Do a minimal gentoo install, subscribe to transgaming for winex, emerge winex and the minimal X/GL requirements, run enlightenment (E) as both your wm and dm, (you do not need gnome to use E in standalone) turn off all extra services and compile your own kernel from scratch with only what you absolutely need (cpu, hd controller, agp/display stuff, network)
I am not completely clear on the context here, but I think it would be a good idea to prevent people that open spam and virus mail just because it's there from doing so. I am not saying stop free speech. There is however a clear problem of stupid people using the internet, we all know them, parents, siblings, friends, others. I think it would not be to harsh to require a liscence to use the internet, not a money thing, do it like the ham radio liscences you take a test to prove you aren't gonna download a virus then they give you a liscence. It can be basic like knowing that there are files, knwoing the internet speed is not the same as the computer speed, knowing that not everything you see on the internet is real (viagra ads, etc)
but of cource they will probably charge an arm and a leg for the liscence make the test very very unreasonably hard, make you renew it every year, and use it to track who is who on the net. but onm the plus you might be able to doa screenname liscence tie in and a screen name registree (anonymouse even?) and resolve who egts what screen name disputes (Bob_13 on slashdot may not be the same Bob_13 on linuxquestions, etc.)
then don't read the politics section.
so far the politics thread has been unbeleavably civil with few trolls that I have seen. you are not being forced to read politics just as we are not being forced to read your whining.
based on statistics and past elections and voter registration..... this assumes people did not decide to vote out of their party or different from the norm. It is not unheard of for a democrat to vote bush, I know several hardcore democrats that chose bush over kerry for one reason or another. I also knwo several republicans that voted kerry. some of whom were voting for someone other than there party candidate for the first time. if we are going touse statistics to prove the voting was valid why vote at all? just use the statistics. Maybe cigerette companies can decide who is president cause as we all know statistics show that the leading cause of statistics is smoking.
I was thinking, if they tax the internet and put that tax money back intot he net as a whole, say to pay for more broadband framework, or to pay for a city wide fiberoptic or wireless internet than yeah the taxes would be worth it, the internet would improve over time and become cheeper then the taxes will have ina sence paid for themselves. As long as it doesn't go into the same wholes all the other taxes go into. maybe also devote some of it specifically to school computer/internet systems, etc. but since our government will not do it this way I say hell yeah ban the taxes. better to not pay at all then to pay for something bad.
Occupation: Programmer
Location: California
Age:21
Vote: Bush
would that be because I have a different view than you and am continually seeking information with which to mold my opinions? I asked questions, some people answered information was exchanged. I consider alternate opinions and seek information, I have reached my current conclusions and opinions and stick to them, but I am open to alternate ideas and will consider any that are given to me, but it is hard to see what exactly your opinion is beyond your fear of me that seems to be because I am not the steriotype californian democrat but instead a conservative in a liberal area.
I am not completely sure about this, but I heard that one person from each state goes to a meeting to cast the state electoral votes, I also heard (please correct me if wrong) that there is no regulation or checks, that someone from a bush state could walk in and say the vote goes to kerry, and vice versa.
as an american voter this thaught scares me. Please respond and clarify, is there any kind of checks or regulastion of the electoral vote casting?
Location: California
Age: 21
Profession: Student/Programmer
Vote: Bush
yeah I broke the steriotype.
re-read it, it was easy to miss, I said I supported that philosophy, but it was to bad they didn't follow it. I willsay this, I am conservative, and I support 90-95% of what bush has done and will do, I want smaller government, but I know it isn't always possible. I do support bush for many reasons, and will continue to support him. Honsetly I like the libertarian party for the most part, however I have a big problem with a lot of the aclu and the libertarian party seems to have good ties with it (I am all for seperation of church and state, but the aclu is whacked on how far they will go) I am for choice, this includes the choice to eather say or not say under God int he pledge of alegiance, they want to remove that choice, currently it is in there, if you want to say it you can, if you don't want to say it don't, removing it removes the choice. however leaving it in also diminishes choice. the ultimate solution would be leaving the space blank and saying whatever you want when it comes around. there are other issues to, but of cource all are as complicated or more so than my solution. And I admit I am a right wing nut job -(jibjab.com) bush is to liberal for me, there I said it. and before peopel accuse me of being wealthy or well made I will say this, I make $11 an hour 20 hours or less a week paying my own way through college to go into software development age: 21 parents: middle-class unable to help me with my expences because of strain. but I do not want the government to say oh your having a hard ime, here have some money we just took from the rich... I will earn my own way damnit, and everyone else can to. if you are really really bad off and realy truly need help than I am all for it, but not financial help, iving peopel money will not solve their problems, giving people help so they can learn to earn their own money will. (give a man a fish vs teahc a man to fish, etc.)
