According to the 10 Commandments:
"Thou shalt not kill"
It's strange that society and religion can re-interpret this to their perspective instead of standing on the reality of the meaning.
It also goes to show that, as a "monotheistic" religion, Islam puts Mohammed above all other humans - and even God; wherein lies the inherent problem.
This is exactly how Islam creates enemies - of it's own volition - and creates fear throughout the non-muslim world.
Very sad, very sad.
I'm fairly certain that God would think of this (and all other religious executions) as being an insult to His Creation.
If you saw WHERE our IMAX is, and what parking is available - aside from the logistics of human traffic, amongst other things - you'd understand. "Plan the work, work the plan" - ergo, no hiccups, no unforeseen issues - and hey, we just got finished with our city's "Festival Season" - which has been full on since November...therefore, I think I'd rather laud the whole lot of 'em - and I look forward to getting inside and seeing what they've done! (the tourists will love it - and more than enough Sydney-siders will be checking it out as well)
It's sad that, regardless of what those of us did THEN, and all the BBS's we ran, the stuff we did, today, we're nothing - we're faded history, barely recognised, barely known - and money, time, effort, time that we put into it all, is nearly nothing. Only once in a while does someone touch upon all that we've done, and we're still basically snippets...
In IRC, nearly regardless of again, what we've done and where we've been, we're just "someone else".
That all said, I'd do it all again, and will not regret it.
Now I want an Atari again...damn!
IMHO, and from a "power user's" perspective, there is just way too much clutter in KDE (from the break from 3.5 and onwards), and all of the background services, databases, yadda yadda yadda - just make for a more complex journey through the daily working. KMail and all that that entails are dreadfully slow, dreadfully NON-standard (especially with HTML and RTF mail); as well, I have a tendency to utilise ancient hardware for my own purposes - not the fancy dancey brand-new stuff, therefore, KDE moves like a herd of turtles across a plain of peanut butter.
GNOME, OTOH, allows me to streamline it and sterilise it enough to make it daily usable and stable - especially having Compiz functionality, Cairo-Dock, Screenlets and what-have-you. It's not prone to having "hissy fits" and just hanging on some background service dependency.
XFce4 quite nicely fills in the secondary spot - it's always fast, always happy with GTK or QT stuff, doesn't hang, highly customisable, usable, and not primitive in graphics or function (sorry IceWM and LXDE)...
If you really get down to brass tacks, there's always WindowMaker - most stable of 'em all.
Ubuntu's "general" evolution is the same as every other distribution - they all follow the same pattern. "Community Support" follows the same pattern - I've seen it with RH and Fedora and Mandrake/Mandriva and SuSE and PCLOS and everything else under the sun. Always the same. On that token, IRC support always follows the same patterns. That part, I find quite sad - especially in that after all these years, sometimes the "Community Support" frightens away more "wanna-be converts" due to paramilitary attitudes, snobbishness and elitism.
At least, in this decade, Ubuntu has truly forged some new ground in being publicly "known" - and created a mass following. Kudos to them - and kudos to those that would otherwise not have tried linux in the first place if it wasn't for Ubuntu.
And thanks, Ubuntu, for making it more than easy to convert MS Windows users to linux, and for making server installations so bloody simple. (Saves me heaps of time and effort - more bang for the buck).
...and here I thought it was just plain old "freedom of speech" that caused political unrest in politically restrictive governments. Far out. Yet another reason to blame Facebook for something or another.
Can I blame them for the stains on my socks as well?
Can I blame the US government for my washing machine breaking down? It could be a plot by the US government along with other Western governments to get me to move back to the US...OH WAIT, I'm in Australia...yeah...right...never mind...
OS/2 was the GUI of GUI's back in the day! I was saddened that Merlin (Warp4) didn't get the rap it should have (we know how IBM is with marketing) - it was great, it was stable, it was just schweet. Bring it on, bring it back; anything to put more competition in the marketplace for "Desktops" and "Servers"!
Hey, while folks are at it, why doesn't someone chuck a fire under Apple to just get MacOS out to the masses - it's not like it's a hard modification to OSX to get it to run on most modern x86 machines - that in itself would throw Microsoft for a loop!
