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Re:Futurama
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Re:So can this be neutralized?
Uninstall itself! http://wanon.bur.st/uninstall.html
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Re:Make people think to figure out your e-mail
I have been pondering this for a few hours now going about my daily doings.
What if your email was sent as a scrambled string (this is scrambled server-side), and sent to the browser in a hidden input, then have a button saying like "Contact Us", or a link or whatever, which runs a javascript that decodes the email and opens a mailto: link.. so all this will be unseen by the visitor (all they will see is a link or a button) and also unseen in the source code (since the server will send the email scrambled, and the javascript will descramble it). unless somehow the harvester has written his own javascript parse also.
I haven't slept for about 20hrs, so let me know if this is just absolutely stupid
I've written some example code which does waht I'm talking about: here is a link: http://montaro.bur.st/antispam/ -
Re:Subliterate Legislators
I'm not sure what the legislation here in Australia is like, but there is an (arguably non-neutral) peering network in Western Australia called WAIX. Participating ISPs do not count traffic internal to this network toward bandwidth quotas. Most users like this and it even gave rise to WAIX P2P and gaming communities. I realise this isn't the same thing as billing upstream content providers, but it still introduces a parity between the cost of peered traffic and external traffic (the cost being a fraction of bandwidth quotas, which are paid for in $), using an optionally-exercised discount.
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Why Bother
Why wait for the new game when you can play the classic duke3d on Linux, Windows or Mac. Since the source code was released, many moons ago, there have been updates that use your 3d accelerator, your gigs of RAM and your Internet connection for multi-player matches. There is also a slew of third-party maps and levels available. All free, of course.
http://jonof.edgenetwork.org/index.php?p=jfduke3d
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Another paper on securing Mac OSX
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Agree, and...
...adapting your application to architectures as diverse as x86, ppc, MIPS and Sparc at different word-widths is a great way to uncover subtle and long-standing bugs.
To be sure, robustness may be as optional for you as it was for Microsoft (and would still be, absent competition from Linux), but in the long run it seems to pay off.
Most of us Linux users would not regard, forex, The GIMP as particularly robust, but compared to the typical WIn32 app it's a paladin of reliability. My sister-in-law routinely leaves it open (and unsaved) for weeks on end, confident that it will still be there when she gets back (but a recent hard-disk failure of mine seems to have put the fear of God into her WRT reliability). She also happily browses everywhere fearlessly, knowing that she can't damage anything on her own machine, and nobody either I or her know of have ever been burnt by malware while browsing in Linux.
MS users just don't do that - not more than once or twice, anyway. -
Or a professional
Look for someone who would rather spend a couple of grand (AUD$2000) or more on a better lens or more Compact Flash than on software. Consider this:
Computer (AMD 2400, 1GB RAM, 200GB HDD): AUD$450
19" CRT monitor: AUD$300
Linux: AUD$0
The GIMP: AUD$0
OpenOffice.org: AUD$0
TOTAL: AUD$750 vs
Computer: AUD$450
Monitor: AUD$300
Windows XP Pro OEM: AUD$240 [PLE]
PhotoShop: AUD$1399 [Adobe.au]
MS Office Basic OEM: AUD$240 [PLE]
TOTAL: AUD$2629
DELTA: AUD$1879 or 250% extra.
Note that PS is more than half of the total system cost and cashing in either MS Win XP Pro or MS Office Basic would almost equal a second screen. Cashing in both would allow a second computer sans screen. Buying a virus scanner and a few other MS Windows necessaries would drive that past AUD$2000 easily.
The basic startup choice she was facing was: shall I buy software or a second camera? At each step along the way, the choice has been things like shall I buy software or a long-distance lens? or shall I buy software or backup my work?
The short story is, if she'd had to save an extra AUD$1879 before she got started, she wouldn't have got started.
Now she's so used to The GIMP that PS feels very awkward. There's a zillion little things which are easy to do in PS and hard in The GIMP, but there are another zillion little things which are easy in The GIMP and hard in PS. -
Sister-in-law does it all the time
Uses Konqueror to manage her website via SSH, does everything else in Konqueror, Kontact, Kate and OpenOffice. Very rarely administers anything, but if the KDE config menus aren't quite enough, Mandrake's Control Center will do it.
