...where foo is the directory you want the package unpacked relative to, I presume? Thanks! {sheepish look} I was a bit lazy in researching that. It was just simpler and quicker to use tar.
removepkg is great for stuff you've put in with installpkg; the cruft I was referring to would be associated with stuff I simply untarred. I wonder if there's a way to track a 'make install' so that it can be removed later. (In many cases, 'make uninstall would work, but not if you've rm'd the source dir...)
Some packages will put a binary in, say,/usr/local/bin but insist on installing the rest of the stuff there in the/usr/src/foo/. Would one edit the Makefile to change this?
One note: I was in no way trying to put Slackware down. In the hands of an expert, it can be formidable. In the hands of an intermediate, such as myself, well, results are mixed.:) However, I've learned a great deal more about my system, I think, than if I'd gone with another distribution that provides a GUI front-end for everything -- you know, the whole "path of least resistance" thing. (Which is why I'm only partially competent in vi and just now starting to learn emacs. pico is too easy to pass up...)
One thing that turned me on to it when I started with Linux last fall was ZipSlack. A.zip file ~40 megs, it was an easy download. It uses a UMSDOS filesystem and is quite featureful; it is a fairly complete system with development tools, etc (no X, though, obviously). It was designed to be put (and fit) on a Zip disk, and after you divide your disk with fips, it can easily be cp'd to a type 83 FS.
Incidentally, something similar is BigSlack (on the same page as ZipSlack). It is a mostly (as opposed to fairly) complete system, including a pre-configured X. It also uses a UMSDOS filesystem (a la Phat Linux), and the above statements about moving it also apply. It weighs in a little heavier, though; around 800 megs. But, obviously, you don't have to repartition or anything if you don't want to.
Let's see -- more stuff. Slackware is often considered to be a hacker's paradise because it imposes few restrictions on you, and I've heard it said that this is a sweet distribution if you like to roll your own binaries. And (like most Linuxes) it's highly customizable. FWIW, it uses BSD-style init scripts, but it also fakes SysV for those programs that insist on it.
Downsides: "Slackware package management" (that's an oxymoron, right?) is a joke. There are utilities like installpkg and pkgtool, but these are just scripts with an (n)curses-based front-end (as are the installation and configuration programs). What else? Installpkg insists on unpacking your tarballs relative to root, unless (I think) you have a certain $ENV_VAR set. I didn't bother to figure it out, so if I decide to remove some of the stuff I put in, I'll have a hell of a time tracking down all the cruft. (Yes, it My Own Damn Fault.) RPM is thrown in there, but I tried it on an.rpm I downloaded (couldn't get a tarball) and it choked and refused to run because it couldn't find some database-type (I assume) file it needed. So I used the rpm2tgz utility. And for some odd reason, the kernel would oops and dump core in ZipSlack 7.0 whenever I hit the/dev directory (while trying to copy it over or even a simple 'ls/dev'). (4.0 didn't do this.) Could be my hardware, but I don't know.
A little disclaimer: Slackware is the only distro I've used so far. I've been thinking of taking Debian (potato, after it's stable) or SuSE for a spin, but I haven't yet. ("Plan to throw one away" applies here, right? {g})
Overall, I'd say it has a very fun feel. And it seems that Pat V.'s taking it a little more seriously (if that's the right word -- professionally, maybe?) now, with a separate directory for updates to slackware-current, security updates and mailing lists for same, etc. And 7.0 was upgraded to one of the latest glibc2's, whereas 4.0 labored along with libc5. Take it for a spin. Put it on a spare or development box and play around with it. I consider this one to be nice to learn on, if you're a computer nerd like me. IMO, this Linux is not going to be the "Linux for the desktop," but as a hacker's distribution, it's pretty cool.
The top identity verification service buying the top domain registrar -- personally, it scares the hell out of me.
I can't see what possible good will come out of this. IMO, it's a recipe for disaster and will provide the Clinton administration (or the Gore administration, if he turns out to be Clinton's successor) with just the tool he needs to further his agenda.
