Is that some sort of across the pond thing? Because I can tell you what it means on this side of the Atlantic...
assuming that you're on the american side of the atlantic (you don't say), the phrase "cock up" in the UK refers to an embarrassing mistake. it's a little rude but not overly so.
I just started reading the third book in the trilogy, too! The probability of this happening must be pretty low..
"is this sort of thing going to happen everytime we use the improbability drive?" "very probably" "oh god, zaphod beeblebrox, this is a very large drink. hi!"
(I'm still pissed that the SOBs reordered the Narnia books in current collections. How can you possibly appreciate The Magician's Nephew without having read The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe? Stupidheads.)
well, I don't think they re-ordered as such, the books are in timeline order, but not in order of being written, the magicians nephew is, of course, a prequel.
I think that nephew and last battle were the worst of the seven, were they written at roughly the same time? I think my favourite was "a horse and his boy" but I've not read them in a long time. I wonder where my copies of those books are, at my mum's somewhere I think. I really ought to dig them out and read them again.
And yeh, Peter Jones - you don't want to be late, as in the late Arthur Dent, it's a threat you know, I'm told they can be quite effective.
iirc, it was mroe along the lines of (and I've made mistakes here too)
come quickly, or you'll be late late? late for what? what is your name earth creature? dent. arthur dent late as in the late dentartherdent, it's a threat you know, I'm told they can be quite effective:)
still an excellent bit though, I wonder if they'll have any music by pink floyd that the bbc lawyers can remove when it goes to cd?
it's the obligatory spelling mistake in a spelling flame, don't you know anything? besides, I was doing the "making fun of a grammar nazi" bit, stop stealing my thunder!:)
This takes me back to the 1980s when the old Sun 3 machines came with an operating system "right to use" licence, and if used hardware was sold, then the puchaser had to purchase another "right to use" OS licence because he wasn't covered by the original licence. They stopped that years ago.
netapp (was it?) thought it was a good idea though, if you buy old netapp eq, then they'll insist you rebuy the software before they'll let you pay them for a maintenance agreement.
You're not licensing a television, you're buying a license to have a TV set in your house
no, you're buying a licence to receive broadcast tv signals in your home. this is independant of your ability to own a tv.
ie if you use a tv for playing dvds only, then you do not need a licence. if you own a vhs recorder hooked up the the arial, but no tv, then you do need a licence (as you are receiving broadcast tv)
What about televisions, dogs, etc? (I live in the UK)
okay, I'm guessing that you are being facetious however, in the UK you require a licence for neither.
dog licences I beleive are no-longer required to own a dog, the secondary effect of which is that it's no-longer illegal to kill one. well, lets put that in context, when you had a dog licence, if you accidentally ran over a dog, it was a crime (dogs being property and all), now it's just unfortunate. same as with cats. of course you can't be nasty to them either but thats different.
as for tv's, well, contrary to popular opinion and the impression that the tv licencing ppl give out, you do not require a tv licence to own a tv. you do require a tv licene to receicve bradcast tv signals however.
this means that if you only own a tv to use with your playstation 2 and dvd player, and you do not watch tv or sky etc. then you *do not require a licence*.
the tv licencing co will probably hassle you about it, but if you force them into giving you a yes or no answer, they'll admit that you are in the right. you also don't have to damage the tuner either (to ensure that it can't receive tv). it's recommended to detune it, and you really ought to pull the arial out, but thats it.
if the dock had a tv out and an ir port for remote control (and a nice menu to display on screen) then I think someone would have a seriously useful product, and very doable too.
now you're talking, although, what with the release of windows itunes, one could put together an epia or somesuch windows box running silent (or very quiet) with a wireless nic and tv/audio out.
the only thing that would really be required would be the ability to remote control it via an IR handset (which I can mirror to my universal remote).
this is very simple to record. have the software IGNORE the copyright bit.
like dvd players in the uk you mean? I think about 70% of dvd players in the uk are multiregion and will happily play dvd's from r1, r2, r4, wherever.
if it's a simple broadcast bit then that can be stripped, if they start encrypting as well, then we might face difficulties. doesnt SDMI use public key crypto between devices to stop you recording all that HD AV all digital goodness?
