we have this, them bashing their own products, then linux, also, copyrighting misc random stuff..
doesnt add up unless there's been some internal affairs, or it's just a ploy to confuse everyone and catch them off guard.. knowing microsoft, god only knows.
france was buddying up with saddam.. and didnt care if he slaughtered people.. so yeah.
the only good part I see about our war on iraq is that we saved people from him and his rape-happy sons.. that's the only good thing I see out of it.. the rest is politics and economical reasons.. we're there to spread american business empires, get the oil, and spread our ways and laws and copyright laws over there, to make it america jr. get some good people in power.. shoot the idiots who like blowing others up and fucking leave.
why even use this stuff for warfare? shows how mature they are up there in washington. it can be good for disabling the bad guys, but when we start attacking innocent countries that refuse to go with us on something, I think that's when there will be hell to pay.
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include mobile phone techonology on the hardware and software level. that and mobile VOIP telecommunications would gives pdas a great move.. because I have yet to see a "smart phone" that can do all that, pda's are one step ahead still.. and all they have to do is that and they can win the market back.. cell phones need to stay as phones. bad enough people get into accidents on the freeway over just TALKING on cell phones, last thing we need is idiot mcgee going 90 mph down the freeway fiddling with some crap on his phone.
in seriousness, I dont see it worthy as an olypmic event, the olympics are for physical endurance... and masturbation doesnt count either, or moving your fingers over a keyboard.
I say make it like a kernel wrapper. would run using a kernel module or patch, and would work like binfmt_misc or something along thosel ines.. it would access the module for hardware and kernel access, then use the wrapper to use the drivers, which would support the hardware.. so you could use the drivers almost like kernel modules, except they would load through one driver, and it would provide functionality to the kernel, etc. that would be a decent idea for compatibility with windows drivers, (and a lot of future linux users would be please with the fact that their scanner will work, or their camera, or joystick or whatever until an official linux driver is written or a individual creates his own driver that (often) works better than the official driver.
some surveilance stuff, like for pools and stuff to save people from drowning and watching over the physically weak is a great idea, however, durveilance where there doesnt need to be any is another. heavy constant surveilance elsewhere is just plain out dictation of peoples' lives. Most of us dont have the brain capacity of toddlers y'know... most of us can do things by ourselves without being watched over, you know? though there are some who dont have the brain capacity of toddlers at all it seems at times, sadly they make up the majority at times.
anyways, this is almsot like the red scare in the 1950's.. where children were asked to report their parents' "communist activities" to the proper authorities. Instead now, machines will report any "strange" activities out... and the term strange is used loosely here since machines cant make decisions on what's really going on, it's the people who recieve the info who make judgements.. So, this is why I'm against competel surveillance, it starts out with innocent safety procedures.. then evolves to the workplace.. then public transportation, then most public places, then your neighborhood, your car, your house, then you. The reason for this is because of how humans tick. if you do one thing, you gotta step it up another step, see how far you can go before going all the way. This is why we've advanced in technology, we're still trying to find the limits of our being.. and will constantly do so until the end of time.
like Ben Franklin said. Those who would sacrifice freedom for security dont deserve security nor freedom.
And since the govt has people scared to death of the terrorists (this is what I call the new red scare), people will do whatever they say for the next few years, until someone comes out and says they're completely full of bullshit. it's like the case where the FBI wants certain VOIP technologies banned because they offer encryptions, so phone lines cant be tapped or recieved.. I mean they came out and said it as well, and no one seemed to have a problem with that... it's scary.
what programs are need upgrading to support such a change in the kernel type? eg, I use mandrake 8.2 (still, I dont have the luxury of a highspeed connection or online ordering, nor do I ave those options, and after seeing the horrors of 9.x, I just compile from scratch) anyways, what would I need upgraded to support this? what directories would I need added, etc? I could use the multitasking on my poor 433. yeah, I know I'm behind the times on many things. so I just have to deal with it, make the best of what I have.
