I will then take said utility, and distribute it until I'm blue in the face on every #w4r3z IRC channel, every script-kiddie hotline server, every usenet newsgroup I can uuencode and post it to.
Give us a few hours notice before you kick into Spam-meister mode, if you please, thank you.
Do you seriously think the intelligence agencies in "other countries" didn't know about Echelon until it was reported by journalists to the public?
Do you seriously think the governments of "other countries" don't know that their governmental message traffic is pretty much exempt to these kinds of restricitons?
If all encryption is banned, and I, say, decide to write a script that sends big blocks of random numbers to my friend, say, just for fun, does a federal marshall come to my door the next day and force me to 'decrypt' the blocks of random numbers?
Clue- the special long-integer type in Python can multiply big prime numbers very quickly.
1. The 'big guys' pull the strings. People can pound on their chests self-righteously, flame, play little Usenet classwar games. The big guys still pull the strings.
2. A 'revolution' ain't gonna happen any time soon, certainly not over wether a few thousand hackers get to buy shares of RedHat stock.
3. Making this into a BIG DEAL signals to the investment community that for all the good things Linux can be, you face a swarm if you go near the hive.
4. You won't get what you want by complaining. You'll get shut outta the room. That's the way it works, end of story.
The turkey would be a better national bird than the ornate buzzard-like bird called the Bald Eagle. Look into the habits of the bald eagle sometime if you like. They'd rather eat road kill than hunt for prey themselves.
When you see a screaming eagle in the sky, look for the other animal whose prey it is about to steal, or the compost heap it's about to land on and eat.
It would be a real mistake for the Open Source community (granted, it's not a monolithic body) to start coming off as a bunch of agitators. The investment community won't look kindly at RedHat or Open Source in general if they get the impression that all it means is having to deal with a bunch of troublemakers and complainers.
I read the article trying to figure out why it is being called a 'bunker' and the only sense I could make of it was that CNN wanted lots of hits from panicky readers.
It's not a so called "law." It's a code and now each state gets to decide if it should become a law in their state. That's just how things work sometimes. Make sure your feelings are known by those in your state government who represent you.
Linux has become so 'uber cool' that there are twenty different distributions, suits clamoring all over it to make it 'commercially feasible' 'easy to install' and all sorts of other warped perceptions of what a stable Unix system should be. The newsgroups are crawling with clueless people who want to know why their joystick doesn't work.
An operating system that has been serving me right lately is NetBSD. I've been buying mature, well written books (mostly from O'Reilly, Prentice-Hall, etc.) on how the BSD OS and kernel work, and learning a lot from running a plain vanilla Unix.
I downloaded (at work) the entire NetBSD package source archive and am slowly dragging in all the packages I want by building them from source. For a 'build it from source' approach, the NetBSD pkgsrc scheme works eminently well. If dependent packages aren't already in place, it checks them out, builds them, and installs them, then goes on and builds the package you requested.
For example, if you want to install LyX on a plain-vanilla base install, go to the LyX package build directory and run 'make && make install.' The package system builds and installs TeX, LaTeX, all the files they depend on, libraries needed to build and run LyX, etc., then builds and installs LyX itself. From the source, not from canned binaries with who-knows-what library dependencies.
With NetBSD (or any of the *BSD's actually) system administration is as simple as reading the classic O'Reilly books following instructions that have been correct for a decade. No clever Python scripts from RedHat to reverse engineer to figure out what the hell they wanted it to do.
I'm learning a lot, and none of it is obsolete when RedHat decides to write a new batch of Python config tools.
Clue: those video drivers that were a major struggle before were still lurking in the shadows. Oftentimes you can go into the Control Spaniel "System" area and find that it's shoved your video card into the "other" category because it didn't know what to do with it (duh!) and you can "install drivers" for it.
USB isn't "Plug-N-Pray." I think you're referring to "Plug and play" as implemented with crofty old legacy hardware. I've yet to experience failure with a USB peripheral on a supported platform. I have USB speakers (throw out that sound card), and a USB scanner (get rid of that bloated 80's SCSI expansion bus) The whole idea behind USB is to get away from DMA/IRQ/IOPort hell. It works.
You didn't list any functions that won't already be on the motherboard. Oh, except SCSI (but who needs a whole extra bus? you're gonna convince people they need SCSI?) There will be green cases with no trim as basic models, green cases with gold trim as expanded models, Black cases with silver trim for power users, etc. Did somebody tell you your phillips screwdriver was still gonna qualify you as a "PC Technician" with these machines?? (not meant as a personal attack)
I find it frightening, in a way. Whenever anything becomes trendy, rich kids with attitude push all the regular people outta the way and party. I'm not in any way pretending the net should or could be egalitarian, but watch for the poseurs to come outta the woodwork when it becomes trendy. (hasn't it already? Color bitmaps on shrinkwrapped Linux boxes at Best Buy??)
