For those of you older folks, you may remember when Lotus123 came out with the first copy proof protection scheme in 1983? They burned a little hole in the disk with a laser beam. Let's see, that took about two days before it was cracked.
It is clear that the trend is towards fewer taxpayers supporting more pensioners. I believe that this is no coincidence, rather that the generation(s) born since 1970 were systematically and deliberately set up by the policy makers of the so-called "baby boomer" generation.
Oh c'mon. That's one conspiracy too many! Do you seriously believe that the boom generation intended to put themselves in such a tenuous position just to screw over younger folks? That's complete cr*p. At a certain point, if it gets too awful, the taxpayers *will* revolt, typically by working far less as the benefit of working more will have become subject to too many diminishing returns.
The reality of the current mess is that the politicians that p*ssed it all away *had* to do it, so they could point to all the "wonderful things" they did while in office in order to get re-elected. Built a bridge, gave food to b*stard children, repaved the road, kept the auto plant in the state, etc., etc. They were never looking to a future closer than the next November 6.
There's a quote about democracy somewhere along the lines of how it never works 'cause eventually the citizens vote themselves the public treasury. We're witnessing this.
But when you enter a public place, you give up some of your rights of privacy.
I agree. But when they are watching me and I do not know it, or I cannot watch them, I am being violated.
No one here yet has managed to put to words just exactly how and why it is different than just being watched by someone else on the street, but we all know that it is different.
I just finished tweaking it 10 seconds ago under Mandrake 9.
I LOVE IT!
The best thing is that I can customize it so that in full screen mode, my most common bookmarks, an address bar, a google search bar, a go button, and navigation buttons are all in one thin line up at the top freeing all my screen space!
It's also the fastest browser I've ever used under either Linux or WinXP and (in the 10 seconds I've had to use it) seemingly solid.
There is only one thing missing that may force me back to mozilla: the inability to "block images from this server," i.e., to get rid of ads.
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I'm sitting here typing from Mandrake 9. For the first time ever, I have both my cheap scanner and my cheap printer working (at the same time!).
Last week I was running Gentoo 1.3. I decided to give Mandrake another try before going to Gen1.4 since I was wiping the drive clean anyway.
Here's the thing: Mandrake9 feels even *faster* than Gen1.3 was. It's even hard for ME to believe. I assume it has something to do with gcc3.2, but I'm not sure.
There are already organizations that are determining the direction of Linux. Some are for profit, some are volunteer efforts only (at the moment).
Those organizations are commonly called the distributions.
For example:
Mandrake RedHat Gentoo etc etc etc
The distro rollers can do anything they darn please and often do. This gives us variety -- and when a certain distro is liked well enough, de facto standards as well.
Think about it: Say the FSF was in charge of the "future direction." What would happen? A whole lot of folks would be POed about whatever that direction was, splinter off, and then we'd be in exactly the same situation we are right now and NO ONE could do anything to change it because of the nature of the GNU license.
Sure, sometimes Microsoft style control gets things done more quickly and efficiently -- and often result in the emergence of features and instantaneous standards that might not otherwise appear. But at what cost?
Dictatorships are the most efficient forms of governance known. Most folks would probably prefer not to live under them though.
The only things that always picks up SMB shares without tweaking (i.e., you JUST RUN IT AND IT FINDS THEM) is komba2
It used to come with Mandrake until 8.2 but they took it out for 9.0 (WHY??@@@@1!!!!) . It works with every linxus distro including Gentoo.
The way it works it it just mounts all the shares it finds as a directory (e.g.,/home/komba/shares).
It has a nice GUI and has always been completely bug free for me, even though it's only at like 0.7 stable version.
Just make sure that samba is running in the backround first before you run it.
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This is the fellow who, before World War II, was concerned about the coming conflict so he converted his savings to precious metals and buried them
So let's see: Gold was $20 an ounce in 1934. Hmmm.... he could have kept the $20 instead of an ounce and would have had all that cash instead of gold, which is worthless per ounce today.
