and in part because of the New York Time article exposing the fact the Bush administration was abusing its power and most probably violating the 1970's prohibition on domestic spying (without a court order).
I, for one, am also disturbed that it appears this was a concious move by the New York Times to release this story at the time when it would have maximum impact on legislation.
Is that the action of an unbiased media?
I am not pooh-poohing the gravity of the 'problem' of domestic spying. I'm just a little disturbed that nobody is challanging the NY Times for using the story to directly affect congress. Strikes me as a very political move on their part. Where is their objectivty? Why didn't they 'break' the story two weeks ago? It wasn't secret and hasn't been secret. Anybody on the Senate Intelligence Committee (Democrat or Republican) was fully aware of this matter.
Most people aren't capable of making the distinction between 'music' as published and distributed on paper and 'music' as a recording of one particular instance where some musician is performing said work.
It's really sad, and a manifestation of our consumer culture.
Just rock back and forth on your sofa cushion and press the buttons and 'make music' there, bloatos.
There are shells, including bash, csh and others, easily installable on Windows. And you can install the Interix/SFU thing if you want a full posix environment to work within.
Cygwin is a kludge. It's a bunch of wonking stuff that resides in Win32.dll files. The Interix subsystem is an entire separate API that runs alongside Win32.
You don't seen to know that much about how Windows is arranged, how the NT Kernel interoperates with the various user layer subsystems you can plug into it, let along how an NT Server is administered.
And you've probably not experienced the mess that some of the GUI Linux admin systems create out of the nice clean/etc hierarchy that many of us use. I like the BSD systems over Linux in part because most of the info in my old O'Reilly 'Essential System Administration' manual (mine is a 1993 edition) still applies. Install one of the new graphical Linuxes and you're stuck with a mess.
I forget. Were we running X11R3 in 1985 or was it up to X11R4? My GNU Emacs manual is from 1987. My BSD manual set is for Version 4.1, from about 1987, I think. The freenix BSDs are based on Version 4.2.
Whoops. Wikipedia says X11R3 came out in 1988.
How old, and when did they come out with Version 10 of the X Window System?
Whoah. Lots and lots of history in the wikipedia entry. Looks like X10 came out in... 1985.
Do you really want to have to type each of those in (or cut and paste each one) and click on all the settings for each user?
No. I want some hotdog UNIX sysadmin slinging a perl script to generate new accounts, passwords, permissions, etc. casually, from a textfile provided by an HR flunkie. It should be an automagical process involving little or no thought or effort, all scripted in some line-noise-appearing language.
If you've got a network-friendly graphics system like X Windows or NeWS, the GUI clients (which do need to run on the server) don't need to be on the same box as the graphics display, but that's not the issue here.
Indeed. With X11 you don't just have the ability to beat the hell out of your own desktop box. You can beat the hell out of the whole network with graphical bloat.
No, not redundant. In fact, I often pop up an additional Xterm in a window by typing 'xterm &' in one of the already open windows.
And in my old software collection, I have Visual Basic for MS-DOS. It has all the 'draw an interface' widgets and what-not of the Visual Basic 3.0 that it is contemporary with.
NT 3.51 wasn't 'super slow' although some people might claim that. It wasn't 'snappy fast' but, then, the hardware wasn't 'snappy fast' then either.
It ran well on machines with 2MB PCI graphics cards. The graphics subsystem made anything else from Microsoft look bad. I.e. dynamic resizing of elements while you were resizing a window.
It wasn't designed or intended as a 'game' system.
And the GNU Toolchain was ported, for the most part. A decent number of the 'UNIX Crowd' had migrated. A lot of those 'early tools' still run well in W2K (and probably the new junk I won't ever run)
You neglected to mention that the fossil record shows that there were horses in North America before the 'noble savages' arrived over a land bridge. Said 'noble savages' killed and devoured said horses, driving them to extinction, without ever figuring out how to ride them or use them as draft animals. It took the Europeans hauling over horses before the 'noble savages' ever adopted horses for riding.
