I'm getting really tired of all these stupid shit pyschiatrists diagnosing anyone who is energetic and different w/ ADHD, or ADD, or whatever their latest buzzword of the decade is.
Think about it. Almost all of the brightest minds of the history of the human race have been not "normal" in one way or another. Manic depressive, hyperactive, unable to sleep, etc. A lot of them didn't do well in school. Hell, Einstein quit school .
So rather than spending the money to assure that your child has a healthy environment that encourages them to learn, society would rather funnel money to a bunch of fucking quacks that dose their kids up on harmful drugs ( think about : Ritalin is an amphetamine, as are a number of the other drugs used to "treat" ADHD ) until their kid becomes "normal". Wonder how many potential Van Goghs ended up doing graphic design because they became "normal"?
What I've briefly read from googling seems to suggest that there's no drugs or any physical aspect to the therapy, but they don't come out and say it ( as in bragging about natural and good their therapy is ), so I really doubt that it doesn't involve some physical "therapy". And the harm that I think a lot of psychiatrists and psychologists do is irreparable ( while there are some good ones, my experience is that they are few and far between ).
To the parent who posted this : what the hell do you think you're doing feeding your kid Ritalin? It's fucking speed. Repeat after me : Ritalin is an amphetamine. Of course she's going to have nervous tics. Probably doesn't sleep very well either, unless the head shrinker has her on downers as well ( which a lot of them do ). Think about it : the human race did quiet well before we had Ritalin, psychiatrists, or all this self-help bullshit, and I think we'll be even better when those things are gone. Let your kid be a kid. Of course they're hyper. Kids are. Not interested in school? Name one kid who likes being at school, even if they do like some of the subjects. If she's not interested in school, try getting her interested in some of the subjects. Trust me, I've been down that road, and from the child's perspective, it's horrible. Noone tries to pay attention to what you really need, they just try to tell you what you need to do and give you "medicine" until you can't think or feel anything but what's right in front of you. Then the parents are really surprised when their teenager ends up a violent drug-addict. Christ, it took me years to unfuck my head from what my family, the courts, mental hospitals, schools, and shrinks did to me.
If he is moderating an e-mail list regarding Islamic non-profit organizations, and has people posting opinions about the US, no matter how radical, he is in the right. That's what free speech is all about.
If he has people planning or giving calls to arms to commit terrorist acts against any people, groups, etc., then he is very much in the wrong if he doesn't kick them off the list. It's pretty plain and simple. If I walk through the streets with a sign that says I hate blacks, whites, Nintendo owners, or fluffy dogs, that's free speech. If I walk around with a sign that says "There's a bunch of $insert_group_here at Harry's Bar on 5th St., LET's KILL THEM" that is inciting violence, and probably a few other charges.
I think people tend to lose site of that fundamental difference, because of their stance on the matter. The liberal people who are worried about racial profiling and whatnot get so worried about free speech that they don't bother to see whether someone is committing a crime, and the conservatives who are so worried about terrorists that they're probably saran-wrapping their houses just see a threat. Both sides are partially right. Free speech should be protected at all costs, but there's a difference between free speech and plotting terrorist activities.
As wrong as the RIAA is, if you are legally carrying a weapon and someone attempts to commit a crime against you ( ex. : theft, rape, assault ) and you kill them while they still present a threat to you, you are well within your legal rights. If you shoot them twice, and then blow their brains out while they are laying on the ground, you are not.
The original poster is a moron and a half, but you are also very wrong regarding the law in this matter. If you steal my car, my computer, etc., I am well within my legal rights to shoot/stab/beat you while the crime is occurring. Someone cutting through traffic is not a situation that could possibly be represented as an aggressive action that one has to defend against.
Don't want to get shot? Then don't try to steal from or hurt people.
Now, On Topic, what the RIAA is doing in this case is definitely illegal, and all what it should take in an unobserved video tape of them doing this to land the acting "officers", as well as the person that they report to, in some serious shit.
but my small ( 3 people ) group manages a linux cluster of > 4000 CPUs fairly easily as well as the servers directly related to it's and operation ( and a hell of a lot of other sidework as well ), and we have 3 *nix admins who handled everything from desktops to large Netapps filers.
