Does rot occur even in archival quality media stored vertically, at the proper temperature, in low humidity?
Yes, but the media last longer with proper storage. What you need to do is to regulary copy the old media to a new media, say every year or few years. Do remember that machines to read the old media may not be available in the future. This is done by the Norwegian agency responsible for archiving, by the way.
In the absence of any credible international initiative to create a reliable permanent archive format, I'd say print it to acid-free paper, multiple copies in separate places, and hope for the best, like Cassiodorus.
Actually, very important papers that is intended to last for a very long time are printed on specially made paper. An example of this a treaty between two states.
The license excludes *BSD (guess that Linux emulation does not count) :
(a) "Authorized Operating Systems" means the desktop and standard-laptop versions of the following operating systems:
1. Microsoft Windows operating systems (including desktop and standard-laptop PC versions of Windows 95, 98, 2000, NT, ME, XP Home, XP Professional, and XP Tablet PC Edition, but specifically excluding Windows XP Embedded and successor products thereto), 2. Macintosh operating systems, 3. Linux operating systems, but specifically excluding any embedded version of Linux, and 4. Solaris operating systems.
Amazing, the problem only arose in the UK in the mid-80s as well due to the Conservative government allowing their farmer friends to cut costs by feeding animal waste to bovines.
A good example that the "free market" fundamentalists are wrong in not acknowledging that not everything under the sun works well just because it's a "free market solution".
The Conservative government under Thatcher is perhaps better described as free market radical. Actually, this is a trend seen in most European conservative parties in that they are no longer conservative, but free market radicals (neo-liberal, if you like). They used to have a responsible social agenda, only to replace it with greed and enrichment of the rich under the disguise of "free market solutions".
The software sounds good, but it seems that la reproducción total o parcial is prohibida -- at least sin autorización del autor. And I don't speak enough Spanish to get the autor's autorizacion to reproduccion it.
GAG is GPL software, and the software has several translations. But the homepage itself is copyrighed by the author, of course, and you need his permission to reproduce it.
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If you use i386, then ditch Lilo and GRUB, and use something that works out of the box :
GAG
The bad part here is that Grub hangs whenever I try to get it to load Windows. I don't think it likes a 32 bit kernel image. So.... I have to go into the BIOS and change primary boot drives everytime I want to switch
Well, at least this article has some technical content, and is not just-another-"review"-of-a-distro consisting only of screenshots from the installation.
I wonder if this was part of the plan George Bush Sr hatched when he was Nixon's first ambassador to China, "opening them up". Open fire, more like it.
Bush Sr is very different from his son. I'm sure that Bush Sr would not, like his son, have squandered the goodwill extended to USA after the awfull terrorist attack in New York.
One suspects that some of this is alarmism from the media.
When the Bush administration's poll numbers fall, or they want to draw our attention away from what the administation is doing, then there will be a "security alert" of some kind. The media plays along with these obvious ploys. This is just one of the "security alerts" from the current "bad guy". Of course, if you point this out, then you are an un-American, un-patriotic terrorist loving scumbag that have no gratitude for what the Great Uncle Sam has done for you.
Dupe, you post too much. I don't have time to spank you again.
I think that you should take my suggestion to educate yourself, and perhaps your first noble step in this direction will be to know the meaning of the word "dupe".
Without using those atomic bombs, it's not clear that you wouldn't be speaking Japanese right now - and certainly without the Internet to spread your stupidity. And I note that European countries are the only countries to detonate nuclear weapons without ever facing an enemy that justified their use
Kenny is presumably unaware that president Truman's chief of staff, admiral William D. Leahy, wrote that using the "barbarous weapon at Hiroshima and Nagasaki was of no material assistance in our war against Japan. The Japanese were already defeated and ready to surrender because of the effective sea blockade and the successful bombing with conventional weapons". He lamented that the US government "had adopted an ethical standard common to the barbarians of the Dark Ages". (Quoted, Anthony Gregory, 'Targeting Civilians at Hiroshima and Nagasaki,' August 6, 2004,
http://www.fff.org/comment/com0408b.asp)
The US Strategic Bombing Survey, which interviewed 700 Japanese military and political officials after the war, came to this conclusion:
"Based on a detailed investigation of all the facts and supported by the testimony of the surviving Japanese leaders involved, it is the Survey's opinion that certainly prior to 31 December 1945, and in all probability prior to 1 November 1945, Japan would have surrendered even if the atomic bombs had not been dropped, even if Russia had not entered the war, and even if no invasion had been planned or contemplated." (Quoted, Howard Zinn, The Zinn Reader, Seven Stories, 1997, p.350)
In 1963, former US president Dwight Eisenhower told Newsweek that "the Japanese were ready to surrender and it wasn't necessary to hit them with that awful thing". (Gregory, op. cit)
Brigadier general Carter Clarke, the military intelligence officer in charge of preparing intercepted Japanese cables for president Truman and his advisors, commented:
"...when we didn't need to do it, and we knew we didn't need to do it, and they knew that we knew we didn't need to do it, we used them as an experiment for two atomic bombs." (Gregory, ibid)
no one could seriously claim that the Windows security model is ideal.
Actually you could (and many do) claim that the model is quite good, but it has never been used like it could/should, neither by MS or app developers.
Perhaps it's a good security model, but it seems to be unusable in practice and difficult to configure correctly. As for the.Net security model I'm sure it offers miles of rope to hang yourself with.
VS 6.0 was very good (for C/C++), but everything after just isn't as mature and usable as Eclipse is for Java.
Yes, VS IDE 7.1 has some very annoying quibles, but the C++ compiler is much, much better. If you are using templates, or templatized libraries like Boost you should upgrade to 7.1.
