I would agree that it's going to be hard to put
a GNU/Linux computer in front of a average guy and have him do whatever he wants with it. But the same is true for Windows. The average guy can't keep a Windows system going for more than a few months without major performance/stablility issues. The real reason that people think Windows is easier is that it's familiar and the 3rd party user space applications are often more slick.
>>Most guys come with pretty straight-forward love detectors: they're called 'erections'.
>Ladies, if you see one, there's a 96% chance that the guy's in love with you.
Ladies, you can avoid false positives by avoiding early morning observations which account for the other 4%.
Legal harassment is fair game in the United States. That's why so many settle out of court even when the law is on their side. Some countries make the loser pay for the legal expenses of their opponent which eliminates a lot of BS lawsuits.
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Isn't that the basic rule of quantum mechanics and internet? You can't observe something without changing it? (Or in the case of Slashdot, destroying it?)
I agree with most of the above, but I would like to make a point that 90 days at 95% load would be equal to 3 lifetimes on my little server/router at with a loadavg of.02.
90 days under heavy load should bring out major problems. Even if it doesn't crash you could see performance degradation that indicated something under the surface.
The reason I protested the reply to the post about "spewing hate" was that it was very likely from a person who didn't ever listen to the show. Even the follow up post wasn't first hand information about Rush. It was a couple quotes supplied by people who spend their lives combing transcripts for anything objectionable said by a conservative. The reply wasn't from some who said I was listening the other day and he said "______," which is _____ist. It was second hand info from wildly biased sources like FAIR. Let's be fair: I can google just about any famous person and find dumb-ass and fallacious remarks if I want to smear someone. My point is that most people who say Rush is a hate-monger haven't heard the show. Many times Rush has contested callers who made wild accusations of liberals even though he could easily play along for ratings. That is not hate. That is partisan, which he readily admits. I've never seen Al give his opponents the benefit of doubt concerning motive so I don't give his opinion much weight.
I didn't say that no one challenges him because his arguments are rock solid, I said that he isn't quoted because that would soften the case against him. Very few people that have heard his show would accuse him of spewing hate. I don't want to get into actual arguments about ideology because that's endless and it's my bedtime.
Look, don't get me wrong, I don't always agree with him, but after being on the radio for how years that's not exactly a searing indictment of his hate. You have to remember that he's doing a show. A lot of mainstream media folks have said a lot worse when they have whole staffs to clean up and sanitize the news before they read it. Face it, there are gays and LA residents that would laugh about the yogurt line. He's hardly a joke. Millions of people listen to him daily.
Um, what hate does Rush Limbaugh spew, exactly?
You're probably another jerk who has never once listened to his program, but feel you're qualified to critique him. You never hear liberals actually quote him, because that would soften their case against him. If you want to hear HATE speech go listen to Tom Daschle, Dean Howard, Jesse Jackson, etc.
These "black boxes" are necessary for manufacturers to defend themselves from tort cases resulting from collisions. Billions of dollars are on the line, so don't expect them to go away. Look at the bright side: If you're a good driver, it may save your butt in court someday.
I've tried the others and I keep coming back to Slackware. The advantages are:
1) Speed
2) Speed
3) Standard setups for most things.
4) Simplicity (Well, simple for a potentially >2G Linux installation.)
5) Source tarballs almost always install with nothing more complex than "./configure; make; make install"
6) RPMs can usually be installed using rpm2tgz if you need binary packages.
The disadvantages are:
1) Most configuring is done by editing configuration files.
2) The included software list is short compared to SuSE or RedHat. (When will Patrick come out with a Slackware DVD with all the freaking software that ever was?)
I tried SuSE and it was nice, but getting the nVidia drivers for XFree86 made bad things happen.
The SuSE configuration tool Yast runs a long time for even small changes. I didn't understand what was going on under the hood. I just didn't like it.
Once again our "fine" republic is in debt to this great visionary and his tireless production of columns with many correctly spelled words. I have used his free tax advice every year and it was worth every penny. I hope that my fellow slashdot readers will support him in his presidential run because a) His name can be rearranged to spell "V-Bra Ready" and b) That would be an excellent name for a rock band.
While Linux may have its weaknesses, it holds up pretty well. Where I work we have a Linux box connected to the internet doing routing and other work. It has faced infected computers from three directions without problems. Our Windows computers have been infected several times despite being behind a firewall and they get loads of spyware (thank God for Adaware), not to mention the fact that they crash often enough without any kind of attack.
It will be beyond question that Linux is more secure when (if?) Security Enhanced Linux is adopted and used sensibly. SE Linux could even prevent process A from damaging process B's data when they belong to the same user. Say I download a new program and it turns out to be malicious or overly inquisitive, Mandatory Access Controls could prevent the program from accessing data outside its own little box like a very fancy chroot environment. I may have been asleep, but I don't think that has even been considered for Windows.
