Does microsoft want me to say that I would assemble my blinds with the latest bluetooth spec and then controll it from my computer?
No, I'm sure they want you to say that you will take the latest bluetooth spec, and extented it to add more innovation to satisfy the needs of a wider audience while making it more userfriendly. The new innovative spec based on bluetooth may not be compatible with the original spec, but oh well, that's the price of innovation.
Wow, Mandrake 9.1 seems to be from The Mysterious Future since according to their website they included a 2.4.21 kernel and according to kernel.org, the latest version is 2.4.20. Quite impressive, definately a distribution that's on the bleeding edge.
No you didn't because it was actually released on Wednesday (technically late Tuesday), so if you downloaded anything Wednesday from -current it would have been 9.0final. I knew about it, but didn't want to post it to Slashdot until I got it all downloaded:).
I remember many moons ago, there was a program that could convert ASP to PHP - I wonder if it still exists and how good it is these days if so..?
Are you talking about ASP2PHP over at asp2php.naken.cc? The biggest things it doesn't seem to support are COM objects and MS SQL Server connections, at least according to the FAQ.
For example, I visit Slashdot about eighty times a day
I have a Slashdot problem too. I tried getting a subscription thinking that if I had a monetary reason to stop viewing Slashdot so much that I would stop, but it hasn't. At least now I can see how many times I've loaded Slashdot on the subscription page, it averages around 20-30 (sometimes 40!) times a day. It's not an addiction I'm proud of, but if my employer gave me something more exciting to do maybe I wouldn't need to, because I only check Slashdot 2, maybe 3 times away from work.
Actually, I first read the headline as "IIS Discovers A Remote Hole In Sendmail" and thought it was the end of the linux world as I knew it, especially if a Microsoft program was now finding holes in sendmail.
Scripts shouldn't be allowed to threaten legal action
I would disagree with that. If the creator (person who wrote it or authorized it's creation) of the script is willing to take responsibility for all the scripts actions, then the script should be able to legally do everything that a person could do if they're programmed with the same logic that a person would use. However, the script can't be programmed with common sense unfortunately. The creators of the script should have been 100% sure there were no false positives (perhaps with a few test runs to see what files it actually finds) before blindly running it and sending out e-mails asserting that what it found was valid copyright infringement under penality of perjury. If they had done some test runs then perhaps they could see that maybe they should be searching for m.*s.*office (case insensitive) or something else instead of just 'office'. Or they could have had the files reviewed by an actual person and selectively sent out the e-mails. Or they could download the file, uncompress it, and look for key files (winword.exe) or grep the installer for key files.
In any case, the BSA has no excuse, they authorized the scripts creation, they authorized its execution and they should take full responsibility for each and every action the script takes.
Actually I ate a bit too much Ramen one semester (read: about 3 or 4 times a week), and I just couldn't take it anymore. That was about 4 years ago and I've been ramen-free ever since, not a single packet of ramen since then. But I do remember the days of scrounging for cash and eating everything out of a box, but that was a while ago.
Lets not forget the special bonus when they go on sale 10 for $1 then $20=200packets/3 = 2.2 months (BONUS!). Then after you can feed yourself for two months on one months salary then maybe next month you can splurge on gourmet meals such as Mac&Cheese.
When I was about 13 or so (7th or 8th grade I can't remember), I did an science fair experiment with mixing oil and water and found I had to add soap to get them to mix. It was pretty cool.
So here I am!! I was a 15 year old (actually younger) that knew about surfactants! Now I'm 24 though, but I still remember the geekyness of my youth:).
Yeah, that's right. I've just spent too much time with my friends who have jokingly pronounced it 'viola' (vie-ohh-laa) instead of the correct pronounciation. I guess after doing that for about 10 years I kinda forgot the real way.
Besides, any OS can be deleted and replaced by some other one
In most cases yes, the OS could be replaced, but that doesn't mean that all the hardware will be supported, especially on laptops that may have non-standard parts. That's one of the biggests risks with putting another OS on a laptop.
