Oh look, they arbitrarily changed their arbitrary restriction. Good for them. Except, they didn't really:
It's built on Safari's WebKit engine--as are all other App Store browsers per Apple's denial of competing rendering engines (for now)
So, are email programs allowed yet, or anything that can do copy and paste? Apple are still control freaks and your snarky subject line is offensive and childish.
She just doesn't get, yet, that the internet has two kinds of free and that the more something shouts it is free the less likely it is. How do you explain that firefox is free and safe but cursormania is free and not safe?
For one thing, how would those alleged antibodies be transported? Teleportation aside, it would require some substance that passes from the mother to the baby on a regular basis to act as a carrier.
Yes, but unfortunately, the effectivity of this type of carrier transport is limited, because it can only take place if the mother in question isn't on Facebook.
it seems that in order to benefit from having proper font rendering (at least in terms of smoothing), one has to concentrate on using apps from the KDE or GNOME families, correct me if I'm wrong.
More accurately, you want an app that supports (or uses a GUI toolkit that supports) Xft. And there are few that don't, nowadays.
The code creates a bash shell function called ':'. This function, when executed, invokes two copies of itself in the background. The final ':' invokes the function which has been so defined. The result is an exponentially growing number of processes, all cloning themselves as quickly as possible. In other words, a "fork bomb."
Yep, it manages to lock up my Linux box solid in no time flat. Interestingly, if I try it on my Mac laptop, I just get the error message "-bash: fork: Resource temporarily unavailable" repeated 1218 times. Didn't know that Mac OS X had DoS attack protection that Linux lacks.
If the organization or group you are in is being lead in a direction you are opposed to and you have no say in that course, then you should leave. To stay is to explicitly condone the actions of the leadership.
Um, no, it isn't. Perhaps it's implicitly condoning it, although even that is open for debate. But explicitly, definitely not. Use a dictionary.
As a 10 year veteran of Slack, I really like that Patrick is still doing the work, but I don't even have to go to the page to know that PAM still isn't supported, and that there's not a package manager that can compete with yum/apt-get/ports.
I am thankful I use Slackware every time I want to add something of my own to the system and I can do it without having to fight with dependencies and other stupid nonsense (like countless tiny -dev packages) to get it to compile and into the package system.
Windows and Mac OS X both do fine without that kind of ultra-fine-grained automatic dependency resolution. It's a bad idea and just makes life needlessly complicated.
Last year I switched to Ubuntu on the desktop and CentOS on the server. I look back at Slackware with a lot of fond memories, but managing even a medium sized installation of Slack machines was just too time consuming to continue.
Automated package downloading and upgrading does exist in Slackware, you know. Why would something like slackpkg (in/extra) not make this as easy as with any other distro?
Pat doesn't like PAM, which is why it isn't in Slackware.
What doesn't he like about it?
From the Slackware 9.1 ChangeLog as quoted in the alt.os.linux.slackware FAQ:
If you see a security problem reported which depends on PAM, you can be glad you run Slackware. I think a better name for PAM might be SCAM, for Swiss Cheese Authentication Modules, and have never felt that the small amount of convenience it provides is worth the great loss of system security. We miss out on half a dozen security problems a year by not using PAM, but you can always install it yourself if you feel that you're missing out on the fun. (No, don't do that)
I don't know if this criticism is still valid or not, since this is old, but it's still true that nothing stops you from installing it yourself.
If your boss send you and a dozen other employees an email informing you of a meeting you need to, is he spamming? of course not.
A dozen would probably fail the "bulk" criterion. The fact of being your boss's employee makes it fail the "unsolicited" criterion.
If HR send out an email to 10,000 employees informing them of a policy change, is that spam? no.
That is bulk, but fails the "unsolicited" criterion for the same reason. (However, one employee deciding to mail the other 9,999 would definitely be both unsolicited and bulk.)
