I believe that given the choice between two candidates who supported the IRAQ war and the PATRIOT act (ie bush and kerry), "it doesn't matter which major party I vote for". Sure the Bush administration is worse than a Kerry administration, but they were substantially different enough for me, and I am not too lazy to excercise my right to vote. People don't seem to notice that the anti-evil candidate is also an evil candidate. I have voted for Nader since 2000. Btw Nader got 5.5 million votes in 2000 and he *still* has not been allowed into a debate. The issues which he's talking about demilitarization, health care, free education, etc are not even allowed to be mentioned in the official debates, because there is an alternative.
We did not hear Bush and Kerry debate over how to get out of Iraq. They were talking about how to wage war. We will never be safe by waging war. Safety only comes from making friends, and the warmongers Bush AND KERRY have assured that we have a long road ahead of us to turning the survivors of our insane military agenda into friends.
I really wish you folks up in Canadia would stop blaming Conservatives and Liberals and just get out and vote Marijuana Party and legalize it already!
If the fascist government wants to monitor every phone conversation that would be fine as long as they are high, they won't remember what you say anyways, thus preserving your right to privacy!
It has been years since I administered Solaris 8 machines. I recall ftping packages and dependencies from a sunfreeware ftp site, but the selection was very limited compared to the number of official Debian packages, and there was no nice facility like apt for dependency autograbbing. It probably has improved since then, but apt-get on Solaris would be nice. Easier is better:)
I don't know too much about solaris 10 (although I don't think it's improved much), but whenever I get stuck on a solaris 8 machine, I get annoyed by some of the commands. tar xvzf does not work, I have to gunzip -c | tar xvf -. Why can't I "du -sh", or "df -sh", and what is wrong with bash?
Bash is a great shell and it should certainly be the default over csh! Well I guess Solaris is rock solid and has a lot going over Linux (like easy ACL support over NFS), and certainly bash and other free software can be installed on Solaris machines, but I do recall having to compile LOTS of software by hand and recompiling it all when certain zlib vulnerabilities were made known.
However, from my limited experience after using an easy-to-use distro like Debian GNU/Linux, working on a Solaris system can be incredibly frustrating and maddening. If Debian/openSolaris solved all these problems would I switch to Solaris x86? Maybe. It would certainly occupy a virtual machine image!
Actually many many people (I daresay most of them) who drive on SVO (straight vegetable oil) or vegetable oil used to make biodiesel do most of their driving to work and back every day.
I think what you need to grasp is that it is not necessary for one fuel source to solve all problems, for it to be a good alternative fuel source and a step in the right direction. Right now what gets processed as waste, can be used to reduce fuel consumption. This solves two problems. Will a few people converting their diesel powereed vehicles eliminate all petroleum consumption? I don't think anyone made that claim. However, some research is being done to see if vegetable oil can be produced in the amounts necessary to petroleum as a fuel source in the USA: http://www.unh.edu/p2/biodiesel/article_alge.html I guarrantee you, neither I nor any of the researchers at university of new hampshire have trouble differentiating between a dollar and a cent.
I have not converted my car yet, because the conversion is quite expensive and processing fuel is a little too time consuming for me at this point, but as my car has a 12 gallon tank and I get around over 40 miles per gallon and on my lifestyle that requires me to fill up the tank a little more than once a month. The local restaurants produce WVO at a rate much higher than I can burn it, and they pay to dispose of it. True if enough people started doing this, waste vegetable oil from restaurants would not be enough to meet the demand. Those who convert soon, have the opportunity to store large amounts of filtered oil in drums to avoid having to purchase un-used vegetable oil. They are also talking about converting the local mushroom farm (which went out of business) to a farm that just grows high oil yield crops and producing biodiesel there:) I'll certainly pay an extra dollar or two a gallon to know I am using a sustainable fuel source and have somebody else do all the processing for me!