On the other hand, for about the same amount of desktops in the Windows side of our operation, we have 3 people just to handle the them ( no server work, no production support, handling of data transport to remote sites, helldesk staffing, etc. ).
I'd laugh my ass off to see how many people it takes to handle that many Windows cluster nodes, or server-level functions ( some of which Windows can't even provide ).
If you go by what someone else said, it's ~ 25 Gbytes per square inch for this stuff. Which means it will take 10 square inches ( about the size of Magstar ( 3590 ) or LTO-2 tape cartridges ) for 250 GB.
Given that LTO-2 cartridges have 400 GB capacity, and the next-generation of IBM 3590 starts at 300 GB and is upgradeable capacity-wise without changing media, you get higher capacity in roughly the same space now, on a proven technology that you buy from a vendor right now.
And given that I would expect 12 months from now to be able to write ~ 1 TB to a high-end tape drive, I wouldn't count on this stuff over-taking tapes as backup medium any time soon.
the 4496 drivers would lock my workstation at work ( Ti4200 card )every few days using the default Fedora kernel. I think there's a newer kernel out, might try it again.
My solution was to revert to the latest RH9 kernel, as I don't have time to chase down a bug in a closed-source driver, that locks X, so I can't see any console messages, and prints nothing to syslog.
very important. Screw your home dumpster, screw your office. The most dangerous place for your credit cards is where you shop. It's a really bad idea to shop anywhere that prints out credit card receipts w/ full numbers, or takes ( shudder ) a direct print of your card.
Want to know why? The manager that collects all those receipts might be honest enough, but do you know what a lot of those places do w/ their receipts? After anywhere from 1-3 years, a lot of them just throw boxes full of them in the dumpster. A college bookstore I worked at when I was starting college did just that. Literally thousands of credit card receipts w/ full pin numbers, signatures, and names in the bin. A lot places shred that receipts when they're done, but some don't. And think of the traffic a college bookstore generates.
Before you say anything like "well, you didn't have an id, address, or a social or anything like that", imagine the damage I could have done had I been so inclined to steal some of those numbers and then used them where I had a friend on the inside. Or done the digging to find that person's SSN, address, or whatever.
Trust me, I was so tempted to finance the rest of college education w/ a little bit of scamming. Thankfully, I had a hellish cunt of a girlfriend that ruined my life so badly that I dropped out of college and went to work in IT.
Damn...now that I think about, maybe theft was the better option...
Let's see - I have 3 linux machines, one Irix, an O2 that I'm about to slap NetBSD on, 3 ( currently unused ) old RS6K workstations, plenty of old speakers ( might need a few more heavy hitters ), and a serious dislike of the rap bullshit my neighbors across the street play.
All what I need to do now is brew some napalm ( easy ), crank up the Wagner, put on some combat boots and a silly hat, and turn their front yard into a beachhead.
God, I forgot how humor impaired people can be. And if you're going to bitch about a joke, why not stand up and use your account. Don't have one?
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BTW, the Catholic Church has a long history of priests molesting children, nuns getting pregnant and then killing the babies, political manipulation, etc., and then the vatican doing it's damndest to cover it all up. Do a little bit of historical reading before you get all puffy cause you're a Catholic. Any organization that tolerates this bullshit on any level has serious problems. And your "small percentage" comment is like saying, "look, we've got a few managers that like to gang-rape their secretaries, but most of them are allright". Do a little bit of historical reading before you get all puffy cause you're a Catholic.
So if you live up to a stereotype, expect to hear a joke or two. While there are good Catholics and priests, your leaders are too fucked up to weed out the bad ones. You have the right to get offended if you want, and I have the right to laugh my ass off at your hypocrisy.
