Doesn't matter if the generators are in low earth orbit... the power line tethers still have to come back to the ground. E.G. Through the clouds that will brew storms..
People should only follow laws if they are for the best of people as a whole. This law isn't for the best so people should not follow it.
If a new law tomorrow passed saying that you had to give your youngest virgin daughter a night with your representatives... would you comply until you could "reform" or "appeal"? I truly hope not, for your youngest virgin daughters sake. Of course, the hypothetical law I fabricated vs the copyright law is a leap of extremes, but the point still exists.
When do you draw the line to mindlessly obeying a law for the principal? What law is ridiculous and what can you grit your teeth and follow just because it's not ridiculous enough?
For what it is worth, I haven't illegal downloaded an album or mp3 or otherwise pirated music without paying for it for about 3 years. So, I am not just justifying my own actions. I listen to FM radio and the internet-radio versions of said FM stations. (E.G. Licensed and legal RIAA-FRIENDLY music by said stations.)
What if you ifdown the wireless interface when not in use, can this prevent an exploit? It seems like it would unload the interface, but the kernel drivers would still be present. Does the kernel still monitor the wireless signals regardless of the ifup status?
I'm lucky my laptop has a switch on the side, when switched OFF wireless networking seems to be disabled. It seems to be a hardware disconnect for the antenna.
Datacenters don't create many jobs. I've worked at a datacenter with over 5,000 servers and only about 6 employees were required. This is with support calls daily from clueless customers. I imagine a Google datacenter requiring even less employees.
Accounts frozen? How does paypal get access to your bank account to lock it out?
I've given paypal my creditcard to fund the account. When I pay via paypal, it deducts from my credit card.
The only way I can see Paypal freezing peoples accounts is if they have the bank routing information, etc from a check. I'm OK with them having my creditcard details, but if you'd give an organization your account and routing number, that is a bad idea.
"What was that website again ? www.gaim.com ? www.pidgeon.im ? www.pidgon.im ? Bleh, I'll just use Kopete/Mercury/whatever then".
I agree with this. I always just remembered gaim.sourceforge.net. Very easy to remember. I've rarely if ever seen a domain use the.im TLD. This makes it hard to remember, the name AND the TLD. It'll be a bitch to keep track of. Hopefully debian packages will credit "Previously gaim" in the description so if I go apt-cache search gaim it'll still show up.
QUOTE "It's because of people like you that we have WGA and other such anti-piracy features. I'm still puzzled as to why people who are too damn cheap to pay companies their dues think that they're superior than us honest consumers."
There isn't much of a need to pay for XP if you've bought vista. Consider if a trade. Buy Vista (which is Windows tax with the new laptop) -- chuck it -- download XP and use that. Vista probably costs more than XP, so in fact Microsoft profited.
It's not like he's going to buy the vista/laptop, THEN download XP and use it on a 2nd computer.
I use to pirate Windows, but then I started using Linux primarily. Now I am legit I suppose. Although I did purchase a laptop loaded with XP, and I haven't bothered installing Linux on it.
Is this feature standard in Linux yet? I'd hate to see us OSS guys get shown up by Bill...;^) You do know *BSD is open source software these days, right?
Your attitudes towards Ubuntu don't matter much. Either you are a success story or not. Some people love linux, some don't. When I first started using Linux (about a year after a failure like yours on RH 9) I had to switch from distribution to distribution until I found one that just worked. I started with Redhat 9, then tried Mandrake, then SuSE, then Debian (failed, wasn't experienced at the time), then about 15 other distributions. By the time I had tried all those, I had enough experience to use Debian. I tried it again, loved it, use it to this day.
Debian is what I use solely for desktop use at home and at work now. Despite my success, I still don't think it is meant for everyone. I surely don't think it's meant for mainstream use. Linux was, after all an operating system made by a hobbyist, and likewise other hobbyists gathered and made it what it is today. In order to learn the ins-and-outs of the system, you too, have to be a hobbyist. You have to have a yearning urge to learn the internals of a system.
This "yearning urge" is something you seem to lack (shown by your frustrations on just wanting it to work)
My hobbyist attitudes towards Linux has gained me the privilege of being able to use it as a complete desktop system. My experience has also afforded me a position at a web hosting company where I do installs of BSD, Linux (any distro), Windows and more. I do just about everything concerning support on any platform at this company now (I work overnights, alone, with ~1230 servers).
It is up to you if you want to dive back to Linux land. As in posts above I explained that I started out on Redhat and failed, bricking my system. I went back to Windows 98 promptly and didn't look at linux for another year or two. However, my perseverance paid off and now I can use Linux as well as any other sysadmin.
