No, Intelligent design is a radical Protestant scam. It is an attempt to save the Genesis account of creation at any cost, because if they don't, there's no original sin for Jesus to be sacrificed for rendering the whole of Christianity meaningless.
The Internet is where Religion comes to die. Because its too easy for actual facts about the religion and actual history of Religion to be disseminated in a uncensored form. Where all the revisionist history can be exposed. I know tons more about Christianity than the average church goer thanks to the Youtube Atheist movement.
One of the problems I have with this is the fact that as of Version 2.10 of the Intel driver, kernel Mode setting is mandatory. When I upgraded from Jaunty to Lucid, thats when first Kernel Mode Setting became available, and you had to disable it in/etc/modprobe.d/i915-kms.conf
But the only reason I was able to do that is because version 2.9 still retains the older User Mode Setting method that avoids the flicker. As of 2.10, Intel's drivers require Kernel mode setting. I use S-video to connect my Laptop to my TV. when using Kernel mode setting, my display was garbled flicker city, when using User mode setting, it worked fine. This is a serious bug for anyone using the Intel chips.
I have a bit of a mantra when I talk about IE6. Whenever anyone asks me why anyone would run IE6, I give this response: Assume IE 6 earns them 1 million dollars a day. If they stop using IE6. They start losing 1 million dollars a day. Thats the reality of the situation. If the government stop using IE6, it costs them 1 Million British pounds a day. (Or whatever the correct currency conversion is.)
These distros should become meta-packages for larger distros. You should not need to install a specialized OS because you need specialized applications or specialized configurations. The application developer would be better served working with the larger Linux community, to ensure that the usefulness of the given applications is compatible and availible across all distros and platforms. Linux should always have a diverse ecosystem, but Linux should also have a universality about it, that a given meta-configuration can be established to a given Linux with automatic dependency resolution.
I don't agree with how Thunderf00t is conveying his message but he has made an important point. Islamic Censorship has gone way way too far. I support free speech, and secular, rational thinking. I do think that religion is sort of the Human biological equivalent of a computer virus, or malware. (Most Windows users on the face of the Earth are infected with malware of some sort. Equivalently, most Human brains are infected with a Malware called Religion. The virus is different in different parts of the world, but its still a virus.
Computer malware makes computers function in ways it shouldn't to propagate the virus. Religion makes Humans behave in ways or experience things in ways they shouldn't. Computer viruses are created by malicious Humans to steal money, and cover commit other crimes. Religions exist to steal money, and rationalize the committing of other crimes that would not normally be acceptable in secular culture.
While in the past there were crashes that could kill FireFox related to Flash, I don't see that like I used too. Now I see the browser spiking my CPU and raising its temperature by a few degrees because of bugs in the Java Scripting and AJAX engines. I am not sure if the culprit is memory leaks, or just faults in the software. It just seems like there are bugs in the renderer that are not being fixed and causing the CPU usage to spike in certain complex pages coded in certain ways.
Mandriva is Linux that works. Mandriva is some of the most prime real estate in th Linux world, from arcade cabinets like mine, to domain controllers, Mandriva is the easiest Linux to configure anywhere.
Mandriva is the only Linux distribution where you can setup a Samba Domain with no interaction with the Console. Setting up a Kerberos realm backended by a LDAP server with Samba on top is easiest under Mandriva. They have a guy dedicated to just that. They have Wizards to create PXE Servers, DNS Servers, Mail Servers, and everything else. Mandriva has some wonderful assets. They just have not been marketed well, in the right hands, Mandriva could really spark a revolution in the Linux world.
At least on the hardware, I see two potential hardware related issues. One is i586 vs. x86_64. You will have to make an image of each type. The otther problem will be your IDE/SATA Controller. The image will have all the IDE and SATA drivers you need, however, you may have to use PXE Boot to cause it to rebuild the initrd for your IDE/SATA Controller of choice. The OS should take over after that.
If your package manager is worth its salt, you should be able to load a list of uniform install packages from a text file. Config files can be rsynced. Keep a Kerberos server handy, it will save butt loads of time.
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This is completely false, all you need to do is shut X down, unload the driver, and restart X there is no need to completely reboot.
This is one area where Linux amazingly has been lacking. Home Domain Controllers. You can create a home domain controller with features Windows has never dreamed. Its just really really, really too hard. There needs to be a Home Domain controller Application added to most Linux Distributions.
Mandriva comes close to this with the ability to setup fully functional Samba Domains stand-alone only. But if you try and configure OpenLDAP, Kerberos, Squid, FreeRadius or anything else, it becomes a time vampire to get it all working right. And its not that the software is buggy. Its that often, the software is configured badly, and not at all.
