I work at an ISP, & when we run across an email phishing for back accounts, we put the offending web server IP address in Ethereal and pull out the numbers for ourselves.
Then I guess the RIAA doesn't really come into it.
And don't give up on new music yet! I'm 31 and I'm still tirelessly seeking out the maddest, noisiest, most innovative stuff I can find. There's plenty of great new music out there if you look, and P2P is a great way to try things out. I always end up buying things I like though, and most of it's so obscure that bodies like the RIAA and BPI probably don't see much of my cash either.
Errrr, it was a joke. No one in the whole world got it, but it was an attempt to satirise conspiracy theories by making one of my own. I thought the bit about "high-end laser pointers" flagged it pretty well.
I heard a "think of the children" woman on a radio discussion programme warning against the dangers of cloning technology because "what if Osama Bin Laden got hold of it"?
I'd kind of say it's commercial value is zero, because if it had cost more than that no one would ever have picked up on it. It pitched in at exactly the price the market would support: nothing. That probably doesn't make any sense. my brain is all used up for today.
It doesn't strike you that it would be simpler to point the laser at a satellite which, after a suitable delay, returns a similar pulse?
But, let's give the "scientists" the benefit of the doubt, and assume they really are bouncing lasers off the moon. (Those of you with even high-end laser pointer experience will find that hard to accept, but bear with me.)
The article *you* linked to states that unmanned Soviet missions left reflectors on the moon. Isn't it easier to accept that the Americans just use those reflectors, rather than believing that they conveniently left their own while they were up there?
The only OSS desktop tools that get any kind of media attention - the only two that seem to make any commercial inroads at all - are OpenOffice and Mozilla.
Why? You could be charitable and say it's because they're the best, or that they're the only two with major commercial companies behind them, or you could say it's because they run on Windows. Stuff that runs on Linux doesn't mean jack, because in the big wide world, linux doesn't mean jack.
Look at all the cool extensions, themes and stuff for the Mozilla family. I'd bet 90% of them are due to Windows users. Linux just doesn't have the numbers.
> When you are "driven up the wall" about something on a Linux box, YOU CAN FIX IT.
Point 1: Riiiight. Because as well as being a sys-admin, I'm adept in C, C++, Java, Objective C, perl, PHP, python, ruby, Glade, bash, and whatever the hell else OSS people use. I also have infinite time and perfect debugging tools. 140,000 lines of uncommented code written by an insane genius hell-bent on showing off how clever he is does not faze me at all.
Point 2: The majority of problems we have as admins aren't really to do with the OS - we understand that fairly well, and all modern OSes are pretty stable and predictable. We tend to spend more time on problems caused by the way people want to use the applications we run - things like sendmail and Apache - tools we have the source for. We lose even more time tracking down problems caused by complex interactions between machines and the network, waiting for downtime windows, or for hardware vendors to replace components.
The fact is that when a production system is acting funny under certain, hard to reproduce, conditions, having the source (usually) doesn't mean shit.
In my whole life I have *once* fixed a problem by having access to the source. It was a bug in Apache 1.2, and about a day after I fixed it myself, a new release came out which didn't have the bug.
On rare occasions having the source can be a godsend. In the real world it's better to get on with another task while someone else fixes their own code.
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> the Death Star-like fanboys (and fangirls)
Yeah, you keep telling yourself that.
I work at an ISP, & when we run across an email phishing for back accounts, we put the offending web server IP address in Ethereal and pull out the numbers for ourselves.
Then I guess the RIAA doesn't really come into it.
And don't give up on new music yet! I'm 31 and I'm still tirelessly seeking out the maddest, noisiest, most innovative stuff I can find. There's plenty of great new music out there if you look, and P2P is a great way to try things out. I always end up buying things I like though, and most of it's so obscure that bodies like the RIAA and BPI probably don't see much of my cash either.
That's fine. You continue taking your music for free under the guise of moral crusader. I call "tightwad".
