I just copied and pasted the text from your link into vim and it seems to look the same. I can not read hindi, so I can not check for correctness. But I can type thai language into my vim just fine. and thai language is a complex script also.
Two character codes in the hindi text give problems in vim: and . I don't know if that's a problem with my fonts or what.
But typing thai language into my vim works fine. I wish I could post an example here, but/. is an "iso-8859-1" site only.
You could use "iconv" to convert your text from unicode into utf-8 and then open it in vim.
Only in comments? gee... how about if I want to print Hello World in thai language? And guess what - I was gonna post some C code which does a printf of the thai language version of Hello World. But/. can not handle utf8... OMG. <title>Slashdot - News for nerds, stuff that matters</title> <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1">
I blame the cult of Unix/Linux to some degree. The whole OS and all its tools and standards are based on ASCII text
you ever heard of the nls_utf8 kernel module? ever seen the "LANG" environment variable? set it to "en_DK.utf8" for example and you're ready to go.
vim, svn, rm, mv, cp can handle utf8 just fine. this being on slackware 13.1.
And, yes, me too: I wrote this in vi(1), which is why the article does not have all the fancy Unicode glyphs in the first place.
Excuse me - vim can handle utf-8 just fine. utf-8 file names and utf-8 content. on a vanilla slackware 13.1.
http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~mgk25/unicode.html#apps [cam.ac.uk]
# Vim (the popular clone of the classic vi editor) supports UTF-8 with wide characters and up to two combining characters starting from version 6.0.
# Emacs has quite good basic UTF-8 support starting from version 21.3. Emacs 23 changed the internal encoding to UTF-8.
And svn can handle utf-8 as well - http://svnbook.red-bean.com/en/1.4/svn.advanced.l10n.html [red-bean.com].
The repository stores all paths, filenames, and log messages in Unicode, encoded as UTF-8.
All it requires is... set your locale and lang. "export LANG=en_DK.utf8" in "/etc/profile.d/lang.sh" (Slackware 13.1) and add some better fonts maybe.
I apologize for repeating myself. I've written the same thing further down already in reply to another user's post. But I just read tfa and felt the need to reply to the author of tfa.
the simplest programming tools for editing are straightfoward ASCII text editors: vi and (god help us) emacs. so by declaring that "Thou Shalt Use A Unicode Editor For This Language" you've just shot the chances of success of any such language stone dead: no self-respecting systems programmer is going to touch it.
Excuse me - vim can handle utf-8 just fine. utf-8 file names and utf-8 content. on a vanilla slackware 13.1.
http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~mgk25/unicode.html#apps
# Vim (the popular clone of the classic vi editor) supports UTF-8 with wide characters and up to two combining characters starting from version 6.0.
# Emacs has quite good basic UTF-8 support starting from version 21.3. Emacs 23 changed the internal encoding to UTF-8.
And svn can handle utf-8 as well - http://svnbook.red-bean.com/en/1.4/svn.advanced.l10n.html.
The repository stores all paths, filenames, and log messages in Unicode, encoded as UTF-8.
All it requires is... set your locale and lang. "export LANG=en_DK.utf8" in "/etc/profile.d/lang.sh" (Slackware 13.1).
"You have to understand, most of these people are not ready to be unplugged. And many of them are so inert, so hopelessly dependent on the system that they will fight to protect it."
This quote very much applies to MS Windows and MS Office users... all over the world.
A computer technician who works in a developing country in SouthEast Asia confirmed this to me just two days ago.
Desktop Linux - Don't give up! Your day will come! We = the ones already unplugged = will keep promoting you!
And not being able to play a dvd makes Linux broken? Excuse me!!! For crying out loud!!! The dvd region code is what makes dvd broken.
DVD video discs may be encoded with a region code restricting the area of the world in which they can be played.
Most people don't even know and are completely unaware of this...
I would like to point out that the people who originally created these documents are pretty clueless.
Who in his right mind puts real names and real locations into classified wartime documents!?!? I guess they forgot how things were done in World War II - Code names.
It's not Wikileaks who should've protect people's names in these documents. It's the people who originally wrote these documents who have been careless.
Instead of wasting your time on facebook and other stupid sites, start reading some real books. For example about this man - "Little Bill"
And I am attempting to ignore the fact that Google could, indeed, with all its fine GPS sensorship, track you along every inch of your route. It could also send you nice ads on your laptop or GPS screen, as you'll have all your attentive abilities at the company's full disposal.
And while you are trying to get to your lunch appointment in Chinatown, your google car will make a little detour to make sure you actually drive by the shop that paid google a lot of money for the ads. And your google car will make sure that you actually look at the ads.
