There is a theory that once the rest of the world comes close to understanding what the US *really* is, they will change into something even more bizarr and less comprehensible. There is another theory saying that this has happened already.
Well things definately run in a different way over there but the Chinese political and administrative system is far from being monolithic. There are interest groups with diverging, and sometimes antagonistic interests in China like anywhere else and they have to compromise and in effect balance each other, too. And, China is a large place, so the saying goes: the whip is sharp but the emperor is far.
In other words, just because you haven't read about it lastly doesn't mean it didn't happen.
If the parent is funny (as the mods decided to mod it when I wrote this) let me add another joke. Though it's actually meant as a quite unfunny question.
From the grandparent down its all about "What can Google do to foster Linux on the desktop" and "What would GoogleOS(hypoth.) do to corporate adoption of Linux on the desktop" and the likes.
Lots of wishful thinking and some handsfull of salt to go with it. Fine.
But shouldn't the first question point to Google's interests? Like, erm, "Don't ask what Google can do for Linux, ask what Linux can do for Google". Sorry for that. But Google _is_ a huge entity and investigating their interests and potential benefits of introducing a GoogleOS distribution may help more to clarify the issue than argueing the topic from the other end.
I agree with this, unlike a written guide a podcast has no copy'n'paste and it is much harder to follow talk than written text when the language used is not your native tongue.
More facts and assumptions have been published here (heise and onlinekosten.de, both of them in German, sorry) and it seems like they copied Antipiratbyrån, paying an admin and probably one of the busiest servers themselves. Police seems to regard this as an possible criminal act and searched not only the office but also private rooms of an high ranking member of said GVU.
Apparently this day has some positive karma towards that kind of news. In Germany a similar thing happened, when the police raided about 20 FTP sites allegedly serving pirated movies. One of the sites taken down during that action was the office and servers of the GVU Gesellschaft zur Verfolgung von Urheberrechtsverletzungen, an office funded by the German content industry to investigate "pirating". Their website was down for half the day, too (GVU. More info to this, in German at heise.
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das traue ich den andern zu
Quite right indeed. I met that condition with maxtor 80 GB drives (clickclickclick) which succeeded to die within weeks after the guarantee ran out, one after the other. I used to swear on maxtor and changed this to cursing, but too late.
The manchester ilk of these is sweet when it comes to power consumption. Then again, so are PIII or even Via C3 on mini-ITX
Greylisting cleared this thing away for me
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spamAssassin and the junk filters in Eudora, Thunderbird all helped to ease the problem but I was still deleting lots of them by hand until I switched to greylisting on my mail server. Since most of the spam gets sent by minimal smtp on hijacked pcs which just dont know how to queue mail suddenly there was silence. It takes some whitelisting at first and some kinds of traffic, like listservers take another route, but I could finally dare to open some known for long mail adresses that had turnend into spam sinks for long.
The mods must be crazy. Within the context of this thread his post was quite ontopic, in fact, I often prefer outspoken moderations since they have a chance to carry more info than one out of six. (and dont dare to mod this one down unless you find the meta-offtopic key)
May be versions matter here. However, from my personal experience I'd rather agree to this, SuSE always installed and ran fine for me on lots of obscure hardware (think via mini-itx) and vmware up to 9.something.
But I started with vmware 1.0 and the last update I bought was 3.20.
for those who don't understand Yiddish or - even more misleading - for those who do understand German (where both words have a very different meaning):
2k is ok as a desktop if you keep the gates closed
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I think 2k is ok as a desktop, in fact I use it myself. It added some explorer weirdness NT4 didn't have but in terms of media handling it beats NT4. However, w2kSp3 came with that eula asking me to give MS the right to exchange software on my system w/o asking me, so I stopped with SP2. XP, which came with a laptop I bought, can be forced to almost resemble the w2k look but it's list of annoyances is longer, like the way it displays samba network drives.
