I really wonder why some people seem to have this need to 'destroy' all the good memories and feelings which we had with the plain old cartoons. IMHO these people are destroying the memories of very good cartoons and thats why I don't like this kind of IMHO lame copied ideas.
So whats the matter anyway? Aren't the cartoons suddenly not good enough for them anymore? If they really cared that much for the whole cartoon concept these people would finance the work for a major cartoon, movie like, of this issue. Instead they setup a complete cast with life actors hoping to make a small fortune with IMVHO other peoples ideas and work. And yes, IMHO this sucks.
I don't like my nephew humming the 'flintstone song' then I mean Hanna Barbara, I don't like to see Dr. Claw's face because Disney smelled money and I certainly do not like to get reminded to Captain Picard when I want to see and experience Charles Exavier.
Late response but oh well... I still don't blame the sysadmin. Sure, he could have done a better job, but thats sort of like telling a victim of a mugging "Hey, it's your fault because you coulda learned karate." and being s sysadmin myself I strongly disagree with your 'example'. That mug victim did not volunteer to be mugged but this sysadmin did volunteer to do his part. And yes, checking up on backups every now and then is part of the job. A lot of people, even other sysadmins, tend to loose focus on how important backups really are.
I'm not judging anyone here, let that be clear, but if you volunteer to do a job you should try and do it right.
Honestly, though: it's evil of Red Hat and the other commercial Linux distro-makers to take advantage of all these stupid people.
So companies which sell products are to blaim when complete idiots go out and buy these products even when they could use something else (maybe cheaper) instead?
Thats a bunch of crap; no one is forcing these people to buy commercial products and if they are to lazy to even do a bit of orientating then they got no one to kick but themselves.
So... What you are basicly saying is that when I'm going out to buy a new car, totally unprepared, and end up with a Ferarri because I told the salesman that "I want to drive really fast to work" the salesman is to blaim for selling me this Ferarri? Yeah right...
Thats the only thing this article does IMHO. You have to be pretty braindead if you didn't figure this one out allready. And quite frankly; I think most people on/. allready had the chance to try this test on their own. Windows is quite a resource hog and I guess it will be for quite some time. On the other hand one could also state that Windows is persistant; the hardware doesn't matter all that much since it will allways use a 'standard' (slow / steady) pass to run.
I've recently experienced this behaviour myself when I got another laptop, merely for demonstrating purposes. My machine at home is still a PII 266 with 100Mb internal memory. Windows 98 runs on an IDE (udma) harddisk and it runs decent. When I got my laptop (PIII 550, 64Mb internal memory) I've noticed nothing really special about the pre-installed Windows 98. It ran allmost as fast (or slow) as on my desktop computer. Some small details however did run smoother & faster (rendering in fireworks for example) but thats about it.
Linux on the other hand completely burns rubber. On my 486 server (web, print & file) dselect takes quite some time before I can enter the 's'elect screen. On my PII this time is reduced a lot but I still got to wait a few seconds. On my laptop its reduced to hardly one second (with the same amount of stuff installed as on my desktop).
This is just one, personal, experience but there are many people out there who can state the exact same experience with completely different hardware.
And this whole issue won't change as well and the reason is also very clear (and stated more then once, even on/. iirc). Linux is being programmed while Windows is "engineered" and as long as nothing changes these performance issues will remain. Where a Windows programmer is using a visual tool to produce some code for the "obvious" graphic routine's a Linux programmer is double checking if he made the right calls to the c library which he needs. Where a Linux programmer tries to squeeze the most out of the hardware by optimizing his code a Windows programmer uses tools which speculate on future, even faster, machines then the ones currently available. Small differences, big results.
This action seems odd to me, allthough not surprising. When they want to push this new kerberos system they got no other choice then to make the specs publicly available sooner or later, otherwise I doubt anyone would use it. If the choice is between a "secured" document or a commonly available one, which would be your pick?
