Monday - 29 May 2000
Memorial Day. It's Memorial Day. A state and national holiday to remember those men and women who had their lives taken in time of war. Perhaps US President Abraham Lincoln said it best in his Gettysburg Address:
"... from these honored dead, we take increased devotion to that cause for which they here gave the last full measure of devotion -- that we here highly resolve these dead shall not have died in vain..."
Freedom is Not Free. It comes at a price. Let us honor, and never forget, all who have paid it. And let not those who must pay this price in the future, do so in vain.
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Tuesday - 30 May 2000
DHCP. I fooled around with Caldera's OpenLinux Desktop 2.4 this weekend. You may remember that I had installed it before I went on vacation but that's all I did with it. Until now. The first go around I did a very minimal install. This time, I installed an SMC 10/100Mpbs Fast Ethernet PCI Card (EZNET-10/100) and hooked that to my cable modem.
Since I'm really new at this stuff I decided to do a clean re-install rather than try to add the appropriate services so that's what I did. The LIZARD install detected the card without problems. It also asked if I wanted DHCP (yes!). And Bob's your Uncle, I was on the net (after the install finished of course). The downside is that the little PC I'm running this on (P5-120 and 16MB RAM) is straining when I run KDE. Of course, I could add additional RAM but since this PC is destined to be the firewall (and only the firewall) for the Seto Shack, I don't want to add something it won't need in the end.
But until then, I will fool around some more to see how this runs. And when I'm tired of doing that, I'll disconnect the hard drive and boot off of a floppy for the firewall.
9:30 a.m. Update. If you have used the "free" search engine over at Dr. Jerry Pournelle's site please go there and read the current mail on this subject. Once again, we see the difference between running a search engine that you install on your site versus a "free" one running on a server external to your site. You have absolutely no control over what is done at the other site. And given that there is no such thing as a "free" search engine, you should not be surprised when the external site uses whatever means it can to track who you are, what site you are coming from, and what you are searching for. Further, you should not be surprised if they don't disclose what they are doing and why they are doing it.
If the above doesn't bother you, then by all means, continue to use so called "free" search engines. But if you value your privacy, then take the time, and spend the money, to have your own search engine on your site.
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Hump Day Wednesday - 31 May 2000
CERT CA-2000-09 Flaw in PGP 5.0 Key Generation For the most part, Daynoters are using PGP 6.5.2 for digitally signing emails. So the above advisory does not affect us. But if you generated your keys using version 5.0 in non-interactive mode, you may want to checkout:
http://www.cert.org/advisories/CA-2000-09.html
Felix v. Waihee. Yesterday, a federal judge ruled the State of Hawai'i in contempt of court for not spending as much state tax-payer money on trying to educate "special education" students as he has ordered. So, he will over-ride state laws and rules to ensure that he, and the plaintiffs, get what they want. Regardless of what everyone else wants to use the money for.
Oregon Rights. The US Supreme Court let stand the implementation of an Oregon law that allows adoptees to see their original birth certificates (BCs). In all 50 states, adopted children receive altered BCs that reflect the names of their adopted parents. The original BCs, with the names of their birth parents are sealed and can be opened only by court order.
The Oregon law allows the children unconditional access to the original BCs. This is the fourth state to allow such access, (Alaska, Kansas, and Alabama) but first to use the initiative process, to have such a law.
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Thursday - 1 June 2000
Hawaiian Rights. A poll, taken by the morning paper here (see it here. The link expires at the end of the day), finds that 75% of Hawaiians feel that "...some kind of a sovereign nation or other form of Hawaiian government is needed." The story goes on to say;
"The poll portrays a Hawaiian community clearly rooted in the modern age. Respondents rejected proposals that they go back to earlier forms of government. They want something new, a kind of representation that guarantees Hawaiians self-determination, and one crafted by Hawaiians to meet the needs of Hawaiians."
Stuff Happens Sometimes it doesn't pay to get up in the morning. The morning paper is reporting that the Governor accidently signed into effect tough environmental rules that he apparently intended to disapprove.
The current "law requires state agencies to adopt time limits for considering business or development-related permits and, rather than tying permits up indefinitely, requires that the permits be automatically approved if the agencies don't meet their deadlines. The Land Use Commission has up to a year to consider applications before automatic approval takes effect.
"However, the new Land Use Commission rules require that if any project is automatically approved because of the deadline rule, then 24 standard conditions are automatically imposed on the projects to protect the public health, safety and welfare."
It's these new rules that has developers upset. "Among other things, the new standard conditions would establish requirements for dealing with historic sites, Hawaiian gathering rights, traffic, drainage and a variety of other issues."
Sierra Club Hawai'i director Jeff Mikulina "said Cayetano's apparent error in signing the rules highlights a problem with the whole idea of automatic approvals: Administrative mistakes happen. "We all know that everyone screws up once in a while, and we hate to see screw-ups affecting prime agricultural lands forever," Mikulina said.
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It's Friday!
Aloha Friday - 2 June 2000
Short Shrift Mode. Web access is down this morning. At least, access outside of the state's SONET ring. Hence, I can't do my regular news round-up. And since my wife is home today, she has the morning paper.
Strung Out. The plan this weekend is to run some CAT 5 cable to include a PC that is in the opposite side of the house. I know that electrical wiring comes in a version designed to be run outdoors (which would be the case here). But is there a similar version for CAT 5? Or can you run this cable outdoors as well as in (and still meet code)?
Our house is built on a concrete slab so there is no way to run it under the house. And since we have a two story house, there is no easy way to run it through the attic. So I plan to drill through the walls and run the cable along the side of the house and then back through the walls.
Mail Call
From: John Doucette
To: Dan Seto
Subject: Hawaiian Rights
Date: Thu, 1 Jun 2000 14:00:28 -0600Hi Dan
Hawaiians if I recall correctly would like self government mainly as a way to have control over their lands, territories, etc. This would I believe have a fairly large impact on the local economy, in regards to retarding further development of residential and commercial properties. Thought this may not necessarily be a bad thing, and would over time have other repercussions, are the people willing to accept these consequences.
John D.
----- Original Message -----
From: Dan Seto
To: "John Doucette" [John.Doucette@telus.com]
Subject: Re: Hawaiian Rights
Date: Thu, 1 Jun 2000 10:31:06 -1000Hey Cousin John,
"in regards to retarding further development of residential and commercial properties"
Hmmm. I can't say for sure what would happen. The important thing to remember is that it is Hawaiian owned lands. There would not be a taking of any property owned by anyone else (as far as I know and I don't think most sane people, Hawaiian or not, would want it any other way). But Hawaiians would have control over their land. So if someone wanted to develop, or not develop, as they saw fit, they could do so. If they made a mistake, they would be responsible for it and have to pay the price. This is as it should be. At least that's my opinion.
"other repercussions, are the people willing to accept these consequences."
I can't speak for everyone. And I'm not sure what repercussions are being referred to. But if people are not willing to take responsibility for their actions, then they shouldn't be part of the Hawaiian Nation.
In either case, if there is ever going to be a Hawaiian Nation again, all residents, Hawaiian or not, will need to be consulted (which is more equitable than what happened to Hawaiians when the kingdom was overthrown) . And then there would need to be a referendum (again, including all voters) as to what form it should take (if at all) and who would be eligible to be a citizen. Tough questions with no, or very hard answers. But as the poll shows, there is overwhelming agreement that a sovereign nation is the way to go. The problem is what form of nation and how to get there.
Aloha - Dan
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