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Just in case you're wondering which was the knock-out punch wherein you pummelled yourself senseless, it's here:
"If FreeBSD had a sensible corporate base, a well-thought out directory structure (I have boot scripts in/etc and/usr/local/etc... and have you ever had to diagnose which one broke?),"
Aside from it being generally agreed by people in many camps that BSDs have just about the most stable, sensible, and intuitive (not to mention WELL DOCUMENTED) directory hierarchy in the Unix world, to specifically target as your example that start up scripts are in two directories is fairly sad.
This confused you? Hint: it's one or the other. Better hint: if it came with the base system it's under/etc, if it was 3rd party software installed later it is nicely segregated under/usr/local/etc for your convenience, and to keep the base system as clean as possible.
Redhat is a reasonable choice, provided you don't stray from the path of what they package for you. On one side of the path is RPM dependancy hell. On the other side is the probability of a mess of non-standard untracked files cluttering the system directories.
Anyone who has real experience with BSD will find it hard to believe your claim to BSD experience (to any significant extent), based on what you wrote. However, your RHCT speaks loud and clear.
I think this is not true. During most of the time that MSIE was stagnating (and outright poisoning) the Internet, Opera continued to innovate like crazy... just most people didn't notice for various reasons. In fact a lot of mozilla/firefox's now beloved features were Opera innovations.
I don't use Opera anymore myself, alas, for various reasons (limited platforms supported, not open source, etc). But I it did get me through those dark stiffling MSIE days, for which I always look back in gratitude.
Relax people, this is just a part of Microsoft's "Trusted Spy-ware" initiative. It's going to make Spy-ware more secure, and easily available for everyone, while protecting the rights of the Spy-ware intellectual property holders.
"dcop", part of KDE, is pretty good for controlling most KDE apps from the command line. Really, it's a wondrous thing.
Case in point. The other day I'm working away in a shell, and came across an mp3. I wanted to append it to my Amarok playlist. I could just called "amarok <path>", but that would wipe out my current playlist and replace it with the one file. I could just switch to my other desktop and then navigate the file system and add the file the regular way via the GUI.
But then I think: i'll bet there's a dcop interface... so i type "dcop amarok"... get a list of interfaces... in a few seconds I find "dcop amarok playlist addMedia <path>"... it's even a relatively, apart from the initial command, intuitive looking command line!
(It should be mentioned amarok, in particular, supports command line options for adding files to playlists as well. But I didn't of it at the time for some reason: and it's nice to have a "universal" dcop way of doing things that works with so many KDE apps... and also there are may more amarok interfaces exposed via dcop than its commandline parser...)
I just started listening to The Teach Company's "Philosophy of the Mind" lectures... (Professor John R. Searle-University of California at Berkeley.)
Pretty interesting. Through several lectures professor presents his argument (and counter arguments) as to how a Turing machine inherently can never "understand" the data it is processing, and thus should be disqualified as a model for human intelligence.
The idea that human minds are like computer is so widespread and popularly accepted, and almost religiously clung to, that it seems the idea will be with us a long time even if it is proven false.
Another really interesting observation he makes is that in his long life he has noticed the workings of the brain generally have been compared to and tried to be explained as just about every new technology that has come along... and no doubt it will be in the future as well.
Thanks, Asimov.
Anyhow, pretty good lectures even if one disagrees with his argument... definitely some good points to think about.
On the topic of A.I. it seems to me another really interesting documentary I saw recently is, ironically, Stupidity.
In fact I propose a new Turing test. We can consider a Turing machine intelligent when it can define and accurately identify stupidity. (The first test will identify all of the people who think this is easy... such as, just a problem of mismatched input/output.)
Our small ISP has had to struggle repeatedly with SpamCop. I will say that once we finally got some dialog going with SpamCop (which was not very easy to do...) they were very nice and fairly helpful. And the apologised each time and explained what happened (it involves one of our customers, who run their own mail server, with us as a backup MX, actually being a SpamCop customer, and not having configured his account properly, and thus the spam they reported which was delivered through us caused us to get black listed. Yes, he managed to blacklist his own ISP...!)... This happened several times. Several of our customers noticed the blacklisting and were not happy campers.