I see. I guess it comes down to a matter of I didn't intend any harm.:) (For the record, no, I am not Rick Moen.:) ) We all know the composition of the road to hell's pavement, right?
So I guess apologies are in order. In all seriousness, this was more of a case, I think, of me shooting my mouth off electronically. I was merely trying to be helpful, and I didn't stop to think of all ramifications. Thank you for making me stop and think about this sort of thing a little more. Complicated world we live in, no?
The latter point, more than the first, makes them a discriminating carrier. Telephone systems are common carriers: you can talk all you want (it costs you, but you can do it) and no matter what, the telco cannot take away your line for something you've said on it.
Beg your pardon? Obscene and/or harassing calls can cause you to lose your line, can't they? (OTOH, maybe I'm thinking of the fact that you expose yourself to criminal prosecution.)
In any case, point taken, upon reflection.
BTW, was the last parenthetical remark flamebait, or a troll? You, sir, obviously disagree with the GPL and/or don't understand it. The spirit of it is to encourage sharing -- it starts out, even before the body of the text, "Everyone is permitted to copy and distribute verbatim copies of this license document, but changing it is not allowed." The preamble continues: "The licenses for most software are designed to take away your freedom to share and change it. By contrast, the GNU General Public License is intended to guarantee your freedom to share and change free software--to make sure the software is free for all its users....To protect your rights, we need to make restrictions that forbid anyone to deny you these rights or to ask you to surrender the rights." (emphasis mine)
Admittedly, my original post is in violation of (both implicit and explicit) copyright law, but is it morally reprehensible to you? And since you bring up the GPL, do you find it in violation of that spirit? (Don't bother pointing out that that's irrelevant since the quoted text isn't under the GPL; I know that. I only bring it up because you trotted out the GPL when it was convenient for you (since, from your tone, I infer that you don't like it) to use as a weapon to bludgeon me with.)
Okay, the site was running reeeeally slow... here is a copy of the front page and also of http://www.helixcode.com/desktop/:
Front page:
Helix Code Rocks. Helix Code is an open source software company devoted to improving GNOME, the leading desktop environment for Linux. We want to make GNOME the best desktop on the planet, and make it available to everyone.
GNOME is a complete desktop environment, providing everything from the nuts and bolts to the large-scale productivity applications upon which businesses and individuals rely daily. GNOME is here to make the desktop free. Helix Code is here to make GNOME better.
We believe that software should be humanizing. Using a computer should be about what you want, not what your computer needs. Only four percent of the world's population has chosen a desktop environment. That leaves a lot of room for GNOME.
Seriously.
Our first task is the Helix GNOME Desktop: all of the GNOME software, tested, packaged and ready to install into your existing Linux or Unix system. The Helix Code desktop team works hard to keep its GNOME packages up-to-date, stable and reliable. Helix Code is providing Helix GNOME as a service to the GNOME community, which can count on always having updated, stable packages for its users and developers.
In fact, we've just released our March preview of the Helix GNOME desktop. Why not have a look?
To go with that, Helix Code is building a full suite of productivity applications, starting with Evolution and Gnumeric.
Evolution is a groupware package that serves as your personal mailer, calendar and addressbook. From the ground up, Evolution is designed for today's Internet user, easily tracking contacts, scheduling appointments and managing mail on a global scale. And Evolution is built for modern communication needs, interoperating with existing groupware applications and effortlessly handling gargantuan mail loads.
Gnumeric is our fully-featured Excel-compatible spreadsheet.
Free software is about the evolution of software. Helix Code is here to accelerate that evolution. Buckle up.
Since the beginning of the year, the Helix Code team has been working steadily to test, polish and package the entire GNOME desktop. The result is the first preview release of the Helix GNOME desktop, containing nearly 80 packages. Check out the press release or the email announcement.
