Well... the file is much smaller, so you could always save it twice to minimize the risk that a bad sector would affect both files... or uncompress it since the format underneath is XML... There is also an option to pretty-print the XML to make reading it even easier. Finally, you could distribute customized versions that install your favorite configuration that deals with this problem.
Now, the software and usability have vastly improved, but at the cost of requiring the same hardware as Microsoft OSs. But the old argument of "It runs on low-end hardware!" still floats around, however irrelevant it is to a modern KDE desktop.
You want fast, on low-end hardware? Use Linux with the xfce window manager, dillo quick web browser, konqueror general web browser, and sylpheed email client. You will be amazed by the speed and usability, especially if you're used to KDE or Windows.
Want a step up in terms of the desktop? Use kde's startup scripts, trim out the font-refresh stuff, take out ksplash, and install super-karamba w/ tuxbar theme..:) Then configure tuxbar to use xterm, mozilla, sylpheed, xftree (file manager), amsn, gqview, kcontrol, kfind, and dillo. Beautiful and functional, and useable enough for kids! (I know, since I've tested that!)
Word processor? Abiword loads as fast as you release the mouse button, and works great for the majority of letters & other documents.
Spreadsheet? gnumeric works great for most purposes, MS Excel is available, and while I agree that OpenOffice is pretty huge, once loaded it can probably share memory between users, in case you are running an application server with thin clients, which would require even less hardware than I was originally thinking about...
You're right.. my post wasn't offtopic, but there is a method to the madness. When the moderations are meta-moderated, there is a chance that offtopic will not get the moderator banned from moderating, if there is any reason to give that moderator the benefit of the doubt (that perhaps the post was off-topic after all). Some moderators do not even think about this and will mark messages such as the one I posted as flamebait. Very often, both of these rankings will be marked as unfair, but it is more likely that flamebait would be marked as unfair, since what I said was true and relevant. Troll would have the metamoderators looking through my history, and they would see that I am not a troll. Another tried and true one is "redundant" since (especially in well populated topics) it is hard to argue that something wasn't "redundant".
Anyway, my philosophy is why try to stop a river? Moderators will always try to suppress ideas that they do not like in predictable ways. Just use the following slashdot features that will render the attempts at censorship ineffective in your own case, and then speak your mind when appropriate. The more voices there are to speak the truth, the harder it is to waste modpoints on hiding it.
Actively choose whether people are: Friends/Foes/Freaks
and use the following modifiers in your preferences:
Offtopic +6 Redundant +2 Anonymous -6 (this cancels out with the offtopic modifier since anonymous people often write offtopic posts)
Karma Bonus +2 Friend +3 Fan +2 Friends of Friends +1
As much as Israel would like to say that it is the only democracy in the middle east, that doesn't amount to much when such a huge proportion of their indigenous population is being actively oppressed. As much as I admire the Jewish faith, I do not believe that its ethics are reflected in Israel's policies, and I do not support what is going on over there.
I'm sure that this post will completely kill my karma, but it has to be said. Again, and again, and again, and again, and again.... until someone finally fixes the situation in an ethical way. And no, that does not mean bulldozing houses, erecting a fence, week-long curfews, erecting military bases, or building settlements on occupied land.
What is going on in Israel is WRONG, WRONG, WRONG. Moderators do your worst. It has to be said.
Could someone please comment regarding whether the vulnerability affects wine? I saw the other post saying that it had to do with a registry key buffer overflow, so it seems possible that wine might not have this vunerability.
If so, then, are we Linux users safe from this particular bug? In either case, will the upcoming version of Crossover Plugin support QT6.1?
I remember that one of my friends once offered the services of his ISP to provide free downloads. The next month he received a very large bill. Remember when you download these "free" ISOs that there is a cost for the ftp sites that provide the ISOs for free to everyone. It can actually get to be very very expensive to provide free ISOs ($7-10 per download). Also, remember that there were costs in testing and developing the distribution, and that whenever you download an ISO for free you are taking advantage of the resources that were put towards the quality distribution that you will experience.
Mandrake is a fine company that really really needs our support right now. Whether you can help by lending them some of your time to fix bugs, or by providing software to make their distribution better, or (like most non-developers) by purchasing their distribution, I strongly encourage everyone who uses Mandrake to do their part.
(I use Slackware, but bought a copy of Mandrake for my brother a while ago because he uses Mandrake.)
An easy and cheap way that you can reduce your impact on ftp sites and also help to share the costs of distribution is to download the ISO from a P2P network (just check the md5sum against the official one from the ftp site when you're done), and/or set yourself up as a P2P mirror so that a few people can download the ISO from you. This is the best use of P2P that I can think of (much better than providing illegal copies of copyrighted music or movies). Another way you can help is to burn some CDs for your windows-using friends so they can try it out!:)
"despite its simplicity"? That was one of the big reasons that I moved to Slackware and haven't looked back.
