OK.. I can see what they are thinking, I just don't know if it is right.
I would deduce that they are thinking is this: Malicious H4x0rBoyz and script-kiddies don't do the real work of discovering vulnerbilities (real security professionals mostly do that), but just wait for MS to issue a patch or advisory and then build an expolit by reverse engineering the patch. Once the patch is announced, a race starts between crackers and admins to see who will test and deploy their respective patches-vs-exploits before the other guy strikes first.
So if you consider Government systems to be uber-important (down-time means people die or massive economic disruption when people don't get their Social Security checks), then you want them to be patched up before the crackers even know a vulnerbility is possible. Headstart on ZeroDay.
Congress makes the law and determines the possible min and max fines for various violations. Congress decides what a maximum fine for a nuke violation will be and what a maximum fine for a indecency violation will be. In many cases, the fine levels were set decades ago and have not been updated.
The regulatory body (like FCC or NRC) simply looks at the particular instance of violation and decides where it falls in the spectrum set by Congress.
So if you have a beef with how Congress decides to make a law, you have two options. Persuade your current congressman to support new legislation now, or failing that show up at the polls November 2006 to elect one who will.
What is CentOS good for? For testing and development. It will give you a RHEL-like environment to develop on with the same library versions and kernel parameters.
Let's say you want to deploy an application for RHEL and you want to demonstrate it to your boss without running up a huge bill, then CentOS would probably work. You could set up the development environment, do your tests, and demo for the boss. When you want to actually deploy for production and you need the real supported and certifed OS, then you can plop down the money for RHEL and seamlessly move your application over.
Sounds like somebody at the University has been reading too much of the Foundation series. This is sounds a lot like Psychohistory. They even have a little black box that puts out mathmatical events (like the Prime Radiant in the Asimov stories)
Amiga might have been a great desktop in its day, but from the review it sounds like it is dying (no pun intended) to be an embedded system. It uses low-power processors and has a small light-weight footprint. If they can nail down the stability, they might have a good platform for embedded applications like ATMs, Kiosks, household appliances , etc.
A lot of businesses (and the government) handle loose stamps like cash. Postage has an easily recongizable value that never expires, is used universally, and can be easily sold or traded anonymously. So, yes a person could knock over a stamp machine and get thousdands of dollars of a cash equivilent - not to mention the actual money inside.
Puerto Rico is a territory of the United States of America. All Puerto Ricans are United States Citizens. Ivory Coast is an Independant Sovereign country. Ivorians are not French Citizens. It is not part of France... although some imperialists might like to think so.
I thought our help-desk guy might have been the original BOFH, but I was wrong. Even he wouldn't have thought of that. Man, you are harsh.
[Suddenly the phone rings, disturbing the BOFH's game of Half-Life]
[random_user]Hello Help Desk? I forgot my password. I have to print a powerpoint document for a briefing I am giving in 5 minutes so I need my password reset right now!
[BOFH] Oh....let me check...we can only reset passwords once a day between 6AM & 7AM because it affects the user settings and we can do that after the server's been initialized. Otherwise the server might malfunction and several random files could be deleted from your home directory. Are you sure you can't wait until later?
[random_user][pauses]yes, I need it NOW. I'm briefing our department VP in 5 minutes.
[BOFH]ok... you're the boss...I'm resetting it to "12345678"...try loging on in a few minutes [while typing "del/users/random_user/*.ppt"]
I built a LFS about 6 months ago from the 5.x series. It was a great learning experience even though most of the time, I was just following instructions. I immediately gained much more respect for the packaged Linux distributions, not because LFS was bad, but because of the detail and complexity involved in putting to gather a working system.
My first suprise was the level of patching and configuration.I knew that some people described linux as a "hodgepodge" of different components and not a complete system. I always thought that was slightly trollish, but, in a way, I have came to appreciate what they mean. Most especially, I was suprised at how many of those components do not work togather unless they are patched or configured to force them to live togather. You can't just download the vanilla source of a package, compile it with defaults, and expect it to integrate into Linux. Lots of the packages had to be patched to make them work in Linux. Also, some of the packages have to have slightly esoteric configuration options set. If I hadn't been reading the instructions, I would have never known what patch to install or what configuration option to set. This gave me a lot of repect for the people who make distributions because they had to work that out for themselves and know all that stuff in detail.
My second suprise (and consequent appreciation for package distributions) has to do with the kernel patching. I was using an old Athalon 750. With a vanilla 2.4 kernel, it throws strange "spurious" interrupts on IRQ 7. But a Redhat 2.4 kernel fixes it. That tells me that the Redhat people took some extra effort to fix those annoying issues.
