However, people are going to use Outlook no matter what. It's the best email client currently
available, except Eudora IMHO.
What, Eudora doesn't autorun enough viruses for you?:)
With Exchange the problem is east to solve, get a virus scanner of Exchange (Norton, InoculateIT,
etc.) and keep it updated. You're a raving madman if youre not doing this on ANY enterprise mail
system.
Or just get a client that isn't vulnerable to such viruses - see figure 1.
But the "TLD" in this case is "alt", not "flonk". Not that Usenet couldn't have top-level category pollution in the way that you were describing (although I wouldn't know one way or the other the technical constraints on Usenet names), but the particular example that you cited doesn't make sense.
Well, how about SSL encryption? That doesn't rely on a shared secret, does it? Of course, once you go to public-key cryptography, things get a lot slower...
OK, I tried the C code which admittedly is remarkable, but it doesn't generate a very complicated maze. It looks like:
Well, I'd show you what it looks like, but I hit the lameness filter. It has one path across the bottom of the maze, and a number of straight dead-end passageways going up to the top. Does this work for anyone else?
The article was saying that the reason reflex augmentation proxies are hard to stop is because they are running on another machine. If they were running on the same machine, then your client could scan for them (this has social implications, of course, was it Everquest that was doing this?) and report back a cheating attempt.
It seems to me that if the problem is a a proxy that inserts "aim" commands ahead of "fire" commands, then maybe running the client-server communication through an encrypted channel would solve the problem. I don't know if it would be fast enough, but I imagine it would be possible.
As a
survivor of both Mars Attacks and Battlefield Earth, I know how deadly
movie trauma can be.
You are aware that Mars Attacks was a comedy, right timothy? It was supposed to be sort of hokey and rely on cliches from other sci-fi movies. It really fit the Tim Burton mold - if you like his movies, you liked Mars Attacks. OK, I wouldn't have seen it in the theater (and didn't, in fact) but it was OK on video.
I have no such excuses for Battlefield Earth, but on the other hand I could tell it was lousy from the previews and didn't go see it 'cause I don't want to encourage L. Ron Hubbard:)
...ethereal, not-so-patiently waiting for the new Dune movie on Sci-Fi in December...
Ok. How are both setting up complex macros in emacs and learning cryptic commands easier?
Don't know about emacs, I use vi. I think you have to trade some simplicity in order to get the power that you want from your tools - setting up similarly complex macros in MS Word would be difficult too, I imagine. Possibly more difficult, since I can't imagine a macro language more well-laid-out than one based on LISP, but maybe that's just the LISP partisan in me:)
Oh really. How is learning motif easier then the mfc classes? Have you even read the unix haters
manual? X is terrible and languages like visual basic are alot easier to learn if your new to
programming. ALso its now the year 2,000 and xwindows still does not support true type fonts.
Incredible!
FUD. Maybe you shouldn't get your info from Unix haters (although it was a funny chapter on X, I'll admit) - you can develop with Gtk+ or QT just as easily as MFC, or you could do even easier stuff like using Perl/Tk. X windows has supported TrueType fonts for years now - any shipping Linux distribution will have a font server that supports TrueType fonts, and information on how to copy over and set up your Windows fonts is available on the 'net.
X just looks terrible, until you realize that the X guys grokked networked computing years before anybody in Redmond. If you want the power, you have added complexity.
Try upgrading to kde2 by rpms. haha Hell is too kind of a word to describe it. I could only
download the sources and compile it because linux has no standard installation api's and is years
behind windows and mac.
I'll admit that I did have some problems with that install, but most of those were related to accidentally trashing my/var partition and losing my RPM database:( Here's a tip - go to www.gnome.org, follow the links to install Gnome, and never look back. This Helix stuff rocks.
Actually, if I had to reinstall all over again, I'd probably install Debian rather than the Mandrake that I started with. The only complaint that I have about Mandrake's RPM handling was that if you download a package and it has other unmet dependencies, you have to go back to RPMfind.net, look for the package, lather, rinse, repeat. By contrast, on my Debian server it's apt-get and let the machine figure out and install the updates. You should give it a try some time.
I am sick of looking up archane commands in text files. I am sick of poorly docuemented api's. I am
sick of shell scripting.
