On *nix I have to spend an hour reading the goddamn installation instructions of every new piece of software, sometimes having to compile the damn thing myself.
What about using the packages for the distro of you choice? I prefer a package manager to a stupid "Install Program" for every package. Complaining about having to compile it yourself is so stupid that it isn't even funny.
1. You are talking about Windows 2000 server. I don't doubt that they have test versions for that. But i never saw a test version of Windows XP Home or Windows ME.
2. How do you get a cheap PC WITHOUT having to pay for Windows? (And assembling is not an option for the target audience of Zeta)
The problem for me is: it closes even without a mouse click. I start it, the splash screen shows, then it exits. No error message, nothing, it just ends.
I'm also talking about hardware but i wanted to clarify the difference between NAT (which could be made so that the computers behind it are still reachable, e.g. by forwarding port ranges etc) and a stateful firewall (which is part of a useful NAT, but not an integral part.)
You don't need NAT, a simple firewall which blocks connections not initiated from the internal computer is enough. NAT is fine if you have > 1 computers but NAT itself isn't the magic silver bullet.
When a person shoplifts a candybar from 7-11 and gets caught, they can pay a $500 fine, sometimes even more.
What if that person shoplifts 20 candy bars? Will he get a $10000 fine? That is the difference between stealing real world objects and the so called "stealing" of online music.
I remember we sat outside my dorm room and had a ping running on another guy's computer. Everytime it came back on we celebrated and nuked it, and opened another bottle of beer. That guy was a real Microsoft fanboy. After much beer he came outside and said something along the lines "Windows sucks, it crashes even when i am trying to make a fresh install".
The U.N. gave the conditions Iraq had to meet in order to give proof. Saddam failed to do it.
12/07/02 - Iraq gives 12000 pages of documentation to UN.
12/13/02 - The US (NOT U.N.) claim "missing answers"
Other countries fail to meet U.N. resolutions without being invaded
He was buying off France, Russia and Germany with the Oil for Food program to get them to lift the sanctions against him.
Wow, great, let the people die. Don't you think Saddam would be the last one to be affected if they had nothing to eat?
He had a WMD program ready to ramp up the moment the sanctions were lifted. Until then, he was playing a bluff. He was making the world think he had the WMD so they'd leave him alone, and he was bribing France, Russia and Germany to get the sanctions lifted so he could actually build a WMD program and not bluff anymore.
Wow, two things: 1. You admit he DIDN'T have a WMD program. 2. You say he wanted to build a WMD program, i assume you got that iformation via CNN.
The problem for Iraq was, Bush and not Gore got elected and 9/11 happened. Iraq's ties to Al Qaeda were well known and documented through most of the Clinton years, but Clinton's attitude toward terrorism had been to treat it as a law-enforcement issue.
I call bullshit. Iraq had nothing to do with
Al Qaeda. And THAT is well known and documented.
Yaddayadda.. Bush great Saddam evil... yaddayadda
There are power-mad dictators in the world.
Bush sure is one of them.
Except that the US accused Iraq of driving around their labs on trucks (nice made up pictures btw.) and even lied to the UN about baby massacres. As you might remember, Iraq did give a shitload of paper and CDs with "Proof", but unfortunately "too late" for the Bush-administration. IMHO, that "too late" smells a lot like "we don't care what you say, we will invade you anyway....". Oh, and the UN inspectors were making great progress when they were taken out of the country to prepare the attack. (And please no more "they didn't follow the UN resolution", there are plenty of other resolutions not followed but you don't see the US enforcing them....)
That is laughable, how do you PROVE the nonexistence of something? E.g., how would YOU prove that you have no drugs in your room if i asked you for proof?
they just said they might have to if it were used by a foreign power that was at war with the US.
Considering actions of US government in the last few years there is a very high probability that it would be shot down as soon as it came to life. After all, who knows which country is next on the "Axis Of Evil".
people who paid the state of New York did so to stay out of jail
and people who paid Microsoft did so to stay in business. I'm not saying MS products are better but you NEED them if you have to send out a document or else you get answers like "Your.doc has weird formatting" and "What is.sxw? are you trying to send me a virus?" Many businesses have to have at least ONE copy of M$-Office.
Slashdot Mirror
Have you ever been to the PRC? I've been numerous times. In general, the Chinese are extremely racist, almost to the Asian equivalent of Aryanism.
You are talking out of your ass. And i have been to the PRC several times.
they might as well also turn off sending from port 25 by default
mail is sent TO port 25, not FROM port 25
WTF are you smoking?
On *nix I have to spend an hour reading the goddamn installation instructions of every new piece of software, sometimes having to compile the damn thing myself.
What about using the packages for the distro of you choice? I prefer a package manager to a stupid "Install Program" for every package. Complaining about having to compile it yourself is so stupid that it isn't even funny.
It is "Kelvin", not "degree Kelvin", the "degree" was dropped in 1967
nor shall any one be excluded from holding office on account of his religious sentiments, provided he acknowledge the existence of a Supreme Being.
WTF? So atheists are out?
You can get test version of Windows.
1. You are talking about Windows 2000 server. I don't doubt that they have test versions for that. But i never saw a test version of Windows XP Home or Windows ME.
