For execution I agree with you, but for installation I'd expect it to be impossible to install without admin rights.
With all due respect, thats BS pure and simple. The installer should be fully capable of installing the program in the users $HOME directory, and the program should be capable of running from that location, useing the system calls it needs to do its thing. And the program should be configurable by that user.
Ideally there should be a common location to install user programs that is not connected to the admin stuff, and whose individual user launch icons should contain the path to the configuration info that user has setup.
Unforch, convincing the average windows user to go thru all that is going to be hard, and is only going to become easy when the installer takes cares of all that transparently by making each user install his own copy of the program, which if it finds its already installed, only sets up the links and configration for that user.
NT started off headed in the right direction, but I haven't been forced to deal with a windows box of any kind more than a few hours since I retired in 2001. So how much of this is doable in todays windows version I have no idea.
This senior citizen/geek has been exclusively linux here at home since 1997 when I retired my coco3, with an amiga in the middle. The term Geek is advisable I think, even at 70, I'm currently running a home built kernel version 2.6.12-RT-V0.7.50-22, with an uptime at 10:48:05 up 1 day, 18 min, 5 users, load average: 4.14, 3.47, 3.24. Not very good uptime but I just rebooted to it yesterday.
Bleeding edge? Ubetcha... Old fart? Yup, guilty as charged.
-- Cheers, Gene "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty:
soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." -Ed Howdershelt (Author) 99.35% setiathome rank, not too shabby for a WV hillbilly
Humm, must be a hoe operator trying to defend his trade. Sorry, but the record tends to speak for itself. Not sure its all your fault though, I've seen hoes with a mind of their own about how deep to dig when the shop can't seem to understand that the spools and the bores in the control valves are indeed shot and need brand new ones to restore precision.
-- Cheers, Gene "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty:
soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." -Ed Howdershelt (Author)
No, thats not too bad. I think our drunk driver was more like 3-4 hours as they had to wait on the pole owner (the local electrickery folks) to put in a new pole before they could undo a bit of the service loop & splice it. In case you haven't noticed, long runs of fibre will have what looks like bicycle wheels used as forms so they can make a turn in mid-span and go back the other way for a few hundred feet, thereby giving the geography/road/pole run a chance to move, like for new road construction, without having to cut, insert more cable & splice twice to handle the longer path.
-- Cheers, Gene "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty:
soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." -Ed Howdershelt (Author)
Their splicer must have needed re-calibration. When we finally managed to get a fibre to the cable headend to send our stations 2 signals on, he tried 4 fresh cuts, but the losses stayed in the 20db range, unusable. So they quit, and sent the splicer back for a re-cal. That took about a week, and when it came back the first splice it made in about 10 minutes was good, 1/2 db loss for a 39 kilometer run. Up on poles all the way, that was now 9 or 10 years ago. And of course lots better signal on the cable system coming back than any off-air pickup they'd used ever gave.
Having 75+% of your audience on a cable signal sure takes the "get it back on the air at any cost" mentality away and we can spend the extra hour to do it right when the transmitter goes down.
Up on poles takes the backhoe out of the picture, but not the drunk driver. ISTR we've had one outage due to that, and thats still better chances than if buried & every hoe operator in the county is looking for it IMO.
-- Cheers, Gene "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty:
soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." -Ed Howdershelt (Author)
Well, I'm somewhat in that business having had some cable dug up by backhoe operators. Given enough time, they will find it, guaranteed.
Besides, somebody has to put a smile on folks faces. My turn tonight I guess.
-- Cheers, Gene "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty:
soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." -Ed Howdershelt (Author) 99.35% setiathome rank, not too shabby for a WV hillbilly Yahoo.com and AOL/TW attorneys please note, additions to the above message by Gene Heskett are: Copyright 2005 by Maurice Eugene Heskett, all rights reserved.
being the absolute best at finding cables, beating any other method by at least 2 orders of magnitude.
Like the most recent joke says "when lost, bury a short piece of cat5, then ask the backhoe operator the way home".
He will come and find the cat5, it would be a violation of Murphy's Law to do otherwise.
-- Cheers, Gene "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty:
soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." -Ed Howdershelt (Author)
What kind of name is that? Sounds like a command shell that had one testicle removed.
Probably because knowing M$ and their attitude vis-a-vis their IP, I'd suspect that it will be very well filtered to "prevent the user from damaging his (oops, thats actually 'my' in the M$ tense. Get over it windows lusers, it hasn't been yours in 10+ years) system."
In other words, it will have been both partially castrated as you suggest, but the remaining testicle will have been disabled via the equ of a coded vasectomy.
Remember, you first read it here on/.
-- Cheers, Gene "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty:
soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." -Ed Howdershelt (Author)
Yeah, well I have read the Bill of Rights, many times. And what this so-called Patriot Act does to the Bill of Rights is downright gruesome.
I guarantee that if your daughter was raped like the Patriot Act rapes the Bill of Rights, you would fully understand why Thomas Paine made that famous remark 2 plus centuries ago, about the tree of freedom needing fertilized from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants.
You would also be makeing sure your powder was in good supply and dry, and would be spending every waking moment looking for the perp that did the deed.
And the tree of freedom is looking mighty peaked these days. Maybe, just maybe, the Supremes will see this for the disaster it is and send the shrub a message.
-- No cheers for this news, Gene "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty:
soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." -Ed Howdershelt (Author)
I suppose, but how would you arrange to prevent the 1928A1 from damaging the cd's if the case was inadvertantly dropped or otherwise jostled?
The 1928A1? Thats to enforce the GPL with...