Sending an email in the context of the university, about the university, from someone on the student body of that university is not in and of itself spam.
No, for it to be spam it must be bulk and unsolicited. The mail discussed in TFA was both.
My computer isn't infected, but let's suppose it is. I know for a FACT that it's not spewing spam because I don't have an email account setup on this machine. So no account; no spamming; no problem.
I hereby nominate parent for "most moronic Slashdot comment of the year".
Maximise adjusts the window to allow the contents to fit. I hate that too.
OS X has no maximize. It's called zoom, for the reason you indicate.
I, for one, am glad I don't end up with mostly-empty windows clobbering all of my screen real estate just because I want to see all the contents of a window. That's one of the things I find the most annoying about the Windows interface.
Something is stopping people from using an old copy of Word '97, and what's stopping them is what I stated in the g'g'grandparent post: they won't be able to read files that other people send them, written by newer versions of word.
Sorry, brainfart on my part, somehow I thought you were talking about reading files created by old versions of Word, rather than new ones.
Anyway, that doesn't stop them from using an old copy of Word '97 to create their own documents: it just stops them from reading other people's files in it. You'd have the same problem if you used Emacs or LaTeX or (to some extent) even OpenOffic.org.
But note that the converters won't work with word '97, which was the case that the g'grandparent poster proposed.
Surely they work with Word Viewer 2003 though. (Not sure why MS hasn't simply released a Word Viewer 2007. Can't make it too easy on people, I guess.)
MS makes sure that compatibility is great in the (b) direction, and lousy in the (a) direction. I guarantee you that word '97 will not be able to read all files written by word 2007.
That doesn't matter, because nothing is stopping you from using your old copy of Word '97 today. It's impossible to use an old version of Google Apps.
Both OpenOffice and Google Apps are free, so the choice is purely down to which is better.
Ummm... no. One is free of charge only, the other is both free of charge and free as in freedom. One stores your data on computers you have no control over and leaves you at the whim of unexpected feature changes by a publically-traded company whose customers are their advertisers and whose product is your eyeballs; the other leaves you firmly in control over your own data and your own software. These are serious considerations.
The spammer technique demonstrated in the parent post is called "listwashing": get the complainers off their spam lists so they can continue to spam everyone else.
Also note that her mention of a "no email list" is an implicit admission that they send unsolicited bulk email (i.e. spam): if they only sent email to subscribers, they would not need any kind of suppression list.
So, if parent post is legitimately from O'Reilly (which is not certain), then it's a double confirmation that they are spammers.
I firmly believe that Barack Obama is going to bring the change we need to alter the way the world see us. We need to earn back a little of our reputation that the eight previous years have lost us.
We hate to burst your bubble, but the reputation of the USA has been steadily going down the tubes starting with the war in Vietnam. George W. Bush was merely the final product of a climate that grew since about that time. Bill Clinton was no peacemaker either, and don't forget that Billary cheerfully threatened to totally obliterate Iran if she were to become president.
We have seen nothing to convince us, so far, that Barack Obama is anything more than a smooth-talking exponent of the same war- and fearmongering system, and that he won't do what he is told by the corporate fascist establishment like every good puppet before him. Before Bush; the USA's reputation in the world was gravely damaged; after Bush; it's simply destroyed. It's going to take more than electing a biracial candiate to start rebuilding it from scratch. It will take a generation or two at least, if it's going to happen at all.
Not only was the Hurd in development, it had been in development for 8 years. 25 years all total at this point.
As others have pointed out, Stallman sucks as a programmer and designer.
I guess GCC and the GNU core utilities and Emacs don't count, then? Also, to the best of my knowledge, Stallman is not a Hurd developer. Can't you find some better cheap shot?
He had a vision and gave us the GPL but that's about it.
He's been consistently right about developments concerning DRM and digital rights in general, and way ahead of his time.
Other than that he has the personality traits of the most annoying people out there in the various communities (de Raadt, Reiser, etc).
