I've been a long time OS tech, working my way up since the days of DOS and BBS's, etc. After I took a 6 month course in the basics of electronics and TV/VCR/Computer repair back in the early 90's I've found that diagnosing and/or understanding how the underlying hardware works helps greatly. I'd definately recommend to all you puter techs out there to learn the basics of electronics, if it be via this book or a cheap course at the local CC. (of course my best advise for aspiring techs is to learn the scientific method and good troubleshooting skills)
You're right, it is in CVS, and leave my wife out of this! (cue drum hit)
I blame it on my end-user-centric attitude which was instilled by Microsoft itself; I last coded Turbo Pascal 7 for DOS and when the Windows version came out I took one look at it and stopped coding anything more intense than batch files. (at least until now, learning Python a bit)
Has anyone here who's posting actually downloaded it and tried it yet?
Kinda hard to do so... From the SourceForge page linked above:
This Project Has Not Released Any Files
Isn't the number one rule of releasing an OS project to actually have something to release first? Sure MS prob hasn't "gotten around to it" but it seems to me they're getting "OSS cred" without even making a release OSS yet... Jonah Hex
Actually I only intended to pass on some info on a subject that interests me as a puter/network tech, so that those who feel likewise can check out this admittedly off-topic subject. My post is short and sweet, links to original insights/info, and does not attempt to disguise the fact that I wrote them; and despite the fact that I posted without my karma bonus I have as little control over what happens once I hit Submit as the next/. ID does...
First a bit of Linux history reiterated, just to set the scene... Linux has gained the widest adoption in the server arena, probably the largest segment being dedicated Internet/Firewall boxes. Running without a GUI or even headless (without attached monitor/etc), configured via Web interface, even using "lower end" hardware. These are perfect canidates for adding more server software to, in this case we'd add a simple way to install and configure game servers.
The advantages are obvious, we can sidestep the entire issue of "does Linux support the latest games" since most modern games come with a Linux server component that is superior to running a server/client at the same time on your Windows box. (added server overhead usually only if you are serving the game of course)
Considering the wide variety of dedicated firewall distros out there (my own favorite) and how easy they are for even Linux newbies to setup, there isn't much of a leap to create such a distro. One of the main issues of course is getting the needed copyrighted content from the game CD to the Linux box, something that is both a manual and painful process in many cases.
I've discussed this project with a few friends who are familiar with Linux firewalls/game servers also, but unfortunately we haven't had time to do more than brainstorm on it. If we do end up putting together a basic distro like this you can be sure I'll submit it to/. games section. Anyone super interested can email me.
First a bit of Linux history reiterated, just to set the scene... Linux has gained the widest adoption in the server arena, probably the largest segment being dedicated Internet/Firewall boxes. Running without a GUI or even headless (without attached monitor/etc), configured via Web interface, even using "lower end" hardware. These are perfect canidates for adding more server software to, in this case we'd add a simple way to install and configure game servers.
The advantages are obvious, we can sidestep the entire issue of "does Linux support the latest games" since most modern games come with a Linux server component that is superior to running a server/client at the same time on your Windows box. (added server overhead usually only if you are serving the game of course)
Considering the wide variety of dedicated firewall distros out there (my own favorite) and how easy they are for even Linux newbies to setup, there isn't much of a leap to create such a distro. One of the main issues of course is getting the needed copyrighted content from the game CD to the Linux box, something that is both a manual and painful process in many cases.
I've discussed this project with a few friends who are familiar with Linux firewalls/game servers also, but unfortunately we haven't had time to do more than brainstorm on it. If we do end up putting together a basic distro like this you can be sure I'll submit it to/. games section. Anyone super interested can email me.
I wonder what the chances are of Slashdot actually doing the work for all of us and creating mirrors on their servers and linking to those instead of taking down poor defenseless websites. Probably not good, huh?
This gets asked and covered alot here, prob in the FAQ too but what the hell I'll give ya my take since you asked nicely... Mirroring runs right into copyright problems, permission issues, plus the actual bandwidth to transfer those mirrored bytes. No clue what is really legal or not just going on what I've read here and there, hopefully someone will chime in if I'm too far offbase.