Here are some reasons why I love Slackware:
1. The package manager is simple and easy to understand. 2. When something breaks, you have a good chance of knowing what you did to f*** it up, and how to fix it again. 3. It doesn't need RPM or APT. 4. It encourages you to use the source. 5. Nothing breaks unless you tell it to break (unlike RPM). 6. The most up-to-date software. 7. The best compiler. 8. The best user groups. 9. The best desktops and the best driver support. 10. Less "compulsive upgrading" than other distributions.
Slackware just ROCKS. I have used Mandrake, Redhat, Debian, Knoppix and Slackware, and Slackware is my favorite by far. Keep up the great work!
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Hey, good to hear from you again Beliskner!
>The sad thing is that people form communities and will >usually rally behind their own communities regardless of >whether they are the scum of the Earth. Even intellectuals >have carnal and emotional attachment to family which >makes them unable to kill their own evil people, instead >they delude themselves into believing other people are >seperate from their own group. This is one of the reasons >why the Iraqi people cannot overthrow their Government.
Maybe.
>Afghanistan had nothing to lose. If you have nothing to >lose then you can do anything.
That would be a logical fallacy, even if it were true that Afghanistan had nothing to lose, which itself is debateable.
>A democracy is representative of its people - true
>Americans don't make 50-year investments, not always true, but I follow
>so Saddam has to be killed fast for the Americans >to achieve a success. Otherwise the American MTV >people (and therefore Bush) will look elsewhere and >the troops will disappear overnight.
If only that were true then I would have one less complaint against the war. I am afraid, however, that America will never leave Iraq, because getting rid of Saddam is just the beginning of what they want to do there.
It is written all over the walls. America is claiming that they want to protect all of those oil wells because they belong to the Iraqi people, and because they're banking on the oil wells to pay for reconstruction.
Conveniently, that implies that America and others will be "buying" that oil in exchange for Iraq to be reconstructed.
It is hard to believe that this will be a short-term arrangement.
And history tells us that once America sets up bases in a country, it is damned near impossible to get them out.
The MTV crowd might look elsewhere.. I believe that. But I will only believe that American forces will be withdrawn, if I see that with my own eyes.
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I'm no expert on the Qur'an, but just like anything else, you must take what is said in the right context. Otherwise you will get the wrong message. The Qur'an was revealed 1400 years ago, so you're going to have to work a little bit harder than just reading some translation of it to understand what it is really saying.
Fortunately, the circumstances surrounding the revelation are extremely well documented.
Finally, what you said just goes back to what I said, which is that there is a choice that people need to make between that which benefits them in the material sense and that which is ethically right. I do not doubt that the suicide bombers were assured that their families would be richly taken care of - probably better than they would have been had it not been for their actions. If they knew that what they were doing was ethically wrong, and how could they not, then they made a clear choice.
Even if the bombers themselves were deluded into thinking that what they were doing was ethically right, then one might look further and further up the chain of command. The people at the top had to be pretty smart to organise such an attack, thus one would expect them to know that it was ethically wrong. At some point that mattered, I am sure that someone chose material considerations over ethics.
NOT a troll - please "un-troll" parent!
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The parent post is not a troll. It is my honest opinion. I was NOT trolling.
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Actually, what I said is one of my theories about 9/11 - that those who organised it, whoever the hell they were, made a choice that this was a cause that was more important than ethics. That is because no credible religion or system of ethics condones killing innocent people, yet there are definitely some people who have benefited and will continue to benefit from 9/11 in the material sense.
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Islam says that this is a choice that we all will face. In conflict or in crisis, will we choose what we know to be ethical, or will we choose that which we know will benefit us.
I think that Bush chose material considerations over ethics. It seems to me that he sacrificed his ethics because the Pope himself declared that war with Iraq is a sin, and Bush is publicly Christian. But it is possible that Bush really thinks that he is doing the right thing. Only God and Bush know for sure why Bush is doing this apparently unethical thing.
Anyway, it's a choice we all will have to make before we die, and reflects what kind of person we are. That's life.
I thought legal stuff, like supoenas and other stuff must be signed for, to have proof?
I cannot speak about your jurisdiction, but where I come from, subpoenas can be signed as delivered by the deliverer and not the recipient. Other than that, your point about not being able to guarantee delivery is well taken. Except that if *you* can guarantee delivery and *they* don't respond within 10 days, that's a point against them and your efforts are still rewarded..;-)
Even though the legal claim is bogus, it is important that everyone that receives such a notice replies within 10 days to (in pretty much these words) respectfully agree to withdraw offending files, provided that the BSA can prove that there is a legal reason for you to do so.
The alternatives: * To ignore such a notice is a strike against you should you ever go to court against the BSA. * To be disrespectful is also a strike against you should you ever go to court against the BSA. * (Strangely,) To disagree is a strike against you should you ever go to court against the BSA. * And finally, to admit any wrongdoing is a definite strike against you in court, and would give the BSA a good reason to bother you even more....
Honestly, I don't see the problem with supporting a Linux company once in a while. I mean, you would have been paying out all of that money to Microsoft, right? Why not spread the wealth? I personally am more than willing to pay money to make damn sure that there is a viable Linux distribution OUTSIDE OF THE USA. I really really like Redhat and all of their work, but the US is getting to be a scarier and scarier place in terms of how they are approaching issues of intellectual property, liberty, and privacy. And while I admire the work of Intel, Microsoft, Google and other companies in the United States, I definitely want to make sure that other options remain available.
