It surprises me to see how some American gun nuts think they could protect themselves against a corrupt government using pissy consumer firearms.
If it came to that, the American population would be brought under control by the American Government and Military. They are a lot better equipped than the population and can do stuff like cut off/poison your water supply, sewage and electricity. I mean, those Iraqis with AK-47s didn't really stand a chance now did they?
Apple. Write once, run on the current version of the OS.;)
What does OSX run on other than a Mac? What Macintosh applications are ported to other platforms?
I love the look and functionality of OSX. Expose is awesome. The new finder-thingie seems cool. The integration and seamlessness between apps is awesome (the usual Apple standard) and I don't want to discredit their contributions to the OSS world. However if you want to take OSX away from the workstations and into places like the server room you'll find yourself pretty limited in comparison to Linux/BSD.
You'd probably do OK if you were seriously cashed up but most of us are not unfortunately. You also may find yourself stuck on Planet Apple for the next few years, for better or worse.
Most of these fancy button keyboards generally end up mapping their special keys to specific keycodes in X. So all you have to do is trap those keycodes in X and map them to run a command of your choosing.
Indeed I did this with my Logitech MX-whatever wireless kb/mouse combo: got the volume knob working and a few other things.
I didn't go to all the trouble you did though: I was slack and used the "Keyboard Shortcuts" Gnome app that comes with Fedora. Works OOTB for the apps I care about, couldn't be simpler.
It's a cop-out though man. It's too easy to just say "Ahh fuck it, wipe the planet of humans and start again". Problem with that is there's no guarantee the situation will end up any different: it could end up worse.
We need to start honestly addressing our problems. At the moment though it seems there are powerful groups that benefit from our problems. You think the War On Drugs is perpetual for no reason?
Blocking port 25 would just about kill small business people that use a 3rd party hosting service for their webpages and email.
Running an MTA is serious business these days. It's not just about blocking VRFY and ETRN. I'm battling bounce attacks, attacks on postmaster and make-baby-jesus-cry brute force attacks which are:
1. Difficult to stop. 2. Apparently increasing in popularity.
We process a bit over 100K emails/day. We reject about 15K emails/day.
Are these small businesses going to try to address this problem with the same rigour as a professional? No, they are not. They are going to do the *bare minimum* to get/keep the MTA working and it's going to become another tool for spammers.
If you have a static IP, your own domain configured (forward and reverse) and you are very capable of configuring ACLs on an MTA then you may be OK but you'll be like me: constantly looking for new ways of calming the storm of shit. Otherwise you're just going to become part of the problem.
Because their suffering that's being caused by stray radiation is so much less important than your property value.
Eh? The first step in problem solving is identifying the nature of the problem through logical/ scientific means. You can move on to the solution from there.
Speculating that there's a problem and erecting an eyesore of a solution is not the way to go.
If NIF achieves fusion ignition, it will for the first time in a laboratory simulate the pressures and heat of a nuclear explosion, allowing nuclear weapons scientists to study the performance and readiness of the country's aging nuclear arsenal without actually detonating a nuclear device. Sounds good to me.
It would be better if people stopped producing nuclear weapons in the first place.
Got a better idea of how to make sure our cold-war aresnal is still functioning and capable of deployment without detonating a nuclear warhead every few years?
Yes, kill yourselves and let the world go on without your crazy ass, evil, militarist asses.
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Where are these cultures where everybody knows the specs of any given firearm?
Well I'm no gun nut gumshoe but I'd start my investigations in Texas.
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It surprises me to see how some American gun nuts think they could protect themselves against a corrupt government using pissy consumer firearms.
If it came to that, the American population would be brought under control by the American Government and Military. They are a lot better equipped than the population and can do stuff like cut off/poison your water supply, sewage and electricity. I mean, those Iraqis with AK-47s didn't really stand a chance now did they?
I think there's a film script in that!
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All the spaces in default folders are (were) Microsoft's way of forcing app developers to cope with spaces in filenames.
You've got to be kidding.
Quite an elegant way of doing it, imho.
You've got to be kidding.
Seriously man, the above seems 100% crack-inspired.
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I told my girlfriend I'd like a little beaver.
She said "Neither would I... mine's as big as a house!"
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p.s. The joke is from Predator with s/pussy/beaver
Apple. Write once, run on the current version of the OS. ;)
//gs user. =)
What does OSX run on other than a Mac? What Macintosh applications are ported to other platforms?
I love the look and functionality of OSX. Expose is awesome. The new finder-thingie seems cool. The integration and seamlessness between apps is awesome (the usual Apple standard) and I don't want to discredit their contributions to the OSS world. However if you want to take OSX away from the workstations and into places like the server room you'll find yourself pretty limited in comparison to Linux/BSD.
