Red Dwarf was better than any of the other shows. A bit up and down but on its best it was absolutely hilarious. Particularly that episode where the time ran backwards..
As I posted elsewhere, the problem is moving, dynamic banners. That's so fantastically annoying that I block it immediately (and as I'm the one who maintains the junkbuster filter for the whole campus this actually matters..). Static, non-changing, non-flashing, non-blinking ads are never blocked in our filters. Hey, I even look at them occasionally. TA
.. that they move. It's *annoying*. That's why I block them. All of them. But only the moving banners. I don't mind static ads. I even look at them now and then. But moving banners is the way to go if you want everybody to use Junkbuster. TA
It's indeed a lot of radio noise coming from the Sun. If you have e.g. an L-band autotracking satellite dish available (you may need to go find a satellite ground station for this:-) then you'll find that you can easily get the antenna system to auto-track the Sun.
No ionosphere in the arctic regions? Nonsense. Where did you get that from? FYI, I'm a ham and I live in the arctic (70N), and the ionosphere works just fine, thank you. No different from the time I spent in more southern latitudes.
In the not-too-long-ago past the hams (I'm one myself but haven't actually tried MB) simply used tape recorders for this. No need for computers. You just record your (CW) message on the tape recorder, then play it back Real Fast on your odd (or even) minute (see another posting). Likewise, you record the received message with your tape recorder running at high speed, then you play it back at low speed. Instant compressed messaging system. TA
'You clearly don't understand the culture' -- oh my. *YOU* don't understand the culture at all, and no mistake. How can you possibly be so *naive*? The analogy with the 'missionary' that goes around your house and climbs in your window is a very accurate one. *That's* the kind of people we are talking about here. You say you are ready to trust the guy you find inside your house because he says he is a 'white hat'? Come *on*, you won't survive a month out there. TA (I've monitored some of these people since 1988)
Don't use gas powered mowers, that's crazy.. I didn't think anyone did that anymore. Come on, electrical mowers came into use, what, 15 years ago? I don't know anybody that owns a gas powered anymore. Well this is Europe though. TA
Sigh. You just have to be careful the first time you connect your two sites with SSH. After that the other host already has the public key, and if a third party then tries to intercept and replace it then ssh detects it and cries foul. TA
Oh come on! Everywhere it said 'subscribes to RBL', not 'subscribed to BGP'. When you say "subscribe to RBL" then that means the *mail* service, not something else. The BGP is indeed some kind of censorware, however if you use it then you have chosen to use it yourself.
I don't know how you are using MAPS if you think it disconnects WEB SITES from the network! Are you using the RBL as your name server or something? MAPS RBL is for sendmail, not for anything else. Sendmail blocks incoming mail from the sites in the RBL, and that's all. Sendmail doesn't control your Cisco router or your Netscape client! Get your setup fixed. TA
Yes, you can get a well-paid job in Oslo. But it's super-expensive to get a place to live, the housing prices are astronomical. And that is exactly why it is easy to get a well-paid job there.. people can't afford to live there. All things are connected. It's much more difficult to get a job elsewhere in the same country, and the wages are much lower, but then it's easier to get a place to live for a more normal price. There's always a catch, whatever you do and wherever you go. TA
" On the other hand, I know that the media tend to speak a much more formal, standardized form of the language." You nailed it. What people speak in the streets (or better, in the lunch room where I tend to hear it) you wouldn't think it's the same language. TA
Ottawa is great, I love it there. But I'm not sure if what they speak on the other side of the river should be called 'french', it really doesn't sound anything like french as spoken in France.. (actually I met a French friend of mine at Ottawa airport once, he told me the first two or three trips to Canada he had to speak English with the [french speaking] people he met.. he had a hard time understanding their french). Languages diverge, and Canadian French is just that, Canadian and not French' french.