Why did Novell not Linux-ify older Netwares? That is to say, make it so that Netware 3.x, and 4.x era IPX and NCP architectures could run on Linux (Think Netware-esque Samba). Back in the day, I could run a program called Mars_new on Linux, and it would permit me to utilize Dos workstations running Netware's Client software. Novell should have done this, make Netware a Linux application, have it go viral to all these orginizations that used Netware.
Governments are the enemy of its people in all cases and in all nations. The highest form of patriotism to ones country is to constantly question, challenge and investigate all government officials in every nation, in every circumstance. Don't let secrets be held.
In Principle I really support what the Pirate party works. But in practical sense, there is a left-of-center ground for compromise. Copyright probably needs to go back to what it was around 130 years ago when it was a sane compromise. Now that ever happening in the western world is next to impossible unless there are large scale changes in governments. I'm sorta in favor of the idea that Copyright be fair, not non-existent. And not perpetual, and not in favor of massive IP holder trusts.
I wonder how this will affect the Youtube Atheist movement? I wonder if it will mean that Youtube Atheists can refute the Pope immediately and in real time.
I'm not talking about AD. I know why they don't include support AD GPOs. It would make FireFox a Windows specific app. But I must ask, considering every OS has its own variant of an LDAP server, why is there no support for managing FireFox from an LDAP schema?
What often really matters are the upstream apps. Often, other than reporting an upstream bug in an application to the developer, there is not much one can really do about bugs in upstream applications like KDE. I am seeing that now with KDE and X.org. Currently, there is a bug in evdev and dga in X that prevents X from working right with a Wiimote. It can't really be fixed by the distributor. Only X.org can fix it.
So far I have:
Broken Sound effects on Stratagus. (Mandriva 2010.0) Broken GLX Support on QuakeForge. (Mandriva 2010.0) But DarkPlaces Quake still works. Broken Wiimote Support in the evdev driver.
These are just a few examples of applications that don't work becaues of a problem upstream.
The thing is, for a few years now, there needed to be an SDL 2.0 that made it as easy to integrate things like Nintendo's Wiimotes, Playstation controllers, and other things. But After all these years, we seem to be stuck on SDL 1.2.x - I don't know why. GTK+ moved on. Qt Moved on, what happened to SDL?
Second Life had little point beyond being a sex simulator and roleplaying simulator. You can't really play a real game in there. There isn't any real combat Physics built into Second Life. You walk around, you chat, if you can buy stuff and sell stuff that looks cool. You can own housing that serves no purpose. Turning actual money into Lindens was a waste of money.
At least in WoW you could fight enemies and make money, it could be pointless because the mobs respawn, but you could do it.
When they made it to where no one under 18 who was verified (and their verification process was extremely intrusive and I know many people who just decided to stop using second life entirely over it. It involves basicaly forking over Credit Card information, in some cases a Birth Certificate, and yuor home address.) they killed SL. Second Life was the one MMO, however crude that you could have sex in.
Tyson made a very good point. In that lecture, he talked about the Islamic Empires of the 12th and 13th centuries that were building while we were in the Christian Dark Ages. Do you know what happened? A bunch of Imams got together and basically stated that Math and Science were of the devil. After that, it was only a matter of time. The result is the Middle East we see today.
He also stated a statistic that since Bush took office in 2001, during the 8 years of Bush, the amount of "hard science" Papers in Chemistry, Biology and Physics has dropped to 1/10th what it was in the 90s.
(He had exact numbers, and I saw this last November.)
The point is, Reactionary Christianity is causing the collapse of our civilization just the same way that Reactionary Islam caused the middle east to become what it is today.
Christianity. Its the Problem.
When you have 60% of your population denying Evolution, a scientific fact, your civilization is circling the drain.
China is not a Left Wing or Communist State. There may be an entity called the Communist Party of China, but by no means is China Leftist, or even Socialist. They are a Fascist Autocracy.
No liberal or leftist government would attack the consumption of adult pornography. (Nor would they even care.)
Not that I am advocating Communism, which has failed everywhere it has been tried, and is an unworkable ideology, but as a leftist, who is deeply concerned about the rise of Right Wing Fascism around the world, I am concerned what this could cause Western governments to adopt. We have already seen that a large percentage of our Christian Right extremists in the USA and Canada do not believe in sexual equality or egalitarianism, or freedom of speech. I worry this will give them ideas.
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No, Intelligent design is a radical Protestant scam. It is an attempt to save the Genesis account of creation at any cost, because if they don't, there's no original sin for Jesus to be sacrificed for rendering the whole of Christianity meaningless.
