Thanks a lot, Aron! I admit I didn't know that those three DVDs are a Buena Vista production vs Fox.
I'm preordering Kiki, Laputa and Spirited, probably from Amazon (mostly because I have been a satisfied customer for a long time, I'm not sure they offer the best deal in terms of saving money, even though they offer the "Miyazaki 3-pack").
This should be a recognition for Miyazaki's work, rahter than just for this particular picture. What Miyazaki and Sudio Ghibli have created throughout the years is, I think, animated poetry.
On a side note: I was very disappointed with the DVD edition of "My neighbor Totoro". Such a long wait for the DVD edition, and then they f* it up. I'll just transfer my VHS movie to SVCD.
You are using a very effective demagogic formula: put words in my mouth and extrapolate to you will what I said. Nevertheless, I will try to answer you, in hope I will not just throw words at a wall.
No, I am not for war against turkey, because I believe it's the only democratic Muslim country, and all things considered, I disagree that it has been worse to the kurds than Saddam has. Being a democracy, though, you will hear much more about the atrocities happening in turkey than in Iraq. I would be more than happy if all the tyrants of the world would meet their undoing.
I agree that kurds "would be immensley happy if saddam were overthrown". Preferrably by Iraquis, but not necessarily. When you are opressed you don't care about finesses. Does Nur care that the taliban have been overthrown with the hep of the allied forces (most of whom were americans)? Not the slightest, in fact. Nur is just happy that she can finally continue studying, working, generally free to live without a crippling fear of being decapitated, as many other women in Afghanistan have been. Nur is just my for-example Afghan woman that has been reduced to less than an animal, during the taliban. It's amazing how these women were so brave and for the sake of their education they would clandestinely meet in little groups where they would be taught by other women, in spite that such actions were punishable by death.
As for "we", i have to say that I am a naturalized Finn (born in Croatia), and definitely a european. Just for the record.
How well is ir working for Israel, "it" being an occupying power, I presume: I might infuriate you now, but I have to say that I believe Israel is not an occupying power, as it is on the territories of the millenial Kingdom of Israel. I am sad that this very simplu verifiable truth has been shaded by the clout of the Arab countries, but yet, it's the truth, and there's nothing you or anyone can do against it, least you destroy all the historical proof that exists, including the bible. Cities like Hebron and Jerico are just some of those that have been part of the country called Israel for thousands of years. Unfortunately, many Jewish holy sites have been defamated in the last hundred years, including the only temple the jews ever had. That and many other sites are now off-limits to jews (and the Temple is off-limits to christians, too). So, instead of occupation I have to use the term of IFD force deployment in areas where there's a majority of Palestinian Arab population (Palestinian being a person living in the geographic region of Palestine, which might be Arab or Jew). This deployment has been hugely succesful in curbing the terrorist attacks, as the number of intercepted attackers (strangely, you don't hear of them in the western media, even though a 100 pound explosive device tied to a FUCKING DONKEY would be at least news-worthy, I imagine) averages at about 50 per month.
I heard this argument dozens of times, and it sounds more and more hollow each time it's repeated: as I said in my previous post, nobody asks the victims. YOu obviously don't give a flying fuck about the interests of those who are oppressed, you just follow your trendish peace-talk. If you spent a millisecond talking to those who are threatened by Saddams regime you would care less about USA's motives and more about the end result, as they do. Just as an example, you could learn that the Kurds are finally optimistic about their future, even with all the risks that are still involved, including the Turkish troops that crossed the border last night into northern Iraq. Sure, the Kurds are not happy about the invasion, but the are very happy at the prospect of Saddam being overthrown. And that's what matters. These people despise and really don't understand you, they don't understand why do you protect Saddam (and believe me, that's exactly what they think you're ding. If you don't believe me, please do talk to these people, talnk to the victims!).
Even then, the anti-war hippies didn't bother asking the real victims - all to this day! No news agency asked the Abanians how they feel about the fact that they are free of a regime that massively tortured and killed them (more than 10.000 before the americans and the allies started to bomb Belgrade). Similarly, nobody asks the Iraquis in the north (the kurds) and in the south (the shia muslims) how they feel about getting rid of Saddam's regime.
All these peace-lovers can say is "hey, Saddam's not bombing us, so why remove him?" Very similar to "hey, the neighbor is getting killed, not me, so why should I bother?".
The truth is, both in Kosovo and now in Iraq, the US is doing the right thing, and it has the whole fucking world against.