I hope that clarifies my stance.
Kerry seemed to simply state the problem and say it needs to be solved and that he would try to fix them. Bush seemed to have a clear grasp of the finer details in each problem, adn in many cases suggested valid solutions or spoke of valid solutions already in the works. Kerry seemed to want to have the government try to solve all the problems, Bush seemed to think that the government should provide the tools so that people could solve their own problems, and of cource the problems on the internet can't be solved, only amplified by government intervention. (I also liked when he said protecting children from pornography was primarily the parents job, cause it is.)
However I found both candidates were complete morons on intellectual property, there stance on the myth of intellectual property is liek praying to Zeus in modern times. its silly.
And as for weather or not they were the ones actually speaking, does it matter? If Kerry and Bush have good advisers writing good things, then as long as they follow their advisors advice what is the problem? a president has so much to do that no president can possibly know everything on every issue all the time, he would need refresher information and advisors to consult with. Trying to manage every issue is like trying to learn everything of every science.
That said, I support Bush, the republican party philosophy of smaller government and less government interferrance is better for the internet, to bad they don't stick with that on the internet do to corperate IP concerns, but the democratic party isn't any better at that. I think the green party is the only group with any sence on the digital/computer issues, specifically IP. To bad I don't liek their other views.
-Yeah I know I am gonna get reamed as a Bush supporter on this forum, but I am not gonna let intimidation prevent me from my right to free speach:-D
I did not mean to say I think they should go to india, I am not 100% against it, though I am not for it eather, I figure people have rights, if a company wants to move it's jobs overseas thats the companies choice and I do not intend to tak eit away from them, those who do not liek the jobs being moved can protest, though I feel protests are just an annoyance and accomplish little aside from instilling hatred. or you can boycott the company and it's products including the companies that use them, if nobody buys the producs then the company will die and companies not moving overseas will get the business.
now to lay out my main points:
1) There are people being affected in negative ways by the jobs moving overseas, but trying to solve the problem by reducing freedom and rights weather to indaviduals or companies is a good example of a bad idea. The government screws everything up, keep the government out of it.
2) The jobs being moved overseas are being moved because we expect to be paid to much for the lower level jobs.
3) Open source projects on your resume can be as good as any programming job, you can outline what you wrote, how you worked with a team of developers and what experiances you have because of it. As well if you manage a successful project on sourceforge you can score bonus resume points for leadership and responsibility in project management.
another way to put #1 bitching to the government to solve your problems is a waste of time, you should bitch to the government to stay out of it and leave you to solve your own problems, the solution will be a lot better. Government help should be available only in ammounts required to allow you to help yourself, and only to people that actually need it.
oh and taking from people who don't need help to give to those that do will not help the ones that need help all that much and it will create more people that need help, this is hwo the government got us where we are today.
I am studying to go into programming, so I am not yet in the field. However the way I see it the drone programming jobs are the ones really going over seas, there is a lot of drone work in programming, (Make this meathod here or that function there and just really simple stuff that gets delegated to the lowest member in the higherarchy. Quite frankly I think that job is worth what is being paid in india, getting even $20 an hour for it hear seems a bit extream to me, you write a small function with some code any one with a grasp of syntax can write. However the important jobs, the programming of the majior logic of new and unique programs cannot be sent to india, you would not get what you want, primarily because everyone over there will be used to the drone work, but also because a lot of this kind of work requires you be here were it is needed. there is a difference between using a language and programming, I know plenty of people that can write a program to specific parameter outlines, but when it comes to developing something or making something unique, or God forbid the ultimate taboo of needing to figure something out instead of using a set of parameters (a function that takes this and returns this) So I think all the people in it for money instead of a genuine love for and understanding of programming will loose there jobs, and I say good damn it, then the people who have intellignece enough for inovation can get the recognition they deserve and programming will not simply be seen as this drone work that I put on level with janitorial service.
this is all IMHO of cource:-P
this specific product may be new, but multiple user hardware is not new, I have myself been using the project backstreet ruby recently.
it is a port of an even older one.
site: http://startx.times.lv/ mirror: http://www.schuldei.org/aivils/
works great.
