I should say it's not just Americans, it's everyone.
People want to listen to the same songs and music because it helps them identify with each other. If you're the only fan of unknown band X, then you can't use that to link yourself to a particular crowd or lifestyle.
Which is what the RIAA really sells, prepackaged "lifestyles".
Want to be a non-conformist? Buy these CDs, and wear these cloths, pierce this, so you fit in just like every other non-conformist. (Yeah, the ass-backwardsness of that remark is on purpose).
So do I, and I'd rather go to the local bar and get drunk while listening to the local band on a Saturday night.
But, like I said, most people are only interested in artists that they're told to listen to by the E! channel or MTV. And those are RIAA artists.
Americans want corporatized boardroom approved crap and thats the way it is.
Any "alternative" music scene of any popularity is quickly assimilated into the mainstream these days. They absorbed punk, metal, hip-hop, country, ska/reggae.. Anything artists come up with, they absorb like the Borg and package and polish into MTV crap.
Because that's what the majority wants. We can bitch but we can't change it.
That's why, as I've said before, I hate music and have all but eliminated it from my life.
No, because few people want to listen to indy music.
The future of digital music is giving the RIAA another buck, via Apple or Napster or whoever, to listen to your favorite songs in yet another proprietary format. One for your portable player, one for your PC, one for your car.
Linux is probably the worst in most respects, full of useless tools that do nothing to help a user accomplish anything. Its desktops are sloppy and amateurish, and what little documentation exists is laden with hyperlinks to homosexual lifestyle websites.
Dollar Bill runs it for me and, well it sucks that's why I'd like a gmail that can store more porn, for which i have an arrangement that it be delivered daily.
That's not so weird. Everyone oohs and aahs when there's a slashdot article about OSS 3D desktops, myself included.
I think desktop apps flipping around in 3D and all the new ways you could work with apps would be cool.
But DirectX isn't right for the task, it's too low level. Too much DX code only works on ATi or nVidia, too many vendor specific extensions and shitty drivers. It's great for tweaking the crap out of Doom 3 so it goes as fast as it can, but it would suck if some pixel shader operation that only works on Geforces blowed up my coding session.
Avalon is higher level, not trying to implement the latest hardware tweaks and gizmos, just base functionality you can count on across the board.
There's no redundancy, the way I see it. Two different tools for two different tasks.
Maintain a seperate network to put your wife and kids PCs on because they get really pissed off when they find out there's no internet and they can't get TV Guide because you wanted to see what would happen as you type in mysterious iptables rules.
Pay for another router/switch, and route both subnets to your dsl modem or whatever. Bonus you get to learn about setting up subnets and DMZs and funky routing ju ju.
I agree, but you need to get a whole lot of computers, too.
I have about 7 at home that are on at any given time, for no reason other than to screw around with networked environment, which is a whole different world than a stand-alone box.
I have all my user stuff in an LDAP directory, integrated with my samba PDC which serves out roaming profiles to all my users (uh, me) on all my windows machines (uh, this one).
I have other "dedicated" linux fileservers, a webserver and db server that I test code on, a couple "workstations". Grunt boxes to run bittorrent on. I have an old Bad Dudes arcade cabinet I'm going to jam a motherboard into for my network-aware arcade thingamabob.
It's awesome in here i got TONS OF STUFF to take apart to make into new stuff. And gigs and gigs of porn. And a mini fridge with lots of beer in it.
Anyhow, my point is, you need a network to learn about networking.
That said, shoving passwd/group/hosts into LDAP sucks for a million reasons.. Not the least of which being that openldap seems to crash for no good reason at all which freezes everything. Anyone know of any better alternatives? (learning, see)
Slackware is a "hard" distro? I think the installer and package manager aren't too bad. It's no portage or apt-get but it's alright.
My first linuxes were rolled by hand, though.
It tought me a lot about the computer, and it's useful stuff as a programmer, but I can't say it taught me shit about real-life network administration.
I mean, you need a real-life network to fuck around with.
Sven was a young boy He had a heart of stone Lived 9 to 5 and worked his Fingers to the bone
Just barely out of school Came from the edge of town Scripted like a switchblade So no one could take him down
He had no money, ooh No good at home He walked the streets a soldier And he hacked the world alone And now it's...
