The safe one is officially the "New Beetle", not the "Beetle". The "VW Beetle", while only recently discontinued in Mexico, was not a four-star safe car, wheras the "VW New Beetle" is significantly more safe (if not any less horrible to look at).
From the question: What free UNIX-like OS based open source software is there.... This doesn't sound like someone who wants to pay $400+ for Macromedia Studio MX 2005 GX XP Plus Turbo. Though yeah, Flash's video export is nice enough - if you're someone who likes to pay for and "use" Windows and Flash...
And don't tell me that it's acceptable because of democracy, it is not moral to steal from X just because A, B, and C held a vote and decided it was okay.
It is if X was invited to participate in the vote, whether X elected to excercise that priviledge or not. Some people don't realize that they have an opportunity to be heard, and that participation in an election implies agreement to abide by the outcome - even if their vote goes towards the losing side. Of course, here's where I drift off into a rant about idiots who say things like "he's not my president/senator/etc" and/or keep the bumper sticker for a losing party on their car for years.
What's even more amusing is that people say "jpeg" but they usually mean a jpeg-compressed image in a jfif container (which may well just be the backwards-compatability part of a spiff container for jpeg data, rather than straight jfif). Or, at least *I* think that's amusing...:)
I just bought a new Alpine in-dash cd/mp3 player that is somewhere in their mid- to low-range. Aside from it being hands down the best in car CD player I've ever owned (it simply will not skip, even on 48x burned high-bitrate mp3s at the far edge of the CD), and having the best mp3 playback I've yet found as well as a very good UI - it also has an iPod hookup. It's a "control your iPod from the radio" thing, not just a headphone jack, wherin you get the song displayed on the head unit, you can select songs using the head unit's controls, etc. I thought that was kinda cool, anyway, should I ever break down and get an iPod (which is unlikely, until the price comes down to two digits and there's good Linux software that I know about).
The bad part is the description of KDE as a file manager. Not only is that wrong, it's a description given to people who mostly already know what KDE really is - a "desktop environment". Konqueror is a file browser that works with KDE - and is a web browser as well as something that makes icons on a root window. KWM is a window manager. Artsd is a sound server. Not to mention klipper, kinit, kded, kwrapper, kded, konsole, etc.
The length of time it took to make this revelation, that KDE apps run on X on OS X, well, that's just icing on the cake.:)
Unless your credit card company royally sucks and you don't keep accurate records, having the number stolen generally wouldn't cause significant harm anyway - just a minor inconvenience. My suggestion is that, if you're concerned about that, you should get one of the many cards designed for Internet use. Several comapnies offer services that will generate a one-time use number or number with limited amount for things like Internet transactions. In addition (or alternatively, whichever), keep your CC recipts and a check register-like record of all your transactions. Look at the bill your CC company sends you each month, and reconcile the two.
It doesn't matter how secure your computer is, if you ever visit third-party websites or download software that you don't thoroughly examine toe source code for, there's always a chance that it'll be compromised somehow. The OS can't ever totally prevent that.
Well, an effective spam relay should really run on port 25, and a user shouldn't be able to open a program listening on a low port. That's why they're called privileged ports. Though, I suppose if they're phoning home, any port would do - but then your proper firewall setup that doesn't allow outgoing port 25 to anything but the network SMTP server (which is, itself, configured to limit outgoing mail to a reasonable volume / number of recipients) should take care of that. Modifying local.rc files is unlikely, since there are just a few run on user login, and it's easy enough to check those.
Essentially, there's more to it than trusting the OS - the OS shouldn't blindly trust the user, and the network shouldn't blindly trust the other computers. Stupid Internet, getting overrun by buttholes.:(
I didn't say you'd never translated - just not Mozilla.;)
Anyway, given the better described problem, I'll have to retract my original remark. Why in the heck does anything locale-related require significant developer approval? The language file, if largely unchanged, should have nothing to do with the binary. At most, there should just be a couple of strings to add, which shouldn't take much time at all. If they did localization right, there's no good reason that the language file couldn't be pushed out as an update as the new strings were translated, and just use English as a placeholder until that time (for lack of a better solution). You're right, the Mozilla folks suck in that regard.:)
I can see the part about changing locales screwing up profiles, though. Specifically, numerical values changing format could easily break stuff if they're stored internally as strings rather than numbers... If they were stupid about language handling, then it's reasonable to assume they were stupid about number storage in configurations.:)
Ok, I didn't look at the smaller home UPSs. My experience is mostly from the one I had which failed - used a 6V battery - and the one at work which I replaced the batteries in - used six 12V batteries. I'd still be a tad concerend about the alternator's output voltage, since it varies some with engine RPM and is a couple volts higher than the UPS expects. I've never designed a UPS, but I'd think that the designers can assume a maximum voltage, and plan to deal with a decreasing voltage - not a weird peak. That 2V is like 15% over the expected level..
