The systems are defined by methods of sharing goods.
Capitalism: As much as you can take. Socialism: As much as you deserve. Communism: As much as you need.
It has pretty much nothing in common with politics and policy of achieving the above, and even less with any kind of breaches in the systems that spoil the above rules.
The basic idea behind Socialism is that if you did a lot of good but for some reason didn't get much personal profit from it, you deserve support. Even if you did nothing, you have the right to live and so you should be granted conditions to live. But if you i.e. were a good surgeon but lost your eyes, you can't work anymore, but you deserve something better for what you did. It is some kind of inequality, but adequate to what people do. No situations when you are sentenced to live in slums because you were born in slums, or you don't need to move a finger because you inherited a fortune of your grandfather or cheated your partner out of business.
The basic idea of communism is that everyone is equal and thus gets equal share of goods - plus what's necessary for their work. No matter if you are a famous poet or a poor farmer, you don't get any extra resources for what you do, except as a poet you may get an extra box of pens and vacations in mountains (for inspiration), and as a farmer - a tractor and supply of seed grain. You are supposed to work as much as it's needed and even more, because this way you contribute to the country as a whole - and if everyone does good work, everyone gets equal share of its results - but as an individual, you won't get anything better for working harder than your neighbour - it's your own faith in justice of the system that is supposed to keep you going, not individual prizes for what you do. As expected result, people should get to the level when production ballances consumption, and everyone is happy, working not too much and getting all they want. It's based on assumption of honesty and responsibility of all the people involved. Everyone works for better living of everyone, nobody steals or breaks, people willingly improve the overall condition of the country, therefore gradually improving their own. How badly that assumption failed and backfired, I don't have to tell.
Forget Soviet Union and all the evil that lived there. Learn about the original ideas of communism.
Read Stanislaw Lem's "Magellan Cloud" (or something like this, I don't know how they translated the title) - it depicts a world in which people were responsible enough for communism to succeed - a world in which one likes to live. No propaganda, slogans, terror, stiff norms. Just "open source" in all domains of life.
If they provide me with fake binaries and clean sources and I happily run the binaries provided - my fault. If they provide me with tainted source and I don't audit and don't publish it - my fault.
But... I compile the copy they gave me and publish it. People - completely independent, concerned with safety of their interested, represented by me as their politician, audit the code. If they find backdoors, authors of the code are screwed and I'm warned. Maybe they aren't screwed by legal means, but nobody will trust them, ever. If there are no backdoors in the source, I launch./configure ; make ; make install (or some other "emerge") and I have a system without holes - I really don't care about binaries.
Of course there IS a risk they tainted GCC binaries to insert malicious code at compile time, but why can't I get a 3rd party GCC? Yeah, that's pretty paranoid. But all those "paranoia countermeasures" wouldn't be possible with proprietary software.
Open source advocates rightfully maintain that the sheer number of eyes looking at the source tends to rapidly find and repair problems as well as inefficiencies--and that those same eyes would find and repair maliciously inserted code as well. Unfortunately, the model breaks down as soon as the core group involved in a project or distribution decides to corrupt the source, because they simply won't make the corrupted version public. Therefore, security problems for governments begin with knowing which distributions they can trust.
GPL forces distributors to provide source code to their customer. Then the government is free to (and should) post the source to public audience. They can (and should, even for performance sake) recompile the binaries from the code provided. So...?
3 in 100 doesn't mean that in every company that has 60 computers, 2 desktops are Linux. It's more likely, that in one town there are maybe 5 nerds with Linux desktops, and 600 companies without a single Linux desktop box, and in another town there are 10 "old" and 60 "new" nerds, plus 500 companies without a single Linux box, 60 that are "partial converts" and another 40 that keep 1-2 'doze boxen to intercept incoming M$-specific files, and the rest of their computers is Linux. Suddenly a hospital with some 2000 boxen changes to Linux completely, and you get the city average jump by 2%. even though none of companies you know ever touched Linux.
You'd need to watch it all the time if you wanted to see spikes. It displays current load, not a graph. Plus 2s to reach final value, wit logarythmically decreasing speed. It will get halfway in 0.5s.
1. Neatly cut out the indicator piece. Don't leave out whole battery cover. 2. Use more than one. CPU load, CPU temp, network load, network latency, on worse networks - packet loss, maybe stuff like disk capacity or anything you really desire, that is suitable for analogue display. 3. More data channels. Either paralell or USB, or serial with UART on the other end. 4. 2 diodes and 2 switches to adjust voltage? Excuse me? Have you heard about a trimmer? 5. Load it into a neat case, maybe a front panel of the computer. Yeah, it could look very neat. Better than a LED bargraph or a big badass analog meter. But it doesn't - it's ugly. Sorry.
