its great to know you can successfully do your job, but now I'm curious what the parent poster asked, what actually prevented you from running linux? specific applications, user training, etc?
actually, after getting caught for bank fraud (I'm pretty sure bank robbery falls into that category), you're not allowed to enter a bank or have a bank account for N years (in some cases at least).
All everyone says anymore is, "i can't find a job", "the market is flooded", blah blah blah. The entire US market isn't what it used to be, there's no more, find a company, and work for them for 40 years, then retire. Hell, in the computer field, your lucky if you find a company to work for for more than 4 years, which we all know and employers all know. But even knowing this, everyone keeps applying for jobs like they'll be committed to that company for the rest of their lives. Who wants that? The employer doesn't want that, that means they'll have to pay a bunch of benifits. The employee doesn't really want that either, they know that the company will continue to look out for its own intrest instead of treating him like a part of the family. Yet everyone still sells themselves for this job which hasn't been around for over 20 years.
In the current market, if you're not ready to make money for yourself, you'll never be able to leverage any company into giving you work (why would anyone want to employee you, if you don't even want to employee yourself?). Now, if you treat yourself as you're own company, go out make business contacts, and actually sell your services, not yourself to other companies, then you'll have the advantage of never being out of work.
Now I know this can be hard to do when you're already out of work, and you may be screwed now and never get another job in the industry but, if you do happen to land some work, don't blow it by making the right contacts and preparing to put business into your own hands once you end up getting fired or laid off (and don't think you wont).
I read a great book on this about a year ago call Free Agent Nation. There's nothing in there that I'm sure everyone hasn't noticed already, but it really puts today's market into perspective... something i think everyone in the computer industry needs (at least the first few chapters, after that it kinda trails off onto some unintersting subjects).
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Yah, well when you're maintaining a web site that gets enough hits that it require's multiple servers to handle the load, it's pretty important.
I've scanned through about half the main posts here and haven't seen the following mentioned. Assuming you're talking about a software raid 5, you can't boot it. You need to set up your root partition on a mirrored software raid or no raid. This includes,/,/boot,/etc,/bin, and/sbin. As far as hardware raid goes, dont. Hardware IDE RAID controller drivers are notorious for their instability, so I'd strongly suggest the software raid.
So basically the setup you're going to want is to create at least 2 partitions per disk, one for/, and then another for/home,/usr,/var, and/tmp. It would be even better though if you created a seperate partition for each of those. When I'm dealing with an excess amount of disk space, I generally create a 2 gig root partition (though 1 gig should be enough). Now you're probably going to want to put this mirror'd setup on 3 of the disks (1 as a hot-spare), then that partition space across the other 5 disks for whatever else, i'll just say swap, though 10 gigs of swap is completly rediculous. Also a note on swap space, swap is an automatic RAID, so if you create 2 50 meg swap partitions, the kernel will combine them and access them similar to a raid0.
Here's another important note. Those cheap drive's from Fry's seem to have a high failure rate. I bought 4 of the 160 Gig maxtor boxed drives from $59 each about 9 months ago from there, and within a month 1 drive failed. A friend of mine had bought a few of them too and he also had one fail within a short time. The other 3 drives for me haven't given me any problems since then though. I had set mine up on my existing workstation as a RAID 5 with an XFS filesystem on dm-crypted partitions which turned out to be a horrible combination. Whenever I had a power failure I would lose all the data due to the way XFS stored its MBR. Switching to ext3 solved this problem. Anyways, even after the disk failure though, the data was fine (didn't even notice the disk failure until about 2 months later). Oh yah, the reason I mentioned this is because if you're getting 8 cheap disks from Fry's, there'll be a good chance 2 or more of them will fail within a short period of time, so I would definitly think about using one or two of them as a hot-spare.
Anyways, for details on how to set up a software raid, check out the linux software raid howto (google it), and it'll give you step by step instructions.
Oh, take a look at Extutils::AutoInstall sometime,
Yes, but it's rare to use these modules in PHP, where as it's really common to need a Perl module from CPAN that you don't already have or have too old of a version.
Incidentally, CPAN borrowed its name from CTAN, the Comprehensive TeX Archive Network. Java has JNLP, etc.
That would explain why most people who like perl also seem to enjoy java and tex. It's really just a matter of preference whether you like these things, and from what I've seen a lot of people don't. I can give you 100 reasons why each of those things are horrible, and I'm sure you can give me 100 reasons why they're great and the stuff I like sucks, but trying to base an argument (or discussion however you wanna look at it) on other products that are controversal themselves is just bad.
