I second that. Props to RedHat, a company that Gets It. They are a huge contributor to Linux and GNU. I prefer stability (bug fixes!) over cutting edge, so I value RedHat highly. Since yum was included in RHEL5 I've stopped installing Debian on my machines.
If your company uses Linux I suggest you support RedHat or another Linux vendor with your wallet. Discover a bug and RedHat will fix it AND FEED THE FIX BACK TO THE COMMUNITY. You don't have to be a coder to contribute to Linux code.:) There's even talk of tighter cooperation between Linux vendors. Where else in industry do you find this except in OSS? Awesome.
Good answer. However, in the interest of the dog (not kidding here) please be aware that the kind of animals you'd be looking at for this purpose are demanding and high maintenance. Working dogs must have consistent training and they *need to work* or you'll have a problem on your hands. They need to be challenged physically and mentally. If you're interested in agility, rescue training or such then go for it.
It almost made me throw up. Well, first I was really pissed off and then it got to the part about puss, antibiotics and growth hormones in milk from cows injected with RBGH.
Poisoned and dead people, puss in milk, bribery... I've only watched half and I'm too pissed off to continue.
I misinterpreted your post as meaning this was a payment for the public performance itself. Silly. You're right that a professional DJ's format shifting is not done in the capacity of a private individual.
However, the DJ must have either permission from the rights holder to use the original material in the first place, or the right to do so by law. ARIA's case seems pretty contrived.
I wonder what ARIA's position in on music purchased in digital format that doesn't involve an original physical copy.
What sort of sound recording reproductions can ARIA license?... A DJ wanting to put sound recordings from his various albums on to a single source (computer hardware) for ease of use, and as a back-up in case originals get lost or stolen.
And regarding fair use, it does exist for private persons:
Under legislation passed in late 2006, you no longer need permission, under limited circumstances, to make a copy of a CD or a digital download that you own for your private and domestic use for use on a different device.
OEMs take shortcuts and horrible hacks to get the job done. Yet you constantly hear linux users clamouring for more support from OEMs.
Sorry to nitpick, but OEM doesn't necessarily mean closed source. Neither Linux kernel developers nor users are interested in binary only kernel modules, precisely because they are not supportable as in your nVidia example. Proper OEM support in Linux means that the drivers are integrated into the mainline kernel. Intel and Broadcom do this with their NICs and qLogic with FiberChannel HBA drivers to name a few examples.
You don't realize "vwala" is the de-frenchified, freedom-loving, non-retreating version of the word from the Freedom Fries crowd. It means "Behold, believe and profess. Else you will be classified an enemy combatant".
Expect to find it in a GWB-approved dictionary any day now.
You're right. From the manufacturer's point of view being greener is a competitive advantage. It's up to consumers - and depending on your political views, government regulation - to make sure it's a big advantage.
Don't use the "out to make money" an excuse to disregard environmental considerations and personal responsibility when making purchases. "Manufacturers of hybrid cars are just out to make money, I might as well buy an SUV".
On the other hand, as an employee you can also affect the behaviour of your company. Keep asking what the company is doing to reduce waste. Phrase it so it sounds appealing - saving power and improved efficiency save costs for the company.
There are obviously various dimensions to "going green": 1) Not buying. Reuse instead. 2) Buying as little as possible. 3) When buying, buy environmentally friendly.
You can take a queue from data centers where power and heat are major issues. Instead of having a spinny whirly storage (or even solid state) on every PC, use NAS or SAN. If you've got to have 2nd - Nth PCs, use PXE, NFS and iSCSI for storage. Virtualization can help save power, too.
Never mind pr0n, how about industry leaders with deep pockets like Google, Yahoo, Sun and Microsoft? Not one has an AAAA record for their web servers. It's pretty pathetic.
I know of one, in Helsinki. Volunteer run non-profit association. Provides connectivity to individual houses and apartments around the area.
I've been thinking of such an effort in my parts. It does require a bunch of tech-oriented people to keep it running.
