To make it harder for current mobile phone users to send text messages maybe? Or maybe it just looked prettier that way or maybe futuristic (yes I know, rotary is old not futuristic:) ) Its a 3xxx phone, they have usually been aimed at people that like pretty things, you can change the covers on all the recent 3xxx phones but not the more buisinessy models.
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well, $15,000 + give them a car:) Or, will they just take any car you point at?
The bug has nothing to do with cookies, the cookie is just so that the demo site can tell you where you went after visiting there. The problem is with the window.onunload javascript function - so either that needs to be disables, or all of javascript (the instructions are on the demo page for how to only disable onunload). All that stopping javascript playing with cookies will do is stop the demo from being able to tell you where you went, the server operators can still find out if they wanted.
Yes, create one
If you just use mozilla as it is then you create your user.js in ~/.mozilla/[your_username]/[some random directory name]/user.js - the path up to user.js should exist already if you have used mozilla, and hopefully only 1 with a wierd random name:)
If you use galeon, then it goes in ~/.galeon/mozilla/galeon/user.js
Well, on Slashdot this week the theme is news for other nerds, stuff that doesnt matter as much. The week started off with the OpenSSL bug, followed closely by the mozilla bug. Anyway, its ok for open source software to have bugs - because everyone checks the code line by line before they use it;). Actually, I guess that is an ok kind of excuse, i'm sure some people who are really worried about privacy issues and stuff would check at least some of the code (by 'some people' I dont mean the people who whine about it when it shows up on slashdot, I mean the ones who know what they are talking about, and probably have something big to hide). And no, this doesn't mean microsoft is bad for not releasing all their source:) people who are concerned should just not use IE.
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In fact the ostracod fossil had not one penis but two.
How does trillian combine the different IM services? is it like gaim which supports them all on the client side, or Jabber which tries to provide connections to other IM servers from the Jabber server?
.. so I guess the Levi mobile phone jeans wont be sold to many wannabe tux (as in racer) geeks, as they obviously dont care. I'm sure that sliding down a hill on your front is going to cause more damage than a mobile in standby.
And this is why the freenet pre-slashdotting script needs to be used by people - and advertised. Then people who use freenet will be able to actually see those articles / pages linked to by slashdot even if they turn up 10 minutes late.
I thought exactly the same thing, but it looks like a few people have played with devices with good CMOS sensors in them. The reason I thought (and I guess most people might think) that CMOS sensors are crap is because of the webcams which are currently available. All the CCD ones produce much better quality images than the CMOS ones (especially the Philips toucam pro 740 - which has a great linux driver - http://www.smcc.demon.nl/webcam/;) ) but I guess that just has something to do with keeping the price low enough for normal webcam users, and the limits on the quality required for a webcam (I would like to see you stream 1280x1024 over your ADSL connection at a sensible frame rate).
Who cares? its something to do while waiting for the next linux kernel release to appear. Oh, and it is nice for machines with which you dont use the graphics card at all (which came with one for some reason) - like those which just sit there being all firewally and only ever get poked by a serial console when things go bad.
Perhaps aliens have been seeding our civilization with technology for longer than I had suspected
Of course they have, they are trying to kill us off so they have a home for their alien-style hamsters. They brought us the hammer so that we could hammer nails into boards in the hope that one day we would create a board with a nail in it so big it would destroy us all! or something like that, its some simpsons thing I dont remember very well
but Seagate said its heat-assisted magnetic recording (HAMR) technology could break through the so-called superparamagnetic limit
HAMR, break through, hammer.. break stuff.. with a hammer.. get it? ugh.. I should get out more
..I'd much rather use a a quick cam and netmeeting
That is why these beamer things need to support h323, so that they can talk to netmeeting/gnomemeeting/whatever. That would mean that you need to have a dialup account at some ISP to use one (unless P2P beamer was also supported), but it would make it a much more useful toy as there are loads of people out there who use or can use netmeeting already. I looked around all the beamer info I could find, and nothing mentioned h323, so I am assuming that it is a beamer to beamer only thing.
I hope you have been here and told them you want broadband (you have to phone an ISP, cant register interest online). If you live anywhere near the EMROTHW exchange then it is really important that you do this becuase I want broadband too;).
BT seem to not bother adding all the registered people to the count tho, not very quickly anyway.
I dont believe that you did.. And if you did, then I think it is quite unfair that you get an internet connection from your grave and I cant get a decent one from home.
Oh, its a competition is it?;) well, I only have half a phone line, split by a silly DAC which stops all the nice new communication standards the modem supports from working, which probably makes it slower. Our neighbour has a full phone line, but gets a max connect speed of 28.8 and seems to be able to download faster than me with half a phoneline at 31.2. The world is all broken, fix it scottish power!
And where I am, phone lines are noisy - and not just a little bit. That is why out here we are stuck with 31.2Kbps dialup max (with a good 56K modem). So, I am hoping that they start trialling this down here in the middle of the UK soon:)
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why are we going back to rotary?
:) ) Its a 3xxx phone, they have usually been aimed at people that like pretty things, you can change the covers on all the recent 3xxx phones but not the more buisinessy models.
To make it harder for current mobile phone users to send text messages maybe? Or maybe it just looked prettier that way or maybe futuristic (yes I know, rotary is old not futuristic
well, $15,000 + give them a car :) Or, will they just take any car you point at?