I wonder if this collaborates with my theory that sco is just doing all this to help microsoft out. because seeing how their tactics are something microsoft would pull, not to mention I said something a while back that sco is prolly gonna try bringing down linux, and themselves, and then get a nice payoff from M$
"Just because a student isn't comfortable saying "under God" doesn't mean that they don't "proudly believe in the country and the flag", rather that they don't want to have religion forced down their throats (like in the Middle East)."
also, I didnt say that either. I said that they should still say the pledge if they want to if they feel strongly about our country. not under god, not forcibly, wasnt saying they dont believe in the flag or the country.
let's get off this subject since it obviously tends to make people see things that arent actually said. getting tired of assumptions being made because people bend words around.
you all miss my point entirely, I'm saying, coming here and trying to slowly push christianity out is like going to the middle east and telling them to stop believing in islam. It's basically what people are coming here and doing "oh, stop believing in christianity now, thank you" basically. Thing is, I think that we should keep in god we trust on money because that keeps memory of the reason why this country is founded, when you want to remove stuff like this, it isnt so much separating religion from the government that's an issue, but keeping the term in god we trust on money would remind us of what our nation is founded on. and you know, who the fuck cares too? I never paid much attention to the in god we trust on money, or parts of the pledge about god, many non-christian people I know didnt bitch about the pledge when I was growing up, they either pretended to say it or skipped the god part. I'm not saying christianity is the sole religion of the US either, I'm saying it was one of the reasons the US is here now, if it werent for us awful christians and our evil ways, people of other religions wouldnt have a nation around that allows religious freedom without persecution.
Also, I never said anything against the voluntary issue, I'm stating the fact that every day it seems like people want christianity to go away in this nation as a whole, not just in the govt, but everywhere. I hated saying the pledge and agree it should be voluntary, what I'm pissed is that they wanted to get rid of it initially. I have mixed feeling about that, but judging by the responses I've gotten thus far, people didnt read what I said word for word, instead they chose to be narrow minded, and go "hey look! a religious motherfucker! bash him!! BASH HIM!!" so you read what you want to read, and then bash me. I'm not the typical christian, I believe in god, and jesus, but I dont go on about it and force my beliefs in others' faces, go door to door, or kill people over it, nor do I go to church that often, and I find the secular bullshit in christianity annoying as hell, where people are like "IF YOU ARENT BAPTIST, YOU ARE GONNA BURN IN HELL!" or some shit like that, I hate that, I'm christian, isnt that enough? personally, people can believe in all sorts of shit, hell, they can worship a palm tree for all I care, just dont push it on me.
you know what? let them run sitefinder again, they'll find that when doing that, it'll be impossible to stop a ddos attack without blocking the service off from everyone.
verisign is run by idiots who dont know how the internet works at all, they come up with stupid reasoning because they assume the internet is just like television.
well, it isnt. these are the people who only think with greed and not common sense, these are the types of people who bring humanity down a few steps every time they think. example: Dark ages. - result of the catholic church wanting total control over everyone in europe through supression. Middle east - Islam idealists wanting to keep everything in the stone age to supress people and bending their wills.
these are two examples of why we need to stop listening to people in power who make judgements based on their own greedy selfish whims in the quest of control and power because they doom the evolution of humanity when people are stupid enough to go with it, sadly, people do and its those people who deserve it, however , the smart, individualists who think for themselves and wnat the human race to advance are hurt, and attacked because they're scary and evil people. to say that people are afraid of change is a broad generalization, there are those who want change, want newer technology and those who want to keep things the way they are/were. sadly, stupidity wins all.
however, we can just boycott.com and.net domains and anything else verisign has privy to. the other registrars are just going to become richer from this. and verisign will rot in the same pit with enron and sco, and eventually microsoft.
"We need to step back and take a look at the open source business model, which doesn't provide [private enterprises like ours] with inherent protections," SCO chief executive Darl McBride charged in August. To pursue its claim against IBM, whose programmers have been some of the most prolific contributors to Linux, SCO has hired David Boies, who represented the government against Microsoft and Gore against Bush before the US Supreme Court."
and lost both of those, sco's doomed.