Chorus: Eighteen and life you got it Eighteen and life you know Your crime is time and it's Eighteen and life to go Eighteen and life you got it Eighteen and life you know Your crime is time and it's Eighteen and life to go
Cheetos in his fat face His ass burned with vaseline It kept his motor runnin' But he never kept it clean
They say he loved VB Script Sven 's the wild on He married trouble Had cyber with a bum
Click, click! hack 'em up the party never ends You can't think of dying When the butthole's your best friend And now it's...
Chorus
"Accidents will happen" They all heard Sven say He fired his sasser to the wind That child blew a child (hes gay!)
(solo)
Chorus
YEAH, I THINK GEEK THEMED SONG PARODIES ARE LAME TOO! MOD ME DOWN
Your 5 bucks will pay for what, about enough envelopes, letters, and stamps to send out about 10 more extortion threats?
And they can keep their advertising revenue stream, I wont begrudge them that. They may have my eyes and ears, but they don't have my dollars. They don't have my attention, either.
Radio isn't as bad as you think. There are still long commercial free blocks of music. Music is just background noise to me anyways, all the copyright tantrums and handwringing have killed the artform for me.
And all that "overlayed crap" I see is on cable channels, not the free-to-air ones. Isn't it odd that you pay a monthly fee, get the same amount of regular commercials on channels you pay extra for (like HBO), and ON TOP of that, they pop little ads up over the content you payed for?
All the local air stations around here do is pop the station logo up once every hour, or however often they're required by law to do a station ID.
Not really all that interested in NetFlix or TiVo.
Or iTunes.
You all talk a good game about how much you hate the MPAA and RIAA, but when it comes right down to it, you're the ones lining up around the block for "innovative" new ways to give them some more money, aren't you?
How much money have you given Apple and the RIAA for songs you already bought on CD, tape or LP?
Suckas. Over the air radio and TV is still freeee as in look at all the money I didn't spend today.
She did research on how to clean up and protect her PC
Wanna bet some cash money that "research" meant asking the guy at Best Buy who sold her a copy of Norton for Enterprises and a few sets of Monster Cables?
Yeah, she installs NAV and she's a security expert.
By that token, everyone who's installed SP2 for XP is now a security expert.
Are you linux guys listening? Huh?
When's the last time YOU updated YOUR virus definitions? If you ever wanted proof that linux is a hobby OS, and not for security experts like Gramma Carty, this is it.
If you want to do business with Wal-Mart, you have to go to Northwest Arkansas to do it. I was there not too long ago, it's a weird place. Wal-Mart and Tysons chicken literally own the entire place.
Proctor and Gamble have like a staff of a couple hundred that live in NW AR just to service the Wal-Mart account.
The whole area is covered with little pop-up houses, people move there to work with wal-mart for a few years, then climb the ladder and get the hell out of there. It's hard to find "natives"! Practically everyone is there temporarily.
And oh yeah, Dickson street in Fayetteville is the best place to get a BJ in the country. Well, at least the easiest, in my experience. U of A chicks have no morals whatsoever!
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...freely available, high quality Linux operating systems accompanied by certifications, service, and support options
Why a distro based on Debian? Why not just certify, service and support Debian itself?
I know there has to be a seperate distro for every ego in the OSS world, but from a technical point of view, why is a new distro needed?
I should say it's not just Americans, it's everyone.
People want to listen to the same songs and music because it helps them identify with each other. If you're the only fan of unknown band X, then you can't use that to link yourself to a particular crowd or lifestyle.
Which is what the RIAA really sells, prepackaged "lifestyles".
Want to be a non-conformist? Buy these CDs, and wear these cloths, pierce this, so you fit in just like every other non-conformist. (Yeah, the ass-backwardsness of that remark is on purpose).
So do I, and I'd rather go to the local bar and get drunk while listening to the local band on a Saturday night.
But, like I said, most people are only interested in artists that they're told to listen to by the E! channel or MTV. And those are RIAA artists.
Americans want corporatized boardroom approved crap and thats the way it is.
Any "alternative" music scene of any popularity is quickly assimilated into the mainstream these days. They absorbed punk, metal, hip-hop, country, ska/reggae.. Anything artists come up with, they absorb like the Borg and package and polish into MTV crap.
