However, I would appreciate it if someome were to work on a similar product (or a port) to Ubuntu.
I toyed with the idea, but with YaST and Anaconda/Kickstart being open source, why not just port YaST or Anaconda to Ubuntu? Heck, anaconda is already ported to Debian, right? Should be a piece of cake, no?
Men and women are different, even if the politically correct people don't want you to believe it
Now don't mod him down just because you don't agree with him. He's right, at least partially. Men and women are not only built differently, they think differently. He's absolutely, positively right. Studies show that men are more linear thinkers while women tend to think in circular patterns. Men are more big-picture thinkers, women pay more attention to detail.
This is not wrong. This is 100% right.
Now, are women less interested in IT? I doubt it. I personally know many women in the IT field, including many that are in it because they have always had a sincere interest in IT. I've also known several women who said they'd be interested in IT, if only they knew more about computers.
The fact is that girls and young women are not encouraged to pursue IT or computer science, so they don't. Career women are pointed towards administrative, HR, or other areas where women dominate. This isn't just due to interest, it's due to societal pressure on them to not learn tech skills because appearing too geeky would make them unattractive or get them to be socially shunned.
Education and information is the key weapon against trojans. Sure, that requires you to learn how to protect yourself and how to defend yourself against malware. You don't want to? Ok, then I don't want you in my net. Get outta here 'til you learned how to operate safely in an environment where your clueless, careless actions cause harm to other people!
Wow. Here, have some lemonade. We tried that, remember? We tried to educate the clueless during the 'September that never ended' period, and we failed. Fact is there are more sheeple than are clueful people on the Net. Far more.
Let's just stop trying. The clueless will take care of themselves. They'll get canceled by their ISPs, their computers in a permanent state of disrepair. If geeks just stop helping the idiots, the Net'll be a lot better off.
Nah. Never let a naive end-user keep his money. We make too much cash from these people.;)
In fairness to the GP post, his statement is accurate. People were paid to develop IIS and therefore can be called professionals and MS is a well known name. If that makes him sleep better at night and doesn't mind throwing his money around for that solution and its artificial restrictions, so be it.
People were paid to develop Apache. Open source != everybody worked for free.
Or they'll vaporize the universe with this contraption. I suppose somebody's out there looking to make a weapon out of the thing.
Probably. Many major scientific breakthroughs have come from researchers working on weapons technology. And vice-versa -- many new weapons technologies have come from researchers working on scientific breakthroughs.
Imagine causing all of the atoms in a tank to repel each other. Messy.
Automatix is hardly even necessary on Ubuntu today anyhow. Most of those 'illegal' codecs, libdvdcss, etc., and Java, Flash, etc., can and will be installed on first access. Restricted drivers now have a restricted drivers manager.
It would seem, since no one is being taken to court on an illegal act, that they did not. That it were a civil issue why are music stations not suing for redress. Herer's a thought, if Wired thinks SoundExchange is breaking the law, report them to the law. Is that not what we do if we see a crime taking place?
It's not that simple. If SoundExchange is violating the law, it is probably a civil matter and not a criminal matter. Law enforcement doesn't do anything and is not responsible for enforcing civil law, only criminal law.
If they are violating civil law, well, as for why music stations aren't suing...well, people with a legitimate legal beef don't always sue. There are plenty of reasons why they don't.
Look at this way: Microsoft violated the law with its Windows licensing scheme, right? I mean, a federal circuit court judge even said so, right? So why didn't the OEMs, who were harmed by this illegal licensing scheme, sue Microsoft? Mostly economic reasons. They didn't want to fight Microsoft's army of lawyers, sure, but they also didn't want Microsoft to cut them off from Windows and Office licenses.
I suspect there are similar reasons why music stations aren't suing SoundExchange.
Simple solution: Have someone else, who has no ties to Lyons take over the blog. It's not that hard to write stuff like that and I'd imagine that anyone has been reading the FSJ blog for sometime with a decent sense of humor and some writing skills could pick it up pretty easily.
Anyone who thinks Exchange is a great tool has probably never performed administration of a production Exchange server.
Exchange is a sysadmin's nightmare. It's great from the end-user's point of view, but from the sysadmin's point of view, it's flaky and broken and crashes if you breath on it too hard.
Neither, in some countries it can be used to obtain illegal software...Automatix in itself is no more illegal than Firefox or Internet Explorer Exactly. I can download the same packages that it does with any Web browser or wget. The summary is inaccurate when it says that the package is 'illegal'. If the package is illegal, then so is Firefox and wget, both of which can be used to download packages that may be in violation of the DMCA or of patent laws or of the GPL (as in the case of nVidia or ATI drivers).
