Actually there are at least three other people named Darl McBride, poor bastards, though only one lives in UT.
Also, my guess is that Darl must be some scandinavian name meaning "please send me to a federal pound-me-in-the-ass" prison. Moderators, don't mark this as a troll just because you never watched Office Space.
Do like for your neighbor's dog to come over and crap in your yard? If you let it go every day for a week and they try make it stop, you will have a tough job. If the first dog feels free to come over and poop away, then other dogs will start to feel that they also have the right to use your yard as their own personal pooping grounds. How long before you can't freely use your own yard because it is like a mine field?
You wait just as long as you like to speak up about what SCO is pulling, but shut the fuck up about people that know they need to speak up now to protect their rights.
Different frequency ranges have greatly different propagation characteristics. Many of the bands used for local fire, rescue and police were picked specifically because they don't carry too far to keep them from overlapping too much.
You may want to educate yourself before calling bullsh*t on someone elses post. He said nothing about a ham license requirement for every member of a S&R team. Only that some of what they have to do would be almost impossible without ham assistance.
Also, if you are equating CB ( citizens band ) users with licensed amateur radio operators, you are completely wrong. CB is named for a section of radio spectrum that was taken from exclusive amateur radio use to create a spectrum for unlicensed use in low power (5 watt), short range communication. The motorola radios that you linked to as a great alternative have a great range, "- 2 mile range in ideal conditions but 1/4- 1/2 mile on average." Just what those rescue teams need in rough terrain, radios that won't communicate.
Fire and Rescue, Police and other public safety groups have authority to stop a ham for use in emergency situations too. I'm not a ham, but know a couple that have been identified by either license plate or antenna and stopped for communication use. One was at a wreck scene that was in a valley that the HP radio couldn't get out of (cell phone either) and another was during a large wildfire.
Now that I think about what you said, you are right. Even though hams help during emergencies, route messages around the world between military and families ( more in the past), provide a fun hobby and encourage learning about electronics, they really are useless. Just because you can't see a need or use for them, they will probably disband after seeing the compelling logic of your arguments.
Keep in mind that radio requires two things to be useful: a transmitter and a receiver. If power is out and phone lines are useless, then you are correct that hams could send distress messages out. But HF transmissions can be quite tricky to transmit with pinpoint precision and atmospheric conditions can leave you with only a few possible transmission destinations under even ideal conditions.
In emergency conditions, directing your transmissions with makeshift antennas can leave you with only one or two possible destinations ( like the mentioned Mexico to New Zealand hop). If all of the possible receiving locations have a high level of inteference from local powerline broadband, then your plea for help "ain't gonna get heard". Hams are required to make sure that their radio emmissions do not cause inteference with nearby radio and TV receivers. They can also ask for FCC action to put a stop to intrusion into the ham bands.
This is a look at my preparation for upgrade to Gentoo 1.4 final on a production, connected to the internet and dealing with secure data server. Are we running bleeding edge packages? A few. Is is stable and fast? You bet it is. I also have redhat systems in the same configurations. Those of us that are using Gentoo aren't stupid or naive, just experienced and willing to push some boundaries for a good idea.
xxxserver root # emerge -uDp world
These are the packages that I would merge, in order:
Calculating world dependencies...done! [ebuild U ] sys-devel/patch-2.5.9 [2.5.4-r5] [ebuild U ] sys-devel/libtool-1.4.3-r1 [1.4.1-r10] [ebuild U ] sys-apps/groff-1.18.1-r3 [1.18.1-r2] [ebuild U ] sys-kernel/linux-headers-2.4.19-r1 [2.4.19] [ebuild U ] sys-devel/automake-1.7.5-r2 [1.7.2] [ebuild U ] sys-apps/psmisc-21.2-r3 [21.2-r2] [ebuild U ] net-analyzer/nmap-3.30 [3.27-r1]
We examine the proposed updates for any known issues and when we are satisfied with testing, finalize the updates to production. Gee, that is the same procedure I use with redhat too. Whooda thunk that?
The only real problem I have had with portage (emerge) was caused by a prematurely released tcl that pooched the requirements for tclx. The discussion took place here. An overheating laptop was crashing during long compiles too, but not the fault of portage or gentoo. Overall my impression is much better than I had trying to track down rpm dependancies with redhat and mandrake over the years. I have run most of the popular distributions since 1994 and still have most of my servers on redhat, but like gentoo for desktop use and am now starting to use gentoo for specialized server installs. It is much easier to run portage/emerge remotely than either up2date or rpmdrake. Apt is pretty good, but I never caught the debian bug like some of my friends.
I'm not knocking debian, just saying that portage has been great for me so far. You probably had an easily corrected problem with gentoo but are more comfortable with debian so why learn more methods of doing the same things.
The P4 based celerons have 128K of l2 cache just like the original celeron 300a. Only the FCPGA2 ( last of the P-III) based celerons had 256K of cache.
Optimizing for the northwood P4 which has 512K of L2 cache and then running the resulting code on a 128K L2 celeron does impact performance a lot.
"A program crash that causes the whole system to crash has nothing to do with the underlying operating system."
My response stands as written. An OS has the responsibility of controlling all application processes and resources. An application causing the OS to crash ( as the original post describes) is the fault of the OS. Take an OS design class if you still disagree.
On your second point, I have no intention of changing my signature. You, who can't be bothered to even create an account, want me to change it because of what? First, get a clue and second, get a life.
An application causing the OS to crash is a very serious problem. One of the functions of a modern OS is to control access to memory and I/O and prevent an app crash from effecting the other apps and OS.
Using your words, A program crash that causes the whole system to crash has everything to do with the underlying operating system.
I realize that, I pointed to the page that explains it also. Add the motion platform and an instructor and you can actually log the time, much cheaper per hour of use than renting a suitable plane.
I've practiced spins with X-Plane before and what you are describing sounds like a downloaded airplane with really messed up lift and force vectors. If it was a supplied airplane, then a quick email to Austin should have produced a fix in a week or so.
The current versions are accurate enough that Piper has modeled the Arrow and made it available for download from their own website. Pretty good endorsment, give it a try again. The 7.x betas are looking very good on windows.
I have been using X-Plane for a few years and I and my pilot friends use it. My only real dissappointment was when Austin canceled the Linux port, but 6.x will run under wine now, haven't tried 7.x betas.
X-Plane is the only FAA training approved consumer package available. Read the front page on the web site, people have been using this flight program for a couple of years now to model aircraft behaviour during development.
I think you may be confusing ease of flight or level of fun with realistic physics. I had a couple of programs for my bro-in-law to practice with while he was taking flight lessons and he too latched onto X-Plane.
Now that I know you are president of the College Paintball Association and you get plenty of nastygrams, I'm kind of stunned. You were suggesting that people just "throw it out" if they get contacted by SCO, you should know that isn't the smartest move.
I only brought up the "Real World(tm)" thing because you sounded like a college student that was dispensing advice based on ignorance of dealing with real businesses. Guess I was only wrong about your college student status.
Many lawyers do pro bono work, but you have to ask around to find who can help. Most areas have legal defence groups that work for very little. Don't confuse cheap legal advice for bad advice nor expensive advice with good council.
Advice should be evaluated on a case-by-case basis.
Are you part of a Linux users group? Now is a great time to hold an installfest. No local Linux group here anymore (small town) but I may try to get an installfest going.
Make sure to have verifiably correct info about SCO and the questionable validity of their claims and plenty of Linux CDs to install.
Lots of people like to join an underdog fight so this could be a great time to enlighten more folks that haven't run Linux before.
Why not just ignore it? You get a nastygram from them, throw it out.
I have to respond again to add this:
If a lawsuit happy company contacts you directly, do not just 'throw it out', show it to a good lawyer. Since you are linking to college-paintball.com, it appears you may still be in college. That usually means a limited exposure to the Real World(tm), remember these important items.
- Any lawsuit can be bad news, even if you are right. - Most good liars can convince judge and jury. - A half-hearted defense looks like a guilty defense.
Because this is a battle of credibility at the moment. With no actual evidence on the loose, people will believe what appears to be the most credible information. The more people that fight and the fewer that roll over for SCO, the better it will be for the Linux community.
The more Linux groups fight back, the more the casual and business users will disregard the threats from SCO. The more dignified resistance we put forward, the more credibility the non-computer press will give us. I think this is great news coming in from Australia.
You are quite correct that SCO is still distributing Linux and the kernel source. But beyond the simple distribution they still continue is the copyright on the kernel package. This is the rpm header:
Name: kernel-source Relocations: (not relocateable) Version: 2.4.19.SuSE Vendor: UnitedLinux LLC Release: 152 Build Date: Fri Feb 7 08:34:55 2003 Install date: (not installed) Build Host: Zert184.suse.de Group: Development/Sources Source RPM: (none) Size: 37756367 License: GPL Packager : http://www.unitedlinux.com/feedback Summary : The Linux kernel (the core of the Linux operating system) Description : Linux Kernel sources with many Improvements and Fixes.
Authors: -------- Linus Torvalds see/usr/src/linux/CREDITS for more details.
They are still distributing UnitedLinux GPL'd code. No change in license or content. It seems to me that SCO fully intends to openly break and keep breaking the GPL. We need to find out what the other three UnitedLinux members think about this situation. And since SUSE is a member of UnitedLinux, does it change the Munich city government deal? SCO is still shipping SUSE source packages and simultaneously suing IBM. Do SUSE, Conectiva and Turbolinux have magic deals with SCO that will make their customers immune to any further actions or will they be the first on the chopping block?
Seems that doing any business with SCO can be very painful. Lesson learned for sure, no payments from me are going to SCO.
Nothing at all wrong with moving the higher paying IT jobs to other countries with lower wages. That has already been done with our textile and manufacturing jobs so it is just following the trend.
This new IT trend actually helps us increase our lead in the race to the bottom! We are winning at something.
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Actually there are at least three other people named Darl McBride, poor bastards, though only one lives in UT.
Also, my guess is that Darl must be some scandinavian name meaning "please send me to a federal pound-me-in-the-ass" prison. Moderators, don't mark this as a troll just because you never watched Office Space.
Do like for your neighbor's dog to come over and crap in your yard? If you let it go every day for a week and they try make it stop, you will have a tough job. If the first dog feels free to come over and poop away, then other dogs will start to feel that they also have the right to use your yard as their own personal pooping grounds. How long before you can't freely use your own yard because it is like a mine field?
You wait just as long as you like to speak up about what SCO is pulling, but shut the fuck up about people that know they need to speak up now to protect their rights.
Different frequency ranges have greatly different propagation characteristics. Many of the bands used for local fire, rescue and police were picked specifically because they don't carry too far to keep them from overlapping too much.
You may want to educate yourself before calling bullsh*t on someone elses post. He said nothing about a ham license requirement for every member of a S&R team. Only that some of what they have to do would be almost impossible without ham assistance.
Also, if you are equating CB ( citizens band ) users with licensed amateur radio operators, you are completely wrong. CB is named for a section of radio spectrum that was taken from exclusive amateur radio use to create a spectrum for unlicensed use in low power (5 watt), short range communication. The motorola radios that you linked to as a great alternative have a great range, "- 2 mile range in ideal conditions but 1/4- 1/2 mile on average." Just what those rescue teams need in rough terrain, radios that won't communicate.
Fire and Rescue, Police and other public safety groups have authority to stop a ham for use in emergency situations too. I'm not a ham, but know a couple that have been identified by either license plate or antenna and stopped for communication use. One was at a wreck scene that was in a valley that the HP radio couldn't get out of (cell phone either) and another was during a large wildfire.
