Labour should let the GST through and crush the other bill. The liberal party have every right to put a GST through, it was a part of their policy platform, and hence they have a mandate to pass the bill. To block it would be an act of sabotage.
Labour can and should kill this deal. The liberals probably aren't too happy with it ( though their far rightists would like it ) since it is a big vote loser ( most Aussies do not approve of censorship )
BTW, Harradine is a fruitcake. His only notable acheivement was using his balance of power to kill a budget , losing a fortune for his country. The only reason he got into senate in the first place was because our proportional representation system of senate elections allows people to gain senate floor space with a very low percentage of the vote. Unfortunately, the tendency of Aussie politicians to blindly vote on party lines means that 1% of senate floor space often amounts to 1/3 of the power-share.
Nope. The head of state is still the Queen of England, and we are still a monarchy. This is how it is according to the constitution anyway. There is a movement to do away with the constitutional monarchy, but it is still resisted by those who think the sky will fall in if we actually base our laws on a real constitution.
It's worth mentioning that in practice , despite our weak constitution, by and large, Australians do quite well in terms of rights compared to their counterparts elsewhere in the world ( INCLUDING THE US... )
Independence is conceptualy similar to mandrake- it's redhat with some stuff added on to make it friendlier to the home user. It's admittedly pushing it to say that it's "popular" since we do not as yet have a release on CD ( though it's downloadable ). Still, when the CDs are burned , I'd recommend it to newbies, as it's fully compatible with the most popular distribution.
Cheers, -- Donovan
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You've got it wrong. Firstly , no-one has to right anything new since there are already versions of cron that are suited to a box that is turned off sometimes , such as hc-cron. The idea is that if you turn the box off, the machine should have a way of "catching up" with cron jobs that are skipped when the box is switched off. Since many home users do not have their machines on after midnight, it is quite probable that the standard vixie cron setup will miss jobs. The point of this is that Redhat really seem to be thinking for people whose machines are connected via the ethernet and are up 24/7.
Are they actually in stock ? beware: a lot of vendors are in the business of selling things that they don't have in stock , and will not have in stock for some time. This means your credit card will be billed for an item that takes forever to ship.
Be careful to purchase from a vendor who can provide real time availability info. Oh, and check www.resellerratings.com if you don't know the company's reputation.
The point is not to sue the person who wronged you, but sue the richest person within striking distance. If you're lucky, you can shift the blame to someone with enough money for a retirement fund.
It seems probable that the kids parents are at fault and certain that the kid himself is to blame.
However, they are probably not worth suing. On the other hand, if you can convince a civil court that you have been wronged by a large corporation, it can be a real cash bonanza, and the plaintiffs want to milk it for all it's worth.
The problems I see with the case are :
The internet porn sites the kid visited were X-rated. He probably used his parents credit card to get in.
The games are also not intended for kids.
How do you establish causality ? I play quake. So do a lot of other law abiding citizens. Most quake players do not commit mass homocides.
There are clearly guilty parties in this case ( the kid himself, and probably his parents ) but since the guilty parties aren't worth suing, they're trying to re-allocate the blame to someone who can make them richer.
I recall Mr Dell saying that he wasn't interested in selling sub $1000- PCs any time soon, because Dell was only interested in providing quality , upgradeable PCs. I guess the market pressure is getting to them.
Perhaps the point of this is partly to segregate Dells cheapo machines with their standard line, so that they can make an entry into the low cost market without losing their reputation as a vendor who make quality machines.
In light of this, their move makes a lot of sense. Apple employed a similar strategy -- make the cheapo iMac , but clearly define the boundary between this and their quality product ( the G3 )
Personally, I am not a fan of the iMac design. Monitors have a high "lemon" rate, so leaching the monitor onto the system is a bad move ( or maybe Im wrong. Can you change monitors on these things without too much hassle ? )
The G3 is targetting a fairly discerning market who are willing to pay out of their nose for hardware ( last I checked these things cost over $2000- and that's for an IDE system. THe SCSI is about $3000- )
The kind of user you are talking about ( doesn't know how to lock a case, doesn't want to get inside their case ) has their prayers answered by the iMac. btw, are their any G3-like PC cases ??? I'd die for one of these...
