Yes, like Leni Riefenstahl, also dead today. Both vigorously supported some of the most destructive and forces known to humanity. Together, they could probably take over hell.
Hm? The DRI for ATI cards under FreeBSD works fine, just not always for the most recent cards. I personally prefer it to using closed-source kernel modules.
Aren't they rated at 90-some HP? I have a 2.0L Jetta right now, and at 115HP, it's acceptable, but not what I'd call fast. I'll get an aftermarket turbocharger on it at some point;)
Is it just me, or don't diesel engines produce a rather nasty amount of emissions? I thought I heard something about Golf TDIs not even being legal here in California because of emissions. That said, my hope for the future would be some kind of ethanol-based alternative - I really don't think electric or biodiesel can come close to the horsepower and acceleration of modern gas-powered cars, and I love to drive.
Er, so? Why is one body part worse than another? It's all dead flesh, which I personally think is yum. I see a lot of Americans squirm about it - probably the same people who won't eat sashimi - when people are killing octopii, etc. Do these people not know where meat comes from?
Exactly. The show is going to flop, just like so many other American remakes of overseas shows. Iron Chef needs wierd ingredients, live eels, Chairman Kaga and strangely translated tasters waxing philosophical about the food. An American version...ick. UPN probably sees it as another "reality show", which have all ben crap so far, IMHO.
Agreed, I hate the see-through driver bastards. And sure, people will cheat, but at least now there's ways to prevent them from using some of the more obnoxious ones. Now if punkbuster would just keep people from playing in the same room and reporting to each other on the other team's movements when they're dead...
Exactly. The show blew, plain and simple - I know some people think that kind of stuff is funny anyhow, but when the media tries to do the whole geek-chic stuff, it just never works. It wasn't nearly as bad, but I still can't understand how people can enjoy Hackers(other than the 2 very prominent, obvious reasons) - even if it was supposed to be inaccurate in a funny way, I still cringe.
The Lone Gunmen, on the other hand, was a bunch of obnoxious pseudo-techspeak mixed with run of the mill unfunny Fox comedy. I'm glad it's dead.
I'm not saying a scripting language would be bad, but it seems strange to want to do something so large scale in perl, for the usual reasons - poor readability, maintainability, etc. isn't the best of choices. I'd think Ruby or Python would be better for serious software development - perl can do a lot of things, but for the most part is good for small hack jobs.
It more seems that GNU folks don't get the point. I personally don't care about some hippie notion of "Free Software", I don't care about RMS' opinon of what is really "free", whether things or GPL-compatible, or other such bullshit. I just want to have the source available to me if I need it.
To me, GPL software is just as restrictive as IBM's, Sun's, and Apple's - I'd never release software under such a restrictive license, so I can't use any GPL'd code for derivative works in any event. And I get pretty sick of RMS' whining fascist rants about other people not using the GPL, and obsessive nitpicking over semantics in other licenses. Be happy you get corporations to release source at all, people.
According to the article they're looking for people with biology and supercomputer experience. Somehow, I'd hope they'd use something a bit more sophisticated than slashdot kiddies' perl scripts to run on their Crays.
I'd lean towards lack of use. It's amazingly risky to carry around that much money in a single bill. Would -you- carry around a 10,000 bill, and risk forgetting to take it out when you washed your jeans?
You think that's bad - when I actually wrote a page for a project I did for the US gov, I was told to strip it down so that it was compatible with Mosaic. That was a year ago.
You want to see source or not? Fer chrissakes, some is better than none. Deal with the fact that releasing code under the GPL is a particularly stupid thing for a corporation who is supposed to make a profit to do. Thanks to the recent economic shakeout getting rid of the plethora of linux-oriented companies, there's not much you can point to to say "Free" software is very profitable.
I've only played with icq under windows and gaim, but the main reason I shied away from it was the not-quite-instant messenger part of it - the method being more like e-mail rather than chat, and one of the worst-looking UIs I'd seen since Lotus Notes. I tend to like AIM better as it's simple, compact, and to the point.
I doubt it. I installed jabber myself, tried to install the transports and found they wouldn't compile under anything other than Linux, and the transports on jabber.com and jabber.org were rarely running, much less working properly when they were. There were improper notifications of people logging or logging out - you'd send a message to someone who wasn't online and never get an error, although their status was still online. Worse yet, you'd get disconnected and never actually know.
The clients are all either astoundingly buggy(gabber) or extremely ugly(WinJab). The protocol is poorly documented - ask anyone who's tried to write a client. I did, and just couldn't find the information I needed to get more advanced features working.
Don't get me wrong, Jabber has great potential, and I tried really hard to use it and advocate it, but it's been far overhyped and has a looong way to go before it's usable for a mainstream audience(much like Linux, IMO). Eventually I gave up and used gaim, since it supports all the protocols and is fairly stable - and I got sick of telling my friends to use jabber and then having to make excuses for why things broke constantly.