What - this is surprising? It's not really. They dropped trying to support iPods back in December (and any extensions of that gist), and now this - that's surprising? It's easy enough to open up one's eyes and look at the bigger picture. The more GNU/linux is being accepted, the more the lines are going to be drawn on software and software projects. Besides, it's dog-slow anyways, there's heaps better alternatives that suck up way less system resource - oh yeah, and work faster, too.
I could see, especially after being smashed in the head a few times by a law enforcement officer that is much larger than I (oh, BTW, I'm like 57kg), the the aforementioned officer would be slightly ticked off due to the fact that I did NOT lie down directly on the ground and comply with his wishes. Similar thing happened to me in Texas when I was pulled over for GOD KNOWS WHAT REASON, strip searched on the side of the road, had nearly everything in my 1992 Honda CRXsi stripped out and thrown on the side of the road (including pagers, laptops, network tools and equipment), smacked in the face full on several times, and the officer got slightly angry that when he told me to stand, I didn't, and when he told me to lie down, I couldn't (I was already on the ground twisted into a fetal position). Yes, that would make the officer very angry. The other officer lost a button from his uniform when he was ripping off my Pierre Cardin three piece suit - so maybe that might have been the impetus for the bad reaction. Still not sure.
Would be great to know WHICH BBS this was - I used XENIX for a while, but on a PC based machine running xbbs - but also had a BNC/coaxial based 3com network card (8mbps) - painful to get set up properly, but worked like a champ once it WAS working...and I wouldn't even care of someone divulged the content of conversations back then - was a great time, had heaps of fun. Too bad you can't image the whole shebang and stick it in a VM and play with it from there...(gosh this brings back heaps of great late night memories)
I obviously grew up and spent most of my life in the US. Michigan is where I hail from. Being from a "poorer" stock than most middle-of-the-road Americans, I saw and experienced a completely different side of the justice system - starting with the police. I have, MANY times, been in a situation where I was assaulted by police, abused, jailed - for literally nothing. I also know from family experience - both my grandfathers were Detroit policemen, several of my uncles were police, marshalls and Feds - that there was at that time (from the 70's) and onwards a "fascist" and "paramilitary" mentality within the multitude of "law enforcement" agencies. Whether or not Mr. Watts is innocent or guilty, no one seems to want to point to the fact that millions (yes, millions) of people on a day to day basis are abused by law enforcement, given unfair trials with uncaring legal support, and have no means by which to be compensated. There are many that are within the penal system that should not be there at all - jailed for menial crimes and/or charges and these people have really no means by which to fight back. As far as the respectability of "the officers on duty", I would start with questioning their personal attitudes. I'm more than well familiar with that particular "border crossing" as well as the "border crossing" in Detroit - for the tunnel and the bridge. Neither of these places is hostile - it's Canada for God's sake - so there's definitely more to the picture than meets the eye.
I don't see why it's so hard to use the situation as a point of marketing for GNU/linux, or to show the person(s)/relative(s) that overall costs of using/maintaining a Microsoft Windows based workstation (or server) far outweigh the other options. Ok, a Mac costs a bit, but how much is spent on maintenance? Ok, the public is freaky about using GNU/linux,,but what about total software costs and maintenance?
My mother and father living in Texas (rather far-off for me to support them from Sydney) finally *DID* bite the bait, and bought a Mac. Happy? Very. Many of my personal clients have either taken the step to move to GNU/linux, or have purchased Macs. With the odd exception here and there, they're all happy. The exceptions are mostly along the lines of "Well, I'm supposed to run *THIS* because of work..." - or "My workplaces doesn't support GNU/linux or Mac" (Even though it's just a matter of running Microsoft Office and nothing more).
Remember that you get what you pay for.
I would, however, stick with doling out AVG for folks - and that being the case, stay on top of having the latest installation EXE for it - along with AdAware by Lavasoft and Spybot Search & Destroy. There is also ClamAV (developed initially for UNIX/GNU/Linux) for MS Windows - and it's F.O.S.S. - but hey, in the end it's your choice.
Completely pull out of China. Close all doors. Develope business elsewhere - regardless of "future profit".
