While I'd dearly love to try one of the 2.x.x kernels with a RedHat disk, even though I am a RedHat subscriber, I have YET to hear anything from my friends at RedHat about a kernel later than 2.0.36. So where IS the newest release with the newest kernel??? I have spent the last two days on a 56K never-to-be-sufficiently-damned modem trying to find, all over the Internet, all of the fracking files that are required before you upgrade beyond version 2.0.x Why the hell can't all these files be located in one fracking location, or at the very least, why can't we maintain a current list of the places to find such things??? The list included with the kernel 2.0.6 has a pointer to directory listings that aren't even CLOSE!!
I don't mind working to keep Linux up to date. It's actually one of the joys. But please, do not mislead me!
Benny (Xitron)
Time to get past the concept of "The lesser evil"
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Until we reach a point in American where we vote for what we WANT instead of voting AGAINST what we do NOT want, we will settle for garbage in government.
Too often, people vote for a Republican to keep out a Democrat or vice versa, when in reality, they do not agree with either party's agenda. You get what you vote for.
I am a Libertarian, both in philosophy and in party affiliation. Most people on the Internet are libertarian (small 'l') in philosophy. "You leave me alone and I'll leave you alone" type of value system. Many would happily vote Libertarian if they knew the Libertarian agenda and they didn't feel their vote would be wasted.
The bad news is that your vote is being wasted in two ways. First, your vote AGAINST the opposition is telling the recipient of your vote that you support his agenda. If you do not, don't be surprised when business as usual is the result. Second, when electing a president, your vote is not even an issue. The Electoral College elects the president, not the people. Your vote CAN be of ENORMOUS value though. Vote for what you WANT in a president, rather than voting to keep someone out of office. That way you are clearly telling them that business as usual is unacceptable. Anything less is a true waste of a vote.
Xitron
Get a sense of humor and perspective!
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Look around you people! The Constitution was written NOT to protect politically correct speech that was certain to never offend anyone, but rather to protect the speech that many did NOT want to hear.
In this day and age, we can't even say "Bitch, bitch, bitch!" without losing our jobs! I asked an attorney that was briefing our company on what we could say what the hell happened to free speech?! She said that this speech type (ie. "bitch" or anything that could be interpreted as negative) was NOT protected. End of discussion.
This was funny to some of us, not funny to others, and terrifying to a few. So which group is right? Doesn't matter! Because each of us is entitled to hear this or read this and to decide on our own whether or not we liked it. It is certainly okay to say you didn't like it, or to say it wasn't funny, but for the love of Pete, don't ask that it be stopped because YOU cannot pigeonhole this into a "funny" category!
When the ACLU stopped defending liberty and started demanding that the majority pay enough that all the poor could afford to go to circuses they lost my support.
As far as humor goes, who better than a humor site to play an April Fools joke? It's funny. Borrow a dollar people and go rent a clue!
One of the problems is that we don't tend to speak as loudly about what we like as we do about those things we don't like.
Look at all the NEAT things our government does "for" us. Usually it is as a result of a vocal few whining about some privelege they want. Suddenly, we - the quiet majority - are paying the bill for the desires of the vocal majority.
Time to wake up people and offer kudos to the ones in the Linux community who are in the spotlight and in the crosshairs on our behalf, or we WILL lose them. It becomes too easy to believe that the feelings of the vocal minority are actually the beliefs of ALL of us.
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Thank you. This is a fascinating site and it pointed out a lot of shortcomings in my own pages.
Have we come up with a new word for our type??? Shall we be called gnerds??? :-D
While I'd dearly love to try one of the 2.x.x kernels with a RedHat disk, even though I am a RedHat subscriber, I have YET to hear anything from my friends at RedHat about a kernel later than 2.0.36. So where IS the newest release with the newest kernel??? I have spent the last two days on a 56K never-to-be-sufficiently-damned modem trying to find, all over the Internet, all of the fracking files that are required before you upgrade beyond version 2.0.x Why the hell can't all these files be located in one fracking location, or at the very least, why can't we maintain a current list of the places to find such things??? The list included with the kernel 2.0.6 has a pointer to directory listings that aren't even CLOSE!!
I don't mind working to keep Linux up to date. It's actually one of the joys. But please, do not mislead me!
Benny (Xitron)
Until we reach a point in American where we vote for what we WANT instead of voting AGAINST what we do NOT want, we will settle for garbage in government.
Too often, people vote for a Republican to keep out a Democrat or vice versa, when in reality, they do not agree with either party's agenda. You get what you vote for.
I am a Libertarian, both in philosophy and in party affiliation. Most people on the Internet are libertarian (small 'l') in philosophy. "You leave me alone and I'll leave you alone" type of value system. Many would happily vote Libertarian if they knew the Libertarian agenda and they didn't feel their vote would be wasted.
The bad news is that your vote is being wasted in two ways. First, your vote AGAINST the opposition is telling the recipient of your vote that you support his agenda. If you do not, don't be surprised when business as usual is the result. Second, when electing a president, your vote is not even an issue. The Electoral College elects the president, not the people. Your vote CAN be of ENORMOUS value though. Vote for what you WANT in a president, rather than voting to keep someone out of office. That way you are clearly telling them that business as usual is unacceptable. Anything less is a true waste of a vote.
Xitron
Look around you people! The Constitution was written NOT to protect politically correct speech that was certain to never offend anyone, but rather to protect the speech that many did NOT want to hear.
In this day and age, we can't even say "Bitch, bitch, bitch!" without losing our jobs! I asked an attorney that was briefing our company on what we could say what the hell happened to free speech?! She said that this speech type (ie. "bitch" or anything that could be interpreted as negative) was NOT protected. End of discussion.
This was funny to some of us, not funny to others, and terrifying to a few. So which group is right? Doesn't matter! Because each of us is entitled to hear this or read this and to decide on our own whether or not we liked it. It is certainly okay to say you didn't like it, or to say it wasn't funny, but for the love of Pete, don't ask that it be stopped because YOU cannot pigeonhole this into a "funny" category!
Benny
When the ACLU stopped defending liberty and started demanding that the majority pay enough that all the poor could afford to go to circuses they lost my support.
As far as humor goes, who better than a humor site to play an April Fools joke? It's funny. Borrow a dollar people and go rent a clue!
Your comment got me laughing out loud! Thanks.
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By the by,
One of the problems is that we don't tend to speak as loudly about what we like as we do about those things we don't like.
Look at all the NEAT things our government does "for" us. Usually it is as a result of a vocal few whining about some privelege they want. Suddenly, we - the quiet majority - are paying the bill for the desires of the vocal majority.
Time to wake up people and offer kudos to the ones in the Linux community who are in the spotlight and in the crosshairs on our behalf, or we WILL lose them. It becomes too easy to believe that the feelings of the vocal minority are actually the beliefs of ALL of us.
Benny D. Helms
benny@ptinet.net
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