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From the old (version 1) man page of fvwm:
The name "FVWM" used to stand for something, but I forgot what. (Feeble, famous, foobar? It doesn't really matter, this is an acronym based society anyway.)
I certainly don't remember featherweight, and I can't find the original announcement. The earliest Usenet posting (Jun 1 1993) I could find refers to it as feeble. But it doesn't really matter, since I haven't used fvwm in years, and really don't have any plans to go back. After all, I have 256MB of RAM.
It's theoretically possible to triangulate the position of a wireless NIC. But there are so many things in an office/urban environment that interfere with the signal that it seems like it would be quite difficult.
Generally triangulation works by having three receivers in a triangle surrounding the transmitter, calculating the signal strength of the received signal at each station, and from this information you can determine the location of the transmitter with some trigonometry.
In your typical 802.11[abg] environment, you're going to have all sorts of obstructions between you and the transmitter you're trying to locate that triangulation will give you a ballpark area at best. But that should be sufficient, given a small enough space, to locate the transmitter with your eyeballs.
Did somebody forget to proofread this article before posting? That makes no sense - how in the fuck can you undercut a free product? How is such a market "promising" if no sales are made? How is there even what could be called a "market" for something that is free? Doesn't one have to buy or sell in a market?
In the U.S. flooding a market with a product at well below cost, if you are a monopoly, is called "dumping" and is quite illegal.
Your basic copy of Red Hat Linux costs $39.95-$149.95. Your basic copy of Windows XP costs $99 - $299. It's a market whenever someone uses the product, no matter what they eventually pay for it. And Red Hat gives away free copies because they have to. Microsoft gives away free copies because...?
HUH? This is supposed to be an uber-secure system and you don't have to administer it? Somebody explain this to me like I'm a two year old, because I just don't get it.
Citadel solves this problem by requiring that all users log in to the SMTP server, and secondly by rewriting the From: address to the user's actual address. This violates the RFC, but it makes spoofing the From address impossible, and the responsible user very easy (for the Citadel sysadmin) to find.
(And yes, you can turn this off if you really want to.)
I notice the difference between that and normal printing paper easily. So where are these people getting that style of paper, and does it change the quaility or ability to print... or are bar tenders and the such just stupid and don't realize?
Not after you set the bills down on a bar that's wet due to drink spillage, etc. The other thing is that bartending is VERY fast paced, it would be easy to not notice.
If you want an intelligent discussion of philosophy, read a book you lazy fucks.
So what if it's dumbed-down? The Matrix may be deeper than your average movie, but it's pretty shallow compared to actually reading Simulacra and Simulation (which I have read, mainly because of seeing it in the movie). To oversimplify, the basic premise is that "the map is not the territory" (obvious) and that we actually have no way of knowing the actual territory (the "real" world) (not obvious). All we have are distorted perceptions of something that might or might not be real.
So relax and enjoy the movie. If you want an intelligent discussion of philosophy, go find a philosopher. Think of the "philosophy" in The Matrix trilogy as teasers designed to get inside your head and start you thinking about these issues. The movie isn't meant to start an intelligent discussion. What it does well is to get people to begin to think about things of a philosophical and metaphysical nature, which they might not have otherwise.
Don't rip to vorbis, rip to FLAC and then never worry about having to re-rip to the format dejure again. Disk is cheap, go lossless for archival purposes and then whenever you need it in a lossy format, just use the FLAC version as your base source and convert on the fly. Makes it easy to support MP3, Vorbis, AAC, AARP, NCAA, etc.
The problem with FLAC is I only get compression to about half the original size. Where am I going to get a 250GB drive for my laptop?
HP Fellow Norm Jouppi told HP World Magazine that the BiReality system prototype, now in its second version, is made with off-the-shelf parts, including two very fast Windows PCs, four cameras, a series of directional microphones and speakers.
This prototype will crash even faster than the previous prototype! It crashes very fast!
Which brings up another point. What if the robot is moving when Windows crashes? Will it STOP, or just display a STOP error while it keeps on rolling right into somebody?
...is to move to an apartment with central air conditioning. I also have a programmable thermostat so the thing doesn't need to run when nobody's home.
As for lawyers, well Stelios likes them. As he owns EasyJet, EasyRentaCar and others, he has a nasty tendancy to sue for any domain name that starts with Easy* and Easi*.
Sure, Tivo has the 30 second skip if you have the right model and you enter in the Easter Egg, but most people don't surf around for Easter Eggs and therefore aren't aware of it
You mean this one: While watching any show, hit SELECT > PLAY > SELECT > 3 > 0 > SELECT. Hear the satisfying DINGDINGDINGDINGDING! noise. Your Advance button now does 30 second skip.
You need to enter it again if you reboot your TiVo.
ERROR, while I appreciate that you recognize the need to issue corrospondance, your perception of timing is dead wrong. By the time your congressman has "done something" he will have already picked sides, requiring a much LOUDER voice for any significant sway. Best to be the first heard on any issue you care about.
You make a good point. Write your Congressmonkey now, so they will become aware of the issues, and will have forgotten all about it by the time a bill gets introduced. In other words, you'll have to write them AGAIN. Not that big a deal, I suppose.
