I have two Lloyds TSB bank accounts, and access both on-line via Linux & Firefox. Lloyds has always impressed me with their commitment to keeping the service available to all... unlike other banks who routinely restrict it to IE-only.
Anyway, interesting security measure. I'd like to try it out, but I doubt I'll be one of the 30,000... not being a major customer and all.
Additional: the reason I think it's good for OpenOffice is that dual licensing is a messy business. It confuses both users and developers... now the situation is a lot clearer. Plus Michael Meeks (a OO and GNOME developer) believes that it will help stop certain abuses that have been happening under the SISSL. I don't see how this can't be good for OpenOffice.
OpenOffice.org is not "going" LGPL - it was already LGPL and SISSL.
The article summary has this bit: "Is relicensed under the LGPL alone."
I submitted the article with the title: "OpenOffice single license: LGPL". One of the editors changed it to: "OpenOffice goes LGPL" -- which is extremely misleading.
I like going to the cinema. I'm predisposed to enjoy a night out watching a film and going for a drink afterwards and discussing it. However, even I'm sick of it these days.
Why?
1. Too expensive.
2. Cinemas are run by idiots. I regularly have to get up and complain to get the picture shown correctly (and on one occasion, with sound).
3. Idiots who eat/talk or generally make nuisances of themselves, and the cinema staff do nothing.
4. Formulaic drivel. The large Hollywood studios have driven out of mainstream cinemas anything remotely interesting in favour of their relentlessly formulaic shite. Well, ok, not entirely, but unless you have a big studio behind it, it just doesn't ger exposure.
5. Adverts/patronising lies/lectures about copyright instead of starting the film. I don't mind trailers (in fact, I quite enjoy a good "coming soon" section)... but I'm sick of being patronised and treated like a mark rather than a paying customer.
Stross' "Singularity Sky" is a great read, if a bit odd. While reading it I did get the impression that it relied on knowing beforehand what a singularity was, and what causality violations are. It had a kind of spent-the-last-few-years-reading-slashdot mentality, and I worried that it relied on too much geek-background to be widely enjoyed.
I finished "Iron Sunrise" a month ago... also a cracking read. Starts with a fantastic description of a star being "iron bombed" and its subsequent destruction, along with billions of people living in the system... and a creepy cult called the Remastered (creeped me out almost as much as Vinge's 'focus' in "A Deepness in the Sky").
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Correct... it was a bit of a thinko on my part. I got caught up in all the billions.
What does being British have to do with Battlestar Galactica, seeing Battlestar Galactica, or the show being a fantastic show?
Did I miss something?
Battlestar Galactica has been running in Britain for a few months already. Sky -- a British satellite broadcaster -- paid a big chunk of the money for its production and demanded the rights to a world exclusive. By the time it started in the U.S. we'd already seen virtually the entire run.
I haven't seen it yet... but I can't imagine that it's fixed some of the basic problems I've seen with Star Trek recently.
I've been rewatching The Next Generation (Sky One, 5pm weeknights) recently and I've been shocked (in a good way) at how inventive many of the stories were. Lots of really good ideas -- and few awful ones, true -- but where did that creative spark go? The seem to have spent the following years retelling the same damned stories over and over again. Most blatantly with Voyager.
I still think this is a good thing in the long run. Star Trek needs the humiliation of being cancelled to sort it's crap out.
Is anyone really surprised? I mean, Star Trek has been getting steadily worse. Voyager royally sucked and Enterprise was, at best, mediocre.
Trek fans shouldn't take this too hard. This cancellation could give the staggeringly lazy Trek writers and producers a kick up the arse -- it's a good excuse for a badly needed clean out of the wasters that have taken up residence in the Star Trek creative departments over its long history. The next Trek series might actually be worth watching as a result.
In the meantime take a look at the new Battlestar Galactica. I'm British, I've seen the entire series already and it's fantastic stuff.
We have a reviewer who admits to being a fan and basically says there is no story
No I didn't.
is not that good
No I didn't.
but its still worth buying
No I didn't -- I never suggested anyone buy anything.
and hopes the author can carry on with same.
First thing you've actually got right.