The health care system is not a "socialist system", get your facts right. You have no idea what "socialist" means. As far as France is concerned though it probably has the best health care system anywhere, better than Italy, better than any other country I know. A lot of countries try for the same system (Including Italy and, in particular, the Scandinavian countries), but they are wastly less efficient. TA
That was very well put together. I agree completely with your descriptions of the European languages, although of the Asian languages I know nothing. TA
I agree with you, except with the French vs. Italian language issues. To say that Italian would be more difficult that French for an English-speaking person doesn't make any sense. They are both Latin-derived languages and thus share a lot of the same grammatical issues, however there are differences: Written French and spoken French are two entirely different things, and there are exceptions to the rules everywhere you look. Whereas for Italian it's dead easy to write Italian, if you hear a word for the first time you have a 95% chance (closing in on 100% with experience) of spelling it correctly. It's the same the other way, if you see a written word it's easy to pronounce it right (well, whatever counts for "right" for a non-native speaker:-) All the letters in a word are pronounced etc. (Although of course you have to first learn that the letter combinations 'ci' and 'ge' are actually a single letter most of the time, like e.g. 'ij' in Dutch. Italy doesn't have the letters 'k' and 'j', so they compensate with using some of the other letters differently. But the system is easy. And the Italian counting system is one of the easiest around, easier than French and even Spanish. However, some of you native English speakers had French in school, and in that case it'll probably be easier to go on with French. But from a standaing start I would say Italian is easier, because of pronunciation and spelling issues. Grammar isn't exactly easy, at least compared with English (which doesn't have much grammar at all and in any case the grammar is mostly redundant! If I say 'he are' it's grammatically wrong, but the meaning is still clear. Not so in Italian!) But French is no better. TA
No, he's right. I've worked a bit in Italy too, and I was shocked to learn that young, bright fellows who really tried to do a good job and put in a lot of effort didn't make more money than I did when I started working almost 20 years ago. I'm talking about young people straight out of university. Obviously the more experienced people earn more money, and the bosses make far too much. But starting salaries in Italy are low, at least in Rome. On the other hand, it should definitely be possible to get a job there, even if you're a foreigner, like me. The problem could be to get the job you really want, as far as Italy is concerned it looks like lots of IT-people are now forced to work in boring (IMO) areas like e.g. finances (after the Euro was introduced they need a lot of people to re-program the cash registers and bank systems for two currencies:-) TA
You mean the Nordic countries. The Scandinavian countries include only Denmark, Sweden, Norway. Scandinavia plus Finland, Iceland, Faroe icelands are the Nordic countries. TA
It's not difficult to get taxed more than your income. If you have a bank account or own your house (and you're paid it off already) then you have to pay taxes on your house, on your savings (even though you've payed income tax on that money already) and so on and on. If your income isn't particularly big then you can easily end up paying more in taxes than you earn. Of course the really reach folks play tricks with the system and always end up paying nothing.. they let the rest of us pay for the infrastructure, pention and health system. TA (a Scandinavian)
As you found out, Linux doesn't care at all about the partition id. You can use any you want. The only reason for using any particular partition ID at all is for reminding yourself about what you had intended the different partitions for (when you check back later with fdisk), and for the automated installation tools from RedHat, Debian and so on. But nothing at all stops you from using any partition type you want. TA
The point with having a Linux-version of Framemaker isn't really that it would get a lot of new users for Adobe. No, the point is for Adobe to keep its existing customers in the Unix market!. Consider: We are using Framemaker on Sun and other "traditional" Unix computers, and we have a number of floating licenses. We have used Framemaker for many years, it's our heavy-duty document production system. But now we're getting rid of all the slow Sun computers, and we are buying Linux computers instead! And all new employees get a Linux PC now, we don't buy Sun or other "traditional" Unix computers anymore. The point is that the Unix market is rapidly shifting over to Linux, and if we can't use Framemaker on the new computers then we're going to abandon Frame and Adobe will lose a long-time customer. We're talking a lot of licenses here! And we're not alone. A lot of other companies with Unix platforms are doing exactly the same as we do, i.e. shifting over from Sun or HP or whatever to Linux. Many of these are big Frame users. Adobe will lose these users if there's no Linux version. TA
You are right, but these Unix based places are moving over from e.g. Sun boxes to Linux boxes! We want Framemaker for Linux! Because otherwise we have to move away from Frame altogether. TA
You're wrong about that. Software houses in the Unix market tend to more and more use Linux PCs instead of e.g. Sun workstations for their employees. These people write proposals, architectural- and detailed design documents, test procedures etc., all in all tons of documents. In this business only Framemaker cuts it (try compiling a 3000-page doc. with input from your case tool etc. with MS Word on a Friday afternoon!). So as these people are moving over from Sun etc. to Linux they want Framemaker for Linux more and more. Yes, I'm among them. TA
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Red Dwarf was better than any of the other shows. A bit up and down but on its best it was absolutely hilarious. Particularly that episode where the time ran backwards..
