No, I'm at Stevens Tech. RIT... you wouldn't happen to know Alex Golden (from Everyone) would you? We're trying to go from dual T1s to something that has 15 Mbit capacity, I have no idea what it's called. We have an advanced network lab funded by at&t, so I have no idea why we don't have faster. The new pipe is being hindered by Bell Atlantic's (now Verizon) refusal to do anything until we sign an agreement that says they can shut us off instantly if the students are suspected of illegal activities. Needless to say the college admin is saying "fuck off"
I like the innocent before guilty thing, I keep forgetting that one, and it disturbs me that I do.
Napster in general annoys me because Napster is allowed on my campus, but Starcraft isn't. Diablo II is allowed, but Starcraft isn't. The entire campus playing Brood War wouldn't take up as much bandwidth as a dozen people d/ling mp3z. I just don't understand it. --
Peace,
Lord Omlette
ICQ# 77863057
Ok, obviously the universities aren't required to police the online activities of their students, but how the hell do you justify pirating music (not the only napster use, i know that, now hush) as "academic freedom" and "access to information"? Coming from a school where most of the classes require some (if not all) work to be done on or based on the web, knowing I'm paying $30k and I'm not gonna be able to do my homework because a bunch of slackers who won't be there next semester because they're d/ling music truly pisses me off.
Most of these uni kids are on high speed connections right? How many of the snot-nosed brats do you think are the bastards who wait until you're at 90% and then cut you off? ^^;; --
Peace,
Lord Omlette
ICQ# 77863057
A description of how to remove aim ads is available at my website at http://www.omlettesoft.com/impage.php3 with two caveats. One: everyone here has already described it. Two: everyone seems to ignore the fact that doing it places lots of weird menu items in your menu that look weird, but are mostly harmless but could scare you into thinking you did something wrong.
But this isn't just about removing ads is it? it's about replacing it with the winamp oscilloscope. Whee.
Netscape AIM has no ads, neither does Novell InstantME, but the latter is horribly unstable.
As is mentioned on my home page, I have one burning question: who originally came up with the idea of removing aim ads? I'd love to speak to the guy/gal... Does that person want to remain anonymous?
TiK (tik.sourceforge.net) has no ads and it's open source. kickass. --
Peace,
Lord Omlette
ICQ# 77863057
^_^;; okie, $300 for an official statement of "we're trustworthy" vs someone accusing you of not respecting their privacy. decisions decisions... --
Peace,
Lord Omlette
ICQ# 77863057
the reason most nt projects are like what you described is as much for speed as for separating everything out... consider compiling your php as an interim step to fully scalable code. --
Peace,
Lord Omlette
ICQ# 77863057
does the server automatically (ok, not automatically) handle transactions (atomic operations) for your cgi modules (the "COM objects")? in an n-tier environment, you usually use MTS to handle something like that... in win2k i think it's called com+ but i'm not sure. that's the only thing i can think of that would make your analogy less than kosher. --
Peace,
Lord Omlette
ICQ# 77863057
changed that... With WLBS, Session state is distributed, so it's possible to have working Server farms. Whether their performance/stability/religion is acceptable to you is another thing altogether, but it's no longer as tricky as it used to be... --
Peace,
Lord Omlette
ICQ# 77863057
right and by posting to the web, we're all exercising our right to free speech... but the fact is, it's perfectly possible for us to get sued just because we disagree with someone. we're supposed to be prepared for it... wide-eyed naivity [sp] is not the way to go on the net. --
Peace,
Lord Omlette
ICQ# 77863057
Doesn't the W3C have that PICS standard thingee? You could register with their website and mod your rating up to prevent little kids from going there. Any irate parents would have the blame solely placed on themselves.
One of my favorite hentai webcomics uses a cookie on the disclaimer page to make sure you've gone through the front at least once. If you're looking at a page and that cookie isn't there, make sure the very top of the page has a warning that you haven't read the disclaimer and should read that before proceeding.
Privacy: rule # 1: Don't be a dick. "Do unto others as you would have them do unto you" may make non-christians sick, but it's a pretty good way to make decisions. Try it, you might like it. rule # 2: All you need for truste certification (i think) is to disclose your privacy policy and every single way in which you collect user information and how you use it.
Copyright: put your own copyright on every single page you've written. Reference reference reference If you've taken something from someone else, document it, and even better, get permission. If you don't know who said something, but it's not yours, say so and hope the other party comes forward. If you let someone else post on your website, remember to document in plain view that these other people's views are their own and may not necessarily reflect your own. Plan ahead: if you think something will be abused, it will be. If you think it won't be abused, it will be. Welcome to the internet.