WTF sort of review is that
An honest one. I like the Gateway novels, but even I found the that it didn't work all that well as a novel. Nevertheless, I enjoyed it for what it was, a series of short stories tied together and as a tour of the Gateway universe... and anyone else who liked the previous book will likely enjoy this one. But new readers would probably end up confused. Was there something confusing about the summing up?
I tried to weigh up the good and bad, and make anyone reading the review understand what they would get out of the book.
The reviewer decides to bash book series that come out more frequently than once every four years, implying that they are just out for money.
No I didn't. As it happens I was thinking particularly of Robert Jordan when I mentioned interminable fantasy series, but I never once said that books written more frequently than every four years are just pumped out for cash.
In the UK there are five so-called terrestrial channels (old analogue broacasts available via an aerial), they are: BBC 1, BBC 2, ITV, Channel 4, Channel 5.
You can also get something called a FreeView settop box which allows access to digital broadcasts via your aerial, and this gives you many other channels, such as BBC 3 (more light entertainment), BBC 4 (documentaries and more high-brow films -- BTW, this is proving to be an excellent dip in-out channel), and lots of other stuff.
Another option is handing over your shilling to the Murdoch bandits by getting a Sky Digital set top box and dish.
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When you write the above aboue "Broken Angels", does it mean this book has also been seduced by the author's political opinions to write about conspiracy theories about why the present society is just a capitalist stalinism?
Disclaimer: I haven't read Market Forces. But Broken Angels isn't (or doesn't seem to me to be) thinly veiled allegory or anything like that. There are places where Morgan's views on war leak in, but there's no preaching. The reason I mentioned the Conservative party was just because I thought it funny that the miltary political officers are so despised and badly treated, and they are named after prominent (and much despised) former politicians.
Not if you have a PS2 keyboard. I can't speak for those using USB keyboards (and I should have made that clear).
I have a PS/2 keyboard, and had the BIOS USB legacy option set for keyboard and mice. 70% of the times I booted, I would be faced with a dead keyboard once the kernel had started (grub worked fine). Switching off the legacy USB option in the BIOS solved the problem -- so clearly, the 2.6 keyboard was getting horribly confused by it... even if though I was using a PS/2 keyboard.
I had the same problem -- at least, I think you are talking about the same thing.
Go into your BIOS and switch off USB keyboard/mouse emulation (or it might be called legacy USB, with options for keyb/mouse) -- which I believe makes USB keyboards and mice behave like their PS2 equivalents. It seems to confuse the kernel 2.6 keyboard code and you can often find yourself with a dead keyboard. It's worked for me so far.
I remember during Gulf War II, the British were dropping bomb-shaped concrete blocks attached to the fanastic guidance systems they have now. No explosives needed... just plonk it down on a tank from 20000 feet and it does the job with much less collateral damage.
So maybe there's more to Dirac than just a cool open source project.
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Yeah yeah yeah. Real sucked. We've all heard it, and we all know it.
What is more interesting is the recent drive to improve their image by making their software less obnoxious. Has it worked? Have they improved. If so, isn't it better to congratulate them and talk them up a bit, thereby encouraging further moves towards being reputable instead of still treating them like a leper not much better than some sneaky ad-ware merchant (however deserved in the past).
The thing about the humour in The Office is that a lot of it is quite subtle and cultural - I am not sure it will "translate" very well to the US.
What about "Phoenix Nights"? Funniest show in the last twenty years, but there are people in the south of England who don't get it, let alone in the U.S.
Unaired episodes? Awwww... poor Americans, haven't you seen the entire series yet? For what it's worth, the UK SciFi channel has shown it two or three times already. In fact, the SciFi is having a "Firefly" weekend (next weekend, I think... their site is appalling, but I saw it advertised) in which they show all the episodes... again... muahahaha.
What IS slow, and is giving X a bad name, are super-bloated window managers like KDE and GNOME.
KDE and GNOME are not Window managers. They are application development frameworks (in addition to being desktops). They provide a lot of infrastructure to help developers so they don't have to write (and rewrite) the same application support routines over and over again. That's not bloat... it's good sense.
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I have two Lloyds TSB bank accounts, and access both on-line via Linux & Firefox. Lloyds has always impressed me with their commitment to keeping the service available to all... unlike other banks who routinely restrict it to IE-only.
