...The Fascist State organizes the nation, but leaves a sufficient margin of liberty to the individual; the latter is deprived of all useless and possibly harmful freedom, but retains what is essential; the deciding power in this question cannot be the individual, but the State alone....
If you live in the US, please think about how your government tramples on every idea of freedom, peace and democracy and then adds insult to injury by trying to convince you that, indeed you enjoy the freedom to say and do whatever you want.
A democratic regime would never have its president utter the words "with us or against us".
It is not an argument. I just made a comment replying to someone saying that you don't use init to shut down a unix box. Well, guess what, you do. You might alias init 0 as shutdown, but hell, it DOES bring the box down to runlevel 0.
When I taught unix basics for some shitty consultants (oh the horrors), using init 0 and init 6 made them understand a bit better the idea of runlevels.
I shut my linux pc - oh excuse me, box - down by typing init 0. What is your point?
Debian 3.0r1 comes on 6 cds and one update cd, I also have Debian on two dvds, one with binaries and one more with the source.
Mandrake: 3 cds
Redhat: 3 cds
Suse: 1 DVD or 6 CDs
Windows 2003 server comes on 1 cd.
Oh yeah, that Windows is a real HOG!
Please don't bring on stupid arguments about there being 7000 software packages in the linux cds, you are just reinforcing my point that Linux distros have managed to become even more bloated than windows. What a disgrace...
Don't like it? Don't buy their music. That's what I do, actually. If you care about changing the world, do it properly. Don't kid yourself that you are part of a revolution, you are definitely not.
Please don't give me stupid arguments about civil disobedience to stupid laws. This is not civil disobedience. It is plain and simple copyright violation. You do have an alternative - RAISE YOUR VOICE. Write letters to the companies you consider to be perpetuating the situation saying "oh well, you know, IF you had a service that allowed me to download unrestricted music for a reasonable price, I'd go there". But no! You go on with the same stupid argument that "there is no place I can legally download music" to justify something that is not only ILLEGAL, but it is also WRONG.
To sum it up, go to listen.com, see the list. I mean, 10000 ALBUMS ON LINE NOT ENOUGH FOR YOU?
By downloading music you don't own you break the law. Just because people think they have the right to listen to music for free it doesn't mean it has to be that way. I don't understand what the fuck this has to do with "your rights online". Privacy, I understand. Spam, I understand. Spyware, I understand. But what right are we talking about? Kazaa leeching? Give me a fucking break.
Go on, mod me a troll. I don't give a shit, I've had it with listening to the constant whining of a handfull of people who cannot understand the basics of "stealing music".
The UML refered in the article is not about User Mode Linux, it is indeed the markup language. As for my nick, well, it is just a nick, it doesn't really mean anything - much like your "xchino", only less stupid.
It's not new with xp, it's been there since windows 95. Of course running non-NT based Windows systems without a pagefile was not advisable (too many memory leaks from badly programmed apps and no way for the OS to resolve them).
Also, please stop with that myth that 2000 is more stable than XP. If you don't like the eye-candy, fair enough, but 2000 crashes as much as XP. No more, no less. And on a properly configured system they crash as much as Linux, that is to say, they don't.
In order to access windowsupdate.microsoft.com, you not only have to have Explorer installed, you also need to have windows. What good would it do for you to visit windowsupdate.microsoft.com from a Linux machine I do not know. However, you can always visit the download pages of your version of Microsoft Windows, download the patch directly from there and distribute it to your non Internet explorer using friends.
Your argument makes absolutely no sense, it is exactly like someone saying "oh, I would like to be able to help you update your redhat box but up2date does not run in windows".
I live in Portugal too. A friend did change operators while keeping his phone number. Apparently, he cannot get reliable service, his phone numbers gets disconnected for days with no explanation other than "technical difficulties" and when he asks what a permanent solution would be, they say (yes, you guessed it) that he should have a number in the block allocated to his current operator...
Wrong. You have to pay VAT at the country of origin if you are a consumer in the European Union. Companies are a different matter though.
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It actually has SIX ATA connectors, four of which work VERY WELL as a RAID array. Levels 0, 1 and 0+1 out of the box, with 5 being apparently a simple BIOS upgrade.