I'm pretty well OT, but no trolling intended. Fuck it, I have karma to burn, and as someone once pointed out, it's not like I can eat karma or pay my bills with it.
painehope wanted RedHat to support a 4000 CPU cluster for the price of a few lousy RedHat Linux boxed sets
RTFQ ( Read The Fine Question ). I didn't say that I wanted that at all, and I even proposed a sliding scale for large numbers of machines. And the last time I talked to Redhat regarding clusters, they wanted to license them the same as desktop workstations, which is outrageous. The hypothetical situations posed by others, who brought up nightmare customers ( like the one who said that a customer might want a team of RHCE's out to install a 5000 node network ) is handled by licensing terms. Who'd have fucking thunk it?
All what I would want out of an official support contract would be a direct update line ( so that I could have a caching update server on my network, which my machines would hit ) and a per-incident support rate. This is mostly me wanting them to get something more than a boxed-set compensation for the excellent work they have done, since updates I've already automated on my site, and bugs myself and the rest of my team track down.
Christ, I would have loved it if those assholes had said something like that to me when I was fifteen. I would have showed them the texas state bird:
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### and then asked them how the fuck they expected to get that out of a high schooler who worked part-time at burger king. If anyone pulls this kind of shit on my kids, I'm going to put the lawyer who serves the papers in traction. If people didn't cave into these kind of scare tactics, especially directed at children, then they wouldn't keep doing it.
stands as a beacon for HP and IBM customers facing a dead-end Unix, and Microsoft customers frustrated with security and fragility
I wouldn't be surprised if they kicked a dog on the way off the stage...
The AMD64 ( or x86-64, whatever we're calling it this week ) architecture is very promising, and Sun is still an excellent vendor ( despite numerous blunders...they've made some horrible mistakes, but they've also had some great successes ).
This has the potential to breathe new life into both vendors, and gives us all an alternative, which is important in a marketplace that has such a dynamic history but is currently being choked to death by certain vendors that think marketing is more important than quality.
Now who should I get my next worksation from, IBM w/ SUSE or RHWS, or Sun w/ their desktop Linux stack? Hmm...
Children are not born with common sense. It is the job of the parent to keep them from doing something damaging to themselves while they learn.
I didn't see the other poster's comments, but something like this, and your previous comments, begs for a response.
Children aren't born with common sense. No shit. But the world will teach them more than you ever will. And as much as you think you run shit, you don't. You might run your car, your house, and probably your bowels, but you don't run other people. And children are people. And provided that they're not stupid, eventually it will dawn on them that daddy's a hypocritical asshole, even if he does think he's doing right.
To quote you :
YOU ARE THE FUCKING PARENT!
Judging from your general attitude, I don't think you would find cussing acceptable from a child. Why do you do it yourself? Because you're an adult? Because you know so much more? Or maybe because you don't have anyone telling you you can't.
Your brow-beating attitude isn't why kids go on shooting sprees. Well, maybe a contributing factor, but not the cause. Teen pregnancy is on the rise, because people like you tell little Susie she better be a good girl and not fuck, rather than explain to her that her body and her desires aren't shameful, she should respect herself, and use some fucking birth control!
To summarize my point, most kids aren't stupid. And "because I said so" doesn't fly. Eventually they'll stop being scared of you, and then they'll tell you to go fuck yourself. And you know what the sad part is? You'll have wasted your time and theirs, they'll probably end up hurt and do some stupid things ( like get pregnant, if you're so worried about that shit ), and noone wins.
You know what counts? Results. And a fucked-up individual who tows the line because they're scared of their parents, sonme god, or the government isn't a functional human being. A mature individual who can reason out their decisions based upon available input and has a healthy lust for life is.
Raising your kids isn't a barfight. You're not there to run shit, you're there to guide them into the world. And noone listens to a hypocrite or a bully.
Firstly, a meta-answer to your meta-question :
No. I mean, not too often. Well, sometimes. Okay, fine, I'm not really 6'4", fabulously wealthy, and have a 9 inch cock. Under my red mini-skirt. Which I wear when I pick up hot 18-year old sluts who will do anything for money!
Now that I've gotten my smart-assedness out of my system, I think it's time you looked at the basics of human development.