<anecdote type=story> I had a compaq presario laptop that came with Windows XP, read through the license agreement, didn't want to agree to it so I install an old Win2k I had laying around and it was a major pain to get it working after hours of downloading drivers and trying to figure out the hardware I finally got everything working except the sound. A few days later after tring every driver I could find, and it still not working, I figured I'd try linux. Linux found all the hardware just fine, but still no sound. However, because it was open source I was able to download a path for the kernel and viola! the sound worked. So I happened to get lucky with finding a patch for linux, but not all alternate OSes would probably run. </anecdote>
The only I must disagree with is the wired keyboards/mice. I will probably always prefer a corded mice/keyboard to a non-corded version primary for latency/security/lan party issues. Until the wireless versions become as secure as the corded version, I think they'll stay around for a while.
This was my problem too. I am the only townhome in my complex that doesn't get DSL, and I'm practically in the middle! In fact, Qwest sent around a guy to everyones door to try and sell us DSL, and I told him I couldn't get DSL and he said "sure you can we just upgraded this area, so all these townhomes can get DSL" in response to this I pulled out a 20 from my wallet and told him that if I qualified for DSL I'd give it to him and sign up, so he calls Qwest on his "bat-line" as he called it and sure enough I didn't qualify.
So, I asked my neighbor who can get DSL and I offered to pay 100% of the monthly costs and do all the computer setup and wireless equipment purchases. Sure, it was a high initial investment, but it's been working well for over a year or so with no complaints on either side.
I think it's just another trolling tuesday, IMHO. I don't think anyone is abusing their moderation power, but I definitly think lots of mod points are being wasted.
For the people who don't know what pen drives are or where you can them, they're basically portable flash drives (i.e. solid state thus no moving parts like traditional floopy disks) that plug into your USB port and you can get them from pretty much anywhere including good ole Thinkgeek. For the more budget concerned, you can look at Yahoo! shopping for more choices (Yahoo! shopping link is just a quick search for 'usb pen drive').
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Does microsoft want me to say that I would assemble my blinds with the latest bluetooth spec and then controll it from my computer?
No, I'm sure they want you to say that you will take the latest bluetooth spec, and extented it to add more innovation to satisfy the needs of a wider audience while making it more userfriendly. The new innovative spec based on bluetooth may not be compatible with the original spec, but oh well, that's the price of innovation.
with lasers strapped to their lawyers' heads
s/lawyer/mutated sea bass/g
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That's because the boot kernels in slack9 are compiled with USB HID support. Apparently other distributions haven't quite caught up with Slackware.
Some more comparisons:
Budget approved by congress for the current conflict in iraq:
~$70billion
Microsofts cash on hand:
~$40billion
Gross Domestic Product of Costa Rica:
~$32billion
Wow, Mandrake 9.1 seems to be from The Mysterious Future since according to their website they included a 2.4.21 kernel and according to kernel.org, the latest version is 2.4.20. Quite impressive, definately a distribution that's on the bleeding edge.
No you didn't because it was actually released on Wednesday (technically late Tuesday), so if you downloaded anything Wednesday from -current it would have been 9.0final. I knew about it, but didn't want to post it to Slashdot until I got it all downloaded :).
I remember many moons ago, there was a program that could convert ASP to PHP - I wonder if it still exists and how good it is these days if so..?
Are you talking about ASP2PHP over at asp2php.naken.cc? The biggest things it doesn't seem to support are COM objects and MS SQL Server connections, at least according to the FAQ.
information-access-over-electronic-networks? I'm not sure what that is, but I should probably patent it now just in case it takes off.
For example, I visit Slashdot about eighty times a day
I have a Slashdot problem too. I tried getting a subscription thinking that if I had a monetary reason to stop viewing Slashdot so much that I would stop, but it hasn't. At least now I can see how many times I've loaded Slashdot on the subscription page, it averages around 20-30 (sometimes 40!) times a day. It's not an addiction I'm proud of, but if my employer gave me something more exciting to do maybe I wouldn't need to, because I only check Slashdot 2, maybe 3 times away from work.
Actually, it's just so they can calculate how many yen they have in their bank account.
Actually, I first read the headline as "IIS Discovers A Remote Hole In Sendmail" and thought it was the end of the linux world as I knew it, especially if a Microsoft program was now finding holes in sendmail.
