... I find it interesting that he was able to self-diagnose a mitral valve prolapse...
He mentioned Marfan's syndrome in some forum. Marfan's syndrome may be indicated by body shape, head shape, hyper-mobile knuckles etc. The mitral valve prolapse is just another result of Marfan's syndrome. I mean, a strong suspection on prolapse can arise even without EKG.
At the end of the day... I don't care. I'm glad Patrick is getting better. That's important. Makes a nice Christmas present for me.
Patrick, take care. Have a rest. Don't put Slackware maintenance in front of your health. Though I understand that thinking about something else is mentally helpful, you need to make sure that the problems really went away.
It seems to me that most modern legislation is shortsighted and unworkable. It is modern because it is new. It is shortsighted and unworkable because... OMG, if I knew that. Perhaps because there are no sane legislators to elect?
Half way. It is the cold war in new incarnation - US puts weapons to space because Russia/China/... puts weapons to space. And Russia/China/... puts weapons to space because US puts weapons to space. Pity, they can't go in the backyard, and have it sorted out between themselves. They all create threat also to parties that should not be involved at all. Also the problem is that if something goes wrong with a weapon up there, it is much more difficult to take care of.
"I was looking for a comment to moderate" too. And did not found anything matching my thoughts.
The whole discussion is about various people explaining that US is not the oldest working democracy or who has won the election on Florida.
I wonder why nobody talks about Patriot Act, war in Iraq without OK from UN, about the term "Enemy Combatant" and camps in Guantanamo, about the whole "war against terrorists" bullshit, about national ID with fingerprints, DNA samples databases, limiting abilty to travel by air, cameras on public places with automatic face recognition, etc etc.
Are all those thing exactly that what citizens of US wants or what? Nobody complains about "by the corporations, for the comporations"? Nobody fears when Rumsfeld or Ashcroft appear on TV?
I mean, isn't this slashdot?
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However - if a document becomes deprecated and deleted, then how can you assume the link is valid?
Because it is in different color/it is in different font/changes mouse cursor on hover/...
You can do lot of things on Windows too - providing you install cygwin and make a GNU box out of that. At that point it is just matter of stability.
If you don't have cygwin or effectively the GNU utilities compiled for Windows how do you (for example):
1. count how many values appear in column number 3 of spreadsheet? (cat file.csv | cut -d , -f 3 | sort|uniq |wc -l)
2. do something like loop with: wget --referer=http://www.server.com/page.html http://camera.server.com/image.jpg -O `date +"%d%H%M%S"`.jpg
If the parents are the only ones that get the tracking data, then I don't see the problem either. On the other hand, you may just give your kids a mobile.
You know, perhaps I'm just not used to big business practicess but it seems to me that this kind of control over documents is disaster waiting to happen.
Imagine, something goes wrong with the author of the document and there is nobody left to extend the righst to it. Or imagine that I'm writing a spec for huge project, tens of.doc files. And because I'm a bad boy I set the permission on some of the files to expire after 6 month - just in case they want to fire me or something. Or imagine you need to have a product and after milking it for 5 years you decide to sell it - including all documentation, support KB etc. etc.
The proven way of protecting a envelopes is putting them into a safe, not putting a piece of C4 into each envelope.
>how is it my ISP's fault if i am too stupid to secure my own system?
You pay for water and get a water. When I pay for internet access I want to have access to the internet. I pay for ability to 1. send the request out and 2. get the response to that request. I definitelly do not want the garbage that the ISP lets through.
Out of curiosity, what comes out of your water tap?
"Need some hands on experience"? - put hands on! As many others said: get a distro, poke arount. I agree with the suggestion of trying Slackware. It is simple, straightforward and my favourite;-). The reason is that it will not shield you by some automated admin tools.
