What I still don't understand is why things like BSD Process Accounting are disabled by default, when in their description it says "This is generally a good idea so say yes here".
If it's generally a good idea, and you're telling me to say 'yes', then make this option the freaking default!
Given that the US is already excluding foreign nations from lucrative rebuilding contracts in Iraq, I would expect the Bush Administration to frown upon this possible move to open source, and start pushing Microsoft and friends instead.
Wrong. The US is excluding foreign nations who did not contribute to the effort. Those who contributed to the war may contribute to the reconstruction.
Why should France or Germany - who opposed the war and contributed nothing - reap the benefits of our hard work? They shouldnt.
Do you see a German cellphone provider? Hmmm?
How about a French railway system going in?
Precisely. I keep seeing posts about "American greed" here. Save your accusations of greed for the nations who opposed the war, who contributed nothing, and now want a piece of the reconstruction pie.
unlike 2.4 i must say 2.6 doesn't really have anything i'm very excited about...
What are you smoking? Better USB support, much better firewire support, Apple G5 and AMD Opteron support, pre-emptive kernel, ALSA by default, blah, blah blah the list goes on.
Unless you have a 386-25 with 4 megs of ram, an EGA monitor, and 40 MB MFM hard drive, you should be pretty damn excited (at least if you are a normal geek like the rest of us).
but I *liked* make menuconfig; make clean && make modules modules_install bzimage!!
Excuse my ignorance (I'm not familar with the new 2.6 build system) but I really *did* like the make menuconfig approach. It's been that way since way-back-when so I could probably do it blindfolded. In addition, make menuconfig is great for building a new kernel over a slow (e.g. dial-up) ssh session. I actually rebuilt the kernel on my PC in Virginia from a cyber-cafe in Paris once.
Lord of the Rings and 2.6 Kernel released on the same day
Argh! What to do? What to do??? See LotR or build the kernel? See LotR or build the kernel??? I'm stuck in an infinite look! Argh! Does not compute! Ack! Out of memory error!! Blthlt!
Israel just picked up linux for language support reasons... does Windows/Office support Arabic well?
If not, I'm assuming Linux would, and therefore would have a leg to stand on at least.
I'm a native arabic speaker and avid Linux user. Linux's support for Arabic is dismal at best. Besides only a small amount of translations having been done, the Arabic character set is poorly supported (at least as of redhat 8).
The problem stems from the fact that Arabic, as a written language, is written in a flowing script - much like "cursive" english. Unlike cursive english however, there is no "plain text" counterpart in which the letters are seperated. Therein lies the problem. All the menus and documentation for Linux that I've seen in arabic is written such that each letter is seperate from the others, which is entirely unreadable.
c a n y o u r e a d t h i s s e n t e n c e m a y b e y o u c a n b u t i t i s v e r y d i f f i c u l t
This is the best comparison I can think of using english. As you can see, it is entirely unusable and would make for a very unpleasant computing experience.
If anyone has any insight on how to get decent Arabic support under Linux, please let me know!
Given that the US is already excluding foreign nations from lucrative rebuilding contracts in Iraq, I would expect the Bush Administration to frown upon this possible move to open source, and start pushing Microsoft and friends instead.
While I'm a die-hard Linux and OSS user of many years, the fact that the US will be pushing for rebuilding contracts that benefit the US is an no-brainer. Besides the fact that the US put the most blood, sweat, and money into removing Saddam and are now spearheading the reconstruction, elementary macroeconomics dictates that we should begin trading with Iraq as soon as possible. Selling capital goods (such as business software) to Iraq is good for Iraq and it's good for the US. I firmly believe that Microsoft OS's are steaming piles of dung, but they certainly generate more revenue - way more - than the sale of OSS does today.
Look at Germany and Japan as examples. We bombed the shit out of them in WWII and now they are the number 2 and 3 economic superpowers in the world. DE and JP are also in the top 5 global trading partners of the US.
Ya, we'll give them something for free instead of taking there money/oil for something we tell them they must have. Sure, that will happen.
-Anonymous American.
Boo freakin hoo. We're building their national infrastructure for power/roads/etc, training their Army, lobbying other nations to reduce or eliminate the debt that Iraq owes, and we're paying them billions of dollars for shit that flows up out of their ground by the barrel. Yeah, they're soooo exploited. Next you'll tell me that Saddam was acting in their best interests when he stole the international aid that was brought into the country, killed them by the thousands and dumped their bodies into mass graves, and lived in lavish palaces (plural) while all the working people could barely feed/clothe their families.