Many dominitrixes are fat and ugly. There is a phrase I once heard, 'Barbie Doll with Fangs' that describes what most 'vanilla' men think of when the word 'dominitrix' comes to their mind. But real devotees know that the fat ugly chick is female enough to stand over them.
So all the fat ugly chicks who make up this GamerGirl team can feel vindicated.
deli.cio.us which I feel is a more natural separation of the syllables.
So we have the task before us of making sure people know what an awkward 'break' the Yahoo-'owned' meme represents, and also make sure that something really AWFUL gets put up on deli.cio.us for people to encounter instead when they type what they naturally think, i.e. http://deli.cio.us/
I'm cheap, but even I'd spend the extra $200 to have a screen twice the size, 4x faster processor, CD-RW/DVD, etc etc etc.
The taxpayers won't, and in fact the extra stuff you mention adds little to the value of the machine for educational purposes, and would even be a negative distraction to the pupils. In fact, a 1 MHz TRS-80 Model 100 with the added connectivity that this system gives would fill many of the needs that it meets.
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and in part because of the New York Time article exposing the fact the Bush administration was abusing its power and most probably violating the 1970's prohibition on domestic spying (without a court order).
I, for one, am also disturbed that it appears this was a concious move by the New York Times to release this story at the time when it would have maximum impact on legislation.
Is that the action of an unbiased media?
I am not pooh-poohing the gravity of the 'problem' of domestic spying. I'm just a little disturbed that nobody is challanging the NY Times for using the story to directly affect congress. Strikes me as a very political move on their part. Where is their objectivty? Why didn't they 'break' the story two weeks ago? It wasn't secret and hasn't been secret. Anybody on the Senate Intelligence Committee (Democrat or Republican) was fully aware of this matter.
Most people aren't capable of making the distinction between 'music' as published and distributed on paper and 'music' as a recording of one particular instance where some musician is performing said work.
It's really sad, and a manifestation of our consumer culture.
Just rock back and forth on your sofa cushion and press the buttons and 'make music' there, bloatos.
Just enter 'pedophile' and 'townshend' as your keywords.
The first hit when searching on 'U2' should bring up the group 'Negativland.'
The second should be a link to a 'Fair Use' website.
Look at it this way: the RIAA currently pays staffers good money to sniff out sites that carry infringing content. Now they can just use google.
I've never understood why people are so enamored with Google. They're just another force that is commercializing the 'net.
There are shells, including bash, csh and others, easily installable on Windows. And you can install the Interix/SFU thing if you want a full posix environment to work within.
.dll files. The Interix subsystem is an entire separate API that runs alongside Win32.
/etc hierarchy that many of us use. I like the BSD systems over Linux in part because most of the info in my old O'Reilly 'Essential System Administration' manual (mine is a 1993 edition) still applies. Install one of the new graphical Linuxes and you're stuck with a mess.
Cygwin is a kludge. It's a bunch of wonking stuff that resides in Win32
You don't seen to know that much about how Windows is arranged, how the NT Kernel interoperates with the various user layer subsystems you can plug into it, let along how an NT Server is administered.
And you've probably not experienced the mess that some of the GUI Linux admin systems create out of the nice clean
Welcome to 1985 Microsoft.
I forget. Were we running X11R3 in 1985 or was it up to X11R4? My GNU Emacs manual is from 1987. My BSD manual set is for Version 4.1, from about 1987, I think. The freenix BSDs are based on Version 4.2.
Whoops. Wikipedia says X11R3 came out in 1988.
How old, and when did they come out with Version 10 of the X Window System?
Whoah. Lots and lots of history in the wikipedia entry. Looks like X10 came out in... 1985.
Welcome to 1986, X11 users.
Do you really want to have to type each of those in (or cut and paste each one) and click on all the settings for each user?