End of story. Matter of fact, kill China in DNS altogether and isolate them. They want to develop for "their internet", well, fine and dandy. Let them have their own internet - INSIDE their country. Let'em stew with that for five years and then re-think the terms in which to do international business and conduct international trade and communications.
This is no longer the dark ages, my "Workers for China" mates.
Too bad that most of the powerful governments can't stop the "play softly" approach because they're afraid of loosing business or profits. The reality of the situation is that if the Chinese government is NOT slapped back down to humble status, they're going to continue to abuse not only human rights overall, and violate the rights of individuals and groups within China, they're going to continue on this silly child's game of "forcing" their will and ways upon the rest of the world. And I'm sorry on that one - I don't like to be "forced" to do anything, let alone have some silly childish government (or really, wanna-be-government) enforce their policies on me, my mind or my spirit.
All the big dogs - Google, Microsoft, yadda yadda yadda - should learn that profits WILL come, and markets WILL be nurtured - don't play into these types of games by threat - or whatever. Time is the answer.
I've watched specifically Microsoft since 1986, my friend. They've done bugger-all for creating anything proper - they really DON'T care about fixing things, they only truly care about making use of marketing, PR, F.U.D. and the likes to push products into the market. If they truly gave a care about creating a perfect product, they'd have done so - and probably would have used Xenix as the base. Sorry to trod on your Microsoft-apologist feelings.
...do you think it's going to take the Petrol companies to shut this one up and keep it from the public? (On that same token, hydrogren? Where'd that go? Or Steam? Where'd that go? And why are we still "so far behind" in development of electric vehicles?)
Microsoft, a company that is worth HOW MUCH? Can't ever seem to create ANY software without ANY issues, past, present or future? They've been going at this for how many years, and still can't get a single issue straight from the beginning? I just find this all so bloody amazing - they've got the money, the manpower, the resources, and still, they just can't do it. Right.
YES BILL! I SHALL BUY MORE NETBOOKS!
(Oh wait, I hate the screen resolution on them, and I don't like Microsoft Windows(tm) on them, and WTF?)
Bugger that, I'll buy a cheap laptop and stick Ubuntu on it. Resolved.
The thing boils down to several issues that "just don't get passed down to the Australian voter" as it were. One is that huge companies like Microsoft are in pocket with the Australian Federal government - hence putting things in their ears, and getting them paranoid about "not being in control". Two is that every single one of the Members of Parliament and the Senators are about as smart as a box of rocks when it comes to anything at ALL to do with "forward thinking technology" (our MySchool website, point in fact). Another aspect is Australia's hush-hush involvement with the ACTA talks. And then you've got the "do-gooders" that seem to think that it's the government's responsibility to protect our young from harm instead of enforcing parental responsibility. If you want to dig further into the entire scene, you'll start to see exactly how "backwater" Australia has let itself become - all due to greed and graft, really - and this also shows why we in Australia pay the highest broadband rates and GSM rates...(it's not because of the old standard excuse "We're ten years behind the US because of technology" - it's because the big-wigs force it on us and justify it with excuses like that). Phew. Time for a coffee.
I'm sure Parliment is going to call in every single "Microsoft Certified" security company to deal with this...oh wowsers...and then they're going to justify using "Microsoft Certified" consultants and companies to protect them in the future...ya...right...
Strange that. I just have hardware issues, then.
Because if on my Compaq C731TU running Windows 7, I get SQUAT for battery life, however, when I swap out the HD for my Fedora drive (oh yeah, exact same drive, too) and work with that, I have this amazingly long battery life (nearly three hours). So something MUST be wrong with my hardware. Possibly if I read all the tripe that Microsoft will publish on this particular issue, I'll be able to convince myself that they're right, and reality is wrong. OH wait, they do that anyway! Far out. Glad to know I'm wrong, my hardware is wrong, my OS is wrong, and well, Microsoft is right. Gee, thanks Steve Ballmer! You've shown me the light, yet again!
