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I goof, therefore I am sorry. Many readers submitted rebuttals to the claim I repeated that an Israeli web portal was the first to give users 1GB email accounts; Protein Shake, for one, writes that Spymac has them beat. "Forget Google, forget Israel's web portal... 1 GB e-mail is already out there. At least a few weeks ago. From their site '1 GB e-mail account, 350 MB combined storage, personal blog, forum, gallery, auctions and more...'"
"And this was back when phone lines were just strings painted to resemble copper ..." Jason Scott writes "The BBS Documentary, announced on Slashdot nearly three years ago, has wrapped up filming. With over TWO HUNDRED interviews in the can, I've been spending a lot of my spare time (and not-so-spare time) editing, but I decided to put out the first of what will likely be a few trailers for it. Stop by and check out how I've spent the last few years. The Documentary will be released as a 3-DVD set later this year."
It's like Who's Who, only different. Another gargantuan effort completed on a different front: Tony Stanco writes with word that "The 910-page Open Source Reference Book is available for download."
The project was announced just over a year ago; considering the contents that's not a bad turnaround.
It's nearly enough to make one cynical. Alex Wolfe writes "In a move worthy of the Luddites, the New York City Council is quietly trying to ban the Segway . The Council has proposed a law that's technically a ban on motorized scooters, but Harris Siliver, founder of Citystreets, an urban improvement organization, says the NYC Department of Transportation is specifically targeting the electric, non-polluting Segway. Silver is joined in his opposition to the bill by Apple cofounder Steve Wozniak."
Get out much? If you just can't get enough random flamebait, here's a small fix to follow the anti-Linux FUD spread earlier this month by Green Hills CEO Dan O'Dowd. InfoSec writes "This morning's Security Focus page had an article about Consumer Grade *nix. The writer of the article slams Linux for not having free automated updates, enabling services in default installations, and not warning users when they are using 'root'. Uhmm, I could be wrong, but hasn't Mandrake been doing that for quite some time?"
apt-get update seems to count as free updates to me (though those folks do take donations), and root-use warnings may not be perfectly applied, but they are found in various forms (depending on distro) at OS, WM, and application levels, including notices that certain tasks can only be run as root or other superuser. (I think it's Xchat that calls me "an idiot" when I've tried to run it as root.)
... IS sort of put-offish what with security concerns, etc. I got as far as the huge sign in questionnaire, that and having to run script told me to not follow through with an account there.
I'd like to try google's, especially if they had created a huge wall of spam-be-not around their service. Coolguys and non spammers inside, everyone else outside. Google is big enough to pull off a system like that, and has the smarts to make it work.
Or just put a red stripe along row 0 of the terminal with "WARNING: Logged in as root" in bright yellow lettering.
You know, like when Java applets pop up windows that need user input.
It wouldn't break any existing tools, and IMHO it wouldn't be too much of an inconvenience, only your console would be 1 row shorter.
"Nine times out of ten, starting a fire is not the best way to solve the problem." - my wife
This is such an awe-inspiring effort. Logging 200 hours of footage over 3 years...I can imagine the amount of dedication, effort, logistics & scheduling that went into making this possible.
Hats off to you!
I'm into my 4th month of filmmaking right now. Logged 20+ hours so far, a dozen interviews under my belt, lots of travel, caffeine, sleepless nights...and I've barely begun. By the time I hope to be finished, I hope to have about 50 hours of footage. Just sifting thru all that, deciding which segment will make the cut & which won't...gigantic effort. I can't even imagine what you're going thru, narrowing down 200 hours into 3 DVDs. I wish you luck & lots & lots of patience.
There was this one documentary I watched recently - "Begging Naked" - that tracked this prostitute thru 7 yeas of her life. 7 years!!! In those 90 minutes of footage, you can practically see the person aging in front of you. The prostitute goes from being a young sexy hooker making pots of money in a Manhattan apartment to an old haggard woman living under a tree in Central Park out of a cardboard box. The person who made this film started filming in her 20s & is now in her 30s & the film still hasn't gotten a theatrical release. And she keeps plugging away. That's motivation for you!
Project Outsourced - the film
with the sentence "The Government Open Source Advisory Committee is a group of
Open Source project leaders...", there is this line:
"For the SELinux Chair Tony Stanco...... Tony@egovos.org"
What does this mean?
I think when Steve Jobs said that it would change the way we build cities, he was right. We HAVE to change the way we buld cities because it won't fit in any current cities. We'd need extra lanes to handle the traffic.
Nah, i dont want to sound flamebaiting and trolling but really, maybe we should just not change the way we build cities and instead just forget about this fad, im sure it could find a niche market in the circus and maybe as a novelty for tourists to rent, but really, as a revolutionary transportation device? its crap! And if i see one on the road i will try and run it over.
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but SuSE used to have a bright, red background with big, black bombs tiled all over the place while logged in as root in X.
A little hard to miss that much blinding backcrap.
"Rocky Rococo, at your cervix!"
...while Linux still has it's hangups and limits (like every other OS), has anyone else noticed that arguments presented in selected media outlets has moved to ever more uninformed/poorly researched tripe? It was almost excusable a few years ago because the territory could be seen as arguable new or alien to the status quo at the time. But these days? That shit is just plain unprofessional and sloppy.