But this does makes you wonder.. Could it be that/.'s hassle with MS was just MS's way in following the saying "it doesn't matter how they talk about you as long as they are talking about you.", which they've done before? The last (afaik also proven) example of this behaviour was during the introduction of Windows 95. There were quite some rumours going on that the OS was massivly spread by hackers (according to the local news, we call 'm warez weenies) but in the end it turned out that it was MS itself who spread those 'illegal' copies. Another scheme to get the whole campain on the news without the extra commercial costs.
If this theory is correct, and please not that I'm not stating that it is, the remaining question would be "why/. ?". Well, it is a fact that a lot of technical skilled people hang out on Slashdot. This kind of information is only interessting for people who actually know a little bit more about stuff like this. But I'm quite positive that this thread gets far more attention now that/. had a little hassle with MS about this very same issue. At least among regular/. readers.
This is a story which could have come straight from the Donald Duck... 'mad scientist launches missile'. I wonder how many houses he would set on fire if he actually did launch the rocket from his backyard...
In such businesses where millions of dollars flow there is no room for "little ins and outs that let them get root on people's personalities". Sure they can influence you during a meeting, perhaps even big time (I'm still not convinced). But every manager knows, or should know, that investments like this need to be carefully considered. Decissions whether to give it a go or non-go should never be made during such a "seance". If you stick to that nothing will happen; during carefull consideration you will finally come to the right conclusion. Thats the most heard reaction in most cases anyway.
In this kind of business you don't trust a guy by the colours of his eyes or the nice sound of his voice. If you do then I strongly believe you have no place in that business sector.
These people really have no-one to kick but themselves. Offcourse its an offence to swindle people like this but IMHO everyone with a bit of healthy common sense, and some knowledge about the going-ons on the Internet, won't fall for these tricks. Heck; this used to be lesson #1 when dealing with Internet related business(es). I remember an Internet convention in Holland some years ago called "Internet down to earth" where major companies gave lectures about the whole concept and various aspects of this, in that time, new technology. The topics varied but when profiling and such were concerned the basic rule was "don't let yourself be fooled". A company can create excellent and very impressive profiles (in that time it was totally focussed on websites) but basicly they don't have to mean anything. In short; a beautifull and very impressive website does not mean that the company behind it is also looking like that.
And when I see articles like this, like I said many years later, you can clearly see the need for information like that. People can be easily tricked when "new technology" is concerned.
But a question which I find more interesting is how situations like this can be put to a stop? The Internet is growing and accessing it becomes easier every week, figurly speaking offcourse. Which also means, to a certain extent, that people loose focus on how things really work. Which is essential when developments like this are concerned. I'm really interessted how those companies came to their decision to invest. Was it the cheap and slick speech of this gentlemen or did they really consult some experts on this subject?
Basicly this just shows us that it is oh so important to know what you are talking about when technology like this is concerned. When people want you to give them some money to allow them to develop great things (tm) be vary carefull and make sure you know whats really going on.
I don't mind processes altering these files where appropriate; but if they're written in such a way that they can't cope with changes made by the system administrator, they are broken.
Thats why I said that you are mixing up your facts, these files can be edited directly. In your example; take a close look at resolv.conf. Nothing special there. And if you read the appropiate manual(s) you will come across a section which tells you to use either Yast or a text editor. iirc it will even explain to you why some files have a "do not edit" header. But its not because you can't edit 'm manually. You seem to forget that its all Linux we're talking about.
You are mixing up your facts big time; the 'do not edit' is usually put in files which are edited by a proces. For example; editing RedHat's/etc/issue doesn't help you out one bit because its generated from/etc/rc.d/rc.local.
No, what they are talking about is building functional websites. Not about stupid basic 4 year old HTML.
Well, thats just my point but you also seem to have missed it completly; Dreamweaver, for example since I'm quite sure that there are more programs like this available, is quite capable of doing way more then stupid basic 4 year old HTML.
Imagine buying something from amazon, choosing to have the coupon amazon gives you from the webbrowser into Money.
Imagine Amazone sending you a basic format file which you can immediatly import into Money and all other accounting software available. This is quite possible at this very moment. So I ask again; where is the innovation? Don't tell me that the innovation lies into making your whole environment less secure so the website coder can do the final transactions for you? Do I sense a security hole here? I dunno but for some reason names like Melissa pop up, next to VBs script implementation into mailclients to make things easier and more efficient as well.