As I posted elsewhere, the problem is moving, dynamic banners. That's so fantastically annoying that I block it immediately (and as I'm the one who maintains the junkbuster filter for the whole campus this actually matters..).
Static, non-changing, non-flashing, non-blinking ads are never blocked in our filters. Hey, I even look at them occasionally.
TA
.. that they move. It's *annoying*. That's why I block them. All of them. But only the moving banners. I don't mind static ads. I even look at them now and then. But moving banners is the way to go if you want everybody to use Junkbuster.
TA
It's indeed a lot of radio noise coming from the Sun. If you have e.g. an L-band autotracking satellite dish available (you may need to go find a satellite ground station for this :-) then you'll find that you can easily get the antenna system to auto-track the Sun.
No ionosphere in the arctic regions? Nonsense. Where did you get that from? FYI, I'm a ham and I live in the arctic (70N), and the ionosphere works just fine, thank you. No different from the time I spent in more southern latitudes.
In the not-too-long-ago past the hams (I'm one myself but haven't actually tried MB) simply used tape recorders for this. No need for computers. You just record your (CW) message on the tape recorder, then play it back Real Fast on your odd (or even) minute (see another posting). Likewise, you record the received message with your tape recorder running at high speed, then you play it back at low speed. Instant compressed messaging system.
TA
'You clearly don't understand the culture' -- oh my. *YOU* don't understand the culture at all, and no mistake. How can you possibly be so *naive*? The analogy with the 'missionary' that goes around your house and climbs in your window is a very accurate one. *That's* the kind of people we are talking about here. You say you are ready to trust the guy you find inside your house because he says he is a 'white hat'? Come *on*, you won't survive a month out there.
TA (I've monitored some of these people since 1988)
Don't use gas powered mowers, that's crazy.. I didn't think anyone did that anymore. Come on, electrical mowers came into use, what, 15 years ago? I don't know anybody that owns a gas powered anymore. Well this is Europe though.
TA
Sigh. You just have to be careful the first time you connect your two sites with SSH. After that the other host already has the public key, and if a third party then tries to intercept and replace it then ssh detects it and cries foul. TA
Oh come on! Everywhere it said 'subscribes to RBL', not 'subscribed to BGP'. When you say "subscribe to RBL" then that means the *mail* service, not something else. The BGP is indeed some kind of censorware, however if you use it then you have chosen to use it yourself.
I don't know how you are using MAPS if you think it disconnects WEB SITES from the network! Are you using the RBL as your name server or something? MAPS RBL is for sendmail, not for anything else. Sendmail blocks incoming mail from the sites in the RBL, and that's all. Sendmail doesn't control your Cisco router or your Netscape client! Get your setup fixed.
TA
Yes, you can get a well-paid job in Oslo. But it's super-expensive to get a place to live, the housing prices are astronomical. And that is exactly why it is easy to get a well-paid job there.. people can't afford to live there. All things are connected. It's much more difficult to get a job elsewhere in the same country, and the wages are much lower, but then it's easier to get a place to live for a more normal price.
There's always a catch, whatever you do and wherever you go.
TA
Why didn't you read the whole sentence before you reply'ed?
TA
" On the other hand, I know that the media tend to speak a much more formal, standardized form of the language."
You nailed it. What people speak in the streets (or better, in the lunch room where I tend to hear it) you wouldn't think it's the same language.
TA
Ottawa is great, I love it there. But I'm not sure if what they speak on the other side of the river should be called 'french', it really doesn't sound anything like french as spoken in France.. (actually I met a French friend of mine at Ottawa airport once, he told me the first two or three trips to Canada he had to speak English with the [french speaking] people he met.. he had a hard time understanding their french). Languages diverge, and Canadian French is just that, Canadian and not French' french.
The health care system is not a "socialist system", get your facts right. You have no idea what "socialist" means.
As far as France is concerned though it probably has the best health care system anywhere, better than Italy, better than any other country I know. A lot of countries try for the same system (Including Italy and, in particular, the Scandinavian countries), but they are wastly less efficient.
TA
That was very well put together. I agree completely with your descriptions of the European languages, although of the Asian languages I know nothing.
