the tragedy of bruno`s flaming death have caused maybe even more horrible one - posthumous tragedy of misunderstanding. today only a few know that the astronomical bemusings of bruno aro but most insignificant bits of his heritage. he was not a scientist, even not a naturphilosopher. he was philosopher, and of pure platonist breed.
he was burned not for his sparse utterances about the nature of physical world. historically speaking, he happened to lead the last, third act of the patheism drama of the mediaeval europe which was bound to end with the end of the middle ages themselves. the first drama was only intellectual, during the ottonic renaissance: fight between traditional theology and platonism. the latter (Berengarius of Tours, later - Anselm) won that fight because of the very good dialectic background, they made to think not only their immediate opponents, like Lafrabc or Adelman of Liege, bet even Gregorius VII (papa) - their way. but in words, of course, not. Later, Roscelinus emerged as the more serious opponent, but the field of fight morphed into the duel between nominalism and realism.
second act was a bit more dramatic. Some 100 years later, those Le Becian and Chartreusian traditions were inherited by Parisian dialecticians. Amauri de Benes and his pupil David of Dinant coined a slogan: creatorem et creaturam idem esse. and David said that the era of christ has ended altogether, and a new era of st. spirit is dawning - with all the horrible consequences for the clergymen and their political influence. i do not know about David, but Amauri did not lived up to oppositiion to their work. After the condemnation by Parisian synode, the corpse of Amauri has been excavated and excommunicated, ant their followers were persecuted and burned throughout all the imperium.
In the brunos case, it is the same old opposition between Platon and Aristotle, between realism and nominalism, between dialectics and metaphysics. simply pantheism is more compatible with the first series, and so the platonists. in the realm of natural sciences he had the opponent - Telesio, which has been empiricist. Bruno did not overly negat the matter, it has found its place in his system of dialectical categories of coomon and unique, whole and part, all and the one. matter has some potentiality too, like the mind (neoplatonic noys), and this potentiality resolves in the energy (action in greek). mind acts too, and differs from the matter only in its essence (eidos), but not in factuality of the real occurring world.
therefore world as the incorporation of its movement may be singled out this way, and this movement int the other turn may be unified with the anima mundi. In its turn, anima mundi is mivement only in its acting part, in its target-making, tleological aspect it is the part od the universal noys - intellect. but this hierarchy of categories (one=coincidentia oppositorum, noys of the world, anima of the worls, and factual occurrence of the world) are in relaity the one, the platonic triad and its factual incorporation. so the pantheism is only one possible dialectiacal inference of Platonism.
But his pantheistic neoplatonism is in relaity platonism with some twist, it denies any prosopon, any principle of individuality in the one. Theologicaly speaking, god has no individuality, therefore no one should worship it. and itis the nightmare for all the clergy. there are much more aspects, various, etc.
good words: once there were slackware era, then redhat days, etc. now mandrake or suse seems to capture the flag.
it is the consequence of us being the ultimate neophiles. the same processes are going with toolkits, libraries, wordprocessors, etc., although these processes are somewhat hindered by the unusually high degree of commitment to favorites (as in any non-mainstream fraction).
some consequences are visible. e.g.:
1. commercial linux shops may tend to be short-term establishments. if it is true, maybe we better keep this for ourselves...
2. unpredictability of mechanisms by which we are going to take over. linux evolves sufficiently fast to successfully scan all the holes which the traditional AI technology displays, and to find where slip in. e.g., the incredibly successful and modern design of kde-2 internals may become the example how to write the post-y2k software.
bad news. i suspected this because that moody was imbecile. phew. life is boring. lousy pre-hegira time continues forever. better we all die. shrike i summon you.
of course they knew who were and who were not eligible. it is so amusing to watch the naivete and innocence of the free software community. all you forget that when you enter the realm of commerce, suits and bureaucracy, the only substance is "stuff that matters" - yes, you guessed it right - money and profit, that is. and the closed realm of suits, like the every dynamic system surrounded by hostile milieu, has developed the system of mechanisms for protective equilibria, which ensures sutainability. one of the main mechanisms is the means of keeping outsiders out. this has the century-long history, just remember the mediaeval institutes of meisters, the closed guilds of merchants, etc., etc.
so, people, live with it and be happy to donate them your code. dont call them thieves, by any means, they dont like this. better go buy their products.
Re:What if the DoS attack has already been patched
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no problem. patch proggie either will ask if this is already applied patch (answer y) or will dump that fragment into *.rej file.
Re:Newbie question: Where do you get kernel info?
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plus, very useful resource is http://www.atnf.csiro.au/~rgooch/linux/docs/kernel -newsflash.html. it is a collection of patches for the kernels which are not very willing to compile or run. (although it does not mention the mmap problem of 2.3.6).
announcements of kernels and weekly digests of linux-kernel mailing list always appear at http://www.linuxtoday.com.
ohmygod... the wacky graph from the (every month repeating itself) microsoft ad in wired with webserver "benchmarks" comes into mind. crafty folks they are,- in _that_ business, i mean.