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According to the 10 Commandments: "Thou shalt not kill" It's strange that society and religion can re-interpret this to their perspective instead of standing on the reality of the meaning. It also goes to show that, as a "monotheistic" religion, Islam puts Mohammed above all other humans - and even God; wherein lies the inherent problem. This is exactly how Islam creates enemies - of it's own volition - and creates fear throughout the non-muslim world. Very sad, very sad. I'm fairly certain that God would think of this (and all other religious executions) as being an insult to His Creation.
If you saw WHERE our IMAX is, and what parking is available - aside from the logistics of human traffic, amongst other things - you'd understand. "Plan the work, work the plan" - ergo, no hiccups, no unforeseen issues - and hey, we just got finished with our city's "Festival Season" - which has been full on since November...therefore, I think I'd rather laud the whole lot of 'em - and I look forward to getting inside and seeing what they've done! (the tourists will love it - and more than enough Sydney-siders will be checking it out as well)
Exactly spot on.
Wow...so after all these years, Gnome wants to stay LINUX only? Wow...and here I was looking forward to Gnome3 for Windows...(NOT)
It's sad that, regardless of what those of us did THEN, and all the BBS's we ran, the stuff we did, today, we're nothing - we're faded history, barely recognised, barely known - and money, time, effort, time that we put into it all, is nearly nothing. Only once in a while does someone touch upon all that we've done, and we're still basically snippets... In IRC, nearly regardless of again, what we've done and where we've been, we're just "someone else". That all said, I'd do it all again, and will not regret it. Now I want an Atari again...damn!
IMHO, and from a "power user's" perspective, there is just way too much clutter in KDE (from the break from 3.5 and onwards), and all of the background services, databases, yadda yadda yadda - just make for a more complex journey through the daily working. KMail and all that that entails are dreadfully slow, dreadfully NON-standard (especially with HTML and RTF mail); as well, I have a tendency to utilise ancient hardware for my own purposes - not the fancy dancey brand-new stuff, therefore, KDE moves like a herd of turtles across a plain of peanut butter. GNOME, OTOH, allows me to streamline it and sterilise it enough to make it daily usable and stable - especially having Compiz functionality, Cairo-Dock, Screenlets and what-have-you. It's not prone to having "hissy fits" and just hanging on some background service dependency. XFce4 quite nicely fills in the secondary spot - it's always fast, always happy with GTK or QT stuff, doesn't hang, highly customisable, usable, and not primitive in graphics or function (sorry IceWM and LXDE)... If you really get down to brass tacks, there's always WindowMaker - most stable of 'em all.
Ubuntu's "general" evolution is the same as every other distribution - they all follow the same pattern. "Community Support" follows the same pattern - I've seen it with RH and Fedora and Mandrake/Mandriva and SuSE and PCLOS and everything else under the sun. Always the same. On that token, IRC support always follows the same patterns. That part, I find quite sad - especially in that after all these years, sometimes the "Community Support" frightens away more "wanna-be converts" due to paramilitary attitudes, snobbishness and elitism. At least, in this decade, Ubuntu has truly forged some new ground in being publicly "known" - and created a mass following. Kudos to them - and kudos to those that would otherwise not have tried linux in the first place if it wasn't for Ubuntu. And thanks, Ubuntu, for making it more than easy to convert MS Windows users to linux, and for making server installations so bloody simple. (Saves me heaps of time and effort - more bang for the buck).
Can I run it under Gnome?
...and here I thought it was just plain old "freedom of speech" that caused political unrest in politically restrictive governments. Far out. Yet another reason to blame Facebook for something or another. Can I blame them for the stains on my socks as well? Can I blame the US government for my washing machine breaking down? It could be a plot by the US government along with other Western governments to get me to move back to the US...OH WAIT, I'm in Australia...yeah...right...never mind...
OS/2 was the GUI of GUI's back in the day! I was saddened that Merlin (Warp4) didn't get the rap it should have (we know how IBM is with marketing) - it was great, it was stable, it was just schweet. Bring it on, bring it back; anything to put more competition in the marketplace for "Desktops" and "Servers"! Hey, while folks are at it, why doesn't someone chuck a fire under Apple to just get MacOS out to the masses - it's not like it's a hard modification to OSX to get it to run on most modern x86 machines - that in itself would throw Microsoft for a loop!