If you're going to post something to the net and you think you could get in legal trouble, then fuck you, stop whining, go talk to a lawyer. Lesser of three evils: spend money on a lawyer, go to jail, don't publish. Well?! CHOOSE DAMMIT! If you don't, someone else will.
Change your content to publish only trivial things that involve linux or sensationalized headlines, then get bought out by VA Linux. Then you won't have to worry about money. whee --
Peace,
Lord Omlette
ICQ# 77863057
people start bitching about the necessity of going to college... well guess what, depending on where you go, you're going to be wired as hell. and there are cute co-eds around. so why live in a geek house when you can be in a geek dorm? --
Peace,
Lord Omlette
ICQ# 77863057
you're too good to have to stoop to their level. Remember: "Image is something, but wellbeing and dignity are things to show yourself." (Brillohead) --
Peace,
Lord Omlette
ICQ# 77863057
What part of XML don't you understand? Microsoft plans to use it for just about everything... If you want to be left behind, don't use XML. --
Peace,
Lord Omlette
ICQ# 77863057
besides keeping windows around for dvds (supporting the mpaa) and diablo ii, you keep it around for the sims as well? (cause if you don't like the sims, then why would that gamecenter article be funny?) --
Peace,
Lord Omlette
ICQ# 77863057
I'm sure he's running Windows or something, but imagine if he was as 1337 as all of you and running Linux, and the RIAA started suing all the major Linux distro companies?
Ooh, there's something to suggest... It's open source, so it must be evil. --
Peace,
Lord Omlette
ICQ# 77863057
Slashdot Mirror
sorry, cheap attempt at being a karma whore. i need more practice.
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Peace,
Lord Omlette
ICQ# 77863057
if both sides had fully open sourced products, there wouldn't be a problem now would there?
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Peace,
Lord Omlette
ICQ# 77863057
it has features.
whee!
--
Peace,
Lord Omlette
ICQ# 77863057
No, I'm at Stevens Tech. RIT... you wouldn't happen to know Alex Golden (from Everyone) would you? We're trying to go from dual T1s to something that has 15 Mbit capacity, I have no idea what it's called. We have an advanced network lab funded by at&t, so I have no idea why we don't have faster. The new pipe is being hindered by Bell Atlantic's (now Verizon) refusal to do anything until we sign an agreement that says they can shut us off instantly if the students are suspected of illegal activities. Needless to say the college admin is saying "fuck off"
I like the innocent before guilty thing, I keep forgetting that one, and it disturbs me that I do.
Napster in general annoys me because Napster is allowed on my campus, but Starcraft isn't. Diablo II is allowed, but Starcraft isn't. The entire campus playing Brood War wouldn't take up as much bandwidth as a dozen people d/ling mp3z. I just don't understand it.
--
Peace,
Lord Omlette
ICQ# 77863057
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=00/09/12/121720 0&mode=thread
Sometime last week I think. ai yai yai
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Peace,
Lord Omlette
ICQ# 77863057
there's nothing you can't do with those bad boys.
--
Peace,
Lord Omlette
ICQ# 77863057
dies horribly with winnt 4.0sp6 workstation
^^;;
--
Peace,
Lord Omlette
ICQ# 77863057
Ok, obviously the universities aren't required to police the online activities of their students, but how the hell do you justify pirating music (not the only napster use, i know that, now hush) as "academic freedom" and "access to information"? Coming from a school where most of the classes require some (if not all) work to be done on or based on the web, knowing I'm paying $30k and I'm not gonna be able to do my homework because a bunch of slackers who won't be there next semester because they're d/ling music truly pisses me off.
Most of these uni kids are on high speed connections right? How many of the snot-nosed brats do you think are the bastards who wait until you're at 90% and then cut you off? ^^;;
--
Peace,
Lord Omlette
ICQ# 77863057
A description of how to remove aim ads is available at my website at http://www.omlettesoft.com/impage.php3 with two caveats. One: everyone here has already described it. Two: everyone seems to ignore the fact that doing it places lots of weird menu items in your menu that look weird, but are mostly harmless but could scare you into thinking you did something wrong.
But this isn't just about removing ads is it? it's about replacing it with the winamp oscilloscope. Whee.
Netscape AIM has no ads, neither does Novell InstantME, but the latter is horribly unstable.
As is mentioned on my home page, I have one burning question: who originally came up with the idea of removing aim ads? I'd love to speak to the guy/gal... Does that person want to remain anonymous?
TiK (tik.sourceforge.net) has no ads and it's open source. kickass.
