It comes from an low german (I forget which one) language, in which "fikken" meant "to insert." It picked up the present form in english some hundreds of years ago--but wihout the vulgar connotations. It was used in mainstream poetry at one time . . .
And for those suggesting that we strip the offfensive connotations from the word--that particular word is chosen *because of*, not in spite of, it's connotations. Something else would take its place.
While it was originally a latex front end, lyx is now pretty much full-featured. It still prints by exporting X, but can output another couple of formats as well. It also imports almost all latex (I don't think there are any known problems). There isn't even a vague interest among devlopers to import word, though . . .
I can't tell you anything about the windows version, but under unix, you can choose broswer-applications within preferences, and remove the association to the plugin.
This still doesn't let you force the launch of an external program when some nutball coded his idiotic page for a plugin . . .
Junbuster does *not* modify the web content coming through; they're actually very insistent about this, for this very reason. Junkbuster works elsewher, simply not permitting certain things, specified by the user, to be loaded in the first place. They don't even distribute a functional blockfile themselves . .
FOr some reason, my father ended up with a stack of 4x6 soviet propoganda pamphlets in the early 70's. Even at 10 or so, ethey were easy to see through, but anyway . . . the Soviet constitution guaranteed free speech. Not just a negative right like ours (right not to be silenced) but as a positive right (right to forum and materials) . . . yeah, right . . .:)
> Hell, Acrobat files even come up in the browser pane.
which is a common, but evil, bug in the graphical browsers. OK, it's part of a family of bugs. Users should be able to override *all* of the silly things that page designers do--text size, color, and font (FoxNews dark blue on black, anywone), using plugins instead of external applications (No, I don't want to give up a page of real estate while I watch crossfire. OK, realplayer doesn't apply to me until the next election cycle or football season:), blinking (there should be a screen by screen option to defeat all blinking text and recycling gifs)
hawk
Yes, they're both horrid. When I *must* use one of those, I try to use netscape 3. Currently I have 4.7 installed, since I dodn't use it often enough to figure out how to have 3.0 and 4.7 installed simultaneously under freebsd.
People, come *home*. That's right, even though you've strayed from the One True Browser, Lynx, it will open you back with open arms. Make sure that your lynx.cfg has
COOKIE_ACCEPT_DOMAINS:.slashdot.org
(so you stay logged in) and
COOKIE_REJECT_DOMAINS: (anywhere else you go regularly),
EXTERNAL:ftp:wget %s &:TRUE
(to catch files)
EXTERNAL:http:xterm -tn xterm-color -T lynx -geometry 80x50 -e lynx %s & : TRUE
(so that with a . you can open a new browser on a link) and finally
so that you get a light background (the default colors don't work well on a CRT [save a full text console], but are readable on LCD).
At that point, you are close to Salvation, I tell you. WHen you open lynx, hit "o" to get to the options, tell it to save options to disk, and set the editor to "vi" or "vim," and with a cry of "Hallelujah!" save your options. You can then hit "^Xe" to edit your comments for slashdot with the One True Editor, and free your soul of the abomination called EMACS."
My brothers, once you've done this, you can see the internet as it was *meant* to be seen. All will be forgiven (except for any web pages you've written that blink, use java, or javascript), and once again, you'll be browsing at high speed and without annoying flashing things and dorky sounds.
brother hawk, leader of the faithful
this post void in Utah and for anyone who thinks that Windows works properly
I'm a Nevadan, though I'm in exile at the moment . . .
The mob is gone. Oh, there are a couple of old mob figures around, but they're impotent these days. They just weren't able to survive the publicly traded casino--it has no kneecaps to break, etc. This weakened them enough that gaming control was able to mop up.
These days, they're only around as comic relief--the occasional news story as some 70 year old hobbles up to another's driveway, leaning on a cane with one hand while shooting with another, over some slight from the past.
while I'm at it, this is a bad idea. Las Vegas is *not* in the gambling business. It's in the fantasy business; gaming is just part of the fantasy. You step off the plane and enter an alternate world for 2 days, a week, or whatever. Destination gambling is fundamentally different than local gambling, which is predatory in nature.
Same thing with the shaving cream can. Other companies immediately came out with knockoffs and tried to invalidate the patent as obvious. THe ruling was that the amount spent by those companies, without success, in an attempt to develop a dispensor was sufficent proof that it *wasn't* obvious until seen . . .
