I lived with some guys after college, and one of them kept talking about how great Microsoft was...till he flew out for an interview with them.
The recruiter treated him as if he 'didn't know his place' and that it was a privilege to even be considered for a Microsoft job.
After he returned, he refused all phone calls from anyone at Microsoft involved in recruting. He must have been worth calling, since they called a few times a week for about a month.
Yes, if Squid is overkill...SquidGuard is even more so. While it's primarily a filter, filters can have a speed benifit by not grabbing and caching data that isn't wanted.
SquidGuard is an improvement over using Squid+Junkbuster, and is said not to suffer from some of the compatibility problems Junkbuster has (Hotmail,...). If you're curious, take a look.
Before I sign a new-car contract I specifically ensure that the following clause is added: "This contract will be considered null and void with no monetary loss to purchaser if dealer defaces car by affixing their dealer logo to vehicle in any form."
Agreed. I make a point of it up-front, and get some head nods before I allow them to change the subject.
The contracts I've dealt with have had a clause saying 'buyer will ask for no $$ for logos placed on vehicle'. I've had to tell them to scratch that section out, and initial it. If they know you're serious, they will eagerly make the change to close the sale.
I see these now on very scraggly individuals -- homeless and people in grunt jobs. One of the reasons to stay away from "branded" clothes is that anyone can wear them...so the associations with the brand aren't always positive.
Paul Fussel wrote a great little book named Class. In it, he pointed out that people in the lower-middle to middle social class tends to wear larger logos, including things that say where they went on vacation...as if they wanted everyone to know that they had actually gone on vacation.
Upper classes tend not to wear any logo-ed clothes since they had custom made clothes or had no need to promote themselves with such gaudyness.
(Fussel does point out that class has little to do with wealth, though there are trends!)
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That's interesting...it looks like they took it out in 6.2 (I just looked at a 'fresh' test system).
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if I were to do this while logged in as david and do an 'alt-SysRq-l' will I be able to bring the machine down to its knees?
Yes.
ObComment: Since this isn't a default part of any binary distribution I know of, you'll have to compile it. While there, it should take only a few minutes to remove the keyboard commands you don't want users to have...but then you won't have them either.
'network resources can be handled with pipes much more easily'
'a research OS'
'no sane person would use it as the basis of a network'
'has a licence that is like the BSD/GPL/... except in some minor respects'(!?!?!?)
...it struck me. Wouldn't this be an ideal shell environment? If a quick patch to the underlying network is needed, the tools that could be created on this would make it ideal.
Tell me I'm crazy...but it seems like an obvious use of this source, even if it has a good but not ideal licence.
"Experience the ultimate of video gaming action in your own home, with genuine interactive motion for IBM, and two of the most popular gaming platforms. Rock-N-Ride moves you and your monitor up to 55 degrees of rock and roll for the hottest gaming experience available today. Action flying and driving games will never be the same as you twist and turn through the game with unbelievable realism. Take a seat in a Rock-N-Ride simulator and fly into the future of home video gaming, the feeling is OUT OF THIS WORLD!!
When have IBM -- or Toshiba, Compaq -- laptops been cheap? A specialized, name-brand, and (usually) quality item will have a comparitively high cost, though there's www.pricewatch.com to keep the resellers honest.
'and when the people in the building held up the sign saying "you are in a helicopter" the pilot said "aha, we're over the Microsoft campus - only they give you an answer which is technically correct while providing absolutely no information" and safely landed the helicopter in the fog.'
Agreed. The short-hand phrase I use to describe this is;
Technically accurate, Practically useless.
Right click on some entries in setting dialogs, and it too easy to find some real world examples of this.
I doubt a stupid user could tell the difference between a Windows system and a KDE 2 system that has been configured to look like Windows.
Though I agree, I'd rephrase that to be "I doubt many users would notice the difference".
Unfortunately, there are some who *insist* that anything that isn't Windows is just not an option.
For example, my father, when he visits, has no problem with using Netscape or the KDE file manager. Yet, he points out that "everyone uses Windows" that he can't understand how anyone can use something that isn't "standard". When asked what he doesn't like about Linux, he just smiles and doesn't answer.
Windows is a popular OS and will remain that way largely because it's psychologically seen as, well, popular; something that everyone uses.
Having said that, I'm doing my part to get others to use alternitives to Windows. When I see the chance, I offer it...yet even technically minded people -- even those who have used Unix for years -- don't often consider a Unix-like OS for home or for others. Why, I don't know.
