Ok, I'm citing rumors, I should be more careful But really, there isn't much to go off of.
The difference between at the event vs. outside the event isn't a clear or an important distinction. The BM founders are sometimes too quick to say "No, that accident happened outside the orange fenceline. Not on the BM territory. No relation to BM whatsoever, and you can't shut us down."
I certainly remember the crazy man jumping from the tower in 99, as I saw a bit of it. Maybe he didn't die, but at the very least he is mamed. Certainly there are other folks who do stupid things around all the fire & explosions when combined with the drugs, alcohol, etc.
My point is, be careful. Lose yourself, but don't lose your head.
My guess is your friend Dan is the truth behind the "motorcyclist who was ghosting in the desert at 1999" rumor. I have no idea what parts are true. I meant no disrespect. Just citing what the rangers told me at 99.
If you're interested in Architecture, especially Architecture in the middle of the desert, I recommend Arcosanti.
The Architect is Paolo Soleri, the man who created the idea of an "Arcology", a dense, urban structure where the architecture and living spaces are integrated on a level you'll rarely see elsewhere. It's the anti-thesis of "suburbia".
Facinating to see, and many good ideas. Arizonians spend billions of dollars on air-conditioning, yet you can stand in the middle of a covered-but-outdoor spot in Arcosanti, and it's 20F cooler then elsewhere.
It's a constant work in progress, and the group is having some financial problems. But still great to see if you're in Arizona.
Blue Man Group is fun, but compairing it to BM is like comparing the Hells Angels to Mr. Toads Wild Ride at Disneyland.
I like Disneyland, I like the Blue Man Group. But they are clean, safe, but a bit corporate-fake and sterile. BM is anything but clean, or safe. The people are fake, but you forget that when the guy in front of you is running around in a firesuit shooting fireworks off his back.
Burning Man is fucking incredible. Tesla coils, 100-ft high fireballs, light scupture like you wouldn't believe, robots, dancing, fire. Lots of fun.
It also has it's downside:
- The desert is as harsh as any Austrailian Outback. Be sure to read the website about survival thoroughly.
- Many of the events are dangerous. This is part of the excitement, but people get hurt every year. There's usually a stupid/drunk/high person who dies every event. That said, it's a miracle that more people haven't died, or that their hasn't been a catastrophe killing a dozen people. Once again, part of the excitement.
- Don't go alone, or you're going to be really lonely. Go with a group. Despite the seemingly easy nature of BM, most people are pretentious as hell. They're also stoned off their gourd. Hard to make real friends that way.
- Bring props, tents, costumes, and stuff to dress up with. If you dress in 'normal' clothes, the pretentious people will pick on you.
- Be very aware of the sex, drugs and rock & roll nature of the event. 90% of the attendees are drunk or stoned half the time. Sex is rampant. Be VERY careful if you have a partner/spouse. I know more then one couple who got divorced after BM.
Cape Canaveral is on the East Coast of Florida. Edwards AFB in the South-central desert area of California. The shuttle usually lands at Cape Canaveral, and very rarely lands at Edwards (Hasn't for more then a decade, if I remember).
The shuttle has never landed at Vandenberg. They had a shuttle launch facility once, but Florida was cheaper. And no earthquakes to damage your nice buildings.
Vandenberg is located on the California Central Coast (North of Santa Barbara). They have a zillion rocket pads. I think more spacecraft have launched from Vandenberg then at Cape Canaveral, so there is quite a bit of history at Vandenberg.
I grew up near Vandenberg AFB, and in Boy Scouts got special tours of the Base. We were even allowed to camp on the Vandenberg grounds. I grew up thinking that everyone got to see rockets launching into space, got to touch an ICBM (No warhead), and had regular nuclear emergency drills (From Diablo Nuclear Power Plant) in the mid-80s.
- The "regular" bus tour which rides around some launch pads, gets you within a mile of the Shuttle launch facility. 45-60 minutes long - The "space geek" premium bus tour. My wife and I took this April of last year, and I recommend it. Costs an extra $25 each per person, but you get a couple out in the launch area, drive within 1/4 mile of the Shuttle launch pad, and several hundred feet from the giant Shuttle housing building (if you're lucky, you might see part of one of the shuttles itself). Those things are HUGE!