"In a way, Torvalds is less a ruler (or a hood ornament, for that matter) than an ambassador, roaming his virtual world and exerting his influence to prevent technical fights from devolving into sectarian battles. Take the factions that want him to make toppling Microsoft a priority: Create a version of Linux as simple for novices to use as Windows, they reason, and you loosen Redmond's grip on the PC. "That's the kind of politics you see inside Oracle and Sun," Torvalds says. "Once you start thinking more about where you want to be than about making the best product, you're screwed."
yeah, I was planning on making an easy os, but I dropped the idea, torvalds shows how he is a great person and he's human, he isnt cheap or shallow, he actually thinks wisely, this is why he'll always be respected, once bill gates loses power it'll be "oh well" about him, people like torvalds end up being legacies and well known and liked. I like his outlook on things.
thank you for saying what I was going to say, I think it's funny how we have to be tolerant of other religions, but people dont have to be tolerant back, I'm tolerant, in fact I dont give a flying fuck who you worship, you can worship the goatse man for all I care, just as long as you dont force your beliefs upon me, I dont care, I'm a christian, and I see all this stuff to rid of the term "god" and change it around to be politically correct, I didnt see anything that said "you cannot display the 10 commandments in front of a building or in public, or practice any christian beliefs in public" What's funny is that people of other religions attack the christians here so much, yet, if their religion was attacked or told to not be practiced in public, we'd have a lot more terrorism and people screaming "unfair" It's like going to the middle east and going "well, guess what fuckers?! you cant practice islam in public anymore, stop doing it, it bothers us, thank you." It's basically what we'r being told, we're a dominantly christian nation. so you know what, if you dont believe in god, why are you so offended when you hear his name? you shouldnt care at all. You know what the real reason for this is? Anally retentive pricks who have to have the world shaped their way. That's the only reason this has become a problem as of late. I think the pledge should be voluntary though, if you proudly believe in the country and the flag, go on ahead and do it, if you dont, whatever. I wouldnt be surprised if some gay pride group came up and tried putting a ban on heterosexual relationships, or the KKK finally getting their way on things, or some group limiting child birth or whatever... Just deal with it people, just learn to TOLERATE and ignore things you dont like, instead of pissing people off, making people associated/generalized with you look bad. JUst shrug all the small details of life off and go on with your lives.
What I'm using right now is considered ancient history and can be bought for 40 dollars now 433 mhz celeron with 256 megs of ram, and a 20 gig (maximum for the mobo) HDD with a 66 mhz bus.
The oldest bit I have is my apple ][e which I saved from a school. waiting for a netbsd port for that:P
the second oldest piece I have is an i386 with 2 megs of ram, a hardwired cpu connected to the mobo, 68 meg MFM hd, 5.25 floppy, with win 3.1
3rd oldest piece is my i486 which I bought for 10 bucks, it's a good little sturdy AT&T globalyst 330 with 4 megs of ram, 800 meg HD, cdrom, ethernet and a 66 mhz cpu with a 33 mhz bus. EFAR mobo.
4th oldest piece is my current machine. which is a sad case for me.
I'm trying to get my hands on my sister's old 233 mhz compaq she doesnt even use anymore. I also want to get one of the acer altos 900's from my school, the scsi stuff is nice, and they're pro-unix my neighbor is going to give me her old gateway, which is prolly faster than my current computer, doesnt mean that its going to be my primary machine (let's face it, I'd rather use a 433 rather than a 700 mhz or so gateway.)
so far my current computer has been stable and has run nicely. linux made it worthwhile. the monster I have in planning s going to own, I also want to get my grubby hands on some SGI octane machines.. hell, anything sgi would kick so much ass.
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we have this, them bashing their own products, then linux, also, copyrighting misc random stuff..
doesnt add up unless there's been some internal affairs, or it's just a ploy to confuse everyone and catch them off guard.. knowing microsoft, god only knows.
dude... I had this idea a few months ago, except people online could control the mini-rc cars..
damn... figures..
but isnt europe trying to ban innovation? ;P
I think this contradicts itself
well of course there are always different factions...
bah whatever.