So in addition to being a great learning experience, LFS made me appreciate the effort that Redat, Debian, et. al. put into their work.
IIRC, the novel Andromeda Strain was about a crashed
earth space probe that was contaminated with earth bacteria. The originally harmless terran bacteria was exposed to cosmic radiation which caused it to mutate into a deadly pathogen. While itself not likely, I find that a more likely senario than extra-terrestrial life. BTW, in the book the pathogen evenually mutated back to its harmless form once it got back to normal conditions.
So the footprint would be? Developed on?
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Embedded Gentoo?
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What kind of installed footprint would an embedded Gentoo with typical options have? Less than 2MB? Less than 50MB?
I know all the mention about compiling are mostly jokes... but to be serious, I would expect compiling to be done on a much more powerful but binary-compatable development machine and then have the binaries stripped of debugging symbols before they are transfered over to the target device. I don't do any kind of embedded development so maybe someone can tell me what a development setup for an ARM device would be like.
I've noticed that Linux distributions (mostly Redhat and Debian in my experience) like to install pratically everything into/usr/bin and keep/usr/local/bin virtually empty. My understanding of the FHS is that/usr/bin should be for important core utilities that are (or pratically are) part of the OS, not random applications. For example, IIRC, RH/Fedora put their RPM-installed httpd and postgres into/usr/bin. Same with Mozilla. This seems just wrong. Apache, Mozilla, and postgresql are optional applications, not core parts of the OS. Applications should go into either/opt or/usr/local/your_app_name or into/usr/local/bin.
Normally this isn't a big problem (especially since I tend to compile my own and put it in/usr/local), but I find it mildly irritating.
Not only can some random person/company launch an completely unfounded lawsuit provided they have the money to fund it, but MS has the ability to create real-world headaches. First, they have a lot of patents on their own. Some are dubious, but once granted they are assumed in court to be valid. Invalidating any particular MS-patent would be a hellaciously expensive court fight. Second, if a dangerous patent is not already in their arsenal, it soon will be because MS possesses what amounts (for all pratical purposes) to unlimited money, so they can buy-out any number of obscure patents.
So their increadibly deep pockets means they can litigate anytime anywhere on any issues and win simply by holding out longer than the opposition. Based upon their abilty to escape real penalties in the past, I have come to the conclusion that they even have more money to litigate (when it really matters to them) than the U.S. Government.
No, by my agrument I need do nothing so self destructive as you suggest. As way of answer, I shall cut and paste from another one of my posts.
In a way, this is a strange argument for me to make because I am a libertarian influenced strongly by Rand. In Objectivist thought, altruism is mostly considered to be bunk and self-interest is considered the superior morality. Generally, I agree with that analysis. However, when charity is given (for whatever reason it suits you to give it), I would hope that rationality and reason would prevail instead of irrational "the dolphins make me cry" misguided altruism. If you consider yourself part of humanity, then the advancement of humanity is rationally also in your own self interest (although in a roundabout matter). Since I wish to live in a world free of disease, war, and poverty, I think it is rational to work toward those goals and that is where my "charity" is directed.
And yes, there are always better uses of money. Without getting on a logical slippery slope that many people seem to falsely imply, spending money on your fellow human beings is both more rational (and in IMHO therefore more moral) than wasting it on an animal.
Perhaps Bridgestone *has* bought themselves some free publicity. But they do it by apealling to the irrational instead of the rational. That makes me less willing to buy their product.
To get personal, I am a civil servant and I have worked in public service my entire adult life. And yes, I do give to charity (mainly the March of Dimes).
We live in a world of scare resources and waste is irrational. Luxury is not necessarily evil because it is an element of human happiness. But waste is evil because it squanders resources while maximizing no moral good. There are only so many resources to go around and yes, sick children do rate higher on my list of priorites than animals. If I had $95K extra to give to charity, I would be interested in prosthesis for human beings and not animals.
In a way, this is a strange argument for me to make because I am a libertarian influenced strongly by Rand. In Objectivist though, altruism is mostly considered to be bunk and self-interest is considered the superior morality. Generally, I agree with that analysis. However, when charity is given (for whatever reason it suits you to give it), I would hope that rationality and reason would prevail instead of irrational "the dolphins make me cry" misguided altruism. If you consider youself part of humanity, then the advancement of humanity is rationally also in your own self interest (although in a roundabout matter). Since I wish to live in a world free of disease, war, and poverty, I think it is rational to work toward those goals and that is where my "charity" is directed.