Install Helix GNOME Now! Updates
As we produce updates, new packages will be available from this web page. If you want to be notified of new packages and security fixes, simply subscribe to our helix-updates mailing list.
If you would like to host a mirror of our distribution site, please email us!
A tailored version of the operating system is embedded into firmware within ePipe.
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OpenBSD's reputation for security is due largely to its ongoing, comprehensive security audit process, which has been operational for the past 3 years. This process minimizes operating system vulnerabilities that become known to hackers.
Okay, correct me if I'm wrong, but aren't these two statements contradictory? I mean, the whole point of a security audit is so that you fix the stuff that's (become) broken, right? If it's embedded into firmware, it's harder to upgrade; you have to flash the firmware to upgrade. Is it just me, or does this seem less secure than having it on disk? Does one have to reboot in order to flash the firmware?
I suppose that downtime's not going to be that critical to the epipe, since it's only a dialup gateway. (Security being less of an issue, too -- they can't reach you all that easily when your line keeps crapping out on you, right?;) ) This looks kinda similar to a RAQ3, but for dialup. Is that right?
It's sooo frustrating when you have to wait for 5 minutes for a 2 meg graphic to download, and you're stuck because it's their front page, it's an image map, and there is no text, not even ALT tags. I remember a particularly egregious example from a couple years back.
That said, judicious use of graphics is a good thing. I'm shopping around for a PC case, and it is so fucking frustrating to see one little.jpg of the (closed) outside of a case. I want to see shots of the outside of the case, the inside of the case, the stuff inside it coming off, and everything else! Even line art would be okay.
That said, don't make them all huge bloated SOBs that take forever to load. (Yes, I want pictures, but I'm on dialup, too.) Use thumbnails to link to larger pictures. The "$50/month ecommerce" pages at store.yahoo.com are particularly egregious in this respect. The graphics are 40-50k graphics that load nice and fast but are usually just one shot of the outside. They are links, but all they link to is the exact same picture off of the yimg.yahoo.com server.
That being said, use some damn text, too! Too many times, the description reads something like "$BRANDNAME computer case, $75". WTF good does that do me? I can see it's a computer case! I want to see something like the following:
$BRANDNAME mid-tower case
Five 5.25" drive bays
Three 3.5" external bays
Three 3.5" internal bays
Removable drive cage
Rolled-back edges inside the case
Slide-out motherboard tray
Removable side panels
Thumbscrews for toolless access to the inside
Polished interior for better EMI and ESD prevention
300W power supply
...and so forth
When will these people learn? That last thing we want (especially if they're selling cases, the tech-savvy crowd is who is going to buy this stuff, mostly) is fluff! We want to know what we're getting, not just one crappy jpeg and a one-line text description. Sure, you can always email for more info, but personally, I don't want to wait for that. I want to find out everything now and not wait on someone else's schedule. Besides, I don't want to give my email address to you, a business I've never heard of; if I want to get "product updates" from you, I'll give you my email address with my explicit permission for that.
Yes, a picture is worth a thousand words, or so it is said, but the person who came up with that never shopped online.
(/rant mode)
OT: Does anyone know any sites where I might actually find cases such as this? Sites that sell cases are few and far between. I've also tried to find just thumbscrews, but the only place I've found so far is pcpowercooling.com. Even better if there are any Philadelphia geeks out there would be a local store that sells them. (I thought that CompUSA did, but they were just the dinky, crappy little plastic kind.) My email address is bj.XYZ@ZY.netaxs.com, and you should be able figure out what to do with it. If not...:)
Time to submit this, I think. I've probably gone grossly over quota on this posting,:) but I hope this helps some budding web designer. Either that, or I'm preaching to the choir.
Now this is truly "News for Nerds" and "Stuff that matters."
I thought to myself as I was reading this, "This is so cool!" I'm 21 (will be 22 in the spring). I only mention this because it will help you understand the time period I'm talking about when I speak of my high school.