This is particularly difficult for small ISPs which have to struggle enough already to hang on to our niche.
And it is especially sad for long established ISP such as ourselves, who have been in the business since practically the beginning of the commercially available internet.
The DDoS attacks we've suffered once or twice in the past have not hurt so much as being blacklisted by SpamCop. Being smacked down by "friendly fire" really makes one dispair.
No matter how nice and helpful they were once we finally got them to talk to us, I can't say I will ever be able to trust them.
Previous to that SORBS black listed us several times. Their security scanner for some reason believed that one of our Zope ftp servers, on a non-standard port, was a compromised machine.
We've been innocence each and every one of these times.
I have to admit in some of my emails to SpamCop I was a little bitter. In one I suggested, tongue in cheek, that I was going to start a blacklist blacklist and have their blacklist blacklisted.
In another I couldn't help but must wonder if they aren't some sort of anti-terrorist terrorists...
I don't know the answer. But It's clear from the overwhelmingly negative response here that the issue of innocent victims being blacklisting is widespread, and extremely aggravating.
But no doubt just as spammers will continue to exist, the blacklists, right or wrong, will continue to think they are fighting the good fight. And sysadmins who haven't yet experienced the helpless sinking feeling of being innocently blacklisted themselves will continue to see the blacklist services as an quick and easy answer to one of the biggest and most difficult problems on the internet.
This logic may not look far enough. It sounds like the value of the images for this company then are directly proportional to the value of the images to their clients. The value of the images to the clients are to present with stories that attract readers. Hence, theoretically, by forcing Google to remove the images they are hurting their clients for whom the pictures (presumably) draw readers interests in to them. By making their clients less attractive, they are in essence hurting themselves.
Personally, besides considering their perspective short sighted, I can't quite believe the legality of their case. Perhaps this company should simply sue their clients for letting Google index their sites. Yeah, right.
Not to belittle TrollTech's amazing contribution, but all indications from my non-expert perspective are that things would continue quite nicely. The GPL Qt is, from all I've heard, exceptionally well organized and engineered... and has amazing documentation.
An argument might be made that things would go even faster (and they are already amazing fast) for KDE if the team got control of GPL Qt development. But things are going nicely as they are.
Philosophically the partnership between KDE and Qt seems (again, just my ignorant opinion) quite ideal however. Unlike the various Gnome corporate sponsors, who seem to me to be always mostly interested in "patching things up" in various areas, the focus of Qt to commercial demands at designing a strong design and key features has provided KDE an awesome base.
By the way TrollTech is GPL'ing the new Windows version... so once again, just like when they GPL'd the X version, there is one less argument against Qt... though that argument has always been mostly irrelevant and just a point of political pique. (And i see ignorant people on this thread still making the old non-GPL throat warbling FUD...)
Other tidbits... QTopia 2.1 is open source. Opera is the fastest browser. Apple chose KHTML over Gecko. SuSe rocks... but personally i use Gentoo and FreeBSD.
GStreamer is a project independent of Gnome. The G in front of the name does not always automatically mean GNU or Gnome. Gnome just happens to use it; major KDE apps can use it as well.
There was some talk of putting gstreamer in KDE 4. I'm not sure of the status of this; I have also heard that KDE is going to great a multimedia engine framework that can work better with multiple engines...
It's uncanny. It's like google can read all of our minds and somehow, by some magical insight beyond merely mortal, knows what we want... it's like they have some sort of vast complex engine that we can only just barely begin to imagine which is able to tell them everything before anyone else. It's astonishing, unsettling, and and inexplicable... unless... no, it can't be. But what other explanation could there be?
This is a really great collection of software for admins and hackers (in the good sense of the word). In my opinion it is the most useful bootable kit i've yet seen.
I booted the GUI once briefly, but didn't have a mouse hooked up so it was useless. I don't really care about the GUI. The focus of this kit is mostly command line tools (though there are some gui-only tools). The system boots to a prompt; you have to start X from the command line if you want it.
It's pretty annoying the way it defaults to Russian if you don't press e within three seconds during boot up. But hey, it was made by Russians who are probably pretty annoyed by all the English they are forced to endure.
