so they can track me as I go around and beat the shit out of the assholes responsible for this invasion of my privacy and the spamming of my cell phone.
I live in constant, extreme pain 24 hours a day from a broken spine. The break was repaired by spinal fusion and titanium hardware but I got ZERO pain relief from the surgery. If anyone else had to live with the pain I live with, they would commit suicide before the end of the first day.
My surgeon told me to "just get over it".. I'm now at the point that I would gladly allow a doctor to severe the nerves so that I would lose all feeling from my neck down. Even if it left me paralyzed it would be worth it, just to stop hurting. My problem is is that I can't work, don't have insurance, income, or anything else. I don't qualify for assistance because I was self employed for too many years.
If some doctor would like to try this snail stuff out on me, I volunteer. I can't tolerate the pain anymore.
They've been doing this in Germany for years and years now. And a lot of other European countries have also been following suit. America, as always, straggles behind the times.
Of course it does. But booting is a one shot deal. Does it really matter if your boot drive (or partition) is journalled or not? The amount of time spent in the boot drive is in the order of a few seconds. Once booted you don't go back there again until next time you boot. AFAIK.
As for why I use old 20gb drives to boot from, well, I have LOTS of them laying around. Why not? If something happens to it I can always stick another in and I'm back up. I just dd my working boot drive to a spare and set it aside. I have a replacement drive I can drop in and never skip a beat. I have LOTS of hard drives here. And now that bigger drives are so dirt cheap, I see no reason not to spilt my system up and spread it about on multiple drives. No single point of failure. I have mirrored my critical drives to spares and I promise you, I won't be having any catastrophic failures or data loss. I may experience some annoying down time for a bit to change drives out but I can live with that.
I'm looking forward to ZFS, I have a LOT of computers here with a large variety of file systems running and it would be interesting to have 100+ computers running ONE file system.
Really? Stick an old 20gb drive in as your boot drive and boot from whatever you have to to get up and going, load ZFS modules, mount all drives and enjoy. What's so terrible about booting from a different drive / file system? Most mobos now let you hang boatloads of drives of all types on them. I can't think of any reason why it would be so terrible to boot up from an old 20gb with ext2/ext3 or anything else, then run the rest of your system under whatever. I'm doing that now anyway, I boot from ext2 then everything else is ext3. Doesn't make my performance suffer any that I can tell.
Besides, I suspect that most people that would run ZFS are the type of people that leave their machines up for months at a time. In that case, why the panic attacks over booting issues?
I hope they can find some way to resolve the license issues, I'm excited about ZFS (in concept and theory) and I would love to give it a go. Finally a system that's up with the times.
concerning a billing issue. I also took the opportunity to complain about their unfair practice of charging a penalty for NOT having cable TV service, the normal RR fee is $45 a month, if you do not have TV service they charge you $55 a month, plus taxes. That sucks.
Anyway, I asked her about the recent adoption of the DOCSIS 3.0 standard and how that was going to impact my service, what does the future hold?
She told me, "Before the end of 07 you will notice a SIGNIFICANT speed increase."
I informed her that would not hurt my feelings one bit. About 3 years ago TWC bumped up our speed by a few megs without notice. It's like one day all of a sudden things were coming down WAY faster. I ran some speed tests and was shocked to find it had almost doubled. There was NO price increase on my bill. I called them to find out what the deal was and they just told me "Yes, we doubled everyones speed. Enjoy!"
I am looking forward to the next six months and what it may bring..
Can we please drop all these "holy grail" and "god particle" and other such nonsense terms? There is no "god" or religion. Never was. It's all fairy tales for physically mature children. If we can get past the childish and immature references to non-existant things SCIENCE *may* be able to progress.
This has been a Public Service Announcement. Thank you.
I mean really. You really have to work hard to allow your BSD or Linux box infected. The system is designed to prevent noobs from doing stupid things. You have to intentionally do something bad, IE circumvent standard security procedures to let this happen. You have several chances to NOT do what you know is bad, besides, you have to know what you are doing to be able to do it!
If you manage to end up with your Linux or BSD box infected, you OPTED IN by your own free will so don't whine.