As much as I would like to see O/S everywhere in the world, I think that what Iraq needs before anything else at the moment is a stable government.
And stable service infrastructure. For example, personal electric generators have been selling like hot cakes over the past year in Baghdad due to the flakiness of their power grid.
On that same subject, we all know that computers require cooling and without electricity, cooling is very difficult - particularly when you are in an area that sees 120 degree daytime temps in the summer.
In addition, most GED fast-food burger flippers in the US earn more in a month than a college-educated Iraqi earns in a year. Linux doesn't do you much good if you can't afford a computer to run it on.
While developing nations (including Iraq) are prime places to get a good foothold for free software acceptance, those same nations typically have much more pressing issues.
Give Iraq some time. Germany and Japan were in much worse shape after WWII than Iraq is now. Look at them now - Germany and Japan are the number 2 and 3 economic superpowers in the world after the US.
What would be really cool is if you could mount a.jpg image as an FS using the loopback driver. Any data copied in would get passed through GPG and then steg'd into the mounted image.
Generally, telling people how to commit crimes, or telling them where they can obtain illegal things isn't illegal itself. The "Anarchist's Cookbook", for example, includes detailed (if boobytrapped) information on all manner of things ranging from cooking up Meth, to building pipe-bombs. Its perfectly legal.
This makes sense from pretty much anystandpoint you want to look at it from, even though it does sometimes produce odd results. It goes back to the basic idea that crimes are actions, you can't arrest someone for speculating about how nifty it would be to rob a bank (you can, however arrest someone for *planning* to rob the bank, you don't have to actually wait for them to do it). If it were otherwise we'd be entering the wonderful world of Thought Crimes (TM).
I prefer a simpler one-question approach: Does he weigh less than a duck?
A NOC is a Network Operations Center. It is one room, typically filled with many displays of real-time data which display the health/status of a network.
The purpose of a police officer is to uphold the rule of law. What we are seeing today in Iraq is the rule of power, not law. The Bush administration decided that it was above the rule of law.
Right. Just like the dozens of Iraqi police who have died in the police station bombings. Or Red Cross workers who died in the bombing of the Red Cross. Or the UN workers who died in the bombing of the UN building. You get the idea...
Perhaps we should withdraw the troops and rely on the "honor system", or perhaps we should tell those who kill Police officers, UN employees and Red Cross employees and volunteers to "go stand in the corner", or to "go to your room".
I'm sorry you have so much trouble with the fact that crazy violent Islamic militants can only be controlled with force. It's not that difficult of a concept...
It is those like you who try to silence dissent with threats who cast the shaddows here.
I'm merely pointing out the facts. Not that it does you any good - I have a feeling that you turn a blind eye or ear to any facts that don't fall in line with your extreme left agenda.
Did the Russian Revolution end with the capture of the Tzar?
The administration sees everything through the lens of their own preconceptions. They thought that the invasion would be greated with flowers from grateful Iraqis. They thought that it would be a cake walk. They even held the victory parade and declared 'Mission Accomplished' with Saddam still on the loose.
On the contrary, It is the liberal extremists who see everything through the lens of their own preconceptions.
Your logic is severely flawed. By your train of thoughts here, shouldn't we retire all our police officers? Why bother arresting the rapists and murderers when there are a bunch of would-be criminals waiting to take their place and will commit the same crimes?
How dare you cast a shadow over this monumentous occation?
There will be no fair trial. He wants to embarass the big super powers and France and the US have a lot to loose if Saddam gets a lawyer and a fair trial.
First of all, there is more than a perponderance of evidence against him - there is no doubt in anyone's mind that he is guilty of the mass murders which he committed - he's admitted to them even.
Secondly, he is not a US citizen i.e. he does not have the right to be presumed innocent until proven guilty in a court of law. He is a military prisoner who will be treated according to the Geneva convention.
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What I still don't understand is why things like BSD Process Accounting are disabled by default, when in their description it says "This is generally a good idea so say yes here".
If it's generally a good idea, and you're telling me to say 'yes', then make this option the freaking default!
I have 8Mb, and I had to save up for a long time... can I be excoted?
No! Shut-up and go sit in the corner!
Given that the US is already excluding foreign nations from lucrative rebuilding contracts in Iraq, I would expect the Bush Administration to frown upon this possible move to open source, and start pushing Microsoft and friends instead.