The BSD kernel is very nice for detecting hardware. They're method of automounting drives seems to work pretty well. The little help system they have included which categorises and lists all of the installed utilities to help you find your way around is indeed very helpful (it would be better still if it was searchable).
Anyhow, i love this disk. It's so useful. I tend to us it more than Knoppix now in many situations. All of the more admin-oriented linux boot disks i've tried tend to have gotten stale, not updated, and be hard to find out what tools are on them after booting. Maybe Frenzy will stagnate as well. But for now it is my favourite.
Also having a lot of BSD boxes of course I am biased. Most of the linux boot disks don't give much attention to UFS/FFS file systems.
NetBSD 2.0 looks to be awesome. We still have one development machine running it; though really that server doesn't get much action. Even so, it was a fairly painful process at times getting to the 2.0 level...
We moved most of our servers from NetBSD to FreeBSD a while back. The main reason was ports vs pkgsrc. As an ISP we use them a lot. How many times were we messed up by someone hastily typing "make update"... NetBSD deleting all dependencies and then failing to re-build? Ouch.
Not sure what your problem with portupgrade is. It is a bit of a resource hog, but it works beautifully with an excellent feature set: support for defining fine grained control over the build processes, including hooks for running scripts before and after builds, setting up the environment on a per-port basis.
And while the NetBSD pkgsrc team work very hard and I have a lot of respect for them and the help the provided me in several instances in the past, there's just a lot larger community working on the BSD ports. Linux has a (much) larger community again, but Linux isn't BSD...
The other reason we moved to FreeBSD was for stability, as NetBSD was having a lot of problems with our machines at the time (around 1.6, with SCSI in particular). I believe these have been resolved by now, but they were extremely painful at the time.
We moved to FreeBSD 4.x, which we are still on. I regret though that I didn't have the nerve to go with the relatively new 5.x branch at the time. I've run 5.x on my desktop for a long time now, and it certainly has had some problems along the way... but nothing insurmountable (for me at least)... and the track that 5.x is on, though it may be inching towards it, is really exciting in a way that NetBSD never was for me (but this is merely a matter of personal perspective).
Anyhow, have fun on your NetBSD. It's a great O/S! And 2.0 is extremely impressive at what it does, as you point out.
As for me, I'm looking forward to the latest SMP developments, which already are good, but are looking better and better all the time. And GEOM is another FreeBSD technology, as the linked article describes, that I'm really hoping to utilise for our infrastructure...
You miss the point. I'll agree that the pay seems slightly high in this case. I also have an "insanely dedicated" mom who is a (primary) teacher. You'll be pleased to know she makes nowhere near the amount of the previous poster; though the rest of the description is fairly similar (except that my mom's was a single parent, so has to do it all on her own, and took some years off from teaching to run her own business and other things before going back into the profession).
The point, as I see it, is that a completely ignorant crack was made about value of the work done by these professionals. These people do real work; something that your comments lead one to think that probably you could not imagine on your deepest, darkest, heaviest unemployed day. I'll bet that yawn you so laboriously exhale above tuckered you right out for the day. Best get a snack and take a nap... maybe surf some porn to help you relax and forget about all these terrible leaches of society.
The evidence that such ignorance abounds, such as yours, may be evidence that the education systems are indeed not accomplishing to their full potential. And I certainly have no love whatsoever for highschool. However, I also have first hand knowledge of how teachers are pathetically maligned by twits, and how many of the teachers I know know (or have some idea of) what needs to be done to fix things; but there is indeed a horrific bureaucracy which thwarts many of their efforts: that bureaucracy is generally the government, and political interests whom never cease using public education (and the funding thereof) as their football or whipping post... and people like you who spew ignorant crap you no doubt picked up out from their ignorant machinations.
Yeah, I'd vote for the cock punch in this case too. But what's the use, except for the personal satisfaction on behalf of my mom. But, alas, my mom would never condone it.
One thing that i don't usually see factored in to the PostgreSQL vs MySQL debate is security.
Writing as an admin who generally keeps his systems up to date, and is forced to maintain MySQL on several boxes, I can tell you if you pay attention to security advisories MySQL is a pain in the ass. So much so that I let the security updates lag a bit (maybe more than a bit). I finally got around to updating the MySQL servers a few weeks ago when no less than six security advisories had been outstanding. Granted, some of these were minor issues, but still... they warrented security advisories.
