Communism is/not/ Cuba, China, the USSR or the DRPK.
Wonder why nobody comes up and says that fascism wasn't Mussolini's Italy, and Hitler's Germany wasn't actually nazist in the proper sense. It's baffling how leftists have come up with nothing but excuses for failures like the former USSR (quite a few dozen million people killed, remember?) or the whole of Eastern Europe. Face it, people, when one doctrine constantly leads to poverty, lack of freedom and people getting killed, it's a bit embarrassing to hold on to it so fiercely.
Also, you only point out s terminology problem. However, these countries are on the way to communism, in a certain stage on that way, so what? Does it work? Is there any result in sight? What do you think?
I'm biased, but hey, I live in one of those countries that "were on the way to communism". Get a life people, it's time to look for something else. Communism has FAILED.
I also live in Romania, and I beg to differ about most businesses having valid licenses. Maybe those that have been visited by the BSA do (I worked for one, and they had pirated stuff until they were paid a visit by the "beloved" agency), but otherwise, the habits of people are hard to change. Also, if that were true, it couldn't account for the 70% piracy rate.
I used to be the part-time IT person for a small firm (~10 employees) - they were the local branch of an English company. It was the English main office who had to push them to get valid Windows and Office licenses (and provided the funds), and after that they were still installing pirated stuff on their computers, even if the base components were licensed.
Consider that the drive I bought at Costco 10 years ago (500MB) costs on the order of 500 to 1000 times more (that's almost two magnitudes) than storage today, and that Microsoft continues to charge at the same rate -- they even seem to adjust for inflation.
Except that there was and still is competition between hard drive manufacturers. As far as I can tell, the same hasn't been true for the OS market for some time, at least as far as OEMs are concerned.
According to the Romanian press, the most somebody paid for a castle was 58 million euros, while the current owner asks for 60. So, I don't see that price going up so much, given that there are so many other castles which are maybe more interesting.
I can't help but notice how idiotic the authorities have been (I'm Romanian). I agree that property confiscated in communist times should be returned or refunded, but in this case a refund would've been more appropriate, instead of inviting the owner to speculate on the Dracula association and get rich.
There is also some agreement with the owner to keep the castle's status as a museum, but I don't know if they thought about the case when it would be sold away when they made the said agreement.
Recalling the Extradition Treaty and accompanying Protocol between the United States of America and the [*16] Republic of Poland signed at Warsaw November 22, 1927 and the Supplementary Extradition Treaty signed at Warsaw April 5, 1935
Dunno about Poland, and I don't mean to support the GP's general US bashing, but there were at least two cases of American soldiers who've killed people in car accidents in Romania, only to be quickly taken out of the country and made to stand a mock trial in the States, where they would be invariably found not guilty, or given some joke sentence. One of them killed a Romanian rock star, otherwise the whole thing might've been whitewashed. Here's somearticles
about that.
Not to mention the 'hotshots' that ran into a cable car wire in Italy, killing 20 people, only to be charged in the US and acquitted. So, I would say that the GP's doubts about the US's fairness in dealing with its own people that commit crimes abroad aren't completely unfounded. Not to mention that having a certain extradition treaty doesn't mean the US applies it.
Disclaimer: I've nothing against decent, ordinary americans who can't be made responsible for the arrogance of their government. However, it's appalling to see that there are some who are unaware of their own government's wrongdoings, and then think it's just some bad people that have a problem with the US.
I checked out 2.0, and the only noticeable "improvement" over 1.5.0 that I noticed was that the "raise IM window on events" setting was now off by default and missing from the configuration menu.
I'm using Yahoo! Messenger on Windows (and the respective gaim plugin on Linux), and one of the first things I do is I turn off sounds - I find them irritating at best. I also hate the tabs feature in gaim, it's so easy to have somebody talk to you without you noticing because, oh wait, it's in a different tab. I prefer the Windows behaviour (separate Windows, flashing if there's some activity), so I disable tabs and, in 1.5 I would set the "raise IM window" option. I think most people that use YM on Windows find that comfortable, so why it was removed from the GUI is beyond me.
