Since when does nobility come with a price tag ?
Charity is a private issue., when you get milage from it, it ceases to be creditable. If you had 40Bn in the bank, you are not going to suffer even if you gave 99% of it away, so don't pretend he is doing the world a favour. And as for the racist accusation, it was meant to describe the manner in which the "donations" are made, and to whom, and how they actually appear to the rest of us. "lets pick a disadvantaged group and throw some money at them, that'll make us look good."
Yes, the Power of Nightmares was an excellent documentary, but to say that the "visions and dreams" method failed is incorrect. What basically happened, was that apart from the standard of living going up and so making "dreams" harder to fulfill, it is much easier to promise people things which you may not even have to deliver. ie. If you promise people new roads, better sanitation, higher employment, then people actually notice if they don't get them. (bad for the politicians). If you promise that you will do your best to protect against terrorists, then you don't have to deliver anything concrete, because, a) most of the time there are no terrorist attacks, and b) the well organised terrorist will always get past your defenses, which in turn gives you an excuse to tighten security. (no negative end result, so good for the politicians !) You can get the second and summarising final part of the documentary here. (Divx - 450MB)
If CherryOS had complied with the GPL there would be no problem. Under "normal" copyright law, there could be no legal CherryOS without paying for a licence from PearPC. Starving doesn't come into it. Imagine if you could copyright the shovel... Under gpl everybody could make and use such shovels, and contribute to the development of a better shovel. Under "Commercial Copyright" law, everyone would have to use the Acme Improved MKII Shovel, now only $99.99, imitators will be prosecuted. Which has the better model ? Who actually owns "the music" ?
one must wonder if our present world will vanish into the mists of time - to be outlived, as it were, by some of the ancient civilizations that by historic and technological accident chose to use superior media.
Which might go some way to explaining anomalies like the ancient and accurate maps of the land mass under the antarctic ice...
Firstly, he "had a hunch" that people might need help fixing their computers. Well, the rest of us knew that a looong time ago. I used to offer the same service myself, but I guess I was ahead of my time. This was around 1998, and while I did get calls, not as many people owned pcs then. Then after a while, I got lots of competition from people who were prepared to basically work for nothing, or so it would seem from their rates.
Of course, as I soon realised, these competitors were using these tactics to get a foot in the door, then convince the customer that something really expensive needed doing, whereas a simple job like adding a RAM stick would only really cost the price of the RAM and 1/2 hours labour. Being basically honest, I decided against being associated with that business.
I did however make enough of an impression to still get calls from old customers to this day.
Another point worth making is on the unqualified amateur subject. Considering that most relevant qualifications available are worthless anyway, except to line the pockets of unscrupulous teaching organisations, then I would expect to be more knowledgable by not having taken any "courses". Add to this the fact that no course you may take is going to be up to speed on the latest problems in the real world and you can discount this argument entirely. I mean do you really need CompSci to change over a hard drive or disinfect a Windows system. You don't even need to have ever held a soldering iron in anger. Its almost like companies asking for candidates with 10 years flash experience + 7 years VB6 + java + 4 years C# (would be good).
Maybe I should get back in the game as an "Instructor" LOL.
Finally, I notice he described himself as an "expert" on his advert. Maybe trades descriptions would like to hear about this....
Make a small partition with
ntfsresize, put a fixed pagefile on that partition alone. Works on every single version of windows and it's zero maintenance.
Ever heard of elegant solutions ? Wasting time and bandwidth to perform something which should be possible on 1 machine is a problem in my book. not to mention the extra power/components / hassle. I thought the subject was the PC (singular) ?
More than 90% of these connection attempts were caused by a machine running Windows, whereas only about 3% could be identified as originating from Linux machines.
The first attempt to attack one of the honeypots was noticed about ten minutes after the whole honeynet was attached to the Internet. The system was systematically searched for weaknesses (port scan) and the attacker tried to exploit a known vulnerability in the Internet Information Server (IIS). After this short period of time, an unpatched version of this server would have been compromised.