Aaah feck it. Can you please point me to the passage of my post that showed "distain" (whatever that is) towards Mandrake or Redhat? I wanted Gentoo or Debian for the following reasons:
. MINIMAL installation. Just samba, ftpd and httpd.
. MINIMAL maintenance. apt-get or portage would do the job.
. No X Window.
My third choice after Gentoo and Debian was, in fact, Slackware which installed fine but it was a machine that I did not have the time to maintain through non-automatic (apt-get/portage) tools, therefore out it went.
I am no fanboy, my desktops are mandrake and Windows but I'll be damned if I install Red hat or Mandrake for a server role.
I did NOT try Redhat 8. I said that Mandrake worked but what I REALLY wanted was to install Gentoo or Debian. Which, btw, DID NOT WORK.
I am vaguely familiar with that "computer" technology btw, yes. Which is why I wanted Debian or Gentoo and not Mandrake or Redhat.
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I bought the Abit AT7-Max Legacy free motherboard. No parallel, serial ports, no ps/2 ports, just 8 usb and 2 firewire. It did have a floppy connector though. Guess what. Trying to install Linux was a COMPLETE nightmare because of the lack of ps2 ports. I tried absolutely everything, giving keyboard and mouse control to the bios and afterwards to the os did not solve the problem. I managed to install Mandrake 9.1 but Gentoo and Debian (my first choices for that computer) were a HUGE no go. At a point I even thought of compiling a USB HID enabled kernel at my main machine and boot off it on the at7 but I thought "bah" and went with Mandrake.
Guess what I had absolutely 0 problems with: yes, Windows XP.
My point is that when you buy a non-legacy free motherboard you have a CHOICE of using usb / usb2 / firewire rather than serial parallel and ps2 but if you get stuck with an OS that does not really support it, well, you are truly stuck!
Well, my guess is that we should be worrying about these things when (and if) we produce a sentient robot. Only then will "ethics" have any meaning. Otherwise, it is just wishful thinking, much like to creating a law for Internet Explorer to prohibit it from bringing your whole system down... "A browser may not crash an OS or, through bad programming, allow the OS to come to harm".
I did not put Mandrake down, as I said I believe it is an excellent distro. It just forces you to configure things on a much higher level than some other distros. Nothing wrong with that, it is just that if your aim is to LEARN Linux, might as well learn through solving the admitedly numerous problems that present when you install Debian. Slackware, of course, is totally different in that at the end of an install you have a perfectly functional system that is configurable to an extreme point.
Again, NOTHING WRONG WITH MANDRAKE, but THERE ARE BETTER DISTROS FOR LEARNING LINUX.
Well, I like Mandrake a lot and I wish them all the luck in the world in making an excellent office / home distribution. But using Mandrake to learn Linux? I don't think so.
When you finish the installation of Mandrake (or Redhat or SuSe), you usually have a fully working system. You might want to tweak here or there, or install a newer X driver but, generally, it works. Now compare this with debian, or even better, Slackware. Debian and Slackware force you to fix things, they force you to know what is happening in your computer and they force you to look around man pages to fix it. Don't get me wrong, I think it is excellent that people don't have to manually select modules from a never ending list or try to guess what options in the module might do, but where is the fun in that?
If you want a system that just works, just install Redhat, Suse or Mandrake. If you want to learn, just dive in and use Slackware for the raw *nix experience or Debian if you think you canno live without dependency checking.
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If you live in the US, please think about how your government tramples on every idea of freedom, peace and democracy and then adds insult to injury by trying to convince you that, indeed you enjoy the freedom to say and do whatever you want.
A democratic regime would never have its president utter the words "with us or against us".
When I taught unix basics for some shitty consultants (oh the horrors), using init 0 and init 6 made them understand a bit better the idea of runlevels.
I shut my linux pc - oh excuse me, box - down by typing init 0. What is your point?
(oh the comedy!)
Please type init 0 on your *nix box and tell me what happens. Thank you and goodnight.
Mandrake: 3 cds
Redhat: 3 cds
Suse: 1 DVD or 6 CDs
Windows 2003 server comes on 1 cd.
Oh yeah, that Windows is a real HOG!
Please don't bring on stupid arguments about there being 7000 software packages in the linux cds, you are just reinforcing my point that Linux distros have managed to become even more bloated than windows. What a disgrace...
