That's a reasonable solution. The ANI fixes the problem in such a way that I only wish we could do with spam email.
You might run into some problems with military bases but all private PBX systems are required to hand out a legit response to ANI at this point. Those that don't are probably purposely concealing their origin and you don't want to hear from those.
I personally have to avoid such solutions because I DO get calls from a government installation. Anyone who doesn't has very little excuse.
Umm, dude, i've been in business probably longer than you have. People like you are the people I make irrelevant and replace. They fail to implement solutions. Your willingness to accept anachronisms is the problem, not my desire to fix problems. You can argue the details all day long - there is a solution to every problem.
Better watch out behind you, someone is ready to do what you are afraid to do.
Which is exactly the reason I use Gentoo. However, with the recent departure of Daniel Robbins and the upcoming Not-for-profit board of directors, i'm not so sure things will be better there either.
I would gladly pay drobbins a RHEL license fee for each of my boxes if he'd go back to running Gentoo and avoid the damned politics, please.
Somehow I trust that guy more than some Apple fanboy spouting off about this. I was there, I worked in Mac support at that time and I remember what happened. You, obviously, do not.
Given the heat problems of that classic-style Macintosh case, i'm sure the components are actually cooler now than they were inside that thing.
The SE had a fan at least, the Mac Plus didn't have one, which spawned a significant aftermarket in attachable fan modules that would slide into the handle vent (and had an AC cord of their own).
That was all a Steve Jobs snafu - he wanted the Macs to be silent so they were. They were so silent they overheated. After his departure from Apple the fan was added in.
Brings the problems with that lucite cube into better perspective, when you remember back to that.
You hit the nail on the head. I would much rather see a question that might provoke a more indepth response like "FOSS projects from Arab countries have been conspicuous by their absence from the larger community. Do you think that Installfest or your efforts in Egypt will result ultimately in the development of software that, while geared to local needs, might have wider application and enrich the community as a whole? What kinds of things are Egyptian or Arab developers interested in?"
Actually I find a Gentoo build is faster than installing Red Hat, for instance. I am referring to 'start to finish' from CD insertion to completed system.
The main point is that you have to know enough about Gentoo to know what you want and what you don't. If i'm making a DHCP server I don't want to 'emerge kde', for instance. Unless you want a 24 hour compile to start.
The compile time for most server tools is inconsequential - it isn't far off of how long it takes to copy the binaries off a CD plus dependencies. PHP is fairly big and Apache takes a bit. Not that long though.
Last point, Gentoo stable isn't the 'latest version' of anything, usually. It's about 1 version behind at most times. Of course, to a Debian user, it might look like the latest. (heh)
Microsoft hasn't been able to have a planned software release since Windows 2000, and that one took the better part of 4 years to finish. XP was motivated by the outcome of the antitrust action. WinME was a successor to 98SE to incorporate Win2k changes for hardware that couldn't accomodate Win2k or just wouldn't run programs adequately. Both were rushed out the door.
Longhorn is going to turn out to have taken nearly seven years to release if the stick to the current dates. If it is full of bugs, the failure to make 'monolithic releases' is not to blame. It's the Microsoft culture that is at fault and the overcomplexity of the operating system they created.
Well, perhaps if Prescott Bush had appeared on the same podium as Hitler, this might have more relevance, but that never happened. Kerry _did_ end up on the same podium as Fonda - while the one pic is a forgery, the other one isn't. Disavowing this is going to take a bit more than refuting BUSH=HITLER did.:-)
Just another scandal in a scandal-laced election season - and I am afraid Kerry is going to get pelted with most of the mud, given that he has so much available from his antiwar days and time in Congress.
Why would this be a bad thing anyway? It's not like newspapers don't crop and alter photos on a regular basis. Just take a look at one of the NYC tabloids if you really want to see this kind of thing.
Furthermore, why should Kerry care if he is in a picture with Fonda? Does he seek to deny his roots? Hmm?
I can buy my insulin over the counter. They keep it in the back because it requires refrigeration. The only kind of insulin that requires a script is the really fast acting Humalog stuff which is actually fairly dangerous because it is so fast acting and could cause a rapid hypoglycemic attack if too much were taken. The best I could do with the stuff I use is give you the munchies. The needles require a script though.
Will they require a prescription for cold medications? Laxatives? I see the threat as very minor from this and the inconvenience and harassment to be relatively major. Maybe if more people are diabetic they'll stop jerking around with us. Um, not that i'd wish it on anyone.
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Unquestionably he'd use Gentoo.
I doubt most of the media would pass a Turing test.
That's a reasonable solution. The ANI fixes the problem in such a way that I only wish we could do with spam email.
You might run into some problems with military bases but all private PBX systems are required to hand out a legit response to ANI at this point. Those that don't are probably purposely concealing their origin and you don't want to hear from those.
I personally have to avoid such solutions because I DO get calls from a government installation. Anyone who doesn't has very little excuse.
Umm, dude, i've been in business probably longer than you have. People like you are the people I make irrelevant and replace. They fail to implement solutions. Your willingness to accept anachronisms is the problem, not my desire to fix problems. You can argue the details all day long - there is a solution to every problem.
Better watch out behind you, someone is ready to do what you are afraid to do.
Seems to me that you could just rig up a computer to accept faxes, using ANI or caller id to refuse to accept anything you didn't get valid info for.
Set the jobs to auto-print and you are set. Use the old fax machine for outbounds only, rig it to not answer.
