prevent the downloading and execution of such ads in the first place and save my battery life
Knowing nothing about the Iphone (never seen one in real life that I'm aware of) could you simply browse through a proxy set up on another machine where you're running Privoxy? Firefox, for example, has a very simple proxy setup that you can use to push all of your data through a proxy somewhere else via ssh tunneling -- perhaps something like that would work for you.
I have done my best to stick with Intel video chipsets, because they "just work" with Linux. However, a year or so back I purchased a widescreen monitor for my main computer (this one) and discovered a very slight crawl in the display. I suspect it's some kind of electrical interference. To solve the problem I purchased an ATI X1660 card with DVI output and installed that and the crawl went away. However, the stock ATI driver that comes with Fedora 8 and 9 wouldn't, for whatever reason, work with my monitor -- it refused to switch to a high enough resolution. So I very reluctantly installed the proprietary ATI driver and that just worked. It automatically set itself up to work with my monitor and all was well.
However, I recently upgraded this machine to Fedora 10 and lo and behold, the open source driver now works with my monitor, so I no longer require the proprietary driver. Which suits me just fine, indeed.
I used to recommend Intel video only when anyone asked for my opinion, but now I'm quite comfortable recommending either Intel or ATI. They seem to be more-or-less equivalent in the open source (hassle-free) driver arena now.
It's still being worked on, apparently. http://nouveau.freedesktop.org/wiki/ The last update was on November 16, so it's not being worked on really fast....
Eh? Intel has had fully open-source drivers available for quite some time now. ATI is currently playing catch-up in that regard. (And Nvidia isn't playing at all.)
Back in the dim mists of time, when fax machines were the latest thing, I wrote a DOS program that created fax cover sheets and kept a little address book of fax numbers. I initially wrote it because the office where I worked had just got a fax machine. I then gave it away on BBS's with a little "Send me $20 if you decide to use this regularly" message that came up once, when you did the initial program setup (enter your company name, fax number, etc).
That little program was included in a lot of "shareware software" disk sets, and it ultimately went through many revisions and foreign language translations and a surprising number of companies (mostly law offices and machine tool factories -- don't ask me why) paid me $20 for that program.
So shareware worked. For me, anyway. And it wasn't even that much of a program...
"where else are you going to go for phone service?"
Your friendly local cable company, most of whom now offer landline telephone service. Or, depending on your needs, maybe even a cell phone provider, or a voip outfit.
Several years ago, our electric bill jumped suddenly. Our deadbeat tweaker roommate decided to run the AC 24/7 "Like they do in Hawaii." The (municipal) power department computers automatically detected the change in usage, flagged it, stopped our bill from being issued, and sent it to CS to contact us and find out if there was a physical problem. (Then something got dropped so they didn't contact us, and didn't send a bill... four months later they came knocking on our door, all apologies.)
I got it the other way around.
I had a new high-efficiency boiler installed in my building and shortly after that I got a phone call from the natural gas company.
"Our computer has determined that your consumption pattern has changed." The woman who phoned was a "collector", I suppose -- one of the in-your-face tough approach people. She was all set to fine me for meter tampering. I told her that I had just changed the boiler and that seemed to be the end of it but a month or so later a couple of service people came by and replaced the gas meter on my building.
And yes, a high-efficiency boiler is well worth it. My heat bill is literally half of what it used to be, now.
I got an Acer Aspire One a month back. The hardware that I wanted (on sale at Staples) came with pre-installed XP. I booted it up that way once to make sure that the machine worked, then deleted XP and installed Fedora 10 on it. But I suppose my purchase counted as a sale of XP and part of the price I paid for the laptop went to Microsoft, even though I haven't used any Microsoft operating systems since Windows 98 was brand new. (Tried it for a month, didn't like it, and switched to Red Hat Linux. Never looked back.)
I keep my ebook collection as (mostly) either html or txt files, all run though bzip2 to save the space. So I have, lets say, MobyDick.htm.bz2 and LostCity.txt.bz2.
I used to convert them as needed to pdf files by loading the text or html into OpenOffice (or in the case of html loading it into Firefox and then cut-and-paste into OpenOffice) and then use either OO's built-in "export to PDF" function or the cups-pdf driver to create a PDF file that I could read with Acrobat Reader. (You get to choose your margins, page size, font and text size by doing it this way, so I could make the PDF file into something that's comfortable for me to read.)