In addition to other opinions I add this:
watch some discussion board/mailing list related to linux administration/networking or the distro of your choice
try to find someone who you can talk to if you get stuck.
read HOWTOs about topics you need: DNS, apache, samba, security, backups, e-mail... - slackware has all that in/usr/doc/Linux-HOWTOs/
some topics you can't learn at home (you can start at home but need to extend to more loaded systems) - such as bigger DB maintenance, load handling or a user running wild on disk space. For such things get a group of people switch to your service for non-critical tasks - for example set up a DNS for some small department, mirror part of company intraweb and eventually make the original redirect to your server. etc.
Learn some basic C and try out writing something simple about libraries, processes, signals, permissions, syslog, sockets, devices,...
read man page for sh and csh. Several times. Read man page for sed,awk,textutils - basics of scripting
get used to opinion that there is nothing to stop you from tweaking the system your way.
A tourist walks up to a praying man at the Wailing Wall:
"Excuse me.What are you doing here?"
"I'm talking with God."
"And do you do that often?"
"Oh yes. Nearly every day I walk up here and talk to Him."
"And what do you talk about?"
"Well when I was a kid, my parents brought me here. When I was a student I talked about my school problems, then I talked about my 1st job and later about my wife and family."
"Well. That's interesting. And what does the God tell to you?"
The man bursts in tears: "Nothing! 30 years of prayers and... nothing!"
1. I'm not a US citizen, but my understanding of US law is that the jury decides 'guilty or not' and judge decides whether you spend in jail lifetime (because you are a gang member) or a week (because you acted in self-defence).
2. regardless of that, I find it frustrating... hell absurd!... that a regular citizen is not expected to understand the law. Just yesterday I saw news report about middle level state employee, that believed something to be within rights of his post, but the law said otherwise. He lost job and got punished. That can happen to anybody in any situation - because the law is so damn complicated. Another story was that someone is going to be dragged to court because he had 6 car-insurance agreements and claimed the damage in 6 insurence companies. Apparently 5 is fine. It is ridiculous. How can you live a life, when you have no idea for what you can land at court? Yeah. Right you can get a lowyer to tell you if you can do each step. Unless hiring a lawyer to do that, is ilegal.
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Q: What's a 20000 lawyers at the bottom of the sea?
A: A good start.
They are more welcome in Peru
He mentioned Marfan's syndrome in some forum. Marfan's syndrome may be indicated by body shape, head shape, hyper-mobile knuckles etc. The mitral valve prolapse is just another result of Marfan's syndrome. I mean, a strong suspection on prolapse can arise even without EKG.
At the end of the day ... I don't care. I'm glad Patrick is getting better. That's important. Makes a nice Christmas present for me.
Patrick, take care. Have a rest. Don't put Slackware maintenance in front of your health. Though I understand that thinking about something else is mentally helpful, you need to make sure that the problems really went away.
The patents are not there to 'recoup the cost of filing for the patent'. They are there to remove competitors.
It seems to me that most modern legislation is shortsighted and unworkable. It is modern because it is new. It is shortsighted and unworkable because ... OMG, if I knew that. Perhaps because there are no sane legislators to elect?
What is the key it was signed with?
Seems like a good reason to ditch my ages-old mailer (xfmail) and switch.
There is no spoo^H^H^H^Hfork.
Half way. It is the cold war in new incarnation - US puts weapons to space because Russia/China/... puts weapons to space. And Russia/China/... puts weapons to space because US puts weapons to space. Pity, they can't go in the backyard, and have it sorted out between themselves. They all create threat also to parties that should not be involved at all. Also the problem is that if something goes wrong with a weapon up there, it is much more difficult to take care of.
Since WMD's in space are banned, there is no need to shot them down.
May I ask where do you live? Bacause for example EU does respond to Patriot Act and is considering and introducing laws in the same direction.
Cigarette smoke is harmless.
And the Earth is flat.
I think I have some more
The whole discussion is about various people explaining that US is not the oldest working democracy or who has won the election on Florida.