I wonder now if AdBlock Plus would work in a google car... ?
I don't see any police officers in the video. I see a civilian coming out of a car (not a police car), drawing a gun and waving it around. This civilian does not produce a badge or other form of id, confirming that he is what he says he claims to be.
What cop ??? I see a civilian coming out of a car (not a police car), drawing a gun and waving it around. This civilian does not produce a badge or other form of id, confirming that he is what he says he claims to be.
... run away from this rotten country to us/uk/australia.
And you think that it will better in those countries? Think again - in these countries your internet and phone traffic is monitored already. Think NSA... Search for "nsa internet monitoring" on Google. And another example - EU To Monitor All Internet Searches".
Is there any country left on this earth, where there's mutual trust between government and its citizens and therefor no need to monitor internet and phone traffic?
The grass is not always greener on the other side.
From the article: "affixes a tag inside the HTTP header"
So I assume they are snooping on all traffic on port 80 (and maybe 443) and insert their data into the HTTP header.
Well - we need to move away from a www based on port 80, and start using random ports to access websites. I don't know how to do this, but maybe somebody else does...
Meaning - webservers need to listen on random ports and search engines need to store the port info and stop assuming port 80 (or 443) as the default. I don't think google et. al. can handle URLs with a port number in it.
Well - I sincerely hope that this so-called "extension" never happens.
And - why do we need an extension for DNS ?
The website already has the ip address of the requester (cgi var REMOTE_ADDR) and one can then use a service like "http://ipxml.info/myip/?ip=174.151.33.250" to get the location of this ip address.
So can someone please explain to me - why do we need to extend DNS, when with existing protocols and services, we can get someone's location already.
The FT says that the models used were "based on incomplete science and limited data, according to European officials. As a result, they may have over-stated the risks to the public, needlessly grounding flights and damaging businesses."
If we base our decisions on computer models, and not on actual data gathered by humans (or other methods), then we have gone off the deep end.
If we are not allowed to talk about AdBlock plus, then lets talk about "document.write".
Most (probably all) ads are created with "document.write", so simply block "document.write". And enable "document.write" for the few sites that you really enjoy.
Add the following to "prefs.js" (seamonkey, firefox,...):
It appears that the most effective strategy for those who want to be rid of IE6 would be to encourage Windows XP users to upgrade to Windows 7.
IE8 works just fine on Windows XP. There's no need to upgrade to Windows 7, which requires you to buy new hardware as well. It's all a big scam to boost sales.
This just confirms what I wrote in an earlier post:
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It's not up to Microsoft how Windows is installed on a computer delivered to an end-user. It's companies like Dell, HP and computer shops who actually install Windows.
They (Dell, HP and computer shops) need to learn to install Windows properly: ntfs, no automatic login to admin user, least-privileged account, install latest version of a web browser (whether it be IE8, or something else), etc, etc, etc.
And power-users don't use pre-installed OSes anyway, correct? So the main problem is with users who use computers with a pre-installed OS.
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I am so sick and tired of it that end-users are tricked into believing they need to buy a new computer with a new OS, just so they get a more secure internet experience.
Wake Up, people! Your current OS, if properly setup, maintained and used, will work just fine.
And here's some more food for thought: we should all be logged with a least-privileged account when using our computers. But the automatic update feature of most software requires you to be logged in as admin. If you're logged with a least-privileged account, the automatic update feature does not work and is disabled. Example: Firefox.
Which brings me to the conclusion that the automatic update feature is contradicting basic security recommendations and therefor sorta useless and that it's really up to the user to properly maintain and use their computer.
Well - I could just go on and on about this... y'all get the point, I hope.
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unicode - no. utf-8 - yes.
I just copied and pasted the text from your link into vim and it seems to look the same. I can not read hindi, so I can not check for correctness.
But I can type thai language into my vim just fine. and thai language is a complex script also.
Two character codes in the hindi text give problems in vim: and . I don't know if that's a problem with my fonts or what.
But typing thai language into my vim works fine. I wish I could post an example here, but /. is an "iso-8859-1" site only.
You could use "iconv" to convert your text from unicode into utf-8 and then open it in vim.
Only in comments? gee ... how about if I want to print Hello World in thai language? /. can not handle utf8 ... OMG.
And guess what - I was gonna post some C code which does a printf of the thai language version of Hello World.
But
<title>Slashdot - News for nerds, stuff that matters</title>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1">
I blame the cult of Unix/Linux to some degree. The whole OS and all its tools and standards are based on ASCII text
you ever heard of the nls_utf8 kernel module? ever seen the "LANG" environment variable? set it to "en_DK.utf8" for example and you're ready to go.
vim, svn, rm, mv, cp can handle utf8 just fine. this being on slackware 13.1.
