I literally was checking/. moments before I signed on to go play Tribes2 on Linux. Is this is a patch for an upcoming version? Mine seems to work fine.
I've got a ViewSonic ViewPanel VA800 (The 17.4" consumer model flat-panel sold at Best Buy, CompUSA, etc), and the top shot looks great while the bottom shot looks terrible.
What I'm really happy with is running Gnome2/GTK+2 with antialiasing and subpixel rendering.
I take it that some people LIKE the fuzziness of the bottom version.
I have no idea on the specifics of the original problem, but in my experience every user does not complain about a problem. Depending on the system the mailing list is sourced from, adding a "prefers text/html mail option" could be non-trivial or just not possible, so as to require implementing a "parasite" database from scratch to keep track of such preferences, which would be quite difficult.
There are "more than a few nations out there whose number one priority is to exterminate us"? Give me a break. Like who for instance? Iraq? North Korea? China?
Why is China having a problem getting Taiwan back? Why is North Korea's economy not so hot? Why does Sadaam Hussein have to resort to terrorism to get what he wants now? (He used to have the 4th largest army in the world.) What do the answers to these questions all have in common?
If memory serves me correctly, the US attacked Iraq not the other way around.
Aren't you forgetting something?
And no, Osama bin Laden and friends aren't a nation.
It wasn't too long ago that Osama bin Laden and friends were a nation.
I'd much rather see our money spent exploring Mars instead of building weapons too, were it not for the fact that there are more than a few nations out there whose number one priority is to exterminate us. If you think that we are safe simply because the USSR isn't such a threat anymore, I suggest you take a closer look at the history of the world. Were we being invaded right now, I'm sure you would be quite happy to not have to meet your enemy face to face.
When one uses a Web browser as an application development platform, there are perfectly legitimate uses for loading "unrequested" popups. For instance, say the user clicks a link in an intranet application that says "Edit Record" If the user has authorization to edit the record, it takes him to a screen where he can do just that. If he doesn't, the page refreshes and a notice or login window is opened. Yes, there are ways to get around this, but all of them require an unclean design or changing the way the application works.
If I ever have the time, I'd love to add an IE-like "zones" concept to Mozilla or Galeon, where one can create site profiles and can ban certain sites from taking certain actions (Setting persistent cookies, raising/lowering windows, opening windows and then immediately lowering them, opening windows at all, etc). One may then easily select a profile for a given site with a simple right-click in the document. It could even retroactively close all popup windows if a site were changed to a more restrictive profile.
<% Dim hst hst = Request.ServerVariables("HTTP_HOST") If hst <> "www.dicksonsupply.com" Then If hst = "www.e-plumbingsupply.com" Then Response.Redirect "sites/plumbing/" Else If hst = "www.plumbsmart.com" Then Response.Redirect "sites/plumbing/" Else If hst = "www.irrigationzone.com" Then Reponse.Redirect "sites/irrigation/" End If %>
Ah yes, another IDE vs SCSI debate. That's my cue to bring up the same point I've made in the last 500/. IDE vs. SCSI debates, and hope that this time someone actually has an answer.
Heavy use of SCSI drives does not noticably impact system performance. When I say "noticably," I mean those intermittent pauses a computer experiences during disk usage. That is, when you're moving your mouse and the pointer skids across the screen, making it incredibly difficult to get any work done. I absolutely hate this. If anyone knows of an IDE setup that will solve this problem, just THIS problem, I'll dump my ridiculously expensive Seagate X15 in a heartbeat. Until then, its worth it to me to shell out an extra $200/box and deal with smaller capacity drives.
I've learned a few important lessons from having set up networks of white boxes. The little problems you have setting up your home gaming box just aren't acceptable when multiplied by 60...
- Buy good RAM. I've never had a problem with the Crucial stuff before, and have had problems with just about everything else. Bad RAM can cause intermittent failures, disk corruption, and a heck of a lot of wasted time.
- Buy a mainboard from a reputable manufacturer with a solid chipset. Don't buy anything cutting edge, get something that is stable and proven to work. Normally I go with one of the more mainstream Asus boards.
- Buy retail boxed CPUs. In my experience, the brand-x bundled coolers WILL FAIL within a year or two. Even the supposed high-end ones. The boxed CPUs don't cost any more when you factor in the fan cost. The retail boxed CPUs come with a 3 year warranty from AMD.
On my company's Web site we've had success with this technique. The addresses posted on the Web site have not received any significant amount of spam. I have yet to see a single spam message that hits all four of the addresses on our contact page at once, which I believe would be a likely indicator we've been hit by a spambot.
We embed this JavaScript code on each page that needs mailtos:
Our addresses even show up correctly in lynx, but are "clickable" only in JavaScript-enabled browsers.