2. How do you get a cheap PC WITHOUT having to pay for Windows? (And assembling is not an option for the target audience of Zeta)
Aside from the install issues I've had, is it just me or is the idea of playing money for a OS you cant test out first crazy?
You mean like Microsoft Windows?
What is the CPU actually doing right after the computer is crashed?
I know: it thinks "Oh, no, not again!"
And other countries that attempted democracy are ending up, very quickly, with a totalitarian society. So what's your point?
As another slashdotter pointed out, you could play around with /proc/sys/vm/swappiness
It is set to 60, but you could decrease it like e.g.
Another maybe promising setting might be
The problem for me is: it closes even without a mouse click. I start it, the splash screen shows, then it exits. No error message, nothing, it just ends.
I'm also talking about hardware but i wanted to clarify the difference between NAT (which could be made so that the computers behind it are still reachable, e.g. by forwarding port ranges etc) and a stateful firewall (which is part of a useful NAT, but not an integral part.)
You don't need NAT, a simple firewall which blocks connections not initiated from the internal computer is enough. NAT is fine if you have > 1 computers but NAT itself isn't the magic silver bullet.
When a person shoplifts a candybar from 7-11 and gets caught, they can pay a $500 fine, sometimes even more.
What if that person shoplifts 20 candy bars? Will he get a $10000 fine? That is the difference between stealing real world objects and the so called "stealing" of online music.
With Microsoft, there's only one direction...
down...
I remember we sat outside my dorm room and had a ping running on another guy's computer. Everytime it came back on we celebrated and nuked it, and opened another bottle of beer. That guy was a real Microsoft fanboy. After much beer he came outside and said something along the lines "Windows sucks, it crashes even when i am trying to make a fresh install".
Ahhh.... memories.... :-)
to be exact, those aren't BSD jokes but netcraft jokes ... (Netcraft confirms ......)
Netcraft confirms, BSD jokes are dying....
What's wrong with the moderators? that was funny (and it just HAD to be said) and not a troll....
Yeah? Name one.
Israel? North Korea comes to mind, but the Resolutions were blocked by china AFAIK
1. Iraq certainly did have WMD programs
http://www.usatoday.com/news/world/iraq/2004-03- 02-un-wmd_x.htm
Don't be ignorant. There are clear and documented ties between Iraq and Al Qaeda that date back to the early 1990's.
http://www.brown.edu/Departments/Anthropology/pu blications/General_Powell.htm
Arguing that Iraq was not involved with terrorists only makes you look stupid and ignorant
I think YOU are making a fool of yourself by claiming "well known facts" without backing
The U.N. gave the conditions Iraq had to meet in order to give proof. Saddam failed to do it.
12/07/02 - Iraq gives 12000 pages of documentation to UN.
12/13/02 - The US (NOT U.N.) claim "missing answers"
Other countries fail to meet U.N. resolutions without being invaded
He was buying off France, Russia and Germany with the Oil for Food program to get them to lift the sanctions against him.
Wow, great, let the people die. Don't you think Saddam would be the last one to be affected if they had nothing to eat?
He had a WMD program ready to ramp up the moment the sanctions were lifted. Until then, he was playing a bluff. He was making the world think he had the WMD so they'd leave him alone, and he was bribing France, Russia and Germany to get the sanctions lifted so he could actually build a WMD program and not bluff anymore.
Wow, two things: 1. You admit he DIDN'T have a WMD program. 2. You say he wanted to build a WMD program, i assume you got that iformation via CNN.
The problem for Iraq was, Bush and not Gore got elected and 9/11 happened. Iraq's ties to Al Qaeda were well known and documented through most of the Clinton years, but Clinton's attitude toward terrorism had been to treat it as a law-enforcement issue.
I call bullshit. Iraq had nothing to do with Al Qaeda. And THAT is well known and documented.
Yaddayadda.. Bush great Saddam evil ... yaddayadda
There are power-mad dictators in the world. Bush sure is one of them.
Except that the US accused Iraq of driving around their labs on trucks (nice made up pictures btw.) and even lied to the UN about baby massacres. As you might remember, Iraq did give a shitload of paper and CDs with "Proof", but unfortunately "too late" for the Bush-administration. IMHO, that "too late" smells a lot like "we don't care what you say, we will invade you anyway....". Oh, and the UN inspectors were making great progress when they were taken out of the country to prepare the attack. (And please no more "they didn't follow the UN resolution", there are plenty of other resolutions not followed but you don't see the US enforcing them....)
That is laughable, how do you PROVE the nonexistence of something? E.g., how would YOU prove that you have no drugs in your room if i asked you for proof?
they just said they might have to if it were used by a foreign power that was at war with the US.
Considering actions of US government in the last few years there is a very high probability that it would be shot down as soon as it came to life. After all, who knows which country is next on the "Axis Of Evil".
people who paid the state of New York did so to stay out of jail
and people who paid Microsoft did so to stay in business. I'm not saying MS products are better but you NEED them if you have to send out a document or else you get answers like "Your .doc has weird formatting" and "What is .sxw? are you trying to send me a virus?" Many businesses have to have at least ONE copy of M$-Office.