I've thrown away a broken UPS a few times, too, so it's a decent idea, but I still think that buying a purpose-built device would at least save time in the long run, if not being more safe and lasting longer. The inverters are also designed to run for a long time, wheras a household UPS is usually only intended to run for 15-30 minutes at full load...
You can get a 25 to 75 watt car inverter most anywhere for $10-$15. Here's one that'll do 200 watts sustained and 400 peak for $15.25. I'm all for building stuff for pure geek value, but really, it'd take more than $15 worth of time to build something like that, IMHO.:) Just the cigarette lighter plug (or battery clamps) and wire will run you around $5 or more at a lot of places.
I was just going to congratulate you on taking up the work of translating, but I don't see your email address or login name anywhere on mozilla.org. When are you going to start helping with the localization, so that builds in your native language will be available at the same time as English? Or are you just someone who likes to complain but doesn't want to do anything about it? Maybe you could ask for your money back...
Check out http://www.google.com/search?q=learn+english while you're waiting for someone else to work hard in order to get your grandpa something for free, since you're obviously too lazy to help.
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It doesn't matter what groups you are in (or who owns the directory). Barring things like a suid firefox (which is a sign that someone needs to learn more about how *nix works) and sudo (which is a sign that someone might need to learn more about how *nix works), it runs as the user who launched it.
Perhaps you missed it - the parent was talking about a gun, not a UPS. I think you clicked "reply" instead of the "new post" link at the top of the page.:)
I suppose I'll respond anyway, though, since I mustve marked you as a friend for a reason... The alternators are typically rated at 60 to 120 amps at 14.4 volts and a few thousand RPMs, and therefore are capable of 800-1700 watts. An easier way to make a portable AC power source would probably be to just buy a commonly available power inverter - they're not really expensive anymore. If you wanna make X-treme To The Max power, look at the same places that cater to the four-wheel off-road crowds (the real ones, not the poseurs who buy an SUV because they prefer to have extra mass making it even harder to get their can't-drive-in-the-snow butts out of the ditch they inevitably end up in, since four spinning tires are even worse than one or two, or because they don't realize that SUVs are just minivans with a truck hood). The same people that make engine-driven welders also make engine-driven generators that produce actual useful levels of A/C power.
Using a UPS wouldn't be such a great idea, mostly since the UPS batteries inside aren't neccesarily 12V (or 14.4V, which is what your alternator *should* be putting out normally). Running the input side of the UPS with screwy voltages is apt to produce undesirable results. Nevermind that a typical UPS costs more and is generally not rated for a whole lot of output...
Out of 39187 hits last month excluding the first 5 days when the log partition filled up; whoops). Lots more MSIE than Mozilla 'n friends - and more googlebot than anything. The most popular parts of that site are my *Linux* projects and some *Linux* documentation, BTW.
So, put the bags next to the cashier. She puts them in to a bag after scanning, rather than into a pipe / on a belt / etc. That frees you up to swipe your card while the scanning is happening. That's how the markets I shop at behave already, though - the ones that made customers bag their own only did that for a while, probably until their sales dropped...
Besides, you could just unload the basket, swipe your card, then start bagging. Presumably there's a queue somewhere that unbagged items can enter while they wait to be bagged. With a pair of queues, the cashier can move on to the next person while you finish bagging up your paid-for items.
Well, there was that shell:// vulnurability, where they handled unknown files the same way IE does - by handing them off to the OS. I don't recall the details, and I should probably be working rather than searching Google for them, but it was something like that.