(not likely to have 5.1 digital on a cassette tape or CD).
not on a tape no, and not in a cd either, however I have both a eagles album (hell freezes over) and a sting album (new day) as 5.1 dst soundtracks. most people would say it was on a cd but technically it's not (and neither does it claim to be) as it doesn't fit the redbook standards. however, if your cd player is hooked up to a dts decoder via a digital link then you'll be able to hear the music in full 5.1.
You don't need to hack the dock for apps to exist beneath it
you misunderstood her. she didn't mean that apps couldn't exist beneath the dock (ie visible because the dock is transparent and the window shows through it). she means that with the dock on the side of the window, she wants apps to be stuck to the side of the screen physically underneath it, ie closer to the bottom of the monitor, with the dock centred on the side of the screeen.. ie below it in the Y direction, not the Z direction.
as I said to you this morning Dr Zee, I really don't see apple releasing OSX for the intel architecture. it's been rumoured for some time that apple keeps an inhouse copy of osx for intel "just in case" but I think that if they released it, it would be the beginning of the end for them. right now their uniqueness is their advantage.
if they went down the intel route, they'd have to make the decision about whether to go for using a wintel compatible platform (ie format windows and install osx) in which case they'd have the hassle of dealing with the PC market, ie drivers for odd video cards, cheap ass peripheral makers, bad QC on parts, legacy equipment and all the other limits and annoyances of life with a PC.
or they could make their own custom intel boxes, ie not wnitel compatible so just using, say, an amd64 chip on an apple custom mobo. in which case they are in much the same position as they are now, ie you'd have to buy an entire apple box to run osx. so why change? the chips might be a bit cheaper, but on the flipside you piss off a massive number of developers who now have to make their software work on an entire new platform (if they can be bothered). and remember that he's only just got them to convert from os9.
I think that apple is right to stay with ppc for several reasons:
a) they control the platform and thus they have the magical "everything just works" mystique about them. whether this is, or is not completely true is less important that the fact that everyone thinks it is
b) they keep the favour of the developers (both companies and individuals) who have just ported their software to osx-ppc. a machine is only as good as the software available for or (or something like that)
c) now they have moved to getting chips from IBM, they have a very good cpu platform to move forward on. the g4 wasn't *bad* but they always had to keep telling people about the megahertz myth etcetc. with the g5, people are starting to believe it. the current g5's are reported to be bloody quick. whether we need that speed or not is another matter but hey. and the g5's are right at the start of their product cycle and it looks like they are due to get a fair bit quicker.
d) their uniqueness gives them a bit of cachet (sp?) I think. if gthey moe to an intel architecture then I think that alot of people would lump them in as "just another computer" rather than the great position they are in now where alot of people think that they are something special.
e) using ppc chips keeps intel and amd on it's toes, competition is good and it's nice to see a route for the technology from ibm's mainframe chips to filter down to the masses (well, the masses who own apple kit anyways)
f) I'm getting bored now of thinking up other reasons:)
generally I don't really see it happening. apple would be right to consider it as a possibility, but I don't think they would at all be helping themselves to move across.
I would say that apple right now are taking a very good stab at the 64 bit market. it's a little bit of a con as neither jaguar nor panther and fully 64 bit os's (hopefully next years implementation will be), they are 64 bit where it counts and thats what people see. lets face it, few people need 64 bit right now, although it doesn't hurt to move in that direction for futureproofing.
Secondary MX shouldn't deliver to a non-filtered internal email system., but should wait for the primary to come back up
it does
That way any filtering on the primary is also used if spammers use the secondary to deliver, mail continues to be delivered as normal, with no other changes.
there is a change, the sending host is now one that you can't blacklist. if the mail gets sent to the primary directly then it can look up the IP of the sending server in a dns blacklist.
