The problem that the laws against Mail Fraud is supposed to address is not that Customs might get a little more money, but people shipping broken valuables, declaring the value of them as something outrageous, and demanding compensation on the receiving end when a broken item arrives. Whether or not customs got more money isn't the problem, its that he lied on a government form for the purposes of defrauding. The fact that it wasn't a government or a company that was targeted changes nothing.
This isn't a small step. A small step would be his own home or something similar, this is an environment that its expected he gets it right the first time with a good chance that High availability of the network is of prime importance. Its always good to ask yourself, am I really capable of doing this, am I really the best person to, then answer realistically.
Personally, I don't know that I would accept a job like this, I feel I could do it, but there's a lot of people that could do it better.
Its not mail fraud because he didn't ship the actual Powerbook, but because he knowingly inflated the actual cost of the contents. He insured $10 worth of crap for $2000 some odd.
"'"...Through the desert, over the mountains, 'till you find the Canyon of the Crescent Moon." Now we know there's a city with an oasis due east here. He knew everything except where to start'. 'Well now we know', Yes now we know, D.O.U.O.S.V.A.V.V.M.'"
I know it was really poorly paraphrased, but Monty Python was just getting to much air time.
When did this happen? No really, there's an article about SGI Altix machines in the May issue of Linux Magazine so exactly when did SGI go out of business?
Step 1: Install OpenBSD, make sure to select the X packages Step 2: Configure X Step 3: Install desired Desktop environment or Window Manager from packages
I don't think that it would fill an entire chapter.
I wrote about the one detail that irritated me the most, the one that stuck in my mind most clearly. I didn't keep a list of all the things that really irked me because after a few days of trying to make it work the way I want i just said to hell with it and went back to KDE which works closer to the way I work.
I did try to get Gnome to do what I wanted it to do. I don't like metacity, so I changed it to WindowMaker. Except Gnome-Session won't launch window maker when you set it as the windowmanager in that GConf registry, so I had to fiddle with the session settings. Well now Gnome takes 4 min to actually load, WindowMaker, gkrellm and rxvt load almost instantly, but Gnome-Session sits taking 100 CPU on both processors till it decides to actually do something.
Happier now? I gave you a little more then what stuck in my mind? Would you like me to spend a week with it and give you a list of everything that just doesn't work quite right? How about the bugs in the build that have existed since 2.0? Or that gnome-modem-lights and libgtop wont build on 2.6 kernels. Perhaps you'd like to hear how the packages that were released as 2.6 were exactly the same as 2.5 and as 2.4 with exactly the same bugs and yet are somehow passed off as a stable release?
And yes the comment about monkeys was because of Ximian.
Were you in a school that spent god knows how much on computers in every classroom, and in a computer lab and in a special 'design' lab?
My High School was brand new, so it had to have the latest and the best, which at the time was Pentium 133's and 166's. At least 3 in every room, usually 5 or 6. Computer lab had 30, the 'design' lab had 166's with mmx, 64mb ram, 3d studio Max 1, some Corel stuff, that sort of stuff.
No one was allowed to use them.
You could only use them with a teacher present, but the teacher was busy, you know teaching, they couldn't supervise. They dumped so much into the 6 systems in the design lab that they were scared that some one would break something.
On top of that, there was no teaching material, and the teachers weren't given any idea how to integrate them into the teaching environment.
Just like not allowing math students to use a calculator till they know what's going on, the computer has no place in a classroom when they are there to learn the fundamentals of critical thinking, writing and generally expressing ideas. At that point, a computer is a distraction not a tool. I don't have any problem with believing that the successes were where there were no computers, and I do believe that computers have no place in classrooms.
As far as not networked, well I would guess those systems weren't being used for printing. Remember the floppy disk, its not as useless as people seem to think.
TCP is an open protocol, this doesn't change that. If you read the article closely, you'll see there's an 'S' before the TCP, this is Cisco attempting to patent Secure TCP, not TCP its self. Differences are comparable to the r commands and ssh with its family of stuff sftp, scp and the like, just because there's a new one, doesn't make the old ones magically stop working.
Except that this one persons opinion was dead on. I had used Gnome 2.2 and 2.4 as my main DE after using KDE for a while there. I liked 2.4 and was looking forward to seeing what was new in 2.6, but when it came, it was the biggest steaming pile of an almost useless environment since Gnome 1, which I also didn't like using. Obviously its just my opinion, but the way Nautilus browses the file system is backwards compared to 2.4, and the removal of the tree in a left hand pane was a very bad decision. That change alone made me go back to KDE. To paraphrase a well known engineer, I think this new release was put together my monkeys, She's got a fine engine but half the door won't open.
