The collected works of hamei - Page 28

Not a glowing endorsement Tourists here love the Pearl Tower and all that crap, too ... sigh.

It wasn't the guide books tho ... before Disney, before that troupe of imposters that toured the US, the head of the school (Alan Podhoesky ?) wrote an excellent book about riding. This was long before dressage became popular .... loved the book, hoped that the reality matched up.

But I am not surprised if, like everything else, money has ruined the golden goose. We should ban money. It's a con game anyhow and all it does is ruin anything of quality.

I thought that was the beginning of intermission ...


Over here, when you take the 11 bus it means you are walking. 11 looks like two legs

The magic word is "kickback".

"Management team" at SCO knows it isn't long for this world but there's still money coming in. Pay the creditors ? Why should we do that ? We can pay Cousin Ernie to sue IBM instead ... and later on we might need a job. Cousin Ernie has lots of friends.

There's no need for a conspiracy when they all think the same.

Subject of this thread is kinda funny though. I totally lost interest in Linux when Mr Torvalds stated unequivocably that Linux would not ever ever ever be smp-capable. "This is not a corporate operating system."

yeah well ......

Made a little adjustment to the Solaris box today then had to make a cable Maybe can save someone a little online hunting for the pinout ... same cable works with Cisco routers and switches, which is kind of nice.

One way is to short it ... I have an acquaintance who's a fraudmeister. He was doing the same "Booming China market ! get in at the bottom while you still can !" schtick like everybody else but the field was too crowded. He's the exception, an MBA with an IQ over ten. So he invented a "debunk the China stock" game. He finds a likely company that everyone else is peddling and does real on-the-ground research.

For example, here's a company doing two million a month, sales increasing 30% a year, has the ear of the local government, privately owned, nimble, versatile, modern, a lean mean killing machine woohoo yippee, going to be huge, every buzzword that the moron American "investors" drink with their dinner.

The trouble is, all ( I mean all ) these places are frauds. So Carsten goes there, hangs out by the front gate of the shabby little 3,000 square foot building out in some desolate village somewhere, takes photos of the five employees arriving each day and the one delivery a week. He shorts the high-flying "investment" then releases a true report on the company. Stock crashes, he makes out like a bandit on the tanked stock. You can look it up, I think his company name is Muddy Waters.

Repeat, repeat. There's a large supply of idiot investors. He's careful to not give the impression that all Chinese companies are frauds because that might chase away the fools but in fact, all of them that have stock are. As are all the American companies who issue stock. It's a con game. The entire United States has been fleeced*. In the real world the finance sector contributes absolutely nothing - but they sure do rake in the cash.

Really, I have to admire him. Between the never-ending supply of drooling American investors and fraudulent Chinese companies, he can have a career that will last a long time. And he's doing good while he's at it.

* e.g., Hewlett-Packard. Ten billion dollars and 60,000 employees down the toilet. Where is Mark Hurd ? duhn, I dunno. Gone. Where is Carly Fiorina ? dunh, I dunno. Gone, I guess. Gee, sorry, we did the best we could ... they went on the news and said they took responsibility, what more do you want ?

It's wrong because it's based on a lie. The whole point to Linux was "the evil corporations won't let us have Unix at a decent price so we'll make our own. This is for the commmmuuuunity ." 90% of the work was done by others for free, based on these claims. I seriously doubt that any of those people would have lifted a finger if the point of the exercise was to create another cash cow for IBM and Linus Torvalds.

I don't hate the man or anything but if you're going to be honest, his entire career and stature is based on a lie. Stallman may be a goofball but at least he walks the walk. Torvalds is a hypocrite.

Okay article though - you have to laugh :


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Graphics Magick has the same problem, Bob Friesenhahn (sp ?) might have some input on that. Also tripped over this while looking for something else, don't know if there are any clues hidden in there but ...

http://www.cfd-online.com/Forums/openfo ... -irix.html

How about adding "mysteries to which you'd like to know the answer" ? to this thread ?

I could probably face the grim reaper with a smile if I only knew whether Sonny Liston took a dive ...

Umm, Objective C, anyone ?