And did you know about that episode, when the wife of one of the ministers that was imprisoned, pleaded with Saddam to be "returned to her". Saddam obliged: he returned the poor minister, in a bag, cut into many pieces.
Saddam is a fucking sadist, nothing more, really. Not only for how he killed that minister, but also for giving the bag with the remains to the wife - a totally sick person.
That also explains the brutal methods used by his regime, to torture people: putting the hands into acid is just one of the methods in his repertoire.
My first distro was Slackware, in February 1997, and apart from using pine and vi from time to time on Solaris 2.5.1, I had no Unix or Linux knowledge. However, I had a lot of NetWare experience, and guess what? I installed Slackware the same day I downloaded it to the hard disk. Yes, my first install was from the hard dis, and it went perfectly well, including all the network settings.
Then I tried RedHat 4.1, and it was OK, and then RH 5.2, which was worse (quality went down, overall) and OpenLinux Lite 1.1, and that was again a good experience... and have been trying out linux distros ever since. I stopped doing that in the last couple of years (working with Solaris as my main job), but my first Slackware install will remain amongst my fondest IT-memories.
Oh yeah, the American "empire". Well dude, I am a European (Finland), but I don't think the American "empire" owes us anything. GPS is just a present to the world, not anything US was obliged to do.
And if you're French by any chance: next time the nazis are sipping cofee in Paris, I hope you ask for the "inspectors to have more time".:o)
Um.. I wasn't "preaching", either. I think you have missunderstood my post, starting from the subject (which was a sort of reply to the comment to the article, not a reply to the article itself). I even addressed the point of cheap storage, and believe SCSI is cheaper than FC. Look, I'm not goin to repeat/explain my points, too late here, gotta sleep. Didn't mean to belittle the article. Cheers.
I have used FC tech for several years. It's amazing technology, but performance is not it's main advantage. It's advantage is the possibility of stacking up incredible amounts of storage, with rendundant paths, at up to 100 m from the attachment point (one of the servers). This kind of environment is also very mindful of quality, and a self-made solution is not acceptable. Would you stack dozens of these self-made boxes and bet your career that they'll not fail. I know I wouldn't.
On the other hand, if I just want performance, I will do better with SCSI, and even save some money.
In this respect, I don't quite see what kind of niche would the solution in the article cover.
Me. Still one 2.2.x server and a 2.0.x workstation
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both alive and seriously kicking.
For the server, I will have to keep this kernel because the onboard Ethernet port is supported through a patched driver - and the patch I found doesn't apply to any version of the kernel module I checked, so I have to use the compiled module that came with the patch. No, I don't have any info on the origin of the module.
Well, if you RTFA (F as in "fine", of course), you'll learn that they use a chemical laser. These consume little electrical energy, but unfortunately, need "refueling" with the substances that interact chemically to produce a coherent and very strong light beam, for a very short interval of time.
These kinds of lasers are already used in turrets in northern Israel to protect the population against smaller missiles/katiushas coming from Lebanon.
I thin that was a very unfair snub, and this is why: the hardware sites this Slashdot editor just scolded, produce their won content! They do a research, write the text, take the screenshots, construct the hardware setup, spend many hours benchmarking... and then comes Slashdot and posts a fucking link to the article and it's done with it. No, it's not quite done: it also accompanies the link(s) with a snub to the fairness or bias or the reviews! Wonderful.
Let's see what Slashdot actually does or does not do: Slashdot creates very little original content; It mostly just takes submissions from readers and slaps it onto the frontpage if it likes it (and we know a lot of good stories are not posted God knows why). We know that Slashdot does not - copy-edit for spelling or grammar errors - check the link - read the original article, and - check it's own fucking site to see if the same story has been posted in the last few days. Sometimes the same editor posts the same story twice in display of total moronism.
We also know how knowledgeable are the Slashdot editors when it comes to their own mother tongue (English), and that writing even two sentences without a grammar or spelling mistake represents a huge problem.
So, does a site like Slashdot have the moral ground to criticize any other site, let alone a site that has people actually -working- (note to/. editors: new concept, look up in dictionary) and creating their own content?