Wrong. The US is excluding foreign nations who did not contribute to the effort. Those who contributed to the war may contribute to the reconstruction.
Why should France or Germany - who opposed the war and contributed nothing - reap the benefits of our hard work? They shouldnt.
Do you see a German cellphone provider? Hmmm? How about a French railway system going in?
Precisely. I keep seeing posts about "American greed" here. Save your accusations of greed for the nations who opposed the war, who contributed nothing, and now want a piece of the reconstruction pie.
I guess it's download-n-compile time. I'll give any new download the benefit of the doubt so long as goatse isn't involved.
Hmm, it seems this occasion calls for a colorful haiku to mark the moment. Anyone wanna try?
Kernel two six oh It has great NUMA support! I must compile now.
unlike 2.4 i must say 2.6 doesn't really have anything i'm very excited about...
What are you smoking? Better USB support, much better firewire support, Apple G5 and AMD Opteron support, pre-emptive kernel, ALSA by default, blah, blah blah the list goes on.
Unless you have a 386-25 with 4 megs of ram, an EGA monitor, and 40 MB MFM hard drive, you should be pretty damn excited (at least if you are a normal geek like the rest of us).
but I *liked* make menuconfig; make clean && make modules modules_install bzimage!!
Excuse my ignorance (I'm not familar with the new 2.6 build system) but I really *did* like the make menuconfig approach. It's been that way since way-back-when so I could probably do it blindfolded. In addition, make menuconfig is great for building a new kernel over a slow (e.g. dial-up) ssh session. I actually rebuilt the kernel on my PC in Virginia from a cyber-cafe in Paris once.
three french hens,
two turtle doves,
and a new branch in the kernel tree!
It's really here... and it just seems unreal.
2.6.0 is a kernel. Unreal is a game. Get it straight.
In Soviet Russia, kernel 2.6.0 releases YOU!
Lord of the Rings and 2.6 Kernel released on the same day
Argh! What to do? What to do??? See LotR or build the kernel? See LotR or build the kernel??? I'm stuck in an infinite look! Argh! Does not compute! Ack! Out of memory error!! Blthlt!
Shit, my brain just dumped core.
Israel just picked up linux for language support reasons... does Windows/Office support Arabic well? If not, I'm assuming Linux would, and therefore would have a leg to stand on at least.
I'm a native arabic speaker and avid Linux user. Linux's support for Arabic is dismal at best. Besides only a small amount of translations having been done, the Arabic character set is poorly supported (at least as of redhat 8).
The problem stems from the fact that Arabic, as a written language, is written in a flowing script - much like "cursive" english. Unlike cursive english however, there is no "plain text" counterpart in which the letters are seperated. Therein lies the problem. All the menus and documentation for Linux that I've seen in arabic is written such that each letter is seperate from the others, which is entirely unreadable.
c a n y o u r e a d t h i s s e n t e n c e m a y b e y o u c a n b u t i t i s v e r y d i f f i c u l t
This is the best comparison I can think of using english. As you can see, it is entirely unusable and would make for a very unpleasant computing experience.
If anyone has any insight on how to get decent Arabic support under Linux, please let me know!
Given that the US is already excluding foreign nations from lucrative rebuilding contracts in Iraq, I would expect the Bush Administration to frown upon this possible move to open source, and start pushing Microsoft and friends instead.
While I'm a die-hard Linux and OSS user of many years, the fact that the US will be pushing for rebuilding contracts that benefit the US is an no-brainer. Besides the fact that the US put the most blood, sweat, and money into removing Saddam and are now spearheading the reconstruction, elementary macroeconomics dictates that we should begin trading with Iraq as soon as possible. Selling capital goods (such as business software) to Iraq is good for Iraq and it's good for the US. I firmly believe that Microsoft OS's are steaming piles of dung, but they certainly generate more revenue - way more - than the sale of OSS does today.
Look at Germany and Japan as examples. We bombed the shit out of them in WWII and now they are the number 2 and 3 economic superpowers in the world. DE and JP are also in the top 5 global trading partners of the US.
Ya, we'll give them something for free instead of taking there money/oil for something we tell them they must have. Sure, that will happen. -Anonymous American.
Boo freakin hoo. We're building their national infrastructure for power/roads/etc, training their Army, lobbying other nations to reduce or eliminate the debt that Iraq owes, and we're paying them billions of dollars for shit that flows up out of their ground by the barrel. Yeah, they're soooo exploited. Next you'll tell me that Saddam was acting in their best interests when he stole the international aid that was brought into the country, killed them by the thousands and dumped their bodies into mass graves, and lived in lavish palaces (plural) while all the working people could barely feed/clothe their families.