I'm on 41 spams since midnight (localtime 16:00 right now). I've got my own colo'd mailserver running exim, inline spamassassin, courier and squirrelmail. works a treat
you say that, but I once left my work laptop on my desk when I went home (actually, I always left my worklaptop on my desk when I went home) and someone from the IT dept took it and locked it up for safe keeping, and then sent me an email to my corporate account so I'd know where it was...
the absurdity of this did not strike her until I pointed it out
assuming that you're not trolluing, you're coming across as being incredibly arrogant IMHO. I'm all for people learning how to install, configure and secure their own mailservers if they want to. how do you think that people are supposed to learn how these things work eh? by just readin acres of irrelevant documentation and assuming it all works. no, you've got to try and do these things for yourself.
besides, some users want to do intreresting thimgs with their mail, like use dns blacklists if their isp doesn't use them. or run spamassassin inline on smtp connections, or allow huge inbound emails to be received. perhaps they're on a dozen mailling lists and are about to go on holiday, they know their ISP mail account will fill up in that time but they've got gigs of space on the HD at home. maybe they want to host their own domain and not have to pay for someone to forward their email to their isp's address.
I've worked for an isp for several years and I have my own, racked up mail server not because I have to, but because I want to. I set up a mailserver to better learn how they work. I also run backup mx for several friends who's vanity domain mx's point to their home dsl ip's.
as long as people who run mailservers do the job well without causing anyone else any trouble, then they can run them wherever they damn well please.
Slashdot Mirror
Is that some sort of across the pond thing? Because I can tell you what it means on this side of the Atlantic...
assuming that you're on the american side of the atlantic (you don't say), the phrase "cock up" in the UK refers to an embarrassing mistake. it's a little rude but not overly so.
dave
I just started reading the third book in the trilogy, too! The probability of this happening must be pretty low..
"is this sort of thing going to happen everytime we use the improbability drive?"
"very probably"
"oh god, zaphod beeblebrox, this is a very large drink. hi!"
(I'm still pissed that the SOBs reordered the Narnia books in current collections. How can you possibly appreciate The Magician's Nephew without having read The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe? Stupidheads.)
well, I don't think they re-ordered as such, the books are in timeline order, but not in order of being written, the magicians nephew is, of course, a prequel.
I think that nephew and last battle were the worst of the seven, were they written at roughly the same time? I think my favourite was "a horse and his boy" but I've not read them in a long time. I wonder where my copies of those books are, at my mum's somewhere I think. I really ought to dig them out and read them again.
dave
And yeh, Peter Jones - you don't want to be late, as in the late Arthur Dent, it's a threat you know, I'm told they can be quite effective.
:)
iirc, it was mroe along the lines of (and I've made mistakes here too)
come quickly, or you'll be late
late? late for what?
what is your name earth creature?
dent. arthur dent
late as in the late dentartherdent, it's a threat you know, I'm told they can be quite effective
still an excellent bit though, I wonder if they'll have any music by pink floyd that the bbc lawyers can remove when it goes to cd?
dave
can I shop the microsoft outlook team in? it might not be a virus itself, but a virus facilitator at least!
dave
Isn't it fun when a Grammer Nazi screws up?
:)
:)
no fool
it's the obligatory spelling mistake in a spelling flame, don't you know anything? besides, I was doing the "making fun of a grammar nazi" bit, stop stealing my thunder!
dave
This takes me back to the 1980s when the old Sun 3 machines came with an operating system "right to use" licence, and if used hardware was sold, then the puchaser had to purchase another "right to use" OS licence because he wasn't covered by the original licence. They stopped that years ago.
netapp (was it?) thought it was a good idea though, if you buy old netapp eq, then they'll insist you rebuy the software before they'll let you pay them for a maintenance agreement.
bloody ridiculous
dave
What's next, I wonder? 'Shrink wrap' (pun intented) agreements for condoms?
to quote another poster about the comment on his hibiscus:
"propagation prohibited"
dave
You're not licensing a television, you're buying a license to have a TV set in your house
no, you're buying a licence to receive broadcast tv signals in your home. this is independant of your ability to own a tv.
ie if you use a tv for playing dvds only, then you do not need a licence. if you own a vhs recorder hooked up the the arial, but no tv, then you do need a licence (as you are receiving broadcast tv)
dave
That's "license" as in "tax", not "license" as in "purchase right to use".
