That's useful if the spam is actually *to* your address. The majority of spam I recieve isn't even addressed to me. I've been told it's because I have only 3 letters in my login.
My question is: Is the spam actually to my address, even if it doesn't show, or is it some sort of catch all that I happen to be in the middle of?
*no offense to any Amish folk reading or hearing about this post;-)
Heh, I highly doubt there are any Amish folk reading your post unless they've secretly invented some sort of all-natural way to browse the web...
Sure, they might hear about it, but I also highly doubt Brother Job and Brother Thomas discuss the latest happenings on Slashdot while they're kicking back after the barn raising.
You seem to forget what happened with Harvard and Packet Storm Security a while back. PSS was hosted on Harvard's servers, and simply a call from JP (JP!! of all people!) threatening to sue made Harvard shut it down. If a little wannabe "security specialist" that is reviled by his own community can make harvard bow, I'm pretty sure very rich celebrities can too.
Yeah, I know they did, but it doesn't stop the fact that they call it an "Alternative Browser Review". The Neoplanet dig was based mainly at all the no-clues who you hear referring to it as a browser. The dig at the article was the uselessness of it.
... that people keep wanting to call NeoPlanet a "browser". All it is is some prettied up overlay for IE, yet stupid people still insist that it is an "alternative". Seems like Cnet and, in turn, slashdot, is pretty hard of for articles. Anybody can draw up a form in vb, throw a browser control on it and it's a damn alternative browser.
An article on New Coke vs. Coke Classic would probably be a more useful article than this...
I thinking paying for ranking is bad thing, but you can't really hold it against google, since almost every other search engine does the same thing... hell, some search engines won't even list you at all unless you pay (or bid, which means it may only cost a penny, until someone with more money wants to outrank you).
Kinda sad, but that's capitalism for ya.
HTML 4 is the standard, not 3.2. If you don't care about standards and want a fast browser, just use lynx... all you seem to want is speed right, then there you go?
And what the hell does java have to do with the HTML standard?
Re:GNOME vs KDE Episode 18: Pointlessness
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Not to play devil's advocate, but a few of those things are almost exactly the same as windows.
- double-clicking a taskbar icon will iconify that application. great for getting stuff out of your way.
Umm.. singling clicking a taskbar minimizes a window. I assume you're talking about the same thing
- right-clicking a taskbar icon gives you a menu which includes 'iconify other windows', which is really handy since I usually have like 14 Konsoles, 11 Netscapes, GAIM, XMMS, Quanta+ and StarOffice open simultaneously.
How about (in windows) right clicking the taskbar and selecting "minimize all windows".
- Alt-F2 brings up a little input field which I can use to start an app quicker than using the menus. It keeps a history too, so I can cycle through previous commands.
How about the Win+R for the run command.... it keeps a history too.
Point is not that windows is better or whatever. The point is that it is simply imitating alot of features and mannerisms of the Windows GUI. There's nothing really innovative about what you're mentioning.
Sounds support *is* turned on. There was no need to recompile your kernel. On older distros my SBLive wasn't supported either. All I had to do was compile the module itself and enter "alias sound emu10k1" in my modules.conf.
Sure, it's not completely idiot proof, but a hell of a lot simpler than recompiling the kernel.
Have *you* ever installed Redhat? All you have to do is click the next button and you're done.
Recompiling the kernel? Umm... unless you're running some really esoteric stuff, you don't *ever* need to, unless you're upgrading or just want to trim off the unecessary stuff. The Redhat kernel defaults to supporting just about everything.
Hell, even the slackware install is pretty easy if text doesn't scare you. About the only install I could see new users having trouble with is Debian, since it actually asks you about some modules, but most other distros detect it ahead of time.
How many times will everyone run with this topic before you realize that it's not possible. The GNU license is one reason why it wouldn't be closed source, but the big reason why it couldn't even get that far is that MS signed a deal a long time ago that they can't produce any sort of UNIX. It was part of the agreement when they bought IRIX.
umm... as far as your sblive goes, you can download the source from http://opensource.creative.com/. Most every new distro already comes with the module already there anyway. It's called emu10k1.
Now, if you're talking about the horribly incompabtible binary "enhanced" driver Creative provides, then your Redhat argument carries some weight, but I don't think a kernel module that you compile yourself can be in any way related to Redhat.
Re:mozilla feature complete? bullshit
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Layers? I hate to tell you this, but layer tag is not part of the HTML 4.0 standard, nor *any* standard. It's a Netscape proprietary tag, something which shouldn't be used by any self-respecting web developer. If you want REAL layers, use the div tag, it works similarly and is accepted in all HTML4 compliant browsers.
Funny that you should laud IE as so great when it doesn't support your layer tags at all either... twas a silly tag anyway, since div existed at the same time and had the support of the w3c.
