touche. But it's the part about being able to see a specialist without the GP's say so that I like. I left Canada in '92, so it may be different now, but my understanding was that you could not see anybody else without the GP sending you there, end of story. If such is not the case, or was never the case, than I browse corrected. I do think that aside from the rules of who you can and can't see under what circumstances, the U.S. has, on average, better doctors, at least when it comes to specialists. In your case, you don't even know if the cardiologist would have made the right call, but you got to see him without asking your GP first, whereas I didn't. Anyhow I think it's safe to say we both had doctor's who made bad decisions.
I beg to differ on the "decent healthcare" you speak of. I lived in Canada for four years. During the entire stay I had lower back problems that got worse as time went by. My back was straight the whole time so I couldn't even get an x-ray taken because my physician wouldn't refer me. Within 6 months of moving back to America I had a specialist look at my back, he took some x-rays, and it turned out that I had several stress fractures growing to alarming sizes in one of my lower vertebrae. I've no doubt that had I stayed in Canada, not being aware of my condition would have led to me having a herniated disk or even a severe spinal injury resulting in mobility problems, before reaching the age of 18. All this because I couldn't get x-rays since my vertebrae hadn't yet become unaligned. My back has since mostly healed and I am able to resume the activities that my Canadian physician should have restricted. Health care that requires one doctor to approve your visit to specialist automatically gives you a lower quality of health care.
PS - I hate HMOs for the same reason, so it's not because the health care is socialized.
I find this alarming given the recent announcement that MS's source code has been in a compromisable state for the past 3 months. Say the crackers managed to put some back doors into something a state office uses. If that state has passed the UCITA, they've screwed themselves.
Netscape Messenger lets you have multiple IMAP mailboxes, Mozilla's Messenger lets you have multiple POP/IMAP mailboxes, both should have drag and drop support. With Mozilla, you can also have multiple SMTP servers. When you compose a message, you have a drop-list of servers to choose, it defaults to the SMTP server for the mailbox the currently viewed folder is in.
what's to stop Microsoft from releasing versions that won't work under Wine, ever?
I prefer the converse. Now that Word and Excel 2K run using Wine, why not exercise that option to have Corel port software to Linux. Admittedly, it would be funny to see Corel make a product that would compete against it's own (WordPerfect), but it would be nice to see a native Word for Linux.
I believe what happened was someone else squatted it. Dan Parisi bought it from the squatter, refused to sell it to Madonna (she approached him), he trademarked the name Madonna somewhere else, put up a religously theme pron site, then agreed to donate the domain to the Madonna Rehabilitation Hospital, she sued, she won. In that order. Until I heard that he bought it from a squatter I was on his side, but I'm undecided now. He never tried to sell it to her and created a site that wasn't totally unrealated to the domain name. *shrug*
I never used ServerMagic, never felt good about doing that kind of thing on a live server. But I never been let down by PartitionMagic. I've used it to resize/move/copy/convert partition plenty of times. The only time it doesn't work is when using the boot floppy that PM4 creates. It boots Caldera DR-DOS. No matter what operations I choose, when it tries to apply them, I'm told the BIOS and the Windows environment are reproting different driev geometries. It works fine running from windows, with all the bels and whistles, just not from DOS. I never tried the Linux tools it came with, I really like the GUI too much.
Say you're high on Marijuana and you're driving. If you get in an accident, who cares, you're only going 4 miles an hour anyways. You sit there for 10 minutes going, "whoa man, I totally wasted the garage door!" So the garage door needs replacing, you just created a job!
chkconfig --level 345 rhnsd off (turns off the startup)
that command removes the rhsnd script from/etc/rc*.d/ folders so it doesn't automatically start in a given runlevel. To do this by hand, just go into each/etc/rc#.d folder and delete the S##rhsnd symlink. (replace #'s with numbers) =>
When I go to RedHat's site it says "Important Updates Available!" in red letters right under the RH & now available link. (The updates link was not added to my reply for emphasis, it's on the RH site too.)
Many linux weenies assume that, because they can install RedHat/Debian/Slackware and get it running well, they can admin an NT box. Really, they have no clue what they are doing.
I would venture to say that, once we feel we can admin a linux box to make it run well, we don't care if we can admin NT.
Actually, none of the x config tools (that make use of the X 4.0.1 stuff) seemed to work after the upgrade. I basically built the XF86Config by hand. That was pretty neat actually. I don't have any lines about dga in my config file, that could be a problem. When I run xawtv as a user it mentions somthing about dga (away from my machine so I can't check right now). There are no messages when I run at root, but I still don't seem to get a signal. I know that card works and the signal is there (I can still use it in windows).
