Well, that's because AOL is America's favorite Internet provider! Why, with so many new and improved features in AOL's new version 6.0, no wonder it's number 1!
There are huindreds of them, but most sites I can think of were sites I enjoyed. If I didn't like it, I never went there. Hence, I didn't notice its passing. Web properties are not like the chemical plant two blocks away you are happy to see move to Mexico; they're only a part of your life if you let them be.
It's encrypted the MS "PowerPoinT" algorithm, and the company only provide a decoding app for Windows. Maybe somebody should write a DePPT app for Linux so we too can get at this important information. If nobody takes that step, we'll be doomed to a life without PPT files!
You're forgetting it's air *conditioning* not air cooling. You could probably lower ambient temperatures significantly in a dry climate, but try that somewhere where the hot summer days are also at 95% humidity - like the midwest. You'd just make your building into a rain forest.
You're forgetting, these same people that are off for the summer are away from their precious academic bandwidth as well. I suppose you've got all the remote things...but in general students spend a lot less time online over the summer.
I find it funny your handle is "nofud" (which I presume to mean "No FUD") while you spread blatant lies about the MPAA. As you can read elsewhere in this thread, hardware overlay is a speed feature, not a copyright-protection feature. My WinTV card does similar things. Pretty much anything that has to draw to the screen very quickly will take similar measures - to INCREASE PERFORMANCE.
You mentioned the questionable legality/wisdom of trademarking a word as common as "Illustrator." Let me point this little tidbit out: Illustrator is old. It has been around for a long time, since the days when all software was named in such a way. Remember Word? How about Write? Or Paint? When software was much less common, it didn't take much of a name to differentiate your product. Times have changed, but the old names cannot simply for marketing reasons. Everybody knows what Illustrator is, while Adobe would have to start all over again with marketing if they were to shange their name.
I thought the same thing, markers could possibly do the job well. The thing is, you need the plastic to be *very* frosted, or it will look like crap. Markers leave many streaks and are in general pretty bad at leaving a uniform coating. Frosted plastic could make up for this somewhat, but the difference would still be noticeable.
I find that two of my boxes vary quite a bit in noise, and I originally thought it was fans. That is, until I moved a hard drive from one machine to the other. IT seems my Quantum Fireball is quite a noisy little piece of metal...while the IBM DeskStar 60GXP that replaced it in my main machine is nearly silent. You may want to look into hard drive noise.
Because it's fun. peopel liek to have codenames. It lets geeks differentiate themselves from more than just the general populace; codenames separate us even more. It helps establish a little hierarchy within the geek population. Around average people, talking about SCSI, ATM, and kernels make you elite in some twisted fashion. Within the Slashdot crowd, though, everyone knows what you're talking about; you need a new wa of assertign social (mental) dominance. What better way then making something up? The other party is sure to be impressed by your seemingly limitless knowledge.
Say you're working on Slashcode, and people are like "Okay, cool." Say you're working on a project called bender, and suddenly people are curious about what your project really is.
So, really, codenames are a way to impress your enemies, confuse your friends, and pay homage to somethign you find nifty all at the same time. yay for bender!
Michael on code forking:
Here's the same thought translated into manager-speak: "Having multiple vendors competing to offer us the best product at the lowest price is worse than having one vendor who can sell the product to us at monopoly prices."
Look at that, then think about it. Code forking hardly gives you the same product from both parties...In fact, that's why forks happen. It is usually over drastic differences of opinion about which way a project should go. These often lead to incompatibilities. This is what MS is finally trying to correct - especially with WinXP merging the NT and 9x product lines.
Your portrayal of code forking as a good thing with no potential downside is just as irresponsib;e as MS execs saying code forking is a bad thing to be avoided. Sometimes therre are valid reasons, others there are not.
What the corporate environment wants is standardization. This isn't true of all corporations, but in general they want to pick something and use it exclusively. Note the large contracts companies have, usually with one or two OEMs. In most companies, MS is the software of choice. They want to have Windows and Office on every machine, and they want everything to work the same. MS is trying to do that.
HyperCard always was, and always will be, a nifty piece of software. The thing is, it's severely outdated. It was state-of-the art nifty software in its time, but now it's a relic. I'd compare HyperCard on Mac OS 6 (er...System 6) to Logo on the Apple ][. They were nifty pieces of software that enabled beginners to learn the basics of software design and programming.
In this day and age, I think we need a new tool to do the same thing. For example, REALbasic is a fully modern tool that lets you write apps for both Windows and MacOS. An OS X version has been in beta for a while now, and should be released shortly.