You clearly aren't an experienced Linux user yet. It's understandable you had these issues.
I remember 5 years ago or so when Redhat 9 was released, I tried linux for the first time. I had similar issues, problem is since I was unexperienced, I was on the same boat as you. My box was bricked. I went back to Windows 98 and didn't try Linux again for a year or two.
>I know I still write 2 characters for the year when writing on backup tapes:p
Well if you're still using backup tapes, and not a network RAID or network NFS share for backups (or DVD's) or something, you're still living in the 80's anyway and no wonder you only need 2 digits.:P
Gee, I drive there every day and all I can think of is how shitty the city is and how I want to get back to Fort Worth.
I highly doubt any city is going to pay 30% more though. The cities and counties out here bid to the cheapest contractor and the cheapest contractor is probably going to get the cheapest concrete.
"I completely recommend that the internet is not even hooked into this system at all. That should be a completely seperate network. Closed circuit, as it were."
"knows a thing or two about their computer and how to install, run, and uninstall a piece of application. Same cannot be said about Linux. Knowing how to compile is almost required."
"As far as using it for desktop, forget it. People have jobs, families, wives and girlfriends. "
I have a job, a car I work on in spare time, a girlfriend, and volunteer work I do. I still have time to use linux. Linux works for me. I do gaming on it, host my own webserver, office, chat, and everything else you do on your workstation probably.
I don't see the problem. People act like Linux is the most complicated OS ever. I guess they just don't know how to use the tools included in linux. It makes sense anyway, if you don't know how to use a tool, it's useless to you.
It's ignorance in use that only makes it the wrong choice for you. I learn more about linux/unix every day, and it feels better in the end. I use to be a Windows user, but it's not as satisfying as linux has become for me.
"I'm not sure....would maybe Firefox have more overall users? Seems that it's on 80-90% of Linux boxes, plus an ever growing number of Windows machines and other OS's as well."
The article was written by a poor journalist. The theme of the article hovers around GPL3 -- so I believe its context was meant in that of "Most popular GPL program"
Firefox is not released under the GPL.
I would be willing to bet that xfree/xorg are more popular though, being on Solaris, BSD, Linux and more boxes. GCC is also another possible contender. What linux-like machine doesn't have GCC?
I submitted about 12 stories about some very cool DIY projects I've done over the last year or so.
* Replacing my trucks PCM/TCM with a computer. * Converting my speedo to a plasma display.
and a lot more DIY projects -- none made it to the homepage.
Last time I bother with "bettering the slashdot community"
The editors are too busy taking checks from Microsoft to pipe about origami or whatever they're calling the POS portable they've made. I'm starting to use Digg more often. At least a few of my projects have been promoted to the homepage. On slashdot, I've submitted 86 articles -- which not one has ever made it on the homepage. Guess there's not room for my stuff when they're busy posting dupes.
"As our tech increases we need less and less knowledge about it. My mom knew how to wire a fuse. I know how to screw in one. My kid knows how to throw a circuit breaker. Wich one of us would be more likely to be able to get a car moving when there is no replacement fuse available?"
I wouldn't. The only reason a fuse would blow is if there is a short that caused it to do so. Replacing a blown fuse doesn't fix the problem, it's bound to blow again.
"Again (for about the third time, I realize)... that's not how businesses think. If you're going to support a given platform, you do it WELL. That means testing. That means QA engineers."
Again, may I be so bold to ask if this is how they think?
a. We want to make customers happy and that means we support a platform WELL.
b. Well, we can't support Linux well, because that means testing, QA, $$$$$.
c. So we can't make customers happy, because we can't support this platform very WELL.
d. Furthermore, I'd like to add we can't give source code to the wild because in that instance we can't be sure customers are supported WELL.
e. So, in closing customers are ANGRY and not HAPPY -- and they are not supported WELL. Hell, they aren't even supported AT ALL. Man we wish at least we could get some documentation or released wild source.:(
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Doesn't matter if the generators are in low earth orbit... the power line tethers still have to come back to the ground. E.G. Through the clouds that will brew storms..
> Adding new drives and merging them into a RAID is done automatically and silently upon plugging the drive in.
Will this be RAID 1 or higher levels?
People should only follow laws if they are for the best of people as a whole. This law isn't for the best so people should not follow it.
If a new law tomorrow passed saying that you had to give your youngest virgin daughter a night with your representatives... would you comply until you could "reform" or "appeal"? I truly hope not, for your youngest virgin daughters sake. Of course, the hypothetical law I fabricated vs the copyright law is a leap of extremes, but the point still exists.
