I noticed forcedeth on Kernel Traffic a few weeks ago. It's an OSS driver for the onboard nvidia ethernet card. It's alpha but it couldn't be any worse than the closed source driver could it ?
For those of us in Australia, the Bureau Of Meteorology have an excellent site, with radar, rainfall, river conditions, forecasts and whole lot of useful weather information.
Consider this a serious option. What would it be worth paying to guarantee you don't end up being hauled into court ? 10%... 20%... I hate to condone their business model, but could it shut them up and we could return to our lives ?
I am a telstra customer and have had a lot of problems with their mail servers in the past. They are slow, don't deliver mail regularly etc etc etc. So I run my own mail server on my cable connection and that works great until ISPs start blocking residential ip addresses. Now I am forced to use telstra's mail servers for the mail to even have a chance of getting through and then this nonsense happens.:(
FWIW: Disabling the list command was a hack at best. The apple// oses could be called from basic by printing the command prepended by ^D. The programs that disabled list would just embed a ^D in a comment on the first line and an os command to clear the basic program from memory. Under dos 3.3 this command was usually FP. It's been too long, and my wife is bewildered when I play pathetic looking games in my apple 2 emulator:)
Why can't they obfuscate their source code ? At least then it wouldn't be binary-only but really difficult for humans to figure out. Kind of a happy medium.
The most ironic thing about my years on the Apple ][ is that now I have more apple software than I had when I owned one. And it doesn't even fill half a cd:) I still start up the emulator once in a while and play some of the old classic games from my mis-spent youth.
More interesting would be a poll where you could vote on a subject like "What OS are you using right now" and instead of recording the choices, it derives it from the useragent. Inaccurate I know, but how many people would it catch out ?
Thank heavens that a) My mother-in-law does not read slashdot and b) knows that I have one of these. She is convinced that any machine left turned on is a fire hazard. Now this would just add fuel to her... oops:)
I was thinking that for non-US governments TCO is not as much as an argument as MS would have them believe. If using linux or any other open source solution requires staff to be paid more, then those staff will come from the same country. Therefore this will keep that money in the local economy rather than pouring it into MS coffers. I you were a foreign government would you rather give money to a) your citizens or b) foreign megacorp ?
Funny while this may be imagine the consequences.
The world would rally around Microsoft as a poor victim of terrorism.
Heck, there'd probably even be appeals for them.
This would be a bad thing IMHO and would strengthen M$ if anything.
Just like when I was driving home one day and I heard that our illustrious governers decided to ban/tone down Carmagheddon.
Guess which game I picked up next ?
If they want to ban it, it must be cool !
Why doesn't someone with a bit of bandwidth to burn set up a site that allows people to upload apache logs and then will give anyone a list of affected machines ? I know it's open to abuse but it's better than nothing. Easy to put into ipchains/ipfilter scripts then. Could even write a piece o' perl to query the site and do it dynamically.
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Recently I discovered asf recorder. Very useful for getting around short-comings of certain streaming video applications. Search for it
Why not take advantage of timezones next year ? Start the jokes when the first timezone goes onto April 1 and keep going until the last timezone is done with it.
There ! Nearly forty-eight hours of side-splitting hilarity.
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I noticed forcedeth on Kernel Traffic a few weeks ago. It's an OSS driver for the onboard nvidia ethernet card. It's alpha but it couldn't be any worse than the closed source driver could it ?
For those of us in Australia, the Bureau Of Meteorology have an excellent site, with radar, rainfall, river conditions, forecasts and whole lot of useful weather information.
Consider this a serious option. What would it be worth paying to guarantee you don't end up being hauled into court ? 10%... 20%... I hate to condone their business model, but could it shut them up and we could return to our lives ?
I remember the days when the worst you could expect was a good booting from the Prime Minister !
What if they were to make the next version of IIS block the google spider ?
I am a telstra customer and have had a lot of problems with their mail servers in the past. They are slow, don't deliver mail regularly etc etc etc. So I run my own mail server on my cable connection and that works great until ISPs start blocking residential ip addresses. Now I am forced to use telstra's mail servers for the mail to even have a chance of getting through and then this nonsense happens. :(
FWIW: Disabling the list command was a hack at best. The apple // oses could be called from basic by printing the command prepended by ^D. The programs that disabled list would just embed a ^D in a comment on the first line and an os command to clear the basic program from memory. Under dos 3.3 this command was usually FP. It's been too long, and my wife is bewildered when I play pathetic looking games in my apple 2 emulator :)
It's a Kent Brockman quote. See this Simpsons episode.
Why can't they obfuscate their source code ? At least then it wouldn't be binary-only but really difficult for humans to figure out. Kind of a happy medium.
The most ironic thing about my years on the Apple ][ is that now I have more apple software than I had when I owned one. And it doesn't even fill half a cd :) I still start up the emulator once in a while and play some of the old classic games from my mis-spent youth.
Finally I can power my flux capacitor without worrying about the Libyans coming to ge me.
What if you could install an API compatible com object that used the Gecko rendering library ? That's what I'd like to see.
More interesting would be a poll where you could vote on a subject like "What OS are you using right now" and instead of recording the choices, it derives it from the useragent. Inaccurate I know, but how many people would it catch out ?
Hold it. In Australia all we do is give spammers a good booting.
Thank heavens that a) My mother-in-law does not read slashdot and b) knows that I have one of these. She is convinced that any machine left turned on is a fire hazard. Now this would just add fuel to her ... oops :)
I was thinking that for non-US governments TCO is not as much as an argument as MS would have them believe. If using linux or any other open source solution requires staff to be paid more, then those staff will come from the same country. Therefore this will keep that money in the local economy rather than pouring it into MS coffers. I you were a foreign government would you rather give money to a) your citizens or b) foreign megacorp ?
This is precisely why I fetch all of my mail over SSH. It's an excellent idea and I recommend it to everyone.
Seem's like region 2 will be coming out.
Funny while this may be imagine the consequences.
The world would rally around Microsoft as a poor victim of terrorism.
Heck, there'd probably even be appeals for them.
This would be a bad thing IMHO and would strengthen M$ if anything.
Just like when I was driving home one day and I heard that our illustrious governers decided to ban/tone down Carmagheddon.
Guess which game I picked up next ?
If they want to ban it, it must be cool !
This sounds like it could be a cool episode of WL, but alas I'll never see it in .au. Anyone want to create a digital copy and post it somewhere ?
Why doesn't someone with a bit of bandwidth to burn set up a site that allows people to upload apache logs and then will give anyone a list of affected machines ? I know it's open to abuse but it's better than nothing. Easy to put into ipchains/ipfilter scripts then. Could even write a piece o' perl to query the site and do it dynamically.
Recently I discovered asf recorder.
Very useful for getting around short-comings of certain streaming video applications. Search for it
Why not take advantage of timezones next year ?
Start the jokes when the first timezone goes onto April 1 and keep going until the last timezone is done with it.
There ! Nearly forty-eight hours of side-splitting hilarity.