Yah, but then you run into the issue that any other system that uses this script now has to go install this module. This model of installing modules as needed for a parser is unlike most other languages, and is something most people haven't taken too (based on I haven't seen other languages adopt this). And I agree, the CPAN concept is a leap forward from the "static" libararies of compilers/parsers, but I think it just overly complicates things. Now if there was a CPAN system for other languages where you create binaries, I'd appreciate it much more than for a scripting language.
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that may be what php was designed for but as of early php 4, it's been a great all purpose scripting language. I'd say I use the command line interperter way more than I use it for web pages.
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Saying perl is 10x faster than PHP is really misleading. Bad PHP may be 10x slower than bad perl, but from my experience good PHP, is just about as fast as good Perl. The thing is PHP just try's to bring over so many functions from other languages, it can be really slow if your using something like the python derived functions. If you try to code PHP like you code C though, PHP tends to be around the same speed as Perl.
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Neither is really better than the other, it's really just a preference. Saying that php is a simpler version of Perl is totally wrong. The two languages are nearly as different as can be while still striving for the same goal (ok maybe not THAT different but they are very different). The style differences between the two happen to remind me of the differences between basic and pascal if you're familiar with either of those.
Some of the reasons I prefer PHP over perl is because it's a lot more similar to C than perl is. Plus, if I remember right with perl, you have to enable execgi in apache for any directory you want to run perl scripts in (something that i'd be very against doing). But probally the main reason me and lots of other people who prefer PHP hate perl is CPAN. CPAN is the perl libraries which you always end up having to update and it can sometimes be a big pain in the ass. The only thing perl has that php doesn't have (that I know of at least) is signal handling, so you can have the code do something if the program receives an INT signal, or any other signal (something you probally wont ever use).
In my own experience, I learned perl just before I discovered php. Neither language was really hard (I had other experience with non web based languages already), but when learning perl something just felt wrong about the style, awkward as another poster put it.
So in conclusion... don't do any web programming whatsoever, it sucks and you'll wish you never did. Theres nothing worse than having some asshole who doesn't know anything about computers come up to you and say "The font seems a little strange". Come on... WTF DOES THAT MEAN?!? So then you go and make their website Teal, Orange and Pink because fuck them, and then they come back complaining about the color now, but the font looks good. I still do use PHP though I just try to not do any web programming with it. Both PHP and Perl are great for some simple programs that are just a little too much for a scripting language like bash.
"So what if this is a small specimen. I can think of many human beings that are small, they are called children."
You must have missed the part in the article where they said it was an 30 year old adult. So if a this is a child, that means his bones don't grow in the same pattern a a homo sapien's or homo erectus' grow, which should be more than enough to classify it as a new branch of humanoid.
These are the stats of my web servers which do hotel reservations so it's safe to say that most the people who are visiting the site are non-technical.
Week Prior to September 20 2004
BROWSER COUNT %
Firefox : 1079 1.78
Safari : 829 1.37
Netscape : 1298 2.14
Konqueror : 22 0.04
Opera : 144 0.24
Gecko : 459 0.76
lynx : 2 0.00
MSIE : 54615 90.15
- : 1021 1.69
other : 1116 1.84
Total Unique IPs 60585
OPERATING SYS COUNT %
Win : 56467 93.54
Linux : 118 0.20
BSD : 28 0.05
Mac : 1851 3.07
unknown : 1903 3.15
Total Unique IPs: 60367
when there's only 2 candidates who are on the ballot for all 50 states, and those 2 candidates are the same two that are the only ones mentioned in most of the media, then it is fairly safe to say you only have a 2 party system.
I've got to disagree with you there, I've got 2 21" monitors which I use all of each monitor at 1600x1200. It still seems too small too, so I've been thinking about hooking this old 21" up too.
There are MANY country's worldwide that are run by tyrants or governments that give less then 'American social standards' why aren't you taking upon yourself to free those country's?
Actually we do take it upon ourselves. We have organizations such as the CIA who go's into those countries and bring leaders of their chosing to power. It's more than just government organizations, there are private organizations who do this too so that they can have better 'product placement', which brings me to my next point.
it couldn't have anything to do with oil?.
Actually it probally has less to do with oil than you think. Though it's usually overlooked (at least not glorified as much as looking at all the poor people), but the middle east is has a very rich population which is due among other things to their oil.
