FYI. (Admittedly, it only works for the "user configuration", not "computer configuration" part of GPO, but works well for all cases I've ever needed it for.)
Seconded. Another donating EveryDNS user here. After all these years, I wonder where the donations went. Because David Ulevitch also owns OpenDNS, surely he would have been able to EveryDNS on the side with OpenDNS money.
What the crap are you talking about? I don't have to register my Linux distro.
I can install my Ubuntu system completely offline without any registration, and it can stay that way, thankyou very much. Unless you somehow didn't get this joke a few years back.
I personally would prefer it if computers were stong enough to calculate a photon hitting a material, reflecting its non-absorbed light into a "camera" object in game and taking the rendered picture and sending it to the monitor, thus creating a more realistic lighting effect, but we just aren't there yet.
Already been done. It's called ray tracing, and does exactly what you describe (except the other way around -- it traces light rays in reverse from the camera to the light source).
The trouble with ray tracing is that while it looks absolutely beautiful and stunningly realistic it's extremely impractical to do in real time. It can be done, but only with a supercomputer.
I've heard of some game engines being adapted to use ray tracing algorithms (here's a hacked up Quake 3 that apparently does so, but doesn't look any better than the original game). Here's an interesting interview with an Intel dude talking about it. In terms of actual usability though, there's no way you're going to actually play any of those games yet.
why cant they just have their current linux developers switch to mac? surely there are more people running that?
Yep, anybody can switch to any platform in an instant. It's not like you have to build up years of familiarity with the intrinsic ways of a particular environment, or learn any platform-specific APIs or anything like that.
I've never been too happy with Firefox's middle-click behavior, though. It seems to be mapped to a bunch of one-click operations that have apparently nothing to do with each other...
Middle click in window: paste clipboard buffer to URL bar and go.
So if you mistakenly middle-click while you're not over a link you get sent to some random place - quite possibly the badly-behaved DNS server's ad page... It all seems very arbitrary, like they just randomly mapped out a bunch of functions to the middle button.
Go to Firefox Preferences > Advanced > General, and turn on "Use autoscrolling".
"Autoscrolling" is a little "autopilot" mode for scrolling, triggered when you middle-mouse on the window. Even if you don't care for that functionality, it intercepts the middle mouse button, and in effect stops the annoying "paste-n-go" behaviour you are experiencing.
Google is releasing a lightweight Linux distro that can only run a web browser, and it's being treated like something amazing.
There, fixed that for you.
I for one hate waiting for the system to boot, when all I want to do is check my e-mail. Granted, Ubuntu 9.10 boots pretty fast, and 10.04 looks like it'll boot even faster, but you can only get so far without actually removing stuff.
Although if Haiku supported WiFi, it'd already be perfect. Boots in <5 seconds on my Eee PC.
Well, this may be the first "zero day" exploit, but this one ("Windows Vista/7 : SMB2.0 NEGOTIATE PROTOCOL REQUEST Remote B.S.O.D.") was around for much longer, and it's truly amazing that it still works on a majority of machines I try it out on.
That's true. It's still a crappy patent application though, since it basically covers showing a password dialog box with eligible user accounts (along with some details about their associated privileges) when an operation requires elevated privileges.
Indeed. In fact, this patent reminds me more of PolicyKit (which is GUI-based) than sudo. See screenshot, which almost exactly matches how I visualised the patent after reading the initial claims.
For example, one should note that [patent] research has never been done for Ogg Vorbis or Theora, which is why some paranoid companies are still unwilling to adopt them.
Use Dirac then. The BBC have specifically engineered it to not violate patents that they have researched.
For example Empathy will have built in support for skype, or even Google Talk!
Are you trying to imply that Empathy doesn't already support Google Talk?
'cause if you are, you're wrong -- it has supported Jabber for years (install package telepathy-gabble if it doesn't work for you), and the latest couple of versions have even supported Jingle-based voice and video chat.
Don't forget that if you have a proxy (and you probably do at work), the eye chart is bogus. The proxy will cache successful hits from a clean computer within your network.:(
However, if you hit F5 (or Ctrl+F5) to refresh, your browser will send out a no-cache request in the HTTP header, which most proxies I've tried it on respect, and thus they go to fetch a new copy of the page. That's right: hitting F5 is not the same as a browser simply requesting the page a second time.
Isn't this an indication that the system is severely flawed when someone pops up very late to the table and claims that they own it?
[...] Softwares and methods are too easy to re-invent all over again, and who can tell if a certain solution has been available before and then silently put to the grave for one reason or another?
Speaking of trolls, you are one yourself. Before you mod me into oblivion, hear me out.
In your post, you seem to claim that (1) CSIRO is a patent troll; and that (2) the patent is a software patent, thus is unethical. Both claims are patently false. (ha ha)
For starters, to address claim (1), CSIRO is not a patent troll. What is a patent troll? A patent troll is an organisation that exists only to accumulate patents (and make a profit off royalties). CSIRO is not a patent troll! They are an Australian Government-funded organisation that does real research. They actually researched and patented the technology back in the early '90s. (Source)
To address claim (2), the patent in question is not a software patent! Thus the entire basis for your argument...
