I post articles to newsgroups now with the return address spammenot@federal.gov.au
I assume this is sending a reasonable amount of spam at the Australian federal government. The way I see it, the government's laws would require me to pay to download advertising, but this way they are paying LESS than I would, as they buy internet access in bulk, and as they probably don't have to download the entire add - just the intended recipient, and then issue a 'no such user' error message.
I'm not really sure of the legality of this - I remember seeing somewhere that it may be illegal to impersonate someone else - but I'm not exactly impersonating someone else - just Mr spammenot...
Maybe this approach will help the government to see that its people don't appreciate the position it puts most good people in in comparison to what it's doing for the scumbag spammers.
What do people think about this approach - including my legal position. (Note that I'm posting to slashdot with a bastardised verion of MY email address for now).
As far as I can see, only Telstra Bigpond and Optus@Home are offering broadband access for home users. I just rang Telstra today 'cause we have Foxtel in the building & Telstra & Foxtel share the same network. Does anyone know if there are any others out there?
Any chance of a patch from 4.0.3?
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So how about it, or should I start dragging the whole thing from the US (into Sydney) over my 56k beast.
Also, I'd like to add voice to the growing list of complaints about slashdot releasing release announcements before they're officially released from the real releasers. Really, this is unnecessary and as others have pointed out, screws up the icing on the cake for those who deserve it. And that thing about linking to a readme file on the main ftp server - that sux big time. Even I wouldn't have done that.
Anyway, congrats to the xfree86 team. Oh - and has anyone tried this thing with nvidia's drivers?
OK for home users, but if I told everyone at work to do that, they'd be saying 'WTF is he one' for the rest of the day. Businesses MUST be prepared to accept Office documents, otherwise they just don't look professional.
Amigas rocked. My A500 with a 512MB upgrade chip used to whip the butts of the 286s & 386s of the time. So many colours. Such vibrant sound. And... just smooth.
I can see a nice little niche market here. Linux's real-time processing isn't up to scratch yet for stuff like hard disk recording, and I wouldn't mind pissing off my Windows partition if I could find a Cakewalk lookalike for the Amiga. Oh yeah, I'd have to wait for Wine to install Office into a non-windows setup. And then... I'd be set.
My only fear is that there isn't a large enough market to support another OS with Linux and OS-X talking up the Windows-haters. But I would LOVE for it to happen. Where are the apps? (that hurt)
I promised myself that my TNT was the last nvidia card, after less than impressive Linux support followed their pie-in-sky promises. For some stupid reason, I then bought a TNT2. Well, was I ever sorry. It's been responsible for 5/5 of my re-installs. Crashing to the point of fucking my filesystem. Not what Linux is about. I will now pay a $300 premium (Australian) for a Radeon... as soon as I can get the cash together. And this time I mean it. No more nvidia crap.
I was absolutely amazed 6 months ago when I downloaded & compiled wine with no probs, installed Starcraft + Expansion CD and started playing. Since then I've had varying success with Office 97 & 2000. I can't for the life of me install either into a non-windows setup, but parts of Office 97 run OK run a Windows installation. I'm haning out for 3 things...
1) A freaking configuration utility for a non-windows setup.
2) Office to install into above setup.
3) Something other than Starcraft working. To be fair, I've almost gotten half-life to work, and I had IE 5.5 going too. But no 3dmark 2000, or anything else I throw at it. Maybe it's me.
I like the idea of wine though. I don't think it will impact the development of Linux software. ALl those who were going to write for Linux still are. We're just attracting the attention of those who previously wouldn't have had that option. And if the wine libs prove to be more stable (heh) and faster than Windows - which is quite possible - then we'll really have something to make a noise about.
I work for a cost analysis company. We receive some of our data to be analysed by email. And we also need to keep copies of past email for legal purposes (disputes). We can't have Mozilla eating our mail because someone installed a theme it didn't like. Or destroying the whole.mozilla directory when I upgrade to a less buggy version. I just can't put my butt on the line and have Mozilla barf. I can handle having IE installed and blaming Microsoft for the problems. I assume this situation will swing when Mozilla stabalises...
