I still think the reason that the chinese embassy got bombed is that the US info source during the Kosovo bombing situation was hacked. We hear several reports of an information war being waged between the US and and Milosovich's economy, but yet we hear nothing of any casualties (systems hacked) during this time. What if the US info attacks were not only unsuccessful, but WE were the ones who took the hit. It gives a real plausible reason for the kind of grand blunder that bombing an embassy is.Apply a bit of disinformation, and a map could point to anything and the difference wouldn't be known till it was too late. Would "we the people" ever know the truth in such a scenario? I highly doubt it. Here are some facts: Chinese representatives have made absolute monkeys out of US nuke security. This we already *know* , regardless of the inane denials. While the US may not be innocent in the field of "dirty tactics", why is it such a stretch of the imagination to believe that China has an interest in the terroristic control of certain web sites? They made monkies out of the whole US flipping nuclear security system , and while officially denying it, does that make it any less true? Not IMHO. To be fair, I am not anti-Chinese or anything, but as an American, I think we need to cover our collective ass in a much more secure way than we have been, not sure exactly how though. Especially since the embassy bombing...I mean why wouldn't individuals in the chinese gov't want to show off some tech prowess by striking web sites around the world?
Either I've got something going real well here, or some of you folks have some *real* messed up 'puters. 23 hrs 28 minutes is the avg cpu time running RedHat 6.0 on a AMD K6-200 with 64mb RAM.These stats come from tkseti, I am using a GUI. I've been thinking about building another faster machine, and was seriously considering using another AMD chip till I saw these type of stats. If this is the type of performance that is gotten from AMD's more current processors , it appears we are proceeding backwards. Something is not adding up here. A bit more hardware detail:4mb ati vid card, and an FIC PA-2007 (1mb cache) mboard. I really would like to understand the great disparity between processing time here, so if you have an explanation, please share it.
Intuit developers have a rough enough time keeping up with the Win/Mac platform as it is. I've met some of Intuit's developers, they laughed when I mentioned Linux. In their eyes, Linux is a hobbyists OS, and has no place in the corporate(capitalistic) world we live in. As far as Intuit releasing source code for anything, I think we had best not hold our breath. The wheels grind very slowly in any corporate environment, and as shaky as Intuit can be with free alternatives to their software available( MSMoney), I don't see them doing anything potentially risky anytime soon. They are still unsure year to year whether or not they will continue releasing Mac stuff. Even if they did port to Linux, the chances of such a company considering Open Source would shake their stockholders to the core of their being. And at Intuit, the stockholders are really the ones in charge when it comes right down to it. If the stock is rising, we must be doing good seems to be the mentality. To add more to this pot 'o' soup, they have approximately 20 developers for Windows, and 3 for Mac. They do not have the time to finish what they code now, and do you really think they would hire developers to work on porting software without being able to guarantee the numbers beforehand ? To sum this up, in order for Intuit to consider Linux, the main control and motivation of the organiztion would have to move away from the idea that the bottom line is money. They would have to believe in writing good software that appeals to many people in the belief that the quality of their coding would sell itself. That is a far cry from living a a slave to the stocks.
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I still think the reason that the chinese embassy got bombed is that the US info source during the Kosovo bombing situation was hacked. We hear several reports of an information war being waged between the US and and Milosovich's economy, but yet we hear nothing of any casualties (systems hacked) during this time. What if the US info attacks were not only unsuccessful, but WE were the ones who took the hit. It gives a real plausible reason for the kind of grand blunder that bombing an embassy is.Apply a bit of disinformation, and a map could point to anything and the difference wouldn't be known till it was too late. Would "we the people" ever know the truth in such a scenario? I highly doubt it. Here are some facts: Chinese representatives have made absolute monkeys out of US nuke security. This we already *know* , regardless of the inane denials. While the US may not be innocent in the field of "dirty tactics", why is it such a stretch of the imagination to believe that China has an interest in the terroristic control of certain web sites? They made monkies out of the whole US flipping nuclear security system , and while officially denying it, does that make it any less true? Not IMHO. To be fair, I am not anti-Chinese or anything, but as an American, I think we need to cover our collective ass in a much more secure way than we have been, not sure exactly how though. Especially since the embassy bombing...I mean why wouldn't individuals in the chinese gov't want to show off some tech prowess by striking web sites around the world?
Either I've got something going real well here, or some of you folks have some *real* messed up 'puters. 23 hrs 28 minutes is the avg cpu time running RedHat 6.0 on a AMD K6-200 with 64mb RAM.These stats come from tkseti, I am using a GUI. I've been thinking about building another faster machine, and was seriously considering using another AMD chip till I saw these type of stats. If this is the type of performance that is gotten from AMD's more current processors , it appears we are proceeding backwards. Something is not adding up here. A bit more hardware detail:4mb ati vid card, and an FIC PA-2007 (1mb cache) mboard. I really would like to understand the great disparity between processing time here, so if you have an explanation, please share it.
Intuit developers have a rough enough time keeping up with the Win/Mac platform as it is. I've met some of Intuit's developers, they laughed when I mentioned Linux. In their eyes, Linux is a hobbyists OS, and has no place in the corporate(capitalistic) world we live in. As far as Intuit releasing source code for anything, I think we had best not hold our breath. The wheels grind very slowly in any corporate environment, and as shaky as Intuit can be with free alternatives to their software available( MSMoney), I don't see them doing anything potentially risky anytime soon. They are still unsure year to year whether or not they will continue releasing Mac stuff. Even if they did port to Linux, the chances of such a company considering Open Source would shake their stockholders to the core of their being. And at Intuit, the stockholders are really the ones in charge when it comes right down to it. If the stock is rising, we must be doing good seems to be the mentality. To add more to this pot 'o' soup, they have approximately 20 developers for Windows, and 3 for Mac. They do not have the time to finish what they code now, and do you really think they would hire developers to work on porting software without being able to guarantee the numbers beforehand ? To sum this up, in order for Intuit to consider Linux, the main control and motivation of the organiztion would have to move away from the idea that the bottom line is money. They would have to believe in writing good software that appeals to many people in the belief that the quality of their coding would sell itself. That is a far cry from living a a slave to the stocks.