Wrong.
Making laws on how content is distributed is every bit a free speech issue as what is in the content itself. Institutions for more than 150 years in the US have tried a variety of institutional means to keep publications from distributing their work, using laws on litter and such nuisances. SCOTUS threw each on out on its ear and justifiably so.
This anti-spam measure will die a horrible SCOTUS death if there is any jstice in the world. The measure is PURE censorship.
cd/../CHILDPORNGUYs.porn.trove.directory
ls -al >>../adminsdirectory/CHILDPORNGUYlog.txt
chown root:root *.* >>../adminsdirectory/CHILDPORNGUY.txt
chmod 000 *.*../adminsdirectory/CHILDPORNGUYlog.txt
chattr +i *.*../adminsdirectory/CHILDPORNGUYlog.txt
When CHILDPORNGUY bitches about not being able to get to his files, tell him to take it up with his boss.
Now you have a log of your actions, and a log of the files in question. You are protected, and so is your company.
Of course, I have no idea what to do if the files are on an NT server.
I have been running a Redhat server at my job for four years this coming up summer, a second one as a backup repository for two years. (I know, but before you jump on me, they worked five computers and a server with NO BACKUPS for close to 20 years before I came home and began computer work with them. Before I showed up they lost three full databases to administrator screw ups) I run two Redhat computers at home, one a personal internet machine. Have gone through several hardware and Redhat OS upgrades, equipment breakdowns at work, but I have never lost data using Linux/Redhat.
I find it difficult to believe that someone would say the Ext2 file system loses data with any credibility. Through screaming and cussing I got my family to agree to a Linux-based backup respository because I found that MS has an extremely poor file system. I found out at one point that MS lost about 90 percent of my backed up data. Not only that, but I found that my Windows computers were using data that should have been deleted, and NOT using data that Windows said was still there.
From that harrowing experience, I routinely check my Linux backups, my log files and other tools/shell scripts I have programmed and they are always correct, always flawless. Using MS for anything other than a desktop for me is just asking for trouble.
Open source or closed source, there is NO WAY I would buy any new software product without also purchasing some kind of support.
If MS doesn't provide adequete software support, some of their vendors or independant consultants can supply such support. The same goes for open source vendors. They know they are selling something which is free, but it is the support I purchase from them, not necessarily the software itself.
Actually I prefer the Unix philosophy of tiny programs performing a single simple function, then exiting from memory. I guess that make me 'outdated' or whatever paradigm MS is trying to push, but so be it.
I see 'innovation' from Microsoft as some tiny graphical module performing a task that can easily be scripted in Linux in the background. Microsoft reminds me of a guy trying to sell me an overpriced car loaded with everything, but as an 'innovation', they include an ass-scratcher at no extra charge. Just who the fuck needs an ass-scratcher?
You gotta understand: I am an old guy and when I 'discovered' Redhat 5.1, that was all I needed. As I learned Linux and appreciated it more and more, I became more in love with it and more and more comfortable with it. Things I like about Linux 1) Perl scripting 2) Bash scripting 3) A secure file system, so secure I kinda scare myself with the smugness Linux gives me.
Now I have no experience with Windows' NT type products, but I do not like what I have heard, and I do understand that inasmuch as there is some element of scripting in MS's NT product line, it is truly not as deep and comprehensive as the tools you have with Linux.
Mr. Ballmer is a dynamic salesman. I will give him that much, but I gusss I have to tell him from my teeny, tiny corner of the world: No sale, move along.
What the hell does what a parent can afford have to do with censorship? Fact is in the instance of the Harry Potter books the only thing that happened was the books were placed on a restricted list, still allowing ANYONE to check out the books as long as they have parential permission? What is wrong with that?
In the few articles I have read I did not see any instance in which the production of works if art was subject to prior restraint.
Do the rest of us a favor who do not see an FBI agent around every corner, stop calling every administrative attempt to restrict a display of objectional art to children censorship.
Whether this organization agrees with it or not parents and citizens have a right to restict objectional art from being displayed using publicly funded means, every bit as much as the artists have in producing then getting publishers to distribute and/or display their garbage.
Librarians protecting their customers from the prying eyes of the 'man.' Sorry, no sale here.
I swear I don't know which is worse, some of the sillier parts of the Patriot act or liberals jerking off to the tune of, "You are violating my rights!!"
Sorry folks, you go to a library, you have no expectations of privacy. A public library is a public institution and if public policy determines that your checkout list should be available to the police, then it will be so. In some areas, a late or overdue book will will earn you a citation and those are definately public record, so don't let your books get overdue, or librarians will be forced to shred your documents keep you from the prying eyes of the 'man.'