Yeah? I thought he was usually polite. Show me one obscenity-laden flame from Stallman and I might change that opinion. People hate him because they don't like his opinions, and they hate him more because his predictions turn out to be correct time after time.
MSI's install of linux is a piece of garbage. They barely made it run and it's junk. now they are bitching that their half assed work causes returns?
How come the ASUS eee flys off shelves where it's available and people that own them that are not techies love them in their linux install?
Oh wait, ASUS did not half ass the linux install. Ahhhh.
I thought ASUS users just replaced their Linux with Windows in most cases. I have not seen MSI's Linux installation, but the ASUS version of Xandros on my daughter's Eee PC 4G is an unusable piece of crap. The most basic things don't work properly. A few of the snags I've run into:
it forgets about the wireless network after every restart so it has to be reconfigured every time;
many dialog windows in programs such as Firefox don't fit on the screen so that you can't even click on OK or Cancel to get rid of them because the buttons are hidden (you have to alt-drag and then resize the window but that's too much to ask for the average user, never mind a newbie);
Flash is crashy as hell (so much for my daughter's Flash games);
the "anti-virus" included plainly doesn't work, it can't even update itself (not that it would be any use anyway);
Skype crashes at least once in every conversation;
the Software Update control panel doesn't seem to do anything;
the "Messenger" doesn't open any window when you click on it but just keeps adding more useless icons to the system tray instead;
etc.
Never seen such a mess before. If I were not an experienced Linux user myself, I'd have returned it. If MSI's is even worse than that, then wow... just wow.
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Oh look, they arbitrarily changed their arbitrary restriction. Good for them. Except, they didn't really:
So, are email programs allowed yet, or anything that can do copy and paste? Apple are still control freaks and your snarky subject line is offensive and childish.
By not allowing anything that competes with Apple's own software. That means: no better web browser, no better email program, no better calendar, etc.
I think I would try that by explaining the difference between free as in freedom and free as in "we will sell your soul to our advertisers".
You could have fooled me...
Yes, but unfortunately, the effectivity of this type of carrier transport is limited, because it can only take place if the mother in question isn't on Facebook.
it seems that in order to benefit from having proper font rendering (at least in terms of smoothing), one has to concentrate on using apps from the KDE or GNOME families, correct me if I'm wrong.
More accurately, you want an app that supports (or uses a GUI toolkit that supports) Xft. And there are few that don't, nowadays.
Went 404 as of two minutes ago.
Which versions? Is there a tutorial on that?
Here you go.
The code creates a bash shell function called ':'. This function, when executed, invokes two copies of itself in the background. The final ':' invokes the function which has been so defined. The result is an exponentially growing number of processes, all cloning themselves as quickly as possible. In other words, a "fork bomb."
Yep, it manages to lock up my Linux box solid in no time flat. Interestingly, if I try it on my Mac laptop, I just get the error message "-bash: fork: Resource temporarily unavailable" repeated 1218 times. Didn't know that Mac OS X had DoS attack protection that Linux lacks.
If the organization or group you are in is being lead in a direction you are opposed to and you have no say in that course, then you should leave. To stay is to explicitly condone the actions of the leadership.
Um, no, it isn't. Perhaps it's implicitly condoning it, although even that is open for debate. But explicitly, definitely not. Use a dictionary.
I am thankful I use Slackware every time I want to add something of my own to the system and I can do it without having to fight with dependencies and other stupid nonsense (like countless tiny -dev packages) to get it to compile and into the package system.
Windows and Mac OS X both do fine without that kind of ultra-fine-grained automatic dependency resolution. It's a bad idea and just makes life needlessly complicated.
Automated package downloading and upgrading does exist in Slackware, you know. Why would something like slackpkg (in /extra) not make this as easy as with any other distro?
From the Slackware 9.1 ChangeLog as quoted in the alt.os.linux.slackware FAQ:
I don't know if this criticism is still valid or not, since this is old, but it's still true that nothing stops you from installing it yourself.