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You can also use a cheaper cipher. From the ssh manpage:
-c blowfish|3des|des
Selects the cipher to use for encrypting the session. 3des is
used by default. It is believed to be secure. 3des (triple-des)
is an encrypt-decrypt-encrypt triple with three different keys.
blowfish is a fast block cipher, it appears very secure and is
much faster than 3des. des is only supported in the ssh client
for interoperability with legacy protocol 1 implementations that
do not support the 3des cipher. Its use is strongly discouraged
due to cryptographic weaknesses.
Great, let's all dumb down to the lowest common denominator. English is a rich language and all the better for it. If you're too lazy to learn it, your choice. I'm a non-native speaker but prefer a vibrant, expressive language to some "for-dummies" international pidgin.
I'm not saying we should leave them to their own devices, but I believe you can't just transplant institutions like democracy, nor infrastructure, without the underlying support.
You can't have democracy without civil society. You can't have a parliamentary democracy if people think and vote along the lines of family ties, and real influence is wielded by warlords and chiefs instead of the government.
You can't build roads and infrastructure if there aren't the means to support them - income from taxes, equipment and engineers to do it. You can read of failed 3rd world aid projects from roads to mining, fishing to power plants, wheat to forestry. They all fail because they are "dropped from the sky" into a social, economic and physical environment that can't support them.
Small grass roots level injections of technology, education and health care are more effective, and can leverage big change much better than grand projects. I really believe any change has - at least be seen - to come from the local people.
Change for better has much more of a chance in Iraq, as it has a comparatively good sense of nationhood. Afghanistan as a nation or an identity barely even exists, so building a working state there is fairly utopian.
As for Islam, I think of it in the Middle East in the same terms as Communism in post-WWII Africa. Its appeal is based much on the fact that it provides an counterculture to the despised Western influence. As such, the more you try to fight it the stronger it becomes.
Oh FFS, you can't be that stupid to think random bits from the old testament or some zealots' misuse of them as justification embodies Christian values or beliefs. Killing others is a Christian teaching? It's not even worth arguing.
Any belief system is easily twisted and exploited by cynical opportunists, whatever the original purpose was. It doesn't have to be a religion or Communism. All the havoc the US is wreaking across the world is naturally for "democracy" or "national security", it's not like they'd be so stupid try to justify it with selfish intentions.
Like it or not, values like forgiveness, compassion or the spurn for hypocrisy in Western culture are rooted in the influence of Christianity, and you're deceiving yourself if you think it's despite of Christianity. Note I'm not saying only Christians have these values, I'm saying Christianity has promoted them. I'm also not saying the Church, but Christianity.
1) There's a subtle difference between archiving and compression 2) You can use zip with no compression for plain archiving 3) Since tar isn't that popular on Winblows it's pretty natural to use zip instead
There are plenty of benefits to using an archive 1) integrity checks 2) directory structures 3) single file vs thousands etc
"poor people are by definition, not as valuable as wealthy people"
Which definition is that? On a moral level that's a really questionable thing to say. On a theoretical level some could say rich people are parasites leeching off labor of the poor, and as such of no value whatsoever. On a practical level I don't think anyone would notice if some of my managers failed to turn up at work. Some things would actually work smoother.
Nice try but no cigar.;) I happen to come from a country with one of the world's highest gun ownership ratios. We get hand guns. We get silencers. A 15 year old can get a gun with parental permission. You can try guess which country.
Oh, can't resist re. "The most important freedom is economic freedom"... tell that to a US citizen being taken to a concentration camp in Guantanamo as an "enemy combatant".;)
On a more personal note, I'm taking my family to the States when visiting a friend, and have to face the humiliation of having them fingerprinted like a bunch of criminals. There's freedom for you. Come to Europe, no fingerprinting or danger of concentration camps here, promise!