I ran into a problem with the version of RPM I had installed. Basically I needed to upgrade RPM to install everything I needed. But I couldn't upgrade to the needed version of RPM with what was installed. I would have had to install way too much stuff compiling source tarballs (I like having RPM's dependencies). So I just did the whole thing. I figured I would have had the same problem with 6.2, guess not though. thanks. =)
That's what I was just thinking. So the update agent crashes after a few weeks. Big deal. RH 7 hasn't been out that long, so anyone not running the update agent doesn't care. Anyone who is running the agent will have been updaetd before the bug manifests.
Unrelated, I upgraded to Rawhide during the beta period of RH 7, to get X 4.0.1. (I couldn't find RPMs that would install on my tweaked 6.1 box and don't want to install X by any method other than RPM due to all the packages which depend on it.) So anyways UnrealTournament and xawtv don't work anymore. I'm going to scrap RawHide and go for RH7 this weekend, and if xawtv still doesn't work, I'll scrap it go back down to 6.2 and do without X 4.0.1.
A few years ago I read about a Japanese company starting to build an orbiting hotel. Sounded badass. It was to have 1/3 the earth's gravity, to promote "entertainment activities" and even a wedding chappel and honeymoon suites (puts the whole entertainment activities thing into perspective). $80K for a week long stay. I read about it in Wired magazine, but didn't keep the issue.
A builder doesn't go around hammering everything in site because the hammer obviously isn't the correct tool in every situation. It's great for pounding nails into 2x4s, but isn't so good when it comes to painting walls.
True, but "when your only tool is a hammer, all your problems start to look like nails." (Not sure where that's from, I read it on someone else's email sig)
That was an awesome line, the only part of the movie worth watching. Personally, I prefer the line in the Adam West movie on the pier with the bomb, "Some days, you just can't drop a bomb!"
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touche. But it's the part about being able to see a specialist without the GP's say so that I like. I left Canada in '92, so it may be different now, but my understanding was that you could not see anybody else without the GP sending you there, end of story. If such is not the case, or was never the case, than I browse corrected. I do think that aside from the rules of who you can and can't see under what circumstances, the U.S. has, on average, better doctors, at least when it comes to specialists. In your case, you don't even know if the cardiologist would have made the right call, but you got to see him without asking your GP first, whereas I didn't. Anyhow I think it's safe to say we both had doctor's who made bad decisions.
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I beg to differ on the "decent healthcare" you speak of. I lived in Canada for four years. During the entire stay I had lower back problems that got worse as time went by. My back was straight the whole time so I couldn't even get an x-ray taken because my physician wouldn't refer me. Within 6 months of moving back to America I had a specialist look at my back, he took some x-rays, and it turned out that I had several stress fractures growing to alarming sizes in one of my lower vertebrae. I've no doubt that had I stayed in Canada, not being aware of my condition would have led to me having a herniated disk or even a severe spinal injury resulting in mobility problems, before reaching the age of 18. All this because I couldn't get x-rays since my vertebrae hadn't yet become unaligned. My back has since mostly healed and I am able to resume the activities that my Canadian physician should have restricted. Health care that requires one doctor to approve your visit to specialist automatically gives you a lower quality of health care.
PS - I hate HMOs for the same reason, so it's not because the health care is socialized.
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Fiber to the home eases the retarded service area issue, as the signal can be sent much farther distances without degradation.
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I find this alarming given the recent announcement that MS's source code has been in a compromisable state for the past 3 months. Say the crackers managed to put some back doors into something a state office uses. If that state has passed the UCITA, they've screwed themselves.
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Here you go
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Netscape Messenger lets you have multiple IMAP mailboxes, Mozilla's Messenger lets you have multiple POP/IMAP mailboxes, both should have drag and drop support. With Mozilla, you can also have multiple SMTP servers. When you compose a message, you have a drop-list of servers to choose, it defaults to the SMTP server for the mailbox the currently viewed folder is in.
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I don't pay attention to Quicken on Wine, but my understanding was that it's quite functional and stable.
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what's to stop Microsoft from releasing versions that won't work under Wine, ever?
I prefer the converse. Now that Word and Excel 2K run using Wine, why not exercise that option to have Corel port software to Linux. Admittedly, it would be funny to see Corel make a product that would compete against it's own (WordPerfect), but it would be nice to see a native Word for Linux.
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On the other hand, Make bzImage is lightning fas
If you think that's fast, try `make -j3 bzImage` instead.
