Jesus also drove out the bad guys when he had to. I'm not saying that revenge or retribution or retaliation is always, or even often, the right answer. But sometimes something has to be done to stop evil and injustice.
I'm not saying that BlueSecurity is doing the right thing here either, but it seems like they're generally the good guys.
I wouldn't reply to myself, but this came to mind, and I think it's worth posting.
Your account demonstrates the nature of choice in the Linux world. You compare FC and GNOME to Windows, while I compare Debian/Kubuntu and KDE. Both FC/GNOME and Debian/KDE are Linux, but only Windows is Windows. Your experience with FC/GNOME was poor, but my experience with Debian/KDE is great, and far better than Windows. One can try Linux several different ways, and not all of them may be better than Windows, so one may decide that Linux is still poor in these areas, while actually they may just need to try the right Linux combo.
Well, to be frank, most of your problems would be mostly solved by using Kubuntu and KDE. For anyone who cares about things like Samba shares and file associations, GNOME is certainly going to be a pain. KDE, however, makes such things easy to use and configure.
GNOME is turning into the system for those afraid of right-click menus and checkboxes. I switched to KDE (on Debian, BTW), and I have never looked back.
Well, actually, as far as just notifying goes, Tb works fine. The IMAP idle command works fine with it; it always shows me when I have new messages in folders I have Tb set to check. But I just couldn't get offline caching to work anymore.
Maybe it's a problem with your IMAP server. Some IMAP servers don't support "idle" well.
Ok, let me give you just one example. A friend of mine runs a mortgage business. I often help him with his computers, Internet service, etc. He receives lots of information via e-mail, including PDF documents, etc. He also spends a lot of time on the phone, and meets with people in person. He has software on his PCs that connects to a remote database, but also has local stores of the data. If his Internet connection went down for a day or two, he would likely still need access to his already-received e-mail so he could continue to do business. And, of course, he'd still need to be able to access his local database stores. If all his data was only stored on web servers, and only accessible by getting online, then a bad DSL/cable day would just about stop him from doing business.
If it's just personal mail, that's probably ok. But for a business, work can still go on even if the Internet connection is down. In such a case, lack of e-mail access could likely be killer.
I used Tb for a long time, and I like it. But its IMAP support is not good at all. When I changed to another e-mail provider, still with IMAP, Tb would no longer download IMAP messages for offline use. I'd activate the function to download and sync e-mail folders, and it would always say that there were no new messages on the server, even though there were. When I went into offline mode, the messages weren't available. I tried making a new, clean profile, but it didn't fix it. (Tb 1.0.7/Debian, BTW.) It also would go into some sort of mode after leaving it running for a long time where trying to move or delete messages, or change folders, would do nothing. I'd have to restart Tb to fix it. Even when Tb was working properly, doing things like moving or deleting a message would block other mail operations until it sync'ed with the server.
Finally I had enough. I tried KMail. It has superb offline IMAP support: operations happen quickly and in the background, and are queued as well, letting me continue to do things while KMail syncs it. It has nice little features like automatically changing addresses from "someone at somewhere dot org" to "someone@somewhere.org". It also seems faster than Tb.
I still like Tb; it has a good interface, and is pleasant to use. I will try 1.5 when it comes out. But I am also disappointed in the Tb's team not fixing old, simple, outstanding bugs that have been in the bug db for years. There are some important ones that are breaking Tb for people, but they don't seem to care. Those people would be glad to help test and debug...but the Tb team has more important things on their list, it seems.
I'm glad that you have such a fulfilling life.:) I didn't mean that life is completely miserable; perhaps I exaggerated a bit. But if somehow you haven't already, I can assure you that you will go through difficult, painful times in your life. Loss, disease, and death are inevitable.