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I second that. Props to RedHat, a company that Gets It. They are a huge contributor to Linux and GNU. I prefer stability (bug fixes!) over cutting edge, so I value RedHat highly. Since yum was included in RHEL5 I've stopped installing Debian on my machines.
:) There's even talk of tighter cooperation between Linux vendors. Where else in industry do you find this except in OSS? Awesome.
If your company uses Linux I suggest you support RedHat or another Linux vendor with your wallet. Discover a bug and RedHat will fix it AND FEED THE FIX BACK TO THE COMMUNITY. You don't have to be a coder to contribute to Linux code.
Good answer. However, in the interest of the dog (not kidding here) please be aware that the kind of animals you'd be looking at for this purpose are demanding and high maintenance. Working dogs must have consistent training and they *need to work* or you'll have a problem on your hands. They need to be challenged physically and mentally. If you're interested in agility, rescue training or such then go for it.
beaurocracy - rule by the beautiful?
Bureaucracy
It almost made me throw up. Well, first I was really pissed off and then it got to the part about puss, antibiotics and growth hormones in milk from cows injected with RBGH.
... I've only watched half and I'm too pissed off to continue.
Poisoned and dead people, puss in milk, bribery
I misinterpreted your post as meaning this was a payment for the public performance itself. Silly. You're right that a professional DJ's format shifting is not done in the capacity of a private individual.
However, the DJ must have either permission from the rights holder to use the original material in the first place, or the right to do so by law. ARIA's case seems pretty contrived.
I wonder what ARIA's position in on music purchased in digital format that doesn't involve an original physical copy.
From TFA:
From the FAQ on the ARIA website:
And regarding fair use, it does exist for private persons:
OEMs take shortcuts and horrible hacks to get the job done. Yet you constantly hear linux users clamouring for more support from OEMs.
Sorry to nitpick, but OEM doesn't necessarily mean closed source. Neither Linux kernel developers nor users are interested in binary only kernel modules, precisely because they are not supportable as in your nVidia example. Proper OEM support in Linux means that the drivers are integrated into the mainline kernel. Intel and Broadcom do this with their NICs and qLogic with FiberChannel HBA drivers to name a few examples.
You don't realize "vwala" is the de-frenchified, freedom-loving, non-retreating version of the word from the Freedom Fries crowd. It means "Behold, believe and profess. Else you will be classified an enemy combatant".
Expect to find it in a GWB-approved dictionary any day now.
You're right. From the manufacturer's point of view being greener is a competitive advantage. It's up to consumers - and depending on your political views, government regulation - to make sure it's a big advantage. Don't use the "out to make money" an excuse to disregard environmental considerations and personal responsibility when making purchases. "Manufacturers of hybrid cars are just out to make money, I might as well buy an SUV". On the other hand, as an employee you can also affect the behaviour of your company. Keep asking what the company is doing to reduce waste. Phrase it so it sounds appealing - saving power and improved efficiency save costs for the company.
There are obviously various dimensions to "going green":
1) Not buying. Reuse instead.
2) Buying as little as possible.
3) When buying, buy environmentally friendly.
You can take a queue from data centers where power and heat are major issues. Instead of having a spinny whirly storage (or even solid state) on every PC, use NAS or SAN. If you've got to have 2nd - Nth PCs, use PXE, NFS and iSCSI for storage. Virtualization can help save power, too.
I foresee a - perhaps shortlived - opening for lots of filesharing.
Never mind pr0n, how about industry leaders with deep pockets like Google, Yahoo, Sun and Microsoft? Not one has an AAAA record for their web servers. It's pretty pathetic.
Free education is just a matter of will, no engineering involved.
I know of one, in Helsinki. Volunteer run non-profit association. Provides connectivity to individual houses and apartments around the area. I've been thinking of such an effort in my parts. It does require a bunch of tech-oriented people to keep it running.