If the entire society is based on lies, then is 'success' based on hypocrisy a moral shortcoming ? Seems pretty mainstream to me.


Actually, if they hadn't been so greedy and selfish, they could have competed with anyone. Unix was far better than anything Mickeysoft ever came up with - in fact, most of Mickeysoft is just a watered-down version of what Unix had already done. But that would have required cooperation and self-restraint. They don't teach that in the United States.

It's not really the case for anyone who's moved past the playing-with-their-dick stage

I personally don't have a moral objection to companies being involved, but the people who actually created Linux do. Or did. Or would have, if they could have seen the future.

If you were around at the time you remember virulent animosity for corporate control of software - most of it understandable. A screen-saver used to cost $400. People hated IBM in particular, but the rest of them as well.

Those people did not work on Linux so that SGI could get a free operating system. There was a good deal of animosity towards SGI as well. Still is, if you want to come by my house

It is ironic that the very same companies who couldn't get it together enough to create a standard Unix and couldn't see far enough past their noses to sell reasonably-priced software, later on came rushing over to free-as-in-beer Linux as their savior. Those guys should join the circus, they get so much practice jumping from bandwagon to bandwagon.

As for practical objections, there are many. If you look at history, corporations are shit. They rob, cheat, and steal. They can't help themselves, it's part of the genetic makeup. All they can see is how much money can they get. In the long run, corporate involvement in anything is a bad thing.


Oh yeah, right ... Many many companies have violated the terms of that license worse than Hades took Persephone. At least she came upworld for six months of the year.

In the beginning they may play by the rules but after some time has gone by and profits are not increasing quarter-over-quarter, they buy new rules. Then they play by the rules they bought.

For example, look at Pandora. A mere couple of years ago these same people were DMCA ! Copyright law ! Pirates ! We must pay the artists for their work ! Now it's "oh gee, we can't pay those high royalties and make as much profit as we want. Those damned artist fees are killing us, we need to pay less." Eventually they will buy a few congressmen and get their own little "loophole" inserted into law, probably as a rider to something that really needs to be passed. The public is screwed, the artists are screwed, but the ceo and lawyers and a couple congresscritters made out fat.

This is how it works in today's USA. Sweet, eh ? It's easy to play by the rules when you are the one making them.

That's ridiculous also but you are right. I was thinking of screen capture programs. Crossed synapses

Great girl's car, wreck

OS/2 has good drivers for the No. 9 ...

They're coming to take me away ha ha to the happy home with trees and flowers and chirping birds and basket weavers who sit and smile and twiddle their thumbs and toes and I'll be happy to see those nice young men in their clean white coats ...

Fonts are a bear, at least for us. Many (most ?) people in the west don't have chinese-japanese-korean fonts installed. If you embed them in the pdf then the pdf grows to monumental size, not so good for email. Same thing if you use some abnormal fonts for artistic purposes.

We've taken to saving the document as a tif, then converting that to pdf. It's not as small that way as if the other person has the fonts but it's way smaller than embedding the font in the pdf. And you can be pretty certain that the recipient won't open their pdf to see a row of little empty boxes

A closed mouth gathers no feet.

Dave Brubeck just died, too

Since this is geo's question, I have to tell you what print shops in China do with Illustrator or Photoshop files. PDF, for that matter, too.

First you call to make sure the shop can work directly with Illustrator / PShop / PDF's. We just spent three days arguing over this layout, we want it printed exactly as delivered.

Sure, no problem.

So you take the artwork in. The first time, you're a fool and take them at their word. Yes, they look at the layout in Illustrator while you stand there. Mmm, okay, good. Print up one page, check the color. Okay fine.

You turn your back.

They take the artwork, import it into CorelDraw and redo everything. Redo everything wrong.

Living here is such an adventure. Okay. Next time you make them click the Start button and you check to see if CorelDraw is installed on their computer. If it is, you leave and go to the next print shop on the list.

You finally find a shop that doesn't have CorelDraw. Get through the color matching, check the proofs, everything looks fine.

Wrong. That was not their production computer. They put your files on a USB stick and took them down the hall to be altered beyond recognition.