C'mon, FAIR is an Ultra-Left wing organisation whose levels of pacifism would alarm the Amish. Look at their website. They use the same style of short bullet points as the Lincoln-Kennedy link. At least they get their propaganda from St. Petersburg Times, there's a hundred years worth of straight-shooting. By straight-shooting, I'm talking about the accuracy of firing squads and reporters with unapproved stories. (OK, that was probably over the line, but still...)
What part of the logic don't you follow? Read the comment. The comment wasn't that MVC is more presice but more general. That's why the term is used. The point was in response to some idiot's charge that collateral damage is a euphemism for killin', when in fact it's term used by military and weapons system professionals to describe damage beyond the target area. The military is quite willing to use the term 'kill' when appropriate.
Terrorists applaud selection of Microsoft for Department of Homeland Security.
Information Technology consultants for Al Qaeda were pleased with the the US government selection of Microsoft to supply the Dept. of Homeland Security with servers and over 140,000 desktops. Mohammed Al'Hacker beamed, "Microsoft systems allow for unmatched file sharing and remote access. We will save millions of dollars by simply being able access Homeland Security databases over the internet, rather than having to pay for bribes and expensive operatives. We are so pleased that the infidels chose 'open data' over 'open source.'"....
Look, I'm married with children and just the other day I finally figured out how to unify General Relativity and Quantum Physics under one simple elegant theory. It had been nagging at so I worked on it after putting the kids to bed and giving the wife a good rogering. I can prove it. Here, I've got it all written down... somewhere... hmmm. Hey, Honey, where's that blue notebook with my new physics theory? The kids spilled strawberry shake on it and it was all yucky and you threw it out?
Okay, I didn't see the Matrix, so I'm not sure how the whole people -> ethanol process works, but from what I can tell on the corn -> ethanol side I believe the study, because you don't make any friends bashing ethanol. On the other hand, if you write a glowing report of ethanol success in the energy and environment depts, you're everyone's hero, especially to motivated voters in Iowa. I couldn't find the study on the 'net, but if you're close to a big library maybe you can get your hands on The Encycolpedia of Physical Sciences and Technology.
On the other point, if we don't at least TRY to use up the oil supplies, how will we know if they'll last forever or not?
Okay, Hydrogen may not have to be produced, but it takes energy to put into a useful form. Around here it's mostly found as H20 not H2. It take as much energy to crack H20 to H2 as you get burning it.
As far as I know extracting hydrogen from fossil fuels is at least four times the cost of gasoline per BTU.
I thought it also took more energy to produce ethanol (from crops anyway) than it returns.
See The Corn Isn't Green
They show 131,000 BTU's in and 77,000 BTU's out per gallon according to David Pimentel in a Cornell University study published last year.
(I'm not talking about thermodynamic BTU's, just the ones you pay for.)
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Hmmm...
Darl McBride, Steve Ballamer, Bill Gates, Rosie O'Donnel
If price per pound to space are a factor, I'd say Darl and Bill are safe.
I don't have any Vogon action figures, but I do have some high quality Vogon poetry audio tapes to trade for a good towel...
TTP
>"Whats' IAANAL mean? I Am Am Not A Lawyer?"
I Am Also Not A Lawyer
ITTICBOTCOTD.
(I Think That Is Correct Based On The Context Of The Discussion.)
I would agree that it's going to be hard to put a GNU/Linux computer in front of a average guy and have him do whatever he wants with it. But the same is true for Windows. The average guy can't keep a Windows system going for more than a few months without major performance/stablility issues. The real reason that people think Windows is easier is that it's familiar and the 3rd party user space applications are often more slick.
>Ladies, if you see one, there's a 96% chance that the guy's in love with you.
Ladies, you can avoid false positives by avoiding early morning observations which account for the other 4%.
Legal harassment is fair game in the United States. That's why so many settle out of court even when the law is on their side. Some countries make the loser pay for the legal expenses of their opponent which eliminates a lot of BS lawsuits.
Isn't that the basic rule of quantum mechanics and internet? You can't observe something without changing it? (Or in the case of Slashdot, destroying it?)
90 days under heavy load should bring out major problems. Even if it doesn't crash you could see performance degradation that indicated something under the surface.
I didn't say that no one challenges him because his arguments are rock solid, I said that he isn't quoted because that would soften the case against him. Very few people that have heard his show would accuse him of spewing hate. I don't want to get into actual arguments about ideology because that's endless and it's my bedtime.