In the same period, how many security advisories were posted against PostgreSQL? Zero.
(Though to be fair, one security update was released on PostgreSQL just after I did these upgrades.)
All I can say is there is a curious similarity between the name of this "My" SQL server and Microsoft Windows' well known naming convention for folders. I dare not think if there are any further comparisons between these two products could be drawn...
I think your suggestion is excellent. It's always good when designing a new logo/image to build on the strengths of the old.
My only concern is that I can't quite sure how you envision designing the pentagram suitably "cute", for Beastie's legacy. But I'm sure there must be a way. The goat (of course) needs little thought: all animals are cute, as everyone knows. Just make sure its' pudgy enough, and has googly eyes. No problem. That blood dripping stuff is brilliant, as it ties in with Beastie's rosy hue. As to the beast and monsters engaged in the wanton acts of depravity: i say again, just as long as they're cute lecherous beasts, cute sadistic monsters, and (it goes without saying) the acts of wonton carnal depravity are all cute, cute, cute, this is sure to be a winner.
I'm not entirely sure if medication should be included in the logo though. Honestly.
The cover story on Salon.com today is titled Halleluja, The Mac is Back! It's a fairly interesting article, though not very technical. It talks about the resurgence of the Apple brand name, hypothesizes whether Apple can do any damage at all to Microsoft this time around with the Mini Mac (apparently people are viewing it as an appliance rather than PC replacement, which it turns out may be a good thing, strategically).
The GPL is cool, and interesting, and all that. But it seems to me a great deal of my favourite free software survives quite well (and even more freely) without it. FreeBSD, of course using the BSD licence. Apache (and various Apache foundation projects) using the Apache licence. Mozilla using MPL. Python using it's own BSD-like licence. Zope, with its own (again, as in most of these cases, more BSD-like).
In fact, while i run virtually entirely on open source software on my desktop, the only major piece of software I use regularly that jumps to mind which is GPL is KDE. (Though no doubt quite a few of its dependencies which I don't pay much attention to are GPL... but like many have pointed out, it seems GPL is the 'default' open source licence for a lot of people just because they aren't lawyers and don't want to think about it.)
I've decided to extend this researcher's work and focus on one particular network where I suspected a lot of subversion may be occurring: FreeNode. Running a keyword analysis on the top 60 channels, like my predecessor, I was astonished to learn that 99% of the messages appeared to be communist! A steady stream of keywords like "opensource", "BSD" and even "GPL" make this conclusion unmistakable.
I will be handing over this evidence to the authorities (ie. Microsoft) for immediate action.
While you are certainly right that in the vast majority of cases the issue is 'freeloading' rather than civil rights... from the perspective of the person doing the download.
However, there is a civil rights issue here even if most of the participants don't really care about it.
The issue is roughly: does one have the right to loan someone a video tape they taped from TV for personal use. I realise there's a lot more complications and angles to this, and some cases are clearer than others. But there is a real basic principle (some would say "right") at issue here.
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"If FreeBSD had a sensible corporate base, a well-thought out directory structure (I have boot scripts in /etc and /usr/local/etc... and have you ever had to diagnose which one broke?),"
Aside from it being generally agreed by people in many camps that BSDs have just about the most stable, sensible, and intuitive (not to mention WELL DOCUMENTED) directory hierarchy in the Unix world, to specifically target as your example that start up scripts are in two directories is fairly sad.
This confused you? Hint: it's one or the other. Better hint: if it came with the base system it's under /etc, if it was 3rd party software installed later it is nicely segregated under /usr/local/etc for your convenience, and to keep the base system as clean as possible.
Redhat is a reasonable choice, provided you don't stray from the path of what they package for you. On one side of the path is RPM dependancy hell. On the other side is the probability of a mess of non-standard untracked files cluttering the system directories.
Anyone who has real experience with BSD will find it hard to believe your claim to BSD experience (to any significant extent), based on what you wrote. However, your RHCT speaks loud and clear.
I think this is not true. During most of the time that MSIE was stagnating (and outright poisoning) the Internet, Opera continued to innovate like crazy... just most people didn't notice for various reasons. In fact a lot of mozilla/firefox's now beloved features were Opera innovations.