Because that's what the majority wants. We can bitch but we can't change it.
That's why, as I've said before, I hate music and have all but eliminated it from my life.
number one in the hood, G
Is this the future of digital music..?
No, because few people want to listen to indy music.
The future of digital music is giving the RIAA another buck, via Apple or Napster or whoever, to listen to your favorite songs in yet another proprietary format. One for your portable player, one for your PC, one for your car.
That's just the way it is, like it or not.
Linux is probably the worst in most respects, full of useless tools that do nothing to help a user accomplish anything. Its desktops are sloppy and amateurish, and what little documentation exists is laden with hyperlinks to homosexual lifestyle websites.
Screw this guy, right fellas!
send it to stratjakt@hotmail.com
spam it too, i dont care.
Dollar Bill runs it for me and, well it sucks that's why I'd like a gmail that can store more porn, for which i have an arrangement that it be delivered daily.
gmail please
do it for tux
Well explain the point of the "if your APIs are gonna be dum then I'm just not going to copy them so nyah nyah" stuff?
that's like, wacky
That's not so weird. Everyone oohs and aahs when there's a slashdot article about OSS 3D desktops, myself included.
.
I think desktop apps flipping around in 3D and all the new ways you could work with apps would be cool.
But DirectX isn't right for the task, it's too low level. Too much DX code only works on ATi or nVidia, too many vendor specific extensions and shitty drivers. It's great for tweaking the crap out of Doom 3 so it goes as fast as it can, but it would suck if some pixel shader operation that only works on Geforces blowed up my coding session
Avalon is higher level, not trying to implement the latest hardware tweaks and gizmos, just base functionality you can count on across the board.
There's no redundancy, the way I see it. Two different tools for two different tasks.
Hmm what? MSFT has been pretty honest about their past designs and it's security flaws as of late.
Slashdotters could pull their heads out of Tux's feathery ass and look around for a minute and see that for themselves.
Oh yeah, I forgot. This is essential:
Maintain a seperate network to put your wife and kids PCs on because they get really pissed off when they find out there's no internet and they can't get TV Guide because you wanted to see what would happen as you type in mysterious iptables rules.
Pay for another router/switch, and route both subnets to your dsl modem or whatever. Bonus you get to learn about setting up subnets and DMZs and funky routing ju ju.
I agree, but you need to get a whole lot of computers, too.
I have about 7 at home that are on at any given time, for no reason other than to screw around with networked environment, which is a whole different world than a stand-alone box.
I have all my user stuff in an LDAP directory, integrated with my samba PDC which serves out roaming profiles to all my users (uh, me) on all my windows machines (uh, this one).
I have other "dedicated" linux fileservers, a webserver and db server that I test code on, a couple "workstations". Grunt boxes to run bittorrent on. I have an old Bad Dudes arcade cabinet I'm going to jam a motherboard into for my network-aware arcade thingamabob.
It's awesome in here i got TONS OF STUFF to take apart to make into new stuff. And gigs and gigs of porn. And a mini fridge with lots of beer in it.
Anyhow, my point is, you need a network to learn about networking.
That said, shoving passwd/group/hosts into LDAP sucks for a million reasons.. Not the least of which being that openldap seems to crash for no good reason at all which freezes everything. Anyone know of any better alternatives? (learning, see)
Slackware is a "hard" distro? I think the installer and package manager aren't too bad. It's no portage or apt-get but it's alright.
My first linuxes were rolled by hand, though.
It tought me a lot about the computer, and it's useful stuff as a programmer, but I can't say it taught me shit about real-life network administration.
I mean, you need a real-life network to fuck around with.
Sven was a young boy
He had a heart of stone
Lived 9 to 5 and worked his
Fingers to the bone
Just barely out of school
Came from the edge of town
Scripted like a switchblade
So no one could take him down
He had no money, ooh
No good at home
He walked the streets a soldier
And he hacked the world alone
And now it's...
Chorus:
Eighteen and life you got it
Eighteen and life you know
Your crime is time and it's
Eighteen and life to go
Eighteen and life you got it
Eighteen and life you know
Your crime is time and it's
Eighteen and life to go
Cheetos in his fat face
His ass burned with vaseline
It kept his motor runnin'
But he never kept it clean
They say he loved VB Script
Sven 's the wild on
He married trouble
Had cyber with a bum
Click, click! hack 'em up
the party never ends
You can't think of dying
When the butthole's your best friend
And now it's...