I wonder how many people who say bad stuff about BSD, have actually used it long enough to form any educated opinion about it.
*BSD is no exception to the rule that beeing informed is not a requirement before bad mouthing something.
Some of the bad mouthers are Linux users attempting to install and configure a *BSD system, but refuses to read documentation when they have some problems. Much easier to post a mail to a mailing list:-(
Not surprising, really, considering the low quality of much Linux distros documentation.
And somehow the sins of the past make the sins of the present excusable? That's the kind of self-important junior high mentality bullshit that leads to moronic fucks blowing themselves up on subways.
Great many atrocities have been committed by Western countries, and still are (in Iraq, for instance). With the illegal invasion of Iraq where the occupation forces shows little regard for the civil population, we have gotten our self a new breeding ground of people living in poverty wanting to get even. The extremists know how to use this to enlarge their ranks.
To nitpick a bit more : The GP talked about OpenSSH, not OpenSSL that is not developed/maintained by the OpenBSD project. Though I'm pretty sure that OpenSSL cares about security as well:-)
Like in all software, there is security issues, but it's not quite as bleak as the list you presented (one reflect FreeBSD on Alpha, another about a script on Debian, if I remember correctly, some changes from default config (like disabling Priv Sep)).
Have a look at
OpenSSH Security for the various security issues. The opensSL project has a
similar page.
Your compiled lists includes programs that uses OpenSSL, so the same vulnerability is listed several times CAN-2005-1247 . It's like counting each and every vulnerable application that uses a zlib with the recent security holes.
But when we find out (if we ever do) that it would be cheaper to spend an extra buck or two and get something that lasts a little longer China is a bind; they probably don't have the infrastructure to compete on quality.
Funny, that was once said about Japanese products as well.
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Yes, but the media last longer with proper storage. What you need to do is to regulary copy the old media to a new media, say every year or few years. Do remember that machines to read the old media may not be available in the future. This is done by the Norwegian agency responsible for archiving, by the way.
Actually, very important papers that is intended to last for a very long time are printed on specially made paper. An example of this a treaty between two states.
Sorry to disappoint you, but there is open source Flash player :grin:
OpenBSD have two releases each year, on time, and has done so for years. FreeBSD and NetBSD is discussing about doing the same as OpenBSD.
A good example that the "free market" fundamentalists are wrong in not acknowledging that not everything under the sun works well just because it's a "free market solution".
The Conservative government under Thatcher is perhaps better described as free market radical. Actually, this is a trend seen in most European conservative parties in that they are no longer conservative, but free market radicals (neo-liberal, if you like). They used to have a responsible social agenda, only to replace it with greed and enrichment of the rich under the disguise of "free market solutions".
GAG is GPL software, and the software has several translations. But the homepage itself is copyrighed by the author, of course, and you need his permission to reproduce it.
If you use i386, then ditch Lilo and GRUB, and use something that works out of the box : GAG
You can try GAG to see if it works with AMD64.
Well, at least this article has some technical content, and is not just-another-"review"-of-a-distro consisting only of screenshots from the installation.
Bush Sr is very different from his son. I'm sure that Bush Sr would not, like his son, have squandered the goodwill extended to USA after the awfull terrorist attack in New York.
When the Bush administration's poll numbers fall, or they want to draw our attention away from what the administation is doing, then there will be a "security alert" of some kind. The media plays along with these obvious ploys. This is just one of the "security alerts" from the current "bad guy". Of course, if you point this out, then you are an un-American, un-patriotic terrorist loving scumbag that have no gratitude for what the Great Uncle Sam has done for you.
I think that you should take my suggestion to educate yourself, and perhaps your first noble step in this direction will be to know the meaning of the word "dupe".
For the benefit of those that sadly believes what you wrote, here are some choise citations from Robin Cook's 'Ethical' Foreign Policy :
Dude (?), your're watching too much Fox "News". Now, go educate yourself and don't believe everything you hear or read.
Your posts quite simply proves that there is some truth about the stereotype of Americans that watches too much Fox "News".
Perhaps it's a good security model, but it seems to be unusable in practice and difficult to configure correctly. As for the .Net security model I'm sure it offers miles of rope to hang yourself with.
Yes, VS IDE 7.1 has some very annoying quibles, but the C++ compiler is much, much better. If you are using templates, or templatized libraries like Boost you should upgrade to 7.1.
*BSD is no exception to the rule that beeing informed is not a requirement before bad mouthing something.
Some of the bad mouthers are Linux users attempting to install and configure a *BSD system, but refuses to read documentation when they have some problems. Much easier to post a mail to a mailing list :-(
Not surprising, really, considering the low quality of much Linux distros documentation.
May I suggest that your get your "information" elsewhere than Fox "News" or any other state propaganda outlet?
Great many atrocities have been committed by Western countries, and still are (in Iraq, for instance). With the illegal invasion of Iraq where the occupation forces shows little regard for the civil population, we have gotten our self a new breeding ground of people living in poverty wanting to get even. The extremists know how to use this to enlarge their ranks.
Like in all software, there is security issues, but it's not quite as bleak as the list you presented (one reflect FreeBSD on Alpha, another about a script on Debian, if I remember correctly, some changes from default config (like disabling Priv Sep)).
Have a look at OpenSSH Security for the various security issues. The opensSL project has a similar page.
Your compiled lists includes programs that uses OpenSSL, so the same vulnerability is listed several times
CAN-2005-1247 . It's like counting each and every vulnerable application that uses a zlib with the recent security holes.
Funny, that was once said about Japanese products as well.