Has anyone had any luck installing Debian on a SATA Disk on the Adaptec CERC 2-channel controller in a Dell PowerEdge 1800? I've tried various kernel versions without success.
It's about the principle of not paying for something you don't use. They can regulate who accesses their web sites, something they could not do for terrestric TV broadcast. No one's forcing them to publicly offer any streams on their website (nor do they - they only have a few select recordings, and no live streams).
Their argumentation was that all PCs can 'easily' be upgraded into receiving TV and/or Radio. It holds no water because it's equally easy to go out and buy a TV set or a radio. Please note that they do not demand the fee for a TV tuner card, but just for a PC that is (can be) hooked up to the internet.
Their license fees stem from times when there was only terrestric TV broadcast - there is no way to control who receives and watches them, and thus the general public is paying. I can give them *that*, but there's no way they should be allowed to extend it to internet broadcasts, simply for the reason that those *can* be controlled. No one is forcing the public stations to offer web sites and video/radio streams. They came on the internet, and it's their choice. Either they introduce restrictions on that content, so only those who paid the license fee can watch the streams (because they ultimately pay for the production), or they decide to make it public, but cannot in turn demand everyone pay a fee, no matter whether they use their site or not.
There's public protests starting. Let's hope they succeed.
Their argumentation was that all PCs can 'easily' be upgraded into receiving TV and/or Radio. It holds no water because it's equally easy to go out and buy a TV set or a radio.
Their license fees stem from times when there was only terrestric TV broadcast - there is no way to control who receives and watches them, and thus the general public is paying. I can give them *that*, but there's no way they should be allowed to extend it to internet broadcasts, simply for the reason that those *can* be controlled. No one is forcing the public stations to offer web sites and video/radio streams. They came on the internet, and it's their choice. Either they introduce restrictions on that content, so only those who paid the license fee can watch the streams (because they ultimately pay for the production), or they decide to make it public, but cannot in turn demand everyone pay a fee, no matter whether they use their site or not.
There's public protests starting. Let's hope they succeed.
It's not an extension, it's a feature of the main Firefox branch since about March. On the other hand, it will not work with Google Prints since it does not 'see' CSS-added background images.
However, combined with AdBlock or EditCSS, it's quite easy.
Seriously, why can't there be a single Slashdot article that has the links in sane places?
When 'Newsforge' is linked, I expect the link to go to the index page of Newsforge. Why don't you link 'the article'? There are far more and far worse examples in the other stories.
Is this some conspiracy to get your story posted? Do subscribers get sane links?;p
This looks a lot like a solution in urgent need for a problem. If you don't have any immediate use for Machine Learning in Firefox, don't try to force it in. Also, the prize is kinda ridiculous IMO, but then again, this is Slashdot after all, so it might work.
Before adding unneeded features, I'd suggest all those year-old bugs should be fixed. The Mozilla Team is doing an outstanding job on the suite and Firefox/Thunderbird, but there are some rather annoying bugs in Bugzilla which are gathering dust since years, with the highest of feelings being a mass CC-removal. There's quite a lot of ugly bugs around - they may not occur often, but when they do, they're a nuisance. Then there's also quite some RFEs in Bugzilla, many of which have much support, but are still ignored by the developers. I know - Open Source, do it yourself, etc. Face it, not all people can program, and not all of those who could do have the time.
That said - the Mark Bar (Scroll Up/Down and see where the viewport boundary was before) that was suggested in this thread is a good idea.
Making the URL autocompletion more intelligent is another good idea (which, coincidentally, is in Bugzilla for ages, and constantly being worked on, without ever yielding much), and not too hard to do either.
Searchable bookmarks - building a plaintext search database including page text and link urls would be a very nice idea, and would probably not take much space. Vector search and the usual inverted indexes (if that term translates) etc. Most CS geeks will have built something alike before.
The download manager needs more work. It really should support resume for HTTP and FTP.
Better start pages for Firefox and Thunderbird, instead of the silly and content-free 'Wee! You installed me!' pages. Especially the Thunderbird/Sunbird combination could use an Outlook-style overview of Contacts, Appointments, new e-mail etc.
Speaking of Thunderbird - Virtual Folders/Labels a la Evolution/KMail/GMail are the way to go. Besides, switching to a maildir-like format might be a very good idea. Big mailboxes just don't go well.
Optional per-site download sorting has been mentioned in the comments.
