Hummm.... You can always tell when someone is using Microsoft software... because the apostrophie character in contractions like "don't" and "isn't" come out as goofy non-ISO characters...
Now there's an interesting example of standards compliance. MS can't even stick with an 8 bit ISO character set.
I have a feeling that this little HOWTO was prompted in large part by that very column. That column still stands as a classic in the annals of poor technical journalism for all its errors, misinterpretations and lack of thought.
(BTW - Get a Grip. Blaming getting moderated down on the "new world order" is a poor excuse for shoddy writing.)
OK... I'm dense. Is this guy a bleeding idiot, or the greatest genious of all time? Either way, the site was good for a belly laugh (or a sob, if this is an acurate reflection of the average intellegence of most MS users.)
(I would have guessed he was about 13 from the writing style, not 40-something)
> Besides, its kinda hard to stick an electronic greeting card on the fireplace mantle.
Then again, with scanners and "digital processing" of photographic film on one end, and quality color printers becoming more common on the other end, it's not that hard to receive a picture attached to an email, print it out and stick that on the mantle...
Having said that, I still agree with you that the USPS isn't going away any time soon. The point is that, people are finding new and creative ways to do the things they used to do with letters. With the advent of high bandwidth connections, you just might want to send a mpg video clip of the kids to Grandma next Christmas...;-)
My problem with all this talk of cloning extinct species is that we fall into the attitude of, "So what if we drive species X into extinction. We'll just clone it again after we've finished raping its ecosystem!" In other words, the promise of never again having to worry about extinction may actually result in more species being allowed to go extinct!!
Better to spend the $$$$ on saving the species in the first place than to blow it on some SiFi dream of bringing them all back.
Why do such obvious "Make Money Fast" schemes spread so quickly? Why do people get sucked in by Urban Legonds like the Good Times virus? Why do viruses lime "Melissa" spread so fast?
How does the old saying go? "There's a sucker born every minute." Well, on the Internet, it's more like every 10ms.
You and I may have been on the Internet for years (I started reading Net News more than ten years ago), and know that 95% of everything on the Net is pure crud, but there are thousands of newbies flooding the Internet every day, and many of them are still under the illusion that, "If it's on the computer, it MUST be true!"
Does anyone else get the feeling the person who wrote this article was totally CLUELESS with regard to computer technology? No viruses? No crashes? Sort of like saying that, if you make the computer complex enough, it'll never have any bugs.
Well, Amazon lost my busness when they SPAMMED me with their "New Service" announcement. I sent them a nasty-gram stating in NO uncertain terms that I did NOT want their unsolicited advertisements. I now wonder if they were the ones who sold my company email address, so now I can't even get away from the Make Money Fast schemes and XXX web site advertisements there!
> If we allow the removal of access to porn, what's not to say we will remove the access to, for example, the text of the Constitution of the United States or the Bill of Rights?
Uh... Have you ever heard of this thing called the Legislature? This is why we have freedom of speech. Issues like this come out, and are discussed by (hopefully) rational people discuss them, and we create reasonable laws. For example, We The People have decided that you have to be 18 before you have the freedom to vote. There are procedures you have to go through before you can buy dangerous weapons. You can set up a porn shop, but not within certain residential neighborhoods.
Freedom is not the absence of constraints. Freedom is the ability to set prudent restraints, and the ability to change them when they are deemed unreasonable or inappropriate.
I DON'T KNOW ABOUT ANY OF YOU HOT STUDS AND LUCIOUS BABES OUT THERE, BUT I DO HAVE CHILDREN, AND I'VE SEEN WHAT PORNOGRAPHY DOES TO KIDS.
Yea, yea... I know what you're going to say. "You have to educate your kids. Filtering is no substitute for education." Sure sounds mighty fine when you say that, with your chest puffed out with pride in being Holy Defender Of Free Speech. I suppose if someone started planting land mines around my house, you'd tell me, "Well, just EDUCATE your children to not STEP on them, you dumb prick!"
Sorry, but it doesn't work that way.
I know, filtering is a lousy technology, but I think it should be possible to put at least some level of filtering on URL's, like "www.wefu*ksluts.com". You can't stop everything, but at least you can make it more difficult to accidentally trip across this stuff.
Why at the Library? At home, I know what goes on with the computer. I can see a page and know what the difference is between a gang-bang and an article on breast cancer.
You go somewhere else, and there are no rules, no guidelines, noone checking over the shoulder. It's as if the Library had opened a section on Porn, and left all the hard core magazines out on the table for anyone to pick up. Is this really how you want to educate your children?
OK. You Defenders can start sending me your hate mail now. Just remember that I don't give a rat's a$$ about your opinion unless you've had children of your own.
*SIGH* At least he could try to come up with some fresh insights rather than rehashing the same old mindless drivel:
Microsoft is a beter "value proposition"
Microsoft is more integrated
People only like Linux because they hate Microsoft
You can't configure anything without your GUI admin interface (implied from, "This is Unix, remember...")
