What I don't like about Linux is the amount of unnecessary services installed by default. For example, I have an old computer (P133/16MB RAM), and Debian 3.1 on it. Debian demands that I run Sendmail (or Exim, or Postfix). Why can't I live without a MTA? I doubt that regular home users actually send their e-mail through their local MTA, they probably use their ISP's SMTP, which, I think, it's the proper way to do it.
OK let me rephrase: what do you want 4GB of RAM for anyway, if you don't have a RAID 0+1 array of Seagate Barracudas to make disk writes quick?
I use my (desktop) computer with S3 suspend. 5 seconds later and it's on again (it takes more time for my monitor to wake up). There's only one problem though: sometimes, the Bluetooth dongle takes a longer nap and I have to wait about 30 seconds to have my keyboard back.
I was talking about geographical distribution of connections, not the number of connections. Also, in the US there are more far more datacenters than anywhere in the world, and those represent many connections. Considering that few sites are locally-hosted (because leased-line, infrastructure, and energy costs make it prohibitive to build a large datacenter here, many (most?) local websites are hosted in the US).
this map needs a lot of interpretation: the southern hemisphere looks dark compared to the north, but that's because of the way population is distributed. In the US, there's town after town, and that's why mid-to-north US looks so bright, and we know that in the left, it isn't so. Europe is the same. Lots of people crammed in relatively small territories. But then you see Brazil and Argentina, and we look dim. Too dim. Well, that's because we have vast extensions of nothing. Wild rainforest, the wonderful pampas... sure, these places are "disconnected". But then again, nobody lives there (keep in mind, for example, Argentina is 2/3 the size of the US and 1/10 the population). But look closely: central america is bright. Why? Easy: small countries, many cities together. They look brighter in the map. I mean, south america isn't "disconnected", it's just not so densely connected, and I guess there's an important factor too:
This map was, I guess, made with some sort of "geolocation" database. I happen to be a customer of a large ISP, they don't assign a whole netblock to my city, so it's registered as part of Buenos Aires . So the data may lie a little (I know that hundreds, if not thousands of Latin American small towns have -paid- wi-fi. Some of them through satellite links, others, the luckier, through leased lines. I happen to be in the industry and have set up 4 wi-fi ISPs, and I know of at least another 10 in my province alone). I think the "world at night" ( http://www.atimes.com/atimes/images/earth_night.jpg ) map represents what I'm trying to mean. I bet that if the data was completely precise, it would look a lot like this map.
sure, especially where I live, we often get 45 degrees Celsius in summer. but it's better than nothing... and I don't have the money for a tape backup unit:)
Unfortunately, this doesn't work for me. I'm building a 1,5TB array for my porn^Wdata. I need to come up with a system that allows me to separate the data that will not change (mp3s, movies) in smaller volumes and allow me to record to DVD or something, and another for the frequently-changing data (desktop backups).
I had thought of keeping the movies on DVD and the desktops on a USB drive (I think 4GB ought to be enough for most of my data --that is, not the movies).
The news say that Coppola paid USD 900.000 for this property in Buenos Aires(550 square meters, about 5900 sq ft), located in Palermo "Hollywood" (named so because there are many TV producers in the zone). For the parent, Palermo happens to be a relatively safe area. Sure, there are robberies and stuff, but there's many wealthy people living in Palermo so there's a lot of police too.
Where's the US Army now? Come on! There's a troubled country that needs to be freed! Come on, there's repression, censorship, people are getting killed! You HAVE to free them, you need to restore peace! Just like you did with Iraq. What's that? Myanmar doesn't have oil like Iraq? What does it have to do with it? You didn't go to Iraq because of the oil, did you? You didn't attack Iraq for revenge for the 9/11, did you?
Ah, finally a decent answer. Regarding to the emotional distance, yes, it's something I agree. You see, for my opinions I'm usually called a commie, but then, the commies here don't like me because of that. You see, my country hasn't been in many wars, only the Malvinas war in 1982 (which we lost). But we have had fair amounts of internal wars. My country was under military control several times, and for what I've heard, it's not pretty. But, there's a saying "if the story is told by the ones who won, then that means there's another story".