Called Natural Horsemanship. A technique that is based on deep understanding of horses social structures.
Your first step is to teach the horse you mean no danger. Become a -safe- element of the environment. No matter what goes on, the horse feels fine with you.
Second step: Get the horse to recognise you as another horse. Of course no hooves, no eating grass. But typical horse behaviours. Horses yield from pressure from other horses but push against predators. Horses rarely approach each other directly, usually go along some rather obscure curves. And so on...
Third step: Gain leadership of the herd. Challenging the horse, duelling it, in a special kind of fight that doesn't involve violence, but charisma. Strong, hard looks, stepping forward, making the oponent lose ground...
And then polishing the communication. Getting the horse used to unusual situation, generally utilising newly gained power. Horses that were proclaimed "lost" by the best classical trainers, were "recovered" and wildest ones became nice and gentle thanks to "horse whisperers" as those who practice natural horsemanship are sometimes called.
Have you thought WHY it runs great on Linux but so slow on Windows? It's the same reason, why Windows start so slowly. The same reason why Explorer starts so fast. Explorer loads on system startup. You won't do anything until Explorer has fully loaded, whether you want it or not. Only after it's fully loaded, you can click on Explorer icon and it pops up, ready for your orders. Total load time? About as much as Mozilla. Except you don't need for Mozilla to load, watching "Loading windows" splash screen if you want i.e. to use a text editor. And then, why does Mozilla run so slowly once loaded? Well, Explorer is still in RAM, hogs the memory, even as background task slows the system down, and while running one browser (IE) may be just enough for your system, running TWO browsers at the same time, may be just too much.
Tell you what, a dual+ boot would be cool. And yeah, if it can't fit more than 1 OS a time, just create a PC upload program that lets you switch OS of your handheld quickly. Symbian, Linux, WinCE, NetBSD (yeah, not FBSD, it's a PC thing. It's NBSD that's multi-platform!) or even AmigaOS:) Pick your favourite:)
Yeah, sure. Copy your kernel to/boot, copy system.map, reboot. And wonder why the hell only old kernel is visible? Did you forget something? Or do you think Grub will somehow automagically know you want new kernel? You must update the grub bootloader. And not update as "download newer version" but update as in "reload new config file and write changes to disk". Certainly proves your experience at compiling kernels if you miss that tiny step.
(BTW, the kernel on install does launch LILO by default, but it doesn't touch lilo.conf, and it doesn't touch Grub for that matter)
Have you ran the CD test on that drive? I doubt it's matter of speed. More likely newer drives have better error recovery algorithms and can read the CD properly using data redundancy. Your old drive may be less forgiving on tiny scratches, fingerprints etc.
1.2 Install updated modutils, binutils etc, which are incompatibile with old ones, so there's no easy way of return. 2.2 Go back to config and remove any modules that cause compile errors (I don't know about 2.6 but in 2.3 it was a real bane, every second kernel I tried was broken in this or that way. It took YEARS to get Amiga Fast File System fixed.)
If it doesn't work and i.e. panics on boot-up, go, get some liveCD to boot the system, because you're screwed (No old kernel - new binutils, remember?) and work out slowly what causes the error. May take several hours, sometimes including messing in the sources. Compile, install, reboot, liveCD, repair, compile, reboot... And finally start looking for old binutils to get your old kernel back to work.
Yeah, installing new kernel is an interesting and often pleasant experience. But that's not a morning coffee type task. It CAN go SERIOUSLY wrong.
I have only seen one instance where some has tried to use http://username@password:hostname format at work, but it obviously didn't work because our security proxy closely follows the RFC and doesn't allow it.
And maybe because it took username as username, password as host (after @) and host as port number (: following host) ? The format would be username:password@hostname not username@pass word:hostname
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The systems are defined by methods of sharing goods.
Capitalism: As much as you can take.
Socialism: As much as you deserve.
Communism: As much as you need.
It has pretty much nothing in common with politics and policy of achieving the above, and even less with any kind of breaches in the systems that spoil the above rules.
The basic idea behind Socialism is that if you did a lot of good but for some reason didn't get much personal profit from it, you deserve support. Even if you did nothing, you have the right to live and so you should be granted conditions to live. But if you i.e. were a good surgeon but lost your eyes, you can't work anymore, but you deserve something better for what you did.