The crowning glory of printshopdom was a few hundred brochures we had printed for a Saturday show. Checked, checked, triple checked everything, the first ten copies looked perfect, we'd pick them up on the way to the airport.

After all that, instead of just pushing the go button, for some godforsaken unfathomable reason the little weasel printer decided I didn't know how to spell so he "corrected" our name. Not some meaningless word on page five, our name. Front and center. Half an hour to make the plane and here's our brochures with our name in lovely 16 point type spelled wrong.

There is now a reasonably nice Xerox 7740 sitting ten feet to my left. I don't know shit about printing but I know more than they do.

Oh. I told this story to a friend who came over to do a conference. He's a bigshot and knows everything, like most American corporate types, so he laughed and said the company he was working with had their own people, knew what they were doing, very professional, bla bla bla. I smiled and nodded. Of course I don't know a fucking thing about China, I've only been working here nineteen years. Step aside, peon, only the corporates really know anything, you understand. They have MBA's.

He looked at the printed material right before his presentation ... it was totally butchered. Absolutely butchered. Couldn't make sense of any of it. Luckily for him, they also spelled his name entirely wrong, so he didn't have his reputation plastered all over that abortion

Have to bump myself 'cuz editing doesn't put the article on top of the stack ... oops

^ I am curious (but not yellow).

What do "hobbyists" actually do ?

Several years ago I picked up an IBM death star. At least 4U, four xeons, six disks, 12 hot-swap pci slots, triple redundant power supplies and an electricity appetite to match. This was a hobbyist decision because a 1U Celeron would have done the job. I burned four or five live CD's of different varieties of Linux, FreeBSD, and Solaris because I'd already used OS/2 and (hobbyist again) didn't want to rechew my dogfood. Tried them all out, Solaris stood above the crowd so we went thataway.

The IBM melted, got replaced with a more-prectical V100. It's still running Solaris and there's still about 60,000 things Solaris does and does well that I haven't even touched. There is no way that I will have enough time in this life to learn everything that Solaris has to offer.

But the "hobbyist community" has lost interest ? What do "hobbyists" do, just flit from flower to flower clicking the icons on the desktop ? I'm puzzled.

You are reinforcing my opinion of "hobbyists" as ignorant little twats

Who cares what Oracle does ? Open Solaris exists. It doesn't belong to Oracle. Take it. Use it. Run with it.

IBM shit on OS/2 users for fifteen years, but there's still a group of people who use it and develop for it. (More than Irix, in fact.) SGI shit all over the hobbyist group, we're still here (n-3, riiiight ). Oracle is assholes, Autodesk is assholes, SGI is a bunch of dickwads, all the computer and software companies are assholes. So what ? Hobbyists expect Mummy to hold their hand and brightly applaud their fingerpaintings forever ? It's ridiculous.


Bought at a fire sale. They purchased the assets before Sun management (I use the term loosely) could throw away every last vestige of value in the company. Larry Ellison is a turd in a human suit but if Oracle hadn't bought them, they were going down the toilet just like SGI did. It's easy to see why - just use Solaris for a while. The os works great but if you have to do anything ? If Sun could have made up their minds about anything and stuck to it, they might still be around. You could power Las Vegas with the energy they wasted just on changing window managers.

She loves her dog bag. First, it's hers , not anyone else's. Second, it means we're going somewhere, yippee ! Maybe going to see Grandma Pork Bone !


It makes things look a little nicer but doesn't cure the dumbo <br> insertions. It's just a script, similar to greasemonkey ... I'm wondering if one couldn't set up a greasemonkey javascript to autmatically look for <width=800> sections in any html and alter them to <width=100%> ... ? Where is Proxomitron now that we need her ?

The more I exit my safe little neko coccoon, the more of this shit I see. What the hell happened ? Five years ago all the html books, docs, tutorials made a big point of the fact that the web is not paper, that one does not do this fixed-pixels crap. It's absolutely wrong. Yet here we are today with 2/3 of the web all screwed up.

