Linux-Advocacy Digest #199, Volume #28 Thu, 3 Aug 00 08:13:05 EDT
Contents:
Re: The State of MCSE's (mlw)
Linux as embedded OS (Tim Magnussen)
Re: Good Free VCD/DVD Player & Questions about the "mount /cdrom" (Marc D. Williams)
Re: LOREN PETRICH...CLOSET-DICTATOR ("Aaron R. Kulkis")
Re: AARON KULKIS...USENET SPAMMER, LIAR, AND THUG ("Aaron R. Kulkis")
Re: LOREN PETRICH...CLOSET-DICTATOR ("Aaron R. Kulkis")
Re: AARON KULKIS...USENET SPAMMER, LIAR, AND THUG ("Aaron R. Kulkis")
Re: AARON KULKIS...USENET SPAMMER, LIAR, AND THUG ("Aaron R. Kulkis")
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From: mlw <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: The State of MCSE's
Date: Thu, 03 Aug 2000 06:48:45 -0400
MCSE is nothing more than a Borg indoctrination program. It does not
make people qualified, it only makes them M$ sales people.
None of the MCSE's I have seen can even create an IP netmask.
People pay thousands of dollars to get an MCSE, and it is worthless. If
I see a resume with MCSE on it, I look very carefully at it. Almost all
the candidates I have seen with an MCSE were idiots. The ones that
weren't just got the MCSE so they could say they had it for customers.
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>
> OK, I know these MCSE people study very hard and all, but this just
> sucks!
>
> I walked into a business with some new PC's they ordered. The people
> want new Servers. They were renting server from a company (M$
> orientated). The company replaced all their old machines due to Y2K
> concerns. I asked what happened to the old machines. It turned out they
> were all in a store room. Three boxes in total. There was two 386 box
> with Novell and a 486 box with Win95. I booted up the PC's and you
> wouldn't believe it, but the 486 was happily displaying 1 August 2000!
>
> So, the customer was renting machines at a very high cost whith no
> need. I just installed Linux on the 486 and he phoned the company to
> come and fetch their machines.
>
> You should have seen the look on their faces.
>
> I could of course not resist to ask the one person as they left why
> they marked even the Monitors as "Not Y2K"?
>
> He just walked...
>
> Certified for what then... I wonder...
>
> BTW: The Servers are only for File and Print sharing with a relay to
> the Internet (dial-up). Previously they used a box for each function.
> The business have only 25 clients, so I now have my doubts on the
> Novell people as well that installed two Novell boxes. Anyway, maybe
> things were different in the past??
>
> Sent via Deja.com http://www.deja.com/
> Before you buy.
--
Mohawk Software
Windows 9x, Windows NT, UNIX, Linux. Applications, drivers, support.
Visit http://www.mohawksoft.com
I'm glad we disagree, it gives us a fantastic opportunity to be totally
honest.
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From: Tim Magnussen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Linux as embedded OS
Date: Thu, 03 Aug 2000 12:55:21 +0200
Hi there.
I'm working for a company making analyzers for the medical industry.
Currently we are using a mix of CE, 95 and vxWorks for the embedded
devices. Some of us developers are attracted to the idea of using Linux
instead though. We have been working on a project in our spare time to
try this out and have come up with quite a good concept. So we were
happy for a while ... until we read the GPL thoroughly. Since many parts
of Linux is GPL and you in an embedded product can't claim that your
proprietary code is independent of the rest, we would have to release
the source the proprietary code. This would put us out of business and
is of course out of the question.
My question to you that is advocating for Linux' advantages:
I hear of new concepts such as Mobile Linux / EmbedixLinux and other.
But if one is to release the source of your proprietary code this makes
Linux totally inappropriate for embedded use. What am I missing here?
I must stress that I represent no authority to decide on the company's
choice of OS for future analyzers. For those of us interested in this,
information is very important in our advocating for Linux.
Kind Regards
Tim Magnussen
R&D Engineeer
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Marc D. Williams)
Crossposted-To:
alt.os.linux,comp.os.linux.setup,comp.os.linux.x,comp.os.linux.networking
Subject: Re: Good Free VCD/DVD Player & Questions about the "mount /cdrom"
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Thu, 03 Aug 2000 11:09:27 GMT
On Fri, 28 Jul 2000 12:30:19 -0500, Nathaniel Jay Lee wrote:
>
>I'm not 100% certain on this, but I thought when VCDs were released they
>were just regular CDs (ISO format) with a big MPEG file on them for the
>movie. At least, that is what I remember of it.