It is some kind of inequality, but adequate to what people do. No situations when you are sentenced to live in slums because you were born in slums, or you don't need to move a finger because you inherited a fortune of your grandfather or cheated your partner out of business.
The basic idea of communism is that everyone is equal and thus gets equal share of goods - plus what's necessary for their work. No matter if you are a famous poet or a poor farmer, you don't get any extra resources for what you do, except as a poet you may get an extra box of pens and vacations in mountains (for inspiration), and as a farmer - a tractor and supply of seed grain. You are supposed to work as much as it's needed and even more, because this way you contribute to the country as a whole - and if everyone does good work, everyone gets equal share of its results - but as an individual, you won't get anything better for working harder than your neighbour - it's your own faith in justice of the system that is supposed to keep you going, not individual prizes for what you do. As expected result, people should get to the level when production ballances consumption, and everyone is happy, working not too much and getting all they want.
It's based on assumption of honesty and responsibility of all the people involved. Everyone works for better living of everyone, nobody steals or breaks, people willingly improve the overall condition of the country, therefore gradually improving their own.
How badly that assumption failed and backfired, I don't have to tell.
Forget Soviet Union and all the evil that lived there. Learn about the original ideas of communism.
Read Stanislaw Lem's "Magellan Cloud" (or something like this, I don't know how they translated the title) - it depicts a world in which people were responsible enough for communism to succeed - a world in which one likes to live. No propaganda, slogans, terror, stiff norms. Just "open source" in all domains of life.
Look through this list, you might find something to catch your interest.
If they provide me with fake binaries and clean sources and I happily run the binaries provided - my fault.
./configure ; make ; make install (or some other "emerge") and I have a system without holes - I really don't care about binaries.
If they provide me with tainted source and I don't audit and don't publish it - my fault.
But... I compile the copy they gave me and publish it.
People - completely independent, concerned with safety of their interested, represented by me as their politician, audit the code. If they find backdoors, authors of the code are screwed and I'm warned. Maybe they aren't screwed by legal means, but nobody will trust them, ever. If there are no backdoors in the source, I launch
Of course there IS a risk they tainted GCC binaries to insert malicious code at compile time, but why can't I get a 3rd party GCC? Yeah, that's pretty paranoid. But all those "paranoia countermeasures" wouldn't be possible with proprietary software.
Open Music anyone?
;)
My only concern is, is it free for the idea of freedom or because nobody would pay for it anyway?
they just MUST use IPv6
Open source advocates rightfully maintain that the sheer number of eyes looking at the source tends to rapidly find and repair problems as well as inefficiencies--and that those same eyes would find and repair maliciously inserted code as well. Unfortunately, the model breaks down as soon as the core group involved in a project or distribution decides to corrupt the source, because they simply won't make the corrupted version public. Therefore, security problems for governments begin with knowing which distributions they can trust.
GPL forces distributors to provide source code to their customer. Then the government is free to (and should) post the source to public audience. They can (and should, even for performance sake) recompile the binaries from the code provided. So...?
I think this guy didn't read GPL.
Linux boxen installed in offices as work environments for accountants etc (that is the gaining majority) aren't the most frequent google clients...
3 in 100 doesn't mean that in every company that has 60 computers, 2 desktops are Linux. It's more likely, that in one town there are maybe 5 nerds with Linux desktops, and 600 companies without a single Linux desktop box, and in another town there are 10 "old" and 60 "new" nerds, plus 500 companies without a single Linux box, 60 that are "partial converts" and another 40 that keep 1-2 'doze boxen to intercept incoming M$-specific files, and the rest of their computers is Linux.
Suddenly a hospital with some 2000 boxen changes to Linux completely, and you get the city average jump by 2%. even though none of companies you know ever touched Linux.
As usually... :)
You miss the difference between a hacker and a cracker
You'd need to watch it all the time if you wanted to see spikes. It displays current load, not a graph. Plus 2s to reach final value, wit logarythmically decreasing speed. It will get halfway in 0.5s.
1. Neatly cut out the indicator piece. Don't leave out whole battery cover.
2. Use more than one. CPU load, CPU temp, network load, network latency, on worse networks - packet loss, maybe stuff like disk capacity or anything you really desire, that is suitable for analogue display.
3. More data channels. Either paralell or USB, or serial with UART on the other end.
4. 2 diodes and 2 switches to adjust voltage? Excuse me? Have you heard about a trimmer?
