You dont mention that only 13% agree with the 2/3 majority presidential election method.
Australia has had good stable government (with the occasional stupid decision) for 100 years. Changing to a system where the watchdog (president) is elected by all parties coming together and mututally agreeing on something wont work. We will end up with some half-baked idiot thats elected because of some back room deal, similar to the way we got this censorship deal.
We need NEED the queen to be head of state, we NEED the head of state to be - Someone who has power in there own right (so they cannot be unduely influenced by others). - Honourable (If they do the wrong thing theyl - Someone who wont abuse the power they are given
The Queen currently fits the bill pretty well, time may come when the british monarchy cannot fullfill the job, until that day why not let em keep doin it.
People say it should be an Australian, i think it would be good to have an Australain do the job, but thats not to say that only an Australain can do the job. Why limit the eligibility to an Australain?
The PM will always have some power over all Australians, the PM cannot threaten the Queen, if it came to the crunch an we elected a truely evil PM the monarchy would be in a better position to say it how it is than an australian who has "other" factors to consider.
From the looks of the archive, potato is targetting the following platforms. - sparc - i386 - m68k - powerpc - alpha - arm - hurd-i386 (any other distro support hurd?)
On top of this debian aims to install to the bare minimum hardware requirements, and has more packages than most distros (between 50% and 80% of GPLed software i heard someone say).
I guess this makes debians install process a bit harder than some distro that only works on i386-linux.
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Well, i dotn know how every other distro does it, but ive never heard a harsh word with regard to debians package managment, indeed its probably debians strongest point. You could easy make a cron job to automatically check for and install updated packages, with the need for you to dod anything. For your 1st question, im not sure exactly, i think you can define a custom group of packages, so you should be able to move this around, never done it or really looked into that myself. You could try searching one of the Debian Mail list Archives
Australia (im australian) goes to the polls on the weekend do consider constitiutional change. The changes in the constitution are to sever remaining ties with England.
We should say no, we NEED others to follow, we need to seek the guidence of other countries to help form sensible policies. Decisions like this proove we cannot stand on our own two feet.
If only we were going to the polls to vote on wether Australians had the right to privacy, or the right to free speeech or something.
This confirms Australias status as the "Global Village Idiot"
It says the class action could have led to toshibas bankruptsy ($9 Billion dmages) if they didnt settle.
And the fault was barely reproducable.
Contrast this with Micrsosft, windows is clearly defective, BSOD and all. Would it be possible for all windows users to take class action and bankrupt microsoft.
I think the only thing that would save MS is there is probably some legal clause saying microsoft is no way responsible for the software you pay them money for.
Does anyone have a link to info on Freenet or the Eterneity system mentioned above. I did a quick search didnt find anything that looked relavent.
Im interested in this datahaven concept... it has to be everywhere.. like a vast distributed filesystem with quotas based on storage capacity and bandwidth?
I havent read cryptonomicum... on the todo list now
Since 2.3 has been feature frozen for a while now, so by rights it wont be in 2.4.
There are plenty of usefull feature waiting to get into the kernel.
For example new style RAID (v0.9) and the big ISDN patches. These features have been standing in line waiting to get in, and are more usefull to the general public than kernel support for a proprietry userland program(if thats what it is).
But i have faith in the powers to be, they kernel maintainers do what they think is right for the kernel one way or the other. I dont think this attempted threat of a fork will sway theyre decision whatsoever.
I have an Abit HPT366 controller card, to give me 4 seperate IDE channels, this is good for software raid people.
It works fine on my newer via chipset motherboard, but doesnt work on my old intel hx chipset. So having multiple ide cards must need some level of bios support.
Support for it and the promise card are via the uniform ide patch.
There is also a patch to support upto 20 or so devices, from what ive read (etiehr the linux kernel or linux-raid mailing list) it isnt a big deal to support more ide devices.
If you look on your local kernel mirror under people/hedrick you will find the uniform ide patch.
I disagree with a few poster here, i think its wrong to state that withought a particular person or company that a technology wouldnt exist.
I really think technology should be considered to be evolving not being created.
Everything we do, every idea we get is based on countless other peoples work whether we recognise them or not. Technology builds on itself. It always has and it always will, no governments policy (eg intellectual property) can control that.
If mac didnt have a GUI or billy didnt want control of a computer on every desktop then thats not to say it wouldnt happen.
Technology streams are just there, over time they mix interact and evolve... (or embrase, extend and extinguish?)
Wouldnt you say open source is more like evolving software than creating software ?
Debian is a different kettle of fish to other distros.
I seriously doubt that most debian people judge the degree of there success as to wether they have as you put it a "commercially sellable product".
Me, i would judge the success of a volunteer organisation by the work they do not the feasibility of a potential IPO.
Ive never had a problem with the debian packaging system, it has a lot of support. Do you degrudge them for not using the Redhat Package Manager?
Debian fill a very valuable segment of the linux market. They do have more support from "experts", but i seriously doubt they go out of there way to "deliberately sneer and shun newbies"
Whats wrong with aiming a distribution at "experts" anyway. Every man and his dog is making or intends to make a distribution aimed at newbies, thats fine its good to get fresh blood, but theres no reason to "deliberatly sneer and shun" experts!
How many distributions do aim at the experts.. two or three max..
Over 500 volunteer package maintainers. about 4050 easilly installable Packages aproaching 1.6GB (i386) of compressed binaries (not counting source)
YOU get to pick and choose what you apps you want running on your system. You have much more control over your system, if you dont like a particular ftp server or dhcp client fine you have a choice, install your favourite.
As you can understand from other posters, the update feature is pretty unique. The ease of use of updating makes official releases much less important.
With debian its a hassle free incremental upgrade every day.
One thing redhat and mandrake have over debian is a really nice default X-windows layout. But hey im sure debian will catch up.
Or less secure than ipv4, if packets basically have the mac address embedded in them, could you spoof ipv6 like you spoof and hijack tcp/ip connections on a lan (try experimenting on yourself with hunt if you dont know what i mean)
If you could work out a way to play these things, you could use them as a trnsmitter, coupling with a reciever to create isolation, similar to an optocoupler.
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You say 91% dont want the queen as head of state.
You dont mention that only 13% agree with the 2/3 majority presidential election method.
Australia has had good stable government (with the occasional stupid decision) for 100 years.
Changing to a system where the watchdog (president) is elected by all parties coming together and mututally agreeing on something wont work. We will end up with some half-baked idiot thats elected because of some back room deal, similar to the way we got this censorship deal.
We need NEED the queen to be head of state, we NEED the head of state to be
- Someone who has power in there own right (so they cannot be unduely influenced by others).
- Honourable (If they do the wrong thing theyl
- Someone who wont abuse the power they are given
The Queen currently fits the bill pretty well, time may come when the british monarchy cannot fullfill the job, until that day why not let em keep doin it.
People say it should be an Australian, i think it would be good to have an Australain do the job, but thats not to say that only an Australain can do the job. Why limit the eligibility to an Australain?
The PM will always have some power over all Australians, the PM cannot threaten the Queen, if it came to the crunch an we elected a truely evil PM the monarchy would be in a better position to say it how it is than an australian who has "other" factors to consider.
Checkout thish tml
http://slashdot.org/articles/99/05/26/1925257.s
Echelon is how they (we) did sigint
From the looks of the archive, potato is targetting the following platforms.
- sparc
- i386
- m68k
- powerpc
- alpha
- arm
- hurd-i386 (any other distro support hurd?)
On top of this debian aims to install to the bare minimum hardware requirements, and has more packages than most distros (between 50% and 80% of GPLed software i heard someone say).
I guess this makes debians install process a bit harder than some distro that only works on i386-linux.
Well, i dotn know how every other distro does it, but ive never heard a harsh word with regard to debians package managment, indeed its probably debians strongest point. You could easy make a cron job to automatically check for and install updated packages, with the need for you to dod anything. For your 1st question, im not sure exactly, i think you can define a custom group of packages, so you should be able to move this around, never done it or really looked into that myself. You could try searching one of the Debian Mail list Archives
Australia (im australian) goes to the polls on the weekend do consider constitiutional change.
The changes in the constitution are to sever remaining ties with England.
We should say no, we NEED others to follow, we need to seek the guidence of other countries to help form sensible policies. Decisions like this proove we cannot stand on our own two feet.
If only we were going to the polls to vote on wether Australians had the right to privacy, or the right to free speeech or something.
This confirms Australias status as the "Global Village Idiot"
Acording to a quick check of my debian archive.
.debs , debs are compressed with bzip2.
Potato has 1.78 GB of binary-i386
over 4100 packages.
There is supposed to be an anouncement on the debian feature freeze today.
id bought wolfenstein as a completed product months after it was released
It says the class action could have led to toshibas bankruptsy ($9 Billion dmages) if they didnt settle.
And the fault was barely reproducable.
Contrast this with Micrsosft, windows is clearly defective, BSOD and all. Would it be possible for all windows users to take class action and bankrupt microsoft.
I think the only thing that would save MS is there is probably some legal clause saying microsoft is no way responsible for the software you pay them money for.
Man sites like the NY Times shits me, it amases me that some slashdot users actually log in everyday and post links to it.
You would think that NY Times would be more respect for there customers.
