The last in the current Mark Thomas series was recorded this past Sunday for broadcast this evening.
There is to be a new series in the future, apparently - but Vera don't have much information yet.
As well as the C4 site you pointed to, you might be interested in the less official MTCP site - less official meaning C4's lawyers don't get to censor it;O)
When has User Friendly ever singed out a specific person and made fun of them? Anyone? If not, how can the comparison to a teacher making fun of a student make any sense?
Now, if a teacher singles out a specific individual for scorn and makes the class laugh at that person, then yes - that's not education and that's no teacher. But if the teacher points to a mistake, to something people might do, and show how that isn't exactly bright, then that's their job. And if they can do it with humour, then the students are far more likely to remember what they just learnt.
Who was your favourite teacher? What was about their teaching style that made them so? Chances are, they made you laugh.
IMHO, that's what Illiad is doing for the not-so-clueful who read UF. You can bet those guys aren't going to make that mistake.
Note that LINX has already been requested by LinuxOne, who seemingly will be the first IPO based soley on vapourware. I wonder if there are any rules about symbols being too similar?
OK, so I'm not totally for metered calls, but they actually have a side effect that seems to get ignored.
Ever wondered why most all of Europe is now fully covered by mobile phone towers, with the majority of the population owning a small, digital mobile phone - while the US is still mostly struggling with analogue systems, big, low-tech phones and most people still using just a pager if they have that?
If people in the US are getting most of their calls "for free" anyway, then a mobile phone suddenly takes on a whole new complexion. Your not just paying a bit more for calls and the convenience - you're paying the whole lot on top of what you already paid in you standing charge to your land-line telco for these unmetered calls - why pay twice?
So you get less take-up on the phones, so the mobile phone companies have less capital to feed back into the infrastructure, and lo and behold, the US is 5 years behind Europe in the next technological leap.
OK, so this isn't totally down to unmetered calls - the shear size of the country makes getting coverage for each company really, really expensive, too. But I think it's a big contributer.
For those of you who like the idea and/or reality of this show, you should look at Scrapheap which starts a new series early September on Channel 4 in the UK.
This show is hosted by Robert Llewellyn (yes, he of Kryten in Red Dwarf fame) and basically is a day long race between 2 teams to use anything they can find in a London scap heap to build machines to then compete against each other in a pre-set challenge.
It's actually even better than it sounds, and accessable to geeks like me, and my 4 and 6 year old kids alike - we can't get enough of this show!
I've never understood why Americans complaign about us Brits having to pay a TV tax to fund the BBC, as your TV is "free", when the only way to get even close to decent TV in the US is to pay even more to get the likes of HBO and UPN =OZ
Since the IslandGraphics suite were originally SunWrite, etc etc etc - developed in-house and later passed on to Island to run with and market - I'm not sure what you're getting at by mentioning them here?
Anyone remember Island Graphics' range of productivity tools?
Anyone use them before that, when they were SunWrite, etc etc etc?
Been here, seen this.
The main reason I thought people were leaving M$ Office, apart from the cost and the forced upgrades through file-format changes (which are huge reasons in themselves of course) is that they didn't want to buy these tools from a proprietary OS manufacturer, as that tied them to the proprietary OS...
I just hope Sun are very careful about keeping this completely cross-platform, and as up-to-date on each platform, or they'll kill it =OZ
Charged for a dial tone? Eh? I pay GBP25 per *quarter* for my phone, nothing for my ISP, and then 1-4p a minute for most usage. I do most of my surfing/email at work, so this works out way cheaper for me.
Yes, BT up until now have made profits that sicken us users. Which is why many of us aren't BT customers any more. It's hurting them enough that they're finally doing something about it.
I'm not delusional about this. I'm doing it, and watching the other changes happen. Yes, Silicon Valley is ahead of us - that's no surprise. But we're catching up, and the rest of the US is behind too.
Our Digital TV is broadcast (not necessarily satellite) too - read what I said. And due to the idTVs being supplimented by OnDigital, prices will start at UKP299 - see the retail info. pages of the ONDigital site. A good quality, wide-screen, Digital-ready TV will cost about GBP500 on average before Xmas.