5. Load it into a neat case, maybe a front panel of the computer.
Yeah, it could look very neat. Better than a LED bargraph or a big badass analog meter. But it doesn't - it's ugly. Sorry.
Except it's not ink, it's tinfoil. And it's placed as the bottom layer, under the yellow paint. The guy should have looked better.
you're, unfortunately, mostly right.
Called Natural Horsemanship. A technique that is based on deep understanding of horses social structures.
Your first step is to teach the horse you mean no danger. Become a -safe- element of the environment. No matter what goes on, the horse feels fine with you.
Second step: Get the horse to recognise you as another horse. Of course no hooves, no eating grass. But typical horse behaviours. Horses yield from pressure from other horses but push against predators. Horses rarely approach each other directly, usually go along some rather obscure curves. And so on...
Third step: Gain leadership of the herd. Challenging the horse, duelling it, in a special kind of fight that doesn't involve violence, but charisma. Strong, hard looks, stepping forward, making the oponent lose ground...
And then polishing the communication. Getting the horse used to unusual situation, generally utilising newly gained power.
Horses that were proclaimed "lost" by the best classical trainers, were "recovered" and wildest ones became nice and gentle thanks to "horse whisperers" as those who practice natural horsemanship are sometimes called.
this diagram shows what happened to Firefox.
searched widely and are as sure as they can be that none of the other products called Firefox (of which there are many more than just the film)
:)
And, obviously, the plane.
But since the plane is top secret, no wonder they didn't find it
Have you thought WHY it runs great on Linux but so slow on Windows?
It's the same reason, why Windows start so slowly. The same reason why Explorer starts so fast.
Explorer loads on system startup. You won't do anything until Explorer has fully loaded, whether you want it or not. Only after it's fully loaded, you can click on Explorer icon and it pops up, ready for your orders. Total load time? About as much as Mozilla. Except you don't need for Mozilla to load, watching "Loading windows" splash screen if you want i.e. to use a text editor.
And then, why does Mozilla run so slowly once loaded? Well, Explorer is still in RAM, hogs the memory, even as background task slows the system down, and while running one browser (IE) may be just enough for your system, running TWO browsers at the same time, may be just too much.
that it would run Linux on a Crusoe CPU.
Tell you what, a dual+ boot would be cool. And yeah, if it can't fit more than 1 OS a time, just create a PC upload program that lets you switch OS of your handheld quickly. Symbian, Linux, WinCE, NetBSD (yeah, not FBSD, it's a PC thing. It's NBSD that's multi-platform!) or even AmigaOS :) Pick your favourite :)
Yeah, sure. Copy your kernel to /boot, copy system.map, reboot. And wonder why the hell only old kernel is visible?
Did you forget something? Or do you think Grub will somehow automagically know you want new kernel?
You must update the grub bootloader. And not update as "download newer version" but update as in "reload new config file and write changes to disk". Certainly proves your experience at compiling kernels if you miss that tiny step.
(BTW, the kernel on install does launch LILO by default, but it doesn't touch lilo.conf, and it doesn't touch Grub for that matter)
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at boot time.
Have you ran the CD test on that drive?
I doubt it's matter of speed. More likely newer drives have better error recovery algorithms and can read the CD properly using data redundancy. Your old drive may be less forgiving on tiny scratches, fingerprints etc.
Well...
1.2 Install updated modutils, binutils etc, which are incompatibile with old ones, so there's no easy way of return.
2.2 Go back to config and remove any modules that cause compile errors (I don't know about 2.6 but in 2.3 it was a real bane, every second kernel I tried was broken in this or that way. It took YEARS to get Amiga Fast File System fixed.)
If it doesn't work and i.e. panics on boot-up, go, get some liveCD to boot the system, because you're screwed (No old kernel - new binutils, remember?) and work out slowly what causes the error. May take several hours, sometimes including messing in the sources. Compile, install, reboot, liveCD, repair, compile, reboot... And finally start looking for old binutils to get your old kernel back to work.
Yeah, installing new kernel is an interesting and often pleasant experience. But that's not a morning coffee type task. It CAN go SERIOUSLY wrong.
I have only seen one instance where some has tried to use http://username@password:hostname format at work, but it obviously didn't work because our security proxy closely follows the RFC and doesn't allow it.
s word:hostname
And maybe because it took username as username, password as host (after @) and host as port number (: following host) ?
The format would be
username:password@hostname
not
username@pas