The Google cache itself could be considered illegal under certain sets of inter/national laws/treatys. Proxy servers are pretty decent caching mechanisms and are usually situated on the ISP pipe to the user, and seem to enjoy the same kind of "blind service provider" freedom from copyright infringement that ISPs themselves appear to have. None of the corps or ISPs I've personally worked for spent any time that I could see on figuring out how legal their proxy was, they only got attention when something technically went wrong.;) So I suppose that if/. created a virtual ISP (prob using VPN tunnels) and ran a proxy server for it's users, it could most likely get away with mirroring anything at all from the web, with even less liability than Google cache could face.
That's great. Link to a small site with a bunch of medium mpeg files. Give them no warning. Has slashdot no shame???
Seems like it's become a custom around here to destroy small hobbyist sites. *sigh*
I agree that this might inconvenience many small sites, and in the case of those who (for whatever awful reason) have bandwidth overage charges instead of an auto-cutoff it might even put them in the poor house. However the current/. system works pretty well, especially when a subscriber takes it upon themselves (throwing caution and probably several legalities to the wind) to mirror the content or Google caches the site so we can at least read the text. And for quite some time on the Internet the reality is that any site, on any subject, anywhere geographically, can be/.'ed by MANY different news/aggregator sites if they link to it. And with the high content value on small sites that concentrate on a single subject (esp if it's the original author/design team/etc's site) there is a much higher probablility that it will be selected to be/.'ed by the world at large. Of course hardly anyone at these small sites actually considers that they might get blasted by a "friendly DDOS", and even the ones who think/pray for the attention of a giant like/. probably don't go the extra bit and make sure their sites can either withstand it or fail gracefully (without the aforementioned bandwidth overage charges). Seems to me some of these "build a basic website" primers need to add a section on ALL the various things that can happen to even hobby websites; not only/.'ing but also defacement, etc.
Of course I agree it's a problem, just giving my thoughts on the situation...
Jonah Hex
Re:A card is more than just a magnetic strip...
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...magnetic tape, holograms,
cars, and...
While an interesting mental visual (IIRC the actual room is around 10'x15' in size, and cluttered with supplies), I of course meant cards.
I much prefer this version, which uses a combo in-wheel system and a constant RPM diesel engine for power. (Last seen on/. as Dutch Invention Uses Electric Engines For Wheels) First off your "recharging station" is anywhere that sells diesel, and the wheel brakes generating charging current as well as the constant RPM makes for a damn small, quiet, and efficient system.
I'm aware the article mentions hybrids, which definately means this version of the "wheel motor" can be used in the exact same situation, however it seems from the web sites this car is planned as a pure electric with special "charging stations", which IMHO will never take off without government mandates.
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Re:A card is more than just a magnetic strip...
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· Score: 2, Interesting
I am always _very_ surprised to hear, you american people, describe their credit card system. It sounds like middle-age era to the europeans
I think it's probably due to the different economic and social pressures involved, the strongest being the fact that most US card producing companies are mostly of the large, monolithic type. I've been in an actual room where First Chicago - National Bank of Detroit produces CC's, and not only is the entire Haggerty Road Tech Center building under tight security but the CC creation room itself has several additional layers of security that would be more at home in a maximum security prison; all protecting it and all those rolls of magnetic tape, holograms, cars, and of course the weird "loom and stamp" machine that winds it all together. Speaking as a computer geek not as a security expert, I'd guess the security on the CC room was 10X greater than for their large mainframe computer area. I'd say that tells much about how the large financial institutions view CCs.
I also want to touch on the social aspect, as you can see by a few posts thru this topic many folks are very much against the idea of combining all their cards into an all-in-one, and I will bet that most of them are from the US as I am. We are all trained into considering our cards much the same way the banks do, as well as having the added social pressures of both: freedom from privacy violations by biz and government (real, imagined, or socially engineered by some faction), and the "group trends & fads/social network/urban legend" aspect which plays such a large part (along with advertising/entertainment) in how the American people live.