Kids grow. In doing so, they will expect their own privacy and freedom. With that goes responsibility. Would you let your 11 year old go to a party unsupervised? Probably not. Would you let your 15 year old? Well, judging from your attitude, probably not. I would. As long as your kids are getting good grades and have their shit pretty much together, let them do their own thing. If they want money from you, make them mow the yard. If they want a ride, tell them to clean up their room first. If they choose to walk rather than that, don't bitch at them. It's their choice. You need to slowly relax the reins, so that when they are 18 and go off to college, they have the skills and maturity to adjust, rather than just going "Woo-hoo! I don't have to listen to anyone anymore! I'm gonna fuckin' party". That's a big part of the problem. If you think your kids aren't interested in sex, intoxicants ( drugs, alcohol, cigarettes, whatever ), bands, parties, etc., you're wrong. Weren't you? It's a matter of degrees, and knowing what is healthy.
And doesn't it strike you as odd that your child feel the need to lie to you? My personal experience has been that it's easier to tell the truth, so I don't waste time lying unless it's worth it. Ex. : if you could just tell a cop : "Look I busted my headlight last week, but I haven't had time to replace it" and he just gave you a warning, would you feel the need to to tell him you hadn't noticed it, someone must have hit your car in the parking lot? I wouldn't bother if I could, but is telling the truth worth the hassle of going to court and paying a fine? Not in my books, because whether the cop believes my lie or not, noone is hurt ( except for maybe the county, who is deprived of a $150 that they could waste as well as my tax dollars are ).
A computer is a tool. Internet access is a problematic tool, because it's a gateway to so much. What are you really worried about? Kids looking at porn? What, and you never looked at porn? Never masturbated? If you say no, you're full of shit. Being exposed to violence/hateful themes, etc? That's around kids every day. Same for drugs. So, unless I'm missing something, the only thing that kids are exposed to on the internet that isn't around regularly, are sexual predators. And those are there in the real world too. Basically, the only thing I would be worried about are the people that they might interact with online. But if you haven't explained to them that are people in the world that would like to hurt them, and that they need to be careful in who they trust, then they're not equipped to walk down to the cornerstore, let alone do anything else.
So the same basics that apply to the real world apply online. And please don't rob your children of a chance to mature in a healthy, human, responsible manner. If you're going to worry about anything, get on them about their grades, try to interest them in science, art, nature, etc.
If they want to look at pictures of naked chicks, or read about guns, drugs, whatever, don't sweat it. ( hell, the eleven year old is probably just looking up pictures of guy/girl he/she thinks is cute/smart/cool/whatever and doesn't want dad to know because he/she's embarrassed ). In my opinion, expose children to the world, let them read, talk to them, and most of all : tell and show them what you think, and then let them make up their own minds.
when will RedHat have a more reasonable licensing scheme? Your licensing is excellent for corporate enterprise workstations, and I realize that you are moving away from home users, but what about clusters and universities?
For example, I run Redhat across a rather large ( > 4000 CPUs ) cluster, and have never bothered doing more than buying a few boxed sets due to the fact that I have never been able to get a reasonable price from your sales team. Cluster support tends to be more like dealing w/ a single machine, since the hardware is generational ( if you add 512 CPUs to the system, their hardware is going to be exactly the same if you ordered it that way ). Why should I pay a license for each machine, when I can just get a license for one that is having the same problem as the others ( for example, a bizarre problem we had w/ the eepro100 driver + PVM - and yes, I know PVM is generally used for > 1 machine, but technically I probably could have addressed the support problem w/ 1 license ). I wouldn't have a problem buying cluster support if you had a decent sliding scale ( ex. : 512 nodes @ $50/node, 1024 nodes @ $35/node, etc. ). And of course, have a caching update server for the site.
And for universities : if you want brand recognition, try offering site licenses or educational discounts. Don't count on all CS/EE students to be clued in enough to install Fedora on their laptop and then debug any problems that come up. Offer a site-wide license to all students for $50k, or a department for $10k, or something like that. That would probably give you a lot of name recognition in the future. You already offer site licenses for corporations, right?
So when will RedHat come up w/ some decent licensing schemes for those environments?
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My experiences w/ Yellow Dog have all been very satisfactory, and I'm looking forward to a G5-based laptop in the future.