The Internet is where Religion comes to die. Because its too easy for actual facts about the religion and actual history of Religion to be disseminated in a uncensored form. Where all the revisionist history can be exposed. I know tons more about Christianity than the average church goer thanks to the Youtube Atheist movement.
Incorrect. Use "i915.modeset=0"
One of the problems I have with this is the fact that as of Version 2.10 of the Intel driver, kernel Mode setting is mandatory. When I upgraded from Jaunty to Lucid, thats when first Kernel Mode Setting became available, and you had to disable it in /etc/modprobe.d/i915-kms.conf
But the only reason I was able to do that is because version 2.9 still retains the older User Mode Setting method that avoids the flicker. As of 2.10, Intel's drivers require Kernel mode setting. I use S-video to connect my Laptop to my TV. when using Kernel mode setting, my display was garbled flicker city, when using User mode setting, it worked fine. This is a serious bug for anyone using the Intel chips.
I have a bit of a mantra when I talk about IE6. Whenever anyone asks me why anyone would run IE6, I give this response:
Assume IE 6 earns them 1 million dollars a day. If they stop using IE6. They start losing 1 million dollars a day. Thats the reality of the situation. If the government stop using IE6, it costs them 1 Million British pounds a day. (Or whatever the correct currency conversion is.)
Thats why businesses and governments use IE6.
Does anyone know if more of Gnome will support LDAP auto configuration?
These distros should become meta-packages for larger distros. You should not need to install a specialized OS because you need specialized applications or specialized configurations. The application developer would be better served working with the larger Linux community, to ensure that the usefulness of the given applications is compatible and availible across all distros and platforms. Linux should always have a diverse ecosystem, but Linux should also have a universality about it, that a given meta-configuration can be established to a given Linux with automatic dependency resolution.
I don't agree with how Thunderf00t is conveying his message but he has made an important point. Islamic Censorship has gone way way too far. I support free speech, and secular, rational thinking. I do think that religion is sort of the Human biological equivalent of a computer virus, or malware. (Most Windows users on the face of the Earth are infected with malware of some sort. Equivalently, most Human brains are infected with a Malware called Religion. The virus is different in different parts of the world, but its still a virus.
Computer malware makes computers function in ways it shouldn't to propagate the virus. Religion makes Humans behave in ways or experience things in ways they shouldn't. Computer viruses are created by malicious Humans to steal money, and cover commit other crimes. Religions exist to steal money, and rationalize the committing of other crimes that would not normally be acceptable in secular culture.
While in the past there were crashes that could kill FireFox related to Flash, I don't see that like I used too. Now I see the browser spiking my CPU and raising its temperature by a few degrees because of bugs in the Java Scripting and AJAX engines. I am not sure if the culprit is memory leaks, or just faults in the software. It just seems like there are bugs in the renderer that are not being fixed and causing the CPU usage to spike in certain complex pages coded in certain ways.
Mandriva is Linux that works. Mandriva is some of the most prime real estate in th Linux world, from arcade cabinets like mine, to domain controllers, Mandriva is the easiest Linux to configure anywhere.
Mandriva is the only Linux distribution where you can setup a Samba Domain with no interaction with the Console.
Setting up a Kerberos realm backended by a LDAP server with Samba on top is easiest under Mandriva. They have a guy dedicated to just that. They have Wizards to create PXE Servers, DNS Servers, Mail Servers, and everything else. Mandriva has some wonderful assets. They just have not been marketed well, in the right hands, Mandriva could really spark a revolution in the Linux world.
At least on the hardware, I see two potential hardware related issues. One is i586 vs. x86_64. You will have to make an image of each type. The otther problem will be your IDE/SATA Controller. The image will have all the IDE and SATA drivers you need, however, you may have to use PXE Boot to cause it to rebuild the initrd for your IDE/SATA Controller of choice. The OS should take over after that.
If your package manager is worth its salt, you should be able to load a list of uniform install packages from a text file. Config files can be rsynced. Keep a Kerberos server handy, it will save butt loads of time.
This is completely false, all you need to do is shut X down, unload the driver, and restart X there is no need to completely reboot.
This is one area where Linux amazingly has been lacking. Home Domain Controllers. You can create a home domain controller with features Windows has never dreamed. Its just really really, really too hard. There needs to be a Home Domain controller Application added to most Linux Distributions.
Mandriva comes close to this with the ability to setup fully functional Samba Domains stand-alone only. But if you try and configure OpenLDAP, Kerberos, Squid, FreeRadius or anything else, it becomes a time vampire to get it all working right. And its not that the software is buggy. Its that often, the software is configured badly, and not at all.
https://qa.mandriva.com/show_bug.cgi?id=58653 Take a look at this bug I filed.