On the other hand, if you really have to run that old stack, SuperCard can import your old stacks. I have not personally used the product, but it should do the task quite nicely. I am unaware of plans to port SuperCard to OS X, but at least it is actively maintained.
I want to know why all this fuss about HyperCard is finally coming to the forefront, while it has virtually been abandonware for two or three years already.
Think it's outdated now? It was outdated 4 years ago when I noodled with it some. The color support is a cheap hack, and the animation is a third-party add-on that was bundled by Apple.
It isn't even close to "cracking." These persons have made software that finds shares on a network, albeit on a bigger scale than ever before. So what? If I share something, and make it publicly readable, I meant it to be that way. I shared it on purpose.
If I made a share with important trade secrets, then made it publicly readable, them I'm stupid. That's like taking those same secrets and putting them on a billboard.
If you want to share something, do it. If you want something on a public share, get it. It's public for a reason.
This product doesn't do anything to violate rights. It does nothing close to cracking. It simply finds things people have publicly shared and makes it easier to get to such things.
compound? hell, I need that kind of firepower to defend my dorm room. You never know when terrorists will take the building, requiring the use of force to save life and limb.
The stuff from birdman looks like just the thing I'll need.;)
At work we run our tertiary DNS on an old Mac.(macdns.cait.org) Our secondary and primary are hosted on some old MIPS boxen running OpenBSD.
We used to have it on a 6100/66 with MkLinux, but since that distribution seemed to be going nowhere we moves up to a machine with a 120 MHz 604 in it. Performance is satisfactory, but then again that particular machine doesn't get hit particularly hard.
For a Linux distro, I like Yellow Dog as it's designed ot be a server variant, not workstation.
My suggestion would be to try it and see how it performs. Do a basic install of the OS and see how it performs for you, then clean it up if and/or when you decide it's good enough.
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Well, that's because AOL is America's favorite Internet provider! Why, with so many new and improved features in AOL's new version 6.0, no wonder it's number 1!
...I do so despise it...
That's a great idea...now for some nominees:
???
There are huindreds of them, but most sites I can think of were sites I enjoyed. If I didn't like it, I never went there. Hence, I didn't notice its passing. Web properties are not like the chemical plant two blocks away you are happy to see move to Mexico; they're only a part of your life if you let them be.
It's encrypted the MS "PowerPoinT" algorithm, and the company only provide a decoding app for Windows. Maybe somebody should write a DePPT app for Linux so we too can get at this important information. If nobody takes that step, we'll be doomed to a life without PPT files!
(oh the horror!)
You're forgetting it's air *conditioning* not air cooling. You could probably lower ambient temperatures significantly in a dry climate, but try that somewhere where the hot summer days are also at 95% humidity - like the midwest. You'd just make your building into a rain forest.
yeah, um...no.
You're forgetting, these same people that are off for the summer are away from their precious academic bandwidth as well. I suppose you've got all the remote things...but in general students spend a lot less time online over the summer.
I find it funny your handle is "nofud" (which I presume to mean "No FUD") while you spread blatant lies about the MPAA. As you can read elsewhere in this thread, hardware overlay is a speed feature, not a copyright-protection feature. My WinTV card does similar things. Pretty much anything that has to draw to the screen very quickly will take similar measures - to INCREASE PERFORMANCE.
You mentioned the questionable legality/wisdom of trademarking a word as common as "Illustrator." Let me point this little tidbit out: Illustrator is old. It has been around for a long time, since the days when all software was named in such a way. Remember Word? How about Write? Or Paint? When software was much less common, it didn't take much of a name to differentiate your product. Times have changed, but the old names cannot simply for marketing reasons. Everybody knows what Illustrator is, while Adobe would have to start all over again with marketing if they were to shange their name.
I thought the same thing, markers could possibly do the job well. The thing is, you need the plastic to be *very* frosted, or it will look like crap. Markers leave many streaks and are in general pretty bad at leaving a uniform coating. Frosted plastic could make up for this somewhat, but the difference would still be noticeable.
Here ya go, buddy:
story on Segfault.org
...but are the listings copyrighted material?
If not, isn't that a requirement before the DMCA can be invoked?
It's not quite parallel per se, but my serial port has the X-10 FireCracker remote control module hanging off it.
I find that two of my boxes vary quite a bit in noise, and I originally thought it was fans. That is, until I moved a hard drive from one machine to the other. IT seems my Quantum Fireball is quite a noisy little piece of metal...while the IBM DeskStar 60GXP that replaced it in my main machine is nearly silent. You may want to look into hard drive noise.
I find it quite scary I actually got that acronym. For those who didn't, "YSNHTBAL!" = you should not have to be a lawyer!