What - this is surprising? It's not really. They dropped trying to support iPods back in December (and any extensions of that gist), and now this - that's surprising? It's easy enough to open up one's eyes and look at the bigger picture. The more GNU/linux is being accepted, the more the lines are going to be drawn on software and software projects. Besides, it's dog-slow anyways, there's heaps better alternatives that suck up way less system resource - oh yeah, and work faster, too.
I could see, especially after being smashed in the head a few times by a law enforcement officer that is much larger than I (oh, BTW, I'm like 57kg), the the aforementioned officer would be slightly ticked off due to the fact that I did NOT lie down directly on the ground and comply with his wishes. Similar thing happened to me in Texas when I was pulled over for GOD KNOWS WHAT REASON, strip searched on the side of the road, had nearly everything in my 1992 Honda CRXsi stripped out and thrown on the side of the road (including pagers, laptops, network tools and equipment), smacked in the face full on several times, and the officer got slightly angry that when he told me to stand, I didn't, and when he told me to lie down, I couldn't (I was already on the ground twisted into a fetal position). Yes, that would make the officer very angry. The other officer lost a button from his uniform when he was ripping off my Pierre Cardin three piece suit - so maybe that might have been the impetus for the bad reaction. Still not sure.
Would be great to know WHICH BBS this was - I used XENIX for a while, but on a PC based machine running xbbs - but also had a BNC/coaxial based 3com network card (8mbps) - painful to get set up properly, but worked like a champ once it WAS working...and I wouldn't even care of someone divulged the content of conversations back then - was a great time, had heaps of fun. Too bad you can't image the whole shebang and stick it in a VM and play with it from there...(gosh this brings back heaps of great late night memories)
I obviously grew up and spent most of my life in the US. Michigan is where I hail from. Being from a "poorer" stock than most middle-of-the-road Americans, I saw and experienced a completely different side of the justice system - starting with the police. I have, MANY times, been in a situation where I was assaulted by police, abused, jailed - for literally nothing. I also know from family experience - both my grandfathers were Detroit policemen, several of my uncles were police, marshalls and Feds - that there was at that time (from the 70's) and onwards a "fascist" and "paramilitary" mentality within the multitude of "law enforcement" agencies. Whether or not Mr. Watts is innocent or guilty, no one seems to want to point to the fact that millions (yes, millions) of people on a day to day basis are abused by law enforcement, given unfair trials with uncaring legal support, and have no means by which to be compensated. There are many that are within the penal system that should not be there at all - jailed for menial crimes and/or charges and these people have really no means by which to fight back. As far as the respectability of "the officers on duty", I would start with questioning their personal attitudes. I'm more than well familiar with that particular "border crossing" as well as the "border crossing" in Detroit - for the tunnel and the bridge. Neither of these places is hostile - it's Canada for God's sake - so there's definitely more to the picture than meets the eye.
I don't see why it's so hard to use the situation as a point of marketing for GNU/linux, or to show the person(s)/relative(s) that overall costs of using/maintaining a Microsoft Windows based workstation (or server) far outweigh the other options. Ok, a Mac costs a bit, but how much is spent on maintenance? Ok, the public is freaky about using GNU/linux, ,but what about total software costs and maintenance?
My mother and father living in Texas (rather far-off for me to support them from Sydney) finally *DID* bite the bait, and bought a Mac. Happy? Very. Many of my personal clients have either taken the step to move to GNU/linux, or have purchased Macs. With the odd exception here and there, they're all happy. The exceptions are mostly along the lines of "Well, I'm supposed to run *THIS* because of work..." - or "My workplaces doesn't support GNU/linux or Mac" (Even though it's just a matter of running Microsoft Office and nothing more).
Remember that you get what you pay for.
I would, however, stick with doling out AVG for folks - and that being the case, stay on top of having the latest installation EXE for it - along with AdAware by Lavasoft and Spybot Search & Destroy. There is also ClamAV (developed initially for UNIX/GNU/Linux) for MS Windows - and it's F.O.S.S. - but hey, in the end it's your choice.
