so why is the prompt not [macosx:/usr/local/] now?
and iirc you can change the osx prompt the same way you change any other posix shell prompt:
change $PS1. in bash (osx uses bash, right?): export PS1='\[\033[0;32m\][\[\033[0;36m\]\u@\h \[\033[33m\]\w\[\033[0;32m\]]\$\[\033[0;37m\] ' (one line) for colors or export PS1='[\u@\h \w]\$ '
(RedHat-style prompts)
W/o a quick way to cycle through my tabs,
CTRL+PGUP, CTRL+PGDN w/o being to have a tab be automagically reloaded,
they're working on that.
you can currently set bookmarks to auto-check if the site contains unviewed content. w/o a keyboard shortcut to close the tab,
CTRL+W I dont see why opening multiple windows and using the WinXP group programs feature isn't any better.
there's an extra click involved, you can't see the names right away, and all the reasons you mentioned above.
maybe I can w/ a theme, but I can not quickly move and re-arrange my bars like I can in IE. Luckily there is a google bar (kinda) for moz now, but since it has to sit stacked w/ the other bars and I can not combine, I don't use it.
phoenix can do this, mozilla themes currently don't (yet). you can shrink but not move or put them side-by-side. try the pinball theme, as it is very compact.
Would it be so wrong to add in what is needed so IE pages render correctly?
yes, because this has already been done to the extent that the standards are not compromised.
Mime types. It is really anoying to click on links like.rar,.wmv, etc. and just have the file not downloaded, but opened in a new window or tab. I see where I can add such mime types, but this should be done already.
this is being worked on. you can hold shift then click to immediately download.
I am the only user and its really anoying having to enter a password every time to save the time of entering a password.
there's a preference to set this so that you need only enter it once per session (and iirc sessions don't end with quicklaunch on). it's good to note that there should be an option to never need enter it. somebody should log that into bugzilla.
Every time I wanted to highlight something, and then copy it, the gestures decided I wanted to close Moz. I could have saved this with a modified key, but then what is the point of the gesture if I have to hit my keyboard?
set the gestures to your middle mouse button (scrollwheels work) or right mouse button. problem solved. (hello, optimoz, please change default!)
One last thing that relates to this article is speed. After I have moz open and have gone through a few tabs and few windows, I check mem usage and Moz is using over 40megs and is running 20-30% cpu usage. IE never did that.
IE definately always does that. it's embedded into windows and thus its resources are all buried in everything. mozilla does go a bit overboard, but not as much as you think.
I have a previous comment that illustrates my point on how wireless networks will evolve that I will summarize here:
basically, the future will see a free inter-networking of wireless networks.
each network will, like the freenet, act as a router to carry on to the next network
and even pdas (once battery life and antennae become more efficient) will route, allowing for chained connections in tunnels and other dead areas.
companies like nokia will make money on the devices but not the services.
I envision a future where there are no big towers, just lots and lots of nodes.
this is somewhat similar to computer clustering:
lots of small wireless routers can be more efficient than a handful of towers.
Lindows "solves" the problem [of mounting samba shares] by simply having the user run as root all the time. I frankly can't see how Lindows is anything but the worst of both worlds.
eww. there's an easier solution.
(i hope the lindows people are reading...)
use sudo. from the sudo website, "Sudo (superuser do) allows a system administrator to give certain users (or groups of users) the ability to run some (or all) commands as root or another user while logging the commands and arguments."
I use sudo almost exclusively for mounting (including smbmount). there are ways to easily configure it so that it doesn't need a password to perform some (or all) actions.
particularly this post, which mentions how Adobe allowed piracy to nullify the cheaper competition.
as to more moral licensing, I have always believed that the GPL can be modified to include clauses for corporate, educational, and governmental customers (all different pricing structures of course). this way the customers that can afford it must pay some small fee.
That's pretty ignorant, man. Those bits might've taken a company 2 years and 10 million dollars to develop. You seem to think the entire cost of a software manufacturer is whatever printing the cd and jewel case cost them.