TA
I agree with you, except with the French vs. Italian language issues. To say that Italian would be more difficult that French for an English-speaking person doesn't make any sense. They are both Latin-derived languages and thus share a lot of the same grammatical issues, however there are differences: Written French and spoken French are two entirely different things, and there are exceptions to the rules everywhere you look. Whereas for Italian it's dead easy to write Italian, if you hear a word for the first time you have a 95% chance (closing in on 100% with experience) of spelling it correctly. It's the same the other way, if you see a written word it's easy to pronounce it right (well, whatever counts for "right" for a non-native speaker :-) All the letters in a word are pronounced etc. (Although of course you have to first learn that the letter combinations 'ci' and 'ge' are actually a single letter most of the time, like e.g. 'ij' in Dutch. Italy doesn't have the letters 'k' and 'j', so they compensate with using some of the other letters differently. But the system is easy. And the Italian counting system is one of the easiest around, easier than French and even Spanish.
However, some of you native English speakers had French in school, and in that case it'll probably be easier to go on with French. But from a standaing start I would say Italian is easier, because of pronunciation and spelling issues. Grammar isn't exactly easy, at least compared with English (which doesn't have much grammar at all and in any case the grammar is mostly redundant! If I say 'he are' it's grammatically wrong, but the meaning is still clear. Not so in Italian!) But French is no better.
TA
No, he's right. I've worked a bit in Italy too, and I was shocked to learn that young, bright fellows who really tried to do a good job and put in a lot of effort didn't make more money than I did when I started working almost 20 years ago. I'm talking about young people straight out of university. Obviously the more experienced people earn more money, and the bosses make far too much. But starting salaries in Italy are low, at least in Rome. On the other hand, it should definitely be possible to get a job there, even if you're a foreigner, like me. The problem could be to get the job you really want, as far as Italy is concerned it looks like lots of IT-people are now forced to work in boring (IMO) areas like e.g. finances (after the Euro was introduced they need a lot of people to re-program the cash registers and bank systems for two currencies :-)
TA
You mean the Nordic countries. The Scandinavian countries include only Denmark, Sweden, Norway. Scandinavia plus Finland, Iceland, Faroe icelands are the Nordic countries.
TA
It's not difficult to get taxed more than your income. If you have a bank account or own your house (and you're paid it off already) then you have to pay taxes on your house, on your savings (even though you've payed income tax on that money already) and so on and on. If your income isn't particularly big then you can easily end up paying more in taxes than you earn. Of course the really reach folks play tricks with the system and always end up paying nothing.. they let the rest of us pay for the infrastructure, pention and health system.
TA (a Scandinavian)
As you found out, Linux doesn't care at all about the partition id. You can use any you want. The only reason for using any particular partition ID at all is for reminding yourself about what you had intended the different partitions for (when you check back later with fdisk), and for the automated installation tools from RedHat, Debian and so on. But nothing at all stops you from using any partition type you want.
TA
The point with having a Linux-version of Framemaker isn't really that it would get a lot of new users for Adobe.
No, the point is for Adobe to keep its existing customers in the Unix market!. Consider: We are using Framemaker on Sun and other "traditional" Unix computers, and we have a number of floating licenses. We have used Framemaker for many years, it's our heavy-duty document production system. But now we're getting rid of all the slow Sun computers, and we are buying Linux computers instead! And all new employees get a Linux PC now, we don't buy Sun or other "traditional" Unix computers anymore. The point is that the Unix market is rapidly shifting over to Linux, and if we can't use Framemaker on the new computers then we're going to abandon Frame and Adobe will lose a long-time customer. We're talking a lot of licenses here! And we're not alone. A lot of other companies with Unix platforms are doing exactly the same as we do, i.e. shifting over from Sun or HP or whatever to Linux. Many of these are big Frame users.
Adobe will lose these users if there's no Linux version.
TA
You are right, but these Unix based places are moving over from e.g. Sun boxes to Linux boxes! We want Framemaker for Linux! Because otherwise we have to move away from Frame altogether.
TA
You're wrong about that. Software houses in the Unix market tend to more and more use Linux PCs instead of e.g. Sun workstations for their employees. These people write proposals, architectural- and detailed design documents, test procedures etc., all in all tons of documents. In this business only Framemaker cuts it (try compiling a 3000-page doc. with input from your case tool etc. with MS Word on a Friday afternoon!). So as these people are moving over from Sun etc. to Linux they want Framemaker for Linux more and more.
Yes, I'm among them.
TA