I did the same thing. I used SLS for three years until spring 1996. I kept updating the thing, until I finally installed Red Hat. I switched because it was very painful trying to keep up with library, compiler, X, and other changes by compiling every package from the source. I wasn't getting anything done because there was so much upgrading to do.
The directories they chose for the RPM file are pretty bad.
They put files into a directory called/opt/interbase. Most Linux boxes don't have an/opt tree. That seems to be a Solaris thing.
Second, they stick their libraries and headers into/usr/include and/usr/lib. This is OK I guess, but they stick a single program into the directory/usr/local/sbin. Why not stick to the pattern they established and put it into/usr/sbin?
That's just a nit though. I suppose all that will be fixed once Debian includes it.
I don't think multics was shelved. I know that there was a Honeywell computer running Multics in the Detroit area (Wayne State U maybe?) in the late 1980's. I'm sure you can find out what the last operational Multics site in the world was. Maybe it's still up today!
From Subpart L - Restrictions on Telephone Solicitation
a.2.Initiate any telephone call to any residential telephone line using an artificial or prerecorded voice to deliver a message without the prior express consent of the called party, unless the call is initiated for emergency purposes or is exempted by sec. 64.1200(c)
section c says this:
c.The term "telephone call" in sec. 64.1200(a)(2) shall not include a call or message by, or on behalf of, a caller: 1.that is not made for a commercial purpose, 2.that is made for a commercial purpose but does not include the transmission of any unsolicited advertisement, 3.to any person with whom the caller has an established business relationship at the time the call is made, or 4.which is a tax-exempt nonprofit organization.
So there you go! ABC is giving out $500 checks to everyone who is lucky enough to get a call! Make sure you save those answering machine tapes, boys and girls. The small claims court judge will want to listen to them. While you're at it, go over to www.junkbusters.com and print out a copy of the legislation for the judge. It should be a very easy case to win.
Call rejection is a scam. You pay to have anonymous calls blocked. OK, fine so far.
The problem is that the phone company turns around and offers a service to businesses: blocked anonymous call rejection override. That way, the businesses that pay the fee can still get through.
They need to start selling is a blocked anonymous call rejection override override.
I'm not sure what you're whining about. I've got an extremely high karma, and I earned it fair and square. I haven't even been called a karma whore even once (though I expect I will be now...)
I don't think Signal 11 needs to resort to activating other accounts to boost his karma. He's frequently insightful. You might disagree with me, but I just don't see the conspiracy here.
I can't think of too many things worse than a manager who is a fan of Machiavelli.
Except once I worked for a guy who absolutely loved the Godfather series of movies. He would quote from them constantly, and he'd use examples from the movies to illustrate his points in meetings. I still remember the day when the guy in the cubicle across from me came to work and there was a horse's head in his chair.
If you transfer money to someone in Iran, you could be sent to prison. There is an office in the Department of the Treasury called the Office of Foreign Assets Control, or OFAC for short.
The purpose of that office is to enforce trade embaros against enemies of the United States. That list of enemies can include countries like Iraq, or persons like Osama Bin Ladin.
Each country has its own restrictions. Specifically to answer questions about Iran, Americans are prohibited from importing anything at all, including rugs of Iranian origin either directly from Iran, or through a third country. There is an exception made for books and other Iranian publications. There is some question about how you could go about this. I doubt anyone in the US will care if you bring texts from Iran, but to actually set up a business is a different story. I know for a fact that credit card companies, including one I used to work for, set up filters based on databases built from OFAC sources by Thompson Financials to catch funds going to or coming from OFAC listed countries. Those assets are frozen, and everyone involved in the transaction loses their money or goes to prison. You may not be able to set up a cash based business either, because customs will eventually intercept the physical money you're trying to send to Iran to buy the books.
And for all those reasons you outline above, I really smiled when I saw that SCO was having trouble.
I know it's not nice, but I felt a deep sense of justice. The company that wouldn't sell an inexpensive copy of Unix to a poor college student is having trouble - boo hoo.