Open source is about having a choice right? Today I chose to support Mandrake, despite all the Slashdot negativity, despite the fact that I currently am using Redhat 7.1 and have no plans of installing another distro anytime soon. I am supporting Mandrake not only because they are an excellent Linux distribution but also because they are in France, and I find security in that.
Few benefits of local transit are real. No one includes the enormous cost of building a subway, elevated rail, train, or transit system in the pollution comparrisions versus passenger cars.
If you want to include the cost of building infrastructure, then you have to do the same thing for cars. After all, cars require roads, driveways, parking lots (and parking doesn't come cheap, especially downtown), and gas stations.
Buses, on the other hand, require only the roads which already exist, and some place to park them which does not need to be downtown. They interoperate extremely well with existing infrastructure, and at the same time are less harmful to the environment.
For one thing, buses use diesel rather than natural gas (although in rich neighborhoods this is not necessarily true). Diesel costs half as much and goes twice as far per litre as gasoline. It emits only solid carbon soot which is easily filtered. Buses can cram in more people per square foot than cars, and move those people at a lower gallon/mile/person ratio too.
It might not be _your_ prefered means of transportation, but I don't think you can credibly argue that there is no environmental benefit to having a transit system.
Finally, I thought I would quote from a website I found (http://www.flora.org/afo/cc1.html#II):
A new report from the respected Environment and Forecasting Institute in Heidelberg, Germany puts the car right back at the centre of the transport debate and raises fundamental questions about a society increasingly adapting itself to the car. The German analysts take a medium-sized car and assume that it is driven for 13,000 km a year for 10 years. They then compute its financial, environmental and health impacts "from cradle to grave". Long before the car has got to the showroom, they find it has produced significant amounts of damage to air, water and land ecosystems. Each car produced in Germany (where environmental standards are among the world's highest), produces 25,000 kg of waste and 422 million cubic metres of polluted air in the
extraction of raw materials alone, say the Heidelberg researchers. The transport of these raw materials to Germany and around the country to factories produces a further 425 million cubic metres of polluted air and 12 litres of crude oil in the oceans of the world (for each car). The production of the car itself adds a further 1,5000 kg of waste and 75 million cubic metres of polluted air. Calculations of the impact of a car in use make the generous assumption that the car has a three-way catalytic converter and uses 10 litres of lead-free petrol for every 100 km. Over 10 years, the Heidelberg researchers believe that one car will produce:
44.3 tonnes of carbon dioxide;
4.8 kg of sulphur dioxide;
46.8 kg of nitrogen dioxide;
325 kg of carbon monoxide;
36 kg of hydrocarbons. Each car is moreover responsible for 1,016 million cubic metres of polluted air and a number of abrasion products from tyres, brakes and road surfaces; 17,500 grams of road surface abrasion products; 750 grams of tyre abrasion products; 150 grams of brake abrasion products. Each car also pollutes soils and groundwater and this calculated for oil, cadmium, chrome, lead, copper and zinc. The environmental impact continues beyond the end of the car's useful life. Disposal of the vehicle produces a further 102 million cubic metres of polluted air and quantities of PCBs and hydrocarbons. The sum of these different life cycle stages produces some insights into the penalties societies must face if they become car dependent. In total, each car produces 59.7 tonnes of carbon dioxide and 2,040 million cubic metres of polluted air. Each car, say the Germans, produces 26.5 tonnes of rubbish to add to the enormous problems of disposal and landfill management faced by most local authorities. While this detail is impressive (and wholly absent from the environmental claims of motor vehicle manufacturers and motoring organisations), it is still not complete. Some of the more startling revelations are in the researchers' wider analysis of social and environmental costs. Germany suffers from extensive forest damage attributed to acid rain and vehicle exhaust emissions. The Heidelberg researchers calculate that each car in its lifetime is responsible for three dead trees and 30 "sick" trees. [...] The Heidelberg researchers say that over its lifetime, each car is responsible for 820 hours of life lost through a road traffic accident fatality and 2,800 hours of life damaged by a road traffic accident. Statistically, they suggest, one individual in every 100 will be killed in a road traffic accident and two out of every three injured. Translated into vehicle numbers, this means: Every 450 cars are responsible for one fatality; Every 100 cars are responsible for one handicapped person; Every 7 cars are responsible for one injured person; And into production data: Every 50 minutes a new car is produced that will kill someone; Every 50 seconds a new car is produced that will injure someone. Land use data are also brought into the equation to show that Germany's cars, if one includes driving and parking requirements, commandeer 3,700 sq km of land~60% more than is allocated to housing. Every German car is responsible for 200 sq metres of tarmac and concrete. The total impact of the car over all the stages of its life cycle also produces a quantifiable financial cost. The Heidelberg researchers estimate this to be 6,000 DM per annum per car (about $5,000) and covers the external costs of all forms of pollution, accidents and noise after income taxation are taken into account. This is a state subsidy equivalent to giving each car user a free pass for the whole year for all public transport, a new bike every five years and 15,000 km of first class rail travel. The car is thus revealed as an environmental, fiscal and social disaster that would not pass any value-for-money test. More importantly, the car can now be seen as a disaster in itself. It is ownership as well as use that is the problem of the car and a car used sensitively (if that is possible) is still a problem for energy, pollution, space and waste. The balance sheet's bottom line is enormous societal deficits and penalties and an assumption that we will all continue to pay the bill. Reference: Oeko-bilanz eines autolebens. Umwelt-und Prognose- Institut Heidelberg. Landstrasse 118a, D69121, Heidelberg, Germany. John Whitelegg is head of the Geography Department at Lancaster University and director of the Environmental Research Unit, Lancaster University. (Oct 93) John Whitelegg, Eco-Logica Ltd., Transport and Environment Consultancy, 713 Cameron House, White Cross, Lancaster, LA1 4XQ (0524) 842655, Fax: 0524-842678.