There is a reason Marijuana is illegal, and it's not because of danger and addiction. While alchohol and tobacco are more dangerous and more addicitive, they are both social facilitative drugs. An executive can come back from a martini lunch where he smoked a few cigars and still be able to function in a similar (maybe louder, maybe some bad decisions) manner to that which he did before lunch. If the same executive went out and smoked a couple of joints he is usually more likely to want to engage in a more introspective activity (not that it is bad, but to modern society standards, some folks don't view introspection as very productive). It's primarily a societal view.... the majority of politicians and "powerful" people are usually extroverts, and the idea of a drug which provokes introspection is absolutely abhorrent to them.
Think about it: alcohol and cigarettes are primarily "dealing with it" type drugs. They usually make a stressful situation more bearable, or give the illusion of having a better time. Marijuana would usually simply have the effect of making you want to go to a more "mellow" environ rather than stay in work-hell or around people that you may *have* to talk to, but don't want to.
There's nothing wrong with marijuana, but the current society model works as a total antithesis to its effects.
You fail to realize that your vote is only as good as your reprasentative is. You do know that your rep can vote however he/she chooses, and it's their vote that counts. The people's vote is just something to keep the masses happy. People bitched about communism because of the assumption that people were too stupid to govern themselves.. isn't that exactly what we do with our reprasentatives?
Call me a bad citizen, but voting doesn't make that much of a difference when your talking about the president.
... is some sort of collective legal action against the RIAA on behalf of the independant artists who use Napster as a distribution method. I know that they are not even minutely close to being to majority of music on Napster, but shutting napster down affects a bit more than just preventing the supposed "piracy", and the courts should take that into consideration.
If anyone remembers their old Anarchist Cookbook, it is also simple enough to create a lethat poison by cooking garden variety dip for awhile, concentrating the nicotine. Igestion will cause almost immediate cardiac arrest. Plus, if the intended victim smokes, it's relatively untraceable! Fun knowledge for everyday life.
It's not flamebait... it's a troll... duh... I'm personally amused at the power of this particular one... all these replies and some of them even mod'ed up for gods sake. I would have figured that/. readers would be a little more perceptive...
Now, I have to agree that it's nice to see that much technical information, but when the whole discussion is represented by a total falsehood (ie the headline) it sort of detracts from that warm, fuzzy feeling. It seems to me that as/. gets larger, it seems more and more like some fledging site run by two guys just messing around (aside from all the other names). Irony, no?
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That's useful if the spam is actually *to* your address. The majority of spam I recieve isn't even addressed to me. I've been told it's because I have only 3 letters in my login.
My question is: Is the spam actually to my address, even if it doesn't show, or is it some sort of catch all that I happen to be in the middle of?
Try vim. The windows version looks almost exactly like the gtk version. You can either grab the dos-box version (vim) or the GUI version (gvim).
That way, you have the exact same editing enviroment for both linux and windows.
Because you live in CA, where $100K a year is equivalent to $50K a year most anywhere else, outside of the larger cities.
Heh, I highly doubt there are any Amish folk reading your post unless they've secretly invented some sort of all-natural way to browse the web...
Sure, they might hear about it, but I also highly doubt Brother Job and Brother Thomas discuss the latest happenings on Slashdot while they're kicking back after the barn raising.
You seem to forget what happened with Harvard and Packet Storm Security a while back. PSS was hosted on Harvard's servers, and simply a call from JP (JP!! of all people!) threatening to sue made Harvard shut it down. If a little wannabe "security specialist" that is reviled by his own community can make harvard bow, I'm pretty sure very rich celebrities can too.
Yeah, I know they did, but it doesn't stop the fact that they call it an "Alternative Browser Review". The Neoplanet dig was based mainly at all the no-clues who you hear referring to it as a browser. The dig at the article was the uselessness of it.
Oh please... this is from an article I read a while back and someone had the stupidity to moderate it up... What a well crafted troll...
... that people keep wanting to call NeoPlanet a "browser". All it is is some prettied up overlay for IE, yet stupid people still insist that it is an "alternative". Seems like Cnet and, in turn, slashdot, is pretty hard of for articles. Anybody can draw up a form in vb, throw a browser control on it and it's a damn alternative browser.
An article on New Coke vs. Coke Classic would probably be a more useful article than this...
I thinking paying for ranking is bad thing, but you can't really hold it against google, since almost every other search engine does the same thing... hell, some search engines won't even list you at all unless you pay (or bid, which means it may only cost a penny, until someone with more money wants to outrank you). Kinda sad, but that's capitalism for ya.
HTML 4 is the standard, not 3.2. If you don't care about standards and want a fast browser, just use lynx... all you seem to want is speed right, then there you go? And what the hell does java have to do with the HTML standard?
Not to play devil's advocate, but a few of those things are almost exactly the same as windows.
