Would you *reallY* like normal users installing MySql and postgresql on their machines with the easiest to use options (read:insecure options) by default?
Probably not, so as it's free software you can change the default istallation. Am I missing something?
Why assume I'm a Tory? I think Archer should still be banged up and from what I know Asil Nadir should join him for a long time, don't remember much about Aitken - he may have got what he deserved. And how were Labour stopped from getting re-elected? Blair got his second term and may even get a third if he ducks the Iraq/Kelly/Hoon fiasco. My father always says that you know where you are with Conservative and Labour - with the Tories you get Sex scandals, and with Labour it's Money. There were enough dodgy goings on in the bedroom with the last lot and enough funny money deals with the present lot to make me think he has a point. Most politicos are dodgy, why should I trust any of them? Having said that there are a few I tend to believe represent themselves (mostly) honestly and I think I know where they stand: Tony Benn, Anne Widdecombe, Ken Livingstone. I don't necessarily believe or agree with them, but I think they are consistent.
And how is it Tory to lament the fact that the increasing cost of motoring under Blair is unfairly penalizing the poorer (especially rural) families, while having a lesser effect on the well off? Oh, because I don't agree with the present government on this matter? I happen to think Jack Straw and David Blunkett would have made fine Tory Home secretaries, make of that what you will.
When you grow up and start to think you might consider that no 'party' is right on every issue, on some things Labour is right, on others it's the Tories and on some it may be the lib dems. NB some parties are wrong on every issue - Natural Law, Monster Raving Loony... You should work out the best fit of manifesto to what you believe should happen and vote accordingly - whichever party that is, not vote out of blind, ignorant tribal loyalty. Just don't expect all (if any) pledges to be honoured.
New Labour (as opposed to Old Labour == TUC??) seem to be against personal freedoms - cctv, 'phone +email snooping, doing their best to restrict car use. I fear we may eventually need to have internal passport (or Blunkett ID card) controls to move between regions - will I really need a passport to visit Birmingham when I hardly need one to visit other EU countries?
One of my favourite indicators was the ludicrous M4 bus lane - this is supposed to be only for taxis, buses and coaches, not the evil car. Unless you are the President^h^h^h^h^h^h^hime Minister who decided that the rules don't apply to him. It's a short step to banning the taxis etc and reserving this lane for Party Members (a genuine 'In Soviet Russia' reference). Of course Jeremy Clarkson hired a bus/coach for himself to make a point.
see the Association of British Drivers for more info on the present governments anti-car crusade. And this is when it is cheaper for a family of four to travel from London to Liverpool (for example) by car than to (attempt) to go by train. The tories had enough faults of their own but were less restrictive on personal freedoms, and they didn't believe that everyone lives in big towns.
Yes I am paranoid. But 'they' may be out to get all of us.
Insider trading is defined as "trading on material non-public information". The essence of the crime is that the seller knows something important that the buyer does not know.
The "non-public information" could be that their claims to linux are specious, which would remove their safe harbor.
out on the Martian surface without suits, gasping, their eyes bulging like tennis balls
Of course this wouldn't happen this way... Yet another occasion where 2001 got it right. I can't be bothered to google for it but NASA covers this/ It's not nice but it's not explosive or like Total Recall. For me this was the movie-breaker. There's plenty of other bad bits in the film (plenty) but this finally ruined it for me - I can accept the alien air machine but not that.
Not that it's confined to movies. How 'bout that Mimi belting out an aria while she's dying of tuberculosis?
Now let's be fair, opera is just ridiculous from the start so I don't have a problem with a dying character singing a 5 minute farewell aria... It's a different matter when you are conforming to the conventions of a stylised genre, such as opera (or ballet, kibuki, chinese opera etc.). For some reason this reminds me of Moulin Rouge and why that worked so well - it confomed to it's own internal logic which was established from the start, so it is internally consistent, there is no jarring disconnect or blatant "we're running out of time so we need an end" deus ex machina resolution so beloved of Hollywood.
Stupid movies shouldn't have incidental music. They should all be like the Blair Witch Project
Some good movies do it right. I watched Hitch's The Birds again recently. Apart from the doubtful premise it's still a very good film. The reason I mention it is that it has no music. It's a little odd until you realise that's what it is, then it's not a problem. I'm not aware of an earlier films with no music (after the silents).
