This was posted to the SpellChecker Email List last night (14 Nov 2002). After 2.5 months without a spellchecker for Mozilla on Win32, someone finally released one that works. See
http://mozillacafe.org/MozSpell_1.2f_w32.xpi.
Just in case anyone wondered, using the spellchecker from spellchecker.mozdev.org has not worked for Win32 nightly builds, Mozilla 1.1 or 1.2b releases since the end of August. The spellcheck.xpi from Netscape 7 may work for these Linux builds but does not work for Win32.
Back in January 2002, Slashdot had a major font page story about
Comcast attempting to block customer using NAT. Now that ATTBI is going to become Comcast, how long will I be able to keep my home network? Does anyone know if Comcast has been successful in this effort?
Actually, that's in the Declaration of Independence, not the US Constitution.
"...We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty, and the pursuit of Happiness."
I still argue that there are responsibilities of good citizenship that come with the rights we enjoy as citizens.
Don't get me wrong: I strongly believe in and support the first amendment. But I also believe that you're a coward if you hide behind the First Amendment and don't have the courage stand behind your words.
"I disapprove of what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it." - Voltaire
Yes, the press is free to do all these things... but that doesn't mean they should. I think what you're complaining about is Press Responsibility. This is part of a much larger problem in the US: Everyone thinks they know what their rights are, especially when they feel these rights are infringed upon. However, nobody wants to own up to the responsibilities that come with these rights. People, organizations and corporations should consider the responsibilities of good citizenship as well as what they perceive to be their rights.
There has been spell checker for Mozilla for some time now. You can download the mozilla spell checker from mozdev.org.
The site claims that the spellchecker should land in the mozilla tree probably right after 1.0. I guess it's late... but you can still download it yourself.
I heard the NPR Morning Edition
interview with Richard Clarke this morning. Yes, Clarke encourages "hackers" to take find security holes, but be responsible: after discovering the security hole, notify the government and the manufacturer, but DO NOT tell the world. Clarke argues that he wants the software manufacturer to have time to develop a patch before announcing the vulnerability.
Clarke also said he wants "Computer Security Specialists" to hack and not the people doing it for fun. This ambiguity is the problem: how do you define "Computer Security Specialist"? Most of everything I learned about IT came through hacking for fun. Now I'm employed as a "Computer Security Specialist."
Industry always balks at government mandates, the later conforms to the regulation. For example, look at the requirement that all TVs have closed caption capability. First the industry complained that it would increase costs dramatically. Once the manufacturers stopped complaining, they integrated everything needed to meet the requirement onto a single chip that costs are less than $1 per set. Now the same will be done with digital receivers.
I got the Best gift possible for SysAdmin Day ...
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Sysadmin Day. Yay.
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A job offer. It arrived via Fed-Ex this morning after 4 months of unemployment.
I'm going to the meeting for the Northern Boston Suburb which is at the Gallery Café, 5 Cambridge Parkway, Cambridge. I checked the map and it looks like the Gallery Café is at the Museum of Science. Does anyone know if this is correct?
Living in Boston, I frequently hear about stranded hikers who call 911 while hiking in the White Mountains in New Hampshire. Cell phones have became so common and these calls happen so frequently that it has actually become a problem. To discourage this behavior (unprepared hikers
calling 911 to be rescued), the authorities came to a unique solution: Bill the caller for the cost of the rescue.
Let me be clear; not every hiker who calls 911 will be billed. If you have a genuine emergency, please use 911. But if you're stranded due to your own stupidity, you're going to pay.
You say the universe is conspiring to keep you unemployed, yet what you want to do with your time is fill in gaps in your Babylon 5 collection?
What's wrong with this picture? Could it be that YOU are part of the conspiracy? Perhaps, say, the leader?
That's only *ONE* thing I'm doing with my time - and that's only 1 hour a day, four days a week.
