I *don't* have alot of CPUs. My main computer is a PII-400Mhz...
Blackbox has it's place, but for simplicity I like to work in a nice, clean, unified environment. With one theme for a WM and a second theme for a DE, I need to deal with two different graphical concepts. It's not a big problem, but I like simplicity...
Call me silly, but the WM & Desktop Environment should have a matching theme.
I know it's a matter of taste, but I can't stand it when I have one theme for my Window Manager, and a second theme for all those applications which run within the windows... it's ugly, less functional, and way, way outdated.
I suppose that BlackBox & IceWM might be faster then the default KDE or Gnome WM's, but performance isn't usually a big issue for me.
Although, I can see the benefit when I need to run a remote X application on a remote server, and I don't want a full fledged Gnome or KDE environment... just X, a lightweight WM over a SSH connection.
Sorry, your logic is invalid. You say "they don't want to regulate BitTorrent traffic", but by shutting down his access for using BT, they are in fact regulating it. If they were regulating it, they wouldn't be looking for it.
Poor choice of words. They don't want to monitor his BT activities, and decided to just shut down the service entirely.
The University has commited libel, and this guy could now take them to the cleaners.
Give me a fucking break. Do you even understand what libel is?
There is a huge difference between denying access to Bittorrent traffic & accusing someone of pirating software.
There is no article here, so we're really short on facts. However, the submission provides no evidence that the University accused him of doing anything illegal. We just have his interpretation of their statement, and he makes some very big assumptions about that single sentence.
A university has a right to regulate their own network, this was a very well established precident when I was in college 10 years ago.
The letter stated, 'Until the courts decide that student P2P activity is permitted we will continue to block this activity on our network,' implying that BitTorrent is inherently illegal.
No, they are not implying that BitTorrent is inherently illegal. They are stating that they think BitTorrent *may* be used for illegal activities and they don't want to regulate BitTorrent traffic on their network, and are erroring on the side of caution.
Like it or not, it is the University's network, and they administer it as they see fit. Don't like it? Tough. Use another network.
If the MPAA finds a bunch of students pirating movies on the University network, the University will be held responsible at some level. It could become a massive headache for the Network admins, which is why they are taking this move.
All they would have to do is completely support CSS 2.1
Microsoft won't do that. They don't want to give web developers the opportunity to move FROM Microsoft products to other products.
Microsoft would then lose marketshare on the Server market and related software, because there would be fewer reasons to run Windows as a webserver and all of the related software.
If users are locked into using the IE browser, it means that sites are more likely to use the features that work better on IE, which means they are more likely to use Microsoft products.
What do you think this is? A moral discussion of WHEN someone becomes non-innocent, and can therefore become a legitimate target for suicide bombers? It is ALWAYS wrong to kill innocent civilians-- it is ESPECIALLY wrong to target those innocents, regardless of age.
And to be honest, I have no indention of posting your address. My only goal was to make a Google search of "Michael Kalus" attached to your response here. I'm sure most people will be as offended as I am.
Looking at percentage increase, Ubuntu probably beats the pants off of Fedora, rising from an average hits/day of 300 in 2004 to an average hits/day of 1916 in the past month; that's a 638% increase. Using the same math for Fedora, we see a LOSS of 8%.
Those numbers are for Page Hits to the DistroWatch web pages, which is a completely different number then installations on servers.
I'm not sure why you think the two are related. There are many possible explanations as to why Mandrake would be searched for more often then other distros.
But please, tell me why *I* should be locked away for life because of this believe?
I do not believe that a four year old is innocent.
Then you, Mr. Michael Kalus of Edmonton, Alberta; are out of step with the rest of civilization. You seem to think it's ok to kill a 4 year old, which makes you are a horrible person.
Children cannot do anything to make them guilty enough to deserve death by any means-- by a Palestinian suicide bomber, Israeli bulldozer or the American military.
A person who purposely kills innocent children is a murderer of the worst sort, and should be killed or locked away to protect the civilized people.
However, since you used your real name to state this horrible opinion in a public forum, I hope your reputation is scarred for the rest of your life. The internet has a long memory, and the name "Michael Kalus" will forever be associated with your sympathy of suicide bombers and child killers.
Tim Burton 2001-current (after Planet of the Apes)
Tim Burton is my favorite director, but I nearly after Planet of the Apes... worst movie by Tim Burton ever. And the ending just drug down the movie even more...
If the trend continues, then growth will stop and start to reverse in about 5-7 years.
you are going to see a remarkably fast population decrease.