The commies here (progressists, they call themselves), keep living in the 1976-1983 period of the last dictatorship. Where many young soldiers were forced to kidnap, torture, and kill civilians (at first, left-wing activists, then, several degrees from them: family members, friends, co-workers, neighbors...). So, after the first democratic period (1983-1989, president Alfonsin, who had to leave the office earlier because of the situation of the country -- mostly the hiperinflation when the Austral was 10.000:1 with the US Dollar), the next president (Menem) created the Punto Final (Full Stop) and Obediencia Debida (Due Obedience) laws. The Punto Final laws were there to put an end to chaos, and to avoid a new coup by the military. The Obediencia Debida law was for giving an amnesty to the soldiers, which finally brings us to my point: a soldier has to obey his commanding officer. But in the 70's, the soldiers had to obey them in ANY way, and, for example, not killing someone means that they (the military) would kill you. So, they did. When democracy was restored, people wanted the blood of the military leaders. They got many of them in jail. So, they kept wanting more and more, until they started messing with the young "colimbas" (soldiers in training). That's where the Due Obedience laws where put in practice. There's an endless discussion every now and then about if we should have these laws or not. Well, these are the laws that protect emotional distancing. And I agree. Some things needed to be done, and they were done. Could these things have been done in a better way? Sure, but that's what you say: the past can't be changed.
But in the end, it was our own internal war. Yes, it was a work of the US government, but executed by our own people (and we could say that it saved us from communism).
Also, you know that the military is about emotional distancing. Your training sargeant doesn't yell at you because he's an ass. They don't make you sleep in the mud and crawl on the floor to "prepare you for the battlefield". They do that to make your character, to made you forget what you were taught is right or wrong, to make you do what THEY think is right. They slowly brainwash you to obey. And, well, it works. Sure, it needs to be done, otherwise you wouldn't pull the trigger. You'll have to be a murderer to mercilessly kill other people. But with the proper training, you learn that you can shut down your conscience and fire away. (But, your conscience will bill you later, you know that too).
You said that work in an organization requires rationalization. Yes, but it's different. Firing people also makes you bad. I knew a HR manager who had to let go nearly a hundred employees from a local company when economic crisis in 2002 almost made them go out of business. This woman got a bad rash on her face and neck: it was the stress of having to fire so many people. It took her weeks of vacation and a little therapy to recover. But, you didn't get a rash from killing someone, did you? No, because you were prepared for it.
I'm not trying to analyze you either, but I see that you only feel anger. That's fine, I would too (imagine how the iraqis feel about you invading their country). You also deny the real intentions of Bush. It's understandable: you were trained to obey, not to think. You should be angry not because you got to see terrible things. If you're a soldier, that's part of your job. You should be angry because of the reasons you had to see those thing
Well, If there were news about Argentina I'd rant on them too. Sure, we do have our share of problems... a president that designated its own people to calculate inflation (they deny that there is inflation but my bank account doesn't agree), airport security officers who use the x-ray scanner to find things that they later steal from your bags, Hugo Chavez's people bootlegging USD 800.000 without declaring it at the airport, on a 3AM private flight. Police that don't show up at your house when you call them (because they have to buy their own ammo, and sometimes, weapons and vests), piqueteros and their demonstrations all over the country every day, people being kidnapped, killed for $10 (or for not having $10)... all because of corruption, corruption, and more corruption. I could go on and on all day long (my friends and I do that from time to time). But/. is about the US so I rant about the US.
Oh and by the way, we Argentines are famous for our arrogance:) but that's just the way we are.
I am as paranoid as you are. I have my stuff on a TrueCrypt drive, run a Freenet node and browse through Tor every now and then. But that doesn't make me think that a talented girl who goes to MIT, is worth nothing to this world.