But none of them is suitable for the average computer user who has just one box s/he wants to use for everything, including going online. Win* just doesn't work w/o a linux box controlling the gates to the real world. And MS soft related to the net really never recovered from the initial rush when b. gates realized he had slept over the big thing happening and purchased mosaic to hack it into a killer app.
They succeeded, didn't they? The blue e is a killer. But too many Win* users don't realize this and that's why I recommend macs for standard users, win* is just to hard to configure.
Myself, I haven't had a single virus/trojan event in 20 years of computing, 15 of them with MS OSen. I contribute this on: - when it was bbs networking, I had more interest in pr0n than in games. - I stayed with netscape until there was opera, and eudora is the mail app. - I have that habbit of inverting most of the default settings on a clean MS OS install - I skipped 98 and ME, using NT4 instead - instead of c:\Windows it has been e:\WINNT all the time (don't laugh, the closest I ever got to catching an infection failed at that barrier) - I'm running linux on the gateway/firewall since '97
Hm, maybe I should repeat that last line about 5 times or so...
And Vista? Bringing all the benefits of paying for enhanced DRM and "trusted" stuff? I will have to buy it as soon as customers demand it on their list of supported OSen and if it won't run in a vmware I will have to invest in a new laptop with it preInstalled. But I will have it running in a cage of linux boxen guarding it and it will be safe...
Seen with European eyes the problem of rising fundamentalism and theocratic tendencies is not limited to the US indeed, we see a similar movements in Saudi Arabia and those countries influenced by their propaganda. Looks like we have two sides of a coin here molding each other into more and more extreme shape.
But I'm not too afraid of this, I learned Chinese in time, so I know to great the emerging peacekeeping overlords in the right tongue when the time has come.
However, this being the Government the actual work is done by some sub-sub administrators. The task of destroying the computers is delegated to the authority in charge, lets call them the Office of Computer Disengagement.
They have some strict rules down there with regard to saving costs and taking good care of taxpayers money, so they delete the hd and sell the machines on auctions, ie. ebay.
Since they have some strict regulations re: decreasing their work force, too, they actual outsource the hd-deleting business to some private subcontractor run by the niece of some influential politicians wife. Well, it doesn't do much to lower the cost as that service is astonishingly expensive, but at least it's out-sourcing, right?
On the other hand, working with that "hd-deleting" business is a popular job with local folks as there are plenty of boxen, plenty of games and no control. Ever.
Which, by an unexpected turn of luck, leads to a/. story 3 months later listing all the fake uid/passwd combinations used in that particular action.
Home office starts a thorough investigation as soon as all the major papers report the incident, results will be reported as soon as available, thank you.
those who hand him his papers probably never knew a computer w/o windowing gui. He invented what? Windows? Wasn't that Microsoft? Anyway, this is just like computers have been since I know them. We won't need someone to invent that!
If he's looking for some recognition of his lifetimes work the US probaly just isn't the right place for him. Mayx be he should go give lectures or found an institute in india or china. Theese are the places where innovation rules now and the economy is managed with some 20+ years perspective. Quite unlike the american style of capitalism which these days happily digests its own roots and hardly recognises anything more than 3 to 6 months away from now.
He is well beyond the point where that sort of statement could help his standing / hurt Linux in any way, even in the press. There is an old rule that you cant really trust a controversial news item until it has been honoured with a dementi. Ok, confirmation. However, I wonder if that email might lead to another front in the SCO litigation labyrinth since it might be used to argue that SCOs going to court was frivoluos from the very beginning./. crowd said so all the time but convincing yourself is still another thing than convincing a court. But with memos like that - wouldn't surprise me if we find it quoted in one of the next IBM motions.
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kudos, here's a mind who values arguments higher than winning the argument. Wish I had modpoints myself.
There is a theory that once the rest of the world comes close to understanding what the US *really* is, they will change into something even more bizarr and less comprehensible. There is another theory saying that this has happened already.