If supermarkets would instead ask you to swipe your card *while* they're scanning your groceries, there would be less delay too.
Besides, how messy is your wallet, anyway? Do you *need* four hundred credit cards? Do you need much of anything that's not used to pay for things? I *like* having to get my money out before someone can take it, wheras I don't like the idea that someone can take my money without me having go give it to them - and credit cards are not a significant delay as presently implemented.
Well heck, all you've gotta do is include Windows.h or link to Advapi32.lib and you're all set. Why what could be easier than porting whatever you want to use over to Win32? That's real interoperability there - "just rewrite the program and make it run on Win32". Sigh.
At the bottom of the downloads page, there's a "binaries" section, with a link to RPMs, Debian packages, Irix binaries, and a site with Windows Binaries. That's why I said that it runs on all platforms that matter. Never mind that it's entirely within the realm of the possible to get a rootless X server running on Win32 through Cygwin, or that I've run Photoshop under Wine for several years while many others use it on a Mac (I've also run Dia on OS X, yay Fink).
But hey, this is slashdot. Reading the post or looking at the links == bad, not realizing that lots of GTK programs work just fine on Windows (including Dia, Abiword, the Gimp, and Glade), many with nice little clicky installers == good.
And yes, Linux is good and Microsoft is evil. In general.:)
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The safe one is officially the "New Beetle", not the "Beetle". The "VW Beetle", while only recently discontinued in Mexico, was not a four-star safe car, wheras the "VW New Beetle" is significantly more safe (if not any less horrible to look at).
From the question: What free UNIX-like OS based open source software is there.... This doesn't sound like someone who wants to pay $400+ for Macromedia Studio MX 2005 GX XP Plus Turbo. Though yeah, Flash's video export is nice enough - if you're someone who likes to pay for and "use" Windows and Flash...
I'd imagine they have enough confusion with two people named Steve over there - or one person abusing /. by creating multiple accounts...
Exchange isn't the only option for supports single-instance store. :) And yes, I'm intentionally not linking to Groupwise.
And don't tell me that it's acceptable because of democracy, it is not moral to steal from X just because A, B, and C held a vote and decided it was okay.
It is if X was invited to participate in the vote, whether X elected to excercise that priviledge or not. Some people don't realize that they have an opportunity to be heard, and that participation in an election implies agreement to abide by the outcome - even if their vote goes towards the losing side. Of course, here's where I drift off into a rant about idiots who say things like "he's not my president/senator/etc" and/or keep the bumper sticker for a losing party on their car for years.
What's even more amusing is that people say "jpeg" but they usually mean a jpeg-compressed image in a jfif container (which may well just be the backwards-compatability part of a spiff container for jpeg data, rather than straight jfif). Or, at least *I* think that's amusing... :)
I just bought a new Alpine in-dash cd/mp3 player that is somewhere in their mid- to low-range. Aside from it being hands down the best in car CD player I've ever owned (it simply will not skip, even on 48x burned high-bitrate mp3s at the far edge of the CD), and having the best mp3 playback I've yet found as well as a very good UI - it also has an iPod hookup. It's a "control your iPod from the radio" thing, not just a headphone jack, wherin you get the song displayed on the head unit, you can select songs using the head unit's controls, etc. I thought that was kinda cool, anyway, should I ever break down and get an iPod (which is unlikely, until the price comes down to two digits and there's good Linux software that I know about).
The bad part is the description of KDE as a file manager. Not only is that wrong, it's a description given to people who mostly already know what KDE really is - a "desktop environment". Konqueror is a file browser that works with KDE - and is a web browser as well as something that makes icons on a root window. KWM is a window manager. Artsd is a sound server. Not to mention klipper, kinit, kded, kwrapper, kded, konsole, etc.
:)
The length of time it took to make this revelation, that KDE apps run on X on OS X, well, that's just icing on the cake.
Unless your credit card company royally sucks and you don't keep accurate records, having the number stolen generally wouldn't cause significant harm anyway - just a minor inconvenience. My suggestion is that, if you're concerned about that, you should get one of the many cards designed for Internet use. Several comapnies offer services that will generate a one-time use number or number with limited amount for things like Internet transactions. In addition (or alternatively, whichever), keep your CC recipts and a check register-like record of all your transactions. Look at the bill your CC company sends you each month, and reconcile the two.