You'd probably do OK if you were seriously cashed up but most of us are not unfortunately. You also may find yourself stuck on Planet Apple for the next few years, for better or worse.
Flame away, I was once a (happy)
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How about DoWhatIMean();
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I'm *so* tired of walking into a lan party and getting flamed for my mac.
Time to thicken that skin then eh? Or get a PC?
Seriously man, geeks at LAN parties giving you shit about your mac: who gives a fuck? They're luser PC G4merz anyway.
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Anyways, yes, they're wiping out the XP installs on these machines (Dell Optiplex 270's) and installing Win 98 SE on them.
Nah man nah... that's just too fucked up, even for a Windoze "hey I know computers!" luser.
Please man... say it ain't so...
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Most of these fancy button keyboards generally end up mapping their special keys to specific keycodes in X. So all you have to do is trap those keycodes in X and map them to run a command of your choosing.
Indeed I did this with my Logitech MX-whatever wireless kb/mouse combo: got the volume knob working and a few other things.
I didn't go to all the trouble you did though: I was slack and used the "Keyboard Shortcuts" Gnome app that comes with Fedora. Works OOTB for the apps I care about, couldn't be simpler.
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Hey jackass....I think he was asking for a tarball, not a lecture.
.sig.
LOL. See
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I understand the sentiment.
It's a cop-out though man. It's too easy to just say "Ahh fuck it, wipe the planet of humans and start again". Problem with that is there's no guarantee the situation will end up any different: it could end up worse.
We need to start honestly addressing our problems. At the moment though it seems there are powerful groups that benefit from our problems. You think the War On Drugs is perpetual for no reason?
Cheers
Stor
Blocking port 25 would just about kill small business people that use a 3rd party hosting service for their webpages and email.
Running an MTA is serious business these days. It's not just about blocking VRFY and ETRN. I'm battling bounce attacks, attacks on postmaster and make-baby-jesus-cry brute force attacks which are:
1. Difficult to stop.
2. Apparently increasing in popularity.
We process a bit over 100K emails/day. We reject about 15K emails/day.
Are these small businesses going to try to address this problem with the same rigour as a professional? No, they are not. They are going to do the *bare minimum* to get/keep the MTA working and it's going to become another tool for spammers.
If you have a static IP, your own domain configured (forward and reverse) and you are very capable of configuring ACLs on an MTA then you may be OK but you'll be like me: constantly looking for new ways of calming the storm of shit. Otherwise you're just going to become part of the problem.
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Yeah I sympathise.
Unfortunately it would mean there would be no money in computers. Sucky hey?
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In fairness to the Americans, they did invent the Internet. Seems rough to blacklist them. =)
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So... if their neighbor's kids took apart that old microwave oven and are firing the magnetron at them, it's a psycological problem. Good to know!
Oh come on: how unlikely is that?
If the kids did that they'd probably do more damage to themselves than their neighbours.
Even so, wouldn't you try to *measure* the radiation and *notify* someone if you suspected a problem?
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Because their suffering that's being caused by stray radiation is so much less important than your property value.
Eh? The first step in problem solving is identifying the nature of the problem through logical/ scientific means. You can move on to the solution from there.
Speculating that there's a problem and erecting an eyesore of a solution is not the way to go.
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Yes, kill yourselves and let the world go on without your crazy ass, evil, militarist asses.
Oh, btw, I'm not referring to just "Americans" here, I'm referring to any country that thinks nuclear weapons are a Good Idea.
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If NIF achieves fusion ignition, it will for the first time in a laboratory simulate the pressures and heat of a nuclear explosion, allowing nuclear weapons scientists to study the performance and readiness of the country's aging nuclear arsenal without actually detonating a nuclear device.
Sounds good to me.
It would be better if people stopped producing nuclear weapons in the first place.
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lol I had forgotten that one :)
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That blast came from the Death Star! That thing's operational!
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Got a better idea of how to make sure our cold-war aresnal is still functioning and capable of deployment without detonating a nuclear warhead every few years?
Yes, kill yourselves and let the world go on without your crazy ass, evil, militarist asses.
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Wow! You can choke the chicken whilst surfing the Internet now. Thanks for the link.
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Say if I want a deathmatch against Buckaroo Banzai?
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i say slap a beta label on it and release it to sourceforge. some kind soul will iron out the remaining bugs.
Yeah, sure, worked for gq...
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*Futurama's Hawking Voice* I call it a Hawking File
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