Really, you're right, this life is just a march to a better end. After all, this life will end, but eternity will not. But this life is really an opportunity. It's an opportunity to serve God by serving others. Philippians 2:3-4 says, "Do nothing out of selfish ambition or vain conceit, but in humility consider others better than yourselves. Each of you should look not only to your own interests, but also to the interests of others." And we are to do this out of love. In Matthew 23:37, Jesus said, "'Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind.' This is the first and greatest commandment. And the second is like it: 'Love your neighbor as yourself.' All the Law and the Prophets hang on these two commandments." I Corinthians 13 explains love in detail: "...If I give all I possess to the poor and surrender my body to the flames, but have not love, I gain nothing.... Love never fails. But where there are prophecies, they will cease; where there are tongues, they will be stilled; where there is knowledge, it will pass away. For we know in part, and we prophesy in part, but when perfection comes, the imperfect disappears.... Now we see but a poor reflection as in a mirror; then we shall see face to face. Now I know in part; then I shall know fully, even as I am fully known."
The point is, when this life ends, what will you have left? You can gain knowledge, gain power, gain fame, do great things, earn lots of money, have lots of fun...but when you're on your death bed, what will it matter? You will leave this world, and remember none of it. Time will pass, and the world will not remember you.
You're right, it's not just about being full at the end. But what if, at the end, you're not full, but empty?
Death will indeed be a great adventure for all. But whether it's an adventure with a happy or unhappy ending is up to each person. If one believes in the Lord, confesses their faith, and is baptized, calling on his name, and lives faithfully to their death, they will have great joy when they die.
"When the perishable has been clothed with the imperishable, and the mortal with immortality, then the saying that is written will come true: 'Death has been swallowed up in victory. Where, O death, is your victory? Where, O death, is your sting?' The sting of death is sin, and the power of sin is the law. But thanks be to God! He gives us the victory through our Lord Jesus Christ." I Corinthians 15:54-57
When we erode our civil rights, we dilute the sacrifices of all the people who gave their lives for the protection of those rights. Our military is hard at work right now giving their lives to protect our rights, and to try and give such rights to others who were oppressed. But while they do that, we, at home, erode the very thing they are dying to protect. It's kind of sad. Perhaps someone else can put it more eloquently.
That's not exactly true. In I Corinthians 7:19, Paul said, "Circumcision is nothing and uncircumcision is nothing. Keeping God's commands is what counts." In John 14:15, Jesus said, "If you love me, you will obey what I command." Clearly if one is faithful to the Lord, he will do his best to obey the Lord's commands.
However, we are not perfect beings; as it says in Romans 3:9-10, "We have already made the charge that Jews and Gentiles alike are all under sin. As it is written, 'There is no one righteous, not even one.'" Obviously, even after we have been baptized into Christ and have received the Holy Spirit, we will continue to sin. But our faith in our salvation through the sacrifice of Jesus's blood justifies us, as it says in Romans 3:21: "But now a righteousness from God, apart from law, has been made known, to which the Law and Prophets testify. This righteousness from God comes through faith in Jesus Christ to all who believe. There is no difference, for all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God, and are justified freely by his grace through the redemption that came by Christ Jesus."
You say that religion is counterproductive. I think that if I had no faith in a life after this one, there would be little point in living this life at all. Why go through all the pain that this life has if there was nothing at the end but death? Might as well go jump off a bridge right now and get it over with. Who cares if it makes someone else a little unhappy? They can do the same thing. And so on, and so on. Do you see what I mean?
But I know that when I leave this life, I will go to be with my Father in Heaven, because of my faith in Him through his Son. I'm not perfect; I still sin. As it says in Romans 7:19, "For what I do is not the good I want to do; no, the evil I do not want to do--this I keep on doing." But I keep trying, and I know that my faith in Jesus's blood continually cleanses me, as it says in I John 1:9.
That knowledge, that God loves me, and my love for Him, gives me hope, and a mission to love others and spread the Good News, as Jesus commanded in Matthew 28:18-20. As far as I know, loving your fellow human beings makes this life better, so I don't think I'm an enemy of those who want to make this life better.:)
I don't know what "infamous NAT Error" you are talking about. If you correctly configure your NAT device and Azureus, it works just fine. I run Debian through a NAT'ed DSL connection, through ports that I chose and configured, and it's fine. The "NAT Error" link you gave simply explains how to correctly configure things, and the Ubuntu problem you linked to has nothing to do with NATs, it has to do with Ubuntu's native Java support, which can be fixed by users. I hardly think the number of Ubuntu Azureus users has anything to do with these statistics.