-- Cheers, Gene "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty:
soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." -Ed Howdershelt (Author)
The likes of Atari ST / Amiga /... "could" have ended the MS monopoly - when they were released, they were faster than PCs, and cheaper; and you could get good software for them, too - still, they didn't make it because they never became widely accepted in the commercial market.
And I would submit that the folks who built those machines, and yes I was a huge fan of the amiga's for several years, that they both made huge blunders in taking the money and running to the bahamas or wherever.
Aftermarket folks tried valiantly to make them keep up technologically, but in the case of the amiga at least, once it was built and on the market, the only things fixed were obvious bugs in the OS, and more often than not those were fixed by someone not associated with the amiga other than needing it fixed so they could sell their own hardware.
We even had PPC accelerator boards for a while, but in the real world, the quantities were too small to support the makers well enough that production bugs could be fixed. Hell, even commie, who apparently farmed out an 040 design board that dropped into the A4000 to a subcontractor, who proceeded to install all the electrolytic bypass caps on the board in reversed polarity. Even though the voltage was only 5 volts, which generally prevented them from venting explosively, the failure rate was astronomical & the resultant leakage did permanent damage to the boards, and it was pure hell to replace them all due to the tightness of the surface mount designs layout. Those that work today should be guarded well.
As far as the Atari ST's are concerned, I have one I accidently bought at a flea market years ago. IMO a huge hack, with an external 20 meg hard drive, and a monitor who's crt was shot before it came out of the box when new I'd guess, its that dim now. I need to toss it all, but it came with lots of extra interfaceing stuff, software (most of the music related titles are there I think) and all the manuals, plus several years of Atari ST related magazines, so the whole pile weighs 200 pounds or more. It would be a treasure trove for someone who is still a fan of that machine, but bring a suitable vehicle to transport around 10+ cubic feet of boxes.
If someone wants it, figure out how to transfer this to email & I'll let you know where its at in WV, USA. Come and get it, I need the space.
-- Cheers, Gene "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty:
soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." -Ed Howdershelt (Author)
I recall that for that to work, one must first format the number into a binary 10011001 style format, and that worked correctly.
Later versions tightened up the perceived sloppiness a bit. By later, I'm refering to actually buying after commodedoor soured the relationship with Bill. Being 'on the scene' as a power user at the time, commie shoved it to Bill big time. According to the rumors then, Bill never actually saw a check from commie for all that...
Strange, I see he has a directory on kernel.org, but its empty & dated many years ago now.
Does anyone know what has become of William R. Hawes?
-- Cheers, Gene "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty:
soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." -Ed Howdershelt (Author)
I almost forgot. The main reason it was handier than sliced bread on the amiga is that NO other language on any other platform had the concept of an ARexx "port" for direct communication from one process to another.
I don't think it was anything but a name to address translator where the buffer named had to be read before another write to it was performed else the system went up in copious clouds of profanity. But if you paid attention to your housekeeping it was at least as stable as writing to a disk file, and a heck of a lot faster.
-- Cheers, Gene "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty:
soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." -Ed Howdershelt (Author)
Raises hand here, if only to lament that Rexx, at least in the form of the linux regina clone, is a poor, no, poor to the point of starving to death, comparison to ARexx, written BY William Hawes for the amiga.
It was extensible by writing libraries for it, libraries that allowed it to do anything you were of a mind to.
When I was still running a big box amiga, Jim Hines and I (we were both working at a tv station, http://www.wdtv.com/> ) and needed a cron to run some of the very time consuming rendering jobs that lots of video people were running on amiga's a decade back.
So we wrote a cron in ARexx, and by carefull coding, its cpu hit was less than we could measure. Most of the wannabe cron apps for the amiga were coded to wait in busy loops till the clock matched, and of course used 20% or more of the cpu.
Eventually I bought a copy of rexx-plus, the only actual compiler for arexx there ever was, which could build standalone programs out of your arexx scripts.
You can yet, I think, download that to run on your old amiga, from Aminet.net, search for EzCron, latest version. IIRC the archive contains both the arexx script itself, and the compiled binary.
We did things in a couple of days using arexx that would have taken weeks in C. Repeatedly.
There is yet today, a headless old 2000/040 amiga there, running EzCron, and its executing additional arexx scripts to grab the prompter files for our newscasts from the news server in the news dept., and make them available for you to read at the above site. Incomplete sometimes because the news folks get lazy and don't transcribe to the prompter, whats said in a taped segment.
But when we looked at making those arexx scripts run on linux, regina upchucked all over the place because they were doing things that Rexx never had in its repertory. If that miggy ever dies for good, we'll have to rewrite them in bash, and that will take a couple of weeks to translate I expect. Bash I believe does have all the tools to do it. But its going to take a concerted effort we haven't found the time to do yet. Normal life keeps happening...
-- Cheers, Gene "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty:
soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." -Ed Howdershelt (Author)
Yes, its sad that the original Bill of Rights is so often ignored, at least until the more gross violations get to the Supremes.
Me, I tend to have faith in the 1st and 2nd. If they're honored, then the other 8 will have a long term tendency to fall into line.
Right here and now, I'm exersizing the 1st, my right to make a statement. We have had that for so long now, that attempts to limit it, are, including the recent "campaign finance reform" that took away over 5 million voters rights to say how they felt, will be circumvented, one way or the other.
And my sig indicates my feelings on the 2nd. It appears we are at the Jury stage now, but the relative lack of success there, at least in many of the lower courts where (buyable judges, and/or judges with an agenda) no juries hear the arguments, does make me wonder how long it will be before reaching for the 4th box.