And the terrorists don't give a FUCK ABOUT YOUR SECURITY. You're CONSTANTLY showing off your big guns all over the world, with your wars, your movies, even your documentaries. And the terrorists destroy your most important symbol with FUCKING KNIVES. Yes. KNIVES. You have half the world's budget for DEFENSE and a bunch of "crazy arabs" take two planes and totally own you.
The WTC, the symbol of everything the US means: Money. It used to be the liberty statue... representing freedom. But it's all about money now. (Let's not forget that they destroyed part of the pentagon too...)
Ah, a veteran. Let me ask you, seriously (not being a libertarian commie prick or whatever you want to call me): do you agree with all the wars the US has fought? Iraq, the gulf, vietnam... wars that weren't yours to fight, but that the US jumped in because of other motives (oil, usually).
Oh and do you feel sorry for all the japanese civilians killed in hiroshima and nagasaki, in WWII?
Ha, the disappeared... well, that's what happens when armed forces get the power. And the US is slowly giving more and more power to the armed forces. Keep doing that, you'll soon start having people disappearing. Oh wait, didn't the US government kill Malcolm X, for example? And a lot of other people they didn't like? Oh wait! -- Wasn't the US government behind the coups all over latin america (Pinochet being the greatest example)? Yeah, whatever. At least I won't die of a disease I can't afford to pay.
Open your mind a little, and don't try to answer back just because there's a reply button. I wasn't talking about this incident, but about the way security forces work in the US.
About the literacy, at least I don't live in a country where 20% of people can't find their own country in a world map.
I didn't choose him, your people did, and agreed with him. You see, you don't have to take everything the government tells you: you can fight the things you don't like. Well, maybe you could, if your judiciary system wasn't full of people suing the supermarket because they slipped on the wet floor.
And you still haven't solved all of your racial issues, so shut the fuck up.
Ah, but you lack the skillz to realize that I was actually referring to things in general, not this particular girl. Wearing a circuit board and silly putty to an airport is pretty... well, silly. Actually, wearing that in public is pretty silly too. But the point is that you shouldn't get a gun pointed at your face for wearing that. Or get arrested for saying "I have a bomb" (as a joke) to a customs officer, and go to jail after they have searched you (not because they think you're dangerous, but because you made them look stupid). You see, they love to exercise their power. And flight attendants are on the same plan too: if they don't wanna "deal with you", they can get you off the plane (as it happened with the woman with the crying baby a few weeks ago).
How sad is the state of things in the US. Did you notice that you're surrendering to fear? Don't try to deny it, you know you are. You believe what the government tells you. It's so sad that most people think like you. "She really is lucky they didn't shoot her." actually means "well, if killing a suspect MAY prevent something bad from happening, then shoot, and if it was a false alarm, well, he deserved it for doing whatever he was doing". But hey, that's the way americans think! "Shoot first, ask questions later." Some day an agent will shoot a guy with a dead-switch and that would be worse.
A president of yours said even said "The Only Thing We Have to Fear Is Fear Itself".
I hope, I REALLY hope you get arrested some day for asking a question. I would LOVE to see you calmly calling your lawyer when you have 30kV on your back. Really, I do.
With TV, at least I know when there's an ad, and I can switch channels. Many web pages open too many ads. Pop-ups, pop-unders, ads with sound, animations, video, ads that jump to your face and you can't close nor read the website. I read this news site, www.infobae.com, and I strongly advise you not to visit it without adblock.
I'm fine with a banner here and there, but things have gotten nasty in the past few years. And not only that: one thing I really hate is websites that show you so many ads, they won't fit in one page, so they chop the article in tiny pages with more ads than text. Even the menu sidebar has more content than the article.
Whatever, I'll just keep using adblock. I promise not to use adblock when you promise not to bother me with your ads. Sounds fair, right?
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What I don't like about Linux is the amount of unnecessary services installed by default. For example, I have an old computer (P133/16MB RAM), and Debian 3.1 on it. Debian demands that I run Sendmail (or Exim, or Postfix). Why can't I live without a MTA? I doubt that regular home users actually send their e-mail through their local MTA, they probably use their ISP's SMTP, which, I think, it's the proper way to do it.
what does the HD Spinup time has to do with BIOS loading speed?
what do you want 4GB of ram for anyway?