I don't know where you are in Cali, but when I was in the Santa Clara Valley, I could pick up most stuff being broadcast in the US, and plenty from southern & northern east Asia. With a really lousy CW radio, no real antenna, and a horrid light dimmer in the next apartment that would always flood the whole SW spectrum with the most irritating buzz.
You need, in this order:
1. Antenna, Antenna, Antenna! Go to RadioShack and get their 75 foot length of copper SW antenna wire & figure out a good place to string it. Follow the directions.
2. The step above should solve 99.9999999 percent of your problems, but failing that, get a better radio. $99 should get you quite a decent rig at Fry's Electronics.
Look I don't want to be political, but I cannot let this go by.
The reason we finally got rid of the silly speed limits is because in 1994, after 40 freakin' years, folks were fed up enough about a few things to toss the Democrats out of congress on their on their collective deaf ear.
One of the very first thing the freshman Republicans did was present the pres with a bill removing federal speed limits & at the time the pres was so intimidated (completely freaked really) by what had happened in in the elections that he signed it.
I have no great love of either party, but that is what happened.
I wonder how all this stuff with the piracy and RIAA is playing out with the classical music market.
As a classical violinist, I have some sense of how the current classical scene is and has always been:
Since western musicians have existed, they have always been considered weird (though not nearly as weird as *actors* (!)), treated as servants, and paid accordingly (i.e., little to nothing).
While that changed for a few pop musicians during the 20th century, most classical instrument players have continued, as usual, to either barely stay above the starvation line, or have found a real job to supplement their meager income. There have been a few extremely rare exceptions (e.g., Pearlman) though even those folks make quite a bit less than you might think.
If you dig around and find out how much say, the basoonist in a famous world class orchestra makes, you'll immediately realize that classical musicians are in it for love of music as it is impossible to be there for love of money.
My gut feeling is that as the younger generations get used to paying *nothing* for any music that they want, the highly paid pop performer phenomenon will be considered a 20th century anomaly, and the only money left to be made in the pop scene will be, like it is for classical players, through performance, or through hire.
It wouldn't surprise me if in 15 years BonJovi's main source of income is weddings and birthday parties. I am saying that with a serious tone and a straight face. (no emoticon)
The scripts need to be rewritten to work in another directory. Gentoo 1.3 compiles Mozilla 1.x into/usr/lib/mozilla, and that's where all the scripts want Phoenix to be. Naturally I can't just take the contents of Phoenix and throw it on top of Mozilla. Under Windows however, Phoenix will run out of its own directory -- alongside mozilla -- without any problems.
Themes. This browser has yellow buttons that look pretty good but a bit bright. You can go in the prefs and rearrange the buttons with drag and drop or choose small icons.
Is this in regular mozilla, or the lite version? I've been trying to rearrange mozilla buttons for years & the lack of such a feature is why I always end up going back to IE when I'm runnng windows.
It seems to me that if you are *not* already entitled to such a severance package, that they are, in essence,
making you a settlement offer
which you may or may not choose to accept.
However,
if you were already entitled to the package, and they suddently would not give it to you without this additional condition,
then you could possibly, at a future date, argue during the suit that you were forced to agree to the additional condition while under some sort of duress,
in which case the document may be held to be invalid. But this is risky.
Maybe instead of the collective *cough* wisdom of Slashdot, might I suggest that
Slashdot Mirror
For those of you older folks, you may remember when Lotus123 came out with the first copy proof protection scheme in 1983? They burned a little hole in the disk with a laser beam. Let's see, that took about two days before it was cracked.
It is clear that the trend is towards fewer taxpayers supporting more pensioners. I believe that this is no coincidence, rather that the generation(s) born since 1970 were systematically and deliberately set up by the policy makers of the so-called "baby boomer" generation.
Oh c'mon. That's one conspiracy too many! Do you seriously believe that the boom generation intended to put themselves in such a tenuous position just to screw over younger folks? That's complete cr*p. At a certain point, if it gets too awful, the taxpayers *will* revolt, typically by working far less as the benefit of working more will have become subject to too many diminishing returns.