Don't like it? Don't buy their music. That's what I do, actually. If you care about changing the world, do it properly. Don't kid yourself that you are part of a revolution, you are definitely not.
Please don't give me stupid arguments about civil disobedience to stupid laws. This is not civil disobedience. It is plain and simple copyright violation. You do have an alternative - RAISE YOUR VOICE. Write letters to the companies you consider to be perpetuating the situation saying "oh well, you know, IF you had a service that allowed me to download unrestricted music for a reasonable price, I'd go there". But no! You go on with the same stupid argument that "there is no place I can legally download music" to justify something that is not only ILLEGAL, but it is also WRONG.
To sum it up, go to listen.com, see the list. I mean, 10000 ALBUMS ON LINE NOT ENOUGH FOR YOU?
By downloading music you don't own you break the law. Just because people think they have the right to listen to music for free it doesn't mean it has to be that way. I don't understand what the fuck this has to do with "your rights online". Privacy, I understand. Spam, I understand. Spyware, I understand. But what right are we talking about? Kazaa leeching? Give me a fucking break.
Go on, mod me a troll. I don't give a shit, I've had it with listening to the constant whining of a handfull of people who cannot understand the basics of "stealing music".
The UML refered in the article is not about User Mode Linux, it is indeed the markup language. As for my nick, well, it is just a nick, it doesn't really mean anything - much like your "xchino", only less stupid.
Pardon my ignorance, but how does using UML make software safer? Come to that, what the hell is a "safer" computer language?
Scarcity (the economic term) is correct. A dictionary does not teach you economics.
Also, please stop with that myth that 2000 is more stable than XP. If you don't like the eye-candy, fair enough, but 2000 crashes as much as XP. No more, no less. And on a properly configured system they crash as much as Linux, that is to say, they don't.
Can you please name ONE mainstream game that used the iLink (firewire) port of the ps2? That is right, none.
Your argument makes absolutely no sense, it is exactly like someone saying "oh, I would like to be able to help you update your redhat box but up2date does not run in windows".
Only a true troll would be able to make a connection with Microsoft...
I live in Portugal too. A friend did change operators while keeping his phone number. Apparently, he cannot get reliable service, his phone numbers gets disconnected for days with no explanation other than "technical difficulties" and when he asks what a permanent solution would be, they say (yes, you guessed it) that he should have a number in the block allocated to his current operator...
Wrong. You have to pay VAT at the country of origin if you are a consumer in the European Union. Companies are a different matter though.
Wanna buy? :->
. MINIMAL installation. Just samba, ftpd and httpd.
. MINIMAL maintenance. apt-get or portage would do the job.
. No X Window.
My third choice after Gentoo and Debian was, in fact, Slackware which installed fine but it was a machine that I did not have the time to maintain through non-automatic (apt-get/portage) tools, therefore out it went.
I am no fanboy, my desktops are mandrake and Windows but I'll be damned if I install Red hat or Mandrake for a server role.
I am vaguely familiar with that "computer" technology btw, yes. Which is why I wanted Debian or Gentoo and not Mandrake or Redhat.
Guess what I had absolutely 0 problems with: yes, Windows XP.
My point is that when you buy a non-legacy free motherboard you have a CHOICE of using usb / usb2 / firewire rather than serial parallel and ps2 but if you get stuck with an OS that does not really support it, well, you are truly stuck!
I dare you to program this, sir!
Again, NOTHING WRONG WITH MANDRAKE, but THERE ARE BETTER DISTROS FOR LEARNING LINUX.
I feel I have to repeat that I have nothing against Mandrake. However, whereas Mandrake allows you to learn, Debian and Slackware force you.
When you finish the installation of Mandrake (or Redhat or SuSe), you usually have a fully working system. You might want to tweak here or there, or install a newer X driver but, generally, it works. Now compare this with debian, or even better, Slackware. Debian and Slackware force you to fix things, they force you to know what is happening in your computer and they force you to look around man pages to fix it. Don't get me wrong, I think it is excellent that people don't have to manually select modules from a never ending list or try to guess what options in the module might do, but where is the fun in that?
If you want a system that just works, just install Redhat, Suse or Mandrake. If you want to learn, just dive in and use Slackware for the raw *nix experience or Debian if you think you canno live without dependency checking.