OK let me rephrase: what do you want 4GB of RAM for anyway, if you don't have a RAID 0+1 array of Seagate Barracudas to make disk writes quick?
I use my (desktop) computer with S3 suspend. 5 seconds later and it's on again (it takes more time for my monitor to wake up). There's only one problem though: sometimes, the Bluetooth dongle takes a longer nap and I have to wait about 30 seconds to have my keyboard back.
I was talking about geographical distribution of connections, not the number of connections. Also, in the US there are more far more datacenters than anywhere in the world, and those represent many connections. Considering that few sites are locally-hosted (because leased-line, infrastructure, and energy costs make it prohibitive to build a large datacenter here, many (most?) local websites are hosted in the US).
this map needs a lot of interpretation: the southern hemisphere looks dark compared to the north, but that's because of the way population is distributed. In the US, there's town after town, and that's why mid-to-north US looks so bright, and we know that in the left, it isn't so. Europe is the same. Lots of people crammed in relatively small territories. But then you see Brazil and Argentina, and we look dim. Too dim. Well, that's because we have vast extensions of nothing. Wild rainforest, the wonderful pampas... sure, these places are "disconnected". But then again, nobody lives there (keep in mind, for example, Argentina is 2/3 the size of the US and 1/10 the population). But look closely: central america is bright. Why? Easy: small countries, many cities together. They look brighter in the map. I mean, south america isn't "disconnected", it's just not so densely connected, and I guess there's an important factor too:
This map was, I guess, made with some sort of "geolocation" database. I happen to be a customer of a large ISP, they don't assign a whole netblock to my city, so it's registered as part of Buenos Aires . So the data may lie a little (I know that hundreds, if not thousands of Latin American small towns have -paid- wi-fi. Some of them through satellite links, others, the luckier, through leased lines. I happen to be in the industry and have set up 4 wi-fi ISPs, and I know of at least another 10 in my province alone). I think the "world at night" ( http://www.atimes.com/atimes/images/earth_night.jpg ) map represents what I'm trying to mean. I bet that if the data was completely precise, it would look a lot like this map.
sure, especially where I live, we often get 45 degrees Celsius in summer. but it's better than nothing... and I don't have the money for a tape backup unit :)
Unfortunately, this doesn't work for me. I'm building a 1,5TB array for my porn^Wdata. I need to come up with a system that allows me to separate the data that will not change (mp3s, movies) in smaller volumes and allow me to record to DVD or something, and another for the frequently-changing data (desktop backups).
I had thought of keeping the movies on DVD and the desktops on a USB drive (I think 4GB ought to be enough for most of my data --that is, not the movies).
The news say that Coppola paid USD 900.000 for this property in Buenos Aires(550 square meters, about 5900 sq ft), located in Palermo "Hollywood" (named so because there are many TV producers in the zone). For the parent, Palermo happens to be a relatively safe area. Sure, there are robberies and stuff, but there's many wealthy people living in Palermo so there's a lot of police too.
Where's the US Army now? Come on! There's a troubled country that needs to be freed! Come on, there's repression, censorship, people are getting killed! You HAVE to free them, you need to restore peace! Just like you did with Iraq. What's that? Myanmar doesn't have oil like Iraq? What does it have to do with it? You didn't go to Iraq because of the oil, did you? You didn't attack Iraq for revenge for the 9/11, did you?
Ah, finally a decent answer. Regarding to the emotional distance, yes, it's something I agree. You see, for my opinions I'm usually called a commie, but then, the commies here don't like me because of that. You see, my country hasn't been in many wars, only the Malvinas war in 1982 (which we lost). But we have had fair amounts of internal wars. My country was under military control several times, and for what I've heard, it's not pretty. But, there's a saying "if the story is told by the ones who won, then that means there's another story".