I If you are willing to accept that kind of second rate treatment because it's the best that has been offered to you, f you are willing to accept that kind of second rate treatment because it's the best that has been offered to you,
On the contrary, I just purchased a PC with linux pre installed, because I insist on good treatment. I agree that we should demand support from hardware companies, and moreover they should write the drivers for us. Just releasing the specs isn't good enough.
The others are just as bad if not worse. But that doesen't mean 3dfx is good for our community.
I wasn't endorsing them. Just pointing out that it's unfair to single them out for criticism. Oh, btw, my new machine has a TNT;-)
3dfx have released their 3d specs to SOMEBODY and have done so for more than a year. So in this sense, they have offered more 3d support than anyone else ( no-one else has offered any )
So go ahead and complain about the lack of support from 3dfx , but don't forget to complain about ALL of the other guys.
Oh, btw, they didn't JUST release the 2d spec for the Banshee. THey released the glide source code and the vodoo / voodoo2 drivers. Which is a tad more than any other 3d card maker has done...
Yeah, I agree with you that a lot of people complain, and the results tend to be skewed downward. But you can still get a good overall picture ( especially since they have a quantitative thing where you can compare how different vendors have fared. )For example, Dell who have good customer satisfaction rating do well on resellerratings , even though they have a few flames. The point is they have less than the other guys.
The important thing when looking up a company is to check their numerical rating and see how they compare with the other dealers on the site. It their rating is better than 6 ( about Dell's level ) and have received a lot of feedback, they are probably an honest dealer who you can trust. If their rating is below 4, they are probably scam artists.
The people who post to resellerratings.com are not a representative sample of the population. In fact it is often bad luck with a hardware purchases that will entice someone to surf around for a shop like that.
Also , someone who has a run-of-the-mill purchase experience usually will not post a comment. Partly because a purchase where everything goes OK doesn't say that much about a company. The people who post comments fall into two categories: (a)people who are loyal customers (b) people who have bad luck with a purchase and get to put the companies support to the test.
... There you will find some choice words straight from the buyer's mouths on some of the lower cost vendors at pricewatch. Not that they are all bad, ( in fact some are very good ) but you need to shop carefully. Pricewatch accept ads from some real crooks ( including the ones that are trying to run with my money... )
I doubt it. The problem with suing open source projects is that the projects are usually international. Also, this kind of thing is very hard to prove in a court. Copyright infringement suits usually tend to target fairly blatant copying.
For one, releasing the source will truly put their APIs in the open, so it will mean that the playing field for developers is somewhat more level, since MS have no chance of taking advantage of their knowledge regarding undocumented features and bugs of their APIs
I am amazed that we are sitting here contemplating a boycott of the only 3d card manufacturer who supports our OS of choice. Well , good luck finding a 3d card that works under linux if you do that.
3dfx are LONG TIME supporters of linux. I guess you guys would rather support the windows-only crowd.
Maybe 3dfx has commited a sin, but among the card manufacturers, they are probably the LEAST deserving of a boycott from linux users. It seems ridiculous for us to boycott the only 3d card maker that supports us.
I don't know about you, but if I was Bill Gates, and I saw everyone buying linux machines, I would be shitting myself, whether or not the buyers paid for windows licenses. The fact that linux appears to be doing well is enough to worry Microsoft even if it isn't clear that linux's success is at their expense.
Another issue is this: maybe they can sell an NT workstation license with a linux box. How about an NT server license ? how about a back office license, or licenses for front page, MS Office , etc ? They don't make so much money on their OS. Their real cash cows are their applications and their server licenses ( oh, and those stupid MCSE certification schemes... )
While this isn't a resolution in itself, the playing field is levelled, and this is a darn good opportunity for the penguin to give the dancing paperclip a black eye or two...
Monitor detection is not such a big deal and will not make installation substantially easier. You can write a decent mode for a monitor using just the vsync and resolution.
The biggest problem with installation is unsupported hardware. The biggest problems newbiews have boil down to (a) unsupported video cards and (b) winmodems. That is why the equity investments from big hardware companies like Dell are important.
As for partitioning -- Redhat's workstation install deals with this in the simplest way. For people who want multi boot, partition is an issue regardless of their choices of OS. I don't think that's something for the installers to deal with.
The report seems to de-emphasise NT's shortcomings and emphasise linux's.
Reliability The report more or less dismisses this, and lauds NT's reliability features ( such as journalling ) without verifying that the features actually lead to a system that is more reliable in day to day use.