It's not just the concept, it's being able to do it PROPERLY and in a way that allows the MOST people to be able to use it. This is NOT something is good at. In fact Unix is absolutly CRAP at it.
In which way? Its oh so easy to call something crap in the way you are doing here without giving any arguments to back up your statements. Unix can share files over a network while being totally transperant. Besides this it can be done in a complete safe way so only authorised users can access the files. I think you are comparing apples and oranges here; Unix is quite capable of handeling this. I do agree on one point; it completely focuses on functionality instead of user friendlyness; I guess not everyone is able to set this up.
But thats why we have frontends and such which can help novice people to set things up. Don't judge a product by how many people can 'handle' it; focus on what it does and how its being done.
Just when you wondered 'what could they possible come up with next' you get news like this;) Anyway, I skimmed the site a bit and came up with quite some "remarkable" sections.
For the Web developer, the tools to build, test and deploy engaging Web sites are hopelessly inadequate. Many focus more on building attractive rather than useful Web sites.
Hmz, I think its kinda harsh and very arrogant to call tools like Dreamweaver "inadequate". It focusses on nothing and leaves the user completly open to do -anything- with the site that he or she wants to do. Either write code from the bottom up and look at the results or drag and drop and watch the code being added. Its your choice. So may I conclude here that this man is saying that total freedom is inadequate? Since Dreamweaver is a well known product I think its quite hard to miss it.
The fundamental idea behind Microsoft.NET is that the focus is shifting from individual Web sites or devices connected to the Internet, to constellations of computers, devices and services that work together to deliver broader, richer solutions.
So basicly Microsoft finally managed to grasp the idea behind Unix? I mean; c'mon.. I've been doing this kind of stuff for quite some years now. Allthough I have to admit; in a total different environment. Instead of clicking I'm entering "cd/net.priv/dave/updates" to access the computer of my friend Dave in the US and check out the latest updates he has. This whole thing is kinda silly if you think of it; in the past Windows would warn us if we accidently left netbeui and such linked to a dial up adapter (people can access netbios shares over the internet in this case) and just when we finally learned not to do this it gets re-instated?;)
Microsoft.NET will take computing and communications far beyond the one-way Web to a rich, collaborative, interactive environment. Powered by advanced new software, Microsoft.NET will harness a constellation of applications, services and devices to create a personalized digital experience
And offcourse using.XML to do all this marvelous miracles. Well, by looking at the past I can only think of one thing at this time; they are trying to take over and flood the Net with a complete new standard leaving all other net based products (Unix/BSD/Linux/OS/2) out of the game. We want to use Unix based products? Well, would not surprise me if SCO got upgraded to handle this stuff.
And yes; I know that more products can handle XML. But that would only leave the question if the XML being used will be genuine or, just like kerberos in win2k, some MS mutated new flavor. Basicly the whole idea scares me. If they truly want to set up a functional environment like this the least thing they could have done is making Windows more secure and use this engine into this new product. At this moment Microsoft is not capable of securing Windows, take a look at the vsb scripts in the email, and yet they truly believe that they can build one giant "windows.NETwork" over the Internet and still insure the safety of the locally stored documents? Don't make me laugh.
This reminds me of a question that bothers me: how is it that the small planets in our solar system are solid, while the large ones are gaseous? Wouldn't we expect that the greater mass of the large planets, and consequently greater gravity, would compress all their matter into denser (solid) forms?
From what I've read this is because those planets were to far from the sun, and its gravity, so most of the gas from which our solar system was formed got pulled towards the outer planets. The direct result is a relatively small 'solid' planet with an huge amount of gas surrounding it.
As for the liquid planets; there were such planets; take the earth in the beginning. One giant ball of lava which finally cooled down on the surface.
Researches like this have been going on for quite some time now; it isn't due to the movie Armageddon that people started worrying about it. But I wonder if 40% is accurate enough; next to mars, between the 'solid' planets and the gas giants, are a lot of asteroids orbiting the sun. I know a lot of them have been spotted allready, you can even follow their tracks with programs like Redshift, but since there are so many of them I would not be surprised if they miss a few. Not to mention small asteroids from out of space colliding with one in the asteroid belt and forming even new particles which may follow different orbits.
