As far as your questions on the mangled characters on some pages, they come from people authoring thier web pages with Microsoft programs, such as FrontProstitute. I asked about this in the Microsoft Loses article a few days ago and got some resonses.
Check out all the hardware tech sites, they have perverted charactersets too, and this problem is only going to get worse as more retards make web pages with ever popular Microsoft authoring tools.
So now I use IE and XNews under Windows. I don't use Linux for Internet stuff because A) Netscape under Unix sucks, and B) it doesn't support my Ethernet card (an SMC EtherCard Elite 8216c).
If I had a network card that wasn't supported in linux, I could:
a) Install Windows
b) Get a network card that is supported
c) Read the documentation and find out that it really is supported.
Why rely on a crooked browser to stop itself from prostituting your personal information? Fire up that sniffer, find where its sending it, and block it from your firewall script. Done. I deny the spurious packets sent to Netscape, I used to deny and log but my logs grew faster than britney spears' bust.
Can anyone explain to me why, or point me to a README, as to why on Microsoft's web sites, using xfstt and MS's own ttf fonts on Netscape/X11, that ' appears as ? I have also noticed this on sites that use Frontpage to generate the page. What is missing that the font set itself can't properly render the correct character?
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I would like to see Bill Gates sent to San Quentin so he can really get some IANAL from his 350 lb negro cell(bunk)mate.
You can go on places like IRC and get Windows alpha and beta releases. People were crashing windows 98 before it was out. People were crashing windows 98se before it was out. People were crashing windows 2000 before it was out. People are currently crashing windows 98 millenium and windows 2001?. Note: use Microsoft OSes if you like crashing, since thats all they are good for.
Welcome to Microsoft Certified Linux Expert (MCLE) training!
This is a preview edition of the Microsoft Certified Linux Expert(MCLETM) test. The correct answers are currently shown in bold for your verification.
This test is there to ensure you know everything you need to know about both the Linux operating system and the Linux community.
1. You are told to install a Web Server on a Linux system. What do you do?
a) Install Apache b) Install Microsoft InternetInformation Server c) Linux is not stable enough for running web servers. d) Install Windows 2000 on the server. e) Install phhttpd
2. If you hear someone in the Linux world praising RMS, he's talking about
a) Richard M. Stallman b) Redmond's MicroSoft c) Remote Machine Services
3. After bootup, a linux machine hangs, showing the error message "login:". How do you fix this?
a) This is not a problem actually, I enter my login name and password. b) Reboot, if that doesn't help, reinstall, if that doesn't help, complain to the vendor. c) This system hang is a big enough problem to justify replacing Linux with Windows 2000
4. The correct way to install a word processor on Linux is:
a) rpm -i abiword-0.7.8-2.i386.rpm b) dpkg -i koffice.deb c) tar xzf lyx-1.0.1.tar.gz d) Using kpackage to install an RPM, deb or tgz e) Using gnorpm to install an RPM f)/sbin/reboot, insert a Windows 98 disk, fdisk/mbr, fdisk, format c:, d:\setup
You can pick up a pci video card that is accelerated in XFree86 (Linux is not XFree86 by the way, VGA textmode works on every card) for like $5, or even for free. I got this 2mb S3 pci card for free and it works in X11 just fine.
Power management? You didn't mention you had a laptop. If you mean monitor blanking, it's there, and you can put your hard drives to sleep after a given time with the "hdparm" command. I don't know about suspend or software halt like in ATX systems since I don't halt my machine (and my operating system also doesn't self destruct like Microsofts).
As the fuhrer of Microsoft Bill Gates can step in and say "No that is wrong, unethical, and quite possibly illegal." He could also fire, beat the shit out of (or pay someone to, think Monty Burns), kill, and urinate on anyone on his staff and they would smile and like it.
"Netscape are absolute idiots, a browser company which doesn't have the vision to know that within 5 years every major and minor OS in the world would ship with a webbrowser, just like they would ship with text editors."
I'm not sure what you mean by this.
Which browser is available on nearly every platform and OS out there? Internet Explorer? wrong Netscape is.
Which browser was bundled with the operating system in order to discourage the consumers of said operating system from using Netscape? Internet Explorer.
Where can I download a movie player for X11R6 that can do Quicktime 4.0? I don't give a shit if its open source or whatever. Or are those sort-of-embrace-open-source WHORES at apple not backing thier own press releases?