And yes, there are always better uses of money. Without getting on a logical slippery slop that many people seem to falsely imply, spending money on your fellow human beings is both more rational (and in IMHO therefore more moral) than wasting it on an animal.
Well. I agree that pure basic research is a very good use of money, and in the long run, research is a better investment in the betterment of mankind's situation than one-shot charity. For example, pure research in atomic reactors and fusion, while perhaps not immediately leading to a commercial product, ultimately brings us closer to cheap clean engery and a better life for everyone. I however fail to discern how 'questions' like "Can a dolphin adapt to a prosthesis" will lead to bettering humanity's condition in life.
Its a matter of priorities. In this case, IMHO, building a water purification unit (which will last for years) for a village in Africa serves the long term interest of humanity better than putting a prosthesis on a dolphin.
Bridgestone said the artificial fin was given to the aquarium for free, but that it cost the company about 10 million yen (95,000 dollars).
Great for the dolphin. But do you know how many lives in the developing world could have been saved with $95,000? Every day thousands of children under 5 year old die from diarrhea caused by un-clean water. $95K could have bought a water purification unit (possibley several depending on capacity) in Africa or India or where-ever.
Great for the dolphin but I think there are better things to spend your philanthropy on.
This is similar to what we see on the news every day. If the news has a story about some dog getting burnt in a house fire, people will spontaneously send in thousands of donations for the dog. If a family with children gets burned out of their house, they get jack in donations (except for help from the established relief agencies like the Red Cross and Salvation Army).
When the original states first gained independance from the UK, they were each individual states with all the powers of sovereign states. They had their own currencies and militaries. They were loosely confederated under the "Articles of Confederation", but still were completely independent states with the power to wage war. But they saw that cooperation was more important than independance so they created the Constitution and Federal government. They agreed to share their sovereignty with the Federal government and so they gave up those rights. Why can't Europe do the same?
Um.. The United States of America are 50 sovereign states that agreed to not only loosely cooperate but to join and form a federal union. I think 200 years of having a common currency, tax system, constitution, Army, and system of laws while still maintaing local sovereignty, local constitutions, local laws, local tax systems, and even local military forces means the U.S. can teach a lot about cooperation among sovereign states. In those 200 years, our states have only fought amongst themselves once. While I applaud the EU's recent steps toward integration, you guys are still playing catch-up when it comes to being a model of inter-state cooperation. When somebody asks your nationality and you say "European" and not German or French or Italian, then you will have reached a level of complete cooperation and integration that the USA acheived long ago.
Really, the US and the EU and Japan all need to cooperate on this matter and not engage in jingoism or zero-sum games. Why can't we all work togather instead of each one doing his own unilateral thing? I can understand being a holdout when vital interests (that by definition can't be compromised), but this is not one of those issues. This fusion lab is the kind of thing that we should all be able to work togather on. Nobody's national interests are at stake here.
"I can only think of one country that actually dislikes the French at the moment and that's the US"
Um.. have you been following the news lately? As we speak (or read), there are anti-french riots in the Ivory Coast because France is still acting like an Imperial power in Africa. The French are actually engaged in a shooting war with Ivory Coast nationalists who want the French to stop interfering in their country's internal affairs. Throughout its "former" colonies in Africa, France does not hesitate to intervene and play kingmaker.
How about Corsica and the resistance to French colonialism there? The Corsican resistance periodically explodes bombs to try to drive the French out. (I don't condone bombing, but it makes the point that the French are not universally loved). There also has been scattered anti-french violence in other French colonies like New Caldonia. And Algerian islamists (also victims of French imperialism) such as GIA try to strike french targets when they get the chance.
France's opposition to the US war in Iraq had *nothing* to do with priciple and everything to do with
French national interests in Saddam's Oil industry - The French were willing to let a brutal dictator continue to make mass graves as long as the oil contracts flowed to french companies - blood for oil
French Gaullist Nationalism - It makes the French feel big and important (and like a first rate power instead of a third rate power) to stand up to America. Regardless of the principles involved, they feel like they are equals on par to the big power and their national pride makes them demonstrate it at every opportunity. That's why De Gaulle pulled out of active NATO involvement - It harmed his national pride to play second fiddle to the U.S.