I just hope the thirst for OSS overcomes proprietary lust.
france was buddying up with saddam.. and didnt care if he slaughtered people..
so yeah.
the only good part I see about our war on iraq is that we saved people from him and his rape-happy sons.. that's the only good thing I see out of it.. the rest is politics and economical reasons.. we're there to spread american business empires, get the oil, and spread our ways and laws and copyright laws over there, to make it america jr.
get some good people in power.. shoot the idiots who like blowing others up and fucking leave.
is because he just shelled out $700 on his new drive.
so, he has to make it out as good to prove to himself what he just bought will beat ide.
also, not to mention he never stated brand names.
certain manufacturers are very different.
why even use this stuff for warfare? shows how mature they are up there in washington.
it can be good for disabling the bad guys, but when we start attacking innocent countries that refuse to go with us on something, I think that's when there will be hell to pay.
include mobile phone techonology on the hardware and software level. that and mobile VOIP telecommunications would gives pdas a great move.. because I have yet to see a "smart phone" that can do all that, pda's are one step ahead still.. and all they have to do is that and they can win the market back.. cell phones need to stay as phones.
bad enough people get into accidents on the freeway over just TALKING on cell phones, last thing we need is idiot mcgee going 90 mph down the freeway fiddling with some crap on his phone.
Mass cyber sex! get ready! go!
Crowd: eeeew..
that's prolly why it wont get in the olympics.
in seriousness, I dont see it worthy as an olypmic event, the olympics are for physical endurance...
and masturbation doesnt count either, or moving your fingers over a keyboard.
I say make it like a kernel wrapper.
would run using a kernel module or patch, and would work like binfmt_misc or something along thosel ines..
it would access the module for hardware and kernel access, then use the wrapper to use the drivers, which would support the hardware..
so you could use the drivers almost like kernel modules, except they would load through one driver, and it would provide functionality to the kernel, etc.
that would be a decent idea for compatibility with windows drivers, (and a lot of future linux users would be please with the fact that their scanner will work, or their camera, or joystick or whatever until an official linux driver is written or a individual creates his own driver that (often) works better than the official driver.
I spelled "some" wrong.. dammit.
anyways, thanks.. is that all? or are there more?
some surveilance stuff, like for pools and stuff to save people from drowning and watching over the physically weak is a great idea, however, durveilance where there doesnt need to be any is another.
heavy constant surveilance elsewhere is just plain out dictation of peoples' lives. Most of us dont have the brain capacity of toddlers y'know... most of us can do things by ourselves without being watched over, you know? though there are some who dont have the brain capacity of toddlers at all it seems at times, sadly they make up the majority at times.
anyways, this is almsot like the red scare in the 1950's.. where children were asked to report their parents' "communist activities" to the proper authorities. Instead now, machines will report any "strange" activities out... and the term strange is used loosely here since machines cant make decisions on what's really going on, it's the people who recieve the info who make judgements..
So, this is why I'm against competel surveillance, it starts out with innocent safety procedures.. then evolves to the workplace.. then public transportation, then most public places, then your neighborhood, your car, your house, then you.
The reason for this is because of how humans tick. if you do one thing, you gotta step it up another step, see how far you can go before going all the way. This is why we've advanced in technology, we're still trying to find the limits of our being.. and will constantly do so until the end of time.
like Ben Franklin said.
Those who would sacrifice freedom for security dont deserve security nor freedom.
And since the govt has people scared to death of the terrorists (this is what I call the new red scare), people will do whatever they say for the next few years, until someone comes out and says they're completely full of bullshit.
it's like the case where the FBI wants certain VOIP technologies banned because they offer encryptions, so phone lines cant be tapped or recieved.. I mean they came out and said it as well, and no one seemed to have a problem with that... it's scary.
should be deemed illegal and should be sued..
music shouldnt sound that bad.
what programs are need upgrading to support such a change in the kernel type?
eg, I use mandrake 8.2 (still, I dont have the luxury of a highspeed connection or online ordering, nor do I ave those options, and after seeing the horrors of 9.x, I just compile from scratch)
anyways, what would I need upgraded to support this? what directories would I need added, etc?
I could use the multitasking on my poor 433.
yeah, I know I'm behind the times on many things. so I just have to deal with it, make the best of what I have.
it's called control.
the more control over the user you have, the bigger your marketshare is.
"humans produce 12,000 btu's of body heat, we have managed to put that in good and efficient use, they also make great radio transmitters too!"