Their are a TON of ways you can steal without it being a physical good. If I hack a university and enroll myself classes, free of charge, I would consider that stealing.
that's pretty ignorant, man. you are referring to theft of service. those (stolen) free classes take up a seat that somebody else would have paid money for.
software development efforts (money, time) do need to be paid for, though.
to quote another post in this thread, by kootch,
ppl that pirate warez rarely use the products for more than a week (unless it's a game), if in most cases, use them for non-commercial purposes since businesses usually need to be legit.
for the most part, it is not the individual
who contributes to the profit found in software,
but rather businesses, schools, and governments.
many of these groups violate license agreements
not through warez or cracks,
but by installing software on more machines than the license allows,
and I believe that the biggest dip into software development firms' profit is seen here.
the exception is in the gaming industry, as illustrated above,
but this won't be a problem in the future as more and more games are played online where licencing is used as ID and therefore piracy pretty much can't exist. (example: I have overheard sony execs mention that they will all but encourage piracy of EverQuest; that's not where the money is.)
I used to justify the warez concept this way, saying 'whatever' to it. then I heard about some of the software cracked by these groups getting busted. it wasn't just photoshop and windows. it included high-end software for specialized machinery and other items completely useless to the average joe and his suped-up dual p4 geforce4. this is wrong. that the companies who would otherwise be customers acutally used these cracks is the problem, and should be cause for concern to all people even remotely involved in software piracy and security.
these programs were cracked solely for prestige. the crackers were too immersed in their warez culture to realise that they put companies out of business. if it really was just an excersize, even one for prestige, the responsible thing to do would be to contact the company and give them the code to the crack along with suggestions on how to remedy it. for prestige, the cracker could (with permission) post non-revealing parts of the correspondance to various warez/cracking/security channels.
one way around printing in windows apps on linux is to use Adobe Acrobat (writer) to "Print to PDF" in wine. then open up acroread or ghostview and print.
this is all in theory, and adobe acrobat does cost money...
as mentioned on the above referring article, a batman vs superman movie is currently being worked on. how ironic if the poster of this/. article (M.C. Hampster) didn't realize that in making that comparison.
..and if you understood the "real" batman, not the Adam West-inspired ones, you would know that Michael Keaton's version was by far the closest to home. batman is a dark and angry man, whose purpose is to scare the shit out of criminals. that first scene with batman holding the punk over the edge of the roof is classic batman.
to get true p2p wireless for hand-helds (which will soon include all cellphones), there are a number of things that need to happen, all of which will.
step one: free throttled (but otherwise unlimited) internet service on an open-standard wireless bandwidth. bear with me here... this actually makes sense. - a cellphone provider gives out free bandwidth to a popular park and nearby coffee shops or something. - people use it to such a degree that there's never any bandwidth not being used and people have to wait in line. - two devices come into the market: a client-only pda/modem which connects to the network and a router pda/modem which connects to and extends the network in the same kind of way as freenet (from what i understand of freenet which is very little) - routing pdas get more bandwidth and priority over client-only pdas because they serve other routers and clients (thus an incentive to get a router)
step two: this wireless network's range is extended by routing pdas and is later helped by a connection to another connection to the internet via somebody else's routing pda or via a similar network. now we see a true wireless internet form in much the same way the public internet did.
step three: large wireless networks like the originals are no longer needed; pdas are almost all routers and are common enough to always be near one that is chained into the internet.
the basics behind this are simple. here is my vision of the future:
there are no central servers. let's say little john is on the bus going home from college. it's a long ride, so he takes out his pda, sticks the earbuds in his head, and starts playing music. that's all he needs to know. this music is not stored on his 64mb pda; it wouldn't fit. the pda instead sniffs out another pda, which gives him a peer-to-peer connection to his home computer (or maybe somebody elses, which has the music he wants). no satellite or cell-tower, and no isp, wireless or not.
this assumes that everybody's pda is always on (oops), so these suckers need really big batteries (not impossible; i've seen an ipod play continuously for 16 hours).
wow, you must have really good ears to be able to distinguish 256kbps lame mp3s from the original.
i haven't heard much of itunes, but so far, nitrane (winamps's mp3 decoder since 2.71) sounds the best to my ear (with lame).
try a different lame encoder, like the newest one that's been around for a while (as in ~1mo longer than the latest winamp), and see how that goes. also try using lames's r3mix settings. variable bitrate is what makes mp3 (and ogg) great; those artifacts that can't be filtered out at lower bitrates just use more space as needed (don't use average bitrate as it ruins more difficult tracks).
better yet, use ogg vorbis, which seems to have been accepted universally as superior to mp3 regardless of its encoder.