The ports 445, 135, 137 and 139 - all belonging to Netbios, the protocol favored by the Microsoft Operating System family - see by far the most traffic.
Apparently they were using SUSE 8 Pro and Solaris 8 as the Honypots.
My issue with the BBC article is that although (as can be seen from the Honeypot site) 90% of the attacks were aimed at, or originated from a Windows machine, the offending OS is mentioned only once. They (the BBC) should spell it out, so that the general public actually gets notified officially, and thus make it a well known issue amongs non-IT literate people.
Unscalable: The Linux kernel supports "pure" SMP systems that are respectably large. For larger system, bproc and OpenMOSIX permit scaling up to about 65534 nodes with each node taking perhaps 64 processors. To my way of thinking, that's pretty damn scalable. Actually, as bproc and OpenMOSIX use different migration systems, it may be possible to build a grid of grids, where you've a Beowulf cluster of MOSIX clusters of 64-way SMP nodes. This gives you a theoretical capacity of 274,861,129,984 processors.
Microsoft is planning to add clustering, in the future.
Projecting your speed onto the windscreen would solve a lot of problems where you are more intent in keeping your speed down to avoid speed cameras than watching the road ahead.
Do you need to stare intently at your fork when putting food in your mouth ? Do you have to look at your mouse to see which button to click ?
If not, why do you need to stare at the dash to see if you are speeding up or slowing down. Once you are doing just under the limit, you are only going to speed up if YOU press harder on the accelerator or you start going downhill, in which case a quick glance at the speedo will suffice. You sound like one of those people who breaks the speed limit until you see a camera, then hits the brakes. If you had a HUD you would doubtless be staring intently into the middle distance, at the projected information, rather than allowing your brain to assimilate it automatically.
In either instance, the "guest" OS doesn't get a "magic ride" on the hosts's drivers.
Actually, I have a Sony Vaio laptop with XP Home, and I still can't find linux driver support for the dlink GWL G650+ WiFi pc-card. (I have tried many many live cd varieties)
However, when running DSL embedded under Qemu on this machine, the card runs fine and I can connect to the network.
I think it's because the card is initialised before I "boot" DSL. It is definitely detected under other linux distros, but getting it to fire up is a nightmare !
I recently went to ereader.com to get some more books for my palm. Went to check out, (the prices are in US dollars) and find that they are charging EU VAT (value added tax) on dollar purchases !
WTF ?
Apparently, the EU has specified that anybody doing business with anyone inside EU borders must collect and hand over EU VAT.
Exactly right. And so maybe the convenient appliances should be the things being taxed more, in order to drive people to share resources.
What I find strange, is that very rarely, during a discussion on global warming, does anybody mention the amount of heat generated by all the end uses of the polluting/non-polluting electricity generation.
That was a bit of a mouthfull, so in simple terms, all use of electrical power generates heat.
IMHO, we should be finding more efficient ways of using the power we already have, as well as generating it more cleanly. That is why (unfortunately in my opinion) using space generated solar power can only make the situation worse, because it will add to the net amount of the suns power being trapped in our atmosphere by the (completely natural) greenhouse effect.
We have to balance our use of technology against the planets natural ability to absorb and recycle the end products (ie heat).
Just as a "for instance", take a look at a night-time satellite photo for the USA or Europe. The shape of the continents are plain from the amount of lighting. I don't believe that this has no warming effect, especially as it has been going on for a good century already.
I tried the Ubunto Live cds on my sony Vaio laptop and they wouldn't boot. The cd drive just thrashed for a bit then xp started as normal. I posted a bug about it, and tried various other distros.
Knoppix works fine, and strangely, so does Gnoppix. Apparently it was down to Ubunto using grub as a boot loader, but if Gnoppix worked using it, then what was the problem with Ubunto.
Also, to prove a point, I dloaded and burnt my own copies of Ubunto, and they booted fine on the vaio laptop. I posted that in the bugzilla, but it was ignored apparently !?