So basically the EU is saying "If everybody can't agree, then we'll just pick up our toys and go home and play by our own rules." That kind of unilateralism is poisonous to international relations. It is one thing to go unilateral when you think your *vital* interests (i.e. something you are willing to go to war over) are at stake and a completely different thing to be a unilateralist just to stick your finger in somebody's eye. Fusion research is important, but not something the EU is willing to go to war over, so they should negotiate. The EU should not act unilaterally because to go unilateral will harm international cooperation and sour relations with Japan and the US.
I *really* hope a new maintainer can be found, because TOra is my favorite Oracle admin tool set. I don't even use any of Oracle's management console or DBA studio (except for netca) if I have TOra available. My favorite things about TOra are:
1)the UI layout of the schema browser. It has tabs that let you see everything about a schema (and its objects and the data) in one easy place.
2) The extraction utility lets you get a single comprehensive sql script to re-create a database schema and load all the data in one easy step. Absolutely beautiful.
If you are an Oracle DBA or developer, I strongly recommend that you download TOra and give it a spin. I don't think you will ever go back to Oracle Console.
Please, somebody with the right skill-set, please pick this up and mantain it.
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OK.. I can see what they are thinking, I just don't know if it is right.
I would deduce that they are thinking is this: Malicious H4x0rBoyz and script-kiddies don't do the real work of discovering vulnerbilities (real security professionals mostly do that), but just wait for MS to issue a patch or advisory and then build an expolit by reverse engineering the patch. Once the patch is announced, a race starts between crackers and admins to see who will test and deploy their respective patches-vs-exploits before the other guy strikes first.
So if you consider Government systems to be uber-important (down-time means people die or massive economic disruption when people don't get their Social Security checks), then you want them to be patched up before the crackers even know a vulnerbility is possible. Headstart on ZeroDay.
Congress makes the law and determines the possible min and max fines for various violations. Congress decides what a maximum fine for a nuke violation will be and what a maximum fine for a indecency violation will be. In many cases, the fine levels were set decades ago and have not been updated.
The regulatory body (like FCC or NRC) simply looks at the particular instance of violation and decides where it falls in the spectrum set by Congress.
So if you have a beef with how Congress decides to make a law, you have two options. Persuade your current congressman to support new legislation now, or failing that show up at the polls November 2006 to elect one who will.
What is CentOS good for? For testing and development. It will give you a RHEL-like environment to develop on with the same library versions and kernel parameters.
Let's say you want to deploy an application for RHEL and you want to demonstrate it to your boss without running up a huge bill, then CentOS would probably work. You could set up the development environment, do your tests, and demo for the boss. When you want to actually deploy for production and you need the real supported and certifed OS, then you can plop down the money for RHEL and seamlessly move your application over.
Sounds like somebody at the University has been reading too much of the Foundation series. This is sounds a lot like Psychohistory. They even have a little black box that puts out mathmatical events (like the Prime Radiant in the Asimov stories)
Amiga might have been a great desktop in its day, but from the review it sounds like it is dying (no pun intended) to be an embedded system. It uses low-power processors and has a small light-weight footprint. If they can nail down the stability, they might have a good platform for embedded applications like ATMs, Kiosks, household appliances , etc.
A lot of businesses (and the government) handle loose stamps like cash. Postage has an easily recongizable value that never expires, is used universally, and can be easily sold or traded anonymously. So, yes a person could knock over a stamp machine and get thousdands of dollars of a cash equivilent - not to mention the actual money inside.
Puerto Rico is a territory of the United States of America. All Puerto Ricans are United States Citizens. Ivory Coast is an Independant Sovereign country. Ivorians are not French Citizens. It is not part of France... although some imperialists might like to think so.
So, no. Your analogy is invalid.
I thought our help-desk guy might have been the original BOFH, but I was wrong. Even he wouldn't have thought of that. Man, you are harsh.
/users/random_user/*.ppt"]
[Suddenly the phone rings, disturbing the BOFH's game of Half-Life]
[random_user]Hello Help Desk? I forgot my password. I have to print a powerpoint document for a briefing I am giving in 5 minutes so I need my password reset right now!
[BOFH] Oh....let me check...we can only reset passwords once a day between 6AM & 7AM because it affects the user settings and we can do that after the server's been initialized. Otherwise the server might malfunction and several random files could be deleted from your home directory. Are you sure you can't wait until later?
[random_user][pauses]yes, I need it NOW. I'm briefing our department VP in 5 minutes.
