Use the "allow-update" directive. You can create ACLs which allow updates based upon IP address (not very secure) or by shared secret keys (more secure).
My other Win2k gripe relating to Active Directory is that, by design, you HAVE to use their goofy-ass DNS server. Further, said DNS server must be on the domain controller.
No, you don't. Our local Active Directory uses Linux/BIND9 as the dynamic DNS server. No problems at all.
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Your site doesn't validate, uses crap like the FONT tag, has very poor indenting in the javascript and uses very out of date tags. Despite all this, you still have the nerve to use it as an example of how to write a web site? Hmm...
Those that can, do. Those that can't, teach.
And I wish that was unwarranted cynicism. But when a friend related to me the story of his 4th year university cryptography teacher claiming that 128 bit asymmetric is "the same strength" as 128 bit symmetric, I had to wonder why the hell these people aren't banned from computers for life.
It seems that the same people who see nothing wrong with GTA3 are often the same people who think that Joe Camel is evil advertising and promotes underage smoking.
You can point to somebody who has expressed both those viewpoints?
My personal opinion is that they're both bad for children. The difference is that GTA3 has big "M" and "17+" and "violence" stickers on the case and children cannot purchase the game without a parent's approval. It is the fault of the parent if they see these warnings but still buy GTA3 for their sprog, or knowingly let their sprog associate with other children that play GTA3.
Yes, I own and play GTA3. It's not nearly as violent as what I read in the newspaper or watch on the TV news. Games don't hold a candle to reality.
But while you can't create a good work of art -- or most people can't -- that's meaningful in its own right just after learning the rudiments of tools, you can write small prorgams that work and carry out tasks pretty quickly.
A first year art student can slap paint on a canvas but that doesn't mean the product is worth looking at. Similarly you can't produce a truly useful tool immediately after learning the syntax of the language.
As I said, Freshmeat is littered with buggy and inexpertly written applications. They have memory leaks or buffer overruns, improperly used APIs, poorly chosen algorithms, etc. These tools aren't very useful. It's OK though. The person is a better coder for having tried and failed than to not have tried at all. And even if I don't use the application I can still be grateful that they donated anything at all.
Even crappy artwork would be better than no artwork at all. There is plenty of potential for artists to contribute to open source projects. Even the atrocities churned out by a first year art student would be an improvement in many cases.
What I've worried about in this thread has been an idea that you could sit down and in a matter of weeks, start making fonts that other people would feel good about using.
I don't see that idea at all. In fact, all I'm seeing is strong statements by literally dozens of people saying "NO that idea is not there". Everybody recognises that creating fonts - or icons, or pictures, or interfaces - is very difficult. Nobody is disputing that fact. No serious project will reject an offer of artwork or a donation of a font. But it's up to the artists to make the offers and give donations.
The difference between coding and designing fonts is surely that you can start coding useful stuff right away, typically, after you cross an early hump on understanding programming at all.
This is false. This is why Freshmeat and SF have 100s of useless 1~2000 line applications. Nobody uses them. A truly useful application takes many months to write even for a skilled programmer. I strongly disagree with your claim that there's a "hump" past which it's easy to write useful code. It takes years to become skilled enough to contribute meaningfully to Linux, or to XFree, or to KDE, or to GCC.
If an artist wants to contribute to a free software project then they should just do it. They should find something ugly, make it look better, and contribute the changes back to the coders for integration. If the artist's first contribution is rejected then they should try again. Linus rejected reiserfs and devfs for years even though the people working on those sub-projects were extremely skilled. A rejection doesn't necessarily mean that the contribution isn't appreciated.
Designing fonts from scratch takes years to learn; even copying fonts takes quite a while.
So? Coding is the same. It takes years to learn, and many more years to get good. Even copying code takes "quite a while". The "Open Source Community" has 100s of badly written applications written by novice programmers. But that's OK. The applications all get reviewed and the bad ones are ignored. It's a gigantic negative feedback system and it works beautifully.
I can't imagine anything better than 100s of novice font designers learning their trade by creating free fonts. 99% of them will suck, but it's the 1% that will benefit everybody else.
The biggest problem of most OSS projects is they do not make themselves available to people like me.
Then why don't you take the initiative. Write some guidelines. Discuss an existing application. Offer an idea for improvement. Draw a new interface. Create a new font. But please don't point fingers at everybody else for not "making themselves available" to you. It's not somebody elses job to motivate you: that's YOUR job.