To sum up: if you want a decent IM system with a future, use Jabber. If you want to communicate with 90% of the other people in the world using an IM system, stick with gaim or everybuddy.
So the claim only holds true if you're running the most current and patched version? In that case, there hasn't been a remote root hole in FreeBSD for years either, because they patch things after the vulnerability is reported. If you're running a current version, you're not vulnerable. I think it's pretty clear that the 4 year claim isn't true, as much as I like OpenBSD. Install 2.7, there's a remote root hole. That happened in the last 4 years.
Oh for chrissakes, as someone who's had his ass kicked under suspicion of being homosexual (done once to a friend of mine who looked very similar to me as well), I never thought while reading that post that he meant "that homosexual fish".
This reminds me of the great filtering system NetPositive 3+ for BeOS used to have. User-defined filtering rules that worked for almost anything, and it was actually built into the browser, so it would remove the offending html from the page before it hit the renderer.
Yeah, but the problem with that is that it makes it so you can't click on links that open in a new window. They need to change it so that it only disables window popups that weren't immediately preceded by a click on the relevant link.
There already is legislation to block ads, twit. Advertisers aren't allowed to run ads that blatantly lie, they can't say "fuck", pharmaceutical companies have to list side effects and usage info, and tobacco companies aren't allowed to run TV ads at all. There aren plenty of restrictions on advertising - there is no right to corporate free speech.
1) Make jabber not suck.
2) Make jabber clients not suck.
I mean, look at the options. Gabber, which is horribly unstable and has awful trouble building on non-linux systems, Jarl, which is good but not too current, WinJab, which is way ugly but featureful, and JabberIM, which is simple but lacks functionality. It's very hard for programmers to take full advantage of jabber, since the full protocol is horribly documented, and the server itself is in pretty poor shape as far as transports are concerned.
I hear a lot of talk about jabber, but I see very little to back it up. I've used it periodically, even to the exclusion of better free clients (gaim, supports all the protocols jabber does but actually works), but the quality of the transports and the complete lack of portability of the transports and server are very frustrating. I even tried to write my own client, but ran into the documentation roadblock myself, and confirmed the problem with authors of other jabber clients.
Jabber has great potential, but it needs a LOT of work to realize it, and I think the articles in OSS rags touting it as some kind of IM panacea do more harm than good.
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Yes, like Leni Riefenstahl, also dead today. Both vigorously supported some of the most destructive and forces known to humanity. Together, they could probably take over hell.
Hm? The DRI for ATI cards under FreeBSD works fine, just not always for the most recent cards. I personally prefer it to using closed-source kernel modules.
AFAIK, the recent release of IPFW does allow for stateful inspection. Looks like it's still under development and making improvements.
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Aren't they rated at 90-some HP? I have a 2.0L Jetta right now, and at 115HP, it's acceptable, but not what I'd call fast. I'll get an aftermarket turbocharger on it at some point ;)
-=lx=-
Is it just me, or don't diesel engines produce a rather nasty amount of emissions? I thought I heard something about Golf TDIs not even being legal here in California because of emissions. That said, my hope for the future would be some kind of ethanol-based alternative - I really don't think electric or biodiesel can come close to the horsepower and acceleration of modern gas-powered cars, and I love to drive.
-=lx=-
Er, so? Why is one body part worse than another? It's all dead flesh, which I personally think is yum. I see a lot of Americans squirm about it - probably the same people who won't eat sashimi - when people are killing octopii, etc. Do these people not know where meat comes from?
-=lx=-
Exactly. The show is going to flop, just like so many other American remakes of overseas shows. Iron Chef needs wierd ingredients, live eels, Chairman Kaga and strangely translated tasters waxing philosophical about the food. An American version...ick. UPN probably sees it as another "reality show", which have all ben crap so far, IMHO.
-=lx=-
Agreed, I hate the see-through driver bastards. And sure, people will cheat, but at least now there's ways to prevent them from using some of the more obnoxious ones. Now if punkbuster would just keep people from playing in the same room and reporting to each other on the other team's movements when they're dead...
-=lx=-
Exactly. The show blew, plain and simple - I know some people think that kind of stuff is funny anyhow, but when the media tries to do the whole geek-chic stuff, it just never works. It wasn't nearly as bad, but I still can't understand how people can enjoy Hackers(other than the 2 very prominent, obvious reasons) - even if it was supposed to be inaccurate in a funny way, I still cringe.
The Lone Gunmen, on the other hand, was a bunch of obnoxious pseudo-techspeak mixed with run of the mill unfunny Fox comedy. I'm glad it's dead.
-=lx=-
I'm not saying a scripting language would be bad, but it seems strange to want to do something so large scale in perl, for the usual reasons - poor readability, maintainability, etc. isn't the best of choices. I'd think Ruby or Python would be better for serious software development - perl can do a lot of things, but for the most part is good for small hack jobs.
-lx
I knew someone who went through airports regularly with way more gold than that. They never actually noticed...