The people who take the premium tour are very geeky. When we saw the left rocket and the giant fuel canister of one of the shuttles, people were hooting and hollering and clawing all over the bus to get a glance. Like birders who saw the super endangered blue-tufft penguin for the first time. Very funny:)
The premium tour doesn't happen during times of heightened security, and only runs a few times a day, so plan ahead. It was closed from Sept 11 - Mid April 2002. My wife and I were on one of the first dozen tours of 2002.
If the tour is running that day, consider yourself lucky, and jump at the opportunity. It's worth it.
The nature of "peer-to-peer" file sharing sites like eDonkey, Gnutella, KaZaA, etc., open your computer to destructive viruses and worms and annoying pop-ups. (...) Network users have a back door to your hard drive while you're online, thereby seeing your personal, private information, such as bank records, social security number, etc.
Which is why the RIAA recommends you use Open Source P2P software such as gtk-gnutella and gnucleus. Remember kids:
"You can't hide a trojan when the source code is open".
Re:Are they reinventing the wheel ?
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the humor impaired should press the little X
I think you mean "the humor impaired should type 'Ctrl-x, k'".
It's clear that RedHat's new release strategy is designed to confuse as many new users as possible. Therefore, I bet the new RedHat release mix numbering systems and will be
Everyone just downloads the ISO's so the retail boxes are a complete waste of money.
Not always. Sometimes purchasing a boxed set is cheaper then time spent downloading and burning the ISOs. Time is money.
In the time it takes to download and burn the ISOs, I can walk/drive over to CompUSA, buy the boxed set, walk/drive back to the office and be finished with the install before the ISOs are done downloading.
If I want to install now, the boxed set can be very valuable.
With a six-month release cycle, and with the rapid pace of Linux development, many packages shipped on CD are obsolete before they ever reach retail shelves.
Is this problem due more to time-to-shelf, or due to a the very short 6 month release cycle?
As a home RH user, I'm a little peeved by the 6 month release cycle. I want a stable release with incremental updates.
Upgrading from 8->9 was a bit of a pain, and I wonder if differences in the binaries really needed such a intensive update script.
Unfortunately, Evolution depends on some very unix-specific libraries to function. I think getting the GTK interface working isn't that hard, but it's the underlying filesystem requirements that get in the way.
Really sad, I really want Evolution for windows.
You'd be better off getting a second cheap computer, network the two, install Linux, X, Gnome & Evolution on the second computer, and run Evolution over an X-windows connection.
Or run an IMAP/LDAP/iCalendar server on the second computer and share between outlook and evolution.
Take fundamental Christians, for example. To them, Evolution doesn't exist.:)
That's ok, most of them don't have much of an Outlook either.
"The worlds gonna end in a few years, so why should I care about global warming or cancer from smoking these cigarettes?" (I honestly knew dozens of these types when growing up).
Mozilla Mail was overall faster, easier to configure, far less bulky, and part of the browser (lighter). It's spam filtering capability is also a must - as is it's security and presentation options.
Wow, I have exactly the opposite opinion.
On my Celeron 366/RH9 box, Mozilla Mail is twice as slow as Evo, less configurable (In Mozilla, need to have a set of folders for every pop account. In Evo and Outlook, you can store all of your incoming email in a single INBOX), multi-level filters don't always work because of folder locks (One filter to dump mail into a folder, another filter to take mail out of that box. If the second filter is active, the first filter pops up one error per email).
The Evo filters are very powerful-- anything that you cannot accomplish with the default filters can be handled by running an external command or script.
Mozilla does have decent a spam filter, and I'm really looking forward to Thunderbird
I use Mozilla as my primary MUA right now, only because I have a dual boot machine, and was trying to share a single email store between Mozilla-on-Linux and Mozilla-on-W2K. (I don't recommend doing this. Nor do the Moz developers. Just thought I'd try). Now that I'm done with this experiment, I'll probably just install an IMAP server on my second box here.
Some people take this corporate loyalty a little too far.
It's not like Apple is releasing some gotta-have-it new product. They're just opening a store.
Do Sears fans camp out in front of the Sears store? Do Home Depot fans camp out in front of the HD store?