We're already seeing people (myself included) backing the heck outta 'the linux scene' for similar reasons. I hope the various BSD communities can bear the load when a lot of people with practical reasons for running a free Unix bail outta the linux party room looking for a quiet place to get some work done.
Meritocracy? Surely you jest. When the room fills up with newbies new things become more important like apperances, etc.
I remember when a similar social phenomenon happened in "The Punk Scene." (where, granted, there was no meritocracy unless there is merit in self-destructive nihilism) All kinds of new people with expensive punk costumes started dominating the dance floor at the club one night. Then I noticed cameras were filming them. I bailed outta there. Haven't wanted to go back much.
It will never get as bad as TV. TV air time is expensive. An Internet web page is cheap.
However, we are already starting to see that Search Engine placement ranking is becoming expensive (the big sites are starting to charge for top listings.) It doesn't matter if you have a very informative website out in the middle of Podunk if 'the public at large' can't find it. You can, of course, spam the URL around to get visitors. Why do I suspect that would backfire?
A friend of mine tried running WordStar (for DOS) 2.2 on his Pentium awhile back. The only thing that made it difficult to use was that when you touched the cursor keys, it scrolled to fast to the bottom of a large document to be usable.
I have a complete boxed set of WordStar 2.2 (PC-DOS version) somewhere on a bookshelf at home. I wonder if it would fetch bux on an auction site yet? Also have the Rev. 1.0 Basic and Pascal compilers from IBM (build DOS applications that will even run on DOS 1.0. Whooeee!)
Well, the magazine PC Plus (British) has been taping full copies of C++ Builder V.3 on the cover for a few months now (Standard version a few months ago, "Professional" last month, one of the Java versions this month) so Borland is opening up, at least with regard to free personal-use versions of their one or two version old products.
The reason vending machines have the Tipping/Rocking warning message on them is that people tip and rock vending machines to steal product out of the machine. Supposedly (urban legend??) this worked at some time in the past.
So a label like that absolves the vending machine company from liability if the machine crushes to death some low-life thief. For all our benefit, it would be best if it did crush and eliminate those people. Cheaper than a court case and time in the slammer.
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I will then take said utility, and distribute it until I'm blue in the face on every #w4r3z IRC channel, every script-kiddie hotline server, every usenet newsgroup I can uuencode and post it to.
Give us a few hours notice before you kick into Spam-meister mode, if you please, thank you.
Do you seriously think the intelligence agencies in "other countries" didn't know about Echelon until it was reported by journalists to the public?
Do you seriously think the governments of "other countries" don't know that their governmental message traffic is pretty much exempt to these kinds of restricitons?
If all encryption is banned, and I, say, decide to write a script that sends big blocks of random numbers to my friend, say, just for fun, does a federal marshall come to my door the next day and force me to 'decrypt' the blocks of random numbers?
Clue- the special long-integer type in Python can multiply big prime numbers very quickly.
"Join the party. It's shanga-langa party time."
Where's the keg?
"....don't you know that you can count me out...IN....." (clue- check the White Album version)
1. The 'big guys' pull the strings. People can pound on their chests self-righteously, flame, play little Usenet classwar games. The big guys still pull the strings.
2. A 'revolution' ain't gonna happen any time soon, certainly not over wether a few thousand hackers get to buy shares of RedHat stock.
3. Making this into a BIG DEAL signals to the investment community that for all the good things Linux can be, you face a swarm if you go near the hive.
4. You won't get what you want by complaining. You'll get shut outta the room. That's the way it works, end of story.
The turkey would be a better national bird than the ornate buzzard-like bird called the Bald Eagle. Look into the habits of the bald eagle sometime if you like. They'd rather eat road kill than hunt for prey themselves.
When you see a screaming eagle in the sky, look for the other animal whose prey it is about to steal, or the compost heap it's about to land on and eat.
2.0 hours per work unit?
I'd like to suggest that we turn off our computer when we're not using them. That's the green thing to do.
It would be a real mistake for the Open Source community (granted, it's not a monolithic body) to start coming off as a bunch of agitators. The investment community won't look kindly at RedHat or Open Source in general if they get the impression that all it means is having to deal with a bunch of troublemakers and complainers.
I read the article trying to figure out why it is being called a 'bunker' and the only sense I could make of it was that CNN wanted lots of hits from panicky readers.
It's not a so called "law." It's a code and now each state gets to decide if it should become a law in their state. That's just how things work sometimes. Make sure your feelings are known by those in your state government who represent you.
To explain:
Linux has become so 'uber cool' that there are twenty different distributions, suits clamoring all over it to make it 'commercially feasible' 'easy to install' and all sorts of other warped perceptions of what a stable Unix system should be. The newsgroups are crawling with clueless people who want to know why their joystick doesn't work.
An operating system that has been serving me right lately is NetBSD. I've been buying mature, well written books (mostly from O'Reilly, Prentice-Hall, etc.) on how the BSD OS and kernel work, and learning a lot from running a plain vanilla Unix.