Woops, sorry, this solution requires more effort than plugging the machine into the wall. How could I have even brought it up.
Which is exactly the reason I use Gentoo. However, with the recent departure of Daniel Robbins and the upcoming Not-for-profit board of directors, i'm not so sure things will be better there either.
I would gladly pay drobbins a RHEL license fee for each of my boxes if he'd go back to running Gentoo and avoid the damned politics, please.
You are wrong.
Somehow I trust that guy more than some Apple fanboy spouting off about this. I was there, I worked in Mac support at that time and I remember what happened. You, obviously, do not.
An SE had the same speed processor and hard disk interface as the Plus. It just had room for an internal hard drive, which the Plus didn't.
Most of the sales of the cooling units for the Plus/512ke were in conjunction with the sale of aftermarket memory or accelerators.
It still doesn't avoid the issue of why Apple added a fan later. "because it got too hot in there" is the obvious answer.
Then why was the fan added?
Seems you've got a problem there. I'm not going to tell you where I was working, but I guarantee i've seen more.
Given the heat problems of that classic-style Macintosh case, i'm sure the components are actually cooler now than they were inside that thing.
The SE had a fan at least, the Mac Plus didn't have one, which spawned a significant aftermarket in attachable fan modules that would slide into the handle vent (and had an AC cord of their own).
That was all a Steve Jobs snafu - he wanted the Macs to be silent so they were. They were so silent they overheated. After his departure from Apple the fan was added in.
Brings the problems with that lucite cube into better perspective, when you remember back to that.
You hit the nail on the head. I would much rather see a question that might provoke a more indepth response like "FOSS projects from Arab countries have been conspicuous by their absence from the larger community. Do you think that Installfest or your efforts in Egypt will result ultimately in the development of software that, while geared to local needs, might have wider application and enrich the community as a whole? What kinds of things are Egyptian or Arab developers interested in?"
Won't the computers have to pass a Turing test first, before we can get there?
Actually I find a Gentoo build is faster than installing Red Hat, for instance. I am referring to 'start to finish' from CD insertion to completed system.
The main point is that you have to know enough about Gentoo to know what you want and what you don't. If i'm making a DHCP server I don't want to 'emerge kde', for instance. Unless you want a 24 hour compile to start.
The compile time for most server tools is inconsequential - it isn't far off of how long it takes to copy the binaries off a CD plus dependencies. PHP is fairly big and Apache takes a bit. Not that long though.
Last point, Gentoo stable isn't the 'latest version' of anything, usually. It's about 1 version behind at most times. Of course, to a Debian user, it might look like the latest. (heh)
A communist group in Sweden (hell they are even marching on May Day) demanding the end of intellectual property.
Let's not make posters of this...this could set the anti-IP movement back 50 years.
Sheesh. It's like being anti-Israel and wearing a swastika armband while saying it.
Now let's all hum the Internationale together...NOT.
Microsoft hasn't been able to have a planned software release since Windows 2000, and that one took the better part of 4 years to finish. XP was motivated by the outcome of the antitrust action. WinME was a successor to 98SE to incorporate Win2k changes for hardware that couldn't accomodate Win2k or just wouldn't run programs adequately. Both were rushed out the door.
Longhorn is going to turn out to have taken nearly seven years to release if the stick to the current dates. If it is full of bugs, the failure to make 'monolithic releases' is not to blame. It's the Microsoft culture that is at fault and the overcomplexity of the operating system they created.
Poor AC doesn't like the mud hitting his fair-haired candidate.
Get used to it, it's going to be a LOOOONG campaign season otherwise.
Well, perhaps if Prescott Bush had appeared on the same podium as Hitler, this might have more relevance, but that never happened. Kerry _did_ end up on the same podium as Fonda - while the one pic is a forgery, the other one isn't. Disavowing this is going to take a bit more than refuting BUSH=HITLER did. :-)
Just another scandal in a scandal-laced election season - and I am afraid Kerry is going to get pelted with most of the mud, given that he has so much available from his antiwar days and time in Congress.
If I actually had, it would be appropriate, no?
If not, then I could see the complaint, but it wasn't like he hadn't been speaking on the same podium with Ms. Fonda at times.
Sounds like some redefinition of the past is being attempted here.
Why would this be a bad thing anyway? It's not like newspapers don't crop and alter photos on a regular basis. Just take a look at one of the NYC tabloids if you really want to see this kind of thing.
Furthermore, why should Kerry care if he is in a picture with Fonda? Does he seek to deny his roots? Hmm?
Does Piggly Wiggly have a kosher foods aisle?
I didn't realize Paul Ehrlich was a /. poster.
This is the best thing i've read on /. in weeks. Literally.
Our toxic waste will defy you! The swamps will swallow you up, and just wait until you reach Newark! Mwa ha ha ha haha!
(note mouth moving out of sync with English words)
I can buy my insulin over the counter. They keep it in the back because it requires refrigeration. The only kind of insulin that requires a script is the really fast acting Humalog stuff which is actually fairly dangerous because it is so fast acting and could cause a rapid hypoglycemic attack if too much were taken. The best I could do with the stuff I use is give you the munchies. The needles require a script though.
Will they require a prescription for cold medications? Laxatives? I see the threat as very minor from this and the inconvenience and harassment to be relatively major. Maybe if more people are diabetic they'll stop jerking around with us. Um, not that i'd wish it on anyone.