One has to be careful in weighing economic balances.
Does it make sense to use your old Sequent Symmetry box in the middle of the summer when it needs tons of airconditioning capacity?
What about that old Compaq Deskpro 486 with the 5 1/4 drive? It eats a lot of juice and puts out a lot of heat.
6 year old systems are pretty bad too. Combine one with a 17 or 19 inch monitor and you're pumping out 150-300 WATTS! This is at least doubled if you're running a cooling system for your 'environment'.
IMO, the latest and greatest systems with ACPI, and ondemand processor speed control coupled with the new, efficient, high brightness LVDS LCD displays are much more friendly to the environment. The next level will be improving the compoents used in these systems so that airconditioning isn't necessary. I haven't used AC in years and have found it easy to adapt. I just think before I move and I don't move as fast;-).
Libertarianism leads to democratic socialism through free association. The big difference is in scale. The communitarians are basically democratic socialists who would have us all live in the 'global village'. Libertarians are free, and for the most part, through economy of scale (scale does not mean as large as possible, it means of sensible size), will be compelled, to form associations. The big difference is that these associations will be voluntary with contractual binding, if so desired by a particular association, as opposed to dictated. So, if a group of like minded individuals elect to establish their own 'social security' program, they will be free to do so and once enrolled will be bound by whatever contract they have signed. I'm really surprised that lawyers aren't all libertarians!
The 'tragedy of the commons' was a result of not considering the impact of a few on the owners of the commons. Failure to conserve common property interferes with everyones right to enjoy that property. Failure to conserve your own property to the extent that it impacts your neighbors interferes with their right to enjoy their property.
You mention, "...the benefit of society". That the industrial revolution and urbanization has led to a breakdown in society is a constant refrain of those who propose more government. I contend that there was no 'one society' in the first place and trying to force everyone into some master plan only benefits those who seek power through the consequential class conflicts.
You are correct, under federal law you can say anything you want about the implied warranty. Why? Because implied warranty is STATE LAW. Every state recognizes implied warranty. In some states there is no restriction on implied warranty. This means the disclaimer is meaningless. Most states have a merchantability basis for implied warranty. If that sort of product in that price range is expected to last 5 years and your's only lasted one, than it is not merchantable because it comes no where near meeting the implied performance. I was remiss in not providing this information. On top of all, local jurisdictions may recognize implied warranties that are stronger than those recognized by their state. Personally I find the hassle of dealing with implied warranty a pain in the ass and would never purchase an Xbox or any other piece of electronic equipment with a 90 day warranty. Why? Because there is too little overlap with statistical spread of infant mortality for electronic components to suit my wallet. I was given a full refund on one major purchase that crapped out after the warranty expired. I could have made that money in the time spent securing the refund but I was also pissed and the satisfaction was well worth the time. Three repairs under warranty and then the vendor says, 'tough shit'.
The post is informative and includes only a small portion of the authors opinion. It is no more a troll than posting the article was. The article is clearly written to pander and support. How so? Well the authors fail to point out that they make NO DISTINCTION between civilian combatants and non-combatants! Hell, you can tell they are being disenenous with just a little time researching facts reported in the news. Suicide bomber kills 50 iraqi's in queue for police jobs. Thos 50 are civilians! Who killed 'em? Civilians. When the Iraqi police retaliate, who do they kill? Civilians! It is now a civil war with the 'coalition' on the side of the majority. We had one of these right here in the USA! Lots of people died. Was it the wrong war at the wrong time? IMO, any time the majority of the population is willing to fight to overthrow an oppressive govt. they deserve help. Hell, if the USA govt. becomes overly opressive, it's gonna happen in the USA. If a 'coalition' helps with that overthrow, will it be 'wrong war, wrong time'? Unless you are the oppressor, liberty is the highest morality for any people.
The bottom line is that there is always an 'implied warranty' that a product will perform. This implied warranty supersedes any limited (i.e. 90 days for the XBOX) warranties.
One could reasonably expect a computer or CDplayer or car radio to last 5 years. If it craps out in 6 months, one has recourse. This is true even if the limited warranty says 90 days. Push hard and the seller will come around. Sometimes all it takes is a copy of the referenced URL and sometimes it takes a lawsuit.
What does it mean when Dell and Suse or IBM and ??? (RedHat?, Debian?, Knoppix?, all three and more?) deliver a server with 'certified' linux?
Has anyone bought one of these for work and taken a good look at the install?
I see the 'support' part, but do they: 1. compile kernel (./config options) for that particular box? 2. config all applications for that particular box? 3. more than '1' and '2'?
Could someone expand on this NEAR relationship? I've never used nor heard of it before.
Altavista NEAR was like an AND that only returned results for strings within a limited distance of each other. IIRC this was 15 words on Altavista.