This is the home page of the guy who did the <width=800> <br><br><br> george orwell page. I suspect he cares nothing for george but saw a chance to gather a bunch of free clicks ... anyway, enjoy enjoy. The site speaks for itself :

http://jrap.org/

Tulip bulbs The more things change, the more they stay the same ...

Motorcycles are smaller ... and the really old ones are cute.

Checked out a few programs that depend on expat - fontconfig, mplayer, git, they all seem fine. At least it didn't break anything.

I'll vote for current.

For an update on that, the drooling oatmeal lady who is tough on immigration but accidentally had a river-swimmer cleaning her toilets for the past twenty years is once again caught between a rock and a hard place. She is now babbling about "how great the technology is" while at the same time blaming Autonomy for cheating them ... while at the same time trying to downplay the fact that she approved the purchase without bothering to look at the books, In short, she's trying to cover up the fact that she's an incompetent bonehead.

Basically, it's time that Americans accepted the fact that their much-revered "business leaders" are nothing more than a pack of ignorant thieves and crooks. Meg Whitman wouldn't know technology from a tomato. But she sure does know how to grab a dollar for herself. Carly, Mark, et al likewise. But hey now, you guys figure these job creators need to be grossly overcompensated for their advanced business skills and the big risks they take to make us all happier and more secure and safer fwum tewwowists.

This fucking useless mess is coming down bigtime. Too bad the only people who get hurt are the average Joes. Oatmeal Lady, the titless wonder and the guy who can't keep it in his pants will do fine like always because, like, ya know, they are important people while the rest of us are just peons.

Thirty years from a decent place to a cauldron of mewling shit, amazing.

After struggling with terrible performance from this thing for a long time, I accidentally fell across something that has made a noticeable improvement : turn on ntp as a client service in Winders. I'm not using Active Directory or any of that other stuff but this has still made more of a difference than any of the other 'tips and tricks' I've tried.

Still not as good as a professional-grade nfs but better, much.

hth someone else ...

oops. Better put in something for a later search : Microsoft Services for Unix

Oi, fuck me ... me, too

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What in the hell is wrong with people these days ? Something in the water ? Brain disease ? Aliens sneaking around at night performing lobotomies on the natives ? The web has been here for almost twenty years but people haven't figured it out yet ? This is discouraging

Exactly ! This is the world wide web , not an A4 sheet of paper.

I haven't done this in a while and apparently the world has changed drastically but every single html book / tutorial / lesson plan / class /whatever in the past made a huge point in Chapter One of the fact that the web has a vast array of display devices. You can't decide on your own that 800 pixels is a suitable number to "make it look exactly that wide." If anything, making a web site 'exactly 800 pixels wide' will ensure that it looks totally different on different devices.

The people who wrote html went to great lengths to put the presentation under the control of the user because only the user knows how large his display is, how bad/good his eyes are, how big the text should be, whatever.

This entire wave of idiotic webdesign is terrible. It's contrary to the very essence of the web.

By making it look "exactly that wide" he really made it look like this :


Meanwhile, nekochan still looks exactly the way it was intended to. Hey, someone knows how to design html ! Woo-hoo !

And other people don't have an effing clew ...

I use it and it works, I think recondas used it and it works. No problems noted but we never quite got over the hump.

Any of our photographically artistic members want to give it a whirl and report back, so it can go into /current ?

Been using this quite a while, half my applications use it and no problems noted, I'm voting +1 to move to current.

Did a quick search, couldn't find it mentioned anywhere. It's a replacement for libjpg, I know we discussed it.

Been using it for many weeks and it works fine.

One more for the gipper.

Please help to get a few of these tardists over to current ?

The libjpeg buffoons made some significant changes in libjpeg without altering the major version, so newer libjpegs blow up apps depending on the previous versions. Libjpeg-turbo is backwards-compatible, so many intelligent users have settled on it as the standard. There are threads elsewhere on the net describing the situation more accurately but that's the theme of the play.

Kinda spread out but I think that makes three; me, wreck, and the General Thank you.

btw, I notice you have a gaf folder. Have you tried the gEDA / gaf tardist in /beta ? Or did you make it, and I'm teaching granny to suck eggs again ?

Count your blessings