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Why a network rewrite? That sounds like a lot of work. Couldn't they just steal the BSD networking code like Micros~1 did? Is that not how the BSD distributions work?
Ok if you disallow closed standards, then there has to be a process by which you can query a specific task or protocol or data field, as to what its for. For instance the mystery fields in MS-CIFS (what the samba guys are trying to emulate by using packet sniffing).
john doe: "Whats this do?" M$: "I need to talk to my lawyer(s)." jd: "You have to tell me, if you don't its illegal." M$: "I'm going to file an appeal." -10 years later- M$: "I would like to renew my appeal."
What about the linux desktops that look exactly like the Windows interface? Or did you just install RedHat like the rest of the kool d00dz and decide that gnome (the default?) wasn't nice, then remove linux from your system when you found out you couldn't download DirectX for Redhat ?
I was browsing job banks in monster.com the other day, and it seems Gateway requires that thier bench technicians (A+ certified) are required to pass a pre-employment drug test.
They sure wouldn't want you to come to work wasted and accidently kill yourself with that deadly phillips screwdriver!
Your employer, your government, and your doctors already have you fully profiled. Gattacca is not fiction. Your information is in a database and it is for sale.
When you lick a stamp or envelope. When you visit the dentist. When you pass through those anti-shoplifting devices and metal detectors at airports and bars, they know how much money you are carrying and who you are by the cards in your wallet. Smile next time you visit an ATM.
If it can be realistically imagined, it has already happened.
Its like buying a truck with a V8 that only has 6 of the cylinders working, the other two were disconnected from the crank and the ignition/fuel system.
Doh, thats what chevy did with thier 4.3L V6, its just a 350 with the front 2 cylinders lopped off.
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As far as your questions on the mangled characters on some pages, they come from people authoring thier web pages with Microsoft programs, such as FrontProstitute. I asked about this in the Microsoft Loses article a few days ago and got some resonses.
http://slashdot.org/com ments.pl?sid=00/04/03/1644221&cid=416
Check out all the hardware tech sites, they have perverted charactersets too, and this problem is only going to get worse as more retards make web pages with ever popular Microsoft authoring tools.
If I had a network card that wasn't supported in linux, I could:
a) Install Windows
b) Get a network card that is supported
c) Read the documentation and find out that it really is supported.
http://www.smc.co m/smc/drivers/Legacy/8216/smc-ultra.c-1.2.13.txt
Yes, that says 1.2.13, you can find it in your 2.2.14 kernel as CONFIG_ULTRA in the 10/100 Ethernet card section for SMC cards.
I can't help with your opinion of Netscape however.
Why rely on a crooked browser to stop itself from prostituting your personal information? Fire up that sniffer, find where its sending it, and block it from your firewall script. Done. I deny the spurious packets sent to Netscape, I used to deny and log but my logs grew faster than britney spears' bust.
Can anyone explain to me why, or point me to a README, as to why on Microsoft's web sites, using xfstt and MS's own ttf fonts on Netscape/X11, that ' appears as ?
I have also noticed this on sites that use Frontpage to generate the page. What is missing that the font set itself can't properly render the correct character?
I would like to see Bill Gates sent to San Quentin so he can really get some IANAL from his 350 lb negro cell(bunk)mate.
Maybe you can write some sort of a wrapper to display the movie in text. See http://webpages.mr.net/bobz/ttyquake on a similar project =)
hdparm -S 240 /dev/hdX will put them suckers to sleep after 20 minutes of idle.
Nvidia are being WHORES about thier 3D cards and XFree86. No DRI for you. No 3D acceleration for you. No OpenGL for you.
Feel free to write to them on how you feel about thier decision.
You can go on places like IRC and get Windows alpha and beta releases. People were crashing windows 98 before it was out. People were crashing windows 98se before it was out. People were crashing windows 2000 before it was out. People are currently crashing windows 98 millenium and windows 2001?.
Note: use Microsoft OSes if you like crashing, since thats all they are good for.
This is a preview edition of the Microsoft Certified Linux Expert(MCLETM) test. The correct answers are currently shown in bold for your verification.
This test is there to ensure you know everything you need to know about both the Linux operating system and the Linux community.