A great deal of global warming, smog, etc. comes directly or indirectly from cars. Manufacturing them, driving them, and drilling for oil to support them all have environmental effects. Not to mention that the need for oil will probably be one of the major reasons for wars in the next few decades, and war is pretty bad for the environment too.
Reduce your community's dependence on cars by
a) donating money to a political party to support the local transit system
b) donating money to support the transit system
c) taking the bus or biking more often yourself when possible.
This way you will be in a position to see your money making a difference, and it will directly and positively improve your quality of life as a result.
There are several ways you can overcommit yourself, and all of them are a bad idea at this age:
1. Don't get married.
2. Don't take too many classes at once. Even if you think you're smart. Even if others think you're smart. A student who takes 3-4 classes is an A student. A student who takes 5-6 is a C-D student. I see this all the time amoung students I have tutored.
3. Don't have a job at the same time if you can help it. Try to get by on scholarships/student loan/parent's/even a bank loan, rather than work, since working will pay far better once you have graduated
4. If you can live off campus, then it is better to do that since living in Dorms isn't really worth it and exposes you to all sorts of temptations that you can do without. Live alone if possible, but only if that doesn't stretch your finances. Do not try to live with someone of the opposite gender.
5. Don't commit to dates when you still have homework to do, even if the person is very attractive. Call it playing hard to get, or call it waiting for your moment, but you don't need a relationship right now at all. It will only distract you, and both genders get more attractive when they're 25-30 and have money and experience anyway. (If you really want, you can go raid the university towns again once you've got a nice job and some money...)
Some commitments are good though, such as to be healthy, so making sure you eat good food and get lots of exercise are well worth the effort. Anyway, good luck, and I don't really expect you (or anyone) to be able to avoid all five pitfalls, but there you go.
"the attribtion (personality) *and* disposition (environment in which behaviour in question was undertaken)"
Isn't disposition closer to personality?
"Disposition is the natural humor of a person, the
predominating quality of his character, the
constitutional habit of his mind. Character is this
disposition influenced by motive, training, and will.
Temper is a quality of the fiber of character, and is
displayed chiefly when the emotions, especially the
passions, are aroused." Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
And attribution, "The act of attributing or ascribing, as a quality, character, or function, to a thing or person, an effect to a cause," is close to neither personality nor disposition.
Maybe people don't get upset about white collar crime because the one thing that suits can do is communicate effectively. Even if you don't know what the hell they were saying, you go away with the impression that they're probably right.
(And then you go and try to actually do what they suggested, and waste tons of time... but never mind that small point.)
Have you ever tried drinking 8 glasses of water? You feel all bloated and can hardly move, and the first place you go is to the closest washroom to feed the sewers.
e_n_d_o said:I'd love to hear anyone's experience using CrossOver as a method to run Internet Explorer for the purpose of testing Web applications from a Linux machine. I need IE to behave just like it does on Windows, such that I can test applications and have the results be entirely indicative of their behavior on a real Windows machine. I'd also like to run multiple versions of IE, which is impossible without multiple machines or a VM.
This job sounds more ideal for VMWare, since you could get multiple machines running with different versions of internet explorer, whereas that might be difficult/inconvenient with wine...
As a side note, mozilla now has an Internet Explorer theme which is good enough to fool most people...;-)
Well, you can just copy the binaries into place. And leaving the files owned by a user with no shell, or a user that doesn't exist would really have the same effect as leaving them owned by root, since the only one who can overwrite them is root. Yes, setuid/setgid is different.
But how do you know what "make install" needs to do in any but the most simple Makefiles? Do you open the Makefile in vi with one window, and then manually copy the commands that make sense into another?
Plus, if you need to do the copying as root, then what stops you from inadvertently copying over a binary which already exists, thus altering the execution of other binaries by mistake?
Do you know of a systematic way to securely install programs without putting any other programs at risk?
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Well... the file is much smaller, so you could always save it twice to minimize the risk that a bad sector would affect both files... or uncompress it since the format underneath is XML... There is also an option to pretty-print the XML to make reading it even easier. Finally, you could distribute customized versions that install your favorite configuration that deals with this problem.