You know what we had in high school? The original PCs! I think that they recently had upgraded to AT status (they took one of the 5.25 inch floppies out and put in a small hard drive).
Granted, I went to a tiny high school. (It was a church school; I guess the proper term is "parochial".) There were about a hundred students total, and there were exactly 25 in my graduating class. There were maybe 2 dozen PCs total (for student use; there were more for administrivia.
There was also a secondary education facility there. They had, I think, 486s. We were permitted to use those very infrequently.
In all fairness, they didn't charge a whole lot for tuition (in addition to the small student body), so there wasn't a lot of money to play with. And computers weren't nearly as big then as they are now. But damn, what I wouldn't give to have gone to a high school like this!
I guess just ignore this whole post. I kind of rambled, but I'm not going to edit it. I suppose that I just wanted to congratulate Slashdot on this story. This is some very cool stuff. Damn, if I lived in New York, I'd volunteer to help them out.
(I just thought of something, I really need to get in touch with the principal at my old school so I can pick up some of those keyboards if they ever get rid of the old computers. IBM Model M keyboards rock! In fact, I'm typing on one right now. Picked it up a couple of days ago, used, for 8 bucks. I got a strange look from the lady when I told her that she didn't know how much this made my day.)
If I'm not mistaken, "dismissed with prejudice" means that this complaint cannot be filed again by the plaintiff against the defendant over the same incident.
The usual disclaimers about what my profession is and is not apply.
I'm not going to try to compete with the 3rd post on what a patent is or isn't.
You asked about if ideas could be patented. IANA $WHATEVER, but in general, it seems like ideas would fall under the jurisdiction of copyright. If it's ideas about how to market a product, the end result of that could be considered trademark.
I'd post more, but I'm off work now and going home.:)
C'mon, folks, let's not forget the September that never ended...
I don't want to see this happen everywhere because there are definitely some clueless f*cks out there that would never, ever pay (god forbid) for rudimentary access, but they'll take anything that's (perceived to be) free.
Are more AOLers really what we want out there?
Hell, no! I think it should be harder to get on the net. All this point-and-click GUI shit is lowering the collective IQ of the 'net populace.
This may sound like I'm trolling, but I'm really not. We really need an intellectual barrier to entry. Give out the tools, but make 'em command-line and pass out a copy of an Internetworking-HOWTO.
Yes, I guess I'm one of the "technological elite" or the so-called "digerati" (at least in my own mind). Yes, I guess I'm a hypocrite, too, because I work for an ISP (but I rarely take customer calls during my working hours of 11:30pm-7:30am).
Moderate this however the hell you want to, as always.
I was not advocating that the dot-com attempt to collect sales tax for out-of-state citizens (Although, I do not think it too unreasonable...it would [from context, it appears you intended a "not" here] be difficult to correlate shipping addresses (not to mention credit card) with states, and merely tally them up at the end of the month)
Pardon me, but could I have some of what you're smoking? It would be nice if it were actually that way.
State, county, city, and all local taxes are covered
Rates for each and every ZIP code in the U.S., its territories, and Canada
Follow thousands of tax rates imposed by thousands of jurisdictions
Granted, they're trying to sell you their software, but don't you think they might know at least a little bit about this? Anecdotal example: I live in Pennsylvania, southeastern PA (in a town called Media which is a Philadelphia suburb) specifically. PA sales tax is 6%. Philadelphia city sales tax is 1% (for a total of 7%). I'm not claiming that you'll encounter this many different sales taxes in this short an area all over, but that's 2 different sales taxes in a space of less than 20 miles in the same state. Delaware has no sales tax. Oops, add a third. Not sure what New Jersey is, but we can't forget that. Suddenly, it's not so simple, is it?
If it were just a matter of 50 different states, it wouldn't be such a bitch to implement.
One final point: These overtaxing governments haven't gone bankrupt yet from more than 100 years of mail order, have they? And I've seen many sites asking residents of $STATE to add the sales tax.
Finding the compromised systems is not "clueless".