Now, at least from my sheltered view, american corporations have a very weak foothold in the middle east, mostly due to the cultural differences. Now I bet you're thinking, "how can my corporation break the cultural barrier and be able to sell product in the middle east?" Well these corporations are the ones who really elect the president. This is done by: they chose someone to fund to run for presidency, but since the odds are only 50/50 that the person running is going to win (maybe only 45% if a third party finds some funding), why not fund two candidates that you can either have in your pocket, or at least have the same goals as you.
Now once you've got a your man in office, they attack one of the most culturally opposite countries that you can destroy. Doing this not only eliminates the loudest opposing voice, it sets you up for your next shot.
Now with the country defeated, they not only need to have a new leader (see above for details), they need to rebuild. But wait, why have them rebuild when there are companies in the united states who can make 100 times the amount a company in their own country could make (if you don't believe american companies really make much money from that, here's a little fact. American employers are paying the employees about 6 - 10 times the amount they normally pay the same employee plus room and board, to go overseas to devolping countries such as iraq).
Well now we've got the government and economy of one country under our thumb. And the surrounding middle eastern countries who have grown up (the individuals not the country) thinking country X are total extremists and hate america more than they do, but now see them as embracing american culture (no I don't think these surrounding countries are full of idiots who can't see these actions happen around them but, it's hard for them, or anyone to break old habits). So now, these countries can and will slowly start adopting american culture and american corperation profits will ballon.
Now I bet you're thinking, theirs no way any corporation is this is this powerful and theirs no way their's some sort of conspiracy going on that the world doesn't know about. And you're right, neither of these situations are true. But it doesn't need to be, all that needs to be there are a few large entities with the money and motivation to increase sales. There really doesn't need to be any sort of conspiracy because as soon as one entity takes a step blindly towards this, the next company will see the opprotunity to take another step and eventually it snowball's into this result. But a snowball effect to get a president elected wouldn't work... well no, it wont. What will work though is to fund a candidate that isn't going to make any rash decisions to hurt corporate america and who is also predictable and easily influenced.
Hey this is all starting to sound like that Michael Moore movie "corporations"! Well sorry about that if that's what your thinking, but hey corporations are what make people rich in this country. Not by being the CEO or anything, just by investing, and maybe investing enough into a few larger companies so you actually have a say in how
they do advertise in the newspaper though. Two of the last interviews i've gone to said they were looking for a unix systems admin, but all they really wanted was me to set up a spamming infastructure for them. Also if the spammers aren't bragging at all, they aren't going to be able to tell clients how they'll be marketing for them.
In regards to the original slashdot post, am I the only one who doesn't want my tax money to go to some rewards program so that the government can arrest people not only don't affect me, but don't cause any real harm other than annoying people? If the tax payers money to reward leads to criminals, why not try and catch real criminals like rapists, and murderer's, and corrupt government officials?
although I fully agree with you about the LFS and not taking classes, your way off base about books being outdated. Some of the best books to understanding linux and unix are the old ones. The Design of the Unix Operating System, is in my opinion perhaps the best book out there for understanding unix, and it was first published in 1986. Then there's the Bell labs Unix Technical manuals, from back in the 70's, which are also some great reading material from a book.
Thats the whole point of unix is to build on top of whats already been created, so just because some book doesn't have all the newest tools, it has all the tools that were used to create the new tools. If we just started building new tools to replace the old ones, the unix design wouldn't be any better off than any of the other OS designs who'll remain nameless.
In regards to the original poster, I would deffinitly recommend reading the The Design of the Unix Operating System, it'll give you a great understanding of how all the tools fit together and why they were created, etc. etc. As for LFS, it's great to build your own system from scratch, as you'll learn all the intrecicies of how a linux distribution works. The problem with LFS is it's very time consuming, especially if you have a slow computer. It took me about about 3 6+ hour days to build one on a dual 1.6GHZ machine even after I had a fair amount of knowledge about linux already. If you choose not to go with LFS, I would deffinitly recommend slackware, it's great for learning how linux works. I've kinda lost my train of thought now so I'll just leave you with that.
I'm pretty sure the XFree86 Server would count, seeing as its a process running with administrative priveleges that accepts commands from non-privileged process's.
The terms Communism and Socialism were used interchangeably by both Marx and Engels.