But I really wonder; if you don't know how many are out there how can you tell that you cought 40% allready ?
Then explain to me the result of one of the investigations into alien sightings; They found out that a lot, if not most, of the alien sightings in the US (I guess it also goes for other countries) happen to people living close to electrical power cables.
After more research they discovered that the 'radiation' did indeed affect the human brain and were also capable of reproducing this phenomenon by subjecting people to a certain amount of "radiation" which was created by high voltage electrical coils.
I don't have an url anymore since this research happened allready some time ago but I'm quite sure that anyone capable of using a search engine should be able to track this down again.
btw; out of curiousity, you wouldn't happen to work for some GSM network provider?
I see you didn't take my advice. Grow a clue and either follow my advice or read up on the technical details. I've seen this happen with my own eyes and at a later stage was also able to explain what happened due to my technical studies.
and I'm pretty sure my cellphone isn't operating on the same wavelength as my radio and my TV.
Actually its neither one. The wavelength of a Cellphone is closer to the microwave then radio and TV. I don't have a technical explenatition but it has indeed everything to do with interference; one signal influencing the other.
You don't balk when reviewers ignore server setup in Corel Linux, so why balk for Mandrake?
Because Corel completely focuses on end users and allmost every Corel user confirms this while you can't be that sure about MD. RedHat focuses on both, MD is very RH based and the confusion is there. Heck; check this thread; you claim its merely end-user based while someone else claims MD can also be put to good for servers. Sorry but I find that very confusing.
And I'm not just talking about one device influencing the other here. I'm also very concerned where human health is concerned. There are so many different frequencies being used and we hardly know anything about the real effect it has. And to be honost; this article is only the top of the iceberg.
I'm from Holland and like in every country we also got out television and radio stations, next to a line up of GSM networks. All of these have transmitters. The GSM's have small antenna's which are spreak among the country but the television and radio have one big antenna which allmost covers the entire country. And here the fun part begins.... People living there are having extremely difficult times in buying electrical equipment. Why? Because it hardly works and or acts extremely funny. And I'm not talking about weirdness like we all know from Windows. No; this is serious stuff. Like electronic stoves going crazy (hot / cold), microwaves which act crazy or not at all for no reason what so ever, electric trains which run out of their own; a copper wire is more then efficient. Things are so bad that most people just can't use any electrical devices such as computers; they don't work as it should. Things are so extreme that local re-sellers are refusing to sell these people electrical equipment since they keep claiming due to problems.
So basicly this article doesn't come as a surprise to me. There is more going on then people know, and all the radio waves out there are doing something. IMHO even more then most people realize.
Test the bloody distro. Just install the server with ML 7.1, play with it for some time, then we can talk again. Otherwise you will keep telling me that we "concentrate only on X" , and I will start yelling at you.:-(
Wow, and people think Debian users are bad due to their 'radical' opinions. I see no reason what so ever to test the distro. And the main reason I made a point that MD focused on X was your own story telling me so. This discussion is over as far as I'm concerned; when people start to threat with 'yelling' thats a signal for me that they don't seem to be able to advocate the system they are using. = No offence = but I do not wish to continue arguments on that basis since that will only lead to flamewars IMVHO.
focuses on "making the system easier to use", and the most visible component is fine-tuning the GUI - that is why press releases usually concentrate on GUI stuff. However, Mandrake system is not "dumbass distro", it is rather a heavy-duty in disguise.
Heavy-duty it may be but then it seems even more weird to completely focus on X as the layer for the user interface when configuration is concerned. As I said before; if you are building a server you don't really need X. When you need a heavy duty server (talking cpu load here) X is out of the question at all in most cases.
Your second point about the config tools itself didn't say anything. Its kinda obvious that those tools run on other systems. After all; basicly they are just X tools. IMHO its quite clear that I didn't mean whether or not the tools would run on other distro's but if they would work, please note the difference.