The reality of the current mess is that the politicians that p*ssed it all away *had* to do it, so they could point to all the "wonderful things" they did while in office in order to get re-elected. Built a bridge, gave food to b*stard children, repaved the road, kept the auto plant in the state, etc., etc. They were never looking to a future closer than the next November 6.
There's a quote about democracy somewhere along the lines of how it never works 'cause eventually the citizens vote themselves the public treasury. We're witnessing this.
They are the only ones I ever browse at -1. There's no better troll than a freebsd troll!
But when you enter a public place, you give up some of your rights of privacy.
I agree. But when they are watching me and I do not know it, or I cannot watch them, I am being violated.
No one here yet has managed to put to words just exactly how and why it is different than just being watched by someone else on the street, but we all know that it is different.
Gee, I guess you drive an electric car too 'cause you have to travel far from your electrical socket to get gasoline?
that's beyond weird. i think that happens just before the universe winks out
I just finished tweaking it 10 seconds ago under Mandrake 9.
I LOVE IT!
The best thing is that I can customize it so that in full screen mode, my most common bookmarks, an address bar, a google search bar, a go button, and navigation buttons are all in one thin line up at the top freeing all my screen space!
It's also the fastest browser I've ever used under either Linux or WinXP and (in the 10 seconds I've had to use it) seemingly solid.
There is only one thing missing that may force me back to mozilla: the inability to "block images from this server," i.e., to get rid of ads.
I'm sitting here typing from Mandrake 9. For the first time ever, I have both my cheap scanner and my cheap printer working (at the same time!).
Last week I was running Gentoo 1.3. I decided to give Mandrake another try before going to Gen1.4 since I was wiping the drive clean anyway.
Here's the thing: Mandrake9 feels even *faster* than Gen1.3 was. It's even hard for ME to believe. I assume it has something to do with gcc3.2, but I'm not sure.
Has anyone tried Gen1.4? Is it faster than Man9?
There are already organizations that are determining the direction of Linux. Some are for profit, some are volunteer efforts only (at the moment).
Those organizations are commonly called the distributions.
For example:
Mandrake
RedHat
Gentoo
etc
etc
etc
The distro rollers can do anything they darn please and often do. This gives us variety -- and when a certain distro is liked well enough, de facto standards as well.
Think about it: Say the FSF was in charge of the "future direction." What would happen? A whole lot of folks would be POed about whatever that direction was, splinter off, and then we'd be in exactly the same situation we are right now and NO ONE could do anything to change it because of the nature of the GNU license.
Sure, sometimes Microsoft style control gets things done more quickly and efficiently -- and often result in the emergence of features and instantaneous standards that might not otherwise appear. But at what cost?
Dictatorships are the most efficient forms of governance known. Most folks would probably prefer not to live under them though.
Freedom is sloppy.
The only things that always picks up SMB shares without tweaking (i.e., you JUST RUN IT AND IT FINDS THEM) is komba2
/home/komba/shares).
It used to come with Mandrake until 8.2 but they took it out for 9.0 (WHY??@@@@1!!!!) . It works with every linxus distro including Gentoo.
The way it works it it just mounts all the shares it finds as a directory (e.g.,
It has a nice GUI and has always been completely bug free for me, even though it's only at like 0.7 stable version.
Just make sure that samba is running in the backround first before you run it.
This is the fellow who, before World War II, was concerned about the coming conflict so he converted his savings to precious metals and buried them
So let's see: Gold was $20 an ounce in 1934. Hmmm.... he could have kept the $20 instead of an ounce and would have had all that cash instead of gold, which is worthless per ounce today.
Obviously Turing was a complete idiot.
> I wish y'all would put an estimated price up on the page... maybe
> it's there somewhere but I didn't see it.
>
>
Thank you for your enquiry. The price will be approx US$500.
Thank you for your interest in our products and we look forward
to be of service to you again soon.