I don't believe that's quite accurate. Although Socialism can be considered a form of communism, communism isn't socialism. As I stated before, communism is ruled by the people; now if the people decide to have some form of governing body to manage the economics of the society, then it's socialism. This being the case, it's easy to mistake the two words interchangable.
In a Communist state, if the Party decides it needs more farmers
Again, what party? Having a government body decide what you need is a result of Socialism, not communism. And even still, keeping to a true communistic goal as a socialism, farming is one of the only three professions that the society needs to survive (the other two are construction and clothing manufacturers). Now as far as farming goes, theres more than enough farmers in the US alone to provide enough food for the entire planet, and they actually do enjoy farming. Construction isn't as proven as farming in there being enough people who enjoy it, but I believe there are more than enough people who like to build stuff (homes, offices, etc.) as long as they didn't have to worry about money. Now as far as manufacturing goes, this in the past has been a problem (one of the problems I had mentioned before but didn't go into detail with). But now, with the technology we have, we don't need to find people to do the mundain job of doing things like sewing clothes, we can have machines do this work for us (and as for the other process of designing the clothes, there are more than enough people who like to design clothes to do these jobs.) This technology issue also solves problems with other customer service jobs like serving fast food, working at a gas station, or any other similar job that no one wants to do.
Well, such people should study the Khmer Rouge to see what happens to intellectuals and artists in a Communist state.
OK, I searched google for what you might be referring to with this, and all I could find was that they murdered the intelectuals of cambodia after taking control. I don't really see what this has to do with communism though, this is just an old military tactic that has been used for over 4,000 years when taking control of a country. You kill all the intelectuals, burn all the evidence of the past, then the next generation won't know grow up to hate the new ruler.
Maybe you do love what you do enough to do it for only the minimum pay, but would you enjoy it so much if you couldn't buy bread or the electricity cut out every day or if you complained about the government the secret police would knock on your door? That's life in a Communist country.
Again, that's not communism, that was the Soviet Union. This was caused by a governing body keeping all the money for themselves and the people close to them. It's actually a lot like capitalism after about 250 - 300 years.
Some may argue that the USSR, etc., wasn't "real Communism" but then the question remains: why wasn't it?
because USSR wasn't communist at all? it was a socialism, it says so in the name "Union of Soviet Socialist Republics". There has never been a communist state, only socialism. Most people go around saying communism is bad because of some reason that is socialism, not communism (i.e. I don't want the government to own everything). Well first of all, communism isn't ruled by the state, it's ruled by the people. Whats so bad about living in a country where every citizen is treated equally, payed equally and has an equal say in the laws? Well people like to through out the "I don't want to get payed the same amount as my lazy neighbor who barely works!". Why would you have a problem with that? I have no problem doing work for 5 people with my job since I love what I do. If people didn't have to worry about finding a job that pays good, then everyone could do jobs that they enjoy doing (yes their are a few flaws there, but I don't feel like pointing them out w/ the solution right now).
Now here's the real problem with communism: There's no way to go from any system we currently have in place, to communism. It was believed according to i think it was marx's theory, that you could go from socialism to communism, but as we've proven already, that doesn't work either.
Well you're not really giving in. If you want to host a website and be able to have the same resources as anyone else who wants to host a legit website, then you'll pay some company to either host it for you, or buy more bandwidth from a provider who specializes in internet connections for hosting your own servers. If lets say you were on a t1 and someone was DOS'ing you, you could call up your provider and tell them to block them before it gets sent down your smaller pipe.
Another option would be to install an IDS to block any host that tries to grab like 3 pages per second or whatever, but I'm personally against IDS's since a malicious person could use them against you. Or you may want to look into using iptables' limit module, but this would be an even worse solution because it would only allow N new connections every X seconds from every host, so lets say you say 5 connections per 1 second, the 6th person who tries to access your site that second would be blocked.
For this situation (assuming you don't want to "give in" and get a faster connection), an IDS would really be your only option, but there's a lot of other things he could do to you that would take your site down and you couldn't do anything about since your connection is so slow, and your ISP isn't willing to help.
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its great to know you can successfully do your job, but now I'm curious what the parent poster asked, what actually prevented you from running linux? specific applications, user training, etc?
US made goods? I didn't know anything was still made in the US
actually, after getting caught for bank fraud (I'm pretty sure bank robbery falls into that category), you're not allowed to enter a bank or have a bank account for N years (in some cases at least).