I don't use Opera anymore myself, alas, for various reasons (limited platforms supported, not open source, etc). But I it did get me through those dark stiffling MSIE days, for which I always look back in gratitude.
Relax people, this is just a part of Microsoft's "Trusted Spy-ware" initiative. It's going to make Spy-ware more secure, and easily available for everyone, while protecting the rights of the Spy-ware intellectual property holders.
"dcop", part of KDE, is pretty good for controlling most KDE apps from the command line. Really, it's a wondrous thing.
... it's even a relatively, apart from the initial command, intuitive looking command line!
Case in point. The other day I'm working away in a shell, and came across an mp3. I wanted to append it to my Amarok playlist. I could just called "amarok <path>", but that would wipe out my current playlist and replace it with the one file. I could just switch to my other desktop and then navigate the file system and add the file the regular way via the GUI.
But then I think: i'll bet there's a dcop interface... so i type "dcop amarok"... get a list of interfaces... in a few seconds I find "dcop amarok playlist addMedia <path>"
(It should be mentioned amarok, in particular, supports command line options for adding files to playlists as well. But I didn't of it at the time for some reason: and it's nice to have a "universal" dcop way of doing things that works with so many KDE apps... and also there are may more amarok interfaces exposed via dcop than its commandline parser...)
Pretty interesting. Through several lectures professor presents his argument (and counter arguments) as to how a Turing machine inherently can never "understand" the data it is processing, and thus should be disqualified as a model for human intelligence.
The idea that human minds are like computer is so widespread and popularly accepted, and almost religiously clung to, that it seems the idea will be with us a long time even if it is proven false.
Another really interesting observation he makes is that in his long life he has noticed the workings of the brain generally have been compared to and tried to be explained as just about every new technology that has come along... and no doubt it will be in the future as well.
Thanks, Asimov.
Anyhow, pretty good lectures even if one disagrees with his argument... definitely some good points to think about.
On the topic of A.I. it seems to me another really interesting documentary I saw recently is, ironically, Stupidity.
In fact I propose a new Turing test. We can consider a Turing machine intelligent when it can define and accurately identify stupidity. (The first test will identify all of the people who think this is easy... such as, just a problem of mismatched input/output.)
Er... you mean fight "alternate distribution methods", I'm sure.
Our small ISP has had to struggle repeatedly with SpamCop. I will say that once we finally got some dialog going with SpamCop (which was not very easy to do...) they were very nice and fairly helpful. And the apologised each time and explained what happened (it involves one of our customers, who run their own mail server, with us as a backup MX, actually being a SpamCop customer, and not having configured his account properly, and thus the spam they reported which was delivered through us caused us to get black listed. Yes, he managed to blacklist his own ISP...!)... This happened several times. Several of our customers noticed the blacklisting and were not happy campers.
This is particularly difficult for small ISPs which have to struggle enough already to hang on to our niche.
And it is especially sad for long established ISP such as ourselves, who have been in the business since practically the beginning of the commercially available internet.
The DDoS attacks we've suffered once or twice in the past have not hurt so much as being blacklisted by SpamCop. Being smacked down by "friendly fire" really makes one dispair.
No matter how nice and helpful they were once we finally got them to talk to us, I can't say I will ever be able to trust them.
Previous to that SORBS black listed us several times. Their security scanner for some reason believed that one of our Zope ftp servers, on a non-standard port, was a compromised machine.
We've been innocence each and every one of these times.
I have to admit in some of my emails to SpamCop I was a little bitter. In one I suggested, tongue in cheek, that I was going to start a blacklist blacklist and have their blacklist blacklisted.
In another I couldn't help but must wonder if they aren't some sort of anti-terrorist terrorists...
I don't know the answer. But It's clear from the overwhelmingly negative response here that the issue of innocent victims being blacklisting is widespread, and extremely aggravating.
But no doubt just as spammers will continue to exist, the blacklists, right or wrong, will continue to think they are fighting the good fight. And sysadmins who haven't yet experienced the helpless sinking feeling of being innocently blacklisted themselves will continue to see the blacklist services as an quick and easy answer to one of the biggest and most difficult problems on the internet.