So he's conceding that MS is a threat though not a big threat. Poor choice of words Mr. Shuttleworth. You could have worded that differently. Is Ubuntu on the verge of a MicroNovell type deal now?
This is far beyond any 1984 insanity. Am I the only one that see's this as a way for Big Brother to have absolute, total power over your buying/spending abilities? The people that worried about bar codes and now RFID are probably shitty fuzzy spiders over this concept.
I'll refuse to accept this bullshit concept, period. Cash is King.
Too bad. I go to ebay to search for and find bargains on second hand stuff. I'm there to SAVE MONEY. I don't want to see ads, I'm not interested in ads, I find them annoying as hell. I don't buy anything new, ever. Well, I buy some cheap shoes, jeans and T-shirts new about once every 5 years at a local dept. store but that's all I ever buy new. I save a lot of money by buying used stuff and even more by finding used/broken stuff on the curb. I shop ebay for parts to repair the stuff I find.
I don't want to see any ads anywhere, not online, not on TV, not on billboards. I block ads at my firewall with Smoothwall & Adzapper. I mute TV commercials so fast your head would spin.
So to ebay, too bad for you. We the people are really sick and tired of ads and commercials and we're fighting back. You already make an obscene amount of money from auction fees, paypal fees, skype fees and god knows what else. If some people want to find bargains and not be assaulted with annoying ads you're just going to have to suck it up and live with it. You can TRY to force all the ads you want down my throat by my firewall just says "NO." to your annoying crap. You might put a stop to the new firefox tool but you will NOT push ads past my firewall, try all you want, I encourage you.
One has to ask why M$ is so secretive about everything. It's my contention that M$ code consists mostly of STOLEN CODE from Unix and the many other flavors of Unix that have emerged over the years, plus the many other assorted and obscure operating systems that have also emerged. M$ has probably been reverse engineering software and operating systems for years, stealing the code and burying the evidence with encryption, patents and threats.
Bill Gates has a long, long documented history of theft, coercion, illegal activities and mafiaoso style bullying. There's an 800 pound Monkey Boy(TM) in the room and everyone is afraid to flinch lest they incur the wrath of M$. Everyone knows that no one can outspend M$ in court. It's just not possible. Even if IBM "Turned the sky black with lawyers" they couldn't stand forever on the battlefield against M$ and their vastly deeper pockets. IBM might stand and fight a valiant fight but it would be a war of attrition and M$ would easily remain standing in the end. All the rest of the world, that is the little people, know full well that they better not even show up for the fight, you can't fight against atomic bombs with BB guns.
M$ is a criminal organization that engages in criminal acts and is run by criminals. RICO charges need to be filed against M$ and their empire needs to be brought down. M$ crushes innovation and stiffles progress. If they aren't stopped somehow they WILL achieve their global domination goal of Ein Volk, Ein Reich, Ein OS.
M$ and their FUD campaign will work just as well as the SCO FUD worked to stifle the progress of FOSS GNU/Linux the past few years. Now that SCO is a walking corpse they had to find another way to stoke the embers and re-ignite the fires. The Novell deal was extremely harmful to the movement. WE all know it's BS but the rest of the uninformed world doesn't. They get their 30 second CNN/FOX "news" clips and/or 2 paragraphs of FUD via the web and they believe it. "Hey, I heard it on the news, so it's true!"
It's a shame that the villagers can't gather with their pitchforks and torches and march up the Redmond hill for some old fashioned mayhem. Several of the critters in the compound need to be drawn and quartered, at the very least.
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Even if MS released software under GPLv3, I wouldn't touch it. I'm sorry but I do not care to use anything MS.
Taking "free" anything from MS seems to me like taking free candy from a predator.
I have done very well without using any MS products for the past 7 years.
I just bought a new Nokia a new months ago and it has this battery in it.
Never had any trouble with it but if I get a new one, I'm ok with that.
so they can track me as I go around and beat the shit out of the assholes responsible for this invasion of my privacy and the spamming of my cell phone.
as soon as I read the part that said "high-speed TOR network"..
Right.. Anyone that's ever used TOR knows there ain't no such critter..
I live in constant, extreme pain 24 hours a day from a broken spine.