The main argument is public records. You do business with a public institution in the United States in most states, your records are available to everyone, except for income taxes, and even those are available for the price of a supoena from law enforcement.
Now, if you want to maintain your rights to privacy, you can go to a bookstore and buy your book using good old American cash, and I promise not even the local police will so much as raise an eyelid, or even drop a donut of interest with you.
I am preparing to replace two older PII boxes with brand-spanking new Celerons. I could go to the discount houses and get a computer with XP, but since I want the clients to all be the same and the same type, I will stick with Win98s.
To ensure that, I buy new boards and processors, and install the OS with the drivers in a CD that comes with the boards. I will spend around $400 for the boxes only, and were Palladium to impose new rules for boards and processor which would restrict this activity, I would be too happy to pay more for the privilidge to maintain the homogeneity of the clients.
The shop I buy these boxes from is a gung-ho MS shop all the way, but given they get my repair business and I have purchased two boxes to be used as servers, they will assemble 'naked' boxes and cheerfully sell them to me, and I would expect them to do the same should some of the rules change with regard to DRM and all that.
I think it is silly to believe that Congress or any other governmental unit would be so stupid to give MS such as gift as the concerns which surround DRM and Palladium.
I can see where there may be concern for MS tightening their monopoly, but seriously they are about as ubiquitous an element in computing as has ever been in any industrial sector; and I fail to see how getting a half-assed outfit like Office Depot to grab its ankles is going to do anything more than to give MS an 'in' to the office supply business.
PostgreSQL can be imposing to a newbie/hacker, but the permissions are relatively easy. A user, any user, can be God of Postgresql, and any changes including assigning permission ( plain Jane Linux users) are done by God and his group. So it is simply a matter of creating a Pg group, adding the group to users you want to have expanded privilidges, and now you have a group who can use PostgreSQL. All you do from that point is to designate which tables who can access and whether they can select, update, etc.
Now I will grant you the permissions system seems kind of convoluted, but once you get used to it, it makes good sense to have a user operate the database.
I really like PostgreSQL, and after years of struggling with Windows databases and being unable to do anything more than watch helplessly as I get table locks, and experience other problems, I bought a PostgreSQL distro which fit the bill for me and my family's company.
And as soon as I can get clearance to program the scripts to implement it, I will be saying goodbye to the Windows world for good.
I have tried other open source databases including MySQL. I can't say anything bad about MySQL, (mostly because I couldn't get it set up) except that to me MySQL was every bit as convoluted to setup as PostgreSQL.
I genuinely wish the good people at MySQL the best of luck with their new version. I will stick with PostgreSQL, however, since I have learned to be familiar with it.
Yes, time to switch to something else; avoid watching a program with pinko commie anti-war moll Susan Sarandon.
Take a stand now. Don't record this series or give the Sci-Fi channel your attention.
Do the right thing. Boycott the Children of Dune.
(Slip my troll/off topic tag underneath my door, I will be watching NCAA basketball.)
data is a huge issue with me. We are moving into Redhat Linux/Postgresql hopefully early summer, but I am hedging bets on the database data by maintaining copies in CSV format, just in case, I ever have to move back to MS.
What a fucking idiot you are. You and the moderator should be ashamed of yourselves. Did anyone bother reading the linked article.
The person in question arrested had made threatening remarks in an internet chat room about the president.
Trust me, and let me say if someone logs onto a chat room and make threatening remarks about the president I will fall all over myself grabbing a phone to call the cops on the bastard.
Why don't you make sure you post ALL the facts rather than sensationalizing a threat to the president? Making threats against the president in this age of fighting terrorism is a serious offense.
I hope the guy gets sent up for it.
I use both Samba and nfs.
I am not that experienced in ways *nix, but I really really like nfs. I use nfs to tell my storage server whether to actally back up to to just shut down. Works like a dream.
I am so sure but I have heard you can type Linux: old at loadlin prompt and get a previous install or some kind of priviledge. Someone else me out here svp.
If you think that charging a penny per email would cut down spam you need a reality check. Paying for bulk email would most likely cause an explosion in SPAM in most people's email boxes. To advertisers it still costs money to put together the ad and prepare it and to send it. These are real costs. The SPAMMER pays for an ISP that permits spam obviously, and has to pay for recording the results. To me, the only institution giving me that funny smile in anticipation of further empying my wallet is MS and maybe the federal government. Paying for the privelidge of sending email is just another cost of doing business the client would eventually pay. BTW, that means you and me, folks.