There are a fair more DSL suppliers than 1 in Australia...
Ones I know of:
Optus (@home)
AAPT
Telstra (Bigpond)
RSL Com (I think so anyway)
Ihug (about to roll out, testing at the moment)
There are others who've been sending me brochures, but I can't remember their names - probably re-selling Bigpond ADSL anyway.
What worries me more is the price. All prices I've seen so far have been more expensive than cable. I thought it was the opposite...
Anyway it's too much for me, and I expect I'll be downloading a few more Slackware CDs over my 56K connection yet...
I'm actually using a nightly build - 2001021321. Just about to download.8 - only for purity's sake. But man - I was gonna winge (again) about the (lack of) speed in Mozilla before I got this faster blaster going. Not need. Also Windows version is a lot faster. Nice work Mozilla team! This thing's coming together nicely.
Alright man.
That's just about the funniest thing I've seen all week. Someone should keep a database of these things. Actually, I might start one myself.
Crank on.
I've been doing the same thing, but with avifile's qtvidcap. I've tried various versions of vcr, and they all had problems. I think they crashed. Don't remember, but I put vcr into my "don't download again" basket. I found that I couldn't quite get divx quality in real-time, so I'm capturing in 100MB mjpeg (damn that licence, I must try different formats) chunks and converting to divx once the first 100MB is done. I'd be interested in that tvguide / web interface to recording thing - but only if it works in Australia...
I'll be getting a Radeon soon though, so I suppose I'll be abandoning all this for Gatos.
'Well, it's the open source concept, but one notch better, because the source wouldn't be open'
Yeah baby! You sure know how it works. I see that M$'s investment was well spent.
The only question is: do the idiots outnumber the intelligent???
I'm running the latest release of OpenOffice. It's OK. There doesn't seem to be much difference from StarOffice 5.2. I think some work has been done to break the different apps apart, but the default is to still load the 'soffice' all-encompassing thing. As for why there's not more hype over OpenOffice - from my perspective it's a great project, but not particularly useful for the company I work for. We are _very_ reliant on Visual Basic. Call it evil & impure & fugly, but it's easy. You can expect any programmer to be able to use it. And even non-programmers can delve into it. I don't think any office app will get much interest until it can perform in the office - VB and all. There is just so much legacy VB code in use...
And unfortunately for OpenOffice, Wine is almost able to run M$ Office. I've personally been able to get Word and Excel loading from a Windows installation. I haven't been able to install in a windows-free environment, but I've been following the progress, and, well, there is progress. Check out the wine mailing lists. I can see companies installing Office into Linux, but I just can't see companies installing OpenOffice into Linux. It's just too scary...
It is plainly obvious that this is against the natural and harmonic flow of the universe. It's f'n ridiculous.
ONE cockup now can DESTROY the entire gene pool. Genetic problems don't necessarily arise in the current generation. They can take MANY generations to surface. And what then?
Fucking IDIOTS.
There should be some SERIOUS punishment for individuals engaging in human cloning, and come to think of it... ANY cloning. We are NOT God. Not even close.
Idiots! You'll destroy us ALL!
So.
When will it be ready(TM)
I downloaded E17 from CVS the other night and got a screen with a big E (anything with a big E can't be that bad...) in the top left corner. Minimise & Maximise doesn't work yet, you can't switch desktops, there's no pager, I can't work out how to add entries to the empty menus. So I take it it's not ready.
So.
When?
Please.
Thankyou.
Enlightenment rocks. There's nothing else that comes close to it's visual
splendor or ease of use. I truely feel 'at home' on an Enlightenment
desktop - something I can't say for the more clumsy Gnome & KDE desktops.
And I've seen some posts above about E & Esound being incomplete & buggy.