(I was going to post this as an "AskSlashdot"...but here's as good of a place as any....)
The problem with the original question is that it's posted as an either/or option. Unfortunately, we deal with a mix of electronic and printed documents -- and you're like me you've paid for some of them in both formats.
My "AskSlashdot" is this:
Is there a cost-effective way of moving existing dead-tree documents into either HTML, PDF, or another searchable mixed text and graphics format?
I'll buy new documents in electronic *searchable* format when I can. For example, O'Reilly's Networking Bookshelf is easily worth the price I paid since I can now search it -- and everything else I have -- easily.
Yet, I have a four foot wide stack of technical documents and books that just isn't going to come with me on each plane trip. I'm not going to get rid of them -- they are still valuable -- but I have this creeping feeling that they would be more useful if they were searchable all the time...not just when I think of a specific text.
The available tools for capturing paper and converting it into searchable PDFs is costly, and is geared toward corporations that can justify the costs by the number of users. To me, a per-use licence of Adobe's Capture --
If the document is already a text document -- even if it's in some wordprocessor I don't use -- generating PDF files is easy and cheap;
Print a document to a Postscript file, or create one. For example a simple text document is trivial;
enscript file.txt -p file.ps
Convert the resulting Postscript file to PDF;
ps2pdf file.ps file.pdf
Converting a paper document to PDF is also easy. Just scan the image and use tiff2ps or jpeg2ps to create the Post script file. The only problem is that the resulting PDF is a bitmap image and isn't searchable.
So, if you want it done, you're back to paying Adobe for Capture or some other nearly as expensive method.
If you have a K7V or are thinking of getting one, bookmark this web site.
I'm generally disapointed with the K7V. It is a new board, only released for a couple months, so bugs should be expected...yet, I was hoping for better. I have a couple other PII Asus boards, and was so happy with them that I took a chance on the Athlon boards.
Here's a sample of the bugs I've encountered: The system will sometimes boot into a BIOS "safe mode"... and will change all the settings back to the defaults. The system will hang solid, and I can't determine the reason why. Looks and smells like a hardware defect...but I can't tell. Note, I am _not_ overclocking this system, though I was planning on it after the system became reliable. It isn't yet!
On a good note, Asus has attempted to fix the problems it suffers from with frequent BIOS upgrades. Unfortunately, some of the problems are just silly. For example, for a few BIOS revisions you could *not* use a PCI video card...only AGP. The latest BIOS -- 1006 -- fixes a variety of problems like this one, and I expect that most issues will be resolved within a few months.
Some of the problems might be fixed with the 1006 revision...though I'm lothe to upgrade because of some of the problems I've had to work around with other BIOS upgrades.
The built-in sound card might be supported with the latest linux development kernel (2.4pre), and patches are available on some web sites. Search the web site mentioned earlier for details.
Here's another version of an old joke. The common version usually puts Bill Gates in the title role, but the original didn't;
A software engineer dies and goes to Heaven. "Well," says Saint Peter, "Looking at your life, you've done some good things and some bad...and to be honest, it's just too close for me to pass judgement on which way to send you. In rare cases like these, we let you make the decision -- Heaven or Hell."
The engineer, weary of design trade-offs and wary of uninformed decisions, asks for more details. "Sure," replies the gatekeeper. "Here is the elevator. You can ride up to see Heaven and down to see Hell. Take your time and make your choice.
So, off the engineer goes taking the elevator up to Heaven. He sees the angels playing on their harps and blissfully flitting back and forth among the clouds.
"That looks about like what I expected, but it doesn't look... well, exciting" he says to himself.
So, off he goes down the elevator to the floor labeled "Hell" to look around. He finds sandy beaches, beautiful women, snowcapped mountains, and parties going on all over.
Returning to the gates, he has no problem informing the gatekeeper of his decision. "Heaven looks fine, but pretty boring to me. Hell is what I have always dreamed of! Let me in."
The gatekeeper hands him an entry pass and the engineer goes back down the elevator to take his place in Hell. But, to his surprise, he finds none of what he saw before. Instead, he finds himself in a pit swarming with vipers, fire and brimstone.
"Wait! What happened to the beach parties, fun, and sunshine I saw before?" "Oh," replies Lucifer. "That was the demo."