Look, don't get me wrong, I don't always agree with him, but after being on the radio for how years that's not exactly a searing indictment of his hate. You have to remember that he's doing a show. A lot of mainstream media folks have said a lot worse when they have whole staffs to clean up and sanitize the news before they read it. Face it, there are gays and LA residents that would laugh about the yogurt line. He's hardly a joke. Millions of people listen to him daily.
Um, what hate does Rush Limbaugh spew, exactly? You're probably another jerk who has never once listened to his program, but feel you're qualified to critique him. You never hear liberals actually quote him, because that would soften their case against him. If you want to hear HATE speech go listen to Tom Daschle, Dean Howard, Jesse Jackson, etc.
These "black boxes" are necessary for manufacturers to defend themselves from tort cases resulting from collisions. Billions of dollars are on the line, so don't expect them to go away. Look at the bright side: If you're a good driver, it may save your butt in court someday.
I've tried the others and I keep coming back to Slackware. The advantages are:
1) Speed
2) Speed
3) Standard setups for most things.
4) Simplicity (Well, simple for a potentially >2G Linux installation.)
5) Source tarballs almost always install with nothing more complex than "./configure; make; make install"
6) RPMs can usually be installed using rpm2tgz if you need binary packages.
The disadvantages are:
1) Most configuring is done by editing configuration files.
2) The included software list is short compared to SuSE or RedHat. (When will Patrick come out with a Slackware DVD with all the freaking software that ever was?)
I tried SuSE and it was nice, but getting the nVidia drivers for XFree86 made bad things happen. The SuSE configuration tool Yast runs a long time for even small changes. I didn't understand what was going on under the hood. I just didn't like it.
Most of the time, as long as you're not plugging into a SCSI port.
Once again our "fine" republic is in debt to this great visionary and his tireless production of columns with many correctly spelled words. I have used his free tax advice every year and it was worth every penny. I hope that my fellow slashdot readers will support him in his presidential run because
a) His name can be rearranged to spell "V-Bra Ready" and
b) That would be an excellent name for a rock band.
It will be beyond question that Linux is more secure when (if?) Security Enhanced Linux is adopted and used sensibly. SE Linux could even prevent process A from damaging process B's data when they belong to the same user. Say I download a new program and it turns out to be malicious or overly inquisitive, Mandatory Access Controls could prevent the program from accessing data outside its own little box like a very fancy chroot environment. I may have been asleep, but I don't think that has even been considered for Windows.
C'mon, FAIR is an Ultra-Left wing organisation whose levels of pacifism would alarm the Amish. Look at their website. They use the same style of short bullet points as the Lincoln-Kennedy link. At least they get their propaganda from St. Petersburg Times, there's a hundred years worth of straight-shooting. By straight-shooting, I'm talking about the accuracy of firing squads and reporters with unapproved stories. (OK, that was probably over the line, but still...)
In Soviet Russia, the paper reads you!
What part of the logic don't you follow? Read the comment. The comment wasn't that MVC is more presice but more general. That's why the term is used. The point was in response to some idiot's charge that collateral damage is a euphemism for killin', when in fact it's term used by military and weapons system professionals to describe damage beyond the target area. The military is quite willing to use the term 'kill' when appropriate.
Voter fraud is so easy to stop. Put elections on tax returns.
Terrorists applaud selection of Microsoft for Department of Homeland Security.
Information Technology consultants for Al Qaeda were pleased with the the US government selection of Microsoft to supply the Dept. of Homeland Security with servers and over 140,000 desktops. Mohammed Al'Hacker beamed, "Microsoft systems allow for unmatched file sharing and remote access. We will save millions of dollars by simply being able access Homeland Security databases over the internet, rather than having to pay for bribes and expensive operatives. We are so pleased that the infidels chose 'open data' over 'open source.'" ....
This can't be true...
Look, I'm married with children and just the other day I finally figured out how to unify General Relativity and Quantum Physics under one simple elegant theory. It had been nagging at so I worked on it after putting the kids to bed and giving the wife a good rogering. I can prove it. Here, I've got it all written down... somewhere... hmmm. Hey, Honey, where's that blue notebook with my new physics theory? The kids spilled strawberry shake on it and it was all yucky and you threw it out?
S**t, nevermind.
On the other point, if we don't at least TRY to use up the oil supplies, how will we know if they'll last forever or not?
Okay, Hydrogen may not have to be produced, but it takes energy to put into a useful form. Around here it's mostly found as H20 not H2. It take as much energy to crack H20 to H2 as you get burning it.
As far as I know extracting hydrogen from fossil fuels is at least four times the cost of gasoline per BTU.
I thought it also took more energy to produce ethanol (from crops anyway) than it returns. See The Corn Isn't Green They show 131,000 BTU's in and 77,000 BTU's out per gallon according to David Pimentel in a Cornell University study published last year. (I'm not talking about thermodynamic BTU's, just the ones you pay for.)