I'm afraid you're misconstruing my words. I never said that finding the compromised systems was clueless, I said that expecting to find the attackers in physical proximity to the machines is.
Why don't you think more carefully about what you say next time.
Remotely operated sites. In this context, I take it to mean that it was used without the consent of the owner;) to coordinate the attack.
Think undead, mindless drones simply and slavishly doing whatever they're told... Oh, wait a minute, you asked about zombie sites, not Micros~1 operating systems.:)
Seriously, though, methinks it's a word that the media just invented in their attempt to describe what's going on to a techno-illiterate public. I'm surprised it hasn't happened before...:)
Trying to track down (hackers|crackers|31337 skript k1dd13z) by going to the geographical location of one (set) of the machines that they were able to control is highly illogical from a technological standpoint.
I'm sure everybody was aware of that, but I felt the need to bring it up.
Sure, it helps if you look at the box(en) that were cracked, but is there really a need to chase rainbows at the physical location? Obviously, from all the n places that one could access the net (of which California is one), the possibility that the crackers are located in California is 1/n.
In all likelihood, this was not "the region from which the attacks most likely originated..." unless the machines' logs show evidence of physical tampering. OTOH, this could be part of their publicity stunt to show that they're going to "really do something about this."
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Wait a minute! Scratch that! We need to say hupersonkind instead, because humankind is not gender-inclusive! (See the 'man' there?)
wise up and get a clue. Easily offended people such as yourself sicken me.
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More like (Score: -1, Karma Whore). He includes a link to slackware.com, copies-and-pastes one line of text -- and this is informative??!!?
Wake up, moderators. This is Redundant, not Informative, at best.
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removepkg is great for stuff you've put in with installpkg; the cruft I was referring to would be associated with stuff I simply untarred. I wonder if there's a way to track a 'make install' so that it can be removed later. (In many cases, 'make uninstall would work, but not if you've rm'd the source dir...)
Some packages will put a binary in, say, /usr/local/bin but insist on installing the rest of the stuff there in the /usr/src/foo/. Would one edit the Makefile to change this?
One note: I was in no way trying to put Slackware down. In the hands of an expert, it can be formidable. In the hands of an intermediate, such as myself, well, results are mixed. :) However, I've learned a great deal more about my system, I think, than if I'd gone with another distribution that provides a GUI front-end for everything -- you know, the whole "path of least resistance" thing. (Which is why I'm only partially competent in vi and just now starting to learn emacs. pico is too easy to pass up...)
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Incidentally, something similar is BigSlack (on the same page as ZipSlack). It is a mostly (as opposed to fairly) complete system, including a pre-configured X. It also uses a UMSDOS filesystem (a la Phat Linux), and the above statements about moving it also apply. It weighs in a little heavier, though; around 800 megs. But, obviously, you don't have to repartition or anything if you don't want to.
Let's see -- more stuff. Slackware is often considered to be a hacker's paradise because it imposes few restrictions on you, and I've heard it said that this is a sweet distribution if you like to roll your own binaries. And (like most Linuxes) it's highly customizable. FWIW, it uses BSD-style init scripts, but it also fakes SysV for those programs that insist on it.
Downsides: "Slackware package management" (that's an oxymoron, right?) is a joke. There are utilities like installpkg and pkgtool, but these are just scripts with an (n)curses-based front-end (as are the installation and configuration programs). What else? Installpkg insists on unpacking your tarballs relative to root, unless (I think) you have a certain $ENV_VAR set. I didn't bother to figure it out, so if I decide to remove some of the stuff I put in, I'll have a hell of a time tracking down all the cruft. (Yes, it My Own Damn Fault.) RPM is thrown in there, but I tried it on an .rpm I downloaded (couldn't get a tarball) and it choked and refused to run because it couldn't find some database-type (I assume) file it needed. So I used the rpm2tgz utility. And for some odd reason, the kernel would oops and dump core in ZipSlack 7.0 whenever I hit the /dev directory (while trying to copy it over or even a simple 'ls /dev'). (4.0 didn't do this.) Could be my hardware, but I don't know.