Why should non-profits get a pass in SPAM. the Post Office offers reduced rates, but they don;t get a pass regardless. Why should they in email?
My question is: Will Microsoft allow itself to be billed if a virus propogated on their crappy mail software, puts me over the 'spam limit?'
I guess if this somehow becomes codified then all email clients will be required to have this type of module be installed. I'm not worried as long as Mozilla keeps up.
Microsoft has the means to buy any forum they want many, many times over.
Now, why are they allowed to speak at a forum for a concept they have sworn to kill again?
Oh, that's right, because otherwise Linux folks (of all people) are elitists iffin' they don't offer MS a soapbox.
To me, that's a little like letting the board of directors a say-so in a union meeting. You know it's fair to do it, but the rest of the rank and file are left scratching their collective heads wondering why.
As for the remark about MS being framed in the worse light possible in slashdot, here's a little hint: You become top of the heap with 90 plus percent of your market and a $40 Billion pocket book and you'd better be DAMN good or every little fault is going to shine through.
The idea is supposed to be when times are good, you should slash taxes and spending, keep the cost and size of government low. Any downturn could easily be tempered in this way. When a downturn does come the damage, politically, would be reduced.
Governments should increases its spending, to counteract the psychology of the economic doldrums, and yes increases some taxes taxes to pay for the increased spending; but all of this on a temporary basis.
Some of you will say, oh yeah? Bush cut taxes and the economy is in terrible shape, especially in IT. To which I reply wrong: Look at Microsoft and their huge pocketbook. Someone's doing really well, though California based IT firms may not be.
But you know there is no such thing as a temporary tax or a temporary initiative. Taxes have a funny way of becoming permenant. When economies recover, as all free economies do, the spending and taxes done to help recovery are forgotten, as the new crop of politicians arrive and declare how Evil Corporations(TM) are destroying America and that increasing their taxes is the only way to deal with these bastards, and to watch these Evil Entities, more state workers are hired and promised retirement for the noble task they are charged with; and thus governemnt in size, complexity and costs, increases. No one quite notices until the next downturn comes that maybe, MAYBE the wise thing to do would have been to cut taxes and slash government payrolls while times are good.
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Actually I hope California does impose internet sales taxes because the entire concept of taxing sales to folks in other states will be thrown out the window. One people realize that their $500.oo Ebay purchase is subjected to local sales taxes, you will see so many lawsuits you will think the enabling act for taxing internet sales should have been called the California Internet Sales Tax AND Federal Attorney Full Employment Act.
As one of my favorite Californians would say: Go ahead. Make my day.
Under criminal laws it is illegal to audit, but you can throw your rights out the window when it comes to civil law. It is a whole 'nother ball game if the BSA thinks you are illegal and a local law firm they have hired can clean up using you in civil court.
In civil law, you really have no rights, except to hire a lawyer. Everything else is fair game.
If the BSA comes knocking with a letter from a local law firm, you are hosed if you can't show you have the licenses.
Slashdot Mirror
You know if any of the rest of us mortals used an equivelent disparaging term for blacks in a quote, we would be modded down to a negative number.
Wrong. Making laws on how content is distributed is every bit a free speech issue as what is in the content itself. Institutions for more than 150 years in the US have tried a variety of institutional means to keep publications from distributing their work, using laws on litter and such nuisances. SCOTUS threw each on out on its ear and justifiably so. This anti-spam measure will die a horrible SCOTUS death if there is any jstice in the world. The measure is PURE censorship.
With a $30 billion plus deficit, kindly explain where they are going to get the money to provide the resouces to support spam prosecutions.
See: http://mozillaquest.com/Linux03/ScoSource-01_Story 03.html
It doesn't appear to affect any of the more popular distros, such as Redhat.
cd /../CHILDPORNGUYs.porn.trove.directory
ls -al >> ../adminsdirectory/CHILDPORNGUYlog.txt
chown root:root *.* >> ../adminsdirectory/CHILDPORNGUY.txt
chmod 000 *.* ../adminsdirectory/CHILDPORNGUYlog.txt
chattr +i *.* ../adminsdirectory/CHILDPORNGUYlog.txt
When CHILDPORNGUY bitches about not being able to get to his files, tell him to take it up with his boss.
Now you have a log of your actions, and a log of the files in question. You are protected, and so is your company.
Of course, I have no idea what to do if the files are on an NT server.
