Its not a windowism (could be a last century windowism (95/98, etc), as it works for me as well and I'm using win2k. I'm using mozilla 1.2.1.
We don't use dhcp (small company). I'd think it may have to do with 'internet keywords' in smart browsing.
Internet Keywords are a method of trying to work out what you meant when you type something that is not a URL into the URL bar. One option would be do perform a search on the words; the Internet Keywords system does this if your query doesn't match any of the things it knows about. However, before that, it knows a number of other things to try. There are certain prefixes, such as "shop" or "quote", which perform specialised searches, and you can also get information relating to a set of American cities by placing them first, e.g. "San Francisco restaurants".
Its about time! Maybe if all spammers got floods of email in their email boxes about sex adds and buy this and that they would see what it is like and stop, and email could become useful again.
Maybe that is what should happen to script kiddies and hackers. They should be dos's to death!
I'm all for extrme methods when extrme methods are used against me.
3 years prediction.. come on, can't you see 3 years into the future;-) (ROTFLOL).
They forget things like the additional software that you have to buy to fend off all the virus that come knocking at your door, like the one that is out now scaning ports 137 on my machine. So many infected, so much time I am spending laughing looking at my logs at the people with infected boxes.
The cost of sourcesafe vs cvs. The cost of OpenOffice, vs MS Office, the cost of the BSD which I have gotton running Java on Windows which worked fine on ANY unix flavor I tried. The cost of.. and the list goes on.
Is this a joke? A 5 year study on something that is only out for 2 years? What is this travel forcasting or weather prediction?
I would just ban them from the network. There is no reason that they need an XP box if you have OS X, Unless there is legacy software that they use for HR or something that they need to run like that. I would personally not have those machine on the network and I would suggest win2k if possible. If they need these machines I would want to know why.
Start with http://uclinux.org/. They have embeded device Linux and also sell kits for a couple of hundred AFAIK. Then go to http://linuxdevices.com/ as they specialize in telling people in the Linux community what is available for handhelds and such. Go to the products and see if there is somethign for you to use. There are places that make MB and hardware and such. It may be possible to get all the parts there.
Don't forget integration. In the palm OS the 'Applications' are integrated pretty well. You ahve an address book that when you are in email you use the same address book. They are getting more integrated in more recent versions of the Palms OS.
The problem with Windows, MAC, UNIX and Linux, etc is that the apps do not integrate cross desktops. There are many different address books and while you can import between many of them you still have to import. It should be an address book format standard in $HOME/.addressbook or something that every app uses as a standard place. The user should not have to think about this. There should be a standard look and feel, no mater weather you are using kde gnome, blackbox, etc, they should all behave and look the same like windows apps and mac apps do, or like Palm does.
Alternate form of input. The palm does not have a f***** mouse or keyboard (standard you have to buy one seperate and dont need one), it has a stylus and grafitti(sp).
Also transferring data between palms is not rocket science. You beam data from palm to palm. With desktop computers you have to think about this and install software and hardware and jump through hoops. Palm is simple and so should a desktop be.
If it were me I would start with something simple like blackbox and make it such that a person had simple access to the necessary applications. Most people just use net and doc processing and maybe excel, so I would start there. Keep it simple!
The original lynx project well created a simple console / text based browser that does not do tables or frames. Supposedly a program called links was born. It went to about release.96 and the author stoped makeing new versions or so it seems. Someone used that and made elinks and then someone else did 'links-gui'. AFAIK they all started with the same source code, but they all have different or slightly different goals. Some of the projects are dead and yet others live on and continue to move slowly forward.
I have had this happen with code I wrote. Basically I have stopped developing the code. Hey it works it does what I want it to do and I am happy with it and so are others. However there are a few that want more out of it so they send me an email and ask me if they can modify it or do whatever to it. I say yes, go ahead, just call it something different please. It works. To me it is basiclly 'open source coding courtesy'. Just tell the project owner that you want to make changes to the code or that you have made changes. The most you can do is send them an email and hope they reply. Often they will say have at it.