Chorus
"Accidents will happen"
They all heard Sven say
He fired his sasser to the wind
That child blew a child (hes gay!)
(solo)
Chorus
YEAH, I THINK GEEK THEMED SONG PARODIES ARE LAME TOO! MOD ME DOWN
That's $5 more than I gave 'em.
Your 5 bucks will pay for what, about enough envelopes, letters, and stamps to send out about 10 more extortion threats?
And they can keep their advertising revenue stream, I wont begrudge them that. They may have my eyes and ears, but they don't have my dollars. They don't have my attention, either.
Radio isn't as bad as you think. There are still long commercial free blocks of music. Music is just background noise to me anyways, all the copyright tantrums and handwringing have killed the artform for me.
And all that "overlayed crap" I see is on cable channels, not the free-to-air ones. Isn't it odd that you pay a monthly fee, get the same amount of regular commercials on channels you pay extra for (like HBO), and ON TOP of that, they pop little ads up over the content you payed for?
All the local air stations around here do is pop the station logo up once every hour, or however often they're required by law to do a station ID.
Not really all that interested in NetFlix or TiVo.
Or iTunes.
You all talk a good game about how much you hate the MPAA and RIAA, but when it comes right down to it, you're the ones lining up around the block for "innovative" new ways to give them some more money, aren't you?
How much money have you given Apple and the RIAA for songs you already bought on CD, tape or LP?
Suckas. Over the air radio and TV is still freeee as in look at all the money I didn't spend today.
Pretzels?
It really doesn't matter.
It all turns to number 2's in the end.
Yeah, but they're really for scanning windows files that might be stored on a samba server or plugging into squid or sendmail.
Is there any AV that goes out and scans ELF binaries? Are there any known viruses that attack such binaries?
She did research on how to clean up and protect her PC
Wanna bet some cash money that "research" meant asking the guy at Best Buy who sold her a copy of Norton for Enterprises and a few sets of Monster Cables?
Maybe technically, but that's not how the law works (thankfully).
Or do you think every time you hand a credit/debit card to a cashier at K-mart, that gives them the right to start charging things to your account?
Hell, your account number and routing info is on a cheque. So everyone you write a cheque to gets unlimited access to your chequing account?
Thinking bigger, all I need is your SSN (easily obtained) to steal your identity and take out a few hundred thou in mortages.
And it's all your fault! You gave it to me when you came to work for me! Hahahaha.
If BoA allows any unauthorized person to remove money from my account, it is their fault.
It doesn't matter how they came across my PIN or account number.
Yeah, she installs NAV and she's a security expert.
By that token, everyone who's installed SP2 for XP is now a security expert.
Are you linux guys listening? Huh?
When's the last time YOU updated YOUR virus definitions? If you ever wanted proof that linux is a hobby OS, and not for security experts like Gramma Carty, this is it.
I don't know why he chose to say "10 addresses", it's more like a couple billion per person.
2^128 is a friggin ginormous number with 38 digits in front of the decimal point.
2^128-1 comes out to
3.4028236692093846346337460743177e+38
Which is lots, way more than 10 each. I don't know the protocol well enough to know if there are reserved/blocked ranges.
Seems to me every living entity on the planet could have a couple million nodes on the 'net.
38 is a lot of digits.
Studies show that monkeys can be trained to remember 10 numbers.
/simpsons
You're not dumber than a monkey are you?
Wal-Mart is fucked up, dude!
If you want to do business with Wal-Mart, you have to go to Northwest Arkansas to do it. I was there not too long ago, it's a weird place. Wal-Mart and Tysons chicken literally own the entire place.
Proctor and Gamble have like a staff of a couple hundred that live in NW AR just to service the Wal-Mart account.
The whole area is covered with little pop-up houses, people move there to work with wal-mart for a few years, then climb the ladder and get the hell out of there. It's hard to find "natives"! Practically everyone is there temporarily.
And oh yeah, Dickson street in Fayetteville is the best place to get a BJ in the country. Well, at least the easiest, in my experience. U of A chicks have no morals whatsoever!