I have one of these coming with 3x15k scsi and 4 ide drives for backup (faster & cheaper than tape).
It all works quite well. THis is a very small campus (ok, not that small--at some points, you can't see all 4 buildings:). I've subcontracted with the student union to fry eggs on the heatsink. They save electricity, the students get breakfast, and I dispose of heat . . .
Ever read his older columns. "I was having trouble getting the snorfleflurger connected to my dell trivfal. The next day, a large fedex box arrived, containing Michael Dell and three technicians. By 3 P.M., all was well, However, by 4 P.M., things were tense again. Whenever I launched Micrsoft Rbasic, the Dell crashed. I backed it up again onto the worm, which is when Bill Gates arrived . .."
ANd even *he* can't get DSL. What chance do you mere mortals have?
>And on that site today, except for the small
>square reserved for a monument, the University of >Chicago is building a new undergraduate dorm. Now
>that seems a bit amusing.
hey, we've already tried everything else to cut down on undergraduate pregnancy. If this works out, we'll use a similar method in the boy's gyms in high schools . . .
How can you use "Apple//GS" and "serious retro-computing with the Apple//" in the same paragraph? Most of what made the ][ fiendishly clever didn't make it into the watered down mac called//GS. . . .
iirc, you set an 8 bit color, but 2of the cdolors were duplicates.
APple used 7 bits for on/off, and the other bit did a half-bit shift to tinker with the color trap. Add that to which bits next to one another were used, and an 8 bit byte produced 7 bits in six possbile colors (though most pattern/color combos didn't exist). This was done with almost no hardware about 10 years before the C64.
>If Jack Tramiel (Commodore's CEO) had given a
> little bit more attention to improving the C-64 (by adding good disk drives and slots),
>the Apple II would not have become as popular as it did.
that's just plain silly.
The C64 is *much* later than the Apple II. The apple II had achieved it's popularity long before the Vic-20. By the time the 20 had come out, the move away from 8 bits was already underway; it used newer technology to build an old-style machine cheaply.
THe apple was geared for both home and business; the vic-20 and C64 were toys from beginning to end. Popular toys, but thye never had any spirations at other markets.
Also, part of the cost reduction was by removing slots and not having drives. The Vic was *not* a new design; it was a stripped down PET with color. The C64 was a vic with 64k.
In 1988 or 1989, I found a Tandy 102 bbs in the san diego area. For those of you under 30 or so, the Tandy 100 and 102 had a 2.5mhz 8085 (=1.25mhz 8080), 8-32k of ram, 40x8 display (but you could flip up to the prior 40x8), and an internal 300 baud modem with pulse dialer.
the bbs, of course, was running on a 102, and had a couple of useful files (including one that let you use your pc clone as a disk over the serial port [which was how the 50k 3.5" disk connected anyway]).
Slashdot Mirror
And for those suggesting that we strip the offfensive connotations from the word--that particular word is chosen *because of*, not in spite of, it's connotations. Something else would take its place.
hawk
hawk
:)
hawk
hawk
I can't tell you anything about the windows version, but under unix, you can choose broswer-applications within preferences, and remove the association to the plugin.
This still doesn't let you force the launch of an external program when some nutball coded his idiotic page for a plugin . . .
hawk
hawk
FOr some reason, my father ended up with a stack of 4x6 soviet propoganda pamphlets in the early 70's. Even at 10 or so, ethey were easy to see through, but anyway . . . the Soviet constitution guaranteed free speech. Not just a negative right like ours (right not to be silenced) but as a positive right (right to forum and materials) . . . yeah, right . . .
It's just too expensive. Have *you* ever tried to teach a monkey or bunny to shave?