In an effort to thumb their noses at everyone else and ignore everything that has happened on desktop OS's in recent years the Gnome team has made some very backwards decisions, and it casts a very large cloud over everything good the team has done.
He bought DOS, but he wrote BASIC. On top of that it was through MS that home computers became what they are, accessible and inexpensive to a lot of people.
But was that because it was the best or because because it was the best of the free ones, the only free one, or good enough. Your right, it would be hard to prove. I still don't like RMS anyway.
He started GCC, half of Make and a dozen other GNU packages he didn't make them what they are now, though obviously I don't know how much of what it started as is still there.
Its quite simple really, because RMS said so so its evil. It wouldn't surprise me if he pulled some childish and irresponsible stunt like he did when he worked at MIT when the implemented passwords on the Time sharing system.
If RMS eased off the paranoia, someone would realize that he's not actually worth the grant money he's being given and forced to get a real job.
On a completely unrelated side note, as I spell-checked this in konqueror, it suggested hoes for hes (missing apostrophe). Who writes this dictionary?
He has grants to sit on his ass, fiddle with software, pretend to work on the Hurd, and in general talk about things in such a way that its obvious he doesn't have a real job, and he still complains about the free ride. Its a good thing that personalities don't mean much when choosing software otherwise he'd alienate a lot of people that are actually interested in the software he's associated with.
No I don't have any proof he pretends to work on the Hurd, but its been 20 years since the GNU project was set up to replace Unix and its still not in a usable condition, and quite probably never will be. I have a great deal of respect for the developers that make GNU software so good, such as the gcc team, but I have no respect at all for RMS and wouldn't stop to give him the time of day.
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The problem that the laws against Mail Fraud is supposed to address is not that Customs might get a little more money, but people shipping broken valuables, declaring the value of them as something outrageous, and demanding compensation on the receiving end when a broken item arrives. Whether or not customs got more money isn't the problem, its that he lied on a government form for the purposes of defrauding. The fact that it wasn't a government or a company that was targeted changes nothing.
This isn't a small step. A small step would be his own home or something similar, this is an environment that its expected he gets it right the first time with a good chance that High availability of the network is of prime importance. Its always good to ask yourself, am I really capable of doing this, am I really the best person to, then answer realistically.
Personally, I don't know that I would accept a job like this, I feel I could do it, but there's a lot of people that could do it better.
Its not mail fraud because he didn't ship the actual Powerbook, but because he knowingly inflated the actual cost of the contents. He insured $10 worth of crap for $2000 some odd.
Im already working on it. I'll ave the CG mockups compleated soon. I call it the specter.
Well I was disappointed. There was just something about vaporware named 'The Phantom' that just always made me laugh. Its not funny anymore.
"'"...Through the desert, over the mountains, 'till you find the Canyon of the Crescent Moon." Now we know there's a city with an oasis due east here. He knew everything except where to start'. 'Well now we know', Yes now we know, D.O.U.O.S.V.A.V.V.M.'"
I know it was really poorly paraphrased, but Monty Python was just getting to much air time.
There is a reason why SG went out of business
When did this happen? No really, there's an article about SGI Altix machines in the May issue of Linux Magazine so exactly when did SGI go out of business?
I don't know what I missed because I wasn't able to see it.
You know, Blaster and Sasser seemed at first to be really creative. But think he/she is just riding on Windows coattails.
A newton is a measure of force, the gram is weight.
Step 1: Install OpenBSD, make sure to select the X packages
Step 2: Configure X
Step 3: Install desired Desktop environment or Window Manager from packages
I don't think that it would fill an entire chapter.
I wrote about the one detail that irritated me the most, the one that stuck in my mind most clearly. I didn't keep a list of all the things that really irked me because after a few days of trying to make it work the way I want i just said to hell with it and went back to KDE which works closer to the way I work.
I did try to get Gnome to do what I wanted it to do. I don't like metacity, so I changed it to WindowMaker. Except Gnome-Session won't launch window maker when you set it as the windowmanager in that GConf registry, so I had to fiddle with the session settings. Well now Gnome takes 4 min to actually load, WindowMaker, gkrellm and rxvt load almost instantly, but Gnome-Session sits taking 100 CPU on both processors till it decides to actually do something.