Slashdot Mirror
actually, thats more like na-na na-na-na-na-naaa !
Since when does nobility come with a price tag ?
Charity is a private issue., when you get milage from it, it ceases to be creditable.
If you had 40Bn in the bank, you are not going to suffer even if you gave 99% of it away, so don't pretend he is doing the world a favour.
And as for the racist accusation, it was meant to describe the manner in which the "donations" are made, and to whom, and how they actually appear to the rest of us.
"lets pick a disadvantaged group and throw some money at them, that'll make us look good."
Yes, the Power of Nightmares was an excellent documentary, but to say that the "visions and dreams" method failed is incorrect.
What basically happened, was that apart from the standard of living going up and so making "dreams" harder to fulfill, it is much easier to promise people things which you may not even have to deliver.
ie. If you promise people new roads, better sanitation, higher employment, then people actually notice if they don't get them. (bad for the politicians).
If you promise that you will do your best to protect against terrorists, then you don't have to deliver anything concrete, because, a) most of the time there are no terrorist attacks, and b) the well organised terrorist will always get past your defenses, which in turn gives you an excuse to tighten security. (no negative end result, so good for the politicians !)
You can get the second and summarising final part of the documentary here. (Divx - 450MB)
If CherryOS had complied with the GPL there would be no problem.
Under "normal" copyright law, there could be no legal CherryOS without paying for a licence from PearPC.
Starving doesn't come into it.
Imagine if you could copyright the shovel...
Under gpl everybody could make and use such shovels, and contribute to the development of a better shovel.
Under "Commercial Copyright" law, everyone would have to use the Acme Improved MKII Shovel, now only $99.99, imitators will be prosecuted.
Which has the better model ? Who actually owns "the music" ?
one must wonder if our present world will vanish into the mists of time - to be outlived, as it were, by some of the ancient civilizations that by historic and technological accident chose to use superior media.
...
Which might go some way to explaining anomalies like the ancient and accurate maps of the land mass under the antarctic ice
Firstly, he "had a hunch" that people might need help fixing their computers.
Well, the rest of us knew that a looong time ago. I used to offer the same service myself, but I guess I was ahead of my time. This was around 1998, and while I did get calls, not as many people owned pcs then. Then after a while, I got lots of competition from people who were prepared to basically work for nothing, or so it would seem from their rates.
Of course, as I soon realised, these competitors were using these tactics to get a foot in the door, then convince the customer that something really expensive needed doing, whereas a simple job like adding a RAM stick would only really cost the price of the RAM and 1/2 hours labour.
Being basically honest, I decided against being associated with that business.
I did however make enough of an impression to still get calls from old customers to this day.
Another point worth making is on the unqualified amateur subject. Considering that most relevant qualifications available are worthless anyway, except to line the pockets of unscrupulous teaching organisations, then I would expect to be more knowledgable by not having taken any "courses". Add to this the fact that no course you may take is going to be up to speed on the latest problems in the real world and you can discount this argument entirely. I mean do you really need CompSci to change over a hard drive or disinfect a Windows system. You don't even need to have ever held a soldering iron in anger. Its almost like companies asking for candidates with 10 years flash experience + 7 years VB6 + java + 4 years C# (would be good).
Maybe I should get back in the game as an "Instructor" LOL.
Finally, I notice he described himself as an "expert" on his advert. Maybe trades descriptions would like to hear about this....
Or even, edible, candy sized memory modules, each containing 1 track. .....
then you could _eat_ Britney Spears !
Mmmm, britney
Does it work on 98SE ?
Ever heard of elegant solutions ? /components / hassle.
Wasting time and bandwidth to perform something which should be possible on 1 machine is a problem in my book.
not to mention the extra power
I thought the subject was the PC (singular) ?
1. artificially inflate compressed file and write to cd (lose quality)
2. recompress artificially inflated file (lose more quality)
How can this even be considered to be a "good thing" ?