If the OSS community wants us to help them they are going to have to do better than offer to put our name in the credits, they are going to have to open their minds and listen.
Actually, the best parts of each should be integrated with X. Right now, a lot of the bloat the common user experiences on the Linux GUI is because of the seven layers of translation the average API call goes through -- every window draw, every mouse click, every sound has a huge timing penalty incurred by the three or four extra layers over and above what you would find under Windows or even in Mac OS X. Building in icon support, sound support, font support, higher-level networking, drawing primitives, and OpenGL could make X anywhere from 12% to 37% faster on the average platform (depending on the features involved), bringing us that much closer to the Windows refresh rate.
12% to 37% faster? 7 layers of translation? Timing penalties for SOUND? How the hell did this techno-babble get moderated up as insightful? It's a load of codswallop. I don't think there's a single fact up there.
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What's the point of the effort? Yes I've seen the 'You're in control of Your box' screenshot, but how many users conceptually think of themselves as restricted in their use of an X-box - or any other gaming console for that matter - apart from the occasional Slashdot'er?
All Xbox games on the market are paying royalties to Microsoft to be signed. This Linux boot is one step closer to a completely free - cost, freedom, and royalty-free - tool-chain to develop games on the Xbox. It might not have much of an impact on the high-budget games like Halo, but if it means some of the smaller software development houses can sell their game even $10 cheaper then they will sell more units and I get more games for my money.
Plaster & Lathe is much more durable for walls than wallboard.
Plaster is extremely expensive. It requires a great deal of skill (and time) to set. Wallboard is much easier. Your other examples are similar. Very expensive. So my guess is that the 1920s "tract" housing might have been better, but they would also have been much more expensive. Perhaps out of the financial reach of most people at the time. The cheaper and less durable options these days reach a greater audience. I think this is a good thing, even if it does mean more repairs. The repair costs are possibly still less than the higher cost of hard wood floors and plaster walls.
Your venom is misplaced. I don't tell Microsoft jokes. I never spell Microsoft's name with a dollar sign. I don't bother with the ad hominem attacks on Bill Gates. And I don't really care which OS you use. I mostly read Slashdot like I read Memepool: for links to websites and stories that I couldn't be bothered finding myself.
However what does interest me is your pressing need to demonize me. In your own words you are "impartial" but it's hard to believe that. You attacked me without provocation and you have a seemingly anti-social attitude towards anybody who isn't a "jock". Whatever that means. You've attacked me personally 7 times in 2 posts. What are you trying to prove?
As for this comment...
If the anti-Linux backlash _is_ real here (and I'm really not convinced it is), and such turnabout is bothersome to you, my suggestion would be to keep the pro-Linux threads a bit more mature, technical, and positive. And for God's sake, if you want to be taken seriously, lay off the Bill Gates ad hominems!
I'm not sure what thread you're on or what you think I've said, but I strongly suggest you do some reading before you do any more writing.
Well, just in this thread I spot 4 pro-Microsoft responses. I also spot 4 responses theorizing that Microsoft is astro-turfing on Slashdot, so I'd categorize those as anti-Microsoft. There is a single response that I'd say is neither pro- nor anti-Microsoft.
These are roughly the same proportions of responses that I'm finding WITHOUT FAIL on all articles. About half the posts on Slashdot are now pro-Microsoft. So, what's the cause? Is it now trendy to support Microsoft? Or are the conspiracy theorists onto something?
I know this won't be a popular view, but I do felt it had to be said.
I don't know why you think this. I see far more Microsoft support on Slashdot than Microsoft bashing. Everytime there's an even remotely anti-Microsoft statement or anti-Microsoft joke there are about 50 people like yourself who jump to Microsoft's defence. Often the defence starts off with "I know I'll get moderated down for this but...". Sound familiar?
Really, it's getting tiring. You can't even write a simple Microsoft joke these days without a 1000 flames along the lines of "Linux sucks way more than Microsoft". Is this pro-Microsoft stance the trendy thing to do these days?
Local artists and indie artists are actually better than anything that is part of the RIAA's clan...
My response, in a word, "bullshit".
You can actually talk to these people,
And quickly find out that they're druggies and/or idiots.
and when they play for you they play their heart out for you and for the music.