...and I *really* should have used the preview button to avoid those typos. Oh well.
Because it's fun. peopel liek to have codenames. It lets geeks differentiate themselves from more than just the general populace; codenames separate us even more. It helps establish a little hierarchy within the geek population. Around average people, talking about SCSI, ATM, and kernels make you elite in some twisted fashion. Within the Slashdot crowd, though, everyone knows what you're talking about; you need a new wa of assertign social (mental) dominance. What better way then making something up? The other party is sure to be impressed by your seemingly limitless knowledge.
Say you're working on Slashcode, and people are like "Okay, cool." Say you're working on a project called bender, and suddenly people are curious about what your project really is.
So, really, codenames are a way to impress your enemies, confuse your friends, and pay homage to somethign you find nifty all at the same time. yay for bender!
Michael on code forking: Here's the same thought translated into manager-speak: "Having multiple vendors competing to offer us the best product at the lowest price is worse than having one vendor who can sell the product to us at monopoly prices."
Look at that, then think about it. Code forking hardly gives you the same product from both parties...In fact, that's why forks happen. It is usually over drastic differences of opinion about which way a project should go. These often lead to incompatibilities. This is what MS is finally trying to correct - especially with WinXP merging the NT and 9x product lines.
Your portrayal of code forking as a good thing with no potential downside is just as irresponsib;e as MS execs saying code forking is a bad thing to be avoided. Sometimes therre are valid reasons, others there are not.
What the corporate environment wants is standardization. This isn't true of all corporations, but in general they want to pick something and use it exclusively. Note the large contracts companies have, usually with one or two OEMs. In most companies, MS is the software of choice. They want to have Windows and Office on every machine, and they want everything to work the same. MS is trying to do that.
HyperCard always was, and always will be, a nifty piece of software. The thing is, it's severely outdated. It was state-of-the art nifty software in its time, but now it's a relic. I'd compare HyperCard on Mac OS 6 (er...System 6) to Logo on the Apple ][. They were nifty pieces of software that enabled beginners to learn the basics of software design and programming.
In this day and age, I think we need a new tool to do the same thing. For example, REALbasic is a fully modern tool that lets you write apps for both Windows and MacOS. An OS X version has been in beta for a while now, and should be released shortly.
On the other hand, if you really have to run that old stack, SuperCard can import your old stacks. I have not personally used the product, but it should do the task quite nicely. I am unaware of plans to port SuperCard to OS X, but at least it is actively maintained.
I want to know why all this fuss about HyperCard is finally coming to the forefront, while it has virtually been abandonware for two or three years already.
Think it's outdated now? It was outdated 4 years ago when I noodled with it some. The color support is a cheap hack, and the animation is a third-party add-on that was bundled by Apple.
I absolutely love that.
The problem is, there's a hole in the argument. This is all using TCP/IP and SMB. No NetBIOS that I'm aware of.
It isn't even close to "cracking." These persons have made software that finds shares on a network, albeit on a bigger scale than ever before. So what? If I share something, and make it publicly readable, I meant it to be that way. I shared it on purpose.
If I made a share with important trade secrets, then made it publicly readable, them I'm stupid. That's like taking those same secrets and putting them on a billboard.
If you want to share something, do it. If you want something on a public share, get it. It's public for a reason.
This product doesn't do anything to violate rights. It does nothing close to cracking. It simply finds things people have publicly shared and makes it easier to get to such things.
What's so bad about that?
What you refer to as the "tank" style is just *so* wonderfully form-fitting. I adore the shape.
AHA! Now I just have 9999 possible combinations left to try...then your bank account will be mine! mwahahaha!
compound? hell, I need that kind of firepower to defend my dorm room. You never know when terrorists will take the building, requiring the use of force to save life and limb.
;)
The stuff from birdman looks like just the thing I'll need.
-Smitty the Paranoid
If you don't believe me, look at this "product" on the same site.
It's really just a joke, okay?
-Smitty the Not-So-Gullible
At work we run our tertiary DNS on an old Mac.(macdns.cait.org) Our secondary and primary are hosted on some old MIPS boxen running OpenBSD. We used to have it on a 6100/66 with MkLinux, but since that distribution seemed to be going nowhere we moves up to a machine with a 120 MHz 604 in it. Performance is satisfactory, but then again that particular machine doesn't get hit particularly hard. For a Linux distro, I like Yellow Dog as it's designed ot be a server variant, not workstation. My suggestion would be to try it and see how it performs. Do a basic install of the OS and see how it performs for you, then clean it up if and/or when you decide it's good enough.