Blaming people who build houses with inferoir door locks for buglary is just as inane. People shouldn't have to put locks on their doors to prevent intruders from entering.
A number of years ago I read part of the Iroquoi Constitution. Some political theorists say that the US Constitution was based in part on the pact these people held.
One of the 'rules' the Iroquoi followed was: If you are going to be away from your lodge for a time, put a big marker up on it, so that other people will know to keep away because you are not there.'
That rule implicitly shows that the people in that society respected one another enough to follow rules like that. Further, anybody seen meddling around the 'marked' lodge would be assumed by others to be doing something wrong.
Why is it that in our culture the victim of a breakin is blamed? Can't we assign the blame back on the malcontents and troublemakers who intrude in other people's business? When someone breaks into a computer, why is 'it was easy to do' an acceptable excuse to so many people?
After Microsoft has issued a few million in rewards and there are a half dozen virus writers in the slammer serving 25 year terms (with NO internet connection- enjoy sol.exe, buster), maybe the social climate will change. It's a shame that it has to come to that.
You're right up to a point. However, a cute little word used in nerd subculture is likely to never become a word in common usage.
Really, the comments downstream from this one say it all better. Using 'fsck' is chickenshit. It's like grandma saying 'gosh darn it' when she drops the a heavy book on her big toe.
do the virus writers employed over at McAfee make MORE or LESS than the 250k in the same duration of time as it would take for them to find a new job!
Since you have an asterik after your account name, presumably you had to present 'real world identification' when you got your paid access to Slashdot. At least, it's safe to say your account identity is more tracable than many other accounts on this website.
Do you seriously think you should be engaging in wholesale slander of a large commercial enterprise that way?
It's really laughable for anybody associated with Free Software to even use the word 'design.'
'Choice' I think is alright. Lord knows there are a myriad of choices to make. More than most people want. But doesn't 'design' mean 'whatever it was they were doing on commercial Unix back in 1983, that we've cloned'???
The files in my home directory are the ones I've created myself. They exist only on my machine and in the backup sets I make (yes, I know, we all back EVERYTHING we do up every fourty-eight seconds so it's not an issue...). My own created files are what insure my income, and on my machine at work, they're the critical revenue-producing part of the computer that isn't just a capital sink for the company.
The files in the/bin and/usr/bin directories are just streamed out of a tarball on a CDROM. I can pull them back off the CD any time I like.
It looks like Red Hat, who work full-time on this stuff, must know more about what they're doing in the software business than a bunch of pundits and volunteer advocates on Slashdot and the Usenet groups.
My mom has a nice snappy IBM Thinkpad notebook computer. She had a somewhat less snappy IBM Thinkpad notebook computer before that one.
I'm fairly certain the Windows 95 on the older Thinkpad ** and the Windows 98 on the newer Thinkpad have never needed to be reinstalled. It's just worked, and done the things she has wanted to do. Some would say that it's filled her needs quite well and hence is ready for her desktop.
I don't have to stand over her and keep her from wrecking stuff, though she does sometimes have questions.
(** the older machine has been handed down to my father, who retired from IBM after 38 years (he wrote code for the IBM 650 back in the late 50's/early 60's), and has washed his hands of computers since retirement except a little dabbling with his Lotus spreadsheets)
You mean revenue-producing private businesses should actually Pay for the software they use??
I know that historically IT people have been able to 'sneak' Linux boxes in because there's no purchase order that needs to be signed. They can download an ISO and use one of the old PII machines out of the dead storage area. That is still the case. You just won't be able to point to a shiny Red Hat Shrinkwrapped box when 'the Man' askes where the software came from anymore. Goodness, think outside the (shrinkwrapped) box.
I have been using Linux on the desktop for the past 5 year exclusively and really do prefer it over MS Windows.
Umm, how do you know you prefer it over Windows if it's all you have used over the last five years?
(disclaimer- I like a Unix desktop. I have NetBSD with fvwm2 as one of the desktop machines on my KVM switch. It works really, really well. I also have MacOS 9, Solaris, and Windows desktops.)
I wanted one of those microwave guns a number of years back when the neighbors above me had a hard wooden floor, no rug, and a small boy wearing hard soled shoes. He also had a bouncy rubber ball part of the time.
I wanted to cook the little rat through the floorboards.
Luckily I'm not as efficient at carrying through with all my ideas as I'd like to be.
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There are 100,000,000 people who will disapprove of what you do. You'll have 10,000 people worldwide, if you're lucky, who even care what your 'message' was.
Yeah. It doesn't matter what kind of big mean bully results from the frankenstein concotions being created. All that matters is that it slags Microsoft.
On the subject of OJ and the murders, has anybody else had fun building and running this particular X11 root animation? It's pretty cool. I built it on Solaris at work once and even dared to run it in the firmware lab once.
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Blaming people who build houses with inferoir door locks for buglary is just as inane. People shouldn't have to put locks on their doors to prevent intruders from entering.
A number of years ago I read part of the Iroquoi Constitution. Some political theorists say that the US Constitution was based in part on the pact these people held.
One of the 'rules' the Iroquoi followed was: If you are going to be away from your lodge for a time, put a big marker up on it, so that other people will know to keep away because you are not there.'
That rule implicitly shows that the people in that society respected one another enough to follow rules like that. Further, anybody seen meddling around the 'marked' lodge would be assumed by others to be doing something wrong.
Why is it that in our culture the victim of a breakin is blamed? Can't we assign the blame back on the malcontents and troublemakers who intrude in other people's business? When someone breaks into a computer, why is 'it was easy to do' an acceptable excuse to so many people?