-- Cheers, Gene "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty:
soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." -Ed Howdershelt (Author)
And thats exactly whats wrong with this attitude. You as a rebelious individual, will find that your freedom ends at the end of the other persons nose.
Copyright law gives them all the authority they need to correct your attitude. That attitude will be corrected in due time, possibly by means much more serious than a copyright violation. Nuff said.
-- Cheers, Gene "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty:
soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." -Ed Howdershelt (Author)
according to the wired article, the search engine will allow "RIAA and friends" to target the uploaders directly and sue them.
So the search engine will actually become a benefit for the RIAA. Which I'm perfectly OK with, since Cohen never intended BT to be a pirate tool.
I'm firmly in this camp here. For instance, downloading a copy of ROTS is patently illegal. Ditto for the rest of the **AA stuffs.
If, with this 'search engine', the **AA folks actually have a better tool to be used to go after the infringers, and it leads to a general cleaning up of the currant situation by virtue of the takedown notices that sites that do have the material will receive, and the filing of suits for a *reasonable* level of damages against the receivers of such material, then I see this as a net positive development.
BTW, my view of reasonable, provided the receiver hasn't passed on any further copies, is no more than 10 times the cost of a theater ticket to see the show, times the number of people living in that household.
That, and court costs, but no attorneys fees. Costs will probably exceed the damages that **AA will recover, and it will send a strong enough message to the average person, but it will not be a significant item in the **AA members bottom line. Net losses could well eat any profits from doing the civil suit, so it turns into a CODB for them, and something to minimize.
OTOH, the takedown notice should be delivered in the form of a site-wide machine seizure, then followed up with a civil suit, based on the forensic data recoverable from the site that would give a good picture of how many times it was downloaded from that site. That would often lead to a net profit making it a worthwhile item on the quarterly report. This of course mixes the criminal and civil aspects, so its not that simple. Really, it should be, but combining that would put a lot of expensive legal people on the bread lines so the chances of that happening are somewhere between zip and point double ought (excrement).
However, if the **AA make the mistake of going after the program itself, then I would hope the courts have sense enough to toss it out. That however, would appear to depend on how many judges they have on a leash, and what the leash is made of.
The program has the potential to do much good, and I cannot see that true justice is being served in any venue that attempts to control 100% of its use.
-- Cheers, Gene "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty:
soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." -Ed Howdershelt (Author)
Only if it wasn't a M$ written sandbox. Yeah, thats very anti-M$ isn't it?
Tell ya what, I've never had M$ here, and don't intend to unless I find a killer app that cannot be duplicated on a linux box.
I'm relatively carefull, useing a router between the dsl modem and my firewall box, and the firewall box is locked down fairly well. So well in fact that in the 2 years since I got dsl installed, I have actually logged 3 attacks that made it thru the router & into the firewall box itself. But strangely, thats as far as they get, the guard dogs I run are very good at dropping any unwanted connections at the first unwanted packet, so the perp never even gets a reply back indicating there really is a machine at that address.
But its absolutely transparent from my side. And I sit back and chuckle at all the bs the windows user has to go thru to be even slightly assured of a weeks service without having to run a virus cleaner & update his avs rules.
So have fun with the latest worm or viri, all you winderz users.
I fully expect that to gradually change, with an occasional attack against a linux box starting to show up once it gets economically profitable to hit such a box. But because its a bit harder to get into a linux box, I don't expect that to happen much before we have 90% of the market & winderz has in fact built a new boat that doesn't sink at the sniff of a sobig worm, thereby reducing the number of windows boxes to the point they have to start trying to get into the linux boxes just for the numbers.
Since thats not bloody likely before I fall over (I'm 70 and diabetic), I tend to ignore the chances as being pretty miniscule in the real world. But I do read the logs just to be sure. Do I feel a bit smug? Of course!
-- Cheers, Gene "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty:
soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." -Ed Howdershelt (Author)
Hey Dvorak...quit posting on here to self-prove your Linux zealots theory. At least our forums will let you do it anonymously
I agree. I was going to post a reply to his off the wall post on his own page at PC Magazine, but then discovered I had to create yet another hairbrained account, with some onetime password I'm not suppose to have any problem remembering forever. What the hell gives him the right to insult the intelligence of a very large group of people, without giving them equal time to rebutt his ill advised output?
Get friggin real folks, I'm 70 years old, its 22:48 local time and there is no way in hell I could remmember a 1 time password long enough to post a reply to any witty reparte I may have posted in defense of PJ, and possibly a creative damnation of MOG. Believe me, I be very creative in discussing the genetic trail that leads to MOG, and I'll just leave it at that.
PJ has done the FOSS community a huge amount of good, by simply digging out of court filings, and putting them under the sunlight of public disclosure, public disclosure that SCO would pay enough to finish draining the corporate coffers IF they thought it would result in the whole thing being flushed from view so that they can then attempt to pull a large wollen cap over the judges eyes and get a favorable ruling.
Fortunately for the general public, many of whom frankly haven't a clue one way or the other, someone like PJ is needed to see to it that the real facts of the case, as shown by the fileings in the case, are being given enough publicity that the judge(s) can be second guessed. This tends to keep the legal system honest when the judges know full well that probably 200,000+ people are watching his/her every move.
PJ didn't go out and dig up a boatload of personal info on MOG, she has maintained, with the exception of publicly wondering just who was contributing to MOG's bank account, a very detached, impersonal, 'just the facts mam', plus an educated from her legal experiences, discussion of the realistic chances of SCO prevailing in this case, each very clearly labeled so that the facts of the case, and the prognostications she might make, are two seperate scenarios entirely.