And a way to 'zoom' block-level elements, like a table cell or div, would be very nice too, for sites like Slashdot (I don't want the sidebars, thank you) or other news sites (CNN.. ugh) which seem to find joy in artificially limiting the user's viewport to a narrow stripe.
It's exactly what the OP is looking for, and it mostly works very well. I, too, am hoping for better localization or even user-defined regex matches, but it's quite nice as it is already.
How about fixing safe mode instead?
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Wouldn't it be a lot more useful if they found an ingenious way to have PHP scripts run properly in a suexec environment, so we can finally get rid of safe_mode and open_basedir everywhere?
Not that this is not nice; every language should have internal hack/bug protections. But a proper security model would do more, no?
It seems like it will all be resolved in the end by the Temporal Cold War which is referred all the time. Basically, bad guys from the future play with the timelines to change outcomes. So continuity doesn't really matter, it's just that people don't get the TCW bit:p
My guess is that at the end, nothing will have happened (or not in the same timeline TOS/TNG/etc were in).
I can't say how much it annoys me that something this simple and old makes it to SecurityFocus, let alone Slashdot. I have been doing this since some years to get rid of forms protection, and there are many ways to. Saving as RTF works, saving as HTML (the full-blown word format), then deleting the password (as done here) works, save as HTML, then copy&paste to a new word document (does not copy the password) etc. pp...
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You might be interested in Bitlbee, an Open Source IM-to-IRC gateway. Very cool concept, and just works. Public servers, too.
Piracy never was for software. 'twas always about goods and power. Loot and plunder, matey.
Tentacles! Coming up next: Tentacle Porn Reenactment!
Not fully on-topic, but worth a try:
Has anyone had any luck installing Debian on a SATA Disk on the Adaptec CERC 2-channel controller in a Dell PowerEdge 1800? I've tried various kernel versions without success.
Seeing that Google Desktop search only binds to 127.1 (localhost), you'd probably have a hard time accessing it from your Linux box.
It's about the principle of not paying for something you don't use. They can regulate who accesses their web sites, something they could not do for terrestric TV broadcast. No one's forcing them to publicly offer any streams on their website (nor do they - they only have a few select recordings, and no live streams).
Their argumentation was that all PCs can 'easily' be upgraded into receiving TV and/or Radio. It holds no water because it's equally easy to go out and buy a TV set or a radio.
Please note that they do not demand the fee for a TV tuner card, but just for a PC that is (can be) hooked up to the internet.
Their license fees stem from times when there was only terrestric TV broadcast - there is no way to control who receives and watches them, and thus the general public is paying. I can give them *that*, but there's no way they should be allowed to extend it to internet broadcasts, simply for the reason that those *can* be controlled. No one is forcing the public stations to offer web sites and video/radio streams. They came on the internet, and it's their choice. Either they introduce restrictions on that content, so only those who paid the license fee can watch the streams (because they ultimately pay for the production), or they decide to make it public, but cannot in turn demand everyone pay a fee, no matter whether they use their site or not.
There's public protests starting. Let's hope they succeed.
Their argumentation was that all PCs can 'easily' be upgraded into receiving TV and/or Radio. It holds no water because it's equally easy to go out and buy a TV set or a radio.
Their license fees stem from times when there was only terrestric TV broadcast - there is no way to control who receives and watches them, and thus the general public is paying. I can give them *that*, but there's no way they should be allowed to extend it to internet broadcasts, simply for the reason that those *can* be controlled. No one is forcing the public stations to offer web sites and video/radio streams. They came on the internet, and it's their choice. Either they introduce restrictions on that content, so only those who paid the license fee can watch the streams (because they ultimately pay for the production), or they decide to make it public, but cannot in turn demand everyone pay a fee, no matter whether they use their site or not.
There's public protests starting. Let's hope they succeed.
It's not an extension, it's a feature of the main Firefox branch since about March. On the other hand, it will not work with Google Prints since it does not 'see' CSS-added background images.
However, combined with AdBlock or EditCSS, it's quite easy.
From all I can tell, they don't check the referer.
(Using Firefox, disallowing pages to block right mouse clicks.)
.theimg have a fixed size so you can actually click it)
.theimg a width and height
...
1. Mouse gesture (diagonal: north-west) over clear gif
2. Right click, save background image
or
1. Adblock image
2. userContent.css plus uri-id extension (make
or
1. View source
2. Find: '.theimg'
3. Copy background:url(...)
or
1. Get the EditCSS extension
2. Block the clear gif
3. Edit CSS, give
4. Right-click, Save Background As...
or, or, or
why are they making this sound so hard?