I say that, because I know if I explain my complaints with Gnome, I will be criticized that "that's not the latest version of Gnome, you can't say anything about Gnome if you don't use the latest build". I use the Gnome that comes by default with RHAS 2.1. Not by choice, but for business evaluation of the default install of RHAS 2.1, and I must say, it sucks. Just a few examples: can't lock the screen! Yep, click on the lock button, and nothing happens. Furthermore, all the "Alt+something"shortcuts don't work. I noticed that they are defined with the metakey, but obviously, that doesn't work with our (finnish) keyboards. (AFAIK, RHAS 2.1 is roughly equivalent to RH Linux 7.1).
Another little annoyance is the Gnome terminal, that does not scroll when using the shift+arrow keys. It may, again, seem like a little problem to you, but we do so much work on the command line that this does annoy us. Expecially after being used to the friendlyness of Konsole.
What we are used is KDE that comes with RedHat 6.1. My humble personal opinion is that Kicker and the other components of KDE are much more polished, snappier and powerful, even in that relatively old version of KDE, than Gnome from RHAS 2.1.
Oh, now I see, I will be criticized that "hey, that's not Gnome, it's how RedHat packaged Gnome". Sorry, I thought that, if anyone, RedHat payed particular attention to how it packages Gnome. After all, it's the default choice in RHAS 2.1 installation! So you see, you still can poke holes in my complaint, because I have not bothered to download the latest Gnome, isn't it.
(forefeiting my modpoints for this thread): Linus doesn't like the Itanium (neither do I), he is in control of what gets into the kernel, and he probably is benevolent enough to let Itanium-specific changes to flow in. BUT, does his negative view of Itanium pose any potential problem for Linux on Itanium?
The secret is chosing the right location: Finland (expecially northern Finland) is very tectonically inert. Everybody would be better off if the nuclear waste was buried here, including Finland! Thisnk about it: we're talking of 20.000-100.000 year spans. If nuclear waste is buried in a non-suitable location anywhere in the world, Finland will be affected (because tectonic movements would eventually break free the waste in the burial points). But if the waste is laid to rest in Finland itself, that would be very safe. For a few million years at least.
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Thanks a lot, Aron! I admit I didn't know that those three DVDs are a Buena Vista production vs Fox.
I'm preordering Kiki, Laputa and Spirited, probably from Amazon (mostly because I have been a satisfied customer for a long time, I'm not sure they offer the best deal in terms of saving money, even though they offer the "Miyazaki 3-pack").
This should be a recognition for Miyazaki's work, rahter than just for this particular picture. What Miyazaki and Sudio Ghibli have created throughout the years is, I think, animated poetry.
On a side note: I was very disappointed with the DVD edition of "My neighbor Totoro". Such a long wait for the DVD edition, and then they f* it up. I'll just transfer my VHS movie to SVCD.
posters of "dupes" get locked out of slashdot for 7 days
Sure, but Taco would have to find a new job, in that case, and I doubt the poor guy has got much to put on his resume.
Hey, why did you put me as your foe, when I actually agree with all your comments?
You are using a very effective demagogic formula: put words in my mouth and extrapolate to you will what I said. Nevertheless, I will try to answer you, in hope I will not just throw words at a wall.
No, I am not for war against turkey, because I believe it's the only democratic Muslim country, and all things considered, I disagree that it has been worse to the kurds than Saddam has. Being a democracy, though, you will hear much more about the atrocities happening in turkey than in Iraq. I would be more than happy if all the tyrants of the world would meet their undoing.
I agree that kurds "would be immensley happy if saddam were overthrown". Preferrably by Iraquis, but not necessarily. When you are opressed you don't care about finesses. Does Nur care that the taliban have been overthrown with the hep of the allied forces (most of whom were americans)? Not the slightest, in fact. Nur is just happy that she can finally continue studying, working, generally free to live without a crippling fear of being decapitated, as many other women in Afghanistan have been. Nur is just my for-example Afghan woman that has been reduced to less than an animal, during the taliban. It's amazing how these women were so brave and for the sake of their education they would clandestinely meet in little groups where they would be taught by other women, in spite that such actions were punishable by death.
As for "we", i have to say that I am a naturalized Finn (born in Croatia), and definitely a european. Just for the record.
How well is ir working for Israel, "it" being an occupying power, I presume: I might infuriate you now, but I have to say that I believe Israel is not an occupying power, as it is on the territories of the millenial Kingdom of Israel. I am sad that this very simplu verifiable truth has been shaded by the clout of the Arab countries, but yet, it's the truth, and there's nothing you or anyone can do against it, least you destroy all the historical proof that exists, including the bible. Cities like Hebron and Jerico are just some of those that have been part of the country called Israel for thousands of years. Unfortunately, many Jewish holy sites have been defamated in the last hundred years, including the only temple the jews ever had. That and many other sites are now off-limits to jews (and the Temple is off-limits to christians, too).
