Careful investigation proved that a _second_ rocket was blasted into space ever since the traffic control teams got into a fight on who crancked up the Texan airconditioning, freezing the coffee machine. Apparently one team didn't know of the launch of the previous shift.
On a related note, the publishing of news on the slashdot site seems be become more and more troublesome ever since Moderaters stubbornly refuse to read the news themselves.
As it stands, Navigator breaks many Windows User Interface (UI) standards. Rather than use the default "widgets" (menu bars, pop-up menus, drop downs and the like), Navigator comes complete with its own set of widgets. For some spectators, this is yet another example of how cross-platform ideals don't always play out in practice: a Windows application should have Windows' look and feel.
I knew there was something wrong with open source! And now it has become so clear to me: we are not using the Windows widgets! Let's stop what we're doing and include the Microsoft widgets (Clippy is really the feature I am missing in Mozilla). Also, I cannot experience the nice adventures my friends have with IE while hitting some button,...:(
That's why the Americans think they should not be procecuted by the War Crimes Court (if you ask me, if you ask for being freed from _possible_ procecution, you have something to hide or up to something).
Shoot and burn, we're not being procecuted anyway!
Some time ago, I heard from a high ranking company in IT that recession is for them a reason to get rid of the less performing and less skilled personel. I see the same thing happening in other big companies, where they do not as much cut back on work/research. On the other hand, they are _not_ going let the opportunity pass by to hire a skilled professional.
I've been in the sector for quite a number of years in Europe and while the big boom is apparently on a slowdown (I believe it is temporarily), I do not see any problem for motivated and really skilled persons to find and keep a job.
What you do see, are that the self-proclaimed experts have a harder time. And let's face it, some years ago, having some rudimentary knowledge about W*rd and Exhell wass sufficient to be an IT consultant in a large consulting firm (I know some of these examples). That this situation is gone can only be good for the reputation of the entire sector (and in the afore mentioned case, for the companies hiring the consultants).
Perhaps the situation in the States is slightly different, but this is one of the reasons I feel critical towards these "professional organisations", in time of crisis, they are the first ones to shout "protectionism". I seemed to remember that "free market" is the best assurance for the largest global wealth,...
I could be wrong though, it's not quite my cup of tea.
Unless they mutate again and also spread in normal honey bee hives. Seems like a box of pandora to me to start spreading these things to other places...
Well in times of troubled markets it was bound to happen: SuSE will release version 9.0 in a month Redhat, noticing it is being encircled, decides to skip versions 8 and 9 all together and releases their version 10.0 (a beta of course) and pushes Linus to release the 2.6.0 kernel (if not, they'll make their own branch).
Debian is still concerned about some open bugs and decides to call the release of 3.0 premature. The next version is not to be released within the next decade.
Exactly my sentiments, couldn't have said it better. And who caused this incompatibility?
MS marketing "Oooh, we have (a) competitor(s) around the corner. Let's keep all our APIs secret and add all kinds of strange and odd features to our protocols"
Other products try to reverse engineer the polluted protocols and formats (samba, http, openoffice, wine). Anyone who has ever done some reverse engineering will admit that the work done by these projects is impressive (esp. since they don't have a blueprint of the design).
MS marketing "You see our product is better, the rivals cannot communicate with our products"
And when they should do a good job, add a new _feature_ that breaks rivals and call it _innovation_ (the Office story).
For easy of reasoning, the clearly omit the fact that they do _no or little_ effort to communicate with anything else but their formats (and friends). (StarOffice format import or Open Office format import capability anyone?)
So: everybody has to perfectly work with their products, dispite of deliberate sabotage attempts, but MS only has to live on an island.
*sigh* OK, it's going to be modded down to "redundant" or something, but would anyone actually mind looking at the
definition of these (again) misused terms,... It would take a days' worth of counting all the wrong quotations here, I would guess that a/. public would want to these things correct. The management thanks you
Since a couple of months, we've been active in a local group to support and promote open standards (http://www.openstandaarden.be). While decent use of html is not the only aspect, the current replies of webmasters can be cathegorised in 3 main groups:
1. Incompetence. Let's face it, with the advent of WYSIWYG editors, nobody needs to know a single line of HTML anymore. Combined with software producers that practice point 2, this is a deadly combination. This is actually the worst group because the webdesigners (can one use this word) do not see any need to change. Hey, everybody should be using their tools and OS, because they are the experts. 2. Malice. Especially Microsoft uses a couple of well documented techniques to kill all opposition and different browsers is for them one way to kill other operating systems. In one particular case, they seriously funded a government related site and all radio audio streams were in wma format. When the webmasters were contacted, they admitted to this fact. Luckily some of the webmasters there are not in cathegory 1 and changes were made. (The site used to be unaccessible with anything but IE). Realplayer and MP3 audio streams are still on the way out though (even though there seems to be some sensibility with a couple of people that can influence desicions (http://www.vrt.be, http://www.radio1.be,...) 3. Standards. Some webmasters still do an effort to get sites accessible with most browsers (and, very importantly, to disabled people). This last cathegory is often "forgotten" when building another Flash and other extension enabled site, even though simple things (like tagging images) can help them a lot. It is nice to see that changes are made for the good after indicating a problem on the site.