De emphasising or ignoring NT's shortcomings Severe shortcomings of NT's out of the box setup , such as nonexistent security, absence of disk quotas, etc seem more or less ignored. By contrast, the linux they assess seems to be relatively "out of the box" ( for example, SMP support. They don't really consider 2.2 here. ) And while they are quick to dismiss linux as a "serious" OS , they seem to acknowledge NT as enterprise ready despite its lack of essential features ( such as remote administration, disk quotas, etc)
cheers, --
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The report actually seems reasonably accurate, though my feeling was that it emphasises linux's shortcomings while avoiding NT's ( reliability, cost, remote administration, and essential features such as disk quotas... )
But while the report at least basess its attacks on the truth, the article resorts to outright falsehoods. One wonders how many falsehoods of this nature that we see in the press would constitute actionable material if they were made about a commercial OS...
Maybe it's possible to send off an anti-FUD piece to another publication about the study and its flaws; then inviting them to report the study,m and then say that it is factually innaccurate... (-; The journalists are hungry for stories on linux, and hungry to have a poke at a competitor...
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A fellow was kind enough to follow up with a pertinent, helpful and correct answer to my question. Thanks ! Unfortunately, the moderators killed ( "score -1'd" ) his reply, which was certainly no more off topic than the rest of this little thread.
I have a linux box hooked to the campus network and don't want to run sendmail services on it. Can mutt use an external SMTP server ? it doesn't seem to be the case, and this has prevented me from using it.
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Labour can and should kill this deal. The liberals probably aren't too happy with it ( though their far rightists would like it ) since it is a big vote loser ( most Aussies do not approve of censorship )
BTW, Harradine is a fruitcake. His only notable acheivement was using his balance of power to kill a budget , losing a fortune for his country. The only reason he got into senate in the first place was because our proportional representation system of senate elections allows people to gain senate floor space with a very low percentage of the vote. Unfortunately, the tendency of Aussie politicians to blindly vote on party lines means that 1% of senate floor space often amounts to 1/3 of the power-share.
cheers,
It's worth mentioning that in practice , despite our weak constitution, by and large, Australians do quite well in terms of rights compared to their counterparts elsewhere in the world ( INCLUDING THE US ... )
Cheers,
-- Donovan
The idea is that if you turn the box off, the machine should have a way of "catching up" with cron jobs that are skipped when the box is switched off. Since many home users do not have their machines on after midnight,
it is quite probable that the standard vixie cron setup will miss jobs. The point of this is that Redhat really seem to be thinking for people whose machines are connected via the ethernet and are up 24/7.
-- Donovan
Be careful to purchase from a vendor who can provide real time availability info. Oh, and check www.resellerratings.com if you don't know the company's reputation.
The point is not to sue the person who wronged you, but sue the richest person within striking distance. If you're lucky, you can shift the blame to someone with enough money for a retirement fund.
However, they are probably not worth suing. On the other hand, if you can convince a civil court that you have been wronged by a large corporation, it can be a real cash bonanza, and the plaintiffs want to milk it for all it's worth.
The problems I see with the case are :
There are clearly guilty parties in this case ( the kid himself, and probably his parents ) but since the guilty parties aren't worth suing, they're trying to re-allocate the blame to someone who can make them richer.
Perhaps the point of this is partly to segregate Dells cheapo machines with their standard line, so that they can make an entry into the low cost market without losing their reputation as a vendor who make quality machines.
In light of this, their move makes a lot of sense. Apple employed a similar strategy -- make the cheapo iMac , but clearly define the boundary between this and their quality product ( the G3 )
Personally, I am not a fan of the iMac design. Monitors have a high "lemon" rate, so leaching the monitor onto the system is a bad move ( or maybe Im wrong. Can you change monitors on these things without too much hassle ? )
The kind of user you are talking about ( doesn't know how to lock a case, doesn't want to get inside their case ) has their prayers answered by the iMac. btw, are their any G3-like PC cases ??? I'd die for one of these ...
cheers,
On the contrary, I just purchased a PC with linux pre installed, because I insist on good treatment. I agree that we should demand support from hardware companies, and moreover they should write the drivers for us. Just releasing the specs isn't good enough.
The others are just as bad if not worse. But that doesen't mean 3dfx is good for our community.