Balderdash. Descartes' path from doubt to certainty only works if you agree with him on a number of contentinus claims (such as, there must exist a benevloent and omnipotent God). Anyone convinced by Descartes couldn't take solipsism very seriously to begin with.
Double balderdash!:)
I'm an atheist myself, and don't see the need to throw any gods into philisophical conversations. They only serve a useful purpose in fun conversations of absurdities -- like "If I won the lottery"/"Lived forever"/....
Descartes might have been theist -- honestly I don't remember -- but his basic axiom doesn't require it...regaurdless of what the man wrote, said, or 'believed'.
With the regulations that will/are kicking in due to the anti-trust trial, will the Wine team be able to see source code -- or at a minimum the "missing" specs -- needed to find out how the Windows API really works?
So now when you go to pirate the MP3 of the record, the value you are stealing is $10 which is your share of the professional services which contributed to making the record.
That doesn't make any sense. If it were true, why, in real terms, have CDs ended up with higher prices when compared to tapes? Why the premium?
At the time that document was written, philosophical thought pretty much revolved around Descartes: I think therefore I am. Not true, of course, as you don't really think yourself into existence.
A nit: Don't give Descartes a Solipsist position. He was refuting the Solipsists, and did an effective job of it.
What I mean by this is that "I think, therefore I am" has nothing to do with thinking "yourself into existance" -- that's the Solipsist's POV.
Descartes showed that while everything we experience might all be illusion, or some force tricking us to think we are thinking, there would be nothing we could do if those things were true.
Instead, he took for a fact that of the things he really knew, it all starts with his own thought...since if it's all illusion/trickery/... he would be no worse off.
From that point, he was able to start logically building on what he knew, and to find what he could trust or what he had either no knowledge of or reasonable doubt in.
Your whole grasp of existence (the little circle inside the big one) comes from thinking, though, so it's most central to it, though no real center exists.
Are you supporting the Solipsists, or some other concept? If Solipsist, don't give me a resonse since I talk to myself enough already -- or am "I" even "here"?
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The recruiter treated him as if he 'didn't know his place' and that it was a privilege to even be considered for a Microsoft job.
After he returned, he refused all phone calls from anyone at Microsoft involved in recruting. He must have been worth calling, since they called a few times a week for about a month.
SquidGuard is an improvement over using Squid+Junkbuster, and is said not to suffer from some of the compatibility problems Junkbuster has (Hotmail, ...). If you're curious, take a look.
Before I sign a new-car contract I specifically ensure that the following clause is added: "This contract will be considered null and void with no monetary loss to purchaser if dealer defaces car by affixing their dealer logo to vehicle in any form."
Agreed. I make a point of it up-front, and get some head nods before I allow them to change the subject.
The contracts I've dealt with have had a clause saying 'buyer will ask for no $$ for logos placed on vehicle'. I've had to tell them to scratch that section out, and initial it. If they know you're serious, they will eagerly make the change to close the sale.
I see these now on very scraggly individuals -- homeless and people in grunt jobs. One of the reasons to stay away from "branded" clothes is that anyone can wear them...so the associations with the brand aren't always positive.
Paul Fussel wrote a great little book named Class. In it, he pointed out that people in the lower-middle to middle social class tends to wear larger logos, including things that say where they went on vacation...as if they wanted everyone to know that they had actually gone on vacation.
Upper classes tend not to wear any logo-ed clothes since they had custom made clothes or had no need to promote themselves with such gaudyness.
(Fussel does point out that class has little to do with wealth, though there are trends!)
That's interesting...it looks like they took it out in 6.2 (I just looked at a 'fresh' test system).
Yes.
ObComment: Since this isn't a default part of any binary distribution I know of, you'll have to compile it. While there, it should take only a few minutes to remove the keyboard commands you don't want users to have...but then you won't have them either.
'more Unix then Unix'
'everything is a file -- more then Unix'
'network resources can be handled with pipes much more easily'
'a research OS'
'no sane person would use it as the basis of a network'
'has a licence that is like the BSD/GPL/... except in some minor respects'(!?!?!?)
...it struck me. Wouldn't this be an ideal shell environment? If a quick patch to the underlying network is needed, the tools that could be created on this would make it ideal.
Tell me I'm crazy...but it seems like an obvious use of this source, even if it has a good but not ideal licence.