You keep believing that. If someone out to steal your mail can log in as Administrator on the system where the mail is stored, he or she can
just look at that databases directly. Or access the backups. Or grant himself rights and then modify the
logs to hide his track. Or read the SMTP traffic going over the wire. The only way I'd trust no one could read my mail was if the sender
had encrypted it with a pre-shared secret.
Try NOSCRIPT. I cannot visit a website without it. You can choose what
javascripts to allow:
https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/722/\\
Don't blame slashdot. It's all about the $$
I actually just odered a quad PIII 700 with 4 GB of RAM, for $280 off EBAY.
I did not get a great deal, just paid market value because I was in a hurry
to buy. Shop around and you may find some low end hardware which will meet
your budgetary constraints. This machine is going to run VMWARE and hopefully it will allow
me to get rid of some of the junk I am accumulating.
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that is a really good idea!
Perhaps a farsighted individual can start implementing the alternate mapping scheme ADNS and registering people in the one ADNS root server in the world:)
phantomlord was inaccurate: "Further, the products will likely not be branded as such and there is no way to know if we're currently consuming products from cloned animals." I am vegan, so I have a way to know if I'm currently consuming products from cloned animals. Unless they are injecting clone cowmilk in my black coffee, or someone is sneaking a cloned cow into my pot of garbanzo beans when I am not looking, I am fairly certain I'm not consuming any animal products cloned or otherwise.
I don't think it works that way. It is a DNS blocklist, so I think when you wnat to check if some IP is a spammer you do a DNS lookup on 12.43.23.43.sbl.spamhaus.org. I think the preceding sentence may not be 100% accurate, but what is basically true it does not matter what the A record for www.spamhaus.org is for the blocklist to work. The domains ending with sbl.spamhaus.org and xbl.spamhaus.org are pretty important.
They could do use a different domain name, but it doesn't look like they are planning on doing that.
Agreed, and just because Ubuntu comes from South Africa, does not mean
Paul Manger of Johannesburg's University of the Witwatersrand knows
what he is talking about. Also, what exactly is his basis for saying
that a rat outwittes a dolphin. Has he gotten them to sit down to
a game of chess? I'll wait until I see a goldfish using a sponge as a tool.
Ps: My dog outwits me all the time as do the rabbits who get through my fence
and eat all my broccoli. I hope some alien researcher does not make generalizations
about our species based on observing me!
No you are wrong! I saw it in the A-team! BA (Barracus) duct-taped an automobile engine to a propeller and a bunch of 2x4s and made a plane that Murdoch (not Ian Murdoch) said he could pilot. Then Face hit BA on the back of the head, and they loaded everyone into the plane and took off with the cool theme music playing.
I think the title "Study says Coffee Protect Against Cirrhosis" is misleading.
The title of the actual article is phrased as a question. From the article we see no conclusions being drawn:
"This is not a recommendation to drink coffee, nor is it a recommendation that the way to deal with heavy alcohol consumption is to drink more coffee," warns Klatsky, who adds that the observational nature of the data may limit its interpretation.
Do the slashdot submitters have some additional data that the researchers did not? I think the only claims we should make are that there are correlations between coffee (not caffeinated beverage) consumption and liver life. I didn't see the data but I am not clear from the article if they even compared groups who drank similar amounts of alchohol each day as coffee drinkers and not coffee drinkers. It could be that coffee drinkers who drink alchohol tend to drink less and tea drinkers who drink alchohol tend to drink the same.
We all know that decreasing alchohol consumption protects against liver disease.
Palm oil is also used as a replacement for hydrogenated oils because it is so stable at higher temperatures. That might make it a bad choice for starting your car in the winter!
Mustard oil was what UNH is recommending for New England vegetable oil producers a while back. Oil-producing algae might also hold some promise. (http://www.unh.edu/p2/biodiesel/article_alge.html)
The Rhizome Collective also does a lot of hopeful stuff. We all have to learn to cut back our energy consumption and start producing our own energy by whatever wind, solar, mechanical or other technologies we can wrap our brains and our fingers around! I can give up my car, but I do not want to give up my computer. I guess mass starvation is a more serious concern however.
