Funny you should ask that.. I meta-morderate just a few minutes ago..;-)
But you are right in pointing it out to me just now... Everyone should do their bit, even a little-bit.. Cuz if not, and this behaviour is taken by the society as normal, then the society as a whole is a failure..:-(
I'll tell you this... When something's fundamentally wrong, like.. A person whom everyone knows have no remote possibility to win whatsoever, a person who is butt ugly that you would make him walk backwards just to avoid looking at him, suddenly wins the election... By a huge margin too...
Face it, there's always holes that can be exploited in the voting process.. Be it electronically or manually.
As long as there's no transparency and publicity of how the actual voting process is being made and more importantly, the counting process.. As long as all these is being made in secrecy.. I don't see any improvements.
Yeah, people will say that there's an election commission or equivalent overseeing the process.. Who is overseeing the overseers? (Monitoring the monitors, so to speak)
I say.. Finally.. IBM really took their time to get things done. Frankly, I am tired seeing SCO bashes Linux community and generally making life miserable..
I wonder whether we can substitute the water for something else.. I mean, like a car, we can substitute radiator-coolant. Maybe there's a a screw we can loosen and open to drain the water out, then refill back with some sort of coolant for laptops.
Yeah, while we are at it, it'll spin-offs to a few types of coolants available... and computers will be more and more like a car!
I like the green colored jelly type radiator coolants, dunno what is it called.. heck, I'm a computer mechanic, not a car mechanic..
I just wonder whether Hubble can zoom in on the spacecraft constructed for NASA Stardust Project to rendezvous with comet Wild 2. I hope hubble will be positioned to capture the event, when the spacecraft collects dust samples and bring 'em back to earth.
If anyone asks why I'm so interested, I have my name inscribed on One of the two microchips embedded on board the spacecraft. So is the names of my brother and sister!;-)
Let's hope they reach the comet safely and back! Yeah, and Hubble to be available to capture the event!
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I remembered during the recent M$ anti-trust trial, one of the witnesses called to the stand is an IBMer (Garry Norris Story One and Story Two). He mentioned that IBM was given license to ship Win95 on the eve of it's launch on Aug 95.. I mean, M$ holding back on giving IBM license to ship Win95 until a couple of days before it's official launch!
Imagine the black-mail by M$ to IBM
Anyway, according to the testimony, IBM and M$ finally reach a deal for the Win95 licensing and one of the conditions was a gradual abandonment of OS/2..
I remembered whenever Bill Gates was giving interview, post-launch of Win95, when asked about competition from a more superior OS - OS/2, he kept saying that he's wondering why IBM is still supporting a 'dead' OS..
All the time!
Is he saying it again about Linux because he reached a deal with someone who'll ensure the death of Linux too?
SCO ? Darl McBride? Hello hello?
Signed in blood by a former Team OS/2 member, now Team Tux
Quite a number of NT4 installations are actually Linux/FreeBSD with Samba installations. I remembered a couple of years ago, there's a story of sys-admins who was finally had it with NT4 and their crash-prone habits, went ahead and install FreeBSD and Samba. The users didn't know the difference but they noticed that their "NT4" server was much more stable and responsive!
Apparently, one of 'em was discovered by the management. Instead of thanking him, they fired his ass! It was a big story at that time, as I recall...
Well, everyone did it.. Credit Card companies, Insurance, Finance, and why not ISPs?
A Colleague of mind, who is very paranoid when giving out his cell phone number got really pissed off when he received a call from some banks offering him credit card services. Recently he signed up for one and had no intention of signing for more. It seems that these people shared information within the industry..
I'm not trolling.. Just lamenting on the alarming trend of the marketplace.
Go for it man! You'll never walk alone! (Damn, feels like a Liverpool FC fan)
We are all rooting for you! It's just that most of us rather not be in the open. I mean, we do have balls, large brass ones.. two of 'em! but let's not provide 'em a target if you can help it.
I mean, for being able to keep the service running, amidst bullets and bombs flyng around all over the place, you can't beat that kind of dedication.. and skill too.
Anyone here recruiting, if you can look past their so called prior political allegience (heck, most of 'em were forced to support anyway), here you guys can have some really good sysadmins, frontline tested, baptised by fire and with battle scars to show.
