The movement to link litigious bastards to http://www.sco.com/ would be more interesting if we all let SCO know exactly how you feel. Make sure your link says http://www.sco.com/?sco=litigious%20bastards. (The query parameter will naturally appear in their server logs.)
You guys sure are a bunch of litigious bastards! Darl, please calm down! You can make more money and a better name for yourself if you do something useful.
It also helps if your sites and blogs point to other sites and blogs that have instances of litigious bastards.
For example, see my blog entry on the matter. I maintain a list at the bottom of the summary. So, please add comments to my blog entry with links to other litigious bastards references!
No, but you could easily get away with wearing a more finished looking pair rather than something as rustic as what you pointed out. You can also be sure to get smaller, less obvious buttons (they have styles from flat, black steel to deer antler). Besides, how often do people notice your shoes? (Didn't you ever watch The Shawshank Redemption?:) And at a conference, chances are you're going to be wearing pants anyway, so they'll be mostly covered. Their moccasins are pretty cool looking, but I for one definitely vouch for their functionality, which is always more important than style.
If you want an excellent shoe that is incredibly comfortable, check out Catskill Mountain Moccasins. My girlfriend and I both ahve a pair and they are incredibly nice. They take a cast of your feet and build moccasins specific to your needs. (Naturally, they're not the only shops that do this.) They are lined with sheepskin and are suple yet supportive enough that your ankles don't get tired. Plus they last forever. An average pair of shoes can run from $350-$400, but once you wear them, you'll realize they're worth every penny. The only downside is they have a lot of orders and they are a bit back-logged, so it'll take you a few months to get your new footwear.
I forgot to qualify that with "your CRT monitor(s)." LCD displays do not appear to be afflicted with this misnomer (as others in this thread have pointed out).
Get your ruler out and measure the viewable size of your monitor(s). I can tell you with utmost certainty that it's about 1" less than you were expecting. This is a deceptive marketing tactic which has been in use for computer displays for a very long time. Marketing measures the size of the tube (which is partially obscured by the plastic casing), not how much of it actually displays stuff.
My 15" Titanium PowerBook, the last round of the series before they became the 15" AlPB, was advertised to contain a Radeon 9000. Nevertheless, bus scanning output from in shows I actually have an 8500. What's the difference? I really don't know. Nevertheless, seems a bit deceptive to me.
Thank you IBM for tackling a lot of the barriers that currently prohibit Linux on the desktop. There is going to be some serious progress as IBM universally eats its own dog food.
On top of that, this will undue a lot of the damage rendered by SCO in the past few months. If anyone has any doubts about using Linux due to SCO's nonsense, it should be assuaged. "Big Blue isn't worried, we shouldn't be either."
The trouble is, if we rightfully boycott a poor and intentionally crippled product, the record companies will blame their declining sales on P2P networks. The government will then step in to provide them a corporate crutch and start putting people using the future of media distribution in jail.
It's an ugly situation. The best thing we can do is help indy music sales and make sure they report their numbers. We need to make it clear that the sales of the Big Five are declining while others are increasing. Maybe the government will notice the signifigance of that.
The only logical thing to do when you want to deter behavior is to make more laws! Charging less for movie showings and releasing to films to DVD more quickly would have no effect on this problem. Nope, none whatsoever.
Make me your friend; my fans get +1 comment scores.
Actually, they don't. The +1 bonus is your personal view preference. If Joe_User_123 is your fan, you'll see his post scores at n + 1 whereas I'll see them at n.
When is the last time you just typed up an
email address on the computer, slapped your
document on the scanner, pushed a button, and
everything worked flawlessly without
any intervention.
Fax machines are incredibly easy to use and
just seem to work, end of story. They have a
user interface that just about everyone is
already familiar with (the telephone) where as
computers and scanners are just plain over
complicated in really stupid ways. There's
issues with drivers, non-standard UIs for
scanning, and I have yet to see "one button"
features work on any scanner on any
platform.