Can't help you with the shell scripting, but I think it is easier than doing everything in C or C++. Maybe try Perl for your scripting needs?
As far as arcane commands go, the advantage of them is that they are standard across all Unices and haven't changed in years (OK, the GNU versions added some options). I haven't found them to be poorly documented, if anything they're overdocumented in the interests of making them usable for many many things.
Kde2 was real eye opener for me. I relised after 3 F*CKING WEEKS TRYING TO GET KDE2
INSTALLED that perhaps Linux is not all its cracked up to be at its current maturity level. Sorry
but I do not think teaching hs kids unix is a wise thing. It will turn them off programming in
seconds.
There's a difference between teaching programming and system administration/package management, though. All of the complaints that you have wouldn't be an issue on a current Debian/Gnome system, to my knowledge. Although it doesn't sound like you're in a mood to go back and give it a try just yet:)
Wow. That looks real different to Unix programming, doesn't it?
Um, no. If you replace 'Open MS VC++/Create a "Win32 Console App" project' with "open a text editor", and replace "Then hit run" with "save as temp.c, run gcc temp.c, and run a.out", it is exactly the same (well, except for the extra \r, and I would have used the parameter char** argv, but that's more of a style issue).
But that's not how I'd recommend anyone learn programming concepts even on Unix. Personally I got started with Logo on an Apple IIc, and totally fell in love with being able to create a structured list of commands and then have the machine carry them out. Along the way I learned about basic control and I/O functions, without having to learn memory management, pointers, and so forth. In contrast, my freshman year C course was a nightmare (at least until we learned how to debug).
My recommendation for teaching elementary and high-school students would be Logo and/or LISP. LISP encapsulates every kind of construct and data structure which you will see writing real programs, and some features which are just cool but don't exist in the real world outside of Perl. Only once the student has grasped the essential concepts of programming, should we throw them to the lions of C and C++, where they have to learn the nuts-and-bolts like pointers, etc.
To get back to the original poster's comment, the reason why Unix is superior to Microsoft for learning about and using the OS is because of the superior number and availability of simple command-line tools that can be combined together, along with a set of config files that anyone can read (and usually understand if they read the man page).
OK, how much of the daily usage of your computer consists of interaction with web sites, etc., compared to five or even ten years ago? How many people have bought PCs in the last five years just so they could get on the Internet?
usage of computers is more and more dependent on network interactivity rather than computing only on that machine
Internet usage has so far been fairly OS-independent, Microsoft's efforts to the contrary
Therefore, the current trend for the majority of people is to rely less and less on OS-dependent software and more and more on OS-independent software that runs off of a network. The trend shows no signs of stopping.
I know, I know, consumer desktops aren't "real programming". But I would wager that even in the business world interoperability has become more and more important in the last ten years rather than less so, as companies move from their one-size-fits-all mainframes to a combination of big iron, Unix servers, and miscellaneous NT and Linux boxes. Maybe the majority of "real programming" takes place confined to one OS or platform, but at this point you can do almost all of the same sorts of programming on all of the major OS and platforms.
Does anyone know of a parallel-port wireless ethernet card that's supported under Linux, or is close enough to futz with? I have a hacked i-opener, but I have an apartment where I can't run cable through the walls and I want to use the i-opener as a portable terminal throughout the place. Sure, it still has a power cord, but I've got power outlets all over the place, whereas I don't have network jacks.
I've been meaning to look into this for a few months but have been too busy. This article seems like the perfect opportunity, though.
Hey, RealPlayer doesn't support HP-UX on PA-RISC and now you want them to support QNX too?:)
Seriously, though, I admit to feeling a little guilty about my hacked i-opener now, although I agree that it doesn't look like the hacker community was really the cause of the device's demise. I recommended it to several people, and probably would have accounted for several sales if my family weren't divided between hardcore geeks and total luddites (well, maybe they aren't anti-technology, they're just a-technology). Half of the family doesn't want any computer, and the other half just bought their dream machines.
What Netpliance really proved was that there is a sizeable market for cheap flat-panel screens, even if they are of somewhat low quality, and as soon as somebody finds a way to make money in that market they will make a mint.