>
That's correct. Just mount it and take a look around, you might find
directories, too. For instance this one vcd I have has one directory with
the large .dat file (the mpeg movie) but there's also a CDI directory.
I can use either xreadvcd or xreadcdi to play the contents.
--
>>ANIME SENSHI<<
Marc D. Williams
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
http://www.oldskool.org/~tvdog/ -- DOS Internet & Tandy 1000
http://www.geocities.com/SiliconValley/Platform/8269/ -- Win3.x Makeover
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From: "Aaron R. Kulkis" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To:
misc.legal,talk.politics.misc,alt.politics.libertarian,talk.politics.libertarian,soc.singles,alt.society.anarchy
Subject: Re: LOREN PETRICH...CLOSET-DICTATOR
Date: Thu, 03 Aug 2000 03:24:57 -0400
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>
> On 3 Aug 2000 00:52:43 GMT, Donovan Rebbechi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >On Wed, 02 Aug 2000 18:55:04 -0400, Aaron R. Kulkis wrote:
> >>Loren Petrich wrote:
> >>>
> >>> In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
> >
> >>What's the difference between Microsoft's Extortion and Racketeering,
> >>and Government Extortion and Racketeering?
> >
> >The government throw you in jail for tax fraud if you don't pay your
> >federal tax, but Microsoft can't do anything if you opt out of the
> >Microsoft tax ? Subtle difference.
>
> You can avoid paying taxes the same way you can avoid
> paying the microsoft tax: opt out of the system.
>
> Either forego retail computing or forego computing entirely.
>
> In both situations you tend to have a "play the game our way
> or do without" kind of alternative.
>
> Apple is affliated with Microsoft now and Linux/BSD circumvent
> the old market structures entirely. OS/2 is on it's last leg
> and BeOS is yet to really get rolling both due to the 'must
> replicate Windows and all 3rd party suppliers' problem.
>
Indeed. And opting out of the Social Security/Welfare finance
systems is damn near impossible.
> --
> Finding an alternative should not be like seeking out the holy grail.
>
> That is the whole damn point of capitalism.
> |||
> / | \
>
>
--
Aaron R. Kulkis
Unix Systems Engineer
ICQ # 3056642
I: "Having found not one single carbon monoxide leak on the entire
premises, it is my belief, and Willard concurs, that the reason
you folks feel listless and disoriented is simply because
you are lazy, stupid people"
J: Loren's Petrich's 2-week stubborn refusal to respond to the
challenge to describe even one philosophical difference
between himself and the communists demonstrates that, in fact,
Loren Petrich is a COMMUNIST ***hole
A: The wise man is mocked by fools.
B: "Jeem" Dutton is a fool of the pathological liar sort.
C: Jet plays the fool and spews out nonsense as a method of
sidetracking discussions which are headed in a direction
that she doesn't like.
D: Jet claims to have killfiled me.
E: Jet now follows me from newgroup to newsgroup
...despite (D) above.
F: Neither Jeem nor Jet are worthy of the time to compose a
response until their behavior improves.
G: Unit_4's "Kook hunt" reminds me of "Jimmy Baker's" harangues against
adultery while concurrently committing adultery with Tammy Hahn.
H: Knackos...you're a retard.
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From: "Aaron R. Kulkis" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To:
misc.legal,talk.politics.misc,alt.politics.libertarian,talk.politics.libertarian,alt.fan.rush-limbaugh,soc.singles
Subject: Re: AARON KULKIS...USENET SPAMMER, LIAR, AND THUG
Date: Thu, 03 Aug 2000 03:34:36 -0400
Arthur Frain wrote:
>
> "Aaron R. Kulkis" wrote:
>
> > Yes, that is right. Congress can legally select any person, and
> > sentance them to death. And I have no problem with that.
>
> Well apparently the founding fathers had a problem
> with it, since they put in Article I Section 9
> Clause 3 (know what a 'Bill of Attainder' is?).
