I think you're resorting to some inverse megalomania.
Bill Gates has never shown any inclination to reach beyond the electronic realm with evil inclinations.
Quite to the contrary, The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation has given so much money away that I'm willing to bet that if they hadn't, Bill would still be on the top of the list.
You can pooh-pooh Microsoft for giving away computers loaded with Microsoft software to indoctrinate the next generation into their cult, but you can not fault Bill Gates for his charitable donations, because he gives large cash donations and other useful things as well.
I really don't think Bill is evil. Ruthless with his business yea, but not evil. And yea, I envy the money the guy has, but in the same situation, I'm not sure i could have accumulated it the same way, but since he did, I'm glad he's giving it away.
No different than rsh. Something better came along and so now we use ssh.
If slackware didn't come with ssh, and it was a major pain in the ass to install it (such as PAM is, even with the dropline packages), I'd still use something else, because it fit my needs better.
It's a shame that Slack will probably never have PAM, too.
You make very good points. Strangely enough, only one of them is among the reasons I'm moving our servers from Slack.
We need commercial support for some of the drivers we're going to be using for our fiber array, and Slack isn't among the choices (big surprise). RHEL is, and that will solve another problem that we've been running into.
There is no possible way to do a universal login / user management system with Slackware without rolling your own solution. And it is SO aggrivating.
I'm tired of telling my users that they have to change their password on all 12 of the servers they talk to, plus their samba passwords on each machine. I realize that Pat doesn't like PAM, but there needs to be support for it so that network-wide user administration is possible.
It's very possible to do a roll-your-own, where you write a daemon to go to each server, change the password, change the password on Samba, and for good measure, change the password on the mail servers, any odd FTP servers you might have running, and sure, why not change the password on the VPN box too, however that's a hell of a lot of scripting to accomplish something that LDAP already does, and quite well, to boot.
I wish I could continue to install Slack on the various servers, but I can't. There are going to be some machines that are always Slack, however. My network utilities (Zenoss server, externally facing web servers, machines that need no user interaction and don't rely on commercial drivers), but the majority of my new machines will be RHEL or Ubuntu (on the desktop).
I've used Slack for literally 10 years, and it makes me sad to have to do this.
Shocked quartz could solve the matter once and for all.
Trees standing near the impact site aren't that big of an anomaly, although they do point to an airborne explosion. IIRC some of the witnesses reported that there were standing trees, and modeling of the event (as well as other powerful explosions which occurred at an altitude) have left standing trees, edifaces, and so on, directly below the force of explosion.
Personally, I'm still hoping for Tesla's Death Ray
I completely agree. Wireless should be left for mobile machines. Your TV/audio/media wunder center should be hard wired, and with proper grounding to prevent excess noise. Do it right while you have the chance.
As a dying and irrelevant company, SCO aquires a linux distribution to save themselves, and summarily get in bed with Microsoft, who essentially would prefer to either cage or completely destroy FOSS. Within this "tasty little eggroll" is the fact that SCO seems to forget that FOSS isn't just software but a social movement.
Sure, I'm not arguing the functionality of that, just that the guys who decide default usage in the firefox project will make it painful for everyone else. I'm sure that the fix will be as easy as adding a random string into an undocumented about.config setting that doesn't exist by default.
It also allows for some interesting ideas that are being played with for the new release, like site annotation and full text indexing.
GREAT. And with the way this project has been headed, they're going to be SURE that storing the text of the last 200 pages I've looked at in memory, so I can be sure to search through everything my browser has seen in the last week, in addition to the utterly crappy caching of the last however many pages I've had open since I opened my browser, and the memory footprint of my browser being open will somewhere around 80% of my 2GB of memory. ARGH.
I already have to close firefox if I look at totalfark then read a slashdot thread nested. It was worse, until I did the about:config hacks to kill the memory retention. Stupid bloated crap. Can I get Netscape 2 again, but with up to date CSS and JS? Please?
As a photographer who edits images with 12 bits of color depth, let me just say, you're full of shit. Dithering will never take the place of a properly calibrated monitor, and with literally half the color depth of my images, the Apple monitors would be counterproductive at best.
It's generally agreed upon (and Maslow's pyramid leads us to believe) that before technical conveniences matter, a stable living environment must be achieved.
This is on the individual level. It might very well be that improved infrastructure could assist in the conveyance and distribution of the commodities needed, but small family units need clean water and food much more than a telephone or laptop.
If there were a form of public transportation which could get you to the neighborhood where you were going in less time, would you take it, if it cost you more money than driving?
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touche
I think you're resorting to some inverse megalomania.
Bill Gates has never shown any inclination to reach beyond the electronic realm with evil inclinations.
Quite to the contrary, The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation has given so much money away that I'm willing to bet that if they hadn't, Bill would still be on the top of the list.
You can pooh-pooh Microsoft for giving away computers loaded with Microsoft software to indoctrinate the next generation into their cult, but you can not fault Bill Gates for his charitable donations, because he gives large cash donations and other useful things as well.
I really don't think Bill is evil. Ruthless with his business yea, but not evil. And yea, I envy the money the guy has, but in the same situation, I'm not sure i could have accumulated it the same way, but since he did, I'm glad he's giving it away.
No different than rsh. Something better came along and so now we use ssh.