I know people that camp out to get concert tickets for a good band, but that's because there's a limited number of tickets, the tickets sell out very quickly and the band doesn't come around all that often. The tickets are hot and rare. The apple store is common.
I usually chose a name that goes contrary to all the other names in the game.
I played Half-life, CounterStrike and America's Army for a while, and everyone was named something like "31337 r0x0rs" "Ass kicker" "Snipe at night" "-=-Army=-=Ranger-=-"
So I chose "Gigglesworth". This offended many players, because I didn't chose some violent ass-kicking name. I often got told something like Ass Kicker says: "Gigglesworth??!? WTF kind of 'name is that? Your gay".'
However, the best players were the one's who didn't take the game too seriously, and they usually loved Giggles.
Ah, and had a great time when I ran into Mr.Bigglesworth.
Re:Note on Outlook compatability
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If you notice, the screenies of Outlook are using a plugin called Zidelook.
And what the heck does the plugin do?
One second I'm reading about iCalendar, IMAP & LDAP which are all open protocols supported by a zillion different clients, next I'm reading about needing a plugin to get full compatibility for some mysterious feature.
What does the plugin do?
But what does it include?
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I'm browsing the site right now, and I'm a little confused what services OGo provides.
I see phrases like "Groupware" and "mixture of Exchange and SharePoint portal server", but those are vague marketing descriptions. There are a dozen different kinds of "groupware" products.
I rarely use Exchange and Sharepoint, and only for their POP or IMAP services. I suspect most Unix/Linux users are the same.
Does OGo include IMAP? POP? iCal? LDAP? A web interface? It's own client?
After reading the page for 10 minutes, I think I sort of understand what OGo is doing, but it's not very clear.
Slashdot Mirror
Believe me, I thought about it. Backwards was the best I could do. Suppose I could research some arcane unicode characters...
Ok, I'm citing rumors, I should be more careful But really, there isn't much to go off of.
The difference between at the event vs. outside the event isn't a clear or an important distinction. The BM founders are sometimes too quick to say "No, that accident happened outside the orange fenceline. Not on the BM territory. No relation to BM whatsoever, and you can't shut us down."
I certainly remember the crazy man jumping from the tower in 99, as I saw a bit of it. Maybe he didn't die, but at the very least he is mamed. Certainly there are other folks who do stupid things around all the fire & explosions when combined with the drugs, alcohol, etc.
My point is, be careful. Lose yourself, but don't lose your head.
My guess is your friend Dan is the truth behind the "motorcyclist who was ghosting in the desert at 1999" rumor. I have no idea what parts are true. I meant no disrespect. Just citing what the rangers told me at 99.
If you're interested in Architecture, especially Architecture in the middle of the desert, I recommend Arcosanti.
The Architect is Paolo Soleri, the man who created the idea of an "Arcology", a dense, urban structure where the architecture and living spaces are integrated on a level you'll rarely see elsewhere. It's the anti-thesis of "suburbia".
Facinating to see, and many good ideas. Arizonians spend billions of dollars on air-conditioning, yet you can stand in the middle of a covered-but-outdoor spot in Arcosanti, and it's 20F cooler then elsewhere.
It's a constant work in progress, and the group is having some financial problems. But still great to see if you're in Arizona.
Blue Man Group is fun, but compairing it to BM is like comparing the Hells Angels to Mr. Toads Wild Ride at Disneyland.
I like Disneyland, I like the Blue Man Group. But they are clean, safe, but a bit corporate-fake and sterile. BM is anything but clean, or safe. The people are fake, but you forget that when the guy in front of you is running around in a firesuit shooting fireworks off his back.
Burning Man is fucking incredible. Tesla coils, 100-ft high fireballs, light scupture like you wouldn't believe, robots, dancing, fire. Lots of fun.
It also has it's downside:
- The desert is as harsh as any Austrailian Outback. Be sure to read the website about survival thoroughly.
- Many of the events are dangerous. This is part of the excitement, but people get hurt every year. There's usually a stupid/drunk/high person who dies every event. That said, it's a miracle that more people haven't died, or that their hasn't been a catastrophe killing a dozen people. Once again, part of the excitement.
- Don't go alone, or you're going to be really lonely. Go with a group. Despite the seemingly easy nature of BM, most people are pretentious as hell. They're also stoned off their gourd. Hard to make real friends that way.