This logic may not look far enough. It sounds like the value of the images for this company then are directly proportional to the value of the images to their clients. The value of the images to the clients are to present with stories that attract readers. Hence, theoretically, by forcing Google to remove the images they are hurting their clients for whom the pictures (presumably) draw readers interests in to them. By making their clients less attractive, they are in essence hurting themselves.
Personally, besides considering their perspective short sighted, I can't quite believe the legality of their case. Perhaps this company should simply sue their clients for letting Google index their sites. Yeah, right.
An argument might be made that things would go even faster (and they are already amazing fast) for KDE if the team got control of GPL Qt development. But things are going nicely as they are.
Philosophically the partnership between KDE and Qt seems (again, just my ignorant opinion) quite ideal however. Unlike the various Gnome corporate sponsors, who seem to me to be always mostly interested in "patching things up" in various areas, the focus of Qt to commercial demands at designing a strong design and key features has provided KDE an awesome base.
By the way TrollTech is GPL'ing the new Windows version... so once again, just like when they GPL'd the X version, there is one less argument against Qt... though that argument has always been mostly irrelevant and just a point of political pique. (And i see ignorant people on this thread still making the old non-GPL throat warbling FUD...)
Other tidbits... QTopia 2.1 is open source. Opera is the fastest browser. Apple chose KHTML over Gecko. SuSe rocks... but personally i use Gentoo and FreeBSD.
There was some talk of putting gstreamer in KDE 4. I'm not sure of the status of this; I have also heard that KDE is going to great a multimedia engine framework that can work better with multiple engines...
And check out this too, if interested in what we think up here.
Is God working for google now?
I booted the GUI once briefly, but didn't have a mouse hooked up so it was useless. I don't really care about the GUI. The focus of this kit is mostly command line tools (though there are some gui-only tools). The system boots to a prompt; you have to start X from the command line if you want it.
It's pretty annoying the way it defaults to Russian if you don't press e within three seconds during boot up. But hey, it was made by Russians who are probably pretty annoyed by all the English they are forced to endure.
The BSD kernel is very nice for detecting hardware. They're method of automounting drives seems to work pretty well. The little help system they have included which categorises and lists all of the installed utilities to help you find your way around is indeed very helpful (it would be better still if it was searchable).
Anyhow, i love this disk. It's so useful. I tend to us it more than Knoppix now in many situations. All of the more admin-oriented linux boot disks i've tried tend to have gotten stale, not updated, and be hard to find out what tools are on them after booting. Maybe Frenzy will stagnate as well. But for now it is my favourite.
Also having a lot of BSD boxes of course I am biased. Most of the linux boot disks don't give much attention to UFS/FFS file systems.
NetBSD 2.0 looks to be awesome. We still have one development machine running it; though really that server doesn't get much action. Even so, it was a fairly painful process at times getting to the 2.0 level...
We moved most of our servers from NetBSD to FreeBSD a while back. The main reason was ports vs pkgsrc. As an ISP we use them a lot. How many times were we messed up by someone hastily typing "make update"... NetBSD deleting all dependencies and then failing to re-build? Ouch.
Not sure what your problem with portupgrade is. It is a bit of a resource hog, but it works beautifully with an excellent feature set: support for defining fine grained control over the build processes, including hooks for running scripts before and after builds, setting up the environment on a per-port basis.
And while the NetBSD pkgsrc team work very hard and I have a lot of respect for them and the help the provided me in several instances in the past, there's just a lot larger community working on the BSD ports. Linux has a (much) larger community again, but Linux isn't BSD...
The other reason we moved to FreeBSD was for stability, as NetBSD was having a lot of problems with our machines at the time (around 1.6, with SCSI in particular). I believe these have been resolved by now, but they were extremely painful at the time.
We moved to FreeBSD 4.x, which we are still on. I regret though that I didn't have the nerve to go with the relatively new 5.x branch at the time. I've run 5.x on my desktop for a long time now, and it certainly has had some problems along the way... but nothing insurmountable (for me at least)... and the track that 5.x is on, though it may be inching towards it, is really exciting in a way that NetBSD never was for me (but this is merely a matter of personal perspective).
Anyhow, have fun on your NetBSD. It's a great O/S! And 2.0 is extremely impressive at what it does, as you point out.