Well things definately run in a different way over there but the Chinese political and administrative system is far from being monolithic. There are interest groups with diverging, and sometimes antagonistic interests in China like anywhere else and they have to compromise and in effect balance each other, too.
And, China is a large place, so the saying goes: the whip is sharp but the emperor is far.
In other words, just because you haven't read about it lastly doesn't mean it didn't happen.
If the parent is funny (as the mods decided to mod it when I wrote this) let me add another joke.
Though it's actually meant as a quite unfunny question.
From the grandparent down its all about "What can Google do to foster Linux on the desktop" and "What would GoogleOS(hypoth.) do to corporate adoption of Linux on the desktop" and the likes.
Lots of wishful thinking and some handsfull of salt to go with it. Fine.
But shouldn't the first question point to Google's interests? Like, erm, "Don't ask what Google can do for Linux, ask what Linux can do for Google". Sorry for that. But Google _is_ a huge entity and investigating their interests and potential benefits of introducing a GoogleOS distribution may help more to clarify the issue than argueing the topic from the other end.
I agree with this, unlike a written guide a podcast has no copy'n'paste and it is much harder to follow talk than written text when the language used is not your native tongue.
More facts and assumptions have been published here (heise and onlinekosten.de, both of them in German, sorry) and it seems like they copied Antipiratbyrån, paying an admin and probably one of the busiest servers themselves. Police seems to regard this as an possible criminal act and searched not only the office but also private rooms of an high ranking member of said GVU.
Apparently this day has some positive karma towards that kind of news. In Germany a similar thing happened, when the police raided about 20 FTP sites allegedly serving pirated movies. One of the sites taken down during that action was the office and servers of the GVU Gesellschaft zur Verfolgung von Urheberrechtsverletzungen, an office funded by the German content industry to investigate "pirating". Their website was down for half the day, too (GVU. More info to this, in German at heise. -- was ich selber denk und tu, das traue ich den andern zu
Quite right indeed. I met that condition with maxtor 80 GB drives (clickclickclick) which succeeded to die within weeks after the guarantee ran out, one after the other. I used to swear on maxtor and changed this to cursing, but too late.
The manchester ilk of these is sweet when it comes to power consumption. Then again, so are PIII or even Via C3 on mini-ITX
spamAssassin and the junk filters in Eudora, Thunderbird all helped to ease the problem but I was still deleting lots of them by hand until I switched to greylisting on my mail server.
Since most of the spam gets sent by minimal smtp on hijacked pcs which just dont know how to queue mail suddenly there was silence.
It takes some whitelisting at first and some kinds of traffic, like listservers take another route, but I could finally dare to open some known for long mail adresses that had turnend into spam sinks for long.
The mods must be crazy. Within the context of this thread his post was quite ontopic, in fact, I often prefer outspoken moderations since they have a chance to carry more info than one out of six.
(and dont dare to mod this one down unless you find the meta-offtopic key)
May be versions matter here. However, from my personal experience I'd rather agree to this, SuSE always installed and ran fine for me on lots of obscure hardware (think via mini-itx) and vmware up to 9.something.
But I started with vmware 1.0 and the last update I bought was 3.20.
for those who don't understand Yiddish or - even more misleading - for those who do understand German (where both words have a very different meaning):
putzI think 2k is ok as a desktop, in fact I use it myself. It added some explorer weirdness NT4 didn't have but in terms of media handling it beats NT4. However, w2kSp3 came with that eula asking me to give MS the right to exchange software on my system w/o asking me, so I stopped with SP2. XP, which came with a laptop I bought, can be forced to almost resemble the w2k look but it's list of annoyances is longer, like the way it displays samba network drives.
But none of them is suitable for the average computer user who has just one box s/he wants to use for everything, including going online. Win* just doesn't work w/o a linux box controlling the gates to the real world. And MS soft related to the net really never recovered from the initial rush when b. gates realized he had slept over the big thing happening and purchased mosaic to hack it into a killer app.