Anyway, interesting security measure. I'd like to try it out, but I doubt I'll be one of the 30,000... not being a major customer and all.
Additional: the reason I think it's good for OpenOffice is that dual licensing is a messy business. It confuses both users and developers... now the situation is a lot clearer. Plus Michael Meeks (a OO and GNOME developer) believes that it will help stop certain abuses that have been happening under the SISSL. I don't see how this can't be good for OpenOffice.
OpenOffice.org is not "going" LGPL - it was already LGPL and SISSL.
The article summary has this bit: "Is relicensed under the LGPL alone."
I submitted the article with the title: "OpenOffice single license: LGPL". One of the editors changed it to: "OpenOffice goes LGPL" -- which is extremely misleading.
I like going to the cinema. I'm predisposed to enjoy a night out watching a film and going for a drink afterwards and discussing it. However, even I'm sick of it these days.
Why?
1. Too expensive.
2. Cinemas are run by idiots. I regularly have to get up and complain to get the picture shown correctly (and on one occasion, with sound).
3. Idiots who eat/talk or generally make nuisances of themselves, and the cinema staff do nothing.
4. Formulaic drivel. The large Hollywood studios have driven out of mainstream cinemas anything remotely interesting in favour of their relentlessly formulaic shite. Well, ok, not entirely, but unless you have a big studio behind it, it just doesn't ger exposure.
5. Adverts/patronising lies/lectures about copyright instead of starting the film. I don't mind trailers (in fact, I quite enjoy a good "coming soon" section)... but I'm sick of being patronised and treated like a mark rather than a paying customer.
Stross' "Singularity Sky" is a great read, if a bit odd. While reading it I did get the impression that it relied on knowing beforehand what a singularity was, and what causality violations are. It had a kind of spent-the-last-few-years-reading-slashdot mentality, and I worried that it relied on too much geek-background to be widely enjoyed.
I finished "Iron Sunrise" a month ago... also a cracking read. Starts with a fantastic description of a star being "iron bombed" and its subsequent destruction, along with billions of people living in the system... and a creepy cult called the Remastered (creeped me out almost as much as Vinge's 'focus' in "A Deepness in the Sky").
Correct... it was a bit of a thinko on my part. I got caught up in all the billions.
What does being British have to do with Battlestar Galactica, seeing Battlestar Galactica, or the show being a fantastic show? Did I miss something?
Battlestar Galactica has been running in Britain for a few months already. Sky -- a British satellite broadcaster -- paid a big chunk of the money for its production and demanded the rights to a world exclusive. By the time it started in the U.S. we'd already seen virtually the entire run.
I haven't seen it yet... but I can't imagine that it's fixed some of the basic problems I've seen with Star Trek recently.
I've been rewatching The Next Generation (Sky One, 5pm weeknights) recently and I've been shocked (in a good way) at how inventive many of the stories were. Lots of really good ideas -- and few awful ones, true -- but where did that creative spark go? The seem to have spent the following years retelling the same damned stories over and over again. Most blatantly with Voyager.
I still think this is a good thing in the long run. Star Trek needs the humiliation of being cancelled to sort it's crap out.
Is anyone really surprised? I mean, Star Trek has been getting steadily worse. Voyager royally sucked and Enterprise was, at best, mediocre.
Trek fans shouldn't take this too hard. This cancellation could give the staggeringly lazy Trek writers and producers a kick up the arse -- it's a good excuse for a badly needed clean out of the wasters that have taken up residence in the Star Trek creative departments over its long history. The next Trek series might actually be worth watching as a result.
In the meantime take a look at the new Battlestar Galactica. I'm British, I've seen the entire series already and it's fantastic stuff.
We have a reviewer who admits to being a fan and basically says there is no story
No I didn't.
is not that good
No I didn't.
but its still worth buying
No I didn't -- I never suggested anyone buy anything.
and hopes the author can carry on with same.
First thing you've actually got right.
WTF sort of review is that
An honest one. I like the Gateway novels, but even I found the that it didn't work all that well as a novel. Nevertheless, I enjoyed it for what it was, a series of short stories tied together and as a tour of the Gateway universe... and anyone else who liked the previous book will likely enjoy this one. But new readers would probably end up confused. Was there something confusing about the summing up?