I don't know if the codeweavers binary is dependent on a certain kernel version or library that may become obsolete. Or perhaps 4 years from now all images will be stored in jpg.bz2 format, and Picasa will no longer be useful without the ability to update it. Use your imagination!
"This, however, will be transparent to Linux users, when they download, install, and run the free program on their systems."
After becoming enlightened by RMS, I hesitate to call any binary only code "free". It is free to install and become dependent on their binary code, but when they stop supporting it and it no longer works, it may create a lot of trouble for you. Perhaps it should be called "free" as in free nicotine or cocaine or heroin, or something more addictive than beer.
1984 aspects of this aside, real traffic modelling requires this type of system.
Anyone who has ever been stuck in rush hour going into a major city knows that driving 15 miles an hour and coming to a hard stop every 4 minutes is not the most efficient way to do things. If we could feed all our driving data to computers and get our Queueing Theory experts on the job then we could design fault tolerant traffic control systems.
When you get on the highway, open up that laptop or watch a DVD because Big Brother will make sure you get there faster and more safely than you could yourself.
Actually there was a very similar case of Texas meat-producers against Howard Lyman (www.madcowboy.com) who said on the Oprah Winfrey show that who said something to the effect that mad cow disease would be a grave threat within the United States if nothing was done about it. He was sued under the Texas Food Disparagement Laws, and the burden of proof lay upon him. If you could not prove that mad cow disease would be a threat (time proved him right) at the time, he would have been held accountable. His lawyers got him off the hook because he said "I believe" before his statements. So if you go around saying out of honest belief that global warming can threaten the ecosystem, oil companies can sue you in the grand ole USA.
Could that be why we have the worst possible reporting in the USA and the least informed public?
I have to admit kickstart is pretty cool. Progeny has a Debian install CD which supports kickstart. However in our environment, we have found systemimager (www.systemimager.org or apt-get install systemimager) to be more useful. Systemimager works with Debian and Ubuntu and rpm based distros too if you can get the rpms.
I think you might have gotten burned by running an unstable or unsupported package once, but since I have been running debian stable on many machines since 1997 (although many only applies to the last few years), I have not had any problems with apt! Also I've never been to #debian, but I have gotten great help on the debian-user mailing list when I needed it! Thanks guys!
I do not run Debian testing, unless I intend to test and debug unsupported packages. This was a real problem with Woody being a little behind other releases, but with Sarge it is really not a problem anymore.
Does Fedora have the QA that Debian does? How is it at upgrading between versions? Also, is there an easy-to-install (meaning apt or yum) supported (meaning I don't have to go to joesrpms.dyndns.org) enlightenment package?
Just curious, why do you say that Ubuntu does not take security seriously?
I don't want to be in a religious Fedora versus Ubuntu or Debian war, because it's silly. I'll probably install Fedora in a virtual machine sometime soon.
Well having done over 400 Debian installs and 1 Ubuntu install (Breezy Badger), I feel comfortable saying that the installs are different. Sure you have the comfortable and simple Debian CUI, but you do not have to answer any questions! I think the entire installation asked me about 4 questions. It is easier than a Redhat install, but you get the advantage of the Debian package pool and the Debian package system.
One oft overlooked feature of Debian is the sheer number of quality tested packages available. The installer works as well as Redhat's but you end up with a better system that has much more software easily available through apt.
Ubuntu has a long way to go before it can come close to
Debian's track record, but I think it's off to a good start.
