WGA is pretty overblown and intrusive guess he missed that. Seriously I have been using MS stuff since 1991 and I am so done with there lame asses. They used to be customer focused when they were fighting big bad blue. Now they are far worse than big blue was. Total loss of customer focus. Trying to lock customers into bad license subscription deals. Treating all their customers as potential criminals EVERYTIME you download something from them. Vista promised a lot delivered little and is only incrementally better than XP. Basically a company that is so overgrown and bureaucratic that it takes a group of some 43 http://moishelettvin.blogspot.com/2006/11/windows- shutdown-crapfest.html people working together to munge the shutdown submenu on Vista. lame lame lame Screw Microsoft from an MCSE going back to NT 4.
Here's how syslog-ng for centralized logging PHP syslog-ng for a sweet web front end to slice and dice the data when needed. Using syslog-ng filters which are very sophisticated. Send one copy of the data to a mysql DB for php syslog-ng and one to plain old text files. We use dvdtools and to burn the text files once a night to a DVD. you could do so more often if need be we leave the disk as multisession but there seems to be a practical limit of about 99 sessions so we do 90 days. I also have syslog-ng filter setup to send warning and above to a separate file where I parse it with OSSEC HIDS (just on the central log server) for funny business in the logs which get's emailed to a special alert email box I have set up. Also check out campin.net for good open source centralized logging infos
This is a story! That stupid busy bodies can get you fired for making an off hand not directly threatening remark in a conversation they had no business snooping on in the first place. And no I am not one who thinks VT could have been prevented the guy was sick. But as far as I know we are not allowed to arbitrarily lock up people we think are sick I.E. homeless people. It can be done but it is not easy I think the quickest way is for a parent or guardian to request he be committed. In which case that would have been his parents call and they did not make it.
Yeah we are a small group us Linux nerds but an influential small group when it comes to tech so just stop buying ATI and recommend Nvidia to anyone who asks. And watch how fast things get better.
They didn't look very hard I found a link in the first google hit to this searching for dell PC no operating system. Can I get a job writing poorly researched articles for ZDNet?
emusic.com will sell you mp3s sans DRM. Yes they have a smaller catalog but you can choose to buy DRMd music or not buy DRMd music or even better you can chose to buy corporate DMRd music of lame boy bands and Brittney Spears. Or you can spend your money on independently produced and sold music that does not have DRM. The latter takes a little more work because you have to seek it out and decide for yourself what you like. Instead of being told what you should like by a label and synergized media onslaughts. So DRM is not a moral issue. Buy what you think is the right thing to buy. Don't buy what you believe is the wrong thing to buy.
Global warming is a measurable anomaly and is very definitely real. However there is not a consensus opinion amongst climatologist that it is man made. And so man made climate change as the film implies is a theory.
In 1997, the conservative advocacy group Citizens for a Sound Economy surveyed America's 48 official state climatologists on questions related to climate change [8]. Of the 36 respondents, 44% considered global warming to be a largely natural phenomenon, compared to 17% who considered warming to be largely manmade. The survey further found that 58% of the climatologists disagreed or somewhat disagreed with then-President Clinton's assertion that "the overwhelming balance of evidence and scientific opinion is that it is no longer a theory, but now fact, that global warming is for real". Eighty-nine percent of the climatologists agreed that "current science is unable to isolate and measure variations in global temperatures caused ONLY by man-made factors," and 61% said that historical data do not indicate "that fluctuations in global temperatures are attributable to human influences such as burning fossil fuels."
60% of the respondents said that reducing man-made CO2 emissions by 15% below 1990 levels would not prevent global temperatures from rising, and 86% said that reducing emissions to 1990 levels would not prevent rising temperatures. By a 39% to 33% margin, more climatologists agreed that "evidence exists to suggest that the earth is headed for another glacial period" [9] though the time scale for the next glacial period was not specified.
Not saying I disagree with the theory but it is a theory at this point. Many political organization have stated that they believe climate change is largely attributable to man made causes as have the American Meteorological Society. I have not seen another study specifically targeting consensus amongst climatologists. And since they are the scientists that study global climate patterns I would guess that would be the group to ask. There can be no denying though that there is an increase in mean temperature and a corresponding increase in "green house gases" over the same period. So it is logical to conclude that they two may be related.
So why don't you quit crying your crocodile tears for them and go over and fix their corrupt governments that are the general root cause of such poverty. Oh I see it is much easier to sit back and cry like a baby for them and do nothing except throw stones at other rich people and try and make yourself feel good. Meh whatever. By the way we Americans hate self important, self righteous, pious, cock suckers such as you so go die in a fire.
I am running 10.4 and I never use spotlight. Hey guess what if you put your files in your home directory guess where they are when you need them. Dashboard used hack to turn off because it's dumb and a resource hog. Widgets have been available as a third party hack for years (Konfabulator) didn't even bother to download then does not justify a new OS. OS X is stagnant at this point and only an Apple fanboy would claim otherwise. Oh and I loves me my Apple and OS X. You can pry them both from my cold dead hands. It is the desktop UNIX that doth not suck.
Interesting you should bring this up. Let us suppose for a second there is a study put forth by an environmental charity that says peak oil is real. Or says global warming will be then end of us all or what have you. Since their funding is enhanced by environmental crisis. Does that mean we should immediately disregard their study and data as biased?
Often scientist are funded by someone with an axe to grind. Or funded by someone that presupposes they know the answer to the question at hand. Does that then mean all their data and their science is bunk? Can not someone be funded by an oil company and do real science? Are you implying this is not possible and does not happen. There ideas are inconvenient so let us just paint them as paid shills? I don't doubt that many of these industry funded scientists and environmentally funded scientist are trying and in many cases doing real science with honorable intentions. And it is reactionary and completely unfair to assume anyone you don't agree with a is a paid shill.
We are supposed to make policy decisions costing th U.S. alone billions possibly trillions of dollars. Based on a computer model using a great many assumptions lacking sociological data. That makes a weather prediction 100 years in to the future. When similar computer models have not even been very accurate within a decade time frame. I am not going to specifically attack the merits of the model because I don't feel qualified to do so. However the sheer lack of skeptical analysis in the scientific community on this issue is baffling to me. I think there is a lack of critical analysis here due to scientists not wanting to be branded heretics (or enjoying the resulting funding). There seems to be no room for criticality or debate on this issue it has reached a dogmatic standing even amongst scientists. I find that very disturbing and have to wonder if my faith in science is well placed any more. Or if scientists are no better than your average politician with an axe to grind.
Perhaps instead of worrying about global warming, and the orbit of the earth, near earth objects, anthrax laced mail, terrorists, pirates, evil scientists, GM foods, sudden climate change, fundamentalist nutjobs. You should just worry about everything. Yes worry worry worry until you feel properly self righteous and afraid. Then build some sort of cold war bomb shelter and live in that. Besides sheeple are much easier to keep in line when they are scared of their own shadow.
WTF are you talking about they already regulate every company involved here. Which is why the telcos are lining there pockets in the first place to get their aproval to bend Vonage over. If they didn't already regulate the cable and phone companies there would be no need to pay the politicans for the telecommunications act at all!
As a long time PC gamer I am to the point where I hope PC games do become niche again. All though I seriously doubt that will actually happen. But when I started in this hobby in the early 80s it was the domain of the hardcore nerd. And as far as I am concerned let it go back to that. I don't need EA and the latest rev of Madden wouldn't play it anyway. Bring back the hardcore developers with their giant manuals and incredibly complex games. Bring back the hardcore players and get the n00bs off the servers. I say let them play Wii. But as long as there are nerds with computers there will be PC games.
If you play wow do you have time for other games good or bad? No you do not it is designed, like all MMOs, to suck your entire life up. People play so much they let their neglected child die while playing WOW http://arstechnica.com/journals/thumbs.ars/2005/6/ 21/547. Many people that play WOW are addicts and can no longer make rational judgements about their habbit.
How is he muzzled if hes still talking to the press about being muzzled? Doesn't seem very muzzled to me. More likely he has an axe to grind. Everyone has an axe to grind I take no one at face value. Environmentalist are a great example. It seems there religion (and it is a religion of sorts) has little to do with fixing the environement and more to do with promoting socialist progressive ideals.
One example of this is when anyone mentions a potential technical solution to carbon emissions. They poo poo it saying it won't do enough to curb consumption. Which is really what this movement seems to be all about. It seems they don't like consumerism, sprawl, SUvs, cars in general, personal property and the distribution of wealth in the world. I think it's time we start calling them on it. They are all watermelons green on the outside and red on the inside. Oh and by the way same as when you lot espouse your true beliefs without the sky is falling environmental slant. We still aren't interested in your world socialism.