Happier now? I gave you a little more then what stuck in my mind? Would you like me to spend a week with it and give you a list of everything that just doesn't work quite right? How about the bugs in the build that have existed since 2.0? Or that gnome-modem-lights and libgtop wont build on 2.6 kernels. Perhaps you'd like to hear how the packages that were released as 2.6 were exactly the same as 2.5 and as 2.4 with exactly the same bugs and yet are somehow passed off as a stable release?
And yes the comment about monkeys was because of Ximian.
Were you in a school that spent god knows how much on computers in every classroom, and in a computer lab and in a special 'design' lab?
My High School was brand new, so it had to have the latest and the best, which at the time was Pentium 133's and 166's. At least 3 in every room, usually 5 or 6. Computer lab had 30, the 'design' lab had 166's with mmx, 64mb ram, 3d studio Max 1, some Corel stuff, that sort of stuff.
No one was allowed to use them.
You could only use them with a teacher present, but the teacher was busy, you know teaching, they couldn't supervise. They dumped so much into the 6 systems in the design lab that they were scared that some one would break something.
On top of that, there was no teaching material, and the teachers weren't given any idea how to integrate them into the teaching environment.
Just like not allowing math students to use a calculator till they know what's going on, the computer has no place in a classroom when they are there to learn the fundamentals of critical thinking, writing and generally expressing ideas. At that point, a computer is a distraction not a tool. I don't have any problem with believing that the successes were where there were no computers, and I do believe that computers have no place in classrooms.
As far as not networked, well I would guess those systems weren't being used for printing. Remember the floppy disk, its not as useless as people seem to think.
TCP is an open protocol, this doesn't change that. If you read the article closely, you'll see there's an 'S' before the TCP, this is Cisco attempting to patent Secure TCP, not TCP its self. Differences are comparable to the r commands and ssh with its family of stuff sftp, scp and the like, just because there's a new one, doesn't make the old ones magically stop working.
Except that this one persons opinion was dead on. I had used Gnome 2.2 and 2.4 as my main DE after using KDE for a while there. I liked 2.4 and was looking forward to seeing what was new in 2.6, but when it came, it was the biggest steaming pile of an almost useless environment since Gnome 1, which I also didn't like using. Obviously its just my opinion, but the way Nautilus browses the file system is backwards compared to 2.4, and the removal of the tree in a left hand pane was a very bad decision. That change alone made me go back to KDE. To paraphrase a well known engineer, I think this new release was put together my monkeys, She's got a fine engine but half the door won't open.
In an effort to thumb their noses at everyone else and ignore everything that has happened on desktop OS's in recent years the Gnome team has made some very backwards decisions, and it casts a very large cloud over everything good the team has done.
I don't see how this in any way affects plans to move off of older protocols to plain TCP. I think you might be over-reacting
Ya but what a rack it is.
Ya because it would suck to have someone pretend to be a elite hacker and pawn off KazzaLite as a Dark Tip. That would be a shame.
He bought DOS, but he wrote BASIC. On top of that it was through MS that home computers became what they are, accessible and inexpensive to a lot of people.
But was that because it was the best or because because it was the best of the free ones, the only free one, or good enough. Your right, it would be hard to prove. I still don't like RMS anyway.
He started GCC, half of Make and a dozen other GNU packages he didn't make them what they are now, though obviously I don't know how much of what it started as is still there.
Its quite simple really, because RMS said so so its evil. It wouldn't surprise me if he pulled some childish and irresponsible stunt like he did when he worked at MIT when the implemented passwords on the Time sharing system.
If RMS eased off the paranoia, someone would realize that he's not actually worth the grant money he's being given and forced to get a real job.
On a completely unrelated side note, as I spell-checked this in konqueror, it suggested hoes for hes (missing apostrophe). Who writes this dictionary?
He has grants to sit on his ass, fiddle with software, pretend to work on the Hurd, and in general talk about things in such a way that its obvious he doesn't have a real job, and he still complains about the free ride. Its a good thing that personalities don't mean much when choosing software otherwise he'd alienate a lot of people that are actually interested in the software he's associated with.
No I don't have any proof he pretends to work on the Hurd, but its been 20 years since the GNU project was set up to replace Unix and its still not in a usable condition, and quite probably never will be. I have a great deal of respect for the developers that make GNU software so good, such as the gcc team, but I have no respect at all for RMS and wouldn't stop to give him the time of day.
Because an SE and an SE/30 is a little more computer then the 128/512/Plus's. Do you ask why a P4 needs a fan when a 486 could be passively cooled.
That said to over heat an early Compact, the room has to be almost hotter then hell, and what nut would use a system in those conditions.