Softwares and methods are too easy to re-invent all over again, and who can tell if a certain solution has been available before and then silently put to the grave for one reason or another?
...is completely baseless. The patent in question covers the duplication and redundancy of radio waves, so it is obviously not a software patent. Basically the patent covers the way modern WiFi works, in that instead of serial (just one radio wave with error correction), parallel and redundant streams are sent, which allows you to have much greater bandwidth without losing the reliability. (And yes, that source again)
And if you can't wait for Google Wave, there's always Gobby. It's only a plain-text editor (basically multiplayer gedit), but the real-time stuff is really real-time -- it updates instantly. Have a look at their screenshots.
Oh dear...when will Slashdot learn to escape stuff with UTF-8? On PHP, it's easy -- htmlentities($unsafe, ENT_COMPAT, 'utf-8') will do the trick. Not sure what Perl needs.
Don't use rsync to make backups. Because you don't just want to backup against spontaneous combustion â" inevitably, there will be accidental deletions and the like occurring in your studio. If you use rsync (with --delete, as any sane person would, otherwise your backup server will fill up in days, not years), then when some n00b runs `rm -rf ~/ReallyImportantVideos`, they'll be deleted from the backup too.
Remember that pro photography website that went down, because their "backup" was a mirroring RAID setup? Yep â" they lost all their data on one fell swoop when somebody accidentally deleted the whole lot. Don't make the same mistake.
I would think that rdiff-backup would suit your needs best. I currently use BackupPC at home, which is great for home backups, but I think that it's overkill (and possibly a bit limited) for what you want.
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FYI. (Admittedly, it only works for the "user configuration", not "computer configuration" part of GPO, but works well for all cases I've ever needed it for.)
How about those who donated to EveryDNS?
Seconded. Another donating EveryDNS user here. After all these years, I wonder where the donations went. Because David Ulevitch also owns OpenDNS, surely he would have been able to EveryDNS on the side with OpenDNS money.
You even have to register your Linux distro.
What the crap are you talking about? I don't have to register my Linux distro.
I can install my Ubuntu system completely offline without any registration, and it can stay that way, thankyou very much. Unless you somehow didn't get this joke a few years back.
I personally would prefer it if computers were stong enough to calculate a photon hitting a material, reflecting its non-absorbed light into a "camera" object in game and taking the rendered picture and sending it to the monitor, thus creating a more realistic lighting effect, but we just aren't there yet.
Already been done. It's called ray tracing, and does exactly what you describe (except the other way around -- it traces light rays in reverse from the camera to the light source).
The trouble with ray tracing is that while it looks absolutely beautiful and stunningly realistic it's extremely impractical to do in real time. It can be done, but only with a supercomputer.
I've heard of some game engines being adapted to use ray tracing algorithms (here's a hacked up Quake 3 that apparently does so, but doesn't look any better than the original game). Here's an interesting interview with an Intel dude talking about it. In terms of actual usability though, there's no way you're going to actually play any of those games yet.
Yet.
That one was tested by Mythbusters. IIRC, they concluded that it was almost impossible to launch the bumper accidentally.
And here's a link to mythbustersresults.com so you can check it yourself. Assuming they don't just make up the results on that site, of course.
why cant they just have their current linux developers switch to mac? surely there are more people running that?
Yep, anybody can switch to any platform in an instant. It's not like you have to build up years of familiarity with the intrinsic ways of a particular environment, or learn any platform-specific APIs or anything like that.
I've never been too happy with Firefox's middle-click behavior, though. It seems to be mapped to a bunch of one-click operations that have apparently nothing to do with each other...
Middle click in window: paste clipboard buffer to URL bar and go.
So if you mistakenly middle-click while you're not over a link you get sent to some random place - quite possibly the badly-behaved DNS server's ad page... It all seems very arbitrary, like they just randomly mapped out a bunch of functions to the middle button.
Go to Firefox Preferences > Advanced > General, and turn on "Use autoscrolling".
"Autoscrolling" is a little "autopilot" mode for scrolling, triggered when you middle-mouse on the window. Even if you don't care for that functionality, it intercepts the middle mouse button, and in effect stops the annoying "paste-n-go" behaviour you are experiencing.
Drives me nuts, too.
Google is releasing a lightweight Linux distro that can only run a web browser, and it's being treated like something amazing.
There, fixed that for you.
I for one hate waiting for the system to boot, when all I want to do is check my e-mail. Granted, Ubuntu 9.10 boots pretty fast, and 10.04 looks like it'll boot even faster, but you can only get so far without actually removing stuff.
Although if Haiku supported WiFi, it'd already be perfect. Boots in <5 seconds on my Eee PC.
What proportion of Fedora installations have the user and the admin as different people?
Hardly any.
In which case, making the user also able to install such packages is a useless feature.
Well, this may be the first "zero day" exploit, but this one ("Windows Vista/7 : SMB2.0 NEGOTIATE PROTOCOL REQUEST Remote B.S.O.D.") was around for much longer, and it's truly amazing that it still works on a majority of machines I try it out on.
