This morning alone, I've got 9 warning messages from people, each of which were cc:'d to about 50 others. That makes 450 messages, and think of all the times that someone forawarded it on.
So, while I'm feeling all clever running Solaris and not Windows, POP servers everywhere are getting a sort of lovechild effect and getting a second battering!
Wouldn't you think that by now the media would have mentioned something about the evils of VB?
Seriously, though - those dinky little processors they use in the Palm's now can't cost very much. And by the time the ARM Palm makes it out, they'll cost even less. So, why not just put both in! Sure, it'll take up a tiny little more space, but it would solve all the compatibility problems. Or it could be an add in card which retains backwards compatability, so only those who need it pay for it.
It would be cheap, simple, and fix all the nasty problems.
Still, I'm sure someone will think this is a bad idea!
I found Mandrake 7.0 to be by far the best distro yet. It's easy to set up, and easy to use. Not that I care, I'll tweak it until the cows come home. But, my neighbour is a Linux newbie. He loves it, he can point and click and has since caught the Linux bug. I love it because it does everything I want.
We are both at either end of the Linux user spectrum, I develop, he tinkers. We both love it.
My gripe with installation thought is annoying. You can't set up dial-up and LAN through the installer, only one or the other. Fine for me, but annoying for my neighbour who has a small network in his house, and needs to alos dial out. He got a bit muddled up altogether trying to get pppd working. (Yes, I know you can use kppp, but I don't like it)
But, on the other hand, if this is my only real gripe about it, it's pretty amazing!
Yes, it is free, as in beer. But what does that have to do with my post?!
What would you expect Sun to do with it anyway? You can't expect someone like Sun to give the source to such a big and important product away - can you:-)
Either way, the PSX2 is bound to have some teething problems, just as the PSX did - It's been too short to see if one can run for a week and not overheat yet:-) I'd say that'll be tested soon, for sure!
There's not much of a difference. What's the problem with a phone tap, or someone looking at your mail, or checking what you're looking at in the net? If you're doing criminal activities, then they should be looking at you, whatever way they achieve that. ISP's should be made comply just as phone companies are made to, but in a way that is reasonable and that is within their means, and unless they are with-holding informaion, they should not be prosecuted for not giving keys etc... (unless they've been negligent not to get them in the first place)
To me, an ISP is a bit like a post (mail) office. If you mail an illegal document to someone, you shouldn't hold the mailman responsiblle for delivering it. It's the same for ISP's - they just deliver.
Sure, but almost everyone does have it. And since the judges are "IT professionals" the chances are they have it. Nothing ventured, nothing gained. Playing safe never won anything. Okay, maybe something, but it's not going to win this!
Maybe, but have you ever just tried knocking something like foo.swf on whatever site straight into the address bar... surprise, surprise, it works. No HTML required. And if you do want to put it into HTML, you don't have to check for the plug-in. If you're a little daring, and assume it's there, you can do away with a hell of a lot of code - no more than enbedding an image. And, if the plug-in isn't there, well it doesn't work. but, hey, with only 5k you can't be too careful!
Very interesting. I'm getting my ADSL connection installed tomorrow, with the box being downstairs and the computer being 3 flights away from it I'm going to run into a bit of trouble. The ADSL box works a little like an Ascend pipeline, from what I gather, so my machine thinks it's wired to the network and knows nothing about ADSL whatsoever - I could put my FreeBSD box downstairs and IP MASQ over wireless upstairs. A bit fo a waste of a computer in the porch, though. Does anyone know if it's at all possible using something similar to this kind of kit to have a wireless link to a network port in the wall without havign a second comptuer to route through? In other words, trying to replace the traditional cable with a wireless link? Dave.
Well, all seems to be lovely on RedHat6.0 compared to previous milestones. But, I was somewhat amazed to find that it worked excellently on Windows2000 Professional edition. Granted, I've only been using it about 2 hours now, but have tried it out on the most complicated sites I can think of, including one of my own in development which really tests it and it came through with flying colours. It seems micros~1 have done somewhat better with the stability of Windows 2000, allowing Moz a somewhat better platmorm to use. In short, I'm impressed.
What happened to Farenheit? Remember that Microsoft/SGI announcment that they were to develop a successor to DirectX together, or at least with cooperation... It was pure vapourware, it never even got past the press release stage.
Wasn't the rule that is's a leap year if divisible by 4, not a leap year on a century year (divisible by 100) but IS a leap year if divisible by 400; hence it is a leap year this year. dpf.
Who cares? He only wrote the kernel, so think about it - he can only "approve" it for only one part of GNU/Linux. With so many distro's, it's impossibe to find any one person who would be capable of giving it an informed seal of approval. The only way industry will take it seriously is if the graduates are genuinely well trained, and if in general they succeed in what they do afterwards, most people would deem it a good course. Personally, I think it is a good initiative, and doubtlessly will not be the only one very soon - good luck to them.
