While I would agree with you in the abstract that the open source community can do a lot better on some things, the bug was confirmed 2 days ago and patched immediately. Good software !== no bugs ever.
For those with AppleScript Studio and the Developers Tools installed, head on over to this path for all kinds of cool info:/Developer/Documentation/CoreTechnologies/AppleScr iptStudio/
it seem to me that making the default shell tcsh and letting power users change it to bash if they want might bave been a better alternative. also considering that all my scripts will now break under the defaults its not so good for me.
How is this different than making bash the default and letting power users choose tcsh or whatever else? Hell, you don't even need to be a power user if you like Terminal.app. Go to Preferences and change it.
After a decades-long quest, scientists analyzing data from NASA's Mars Global Surveyor spacecraft have at last found critical evidence the spacecraft's infrared spectrometer instrument was built to search for: the presence of water-related carbonate minerals on the surface of Mars.
However, the discovery also potentially contradicts what scientists had hoped to prove: the past existence of large bodies of liquid water on Mars, such as oceans. How this discovery relates to the possibility of ephemeral lakes on Mars is not known at this time.... [continues]
First of all, you can't let people complain about lack of candidates. You've got to pick a few when you do important elections. Those are the breaks.
Ideally, the system should allow voters to suggest candidates if they're feeling creative. There should be a warning message strongly suggesting reading past election results first, though.
Maybe put some disclaimers on it to keep expections down, like "This whole thing is wildly inaccurate. Rounding errors, ballot stuffers, dynamic IPs, firewalls. If you're using these numbers to do anything important, you're insane."
Ferris Research estimates that spam will cost U.S. businesses more than $10 billion in 2003, and that spam accounts for 15% to 20% of inbound e-mail at U.S.-based corporate organizations.
ATTN: SPAMMERGOD2000
I humbly appeal to you on behalf of the entire internet family to save us from starvation,poverty and srangulation by assisting us to move this money from its location back into our nominated bank accounts where it will be safe,since i cannot read my email now due to the spam imposed on the internet family and i seek your assistance to clear this spam for investment advice as i need your co-operation please.
I think watercooler computers are a bad idea. I have enough trouble getting interrupted in my cubicle without a crowd of people wanting to stand around my computer talking about yesterday's episode of "American Idol 4: The Revenge."
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We'll know if these "negotiations" fall apart if "www.icannwatch.org" suddenly displays SiteFinder.
Quicksilver, Volume One of the Baroque Cycle, is the new doorstop...
;)
You know, it's a good thing I love Neil Stephenson, 'cause 900 pages is not so much doorstop sized as *door* sized.
Just like good posts don't require logical operators that actually exist.
And anal rejoinders don't require snooty pseudo-knowledge that's actually wrong.
While I would agree with you in the abstract that the open source community can do a lot better on some things, the bug was confirmed 2 days ago and patched immediately. Good software !== no bugs ever.
in Trafalgar Square or that square in London with all the pigeons?
[raises finger and inhales]
Erm...
[lowers finger and shakes head]
What is this corny, backwards obsession with wanting to have an actual flesh-and-bones human up there?
Because it's there.
FYI, the above link gives money to the linker.
I think we can now safely transfer the "Apple Is Dying" meme from Apple Computer to Apple Records.
who are you, and where is the real slashdot?
.009: M.I.6 agent with a License to Assume the Port of Mars.
He's Henry V
tell application "System Events" to sleep
I don't know what you'd do with them, but I'm sure some wanker on here is already complaining there aren't 2200 buttons. ;)
C'mon guys, don't forget to say hi to the Olson twins when you see them on campus next year!
Wow! Imagine a Beowulf cluster of...
Er, ah, forget I said anything.
Maybe we will see Microsoft do this, they like to sue the little guy.
No, no. Microsoft likes to *buy* the little guy. The RIAA likes to sue the little guy. And SCO likes to sue the big guys to get bought by them.
And it's a good thing those options exist since IE is no longer going to be developed.
For those with AppleScript Studio and the Developers Tools installed, head on over to this path for all kinds of cool info: /Developer/Documentation/CoreTechnologies/AppleScr iptStudio/
There's also online resources, naturally: Apple's AppleScript site, AppleScript Studio Essentials docs, the AppleScript Studio mailing list, and lots of other stuff.
Not to nitpick, but one can run softwareupdate as nonroot in order to check for updates, then sudoing it for the actual install.
it seem to me that making the default shell tcsh and letting power users change it to bash if they want might bave been a better alternative. also considering that all my scripts will now break under the defaults its not so good for me.
How is this different than making bash the default and letting power users choose tcsh or whatever else? Hell, you don't even need to be a power user if you like Terminal.app. Go to Preferences and change it.
WOPR: "Strange gaim...the only winning move is to ignore the DMCA..."
Anyhow, JPL sent out a press release yesterday: New Findings Could Dash Hopes for Past Oceans on Mars
First of all, you can't let people complain about lack of candidates. You've got to pick a few when you do important elections. Those are the breaks.
Ideally, the system should allow voters to suggest candidates if they're feeling creative. There should be a warning message strongly suggesting reading past election results first, though.
Maybe put some disclaimers on it to keep expections down, like "This whole thing is wildly inaccurate. Rounding errors, ballot stuffers, dynamic IPs, firewalls. If you're using these numbers to do anything important, you're insane."
Or maybe not.
Ferris Research estimates that spam will cost U.S. businesses more than $10 billion in 2003, and that spam accounts for 15% to 20% of inbound e-mail at U.S.-based corporate organizations.
ATTN: SPAMMERGOD2000
I humbly appeal to you on behalf of the entire internet family to save us from starvation,poverty and srangulation by assisting us to move this money from its location back into our nominated bank accounts where it will be safe,since i cannot read my email now due to the spam imposed on the internet family and i seek your assistance to clear this spam for investment advice as i need your co-operation please.
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I think watercooler computers are a bad idea. I have enough trouble getting interrupted in my cubicle without a crowd of people wanting to stand around my computer talking about yesterday's episode of "American Idol 4: The Revenge."
Ooooh, 192.168.1.103 is a vulnerable Windows box! Time for some hacking! I'll show asv108 who's....
What the--
In Soviet Russia, Boris Yeltsin looks like you!
(with apologies, comrades)