Seriously, why can't there be a single Slashdot article that has the links in sane places?
;p
When 'Newsforge' is linked, I expect the link to go to the index page of Newsforge. Why don't you link 'the article'? There are far more and far worse examples in the other stories.
Is this some conspiracy to get your story posted? Do subscribers get sane links?
What you're missing is that Eclipse is not just an editor, but quite a lot more than that.
Actually, example.{com,net,org} should not even have a server behind it, much less accept mail, and certainly have no mailboxes.
Putting a server up at that name was a bad idea IMO.
This looks a lot like a solution in urgent need for a problem. If you don't have any immediate use for Machine Learning in Firefox, don't try to force it in. Also, the prize is kinda ridiculous IMO, but then again, this is Slashdot after all, so it might work.
Before adding unneeded features, I'd suggest all those year-old bugs should be fixed. The Mozilla Team is doing an outstanding job on the suite and Firefox/Thunderbird, but there are some rather annoying bugs in Bugzilla which are gathering dust since years, with the highest of feelings being a mass CC-removal. There's quite a lot of ugly bugs around - they may not occur often, but when they do, they're a nuisance. Then there's also quite some RFEs in Bugzilla, many of which have much support, but are still ignored by the developers. I know - Open Source, do it yourself, etc. Face it, not all people can program, and not all of those who could do have the time.
That said - the Mark Bar (Scroll Up/Down and see where the viewport boundary was before) that was suggested in this thread is a good idea.
Making the URL autocompletion more intelligent is another good idea (which, coincidentally, is in Bugzilla for ages, and constantly being worked on, without ever yielding much), and not too hard to do either.
Searchable bookmarks - building a plaintext search database including page text and link urls would be a very nice idea, and would probably not take much space. Vector search and the usual inverted indexes (if that term translates) etc. Most CS geeks will have built something alike before.
The download manager needs more work. It really should support resume for HTTP and FTP.
Better start pages for Firefox and Thunderbird, instead of the silly and content-free 'Wee! You installed me!' pages. Especially the Thunderbird/Sunbird combination could use an Outlook-style overview of Contacts, Appointments, new e-mail etc.
Speaking of Thunderbird - Virtual Folders/Labels a la Evolution/KMail/GMail are the way to go. Besides, switching to a maildir-like format might be a very good idea. Big mailboxes just don't go well.
Optional per-site download sorting has been mentioned in the comments.
And a way to 'zoom' block-level elements, like a table cell or div, would be very nice too, for sites like Slashdot (I don't want the sidebars, thank you) or other news sites (CNN.. ugh) which seem to find joy in artificially limiting the user's viewport to a narrow stripe.
It's exactly what the OP is looking for, and it mostly works very well.
I, too, am hoping for better localization or even user-defined regex matches, but it's quite nice as it is already.
But only since the advent of ATX, and I'm rather sure I double-clicked before I had an ATX PSU.
Easy prior art: Macintosh, as usual when Microsoft tries to patent something.
... except for a proper text editor, you mean.
Wouldn't it be a lot more useful if they found an ingenious way to have PHP scripts run properly in a suexec environment, so we can finally get rid of safe_mode and open_basedir everywhere?
Not that this is not nice; every language should have internal hack/bug protections. But a proper security model would do more, no?
Would that be "European Rights Online"?
I know, I know. Never claimed they make sense ;)
But if you accept the premise that the timeline is being modified and forget the implications, at least the lack of continuity is not so bad anymore.
(However, they have some sort of time travel police.)
In the end, I believe ENT has become a medicore soap opera set in space. Too bad, there were so many possibilities in the pre-federation settings.
It seems like it will all be resolved in the end by the Temporal Cold War which is referred all the time. Basically, bad guys from the future play with the timelines to change outcomes. So continuity doesn't really matter, it's just that people don't get the TCW bit :p
My guess is that at the end, nothing will have happened (or not in the same timeline TOS/TNG/etc were in).
How ironic that a quantum leap is also the smalles possible leap to occur...
You mean, as in http://alexandria.sf.net/ ?
I can't say how much it annoys me that something this simple and old makes it to SecurityFocus, let alone Slashdot.
I have been doing this since some years to get rid of forms protection, and there are many ways to.
Saving as RTF works, saving as HTML (the full-blown word format), then deleting the password (as done here) works, save as HTML, then copy&paste to a new word document (does not copy the password) etc. pp...