128 kbps sampling is by no means perfect, but (for me) it's acceptable
i thought so too
back when i had $10 speakers.
but then i got $150 speakers.
i cringe whenever one of my 128kbps songs comes on the playlist now. it is VERY noticable.
my point is this: audio codec comparisons must be done on very high-quality speakers, else there is an upper limit to quality. if you plan on a speaker upgrade in the next year or three (or even if you don't), pin that audiophile friend of yours down and do your testing on his/her system, his/her $1000+ speaker setup.
I have a sblive 5.1 xgamer (emu10k1) and the cambridge soundworks companion, dts2000 (5.1, made for that sound card). for me, there is only a slight noticable differene between 160 and 192 kbps on lame mp3's, and vbr takes care of that. my more important (favorite) music is encoded at ~200 (160-320) kbps.
and it's the ipod i plan to buy that will prevent me from using ogg, although i may just go ogg anyway; i have enough blank cdrs to manage mp3 duplicates.
i was doing this over four years ago
and gave up because I saw absolutely NO results.
this address seemed to be just a black hole. maybe with the additional press it will start working again.
what happens when you get hacked? - the toilet flushes - the blender is on 'liquify' - the vcr is recording over your tape - the garage door is open and security off - the disposal is on - the dishwasher is on - the room lights strobe left to right
hey, now what about kmeleon? it may not have had an update since last october, and I may never have tried it, but it's gecko with native windows widgets and even designed to look and act like IE.
I am sure that they could use some help... That kind of project (though perhaps with some more attentive/dedicated people behind it) is the one we need to have a stronger opponent to IE. And no, Opera just doesn't cut it for mainstream audiences; banners==bad
The embedding of non-MS operating systems into devices (other than desktops), coupled with The End of the Desktop Computing Era (many believe that in a few years we will see specialized devices replace desktop computers).
Anti-trust violations are *nothing* compared to the pain you can suffer at the hands of Wal*Mart
That's because Wal*Mart is the larger part of an oligopoly); for many people in America, it is the only store within 50+ miles. If K-Mart follows Wal*Mart's lead, MS will have to deal with an arguably stronger trust than itself.
However, superstores like Wal*Mart and K-Mart are not sigificant resellers of computers (especially in these days of mail-order --Dell and Gateway for example-- and online shopping). In less populated areas, the superstores may suceed in spreading GNU/Linux over Windows, but that won't change the American market much (and I don't think we'll see any sucess even in those remote areas).
I believe MS products will be defeated by three factors in the next ten years:
Governments and schools adopting Free Software and/or other competitive solutions, which must include the US government
AOL and other ISPs bundling, supporting, and advertising non-MS operating systems
Superior competing software (minor compared to the above factors)
...This is assuming MS file format standards get less closed/restrictive (by legal regulation or MS's own adoptation of XML) and that the US and EU do not pass laws like the CBDTPA that restrict standards and non-propietary software.
"similar to your existing settings, particularly Forgotten Realms and Dragonlance"... kind of bland.
wonderful idea, but I don't see why it needs such restriction (any submission from me will disregard that suggestion).
I'm a fan of fantasy and I can see why Wizards is saying that, but there are already tons of settings like Forgotten Realms (Mystara, Greyhawk, Birthright, and Lanhkmar(sp?) to name a few official 2nd ed ones).
I certainly hope that gerneric medeival fantasy isn't D&D's new niche (they did sell off Ravenloft, but they did wonders with Rogukan (OA) and here's for hoping Dark Sun is out soon).
oh, man you should (will?) all see my current campaign world (~7 years in development); it's Birthright meets Dark Sun meets pseudo-Ancient Egypt (literally)...
it only forgets that your CVS_RSH environment variable if, say, you forget to put it in your ~/.bash_profile and set it to be executable.