[BOFH]ok... you're the boss...I'm resetting it to "12345678"...try loging on in a few minutes [while typing "del
I built a LFS about 6 months ago from the 5.x series. It was a great learning experience even though most of the time, I was just following instructions. I immediately gained much more respect for the packaged Linux distributions, not because LFS was bad, but because of the detail and complexity involved in putting to gather a working system.
My first suprise was the level of patching and configuration.I knew that some people described linux as a "hodgepodge" of different components and not a complete system. I always thought that was slightly trollish, but, in a way, I have came to appreciate what they mean. Most especially, I was suprised at how many of those components do not work togather unless they are patched or configured to force them to live togather. You can't just download the vanilla source of a package, compile it with defaults, and expect it to integrate into Linux. Lots of the packages had to be patched to make them work in Linux. Also, some of the packages have to have slightly esoteric configuration options set. If I hadn't been reading the instructions, I would have never known what patch to install or what configuration option to set. This gave me a lot of repect for the people who make distributions because they had to work that out for themselves and know all that stuff in detail.
My second suprise (and consequent appreciation for package distributions) has to do with the kernel patching. I was using an old Athalon 750. With a vanilla 2.4 kernel, it throws strange "spurious" interrupts on IRQ 7. But a Redhat 2.4 kernel fixes it. That tells me that the Redhat people took some extra effort to fix those annoying issues.
So in addition to being a great learning experience, LFS made me appreciate the effort that Redat, Debian, et. al. put into their work.
AOL-Time-Warner owns a huge part of the music recording industry. The software is just a means to an end: To make money selling music.
IIRC, the novel Andromeda Strain was about a crashed earth space probe that was contaminated with earth bacteria. The originally harmless terran bacteria was exposed to cosmic radiation which caused it to mutate into a deadly pathogen. While itself not likely, I find that a more likely senario than extra-terrestrial life. BTW, in the book the pathogen evenually mutated back to its harmless form once it got back to normal conditions.
What kind of installed footprint would an embedded Gentoo with typical options have? Less than 2MB? Less than 50MB?
I know all the mention about compiling are mostly jokes... but to be serious, I would expect compiling to be done on a much more powerful but binary-compatable development machine and then have the binaries stripped of debugging symbols before they are transfered over to the target device. I don't do any kind of embedded development so maybe someone can tell me what a development setup for an ARM device would be like.
Licensing aside, most of the development seems to be happening at X.Org and that is a good reason to migrate.
Does NetBSD have any plans to migrate? Or do they have a good reason for sticking with XFree86?
I've noticed that Linux distributions (mostly Redhat and Debian in my experience) like to install pratically everything into /usr/bin and keep /usr/local/bin virtually empty. My understanding of the FHS is that /usr/bin should be for important core utilities that are (or pratically are) part of the OS, not random applications. For example, IIRC, RH/Fedora put their RPM-installed httpd and postgres into /usr/bin. Same with Mozilla. This seems just wrong. Apache, Mozilla, and postgresql are optional applications, not core parts of the OS. Applications should go into either /opt or /usr/local/your_app_name or into /usr/local/bin.
/usr/local), but I find it mildly irritating.
Normally this isn't a big problem (especially since I tend to compile my own and put it in
Not only can some random person/company launch an completely unfounded lawsuit provided they have the money to fund it, but MS has the ability to create real-world headaches. First, they have a lot of patents on their own. Some are dubious, but once granted they are assumed in court to be valid. Invalidating any particular MS-patent would be a hellaciously expensive court fight. Second, if a dangerous patent is not already in their arsenal, it soon will be because MS possesses what amounts (for all pratical purposes) to unlimited money, so they can buy-out any number of obscure patents.
So their increadibly deep pockets means they can litigate anytime anywhere on any issues and win simply by holding out longer than the opposition. Based upon their abilty to escape real penalties in the past, I have come to the conclusion that they even have more money to litigate (when it really matters to them) than the U.S. Government.
To get personal, I am a civil servant and I have worked in public service my entire adult life. And yes, I do give to charity (mainly the March of Dimes).
We live in a world of scare resources and waste is irrational. Luxury is not necessarily evil because it is an element of human happiness. But waste is evil because it squanders resources while maximizing no moral good. There are only so many resources to go around and yes, sick children do rate higher on my list of priorites than animals. If I had $95K extra to give to charity, I would be interested in prosthesis for human beings and not animals.