Now, the software and usability have vastly improved, but at the cost of requiring the same hardware as Microsoft OSs. But the old argument of "It runs on low-end hardware!" still floats around, however irrelevant it is to a modern KDE desktop.
:) Then configure tuxbar to use xterm, mozilla, sylpheed, xftree (file manager), amsn, gqview, kcontrol, kfind, and dillo. Beautiful and functional, and useable enough for kids! (I know, since I've tested that!)
You want fast, on low-end hardware? Use Linux with the xfce window manager, dillo quick web browser, konqueror general web browser, and sylpheed email client. You will be amazed by the speed and usability, especially if you're used to KDE or Windows.
Want a step up in terms of the desktop? Use kde's startup scripts, trim out the font-refresh stuff, take out ksplash, and install super-karamba w/ tuxbar theme..
Word processor? Abiword loads as fast as you release the mouse button, and works great for the majority of letters & other documents.
Spreadsheet? gnumeric works great for most purposes, MS Excel is available, and while I agree that OpenOffice is pretty huge, once loaded it can probably share memory between users, in case you are running an application server with thin clients, which would require even less hardware than I was originally thinking about...
Hi Motown,
:)
You're right.. my post wasn't offtopic, but there is a method to the madness. When the moderations are meta-moderated, there is a chance that offtopic will not get the moderator banned from moderating, if there is any reason to give that moderator the benefit of the doubt (that perhaps the post was off-topic after all). Some moderators do not even think about this and will mark messages such as the one I posted as flamebait. Very often, both of these rankings will be marked as unfair, but it is more likely that flamebait would be marked as unfair, since what I said was true and relevant. Troll would have the metamoderators looking through my history, and they would see that I am not a troll. Another tried and true one is "redundant" since (especially in well populated topics) it is hard to argue that something wasn't "redundant".
Anyway, my philosophy is why try to stop a river? Moderators will always try to suppress ideas that they do not like in predictable ways. Just use the following slashdot features that will render the attempts at censorship ineffective in your own case, and then speak your mind when appropriate. The more voices there are to speak the truth, the harder it is to waste modpoints on hiding it.
Actively choose whether people are: Friends/Foes/Freaks
and use the following modifiers in your preferences:
Offtopic +6
Redundant +2
Anonymous -6 (this cancels out with the offtopic modifier since anonymous people often write offtopic posts)
Karma Bonus +2
Friend +3
Fan +2
Friends of Friends +1
New User Modifier +2
Cheers,
Repoleved
PS. Spread the word...
As much as Israel would like to say that it is the only democracy in the middle east, that doesn't amount to much when such a huge proportion of their indigenous population is being actively oppressed. As much as I admire the Jewish faith, I do not believe that its ethics are reflected in Israel's policies, and I do not support what is going on over there.
I'm sure that this post will completely kill my karma, but it has to be said. Again, and again, and again, and again, and again.... until someone finally fixes the situation in an ethical way. And no, that does not mean bulldozing houses, erecting a fence, week-long curfews, erecting military bases, or building settlements on occupied land.
What is going on in Israel is WRONG, WRONG, WRONG. Moderators do your worst. It has to be said.
Could someone please comment regarding whether the vulnerability affects wine? I saw the other post saying that it had to do with a registry key buffer overflow, so it seems possible that wine might not have this vunerability.
If so, then, are we Linux users safe from this particular bug? In either case, will the upcoming version of Crossover Plugin support QT6.1?
Here's someone else who says that bandwidth can be expensive. Only he says $100 / gig.
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Is that bullshit too?
To purchase it is to stab all those American, British, Australian, Shiite, and Kurdish people who are battling for freedom in the back.
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Sounds like a good reason to purchase it, to me.
I remember that one of my friends once offered the services of his ISP to provide free downloads. The next month he received a very large bill. Remember when you download these "free" ISOs that there is a cost for the ftp sites that provide the ISOs for free to everyone. It can actually get to be very very expensive to provide free ISOs ($7-10 per download). Also, remember that there were costs in testing and developing the distribution, and that whenever you download an ISO for free you are taking advantage of the resources that were put towards the quality distribution that you will experience.
:)
Mandrake is a fine company that really really needs our support right now. Whether you can help by lending them some of your time to fix bugs, or by providing software to make their distribution better, or (like most non-developers) by purchasing their distribution, I strongly encourage everyone who uses Mandrake to do their part.
(I use Slackware, but bought a copy of Mandrake for my brother a while ago because he uses Mandrake.)
An easy and cheap way that you can reduce your impact on ftp sites and also help to share the costs of distribution is to download the ISO from a P2P network (just check the md5sum against the official one from the ftp site when you're done), and/or set yourself up as a P2P mirror so that a few people can download the ISO from you. This is the best use of P2P that I can think of (much better than providing illegal copies of copyrighted music or movies). Another way you can help is to burn some CDs for your windows-using friends so they can try it out!
"despite its simplicity"? That was one of the big reasons that I moved to Slackware and haven't looked back.