I beleive thats "licence" as in "tax", not "license" as in "purchase right to use"
dave
What about televisions, dogs, etc? (I live in the UK)
okay, I'm guessing that you are being facetious however, in the UK you require a licence for neither.
dog licences I beleive are no-longer required to own a dog, the secondary effect of which is that it's no-longer illegal to kill one. well, lets put that in context, when you had a dog licence, if you accidentally ran over a dog, it was a crime (dogs being property and all), now it's just unfortunate. same as with cats. of course you can't be nasty to them either but thats different.
as for tv's, well, contrary to popular opinion and the impression that the tv licencing ppl give out, you do not require a tv licence to own a tv. you do require a tv licene to receicve bradcast tv signals however.
this means that if you only own a tv to use with your playstation 2 and dvd player, and you do not watch tv or sky etc. then you *do not require a licence*.
the tv licencing co will probably hassle you about it, but if you force them into giving you a yes or no answer, they'll admit that you are in the right. you also don't have to damage the tuner either (to ensure that it can't receive tv). it's recommended to detune it, and you really ought to pull the arial out, but thats it.
dave
if the dock had a tv out and an ir port for remote control (and a nice menu to display on screen) then I think someone would have a seriously useful product, and very doable too.
dave
now you're talking, although, what with the release of windows itunes, one could put together an epia or somesuch windows box running silent (or very quiet) with a wireless nic and tv/audio out.
the only thing that would really be required would be the ability to remote control it via an IR handset (which I can mirror to my universal remote).
that would be very cool
dave
this is very simple to record. have the software IGNORE the copyright bit.
like dvd players in the uk you mean? I think about 70% of dvd players in the uk are multiregion and will happily play dvd's from r1, r2, r4, wherever.
if it's a simple broadcast bit then that can be stripped, if they start encrypting as well, then we might face difficulties. doesnt SDMI use public key crypto between devices to stop you recording all that HD AV all digital goodness?
dave
the universal constant H changed, thats about it
did no-one else find this funny? the only thing they changed in a book was the value of a constant?
*cough* okay, shows over, go about your business ppl
dave
Do the following really mean anything? SCSA MCP CCSA CCNA
:)
don't know about SCSA but:
MCP: Microsoft Certified Professional
CCSA: Checkpoint Certified Security Admin
CCNA: Cisco Certified Network Admin
dave
(not likely to have 5.1 digital on a cassette tape or CD).
not on a tape no, and not in a cd either, however I have both a eagles album (hell freezes over) and a sting album (new day) as 5.1 dst soundtracks. most people would say it was on a cd but technically it's not (and neither does it claim to be) as it doesn't fit the redbook standards. however, if your cd player is hooked up to a dts decoder via a digital link then you'll be able to hear the music in full 5.1.
dave
You don't need to hack the dock for apps to exist beneath it
you misunderstood her. she didn't mean that apps couldn't exist beneath the dock (ie visible because the dock is transparent and the window shows through it). she means that with the dock on the side of the window, she wants apps to be stuck to the side of the screen physically underneath it, ie closer to the bottom of the monitor, with the dock centred on the side of the screeen.. ie below it in the Y direction, not the Z direction.
hth.
dave
as I said to you this morning Dr Zee, I really don't see apple releasing OSX for the intel architecture. it's been rumoured for some time that apple keeps an inhouse copy of osx for intel "just in case" but I think that if they released it, it would be the beginning of the end for them. right now their uniqueness is their advantage.
:)
if they went down the intel route, they'd have to make the decision about whether to go for using a wintel compatible platform (ie format windows and install osx) in which case they'd have the hassle of dealing with the PC market, ie drivers for odd video cards, cheap ass peripheral makers, bad QC on parts, legacy equipment and all the other limits and annoyances of life with a PC.
or they could make their own custom intel boxes, ie not wnitel compatible so just using, say, an amd64 chip on an apple custom mobo. in which case they are in much the same position as they are now, ie you'd have to buy an entire apple box to run osx. so why change? the chips might be a bit cheaper, but on the flipside you piss off a massive number of developers who now have to make their software work on an entire new platform (if they can be bothered). and remember that he's only just got them to convert from os9.