Unfortunately, cathegories 1 and 2 are growing faster than cathegory 3 and when faced with "we got the server and bandwith to provide the streams for free" argumentation, there is, still, little one can do other than trying to get the people understand the value an need for standards And the fact that government sites seem to be especially susceptible to these effects makes it worse: these sites should be accessible to _anyone_ (even when "best viewed with telnet 80") and, if the government practices something, it is to some an indication of "standardisation":((
Whoohoo! Am I glad that our network is running a GNU operating system:) Saves us the world of trouble (and makes reading the lates Microsoft scheme fun)
_please_ _please_ _please_ Bill, continue as you are doing now:)
Contrary to common belief, Fermat's theorem is not solved or proven. Captain Picard refers to it in "The Royale", so that must be 2362 or something.
The overzealous mathematician that did try to prove it a couple of years ago, almost created a time-space paradox and disaster, which was only just averted.
Luckily for the Church of Trek "And Scotty beamed them to the Klingon ship, where they would be not tribble at all" "All power to the Engines"
Even though I'm an avid C fan, I cannot but wonder what this topic has to do with Java: it is not running on a Java virtual machine, and since it will only run on.NET, it is per definition not cross platform. Knowing Micro$oft, the syntax will not even be compliant with Java. So what the heck is J# to do with Java and what is the coffee cup doing in the story?
/me votes for a specific topic "M$ FUD and misguiding (aka new monopoly) schemes"
Of course you're right, but if you've ever been in the Steets, you certainly know that
USA ~= World
Of course we will be affected, but as far as the bulk of the US citizens are concerned, there is nothing else outside the US anyway, so why should they bother with that?
BTW, there is also a more subtle thing: the EU is trying to impose a copyright legislation and one of the motivations is "to be more in line with the situation in the US". DUH! Of course, they are ignoring the 90% of their Eurolinux replies.
As Europeans, we do not only have to cope with stupid US laws, but also with stupid EU politicians that adopt the stupid US laws. Guess money has to do a lot with this...
/me is mentally preparing for Houston next month >:)
For reading about parsing (and regular expressions), the book of O'Reilly "Sed and Awk" is a good start. Based (and extended), you'll find a lot of information in "Programming Perl". And if you're writing in C, again the O'reilly book "lex and awk".
I don't understand why the September 11th is such a big thing in the US. There are contries that have to cope with much more devistation due to terrorism of all kinds. As I see it, it's just a wake-up call that even US ppl are not safe, but their reaction is out of any proportion (as a result of ego-centrism: if it didn't happen in the US, it is not real, if it did happen...). Unfortunately, they are now facing the concequences of these overrated reactions by the hands of their own people that do not have _freedom_ in mind and were just looking for an excuse.
perhaps even sed -e "s/they are now/we are now/g "
Slashdot Mirror
Careful investigation proved that a _second_ rocket was blasted into space ever since the traffic control teams got into a fight on who crancked up the Texan airconditioning, freezing the coffee machine.
Apparently one team didn't know of the launch of the previous shift.
On a related note, the publishing of news on the slashdot site seems be become more and more troublesome ever since Moderaters stubbornly refuse to read the news themselves.
Word documents? Not anymore for our Chinese friends ;-)
:0 Bf
:0 H
/dev/null, as you prefer)
* Content-Type: application/msword;
| formail -b -f -A "$MSHEADER evil-word"
# reply rule
-snip-
* $ ^$MSHEADER
trash
(or
As it stands, Navigator breaks many Windows User Interface (UI) standards. Rather than use the default "widgets" (menu bars, pop-up menus, drop downs and the like), Navigator comes complete with its own set of widgets. For some spectators, this is yet another example of how cross-platform ideals don't always play out in practice: a Windows application should have Windows' look and feel.