However, I recently purchased an Acer Aspire One and have found an even better solution. http://www.fbreader.org/
FBReader will read txt and html files directly from my bz2 files, and it allows you to set the margins, font and size just as you wish too. I now use the wireless networking on the Acer to run FBReader remotely from anywhere around my home and office, with a "ssh desktopcomputer FBReader" command to run FBReader on my desktop computer and view it on my Acer. This way FBReader on my desktop computer continues to have all of my books up-to-date (meaning that it remembers where I left off in each one) and I can still sit back in my easy chair with my Acer and read books. If I want to take it into the big world outside, I can also keep a copy of my books locally on the Acer and run FBReader locally there.
FBReader works much better on the Acer Aspire One than simply reading PDF's due to the Aspire One's small screen size.
Since you've gone that far, why not use the "side door" as the main door and get rid of ssh password access completely?
I use static IP addresses listed in/etc/hosts.allow and have "ALL: ALL" in/etc/hosts.deny. That, plus key-only ssh access (no passwords allowed) seems to work rather well.
The first people to figure out how to print into the screen border on a Commodore 64 were the crackers who used that technique in their impressive "Cracked by" demos. In fact, I'm not sure if any commercial games actually used that technique. One of the disk copy programs used the effect in their menu and while the disk was actually being copied (the program that could copy between two 1541 drives without needing the computer).
In many cases, the initial "Cracked by" screens on a lot of C64 software had better graphics and music than the actual games they were attached to.
It will probably be a long while before consumers are prepared to accept a player that has to have a net connection to work.
I don't think so.
Bell Expressvu, a satellite dish televison service, requires that their decoder boxes be plugged into a telephone line for reasons unknown to me.
I doubt anyone who wants the service has balked at that. "Input from dish plugs in here, video output to tv plugs in here, telephone cable plugs in here." Very few people would question that procedure or think about its implications.
Too bad he didn't ask, "How many people have data stored in old word processor formats that they cannot access?". He wouldn't see any hands go up.
Except mine. I have a few 8" CP/M-formatted floppy disks that contain data from years back in a box that's about 20 feet away from where I'm sitting right now. Granted, I don't need the information that's on them but if I did I would be out of luck.
In a box beside that one, I also have some old accounting data from a CP/M program that I used to run on my Commodore 128. It's on Comoodore 1571-formatted double-sided 5.25" disks. What are my chances of finding a working 1571 drive and a Commodore 128 with a CP/M boot disk, plus the accounting program (which is called TAS-The Accounting Solution) and being able to retrieve the data that's there.
Again, I don't really need that data and could throw those disks out without really losing anything of value to me. But what if I really did need that data?
A Linux x86_64 (64-bit) version of OpenOffice 3 is available from the openoffice.org website.
Prior versions were available for download only in Linux/i386 versions. If you wanted a native 64-bit version you would either have to compile it yourself (which is supposed to be a real undertaking, though I've never tried it myself) or simply use the one that your distribution provides.
The filename for the 64-bit Linux version is OOo_3.0.0_LinuxX86-64_install_en-US.tar.gz
Slashdot Mirror
Direct download links:
32-bit
http://download.microsoft.com/download/6/3/3/633118BD-6C3D-45A4-B985-F0FDFFE1B021/EN/7000.0.081212-1400_client_en-us_Ultimate-GB1CULFRE_EN_DVD.ISO
64-bit
http://download.microsoft.com/download/6/3/3/633118BD-6C3D-45A4-B985-F0FDFFE1B021/EN/7000.0.081212-1400_client_en-us_Ultimate-GB1CULXFRE_EN_DVD.ISO
That can be fixed:
http://wiki.scribus.net/index.php/Web_optimised_PDF
I run this script on pdf files that I'm posting for download, emailing or archiving.
prevent the downloading and execution of such ads in the first place and save my battery life
Knowing nothing about the Iphone (never seen one in real life that I'm aware of) could you simply browse through a proxy set up on another machine where you're running Privoxy? Firefox, for example, has a very simple proxy setup that you can use to push all of your data through a proxy somewhere else via ssh tunneling -- perhaps something like that would work for you.