I think that apple is right to stay with ppc for several reasons:
a) they control the platform and thus they have the magical "everything just works" mystique about them. whether this is, or is not completely true is less important that the fact that everyone thinks it is
b) they keep the favour of the developers (both companies and individuals) who have just ported their software to osx-ppc. a machine is only as good as the software available for or (or something like that)
c) now they have moved to getting chips from IBM, they have a very good cpu platform to move forward on. the g4 wasn't *bad* but they always had to keep telling people about the megahertz myth etcetc. with the g5, people are starting to believe it. the current g5's are reported to be bloody quick. whether we need that speed or not is another matter but hey. and the g5's are right at the start of their product cycle and it looks like they are due to get a fair bit quicker.
d) their uniqueness gives them a bit of cachet (sp?) I think. if gthey moe to an intel architecture then I think that alot of people would lump them in as "just another computer" rather than the great position they are in now where alot of people think that they are something special.
e) using ppc chips keeps intel and amd on it's toes, competition is good and it's nice to see a route for the technology from ibm's mainframe chips to filter down to the masses (well, the masses who own apple kit anyways)
f) I'm getting bored now of thinking up other reasons
generally I don't really see it happening. apple would be right to consider it as a possibility, but I don't think they would at all be helping themselves to move across.
I would say that apple right now are taking a very good stab at the 64 bit market. it's a little bit of a con as neither jaguar nor panther and fully 64 bit os's (hopefully next years implementation will be), they are 64 bit where it counts and thats what people see. lets face it, few people need 64 bit right now, although it doesn't hurt to move in that direction for futureproofing.
dave
Secondary MX shouldn't deliver to a non-filtered internal email system., but should wait for the primary to come back up
it does
That way any filtering on the primary is also used if spammers use the secondary to deliver, mail continues to be delivered as normal, with no other changes.
there is a change, the sending host is now one that you can't blacklist. if the mail gets sent to the primary directly then it can look up the IP of the sending server in a dns blacklist.
dave
Are these "41 spams so far in one day" on a Yahoo webmail account?
:)
I'd like to use some british political jargon here, "I'd like to refer the honourable member to the reply I gave earlier"
the reply being...
"I've got my own colo'd mailserver running exim, inline spamassassin, courier and squirrelmail. works a treat"
so, well, no. it's not a yahoo account
dave
I probably get 50 or so spams a month
I wish!
I'm on 41 spams since midnight (localtime 16:00 right now). I've got my own colo'd mailserver running exim, inline spamassassin, courier and squirrelmail. works a treat
dave
My computer's down...
you say that, but I once left my work laptop on my desk when I went home (actually, I always left my worklaptop on my desk when I went home) and someone from the IT dept took it and locked it up for safe keeping, and then sent me an email to my corporate account so I'd know where it was...
the absurdity of this did not strike her until I pointed it out
dave
Don't forget to say, "'Scuse me, while I whip this out!"
:)
mind if I... zip this up?
dave
PS. come on, if you know the reference, tell us
assuming that you're not trolluing, you're coming across as being incredibly arrogant IMHO. I'm all for people learning how to install, configure and secure their own mailservers if they want to. how do you think that people are supposed to learn how these things work eh? by just readin acres of irrelevant documentation and assuming it all works. no, you've got to try and do these things for yourself.
besides, some users want to do intreresting thimgs with their mail, like use dns blacklists if their isp doesn't use them. or run spamassassin inline on smtp connections, or allow huge inbound emails to be received. perhaps they're on a dozen mailling lists and are about to go on holiday, they know their ISP mail account will fill up in that time but they've got gigs of space on the HD at home. maybe they want to host their own domain and not have to pay for someone to forward their email to their isp's address.
I've worked for an isp for several years and I have my own, racked up mail server not because I have to, but because I want to. I set up a mailserver to better learn how they work. I also run backup mx for several friends who's vanity domain mx's point to their home dsl ip's.
as long as people who run mailservers do the job well without causing anyone else any trouble, then they can run them wherever they damn well please.
dave