I think if you use a KDE app, say Kaffeine or Amarok, to play those MP3s, it will work. Non-KDE apps naturally don't support the KDE-only smb:// and fish:// ioslaves.
"Does anyone know of a mechanism for launching apps using keystrokes like Win-e for explorer.exe under MS windows? Best I could do outside of mapping "extra" keys with hotkey is to map the Super key to gnome's "Run command" dialog and then type in the app... weak."
Don't take this the wrong way, and I could be completely wrong, but I have to wonder if that is really that useful. Wouldn't a better solution be a script/daemon/whatever that reads the logs for you and alerts you if there's something you actually need to know?
Yeah, but the only way to prove that conclusively is to wait 100 years and see if it's still readable. Even if the majority of their discs last that long, there will be plenty that don't.
I've taken to running dvdisaster on my RW discs before I erase and reuse them to see if they're still reading well. It doesn't have error statistics, but if the read speed drops a lot in an area of the disc, it probably means it's having trouble reading that part of the disc--just don't run dvdisaster while your system is under heavy load doing something else, or that won't be a reliable way to tell.
Nothing against Verbatim, but lifetime warranties mean nothing on CD or DVD media. All that means is that if you mail in the now-defective disc, they'll send you a blank replacement disk. So it costs them a couple dollars including postage to replace your defective discs, but you still lose your data. And how many people actually mail in their defective discs instead of chucking them in the trash and buying a new spindle?
You really use GIMP on a Zaurus? Does it have a special GUI? How could the regular GUI work on such a small screen? Just the toolbox would take up most of the screen. Enlighten me, if you would.:)
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Matthew 21:12-16
Mark 11:15-18
Luke 19:45-48
Jesus also drove out the bad guys when he had to. I'm not saying that revenge or retribution or retaliation is always, or even often, the right answer. But sometimes something has to be done to stop evil and injustice.
I'm not saying that BlueSecurity is doing the right thing here either, but it seems like they're generally the good guys.
I wouldn't reply to myself, but this came to mind, and I think it's worth posting.
Your account demonstrates the nature of choice in the Linux world. You compare FC and GNOME to Windows, while I compare Debian/Kubuntu and KDE. Both FC/GNOME and Debian/KDE are Linux, but only Windows is Windows. Your experience with FC/GNOME was poor, but my experience with Debian/KDE is great, and far better than Windows. One can try Linux several different ways, and not all of them may be better than Windows, so one may decide that Linux is still poor in these areas, while actually they may just need to try the right Linux combo.
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Well, to be frank, most of your problems would be mostly solved by using Kubuntu and KDE. For anyone who cares about things like Samba shares and file associations, GNOME is certainly going to be a pain. KDE, however, makes such things easy to use and configure.
GNOME is turning into the system for those afraid of right-click menus and checkboxes. I switched to KDE (on Debian, BTW), and I have never looked back.
You can use MobiPocket Reader to read Palm PRC books on Pocket PCs and other devices. And it's free.
Not with magnet links, AFAIK. Using magnet links and DHT eliminates the need for tracker servers.
Works great for me. YMMV.
rsync would work well for that.
Well, actually, as far as just notifying goes, Tb works fine. The IMAP idle command works fine with it; it always shows me when I have new messages in folders I have Tb set to check. But I just couldn't get offline caching to work anymore.
Maybe it's a problem with your IMAP server. Some IMAP servers don't support "idle" well.
Ok, let me give you just one example. A friend of mine runs a mortgage business. I often help him with his computers, Internet service, etc. He receives lots of information via e-mail, including PDF documents, etc. He also spends a lot of time on the phone, and meets with people in person. He has software on his PCs that connects to a remote database, but also has local stores of the data. If his Internet connection went down for a day or two, he would likely still need access to his already-received e-mail so he could continue to do business. And, of course, he'd still need to be able to access his local database stores. If all his data was only stored on web servers, and only accessible by getting online, then a bad DSL/cable day would just about stop him from doing business.