Best regards,
Martin Kent
I don't know where you are in Cali, but when I was in the Santa Clara Valley, I could pick up most stuff being broadcast in the US, and plenty from southern & northern east Asia. With a really lousy CW radio, no real antenna, and a horrid light dimmer in the next apartment that would always flood the whole SW spectrum with the most irritating buzz.
You need, in this order:
1. Antenna, Antenna, Antenna! Go to RadioShack and get their 75 foot length of copper SW antenna wire & figure out a good place to string it. Follow the directions.
2. The step above should solve 99.9999999 percent of your problems, but failing that, get a better radio. $99 should get you quite a decent rig at Fry's Electronics.
Look I don't want to be political, but I cannot let this go by.
The reason we finally got rid of the silly speed limits is because in 1994, after 40 freakin' years, folks were fed up enough about a few things to toss the Democrats out of congress on their on their collective deaf ear.
One of the very first thing the freshman Republicans did was present the pres with a bill removing federal speed limits & at the time the pres was so intimidated (completely freaked really) by what had happened in in the elections that he signed it.
I have no great love of either party, but that is what happened.
Wow that's embarassing, especially 'cause I did a quick google to make sure of the spelling... and then went ahead and typed it wrong anyway!!!
Musicians in unionized orchestras do just fine
Until the orcestra goes under. And, unlike Chrysler, the fed usually doesn't step in to keep an orchestra afloat.
I wonder how all this stuff with the piracy and RIAA is playing out with the classical music market.
As a classical violinist, I have some sense of how the current classical scene is and has always been:
Since western musicians have existed, they have always been considered weird (though not nearly as weird as *actors* (!)), treated as servants, and paid accordingly (i.e., little to nothing).
While that changed for a few pop musicians during the 20th century, most classical instrument players have continued, as usual, to either barely stay above the starvation line, or have found a real job to supplement their meager income. There have been a few extremely rare exceptions (e.g., Pearlman) though even those folks make quite a bit less than you might think.
If you dig around and find out how much say, the basoonist in a famous world class orchestra makes, you'll immediately realize that classical musicians are in it for love of music as it is impossible to be there for love of money.
My gut feeling is that as the younger generations get used to paying *nothing* for any music that they want, the highly paid pop performer phenomenon will be considered a 20th century anomaly, and the only money left to be made in the pop scene will be, like it is for classical players, through performance, or through hire.
It wouldn't surprise me if in 15 years BonJovi's main source of income is weddings and birthday parties. I am saying that with a serious tone and a straight face. (no emoticon)
The scripts need to be rewritten to work in another directory. Gentoo 1.3 compiles Mozilla 1.x into /usr/lib/mozilla, and that's where all the scripts want Phoenix to be. Naturally I can't just take the contents of Phoenix and throw it on top of Mozilla. Under Windows however, Phoenix will run out of its own directory -- alongside mozilla -- without any problems.
Gone:
Themes. This browser has yellow buttons that look pretty good but a bit bright. You can go in the prefs and rearrange the buttons with drag and drop or choose small icons.
Is this in regular mozilla, or the lite version? I've been trying to rearrange mozilla buttons for years & the lack of such a feature is why I always end up going back to IE when I'm runnng windows.
oh c'mon, SOMEONE had to do it. At least I have enough fortitude to take the karma hit.
a beowulf cluster of these!
It must be a rediculously slow day for geek news.
well since that link is /.
here are some cached links
however,
It seems to me that if you are *not* already entitled to such a severance package, that they are, in essence,
making you a settlement offer
which you may or may not choose to accept.
However,
if you were already entitled to the package, and they suddently would not give it to you without this additional condition,
then you could possibly, at a future date, argue during the suit that you were forced to agree to the additional condition while under some sort of duress,
in which case the document may be held to be invalid. But this is risky.
Maybe instead of the collective *cough* wisdom of Slashdot, might I suggest that
you see a real lawyer instead?
The above comment should have gone in as only +1. I'm not used to the automatic bonus score. It ought to default the other way.