A little disclaimer: Slackware is the only distro I've used so far. I've been thinking of taking Debian (potato, after it's stable) or SuSE for a spin, but I haven't yet. ("Plan to throw one away" applies here, right? {g})
Overall, I'd say it has a very fun feel. And it seems that Pat V.'s taking it a little more seriously (if that's the right word -- professionally, maybe?) now, with a separate directory for updates to slackware-current, security updates and mailing lists for same, etc. And 7.0 was upgraded to one of the latest glibc2's, whereas 4.0 labored along with libc5. Take it for a spin. Put it on a spare or development box and play around with it. I consider this one to be nice to learn on, if you're a computer nerd like me. IMO, this Linux is not going to be the "Linux for the desktop," but as a hacker's distribution, it's pretty cool.
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I can't see what possible good will come out of this. IMO, it's a recipe for disaster and will provide the Clinton administration (or the Gore administration, if he turns out to be Clinton's successor) with just the tool he needs to further his agenda.
Personally, I like the ideas being floated elsewhere in this discussion about the USPS being an issuer of certificates or issuing numbers (for a fee) for "anonymized" postal addresses. Even better would be an international consortium (of which the USPS would be a part) that provides identity verification.
In the words of Rick Moen of Silicon Valley, "But that's just my opinion. I could be wrong."
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So I guess apologies are in order. In all seriousness, this was more of a case, I think, of me shooting my mouth off electronically. I was merely trying to be helpful, and I didn't stop to think of all ramifications. Thank you for making me stop and think about this sort of thing a little more. Complicated world we live in, no?
In any case, point taken, upon reflection.
BTW, was the last parenthetical remark flamebait, or a troll? You, sir, obviously disagree with the GPL and/or don't understand it. The spirit of it is to encourage sharing -- it starts out, even before the body of the text, "Everyone is permitted to copy and distribute verbatim copies of this license document, but changing it is not allowed." The preamble continues: "The licenses for most software are designed to take away your freedom to share and change it. By contrast, the GNU General Public License is intended to guarantee your freedom to share and change free software--to make sure the software is free for all its users. ...To protect your rights, we need to make restrictions that forbid anyone to deny you these rights or to ask you to surrender the rights." (emphasis mine)
Admittedly, my original post is in violation of (both implicit and explicit) copyright law, but is it morally reprehensible to you? And since you bring up the GPL, do you find it in violation of that spirit? (Don't bother pointing out that that's irrelevant since the quoted text isn't under the GPL; I know that. I only bring it up because you trotted out the GPL when it was convenient for you (since, from your tone, I infer that you don't like it) to use as a weapon to bludgeon me with.)
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Helix Code Rocks. Helix Code is an open source software company devoted to improving GNOME , the leading desktop environment for Linux. We want to make GNOME the best desktop on the planet, and make it available to everyone.
GNOME is a complete desktop environment, providing everything from the nuts and bolts to the large-scale productivity applications upon which businesses and individuals rely daily. GNOME is here to make the desktop free. Helix Code is here to make GNOME better.
We believe that software should be humanizing. Using a computer should be about what you want, not what your computer needs. Only four percent of the world's population has chosen a desktop environment. That leaves a lot of room for GNOME.
Seriously.Our first task is the Helix GNOME Desktop: all of the GNOME software, tested, packaged and ready to install into your existing Linux or Unix system. The Helix Code desktop team works hard to keep its GNOME packages up-to-date, stable and reliable. Helix Code is providing Helix GNOME as a service to the GNOME community, which can count on always having updated, stable packages for its users and developers.
In fact, we've just released our March preview of the Helix GNOME desktop. Why not have a look?
To go with that, Helix Code is building a full suite of productivity applications, starting with Evolution and Gnumeric.