- Bring props, tents, costumes, and stuff to dress up with. If you dress in 'normal' clothes, the pretentious people will pick on you.
- Be very aware of the sex, drugs and rock & roll nature of the event. 90% of the attendees are drunk or stoned half the time. Sex is rampant. Be VERY careful if you have a partner/spouse. I know more then one couple who got divorced after BM.
Cape Canaveral is on the East Coast of Florida. Edwards AFB in the South-central desert area of California. The shuttle usually lands at Cape Canaveral, and very rarely lands at Edwards (Hasn't for more then a decade, if I remember).
The shuttle has never landed at Vandenberg. They had a shuttle launch facility once, but Florida was cheaper. And no earthquakes to damage your nice buildings.
Vandenberg is located on the California Central Coast (North of Santa Barbara). They have a zillion rocket pads. I think more spacecraft have launched from Vandenberg then at Cape Canaveral, so there is quite a bit of history at Vandenberg.
I grew up near Vandenberg AFB, and in Boy Scouts got special tours of the Base. We were even allowed to camp on the Vandenberg grounds. I grew up thinking that everyone got to see rockets launching into space, got to touch an ICBM (No warhead), and had regular nuclear emergency drills (From Diablo Nuclear Power Plant) in the mid-80s.
The Kennedy Space Center offers two bus tours:
:)
- The "regular" bus tour which rides around some launch pads, gets you within a mile of the Shuttle launch facility. 45-60 minutes long
- The "space geek" premium bus tour. My wife and I took this April of last year, and I recommend it. Costs an extra $25 each per person, but you get a couple out in the launch area, drive within 1/4 mile of the Shuttle launch pad, and several hundred feet from the giant Shuttle housing building (if you're lucky, you might see part of one of the shuttles itself). Those things are HUGE!
The people who take the premium tour are very geeky. When we saw the left rocket and the giant fuel canister of one of the shuttles, people were hooting and hollering and clawing all over the bus to get a glance. Like birders who saw the super endangered blue-tufft penguin for the first time. Very funny
The premium tour doesn't happen during times of heightened security, and only runs a few times a day, so plan ahead. It was closed from Sept 11 - Mid April 2002. My wife and I were on one of the first dozen tours of 2002.
If the tour is running that day, consider yourself lucky, and jump at the opportunity. It's worth it.
!tiodi uoy sdrawkcab eugnot eht dehcatta uoY
The nature of "peer-to-peer" file sharing sites like eDonkey, Gnutella, KaZaA, etc., open your computer to destructive viruses and worms and annoying pop-ups.
(...)
Network users have a back door to your hard drive while you're online, thereby seeing your personal, private information, such as bank records, social security number, etc.
Which is why the RIAA recommends you use Open Source P2P software such as gtk-gnutella and gnucleus. Remember kids:
"You can't hide a trojan
when the source code is open".
the humor impaired should press the little X
I think you mean "the humor impaired should type 'Ctrl-x, k'".
Or maybe "RedHat X"?
It's clear that RedHat's new release strategy is designed to confuse as many new users as possible. Therefore, I bet the new RedHat release mix numbering systems and will be
RedHat X.0 (Ecks dot zero)
I for one welcome our new tentacled overlords.
Everyone just downloads the ISO's so the retail boxes are a complete waste of money.
Not always. Sometimes purchasing a boxed set is cheaper then time spent downloading and burning the ISOs. Time is money.
In the time it takes to download and burn the ISOs, I can walk/drive over to CompUSA, buy the boxed set, walk/drive back to the office and be finished with the install before the ISOs are done downloading.
If I want to install now, the boxed set can be very valuable.
With a six-month release cycle, and with the rapid pace of Linux development, many packages shipped on CD are obsolete before they ever reach retail shelves.
Is this problem due more to time-to-shelf, or due to a the very short 6 month release cycle?
As a home RH user, I'm a little peeved by the 6 month release cycle. I want a stable release with incremental updates.
Upgrading from 8->9 was a bit of a pain, and I wonder if differences in the binaries really needed such a intensive update script.
(Yes yes, I *am* checking out Debian).