What if we make clones, and they attack? I don't think any of us want to see another Attack of the Clones.
Errrr, it was a joke. No one in the whole world got it, but it was an attempt to satirise conspiracy theories by making one of my own. I thought the bit about "high-end laser pointers" flagged it pretty well.
I heard a "think of the children" woman on a radio discussion programme warning against the dangers of cloning technology because "what if Osama Bin Laden got hold of it"?
There's no arguing with logic like that.
I'd kind of say it's commercial value is zero, because if it had cost more than that no one would ever have picked up on it. It pitched in at exactly the price the market would support: nothing. That probably doesn't make any sense. my brain is all used up for today.
Man says iPod is too expensive and doesn't play ogg. HOLD THE FRONT FUCKING PAGE!
Score 4 and counting. Love those moderators.
> Think outside the box.
Why must it be a box?
Do you think Linux is totally awesome?
Truly a match made in heaven.
Didn't Sun buy the best part of Cray, hence the E10k, or am I utterly wrong? (Again.)
You believe that?
It doesn't strike you that it would be simpler to point the laser at a satellite which, after a suitable delay, returns a similar pulse?
But, let's give the "scientists" the benefit of the doubt, and assume they really are bouncing lasers off the moon. (Those of you with even high-end laser pointer experience will find that hard to accept, but bear with me.)
The article *you* linked to states that unmanned Soviet missions left reflectors on the moon. Isn't it easier to accept that the Americans just use those reflectors, rather than believing that they conveniently left their own while they were up there?
Some poeple are so gullible...
I know. That's why I said I was slightly OT. I RTFA.
Before long there could be no one alive who has set foot anywhere other than Earth. That's damning.
why do you have to bring freaking linux into everything?
The only OSS desktop tools that get any kind of media attention - the only two that seem to make any commercial inroads at all - are OpenOffice and Mozilla.
Why? You could be charitable and say it's because they're the best, or that they're the only two with major commercial companies behind them, or you could say it's because they run on Windows. Stuff that runs on Linux doesn't mean jack, because in the big wide world, linux doesn't mean jack.
Look at all the cool extensions, themes and stuff for the Mozilla family. I'd bet 90% of them are due to Windows users. Linux just doesn't have the numbers.
No shit, Sherlock.
> When you are "driven up the wall" about something on a Linux box, YOU CAN FIX IT.
Point 1: Riiiight. Because as well as being a sys-admin, I'm adept in C, C++, Java, Objective C, perl, PHP, python, ruby, Glade, bash, and whatever the hell else OSS people use. I also have infinite time and perfect debugging tools. 140,000 lines of uncommented code written by an insane genius hell-bent on showing off how clever he is does not faze me at all.
Point 2: The majority of problems we have as admins aren't really to do with the OS - we understand that fairly well, and all modern OSes are pretty stable and predictable. We tend to spend more time on problems caused by the way people want to use the applications we run - things like sendmail and Apache - tools we have the source for. We lose even more time tracking down problems caused by complex interactions between machines and the network, waiting for downtime windows, or for hardware vendors to replace components.
The fact is that when a production system is acting funny under certain, hard to reproduce, conditions, having the source (usually) doesn't mean shit.
In my whole life I have *once* fixed a problem by having access to the source. It was a bug in Apache 1.2, and about a day after I fixed it myself, a new release came out which didn't have the bug.
On rare occasions having the source can be a godsend. In the real world it's better to get on with another task while someone else fixes their own code.
Don't forget "High Anxiety". That's good. And "Life Stinks" is *easily* as bad as "Men In Tights".
No! It's MS so it SUXORS!
Can I have my mod points now?
What's the world coming to when a man can't even trust his primary source of illegally and anonymously redistributed leeched fetish porn?
These people make me sick.
> I've never recompiled my kernel.
omg teh fagot!!!!!! ROFLOLOLOLOL!!!!!!!!
So now I know the girl I'm talking to is genuinely 16. Now all I need is a token that proves she's genuinely hot.