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the tragedy of bruno`s flaming death have caused maybe even more horrible one - posthumous tragedy of misunderstanding. today only a few know that the astronomical bemusings of bruno aro but most insignificant bits of his heritage. he was not a scientist, even not a naturphilosopher. he was philosopher, and of pure platonist breed.
he was burned not for his sparse utterances about the nature of physical world. historically speaking, he happened to lead the last, third act of the patheism drama of the mediaeval europe which was bound to end with the end of the middle ages themselves. the first drama was only intellectual, during the ottonic renaissance: fight between traditional theology and platonism. the latter (Berengarius of Tours, later - Anselm) won that fight because of the very good dialectic background, they made to think not only their immediate opponents, like Lafrabc or Adelman of Liege, bet even Gregorius VII (papa) - their way. but in words, of course, not. Later, Roscelinus emerged as the more serious opponent, but the field of fight morphed into the duel between nominalism and realism.
second act was a bit more dramatic. Some 100 years later, those Le Becian and Chartreusian traditions were inherited by Parisian dialecticians. Amauri de Benes and his pupil David of Dinant coined a slogan: creatorem et creaturam idem esse. and David said that the era of christ has ended altogether, and a new era of st. spirit is dawning - with all the horrible consequences for the clergymen and their political influence. i do not know about David, but Amauri did not lived up to oppositiion to their work. After the condemnation by Parisian synode, the corpse of Amauri has been excavated and excommunicated, ant their followers were persecuted and burned throughout all the imperium.
In the brunos case, it is the same old opposition between Platon and Aristotle, between realism and nominalism, between dialectics and metaphysics. simply pantheism is more compatible with the first series, and so the platonists. in the realm of natural sciences he had the opponent - Telesio, which has been empiricist. Bruno did not overly negat the matter, it has found its place in his system of dialectical categories of coomon and unique, whole and part, all and the one. matter has some potentiality too, like the mind (neoplatonic noys), and this potentiality resolves in the energy (action in greek). mind acts too, and differs from the matter only in its essence (eidos), but not in factuality of the real occurring world.
therefore world as the incorporation of its movement may be singled out this way, and this movement int the other turn may be unified with the anima mundi. In its turn, anima mundi is mivement only in its acting part, in its target-making, tleological aspect it is the part od the universal noys - intellect. but this hierarchy of categories (one=coincidentia oppositorum, noys of the world, anima of the worls, and factual occurrence of the world) are in relaity the one, the platonic triad and its factual incorporation. so the pantheism is only one possible dialectiacal inference of Platonism.
But his pantheistic neoplatonism is in relaity platonism with some twist, it denies any prosopon, any principle of individuality in the one. Theologicaly speaking, god has no individuality, therefore no one should worship it. and itis the nightmare for all the clergy. there are much more aspects, various, etc.
ftp://193.219.56.32/pub/dvd/LiVid.CVS-11.06.tar.gz - entire cvs tarball (>2 megs)
- stuff-only.tar.gz
and
ftp://193.219.56.32/pub/dvd/LiVid.CVS-11.06.css
here comes the breakthrough technology involving high information throughput to compensate the dissipation of information caused by memory loss.
good words: once there were slackware era, then redhat days, etc. now mandrake or suse seems to capture the flag.
it is the consequence of us being the ultimate neophiles. the same processes are going with toolkits, libraries, wordprocessors, etc., although these processes are somewhat hindered by the unusually high degree of commitment to favorites (as in any non-mainstream fraction).
some consequences are visible. e.g.:
1. commercial linux shops may tend to be short-term establishments. if it is true, maybe we better keep this for ourselves...
2. unpredictability of mechanisms by which we are going to take over. linux evolves sufficiently fast to successfully scan all the holes which the traditional AI technology displays, and to find where slip in. e.g., the incredibly successful and modern design of kde-2 internals may become the example how to write the post-y2k software.
3. what more, folks?
bad news. i suspected this because that moody was imbecile. phew. life is boring. lousy pre-hegira time continues forever. better we all die. shrike i summon you.
of course they knew who were and who were not eligible. it is so amusing to watch the naivete and innocence of the free software community. all you forget that when you enter the realm of commerce, suits and bureaucracy, the only substance is "stuff that matters" - yes, you guessed it right - money and profit, that is. and the closed realm of suits, like the every dynamic system surrounded by hostile milieu, has developed the system of mechanisms for protective equilibria, which ensures sutainability. one of the main mechanisms is the means of keeping outsiders out. this has the century-long history, just remember the mediaeval institutes of meisters, the closed guilds of merchants, etc., etc.
so, people, live with it and be happy to donate them your code. dont call them thieves, by any means, they dont like this. better go buy their products.
no problem. patch proggie either will ask if this is already applied patch (answer y) or will dump that fragment into *.rej file.
plus, very useful resource is http://www.atnf.csiro.au/~rgooch/linux/docs/kernel -newsflash.html. it is a collection of patches for the kernels which are not very willing to compile or run. (although it does not mention the mmap problem of 2.3.6).
announcements of kernels and weekly digests of linux-kernel mailing list always appear at http://www.linuxtoday.com.
salon is good and dandy, but in this particular article i see no single reasonable point.
one simple question for the author of this article potentially ruins all his reasoning:
do you prefer dumb friends or clever friends?
wow, have never seen so much Schroedinger cats at a single spot!!!
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some tulips want newer tulip.c from Beckers site. file in kernel is rather old.
exact url is at the top of that tulip.c, grab the "newer experimental driver with more features".
not necessary. 224-2^(2+4)=2*2^4+2*2^(2+4) cancels this.
ohmygod... the wacky graph from the (every month repeating itself) microsoft ad in wired with webserver "benchmarks" comes into mind. crafty folks they are,- in _that_ business, i mean.
Insert Microsof Bread(R) and reboot