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Was RG Veda ever finished? All I could ever find was the first two parts.
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I believe what happened was someone else squatted it. Dan Parisi bought it from the squatter, refused to sell it to Madonna (she approached him), he trademarked the name Madonna somewhere else, put up a religously theme pron site, then agreed to donate the domain to the Madonna Rehabilitation Hospital, she sued, she won. In that order. Until I heard that he bought it from a squatter I was on his side, but I'm undecided now. He never tried to sell it to her and created a site that wasn't totally unrealated to the domain name. *shrug*
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Actually, prostitution was recently made legal, so it's not just a decriminalized leniency.
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I never used ServerMagic, never felt good about doing that kind of thing on a live server. But I never been let down by PartitionMagic. I've used it to resize/move/copy/convert partition plenty of times. The only time it doesn't work is when using the boot floppy that PM4 creates. It boots Caldera DR-DOS. No matter what operations I choose, when it tries to apply them, I'm told the BIOS and the Windows environment are reproting different driev geometries. It works fine running from windows, with all the bels and whistles, just not from DOS. I never tried the Linux tools it came with, I really like the GUI too much.
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Bill Hicks, the comedian I was quoting. I'm not sure who you're talking about.
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Say you're high on Marijuana and you're driving. If you get in an accident, who cares, you're only going 4 miles an hour anyways. You sit there for 10 minutes going, "whoa man, I totally wasted the garage door!" So the garage door needs replacing, you just created a job!
Long live Bill.
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chkconfig --level 345 rhnsd off (turns off the startup)
/etc/rc*.d/ folders so it doesn't automatically start in a given runlevel. To do this by hand, just go into each /etc/rc#.d folder and delete the S##rhsnd symlink. (replace #'s with numbers) =>
that command removes the rhsnd script from
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When I go to RedHat's site it says "Important Updates Available!" in red letters right under the RH & now available link. (The updates link was not added to my reply for emphasis, it's on the RH site too.)
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the story was briefly pulled, then reposted.
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Many linux weenies assume that, because they can install RedHat/Debian/Slackware and get it running well, they can admin an NT box. Really, they have no clue what they are doing.
I would venture to say that, once we feel we can admin a linux box to make it run well, we don't care if we can admin NT.
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Actually, none of the x config tools (that make use of the X 4.0.1 stuff) seemed to work after the upgrade. I basically built the XF86Config by hand. That was pretty neat actually. I don't have any lines about dga in my config file, that could be a problem. When I run xawtv as a user it mentions somthing about dga (away from my machine so I can't check right now). There are no messages when I run at root, but I still don't seem to get a signal. I know that card works and the signal is there (I can still use it in windows).
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I ran into a problem with the version of RPM I had installed. Basically I needed to upgrade RPM to install everything I needed. But I couldn't upgrade to the needed version of RPM with what was installed. I would have had to install way too much stuff compiling source tarballs (I like having RPM's dependencies). So I just did the whole thing. I figured I would have had the same problem with 6.2, guess not though. thanks. =)
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That's what I was just thinking. So the update agent crashes after a few weeks. Big deal. RH 7 hasn't been out that long, so anyone not running the update agent doesn't care. Anyone who is running the agent will have been updaetd before the bug manifests. Unrelated, I upgraded to Rawhide during the beta period of RH 7, to get X 4.0.1. (I couldn't find RPMs that would install on my tweaked 6.1 box and don't want to install X by any method other than RPM due to all the packages which depend on it.) So anyways UnrealTournament and xawtv don't work anymore. I'm going to scrap RawHide and go for RH7 this weekend, and if xawtv still doesn't work, I'll scrap it go back down to 6.2 and do without X 4.0.1.
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A few years ago I read about a Japanese company starting to build an orbiting hotel. Sounded badass. It was to have 1/3 the earth's gravity, to promote "entertainment activities" and even a wedding chappel and honeymoon suites (puts the whole entertainment activities thing into perspective). $80K for a week long stay. I read about it in Wired magazine, but didn't keep the issue.
A builder doesn't go around hammering everything in site because the hammer obviously isn't the correct tool in every situation. It's great for pounding nails into 2x4s, but isn't so good when it comes to painting walls.
True, but "when your only tool is a hammer, all your problems start to look like nails." (Not sure where that's from, I read it on someone else's email sig)
That was an awesome line, the only part of the movie worth watching. Personally, I prefer the line in the Adam West movie on the pier with the bomb, "Some days, you just can't drop a bomb!"