Nobody shuts down a mirror that isn't soaking up any bandwidth. Nobody has a slow mirror that nobody uses. I'm putting my money on them having ditched it because it outgrew their initial provisioning and they couldn't afford to expand to keep up, not because it was "low popularity."
Well, while I think that differing expertise levels in different areas can make "simpler" a somewhat subjective concept, I also think that anyone making a "complex web application" owes it to themselves to learn at least enough CSS to be able to tell the difference between expected behavior and an actual rendering bug, rather than just assuming because Firefox is rendering their code differently the only option is to switch rendering engines.
Use a print stylesheet, swap body classes to mask unwanted rules from the main stylesheet, then set key sizes in percentages so that it has some adaptability to different page sizes. I've seen it done correctly as long as you can assume a specific installed font or something with identical glyph bounding box sizes. Seriously. What print bug does Firefox have that's not actually just expected behavior if you know CSS?
Let me just take a moment to promote a site I just found online that mixes tasteless humor with actually serious disaster preparedness. Video content such as the Bug Out Bag, for example, is educational and fun. Thanks for listening and... don't be eaten by zombies!
P.S. Anyone know the shelf life of shotgun shells?
Oh, I'm with you on that angle. No question defense research could be spent more efficiently as well, it's just that it's a lot harder to get people to take responsibility for being WRONG about a budget cut in the defense budget. There are no doubts in my mind that we waste MOST of the overall research budget in the U.S., and it's a true shame that manned spaceflight has to take a hit for the team, but it's not going to be the first major cut and it's certainly not going to be the last before we get back out of the red as a country.
NOOOOO!!!! There is cheese to be found I tell you! Enough cheese to feed a billion mouths for a billion years if we just dig deep enough under all that dust!!
I'm replying to this post because I tried to mod you +1 insightful and missed, accidentally hitting -1 redundant in my haste.
When I see all these people flaming about how America is ceding our supposed "space dominance" for welfare it makes me really mad. The manned space-flight program was never much more than an international socioeconomic political pissing match and the fact of the matter is we CAN'T afford it any more than we can continue to make useful scientific progress cost-effectively with it using currently developed technology. We NEED to keep our "space dominance" but the ONLY way to effectively do that in this current economic mess in which we've placed ourselves is with nice, cheap cost-effective robots.
So stop crying like your parents just went bankrupt and can't afford to buy you a new toy every time they go to the store anymore. You're spoiled brats without any accurate perspective on the bigger picture. NASA will continue the UNMANNED space program in earnest and it will yield far more useful research data about distant planets than we could dig up in a million years of sifting through Moon dust. It is, in fact, if you really think about it, the only reasonable way to get the research we need done to put the human race out into space in any meaningful way.
NASA should have been forced to do this decades ago. I firmly believe we'd already be colonizing Mars and strip-mining the Moon by now if they had.
Seriously, that's what you call unchecked paranoia. Nobody is ordering Microsoft grunts to sabotage open source software. They do that in their free time for fun.
Alternately, you could just maybe look at the info page like it suggests. If you are running an old version of tar you wouldn't want to confuse yourself by looking at a man page for the wrong version of it, would you?
$ info tar
(FYI you'll want to make sure you've got the info pages installed first, of course - otherwise the info reader will just give you the man page anyway)
Most ISPs use public lands AND funds, at least indirectly because the existing infrastructure was MOSTLY paid for by public funds and ALMOST ENTIRELY housed on public lands. It IS about getting BACK what WE paid for, but the ISPs (and sadly most of the tax payers) seem to have forgotten about this.
Slashdot Mirror
will ie9 support that?
I hear they mourn their dead. Watch Animal Planet and you can even sometimes see them getting eviscerated in HD - EPIC.
You must be one of those people who thinks plain text interfaces are obsolete.
Nobody shuts down a mirror that isn't soaking up any bandwidth. Nobody has a slow mirror that nobody uses. I'm putting my money on them having ditched it because it outgrew their initial provisioning and they couldn't afford to expand to keep up, not because it was "low popularity."