In a way, this is a strange argument for me to make because I am a libertarian influenced strongly by Rand. In Objectivist though, altruism is mostly considered to be bunk and self-interest is considered the superior morality. Generally, I agree with that analysis. However, when charity is given (for whatever reason it suits you to give it), I would hope that rationality and reason would prevail instead of irrational "the dolphins make me cry" misguided altruism. If you consider youself part of humanity, then the advancement of humanity is rationally also in your own self interest (although in a roundabout matter). Since I wish to live in a world free of disease, war, and poverty, I think it is rational to work toward those goals and that is where my "charity" is directed.
And yes, there are always better uses of money. Without getting on a logical slippery slop that many people seem to falsely imply, spending money on your fellow human beings is both more rational (and in IMHO therefore more moral) than wasting it on an animal.
Well. I agree that pure basic research is a very good use of money, and in the long run, research is a better investment in the betterment of mankind's situation than one-shot charity. For example, pure research in atomic reactors and fusion, while perhaps not immediately leading to a commercial product, ultimately brings us closer to cheap clean engery and a better life for everyone. I however fail to discern how 'questions' like "Can a dolphin adapt to a prosthesis" will lead to bettering humanity's condition in life.
Its a matter of priorities. In this case, IMHO, building a water purification unit (which will last for years) for a village in Africa serves the long term interest of humanity better than putting a prosthesis on a dolphin.
Great for the dolphin but I think there are better things to spend your philanthropy on.
This is similar to what we see on the news every day. If the news has a story about some dog getting burnt in a house fire, people will spontaneously send in thousands of donations for the dog. If a family with children gets burned out of their house, they get jack in donations (except for help from the established relief agencies like the Red Cross and Salvation Army).
When the original states first gained independance from the UK, they were each individual states with all the powers of sovereign states. They had their own currencies and militaries. They were loosely confederated under the "Articles of Confederation", but still were completely independent states with the power to wage war. But they saw that cooperation was more important than independance so they created the Constitution and Federal government. They agreed to share their sovereignty with the Federal government and so they gave up those rights. Why can't Europe do the same?
Um.. The United States of America are 50 sovereign states that agreed to not only loosely cooperate but to join and form a federal union. I think 200 years of having a common currency, tax system, constitution, Army, and system of laws while still maintaing local sovereignty, local constitutions, local laws, local tax systems, and even local military forces means the U.S. can teach a lot about cooperation among sovereign states. In those 200 years, our states have only fought amongst themselves once. While I applaud the EU's recent steps toward integration, you guys are still playing catch-up when it comes to being a model of inter-state cooperation. When somebody asks your nationality and you say "European" and not German or French or Italian, then you will have reached a level of complete cooperation and integration that the USA acheived long ago.
Really, the US and the EU and Japan all need to cooperate on this matter and not engage in jingoism or zero-sum games. Why can't we all work togather instead of each one doing his own unilateral thing? I can understand being a holdout when vital interests (that by definition can't be compromised), but this is not one of those issues. This fusion lab is the kind of thing that we should all be able to work togather on. Nobody's national interests are at stake here.
How about Corsica and the resistance to French colonialism there? The Corsican resistance periodically explodes bombs to try to drive the French out. (I don't condone bombing, but it makes the point that the French are not universally loved). There also has been scattered anti-french violence in other French colonies like New Caldonia. And Algerian islamists (also victims of French imperialism) such as GIA try to strike french targets when they get the chance.
France's opposition to the US war in Iraq had *nothing* to do with priciple and everything to do with
So basically the EU is saying "If everybody can't agree, then we'll just pick up our toys and go home and play by our own rules." That kind of unilateralism is poisonous to international relations. It is one thing to go unilateral when you think your *vital* interests (i.e. something you are willing to go to war over) are at stake and a completely different thing to be a unilateralist just to stick your finger in somebody's eye. Fusion research is important, but not something the EU is willing to go to war over, so they should negotiate. The EU should not act unilaterally because to go unilateral will harm international cooperation and sour relations with Japan and the US.
I *really* hope a new maintainer can be found, because TOra is my favorite Oracle admin tool set. I don't even use any of Oracle's management console or DBA studio (except for netca) if I have TOra available. My favorite things about TOra are:
1)the UI layout of the schema browser. It has tabs that let you see everything about a schema (and its objects and the data) in one easy place.
2) The extraction utility lets you get a single comprehensive sql script to re-create a database schema and load all the data in one easy step. Absolutely beautiful.
If you are an Oracle DBA or developer, I strongly recommend that you download TOra and give it a spin. I don't think you will ever go back to Oracle Console.
Please, somebody with the right skill-set, please pick this up and mantain it.