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So whats the matter anyway? Aren't the cartoons suddenly not good enough for them anymore? If they really cared that much for the whole cartoon concept these people would finance the work for a major cartoon, movie like, of this issue. Instead they setup a complete cast with life actors hoping to make a small fortune with IMVHO other peoples ideas and work. And yes, IMHO this sucks.
I don't like my nephew humming the 'flintstone song' then I mean Hanna Barbara, I don't like to see Dr. Claw's face because Disney smelled money and I certainly do not like to get reminded to Captain Picard when I want to see and experience Charles Exavier.
I'm not judging anyone here, let that be clear, but if you volunteer to do a job you should try and do it right.
So companies which sell products are to blaim when complete idiots go out and buy these products even when they could use something else (maybe cheaper) instead?
Thats a bunch of crap; no one is forcing these people to buy commercial products and if they are to lazy to even do a bit of orientating then they got no one to kick but themselves.
So... What you are basicly saying is that when I'm going out to buy a new car, totally unprepared, and end up with a Ferarri because I told the salesman that "I want to drive really fast to work" the salesman is to blaim for selling me this Ferarri? Yeah right...
When money talks anything can be possible. Just my 2 cents though.
I've recently experienced this behaviour myself when I got another laptop, merely for demonstrating purposes. My machine at home is still a PII 266 with 100Mb internal memory. Windows 98 runs on an IDE (udma) harddisk and it runs decent. When I got my laptop (PIII 550, 64Mb internal memory) I've noticed nothing really special about the pre-installed Windows 98. It ran allmost as fast (or slow) as on my desktop computer. Some small details however did run smoother & faster (rendering in fireworks for example) but thats about it.
Linux on the other hand completely burns rubber. On my 486 server (web, print & file) dselect takes quite some time before I can enter the 's'elect screen. On my PII this time is reduced a lot but I still got to wait a few seconds. On my laptop its reduced to hardly one second (with the same amount of stuff installed as on my desktop).
This is just one, personal, experience but there are many people out there who can state the exact same experience with completely different hardware.
And this whole issue won't change as well and the reason is also very clear (and stated more then once, even on /. iirc). Linux is being programmed while Windows is "engineered" and as long as nothing changes these performance issues will remain. Where a Windows programmer is using a visual tool to produce some code for the "obvious" graphic routine's a Linux programmer is double checking if he made the right calls to the c library which he needs. Where a Linux programmer tries to squeeze the most out of the hardware by optimizing his code a Windows programmer uses tools which speculate on future, even faster, machines then the ones currently available. Small differences, big results.
The gasses and winds which rage on Jupiter will very likely rip the craft to shreds even before it came close to the real surface of Jupiter itself.
No way! Offcourse it may look cool for a moment but I don't like traveling 40 up to 80 years to check up on the crime scene in person. :-)
But this does makes you wonder.. Could it be that /.'s hassle with MS was just MS's way in following the saying "it doesn't matter how they talk about you as long as they are talking about you.", which they've done before? The last (afaik also proven) example of this behaviour was during the introduction of Windows 95. There were quite some rumours going on that the OS was massivly spread by hackers (according to the local news, we call 'm warez weenies) but in the end it turned out that it was MS itself who spread those 'illegal' copies. Another scheme to get the whole campain on the news without the extra commercial costs.
If this theory is correct, and please not that I'm not stating that it is, the remaining question would be "why /. ?". Well, it is a fact that a lot of technical skilled people hang out on Slashdot. This kind of information is only interessting for people who actually know a little bit more about stuff like this. But I'm quite positive that this thread gets far more attention now that /. had a little hassle with MS about this very same issue. At least among regular /. readers.
This is a story which could have come straight from the Donald Duck... 'mad scientist launches missile'. I wonder how many houses he would set on fire if he actually did launch the rocket from his backyard...
In this kind of business you don't trust a guy by the colours of his eyes or the nice sound of his voice. If you do then I strongly believe you have no place in that business sector.
And when I see articles like this, like I said many years later, you can clearly see the need for information like that. People can be easily tricked when "new technology" is concerned.