That's true. It's still a crappy patent application though, since it basically covers showing a password dialog box with eligible user accounts (along with some details about their associated privileges) when an operation requires elevated privileges.
Indeed. In fact, this patent reminds me more of PolicyKit (which is GUI-based) than sudo. See screenshot, which almost exactly matches how I visualised the patent after reading the initial claims.
For example, one should note that [patent] research has never been done for Ogg Vorbis or Theora, which is why some paranoid companies are still unwilling to adopt them.
Use Dirac then. The BBC have specifically engineered it to not violate patents that they have researched.
For example Empathy will have built in support for skype, or even Google Talk!
Are you trying to imply that Empathy doesn't already support Google Talk?
'cause if you are, you're wrong -- it has supported Jabber for years (install package telepathy-gabble if it doesn't work for you), and the latest couple of versions have even supported Jingle-based voice and video chat.
I use 64-bit (Ubuntu 9.10, Skype 2.1 beta), and video works for me.
Don't forget that if you have a proxy (and you probably do at work), the eye chart is bogus. The proxy will cache successful hits from a clean computer within your network. :(
However, if you hit F5 (or Ctrl+F5) to refresh, your browser will send out a no-cache request in the HTTP header, which most proxies I've tried it on respect, and thus they go to fetch a new copy of the page. That's right: hitting F5 is not the same as a browser simply requesting the page a second time.
Given that Wine mounts Z: drive as your Unix / (by default, that is), you don't even need to go as far as the GP. Just open('Z:\etc\passwd').
I'd think that whoever has UID 1,000,001 should be doing the QQ ...
He said 'less than' (<), not 'less than or equal to' (<=). So don't you mean 1,000,000?
I think there should be a sub-forum for those with UIDs of less than 10^6
:(
Not that I blame you for not noticing, but have you seen /usr/share/alsa/alsa.conf? Find these lines:
files [
"/usr/share/alsa/pulse.conf"
"/usr/share/alsa/bluetooth.conf"
"/etc/asound.conf"
"~/.asoundrc"
]
Comment out the first with a #. Thus...
files [
# "/usr/share/alsa/pulse.conf"
"/usr/share/alsa/bluetooth.conf"
"/etc/asound.conf"
"~/.asoundrc"
]
Isn't this an indication that the system is severely flawed when someone pops up very late to the table and claims that they own it?
[...] Softwares and methods are too easy to re-invent all over again, and who can tell if a certain solution has been available before and then silently put to the grave for one reason or another?
Speaking of trolls, you are one yourself. Before you mod me into oblivion, hear me out.
In your post, you seem to claim that (1) CSIRO is a patent troll; and that (2) the patent is a software patent, thus is unethical. Both claims are patently false. (ha ha)
For starters, to address claim (1), CSIRO is not a patent troll. What is a patent troll? A patent troll is an organisation that exists only to accumulate patents (and make a profit off royalties). CSIRO is not a patent troll! They are an Australian Government-funded organisation that does real research. They actually researched and patented the technology back in the early '90s. (Source)
To address claim (2), the patent in question is not a software patent! Thus the entire basis for your argument...
Softwares and methods are too easy to re-invent all over again, and who can tell if a certain solution has been available before and then silently put to the grave for one reason or another?
...is completely baseless. The patent in question covers the duplication and redundancy of radio waves, so it is obviously not a software patent. Basically the patent covers the way modern WiFi works, in that instead of serial (just one radio wave with error correction), parallel and redundant streams are sent, which allows you to have much greater bandwidth without losing the reliability. (And yes, that source again)
One thing that appears to be a requirement is this must be a library for C++.
There are C->Java converters.
Let's play spot-the-difference!
Kinda like IETab in Firefox?
Because Mozilla totally is the author of the IE Tab extension, and condones its use entirely. And this post is not dripping with sarcasm either. :)
And if you can't wait for Google Wave, there's always Gobby. It's only a plain-text editor (basically multiplayer gedit), but the real-time stuff is really real-time -- it updates instantly. Have a look at their screenshots.
Oh dear...when will Slashdot learn to escape stuff with UTF-8? On PHP, it's easy -- htmlentities($unsafe, ENT_COMPAT, 'utf-8') will do the trick. Not sure what Perl needs.
Don't use rsync to make backups. Because you don't just want to backup against spontaneous combustion â" inevitably, there will be accidental deletions and the like occurring in your studio. If you use rsync (with --delete, as any sane person would, otherwise your backup server will fill up in days, not years), then when some n00b runs `rm -rf ~/ReallyImportantVideos`, they'll be deleted from the backup too.
Remember that pro photography website that went down, because their "backup" was a mirroring RAID setup? Yep â" they lost all their data on one fell swoop when somebody accidentally deleted the whole lot. Don't make the same mistake.
Use an incremental backup tool. Three that come to mind are rdiff-backup, Dirvish, and BackupPC.
I would think that rdiff-backup would suit your needs best. I currently use BackupPC at home, which is great for home backups, but I think that it's overkill (and possibly a bit limited) for what you want.
Hope this helps!