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I believe that given the choice between two candidates who supported the IRAQ war and the PATRIOT act (ie bush and kerry), "it doesn't matter which major party I vote for". Sure the Bush administration is worse than a Kerry administration, but they were substantially different enough for me, and I am not too lazy to excercise my right to vote. People don't seem to notice that the anti-evil candidate is also an evil candidate. I have voted for Nader since 2000. Btw Nader got 5.5 million votes in 2000 and he *still* has not been allowed into a debate. The issues which he's talking about demilitarization, health care, free education, etc are not even allowed to be mentioned in the official debates, because there is an alternative.
We did not hear Bush and Kerry debate over how to get out of Iraq. They were talking about how to wage war. We will never be safe by waging war. Safety only comes from making friends, and the warmongers Bush AND KERRY have assured that we have a long road ahead of us to turning the survivors of our insane military agenda into friends.
I really wish you folks up in Canadia would stop blaming Conservatives and Liberals and just
get out and vote Marijuana Party and legalize it already!
If the fascist government wants to monitor every phone conversation that would be fine
as long as they are high, they won't remember what you say anyways, thus preserving your
right to privacy!
It has been years since I administered Solaris 8 machines. I recall ftping packages and dependencies :)
:)
from a sunfreeware ftp site, but the selection was very limited compared to the number of official Debian packages, and there was no nice facility like apt for dependency autograbbing. It probably has improved since then, but apt-get on Solaris would be nice. Easier is better
tar xjf debian-opensolaris.tar.bz2
I don't know too much about solaris 10 (although I don't think it's improved much), but whenever I
get stuck on a solaris 8 machine, I get annoyed by some of the commands. tar xvzf does not work,
I have to gunzip -c | tar xvf -. Why can't I "du -sh", or "df -sh", and what is wrong with bash?
Bash is a great shell and it should certainly be the default over csh! Well I guess Solaris is rock
solid and has a lot going over Linux (like easy ACL support over NFS), and certainly bash and other free
software can be installed on Solaris machines, but I do recall having to compile LOTS of software by hand
and recompiling it all when certain zlib vulnerabilities were made known.
However, from my limited experience after using an easy-to-use distro like Debian GNU/Linux, working on a
Solaris system can be incredibly frustrating and maddening. If Debian/openSolaris solved all these problems
would I switch to Solaris x86? Maybe. It would certainly occupy a virtual machine image!
Actually many many people (I daresay most of them) who drive on SVO (straight vegetable oil) or vegetable oil used to make biodiesel do most of their driving to work and back every day.
:) I'll certainly pay an extra dollar or two a gallon to know I am using a sustainable fuel source and have somebody else do all the processing for me!
I think what you need to grasp is that it is not necessary for one fuel source to solve all problems, for it to be a good alternative fuel source and a step in the right direction. Right now what gets processed as waste, can be used to reduce fuel consumption. This solves two problems. Will a few people converting their diesel powereed vehicles eliminate all petroleum consumption? I don't think anyone made that claim. However, some research is being done to see if vegetable oil can be produced in the amounts necessary to petroleum as a fuel source in the USA:
http://www.unh.edu/p2/biodiesel/article_alge.html
I guarrantee you, neither I nor any of the researchers at university of new hampshire have trouble differentiating between a dollar and a cent.
I have not converted my car yet, because the conversion is quite expensive and processing fuel is a little too time consuming for me at this point, but as my car has a 12 gallon tank and I get around over 40 miles per gallon and on my lifestyle that requires me to fill up the tank a little more than once a month. The local restaurants produce WVO at a rate much higher than I can burn it, and they pay to dispose of it. True if enough people started doing this, waste vegetable oil from restaurants would not be enough to meet the demand. Those who convert soon, have the opportunity to store large amounts of filtered oil in drums to avoid having to purchase un-used vegetable oil. They are also talking about converting the local mushroom farm (which went out of business) to a farm that just grows high oil yield crops and producing biodiesel there
You keep believing that. If someone out to steal your mail can log in as Administrator on the system where the mail is stored, he or she can just look at that databases directly. Or access the backups. Or grant himself rights and then modify the logs to hide his track. Or read the SMTP traffic going over the wire. The only way I'd trust no one could read my mail was if the sender had encrypted it with a pre-shared secret.