This doesn't come as a big surprise in Europe. At least one UK hospital is is giving heart attack patients wine. I try and have two glasses a day with my evening meal. It's a tough life having a healthy diet - wine, smoked salmon (any oily fish really), fresh fruit and home made bread. I don't know how I cope.
I forgot one of the best bits of the play - Zaphod was played by two actors. At the same time. They/he had long shoes and trousers and stood one in front of the other in the special clothes so there were two real heads and three arms (two right one left) and two legs. This led to some nice business where the two right arms were holding/lighting a cigarette for the right head and the left hand gave the left head a drink. Very effective. Or one head would be doing something whilst the othe head talked. This was before the TV series and made me very disappointed with the lousy animatronic head they stuck on Mark Wing-Davey, in comparison it was rubbish.
I don't remember Marvin much but IIRC correctly he was a guy in a silver trunks painted silver.
BTW towels were in the radio series, it just got extended elsewhere. The book of the radio script is good too if you can get a copy.
Sometimes I think I'd like to see a 'definitive' text edition, including all the funny stuff cut from the early radio scripts, all the book text, and all the dialogue from the record and TV series -- or at least, as many as can be kept without shattering the already-fractured storyline!
Maybe, but as Adams was still writing the show as it was being recorded (people snatching paper from him as he went along and rushing to the actors) I don't think there was much left out. I suspect this was the origin of the famous quote about deadlines, DA was supposed to be a nervous wreck at the end of each recording session. Probably needed a week to recover...
I always feel sorry for Stephen Moore, basically stuck in a box with no-one else so they could process his mike properly for Marvins voice. And Roy Hudd, used to playing in front of a packed crowd every week (for News Huddlines) struggling to improvise the Max Quordlepleen routine (heard in background) in the same empty theatre - it must have been a strain.
It's what I meant about my rankings, the radio version is the least polished but sharpest as it wasn't over-written like some of the book stuff...
I'm not sure about 9x I think it's ok, I run/ran it on ME, NT, 2000+XP (mix of home and work). You could check the site. There's no reason it shouldn't work over dialup, if you have the patience. Setup allows you to install from the internet or download to a local folder for later installation - the latter sounds more sensible over dialup. As to your next point, it depends on your whitelist. Cygwin is now owned by RedHat, so if you can see RH you may be able to see cygwin. Cygwin XFree86 is another matter, I don't have it installed as I don't need it, though I would prefer to use KDE I don't have the time at work to bother. Maybe another day. Most of the tools I would want are available in windows ports, either from GNU,GnuWin or sourceforge. In particular I have nt emacs, the Hessling editor (Xedit clone) and the gimp installed at work.
As for management authorisation, I was lucky - my manager was cool, he said if I wanted some GPL software to give him a copy of the licence and install the sw, which would then prompt him to read it. That was 18 months ago and he hasn't said anything yet. Oh, I forgot two , perl from either ActiveState or Indigo Star depending upon your particualr OS (Indigo works on older versions and includes Apache) and Regina Rexx because I like rexx (I used to be a mainframe guy) and it's the macro language for the Hessling editor. Of course Cygwin has the option of including perl there too, it's a matter of what you want to do. I went for ActiveState instead of Cygwin when I set up my work box as it was a later version - I should have checked which was the more stable. As cygwin is under continuous development (join the mailing lists) it's probably superceded ActiveState now. HTH. (i'm sorry if anything is broken, as preview has done just that, if there's a problem I correct when/. allows the next post).
The graphical shell lacks some things. Does it have a way to search for file names by regular expressions, by exact substring/phrase, or even by all the words? I can't get Windows 2000 to search by anything other than any of the word stems.
Dude, install cygwin. I know that wasn't your point, but you have to do something to make windows more usable. A lot of the builtin stuff works well enough for most people. Cygwin, perl, and a few other bits can improve windows usability a lot for them that needs it.
I still have (and used to use) a MicroWriter AgendA, you can find newsletters on this from 1989 using google. The patent was filed in '92' and granted in '94'. So yes, I'd say there should be enough prior art around to make Palm happy.
I tend to believe in the role of the BBC as scrutinising government - the Old Tories when in power complained frequently of BBC bias against them and now New Labour are doing the same.
If the administration complains about BBC reporting, regardless of the party in power I'm prepared to cut them some slack. If they ever consistently support a government I'll be suspicious. It's the Inform part of the Inform, Educate and Entertain that they're supposed to be doing. Could be some Education involved too.