They succeeded, didn't they? The blue e is a killer. But too many Win* users don't realize this and that's why I recommend macs for standard users, win* is just to hard to configure.
Myself, I haven't had a single virus/trojan event in 20 years of computing, 15 of them with MS OSen. I contribute this on:
- when it was bbs networking, I had more interest in pr0n than in games.
- I stayed with netscape until there was opera, and eudora is the mail app.
- I have that habbit of inverting most of the default settings on a clean MS OS install
- I skipped 98 and ME, using NT4 instead
- instead of c:\Windows it has been e:\WINNT all the time (don't laugh, the closest I ever got to catching an infection failed at that barrier)
- I'm running linux on the gateway/firewall since '97
Hm, maybe I should repeat that last line about 5 times or so...
And Vista? Bringing all the benefits of paying for enhanced DRM and "trusted" stuff? I will have to buy it as soon as customers demand it on their list of supported OSen and if it won't run in a vmware I will have to invest in a new laptop with it preInstalled. But I will have it running in a cage of linux boxen guarding it and it will be safe...
Seen with European eyes the problem of rising fundamentalism and theocratic tendencies is not limited to the US indeed, we see a similar movements in Saudi Arabia and those countries influenced by their propaganda.
Looks like we have two sides of a coin here molding each other into more and more extreme shape.
But I'm not too afraid of this, I learned Chinese in time, so I know to great the emerging peacekeeping overlords in the right tongue when the time has come.
right, but stripped of the command shell, of course...
Right.
/. story 3 months later listing all the fake uid/passwd combinations used in that particular action.
However, this being the Government the actual work is done by some sub-sub administrators. The task of destroying the computers is delegated to the authority in charge, lets call them the Office of Computer Disengagement.
They have some strict rules down there with regard to saving costs and taking good care of taxpayers money, so they delete the hd and sell the machines on auctions, ie. ebay.
Since they have some strict regulations re: decreasing their work force, too, they actual outsource the hd-deleting business to some private subcontractor run by the niece of some influential politicians wife. Well, it doesn't do much to lower the cost as that service is astonishingly expensive, but at least it's out-sourcing, right?
On the other hand, working with that "hd-deleting" business is a popular job with local folks as there are plenty of boxen, plenty of games and no control. Ever.
Which, by an unexpected turn of luck, leads to a
Home office starts a thorough investigation as soon as all the major papers report the incident, results will be reported as soon as available, thank you.
doom.
Won't work.
Nothing new. Nice try, though.
"However, the sobering message of many security experts is that the terrorists are unlikely ever to lose a war waged with technology.
very much to the point.
those who hand him his papers probably never knew a computer w/o windowing gui.
He invented what? Windows? Wasn't that Microsoft? Anyway, this is just like computers have been since I know them. We won't need someone to invent that!
If he's looking for some recognition of his lifetimes work the US probaly just isn't the right place for him. Mayx be he should go give lectures or found an institute in india or china. Theese are the places where innovation rules now and the economy is managed with some 20+ years perspective. Quite unlike the american style of capitalism which these days happily digests its own roots and hardly recognises anything more than 3 to 6 months away from now.
-- Heisenberg may have slept here.
if you find out if he did you will never know for how long.
However, if you figure out if he slept well you'll never know if it was here or there...
He is well beyond the point where that sort of statement could help his standing / hurt Linux in any way, even in the press. There is an old rule that you cant really trust a controversial news item until it has been honoured with a dementi. Ok, confirmation.
However, I wonder if that email might lead to another front in the SCO litigation labyrinth since it might be used to argue that SCOs going to court was frivoluos from the very beginning.
To simplify the computations, they considered only dark matter which composes most of the universe
no wonder those breathtaking images remain invisible...
I believe it's still a way to go from sequencing (parts) of the DNA of an ancient animal to recreating it
Tsk.
But going back to the grandparents play of associations:
think of the abbreviation: "My Com" reminds you of "My Lay", doesn't it?