Try dosemu or wine and see if they run under one of them. It may be possible to switch to Linux first then port the apps to Linux. Also you could try using QT or Java, then you would not have to worry about 4000 windows.
Actually it could be considered slander if it is not true. An example would be, if someone is spreading rumors that they use live animal testing and they don't, then this could be considered slander. Slandar is punishable under the law. There is a difference between me saying I don't like slashdot or I don't like intel or something stupid like that. This would be my opinion. However if I said something about slashdot that could cause them to loose business or that could potentially cause them to loose business and was NOT true then I could be held liable.
To me this is to vague. If someone said the guy is a jerk or something then it is an opinion and there is nothing he can do. It would really have to be an untruth said about the business.
And no my signature does not count cause it is an silly statement that does not cause them or me any harm.
It may be worth looking into getting one of the BSD's. I have NetBSD 1.6 running on a laptop with 64meg of ram and a 233Mhz. It is not to slow. I am using the old X3.3.6 X drivers as X4.x requires more memory.
You can download NetBSD 1.5.3 base and X or get a cdrom and it may work for you. Use blackbox as the WM or something small (no gnome or kde) and you should be okay. You'll be able to run many apps too. You can use links -gui for a decent gui web browser that does not take up lots of ram or cpu.
Alternately you could build your own system. You need a place to store the images, a place to store the html templates for the images / ads, and then a template processor. Also a counter. The web logs will actually tell you most of the information if you use apache. Apache logs will tell you the image that was loaded and the page requests. You'd have to then parse them.
Seriously look at engage.com and see if there is soimething there that you could use.
You could try engage softwares admanager. We used it at a company I worked at and it was okay. It had a system to enter in the ad and then there were ad calls and an API so that we could extend it. We had a dynamic system as well so this worked okay. Also you could use doubleclick like many smaller companies do. It depends on how many ads you want to display.
Url is here ->
http://www.engage.com/uk/products/admanager/defaul t.htm
I wiped the system clean and did a fresh install, and do not have that poblem, so it is to late for that. I had done lsof and f to see what had the lock and NOTHING had a lock. It was totally weird.
I feel that if they put it on their cdrom then they should hvae tested it some. They will also know or should know the best way to contact the maintainer. They also may be appling their own patches to the code. They do this in the linux kernel and I am sure that they do it elsewhere, so it may actually one of their patches that caused the problem.
I had a problem on my system recently where I upgraded from RH 7.2 to RH 7.3 and my passwd file was locked. I removed the.pwd.lock file the ptmp file and any other file that I could think of. I even boot the system into init 1 and init 2 and tried but it was still locked. Then I installed RH on a second drive and booted the second drive and the second system recognized the/mnt/etc/passwd file as still being locked. I thus had to reinstall RH 7.3 wiping out my system. Thank goodness I had mount points from/opt and/home that I saved data on and did not loose anything. I also save important/etc files as well. So it was about 3 to 4 hours to rebuild the system tops from a new install.
So who is responsible for useradd? For vi / vim? For/etc/passwd? I have no idea, but in redhats database there is now a bug about this as I feel that it is their software at some point.
There are other things that unions provide. For instance, pay raises, vacation benifits, sick, medical, etc. Basically the union is there to protect the worker from being fucked with by a big company. Yes there are the problems that you mention too, but these are mostly at the expense to the companies not the people. If there were unions in the tech sector then maybe people would rather become tech workers than port workers.
The real issue is that in the tech sector people get laid off on a regular basis. Safeway is unionized, as are a number of other places like that. Most unions are blue collar worker type places. In white collar world we are supposed to be 'above all that'. In reality white collar tech workers get screwed all the time. Most tech workers don't get paid for overtime, but they have tight deadlines. Union workers do. Hey there are bus driver unions, teacher unions, steal mill unions, lumber jack unions, etc. Why not tech unions?