If you set the variable in a shell script for manual use (as I mentioned), it will forget the fact that you ran that script after your next bash command. Probably a bug in cygwin's bash?
can't specify a port number for non-port 22 ssh that way. you don't even need that if you are using standard ssh (assuming it is already in your path, ssh is the default).
plus, i used a script to set it, as I use cvs on another project which uses the standard port.
cygwin is a VERY good solution for unix functionality on windows and any sane linux user (in addition to any windows user looking to learn linux) should have it installed
however, cygwin does not like the CVS_RSH environment variable (at least for me, in win2k as set by a shell script) and will conveniently forget it most of the time. my solution is another shell script:
#!/bin/bash
export CVS_RSH='/cygdrive/c/WINNT/plink' /usr/bin/cvs $@
One problem with my solution is that calling the script with the parameters commit -m "stuff with spaces" will strip the quotes and assume each word is a parameter. I have since stopped working on the project that required this (hey jay, now you know why some of my comments used underscores) so I have not tried escaping the quotes as \" which should do the trick.
http://macslash.com/
why would somebody swipe the domain only to put up just a link to the real one? there's no ad or anything on that page. The page forwards to http://www.merc-net.com/md/macslash.htm, which seems to be some kind of communications web portal. There is a meta tag that I don't understand: <meta name="forwarder" content="abc.dnsix.att">
perhaps somebody noticed and snatched it before a squatter could get it, but then they should be offering it back to the macslash people...
Three-hole punch
Push-pins (LOTS
Rolls of quarters
Printer
Desk fan
Desk lamp
TI-89 calculator (the one that DOES ALL YOUR INTEGRALS AND DEREVATIONS FOR YOU)
they missed the most vital requirement needed: require opt-IN, not opt-out.
my favorite piece of spam is the one that comes only once: You have been selected for regular weekly mailings of penile enlargement accessory news. If you do not want to receive these announcements, do nothing and this will be the last time we will contact you. In order to receive our penile enlargement newsletters, you must reply to the following address: we-actually-care@scum-suckers.spam
it's still unsolicited, but hey, here's a step in the right direction and it makes businesses much more legitimate in my book. this way, the small number of people who DO want this kind of mail will still get it. anybody else will get a few spams initially and will then fall off spammers' radar.
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[macosx:~] cd /usr/local/
[macosx:~] sudo mkdir src
so why is the prompt not [macosx:/usr/local/] now?
and iirc you can change the osx prompt the same way you change any other posix shell prompt: change $PS1.
in bash (osx uses bash, right?):
export PS1='\[\033[0;32m\][\[\033[0;36m\]\u@\h \[\033[33m\]\w\[\033[0;32m\]]\$\[\033[0;37m\] '
(one line) for colors or
export PS1='[\u@\h \w]\$ '
(RedHat-style prompts)
W/o a quick way to cycle through my tabs,
.rar, .wmv, etc. and just have the file not downloaded, but opened in a new window or tab. I see where I can add such mime types, but this should be done already.
CTRL+PGUP, CTRL+PGDN
w/o being to have a tab be automagically reloaded,
they're working on that.
you can currently set bookmarks to auto-check if the site contains unviewed content.
w/o a keyboard shortcut to close the tab,
CTRL+W
I dont see why opening multiple windows and using the WinXP group programs feature isn't any better.
there's an extra click involved, you can't see the names right away, and all the reasons you mentioned above.
maybe I can w/ a theme, but I can not quickly move and re-arrange my bars like I can in IE. Luckily there is a google bar (kinda) for moz now, but since it has to sit stacked w/ the other bars and I can not combine, I don't use it.
phoenix can do this, mozilla themes currently don't (yet). you can shrink but not move or put them side-by-side. try the pinball theme, as it is very compact.
Would it be so wrong to add in what is needed so IE pages render correctly?
yes, because this has already been done to the extent that the standards are not compromised.
Mime types. It is really anoying to click on links like
this is being worked on. you can hold shift then click to immediately download.
I am the only user and its really anoying having to enter a password every time to save the time of entering a password.
there's a preference to set this so that you need only enter it once per session (and iirc sessions don't end with quicklaunch on). it's good to note that there should be an option to never need enter it. somebody should log that into bugzilla.