You can also use a cheaper cipher. From the ssh manpage:
-c blowfish|3des|des
Selects the cipher to use for encrypting the session. 3des is
used by default. It is believed to be secure. 3des (triple-des)
is an encrypt-decrypt-encrypt triple with three different keys.
blowfish is a fast block cipher, it appears very secure and is
much faster than 3des. des is only supported in the ssh client
for interoperability with legacy protocol 1 implementations that
do not support the 3des cipher. Its use is strongly discouraged
due to cryptographic weaknesses.
echo '/usr/local/bin/disable-vmsplice-if-exploitable' >> /etc/rc.local
See Boss, I fixed it. Next!
(j/k)
Great, let's all dumb down to the lowest common denominator. English is a rich language and all the better for it. If you're too lazy to learn it, your choice. I'm a non-native speaker but prefer a vibrant, expressive language to some "for-dummies" international pidgin.
I'm not saying we should leave them to their own devices, but I believe you can't just transplant institutions like democracy, nor infrastructure, without the underlying support. You can't have democracy without civil society. You can't have a parliamentary democracy if people think and vote along the lines of family ties, and real influence is wielded by warlords and chiefs instead of the government. You can't build roads and infrastructure if there aren't the means to support them - income from taxes, equipment and engineers to do it. You can read of failed 3rd world aid projects from roads to mining, fishing to power plants, wheat to forestry. They all fail because they are "dropped from the sky" into a social, economic and physical environment that can't support them. Small grass roots level injections of technology, education and health care are more effective, and can leverage big change much better than grand projects. I really believe any change has - at least be seen - to come from the local people. Change for better has much more of a chance in Iraq, as it has a comparatively good sense of nationhood. Afghanistan as a nation or an identity barely even exists, so building a working state there is fairly utopian. As for Islam, I think of it in the Middle East in the same terms as Communism in post-WWII Africa. Its appeal is based much on the fact that it provides an counterculture to the despised Western influence. As such, the more you try to fight it the stronger it becomes.
Oh FFS, you can't be that stupid to think random bits from the old testament or some zealots' misuse of them as justification embodies Christian values or beliefs. Killing others is a Christian teaching? It's not even worth arguing.
Any belief system is easily twisted and exploited by cynical opportunists, whatever the original purpose was. It doesn't have to be a religion or Communism. All the havoc the US is wreaking across the world is naturally for "democracy" or "national security", it's not like they'd be so stupid try to justify it with selfish intentions.
Like it or not, values like forgiveness, compassion or the spurn for hypocrisy in Western culture are rooted in the influence of Christianity, and you're deceiving yourself if you think it's despite of Christianity. Note I'm not saying only Christians have these values, I'm saying Christianity has promoted them. I'm also not saying the Church, but Christianity.
One small positive experience for me was IBM Thinkpad power supplies, which stayed the same for years. Until Lenovo came along, that is.
1) There's a subtle difference between archiving and compression
2) You can use zip with no compression for plain archiving
3) Since tar isn't that popular on Winblows it's pretty natural to use zip instead
There are plenty of benefits to using an archive
1) integrity checks
2) directory structures
3) single file vs thousands
etc
"poor people are by definition, not as valuable as wealthy people"
Which definition is that? On a moral level that's a really questionable thing to say. On a theoretical level some could say rich people are parasites leeching off labor of the poor, and as such of no value whatsoever. On a practical level I don't think anyone would notice if some of my managers failed to turn up at work. Some things would actually work smoother.
Google for "poweroff". It's a nifty piece of software that allows the user to cancel the shutdown you so wish.
Nice try but no cigar. ;) I happen to come from a country with one of the world's highest gun ownership ratios. We get hand guns. We get silencers. A 15 year old can get a gun with parental permission. You can try guess which country.
Oh, can't resist re. "The most important freedom is economic freedom" ... tell that to a US citizen being taken to a concentration camp in Guantanamo as an "enemy combatant". ;)
On a more personal note, I'm taking my family to the States when visiting a friend, and have to face the humiliation of having them fingerprinted like a bunch of criminals. There's freedom for you. Come to Europe, no fingerprinting or danger of concentration camps here, promise!