Gimme a freakin break.
As much as I would like to see O/S everywhere in the world, I think that what Iraq needs before anything else at the moment is a stable government.
And stable service infrastructure. For example, personal electric generators have been selling like hot cakes over the past year in Baghdad due to the flakiness of their power grid.
On that same subject, we all know that computers require cooling and without electricity, cooling is very difficult - particularly when you are in an area that sees 120 degree daytime temps in the summer.
In addition, most GED fast-food burger flippers in the US earn more in a month than a college-educated Iraqi earns in a year. Linux doesn't do you much good if you can't afford a computer to run it on.
While developing nations (including Iraq) are prime places to get a good foothold for free software acceptance, those same nations typically have much more pressing issues.
Give Iraq some time. Germany and Japan were in much worse shape after WWII than Iraq is now. Look at them now - Germany and Japan are the number 2 and 3 economic superpowers in the world after the US.
Since you asked, I am actually quite fond of hearing myself talk.
Comments are now enabled so that I may take delivery of the aforementioned impressions.
I have 100's of GB of incriminating files. I must hide them from those who would use them against me. Escape from the prison planet.
What would be really cool is if you could mount a .jpg image as an FS using the loopback driver. Any data copied in would get passed through GPG and then steg'd into the mounted image.
Who wants to start a project?
You mean for those who did not read the three sentences of the /. article?
Yes. That's precisely the audience I was targeting. Think about it.
Generally, telling people how to commit crimes, or telling them where they can obtain illegal things isn't illegal itself. The "Anarchist's Cookbook", for example, includes detailed (if boobytrapped) information on all manner of things ranging from cooking up Meth, to building pipe-bombs. Its perfectly legal. This makes sense from pretty much anystandpoint you want to look at it from, even though it does sometimes produce odd results. It goes back to the basic idea that crimes are actions, you can't arrest someone for speculating about how nifty it would be to rob a bank (you can, however arrest someone for *planning* to rob the bank, you don't have to actually wait for them to do it). If it were otherwise we'd be entering the wonderful world of Thought Crimes (TM).
I prefer a simpler one-question approach: Does he weigh less than a duck?
For those who are wondering...
A NOC is a Network Operations Center. It is one room, typically filled with many displays of real-time data which display the health/status of a network.
The purpose of a police officer is to uphold the rule of law. What we are seeing today in Iraq is the rule of power, not law. The Bush administration decided that it was above the rule of law.
Right. Just like the dozens of Iraqi police who have died in the police station bombings. Or Red Cross workers who died in the bombing of the Red Cross. Or the UN workers who died in the bombing of the UN building. You get the idea...
Perhaps we should withdraw the troops and rely on the "honor system", or perhaps we should tell those who kill Police officers, UN employees and Red Cross employees and volunteers to "go stand in the corner", or to "go to your room".
I'm sorry you have so much trouble with the fact that crazy violent Islamic militants can only be controlled with force. It's not that difficult of a concept...
It is those like you who try to silence dissent with threats who cast the shaddows here.
I'm merely pointing out the facts. Not that it does you any good - I have a feeling that you turn a blind eye or ear to any facts that don't fall in line with your extreme left agenda.
Did the Russian Revolution end with the capture of the Tzar? The administration sees everything through the lens of their own preconceptions. They thought that the invasion would be greated with flowers from grateful Iraqis. They thought that it would be a cake walk. They even held the victory parade and declared 'Mission Accomplished' with Saddam still on the loose.
On the contrary, It is the liberal extremists who see everything through the lens of their own preconceptions.
Your logic is severely flawed. By your train of thoughts here, shouldn't we retire all our police officers? Why bother arresting the rapists and murderers when there are a bunch of would-be criminals waiting to take their place and will commit the same crimes? How dare you cast a shadow over this monumentous occation?
There will be no fair trial. He wants to embarass the big super powers and France and the US have a lot to loose if Saddam gets a lawyer and a fair trial.
First of all, there is more than a perponderance of evidence against him - there is no doubt in anyone's mind that he is guilty of the mass murders which he committed - he's admitted to them even.
Secondly, he is not a US citizen i.e. he does not have the right to be presumed innocent until proven guilty in a court of law. He is a military prisoner who will be treated according to the Geneva convention.