The break was repaired by spinal fusion and titanium hardware but I got ZERO pain relief from the surgery.
If anyone else had to live with the pain I live with, they would commit suicide before the end of the first day.
My surgeon told me to "just get over it".. I'm now at the point that I would gladly allow a doctor to severe the nerves so that I would lose all feeling from my neck down. Even if it left me paralyzed it would be worth it, just to stop hurting.
My problem is is that I can't work, don't have insurance, income, or anything else.
I don't qualify for assistance because I was self employed for too many years.
If some doctor would like to try this snail stuff out on me, I volunteer. I can't tolerate the pain anymore.
They've been doing this in Germany for years and years now.
And a lot of other European countries have also been following suit.
America, as always, straggles behind the times.
for the fundies. Oh wait, it won't matter because surely they will be raptured up long before then. Right?
Of course it does. But booting is a one shot deal. Does it really matter if your boot drive (or partition) is journalled or not? The amount of time spent in the boot drive is in the order of a few seconds. Once booted you don't go back there again until next time you boot. AFAIK.
As for why I use old 20gb drives to boot from, well, I have LOTS of them laying around. Why not?
If something happens to it I can always stick another in and I'm back up. I just dd my working boot drive to a spare and set it aside. I have a replacement drive I can drop in and never skip a beat.
I have LOTS of hard drives here. And now that bigger drives are so dirt cheap, I see no reason not to spilt my system up and spread it about on multiple drives. No single point of failure. I have mirrored my critical drives to spares and I promise you, I won't be having any catastrophic failures or data loss.
I may experience some annoying down time for a bit to change drives out but I can live with that.
I'm looking forward to ZFS, I have a LOT of computers here with a large variety of file systems running and it would be interesting to have 100+ computers running ONE file system.
Really? Stick an old 20gb drive in as your boot drive and boot from whatever you have to to get up and going, load ZFS modules, mount all drives and enjoy. What's so terrible about booting from a different drive / file system? Most mobos now let you hang boatloads of drives of all types on them.
I can't think of any reason why it would be so terrible to boot up from an old 20gb with ext2/ext3 or anything else, then run the rest of your system under whatever. I'm doing that now anyway, I boot from ext2 then everything else is ext3. Doesn't make my performance suffer any that I can tell.
Besides, I suspect that most people that would run ZFS are the type of people that leave their machines up for months at a time. In that case, why the panic attacks over booting issues?
I hope they can find some way to resolve the license issues, I'm excited about ZFS (in concept and theory) and I would love to give it a go. Finally a system that's up with the times.
3,
2,
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The Bu$h regime and his anti-science fundie pals..
And that was offtopic in what way? I think not only was it totally on topic, it was deeply insightful.
Think about it..
concerning a billing issue. I also took the opportunity to complain about their unfair practice of charging a penalty for NOT having cable TV service, the normal RR fee is $45 a month, if you do not have TV service they charge you $55 a month, plus taxes. That sucks.
Anyway, I asked her about the recent adoption of the DOCSIS 3.0 standard and how that was going to impact my service, what does the future hold?
She told me, "Before the end of 07 you will notice a SIGNIFICANT speed increase."
I informed her that would not hurt my feelings one bit.
About 3 years ago TWC bumped up our speed by a few megs without notice. It's like one day all of a sudden things were coming down WAY faster. I ran some speed tests and was shocked to find it had almost doubled.
There was NO price increase on my bill. I called them to find out what the deal was and they just told me "Yes, we doubled everyones speed. Enjoy!"
I am looking forward to the next six months and what it may bring..
that the universe is a living thing and that we are just microbes.
Be prepared to see more and more of this sort of thing.
Embrace, extend and extinguish
When will the USDOJ step in and put a stop to this? Probably never.
Goodbye GNU/Linux. I loved you, while you lasted.
Can we please drop all these "holy grail" and "god particle" and other such nonsense terms?
There is no "god" or religion. Never was. It's all fairy tales for physically mature children.
If we can get past the childish and immature references to non-existant things SCIENCE *may* be able to progress.
This has been a Public Service Announcement.
Thank you.
is a disconnected computer.
This mad rush to put everything online is, well, mad..