After Microsoft has issued a few million in rewards and there are a half dozen virus writers in the slammer serving 25 year terms (with NO internet connection- enjoy sol.exe, buster), maybe the social climate will change. It's a shame that it has to come to that.
What job hasn't a car manufacturer done properly if they recommend their customer get a car alarm?
Then you were misusing the word 'exclusively.'
Thanks for the clarification.
You're right up to a point. However, a cute little word used in nerd subculture is likely to never become a word in common usage.
Really, the comments downstream from this one say it all better. Using 'fsck' is chickenshit. It's like grandma saying 'gosh darn it' when she drops the a heavy book on her big toe.
do the virus writers employed over at McAfee make MORE or LESS than the 250k in the same duration of time as it would take for them to find a new job!
Since you have an asterik after your account name, presumably you had to present 'real world identification' when you got your paid access to Slashdot. At least, it's safe to say your account identity is more tracable than many other accounts on this website.
Do you seriously think you should be engaging in wholesale slander of a large commercial enterprise that way?
What a crock of shit.
The people who 'share the source code' that they create have the right to do so. They are NOT morally obligated to do so.
Your attitude dishonors the choice that they've made.
It's really laughable for anybody associated with Free Software to even use the word 'design.'
'Choice' I think is alright. Lord knows there are a myriad of choices to make. More than most people want. But doesn't 'design' mean 'whatever it was they were doing on commercial Unix back in 1983, that we've cloned'???
Let's see here.
/bin and /usr/bin directories are just streamed out of a tarball on a CDROM. I can pull them back off the CD any time I like.
The files in my home directory are the ones I've created myself. They exist only on my machine and in the backup sets I make (yes, I know, we all back EVERYTHING we do up every fourty-eight seconds so it's not an issue...). My own created files are what insure my income, and on my machine at work, they're the critical revenue-producing part of the computer that isn't just a capital sink for the company.
The files in the
Ask again: which files are more important?
The origin of the name Apache is 'A Patchy httpd server.'
They came up with that clever 'Amerindian culture ripoff' logo after the fact.
It looks like Red Hat, who work full-time on this stuff, must know more about what they're doing in the software business than a bunch of pundits and volunteer advocates on Slashdot and the Usenet groups.
My mom has a nice snappy IBM Thinkpad notebook computer. She had a somewhat less snappy IBM Thinkpad notebook computer before that one.
I'm fairly certain the Windows 95 on the older Thinkpad ** and the Windows 98 on the newer Thinkpad have never needed to be reinstalled. It's just worked, and done the things she has wanted to do. Some would say that it's filled her needs quite well and hence is ready for her desktop.
I don't have to stand over her and keep her from wrecking stuff, though she does sometimes have questions.
(** the older machine has been handed down to my father, who retired from IBM after 38 years (he wrote code for the IBM 650 back in the late 50's/early 60's), and has washed his hands of computers since retirement except a little dabbling with his Lotus spreadsheets)
You can't be serious!
You mean revenue-producing private businesses should actually Pay for the software they use??
I know that historically IT people have been able to 'sneak' Linux boxes in because there's no purchase order that needs to be signed. They can download an ISO and use one of the old PII machines out of the dead storage area. That is still the case. You just won't be able to point to a shiny Red Hat Shrinkwrapped box when 'the Man' askes where the software came from anymore. Goodness, think outside the (shrinkwrapped) box.
Ummm, 'fsck' is a Unix command for checking a filesystem.
If you think it's a word in the English language, you're wrong.
It's really that simple.
(and no: Raymond is NOT a contributor to the OED)
I have been using Linux on the desktop for the past 5 year exclusively and really do prefer it over MS Windows.
Umm, how do you know you prefer it over Windows if it's all you have used over the last five years?
(disclaimer- I like a Unix desktop. I have NetBSD with fvwm2 as one of the desktop machines on my KVM switch. It works really, really well. I also have MacOS 9, Solaris, and Windows desktops.)
On the contrary, anybody who sees revolution fomenting clearly needs to get off campus and into the real world more often.
I wanted one of those microwave guns a number of years back when the neighbors above me had a hard wooden floor, no rug, and a small boy wearing hard soled shoes. He also had a bouncy rubber ball part of the time.
I wanted to cook the little rat through the floorboards.
Luckily I'm not as efficient at carrying through with all my ideas as I'd like to be.
This is Slashdot.
Lethal to our Uptimes.
'He' is a case-hardened kiosk.
Have fun.
Doesn't scale well.
There are 100,000,000 people who will disapprove of what you do. You'll have 10,000 people worldwide, if you're lucky, who even care what your 'message' was.
Yeah. It doesn't matter what kind of big mean bully results from the frankenstein concotions being created. All that matters is that it slags Microsoft.
Oh... wait.....
Why do you imply there is necessarily a connection between IBM and openness?
(just asking)
Just like they broke into the Office Suite market so well with Wordperfet and Quattro Pro?
On the subject of OJ and the murders, has anybody else had fun building and running this particular X11 root animation? It's pretty cool. I built it on Solaris at work once and even dared to run it in the firmware lab once.
Check it out.
But then, Why not use MOL (Mac On Linux)?
Because it's still Linux?
*ducks*
If you have an OSX disk, it's going to contain PPC binaries, not Intel x86 binaries.
Might someday be useful for running MacOSX binaries without OS X on a PPC platform, but its a not-gonna-do-it thing for Darwin x86 or NetBSD x86.
This is more similar to being able to run Solaris-Sparc binaries on a NetBSD/sparc box.