Of everyone I've ever talked to, from Microsoft to @Home to various OEMs to NSI etc, Nomonthlyfees.com, the web hosting service has the absolute best support I've seen.
On the phone you're on hold only a few minutes, and not one of the techs flinched on my questions.
Email support is even good. It took only 30 minutes to get a response... at 10pm on a Sunday Night!
For all of the support services that suck, these guys truly shine. (and aside from having a website hosted by them, I have no other affiliation).
the american (mis)-spelling of 'paedophiles' as 'pedophiles' means that it ends up translating as 'foot fetishists' rather than being a reference to children
Well, we've fixed that by making ped- a reference to children, and pod- a reference to the foot. Pediatrists are doctors to children, Podiatrists are doctors to feet. So in US English, it's not a misnomer, it's a modification.
Quite an amusing story, but the major problem is that there are 435 members of the House of Representatives - an odd number. It is impossible for them to tie.
And just to note, if the senate (100 members) ties, as with all senate ties, the VP (Gore) casts the deciding vote.
Thanks for that heads-up, I missed that part. I wasn't exactly sure what the sentence was supposed to mean... I assumed something like "Nero's Leet Script Kiddies Established Here".
Upgraded from RH 6.0 (never bothered to upgrade to.1 or.2, sinc it was working fine, aside from security patches). The only problem I ran into was with the new.rpmsave &.rpmnew system. It moved/etc/X11/xdm/Xsession to/etc/X11/xdm/Xsession.rpmsave AND it put the new Xsession in as.rpmnew (leaving me with no plain Xsession file). I wasn't able to log in to X until I rectified the situation.
Other than that, though, RH7 has been a dream. It recognized my second ethernet card, and I'm now able to play with ipchains and samba and all sorts of 'neato' stuff.
So far I don't see any other bugs either. They must all be in programs that I don't use.:P
I have another idea that would help with the moderation problem - simply, for each post moderated there would be some way to say "I like this moderation" or "I think this moderation is wrong".
For intentionally misleading URLs, such as whitehouse.com, use a hosts file to circumvent your DNS server, and point to the URL of the actual whitehouse.gov website.
Granted, not many parents will know how to do that, but those informed enough to know how and why filters don't work, should.
Yeah, I lost an MS Natural to a Snapple spill last month. Poof. DOA.
HOWEVER, the MS Natural clone (PC Concepts "Wave" keyboard) that I've had on my other computer for twice as long, survived a similar spill and keeps on ticking.
It's different from MMP games like EQ and UO because it does not take place in one persistant world. Your character goes with you from game to game. Each game can have 1-8 people in it, and the world map is randomly generated.
In short, D2 is more centered around character advancement and item collection than impact on the world. (because there is no single "world")
-- Fester
That's not Gnome's fault - Gnome is the environment. It's your windows manager that handles the setting for this.
I'm using Sawfish right now, it came with Gnome 1.2 and I found it really nifty. In Sawfish you can turn that off with a single checkbox in the control center (under Sawfish->Workspaces).
I don't know how one would go about doing that in Enlightenment (or something else), if that's what you're using. But since it CAN be done, it's likely that the other wm's have a setting for it too.
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The only thing Microsoft has to do is to release its own version of the Line OS.
Did I misread this, or did this article just refer to Linux as "The Line OS"?
-- Fester
Of everyone I've ever talked to, from Microsoft to @Home to various OEMs to NSI etc, Nomonthlyfees.com, the web hosting service has the absolute best support I've seen.
On the phone you're on hold only a few minutes, and not one of the techs flinched on my questions.
Email support is even good. It took only 30 minutes to get a response... at 10pm on a Sunday Night!
For all of the support services that suck, these guys truly shine. (and aside from having a website hosted by them, I have no other affiliation).
-- Fester
You don't know how right you are :)
-- Fester
Well, we've fixed that by making ped- a reference to children, and pod- a reference to the foot. Pediatrists are doctors to children, Podiatrists are doctors to feet. So in US English, it's not a misnomer, it's a modification.
-- Fester
The constitution only protects us from government censorship. Domain registrars are no longer an agent of the government.
-- Fester
Quite an amusing story, but the major problem is that there are 435 members of the House of Representatives - an odd number. It is impossible for them to tie.
And just to note, if the senate (100 members) ties, as with all senate ties, the VP (Gore) casts the deciding vote.