Can't I just send them $10.00 and call it even?
By scheduler you mean cron, right?
I have been running a Redhat server at my job for four years this coming up summer, a second one as a backup repository for two years. (I know, but before you jump on me, they worked five computers and a server with NO BACKUPS for close to 20 years before I came home and began computer work with them. Before I showed up they lost three full databases to administrator screw ups) I run two Redhat computers at home, one a personal internet machine. Have gone through several hardware and Redhat OS upgrades, equipment breakdowns at work, but I have never lost data using Linux/Redhat.
I find it difficult to believe that someone would say the Ext2 file system loses data with any credibility. Through screaming and cussing I got my family to agree to a Linux-based backup respository because I found that MS has an extremely poor file system. I found out at one point that MS lost about 90 percent of my backed up data. Not only that, but I found that my Windows computers were using data that should have been deleted, and NOT using data that Windows said was still there.
From that harrowing experience, I routinely check my Linux backups, my log files and other tools/shell scripts I have programmed and they are always correct, always flawless. Using MS for anything other than a desktop for me is just asking for trouble.
If MS doesn't provide adequete software support, some of their vendors or independant consultants can supply such support. The same goes for open source vendors. They know they are selling something which is free, but it is the support I purchase from them, not necessarily the software itself.
I see 'innovation' from Microsoft as some tiny graphical module performing a task that can easily be scripted in Linux in the background. Microsoft reminds me of a guy trying to sell me an overpriced car loaded with everything, but as an 'innovation', they include an ass-scratcher at no extra charge. Just who the fuck needs an ass-scratcher?
You gotta understand: I am an old guy and when I 'discovered' Redhat 5.1, that was all I needed. As I learned Linux and appreciated it more and more, I became more in love with it and more and more comfortable with it. Things I like about Linux 1) Perl scripting 2) Bash scripting 3) A secure file system, so secure I kinda scare myself with the smugness Linux gives me.
Now I have no experience with Windows' NT type products, but I do not like what I have heard, and I do understand that inasmuch as there is some element of scripting in MS's NT product line, it is truly not as deep and comprehensive as the tools you have with Linux.
Mr. Ballmer is a dynamic salesman. I will give him that much, but I gusss I have to tell him from my teeny, tiny corner of the world: No sale, move along.
Where's the censor ship?
Do the rest of us a favor who do not see an FBI agent around every corner, stop calling every administrative attempt to restrict a display of objectional art to children censorship.
Whether this organization agrees with it or not parents and citizens have a right to restict objectional art from being displayed using publicly funded means, every bit as much as the artists have in producing then getting publishers to distribute and/or display their garbage.
I swear I don't know which is worse, some of the sillier parts of the Patriot act or liberals jerking off to the tune of, "You are violating my rights!!"
Sorry folks, you go to a library, you have no expectations of privacy. A public library is a public institution and if public policy determines that your checkout list should be available to the police, then it will be so. In some areas, a late or overdue book will will earn you a citation and those are definately public record, so don't let your books get overdue, or librarians will be forced to shred your documents keep you from the prying eyes of the 'man.'
The main argument is public records. You do business with a public institution in the United States in most states, your records are available to everyone, except for income taxes, and even those are available for the price of a supoena from law enforcement.
Now, if you want to maintain your rights to privacy, you can go to a bookstore and buy your book using good old American cash, and I promise not even the local police will so much as raise an eyelid, or even drop a donut of interest with you.
I am preparing to replace two older PII boxes with brand-spanking new Celerons. I could go to the discount houses and get a computer with XP, but since I want the clients to all be the same and the same type, I will stick with Win98s.
To ensure that, I buy new boards and processors, and install the OS with the drivers in a CD that comes with the boards. I will spend around $400 for the boxes only, and were Palladium to impose new rules for boards and processor which would restrict this activity, I would be too happy to pay more for the privilidge to maintain the homogeneity of the clients.
The shop I buy these boxes from is a gung-ho MS shop all the way, but given they get my repair business and I have purchased two boxes to be used as servers, they will assemble 'naked' boxes and cheerfully sell them to me, and I would expect them to do the same should some of the rules change with regard to DRM and all that.
I think it is silly to believe that Congress or any other governmental unit would be so stupid to give MS such as gift as the concerns which surround DRM and Palladium.
I can see where there may be concern for MS tightening their monopoly, but seriously they are about as ubiquitous an element in computing as has ever been in any industrial sector; and I fail to see how getting a half-assed outfit like Office Depot to grab its ankles is going to do anything more than to give MS an 'in' to the office supply business.