Anyone care to guess why Google's CHROME has no ability to use plugins/add-ons? (And, I'd actually use Chrome if I could BLOCK THE DAMN ADS!!!
Just install Privoxy. There are Windows and Mac versions available, as well as Linux.
Think about that. I don't watch movie previews on the DVD or even in the theater. I walk in 8 minutes late.
How did you know what was playing in that theatre at that particular time, and what made you decide that you wanted to watch it?
After AdBlock, I think the next logical step would be Privoxy. It probably takes a bit of time to setup and configure,
Privoxy is actually pretty painless to set up using the instructions posted here: http://www.melvilletheatre.com/articles/squid-privoxy/index.html
If you aren't using Privoxy then you don't know what you're missing. I recommend it highly to everyone.
http://www.gutenberg.org/etext/1232
I have done my best to stick with Intel video chipsets, because they "just work" with Linux. However, a year or so back I purchased a widescreen monitor for my main computer (this one) and discovered a very slight crawl in the display. I suspect it's some kind of electrical interference. To solve the problem I purchased an ATI X1660 card with DVI output and installed that and the crawl went away. However, the stock ATI driver that comes with Fedora 8 and 9 wouldn't, for whatever reason, work with my monitor -- it refused to switch to a high enough resolution. So I very reluctantly installed the proprietary ATI driver and that just worked. It automatically set itself up to work with my monitor and all was well.
However, I recently upgraded this machine to Fedora 10 and lo and behold, the open source driver now works with my monitor, so I no longer require the proprietary driver. Which suits me just fine, indeed.
I used to recommend Intel video only when anyone asked for my opinion, but now I'm quite comfortable recommending either Intel or ATI. They seem to be more-or-less equivalent in the open source (hassle-free) driver arena now.
whatever happened to noveau anyway?
It's still being worked on, apparently. http://nouveau.freedesktop.org/wiki/ The last update was on November 16, so it's not being worked on really fast....
Eh? Intel has had fully open-source drivers available for quite some time now. ATI is currently playing catch-up in that regard. (And Nvidia isn't playing at all.)
Back in the dim mists of time, when fax machines were the latest thing, I wrote a DOS program that created fax cover sheets and kept a little address book of fax numbers. I initially wrote it because the office where I worked had just got a fax machine. I then gave it away on BBS's with a little "Send me $20 if you decide to use this regularly" message that came up once, when you did the initial program setup (enter your company name, fax number, etc).
That little program was included in a lot of "shareware software" disk sets, and it ultimately went through many revisions and foreign language translations and a surprising number of companies (mostly law offices and machine tool factories -- don't ask me why) paid me $20 for that program.
So shareware worked. For me, anyway. And it wasn't even that much of a program...
"where else are you going to go for phone service?"
Your friendly local cable company, most of whom now offer landline telephone service. Or, depending on your needs, maybe even a cell phone provider, or a voip outfit.
Several years ago, our electric bill jumped suddenly. Our deadbeat tweaker roommate decided to run the AC 24/7 "Like they do in Hawaii." The (municipal) power department computers automatically detected the change in usage, flagged it, stopped our bill from being issued, and sent it to CS to contact us and find out if there was a physical problem. (Then something got dropped so they didn't contact us, and didn't send a bill... four months later they came knocking on our door, all apologies.)
I got it the other way around.
I had a new high-efficiency boiler installed in my building and shortly after that I got a phone call from the natural gas company.
"Our computer has determined that your consumption pattern has changed." The woman who phoned was a "collector", I suppose -- one of the in-your-face tough approach people. She was all set to fine me for meter tampering. I told her that I had just changed the boiler and that seemed to be the end of it but a month or so later a couple of service people came by and replaced the gas meter on my building.
And yes, a high-efficiency boiler is well worth it. My heat bill is literally half of what it used to be, now.
I got an Acer Aspire One a month back. The hardware that I wanted (on sale at Staples) came with pre-installed XP. I booted it up that way once to make sure that the machine worked, then deleted XP and installed Fedora 10 on it. But I suppose my purchase counted as a sale of XP and part of the price I paid for the laptop went to Microsoft, even though I haven't used any Microsoft operating systems since Windows 98 was brand new. (Tried it for a month, didn't like it, and switched to Red Hat Linux. Never looked back.)
"We are suspending you over disgorge. Pray we do not lose our grip."