> of the Consitution. Need a URL?
http://www.isc-durant.com/tom/billofattainder/
The Bill Of Attainder Project is dedicated to having the phrase,
"bill of attainder" defined in the law as: "A law or legal device which
outlaws people, suspends their civil rights, confiscates their property,
punishes or puts people to death without a trial."
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
By that definition, if Congress holds a trial (which they have
every right to do), then a Congressionally ordered death sentance
is NOT a Bill of Attainder.
>
> Arthur
--
Aaron R. Kulkis
Unix Systems Engineer
ICQ # 3056642
I: "Having found not one single carbon monoxide leak on the entire
premises, it is my belief, and Willard concurs, that the reason
you folks feel listless and disoriented is simply because
you are lazy, stupid people"
J: Loren's Petrich's 2-week stubborn refusal to respond to the
challenge to describe even one philosophical difference
between himself and the communists demonstrates that, in fact,
Loren Petrich is a COMMUNIST ***hole
A: The wise man is mocked by fools.
B: "Jeem" Dutton is a fool of the pathological liar sort.
C: Jet plays the fool and spews out nonsense as a method of
sidetracking discussions which are headed in a direction
that she doesn't like.
D: Jet claims to have killfiled me.
E: Jet now follows me from newgroup to newsgroup
...despite (D) above.
F: Neither Jeem nor Jet are worthy of the time to compose a
response until their behavior improves.
G: Unit_4's "Kook hunt" reminds me of "Jimmy Baker's" harangues against
adultery while concurrently committing adultery with Tammy Hahn.
H: Knackos...you're a retard.
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From: "Aaron R. Kulkis" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To:
misc.legal,talk.politics.misc,alt.politics.libertarian,talk.politics.libertarian,soc.singles,alt.society.anarchy
Subject: Re: LOREN PETRICH...CLOSET-DICTATOR
Date: Thu, 03 Aug 2000 04:23:01 -0400
Donovan Rebbechi wrote:
>
> On Wed, 02 Aug 2000 18:55:04 -0400, Aaron R. Kulkis wrote:
> >Loren Petrich wrote:
> >>
> >> In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
>
> >What's the difference between Microsoft's Extortion and Racketeering,
> >and Government Extortion and Racketeering?
>
> The government throw you in jail for tax fraud if you don't pay your
> federal tax, but Microsoft can't do anything if you opt out of the
> Microsoft tax ? Subtle difference.
Very good.
So, in other words, the only difference is what matter of retribution
which one may suffer for standing up to the extortionist. But, as
you have noted, there is no difference in the fact that the threat
of retribution exists for refusal to go along with the demands of
the extortionists listed here, and that each organization does,
in fact, engage in extortion.
>
> --
> Donovan
--
Aaron R. Kulkis
Unix Systems Engineer
ICQ # 3056642
I: "Having found not one single carbon monoxide leak on the entire
premises, it is my belief, and Willard concurs, that the reason
you folks feel listless and disoriented is simply because
you are lazy, stupid people"
J: Loren's Petrich's 2-week stubborn refusal to respond to the
challenge to describe even one philosophical difference
between himself and the communists demonstrates that, in fact,
Loren Petrich is a COMMUNIST ***hole
A: The wise man is mocked by fools.
B: "Jeem" Dutton is a fool of the pathological liar sort.
C: Jet plays the fool and spews out nonsense as a method of
sidetracking discussions which are headed in a direction
that she doesn't like.
D: Jet claims to have killfiled me.
E: Jet now follows me from newgroup to newsgroup
...despite (D) above.
F: Neither Jeem nor Jet are worthy of the time to compose a
response until their behavior improves.
G: Unit_4's "Kook hunt" reminds me of "Jimmy Baker's" harangues against
adultery while concurrently committing adultery with Tammy Hahn.
H: Knackos...you're a retard.
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From: "Aaron R. Kulkis" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To:
misc.legal,talk.politics.misc,alt.politics.libertarian,talk.politics.libertarian,alt.fan.rush-limbaugh,soc.singles
Subject: Re: AARON KULKIS...USENET SPAMMER, LIAR, AND THUG
Date: Thu, 03 Aug 2000 04:23:09 -0400
Loren Petrich wrote:
>
> In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
> Aaron R. Kulkis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >Loren Petrich wrote:
>
> >> This from someone who considers himself a victim of the government.