Now I will grant you the permissions system seems kind of convoluted, but once you get used to it, it makes good sense to have a user operate the database.
I really like PostgreSQL, and after years of struggling with Windows databases and being unable to do anything more than watch helplessly as I get table locks, and experience other problems, I bought a PostgreSQL distro which fit the bill for me and my family's company.
And as soon as I can get clearance to program the scripts to implement it, I will be saying goodbye to the Windows world for good.
I have tried other open source databases including MySQL. I can't say anything bad about MySQL, (mostly because I couldn't get it set up) except that to me MySQL was every bit as convoluted to setup as PostgreSQL.
I genuinely wish the good people at MySQL the best of luck with their new version. I will stick with PostgreSQL, however, since I have learned to be familiar with it.
Yes, time to switch to something else; avoid watching a program with pinko commie anti-war moll Susan Sarandon. Take a stand now. Don't record this series or give the Sci-Fi channel your attention. Do the right thing. Boycott the Children of Dune. (Slip my troll/off topic tag underneath my door, I will be watching NCAA basketball.)
** shudder **
What a fucking idiot you are. You and the moderator should be ashamed of yourselves. Did anyone bother reading the linked article. The person in question arrested had made threatening remarks in an internet chat room about the president. Trust me, and let me say if someone logs onto a chat room and make threatening remarks about the president I will fall all over myself grabbing a phone to call the cops on the bastard. Why don't you make sure you post ALL the facts rather than sensationalizing a threat to the president? Making threats against the president in this age of fighting terrorism is a serious offense. I hope the guy gets sent up for it.
It had by God better be better! I am fixing to change over my family's company computers to all Linux in a few months.
I use both Samba and nfs. I am not that experienced in ways *nix, but I really really like nfs. I use nfs to tell my storage server whether to actally back up to to just shut down. Works like a dream.
I am so sure but I have heard you can type Linux: old at loadlin prompt and get a previous install or some kind of priviledge. Someone else me out here svp.
Why should non-profits get a pass in SPAM. the Post Office offers reduced rates, but they don;t get a pass regardless. Why should they in email?
My question is: Will Microsoft allow itself to be billed if a virus propogated on their crappy mail software, puts me over the 'spam limit?'
I guess if this somehow becomes codified then all email clients will be required to have this type of module be installed. I'm not worried as long as Mozilla keeps up.
Now, why are they allowed to speak at a forum for a concept they have sworn to kill again?
Oh, that's right, because otherwise Linux folks (of all people) are elitists iffin' they don't offer MS a soapbox.
To me, that's a little like letting the board of directors a say-so in a union meeting. You know it's fair to do it, but the rest of the rank and file are left scratching their collective heads wondering why.
As for the remark about MS being framed in the worse light possible in slashdot, here's a little hint: You become top of the heap with 90 plus percent of your market and a $40 Billion pocket book and you'd better be DAMN good or every little fault is going to shine through.
Governments should increases its spending, to counteract the psychology of the economic doldrums, and yes increases some taxes taxes to pay for the increased spending; but all of this on a temporary basis.
Some of you will say, oh yeah? Bush cut taxes and the economy is in terrible shape, especially in IT. To which I reply wrong: Look at Microsoft and their huge pocketbook. Someone's doing really well, though California based IT firms may not be.
But you know there is no such thing as a temporary tax or a temporary initiative. Taxes have a funny way of becoming permenant. When economies recover, as all free economies do, the spending and taxes done to help recovery are forgotten, as the new crop of politicians arrive and declare how Evil Corporations(TM) are destroying America and that increasing their taxes is the only way to deal with these bastards, and to watch these Evil Entities, more state workers are hired and promised retirement for the noble task they are charged with; and thus governemnt in size, complexity and costs, increases. No one quite notices until the next downturn comes that maybe, MAYBE the wise thing to do would have been to cut taxes and slash government payrolls while times are good.
. Actually I hope California does impose internet sales taxes because the entire concept of taxing sales to folks in other states will be thrown out the window. One people realize that their $500.oo Ebay purchase is subjected to local sales taxes, you will see so many lawsuits you will think the enabling act for taxing internet sales should have been called the California Internet Sales Tax AND Federal Attorney Full Employment Act.
As one of my favorite Californians would say: Go ahead. Make my day.
In civil law, you really have no rights, except to hire a lawyer. Everything else is fair game.
If the BSA comes knocking with a letter from a local law firm, you are hosed if you can't show you have the licenses.