Every time I wanted to highlight something, and then copy it, the gestures decided I wanted to close Moz. I could have saved this with a modified key, but then what is the point of the gesture if I have to hit my keyboard?
set the gestures to your middle mouse button (scrollwheels work) or right mouse button. problem solved. (hello, optimoz, please change default!)
One last thing that relates to this article is speed. After I have moz open and have gone through a few tabs and few windows, I check mem usage and Moz is using over 40megs and is running 20-30% cpu usage. IE never did that.
IE definately always does that. it's embedded into windows and thus its resources are all buried in everything. mozilla does go a bit overboard, but not as much as you think.
see also mozilla's keyboard shortcuts.
I have a previous comment that illustrates my point on how wireless networks will evolve that I will summarize here:
basically, the future will see a free inter-networking of wireless networks.
each network will, like the freenet, act as a router to carry on to the next network
and even pdas (once battery life and antennae become more efficient) will route,
allowing for chained connections in tunnels and other dead areas.
companies like nokia will make money on the devices but not the services.
I envision a future where there are no big towers, just lots and lots of nodes.
this is somewhat similar to computer clustering:
lots of small wireless routers can be more efficient than a handful of towers.
Lindows "solves" the problem [of mounting samba shares] by simply having the user run as root all the time. I frankly can't see how Lindows is anything but the worst of both worlds.
eww. there's an easier solution.
(i hope the lindows people are reading...) use sudo. from the sudo website,
"Sudo (superuser do) allows a system administrator to give certain users (or groups of users) the ability to run some (or all) commands as root or another user while logging the commands and arguments."
I use sudo almost exclusively for mounting (including smbmount).
there are ways to easily configure it so that
it doesn't need a password to perform some (or all) actions.
this is rather similar to a recent article on warez.
particularly this post, which mentions how Adobe allowed piracy to nullify the cheaper competition.
as to more moral licensing, I have always believed that the GPL can be modified to include clauses for corporate, educational, and governmental customers (all different pricing structures of course). this way the customers that can afford it must pay some small fee.
That's pretty ignorant, man. Those bits might've taken a company 2 years and 10 million dollars to develop. You seem to think the entire cost of a software manufacturer is whatever printing the cd and jewel case cost them.
Their are a TON of ways you can steal without it being a physical good. If I hack a university and enroll myself classes, free of charge, I would consider that stealing.
that's pretty ignorant, man.
you are referring to theft of service.
those (stolen) free classes take up a seat
that somebody else would have paid money for.
software development efforts (money, time) do need to be paid for, though.
to quote another post in this thread, by kootch,
ppl that pirate warez rarely use the products for more than a week (unless it's a game), if in most cases, use them for non-commercial purposes since businesses usually need to be legit.
for the most part, it is not the individual
who contributes to the profit found in software,
but rather businesses, schools, and governments.
many of these groups violate license agreements
not through warez or cracks,
but by installing software on more machines than the license allows,
and I believe that the biggest dip
into software development firms' profit is seen here.
the exception is in the gaming industry, as illustrated above,
but this won't be a problem in the future
as more and more games are played online where
licencing is used as ID and therefore piracy pretty much can't exist.
(example: I have overheard sony execs mention that they will
all but encourage piracy of EverQuest;
that's not where the money is.)
I used to justify the warez concept this way,
saying 'whatever' to it.
then I heard about some of the software cracked by these groups getting busted.
it wasn't just photoshop and windows.
it included high-end software for specialized machinery
and other items completely useless to the average joe and
his suped-up dual p4 geforce4.
this is wrong.
that the companies who would otherwise be customers acutally
used these cracks
is the problem, and should be cause for
concern to all people even remotely involved
in software piracy and security.
these programs were cracked solely for prestige.
the crackers were too immersed in their warez culture
to realise that they put companies out of business.
if it really was just an excersize,
even one for prestige,
the responsible thing to do would be to
contact the company and give them the code to the crack
along with suggestions on how to remedy it.
for prestige, the cracker could (with permission)
post non-revealing parts of the correspondance
to various warez/cracking/security channels.
one way around printing in windows apps on linux
is to use Adobe Acrobat (writer) to
"Print to PDF" in wine. then open up
acroread or ghostview and print.
this is all in theory, and adobe acrobat does cost money...
as mentioned on the above referring article, a batman vs superman movie is currently being worked on. how ironic if the poster of this /. article (M.C. Hampster) didn't realize that in making that comparison.