Evolution is a groupware package that serves as your personal mailer, calendar and addressbook. From the ground up, Evolution is designed for today's Internet user, easily tracking contacts, scheduling appointments and managing mail on a global scale. And Evolution is built for modern communication needs, interoperating with existing groupware applications and effortlessly handling gargantuan mail loads.
Gnumeric is our fully-featured Excel-compatible spreadsheet.
Free software is about the evolution of software. Helix Code is here to accelerate that evolution. Buckle up.
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If you would like to host a mirror of our distribution site, please email us!
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I suppose that downtime's not going to be that critical to the epipe, since it's only a dialup gateway. (Security being less of an issue, too -- they can't reach you all that easily when your line keeps crapping out on you, right? ;) ) This looks kinda similar to a RAQ3, but for dialup. Is that right?
Can anybody tell me where I'm wrong here?
No lyrical rewrites, the guys have control over what's censored, and it'd be funny as hell.
That said, judicious use of graphics is a good thing. I'm shopping around for a PC case, and it is so fucking frustrating to see one little .jpg of the (closed) outside of a case. I want to see shots of the outside of the case, the inside of the case, the stuff inside it coming off, and everything else! Even line art would be okay.
That said, don't make them all huge bloated SOBs that take forever to load. (Yes, I want pictures, but I'm on dialup, too.) Use thumbnails to link to larger pictures. The "$50/month ecommerce" pages at store.yahoo.com are particularly egregious in this respect. The graphics are 40-50k graphics that load nice and fast but are usually just one shot of the outside. They are links, but all they link to is the exact same picture off of the yimg.yahoo.com server.
That being said, use some damn text, too! Too many times, the description reads something like "$BRANDNAME computer case, $75". WTF good does that do me? I can see it's a computer case! I want to see something like the following:
$BRANDNAME mid-tower case
When will these people learn? That last thing we want (especially if they're selling cases, the tech-savvy crowd is who is going to buy this stuff, mostly) is fluff! We want to know what we're getting, not just one crappy jpeg and a one-line text description. Sure, you can always email for more info, but personally, I don't want to wait for that. I want to find out everything now and not wait on someone else's schedule. Besides, I don't want to give my email address to you, a business I've never heard of; if I want to get "product updates" from you, I'll give you my email address with my explicit permission for that.
Yes, a picture is worth a thousand words, or so it is said, but the person who came up with that never shopped online.
(/rant mode)
OT: Does anyone know any sites where I might actually find cases such as this? Sites that sell cases are few and far between. I've also tried to find just thumbscrews, but the only place I've found so far is pcpowercooling.com. Even better if there are any Philadelphia geeks out there would be a local store that sells them. (I thought that CompUSA did, but they were just the dinky, crappy little plastic kind.) My email address is bj.XYZ@ZY.netaxs.com, and you should be able figure out what to do with it. If not... :)
Time to submit this, I think. I've probably gone grossly over quota on this posting, :) but I hope this helps some budding web designer. Either that, or I'm preaching to the choir.
Yet Another Slashdot Parody, but it's damn funny. You might not like it though; it does not contain grits.
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That's all.
I thought to myself as I was reading this, "This is so cool!" I'm 21 (will be 22 in the spring). I only mention this because it will help you understand the time period I'm talking about when I speak of my high school.
You know what we had in high school? The original PCs! I think that they recently had upgraded to AT status (they took one of the 5.25 inch floppies out and put in a small hard drive).
Granted, I went to a tiny high school. (It was a church school; I guess the proper term is "parochial".) There were about a hundred students total, and there were exactly 25 in my graduating class. There were maybe 2 dozen PCs total (for student use; there were more for administrivia.
There was also a secondary education facility there. They had, I think, 486s. We were permitted to use those very infrequently.
In all fairness, they didn't charge a whole lot for tuition (in addition to the small student body), so there wasn't a lot of money to play with. And computers weren't nearly as big then as they are now. But damn, what I wouldn't give to have gone to a high school like this!