How many of us can say exactly the same? Let's see.. If SCO regime are smart, they would hire these guys, at least to keep their website from being DDOS/nuked or hacked by/. ers..:-P but they're are dumb anyway, for waging war against the USA of IT World (Yeah, I mean IBM)
Sheesh, here I am worrying about others when I should be worrying about myself!
You know how communities with small or non-existant law enforcement agencies handled their problems. Usually, this happens in suburbs or rural areas. We have volunteers patroling the streets at night.. Usually armed only with sticks and a torchlight sporting an armband marked Neighbourhood Watch. A group of these guys, about 3 or 4 of them and usually acompanied by a policeman, fully armed of course would go make their rounds patrolling the neighbourhood.
You get the idea right?
Anyway, how about we form some kind of organization in every community all over the world, with close collaboration with the local law enforcement agency that helps investigate this kind of things at the local physical area where the crime was thought to be originally commited from
This is what I mean.. One guy reported a crime.. Upon investigation, he thought the crime was commited by some kiddie-scripter (or something) in a city 1000 miles away. As someone on this discussion pointed it out, the Charter, FBI and CIA/NSA whatever, not forgetting the Police, don't really have enough manpower anyway. What the local watch members can do is to assist in investigating and gathering of evidence, until there's enough to just simply call 'em lawmen to just come and cuff the suspect and pickup the evidence and ship 'em away to Gitmo Bay (and throw away the keys!)
I say this because something like this happens to me before.. Back during the late eighties, the time when ole BBS/fidonet days was glorious, some guy in another continent offered to sell some computer components to me. We met in some echomail conference and after several following-up via net mails, we agreed on the price. I've made some purchases before using this method and all of the previous sellers so far have been quite honest and since the correspondence from the guy seems to indicate that he's quite keen, well.. So I went for it. Sent the guy my money but after waiting for almost 2 months.. you guess it, the guy disappeared and so is my stuff which never materializes! Fortunately, I have some echo-mail pals living in the same city, so I asked for their help.
To make the story short, they found guy, and my echo-pals called me (over the phone!) one day asking what are they gonna do to the guy, now that they've found him.. I quote, 'We found him, so what you want us to do? Kill him?'. Of course I was horrified, but I just told 'em to just to get my money back. A few weeks later, in my snail-mail box, instead of the money, I actually got the goods that I ordered:-)
Of course I don't advocate intimidation nor vigilatism, but with close cooperation with local law enforcement agencies, this local net-neighbourhood watchmen with chapters located all over the world, it can actually be something effective. Not just investigating frauds and hacking activities, maybe even locating the local kiddie pornsters. But of course, we have to do our bit, and we means everyone!
I'm in real need of enlightenment, the GIF formats we have now are GIF87 and GIF89a, which I believe refers to their year of development. Has there been any development/improvement to GIF standards since? Is there something like GIF2k3 or something?
If there's has been no more development since, why are we still supporting 'em? Shouldn't we support in favour of newer and actively improving formats?
There are two powerhouses in the PDA industry, Pocket PC and Palm.. Sorry guys, Zaurus IMO is still a non-mainstream. Firstly I'm not gonna talk about a specific PDA or specific brand, rather PDA in general.
In general, most people use PDAs for the address book function, and majority of these people uses the Appointment/Calendar function too. Some would also use the notes function too, but seldom. Anything extra, rest assured you can call yourself a power user. I know this for a fact because I used to work in a retail shop selling PDAs
Let's look at features that most users want..
Handy - Small, slim stylish design that you can keep in your shirt pockets. Not something the size of a brick, and weighs like one!
Battery - You want something that can last at least for a few days without charging the battery (One Pocket PC brand got it right finally, by having removable batteries)
Affordability - Most Tom, Dick and Harries don't need the bells and whistles and the extra gadgets like cameras, bluetooth, Wi-Fi, modems, large external storage. Something reasonable is probably the order of the day. All those extras costs money, house-wives don't need most of 'em in order to keep track of their grocery shopping list do they.. So are students, secretaries and bosses, normal users and joes like me;-P
Most of those who bought brick-like units are usually either power users (who knows what they want) or those who got too much money and wanna show off. I call these PDAs - Show-Off Units.