I've been working hard to find a job as a UNIX SysAdmin in Boston, but the tech sector sucks and the recovery is slower here than in other parts of the country. My contact sheet for this week (required for unemployment in MA) is already over 32 lines this week. I've had several interviews already, but no job, yet. I'm also talking to someone about a contracting position tomorrow morning that came through the Boston Linux User's Group discussion list.
But then again, why am I defending myself against a troll?
There's an old story circulating among my geekier friends about someone who figured out how to do this with disk packs while working as a third shift a systems operator. Disk packs used to fail at a fairly high rate and it was not possible to tell a good pack from a bad one by looking. This operator figured out how to use the read/write heads to chip sections out of the top platter so that the word DEAD could be read at a glance.
I've been using Mozilla since 0.92. Only in the last month did I turn on pipelining. In Win2k, the difference is dramatic: now, Mozilla is almost as fast as IE. So I would say yes; under Win2k piplining makes that much difference.
I specifically remember this event. Continental Cable, the precursor of MediaOne and my cable provider at the time did this very thing in Northwest Connecticut in the early 1990's. There was a Pay Per View boxing match scheduled for a particular night. Since it was a Pay Per View event, the cable company had an exact list of everyone who had officially ordered (and paid for) the event. The cable company sent a special "commercial" for a free T-shirt to everyone tuned to the Pay Per View channel but also sent a signal to the cable boxes of everyone who paid for the program telling their cable boxes not to show the commercial. The result was that dozens of people called the "toll free" number and turned themselves in.
I have two feelings on the subject:
1. After spending over $1000 (over a number of years) on their product, Continental Cable didn't consider me good customer, but a suspect. How I longed for competition in cable industry.
2. I took this as a warning and learned my lesson well. Beware of anyone offering you something for free.
The article says that IBM made a chipset to take advantage the new memory speed, but what CPU does the chipset support? Athlon? P4? G4/G5? Anyone? Bueller? Bueller? Frye?
I ran Windows Update last night and downloaded this patch for my Win2k system. I logged into my regular user account and all I get is my backgrond screen - no icons, no start menu, etc. I was able to do CTRL-ALT-DELETE to start the task manager and therefore Mozilla, which I'm using now to post this message.
I tried the same method described above to start IE and Windows Explorer. Both failed. I read the TechNet bulletin referred to in other posts. It looks like MS updated the code that support something they're calling a "local resource file". Correct me if I'm worng, but doesn't MS use "local resource files" to handle the desktop in Win2k?
BTW, the only positive outcome is that my memory usage has dropped form 135 MB to about 80 MB. Besides my desktop, among the missing applications are my AntiVirus program and firewall.
Finally, I get the same symptom when I try to use the Administrator account. I don't know how I'm going to back out the patch if I can't run the Control Panel Applet without IE/Windows Explorer.
Any pointers would be appreciated. Good thing I have a Linux box and/or Mozilla to fall back on.
of a fully loaded Clarion that some company had loaded onto the back of a truck to move from one building to another. Basically, it was a move across the parking lot. FYI, a Clarion is a fully racked system about 8 feet tall used for network attached storage.
Two guys with the truck got the Clarion onto the the truck, but DIDN'T LOCK THE WHEELS. The truck was on a slight incline. Out rolled the Clarion, over the edge of the lift, tipped top first. The pictures show the Clarion trapped, between the lift and the asphault of the parking lot at about a 30 degree angle.
I bet A) Someone lost their job for this. B) Some sales manager at EMC was delighted. C) That some insurance company is very unhappy.
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When I clicked on the link to Fat Wallet's front page and was greeted with a link to their "Featured Store", which is none other than Target.
This is truely The Worst Part, being screwed by your "Partners". This looks like a case of the lawyers not doing their research.
This was posted to the SpellChecker Email List last night (14 Nov 2002). After 2.5 months without a spellchecker for Mozilla on Win32, someone finally released one that works. See http://mozillacafe.org/MozSpell_1.2f_w32.xpi.
Just in case anyone wondered, using the spellchecker from spellchecker.mozdev.org has not worked for Win32 nightly builds, Mozilla 1.1 or 1.2b releases since the end of August. The spellcheck.xpi from Netscape 7 may work for these Linux builds but does not work for Win32.