For MOG to publish addresses and phone numbers of members of PJ's family is completely outside of the bounds of common decency, inviting zealots, who may be potentially on the payroll at SCO or a front company for them, to be tempted to take punitive action against PJ or her family.
If John C. Dvorak doesn't understand the potential seriousness of that, then I'd suggest he also climb onboard the diamond making team at Carnagie Institute, promote the heck out of it, and then be surprised when 2 guys named Luigi and Anthony come calling. I guarantee the visit will be educational. DeBeers, according to many stories I've read down thru the last 60 years, is not known for tolerating "interference" in their diamond cartels business.
Ya win some, and ya lose some John, and this one isn't even a pop fly that lands anywhere near the fair ball lines in any ballpark on the planet, its plainly a foul ball.
IMO, for your callous remarks, you, John C. Dvorak, owe PJ an apology.
A very public one, posted on Groklaw for all to see, including PJ.
Cheers, Gene "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty:
soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." -Ed Howdershelt (Author)
But its not that cold. To do the BEC thing, one needs very small fractions of a degree above absolute zero & the closer to absolute zero the better it works. Interstellar space has a temperature in the vicinity of 2.3 degrees thanks to the background radiation left over from the big bang. Its all pervasive, no place to 'hide' from it. So it seems to me that interstellar space is a quite a bit too hot for the formation of a BEC.
OTOH, I not a physicist either. Hell, I'm not even sure I spelled it right:-(
-- Cheers, Gene "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty:
soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." -Ed Howdershelt (Author)
TBT I haven't checked the masthead of the magazine, perhaps I should when I dig that one out of my luggage from a recent trip..
I wonder who does own the name "LinuxWorld". It sure strikes me as exactly what that jerk would do if he could.
But I'm reminded of a variation on a theme I first heard 60 some years ago, that 'time wounds all heels' & he certainly fits the definition.
-- Cheers, Gene "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty:
soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." -Ed Howdershelt (Author)
I remember the words of Arlo Guthrie: "We thought that one big pile [of garbage] was better than two little piles, and rather than bring that one up, we decided to throw ours down."
Chuckle, gawd its been years and years since I heard that one.
So I too remember, along with some stuff of his that was used in Easy Rider and Alices Restaurant. I guess that does date me a bit, but at 70, I no longer mind being called an old fart, cause now I are one.
Arlo (& Woody too) left their mark on society back when I was proudly a part of it. To me, then and now, the influence they had was always for the betterment of things, even if it did occasionally cause somebodies cherrios to taste a little funny.
Let me join the throngs congratulating you on your choice to distance yourselves from SYS-CON.
I read that interview last night, and came away very disappointed. This guy is so in love with the word media that the meaning of the word journalism simply is not grokked in his vocabulary. I even added to the blog entries there indicating that I still felt he owed PJ a very public apology.
But I fear 2 other things now. first, that he will find other people to fill the vacancies, and two, they will not be so dedicated to the truth.
I was even picking it up from the newstand occasionally, when I hit one in my travels that carried it, but that will be no more.
Does this mean that its settled and back to congress, or will the Supremes have to hear and rule too before the setaside is final?
Generally, I think the Supremes wouldn't bother to look at it very carefully as the Court of Appeals for DC usually has a reasonably firm grip on sanity.
Anyway, most of the rest of my rant is still valid. It sure would be nice if we actualy had a democracy...
The one that set aside the broadcast flag, based on the lack of congressionally given authority on the part of the FCC to issue such a rule.
And of course, given enough money from Disney et all, it will be tacked onto another totally unrelated bill thats sure to get a 100/0 passage in the senate, and 475/23 in the house. Just like this RFID thing was attached to the war budget.
Either way we're fscked, and its about time for Ed Howdershelts rule # 4. By now I'm sure you've seen the quotation, including in my own.sigs from time to time when I feel like pasteing it in.
What we, the voters want should be what we get if we had a true democracy. By and large, if the sheeple weren't being lied to at every turn of the wheel, I think we could make pretty good decisions about how we treat our neighbors and tradeing partners.
But of late, the last 60 years, it seems as if its all robbing peter to pay paul, with the public playing the part of peter.
FWIW, my name sure as hell isn't peter & I object to paying for all the play toys & bloodletting that goes with the shrubs idea of nation building.
In Iraq, for what? Are we gonna do it all over again in about 120 days when they build a constitution thats says they are permanently at war with us, and there are no rules? If they want to make all that rubble with their car bombs, maybe we ought to show a few of them in a position of leadership, just exactly how high we can make the rubble bounce. Right where they are sitting & watching CNN for more clues as to how to hurt us even more efficiently. I can't believe for a minute that they don't have a pretty good idea, say within 1/2 square mile, where Zarqawi(sp) is sitting in relative comfort. Make it all bounce. Then do it again.
In Afganistan, I think we may have a snowballs chance in hell, but Iraq seems to be a lost cause regardless of the public face they are putting on it day after day. Prove me wrong, Rumsfeld, and do it quick. We vote again in 2006 you know.
OTOH, I wonder what took them so long. This campaign should have been ready to roll out the instant the SCOTUS made the ruleing (in their view that is, in mine they can bend over, its time the people had some fun.)
In any event, my congress critter is in town today, so I'm going to stop by the senior center and lay a few words on him.
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For execution I agree with you, but for installation I'd expect it to be impossible to install without admin rights.