Sony bendable handhelds, well, Look and see.. Price-wise, if they're out of reach, most joes won't use it. Battery-wise, too short, they're not Palm-Tops nor Pocket PCs, rather Desktop PDAs, since they're perpetually connected to their charger unit. If it is too bulky, hell no, I'm not gonna use it, cuz it won't stay in my pocket. I don't wanna look like a fully packed Llama
In the end, I (and most joe user) want something convenient to use to get day to day tasks done
{Quote}I'm surprised SCO hasn't tried to persuade Linus to support them. "Join me my son!".;-) {End Quote}
Oh yeah...
Since SCO claims that they're the ones who owns the original UNIX and originally came out with everything UNIX including Sys V/BSD and SMPs and RCUs and god knows what..
Next we gonna hear SCO say "I am your father"
I am sure Linus will find it hard to resist the dark side:-P
"No, no, no!!", but deep inside his heart Luke(Linus) knows it is true "That's impossible":-P
SCO said after that "Join me, together we shall rule the UNIXverse as father and son". SCO would even throw in a juicy offer, "You can defeat the software emperor and the services king and everybody else, I have foreseen it", and "Join me" urged SCO
Hoo boy!, they gonna get it.. bigtime!, Microsoft, IBM, Novell, Oracle might as bow to the inevitable
Luke would jump away into the void, thus saving himself.. Whether Linus would, we have to ask him;-)
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Funny you should ask that.. I meta-morderate just a few minutes ago.. ;-)
:-(
But you are right in pointing it out to me just now... Everyone should do their bit, even a little-bit.. Cuz if not, and this behaviour is taken by the society as normal, then the society as a whole is a failure..
Hope it doesn't comes to that...
I'll tell you this... When something's fundamentally wrong, like.. A person whom everyone knows have no remote possibility to win whatsoever, a person who is butt ugly that you would make him walk backwards just to avoid looking at him, suddenly wins the election... By a huge margin too...
Face it, there's always holes that can be exploited in the voting process.. Be it electronically or manually.
As long as there's no transparency and publicity of how the actual voting process is being made and more importantly, the counting process.. As long as all these is being made in secrecy.. I don't see any improvements.
Yeah, people will say that there's an election commission or equivalent overseeing the process.. Who is overseeing the overseers? (Monitoring the monitors, so to speak)
And what do I say to this all?
I say.. Finally.. IBM really took their time to get things done. Frankly, I am tired seeing SCO bashes Linux community and generally making life miserable..
In your face SCO!
Hmm..
I wonder whether we can substitute the water for something else.. I mean, like a car, we can substitute radiator-coolant. Maybe there's a a screw we can loosen and open to drain the water out, then refill back with some sort of coolant for laptops.
Yeah, while we are at it, it'll spin-offs to a few types of coolants available... and computers will be more and more like a car!
I like the green colored jelly type radiator coolants, dunno what is it called.. heck, I'm a computer mechanic, not a car mechanic..
I just wonder whether Hubble can zoom in on the spacecraft constructed for NASA Stardust Project to rendezvous with comet Wild 2. I hope hubble will be positioned to capture the event, when the spacecraft collects dust samples and bring 'em back to earth.
;-)
If anyone asks why I'm so interested, I have my name inscribed on One of the two microchips embedded on board the spacecraft. So is the names of my brother and sister!
Let's hope they reach the comet safely and back! Yeah, and Hubble to be available to capture the event!
I remembered during the recent M$ anti-trust trial, one of the witnesses called to the stand is an IBMer (Garry Norris Story One and Story Two). He mentioned that IBM was given license to ship Win95 on the eve of it's launch on Aug 95.. I mean, M$ holding back on giving IBM license to ship Win95 until a couple of days before it's official launch!
Imagine the black-mail by M$ to IBM
Anyway, according to the testimony, IBM and M$ finally reach a deal for the Win95 licensing and one of the conditions was a gradual abandonment of OS/2..