It's a shame not more devices work as easily
as fax machines and telephones.
I've recently switched from Debian Linux to FreeBSD 5.2. I was running a pair of RAID-1 arrays off a Highpoint HPT372 RocketRAID 133 controller using Highpoint's rather lackluster, "open source" driver. Of course, contacting them about FreeBSD support greater than 5.0 has yielded nothing useful, so now I am on the hunt for other solutions.
I've come across offerings from 3ware, notably the 7006-2. What caught my eye about this card (well, all of them from 3ware) was that it's actually a hardware-based ATA RAID adapter (where as RAID functionality is implemented in software for most ATA controllers out there). Does this mean that I can use this card without any driver hell? Will a RAID-whatever array simply appear as another/dev/a[dr]* device or is it not that simple? (By the way, I care little about CLI tools for rebuilding the array. I am content to use the card's BIOS to do management.)
Of course, if I can solve the problem with my Highpoint, that'd be useful too. Currently, if I create a RAID-1 array, the two real disks appear as/dev/ad4 and/dev/ad5 but I also get a/dev/ar0 device. However, if I simulate a disk failure, none of the devices appear. It appears to me like FreeBSD indeed supports the RAID functionality of this card out of the box, but a bit of minor tweaking is required.
The bottom line however is I wouldn't mind buying a a RAID adapter with functionality implemented in hardware. That'd be better overall. I just want to make sure it'll work with flying colors in whatever OS I choose to use.
NAIROBI (Reuters) - A Kenyan man chopped off one of his testicles in a row with his wife and then walked naked to a police station to report the incident, police said on Monday.
Police rushed 26-year-old Stephen Ongala to hospital after he stumbled into their police station in the border town of Busia in western Kenya on Friday bleeding heavily.
"He said he did it because he had had a disagreement with his wife," said deputy police chief Shadrack Maithya. "If we get evidence that he tried to take his life, then we may charge him because it is a criminal offence."
That would multiply whatever "wow!" factor is involved here.
What "wow factor"? This guy obtained/warezed a copy of VirtualPC then proceeds to obtain/warez copies of a bunch of different operating systems and install them. Point and click. Playing with menus. "Wow"? What the hell is wrong with you people when you say "wow" to something so silly and utterly pointless.
What is it about the oppression types that just love banning science that would better the lives of people all over the world. So, I'm confused by their stance on scientific research here. The White House clearly supports the research and manufacture of new and bigger weapons but says that cloning embryos is unethical?
[T]he SCO Group's Web site came under attack, apparently by hackers unhappy with the company's legal threats against users of the Linux operating system.
Way to spread FUD. This is just a baseless assumption, but putting it up on the front page may somehow give weight to it in the eyes of the less analytical masses.
While we're off making possibly outlandish assumptions, why not point out that it's likely the company, considering all the other nonsense it engages in, is crippling itself to give ammunition against the FOSS community.
We do not, under any circumstances, want this case thrown out.
We want a few things from this:
We want a demonstration of the GPL holding up incourt.
We want a precendent set.
We want "our name" cleared, so to speak.
If the case is thrown out, SCO will go unpunnished, the GPL will look really weak or at least uneforceable, and the FUD will all go mostly unanswered. A clear shot, slam-dunk win is the only acceptable outcome to all of this.
...of what is ever increasing in value and formerly accessible to the public into the hands of an elite few in trade for something of ever decreasing value.
You can either take 50 hours worth of classes in internet security or you can reinstall your computer every fourth month because of hackers and virus infestations
I'd like to point out that these are not practical and they're not what I'm suggesting.
50 hours is overkill in training most employees about security, although something in that neighborhood is appropriate for managers to get them to appreciate the value of security. Policies and procedures handed down to them by IT should be sufficient. (Of course, those will have to be enforced.)
Reinstalling operating systems excessively is not necessary to avoid "hackers" and viruses. This is what intrusion detection mechanisms are for. (Example: you store checksums of your files on write-once media and monitor for changes.)
