Yeah, agreed. Would be a super cool donation. My local free geek chapter will let anyone build a machine for free if they volunteer 24 hours of time at the store. For many people this is a great way to get a pretty nice decked out (as much as possible) system running Linux that they would not otherwise be able to afford. Granted, some of the machines are less than adequate for much, but at our chapter at least, they get p4's and up. In fact the last time I was down there they were even starting to get x86_64 machines. I say go for it. Just hope you can make people happy that the discs have been sufficiently wiped.
Agreed. It is another sad milestone on the road to annilhilation of my favorite distro. Not to mention the outlook for Hans. That seems perilous indeed.
I was not happy when Novell removed the ability to choose JFS during installation. I've got 5 servers and two workstations using it(running 9.2) an not once have I ever had a problem. In all fairness, I haven't had any problems with ReiserFS either, but downgrading to ext(x) does seem like one more nail in the coffin of a once mighty distro. Hell, even Ubuntu offers JFS as a choice during installation. Although, Reiser was the default, if I recall. So what could be so bad about JFS that Novell decided to stop supporting it when other distros still offer it and there doesn't seem to be any compelling reason to abandon it? The only thing my little mind has been able to come up with is the IBM connection and that that did not somehow sit well with Novell. The only other conspiracy I can come up with is that Novell is mining Open Source software for everything they can and in the process are slowly strangling SuSE to the point that it will finally collapse and be abandoned in favor of something more tightly integrated with Novell intellectual property.
Comcast is a US corporation. The notion that they are trying to protect their customers from spam is ridiculous. Is it possible that less traffic through their systems saves them money? Do you suppose they will pass that savings on the their customer base or their shareholders? Eventaully, if a Comcast user wants to get email from anywhere, the sender will have to be a Comcast customer as well. Comast will continue to whittle away at the allowed list of ISPs until they are the only ones left on their network, at least where pop3 is concerned. I would not be too shocked if going to the gmail site becomes impossible eventually. Modern US corporations have no impetus to be concerned with the welfare of their customer base (Qwest's refusal to play ball with the government notwithstanding). Too many citizens can't think for themselves anymore. Weren't there many people saying that all those worrying about losing net neutrality were so many Chicken Littles? Perhaps not after all, and actions like this will continue and calls for accountability of such unilateral actions will go unheeded.
Sure, I may be "Conspiracies-R-Us," but I see no reason to trust any entity holding so much power whose primary motivation is profit, and is allowed to engage in the most egregious behavior with what often amounts to a free pass from the federal government.
I just love the name of the department issuing this story, given the content/context of it. LOL!
I'm going off to actually read the article from the link now.
After what Verizon did to US citizens by acting like some Soviet era government appendage and gave call records to the NSA, I say nuts to them. I'll stand by Qwest, thank you very much. Besides, I have a full meg upstream...and while I'm at it, isn't cable still at about 256k upstream unless you get ass-raped by paying for a business account?
As far as the cable tv vs. cost argument: some people don't need tv to talk at them.
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Yeah, agreed. Would be a super cool donation. My local free geek chapter will let anyone build a machine for free if they volunteer 24 hours of time at the store. For many people this is a great way to get a pretty nice decked out (as much as possible) system running Linux that they would not otherwise be able to afford. Granted, some of the machines are less than adequate for much, but at our chapter at least, they get p4's and up. In fact the last time I was down there they were even starting to get x86_64 machines. I say go for it. Just hope you can make people happy that the discs have been sufficiently wiped.
Agreed. It is another sad milestone on the road to annilhilation of my favorite distro. Not to mention the outlook for Hans. That seems perilous indeed.
I was not happy when Novell removed the ability to choose JFS during installation. I've got 5 servers and two workstations using it(running 9.2) an not once have I ever had a problem. In all fairness, I haven't had any problems with ReiserFS either, but downgrading to ext(x) does seem like one more nail in the coffin of a once mighty distro. Hell, even Ubuntu offers JFS as a choice during installation. Although, Reiser was the default, if I recall. So what could be so bad about JFS that Novell decided to stop supporting it when other distros still offer it and there doesn't seem to be any compelling reason to abandon it? The only thing my little mind has been able to come up with is the IBM connection and that that did not somehow sit well with Novell. The only other conspiracy I can come up with is that Novell is mining Open Source software for everything they can and in the process are slowly strangling SuSE to the point that it will finally collapse and be abandoned in favor of something more tightly integrated with Novell intellectual property.
Comcast is a US corporation. The notion that they are trying to protect their customers from spam is ridiculous. Is it possible that less traffic through their systems saves them money? Do you suppose they will pass that savings on the their customer base or their shareholders? Eventaully, if a Comcast user wants to get email from anywhere, the sender will have to be a Comcast customer as well. Comast will continue to whittle away at the allowed list of ISPs until they are the only ones left on their network, at least where pop3 is concerned. I would not be too shocked if going to the gmail site becomes impossible eventually. Modern US corporations have no impetus to be concerned with the welfare of their customer base (Qwest's refusal to play ball with the government notwithstanding). Too many citizens can't think for themselves anymore. Weren't there many people saying that all those worrying about losing net neutrality were so many Chicken Littles? Perhaps not after all, and actions like this will continue and calls for accountability of such unilateral actions will go unheeded.
Sure, I may be "Conspiracies-R-Us," but I see no reason to trust any entity holding so much power whose primary motivation is profit, and is allowed to engage in the most egregious behavior with what often amounts to a free pass from the federal government.
I just love the name of the department issuing this story, given the content/context of it. LOL!
I'm going off to actually read the article from the link now.
After what Verizon did to US citizens by acting like some Soviet era government appendage and gave call records to the NSA, I say nuts to them. I'll stand by Qwest, thank you very much. Besides, I have a full meg upstream...and while I'm at it, isn't cable still at about 256k upstream unless you get ass-raped by paying for a business account?
As far as the cable tv vs. cost argument: some people don't need tv to talk at them.