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My company told us we should vote
against a measure that was proposed here in FL (the Monorail proposition, BTW). I voted for it,
and decided they could suck it up.
Damn right - I mean, look what the monorail has done for Ogdenville, Brockway, and North Haverbrook. It put them on the map!
Hmmm, so it's out for me too - I'm right handed but use the mouse with my left, on the advice of anther/. poster a year or so ago. The theory is that it equalizes the stress on your hands, since the right hand hits [enter] and (in my case)[space]. It does seem to lessen the stress on my right hand. Too bad Microsoft couldn't have taken a tip from the many mice which are made to work ergonomically with either hand.
I think you'll get different answers from different people. My perception as an American citizen is that the U.S. does a lot of meddling in world affairs on the theory that the Uncle Sam Knows Best, even when that has been demonstrated not to be the case. I'm talking about supporting totalitarian governments in South America, pushing the demands of American law enforcement into international law enforcement agreements, etc. A lot of this sort of thing is tolerated by the American electorate because many people here don't think much about the outside world and the effects of our actions on it. This lack of knowledge combined with the will and the ability to force the rest of the world into following "the American way of life" is what IMHO is very arrogant about this country.
Unlike some people I can see the good side of the USA too, but with regard to foreign policy we've never been a country to cultivate consistent or ethical (even from the standpoint of the average American's ethics) relations with other nations. Perhaps we need not so much humility as open minds, better information about the rest of the world, and the desire to learn from that information.
I think everybody over the entire world should have the right to vote in the USA. They rule
the entire world (at least they thing so), so the entire world should be able to vote.
Interestingly, I heard this same viewpoint from a German journalist on NPR this morning. I have to say I disagree, though - regardless of how arrogant Americans are (and I'll admit that our foreign policy is pretty damn arrogant) the other nations of the world had their chance to become the economic and political leader in world affairs, and didn't get the job done (yet, at least).
And I don't recall the governments of Europe or Asia inviting the votes of the rest of the world back when the known world was ruled from Rome or Peking (note old spelling), or was economically controlled by Spain or Britain. Unfortunately, as long as there are nations it will be every citizen for themselves and their nation, rather than for themselves and the world.
This would still make a difference if the two voters are in different states with different amounts of electoral votes. So if a bunch of Californians vote for Nader in return for a bunch of Illinoisians (Illini? or is that just the Native Americans) voting for Nader, Gore could end up losing Illinois and winning California, whereas prior to the swap he could have won both.
This would almost certainly be lost in the noise, I'm just pointing out that since we don't have direct democracy (and mostly due to the winner-take-all electoral college setup in most states) that votepact's plan could affect the balance.
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...or what you say to avoid demon attacks:
Hail to the King, baby!
That's not a bug, it's a feature. Your users weren't getting any email viruses right then, were they? :)
What, Eudora doesn't autorun enough viruses for you? :)
Or just get a client that isn't vulnerable to such viruses - see figure 1.
But the "TLD" in this case is "alt", not "flonk". Not that Usenet couldn't have top-level category pollution in the way that you were describing (although I wouldn't know one way or the other the technical constraints on Usenet names), but the particular example that you cited doesn't make sense.
Well, how about SSL encryption? That doesn't rely on a shared secret, does it? Of course, once you go to public-key cryptography, things get a lot slower...
OK, I tried the C code which admittedly is remarkable, but it doesn't generate a very complicated maze. It looks like:
Well, I'd show you what it looks like, but I hit the lameness filter. It has one path across the bottom of the maze, and a number of straight dead-end passageways going up to the top. Does this work for anyone else?
The article was saying that the reason reflex augmentation proxies are hard to stop is because they are running on another machine. If they were running on the same machine, then your client could scan for them (this has social implications, of course, was it Everquest that was doing this?) and report back a cheating attempt.
It seems to me that if the problem is a a proxy that inserts "aim" commands ahead of "fire" commands, then maybe running the client-server communication through an encrypted channel would solve the problem. I don't know if it would be fast enough, but I imagine it would be possible.
Well, that certainly explains a lot.
You are aware that Mars Attacks was a comedy, right timothy? It was supposed to be sort of hokey and rely on cliches from other sci-fi movies. It really fit the Tim Burton mold - if you like his movies, you liked Mars Attacks. OK, I wouldn't have seen it in the theater (and didn't, in fact) but it was OK on video.