I am not familiar with the inner workings of these search engines so don't know how they did it.
I have been sending NEAR suggestion to the folks at google for years. They used to say they would look into it. Now they don't bother too respond. Getting too big and bsy I guess.
This presentation looks a little weird. Did you include NV as opposing vote, same vote, or just drop it completely. If dropped completely, it looks like you've got some weighting to balance out shading for senators with high % on NV.
True, a large scale change in either direction would be expensive.
However, no CTO in his right mind ever contemplates large scale change without a compelling reason. I.E. he may have secified Apple Mac Lisa Mac XL and then discovered that Apple and developers abandoned support for the platform. This is a compelling reason.
In reality, a good CTO will consider the benefits of Linux or MS on a project by project basis and weight the TCO (total cost of ownership) over the projected lifetime of the implementation. IBM has discovered that LInux sells well under this reality and is presently training their sales force in selling linux! IBM is doing this BIG TIME with install fests around the country for 1000's of IBM sales people. The upcoming fest in Vegas will have some 1700 IBM sales people install linux on their thinkpads.
Bone Fone is a 70's example employing acoustic conduction through the body as opposed to the evolutionary air to ear route.
WW-II AT&T 'throat microphone' also made use of 'conductued' sound and it was common for early (20's) radio operators to place their headphones on skull or jaw behind ears rather than over ears. This afforded some degree of 'automatic volume control', protected them from loud static crashes, and made it easier to discern a weak signal when near a strong one.
Back when I swam a lot we puT speakers inside plastic bags and hung them ver the side of the pool. It was OK when both ears were under water but not practical for listening while swimming. Combined with speakers above the water it wasn't much better. Swimming is pretty noisy and indoor pool acoustics generally suck.
What's permanent? Sun addresses the problem of slow disk writes (safe writes) under NFS with a NVRAM cache for writes and utility to 'clena up the mess'. It is possible to pull the power on one of these systems, bring it back up, and complete the transfer to disk. EMC and others do the same thing with their storage units. Lots of battery backed RAM for fast 'safe' transaction committal. It's not a software problem!
While zombies seem to be a big problem for DDOS and SPAM, what about...
I send your DNS a IP address on my network.
Your DNS looks it up and sticks the name-address pair in it's cache.
That name happens to be canonically valid in your domain.
I send a batch of spam with that domain name in the 'from' field. The receiving MTA does a reverse lookup on my IP address and I verify it as from your domain.
This is not a SMTP problem and proposed user authentication will not solve it.
The old 900MHz 2MBPS (wavelan) stuff and 900MHz phones are not very popular these days. You might give it a try.
Maybe some leadership experience would do him good. Organize the dorm, set up a limited number of access points. Not much more difficult than organizing a panty raid.
Drag a wire around. How big are the rooms anyway?
Buy a condo. It's a better investment than dorm rent.
Use infrared wireless instead. How big are those dorm rooms anyway?
My kids are off at college but not living in dorms after first year. Both used wire in dorm rooms. How big is a dorm room anyway? They use wireless in the library and other buildngs where the Universitie(s) provide it.
Knock the door off his microwave and wedge a chopstick against the interlock. Put it on a timer so while he is in class nobodys wireles works. They'll all give up after a week or so and he'l have the whole 2.4GHz ISM band to himself. Line room with Al foil or wire mesh.
CBS broadcast of fabricated material as factual and as news is MUCH more serious than a little hootage video or Stern talking about hootage. You'll not find a living normal man who will disagree with, "mmmm hootage good, doh! lying CBS, I could have bought that pickup truck if they hadn't shown my wife those fake videos of it going up in flames"
It's the imagery. Keeping this stuff organized and easy to get at is expensive and a pain in the ass. Getting it all in the first place is no walk in the park either. Keeping it up to date...
Wonder when google will begin subscription service for their internet archives?
Slashdot Mirror
One has to be careful in weighing economic balances.
;-).
Does it make sense to use your old Sequent Symmetry box in the middle of the summer when it needs tons of airconditioning capacity?
What about that old Compaq Deskpro 486 with the 5 1/4 drive? It eats a lot of juice and puts out a lot of heat.
6 year old systems are pretty bad too. Combine one with a 17 or 19 inch monitor and you're pumping out 150-300 WATTS! This is at least doubled if you're running a cooling system for your 'environment'.
IMO, the latest and greatest systems with ACPI, and ondemand processor speed control coupled with the new, efficient, high brightness LVDS LCD displays are much more friendly to the environment. The next level will be improving the compoents used in these systems so that airconditioning isn't necessary. I haven't used AC in years and have found it easy to adapt. I just think before I move and I don't move as fast
Waste depends on how you measure it...
EASY as PIE
... from kernel.org
Download a recent stable kernel of the flavor you prefer. 2.4, 2.6,
Configure for your hardware and needs.