:)
hawk
which is a common, but evil, bug in the graphical browsers. OK, it's part of a family of bugs. Users should be able to override *all* of the silly things that page designers do--text size, color, and font (FoxNews dark blue on black, anywone), using plugins instead of external applications (No, I don't want to give up a page of real estate while I watch crossfire. OK, realplayer doesn't apply to me until the next election cycle or football season
hawk
People, come *home*. That's right, even though you've strayed from the One True Browser, Lynx, it will open you back with open arms. Make sure that your lynx.cfg has
COOKIE_ACCEPT_DOMAINS:
(so you stay logged in) and
COOKIE_REJECT_DOMAINS: (anywhere else you go regularly),
EXTERNAL:ftp:wget %s &:TRUE
(to catch files)
EXTERNAL:http:xterm -tn xterm-color -T lynx -geometry 80x50 -e lynx %s & : TRUE
(so that with a . you can open a new browser on a link) and finally
COLOR:0:black:white
COLOR:1:blue:white
COLOR:2:yellow:blue
COLOR:3:green:black
COLOR:4:magenta:white
COLOR:5:blue:white
COLOR:6:red:white
COLOR:7:magenta:cyan
so that you get a light background (the default colors don't work well on a CRT [save a full text console], but are readable on LCD).
At that point, you are close to Salvation, I tell you. WHen you open lynx, hit "o" to get to the options, tell it to save options to disk, and set the editor to "vi" or "vim," and with a cry of "Hallelujah!" save your options. You can then hit "^Xe" to edit your comments for slashdot with the One True Editor, and free your soul of the abomination called EMACS."
My brothers, once you've done this, you can see the internet as it was *meant* to be seen. All will be forgiven (except for any web pages you've written that blink, use java, or javascript), and once again, you'll be browsing at high speed and without annoying flashing things and dorky sounds.
brother hawk, leader of the faithful
this post void in Utah and for anyone who thinks that Windows works properly
The mob is gone. Oh, there are a couple of old mob figures around, but they're impotent these days. They just weren't able to survive the publicly traded casino--it has no kneecaps to break, etc. This weakened them enough that gaming control was able to mop up.
These days, they're only around as comic relief--the occasional news story as some 70 year old hobbles up to another's driveway, leaning on a cane with one hand while shooting with another, over some slight from the past.
while I'm at it, this is a bad idea. Las Vegas is *not* in the gambling business. It's in the fantasy business; gaming is just part of the fantasy. You step off the plane and enter an alternate world for 2 days, a week, or whatever. Destination gambling is fundamentally different than local gambling, which is predatory in nature.
hawk
once someone else has done it, yes.
Same thing with the shaving cream can. Other companies immediately came out with knockoffs and tried to invalidate the patent as obvious. THe ruling was that the amount spent by those companies, without success, in an attempt to develop a dispensor was sufficent proof that it *wasn't* obvious until seen . . .
hawk
:)
hawk
[*hushed whispers*]
oh. Never mind . . .
hawk
Hah! I paid off my car years ago.
hey, wait a minute. *I'm* not paying for this dual athlon system anywway . . . nor can I figure out what I'd do with one at home, anyway . . .
hawk
It all works quite well. THis is a very small campus (ok, not that small--at some points, you can't see all 4 buildings
ANd even *he* can't get DSL. What chance do you mere mortals have?
:)
hawk
>square reserved for a monument, the University of >Chicago is building a new undergraduate dorm. Now
>that seems a bit amusing.
hey, we've already tried everything else to cut down on undergraduate pregnancy. If this works out, we'll use a similar method in the boy's gyms in high schools . . .
hawk
If I had to stop a three machines total, ever . . . *shudder*
hawk
APple used 7 bits for on/off, and the other bit did a half-bit shift to tinker with the color trap. Add that to which bits next to one another were used, and an 8 bit byte produced 7 bits in six possbile colors (though most pattern/color combos didn't exist). This was done with almost no hardware about 10 years before the C64.
hawk
> little bit more attention to improving the C-64 (by adding good disk drives and slots),
>the Apple II would not have become as popular as it did.
that's just plain silly.
The C64 is *much* later than the Apple II. The apple II had achieved it's popularity long before the Vic-20. By the time the 20 had come out, the move away from 8 bits was already underway; it used newer technology to build an old-style machine cheaply.
THe apple was geared for both home and business; the vic-20 and C64 were toys from beginning to end. Popular toys, but thye never had any spirations at other markets.
Also, part of the cost reduction was by removing slots and not having drives. The Vic was *not* a new design; it was a stripped down PET with color. The C64 was a vic with 64k.
hawk
hawk
hawk
the bbs, of course, was running on a 102, and had a couple of useful files (including one that let you use your pc clone as a disk over the serial port [which was how the 50k 3.5" disk connected anyway]).
hawk, who still has his 102