Where'd you get that idea? According to the Census page 8 (Chart "No. 3. Resident Population Projections: 2003 to 2050"), the population is projected to grow by 125,000,000 people in the next 50 years.
The growth rate will decline from 0.9% today to 0.7% by 2036, but the population will still grow.
But I'll agree with you that 0.9% is not "growing quickly"-- the US population is growing slowly.
You're missing the point. This flexibility is supposed to go both ways.
However, since the employeers are usually in the position of power, they usually only allow the flexibility to go one way-- longer days. Companies have been taking advantage of the piss-poor job market over the last few years to force this
There aren't many options here: Demand less work/more help or quit.
Luckily I haven't been forced into this position for quite a while--- I'm up front during the interview process. I work smart and hard, go home and have a life, and then I come back next day happy. Happy workers means better quality.
It's pretty standard to work an 8 hour day,
It's pretty standard to work a 10 hour day at many companies. My friends at EA work longer-- no social life, hard work, lack of sleep-- it's burnout central. Personally, I couldn't take that sort of job. In my opinion, even 8 hours borders on being too much.
The employment environment at EA was built to allow you flexibility as professionals, with the expectation that time on the job could be managed without watching the clock.
Yeah right. I've heard this line before-- and it's almost always used as a justification for long work days.
Nobody in management will raise an eyebrow I work for 14 hours a day, lose my morale and leave the company, but if I come in at 11:00 & leave at 4:00, you bet they'll complain-- even if I am getting the work done.
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I *don't* have alot of CPUs. My main computer is a PII-400Mhz...
Blackbox has it's place, but for simplicity I like to work in a nice, clean, unified environment. With one theme for a WM and a second theme for a DE, I need to deal with two different graphical concepts. It's not a big problem, but I like simplicity
Well, I guess "new" is relative. My "new" box is 3 years old and my "old" box is 5 years old.
I got you beat. My "new" box is 7 years old...
I'll check out Blackbox. After sleeping on it, I actually do need a replacement for the CDE crud on my Solaris 8 boxes...
Call me silly, but the WM & Desktop Environment should have a matching theme.
I know it's a matter of taste, but I can't stand it when I have one theme for my Window Manager, and a second theme for all those applications which run within the windows... it's ugly, less functional, and way, way outdated.
I suppose that BlackBox & IceWM might be faster then the default KDE or Gnome WM's, but performance isn't usually a big issue for me.
Although, I can see the benefit when I need to run a remote X application on a remote server, and I don't want a full fledged Gnome or KDE environment... just X, a lightweight WM over a SSH connection.
Sorry, your logic is invalid. You say "they don't want to regulate BitTorrent traffic", but by shutting down his access for using BT, they are in fact regulating it. If they were regulating it, they wouldn't be looking for it.
Poor choice of words. They don't want to monitor his BT activities, and decided to just shut down the service entirely.
The University has commited libel, and this guy could now take them to the cleaners.
Give me a fucking break. Do you even understand what libel is?
There is a huge difference between denying access to Bittorrent traffic & accusing someone of pirating software.
There is no article here, so we're really short on facts. However, the submission provides no evidence that the University accused him of doing anything illegal. We just have his interpretation of their statement, and he makes some very big assumptions about that single sentence.
A university has a right to regulate their own network, this was a very well established precident when I was in college 10 years ago.
The student could do what the rest of us non-students do: Use a broadband connection.
Unless the university restricts access to the world outside the University, he can get DSL or Cable and do whatever the fuck he wants to do.
Also, he can move off campus.
I always wondered what the Ombudsman does... I thought they sat around colleges saying "Ommm" and growing bud...
The letter stated, 'Until the courts decide that student P2P activity is permitted we will continue to block this activity on our network,' implying that BitTorrent is inherently illegal.
No, they are not implying that BitTorrent is inherently illegal. They are stating that they think BitTorrent *may* be used for illegal activities and they don't want to regulate BitTorrent traffic on their network, and are erroring on the side of caution.
Like it or not, it is the University's network, and they administer it as they see fit. Don't like it? Tough. Use another network.
If the MPAA finds a bunch of students pirating movies on the University network, the University will be held responsible at some level. It could become a massive headache for the Network admins, which is why they are taking this move.
Likewise. Your sig is Simple and true.
Thanks for the support.
I love my workplace.
Not sure which I love more:
- The whips in the morning
- The acid bath after the afternoon "Resource Meeting"
- Or the vodka to help me sleep at night
An example where "Two Wrongs Makes a Right!"
Get a better binder. A good product shouldn't become ruined simply because you filled it to capacity.
Stay away from Best Buy. Most of their accessories are pure crap.