Here are some reasons why I love Slackware:
1. The package manager is simple and easy to understand.
2. When something breaks, you have a good chance of knowing what you did to f*** it up, and how to fix it again.
3. It doesn't need RPM or APT.
4. It encourages you to use the source.
5. Nothing breaks unless you tell it to break (unlike RPM).
6. The most up-to-date software.
7. The best compiler.
8. The best user groups.
9. The best desktops and the best driver support.
10. Less "compulsive upgrading" than other distributions.
Slackware just ROCKS. I have used Mandrake, Redhat, Debian, Knoppix and Slackware, and Slackware is my favorite by far. Keep up the great work!
Hey, good to hear from you again Beliskner!
>The sad thing is that people form communities and will
>usually rally behind their own communities regardless of
>whether they are the scum of the Earth. Even intellectuals
>have carnal and emotional attachment to family which
>makes them unable to kill their own evil people, instead
>they delude themselves into believing other people are
>seperate from their own group. This is one of the reasons
>why the Iraqi people cannot overthrow their Government.
Maybe.
>Afghanistan had nothing to lose. If you have nothing to
>lose then you can do anything.
That would be a logical fallacy, even if it were true that
Afghanistan had nothing to lose, which itself is debateable.
>A democracy is representative of its people -
true
>Americans don't make 50-year investments,
not always true, but I follow
>so Saddam has to be killed fast for the Americans
>to achieve a success. Otherwise the American MTV
>people (and therefore Bush) will look elsewhere and
>the troops will disappear overnight.
If only that were true then I would have one less complaint against
the war. I am afraid, however, that America will never leave
Iraq, because getting rid of Saddam is just the beginning of
what they want to do there.
It is written all over the walls. America is claiming that they
want to protect all of those oil wells because they belong to
the Iraqi people, and because they're banking on the oil wells
to pay for reconstruction.
Conveniently, that implies that America and others will be
"buying" that oil in exchange for Iraq to be reconstructed.
It is hard to believe that this will be a short-term arrangement.
And history tells us that once America sets up bases in a country,
it is damned near impossible to get them out.
The MTV crowd might look elsewhere.. I believe that. But I will
only believe that American forces will be withdrawn, if I see that with
my own eyes.
I'm no expert on the Qur'an, but just like anything else, you must take what is said in the right context. Otherwise you will get the wrong message. The Qur'an was revealed 1400 years ago, so you're going to have to work a little bit harder than just reading some translation of it to understand what it is really saying.
Fortunately, the circumstances surrounding the revelation are extremely well documented.
Finally, what you said just goes back to what I said, which is that there is a choice that people need to make between that which benefits them in the material sense and that which is ethically right. I do not doubt that the suicide bombers were assured that their families would be richly taken care of - probably better than they would have been had it not been for their actions. If they knew that what they were doing was ethically wrong, and how could they not, then they made a clear choice.
Even if the bombers themselves were deluded into thinking that what they were doing was ethically right, then one might look further and further up the chain of command. The people at the top had to be pretty smart to organise such an attack, thus one would expect them to know that it was ethically wrong. At some point that mattered, I am sure that someone chose material considerations over ethics.
The parent post is not a troll. It is my honest opinion. I was NOT trolling.
Actually, what I said is one of my theories about 9/11 - that those who organised it, whoever the hell they were, made a choice that this was a cause that was more important than ethics. That is because no credible religion or system of ethics condones killing innocent people, yet there are definitely some people who have benefited and will continue to benefit from 9/11 in the material sense.
Islam says that this is a choice that we all will face. In conflict or in crisis, will we choose what we know to be ethical, or will we choose that which we know will benefit us.
I think that Bush chose material considerations over ethics. It seems to me that he sacrificed his ethics because the Pope himself declared that war with Iraq is a sin, and Bush is publicly Christian. But it is possible that Bush really thinks that he is doing the right thing. Only God and Bush know for sure why Bush is doing this apparently unethical thing.
Anyway, it's a choice we all will have to make before we die, and reflects what kind of person we are. That's life.
I thought legal stuff, like supoenas and other stuff must be signed for, to have proof?
;-)
I cannot speak about your jurisdiction, but where I come from, subpoenas can be signed as delivered by the deliverer and not the recipient. Other than that, your point about not being able to guarantee delivery is well taken. Except that if *you* can guarantee delivery and *they* don't respond within 10 days, that's a point against them and your efforts are still rewarded..
IANAL but (pay attention this is important!) ...
Even though the legal claim is bogus, it is important that everyone that receives such a notice replies within 10 days to (in pretty much these words) respectfully agree to withdraw offending files, provided that the BSA can prove that there is a legal reason for you to do so.
The alternatives:
* To ignore such a notice is a strike against you should you ever go to court against the BSA.
* To be disrespectful is also a strike against you should you ever go to court against the BSA.
* (Strangely,) To disagree is a strike against you should you ever go to court against the BSA.
* And finally, to admit any wrongdoing is a definite strike against you in court, and would give the BSA a good reason to bother you even more....
Honestly, I don't see the problem with supporting a Linux company once in a while. I mean, you would have been paying out all of that money to Microsoft, right? Why not spread the wealth? I personally am more than willing to pay money to make damn sure that there is a viable Linux distribution OUTSIDE OF THE USA. I really really like Redhat and all of their work, but the US is getting to be a scarier and scarier place in terms of how they are approaching issues of intellectual property, liberty, and privacy. And while I admire the work of Intel, Microsoft, Google and other companies in the United States, I definitely want to make sure that other options remain available.