All everyone says anymore is, "i can't find a job", "the market is flooded", blah blah blah. The entire US market isn't what it used to be, there's no more, find a company, and work for them for 40 years, then retire. Hell, in the computer field, your lucky if you find a company to work for for more than 4 years, which we all know and employers all know. But even knowing this, everyone keeps applying for jobs like they'll be committed to that company for the rest of their lives. Who wants that? The employer doesn't want that, that means they'll have to pay a bunch of benifits. The employee doesn't really want that either, they know that the company will continue to look out for its own intrest instead of treating him like a part of the family. Yet everyone still sells themselves for this job which hasn't been around for over 20 years.
In the current market, if you're not ready to make money for yourself, you'll never be able to leverage any company into giving you work (why would anyone want to employee you, if you don't even want to employee yourself?). Now, if you treat yourself as you're own company, go out make business contacts, and actually sell your services, not yourself to other companies, then you'll have the advantage of never being out of work.
Now I know this can be hard to do when you're already out of work, and you may be screwed now and never get another job in the industry but, if you do happen to land some work, don't blow it by making the right contacts and preparing to put business into your own hands once you end up getting fired or laid off (and don't think you wont).
I read a great book on this about a year ago call Free Agent Nation. There's nothing in there that I'm sure everyone hasn't noticed already, but it really puts today's market into perspective... something i think everyone in the computer industry needs (at least the first few chapters, after that it kinda trails off onto some unintersting subjects).
Yah, well when you're maintaining a web site that gets enough hits that it require's multiple servers to handle the load, it's pretty important.
I've scanned through about half the main posts here and haven't seen the following mentioned. Assuming you're talking about a software raid 5, you can't boot it. You need to set up your root partition on a mirrored software raid or no raid. This includes, /, /boot, /etc, /bin, and /sbin. As far as hardware raid goes, dont. Hardware IDE RAID controller drivers are notorious for their instability, so I'd strongly suggest the software raid.
/, and then another for /home, /usr, /var, and /tmp. It would be even better though if you created a seperate partition for each of those. When I'm dealing with an excess amount of disk space, I generally create a 2 gig root partition (though 1 gig should be enough). Now you're probably going to want to put this mirror'd setup on 3 of the disks (1 as a hot-spare), then that partition space across the other 5 disks for whatever else, i'll just say swap, though 10 gigs of swap is completly rediculous. Also a note on swap space, swap is an automatic RAID, so if you create 2 50 meg swap partitions, the kernel will combine them and access them similar to a raid0.
So basically the setup you're going to want is to create at least 2 partitions per disk, one for
Here's another important note. Those cheap drive's from Fry's seem to have a high failure rate. I bought 4 of the 160 Gig maxtor boxed drives from $59 each about 9 months ago from there, and within a month 1 drive failed. A friend of mine had bought a few of them too and he also had one fail within a short time. The other 3 drives for me haven't given me any problems since then though. I had set mine up on my existing workstation as a RAID 5 with an XFS filesystem on dm-crypted partitions which turned out to be a horrible combination. Whenever I had a power failure I would lose all the data due to the way XFS stored its MBR. Switching to ext3 solved this problem. Anyways, even after the disk failure though, the data was fine (didn't even notice the disk failure until about 2 months later). Oh yah, the reason I mentioned this is because if you're getting 8 cheap disks from Fry's, there'll be a good chance 2 or more of them will fail within a short period of time, so I would definitly think about using one or two of them as a hot-spare.
Anyways, for details on how to set up a software raid, check out the linux software raid howto (google it), and it'll give you step by step instructions.
Oh, take a look at Extutils::AutoInstall sometime,
Yes, but it's rare to use these modules in PHP, where as it's really common to need a Perl module from CPAN that you don't already have or have too old of a version.
Incidentally, CPAN borrowed its name from CTAN, the Comprehensive TeX Archive Network. Java has JNLP, etc.
That would explain why most people who like perl also seem to enjoy java and tex. It's really just a matter of preference whether you like these things, and from what I've seen a lot of people don't. I can give you 100 reasons why each of those things are horrible, and I'm sure you can give me 100 reasons why they're great and the stuff I like sucks, but trying to base an argument (or discussion however you wanna look at it) on other products that are controversal themselves is just bad.