it is a kernel patch and for some configs an XFree patch (some roups have a patch for xorg out to) it is still beta and has some setbacks (incompatible w/ framebuffer) but I used it to hav e 3 vt's (3 keyboard/mouse/monitor (actually 2 of them were dual screen) setups on one system.
why not buy a bunch over time and combine the lcd's to make a composite lcd screen? or better yet how big are the lcds/what resolution? you can place them inside a set of glasses and make your own wearable display.
ok, how about this command that is also very commonly used (though spoken) by the technophobes and illiterate. "help"
I know on all text interfaces I have used help was generally useless, but perhapse if it was made to list commands like this: Mozilla - browse the internet, Chess - play a game of chess, etc. or perhapse help taskToDo that would then in my plan do a keyword search in man pages to list possible options and give descriptions of each (like a google for commands)
think about it, you want to open chess you type "chess"
you want a web-browser you type "mozilla"
no point an dlcik, no many things, no need to select options you don't use, but you still can (-h -v etc,)
car argument:
type "TurnKey"
there we go.
Text Forever!
has anyone actually red the document referenced?
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If anyone that actually knew about data storage/networking/programming all at once to at least some degree read this they (I) could tell you. This is a wish, it is impossible to do "all of the above" how is a computer supposed to know (using only a hidden software program) who is physically sitting at a computer? yes if it had a fingerprinter on every key and mouse button, but u can't do that with a software program alone, u need the special keyboard and mouse. This is nothing but a dream layed out by a moron.
I think the idea behind open source (not necessarily linux, just open source in general) is that people were opposite of what you say in #6, if nobody complained then who's lack of complaints led to open source?
some people use linux not because they hate windows, but because they love open source, those people, people like me, prefer to compile things because we liek control over our software, and we do not like othe rpeople doing all the work for us;-)
if you want to make it easy as possible use packages, you can distribute them to all the comps and install then and copy config files, quite simple.
if you want performance adn speed and do not care how complex manegement is go with source, it will optimise it for the system you are on and its kernel (if you use custom kernel or cpu specific kernel, if u use generic packages are just as good)
if you want a good combo of both create your own packages from source you compile on one machene (if all machenes are the same specs) and distribute that package, then you get the performace and speed w/ the ease of use. only compile once in other words.
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Do a minimal gentoo install, subscribe to transgaming for winex, emerge winex and the minimal X/GL requirements, run enlightenment (E) as both your wm and dm, (you do not need gnome to use E in standalone) turn off all extra services and compile your own kernel from scratch with only what you absolutely need (cpu, hd controller, agp/display stuff, network)
with this language and computerised cutting machines it will now be possible to cut down the largest tree in the forrest with a heron.
I am not completely clear on the context here, but I think it would be a good idea to prevent people that open spam and virus mail just because it's there from doing so. I am not saying stop free speech. There is however a clear problem of stupid people using the internet, we all know them, parents, siblings, friends, others. I think it would not be to harsh to require a liscence to use the internet, not a money thing, do it like the ham radio liscences you take a test to prove you aren't gonna download a virus then they give you a liscence. It can be basic like knowing that there are files, knwoing the internet speed is not the same as the computer speed, knowing that not everything you see on the internet is real (viagra ads, etc)
but of cource they will probably charge an arm and a leg for the liscence make the test very very unreasonably hard, make you renew it every year, and use it to track who is who on the net. but onm the plus you might be able to doa screenname liscence tie in and a screen name registree (anonymouse even?) and resolve who egts what screen name disputes (Bob_13 on slashdot may not be the same Bob_13 on linuxquestions, etc.)
then don't read the politics section. so far the politics thread has been unbeleavably civil with few trolls that I have seen. you are not being forced to read politics just as we are not being forced to read your whining.
based on statistics and past elections and voter registration..... this assumes people did not decide to vote out of their party or different from the norm. It is not unheard of for a democrat to vote bush, I know several hardcore democrats that chose bush over kerry for one reason or another. I also knwo several republicans that voted kerry. some of whom were voting for someone other than there party candidate for the first time. if we are going touse statistics to prove the voting was valid why vote at all? just use the statistics. Maybe cigerette companies can decide who is president cause as we all know statistics show that the leading cause of statistics is smoking.