Of course, it's probably only a matter of time before spambots can compensate for this code. A more secure approach would be to put email addresses "components" in borderless cells of tables, or as a previous poster suggested, in images.
It's done by a company called FrontSight and it's free. The course is about five hours training (most of it on the range), and then a two hour pitch about signing up for more courses. You don't have to stay for the two hour pitch if you don't want to.
I was in Vegas for a bachelor party and attended the course, and I must say it is very well done. The instructors are actually very nice, normal people. What really surprised me about them is that they are extremely courteous and helpful. They won't yell at you when you do something wrong like a lot of ranges. (I assume with the obvious exception of things that are outright dangerous)
Apparently Mozilla 0.9.9 isn't good enough to view sharpelectronics.com. They recommend I upgrade to MSIE 4.
I let them know that my decision to purchase an SL-5500 is based solely on them letting me in with whatever browser I want to use. (I had to use Netscape 4.x to get to their feedback page) So far there has been no response.
It's absurd to lock people out of a Web site based on browser-type in the hopes that folks using ancient ("third-generation") Web browsers are actually going to spend 17 hours downloading the latest version on their 14.4 modems.
I don't know of an immediately available solution to your situation, but I am working on an application framework that will allow developers to create products that meet your needs. The framework is called Echo, and it licensed under the GNU LGPL license. It's written entirely in Java, and runs in any Java Servlet container (v2.2 or higher). It enables a developer to create Web-based applications using a component/event-driven methodology and an API similar to Swing.
Echo takes care of all HTML/JavaScript rendering and HTTP request handling for the developer. It currently supports Mozilla or IE 5.x+ browsers (it does not require any plug-ins or client-side Java). Its built-in capabilities are limited to those that a JavaScript-enabled browser can provide, but it is built to be extended, such that it is possible to create components that will embed complex DHTML/JavaScript-based or Applet-based widgets within an application.
Echo is under development, with a stable release targeted in a month or two. The project is hosted at sourceforge.net at http://sourceforge.net/projects/echo, if you want the latest info, feel free to join the mailing list. Tutorials and a white paper are available at http://www.nextapp.com/products/echo
The Movie/TV industries want to increase their profits, so they are lobbying for legislation that will require the technology industry to develop, at its own expense, technology to allow "protect" them. Am I missing anything here?
While I condemn the SSSCA purely for its effective outlawing of open-source software, I also find it quite ridiculous from this angle.
Clearly, the technology industry is not going to achieve increased profits by doing this. They're a smart bunch of folks... if they saw money in it, they would have already done it. I have no idea how strong the computer industry's lobbying platform is, but I wish it all the best on this one.
Writing to Senator Feinstein only resulted in an explanation of why the *DMCA* is a good thing.
This is probably old news, but its just a thought.
What if it were required by law that every company must track WHERE and WHEN they obtained any e-mail address that they send bulk messages to. If you requested to be removed from their list "recursively" the offending company would have to notify its provider. Each company would have to notify any company they bought the address from that you want your information kept PRIVATE. The recursive notification would only go UP the chain. I'd love if it they had to notify everyone they sold it to as well, but this might not be practical. Each provider would send you a message as they removed you from their list. Each company would have to keep your e-mail address on a black list for a period of time you specify (such as "until hell freezes over") and not send you further mesasges until that time elapses.
You would have as evidence the date/time you were removed and would have grounds for damages in the event that someone repurchased your address from a provider or they didn't remove you.
Until then, I'll just continue to give my email address out as myname_companyimgivingitto@mydomain.com
So far, 99% of the spam is coming from myname_usenet@mydomain.com, which is about to be automatically filtered and deleted.
It means I'll now be able to watch a 30 minute program recorded on my Tivo in 21 minutes and 30 seconds instead of 22 minutes.
Asssuming I watch on average 30 minutes of TV a day, this means I could have an extra three hours of time per year. Thats enough time to make another 36 karma-whoring, irrelevant and offtopic posts like this one to Slashdot.
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Thanks!
Is this patch #24834?
/. moments before I signed on to go play Tribes2 on Linux. Is this is a patch for an upcoming version? Mine seems to work fine.
I literally was checking
You can read more about them here: http://www.beowulf.org/
I've got a ViewSonic ViewPanel VA800 (The 17.4" consumer model flat-panel sold at Best Buy, CompUSA, etc), and the top shot looks great while the bottom shot looks terrible.
What I'm really happy with is running Gnome2/GTK+2 with antialiasing and subpixel rendering.
I take it that some people LIKE the fuzziness of the bottom version.
Does DivX as implemented on the X-Box support 5.1 channel surround?
I used to do this as well. Then the networks sued ReplayTV, and I enabled 30 second skip on my TiVo.
Wow.
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http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=termites+gre
That's not easy and it's not a solution.