PPTP can rot as far as I care. I've been using OpenVPN for a while now. It is much easier to set up, much less intrusive and much more secure.
Well, while I think that differing expertise levels in different areas can make "simpler" a somewhat subjective concept, I also think that anyone making a "complex web application" owes it to themselves to learn at least enough CSS to be able to tell the difference between expected behavior and an actual rendering bug, rather than just assuming because Firefox is rendering their code differently the only option is to switch rendering engines.
Use a print stylesheet, swap body classes to mask unwanted rules from the main stylesheet, then set key sizes in percentages so that it has some adaptability to different page sizes. I've seen it done correctly as long as you can assume a specific installed font or something with identical glyph bounding box sizes. Seriously. What print bug does Firefox have that's not actually just expected behavior if you know CSS?
How about this then? What fucking printing bug?
'nuff said
Let me just take a moment to promote a site I just found online that mixes tasteless humor with actually serious disaster preparedness. Video content such as the Bug Out Bag, for example, is educational and fun. Thanks for listening and ... don't be eaten by zombies!
P.S. Anyone know the shelf life of shotgun shells?
Oh, I'm with you on that angle. No question defense research could be spent more efficiently as well, it's just that it's a lot harder to get people to take responsibility for being WRONG about a budget cut in the defense budget. There are no doubts in my mind that we waste MOST of the overall research budget in the U.S., and it's a true shame that manned spaceflight has to take a hit for the team, but it's not going to be the first major cut and it's certainly not going to be the last before we get back out of the red as a country.
NOOOOO!!!! There is cheese to be found I tell you! Enough cheese to feed a billion mouths for a billion years if we just dig deep enough under all that dust!!
I'm replying to this post because I tried to mod you +1 insightful and missed, accidentally hitting -1 redundant in my haste.
When I see all these people flaming about how America is ceding our supposed "space dominance" for welfare it makes me really mad. The manned space-flight program was never much more than an international socioeconomic political pissing match and the fact of the matter is we CAN'T afford it any more than we can continue to make useful scientific progress cost-effectively with it using currently developed technology. We NEED to keep our "space dominance" but the ONLY way to effectively do that in this current economic mess in which we've placed ourselves is with nice, cheap cost-effective robots.
So stop crying like your parents just went bankrupt and can't afford to buy you a new toy every time they go to the store anymore. You're spoiled brats without any accurate perspective on the bigger picture. NASA will continue the UNMANNED space program in earnest and it will yield far more useful research data about distant planets than we could dig up in a million years of sifting through Moon dust. It is, in fact, if you really think about it, the only reasonable way to get the research we need done to put the human race out into space in any meaningful way.
NASA should have been forced to do this decades ago. I firmly believe we'd already be colonizing Mars and strip-mining the Moon by now if they had.
Seriously, that's what you call unchecked paranoia. Nobody is ordering Microsoft grunts to sabotage open source software. They do that in their free time for fun.
Alternately, you could just maybe look at the info page like it suggests. If you are running an old version of tar you wouldn't want to confuse yourself by looking at a man page for the wrong version of it, would you?
$ info tar
(FYI you'll want to make sure you've got the info pages installed first, of course - otherwise the info reader will just give you the man page anyway)
My copy doesn't say that. Maybe you shouldn't be running an ancient version of a crappy distro and then bitching about it.
*sigh* noobs...
$ man tar
this deserves to be +6 informative
Would I have gotten an A- if I hadn't typed "do" instead of "to?"
negative
Yea, stupid I know. there was posting lag and I thought it was actually the first post getting auto-filtered or something.
Seriously. For once, Pakistan is right. Someone needs to delete Facebook.
Wow for the first time ever the religious extremists in Pakistan and I completely agree - someone has simply got do delete Facebook.
man fsck.msdos
Most ISPs use public lands AND funds, at least indirectly because the existing infrastructure was MOSTLY paid for by public funds and ALMOST ENTIRELY housed on public lands. It IS about getting BACK what WE paid for, but the ISPs (and sadly most of the tax payers) seem to have forgotten about this.