I was thinking, if they tax the internet and put that tax money back intot he net as a whole, say to pay for more broadband framework, or to pay for a city wide fiberoptic or wireless internet than yeah the taxes would be worth it, the internet would improve over time and become cheeper then the taxes will have ina sence paid for themselves. As long as it doesn't go into the same wholes all the other taxes go into. maybe also devote some of it specifically to school computer/internet systems, etc. but since our government will not do it this way I say hell yeah ban the taxes. better to not pay at all then to pay for something bad. Occupation: Programmer Location: California Age:21 Vote: Bush
would that be because I have a different view than you and am continually seeking information with which to mold my opinions? I asked questions, some people answered information was exchanged. I consider alternate opinions and seek information, I have reached my current conclusions and opinions and stick to them, but I am open to alternate ideas and will consider any that are given to me, but it is hard to see what exactly your opinion is beyond your fear of me that seems to be because I am not the steriotype californian democrat but instead a conservative in a liberal area.
I am not completely sure about this, but I heard that one person from each state goes to a meeting to cast the state electoral votes, I also heard (please correct me if wrong) that there is no regulation or checks, that someone from a bush state could walk in and say the vote goes to kerry, and vice versa. as an american voter this thaught scares me. Please respond and clarify, is there any kind of checks or regulastion of the electoral vote casting? Location: California Age: 21 Profession: Student/Programmer Vote: Bush yeah I broke the steriotype.
re-read it, it was easy to miss, I said I supported that philosophy, but it was to bad they didn't follow it. I willsay this, I am conservative, and I support 90-95% of what bush has done and will do, I want smaller government, but I know it isn't always possible. I do support bush for many reasons, and will continue to support him. Honsetly I like the libertarian party for the most part, however I have a big problem with a lot of the aclu and the libertarian party seems to have good ties with it (I am all for seperation of church and state, but the aclu is whacked on how far they will go) I am for choice, this includes the choice to eather say or not say under God int he pledge of alegiance, they want to remove that choice, currently it is in there, if you want to say it you can, if you don't want to say it don't, removing it removes the choice. however leaving it in also diminishes choice. the ultimate solution would be leaving the space blank and saying whatever you want when it comes around. there are other issues to, but of cource all are as complicated or more so than my solution. And I admit I am a right wing nut job -(jibjab.com) bush is to liberal for me, there I said it. and before peopel accuse me of being wealthy or well made I will say this, I make $11 an hour 20 hours or less a week paying my own way through college to go into software development age: 21 parents: middle-class unable to help me with my expences because of strain. but I do not want the government to say oh your having a hard ime, here have some money we just took from the rich... I will earn my own way damnit, and everyone else can to. if you are really really bad off and realy truly need help than I am all for it, but not financial help, iving peopel money will not solve their problems, giving people help so they can learn to earn their own money will. (give a man a fish vs teahc a man to fish, etc.) I hope that clarifies my stance.
Kerry seemed to simply state the problem and say it needs to be solved and that he would try to fix them. Bush seemed to have a clear grasp of the finer details in each problem, adn in many cases suggested valid solutions or spoke of valid solutions already in the works. Kerry seemed to want to have the government try to solve all the problems, Bush seemed to think that the government should provide the tools so that people could solve their own problems, and of cource the problems on the internet can't be solved, only amplified by government intervention. (I also liked when he said protecting children from pornography was primarily the parents job, cause it is.) However I found both candidates were complete morons on intellectual property, there stance on the myth of intellectual property is liek praying to Zeus in modern times. its silly. And as for weather or not they were the ones actually speaking, does it matter? If Kerry and Bush have good advisers writing good things, then as long as they follow their advisors advice what is the problem? a president has so much to do that no president can possibly know everything on every issue all the time, he would need refresher information and advisors to consult with. Trying to manage every issue is like trying to learn everything of every science. That said, I support Bush, the republican party philosophy of smaller government and less government interferrance is better for the internet, to bad they don't stick with that on the internet do to corperate IP concerns, but the democratic party isn't any better at that. I think the green party is the only group with any sence on the digital/computer issues, specifically IP. To bad I don't liek their other views. -Yeah I know I am gonna get reamed as a Bush supporter on this forum, but I am not gonna let intimidation prevent me from my right to free speach :-D
I did not mean to say I think they should go to india, I am not 100% against it, though I am not for it eather, I figure people have rights, if a company wants to move it's jobs overseas thats the companies choice and I do not intend to tak eit away from them, those who do not liek the jobs being moved can protest, though I feel protests are just an annoyance and accomplish little aside from instilling hatred. or you can boycott the company and it's products including the companies that use them, if nobody buys the producs then the company will die and companies not moving overseas will get the business.
now to lay out my main points:
1) There are people being affected in negative ways by the jobs moving overseas, but trying to solve the problem by reducing freedom and rights weather to indaviduals or companies is a good example of a bad idea. The government screws everything up, keep the government out of it.