..and if you understood the "real" batman, not the Adam West-inspired ones, you would know that Michael Keaton's version was by far the closest to home. batman is a dark and angry man, whose purpose is to scare the shit out of criminals. that first scene with batman holding the punk over the edge of the roof is classic batman.
i've been thinking hard about this kind of thing.
to get true p2p wireless for hand-helds (which will soon include all cellphones), there are a number of things that need to happen, all of which will.
step one:
free throttled (but otherwise unlimited) internet service on an open-standard wireless bandwidth. bear with me here... this actually makes sense.
- a cellphone provider gives out free bandwidth to a popular park and nearby coffee shops or something.
- people use it to such a degree that there's never any bandwidth not being used and people have to wait in line.
- two devices come into the market: a client-only pda/modem which connects to the network and a router pda/modem which connects to and extends the network in the same kind of way as freenet (from what i understand of freenet which is very little)
- routing pdas get more bandwidth and priority over client-only pdas because they serve other routers and clients (thus an incentive to get a router)
step two:
this wireless network's range is extended by routing pdas and is later helped by a connection to another connection to the internet via somebody else's routing pda or via a similar network. now we see a true wireless internet form in much the same way the public internet did.
step three:
large wireless networks like the originals are no longer needed; pdas are almost all routers and are common enough to always be near one that is chained into the internet.
the basics behind this are simple. here is my vision of the future:
there are no central servers. let's say little john is on the bus going home from college. it's a long ride, so he takes out his pda, sticks the earbuds in his head, and starts playing music. that's all he needs to know. this music is not stored on his 64mb pda; it wouldn't fit. the pda instead sniffs out another pda, which gives him a peer-to-peer connection to his home computer (or maybe somebody elses, which has the music he wants). no satellite or cell-tower, and no isp, wireless or not.
this assumes that everybody's pda is always on (oops), so these suckers need really big batteries (not impossible; i've seen an ipod play continuously for 16 hours).
wow, you must have really good ears to be able to distinguish 256kbps lame mp3s from the original. i haven't heard much of itunes, but so far, nitrane (winamps's mp3 decoder since 2.71) sounds the best to my ear (with lame). try a different lame encoder, like the newest one that's been around for a while (as in ~1mo longer than the latest winamp), and see how that goes. also try using lames's r3mix settings. variable bitrate is what makes mp3 (and ogg) great; those artifacts that can't be filtered out at lower bitrates just use more space as needed (don't use average bitrate as it ruins more difficult tracks). better yet, use ogg vorbis, which seems to have been accepted universally as superior to mp3 regardless of its encoder.
128 kbps sampling is by no means perfect, but (for me) it's acceptable
i thought so too back when i had $10 speakers. but then i got $150 speakers. i cringe whenever one of my 128kbps songs comes on the playlist now. it is VERY noticable. my point is this: audio codec comparisons must be done on very high-quality speakers, else there is an upper limit to quality. if you plan on a speaker upgrade in the next year or three (or even if you don't), pin that audiophile friend of yours down and do your testing on his/her system, his/her $1000+ speaker setup. I have a sblive 5.1 xgamer (emu10k1) and the cambridge soundworks companion, dts2000 (5.1, made for that sound card). for me, there is only a slight noticable differene between 160 and 192 kbps on lame mp3's, and vbr takes care of that. my more important (favorite) music is encoded at ~200 (160-320) kbps. and it's the ipod i plan to buy that will prevent me from using ogg, although i may just go ogg anyway; i have enough blank cdrs to manage mp3 duplicates.
i was doing this over four years ago
and gave up because I saw absolutely NO results.
this address seemed to be just a black hole. maybe with the additional press it will start working again.
what happens when you get hacked?
- the toilet flushes
- the blender is on 'liquify'
- the vcr is recording over your tape
- the garage door is open and security off
- the disposal is on
- the dishwasher is on
- the room lights strobe left to right
hey, now
what about kmeleon?
it may not have had an update since last october, and I may never have tried it, but it's gecko with native windows widgets and even designed to look and act like IE.