As for me, I'm looking forward to the latest SMP developments, which already are good, but are looking better and better all the time. And GEOM is another FreeBSD technology, as the linked article describes, that I'm really hoping to utilise for our infrastructure...
But all the BSD's are simply great.
The point, as I see it, is that a completely ignorant crack was made about value of the work done by these professionals. These people do real work; something that your comments lead one to think that probably you could not imagine on your deepest, darkest, heaviest unemployed day. I'll bet that yawn you so laboriously exhale above tuckered you right out for the day. Best get a snack and take a nap... maybe surf some porn to help you relax and forget about all these terrible leaches of society.
The evidence that such ignorance abounds, such as yours, may be evidence that the education systems are indeed not accomplishing to their full potential. And I certainly have no love whatsoever for highschool. However, I also have first hand knowledge of how teachers are pathetically maligned by twits, and how many of the teachers I know know (or have some idea of) what needs to be done to fix things; but there is indeed a horrific bureaucracy which thwarts many of their efforts: that bureaucracy is generally the government, and political interests whom never cease using public education (and the funding thereof) as their football or whipping post... and people like you who spew ignorant crap you no doubt picked up out from their ignorant machinations.
Yeah, I'd vote for the cock punch in this case too. But what's the use, except for the personal satisfaction on behalf of my mom. But, alas, my mom would never condone it.
CVS commit, damn it.
Two words. Wood stoves.
Writing as an admin who generally keeps his systems up to date, and is forced to maintain MySQL on several boxes, I can tell you if you pay attention to security advisories MySQL is a pain in the ass. So much so that I let the security updates lag a bit (maybe more than a bit). I finally got around to updating the MySQL servers a few weeks ago when no less than six security advisories had been outstanding. Granted, some of these were minor issues, but still... they warrented security advisories.
In the same period, how many security advisories were posted against PostgreSQL? Zero.
(Though to be fair, one security update was released on PostgreSQL just after I did these upgrades.)
All I can say is there is a curious similarity between the name of this "My" SQL server and Microsoft Windows' well known naming convention for folders. I dare not think if there are any further comparisons between these two products could be drawn...
My only concern is that I can't quite sure how you envision designing the pentagram suitably "cute", for Beastie's legacy. But I'm sure there must be a way. The goat (of course) needs little thought: all animals are cute, as everyone knows. Just make sure its' pudgy enough, and has googly eyes. No problem. That blood dripping stuff is brilliant, as it ties in with Beastie's rosy hue. As to the beast and monsters engaged in the wanton acts of depravity: i say again, just as long as they're cute lecherous beasts, cute sadistic monsters, and (it goes without saying) the acts of wonton carnal depravity are all cute, cute, cute , this is sure to be a winner.
I'm not entirely sure if medication should be included in the logo though. Honestly.
What are you trying to pull? That screen shot is obviously from a win32 cmd window.
The cover story on Salon.com today is titled Halleluja, The Mac is Back! It's a fairly interesting article, though not very technical. It talks about the resurgence of the Apple brand name, hypothesizes whether Apple can do any damage at all to Microsoft this time around with the Mini Mac (apparently people are viewing it as an appliance rather than PC replacement, which it turns out may be a good thing, strategically).
Finally, using this version, after nearly a year of frustration and waiting, I was able to get my laptop's Radeon 9600M to work with 3D acceleration.
I quickly discovered that this then broke suspend/resume... which i need more than 3D. Sigh! At least I see on the ATI site this is a known issue...
Maybe in two more months...
In fact, while i run virtually entirely on open source software on my desktop, the only major piece of software I use regularly that jumps to mind which is GPL is KDE. (Though no doubt quite a few of its dependencies which I don't pay much attention to are GPL... but like many have pointed out, it seems GPL is the 'default' open source licence for a lot of people just because they aren't lawyers and don't want to think about it.)
I will be handing over this evidence to the authorities (ie. Microsoft) for immediate action.
However, there is a civil rights issue here even if most of the participants don't really care about it.
The issue is roughly: does one have the right to loan someone a video tape they taped from TV for personal use. I realise there's a lot more complications and angles to this, and some cases are clearer than others. But there is a real basic principle (some would say "right") at issue here.