Back in January 2002, Slashdot had a major font page story about Comcast attempting to block customer using NAT. Now that ATTBI is going to become Comcast, how long will I be able to keep my home network? Does anyone know if Comcast has been successful in this effort?
Actually, that's in the Declaration of Independence, not the US Constitution.
"...We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty, and the pursuit of Happiness."
I still argue that there are responsibilities of good citizenship that come with the rights we enjoy as citizens.
Don't get me wrong: I strongly believe in and support the first amendment. But I also believe that you're a coward if you hide behind the First Amendment and don't have the courage stand behind your words.
"I disapprove of what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it." - Voltaire
Yes, the press is free to do all these things ... but that doesn't mean they should. I think what you're complaining about is Press Responsibility. This is part of a much larger problem in the US: Everyone thinks they know what their rights are, especially when they feel these rights are infringed upon. However, nobody wants to own up to the responsibilities that come with these rights. People, organizations and corporations should consider the responsibilities of good citizenship as well as what they perceive to be their rights.
There has been spell checker for Mozilla for some time now. You can download the mozilla spell checker from mozdev.org.
The site claims that the spellchecker should land in the mozilla tree probably right after 1.0. I guess it's late... but you can still download it yourself.
He also points out that Google maintains a log of all you've ever searched for associated with a long-term cookie.
Good thing I search for p0rn with cookies, Java and JavaScript turned off! I also wipe my disk cache between sessions.
I heard the NPR Morning Edition interview with Richard Clarke this morning. Yes, Clarke encourages "hackers" to take find security holes, but be responsible: after discovering the security hole, notify the government and the manufacturer, but DO NOT tell the world. Clarke argues that he wants the software manufacturer to have time to develop a patch before announcing the vulnerability.
Clarke also said he wants "Computer Security Specialists" to hack and not the people doing it for fun. This ambiguity is the problem: how do you define "Computer Security Specialist"? Most of everything I learned about IT came through hacking for fun. Now I'm employed as a "Computer Security Specialist."
Industry always balks at government mandates, the later conforms to the regulation. For example, look at the requirement that all TVs have closed caption capability. First the industry complained that it would increase costs dramatically. Once the manufacturers stopped complaining, they integrated everything needed to meet the requirement onto a single chip that costs are less than $1 per set. Now the same will be done with digital receivers.
A job offer. It arrived via Fed-Ex this morning after 4 months of unemployment.
I'm going to the meeting for the Northern Boston Suburb which is at the Gallery Café, 5 Cambridge Parkway, Cambridge. I checked the map and it looks like the Gallery Café is at the Museum of Science. Does anyone know if this is correct?
Living in Boston, I frequently hear about stranded hikers who call 911 while hiking in the White Mountains in New Hampshire. Cell phones have became so common and these calls happen so frequently that it has actually become a problem. To discourage this behavior (unprepared hikers calling 911 to be rescued), the authorities came to a unique solution: Bill the caller for the cost of the rescue.
Let me be clear; not every hiker who calls 911 will be billed. If you have a genuine emergency, please use 911. But if you're stranded due to your own stupidity, you're going to pay.
You say the universe is conspiring to keep you unemployed, yet what you want to do with your time is fill in gaps in your Babylon 5 collection?
What's wrong with this picture? Could it be that YOU are part of the conspiracy? Perhaps, say, the leader?
That's only *ONE* thing I'm doing with my time - and that's only 1 hour a day, four days a week.
I've been working hard to find a job as a UNIX SysAdmin in Boston, but the tech sector sucks and the recovery is slower here than in other parts of the country. My contact sheet for this week (required for unemployment in MA) is already over 32 lines this week. I've had several interviews already, but no job, yet. I'm also talking to someone about a contracting position tomorrow morning that came through the Boston Linux User's Group discussion list.
But then again, why am I defending myself against a troll?
Thank you for the clarification. That is what I meant to say.