With all due respect, thats BS pure and simple. The installer should be fully capable of installing the program in the users $HOME directory, and the program should be capable of running from that location, useing the system calls it needs to do its thing. And the program should be configurable by that user.
Ideally there should be a common location to install user programs that is not connected to the admin stuff, and whose individual user launch icons should contain the path to the configuration info that user has setup.
Unforch, convincing the average windows user to go thru all that is going to be hard, and is only going to become easy when the installer takes cares of all that transparently by making each user install his own copy of the program, which if it finds its already installed, only sets up the links and configration for that user.
NT started off headed in the right direction, but I haven't been forced to deal with a windows box of any kind more than a few hours since I retired in 2001. So how much of this is doable in todays windows version I have no idea.
This senior citizen/geek has been exclusively linux here at home since 1997 when I retired my coco3, with an amiga in the middle. The term Geek is advisable I think, even at 70, I'm currently running a home built kernel version 2.6.12-RT-V0.7.50-22, with an uptime at 10:48:05 up 1 day, 18 min, 5 users, load average: 4.14, 3.47, 3.24. Not very good uptime but I just rebooted to it yesterday.
Bleeding edge? Ubetcha... Old fart? Yup, guilty as charged.
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Cheers, Gene
"There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty:
soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order."
-Ed Howdershelt (Author)
99.35% setiathome rank, not too shabby for a WV hillbilly
Humm, must be a hoe operator trying to defend his trade. Sorry, but the record tends to speak for itself. Not sure its all your fault though, I've seen hoes with a mind of their own about how deep to dig when the shop can't seem to understand that the spools and the bores in the control valves are indeed shot and need brand new ones to restore precision.
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Cheers, Gene
"There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty:
soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order."
-Ed Howdershelt (Author)
No, thats not too bad. I think our drunk driver was more like 3-4 hours as they had to wait on the pole owner (the local electrickery folks) to put in a new pole before they could undo a bit of the service loop & splice it. In case you haven't noticed, long runs of fibre will have what looks like bicycle wheels used as forms so they can make a turn in mid-span and go back the other way for a few hundred feet, thereby giving the geography/road/pole run a chance to move, like for new road construction, without having to cut, insert more cable & splice twice to handle the longer path.
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Cheers, Gene
"There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty:
soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order."
-Ed Howdershelt (Author)
Their splicer must have needed re-calibration. When we finally managed to get a fibre to the cable headend to send our stations 2 signals on, he tried 4 fresh cuts, but the losses stayed in the 20db range, unusable. So they quit, and sent the splicer back for a re-cal. That took about a week, and when it came back the first splice it made in about 10 minutes was good, 1/2 db loss for a 39 kilometer run. Up on poles all the way, that was now 9 or 10 years ago. And of course lots better signal on the cable system coming back than any off-air pickup they'd used ever gave.
Having 75+% of your audience on a cable signal sure takes the "get it back on the air at any cost" mentality away and we can spend the extra hour to do it right when the transmitter goes down.
Up on poles takes the backhoe out of the picture, but not the drunk driver. ISTR we've had one outage due to that, and thats still better chances than if buried & every hoe operator in the county is looking for it IMO.
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Cheers, Gene
"There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty:
soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order."
-Ed Howdershelt (Author)
Well, I'm somewhat in that business having had some cable dug up by backhoe operators. Given enough time, they will find it, guaranteed.
Besides, somebody has to put a smile on folks faces. My turn tonight I guess.
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Cheers, Gene
"There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty:
soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order."
-Ed Howdershelt (Author)
99.35% setiathome rank, not too shabby for a WV hillbilly
Yahoo.com and AOL/TW attorneys please note, additions to the above
message by Gene Heskett are:
Copyright 2005 by Maurice Eugene Heskett, all rights reserved.
being the absolute best at finding cables, beating any other method by at least 2 orders of magnitude.
Like the most recent joke says "when lost, bury a short piece of cat5, then ask the backhoe operator the way home".
He will come and find the cat5, it would be a violation of Murphy's Law to do otherwise.
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Cheers, Gene
"There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty:
soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order."
-Ed Howdershelt (Author)
What kind of name is that? Sounds like a command shell that had one testicle removed.
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Probably because knowing M$ and their attitude vis-a-vis their IP , I'd suspect that it will be very well filtered to "prevent the user from damaging his (oops, thats actually 'my' in the M$ tense. Get over it windows lusers, it hasn't been yours in 10+ years) system."
In other words, it will have been both partially castrated as you suggest, but the remaining testicle will have been disabled via the equ of a coded vasectomy.
Remember, you first read it here on
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Cheers, Gene
"There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty:
soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order."
-Ed Howdershelt (Author)
Yeah, well I have read the Bill of Rights, many times. And what this so-called Patriot Act does to the Bill of Rights is downright gruesome.
I guarantee that if your daughter was raped like the Patriot Act rapes the Bill of Rights, you would fully understand why Thomas Paine made that famous remark 2 plus centuries ago, about the tree of freedom needing fertilized from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants.
You would also be makeing sure your powder was in good supply and dry, and would be spending every waking moment looking for the perp that did the deed.
And the tree of freedom is looking mighty peaked these days. Maybe, just maybe, the Supremes will see this for the disaster it is and send the shrub a message.
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No cheers for this news, Gene
"There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty:
soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order."
-Ed Howdershelt (Author)
I suppose, but how would you arrange to prevent the 1928A1 from damaging the cd's if the case was inadvertantly dropped or otherwise jostled?
The 1928A1? Thats to enforce the GPL with...
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Cheers, Gene
"There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty:
soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order."
