an entire moustache can be effectively banned around the world due to the actions of one man.
Actually there is a theory that the reason why Hitler adopted a Charlie-Chaplain type mustasche is that it would make him look less serious and more harmless, so that people would underestimate his threat.
And, even worse!, he uses the word "Linux Distribution" to refer to the wole GNU Project!, and even worse, an specific anti-freesoftware distro, deadrat!
What's so "anti-freesoftware" about Red Hat? Their distribution is entirely GPL, including their installer, hardware detection, and every other part of it excepting their trademark logo. Progeny, definitely a GNU/Linux company, has borrowed Red Hat's installer, Anaconda, as an installer for Debian. This would not be possible if it wasn't for a real commitment on the part of Red Hat for the GPL.
A majority of spyware programs are installed with legally questionable software, file sharing. To minimize your chances of installing spyware do not install any "legally" questionable software and read the EULA!
Well, sometimes you don't have a choice. Microsoft regular makes "improvements" to their EULAs and the only way to avoid them is to not install it or any further security fixes; which is not an option. Yet another reason why I run Unix.
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The current government in Israel is a secular Zionist movement
True.
[...] and some of the first settlements in Palistine were actually Christian Zionists. In 1866 43 families [of] American Mormons
That's pretty late considering that the first wave of modern Jewish migration to Israel were students of the Vilna Gaon in the first decade of the 19th century, also early Chassidim went there with the prominent Rebbe of Vitbesk along with a large group of other Chasidim at around the same time. They were far more than 43 families of a small fringe group; in fact they were emmissaries, including prominent leaders, of both Chasidim and Misnaggedim, the two largest Jewish groups of Eastern European Jews both then and now.
Anton La Guardia, a reporter for The Daily Telegraph in the 90s.
Which is a very antisemetic paper, regardless of it's other possible merits in British journalism.
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Not to split hairs or anything, but plenty of Jewish people wouldn't touch a USB menorah because they forego use of electronics on holy days.
On Channukah, except on those days that fall on Shabbos, handling electricity, going to work, driving a car, etc, are all allowed. Although important, important enough to warrent the majority of the seven non-biblical commandments, Channukah does not have the status of a "chag" or festival, such as Pesach or Rosh Hashanna, so most activities are permitted - though many poskim forbid work by women while the menorah is lit because of Judith's key role in the victory of the Maccabees.
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There is strong evidance that the religious leaders of later years moved the center of the story from the war victory to the re-opening of the Temple.
The war victory is celebrated with Al HaNissim added to the Shemoneh Esrai (daily prayers), and Birkas Hamazon (the blessing after a meal); you must be refering to the answer to "Mai Channukah" in Talmud Bavli, Mesechta Shabbos 21b. That does make the reason for the holiday occuring when it does and how many days it does because of the miracle - but our sages found ways to celebrate both aspects of the holiday. Even this often-quoted-as-support by some scholars passage mentions the millitary victory somewhat parenthetically "when the kingdom of the Hasmoneans became strong and overcame them."
Of course, our Rabbis did oppose the Hasmoneans in retrospect - one answer given as to why their reign gave way to Roman domination was that the Hasmoneans when victorious gave the kingship to the hereditary priesthood (kohanim) rather than to the Davidic line.
I despise portage and apt-get. RPMs, IMO, would be far better if they didn't suck with their can't solve their own dependencies problem.
If you really want binary packages without dependency checking there is Slackware, the longest-lived distribution. A third-party tool, Swaret, can optionally do dependency checking according to library files rather than information in slackware packages. You probably wouldn't like it though, as you said you don't like configuring at the command line. (Slackware makes this unusually simple, however.)
I pay for linux. Every production machines I have that uses linux, has paid support. I have purchased every version of RedHat in the box, since 4.2 (except 9, which had no box set).
Red Hat 9 has a box set, of which I am a not-so-proud owner due to their decisions made to steer people towards RHEL. (I switched to Slackware 9.1.:-) ) Maybe your source didn't bother offering it for some reason.
