So a button press could mean something different if I press it for a short time verses a longer time. Let me ponder this... a short press... a long press...short...long. Maybe they could be represented as a dot and a dash to make it easier to visualize. Like... ---... a dot dash code. Of course we'd want to name it after a mighty creator. So we could name it the Microsoft Code. Imagine how well that would work over a telegraph...
I can think of few times I have agreed with anything more than the words of the parent. Thank you for saving me the keystrokes. (If only I had some mod points)
or bundling less desirable tracks with hot singles.
I'm a big fan of purchasing the song I want to hear, and not wasting my time with the rest. If I'm required to purchase a "less desirable track" with the desirable track I will cease to purchase music online. If they now a track isn't "desirable" why do they bother recording it, and why would they force it down my ear canal???
If you read the most recent Michael's Minute You'll see the following:
Selecting a new name is more complex then you might think. A few weeks ago we asked for suggestions, and we were flooded with some creative ideas. My favorite was one user writing in to say our name should be "lindos" and our new slogan should be "because it's the W that is causing all the problems.":-) Finding a unique name for which domain names and trademarks are available takes real searching. We're now reviewing candidates and we will identify our new international name on April 14th. --Michael Robertson
I take this to mean that Mr. Robertson found Lindos amusing, but does not intend to use it as the Product's new name.
Thank you for saving me the time of posting a link to the most recent Michael's Minute.
This article is a bit misleading. In fact Lindows has not "Thrown in the Towel." There are only changing the Lindows name on the Internet and Outside the US. The reason for this is to fight the legal battle on one front at a time.
Our plan is to go to trial in the US as soon as possible, at which time we hope to get windows declared a generic word. If we win, we plan to approach the State Department and ask them to petition foreign governments to invalidate the windows trademark as they have done for other generic computing terms like "database," "operating system" and "pascal," --Michael Robertson
Your buddy didn't kill his hard disk by clicking no. Scandisk dosen't fix your hard disk, what it may do is make some data accessable, but once the downward spiral starts, scandisk sin't going to slow it down.
True my buddy didn't physically kill his hard disk. But, generally scragging enough operating system files to cause the system to no longer load even in safe mode can be considered "killing a hard disk." There is no physical damage and the drive is reusable/recoverable, but damage has been done.
"Figure of Speech" [n] language used in a figurative or nonliteral sense.
...once she became frustrated with Windows, I'm sure she'd agree
Man, that's just plain evil. If you'd do that to family I'd hate to imagine what your capable of. Though I must admit its tempting to do that to my boss...
No matter what it's asking, just click no. I've never run into a time where this can cause a problem.
My buddy killed his hard disk because he kept telling scan disk not to fix errors it detected. Eventually it went kaput. But I will agree that in most cases its best to encourage them to say no.
While I don't use development kernels (in fact I only use kernels pre-packaged by my distro of choice [debian of course]) I do enjoy hearing about development releases as it lets me know what is happening to progress the kernel of my favorite operating system. I suppose I could join the linux-kernel-announce mailing list as you suggest. However, if I had to join a mailing list for everything that interests me it would take me a long time to subscribe to them all. Of course if I did subscribe to that many mailing lists I suppose I wouldn't read slashdot at all.
My dad was a gung-ho OS/2 guy for a long time. This definatley sounds cool enough to pull out one of the old OS/2 copies and plop it on my PC.
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Can you just imagine a Beowolf cluster of these?
(I'm so sorry, but somone had to say it.)
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can the iBook run a Window applications at all competently? What sort of equivalent Intel CPU does it emulate?
I would say that a computer without the ability to run a windows application is still better than windows running the same application. But that is just my Microsoft bashing opinion.
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I have a similar story. Up until a year ago when the screen died I ran Slackware with KDE on a 486/100 with 24Meg of RAM and it was just as good as windows in terms of speed. I ran mozilla, konqueror, the Gimp, and more and it took a while to load, but once it was up and running that old 486 had no problem "cranking it out". Maybe the original poster had all the UI tweaks turned on.
Everyone's right. But, that doesn't make everyone smart. His excuse of wanting to provide a mail server for all his friends is just stupid. I provide a mail server for all my friends too, but I use smtp authentication to do it. When it turned out the ISP of one of my friends didn't allow outbound traffic on port 25 I set up ssh tunneling so he could use it. You can provide access to your friends and still keep the "bad guys" from hijacking your server.
However, there might still be hope in some of the separate state lawsuits. Also remember that the EU is investigating MS
Unfortunatley the DOJ will set a precedent that the others (even the EU) will probobally follow. If the DOJ is weak enough then the others might even consider it futile and give up.
Even worse. What happens when some leete dude (forgive my inability to spell it correctly) places a sniffer box next the the gas pump and grabs all the info from the people that have paid with their watch. Could he then use this to make his own? Or is it encrypted in such a way to make this (nearly) impossibly? If it is encrypted is it better than WEP encryption?
"Perhaps more importantly, I wonder why it's suddenly hot again."
I think the reason for the increase in popularity is probobally due to the increasing speed of networks, and the increasing popularity of networking in general.
But, I just wanted to offer the same thing that's been said a million times already. Congratulations. Your site has been responsible for making my life better, and to see that your life will be batter makes me happy. Congratulations, and good luck.
I have also been using netflix for a little over half a year. Unfortunatley I finally canceled my membership last week.
When i first started with them I recieved almost every movie I wanted without having to wait for very many of them. However, over the past couple months more and more of the movies on my list have moved into the short/long wait category. The convenience of netflix was great, but I can't justify the cost of the service if I can't recieve the movies I want to see in a timely manner. About a month before quiting I emailed customer service about this and recieved no response.