-Ed Howdershelt (Author)
The likes of Atari ST / Amiga / ... "could" have ended the MS monopoly - when they were released, they were faster than PCs, and cheaper; and you could get good software for them, too - still, they didn't make it because they never became widely accepted in the commercial market.
And I would submit that the folks who built those machines, and yes I was a huge fan of the amiga's for several years, that they both made huge blunders in taking the money and running to the bahamas or wherever.
Aftermarket folks tried valiantly to make them keep up technologically, but in the case of the amiga at least, once it was built and on the market, the only things fixed were obvious bugs in the OS, and more often than not those were fixed by someone not associated with the amiga other than needing it fixed so they could sell their own hardware.
We even had PPC accelerator boards for a while, but in the real world, the quantities were too small to support the makers well enough that production bugs could be fixed. Hell, even commie, who apparently farmed out an 040 design board that dropped into the A4000 to a subcontractor, who proceeded to install all the electrolytic bypass caps on the board in reversed polarity. Even though the voltage was only 5 volts, which generally prevented them from venting explosively, the failure rate was astronomical & the resultant leakage did permanent damage to the boards, and it was pure hell to replace them all due to the tightness of the surface mount designs layout. Those that work today should be guarded well.
As far as the Atari ST's are concerned, I have one I accidently bought at a flea market years ago. IMO a huge hack, with an external 20 meg hard drive, and a monitor who's crt was shot before it came out of the box when new I'd guess, its that dim now. I need to toss it all, but it came with lots of extra interfaceing stuff, software (most of the music related titles are there I think) and all the manuals, plus several years of Atari ST related magazines, so the whole pile weighs 200 pounds or more. It would be a treasure trove for someone who is still a fan of that machine, but bring a suitable vehicle to transport around 10+ cubic feet of boxes.
If someone wants it, figure out how to transfer this to email & I'll let you know where its at in WV, USA. Come and get it, I need the space.
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Cheers, Gene
"There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty:
soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order."
-Ed Howdershelt (Author)
I recall that for that to work, one must first format the number into a binary 10011001 style format, and that worked correctly.
Later versions tightened up the perceived sloppiness a bit. By later, I'm refering to actually buying after commodedoor soured the relationship with Bill. Being 'on the scene' as a power user at the time, commie shoved it to Bill big time. According to the rumors then, Bill never actually saw a check from commie for all that...
Strange, I see he has a directory on kernel.org, but its empty & dated many years ago now.
Does anyone know what has become of William R. Hawes?
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Cheers, Gene
"There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty:
soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order."
-Ed Howdershelt (Author)
I almost forgot. The main reason it was handier than sliced bread on the amiga is that NO other language on any other platform had the concept of an ARexx "port" for direct communication from one process to another.
I don't think it was anything but a name to address translator where the buffer named had to be read before another write to it was performed else the system went up in copious clouds of profanity. But if you paid attention to your housekeeping it was at least as stable as writing to a disk file, and a heck of a lot faster.
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Cheers, Gene
"There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty:
soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order."
-Ed Howdershelt (Author)
Raises hand here, if only to lament that Rexx, at least in the form of the linux regina clone, is a poor, no, poor to the point of starving to death, comparison to ARexx, written BY William Hawes for the amiga.
It was extensible by writing libraries for it, libraries that allowed it to do anything you were of a mind to.
When I was still running a big box amiga, Jim Hines and I (we were both working at a tv station, http://www.wdtv.com/> ) and needed a cron to run some of the very time consuming rendering jobs that lots of video people were running on amiga's a decade back.
So we wrote a cron in ARexx, and by carefull coding, its cpu hit was less than we could measure. Most of the wannabe cron apps for the amiga were coded to wait in busy loops till the clock matched, and of course used 20% or more of the cpu.
Eventually I bought a copy of rexx-plus, the only actual compiler for arexx there ever was, which could build standalone programs out of your arexx scripts.
You can yet, I think, download that to run on your old amiga, from Aminet.net, search for EzCron, latest version. IIRC the archive contains both the arexx script itself, and the compiled binary.
We did things in a couple of days using arexx that would have taken weeks in C. Repeatedly.
There is yet today, a headless old 2000/040 amiga there, running EzCron, and its executing additional arexx scripts to grab the prompter files for our newscasts from the news server in the news dept., and make them available for you to read at the above site. Incomplete sometimes because the news folks get lazy and don't transcribe to the prompter, whats said in a taped segment.
But when we looked at making those arexx scripts run on linux, regina upchucked all over the place because they were doing things that Rexx never had in its repertory. If that miggy ever dies for good, we'll have to rewrite them in bash, and that will take a couple of weeks to translate I expect. Bash I believe does have all the tools to do it. But its going to take a concerted effort we haven't found the time to do yet. Normal life keeps happening...
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Cheers, Gene
"There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty:
soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order."
-Ed Howdershelt (Author)
Yes, its sad that the original Bill of Rights is so often ignored, at least until the more gross violations get to the Supremes.
Me, I tend to have faith in the 1st and 2nd. If they're honored, then the other 8 will have a long term tendency to fall into line.
Right here and now, I'm exersizing the 1st, my right to make a statement. We have had that for so long now, that attempts to limit it, are, including the recent "campaign finance reform" that took away over 5 million voters rights to say how they felt, will be circumvented, one way or the other.
And my sig indicates my feelings on the 2nd. It appears we are at the Jury stage now, but the relative lack of success there, at least in many of the lower courts where (buyable judges, and/or judges with an agenda) no juries hear the arguments, does make me wonder how long it will be before reaching for the 4th box.