While I'm mildly aware of the one card situation over in the EU, and also both one card and replacing cards with cell phones over in Japan, it seems like there are probably the same factors at play in both those situations, only in altered ways due to CCs being introduced at different times and ways in the different areas. Often times being the first country to implement an idea or proccess is not necessarily the best way for innovation to occur, especially where a large amount of infrastructure and/or business processes are put into place to support the early versions. Countries that implement such ideas later have the luxury of buying into second, third or even higher generations of the tech, which may very well be an almost totally new system such as comparing the US's credit cards with the EU chip card and the Japan cellphone "card". However having such widely varied systems in place in geographically seperated areas will give future innovations in this industry a chance to select the best aspects from three real-world viable and operating systems. I'll take a stab in the dark here and say this also might help keep the "keepers of the cards" from becoming a monopoly.
Those large, flat, square ones are also easy to peel off items and lay on the floor sticky side up; or even "accidentally" stick to one of your friends or perhaps the person in front of you with 24 items and a checkbook... in the 12 items or less, Cash Only lane. You got lucky, a roll would be interesting to play with.
While I agree that the redesigns sucked, I also think Google is missing out by not making use of CSS for different, user preference looks. I've always been a frames and tables kinda guy for my little websites, but for my Hexagon Computers redesign I'm learning CSS and I'm very pleased with how easy it makes seperating content style from the content itself. I like this little scenario
Your best client, Harvey, calls. "Joe", he says, "Our new marketing guy says that the web site needs to be fluid... it needs to expand and contract when people resize their window. Can you have it done by next Tuesday?"
"Er, uh, sure", you stammer. You hang up the phone, curl into a fetal position, and you want to die... on Monday. There are 283 pages and each one contains a fixed-width table. If it takes five minutes to edit each page, it'll take TWENTY-THREE hours to edit them all.
You can prevent this from ever happening to you again if you use CSS to control your tables.
Remember also you can select different CSS sheets on the fly via browser and setup user prefs via cookie or whatever. So there could be many choices for interface, and while I'm sure the cleaner, less cluttered designs will be used a great deal, alot of folks are going to want customization from mild to wild... So for myself I'm going for pure CSS menus and layouts.
Some words from the UO Yahoo Group, slightly editted to cut out the crap/. didn't like... my thoughts follow...
Date: Mon, 23 Feb 2004 12:06:18 -0800 From: "Joshua Rowan" <joshua@stratics.com> Subject: Rumors of Origin Systems Shutting Down
--- Rumors of Origin Systems Shutting Down --- Posted Monday, February 23, 2004, 12:50 PM EST by Joshua Rowan:
Hail UO and UXO Fans,
We are receiving information this morning indicating that something very serious may be hitting the news in the next few days (maybe as soon as today). So far, it is all unsubstantiated rumors, but with enough evidence behind them that we believe the information to be very close to the truth. For that reason, I am posting this to our news so that everyone can prepare for it in case it does come to pass.....
With that said, the rumor is that Electronic Arts Corporate may be shutting down Origin Systems Inc (OSI, also known as EA Texas) and moving both the Ultima Online and the Ultima X: Odyssey projects to the California location. The hope is that as many current staffers (including dev teams) as possible will be relocated as well, but at this point we have no details on that. To say the least, our thoughts and hearts go out to the people that may be affected by this.
So far, there has been no official comment from anyone at Electronic Arts or Origin Systems about this, but the second we do get it we will share it with all of you.
Date: Mon, 23 Feb 2004 14:51:01 -0800 From: "Joshua Rowan" <joshua@stratics.com> Subject: More Details about Latest CA Rumors
More Details about Latest CA Rumors --- Posted Monday, February 23, 2004, 3:40 PM EST by Joshua Rowan:
A bit more news to share with all of you about the latest rumors of UO and UXO being relocated to California and the Origin Systems Development Studio being shut down as a result.