"Student Project Gone Astray"
No SMP support
No vendor support
Splintering development paths (i.e., if you change the kernel itself)
blah, blah, blah...
True, I agree with his basic premise - that you shouldn't dive into Linux as the foundation of your enterprise servers without doing some thinking first - but he hasn't added any new to the discussion. He doesn't mention anything about the strengths of Linux, other than the fact that it's cheap and it's not Microsoft.
Sounds like someone who simply swallows the propoganda coming out of MS, without attempting to do any real research of his own.
Uh... before you apply this patch, notice that the "less-than" in the icmp line should actually be doubled (i.e., a left shift opperation)! The second less-than symbol got swallowed somewhere in the HTML conversion.
Haven't seen the movie yet... but perhaps in the next movie they'll just discover that.. uh... their theory was wrong, and the Force really is a "mystical" thing that surrounds us.
(I agree - some things are better off left unexplained.)
The local calls I make on my second phone line to my ISP are "free" in the sense that I have a flat rate bill (about $18 + fees/taxes/etc.), so I pay the same thing if I make 0 calls or 100 calls in a month. I've seen some people who use metered lines (per call charge), but with four people in the house now using the Internet, I think I'd blow past the break-even point in the first week of every month...:-/
Here in Rochester NY, the phone system is moderately good. I don't pay extra for a 56K line, but then my connections fluctuate anywhere from 28.8 to 44K tops, depending on the phase of the moon...
Don't bother sending your SPAM here. From all indications (see other notes here), this is just another scam to legitimize SPAM, and to collect valid Email addresses.
This is like a lot of the current SPAM legislation before the US Congress. By putting some minimal "restrictions" (such as "remove" addresses and opt-out lists), the rest of SPAM is raised to the level of a "legitimate marketing method." How many SPAMs do you get with a trailer proclaiming that, "This is a LEGITIMATE advertisement, since you can reply here to get removed from this list." NEVER MIND that the address is bogus (or deactivated), or worse yet, just another address harvesting scam!!!
This is why CAUCE is fighting to hard to defeat these SPAMMER backed bills in favor of truly outlawing unsolicited business email.
I don't personally like RMS (and I'll reserve judgement on whether or not he's just jealous of Linus), but I think you have to credit him for much of what the Open Source movement is today. I think it was RMS who really fought for the distinction between "free" software (as in "free beer") and "free" as in Freedom. He may not even have contributed more to the OS movement than some others have, but his contribution came at a key moment in time, and I will credit him for his vision.
I just saw a published exploit where you could remotely put yourself in the Administrator group, at which point the entire system (and pretty much any machine connected to it) is wide open. I believe it was here on Slashdot a few days ago.
(Anyone see the recent article on how the US Army rejected NT for "battlefield communications" because it was not secure enough?)
Don't even talk about "Enterprise Ready" on numbers like that. Most UNIX vendors guarantee an order of magnitude better than that - 99.99% uptime, and some are even so bold as to certify 99.999% uptime. Besides, Microsoft's guarantee is only with multiple, redundant fallover servers, where a second server will pick up the slack when the first one crashes.
... and they don't even talk about "planned" downtime.
> Why is it some great crime to prove that Linux blows goats when scaled up?
Only that in all these benchmarks, the testers are afraid to think differently. They think the world revolves around Quad Intel boxes. Do you carry a tool box with nothing in it but a hammer? True, a screwdriver stinks at driving nails, but have you ever tried getting a screw out with a hammer?
The point is, perhaps all these benchmarks are going at the problem all wrong. Perhaps there are ways where Linux IS faster, and cheaper, and more reliable.
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Now there's an interesting example of standards compliance. MS can't even stick with an 8 bit ISO character set.
(BTW - Get a Grip. Blaming getting moderated down on the "new world order" is a poor excuse for shoddy writing.)
(I would have guessed he was about 13 from the writing style, not 40-something)
I especially liked the Al Gore comments... ;-)
Then again, with scanners and "digital processing" of photographic film on one end, and quality color printers becoming more common on the other end, it's not that hard to receive a picture attached to an email, print it out and stick that on the mantle...
Having said that, I still agree with you that the USPS isn't going away any time soon. The point is that, people are finding new and creative ways to do the things they used to do with letters. With the advent of high bandwidth connections, you just might want to send a mpg video clip of the kids to Grandma next Christmas... ;-)
Better to spend the $$$$ on saving the species in the first place than to blow it on some SiFi dream of bringing them all back.
How does the old saying go? "There's a sucker born every minute." Well, on the Internet, it's more like every 10ms.
You and I may have been on the Internet for years (I started reading Net News more than ten years ago), and know that 95% of everything on the Net is pure crud, but there are thousands of newbies flooding the Internet every day, and many of them are still under the illusion that, "If it's on the computer, it MUST be true!"