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Cheers, Gene
"There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty:
soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order."
-Ed Howdershelt (Author)
And thats exactly whats wrong with this attitude. You as a rebelious individual, will find that your freedom ends at the end of the other persons nose.
Copyright law gives them all the authority they need to correct your attitude. That attitude will be corrected in due time, possibly by means much more serious than a copyright violation. Nuff said.
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Cheers, Gene
"There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty:
soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order."
-Ed Howdershelt (Author)
according to the wired article, the search engine will allow "RIAA and friends" to target the uploaders directly and sue them.
So the search engine will actually become a benefit for the RIAA. Which I'm perfectly OK with, since Cohen never intended BT to be a pirate tool.
I'm firmly in this camp here. For instance, downloading a copy of ROTS is patently illegal. Ditto for the rest of the **AA stuffs.
If, with this 'search engine', the **AA folks actually have a better tool to be used to go after the infringers, and it leads to a general cleaning up of the currant situation by virtue of the takedown notices that sites that do have the material will receive, and the filing of suits for a *reasonable* level of damages against the receivers of such material, then I see this as a net positive development.
BTW, my view of reasonable, provided the receiver hasn't passed on any further copies, is no more than 10 times the cost of a theater ticket to see the show, times the number of people living in that household.
That, and court costs, but no attorneys fees. Costs will probably exceed the damages that **AA will recover, and it will send a strong enough message to the average person, but it will not be a significant item in the **AA members bottom line. Net losses could well eat any profits from doing the civil suit, so it turns into a CODB for them, and something to minimize.
OTOH, the takedown notice should be delivered in the form of a site-wide machine seizure, then followed up with a civil suit, based on the forensic data recoverable from the site that would give a good picture of how many times it was downloaded from that site. That would often lead to a net profit making it a worthwhile item on the quarterly report. This of course mixes the criminal and civil aspects, so its not that simple. Really, it should be, but combining that would put a lot of expensive legal people on the bread lines so the chances of that happening are somewhere between zip and point double ought (excrement).
However, if the **AA make the mistake of going after the program itself, then I would hope the courts have sense enough to toss it out. That however, would appear to depend on how many judges they have on a leash, and what the leash is made of.
The program has the potential to do much good, and I cannot see that true justice is being served in any venue that attempts to control 100% of its use.
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Cheers, Gene
"There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty:
soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order."
-Ed Howdershelt (Author)
Only if it wasn't a M$ written sandbox. Yeah, thats very anti-M$ isn't it?
Tell ya what, I've never had M$ here, and don't intend to unless I find a killer app that cannot be duplicated on a linux box.
I'm relatively carefull, useing a router between the dsl modem and my firewall box, and the firewall box is locked down fairly well. So well in fact that in the 2 years since I got dsl installed, I have actually logged 3 attacks that made it thru the router & into the firewall box itself. But strangely, thats as far as they get, the guard dogs I run are very good at dropping any unwanted connections at the first unwanted packet, so the perp never even gets a reply back indicating there really is a machine at that address.
But its absolutely transparent from my side. And I sit back and chuckle at all the bs the windows user has to go thru to be even slightly assured of a weeks service without having to run a virus cleaner & update his avs rules.
So have fun with the latest worm or viri, all you winderz users.
I fully expect that to gradually change, with an occasional attack against a linux box starting to show up once it gets economically profitable to hit such a box. But because its a bit harder to get into a linux box, I don't expect that to happen much before we have 90% of the market & winderz has in fact built a new boat that doesn't sink at the sniff of a sobig worm, thereby reducing the number of windows boxes to the point they have to start trying to get into the linux boxes just for the numbers.
Since thats not bloody likely before I fall over (I'm 70 and diabetic), I tend to ignore the chances as being pretty miniscule in the real world. But I do read the logs just to be sure. Do I feel a bit smug? Of course!
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Cheers, Gene
"There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty:
soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order."
-Ed Howdershelt (Author)
Hey Dvorak...quit posting on here to self-prove your Linux zealots theory. At least our forums will let you do it anonymously
I agree. I was going to post a reply to his off the wall post on his own page at PC Magazine, but then discovered I had to create yet another hairbrained account, with some onetime password I'm not suppose to have any problem remembering forever. What the hell gives him the right to insult the intelligence of a very large group of people, without giving them equal time to rebutt his ill advised output?
Get friggin real folks, I'm 70 years old, its 22:48 local time and there is no way in hell I could remmember a 1 time password long enough to post a reply to any witty reparte I may have posted in defense of PJ, and possibly a creative damnation of MOG. Believe me, I be very creative in discussing the genetic trail that leads to MOG, and I'll just leave it at that.
PJ has done the FOSS community a huge amount of good, by simply digging out of court filings, and putting them under the sunlight of public disclosure, public disclosure that SCO would pay enough to finish draining the corporate coffers IF they thought it would result in the whole thing being flushed from view so that they can then attempt to pull a large wollen cap over the judges eyes and get a favorable ruling.
Fortunately for the general public, many of whom frankly haven't a clue one way or the other, someone like PJ is needed to see to it that the real facts of the case, as shown by the fileings in the case, are being given enough publicity that the judge(s) can be second guessed. This tends to keep the legal system honest when the judges know full well that probably 200,000+ people are watching his/her every move.
PJ didn't go out and dig up a boatload of personal info on MOG, she has maintained, with the exception of publicly wondering just who was contributing to MOG's bank account, a very detached, impersonal, 'just the facts mam', plus an educated from her legal experiences, discussion of the realistic chances of SCO prevailing in this case, each very clearly labeled so that the facts of the case, and the prognostications she might make, are two seperate scenarios entirely.