... :(
I knew there was something wrong with open source! And now it has become so clear to me: we are not using the Windows widgets!
Let's stop what we're doing and include the Microsoft widgets (Clippy is really the feature I am missing in Mozilla).
Also, I cannot experience the nice adventures my friends have with IE while hitting some button,
Whoohoo!
:)
and now it is being slashdotted
Is this a "legit DoS"?
Too many users connected.
Oh, well, they don't have anything to say that would interest me anyway, it's just my curiousity getting the better of me...
That's why the Americans think they should not be procecuted by the War Crimes Court (if you ask me, if you ask for being freed from _possible_ procecution, you have something to hide or up to something).
Shoot and burn, we're not being procecuted anyway!
Some time ago, I heard from a high ranking company in IT that recession is for them a reason to get rid of the less performing and less skilled personel.
...
I see the same thing happening in other big companies, where they do not as much cut back on work/research.
On the other hand, they are _not_ going let the opportunity pass by to hire a skilled professional.
I've been in the sector for quite a number of years in Europe and while the big boom is apparently on a slowdown (I believe it is temporarily), I do not see any problem for motivated and really skilled persons to find and keep a job.
What you do see, are that the self-proclaimed experts have a harder time. And let's face it, some years ago, having some rudimentary knowledge about W*rd and Exhell wass sufficient to be an IT consultant in a large consulting firm (I know some of these examples). That this situation is gone can only be good for the reputation of the entire sector (and in the afore mentioned case, for the companies hiring the consultants).
Perhaps the situation in the States is slightly different, but this is one of the reasons I feel critical towards these "professional organisations", in time of crisis, they are the first ones to shout "protectionism". I seemed to remember that "free market" is the best assurance for the largest global wealth,
I could be wrong though, it's not quite my cup of tea.
I am currently still continuously visited by IIS, why go there:
/scripts/..%c1%1c../winnt/system32/cmd.exe?/c+dir HTTP/1.0" 404 224
12.34.56.789 - - [28/Feb/2002:05:44:58 -0500] "GET
>:)
Unless they mutate again and also spread in normal honey bee hives. Seems like a box of pandora to me to start spreading these things to other places...
If you are using Windows for daily work, the only editor for you to use is vigor or recently vimgor. Seriously, it is the only solution for you >:)
I'm impressed, reality seems to beat the best scifi writers hands down! :)
This is bound to be used in some series or motion picture in the near future
Well in times of troubled markets it was bound to happen:
SuSE will release version 9.0 in a month
Redhat, noticing it is being encircled, decides to skip versions 8 and 9 all together and releases their version 10.0 (a beta of course) and pushes Linus to release the 2.6.0 kernel (if not, they'll make their own branch).
Debian is still concerned about some open bugs and decides to call the release of 3.0 premature. The next version is not to be released within the next decade.
Exactly my sentiments, couldn't have said it better. And who caused this incompatibility?
MS marketing "Oooh, we have (a) competitor(s) around the corner. Let's keep all our APIs secret and add all kinds of strange and odd features to our protocols"
Other products try to reverse engineer the polluted protocols and formats (samba, http, openoffice, wine). Anyone who has ever done some reverse engineering will admit that the work done by these projects is impressive (esp. since they don't have a blueprint of the design).
MS marketing "You see our product is better, the rivals cannot communicate with our products"
And when they should do a good job, add a new _feature_ that breaks rivals and call it _innovation_ (the Office story).
For easy of reasoning, the clearly omit the fact that they do _no or little_ effort to communicate with anything else but their formats (and friends). (StarOffice format import or Open Office format import capability anyone?)
So: everybody has to perfectly work with their products, dispite of deliberate sabotage attempts, but MS only has to live on an island.
Fair comparison, isn't it...
*sigh* ... /. public would want to these things correct.
OK, it's going to be modded down to "redundant" or something, but would anyone actually mind looking at the definition of these (again) misused terms,
It would take a days' worth of counting all the wrong quotations here, I would guess that a
The management thanks you
:%s/cathego/catego/g
Since a couple of months, we've been active in a local group to support and promote open standards (http://www.openstandaarden.be). While decent use of html is not the only aspect, the current replies of webmasters can be cathegorised in 3 main groups:
...)
:((
1. Incompetence. Let's face it, with the advent of WYSIWYG editors, nobody needs to know a single line of HTML anymore. Combined with software producers that practice point 2, this is a deadly combination. This is actually the worst group because the webdesigners (can one use this word) do not see any need to change. Hey, everybody should be using their tools and OS, because they are the experts.