It's just a shame that they have no talent.
I'm glad that you think you're now ultra-hip and "edgy" for listening to music that nobody else wants to listen to. But eventually it will become obvious - even to you - that 99% of indie is shithouse. The RIAA has their fair share of very talented artists, and not listening to them just because they're RIAA "minions" is the real hypocrisy. Why don't you try listening to music that is good, rather than music which is politically correct?
I liked the Trident 8900 ISA and 9200/9400 VLB cards -- they weren't the fastest but they were rock-stable and the drivers were well-behaved, AND they have a really nice legible screen font, ideal for console use.
Yes! The ISA Trident cards are still my video card of choice for consoles. Their character set has a nice curl on the lower-case 'l', making it really easy to distinguish from '1'. I've yet to find another card, any vendor, any bus, that has a font that nice.
In your register view, sort the little status column by clicking on the column header... all items should sort such that you can see the balance in the column to the right. it's very strange looking but if memory serves, will do the trick...
That's not what he means. By "cleared" he means that when he writes the cheque is different to when the cheque is cashed. Quicken assumes that the cash is gone as soon as you write the cheque. GNUcash uses double-entry accounting so you can make it clear that there's a time-delay between writing a cheque and the recipient cashing the cheque.
I find GNUcash is an excellent double-entry ledger but I find it lacking for forecasts and graphing. GNUcash also has many interface bugs and uglies.
c) If an Australian broke an American law while in Afghanistan then the Americans will kidnap the Australian and hold him illegally without representation in a US military base.
I've said it before, I'll say it again. What's an OS? Just the kernel? Are you allowed to add a file browser? A GUI? A network stack?
And the reason you keep saying it is because you still don't understand what Microsoft got in trouble for.
The court case was not about the bundling of the browser. It was about the forceful tactics used by Microsoft against OEMs who wanted to ship Netscape Navigator. The OEMs were told - in no uncertain terms - that they would ship IE instead of Netscape or Microsoft would force them into bankruptcy.
OEMs should have the right to change bits as they see fit. Microsoft removed that right. This is the same reason why the so-called argument that "KDE ships with Konqueror!" is so idiotic. Vendors like RedHat have the option to ship KDE with or without Konqueror. OEMs like Compaq were not given that choice with IE on Windows.
The story is rife with biassed comments like this...
The new generation of gamers, by natural selection, has banished pinball as too old, too difficult and too boring.
A lot of kids feel pinball is nowhere near as stimulating as Doom, Quake or a lot of games they are playing these days
I think pinball is going out because it is not really understood by most people.
Arcade operators say youngsters like to master a game and move on. They don't like games like pinball that are impossible to defeat.
If this article is a true reflection of the industry's opinion then the operators are ignoring a major cause of the decline in pinball machines, and it's not a decline in popularity.
My local arcade has 4 pinballs and 3 of those have been broken and unplayable for weeks. I went to play the last remaining pinball machine last night and it died too: looks like the ball eject has finally failed. Wherever I go it's the same story. The pinball machines are typically broken and unusable. No wonder the arcade managers aren't showing any interest in buying them.
But it's not a lack of popularity from the consumers. Where there is working pinball you'll find hordes of people crowded around it with dozens of dollar coins lined up along the table top. And it's not just 20-somethings. Younger kids and teenagers are just as interested. It's difficult to find a working pinball, and it's even harder to fight your way through the crowd to play on one.
But the article only focusses on the elitist "People don't understand pinball" or the defeatist "Nobody wants to play pinball anymore". I think the article should have at least mentioned "Arcade managers don't like pinball because they're always broken".
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Use the "allow-update" directive. You can create ACLs which allow updates based upon IP address (not very secure) or by shared secret keys (more secure).
No, you don't. Our local Active Directory uses Linux/BIND9 as the dynamic DNS server. No problems at all.
How can you put Flaming Lips in a list like that?
Those that can, do. Those that can't, teach.
And I wish that was unwarranted cynicism. But when a friend related to me the story of his 4th year university cryptography teacher claiming that 128 bit asymmetric is "the same strength" as 128 bit symmetric, I had to wonder why the hell these people aren't banned from computers for life.
You can point to somebody who has expressed both those viewpoints?