First, ( http://waterthread.org/forum/index.php?showtopic=1 774 ) Waterthread.org has posted some details based on a ( http://www.shermanventures.com/austinxl.html ) AustinXL News Mailing List that they belong to. As they explain, the following was posted to the newsletter today:
QUOTE Electronic Art's Austin Unit Origin Systems to Shut Down
Game company Electronic Art's is expected to tell it's Austin employees this week that the company will be shutting down Origin Systems, its Austin operations, according to sources. Employees will be offered an opportunity to relocate to California or accept a severance package. Company officials could not be reached for comment. Austin is the # 3 location in the U.S. for game development with more than 50 companies making major contributions to the game industry, including game development, publishing, tools and middleware and chips and hardware.
In a related story about another Electronic Arts studio, Maxis (developers of The Sims line of games), Gamespot reported the following just last week, indicating that a consolidation of EA-owned studios may be becoming a trend. Here is what ( http://www.gamespot.com/all/news/news_6089213.h tml ) Gamespot's Article states: EA brings the Sims developers to its corporate headquarters.
Today, sources at Electronic Arts confirmed what has been rumored for the past week: EA is folding Maxis into its central corporate offices. Currently, Maxis operates out of a now-cramped building in Walnut Creek, California. Their new digs will be in EA's Redwood Shores headquarters, some 30 miles to the east.
"Maxis was running out of space at Walnut Creek," an EA spokesperson told GameSpot this morning. The current management team at Maxis, Luc Barthelet, Lucy Bradshaw, and Sinjin Bain, will relocate to Redwood Shores, as will most of Maxis' 300 staffers.
Someone else pointed out this site for another reason, but I saw this which might explain why Autoduel isn't in the list.
Note: at the request of Steve Jackson Games, all material pertaining to two Origin games based on SJ Games licenses Autoduel and Ogre have been removed from this site. Please contact Steve Jackson Games directly if you would like to buy these two PC classics.
Incidently, you're still anonymous even if you register a nickname. Nobody has any NFI who you are, nickname or not.
While that's mostly true for "blank" accounts, it's much easier to leave tracks however when you have a registered account. For example even tho I have an extra layer of anon for my email on sneakemail.com (or as my fav/. obfuscation would have it, moc.liamekaens) I leave major tracks by linking to my actual website and occasionally mirroring the odd file/image or two. Even without such obvious pointers and all info blank with each/. ID having it's own user history site it makes it alot easier to find clues and pointers within old posts, etc.
I'm definately not an astronomer but I recall that the theory of there being a supermassive black hole at the center of each galaxy made a hell of alot of sense when last I saw it presented on Discovery or somesuch. Anyone out there know the status on that theory, and if this particular blackhole that's munching the star is a (struggles for terms then makes some up) galaxy-center-hole or a free-floating-hole?
While I really appreciate the work Bev and many others have done to bring this to the public's attention, I know in my heart it is not the fastest solution.
An act of civil disobediance is needed by MANY people across the US. Simply disseminate via internet simple instructions for how to adjust the votes on various types of electronic machines, and use them to cast an enourmous amount of votes for the least likely canidate in every single election. If this happened in even a few cases around the country the news and governement would have no choice but to take electronic tampering completely seriously. If it happened thousands of times in the next election I think Diebold, et al, would most likely backpedal to an open source and completely transparent system so fast it'd set their boardroom carpets afire.
Would I myself chance jail in order to commit an act of civil disobediance which could forever ensure the future of voting is fair and trustworthy for ordinary citizens? Just show me the simple instructions on how to get the job done...
You know, from the point of view of a company looking to adopt and use OSS, rather than develop and sell services around it, that's a fairly lousy way to sell the concept...
"Look, its cool! Other companies figure that they can make lots of money from you if you switch to OSS, and your technical staff will have to work long and hard to figure it all out. Plus, upgrades to customized software will be a real bitch!"
Companies are used to paying a little for a large block of code (mainframes down to windows/office), and a lot for customization to meet their biz needs. You'll notice I said "love to read and learn new things, enjoy long hours in the night and weekends", and both myself and the folks I've worked with are amply compensated for doing what we enjoy. I stay awake for nights and days at a time on my computers anyway, so obviously I love getting paid for putting this on my time sheet, and I have when working from home on specific projects:
Mon 12am to 7am, 5pm to 12am
Tue 12am to 12am
Wed 12am to 5:30am, 6:30pm to 12am, etc...