The commies here (progressists, they call themselves), keep living in the 1976-1983 period of the last dictatorship. Where many young soldiers were forced to kidnap, torture, and kill civilians (at first, left-wing activists, then, several degrees from them: family members, friends, co-workers, neighbors...). So, after the first democratic period (1983-1989, president Alfonsin, who had to leave the office earlier because of the situation of the country -- mostly the hiperinflation when the Austral was 10.000:1 with the US Dollar), the next president (Menem) created the Punto Final (Full Stop) and Obediencia Debida (Due Obedience) laws. The Punto Final laws were there to put an end to chaos, and to avoid a new coup by the military. The Obediencia Debida law was for giving an amnesty to the soldiers, which finally brings us to my point: a soldier has to obey his commanding officer. But in the 70's, the soldiers had to obey them in ANY way, and, for example, not killing someone means that they (the military) would kill you. So, they did. When democracy was restored, people wanted the blood of the military leaders. They got many of them in jail. So, they kept wanting more and more, until they started messing with the young "colimbas" (soldiers in training). That's where the Due Obedience laws where put in practice. There's an endless discussion every now and then about if we should have these laws or not. Well, these are the laws that protect emotional distancing. And I agree. Some things needed to be done, and they were done. Could these things have been done in a better way? Sure, but that's what you say: the past can't be changed.
But in the end, it was our own internal war. Yes, it was a work of the US government, but executed by our own people (and we could say that it saved us from communism).
Also, you know that the military is about emotional distancing. Your training sargeant doesn't yell at you because he's an ass. They don't make you sleep in the mud and crawl on the floor to "prepare you for the battlefield". They do that to make your character, to made you forget what you were taught is right or wrong, to make you do what THEY think is right. They slowly brainwash you to obey. And, well, it works. Sure, it needs to be done, otherwise you wouldn't pull the trigger. You'll have to be a murderer to mercilessly kill other people. But with the proper training, you learn that you can shut down your conscience and fire away. (But, your conscience will bill you later, you know that too).
You said that work in an organization requires rationalization. Yes, but it's different. Firing people also makes you bad. I knew a HR manager who had to let go nearly a hundred employees from a local company when economic crisis in 2002 almost made them go out of business. This woman got a bad rash on her face and neck: it was the stress of having to fire so many people. It took her weeks of vacation and a little therapy to recover. But, you didn't get a rash from killing someone, did you? No, because you were prepared for it.
I'm not trying to analyze you either, but I see that you only feel anger. That's fine, I would too (imagine how the iraqis feel about you invading their country). You also deny the real intentions of Bush. It's understandable: you were trained to obey, not to think. You should be angry not because you got to see terrible things. If you're a soldier, that's part of your job. You should be angry because of the reasons you had to see those thing
Well, If there were news about Argentina I'd rant on them too. Sure, we do have our share of problems... a president that designated its own people to calculate inflation (they deny that there is inflation but my bank account doesn't agree), airport security officers who use the x-ray scanner to find things that they later steal from your bags, Hugo Chavez's people bootlegging USD 800.000 without declaring it at the airport, on a 3AM private flight. Police that don't show up at your house when you call them (because they have to buy their own ammo, and sometimes, weapons and vests), piqueteros and their demonstrations all over the country every day, people being kidnapped, killed for $10 (or for not having $10)... all because of corruption, corruption, and more corruption. I could go on and on all day long (my friends and I do that from time to time). But /. is about the US so I rant about the US.
:) but that's just the way we are.
Oh and by the way, we Argentines are famous for our arrogance
The mod points on my post don't agree with you.
I am as paranoid as you are. I have my stuff on a TrueCrypt drive, run a Freenet node and browse through Tor every now and then. But that doesn't make me think that a talented girl who goes to MIT, is worth nothing to this world.
And the terrorists don't give a FUCK ABOUT YOUR SECURITY. You're CONSTANTLY showing off your big guns all over the world, with your wars, your movies, even your documentaries. And the terrorists destroy your most important symbol with FUCKING KNIVES. Yes. KNIVES. You have half the world's budget for DEFENSE and a bunch of "crazy arabs" take two planes and totally own you.