As TFA points out, it also gives dubious legal advice. Downloading MP3 codecs or Win32 codecs is far from a crime in the United States. For example, for the Microsoft-created codecs like WMA or WMV, Microsoft only requests that you have a Windows license in order to download them, but does nothing to prevent you from downloading them (WGA checks are not required, for instance.) It could be argued that as long as one has a valid Windows license, using them on Linux is not illegal. As for MP3 or other patent-encumbered codecs, it is a violation of patent law to distribute such codecs. Whether it is a violation of patent law to use or download these codecs without paying a license is a legal gray area.
OTOH, downloading libdvdcss may, in fact, be a violation of the DMCA.
Note that I'm not a lawyer, and if you're looking for legal advice, go pay one.
I've been married for about 2.5 years now. I agree, a lot of this stuff isn't a problem. We have separate e-mail accounts (why would you have it any other way?), separate computers, etc.
The only thing that's become a sore spot is the difference in hardware. When she moved in, she had her own PC, which was, due to her lack of understanding about hardware and software, an e-Machines with 1.2 Ghz Celeron, crappy Intel 810 graphics, and 256 MB of RAM, with Windows Me (gak!) loaded on it.
She noticed that I never had the problems with my computer that she had with viruses and spyware and other malware. Her computer was so infested it would slow to a crawl. Sure, I had downloaded a some anti-virus tools and stuff, but still even with Windows XP (which I loaded from her install CD), the machine was just dead slow.
So she actually begged me to install Linux on the thing. So I installed it, and she loved it. THen she noticed how I had all the pretty 3D screensavers and desktop effects and that Google Earth and Stellarium actually updated smoothly on my box. I explained that it was because I had an NVIDIA graphics card with decent acceleration, and the i810 was basically junk. I had an extra graphics card that I was going to load into the box when I noticed it didn't have any AGP slots(!)
Anyway, after maxing out the RAM to 512M, and so forth, she just wasn't happy with the machine.
So now she has a better machine than I have! Yes, my non-geek wife has a better computer than me. And I am root!
*sigh*
After the credit card gets paid off, I'll be getting a new machine. I made her agree to that.
And if you believe that affects your everyday life in a very personal way, you should go find another site to read.
Whether I (or anyone else) does or not, it doesn't matter. In the context of teaching math, math is math. Whether it's used for astronomy or astrology makes no difference.
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And that would be the other reason why music stations don't sue. You can't sue if you can't pay the lawyers.
The Ubuntu text-mode nstaller does support Kickstart-based automated installs.
I toyed with the idea, but with YaST and Anaconda/Kickstart being open source, why not just port YaST or Anaconda to Ubuntu? Heck, anaconda is already ported to Debian, right? Should be a piece of cake, no?
Well, it's because LISP stands for Lots of Infuriating Superfluous Parentheses.
Now don't mod him down just because you don't agree with him. He's right, at least partially. Men and women are not only built differently, they think differently. He's absolutely, positively right. Studies show that men are more linear thinkers while women tend to think in circular patterns. Men are more big-picture thinkers, women pay more attention to detail.
This is not wrong. This is 100% right.
Now, are women less interested in IT? I doubt it. I personally know many women in the IT field, including many that are in it because they have always had a sincere interest in IT. I've also known several women who said they'd be interested in IT, if only they knew more about computers.
The fact is that girls and young women are not encouraged to pursue IT or computer science, so they don't. Career women are pointed towards administrative, HR, or other areas where women dominate. This isn't just due to interest, it's due to societal pressure on them to not learn tech skills because appearing too geeky would make them unattractive or get them to be socially shunned.
Wow. Here, have some lemonade. We tried that, remember? We tried to educate the clueless during the 'September that never ended' period, and we failed. Fact is there are more sheeple than are clueful people on the Net. Far more.
Let's just stop trying. The clueless will take care of themselves. They'll get canceled by their ISPs, their computers in a permanent state of disrepair. If geeks just stop helping the idiots, the Net'll be a lot better off.
Nah. Never let a naive end-user keep his money. We make too much cash from these people.
People were paid to develop Apache. Open source != everybody worked for free.
So? The config files are drop-dead easy. Easier than poking your way through a GUI maze, IMHO.
No. Thanks to a few necromancers, BSD is now officially undead. Netcraft confirms it!
No, no, I'm afraid, GrekPK, that it's only you.
OMG, tt's yarn! The brain is full of yarn!