I have no such excuses for Battlefield Earth, but on the other hand I could tell it was lousy from the previews and didn't go see it 'cause I don't want to encourage L. Ron Hubbard :)
...ethereal, not-so-patiently waiting for the new Dune movie on Sci-Fi in December...
Don't know about emacs, I use vi. I think you have to trade some simplicity in order to get the power that you want from your tools - setting up similarly complex macros in MS Word would be difficult too, I imagine. Possibly more difficult, since I can't imagine a macro language more well-laid-out than one based on LISP, but maybe that's just the LISP partisan in me :)
FUD. Maybe you shouldn't get your info from Unix haters (although it was a funny chapter on X, I'll admit) - you can develop with Gtk+ or QT just as easily as MFC, or you could do even easier stuff like using Perl/Tk. X windows has supported TrueType fonts for years now - any shipping Linux distribution will have a font server that supports TrueType fonts, and information on how to copy over and set up your Windows fonts is available on the 'net.
X just looks terrible, until you realize that the X guys grokked networked computing years before anybody in Redmond. If you want the power, you have added complexity.
I'll admit that I did have some problems with that install, but most of those were related to accidentally trashing my /var partition and losing my RPM database :( Here's a tip - go to www.gnome.org, follow the links to install Gnome, and never look back. This Helix stuff rocks.
Actually, if I had to reinstall all over again, I'd probably install Debian rather than the Mandrake that I started with. The only complaint that I have about Mandrake's RPM handling was that if you download a package and it has other unmet dependencies, you have to go back to RPMfind.net, look for the package, lather, rinse, repeat. By contrast, on my Debian server it's apt-get and let the machine figure out and install the updates. You should give it a try some time.
Can't help you with the shell scripting, but I think it is easier than doing everything in C or C++. Maybe try Perl for your scripting needs?
As far as arcane commands go, the advantage of them is that they are standard across all Unices and haven't changed in years (OK, the GNU versions added some options). I haven't found them to be poorly documented, if anything they're overdocumented in the interests of making them usable for many many things.
There's a difference between teaching programming and system administration/package management, though. All of the complaints that you have wouldn't be an issue on a current Debian/Gnome system, to my knowledge. Although it doesn't sound like you're in a mood to go back and give it a try just yet :)
Um, no. If you replace 'Open MS VC++/Create a "Win32 Console App" project' with "open a text editor", and replace "Then hit run" with "save as temp.c, run gcc temp.c, and run a.out", it is exactly the same (well, except for the extra \r, and I would have used the parameter char** argv, but that's more of a style issue).
But that's not how I'd recommend anyone learn programming concepts even on Unix. Personally I got started with Logo on an Apple IIc, and totally fell in love with being able to create a structured list of commands and then have the machine carry them out. Along the way I learned about basic control and I/O functions, without having to learn memory management, pointers, and so forth. In contrast, my freshman year C course was a nightmare (at least until we learned how to debug).
My recommendation for teaching elementary and high-school students would be Logo and/or LISP. LISP encapsulates every kind of construct and data structure which you will see writing real programs, and some features which are just cool but don't exist in the real world outside of Perl. Only once the student has grasped the essential concepts of programming, should we throw them to the lions of C and C++, where they have to learn the nuts-and-bolts like pointers, etc.
To get back to the original poster's comment, the reason why Unix is superior to Microsoft for learning about and using the OS is because of the superior number and availability of simple command-line tools that can be combined together, along with a set of config files that anyone can read (and usually understand if they read the man page).
OK, how much of the daily usage of your computer consists of interaction with web sites, etc., compared to five or even ten years ago? How many people have bought PCs in the last five years just so they could get on the Internet?
Therefore, the current trend for the majority of people is to rely less and less on OS-dependent software and more and more on OS-independent software that runs off of a network. The trend shows no signs of stopping.
I know, I know, consumer desktops aren't "real programming". But I would wager that even in the business world interoperability has become more and more important in the last ten years rather than less so, as companies move from their one-size-fits-all mainframes to a combination of big iron, Unix servers, and miscellaneous NT and Linux boxes. Maybe the majority of "real programming" takes place confined to one OS or platform, but at this point you can do almost all of the same sorts of programming on all of the major OS and platforms.