Although I may do this some day, the cost of over 100 hours of DVD video makes the cost prohibitive while unemployed.
Thanks for the info, though.
There's an old story circulating among my geekier friends about someone who figured out how to do this with disk packs while working as a third shift a systems operator. Disk packs used to fail at a fairly high rate and it was not possible to tell a good pack from a bad one by looking. This operator figured out how to use the read/write heads to chip sections out of the top platter so that the word DEAD could be read at a glance.
The potential cross-over product between the Lightsaber and sex toy industry. Click here to check out Count Dooko's Lightsaber and see what I mean.
I've been using Mozilla since 0.92. Only in the last month did I turn on pipelining. In Win2k, the difference is dramatic: now, Mozilla is almost as fast as IE. So I would say yes; under Win2k piplining makes that much difference.
Under Linux, however, I've noticed no difference.
BTW, I'm using a cable modem.
I specifically remember this event. Continental Cable, the precursor of MediaOne and my cable provider at the time did this very thing in Northwest Connecticut in the early 1990's. There was a Pay Per View boxing match scheduled for a particular night. Since it was a Pay Per View event, the cable company had an exact list of everyone who had officially ordered (and paid for) the event. The cable company sent a special "commercial" for a free T-shirt to everyone tuned to the Pay Per View channel but also sent a signal to the cable boxes of everyone who paid for the program telling their cable boxes not to show the commercial. The result was that dozens of people called the "toll free" number and turned themselves in.
I have two feelings on the subject:
1. After spending over $1000 (over a number of years) on their product, Continental Cable didn't consider me good customer, but a suspect. How I longed for competition in cable industry.
2. I took this as a warning and learned my lesson well. Beware of anyone offering you something for free.
I had a high school English teacher who once said, "Brilliant people make complex things simple."
Thank you for the clarification. Brief, to the point; the perfect response.
The article says that IBM made a chipset to take advantage the new memory speed, but what CPU does the chipset support? Athlon? P4? G4/G5? Anyone? Bueller? Bueller? Frye?
I ran Windows Update last night and downloaded this patch for my Win2k system. I logged into my regular user account and all I get is my backgrond screen - no icons, no start menu, etc. I was able to do CTRL-ALT-DELETE to start the task manager and therefore Mozilla, which I'm using now to post this message.
I tried the same method described above to start IE and Windows Explorer. Both failed. I read the TechNet bulletin referred to in other posts. It looks like MS updated the code that support something they're calling a "local resource file". Correct me if I'm worng, but doesn't MS use "local resource files" to handle the desktop in Win2k?
BTW, the only positive outcome is that my memory usage has dropped form 135 MB to about 80 MB. Besides my desktop, among the missing applications are my AntiVirus program and firewall.
Finally, I get the same symptom when I try to use the Administrator account. I don't know how I'm going to back out the patch if I can't run the Control Panel Applet without IE/Windows Explorer.
Any pointers would be appreciated. Good thing I have a Linux box and/or Mozilla to fall back on.
of a fully loaded Clarion that some company had loaded onto the back of a truck to move from one building to another. Basically, it was a move across the parking lot. FYI, a Clarion is a fully racked system about 8 feet tall used for network attached storage.
Two guys with the truck got the Clarion onto the the truck, but DIDN'T LOCK THE WHEELS. The truck was on a slight incline. Out rolled the Clarion, over the edge of the lift, tipped top first. The pictures show the Clarion trapped, between the lift and the asphault of the parking lot at about a 30 degree angle.
I bet A) Someone lost their job for this. B) Some sales manager at EMC was delighted. C) That some insurance company is very unhappy.
Thank you. I wish I had moderator points I could use on this post.
I just saw the commercial during Saturday Night Live. I'm surprised the commercial aired the same day as the story appeared on slashdot.
I wonder if it will be posted on the newly rivived Ad Critic, and itself distributed via the web and burned to CD-ROM?
Although I've never really been a fan of Gateway (home of Laptop Support Hell), but I'm glad they're doing this.