Just to be really sad, it was also released on vinyl, a double and a single album. This was not the same version as the radio but slightly different. It's in my record collection.
I listened to the original radio shows, saw the TV series, have the LPs and saw the stage play at the Finsbury Rainbow and bought the books. That's 5 versions, all slightly (or not so slightly) different. IMNSHO the book(s) is(are) the weakest version with the radio version the best.
The stage play was suitably weird, with the book played by a man in a blue foil soil lowered in a gondola from the ceiling to divert attention during scene changes. He threw an inflatable dolphin (no whales available I suppose) into the audience at one point, landed quite near and made me jump. Then there was a drunken Vogon molesting audience members... ah the good old days, 1979 I think.
It could have been put more pleasantly but DrSkwid is correct, it raises the question. Begging the question is "to assume that which was to be proved in a discussion, instead of adducing the proof or sustaining the point by argument."
It might be easier to look up the AltGr key combinations that apply to your keyboard, for example on a UK keyboard the Euro symbol is produced by AltGr+4, according to this microsoft site on a US international keyboard it should be AltGr+5. AltGr+vowel combinations produce acute accented versions of the vowels.
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Am I missing something?
Movie, what movie?
My father always says that you know where you are with Conservative and Labour - with the Tories you get Sex scandals, and with Labour it's Money. There were enough dodgy goings on in the bedroom with the last lot and enough funny money deals with the present lot to make me think he has a point.
Most politicos are dodgy, why should I trust any of them?
Having said that there are a few I tend to believe represent themselves (mostly) honestly and I think I know where they stand: Tony Benn, Anne Widdecombe, Ken Livingstone. I don't necessarily believe or agree with them, but I think they are consistent.
And how is it Tory to lament the fact that the increasing cost of motoring under Blair is unfairly penalizing the poorer (especially rural) families, while having a lesser effect on the well off? Oh, because I don't agree with the present government on this matter? I happen to think Jack Straw and David Blunkett would have made fine Tory Home secretaries, make of that what you will.
When you grow up and start to think you might consider that no 'party' is right on every issue, on some things Labour is right, on others it's the Tories and on some it may be the lib dems. NB some parties are wrong on every issue - Natural Law, Monster Raving Loony...
You should work out the best fit of manifesto to what you believe should happen and vote accordingly - whichever party that is, not vote out of blind, ignorant tribal loyalty. Just don't expect all (if any) pledges to be honoured.
Jerk.
One of my favourite indicators was the ludicrous M4 bus lane - this is supposed to be only for taxis, buses and coaches, not the evil car. Unless you are the President^h^h^h^h^h^h^hime Minister who decided that the rules don't apply to him. It's a short step to banning the taxis etc and reserving this lane for Party Members (a genuine 'In Soviet Russia' reference). Of course Jeremy Clarkson hired a bus/coach for himself to make a point.
see the Association of British Drivers for more info on the present governments anti-car crusade. And this is when it is cheaper for a family of four to travel from London to Liverpool (for example) by car than to (attempt) to go by train. The tories had enough faults of their own but were less restrictive on personal freedoms, and they didn't believe that everyone lives in big towns.
Yes I am paranoid. But 'they' may be out to get all of us.
I've had this sig a while now....
Cellulose hasn't been used for film stock for many years. It was far too flammable.
Not arguing with the sentiment though...
Yet another occasion where 2001 got it right. I can't be bothered to google for it but NASA covers this/ It's not nice but it's not explosive or like Total Recall. For me this was the movie-breaker. There's plenty of other bad bits in the film (plenty) but this finally ruined it for me - I can accept the alien air machine but not that.
It's a different matter when you are conforming to the conventions of a stylised genre, such as opera (or ballet, kibuki, chinese opera etc.). For some reason this reminds me of Moulin Rouge and why that worked so well - it confomed to it's own internal logic which was established from the start, so it is internally consistent, there is no jarring disconnect or blatant "we're running out of time so we need an end" deus ex machina resolution so beloved of Hollywood.
This doesn't come as a big surprise in Europe.
At least one UK hospital is is giving heart attack patients wine. I try and have two glasses a day with my evening meal. It's a tough life having a healthy diet - wine, smoked salmon (any oily fish really), fresh fruit and home made bread. I don't know how I cope.
Anyway here is correct link for IndigoPerl, if it works this time, sorry again.
