Linspire and Xandros are Windows imitations, and if I'm going to recommend a Linux distro, it's not going to be a Windows clone.
I'm curious, do you not find KDE's overall design and layout to be the Windows of Linux? Everything is hyper-integrated, the web browser is the file manager and ftp client. the address book is accessible from everything, as is the wallet (passport). I find KParts/KDevelop to be like COM/VB, where you have these reusable components to build apps that integrate with all the utilities like the address book and wallet.
Not to imply that the same can't be done with Gnome, but can you name a single Gnome based distro that people consider to be a Windows clone?
because under clinton inherited terrible numbers and turned them around. gwb inherited clinton's numbers and turned them around, and it slowly creeping back to being as good as clinton's in some areas.
i think a better question is why are all the threads mentioning bush started by flambaiters defending bush from attacks which hadn't yet been made?
It will probably will come to be regarded as the "Star Wars" of this decade
I doubt that. I saw it too, and also thoroughly enjoyed it. But, in my opinion, it lacks the feel of mythology that was an important part of what made Star Wars so special.
Mandrake/Fedora: A very nice small business/home distro.
Debian: An ethical distribution. More interested in producing something that is free as in speech. This is not nessecarily a bad thing, but it does limit what I can get with apt.
I've actually found Fedora to be far more devoted to free as in speech than debian. With debian, I can just enable the contrib and/or non-US repos (installation options) and I get all the stuff the is left out of Fedora dues to patent restrictions or licenses which don't allow for redistribution or whatnot. With Fedora, you have to hunt down repositories yourself, or even worse, find the packages and their dependencies manually.
funding the SEC with tax money is to make sure the company taking money out of your paycheck (with your explicit approval) and putting it into a retirement fund don't fuck it up and leave with nothing. Personally, I don't mind if $10 of my federal income tax goes toward protecting the public at large from having their reitrement savings pillaged by unscrupulous fucktards.
The Democratic and Republican parties get on the ballot by virtue of having received above a certain percentage of the popular vote in the previous election. If either party were to fail to get that minimum level, then they would become a "third" party and have to get signatures from a number of people at least as many as some small percentage of the number of people who voted in the last election. These minimum percentages vary from state to state.
Being a libertarian, you favor the absolute minimum level of government regulation of the economy. In the last few decades, intellectual property law has served to not only erode our fair use rights with intellectual property, but also to increase monopoly positions in industries like software development (with software patents and click-through and shrink-wrap licenses) and music and movies (Sonny Bono Copyright Extension Act, DMCA, and now possibly PIRATE and INDUCE). The Constitution lays out the framework for Congress to provide intellectual property rights, so I'd have to assume you support their existence. But do you think their implementation is fostering a free market where competition thrives to benefit consumers? As president, what direction would you want to see the intellectual property law landscape take?
I have long considered the inertia that incumbent representatives accumulate to be a serious dtriment to our political process. I think it does nothing but encourage so-called pork barrel spending catering to special interest lobbying groups. What is your stance on term limits for Congress, and why? If you support them, what would you do to try and get the implemented?
It should be well known by now that the only way to succeed in national elections is to spend time building up a presence in the local and state governments. With no state income tax and less restrictive gun laws, Texas seems like a breeding ground for libertarians (yes, I know you're currently an Austinite, like me, and I see from your web site that your ran for the Texas House of Representatives twice). The thing is, I don't ever see any promotion for libertarian candidates. I don't see atricles about them in the Austin Chronicle, or on news8austin.com, or on the news8 channel, or even signs planted in the grass on the side of the road. So my question is, what are you doing to help the libertarian party better promote itself at the local/state level to show people what the party can do when in office so they might be more likely to vote for libertarian candidates running for national office?
A better question is "why is RedHat STILL not using the current stable kernel series?"
Are you suggesting the fortune 500 companies spending thousands of dollars on RHEL 3* deployments should have either expected a kernel less then 6 months old in the intial RHEL 3 release? Or perhaps that their shiny new product certified to keep component version numbers stable for 5 years suddenly do a major version kernel upgrade 6 months into the product life cycle?
* RHEL 3 is the only Red Hat distribution you could be talking about. All other RHEL versions came out before kernel 2.6, and FC2 and FC3 do use kernel 2.6. FC1 won't get it because FC2 is halfway through it's own life cycle (which means FC1 is old & busted).