I wasn't endorsing them. Just pointing out that it's unfair to single them out for criticism. Oh, btw, my new machine has a TNT ;-)
So go ahead and complain about the lack of support from 3dfx , but don't forget to complain about ALL of the other guys.
Oh, btw, they didn't JUST release the 2d spec for the Banshee. THey released the glide source code and the vodoo / voodoo2 drivers. Which is a tad more than any other 3d card maker has done ...
The important thing when looking up a company is to check their numerical rating and see how they compare with the other dealers on the site. It their rating is better than 6 ( about Dell's level ) and have received a lot of feedback, they are probably an honest dealer who you can trust. If their rating is below 4, they are probably scam artists.
cheers,
The people who post to resellerratings.com are not a representative sample of the population. In fact it is often bad luck with a hardware purchases that will entice someone to surf around for a shop like that.
Also , someone who has a run-of-the-mill purchase experience usually will not post a comment. Partly because a purchase where everything goes OK doesn't say that much about a company. The people who post comments fall into two categories:
(a)people who are loyal customers
(b) people who have bad luck with a purchase and get to put the companies support to the test.
cheers,--
... There you will find some choice words straight from the buyer's mouths on some of the lower cost vendors at pricewatch. Not that they are all bad, ( in fact some are very good ) but you need to shop carefully. Pricewatch accept ads from some real crooks ( including the ones that are trying to run with my money ... )
I doubt it. The problem with suing open source projects is that the projects are usually international. Also, this kind of thing is very hard to prove in a court. Copyright infringement suits usually tend to target fairly blatant copying.
For one, releasing the source will truly put their APIs in the open, so it will mean that the playing field for developers is somewhat more level, since MS have no chance of taking advantage of their knowledge regarding undocumented features and bugs of their APIs
3dfx are LONG TIME supporters of linux. I guess you guys would rather support the windows-only crowd.
Maybe 3dfx has commited a sin, but among the card manufacturers, they are probably the LEAST deserving of a boycott from linux users. It seems ridiculous for us to boycott the only 3d card maker that supports us.
The fact that linux appears to be doing well is enough to worry Microsoft even if it isn't clear that linux's success is at their expense.
Another issue is this: maybe they can sell an NT workstation license with a linux box. How about an NT server license ? how about a back office license,
or licenses for front page, MS Office , etc ?
They don't make so much money on their OS. Their real cash cows are their applications and their server licenses ( oh, and those stupid MCSE certification schemes
While this isn't a resolution in itself, the playing field is levelled, and this is a darn good opportunity for the penguin to give the dancing paperclip a black eye or two
You can write a decent mode for a monitor using just the vsync and resolution.
The biggest problem with installation is unsupported hardware. The biggest problems newbiews have boil down to (a) unsupported video cards and (b) winmodems.
That is why the equity investments from big hardware companies like Dell are important.
As for partitioning -- Redhat's workstation install deals with this in the simplest way.
For people who want multi boot, partition is an issue regardless of their choices of OS.
I don't think that's something for the installers to deal with.
- Reliability The report more or less dismisses this, and lauds NT's reliability features ( such as journalling ) without verifying that the features actually lead to a system that is more reliable in day to day use.
- De emphasising or ignoring NT's shortcomings Severe shortcomings of NT's out of the box setup , such as nonexistent security, absence of disk quotas, etc seem more or less ignored. By contrast, the linux they assess seems to be relatively "out of the box" ( for example, SMP support. They don't really consider 2.2 here. ) And while they are quick to dismiss linux as a "serious" OS , they seem to acknowledge NT as enterprise ready despite its lack of essential features ( such as remote administration, disk quotas, etc)
cheers,--
But while the report at least basess its attacks on the truth, the article resorts to outright falsehoods. One wonders how many falsehoods of this nature that we see in the press would constitute actionable material if they were made about a commercial OS ...
Maybe it's possible to send off an anti-FUD piece to another publication about the study and its flaws; then inviting them to report the study,m and then say that it is factually innaccurate ... (-; The journalists are hungry for stories on linux, and hungry to have a poke at a competitor ...
Moderators reading this ? Poor form, guys ...
I have a linux box hooked to the campus network and don't want to run sendmail services on it. Can mutt use an external SMTP server ? it doesn't seem to be the case, and this has prevented me from using it.