A bunch of those Beowulf clusters would make a sweet Beowolf cluster. (-1, Redundant)
Okay, seriously. Anyone else concerned that some of these stories in YRO aren't being discussed or noticed because a lot of people are just reading the main page, and only posting to those stories that are also posted to the main page?
BTW, Jamie, congratulations on your status as one of the/. 3l33t. You've come a long way, baby! No wonder you never return my calls *sniff*
Yes, some of us do have just as philosophical as pragmatic bents, and are annoyed by ESR's focus on the utilitarian to the exclusion of the moral. Obviously I'm including myself in this. My point was that "we" do not all share a monolithic opinion on anything, except that we want to live in a world where software doesn't suck. The cohesion comes from voluntary cooperation, and that's good enough for me.
Isn't the Workplace Shell the part of OS/2 that IBM is most "single-handedly" responsible for, and the part that Microsoft and other companies had the least involvement in? It would be wonderful if this was the case, because the WPS is the part of OS/2 that would be the coolest and most useful to see made freely available.
The latest versions of Lynx support accepting and rejection of cookies on a per-domain basis. Look in your lynx.cfg file for the lines COOKIE_ACCEPT_DOMAINS and COOKIE_REJECT_DOMAINS.
Lynx is, quite possibly, my favorite piece of free software. Definitely in the top three, up there with GNU Privacy Guard.
I really wish people would stop using the terms "united states" or other country names as if these artificial nation-state creations were actual living, breathing, thinking entities. To say that so-and-so would never do something is A) false because people will do anything if pushed hard enough or given the proper motivation, and B) inaccurate because it is people who make decisions, not nation-states. All it takes is one flake in a position of power over others to push the button.
I am bruising my knees abasing myself for misspelling the word. And since government has nothing except what it takes from us, asking what "they" can do for private industry is disingenuous at best. It ain't charity if you're using someone else's money.
A "partnership" between the state and private industry usually (not necessarily in this case) spells facism. In any event, it certainly does not equate to privatization -- as I recall, nation-states have attempted to make it illegal for individuals to "own" anything on this planet, much less elsewhere. Nonetheless, it's a good sign.
"For I know a change has got to come...oh yes it will." (Sam Cook)
The hospital cannot sign anything for you without your permission, whether it's procured tacitly or otherwise. All it takes is saying "No." We may have numbers, but that doesn't mean our children have to.
"The old days" are when every web site was account driven/paid? You must be Merlin, living in reverse of me.
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One other thing which I don't see mentioned yet: I think this hypothetical single-user distribution would do well to tweak the multimedia settings (although just turning off all those default services might be enough to provide non-jerky video playback:)
Sounds like just as much "control-freakism" as revenue loss, but what can you expect from a fundamentally closed system that apparently missed the clue train by a country mile? "No! That's OURS! You can only do what WE say with it!"
Bring on the open hardware alternatives, as well as increasing numbers of companies who remember customer goodwill and think in the real long-term, instead of this short-sighted, attention-deficit, post-modern "non-thinking" that gets taught to everybody in this day and age.
Granted they could have been more open and aboveboard, but for what was done it was at least following a principle of least damage. What impresses me the most is the open and meticulous documentation of the project; the report was quite nice to read especially considering that the author noted English is not their native tongue. Hopefully the distributed BASS can be implemented ASAP, and convince more people to A) use transparent encryption where possible, and B) think about the issues and their relevance to themselves (of course, expecting most people to think is a chore in and of itself).
You could always switch to BSD if you want to regain that warm, fuzzy feeling of being a non-conformist. Or you could start thinking for yourself instead of letting other people's stupidity warp your worldview: As Richard Feynman said, "What do you care what other people think?"
Use what works for you. Help those you want to, ignore those you want to. I see plenty of non-"crap GTK" apps posted to Freshmeat even in this day and age of the never-ending September, and I see plenty of positive changes as well as negative ones in the FREE SOFTWARE community (call it whatever you want, Humpty Dumpty will make more).
Heh. I'm looking at the screenshots in glorious 2-bit dithered black and white on a Sparc ELC! Wonderful resolution; these things certainly hold their value more than your average 486 from the same time period.