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No insult intended to anyone, I just start foaming at the mouth when people mention Ritalin, ADD, ADHD, etc. I have my reasons, as I stated.
I'm getting really tired of all these stupid shit pyschiatrists diagnosing anyone who is energetic and different w/ ADHD, or ADD, or whatever their latest buzzword of the decade is.
Think about it. Almost all of the brightest minds of the history of the human race have been not "normal" in one way or another. Manic depressive, hyperactive, unable to sleep, etc. A lot of them didn't do well in school. Hell, Einstein quit school .
So rather than spending the money to assure that your child has a healthy environment that encourages them to learn, society would rather funnel money to a bunch of fucking quacks that dose their kids up on harmful drugs ( think about : Ritalin is an amphetamine, as are a number of the other drugs used to "treat" ADHD ) until their kid becomes "normal". Wonder how many potential Van Goghs ended up doing graphic design because they became "normal"?
What I've briefly read from googling seems to suggest that there's no drugs or any physical aspect to the therapy, but they don't come out and say it ( as in bragging about natural and good their therapy is ), so I really doubt that it doesn't involve some physical "therapy". And the harm that I think a lot of psychiatrists and psychologists do is irreparable ( while there are some good ones, my experience is that they are few and far between ).
To the parent who posted this : what the hell do you think you're doing feeding your kid Ritalin? It's fucking speed. Repeat after me : Ritalin is an amphetamine. Of course she's going to have nervous tics. Probably doesn't sleep very well either, unless the head shrinker has her on downers as well ( which a lot of them do ). Think about it : the human race did quiet well before we had Ritalin, psychiatrists, or all this self-help bullshit, and I think we'll be even better when those things are gone. Let your kid be a kid. Of course they're hyper. Kids are. Not interested in school? Name one kid who likes being at school, even if they do like some of the subjects. If she's not interested in school, try getting her interested in some of the subjects. Trust me, I've been down that road, and from the child's perspective, it's horrible. Noone tries to pay attention to what you really need, they just try to tell you what you need to do and give you "medicine" until you can't think or feel anything but what's right in front of you. Then the parents are really surprised when their teenager ends up a violent drug-addict. Christ, it took me years to unfuck my head from what my family, the courts, mental hospitals, schools, and shrinks did to me.
If he has people planning or giving calls to arms to commit terrorist acts against any people, groups, etc., then he is very much in the wrong if he doesn't kick them off the list. It's pretty plain and simple. If I walk through the streets with a sign that says I hate blacks, whites, Nintendo owners, or fluffy dogs, that's free speech. If I walk around with a sign that says "There's a bunch of $insert_group_here at Harry's Bar on 5th St., LET's KILL THEM" that is inciting violence, and probably a few other charges.
I think people tend to lose site of that fundamental difference, because of their stance on the matter. The liberal people who are worried about racial profiling and whatnot get so worried about free speech that they don't bother to see whether someone is committing a crime, and the conservatives who are so worried about terrorists that they're probably saran-wrapping their houses just see a threat. Both sides are partially right. Free speech should be protected at all costs, but there's a difference between free speech and plotting terrorist activities.
The original poster is a moron and a half, but you are also very wrong regarding the law in this matter. If you steal my car, my computer, etc., I am well within my legal rights to shoot/stab/beat you while the crime is occurring. Someone cutting through traffic is not a situation that could possibly be represented as an aggressive action that one has to defend against.
Don't want to get shot? Then don't try to steal from or hurt people.
Now, On Topic, what the RIAA is doing in this case is definitely illegal, and all what it should take in an unobserved video tape of them doing this to land the acting "officers", as well as the person that they report to, in some serious shit.
I had forgotten to mail Darl 5 pounds of my excrement on Christmas.
Maybe I'll just wait `til Valentine's and send it in a heart-shaped box...
but my small ( 3 people ) group manages a linux cluster of > 4000 CPUs fairly easily as well as the servers directly related to it's and operation ( and a hell of a lot of other sidework as well ), and we have 3 *nix admins who handled everything from desktops to large Netapps filers.