> >Are you saying that if a shoplifter preys upon the goods in a certain
> >store, and that store is still in business at the end of the year, then
> >the shopowner is not a crime victim?
>
> Of course not. Mr. Kulkis seems obsessed with victimhood; many
> right-wingers seem very angry that anyone other than themselves dare try
> to appropriate victim status.
>
> > I will GLADLY come out to Livermore, California, and
> >non-fatally shoot you several times with a rifle, so that you can
> >demonstrate your true beliefs that one can be harmed by another
> >party and yet NOT be a victim of that parties actions.
>
> Which tells us a *lot* about Mr. Kulkis.
Are you saying that you're not willing to put your words
to the test?
Why does this not surprise me in the least, you phoneyfuck hypocrite.
>
> >> >> Communism is NOT a unified front.
> >> >This does nothing to disprove the testimony of SEVERAL defectors
> >> >who all say that the whole "collapse of the Soviet Union" is a
> >> >charade to get the US to unilaterally disarm.
> >> I've never heard of any such thing. But then again, birch trees
> >> are not my usual habitat.
> >You still have not provided a shred of evidence to counter the
> >testimony of high-ranking defectors from Soviet Russia.
>
> Which ones? Nobody else takes this conspiracy theory seriously,
> except for a few residents of groves of John Birch trees :-)
Notice who EVERY time I make a mention of anything that brings
attention to the fact that Communism is NOT dead, and can, and
does, still present a credible (if dormant) threat to our
freedom, LOREN Communist Agitator PETRICH always comes up with
his smarmy little attempt to shut down the discussion.
I'll say it again until you answer, or concede defeat on this point:
You still have not provided a shred of evidence to counter the
testimony of high-ranking defectors from Soviet Russia.
> --
> Loren Petrich Happiness is a fast Macintosh
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] And a fast train
> My home page: http://www.petrich.com/home.html
--
Aaron R. Kulkis
Unix Systems Engineer
ICQ # 3056642
I: "Having found not one single carbon monoxide leak on the entire
premises, it is my belief, and Willard concurs, that the reason
you folks feel listless and disoriented is simply because
you are lazy, stupid people"
J: Loren's Petrich's 2-week stubborn refusal to respond to the
challenge to describe even one philosophical difference
between himself and the communists demonstrates that, in fact,
Loren Petrich is a COMMUNIST ***hole
A: The wise man is mocked by fools.
B: "Jeem" Dutton is a fool of the pathological liar sort.
C: Jet plays the fool and spews out nonsense as a method of
sidetracking discussions which are headed in a direction
that she doesn't like.
D: Jet claims to have killfiled me.
E: Jet now follows me from newgroup to newsgroup
...despite (D) above.
F: Neither Jeem nor Jet are worthy of the time to compose a
response until their behavior improves.
G: Unit_4's "Kook hunt" reminds me of "Jimmy Baker's" harangues against
adultery while concurrently committing adultery with Tammy Hahn.
H: Knackos...you're a retard.
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From: "Aaron R. Kulkis" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To:
misc.legal,talk.politics.misc,alt.politics.libertarian,talk.politics.libertarian,alt.fan.rush-limbaugh,soc.singles
Subject: Re: AARON KULKIS...USENET SPAMMER, LIAR, AND THUG
Date: Thu, 03 Aug 2000 04:31:29 -0400
Steve Chaney wrote:
>
> On Wed, 02 Aug 2000 19:07:47 -0400, "Aaron R. Kulkis"
> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> >Loren Petrich wrote:
> >>
> >> In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
> >> Aaron R. Kulkis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >> >Loren Petrich wrote:
> >>
> >> >So, at the next election, if the majority of people vote "yes"
> >> >on Proposition 457:
> >> > "Loren Petrich shall be executed at sunrise"
> >> >You are saying that this should be carried out, simply because
> >> >the mob approved it?
> >>
> >> So what about that? The same could be said about a Constitutional
> >> amendment stating the exact same thing. Of course, if it says "Aaron
> >> Kulkis" instead...
> >
> >Why go to such lengths, when the identical results can be obtained
> >by getting a simple majority of votes in the US Congress, and NO
> >requirement for the approval of the several States.