Now that I think about what you said, you are right. Even though hams help during emergencies, route messages around the world between military and families ( more in the past), provide a fun hobby and encourage learning about electronics, they really are useless. Just because you can't see a need or use for them, they will probably disband after seeing the compelling logic of your arguments.
Keep in mind that radio requires two things to be useful: a transmitter and a receiver. If power is out and phone lines are useless, then you are correct that hams could send distress messages out. But HF transmissions can be quite tricky to transmit with pinpoint precision and atmospheric conditions can leave you with only a few possible transmission destinations under even ideal conditions.
In emergency conditions, directing your transmissions with makeshift antennas can leave you with only one or two possible destinations ( like the mentioned Mexico to New Zealand hop). If all of the possible receiving locations have a high level of inteference from local powerline broadband, then your plea for help "ain't gonna get heard". Hams are required to make sure that their radio emmissions do not cause inteference with nearby radio and TV receivers. They can also ask for FCC action to put a stop to intrusion into the ham bands.
This is a look at my preparation for upgrade to Gentoo 1.4 final on a production, connected to the internet and dealing with secure data server. Are we running bleeding edge packages? A few. Is is stable and fast? You bet it is. I also have redhat systems in the same configurations. Those of us that are using Gentoo aren't stupid or naive, just experienced and willing to push some boundaries for a good idea.
...done!
xxxserver root # emerge -uDp world
These are the packages that I would merge, in order:
Calculating world dependencies
[ebuild U ] sys-devel/patch-2.5.9 [2.5.4-r5]
[ebuild U ] sys-devel/libtool-1.4.3-r1 [1.4.1-r10]
[ebuild U ] sys-apps/groff-1.18.1-r3 [1.18.1-r2]
[ebuild U ] sys-kernel/linux-headers-2.4.19-r1 [2.4.19]
[ebuild U ] sys-devel/automake-1.7.5-r2 [1.7.2]
[ebuild U ] sys-apps/psmisc-21.2-r3 [21.2-r2]
[ebuild U ] net-analyzer/nmap-3.30 [3.27-r1]
We examine the proposed updates for any known issues and when we are satisfied with testing, finalize the updates to production. Gee, that is the same procedure I use with redhat too. Whooda thunk that?
Must be Glad Trash bags. Yup, the extra heavy duty ones with slits cut for the arms and head with a screen printed slashdot logo.
I've recently been camping for a week and would have wanted one myself.
The only real problem I have had with portage (emerge) was caused by a prematurely released tcl that pooched the requirements for tclx. The discussion took place here. An overheating laptop was crashing during long compiles too, but not the fault of portage or gentoo. Overall my impression is much better than I had trying to track down rpm dependancies with redhat and mandrake over the years. I have run most of the popular distributions since 1994 and still have most of my servers on redhat, but like gentoo for desktop use and am now starting to use gentoo for specialized server installs. It is much easier to run portage/emerge remotely than either up2date or rpmdrake. Apt is pretty good, but I never caught the debian bug like some of my friends.
I'm not knocking debian, just saying that portage has been great for me so far. You probably had an easily corrected problem with gentoo but are more comfortable with debian so why learn more methods of doing the same things.
The P4 based celerons have 128K of l2 cache just like the original celeron 300a. Only the FCPGA2 ( last of the P-III) based celerons had 256K of cache.
Optimizing for the northwood P4 which has 512K of L2 cache and then running the resulting code on a 128K L2 celeron does impact performance a lot.
On your second point, I have no intention of changing my signature. You, who can't be bothered to even create an account, want me to change it because of what? First, get a clue and second, get a life.
An application causing the OS to crash is a very serious problem. One of the functions of a modern OS is to control access to memory and I/O and prevent an app crash from effecting the other apps and OS.
Using your words, A program crash that causes the whole system to crash has everything to do with the underlying operating system.
