I got one student last year who didn't graduate. Since the day after he left i receive hundreds of spams a day at my office account. Not much you can do about that. (I could sue him, of course, but I don't want to do that.)
Doing it yourself is the hard way, and failures do still happen...
If you really want to be sure you're not losing your work, just post it on the internet, a newsgroup, filesharing program or whatever. If more people have your code/document, you're not going to lose it.
i'm not going to say there is a country that doesn't do anything wrong, but you shouldn't focus that much on a single fact. I'm sure you can recall some more evil facts about france, but when we're counting the U.S. will win (or lose, depending on your point of view;-)
It has a reason that respectable philosophers like Jacques Derrida, Jurgen Habermas, Umberto Eco, Richard Rorty, Gianni Vattimo, Adolf Muschg, Fernando Savater, Noam Chomsky,... are all openly against the current US actions.
The reason for that is that US decisions and 'defense' are a serious treat to world peace, no matter what your officials try to make you believe. In fact, i'm afraid your whole democracy is becoming a fake. What makes it even more dangerous is that the US is a country that had his moment of glory but is going down for years now. Your whole economy is a disaster and i don't even want to begin to describe your social security system. (Prove me wrong in 20 years:-)
Of course I'm not suprised that simple people (about 80% of the inhabitants of any country) are influenced easily by the manipulated media in your country. What does suprise me is that it even affects some intelligent slasdot readers.
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This is a serious Comment: i'm not even bashing your president.
We would be better off without a start. Why should we care if the DoD want's to spend it's money on commercial software? To put is quite simply, every penny those fanatics spend software can't be spend on weapons any more.
... the Microsoft add in the middle of the page? It was misplaced (flasmovie) and covered a part of the article. This actually means that Microsoft is even censoring articles that mention Open Source!:-)
And when I right-clicked on it, I could give doubleclick.net permission to use my microphone and camera. How's that for privacy. (OK, it's turned of by default, but it scares me anyway.)
Of course the Iraqis cannot take action. That is not what the US wants them to do. It is just part of their psychological warfare.
Which reminds me, the US should wait with starting a war until after the UN made its full report on januari 27. This shows that they've started already. They just don't care about the UN report. Psychological warfare is also a part of a war, after all...
Strange..., I thought it was forbidden to extradite someone to a country where the death penalty still exists? (Which is the case in the U.S., no?) Is this not against Human Rights?
"It would seem to me that in the long haul, Microsoft would support such efforts because they could sell more devices (and potentially more software if they licensed an opensource validation library)... "
But MS does not make a real profit on the devices, only on the software. The XBoxes are dead cheap to make sure people by them, instead of other gaming consoles. So if you have a mod chip that allows the xbox to run other software, even if it's not illegal, then you're still a pain in the ass for microsoft because people use and (possibly) buy less of their software.
I recently ordered 35 Optiplex pc's from Dell, without operating system. Just today, I got an email from Dell, stating I must confirm by email that I already have sufficient licenses. They are apparently not allowed by Microsoft to sell pc's without OS unless they get this email from me.
Of course this is all wrong. It's not microsoft's task to make companies check every license. I should not be obligated to tell anyone what I will run on my pc's before I am allowed to buy them.
I propose the skyline-licence-plate. And as a primer, it should come in two kinds. On front of the car it pictures the New York skyline before september 11th, on the back you get the same picture, but without the WTC.
Like a Dutch singer(Boudewijn De Groot) says in his song 'Mr. President':
It is exactly this average man that, when asked to do so, can use a gun and kill innocent people whithout asking questions...but do not worry and sleep on in your big white house.
Didn't expect someone to take this serious, but it would be a good joke indeed. But I must dissapoint you, I can only program in Object Pascal and PHP (at this time!), which are both unlikely to be of any use for this kind of project.
Re:Suggestion for coders about "LILO"-expanding.
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...and after that, we'll install a tarantella server so the user can run every program he needs from the webtop enabled LILO.
Hell, why are we still running an operating system on every PC? For die-hard bash-users, we'll just include an ssh client instead of the web interface.
... why games IN Linux don't sell. Is anyone working on quake for LILO?
Oh wait! let us play xbill on the boot screen. If Bill wins, the system boots Windows. If I win, I get my Linux back.
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I know of Ubizen, a Belgian security firm, that filters out all of the Outlook posts from its incoming mail for al of its users.
They simply send the message back, including an explanation to the sender that it isn't quite safe to use Outlook and that they're only allowing mail from other mail-clients. Considering this comes from a renown security firm, a lot of people take this advise very seriously.
Of course, this isn't quite the same thing but it still is an interesting way to look at the 'Outlook Problem'.
I`m using Ximian Red Carpet for almost half a year now, and I`m wondering what`s the difference between these. Seems to me that all the advantages (fast servers, package control,...) are also available in Red Carpet, for free. PLUS when you use RC, you don`t only have the RedHat Channel, there`s also Ximian Gnome`s own channel, Staroffice, Loki Games, Codeweavers,... I`d like to support RedHat in some way, but there must be something I can`t get elsewhere.