In fact, Smith's main single contributor was Microsoft!
This is not surprising, since his district, the Ninth District of Washington, is where Microsoft is. I am not surprised that he is representing their interests.
I wouldn't be surprised if the other Congressmonkeys behind this were being financed by the movie and record industries.
It isn't time to spam your Congressmonkey yet. They haven't DONE anything, or even proposed to do anything yet. When they actually start doing something, then it will be time to act.
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The name "FVWM" used to stand for something, but I forgot what. (Feeble, famous, foobar? It doesn't really matter, this is an acronym based society
anyway.)
I certainly don't remember featherweight, and I can't find the original announcement. The earliest Usenet posting (Jun 1 1993) I could find refers to it as feeble. But it doesn't really matter, since I haven't used fvwm in years, and really don't have any plans to go back. After all, I have 256MB of RAM.
Try running the headless client, e.g. btdownloadheadless.py File.torrent
My 650Mhz P3 hardly even notices it's there.
Generally triangulation works by having three receivers in a triangle surrounding the transmitter, calculating the signal strength of the received signal at each station, and from this information you can determine the location of the transmitter with some trigonometry.
In your typical 802.11[abg] environment, you're going to have all sorts of obstructions between you and the transmitter you're trying to locate that triangulation will give you a ballpark area at best. But that should be sufficient, given a small enough space, to locate the transmitter with your eyeballs.
An error occurred while launching the setup. (0x8000ffff)
Among other errors in various other attempts. I guess you just can't install spyware in WINE.
In the U.S. flooding a market with a product at well below cost, if you are a monopoly, is called "dumping" and is quite illegal.
Your basic copy of Red Hat Linux costs $39.95-$149.95. Your basic copy of Windows XP costs $99 - $299. It's a market whenever someone uses the product, no matter what they eventually pay for it. And Red Hat gives away free copies because they have to. Microsoft gives away free copies because...?
HUH? This is supposed to be an uber-secure system and you don't have to administer it? Somebody explain this to me like I'm a two year old, because I just don't get it.
Only if you're using the Martian-language regional settings.
...with downloading pr0n to my cell phone is the screen is so small that all I can view are the thumbnails!
(And yes, you can turn this off if you really want to.)
Not after you set the bills down on a bar that's wet due to drink spillage, etc. The other thing is that bartending is VERY fast paced, it would be easy to not notice.
So what if it's dumbed-down? The Matrix may be deeper than your average movie, but it's pretty shallow compared to actually reading Simulacra and Simulation (which I have read, mainly because of seeing it in the movie). To oversimplify, the basic premise is that "the map is not the territory" (obvious) and that we actually have no way of knowing the actual territory (the "real" world) (not obvious). All we have are distorted perceptions of something that might or might not be real.
So relax and enjoy the movie. If you want an intelligent discussion of philosophy, go find a philosopher. Think of the "philosophy" in The Matrix trilogy as teasers designed to get inside your head and start you thinking about these issues. The movie isn't meant to start an intelligent discussion. What it does well is to get people to begin to think about things of a philosophical and metaphysical nature, which they might not have otherwise.
The problem with FLAC is I only get compression to about half the original size. Where am I going to get a 250GB drive for my laptop?
Now when I DO get a vorbis player, I'm going to have to spend about 300 hours re-ripping my entire collection.
This prototype will crash even faster than the previous prototype! It crashes very fast!
Which brings up another point. What if the robot is moving when Windows crashes? Will it STOP, or just display a STOP error while it keeps on rolling right into somebody?
...is to move to an apartment with central air conditioning. I also have a programmable thermostat so the thing doesn't need to run when nobody's home.
Is this the same guy who owns easyEverything?
G) a nice-looking product full of internal design flaws.
You mean this one: While watching any show, hit SELECT > PLAY > SELECT > 3 > 0 > SELECT. Hear the satisfying DINGDINGDINGDINGDING! noise. Your Advance button now does 30 second skip.
You need to enter it again if you reboot your TiVo.
I'll switch to a 128-bit time() function. And then the universe will end long before it overflows.
Only if you're still using a 32-bit C library. If you use a 64-bit time() function, you'll be okay for about 250 billion years or so.
We're all preparing for Y2038.
You make a good point. Write your Congressmonkey now, so they will become aware of the issues, and will have forgotten all about it by the time a bill gets introduced. In other words, you'll have to write them AGAIN. Not that big a deal, I suppose.
Man, this protecting our rights stuff is HARD. :-)
This is not surprising, since his district, the Ninth District of Washington, is where Microsoft is. I am not surprised that he is representing their interests.
I wouldn't be surprised if the other Congressmonkeys behind this were being financed by the movie and record industries.
It isn't time to spam your Congressmonkey yet. They haven't DONE anything, or even proposed to do anything yet. When they actually start doing something, then it will be time to act.
Unfortunately it doesn't, but this will.
# ln -s ../../X11R6/lib/libXm.so.3 /usr/local/lib/libXm.so.2
# ldconfig
# rpm --nodeps -ivh opera-7.11-20030515.4-shared-qt.i386.rpm
Works perfectly, as far as I can tell.