Osama? Is that you?
Probably. Many major scientific breakthroughs have come from researchers working on weapons technology. And vice-versa -- many new weapons technologies have come from researchers working on scientific breakthroughs.
Imagine causing all of the atoms in a tank to repel each other. Messy.
Oh, well, then I guess we're not going to leave it up the guys who made the original lenses on the Hubble, now are we?
Automatix is hardly even necessary on Ubuntu today anyhow. Most of those 'illegal' codecs, libdvdcss, etc., and Java, Flash, etc., can and will be installed on first access. Restricted drivers now have a restricted drivers manager.
It's not that simple. If SoundExchange is violating the law, it is probably a civil matter and not a criminal matter. Law enforcement doesn't do anything and is not responsible for enforcing civil law, only criminal law.
If they are violating civil law, well, as for why music stations aren't suing...well, people with a legitimate legal beef don't always sue. There are plenty of reasons why they don't.
Look at this way: Microsoft violated the law with its Windows licensing scheme, right? I mean, a federal circuit court judge even said so, right? So why didn't the OEMs, who were harmed by this illegal licensing scheme, sue Microsoft? Mostly economic reasons. They didn't want to fight Microsoft's army of lawyers, sure, but they also didn't want Microsoft to cut them off from Windows and Office licenses.
I suspect there are similar reasons why music stations aren't suing SoundExchange.
Simple solution: Have someone else, who has no ties to Lyons take over the blog. It's not that hard to write stuff like that and I'd imagine that anyone has been reading the FSJ blog for sometime with a decent sense of humor and some writing skills could pick it up pretty easily.
Anyone who thinks Exchange is a great tool has probably never performed administration of a production Exchange server.
Exchange is a sysadmin's nightmare. It's great from the end-user's point of view, but from the sysadmin's point of view, it's flaky and broken and crashes if you breath on it too hard.
The same thing that network file systems have to do with Samba, I think.
As TFA points out, it also gives dubious legal advice. Downloading MP3 codecs or Win32 codecs is far from a crime in the United States. For example, for the Microsoft-created codecs like WMA or WMV, Microsoft only requests that you have a Windows license in order to download them, but does nothing to prevent you from downloading them (WGA checks are not required, for instance.) It could be argued that as long as one has a valid Windows license, using them on Linux is not illegal. As for MP3 or other patent-encumbered codecs, it is a violation of patent law to distribute such codecs. Whether it is a violation of patent law to use or download these codecs without paying a license is a legal gray area.
OTOH, downloading libdvdcss may, in fact, be a violation of the DMCA.
Note that I'm not a lawyer, and if you're looking for legal advice, go pay one.
Don't ask me. I'm married. ;)
I've been married for about 2.5 years now. I agree, a lot of this stuff isn't a problem. We have separate e-mail accounts (why would you have it any other way?), separate computers, etc.
The only thing that's become a sore spot is the difference in hardware. When she moved in, she had her own PC, which was, due to her lack of understanding about hardware and software, an e-Machines with 1.2 Ghz Celeron, crappy Intel 810 graphics, and 256 MB of RAM, with Windows Me (gak!) loaded on it.
She noticed that I never had the problems with my computer that she had with viruses and spyware and other malware. Her computer was so infested it would slow to a crawl. Sure, I had downloaded a some anti-virus tools and stuff, but still even with Windows XP (which I loaded from her install CD), the machine was just dead slow.
So she actually begged me to install Linux on the thing. So I installed it, and she loved it. THen she noticed how I had all the pretty 3D screensavers and desktop effects and that Google Earth and Stellarium actually updated smoothly on my box. I explained that it was because I had an NVIDIA graphics card with decent acceleration, and the i810 was basically junk. I had an extra graphics card that I was going to load into the box when I noticed it didn't have any AGP slots(!)
Anyway, after maxing out the RAM to 512M, and so forth, she just wasn't happy with the machine.
So now she has a better machine than I have! Yes, my non-geek wife has a better computer than me. And I am root!
*sigh*
After the credit card gets paid off, I'll be getting a new machine. I made her agree to that.
Speak for yourself. I've been married for two years.
You mean parthenogenic. It means conception of an egg into an embryo without the male sperm (or any other male fertilization).
Yes, in some species, this occurs in nature.
(See? We men aren't useful for much except for fixing cars and hauling around heavy objects.
Because it wasn't previously thought possible.
Whether I (or anyone else) does or not, it doesn't matter. In the context of teaching math, math is math. Whether it's used for astronomy or astrology makes no difference.