Try NOSCRIPT. I cannot visit a website without it. You can choose what javascripts to allow: https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/722/\\ Don't blame slashdot. It's all about the $$
I actually just odered a quad PIII 700 with 4 GB of RAM, for $280 off EBAY. I did not get a great deal, just paid market value because I was in a hurry to buy. Shop around and you may find some low end hardware which will meet your budgetary constraints. This machine is going to run VMWARE and hopefully it will allow me to get rid of some of the junk I am accumulating.
that is a really good idea!
:)
Perhaps a farsighted individual can start implementing the alternate mapping scheme ADNS
and registering people in the one ADNS root server in the world
phantomlord was inaccurate: "Further, the products will likely not be branded as such and there is no way to know if we're currently consuming products from cloned animals." I am vegan, so I have a way to know if I'm currently consuming products from cloned animals. Unless they are injecting
clone cowmilk in my black coffee, or someone is sneaking a cloned cow into my pot of garbanzo beans when I am not looking, I am fairly certain I'm not
consuming any animal products cloned or otherwise.
How do you know that that PO box belongs to e360?
I don't think it works that way. It is a DNS blocklist, so I think when you wnat to check if some
IP is a spammer you do a DNS lookup on 12.43.23.43.sbl.spamhaus.org. I think the preceding
sentence may not be 100% accurate, but what is basically true it does not matter what the A record for
www.spamhaus.org is for the blocklist to work. The domains ending with sbl.spamhaus.org and xbl.spamhaus.org
are pretty important.
They could do use a different domain name, but it doesn't look like they are planning on doing that.
Agreed, and just because Ubuntu comes from South Africa, does not mean Paul Manger of Johannesburg's University of the Witwatersrand knows what he is talking about. Also, what exactly is his basis for saying that a rat outwittes a dolphin. Has he gotten them to sit down to a game of chess? I'll wait until I see a goldfish using a sponge as a tool.
Ps: My dog outwits me all the time as do the rabbits who get through my fence and eat all my broccoli. I hope some alien researcher does not make generalizations about our species based on observing me!
No you are wrong! I saw it in the A-team! BA (Barracus) duct-taped an automobile engine to a propeller and a bunch
of 2x4s and made a plane that Murdoch (not Ian Murdoch) said he could pilot. Then Face hit BA on the back
of the head, and they loaded everyone into the plane and took off with the cool theme music playing.
"I love it when a plan comes together"
I think the title "Study says Coffee Protect Against Cirrhosis" is misleading.
The title of the actual article is phrased as a question. From the article
we see no conclusions being drawn:
"This is not a recommendation to drink coffee, nor is it a recommendation that the way to deal with heavy alcohol consumption is to drink more coffee," warns Klatsky, who adds that the observational nature of the data may limit its interpretation.
Do the slashdot submitters have some additional data that the researchers did not? I think the only claims we
should make are that there are correlations between coffee (not caffeinated beverage) consumption and liver
life. I didn't see the data but I am not clear from the article if they even compared groups who drank
similar amounts of alchohol each day as coffee drinkers and not coffee drinkers. It could be that coffee
drinkers who drink alchohol tend to drink less and tea drinkers who drink alchohol tend to drink the same.
We all know that decreasing alchohol consumption protects against liver disease.
Have you tried pomegranate juice? I do 1/5 pomegranate juice to 4/5 water. It's delicious! And I hate regular fruit juice.
What was the WallaceOS that he claimed he was unable to market due to the market abuse of the Linux-conglomerate?
You can run cygwin.
Palm oil is also used as a replacement for hydrogenated oils because it is so stable at higher temperatures. That might make it a bad choice for starting your car in the winter!
l )
Mustard oil was what UNH is recommending for New England vegetable oil producers a while back.