If people dont value computer security as much as you do, you can't do anything to change their mind. And since it's a question of values they're not even wrong.
Perhaps. This is a purely subjective point that I can't really comment on. I was simply pointing out that people don't pay attention to the basics, and silly ideas to compensate aren't going to cure our security woes.
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The movement to link litigious bastards to http://www.sco.com/ would be more interesting if we all let SCO know exactly how you feel. Make sure your link says http://www.sco.com/?sco=litigious%20bastards. (The query parameter will naturally appear in their server logs.)
You guys sure are a bunch of litigious bastards! Darl, please calm down! You can make more money and a better name for yourself if you do something useful.
It also helps if your sites and blogs point to other sites and blogs that have instances of litigious bastards.
For example, see my blog entry on the matter. I maintain a list at the bottom of the summary. So, please add comments to my blog entry with links to other litigious bastards references!
Make sure you add this to your weblogs! Here's an entry I made on the matter.
No, but you could easily get away with wearing a more finished looking pair rather than something as rustic as what you pointed out. You can also be sure to get smaller, less obvious buttons (they have styles from flat, black steel to deer antler). Besides, how often do people notice your shoes? (Didn't you ever watch The Shawshank Redemption? :) And at a conference, chances are you're going to be wearing pants anyway, so they'll be mostly covered. Their moccasins are pretty cool looking, but I for one definitely vouch for their functionality, which is always more important than style.
If you want an excellent shoe that is incredibly comfortable, check out Catskill Mountain Moccasins. My girlfriend and I both ahve a pair and they are incredibly nice. They take a cast of your feet and build moccasins specific to your needs. (Naturally, they're not the only shops that do this.) They are lined with sheepskin and are suple yet supportive enough that your ankles don't get tired. Plus they last forever. An average pair of shoes can run from $350-$400, but once you wear them, you'll realize they're worth every penny. The only downside is they have a lot of orders and they are a bit back-logged, so it'll take you a few months to get your new footwear.
(No, I don't work for them. :)
I forgot to qualify that with "your CRT monitor(s)." LCD displays do not appear to be afflicted with this misnomer (as others in this thread have pointed out).
Get your ruler out and measure the viewable size of your monitor(s). I can tell you with utmost certainty that it's about 1" less than you were expecting. This is a deceptive marketing tactic which has been in use for computer displays for a very long time. Marketing measures the size of the tube (which is partially obscured by the plastic casing), not how much of it actually displays stuff.
My 15" Titanium PowerBook, the last round of the series before they became the 15" AlPB, was advertised to contain a Radeon 9000. Nevertheless, bus scanning output from in shows I actually have an 8500. What's the difference? I really don't know. Nevertheless, seems a bit deceptive to me.
Thank you IBM for tackling a lot of the barriers that currently prohibit Linux on the desktop. There is going to be some serious progress as IBM universally eats its own dog food.
On top of that, this will undue a lot of the damage rendered by SCO in the past few months. If anyone has any doubts about using Linux due to SCO's nonsense, it should be assuaged. "Big Blue isn't worried, we shouldn't be either."
The trouble is, if we rightfully boycott a poor and intentionally crippled product, the record companies will blame their declining sales on P2P networks. The government will then step in to provide them a corporate crutch and start putting people using the future of media distribution in jail.
It's an ugly situation. The best thing we can do is help indy music sales and make sure they report their numbers. We need to make it clear that the sales of the Big Five are declining while others are increasing. Maybe the government will notice the signifigance of that.
Then again, maybe not.
The only logical thing to do when you want to deter behavior is to make more laws! Charging less for movie showings and releasing to films to DVD more quickly would have no effect on this problem. Nope, none whatsoever.
$ lynx /usr/ports/<branch>/<package>/README.html
I know, monumentally complicated.
Actually, they don't. The +1 bonus is your personal view preference. If Joe_User_123 is your fan, you'll see his post scores at n + 1 whereas I'll see them at n.