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you find all kinds on/. Any other Judaica geeks out there?
To be a good Jew you have to be a Judaica geek, there's no other way to understand the 613 commandments, their derivations, and millenia of folklore and halachos (laws) other than through intense study. Now you know why there are so many Jewish scientists.
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Reform Judaism rejects the accuracy of Oral Torah, which is where we get (in mesechta Shabbos and Megilla Taanis) the information of the holiday, so yes it's likely that claiming that Rabbis a few hundred years later pulled Channukah out of a hat, in spite of there being a lot of *real* and credible historical evidence for the Maccabees and earlier Channukah celebrations, would be something that is part of his bias. After all, one of the cornerstones of Reform Judaism is that the Oral Torah is inaccurate, so there's a theological reason for him to discredit Channukah, the only holiday legislated solely by Rabbinic law. Just because he's a liberal theologian doesn't mean that he doesn't have any biases.
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The current Jewish calander is only about that old. (give or take a century).
Rabban Hillel II, if I recall correctly; but that wouldn't explain 2BCE, Rabbi Hillel II (not to be confused with his more famous namesake and ancestor, Rabbi Hillel the Elder) was at least early in the second century CE, IIRC, after Sadducees and other sectarians interfered so much with the Sanhedrin's ability to get truthful witnesses that the calendar had to be judged automatically.
Sorry Bob. You're on the good side, but you really contributed nothing.
I know this is a "funny" post, but seriously Bob Young did contribute something; not so much as what he wrote but who he is. As a founder of Red Hat, Bob Young stands in the public mind for open source's business viability. This very idea is part of what SCO is trying to put in jeporady, so a response for a spokesman on the other side is very appropriate.
Interestingly, FreeBSD 4.x didn't use SCSI emulation to talk to a CD-ROM burner; you had to use it's burncd program, part of the 4.x base system, for IDE CD-ROMs. FreeBSD 5.x, on the other hand, uses SCSI emulation and they consider this an upgrade. (You have to use cdrecord from ports.) Could anyone explain to me the advantages of using SCSI emulation, if any, and the disadvantages besides problems sharing DVD and CD burning on one drive? (I have a seperate DVD-ROM and CD Burner.:-) )
Yes, by messing around with window sizes, you could get just similar performance out of kermit. But no one could be bothered when zmodem "just worked".
Plus Zmodem-90 from Omen Tech, the inventors of Zmodem, has an enhanced protocol extention, MobyTurbo, that makes for a much cooler nick. Could you imagine if I had a nick like Kermit's "long-packet-sliding-windows"? Plus even with that Kermit still has all of the control characters quoted and doesn't have real streaming like Zmodem.:-)
When we query Google for that question, we immediately discover that this 2003 talk by Eco is a rehash of a talk he gave in 1995 [...] So Eco has been giving much the same talk for almost a decade now.
Why not? After all, his name is Echo, so you'd expect him to repeat what he says a bit.;-)
As Java is lot depending on multithreaded stuff, how do you expect speed to increase becaause of the huge improvements done in the thread handling techniques ?
Java does work faster, I notice the difference with RH9's backported NPTL. (New POSIX thread library). You have to use Sun Java 1.4.1 or later, however, earlier versions are incompatable.
Is there any need to recompile the application to get benefit of the nex threading technique ? or will all the existing applications benefit from this without "moving a single finger" ?
I assume the prompt changes the major JDK makers made in order to work with the NPTL in RH9 either will still work with the official NPTL in 2.6, or the Java vendors will make whatever changes are neccesary to get it to work. Linux is a major portion of the Java market, I don't think you have to worry about it not being supported.
The most obvious one: If Linux has so many more resources, than why doesn't it have all the features of Windows already? Flame me all you want, but it doesn't.