I assume your hands are tied in terms of what you can say here, but will Redhat clarify the issue shortly?
travelled 300 miles to the Netherlands.
That's one high balloon!
Hey man, this is the UK. Pellet guns not allowed! You'll need to use a very long stick!
Pellet guns don't pop balloons! People do!
God Bless America!
Or something...
They only need an IP address to find you
And what the fuck do you think this hides, moron?
As he clearly stated, it doesn't necessarily hide anything.
Several people have tried, but all have given up.
Unfortunately, Evolution depends on some very unix-specific libraries to function. I think getting the GTK interface working isn't that hard, but it's the underlying filesystem requirements that get in the way.
Really sad, I really want Evolution for windows.
You'd be better off getting a second cheap computer, network the two, install Linux, X, Gnome & Evolution on the second computer, and run Evolution over an X-windows connection.
Or run an IMAP/LDAP/iCalendar server on the second computer and share between outlook and evolution.
Take fundamental Christians, for example. To them, Evolution doesn't exist. :)
That's ok, most of them don't have much of an Outlook either.
"The worlds gonna end in a few years, so why should I care about global warming or cancer from smoking these cigarettes?" (I honestly knew dozens of these types when growing up).
Mozilla Mail was overall faster, easier to configure, far less bulky, and part of the browser (lighter). It's spam filtering capability is also a must - as is it's security and presentation options.
Wow, I have exactly the opposite opinion.
On my Celeron 366/RH9 box, Mozilla Mail is twice as slow as Evo, less configurable (In Mozilla, need to have a set of folders for every pop account. In Evo and Outlook, you can store all of your incoming email in a single INBOX), multi-level filters don't always work because of folder locks (One filter to dump mail into a folder, another filter to take mail out of that box. If the second filter is active, the first filter pops up one error per email).
The Evo filters are very powerful-- anything that you cannot accomplish with the default filters can be handled by running an external command or script.
Mozilla does have decent a spam filter, and I'm really looking forward to Thunderbird
I use Mozilla as my primary MUA right now, only because I have a dual boot machine, and was trying to share a single email store between Mozilla-on-Linux and Mozilla-on-W2K. (I don't recommend doing this. Nor do the Moz developers. Just thought I'd try). Now that I'm done with this experiment, I'll probably just install an IMAP server on my second box here.
I only wish that Evolution ran on Windows.
Some people take this corporate loyalty a little too far.
It's not like Apple is releasing some gotta-have-it new product. They're just opening a store.
Do Sears fans camp out in front of the Sears store?
Do Home Depot fans camp out in front of the HD store?
I know people that camp out to get concert tickets for a good band, but that's because there's a limited number of tickets, the tickets sell out very quickly and the band doesn't come around all that often. The tickets are hot and rare. The apple store is common.
I usually chose a name that goes contrary to all the other names in the game.
I played Half-life, CounterStrike and America's Army for a while, and everyone was named something like "31337 r0x0rs" "Ass kicker" "Snipe at night" "-=-Army=-=Ranger-=-"
So I chose "Gigglesworth". This offended many players, because I didn't chose some violent ass-kicking name. I often got told something like Ass Kicker says: "Gigglesworth??!? WTF kind of 'name is that? Your gay".'
However, the best players were the one's who didn't take the game too seriously, and they usually loved Giggles.
Ah, and had a great time when I ran into Mr.Bigglesworth.
If you notice, the screenies of Outlook are using a plugin called Zidelook.
And what the heck does the plugin do?
One second I'm reading about iCalendar, IMAP & LDAP which are all open protocols supported by a zillion different clients, next I'm reading about needing a plugin to get full compatibility for some mysterious feature.
What does the plugin do?
I'm browsing the site right now, and I'm a little confused what services OGo provides.
I see phrases like "Groupware" and "mixture of Exchange and SharePoint portal server", but those are vague marketing descriptions. There are a dozen different kinds of "groupware" products.
I rarely use Exchange and Sharepoint, and only for their POP or IMAP services. I suspect most Unix/Linux users are the same.
Does OGo include IMAP? POP? iCal? LDAP? A web interface? It's own client?
After reading the page for 10 minutes, I think I sort of understand what OGo is doing, but it's not very clear.
If so, cool! I'll try to join up.