*BSD?
I can't wait to put critical hardware into the hands of Microsoft. I foresee stability and no conflict of interest whatsoever.
When is the last time you just typed up an email address on the computer, slapped your document on the scanner, pushed a button, and everything worked flawlessly without any intervention.
Fax machines are incredibly easy to use and just seem to work, end of story. They have a user interface that just about everyone is already familiar with (the telephone) where as computers and scanners are just plain over complicated in really stupid ways. There's issues with drivers, non-standard UIs for scanning, and I have yet to see "one button" features work on any scanner on any platform.
It's a shame not more devices work as easily as fax machines and telephones.
I've recently switched from Debian Linux to FreeBSD 5.2. I was running a pair of RAID-1 arrays off a Highpoint HPT372 RocketRAID 133 controller using Highpoint's rather lackluster, "open source" driver. Of course, contacting them about FreeBSD support greater than 5.0 has yielded nothing useful, so now I am on the hunt for other solutions.
I've come across offerings from 3ware, notably the 7006-2. What caught my eye about this card (well, all of them from 3ware) was that it's actually a hardware-based ATA RAID adapter (where as RAID functionality is implemented in software for most ATA controllers out there). Does this mean that I can use this card without any driver hell? Will a RAID-whatever array simply appear as another /dev/a[dr]* device or is it not that simple? (By the way, I care little about CLI tools for rebuilding the array. I am content to use the card's BIOS to do management.)
Of course, if I can solve the problem with my Highpoint, that'd be useful too. Currently, if I create a RAID-1 array, the two real disks appear as /dev/ad4 and /dev/ad5 but I also get a /dev/ar0 device. However, if I simulate a disk failure, none of the devices appear. It appears to me like FreeBSD indeed supports the RAID functionality of this card out of the box, but a bit of minor tweaking is required.
The bottom line however is I wouldn't mind buying a a RAID adapter with functionality implemented in hardware. That'd be better overall. I just want to make sure it'll work with flying colors in whatever OS I choose to use.
This story from Yahoo! News reports:
That'd make me scream like that.
What "wow factor"? This guy obtained/warezed a copy of VirtualPC then proceeds to obtain/warez copies of a bunch of different operating systems and install them. Point and click. Playing with menus. "Wow"? What the hell is wrong with you people when you say "wow" to something so silly and utterly pointless.
Slow news day, Taco?
What is it about the oppression types that just love banning science that would better the lives of people all over the world. So, I'm confused by their stance on scientific research here. The White House clearly supports the research and manufacture of new and bigger weapons but says that cloning embryos is unethical?
Bush, 1984 called and wants its doublethink back.
Way to spread FUD. This is just a baseless assumption, but putting it up on the front page may somehow give weight to it in the eyes of the less analytical masses.
While we're off making possibly outlandish assumptions, why not point out that it's likely the company, considering all the other nonsense it engages in, is crippling itself to give ammunition against the FOSS community.
We do not, under any circumstances, want this case thrown out.
We want a few things from this:
If the case is thrown out, SCO will go unpunnished, the GPL will look really weak or at least uneforceable, and the FUD will all go mostly unanswered. A clear shot, slam-dunk win is the only acceptable outcome to all of this.
...of what is ever increasing in value and formerly accessible to the public into the hands of an elite few in trade for something of ever decreasing value.
I'd like to point out that these are not practical and they're not what I'm suggesting.
50 hours is overkill in training most employees about security, although something in that neighborhood is appropriate for managers to get them to appreciate the value of security. Policies and procedures handed down to them by IT should be sufficient. (Of course, those will have to be enforced.)
Reinstalling operating systems excessively is not necessary to avoid "hackers" and viruses. This is what intrusion detection mechanisms are for. (Example: you store checksums of your files on write-once media and monitor for changes.)
Perhaps. This is a purely subjective point that I can't really comment on. I was simply pointing out that people don't pay attention to the basics, and silly ideas to compensate aren't going to cure our security woes.