The WTC, the symbol of everything the US means: Money. It used to be the liberty statue... representing freedom. But it's all about money now. (Let's not forget that they destroyed part of the pentagon too...)
Ah, a veteran. Let me ask you, seriously (not being a libertarian commie prick or whatever you want to call me): do you agree with all the wars the US has fought? Iraq, the gulf, vietnam... wars that weren't yours to fight, but that the US jumped in because of other motives (oil, usually).
Oh and do you feel sorry for all the japanese civilians killed in hiroshima and nagasaki, in WWII?
Ha, the disappeared... well, that's what happens when armed forces get the power. And the US is slowly giving more and more power to the armed forces. Keep doing that, you'll soon start having people disappearing. Oh wait, didn't the US government kill Malcolm X, for example? And a lot of other people they didn't like? Oh wait! -- Wasn't the US government behind the coups all over latin america (Pinochet being the greatest example)? Yeah, whatever. At least I won't die of a disease I can't afford to pay.
Thank you. At least I see that some people still can think for themselves.
Open your mind a little, and don't try to answer back just because there's a reply button. I wasn't talking about this incident, but about the way security forces work in the US.
About the literacy, at least I don't live in a country where 20% of people can't find their own country in a world map.
I didn't choose him, your people did, and agreed with him. You see, you don't have to take everything the government tells you: you can fight the things you don't like. Well, maybe you could, if your judiciary system wasn't full of people suing the supermarket because they slipped on the wet floor.
And you still haven't solved all of your racial issues, so shut the fuck up.
Ah, but you lack the skillz to realize that I was actually referring to things in general, not this particular girl. Wearing a circuit board and silly putty to an airport is pretty ... well, silly. Actually, wearing that in public is pretty silly too. But the point is that you shouldn't get a gun pointed at your face for wearing that. Or get arrested for saying "I have a bomb" (as a joke) to a customs officer, and go to jail after they have searched you (not because they think you're dangerous, but because you made them look stupid). You see, they love to exercise their power. And flight attendants are on the same plan too: if they don't wanna "deal with you", they can get you off the plane (as it happened with the woman with the crying baby a few weeks ago).
How sad is the state of things in the US. Did you notice that you're surrendering to fear? Don't try to deny it, you know you are. You believe what the government tells you. It's so sad that most people think like you. "She really is lucky they didn't shoot her." actually means "well, if killing a suspect MAY prevent something bad from happening, then shoot, and if it was a false alarm, well, he deserved it for doing whatever he was doing". But hey, that's the way americans think! "Shoot first, ask questions later." Some day an agent will shoot a guy with a dead-switch and that would be worse.
A president of yours said even said "The Only Thing We Have to Fear Is Fear Itself".
FUCK, WHERE ARE MY MOD POINTS!!!!!! +10 to you, anonymous hero.
(anti lamenes filter//fuck slashdot aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa aaaaaaaaaaaaa aaaaaaaaaaaaaaa aaaaaaaaaaaaaa aaaaaaaaaaa aaaaaaaaaaa aaaaaaaaaaa aaaaaaaaaa aaaaaaaaaaaaaa aaaaaaaaaaaaa aaaaaaaaa aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa).
I hope, I REALLY hope you get arrested some day for asking a question. I would LOVE to see you calmly calling your lawyer when you have 30kV on your back. Really, I do.
Asshole.
With TV, at least I know when there's an ad, and I can switch channels. Many web pages open too many ads. Pop-ups, pop-unders, ads with sound, animations, video, ads that jump to your face and you can't close nor read the website. I read this news site, www.infobae.com, and I strongly advise you not to visit it without adblock.
I'm fine with a banner here and there, but things have gotten nasty in the past few years. And not only that: one thing I really hate is websites that show you so many ads, they won't fit in one page, so they chop the article in tiny pages with more ads than text. Even the menu sidebar has more content than the article.
Whatever, I'll just keep using adblock. I promise not to use adblock when you promise not to bother me with your ads. Sounds fair, right?