I remembered whenever Bill Gates was giving interview, post-launch of Win95, when asked about competition from a more superior OS - OS/2, he kept saying that he's wondering why IBM is still supporting a 'dead' OS..
All the time!
Is he saying it again about Linux because he reached a deal with someone who'll ensure the death of Linux too?
SCO ? Darl McBride? Hello hello?
Signed in blood by a former Team OS/2 member, now Team Tux
Well, maybe not..
Quite a number of NT4 installations are actually Linux/FreeBSD with Samba installations. I remembered a couple of years ago, there's a story of sys-admins who was finally had it with NT4 and their crash-prone habits, went ahead and install FreeBSD and Samba. The users didn't know the difference but they noticed that their "NT4" server was much more stable and responsive!
Apparently, one of 'em was discovered by the management. Instead of thanking him, they fired his ass! It was a big story at that time, as I recall...
Well, everyone did it.. Credit Card companies, Insurance, Finance, and why not ISPs?
A Colleague of mind, who is very paranoid when giving out his cell phone number got really pissed off when he received a call from some banks offering him credit card services. Recently he signed up for one and had no intention of signing for more. It seems that these people shared information within the industry..
I'm not trolling.. Just lamenting on the alarming trend of the marketplace.
Well and good if you can fold the LCD monitor, but what's the use if you can't fold the the CPU!
Go for it man! You'll never walk alone! (Damn, feels like a Liverpool FC fan)
We are all rooting for you! It's just that most of us rather not be in the open. I mean, we do have balls, large brass ones.. two of 'em! but let's not provide 'em a target if you can help it.
I mean, for being able to keep the service running, amidst bullets and bombs flyng around all over the place, you can't beat that kind of dedication.. and skill too.
Anyone here recruiting, if you can look past their so called prior political allegience (heck, most of 'em were forced to support anyway), here you guys can have some really good sysadmins, frontline tested, baptised by fire and with battle scars to show.
How many of us can say exactly the same? Let's see.. If SCO regime are smart, they would hire these guys, at least to keep their website from being DDOS/nuked or hacked by /. ers.. :-P but they're are dumb anyway, for waging war against the USA of IT World (Yeah, I mean IBM)
Sheesh, here I am worrying about others when I should be worrying about myself!
You know how communities with small or non-existant law enforcement agencies handled their problems. Usually, this happens in suburbs or rural areas. We have volunteers patroling the streets at night.. Usually armed only with sticks and a torchlight sporting an armband marked Neighbourhood Watch. A group of these guys, about 3 or 4 of them and usually acompanied by a policeman, fully armed of course would go make their rounds patrolling the neighbourhood.
You get the idea right?
Anyway, how about we form some kind of organization in every community all over the world, with close collaboration with the local law enforcement agency that helps investigate this kind of things at the local physical area where the crime was thought to be originally commited from
This is what I mean.. One guy reported a crime.. Upon investigation, he thought the crime was commited by some kiddie-scripter (or something) in a city 1000 miles away. As someone on this discussion pointed it out, the Charter, FBI and CIA/NSA whatever, not forgetting the Police, don't really have enough manpower anyway. What the local watch members can do is to assist in investigating and gathering of evidence, until there's enough to just simply call 'em lawmen to just come and cuff the suspect and pickup the evidence and ship 'em away to Gitmo Bay (and throw away the keys!)
I say this because something like this happens to me before.. Back during the late eighties, the time when ole BBS/fidonet days was glorious, some guy in another continent offered to sell some computer components to me. We met in some echomail conference and after several following-up via net mails, we agreed on the price. I've made some purchases before using this method and all of the previous sellers so far have been quite honest and since the correspondence from the guy seems to indicate that he's quite keen, well.. So I went for it. Sent the guy my money but after waiting for almost 2 months.. you guess it, the guy disappeared and so is my stuff which never materializes! Fortunately, I have some echo-mail pals living in the same city, so I asked for their help.