* 2002-10-23 17:48:58 Automated sales and services system PATENT (askslashdot,patents) (rejected)
It is a company claiming they own e-commerce with patent #5576951. Hmm same company too. Either I'm not the only one who saw this this morning or someone stole my post.
In any case one of the patents actually applies to an airline reservation system, that I think they are trying to stretch scope of to include e-commerce to get money.
Yes and cd's will stop people from going to concerts right???
I think that some people will stop going to movies, but not all. Personally I think that most movies coming out today are not worth the $8.75 that they charge at the movie theater per person out here in CA. I think that is what would act as a stopper to the movies. Hmm lets see $40 to go to the movie for 4 and then $20 to $30 more on popcorn and sodas or a bottle of soda for $2 + $3.50 for the dvd rental + $2 more for the popcorn.
Personally that and the fact that many movies that come out today are not that great is what makes me rent the dvd's.
Yes and he can use zonealarm or blackice to block the ports and be done with it. I cannot believe crap like this is showing up on slashdot these days. They must be hard pressed for news or something. In the unix world these messages don't happen cause any smart unix admin has a firewall and / or proxy set up to block and log this crap.
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We don't use dhcp (small company). I'd think it may have to do with 'internet keywords' in smart browsing.
No, seriously, depends on teh company. SOme companies do and some don't. Usually I b&m till I get a conference call if I am to confused.
It is really interesting to travel back in time, by just traveling to some parts of the US where they are still 50 years behind the times.
Maybe that is what should happen to script kiddies and hackers. They should be dos's to death!
I'm all for extrme methods when extrme methods are used against me.
Surgens general warning: Opening the refrigerator may cause strange noises.
They forget things like the additional software that you have to buy to fend off all the virus that come knocking at your door, like the one that is out now scaning ports 137 on my machine. So many infected, so much time I am spending laughing looking at my logs at the people with infected boxes.
The cost of sourcesafe vs cvs. The cost of OpenOffice, vs MS Office, the cost of the BSD which I have gotton running Java on Windows which worked fine on ANY unix flavor I tried. The cost of.. and the list goes on.
Is this a joke? A 5 year study on something that is only out for 2 years? What is this travel forcasting or weather prediction?
Interestingly enough so does shutdown on Linux. So what's the problem?
Ask them to show you the specific patents that you are infringing and which part of the patent that you are infringing on.
I would just ban them from the network. There is no reason that they need an XP box if you have OS X, Unless there is legacy software that they use for HR or something that they need to run like that. I would personally not have those machine on the network and I would suggest win2k if possible. If they need these machines I would want to know why.
The only thing 'private' in the US is certain body parts. You will almost always get in trouble for showing them in public.
Start with http://uclinux.org/. They have embeded device Linux and also sell kits for a couple of hundred AFAIK. Then go to http://linuxdevices.com/ as they specialize in telling people in the Linux community what is available for handhelds and such. Go to the products and see if there is somethign for you to use. There are places that make MB and hardware and such. It may be possible to get all the parts there.
The problem with Windows, MAC, UNIX and Linux, etc is that the apps do not integrate cross desktops. There are many different address books and while you can import between many of them you still have to import. It should be an address book format standard in $HOME/.addressbook or something that every app uses as a standard place. The user should not have to think about this. There should be a standard look and feel, no mater weather you are using kde gnome, blackbox, etc, they should all behave and look the same like windows apps and mac apps do, or like Palm does.
Alternate form of input. The palm does not have a f***** mouse or keyboard (standard you have to buy one seperate and dont need one), it has a stylus and grafitti(sp).
Also transferring data between palms is not rocket science. You beam data from palm to palm. With desktop computers you have to think about this and install software and hardware and jump through hoops. Palm is simple and so should a desktop be.
If it were me I would start with something simple like blackbox and make it such that a person had simple access to the necessary applications. Most people just use net and doc processing and maybe excel, so I would start there. Keep it simple!