--
Peace,
Lord Omlette
ICQ# 77863057
^_^;; okie, $300 for an official statement of "we're trustworthy" vs someone accusing you of not respecting their privacy. decisions decisions...
--
Peace,
Lord Omlette
ICQ# 77863057
nice ^_^
--
Peace,
Lord Omlette
ICQ# 77863057
the reason most nt projects are like what you described is as much for speed as for separating everything out... consider compiling your php as an interim step to fully scalable code.
--
Peace,
Lord Omlette
ICQ# 77863057
does the server automatically (ok, not automatically) handle transactions (atomic operations) for your cgi modules (the "COM objects")? in an n-tier environment, you usually use MTS to handle something like that... in win2k i think it's called com+ but i'm not sure. that's the only thing i can think of that would make your analogy less than kosher.
--
Peace,
Lord Omlette
ICQ# 77863057
changed that... With WLBS, Session state is distributed, so it's possible to have working Server farms. Whether their performance/stability/religion is acceptable to you is another thing altogether, but it's no longer as tricky as it used to be...
--
Peace,
Lord Omlette
ICQ# 77863057
right and by posting to the web, we're all exercising our right to free speech... but the fact is, it's perfectly possible for us to get sued just because we disagree with someone. we're supposed to be prepared for it... wide-eyed naivity [sp] is not the way to go on the net.
--
Peace,
Lord Omlette
ICQ# 77863057
no fair telling us you have a website without giving us a url to slashdot. ^_^
--
Peace,
Lord Omlette
ICQ# 77863057
Doesn't the W3C have that PICS standard thingee? You could register with their website and mod your rating up to prevent little kids from going there. Any irate parents would have the blame solely placed on themselves.
One of my favorite hentai webcomics uses a cookie on the disclaimer page to make sure you've gone through the front at least once. If you're looking at a page and that cookie isn't there, make sure the very top of the page has a warning that you haven't read the disclaimer and should read that before proceeding.
Privacy: rule # 1: Don't be a dick. "Do unto others as you would have them do unto you" may make non-christians sick, but it's a pretty good way to make decisions. Try it, you might like it. rule # 2: All you need for truste certification (i think) is to disclose your privacy policy and every single way in which you collect user information and how you use it.
Copyright: put your own copyright on every single page you've written. Reference reference reference If you've taken something from someone else, document it, and even better, get permission. If you don't know who said something, but it's not yours, say so and hope the other party comes forward. If you let someone else post on your website, remember to document in plain view that these other people's views are their own and may not necessarily reflect your own. Plan ahead: if you think something will be abused, it will be. If you think it won't be abused, it will be. Welcome to the internet.
If you're going to post something to the net and you think you could get in legal trouble, then fuck you, stop whining, go talk to a lawyer. Lesser of three evils: spend money on a lawyer, go to jail, don't publish. Well?! CHOOSE DAMMIT! If you don't, someone else will.
Change your content to publish only trivial things that involve linux or sensationalized headlines, then get bought out by VA Linux. Then you won't have to worry about money. whee
--
Peace,
Lord Omlette
ICQ# 77863057
people start bitching about the necessity of going to college... well guess what, depending on where you go, you're going to be wired as hell. and there are cute co-eds around. so why live in a geek house when you can be in a geek dorm?
--
Peace,
Lord Omlette
ICQ# 77863057
go to fuckedcompany.com. then explain to me where anyone sees a shortage of employees.
--
Peace,
Lord Omlette
ICQ# 77863057
you're too good to have to stoop to their level. Remember: "Image is something, but wellbeing and dignity are things to show yourself." (Brillohead)
--
Peace,
Lord Omlette
ICQ# 77863057
What part of XML don't you understand? Microsoft plans to use it for just about everything... If you want to be left behind, don't use XML.
--
Peace,
Lord Omlette
ICQ# 77863057
I submitted a full hour before they went back up. But the story was rejected.
bastards.
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Peace,
Lord Omlette
ICQ# 77863057
but is it really an excuse to be horribly rude?
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Peace,
Lord Omlette
ICQ# 77863057
besides keeping windows around for dvds (supporting the mpaa) and diablo ii, you keep it around for the sims as well? (cause if you don't like the sims, then why would that gamecenter article be funny?)
--
Peace,
Lord Omlette
ICQ# 77863057
I'm sure he's running Windows or something, but imagine if he was as 1337 as all of you and running Linux, and the RIAA started suing all the major Linux distro companies?
Ooh, there's something to suggest... It's open source, so it must be evil.
--
Peace,
Lord Omlette
ICQ# 77863057