- "Experience the ultimate of video gaming action in your own home, with genuine interactive motion for IBM, and two of the most popular gaming platforms. Rock-N-Ride moves you and your monitor up to 55 degrees of rock and roll for the hottest gaming experience available today. Action flying and driving games will never be the same as you twist and turn through the game with unbelievable realism. Take a seat in a Rock-N-Ride simulator and fly into the future of home video gaming, the feeling is OUT OF THIS WORLD!!
Unfortunately, it's going to be supported directly by the Linux version of Descent 3. Add a few monitors using XFree v.4's Xinerama and/or multi-headed monitor support, and you'll hurl with excitement!(On a serious note, good comments in this AskSlashdot.)
When have IBM -- or Toshiba, Compaq -- laptops been cheap? A specialized, name-brand, and (usually) quality item will have a comparitively high cost, though there's www.pricewatch.com to keep the resellers honest.
IBM's constrained -- or was? -- by a consent agreement, parts of it dating back to 1956. They can't pre-announce in order to stifle competition.
'and when the people in the building held up the sign saying "you are in a helicopter" the pilot said "aha, we're over the Microsoft campus - only they give you an answer which is technically correct while providing absolutely no information" and safely landed the helicopter in the fog.'
Agreed. The short-hand phrase I use to describe this is;
Technically accurate, Practically useless.
Right click on some entries in setting dialogs, and it too easy to find some real world examples of this.
[StarOffice is] released under a one-user-only
Not true. It has network support, and is no-cost (free beer).
I doubt a stupid user could tell the difference between a Windows system and a KDE 2 system that has been configured to look like Windows.
Though I agree, I'd rephrase that to be "I doubt many users would notice the difference".
Unfortunately, there are some who *insist* that anything that isn't Windows is just not an option.
For example, my father, when he visits, has no problem with using Netscape or the KDE file manager. Yet, he points out that "everyone uses Windows" that he can't understand how anyone can use something that isn't "standard". When asked what he doesn't like about Linux, he just smiles and doesn't answer.
Windows is a popular OS and will remain that way largely because it's psychologically seen as, well, popular; something that everyone uses.
Having said that, I'm doing my part to get others to use alternitives to Windows. When I see the chance, I offer it...yet even technically minded people -- even those who have used Unix for years -- don't often consider a Unix-like OS for home or for others. Why, I don't know.
StarOffice puts everything as windows within a big window, instead of using the window manager I picked and configured to my tastes.
The default behavior can be changed. As an example under Linux and most versions of Unix, create a link/script/... that looks like this;
...and you can load the wordprocessor without the desktop. Other operating systems use very similar syntax.
Details about how to do this with all the "integrated" apps are here.
For more information, consult the unofficial FAQ, or read the Usenet groups under staroffice.com.support.*.
SVGAlib isn't X.
(I was going to post this as an "AskSlashdot"...but here's as good of a place as any....)
The problem with the original question is that it's posted as an either/or option. Unfortunately, we deal with a mix of electronic and printed documents -- and you're like me you've paid for some of them in both formats.
My "AskSlashdot" is this:
I'll buy new documents in electronic *searchable* format when I can. For example, O'Reilly's Networking Bookshelf is easily worth the price I paid since I can now search it -- and everything else I have -- easily.
Yet, I have a four foot wide stack of technical documents and books that just isn't going to come with me on each plane trip. I'm not going to get rid of them -- they are still valuable -- but I have this creeping feeling that they would be more useful if they were searchable all the time...not just when I think of a specific text.
The available tools for capturing paper and converting it into searchable PDFs is costly, and is geared toward corporations that can justify the costs by the number of users. To me, a per-use licence of Adobe's Capture --
Adobe Capture - Features
-- is just not cost effective.
If the document is already a text document -- even if it's in some wordprocessor I don't use -- generating PDF files is easy and cheap;
Print a document to a Postscript file, or create one. For example a simple text document is trivial;
Convert the resulting Postscript file to PDF;
Converting a paper document to PDF is also easy. Just scan the image and use tiff2ps or jpeg2ps to create the Post script file. The only problem is that the resulting PDF is a bitmap image and isn't searchable.
So, if you want it done, you're back to paying Adobe for Capture or some other nearly as expensive method.
Tell me I'm wrong...please!
Other references: PDF utilities on Freshmeat.
If you have a K7V or are thinking of getting one, bookmark this web site.
I'm generally disapointed with the K7V. It is a new board, only released for a couple months, so bugs should be expected...yet, I was hoping for better. I have a couple other PII Asus boards, and was so happy with them that I took a chance on the Athlon boards.
