I use a classic newsreader program for reading news. OTOH, they're useless for searching news. Deja News first, and later Google after they acquired Deja, has always been the tool for that.
The query asks for articles containing the word 'database' that appeared in comp.* between 1981 and 1999. Only got about a thousand hits though (most from comp.database.* groups), I have to admit I had expected more.
What makes it even worse is that several of those so-called "forums" are just web-based front ends to certain topically selected usenet newsgroups, hiding the real source and making it look like the content is coming from somewhere else than it really is. Some ad banners added for income.
So if you _do_ get something in result to your Google search (non-usenet, which makes this an OT rant I guess), you find a dozen copies of the same usenet article. If you're lucky, someone even answered it so you don't get just the question repeated so many times.
I fully agree that Google is the best way to search MSDN. It beats MSDN's own built-in search, hands down.
ISTR that securom has a reputation of messing with your CD burning ability. So create a restore point first, and first thing after you apply those modifications, check if your CD burning software still works. If they installed a driver into the CD driver or filesystem chain somewhere and you break the chain, something might stop working.
In a similar way, I stopped buying CD's as a protest against the RIAA. I've got over 200 albums on my iPod: no downloads, all imported from CD's I own, of which exactly *one* was bought less than so many years ago.
Some time after I stopped buying, I read that they were suffering from a loss in revenue (not that I think my personal bit was of any visual influence in that), and they were attributing it to piracy. Not to displeased customers like me giving them the middle finger, only to piracy.
So in a way, they were using my protest to "prove" that their actions - the same ones that made me stop buying CD's - were right all along.
I think the key phrase is "D.S.T. increases residential electricity demand."
The company or what/whoever you work for will see a positive effect, at the expense of the consumer. That is exactly what I've always believed DST was meant to do (by those who invented it), in the first place.
I wonder: did they invite people like Cory Doctorow? Did they invite people like Eric Flint?
Or are they only going to listen to voices from the dark side, the side that believes culture was invented to make big companies rich and where "non-commercial" is a profanity?
Shut down the internet, and the phone company, and lock up all possessors of walkie talkies at Guantanamo Bay.
Reminds me of something I read not long after 9/11, never knew if it started as a joke or not, but it did make it to an article on a (European) newspaper's website.
Some of Bin Laden's boys had acquired a large number of cell phones (in France, the article said), and changed phones almost daily to avoid being tracked. They got caught because they kept using the same SIM cards.
And you can connect such a Linux PC to the internet and still sleep at night:)
Win95 isn't too bad for a standalone PC, but I'd prefer NT or W2000 there.
Just wait till they discover slashdot. Not only a communications means for terrorists, it's a goddam weapon that can make entire websites grind to a halt.
Slashdot Mirror
Idle hope. There's *far* too much prior art to ever get this patent approved.
OTOH, it *is* the US we're talking about, and Halliburton has a *real* big pile of cash.
I use a classic newsreader program for reading news.
OTOH, they're useless for searching news. Deja News first, and later Google after they acquired Deja, has always been the tool for that.
Just BTW: changing google.co.uk into google.com in the URL gives the same results (both times 994 hits).
Seems to work for me.
The query asks for articles containing the word 'database' that appeared in comp.* between 1981 and 1999.
Only got about a thousand hits though (most from comp.database.* groups), I have to admit I had expected more.
What makes it even worse is that several of those so-called "forums" are just web-based front ends to certain topically selected usenet newsgroups, hiding the real source and making it look like the content is coming from somewhere else than it really is. Some ad banners added for income.
So if you _do_ get something in result to your Google search (non-usenet, which makes this an OT rant I guess), you find a dozen copies of the same usenet article. If you're lucky, someone even answered it so you don't get just the question repeated so many times.
I fully agree that Google is the best way to search MSDN. It beats MSDN's own built-in search, hands down.
ISTR that securom has a reputation of messing with your CD burning ability.
So create a restore point first, and first thing after you apply those modifications, check if your CD burning software still works. If they installed a driver into the CD driver or filesystem chain somewhere and you break the chain, something might stop working.
In a similar way, I stopped buying CD's as a protest against the RIAA. I've got over 200 albums on my iPod: no downloads, all imported from CD's I own, of which exactly *one* was bought less than so many years ago.
Some time after I stopped buying, I read that they were suffering from a loss in revenue (not that I think my personal bit was of any visual influence in that), and they were attributing it to piracy. Not to displeased customers like me giving them the middle finger, only to piracy.
So in a way, they were using my protest to "prove" that their actions - the same ones that made me stop buying CD's - were right all along.
I think the key phrase is "D.S.T. increases residential electricity demand."
The company or what/whoever you work for will see a positive effect, at the expense of the consumer. That is exactly what I've always believed DST was meant to do (by those who invented it), in the first place.
I wonder: did they invite people like Cory Doctorow?
Did they invite people like Eric Flint?
Or are they only going to listen to voices from the dark side, the side that believes culture was invented to make big companies rich and where "non-commercial" is a profanity?
Shut down the internet, and the phone company, and lock up all possessors of walkie talkies at Guantanamo Bay.
Reminds me of something I read not long after 9/11, never knew if it started as a joke or not, but it did make it to an article on a (European) newspaper's website.
Some of Bin Laden's boys had acquired a large number of cell phones (in France, the article said), and changed phones almost daily to avoid being tracked. They got caught because they kept using the same SIM cards.
And you can connect such a Linux PC to the internet and still sleep at night :)
Win95 isn't too bad for a standalone PC, but I'd prefer NT or W2000 there.
Just wait till they discover slashdot. Not only a communications means for terrorists, it's a goddam weapon that can make entire websites grind to a halt.