Every year or two I have purchased a boxset of Red Hat to support them. I bought it at the local university bookstore. They can probably cost justify keeping places like that stocked with boxed sets.
"The only thing I know about Slovakia is what I learned first-hand from your foreign minister, who came to Texas."
-Then governor George W. Bush replying to a Slovak journalist. Bush met the leader of Slovenia, not Slovakia. Source: Knight Ridder News Service, June 22, 1999.
If Slovakia and geography in Central Europe in general seem to confuse you, you're not alone. As the quote above attests even US President George W. Bush had some learning to do in this area. And so, these set of questions and answers are meant to orient individuals with very little knowledge about Slovakia.
Wow, its so confusing it even confuses a genius Bush.
I would like it if C++0x defined a nice way to add on object orientated external libraries. Maybe like COM. Maybe then C++ would finally start building a big warehouse of libraries like Perl has in CPAN. The committee shouldn't be writing specific libraries -- only as examples.
OK, so its off topic.
But I always like to talk about my fav robot
that envolves water -- the mighty...
Metromelt
It melts snow. Since it makes water maybe it can be hooked up to one of these water jackhammers.
I bet the NSA wants us to keep using IPv4 as IPv6 has IPsec (crypto) build in. NSA is in the business of eavesdropping but the Pentagon don't like being eavesdropped.
Jabber Inc has a white paper saying why they think
Jabber's XMPP is better than SIP/SIMPLE...
The IM standards race
But don't believe them. Since you are reading Slashdot you can handle reading the real specs. XMPP is very reasonable and SIP is nuts. Just trying reading the spec.
It seems Microsoft has backed SIP/SIMPLE. This is
probably a political move. They cannot back XMPP since that's their "enemy".
Of course, they'd prefer it if every just used MSN. What a horrible world that would be.
In fact SIP/SIMPLE is so bad and far away from implementation that its good for them. And delay towards standardization is good for the company that owns the desktop and installs their IM client there.
I could never imagine using MSN -- every thing you type going thru a server in Redmond!
They'd also monitor when you took a coffee break.
I tried it out (downloaded, burned, booted). Sorry to say, it was not as impressive as I had hoped. Sure the windows appeared but none of the controls worked. All-in-all it seems a bit wonky. I guess it was just a very eary demo.
Since word processing is so common I think there should be a line in the bill that says what word processor format should be used. Open Office is the best one I know about (xml subfiles in a zip).
He said images on a website are too small to bother with. Well, how about a tarball of the entire site? With the home page at the front. It would be terrific if people didn't have to fear being slashdotted. It would be cool if an Apache module could be developed to detect when bandwidth reached over a certain level, made a tarball and only allowed Torrent download of that. Then later, reverted to normal.
Making a file system driver for BitTorrent - not possible too different? I don't buy that. I could be done. Of course, there'd be latency. Perhaps not handy of interactive use.
Also, how about new bowser protocol tag (like http://)... torrent://slashdotted.site.com Since Gnome's VFS already does smb: etc this would be a nice place to add it.
Well, English (the international language for all its faults) is far more widespread in India. I don't see China catching up in this area any time soon.
Of course, when China decides it wants to do something they can really go for it. They might say all students have to pass an tough English test before they graduate but this seems unlikely to me.
If you are interested in Orwell you might
also like this site:
orwelltoday...
it describes now the present has become "1984".
Too scary to read for very long.
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They can probably cost justify keeping places like that stocked with boxed sets.
And don't forget the stickers!
All part of Bush's War on Criticism
I would like it if C++0x defined a nice way to add on object orientated external libraries. Maybe like COM. Maybe then C++ would finally start building a big warehouse of libraries like Perl has in CPAN. The committee shouldn't be writing specific libraries -- only as examples.
Maybe time to rename it the Administrative Industrial Divisional Sector. ;-)
I understand your point but I don't buy it.
Just because a bug or defect is unlikely to occur
doesn't make it less of a defect to me.
I heard (just a rumor) that the USA was calling their cases "Pneumonia III" to avoid the stigma associated with SARS.
Sorry to be so obvious... but if space is the issue why use a 30% more space weird-format disk when you could burn a did that's 1000% more space.
Gotta mention... GnomeMeeting. VoIP for Linux.
OK, so its off topic. But I always like to talk about my fav robot that envolves water -- the mighty... Metromelt It melts snow. Since it makes water maybe it can be hooked up to one of these water jackhammers.
Or perhaps hacker spelling... instead of 747, its 7E7.
This would be mean a decrease in market share for IE (assuming Apple doesn't die) which is good for us Linux and standards-compliant browser users!
So, what's the catch?
I bet the NSA wants us to keep using IPv4 as IPv6 has IPsec (crypto) build in. NSA is in the business of eavesdropping but the Pentagon don't like being eavesdropped.
Successful test of a nano-tech "nose"... should be... Towards A Smellier Future
Yeah, but he talked about UWB not working over the air but instead over cable. Cable TV cable to be exact.
But don't believe them. Since you are reading Slashdot you can handle reading the real specs. XMPP is very reasonable and SIP is nuts. Just trying reading the spec.
It seems Microsoft has backed SIP/SIMPLE. This is probably a political move. They cannot back XMPP since that's their "enemy". Of course, they'd prefer it if every just used MSN. What a horrible world that would be. In fact SIP/SIMPLE is so bad and far away from implementation that its good for them. And delay towards standardization is good for the company that owns the desktop and installs their IM client there.
I could never imagine using MSN -- every thing you type going thru a server in Redmond! They'd also monitor when you took a coffee break.
Also Jabber supports SSL connections to the server.
Which isn't end-to-end but doesn't hurt.
(Replying to myself)
I tried it out (downloaded, burned, booted).
Sorry to say, it was not as impressive as I had hoped. Sure the windows appeared but none of the
controls worked. All-in-all it seems a bit wonky.
I guess it was just a very eary demo.
Since word processing is so common I think there should be a line in the bill that says what word processor format should be used. Open Office is the best one I know about (xml subfiles in a zip).
Wow, thanks.
Very interesting!
He said images on a website are too small to bother with. Well, how about a tarball of the entire site?
... torrent://slashdotted.site.com
With the home page at the front. It would be terrific if people didn't have to fear being slashdotted. It would be cool if an Apache module could be developed to detect when bandwidth reached over a certain level, made a tarball and only allowed Torrent download of that. Then later, reverted to normal.
Making a file system driver for BitTorrent - not possible too different? I don't buy that. I could be done. Of course, there'd be latency.
Perhaps not handy of interactive use.
Also, how about new bowser protocol tag (like http://)
Since Gnome's VFS already does smb: etc this
would be a nice place to add it.
It would have lots of advantages: use the drivers, packages for Linux, the best GUI for users and programs, no X.
Disadvantages: not open source, doesn't really belong in either world.
Of course, when China decides it wants to do something they can really go for it. They might say all students have to pass an tough English test before they graduate but this seems unlikely to me.
If you are interested in Orwell you might also like this site: orwelltoday... it describes now the present has become "1984". Too scary to read for very long.