I'm a tech that consults for others via my own company now, and before that other companies pimped me out to biz's that were either needing large server and/or desktop OS/software changes or in short term projects, some of them under firefighting or damage control situations. The state of biz computing (including the biz practices surrounding IT) in most companies is in some part a house of cards, unless there is a major revolution in the state of maturity or generations of software (and hardware) this situation won't change anytime soon.
Simply couch it in terms that most big biz managers can understand, the days when mainframes, dumb terminals and programmers ruled the earth. The largest data center I've ever worked in was First Chicago - National Bank of Detroit's Haggerty Rd. Tech Center, and based on that experience (and at smaller data centers) I see no problem with Open Source taking over most of the software functions from the OS to applications to custom programming for one-off jobs. The main thing to remember about Linux and OSS is that most of it needs to be used as large Lego's, nice blocks of code that do their job damn well, but need smaller custom machined parts if you need to go outside the boundaries. This is the reason IBM is behind Linux and therefore OSS, you can still make a hell of alot of money actually making the whole thing work. I hope your tech team is like most of the ones I work with; love to read and learn new things, enjoy long hours in the night and weekends spent with keyboard and mouse, and the courage to kludge and break things in a test environment, but the control to leave out the kitchen sink if the plumbing stinks.
If you would like to detail directly which of our systems allegedly violate your copyrights, and specifically
which code on said systems allegedly violates said copyrights, we will be happy to do an internal audit to
verify your claims. Once the results of said audit are complete, we will be more than willing discuss any
pending licensing issues with you.
The site justsportsusa.com is running Apache/1.3.28 (Unix) (Gentoo/Linux) PHP/4.3.2 mod_ssl/2.8.15 OpenSSL/0.9.6j on Linux.
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IP address 208.29.195.70
Netblock Owner Sprint
There's the answer, they should of sent the letter to Sprint instead. Of course they don't want Sprint's legal team on their ass...
Not suprised really, the original incarnation of Dr. Who was actually based towards children, with his "granddaughter", Susan, and her two normal earth teachers Ian and Barbara, as companions. They were able to at least comprehend both the science fact and fiction used in the stories and explained by both the good Doctor and Susan. If I recall correctly one of the reasons William Hartnell left the sho was due to it moving away from children stories towards a more sci-fi bent. I for one am very glad it continued to keep some fact in through out the series.
Slashdot Mirror
I've been a long time OS tech, working my way up since the days of DOS and BBS's, etc. After I took a 6 month course in the basics of electronics and TV/VCR/Computer repair back in the early 90's I've found that diagnosing and/or understanding how the underlying hardware works helps greatly. I'd definately recommend to all you puter techs out there to learn the basics of electronics, if it be via this book or a cheap course at the local CC. (of course my best advise for aspiring techs is to learn the scientific method and good troubleshooting skills)
Jonah Hex
I blame it on my end-user-centric attitude which was instilled by Microsoft itself; I last coded Turbo Pascal 7 for DOS and when the Windows version came out I took one look at it and stopped coding anything more intense than batch files. (at least until now, learning Python a bit)
Jonah Hex
Jonah Hex
Actually I only intended to pass on some info on a subject that interests me as a puter/network tech, so that those who feel likewise can check out this admittedly off-topic subject. My post is short and sweet, links to original insights/info, and does not attempt to disguise the fact that I wrote them; and despite the fact that I posted without my karma bonus I have as little control over what happens once I hit Submit as the next /. ID does...
Jonah Hex
Check out these two posts on the topic of /.'ing small sites and why /. can't mirror sites, you may find them informative.
Jonah Hex
First a bit of Linux history reiterated, just to set the scene... Linux has gained the widest adoption in the server arena, probably the largest segment being dedicated Internet/Firewall boxes. Running without a GUI or even headless (without attached monitor/etc), configured via Web interface, even using "lower end" hardware. These are perfect canidates for adding more server software to, in this case we'd add a simple way to install and configure game servers.