I wonder if this collaborates with my theory that sco is just doing all this to help microsoft out.
because seeing how their tactics are something microsoft would pull, not to mention I said something a while back that sco is prolly gonna try bringing down linux, and themselves, and then get a nice payoff from M$
I wonder if that's what's happening.
ext2/php/mysql/*nix was already a holy grail for developers due to its low price of $0
Thanks for clearing that up CNET!
"Just because a student isn't comfortable saying "under God" doesn't mean that they don't "proudly believe in the country and the flag", rather that they don't want to have religion forced down their throats (like in the Middle East)."
also, I didnt say that either. I said that they should still say the pledge if they want to if they feel strongly about our country. not under god, not forcibly, wasnt saying they dont believe in the flag or the country.
let's get off this subject since it obviously tends to make people see things that arent actually said. getting tired of assumptions being made because people bend words around.
you all miss my point entirely, I'm saying, coming here and trying to slowly push christianity out is like going to the middle east and telling them to stop believing in islam.
It's basically what people are coming here and doing "oh, stop believing in christianity now, thank you" basically. Thing is, I think that we should keep in god we trust on money because that keeps memory of the reason why this country is founded, when you want to remove stuff like this, it isnt so much separating religion from the government that's an issue, but keeping the term in god we trust on money would remind us of what our nation is founded on. and you know, who the fuck cares too? I never paid much attention to the in god we trust on money, or parts of the pledge about god, many non-christian people I know didnt bitch about the pledge when I was growing up, they either pretended to say it or skipped the god part.
I'm not saying christianity is the sole religion of the US either, I'm saying it was one of the reasons the US is here now, if it werent for us awful christians and our evil ways, people of other religions wouldnt have a nation around that allows religious freedom without persecution.
Also, I never said anything against the voluntary issue, I'm stating the fact that every day it seems like people want christianity to go away in this nation as a whole, not just in the govt, but everywhere. I hated saying the pledge and agree it should be voluntary, what I'm pissed is that they wanted to get rid of it initially. I have mixed feeling about that, but judging by the responses I've gotten thus far, people didnt read what I said word for word, instead they chose to be narrow minded, and go "hey look! a religious motherfucker! bash him!! BASH HIM!!"
so you read what you want to read, and then bash me.
I'm not the typical christian, I believe in god, and jesus, but I dont go on about it and force my beliefs in others' faces, go door to door, or kill people over it, nor do I go to church that often, and I find the secular bullshit in christianity annoying as hell, where people are like "IF YOU ARENT BAPTIST, YOU ARE GONNA BURN IN HELL!" or some shit like that, I hate that, I'm christian, isnt that enough?
personally, people can believe in all sorts of shit, hell, they can worship a palm tree for all I care, just dont push it on me.
you know what? let them run sitefinder again, they'll find that when doing that, it'll be impossible to stop a ddos attack without blocking the service off from everyone.
.com and .net domains and anything else verisign has privy to.
verisign is run by idiots who dont know how the internet works at all, they come up with stupid reasoning because they assume the internet is just like television.
well, it isnt.
these are the people who only think with greed and not common sense, these are the types of people who bring humanity down a few steps every time they think.
example:
Dark ages. - result of the catholic church wanting total control over everyone in europe through supression.
Middle east - Islam idealists wanting to keep everything in the stone age to supress people and bending their wills.
these are two examples of why we need to stop listening to people in power who make judgements based on their own greedy selfish whims in the quest of control and power because they doom the evolution of humanity when people are stupid enough to go with it, sadly, people do and its those people who deserve it, however , the smart, individualists who think for themselves and wnat the human race to advance are hurt, and attacked because they're scary and evil people.
to say that people are afraid of change is a broad generalization, there are those who want change, want newer technology and those who want to keep things the way they are/were.
sadly, stupidity wins all.
however, we can just boycott
the other registrars are just going to become richer from this. and verisign will rot in the same pit with enron and sco, and eventually microsoft.
but I want it nooooow!
:/
I want an opteron right now as well
thing is, isnt intel planning to release a 7 ghz cpu in that time frame as well?
they better have a good plan for that.
did they forget to mention all those hits were due to the common mistyping of domains which happens daily?