You see, Uncle Sam sees the benefit of the "many eyes" theory.
Which is good, as they can't trust Microsoft to reveal any security holes (however difficult it may be to exploit).
Did you make sure you reloaded it? :) oh.. and did you have images enabled (might make a difference, not sure)
The bug has nothing to do with cookies, the cookie is just so that the demo site can tell you where you went after visiting there. The problem is with the window.onunload javascript function - so either that needs to be disables, or all of javascript (the instructions are on the demo page for how to only disable onunload). All that stopping javascript playing with cookies will do is stop the demo from being able to tell you where you went, the server operators can still find out if they wanted.
Yes, create one :)
If you just use mozilla as it is then you create your user.js in ~/.mozilla/[your_username]/[some random directory name]/user.js - the path up to user.js should exist already if you have used mozilla, and hopefully only 1 with a wierd random name
If you use galeon, then it goes in ~/.galeon/mozilla/galeon/user.js
Well, on Slashdot this week the theme is news for other nerds, stuff that doesnt matter as much. The week started off with the OpenSSL bug, followed closely by the mozilla bug. Anyway, its ok for open source software to have bugs - because everyone checks the code line by line before they use it ;). Actually, I guess that is an ok kind of excuse, i'm sure some people who are really worried about privacy issues and stuff would check at least some of the code (by 'some people' I dont mean the people who whine about it when it shows up on slashdot, I mean the ones who know what they are talking about, and probably have something big to hide). And no, this doesn't mean microsoft is bad for not releasing all their source :) people who are concerned should just not use IE.
In fact the ostracod fossil had not one penis but two.
Obviously born to be a porn star.
They wont be sued by pornographers, the RIAA will just spawn the PAA in an attempt to get even more money from file swapping services.
this page might be talking about the same thing, and it has a pic.
How does trillian combine the different IM services? is it like gaim which supports them all on the client side, or Jabber which tries to provide connections to other IM servers from the Jabber server?
.. so I guess the Levi mobile phone jeans wont be sold to many wannabe tux (as in racer) geeks, as they obviously dont care. I'm sure that sliding down a hill on your front is going to cause more damage than a mobile in standby.
Mike finally got enought money out of people to pay to get his CAPS LOCK KEY FIXED
And this is why the freenet pre-slashdotting script needs to be used by people - and advertised. Then people who use freenet will be able to actually see those articles / pages linked to by slashdot even if they turn up 10 minutes late.
I thought exactly the same thing, but it looks like a few people have played with devices with good CMOS sensors in them. The reason I thought (and I guess most people might think) that CMOS sensors are crap is because of the webcams which are currently available. All the CCD ones produce much better quality images than the CMOS ones (especially the Philips toucam pro 740 - which has a great linux driver - http://www.smcc.demon.nl/webcam/ ;) ) but I guess that just has something to do with keeping the price low enough for normal webcam users, and the limits on the quality required for a webcam (I would like to see you stream 1280x1024 over your ADSL connection at a sensible frame rate).
I just saw this link from NTK. Parody of some Apple advert or something aparently.
Who cares? its something to do while waiting for the next linux kernel release to appear. Oh, and it is nice for machines with which you dont use the graphics card at all (which came with one for some reason) - like those which just sit there being all firewally and only ever get poked by a serial console when things go bad.
Perhaps aliens have been seeding our civilization with technology for longer than I had suspected
Of course they have, they are trying to kill us off so they have a home for their alien-style hamsters. They brought us the hammer so that we could hammer nails into boards in the hope that one day we would create a board with a nail in it so big it would destroy us all! or something like that, its some simpsons thing I dont remember very well
but Seagate said its heat-assisted magnetic recording (HAMR) technology could break through the so-called superparamagnetic limit
HAMR, break through, hammer.. break stuff.. with a hammer.. get it? ugh.. I should get out more
..I'd much rather use a a quick cam and netmeeting
That is why these beamer things need to support h323, so that they can talk to netmeeting/gnomemeeting/whatever. That would mean that you need to have a dialup account at some ISP to use one (unless P2P beamer was also supported), but it would make it a much more useful toy as there are loads of people out there who use or can use netmeeting already. I looked around all the beamer info I could find, and nothing mentioned h323, so I am assuming that it is a beamer to beamer only thing.
About your comment on adding numbers from the phone book, thereg just put this story up about that :)
I hope you have been here and told them you want broadband (you have to phone an ISP, cant register interest online). If you live anywhere near the EMROTHW exchange then it is really important that you do this becuase I want broadband too ;).
BT seem to not bother adding all the registered people to the count tho, not very quickly anyway.
I dont believe that you did.. And if you did, then I think it is quite unfair that you get an internet connection from your grave and I cant get a decent one from home.
Oh, its a competition is it? ;)
well, I only have half a phone line, split by a silly DAC which stops all the nice new communication standards the modem supports from working, which probably makes it slower. Our neighbour has a full phone line, but gets a max connect speed of 28.8 and seems to be able to download faster than me with half a phoneline at 31.2. The world is all broken, fix it scottish power!
Power lines are noisy, and not just a little bit
:)
And where I am, phone lines are noisy - and not just a little bit. That is why out here we are stuck with 31.2Kbps dialup max (with a good 56K modem). So, I am hoping that they start trialling this down here in the middle of the UK soon