I am sure that they could use some help...
That kind of project (though perhaps with some more attentive/dedicated people behind it) is the one we need to have a stronger opponent to IE. And no, Opera just doesn't cut it for mainstream audiences; banners==bad
another possible factor:
The embedding of non-MS operating systems into devices (other than desktops), coupled with
The End of the Desktop Computing Era (many believe that in a few years we will see specialized devices replace desktop computers).
That's because Wal*Mart is the larger part of an oligopoly); for many people in America, it is the only store within 50+ miles. If K-Mart follows Wal*Mart's lead, MS will have to deal with an arguably stronger trust than itself.
However, superstores like Wal*Mart and K-Mart are not sigificant resellers of computers (especially in these days of mail-order --Dell and Gateway for example-- and online shopping). In less populated areas, the superstores may suceed in spreading GNU/Linux over Windows, but that won't change the American market much (and I don't think we'll see any sucess even in those remote areas).
I believe MS products will be defeated by three factors in the next ten years:
seems someone at WoTC is in some deep doodoo...
...
Hasbro Fires Exec, Claiming Embezzlement
thank you soooo much for bringing that up
this could be the end of Wizards' full content control
and bring an era of Hasbro-delegated misery to d20/mtg
moderators please mod the parent up; I didn't find the link, he did.
"similar to your existing settings, particularly Forgotten Realms and Dragonlance" ... kind of bland.
wonderful idea, but I don't see why it needs such restriction (any submission from me will disregard that suggestion).
I'm a fan of fantasy and I can see why Wizards is saying that, but there are already tons of settings like Forgotten Realms (Mystara, Greyhawk, Birthright, and Lanhkmar(sp?) to name a few official 2nd ed ones).
I certainly hope that gerneric medeival fantasy isn't D&D's new niche (they did sell off Ravenloft, but they did wonders with Rogukan (OA) and here's for hoping Dark Sun is out soon).
oh, man you should (will?) all see my current campaign world (~7 years in development); it's Birthright meets Dark Sun meets pseudo-Ancient Egypt (literally)...
it only forgets that your CVS_RSH environment variable if, say, you forget to put it in your ~/.bash_profile and set it to be executable.
If you set the variable in a shell script for manual use (as I mentioned), it will forget the fact that you ran that script after your next bash command. Probably a bug in cygwin's bash?
can't specify a port number for non-port 22 ssh that way. you don't even need that if you are using standard ssh (assuming it is already in your path, ssh is the default).
plus, i used a script to set it, as I use cvs on another project which uses the standard port.
cygwin is a VERY good solution for unix functionality on windows and any sane linux user (in addition to any windows user looking to learn linux) should have it installed
/usr/bin/cvs $@
however, cygwin does not like the CVS_RSH environment variable (at least for me, in win2k as set by a shell script) and will conveniently forget it most of the time. my solution is another shell script:
#!/bin/bash
export CVS_RSH='/cygdrive/c/WINNT/plink'
One problem with my solution is that calling the script with the parameters commit -m "stuff with spaces" will strip the quotes and assume each word is a parameter. I have since stopped working on the project that required this (hey jay, now you know why some of my comments used underscores) so I have not tried escaping the quotes as \" which should do the trick.
http://macslash.com/
why would somebody swipe the domain only to put up just a link to the real one? there's no ad or anything on that page. The page forwards to http://www.merc-net.com/md/macslash.htm, which seems to be some kind of communications web portal. There is a meta tag that I don't understand:
<meta name="forwarder" content="abc.dnsix.att">
perhaps somebody noticed and snatched it before a squatter could get it, but then they should be offering it back to the macslash people...
depends on your college
I've never seen an instance where a TI-8x (0,1,2,3,5,6) was accepted but the TI-89 was not
Three-hole punch
...all essentials, usually forgotten.
Push-pins (LOTS
Rolls of quarters
Printer
Desk fan
Desk lamp
TI-89 calculator (the one that DOES ALL YOUR INTEGRALS AND DEREVATIONS FOR YOU)
they missed the most vital requirement needed:
require opt-IN, not opt-out.
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