For MOG to publish addresses and phone numbers of members of PJ's family is completely outside of the bounds of common decency, inviting zealots, who may be potentially on the payroll at SCO or a front company for them, to be tempted to take punitive action against PJ or her family.
If John C. Dvorak doesn't understand the potential seriousness of that, then I'd suggest he also climb onboard the diamond making team at Carnagie Institute, promote the heck out of it, and then be surprised when 2 guys named Luigi and Anthony come calling. I guarantee the visit will be educational. DeBeers, according to many stories I've read down thru the last 60 years, is not known for tolerating "interference" in their diamond cartels business.
Ya win some, and ya lose some John, and this one isn't even a pop fly that lands anywhere near the fair ball lines in any ballpark on the planet, its plainly a foul ball.
IMO, for your callous remarks, you, John C. Dvorak, owe PJ an apology.
A very public one, posted on Groklaw for all to see, including PJ.
Cheers, Gene
"There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty:
soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order."
-Ed Howdershelt (Author)
But its not that cold. To do the BEC thing, one needs very small fractions of a degree above absolute zero & the closer to absolute zero the better it works. Interstellar space has a temperature in the vicinity of 2.3 degrees thanks to the background radiation left over from the big bang. Its all pervasive, no place to 'hide' from it. So it seems to me that interstellar space is a quite a bit too hot for the formation of a BEC.
:-(
OTOH, I not a physicist either. Hell, I'm not even sure I spelled it right
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Cheers, Gene
"There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty:
soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order."
-Ed Howdershelt (Author)
TBT I haven't checked the masthead of the magazine, perhaps I should when I dig that one out of my luggage from a recent trip..
I wonder who does own the name "LinuxWorld". It sure strikes me as exactly what that jerk would do if he could.
But I'm reminded of a variation on a theme I first heard 60 some years ago, that 'time wounds all heels' & he certainly fits the definition.
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Cheers, Gene
"There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty:
soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order."
-Ed Howdershelt (Author)
I remember the words of Arlo Guthrie: "We thought that one big pile [of garbage] was better than two little piles, and rather than bring that one up, we decided to throw ours down."
Chuckle, gawd its been years and years since I heard that one.
So I too remember, along with some stuff of his that was used in Easy Rider and Alices Restaurant. I guess that does date me a bit, but at 70, I no longer mind being called an old fart, cause now I are one.
Arlo (& Woody too) left their mark on society back when I was proudly a part of it. To me, then and now, the influence they had was always for the betterment of things, even if it did occasionally cause somebodies cherrios to taste a little funny.
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Cheers, Gene
Let me join the throngs congratulating you on your choice to distance yourselves from SYS-CON.
I read that interview last night, and came away very disappointed. This guy is so in love with the word media that the meaning of the word journalism simply is not grokked in his vocabulary. I even added to the blog entries there indicating that I still felt he owed PJ a very public apology.
But I fear 2 other things now. first, that he will find other people to fill the vacancies, and two, they will not be so dedicated to the truth.
I was even picking it up from the newstand occasionally, when I hit one in my travels that carried it, but that will be no more.
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Cheers, Gene
Ah, my mistake then.
Does this mean that its settled and back to congress, or will the Supremes have to hear and rule too before the setaside is final?
Generally, I think the Supremes wouldn't bother to look at it very carefully as the Court of Appeals for DC usually has a reasonably firm grip on sanity.
Anyway, most of the rest of my rant is still valid. It sure would be nice if we actualy had a democracy...
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Cheers, Gene
The one that set aside the broadcast flag, based on the lack of congressionally given authority on the part of the FCC to issue such a rule.
.sigs from time to time when I feel like pasteing it in.
And of course, given enough money from Disney et all, it will be tacked onto another totally unrelated bill thats sure to get a 100/0 passage in the senate, and 475/23 in the house. Just like this RFID thing was attached to the war budget.
Either way we're fscked, and its about time for Ed Howdershelts rule # 4. By now I'm sure you've seen the quotation, including in my own
What we, the voters want should be what we get if we had a true democracy. By and large, if the sheeple weren't being lied to at every turn of the wheel, I think we could make pretty good decisions about how we treat our neighbors and tradeing partners.
But of late, the last 60 years, it seems as if its all robbing peter to pay paul, with the public playing the part of peter.
FWIW, my name sure as hell isn't peter & I object to paying for all the play toys & bloodletting that goes with the shrubs idea of nation building.
In Iraq, for what? Are we gonna do it all over again in about 120 days when they build a constitution thats says they are permanently at war with us, and there are no rules? If they want to make all that rubble with their car bombs, maybe we ought to show a few of them in a position of leadership, just exactly how high we can make the rubble bounce. Right where they are sitting & watching CNN for more clues as to how to hurt us even more efficiently. I can't believe for a minute that they don't have a pretty good idea, say within 1/2 square mile, where Zarqawi(sp) is sitting in relative comfort. Make it all bounce. Then do it again.
In Afganistan, I think we may have a snowballs chance in hell, but Iraq seems to be a lost cause regardless of the public face they are putting on it day after day. Prove me wrong, Rumsfeld, and do it quick. We vote again in 2006 you know.
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Cheers, Gene
Thats what I'm afraid of.
OTOH, I wonder what took them so long. This campaign should have been ready to roll out the instant the SCOTUS made the ruleing (in their view that is, in mine they can bend over, its time the people had some fun.)
In any event, my congress critter is in town today, so I'm going to stop by the senior center and lay a few words on him.
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Cheers, Gene