I mean really. You really have to work hard to allow your BSD or Linux box infected.
The system is designed to prevent noobs from doing stupid things.
You have to intentionally do something bad, IE circumvent standard security procedures to let this happen.
You have several chances to NOT do what you know is bad, besides, you have to know what you are doing to be able to do it!
If you manage to end up with your Linux or BSD box infected, you OPTED IN by your own free will so don't whine.
iDid. It was great, glad iDid.
"Ubuntu Founder Says Microsoft Not A Big Threat"
So he's conceding that MS is a threat though not a big threat.
Poor choice of words Mr. Shuttleworth. You could have worded that differently.
Is Ubuntu on the verge of a MicroNovell type deal now?
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This is far beyond any 1984 insanity.
Am I the only one that see's this as a way for Big Brother to have absolute, total power over your buying/spending abilities? The people that worried about bar codes and now RFID are probably shitty fuzzy spiders over this concept.
I'll refuse to accept this bullshit concept, period.
Cash is King.
I like my things the way they are now.
I manage to live a fairly happy life without any Microsoft toys or bling-bling.
Sorry Bill, I have no need for your products or services.
Too bad. I go to ebay to search for and find bargains on second hand stuff.
I'm there to SAVE MONEY. I don't want to see ads, I'm not interested in ads, I find them annoying as hell.
I don't buy anything new, ever. Well, I buy some cheap shoes, jeans and T-shirts new about once every 5 years at a local dept. store but that's all I ever buy new. I save a lot of money by buying used stuff and even more by finding used/broken stuff on the curb. I shop ebay for parts to repair the stuff I find.
I don't want to see any ads anywhere, not online, not on TV, not on billboards.
I block ads at my firewall with Smoothwall & Adzapper.
I mute TV commercials so fast your head would spin.
So to ebay, too bad for you. We the people are really sick and tired of ads and commercials and we're fighting back. You already make an obscene amount of money from auction fees, paypal fees, skype fees and god knows what else. If some people want to find bargains and not be assaulted with annoying ads you're just going to have to suck it up and live with it. You can TRY to force all the ads you want down my throat by my firewall just says "NO." to your annoying crap. You might put a stop to the new firefox tool but you will NOT push ads past my firewall, try all you want, I encourage you.
One has to ask why M$ is so secretive about everything.
It's my contention that M$ code consists mostly of STOLEN CODE from Unix and the many other flavors of Unix that have emerged over the years, plus the many other assorted and obscure operating systems that have also emerged. M$ has probably been reverse engineering software and operating systems for years, stealing the code and burying the evidence with encryption, patents and threats.
Bill Gates has a long, long documented history of theft, coercion, illegal activities and mafiaoso style bullying. There's an 800 pound Monkey Boy(TM) in the room and everyone is afraid to flinch lest they incur the wrath of M$. Everyone knows that no one can outspend M$ in court. It's just not possible. Even if IBM "Turned the sky black with lawyers" they couldn't stand forever on the battlefield against M$ and their vastly deeper pockets. IBM might stand and fight a valiant fight but it would be a war of attrition and M$ would easily remain standing in the end. All the rest of the world, that is the little people, know full well that they better not even show up for the fight, you can't fight against atomic bombs with BB guns.
M$ is a criminal organization that engages in criminal acts and is run by criminals.
RICO charges need to be filed against M$ and their empire needs to be brought down.
M$ crushes innovation and stiffles progress. If they aren't stopped somehow they WILL achieve their global domination goal of Ein Volk, Ein Reich, Ein OS.
M$ and their FUD campaign will work just as well as the SCO FUD worked to stifle the progress of FOSS GNU/Linux the past few years. Now that SCO is a walking corpse they had to find another way to stoke the embers and re-ignite the fires. The Novell deal was extremely harmful to the movement. WE all know it's BS but the rest of the uninformed world doesn't. They get their 30 second CNN/FOX "news" clips and/or 2 paragraphs of FUD via the web and they believe it. "Hey, I heard it on the news, so it's true!"
It's a shame that the villagers can't gather with their pitchforks and torches and march up the Redmond hill for some old fashioned mayhem. Several of the critters in the compound need to be drawn and quartered, at the very least.