/. games section. Anyone super interested can email me.
The advantages are obvious, we can sidestep the entire issue of "does Linux support the latest games" since most modern games come with a Linux server component that is superior to running a server/client at the same time on your Windows box. (added server overhead usually only if you are serving the game of course)
Considering the wide variety of dedicated firewall distros out there (my own favorite) and how easy they are for even Linux newbies to setup, there isn't much of a leap to create such a distro. One of the main issues of course is getting the needed copyrighted content from the game CD to the Linux box, something that is both a manual and painful process in many cases.
I've discussed this project with a few friends who are familiar with Linux firewalls/game servers also, but unfortunately we haven't had time to do more than brainstorm on it. If we do end up putting together a basic distro like this you can be sure I'll submit it to
Jonah Hex
First a bit of Linux history reiterated, just to set the scene... Linux has gained the widest adoption in the server arena, probably the largest segment being dedicated Internet/Firewall boxes. Running without a GUI or even headless (without attached monitor/etc), configured via Web interface, even using "lower end" hardware. These are perfect canidates for adding more server software to, in this case we'd add a simple way to install and configure game servers.
/. games section. Anyone super interested can email me.
The advantages are obvious, we can sidestep the entire issue of "does Linux support the latest games" since most modern games come with a Linux server component that is superior to running a server/client at the same time on your Windows box. (added server overhead usually only if you are serving the game of course)
Considering the wide variety of dedicated firewall distros out there (my own favorite) and how easy they are for even Linux newbies to setup, there isn't much of a leap to create such a distro. One of the main issues of course is getting the needed copyrighted content from the game CD to the Linux box, something that is both a manual and painful process in many cases.
I've discussed this project with a few friends who are familiar with Linux firewalls/game servers also, but unfortunately we haven't had time to do more than brainstorm on it. If we do end up putting together a basic distro like this you can be sure I'll submit it to
Jonah Hex
The Google cache itself could be considered illegal under certain sets of inter/national laws/treatys. Proxy servers are pretty decent caching mechanisms and are usually situated on the ISP pipe to the user, and seem to enjoy the same kind of "blind service provider" freedom from copyright infringement that ISPs themselves appear to have. None of the corps or ISPs I've personally worked for spent any time that I could see on figuring out how legal their proxy was, they only got attention when something technically went wrong.
Jonah Hex
Of course I agree it's a problem, just giving my thoughts on the situation...
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I much prefer this version, which uses a combo in-wheel system and a constant RPM diesel engine for power. (Last seen on /. as Dutch Invention Uses Electric Engines For Wheels) First off your "recharging station" is anywhere that sells diesel, and the wheel brakes generating charging current as well as the constant RPM makes for a damn small, quiet, and efficient system.
I'm aware the article mentions hybrids, which definately means this version of the "wheel motor" can be used in the exact same situation, however it seems from the web sites this car is planned as a pure electric with special "charging stations", which IMHO will never take off without government mandates.
Jonah Hex
I also want to touch on the social aspect, as you can see by a few posts thru this topic many folks are very much against the idea of combining all their cards into an all-in-one, and I will bet that most of them are from the US as I am. We are all trained into considering our cards much the same way the banks do, as well as having the added social pressures of both: freedom from privacy violations by biz and government (real, imagined, or socially engineered by some faction), and the "group trends & fads/social network/urban legend" aspect which plays such a large part (along with advertising/entertainment) in how the American people live.
While I'm mildly aware of the one card situation over in the EU, and also both one card and replacing cards with cell phones over in Japan, it seems like there are probably the same factors at play in both those situations, only in altered ways due to CCs being introduced at different times and ways in the different areas. Often times being the first country to implement an idea or proccess is not necessarily the best way for innovation to occur, especially where a large amount of infrastructure and/or business processes are put into place to support the early versions. Countries that implement such ideas later have the luxury of buying into second, third or even higher generations of the tech, which may very well be an almost totally new system such as comparing the US's credit cards with the EU chip card and the Japan cellphone "card". However having such widely varied systems in place in geographically seperated areas will give future innovations in this industry a chance to select the best aspects from three real-world viable and operating systems. I'll take a stab in the dark here and say this also might help keep the "keepers of the cards" from becoming a monopoly.