2. Malice. Especially Microsoft uses a couple of well documented techniques to kill all opposition and different browsers is for them one way to kill other operating systems. In one particular case, they seriously funded a government related site and all radio audio streams were in wma format. When the webmasters were contacted, they admitted to this fact. Luckily some of the webmasters there are not in cathegory 1 and changes were made. (The site used to be unaccessible with anything but IE). Realplayer and MP3 audio streams are still on the way out though (even though there seems to be some sensibility with a couple of people that can influence desicions (http://www.vrt.be, http://www.radio1.be,
3. Standards. Some webmasters still do an effort to get sites accessible with most browsers (and, very importantly, to disabled people). This last cathegory is often "forgotten" when building another Flash and other extension enabled site, even though simple things (like tagging images) can help them a lot. It is nice to see that changes are made for the good after indicating a problem on the site.
Unfortunately, cathegories 1 and 2 are growing faster than cathegory 3 and when faced with "we got the server and bandwith to provide the streams for free" argumentation, there is, still, little one can do other than trying to get the people understand the value an need for standards
And the fact that government sites seem to be especially susceptible to these effects makes it worse: these sites should be accessible to _anyone_ (even when "best viewed with telnet 80") and, if the government practices something, it is to some an indication of "standardisation"
Whoohoo! :)
:)
Am I glad that our network is running a GNU operating system
Saves us the world of trouble (and makes reading the lates Microsoft scheme fun)
_please_ _please_ _please_ Bill, continue as you are doing now
Contrary to common belief, Fermat's theorem is not solved or proven.
Captain Picard refers to it in "The Royale", so that must be 2362 or something.
The overzealous mathematician that did try to prove it a couple of years ago, almost created a time-space paradox and disaster, which was only just averted.
Luckily for the Church of Trek
"And Scotty beamed them to the Klingon ship, where they would be not tribble at all"
"All power to the Engines"
my fault my fault my fault my fault ...
It just took a while (with a black page) before mozilla rendered the site.
scsi (and thanks for the feedback)
Even though I'm an avid C fan, I cannot but wonder what this topic has to do with Java: it is not running on a Java virtual machine, and since it will only run on .NET, it is per definition not cross platform.
Knowing Micro$oft, the syntax will not even be compliant with Java.
So what the heck is J# to do with Java and what is the coffee cup doing in the story?
/me votes for a specific topic "M$ FUD and misguiding (aka new monopoly) schemes"
arg!
And if the site of the game were to be readable with Mozilla instead of giving a black screen...
That would really show their care for Linux users.
Oh heck, perhaps more initiatives like http://www.openstandaarden.be might move the site developers in the right direction (instead of IE only sites).
Of course you're right, but if you've ever been in the Steets, you certainly know that
USA ~= World
Of course we will be affected, but as far as the bulk of the US citizens are concerned, there is nothing else outside the US anyway, so why should they bother with that?
BTW, there is also a more subtle thing: the EU is trying to impose a copyright legislation and one of the motivations is "to be more in line with the situation in the US". DUH!
Of course, they are ignoring the 90% of their Eurolinux replies.
As Europeans, we do not only have to cope with stupid US laws, but also with stupid EU politicians that adopt the stupid US laws. Guess money has to do a lot with this...
/me is mentally preparing for Houston next month >:)
oeps, in C that has to be "lex and yacc" of course :)
For reading about parsing (and regular expressions), the book of O'Reilly "Sed and Awk" is a good start.
l
:)
Based (and extended), you'll find a lot of information in "Programming Perl".
And if you're writing in C, again the O'reilly book "lex and awk".
http://py-howto.sourceforge.net/regex/regex.htm
http://sitescooper.org/tao_regexps.html
Hey, I can't help it, that I find the books by that publisher exactly what I'm looking for in my programming needs
I don't understand why the September 11th is such a big thing in the US. ...).
There are contries that have to cope with much more devistation due to terrorism of all kinds.
As I see it, it's just a wake-up call that even US ppl are not safe, but their reaction is out of any proportion (as a result of ego-centrism: if it didn't happen in the US, it is not real, if it did happen
Unfortunately, they are now facing the concequences of these overrated reactions by the hands of their own people that do not have _freedom_ in mind and were just looking for an excuse.
perhaps even
sed -e "s/they are now/we are now/g "
Only an apt-get URI now ;) and we're all extremely pleased. ...
I had a quick look at the sources in order to build them myselves, but
They are _again_ not using the GNU Autotools (which makes packaging a lot harder).
buggers