On the other hand, I was genuinely sad when Mark Williams Corp. went out of business.
not really, just seeing if you're paying attention...
Someday when you buy your very own computer, I hope you can afford a disk that's bigger than 8 gigs. That way you will see for yourself that if LILO cannot see the disk properly, then probably fdisk will also not see the disk properly. You won't be able to create partitions above that 8 gig boundary unless you've got either BIOS support, or EZ-DRIVE installed.
My current machine has a new BIOS, and I didn't have to do anything special with my other 13.5 gig drive.
Does it occur to anyone that neural scientists are making too many assumptions?
For years I heard that the brain *never* regenerates cells. The brain cells that you're born with are the only ones you will ever get. Now, it is known that is completely wrong. The brain does have the ability to regenerate brain cells that are lost. I was always skeptical and I was not surprised that the brain happens to do what every organ in the body already does. I think it would be quite remarkable if the brain was unique in that way.
Now we find out that cells which the common wisdom classified as stuctural members turn out to actually have some communications functions built into them. I remember reading about this years ago, and I was skeptical about that too. At the very least, the structural cells would have *some* impact on neural activity, and therefore must be considered as part of the computational structure of the brain.
I'm not sure where it's coming from though. Neural science draws from other disciplines, including psychology and medicine. One could argue that both of those subjects are still in the process of hacking their way out of their unscientific origins. I wonder if the half-completed scientific revolution in those subjects is hindering progress in understanding the brain.
To be fair, artificial inteligence is also a contributer to neural science which is probably even farther in the dark ages than either psychology or medicine.
Disclaimer: my wife is a psychologist. My comments are not meant as flamage, so if you're getting mad, contact me so I can clarify what I mean.
You can safely use EZ-DRIVE. LILO knows all about it. A couple years ago I bought an 11.5 gig maxstor drive, and the BIOS could only see 8 gigs of it. Since LILO gets the drive info from the BIOS, LILO could also only see 8 gigs of the drive.
My solution was to install the EZ-DRIVE program which allowed LILO to see the entire drive.
So, is this another example of society trampling all over the feelings of geeks? Do you suppose that everything that geeks love to do will be deemed "unsafe for children?" Will geneticists develop a laboratory test to determine if a baby will grow up to be a geek? All this and more, in a Jon Katz article coming soon to a browser near you!
eBay is being stupid. They want to sell a service. So why are they shutting down people who sell their service?
Pretend that I am a vacuum cleaner salesman. Also pretend that Linus Torvalds is telling his friends that they can buy vacuum cleaners from me. He doesn't have my permission to tell his friends.
What's rational:
1) Let Linus alone, because his friends are buying my vacuum cleaners
or:
2) Sue the hell out of Linus, because he's passing out stacks of MY BUSINESS CARDS THAT I SPENT A LONG TIME DESIGNING DAMMIT!
How much business will you lose if you release the tech?
How much business will you gain if you get the Linux market?
Which one is greater?
We would all love for you to open source the driver and release the specs for the board, but your company's decision needs to be based on the numbers. Answer the simple questions above, and the decision is made.
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>Canada has a sigint service.
Sorry, they have a SIGSEGV service. The core files are dumped in Ottawa, Ontario.
I did the same thing. I used SLS for three years until spring 1996. I kept updating the thing, until I finally installed Red Hat. I switched because it was very painful trying to keep up with library, compiler, X, and other changes by compiling every package from the source. I wasn't getting anything done because there was so much upgrading to do.
Everyone has a name given to them by their parents. Some people also get names that are given to them by their friends (or enemies).
I think that a person ought to have the right to choose their own name, even if it's different than the one their parents gave them.
He found the Jargon File and quoted the definition for a hacker. He seems to understand that definition.
So, I wonder why after he goes through the trouble of getting the correct definition he continues to refer to "hackers" throughout the article.
The directories they chose for the RPM file are pretty bad.