Certainly. Customers are entitled to know exactly what they're getting, and if they're getting what they paid for/agreed to. Administrators who don't run ISP's will obviously have more or less discretion depending on their position within an organization or public entity; increasing numbers of "admins" are running their own private networks for themselves and/or a close circle of family and friends.
Regarding the original matter, how about (say) a "blacklisted" webpage the ISP puts up detailing who's gotten on it and why, and inviting open discussion on the ISP's newsgroups by its users?
I concur. Nobody can force any system administrator to receive traffic they don't wish to receive -- the essence of the net is that network administrators have agreed to forward packets from certain places to certain other places, and they are under no obligation to carry traffic if they don't want to. You can speak all you want, but nobody has to listen to you.
That said, we do need slightly less "nuclear-bomb" methods of dealing with net.abuse on this scale. Common sense and peer pressure can do a lot to convince newbies that netiquette is in their own best interests, as well as everyone else's, but when admins abuse their power and responsibilities it can be a lot more difficult to deal with. I hope to see many more individual and collective grassroots efforts like MAPS that provide education, incentives and the occasional cluebat to those who think rules only apply to other people, and many more efforts to educate and empower users so things like this happen less often.
But what you are describing is how that ideal capitalism supposedly works -- people choosing for themselves where to put their resources. Buying goat's milk at the co-op instead of BGH-treated milk at the superchain, etc.
"When those who know what's best for us must rise and save us from ourselves", isn't it?
Every September, hordes of incoming freshmen entered colleges all over the world and "discovered" the net; it generally took a month or two for them to adapt to their environment, learn netiquette, etc. With the commercial explosion of net.usage among people who refuse to even read FAQ's or even attempt to understand the most basic concepts of netiquette -- insisting that such rules are "outdated", or for whatever reason, do not apply -- and you'll quickly see it's been September for close to a decade now.
Every September, hordes of incoming freshmen entered colleges all over the world and "discovered" the net; it generally took a month or two for them to adapt to their environment, learn netiquette, etc. With the commercial explosion of net.usage among people who refuse to even read FAQ's or even attempt to understand the most basic concepts of netiquette -- insisting that such rules are "outdated", or for whatever reason, do not apply -- and it's been September for close to a decade.
Why, everyone knows that those silly rules about what's appropriate for.com,.org,.net, etc., are only for other people. They are the ones who should be kowtowing to every last stupid rule of netiquette laid down by those fascist ancestors of ours -- not me!
The above is pretty much how everyone on the net feels, based on my own experience. Quite sad, but what do you expect from the net.generation who brought us the September that never ended?
I had a Compaq 286 for a while that was built like a tank; the only thing I really hated about it at the time was the non-standard screws that held everything together (Torx?). I think lingering resentment over this is one of the things that's always attracted me to real open standards as opposed to proprietary cries of Not Invented Here. The hard drive ended up crashing its bearings, making a really interesting (and loud) grinding sound as it gave up the ghost, and the generally nonstandard case design kept me from recycling most of the pieces.
Anyway, there's stupid and there's abysmally stupid. I know we see a lot of it in general, and the technical world is no exception, but we still need to distinguish between the two. Judgment call, arguably, on whether Compaq qualifies as abysmal when there are so many more worthy contenders, most of whom can be identified by cruising alt.sysadmin.recovery, as well as grepping for the F-word in the Linux source.
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Okay, seriously. Anyone else concerned that some of these stories in YRO aren't being discussed or noticed because a lot of people are just reading the main page, and only posting to those stories that are also posted to the main page?
BTW, Jamie, congratulations on your status as one of the /. 3l33t. You've come a long way, baby! No wonder you never return my calls *sniff*
Yes, some of us do have just as philosophical as pragmatic bents, and are annoyed by ESR's focus on the utilitarian to the exclusion of the moral. Obviously I'm including myself in this. My point was that "we" do not all share a monolithic opinion on anything, except that we want to live in a world where software doesn't suck. The cohesion comes from voluntary cooperation, and that's good enough for me.
Isn't the Workplace Shell the part of OS/2 that IBM is most "single-handedly" responsible for, and the part that Microsoft and other companies had the least involvement in? It would be wonderful if this was the case, because the WPS is the part of OS/2 that would be the coolest and most useful to see made freely available.