Open source is about having a choice right? Today I chose to support Mandrake, despite all the Slashdot negativity, despite the fact that I currently am using Redhat 7.1 and have no plans of installing another distro anytime soon. I am supporting Mandrake not only because they are an excellent Linux distribution but also because they are in France, and I find security in that.
Few benefits of local transit are real. No one includes the enormous cost of building a subway, elevated rail, train, or transit system in the pollution comparrisions versus passenger cars.
If you want to include the cost of building infrastructure, then you have to do the same thing for cars. After all, cars require roads, driveways, parking lots (and parking doesn't come cheap, especially downtown), and gas stations.
Buses, on the other hand, require only the roads which already exist, and some place to park them which does not need to be downtown. They interoperate extremely well with existing infrastructure, and at the same time are less harmful to the environment.
For one thing, buses use diesel rather than natural gas (although in rich neighborhoods this is not necessarily true). Diesel costs half as much and goes twice as far per litre as gasoline. It emits only solid carbon soot which is easily filtered. Buses can cram in more people per square foot than cars, and move those people at a lower gallon/mile/person ratio too.
It might not be _your_ prefered means of transportation, but I don't think you can credibly argue that there is no environmental benefit to having a transit system.
Finally, I thought I would quote from a website I found (http://www.flora.org/afo/cc1.html#II):
A new report from the respected Environment and Forecasting
Institute in Heidelberg, Germany puts the car right back at the
centre of the transport debate and raises fundamental questions
about a society increasingly adapting itself to the car.
The German analysts take a medium-sized car and assume that it is
driven for 13,000 km a year for 10 years. They then compute its
financial, environmental and health impacts "from cradle to
grave".
Long before the car has got to the showroom, they find it has
produced significant amounts of damage to air, water and land
ecosystems. Each car produced in Germany (where environmental
standards are among the world's highest), produces 25,000 kg of
waste and 422 million cubic metres of polluted air in the
extraction of raw materials alone, say the Heidelberg
researchers.
The transport of these raw materials to Germany and around the
country to factories produces a further 425 million cubic metres
of polluted air and 12 litres of crude oil in the oceans of the
world (for each car). The production of the car itself adds a
further 1,5000 kg of waste and 75 million cubic metres of
polluted air.
Calculations of the impact of a car in use make the generous
assumption that the car has a three-way catalytic converter and
uses 10 litres of lead-free petrol for every 100 km. Over 10
years, the Heidelberg researchers believe that one car will
produce:
44.3 tonnes of carbon dioxide;
4.8 kg of sulphur dioxide;
46.8 kg of nitrogen dioxide;
325 kg of carbon monoxide;
36 kg of hydrocarbons.
Each car is moreover responsible for 1,016 million cubic metres
of polluted air and a number of abrasion products from tyres,
brakes and road surfaces;
17,500 grams of road surface abrasion products;
750 grams of tyre abrasion products;
150 grams of brake abrasion products.
Each car also pollutes soils and groundwater and this
calculated for oil, cadmium, chrome, lead, copper and zinc.
The environmental impact continues beyond the end of the car's
useful life. Disposal of the vehicle produces a further 102
million cubic metres of polluted air and quantities of PCBs and
hydrocarbons.
The sum of these different life cycle stages produces some
insights into the penalties societies must face if they become
car dependent. In total, each car produces 59.7 tonnes of carbon
dioxide and 2,040 million cubic metres of polluted air. Each
car, say the Germans, produces 26.5 tonnes of rubbish to add to
the enormous problems of disposal and landfill management faced
by most local authorities.
While this detail is impressive (and wholly absent from the
environmental claims of motor vehicle manufacturers and motoring
organisations), it is still not complete. Some of the more
startling revelations are in the researchers' wider analysis of
social and environmental costs.
Germany suffers from extensive forest damage attributed to acid
rain and vehicle exhaust emissions. The Heidelberg researchers
calculate that each car in its lifetime is responsible for three
dead trees and 30 "sick" trees. [...]
The Heidelberg researchers say that over its lifetime, each car
is responsible for 820 hours of life lost through a road traffic
accident fatality and 2,800 hours of life damaged by a road
traffic accident. Statistically, they suggest, one individual in
every 100 will be killed in a road traffic accident and two out
of every three injured. Translated into vehicle numbers, this
means:
Every 450 cars are responsible for one fatality;
Every 100 cars are responsible for one handicapped person;
Every 7 cars are responsible for one injured person;
And into production data:
Every 50 minutes a new car is produced that will kill someone;
Every 50 seconds a new car is produced that will injure
someone.
Land use data are also brought into the equation to show that
Germany's cars, if one includes driving and parking requirements,
commandeer 3,700 sq km of land~60% more than is allocated to
housing. Every German car is responsible for 200 sq metres of
tarmac and concrete.