Guys: grow up & troll elsewhere. E is ROCK SOLID. If it EVER crashes, it
gives you the option of restarting, without loosing ANYTHING you're working
on. Brilliant. And as for Esound - I use it all the time I haven't haven't
noticed any probs / performance issues. I run a 500Mhz Athlon - not exactly
top-of-the-range any more... I think the people whinging about E's speed are
hippies with 486s who expect Playstation 2-like graphics to magically emerge
from their junk-heaps. Ain't gonna happen guys.
So enough whinging about whingers.
Crank on Rasterman! It's good to see someone with such a passion doing so
much for the Linux world (man you make my desktop sweet!).
Great to see some sense coming from the US
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The war on drugs destroys individuals and families. It is also responsible for well over half the drug-related deaths. If the US govt spent 1% of the money they spend hunting down 'evil' dealers on education there would be far fewer ODs etc. And if they actually legalised drugs and enforced some standards, we wouldn't get bullshit rat poison & glass in our recreational drugs - not to mention fools selling $60 headache tablets masquerading as Ecstacy at raves...
Does anyone know if OpenGL will be supported (making Linux ports easier). Alternatively, does anyone know how Wine is handling DirectX these days? The problem I see is that developers will say "OK, we can design from the ground up to work with Win32 / X-Box using DirectX, or we can design from the ground up to work with Win32 / Linux using OpenGL but sacrifice the X-Box market. Please don't kill my OpenGL...
No dude.
Yahoo is trying to prevent offensive material from PUBLIC broadcast. We are trying to prevent offensive material from being PERSONALLY delivered into our email accounts. And lets not forget that receiving SPAM costs you money...
I don't particularly like Saddam Hussein, but I'm curious as to why people think they have the right to restrict someone's (or a nation's) computing power. Isn't that a little against the ethic around here?
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I post articles to newsgroups now with the return address spammenot@federal.gov.au
I assume this is sending a reasonable amount of spam at the Australian federal government. The way I see it, the government's laws would require me to pay to download advertising, but this way they are paying LESS than I would, as they buy internet access in bulk, and as they probably don't have to download the entire add - just the intended recipient, and then issue a 'no such user' error message.
I'm not really sure of the legality of this - I remember seeing somewhere that it may be illegal to impersonate someone else - but I'm not exactly impersonating someone else - just Mr spammenot...
Maybe this approach will help the government to see that its people don't appreciate the position it puts most good people in in comparison to what it's doing for the scumbag spammers.
What do people think about this approach - including my legal position. (Note that I'm posting to slashdot with a bastardised verion of MY email address for now).
Dan
As far as I can see, only Telstra Bigpond and Optus@Home are offering broadband access for home users. I just rang Telstra today 'cause we have Foxtel in the building & Telstra & Foxtel share the same network. Does anyone know if there are any others out there?
So how about it, or should I start dragging the whole thing from the US (into Sydney) over my 56k beast.
Also, I'd like to add voice to the growing list of complaints about slashdot releasing release announcements before they're officially released from the real releasers. Really, this is unnecessary and as others have pointed out, screws up the icing on the cake for those who deserve it. And that thing about linking to a readme file on the main ftp server - that sux big time. Even I wouldn't have done that.
Anyway, congrats to the xfree86 team. Oh - and has anyone tried this thing with nvidia's drivers?
OK for home users, but if I told everyone at work to do that, they'd be saying 'WTF is he one' for the rest of the day. Businesses MUST be prepared to accept Office documents, otherwise they just don't look professional.
Amigas rocked. My A500 with a 512MB upgrade chip used to whip the butts of the 286s & 386s of the time. So many colours. Such vibrant sound. And ... just smooth.
... I'd be set.