I realize that, I pointed to the page that explains it also. Add the motion platform and an instructor and you can actually log the time, much cheaper per hour of use than renting a suitable plane.
I've practiced spins with X-Plane before and what you are describing sounds like a downloaded airplane with really messed up lift and force vectors. If it was a supplied airplane, then a quick email to Austin should have produced a fix in a week or so.
The current versions are accurate enough that Piper has modeled the Arrow and made it available for download from their own website. Pretty good endorsment, give it a try again. The 7.x betas are looking very good on windows.
Yup, I remember that and the sequel, Flight Unlimited II. They actually called it FU2, which I found hilarious.
RIP Looking Glass, System Shock2 was one of the best.
I have been using X-Plane for a few years and I and my pilot friends use it. My only real dissappointment was when Austin canceled the Linux port, but 6.x will run under wine now, haven't tried 7.x betas.
X-Plane is the only FAA training approved consumer package available. Read the front page on the web site, people have been using this flight program for a couple of years now to model aircraft behaviour during development.
I think you may be confusing ease of flight or level of fun with realistic physics. I had a couple of programs for my bro-in-law to practice with while he was taking flight lessons and he too latched onto X-Plane.
Now that I know you are president of the College Paintball Association and you get plenty of nastygrams, I'm kind of stunned. You were suggesting that people just "throw it out" if they get contacted by SCO, you should know that isn't the smartest move.
I only brought up the "Real World(tm)" thing because you sounded like a college student that was dispensing advice based on ignorance of dealing with real businesses. Guess I was only wrong about your college student status.
Many lawyers do pro bono work, but you have to ask around to find who can help. Most areas have legal defence groups that work for very little. Don't confuse cheap legal advice for bad advice nor expensive advice with good council.
Advice should be evaluated on a case-by-case basis.
Just tell them that you have to stay home and sort your pr0n collection; they will believe that excuse...
Are you part of a Linux users group? Now is a great time to hold an installfest. No local Linux group here anymore (small town) but I may try to get an installfest going.
Make sure to have verifiably correct info about SCO and the questionable validity of their claims and plenty of Linux CDs to install.
Lots of people like to join an underdog fight so this could be a great time to enlighten more folks that haven't run Linux before.
If a lawsuit happy company contacts you directly, do not just 'throw it out', show it to a good lawyer. Since you are linking to college-paintball.com, it appears you may still be in college. That usually means a limited exposure to the Real World(tm), remember these important items.
- Any lawsuit can be bad news, even if you are right.
- Most good liars can convince judge and jury.
- A half-hearted defense looks like a guilty defense.
Because this is a battle of credibility at the moment. With no actual evidence on the loose, people will believe what appears to be the most credible information. The more people that fight and the fewer that roll over for SCO, the better it will be for the Linux community.
The more Linux groups fight back, the more the casual and business users will disregard the threats from SCO. The more dignified resistance we put forward, the more credibility the non-computer press will give us. I think this is great news coming in from Australia.
They are still distributing UnitedLinux GPL'd code. No change in license or content. It seems to me that SCO fully intends to openly break and keep breaking the GPL. We need to find out what the other three UnitedLinux members think about this situation. And since SUSE is a member of UnitedLinux, does it change the Munich city government deal? SCO is still shipping SUSE source packages and simultaneously suing IBM. Do SUSE, Conectiva and Turbolinux have magic deals with SCO that will make their customers immune to any further actions or will they be the first on the chopping block?
Seems that doing any business with SCO can be very painful. Lesson learned for sure, no payments from me are going to SCO.
Is 26%
Nothing at all wrong with moving the higher paying IT jobs to other countries with lower wages. That has already been done with our textile and manufacturing jobs so it is just following the trend.
This new IT trend actually helps us increase our lead in the race to the bottom! We are winning at something.
is that 50% of those IT jobs left behind in the US will be for MS server reboot monkeys at minimum wage or slightly above.