be a racket bigger than Quicken [current year]/TurboTax [current year])
And here I thought they were just playing out their latent desire to be coordinated.
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More like CENSORED to me!
And no, it's not the one you think.
There's a typical behavior to dismiss any research funded by someone who COULD have a bias. The only problem is, the truly unbiased people don't have an interest in the research!
I don't see a long line of philanthropic entities lineing up to provide competing service.
As much as the communal voice of Slashdot wants to make Microsoft out to be the Great Satan (tm), they DO add positively to our society. (Do you really think those extremely cheap hardware options you have would be there without M$?)
Not really. I let EVERYTHING into my inbox...there's another folder called 'whitelist'. I peruse my inbox occasionally and add folks/subjects/groups to the whitelist move rule as necessary.
Actually, in this case it was to patch the Orinoco drivers to work with kismet and do a little wardriving. Ended up just booting into XP and using netstumbler.
Okay, we've got a new kernel. That's cool. I've built kernels before in the past...in the past.
Now with RH9, every time I try to make a custom kernal it pooches the system mightily. I'll lose video, or I won't get power, or it'll give LOTS of errors when starting up because I didn't have a Makefile just like Redhat's magic one.
So how would a person compile 2.4.22 and still have the same support as whatever RH9 based build they're currently running?
Becaues every single hotfix I've EVER applied required a reboot.
.DLL's .exe's .com's .txt's .jif's
What happened to them going from 50 situations that required a reboot to 6? (opening for a +5:funny below)
Of course, those 6 reboot situations are:
1. updating
2. updating
3. updating
4. updating
5. updating
6. updating printer settings.
Will embrace our new Amiga Overlords.
No worries. I'm the father of 8 month old twin boys and _I_ found it funny.
(The eldest, by two minutes, is disassembling his toys, God Love Him! -sniff!-)
I've got a NetBSD box running as my external (wild, hairy, unsafe) webserver.
I'd spent quite a bit of time learning Redhat 8, relearned Redhat 9, and again started over with NetBSD. (looking at mandrake, gentoo, and a raft of others as well)
Why is is that these OS's are alike in name only? The package management is entirely different, the disk partitioning is entirely different, heck FINDING files is different ( find * | grep foo vs. find | grep foo)
Enough is slightly different to make it feel like you're learning over from scratch (adduser v. useradd), and enough is COMPLETELY different to prove the point.
One thing I've determined: If I get an applicant who says they know 'Unix' without specifying the flavor will get roundfiled.
Where can I get an Elvish keyboard?
QWERTY,
DVORAK,
TENGWAR?
Boil the brauts in bud and onions, grill for a couple a minutes on the grill:
No second guessing if the brauts are cooked all the way though and it tastes GREAT!
I've gotta be in the minority then as changing video cards required a reinstall...and just this morning I went from a functional RH9 system to one I couldn't log into by installing a second network card.
And No, I'm not a clueless newbie. I tried using FIRE to get back in, I brought it up in single user mode and passwd'd root, I still could not log in.
Weren't you let in on the secret? Consumers are Linksys' beta testing group. See if a firmware update makes you WAP work better.
You could get a better product, but that extra $20 it costs just goes straight to QA.
RIAA: You're my father's Brother's Uncle's Sister's Roommate's Cousin.
Dude: What's that make me?
RIAA: Nothing, but we're suing you anyway.
Don't miss the museum of American History. It's not the most exciting title for a museum, but it's got trains, racecars, scale steam generation plants, computers, and other amazing geeky stuff that escapes me at the moment...it's a close second to the Air and Space Smithsonian.
Speaking of the Air and Space Smithsonian, it sure is wierd to walk in the front door and see THE Rutan airplane that flew around the world, and THE airplane Yeager broke the sound barrier in and THE first capsule to put an American in space.
They're not mockups, they're not models or 'artist representations', they're the _actual_items_.
Did you hear that HDTV is an area where Pr0n _isn't_ leading the field?
:O
Evidently you can see too much detail.
The significant portion of your friends with fraud issues could just as likely be caused by a guy with loose morals at your healthcare provider...or car insurance...or doctor.
Have you ever considered the number of folks that have legitimate access to your name and SSN?
It will always take 11-12 pieces of media to back up my stuff. Currently that's 11-12 CDR's, it used to be 10-12 floppies, then 10-12 zip disks. So, I'm not due to upgrade to a DVD writer for a little bit.
If Darpa is getting a brain, Does that mean Hussein is getting a heart, and the part of Dorothy is being played by Bush Jr?
(And introducing Ret. Gen. Powell as Toto.)
Don't ask any questions we can't answer...
What?
.
Look at grocery store membership cards. They've been out for almost a decade now. Privacy pundits decried that the stores would know WAY TOO MUCH sensitive information by correlating users to their groceries.
I think I've received two mailings in the last four years that said: "Mr. Miller! Here are some wonderful coupons that are tailored to your unique shopping needs!"
Both times the results were laughable. Not a single coupon was for somethind I used, or wanted to use, or might have been persuaded to use, based on the data they've 'gathered'.
For the tinfoil hats out there, if my experience in Government is any indication, Big Brother doesn't have the resources or money or true knowledge to abuse this information the way you think they will.
When was the last time cookies were used to betray your privacy? They were a big hot nasty item in the near recient past too.
So Pale Nerdy folks _aren't_ responsible for all the NHL, NFL, Baseball, and NBA games sold each year? (Which HAS to be a racket bigger than Quicken [current year]/TurboTax [current year])
And here I thought they were just playing out their latent desire to be coordinated.