To make the story short, they found guy, and my echo-pals called me (over the phone!) one day asking what are they gonna do to the guy, now that they've found him.. I quote, 'We found him, so what you want us to do? Kill him?'. Of course I was horrified, but I just told 'em to just to get my money back. A few weeks later, in my snail-mail box, instead of the money, I actually got the goods that I ordered :-)
Of course I don't advocate intimidation nor vigilatism, but with close cooperation with local law enforcement agencies, this local net-neighbourhood watchmen with chapters located all over the world, it can actually be something effective. Not just investigating frauds and hacking activities, maybe even locating the local kiddie pornsters. But of course, we have to do our bit, and we means everyone!
Enough of my 2 cents (monopoly money)
I'm in real need of enlightenment, the GIF formats we have now are GIF87 and GIF89a, which I believe refers to their year of development. Has there been any development/improvement to GIF standards since? Is there something like GIF2k3 or something?
If there's has been no more development since, why are we still supporting 'em? Shouldn't we support in favour of newer and actively improving formats?
My 2 cents, monopoly money..
that you point at someone, you have three fingers pointing right back at you.
Senator Orrin 'eye-patch' Hatch shouldn't play this holier than thou game.
There's another quote, 'hoisted over their own petard' or something like that..
There are two powerhouses in the PDA industry, Pocket PC and Palm.. Sorry guys, Zaurus IMO is still a non-mainstream. Firstly I'm not gonna talk about a specific PDA or specific brand, rather PDA in general.
In general, most people use PDAs for the address book function, and majority of these people uses the Appointment/Calendar function too. Some would also use the notes function too, but seldom. Anything extra, rest assured you can call yourself a power user. I know this for a fact because I used to work in a retail shop selling PDAs
Let's look at features that most users want..
Handy - Small, slim stylish design that you can keep in your shirt pockets. Not something the size of a brick, and weighs like one!
Battery - You want something that can last at least for a few days without charging the battery (One Pocket PC brand got it right finally, by having removable batteries)
Affordability - Most Tom, Dick and Harries don't need the bells and whistles and the extra gadgets like cameras, bluetooth, Wi-Fi, modems, large external storage. Something reasonable is probably the order of the day. All those extras costs money, house-wives don't need most of 'em in order to keep track of their grocery shopping list do they.. So are students, secretaries and bosses, normal users and joes like me ;-P
Most of those who bought brick-like units are usually either power users (who knows what they want) or those who got too much money and wanna show off. I call these PDAs - Show-Off Units.
Sony bendable handhelds, well, Look and see.. Price-wise, if they're out of reach, most joes won't use it. Battery-wise, too short, they're not Palm-Tops nor Pocket PCs, rather Desktop PDAs, since they're perpetually connected to their charger unit. If it is too bulky, hell no, I'm not gonna use it, cuz it won't stay in my pocket. I don't wanna look like a fully packed Llama
In the end, I (and most joe user) want something convenient to use to get day to day tasks done
{Quote}I'm surprised SCO hasn't tried to persuade Linus to support them. "Join me my son!". ;-) {End Quote}
Oh yeah...
Since SCO claims that they're the ones who owns the original UNIX and originally came out with everything UNIX including Sys V/BSD and SMPs and RCUs and god knows what..
Next we gonna hear SCO say "I am your father"
I am sure Linus will find it hard to resist the dark side :-P
"No, no, no!!", but deep inside his heart Luke(Linus) knows it is true "That's impossible" :-P
SCO said after that "Join me, together we shall rule the UNIXverse as father and son". SCO would even throw in a juicy offer, "You can defeat the software emperor and the services king and everybody else, I have foreseen it", and "Join me" urged SCO
Hoo boy!, they gonna get it.. bigtime!, Microsoft, IBM, Novell, Oracle might as bow to the inevitable
Luke would jump away into the void, thus saving himself.. Whether Linus would, we have to ask him ;-)
Regards all
Will code for food
Opps..
My bad.. But, but, leave of absence is also equivalent to unpaid leave, right?
Regards
Will code for food
Doesn't matter where Linus is attached to, as long as he can achieve job satisfaction. Though, I am surprised that he lasted 6 years at Transmeta.
But best of luck to thee Linus, I hope by leaving Transmeta and going over to OSDL doesn't hurt your rice-bowl (as some asians like to say).
Well, you need food to code, but I'm sure Linus is in good hands. Unlike a certain someone..
Regards
Will code for food