No. I want some hotdog UNIX sysadmin slinging a perl script to generate new accounts, passwords, permissions, etc. casually, from a textfile provided by an HR flunkie. It should be an automagical process involving little or no thought or effort, all scripted in some line-noise-appearing language.
If you've got a network-friendly graphics system like X Windows or NeWS, the GUI clients (which do need to run on the server) don't need to be on the same box as the graphics display, but that's not the issue here.
Indeed. With X11 you don't just have the ability to beat the hell out of your own desktop box. You can beat the hell out of the whole network with graphical bloat.
No, not redundant. In fact, I often pop up an additional Xterm in a window by typing 'xterm &' in one of the already open windows.
And in my old software collection, I have Visual Basic for MS-DOS. It has all the 'draw an interface' widgets and what-not of the Visual Basic 3.0 that it is contemporary with.
In 2013 the GNOME desktop will require 768 MB to load, although it won't be usable with that little memory.
NT 3.51 wasn't 'super slow' although some people might claim that. It wasn't 'snappy fast' but, then, the hardware wasn't 'snappy fast' then either.
It ran well on machines with 2MB PCI graphics cards. The graphics subsystem made anything else from Microsoft look bad. I.e. dynamic resizing of elements while you were resizing a window.
It wasn't designed or intended as a 'game' system.
And the GNU Toolchain was ported, for the most part. A decent number of the 'UNIX Crowd' had migrated. A lot of those 'early tools' still run well in W2K (and probably the new junk I won't ever run)
The bloat of Windows divides into the Kernel and UI pools.
Yet again, Microsoft copies something Linux has done first.
I used to run Slackware and a nice fast X11, with Netscape and some other things, on a Pentium 75 with 64M of memory.
'Don't Try This At Home, Kiddies' with any new Linux distro.
How do you describe the reign of Hitler in a MORAL manner?
By describing it as accurately as you can.
Do you have any difficult questions now?
Correction: they would rather have you purchase an infinite number of copies.
But then, neither you nor I have contributed anything meaningful to this discussion.
Apple's legal staff has been putting *other* people out of business since long before that.
You take the four year old Dell Optiplexes within your organization that otherwise just go to a salvage aucton. You install Linux or a BSD OS on them.
'Big Name' at lower-than-white-box prices. Voila!
You neglected to mention that the fossil record shows that there were horses in North America before the 'noble savages' arrived over a land bridge. Said 'noble savages' killed and devoured said horses, driving them to extinction, without ever figuring out how to ride them or use them as draft animals. It took the Europeans hauling over horses before the 'noble savages' ever adopted horses for riding.
Plus, NASA is packed full with unionized Civil Service deadwood.
Yer not gonna just wave your hands and clear that mess up overnight.
The point is, some loopy notion that one person has thought up doesn't equate to a mythos that has evolved over time with humanity.
you must also be wondering why WalMart doesn't sell latex suits, dildoes and, buttfucking slings.
They sell cans of Crisco, though.
Find me 10,000 people who believe it does, and your challange will have relevance.
Many dominitrixes are fat and ugly. There is a phrase I once heard, 'Barbie Doll with Fangs' that describes what most 'vanilla' men think of when the word 'dominitrix' comes to their mind. But real devotees know that the fat ugly chick is female enough to stand over them.
So all the fat ugly chicks who make up this GamerGirl team can feel vindicated.
deli.cio.us which I feel is a more natural separation of the syllables.
So we have the task before us of making sure people know what an awkward 'break' the Yahoo-'owned' meme represents, and also make sure that something really AWFUL gets put up on deli.cio.us for people to encounter instead when they type what they naturally think, i.e. http://deli.cio.us/
I'm cheap, but even I'd spend the extra $200 to have a screen twice the size, 4x faster processor, CD-RW/DVD, etc etc etc.
The taxpayers won't, and in fact the extra stuff you mention adds little to the value of the machine for educational purposes, and would even be a negative distraction to the pupils. In fact, a 1 MHz TRS-80 Model 100 with the added connectivity that this system gives would fill many of the needs that it meets.