I can see a nice little niche market here. Linux's real-time processing isn't up to scratch yet for stuff like hard disk recording, and I wouldn't mind pissing off my Windows partition if I could find a Cakewalk lookalike for the Amiga. Oh yeah, I'd have to wait for Wine to install Office into a non-windows setup. And then
My only fear is that there isn't a large enough market to support another OS with Linux and OS-X talking up the Windows-haters. But I would LOVE for it to happen. Where are the apps? (that hurt)
I promised myself that my TNT was the last nvidia card, after less than impressive Linux support followed their pie-in-sky promises. For some stupid reason, I then bought a TNT2. Well, was I ever sorry. It's been responsible for 5/5 of my re-installs. Crashing to the point of fucking my filesystem. Not what Linux is about. I will now pay a $300 premium (Australian) for a Radeon ... as soon as I can get the cash together. And this time I mean it. No more nvidia crap.
I was absolutely amazed 6 months ago when I downloaded & compiled wine with no probs, installed Starcraft + Expansion CD and started playing. Since then I've had varying success with Office 97 & 2000. I can't for the life of me install either into a non-windows setup, but parts of Office 97 run OK run a Windows installation. I'm haning out for 3 things ...
1) A freaking configuration utility for a non-windows setup.
2) Office to install into above setup.
3) Something other than Starcraft working. To be fair, I've almost gotten half-life to work, and I had IE 5.5 going too. But no 3dmark 2000, or anything else I throw at it. Maybe it's me.
I like the idea of wine though. I don't think it will impact the development of Linux software. ALl those who were going to write for Linux still are. We're just attracting the attention of those who previously wouldn't have had that option. And if the wine libs prove to be more stable (heh) and faster than Windows - which is quite possible - then we'll really have something to make a noise about.
Crank on wine!
I work for a cost analysis company. We receive some of our data to be analysed by email. And we also need to keep copies of past email for legal purposes (disputes). We can't have Mozilla eating our mail because someone installed a theme it didn't like. Or destroying the whole .mozilla directory when I upgrade to a less buggy version. I just can't put my butt on the line and have Mozilla barf. I can handle having IE installed and blaming Microsoft for the problems. I assume this situation will swing when Mozilla stabalises...
There are a fair more DSL suppliers than 1 in Australia...
Ones I know of:
Optus (@home)
AAPT
Telstra (Bigpond)
RSL Com (I think so anyway)
Ihug (about to roll out, testing at the moment)
There are others who've been sending me brochures, but I can't remember their names - probably re-selling Bigpond ADSL anyway.
What worries me more is the price. All prices I've seen so far have been more expensive than cable. I thought it was the opposite...
Anyway it's too much for me, and I expect I'll be downloading a few more Slackware CDs over my 56K connection yet...
I'm actually using a nightly build - 2001021321. Just about to download .8 - only for purity's sake. But man - I was gonna winge (again) about the (lack of) speed in Mozilla before I got this faster blaster going. Not need. Also Windows version is a lot faster. Nice work Mozilla team! This thing's coming together nicely.
Alright man.
That's just about the funniest thing I've seen all week. Someone should keep a database of these things. Actually, I might start one myself.
Crank on.
Yes you can record from multiple sources at once. You'd probably need scsi drives.
I've been doing the same thing, but with avifile's qtvidcap. I've tried various versions of vcr, and they all had problems. I think they crashed. Don't remember, but I put vcr into my "don't download again" basket. I found that I couldn't quite get divx quality in real-time, so I'm capturing in 100MB mjpeg (damn that licence, I must try different formats) chunks and converting to divx once the first 100MB is done. I'd be interested in that tvguide / web interface to recording thing - but only if it works in Australia...
I'll be getting a Radeon soon though, so I suppose I'll be abandoning all this for Gatos.
'Well, it's the open source concept, but one notch better, because the source wouldn't be open'
Yeah baby! You sure know how it works. I see that M$'s investment was well spent.
The only question is: do the idiots outnumber the intelligent???