Here's a sample of the bugs I've encountered: The system will sometimes boot into a BIOS "safe mode" ... and will change all the settings back to the defaults. The system will hang solid, and I can't determine the reason why. Looks and smells like a hardware defect...but I can't tell. Note, I am _not_ overclocking this system, though I was planning on it after the system became reliable. It isn't yet!
On a good note, Asus has attempted to fix the problems it suffers from with frequent BIOS upgrades. Unfortunately, some of the problems are just silly. For example, for a few BIOS revisions you could *not* use a PCI video card...only AGP. The latest BIOS -- 1006 -- fixes a variety of problems like this one, and I expect that most issues will be resolved within a few months.
Some of the problems might be fixed with the 1006 revision...though I'm lothe to upgrade because of some of the problems I've had to work around with other BIOS upgrades.
The built-in sound card might be supported with the latest linux development kernel (2.4pre), and patches are available on some web sites. Search the web site mentioned earlier for details.
I fiddled around with Wine last year, got a few apps to work, but was unsucessful with either Quickbooks or browser plug-ins.
The engineer, weary of design trade-offs and wary of uninformed decisions, asks for more details. "Sure," replies the gatekeeper. "Here is the elevator. You can ride up to see Heaven and down to see Hell. Take your time and make your choice.
So, off the engineer goes taking the elevator up to Heaven. He sees the angels playing on their harps and blissfully flitting back and forth among the clouds.
"That looks about like what I expected, but it doesn't look ... well, exciting" he says to himself.
So, off he goes down the elevator to the floor labeled "Hell" to look around. He finds sandy beaches, beautiful women, snowcapped mountains, and parties going on all over.
Returning to the gates, he has no problem informing the gatekeeper of his decision. "Heaven looks fine, but pretty boring to me. Hell is what I have always dreamed of! Let me in."
The gatekeeper hands him an entry pass and the engineer goes back down the elevator to take his place in Hell. But, to his surprise, he finds none of what he saw before. Instead, he finds himself in a pit swarming with vipers, fire and brimstone.
"Wait! What happened to the beach parties, fun, and sunshine I saw before?" "Oh," replies Lucifer. "That was the demo."
Uh, you probably meant Redmond. Unless your computer was poisoned by a native American.
[Robin Williams voice] "Hmmm...White man take our land, treat us like dogs...here, take some Tobacco! Heheheh....
Thanks for the thoughtful reply!
Balderdash. Descartes' path from doubt to certainty only works if you agree with him on a number of contentinus claims (such as, there must exist a benevloent and omnipotent God). Anyone convinced by Descartes couldn't take solipsism very seriously to begin with.
Double balderdash! :)
I'm an atheist myself, and don't see the need to throw any gods into philisophical conversations. They only serve a useful purpose in fun conversations of absurdities -- like "If I won the lottery"/"Lived forever"/....
Descartes might have been theist -- honestly I don't remember -- but his basic axiom doesn't require it...regaurdless of what the man wrote, said, or 'believed'.
With the regulations that will/are kicking in due to the anti-trust trial, will the Wine team be able to see source code -- or at a minimum the "missing" specs -- needed to find out how the Windows API really works?
So now when you go to pirate the MP3 of the record, the value you are stealing is $10 which is your share of the professional services which contributed to making the record.
That doesn't make any sense. If it were true, why, in real terms, have CDs ended up with higher prices when compared to tapes? Why the premium?
At the time that document was written, philosophical thought pretty much revolved around Descartes: I think therefore I am. Not true, of course, as you don't really think yourself into existence.
A nit: Don't give Descartes a Solipsist position. He was refuting the Solipsists, and did an effective job of it.
What I mean by this is that "I think, therefore I am" has nothing to do with thinking "yourself into existance" -- that's the Solipsist's POV.
Descartes showed that while everything we experience might all be illusion, or some force tricking us to think we are thinking, there would be nothing we could do if those things were true.
Instead, he took for a fact that of the things he really knew, it all starts with his own thought...since if it's all illusion/trickery/... he would be no worse off.
From that point, he was able to start logically building on what he knew, and to find what he could trust or what he had either no knowledge of or reasonable doubt in.
Your whole grasp of existence (the little circle inside the big one) comes from thinking, though, so it's most central to it, though no real center exists.
Are you supporting the Solipsists, or some other concept? If Solipsist, don't give me a resonse since I talk to myself enough already -- or am "I" even "here"?