Oil-producing algae might also hold some promise. (http://www.unh.edu/p2/biodiesel/article_alge.htm
The Rhizome Collective also does a lot of hopeful stuff. We all have to learn to cut back
our energy consumption and start producing our own energy by whatever wind, solar, mechanical
or other technologies we can wrap our brains and our fingers around! I can give up my car,
but I do not want to give up my computer. I guess mass starvation is a more serious concern however.
I don't know if the codeweavers binary is dependent on a certain kernel version or library that may become obsolete. Or perhaps 4 years from now all images will be stored in jpg.bz2 format, and Picasa will no longer be useful without the ability to update it. Use your imagination!
"This, however, will be transparent to Linux users, when they download, install, and run the free program on their systems."
After becoming enlightened by RMS, I hesitate to call any binary only code "free". It is free
to install and become dependent on their binary code, but when they stop supporting it and it no longer works, it may create a lot of trouble for you. Perhaps it should be called "free" as in free nicotine or cocaine or heroin, or something more addictive than beer.
1984 aspects of this aside, real traffic modelling requires this type of system.
Anyone who has ever been stuck in rush hour going into a major city knows that driving
15 miles an hour and coming to a hard stop every 4 minutes is not the most efficient way
to do things. If we could feed all our driving data to computers and get our Queueing Theory experts on the job then we could design fault tolerant traffic control systems.
When you get on the highway, open up that laptop or watch a DVD because Big Brother will make sure you get there faster and more safely than you could yourself.
Actually there was a very similar case of Texas meat-producers against Howard Lyman (www.madcowboy.com) who said on the Oprah Winfrey show that who said something to the effect that mad cow disease would be a grave threat within the United States if nothing was done about it. He was sued under the Texas
Food Disparagement Laws, and the burden of proof lay upon him. If you could not prove that mad cow disease would be a threat (time proved him right) at the time, he would have been held accountable. His lawyers got him off the hook because he said "I believe" before his statements. So if you go around saying out of honest belief that global warming can threaten the ecosystem, oil companies can sue you in the grand ole USA.
Could that be why we have the worst possible reporting in the USA and the least informed public?
I have to admit kickstart is pretty cool. Progeny has a Debian install CD which supports kickstart. However in our environment, we have found systemimager (www.systemimager.org or apt-get install systemimager) to be more useful. Systemimager works with Debian and Ubuntu and rpm based distros too if you can get the rpms.
I think you might have gotten burned by running an unstable or unsupported package once, but since I have been running debian stable on many machines since 1997 (although many only applies to the last few years), I have not had any problems with apt! Also I've never been to #debian, but I have gotten great help on the debian-user mailing list when I needed it! Thanks guys!
I do not run Debian testing, unless I intend to test and debug unsupported packages. This was a real problem with Woody being a little behind other releases, but with Sarge it is really not a problem anymore.
Does Fedora have the QA that Debian does? How is it at upgrading between versions? Also, is there an easy-to-install (meaning apt or yum) supported (meaning I don't have to go to joesrpms.dyndns.org) enlightenment package?
Just curious, why do you say that Ubuntu does not take security seriously?
I don't want to be in a religious Fedora versus Ubuntu or Debian war, because it's silly. I'll probably install Fedora in a virtual machine sometime soon.
Well having done over 400 Debian installs and 1 Ubuntu install (Breezy Badger), I feel comfortable saying that the installs are different. Sure you have the comfortable and simple Debian CUI, but you do not have to answer any questions! I think the entire installation asked me about 4 questions. It is easier than a Redhat install, but you get the advantage of the Debian package pool and the Debian package system. One oft overlooked feature of Debian is the sheer number of quality tested packages available. The installer works as well as Redhat's but you end up with a better system that has much more software easily available through apt. Ubuntu has a long way to go before it can come close to Debian's track record, but I think it's off to a good start.