Dan
I'm running the latest release of OpenOffice. It's OK. There doesn't seem to be much difference from StarOffice 5.2. I think some work has been done to break the different apps apart, but the default is to still load the 'soffice' all-encompassing thing. As for why there's not more hype over OpenOffice - from my perspective it's a great project, but not particularly useful for the company I work for. We are _very_ reliant on Visual Basic. Call it evil & impure & fugly, but it's easy. You can expect any programmer to be able to use it. And even non-programmers can delve into it. I don't think any office app will get much interest until it can perform in the office - VB and all. There is just so much legacy VB code in use...
And unfortunately for OpenOffice, Wine is almost able to run M$ Office. I've personally been able to get Word and Excel loading from a Windows installation. I haven't been able to install in a windows-free environment, but I've been following the progress, and, well, there is progress. Check out the wine mailing lists. I can see companies installing Office into Linux, but I just can't see companies installing OpenOffice into Linux. It's just too scary...
Dan
It is plainly obvious that this is against the natural and harmonic flow of the universe. It's f'n ridiculous. ... ANY cloning. We are NOT God. Not even close.
ONE cockup now can DESTROY the entire gene pool. Genetic problems don't necessarily arise in the current generation. They can take MANY generations to surface. And what then?
Fucking IDIOTS.
There should be some SERIOUS punishment for individuals engaging in human cloning, and come to think of it
Idiots! You'll destroy us ALL!
So.
When will it be ready(TM)
I downloaded E17 from CVS the other night and got a screen with a big E (anything with a big E can't be that bad...) in the top left corner. Minimise & Maximise doesn't work yet, you can't switch desktops, there's no pager, I can't work out how to add entries to the empty menus. So I take it it's not ready.
So.
When?
Please.
Thankyou.
Dan
PS Keep up the great work Rasterman!
fuk'n whinge, whinge.
How long did it take YOU to code YOUR window manager? No wonder you posted as a COWARD!
Enlightenment rocks. There's nothing else that comes close to it's visual
splendor or ease of use. I truely feel 'at home' on an Enlightenment
desktop - something I can't say for the more clumsy Gnome & KDE desktops.
And I've seen some posts above about E & Esound being incomplete & buggy.
Guys: grow up & troll elsewhere. E is ROCK SOLID. If it EVER crashes, it
gives you the option of restarting, without loosing ANYTHING you're working
on. Brilliant. And as for Esound - I use it all the time I haven't haven't
noticed any probs / performance issues. I run a 500Mhz Athlon - not exactly
top-of-the-range any more... I think the people whinging about E's speed are
hippies with 486s who expect Playstation 2-like graphics to magically emerge
from their junk-heaps. Ain't gonna happen guys.
So enough whinging about whingers.
Crank on Rasterman! It's good to see someone with such a passion doing so
much for the Linux world (man you make my desktop sweet!).
The war on drugs destroys individuals and families. It is also responsible for well over half the drug-related deaths. If the US govt spent 1% of the money they spend hunting down 'evil' dealers on education there would be far fewer ODs etc. And if they actually legalised drugs and enforced some standards, we wouldn't get bullshit rat poison & glass in our recreational drugs - not to mention fools selling $60 headache tablets masquerading as Ecstacy at raves...
Does anyone know if OpenGL will be supported (making Linux ports easier). Alternatively, does anyone know how Wine is handling DirectX these days? The problem I see is that developers will say "OK, we can design from the ground up to work with Win32 / X-Box using DirectX, or we can design from the ground up to work with Win32 / Linux using OpenGL but sacrifice the X-Box market. Please don't kill my OpenGL...
No dude.
Yahoo is trying to prevent offensive material from PUBLIC broadcast. We are trying to prevent offensive material from being PERSONALLY delivered into our email accounts. And lets not forget that receiving SPAM costs you money...
I don't particularly like Saddam Hussein, but I'm curious as to why people think they have the right to restrict someone's (or a nation's) computing power. Isn't that a little against the ethic around here?
Yeah, that's what I heard somewhere else too. Does this only happen when you actually USE the other 2 slots, or all the time?
Oh God yes! Someone do this and I'll pay up for it. Good thinking man!