Also, the time it took to release 4 betas, and the rate at which the project page is updated, make me think that gaim is not exactly one of the most active OSS projects. It's stable enough for me and more comfortable to use than Kopete, but I don't see it evolving too much in the near future.
Forwarding requires recursion turned on. However, you can set up internal root nameservers which have a trimmed-down version of the DNS namespace, and also slave the zones you're interested in. This can be done very well with BIND.
I can understand that a reboot is necessary, given the details you provide. However, don't you find it embarassing that a browser install requires a reboot?
I double-boot Windows and Linux at work. I use mostly Linux (SuSE) and their automatic update feature is quite painless - you only have to reboot on kernel updates, which aren't that common. However, it always pisses me off when I restart to Windows and I have to restart another 10 times to install all patches that came out in the meantime. This is godawful embarassing, no matter the excuse, especially for a 'modern' operating system.
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I wonder, is the parent trying to be funny? Or is it involuntarily funny?
According to the article the a video is flagged only when a YouTube employee reviews the video - at the request of the community - and decides that it should be flagged. Do you have any references that say the article got it wrong?
Ah, come on people, stop being ridiculous. How much are you using YouTube? There's a ridiculous amount of harmless videos flagged as 'inappropriate', and teenagerish black metal videos with nudity which aren't. I'm guessing the review by the YouTube employee is a mere formality, if it's not actually 'automated'. For fsck's sake, they have 60 employees, and millions of videos and users, they can't keep up with that.
It seems somebody is trying to play paranoid here, but comes out ridiculous. It's not a problem of the political orientation of the reporting site, it's just that their article is completely baseless, because of the inefficient flagging system on YouTube.
This is *soo* broken. The search list is used first in lookups, and then if it fails a query is sent for the name without the search "suffix" - at least that's what nslookup does on my SuSE 9.1 box. So all you are doing is causing apps to make an extra bogus lookup, and then fallback to the initial query which will produce the same result.
Well, it's just as convenient to type:./configure
make
su -c "make install"
At least on Linux, I believe; IIRC, on Solaris you had to give a different argument to 'su', but still, you get the idea.
I think Ghost has a few problems of its own. I remember making some images after some NTFS partitions at a small company using Norton Ghost 8 (IIRC), and then after a while one of the original partitions got somehow trashed. I tried restoring the image and it worked until 97%, when it failed for some stupid reason. The partition was 'kind of' recovered, a lot of files were corrupted, and some chkdsk runs were required (plus a Windows XP repair) to mend things.
They document this problem in their knowledge base, where they tell you to run ghost with some obscure option in order to properly deal with fragmentation - why the hell isn't that option the default?
Also, my dad got this Acer laptop, and the recovery CD was using Ghost. But guess what - the image was for a FAT32 drive! Now, why would that be?
I'm working on a C++ project that uses Eclipse 3.1 as one of the development environments right now, and I have to say it might have a great future when it becomes usable. It might be great for Java, but the C++ features are lousy at best - it does some Makefile generation and management behind its back, but you don't get to see any of that, which could help when something doesn't work.
C/C++ mode also doesn't feel too stable, it's easy to disrupt your project settings and then go through all those settings, re-adding library after library, link directory after directory... And it doesn't have automake integration, which is a minus compared to KDevelop, I would say. I don't think we have the latest C++ support, but it's still part of something advertised as a stable release.
By the way, I didn't mention the slowness, since there were quite a few others to point it out! It's so damn slow for me too at 512 MB of RAM.
What you said might apply for software that runs on a big number of platforms (10 platforms? that's quite a lot), but not all software is cross-platform. Also, if your QA takes more than a year to test a bugfix, then there's something really, really wrong with it.
I think your management should spend some time thinking whether it's not actually the way the process is designed that makes things slow. Tests can be run in parallel, so there's really no reason for them to last months (unless bureaucracy steps in big time), IMO.
I worked on mission critical software that ran on three platforms, and a response time of a few days was really slow, especially for minor stuff. A fix once took a month or so, but that's because it required non-trivial changes, so I'm actually counting time spent coding the fix in this. Testing was quite fast afterwards.