I'll take a look at the forum - thanks!
On an i-opener? Did it come with that?
Does anyone know of a parallel-port wireless ethernet card that's supported under Linux, or is close enough to futz with? I have a hacked i-opener, but I have an apartment where I can't run cable through the walls and I want to use the i-opener as a portable terminal throughout the place. Sure, it still has a power cord, but I've got power outlets all over the place, whereas I don't have network jacks.
I've been meaning to look into this for a few months but have been too busy. This article seems like the perfect opportunity, though.
Any ideas?
Hey, RealPlayer doesn't support HP-UX on PA-RISC and now you want them to support QNX too? :)
Seriously, though, I admit to feeling a little guilty about my hacked i-opener now, although I agree that it doesn't look like the hacker community was really the cause of the device's demise. I recommended it to several people, and probably would have accounted for several sales if my family weren't divided between hardcore geeks and total luddites (well, maybe they aren't anti-technology, they're just a-technology). Half of the family doesn't want any computer, and the other half just bought their dream machines.
What Netpliance really proved was that there is a sizeable market for cheap flat-panel screens, even if they are of somewhat low quality, and as soon as somebody finds a way to make money in that market they will make a mint.
Damn right - I mean, look what the monorail has done for Ogdenville, Brockway, and North Haverbrook. It put them on the map!
(singing) Monorail, Monorail, Monorail!
Mono-D'oh!
Hmmm, so it's out for me too - I'm right handed but use the mouse with my left, on the advice of anther /. poster a year or so ago. The theory is that it equalizes the stress on your hands, since the right hand hits [enter] and (in my case)[space]. It does seem to lessen the stress on my right hand. Too bad Microsoft couldn't have taken a tip from the many mice which are made to work ergonomically with either hand.
And this is different from the normal modding down due to confusion with the real Signal 11 how?
I thought it was funny, anyway. Especially the part about "where she's been hiding". I know the feeling.
Even my wife agreed that she'd rather vote for ale and whores. Skull rules!
I think you'll get different answers from different people. My perception as an American citizen is that the U.S. does a lot of meddling in world affairs on the theory that the Uncle Sam Knows Best, even when that has been demonstrated not to be the case. I'm talking about supporting totalitarian governments in South America, pushing the demands of American law enforcement into international law enforcement agreements, etc. A lot of this sort of thing is tolerated by the American electorate because many people here don't think much about the outside world and the effects of our actions on it. This lack of knowledge combined with the will and the ability to force the rest of the world into following "the American way of life" is what IMHO is very arrogant about this country.
Unlike some people I can see the good side of the USA too, but with regard to foreign policy we've never been a country to cultivate consistent or ethical (even from the standpoint of the average American's ethics) relations with other nations. Perhaps we need not so much humility as open minds, better information about the rest of the world, and the desire to learn from that information.
Good point - touche! That's another reason for Americans to be a little more humble - because this, too, will pass.
Interestingly, I heard this same viewpoint from a German journalist on NPR this morning. I have to say I disagree, though - regardless of how arrogant Americans are (and I'll admit that our foreign policy is pretty damn arrogant) the other nations of the world had their chance to become the economic and political leader in world affairs, and didn't get the job done (yet, at least).
And I don't recall the governments of Europe or Asia inviting the votes of the rest of the world back when the known world was ruled from Rome or Peking (note old spelling), or was economically controlled by Spain or Britain. Unfortunately, as long as there are nations it will be every citizen for themselves and their nation, rather than for themselves and the world.
This would still make a difference if the two voters are in different states with different amounts of electoral votes. So if a bunch of Californians vote for Nader in return for a bunch of Illinoisians (Illini? or is that just the Native Americans) voting for Nader, Gore could end up losing Illinois and winning California, whereas prior to the swap he could have won both.
This would almost certainly be lost in the noise, I'm just pointing out that since we don't have direct democracy (and mostly due to the winner-take-all electoral college setup in most states) that votepact's plan could affect the balance.
That may be the best euphemism for the WonderBra that I've ever seen :)