One of these years they will realise there mistake
Does anyone have a link to info on Freenet or the Eterneity system mentioned above. I did a quick search didnt find anything that looked relavent.
Im interested in this datahaven concept... it has to be everywhere.. like a vast distributed filesystem with quotas based on storage capacity and bandwidth?
I havent read cryptonomicum... on the todo list now
Since 2.3 has been feature frozen for a while now, so by rights it wont be in 2.4.
There are plenty of usefull feature waiting to get into the kernel.
For example new style RAID (v0.9) and the big ISDN
patches. These features have been standing in line waiting to get in, and are more usefull to the general public than kernel support for a proprietry userland program(if thats what it is).
But i have faith in the powers to be, they kernel maintainers do what they think is right for the kernel one way or the other. I dont think this attempted threat of a fork will sway theyre decision whatsoever.
As a generalisation women may be more complex, but if you get into specifics, i hear sendmail is pretty complex....
Too scary for me to go near
maybe irrelevant to the topic, but i guess 2/3 of slashdotters are hard-core linux users.
My guess would be that jsut slashdoters could accoutn for a fair chunk of those registered
Where im from if you make donations to certain charities you can claim it as a tax deduction.
If that applied in this case, then tax aint a problem
I have an Abit HPT366 controller card, to give me 4 seperate IDE channels, this is good for software raid people.
It works fine on my newer via chipset motherboard, but doesnt work on my old intel hx chipset. So having multiple ide cards must need some level of bios support.
Support for it and the promise card are via the uniform ide patch.
There is also a patch to support upto 20 or so devices, from what ive read (etiehr the linux kernel or linux-raid mailing list) it isnt a big deal to support more ide devices.
If you look on your local kernel mirror under people/hedrick you will find the uniform ide patch.
I disagree with a few poster here, i think its wrong to state that withought a particular person or company that a technology wouldnt exist.
I really think technology should be considered to be evolving not being created.
Everything we do, every idea we get is based on countless other peoples work whether we recognise them or not. Technology builds on itself. It always has and it always will, no governments policy (eg intellectual property) can control that.
If mac didnt have a GUI or billy didnt want control of a computer on every desktop then thats not to say it wouldnt happen.
Technology streams are just there, over time they mix interact and evolve... (or embrase, extend and extinguish?)
Wouldnt you say open source is more like evolving software than creating software ?
Debian is a different kettle of fish to other distros.
I seriously doubt that most debian people judge the degree of there success as to wether they have as you put it a "commercially sellable product".
Me, i would judge the success of a volunteer organisation by the work they do not the feasibility of a potential IPO.
Ive never had a problem with the debian packaging system, it has a lot of support. Do you degrudge them for not using the Redhat Package Manager?
Debian fill a very valuable segment of the linux market. They do have more support from "experts", but i seriously doubt they go out of there way to "deliberately sneer and shun newbies"
Whats wrong with aiming a distribution at "experts" anyway. Every man and his dog is making or intends to make a distribution aimed at newbies, thats fine its good to get fresh blood, but theres no reason to "deliberatly sneer and shun" experts!
How many distributions do aim at the experts.. two or three max..
Debian is the only FULL linux distribution.
For the record, acording to my archive potato has
Over 500 volunteer package maintainers.
about 4050 easilly installable Packages
aproaching 1.6GB (i386) of compressed binaries (not counting source)
YOU get to pick and choose what you apps you want running on your system. You have much more control over your system, if you dont like a particular ftp server or dhcp client fine you have a choice, install your favourite.
As you can understand from other posters, the update feature is pretty unique. The ease of use of updating makes official releases much less important.
With debian its a hassle free incremental upgrade every day.
One thing redhat and mandrake have over debian is a really nice default X-windows layout. But hey im sure debian will catch up.
Yea, i probably should know, its just sounds like one of those recent buzwords.
Is a vetical market a niche market, or otherwise specialist market.
Is there a horizontal market?
Seriously... ive wondered abotu it for a while, didnt know who to ask
Cool, thanks that fixed my prob.
I guess it was in the release notes somewhere.
Thanks
Read and follow the release notes
Care to be a bit more discriptive?
500MHz at 1 Watt
The strongarm only uses 1/4 watt, but its only 110 MHz or so.
It says its based on the powerPC core, so i wonder if linux would run on it ?
Or less secure than ipv4, if packets basically have the mac address embedded in them, could you spoof ipv6 like you spoof and hijack tcp/ip connections on a lan (try experimenting on yourself with hunt if you dont know what i mean)
If you could work out a way to play these things, you could use them as a trnsmitter, coupling with a reciever to create isolation, similar to an optocoupler.
Modulation would be handy