And, yes, me too: I wrote this in vi(1), which is why the article does not have all the fancy Unicode glyphs in the first place.
Excuse me - vim can handle utf-8 just fine. utf-8 file names and utf-8 content. on a vanilla slackware 13.1.
http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~mgk25/unicode.html#apps [cam.ac.uk]
# Vim (the popular clone of the classic vi editor) supports UTF-8 with wide characters and up to two combining characters starting from version 6.0.
# Emacs has quite good basic UTF-8 support starting from version 21.3. Emacs 23 changed the internal encoding to UTF-8.
And svn can handle utf-8 as well - http://svnbook.red-bean.com/en/1.4/svn.advanced.l10n.html [red-bean.com].
The repository stores all paths, filenames, and log messages in Unicode, encoded as UTF-8.
All it requires is ... set your locale and lang. "export LANG=en_DK.utf8" in "/etc/profile.d/lang.sh" (Slackware 13.1) and add some better fonts maybe.
I apologize for repeating myself. I've written the same thing further down already in reply to another user's post. But I just read tfa and felt the need to reply to the author of tfa.
the simplest programming tools for editing are straightfoward ASCII text editors: vi and (god help us) emacs. so by declaring that "Thou Shalt Use A Unicode Editor For This Language" you've just shot the chances of success of any such language stone dead: no self-respecting systems programmer is going to touch it.
Excuse me - vim can handle utf-8 just fine. utf-8 file names and utf-8 content. on a vanilla slackware 13.1.
http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~mgk25/unicode.html#apps
# Vim (the popular clone of the classic vi editor) supports UTF-8 with wide characters and up to two combining characters starting from version 6.0.
# Emacs has quite good basic UTF-8 support starting from version 21.3. Emacs 23 changed the internal encoding to UTF-8.
And svn can handle utf-8 as well - http://svnbook.red-bean.com/en/1.4/svn.advanced.l10n.html.
The repository stores all paths, filenames, and log messages in Unicode, encoded as UTF-8.
All it requires is ... set your locale and lang. "export LANG=en_DK.utf8" in "/etc/profile.d/lang.sh" (Slackware 13.1).
"It'll be ready when it's ready" as we say in slackware circles.
I believe more software projects should adopt this policy.
"You have to understand, most of these people are not ready to be unplugged. And many of them are so inert, so hopelessly dependent on the system that they will fight to protect it."
This quote very much applies to MS Windows and MS Office users ... all over the world.
A computer technician who works in a developing country in SouthEast Asia confirmed this to me just two days ago.
Desktop Linux - Don't give up! Your day will come! We = the ones already unplugged = will keep promoting you!
And not being able to play a dvd makes Linux broken? Excuse me!!! For crying out loud!!! The dvd region code is what makes dvd broken.
DVD video discs may be encoded with a region code restricting the area of the world in which they can be played.
Most people don't even know and are completely unaware of this ...
I would like to point out that the people who originally created these documents are pretty clueless.
Who in his right mind puts real names and real locations into classified wartime documents!?!? I guess they forgot how things were done in World War II - Code names.
It's not Wikileaks who should've protect people's names in these documents. It's the people who originally wrote these documents who have been careless.
Instead of wasting your time on facebook and other stupid sites, start reading some real books. For example about this man - "Little Bill"
You may learn a thing or two from history.
Signed, GLYPTIC
It's all about ads ... What else !?!?!
Google's new robot car: Crazy good or crazy crazy?
And I am attempting to ignore the fact that Google could, indeed, with all its fine GPS sensorship, track you along every inch of your route. It could also send you nice ads on your laptop or GPS screen, as you'll have all your attentive abilities at the company's full disposal.
And while you are trying to get to your lunch appointment in Chinatown, your google car will make a little detour to make sure you actually drive by the shop that paid google a lot of money for the ads. And your google car will make sure that you actually look at the ads.
I wonder now if AdBlock Plus would work in a google car ... ?
So how about the police doing some old-fashioned legwork and actually collect some real evidence.
IF this person is actually sexually exploiting children, then it should be easy to trail him and catch him in the act.
must be larry who's behind all this ...
Why do police officers care about this case?
I don't see any police officers in the video. I see a civilian coming out of a car (not a police car), drawing a gun and waving it around. This civilian does not produce a badge or other form of id, confirming that he is what he says he claims to be.
When the cop stopped him ...
What cop ??? I see a civilian coming out of a car (not a police car), drawing a gun and waving it around. This civilian does not produce a badge or other form of id, confirming that he is what he says he claims to be.
Why is the parent modded "insightful"?
In the USA you already have this legislation for the longest time.