1. You are told to install a Web Server on a Linux system. What do you do?
a) Install Apache
b) Install Microsoft InternetInformation Server
c) Linux is not stable enough for running web servers.
d) Install Windows 2000 on the server.
e) Install phhttpd
2. If you hear someone in the Linux world praising RMS, he's talking about
a) Richard M. Stallman
b) Redmond's MicroSoft
c) Remote Machine Services
3. After bootup, a linux machine hangs, showing the error message "login:". How do you fix this?
a) This is not a problem actually, I enter my login name and password.
b) Reboot, if that doesn't help, reinstall, if that doesn't help, complain to the vendor.
c) This system hang is a big enough problem to justify replacing Linux with Windows 2000
4. The correct way to install a word processor on Linux is:
a) rpm -i abiword-0.7.8-2.i386.rpm /sbin/reboot, insert a Windows 98 disk, fdisk /mbr, fdisk, format c:, d:\setup
b) dpkg -i koffice.deb
c) tar xzf lyx-1.0.1.tar.gz
d) Using kpackage to install an RPM, deb or tgz
e) Using gnorpm to install an RPM
f)
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You can pick up a pci video card that is accelerated in XFree86 (Linux is not XFree86 by the way, VGA textmode works on every card) for like $5, or even for free. I got this 2mb S3 pci card for free and it works in X11 just fine.
Power management? You didn't mention you had a laptop. If you mean monitor blanking, it's there, and you can put your hard drives to sleep after a given time with the "hdparm" command. I don't know about suspend or software halt like in ATX systems since I don't halt my machine (and my operating system also doesn't self destruct like Microsofts).
This guy works for Microsoft.
As the fuhrer of Microsoft Bill Gates can step in and say "No that is wrong, unethical, and quite possibly illegal."
He could also fire, beat the shit out of (or pay someone to, think Monty Burns), kill, and urinate on anyone on his staff and they would smile and like it.
"Netscape are absolute idiots, a browser company which doesn't have the vision to know that within 5 years every major and minor OS in the world would ship with a webbrowser, just like they would ship with text editors."
I'm not sure what you mean by this.
Which browser is available on nearly every platform and OS out there?
Internet Explorer? wrong
Netscape is.
Which browser was bundled with the operating system in order to discourage the consumers of said operating system from using Netscape?
Internet Explorer.
Who wants half an OS anyway?
(couldn't resist)
Where can I download a movie player for X11R6 that can do Quicktime 4.0? I don't give a shit if its open source or whatever.
Or are those sort-of-embrace-open-source WHORES at apple not backing thier own press releases?
Why a network rewrite? That sounds like a lot of work. Couldn't they just steal the BSD networking code like Micros~1 did? Is that not how the BSD distributions work?
heh do you code like you write?
a dabilityeasier.
allinaconstantblockwithnospacesorbreakstomakere
Wow if the pro version does all the media types, then maybe I should pirate it and convert all the "damned qt" movies to mpg so everyone can watch it?
Ok if you disallow closed standards, then there has to be a process by which you can query a specific task or protocol or data field, as to what its for. For instance the mystery fields in MS-CIFS (what the samba guys are trying to emulate by using packet sniffing).
john doe: "Whats this do?"
M$: "I need to talk to my lawyer(s)."
jd: "You have to tell me, if you don't its illegal."
M$: "I'm going to file an appeal."
-10 years later-
M$: "I would like to renew my appeal."
Isn't the American Justice System wonderful?
What about the linux desktops that look exactly like the Windows interface? Or did you just install RedHat like the rest of the kool d00dz and decide that gnome (the default?) wasn't nice, then remove linux from your system when you found out you couldn't download DirectX for Redhat ?
I was browsing job banks in monster.com the other day, and it seems Gateway requires that thier bench technicians (A+ certified) are required to pass a pre-employment drug test.
They sure wouldn't want you to come to work wasted and accidently kill yourself with that deadly phillips screwdriver!
Your employer, your government, and your doctors already have you fully profiled. Gattacca is not fiction. Your information is in a database and it is for sale.
When you lick a stamp or envelope.
When you visit the dentist.
When you pass through those anti-shoplifting devices and metal detectors at airports and bars, they know how much money you are carrying and who you are by the cards in your wallet.
Smile next time you visit an ATM.
If it can be realistically imagined, it has already happened.
Its like buying a truck with a V8 that only has 6 of the cylinders working, the other two were disconnected from the crank and the ignition/fuel system.
Doh, thats what chevy did with thier 4.3L V6, its just a 350 with the front 2 cylinders lopped off.