Spot on. The true test of someone who has clue is if they will admit when they don't know something. The people who claim to know everything often know the least.
No where is Linux defined as a server OS. Linux may be used primarily on servers but it is also used on desktops,imbedded systems and phones. Linux is many things to many people.
The problem is sex offenders are not like other offenders. Murders actually have an extremely low re-offense rate. The re-offense rate for sex offenders is unfortunately high. This is why, despite my strong civil liberties leanings, I support a sex offenders register and other measures to keep an eye on them. The alternatives I can think of are all worse for the offenders themselves.
Sometime around 1995 I fixed a broken Linux system with nothing more than echo & cat when every other utility was inoperative and I didn't have any other boot media.
While I might agree about the UI & usability problems in OSS I can't agree about innovation. OSS licencing is being used by a very large number of IT research projects. Look at the work being done in areas like "single system image" (SSI). The serious work is all being done on Open source OSes.
Well the OP was talking about OSS conferences. While a few hangers-on will be around an OSS conference will tend to be filled by people involved with OSS.
Also this whole "most people don't care" argument isn't a very strong one. Most people don't care where their food comes from until it stops coming. See the problem?
Good point re food security. I don't know the numbers for NZ (I am going to research it) but Australia produces enough food to feed 100 million people (for a population of 21 million) so good food security there too.
Violence in western countries (except perhaps the US) is overstated by the media. Police data shows a steady decline in violent crime over the last few decades. Various changes in society make certain sorts of violent crime untennable. Robbing a bank ain't what it used to be.
The one real problem Australia has is water security and that is _finally_ being addressed properly as a result of the recent drought that scared the pants off several levels of government.
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Your point is? A lot of backup solutions that are sold are awful and fail to work properly under real world conditions.
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Network mirroring like this is no backup at all. An error will be carried across by the synchronisation. This is one of several common mistakes made about backups. The system you describe is a variation on "using RAID 1 as a backup system". I am glad to hear you use a tape library as well. I hope the tapes go offsite.
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I really hope you are joking.
Here is a talk I did on backups recently for a LUG:
http://www.timetraveller.org/talks/backup_talk.pdf
Please download and read this. It states explicitly why your statement is false.
Well said. Over the years I went out with women from different cultures/professions/etc and I was exposed to many influences I wouldn't have otherwise experienced. My recommendation is to test your boundaries and expand your horizons. My wife is a singer/film producer who was born on the opposite side of the world to me.
Regimes like that don't get a little thing like evidence get in the way of them keeping control. Anyone caught with a handset which can be traced to subversive messages in deep doodoo. Their relatives and friends probably are too.
The problem is that the definition of pandemic used by WHO is different to the one that you and I might use in common speech. By the WHO definition they are correct in calling this a pandemic. The WHO definition itself needs to change.
I believe an end user won't see much of a difference between an app uploaded by the original developer or one patched by another developer or a sysadmin. Most end users don't know what source code is, let alone that it might be modified before they receive the app.
Ask a non-IT relative if they know what source code is. Be prepared to explain it.
"Unless they promised that the service would go on forever, there has been no breach of contract."
Maybe, maybe not. Legislation often imposes requirements on contractual agreements. Allowing someone to sign up and then canning the service a couple of months later may well breach consumer legislation. Laws like this vary a lot by jurisdiction. IANAL.
Another similar point is the argument that if they can make a narrow band EM transmission then they must understand the concept of physics. While this may be the common ground needed to communicate I can still envision a situation in which their physics and mathematics are based on entirely different concepts to ours but still lead to the same conclusions. Would we be able to bridge the gap? Who knows.
We have no idea how extraterrestrials might see the Universe. It is conceivable that we will not be able to communicate with them in any meaningful way. Even if we can actually decoding their language(s) may take decades or centuries. They may find our languages just as perplexing.
I've been a member of the open source community for 15 years (back before we call it open source of course). My position is that they are required to comply with the licencing, nothing more nothing less. Yes it would be nice if they did more but I don't think it is appropriate for us to complain that they didn't do more than we asked of them.
"...and if we don't figure out some way to prevent online chaos, the quantity, quality and availability of the kinds of entertainment, literature, art and scholarship we need to have a healthy, vibrant culture will suffer.'"