:)
Come on, this is a no-brainer.
If it's just personal mail, that's probably ok. But for a business, work can still go on even if the Internet connection is down. In such a case, lack of e-mail access could likely be killer.
You can choose where sent mail is stored in the identity's settings.
That's the problem with using only webmail.
I used Tb for a long time, and I like it. But its IMAP support is not good at all. When I changed to another e-mail provider, still with IMAP, Tb would no longer download IMAP messages for offline use. I'd activate the function to download and sync e-mail folders, and it would always say that there were no new messages on the server, even though there were. When I went into offline mode, the messages weren't available. I tried making a new, clean profile, but it didn't fix it. (Tb 1.0.7/Debian, BTW.) It also would go into some sort of mode after leaving it running for a long time where trying to move or delete messages, or change folders, would do nothing. I'd have to restart Tb to fix it. Even when Tb was working properly, doing things like moving or deleting a message would block other mail operations until it sync'ed with the server.
Finally I had enough. I tried KMail. It has superb offline IMAP support: operations happen quickly and in the background, and are queued as well, letting me continue to do things while KMail syncs it. It has nice little features like automatically changing addresses from "someone at somewhere dot org" to "someone@somewhere.org". It also seems faster than Tb.
I still like Tb; it has a good interface, and is pleasant to use. I will try 1.5 when it comes out. But I am also disappointed in the Tb's team not fixing old, simple, outstanding bugs that have been in the bug db for years. There are some important ones that are breaking Tb for people, but they don't seem to care. Those people would be glad to help test and debug...but the Tb team has more important things on their list, it seems.
So, I highly recommend KMail.
I'm glad that you have such a fulfilling life. :) I didn't mean that life is completely miserable; perhaps I exaggerated a bit. But if somehow you haven't already, I can assure you that you will go through difficult, painful times in your life. Loss, disease, and death are inevitable.
... Love never fails. But where there are prophecies, they will cease; where there are tongues, they will be stilled; where there is knowledge, it will pass away. For we know in part, and we prophesy in part, but when perfection comes, the imperfect disappears. ... Now we see but a poor reflection as in a mirror; then we shall see face to face. Now I know in part; then I shall know fully, even as I am fully known."
Really, you're right, this life is just a march to a better end. After all, this life will end, but eternity will not. But this life is really an opportunity. It's an opportunity to serve God by serving others. Philippians 2:3-4 says, "Do nothing out of selfish ambition or vain conceit, but in humility consider others better than yourselves. Each of you should look not only to your own interests, but also to the interests of others." And we are to do this out of love. In Matthew 23:37, Jesus said, "'Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind.' This is the first and greatest commandment. And the second is like it: 'Love your neighbor as yourself.' All the Law and the Prophets hang on these two commandments." I Corinthians 13 explains love in detail: "...If I give all I possess to the poor and surrender my body to the flames, but have not love, I gain nothing.
The point is, when this life ends, what will you have left? You can gain knowledge, gain power, gain fame, do great things, earn lots of money, have lots of fun...but when you're on your death bed, what will it matter? You will leave this world, and remember none of it. Time will pass, and the world will not remember you.
You're right, it's not just about being full at the end. But what if, at the end, you're not full, but empty?
Death will indeed be a great adventure for all. But whether it's an adventure with a happy or unhappy ending is up to each person. If one believes in the Lord, confesses their faith, and is baptized, calling on his name, and lives faithfully to their death, they will have great joy when they die.
"When the perishable has been clothed with the imperishable, and the mortal with immortality, then the saying that is written will come true: 'Death has been swallowed up in victory. Where, O death, is your victory? Where, O death, is your sting?' The sting of death is sin, and the power of sin is the law. But thanks be to God! He gives us the victory through our Lord Jesus Christ." I Corinthians 15:54-57
Please.
When we erode our civil rights, we dilute the sacrifices of all the people who gave their lives for the protection of those rights. Our military is hard at work right now giving their lives to protect our rights, and to try and give such rights to others who were oppressed. But while they do that, we, at home, erode the very thing they are dying to protect. It's kind of sad. Perhaps someone else can put it more eloquently.