So, instead of occupation I have to use the term of IFD force deployment in areas where there's a majority of Palestinian Arab population (Palestinian being a person living in the geographic region of Palestine, which might be Arab or Jew). This deployment has been hugely succesful in curbing the terrorist attacks, as the number of intercepted attackers (strangely, you don't hear of them in the western media, even though a 100 pound explosive device tied to a FUCKING DONKEY would be at least news-worthy, I imagine) averages at about 50 per month.
I heard this argument dozens of times, and it sounds more and more hollow each time it's repeated: as I said in my previous post, nobody asks the victims. YOu obviously don't give a flying fuck about the interests of those who are oppressed, you just follow your trendish peace-talk. If you spent a millisecond talking to those who are threatened by Saddams regime you would care less about USA's motives and more about the end result, as they do. Just as an example, you could learn that the Kurds are finally optimistic about their future, even with all the risks that are still involved, including the Turkish troops that crossed the border last night into northern Iraq. Sure, the Kurds are not happy about the invasion, but the are very happy at the prospect of Saddam being overthrown. And that's what matters. These people despise and really don't understand you, they don't understand why do you protect Saddam (and believe me, that's exactly what they think you're ding. If you don't believe me, please do talk to these people, talnk to the victims!).
Even then, the anti-war hippies didn't bother asking the real victims - all to this day! No news agency asked the Abanians how they feel about the fact that they are free of a regime that massively tortured and killed them (more than 10.000 before the americans and the allies started to bomb Belgrade). Similarly, nobody asks the Iraquis in the north (the kurds) and in the south (the shia muslims) how they feel about getting rid of Saddam's regime.
All these peace-lovers can say is "hey, Saddam's not bombing us, so why remove him?" Very similar to "hey, the neighbor is getting killed, not me, so why should I bother?".
The truth is, both in Kosovo and now in Iraq, the US is doing the right thing, and it has the whole fucking world against.
And did you know about that episode, when the wife of one of the ministers that was imprisoned, pleaded with Saddam to be "returned to her". Saddam obliged: he returned the poor minister, in a bag, cut into many pieces.
Saddam is a fucking sadist, nothing more, really. Not only for how he killed that minister, but also for giving the bag with the remains to the wife - a totally sick person.
That also explains the brutal methods used by his regime, to torture people: putting the hands into acid is just one of the methods in his repertoire.
My first distro was Slackware, in February 1997, and apart from using pine and vi from time to time on Solaris 2.5.1, I had no Unix or Linux knowledge. However, I had a lot of NetWare experience, and guess what? I installed Slackware the same day I downloaded it to the hard disk. Yes, my first install was from the hard dis, and it went perfectly well, including all the network settings.
Then I tried RedHat 4.1, and it was OK, and then RH 5.2, which was worse (quality went down, overall) and OpenLinux Lite 1.1, and that was again a good experience... and have been trying out linux distros ever since. I stopped doing that in the last couple of years (working with Solaris as my main job), but my first Slackware install will remain amongst my fondest IT-memories.
Thanks for an excellently informative post, dude.
Oh yeah, the American "empire". Well dude, I am a European (Finland), but I don't think the American "empire" owes us anything. GPS is just a present to the world, not anything US was obliged to do.
:o)
And if you're French by any chance: next time the nazis are sipping cofee in Paris, I hope you ask for the "inspectors to have more time".
Um.. I wasn't "preaching", either. I think you have missunderstood my post, starting from the subject (which was a sort of reply to the comment to the article, not a reply to the article itself). I even addressed the point of cheap storage, and believe SCSI is cheaper than FC. Look, I'm not goin to repeat/explain my points, too late here, gotta sleep. Didn't mean to belittle the article.
Cheers.
In a nutshell:
- the disk setup is not rendundant
- there is no documented disaster recovery plan
Would you be so candid to tell me what kind of enterprise are you working for?
I have used FC tech for several years. It's amazing technology, but performance is not it's main advantage. It's advantage is the possibility of stacking up incredible amounts of storage, with rendundant paths, at up to 100 m from the attachment point (one of the servers). This kind of environment is also very mindful of quality, and a self-made solution is not acceptable. Would you stack dozens of these self-made boxes and bet your career that they'll not fail. I know I wouldn't.