It was really a great service. I told all my friends for the first several months. But if I can go to blockbuster or hollywood video and get a garaunteed rental on new releases, I guess its my best option.
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So a button press could mean something different if I press it for a short time verses a longer time. Let me ponder this... a short press... a long press...short...long. Maybe they could be represented as a dot and a dash to make it easier to visualize. Like ... --- ... a dot dash code. Of course we'd want to name it after a mighty creator. So we could name it the Microsoft Code. Imagine how well that would work over a telegraph...
I can think of few times I have agreed with anything more than the words of the parent. Thank you for saving me the keystrokes. (If only I had some mod points)
If you look closely at that whois you'll also see that it was update in May 2003 and created in June of 1998.
Updated Date: 08-may-2003
Creation Date: 09-jun-1998
Most likely this was registered because it is a common misspelling of lindows.com.
Isn't it interesting that this post is followed by "Diebold Fails Again in San Diego"...
I'm a big fan of purchasing the song I want to hear, and not wasting my time with the rest. If I'm required to purchase a "less desirable track" with the desirable track I will cease to purchase music online. If they now a track isn't "desirable" why do they bother recording it, and why would they force it down my ear canal???
If you read the most recent Michael's Minute You'll see the following:
I take this to mean that Mr. Robertson found Lindos amusing, but does not intend to use it as the Product's new name.
Thank you for saving me the time of posting a link to the most recent Michael's Minute.
This article is a bit misleading. In fact Lindows has not "Thrown in the Towel." There are only changing the Lindows name on the Internet and Outside the US. The reason for this is to fight the legal battle on one front at a time.
True my buddy didn't physically kill his hard disk. But, generally scragging enough operating system files to cause the system to no longer load even in safe mode can be considered "killing a hard disk." There is no physical damage and the drive is reusable/recoverable, but damage has been done.
"Figure of Speech" [n] language used in a figurative or nonliteral sense.
Man, that's just plain evil. If you'd do that to family I'd hate to imagine what your capable of. Though I must admit its tempting to do that to my boss...
My buddy killed his hard disk because he kept telling scan disk not to fix errors it detected. Eventually it went kaput. But I will agree that in most cases its best to encourage them to say no.
" Does this mean that Mac users have to pay $30 more for a Palm?"
Why not? They already spent a couple hunder more for the computer.
Of course google doesn't cache images. So how about a different website that displays some images of the same pad: http://www.litelogic.com/client/vos.htm
Slashdot doesn't do anything like this, and I certainly didn't participate in message boards on a BBS Back in the Day
Is the patent office asleep at the wheel?
While I don't use development kernels (in fact I only use kernels pre-packaged by my distro of choice [debian of course]) I do enjoy hearing about development releases as it lets me know what is happening to progress the kernel of my favorite operating system. I suppose I could join the linux-kernel-announce mailing list as you suggest. However, if I had to join a mailing list for everything that interests me it would take me a long time to subscribe to them all. Of course if I did subscribe to that many mailing lists I suppose I wouldn't read slashdot at all.
My dad was a gung-ho OS/2 guy for a long time. This definatley sounds cool enough to pull out one of the old OS/2 copies and plop it on my PC.
Can you just imagine a Beowolf cluster of these?
(I'm so sorry, but somone had to say it.)
I would say that a computer without the ability to run a windows application is still better than windows running the same application. But that is just my Microsoft bashing opinion.
I have a similar story. Up until a year ago when the screen died I ran Slackware with KDE on a 486/100 with 24Meg of RAM and it was just as good as windows in terms of speed. I ran mozilla, konqueror, the Gimp, and more and it took a while to load, but once it was up and running that old 486 had no problem "cranking it out". Maybe the original poster had all the UI tweaks turned on.
Everyone's right. But, that doesn't make everyone smart. His excuse of wanting to provide a mail server for all his friends is just stupid. I provide a mail server for all my friends too, but I use smtp authentication to do it. When it turned out the ISP of one of my friends didn't allow outbound traffic on port 25 I set up ssh tunneling so he could use it. You can provide access to your friends and still keep the "bad guys" from hijacking your server.
Unfortunatley the DOJ will set a precedent that the others (even the EU) will probobally follow. If the DOJ is weak enough then the others might even consider it futile and give up.
Even worse. What happens when some leete dude (forgive my inability to spell it correctly) places a sniffer box next the the gas pump and grabs all the info from the people that have paid with their watch. Could he then use this to make his own? Or is it encrypted in such a way to make this (nearly) impossibly? If it is encrypted is it better than WEP encryption?
I think the reason for the increase in popularity is probobally due to the increasing speed of networks, and the increasing popularity of networking in general.
Forgive me for being blunt, and I realize I'm only saying the same thing everyone else is thinking, but:
This sucks!
But, I just wanted to offer the same thing that's been said a million times already. Congratulations. Your site has been responsible for making my life better, and to see that your life will be batter makes me happy. Congratulations, and good luck.
I have also been using netflix for a little over half a year. Unfortunatley I finally canceled my membership last week.
When i first started with them I recieved almost every movie I wanted without having to wait for very many of them. However, over the past couple months more and more of the movies on my list have moved into the short/long wait category. The convenience of netflix was great, but I can't justify the cost of the service if I can't recieve the movies I want to see in a timely manner. About a month before quiting I emailed customer service about this and recieved no response.
It was really a great service. I told all my friends for the first several months. But if I can go to blockbuster or hollywood video and get a garaunteed rental on new releases, I guess its my best option.