Why are you all so afraid of the law? Is your system so corrupted there? Here where I'm living (sweden) belives if the law and the reality does not match, then we stick to reality. They can only use you if you are afraid!
What exactly is an "Average User"? In my opinion there is Users, and there is Administrators ( root ).
But the line between "average user" and "user", I can not see, who is the one to decide who is average or not?
Offcourse the machine to user interface (MUI?) should be clean and intuitial, but the interface should not depend of legacy/third-party software, but by standardizied interfaces. For example there should not be a "MS Office", or "OpenOffice.org", but a "Document Processing Interface".
The problem I see is that Microsoft has made their products synonym as the interface. Personaly I can't belive that the world population is so easly brainwashed, so there must be an other part here that I have no clue about.
Downloadable slide shows, preferably in PowerPoint format.
Ok, this might be defined as troll but...
I don't think PowerPoint and light and usable web-pages is synonym, I think he ment pdf here too, but it's a typo.
I would ask this question instead:
Why are we still using keyboard and mouse?
Havn't all those voice-reccon software gain better? and havn't we also touchscreens?
I think a fouth generation language is preferable for your mom to start with. install a sql-server and give her access (terminal or phpmyadmin for example), and teach her SELECT, INSERT etc....
It's also useful for her later on, using it for store info about her cash etc.
But if the "user" don't even reeceve the spam (i.e. the spam is stopped before it gets to the user), then he/she is unable to respond to it, and there will be no one from the network buying from spam.
I think alges is a perfect way to convert solar energy to chemical energy (oil), but I do not think the most energy efficient way is to use the chemical energy in the car directly.
Wouldn't it be smarter to produce electrical energy first? I think a bigger plant is more efficient to produce energy than a timy motor in a car. and an electrical motor is much more efficient than a conventional motor.
Then the algea will be a big solar-to-electicity plant...
But if so, I wote for fusion-plants instead:)
See this as an analog as the www, when it first was formed in CERN no one thought it would be the www, no companys wanted it, no average-"users" no what it was, but it's here and it's big.
What is saying we shouldn't go to space, just because no one can see a point now to go there? Who is loosing on letting people go to space?
I can see several positive events that people move to space, for example it minimize the risk for extermination of the human race, other is that perhaps not everything can be discovered on earth, depending on some undetectical absent that shudder our sensors etc...
Space is the only way to get from earth, and I would like to be there
Why can't server admins learn to build servers that can withstand/.?
otherwise here is the text...:
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Some Notes on the "Who wrote Linux" Kerfuffle, Release 1.1
Background
The history of UNIX and its various children and grandchildren has been in the news recently as a result of a
book from the Alexis de Tocqueville Institution. Since I was involved
in part of this history, I feel I have an obligation to set the record straight and correct some extremely serious
errors. But first some background information.
Ken Brown, President of the Alexis de Tocqueville Institution, contacted me in early March. He said he was
writing a book on the history of UNIX and would like to interview me. Since I have written 15 books and have been
involved in the history of UNIX in several ways, I said I was willing to help out. I have been interviewed by many
people for many reasons over the years, and have been on Dutch and US TV and radio and in various newspapers and
magazines, so I didn't think too much about it.
Brown flew over to Amsterdam to interview me on 23 March 2004. Apparently I was the only reason for his coming to
Europe. The interview got off to a shaky start, roughly paraphrased as follows:
AST: "What's the Alexis de Tocqueville Institution?"
KB: We do public policy work
AST: A think tank, like the Rand Corporation?
KB: Sort of
AST: What does it do?
KB: Issue reports and books
AST: Who funds it?
KB: We have multiple funding sources
AST: Is SCO one of them? Is this about the SCO lawsuit?
KB: We have multiple funding sources
AST: Is Microsoft one of them?
KB: We have multiple funding sources
He was extremely evasive about why he was there and who was funding him. He just kept saying he was just writing
a book about the history of UNIX. I asked him what he thought of Peter Salus' book, A Quarter Century of UNIX. He'd never heard of it! I mean, if you are writing a book on the
history of UNIX and flying 3000 miles to interview some guy about the subject, wouldn't it make sense to at least
go to amazon.com and type "history unix" in the search box, in which case Salus' book is the first hit? For $28
(and free shipping if you play your cards right) you could learn an awful lot about the material and not get any
jet lag. As I sooned learned, Brown is not the sharpest knife in the drawer, but I was already suspicious. As a
long-time author, I know it makes sense to at least be aware of what the competition is. He didn't bother.