On the other hand, for about the same amount of desktops in the Windows side of our operation, we have 3 people just to handle the them ( no server work, no production support, handling of data transport to remote sites, helldesk staffing, etc. ).
I'd laugh my ass off to see how many people it takes to handle that many Windows cluster nodes, or server-level functions ( some of which Windows can't even provide ).
Ah, my apologies, I had missed the fact that this was a polymer film, not a more solid material. Yes, I agree w/ your comments one hundred percent.
If you go by what someone else said, it's ~ 25 Gbytes per square inch for this stuff. Which means it will take 10 square inches ( about the size of Magstar ( 3590 ) or LTO-2 tape cartridges ) for 250 GB.
Given that LTO-2 cartridges have 400 GB capacity, and the next-generation of IBM 3590 starts at 300 GB and is upgradeable capacity-wise without changing media, you get higher capacity in roughly the same space now, on a proven technology that you buy from a vendor right now.
And given that I would expect 12 months from now to be able to write ~ 1 TB to a high-end tape drive, I wouldn't count on this stuff over-taking tapes as backup medium any time soon.
the 4496 drivers would lock my workstation at work ( Ti4200 card )every few days using the default Fedora kernel. I think there's a newer kernel out, might try it again.
My solution was to revert to the latest RH9 kernel, as I don't have time to chase down a bug in a closed-source driver, that locks X, so I can't see any console messages, and prints nothing to syslog.
very important. Screw your home dumpster, screw your office. The most dangerous place for your credit cards is where you shop. It's a really bad idea to shop anywhere that prints out credit card receipts w/ full numbers, or takes ( shudder ) a direct print of your card.
Want to know why? The manager that collects all those receipts might be honest enough, but do you know what a lot of those places do w/ their receipts? After anywhere from 1-3 years, a lot of them just throw boxes full of them in the dumpster. A college bookstore I worked at when I was starting college did just that. Literally thousands of credit card receipts w/ full pin numbers, signatures, and names in the bin. A lot places shred that receipts when they're done, but some don't. And think of the traffic a college bookstore generates.
Before you say anything like "well, you didn't have an id, address, or a social or anything like that", imagine the damage I could have done had I been so inclined to steal some of those numbers and then used them where I had a friend on the inside. Or done the digging to find that person's SSN, address, or whatever.
Trust me, I was so tempted to finance the rest of college education w/ a little bit of scamming. Thankfully, I had a hellish cunt of a girlfriend that ruined my life so badly that I dropped out of college and went to work in IT.
Damn...now that I think about, maybe theft was the better option...
sweetheart, why is there a fucking M1 Abrams on the front lawn?
Well, it could be argued that Darl McBride is ~ 32 tons of it shoved into a 200 lb. bag
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All what I need to do now is brew some napalm ( easy ), crank up the Wagner, put on some combat boots and a silly hat, and turn their front yard into a beachhead.
For those who don't get it, see Apocalypse Now.
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BTW, the Catholic Church has a long history of priests molesting children, nuns getting pregnant and then killing the babies, political manipulation, etc., and then the vatican doing it's damndest to cover it all up. Do a little bit of historical reading before you get all puffy cause you're a Catholic. Any organization that tolerates this bullshit on any level has serious problems. And your "small percentage" comment is like saying, "look, we've got a few managers that like to gang-rape their secretaries, but most of them are allright". Do a little bit of historical reading before you get all puffy cause you're a Catholic.
So if you live up to a stereotype, expect to hear a joke or two. While there are good Catholics and priests, your leaders are too fucked up to weed out the bad ones. You have the right to get offended if you want, and I have the right to laugh my ass off at your hypocrisy.
I'm pretty well OT, but no trolling intended. Fuck it, I have karma to burn, and as someone once pointed out, it's not like I can eat karma or pay my bills with it.