/opt/interbase. Most Linux boxes don't have an /opt tree. That seems to be a Solaris thing.
/usr/include and /usr/lib. This is OK I guess, but they stick a single program into the directory /usr/local/sbin. Why not stick to the pattern they established and put it into /usr/sbin?
They put files into a directory called
Second, they stick their libraries and headers into
That's just a nit though. I suppose all that will be fixed once Debian includes it.
Thank goodness for that. If the internet in the US is shut down, I'm going to move to the UK.
:-)
Of course, I speak American so I'll have to learn English...
I don't think multics was shelved. I know that there was a Honeywell computer running Multics in the Detroit area (Wayne State U maybe?) in the late 1980's. I'm sure you can find out what the last operational Multics site in the world was. Maybe it's still up today!
How about a Multics port to the '86 architecture?
That should read "No person may initiate..." in section a.2 above. Sorry.
Here's your answer from the relevant US laws:
From Subpart L - Restrictions on Telephone Solicitation
a.2.Initiate any telephone call to any residential telephone line using an artificial or prerecorded voice to deliver a message without the prior express consent of the called party, unless the call is initiated for emergency purposes or is exempted by sec. 64.1200(c)
section c says this:
c.The term "telephone call" in sec. 64.1200(a)(2) shall not include a call or message by, or on behalf of, a caller:
1.that is not made for a commercial purpose,
2.that is made for a commercial purpose but does not include the transmission of any unsolicited advertisement,
3.to any person with whom the caller has an established business relationship at the time the call is made, or
4.which is a tax-exempt nonprofit organization.
So there you go! ABC is giving out $500 checks to everyone who is lucky enough to get a call! Make sure you save those answering machine tapes, boys and girls. The small claims court judge will want to listen to them. While you're at it, go over to www.junkbusters.com and print out a copy of the legislation for the judge. It should be a very easy case to win.
Call rejection is a scam. You pay to have anonymous calls blocked. OK, fine so far.
The problem is that the phone company turns around and offers a service to businesses: blocked anonymous call rejection override. That way, the businesses that pay the fee can still get through.
They need to start selling is a blocked anonymous call rejection override override.
I'm not sure what you're whining about. I've got an extremely high karma, and I earned it fair and square. I haven't even been called a karma whore even once (though I expect I will be now...)
I don't think Signal 11 needs to resort to activating other accounts to boost his karma. He's frequently insightful. You might disagree with me, but I just don't see the conspiracy here.
I sure hope that you're not a manager.
I can't think of too many things worse than a manager who is a fan of Machiavelli.
Except once I worked for a guy who absolutely loved the Godfather series of movies. He would quote from them constantly, and he'd use examples from the movies to illustrate his points in meetings. I still remember the day when the guy in the cubicle across from me came to work and there was a horse's head in his chair.
If you transfer money to someone in Iran, you could be sent to prison. There is an office in the Department of the Treasury called the Office of Foreign Assets Control, or OFAC for short.
The purpose of that office is to enforce trade embaros against enemies of the United States. That list of enemies can include countries like Iraq, or persons like Osama Bin Ladin.
Each country has its own restrictions. Specifically to answer questions about Iran, Americans are prohibited from importing anything at all, including rugs of Iranian origin either directly from Iran, or through a third country. There is an exception made for books and other Iranian publications. There is some question about how you could go about this. I doubt anyone in the US will care if you bring texts from Iran, but to actually set up a business is a different story. I know for a fact that credit card companies, including one I used to work for, set up filters based on databases built from OFAC sources by Thompson Financials to catch funds going to or coming from OFAC listed countries. Those assets are frozen, and everyone involved in the transaction loses their money or goes to prison. You may not be able to set up a cash based business either, because customs will eventually intercept the physical money you're trying to send to Iran to buy the books.
Unfortunately, someone would create the newsgroup
alt.brazil.soccer.corinthians.suck.suck.suck
and there would be a mirror newsgroup with soccer replaced by football. Ain't anarchy fun?
Ahhhh! I need less mores!