> >
> >Yes, that is right. Congress can legally select any person, and
> >sentance them to death. And I have no problem with that.
> >
> >Why? Because they aren't going to bother unless you're a traitorous
> >prick on the level of Benedict Arnold.
>
> They won't because they fear the watchful eye of the American People.
>
> However, Kulkis, the people are fucking asleep on the watch now.
> Congress could -frame- someone - say, a public enemy - and hang them
> high on a trumped up charge.
>
> You would be wise NOT to make such an "it can't happen here" claim in
> the same country whose Democratic president ordered the IRS to audit
> his political enemies (see: Larry Elder, Paula Jones) - this, of
> course, being in the tradition of Richard "Audit the Jews" Nixon.
Steve, in case you haven't noticed, I am very much of the opinion
that "it can happen here" Anybody who claims that the US
government would NEVER start violently attacking the peaceful
inhabitants of this land (as so many other countries have done
to theirs through history) need only look at the American Indians....
(Not to be confused with the Cleveland Indians....)
>
>
> >> >> Mr. Kulkis makes a victim out of himself.
> >> >In what way? I don't need to mooch, I'm self-reliant. I trade
> >> >my talents and services for the things I need.
> >>
> >> This from someone who considers himself a victim of the government.
> >
> >Are you saying that if a shoplifter preys upon the goods in a certain
> >store, and that store is still in business at the end of the year, then
> >the shopowner is not a crime victim?
>
> No, that's what David James would say.
> That and "don't bother the cops with it."
> Didn't you know it's a rite of passage?
The concept of individual rights is rather fuzzy in those European
lands which Napolean failed to conquer (...thus the people never
were given the "Napoleonic Code", a set of rights overthrowing the
feudalistic system, modelled upon the Bill of Rights in the US
Constitution.
>
> >I suppose that if I shoot you several times with a rifle, but
> >don't kill you, then you aren't a victim of violence either.
> >
> > Are you willing to put your theory to the test?
> >
> > I will GLADLY come out to Livermore, California, and
> >non-fatally shoot you several times with a rifle, so that you can
> >demonstrate your true beliefs that one can be harmed by another
> >party and yet NOT be a victim of that parties actions.
>
> Even bwian bwoitano wouldn't touch this.
> This looks like a job for
>
> DOC MANETTE!!!
>
> Executive Director of The American Criminals' Labor Union
>
> White rage?
> Provoked by a USENET flamewar?
> No problem!
> Just call the ACLU Man and he'll get ya off the hook.
>
> Or your money back.
>
> >> >> Communism is NOT a unified front.
> >> >This does nothing to disprove the testimony of SEVERAL defectors
> >> >who all say that the whole "collapse of the Soviet Union" is a
> >> >charade to get the US to unilaterally disarm.
> >>
> >> I've never heard of any such thing. But then again, birch trees
> >> are not my usual habitat.
> >
> >Once again, when I get uncomfortably close to the truth, Loren
> >attempts to shut down the discussion with a slanderous non-sequitor.
>
> And you've NEVER done that before eh?
> Lay off the thungerbird kulky.
>
> -- Steve
--
Aaron R. Kulkis
Unix Systems Engineer
ICQ # 3056642
I: "Having found not one single carbon monoxide leak on the entire
premises, it is my belief, and Willard concurs, that the reason
you folks feel listless and disoriented is simply because
you are lazy, stupid people"
J: Loren's Petrich's 2-week stubborn refusal to respond to the
challenge to describe even one philosophical difference
between himself and the communists demonstrates that, in fact,
Loren Petrich is a COMMUNIST ***hole
A: The wise man is mocked by fools.
B: "Jeem" Dutton is a fool of the pathological liar sort.
C: Jet plays the fool and spews out nonsense as a method of
sidetracking discussions which are headed in a direction
that she doesn't like.
D: Jet claims to have killfiled me.
E: Jet now follows me from newgroup to newsgroup
...despite (D) above.
F: Neither Jeem nor Jet are worthy of the time to compose a
response until their behavior improves.
G: Unit_4's "Kook hunt" reminds me of "Jimmy Baker's" harangues against
adultery while concurrently committing adultery with Tammy Hahn.
H: Knackos...you're a retard.
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