Linux (and *BSD) has the feature of being a Unix clone. That means it has the most powerful command line, flexable and robust text-based configuration (though various Linux distributions contain GUI system administration programs) and other features that make Unix a superior programming environment. Windows doesn't have these features, and I really think that comparing Unix and Windows are like comparing apples and oranges.
Many Linux vendors try to make it be more Windows-like; I think that's a big mistake. Why do we need a registry, like GNOME now has? Are GUIs really better for system administration when the job of a GUI is to hide options from the user? People who want Unix to be a "better Windows than Windows" forget the history of operating systems like OS/2 that tried this and failed. On the other hand, Unix, which was invented over 30 years ago, is still going strong because of it's strengths and features, most of which are different than Windows's features. Perhaps that's why I prefer BSD, it doesn't try to be a Windows clone - though you can try to make it into one if you want.:-)
The earlier trnaslation was done by another Tanna, not Onkeles. I do not remember the source. I can ask though.
OK, if it's not to much trouble please do.
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On the other hand, hasn't SCO changed their core products to litigation and (trying) to sell licenses for other company's software?
Considering the difficulty companies interested in getting a license have had in even getting SCO to answer their phones I would modify that to being a core product of litigation - period. The only folks doing any work at SCO now are the lawyers and the executives.
he Targum preceeded Yehoshua Bin Nun?! I had thought that it was written during the time of the Tannaim by Onkelos.
I believe most are of the opinion that he collected it and editted it. The prevailing opinion is, however, that it was originally given on Sinai.
Interesting... Onkelos is the author/editor of a no longer extant Greek translation as well according to Jewish sources. Perhaps that is the Greek translation that you are refering to, though that would have to be after rather than before the Septuagint, assuming Onkelos authored that as well, which was commissioned to be translated involuntarily by Ptolomy.
The Talmud talks of an earlier translation which the Tannaim liked.
Not to doubt you, but do you have a source for that?
Actually, the first translation was Aramaic, known as the Targum. The second translation was just after Joshua crossed the Jordan, in which it was translated into seventy languages.
The Targum preceeded Yehoshua Bin Nun?! I had thought that it was written during the time of the Tannaim by Onkelos.
The Septuagint, seemingly the fifth translation, was a tragedy, because of its circumstances. Not because it was translated.
You are I think right, it should be noted however that the Septuagint was the first popular translation in chutz la'aretz. (And Ptolomy preceeded Onkelos, though of course not the translations of Yehoshua Bin Nun which is no longer extant.)
I'm learing to read classical Greek so that I may read Euripides.
The Bible also looses a lot in translation, Hebrew isn't even of the same language family as English like Greek is, so the differences are even greater - especially for a work that uses so much untranslatable word play. There's a good reason that one of Judaism's minor fast days commemorates it's first translation. (The Septuagint.)
Torvalds: "Hey! That's MY code! Rather, it's a very early and buggy version of my code. It looks very similar to Linux 0.2.
There never was a Linux 0.2, it went straight from 0.11 to 0.95.
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Or you can just use Gentoo, which does this automatically when you update your system, pointing out the location and files that are different, all with diff output, and the ability to merge the changes, overwrite or ignore the change.
NetBSD does this with etcupdate and FreeBSD does this with mergemaster. Where do you think Gentoo got this from?:-)
I'd like to play around more with NetBSD if it can produce results like this. Did the author just install an "off the shelf" version of 1.6.1 or did he have to apply 100 pre-alpha patches from some guy named Joe
I should say RTFA, but he originally tested 1.6.1, which performed well but not as well as FreeBSD-CURRENT. Then he tested NetBSD-CURRENT, then, after talking to the NetBSD team, he tested a later version of NetBSD-CURRENT. Not quite like testing a release, but he tested -CURRENT for FreeBSD and OpenBSD too, and it was from HEAD rather than from third-party patches.
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True.