I have no idea on the specifics of the original problem, but in my experience every user does not complain about a problem. Depending on the system the mailing list is sourced from, adding a "prefers text/html mail option" could be non-trivial or just not possible, so as to require implementing a "parasite" database from scratch to keep track of such preferences, which would be quite difficult.
There are "more than a few nations out there whose number one priority is to exterminate us"? Give me a break. Like who for instance? Iraq? North Korea? China?
Why is China having a problem getting Taiwan back?
Why is North Korea's economy not so hot?
Why does Sadaam Hussein have to resort to terrorism to get what he wants now? (He used to have the 4th largest army in the world.)
What do the answers to these questions all have in common?
If memory serves me correctly, the US attacked Iraq not the other way around.
Aren't you forgetting something?
And no, Osama bin Laden and friends aren't a nation.
It wasn't too long ago that Osama bin Laden and friends were a nation.
I'd much rather see our money spent exploring Mars instead of building weapons too, were it not for the fact that there are more than a few nations out there whose number one priority is to exterminate us. If you think that we are safe simply because the USSR isn't such a threat anymore, I suggest you take a closer look at the history of the world. Were we being invaded right now, I'm sure you would be quite happy to not have to meet your enemy face to face.
"Undoing moderation to Comment #3561138"
I posted ANONYMOUSLY. IMHO, this shouldn't undo moderation, as I could have logged out and posted anonymously with no change in the moderation.
When one uses a Web browser as an application development platform, there are perfectly legitimate uses for loading "unrequested" popups. For instance, say the user clicks a link in an intranet application that says "Edit Record" If the user has authorization to edit the record, it takes him to a screen where he can do just that. If he doesn't, the page refreshes and a notice or login window is opened. Yes, there are ways to get around this, but all of them require an unclean design or changing the way the application works.
If I ever have the time, I'd love to add an IE-like "zones" concept to Mozilla or Galeon, where one can create site profiles and can ban certain sites from taking certain actions (Setting persistent cookies, raising/lowering windows, opening windows and then immediately lowering them, opening windows at all, etc). One may then easily select a profile for a given site with a simple right-click in the document. It could even retroactively close all popup windows if a site were changed to a more restrictive profile.
Your asp is showing.
From http://dicksonsupply.com/index.html:
<%
Dim hst
hst = Request.ServerVariables("HTTP_HOST")
If hst <> "www.dicksonsupply.com" Then
If hst = "www.e-plumbingsupply.com" Then Response.Redirect "sites/plumbing/"
Else If hst = "www.plumbsmart.com" Then Response.Redirect "sites/plumbing/"
Else If hst = "www.irrigationzone.com" Then Reponse.Redirect "sites/irrigation/"
End If
%>
... that dynamism.com stole images from Sony's web site and proceeded to watermark them with their own logo.
Ah yes, another IDE vs SCSI debate. That's my cue to bring up the same point I've made in the last 500 /. IDE vs. SCSI debates, and hope that this time someone actually has an answer.
Heavy use of SCSI drives does not noticably impact system performance. When I say "noticably," I mean those intermittent pauses a computer experiences during disk usage. That is, when you're moving your mouse and the pointer skids across the screen, making it incredibly difficult to get any work done. I absolutely hate this. If anyone knows of an IDE setup that will solve this problem, just THIS problem, I'll dump my ridiculously expensive Seagate X15 in a heartbeat. Until then, its worth it to me to shell out an extra $200/box and deal with smaller capacity drives.
I've learned a few important lessons from having set up networks of white boxes. The little problems you have setting up your home gaming box just aren't acceptable when multiplied by 60...
- Buy good RAM. I've never had a problem with the Crucial stuff before, and have had problems with just about everything else. Bad RAM can cause intermittent failures, disk corruption, and a heck of a lot of wasted time.
- Buy a mainboard from a reputable manufacturer with a solid chipset. Don't buy anything cutting edge, get something that is stable and proven to work. Normally I go with one of the more mainstream Asus boards.
- Buy retail boxed CPUs. In my experience, the brand-x bundled coolers WILL FAIL within a year or two. Even the supposed high-end ones. The boxed CPUs don't cost any more when you factor in the fan cost. The retail boxed CPUs come with a 3 year warranty from AMD.
On my company's Web site we've had success with this technique. The addresses posted on the Web site have not received any significant amount of spam. I have yet to see a single spam message that hits all four of the addresses on our contact page at once, which I believe would be a likely indicator we've been hit by a spambot.
// Anti e-mail address harvester script.
