Heh, one word describes you my friend, and that word is "git"
1. My sig mails you your own passwd file. Were you even in 'first grade perl' you could figure that out. Maybe you can actually read Perlmonks instead of just being a groupie there. It makes a point that idiots like you shouldn't blindly exec perl one-lineers off slashdot sigs. See my profile for an actual nasty version and more info.
2. If your english skills are soo poor that you can't differentiate from "Mr_Perl" and "mattr" I really wonder how you managed those 3 paragraphs.
Perhaps I'm mistaken, it having been awhile since I learned my alphabet but is it not so that C comes before D? And the suggested action is to patch D or upgrade to E?
Unless some funky patching is going on, let's link to a deb that is actually not vulnerable here ok?
I can relate to this, sometimes it's nice to have things just work(tm)
Recently I discovered the joy that is Gentoo PPC and Mac-on-Linux, and can have the best of both worlds just by switching between virtual terminal 7 & 8. (8 runs Mac OS, 7 is the X-windows)
The hardware is top notch, the performance of an entire Linux system compiled natively for my own processor is excellent.
Makes the choice an easy one, have your cake and eat it too. Without a reboot for most stuff =)
The only thing that XML-ifying is going to do is bloat the hell out of the system and make it impossible for Joe User to quickly pop in and change things in his config files. Programs still will have their own specific configuration specifications, but now instead of just using plain text files like most do we get to add the complexity of XML.
I'd suggest as an alternative an.ini type standard. Still easily readable by humans but well organized for easy parsing.
Looks like you read the questions but not the rest.
He's saying that these things should be easy+intuitive.
Sure, YOU and I know the incantations, key combinations and so on to get things done, but if Linux is to enjoy widespread use among the not-interested-in-RTFM population this stuff needs to get easier. Like bleedin obvious.
Provided that widespread use is the goal of your project (I think it's safe to say Gnome/KDE has that goal) it's wise to listen to complaints like these.
I pledge allegiance To the conglomerates of the marketing and legal departments of Microsoft And to the domination for which they stand One company Invincible With License fees and big brother for all
Were it not for NPR and PBS I probably wouldn't be in touch with news at all. This being mainly due to my severe aversion to 5 minutes of advertising 4 times an hour (or more)
I actually expect NPR and PBS might survive on their own merits (with some trimming of the fat of course) were they to lost funding from congress. The quality and variety of programs have been increasing and improving over the years quite nicely.
I won't even point to the obvious bias you hold as shown by your homepage link. (need to remove home and put in www btw to update it =)
There's a place for commercial radio, but there's a place for publicly funded radio as well. I'd be sad if that were taken away.
If you read the CNET review, you would see that in their performance tests [cnet.com], IE6 was faster than Mozilla in the three HTML tests. In the Java test, Mozilla was faster.
Wrong. You got it backwards.
From the article: Longer bars indicate better performance, with the fastest browser scoring 100.
A friend of mine works for a hospital which recently changed out all their batteries in their UPS as they do every few years. He salvaged a few good ones, and gave me a couple.
I connected them in parallel to the power connectors on my APC UPS and can now expect many more minutes of power outage without interruption.
Your local hospital might be a good source of batteries for a project like this since they have to pay to dispose of the batteries anyway.
Complex passwords certainly help a lot, but the user is always the weakest point. It doesn't matter how complicated the password is if the user doesn't know how to protect it. Employee training in showing the proper caution is the most neglected aspect of any organization's security.
From the bottom of the page: Lindows.com is not endorsed by or affiliated with Microsoft Corporation in any way.
IANAL (*cough*) but if I were, I would read this as an admission that there is a potential for confusion in the mind of the consumer requiring clarification by the disclaimer.
Aren't they shooting themselves in the foot with that?
I smell a troll. Would you care to highlight some specific examples of how YOU, a brilliant legal mind, would improve the phrasing of the GPL to strengthen it?
We could all benefit from your suggestions, but your above criticisms fail to address even one specific point, instead relying on name-calling such as one might use in court if one had no basis in law to succeed in his case.
If you laugh, we share a sense of humor. If you don't get it, bug off. If it's really offtopic (which the above isn't since it relates to an article which reads like an advertisement) moderate it as such. If you take a second to look at my post history you will find I'm a perfectly well behaved karma whore not accustomed to posting crap requiring modding down.
"Even if you assume that libraries have a right to provide unfettered access to the Internet, they don't have a right to do so with a federal subsidy," she added. "The crux of this matter is whether or not Congress has the power to decide how to use its money."
It's not IT'S money it's OUR money. Amazing how often our representatives seem to lose sight of that.
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Wrap your tongue around that one folks, most people find "Linux" hard enough...
Heh, one word describes you my friend, and that word is "git"
1. My sig mails you your own passwd file. Were you even in 'first grade perl' you could figure that out. Maybe you can actually read Perlmonks instead of just being a groupie there. It makes a point that idiots like you shouldn't blindly exec perl one-lineers off slashdot sigs. See my profile for an actual nasty version and more info.