UNIX and Me
I didn't think it odd that Brown would want to interview me about the history of UNIX. There are worse people to
ask. In the late 1970s and early 1980s, I spent several summers in the UNIX group (Dept. 1127) at Bell Labs. I knew
Ken Thompson, Dennis Ritchie, and the rest of the people involved in the development of UNIX. I have stayed at Rob
Pike's house and Al Aho's house for extended periods of time. Dennis Ritchie, Steve Johnson, and Peter Weinberger,
among others have stayed at my house in Amsterdam. Three of my Ph.D. students have worked in the UNIX group at Bell
Labs and one of them is a permanent staff member now.
Oddly enough, when I was at Bell Labs, my interest was not operating systems, although I had written one and
published a paper about it (see "Software - Practice & Experience," vol. 2, pp. 109-119, 1973). My interest then
was compilers, since I was the chief designer of the the Amsterdam Compiler Kit (see Commun. of the ACM, vol.
26, pp. 654-660, Sept. 1983.). I spent some time there discussing compile
intresting, I went to check my selve, searched for azatoth at search.msn.com and my page was #1 (http://www.efd.lth.se/~d02cf).
Now I'm not #1 at google anymore, but for a month I was, perhaps msn is reading googles list once in a month?
Has they created something by their own to enhance the security, or is it just that they have included some restricitons to the users/administrators? (ie. have they dissabled the root-account?)
Slashdot Mirror
isn't this a dupe?
Why are you all so afraid of the law? Is your system so corrupted there?
Here where I'm living (sweden) belives if the law and the reality does not match, then we stick to reality.
They can only use you if you are afraid!
Isn't it time for W32.Debian.World.Domination.Plan.Worm?
I thougth first contact was on april 4, 2063?
BugMeNot says:
user: bobdole
pass: bobdole2
What exactly is an "Average User"? In my opinion there is Users, and there is Administrators ( root ).
But the line between "average user" and "user", I can not see, who is the one to decide who is average or not?
Offcourse the machine to user interface (MUI?) should be clean and intuitial, but the interface should not depend of legacy/third-party software, but by standardizied interfaces. For example there should not be a "MS Office", or "OpenOffice.org", but a "Document Processing Interface".
The problem I see is that Microsoft has made their products synonym as the interface. Personaly I can't belive that the world population is so easly brainwashed, so there must be an other part here that I have no clue about.
I don't think PowerPoint and light and usable web-pages is synonym, I think he ment pdf here too, but it's a typo.
I would ask this question instead: Why are we still using keyboard and mouse? Havn't all those voice-reccon software gain better? and havn't we also touchscreens?
But? after you have bought ten CD:s, you have no finger lefts...
No one will ever need more that 640 KB memory!
I think a fouth generation language is preferable for your mom to start with. install a sql-server and give her access (terminal or phpmyadmin for example), and teach her SELECT, INSERT etc....
It's also useful for her later on, using it for store info about her cash etc.
But if the "user" don't even reeceve the spam (i.e. the spam is stopped before it gets to the user), then he/she is unable to respond to it, and there will be no one from the network buying from spam.
In the event of reecent news lately year I'm starting to think that you in the US have no right left.
As a sweed I'm used to freedom, can go everywhere I want, don't need to wear ID etc...
I hope you get your freedom back soon.
I have a question:
How well can the tiny hard drives withstand shakes and magnetic fields? It's seems that there is not much room for shielding.
I think alges is a perfect way to convert solar energy to chemical energy (oil), but I do not think the most energy efficient way is to use the chemical energy in the car directly. :)
Wouldn't it be smarter to produce electrical energy first? I think a bigger plant is more efficient to produce energy than a timy motor in a car. and an electrical motor is much more efficient than a conventional motor.
Then the algea will be a big solar-to-electicity plant...
But if so, I wote for fusion-plants instead
Wonder how many illigal aliens there is?
lets see...
J. Bush
P. Pot
M. Monroe
S. Connery
??? only four?