Yah, but then you run into the issue that any other system that uses this script now has to go install this module. This model of installing modules as needed for a parser is unlike most other languages, and is something most people haven't taken too (based on I haven't seen other languages adopt this). And I agree, the CPAN concept is a leap forward from the "static" libararies of compilers/parsers, but I think it just overly complicates things. Now if there was a CPAN system for other languages where you create binaries, I'd appreciate it much more than for a scripting language.
that may be what php was designed for but as of early php 4, it's been a great all purpose scripting language. I'd say I use the command line interperter way more than I use it for web pages.
Saying perl is 10x faster than PHP is really misleading. Bad PHP may be 10x slower than bad perl, but from my experience good PHP, is just about as fast as good Perl. The thing is PHP just try's to bring over so many functions from other languages, it can be really slow if your using something like the python derived functions. If you try to code PHP like you code C though, PHP tends to be around the same speed as Perl.
Neither is really better than the other, it's really just a preference. Saying that php is a simpler version of Perl is totally wrong. The two languages are nearly as different as can be while still striving for the same goal (ok maybe not THAT different but they are very different). The style differences between the two happen to remind me of the differences between basic and pascal if you're familiar with either of those.
Some of the reasons I prefer PHP over perl is because it's a lot more similar to C than perl is. Plus, if I remember right with perl, you have to enable execgi in apache for any directory you want to run perl scripts in (something that i'd be very against doing). But probally the main reason me and lots of other people who prefer PHP hate perl is CPAN. CPAN is the perl libraries which you always end up having to update and it can sometimes be a big pain in the ass. The only thing perl has that php doesn't have (that I know of at least) is signal handling, so you can have the code do something if the program receives an INT signal, or any other signal (something you probally wont ever use).
In my own experience, I learned perl just before I discovered php. Neither language was really hard (I had other experience with non web based languages already), but when learning perl something just felt wrong about the style, awkward as another poster put it.
So in conclusion... don't do any web programming whatsoever, it sucks and you'll wish you never did. Theres nothing worse than having some asshole who doesn't know anything about computers come up to you and say "The font seems a little strange". Come on... WTF DOES THAT MEAN?!? So then you go and make their website Teal, Orange and Pink because fuck them, and then they come back complaining about the color now, but the font looks good. I still do use PHP though I just try to not do any web programming with it. Both PHP and Perl are great for some simple programs that are just a little too much for a scripting language like bash.
"So what if this is a small specimen. I can think of many human beings that are small, they are called children." You must have missed the part in the article where they said it was an 30 year old adult. So if a this is a child, that means his bones don't grow in the same pattern a a homo sapien's or homo erectus' grow, which should be more than enough to classify it as a new branch of humanoid.
These are the stats of my web servers which do hotel reservations so it's safe to say that most the people who are visiting the site are non-technical.
Week Prior to September 20 2004
BROWSER COUNT %
Firefox : 1079 1.78
Safari : 829 1.37
Netscape : 1298 2.14
Konqueror : 22 0.04
Opera : 144 0.24
Gecko : 459 0.76
lynx : 2 0.00
MSIE : 54615 90.15
- : 1021 1.69
other : 1116 1.84
Total Unique IPs 60585
OPERATING SYS COUNT %
Win : 56467 93.54
Linux : 118 0.20
BSD : 28 0.05
Mac : 1851 3.07
unknown : 1903 3.15
Total Unique IPs: 60367
Week Prior to October 25 2004
BROWSER COUNT %
Firefox : 1246 1.86
Safari : 925 1.37
Netscape : 1315 1.96
Konqueror : 20 0.03
Opera : 127 0.19
Gecko : 421 0.63
lynx : 1 0.00
MSIE : 60996 90.97
- : 484 0.72
other : 1518 2.26
Total Unique IPs: 67035
OPERATING SYS COUNT %
Win : 63127 95.23
Linux : 114 0.17
BSD : 27 0.04
Mac : 2267 3.37
unknown : 1807 2.68
Total Unique IPs 67342
when there's only 2 candidates who are on the ballot for all 50 states, and those 2 candidates are the same two that are the only ones mentioned in most of the media, then it is fairly safe to say you only have a 2 party system.
I've got to disagree with you there, I've got 2 21" monitors which I use all of each monitor at 1600x1200. It still seems too small too, so I've been thinking about hooking this old 21" up too.
There are MANY country's worldwide that are run by tyrants or governments that give less then 'American social standards' why aren't you taking upon yourself to free those country's?
Actually we do take it upon ourselves. We have organizations such as the CIA who go's into those countries and bring leaders of their chosing to power. It's more than just government organizations, there are private organizations who do this too so that they can have better 'product placement', which brings me to my next point.
it couldn't have anything to do with oil?.