It doesn't matter how secure your computer is, if you ever visit third-party websites or download software that you don't thoroughly examine toe source code for, there's always a chance that it'll be compromised somehow. The OS can't ever totally prevent that.
Well, an effective spam relay should really run on port 25, and a user shouldn't be able to open a program listening on a low port. That's why they're called privileged ports. Though, I suppose if they're phoning home, any port would do - but then your proper firewall setup that doesn't allow outgoing port 25 to anything but the network SMTP server (which is, itself, configured to limit outgoing mail to a reasonable volume / number of recipients) should take care of that. Modifying local .rc files is unlikely, since there are just a few run on user login, and it's easy enough to check those.
:(
Essentially, there's more to it than trusting the OS - the OS shouldn't blindly trust the user, and the network shouldn't blindly trust the other computers. Stupid Internet, getting overrun by buttholes.
Heh. "Greedheads". :)
You can pretty easily be killed by 110V as well, it's not really significantly safer than 220...
I didn't say you'd never translated - just not Mozilla. ;)
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Anyway, given the better described problem, I'll have to retract my original remark. Why in the heck does anything locale-related require significant developer approval? The language file, if largely unchanged, should have nothing to do with the binary. At most, there should just be a couple of strings to add, which shouldn't take much time at all. If they did localization right, there's no good reason that the language file couldn't be pushed out as an update as the new strings were translated, and just use English as a placeholder until that time (for lack of a better solution). You're right, the Mozilla folks suck in that regard.
I can see the part about changing locales screwing up profiles, though. Specifically, numerical values changing format could easily break stuff if they're stored internally as strings rather than numbers... If they were stupid about language handling, then it's reasonable to assume they were stupid about number storage in configurations.
Ok, I didn't look at the smaller home UPSs. My experience is mostly from the one I had which failed - used a 6V battery - and the one at work which I replaced the batteries in - used six 12V batteries. I'd still be a tad concerend about the alternator's output voltage, since it varies some with engine RPM and is a couple volts higher than the UPS expects. I've never designed a UPS, but I'd think that the designers can assume a maximum voltage, and plan to deal with a decreasing voltage - not a weird peak. That 2V is like 15% over the expected level..
:) Just the cigarette lighter plug (or battery clamps) and wire will run you around $5 or more at a lot of places.
I've thrown away a broken UPS a few times, too, so it's a decent idea, but I still think that buying a purpose-built device would at least save time in the long run, if not being more safe and lasting longer. The inverters are also designed to run for a long time, wheras a household UPS is usually only intended to run for 15-30 minutes at full load...
You can get a 25 to 75 watt car inverter most anywhere for $10-$15. Here's one that'll do 200 watts sustained and 400 peak for $15.25. I'm all for building stuff for pure geek value, but really, it'd take more than $15 worth of time to build something like that, IMHO.
I was just going to congratulate you on taking up the work of translating, but I don't see your email address or login name anywhere on mozilla.org. When are you going to start helping with the localization, so that builds in your native language will be available at the same time as English? Or are you just someone who likes to complain but doesn't want to do anything about it? Maybe you could ask for your money back...
Check out http://www.google.com/search?q=learn+english while you're waiting for someone else to work hard in order to get your grandpa something for free, since you're obviously too lazy to help.
It doesn't matter what groups you are in (or who owns the directory). Barring things like a suid firefox (which is a sign that someone needs to learn more about how *nix works) and sudo (which is a sign that someone might need to learn more about how *nix works), it runs as the user who launched it.
Perhaps you missed it - the parent was talking about a gun, not a UPS. I think you clicked "reply" instead of the "new post" link at the top of the page. :)
I suppose I'll respond anyway, though, since I mustve marked you as a friend for a reason... The alternators are typically rated at 60 to 120 amps at 14.4 volts and a few thousand RPMs, and therefore are capable of 800-1700 watts. An easier way to make a portable AC power source would probably be to just buy a commonly available power inverter - they're not really expensive anymore. If you wanna make X-treme To The Max power, look at the same places that cater to the four-wheel off-road crowds (the real ones, not the poseurs who buy an SUV because they prefer to have extra mass making it even harder to get their can't-drive-in-the-snow butts out of the ditch they inevitably end up in, since four spinning tires are even worse than one or two, or because they don't realize that SUVs are just minivans with a truck hood). The same people that make engine-driven welders also make engine-driven generators that produce actual useful levels of A/C power.