And with your IQ so increased, you might understand that it wasn't worth five years off your life ?
Apparently they were using SUSE 8 Pro and Solaris 8 as the Honypots. My issue with the BBC article is that although (as can be seen from the Honeypot site) 90% of the attacks were aimed at, or originated from a Windows machine, the offending OS is mentioned only once.
They (the BBC) should spell it out, so that the general public actually gets notified officially, and thus make it a well known issue amongs non-IT literate people.
If not, why do you need to stare at the dash to see if you are speeding up or slowing down.
Once you are doing just under the limit, you are only going to speed up if YOU press harder on the accelerator or you start going downhill, in which case a quick glance at the speedo will suffice.
You sound like one of those people who breaks the speed limit until you see a camera, then hits the brakes.
If you had a HUD you would doubtless be staring intently into the middle distance, at the projected information, rather than allowing your brain to assimilate it automatically.
Here is an old Beyond 2000 video report on the solar tower project. (sorry it's a crappy windows media file)
What they don't say is that the screens will be tiny and all 150 "cinemas" are in the same building, so the resolution will be quite good actually.
;-)
Oh Fuck !
Actually, I have a Sony Vaio laptop with XP Home, and I still can't find linux driver support for the dlink GWL G650+ WiFi pc-card. (I have tried many many live cd varieties)
However, when running DSL embedded under Qemu on this machine, the card runs fine and I can connect to the network.
I think it's because the card is initialised before I "boot" DSL. It is definitely detected under other linux distros, but getting it to fire up is a nightmare !
Really, so how do you explain this and this.
Plus the product was an ebook, so there is no "importing" taking place.
Here is a screenshot of my cart on ereader at checkout.
Well how about this...
I recently went to ereader.com to get some more books for my palm.
Went to check out, (the prices are in US dollars) and find that they are charging EU VAT (value added tax) on dollar purchases !
WTF ?
Apparently, the EU has specified that anybody doing business with anyone inside EU borders must collect and hand over EU VAT.
And these monkeys are doing it !
Here's a plan :-
...
The US signs up to the treaty
If the other signatories don't meet their targets...
You invade their asses !
Exactly right. And so maybe the convenient appliances should be the things being taxed more, in order to drive people to share resources.
What I find strange, is that very rarely, during a discussion on global warming, does anybody mention the amount of heat generated by all the end uses of the polluting/non-polluting electricity generation.
That was a bit of a mouthfull, so in simple terms, all use of electrical power generates heat.
IMHO, we should be finding more efficient ways of using the power we already have, as well as generating it more cleanly. That is why (unfortunately in my opinion) using space generated solar power can only make the situation worse, because it will add to the net amount of the suns power being trapped in our atmosphere by the (completely natural) greenhouse effect.
We have to balance our use of technology against the planets natural ability to absorb and recycle the end products (ie heat).
Just as a "for instance", take a look at a night-time satellite photo for the USA or Europe. The shape of the continents are plain from the amount of lighting. I don't believe that this has no warming effect, especially as it has been going on for a good century already.
satellite photo (apologies to fourmilab in advance)
Of course, neither of those examples is a "passphrase" as such.
Phrases are made up of separate words delimited by spaces.
"My boss is a w*nker" is an acceptable passphrase whereas
"mybossisaw*nker" is merely a complicated password.
For those without a torrent client there is a mirror of the powerpoint file here.
I tried the Ubunto Live cds on my sony Vaio laptop and they wouldn't boot. The cd drive just thrashed for a bit then xp started as normal. I posted a bug about it, and tried various other distros.
Knoppix works fine, and strangely, so does Gnoppix. Apparently it was down to Ubunto using grub as a boot loader, but if Gnoppix worked using it, then what was the problem with Ubunto.
Also, to prove a point, I dloaded and burnt my own copies of Ubunto, and they booted fine on the vaio laptop. I posted that in the bugzilla, but it was ignored apparently !?