You have to show some form of id when you buy a cell phone/sim card in the USA; be it credit card, driver's license, etc.
I know this from my own experience: when I bought a cell phone ten years ago at an AT&T store, they asked me for my driver's license.
So ... the USA is no different than Europe, Australia, ... or China.
Agent Smith to Neo: And all that we're asking for in return is your cooperation in bringing a known terrorist to justice.
Agent Smith is talking about Morpheus.
Was Morpheus a terrorist?
Are the accusations against Assange real?
To be honest - I am confused. I don't know who or what to believe.
jEdit is one that works well for me ... and I am sure there more java apps.
... run away from this rotten country to us/uk/australia.
And you think that it will better in those countries? Think again - in these countries your internet and phone traffic is monitored already. Think NSA ... Search for "nsa internet monitoring" on Google. And another example - EU To Monitor All Internet Searches".
Is there any country left on this earth, where there's mutual trust between government and its citizens and therefor no need to monitor internet and phone traffic?
The grass is not always greener on the other side.
From the article: "affixes a tag inside the HTTP header"
So I assume they are snooping on all traffic on port 80 (and maybe 443) and insert their data into the HTTP header.
Well - we need to move away from a www based on port 80, and start using random ports to access websites. I don't know how to do this, but maybe somebody else does ...
Meaning - webservers need to listen on random ports and search engines need to store the port info and stop assuming port 80 (or 443) as the default. I don't think google et. al. can handle URLs with a port number in it.
Well - I sincerely hope that this so-called "extension" never happens.
And - why do we need an extension for DNS ?
The website already has the ip address of the requester (cgi var REMOTE_ADDR) and one can then use a service like "http://ipxml.info/myip/?ip=174.151.33.250" to get the location of this ip address.
So can someone please explain to me - why do we need to extend DNS, when with existing protocols and services, we can get someone's location already.
The initial flight ban decision was based on a computer model (which turned out to be flawed) and not based on facts.
From another article on http://spectrum.ieee.org/riskfactor/computing/software/flawed-computer-models-add-to-european-flight-delays:
The FT says that the models used were "based on incomplete science and limited data, according to European officials. As a result, they may have over-stated the risks to the public, needlessly grounding flights and damaging businesses."
If we base our decisions on computer models, and not on actual data gathered by humans (or other methods), then we have gone off the deep end.
If we are not allowed to talk about AdBlock plus, then lets talk about "document.write".
Most (probably all) ads are created with "document.write", so simply block "document.write". And enable "document.write" for the few sites that you really enjoy.
Add the following to "prefs.js" (seamonkey, firefox, ...):
user_pref("capability.policy.default.HTMLDocument.write", "noAccess");
... ");
user_pref("capability.policy.trusted.HTMLDocument.write", "sameOrigin");
user_pref("capability.policy.trusted.sites", "http://localhost http://forums.mozillazine.org/
user_pref("capability.policy.policynames", "trusted");
See http://www.mozilla.org/projects/security/components/ConfigPolicy.html for more details ...
Yeah - that's exactly the problem nowadays - it's all "politically correct".
But under the hood - same old, same old.
How's Obama any different than Bush?
The US is still oppressing their rules and wishes onto the rest of the world.
Nothing has changed.
Why stop there? You could even spell out words on your body using tinfoil ... Addtl. info for the security people.
From TFA:
IE8 works just fine on Windows XP. There's no need to upgrade to Windows 7, which requires you to buy new hardware as well. It's all a big scam to boost sales.
This just confirms what I wrote in an earlier post:
-----
It's not up to Microsoft how Windows is installed on a computer delivered to an end-user. It's companies like Dell, HP and computer shops who actually install Windows.
They (Dell, HP and computer shops) need to learn to install Windows properly: ntfs, no automatic login to admin user, least-privileged account, install latest version of a web browser (whether it be IE8, or something else), etc, etc, etc.
And power-users don't use pre-installed OSes anyway, correct? So the main problem is with users who use computers with a pre-installed OS.
-----
I am so sick and tired of it that end-users are tricked into believing they need to buy a new computer with a new OS, just so they get a more secure internet experience.
Wake Up, people! Your current OS, if properly setup, maintained and used, will work just fine.
And here's some more food for thought: we should all be logged with a least-privileged account when using our computers. But the automatic update feature of most software requires you to be logged in as admin. If you're logged with a least-privileged account, the automatic update feature does not work and is disabled. Example: Firefox.
Which brings me to the conclusion that the automatic update feature is contradicting basic security recommendations and therefor sorta useless and that it's really up to the user to properly maintain and use their computer.
Well - I could just go on and on about this ... y'all get the point, I hope.