Using a UPS wouldn't be such a great idea, mostly since the UPS batteries inside aren't neccesarily 12V (or 14.4V, which is what your alternator *should* be putting out normally). Running the input side of the UPS with screwy voltages is apt to produce undesirable results. Nevermind that a typical UPS costs more and is generally not rated for a whole lot of output...
And here are some stats from mine:
1 12030 30.70% Googlebot/2.1
2 3352 8.55% msnbot/1.0 (+http://search.msn.com/msnbot.htm)
3 3124 7.97% MSIE 6.0
4 3038 7.75% Yahoo! Slurp
5 1494 3.81% Mozilla/5.0 (Windows)
6 1351 3.45% psbot/0.1 (+http://www.picsearch.com/bot.html)
7 1111 2.84% Wget/1.5.3
8 733 1.87% Mozilla/5.0 (X11)
9 678 1.73% MSIE 6.0 (SV1)
10 395 1.01% ConveraCrawler/0.9d (+http://www.authoritativeweb.com/crawl)
11 385 0.98% Googlebot-Image/1.0
12 369 0.94% MSIE 6.0 (Windows NT 5.1)
13 348 0.89% ConveraCrawler/0.9c (+http://www.authoritativeweb.com/crawl)
14 335 0.85% Googlebot/2.1 (+http://www.google.com/bot.html)
15 328 0.84% MSIE 6.0 (Windows 98)
Out of 39187 hits last month excluding the first 5 days when the log partition filled up; whoops). Lots more MSIE than Mozilla 'n friends - and more googlebot than anything. The most popular parts of that site are my *Linux* projects and some *Linux* documentation, BTW.
I thought Gimlet was the dwarf in the LOTR trilogy...
It doesn't matter - the apparent increase is due to the decline in the number of pirates since the 1800s. http://www.venganza.org/
So, put the bags next to the cashier. She puts them in to a bag after scanning, rather than into a pipe / on a belt / etc. That frees you up to swipe your card while the scanning is happening. That's how the markets I shop at behave already, though - the ones that made customers bag their own only did that for a while, probably until their sales dropped...
Besides, you could just unload the basket, swipe your card, then start bagging. Presumably there's a queue somewhere that unbagged items can enter while they wait to be bagged. With a pair of queues, the cashier can move on to the next person while you finish bagging up your paid-for items.
Well, there was that shell:// vulnurability, where they handled unknown files the same way IE does - by handing them off to the OS. I don't recall the details, and I should probably be working rather than searching Google for them, but it was something like that.
If supermarkets would instead ask you to swipe your card *while* they're scanning your groceries, there would be less delay too.
Besides, how messy is your wallet, anyway? Do you *need* four hundred credit cards? Do you need much of anything that's not used to pay for things? I *like* having to get my money out before someone can take it, wheras I don't like the idea that someone can take my money without me having go give it to them - and credit cards are not a significant delay as presently implemented.
Well heck, all you've gotta do is include Windows.h or link to Advapi32.lib and you're all set. Why what could be easier than porting whatever you want to use over to Win32? That's real interoperability there - "just rewrite the program and make it run on Win32". Sigh.
At the bottom of the downloads page, there's a "binaries" section, with a link to RPMs, Debian packages, Irix binaries, and a site with Windows Binaries. That's why I said that it runs on all platforms that matter. Never mind that it's entirely within the realm of the possible to get a rootless X server running on Win32 through Cygwin, or that I've run Photoshop under Wine for several years while many others use it on a Mac (I've also run Dia on OS X, yay Fink).
:)
But hey, this is slashdot. Reading the post or looking at the links == bad, not realizing that lots of GTK programs work just fine on Windows (including Dia, Abiword, the Gimp, and Glade), many with nice little clicky installers == good.
And yes, Linux is good and Microsoft is evil. In general.