"Chef!" was cancelled coz it got crap. It didn't start out that good, I'm afraid to say. Lenny Henry is one of my favourite standup/actors, and he wasn't good in the role as a nasty guy coz he just isn't nasty. He doesn't have it in him and it showed. In his new role as a headmaster in "Hope and Glory", though, he really shines. This isn't a comedy - but it is bloody good.
I didn't say the BBC didn't make dross. It does. But generally it makes the best stuff available;O)
The very latest version of gnome-core (1.05) has a configuration option for this, but I've not built it yet (today?) so I don't know how it works, or how the RedHat RPMs have been built to handle it.
I can help though. Have a look at this page I put together a few months back. You'll find the means to add Gnome panel menus that ape the KDE and the CDE menu systems, as menu buttons on the Gnome Panel.
I think this is what you're trying to do? Since the screenshots on there were done, I've started using the KDE image from/. for that Menu =O)
Has anyone looked at IPP and JINI together, and figured out how they could help each other, and interoperate, at least as far as connecting printers to users is concerned?
The Up and Down buttons don't. Well, not always. If you "Down" the top one and "Up" the bottom one, they change places. Doesn't seem to work otherwise.
Plus I switched on "Slashdot Stats" straight away, and saw load of 1.09 and 90 procs. It's now at 15.6 and 120 - way to/./.;O)
Every time that M$ decides to get into another business - travel, games platforms, telecoms - they buy or partner with (and the difference is?) someone else in that area.
And so all the competitors can no longer use M$ products for their work, and so they're forced to go straight to M$'s competitors.
And so M$ gets just the one company in that field working with them, and everyone else goes running to Sun, Linux, Java, IBM or whoever.
M$ is basically forcing the world to buy into competing products. You have to love the stupid bastards;O)
Intel pays OEMs some huge amount for that 3 second "Pling Ding-ding-dang-dong" swirly bit they include in their adverts. Many OEMs probably wouldn't be able to afford TV advertising for their PCs if it wasn't for this.
Then, having gained all this customer awareness for their machines, OEMs turn around and sell AMD-based machines instead.
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There is to be a new series in the future, apparently - but Vera don't have much information yet.
As well as the C4 site you pointed to, you might be interested in the less official MTCP site - less official meaning C4's lawyers don't get to censor it ;O)
For those of you who don't know about the Pict people - the first inhabitants of our magical Isle - this might help:
Men are from Mars.
Women are from Venus.
But redheads are from a small, oddly-orbiting asteroid.
I don't know about you - but that explains an awful lot to me.
Now, if a teacher singles out a specific individual for scorn and makes the class laugh at that person, then yes - that's not education and that's no teacher. But if the teacher points to a mistake, to something people might do, and show how that isn't exactly bright, then that's their job. And if they can do it with humour, then the students are far more likely to remember what they just learnt.
Who was your favourite teacher? What was about their teaching style that made them so? Chances are, they made you laugh.
IMHO, that's what Illiad is doing for the not-so-clueful who read UF. You can bet those guys aren't going to make that mistake.
It can use Java if you have it, and on some systems comes with it's own copy of the JVM. But then Netscape uses Java too...
It isn't written in Java and can run quite happily without a JVM on the system - as it does on my RedHat6.1 home PC.
I can only assume it's because it's so slow and such a memory hog that people make this assumption ;O)
Note that LINX has already been requested by LinuxOne, who seemingly will be the first IPO based soley on vapourware. I wonder if there are any rules about symbols being too similar?
Ever wondered why most all of Europe is now fully covered by mobile phone towers, with the majority of the population owning a small, digital mobile phone - while the US is still mostly struggling with analogue systems, big, low-tech phones and most people still using just a pager if they have that?
If people in the US are getting most of their calls "for free" anyway, then a mobile phone suddenly takes on a whole new complexion. Your not just paying a bit more for calls and the convenience - you're paying the whole lot on top of what you already paid in you standing charge to your land-line telco for these unmetered calls - why pay twice?
So you get less take-up on the phones, so the mobile phone companies have less capital to feed back into the infrastructure, and lo and behold, the US is 5 years behind Europe in the next technological leap.