The total impact of the car over all the stages of its life cycle
also produces a quantifiable financial cost. The Heidelberg
researchers estimate this to be 6,000 DM per annum per car (about
$5,000) and covers the external costs of all forms of pollution,
accidents and noise after income taxation are taken into account.
This is a state subsidy equivalent to giving each car user a free
pass for the whole year for all public transport, a new bike
every five years and 15,000 km of first class rail travel.
The car is thus revealed as an environmental, fiscal and social
disaster that would not pass any value-for-money test. More
importantly, the car can now be seen as a disaster in itself. It
is ownership as well as use that is the problem of the car and a
car used sensitively (if that is possible) is still a problem for
energy, pollution, space and waste. The balance sheet's bottom
line is enormous societal deficits and penalties and an
assumption that we will all continue to pay the bill.
Reference: Oeko-bilanz eines autolebens. Umwelt-und Prognose-
Institut Heidelberg. Landstrasse 118a, D69121, Heidelberg,
Germany. John Whitelegg is head of the Geography Department at
Lancaster University and director of the Environmental Research
Unit, Lancaster University. (Oct 93)
John Whitelegg, Eco-Logica Ltd., Transport and Environment
Consultancy, 713 Cameron House, White Cross, Lancaster, LA1 4XQ
(0524) 842655, Fax: 0524-842678.
A great deal of global warming, smog, etc. comes directly or indirectly from cars. Manufacturing them, driving them, and drilling for oil to support them all have environmental effects. Not to mention that the need for oil will probably be one of the major reasons for wars in the next few decades, and war is pretty bad for the environment too.
Reduce your community's dependence on cars by
a) donating money to a political party to support the local transit system
b) donating money to support the transit system
c) taking the bus or biking more often yourself when possible.
This way you will be in a position to see your money making a difference, and it will directly and positively improve your quality of life as a result.
Cheers!
among.
There are several ways you can overcommit yourself, and all of them are a bad idea at this age:
1. Don't get married.
2. Don't take too many classes at once. Even if you think you're smart. Even if others think you're smart. A student who takes 3-4 classes is an A student. A student who takes 5-6 is a C-D student. I see this all the time amoung students I have tutored.
3. Don't have a job at the same time if you can help it. Try to get by on scholarships/student loan/parent's/even a bank loan, rather than work, since working will pay far better once you have graduated
4. If you can live off campus, then it is better to do that since living in Dorms isn't really worth it and exposes you to all sorts of temptations that you can do without. Live alone if possible, but only if that doesn't stretch your finances. Do not try to live with someone of the opposite gender.
5. Don't commit to dates when you still have homework to do, even if the person is very attractive. Call it playing hard to get, or call it waiting for your moment, but you don't need a relationship right now at all. It will only distract you, and both genders get more attractive when they're 25-30 and have money and experience anyway. (If you really want, you can go raid the university towns again once you've got a nice job and some money...)
Some commitments are good though, such as to be healthy, so making sure you eat good food and get lots of exercise are well worth the effort. Anyway, good luck, and I don't really expect you (or anyone) to be able to avoid all five pitfalls, but there you go.
"the attribtion (personality) *and* disposition (environment in which behaviour in question was undertaken)"
Isn't disposition closer to personality?
"Disposition is the natural humor of a person, the
predominating quality of his character, the
constitutional habit of his mind. Character is this
disposition influenced by motive, training, and will.
Temper is a quality of the fiber of character, and is
displayed chiefly when the emotions, especially the
passions, are aroused."
Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
And attribution, "The act of attributing or ascribing, as a quality, character, or function, to a thing or person, an effect to a cause," is close to neither personality nor disposition.
Maybe people don't get upset about white collar crime because the one thing that suits can do is communicate effectively. Even if you don't know what the hell they were saying, you go away with the impression that they're probably right.
(And then you go and try to actually do what they suggested, and waste tons of time... but never mind that small point.)
Have you ever tried drinking 8 glasses of water? You feel all bloated and can hardly move, and the first place you go is to the closest washroom to feed the sewers.
e_n_d_o said:I'd love to hear anyone's experience using CrossOver as a method to run Internet Explorer for the purpose of testing Web applications from a Linux machine. I need IE to behave just like it does on Windows, such that I can test applications and have the results be entirely indicative of their behavior on a real Windows machine. I'd also like to run multiple versions of IE, which is impossible without multiple machines or a VM.
;-)
This job sounds more ideal for VMWare, since you could get multiple machines running with different versions of internet explorer, whereas that might be difficult/inconvenient with wine...
As a side note, mozilla now has an Internet Explorer theme which is good enough to fool most people...
Well, you can just copy the binaries into place. And leaving the files owned by a user with no shell, or a user that doesn't exist would really have the same effect as leaving them owned by root, since the only one who can overwrite them is root. Yes, setuid/setgid is different.
But how do you know what "make install" needs to do in any but the most simple Makefiles? Do you open the Makefile in vi with one window, and then manually copy the commands that make sense into another?
Plus, if you need to do the copying as root, then what stops you from inadvertently copying over a binary which already exists, thus altering the execution of other binaries by mistake?
Do you know of a systematic way to securely install programs without putting any other programs at risk?