I wonder why nobody talks about Patriot Act, war in Iraq without OK from UN, about the term "Enemy Combatant" and camps in Guantanamo, about the whole "war against terrorists" bullshit, about national ID with fingerprints, DNA samples databases, limiting abilty to travel by air, cameras on public places with automatic face recognition, etc etc.
Are all those thing exactly that what citizens of US wants or what? Nobody complains about "by the corporations, for the comporations"? Nobody fears when Rumsfeld or Ashcroft appear on TV?
I mean, isn't this slashdot?
Because it is in different color/it is in different font/changes mouse cursor on hover/ ...
If you don't have cygwin or effectively the GNU utilities compiled for Windows how do you (for example):
1. count how many values appear in column number 3 of spreadsheet? (cat file.csv | cut -d , -f 3 | sort|uniq |wc -l)
2. do something like loop with: wget --referer=http://www.server.com/page.html http://camera.server.com/image.jpg -O `date +"%d%H%M%S"`.jpg
If the parents are the only ones that get the tracking data, then I don't see the problem either. On the other hand, you may just give your kids a mobile.
Imagine, something goes wrong with the author of the document and there is nobody left to extend the righst to it. Or imagine that I'm writing a spec for huge project, tens of .doc files. And because I'm a bad boy I set the permission on some of the files to expire after 6 month - just in case they want to fire me or something. Or imagine you need to have a product and after milking it for 5 years you decide to sell it - including all documentation, support KB etc. etc.
The proven way of protecting a envelopes is putting them into a safe, not putting a piece of C4 into each envelope.
You pay for water and get a water. When I pay for internet access I want to have access to the internet. I pay for ability to 1. send the request out and 2. get the response to that request. I definitelly do not want the garbage that the ISP lets through.
Out of curiosity, what comes out of your water tap?
In addition to other opinions I add this:
- watch some discussion board/mailing list related to linux administration/networking or the distro of your choice
- try to find someone who you can talk to if you get stuck.
- read HOWTOs about topics you need: DNS, apache, samba, security, backups, e-mail
... - slackware has all that in /usr/doc/Linux-HOWTOs/
- some topics you can't learn at home (you can start at home but need to extend to more loaded systems) - such as bigger DB maintenance, load handling or a user running wild on disk space. For such things get a group of people switch to your service for non-critical tasks - for example set up a DNS for some small department, mirror part of company intraweb and eventually make the original redirect to your server. etc.
- Learn some basic C and try out writing something simple about libraries, processes, signals, permissions, syslog, sockets, devices,
...
- read man page for sh and csh. Several times. Read man page for sed,awk,textutils - basics of scripting
- get used to opinion that there is nothing to stop you from tweaking the system your way.
Good luck.Last time I tried to open OO document in MS Word it failed miserabely.
A tourist walks up to a praying man at the Wailing Wall: ... nothing!"
"Excuse me.What are you doing here?"
"I'm talking with God."
"And do you do that often?"
"Oh yes. Nearly every day I walk up here and talk to Him."
"And what do you talk about?"
"Well when I was a kid, my parents brought me here. When I was a student I talked about my school problems, then I talked about my 1st job and later about my wife and family."
"Well. That's interesting. And what does the God tell to you?"
The man bursts in tears: "Nothing! 30 years of prayers and
No?
Well not everything you don't see or can't hold, does not exist.
2. regardless of that, I find it frustrating ... hell absurd! ... that a regular citizen is not expected to understand the law. Just yesterday I saw news report about middle level state employee, that believed something to be within rights of his post, but the law said otherwise. He lost job and got punished. That can happen to anybody in any situation - because the law is so damn complicated. Another story was that someone is going to be dragged to court because he had 6 car-insurance agreements and claimed the damage in 6 insurence companies. Apparently 5 is fine. It is ridiculous. How can you live a life, when you have no idea for what you can land at court? Yeah. Right you can get a lowyer to tell you if you can do each step. Unless hiring a lawyer to do that, is ilegal.