We embed this JavaScript code on each page that needs mailtos:
<script type="text/javascript" language="JavaScript1.3">
function n_mail(n_user) {
self.location = "mailto:" + n_user + "@" + "yourdomain" + "." + "com";
}
</script>
And then make email address links of this form:
<a href="javascript:n_mail('foo');">foo<!-- antispam -->@<!-- antispam -->yourdomain<!-- antispam -->.<!-- antispam -->com<!-- antispam --></a>
Our addresses even show up correctly in lynx, but are "clickable" only in JavaScript-enabled browsers.
Of course, it's probably only a matter of time before spambots can compensate for this code. A more secure approach would be to put email addresses "components" in borderless cells of tables, or as a previous poster suggested, in images.
The "Submachine Gun Course" they are referring to is this one (I think):
http://www.frontsight.com/1day_smg_course.htm
It's done by a company called FrontSight and it's free. The course is about five hours training (most of it on the range), and then a two hour pitch about signing up for more courses. You don't have to stay for the two hour pitch if you don't want to.
I was in Vegas for a bachelor party and attended the course, and I must say it is very well done. The instructors are actually very nice, normal people. What really surprised me about them is that they are extremely courteous and helpful. They won't yell at you when you do something wrong like a lot of ranges. (I assume with the obvious exception of things that are outright dangerous)
The SL-5500 is on display at Fry's Electronics (I saw it in Fountain Valley, CA).
If you buy one there, don't let them make you suffer the Final Indignity.
Apparently Mozilla 0.9.9 isn't good enough to view sharpelectronics.com. They recommend I upgrade to MSIE 4.
I let them know that my decision to purchase an SL-5500 is based solely on them letting me in with whatever browser I want to use. (I had to use Netscape 4.x to get to their feedback page) So far there has been no response.
It's absurd to lock people out of a Web site based on browser-type in the hopes that folks using ancient ("third-generation") Web browsers are actually going to spend 17 hours downloading the latest version on their 14.4 modems.
I don't know of an immediately available solution to your situation, but I am working on an application framework that will allow developers to create products that meet your needs. The framework is called Echo, and it licensed under the GNU LGPL license. It's written entirely in Java, and runs in any Java Servlet container (v2.2 or higher). It enables a developer to create Web-based applications using a component/event-driven methodology and an API similar to Swing.
Echo takes care of all HTML/JavaScript rendering and HTTP request handling for the developer. It currently supports Mozilla or IE 5.x+ browsers (it does not require any plug-ins or client-side Java). Its built-in capabilities are limited to those that a JavaScript-enabled browser can provide, but it is built to be extended, such that it is possible to create components that will embed complex DHTML/JavaScript-based or Applet-based widgets within an application.
Echo is under development, with a stable release targeted in a month or two. The project is hosted at sourceforge.net at http://sourceforge.net/projects/echo, if you want the latest info, feel free to join the mailing list. Tutorials and a white paper are available at http://www.nextapp.com/products/echo
From Diane Feinstein's response to a condemnation of the SSSCA (emphasis added):
America's music, movie, and software industries are second to none, and we export far more intellectual property than we import.
The software industry is second to none? Looks like its third.
The Movie/TV industries want to increase their profits, so they are lobbying for legislation that will require the technology industry to develop, at its own expense, technology to allow "protect" them. Am I missing anything here?
While I condemn the SSSCA purely for its effective outlawing of open-source software, I also find it quite ridiculous from this angle.
Clearly, the technology industry is not going to achieve increased profits by doing this. They're a smart bunch of folks... if they saw money in it, they would have already done it. I have no idea how strong the computer industry's lobbying platform is, but I wish it all the best on this one.
Writing to Senator Feinstein only resulted in an explanation of why the *DMCA* is a good thing.
This is probably old news, but its just a thought.
What if it were required by law that every company must track WHERE and WHEN they obtained any e-mail address that they send bulk messages to. If you requested to be removed from their list "recursively" the offending company would have to notify its provider. Each company would have to notify any company they bought the address from that you want your information kept PRIVATE. The recursive notification would only go UP the chain. I'd love if it they had to notify everyone they sold it to as well, but this might not be practical. Each provider would send you a message as they removed you from their list. Each company would have to keep your e-mail address on a black list for a period of time you specify (such as "until hell freezes over") and not send you further mesasges until that time elapses.
You would have as evidence the date/time you were removed and would have grounds for damages in the event that someone repurchased your address from a provider or they didn't remove you.
Until then, I'll just continue to give my email address out as myname_companyimgivingitto@mydomain.com
So far, 99% of the spam is coming from myname_usenet@mydomain.com, which is about to be automatically filtered and deleted.
It means I'll now be able to watch a 30 minute program recorded on my Tivo in 21 minutes and 30 seconds instead of 22 minutes.
Asssuming I watch on average 30 minutes of TV a day, this means I could have an extra three hours of time per year. Thats enough time to make another 36 karma-whoring, irrelevant and offtopic posts like this one to Slashdot.