I have had this happen with code I wrote. Basically I have stopped developing the code. Hey it works it does what I want it to do and I am happy with it and so are others. However there are a few that want more out of it so they send me an email and ask me if they can modify it or do whatever to it. I say yes, go ahead, just call it something different please. It works. To me it is basiclly 'open source coding courtesy'. Just tell the project owner that you want to make changes to the code or that you have made changes. The most you can do is send them an email and hope they reply. Often they will say have at it.
Try dosemu or wine and see if they run under one of them. It may be possible to switch to Linux first then port the apps to Linux. Also you could try using QT or Java, then you would not have to worry about 4000 windows.
Has anyone tried Lindows? How is it? Does it list what windows software is known to run under it??/
To me this is to vague. If someone said the guy is a jerk or something then it is an opinion and there is nothing he can do. It would really have to be an untruth said about the business.
And no my signature does not count cause it is an silly statement that does not cause them or me any harm.
You can download NetBSD 1.5.3 base and X or get a cdrom and it may work for you. Use blackbox as the WM or something small (no gnome or kde) and you should be okay. You'll be able to run many apps too. You can use links -gui for a decent gui web browser that does not take up lots of ram or cpu.
Alternately you could build your own system. You need a place to store the images, a place to store the html templates for the images / ads, and then a template processor. Also a counter. The web logs will actually tell you most of the information if you use apache. Apache logs will tell you the image that was loaded and the page requests. You'd have to then parse them.
Seriously look at engage.com and see if there is soimething there that you could use.
Url is here -> http://www.engage.com/uk/products/admanager/defaul t.htm
I wiped the system clean and did a fresh install, and do not have that poblem, so it is to late for that. I had done lsof and f to see what had the lock and NOTHING had a lock. It was totally weird.
I feel that if they put it on their cdrom then they should hvae tested it some. They will also know or should know the best way to contact the maintainer. They also may be appling their own patches to the code. They do this in the linux kernel and I am sure that they do it elsewhere, so it may actually one of their patches that caused the problem.
I had a problem on my system recently where I upgraded from RH 7.2 to RH 7.3 and my passwd file was locked. I removed the .pwd.lock file the ptmp file and any other file that I could think of. I even boot the system into init 1 and init 2 and tried but it was still locked. Then I installed RH on a second drive and booted the second drive and the second system recognized the /mnt/etc/passwd file as still being locked. I thus had to reinstall RH 7.3 wiping out my system. Thank goodness I had mount points from /opt and /home that I saved data on and did not loose anything. I also save important /etc files as well. So it was about 3 to 4 hours to rebuild the system tops from a new install.
So who is responsible for useradd? For vi / vim? For /etc/passwd? I have no idea, but in redhats database there is now a bug about this as I feel that it is their software at some point.
The real issue is that in the tech sector people get laid off on a regular basis. Safeway is unionized, as are a number of other places like that. Most unions are blue collar worker type places. In white collar world we are supposed to be 'above all that'. In reality white collar tech workers get screwed all the time. Most tech workers don't get paid for overtime, but they have tight deadlines. Union workers do. Hey there are bus driver unions, teacher unions, steal mill unions, lumber jack unions, etc. Why not tech unions?
It is a company claiming they own e-commerce with patent #5576951. Hmm same company too. Either I'm not the only one who saw this this morning or someone stole my post.
In any case one of the patents actually applies to an airline reservation system, that I think they are trying to stretch scope of to include e-commerce to get money.
I think that some people will stop going to movies, but not all. Personally I think that most movies coming out today are not worth the $8.75 that they charge at the movie theater per person out here in CA. I think that is what would act as a stopper to the movies. Hmm lets see $40 to go to the movie for 4 and then $20 to $30 more on popcorn and sodas or a bottle of soda for $2 + $3.50 for the dvd rental + $2 more for the popcorn.
Personally that and the fact that many movies that come out today are not that great is what makes me rent the dvd's.
Yes and he can use zonealarm or blackice to block the ports and be done with it. I cannot believe crap like this is showing up on slashdot these days. They must be hard pressed for news or something. In the unix world these messages don't happen cause any smart unix admin has a firewall and / or proxy set up to block and log this crap.