Compile
Install
Here on the crunching crusoe laptop I'm running Fedora Core 2 with:
[localuser@localhost localuser]$ uname -a
Linux localhost.localdomain 2.6.10-rc1 #1 Fri Oct 29 12:30:23 EDT 2004 i686 i686 i386 GNU/Linux
"Slackware has been traditionally known to be about as user friendly as a coiled rattlesnake"
I always thought Debian was the coiled rattlesnake.
[localuser@localhost localuser]$ uname -a
Linux localhost.localdomain 2.6.10-rc1 #1 Fri Oct 29 12:30:23 EDT 2004 i686 i686 i386 GNU/Linux
" I'm pretty much a democratic socialist."
Libertarianism leads to democratic socialism through free association. The big difference is in scale. The communitarians are basically democratic socialists who would have us all live in the 'global village'. Libertarians are free, and for the most part, through economy of scale (scale does not mean as large as possible, it means of sensible size), will be compelled, to form associations. The big difference is that these associations will be voluntary with contractual binding, if so desired by a particular association, as opposed to dictated. So, if a group of like minded individuals elect to establish their own 'social security' program, they will be free to do so and once enrolled will be bound by whatever contract they have signed. I'm really surprised that lawyers aren't all libertarians!
The 'tragedy of the commons' was a result of not considering the impact of a few on the owners of the commons. Failure to conserve common property interferes with everyones right to enjoy that property. Failure to conserve your own property to the extent that it impacts your neighbors interferes with their right to enjoy their property.
You mention, "...the benefit of society". That the industrial revolution and urbanization has led to a breakdown in society is a constant refrain of those who propose more government. I contend that there was no 'one society' in the first place and trying to force everyone into some master plan only benefits those who seek power through the consequential class conflicts.
You are correct, under federal law you can say anything you want about the implied warranty.
Why? Because implied warranty is STATE LAW. Every state recognizes implied warranty. In some states there is no restriction on implied warranty. This means the disclaimer is meaningless. Most states have a merchantability basis for implied warranty.
If that sort of product in that price range is expected to last 5 years and your's only lasted one, than it is not merchantable because it comes no where near meeting the implied performance. I was remiss in not providing this information. On top of all, local jurisdictions may recognize implied warranties that are stronger than those recognized by their state. Personally I find the hassle of dealing with implied warranty a pain in the ass and would never purchase an Xbox or any other piece of electronic equipment with a 90 day warranty. Why? Because there is too little overlap with statistical spread of infant mortality for electronic components to suit my wallet. I was given a full refund on one major purchase that crapped out after the warranty expired. I could have made that money in the time spent securing the refund but I was also pissed and the satisfaction was well worth the time. Three repairs under warranty and then the vendor says, 'tough shit'.
The post is informative and includes only a small portion of the authors opinion. It is no more a troll than posting the article was. The article is clearly written to pander and support. How so? Well the authors fail to point out that they make NO DISTINCTION between civilian combatants and non-combatants! Hell, you can tell they are being disenenous with just a little time researching facts reported in the news. Suicide bomber kills 50 iraqi's in queue for police jobs. Thos 50 are civilians! Who killed 'em? Civilians. When the Iraqi police retaliate, who do they kill? Civilians! It is now a civil war with the 'coalition' on the side of the majority. We had one of these right here in the USA! Lots of people died. Was it the wrong war at the wrong time? IMO, any time the majority of the population is willing to fight to overthrow an oppressive govt. they deserve help. Hell, if the USA govt. becomes overly opressive, it's gonna happen in the USA. If a 'coalition' helps with that overthrow, will it be 'wrong war, wrong time'? Unless you are the oppressor, liberty is the highest morality for any people.
The Magnuson-Moss Warranty Act is outlined here for the benefit of business owners.
The bottom line is that there is always an 'implied warranty' that a product will perform.
This implied warranty supersedes any limited (i.e. 90 days for the XBOX) warranties.
One could reasonably expect a computer or CDplayer or car radio to last 5 years. If it craps out in 6 months, one has recourse. This is true even if the limited warranty says 90 days. Push hard and the seller will come around. Sometimes all it takes is a copy of the referenced URL and sometimes it takes a lawsuit.
The authors of the article make no distinction between combatant and non-combatant civilian deaths.
The news agencies do make this distinction which may explain the large discrepency.
I see. You get just the box and the vanilla OS.
Thanks.
What does it mean when Dell and Suse or IBM and ??? (RedHat?, Debian?, Knoppix?, all three and more?) deliver a server with 'certified' linux?
Has anyone bought one of these for work and taken a good look at the install?
I see the 'support' part, but do they:
1. compile kernel (./config options) for that particular box?
2. config all applications for that particular box?
