Re: dead hoarse, crawling away.
Did this make sense to anyone? Cause I sure as hell did not get it.
---------- Original Message ----------------------------------
From: guran remberg <guran@nr1.nu>
Date: Thu, 02 Nov 2000 11:05:25 +0000
>Hi
>
>I have just read an article by a chap named Kurt Seifrieds, which was
>mainly about security on Debian. I was alarmed and have decided to
>switch to Red Hat as many experts advises can be used to secure it.
>
>There are a few remarks I want to make as a sign off:
>
>Let me paraphrase a chap called Wittgenstein on a sentence like: "This
>is a blue chair." Many humans could argue about whether the chair is a
>stool but most humans might start a big row about the correct colour of
>the object in question.
>
>Thus only a computer program might all the time return the same "blue
>chair" when asked to find it. In ordinary speak one might say that look
>at your dog or car and I might say who you are. One might then question
>whether humans which uses computers most of the time might change to
>believe that what they do or say in a true and scientific manner are
>actually a scientific truth.
>
>As an example take the warming up of the floppy disk drive when writing
>a boot disk. I have not locked my setting as advised but instead written
>down all values found when doing it. On two different machines I have
>found (1700 +/- 80) and (1600 +/- 80), and disks can be read by each
>drive. Thus the scientific method is wasted on an 'antenna' whose
>half-width is larger than the possible gap of settings. To hold on to
>what is proven science and not change might leave you in a pathetic
>stone age society. Instead you might learn about a natural way of living
>in 'Chaos' and not believe that the pendulum is fully mathematically
>mapped and understood. You can start by using the Lorentz contractor as
>your screensaver.
>
>It is then possible that you may be painting yourself into a corner,
>with your proprietary way of naming standard libraries and down-patching
>found bugs instead of upgrading.
>
>But it is a free choice and you may reign your way.
>
>bye
>guran
>
>
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