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Ye, right!
So, while I'm feeling all clever running Solaris and not Windows, POP servers everywhere are getting a sort of lovechild effect and getting a second battering!
Wouldn't you think that by now the media would have mentioned something about the evils of VB?
It would be cheap, simple, and fix all the nasty problems.
Still, I'm sure someone will think this is a bad idea!
We are both at either end of the Linux user spectrum, I develop, he tinkers. We both love it.
My gripe with installation thought is annoying. You can't set up dial-up and LAN through the installer, only one or the other. Fine for me, but annoying for my neighbour who has a small network in his house, and needs to alos dial out. He got a bit muddled up altogether trying to get pppd working. (Yes, I know you can use kppp, but I don't like it)
But, on the other hand, if this is my only real gripe about it, it's pretty amazing!
Yes, it is free, as in beer. But what does that have to do with my post?!
:-)
What would you expect Sun to do with it anyway? You can't expect someone like Sun to give the source to such a big and important product away - can you
Okay, on the internal benchmarks we have here, startup is 20% faster on first load, and 60% thereafter. It's certainly leaner, and uses less memory.
StarOffice is an excellent product that is getting better all the time.
And believe me, you'll like it even more in a little while...
Either way, the PSX2 is bound to have some teething problems, just as the PSX did - It's been too short to see if one can run for a week and not overheat yet :-) I'd say that'll be tested soon, for sure!
There's not much of a difference. What's the problem with a phone tap, or someone looking at your mail, or checking what you're looking at in the net? If you're doing criminal activities, then they should be looking at you, whatever way they achieve that. ISP's should be made comply just as phone companies are made to, but in a way that is reasonable and that is within their means, and unless they are with-holding informaion, they should not be prosecuted for not giving keys etc... (unless they've been negligent not to get them in the first place)
To me, an ISP is a bit like a post (mail) office. If you mail an illegal document to someone, you shouldn't hold the mailman responsiblle for delivering it. It's the same for ISP's - they just deliver.
Sure, but almost everyone does have it. And since the judges are "IT professionals" the chances are they have it. Nothing ventured, nothing gained. Playing safe never won anything. Okay, maybe something, but it's not going to win this!
Maybe, but have you ever just tried knocking something like foo.swf on whatever site straight into the address bar... surprise, surprise, it works. No HTML required. And if you do want to put it into HTML, you don't have to check for the plug-in. If you're a little daring, and assume it's there, you can do away with a hell of a lot of code - no more than enbedding an image. And, if the plug-in isn't there, well it doesn't work. but, hey, with only 5k you can't be too careful!
Heheh... I bet you could get quite a nifty page using Macromedia Flash!
Very interesting. I'm getting my ADSL connection installed tomorrow, with the box being downstairs and the computer being 3 flights away from it I'm going to run into a bit of trouble. The ADSL box works a little like an Ascend pipeline, from what I gather, so my machine thinks it's wired to the network and knows nothing about ADSL whatsoever - I could put my FreeBSD box downstairs and IP MASQ over wireless upstairs. A bit fo a waste of a computer in the porch, though. Does anyone know if it's at all possible using something similar to this kind of kit to have a wireless link to a network port in the wall without havign a second comptuer to route through? In other words, trying to replace the traditional cable with a wireless link? Dave.
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Well, all seems to be lovely on RedHat6.0 compared to previous milestones. But, I was somewhat amazed to find that it worked excellently on Windows2000 Professional edition. Granted, I've only been using it about 2 hours now, but have tried it out on the most complicated sites I can think of, including one of my own in development which really tests it and it came through with flying colours. It seems micros~1 have done somewhat better with the stability of Windows 2000, allowing Moz a somewhat better platmorm to use. In short, I'm impressed.
What happened to Farenheit? Remember that Microsoft/SGI announcment that they were to develop a successor to DirectX together, or at least with cooperation... It was pure vapourware, it never even got past the press release stage.
Wasn't the rule that is's a leap year if divisible by 4, not a leap year on a century year (divisible by 100) but IS a leap year if divisible by 400; hence it is a leap year this year. dpf.
Who cares? He only wrote the kernel, so think about it - he can only "approve" it for only one part of GNU/Linux. With so many distro's, it's impossibe to find any one person who would be capable of giving it an informed seal of approval. The only way industry will take it seriously is if the graduates are genuinely well trained, and if in general they succeed in what they do afterwards, most people would deem it a good course. Personally, I think it is a good initiative, and doubtlessly will not be the only one very soon - good luck to them.