Why did Novell not Linux-ify older Netwares? That is to say, make it so that Netware 3.x, and 4.x era IPX and NCP architectures could run on Linux (Think Netware-esque Samba). Back in the day, I could run a program called Mars_new on Linux, and it would permit me to utilize Dos workstations running Netware's Client software. Novell should have done this, make Netware a Linux application, have it go viral to all these orginizations that used Netware.
Governments are the enemy of its people in all cases and in all nations. The highest form of patriotism to ones country is to constantly question, challenge and investigate all government officials in every nation, in every circumstance. Don't let secrets be held.
In Principle I really support what the Pirate party works. But in practical sense, there is a left-of-center ground for compromise. Copyright probably needs to go back to what it was around 130 years ago when it was a sane compromise. Now that ever happening in the western world is next to impossible unless there are large scale changes in governments. I'm sorta in favor of the idea that Copyright be fair, not non-existent. And not perpetual, and not in favor of massive IP holder trusts.
Why is the Rock Band kit not a HID in the first place? it should talk to any OS or any Console.
I wonder how this will affect the Youtube Atheist movement? I wonder if it will mean that Youtube Atheists can refute the Pope immediately and in real time.
I'm not talking about AD. I know why they don't include support AD GPOs. It would make FireFox a Windows specific app. But I must ask, considering every OS has its own variant of an LDAP server, why is there no support for managing FireFox from an LDAP schema?
What often really matters are the upstream apps. Often, other than reporting an upstream bug in an application to the developer, there is not much one can really do about bugs in upstream applications like KDE. I am seeing that now with KDE and X.org. Currently, there is a bug in evdev and dga in X that prevents X from working right with a Wiimote. It can't really be fixed by the distributor. Only X.org can fix it.
So far I have:
Broken Sound effects on Stratagus. (Mandriva 2010.0)
Broken GLX Support on QuakeForge. (Mandriva 2010.0) But DarkPlaces Quake still works.
Broken Wiimote Support in the evdev driver.
These are just a few examples of applications that don't work becaues of a problem upstream.
The *nix Analogue for DirectX is SDL. Not OpenGL.
The thing is, for a few years now, there needed to be an SDL 2.0 that made it as easy to integrate things like Nintendo's Wiimotes, Playstation controllers, and other things. But After all these years, we seem to be stuck on SDL 1.2.x - I don't know why. GTK+ moved on. Qt Moved on, what happened to SDL?
The Adult Content Island is barriered off and most users cannot access it.
Second Life had little point beyond being a sex simulator and roleplaying simulator. You can't really play a real game in there. There isn't any real combat Physics built into Second Life. You walk around, you chat, if you can buy stuff and sell stuff that looks cool. You can own housing that serves no purpose. Turning actual money into Lindens was a waste of money.
At least in WoW you could fight enemies and make money, it could be pointless because the mobs respawn, but you could do it.
When they made it to where no one under 18 who was verified (and their verification process was extremely intrusive and I know many people who just decided to stop using second life entirely over it. It involves basicaly forking over Credit Card information, in some cases a Birth Certificate, and yuor home address.) they killed SL. Second Life was the one MMO, however crude that you could have sex in.
He made a very good point.
Tyson made a very good point. In that lecture, he talked about the Islamic Empires of the 12th and 13th centuries that were building while we were in the Christian Dark Ages. Do you know what happened? A bunch of Imams got together and basically stated that Math and Science were of the devil. After that, it was only a matter of time. The result is the Middle East we see today.
He also stated a statistic that since Bush took office in 2001, during the 8 years of Bush, the amount of "hard science" Papers in Chemistry, Biology and Physics has dropped to 1/10th what it was in the 90s.
(He had exact numbers, and I saw this last November.)
The point is, Reactionary Christianity is causing the collapse of our civilization just the same way that Reactionary Islam caused the middle east to become what it is today.
Christianity. Its the Problem.
When you have 60% of your population denying Evolution, a scientific fact, your civilization is circling the drain.
China is not a Left Wing or Communist State. There may be an entity called the Communist Party of China, but by no means is China Leftist, or even Socialist. They are a Fascist Autocracy.
No liberal or leftist government would attack the consumption of adult pornography. (Nor would they even care.)
Not that I am advocating Communism, which has failed everywhere it has been tried, and is an unworkable ideology, but as a leftist, who is deeply concerned about the rise of Right Wing Fascism around the world, I am concerned what this could cause Western governments to adopt. We have already seen that a large percentage of our Christian Right extremists in the USA and Canada do not believe in sexual equality or egalitarianism, or freedom of speech. I worry this will give them ideas.