Darl's gonna get molested in prison, and in heaven.
painehope wanted RedHat to support a 4000 CPU cluster for the price of a few lousy RedHat Linux boxed sets
RTFQ ( Read The Fine Question ). I didn't say that I wanted that at all, and I even proposed a sliding scale for large numbers of machines. And the last time I talked to Redhat regarding clusters, they wanted to license them the same as desktop workstations, which is outrageous. The hypothetical situations posed by others, who brought up nightmare customers ( like the one who said that a customer might want a team of RHCE's out to install a 5000 node network ) is handled by licensing terms. Who'd have fucking thunk it?
All what I would want out of an official support contract would be a direct update line ( so that I could have a caching update server on my network, which my machines would hit ) and a per-incident support rate. This is mostly me wanting them to get something more than a boxed-set compensation for the excellent work they have done, since updates I've already automated on my site, and bugs myself and the rest of my team track down.
Christ, I would have loved it if those assholes had said something like that to me when I was fifteen. :
I would have showed them the texas state bird
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and then asked them how the fuck they expected to get that out of a high schooler who worked part-time at burger king.
If anyone pulls this kind of shit on my kids, I'm going to put the lawyer who serves the papers in traction.
If people didn't cave into these kind of scare tactics, especially directed at children, then they wouldn't keep doing it.
stands as a beacon for HP and IBM customers facing a dead-end Unix, and Microsoft customers frustrated with security and fragility
I wouldn't be surprised if they kicked a dog on the way off the stage...
The AMD64 ( or x86-64, whatever we're calling it this week ) architecture is very promising, and Sun is still an excellent vendor ( despite numerous blunders...they've made some horrible mistakes, but they've also had some great successes ).
This has the potential to breathe new life into both vendors, and gives us all an alternative, which is important in a marketplace that has such a dynamic history but is currently being choked to death by certain vendors that think marketing is more important than quality.
Now who should I get my next worksation from, IBM w/ SUSE or RHWS, or Sun w/ their desktop Linux stack? Hmm...
Children are not born with common sense. It is the job of the parent to keep them from doing something damaging to themselves while they learn.
I didn't see the other poster's comments, but something like this, and your previous comments, begs for a response.
Children aren't born with common sense. No shit. But the world will teach them more than you ever will. And as much as you think you run shit, you don't. You might run your car, your house, and probably your bowels, but you don't run other people. And children are people. And provided that they're not stupid, eventually it will dawn on them that daddy's a hypocritical asshole, even if he does think he's doing right.
To quote you :
YOU ARE THE FUCKING PARENT!
Judging from your general attitude, I don't think you would find cussing acceptable from a child. Why do you do it yourself? Because you're an adult? Because you know so much more? Or maybe because you don't have anyone telling you you can't.
Your brow-beating attitude isn't why kids go on shooting sprees. Well, maybe a contributing factor, but not the cause. Teen pregnancy is on the rise, because people like you tell little Susie she better be a good girl and not fuck, rather than explain to her that her body and her desires aren't shameful, she should respect herself, and use some fucking birth control!
To summarize my point, most kids aren't stupid. And "because I said so" doesn't fly. Eventually they'll stop being scared of you, and then they'll tell you to go fuck yourself. And you know what the sad part is? You'll have wasted your time and theirs, they'll probably end up hurt and do some stupid things ( like get pregnant, if you're so worried about that shit ), and noone wins.
You know what counts? Results. And a fucked-up individual who tows the line because they're scared of their parents, sonme god, or the government isn't a functional human being. A mature individual who can reason out their decisions based upon available input and has a healthy lust for life is.
Raising your kids isn't a barfight. You're not there to run shit, you're there to guide them into the world. And noone listens to a hypocrite or a bully.
No. I mean, not too often. Well, sometimes. Okay, fine, I'm not really 6'4", fabulously wealthy, and have a 9 inch cock. Under my red mini-skirt. Which I wear when I pick up hot 18-year old sluts who will do anything for money!
Now that I've gotten my smart-assedness out of my system, I think it's time you looked at the basics of human development.