OK, so this isn't totally down to unmetered calls - the shear size of the country makes getting coverage for each company really, really expensive, too. But I think it's a big contributer.
This show is hosted by Robert Llewellyn (yes, he of Kryten in Red Dwarf fame) and basically is a day long race between 2 teams to use anything they can find in a London scap heap to build machines to then compete against each other in a pre-set challenge.
It's actually even better than it sounds, and accessable to geeks like me, and my 4 and 6 year old kids alike - we can't get enough of this show!
Anyone use them before that, when they were SunWrite, etc etc etc?
Been here, seen this.
The main reason I thought people were leaving M$ Office, apart from the cost and the forced upgrades through file-format changes (which are huge reasons in themselves of course) is that they didn't want to buy these tools from a proprietary OS manufacturer, as that tied them to the proprietary OS...
I just hope Sun are very careful about keeping this completely cross-platform, and as up-to-date on each platform, or they'll kill it =OZ
Yes, BT up until now have made profits that sicken us users. Which is why many of us aren't BT customers any more. It's hurting them enough that they're finally doing something about it.
I'm not delusional about this. I'm doing it, and watching the other changes happen. Yes, Silicon Valley is ahead of us - that's no surprise. But we're catching up, and the rest of the US is behind too.
Our Digital TV is broadcast (not necessarily satellite) too - read what I said. And due to the idTVs being supplimented by OnDigital, prices will start at UKP299 - see the retail info. pages of the ONDigital site. A good quality, wide-screen, Digital-ready TV will cost about GBP500 on average before Xmas.
"Chef!" was cancelled coz it got crap. It didn't start out that good, I'm afraid to say. Lenny Henry is one of my favourite standup/actors, and he wasn't good in the role as a nasty guy coz he just isn't nasty. He doesn't have it in him and it showed. In his new role as a headmaster in "Hope and Glory", though, he really shines. This isn't a comedy - but it is bloody good.
I didn't say the BBC didn't make dross. It does. But generally it makes the best stuff available ;O)
This could get interesting... ;O)
I can help though. Have a look at this page I put together a few months back. You'll find the means to add Gnome panel menus that ape the KDE and the CDE menu systems, as menu buttons on the Gnome Panel.
I think this is what you're trying to do? Since the screenshots on there were done, I've started using the KDE image from /. for that Menu =O)
So actually, they're using it as a bludgeon against Sun and more precisely Jini, not just for PR purposes.
Looks like M$'s getting some good backing for it though.
Has anyone looked at IPP and JINI together, and figured out how they could help each other, and interoperate, at least as far as connecting printers to users is concerned?
Plus I switched on "Slashdot Stats" straight away, and saw load of 1.09 and 90 procs. It's now at 15.6 and 120 - way to /. /. ;O)
Every time that M$ decides to get into another business - travel, games platforms, telecoms - they buy or partner with (and the difference is?) someone else in that area.
And so all the competitors can no longer use M$ products for their work, and so they're forced to go straight to M$'s competitors.
And so M$ gets just the one company in that field working with them, and everyone else goes running to Sun, Linux, Java, IBM or whoever.
M$ is basically forcing the world to buy into competing products. You have to love the stupid bastards ;O)
Just a thought.
2 processors means half as many context switches per CPU, and faster responses to interrupts?
Intel pays OEMs some huge amount for that 3 second "Pling Ding-ding-dang-dong" swirly bit they include in their adverts. Many OEMs probably wouldn't be able to afford TV advertising for their PCs if it wasn't for this.
Then, having gained all this customer awareness for their machines, OEMs turn around and sell AMD-based machines instead.
Is it me, or is that just plain *beautiful*?
This was gone over on BugTraq months ago. No news here.
/tmp (or /var/tmp) directory when you've just submitted a form. Read the new file. Decide if it hurts or not.
Linux/Unix users - check out your
I can't remember if this is POST format forms only, or GET too. Either way, it shouldn't leave these thing hanging around.
Oh, and it's not just 4.5 - it's every release ever, as far as I can see.
Passwords are left encoded. But not encrypted...