Barclays Bank has come under fire from rival banks and consumer groups over its decision to charge customers of other banks who use its cash machines.
It has warned that the decision will tear apart the Link network which it has taken fifteen years to set up. The Link network is an agreement between some banks and building societies which allows for reciprocal use of their cash machines.
We have crap come up on our ATMs here (UK) before we can ge to the cash.
"Would you like to top up your mobile phone?"
No thanks, I came to the bank for banking.
It's only one extra button press but it annoys me every time. It's like having an advert interrupt your television, positively barbaric.
$1.50 per transaction, blimey. They reduce their staffing levels in the branch and then charge you for the privilege. They tried introducing a charge here but the public refused to let it happen and it was soon withdrawn.
This whole "one stop shop" idea is getting tremendously tiresome :
"Did you know Wal-Mart now do car insurance?"
No shit, you tell me on the TV every hour and there's 6 foot signs outside your sodding shop, piss off!
> And since so much absolutely essential modern code is GPL, such as gcc and glibc and zlib and bash, and the most commonly used versions of sed and ls and mkdir and rm, there's no support for going to a BSD licensed OS.
Don't fool yourself that these pieces of code are "essential". The GNU part of GNU/Linux is wholly replacable. The *ONLY* reason that gcc is still used in OpenBSD is that Theo (and other OpenBSD people) feel that they can't bind users to the terms of the license for the plan9 compilers.
Does Apple use GNU ls ?
If not then your assertion is already out of the window without even looking at the actual GNU penetration of Un*x userland.
sorry, as the other guy said, I hit reply on the wrong post, I was supposed to be replying to this assertion that most "OSS e-business/intranet apps are written in Java"
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I've bought a few of those as presents but they all died after about 3 months.
I don't know what they did with them but they all lost their mp3 playing ability, though you could use them for a while as 1gb keychains.
I got them all from Hong Kong via ebay for about 40Eu
http://search.ebay.com/1gb-mp3
http://search.ebay.co.uk/1gb-mp3
Use your tiny brain to read this :
/dev/null
while() wget http://www.gnarlsbarkley.com/auzio/crazy.mp3 >
Woooo we're number one
That's not quite true. There are more users than ever.
But we do live in fear for when the oxygen supply runs out.
We worry about what crappy place we will end up in, where Windows & Linux is the only choice for your new hardware.
> Just in case Microsoft bashers don't have enough ammo
Yay, now we have personal attack to add to the list.
Grow up Cowboy
With any luck, he'll have $ left over for you.
After all, Glenda is drawn by Renee French.
"Plan 9 from Bell Labs" the only OMG!!! Ponies OS.
Seriously, we (the plan9 community - there could be up to 100 of us!) sure hope they "get" plan9.
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Barclays Bank has come under fire from rival banks and consumer groups over its decision to charge customers of other banks who use its cash machines.
It has warned that the decision will tear apart the Link network which it has taken fifteen years to set up. The Link network is an agreement between some banks and building societies which allows for reciprocal use of their cash machines.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/business/your_money/44
Your wishes have come true :
http://www.diebold.com/solutions/atms/
We have crap come up on our ATMs here (UK) before we can ge to the cash.
"Would you like to top up your mobile phone?"
No thanks, I came to the bank for banking.
It's only one extra button press but it annoys me every time. It's like having an advert interrupt your television, positively barbaric.
$1.50 per transaction, blimey. They reduce their staffing levels in the branch and then charge you for the privilege. They tried introducing a charge here but the public refused to let it happen and it was soon withdrawn.
This whole "one stop shop" idea is getting tremendously tiresome :
"Did you know Wal-Mart now do car insurance?"
No shit, you tell me on the TV every hour and there's 6 foot signs outside your sodding shop, piss off!
I for one, welcome our new OMG!!! Ponies!!! overlords
I like the look of that.
I knew there was a reason to own an AMD64 X2
thanks
we have a saying in #plan9 : "you're not a geek until you can use ed"
dunno, never been to ./
Why are you here ?
firefox can be as buggy as hell for all I care
/. !
I boot my browsing OS from CD on a laptop with no HD.
What they gonna do ? Post as me on
Good idea, I will switch to I.E. Mobile for all my web security needs, what could possibly go wrong !
One more rhing, where can I download this modern marvel for Symbian ?
well, people *have* tried
/
http://plg.uwaterloo.ca/~glmclear/research/perlos
I.E. 3 was available with the Windows 95 Plus Pack, it wasn't until Win95 OSR2 that it was part of the default install iirc.
I used to carry red flags in front of cars.
Man the bottom really fell out of that business!!
Jeesh, get real.
Will he just curl up and die at some point ?
Or will he end up raggedy shoed with a paper cup saying "spare some change for an hour of computer time ?"
leave him alone, it could be the last fun he ever has !
> And since so much absolutely essential modern code is GPL, such as gcc and glibc and zlib and bash, and the most commonly used versions of sed and ls and mkdir and rm, there's no support for going to a BSD licensed OS.
Don't fool yourself that these pieces of code are "essential". The GNU part of GNU/Linux is wholly replacable. The *ONLY* reason that gcc is still used in OpenBSD is that Theo (and other OpenBSD people) feel that they can't bind users to the terms of the license for the plan9 compilers.
Does Apple use GNU ls ?
If not then your assertion is already out of the window without even looking at the actual GNU penetration of Un*x userland.
> to inspect the box yourself to make sure nothing was compromised.
how would you know ?
remove the HD, take a byte for byte image, inspect the image, compare to original.
Flash the BIOS of the original machine (if it has one)
Clear the NVRam (if it has any).
You may as well just replace the "soft" parts and start over.
Anyone got a link to the *actual* legislation ?
sorry, as the other guy said, I hit reply on the wrong post, I was supposed to be replying to this assertion that most "OSS e-business/intranet apps are written in Java"
Thanks for the link & the rant.
I'm not knocking Theo or OpenBSD (my company's web server is 3.8) , just found it funny him using Linux as a benchmark when he doesn't use it.
Linus is right though, there's nothing in XP or 5.x worth copying =)
They should both use plan9 a bit more, then they'd know what was cutting edge.