I downloaded (at work) the entire NetBSD package source archive and am slowly dragging in all the packages I want by building them from source. For a 'build it from source' approach, the NetBSD pkgsrc scheme works eminently well. If dependent packages aren't already in place, it checks them out, builds them, and installs them, then goes on and builds the package you requested.
For example, if you want to install LyX on a plain-vanilla base install, go to the LyX package build directory and run 'make && make install.' The package system builds and installs TeX, LaTeX, all the files they depend on, libraries needed to build and run LyX, etc., then builds and installs LyX itself. From the source, not from canned binaries with who-knows-what library dependencies.
With NetBSD (or any of the *BSD's actually) system administration is as simple as reading the classic O'Reilly books following instructions that have been correct for a decade. No clever Python scripts from RedHat to reverse engineer to figure out what the hell they wanted it to do.
I'm learning a lot, and none of it is obsolete when RedHat decides to write a new batch of Python config tools.
Clue: those video drivers that were a major struggle before were still lurking in the shadows. Oftentimes you can go into the Control Spaniel "System" area and find that it's shoved your video card into the "other" category because it didn't know what to do with it (duh!) and you can "install drivers" for it.
pssst! Let me tell you a secret: Office 2000 writes and reads XML. It also writes and reads the .DOC and .XLS formats. But the new default is XML.
USB isn't "Plug-N-Pray." I think you're referring to "Plug and play" as implemented with crofty old legacy hardware. I've yet to experience failure with a USB peripheral on a supported platform. I have USB speakers (throw out that sound card), and a USB scanner (get rid of that bloated 80's SCSI expansion bus) The whole idea behind USB is to get away from DMA/IRQ/IOPort hell. It works.
You didn't list any functions that won't already be on the motherboard. Oh, except SCSI (but who needs a whole extra bus? you're gonna convince people they need SCSI?) There will be green cases with no trim as basic models, green cases with gold trim as expanded models, Black cases with silver trim for power users, etc. Did somebody tell you your phillips screwdriver was still gonna qualify you as a "PC Technician" with these machines?? (not meant as a personal attack)
Microsoft~1 would be willing to sell a $10 license if it got them 16 million previously off-platform users on a MS platform.
Of course, those 16 million people already have computers, and part of the dilemma right now for growth is the market is already saturated.
Yes, he can use (1980's) SCSI.
USB was just being used as an example of new hardware at the beginning of this sub-thread.
I find it frightening, in a way. Whenever anything becomes trendy, rich kids with attitude push all the regular people outta the way and party. I'm not in any way pretending the net should or could be egalitarian, but watch for the poseurs to come outta the woodwork when it becomes trendy. (hasn't it already? Color bitmaps on shrinkwrapped Linux boxes at Best Buy??)
We're already seeing people (myself included) backing the heck outta 'the linux scene' for similar reasons. I hope the various BSD communities can bear the load when a lot of people with practical reasons for running a free Unix bail outta the linux party room looking for a quiet place to get some work done.
Meritocracy? Surely you jest. When the room fills up with newbies new things become more important like apperances, etc.
I remember when a similar social phenomenon happened in "The Punk Scene." (where, granted, there was no meritocracy unless there is merit in self-destructive nihilism) All kinds of new people with expensive punk costumes started dominating the dance floor at the club one night. Then I noticed cameras were filming them. I bailed outta there. Haven't wanted to go back much.
It will never get as bad as TV. TV air time is expensive. An Internet web page is cheap.
However, we are already starting to see that Search Engine placement ranking is becoming expensive (the big sites are starting to charge for top listings.) It doesn't matter if you have a very informative website out in the middle of Podunk if 'the public at large' can't find it. You can, of course, spam the URL around to get visitors. Why do I suspect that would backfire?
A friend of mine tried running WordStar (for DOS) 2.2 on his Pentium awhile back. The only thing that made it difficult to use was that when you touched the cursor keys, it scrolled to fast to the bottom of a large document to be usable.
I have a complete boxed set of WordStar 2.2 (PC-DOS version) somewhere on a bookshelf at home. I wonder if it would fetch bux on an auction site yet? Also have the Rev. 1.0 Basic and Pascal compilers from IBM (build DOS applications that will even run on DOS 1.0. Whooeee!)
Xenix/86 was written by Microsoft. The license was probably transferred to SCO when they became a separate company, though.
Well, the magazine PC Plus (British) has been taping full copies of C++ Builder V.3 on the cover for a few months now (Standard version a few months ago, "Professional" last month, one of the Java versions this month) so Borland is opening up, at least with regard to free personal-use versions of their one or two version old products.
The reason vending machines have the Tipping/Rocking warning message on them is that people tip and rock vending machines to steal product out of the machine. Supposedly (urban legend??) this worked at some time in the past.
So a label like that absolves the vending machine company from liability if the machine crushes to death some low-life thief. For all our benefit, it would be best if it did crush and eliminate those people. Cheaper than a court case and time in the slammer.