Have you considered a NFS or HTTP install instead of trying to pull it from a CD?
Even more unfortunate for us Linux users.. You need Wine to make use of clit.
-1 completely wrong.
Where did you get that idea? You just compile it from the source for whatever you want.
file clit
clit: ELF 64-bit LSB executable, x86-64, version 1 (SYSV), dynamically linked (uses shared libs), for GNU/Linux 2.6.9, not stripped
I keep my ebook collection as (mostly) either html or txt files, all run though bzip2 to save the space. So I have, lets say, MobyDick.htm.bz2 and LostCity.txt.bz2.
I used to convert them as needed to pdf files by loading the text or html into OpenOffice (or in the case of html loading it into Firefox and then cut-and-paste into OpenOffice) and then use either OO's built-in "export to PDF" function or the cups-pdf driver to create a PDF file that I could read with Acrobat Reader. (You get to choose your margins, page size, font and text size by doing it this way, so I could make the PDF file into something that's comfortable for me to read.)
However, I recently purchased an Acer Aspire One and have found an even better solution. http://www.fbreader.org/
FBReader will read txt and html files directly from my bz2 files, and it allows you to set the margins, font and size just as you wish too. I now use the wireless networking on the Acer to run FBReader remotely from anywhere around my home and office, with a "ssh desktopcomputer FBReader" command to run FBReader on my desktop computer and view it on my Acer. This way FBReader on my desktop computer continues to have all of my books up-to-date (meaning that it remembers where I left off in each one) and I can still sit back in my easy chair with my Acer and read books. If I want to take it into the big world outside, I can also keep a copy of my books locally on the Acer and run FBReader locally there.
FBReader works much better on the Acer Aspire One than simply reading PDF's due to the Aspire One's small screen size.
devices that support IPv6 but don't have IPv6 connectivity may mistakenly try to do IPv6 first and time out. This was a problem with Mac OS X briefly,
And is (apparently) currently an issue with Fedora 10.
Since you've gone that far, why not use the "side door" as the main door and get rid of ssh password access completely?
/etc/hosts.allow and have "ALL: ALL" in /etc/hosts.deny. That, plus key-only ssh access (no passwords allowed) seems to work rather well.
I use static IP addresses listed in
The first people to figure out how to print into the screen border on a Commodore 64 were the crackers who used that technique in their impressive "Cracked by" demos. In fact, I'm not sure if any commercial games actually used that technique. One of the disk copy programs used the effect in their menu and while the disk was actually being copied (the program that could copy between two 1541 drives without needing the computer).
In many cases, the initial "Cracked by" screens on a lot of C64 software had better graphics and music than the actual games they were attached to.
It will probably be a long while before consumers are prepared to accept a player that has to have a net connection to work.
I don't think so.
Bell Expressvu, a satellite dish televison service, requires that their decoder boxes be plugged into a telephone line for reasons unknown to me.
I doubt anyone who wants the service has balked at that. "Input from dish plugs in here, video output to tv plugs in here, telephone cable plugs in here." Very few people would question that procedure or think about its implications.
Too bad he didn't ask, "How many people have data stored in old word processor formats that they cannot access?". He wouldn't see any hands go up.
Except mine. I have a few 8" CP/M-formatted floppy disks that contain data from years back in a box that's about 20 feet away from where I'm sitting right now. Granted, I don't need the information that's on them but if I did I would be out of luck.
In a box beside that one, I also have some old accounting data from a CP/M program that I used to run on my Commodore 128. It's on Comoodore 1571-formatted double-sided 5.25" disks. What are my chances of finding a working 1571 drive and a Commodore 128 with a CP/M boot disk, plus the accounting program (which is called TAS-The Accounting Solution) and being able to retrieve the data that's there.
Again, I don't really need that data and could throw those disks out without really losing anything of value to me. But what if I really did need that data?
http://www.privoxy.org/
A Linux x86_64 (64-bit) version of OpenOffice 3 is available from the openoffice.org website.
Prior versions were available for download only in Linux/i386 versions. If you wanted a native 64-bit version you would either have to compile it yourself (which is supposed to be a real undertaking, though I've never tried it myself) or simply use the one that your distribution provides.
The filename for the 64-bit Linux version is OOo_3.0.0_LinuxX86-64_install_en-US.tar.gz