Does anyone else get the feeling the person who wrote this article was totally CLUELESS with regard to computer technology? No viruses? No crashes? Sort of like saying that, if you make the computer complex enough, it'll never have any bugs.
gurrrrrr....... :-/
Uh... Have you ever heard of this thing called the Legislature? This is why we have freedom of speech. Issues like this come out, and are discussed by (hopefully) rational people discuss them, and we create reasonable laws. For example, We The People have decided that you have to be 18 before you have the freedom to vote. There are procedures you have to go through before you can buy dangerous weapons. You can set up a porn shop, but not within certain residential neighborhoods.
Freedom is not the absence of constraints. Freedom is the ability to set prudent restraints, and the ability to change them when they are deemed unreasonable or inappropriate.
I DON'T KNOW ABOUT ANY OF YOU HOT STUDS AND LUCIOUS BABES OUT THERE, BUT I DO HAVE CHILDREN, AND I'VE SEEN WHAT PORNOGRAPHY DOES TO KIDS.
Yea, yea... I know what you're going to say. "You have to educate your kids. Filtering is no substitute for education." Sure sounds mighty fine when you say that, with your chest puffed out with pride in being Holy Defender Of Free Speech. I suppose if someone started planting land mines around my house, you'd tell me, "Well, just EDUCATE your children to not STEP on them, you dumb prick!"
Sorry, but it doesn't work that way.
I know, filtering is a lousy technology, but I think it should be possible to put at least some level of filtering on URL's, like "www.wefu*ksluts.com". You can't stop everything, but at least you can make it more difficult to accidentally trip across this stuff.
Why at the Library? At home, I know what goes on with the computer. I can see a page and know what the difference is between a gang-bang and an article on breast cancer.
You go somewhere else, and there are no rules, no guidelines, noone checking over the shoulder. It's as if the Library had opened a section on Porn, and left all the hard core magazines out on the table for anyone to pick up. Is this really how you want to educate your children?
OK. You Defenders can start sending me your hate mail now. Just remember that I don't give a rat's a$$ about your opinion unless you've had children of your own.
- Microsoft is a beter "value proposition"
- Microsoft is more integrated
- People only like Linux because they hate Microsoft
- You can't configure anything without your GUI admin interface (implied from, "This is Unix, remember...")
- "Student Project Gone Astray"
- No SMP support
- No vendor support
- Splintering development paths (i.e., if you change the kernel itself)
- blah, blah, blah...
True, I agree with his basic premise - that you shouldn't dive into Linux as the foundation of your enterprise servers without doing some thinking first - but he hasn't added any new to the discussion. He doesn't mention anything about the strengths of Linux, other than the fact that it's cheap and it's not Microsoft.Sounds like someone who simply swallows the propoganda coming out of MS, without attempting to do any real research of his own.
Sheesh...
Try, people's access to a bunch of advertising hype and trash. TV quit transmitting "information" long ago...
> You increase someone's freedom when you give that person more options to choose from.
You increase someone's freedom by teaching them to think, not sit and vegitate in front of the boob tube.
> You can rank the intelligence of sentient beings by their ability to predict future events based on their grasp on past and present.
What does predicting the future have to do with canned laugh tracks and endless streams of crude jokes and "bathroom humor"?
I'm all for freedom and the Net, but equating the current crop of TV shows to freedom is nothing short of laughable!
Uh... before you apply this patch, notice that the "less-than" in the icmp line should actually be doubled (i.e., a left shift opperation)! The second less-than symbol got swallowed somewhere in the HTML conversion.
See a much more extensive article at MSNBC
(I agree - some things are better off left unexplained.)
Here in Rochester NY, the phone system is moderately good. I don't pay extra for a 56K line, but then my connections fluctuate anywhere from 28.8 to 44K tops, depending on the phase of the moon...
Don't bother sending your SPAM here. From all indications (see other notes here), this is just another scam to legitimize SPAM, and to collect valid Email addresses.
This is why CAUCE is fighting to hard to defeat these SPAMMER backed bills in favor of truly outlawing unsolicited business email.
I don't personally like RMS (and I'll reserve judgement on whether or not he's just jealous of Linus), but I think you have to credit him for much of what the Open Source movement is today. I think it was RMS who really fought for the distinction between "free" software (as in "free beer") and "free" as in Freedom. He may not even have contributed more to the OS movement than some others have, but his contribution came at a key moment in time, and I will credit him for his vision.
(Anyone see the recent article on how the US Army rejected NT for "battlefield communications" because it was not secure enough?)
pffffth!
Ya know that goofy little chimes sound Windows makes when it starts up? Well, you'll never guess the sound file I installed to replace it with... ;-)
Only that in all these benchmarks, the testers are afraid to think differently. They think the world revolves around Quad Intel boxes. Do you carry a tool box with nothing in it but a hammer? True, a screwdriver stinks at driving nails, but have you ever tried getting a screw out with a hammer?
The point is, perhaps all these benchmarks are going at the problem all wrong. Perhaps there are ways where Linux IS faster, and cheaper, and more reliable.