She has a few scripts behind icons to do stuff with one click which would be impossible with a bare copy of MS Windows. Most if not all of it would be achieveble with REXX on OS/2. -
It's situational
I loaned my spare Linux workstation to my sister-in-law, who at the time bemoaned the absence of PhotoShop.
Now she still misses the odd PS feature but also sorely misses GIMP features when on PS, the convenience of Konqueror and Firefox when stuck with MSIE and Windows Explorer, and really hates the constant crashing (I swapped her CD burner for a DVD burner yesterday and her machine had been up for 183 days since the last power failure - she never saves, with obvious consequences after five hours' typing up of a document on one of her kids' school's computers, I've seen an image left open on her machine for more than a week while she tries various stuff on it; her oldest son built a Klaymen figurine over the reset button out of plasticene, where it's been sitting for more than a month and she didn't notice). I'll update that machine soon so she can have GIMP 2.2, which is all-over much nicer than the 2.0 she's using. -
What modes were used?The article doesn't say - so I'd have to assume voice via Single Sideband and morse code.
There are some very good ham digital modes suited to the high-frequency bands where l;ong distance communication is possible via reflection from the ionosphere. PSK31 works well for keyboard-to-keyboard use. Of particular note here is a system known as winlink (yes it is windows based). It is specifically designed for text email communications to and from remote locations where other communciations infrastructure does not exist or is extremely expensive.
A good reference to winlink is http://www.winlink.org/ . The status of winlink stations in tsunami affected areas is given at http://www.bur.st/~philsuth/tsunami_status.html
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Have you actually used GIMP 2.2?
You can tack together the free-floating tool windows and make them one if you like. Admittedly, this should be one of the first startup tips and isn't.
So yes, they did respond to that particular feedback, even if you didn't find out about it yet.
It's also relatively trivial in most WMs to make those floating windows always-on-toppish like the PS ones (only more flexible).
It could also be stated with much fairness that PhotoShop users form a disproportionate population of those complaining about same. And that if you don't like it, you're at liberty create a fork or a parallel patch set to implement the windows however you like them. Before anyone OMFGs me, compare the amount of effort involved in doing that with the amount of effort involved in creating the whole GIMP in the first place, and remember that with PS it's pretty close to impossible to do anything of this nature.
BTW, my sister-in-law uses The GIMP heavily, and swears by the floating windows and the tearoff menus. -
As an A4 PS, PDF, SXW (OpenOffice)
Ten-second job here, formatted for A4 and written in English.
Available in PS, PDF and SXW - so you can redo your own Letter or odd-sized verion. Uses font from LarabieFonts. Change "honour" to "honor" to get American instead of English. -
1D Christmas Tree?
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Try this instead...
Xnest
Presuming that Xnest is included in your X installation and you are running a display manager (kdm, gdm or xdm for example), this will open a 1024x768 window and display a login prompt within it. You can then log in (either as the same user or as a completely different user) and use a web browser on a 1024x768 screen even though your screen is 2560x2048.
My sister-in-law uses this to see what the pages in her forthcoming web site would look like to someone browsing at that res. Her comment on 640x480 was "What is this? A thumbnail?" (-:
In short, why bother being merely as good as MS-Windows? As well as doing everything that it does, we should take note of useful things which are easy for us and impossible for the convicted monopolist.
With Xnest, as well as opening a session at a different resolution, you can also open one at a different depth. If the hardware supports it, it will be done directly otherwise it will be emulated. You can see how horrid you app looks in 16 colours, greyscale or black-and-white. If the Xnest session is larger than your physical screen, you can scroll around and see it all in chunks as big as your hardware allows.
If you want to put an MS-Windows session on your screen rdesktop 1.3 or later does full RDPv5 protocol, all depths and resolutions (plus sound, if you don't mind kissing your bandwidth farewell). If you want a copy of someone else's screen, use x2x. If you want to display stuff at a resolution or depth which you don't have, or in batch without toucing your video hardware, use Xv - take 4096x4096 screenshots on your S3-Virge-equipped machine, knock yourself out. Or use Xvnc and display to a VNC client only. And so on. I'm waiting for Xrdp to appear. (-:
