I wish they'd do that in some restaurants around here (SF, CA Bay Area). It is quite annoying when you hear them go off while eating a nice dinner. Some restaurants discourage them but they don't stop people from using them. I hope it will be next.
What I really want to see is a ban on driving while dialing and driving while talking without a hands free. Even though hands free is not completely safer, when you have a phone next to your ear, you usually have an arm and hand there as well and you create an even bigger blind spot than an auto driver already has. That combined with the fact that you cannot (or just don't) use your turn signals makes it impossible to figure out what you are doing on the road. This is what I see alot of and worst part is these are usually the people driving the SUV's and expensive cars.
The GAS guzzelers. I keep seeing all these commercials about where terrorist get their money and they say it is from drugs. Osama Bin Laden got his money from OIL, which supplies the gas that goes in these big gas guzzelers, which supports terrorism. Would seem to me that these people who drive these big gas guzzelers are supporting terrorism.
Any way it seems I have drifter a little off topic. You'd think people who don't mind spending $50 on gas a t a fillup would be able to spend the extra $30 for the hands free. Hell I got mine free. Oh I guess they have to save it for the gas to support Dick & Bush & Terrorism.
Glide3, XFree 4.2, cups, (e)ruby, evolution, still has gcc 2.96 but also gcc 3.x, kde 3.x, kernel 2.4.18, mozilla.9.9, netscape 4.79, and more. pretty sweet....
By my calculations I currently get over 3000 spams in a year. Thank goodness I have filters to block some of this and earthlinks spaminator.... I think every ISP/mail service should have a spaminator...
Hmm if they implement something like this and it gets hacked, which I am sure it eventually will, then I can see some hackers taking over the internet by using this.
There will always be security holes in software and there will always be someone interested in exploiting them. If this is in a RFC then anyone will know how it works.
Maybe they should set up some IRC channels instead and have them closed except in a disaster. Then allow people to access them in the event of a disasster./join #usa_emergency, or #asia_emergency, etc...
If you specify that something is added to the header of the packet then what is to stop anyone wanting their data from being prioritized? It needs a hard wired switch IMHO.
First I think child porn is discusting. My concern is when sites start to block content when will they stop? What about if the government decides that sites that provide infomation on sexuality and sexuality for minors are considered pornographic cause they make mention of certain words or express certain ideas? When does it become pornographic? Was Robert Maplethorpe's (sp?) exhibit pornographic? Granted they are now going to be going after sites that probably have pictures of specific acts or such, but what if they just 'say' that you are a child pornographic site? What is to stop any site from being essentially blacklisted? Are they blocking servers or actual URLS? Yahoo has groups and clubs and one of these clubs or groups or some of them (I am not clear on all the details) had child porno on them. Could this result in the total ban of clubs.yahoo.com and groups.yahoo.com from ISP's in Penn? I'd say possibly!
And while some ISPs now market themselves as "family friendly," they often do so by restricting access to legitimate sites as well.
This is slowly becoming the end of the information highway. It is turning into the censorship highway. Of course someone will moderate this down as being overrated, and maybe it is a little bit, but I have been on the internet since 94 and it is not as free as it used to be. We now have more ads then ever before. There are now more spammers then there were and more people online. There are more sites and people using 'family safe software' that blocks 'bad content'. But who is defineing this bad content?
Well believe it or not much of this is being driven by religious conservatism and right or wrong how long will it be before a site that you visit that is NOT pornographic or bad is blacklisted because it is considered 'subversive' or a terrorist threat? in France they are demanding the blockage of the sale of all Nazi memorabilia (sp), asia they block some western ideas. Soon it will be up to those in power to determine what content they want you to read.
Fantasy, well most people are young here and will live to see if this is going to be more real than fantasy.
It would seem to me that you would need a patch code monkey. Someone to review the patches before they are applied to make sure that two people do not over patch each other.
When I worked with CVS I always had problems of people overwriting my changes or incompatible changes.
In the Linux world there are usually modules maintainers. Often only one maintainer is responsible for the ci/co of the source tree and more often people pick a branch to work on then port their stuff to the branch it gets checked in to.
The Linux kernel does not use CVS, right now they are moving to (or moved) bit keeper.
Where I work we use a custom program that does locking so that only one person can work on a file at a time and this eliminates all conflicts. PVCS also does this and run under both Windows and various UNIX flavors. Locking is not as bad as it may sound and in fact it is good in the case where you have several files that are frequently accessed.
CVS is good when you have less bumping heads. Of course this has been my experience, others may have other opinions.
One thing you could do is build a small program layer on top of cvs, or maybe some scripts to do some locking so that people are less likely to bump heads.
.. okay I did, in fact my rc.custom startup script does this. This is called from rc.local, which never seems to be called from the init scripts on any of my RH installatinos. So I add it rc.sysconf.
This way when I upgrade I don't end up with issues like this guy.
I guess I am supprised as I would have though that this would be something you'd see on Linux.com not slash.
It is a good idea to make sure that before you go mucking with hdparm that you do so knowing that if you make mistakes you can really screw up your harddrive.
Part of the problem is that they use the new technology to make the processors and video faster. Most people do not need all the speed. Thus it is possible to make a none integrated video card that is 1/2 slot size as well as sound. The space between the cards could be increased slightly to help if needed but I don't think that is really an issue in cooling.
The truth is that this is possible. While it may not be possible to have the newest and fastest computers it is possible to use current tech to make smaller, cooler, and almost as configurable computers as we currently have.
If you look at most new eth cards today. Regular pc cards, they are 1/2 as wide as the slot they go in. They are as long as a pci slot, but the actual electronics of the card only fill up 1/2 the width. I'm not intereseted in pcmcia cards. The existing cards in a computer case have a place where you put the screw in and it holds it to the case. The little metal strip is usally 2x as wide as many eth cards made today. Many sound cards could also fit in this 1/2 space as well. As for viceo, I'm sure it could be done to. Thus the only thing in the case that needs that much width then is the cdrom and the power supply, both of which could be turned sideways like in most desktops.
To cool this system you could have slots like you see in many stereo recievers(sp?) today with the vents and large heat sinks.
This could be done. Imagine 2 computer cases on your desktop taking up the space of about 1 mid tower case. Connect that to a LCD and you gain back some of your deskspace that you lost in the paperless office. Now you have more place to spread all those papers that yo never got ride of.;-)
.. rather than integrating the video, sound, eth0 on the MB, to have them all small cards. not quite pcmcia, but 1/2 the size of the current pci cards. Then a computer case could be built that was 1/2 as winde as current cases and 1/2 as high and people could pick and choose their sound cards. With integrated components if one part fails and there is no slot on the mb you have to replace your mb to gete that component working again.
Many network cards and sound cards today are 1/2 as wide as they were a few years ago, now they just have to make the part that you connect to the case 1/2 as wide. Small change there.
This design in the article is the 'throw away design'. If something goes you just throw the whole thing away. Kinda like PDA's.
Oh but in this case it will seem fast cause you'll be required to have 1 Gig of RAM and a 10 Ghz processor to run they system.
Okay maybe that's an exaggeration, but someone else posted that it will be sql server type file system or a database RAW partition. If you ever used sybase you'll need the RAM RAM and CPU for these new features....
Personally I am not sure how many people actually want this in windows. I thought the industry trend was to pda type devices. What happened with their Mira device?
"But also require that he would be liable responsible for ALL spam that passes through his server."
Does this now mean I should hold the US post office liable for ALL anthrax scares? How about holding them liable for al junk mail that I get too.
How come I can't put filters on my snail mail?
I don't like spam, so I filter based on headers. Gee if you have netscape you can use javascript to filter out email. Edit your preferences.js to point to it. I am not sure about how to do it, but know it can be done. I read about this last week. I'll be working on this tonight I hope.....
This is where the problem is. The transulation of "tok know was converted to " have sex with" was misinterpreted. It was actually:
" that we may know them."
There are Jewish scholars will tell you that "to know" has many meaning and while sex is one of them it is not necessarily the corect one here. I.E. "to know" as a friend or as a person. I "know" people and have not had sex with them.
Also in Ezekiel, as you pointed out said the sins of sister Sodem were "arrogance, overfed and unconcerned; they did not help the poor and needy." This would indicate that the reason that Soden was destroyed was not for sex acts but tbecause they were wicked.
Which is worse: to commit a consensual act between two consenting people, or to treat someone as less of a person?
I wonder if they filter out planetout? Wouldn't want those kids finding out that being gay is not as bad as they religions fanitics want you to think. Or the fact that these religious groups that say love thy neightbor, really teach love thy neighbor, but hate them if they are gay.
Oh heaven forbid that people learn that sodem and gamoreh(sp) has nothing to do with sodemy.
What would people think if they found out about the gay penguins in the aquarium. Oh my!
Some of these people are the same ones that think that prayer should be allowed in public schools. However they don't want to just allow it they want to require it!
P>Your going to hell if you moderate this down!!!
Yes the for asp/vb script. I use php for small projects and have been looking for something easy to use to create the killer app. Since this allows ease of gtk app building, i.e. no need to compile and you get native gtk look and feel it is actually just another binding to gtk. This falls in with gtk-perl, gtk-tcl, gtk-, now gtk-php.
After trying it out it is rather cool. I agree with you php does have weak classes but for quick projects that have tight deadlines this may be alternative answer to vb.
"Only a boob could ever allow such a thing to occur."
Yes and the same could be said about most UNIX systems. It takes a little intelligence to prevent your machine from being taken over by virus, worms, or trojans, buffer overruns or other exploits.
Something most/.ers here seem to miss is that not all computer users are as computer savy as many of the readers here. Many computer users WILL grant permission to a program to run on their machine. They will execute a file even if they do not know who it is from. While this article may not be 100% accurate, as most never are, it points out that.NET is not even out 'in mass' and people are already looking for ways to exploit it. This may actually be good for windows as it will hopefully make them find more ways to tighen the security and 'dummify the system' so that user xyz does not screw up their system just by click on a file. Like integrated virus scanner.
Personally I'd go with what I call 'registered execution'. This would require that programs that are 'registered' could execute code to do certain task. If you wrote a macro on your computer it would become registered, but if you sent that macro to someone else it would not and they would then be prompted to run that macro and if they wanted to register it. Then when virus abc is sent to user xyz and the user click on it the OS pops up a message of the program you have tried to execute is not registered, it wants to modify registry settings and blah blah. While this is not 100% foolproof, it could help in reducing virus spreadding.
Someone here compared perl to VB. I almost fell out of my chair laughing at that comparison. Perl is not embedded in email applications on UNIX or windows like VB is in Outlook. Perl is not part of an office application that is used by 90% of computer users (of course with China moving to Linux that number will change). Perl is a script and the number of virus that are spread uusing perl vs VB is tiny. perl can be used for buffer overruns and hack attacks, but then so can VB and C/C++ or even Java.
"and a competent admin"
If you have ever done system administration or IT support and had to support end users then you'd know that many of these people probably should not even be using computers at home. The point is that the.NET framework WILL be attacked by virus, worms and/or trojans and at some point they will spread.
Hmm maybe/. doesn't hate all my posts after all....
Well not only that, but I was talking with a friend about this yesterday and in some states if he is working in a home office in another state, i.e. teh company is in NY wna dhe is in VA, the company he works for may have to be incorporated in the state that he is living/working in. He may also have to have special permits to work in a home office depending on county/province and city/town ordinaces. Most of the time we overlook these as noone really knows about these requirements or cares. He should think twice as this could get him and the company he works for into trouble.
If you are telecommuting and you need connectivity I suggest you get a business line. Unfortunately the phone company is in order, as residential is supposed to be used for 'pleasure' or personal.
The fact is that if you do use it for business and the phone company finds out they can cut you off or potentially block the service. I think on slashdot here there was a case where some ISP was cutting off its residential uses from using vpn. Most probably wont do that as they don't care. It is not worth their time to monitor what you are doing unless you start causing problems in their network. Then it is abuse.
Most decent ISP, like Earthlink/Mindspring would compensate you by refunding you the amount of time that you were down. So if you were down for 3 days they would deduct it from your next bill. Rather than you paying $50 one month you'd pay about $48 (I'm sure someone here will do the exact math). They would not compensate you for lost time at work.
Were you to get a business line then they would have to keep you up 24/7 else you could sue them for lost business income. I have seen this happen before and there is little you can do. However if you want to persue this read your Terms of Service and see if it mentions anything about this. It probably says 'your screwed if you....'
I'd agree.. and if you look at google that is what they do. As part of the search results at the top and to the right are little text ads. They almost look like results but are bold.
All I have to say is 'ad filtering proxy'. Can you say proximitron -> http://thewebfairy.com/prox/...
In wonder if they took this into consideration. So how big and annoying can these banner ads get? Can't be any worse then yahoo's and what they did to the email. Ads between page views. Click a link, see and add then press continue.
What a waste of bandwith for someone who is filtering 'bbox' adds.
If that is what the poster was looking for then AOL is not the ISP to join. Neither is MS.net or whatever M$ calls itself. Mindspring still has news.mindspring.com, but I think it is ONLY for mindspring users. I am accessing it NOW. Also some other ISP have news group access, but most are denying these services. Not sure why. I think they are not as accessed as they used to be.
pretty much. I think that you can find the news groups, but not sure if they are like they used to be. You have to realize that now with yahoo clubs / yahoo groups (becoming one by the way) and deja, the alt.xxx.xxx are fading away. The new groups are supposely easier to use when you learn them and also allow you to do things to reduce spam. I also think they give the companies running them more control, by having adult sections and things like that. The old alt groups and news groups did not have anything like that. What you probably need is a good news reader program. I think the only one that I can think of that you can use under windows is with netscape. There are others out there I'm sure. I know under Linux there are several.
wouldn't windows have to BE stable to destroy it as a stable development platform? I know win 95/nt4.0/98 were never stable. Have yet to try w2k or xp. The only thing consistant is the blue screen or the poorly designed memory management that causes my win 98 box to crash.
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What I really want to see is a ban on driving while dialing and driving while talking without a hands free. Even though hands free is not completely safer, when you have a phone next to your ear, you usually have an arm and hand there as well and you create an even bigger blind spot than an auto driver already has. That combined with the fact that you cannot (or just don't) use your turn signals makes it impossible to figure out what you are doing on the road. This is what I see alot of and worst part is these are usually the people driving the SUV's and expensive cars.
The GAS guzzelers. I keep seeing all these commercials about where terrorist get their money and they say it is from drugs. Osama Bin Laden got his money from OIL, which supplies the gas that goes in these big gas guzzelers, which supports terrorism. Would seem to me that these people who drive these big gas guzzelers are supporting terrorism.
Any way it seems I have drifter a little off topic. You'd think people who don't mind spending $50 on gas a t a fillup would be able to spend the extra $30 for the hands free. Hell I got mine free. Oh I guess they have to save it for the gas to support Dick & Bush & Terrorism.
I hope they release this as 7.3 and not 8.0.
By my calculations I currently get over 3000 spams in a year. Thank goodness I have filters to block some of this and earthlinks spaminator.... I think every ISP/mail service should have a spaminator...
Hmm if they implement something like this and it gets hacked, which I am sure it eventually will, then I can see some hackers taking over the internet by using this.
There will always be security holes in software and there will always be someone interested in exploiting them. If this is in a RFC then anyone will know how it works.
Maybe they should set up some IRC channels instead and have them closed except in a disaster. Then allow people to access them in the event of a disasster. /join #usa_emergency, or #asia_emergency, etc...
If you specify that something is added to the header of the packet then what is to stop anyone wanting their data from being prioritized? It needs a hard wired switch IMHO.
This is slowly becoming the end of the information highway. It is turning into the censorship highway. Of course someone will moderate this down as being overrated, and maybe it is a little bit, but I have been on the internet since 94 and it is not as free as it used to be. We now have more ads then ever before. There are now more spammers then there were and more people online. There are more sites and people using 'family safe software' that blocks 'bad content'. But who is defineing this bad content?
Well believe it or not much of this is being driven by religious conservatism and right or wrong how long will it be before a site that you visit that is NOT pornographic or bad is blacklisted because it is considered 'subversive' or a terrorist threat? in France they are demanding the blockage of the sale of all Nazi memorabilia (sp), asia they block some western ideas. Soon it will be up to those in power to determine what content they want you to read.
Fantasy, well most people are young here and will live to see if this is going to be more real than fantasy.
When I worked with CVS I always had problems of people overwriting my changes or incompatible changes.
In the Linux world there are usually modules maintainers. Often only one maintainer is responsible for the ci/co of the source tree and more often people pick a branch to work on then port their stuff to the branch it gets checked in to.
The Linux kernel does not use CVS, right now they are moving to (or moved) bit keeper.
Where I work we use a custom program that does locking so that only one person can work on a file at a time and this eliminates all conflicts. PVCS also does this and run under both Windows and various UNIX flavors. Locking is not as bad as it may sound and in fact it is good in the case where you have several files that are frequently accessed.
CVS is good when you have less bumping heads. Of course this has been my experience, others may have other opinions.
One thing you could do is build a small program layer on top of cvs, or maybe some scripts to do some locking so that people are less likely to bump heads.
This way when I upgrade I don't end up with issues like this guy.
I guess I am supprised as I would have though that this would be something you'd see on Linux.com not slash.
It is a good idea to make sure that before you go mucking with hdparm that you do so knowing that if you make mistakes you can really screw up your harddrive.
The truth is that this is possible. While it may not be possible to have the newest and fastest computers it is possible to use current tech to make smaller, cooler, and almost as configurable computers as we currently have.
To cool this system you could have slots like you see in many stereo recievers(sp?) today with the vents and large heat sinks.
This could be done. Imagine 2 computer cases on your desktop taking up the space of about 1 mid tower case. Connect that to a LCD and you gain back some of your deskspace that you lost in the paperless office. Now you have more place to spread all those papers that yo never got ride of. ;-)
Many network cards and sound cards today are 1/2 as wide as they were a few years ago, now they just have to make the part that you connect to the case 1/2 as wide. Small change there.
This design in the article is the 'throw away design'. If something goes you just throw the whole thing away. Kinda like PDA's.
Okay maybe that's an exaggeration, but someone else posted that it will be sql server type file system or a database RAW partition. If you ever used sybase you'll need the RAM RAM and CPU for these new features....
Personally I am not sure how many people actually want this in windows. I thought the industry trend was to pda type devices. What happened with their Mira device?
To simple straighten pins, I've used a small screwdriver.
As far as data recovery in Atlanta area I'd suggest the yellow pages. There are bound to be plenty.
On another note, I now see the new big adds.. wow, its about the size of a bbox. Yahoo is doing this too.
Does this now mean I should hold the US post office liable for ALL anthrax scares? How about holding them liable for al junk mail that I get too.
How come I can't put filters on my snail mail?
I don't like spam, so I filter based on headers. Gee if you have netscape you can use javascript to filter out email. Edit your preferences.js to point to it. I am not sure about how to do it, but know it can be done. I read about this last week. I'll be working on this tonight I hope.....
This is where the problem is. The transulation of "tok know was converted to " have sex with" was misinterpreted. It was actually:
" that we may know them."
There are Jewish scholars will tell you that "to know" has many meaning and while sex is one of them it is not necessarily the corect one here. I.E. "to know" as a friend or as a person. I "know" people and have not had sex with them.
Also in Ezekiel, as you pointed out said the sins of sister Sodem were "arrogance, overfed and unconcerned; they did not help the poor and needy." This would indicate that the reason that Soden was destroyed was not for sex acts but tbecause they were wicked.
Which is worse: to commit a consensual act between two consenting people, or to treat someone as less of a person?
Oh heaven forbid that people learn that sodem and gamoreh(sp) has nothing to do with sodemy.
What would people think if they found out about the gay penguins in the aquarium. Oh my!
Some of these people are the same ones that think that prayer should be allowed in public schools. However they don't want to just allow it they want to require it! P>Your going to hell if you moderate this down!!!
After trying it out it is rather cool. I agree with you php does have weak classes but for quick projects that have tight deadlines this may be alternative answer to vb.
Yes and the same could be said about most UNIX systems. It takes a little intelligence to prevent your machine from being taken over by virus, worms, or trojans, buffer overruns or other exploits.
Something most /.ers here seem to miss is that not all computer users are as computer savy as many of the readers here. Many computer users WILL grant permission to a program to run on their machine. They will execute a file even if they do not know who it is from. While this article may not be 100% accurate, as most never are, it points out that .NET is not even out 'in mass' and people are already looking for ways to exploit it. This may actually be good for windows as it will hopefully make them find more ways to tighen the security and 'dummify the system' so that user xyz does not screw up their system just by click on a file. Like integrated virus scanner.
Personally I'd go with what I call 'registered execution'. This would require that programs that are 'registered' could execute code to do certain task. If you wrote a macro on your computer it would become registered, but if you sent that macro to someone else it would not and they would then be prompted to run that macro and if they wanted to register it. Then when virus abc is sent to user xyz and the user click on it the OS pops up a message of the program you have tried to execute is not registered, it wants to modify registry settings and blah blah. While this is not 100% foolproof, it could help in reducing virus spreadding.
Someone here compared perl to VB. I almost fell out of my chair laughing at that comparison. Perl is not embedded in email applications on UNIX or windows like VB is in Outlook. Perl is not part of an office application that is used by 90% of computer users (of course with China moving to Linux that number will change). Perl is a script and the number of virus that are spread uusing perl vs VB is tiny. perl can be used for buffer overruns and hack attacks, but then so can VB and C/C++ or even Java.
"and a competent admin"
If you have ever done system administration or IT support and had to support end users then you'd know that many of these people probably should not even be using computers at home. The point is that the .NET framework WILL be attacked by virus, worms and/or trojans and at some point they will spread.
Hmm maybe /. doesn't hate all my posts after all....
Well not only that, but I was talking with a friend about this yesterday and in some states if he is working in a home office in another state, i.e. teh company is in NY wna dhe is in VA, the company he works for may have to be incorporated in the state that he is living/working in. He may also have to have special permits to work in a home office depending on county/province and city/town ordinaces. Most of the time we overlook these as noone really knows about these requirements or cares. He should think twice as this could get him and the company he works for into trouble.
The fact is that if you do use it for business and the phone company finds out they can cut you off or potentially block the service. I think on slashdot here there was a case where some ISP was cutting off its residential uses from using vpn. Most probably wont do that as they don't care. It is not worth their time to monitor what you are doing unless you start causing problems in their network. Then it is abuse.
Most decent ISP, like Earthlink/Mindspring would compensate you by refunding you the amount of time that you were down. So if you were down for 3 days they would deduct it from your next bill. Rather than you paying $50 one month you'd pay about $48 (I'm sure someone here will do the exact math). They would not compensate you for lost time at work.
Were you to get a business line then they would have to keep you up 24/7 else you could sue them for lost business income. I have seen this happen before and there is little you can do. However if you want to persue this read your Terms of Service and see if it mentions anything about this. It probably says 'your screwed if you....'
I'd agree.. and if you look at google that is what they do. As part of the search results at the top and to the right are little text ads. They almost look like results but are bold.
In wonder if they took this into consideration. So how big and annoying can these banner ads get? Can't be any worse then yahoo's and what they did to the email. Ads between page views. Click a link, see and add then press continue.
What a waste of bandwith for someone who is filtering 'bbox' adds.
If that is what the poster was looking for then AOL is not the ISP to join. Neither is MS.net or whatever M$ calls itself. Mindspring still has news.mindspring.com, but I think it is ONLY for mindspring users. I am accessing it NOW. Also some other ISP have news group access, but most are denying these services. Not sure why. I think they are not as accessed as they used to be.
pretty much. I think that you can find the news groups, but not sure if they are like they used to be. You have to realize that now with yahoo clubs / yahoo groups (becoming one by the way) and deja, the alt.xxx.xxx are fading away. The new groups are supposely easier to use when you learn them and also allow you to do things to reduce spam. I also think they give the companies running them more control, by having adult sections and things like that. The old alt groups and news groups did not have anything like that. What you probably need is a good news reader program. I think the only one that I can think of that you can use under windows is with netscape. There are others out there I'm sure. I know under Linux there are several.
wouldn't windows have to BE stable to destroy it as a stable development platform? I know win 95/nt4.0/98 were never stable. Have yet to try w2k or xp. The only thing consistant is the blue screen or the poorly designed memory management that causes my win 98 box to crash.