Actually it probally has less to do with oil than you think. Though it's usually overlooked (at least not glorified as much as looking at all the poor people), but the middle east is has a very rich population which is due among other things to their oil.
Now, at least from my sheltered view, american corporations have a very weak foothold in the middle east, mostly due to the cultural differences. Now I bet you're thinking, "how can my corporation break the cultural barrier and be able to sell product in the middle east?" Well these corporations are the ones who really elect the president. This is done by: they chose someone to fund to run for presidency, but since the odds are only 50/50 that the person running is going to win (maybe only 45% if a third party finds some funding), why not fund two candidates that you can either have in your pocket, or at least have the same goals as you.
Now once you've got a your man in office, they attack one of the most culturally opposite countries that you can destroy. Doing this not only eliminates the loudest opposing voice, it sets you up for your next shot.
Now with the country defeated, they not only need to have a new leader (see above for details), they need to rebuild. But wait, why have them rebuild when there are companies in the united states who can make 100 times the amount a company in their own country could make (if you don't believe american companies really make much money from that, here's a little fact. American employers are paying the employees about 6 - 10 times the amount they normally pay the same employee plus room and board, to go overseas to devolping countries such as iraq).
Well now we've got the government and economy of one country under our thumb. And the surrounding middle eastern countries who have grown up (the individuals not the country) thinking country X are total extremists and hate america more than they do, but now see them as embracing american culture (no I don't think these surrounding countries are full of idiots who can't see these actions happen around them but, it's hard for them, or anyone to break old habits). So now, these countries can and will slowly start adopting american culture and american corperation profits will ballon.
Now I bet you're thinking, theirs no way any corporation is this is this powerful and theirs no way their's some sort of conspiracy going on that the world doesn't know about. And you're right, neither of these situations are true. But it doesn't need to be, all that needs to be there are a few large entities with the money and motivation to increase sales. There really doesn't need to be any sort of conspiracy because as soon as one entity takes a step blindly towards this, the next company will see the opprotunity to take another step and eventually it snowball's into this result. But a snowball effect to get a president elected wouldn't work... well no, it wont. What will work though is to fund a candidate that isn't going to make any rash decisions to hurt corporate america and who is also predictable and easily influenced.
Hey this is all starting to sound like that Michael Moore movie "corporations"! Well sorry about that if that's what your thinking, but hey corporations are what make people rich in this country. Not by being the CEO or anything, just by investing, and maybe investing enough into a few larger companies so you actually have a say in how
they do advertise in the newspaper though. Two of the last interviews i've gone to said they were looking for a unix systems admin, but all they really wanted was me to set up a spamming infastructure for them. Also if the spammers aren't bragging at all, they aren't going to be able to tell clients how they'll be marketing for them.
In regards to the original slashdot post, am I the only one who doesn't want my tax money to go to some rewards program so that the government can arrest people not only don't affect me, but don't cause any real harm other than annoying people? If the tax payers money to reward leads to criminals, why not try and catch real criminals like rapists, and murderer's, and corrupt government officials?
although I fully agree with you about the LFS and not taking classes, your way off base about books being outdated. Some of the best books to understanding linux and unix are the old ones. The Design of the Unix Operating System, is in my opinion perhaps the best book out there for understanding unix, and it was first published in 1986. Then there's the Bell labs Unix Technical manuals, from back in the 70's, which are also some great reading material from a book.
Thats the whole point of unix is to build on top of whats already been created, so just because some book doesn't have all the newest tools, it has all the tools that were used to create the new tools. If we just started building new tools to replace the old ones, the unix design wouldn't be any better off than any of the other OS designs who'll remain nameless.
In regards to the original poster, I would deffinitly recommend reading the The Design of the Unix Operating System, it'll give you a great understanding of how all the tools fit together and why they were created, etc. etc. As for LFS, it's great to build your own system from scratch, as you'll learn all the intrecicies of how a linux distribution works. The problem with LFS is it's very time consuming, especially if you have a slow computer. It took me about about 3 6+ hour days to build one on a dual 1.6GHZ machine even after I had a fair amount of knowledge about linux already. If you choose not to go with LFS, I would deffinitly recommend slackware, it's great for learning how linux works. I've kinda lost my train of thought now so I'll just leave you with that.
maybe they shouldn't be living in a huge fricken desert then?
sorry, but I've already patented the kill-bot
I'm pretty sure the XFree86 Server would count, seeing as its a process running with administrative priveleges that accepts commands from non-privileged process's.