Do you mean 'thousands' like in:
"Thousands of people are starving every day because the US and Western Europe are so rich allready that poorer country's can never compete with them." ?
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I got one student last year who didn't graduate. Since the day after he left i receive hundreds of spams a day at my office account. Not much you can do about that. (I could sue him, of course, but I don't want to do that.)
Doing it yourself is the hard way, and failures do still happen... If you really want to be sure you're not losing your work, just post it on the internet, a newsgroup, filesharing program or whatever. If more people have your code/document, you're not going to lose it.
It has a reason that respectable philosophers like Jacques Derrida, Jurgen Habermas, Umberto Eco, Richard Rorty, Gianni Vattimo, Adolf Muschg, Fernando Savater, Noam Chomsky, ... are all openly against the current US actions.
The reason for that is that US decisions and 'defense' are a serious treat to world peace, no matter what your officials try to make you believe. In fact, i'm afraid your whole democracy is becoming a fake. What makes it even more dangerous is that the US is a country that had his moment of glory but is going down for years now. Your whole economy is a disaster and i don't even want to begin to describe your social security system. (Prove me wrong in 20 years :-)
Of course I'm not suprised that simple people (about 80% of the inhabitants of any country) are influenced easily by the manipulated media in your country. What does suprise me is that it even affects some intelligent slasdot readers.
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This is a serious Comment: i'm not even bashing your president.
Which is a very, very good thing.
Who gives a shit?
And when I right-clicked on it, I could give doubleclick.net permission to use my microphone and camera. How's that for privacy. (OK, it's turned of by default, but it scares me anyway.)
Of course the Iraqis cannot take action. That is not what the US wants them to do. It is just part of their psychological warfare.
Which reminds me, the US should wait with starting a war until after the UN made its full report on januari 27. This shows that they've started already. They just don't care about the UN report. Psychological warfare is also a part of a war, after all...
Still got some fully functioning Wang's here...
Strange..., I thought it was forbidden to extradite someone to a country where the death penalty still exists? (Which is the case in the U.S., no?) Is this not against Human Rights?
...this 'wife' tingy anyway???
(Did I mention yet I've got a great new server, with lots of SCSI-disks etc.?)
"It would seem to me that in the long haul, Microsoft would support such efforts because they could sell more devices (and potentially more software if they licensed an opensource validation library)... "
But MS does not make a real profit on the devices, only on the software. The XBoxes are dead cheap to make sure people by them, instead of other gaming consoles. So if you have a mod chip that allows the xbox to run other software, even if it's not illegal, then you're still a pain in the ass for microsoft because people use and (possibly) buy less of their software.
Whould this version play on my linux console? No need to run X ever again!!! Now i can play both nethack AND startcraft. Nice.
That depends on how fast you need those computers, in my case within two weeks.
Of course this is all wrong. It's not microsoft's task to make companies check every license. I should not be obligated to tell anyone what I will run on my pc's before I am allowed to buy them.
Remarkable,
I too get about 10 messages is strange charsets on this address. I think it started some time after I posted my first Slashdot message...
How can this be? I thought email addresses where always scrambled at slashdot?
I propose the skyline-licence-plate. And as a primer, it should come in two kinds. On front of the car it pictures the New York skyline before september 11th, on the back you get the same picture, but without the WTC.
Like a Dutch singer(Boudewijn De Groot) says in his song 'Mr. President':
It is exactly this average man that, when asked to do so, can use a gun and kill innocent people whithout asking questions...but do not worry and sleep on in your big white house.
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Never trust a dislectic president
Didn't expect someone to take this serious, but it would be a good joke indeed. But I must dissapoint you, I can only program in Object Pascal and PHP (at this time!), which are both unlikely to be of any use for this kind of project.
Hell, why are we still running an operating system on every PC? For die-hard bash-users, we'll just include an ssh client instead of the web interface.
LILO rulez!
Oh wait! let us play xbill on the boot screen. If Bill wins, the system boots Windows. If I win, I get my Linux back.
I know of Ubizen, a Belgian security firm, that filters out all of the Outlook posts from its incoming mail for al of its users. They simply send the message back, including an explanation to the sender that it isn't quite safe to use Outlook and that they're only allowing mail from other mail-clients. Considering this comes from a renown security firm, a lot of people take this advise very seriously. Of course, this isn't quite the same thing but it still is an interesting way to look at the 'Outlook Problem'.
I`m using Ximian Red Carpet for almost half a year now, and I`m wondering what`s the difference between these. Seems to me that all the advantages (fast servers, package control,...) are also available in Red Carpet, for free. PLUS when you use RC, you don`t only have the RedHat Channel, there`s also Ximian Gnome`s own channel, Staroffice, Loki Games, Codeweavers, ... I`d like to support RedHat in some way, but there must be something I can`t get elsewhere.
Do you mean 'thousands' like in: "Thousands of people are starving every day because the US and Western Europe are so rich allready that poorer country's can never compete with them." ?