I guess just ignore this whole post. I kind of rambled, but I'm not going to edit it. I suppose that I just wanted to congratulate Slashdot on this story. This is some very cool stuff. Damn, if I lived in New York, I'd volunteer to help them out.
(I just thought of something, I really need to get in touch with the principal at my old school so I can pick up some of those keyboards if they ever get rid of the old computers. IBM Model M keyboards rock! In fact, I'm typing on one right now. Picked it up a couple of days ago, used, for 8 bucks. I got a strange look from the lady when I told her that she didn't know how much this made my day.)
LINUX == Linux Is Not UniX
The usual disclaimers about what my profession is and is not apply.
You asked about if ideas could be patented. IANA $WHATEVER, but in general, it seems like ideas would fall under the jurisdiction of copyright. If it's ideas about how to market a product, the end result of that could be considered trademark.
I'd post more, but I'm off work now and going home. :)
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C'mon, folks, let's not forget the September that never ended...
I don't want to see this happen everywhere because there are definitely some clueless f*cks out there that would never, ever pay (god forbid) for rudimentary access, but they'll take anything that's (perceived to be) free.
Are more AOLers really what we want out there?
Hell, no! I think it should be harder to get on the net. All this point-and-click GUI shit is lowering the collective IQ of the 'net populace.
This may sound like I'm trolling, but I'm really not. We really need an intellectual barrier to entry. Give out the tools, but make 'em command-line and pass out a copy of an Internetworking-HOWTO.
Yes, I guess I'm one of the "technological elite" or the so-called "digerati" (at least in my own mind). Yes, I guess I'm a hypocrite, too, because I work for an ISP (but I rarely take customer calls during my working hours of 11:30pm-7:30am).
Moderate this however the hell you want to, as always.
At salestax.com, they have this to say:
- State, county, city, and all local taxes are covered
- Rates for each and every ZIP code in the U.S., its territories, and Canada
- Follow thousands of tax rates imposed by thousands of jurisdictions
Granted, they're trying to sell you their software, but don't you think they might know at least a little bit about this? Anecdotal example: I live in Pennsylvania, southeastern PA (in a town called Media which is a Philadelphia suburb) specifically. PA sales tax is 6%. Philadelphia city sales tax is 1% (for a total of 7%). I'm not claiming that you'll encounter this many different sales taxes in this short an area all over, but that's 2 different sales taxes in a space of less than 20 miles in the same state. Delaware has no sales tax. Oops, add a third. Not sure what New Jersey is, but we can't forget that. Suddenly, it's not so simple, is it?If it were just a matter of 50 different states, it wouldn't be such a bitch to implement.
One final point: These overtaxing governments haven't gone bankrupt yet from more than 100 years of mail order, have they? And I've seen many sites asking residents of $STATE to add the sales tax.
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Not what you think, though.
EAGER BEAVER COMPUTERS
SERVING SPOKANE SINCE 1989 Hee hee.Why don't you think more carefully about what you say next time.
Think undead, mindless drones simply and slavishly doing whatever they're told... Oh, wait a minute, you asked about zombie sites, not Micros~1 operating systems. :)
Seriously, though, methinks it's a word that the media just invented in their attempt to describe what's going on to a techno-illiterate public. I'm surprised it hasn't happened before... :)
Trying to track down (hackers|crackers|31337 skript k1dd13z) by going to the geographical location of one (set) of the machines that they were able to control is highly illogical from a technological standpoint.
I'm sure everybody was aware of that, but I felt the need to bring it up.
Sure, it helps if you look at the box(en) that were cracked, but is there really a need to chase rainbows at the physical location? Obviously, from all the n places that one could access the net (of which California is one), the possibility that the crackers are located in California is 1/n.
In all likelihood, this was not "the region from which the attacks most likely originated..." unless the machines' logs show evidence of physical tampering. OTOH, this could be part of their publicity stunt to show that they're going to "really do something about this."
"...a flood of hacker messages..." LMAO.