When do you draw the line to mindlessly obeying a law for the principal? What law is ridiculous and what can you grit your teeth and follow just because it's not ridiculous enough?
For what it is worth, I haven't illegal downloaded an album or mp3 or otherwise pirated music without paying for it for about 3 years. So, I am not just justifying my own actions. I listen to FM radio and the internet-radio versions of said FM stations. (E.G. Licensed and legal RIAA-FRIENDLY music by said stations.)
It's OK. I type like you, but I don't need to look at the keyboard at all. Without the constant glancing up and down seems to save quite a few WPM.
Your speed was: 90wpm.
You made 10 mistakes, your mistakes are shown in bold text:
Mistakes included a few spelling errors (7) and the rest were using " instead of '
What if you ifdown the wireless interface when not in use, can this prevent an exploit? It seems like it would unload the interface, but the kernel drivers would still be present. Does the kernel still monitor the wireless signals regardless of the ifup status?
I'm lucky my laptop has a switch on the side, when switched OFF wireless networking seems to be disabled. It seems to be a hardware disconnect for the antenna.
Datacenters don't create many jobs. I've worked at a datacenter with over 5,000 servers and only about 6 employees were required. This is with support calls daily from clueless customers. I imagine a Google datacenter requiring even less employees.
Accounts frozen? How does paypal get access to your bank account to lock it out?
I've given paypal my creditcard to fund the account. When I pay via paypal, it deducts from my credit card.
The only way I can see Paypal freezing peoples accounts is if they have the bank routing information, etc from a check. I'm OK with them having my creditcard details, but if you'd give an organization your account and routing number, that is a bad idea.
"What was that website again ? www.gaim.com ? www.pidgeon.im ? www.pidgon.im ? Bleh, I'll just use Kopete/Mercury/whatever then".
.im TLD. This makes it hard to remember, the name AND the TLD. It'll be a bitch to keep track of. Hopefully debian packages will credit "Previously gaim" in the description so if I go apt-cache search gaim it'll still show up.
I agree with this. I always just remembered gaim.sourceforge.net. Very easy to remember. I've rarely if ever seen a domain use the
QUOTE "It's because of people like you that we have WGA and other such anti-piracy features. I'm still puzzled as to why people who are too damn cheap to pay companies their dues think that they're superior than us honest consumers."
There isn't much of a need to pay for XP if you've bought vista. Consider if a trade. Buy Vista (which is Windows tax with the new laptop) -- chuck it -- download XP and use that. Vista probably costs more than XP, so in fact Microsoft profited.
It's not like he's going to buy the vista/laptop, THEN download XP and use it on a 2nd computer.
I use to pirate Windows, but then I started using Linux primarily. Now I am legit I suppose. Although I did purchase a laptop loaded with XP, and I haven't bothered installing Linux on it.
Is this feature standard in Linux yet? I'd hate to see us OSS guys get shown up by Bill... ;^)
You do know *BSD is open source software these days, right?
Hi UbuntuDope,
Your attitudes towards Ubuntu don't matter much. Either you are a success story or not. Some people love linux, some don't. When I first started using Linux (about a year after a failure like yours on RH 9) I had to switch from distribution to distribution until I found one that just worked. I started with Redhat 9, then tried Mandrake, then SuSE, then Debian (failed, wasn't experienced at the time), then about 15 other distributions. By the time I had tried all those, I had enough experience to use Debian. I tried it again, loved it, use it to this day.
Debian is what I use solely for desktop use at home and at work now. Despite my success, I still don't think it is meant for everyone. I surely don't think it's meant for mainstream use. Linux was, after all an operating system made by a hobbyist, and likewise other hobbyists gathered and made it what it is today. In order to learn the ins-and-outs of the system, you too, have to be a hobbyist. You have to have a yearning urge to learn the internals of a system.
This "yearning urge" is something you seem to lack (shown by your frustrations on just wanting it to work)
My hobbyist attitudes towards Linux has gained me the privilege of being able to use it as a complete desktop system. My experience has also afforded me a position at a web hosting company where I do installs of BSD, Linux (any distro), Windows and more. I do just about everything concerning support on any platform at this company now (I work overnights, alone, with ~1230 servers).
It is up to you if you want to dive back to Linux land. As in posts above I explained that I started out on Redhat and failed, bricking my system. I went back to Windows 98 promptly and didn't look at linux for another year or two. However, my perseverance paid off and now I can use Linux as well as any other sysadmin.
If it's in your will, you can do it too.