In the article: It's already illegal by New York state law to operate Segways, motorized scooters, and the like on streets, sidewalks, and parks. The ban makes it illegal to do anything with it except own the thing (I suppose you could carry it to New Jersey or something...) So, what they're basically trying to do is have a stronger reason to stop and fine someone trying to use a vehicle which is already illegal to operate in public, as well as completely stop its introduction. NY DMV's stance on motorized vehicles
You can't login as root, or SYSTEM, in Windows unless you change a Group Policy setting, I believe. Of course, you can do practically anything as an Administrator anyway. And new version of Windows XP actually try to hide the Administrator user, making it so that by default you can only login as the Administrator user account by going into Safe Mode. Not sure if there are any things that Administrator can do that regular user members of the Administrator group can't, but meh, I like to play the Devil's Advocate every now and again ;^)
It's better to vote for what you want and not get it than to vote for what you don't want and get it.
- E. Debs
No a bicycle is a 200 year old device that uses the laws of physics to remain naturally stable in motion and the laws of 'your foot' to remain naturally stable when stopped, it can travel at a range of useful speeds, requires no fuel and apart from pissing off drivers it can pretty much get around most cities without a big re-design, although a bicycle lane is an advantage. What will happen is we will get to the stage where there will be a normal lane, a fire lane, a bus lane, a bicycle lane, a segway lane (because they are too slow to go with bikes) and a "2 wheeled computer balanced transportation device that is not allowed to use the name segway for copyright reasons" lane, is this really what you want??
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I was one of the interviewees for Jason Scott's BBS documentary. One of the things that I think is going to be successfully communicated (otherwise I'm going to go find Jason and make him do three more DVD's) is that BBS's are not a thing of the past -- the community is alive and well, albeit changed a bit. The days of dialup are definitely over, but people are finding more and more that they need to connect with people. It's so much more satisfying (for those with an actual brain that functions, anyway) than mindlessly consuming the big corporations' attempts to move everything into CONSUME OUR CONTENT format.
It's the reason people love 'blogs, it's the reason they love IRC, and it's the reason they love sites like mine (see sig) that still follow the traditional BBS format. In some ways it's even better now, with the ability to have lots of people on at once.
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So did Mail.ru.
:-)
That's already TWO Russian webmail providers which offer unlimited email storage... Take that, Yankee imperialists!
Kaa
Kaa's Law: In any sufficiently large group of people most are idiots.
Using the tput command, you can be portable and get great results every time!
Copyrights, Patents, Trademarks: temporary loans from the Public Domain, not real property ("intellectual" or otherwise)
That credo was invented by greedy, proprietary corporations.
But also a useful strategy for other businesses as well. Your funding runs out in three days. It will take three weeks to fix that last remaining nasty bug. Do you:
A) Fire all the employees and wistfully remark, "well, we tried"?
B) Release the software with that bug in it, issue a 1.1 version later, and retain your employees?
Don't blame me, I didn't vote for either of them!
On Friday the last day of the MySQL Users' Convention (not be be confused with the previous MySQL User's Conventions held in Monty's home, but I digress...) I walked across the street to the former FAO Schwartz-themed shopping mall and was mauled by a couple of guys touring on Segways amidst pedestrian traffic. Some kind of promotion company allowed people to ride a Segway (followed closely by a man riding a smaller, easier to manuver scooter, which is what I would have chosen, too, funnily enough) at tourists (Orlandoan's hate tourists). These guys were whooping it up about how drunk they were, barely avoiding the properly behaved British tourists all about. That's when I decided that the Segway really would require cities to be redesigned -- PRIOR to their mass adoptoin -- which has about as much chance as Darl McBride winning the Linus Torvalds Medal of Freedom.
-- @rjamestaylor on Ello
That's fine. Neighborhood electric vehicles have a place, but segways do not. Cars like the GEM have actual safety devices built-in, can be driven legally on the streets, and can be found as cheap as Segways. They also have more power, higher speed, etc.
Slashdot gets worse every day... Pipedot: News for nerds, without the corporate slant
As someone who cycles to work (almost) every day, I'd not be too pleased to find the cycle lanes (such as they are) blocked by yuppies on wheels. To cycle long(ish) distances effectively you need to keep a constant speed - it's bad enough dodging potholes and motorists who think that because you have no engine you can stop instantaneously to avoid them.
Having said that, Segways are cool technology, and for those with the brass balls to do so can travel fast enough to cause minimal problems to cyclists, it's just on the rare occasions I've seen them in use here (in the UK) people have been beetling along at snails-pace. It's a shame that they're so expensive. Of course, you could always build your own. That is, until Segway's lawyers get to you and take your house...
*--BigMan--- Time flies like an arrow.. but personally I prefer a nice glass of wine!
I signed up for a SpyMac account when I read the post on the GMail story. Well here's my take on the service: SLOW and GLITCHY.
I had to sign up 3 times before it would take my information.
I've tried uploading my avatar for forums 7 times in 3 days and it still has yet to work. The same thing for selecting one of there a predefined picture.
The e-mail page itself takes up 5 minutes to load.
I sent a message from one of my accounts(www.2d.com) and it took 12 hours before it showed up in my inbox.
This service seems more like a beta products then a production ready system. A couple of suggestions:
-Cut back on the mac-esc graphics. They're killing your server.
- Maybe turn your storage down to 100 megs until you can scale to meet the demands of what you have.
- Give POP3/SMTP access to your system. See above 2 points.
You say things that offend me and I can deal with it. Can you?