The "next big things" are here already if your paying close attention. Nanotechnology, Biotechnology, and Robotics. IBM may not be part of this new wave of tech and it may not be in traditional IT but much of it is already underway.
Well let's see attempting to kill a head of state. Nothing wrong with that right? We should invite more assassination attempts on our leaders. By let's say doing something really lame like just dropping a few retalitory bombs on them more or less randomly right? Instead of say taking his ass out. Your all a bunch of neutered nancies if you don't get that. People and countries only respect power. They don't respect your lame ass ideoligies there is no such thing as the generosity of the human spirit when it comes to assassination attempts against your elected leader.
We had plenty of resons to take out Hussein. Really only one of which is necessary. He tried to have Bush Sr. killed http://www.c-span.org/iraq/history.asp If some jack ass tin pot dictator took a shot at whacking my old man and I ended up being the leader of a super power with the ability to take him out I would straight up take him out. And if I had to feed you a line about WMDs to get the ball rolling so be it.
Yeah I hate to agree with EA on anything because I think they are pretty evil. But non compete agreements I hate even more. So for these poor souls that signed this they are supposed to bow out of the games industry for a year if they are unhappy at their current position? Sounds like they would be indentured servants to Ubisoft. So don't sign it you say or go work for someone else right. I agree but that is not so easy a decision when you are a yong person trying to break into the industry. I personally will never sign another non compete agreement. Having been burned by this myself. But that means a great many jobs are off limits to me and or I am likely to be fired in the future for being unwilling to do so. Which sucks these things should not be legal.
Yeah the whole John Romero rockstar developer thing was lame. And the John Romero will make you his bitch ad was really lame. But that is enough kicking now let the guy up. He's just a dude we all do stupid things we should't have to hear about them forever.
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WGA is pretty overblown and intrusive guess he missed that. Seriously I have been using MS stuff since 1991 and I am so done with there lame asses. They used to be customer focused when they were fighting big bad blue. Now they are far worse than big blue was. Total loss of customer focus. Trying to lock customers into bad license subscription deals. Treating all their customers as potential criminals EVERYTIME you download something from them. Vista promised a lot delivered little and is only incrementally better than XP. Basically a company that is so overgrown and bureaucratic that it takes a group of some 43 http://moishelettvin.blogspot.com/2006/11/windows- shutdown-crapfest.html people working together to munge the shutdown submenu on Vista. lame lame lame Screw Microsoft from an MCSE going back to NT 4.
Here's how syslog-ng for centralized logging PHP syslog-ng for a sweet web front end to slice and dice the data when needed. Using syslog-ng filters which are very sophisticated. Send one copy of the data to a mysql DB for php syslog-ng and one to plain old text files. We use dvdtools and to burn the text files once a night to a DVD. you could do so more often if need be we leave the disk as multisession but there seems to be a practical limit of about 99 sessions so we do 90 days. I also have syslog-ng filter setup to send warning and above to a separate file where I parse it with OSSEC HIDS (just on the central log server) for funny business in the logs which get's emailed to a special alert email box I have set up. Also check out campin.net for good open source centralized logging infos
I claim this planet in the name of House Atreides.
This is a story! That stupid busy bodies can get you fired for making an off hand not directly threatening remark in a conversation they had no business snooping on in the first place. And no I am not one who thinks VT could have been prevented the guy was sick. But as far as I know we are not allowed to arbitrarily lock up people we think are sick I.E. homeless people. It can be done but it is not easy I think the quickest way is for a parent or guardian to request he be committed. In which case that would have been his parents call and they did not make it.
Yeah we are a small group us Linux nerds but an influential small group when it comes to tech so just stop buying ATI and recommend Nvidia to anyone who asks. And watch how fast things get better.
http://www.dell.com/content/topics/segtopic.aspx/e 510_nseries?c=us&cs=19&l=en&s=dhs
They didn't look very hard I found a link in the first google hit to this searching for dell PC no operating system. Can I get a job writing poorly researched articles for ZDNet?
emusic.com will sell you mp3s sans DRM. Yes they have a smaller catalog but you can choose to buy DRMd music or not buy DRMd music or even better you can chose to buy corporate DMRd music of lame boy bands and Brittney Spears. Or you can spend your money on independently produced and sold music that does not have DRM. The latter takes a little more work because you have to seek it out and decide for yourself what you like. Instead of being told what you should like by a label and synergized media onslaughts. So DRM is not a moral issue. Buy what you think is the right thing to buy. Don't buy what you believe is the wrong thing to buy.
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Global warming is a measurable anomaly and is very definitely real. However there is not a consensus opinion amongst climatologist that it is man made. And so man made climate change as the film implies is a theory.
From http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scientific_opinion_o
Survey of US state climatologists 1997
In 1997, the conservative advocacy group Citizens for a Sound Economy surveyed America's 48 official state climatologists on questions related to climate change [8]. Of the 36 respondents, 44% considered global warming to be a largely natural phenomenon, compared to 17% who considered warming to be largely manmade. The survey further found that 58% of the climatologists disagreed or somewhat disagreed with then-President Clinton's assertion that "the overwhelming balance of evidence and scientific opinion is that it is no longer a theory, but now fact, that global warming is for real". Eighty-nine percent of the climatologists agreed that "current science is unable to isolate and measure variations in global temperatures caused ONLY by man-made factors," and 61% said that historical data do not indicate "that fluctuations in global temperatures are attributable to human influences such as burning fossil fuels."
60% of the respondents said that reducing man-made CO2 emissions by 15% below 1990 levels would not prevent global temperatures from rising, and 86% said that reducing emissions to 1990 levels would not prevent rising temperatures. By a 39% to 33% margin, more climatologists agreed that "evidence exists to suggest that the earth is headed for another glacial period" [9] though the time scale for the next glacial period was not specified.
Not saying I disagree with the theory but it is a theory at this point. Many political organization have stated that they believe climate change is largely attributable to man made causes as have the American Meteorological Society. I have not seen another study specifically targeting consensus amongst climatologists. And since they are the scientists that study global climate patterns I would guess that would be the group to ask. There can be no denying though that there is an increase in mean temperature and a corresponding increase in "green house gases" over the same period. So it is logical to conclude that they two may be related.
It's just a phone there are many like it this one is Apples. Also there has been swirling rumors for ages about this supposed secret. Yawn no digg
I guess in addition to being a coward you are also slow because that is an IM account.
So why don't you quit crying your crocodile tears for them and go over and fix their corrupt governments that are the general root cause of such poverty. Oh I see it is much easier to sit back and cry like a baby for them and do nothing except throw stones at other rich people and try and make yourself feel good. Meh whatever. By the way we Americans hate self important, self righteous, pious, cock suckers such as you so go die in a fire.
I am running 10.4 and I never use spotlight. Hey guess what if you put your files in your home directory guess where they are when you need them. Dashboard used hack to turn off because it's dumb and a resource hog. Widgets have been available as a third party hack for years (Konfabulator) didn't even bother to download then does not justify a new OS. OS X is stagnant at this point and only an Apple fanboy would claim otherwise. Oh and I loves me my Apple and OS X. You can pry them both from my cold dead hands. It is the desktop UNIX that doth not suck.
Interesting you should bring this up. Let us suppose for a second there is a study put forth by an environmental charity that says peak oil is real. Or says global warming will be then end of us all or what have you. Since their funding is enhanced by environmental crisis. Does that mean we should immediately disregard their study and data as biased?
Often scientist are funded by someone with an axe to grind. Or funded by someone that presupposes they know the answer to the question at hand. Does that then mean all their data and their science is bunk? Can not someone be funded by an oil company and do real science? Are you implying this is not possible and does not happen. There ideas are inconvenient so let us just paint them as paid shills? I don't doubt that many of these industry funded scientists and environmentally funded scientist are trying and in many cases doing real science with honorable intentions. And it is reactionary and completely unfair to assume anyone you don't agree with a is a paid shill.
We are supposed to make policy decisions costing th U.S. alone billions possibly trillions of dollars. Based on a computer model using a great many assumptions lacking sociological data. That makes a weather prediction 100 years in to the future. When similar computer models have not even been very accurate within a decade time frame. I am not going to specifically attack the merits of the model because I don't feel qualified to do so. However the sheer lack of skeptical analysis in the scientific community on this issue is baffling to me. I think there is a lack of critical analysis here due to scientists not wanting to be branded heretics (or enjoying the resulting funding). There seems to be no room for criticality or debate on this issue it has reached a dogmatic standing even amongst scientists. I find that very disturbing and have to wonder if my faith in science is well placed any more. Or if scientists are no better than your average politician with an axe to grind.
Perhaps instead of worrying about global warming, and the orbit of the earth, near earth objects, anthrax laced mail, terrorists, pirates, evil scientists, GM foods, sudden climate change, fundamentalist nutjobs. You should just worry about everything. Yes worry worry worry until you feel properly self righteous and afraid. Then build some sort of cold war bomb shelter and live in that. Besides sheeple are much easier to keep in line when they are scared of their own shadow.
WTF are you talking about they already regulate every company involved here. Which is why the telcos are lining there pockets in the first place to get their aproval to bend Vonage over. If they didn't already regulate the cable and phone companies there would be no need to pay the politicans for the telecommunications act at all!
As a long time PC gamer I am to the point where I hope PC games do become niche again. All though I seriously doubt that will actually happen. But when I started in this hobby in the early 80s it was the domain of the hardcore nerd. And as far as I am concerned let it go back to that. I don't need EA and the latest rev of Madden wouldn't play it anyway. Bring back the hardcore developers with their giant manuals and incredibly complex games. Bring back the hardcore players and get the n00bs off the servers. I say let them play Wii. But as long as there are nerds with computers there will be PC games.
It's a solid investment in a shaky economy.
If you play wow do you have time for other games good or bad? No you do not it is designed, like all MMOs, to suck your entire life up. People play so much they let their neglected child die while playing WOW http://arstechnica.com/journals/thumbs.ars/2005/6/ 21/547. Many people that play WOW are addicts and can no longer make rational judgements about their habbit.
How is he muzzled if hes still talking to the press about being muzzled? Doesn't seem very muzzled to me. More likely he has an axe to grind. Everyone has an axe to grind I take no one at face value. Environmentalist are a great example. It seems there religion (and it is a religion of sorts) has little to do with fixing the environement and more to do with promoting socialist progressive ideals.
One example of this is when anyone mentions a potential technical solution to carbon emissions. They poo poo it saying it won't do enough to curb consumption. Which is really what this movement seems to be all about. It seems they don't like consumerism, sprawl, SUvs, cars in general, personal property and the distribution of wealth in the world. I think it's time we start calling them on it. They are all watermelons green on the outside and red on the inside. Oh and by the way same as when you lot espouse your true beliefs without the sky is falling environmental slant. We still aren't interested in your world socialism.
The "next big things" are here already if your paying close attention. Nanotechnology, Biotechnology, and Robotics. IBM may not be part of this new wave of tech and it may not be in traditional IT but much of it is already underway.
Well let's see attempting to kill a head of state. Nothing wrong with that right? We should invite more assassination attempts on our leaders. By let's say doing something really lame like just dropping a few retalitory bombs on them more or less randomly right? Instead of say taking his ass out. Your all a bunch of neutered nancies if you don't get that. People and countries only respect power. They don't respect your lame ass ideoligies there is no such thing as the generosity of the human spirit when it comes to assassination attempts against your elected leader.
We had plenty of resons to take out Hussein. Really only one of which is necessary. He tried to have Bush Sr. killed http://www.c-span.org/iraq/history.asp If some jack ass tin pot dictator took a shot at whacking my old man and I ended up being the leader of a super power with the ability to take him out I would straight up take him out. And if I had to feed you a line about WMDs to get the ball rolling so be it.
Yeah I hate to agree with EA on anything because I think they are pretty evil. But non compete agreements I hate even more. So for these poor souls that signed this they are supposed to bow out of the games industry for a year if they are unhappy at their current position? Sounds like they would be indentured servants to Ubisoft. So don't sign it you say or go work for someone else right. I agree but that is not so easy a decision when you are a yong person trying to break into the industry. I personally will never sign another non compete agreement. Having been burned by this myself. But that means a great many jobs are off limits to me and or I am likely to be fired in the future for being unwilling to do so. Which sucks these things should not be legal.
Yeah the whole John Romero rockstar developer thing was lame. And the John Romero will make you his bitch ad was really lame. But that is enough kicking now let the guy up. He's just a dude we all do stupid things we should't have to hear about them forever.