But a question which I find more interesting is how situations like this can be put to a stop? The Internet is growing and accessing it becomes easier every week, figurly speaking offcourse. Which also means, to a certain extent, that people loose focus on how things really work. Which is essential when developments like this are concerned. I'm really interessted how those companies came to their decision to invest. Was it the cheap and slick speech of this gentlemen or did they really consult some experts on this subject?
Basicly this just shows us that it is oh so important to know what you are talking about when technology like this is concerned. When people want you to give them some money to allow them to develop great things (tm) be vary carefull and make sure you know whats really going on.
Thats why I said that you are mixing up your facts, these files can be edited directly. In your example; take a close look at resolv.conf. Nothing special there. And if you read the appropiate manual(s) you will come across a section which tells you to use either Yast or a text editor. iirc it will even explain to you why some files have a "do not edit" header. But its not because you can't edit 'm manually. You seem to forget that its all Linux we're talking about.
You are mixing up your facts big time; the 'do not edit' is usually put in files which are edited by a proces. For example; editing RedHat's /etc/issue doesn't help you out one bit because its generated from /etc/rc.d/rc.local.
Well, thats just my point but you also seem to have missed it completly; Dreamweaver, for example since I'm quite sure that there are more programs like this available, is quite capable of doing way more then stupid basic 4 year old HTML.
Imagine buying something from amazon, choosing to have the coupon amazon gives you from the webbrowser into Money.
Imagine Amazone sending you a basic format file which you can immediatly import into Money and all other accounting software available. This is quite possible at this very moment. So I ask again; where is the innovation? Don't tell me that the innovation lies into making your whole environment less secure so the website coder can do the final transactions for you? Do I sense a security hole here? I dunno but for some reason names like Melissa pop up, next to VBs script implementation into mailclients to make things easier and more efficient as well.
It's not just the concept, it's being able to do it PROPERLY and in a way that allows the MOST people to be able to use it. This is NOT something is good at. In fact Unix is absolutly CRAP at it.
In which way? Its oh so easy to call something crap in the way you are doing here without giving any arguments to back up your statements. Unix can share files over a network while being totally transperant. Besides this it can be done in a complete safe way so only authorised users can access the files. I think you are comparing apples and oranges here; Unix is quite capable of handeling this. I do agree on one point; it completely focuses on functionality instead of user friendlyness; I guess not everyone is able to set this up.
But thats why we have frontends and such which can help novice people to set things up. Don't judge a product by how many people can 'handle' it; focus on what it does and how its being done.
For the Web developer, the tools to build, test and deploy engaging Web sites are hopelessly inadequate. Many focus more on building attractive rather than useful Web sites.
Hmz, I think its kinda harsh and very arrogant to call tools like Dreamweaver "inadequate". It focusses on nothing and leaves the user completly open to do -anything- with the site that he or she wants to do. Either write code from the bottom up and look at the results or drag and drop and watch the code being added. Its your choice. So may I conclude here that this man is saying that total freedom is inadequate? Since Dreamweaver is a well known product I think its quite hard to miss it.
The fundamental idea behind Microsoft .NET is that the focus is shifting from individual Web sites or devices connected to the Internet, to constellations of computers, devices and services that work together to deliver broader, richer solutions.
So basicly Microsoft finally managed to grasp the idea behind Unix? I mean; c'mon.. I've been doing this kind of stuff for quite some years now. Allthough I have to admit; in a total different environment. Instead of clicking I'm entering "cd /net.priv/dave/updates" to access the computer of my friend Dave in the US and check out the latest updates he has. This whole thing is kinda silly if you think of it; in the past Windows would warn us if we accidently left netbeui and such linked to a dial up adapter (people can access netbios shares over the internet in this case) and just when we finally learned not to do this it gets re-instated? ;)
Microsoft .NET will take computing and communications far beyond the one-way Web to a rich, collaborative, interactive environment. Powered by advanced new software, Microsoft .NET will harness a constellation of applications, services and devices to create a personalized digital experience
And offcourse using .XML to do all this marvelous miracles. Well, by looking at the past I can only think of one thing at this time; they are trying to take over and flood the Net with a complete new standard leaving all other net based products (Unix/BSD/Linux/OS/2) out of the game. We want to use Unix based products? Well, would not surprise me if SCO got upgraded to handle this stuff.