That's not exactly true. In I Corinthians 7:19, Paul said, "Circumcision is nothing and uncircumcision is nothing. Keeping God's commands is what counts." In John 14:15, Jesus said, "If you love me, you will obey what I command." Clearly if one is faithful to the Lord, he will do his best to obey the Lord's commands.
:)
However, we are not perfect beings; as it says in Romans 3:9-10, "We have already made the charge that Jews and Gentiles alike are all under sin. As it is written, 'There is no one righteous, not even one.'" Obviously, even after we have been baptized into Christ and have received the Holy Spirit, we will continue to sin. But our faith in our salvation through the sacrifice of Jesus's blood justifies us, as it says in Romans 3:21: "But now a righteousness from God, apart from law, has been made known, to which the Law and Prophets testify. This righteousness from God comes through faith in Jesus Christ to all who believe. There is no difference, for all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God, and are justified freely by his grace through the redemption that came by Christ Jesus."
You say that religion is counterproductive. I think that if I had no faith in a life after this one, there would be little point in living this life at all. Why go through all the pain that this life has if there was nothing at the end but death? Might as well go jump off a bridge right now and get it over with. Who cares if it makes someone else a little unhappy? They can do the same thing. And so on, and so on. Do you see what I mean?
But I know that when I leave this life, I will go to be with my Father in Heaven, because of my faith in Him through his Son. I'm not perfect; I still sin. As it says in Romans 7:19, "For what I do is not the good I want to do; no, the evil I do not want to do--this I keep on doing." But I keep trying, and I know that my faith in Jesus's blood continually cleanses me, as it says in I John 1:9.
That knowledge, that God loves me, and my love for Him, gives me hope, and a mission to love others and spread the Good News, as Jesus commanded in Matthew 28:18-20. As far as I know, loving your fellow human beings makes this life better, so I don't think I'm an enemy of those who want to make this life better.
I posted a comment, so would someone please mod the parent up, please? =)
I don't know what "infamous NAT Error" you are talking about. If you correctly configure your NAT device and Azureus, it works just fine. I run Debian through a NAT'ed DSL connection, through ports that I chose and configured, and it's fine. The "NAT Error" link you gave simply explains how to correctly configure things, and the Ubuntu problem you linked to has nothing to do with NATs, it has to do with Ubuntu's native Java support, which can be fixed by users. I hardly think the number of Ubuntu Azureus users has anything to do with these statistics.
I think if you use a KDE app, say Kaffeine or Amarok, to play those MP3s, it will work. Non-KDE apps naturally don't support the KDE-only smb:// and fish:// ioslaves.
"Does anyone know of a mechanism for launching apps using keystrokes like Win-e for explorer.exe under MS windows? Best I could do outside of mapping "extra" keys with hotkey is to map the Super key to gnome's "Run command" dialog and then type in the app ... weak."
:)
You could use KDE, which makes it very easy.
Short of that, use xbindkeys.
Don't take this the wrong way, and I could be completely wrong, but I have to wonder if that is really that useful. Wouldn't a better solution be a script/daemon/whatever that reads the logs for you and alerts you if there's something you actually need to know?
Yeah, but the only way to prove that conclusively is to wait 100 years and see if it's still readable. Even if the majority of their discs last that long, there will be plenty that don't.
I've taken to running dvdisaster on my RW discs before I erase and reuse them to see if they're still reading well. It doesn't have error statistics, but if the read speed drops a lot in an area of the disc, it probably means it's having trouble reading that part of the disc--just don't run dvdisaster while your system is under heavy load doing something else, or that won't be a reliable way to tell.
Nothing against Verbatim, but lifetime warranties mean nothing on CD or DVD media. All that means is that if you mail in the now-defective disc, they'll send you a blank replacement disk. So it costs them a couple dollars including postage to replace your defective discs, but you still lose your data. And how many people actually mail in their defective discs instead of chucking them in the trash and buying a new spindle?
You really use GIMP on a Zaurus? Does it have a special GUI? How could the regular GUI work on such a small screen? Just the toolbox would take up most of the screen. Enlighten me, if you would. :)