Umm.. singling clicking a taskbar minimizes a window. I assume you're talking about the same thing
How about (in windows) right clicking the taskbar and selecting "minimize all windows".
How about the Win+R for the run command.... it keeps a history too.
Point is not that windows is better or whatever. The point is that it is simply imitating alot of features and mannerisms of the Windows GUI. There's nothing really innovative about what you're mentioning.
As long as you want a HTML 3.2 compliant browser... who needs standards, eh?
I think they meant Wireless Optical Networking which isn't so widespread.
Sounds support *is* turned on. There was no need to recompile your kernel. On older distros my SBLive wasn't supported either. All I had to do was compile the module itself and enter "alias sound emu10k1" in my modules.conf. Sure, it's not completely idiot proof, but a hell of a lot simpler than recompiling the kernel.
Have *you* ever installed Redhat? All you have to do is click the next button and you're done. Recompiling the kernel? Umm... unless you're running some really esoteric stuff, you don't *ever* need to, unless you're upgrading or just want to trim off the unecessary stuff. The Redhat kernel defaults to supporting just about everything. Hell, even the slackware install is pretty easy if text doesn't scare you. About the only install I could see new users having trouble with is Debian, since it actually asks you about some modules, but most other distros detect it ahead of time.
ok, got me there. I guess is was xenix then. I just remember MS buying a unix flavor and cutting a deal to do so.
How many times will everyone run with this topic before you realize that it's not possible. The GNU license is one reason why it wouldn't be closed source, but the big reason why it couldn't even get that far is that MS signed a deal a long time ago that they can't produce any sort of UNIX. It was part of the agreement when they bought IRIX.
umm... as far as your sblive goes, you can download the source from http://opensource.creative.com/. Most every new distro already comes with the module already there anyway. It's called emu10k1.
Now, if you're talking about the horribly incompabtible binary "enhanced" driver Creative provides, then your Redhat argument carries some weight, but I don't think a kernel module that you compile yourself can be in any way related to Redhat.
Layers? I hate to tell you this, but layer tag is not part of the HTML 4.0 standard, nor *any* standard. It's a Netscape proprietary tag, something which shouldn't be used by any self-respecting web developer. If you want REAL layers, use the div tag, it works similarly and is accepted in all HTML4 compliant browsers.
Funny that you should laud IE as so great when it doesn't support your layer tags at all either... twas a silly tag anyway, since div existed at the same time and had the support of the w3c.
There is a reason Marijuana is illegal, and it's not because of danger and addiction. While alchohol and tobacco are more dangerous and more addicitive, they are both social facilitative drugs. An executive can come back from a martini lunch where he smoked a few cigars and still be able to function in a similar (maybe louder, maybe some bad decisions) manner to that which he did before lunch. If the same executive went out and smoked a couple of joints he is usually more likely to want to engage in a more introspective activity (not that it is bad, but to modern society standards, some folks don't view introspection as very productive). It's primarily a societal view.... the majority of politicians and "powerful" people are usually extroverts, and the idea of a drug which provokes introspection is absolutely abhorrent to them. Think about it: alcohol and cigarettes are primarily "dealing with it" type drugs. They usually make a stressful situation more bearable, or give the illusion of having a better time. Marijuana would usually simply have the effect of making you want to go to a more "mellow" environ rather than stay in work-hell or around people that you may *have* to talk to, but don't want to. There's nothing wrong with marijuana, but the current society model works as a total antithesis to its effects.
You fail to realize that your vote is only as good as your reprasentative is. You do know that your rep can vote however he/she chooses, and it's their vote that counts. The people's vote is just something to keep the masses happy. People bitched about communism because of the assumption that people were too stupid to govern themselves.. isn't that exactly what we do with our reprasentatives? Call me a bad citizen, but voting doesn't make that much of a difference when your talking about the president.
... is some sort of collective legal action against the RIAA on behalf of the independant artists who use Napster as a distribution method. I know that they are not even minutely close to being to majority of music on Napster, but shutting napster down affects a bit more than just preventing the supposed "piracy", and the courts should take that into consideration.
If anyone remembers their old Anarchist Cookbook, it is also simple enough to create a lethat poison by cooking garden variety dip for awhile, concentrating the nicotine. Igestion will cause almost immediate cardiac arrest. Plus, if the intended victim smokes, it's relatively untraceable! Fun knowledge for everyday life.
It's not flamebait... it's a troll... duh... I'm personally amused at the power of this particular one... all these replies and some of them even mod'ed up for gods sake. I would have figured that /. readers would be a little more perceptive...
Now, I have to agree that it's nice to see that much technical information, but when the whole discussion is represented by a total falsehood (ie the headline) it sort of detracts from that warm, fuzzy feeling. It seems to me that as /. gets larger, it seems more and more like some fledging site run by two guys just messing around (aside from all the other names). Irony, no?