Scripts shouldn't be allowed to threaten legal action
I would disagree with that. If the creator (person who wrote it or authorized it's creation) of the script is willing to take responsibility for all the scripts actions, then the script should be able to legally do everything that a person could do if they're programmed with the same logic that a person would use. However, the script can't be programmed with common sense unfortunately. The creators of the script should have been 100% sure there were no false positives (perhaps with a few test runs to see what files it actually finds) before blindly running it and sending out e-mails asserting that what it found was valid copyright infringement under penality of perjury. If they had done some test runs then perhaps they could see that maybe they should be searching for m.*s.*office (case insensitive) or something else instead of just 'office'. Or they could have had the files reviewed by an actual person and selectively sent out the e-mails. Or they could download the file, uncompress it, and look for key files (winword.exe) or grep the installer for key files.
In any case, the BSA has no excuse, they authorized the scripts creation, they authorized its execution and they should take full responsibility for each and every action the script takes.
Now it just seems to be:
<html><body></body></html>
Too many connections
Actually I ate a bit too much Ramen one semester (read: about 3 or 4 times a week), and I just couldn't take it anymore. That was about 4 years ago and I've been ramen-free ever since, not a single packet of ramen since then. But I do remember the days of scrounging for cash and eating everything out of a box, but that was a while ago.
Lets not forget the special bonus when they go on sale 10 for $1 then $20=200packets/3 = 2.2 months (BONUS!). Then after you can feed yourself for two months on one months salary then maybe next month you can splurge on gourmet meals such as Mac&Cheese.
Everyone else does baking soda and vinegar. I wanted to be different.
When I was about 13 or so (7th or 8th grade I can't remember), I did an science fair experiment with mixing oil and water and found I had to add soap to get them to mix. It was pretty cool.
:).
So here I am!! I was a 15 year old (actually younger) that knew about surfactants! Now I'm 24 though, but I still remember the geekyness of my youth
Yeah, that's right. I've just spent too much time with my friends who have jokingly pronounced it 'viola' (vie-ohh-laa) instead of the correct pronounciation. I guess after doing that for about 10 years I kinda forgot the real way.
Besides, any OS can be deleted and replaced by some other one
In most cases yes, the OS could be replaced, but that doesn't mean that all the hardware will be supported, especially on laptops that may have non-standard parts. That's one of the biggests risks with putting another OS on a laptop.
<anecdote type=story> I had a compaq presario laptop that came with Windows XP, read through the license agreement, didn't want to agree to it so I install an old Win2k I had laying around and it was a major pain to get it working after hours of downloading drivers and trying to figure out the hardware I finally got everything working except the sound. A few days later after tring every driver I could find, and it still not working, I figured I'd try linux. Linux found all the hardware just fine, but still no sound. However, because it was open source I was able to download a path for the kernel and viola! the sound worked. So I happened to get lucky with finding a patch for linux, but not all alternate OSes would probably run. </anecdote>
The only I must disagree with is the wired keyboards/mice. I will probably always prefer a corded mice/keyboard to a non-corded version primary for latency/security/lan party issues. Until the wireless versions become as secure as the corded version, I think they'll stay around for a while.
This was my problem too. I am the only townhome in my complex that doesn't get DSL, and I'm practically in the middle! In fact, Qwest sent around a guy to everyones door to try and sell us DSL, and I told him I couldn't get DSL and he said "sure you can we just upgraded this area, so all these townhomes can get DSL" in response to this I pulled out a 20 from my wallet and told him that if I qualified for DSL I'd give it to him and sign up, so he calls Qwest on his "bat-line" as he called it and sure enough I didn't qualify.
So, I asked my neighbor who can get DSL and I offered to pay 100% of the monthly costs and do all the computer setup and wireless equipment purchases. Sure, it was a high initial investment, but it's been working well for over a year or so with no complaints on either side.
Go wireless!
I think it's just another trolling tuesday, IMHO. I don't think anyone is abusing their moderation power, but I definitly think lots of mod points are being wasted.
If he's using perl couldn't he just as easily use the LWP::UserAgent module (part of libwww-perl)?
use LWP::UserAgent;
my $ua = LWP::UserAgent->new;
my $source = $ua->get("http://slashdot.org")->content;
For the people who don't know what pen drives are or where you can them, they're basically portable flash drives (i.e. solid state thus no moving parts like traditional floopy disks) that plug into your USB port and you can get them from pretty much anywhere including good ole Thinkgeek. For the more budget concerned, you can look at Yahoo! shopping for more choices (Yahoo! shopping link is just a quick search for 'usb pen drive').
Happy Shopping!