Jonah Hex
Those large, flat, square ones are also easy to peel off items and lay on the floor sticky side up; or even "accidentally" stick to one of your friends or perhaps the person in front of you with 24 items and a checkbook... in the 12 items or less, Cash Only lane. You got lucky, a roll would be interesting to play with.
Jonah Hex
Jonah Hex
Jonah Hex
I'm definately not an astronomer but I recall that the theory of there being a supermassive black hole at the center of each galaxy made a hell of alot of sense when last I saw it presented on Discovery or somesuch. Anyone out there know the status on that theory, and if this particular blackhole that's munching the star is a (struggles for terms then makes some up) galaxy-center-hole or a free-floating-hole?
Jonah Hex
While I really appreciate the work Bev and many others have done to bring this to the public's attention, I know in my heart it is not the fastest solution.
An act of civil disobediance is needed by MANY people across the US. Simply disseminate via internet simple instructions for how to adjust the votes on various types of electronic machines, and use them to cast an enourmous amount of votes for the least likely canidate in every single election. If this happened in even a few cases around the country the news and governement would have no choice but to take electronic tampering completely seriously. If it happened thousands of times in the next election I think Diebold, et al, would most likely backpedal to an open source and completely transparent system so fast it'd set their boardroom carpets afire.
Would I myself chance jail in order to commit an act of civil disobediance which could forever ensure the future of voting is fair and trustworthy for ordinary citizens? Just show me the simple instructions on how to get the job done...
Jonah Hex
- Wed 12am to 5:30am, 6:30pm to 12am, etc...
I'm a tech that consults for others via my own company now, and before that other companies pimped me out to biz's that were either needing large server and/or desktop OS/software changes or in short term projects, some of them under firefighting or damage control situations. The state of biz computing (including the biz practices surrounding IT) in most companies is in some part a house of cards, unless there is a major revolution in the state of maturity or generations of software (and hardware) this situation won't change anytime soon.Jonah Hex
Simply couch it in terms that most big biz managers can understand, the days when mainframes, dumb terminals and programmers ruled the earth. The largest data center I've ever worked in was First Chicago - National Bank of Detroit's Haggerty Rd. Tech Center, and based on that experience (and at smaller data centers) I see no problem with Open Source taking over most of the software functions from the OS to applications to custom programming for one-off jobs. The main thing to remember about Linux and OSS is that most of it needs to be used as large Lego's, nice blocks of code that do their job damn well, but need smaller custom machined parts if you need to go outside the boundaries. This is the reason IBM is behind Linux and therefore OSS, you can still make a hell of alot of money actually making the whole thing work. I hope your tech team is like most of the ones I work with; love to read and learn new things, enjoy long hours in the night and weekends spent with keyboard and mouse, and the courage to kludge and break things in a test environment, but the control to leave out the kitchen sink if the plumbing stinks.
Jonah Hex
Jonah Hex
The site justsportsusa.com is running Apache/1.3.28 (Unix) (Gentoo/Linux) PHP/4.3.2 mod_ssl/2.8.15 OpenSSL/0.9.6j on Linux.
Last changed 22-Jan-2004
IP address 208.29.195.70
Netblock Owner Sprint
There's the answer, they should of sent the letter to Sprint instead. Of course they don't want Sprint's legal team on their ass...
Jonah Hex
Not suprised really, the original incarnation of Dr. Who was actually based towards children, with his "granddaughter", Susan, and her two normal earth teachers Ian and Barbara, as companions. They were able to at least comprehend both the science fact and fiction used in the stories and explained by both the good Doctor and Susan. If I recall correctly one of the reasons William Hartnell left the sho was due to it moving away from children stories towards a more sci-fi bent. I for one am very glad it continued to keep some fact in through out the series.
Jonah Hex
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