It seems the most accurate explanation of cache poisoning is lost beneath most people's threshold - please mod it up. Yeah, I know it replicates information from djb's article, but it's still useful for lazy people:).
Note however that finding out what servers to trust when you get an A record for www.yahoo.com in the additional section (or something like ns1.yahoo.com which is probably more likely to be spoofed) requires an extra DNS lookup in some cases - your nameserver can't possibly know which servers are authoritative for yahoo.com without an extra query. djb doesn't say how he achieves this in the article, it would've been an interesting read.
Also, you can use any other record that has a domain name in the rdata (or right hand side), like MX and SRV, for example.
I think there are only 50 or so Romanian words that linguists are sure they come from Dacian. How? Albanian is a descendant of an ancient Thracian tongue, and those words can be found in Albanian, too. Of course, there are a few thousand with an unknown origin, but you can't assume all of them come from Dacian.
About your statement that there are two cases, see my answer to belmolis' post. And work on your grammar - you named 4 separate cases, but you seem to think they are the same two by two, which is incorrect. We have three tenses: past, present and future, and 8 modes, so saying the verb system is symplified is at least wildly inaccurate. I wonder how your letters look like, they must be pretty funny to read:D. There are two kinds of future tense actually, future 1 and future 2. future 2 is something like "voi fi facut...".
Using "o sa..." for future 1 is very... umm... non-literary. You can use "va/vom/vor/voi...", which is the literary way.
belmolis, how familiar are you with Romanian? We have 5 cases: nominative, genitive, dative, accusative, vocative. I should know, I'm a native speaker of Romanian.
Saying Romanian is almost like Latin is stupid. It resembles French a lot more than Latin (if I remember correctly, 20% of Romanian words come from Latin, 40% from French, including but not limited to lots of neologisms). We have a lot of words from Slavic, too, also from Turkish, etc. Some of the words are strikingly similar to counterparts in vulgar latin, but that's because we didn't have contact with other Latin peoples since early in the Middle Ages.
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Care to quote a specific technical spec? As far as I know they specify procedures for IPv4, IPv6 and IPv4v6.
Wonder why nobody comes up and says that fascism wasn't Mussolini's Italy, and Hitler's Germany wasn't actually nazist in the proper sense. It's baffling how leftists have come up with nothing but excuses for failures like the former USSR (quite a few dozen million people killed, remember?) or the whole of Eastern Europe. Face it, people, when one doctrine constantly leads to poverty, lack of freedom and people getting killed, it's a bit embarrassing to hold on to it so fiercely.
Also, you only point out s terminology problem. However, these countries are on the way to communism, in a certain stage on that way, so what? Does it work? Is there any result in sight? What do you think?
I'm biased, but hey, I live in one of those countries that "were on the way to communism". Get a life people, it's time to look for something else. Communism has FAILED.
I also live in Romania, and I beg to differ about most businesses having valid licenses. Maybe those that have been visited by the BSA do (I worked for one, and they had pirated stuff until they were paid a visit by the "beloved" agency), but otherwise, the habits of people are hard to change. Also, if that were true, it couldn't account for the 70% piracy rate. I used to be the part-time IT person for a small firm (~10 employees) - they were the local branch of an English company. It was the English main office who had to push them to get valid Windows and Office licenses (and provided the funds), and after that they were still installing pirated stuff on their computers, even if the base components were licensed.
Call it nitpicking, but it's Aldous Huxley - if you want to advertise the book, do it right :).
Except that there was and still is competition between hard drive manufacturers. As far as I can tell, the same hasn't been true for the OS market for some time, at least as far as OEMs are concerned.
According to the Romanian press, the most somebody paid for a castle was 58 million euros, while the current owner asks for 60. So, I don't see that price going up so much, given that there are so many other castles which are maybe more interesting. I can't help but notice how idiotic the authorities have been (I'm Romanian). I agree that property confiscated in communist times should be returned or refunded, but in this case a refund would've been more appropriate, instead of inviting the owner to speculate on the Dracula association and get rich. There is also some agreement with the owner to keep the castle's status as a museum, but I don't know if they thought about the case when it would be sold away when they made the said agreement.
Dunno about Poland, and I don't mean to support the GP's general US bashing, but there were at least two cases of American soldiers who've killed people in car accidents in Romania, only to be quickly taken out of the country and made to stand a mock trial in the States, where they would be invariably found not guilty, or given some joke sentence. One of them killed a Romanian rock star, otherwise the whole thing might've been whitewashed. Here's some articles about that.
Not to mention the 'hotshots' that ran into a cable car wire in Italy, killing 20 people, only to be charged in the US and acquitted. So, I would say that the GP's doubts about the US's fairness in dealing with its own people that commit crimes abroad aren't completely unfounded. Not to mention that having a certain extradition treaty doesn't mean the US applies it.
Disclaimer: I've nothing against decent, ordinary americans who can't be made responsible for the arrogance of their government. However, it's appalling to see that there are some who are unaware of their own government's wrongdoings, and then think it's just some bad people that have a problem with the US.
I checked out 2.0, and the only noticeable "improvement" over 1.5.0 that I noticed was that the "raise IM window on events" setting was now off by default and missing from the configuration menu. I'm using Yahoo! Messenger on Windows (and the respective gaim plugin on Linux), and one of the first things I do is I turn off sounds - I find them irritating at best. I also hate the tabs feature in gaim, it's so easy to have somebody talk to you without you noticing because, oh wait, it's in a different tab. I prefer the Windows behaviour (separate Windows, flashing if there's some activity), so I disable tabs and, in 1.5 I would set the "raise IM window" option. I think most people that use YM on Windows find that comfortable, so why it was removed from the GUI is beyond me. Also, the time it took to release 4 betas, and the rate at which the project page is updated, make me think that gaim is not exactly one of the most active OSS projects. It's stable enough for me and more comfortable to use than Kopete, but I don't see it evolving too much in the near future.
Forwarding requires recursion turned on. However, you can set up internal root nameservers which have a trimmed-down version of the DNS namespace, and also slave the zones you're interested in. This can be done very well with BIND.
BIND also provides exactly this through forward zones, nothing spectacular here.
I double-boot Windows and Linux at work. I use mostly Linux (SuSE) and their automatic update feature is quite painless - you only have to reboot on kernel updates, which aren't that common. However, it always pisses me off when I restart to Windows and I have to restart another 10 times to install all patches that came out in the meantime. This is godawful embarassing, no matter the excuse, especially for a 'modern' operating system.
I wonder, is the parent trying to be funny? Or is it involuntarily funny?
Ah, come on people, stop being ridiculous. How much are you using YouTube? There's a ridiculous amount of harmless videos flagged as 'inappropriate', and teenagerish black metal videos with nudity which aren't. I'm guessing the review by the YouTube employee is a mere formality, if it's not actually 'automated'. For fsck's sake, they have 60 employees, and millions of videos and users, they can't keep up with that.
It seems somebody is trying to play paranoid here, but comes out ridiculous. It's not a problem of the political orientation of the reporting site, it's just that their article is completely baseless, because of the inefficient flagging system on YouTube.
I guess you mean a retail copy of XP, right? OEM copies can't be moved. There's a bit of a price difference between the two.
This is *soo* broken. The search list is used first in lookups, and then if it fails a query is sent for the name without the search "suffix" - at least that's what nslookup does on my SuSE 9.1 box. So all you are doing is causing apps to make an extra bogus lookup, and then fallback to the initial query which will produce the same result.
Well, it's just as convenient to type: ./configure
make
su -c "make install"
At least on Linux, I believe; IIRC, on Solaris you had to give a different argument to 'su', but still, you get the idea.
...is a brand of mineral water in Finland: http://www.hartwallnovelle.fi/ :D. Not quite the same as Novell.
Maybe you meant ntfsclone (http://linux-ntfs.sourceforge.net/man/ntfsclone.h tml/), that's probably the best OSS Ghost replacement around. It's reportedly better than Ghost at backing up NTFS partitions.
I think Ghost has a few problems of its own. I remember making some images after some NTFS partitions at a small company using Norton Ghost 8 (IIRC), and then after a while one of the original partitions got somehow trashed. I tried restoring the image and it worked until 97%, when it failed for some stupid reason. The partition was 'kind of' recovered, a lot of files were corrupted, and some chkdsk runs were required (plus a Windows XP repair) to mend things. They document this problem in their knowledge base, where they tell you to run ghost with some obscure option in order to properly deal with fragmentation - why the hell isn't that option the default? Also, my dad got this Acer laptop, and the recovery CD was using Ghost. But guess what - the image was for a FAT32 drive! Now, why would that be?
I'm working on a C++ project that uses Eclipse 3.1 as one of the development environments right now, and I have to say it might have a great future when it becomes usable. It might be great for Java, but the C++ features are lousy at best - it does some Makefile generation and management behind its back, but you don't get to see any of that, which could help when something doesn't work. C/C++ mode also doesn't feel too stable, it's easy to disrupt your project settings and then go through all those settings, re-adding library after library, link directory after directory... And it doesn't have automake integration, which is a minus compared to KDevelop, I would say. I don't think we have the latest C++ support, but it's still part of something advertised as a stable release. By the way, I didn't mention the slowness, since there were quite a few others to point it out! It's so damn slow for me too at 512 MB of RAM.
What you said might apply for software that runs on a big number of platforms (10 platforms? that's quite a lot), but not all software is cross-platform. Also, if your QA takes more than a year to test a bugfix, then there's something really, really wrong with it. I think your management should spend some time thinking whether it's not actually the way the process is designed that makes things slow. Tests can be run in parallel, so there's really no reason for them to last months (unless bureaucracy steps in big time), IMO. I worked on mission critical software that ran on three platforms, and a response time of a few days was really slow, especially for minor stuff. A fix once took a month or so, but that's because it required non-trivial changes, so I'm actually counting time spent coding the fix in this. Testing was quite fast afterwards.
It seems the most accurate explanation of cache poisoning is lost beneath most people's threshold - please mod it up. Yeah, I know it replicates information from djb's article, but it's still useful for lazy people :).
Note however that finding out what servers to trust when you get an A record for www.yahoo.com in the additional section (or something like ns1.yahoo.com which is probably more likely to be spoofed) requires an extra DNS lookup in some cases - your nameserver can't possibly know which servers are authoritative for yahoo.com without an extra query. djb doesn't say how he achieves this in the article, it would've been an interesting read.
Also, you can use any other record that has a domain name in the rdata (or right hand side), like MX and SRV, for example.
I think there are only 50 or so Romanian words that linguists are sure they come from Dacian. How? Albanian is a descendant of an ancient Thracian tongue, and those words can be found in Albanian, too. Of course, there are a few thousand with an unknown origin, but you can't assume all of them come from Dacian. About your statement that there are two cases, see my answer to belmolis' post. And work on your grammar - you named 4 separate cases, but you seem to think they are the same two by two, which is incorrect. We have three tenses: past, present and future, and 8 modes, so saying the verb system is symplified is at least wildly inaccurate. I wonder how your letters look like, they must be pretty funny to read :D. There are two kinds of future tense actually, future 1 and future 2. future 2 is something like "voi fi facut...".
Using "o sa ..." for future 1 is very... umm... non-literary. You can use "va/vom/vor/voi ...", which is the literary way.
belmolis, how familiar are you with Romanian? We have 5 cases: nominative, genitive, dative, accusative, vocative. I should know, I'm a native speaker of Romanian. Saying Romanian is almost like Latin is stupid. It resembles French a lot more than Latin (if I remember correctly, 20% of Romanian words come from Latin, 40% from French, including but not limited to lots of neologisms). We have a lot of words from Slavic, too, also from Turkish, etc. Some of the words are strikingly similar to counterparts in vulgar latin, but that's because we didn't have contact with other Latin peoples since early in the Middle Ages.