-- Fester
Here's the proof that 2=1:
a=b
a^2=ab
a^2-b^2=ab-b^2
(a+b)(a-b) = b(a-b)
a+b=b
a=b.. so a+b=b+b
therefore
b+b=b
2b=b
2=1
Of course, there is an error in there (because we all know that 2 doesn't really equal 1), amuse yourself for a few minutes and find it.
-- Fester
Thanks for that heads-up, I missed that part. I wasn't exactly sure what the sentence was supposed to mean... I assumed something like "Nero's Leet Script Kiddies Established Here".
:P
Serves me right for not knowing Latin.
-- Fester
Nero MCCCXXXVII VkrIpVII kIddXIII est.
Translate from Roman Numerals to Arabic Numerals, and get:
Nero 1337 5kr1p7 k1dd13 est.
Translate from r33t haxx0r speak to English and get:
Nero Leet Script Kiddie est.
-- Fester
Timothy, meet michael. Michael, Timothy. Shake hands. There you go.
-- Fester
Upgraded from RH 6.0 (never bothered to upgrade to .1 or .2, sinc it was working fine, aside from security patches). The only problem I ran into was with the new .rpmsave & .rpmnew system. It moved /etc/X11/xdm/Xsession to /etc/X11/xdm/Xsession.rpmsave AND it put the new Xsession in as .rpmnew (leaving me with no plain Xsession file). I wasn't able to log in to X until I rectified the situation.
:P
Other than that, though, RH7 has been a dream. It recognized my second ethernet card, and I'm now able to play with ipchains and samba and all sorts of 'neato' stuff.
So far I don't see any other bugs either. They must all be in programs that I don't use.
-- Fester
I have another idea that would help with the moderation problem - simply, for each post moderated there would be some way to say "I like this moderation" or "I think this moderation is wrong".
It's called MetaModeration.
-- Fester
For intentionally misleading URLs, such as whitehouse.com, use a hosts file to circumvent your DNS server, and point to the URL of the actual whitehouse.gov website.
Granted, not many parents will know how to do that, but those informed enough to know how and why filters don't work, should.
-- Fester
Yeah, I lost an MS Natural to a Snapple spill last month. Poof. DOA.
HOWEVER, the MS Natural clone (PC Concepts "Wave" keyboard) that I've had on my other computer for twice as long, survived a similar spill and keeps on ticking.
-- Fester
*crumples up this entire article and drops it in a nearby memory hole*
Do you remember it? I don't remember it. It never existed.
-- Fester
I dunno... he did, you know, invent TCP/IP and whatnot. He deserves a bit more credit than being called "just another suit".
-- Fester
I just lost a lot of the respect I had for Vint Cerf...
-- Fester
It's different from MMP games like EQ and UO because it does not take place in one persistant world. Your character goes with you from game to game. Each game can have 1-8 people in it, and the world map is randomly generated. In short, D2 is more centered around character advancement and item collection than impact on the world. (because there is no single "world")
-- Fester
> - Drag and Drop
:P). No problems installing it on RedHat 6.0 or Mandrake 7.1.
Several window managers do this. Gnome and KDE do, at least.
> but installing Gnome is annoyingly hard
The latest release of Gnome (1.2) has a very nice installer (Microsoftish!
-- Fester
Simple - All the script kiddies are USING AOL.
-- Fester
> Is Slashdot being attacked by the killer
> Micros~1 ? == ' feature too?
You know, I've never figured out excatly WHY that happens. Why does it?
-- Fester
That's not Gnome's fault - Gnome is the environment. It's your windows manager that handles the setting for this.
I'm using Sawfish right now, it came with Gnome 1.2 and I found it really nifty. In Sawfish you can turn that off with a single checkbox in the control center (under Sawfish->Workspaces).
I don't know how one would go about doing that in Enlightenment (or something else), if that's what you're using. But since it CAN be done, it's likely that the other wm's have a setting for it too.
-- Fester
I suppose because a service plan is required for a phone to operate as intended, be it landline or wireless.
A computer, on the other hand, does NOT require internet service to work as intended, and therefore the need for Internet service is not assumed
Also, the "free" cell phones are the ENTIRE cell phone. As opposed to the "free" computer, which does not include a monitor.
-- Fester
I believe they already have such a warning.
Part of their MOTD states, after a somewhat lengthy disclaimer: "Compliance with copyright law remains your responsibility."
-- Fester
Aerosmith, eh?
Even funnier, my name is Stephen Tyler.
Uh, no relation
-- Fester