-lx
It more seems that GNU folks don't get the point. I personally don't care about some hippie notion of "Free Software", I don't care about RMS' opinon of what is really "free", whether things or GPL-compatible, or other such bullshit. I just want to have the source available to me if I need it.
To me, GPL software is just as restrictive as IBM's, Sun's, and Apple's - I'd never release software under such a restrictive license, so I can't use any GPL'd code for derivative works in any event. And I get pretty sick of RMS' whining fascist rants about other people not using the GPL, and obsessive nitpicking over semantics in other licenses. Be happy you get corporations to release source at all, people.
-lx
According to the article they're looking for people with biology and supercomputer experience. Somehow, I'd hope they'd use something a bit more sophisticated than slashdot kiddies' perl scripts to run on their Crays.
-lx
I'd lean towards lack of use. It's amazingly risky to carry around that much money in a single bill. Would -you- carry around a 10,000 bill, and risk forgetting to take it out when you washed your jeans?
-lx
You think that's bad - when I actually wrote a page for a project I did for the US gov, I was told to strip it down so that it was compatible with Mosaic. That was a year ago.
-lx
You want to see source or not? Fer chrissakes, some is better than none. Deal with the fact that releasing code under the GPL is a particularly stupid thing for a corporation who is supposed to make a profit to do. Thanks to the recent economic shakeout getting rid of the plethora of linux-oriented companies, there's not much you can point to to say "Free" software is very profitable.
-lx
I've only played with icq under windows and gaim, but the main reason I shied away from it was the not-quite-instant messenger part of it - the method being more like e-mail rather than chat, and one of the worst-looking UIs I'd seen since Lotus Notes. I tend to like AIM better as it's simple, compact, and to the point.
That's just me tho.
-lx
I doubt it. I installed jabber myself, tried to install the transports and found they wouldn't compile under anything other than Linux, and the transports on jabber.com and jabber.org were rarely running, much less working properly when they were. There were improper notifications of people logging or logging out - you'd send a message to someone who wasn't online and never get an error, although their status was still online. Worse yet, you'd get disconnected and never actually know.
The clients are all either astoundingly buggy(gabber) or extremely ugly(WinJab). The protocol is poorly documented - ask anyone who's tried to write a client. I did, and just couldn't find the information I needed to get more advanced features working.
Don't get me wrong, Jabber has great potential, and I tried really hard to use it and advocate it, but it's been far overhyped and has a looong way to go before it's usable for a mainstream audience(much like Linux, IMO). Eventually I gave up and used gaim, since it supports all the protocols and is fairly stable - and I got sick of telling my friends to use jabber and then having to make excuses for why things broke constantly.
To sum up: if you want a decent IM system with a future, use Jabber. If you want to communicate with 90% of the other people in the world using an IM system, stick with gaim or everybuddy.
-lx
So the claim only holds true if you're running the most current and patched version? In that case, there hasn't been a remote root hole in FreeBSD for years either, because they patch things after the vulnerability is reported. If you're running a current version, you're not vulnerable. I think it's pretty clear that the 4 year claim isn't true, as much as I like OpenBSD. Install 2.7, there's a remote root hole. That happened in the last 4 years.
-lx
Oh for chrissakes, as someone who's had his ass kicked under suspicion of being homosexual (done once to a friend of mine who looked very similar to me as well), I never thought while reading that post that he meant "that homosexual fish".
-lx
This reminds me of the great filtering system NetPositive 3+ for BeOS used to have. User-defined filtering rules that worked for almost anything, and it was actually built into the browser, so it would remove the offending html from the page before it hit the renderer.
-lx
Yeah, but the problem with that is that it makes it so you can't click on links that open in a new window. They need to change it so that it only disables window popups that weren't immediately preceded by a click on the relevant link.
-lx
There already is legislation to block ads, twit. Advertisers aren't allowed to run ads that blatantly lie, they can't say "fuck", pharmaceutical companies have to list side effects and usage info, and tobacco companies aren't allowed to run TV ads at all. There aren plenty of restrictions on advertising - there is no right to corporate free speech.
-lx
no, *they* forgot about it. I live here, I know what bloody time it is...
1) Make jabber not suck.
2) Make jabber clients not suck.
I mean, look at the options. Gabber, which is horribly unstable and has awful trouble building on non-linux systems, Jarl, which is good but not too current, WinJab, which is way ugly but featureful, and JabberIM, which is simple but lacks functionality. It's very hard for programmers to take full advantage of jabber, since the full protocol is horribly documented, and the server itself is in pretty poor shape as far as transports are concerned.
I hear a lot of talk about jabber, but I see very little to back it up. I've used it periodically, even to the exclusion of better free clients (gaim, supports all the protocols jabber does but actually works), but the quality of the transports and the complete lack of portability of the transports and server are very frustrating. I even tried to write my own client, but ran into the documentation roadblock myself, and confirmed the problem with authors of other jabber clients.
Jabber has great potential, but it needs a LOT of work to realize it, and I think the articles in OSS rags touting it as some kind of IM panacea do more harm than good.
-lx