My personal opinion is that they're both bad for children. The difference is that GTA3 has big "M" and "17+" and "violence" stickers on the case and children cannot purchase the game without a parent's approval. It is the fault of the parent if they see these warnings but still buy GTA3 for their sprog, or knowingly let their sprog associate with other children that play GTA3.
Yes, I own and play GTA3. It's not nearly as violent as what I read in the newspaper or watch on the TV news. Games don't hold a candle to reality.
A first year art student can slap paint on a canvas but that doesn't mean the product is worth looking at. Similarly you can't produce a truly useful tool immediately after learning the syntax of the language.
As I said, Freshmeat is littered with buggy and inexpertly written applications. They have memory leaks or buffer overruns, improperly used APIs, poorly chosen algorithms, etc. These tools aren't very useful. It's OK though. The person is a better coder for having tried and failed than to not have tried at all. And even if I don't use the application I can still be grateful that they donated anything at all.
Even crappy artwork would be better than no artwork at all. There is plenty of potential for artists to contribute to open source projects. Even the atrocities churned out by a first year art student would be an improvement in many cases.
I don't see that idea at all. In fact, all I'm seeing is strong statements by literally dozens of people saying "NO that idea is not there". Everybody recognises that creating fonts - or icons, or pictures, or interfaces - is very difficult. Nobody is disputing that fact. No serious project will reject an offer of artwork or a donation of a font. But it's up to the artists to make the offers and give donations.
This is false. This is why Freshmeat and SF have 100s of useless 1~2000 line applications. Nobody uses them. A truly useful application takes many months to write even for a skilled programmer. I strongly disagree with your claim that there's a "hump" past which it's easy to write useful code. It takes years to become skilled enough to contribute meaningfully to Linux, or to XFree, or to KDE, or to GCC.
If an artist wants to contribute to a free software project then they should just do it. They should find something ugly, make it look better, and contribute the changes back to the coders for integration. If the artist's first contribution is rejected then they should try again. Linus rejected reiserfs and devfs for years even though the people working on those sub-projects were extremely skilled. A rejection doesn't necessarily mean that the contribution isn't appreciated.
So? Coding is the same. It takes years to learn, and many more years to get good. Even copying code takes "quite a while". The "Open Source Community" has 100s of badly written applications written by novice programmers. But that's OK. The applications all get reviewed and the bad ones are ignored. It's a gigantic negative feedback system and it works beautifully.
I can't imagine anything better than 100s of novice font designers learning their trade by creating free fonts. 99% of them will suck, but it's the 1% that will benefit everybody else.
Then why don't you take the initiative. Write some guidelines. Discuss an existing application. Offer an idea for improvement. Draw a new interface. Create a new font. But please don't point fingers at everybody else for not "making themselves available" to you. It's not somebody elses job to motivate you: that's YOUR job.
You have to speak before somebody can listen.
12% to 37% faster? 7 layers of translation? Timing penalties for SOUND? How the hell did this techno-babble get moderated up as insightful? It's a load of codswallop. I don't think there's a single fact up there.
All Xbox games on the market are paying royalties to Microsoft to be signed. This Linux boot is one step closer to a completely free - cost, freedom, and royalty-free - tool-chain to develop games on the Xbox. It might not have much of an impact on the high-budget games like Halo, but if it means some of the smaller software development houses can sell their game even $10 cheaper then they will sell more units and I get more games for my money.
Plaster is extremely expensive. It requires a great deal of skill (and time) to set. Wallboard is much easier. Your other examples are similar. Very expensive. So my guess is that the 1920s "tract" housing might have been better, but they would also have been much more expensive. Perhaps out of the financial reach of most people at the time. The cheaper and less durable options these days reach a greater audience. I think this is a good thing, even if it does mean more repairs. The repair costs are possibly still less than the higher cost of hard wood floors and plaster walls.
That's what UTF-8 is for.
Huh? How do you figure this?
I don't see that happenning.
Your venom is misplaced. I don't tell Microsoft jokes. I never spell Microsoft's name with a dollar sign. I don't bother with the ad hominem attacks on Bill Gates. And I don't really care which OS you use. I mostly read Slashdot like I read Memepool: for links to websites and stories that I couldn't be bothered finding myself.
However what does interest me is your pressing need to demonize me. In your own words you are "impartial" but it's hard to believe that. You attacked me without provocation and you have a seemingly anti-social attitude towards anybody who isn't a "jock". Whatever that means. You've attacked me personally 7 times in 2 posts. What are you trying to prove?