The terms Communism and Socialism were used interchangeably by both Marx and Engels.
I don't believe that's quite accurate. Although Socialism can be considered a form of communism, communism isn't socialism. As I stated before, communism is ruled by the people; now if the people decide to have some form of governing body to manage the economics of the society, then it's socialism. This being the case, it's easy to mistake the two words interchangable.
In a Communist state, if the Party decides it needs more farmers
Again, what party? Having a government body decide what you need is a result of Socialism, not communism. And even still, keeping to a true communistic goal as a socialism, farming is one of the only three professions that the society needs to survive (the other two are construction and clothing manufacturers). Now as far as farming goes, theres more than enough farmers in the US alone to provide enough food for the entire planet, and they actually do enjoy farming. Construction isn't as proven as farming in there being enough people who enjoy it, but I believe there are more than enough people who like to build stuff (homes, offices, etc.) as long as they didn't have to worry about money. Now as far as manufacturing goes, this in the past has been a problem (one of the problems I had mentioned before but didn't go into detail with). But now, with the technology we have, we don't need to find people to do the mundain job of doing things like sewing clothes, we can have machines do this work for us (and as for the other process of designing the clothes, there are more than enough people who like to design clothes to do these jobs.) This technology issue also solves problems with other customer service jobs like serving fast food, working at a gas station, or any other similar job that no one wants to do.
Well, such people should study the Khmer Rouge to see what happens to intellectuals and artists in a Communist state.
OK, I searched google for what you might be referring to with this, and all I could find was that they murdered the intelectuals of cambodia after taking control. I don't really see what this has to do with communism though, this is just an old military tactic that has been used for over 4,000 years when taking control of a country. You kill all the intelectuals, burn all the evidence of the past, then the next generation won't know grow up to hate the new ruler.
Maybe you do love what you do enough to do it for only the minimum pay, but would you enjoy it so much if you couldn't buy bread or the electricity cut out every day or if you complained about the government the secret police would knock on your door? That's life in a Communist country.
Again, that's not communism, that was the Soviet Union. This was caused by a governing body keeping all the money for themselves and the people close to them. It's actually a lot like capitalism after about 250 - 300 years.
Some may argue that the USSR, etc., wasn't "real Communism" but then the question remains: why wasn't it?
because USSR wasn't communist at all? it was a socialism, it says so in the name "Union of Soviet Socialist Republics". There has never been a communist state, only socialism. Most people go around saying communism is bad because of some reason that is socialism, not communism (i.e. I don't want the government to own everything). Well first of all, communism isn't ruled by the state, it's ruled by the people. Whats so bad about living in a country where every citizen is treated equally, payed equally and has an equal say in the laws? Well people like to through out the "I don't want to get payed the same amount as my lazy neighbor who barely works!". Why would you have a problem with that? I have no problem doing work for 5 people with my job since I love what I do. If people didn't have to worry about finding a job that pays good, then everyone could do jobs that they enjoy doing (yes their are a few flaws there, but I don't feel like pointing them out w/ the solution right now).
Now here's the real problem with communism: There's no way to go from any system we currently have in place, to communism. It was believed according to i think it was marx's theory, that you could go from socialism to communism, but as we've proven already, that doesn't work either.
Well you're not really giving in. If you want to host a website and be able to have the same resources as anyone else who wants to host a legit website, then you'll pay some company to either host it for you, or buy more bandwidth from a provider who specializes in internet connections for hosting your own servers. If lets say you were on a t1 and someone was DOS'ing you, you could call up your provider and tell them to block them before it gets sent down your smaller pipe.
Another option would be to install an IDS to block any host that tries to grab like 3 pages per second or whatever, but I'm personally against IDS's since a malicious person could use them against you. Or you may want to look into using iptables' limit module, but this would be an even worse solution because it would only allow N new connections every X seconds from every host, so lets say you say 5 connections per 1 second, the 6th person who tries to access your site that second would be blocked.
For this situation (assuming you don't want to "give in" and get a faster connection), an IDS would really be your only option, but there's a lot of other things he could do to you that would take your site down and you couldn't do anything about since your connection is so slow, and your ISP isn't willing to help.
well step #1 would be get your site on a server with enough bandwidth so that a few people holding down refresh key isn't going to DOS your site.