And they'll reboot RH using grub2

            mark

If so, you're idiots. Show me where he asked for the resignation of everyone appointed by Bush and Cheney.

And tell me that there aren't folks who work for the government who wouldn't like to hurt him.

As a couple of datapoints, 10-12 years ago, in the mainstream press, were two stories, not many months apart: first, Dem. Congressman David Thomas was prevented from flying, because his name was on the no-fly list, and it took *him* two weeks to get it off.

How many folks do *you* know named David Thomas... or is that your name?

And then there was the other case, and that did *not* end well for the TSA... when they tried to keep Sen. Ted Kennedy from flying, claiming his name was on the no-fly list.

Come on, all of you on the right, let's see you posting screams of rage against Bush and Cheney for *pure* political persecution.

                    mark

Krypton?

                mark "it had to be asked"

a) change providers, or
b) talk to a lawyer. Really. See if they'll take it on spec. If not, it might be worth paying some money, since *sometimes* all it takes is a lawyer letter to their legal service address to get them to move.

                  mark

Is there anyone here who makes death threats against someone they don't know personally (and who would know if it was or was not a joke), and does not expect them to go to the authorities, or expect a knock at their RW door by people with badges and a warrant?

I mean, really? If so, I think they think they've uploaded their brains to a video game. Sorry, guys, the RW *always* wins.

                mark, whose duaghters and son would probably be able to track the poster to their home for the cops... oh, or
                                        since it's over the wire, the FBI?

After much yelling and screaming on the CentOS mailing list, I still see *nothing* that was so broken or unwieldly in SysV that it needed to be completely replaced. And by something that requires a lot more typing.

And I *so* enjoy telling a service to start, and having *zero* feedback.

While we're at it... GRUB2 MUST DIE!

                mark

Of course they're using tax shelters to avoid paying taxes that they legitimately owe.

And I'm also... not sure if amused is the right word... at the GOP/Libertarians here who think this is just great... and then turn around and yell about the US national debt, and raising *their* income taxes.

                mark "there are two kinds of Republicans: millionaires and suckers"

Who built the rocket and spacecraft? Was it the Indian space agency, or was it built by large aerospace companies for India?

              mark "is he suggesting that the govenment, on civil service wages, could do it cheaper?"

As witnessed by the 100+line stack traces when tomcat crashes....

                    mark

Really? Where can I sign up for some?

And here I thought the factual evidence was that the petrochemical industry was pouring literally tens of millions to deny it, creating and funding think tanks, TV ads, and paying politicians, oh, sorry, bundlng campaign contributions, and dumping into 527s (is it?)

              mark "there are two kinds of Republicans: millionaires... and suckers"

Unless *all* datafiles on your client's system are encrypted, also, and I don't think even that's enough.

ObDisclosure: I worked for about 4 months on a contract at Trustwave, a root CA.

Leaving that huge hole in your defenses... I suggest you look, if you don't already know, at .

From the 1.2 std: "Firewalls are a key protection mechanism for any computer network. Other system components may provide Firewall functionality, provided they meet the minimum requirements for Firewalls as provided in Requirement"

Even all data between two systems *MUST* be encrypted, for full compliance, if you're doing your own.

So, what this vendor is doing... I'd say you and your client need to reread the contract *VERY* closely, and if they say they're adhering to stds, they're in violation of the contract.

                        mark

I just skimmed half of the 300 or so comments, and have yet to see anyone consider the point of the article, rather than whether they said "Red Bull is a gateway drug".

Y'know, the real point: upper managers, under the heel of venture capital who want 1000% ROI next week, giving people insanely impossible deadlines, and then getting them (under threat of being fired) to work far beyond any reason when it's not a disaster zone (say, a flood) or the middle of a war zone.

And if you work like that, with not a trace of a life, and think you're Important, there's another word for you: sucker. I'd even add stupid sucker.

                mark, who swore he'd never do that again after breaking 70 hours in one week in the mid-nineties
                                              (and did I mention the pagers?)*

* Admittedly, not crazy enough to do what one of the young what-was-then-Anderson Consulting guys did: 1 week, 119 hours....

In fact, this makes perfect sense. Consider that we *know* black holes evaporate via Hawking radiation. I haven't read the paper, but unless I miss my guess, what he's effectively suggesting is that the evaporation starts as the star collapses, and becomes stronger as it grows more dense, to the point where a balance is reached, *above* the Schwartschild Radius.

                  mark

I saw someone suggesting that the users should play nice. That'd be great... and maybe they did, 30 years ago. (We'll ignore the late 80's early 90's stealing of someone else in the lab's xterm....)

I had a user last year - an intern - like everyone, NFS-mounted home directory. It was, of course, shared with a good number of other users. He ran a job that dumped a logfile in his home directory. MANY gigs of logfile, enough to blow out the filesystem. Users were not amused. *I* was NOT AMUSED, as my home directory was on this system, and my login was screwed up, as well as my firefox bookmarks.....

My question is what order of magnitude number of users - tens? hundreds? more? If Sometimes, human to human works.

ulimit might help, too. So might putting the abusers' home directories on the same filesystem, and let them duke it out....

                    mark

Do you still have the box your computer came in?
Good, please turn off your computer, disconnect it, and ship it back.
Why?
Becuase you're too fscking stupid and ignorant to use one. And as to why you even thought you should comment on something that you have no clue about, other than to display your gross ignorance in public, like a baboon's ass, I have no idea.

                    mark