3. more than '1' and '2'?
next thing you know the crooks will be using wiki's
what about the damn spam on /. submissions
i'm seeing the same crap that still leaks through with the mail
wiki
pihi wiki
Could someone expand on this NEAR relationship? I've never used nor heard of it before.
Altavista NEAR was like an AND that only returned results for strings within a limited distance of each other. IIRC this was 15 words on Altavista.
I am not familiar with the inner workings of these search engines so don't know how they did it.
I have been sending NEAR suggestion to the folks at google for years. They used to say they would look into it. Now they don't bother too respond. Getting too big and bsy I guess.
This presentation looks a little weird.
Did you include NV as opposing vote, same vote, or just drop it completely. If dropped completely, it looks like you've got some weighting to balance out shading for senators with high % on NV.
True, a large scale change in either direction would be expensive.
However, no CTO in his right mind ever contemplates large scale change without a compelling reason. I.E. he may have secified Apple Mac Lisa Mac XL and then discovered that Apple and developers abandoned support for the platform. This is a compelling reason.
In reality, a good CTO will consider the benefits of Linux or MS on a project by project basis and weight the TCO (total cost of ownership) over the projected lifetime of the implementation. IBM has discovered that LInux sells well under this reality and is presently training their sales force in selling linux! IBM is doing this BIG TIME with install fests around the country for 1000's of IBM sales people. The upcoming fest in Vegas will have some 1700 IBM sales people install linux on their thinkpads.
Bone Fone is a 70's example employing acoustic conduction through the body as opposed to the evolutionary air to ear route.
WW-II AT&T 'throat microphone' also made use of 'conductued' sound and it was common for early (20's) radio operators to place their headphones on skull or jaw behind ears rather than over ears. This afforded some degree of 'automatic volume control', protected them from loud static crashes, and made it easier to discern a weak signal when near a strong one.
Back when I swam a lot we puT speakers inside plastic bags and hung them ver the side of the pool. It was OK when both ears were under water but not practical for listening while swimming. Combined with speakers above the water it wasn't much better. Swimming is pretty noisy and indoor pool acoustics generally suck.
What's permanent?
Sun addresses the problem of slow disk writes (safe writes) under NFS with a NVRAM cache for writes and utility to 'clena up the mess'. It is possible to pull the power on one of these systems, bring it back up, and complete the transfer to disk. EMC and others do the same thing with their storage units. Lots of battery backed RAM for fast 'safe' transaction committal. It's not a software problem!
While zombies seem to be a big problem for DDOS and SPAM, what about...
I send your DNS a IP address on my network.
Your DNS looks it up and sticks the name-address pair in it's cache.
That name happens to be canonically valid in your domain.
I send a batch of spam with that domain name in the 'from' field. The receiving MTA does a reverse lookup on my IP address and I verify it as from your domain.
This is not a SMTP problem and proposed user authentication will not solve it.
The old 900MHz 2MBPS (wavelan) stuff and 900MHz phones are not very popular these days. You might give it a try.
Maybe some leadership experience would do him good. Organize the dorm, set up a limited number of access points. Not much more difficult than organizing a panty raid.
Drag a wire around. How big are the rooms anyway?
Buy a condo. It's a better investment than dorm rent.
Use infrared wireless instead. How big are those dorm rooms anyway?
My kids are off at college but not living in dorms after first year. Both used wire in dorm rooms. How big is a dorm room anyway? They use wireless in the library and other buildngs where the Universitie(s) provide it.
Knock the door off his microwave and wedge a chopstick against the interlock. Put it on a timer so while he is in class nobodys wireles works. They'll all give up after a week or so and he'l have the whole 2.4GHz ISM band to himself.
Line room with Al foil or wire mesh.
CBS broadcast of fabricated material as factual and as news is MUCH more serious than a little hootage video or Stern talking about hootage. You'll not find a living normal man who will disagree with, "mmmm hootage good, doh! lying CBS, I could have bought that pickup truck if they hadn't shown my wife those fake videos of it going up in flames"
Where did I put my keys? will becme a nightmare.
It's the imagery.
Keeping this stuff organized and easy to get at is expensive and a pain in the ass. Getting it all in the first place is no walk in the park either. Keeping it up to date...
Wonder when google will begin subscription service for their internet archives?
Got her butt run over by a taxi about 2 miles (3.2 km)* West (that's where the Sun sets)** of where I'm typing this...
*for metric audience
**also for metric audience
The audio clip I grabbed was awful.
It sounded kind of like like Howard and Michael...
He wouldn't be Howard if he stopped.
He made valid points.
He just did it in his own way.
He asked why him and not Adam and Drew (love line),
"let me guess, you're a big girl, right?"
If anyone has a good quality, complete, copy in any format, I'd like ot hear it without all the distortion.