In the good old days, people with a lot of money were usually able to stay out of trouble with the law.
Nowadays it seems that to stay out of trouble you need to know how to upgrade your own computer!
The more things change, the more they stay the same.
less sucks less more than more. That's why I use more less, and less more.
Another one:
There's a town in MI outside Detroit called Novi. Everyone uses emacs there.
And for all those reasons you outline above, I really smiled when I saw that SCO was having trouble.
I know it's not nice, but I felt a deep sense of justice. The company that wouldn't sell an inexpensive copy of Unix to a poor college student is having trouble - boo hoo.
On the other hand, I was genuinely sad when Mark Williams Corp. went out of business.
Actually I have 97 partitions on that disk.
not really, just seeing if you're paying attention...
Someday when you buy your very own computer, I hope you can afford a disk that's bigger than 8 gigs. That way you will see for yourself that if LILO cannot see the disk properly, then probably fdisk will also not see the disk properly. You won't be able to create partitions above that 8 gig boundary unless you've got either BIOS support, or EZ-DRIVE installed.
My current machine has a new BIOS, and I didn't have to do anything special with my other 13.5 gig drive.
Does it occur to anyone that neural scientists are making too many assumptions?
For years I heard that the brain *never* regenerates cells. The brain cells that you're born with are the only ones you will ever get. Now, it is known that is completely wrong. The brain does have the ability to regenerate brain cells that are lost. I was always skeptical and I was not surprised that the brain happens to do what every organ in the body already does. I think it would be quite remarkable if the brain was unique in that way.
Now we find out that cells which the common wisdom classified as stuctural members turn out to actually have some communications functions built into them. I remember reading about this years ago, and I was skeptical about that too. At the very least, the structural cells would have *some* impact on neural activity, and therefore must be considered as part of the computational structure of the brain.
I'm not sure where it's coming from though. Neural science draws from other disciplines, including psychology and medicine. One could argue that both of those subjects are still in the process of hacking their way out of their unscientific origins. I wonder if the half-completed scientific revolution in those subjects is hindering progress in understanding the brain.
To be fair, artificial inteligence is also a contributer to neural science which is probably even farther in the dark ages than either psychology or medicine.
Disclaimer: my wife is a psychologist. My comments are not meant as flamage, so if you're getting mad, contact me so I can clarify what I mean.
You can safely use EZ-DRIVE. LILO knows all about it. A couple years ago I bought an 11.5 gig maxstor drive, and the BIOS could only see 8 gigs of it. Since LILO gets the drive info from the BIOS, LILO could also only see 8 gigs of the drive.
My solution was to install the EZ-DRIVE program which allowed LILO to see the entire drive.
So, is this another example of society trampling all over the feelings of geeks? Do you suppose that everything that geeks love to do will be deemed "unsafe for children?" Will geneticists develop a laboratory test to determine if a baby will grow up to be a geek? All this and more, in a Jon Katz article coming soon to a browser near you!
Bruce's best X-files line:
Hey Scully!
Come to Daddy!
Bruce's best strategy:
Uttering the words "Klatuu Berata Nictu" to stop the smoking man dead in his tracks.
eBay is being stupid. They want to sell a service. So why are they shutting down people who sell their service?
Pretend that I am a vacuum cleaner salesman. Also pretend that Linus Torvalds is telling his friends that they can buy vacuum cleaners from me. He doesn't have my permission to tell his friends.
What's rational:
1) Let Linus alone, because his friends are buying my vacuum cleaners
or:
2) Sue the hell out of Linus, because he's passing out stacks of MY BUSINESS CARDS THAT I SPENT A LONG TIME DESIGNING DAMMIT!
As I said, eBay is being stupid.
Then your problem is simple.
How much business will you lose if you release the tech?
How much business will you gain if you get the Linux market?
Which one is greater?
We would all love for you to open source the driver and release the specs for the board, but your company's decision needs to be based on the numbers. Answer the simple questions above, and the decision is made.