Yes, it is.
A dozen would probably fail the "bulk" criterion. The fact of being your boss's employee makes it fail the "unsolicited" criterion.
That is bulk, but fails the "unsolicited" criterion for the same reason. (However, one employee deciding to mail the other 9,999 would definitely be both unsolicited and bulk.)
No, for it to be spam it must be bulk and unsolicited. The mail discussed in TFA was both.
I hereby nominate parent for "most moronic Slashdot comment of the year".
Um, no, you didn't. :-)
OS X has no maximize. It's called zoom, for the reason you indicate.
I, for one, am glad I don't end up with mostly-empty windows clobbering all of my screen real estate just because I want to see all the contents of a window. That's one of the things I find the most annoying about the Windows interface.
Actually, iCab and Opera are still supporting 10.3.9.
Sorry, brainfart on my part, somehow I thought you were talking about reading files created by old versions of Word, rather than new ones.
Anyway, that doesn't stop them from using an old copy of Word '97 to create their own documents: it just stops them from reading other people's files in it. You'd have the same problem if you used Emacs or LaTeX or (to some extent) even OpenOffic.org.
Surely they work with Word Viewer 2003 though. (Not sure why MS hasn't simply released a Word Viewer 2007. Can't make it too easy on people, I guess.)
That doesn't matter, because nothing is stopping you from using your old copy of Word '97 today. It's impossible to use an old version of Google Apps.
Besides, Microsoft did make some backwards-compatibility converters available.
Ummm... no. One is free of charge only, the other is both free of charge and free as in freedom. One stores your data on computers you have no control over and leaves you at the whim of unexpected feature changes by a publically-traded company whose customers are their advertisers and whose product is your eyeballs; the other leaves you firmly in control over your own data and your own software. These are serious considerations.
The spammer technique demonstrated in the parent post is called "listwashing": get the complainers off their spam lists so they can continue to spam everyone else.
Also note that her mention of a "no email list" is an implicit admission that they send unsolicited bulk email (i.e. spam): if they only sent email to subscribers, they would not need any kind of suppression list.
So, if parent post is legitimately from O'Reilly (which is not certain), then it's a double confirmation that they are spammers.
We hate to burst your bubble, but the reputation of the USA has been steadily going down the tubes starting with the war in Vietnam. George W. Bush was merely the final product of a climate that grew since about that time. Bill Clinton was no peacemaker either, and don't forget that Billary cheerfully threatened to totally obliterate Iran if she were to become president.
We have seen nothing to convince us, so far, that Barack Obama is anything more than a smooth-talking exponent of the same war- and fearmongering system, and that he won't do what he is told by the corporate fascist establishment like every good puppet before him. Before Bush; the USA's reputation in the world was gravely damaged; after Bush; it's simply destroyed. It's going to take more than electing a biracial candiate to start rebuilding it from scratch. It will take a generation or two at least, if it's going to happen at all.
Sincerely,
The rest of the world
You're not the only one...
I guess GCC and the GNU core utilities and Emacs don't count, then? Also, to the best of my knowledge, Stallman is not a Hurd developer. Can't you find some better cheap shot?
He's been consistently right about developments concerning DRM and digital rights in general, and way ahead of his time.
Yeah? I thought he was usually polite. Show me one obscenity-laden flame from Stallman and I might change that opinion. People hate him because they don't like his opinions, and they hate him more because his predictions turn out to be correct time after time.
I thought ASUS users just replaced their Linux with Windows in most cases. I have not seen MSI's Linux installation, but the ASUS version of Xandros on my daughter's Eee PC 4G is an unusable piece of crap. The most basic things don't work properly. A few of the snags I've run into:
Never seen such a mess before. If I were not an experienced Linux user myself, I'd have returned it. If MSI's is even worse than that, then wow... just wow.