You clearly aren't an experienced Linux user yet. It's understandable you had these issues.
I remember 5 years ago or so when Redhat 9 was released, I tried linux for the first time. I had similar issues, problem is since I was unexperienced, I was on the same boat as you. My box was bricked. I went back to Windows 98 and didn't try Linux again for a year or two.
>I know I still write 2 characters for the year when writing on backup tapes :p
:P
Well if you're still using backup tapes, and not a network RAID or network NFS share for backups (or DVD's) or something, you're still living in the 80's anyway and no wonder you only need 2 digits.
You think that whenever you visit Dallas?
Gee, I drive there every day and all I can think of is how shitty the city is and how I want to get back to Fort Worth.
I highly doubt any city is going to pay 30% more though. The cities and counties out here bid to the cheapest contractor and the cheapest contractor is probably going to get the cheapest concrete.
"I completely recommend that the internet is not even hooked into this system at all. That should be a completely seperate network. Closed circuit, as it were."
Differenent subnet you mean?
I've been to this company, it's in the INFOMART in Dallas IIRC.
What type of install is that? I see something big and bulky on the left of the photo that looks like a transformer or something heavy.
Also why is there a shop light hung in the middle?
What will this mean for us street atlas GPS Users?
"knows a thing or two about their computer and how to install, run, and uninstall a piece of application. Same cannot be said about Linux. Knowing how to compile is almost required."
apt-cache search "term"
apt-get install
apt-get --purge remove
to me it's less work than trying to track down the website that has the obscure application you want to install.
"As far as using it for desktop, forget it. People have jobs, families, wives and girlfriends. "
I have a job, a car I work on in spare time, a girlfriend, and volunteer work I do. I still have time to use linux. Linux works for me. I do gaming on it, host my own webserver, office, chat, and everything else you do on your workstation probably.
I don't see the problem. People act like Linux is the most complicated OS ever. I guess they just don't know how to use the tools included in linux. It makes sense anyway, if you don't know how to use a tool, it's useless to you.
It's ignorance in use that only makes it the wrong choice for you. I learn more about linux/unix every day, and it feels better in the end. I use to be a Windows user, but it's not as satisfying as linux has become for me.
Just my thoughts
"I'm not sure....would maybe Firefox have more overall users? Seems that it's on 80-90% of Linux boxes, plus an ever growing number of Windows machines and other OS's as well."
The article was written by a poor journalist. The theme of the article hovers around GPL3 -- so I believe its context was meant in that of "Most popular GPL program"
Firefox is not released under the GPL.
I would be willing to bet that xfree/xorg are more popular though, being on Solaris, BSD, Linux and more boxes. GCC is also another possible contender. What linux-like machine doesn't have GCC?
I submitted about 12 stories about some very cool DIY projects I've done over the last year or so.
* Replacing my trucks PCM/TCM with a computer.
* Converting my speedo to a plasma display.
and a lot more DIY projects -- none made it to the homepage.
Last time I bother with "bettering the slashdot community"
The editors are too busy taking checks from Microsoft to pipe about origami or whatever they're calling the POS portable they've made. I'm starting to use Digg more often. At least a few of my projects have been promoted to the homepage. On slashdot, I've submitted 86 articles -- which not one has ever made it on the homepage. Guess there's not room for my stuff when they're busy posting dupes.
Must be a joke. It's impossible to register an email as a null character, since most mailservers use nullcharacters internally to sort messages etc.
Not to mention, how will you send a nullcharacter through the signup form, did he use telnet and send the form data that way?
"As our tech increases we need less and less knowledge about it. My mom knew how to wire a fuse. I know how to screw in one. My kid knows how to throw a circuit breaker. Wich one of us would be more likely to be able to get a car moving when there is no replacement fuse available?"
I wouldn't. The only reason a fuse would blow is if there is a short that caused it to do so. Replacing a blown fuse doesn't fix the problem, it's bound to blow again.
"Again (for about the third time, I realize)... that's not how businesses think. If you're going to support a given platform, you do it WELL. That means testing. That means QA engineers."
:(
Again, may I be so bold to ask if this is how they think?
a. We want to make customers happy and that means we support a platform WELL.
b. Well, we can't support Linux well, because that means testing, QA, $$$$$.
c. So we can't make customers happy, because we can't support this platform very WELL.
d. Furthermore, I'd like to add we can't give source code to the wild because in that instance we can't be sure customers are supported WELL.
e. So, in closing customers are ANGRY and not HAPPY -- and they are not supported WELL. Hell, they aren't even supported AT ALL. Man we wish at least we could get some documentation or released wild source.