As for this comment...
I'm not sure what thread you're on or what you think I've said, but I strongly suggest you do some reading before you do any more writing.
Well, just in this thread I spot 4 pro-Microsoft responses. I also spot 4 responses theorizing that Microsoft is astro-turfing on Slashdot, so I'd categorize those as anti-Microsoft. There is a single response that I'd say is neither pro- nor anti-Microsoft.
These are roughly the same proportions of responses that I'm finding WITHOUT FAIL on all articles. About half the posts on Slashdot are now pro-Microsoft. So, what's the cause? Is it now trendy to support Microsoft? Or are the conspiracy theorists onto something?
You're fairly naive (and/or extremely young) if you think corporate IT solutions are based on actual research.
I don't know why you think this. I see far more Microsoft support on Slashdot than Microsoft bashing. Everytime there's an even remotely anti-Microsoft statement or anti-Microsoft joke there are about 50 people like yourself who jump to Microsoft's defence. Often the defence starts off with "I know I'll get moderated down for this but...". Sound familiar?
Really, it's getting tiring. You can't even write a simple Microsoft joke these days without a 1000 flames along the lines of "Linux sucks way more than Microsoft". Is this pro-Microsoft stance the trendy thing to do these days?
My response, in a word, "bullshit".
And quickly find out that they're druggies and/or idiots.
It's just a shame that they have no talent.
I'm glad that you think you're now ultra-hip and "edgy" for listening to music that nobody else wants to listen to. But eventually it will become obvious - even to you - that 99% of indie is shithouse. The RIAA has their fair share of very talented artists, and not listening to them just because they're RIAA "minions" is the real hypocrisy. Why don't you try listening to music that is good, rather than music which is politically correct?
Oh, it's obvious in hindsight but I didn't think of it that way! That's a neat way of making Quicken show the cleared balance. Thanks for the tip.
Yes! The ISA Trident cards are still my video card of choice for consoles. Their character set has a nice curl on the lower-case 'l', making it really easy to distinguish from '1'. I've yet to find another card, any vendor, any bus, that has a font that nice.
That's not what he means. By "cleared" he means that when he writes the cheque is different to when the cheque is cashed. Quicken assumes that the cash is gone as soon as you write the cheque. GNUcash uses double-entry accounting so you can make it clear that there's a time-delay between writing a cheque and the recipient cashing the cheque.
I find GNUcash is an excellent double-entry ledger but I find it lacking for forecasts and graphing. GNUcash also has many interface bugs and uglies.
Or continue the hypocrisy with...
c) If an Australian broke an American law while in Afghanistan then the Americans will kidnap the Australian and hold him illegally without representation in a US military base.
And the reason you keep saying it is because you still don't understand what Microsoft got in trouble for.
The court case was not about the bundling of the browser. It was about the forceful tactics used by Microsoft against OEMs who wanted to ship Netscape Navigator. The OEMs were told - in no uncertain terms - that they would ship IE instead of Netscape or Microsoft would force them into bankruptcy.
OEMs should have the right to change bits as they see fit. Microsoft removed that right. This is the same reason why the so-called argument that "KDE ships with Konqueror!" is so idiotic. Vendors like RedHat have the option to ship KDE with or without Konqueror. OEMs like Compaq were not given that choice with IE on Windows.
The story is rife with biassed comments like this...
If this article is a true reflection of the industry's opinion then the operators are ignoring a major cause of the decline in pinball machines, and it's not a decline in popularity.
My local arcade has 4 pinballs and 3 of those have been broken and unplayable for weeks. I went to play the last remaining pinball machine last night and it died too: looks like the ball eject has finally failed. Wherever I go it's the same story. The pinball machines are typically broken and unusable. No wonder the arcade managers aren't showing any interest in buying them.
But it's not a lack of popularity from the consumers. Where there is working pinball you'll find hordes of people crowded around it with dozens of dollar coins lined up along the table top. And it's not just 20-somethings. Younger kids and teenagers are just as interested. It's difficult to find a working pinball, and it's even harder to fight your way through the crowd to play on one.
But the article only focusses on the elitist "People don't understand pinball" or the defeatist "Nobody wants to play pinball anymore". I think the article should have at least mentioned "Arcade managers don't like pinball because they're always broken".