But since you bought it from Best Buy, did you buy the $39.99 annual replacement policy?
All they would have to do is completely support CSS 2.1
Microsoft won't do that. They don't want to give web developers the opportunity to move FROM Microsoft products to other products.
Microsoft would then lose marketshare on the Server market and related software, because there would be fewer reasons to run Windows as a webserver and all of the related software.
If users are locked into using the IE browser, it means that sites are more likely to use the features that work better on IE, which means they are more likely to use Microsoft products.
What do you think this is? A moral discussion of WHEN someone becomes non-innocent, and can therefore become a legitimate target for suicide bombers? It is ALWAYS wrong to kill innocent civilians-- it is ESPECIALLY wrong to target those innocents, regardless of age.
And to be honest, I have no indention of posting your address. My only goal was to make a Google search of "Michael Kalus" attached to your response here. I'm sure most people will be as offended as I am.
I don't understand why people go and choose Fedora anyway.
Because they want RedHat, without the price tag that comes with RHEL-- which starts at $349 for a 2 CPU server, $1499 if you have 4 CPUs.
I'm not sure I could recommend RHEL or Fedora to many small shops. RHEL is expensive, Fedora is unstable.
Looking at percentage increase, Ubuntu probably beats the pants off of Fedora, rising from an average hits/day of 300 in 2004 to an average hits/day of 1916 in the past month; that's a 638% increase. Using the same math for Fedora, we see a LOSS of 8%.
Those numbers are for Page Hits to the DistroWatch web pages, which is a completely different number then installations on servers.
I'm not sure why you think the two are related. There are many possible explanations as to why Mandrake would be searched for more often then other distros.
To capitalize on this latest trend, I think I'm gonna take pictures of the people who take pictures of wierd things...
That's not wierd at all.
Funny, I don't see any photos. I just see numbers like '404' and '503'. ...
Does my screen not support those types of images?
But please, tell me why *I* should be locked away for life because of this believe?
I do not believe that a four year old is innocent.
Then you, Mr. Michael Kalus of Edmonton, Alberta; are out of step with the rest of civilization.
You seem to think it's ok to kill a 4 year old, which makes you are a horrible person.
Children cannot do anything to make them guilty enough to deserve death by any means-- by a Palestinian suicide bomber, Israeli bulldozer or the American military.
A person who purposely kills innocent children is a murderer of the worst sort, and should be killed or locked away to protect the civilized people.
However, since you used your real name to state this horrible opinion in a public forum, I hope your reputation is scarred for the rest of your life. The internet has a long memory, and the name "Michael Kalus" will forever be associated with your sympathy of suicide bombers and child killers.
If you read the ToS, they probably say something like "We have the right o change these terms at any time"
Tim Burton 2001-current (after Planet of the Apes)
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Tim Burton is my favorite director, but I nearly after Planet of the Apes... worst movie by Tim Burton ever. And the ending just drug down the movie even more
If the trend continues, then growth will stop and start to reverse in about 5-7 years.
you are going to see a remarkably fast population decrease.
Where'd you get that idea? According to the Census page 8 (Chart "No. 3. Resident Population Projections: 2003 to 2050"), the population is projected to grow by 125,000,000 people in the next 50 years.
The growth rate will decline from 0.9% today to 0.7% by 2036, but the population will still grow.
But I'll agree with you that 0.9% is not "growing quickly"-- the US population is growing slowly.
Absolutely brilliant!
That's it, with that comic my day is now complete.
You're missing the point. This flexibility is supposed to go both ways.
However, since the employeers are usually in the position of power, they usually only allow the flexibility to go one way-- longer days. Companies have been taking advantage of the piss-poor job market over the last few years to force this
There aren't many options here: Demand less work/more help or quit.
Luckily I haven't been forced into this position for quite a while--- I'm up front during the interview process. I work smart and hard, go home and have a life, and then I come back next day happy. Happy workers means better quality.
It's pretty standard to work an 8 hour day,
It's pretty standard to work a 10 hour day at many companies. My friends at EA work longer-- no social life, hard work, lack of sleep-- it's burnout central. Personally, I couldn't take that sort of job. In my opinion, even 8 hours borders on being too much.
The employment environment at EA was built to allow you flexibility as professionals, with the expectation that time on the job could be managed without watching the clock.
Yeah right. I've heard this line before-- and it's almost always used as a justification for long work days.
Nobody in management will raise an eyebrow I work for 14 hours a day, lose my morale and leave the company, but if I come in at 11:00 & leave at 4:00, you bet they'll complain-- even if I am getting the work done.