2. If your english skills are soo poor that you can't differentiate from "Mr_Perl" and "mattr" I really wonder how you managed those 3 paragraphs.
Thanks for the clarification, mod parent up someone =)
Perhaps I'm mistaken, it having been awhile since I learned my alphabet but is it not so that C comes before D? And the suggested action is to patch D or upgrade to E?
Unless some funky patching is going on, let's link to a deb that is actually not vulnerable here ok?
The difference is quite noticeable.
Have a listen. Unless you're mostly deaf you might be in for a nice surprise.
I can relate to this, sometimes it's nice to have things just work(tm)
Recently I discovered the joy that is Gentoo PPC and Mac-on-Linux, and can have the best of both worlds just by switching between virtual terminal 7 & 8. (8 runs Mac OS, 7 is the X-windows)
The hardware is top notch, the performance of an entire Linux system compiled natively for my own processor is excellent.
Makes the choice an easy one, have your cake and eat it too. Without a reboot for most stuff =)
Bullocks.
.ini type standard. Still easily readable by humans but well organized for easy parsing.
The only thing that XML-ifying is going to do is bloat the hell out of the system and make it impossible for Joe User to quickly pop in and change things in his config files. Programs still will have their own specific configuration specifications, but now instead of just using plain text files like most do we get to add the complexity of XML.
I'd suggest as an alternative an
Looks like you read the questions but not the rest.
He's saying that these things should be easy+intuitive.
Sure, YOU and I know the incantations, key combinations and so on to get things done, but if Linux is to enjoy widespread use among the not-interested-in-RTFM population this stuff needs to get easier. Like bleedin obvious.
Provided that widespread use is the goal of your project (I think it's safe to say Gnome/KDE has that goal) it's wise to listen to complaints like these.
I pledge allegiance
To the conglomerates
of the marketing and legal departments of Microsoft
And to the domination
for which they stand
One company
Invincible
With License fees and big brother for all
You're right about the congress-fear.
I would disagree with de-funding NPR though.
Were it not for NPR and PBS I probably wouldn't be in touch with news at all. This being mainly due to my severe aversion to 5 minutes of advertising 4 times an hour (or more)
I actually expect NPR and PBS might survive on their own merits (with some trimming of the fat of course) were they to lost funding from congress. The quality and variety of programs have been increasing and improving over the years quite nicely.
I won't even point to the obvious bias you hold as shown by your homepage link. (need to remove home and put in www btw to update it =)
There's a place for commercial radio, but there's a place for publicly funded radio as well. I'd be sad if that were taken away.
Let me repeat that because you might have dozed off, and it's important.
Now that's funny. How did he know I'd be snoozing at exactly that point in the article!
Wrong. You got it backwards.
From the article: Longer bars indicate better performance, with the fastest browser scoring 100.
Short bars bad. Long bars good.
A friend of mine works for a hospital which recently changed out all their batteries in their UPS as they do every few years. He salvaged a few good ones, and gave me a couple.
I connected them in parallel to the power connectors on my APC UPS and can now expect many more minutes of power outage without interruption.
Your local hospital might be a good source of batteries for a project like this since they have to pay to dispose of the batteries anyway.
For an illustration to the uncautious I present you with my latest extra evil sig
From the bottom of the page:
Lindows.com is not endorsed by or affiliated with Microsoft Corporation in any way.
IANAL (*cough*) but if I were, I would read this as an admission that there is a potential for confusion in the mind of the consumer requiring clarification by the disclaimer.
Aren't they shooting themselves in the foot with that?
Haha, ok that deserves a funny. 8)
I read this, and am still wondering what is modeling. Anybody?
I smell a troll. Would you care to highlight some specific examples of how YOU, a brilliant legal mind, would improve the phrasing of the GPL to strengthen it?
We could all benefit from your suggestions, but your above criticisms fail to address even one specific point, instead relying on name-calling such as one might use in court if one had no basis in law to succeed in his case.
Indeed. The honorable gentleman could only become geekier through the use of a propeller hat.
YOU lose, replace Jewish with Athiest.
Gee, do I win the pity party prize?
Yea, I'm positive that this has been posted before. Can't find it in the archives though.
Thanks to a bright suggestion, I and probably lots of others have started linking to scientology to help bump xenu.net up in the search engine listings.
It's now number 2 in the rankings which is 3 spots higher than a few weeks ago so perhaps this small form of protest is also working!
Um, maybe I should preface things like this with
@@@@@@@@@@@@@@ WARNING @@@@@@@@@@@@@@@
This post may contain a joke.
If you laugh, we share a sense of humor. If you don't get it, bug off. If it's really offtopic (which the above isn't since it relates to an article which reads like an advertisement) moderate it as such. If you take a second to look at my post history you will find I'm a perfectly well behaved karma whore not accustomed to posting crap requiring modding down.
And we thought Slashvertisements were just an april fools joke
"Even if you assume that libraries have a right to provide unfettered access to the Internet, they don't have a right to do so with a federal subsidy," she added. "The crux of this matter is whether or not Congress has the power to decide how to use its money."
It's not IT'S money it's OUR money. Amazing how often our representatives seem to lose sight of that.