And yes; I know that more products can handle XML. But that would only leave the question if the XML being used will be genuine or, just like kerberos in win2k, some MS mutated new flavor. Basicly the whole idea scares me. If they truly want to set up a functional environment like this the least thing they could have done is making Windows more secure and use this engine into this new product. At this moment Microsoft is not capable of securing Windows, take a look at the vsb scripts in the email, and yet they truly believe that they can build one giant "windows .NETwork" over the Internet and still insure the safety of the locally stored documents? Don't make me laugh.
From what I've read this is because those planets were to far from the sun, and its gravity, so most of the gas from which our solar system was formed got pulled towards the outer planets. The direct result is a relatively small 'solid' planet with an huge amount of gas surrounding it.
As for the liquid planets; there were such planets; take the earth in the beginning. One giant ball of lava which finally cooled down on the surface.
But I really wonder; if you don't know how many are out there how can you tell that you cought 40% allready ?
After more research they discovered that the 'radiation' did indeed affect the human brain and were also capable of reproducing this phenomenon by subjecting people to a certain amount of "radiation" which was created by high voltage electrical coils.
I don't have an url anymore since this research happened allready some time ago but I'm quite sure that anyone capable of using a search engine should be able to track this down again.
btw; out of curiousity, you wouldn't happen to work for some GSM network provider?
I see you didn't take my advice. Grow a clue and either follow my advice or read up on the technical details. I've seen this happen with my own eyes and at a later stage was also able to explain what happened due to my technical studies.
I'd suggest you go over to the residential zones surrounding Lopik and talk to the people there. After you did come back here and we'll talk again.
Actually its neither one. The wavelength of a Cellphone is closer to the microwave then radio and TV. I don't have a technical explenatition but it has indeed everything to do with interference; one signal influencing the other.
Because Corel completely focuses on end users and allmost every Corel user confirms this while you can't be that sure about MD. RedHat focuses on both, MD is very RH based and the confusion is there. Heck; check this thread; you claim its merely end-user based while someone else claims MD can also be put to good for servers. Sorry but I find that very confusing.
I'm from Holland and like in every country we also got out television and radio stations, next to a line up of GSM networks. All of these have transmitters. The GSM's have small antenna's which are spreak among the country but the television and radio have one big antenna which allmost covers the entire country. And here the fun part begins.... People living there are having extremely difficult times in buying electrical equipment. Why? Because it hardly works and or acts extremely funny. And I'm not talking about weirdness like we all know from Windows. No; this is serious stuff. Like electronic stoves going crazy (hot / cold), microwaves which act crazy or not at all for no reason what so ever, electric trains which run out of their own; a copper wire is more then efficient. Things are so bad that most people just can't use any electrical devices such as computers; they don't work as it should. Things are so extreme that local re-sellers are refusing to sell these people electrical equipment since they keep claiming due to problems.
So basicly this article doesn't come as a surprise to me. There is more going on then people know, and all the radio waves out there are doing something. IMHO even more then most people realize.
Wow, and people think Debian users are bad due to their 'radical' opinions. I see no reason what so ever to test the distro. And the main reason I made a point that MD focused on X was your own story telling me so. This discussion is over as far as I'm concerned; when people start to threat with 'yelling' thats a signal for me that they don't seem to be able to advocate the system they are using. = No offence = but I do not wish to continue arguments on that basis since that will only lead to flamewars IMVHO.
Heavy-duty it may be but then it seems even more weird to completely focus on X as the layer for the user interface when configuration is concerned. As I said before; if you are building a server you don't really need X. When you need a heavy duty server (talking cpu load here) X is out of the question at all in most cases.
Your second point about the config tools itself didn't say anything. Its kinda obvious that those tools run on other systems. After all; basicly they are just X tools. IMHO its quite clear that I didn't mean whether or not the tools would run on other distro's but if they would work, please note the difference.