On the other hand, if I just want performance, I will do better with SCSI, and even save some money.
In this respect, I don't quite see what kind of niche would the solution in the article cover.
ewww.. +1, gross
The centrino have been entirely developed in Israel under strict secrecy.
both alive and seriously kicking.
For the server, I will have to keep this kernel because the onboard Ethernet port is supported through a patched driver - and the patch I found doesn't apply to any version of the kernel module I checked, so I have to use the compiled module that came with the patch. No, I don't have any info on the origin of the module.
Well, if you RTFA (F as in "fine", of course), you'll learn that they use a chemical laser. These consume little electrical energy, but unfortunately, need "refueling" with the substances that interact chemically to produce a coherent and very strong light beam, for a very short interval of time.
These kinds of lasers are already used in turrets in northern Israel to protect the population against smaller missiles/katiushas coming from Lebanon.
I thin that was a very unfair snub, and this is why: the hardware sites this Slashdot editor just scolded, produce their won content! They do a research, write the text, take the screenshots, construct the hardware setup, spend many hours benchmarking... and then comes Slashdot and posts a fucking link to the article and it's done with it. No, it's not quite done: it also accompanies the link(s) with a snub to the fairness or bias or the reviews! Wonderful.
/. editors: new concept, look up in dictionary) and creating their own content?
Let's see what Slashdot actually does or does not do: Slashdot creates very little original content; It mostly just takes submissions from readers and slaps it onto the frontpage if it likes it (and we know a lot of good stories are not posted God knows why). We know that Slashdot does not
- copy-edit for spelling or grammar errors
- check the link
- read the original article, and
- check it's own fucking site to see if the same story has been posted in the last few days. Sometimes the same editor posts the same story twice in display of total moronism.
We also know how knowledgeable are the Slashdot editors when it comes to their own mother tongue (English), and that writing even two sentences without a grammar or spelling mistake represents a huge problem.
So, does a site like Slashdot have the moral ground to criticize any other site, let alone a site that has people actually -working- (note to
Are you, by any chance, the author of the excellent post you mentioned?
I myself am a Baha'i, but I respect the points the author makes.
I know shoft-pageup/pagedown works, but for log reading and such, line-by-line is more hlepful, as you can see the context more clearly.
I say that, because I know if I explain my complaints with Gnome, I will be criticized that "that's not the latest version of Gnome, you can't say anything about Gnome if you don't use the latest build". I use the Gnome that comes by default with RHAS 2.1. Not by choice, but for business evaluation of the default install of RHAS 2.1, and I must say, it sucks. Just a few examples: can't lock the screen! Yep, click on the lock button, and nothing happens. Furthermore, all the "Alt+something"shortcuts don't work. I noticed that they are defined with the metakey, but obviously, that doesn't work with our (finnish) keyboards. (AFAIK, RHAS 2.1 is roughly equivalent to RH Linux 7.1).
Another little annoyance is the Gnome terminal, that does not scroll when using the shift+arrow keys. It may, again, seem like a little problem to you, but we do so much work on the command line that this does annoy us. Expecially after being used to the friendlyness of Konsole.
What we are used is KDE that comes with RedHat 6.1. My humble personal opinion is that Kicker and the other components of KDE are much more polished, snappier and powerful, even in that relatively old version of KDE, than Gnome from RHAS 2.1.
Oh, now I see, I will be criticized that "hey, that's not Gnome, it's how RedHat packaged Gnome". Sorry, I thought that, if anyone, RedHat payed particular attention to how it packages Gnome. After all, it's the default choice in RHAS 2.1 installation! So you see, you still can poke holes in my complaint, because I have not bothered to download the latest Gnome, isn't it.
(forefeiting my modpoints for this thread): Linus doesn't like the Itanium (neither do I), he is in control of what gets into the kernel, and he probably is benevolent enough to let Itanium-specific changes to flow in. BUT, does his negative view of Itanium pose any potential problem for Linux on Itanium?
DUPE!
The secret is chosing the right location: Finland (expecially northern Finland) is very tectonically inert. Everybody would be better off if the nuclear waste was buried here, including Finland! Thisnk about it: we're talking of 20.000-100.000 year spans. If nuclear waste is buried in a non-suitable location anywhere in the world, Finland will be affected (because tectonic movements would eventually break free the waste in the burial points). But if the waste is laid to rest in Finland itself, that would be very safe. For a few million years at least.