Completely pull out of China. Close all doors. Develope business elsewhere - regardless of "future profit". End of story. Matter of fact, kill China in DNS altogether and isolate them. They want to develop for "their internet", well, fine and dandy. Let them have their own internet - INSIDE their country. Let'em stew with that for five years and then re-think the terms in which to do international business and conduct international trade and communications. This is no longer the dark ages, my "Workers for China" mates. Too bad that most of the powerful governments can't stop the "play softly" approach because they're afraid of loosing business or profits. The reality of the situation is that if the Chinese government is NOT slapped back down to humble status, they're going to continue to abuse not only human rights overall, and violate the rights of individuals and groups within China, they're going to continue on this silly child's game of "forcing" their will and ways upon the rest of the world. And I'm sorry on that one - I don't like to be "forced" to do anything, let alone have some silly childish government (or really, wanna-be-government) enforce their policies on me, my mind or my spirit. All the big dogs - Google, Microsoft, yadda yadda yadda - should learn that profits WILL come, and markets WILL be nurtured - don't play into these types of games by threat - or whatever. Time is the answer.
I've watched specifically Microsoft since 1986, my friend. They've done bugger-all for creating anything proper - they really DON'T care about fixing things, they only truly care about making use of marketing, PR, F.U.D. and the likes to push products into the market. If they truly gave a care about creating a perfect product, they'd have done so - and probably would have used Xenix as the base. Sorry to trod on your Microsoft-apologist feelings.
...do you think it's going to take the Petrol companies to shut this one up and keep it from the public? (On that same token, hydrogren? Where'd that go? Or Steam? Where'd that go? And why are we still "so far behind" in development of electric vehicles?)
Microsoft, a company that is worth HOW MUCH? Can't ever seem to create ANY software without ANY issues, past, present or future? They've been going at this for how many years, and still can't get a single issue straight from the beginning? I just find this all so bloody amazing - they've got the money, the manpower, the resources, and still, they just can't do it. Right.
YES BILL! I SHALL BUY MORE NETBOOKS! (Oh wait, I hate the screen resolution on them, and I don't like Microsoft Windows(tm) on them, and WTF?) Bugger that, I'll buy a cheap laptop and stick Ubuntu on it. Resolved.
The thing boils down to several issues that "just don't get passed down to the Australian voter" as it were. One is that huge companies like Microsoft are in pocket with the Australian Federal government - hence putting things in their ears, and getting them paranoid about "not being in control". Two is that every single one of the Members of Parliament and the Senators are about as smart as a box of rocks when it comes to anything at ALL to do with "forward thinking technology" (our MySchool website, point in fact). Another aspect is Australia's hush-hush involvement with the ACTA talks. And then you've got the "do-gooders" that seem to think that it's the government's responsibility to protect our young from harm instead of enforcing parental responsibility. If you want to dig further into the entire scene, you'll start to see exactly how "backwater" Australia has let itself become - all due to greed and graft, really - and this also shows why we in Australia pay the highest broadband rates and GSM rates...(it's not because of the old standard excuse "We're ten years behind the US because of technology" - it's because the big-wigs force it on us and justify it with excuses like that). Phew. Time for a coffee.
Does it matter if you don't live in the state of South Carolina?
I'm sure Parliment is going to call in every single "Microsoft Certified" security company to deal with this...oh wowsers...and then they're going to justify using "Microsoft Certified" consultants and companies to protect them in the future...ya...right...
Strange that. I just have hardware issues, then. Because if on my Compaq C731TU running Windows 7, I get SQUAT for battery life, however, when I swap out the HD for my Fedora drive (oh yeah, exact same drive, too) and work with that, I have this amazingly long battery life (nearly three hours). So something MUST be wrong with my hardware. Possibly if I read all the tripe that Microsoft will publish on this particular issue, I'll be able to convince myself that they're right, and reality is wrong. OH wait, they do that anyway! Far out. Glad to know I'm wrong, my hardware is wrong, my OS is wrong, and well, Microsoft is right. Gee, thanks Steve Ballmer! You've shown me the light, yet again!
I'm still stuck on playing Descent and Descent2. Might move to Half-Life sometime soon, dunno. Does it do Descent? :)