2) The jobs being moved overseas are being moved because we expect to be paid to much for the lower level jobs.
3) Open source projects on your resume can be as good as any programming job, you can outline what you wrote, how you worked with a team of developers and what experiances you have because of it. As well if you manage a successful project on sourceforge you can score bonus resume points for leadership and responsibility in project management.
another way to put #1
bitching to the government to solve your problems is a waste of time, you should bitch to the government to stay out of it and leave you to solve your own problems, the solution will be a lot better. Government help should be available only in ammounts required to allow you to help yourself, and only to people that actually need it.
oh and taking from people who don't need help to give to those that do will not help the ones that need help all that much and it will create more people that need help, this is hwo the government got us where we are today.
I am studying to go into programming, so I am not yet in the field. However the way I see it the drone programming jobs are the ones really going over seas, there is a lot of drone work in programming, (Make this meathod here or that function there and just really simple stuff that gets delegated to the lowest member in the higherarchy. Quite frankly I think that job is worth what is being paid in india, getting even $20 an hour for it hear seems a bit extream to me, you write a small function with some code any one with a grasp of syntax can write. However the important jobs, the programming of the majior logic of new and unique programs cannot be sent to india, you would not get what you want, primarily because everyone over there will be used to the drone work, but also because a lot of this kind of work requires you be here were it is needed. there is a difference between using a language and programming, I know plenty of people that can write a program to specific parameter outlines, but when it comes to developing something or making something unique, or God forbid the ultimate taboo of needing to figure something out instead of using a set of parameters (a function that takes this and returns this) So I think all the people in it for money instead of a genuine love for and understanding of programming will loose there jobs, and I say good damn it, then the people who have intellignece enough for inovation can get the recognition they deserve and programming will not simply be seen as this drone work that I put on level with janitorial service. this is all IMHO of cource :-P
this specific product may be new, but multiple user hardware is not new, I have myself been using the project backstreet ruby recently. it is a port of an even older one. site: http://startx.times.lv/ mirror: http://www.schuldei.org/aivils/ works great. it is a kernel patch and for some configs an XFree patch (some roups have a patch for xorg out to) it is still beta and has some setbacks (incompatible w/ framebuffer) but I used it to hav e 3 vt's (3 keyboard/mouse/monitor (actually 2 of them were dual screen) setups on one system.
why not buy a bunch over time and combine the lcd's to make a composite lcd screen? or better yet how big are the lcds/what resolution? you can place them inside a set of glasses and make your own wearable display.
ok, how about this command that is also very commonly used (though spoken) by the technophobes and illiterate. "help" I know on all text interfaces I have used help was generally useless, but perhapse if it was made to list commands like this: Mozilla - browse the internet, Chess - play a game of chess, etc. or perhapse help taskToDo that would then in my plan do a keyword search in man pages to list possible options and give descriptions of each (like a google for commands)
think about it, you want to open chess you type "chess" you want a web-browser you type "mozilla" no point an dlcik, no many things, no need to select options you don't use, but you still can (-h -v etc,) car argument: type "TurnKey" there we go. Text Forever!
If anyone that actually knew about data storage/networking/programming all at once to at least some degree read this they (I) could tell you. This is a wish, it is impossible to do "all of the above" how is a computer supposed to know (using only a hidden software program) who is physically sitting at a computer? yes if it had a fingerprinter on every key and mouse button, but u can't do that with a software program alone, u need the special keyboard and mouse. This is nothing but a dream layed out by a moron.
I think the idea behind open source (not necessarily linux, just open source in general) is that people were opposite of what you say in #6, if nobody complained then who's lack of complaints led to open source? some people use linux not because they hate windows, but because they love open source, those people, people like me, prefer to compile things because we liek control over our software, and we do not like othe rpeople doing all the work for us ;-)
if you want to make it easy as possible use packages, you can distribute them to all the comps and install then and copy config files, quite simple. if you want performance adn speed and do not care how complex manegement is go with source, it will optimise it for the system you are on and its kernel (if you use custom kernel or cpu specific kernel, if u use generic packages are just as good) if you want a good combo of both create your own packages from source you compile on one machene (if all machenes are the same specs) and distribute that package, then you get the performace and speed w/ the ease of use. only compile once in other words.