I just realised something. I have a domain hosted at a company that doesn't offer secure smtp (over either tls or smtp+ssl), so I just use the smtp server of whatever network I'm currently on, but always using my address within my domain. This system means I'll either have to start using the insecure smtp server of my hosting company, or add the smtp servers of all the networks I regularly used as authorized to send from my domain, right? That sucks.
You might think that Linux and Macs are more secure by default, but these are users who will open email with attachments, open the zip attachment, type in the password to open the executable in the zip attachment, run the executable. More warnings and barriers won't help.
But unless they're running with root privileges (which most distributions don't do by default) you can't overwrite system binaries or executables, or run daemons on priviledged ports (like open smtp relays on port 25), etc. I know that the attacker could do things like use nonstandard ports or privilege escalation hacks like buffer overflows, but it's extra work the attacker needs to do, making it a less attractive target (and thus, more secure by default).
so are the conservatives the predators or the aliens? I would have to think they're the predators, because the aliens use the bodies of their victims to brood their young (closest thing i could think of to welfare).
troll?! it was a fucking joke. the link in the post I replied to was the AvP poster adapted to Bush vs Kerry.
Can Windows also prevent me from booting a Knoppix CD to copy files to my USB device?
no, but the BIOS can be configured to not boot from a CD and have a password set so you can't change it without taking the CMOS battery out for a few minutes to reset it.
How many so-called conservatives are coming out against proposals at the federal level to regulate same-sex marriages, something that is clearly the purview of the states?
Actually that's part of the conservative argument. The equal protection clause of the constitution is what makes marriages from one state recognized in all other states. So part of the federal regulation is to say states don't have to recognize same-sex marriages from other states. that law has already been passed. but it will most likely face challenge as being unconstitutional.
for the record, I support equal legal marriage rights for all unions (between consenting adult humans).
Please explain how weak IP laws that allow the corportions to take control of what the little guy creates helps the little guy
The IP laws are not weak in this regard. In this particular case, the little guy signs over the rights to gain access to the funding for research/distribution/promotion/whatever. Current IP law does not force musicians to sign over copyright of their music to labels. Musicians do that willingly to get access to good studio engineers and very efficient distribution/promotional channels. Independent software developers make the same choice.
In some cases you may be able to make a compelling argument about monopoly control of distribution channels or something, but that would be an issue with anti-trust law, not IP law.
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I would have to assume the uploader, and I'd be fine with that. It would make p2p disitribution like dubbing off the radio.
I'm curious, do you not find KDE's overall design and layout to be the Windows of Linux? Everything is hyper-integrated, the web browser is the file manager and ftp client. the address book is accessible from everything, as is the wallet (passport). I find KParts/KDevelop to be like COM/VB, where you have these reusable components to build apps that integrate with all the utilities like the address book and wallet.
Not to imply that the same can't be done with Gnome, but can you name a single Gnome based distro that people consider to be a Windows clone?
I didn't mean to imply that, but I can see how I failed to make that clear in my post.
because under clinton inherited terrible numbers and turned them around. gwb inherited clinton's numbers and turned them around, and it slowly creeping back to being as good as clinton's in some areas. i think a better question is why are all the threads mentioning bush started by flambaiters defending bush from attacks which hadn't yet been made?
It's not a change for the DVD edition, but I think the change in the Ewok celebration at the end of RotJ was an improvement.
I doubt that. I saw it too, and also thoroughly enjoyed it. But, in my opinion, it lacks the feel of mythology that was an important part of what made Star Wars so special.
Shouldn't Luke be telling Anakin to tell Amidala "I am your density."
Debian: An ethical distribution. More interested in producing something that is free as in speech. This is not nessecarily a bad thing, but it does limit what I can get with apt.
I've actually found Fedora to be far more devoted to free as in speech than debian. With debian, I can just enable the contrib and/or non-US repos (installation options) and I get all the stuff the is left out of Fedora dues to patent restrictions or licenses which don't allow for redistribution or whatnot. With Fedora, you have to hunt down repositories yourself, or even worse, find the packages and their dependencies manually.
funding the SEC with tax money is to make sure the company taking money out of your paycheck (with your explicit approval) and putting it into a retirement fund don't fuck it up and leave with nothing. Personally, I don't mind if $10 of my federal income tax goes toward protecting the public at large from having their reitrement savings pillaged by unscrupulous fucktards.