I tried to weigh up the good and bad, and make anyone reading the review understand what they would get out of the book.
The reviewer decides to bash book series that come out more frequently than once every four years, implying that they are just out for money.
No I didn't. As it happens I was thinking particularly of Robert Jordan when I mentioned interminable fantasy series, but I never once said that books written more frequently than every four years are just pumped out for cash.
No, Big Brother is shown on Channel 4.
In the UK there are five so-called terrestrial channels (old analogue broacasts available via an aerial), they are: BBC 1, BBC 2, ITV, Channel 4, Channel 5.
You can also get something called a FreeView settop box which allows access to digital broadcasts via your aerial, and this gives you many other channels, such as BBC 3 (more light entertainment), BBC 4 (documentaries and more high-brow films -- BTW, this is proving to be an excellent dip in-out channel), and lots of other stuff.
Another option is handing over your shilling to the Murdoch bandits by getting a Sky Digital set top box and dish.
When you write the above aboue "Broken Angels", does it mean this book has also been seduced by the author's political opinions to write about conspiracy theories about why the present society is just a capitalist stalinism?
Disclaimer: I haven't read Market Forces. But Broken Angels isn't (or doesn't seem to me to be) thinly veiled allegory or anything like that. There are places where Morgan's views on war leak in, but there's no preaching. The reason I mentioned the Conservative party was just because I thought it funny that the miltary political officers are so despised and badly treated, and they are named after prominent (and much despised) former politicians.
Not if you have a PS2 keyboard. I can't speak for those using USB keyboards (and I should have made that clear).
I have a PS/2 keyboard, and had the BIOS USB legacy option set for keyboard and mice. 70% of the times I booted, I would be faced with a dead keyboard once the kernel had started (grub worked fine). Switching off the legacy USB option in the BIOS solved the problem -- so clearly, the 2.6 keyboard was getting horribly confused by it... even if though I was using a PS/2 keyboard.
I had the same problem -- at least, I think you are talking about the same thing.
Go into your BIOS and switch off USB keyboard/mouse emulation (or it might be called legacy USB, with options for keyb/mouse) -- which I believe makes USB keyboards and mice behave like their PS2 equivalents. It seems to confuse the kernel 2.6 keyboard code and you can often find yourself with a dead keyboard. It's worked for me so far.
I remember during Gulf War II, the British were dropping bomb-shaped concrete blocks attached to the fanastic guidance systems they have now. No explosives needed... just plonk it down on a tank from 20000 feet and it does the job with much less collateral damage.
Brilliant idea
Can't you get the leaders of clan McBride to have a word with Darl. He's really letting your side down.
So maybe there's more to Dirac than just a cool open source project.
Yeah yeah yeah. Real sucked. We've all heard it, and we all know it.
What is more interesting is the recent drive to improve their image by making their software less obnoxious. Has it worked? Have they improved. If so, isn't it better to congratulate them and talk them up a bit, thereby encouraging further moves towards being reputable instead of still treating them like a leper not much better than some sneaky ad-ware merchant (however deserved in the past).
Yeah, followed closely by "Is there a Linux port?"
The thing about the humour in The Office is that a lot of it is quite subtle and cultural - I am not sure it will "translate" very well to the US.
What about "Phoenix Nights"? Funniest show in the last twenty years, but there are people in the south of England who don't get it, let alone in the U.S.
How did SCO get a copy of "IBM AIX source code, an old version labeled MERCED/9922A_43NIA"?
From the same place we all get our warez... Kazaa/gnutella/IRC.
Unaired episodes? Awwww... poor Americans, haven't you seen the entire series yet? For what it's worth, the UK SciFi channel has shown it two or three times already. In fact, the SciFi is having a "Firefly" weekend (next weekend, I think... their site is appalling, but I saw it advertised) in which they show all the episodes... again... muahahaha.
What IS slow, and is giving X a bad name, are super-bloated window managers like KDE and GNOME.
KDE and GNOME are not Window managers. They are application development frameworks (in addition to being desktops). They provide a lot of infrastructure to help developers so they don't have to write (and rewrite) the same application support routines over and over again. That's not bloat... it's good sense.
What IS slow, and is giving X a bad name, are super-bloated window managers like KDE and GNOME