This was before the TV series and made me very disappointed with the lousy animatronic head they stuck on Mark Wing-Davey, in comparison it was rubbish.
I don't remember Marvin much but IIRC correctly he was a guy in a silver trunks painted silver.
BTW towels were in the radio series, it just got extended elsewhere. The book of the radio script is good too if you can get a copy.
Maybe, but as Adams was still writing the show as it was being recorded (people snatching paper from him as he went along and rushing to the actors) I don't think there was much left out. I suspect this was the origin of the famous quote about deadlines, DA was supposed to be a nervous wreck at the end of each recording session. Probably needed a week to recover...I always feel sorry for Stephen Moore, basically stuck in a box with no-one else so they could process his mike properly for Marvins voice. And Roy Hudd, used to playing in front of a packed crowd every week (for News Huddlines) struggling to improvise the Max Quordlepleen routine (heard in background) in the same empty theatre - it must have been a strain.
It's what I meant about my rankings, the radio version is the least polished but sharpest as it wasn't over-written like some of the book stuff...
There's no reason it shouldn't work over dialup, if you have the patience. Setup allows you to install from the internet or download to a local folder for later installation - the latter sounds more sensible over dialup.
As to your next point, it depends on your whitelist. Cygwin is now owned by RedHat, so if you can see RH you may be able to see cygwin.
Cygwin XFree86 is another matter, I don't have it installed as I don't need it, though I would prefer to use KDE I don't have the time at work to bother. Maybe another day. Most of the tools I would want are available in windows ports, either from GNU,GnuWin or sourceforge.
In particular I have nt emacs, the Hessling editor (Xedit clone) and the gimp installed at work.
As for management authorisation, I was lucky - my manager was cool, he said if I wanted some GPL software to give him a copy of the licence and install the sw, which would then prompt him to read it. That was 18 months ago and he hasn't said anything yet. Oh, I forgot two , perl from either ActiveState or Indigo Star depending upon your particualr OS (Indigo works on older versions and includes Apache) and Regina Rexx because I like rexx (I used to be a mainframe guy) and it's the macro language for the Hessling editor. Of course Cygwin has the option of including perl there too, it's a matter of what you want to do. I went for ActiveState instead of Cygwin when I set up my work box as it was a later version - I should have checked which was the more stable. As cygwin is under continuous development (join the mailing lists) it's probably superceded ActiveState now. /. allows the next post).
HTH. (i'm sorry if anything is broken, as preview has done just that, if there's a problem I correct when
I know that wasn't your point, but you have to do something to make windows more usable. A lot of the builtin stuff works well enough for most people. Cygwin, perl, and a few other bits can improve windows usability a lot for them that needs it.
I still have (and used to use) a MicroWriter AgendA, you can find newsletters on this from 1989 using google. The patent was filed in '92' and granted in '94'. So yes, I'd say there should be enough prior art around to make Palm happy.
Hmm, Noel's House Party or Fame Academy?
Come back Noel all is forgiven. (well maybe not Mr Blobby).
If the administration complains about BBC reporting, regardless of the party in power I'm prepared to cut them some slack. If they ever consistently support a government I'll be suspicious. It's the Inform part of the Inform, Educate and Entertain that they're supposed to be doing. Could be some Education involved too.
On this PC/moz preview doesn't work, sorry.
I listened to the original radio shows, saw the TV series, have the LPs and saw the stage play at the Finsbury Rainbow and bought the books. That's 5 versions, all slightly (or not so slightly) different. IMNSHO the book(s) is(are) the weakest version with the radio version the best.
The stage play was suitably weird, with the book played by a man in a blue foil soil lowered in a gondola from the ceiling to divert attention during scene changes. He threw an inflatable dolphin (no whales available I suppose) into the audience at one point, landed quite near and made me jump. Then there was a drunken Vogon molesting audience members... ah the good old days, 1979 I think.
Didn't buy the CDs though, hmm.
It could have been put more pleasantly but DrSkwid is correct, it raises the question. Begging the question is "to assume that which was to be proved in a discussion, instead of adducing the proof or sustaining the point by argument."
It might be easier to look up the AltGr key combinations that apply to your keyboard, for example on a UK keyboard the Euro symbol is produced by AltGr+4, according to this microsoft site on a US international keyboard it should be AltGr+5.
AltGr+vowel combinations produce acute accented versions of the vowels.
I may well be sad, but it's egress and not egres .
Historically IBM didn't sell their OS, they licensed them.