If slackware didn't come with ssh, and it was a major pain in the ass to install it (such as PAM is, even with the dropline packages), I'd still use something else, because it fit my needs better.
It's a shame that Slack will probably never have PAM, too.
You can change the target and compile it on a faster box.
(or just use the kernel you just compiled, since you know it works)
You make very good points. Strangely enough, only one of them is among the reasons I'm moving our servers from Slack.
We need commercial support for some of the drivers we're going to be using for our fiber array, and Slack isn't among the choices (big surprise). RHEL is, and that will solve another problem that we've been running into.
There is no possible way to do a universal login / user management system with Slackware without rolling your own solution. And it is SO aggrivating.
I'm tired of telling my users that they have to change their password on all 12 of the servers they talk to, plus their samba passwords on each machine. I realize that Pat doesn't like PAM, but there needs to be support for it so that network-wide user administration is possible.
It's very possible to do a roll-your-own, where you write a daemon to go to each server, change the password, change the password on Samba, and for good measure, change the password on the mail servers, any odd FTP servers you might have running, and sure, why not change the password on the VPN box too, however that's a hell of a lot of scripting to accomplish something that LDAP already does, and quite well, to boot.
I wish I could continue to install Slack on the various servers, but I can't. There are going to be some machines that are always Slack, however. My network utilities (Zenoss server, externally facing web servers, machines that need no user interaction and don't rely on commercial drivers), but the majority of my new machines will be RHEL or Ubuntu (on the desktop).
I've used Slack for literally 10 years, and it makes me sad to have to do this.
Typing of the Dead here is the best example I can think of.
The only thing I hate worse than a misspelled word is a zombie.
Like they wouldn't have to reinstall the OS after THAT.
Shocked quartz could solve the matter once and for all.
Trees standing near the impact site aren't that big of an anomaly, although they do point to an airborne explosion. IIRC some of the witnesses reported that there were standing trees, and modeling of the event (as well as other powerful explosions which occurred at an altitude) have left standing trees, edifaces, and so on, directly below the force of explosion.
Personally, I'm still hoping for Tesla's Death Ray
Very informative post, thank you.
Did they happen to say what the ballpark price is for one of these?
Why, in the middle of a discussion on GTA4 on the 360 did you give a critique of the hardware for an original XBOX?
Let me give this a shot:
"I'll never play GTA4. The stupid overhead view kills me and I never know what's around the corner"
Having not seen the movie, I have to ask,
What is the correlation between the planes being grounded and the CO2 concentration?
Sure. Almost everything is in place except for the tricky little heisenburg compensator ;-)
This likewise goes for several other software sources.
If you don't like the free binary NVidia drivers, don't use them. Don't complain about drivers that someone else wrote and gave to you without cost.
I completely agree. Wireless should be left for mobile machines. Your TV/audio/media wunder center should be hard wired, and with proper grounding to prevent excess noise. Do it right while you have the chance.
I think this is more like a camera that only looks at people breaking the law.
By definition, if you're not sharing the file, no one is looking at the meta data. It's on your computer, your ipod, your rio, or what have you.
As a dying and irrelevant company, SCO aquires a linux distribution to save themselves, and summarily get in bed with Microsoft, who essentially would prefer to either cage or completely destroy FOSS. Within this "tasty little eggroll" is the fact that SCO seems to forget that FOSS isn't just software but a social movement.
This all sounds so familiar...
What kind of Hitachi array do you have?
We're looking at getting a Qlogic 2340 later this year for ~ $50k.
Sure, I'm not arguing the functionality of that, just that the guys who decide default usage in the firefox project will make it painful for everyone else. I'm sure that the fix will be as easy as adding a random string into an undocumented about.config setting that doesn't exist by default.
It also allows for some interesting ideas that are being played with for the new release, like site annotation and full text indexing.
GREAT. And with the way this project has been headed, they're going to be SURE that storing the text of the last 200 pages I've looked at in memory, so I can be sure to search through everything my browser has seen in the last week, in addition to the utterly crappy caching of the last however many pages I've had open since I opened my browser, and the memory footprint of my browser being open will somewhere around 80% of my 2GB of memory. ARGH.
I already have to close firefox if I look at totalfark then read a slashdot thread nested. It was worse, until I did the about:config hacks to kill the memory retention. Stupid bloated crap. Can I get Netscape 2 again, but with up to date CSS and JS? Please?
touche :-)
As a photographer who edits images with 12 bits of color depth, let me just say, you're full of shit. Dithering will never take the place of a properly calibrated monitor, and with literally half the color depth of my images, the Apple monitors would be counterproductive at best.
This is not a "moot point".
It's generally agreed upon (and Maslow's pyramid leads us to believe) that before technical conveniences matter, a stable living environment must be achieved.
This is on the individual level. It might very well be that improved infrastructure could assist in the conveyance and distribution of the commodities needed, but small family units need clean water and food much more than a telephone or laptop.
You know, you leave your fingerprints pretty much everywhere you go. They could have lifted them from the door handle after you walked out.
What kind of privacy do you expect your fingerprints to provide?
You're right. Most places don't have the population density necessary for effective public transportation.
If there were a form of public transportation which could get you to the neighborhood where you were going in less time, would you take it, if it cost you more money than driving?