Well naturally. There was no such thing as vibrant culture before western capitalism appeared, right?
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Spot on. The true test of someone who has clue is if they will admit when they don't know something. The people who claim to know everything often know the least.
No where is Linux defined as a server OS. Linux may be used primarily on servers but it is also used on desktops,imbedded systems and phones. Linux is many things to many people.
The problem is sex offenders are not like other offenders. Murders actually have an extremely low re-offense rate. The re-offense rate for sex offenders is unfortunately high. This is why, despite my strong civil liberties leanings, I support a sex offenders register and other measures to keep an eye on them. The alternatives I can think of are all worse for the offenders themselves.
Sometime around 1995 I fixed a broken Linux system with nothing more than echo & cat when every other utility was inoperative and I didn't have any other boot media.
While I might agree about the UI & usability problems in OSS I can't agree about innovation. OSS licencing is being used by a very large number of IT research projects. Look at the work being done in areas like "single system image" (SSI). The serious work is all being done on Open source OSes.
Also this whole "most people don't care" argument isn't a very strong one. Most people don't care where their food comes from until it stops coming. See the problem?
Good point re food security. I don't know the numbers for NZ (I am going to research it) but Australia produces enough food to feed 100 million people (for a population of 21 million) so good food security there too. Violence in western countries (except perhaps the US) is overstated by the media. Police data shows a steady decline in violent crime over the last few decades. Various changes in society make certain sorts of violent crime untennable. Robbing a bank ain't what it used to be. The one real problem Australia has is water security and that is _finally_ being addressed properly as a result of the recent drought that scared the pants off several levels of government.
Your point is? A lot of backup solutions that are sold are awful and fail to work properly under real world conditions.
Network mirroring like this is no backup at all. An error will be carried across by the synchronisation. This is one of several common mistakes made about backups. The system you describe is a variation on "using RAID 1 as a backup system". I am glad to hear you use a tape library as well. I hope the tapes go offsite.
I really hope you are joking. Here is a talk I did on backups recently for a LUG: http://www.timetraveller.org/talks/backup_talk.pdf Please download and read this. It states explicitly why your statement is false.
Well said. Over the years I went out with women from different cultures/professions/etc and I was exposed to many influences I wouldn't have otherwise experienced. My recommendation is to test your boundaries and expand your horizons. My wife is a singer/film producer who was born on the opposite side of the world to me.
Regimes like that don't get a little thing like evidence get in the way of them keeping control. Anyone caught with a handset which can be traced to subversive messages in deep doodoo. Their relatives and friends probably are too.
The problem is that the definition of pandemic used by WHO is different to the one that you and I might use in common speech. By the WHO definition they are correct in calling this a pandemic. The WHO definition itself needs to change.
I believe an end user won't see much of a difference between an app uploaded by the original developer or one patched by another developer or a sysadmin. Most end users don't know what source code is, let alone that it might be modified before they receive the app. Ask a non-IT relative if they know what source code is. Be prepared to explain it.
"Unless they promised that the service would go on forever, there has been no breach of contract." Maybe, maybe not. Legislation often imposes requirements on contractual agreements. Allowing someone to sign up and then canning the service a couple of months later may well breach consumer legislation. Laws like this vary a lot by jurisdiction. IANAL.
This is just a repository. Granted doing it for MS-Windows will make it attractive to a wider audience.
Another similar point is the argument that if they can make a narrow band EM transmission then they must understand the concept of physics. While this may be the common ground needed to communicate I can still envision a situation in which their physics and mathematics are based on entirely different concepts to ours but still lead to the same conclusions. Would we be able to bridge the gap? Who knows.
We have no idea how extraterrestrials might see the Universe. It is conceivable that we will not be able to communicate with them in any meaningful way. Even if we can actually decoding their language(s) may take decades or centuries. They may find our languages just as perplexing.
I've been a member of the open source community for 15 years (back before we call it open source of course). My position is that they are required to comply with the licencing, nothing more nothing less. Yes it would be nice if they did more but I don't think it is appropriate for us to complain that they didn't do more than we asked of them.
Therein lies the problem of proprietary solutions.
Well naturally. There was no such thing as vibrant culture before western capitalism appeared, right?