.com domains, though like it's not going to work any.
I think we should start boycotting
in the article
"We need to step back and take a look at the open source business model, which doesn't provide [private enterprises like ours] with inherent protections," SCO chief executive Darl McBride charged in August. To pursue its claim against IBM, whose programmers have been some of the most prolific contributors to Linux, SCO has hired David Boies, who represented the government against Microsoft and Gore against Bush before the US Supreme Court."
and lost both of those, sco's doomed.
"In a way, Torvalds is less a ruler (or a hood ornament, for that matter) than an ambassador, roaming his virtual world and exerting his influence to prevent technical fights from devolving into sectarian battles. Take the factions that want him to make toppling Microsoft a priority: Create a version of Linux as simple for novices to use as Windows, they reason, and you loosen Redmond's grip on the PC. "That's the kind of politics you see inside Oracle and Sun," Torvalds says. "Once you start thinking more about where you want to be than about making the best product, you're screwed."
yeah, I was planning on making an easy os, but I dropped the idea, torvalds shows how he is a great person and he's human, he isnt cheap or shallow, he actually thinks wisely, this is why he'll always be respected, once bill gates loses power it'll be "oh well" about him, people like torvalds end up being legacies and well known and liked.
I like his outlook on things.
thank you for saying what I was going to say, I think it's funny how we have to be tolerant of other religions, but people dont have to be tolerant back, I'm tolerant, in fact I dont give a flying fuck who you worship, you can worship the goatse man for all I care, just as long as you dont force your beliefs upon me, I dont care, I'm a christian, and I see all this stuff to rid of the term "god" and change it around to be politically correct, I didnt see anything that said "you cannot display the 10 commandments in front of a building or in public, or practice any christian beliefs in public"
What's funny is that people of other religions attack the christians here so much, yet, if their religion was attacked or told to not be practiced in public, we'd have a lot more terrorism and people screaming "unfair"
It's like going to the middle east and going "well, guess what fuckers?! you cant practice islam in public anymore, stop doing it, it bothers us, thank you." It's basically what we'r being told, we're a dominantly christian nation. so you know what, if you dont believe in god, why are you so offended when you hear his name? you shouldnt care at all.
You know what the real reason for this is? Anally retentive pricks who have to have the world shaped their way. That's the only reason this has become a problem as of late. I think the pledge should be voluntary though, if you proudly believe in the country and the flag, go on ahead and do it, if you dont, whatever.
I wouldnt be surprised if some gay pride group came up and tried putting a ban on heterosexual relationships, or the KKK finally getting their way on things, or some group limiting child birth or whatever...
Just deal with it people, just learn to TOLERATE and ignore things you dont like, instead of pissing people off, making people associated/generalized with you look bad. JUst shrug all the small details of life off and go on with your lives.
What I'm using right now is considered ancient history and can be bought for 40 dollars now
:P
433 mhz celeron with 256 megs of ram, and a 20 gig (maximum for the mobo) HDD with a 66 mhz bus.
The oldest bit I have is my apple ][e which I saved from a school. waiting for a netbsd port for that
the second oldest piece I have is an i386 with 2 megs of ram, a hardwired cpu connected to the mobo, 68 meg MFM hd, 5.25 floppy, with win 3.1
3rd oldest piece is my i486 which I bought for 10 bucks, it's a good little sturdy AT&T globalyst 330 with 4 megs of ram, 800 meg HD, cdrom, ethernet and a 66 mhz cpu with a 33 mhz bus. EFAR mobo.
4th oldest piece is my current machine. which is a sad case for me.
I'm trying to get my hands on my sister's old 233 mhz compaq she doesnt even use anymore.
I also want to get one of the acer altos 900's from my school, the scsi stuff is nice, and they're pro-unix
my neighbor is going to give me her old gateway, which is prolly faster than my current computer, doesnt mean that its going to be my primary machine (let's face it, I'd rather use a 433 rather than a 700 mhz or so gateway.)
so far my current computer has been stable and has run nicely. linux made it worthwhile.
the monster I have in planning s going to own, I also want to get my grubby hands on some SGI octane machines..
hell, anything sgi would kick so much ass.