What you mean "we", kemo sabe? I see no we here. Just individuals doing what they want.
If the tools are good, who cares where they come from?
Lynx is, quite possibly, my favorite piece of free software. Definitely in the top three, up there with GNU Privacy Guard.
I really wish people would stop using the terms "united states" or other country names as if these artificial nation-state creations were actual living, breathing, thinking entities. To say that so-and-so would never do something is A) false because people will do anything if pushed hard enough or given the proper motivation, and B) inaccurate because it is people who make decisions, not nation-states. All it takes is one flake in a position of power over others to push the button.
I am bruising my knees abasing myself for misspelling the word. And since government has nothing except what it takes from us, asking what "they" can do for private industry is disingenuous at best. It ain't charity if you're using someone else's money.
Would you care to show me the law that REQUIRES every individual to have such a number?
"For I know a change has got to come...oh yes it will." (Sam Cook)
The hospital cannot sign anything for you without your permission, whether it's procured tacitly or otherwise. All it takes is saying "No." We may have numbers, but that doesn't mean our children have to.
"'Cause they'll smack ya, down to the street top Black police showin' off for the white cop!" - NWA, Fuck Tha Police
Especially considering the overwhelming mindset of "us" and "the Man."
"The old days" are when every web site was account driven/paid? You must be Merlin, living in reverse of me.
One other thing which I don't see mentioned yet: I think this hypothetical single-user distribution would do well to tweak the multimedia settings (although just turning off all those default services might be enough to provide non-jerky video playback :)
Bring on the open hardware alternatives, as well as increasing numbers of companies who remember customer goodwill and think in the real long-term, instead of this short-sighted, attention-deficit, post-modern "non-thinking" that gets taught to everybody in this day and age.
Granted they could have been more open and aboveboard, but for what was done it was at least following a principle of least damage. What impresses me the most is the open and meticulous documentation of the project; the report was quite nice to read especially considering that the author noted English is not their native tongue. Hopefully the distributed BASS can be implemented ASAP, and convince more people to A) use transparent encryption where possible, and B) think about the issues and their relevance to themselves (of course, expecting most people to think is a chore in and of itself).
Use what works for you. Help those you want to, ignore those you want to. I see plenty of non-"crap GTK" apps posted to Freshmeat even in this day and age of the never-ending September, and I see plenty of positive changes as well as negative ones in the FREE SOFTWARE community (call it whatever you want, Humpty Dumpty will make more).
Heh. I'm looking at the screenshots in glorious 2-bit dithered black and white on a Sparc ELC! Wonderful resolution; these things certainly hold their value more than your average 486 from the same time period.
Regarding the original matter, how about (say) a "blacklisted" webpage the ISP puts up detailing who's gotten on it and why, and inviting open discussion on the ISP's newsgroups by its users?
That said, we do need slightly less "nuclear-bomb" methods of dealing with net.abuse on this scale. Common sense and peer pressure can do a lot to convince newbies that netiquette is in their own best interests, as well as everyone else's, but when admins abuse their power and responsibilities it can be a lot more difficult to deal with. I hope to see many more individual and collective grassroots efforts like MAPS that provide education, incentives and the occasional cluebat to those who think rules only apply to other people, and many more efforts to educate and empower users so things like this happen less often.
"When those who know what's best for us must rise and save us from ourselves", isn't it?
Every September, hordes of incoming freshmen entered colleges all over the world and "discovered" the net; it generally took a month or two for them to adapt to their environment, learn netiquette, etc. With the commercial explosion of net.usage among people who refuse to even read FAQ's or even attempt to understand the most basic concepts of netiquette -- insisting that such rules are "outdated", or for whatever reason, do not apply -- and it's been September for close to a decade.
The above is pretty much how everyone on the net feels, based on my own experience. Quite sad, but what do you expect from the net.generation who brought us the September that never ended?
Anyhoo, thank the Danes again for another worthy contribution to human culture.
Anyway, there's stupid and there's abysmally stupid. I know we see a lot of it in general, and the technical world is no exception, but we still need to distinguish between the two. Judgment call, arguably, on whether Compaq qualifies as abysmal when there are so many more worthy contenders, most of whom can be identified by cruising alt.sysadmin.recovery, as well as grepping for the F-word in the Linux source.