Kids grow. In doing so, they will expect their own privacy and freedom. With that goes responsibility. Would you let your 11 year old go to a party unsupervised? Probably not. Would you let your 15 year old? Well, judging from your attitude, probably not. I would. As long as your kids are getting good grades and have their shit pretty much together, let them do their own thing. If they want money from you, make them mow the yard. If they want a ride, tell them to clean up their room first. If they choose to walk rather than that, don't bitch at them. It's their choice. You need to slowly relax the reins, so that when they are 18 and go off to college, they have the skills and maturity to adjust, rather than just going "Woo-hoo! I don't have to listen to anyone anymore! I'm gonna fuckin' party". That's a big part of the problem. If you think your kids aren't interested in sex, intoxicants ( drugs, alcohol, cigarettes, whatever ), bands, parties, etc., you're wrong. Weren't you? It's a matter of degrees, and knowing what is healthy.
And doesn't it strike you as odd that your child feel the need to lie to you? My personal experience has been that it's easier to tell the truth, so I don't waste time lying unless it's worth it. Ex. : if you could just tell a cop : "Look I busted my headlight last week, but I haven't had time to replace it" and he just gave you a warning, would you feel the need to to tell him you hadn't noticed it, someone must have hit your car in the parking lot? I wouldn't bother if I could, but is telling the truth worth the hassle of going to court and paying a fine? Not in my books, because whether the cop believes my lie or not, noone is hurt ( except for maybe the county, who is deprived of a $150 that they could waste as well as my tax dollars are ).
A computer is a tool. Internet access is a problematic tool, because it's a gateway to so much. What are you really worried about? Kids looking at porn? What, and you never looked at porn? Never masturbated? If you say no, you're full of shit. Being exposed to violence/hateful themes, etc? That's around kids every day. Same for drugs. So, unless I'm missing something, the only thing that kids are exposed to on the internet that isn't around regularly, are sexual predators. And those are there in the real world too. Basically, the only thing I would be worried about are the people that they might interact with online. But if you haven't explained to them that are people in the world that would like to hurt them, and that they need to be careful in who they trust, then they're not equipped to walk down to the cornerstore, let alone do anything else.
So the same basics that apply to the real world apply online. And please don't rob your children of a chance to mature in a healthy, human, responsible manner. If you're going to worry about anything, get on them about their grades, try to interest them in science, art, nature, etc.
If they want to look at pictures of naked chicks, or read about guns, drugs, whatever, don't sweat it. ( hell, the eleven year old is probably just looking up pictures of guy/girl he/she thinks is cute/smart/cool/whatever and doesn't want dad to know because he/she's embarrassed ). In my opinion, expose children to the world, let them read, talk to them, and most of all : tell and show them what you think, and then let them make up their own minds.
when will RedHat have a more reasonable licensing scheme? Your licensing is excellent for corporate enterprise workstations, and I realize that you are moving away from home users, but what about clusters and universities?
For example, I run Redhat across a rather large ( > 4000 CPUs ) cluster, and have never bothered doing more than buying a few boxed sets due to the fact that I have never been able to get a reasonable price from your sales team. Cluster support tends to be more like dealing w/ a single machine, since the hardware is generational ( if you add 512 CPUs to the system, their hardware is going to be exactly the same if you ordered it that way ). Why should I pay a license for each machine, when I can just get a license for one that is having the same problem as the others ( for example, a bizarre problem we had w/ the eepro100 driver + PVM - and yes, I know PVM is generally used for > 1 machine, but technically I probably could have addressed the support problem w/ 1 license ). I wouldn't have a problem buying cluster support if you had a decent sliding scale ( ex. : 512 nodes @ $50/node, 1024 nodes @ $35/node, etc. ). And of course, have a caching update server for the site.
And for universities : if you want brand recognition, try offering site licenses or educational discounts. Don't count on all CS/EE students to be clued in enough to install Fedora on their laptop and then debug any problems that come up. Offer a site-wide license to all students for $50k, or a department for $10k, or something like that. That would probably give you a lot of name recognition in the future. You already offer site licenses for corporations, right?
So when will RedHat come up w/ some decent licensing schemes for those environments?
Here is your dream come true.
My experiences w/ Yellow Dog have all been very satisfactory, and I'm looking forward to a G5-based laptop in the future.
of a bullet between the eyes.
Just remember the rule of revolution : don't burn anything that you can't personally recreate.