See this as an analog as the www, when it first was formed in CERN no one thought it would be the www, no companys wanted it, no average-"users" no what it was, but it's here and it's big.
What is saying we shouldn't go to space, just because no one can see a point now to go there? Who is loosing on letting people go to space?
I can see several positive events that people move to space, for example it minimize the risk for extermination of the human race, other is that perhaps not everything can be discovered on earth, depending on some undetectical absent that shudder our sensors etc...
Space is the only way to get from earth, and I would like to be there
Wonder why we are still stuck on the piece of stone called earth, I want out and explore!
otherwise here is the text...:
Some Notes on the "Who wrote Linux" Kerfuffle, Release 1.1 Background
The history of UNIX and its various children and grandchildren has been in the news recently as a result of a book from the Alexis de Tocqueville Institution. Since I was involved in part of this history, I feel I have an obligation to set the record straight and correct some extremely serious errors. But first some background information.
Ken Brown, President of the Alexis de Tocqueville Institution, contacted me in early March. He said he was writing a book on the history of UNIX and would like to interview me. Since I have written 15 books and have been involved in the history of UNIX in several ways, I said I was willing to help out. I have been interviewed by many people for many reasons over the years, and have been on Dutch and US TV and radio and in various newspapers and magazines, so I didn't think too much about it.
Brown flew over to Amsterdam to interview me on 23 March 2004. Apparently I was the only reason for his coming to Europe. The interview got off to a shaky start, roughly paraphrased as follows:
AST: "What's the Alexis de Tocqueville Institution?"
KB: We do public policy work
AST: A think tank, like the Rand Corporation?
KB: Sort of
AST: What does it do?
KB: Issue reports and books
AST: Who funds it?
KB: We have multiple funding sources
AST: Is SCO one of them? Is this about the SCO lawsuit?
KB: We have multiple funding sources
AST: Is Microsoft one of them?
KB: We have multiple funding sources
He was extremely evasive about why he was there and who was funding him. He just kept saying he was just writing a book about the history of UNIX. I asked him what he thought of Peter Salus' book, A Quarter Century of UNIX. He'd never heard of it! I mean, if you are writing a book on the history of UNIX and flying 3000 miles to interview some guy about the subject, wouldn't it make sense to at least go to amazon.com and type "history unix" in the search box, in which case Salus' book is the first hit? For $28 (and free shipping if you play your cards right) you could learn an awful lot about the material and not get any jet lag. As I sooned learned, Brown is not the sharpest knife in the drawer, but I was already suspicious. As a long-time author, I know it makes sense to at least be aware of what the competition is. He didn't bother.
UNIX and Me
I didn't think it odd that Brown would want to interview me about the history of UNIX. There are worse people to ask. In the late 1970s and early 1980s, I spent several summers in the UNIX group (Dept. 1127) at Bell Labs. I knew Ken Thompson, Dennis Ritchie, and the rest of the people involved in the development of UNIX. I have stayed at Rob Pike's house and Al Aho's house for extended periods of time. Dennis Ritchie, Steve Johnson, and Peter Weinberger, among others have stayed at my house in Amsterdam. Three of my Ph.D. students have worked in the UNIX group at Bell Labs and one of them is a permanent staff member now.
Oddly enough, when I was at Bell Labs, my interest was not operating systems, although I had written one and published a paper about it (see "Software - Practice & Experience," vol. 2, pp. 109-119, 1973). My interest then was compilers, since I was the chief designer of the the Amsterdam Compiler Kit (see Commun. of the ACM, vol. 26, pp. 654-660, Sept. 1983.). I spent some time there discussing compile
Whi is writing the history? the winner or the who loose?
It seems that as of now no written history is correct, who can we trust? Buy a book for ×$ and learn history that is incorrect is not good.
girl running away from great balls of fire?
hehe, in 2300, how many slashdotter will it be? /.:ed with 10 XB/s???
intresting, I went to check my selve, searched for azatoth at search.msn.com and my page was #1 (http://www.efd.lth.se/~d02cf).
Now I'm not #1 at google anymore, but for a month I was, perhaps msn is reading googles list once in a month?
Has they created something by their own to enhance the security, or is it just that they have included some restricitons to the users/administrators? (ie. have they dissabled the root-account?)