That's pretty late considering that the first wave of modern Jewish migration to Israel were students of the Vilna Gaon in the first decade of the 19th century, also early Chassidim went there with the prominent Rebbe of Vitbesk along with a large group of other Chasidim at around the same time. They were far more than 43 families of a small fringe group; in fact they were emmissaries, including prominent leaders, of both Chasidim and Misnaggedim, the two largest Jewish groups of Eastern European Jews both then and now.Which is a very antisemetic paper, regardless of it's other possible merits in British journalism.
On Channukah, except on those days that fall on Shabbos, handling electricity, going to work, driving a car, etc, are all allowed. Although important, important enough to warrent the majority of the seven non-biblical commandments, Channukah does not have the status of a "chag" or festival, such as Pesach or Rosh Hashanna, so most activities are permitted - though many poskim forbid work by women while the menorah is lit because of Judith's key role in the victory of the Maccabees.
The war victory is celebrated with Al HaNissim added to the Shemoneh Esrai (daily prayers), and Birkas Hamazon (the blessing after a meal); you must be refering to the answer to "Mai Channukah" in Talmud Bavli, Mesechta Shabbos 21b. That does make the reason for the holiday occuring when it does and how many days it does because of the miracle - but our sages found ways to celebrate both aspects of the holiday. Even this often-quoted-as-support by some scholars passage mentions the millitary victory somewhat parenthetically "when the kingdom of the Hasmoneans became strong and overcame them."
Of course, our Rabbis did oppose the Hasmoneans in retrospect - one answer given as to why their reign gave way to Roman domination was that the Hasmoneans when victorious gave the kingship to the hereditary priesthood (kohanim) rather than to the Davidic line.
If you really want binary packages without dependency checking there is Slackware, the longest-lived distribution. A third-party tool, Swaret, can optionally do dependency checking according to library files rather than information in slackware packages. You probably wouldn't like it though, as you said you don't like configuring at the command line. (Slackware makes this unusually simple, however.)
Red Hat 9 has a box set, of which I am a not-so-proud owner due to their decisions made to steer people towards RHEL. (I switched to Slackware 9.1. :-) ) Maybe your source didn't bother offering it for some reason.
To be a good Jew you have to be a Judaica geek, there's no other way to understand the 613 commandments, their derivations, and millenia of folklore and halachos (laws) other than through intense study. Now you know why there are so many Jewish scientists.
Reform Judaism rejects the accuracy of Oral Torah, which is where we get (in mesechta Shabbos and Megilla Taanis) the information of the holiday, so yes it's likely that claiming that Rabbis a few hundred years later pulled Channukah out of a hat, in spite of there being a lot of *real* and credible historical evidence for the Maccabees and earlier Channukah celebrations, would be something that is part of his bias. After all, one of the cornerstones of Reform Judaism is that the Oral Torah is inaccurate, so there's a theological reason for him to discredit Channukah, the only holiday legislated solely by Rabbinic law. Just because he's a liberal theologian doesn't mean that he doesn't have any biases.
Interestingly, FreeBSD 4.x didn't use SCSI emulation to talk to a CD-ROM burner; you had to use it's burncd program, part of the 4.x base system, for IDE CD-ROMs. FreeBSD 5.x, on the other hand, uses SCSI emulation and they consider this an upgrade. (You have to use cdrecord from ports.) Could anyone explain to me the advantages of using SCSI emulation, if any, and the disadvantages besides problems sharing DVD and CD burning on one drive? (I have a seperate DVD-ROM and CD Burner. :-) )
Many Linux vendors try to make it be more Windows-like; I think that's a big mistake. Why do we need a registry, like GNOME now has? Are GUIs really better for system administration when the job of a GUI is to hide options from the user? People who want Unix to be a "better Windows than Windows" forget the history of operating systems like OS/2 that tried this and failed. On the other hand, Unix, which was invented over 30 years ago, is still going strong because of it's strengths and features, most of which are different than Windows's features. Perhaps that's why I prefer BSD, it doesn't try to be a Windows clone - though you can try to make it into one if you want. :-)
OK, if it's not to much trouble please do.