The Democratic and Republican parties get on the ballot by virtue of having received above a certain percentage of the popular vote in the previous election. If either party were to fail to get that minimum level, then they would become a "third" party and have to get signatures from a number of people at least as many as some small percentage of the number of people who voted in the last election. These minimum percentages vary from state to state.
Being a libertarian, you favor the absolute minimum level of government regulation of the economy. In the last few decades, intellectual property law has served to not only erode our fair use rights with intellectual property, but also to increase monopoly positions in industries like software development (with software patents and click-through and shrink-wrap licenses) and music and movies (Sonny Bono Copyright Extension Act, DMCA, and now possibly PIRATE and INDUCE). The Constitution lays out the framework for Congress to provide intellectual property rights, so I'd have to assume you support their existence. But do you think their implementation is fostering a free market where competition thrives to benefit consumers? As president, what direction would you want to see the intellectual property law landscape take?
I have long considered the inertia that incumbent representatives accumulate to be a serious dtriment to our political process. I think it does nothing but encourage so-called pork barrel spending catering to special interest lobbying groups. What is your stance on term limits for Congress, and why? If you support them, what would you do to try and get the implemented?
It should be well known by now that the only way to succeed in national elections is to spend time building up a presence in the local and state governments. With no state income tax and less restrictive gun laws, Texas seems like a breeding ground for libertarians (yes, I know you're currently an Austinite, like me, and I see from your web site that your ran for the Texas House of Representatives twice). The thing is, I don't ever see any promotion for libertarian candidates. I don't see atricles about them in the Austin Chronicle, or on news8austin.com, or on the news8 channel, or even signs planted in the grass on the side of the road. So my question is, what are you doing to help the libertarian party better promote itself at the local/state level to show people what the party can do when in office so they might be more likely to vote for libertarian candidates running for national office?
Are you suggesting the fortune 500 companies spending thousands of dollars on RHEL 3* deployments should have either expected a kernel less then 6 months old in the intial RHEL 3 release? Or perhaps that their shiny new product certified to keep component version numbers stable for 5 years suddenly do a major version kernel upgrade 6 months into the product life cycle?
* RHEL 3 is the only Red Hat distribution you could be talking about. All other RHEL versions came out before kernel 2.6, and FC2 and FC3 do use kernel 2.6. FC1 won't get it because FC2 is halfway through it's own life cycle (which means FC1 is old & busted).
I just realised something. I have a domain hosted at a company that doesn't offer secure smtp (over either tls or smtp+ssl), so I just use the smtp server of whatever network I'm currently on, but always using my address within my domain. This system means I'll either have to start using the insecure smtp server of my hosting company, or add the smtp servers of all the networks I regularly used as authorized to send from my domain, right? That sucks.
Here's an informative link.
Dogs are for weenies. What you really want is a guard baboon. Seriously, who's going to mess with this?
ah, thanks. I knew someone was reading something wrong. seems this time it was me.
But unless they're running with root privileges (which most distributions don't do by default) you can't overwrite system binaries or executables, or run daemons on priviledged ports (like open smtp relays on port 25), etc. I know that the attacker could do things like use nonstandard ports or privilege escalation hacks like buffer overflows, but it's extra work the attacker needs to do, making it a less attractive target (and thus, more secure by default).
There are more rooted Windows boxes than there are Windows boxes?
troll?! it was a fucking joke. the link in the post I replied to was the AvP poster adapted to Bush vs Kerry.
no, but the BIOS can be configured to not boot from a CD and have a password set so you can't change it without taking the CMOS battery out for a few minutes to reset it.
i meant full faith and credit, not equal protection.
Actually that's part of the conservative argument. The equal protection clause of the constitution is what makes marriages from one state recognized in all other states. So part of the federal regulation is to say states don't have to recognize same-sex marriages from other states. that law has already been passed. but it will most likely face challenge as being unconstitutional.
for the record, I support equal legal marriage rights for all unions (between consenting adult humans).
The IP laws are not weak in this regard. In this particular case, the little guy signs over the rights to gain access to the funding for research/distribution/promotion/whatever. Current IP law does not force musicians to sign over copyright of their music to labels. Musicians do that willingly to get access to good studio engineers and very efficient distribution/promotional channels. Independent software developers make the same choice.
In some cases you may be able to make a compelling argument about monopoly control of distribution channels or something, but that would be an issue with anti-trust law, not IP law.